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INTRODUCTION
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LESSON 1
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A. We are Ambassadors for Christ
1.) What is the Lord's provision for His ambassadors?
2.) What does the Lord expect His ambassadors to do?
LESSON 2
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A. The problem of our Old Sin Nature
1.) How did we get it?
B. How did God provide a remedy for the problem of sin?
LESSON 3
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A. Human Good
1.) Where does it come from?
B. Three kinds of people in the world
C. What is God's Goodness?
1.) How can it be applied to us?
LESSON 4
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A. The Book of Life
B. The Book of Works
C. What is the Great White Throne Judgment?
LESSON 5
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A. The problem of our human birth
I.) we are born with a sin nature
2.) we are unable to understand the things of God
B. What it means to be "born again"
1.) how does it happen?
C. Nicodemus
1.) A religious man, but unsaved
2.) Why he came to talk with Jesus
3.) How Jesus explained the new birth to Nicodemus
LESSON 6
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A. We are born "IN ADAM"
1.) what does this mean?
B. Why is a Christian said to be "IN CHRIST"?
1.) What does this mean?
C. Can a person ever lose his salvation?
1.) why?
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THE IMPASSIBLE WALL
INTRODUCTION
When God created Adam & Eve and placed them in the perfect environment
of the Garden of Eden, they had wonderful fellowship together.
However, God does not create robots, so He gave them a free-will, or
decider, so they could choose whether or not they would be obedient to
Him.
One day their decider went negative, and they disobeyed God's command
that they were not to eat of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and
Evil.
Several things happened immediately! They died spiritually, which
meant they were unable to have fellowship with God, they received a
Sin Nature, and they were driven from the Garden of Eden.
God cannot have fellowship with sinful man, so He set up a wall
between Himself and mankind. Man could neither climb over that wall
nor tear it down, but God removed it, boulder by boulder, when His
Son, Jesus Christ paid the penalty for sin when He died on the cross
more than two thousand years ago.
Don't be frightened away because some of the words we will be using in
our lessons are difficult! You need to learn new words in order to
build a vocabulary so you will be able to think more clearly! You
can't do that if you are content to just use simple phrases and words
that you hear every day.
The Bible calls the removal of the Impassible Wall, RECONCILIATION. In
2 Corinthians 5:18-20, God explains that when we become Christians by
believing in Jesus Christ as our Savior, we become AMBASSADORS FOR
JESUS CHRIST. That means the Christian represents Jesus Christ to
people with whom he comes into contact in his daily life.
At the moment of physical birth, Adam's sin nature is given to each
one of us. The only exception is Jesus Christ in true humanity,
because He had no human father. God, the Holy Spirit was His father.
The Old Sin Nature is passed down to us through Adam, because he
deliberately sinned. Oh yes, Eve also sinned, but she was deceived by
Satan when he told her that she would be as smart as God if she ate of
the forbidden tree in the Garden of Eden.
Nothing that comes from our Old Sin Nature is pleasing or acceptable
to God. He certainly is never pleased with our sins, but neither does
he accept the human good which also comes from the same source.
We will see all of these truths explained from the scriptures as we
study the lessons in this series, so LET'S GET STARTED.
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LESSON 1
Before we begin our study of the Impassible Wall, let's name our known
sins to the Lord so that we may learn the things He has for us to
understand.
The principal for naming or admitting known sins is found in I John
1:9 as follows: "IF WE CONFESS OUR SINS, HE IS FAITHFUL AND JUST TO
FORGIVE US OUR SINS, AND TO CLEANSE US FROM ALL UNRIGHTEOUSNESS.
If you have personally believed in Jesus Christ, you are a Christian.
As a Christian, you are also an AMBASSADOR FOR JESUS CHRIST.
To help us understand what it means to be an ambassador, let's compare
the Christian as an ambassador to one who is appointed by the United
States of America to represent our government to another country.
Certain things are provided for the ambassador, and he is expected to
abide by orders given to him at the time of his appointment.
1. An ambassador does not appoint himself.
a. A believer is appointed by the Lord
2. An ambassador does not support himself.
a. God provides all of the ambassador's needs. (Philippians 4:19)
3. An ambassador does not belong to the country where he is sent.
a. The believer is not of this world, but his home is heaven.
4. An ambassador has written instructions.
a. The believer has the Word of God in writing
5. If an ambassador is recalled, it is because war has been declared
between the two nations.
a. When believers in the Church Age are taken up into heaven at the
"rapture" (resurrection) of the Church, hostility will begin on earth,
and that will be the beginning of the Tribulation period on the earth.
6. An ambassador doesn't take an insult as personal. God takes care of
His Word and His Name when they are spoken against. We are not here to
defend God's Word, only to declare it! God the Holy Spirit takes care
of those details.
7. The ambassador does not enter a foreign country for his own
personal interests or advantage. Instead, he represents the country
that sent him as an ambassador.
a. As believers and ambassadors for Jesus Christ, we are to honor Him.
We must be ready to speak, and then the Lord will provide the
listeners. (1 Peter 3:15)
b. We must study God's word so that we will be ready at all times to
answer those who ask why we can be so sure we have eternal life.
(John 10:28) "I GIVE UNTO THEM ETERNAL LIFE, AND THEY SHALL NEVER
PERISH: NEITHER SHALL ANY MAN PLUCK THEM OUT OF MY HAND."
There is no higher calling than to have the privilege of being an
ambassador for the Lord Jesus Christ.
Our message to unbelievers is to tell them that sin is not an issue
between God and man, because all sin was paid for and judged when
Jesus Christ died on the cross.
STUDENT QUIZ FOR LESSON 1
FILL IN THE BLANK SPACES BELOW:
1, When a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ fulfills his ministry, he
becomes an ________________ for Christ.
2. God provides ________ our needs.
3. The Christian's message to an unbeliever is __________________
ANSWER THE FOLLOWING STATEMENTS "TRUE" or "FALSE":
4. As an Ambassador for Christ, we are to call attention to ourselves.
5. We should tell the unbeliever to give up his sins to be saved.
6. Sin is not the issue between God and man.
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS:
1. ambassador,
2. all
3. they may have eternal life by believing in Jesus Christ
4. false
5. false
6. true
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LESSON 2
The problem of man's SIN was the first huge boulder in the Impassible
Wall. First of all, let's ask the question, "WHAT IS SIN?" Sin is
anything that man thinks or does which is contrary to the revealed
will of God.
At the very moment we are born into the world, we receive a SIN
NATURE, because we are the descendants of Adam, who was the first
sinner in the human race.
Romans 5:12 tells us that when Adam disobeyed God, his human spirit
died, and he received a Sin Nature. That Sin Nature is passed down to
every member of the human race with the exception of Jesus Christ who
had no human father. Because He was sinless, Jesus Christ was
qualified to bear the sins of the world in His own body on the cross
and pay the penalty for those sins.
When a person believes that Jesus paid for his sins, he is forgiven
and receives a human spirit with which he may have fellowship with
God.
Every person who reaches God-consciousness must make a decision about
the God of the universe. If that individual wants to know God, at some
time during his/her lifetime, God will make the Gospel clear.
At the moment of hearing the Gospel, another decision must be made,
which is, will that person accept the work of Jesus Christ on the
cross, or will he reject it and be content with his own good deeds
that come from his Old Sin Nature.
Before the Bible was complete, God spoke to man by way of dreams,
visions and direct conversation with certain individuals. They learned
many things by illustrations with which they were familiar, just as we
learn when we are little children.
After the Children of Israel were delivered from slavery in Egypt,
they wandered in the wilderness for 40 years. They had Moses as their
leader, and the Lord provided all of their needs. Their shoes and
clothing did not wear out during that time. The Lord also provided
water for them and fed them with angel's food, which was Manna.
Instead of being thankful for the Lord's provision for them, the
people complained constantly to Moses. Finally, in the 40th year of
wandering, they said to Moses, "Why have you brought us out of Egypt
to die in the wilderness? There is no water or bread here, and we hate
this Manna!"
The Lord was ready to destroy every one of them, and He sent poisonous
snakes among the people. Many were dying as a result of the poisonous
bites, so some of the Israelites came to Moses and said, "We have
sinned! We have spoken against the Lord and against you! Pray now for
us unto the Lord and ask Him to remove these serpents from us!"
Then the Lord said to Moses, "Make a serpent of brass, and set it on a
pole where all the people can see it. If someone who has been bitten
looks at the brass serpent, he will live!"
Moses obeyed the Lord, and he fashioned a serpent out of brass and put
it on a pole. He commanded the people to look at it and live. Those
who listened to Moses, were spared from a horrible death, but those
who refused to look died.
Many hundreds of years later, Jesus used this illustration to show a
very religious Pharisee by the name of Nicodemus how he could have
eternal life.
As a Pharisee, Nicodemus knew the Old Testament scriptures very well.
He prayed in the temple seven times a day, and he performed many good
deeds for the Jews. He was a religious man, but he was not eternally
saved.
How Jesus presented the way of salvation to Nicodemus by using the
illustration of the brass serpent incident is found in the gospel of
John, chapter 3:1-14.
Nicodemus had been listening to Jesus and witnessing the miracles
which He performed day after day. He had to find out more about Jesus,
but he didn't want his Pharisee friends know how interested he really
was, so Nicodemus went to talk with Jesus one night and said, "Rabbi,
we know that you are a teacher who has come from God, because no
ordinary man can do the miracles you perform unless God is with him.
Jesus answered, "Here's a point of Biblical teaching, Nicodemus:
unless a man is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God!"
Nicodemus looked intently at Jesus and questioned, "How can a man be
born when he is old? Can he go back into his mother's womb and be born
all over again?"
Jesus answered, "Listen closely, Nicodemus. Unless a man is born of
the Word of God and by means of the Holy Spirit, he cannot enter the
kingdom of God! Don't be so amazed at what I'm telling you. The
natural man is not able to understand spiritual things! He must have a
human spirit in order to have fellowship with God. Just as the wind
blows where it will, and you hear the sound of it, but can't tell from
where it came or where it's going, so is everyone who is born of the
Holy Spirit."
Nicodemus sighed and looked more puzzled than before. Then he said,
"How can these things be?"
Jesus answered, "You are a teacher in Israel and you don't understand
my words? If I tell you about earthly things and you don't believe me,
how shall I tell you about spiritual or heavenly things so you will
understand?"
While Nicodemus sat there stunned and not knowing how to answer that
question, Jesus gave him an illustration which he could understand.
Jesus said, "As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so
must the Son of Man be lifted up. Whoever will believe in Him will not
perish but have eternal life.
Suddenly, Nicodemus understood what Jesus was saying. He knew the
teachings of Isaiah and the other prophets concerning the promise of a
Messiah who would come into the world and that He would die for the
sins of the world. Nicodemus knew that Jesus was that Messiah, and he
believed in Him.
Jesus went on to say, "For God so loved the world that He gave His
only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish
but have eternal life."
STUDENT QUIZ for LESSON 2
FILL IN THE BLANK SPACES BELOW:
1. When do we receive our sin nature?_______________________________
2. To have fellowship with God, we must have a human
__________________
3. What did the Lord provide for the Children of Israel when they were
in the wilderness for 40
years?_________________________________________
ANSWER THE FOLLOWING STATEMENTS (TRUE) or (FALSE):
4. Sin is anything a person does or thinks which is against the
revealed will of God.
5. The Children of Israel were thankful for the things the Lord
provided for them in the wilderness.
6. When the Children of Israel were bitten by poisonous snakes, they
didn't die if they looked at the brass serpent on the pole which Moses
held.
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS:
1. when we are born into this world
2. spirit
3. shoes, clothing, water & Manna
4. (true)
5. (false)
6. (true)
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LESSON 3
Most of us can understand why we are not acceptable to God, but we may
have trouble understanding why God can't accept our good works.
Both sins and human good come from our Old Sin Nature. There are 3
kinds of people in the world. They are good, bad and religious. Let's
take a look at them:
1. The man people consider to be "good", may live a moral, upright
life. He may give money to those in need and be very helpful to his
friends and family. This man thinks God must be pleased with him
because he is so nice.
2. The man whom society calls "bad" usually knows he is bad and he
enjoys being that way. He knows that God is not happy with his
actions.
3. The "religious" man may spend his entire life in what he considers
to be service to the Lord, but if he has not believed in the Lord
Jesus Christ, he does not have Eternal Life.
Let's examine these three types more closely:
The first man to commit an evil act was Cain. (Genesis 4:8) He
murdered his brother Abel because he was jealous of him, and he was
also very angry with God. This man can certainly be classified as a
BAD MAN.
When Adam and Eve disobeyed God, they tried to cover themselves with
fig leaves. God could not accept that, so He covered them with the
skin of an animal. God did that to teach Adam and Eve that an innocent
substitute would have to die for them, and that was the first
declaration of the Gospel to the human race.
Adam and Eve taught their children that only a blood sacrifice would
be acceptable to the Lord. When the boys grew up, Abel was a shepherd
and Cain was a farmer. The time came for them to make a sacrifice unto
the Lord, so Abel brought a lamb from his flocks and offered it on an
altar to the Lord. The Lord was pleased with Abel's offering.
Then Cain brought some of the beautiful produce he had grown in his
fields and offered it, but the Lord did not accept Cain's offering,
because it was not a blood sacrifice.
Cain was so angry that he killed Abel and buried his body. Then the
Lord asked Cain, "Where is Abel, thy brother?"
Cain knew very well what he had done, but he answered the Lord and
said, "I know not! Am I my brother's keeper?"
Cain received severe punishment for his actions, but we have no record
of him ever admitting his sin to God.
Next, let's look at a GOOD man. In Mark 10:17-22, we see a man whom
most people would call good.
Jesus was teaching the people on the streets in Judea when suddenly a
rich young man ran to Him and fell at His feet saying, "Good Master,
what shall I do to inherit eternal life?"
Jesus replied, "Why do you call Me good? There is none good but God."
Then Jesus quoted the last six commandments which apply to attitude
and actions toward people, but He omitted the first four which apply
to God as He said to the young man, "You know the commandments!"
The young man answered, "All these I have observed from my youth!"
Then Jesus told the man to take his eyes off his riches and follow
Him. The young man went away sadly, because he had great possessions
which meant everything to him.
The third type of man we want to examine is the RELIGIOUS man. Our
subject will be the apostle Paul. Before he became a Christian, Paul
was a very religious man, and he thought he was doing great things for
God when he killed Christians. In I Timothy 1:15 Paul tells us that he
is the worst sinner whoever lived because of his religious zeal. He
continually persecuted Christians until Jesus Christ personally
appeared to him on the road to Damascus and accused him of the wrong
he was doing. Paul believed in the Lord Jesus Christ and received
eternal life.
Before any of these three kinds of people can have eternal life, they
must understand that any good things they might do cannot compare with
THE GOOD WORK of God, which is, Jesus Christ dying on the cross for
their sins.
David tells us in Psalm 14: 2 & 3: "The Lord looked down from heaven
upon the children of men to see if there were any that did understand
and seek God. They are ALL gone aside. They are all together become
filthy! There is none that doeth good! No, not one'"
When a person believes in Jesus Christ, he is eternally saved from
condemnation. He is given ETERNAL LIFE. Then God credits HIS VERY OWN
RIGHTEOUSNESS (goodness) to that believer who has no unconfessed sin
in his life.
STUDENT QUIZ for LESSON 3
FILL IN THE MISSING WORDS:
1. There are 3 kinds of people in the world. They are ________ ,
_______ and _______________
2. Adam and Eve covered themselves with ___________________________
God covered them with ____________________________________________
3. What did Abel offer as a sacrifice to the Lord?___________________
4. What did Cain offer as a sacrifice to the
Lord?_____________________
5. Which of the two sacrifices did the Lord accept and
why?____________
6. Who called himself the worst sinner who ever lived and why did he
say that?
7. Why doesn't God accept our human good works?______________________
ANSWERS TO QUIZ:
1. good, bad, religious
2. fig leaves/coats of skins
3. a lamb
4. fruits and vegetables
5. the lamb, because it was a blood sacrifice and it taught them that
an innocent substitute had to die for their sins
6. Paul, because he persecuted Christians
7. because human good comes from our Old Sin Nature
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LESSON 4
Hebrews 9:27 tells us, AND IT IS APPOINTED UNTO MAN ONCE TO DIE, AND
AFTER THAT THE JUDGMENT.
No matter if a person is GOOD, BAD, or RELIGIOUS and dies without
having believed in Jesus Christ, he will stand before Him at the GREAT
WHITE THRONE JUDGMENT in eternity. There will be no place for those
unbelievers to hide.
Revelation 20:11: "And I saw a great white throne, and Him that sat on
it, from whose face the earth and the heavens fled away; and there was
found no place for them.
Revelation 20:12 tells us the basis on which those unbelievers will be
evaluated: "And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and
the books were opened, and another book was opened, which is the BOOK
OF LIFE. The dead were judged out of those things which were written
in the books, ACCORDING TO THEIR WORKS!
The dead spoken about here are the spiritually dead. They were never
born again by faith in Jesus Christ. Some of the people were great and
powerful during their lifetime; but now they are in the same situation
as those who lived a very insignificant life.
In His perfect RIGHTEOUSNESS, God provided salvation for those
unbelievers, but they would not believe in Jesus Christ as their
Savior.
Now we see His perfect JUSTICE in action as the books are opened.
God is absolute RIGHTEOUSNESS and JUSTICE, and He will show every
unbeliever the place in the BOOK OF LIFE where their names had been
recorded and then blotted out. He does that to prove to them that
provision was made for them to be saved, and spend eternity with Him,
but they refused to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ.
Then the Lord will show the unbeliever that his name was entered into
the BOOK OF WORKS, because he did not believe in the Lord Jesus
Christ, All of the unbeliever's good works will be recorded in that
book. Notice that their sins are not mentioned at all, because Jesus
Christ bore them on the cross and they have been judged!
Revelation 20:13,14: "And the sea gave up the dead which were in it;
and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them, and they
were judged every man according to their works. And death and hell
were cast into the Lake of Fire. This is the second death."
Every unbeliever will be given a body at this last judgment, and they
will stand at that Great White Throne of judgment to be judged by the
very One whom they rejected in their lifetime. They were spiritually
dead all of their life, and now they will be cast into the Lake of
Fire, which is the Second Death.
Revelation 20:15: "And whosoever was not found written in the Book of
Life was cast into the Lake of Fire."
Again, the Bible emphasizes that those whose names are not found in
the Book of Life will be cast into the Lake of Fire after they are
judged. In the Lake of Fire, they will never die, but they will spend
eternity with Satan and his angels along with all other people who
rejected Jesus Christ.
The Lake of Fire will be a place of continual torment and isolation
from the Lord throughout all eternity.
When we see the reality of these verses, we ought to be more concerned
than ever before that we are faithful Ambassadors for Christ in
presenting the facts of the Gospel to the human race.
STUDENT QUIZ:
UNDERLINE THE CORRECT ANSWER IN THE MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS BELOW:
1. Every person who is born into this world has their name in the:
a,) Book of Works b.) Book of Life c.) Lake of Fire
2. Your name can be blotted out of the Book of Life if you:
a.) don't confess your sins b.) die without believing in Jesus Christ
c.) if you are a Christian and don't fulfill your job as an Ambassador
for Him
3. God will NOT blot out the name of a person who has never reached
God-consciousness through no fault of their own because:
a.) they never saw a Bible b) an orphan c) a moron
4. Unbelievers will stand at the Great White Throne to be judged for:
a,) their sins b.) their good works
5. The "Second Death" is:
a.) the Lake of Fire b.) the Book of Works c.) the Book of Life
ANSWERS TO QUIZ:
1. Book of Life
2. die without believing in Jesus Christ
3. a moron
4. their good works
5. the Lake of Fire
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LESSON 5
Another boulder in the IMPASSIBLE WALL which had to be removed so that
man could have fellowship with God was our human birth.
Man is born a sinner! Adam passed the sin nature down to every one of
us! Romans 5:12: "Wherefore, by one man, the sin (sin nature) entered
into the world and death by sin, and so death passed upon all men, for
all have sinned". Spiritual death is meant here. When Adam sinned he
died spiritually but he lived many more years on the earth before he
died physically.
In the third chapter of the gospel of John, we see how Jesus told a
very religious man that he needed to have a new birth in order to be
acceptable to God.
Nicodemus was a religious leader. He was not only a theologian, but he
was also a Pharisee who prayed seven times a day in the temple, and he
probably had memorized much of the books of Moses and of the prophets
of the Old Testament.
Nicodemus had been observing Jesus for awhile, and he had some
questions to ask. He didn't want his friends to know of his visit to
Jesus, so he came to Jesus at night, privately.
He said, "Teacher, we know that God must have sent you, because no one
can do the miracles we've been witnessing here in Jerusalem unless God
is with him."
Jesus replied by saying, "Nicodemus, here's a point of doctrine for
you to think about. Unless a man is born again, he cannot see the
kingdom of God! That which is flesh is flesh, and that which is born
of the Spirit is spirit."
Nicodemus was shocked at Jesus' words, and he must have sat there with
his mouth open in amazement.
Jesus noticed Nicodemus' surprise, so He continued and said, "Don't be
so amazed when I tell you that you must be born again! The wind blows
where it wants to, and you hear the sound of it, but you aren't able
to tell from where it comes or where it is going. That's the way it is
when a person is born spiritually."
In exasperation, Nicodemus questioned, "How can these things be?"
Jesus answered him, ""You are a theologian and a ruler of the Jews,
and you don't understand my words? Here's another point of doctrine,
Nicodemus: the Father and the Holy Spirit bear witness to the things I
do, and you have not believed them. If I tell you about earthly things
and you don't believe them, how can you understand and believe what I
tell you about heavenly things?"
Nicodemus is still puzzled, but he considers His words. Then he hears
something which he can understand.
Jesus said, "As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so
must the Son of Man be lifted up, so that whoever believes in Him
should not perish, but have Eternal Life. God so loved the world, that
He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not
perish but have everlasting life."
Nicodemus understood that Moses was told to fashion a brass serpent
and put it on a pole and hold it up where all of the people could see
it. The people had committed sin that caused God to send poisonous
snakes among them to bite them. Moses told the people to look and
live, and when they who were bitten looked at the brass serpent, they
understood that an innocent substitute had to die for their sins.
Putting faith in God's Word kept them from dying!
We know that Nicodemus became a believer during this meeting with
Jesus or somewhere between this session or after Jesus was crucified.
Nicodemus and his friend Joseph of Arimathea went to Pilate to ask for
the body of Jesus so they could give it a decent burial. No Pharisee
would have broken the Law by touching a dead body.
When a person believes that Jesus Christ paid the penalty his sins, he
is born again. God the Holy Spirit activates the human spirit, and
that person can understand spiritual things and have fellowship with
God.
STUDENT QUIZ for LESSON 5
UNDERLINE THE CORRECT ANSWERS IN THE FOLLOWING MULTIPLE CHOICE
STATEMENTS:
1 MAN IS BORN WITH
a.) a human spirit b.) a sin nature c.) ability to understand
God's Word
2. WHAT DID NICODEMUS UNDERSTAND?
a.) the new birth b.) the brass serpent incident c.) the miracles
which Jesus performed
ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS IN YOUR OWN WORDS:
3. What does it mean to be born
again?____________________________________
4. Why are we born with a sin nature?
____________________________________
ANSWERS TO QUIZ:
1. a sin nature
2. the brass serpent incident
3, it is a spiritual birth which takes place at the moment of faith in
the work of Christ on the cross
4. because Adam sinned, and he passes the sin nature down to us at the
very moment we are born into this world
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LESSON 6
When Jesus Christ died on the cross, He took care of the problem of
man's POSITION IN ADAM.
The Bible says we are all born IN ADAM, and because of that, we are
dead to God. We are told in I Corinthians, "For as IN ADAM all die,
even so IN CHRIST shall all be made alive"
When a person puts his faith in the work of Jesus Christ on the cross,
the Holy Spirit does four things for him immediately:
1. REGENERATES: makes the person alive to God by activating his human
spirit.
Ephesians 2:1, "And you has He quickened, who were dead in trespasses
and sins."
2. INDWELLS: comes to live inside the Christian in order to teach him
and also to produce the character of Christ in the believer who is in
fellowship with the Lord.
Colossians 1:27, "Christ in you, the hope of glory"
3. BAPTIZES: identifies the believer with Jesus Christ
Romans 6:3,4, "Know ye not that so many of us that were baptized into
Christ were baptized into His death? Therefore, we are buried with Him
by baptism into death, so just as He was raised from the dead by the
glory of the Father, even so we should walk in newness of life."
In those verses, the Apostle Paul says to the Christian, "Don't you
understand that you are now identified with Christ and you have died
to the sin nature? You are now able to walk in a way which is pleasing
to God."
As Christians we are in two places at once! As far as God is
concerned, we are already in heaven, but we are still in a physical
body on this earth. Now we must make a choice to be under the control
of our Old Sin Nature or to be in fellowship with the Lord by
confessing our known sins to Him. When we do that we are teachable,
and we no longer have to be under the control of our Old Sin Nature.
4. SEALS: the moment we are born-again, we belong to God forever!
I John 5:11-13 makes this very clear: "And this is the record, that
God has given to us Eternal Life, and this life is in His Son. He that
has the Son of God has life, and he that has not the Son of God has
not life. These things have I written unto you who believer in the
name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have Eternal Life."
We must understand what the Holy Spirit has done for us so we may have
confidence to live our lives to glorify the Lord Jesus Christ!
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STUDENTS FINAL
QUIZ:
UNDERLINE THE CORRECT ANSWER IN THE FOLLOWING STATEMENTS:
1. After we are saved, we are left on earth to:
a.) please ourselves b.) be an ambassador for Christ c.) grow up
2. We receive a sin nature:
a.) when we are born b.) when we commit our first sin c.) when we die
3. Human good comes from:
a.) our sin nature b.) our good works toward others c.) the devil
4. What does God do about human good?
a.) accepts it b.) destroys it c.) rewards us for it
WRITE TRUE OR FALSE AT THE END OF THE FOLLOWING STATEMENTS:
5. Every person who is born into this world has his name entered into
the Book of Life.
6. The Book of Works will have the names of all Christians in it.
7. A person can lose his salvation when he sins.
EXPLAIN THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS IN YOUR OWN WORDS:
8. What does it mean to be "born-again"? _____________________________
9. How would you tell someone that we are all born IN ADAM?
____________
10. How would you tell someone that a believer is born IN CHRIST at
the moment of salvation? _____________________________________--
ANSWERS TO FINAL QUIZ:
1. be an ambassador for Christ
2. when we are born into this world
3. our sin nature
4. can't accept it
5. true
6. false
7. false
8., 9., 10. depend on you to answer in your own words
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