'FAILURE'

Rev. Canon George Sinclair

by Rev. Canon George Sinclair                           

 Pastor of the Church of the Messiah, Ottawa, ON.
 www.messiahchurch.ca 

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Podcast of CFRA broadcast on Sunday,   

September 16th, 2018:
http://cloud.autopod.ca/podcasts/chum/6/66166/good_news_330_sept16.mp3

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(This is a shortened version of a sermon I did at Church of the Messiah, Ottawa. It was part of the series, Deeper: Meditating on God's Word.)

  

Failure

 

Today’s Reading: Jude 24-25 (ESV)

Doxology

²⁴ Now to him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you blameless before the presence of his glory with great joy, ²⁵ to the only God, our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion, and authority, before all time^[a] and now and forever. Amen.

Footnotes:

1. Jude 1:25 Or before any age

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Broadcast Notes:

 

“Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you blameless before the presence of His glory with great joy, to the only God, our Saviour, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion, and authority, before all time, and now and forever. Amen.” Jude 24-25 (ESV).

1. You cannot add or subtract to what Jesus accomplished for you.
2. When you receive the Gospel, Jesus becomes your Saviour, not your enabler.
3. God grounds your freedom to reject or receive the Gospel - because it is for freedom that Christ has set you free.
4. To grow as a Christian, your greatest need is not moralism or therapy - it is for the Holy Spirit to apply the Gospel to the heights, depths, and breadth of who you are and what you do.
5. You are not so good or so important that you do not need the Gospel; and you are not so bad or so unimportant that God does not offer the Gospel to you.

PRAYER:

Father, thank you for this word. Thank you for Jesus, Thank you for his death upon the cross. Thank you for his resurrection. Thank you that he appeared to many, to establish, he really had risen from the dead. Thank you for your love for us. Thank you that Jesus has done everything that has to be done to make me right, and any person right who puts their faith and trust in Him.

Father, lead us to Jesus and may the Holy Spirit, Father, apply the Gospel to our hearts.

This, we ask in Jesus’ name. Amen.

 

Rev. Canon George Sinclair

Church of the Messiah

www.messiahchurch.ca
613-235-0596
messiahchurch.office@gmail.com

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To listen to the above broadcast, click on the following link:

http://cloud.autopod.ca/podcasts/chum/6/66166/good_news_330_sept16.mp3