DO YOU
ARE YOU
HELD BY
Terrible bondage – a path that never gets better;
Consumed in misery and unhappiness; desires of the self.
My Money
My Pride
My Life
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Live according to the world
and be enslaved to the world.
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ROAD TO DARKNESS
● DESPISE
● BITTER
● SIN
● DO NOT KNOW GOD
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BLAMELESS
HUSBAND OF ONE WIFE
TEMPERATE
SOBER-MINDED
OF GOOD BEHAVIOR
HOSPITABLE
ABLE TO TEACH
NOT GIVEN TO WINE
NOT VIOLENT
NOT GREEDY FOR MONEY
GENTLE
NOT QUARRELSOME
NOT COVETOUS
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MAN
OF GOD
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ONE WHO RULES HIS OWN HOUSE WELL
CHILDREN IN SUBMISSION WITH ALL REVERENCE
NOT A NOVICE
GOOD TESTIMONY AMONG THOSE WHO ARE OUTSIDE
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STEWARD OF GOD
NOT SELF-WILLED
NOT QUICK-TEMPERED
A LOVER OF WHAT IS GOOD
JUST
HOLY
SELF-CONTROLLED
HOLDING FAST THE FAITHFUL WORD
ABLE, BY SOUND DOCTRINE, BOTH TO
EXHORT AND CONVICT THOSE WHO CONTRADICT
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PURSUE PEACE WITH ALL PEOPLE, AND HOLINESS
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REJOICE IN THE LORD ALWAYS
LET YOUR GENTLENESS BE KNOWN TO ALL MEN
BE ANXIOUS FOR NOTHING
IN EVERYTHING BY PRAYER AND SUPPLICATION
WITH THANKSGIVING
LET YOUR REQUESTS BE MADE KNOWN TO GOD
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TRUST IN THE LORD
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MEEKNESS OF WISDOM
PEACEABLE
GENTLE
WILLING TO YIELD
FULL OF MERCY AND GOOD FRUITS
WITHOUT PARTIALITY
WITHOUT HYPOCRISY
MAKE PEACE
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WALK WORTHY OF THE LORD
FULLY PLEASING HIM
FRUITFUL IN EVERY GOOD WORK
INCREASING IN THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD
PATIENCE AND LONGSUFFERING WITH JOY
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EVIL THOUGHTS
ADULTERIES
FORNICATIONS
MURDERS
THEFTS
COVETOUSNESS
WICKEDNESS
DECEIT
LEWDNESS
AN EVIL EYE
BLASPHEMY
PRIDE
FOOLISHNESS
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MAN
OF SIN
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PUFFED UP WITH PRIDE
WISE IN THEIR OWN EYES
PRUDENT IN THEIR OWN SIGHT
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ARROGANCE
THE EVIL WAY
PERVERSE MOUTH
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BITTER ENVY
SELF-SEEKING
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The Lord is not slack
concerning His promise,
as some count slackness,
but is longsuffering
toward us, not willing
that any should perish
but that all should come
to repentance.
~ 2nd Peter 3:9
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Mercy is challenged surrounded in waves of despicable
From such people turn away:
● Lovers of themselves
● Lovers of money
● Boasters
● Proud
● Blasphemers
● Disobedient to parents
● Unthankful
● Unholy
● Unloving
● Unforgiving
● Slanderers
● Without self-control
● Brutal
● Despisers of good
● Traitors
● Headstrong
● Haughty
● Lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God
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Battles in the shadows of sin expose the soul
Do not:
● Let sin reign in your mortal body
⮡ Obey it in its lusts
● Present unrighteousness to sin
To God:
● Present yourselves
⮡ Alive from the dead
● As instuments of righteousness
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The despicable will fall from His presence
Outside:
● Dogs
● Sorcerers
● Sexually Immoral
● Murderers
● Idolaters
● Whoever practices a lie
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God retrieves those who live nobly in Him
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Righteous written in the Living Book
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Forgiveness:
License to sin OR Pass from God to Misbehave?
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• COURSE
• QUIT SINNING
• FINISHER
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"... sin lies at the door. And its desire is for you,
but you should rule over it." ~ Genesis 4:7
THIS
DOOR
OPENS
FROM
THE
INSIDE
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LUST
1st John 2:16
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SIN
Romans 14:23
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PRIDE
Proverbs 21:4
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LAWLESSNESS
1st John 3:4
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THIS
DOOR
OPENS
FROM
THE
INSIDE
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UNBELIEF
Hebrews 3:12-19
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WORKS OF THE FLESH
Galatians 5:19-21
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EXCLUSION OF GOD
Romans 1:28-32
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CONSENT TO TEMPTATION
James 1:12-15
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A DARK HEART
Mark 7:20-23
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UNRIGHEOUSNESS
1st Corinthians 6:9-10
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WICKEDNESS
Ecclesiastes 8:8
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COVETOUS
2nd Peter 2:4-14
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EVIL
Ecclesiastes 12:14
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QUITERS
Revelation 21:7-8
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A PROUD HEART
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SIN
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A HAUGHTY LOOK
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PLOWING WICKEDNESS
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NOT PURSUING GOOD WORKS = SIN
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DEVISING OF FOOLISHNESS = SIN
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ALL UNRIGHTEOUSNESS = SIN
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SIN = REPROACH TO ANY PEOPLE
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HIS BLOOD = CLEANSES OUR SINS
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WHOEVER COMMITS SIN = SLAVE OF SIN
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TEMPTATION
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Luke 11:4
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SIN
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GROWING SIN
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HABIT
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James 1:12-15
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DEATH
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Before faith came
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Kept under guard by the law (tutor)
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All under sin
☆ Promise by faith in Jesus Christ
⮡ Given to those who believe
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Might be justified by faith
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● He is faithful
● To forgive us our sins
● To cleanse us from
all unrighteousness
→ Confess our sins
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If Christ is in you
Body = Dead because of sin
Spirit = Life because of righteousness
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Apart from sin for salvation
Appear a second time
Judgment
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Who eagerly wait for Him
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Appointed for men to die once
⭦ Christ was offered once ⭧
To bear the sins of many
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Believe in Christ → Receive Remission of sins
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Repent + Baptized in Christ
=
Remission of sins + Holy Spirit gift
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Not believe in Christ = Die in your sins
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With the mind → Serve the law of God
With the flesh → The law of sin
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Things written
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That you may not sin
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If anyone sins
⮡ We have an Advocate
⮡ Jesus Christ
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→ Do not present your members
As instruments of unrighteousness
but
→ Present yourselves to God
Alive from the dead
As instruments of righteousness
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● Old man
⮡ Former corrupt conduct
⮡ Deceitful lusts
● Renewed in the spirit
⮡ Created according to God
⮡ Righteousness and holiness
⮡ New man
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If you do not warn the wicked ⮧
| He shall die in his iniquity
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But his blood I require at your hand
If you warn the wicked to turn ⮧
| He does not turn from his way
| ⮡ He shall die in his iniquity
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But you have delivered your soul
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People are destroyed
⮡ For lack of knowledge
Because of rejected knowledge
⮡ Forgotten the law of God
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Children will forget
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Through offense
⮡ Judgment came to all → many made sinners
♢ Resulting in condemnation
Through one Man's obedience
⮡ Free gift came to all → many made righteous
♢ Resulting in justification of life
Sin = death
Grace = Righteousness to eternal life in Christ
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It is God who loves us beyond the measure of our sin
● Knowing to do good and not doing it is sin
● A haughty look, proud heart, evil pursuits, - are sin
● Sin is lawlessness without regard for goodness
● It is untruthful to deny that one has sinned
● Sin enters a life through acts of disobedience
● The root of sin is held in the heart of a liar
● Faith in Jesus results in the justification of life
● Knowing right from wrong is strength we all seek
● A shallow character holds unforgiveness close
● Desire gives sin’s unrestrained rise leading to death
● Judging one’s self as superior is a sin of prejudice
● His word calls for us to rule over our temptations
● Forgiveness through Christ heals us from sin
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Good love is defined by honesty
● Belief in Christ frees us from the bondage of flesh
● Righteousness of belief in Christ overwhelms sin
● It is Christ who bears the sins of all true believers
● God wills for us to be alive in His Spirit
● Christ’s sacrifice in blood cleanses us from sin
● Christ had to sacrifice His life that we might find life
● God now employs Christ for our remission of sins
● God’s promise is forgiveness to who act on belief
● Regret is the healing key as God forgets prior sins
● God came in Christ to free us from the lies of Satan
● Faith in obedience to His baptismal call saves a soul
● Without honest confession no forgiveness is given
● God’s truth in Christ has to be acknowledged
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To have God one must submit to His will
● Death in sins comes by disbelief in Christ’s message
● To live to God knows His sacrifice for our life
● While we sin our advocacy is through Christ
● A spirit of good wars against the desires of flesh
● Grace supersedes the law no one can achieve
● God declares He will dismiss the sins of the faithful
● Whatever is not from faith is sin
● Denying sin, and needing Him, makes God a liar
● It is the word of God that assists us in not sinning
● God came in Christ to deliver truth and save sinners
● God desires mercy over excuses of sacrifice
● Mercy triumphs over judgment
● God looks for us to present ourselves as righteous
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True awareness is to not miss out on God’s blessings
● God wills our knowledge in Him over man’s deceit
● God calls for honesty without anger
● God knowing all things will render justice
● Slavery to sin is set free by Christ’s favor
● Sexual immorality sins against one’s own body
● God calls for sympathetic intervention for mild sins
● We should not pray for those guilty of heinous acts
● Habitual sin traps a soul to falling away from God
● Sinners are reserved in darkness for judgment
● The darkness of sin is repulsive to all decent
● A land that blatantly sins denying Him will suffer
● Ignorance is unacceptable as God calls for control
● It is knowledge of God that emancipates the soul
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GOD IS JUST AND THE JUSTIFIER
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● Don’t let religion stop you from seeking Jesus.
● Learn for yourself what the Bible teaches about the Lord’s kingdom,
His church.
● Submit to His truth and live through Him.
● Obey the gospel and take advantage of the blood that was shed for you!
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Excessive drinking invites lawlessness
● Alcohol is a mocker, brawler, & not wise
● Don’t mix with alcoholics led to poverty/drowsiness
● Bingers wallow in woes, contentions, false injuries
● Drunks will see strange things & utter perversities
● Alcoholics don’t feel physical pain waking for more
● Give strong drink to those perishing abating misery
● Use a little wine for frequent infirmities
● Blessed are you when the leaders are not drunkards
● Drinkers do not regard the work of the LORD
● Alcohol swallows one in err both vision & judgment
● Harlotry, wine, and new wine enslave the heart
● Giving alcohol to a neighbor is to one’s shame
● Beware and avoid revelries causing harsh judgment
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The courageous abstain from what offends God
● Walk properly not in revelry and drunkenness/lusts
● Do not love the world or the things in the world
● Do not let sin reign in you or obey it in its lusts
● Abstain from fleshly lusts which war against / soul
● Drunkards will not inherit the kingdom of God
● Do not be drunk but be filled with the Spirit
● Do not to keep company or dine with drunkards
● Curtail anything causing 1 to stumble or made weak
● Whatever you do, do all to the glory of God
● Speak things which are proper for sound doctrine
● Leaders and all wise should not be given to wine
● Be sober/vigilant resting hope fully on grace in God
● Test everything holding good abstaining from all sin
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SLAVES:
SIN → DEATH
OBEDIENCE → RIGHTEOUSNESS
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Doubt leads to the pits of darkness
Happy = Not condemn Himself
He who doubts = Condemned
Not from faith = Sin
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One’s choice to deny God is convicting
Evil heart of unbelief
┗► Departing from the living God
Hardened
┗► Through deceitfulness of sin
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1. Walk with Sinners
2. Not Stand Against Sinners
3. Sits with Sinners
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↑ Renders you unfruitful ↑
Consuming Sin
● Evil thoughts
● Adulteries
● Fornications
● Murders
● Thefts
● Covetousness
● Wickedness
● Deceit
● Lewdness
● An evil eye
● Blasphemy
● Pride
● Foolishness
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Sorrow often defines our greatest desire
Put to death:
● Fornication
● Uncleanness
● Passion
● Evil desire
● Covetousness
⮡ which = idolatry
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Clinging to things traps a soul from seeing higher
● Covetousness is not a fitting quality for the saints
● Seek what comes from above given by Christ
● Put to death wickedness before God’s wrath comes
● Be content with such things as you have
● Life does not consist in the abundance of goods
● The love of money pierces a heart with sorrows
● Compulsively seeking wealth is a disease of greed
● Treasure is found in the desires of one’s heart
● One cannot serve God and insatiable desires
● Covetous men ruin good people stealing their lives
● No attachment is worth more than eternal life
● Placing possessions above God nullifies faith
● Trust in God the giver and not material possessions
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To cross the river of sin only faith heals a heart
Will not inherit the kingdom of God:
● Adultery
● Fornication
● Uncleanness
● Lewdness
● Idolatry
● Sorcery
● Hatred
● Contentions
● Jealousies
● Outbursts of wrath
● Selfish ambitions
● Dissensions
● Heresies
● Envy
● Murders
● Drunkenness
● Revelries, and the like
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Covetousness is closely connected to worries
● Hypocrites will lie in pursuit of their own gain
● No covetous man will inherit God’s kingdom
● To lose one’s life for God will find it
● The whole world is not enough to pay for one soul
● Love of the world is not the love of the Father
● To be a friend of the world is an enemy of God
● Love for another fulfills the law of God
● You shall not covet is a commandment
● Selfish ambitions deny entry into God’s kingdom
● No one can avoid encounters with worldly evils
● Material wealth only can be a spider web of misery
● Many smooth operators are out for dishonest gain
● It is more blessed to give than to receive
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Deception can come by casual and twofaced spirits
… nor give heed to fables
purpose of the commandment
is
→ Love From a pure heart
From a good conscience
From sincere faith
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Some of the most compulsive habits rob holiness
Found not as you wish:
● Contentions
● Jealousies
● Outbursts of wrath
● Selfish ambitions
● Backbitings
● Whisperings
● Conceits
● Tumults
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Deepest efforts to find God will free a soul
● Deceiving spirits will speak lies in hypocrisy
● Reject profane and old wives’ fables
● Do not heed men who turn from the truth
● Avoid foolish and ignorant disputes
● Profane and idle babblings increase ungodliness
● Defiant religious fanatics abandon sound doctrine
● We will give account for every idle word
● Do not speak evil of one another
● He who restrains his lips is wise
● A whisperer separates the best of friends
● Without bridling one’s tongue faith is useless
● Busybodies say things which they ought not
● Lead a quiet life and mind your own business
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WAGES OF SIN = DEATH GIFT OF GOD = ETERNAL LIFE IN CHRIST
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SPIRITUAL DEATH = SEPARATION FROM GOD
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The CONSEQUENCES of Sin
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The PRICE for Sin
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DEATH
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SPIRITUAL
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MORTAL
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SINNER = BREAKER OF GOD'S LAW
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SANCTIFICATION → RECONCILIATION
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Payment
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BLOOD
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REPRESENTS →
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LIFE
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INNOCENT LIFE
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ATONES FOR →
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SINNER
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INNOCENT LIFE
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REPRESENTS →
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GUILTY LIFE
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| Animal Sacrifice |
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| JUSTICE |
INNOCENT
SACRIFICE
(Lamb) |
LIFE →
(FOR SIN) |
SINNER
(Guilty) |
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(RECONCILED)
(JUSTIFIED)
SANCTIFIED |
MERCY |
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God's Service to man
| Christ's Sacrifice |
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Heb.7:26-27
JUSTICE
Heb.9:11-14
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INNOCENT
SACRIFICE
(Lamb of God) |
LIFE →
(FOR SIN) |
SINNER
(Guilty) |
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(JUSTIFIED)
SANCTIFIED |
MERCY |
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| Proverbs 21:3 |
James 2:13 |
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God opens our eyes to see His Love
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– CHRIST –
(1)
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Transgressor ║ Transgressor
(2) ║ (3)
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1) Died 'for' our sins
2) Dead 'in' sin
3) Dead 'to' sin
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- Dead in sin.
└─> I can make you alive.
Dead to sin. <─┘
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┌─> DEAD TO GOD.
DEAD IN SIN ─┐
├┉ A SEPARATION.
DEAD TO SIN ─┘
└─> ALIVE TO GOD.
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We really don’t know whether the thief was baptized or not
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The thief is not an example of salvation by faith only.
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Baptism is essential to receive forgiveness under the Gospel.
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Thief was saved while the Old Law was still in effect.
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The testator (Christ), while alive, could save whom He would.
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Be an Example Over the Temptation
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Reliable, Trustworthy, Dependable
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It is sinful to walk away from doing good.
Be mindful of others and show mercy.
- widows
- elderly
- orphans
- handicapped
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