North Pointe Lincoln Sermons

When I watched the HBO special on Chernobyl, many of the first responders to the accident were so poisoned that, not only was their body destroyed, but they poisoned others. These people were buried in special coffins and then those coffins were covered in cement. Even as dead people, they were emitting radiation that would poison others. These first responders give us a picture of our condition apart from God. We are a toxic mess. The decision to reject God is killing us, but that decision is also killing others around us. What does God with our mess? Sunday, in Genesis 38, we looked at Judah, a man who was a toxic mess. How much of a mess was Judah? He sold his brother, Joseph, into slavery. “Judah said to his brothers, “What profit is it for us to kill our brother and cover up his blood? Come and let us sell him to the Ishmaelites and not lay our hands on him, for he is our brother, our own flesh.” And his brothers listened to him.” Genesis 37:26-27 Later Judah rejected God’s command not to marry a fo