Fearless
April 7, 2024 / Pastor Lee / CrossRoads-City SouthGOD’S IS HIDDEN FROM THOSE WITHOUT THE SPIRIT
1 Corinthians 2:6-10
6 We do, however, speak a message of wisdom among the mature, but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing. 7 No, we declare God’s wisdom, a mystery that has been hidden and that God destined for our glory before time began. 8 None of the rulers of this age understood it, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. 9 However, as it is written:
“What no eye has seen,
what no ear has heard,
and what no human mind has conceived”—
the things God has prepared for those who love him—
10 these are the things God has revealed to us by his Spirit.
The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.
(NIV)
GOD OFFERS CHRIST TO US FROM DEATH
Mark 10:45
For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
(NIV)
SATAN REASONS THAT GOD IS HIM
SATAN IS WITH THE RANSOM EXCHANGE
SATAN TEMPTS JESUS TO SIN WITH
SATAN’S ATTACK AFFORDED CHRIST THE OPPORTUNITY TO AND
Romans 6:8-10
8 Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. 9 For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, he cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over him. 10 The death he died, he died to sin once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God.
(NIV)
DEATH HAS MASTERY OVER JESUS
Hebrews 2:14-15
14 Since the children have flesh and blood, he too shared in their humanity so that by his death he might break the power of him who holds the power of death—that is, the devil — 15 and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death
(NIV)
THE POWER OF DEATH IS OUR OF
SUFFERING CAUSES A OF FROM GOD
Psalms 37:23-24
23 The LORD makes firm the steps
of the one who delights in him;
24 though he may stumble, he will not fall,
for the LORD upholds him with his hand.
(NIV)
DEATH’S LEVEL OF ATTACK
DEATH HAS OVER US
John 16:33
33 “I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.”
(NIV)
FEARLESSNESS IN SUFFERING RELEASES OVER DEATH