Transcript This presentation looks at the Motivation required to Effect Change in the Sinner. MOTIVATION Studies on The Books of Romans and Galatians: Part 5 Abe.

This presentation looks at the
Motivation required to Effect
Change in the Sinner.
MOTIVATION
Studies on The Books of Romans and Galatians: Part 5
Abe Simpson
THE GOSPEL: CENTRAL THEME OF
ROMANS & GALATIANS
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Rom 1:16 For I am not
ashamed of the gospel of
Christ: for it is the power of
God unto salvation to every
one that believeth; to the
Jew first, and also to the
Greek.
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Mat 24:14 And this gospel of
the kingdom shall be
preached in all the world for
a witness unto all nations;
and then shall the end
come.
Revelation 14:6
THE GOSPEL WAS BEING CHALLENGED
BY ANOTHER GOSPEL.
•
Gal 1:6, 7 I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that
called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel: Which
is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would
pervert the gospel of Christ.
The Just shall live by faith in
Anything other than Jesus
Christ
HOW IS CHANGE EFFECTED IN THE
SINNER?
The Carnal Mind is replaced
by the Mind of Christ
The Flesh is brought under
the control of the Mind
Mind of Christ
• Learning Experience
• Growing Experience – Plant
• Darkness is removed by
shinning the light
Need
strong What needs Changing
• Perceptions
Motivation• Attitudes
• Habits
• Value system
Carnal Mind
• Reasoning; etc.
WHAT MOTIVATES THE CHRISTIAN?
•
2Co 5:14, 15 For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we
thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead: And
that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth
live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and
rose again.
What
happened
• Rev 12:11 And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb,
and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their
lives unto the death. on the
• Gal 2:20 I am crucifiedcross?
with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I,
but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I
live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave
himself for me.
INCARNATION
•
"Who, being in the form of God, counted it not a thing to be
grasped to be on an equality with God, but emptied himself,
taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of
men; and being found in fashion as a man, he humbled
himself, becoming obedient even unto death, yea, the death
of the cross" (Phil. 2:6-8, R.V., margin). Quoted in God’s
Amazing Grace by EGW p178
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Christ being God emptied Himself of those attributes that gives
God an advantage over us when facing our situation.
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Omniscience; Omnipotence; Omnipresence.
OMNISCIENCE
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1 John 3:20 For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than
our heart, and knoweth all things.
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Colossians 2:3 In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and
knowledge.
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Man is limited in knowledge Deut. 29:29
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And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favour with
God and man. Luke 2:52
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But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the
angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father.
Mark 13:32
OMNISCIENCE
“The child Jesus did not receive instruction in the synagogue schools.
His mother was His first human teacher. From her lips and from the
scrolls of the prophets, He learned of heavenly things. The very words
which He Himself had spoken to Moses for Israel He was now taught at
His mother's knee.
Thus to Jesus the significance of the word and the works of God was
unfolded, as He was trying to understand the reason of things.
Heavenly beings were His attendants, and the culture of holy thoughts
and communings was His. From the first dawning of intelligence He was
constantly growing in spiritual grace and knowledge of truth.
Every child may gain knowledge as Jesus did.” DA 71
OMNIPOTENCE
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Hast thou not known? hast
thou not heard, that the
everlasting God, the LORD,
the Creator of the ends of
the earth, fainteth not,
neither is weary? Isaiah 40:28
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Jesus therefore, being
wearied with his journey,
John 4:6
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The Son can do nothing of
himself, John 5:19
“When Jesus was awakened to meet the storm, He was in perfect peace. There was no trace
of fear in word or look, for no fear was in His heart. But He rested not in the possession of
almighty power. It was not as the "Master of earth and sea and sky" that He reposed in quiet.
That power He had laid down, and He says, "I can of Mine own self do nothing." John 5:30. He
trusted in the Father's might. It was in faith--faith in God's love and care--that Jesus rested, and
the power of that word which stilled the storm was the power of God.” DA 336
“There is no one who can explain the mystery of the incarnation of Christ. Yet we know that He
came to this earth and lived as a man among men. The man Christ Jesus was not the Lord God
Almighty, yet Christ and the Father are one” EGW Comments SDA BC Vol 5 p 1129
As Jesus
overcame so can
we overcome!!!
Before Birth
Omniscient
Omnipotent
Omnipresence
While on Earth
After
Resurrection
Limited
knowledge
Omniscient
Colossians 2:3
Laid down
His Power
Omnipotent
Matthew 28:18
JESUS TOOK OUR SINS & DIED!
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2Co 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.
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1Pe 2:24 Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the
tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto
righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
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Joh 1:29 The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and
saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of
the world.
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Gen 22:8 And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself
a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them
together.
‘MY SINS’
Who does Me, My
refer too?
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Physical pain not the suffering of the cross!
•
Psalms help us look into the mental, spiritual and emotional
Did Jesus Sin?
experience of Jesus.
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Psa 69:21 They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst
they gave me vinegar to drink. (See Matt 27:34)
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Psa 69:5 O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are
not hid from thee.
Jesus made Himself fully responsible and accountable for the sins
of the world. Our sin became His Sin.
‘FORGIVENESS’
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Shop keeper.
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Since Jesus has taken our sin, we no longer have any sin.
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‘For’ our sin He ‘gives’ us His righteousness.
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We are accepted before God as if we had never sinned.
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1Pe 1:18 Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed
with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain
conversation received by tradition from your fathers;
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1Pe 1:19 But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb
without blemish and without spot: ( How precious is your
blood?)
THE EXPERIENCE OF THE CROSS
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Isa 59:1, 2 Behold, the LORD'S hand is not shortened, that it
cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear: But
your iniquities have separated between you and your God,
and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.
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Sin separates the sinner from God
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Our sins hides God’s face from us
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God will not hear the sinner.
• Did
this experience happen to Jesus on
the cross?
THE EXPERIENCE OF THE CROSS
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Psa 22:1 My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why
art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my
roaring? (see Matt 27:46)
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Was Jesus separated from His Father?
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Psa 22:2 O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not;
and in the night season, and am not silent.
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Was Jesus Heard?
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Psa 88:14 LORD, why castest thou off my soul? why hidest thou
thy face from me?
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Could Jesus see His Father’s face?
2 T 209
“Oh, was there ever suffering and sorrow like that
endured by the dying Saviour! It was the sense of His
Father’s displeasure which made His cup so bitter. It was
not bodily suffering which so ended the life of Christ
upon the cross. It was the crushing weight of the sins of
the world and a sense of His Father’s wrath. The
Father’s glory and sustaining presence had left Him, and
despair pressed its crushing weight of darkness upon
Him and forced from His pale and quivering lips the
anguished cry: “My God, My God, why hast thou
forsaken Me?”
Psalm 88 describes the internal struggles of the heart
experienced by Jesus on the cross. (Psalm 88:4 -16)
“I am counted (judged) with them that go down into the pit
(bottomless pit): … like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou
rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand. Thou
hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps. Thy
wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy
waves. … LORD, why castest thou off my soul? why hidest thou
thy face from me? I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth
up: while I suffer thy terrors I am distracted. Thy fierce wrath
goeth over me; thy terrors have cut me off.”
Jesus experienced the second death experience!!!
Jesus abandoned when He
needed His Father most!!!
DA 753
“Upon Christ as our substitute and surety was laid the iniquity of us all. He
was counted a transgressor, that He might redeem us from the
condemnation of the law. The guilt of every descendent of Adam was
pressing upon His heart. The wrath of God against sin, the terrible
manifestation of His displeasure because of iniquity, filled the soul of His
Son with consternation. All His life Christ had been publishing to a fallen
world the good news of the Father’s mercy and pardoning love. Salvation
for the chief of sinners was His theme. But now with the terrible weight
of guilt He bears, He cannot see His Father’s reconciling face. The
withdrawal of the divine countenance from the Saviour in this hour of
supreme anguish pierced His heart with a sorrow that can never be fully
understood by man. So great was this agony that His physical pain was
hardly felt.”
“Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the
spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death:
and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many,
and made intercession for the transgressors.” (Isa 53:12 KJV)
“And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but
rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.” (Mat
10:28 KJV)
God alone is able to destroy the soul in hell and this is what
Jesus experienced on the cross.
“Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for
the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising
the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of
God.” (Heb 12:2 KJV)
Jesus on the cross experienced what the unrepentant sinner
will experience in the day of Judgement.
Revelation 20:11, 12; Consider yourself standing before the
Judgement throne of God.
Mat 12:40 For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the
whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three
nights in the heart of the earth.
DA 753
“Satan with fierce temptation wrung the heart of Jesus. The Saviour could not
see through the portals of the tomb. Hope did not present to Him His
coming forth from the grave a conqueror, or tell Him of the Father’s
acceptance of the sacrifice. He feared sin was so offensive to God that their
separation was to be eternal. Christ felt the anguish which the sinner will feel
when mercy shall no longer plead for the guilty race. It was the sense of sin,
bringing the Father’s wrath upon Him as man’s substitute, that made the
cup He drank so bitter and broke the heart of the Son of God.”
“Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of
heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there
was none; and for comforters, but I found none.” (Psa
69:20 KJV)
Steps to Christ 13
“It was to redeem us that Jesus lived and suffered and died. He became "a
Man of Sorrows," that we might be made partakers of everlasting joy. God
permitted His beloved Son, full of grace and truth, to come from a world of
indescribable glory, to a world marred and blighted with sin, darkened with
the shadow of death and the curse. He permitted Him to leave the bosom of
His love, the adoration of the angels, to suffer shame, insult, humiliation,
hatred, and death. "The chastisement of our peace was upon Him; and with
His stripes we are healed." Isaiah 53:5. Behold Him in the wilderness, in
Gethsemane, upon the cross! The spotless Son of God took upon Himself
the burden of sin. He who had been one with God, felt in His soul the
awful separation that sin makes between God and man. This wrung from
His lips the anguished cry, "My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?"
Matthew 27:46. It was the burden of sin, the sense of its terrible enormity, of
its separation of the soul from God--it was this that broke the heart of the Son
of God.”
2 T 210,211
“In His dying agony, as He yields up His precious life, He has
by faith alone to trust in Him whom it has ever been His joy
to obey. He is not cheered with clear, bright rays of hope on
the right hand nor on the left. All is enshrouded in
oppressive gloom. Amid the awful darkness which is felt by
sympathizing nature, the Redeemer drains the mysterious
cup even to its dregs.”
THE SUFFERING OF THE CROSS WAS NOT
LIMITED TO JESUS ON THE CROSS
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How did the angels feel?
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Consider that Jesus as the Commander of the host of heaven was
loved and worshipped by the angels.
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He told Peter who wanted to defend Him against the guards who
came for Him in Gethsemane: Thinkest thou that I cannot now
pray to my Father, and he shall presently give me more than
twelve legions of angels? (Mat 26:53 KJV)
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A command from Jesus would have brought the angels to His rescue.
But the Scriptures must be fulfilled: Jesus must die.
 “It was difficult for the angels to endure the sight. They
would have delivered Jesus, but the commanding angels
forbade them, saying that it was a great ransom which was to
be paid for man; “Prophesy, who smote Thee?” There was
commotion among the angels. They would have rescued Him
instantly; but their commanding angels restrained them.” EW
170
 “With amazement angels witnessed the Saviour’s despairing
agony. The host of heaven veiled their faces from the fearful
sight.” DA 753
HOW DID THE FATHER FEEL?
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Abraham – Father of Nations
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“And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou
lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for
a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.”
(Gen 22:2 KJV)
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The Story of Redemption 45 - “Said the angel, “Think ye the
Father yielded up His dearly beloved Son without a struggle ?
No, No. It was even a struggle with the God of heaven,
whither to let guilty man perish, or to give His blessed Son to die
for Him.”
Who Suffered More?
Father
or
Son
WHY?
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“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that
whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”
(John 3:16 KJV)
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Steps to Christ 13,14 - “But this great sacrifice was not made in order to
create in the Father's heart a love for man, not to make Him willing to save.
No, no! "God so loved the world, that He gave His only-begotten Son." John
3:16. The Father loves us, not because of the great propitiation, but He
provided the propitiation because He loves us. Christ was the medium
through which He could pour out His infinite love upon a fallen world. "God
was in Christ, reconciling the world unto Himself." 2 Corinthians 5:19. God
suffered with His Son. In the agony of Gethsemane, the death of Calvary,
the heart of Infinite Love paid the price of our redemption. Jesus said,
"Therefore doth My Father love Me, because I lay down My life, that I might
take it again." John 10:17. That is, "My Father has so loved you that He even
loves Me more for giving My life to redeem you. In becoming your
Substitute and Surety, by surrendering My life, by taking your liabilities, your
transgressions, I am endeared to My Father; for by My sacrifice, God can
be just, and yet the Justifier of him who believeth in Jesus."”
For the love of Christ constraineth us;
because we thus judge, that if one
died for all, then were all dead: And
that he died for all, that they which
live should not henceforth live unto
themselves, but unto him which died
for them, and rose again.
2 Corinthians 5:14, 15
And the years of eternity, as they roll, will bring richer and still more glorious revelations of
God and of Christ. As knowledge is progressive, so will love, reverence, and happiness
increase. The more men learn of God, the greater will be their admiration of His
character. As Jesus opens before them the riches of redemption and the amazing
achievements in the great controversy with Satan, the hearts of the ransomed thrill with
more fervent devotion, and with more rapturous joy they sweep the harps of gold; and
ten thousand times ten thousand and thousands of thousands of voices unite to swell
the mighty chorus of praise.
“And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and
such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, heard I saying, Blessing, and honor, and
glory, and power, be unto Him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever
and ever.” Revelation 5:13
The great controversy is ended. Sin and sinners are no more. The entire universe is clean.
One pulse of harmony and gladness beats through the vast creation. From Him who
created all, flow life and light and gladness, throughout the realms of illimitable space.
From the minutest atom to the greatest world, all things, animate and inanimate, in their
unshadowed beauty and perfect joy, declare that God is love. GC 678
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