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January 29, 2023 • Walt Davis • 1 John 1:1–2, 1 John 2:12

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Dear Saints!

I hope you are each doing well! We look forward to joining with you again this Sunday at Mosaic as I continue down this list I call “The Top 10 things everyone, ESPECIALLY CHRISTIANS, need to know about Christianity!” This Sunday we are looking at #8 and possibly one of the most important: "Jesus’ Death cleansed us Once and For all, not over and over." 1 John 1:1-2;2:12.

For the first 33 years of my life, I thought that God would forgive my sins one by one as I asked Him to -- daily, weekly, or whenever. I was taught things like: “Bring your sins before the Mercy Seat each day for forgiveness so that you don’t face them at the Judgment Seat one day,” or “to be a good Christian, you must keep short sin accounts with God.” I’m sure you have heard something like this. You, like me for 33 years, may have even subscribed to this idea of God still holding your sins against you until you ask Him not to anymore. In fact, most Christians live their entire lives with this thinking that they are dirty then clean then dirty then clean over and over and over.

What is the truth? The truth might surprise you! The truth is that the Good News really is good news! We will see this Sunday that Jesus’ Death cleansed us once and for all, not over and over.

Hope to see you Sunday!

Walt Davis

More from 10 Things Everyone Needs to Know About Christianity

The Bible is One Book Containing Two Different Covenants

November 27, 2022 • Walt Davis

Hey Mosaic, Why is the Bible so hard to read and understand sometimes? Don’t get me wrong, some if not most of it is clear. But there’s a lot that leaves us scratching our heads at best. Sure, there are cultural differences between theirs and ours. Sure, there are language and translation difficulties. But sometimes the difficulty is more than that— it’s the content. For example, Jesus tells the Jews that God will forgive their sins only if they forgive other people's sins against them, but then Paul tells believing Christians in his letters that they are completely forgiven of all their sins—past, present, & future. Another example is that the same Bible says that God judged the Israelites because of their sins, but then we read Hebrews say that God remembers our sins “NO MORE!” So which is it? How do we reconcile these differences? I really hope you join us this Sunday at Mosaic, where we will try to unpack the truth that the Bible is one book that contains two completely different covenants. Knowing which covenant you are in makes a world of difference in what you believe about God, about yourself, and most practically, what you believe God thinks about you! Hope to see you there! Walt Davis

When the Old Has Faded Away

January 22, 2023 • Walt Davis • 2 Corinthians 3

Dear Saints, We look forward to celebrating Jesus and His finished work with you again this Sunday at Mosaic. We will continue our count down of “The Top 10 Things everyone needs to know, ESPECIALLY CHRISTIANS, about Christianity!” We are on number 9 this week: When we see the Old has faded away, the veil hiding our new heart is taken away! - 2 Corinthians 3. You see the New Covenant can be really hard for us to wrap our religiously trained minds around. We are trained to live based on morality. In the New Covenant we learn to live by the Life of Jesus within. Of course, Jesus’ life is a moral life, but Christianity isn’t learning about morality and trying our best to live up to it. Christianity is seeing the truth that our new spiritual core is the very glory of God. As we see this truth day by day we begin to live out who we now are in Him—not by trying but by trusting! Are you tired of trying to live the Christian life and continue to fail over and over? Maybe it’s time to stop trying and start trusting in the good news that Jesus not only lived the Christian life but IS the Christian life and His life is now your life in you, joined to you, one with you. This veil of trying must be removed. As it is, the glory of God in you goes on display through you! I really hope to see you Sunday! Walt Davis

What He's Done TO Us!

February 12, 2023 • Walt Davis

Dear Saints! What an incredible testimony to God's grace Ben shared last week. I was extremely touched and encouraged by it. This Sunday we are continuing our series of messages "The Top 10 things everyone, ESPECIALLY CHRISTIANS, should know about Christianity!" If you have missed #s 10, 9, & 8, let me encourage you to https://api.fluro.io/correspondence/63e712d45300d400248ce71e/clickthrough/https://subsplash.com/mosaicva/media/ms/+pqrppwx. This week is another big one! "#7 - Jesus didn’t just do something FOR you, He did something TO you!" You see all believers believe that Jesus did something wonderful FOR us, and He did! He lived a perfect sinless life FOR us. He died on a Roman cross FOR us. He took our penalty FOR us. He was raised from the dead FOR us, and so on. Yes, He did and we celebrate this! But He didn’t just do something FOR us. He has done something TO us! If you have come to faith in Jesus, Jesus has done something radical TO you. He KILLED you—the old you. He BURIED you—the old you. He RAISED you up—the new you. He has JOINED you to Him. He has SEATED you with Him in the Heavenly Realm. Do you know what He’s done TO YOU? I hope you see you Sunday. So often in this life we mourn and lament the things that other do TO us. This world throws all sorts of terrible things our way. Let’s pause this Sunday and celebrate what Jesus has done TO you! Hope to see you then! Walt Davis