Chances: The Beauty of Redemption
Life Chapel Toledo
English - September 12, 2022 14:00 - 35 minutes - 24.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsChristianity Religion & Spirituality church sermon life chapel toledo ohio bible scripture truth jesus disciples Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
THE BEAUTY OF REDEMPTION
Sunday, September 11, 2022
I don’t have to ask if you have ever failed God, failed yourself, or just failed in life because I know you have!
We all have!
Simon Peter no doubt felt the pain of failure many times.
He denied Jesus 3 times while Jesus was in the final hours of His life.
Mark 16:1-8
there are two words that are significant in the story of second chances.
Verse 7 - go, tell his disciples “and Peter”
Jesus comes to Peter and finds him in his guilt and shame and asks a simple question.
Do you love me?
This has nothing to do with redemption, but everything to do with how Peter will use his redemption.
What are you doing with your second chance?
Every time we fail we learn something about ourselves, we learn something about those around us, we learn something about God. He just wants us to love Him with a sincere heart.
1 John 2:1-6
He explains our second chance by using a word we may not be familiar with - Propitiation. This basically means that Jesus Christ paid the penalty for our sin so that we can have a second chance.
The perfect picture of that word - propitiation is found in the story of the Jews.
In Leviticus 16 God gives the plan for a Day of Atonement.
The priest was to kill a goat and sprinkle the blood on the Ark of the Covenant.
The priest would then lay hands on a live goat and confess the sins of the people and then run the goat out of camp as it symbolically carried the weight of the sin into the wilderness.
These two goats are the picture of what Jesus did on the cross. He both died and then rose again to carry our sins away.