Justice: Divine, Imputed, Imparted, Public, and Ultimate
The world has taken the Bible’s word, “justice,” and redefined it by attaching certain adjectives before it such as reproductive or racial or social. In order to evaluate those definitions, we need to answer a more fundamental question: What does God mean he uses the word justice in the Bible? In short, justice is getting what you deserve and giving others what they deserve. We’ll consider justice in five steps: (1) Divine Justice: God’s Character; (2) Imputed Justice: Justification; (3) Imparted Justice: Progressive Sanctification; (4) Public Justice: Impartiality in Society; and (5) Ultimate Justice: Final Judgment.
The Deceitful Snake: Our Enemy Who Tries to Prevent Us from Spreading a Passion for God’s Glory
In the first sermon of this year’s GO Week, we hear about how God gave us a passion to spread the Gospel. This sermon from Genesis 3 connects the serpent theme with the rest of the Bible and we hear about how he will try to prevent us.
God Is Supreme: Why We Exist to Spread a Passion for God’s Glory
The first sermon in the annual GO Week, a week bookended by two sermons in which we set our attention on God’s global purposes. Here’s one way to express our purpose as a church: we exist to spread a passion for the supremacy of God in all things for the joy of all peoples through Jesus Christ. We will kick it off as Andy Naselli preaches from Romans 11:36. As we exult together in a short text, we see why we exist: to spread a passion for God’s glory—locally, nationally, and globally.
