Life Matters Part 3 - October 25, 2020 Pastor Eugene Montilla
Channel: Cross Culture Church
Date: 2020-10-25

The Solution
From the World to the Word
Eugene Montilla
Oct. 25, 2020

Common Approaches to the World’s Problems

1. Political approach. 
2. Academic approach. 
3. Material approach 
4. Appeasement approach. 
5.  Medical approach - Physiological  & Psychological
6. Technology


The Only solution -  The Biblical approach is God’s way –

Proverbs 4:23 NKJV  “
23 Keep your heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.

We have little control over the circumstances of life. We can't control the weather or the economy, and we can't control what other people say about or do to us. There is only one area where we have control--we can rule the kingdom inside. The heart of every problem is the problem in the heart. Unquote  Warren W. Wiersbe

Heart problems

Greed

(Jas 4:1-3)
1What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don't they come from your desires that battle within you? 2You want something but don't get it. You kill and covet, but you cannot have what you want. You quarrel and fight. 
You do not have, because you do not ask God. 3When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.
2. Grief
(1Timothy 6:10 NIV )
10For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.

3. Guilt

(Ro 3:20)
20 Therefore no one will be declared righteous in his sight by observing the law; rather, through the law we become conscious of sin.

(Isa 48:22)
22There is no peace for those who are evil, says the LORD. 
4. Gullible to sin

“All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God “ Rom. 3: 243 NIV

The Solution to man’s problem of sin.

 Jesus gave His life as payment for your sin of greed.

Warren Wiersbe ““The greatest judgment God can send on His people is letting them have their own way.

“ For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten son… “ John 3: 16

2. Jesus forgave our sins on the cross.

We cannot cure the sin problem by anything else but only through the cleansing of the blood of Christ sprinkled in our conscience…The only way to clean our guilty conscience. Not penance or indulgence…

(Heb 10:22)
22we come closer to God and …our hearts have been sprinkled with blood to remove impurity, and we have been freed from an accusing conscience. Now we are clean, unstained, and presentable to God inside and out!
3. Jesus overcame death on the cross

(Heb 12:4)
4 In your struggle against sin, you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood. 


“With the cross God won the victory and defeated spiritual powers.  He showed the world that they were powerless.”  Col. 2:15 (ICB)