Dying For You

 Jesus died …

 …so we could live

 We were condemned to death because of sin

 For the wages of sin is death, …(Romans 6:23)  

 God took the first step

 He sent his one and only Son into the world … (1 John 4:9)

 God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God (2 Cor 5:21)

 … but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.(Romans 6:23)

 New life for us because Jesus died

 … that we might live through him (1 John 4:9)

 God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men's sins against them (2 Cor 5:19)

 …to atone for our sins

 Takes our punishment

 God … loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins (1 John 4:10)

 We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way; and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all (Isaiah 53:6)

 We receive it by faith

 If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in him and he in God (1 John 4:15)

 … to be Saviour of the world

 In Jesus every nation can find forgiveness and new life

 … the Father has sent his Son to be the Saviour of the world (1 John 4:14)

 There is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus (Romans 8:1)

 … that we might be transformed

 God's Spirit transforms us

 We know that we live in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit (1 John 4:13)

 Love is the result of true life

 Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him (1 John 4:16)

 Love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment, because in this world we are like him (1 John 4:17)

 Where love is lacking, God is absent

 Anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen (1 John 4:20)

 God lives in those who love one another

 If we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us (1 John 4:12)