DNA: God Is Victorious

God’s love never fails. God is vic­to­ri­ous. That is the mes­sage that pas­tor Jeff pre­sented to us yes­ter­day. Preaching from a very per­sonal per­spec­tive, he encour­aged us that God’s love for us endures for us no mat­ter what mess we get our­selves in. If we turn to Him, He is right there with open arms to wel­come us, clean us up, and declare that we are His children.

And now, my ser­mon notes:

1 John 4:8 [show]1 John 4:8 [8]Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. (ESV)
start­ing point.

Sometimes we try to pull our­selves out of a hole by our own power. And when we do, we just take a back­hoe and dig our­selves in deeper. We bear the scars of those pits.

God is not a mad sci­en­tist. He is not guess­ing, try­ing one exper­i­ment after another. Frankenstein theology-God throws misc stuff together to make us, some­times mak­ing monsters.

God is a mas­ter physi­cian. He knows how we are made and can take us no mat­ter how messed up and fix us, phys­i­cally, men­tally, emo­tion­ally, spiritually.

It is by the cross that we are held to God. 1 Cor 1:16–17 [show]1 Corinthians 1:16–17 [16](I did bap­tize also the house­hold of Stephanas. Beyond that, I do not know whether I bap­tized any­one else.) [17]For Christ did not send me to bap­tize but to preach the gospel, and not with words of elo­quent wis­dom, lest the cross of Christ be emp­tied of its power. (ESV)
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There were many other good things that pas­tor Jeff said. To hear the entire ser­mon, be sure to visit Flatland Church’s web­site.

I loved the line, “God is not a mad sci­en­tist.” It speaks vol­umes to me with regards to both God’s DNA and our own. Simply put, some­thing Dr. J at Evangel taught us con­tin­u­ally, its all about the Imago Dei, the Image of God that is in us.

When God made us, He made us in His image. He embed­ded His DNA into us and it is by His DNA that we are saved. Sin of course shat­ters that image in us but through the blood of Christ, that image is restored. The love of God made us in the begin­ning and remakes us that our DNA matches His.

This is ulti­mately how God is vic­to­rius. He wins because He made us and know best how to restore us to His stan­dards and to the way He intended for us to be. It is great com­fort to know that no mat­ter how badly we mess our own lives up, and we are pretty good at it, He is a lot bet­ter at fix­ing it.