Sermon, July 17, 2011 - Does God Really Love Us?
Romans 5.6-8
Does God really love us?
Rom 1.1-3.20 What is wrong with all of us: Sin
Rom 3.21-31 What God provides to make things right: A Redeemer
Rom 4 How we experience redemption: Faith
Rom 5-8 The freedom we now enjoy: Life in Christ
A. OUR UNWORTHINESS
1. Helpless [6a]
For while we were still helpless…
2. Ungodly [6b]
…for the ungodly.
3. Sinners [8]
…while we were yet sinners…
4. Enemies [10]
For if while we were enemies…
a. We were opposed to God
b. God was opposed to us
B. GOD’S GIFT
1. Something unheard of: God’s own love [6-7]
For one will hardly die for a righteous man;
though perhaps for the good man someone would dare even to die.
But God demonstrates His own love toward us…
2. Something wondrous: God’s best [8]
a. God’s common blessings
b. God’s message through time
c. God’s own Son
Christ died for the ungodly [6]
Christ died for us [8]
reconciled to God through the death of His Son [10]
John Olson
