The Significance of the Cross

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Colossians 1:13–14 CSB
He has rescued us from the domain of darkness and transferred us into the kingdom of the Son he loves. In him we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.

I. God Plan it

Acts 2:23 CSB
Though he was delivered up according to God’s determined plan and foreknowledge, you used lawless people to nail him to a cross and kill him.
Psalm 115:3 CSB
Our God is in heaven and does whatever he pleases.
Isaiah 46:9–10 CSB
Remember what happened long ago, for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and no one is like me. I declare the end from the beginning, and from long ago what is not yet done, saying: my plan will take place, and I will do all my will.

II. Rescued

Colossians 1:13 (CSB)
He has rescued us from the domain of darkness
A) Power of Satan
B) Power of Sin
C) Power of Death (Eternal Separation)
Man’s Problem
Power of Satan
The whole world is under the influence of the evil one
1 John 5:19 CSB
We know that we are of God, and the whole world is under the sway of the evil one.
Satan is the prince power of the air
Ephesians 2:1–2 CSB
And you were dead in your trespasses and sins in which you previously walked according to the ways of this world, according to the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit now working in the disobedient.
Satan blinds the eyes of the lost
2 Corinthians 4:4 CSB
In their case, the god of this age has blinded the minds of the unbelievers to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.
Satan takes away the Word when it is given to some people
Mark 4:15 CSB
Some are like the word sown on the path. When they hear, immediately Satan comes and takes away the word sown in them.
The Power of Sin
The unsaved live under the domination of their evil desires
Ephesians 2:3 CSB
We too all previously lived among them in our fleshly desires, carrying out the inclinations of our flesh and thoughts, and we were by nature children under wrath as the others were also.
Slaves to sin
John 8:34 CSB
Jesus responded, “Truly I tell you, everyone who commits sin is a slave of sin.
The Good News
Colossians 2:13–15 CSB
And when you were dead in trespasses and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, he made you alive with him and forgave us all our trespasses. He erased the certificate of debt, with its obligations, that was against us and opposed to us, and has taken it away by nailing it to the cross. He disarmed the rulers and authorities and disgraced them publicly; he triumphed over them in him.
Romans 6:4–9 CSB
Therefore we were buried with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we too may walk in newness of life. For if we have been united with him in the likeness of his death, we will certainly also be in the likeness of his resurrection. For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body ruled by sin might be rendered powerless so that we may no longer be enslaved to sin, since a person who has died is freed from sin. Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him, because we know that Christ, having been raised from the dead, will not die again. Death no longer rules over him.

III. Relocated

Colossians 1:13 (CSB)
...and transferred us into the kingdom of the Son he loves.
Colossians 1:19–20 CSB
For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, and through him to reconcile everything to himself, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross.

IV. Redemption

Colossians 1:14 CSB
In him we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
Romans 3:23 CSB
For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God;
Romans 6:23 CSB
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Colossians 2:14 CSB
He erased the certificate of debt, with its obligations, that was against us and opposed to us, and has taken it away by nailing it to the cross.
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