Law of Moses
God, through messengers, gave His holy, just and good Law. This Law did not contravene the promises God had made to Abraham. God introduced His Law to show sin to be sin—and that abundantly. For without law, sin lies dead and is not counted. The Law brought the knowledge of sin and aroused sinful passions. It was laid down for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and sinners. It shall judge and bring wrath to those who sin under it. The Law made nothing perfect, gave neither life nor righteousness to its adherents, because it did not rest on faith. Rather, the Law held its adherents captive, constraining and confining them. It served as a temporary custodian until Christ came. Although the Law is the “old written code”, it may be put to good use when used in a manner consistent with God’s intent for it.
Suffering with Christ
ESV Romans 8:16 The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, 17 and if children, then heirs- heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him.
Heirs with Christ
ESV Romans 8:16 The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, 17 and if children, then heirs- heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him.
ESV Ephesians 1:11 In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will,
United with Christ
ESV Ephesians 6:5 For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his.
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Raised Up, Resurrected, Alive With Christ
ESV Romans 6:11 So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.
ESV Ephesians 2:4 But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, 5 even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ- by grace you have been saved-6 and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, 7 so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.
ESV Colossians 2:11 In him also you were circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ, 12 having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the powerful working of God, who raised him from the dead. 13 And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses, 14 by canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross.ESV Colossians 3:1 If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. 2 Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. 3 For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
ESV 1 Thessalonians 5:9 For God has not destined us for wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, 10 who died for us so that whether we are awake or asleep we might live with him. 11 The saying is trustworthy, for: If we have died with him, we will also live with him; 12 if we endure, we will also reign with him; if we deny him, he also will deny us; 13 if we are faithless, he remains faithful- for he cannot deny himself.
ESV 1 Thessalonians 4:16 For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first.
