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Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus: All Have Sinned

Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus
This Week: All Have Sinned



Sunday, November 18, 2012
Led by Eric Gintert


Romans 1 - All people are wretched and sinful.

  • Paul is a Jew and he is asking what advantage there is in being a Jew. Does it make a person more holy because they are Jewish? Are they more righteous in God's eyes because they are Jews?
  • God uses the Jews to glorify His name but this doesn't make them sinless and any safer from damnation It is their unbelief in Jesus that make their faith in God of none effect.
We want God to judge others righteousness and have pure justice, but we don't want Him to use that same judgment and justice on us.
  • We proclaim our unrighteousness to be righteous but God will judge and take vengeance. 
  • Paul (or Saul) believed that by murdering the true believers in Jesus was doing God a service. So, is he justified before God then, because he had good intentions? God forbid!
Paul was slanderously reported about and all of true believers will endure this. "Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution." 2 Timothy 3:12
  • Are we better because we're Christians? NO! We are all under sin. There are no righteous!
  • The pope isn't righteous. Mother Theresa wasn't righteous. Your pastor isn't righteous. Your parents aren't righteous. The TV isn't righteous. Stop bowing down to unrighteousness and bow to the One and Only Righteous.
  • The law shows us that we are ALL guilty, the whole world. 
"Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith." Galatians 3:42
"For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all." James 2:10
  •  Jesus is the justifier for all the guilty in the world.
We think we're justified because our good out-weighs our bad. Instead of turning our eyes to Jesus, knowing our justification only comes through the blood of Christ.
  • What do we have to boast about? Our works? No, it's all through faith in the blood of Jesus Christ.
  • Jesus came to same sinners irrelevant of race, nationality, religious background, etc. 

Prayer Requests
Fred  -  at Mayo clinic waiting for liver transplant; now has pneumonia
Doug & Gary  -  both have cancer where prostate was removed
Joel & Melissa F. & family  -  new job on 26th
Bill & Donna L.  -  health issues
Larry D.  -  lymphoma diagnosis and treatment
Tony D.  -  has mono
Betty T.  -  fell at nursing home and hurt back
Melody & Jordyn and families -  cancer after effects; family dynamics
Wendy D. niece's sister, Sara  -  leukemia diagnosis
Scott  -  that he would come to know the Lord
Dirk J.  -  military testing for promotion
Thanksgiving travelers  -  safety
Ethan G.  -  tonsils
Sara N.  -  baby due mid December
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