Something to Think About
This week, while trying to get a Sunday school lesson together, I was a bit waylaid by a "besetting" sin. So much so, that I was really ill prepared to teach. I had some notes but no cohesive lesson plan to go with it. In desperation I reached out to the Lord, confessed my sin, and confessed that my sin had kept me from being fully prepared. I prayed for the right words to say and the material to back the words up. The Lord heard my prayer and provided me with one of the most thought provoking topics that I have ever had the privilege of teaching on. There is no way that I old have come up with that based on where I was with my study. Yet the information was spot on, and I had the confidence to speak it clearly.
Do we really understand what sin does in the grand scheme of things? I sometimes wonder if we should not review the gospel as believers and realize what it has done for us. We also hold review just how much that sin can keep us from doing the will of God. The Good News that Jesus died for our sins and that through Him we can have eternal life.
[1 Cor 15:1] Now I make known to you, brethren, the gospel which I preached to you, which also you received, in which also you stand, [2] by which also you are saved, if you hold fast *the word which I preached to you, unless you believed in vain.
[3] For I delivered to you *as of first importance what I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, [4] and that He was buried, and that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, [5] and that He appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. [6] After that He appeared to more than five hundred brethren at one time, most of whom remain until now, but some have fallen asleep; [7] then He appeared to *James, then to all the apostles; [8] and last of all, as *to one untimely born, He appeared to me also.
- LW
Do we really understand what sin does in the grand scheme of things? I sometimes wonder if we should not review the gospel as believers and realize what it has done for us. We also hold review just how much that sin can keep us from doing the will of God. The Good News that Jesus died for our sins and that through Him we can have eternal life.
[1 Cor 15:1] Now I make known to you, brethren, the gospel which I preached to you, which also you received, in which also you stand, [2] by which also you are saved, if you hold fast *the word which I preached to you, unless you believed in vain.
[3] For I delivered to you *as of first importance what I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, [4] and that He was buried, and that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, [5] and that He appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. [6] After that He appeared to more than five hundred brethren at one time, most of whom remain until now, but some have fallen asleep; [7] then He appeared to *James, then to all the apostles; [8] and last of all, as *to one untimely born, He appeared to me also.
- LW