{"id":1178,"date":"2017-03-12T01:40:50","date_gmt":"2017-03-12T01:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kcc.life\/life\/?p=1178"},"modified":"2017-03-28T02:39:31","modified_gmt":"2017-03-28T02:39:31","slug":"sermon-march-12-2017-works-vs-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kcc.life\/life\/sermon-march-12-2017-works-vs-faith\/","title":{"rendered":"Sermon &#8211; March 12, 2017: &#8220;Works vs Faith&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1178-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/kcc.life\/life\/sermons\/mar12-17.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/kcc.life\/life\/sermons\/mar12-17.mp3\">http:\/\/kcc.life\/life\/sermons\/mar12-17.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>Works vs Faith<br \/>\nLuke 5:33=39<\/p>\n<p>Fasting<br \/>\n\u2022 Primary use is to lead people to repentance.<br \/>\n\u2022 Used by Jesus to represent work done to earn God\u2019s favor in the Old Covenant.<\/p>\n<p>The Bridegroom<br \/>\n\u2022 Messianic reference.<br \/>\n\u2022 The period of reflection that leads to repentance is constant while Jesus was physically present.<br \/>\n\u2022 However, the concern about fasting betrays the felt need to work for God&#8217;s favor.<\/p>\n<p>The cloth and wine skin<br \/>\n\u2022 Jesus offers a new system that is not compatible with the old system.<br \/>\n\u2022 The old \u201csystem\u201d was a bilateral covenant: God fulfills promises when Israel fulfills promises (by work).<br \/>\n\u2022 The new \u201csystem\u201d is a unilateral covenant: Only God makes a promise and fulfills it if someone chooses to respond (by faith).<\/p>\n<p>What this means for us<br \/>\n\u2022 We cannot earn God&#8217;s favor through good works.<br \/>\n\u2022 We have already gained his favor through faith in Jesus.<br \/>\n\u2022 Once this is realized there is no need for insecurity.<br \/>\n\u2022 When we are secure in this knowledge we can act fully out of love for the one who first loved us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Works vs Faith Luke 5:33=39 Fasting \u2022 Primary use is to lead people to repentance. \u2022 Used by Jesus to represent work done to earn God\u2019s favor in the Old Covenant. The Bridegroom \u2022 Messianic reference. \u2022 The period of<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/kcc.life\/life\/sermon-march-12-2017-works-vs-faith\/\"><i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,21,43,10],"tags":[57,79,24,44,13],"class_list":["post-1178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible-studies","category-members","category-sermon","category-worship","tag-bible-study","tag-luke","tag-members","tag-sermon","tag-worship"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kcc.life\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kcc.life\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kcc.life\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kcc.life\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kcc.life\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kcc.life\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1179,"href":"https:\/\/kcc.life\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178\/revisions\/1179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kcc.life\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kcc.life\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kcc.life\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}