“For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.” (Romans 6:23, ESV)

01/01/2023 – Evening Service: The heart of Gospel ministry

Bible Readings:

Numbers 23:1 – 26

2 Corinthians 5:9 – 6:2

Sermon Outline:

2 Corinthians 5:20–21 (NKJV)

20 Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were pleading through us: we implore you on Christ’s behalf, be reconciled to God. 21 For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.

I The Three Parties

God, Christ, and us

II The double Imputation

Galatians 3:13 (NKJV)

13 Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us (for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree”),

Romans 8:3 (NKJV)

3 For what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin: He condemned sin in the flesh,

Leviticus 16:21 (NKJV)

21 Aaron shall lay both his hands on the head of the live goat, confess over it all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions, concerning all their sins, putting them on the head of the goat, and shall send it away into the wilderness by the hand of a suitable man.

Numbers 23:21 (NKJV)

21 “He has not observed iniquity in Jacob,

Nor has He seen wickedness in Israel.

The Lord his God is with him,

And the shout of a King is among them.

Song of Solomon 4:7 (NKJV)

7 You are all fair, my love,

And there is no spot in you.

Jeremiah 23:5–6 (NKJV)

5 “Behold, the days are coming,” says the Lord,

“That I will raise to David a Branch of righteousness;

A King shall reign and prosper,

And execute judgment and righteousness in the earth.

6 In His days Judah will be saved,

And Israel will dwell safely;

Now this is His name by which He will be called:

THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS

III The one sinless Mediator

1 Peter 3:18 (NKJV)

18 For Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive by the Spirit,

1 John 3:5 (NKJV)

5 And you know that He was manifested to take away our sins, and in Him there is no sin.

2 Corinthians 6:1–2 (NKJV)

1 We then, as workers together with Him also plead with you not to receive the grace of God in vain. 2 For He says:

In an acceptable time I have heard you,

And in the day of salvation I have helped you.

Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.

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