>> How is someone saved? What actually happens?
Romans 5:12 NLT
When Adam sinned, sin entered the world. Adam’s sin brought death, so death spread to everyone, for everyone sinned.
Psalm 51:5
I was guilty when I was born;
I was sinful when my mother conceived me.
// You don’t have to be taught to
. It’s in your
.
Ephesians 2:3
…we were by nature children under wrath.
Ephesians 2:1-3
And you were dead in your trespasses and sins in which you previously walked according to the ways of this world, according to the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit now working in the disobedient. We too all previously lived among them in our fleshly desires, carrying out the inclinations of our flesh and thoughts, and we were by nature children under wrath as the others were also.
John 3:36
The one who believes in the Son has eternal life, but the one who rejects the Son will not see life; instead, the wrath of God remains on him.
>> Where did the sin nature come from?
Genesis 5:3
Adam was 130 years old when he fathered a son in his likeness, according to his image…
Romans 5:12
Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, in this way death spread to all people, because all sinned.
>> Why is sin such a big deal?
>> So how do people come to God?
Romans 8:3-4 NLT
The law of Moses was unable to save us because of the weakness of our sinful nature. So God did what the law could not do. He sent his own Son in a body like the bodies we sinners have. And in that body God declared an end to sin’s control over us by giving his Son as a sacrifice for our sins. He did this so that the just requirement of the law would be fully satisfied for us, who no longer follow our sinful nature but instead follow the Spirit.
Ephesians 2:4-5
But God, who is rich in mercy, because of his great love that he had for us, made us alive with Christ even though we were dead in trespasses. You are saved by grace!
// It’s
who saves us.
Ephesians 2:8-9
For you are saved by grace [the grace of God in Jesus] through faith, and this is not from yourselves; it is God’s gift—not from works, so that no one can boast.
>> What actually happens when I’m saved?
1. You are brought from
to
.
John 5:24
[Jesus said,] “I tell you the truth, those who listen to my message and believe in God who sent me have eternal life. They will never be condemned for their sins, but they have already passed from death into life.”
2. You are
from the domain of
.
Colossians 1:13-14
He has rescued us from the domain of darkness and transferred us into the kingdom of the Son he loves. In him we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
3. You are
: past, present, and future.
4. You are
into God’s
.
5. You come into
with
.
Galatians 2:20
I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
6. You
.
John 15:5-6, 8
Jesus said, “I am the vine; you are the branches. The one who remains in me and I in him produces much fruit, because you can do nothing without me. If anyone does not remain in me, he is thrown aside like a branch and he withers. They gather them, throw them into the fire, and they are burned… My Father is glorified by this: that you produce much fruit and prove to be my disciples.”
7. Your
is
with God
2 Corinthians 5:1, 5 NLT
“For we know that when this earthly tent we live in is taken down (that is, when we die and leave this earthly body), we will have a house in heaven, an eternal body made for us by God himself and not by human hands… God himself has prepared us for this, and as a guarantee he has given us his Holy Spirit.”
>> What are we saved from?
1. The
of sin.
2. The
of sin.
3. The
of sin.
>> What are we saved for?
Ephesians 2:6-7, 10
He also raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavens in Christ Jesus, so that in the coming ages he might display the immeasurable riches of his grace through his kindness to us in Christ Jesus… For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared ahead of time for us to do.
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