Jesus our unselfish Substitute

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Ephesians 2:1–17 GW

You were once dead because of your failures and sins. You followed the ways of this present world and its spiritual ruler. This ruler continues to work in people who refuse to obey God. All of us once lived among these people, and followed the desires of our corrupt nature. We did what our corrupt desires and thoughts wanted us to do. So, because of our nature, we deserved God’s anger just like everyone else. But God is rich in mercy because of his great love for us. We were dead because of our failures, but he made us alive together with Christ. (It is God’s kindnessthat saved you.) God has brought us back to life together with Christ Jesus and has given us a position in heaven with him. He did this through Christ Jesus out of his generosity to us in order to show his extremely rich kindness in the world to come. God saved you through faith as an act of kindness. You had nothing to do with it. Being saved is a gift from God. It’s not the result of anything you’ve done, so no one can brag about it. God has made us what we are. He has created us in Christ Jesus to live lives filled with good works that he has prepared for us to do. Remember that once you were not Jewish physically. Those who called themselves “the circumcised” because of what they had done to their bodies called you “the uncircumcised.” Also, at that time you were without Christ. You were excluded from citizenship in Israel, and the pledges⌊God made in his⌋ promise were foreign to you. You had no hope and were in the world without God. But now through Christ Jesus you, who were once far away, have been brought near by the blood of Christ. So he is our peace. In his body he has made Jewish and non-Jewish people one by breaking down the wall of hostility that kept them apart. He brought an end to the commandments and demands found in Moses’ Teachings so that he could take Jewish and non-Jewish people and create one new humanity in himself. So he made peace. He also brought them back to God in one body by his cross, on which he killed the hostility. He came with the Good News of peace for you who were far away and for those who were near.

John 3:2 KJV 1900

The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him.

John 3:9–10 KJV 1900

Nicodemus answered and said unto him, How can these things be? Jesus answered and said unto him, Art thou a master of Israel, and knowest not these things?

Jesus — Our Unselfish Substitute

1. There are two familes in the world. Every person identifies with one or the other.

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Romans 8:14 KJV 1900

For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.

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2 Corinthians 6:14 KJV 1900

Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?

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Galatians 3:26 KJV 1900

For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.

Galatians 4:5 GW

God sent him to pay for the freedom of those who were controlled by these laws so that we would be adopted as his children.

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Philippians 2:15 GW

Then you will be blameless and innocent. You will be God’s children without any faults among people who are crooked and corrupt. You will shine like stars among them in the world

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Colossians 1:12–22 GW

You will also thank the Father, who has made you able to share the light, which is what God’s people inherit. God has rescued us from the power of darkness and has brought us into the kingdom of his Son, whom he loves. His Son paid the price to free us, which means that our sins are forgiven. He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. He created all things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible. Whether they are kings or lords, rulers or powers— everything has been created through him and for him. He existed before everything and holds everything together. He is also the head of the church, which is his body. He is the beginning, the first to come back to life so that he would have first place in everything. God was pleased to have all of himself live in Christ. God was also pleased to bring everything on earth and in heaven back to himself through Christ. He did this by making peace through Christ’s blood sacrificed on the cross. Once you were separated from God. The evil things you did showed your hostile attitude. But now Christ has brought you back to God by dying in his physical body. He did this so that you could come into God’s presence without sin, fault, or blame.

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1 Thessalonians 5:5 KJV 1900

Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.

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Titus 3:5 GW

he saved us, but not because of anything we had done to gain his approval. Instead, because of his mercy he saved us through the washing in which the Holy Spirit gives us new birth and renewal.

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Hebrews 2:4–13 GW

God verified what they said through miraculous signs, amazing things, other powerful acts, and with other gifts from the Holy Spirit as he wanted. He didn’t put the world that will come (about which we are talking) under the angels’ control. Instead, someone has declared this somewhere in Scripture: “What is a mortal that you should remember him, or the Son of Manthat you take care of him? You made him a little lower than the angels. You crowned him with glory and honor. You put everything under his control.” When God put everything under his Son’s control, nothing was left out. However, at the present time we still don’t see everything under his Son’s control. Jesus was made a little lower than the angels, but we see him crowned with glory and honor because he suffered death. Through God’s kindnesshe died on behalf of everyone. God is the one for whom and through whom everything exists. Therefore, while God was bringing many sons and daughters to glory, it was the right time to bring Jesus, the source of their salvation, to the end of his work through suffering. Jesus, who makes people holy, and all those who are made holy have the same Father. That is why Jesus isn’t ashamed to call them brothers and sisters. He says, “I will tell my people about your name. I will praise you within the congregation.” In addition, Jesus says, “I will trust him.” And Jesus says, “I am here with the sons and daughters God has given me.”

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1 Peter 2:9–10 GW

However, you are chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, people who belong to God. You were chosen to tell about the excellent qualities of God, who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. Once you were not God’s people, but now you are. Once you were not shown mercy, but now you have been shown mercy.

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Revelation 1:4–6 GW

From John to the seven churches in the province of Asia. Good willand peace to you from the one who is, the one who was, and the one who is coming, from the seven spirits who are in front of his throne, and from Jesus Christ, the witness, the trustworthy one, the first to come back to life, and the ruler over the kings of the earth. Glory and power forever and everbelong to the one who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood and has made us a kingdom, priests for God his Father. Amen.

Revelation 3:21 KJV 1900

To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.

II , — To identify with Adam is to identify with destruction and death. To idenitify with Jesus is to identify with LIFE.

III. Jesus did nothing for Himself. He was our substitute.

A. Sin is selfish

1. For a man to die for his own sin was Just.

2. Even his dying would be because of himself.

3. Therefore he could never serve punishment or pay the price for someone else’s sin.

B. Jesus never sinned!

1. Everything He did was done for us. Everything

2. He had no price to pay for Himself.

IV. This is our idenification: The Great Exchange.

His Substitution ---Our Idenifi.

A. Jesus died- To make us Alive

B. He was made our sinfulness= to make us righteous with his righteouness.

C. He Became Weak= to make us strong

D. He suffered shame = to give us glory.

E. He went to Hell= in order to take us to Heaven.

F. He was condemned = in order to justify us and set us free.

G.He was made sick with our sickness= in order that we be healed.

H.He was cast out of the presence of God = In order to make us welcome there.

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Isaiah 52:14 GW

Many will be shocked by him. His appearance will be so disfigured that he won’t look like any other man. His looks will be so disfigured that he will hardly look like a human.

VI. All of the evidence avaible says, This man is guilty and deserves to die, but Jesus says, STOP! I died for him, Let him live and be free.