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Message 3: The Work of Christ
Announcements:
The Door is moving into their OC with the youth group!
Penn york on Saturday?
3-9 youth fest w/ bonfire rockclimbing and other miscellaneous things
Recap last week:
Jesus came down from eternity, he wasn’t just born as a baby one day.
He was God from the beginning…he came down to reveal the Father to the world.
- Immanuel/God with us.
The work of Jesus Christ…what he came to do and what he did for us…He reveals, rules, and reconciles.
-Erickson
He was incarnated to save us from our sins.
- reference the end of Matthew 1 from last week..He revealed God to us…that is one of the main things he did.
This week I want to talk about the idea of reconciliation.
The reconciling work of Christ.
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(H) Discussing the idea of covenant.
In the Bible we have two testaments that encompass TWO COVENANTS that God made with man.
A covenant is essentially an AGREEMENT between two parties, a CONTRACT encompassing an OATH.
Marriage is a covenant
When you come into relationship with God you enter into a covenant.
YOU WILL BE MY GOD
In the OT there was the LAW and the SACRIFICIAL SYSTEM that allowed people to have CONNECTION to GOD.
But it had been PROPHESIED in the OT by Jeremiah and Ezekiel that one day God was going to establish a NEWCOVENANT with his people.
This is one of the things Jesus came to do!
Hebrews 1:1-3 NLT
Long ago God spoke many times and in many ways to our ancestors through the prophets.
2 And now in these final days, he has spoken to us through his Son.
God promised everything to the Son as an inheritance, and through the Son he created the universe.
3 The Son radiates God’s own glory and expresses the very character of God, and he sustains everything by the mighty power of his command.
When he had cleansed us from our sins, he sat down in the place of honor at the right hand of the majestic God in heaven.
The MESSAGE that JESUS brought was FINAL.
In the OT there was going to be a NC, but now GOD HAS SPOKEN FINALLY.
What Jesus did was sufficient for all sins for all time, so that all people could connect with God through Christ.
***If anyone has ever struggled to understand how the OT and NT connect and why Jesus died for us, the book of Hebrews is probably one of the most helpful with this subject.
We know from the Gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John that JESUS DIED on a CROSS…but we can learn through the REST of the NT what that meant.
He wasn’t just a man who died a random death.
He was the manifested Son of God who CAME TO DIE ON BEHALF OF OUR SIN . . .
SIN REQUIRED punishment or CONSEQUENCES because it was an affront to God.
God is completely perfect and holy, so sin is an affront to him…as a result sin had to be appeased.
At the same time, GOD LOVES HUMANITY AND DESIRES FELLOWSHIP!.
Think in the Garden God walked with Adam and Eve as their friend.
Even Moses spoke to God as a man speaks to his friend, face to face.
Hebrews 9:11-15 NLT
So Christ has now become the High Priest over all the good things that have come.
He has entered that greater, more perfect Tabernacle in heaven, which was not made by human hands and is not part of this created world.
12 With his own blood—not the blood of goats and calves—he entered the Most Holy Place once for all time and secured our redemption forever.
He’s comparing this to the OT tabernacle/temple and PLACE of WORSHIP.
JESUS is so much GREATER than that SYSTEM, he didn’t go into the earthly place of worship, but his blood went to heaven to take away our sin.
13 Under the old system, the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer could cleanse people’s bodies from ceremonial impurity.
14 Just think how much more the blood of Christ will purify our consciences from sinful deeds so that we can worship the living God.
For by the power of the eternal Spirit, Christ offered himself to God as a perfect sacrifice for our sins.
15 That is why he is the one who mediates a new covenant between God and people, so that all who are called can receive the eternal inheritance God has promised them.
For Christ died to set them free from the penalty of the sins they had committed under that first covenant.
22 In fact, according to the law of Moses, nearly everything was purified with blood.
For without the shedding of blood, there is no forgiveness.
23 That is why the Tabernacle and everything in it, which were copies of things in heaven, had to be purified by the blood of animals.
But the real things in heaven had to be purified with far better sacrifices than the blood of animals.
SACRIFICES SHOWED THE COST OF SIN…the SACRIFICE always HAD to be the BEST they had, a spotless lamb…
they couldn’t bring Lucky the lamb with three legs who might not make it…
In the same way JESUS WAS SPOTLESS, because he was the sinless son of God.
24 For Christ did not enter into a holy place made with human hands, which was only a copy of the true one in heaven.
He entered into heaven itself to appear now before God on our behalf.
25 And he did not enter heaven to offer himself again and again, like the high priest here on earth who enters the Most Holy Place year after year with the blood of an animal.
26 If that had been necessary, Christ would have had to die again and again, ever since the world began.
But now, once for all time, he has appeared at the end of the age to remove sin by his own death as a sacrifice.
His death was the PROPITIATION for our sin (1 John 2:1-2) we can now have fellowship with God.
He has APPEASED the WRATH of the Father concerning sin.
If you are in Christ you never have to feel like “My heavenly Father is going to kill me”
1 Corinthians 15:1-8 NLT
Let me now remind you, dear brothers and sisters, of the Good News I preached to you before.
You welcomed it then, and you still stand firm in it.
2 It is this Good News that saves you if you continue to believe the message I told you—unless, of course, you believed something that was never true in the first place.
3 I passed on to you what was most important and what had also been passed on to me.
Christ died for our sins, just as the Scriptures said.
4 He was buried, and he was raised from the dead on the third day, just as the Scriptures said.
All 4 Gospels testify that JESUS was RAISED from the DEAD…because he himself had no sin he could not remain dead!
Death was the consequence of sin and Jesus lived a sinless life, so he was resurrected.
2 Corinthians 5:21 NLT For God made Christ, who never sinned, to be the offering for our sin, so that we could be made right with God through Christ.
1 Corinthians 15:5 He was seen by Peter and then by the Twelve.
6 After that, he was seen by more than 500 of his followers at one time, most of whom are still alive, though some have died.
7 Then he was seen by James and later by all the apostles.
8 Last of all, as though I had been born at the wrong time, I also saw him
Resurrection…the Jews claimed that the body of Jesus was stolen…they never claimed the tomb wasn’t empty.
-Pannenburg.
Concerning the resurrection,, there is no better explanation for how the disciples went from being afraid and in hiding to going out publicly preaching despite persecution…eventually all of them were martyred except John.
So what changed…?
He was risen.
After Jesus’ resurrection he was ascended and one day he will return again!
Not as a lowly carpenter, but as a conquering king.
Reference the description of Jesus found within Revelation
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