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Walking Into Heaven
Choose Your Words
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The Leper's Approach to Jesus
Jesus Has Compassion on the Leper
Jesus' Lawful Commands to the Leper
Jesus Suffers for Doing Good
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Baptism
Genealogy
Temptation
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He is the standard for Christian values
His values are witnessed and taught
His values lived-out grant comfort
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Do not measure greatness by worldly standards. What made John the greatest?
Trust the particular person, John's cousin, Jesus of Nazareth, with your eternal salvation.
Bear the tangible fruit of repentance in your context in the face of a tangible savior and judge.
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John as the foretold witness to the Messiah bridges the Old Testament and the New Testament
John prepared people to understand the true message of salvation, which is the gospel
John calls all people to humbly repent, because all peoples must admit that they are unclean if they are to be prepared to receive Christ
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Persevere, knowing that faith is an investment in the Spirit towards eternal life
Boasting in the cross of Christ gives us courage to endure our own cross
The final assurance that this new life of faith is God's creation, and that the church is Israel, His covenant people
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Bearing each other's mistakes with humility and gentleness
Bearing each other's needs in love based on opportunity
Persevering in the law of Christ as an investment with an eye to our eternal state
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Salvation by works is slavery, while salvation by faith alone is freedom.
Salvation by works leads to hate, while salvation by faith alone leads to love.
Salvation by works is living by the flesh, while salvation by faith alone is living by the Spirit.
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Jesus saves us, not just through bringing peace, but bringing opposition upon himself as the Suffering Servant who dies for our sins.
This division that Jesus will bring is the ultimate division that finally and eternally designates every individual as being in or out of the family of God.
Like Mary, we must learn to marvel that our salvation is much greater than our worldly expectations. But also, like Mary, we must learn that the cost of salvation was greater than we could ever have expected.
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Make the joy of seeing Jesus your "bucket list"
Worship in the waiting
Receive Jesus and consider your salvation as good as done
Make Christ the glory of the church and the light of revelation to our non-believing neighbors
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The fallibility of man's plans
The infallibility of God's plan
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Born to die that we might live
Law of the firstborn
Conclusion: Philippians 2:5-11
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Luke
Theophilus
Zacharias
John
Elizabeth
Mary
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The tongue's stricter use in teaching v.1
The tongue's small but dangerous potential vv. 2-8
The tongue's sinful inconsistencies vv. 9-12
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Who is the Christ?
What does He save us from?
How does He do it?
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Symbolically, we receive salvation the way Abraham received Isaac, and not the way Abraham received Ishmael. vv. 4:21-31
Now literally, receiving the incarnate Seed of Abraham by faith, we actually inherit the blessings of being adopted into the one unified family of God. vv. 3:26-4:7
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Legalism is Pagan vv. 8-11
What, then, is the purpose of the law? vv. 3:19-25
Application
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The experience of conversion proves that we are justified by Spirit-given faith and not by flesh-given faith. vv 1-5
Scripture proves that justification for the Old and New Testament saints has always been by imputed righteousness of Christ through faith in Him. vv. 6-18
Application: "Lord I believe, help my unbelief."