The theme for today’s sermon is Building A New Nation In Christ. This theme highlights the importance of the Lenten season and recounts the message of Jesus Christ’s death, burial, and resurrection. For by this offering, He has perfected forever those who are being sanctified.

Hebrews 10:14  This event is the foundation of the building of a new nation in Christ.

A nation is defined as a stable community of people with a common language, history, religion, and culture. God created Adam and Eve with the mandate to be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth. His divine purpose is to live among His people. At the same time, they exercise their God given authority and dominion over His creation and respond to His presence with thanksgiving, praise, and worship. Sin ruined and delayed God’s plan until, at His appointed time, He chose Abraham to be the father of a chosen people that would point the way and reveal Jesus Christ and restore God’s divine plan and purpose. Israel has blessed the world with the Word of God, with God’s revelations through His prophets, and most of all with His only Son, Jesus Christ and the Gospel.

Jesus Christ is the foundation for the building of a new nation in Christ, “for no other foundation can anyone lay than that, which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.” He laid the foundation with His death, burial and resurrection. This is the Gospel message. It is not enough to only hear the good news it must be believed. It is important to believe that Christ died on the cross to pay the penalty for sin and was raised from the dead for our justification. He was made sin with our sinfulness to make us righteous with His righteousness.

Jesus Christ is the foundation for the building of a new nation in Christ

Many nations worldwide today have failed in nation-building because many politicians and leaders do not believe that the Word of God has the answers to complex religious, social, and economic problems. The Word of God contains a blueprint for nation-building that God recorded thousands of years ago for our benefit. The success of any nation depends on God and the character of the people in leadership positions. God is concerned about the needs of His people and how they are treated.

Laying the foundation of a new nation in Christ is not something we can do in our own strength. It has already been accomplished by Jesus Christ, and all that is necessary is to accept God’s gift of salvation for “By grace are we saved through faith, and that not of ourselves, it is the gift of God”. (Ephesians. 2:8) As believers, we build on the foundation by relying on God’s guidance and Word. We are to renew the mind and bring it to an agreement with what the Word of God declares. A person with a renewed mind will rely and trust in the protection and provisions of God and not in their own strength and efforts. Why do we think we can begin our spiritual journey through faith in the grace of God and continue with our own works in our own strength?

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