From Death to Life

From Death to Life

March 24, 2024

Pastor Matthew Heisele

Crosswater exists to empower families to live their purpose in Christ by encountering God, embracing others, engaging the world, and expanding the Kingdom of Heaven

Galations 2:19-20 (NIV)

19 “For through the law I died to the law so that I might live for God. 20 I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. 

Romans 7:4-5 (NIV)

4 So, my brothers and sisters, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, that you might belong to another, to him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit for God. 5 For when we were in the realm of the flesh,[a] 

the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in us, so that we bore fruit for death. 

Galatians 2:21 (NIV)

21 I do not set aside the grace of God, for if righteousness could be gained through the law, Christ died for nothing!” 

Before the , it’s about . 

Romans 7:10-12 (NIV)

10 I found that the very commandment that was intended to bring life actually brought death. 11 For sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, deceived me, and through the commandment put me to death. 12 So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous and good. 

Hebrews 10:11-12 (NLT)

11 Under the old covenant, the priest stands and ministers before the altar day after day, offering the same sacrifices again and again, which can never take away sins. 12 But our High Priest offered himself to God as a single sacrifice for sins, good for all time. Then he sat down in the place of honor at God’s right hand. 

Through Christ’s sacrifice, the cross puts to death my , and births a . 

1 Peter 1:3 (NIV)

3 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. 

Ephesians 4:22-24 (NIV)

22 You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; 23 to be made new in the attitude of your minds; 24 and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness. 

Proverbs 11:30 (ESV)

“The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, 

and whoever captures souls is wise.”

Luke 19:10 (NIV)

10 For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”

If before the , it’s about . Then after the , it becomes about . His now becomes my .