Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Keselamatan merupakan rencana agung Allah

Acts 2: 14-41


Salvation is planned by God, far before Jesus was born, God promised to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, that salvation will comes from His chosen nations, Israelites and his descendants
- Moses (Exodus: 2:24- 3:22)
- Joshua
- Judges
- 2 Sam 7:12-13
- Psalm 132:11

Fulfillment of the prophecy
- Daud - Maz 16:8-11
- Joel - 2:28-32
- Isaiah - 52-53


1. Allah telah menetapkan Yesus untuk mati dan bangkit kembali

Men have been trying to fail God's plan, to steer off.. however only to find out that they're actually fulfilling His bigger plan and prophecy. 
Example: Joseph, Job, Noah, Jude

? Why Jesus has to die ?

Mat 26:26-28 - Yesus mati untuk menyelesaikan masalah dosa
Isaiah 53:4-6 - Yesus mati untuk menanggung dosa kita
Roma 3:23 - kehilangan kemuliaan
? What is sin ? 
It is whatever separates us from God and others. Sin has a way to slowly killing ourselves, our soul, our body.. it hurts our relationship to God and others.

? Why Jesus has to be risen ?

Rom 6: 3-4  -  new life
1 Tim 2: 3-4 - knowledge of truth - man & God
Col 2:6-7 - continue lives in Him

What is the salvation? - It's God's unconditional love to save us, to forgive us.. It's receiving His gifts of forgiveness from sin and grace to empower us to love God and others


2. What shall we do? Response
- Hear the word of God
- Repent 
Rom 10:9-10
1 John 1:9

- and be baptised
...for the forgiveness of your sins and receive gift of Holy Spirit - Acts 2:38

...And live up the new way. 2 Cor 5:15-18
 15 And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again.
 16 So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. 17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come:[a] The old has gone, the new is here! 18 All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: 19 that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people's sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. 20 We are therefore Christ's ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ's behalf: Be reconciled to God. 21 God made him who had no sin to be sin[b] for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.


source: pastor Gagan sermon