The nation of Israel worshipped God after the
triumphant delivery (salvation) from Egypt.
God provided the nation of Israel a leader in Moses as God gave
direction to Moses specifically of what was expected of the people. A nation has laws and God had laws for the
nation of Israel. His laws show us how
we are to love/serve God and how we are to love/serve others. These laws, though, were not to be just a set
of rules, but a clear picture of God’s perfect holy standard. Any action opposite those laws is sin – and
the penalty of sin is death eternal. In
God’s eyes when one law is broken – when one sin is committed - we are guilty
of all of them. That should sound
familiar to your Sparkie as the K in
SPARKS refers to James 2:10 that
says ‘whoever shall keep the whole law
and yet stumble in one point, he is guilty of all’. No one can live up to
this perfect standard of keeping all the laws/not sinning because no one is
good enough. In fact, the law was never
to save anyone. Keeping laws or doing
good things to live by the laws doesn’t earn us to Heaven because we are never
good enough. The Bible says that all
have sinned and fall short of the glory of God and that no one is righteous, no
not one. The penalty of that sin is
death eternal, but the gift of God is eternal life. That gift is Jesus’s shed
blood, dying, for our sins; and we believing in that shed blood to cover our
sins and save us from the penalty of our sins.
By accepting that gift, we have eternal life. Jesus is who all of our Old Testament
accounts, of people being saved/delivered from something, are all about. You are welcome to join us anytime at Sparks! You
can also check out the AWANA program at www.fbc.littletonil.org .
Mrs. Jennifer Schroeder, Mrs. Barb
Stein.
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