Hello all,

We live in a world where we hear much bad news. Every news bulletin has its mixture of good news stories and bad news stories, and it’s amazing how difficult it is to find good news stories at times. The bad news seems to be happening all the time. Some bad news is good for us to hear. I know that sounds strange, but it’s true. The worst news we can hear is our separation from the Lord of the universe, our sovereign creator God.

Romans 3:9–12 (ESV) — 9 What then? Are we Jews any better off? No, not at all. For we have already charged that all, both Jews and Greeks, are under sin, 10 as it is written: “None is righteous, no, not one; 11 no one understands; no one seeks for God. 12 All have turned aside; together they have become worthless; no one does good, not even one.”

This is the truth of humanity in our natural state before the Lord. Our sin has cut us off from God and we are separated from Him, this is bad news. Genesis 3 outlines this devastation of sin for us. It’s here that we see the tragedy of the fall of humanity. It’s only when see the bad news of our sinfulness do we begin to see the truly good news of Jesus coming to deal with our biggest problem in life, our sin. Hopefully, this bad news of our sin moves us to cry out for the good news of Jesus!

Here’s where we land this weekend at Exchange Church:

  • ECY returns for 2025 on Friday at 7:00pm, at the church.
  • Shepparton Combined Churches Prayer Meeting, Saturday, 7:00pm at Mt Major, Dookie.
  • EC Sunday gathering at 10:00am Sunday.

This week in preaching we continue to unpack the gospel, What is the Gospel – The Fall Genesis 3.

Please read through Genesis 3 to help focus our thinking for Sunday’s sermon.

In Christ,