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2 Corinthians 3:16-18 and 1 Corinthians 15:42-49 I. The Holy Spirit transformed Jesus into a life-giving Spirit. A. We know that the Holy Spirit is the one who gives life because of what we read in 2 Corinthians 3:6: “The Spirit gives life.” The first person that the Holy Spirit gave bodily resurrection life to was Jesus. Romans 8:11: “If the Spirit of him…
Luke 3:4-6 & Acts 9:1-5 I. Jesus is risen and has been restored from exile to God. A. When God’s people sin, God often disciplines with exile away from Him and the Promised Land. Deuteronomy 28:36: “The Lord will bring you and your king whom you set over you to a nation that neither you nor your fathers have known. And there you shall serve other…
Isaiah 42:1-7 & Acts 26:16-23 I. Jesus and you have a mission to open people’s eyes to see Jesus. A. Isaiah 42:1 is a prophecy about a coming servant. Who is this servant? We find out when Jesus is baptized in Matthew 3:16-17: “And when Jesus was baptized, immediately he went up from the water, and behold, the heavens were opened to…
John 20:1-10 & John 6:47-59 I. You can be resurrected by trusting that Christ died for you. A. We read the details of Jesus’ historical resurrection in John 20. It was what John had seen and not seen in Jesus’ tomb that made him believe that Jesus rose from the dead (John 20:8). In John 6:4 we see that Jesus does…
Revelation 1:4-6 I. Jesus and you are kings who make God known to the world. A. The seven churches of Asia (vs. 4) faced the hostility of Roman power and the seduction of Roman wealth. But their main task was the same as our main task: to make disciples. To make God known in the…
1 Corinthians 1:30 & Romans 8:18-25 I. You have hope that you will have freedom from death. A. Jesus and you are both redeemed (1 Corinthians 1:30). Jesus did not need to be redeemed from sin. What did Jesus need to be set free from? Death. Hebrews 13:20: “Now may the God of peace who brought again from the dead our Lord…
1 Corinthians 1:30 & Romans 6:1-14 I. You must be holy as a Christian because you are united with Christ. A. Our union with Christ as Christians is stated in 1 Corinthians 1:30. Sanctification in this verse means holiness. Jesus is holy, and because we are united with Jesus, we are holy. The Christians in Corinth had already been…
1 Corinthians 1:28-31 & Romans 4:23-25, 8:31-34 I. Your righteousness in Christ means you can be confident God loves you. A. We Christians are in Christ Jesus (1 Corinthians 1:30). We are united with the resurrected Jesus so that what is true of Jesus is now true of us. One thing that is true of Jesus is that…
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 1:28-31 & Colossians 2:1-3, 3:1-4 I. Your wisdom is revealed in seeking Christ. A. If Colossians 2:3 is correct that in Christ are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge, that tells us who we Christians are to be. We are to be archeologists. We dig for the treasure of wisdom that is hidden in Christ. The…
Scripture: John 2:18-22 and Ephesians 2:18-22 I. You can go into God’s presence through faith in Jesus. A. The Jewish leaders wanted Jesus to give them some great sign to show that He had such authority to cleanse the temple (John 2:18). Jesus says that if you tore down the temple, he could rebuild it in 3…
