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The Work of Christ to Save Our Souls
Scripture Passage:
Romans 5:6-11 Attached audio files:
Introduction: We simply believe that Christ died for our sins. Yet, there is much to learn about the price Christ paid.
- Sought out by His love (Romans 5:6-8 [6] For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.
[7] For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die.
[8] But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
See All...) - His act of love- His death (Romans 5:6For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.
See All...,8) - His plan of love-in due time (Romans 5:6For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.
See All...; Galatians 4:4But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,
See All...) - The proof of His love (1 John 4:19We love him, because he first loved us.
See All..., 1 John 4:9-10 [9] In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. [10] Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
See All...) - When without strength (Romans 5:6For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.
See All...) - When sinners (Romans 5:8But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
See All...) - When enemies (Romans 5:10For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.
See All...) - The greatness of His love (Romans 5:7-8 [7] For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die.
[8] But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
See All...; John 15:13Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
See All...) - Justified by His blood (Romans 5:9Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.
See All...) - The price- God's blood (Hebrews 9:22And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.
See All...; Acts 20:28Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.
See All...) - The product- justification
- The deliverance- from wrath (John 3:36He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.
See All...) - Reconciled by His death (Romans 5:10For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.
See All...) - Our position- enemies (Romans 8:7-8 [7] Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
[8] So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
See All...) - God's substitution- death (2 Corinthians 5:20-21 [20] Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God.
[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.
See All...) - Our reconciliation
- Saved by His life (Romans 5:10For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.
See All...) - The power of His resurrection (Romans 1:3-4 [3] Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh;
[4] And declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead:
See All...) - The benefits of His resurrection (1 Corinthians 15:14And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain.
See All..., 1 Corinthians 15:17And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins.
See All...; John 14:19Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also.
See All...: Galatians 2:20I am crucified with Christ: neverthless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
See All...; Romans 6:4Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
See All...) - Secured by the Atonement (Romans 5:11And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement.
See All...) - Our joy
- Our benefactor
- Our gift (Hebrews 10:1-4 [1] For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.
[2] For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins.
[3] But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year.
[4] For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.
See All...; Hebrews 9:24-27 [24] For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us: [25] Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others; [26] For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. [27] And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
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Proverbs 28:23
He that rebuketh a man afterwards shall find more favour than he that flattereth with the tongue.