Union Chapel Ministries

John 3:16-21I. THE PROBLEMAll have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.Romans 3:23The pollution of sin:What comes out of a man is what makes him unclean. For from within, out of men’s hearts, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly. All these evils come from inside and make a man ‘unclean.’Mark 7:20-23The power of sin:Everyone who sins is a slave to sin.John 8:34The penalty for sin:For the wages of sin is death.Romans 6:23The partition of sin:Surely the arm of the Lord is not too short to save, nor his ear too dull to hear. But your iniquities have separated you from your God; your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear.Isaiah 59:1-2II. THE SOLUTIONThe “self-substitution” of God:He Himself bore our sins in His body on the tree…by His wounds you have been healed.I Peter 2:24The agony of the Cross:We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way; and the Lord has laid