Are you Obsessed with Jesus?


Rough Sermon Notes:
Main themes with under arching and over arching themes and contexts

The justification for something like this is that the New Testament authors did this to the Old Testament all the time when they quoted it.

Israel In Exile

Jeremiah‬ ‭29:11-13‬ ‭ESV‬‬
11 For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare[b] and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope. 12 Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will hear you. 13 You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart.‭‭

Whored after other Gods
God Knows the plans
They are for Welfare
Future and hope
THEN - Because they are in sin
Call
Come
Pray
Seek
He gave a promise
Will find
Exile
Whored after other Gods

‭‭Jeremiah‬ ‭13:27‬ ‭ESV‬‬
“I have seen your abominations, your adulteries and neighings, your lewd whorings, on the hills in the field. Woe to you, O Jerusalem! How long will it be before you are made clean?””

Solomons prayer for the temple

‭‭2 Chronicles‬ ‭7:14‬ ‭ESV‬‬
“if my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land.”

Humble Self
Pray
Seek Face
Turn From Wicked ways
Then I will Hear From heaven
Forgive Sin
Heal Land


King David

‭‭Psalm‬ ‭14:2-3‬ ‭ESV‬‬
“The Lord looks down from heaven on the children of man, to see if there are any who understand, who seek after God. They have all turned aside; together they have become corrupt; there is none who does good, not even one.”


168 hours in a week
8 sleep hours 7 days -56 - 33.3%
8 work hours 5 days - 40 - 23.8%
8 free hours 5 days - 40 - 23.8%
16 free hours weekend - 32 - 19%
72 free hours - 42.9%


3 hours media 7x - 21 hours - 12.5%
2 hours media 7x - 14 hours - 8.3%
1 our media day - 7hrs - 4.1%
1 hr working out - 4.1%


2 hrs church 3x - 6 hours - 3%
1 hour a day devotions 7x – 7 hours - 4.1%
30 minutes – 3.5 hrs - 2%
15 min - 1.75 hrs - 1%
10 min - 1.1 hrs - .6%
5 min - .35 - .2%
2 min - .14 - .08%


Sleeping 33.3%
Working 23.8%
Free time 42.8%
Working out 4.1%
Social media 12.5%
Fellowship 12.5%
Church 3%
Devotions 4.1%

All of your time should be spent with God

No I want you to understand this, you will not seek him. You won’t. You don’t. The Bible says it in the Bible is true

Paul Is writing to the romans who he has never met.
He is making his Defence and case for the Gospel

Romans 3:9
What then? Are we Jews[a] any better off?[b] No, not at all. For we have already charged that all, both Jews and Greeks, are under sin,

All are under Sin - Jews and Greeks

10 as it is written:
“None is righteous, no, not one;

Do you think the Apostle Paul and the Bible are joking?
No one

11 no one understands;
no one seeks for God.

Not you not me, Not your pastors
No one

12 All have turned aside; together they have become worthless;
no one does good,
not even one.”

A Billion People on Facing God
Turn and Run
Into a pit of worthlessness
On the way down no one is selfless
not one

13 “Their throat is pan open grave;
they use their tongues to deceive.”
“The venom of asps is under their lips.”

Not only Do we all fall into a pit
We kill people with our selfish words
Impossible
Hitler Comparison
Sin of us vs gods perfection
Transcendence
Not Desensitized
Zombies

14 r“Their mouth is full of curses and bitterness.”

Bitterness is one of Satan's Root temptations
Cancel Culture
Change Friends like you change Clothes
"I know People"
Jesus didn't entrust himself
You're not Jesus
Yes we're called to be wise
but you need to stop thinking everyone is against you
you

15 s“Their feet are swift to shed blood;

Imagine no consequences
Not from God nor society
Someone would do you wrong you'd kill

16 in their paths are ruin and misery,

Depression
I've seen the consequences sin brings
people still choose it

17 and the way of peace they have not known.”

When you live life as the God of your own life
You will not know true peace
the thing you search will escape you
Sex won't satisfy you
weed won't satisfy you
Vaping doesn't give you peace
Social media as a god destroys

18 u“There is no fear of God before their eyes.”

There is no fear
They don't care what God thinks
They Don't think about the consequences
It's like spiting God in the face
Like the bully who smacks the plate of the new kid
Trying to assert dominance

19 Now we know that whatever the law says it speaks to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and the whole world may be held accountable to God.

when the law came
we are all under it
it speaks to us
makes us stop talking
shuts our mouths
we have nothing to say to God
It holds us accountable
gets rid of excuses

20 For by works of the law no human being3 will be justified in his sight, since through the law comes knowledge of sin.

You can never do enough of the law
the Standard is too high
you can't pray or read enough
for God to say well done is impossible
Every time you sin you know its bad because of the law

What is Pauls point here?
What is he trying to do?
To Show us We Can NEVER DO ENOUGH
The law condemns and equals death but trusting Jesus equals life

Philippians 3:7-9
Circumcised
Israel
Benjamin
Hebrew
Pharisee
Zeal - Persecutor
Law - Blameless

Philippians 3:7-9
7 But whatever gain I had, I counted as loss for the sake of Christ. 8 Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ 9 and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith

You are Righteous when you trust in Jesus
Stop trusting in your works
The letter kills
The law will kill you if you will try to become good by it
You can only become good by trusting in Jesus
You Will Find God by looking at Jesus

Philip the apostle says show us the father
Do you still not know me Philip?
He is the image of the invisible God

The Righteousness of God Through Faith
21 But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it

He's saying now you can be righteous apart from the law
the law is not the way to become clean or right with god
it's through trusting God to clean you
by having faith in his son
The whole old testament is about This
What is the law and the prophets

— 22 the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. eFor there is no distinction:

Here he is saying it again
Galatians 5:12
The offense of the Cross has been removed
Why did the jews hate apostle Paul?
Because he was saying you can not do it on your own
You're more sinful than you thought
You're more loved than you thought

23 for fall have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

Here he reminds and strengthens
what he's been saying all along
Sin means - Hitting the mark
Torah means law - hitting the mark
No one can hit the mark
Jesus did it for us

24 and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,

As a free gift only
You must receive what Jesus did
you cannot offer your own works to god to be saved
they mean nothing in the eyes of God
we are that far in comparison with Jesus

25 whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God’s righteousness, because in his divine (patience) forbearance he had passed over former sins.

God put Jesus on the cross
to Absorb our sin
and Give us his righteousness
the vary righteousness of god
all by grace
all by gift
only way to receive it is faith
trusting in him that you are saved

He Shows righteousness
Righteousness is being right with God
Patient over sins
Passed over past sins
He should have given justice right away
If he didn't show justice he wouldn't be right with himself

26 It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.

He did't crush right away to show
Righteousness
He justifies you
and he's just against you and your sins

27 Then what becomes of our boasting? It is excluded.

What means do you have to be prideful?
Y