god’s master plan session 2 why do we need god’s master plan? what stops us from participating?

God’s Master PlanGod’s Master Plan

Session 2Session 2Why do we need God’s Master Plan?Why do we need God’s Master Plan?What stops us from participating?What stops us from participating?

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(C) OBEDIENCE(C) OBEDIENCE7) How can we participate in the

Master Plan?8) How should citizens of the Master Plan live?

(A) KINGDOM OF GOD(A) KINGDOM OF GOD1) What is God's Master Plan2) 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 CHRIST5) Who is the key to the Master

Plan?6) Who is the Master Planner?

SalvationSalvationThe faith God requires for eternal life in his Kingdom (John 3:16-17)

Belief in the GospelBelief in the GospelActs 8v12

Life of ObedienceLife of ObedienceActs 2v42

Section 3Section 3

Why do we need God’s Why do we need God’s Master Plan?Master Plan?

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ObjectiveObjective

• Explain we need God’s Master Plan• Understand

the origin of sin the nature of man the destiny of man

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Overview - Section 3Overview - Section 3

• Why do we need God’s 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?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= SIN

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What is the origin of sin?What is the origin of sin?

• Adam’s disobedience was the origin of sinRomans 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?What is the effect of sin?

• THE BODYSuffer illness and disease

• Sadness• Mortality - 70 years of life

The length of our days is seventy The length of our days is seventy years- or eighty, if we have the years- or eighty, if we have the strength; yet their span is but strength; yet their span is but trouble and sorrow, for they quickly trouble and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away. pass, and we fly away.

Psalm 90v10Psalm 90v10

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• THE MINDWe 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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• Man’s Relationship with GodDivision - Genesis 3v24God 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 The Destiny of Man without the Master PlanMaster 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 gravePsalm 6v5 For in death there is no remembrance of you: in the grave who shall give you thanks?

Psalm 146v4 His breath goes forth, he returns to his earth; in that veryday his thoughts perish.

No praise!

No thoughts!

Know nothing!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.

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• 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 11:11

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• Sinning reverses the formula of our making!

• THE EQUATION OF LIFE

Dust + Breath of God = Living Soul

“…the LORD God formed man of the dustof the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul.” (Genesis 2v7)

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Dust + Breath of God = Living SoulDust + Breath of God = Living Soul

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• 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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• 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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• Sinning causes the reversal of the formulaDEATH!

Living Soul - Breath of God = DustLiving 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 = DustLiving Soul - Breath of God = Dust

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• Our Destiny without the Master PlanDEATHUnconscious sleep in the graveWhere mind and body are destroyed

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The way of EscapeThe 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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• How does Jesus help us escape? Jesus will return and raise the dead

• 1 Thessalonians 4v13-18There will be a judgement

• Acts 17v31

“For he has set a day when hewill 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.”

Worthy given eternal lifeWorthy given eternal life

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The way of Escape The way of Escape

• Lord Jesus holds out a wonderful hope to escape our destiny - the Resurrection

• Jesus will return and….

““transform our lowly transform our lowly bodies so that they willbodies so that they will

be like his glorious body.” be like his glorious body.” (Philippians 3v21)(Philippians 3v21)

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• 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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• 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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• 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 AnswerQuestion and Answer

• Why do we need God’s Master Plan?

We need God’s Master Plan We need God’s Master Plan if we want to escape fromif we want to escape from

our destiny of deathour destiny of death

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Section 4Section 4

What stops us from What stops us from participating in God’s participating in God’s

Master Plan?Master Plan?

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ObjectiveObjective

• 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 God’s Master Plan

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Overview - Section 4Overview - Section 4

• What stops us from participating?Who can’t 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 God’s Who may not participate in God’s Master Plan?Master Plan?

• Unrepentant sinners

19.19. The acts of the sinful nature are The acts of the sinful nature are

obvious: sexual immorality, impurity obvious: sexual immorality, impurity

and debauchery;and debauchery;

20.20. idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, idolatry and witchcraft; hatred,

discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish

ambition, dissensions, factionsambition, dissensions, factions

21.21. and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the

like. I warn you, as I did before, like. I warn you, as I did before, that that

those who live like this will not inherit those who live like this will not inherit

the kingdom of God. the kingdom of God.

(Galatians 5v19-21)

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Who are sinners?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?What is sin?

• Disobedience to God’s law• Doing our own will instead of God’s will

Whosoever commits sintransgresses also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.

(1 John 3v4)

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What is sin?What is sin?

• Sin is possible because of freewill….

To obey Follow will of God Subdue self will Sacrifice Reveal God’s 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?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?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?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?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?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 devil’s schemes.’

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What causes us to die?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?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?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?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 devil’s work.’

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Why did Jesus appear?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 devil’s work.’

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What must we do?What must we do?

• We must fight the devil or sin and beat itRomans 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?What about Satan?

• Hebrew word meaning “adversary”• Satan can be good or bad

(Numbers 22v22)

• 1 Chronicles 21v1 cp 2 Samuel 24v1

Again the anger of the LORD the LORD burned against Israel, and he incited David against them, saying,

“Go and take a census of Israel and Judah.”(2 Samuel 24v1)

SatanSatan rose up against Israel and incited David to take a census of Israel.

(1 Chronicles 21v1)

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DO!DO!

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

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ConclusionConclusion

• 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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• 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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• 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 AnswerQuestion and Answer

• What stops us from participating in God’s Master Plan?

Our own sinful nature stops Our own sinful nature stops us from participating in us from participating in

God’s Master PlanGod’s Master Plan

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• 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

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