2025-11-30: Pastor Mark Quist – Discipleship: Sin: Pervasive and Progressive – Natural, Moral and Societal Evil

Sunday is the 1st Sunday of Advent 2025, a great day to turn the page!  For in the fullness of time, God stepped into time, at just the right time, to redeem ALL time!  As Galatians 4:4 says, “When the fullness of time had come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under law, to redeem those under the law, so that we might be adopted as God’s children.”

Isaiah speaks of a light dawning.  Of those walking in darkness, living in the land of darkness, seeing a Great Light.  We are (or were) those people walking in darkness in the land of darkness, and Jesus is this GREAT LIGHT.

As we ‘move into’ our time of Advent, anticipating Jesus’ 1st coming in salvation and now, to his 2nd coming in glory ‘making all things new’, we see our need for a Savior then and now.  For 4 weeks God has revealed our need for salvation from our sin (lawlessness, mis-direction, depravity and foolishness).  Sunday, we will look at another truthful aspect of sin – it’s corporate societal reality.  Most important on Sunday is an illustration God gives of how best to overcome societal sin and evil.  A clue?  It begins with the Light of the World and God’s salvific calling to be ‘light in the world.’

See you Sunday!