Today's Sermon: There is No Third Way

I. We are All Eternal Wonders or Everlasting Horrors- 3:18, 36

Quote- C.S. Lewis, Weight of Glory- “It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest most uninteresting person you can talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship, or else a horror and a corruption such as you now meet, if at all, only in a nightmare. All day long we are, in some degree helping each other to one or the other of these destinations. It is in the light of these overwhelming possibilities, it is with the awe and the circumspection proper to them, that we should conduct all of our dealings with one another, all friendships, all loves, all play, all politics. There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal…It is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit - immortal horrors or everlasting splendors.”

II. Evidences of New Birth

A. Those Born Again Believe- 3:18, 31-36

Quote- Carson- Already in need of a Savior before God’s Son comes on his saving mission, this person compounds his or her guilt by not believing in the name of that Son. As with the arrogant critic who mocks a masterpiece, it is not the masterpiece that is condemned, but the critic. There is no need to await the final day of judgment: the person who disbelieves in the Father’s one and only Son stands condemned already, and God’s wrath remains on him.

II. Evidences of New Birth

B. Those Born Again Love the Light- 3:19-21

II. Evidences of New Birth

C. Those Born Again Deflect the Light- 3:22-30

II. Evidences of New Birth

D. Those Born Again Obey- 3:36