Pandering the Gospel

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Pandering the Gospel
NOT!

• Luring people to believe?

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American Heritage Dictionary

• pander  .v.   pandered, pandering, panders
• 1.To act as a go-between or liaison in sexual
  intrigues function as a procurer.
• 2.To cater to the lower tastes and desires of
  others or exploit their weaknesses

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Ephesians 13

• Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus
  Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every
  spiritual blessing in the heavenly places,

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What Does He Give Us?

1. Forgiveness

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Roman 323

•  for all have sinned and fall short of the glory
  of God,

Roman 623
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift
of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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Leviticus 1711, 14

• For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I
  have given it for you on the altar to make
  atonement for your souls, for it is the blood
  that makes atonement by the life.
• For the life of every creature is its blood its
  blood is its life. Therefore I have said to the
  people of Israel, You shall not eat the blood of
  any creature, for the life of every creature is
  its blood. Whoever eats it shall be cut off.

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1 John 21-2

• My little children, I am writing these things to
  you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does
  sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus
  Christ the righteous. 2 He is the propitiation
  for our sins, and not for ours only but also for
  the sins of the whole world.

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Romans 64

• We were buried therefore with him by baptism into
  death, in order that, just as Christ was raised
  from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too
  might walk in newness of life

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What Does He Give Us?

1. Forgiveness
2. The hope of eternal salvation

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Romans 824

• For in this hope we were saved. Now hope that is
  seen is not hope. For who hopes for what he sees?

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2 Corinthians 110

• He delivered us from such a deadly peril, and he
  will deliver us. On him we have set our hope that
  he will deliver us again.

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Ephesians 212

• remember that you were at that time separated
  from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of
  Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise,
  having no hope and without God in the world.

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What Does He Give Us?

1. Forgiveness
2. The hope of eternal salvation
3. Adoption, as a child of God

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1 John 31

• See what kind of love the Father has given to us,
  that we should be called children of God and so
  we are. The reason why the world does not know us
  is that it did not know him.

A blessing, from great love, and a separator
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Romans 814-15

• For all who are led by the Spirit of God are
  sons of God. 15 For you did not receive the
  spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you
  have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by
  whom we cry, Abba! Father!

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Ephesians 15

• He predestined us for adoption as sons through
  Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his
  will,

Accomplished by getting into Christ
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What Does He Give Us?

1. Forgiveness
2. The hope of eternal salvation
3. Adoption, as a child of God
4. Love of the brethren, family love

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1 Peter 122

• Having purified your souls by your obedience to
  the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one
  another earnestly from a pure heart,

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Matthew 1929

• and everyone who has left houses or brothers or
  sisters or father or mother or children or lands,
  for my name's sake, will receive a
  hundredfold and will inherit eternal life.

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What Does He Give Us?

1. Forgiveness
2. The hope of eternal salvation
3. Adoption, as a child of God
4. Love of the brethren, family love
5. Strength for living

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2 Corinthians 129

• But he said to me, My grace is sufficient for
  you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.
  Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my
  weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest
  upon me.

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Ephesians 119

•  and what is the immeasurable greatness of his
  power toward us who believe, according to the
  working of his great might

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Ephesians 314-16

• For this reason I bow my knees before the Father,
  15 from whom every family in heaven and on earth
  is named, 16 that according to the riches of his
  glory he may grant you to be strengthened with
  power through his Spirit in your inner being,

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Ephesians 320

• Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly
  than all that we ask or think, according to the
  power at work within us,

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2 Timothy 17

• for God gave us a spirit not of fear but of
  power and love and self-control

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Whats the Point?

• God does not force us
• God does not bribe us
• But He DOES love us!
• John 316
• For God so loved the world, that he gave his
  only Son, that whoever believes in him should not
  perish but have eternal life.