Gods Master Plan

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Gods Master Plan

• Session 2
• Why do we need Gods Master Plan?
• What stops us from participating?

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Salvation The faith God requires for eternal life
in his Kingdom (John 316-17)
(C) OBEDIENCE 7) How can we participate in the
Master Plan? 8) How should citizens of the
Master Plan live?
(A) KINGDOM OF GOD 1) What is God's Master
Plan 2) How will God's Master Plan be
realised? 3) Why do we need God's Master Plan? 4)
What stops us from participating in God's Master
Plan? (B) NAME OF JESUS CHRIST 5) Who is the key
to the Master Plan? 6) Who is the Master Planner?
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Section 3

• Why do we need Gods Master Plan?

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Objective

• Explain we need Gods Master Plan
• Understand
• the origin of sin
• the nature of man
• the destiny of man

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Overview - Section 3

• Why do we need Gods Master Plan?
• What is the origin of sin?
• What is the effect of sin on man?
• What is the destiny of man without the Master
  Plan?
• Is there any escape from this destiny?

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What is the origin of sin?

• Then God said Let us make man in our image, in
  our likeness
• Genesis 1v26
• God saw all that he had made, and it was very
  good
• Genesis 1v31
• What went wrong?

Man disobeyed God
SIN
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What is the origin of sin?

• Adams disobedience was the origin of sin
• Romans 5v12
• What made Adam disobey?
• Genesis 3v6-7
• Desires of Flesh - Good for food
• Desires of Eyes - Pleasing to the eye
• Pride of Life - Desirable for gaining wisdom

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What is the effect of sin?

• THE BODY
• Suffer illness and disease
• Sadness
• Mortality - 70 years of life

The length of our days is seventy years- or
eighty, if we have the strength yet their span
is but trouble and sorrow, for they quickly pass,
and we fly away. Psalm 90v10
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What is the effect of sin?

• THE MIND
• We are morally impure
• from within the heart of man comes evil
  thoughts, adulteries, fornication, murders Mark
  7v21
• A mind that tends to sin
• A battle in the mind
• Romans 7v18-19

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What is the effect of sin?

• Mans Relationship with God
• Division - Genesis 3v24
• God cannot live with Sin -Hab 1v13
• We have a body that corrupts and a mind prone to
  sin.

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The Destiny of Man without the Master Plan

• The wages of sin is death
• Romans 6v23
• Death is the punishment for sin
• Our destiny is the grave

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The Destiny of Man without the Master Plan

• The grave

Psalm 6v5 For in death there is no remembrance
of you in the grave who shall give you thanks?
No praise!
Psalm 146v4 His breath goes forth, he returns to
his earth in that very day his thoughts perish.
No thoughts!
Ecclesiastes 9v5 For the living know that they
will die, but the dead know nothing they have no
further reward, and even the memory of them is
forgotten.
Know nothing!
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The Destiny of Man without the Master Plan

• Death is often referred to as a sleep

After he had said this, he went on to tell them,
Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep but I am
going there to wake him up. John 1111
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The Destiny of Man without the Master Plan

• Sinning reverses the formula of our making!
• THE EQUATION OF LIFE

the LORD God formed man of the dust of the
ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath
of life, and man became a living soul. (Genesis
2v7)
Dust Breath of God Living Soul
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Dust Breath of God Living Soul
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The Destiny of Man without the Master Plan

• Souls can
• love, hate, hunger, get tired

Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep and an
idle soul shall suffer hunger. Proverbs 19v15
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The Destiny of Man without the Master Plan

• Souls can also SIN!

Behold, all souls are mine as the soul of the
father, so also the soul of the son is mine the
soul that sins, it shall die. Ezekiel 18v4
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The Destiny of Man without the Master Plan

• Sinning causes the reversal of the formula
• DEATH!

Living Soul - Breath of God Dust
The dust returns to the ground it came from, and
the spirit returns to God who gave
it. (Ecclesiastes 12v7)
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Living Soul - Breath of God Dust
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The Destiny of Man without the Master Plan

• Our Destiny without the Master Plan
• DEATH
• Unconscious sleep in the grave
• Where mind and body are destroyed

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The way of Escape

• Jesus was the only man who never sinned
• When he died it was unjust
• The grave could not hold him
• Acts 2v24
• Jesus holds the keys
  to the grave
• Rev 1v18

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The way of Escape

• How does Jesus help us escape?
• Jesus will return and raise the dead
• 1 Thessalonians 4v13-18
• There will be a judgement
• Acts 17v31

Worthy given eternal life
For he has set a day when he will judge the
world with justice by the man he has appointed.
He has given proof of this to all men by raising
him from the dead.
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The way of Escape

• Lord Jesus holds out a wonderful hope to escape
  our destiny - the Resurrection
• Jesus will return and.

transform our lowly bodies so that they will be
like his glorious body. (Philippians 3v21)
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The way of Escape

• We will be given immortal bodies!
• Incorruptible, undying bodies!
• 1 Corinthians 15v51-58
• This is gift of God to those who will accept
• For the wages of sin is death
  but the gift of God is
  eternal life in Christ Jesus
  
• Romans 6v23

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The way of Escape

• There is a way of escape from our destiny
• the hope of the resurrection by Jesus when he
  returns to set up his kingdom
• As Paul put it when he was on trial...

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The way of Escape

• However, I admit that I worship the God of our
  fathers as a follower of the Way, which they call
  a sect. I believe everything that agrees with the
  Law and that is written in the Prophets, and I
  have the same hope in God as these men, that
  there will be a resurrection of both the
  righteous and the wicked.
• Acts 24v14-15

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Question and Answer

• Why do we need Gods Master Plan?

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• Tea Break

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Section 4

• What stops us from participating in Gods Master
  Plan?

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Objective

• Illustrate how sin separates us from God
• Show how our human nature causes us to sin
• Look at how sin stops us from participating in
  Gods Master Plan

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Overview - Section 4

• What stops us from participating?
• Who cant participate?
• Who are sinners and what is sin?
• Where does sin com from?
• What causes man to sin?
• What is the devil and satan?

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Who may not participate in Gods Master Plan?

• Unrepentant sinners

• The acts of the sinful nature are obvious sexual
  immorality, impurity and debauchery
• idolatry and witchcraft hatred, discord,
  jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition,
  dissensions, factions
• and envy drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I
  warn you, as I did before, that those who live
  like this will not inherit the kingdom of God.
  (Galatians 5v19-21)

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Who are sinners?

• Every single human being (except Christ) is a
  sinner
• Romans 8v3
• for all have sinned and fall short of the glory
  of God
• Romans 3v23

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What is sin?

• Disobedience to Gods law
• Doing our own will instead of Gods will

Whosoever commits sin transgresses also the law
for sin is the transgression of the law. (1 John
3v4)
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What is sin?

• Sin is possible because of freewill.

• To obey
• Follow will of God
• Subdue self will
• Sacrifice
• Reveal Gods nature
• Fulfil our purpose
• LIFE

• To disobey
• Follow will of self
• Ignore God
• Satisfy and indulge
• Reveal human nature
• SIN
• DEATH

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Where does sin come from?

• Jeremiah
• The heart is deceitful above all things and
  desperately wicked who can know it?
• Jeremiah 17v 9
• Jesus
• all these evils come from inside and make a man
  unclean
• Mark 7v20

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Where does sin come from?

• James
• but each one is tempted when, by his own evil
  desire, he is dragged away and enticed. Then
  after desire has conceived, it gives birth to
  sin and sin, when it is full grown gives birth
  to death (James 1v14)

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What is the Devil?

• Devil means false accuser or slanderer
• It is a concept of sin described as a
  person.Personification
• Fighting is more focused if it is against a
  personified enemy

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What is the devil?

• Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers
  Greek 'diabolos', sober, faithful in all
  things. (1 Timothy 3v11)
• This know also, that in the last days perilous
  times shall come. For men shall be lovers of
  their own selves, ... unholy, ... false
  accusers Greek
  'diabolos', ... despisers of
  those that are good. (2 Timothy 3v1-3)

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What do we fight against?

• Romans 7v23
• But I see another law at work in the members of
  my body, waging war against the law of my mind
  and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at
  work within my members

• Ephesians 6v11
• Put on the full armour of God so that you can
  stand take your stand against the devils
  schemes.

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What causes us to die?

• Romans 6v23
• For the wages of sin is death

• Hebrews 2v14
• ... he too shared in their humanity so that by
  his death he might destroy him who holds the
  power of death - that is, the devil.

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What did Jesus conquer?

• Hebrews 9v26
• But now he has appeared once for all at the end
  of the ages to do away with sin by the sacrifice
  of himself

• Hebrews 2v14
• ... that by his death he might destroy him who
  holds the power of death - that is, the devil.

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What must we resist?

• Hebrews 12v4
• In your struggle against sin, you have not yet
  resisted to the point of shedding blood.

• James 4v7
• Submit yourselves then to God. Resist the
  devil, and he will flee from you

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Who do sinners submit to?

• John 8v34
• I tell you the truth, everyone who sins is a
  slave to sin

• 1 John 3v8
• He who does what is sinful is of the devil....
  The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy
  the devils work.

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Why did Jesus appear?

• 1 John 3v5
• But you know that he appeared so that he might
  take away our sins. And in him is no sin

• 1 John 3v8
• ...The reason the Son of God appeared was to
  destroy the devils work.

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What must we do?

• We must fight the devil or sin and beat it
• Romans 7v18-23
• Jesus fought it and killed the devil!
• Since the children have flesh and blood, he too
  shared in their humanity so that by his death he
  might destroy him who holds the power of death-
  that is, the devil (Hebrews 2v14)

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What about Satan?

• Hebrew word meaning adversary
• Satan can be good or bad (Numbers 22v22)
• 1 Chronicles 21v1 cp 2 Samuel 24v1

Satan rose up against Israel and incited David to
take a census of Israel. (1 Chronicles 21v1)
Again the anger of the LORD burned against
Israel, and he incited David against them,
saying, Go and take a census of Israel and
Judah. (2 Samuel 24v1)
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DO!

• Time to do a bit of good wholesome exercise..

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Conclusion

• God created man very good
• Man sinned - The consequence is death
• Death is a reversal of the formula
• LIVING SOUL - BREATH OF GOD DUST
• Death is a sleep state
• The only escape is through Jesus Christ
• Jesus will return to raise the dead
• The just will receive immortal bodies

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Conclusion

• Sin is when we are enticed by our evil desires
• This corrupt human nature is personified in the
  Bible as the devil
• It must be destroyed because it prevents us from
  participating in the master plan
• Jesus has destroyed the devil and we can share in
  his divine nature

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Conclusion

• This week we looked at.
• The origin of sin and its effect
• Our destiny without the Master Plan
• How to escape this destiny
• What causes us to sin
• Our struggle with sin

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Question and Answer

• What stops us from participating in Gods Master
  Plan?

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Conclusion

• Next week we look at.
• Who is the key to the Master Plan
• The seed in the promises
• Why we need Jesus
• How Jesus can save us from our sin
• Why Jesus needed to be Son of God and Son of Man
• Why Jesus had to die
• What Jesus death and resurrection mean to us