1. Our Father...

2. “Sinfulness is a human problem without a human solution”
Our Father.
“Sinfulness is a human problem without a human solution”
Elaine Storkey

3. Our problem
Our Father.
Ecclesiastes 7:29 This only have I found: God created mankind upright, but they have gone in search of many schemes.”

4. Our problem
Our Father.
Matt 7:20-23 He [Jesus] went on: “What comes out of a person is what defiles them. For it is from within, out of a person’s heart, that evil thoughts come—sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly. All these evils come from inside and
defile a person.”

5. Our Father.
“If I wrote down every thought I have ever thought and every deed I have ever done, men would call me a monster of depravity”
Somerset Maugham

6. God’s solution
Our Father.
Romans 3:23-25 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and all are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus. God presented Christ as a sacrifice of atonement, through the shedding of his blood—to be received by faith..

7. God’s solution
Our Father.
Romans 5 v 8 While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. .

8. Our Father.
“He bore the punishment we deserve, in order to bring us the forgiveness we do not deserve”
John Stott
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9. Relationship restored
Our Father.
2 Corinthians 5:21 God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

10. Relationship restored
Our Father.
Luke 23:34 For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

11. What about you? Have you recognised that you have the human problem?
Our Father.
Have you recognised that you have the human problem?
Have you accepted God’s solution
Is your relationship with God restored?

12. Our Father...