Expository sermon draft

EXPOSITORY SERMON DRAFT

1. All of us, have at some clip, have to cover with the inquiry of decease. Death is a subject that most people do non desire to speak about, non even to advert it. They like to speak about life. But the Word of God tells us that it is through decease that there is truly life.
2. So my message to you tonight is about deceasing and life. It is about the demand to decease in order to populate. It is about One who died to give us life. It is about when decease gives life.
3. Nowadays, we see many people have been featuring colored hair by which they use dye ( ie d-y-e ) to dye their hair with assorted colorss. Some dye their hair purple, green, orange, brown and aureate. Why do they make this? It is because they want to be voguish. It is an in thing and they want to populate their life with the manner of the twenty-four hours. They
   

   dye their hair in order to populate a life

   with the manner of the twenty-four hours.

4. Talking about deceasing with colorss, a company that deals with this concern of deceasing topographic points a notice outside its mill. It says, “ We dye mundane to gain a life. We must dye otherwise we will non be able to gain adequate to populate. If we do non dye, we will non populate. We dye to populate. ” Sounds like a paradox.
5. These two illustrations may look diverting. But truly we need to inquire ourselves this sober inquiry tonight: “ Do we necessitate to decease that we might populate? ” I am now mentioning to decease as in “ d-i-e ” . The reply is, yes, so. Who say so? It is the Giver of life and the One who can take away our lives who says so.
6. The Lord Jesus Christ says in John 12:24: “ Except a maize of wheat autumn into the land and dice, it abideth entirely: but if it die, it bringeth away much fruit. ”
7. Have you tried burying a seed in the land and watch it turn?
8. We used to make that when we were making our primary school scientific discipline undertaking. We would take some ruddy or green beans and, as it were, bury them in cotton wool soak in H2O and set them in a tray or bottle. The following twenty-four hours we would detect a little green shoots shooting from the inhumed beans. The beans look dry and dead if they remain as they are, non until when they are planted or buried as dead do they shoot new shoots that grow into bean sprouts. This is an illustration from nature in which decease gives life.
9. In existent fact beans are full of life. That is why when we describe person is full of beans, we are stating that they are really lively and have a batch of energy and enthusiasm.
10. But the life is grounds non merely until we bury the beans.
11. The Lord Jesus Christ in giving the illustration of a maize of wheat falling into the land and dice, it brings away much fruit, was mentioning to
    

    His decease that by His decease, many will be given lives.

12. And in John 12:32, the Lord Jesus Christ referred to His decease as decease on the cross. “ And I, if I be lifted up from the Earth, will pull all work forces unto me. ”
13. The
    

    decease of Christ will ensue in many to have life ageless

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    He came to decease that many might populate.

14. Now, why must Christ dice for us that we might populate? Why must Christ dice to give us life? Are we non already holding life?

15. Let us see that in the first topographic point, we are all dead IN trespasses and wickednesss though we may be populating.

16. We are all born evildoers. The Word of God tells us that in wickedness did my female parent conceive me.
17. The Bible tells us that we are all by nature “ dead in trespasses and wickednesss. ” ( Eph 2:1 ) .
18. Paul is non talking approximately physical decease.
19. The mention is to the religious unresponsiveness that characterizes adult male without God.
20. This is the scriptural statement refering adult male. This is the scriptural position of adult male as he is by nature. He is “ dead in trespasses and wickednesss. ” That means, he is spiritually dead. He is dead to the life of God.
21. As Calvin insisted, what is meant is “ a existent and present decease. ” The most critical portion of adult male ‘s personality, that is his spirit, is dead to the most of import factor in life, which is God.
22. Illustration: My kids and I were speaking about being tone deaf. A individual who is tone deaf deficiencies comparative pitch, the ability to know apart between musical notes. We have heard of the great composer Beethoven ‘s hearing loss. Beethoven ‘s hearing bit by bit deteriorated get downing in his mid-twentiess,
    

    yet

    he continued to compose chef-d’oeuvres, and to carry on and execute,

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    even after he was wholly deaf by the clip he was in his thirtiess

    . It was said that Beethoven used a particular rod attached to the sounding board on a piano that he could bite-the quivers would so reassign from the piano to his jaw to increase his perceptual experience of the sound. Now, how is it that he could travel on to compose great music? It is because he was non tone deaf, though he was deeply deaf. He could hear his music in his caput. He did non hold to hear it physically in his ears. So though he was deaf, but he was non truly deaf every bit far as his ability to compose music.

23. But the opposite is true of iniquitous adult male. He may be alive, but an stubborn adult male is dead – dead in wickedness and trespasses. He has no life though he lives.
24. This is because he has no life in God. For God is the One who gives life – existent meaningful everlasting life.
25. How long will you populate? The Bible says 3 mark and 10, Internet Explorer, 70 old ages. Some may populate to 100 old ages, but what is this compared to eternity?
26. Dear friends, do you hold life? I mean do you hold ageless life? You are dead now though you live, because of you wickednesss. But if you remain in your wickednesss, when you breathe your last breath, you will decease for infinity.
27. Work force love life… and so they do non like to even speak about decease. Funeral directors or morticians would give nice name to their company like – to populate once more, to reborn, etc. though they are covering with the concern of decease.
28. How can a adult male who is deceasing mundane because of wickedness truly unrecorded and unrecorded forever?

29. Let us now consider in the 2nd topographic point, that we need to be dead TO our trespasses and wickednesss so that we may truly populate.

30. In order to hold life – a life of righteousness, everlasting life – we need to be dead to our trespasses and wickednesss. It is merely when we are dead to our trespasses and wickednesss so shall we live unto a life of righteousness.
31. Application: But how are we to go dead to our trespasses and wickednesss?
32. This is accomplished merely in the decease of the Lord Jesus Christ on the cross for us.
33. Jesus bore our wickedness upon Himself on the cross, so that we become dead to our trespasses and wickednesss and so shall we live unto righteousness.
34. This is when
    

    decease gives life

    . Yes, Christ ‘s decease on the cross enables evildoers to go dead to trespasses and wickednesss, and no more dead in trespasses and wickednesss.

35. Illustration: In a edifice under renovation, several work forces were working on a scaffold high above the street. Suddenly, one of them slipped and fell to the paving below. His co-workers rapidly descended to give him assistance, but inquiring if he was still alive, and to their surprise he was!
36. At the minute of his autumn, a flock of sheep happened to be at that place below the staging. And the workingman fell on one, oppressing on of the sheep to decease. This is a good image of the Lamb of God deceasing for us that we might populate. The hapless small sheep was crushed to decease upon the impact of the adult male. The sheep died alternatively of him, and so he was alive.
37. Jesus is that Lamb of God who died for us that we may be dead to our trespasses and wickednesss and unrecorded.
38. Our text in 1 Peter 2:22-24 Tells us that Christ, “ who did no wickedness, neither was guile found in his oral cavity: Who, when he was reviled, reviled non once more ; when he suffered, he threatened non ; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously: Who his ain ego bare our wickednesss in his ain organic structure on the tree, that we, being dead to wickednesss, should populate unto righteousness: ”
39. The intent of the decease of Christ is to bring forth new life in the truster. By agencies of Christ ‘s decease on the cross, whoever comes to him ends his old life and begins a new one devoted to righteousness.
40. The Lord Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God, died in my topographic point and in your topographic point. He, the spotless and impeccant victim who died on the cross, He died as a surety. He died as the forfeit giving Himself for you and for me that we might populate unto righteousness.
41. Application: Have you repented of your wickednesss and believed His decease was for you? If you will make so this evening, you will have everlasting life from Him.
42. In 1 John 4:9-10, the Bible tells us “ In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his lone begotten Son into the universe, that we might populate through him. Herein is love, non that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the placation for our wickednesss. ”
43. Christ died that we might populate through Him because God the Father in His love toward us gave His lone begotten Son for the placation of our wickednesss, that we be justified unto righteousness.
44. Because by nature we being dead in trespasses and wickednesss, merit the wrath of God. But God in His rich clemency loves us greatly and gave His lone begotten Son to decease on the cross for us so that His decease is a placation of our wickedness, that is turning off the wrath of God from us.
45. In so making, we are justified, declared righteous before the sanctum God.
46. We are hence quickened, from being
    

    dead in wickednesss

    to go

    dead to wickednesss

    that we may populate a life of righteousness, that is, non to populate a life of wickedness any longer!

47. This is a fantastic program of redemption provided for us iniquitous animals when Christ died on Calvary cross. And this is for you and for me!
48. Application: Do you believe this? If you do, come to Jesus Christ tonight and acknowledge and repent of your wickednesss in your life and inquire the Lord Jesus Christ to forgive and to salvage you. His blood was shed to cleanse us from our wickednesss. He died to turn away God ‘s wrath from us. He died that you and I might populate. Make you believe this? If you do, come, come to Jesus tonight. Speak to your friend who have brought you here tonight and inquire further how you can hold life through the decease of Jesus.

49. Decision

50. Please make non detain any longer. Each clip whenever the Gospel is shared, some may mock, and others may decline the message. Some may stall, waiting for another twenty-four hours to see. And some may believe and are gloriously saved.
51. Dear friends, to which of these three groups do you belong? May you non be like the first few groups, but instead be ready to obey the gospel message.
52. And this is the message once more: Jesus died that we who are by nature dead in trespasses and wickednesss might decease with Him and become dead to wickednesss so that we might populate a righteous life unto God. The decease of Jesus Christ on the cross gives us everlasting life, ne’er to decease once more.
53. It is the great enigma of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Death gives life. Jesus ‘ decease on the cross gave life. Just like what Jesus had said, “ The decease of a seed gives new life. ”
54. Possibly you may be sing that you are a individual full of wickednesss and that you think you are beyond salvation. You may be believing that you are like the Satan, beyond redemption. That you are heading to a point of no return.
55. Well, this is what all of us were, before we become kids of God, but God in His rich clemency and great love towards us, want to do us alive together with Christ, even when we were dead in wickednesss. Would you desire to be turned around?
56. Illustration: Imagine that you are driving along a route, seeking for the manner to travel, you may all of a sudden hold that droping feeling that you have missed your turning. Probably you will still go on for a small longer, trusting you may yet be right. Gradually, nevertheless, you will be forced to acknowledge to yourself that you have gone incorrect.
57. At that minute, there ‘s merely one thing to make: turn the auto about and head back. If non, you will merely be traveling farther and farther off from your finish, and into the incorrect way.
58. When we have gone incorrect in life that is the lone thing to make every bit good. There is no virtue in go oning down the incorrect route. We must hold, turn around and get down traveling the manner which truly will take us where we ought to be.
59. We have some friends in our thick who can attest that they had lived otiose old ages in their lives. They were heading for nowhere. Like a bottle natation in the unfastened ocean and may finally drop right deep under the ocean.
60. But they made a bend around and now they are heading towards heaven because they have died to wickednesss and now alive in Christ.
61. So beloved friends, if you do acknowledge that you are a evildoer and dead in wickednesss, the good intelligence is that you can go dead to wickednesss and be alive in Christ, so that you can bask ageless life with God in heaven forever and of all time.
62. Believe in Jesus tonight that He died to give us life for infinity! Call upon Him and He will present you. He will salvage you. He will give you life. Because He came to decease that you and I might hold everlasting life. Let us pray.