God Sent Jesus Christ to Save Humanity

MAIN TEXT: ROMANS 5:6-10

HIGHLIGHT VERSE: ROMANS 5:8
“But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” (NIV)

TOPIC POINTS:

To Save Ungodly People – Romans 5:6
To Save Helpless Sinners – Romans 5:7-8
To Save Unfaithful Servants – Romans 5:9-10

INTRODUCTION:

The news about Jesus Christ, the Son of God, coming into the world, living, suffering, dying and rising from the dead to save humanity is good news indeed. This is the undeniable fundamental doctrine of the gospel that all Christians hold. It is by it we are saved (1 Corinthians 15:1-11).

Anyone who does not believe it is not a Christian, any preacher who does not preach it does not have a message, any spirit which does not acknowledge or confess it is of the antichrist.

TO SAVE UNGODLY PEOPLE

– ROMANS 5:6, GALATIANS 4:4-5, EPHESIANS 2:11-12

God is the source and giver of life. To be without God is to be lifeless (dead). That was our sad condition when God showed us mercy through His Son. While we were without Christ, strangers to the covenants and promises, without hope and without God, at just the right time, Christ came for us and died for us.

God’s great act of love came when we were at our worst. It came when we were most undesirable, when we were most unlovable. If you feel this way, you are the very kind of person that God directs his immense love to save from that condition.

TO SAVE HELPLESS SINNERS

– ROMANS 5:7-8, ROMANS 3:23, ROMANS 6:23, EPHESIANS 2:1-3

As a consequence of the fall and the reign of sin in humanity, we were by nature guilty, helpless creatures waiting to be destroyed. Anything created that displeases its creator stands helplessly in danger to be discarded and replaced.

But God being rich in mercy, towards us in our helplessness, did not destroy us as we deserve but dared to save us and recreate us for good works. He sent His Son who took our destruction so that we might have adoption to sonship.

TO SAVE UNFAITHFUL SERVANTS

– ROMANS 5:9-10, ROMANS 8:32

A traitor is worse and more destructive than a known enemy because of his position as an insider. Our parents, Adam and Eve, were in God’s very temple when they sided with the serpent. They were not only wrongdoers but traitors and rebels.

In this condition they gave birth to all of us. We grew up and continued to live in that condition. In that same condition God sent His one and only Son to die for us. This love mystery that saved us at our worst, turning us from traitors to sons, is able to give us life and every other good thing.

CONCLUSION:

We appreciate the gospel of Christ when we understand the condition that prompted it. We were ungodly, helpless rebels deserving to be destroyed when God sent His Son at just the right time to save us.

This gospel ushers us into a new life where we are with God, citizens of His kingdom, with covenants, with promises, and with hope.

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

Give a summary of our main text
Recite our highlight verse
What is the Gospel?
Can someone deny the gospel and still be a Christian?
What was our condition before the gospel?
What was the driving factor that changed our condition?
God’s love/mercy came when we were okay/not too bad, true or false?
According to Ephesians, we were by nature children of?
Explain the pot analogy discussed in class
What did God do instead of destroying us?
Explain the word υἱοθεσία and how it relates to our lesson
What does God’s giving of His Son tell us, according to Romans 8?