Together With Christ
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1 And you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins,
3 among whom also we all once conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, just as the others.
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.
The Easter account was anchored to God’s Promises
The Easter account was anchored to God’s Promises
9 The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.
A Promise to Eve
A Promise to Eve
15 And I will put enmity Between you and the woman, And between your seed and her Seed; He shall bruise your head, And you shall bruise His heel.”
Enmity is a hatred or hostility toward or between.
Enmity is a hatred or hostility toward or between.
God promised that one would come
++That would face the hostility
++That would overcome it
15 For we do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin.
A Promise to Abraham
A Promise to Abraham
18 In your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice.”
4 And I will make your descendants multiply as the stars of heaven; I will give to your descendants all these lands; and in your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed;
16 Now to Abraham and his Seed were the promises made. He does not say, “And to seeds,” as of many, but as of one, “And to your Seed,” who is Christ.
Paul declared God
++Was not giving a people
++He was giving a person
++Christ is the seed of the Promise
6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.
A Promise declared by Isaiah
A Promise declared by Isaiah
6 For unto us a Child is born, Unto us a Son is given; And the government will be upon His shoulder. And His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
The Process of His Coming
The Process of His Coming
Jesus was
++Born to us
4 But when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the law,
Jesus was
Born to us
++Given to us
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.
We would see
++His Authority
3 All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made.
We would see
His Authority
++His Grace
14 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.
The Purpose of His Coming
The Purpose of His Coming
3 He is despised and rejected by men, A Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him; He was despised, and we did not esteem Him.
It was hostile environment
It was hostile environment
He would be
++Despised
++Rejected
He would experience
++Deep sorrow
++Pain
4 Surely He has borne our griefs And carried our sorrows; Yet we esteemed Him stricken, Smitten by God, and afflicted.
He did it for us
He did it for us
He Has
++Borne our griefs
++Carried our Sorrows
A Promise was explained in the Gospels
A Promise was explained in the Gospels
17 For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.
His coming
++Was not for condemnation
++Was to bring Salvation
9 And Jesus said to him, “Today salvation has come to this house, because he also is a son of Abraham;
10 for the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost.”
Zacchaeus was
++more than a tax collector
++more than a rich man
++a son of Abraham
Life is full of choices
Life is full of choices
Some choices
++exemplifies the covenant relationship
++Ignores it
Over time we can forget what we have
We loose it
We loose it
Like the prodigal son who had to had to hit rock bottom to remember
Jesus Came
++To seek what was lost
++To save it, to recover it
Salvation has come to the House
Salvation has come to the House
34 Then Simeon blessed them, and said to Mary His mother, “Behold, this Child is destined for the fall and rising of many in Israel, and for a sign which will be spoken against
35 (yes, a sword will pierce through your own soul also), that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed.”
A Promise was exemplified by Paul
A Promise was exemplified by Paul
20 I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.
Easter is not about Death
Easter is not about Death
Easter is about
++A New Life
++A New Start
What Jesus did on the cross alone
++Tore the wall of separation
++Made provision for all to know God
++Brought us together
1 And you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins,
Because of Christ
++We have new life
3 among whom also we all once conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, just as the others.
Because of Christ
We have new life
++We don’t have to be like others
8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
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.
To those that are lost
++God loves you
++God makes you alive
++God raises you up
++God positions you
God wants to show us something
God wants to show us something
You will see
++The riches of his grace
++His great kindness toward us
Look what the Lord has Done
Look what the Lord has Done