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Hi Passionate Youth Reaching Out, today is Wednesday June 15. My name is Grant and this is Start Up, helping you start your day with an upward focus. In todays passage, the apostle Paul cites many of the ways that the book of Psalms describes our unrighteousness.
Romans 3:9–20 (HCSB)
9 What then? Are we any better? Not at all! For we have previously charged that both Jews and Gentiles are all under sin, 10 as it is written: There is no one righteous, not even one. 11 There is no one who understands; there is no one who seeks God. 12 All have turned away; all alike have become useless. There is no one who does what is good, not even one. 13 Their throat is an open grave; they deceive with their tongues. Vipers’ venom is under their lips. 14 Their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness. 15 Their feet are swift to shed blood; 16 ruin and wretchedness are in their paths, 17 and the path of peace they have not known. 18 There is no fear of God before their eyes. 19 Now we know that whatever the law says speaks to those who are subject to the law, so that every mouth may be shut and the whole world may become subject to God’s judgment. 20 For no one will be justified in His sight by the works of the law, because the knowledge of sin comes through the law.
No one can compare their life to God’s law and feel justified in their efforts to obey the law. The Pharisees were a group of people who tried to live head and shoulders above the others in their obedience of God’s law. One day they came to Jesus with a lady that they had caught in the act of adultery. They wanted for Jesus, the son of God, to pronounce God’s judgement and the sentence of death on her life. Jesus responded by saying to them, “The one without sin among you should be the first to throw a stone at her.” John 8:7 (HCSB). No one was willing to throw a stone, because everyone knew that they too had sinned, and were also guilty of God’s judgement. Jesus alone was without sin. He could have thrown the first stone at the lady, but instead Jesus told her, “Go, and from now on do not sin anymore.”
If we had been in the crowd that day, we also would not have been able to throw a stone, because we also are sinners. We know that we have sinned because our lives don’t measure up with God’s standard in the Bile. Sin condemns us all, but instead of throwing a stone at us, Jesus takes the punishment. He died on the cross in our place, we can be forgiven and we here him say to us, “Go, and from now on do not sin anymore.”
Your challenge for this week is to start a Prayer Journal. Write down your prayers to God, and then throughout the summer, go back through your journal and make note of the ways that God answers your prayers.
I want to invite all students in Grades 6-12 to our year end event on Friday June 24. It is a School’s Out Sports Party at McMahon Stadium. You will have a chance to play some games on the field and also to hear from some Christian athletes. The cost is 2 dollars.
Thanks for listening to today’s StartUp, you can find all of the details about our youth group online at hbcyouth.ca. We are also on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, just search for Hawkwood Youth.
https://www.facebook.com/HawkwoodYouthPYRO/
https://twitter.com/HawkwoodYouth
https://www.instagram.com/hawkwoodyouth/
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By Grant van BoeschotenHi Passionate Youth Reaching Out, today is Wednesday June 15. My name is Grant and this is Start Up, helping you start your day with an upward focus. In todays passage, the apostle Paul cites many of the ways that the book of Psalms describes our unrighteousness.
Romans 3:9–20 (HCSB)
9 What then? Are we any better? Not at all! For we have previously charged that both Jews and Gentiles are all under sin, 10 as it is written: There is no one righteous, not even one. 11 There is no one who understands; there is no one who seeks God. 12 All have turned away; all alike have become useless. There is no one who does what is good, not even one. 13 Their throat is an open grave; they deceive with their tongues. Vipers’ venom is under their lips. 14 Their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness. 15 Their feet are swift to shed blood; 16 ruin and wretchedness are in their paths, 17 and the path of peace they have not known. 18 There is no fear of God before their eyes. 19 Now we know that whatever the law says speaks to those who are subject to the law, so that every mouth may be shut and the whole world may become subject to God’s judgment. 20 For no one will be justified in His sight by the works of the law, because the knowledge of sin comes through the law.
No one can compare their life to God’s law and feel justified in their efforts to obey the law. The Pharisees were a group of people who tried to live head and shoulders above the others in their obedience of God’s law. One day they came to Jesus with a lady that they had caught in the act of adultery. They wanted for Jesus, the son of God, to pronounce God’s judgement and the sentence of death on her life. Jesus responded by saying to them, “The one without sin among you should be the first to throw a stone at her.” John 8:7 (HCSB). No one was willing to throw a stone, because everyone knew that they too had sinned, and were also guilty of God’s judgement. Jesus alone was without sin. He could have thrown the first stone at the lady, but instead Jesus told her, “Go, and from now on do not sin anymore.”
If we had been in the crowd that day, we also would not have been able to throw a stone, because we also are sinners. We know that we have sinned because our lives don’t measure up with God’s standard in the Bile. Sin condemns us all, but instead of throwing a stone at us, Jesus takes the punishment. He died on the cross in our place, we can be forgiven and we here him say to us, “Go, and from now on do not sin anymore.”
Your challenge for this week is to start a Prayer Journal. Write down your prayers to God, and then throughout the summer, go back through your journal and make note of the ways that God answers your prayers.
I want to invite all students in Grades 6-12 to our year end event on Friday June 24. It is a School’s Out Sports Party at McMahon Stadium. You will have a chance to play some games on the field and also to hear from some Christian athletes. The cost is 2 dollars.
Thanks for listening to today’s StartUp, you can find all of the details about our youth group online at hbcyouth.ca. We are also on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, just search for Hawkwood Youth.
https://www.facebook.com/HawkwoodYouthPYRO/
https://twitter.com/HawkwoodYouth
https://www.instagram.com/hawkwoodyouth/