Breaking Bad Series

b We can’t get ahead and it’s kinda useless to try.

3 Pain, more specifically, the Bible refers to the pain of life like the pain of “childbirth.”

Romans 8:22 (NASB) 22 For we know that the whole creation groans and suffers the pains of childbirth together until now.

a I’ve never experienced, I’ve seen it and it looks awful!

b This is serious pain! . . .it causes serious pain!

B The granddaddy pain of them all is death.

1 Genesis 3:19 (NASB) 19 By the sweat of your face You will eat bread, Till you return to the ground, Because from it you were taken; For you are dust, And to dust you shall return."

a When sin entered the picture shortly after creation, the music went off key/lost rhythm . . . and to this day, the music is till off key/out of rhythm to the original piece.

b We’re playing our lives out of key too (Rom. 3.23) and the end of the song ends the same, Rom. 6.23.

Romans 3:23 (NASB) 23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

Romans 6:23 (NASB) 23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

2 Until we are introduced/put the Redemption Song of God in our hearts, we never experience peace, harmony, fellowship.

a We can’t make up our own words, rhythm, tempo . . .hid thinking we’ll not be noticed . . . it’s gotta be His song!

b He wants to make us right, bring us peace, fellowship.

Conclusion:

A IL. Envelope into a thousand pieces.

1 We can’t put it back together, it won’t go back together.

a It doesn’t happen without God.

b We must surrender our lives to God . . . only He can fix our mess and figure it out.

aa He has and He does.

bb The first step to going from good to bad to very good is surrender.

c We don’t continue to worry, fear, try to gain God’s favor/love.

2 We put our brokeness in the hands of God just like we did when first heard His song of redemption.

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