Sermon Category: Choose Life

The conditions after the fall went from bad to worse but God choose life for us instead of death by giving us grace to redeem us. In Genesis 3:15 God promised to send a Savior to crush the serpent on the head even though he himself would be bruised. In spite of organized humanity’s failures, God called a man of faith, Abram to become the channel of blessing to all nations, and through him form a people that would eventually bring our Lord and Savior. We are now invited to choose life by joining his people of faith in this humanly impossible journey because, after all, by faith in his promises, what is impossible for men is possible for God.

The conditions after the fall went from bad to worse but God choose life for us instead of death by giving us grace to redeem us. In Genesis 3:15 God promised to send a Savior to crush the serpent on the head even though he himself would be bruised. In spite of organized humanity’s failures, God called a man of faith, Abram to become the channel of blessing to all nations, and through him form a people that would eventually bring our Lord and Savior. We are now invited to choose life by joining his people of faith in this humanly impossible journey because, after all, by faith in his promises, what is impossible for men is possible for God.

God’s life-giving plan ordained for us a flourishing and fruitful existence through the exercise of our stewardship, the relationships in our community, and our capacity to participate in the beauty of God’s holiness. Nevertheless, humanity chooses idolatry, alienation, and death instead. Through sin, God’s provisions for humanity to choose life were rejected and instead, we chose death.

What are three critical purposes for the flourishing of human life fulfilled through the
life-giving power of God’s word?

A while ago I read a sign that said to not take life too seriously, since we are not going to get out of it alive after all. Life is rarely a walk in the park but it is in the moments of hardship and difficulty that God wants to come alongside to show us that not even death can separate us from his love. In those moments of difficulty, who will you trust to get you through? More than a manual of good principles and morality, the Bible is God’s life-giving story through Jesus Christ. Because of what Jesus has done for us, we are now able to choose life in spite of our spiritual blindness, Jesus is the One we can trust to get us safely through this valley of death.

To be life-giving we must first be life-receiving. In God’s story all life originates in God. God created the world by his Word and it is his Word that sustains our lives and gives us a chance to choose life. Psalm 1 outlines the first steps of our journey. In God’s economy, choosing life begins with trusting and treasuring God’s word.