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"Actual and Indwelling Sin" Romans 7:13-25

LORD'S DAY 25

Dr. Schmidt examines the necessity of Christians speaking about Jesus continually. Over 8,000 people die a day in America. Over 170,000 people die every day in the world, and most without knowing Jesus Christ as their savior. Therefore, we need to speak about Jesus!

Suffering threatens to warp our thinking, but it cannot compare to the coming glory.

As we enter the fourth message in this series we encounter a truth that is truly amazing and mind blowing. The truth of regeneration brings into focus the true grace and mercy of God that He would take this old corrupt, and vile person and save Him. And in saving him he gives him a brand new life. With the world we have heard about getting a new lease on life; but with Christ we don't just get a new lease on life, we get a new life all together. Physically, spiritually, and everything in between is born anew and as it said about the creation of man, God breathed into His nostrils the breath of life and man became a living soul. When we get saved He breathes in us the breath of eternal life and we become a new creature in Christ.

In this sermon from John 6:1-15, Pastor Rockhill takes up the only miracle recorded in all four Gospels, the feeding of the five thousand, and presses home its enduring significance as a sign. His central burden is that this abundant provision was never meant merely to fill empty stomachs but to reveal that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and ultimately the true bread of life whom the Father sends to sustain His people forever. Pastor Rockhill draws out two challenges the sign sets before every hearer. First, to those who profess faith in Christ, do they truly believe the Lord will provide? He shows how Jesus tested Philip and Andrew, who looked only at their meager resources and the impossibility before them rather than at the power of the One who had already turned water into wine. Second, when the Lord does provide, do we rightly acknowledge what it reveals about the living God, or do we misunderstand and take it for granted as the crowds did? Connecting the passage to the Passover and the manna in the wilderness, Pastor Rockhill explains how God pours out persistent, undeserved love even upon the ungrateful, leaving them without excuse. The crowd grasped that Jesus was the promised Prophet and Messiah, yet sought to seize Him by force as an earthly, bread-providing king rather than a Savior from sin. He closes with pastoral application from Romans 8:32: since the Father has already given His own Son, the bread of life, believers may rest in confidence that He will surely supply every need, laying aside fretful worry and trusting His gracious promise.

The Gospel of Jesus Christ is essential to salvation. There are many gospels being preached and many people are being deceived because they are excited about a lie. They know better because God has given every person a conscience. That conscience needs to be fed the truth. Those who despise the truth will find themselves under God's wrath. That is not a good place to be.