Our Mission: To Make More and Better Disciples

And they brought the colt to Jesus and threw their cloaks on it, and he sat on it. And many spread their cloaks on the road, and others spread leafy branches that they had cut from the fields. And those who went before and those who followed were shouting, “Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Blessed is the coming kingdom of our father David! Hosanna in the highest!” —Mark 11:7-10 (ESV)

Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your king is coming to you; righteous and having salvation is he, humble and mounted on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey. —Zechariah 9:9 (ESV)

1. On The Cross, Jesus Defeated

A) The

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of Sin

And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses, by canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross. —Colossians 2:13-14 (ESV)

B) The

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of Sin

Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned —Romans 5:12 (ESV)

For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God’s law; indeed, it cannot. —Romans 8:7 (ESV)

We know that our old sinful selves were crucified with Christ so that sin might lose its power in our lives. We are no longer slaves to sin. For when we died with Christ we were set free from the power of sin. —Romans 6:6-7 (NLT)

Therefore, dear brothers and sisters, you have no obligation to do what your sinful nature urges you to do. —Romans 8:12 (NLT)

2. On the Cross, Jesus Defeated

A) Satan the

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was Silenced

Who shall bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised—who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us. —Romans 8:33-34 (ESV)

There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. —Romans 8:1 (ESV)

B) Satan the

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was Overcome

Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. —James 4:7 (ESV)

C) Satan the

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was Disarmed

Since therefore the children share in flesh and blood, he himself likewise partook of the same things, that through death he might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil, and deliver all those who through fear of death were subject to lifelong slavery. —Hebrews 2:14-15 (ESV)

3. On the Cross, Jesus Defeated the Power of

And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, “You may surely eat of every tree of the garden, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.” —Genesis 2:16-17 (ESV)

For the wages of sin is death —Romans 6:23 (ESV)

For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life. —Romans 5:10 (ESV)

For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. —Philippians 1:21 (ESV)