Rescued from Habitual Sin (Rescued: What God Did to Save Us)
August 25, 2013
Sin isn’t static. It will always demand more. It will always come back with more ferocity and power. It will always be there and it will always increase. And its ultimate destination is death—a spiritual and moral death, and for those who don’t know the Lord, an eternal death.
The most powerful thing we can do to combat sin is to stand on the territory that Jesus conquered. He broke sin’s power.
You’re either a slave to sin or a slave to righteousness. When we’re slaves of God, we have the freedom to be what God created us to be.
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A deliberate choice to continue in sin is unthinkable because we’ve died with Christ and we are dead to sin. We are part of His death and resurrection. Our old self was crucified with Jesus.
And because we were taken out of Adam and put into Christ, we are no longer under any obligation to sin—no matter what it tries to tell us. Jesus broke sin’s power over us so that we might live holy lives unto God.
August 18, 2013
There is a plague that has infected 5 billion people. In all cases, it’s fatal. The plague is Death, and it strikes everyone. Will your death be an entry point into heaven or hell?
In Romans 5, Paul compares and contrasts Adam and Jesus. Where one sinned and led all of humanity into darkness, the other obeyed God and leads us into light.
Will you die in Adam, still in your sins with the door closed to paradise? Or will you die in Jesus, with His righteousness opening the door to heaven?
August 11, 2013
Jesus came to deliver us from hopelessness. Believers have been given many blessings that are wrapped up in Christ. Among these blessings is hope—a hope that the darkness will someday come to an end because Jesus has already triumphed over the darkness.
But hope begins when you’ve made peace with God and until you’ve dealt with that issue, until you’ve humbled yourself and trusted Christ as your Savior, your hope will be futile.
August 4, 2013
Faith can destroy you. All the faith in the world can’t change lethal poison into medicine. Having faith in the wrong “Jesus” can lead you to your own destruction. So it’s important that your faith is a true faith, a faith based on the true Jesus—a faith based on specific promises; a faith that understands both law and grace; and a faith that’s growing. A little bit of faith in the true Jesus is better than absolute confidence in a false Jesus.
July 28, 2013
The slightest smidgeon of sin will banish you from the presence of God forever. Martin Luther understood this and spent hours each day confessing his sins. But he ran into a quandary: Sins, in order to be forgiven, had to be remembered. If sins aren’t remembered, they can’t be confessed. If sins aren’t confessed, they can’t be forgiven. And what if there are things that God considers sinful but you aren’t aware that they are sins? Luther eventually connected the dots, and in this message, Pastor Lutzer takes us through the passages in the book of Romans that led Martin Luther to saving faith in Jesus Christ—and the start of the Reformation.
July 21, 2013
God is the final reality in the universe. And one day we will either face His wrath or His mercy. Leading us through six of the most important and powerful verses in all of history, Pastor Lutzer gets to the innermost meaning of the cross. All of us have sinned and God’s wrath against sin is enormous and should never be underestimated. But God’s love is just as enormous and so He provided a sacrifice—His own Son—to pay for our sins. There is no other religion in the world where God becomes the sole redeemer of man. Our salvation is through faith alone, because of Christ alone, by God’s grace alone.
July 14, 2013
We all are born with the potential for great good. But we’re also born with the potential for unimaginable evil because we were all born with sin.
As we read the last part of Romans 3, Paul gives us a stinging indictment of human nature—a life filled with doing good for others, being completely selfless—even those good works are tainted with sin and unsuitable for entrance into heaven.
But God has a plan, completely independent from anything we can do, that will save us and take away the stain of our sinful natures.
July 7, 2013
There are three rationalizations that many religious people make that are wrong and that can be disastrous: • Because we are blessed, we’re approved by God • If we’re unfaithful it nullifies God’s promises and calls into question His integrity • And lastly, the grace of God nullifies the judgment of God
Walking us through sections of Romans 2 and 3, Pastor Lutzer expounds on Paul’s response to each of these statements so that we might not live a hypocritical life.
June 30, 2013
Religion can enable us to have a false sense of who we are. As a result of the Fall, we’re unable to see our own faults clearly—something that we all need to rectify. In this message from Romans 2, Pastor Lutzer gives us six assumptions “religious” people tend to make and why they’re wrong. Until we are able to see our own hearts with a great deal of clarity, we can’t truly understand God’s grace. And if you think this is for everyone else, not yourself, then you’re already deceived.
June 23, 2013
Jesus came to save us from the wrath of God. In today’s society, we’ve lost sight of God’s anger and hatred of sin, and we spend a great deal of energy trying to manage our sin. We want to justify the way we live even though we know, deep down, that it’s wrong. We’ll do anything to rationalize our immorality. As the Apostle Paul says, we take the unnatural and turn it into “natural.” In today’s message, we’ll look at the darkness of the human heart.
June 16, 2013
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