God Restores Our Relationships With Ourselves
Big Truth:
God Restores Our Relationships With Ourselves
Ezekiel 36:22-28; Romans 6:4-8; Romans 8:11-13; Ephesians 4:20-24; Colossians 3:1-5
Bible Verse:
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away, behold, the new has come.
Big Ideas:
- Our sin makes us broken on the inside.
- Through Jesus, God can heal the brokenness within us.
- Through Jesus, God helps us to rightly relate to ourselves.
- God is making us new.
Bible Story:
Daniel 4When King Nebuchadnezzar went mad, his sin oppressed his relationship with himself. Our sin breaks us on the inside, just like Nebuchadnezzar was broken. Only God’s gift of Jesus can make us whole.
Story:
Redemption
Thankfully, God does not just leave us in the broken world, but is repairing the brokenness through His Son. From the very beginning of time, God promised He would fix creation, and He kept His promise by sending Jesus to rescue us from our sin. Jesus came to live on the earth and willingly died on the cross so that sin’s power over creation would be broken forever.
Every child should know that:
- By grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone, we can be reconciled to God.
Every child should:
- Pursue reconciliation in their relationships with friends and family because God has made a way for them to be reconciled back to Him.
Every child should feel:
- Thankful that God would send His Son so that we could be reconciled to Him.
Every child should want:
- To honor God and live in restored relationship with Him.
