Creation REDEMPTION
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Weeks theme: creation.
Every lesson we will use a key word to think about a different aspect of God’s act of creating.
Review:
Lesson 1: FAITH- who’s word will you trust?
Lesson 2: GLORY- Creation is telling you something about God. God exists and He is GLORIOUS
Lesson 3: PURPOSE- God’s purpose in creating you is to honor, serve, and have fellowship with Him.
Lesson 4: BROKEN- Because we are sinners by birth and by choice our relationship with God is broken.
Lesson 5: SUPPRESS- Don’t suppress the truth in unrighteousness, but rather repent and turn to God.
Lesson 6: REDEMPTION
Key Verse:
13 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us—for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree”—
What is God’s purpose in creating you?
God created you to honor, serve, and have fellowship with Him.
What happened? Why don’t we live out God’s purpose?
Creation is broken because of sin. We are born sinners and we choose to sin. Because of this we deserve God’s wrath.
But God is not willing that anyone should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
But, creation is still broken by sin.
How will God fix His broken creation? The answer is through Jesus Christ His Son.
Do you remember the promise God gave Adam and Eve way back in Genesis 3? After they had sinned?
15 I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.”
Remember, Satan that devilish snake is the one who tricked Adam and Eve into rebelling against God? But God promised that one day a child of Eve would come and He would crush the head of the snake.
The child of Eve, the snake crusher, is non other than Jesus Christ.
How did Jesus crush the head of the snake?
13 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us—for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree”—
What does redeemed us mean? What is redemption?
The word redeem means to deliver or to release. It is the idea of setting someone free. Like being set free from being a slave.
Because of our sin we are slaves to our sin, especially slaves to the consequences of our sin. But Christ has redeemed us, he has set us free. He is the one who can fix what is broken within us.
Notice Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law.
Notice the word CURSE. That word curse points us back to creation- to Genesis.
15 The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it.
16 And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, “You may surely eat of every tree of the garden,
17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”
Surely die = curse.
What happened? Adam sinned, he ate of the fruit. So what did God do?
17 And to Adam he said, “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ cursed is the ground because of you; in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life;
18 thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you; and you shall eat the plants of the field.
19 By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”
God pronounced a curse upon creation because of Adam’s sin. Today, we still suffer the consequences of that curse. We are broken. But Jesus Christ came to undo the effects of the curse.
13 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us—for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree”—
How did Christ undo the effects of the curse? By becoming a curse for us.
How did Christ become a curse for us?
For it is written—cursed in everyone who hanged on a tree.
Do you know what that is talking about? When did Christ hang on a tree?
When he was crucified on a cross. How exactly did Christ become a curse for us when he died on a cross?
18 For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit,
Christ became a curse for us when he suffered and died on the cross once FOR SINS.
Christ died FOR SINS. Whose sins did Christ die for? Did Jesus die for His own sins? The Bible teaches that Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is perfect without sins. So Jesus did not die for his own sins. Whose sins did he die for then? Jesus died for our sins.
For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous.
The RIGHTEOUS for the UNRIGHTEOUS.
Who is the Righteous? Jesus Christ- he alone is righteous, he alone with totally without sin.
Who are the UNRIGHTEOUS? That is us! We are all sinners right? We are sinners by birth and sinners by choice. We all have rebelled against God and we all have failed to live up to his standard of righteousness.
Here is the good news. In order to fix the brokenness of creation Jesus Christ died for our sins. God took ALL of our sins and he placed them on his Son, Jesus Christ, and Jesus paid the penalty for all our sins.
And because Jesus became a curse for us, he alone is able to redeem us from the curse. He alone is able to fix what is broken within us.
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Jesus Christ, and his death on the cross for our sins, is God’s plan for fixing and redeeming his broken creation. Jesus Christ is God’s way of fixing you, of forgiving you of all your sins and restoring your broken relationship with God.
1 Peter 3:18 (ESV)
18 For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit,
God wants to have his relationship with you restored. That relationship, that was broken so many years ago in the Garden when Adam fell and the curse entered creation, that relationship can be reformed through Jesus Christ, the Son of God.
Jesus died on a cross for your sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, so that He might bring you to God.
Jesus Christ is the way, the truth, and the life, no one comes to the Father except though Him.
Friends would you like to have what is broken inside of you fixed? Would you like to have your sins forgiven so you no longer have to fear God’s judgment? Would you like to have your relationship with God restored?
You can have all that and more. And here is the best part. It is all free. It is God’s free gift of salvation. God did everything for you because you could do nothing for yourself. You don’t have to earn salvation, or buy it, or steal it. God wants to give you his free gift of salvation. God is not willing for you to perish, but to have eternal life.
23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
How do you receive this free gift of God?
9 because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
10 For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.
13 For “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”
Do you remember our first lesson? What was our key word? FAITH. Do you remember our illustration? Do you remember the idea of putting your trust in God’s Word?
In order to receive God’s free gift of salvation you need the same thing—you need faith. You receive God’s free gift of salvation by placing you faith or your trust in Jesus Christ alone to save you from your sin.
You can do that right now. You can do that this week. We would love nothing more than for you to receive forgiveness of your sins and the gift of eternal life by putting your trust in Christ. Would you do that? Do you want Jesus to save you? Talk to me, talk to your counselor. Let us share with you how you can receive the free gift of salvation today.