When we don't serve the God who is God, we are free to be our own authority, our own god. Once we know where we will spend forever, then we can know how to live now. Before we know Jesus we feel like we need the things of this world to feel successful. When we know Jesus we know we don't need anything else. We must seek first the Kingdom of God and everything we need we be given to us. God knows how to speak our language. God loves us!
The purpose of the Old Testament is to point people to Jesus Christ. What God has done for us is more than we could ask or imagine. Whatever we know about God's love is only the edge of the surface of the truth. Jesus died was once and for all, not to be repeated. God declared that it is appointed unto people to die once, after that the judgement. Jesus will come to be the salvation to those who are waiting for Him. For those who follow Christ, judgement has already been taken care of because of the cross. We must be looking forward to Jesus' return!
Program for 06/08/15 Jim Wood: 1 Corinthians 6 and Romans 1 (Greensboro, day 1)