City on a Hill: Relationship, not Religion | Pastor Jayson Workman | 06/12/2022

City On a Hill: Relationship, not Religion

Matthew 5:17-20

Pastor Jayson Workman

South Gate Baptist Church—June 12, 2022

 

A religion without a relationship is just a bunch of rules.

The foundation of our faith is grace, not our good works.

1. Rules without a relationship is just religion.

                        It cannot save you.

Romans 8:3-4 For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

                        It cannot sanctify you.

Romans 5:20 Now the law came in to increase the trespass, but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more. . . .

Romans 6:1 What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it?

Titus 2:11-12 For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people, training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age. . . .

2. Renew a pursuit of Jesus, not rule-keeping.

Romans 8:1 There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

3. Renewal will result when you pursue Jesus.

Proverbs 24:16 Though a righteous man falls seven times, he will get up. . . .