Lessons in Salvation History

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Lessons in Salvation History

• Ephesians 211-16
• Ryan Habbena
• Twin City Fellowship
• November 26 2006

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Remembering the Mystery

• Ephesians 18-9 In all wisdom and insight He made
  known to us the mystery of His will, according to
  His kind intention which He purposed in Him

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Remember Where You Came From

• EPH 211-12 Therefore remember that formerly
  you, the Gentiles in the flesh, who are called
  "Uncircumcision" by the so-called "Circumcision,"
  which is performed in the flesh by human hands --
  remember that you were at that time separate from
  Christ, excluded from the commonwealth of Israel,
  and strangers to the covenants of promise, having
  no hope and without God in the world.

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Children of the Promise

• Galatians 36-9
• Consider Abraham "He believed God, and it was
  credited to him as righteousness." Understand,
  then, that those who believe are children of
  Abraham. The Scripture foresaw that God would
  justify the Gentiles by faith, and announced the
  gospel in advance to Abraham "All nations will
  be blessed through you." So those who have faith
  are blessed along with Abraham, the man of faith.
  

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Circumcised in Christ

• Colossians 211
• and in Him you were also circumcised with a
  circumcision made without hands, in the removal
  of the body of the flesh by the circumcision of
  Christ

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Brought Near by the Blood

• Ephesians 213
• But now in Christ Jesus you who formerly were far
  off have been brought near by the blood of
  Christ.

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Drawn by the Cross

• John 1232-33 "And I, if I am lifted up from the
  earth, will draw all men to Myself. But He was
  saying this to indicate the kind of death by
  which He was to die.

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The Promise is for the Far Off

• Acts 238 Peter replied, "Repent and be baptized,
  every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for
  the forgiveness of your sins. And you will
  receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. 39 The
  promise is for you and your children and for all
  who are far offfor all whom the Lord our God
  will call."

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United through the Cross

• Ephesians 214-16 For He Himself is our peace,
  who made both groups into one and broke down the
  barrier of the dividing wall, by abolishing in
  His flesh the enmity, which is the Law of
  commandments contained in ordinances, so that in
  Himself He might make the two into one new man,
  thus establishing peace, and might reconcile them
  both in one body to God through the cross, by it
  having put to death the enmity.

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The Council of Jerusalem

• Acts 157-11
• After there had been much debate, Peter stood up
  and said to them, "Brethren, you know that in the
  early days God made a choice among you, that by
  my mouth the Gentiles would hear the word of the
  gospel and believe. "And God, who knows the
  heart, testified to them giving them the Holy
  Spirit, just as He also did to us and He made no
  distinction between us and them, cleansing their
  hearts by faith. "Now therefore why do you put
  God to the test by placing upon the neck of the
  disciples a yoke which neither our fathers nor we
  have been able to bear? "But we believe that we
  are saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus, in
  the same way as they also are."

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1 We Must be a Christ-centered Community

• Philippians 32-6
• Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workers,
  beware of the false circumcision for we are the
  true circumcision, who worship in the Spirit of
  God and glory in Christ Jesus and put no
  confidence in the flesh, although I myself might
  have confidence even in the flesh. If anyone else
  has a mind to put confidence in the flesh, I far
  more circumcised the eighth day, of the nation
  of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of
  Hebrews as to the Law, a Pharisee as to zeal, a
  persecutor of the church as to the righteousness
  which is in the Law, found blameless.

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To Be Found In Him

• Philippians 37-9
• But whatever things were gain to me, those things
  I have counted as loss for the sake of Christ.
  More than that, I count all things to be loss in
  view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ
  Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss
  of all things, and count them but rubbish so that
  I may gain Christ, and may be found in Him, not
  having a righteousness of my own derived from the
  Law, but that which is through faith in Christ,
  the righteousness which comes from God on the
  basis of faith,

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2- Realize Gods Plan for Israel

• ROM 1125-28 For I do not want you, brethren, to
  be uninformed of this mystery -- so that you will
  not be wise in your own estimation -- that a
  partial hardening has happened to Israel until
  the fullness of the Gentiles has come in and so
  all Israel will be saved just as it is written,
  "The Deliverer will come from Zion, He will
  remove ungodliness from Jacob." "This is My
  covenant with them, When I take away their sins."
  From the standpoint of the gospel they are
  enemies for your sake, but from the standpoint of
  God's choice they are beloved for the sake of the
  fathers

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Conclusion 3 The Continuing Power of the Cross

• Hebrews 1014
• For by one offering He has perfected for all
  time those who are sanctified.