Gospel-Shaped Repentance - Sermon Recap

Mark 1:9-15

Big Idea: Genuine belief in the gospel leads to genuine repentance.

From: "Restore: Moving God Back To The Center - A Series from Ezra & Nehemiah"

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• The gospel is not about what sinners can do for God, but what God has already done for sinners through Christ.
• Sin robs us of Jesus and gives us a shabby substitute in his place. 
• Anyone who doesn't get serious about sin has lost sight of how serious God got about sin. 
• Belief in the gospel is what changes our minds about sin. 
• In the moment of temptation, you must look past it to the cross.
• Sin is always God-ward. Any and all sin is against God. 
• As your heart for Jesus enlarges, your hunger for sin diminishes. 
• If our repentance is motivated by the gospel, we are free to own our sin. 

This week, as a way of acting out our repentance, turning from our sin and trusting in Christ's finished work on the cross, we wrote notes representing sins and hung them on the cross before taking communion:

Seeking the Father - Sermon Recap

 Ezra 8

Big Idea: When we have the Father's heart, we do what the Father does. When we do what the Father does, we have the Father's help.

From: "Restore: Moving God Back To The Center - A Series from Ezra & Nehemiah"

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• A lot of times we tell God by the way we live "I don't need you". 
• Fasting intentionally disrupts the ordinary rhythm of our lives to invite the extraordinary power of the Father into our hearts.
• Fasting reminds us of our need for God.
• Fasting means intentionally setting aside something you need to say "God I need you more".
• When we fast, we put Him first. We put God in the place of that need.
• We don't fast to please God. We fast to hear God.
• We don't do what God wants because we don't have the Father's heart. When we get the Father's heart, we do what God wants.

How To Change Your World - Sermon Recap

Ezra 7

Big Idea: You can change the world by becoming a person of the Word.

From: "Restore: Moving God Back To The Center - A Series from Ezra & Nehemiah"

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• We should never be satisfied with the disconnect in our lives between knowing what God says but not doing it. 
• We don't obey God so that he will love us. We obey God because he already does love us. 
• God promises us good through hard obedience. 
• The good that God promises through hard obedience is better than the best we can attain on our own.