INTRODUCTION: How can God righteously embrace anyone in His love when we all deserve to be justly strangled in His wrath?
DOCTRINE: The happy promises of the love of God and the terrible threatenings of the justice of God, which can seem at times to be at odds, do perfectly harmonize and shine forth in the death of the Lord Jesus Christ.
I. GOD IS LOVE (1 John 4:8).
I) God manifested his love to man by creating man in His own image, and thereafter blessing him (Gen. 1:28).
II) God also manifested his love to man by condescending to enter into a covenant of works with him (Gen. 2:16-17).
III) After the fall, God manifested his love to man by condescending to enter into a covenant of grace with him (Gen. 3:15).
IV) God shows His love by further revealing His covenant of grace to Abraham, that Christ would come through Abraham to bless the nations (Gen. 12:3).
V) God then further reveals His love by proclaiming His name to Moses on the mount (Ex. 34:6).
VI) God then even further reveals His love by reminding His people why He chose them (Deut. 7:7-8).
II. GOD IS JUST (Deut. 32:4).
I) Because God is just, God does what is just (Gen. 18:25).
II) Because God is just, God loves justice (Ps. 33:5).
III) Because God is just, God hates injustice (Isa. 61:8).
IV) Because God is just, He will punish sinners (Nah. 1:2-3).
III. AT THE CROSS OF CHRIST, JUSTICE IS SATISFIED AND LOVE IS MAGNIFIED FOR ALL WHO BELIEVE (1 Jn. 4:10).
IV. THE GOSPEL IS THE GOOD NEWS THAT GOD IS JUST AND THE JUSTIFIER OF THE ONE WHO HAS FAITH IN JESUS (Rom. 3:25-27).
LOVE AND JUSTICE AT THE CROSS OF CHRIST: Brett Baggett
1 John 4:10
September 15, 2022 • Brett Baggett • 1 John 4:10
ETHICAL IVF? Dusty Deevers
September 10, 2022 • Dusty Deevers
How does God’s Word direct us to think about Ethical IVF? How does King Jesus, by Whom, through Whom, and for Whom all embryos exist, command our attention and affections regarding in vitro fertilization, and so-called “ethical IVF?” MY THESIS IS: God commands the creation of new human life as a fruit of the sacred, procreative communion of marriage with the bodies of the male husband and female wife as the sole parties to the enfleshment (becoming flesh) of the new life, and God taking their offering, knitting together and ensouling the new life in the mother’s womb. We must sanctify marriage and the God-ordained means, locus, and purpose of enfleshment and ensoulment.
