The Cross Applied1Co 15:3 For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our

sins according to the Scriptures, 1Co 1:18 For the message of the cross is

foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. 1Co 2:2 For I determined not to know anything

among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified.

Gal 6:14 But God forbid that I should boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ,by whom the world has been crucified to me, and I

to the world

Gal 2:20 I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives 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.

1. For our sins dead to sins punishment

2. To divorce us from the law dead to law

3. Defeat the Devil Dead to Devil’s Power

4. To Put You To Death Dead to sin’s power

5. Crucified to the world Dead to the world

6. Peace with God

7. Access To God Continually

8. Peace with others Made into one family

1. For our sins

1Co 15:3 For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,

Mat 1:21 And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.

dead to sins punishment

1. For our sins

2Co 5:21 For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might

become the righteousness of God in Him.

dead to sins punishment

CRIME PUNISHMENT

JUSTICE (LAW OF THE LAND)

My SIN MY DEATH

Rom 6:23 For the wages of sin is death

JUSTICE (Law of GOD)

My SIN CHRIST’S DEATH

Rom 6:23 For the wages of sin is death

JUSTICE (Law of GOD)

JesusWrath Wrath

3.Defeat the Devil

Col 2:15 Having disarmed principalities and powers, He made a public spectacle of

them, triumphing over them in it.

Col 1:13 He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us

into the kingdom of the Son of His love,

Col 1:14 in whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of

sins.

dead to the devils power

2. To remove the law's power over you

Col 2:14 having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us, which

was contrary to us. And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross.

Rom 7:6 But now we have been delivered from the law, having died to what we were

held by, so that we should serve in the newness of the Spirit and not in the oldness

of the letter.

dead to the law

4. To put you to death

Gal 2:20 I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the

life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for

me. Gal 6:14 But God forbid that I should boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

Rom 6:6 knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be

done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin.

Rom 6:7 For he who has died has been freed from sin.

dead to the power of sin and self

• New creation out with the old in with the new clear the slate (2 Cor 5:17)

• patch old garments new (Mark 2:22)

• Don’t try to train the flesh

• application of this truth is by faith

• life that I now live Gal 2:20

• By Jesus alone

• take up the cross

• grain of wheat

• Death in the moment

(Mat 10:38) And he who does not take his cross and follow after Me is not worthy of Me.

(Mat 16:24) Then Jesus said to His disciples, "If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me.

(Mar 8:34) When He had called the people to Himself, with His disciples also, He said to them, "Whoever desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me

Luke 9:23 And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.

Joh 12:20 Now there were certain Greeks among those who came up to worship at the feast.

Joh 12:21 Then they came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida of Galilee, and asked him, saying, "Sir, we wish to see Jesus."

Joh 12:22 Philip came and told Andrew, and in turn Andrew and Philip told Jesus.

Joh 12:23 But Jesus answered them, saying, "The hour has come that the Son of Man should be glorified.

Joh 12:24 Most assuredly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it produces much grain.

Joh 12:25 He who loves his life will lose it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.

Joh 12:26 If anyone serves Me, let him follow Me; and where I am, there My servant will be also. If anyone serves Me, him My Father will honor.

5. Dead to the world

Gal 6:14 But God forbid that I should boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world has been crucified to me, and I to the

world.• 1Pe 2:10 Once you were not a people, but now

you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.

• 1Pe 2:11 Dear friends, I urge you, as aliens and strangers in the world, to abstain from sinful desires, which war against your soul.

1Co 6:9 Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites,

1Co 6:10 nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God.

1Co 6:11 And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.

Practical Application of this Truth

Truth will set you free

Joh 8:32 Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free."

Joh 8:36 So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.

6.Peace with GodCol 1:20 and by Him to reconcile all things to

Himself, by Him, whether things on earth or things in heaven, having made peace through

the blood of His cross.Eph 2:13 But now in Christ Jesus you who once

were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ.

Rom 5:10 For if, when we were God's enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of

his Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through his life!

God is community

Three Persons in One God

Father Son And Holy SpiritPerfect Harmony

Gen 1:26 Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image,

according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all

the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."

Gen 1:27 So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and

female He created them.

In the image of God

We are communityGod created more than one

Male and Female He created them

We were invited into God’s Community

Death in relationship

Communion with God lost

Communion with one another lost

Gen 3:9 Then the LORD God called to Adam and said to him, "Where are you?" Gen 3:12 Then the man said, "The woman whom You gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate."

Sin Barrier

God the

Father Son and

Holy Spirit

Sin Barrier

Sin Barrier

Spiritual Life Lost

God’s Redemptive Plan

• To restore us to community with God

• To Restore us to community with one another

Luk_10:27 So he answered and said, "'YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, WITH ALL YOUR SOUL,

WITH ALL YOUR STRENGTH, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND,' and 'YOUR NEIGHBOR AS

YOURSELF.'"

• Heb 10:19 Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus,

• Heb 10:20 by a new and living way opened for us through the curtain, that is, his body,

Peace with others

(one family)

Eph 2:16 and that He might reconcile them both to God in one body through the cross,

thereby putting to death the enmity.

Eph 2:17 And He came and preached peace to you who were afar off and to

those who were near.

• Eph 2:4 But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us,

• Eph 2:5 even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),

• Eph 2:6 and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,

Made Alive in Him

• Eph 1:15 Therefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints,

• Eph 1:16 do not cease to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers:

• Eph 1:17 that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him,

• Eph 1:18 the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints,

1. For our sins dead to sins punishment

2. To divorce us from the law dead to law

3. Defeat the Devil Dead to Devil’s Power

4. To Put You To Death Dead to sin’s power

5. Crucified to the world Dead to the world

6. Peace with God

7. Access To God Continually

8. Peace with others Made into one family