sbs class april 102011

8/7/2019 SBS Class April 102011

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Human Rebellion and the Fall

What is Sin? (Definition and Biblical Support)

What do we need to understand about Sin?

What is the Fall? (and what resulted)

How does church history aid us in understanding this

doctrine?

What is the Scriptural support for consequences of Sin?

How does this apply to our lives?


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Man in his natural state is totally unable and

totally unwilling to know God, love God or

receive God.

As a matter of fact this man is hostile to God,can not subject himself to the law of God and

cant please God at all.


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How can a man who is unrighteous in thought,

word and deed ever stand before a holy and

righteous God in order to be accepted and

received by God for eternity?


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Mankind faces an impossible dilemma

UNLESS

We are RESCUED in Jesus Christ


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Rescued in Christ

The bad heart (the internal) must be replaced with a new heart

Definition of regeneration:

This is a creative act of power that God does insideof me where God comes and does a creative work in

the heart.

Regeneration is a secret act of God in which he

imparts new spiritual life to us.


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Rescued in Christ

The bad record (external) must be replaced by a perfect record

Someone has to pay for your sin

Someone has to satisfy justice for you

The Lord Jesus saves people from their sins;

He saves them from the penalty of their sins

He save them from the power of their sins

1 Peter 2:24

and He Himself bore our sins in His body on the cross, so that wemight die to sin and live to righteousness

In regard to the penalty of sin we call this justification


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Rescued in Christ

Justification is an instantaneous act of God in which He thinks of

our sins as forgiven and Christs righteousness as belonging to us.

In so doing He declares us to be righteous in His sight.

Jesus Christ pays a debt that He did not oweBecause we owed a debt that we could not pay


9/21

Rescued in Christ

Why is it so important that we study about the righteousness of

God?

Because of what the Bible teaches us about Gods response

toward unrighteousness

Turn to Romans 1:18


10/21

Rescued in Christ

What do we mean by the wrath of God?

Marvin Vincent describes org () as Gods personal emotion

with regard to sin. It represents Gods abhorrence and hatred of sin.

So the gospel rescues us FROM something and it rescues us FOR

something.

What does is rescue us from?

Answer - the wrath of God

What does it rescue us for?

Answer - the glory of God


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What does Gods rescue plan look like for mankind?

We must understand that the entire PLAN of the Bible is theunfolding and progressive redemption (rescue) of mankind.

Kingdom of God

Covenants of God

This morning we are going to discuss 3 types of rescues

1. We are Rescued by the Life, Death and Resurrection of Jesus

Christ

2. We are Rescued by the Grace and Love of God

3. We are Rescued by the Righteousness of Christ


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We are Rescued by the Life, Death and Resurrection of Jesus

Christ

Turn to 1 Peter 1:18-21:

For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver

or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life handed

down to you from your ancestors, 19 but with the precious blood of

Christ, a lamb without blemish or defect. 20 He was chosen before

the creation of the world, but was revealed in these last times for

your sake. 21 Through him you believe in God, who raised him from

the dead and glorified him, and so your faith and hope are in God.

When Christ died for us on the cross, He paid the price for our sin

that we could not pay for ourselves. God presented Jesus Christ to be

a propitiation (satisfaction) for our sins so that they might be atoned

for by the blood of the Lamb of God.


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Jesus was the only person that could satisfy Gods wrath because

Jesus was the only perfect person that was without sin. Peter writes

that Jesus blood was precious and that he was without blemish ordefect. No other person can make this claim. It was only the perfect

blood of Jesus that could rescue us from sin and death.

At the death of Jesus, God demonstrated that His hatred of mans

evil is as real as His forgiveness of mans sin. God did not spare HisSon the full magnitude of the judgment that we deserve. The only

way God could save us and be consistent with His own justice and

holiness was the way He did and it cost Him everything His only

begotten Son. Jesus bore the entire wrath of God for our sin that we

might experience His mercy.


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We are Rescued by the Grace and Love of God

1 John 4:16 tells us that God is love. As we have seen earlier inthis series, God demonstrated His love in the fact He created us.

But the fullest expression of Gods love came in Christ.

John 3:16 states: For God so loved the world that he gave his one

and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but

have eternal life.

There is a reason this is the most famous verse in the entire Bible.

It shows how Gods love is at the very heart of the gospel.


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Gods grace and love are two sides of the same coin.

His love is expressed in the fact that He sends Christ to take on the

punishment of our sin.

This is the heart of grace that God would give us something that

we do not deserve His love.

Ephesians 2:8 states: For by grace you have been savedthrough

faith; and that not of yourselves, ITis the gift of God; not as aresult of works, so that no one may boast.

When we see ourselves as dead in trespasses, under the bondage of

Satan and deserving the wrath of God, it is only grace that brings

new life in Christ and gives you eternal life. When grace piercesour heart we become the children of God.

Salvation is all grace. God does it all.


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We are Rescued by the Righteousness of Christ

In the last ten verses of Romans 5 (vs. 12-21), Paul compares andcontrasts the sin of Adam and the righteousness of Christ.

Romans 5:12 states that: Therefore, just as sin entered the world

through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death

came to all people, because all sinned

Sin entered the world when Adam disobeyed God and ate of the

tree of the knowledge of good and evil. God gave the warning and

Adam strayed from the command and acted in disobedience.


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Fortunately, Gods provision of salvation through Christ is for all

who believe on Him.

Turn to Romans 5:17-19:

Here we see the incomparable work of Jesus, who Paul calls the last

Adam. The sin of the first Adam brought alienation and death. But

the righteousness of Christ brought reconciliation and life. It not

only did away with death but restored all that was lost. We now

have knowledge of God, fellowship with God, and the life of God.

Moreover, the trespass of Adam brought death once, the sacrifice

and death of Jesus Christ brings life a thousand times. - Ray

Stedman. When we believe on Christ, God imputes (counts) Hisrighteousness to us.


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How Mankind Experiences the Rescue

As we have seen, our rescue was entirely from God because of his

great love and grace that He lavished upon us. It was only possiblyby the perfect righteous life of Christ and His sacrificial death on

the cross. With that as a foundation for the rescue we have in

Christ, we will not examine how mankind experiences that rescue.

We are Rescued by Faith, Apart from the Law:Paul states in Romans 3:21-22:

21 But now apart from the law the righteousness of God has been

made known, to which the Law and the Prophets testify. 22This

righteousness is given through faith in Jesus Christ to all whobelieve.


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Paul says that our rescue or justification (which means that we are

legally declared righteous before God and innocent of our sin) is

apart from the law (Romans 3:21). When Paul talks about the law,he is referring to human good works that would lead to

salvation. But he states that this is not possible. Human

righteousness never comes close to divine righteousness. We all

fall short of the glory of God. We cannot be legally declared

righteous by good


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Our Rescue Brings Peace:

In Romans 5:1-2, Paul declares that:

1 Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have

peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, 2 through whom wehave gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand.

Before we were Christians, we had not even the faintest chance for

real peace because we were alienated not only from God but fromour fellow mankind. No amount of self-improvement could assist

us. We were helpless. However Colossians 1:20 tells us, when we

believed, God gave us peace with Himself through the blood of the

cross. Through our reconciliation with God, we can receive

reconciliation with one another. Whereas previously it was utterlyimpossible to experience true inner peace because God was not at

peace with us, it is now ours because of the Prince of Peace.


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Conclusion

Mankinds greatest need is to repent and believe in Jesus Christ tobe set free from our bondage, penalty, and sin. There is

forgiveness only through Jesus Christ.

To be rescued and forgiven comes through the death, burial and

resurrection of Christ.

sbs class april 102011

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