HE DID IT FOR YOU // EASTER SUNDAY, APRIL 17, 2022 // Pastor Jeff Hines
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Sunday — April 17, 2022
He Did It for You
Hebrews 12: 1 & 2 (ESV)
…let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely,
and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, 2 looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.
Death Benefits
1. TOTAL Forgiveness
Colossians 2: 14 (NLT)
He canceled the record of the charges against us and took it away by nailing it to the cross.
Ephesians 1: 7 (NLT)
He is so rich in kindness and grace that he purchased our freedom with the blood of his Son and forgave our sins.
Romans 4: 25 (NLT)
He was handed over to die because of our sins, and he was raised to life to make us right with God.
2. Deep Healing
1 Peter 2: 24 (NLT)
He personally carried our sins in his body on the cross so that we can be dead to sin and live for what is right. By his wounds you are healed.
Isaiah 53: 5 (NLT)
But he was pierced for our rebellion, crushed for our sins. He was beaten so we could be whole.
He was whipped so we could be healed.
Matthew 9: 35 (NLT)
Jesus traveled through all the towns and villages of that area, teaching in the synagogues and announcing the Good News about the Kingdom. And he healed every kind of disease and illness.
Proverbs 18: 24 (ESV)
A man of many companions may come to ruin,
but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.
Romans 8: 22 & 23 (NLT)
…he creation looks forward to the day when it will join God’s children in glorious freedom from death and decay. 23…we believers also groan, even though we have the Holy Spirit within us as a foretaste of future glory, for we long for our bodies to be released from sin and suffering. We, too, wait with eager hope for the day when God will give us our full rights as his adopted children, including the new bodies he has promised us.
3. True Freedom
Romans 7: 15 – 18 (NLT)
I don’t really understand myself, for I want to do what is right, but I don’t do it. Instead, I do what I hate. 16 But if I know that what I am doing is wrong, this shows that I agree that the law is good. 17 So I am not the one doing wrong; it is sin living in me that does it. 18 And I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. I want to do what is right, but I can’t. 19 I want to do what is good, but I don’t. I don’t want to do what is wrong, but I do it anyway.
Romans 6: 6 – 11 (NLT)
We know that our old sinful selves were crucified with Christ so that sin might lose its power in our lives. We are no longer slaves to sin. 7 For when we died with Christ we were set free from the power of sin. 8 And since we died with Christ, we know we will also live with him. 9 We are sure of this because Christ was raised from the dead, and he will never die again. Death no longer has any power over him. 10 When he died, he died once to break the power of sin. But now that he lives, he lives for the glory of God. 11 So you also should consider yourselves to be dead to the power of sin and alive to God through Christ Jesus.
Who are these benefits for?
Acts 10: 35 (NLT)
In every nation he accepts those who fear him and do what is right.
How do I access these benefits?
John 1: 12 (ESV)
…to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God.