Right Message – Right People

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1. The Right Message from the Right People

   Outline
   1. God has made Christians into new creations. (3:10)
   2. God’s plan was always Christ. (10:05)
   3. God reconciled the world to Himself in Christ. (17:15)
   4. God has entrusted the message of reconciliation to His people. (25:30)

   Highlights

   6:29 “The first sin was man trying to be like God himself. The solution to man’s sin was God actually humbling Himself and becoming a man in the Christ event.”

   [We can actually go farther, following the point made later from 2C5:21, and noted further down in these notes, to say that man’s sin was trying to be like God. God’s salvation (yeshua) was Yeshua humbling himself to the point of being made sin so that we might become His righteousness. Mind blowing.]

   8:55 “God’s Law itself was powerless to produce righteousness within people.”

   10:20 “Now this is fascinating: you know there’s a lot of passages that…we almost never touch. And I find that those are some of the most profound passages. One of those is from Ephesians chapter 3…”

   10:55 “Once you understand the message from Genesis to Revelation, it all matches and lines up and gives you this remarkable theory for the world that accounts for all the data.”

   12:06 “Now here’s a really interesting thing we Protestants almost never talk about, and we should more often.
   “So that through the church the manifold wisdom of God might now be made known to the rulers and authorities…[…here on earth? That’s not what it says… “…the rulers and authorities…”]…in the heavenly places.”
   Ephesians 3:10 ESV [commentary emphasis added]

   18:25 “There was a cosmic event happening on the cross that didn’t just pay for your sins. It did do that, but it also got rid of the Old Way.”

   18:43 “The Law that condemns you, that exposes your bad behavior, has been taken away, and God now has complete and total peace with you.”

   19:19 “There is no barrier between you and God.”

   20:25 “Who not having known sin (hamartian), for us sin (hamartian) He made, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.”
   2 Corinthians 5:21 INT

   22:56 “God did everything He could in Christ to reconcile us to Him. He took that system away, that condemns us. He paid for our sins. There’s nothing left! You don’t have to do anything! Except say, ‘Yes’ to it.”

   24:02 “If God was only just, we’d all be doomed. We’d all be destroyed because we’d broken His Law. And if He just decided to be the Justifier without being just, well than He can’t really be trusted.”

   26:00 God gave man dominion at creation. Satan stole that dominion by deception at the sin of Adam. Christ outwitted that old deceiver at the cross and restored dominion to man through the ministry of reconciliation.

   28:19 “Man sold his birthright in the garden. Christ bought it back through the cross.”

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