2. The Bible Teaches Doctrine (part 4): God Pursues Through Grace

3. PURSUED THROUGH GRACE WHEN WE SIN

4. PURSUED THROUGH GRACE WHEN WE SIN Deuteronomy 32:4 “The Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are justice. A God of faithfulness and without iniquity, just and upright is he.

5. PURSUED THROUGH GRACE WHEN WE SIN Ecclesiastes 7:29 See, this alone I found, that God made man upright…

6. PURSUED THROUGH GRACE WHEN WE SIN Ecclesiastes 7:29 See, this alone I found, that God made man upright, but they have sought out many schemes.

7. PURSUED THROUGH GRACE WHEN WE SIN Romans 8:28 And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.

8. PURSUED THROUGH GRACE WHEN WE SIN Romans 2:12 For all who have sinned without the law will also perish without the law, and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.

9. PURSUED THROUGH GRACE WHEN WE SIN Romans 3:9 What then? Are we Jews any better off? No, not at all. For we have already charged that all, both Jews and Greeks, are under sin, 10 as it is written: “None is righteous, no, not one… 23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

10. PURSUED THROUGH GRACE WHEN WE SIN Genesis 3:1 Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the L ORD God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God actually say, ‘You shall not eat of any tree in the garden’?” 2 And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden, 3 but God said, ‘You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.’

11. PURSUED THROUGH GRACE WHEN WE SIN ” 4 But the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. 5 For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” 6 So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate.

12. PURSUED THROUGH GRACE WHEN WE SIN 7 Then the eyes of both were opened, and they knew that they were naked. And they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loincloths.

13. PURSUED THROUGH GRACE WHEN WE SIN Genesis 2:1 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.

14. PURSUED THROUGH GRACE WHEN WE SIN 2 Peter 2:4 God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment; Jude 6 And the angels who did not stay within their own position of authority, but left their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains under gloomy darkness until the judgment of the great day—

15. PURSUED THROUGH GRACE WHEN WE SIN Genesis 3:8 And they heard the sound of the L ORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the L ORD God among the trees of the garden. 9 But the L ORD God called to the man and said to him, “Where are you?” 10 And he said, “I heard the sound of you in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked, and I hid myself.”

16. PURSUED THROUGH GRACE WHEN WE SIN 11 He said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten of the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?” 12 The man said, “The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit of the tree, and I ate.” 13 Then the L ORD God said to the woman, “What is this that you have done?” The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”

17. PURSUED THROUGH GRACE WHEN WE SIN Psalm 51:5 Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me.

18. PURSUED THROUGH GRACE WHEN WE SIN Romans 3:10 as it is written: “None is righteous, no, not one; 11 no one understands; no one seeks for God. 12 All have turned aside; together they have become worthless; no one does good, not even one.”

19. PURSUED THROUGH GRACE WHEN WE SIN 13 “Their throat is an open grave; they use their tongues to deceive.” “The venom of asps is under their lips.” 14 “Their mouth is full of curses and bitterness.” 15 “Their feet are swift to shed blood; 16 in their paths are ruin and misery, 17 and the way of peace they have not known.” 18 “There is no fear of God before their eyes.”

20. PURSUED THROUGH GRACE WHEN WE SIN

21. PURSUED THROUGH GRACE FOR RESTORATION

22. PURSUED THROUGH GRACE FOR RESTORATION Exodus 15: 23 When they came to Marah, they could not drink the water of Marah because it was bitter; therefore it was named Marah. 24 And the people grumbled against Moses, saying, “What shall we drink?”

23. PURSUED THROUGH GRACE FOR RESTORATION Exodus 16:2 And the whole congregation of the people of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness, 3 and the people of Israel said to them, “Would that we had died by the hand of the L ORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the meat pots and ate bread to the full, for you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger.”

24. PURSUED THROUGH GRACE FOR RESTORATION Exodus 17:3 But the people thirsted there for water, and the people grumbled against Moses and said, “Why did you bring us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our livestock with thirst?”

25. PURSUED THROUGH GRACE FOR RESTORATION Exodus 32:1 When the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain, the people gathered themselves together to Aaron and said to him, “Up, make us gods who shall go before us. As for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.”

26. PURSUED THROUGH GRACE FOR RESTORATION “The heart of all this evil is idolatry itself. It is the de-godding of God. It is the creature swinging his puny fist in the face of his Maker and saying, in effect, ‘I’ll be by own god!’ Small wonder that the sin most frequently said to arouse God’s wrath is not murder, say, or pillage, or any other ‘horizontal’ barbarism, but idolatry—that which dethrones God. That is also why, in every sin, it is God who is the most offended party.” D.A. Carson

27. PURSUED THROUGH GRACE FOR RESTORATION Psalm 51:3 For I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me. 4 Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight, so that you may be justified in your words and blameless in your judgment.

28. PURSUED THROUGH GRACE FOR RESTORATION Jeremiah 2:11 Has a nation changed its gods, even though they are no gods? But my people have changed their glory for that which does not profit. 12 Be appalled, O heavens, at this; be shocked, be utterly desolate, declares the L ORD,

29. PURSUED THROUGH GRACE FOR RESTORATION 13 for my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed out cisterns for themselves, broken cisterns that can hold no water.

30. PURSUED THROUGH GRACE FOR RESTORATION John 3:19 And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil.

31. PURSUED THROUGH GRACE FOR RESTORATION John 10:10b I came that they may have life and have it abundantly. John 11:25 Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, 26 and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die.

32. PURSUED THROUGH GRACE FOR RESTORATION 1 John 1:8 If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us… 10 If we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

33. PURSUED THROUGH GRACE FOR RESTORATION 1 John 1:9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 2 Peter 3:9 The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.

34. PURSUED THROUGH GRACE FOR RESTORATION Romans 3:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

35. PURSUED THROUGH GRACE FOR RESTORATION Titus 3:3 For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, hated by others and hating one another. 4 But when the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared, 5 he saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit,

36. PURSUED THROUGH GRACE FOR RESTORATION 6 whom he poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior, 7 so that being justified by his grace we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

37. PURSUED THROUGH GRACE FOR RESTORATION