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First Wesleyan Church
Utter Despair - Romans 3:9-20
Locations & Times
First Wesleyan Church
3040 Marlin Dr, Rapid City, SD 57703, USA
Sunday 8:30 AM
Sunday 10:00 AM
1. I am held accountable to God.
2. I am not responsible for holding others accountable.
3. I don't need to judge others.
4. Christ died for all people.
Ecclesiastes 1:2 “Vanity of vanities, all is vanity, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities! All is Vanity."
Ecclesiastes 12:13 “The end of the matter: all has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man.”
Matthew 1:21 “She will bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins.”
I Peter 2:24 “He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.”
Isaiah 53:6 “All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned—every one—to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.”
I Peter 2:25 “For you were straying like sheep, but have now returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.”
Ecclesiastes 1:2 “Vanity of vanities, all is vanity, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities! All is Vanity."
Ecclesiastes 12:13 “The end of the matter: all has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man.”
Matthew 1:21 “She will bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins.”
I Peter 2:24 “He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.”
Isaiah 53:6 “All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned—every one—to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.”
I Peter 2:25 “For you were straying like sheep, but have now returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.”
“My memory is failing, but there are two things that I never forget—that I am a great sinner and that Jesus Christ is a great Savior.” William Jay of Bath 17 and 1800’s (The Letter to the Romans, Barclay, 55)
Sermon Questions
1. Have you ever had a full understanding of your sin? When did that realization come?
2. What are some other key concepts you grab from v. 10-18 as you read through them?
3. How can we be encouraged from this passage?
4. Do you see the "whole world being held accountable to God?" If so, how?
5. How do the Ecclesiastes passages strike you?
6. What hope did you receive from the message, and how can it apply to your life this week?
1. Have you ever had a full understanding of your sin? When did that realization come?
2. What are some other key concepts you grab from v. 10-18 as you read through them?
3. How can we be encouraged from this passage?
4. Do you see the "whole world being held accountable to God?" If so, how?
5. How do the Ecclesiastes passages strike you?
6. What hope did you receive from the message, and how can it apply to your life this week?