Grace Community Bible Church Sermons

Charles Sebold: Faith Alone

1. To be healed, one must first be shattered
1. God is holy (Is. 6:1-4)
2. God demands holiness (Is. 6:5)
3. You are sinful (Ecc. 9:3b; Matt. 23:23; Is. 1:15; Ps. 51:4; Rev. 14:9-11, 20:14,15)
4. You are incapable of rising above sin (Rom. 3:20)
5. You must repent, but you cannot escape (Acts 17:30,31)
6. Your judgment is certain and your sentence has already been passed (Heb. 10:26,27)
2. Nobody who is rightfully condemned can save somebody else
1. Adam sinned, therefore all who were in him sin (Rom. 5:12)
2. No sinner, or group of sinners, can be of any benefit in making restitution for you (Rom. 5:7; Heb. 10:11)
3. No ritual or ceremony makes things right before God (Heb. 10:1-4)
3. Jesus Christ is your only hope
1. God created Adam, but the Son “is begotten” by the Father; Christ is God, the same essence as the Father, utterly unique
2. He lived a perfect life, to be what Adam could not be (Rom. 5:19)
3. He died, not accidentally or against His will, but intentionally (John 10:17,18)
4. His death on the cross has been declared by God as acceptable (Heb. 9:11-14; Rom. 5:9)
5. Christ’s righteousness can be yours, and your sin can be His (2 Cor. 5:21)
6. If you died with Him, you will rise as He did (Col. 2:9-14)
4. Faith is the instrument of justification
1. There will never be a time when you no longer need Christ’s righteousness
2. The means that God has chosen to justify you is faith (John 5:24; 1 Cor. 15:1-4; John 8:24; Ps. 73:25,26; John 6:65; John 6:63; John 3:18)
3. Only God’s grace justifies, and only through faith (Rom. 3:23-25)
5. All who are justified are glorified (Rom. 8:30)
1. We are declared holy and righteous—justification
2. We are made holy—sanctification
3. We will be perfectly holy—glorification (1 John 3:2)
4. We, being in Christ, will give Him all the glory for what He has done
5. We, being in Christ, will share all His glory