A Life For A Life | Easter 2024
What effect does the crucifixion have on believers?
What effect does the resurrection have on believers?
Galatians 2:19-20
For through the law I died to the law, so that I might live to God. 20 I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
What effect does the crucifixion have on believers?
· We (Believers) have died to the law, because of the substitutionary sacrifice.
Romans 3:19–20
Now we know that whatever the law says it speaks to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and the whole world may be held accountable to God. 20 For by works of the law no human being[a] will be justified in his sight, since through the law comes knowledge of sin.
Isaiah 64:6
We have all become like one who is unclean,
and all our righteous deeds are like a polluted garment.
We all fade like a leaf,
and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.
Genesis 2:15–17
The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it. 16 And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, “You may surely eat of every tree of the garden, 17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat[a] of it you shall surely die.”
Romans 6:23
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Genesis 3:21
And the Lord God made for Adam and for his wife garments of skins and clothed them.
His life for mine
Romans 3:24-26
and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, 25 whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God's righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins. 26 It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.
His life for mine
My life for His
Luke 6:46
“Why do you call me ‘Lord, Lord,’ and not do what I tell you?
What God asks of us He provides for.
His Holy Spirit
John 16:8
And when he comes, he will convict the world concerning sin and righteousness and judgment:
His Word
2 Timothy 3:16-17
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, 17 that the man of God[a] may be complete, equipped for every good work.
His Church (Equipping)
Ephesians 4:12
to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ,
His Church (Accountability)
James 5:16
Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.[a]
All for a Purpose
John 17:20-21
“I do not ask for these only, but also for those who will believe in me through their word, 21 that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me.
Have you trusted in the resurrected Christ?
Do others see the resurrected Christ in you?
1 Corinthians 6:19–20
Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, 20 for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.