What did Jesus ever Accomplish

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• Jesus did many other things as well. If every one
  of them were written down, I suppose that even
  the whole world would not have room for the books
  that would be written.
• John 2125

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• We believe that Jesus Christ, as our
  representative and substitute, shed His blood on
  the cross as the perfect, all-sufficient
  sacrifice for our sins. His atoning death and
  victorious resurrection constitute the only
  ground for salvation.
• EFCA Statement of Faith, Point 5

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5 Important Questions
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5 Important Questions

• How did Jesus represent me?

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5 Important Questions

• How did Jesus represent me?
• Why did I need a substitute?

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5 Important Questions

• How did Jesus represent me?
• Why did I need a substitute?
• Why was the cross necessary?

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5 Important Questions

• How did Jesus represent me?
• Why did I need a substitute?
• Why was the cross necessary?
• What made His death perfect and all-sufficient?

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5 Important Questions

• How did Jesus represent me?
• Why did I need a substitute?
• Why was the cross necessary?
• What made His death perfect and all-sufficient?
• How can a person get right with God?

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5 Important Questions

• How did Jesus represent me?

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• We are sinful and as such, we cant just run into
  Gods presence with a representative.

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• For there is one God and one mediator between God
  and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave Himself
  as a ransom for all men.
• 1 Timothy 25-6a

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• Therefore, since we have a great high priest who
  has gone through the heavens, Jesus the Son of
  God, let us hold firmly to the faith we profess.
  For we do not have a high priest who is unable to
  sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one
  who has been tempted in every way, just as we are
  - yet was without sin.

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• Let us then approach the throne of grace with
  confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find
  grace to help us in our time of need.
• Hebrews 414

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5 Important Questions

• Why did I need a substitute?

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• He himself bore our sins in His body on the tree,
  so that we might die to sins and live for
  righteousness by His wounds you have been
  healed.
• 1 Peter 224

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5 Important Questions

• Why was the cross necessary?

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• So that sin would no longer have mastery of us.

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• So that sin would no longer have mastery of us.
• Because His love for us called Him to it.

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• So that sin would no longer have mastery of us.
• Because His love for us called Him to it.

This is how we know what love it Jesus Christ
laid down His life for us. 1 John 316
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• So that sin would no longer have mastery of us.
• Because His love for us called Him to it.
• Because without the cross, we would be dead now
  and eternally.

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• On this mountain He will destroy the shroud that
  enfolds all peoples, the sheet that covers all
  nations He will swallow up death forever. The
  Sovereign LORD will wipe away the tears from all
  faces He will remove the disgrace of His people
  from all the earth. The LORD has spoken.
• Isaiah 256-8

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• For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of
  God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
• Romans 623

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5 Important Questions

• What made His death a perfect and all-sufficient
  sacrifice for our sins?

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• Jesus was perfect the once and for all-time
  sacrifice for sins. (Hebrews 10)

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• Jesus was perfect the once and for all-time
  sacrifice for sins.
• All our sins and the power of the law to enslave
  us were nailed to the cross.
• (Colossians 2)

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5 Important Questions

• How can I be made right with God?

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• His atoning death and victorious resurrection
  constitute the only ground for salvation.

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• This is love not that we loved God, but that He
  loved us and sent His Son as an atoning sacrifice
  for our sins.
• 1 John 21b-2
• Jesus Christ, the Righteous One. He is the
  atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for
  ours but also for the sins of the whole world.
• 1 John 410

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• Like the rest, we were by nature objects of
  wrath. But because of His great love for us, God,
  who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ
  even when we were dead in transgressions it is
  by grace you have been saved. And God raised us
  up with Christ and seated us with Him in the
  heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, in order that in
  the coming ages He might show the incomparable
  riches of His grace, expressed in His kindness to
  us in Christ Jesus.

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• For it is by grace you have been saved, through
  faith and this not from yourselves, it is the
  gift of God not by works, so that no one can
  boast.
• Ephesians 25-8

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As Agents of Christ We Can

• Do grace to our neighbors.

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As Agents of Christ We Can

• Do grace to our neighbors.
• Do grace to our culture.

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Warning!

• Giving grace requires sacrifice you dont want to
  give.