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Memorial Day tomorrow when we remember the sacrifice of men and women for their nation.
Sufficient
- once suffered for sins
- Every other belief tells you to stay in good standing or else your sins will be counted back to you.
- Folks go to churches surrounded by relics and symbols of Christ’s suffering while they go about trying to pay their own way for salvation. Hey, look up! It’s paid!
- If you can earn it, why is he hanging on a cross there?
- Hebrews 7:25-26 For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens; Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people’s: for this he did once, when he offered up himself.
Substitutionary
- the just for the unjust
- Bro Wesson died saving 3 boys in the Dominican Republic as a missionary. Leaving behind four children. He was my age. I saw that and my heart sank on Friday. But then I thought, what a heritage to leave your children. Missionary, serving God, dying a substitutionary and sacrificial death.
- Now Jesus Christ really had every right to say, I don’t deserve this. Not only did he have the right, he had the power to call down an angelic host to completely obliterate humanity, or Rome, or whoever he saw fit.
- 2 Corinthians 5:21 For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
- Now look at verse 17. Instead of blaming God for being unfair when you do well and the world and the flesh hit back hard. Consider the LORD’s view of that. Suffering for well doing is a highlight.
Saving
- that he might bring us to God
- Helpless condition of you and I
- Isaiah 59:2 But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.
- But Jesus Christ’s job is to bring you to God
- Colossians 1:20 – In 8 words the entire Bible and scope of God’s redemptive work is summed up, by him to reconcile all things unto himself.
- Everything was good until sin entered the world and the first question God, the Creator, asked of his creation was, Where art thou? Man’s sin by definition was a movement away from God.
- If God’s work and God’s word are all aimed at reconciling all things to the Lord Jesus Christ, then that makes our business what? 2 Corinthians 5:18-19.
Sacrifice
- being put to death in the flesh – Christ crucified
- John 15:13 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
- In that body, God would express
- Humility over pride
- Obedience over rebellion
- Meekness over despotism
- 1 Timothy 3:16 And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh…
Successful
- quickened by the spirit
- quickened means to be made alive – resurrected
- The work of Jesus Christ as savior is vindicated and completed in his resurrection.
- declared to be the Son of God with power…by the resurrection from the dead
- A man who gets saved is a new creature, not a reformed sinner
- This gospel is not about making bad people better, it is about bringing dead people to life
This is a great evangelistic outline so that you could take one verse and preach the entire gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ explaining all the facets of the gospel.
