January 19, 2025
One More: Understand Your Faith
If You Understand It, Then You Can Explain It
2 Corinthians 5:18-21 NLT
And all of this is a gift from God, who brought us back to himself through Christ. And God has given us this task of reconciling people to him.
For God was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself, no longer counting people’s sins against them. And he gave us this wonderful message of reconciliation. So we are Christ’s ambassadors; God is making his appeal through us. We speak for Christ when we plead, “Come back to God!” For God made Christ, who never sinned, to be the offering for our sin, so that we could be made right with God through Christ.
When God Made Adam and Eve
Genesis 3:7 CEV
At once they saw what they had done, and they realized they were naked. Then they sewed fig leaves together to cover themselves.
Genesis 3:21 NLT
And the LORD God made clothing from animal skins for Adam and his wife.
Romans 5:12 NLT
When Adam sinned, sin entered the world. Adam’s sin brought death, so death spread to everyone, for everyone sinned.
When The Israelites Were Slaves In Egypt
Exodus 12:5, 7, 13 NIV
The animals you choose must be year-old males without defect, …
Then they are to take some of the blood and put it on the sides and tops of the doorframes of the houses where they eat the lambs….
The blood will be a sign for you on the houses where you are, and when I see the blood, I will pass over you. No destructive plague will touch you when I strike Egypt.
1 Corinthians 5:7
For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.
When God Established The Mosaic Law
Hebrews 9:22 NIV
In fact, according to the law of Moses, nearly everything was purified with blood. For without the shedding of blood, there is no forgiveness.
Romans 6:23 NIV
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Jesus Changed Everything… not really… He FULFILLED Everything!!!!!
John 1:29 NIV
The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!
1 Peter 1:18-19 NIV
…you were redeemed … with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or defect.
Romans 5:9-11 NLT
And since we have been made right in God’s sight by the blood of Christ, he will certainly save us from God’s condemnation. For since our friendship with God was restored by the death of his Son while we were still his enemies, we will certainly be saved through the life of his Son. So now we can rejoice in our wonderful new relationship with God because our Lord Jesus Christ has made us friends of God.
A Review Of The Gospel In A Nutshell
Romans 3:23 NLT
For everyone has sinned; we all fall short of God’s glorious standard.
Romans 6:23 NIV
For the wages of sin is death...
Romans 5:8 NASB
But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Romans 10:13 NIV
for, “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”
Hebrews 12:24 NLT
You have come to Jesus, the one who mediates the new covenant between God and people, and to the sprinkled blood, which speaks of forgiveness instead of crying out for vengeance like the blood of Abel.