God

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Gods Master Plan

• Session 3
• Who is the key to the Master Plan?

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Salvation The faith God requires for eternal life
in his Kingdom (John 316-17)
(C) OBEDIENCE 7) How can we participate in the
Master Plan? 8) How should citizens of the
Master Plan live?
(A) KINGDOM OF GOD 1) What is God's Master
Plan 2) How will God's Master Plan be
realised? 3) Why do we need God's Master Plan? 4)
What stops us from participating in God's Master
Plan? (B) NAME OF JESUS CHRIST 5) Who is the key
to the Master Plan? 6) Who is the Master Planner?
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Objective

• Understand who is key to Gods Master Plan
• Appreciate the role Jesus plays in saving us from
  sin

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Overview

• Section 5
• Back to the promises.
• Who is the seed?
• Why do we need Jesus?
• How can Jesus save us from our sins?
• Why did Jesus need to be both Son of God and Son
  of Man?
• Why did Jesus have to die?
• What does Jesus death and resurrection mean to
  us?

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Back to the Promises...

• Promises are means to fulfil the Master Plan
• The seed is often mentioned

And I will put enmity between you and the woman,
and between your offspring (seed) and hers he
will crush your head, and you will strike his
heel. (Genesis 3v15)
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Back to the Promises...

• Seed also appears in the Promises made to Abraham
• Genesis 22v17-18
• Also in the Promises made to David

When your days are over and you rest with your
fathers, I will raise up your offspring to
succeed you, who will come from your own body,
and I will establish his kingdom. (2 Samuel 7v12)
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Who is the seed?

• The angel Gabriel tells us
• Seed of David is Jesus
• Luke 1v32-34
• Paul confirms this
• Seed of Abraham is Jesus
• Galatians 3v16
• Jesus is the promised seed
• Jesus is the key to the Master Plan!

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Why do we need Jesus?

• Sin separates us from God

Behold, the LORD'S hand is not shortened, that it
cannot save neither his ear heavy, that it
cannot hear But your iniquities have separated
between you and your God, and your sins have hid
his face from you, that he will not hear. (Isaiah
59v1,2)
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Why do we need Jesus?

• We need to have sin removed to be reconciled back
  to God
• That is why Jesus is called Jesus

She will give birth to a son, and you are to give
him the name Jesus, because he will save his
people from their sins. (Matthew 1v21)
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How can Jesus save us? Adam Eve

• Adam and Eve used fig leaves to try and cover
  their sin
• Genesis 3v7
• God gave them skins to cover themselves
• Why?
• The skin covering required death and the shedding
  of blood
• Hebrews 9v22

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How can Jesus save us? Adam Eve

• Pointed forward to crucifixion
• Covering of sin through death
• Consequence of sin is death
• Forgiveness for sin cost a death
• Death of the Lord Jesus Christ

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How can Jesus save us?The Law of Moses

• People of Israel offered Sin and Guilt offerings
• Leviticus 1-7
• Offerer associated with the death of the animal
• Pointed forward to Jesus sacrifice
• Animal physically perfect
• Jesus morally perfect
• Offerer associated with animals death
• We associate with Jesus death (Section 7)

He is to present the bull at the entrance to the
Tent of Meeting before the LORD. He is to lay
his hand on its head and slaughter it before the
LORD. (Leviticus 4v4)
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How can Jesus save us?Why was there a law?

• Unravelling a mystery
• Appreciate solution if understand problem
• Law makes us understand the problem
• We are sinners!

What, then, was the purpose of the law? It was
added because of transgressions until the Seed to
whom the promise referred had come. The law was
put into effect through angels by a mediator.
(Galatians 3v19)
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How can Jesus save us?Why was there a law?

• The law makes us realise our true position
  without God
• We are without hope!
• The law is our TEACHER.
• Galatians 3v24

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How can Jesus save us?Jesus - a covering for sin?

• Sacrifice is necessary for forgiveness of sins
• Old Testament sacrifices point forward to
  crucifixion of Jesus

But now he (Jesus) has appeared once for all at
the end of the ages to do away with sin by the
sacrifice of himself...so Christ was sacrificed
once to take away the sins of many people and he
will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but
to bring salvation to those who are waiting for
him. (Hebrews 9v26,28)
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Tea Break
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Why did Jesus need to be Son of God?

• Jesus perfectly displayed Gods character
• Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father
  (John 14v9)
• He is our perfect example and way to God
• John 14v6,7

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Why did Jesus need to be Son of God?

• He could show us Gods glory because he was his
  son
• The son is the radiance of Gods glory and the
  exact representation of his being.
• Hebrews 1v13
• Jesus had a special relationship with God - power
  without limit
• John 3v34
• Jesus was a man who could be perfect if chose to
  be

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Why did Jesus need to be Son of God?

• He was called Immanuel - God with us
• So men could see a living example of someone
  displaying Gods character and glory
• Jesus was the Word of God made flesh

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Why did Jesus need to be Son of Man?

• Jesus often referred to himself as Son of Man
• Matthew 8v20
• Jesus had to share our nature
• Hebrews 2v14-18
• God couldnt have saved us
• God cannot be tempted - James 1v13
• God cant live with sin
• God could no be a mediator because he has not
  shared our nature

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Son of God and Son of Man

• To bring two irreconcilable parties together -
  need a mediator
• Priests were mediators
• Lev 16v15-17
• Mediator must understand feelings of both parties

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Son of God and Son of Man

• Jesus is the perfect mediator
• For there is one God and one mediator between
  God and men, the man Jesus Christ. 1 Timothy 2v5

He understood mans nature For we do not have a
high priest who is unable to sympathise with our
weaknesses, but we have one who has tempted in
every way, just as we are - yet without sin.
(Hebrews 4v15)
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Son of God and Son of Man

• Jesus understood our nature and conquered it
• Romans 8v3,4
• He can set us free from sin because he was never
  captured by it

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Son of God and Son of Man

• Jesus mission was to save sinners
• Matthew 1v21
• His name means
• God Saves
• Being Son of God
• He could attain perfection
• Being Son of Man
• He could represent us!

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Why did Jesus have to Die?

• God wants us to be part of his Master Plan

For God so loved the world that he gave his one
and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall
not perish but have eternal life. (John 3v16)
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Why did Jesus have to die?

• Jesus was sinless - did not deserve death
• To save us, he bore our sins, so he had to die

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Why did Jesus have to die?

• Being sinless the grave could not hold him
• Acts 2v24
• He destroyed human nature
• Hebrews 2v14
• Took up his place at Gods right hand
• Acts 3v33
• He is now our mediator
• 1 John 2v1,2

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What Does Jesus Death and Resurrection mean to
us?

• Forgiveness is NOT Easy
• It cost a perfect life
• It cannot be taken lightly
• We must associate with the sacrifice
• Romans 6v3, 5-11
• We become Sons of God
• Galatians 3v26,27

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What Does Jesus Death and Resurrection mean to
us?

• God covers our sins - counts our Faith as
  Righteousness
• Romans 4v5
• Brings responsibility
• Hebrews 10v26-27
• 1 Thessalonians 1v7-11

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What Does Jesus Death and Resurrection mean to
us?
Leaves no room to be neutral!
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Conclusion

• This week we looked at.
• The seed in the promises
• Why we need Jesus
• How Jesus can save us from our sin
• Why Jesus needed to be Son of God and Son of Man
• Why Jesus had to die
• What Jesus death and resurrection mean to us

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Question and Answer

• Who is the key to the Master Plan?

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Conclusion

• Next week we look at.
• Who is the Master Planer?
• Who is the planner?
• What is his name?
• What is the purpose of his name?
• What is the nature of God?
• When did God become a father?
• What is the power of God?
• Why is it important to know God?