April 16, 2017 Easter Sunday: The
Immortality of the Cross
INTRO: Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan...
Main Point: Once for all...
Key Scripture: Hebrews 9:12 (NKJV) Not with the blood of goats and calves, but with His own blood He entered the Most
Holy Place once for all, having obtained eternal redemption.
1. Once
for all people...
a.
Hebrews
10:10 (NKJV) By that will we
have been sanctified through the
offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for
all.
b.
Romans
8:32 (NKJV)He who
did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with
Him also freely give us all things?
c.
No one is out of the reach of God's
reach!
i. Thief on the Cross, Paul, Peter...
ii. David Berkowitz, Son of Sam... VIDEO
d.
Romans
5:8 (NKJV) But
God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ
died for us.
e. 2
Peter 3:9 (NKJV) The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as
some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all
should come to repentance.
2. Once
for all sin...
a.
Romans
6:10 (NKJV) For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but
the life that He lives, He lives to God.
b.
Hebrews
7:27 (NKJV) who does not need daily, as those high priests, to
offer up sacrifices, first for His own sins and then for the people’s, for this
He did once for all when He offered up Himself.
c.
1
Peter 3:18 (NKJV) 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,
d.
You
may be here today and think, "I have gone too far, done too much..."
i. Romans 8:33–39 (NKJV) Who shall bring a charge against God’s elect?
It is God who justifies. 34Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who
died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who
also makes intercession for us. 35Who shall separate us from the
love of Christ? ...38For I am persuaded that neither death nor life,
nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to
come, 39nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to
separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
1.
Corrie
Ten Boom: “There is no pit
so deep, that God's love is not deeper still.”
ii. No one goes to hell because of sin!
1. 1 John 2:1–2 (NKJV) My little children, these things I write
to you, so that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with
the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. 2And He Himself is the propitiation for our sins,
and not for ours only but also for the whole world.
2. Mark 3:28 (NKJV) Assuredly, I say to you, all sins will be
forgiven the sons of men...
iii. The only sin
God cannot forgive is rejecting Christ as your Lord and Savior. If you do not come to God, He cannot forgive
you! That sin is already paid for. All you must do is ask!
1. 1 John 1:9 (NKJV) If we confess our sins, He is faithful and
just to forgive
us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
3.
Once for all time...
a. Hebrews
9:26,28 (NLT) ... But now, once for all time, He
has appeared at the end of the age to remove sin by His own death as a
sacrifice. 28so also Christ was offered once for all time as a sacrifice to take away the sins of many people...
b. Jesus is in your past - Revelation 13:8 (NKJV) Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
c. Jesus is in your future -
Revelation 5:6 (NKJV) Lamb as though it had been
slain...
d. Let Jesus be in your present! VIDEO: "Barrabas"
INVITATION
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