Man Needs A Saviour (Sermon 2 Of 5) Series

III) MAN NEEDS A SAVIOUR BECAUSE THE CONSEQUENCES OF SIN IS ETERNAL SEPARATION FROM GOD.

1.) Scripture makes this very clear.

A) Romans 3:23

B) Romans 6:23

ba.) In both passages the answer to our problem is Jesus Christ.

IV) MAN NEEDS A SAVIOUR WHO CAN TAKE AWAY THE SINS OF THE WORLD.

1) John the Baptist came as a forerunner to prepare the way for Jesus.

A) Up until the coming and sacrificial death, and resurrection of Christ, nothing could adequately deal with sin.

B) John brought the message to the world that this curse that had been on humans from the time of Adam onward could be dealt with in Jesus.

ba.) No gift, sacrifice, blood offering, act of service or worship, nothing, and nobody could take away sin.

C) Notice the words of John the Baptist concerning Jesus:

ba.) John 1:29-37

D) Sometime after this statement of John the Baptist Jesus was crucified for our sins, and on the third day raised again to life.

da.) Several years after that day, the writer of Hebrews wrote about the greatness of the sacrifice of Christ.

daa.) Hebrews tells us that the sacrifice was a better sacrifice than the sacrifices made by the Jewish priests.

.01) Hebrews 9:11-14

dab.) The writer of Hebrews also goes on to tell us that the sacrifice of Jesus was so much superior to that of the sacrifices under the Jewish system, that there would never be need for another sacrifice to ever be given.

.01) Hebrews 10:4-14

.02) This passage of Scripture speaks of Jesus sitting down at the throne of God after offering himself as a sacrifice.

.021) This was a luxury not afforded to the priests.

? In fact, as soon as they had offered their sacrifices they had to go out from that holy place.

? Jesus, on the other hand sat down at the right hand of God because from that day forward the work of redemption was done.

? From that day forward, Man’s sins had been redeemed, and those who would accept the offer of God were freed from sin’s curse.

CONCLUSION:

1) I want to close this message with the story of a boy who had built a toy boat.

A.) The boy had his boat on a string and was playing with it in a stream.

B.) The string broke, and he lost his boat.

C.) Later on the boy saw this same boat in a store.

ca.) The went into the store and told the storekeeper that was his boat.

cb.) The storekeeper told him that he had bought the boat, but it could be the boy’s if he wanted to buy it.

cc.) The boy saved up his money and was able to buy the boat back.

D.) After the boy bought the boat from the storekeeper, he declared this is twice my boat.

da.) It was mine because I had built it.

db.) Now it is mine because I have bought it.

E.) Last week I said that the doctrine of creation is one of the greatest teachings in all the Bible.

ea.) In that message we declared that we are God’s because he has made us.

eb.) Today we have looked at what I call the second great teaching of Scripture that man needs a Saviour.

eba.) We belong to God because he has created us.

ebb.) We also belong to God because Jesus came to be our Saviour and has purchased us with his own blood.

2) Next week we will look at what I am labelling as the third great teaching of Scripture: Jesus is both our God and Our Saviour.