Saving The Lost: Fishers of Men -Pastor Brian Stockert -03MAY26

Message Title: Saving The Lost: Fishers of People Theme Statement: Every believer carries a moral imperative to evangelize because the fall of humanity created an urgent, universal need for salvation — a need that only Christ's sacrificial fulfillment of God's original promise can meet, and that God has commissioned His people to share with the world. Key Text: Romans 3:23-24 | Supporting: Genesis 3:1-19, Romans 6:23, Hebrews 9:27, Hebrews 10:4, Hebrews 13:4, Matthew 1:1-16, John 3:16, Isaiah 53:5, Hebrews 10:10, 1 Thessalonians 5:9, Luke 19:10, Revelation 21:8, Revelation 22, John 14:1-3, John 11:25, Matthew 28:19, Acts 1:8, Mark 16:15, 2 Timothy 2:3-4, Isaiah 58:1, Luke 10:2-3 Today’s Big Idea • The Fall and Human Sinfulness – Humans followed Satan’s influence, which caused us to fall and have a sinful nature. • The Inadequacy of the Old Covenant – The blood of bulls and goats cannot take away sins, setting up the need for a greater sacrifice. • The Promise and Its Fulfillment in Christ - This is the Theological Core, tracing a line from the first whisper of the gospel to Christ’s completed work. • The Reality of Eternal Destinations – Heaven and Hell are REAL, literal consequential realities. • The Great Commission and Evangelistic Mandate – We are commanded to “Go and make disciples of ALL nations”. Key Points: • Romans 3:23-24 serves as our thesis passage; this passage holds both the diagnosis (ALL sinned) and the remedy (justified by grace) in a single breath! • The Old Testament and New Testament pairing is intentional. Genesis 3:15 connects to Matthew 1:1-16; Hosea 13:4 connects to Hebrews 10:10; Isaiah 53:5 connects to John 3:16. Each Old Testament promise gets a New Testament Fulfillment partner. • We have three categories of Scripture here: Diagnostic (what’s wrong), Promissory (what God did). And imperative (what we must do). What is the Bottom Line Here? • The scriptural architecture is dense and deliberate – this isn’t proof-texting, but a traced narrative from Genesis to Revelation. • The strongest theological link is the Protoevangelium-to-fulfillment chain (Genesis 3:15 - Isaiah 53:5 - Hebrews 10:10 - John 3:16), which forms the spine of the argument. • The imperative passages cluster here at the end, creating a crescendo effect. #hopecrossing (CCLI 21971937 / Streaming 21971944)