Soma Eastside Church Sermons

Christ Reconciles Us to God  Once you were alienated from God and were enemies in your minds because of your evil behavior. But now he has reconciled you by Christ’s physical body through death to present you holy in his sight, without blemish and free from accusation— if you continue in your faith, established and firm, and do not move from the hope held out in the gospel.​  - Colossians 1:21-23 It was God's Plan from the Beginning For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love he predestined us for adoption to sonship through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will— to the praise of his glorious grace, which he has freely given us in the One he loves. In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God’s grace that he lavished on us. ​ -Ephesians 1:4-8. Christ was Destined to Suffer  He was despised and rejected by mankind, a man of suffering, and familiar with pain. Like one