Acts 20:28– Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.
I Cor. 6:19-20– What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
20 For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.
Jesus Paid for Our Sins!
*notice the…
1. Profoundness of this Statement!
2. Price of this Statement!
Eph. 1:7– In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;
Col. 1:14– In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins:
Heb. 9:11-12– But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building;
12 Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.
I John 1:7– But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.
3. Personalization of this Statement!
II Pet. 3:9– The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
Rom. 10:13– For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
4. Providence of this Statement!
I Pet. 3:18– For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
II Cor. 5:21– For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
5. Privileges of this Statement!
*in Christ, there’s…
-Forgiveness!
-Fellowship!
-a Future!
6. Praise worthiness of this Statement!
Oh may it ever dawn on our soul, illuminate our mind, and manifest itself in our walk that Jesus paid for our sins!
–Pastor Doug Foster
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