Ship Shape - Fellowship - Building The Family New Song Church OKC

Philippians 2:5-8 In your life together, think the way Christ Jesus thought. 6  He was like God in every way, but he did not think that his being equal with God was something to use for his own benefit. 7 Instead, he gave up everything, even his place with God. He accepted the role of a servant, appearing in human form. During his life as a man, 8 he humbled himself by being fully obedient to God, even when that caused his death—death on a cross.What is “The Main Issue Jesus Came To Fix”?The sin issue?“The Main Issue Jesus Came To Fix” was a relationship issue. God wanted His family back!Sin Is An Issue#1 Sin hurts peopleRomans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death#2 Sin Keeps People From GodIsaiah 59:2 but your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you so that he does not hear. Whatever you are going after first orders the rest of your life.Matthew 6:33 But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.If what God wants most becomes what want most… everything else will fall into place.Without Jesus we’re dead.Ephesians 2:5 even though we were dead because of our sins, he gave us life when he raised Christ from the dead.Colossians 2:13 You were dead because of your sins and because your sinful nature was not yet cut away. Then God made you alive with Christ, for he forgave all our sins. Jesus did not come so bad people could become good, but so dead people could come alive. John 10:10 The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly. John 14:6  "I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me.”Jesus came so we could have Him!John 1:12 But to all who believed him and accepted him, he gave the right to become children of God.Hebrews 2:11 Jesus and the ones he makes holy have the same Father. And that is why Jesus is not ashamed to call us his brothers and sisters. If Jesus is your Lord God identifies you based on the cross.Ephesians 2:19 You are therefore no longer mere foreigners or persons excluded from civil rights. On the contrary you share citizenship with God's people and are members of His family.The goal is not to stop sinning, The goal is to know God! Hebrews 12:2 (NKJV) looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. He endured the cross, despising the shame,If you don’t get the “know God” issues settled… you will not have the ability to overcome any other issue in your life. BAD NEWS:We have all sinnedRomans 3:23 All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.The penalty for sin is death.Romans 6:23 The wages of sin is death”GOOD NEWSJesus died for you.Romans 5:8 God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us”You can be saved through faith in Christ.Ephesians 2:8-9 For it is by grace [undeserved favor] you have been saved [delivered from sin’s penalty] through faith—and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God, not of works, so that no one can boast.Romans 10:9 if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.