The Redemption of Man” --- Sermon notes 4-4-2010
Ephesians 1:2 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, 4 just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love, 5 having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will, 6 to the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He has made us accepted in the Beloved. 7 In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace
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The redemption of man is due exclusively to the man Christ Jesus! In Jesus Christ alone is the forgiveness of sins. This is all due to the abundant divine influence brought to mankind! Jesus came and destroyed the works of the devil all through the power of the cross we have been blessed with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ. Many are looking to be blessed; this place of blessing is exclusively in Jesus Christ.
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Hebrews 9:24 For Christ has not entered the holy places made with hands, which are copies of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us; 25 not that He should offer Himself often, as the high priest enters the Most Holy Place every year with blood of another; 26 He then would have had to suffer often since the foundation of the world; but now, once at the end of the ages, He has appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself.
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Jesus appeared in the presence of God for us! He appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself. Jesus strong sacrifice was enough to put away sin.
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Romans 5:18 Therefore, as through one man's offense judgment came to all men, resulting in condemnation, even so through one Man's righteous act the free gift came to all men, resulting in justification of life. 19 For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so also by one Man's obedience many will be made righteous.
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The obedience of Jesus Christ to the death of the cross makes it possible for many to be made righteous! One man’s obedience; Jesus Christ our redeemer. The object of your faith must be exclusively in Jesus Christ and in no other one or no other thing!
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Hebrews 1:1 God, who at various times and in various ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets, 2 has in these last days spoken to us by His Son, whom He has appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the worlds; 3 who being the brightness of His glory and the express image of His person, and upholding all things by the word of His power, when He had by Himself purged our sins, sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,
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Isaiah 63:5 I looked, but there was no one to help, And I wondered That there was no one to uphold;Therefore My own arm brought salvation for Me;
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God was in awe there was no man who would intercede and call for the salvation of backslidden Israel. God declared He would bring salvation with His own right arm!
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John 3:14 "And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, 15 "that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life. 16 "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. 17 "For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. 18 "He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
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Israel was sinning and God allowed serpents to come into the camp and many were being bitten and dying. Their leader, Moses, cried out to God and God instructed him to make a bronze snake and lift it up. Anyone in the camp who would look up at the bronze snake would be saved. Jesus spoke that he would be lifted up on the cross and if anyone would look up to Him, that one could be saved! Jesus said whoever would believe in Him would not perish but have everlasting life. Jesus did not come to condemn but to seek and to save the lost! The question is will we look to Him and be saved? It take complete surrender! It is Jesus only that can save and redeem you! He who believes in Jesus is not condemned!
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John 1:10 He was in the world, and the world was made through Him, and the world did not know Him. 11 He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him. 12 But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name: 13 who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
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Believing in Jesus, receiving His as Savior and Lord is the exclusive way of salvation and there is not another way! These are the ones who are born of God.
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1 John 5:1 Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and everyone who loves Him who begot also loves him who is begotten of Him…. For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world; our faith. 5 Who is he who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?
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Faith in Jesus as your Messiah is what God built the entire church upon! If the object of your faith is in Jesus as your Messiah you have an overcoming faith. Jesus is the Son of God who alone has brought redemption to man and there is no other way of redemption!
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Ephesians 2:4 But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, 5 even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), 6 and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, 7 that in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. 8 For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, 9 not of works, lest anyone should boast. 10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.
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It is exclusively by the divine influence of God we have been saved. While we were yet sinners, Jesus Christ died for us to be redeemed. God did a work of redemption in us with the free gift of righteousness. We are God’s workmanship prepared to do good works. Not saved by those good works; however assuredly saved to do the good works God prepared for us to do!
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Colossians 2:13 And you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses, 14 having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us. And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross. 15 Having disarmed principalities and powers, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in it. 16 So let no one judge you in food or in drink, or regarding a festival or a new moon or sabbaths, 17 which are a shadow of things to come, but the substance is of Christ.
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The handwriting of requirements that was against us in no longer there, being wiped out; Jesus nailed them to the cross. Jesus made a public spectacle of principalities and powers of the enemy of our soul. It is no longer in the food or the drink, or the festivals or new moon or Sabbaths. All of those things were imposed as a shadow of this things to come. The victory is now found in the substance Jesus Christ. Our victory over sin is found exclusively in Jesus Christ.
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Ephesians 2:13 But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ. 14 For He Himself is our peace, who has made both one, and has broken down the middle wall of separation, 15 having abolished in His flesh the enmity, that is, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, so as to create in Himself one new man from the two, thus making peace, 16 and that He might reconcile them both to God in one body through the cross, thereby putting to death the enmity. 17 And He came and preached peace to you who were afar off and to those who were near. 18 For through Him we both have access by one Spirit to the Father. 19 Now, therefore, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God,
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We have been brought near to God exclusively through the blood of Jesus. There is not another way to be brought near to God. Jesus is our peace. That is, He is the one who brought oneness between God and man. There is no other way to come into that oneness. Jesus put to death the enmity between God and man. That is- Jesus ended the hostility between a holy God and sinful man. However the only way to come to this reconciliation is exclusively through the blood that was shed by Jesus Christ. Repentance and remission of sins is exclusively in Jesus' name and there is no other way to salvation! Through Jesus by one Spirit to the Father. Jesus is the only way to reconciliation. Jesus is the only way for your sin not to be counted against you. There is not another way. Then you become citizens with the saint and members of the household of God.
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Hebrews 7:22 by so much more Jesus has become a surety of a better covenant. 23 Also there were many priests, because they were prevented by death from continuing. 24 But He, because He continues forever, has an unchangeable priesthood. 25 Therefore He is also able to save to the uttermost those who come to God through Him, since He always lives to make intercession for them.
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Jesus saves to the uttermost always living to make intercessions for those who have called upon Him as Savoir and Redeemer.
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Rom 8:31 What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32 He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things? 33 Who shall bring a charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies. 34 Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us. 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36 As it is written: "For Your sake we are killed all day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter." 37 Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. 38 For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, 39 nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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God gave us Jesus to bring us redemption and through Jesus He gives us freely all things. We are more than conquerors because He loved us!
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Romans 5:8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. 9 Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him. 10 For if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life.
Come and believe the much more message. Romans 5 is the much more chapter that much of the church has not learned to live by. If He would die for you while you were a sinner much more He will save us from wrath through Him. If we were enemies at reconciliation through the death of Jesus, how much more now that we have been reconciled shall we be save by His life! Jesus has brought the redemption of man. It is exclusively though Jesus and there is no other way of redemption!
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