Jesus Christ
Over the past couple of months, I have been studying and teaching to my Wednsday night class, Jesus Christ. In the process of that I have learned more than I could ever have imagined about the one whom my soul longs for, and my life to be conformed too. I thought that I would end up spending about 6 weeks or 6 lessons to teach it, but the more I studied the more that I saw in scripture about Christ. I find myself longing to know this Jesus and his sacrafice, and to impart that which the Lord has alowed me to know about himself (I Cor.13:12). The more that I study the more I find myself a broken man, longing and desiring with the greatest of passions to know Jesus.
My greatest help in all of my studies has been the puritan John Owen, his indepth writing have really helped to open my eyes to what scripture says about Christ and the desert of sin. I often qoute John when I am teaching, but I must confess I have to keep it to simple to understand qoutes or interpert it for them. So far they have understood all of the qoutes that I have said, have been recieved and understood, with a challenge to assess oneself.
One help that I have got from Owen, came from his book "The Death of Death in the Death of Christ." In the second chapter he talks about what was accomplished and fulfilled by the death of Christ:
Reconcilitation- removing and slaying the enmity that was between God and us.
Romans 5:10 (ESV) For if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, shall we be saved by his life;
II Cor. 5:18-19 (ESV) All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation;
that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation.
How was it accomplished?
Ephesians 2:15-16 (ESV) by abolishing the law of commandments and ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man in place of the two, so making peace,
and might reconcile us both to God in one body through the cross, thereby killing the hostility.
Justification- taking away the quilt of sins, procuring remission and pardon of them, redeeming us from their power, with the curse, and wrath due unto us by them.
Hebrews 9:12 (ESV)but by means of his own blood, thus securing an eternal redemption.
Galtians 3:13 (ESV) Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us
I Peter 2:24 (ESV) He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.
Romans 3:23-25 (ESV) for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,
whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God's righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins.
Colosians 1:14 (ESV) in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
II Cor. 5:21 (ESV) For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
Sanctified- the purging away of the uncleaness and pollution of our sins, renewing in us the image of God, and supplying us with the graces of the Spirit of holiness.
Hebrews 9:14 (ESV) how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God.
I John 1:7 (ESV) the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.
Hebrews 13:12 (ESV) So Jesus also suffered outside the gate in order to sanctify the people through his own blood.
Ephesians 5:25-27 (ESV) ... Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,
that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word,
so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish.
Adoption- the evangelical liberty and all those glorious privelages which belong to the sons of God.
Galatians 4:4-5 (ESV) But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law,
to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons.
Our inheritance as children is settled in heaven, in glory and immortality forever.
Eph 1:14 (ESV) who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it,to the praise of his glory.
Heb 9:15 (ESV) Therefore he is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance, since a death has occurred that redeems them from the transgressions committed under the first covenant
My greatest help in all of my studies has been the puritan John Owen, his indepth writing have really helped to open my eyes to what scripture says about Christ and the desert of sin. I often qoute John when I am teaching, but I must confess I have to keep it to simple to understand qoutes or interpert it for them. So far they have understood all of the qoutes that I have said, have been recieved and understood, with a challenge to assess oneself.
One help that I have got from Owen, came from his book "The Death of Death in the Death of Christ." In the second chapter he talks about what was accomplished and fulfilled by the death of Christ:
Reconcilitation- removing and slaying the enmity that was between God and us.
Romans 5:10 (ESV) For if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, shall we be saved by his life;
II Cor. 5:18-19 (ESV) All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation;
that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation.
How was it accomplished?
Ephesians 2:15-16 (ESV) by abolishing the law of commandments and ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man in place of the two, so making peace,
and might reconcile us both to God in one body through the cross, thereby killing the hostility.
Justification- taking away the quilt of sins, procuring remission and pardon of them, redeeming us from their power, with the curse, and wrath due unto us by them.
Hebrews 9:12 (ESV)but by means of his own blood, thus securing an eternal redemption.
Galtians 3:13 (ESV) Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us
I Peter 2:24 (ESV) He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.
Romans 3:23-25 (ESV) for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,
whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God's righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins.
Colosians 1:14 (ESV) in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
II Cor. 5:21 (ESV) For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
Sanctified- the purging away of the uncleaness and pollution of our sins, renewing in us the image of God, and supplying us with the graces of the Spirit of holiness.
Hebrews 9:14 (ESV) how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God.
I John 1:7 (ESV) the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.
Hebrews 13:12 (ESV) So Jesus also suffered outside the gate in order to sanctify the people through his own blood.
Ephesians 5:25-27 (ESV) ... Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,
that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word,
so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish.
Adoption- the evangelical liberty and all those glorious privelages which belong to the sons of God.
Galatians 4:4-5 (ESV) But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law,
to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons.
Our inheritance as children is settled in heaven, in glory and immortality forever.
Eph 1:14 (ESV) who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it,to the praise of his glory.
Heb 9:15 (ESV) Therefore he is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance, since a death has occurred that redeems them from the transgressions committed under the first covenant
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