What do we look when reading the Scriptures? Name one.
Who is God?
What has He decreed?
What has He done?
What will He do?
If I see who God is in the light of the gospel, we can say: all the things of God that were a _____ to me before, are now a joy to me.
terror
The great glory God gets in this story of salvation is that there is only one hero and that hero is __________________.
God and Him alone.
We cannot have joy by looking at ___________________, but by looking at what God has done.
our own reflection on the mirror
John 3:1 ESV
See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called _____ of God; and so we are.
Children
According to our study, the scriptures reveal that God is?
Wonderful
In the light of the gospel, this Holy, Righteous, and Just God is for ______! Not against me.
for me!
There is only one covenant keeper. Everyone else __________.
fails.
“As believers, every time we look at ___________, we need to look at Christ ten times.”
ourselves once
If we being _____ can do good, how much more a holy and loving God do for us?
EVIL
Jeremiah 9:23-24 “Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, let not the mighty man boast in his might, let not the rich man boast in his riches, but let him who boasts boast in this, that he understands and knows me, that I am the LORD who practices ____, ____, and ____ in the earth." Name one.
Mercy,
Justice,
Righteousness
2 Corinthians 5:17
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a ______. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
new creation
The movie: “Chronicles of Narnia” – Everyone fails, and the only hero is ________. That is what Christianity is about.
Aslan (Christ).
Romans 8:32
He who did not spare ___________ but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things?
his own Son
Which one is NOT low view of God’s Love?
If you are walking in condemnation as a believer.
Life based on our own performance.
If our obedience is based on faith.
If our joy is based on what we do.
Seeing the character of God in light of the gospel leads us to_____.
JOY
God’s plan for us is not something He just threw together. _______________________.
Well thought of and planned.
We are recipients! The only thing that will be written on our forehead in eternity will be “______”. That is recipient of grace.
Recipient
Romans 5:1
Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have ______ with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
PEACE
Every time we say “God, you do not know how big my _____ is”, God says you don’t know what I paid to purchase you!
sin
Seeing ourselves without the light of the gospel leads to _____.
Failure
Romans 8:21-23 NLT
The creation looks forward to the day when it will join God’s children in glorious freedom from death and decay. For we know that all creation has been ______ as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time.
Groaning
After reading the scriptures, we should walkaway not as defeated, but saying, yes but God is _________. In spite of our failures.
A bigger savior.
5:21 ESV
For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the ____________ of God.
righteousness
Nehemiah 8:10
The _______ of the Lord is your strength.
Joy