Talk

The Cherishing Love of God

Jon Harkey

September, 25, 2022

We are excited to be led through God’s word by our very own worship leader and creative director, Jon Harkey! All too often, we diminish the incredible gift of God’s grace by letting ourselves become slaves to guilt, striving, and fear. What would it look like to live in the freedom that Jesus purchased for us?

Scripture References

5he saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit,

14For those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God.

15The Spirit you received does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear again; rather, the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to sonship. And by him we cry, “

Abba,

Father.”

20I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

21I do not set aside the grace of God, for if righteousness could be gained through the law, Christ died for nothing!”

1You foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? Before your very eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed as crucified.

2I would like to learn just one thing from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by believing what you heard?

3Are you so foolish? After beginning by means of the Spirit, are you now trying to finish by means of the flesh?

7Endure hardship as discipline; God is treating you as his children. For what children are not disciplined by their father?

8If you are not disciplined—and everyone undergoes discipline—then you are not legitimate, not true sons and daughters at all.

17For the flesh desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are in conflict with each other, so that you are not to do whatever you want.

13When you were dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our sins,

14having canceled the charge of our legal indebtedness, which stood against us and condemned us; he has taken it away, nailing it to the cross.

1Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus,

2because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you free from the law of sin and death.

3For what the law was powerless to do because it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh to be a sin offering. And so he condemned sin in the flesh,

4in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

Jon Harkey

Worship + Creative Director of Passion City Church, Washington D.C.