FOUNDA TIONS The Basics of Our Faith “People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.” -- Samuel Johnson

FOUNDA TIONS The Basics of Our Faith “So I will always remind you of these things, even though you know them and are firmly established in the truth you now have.” II Peter 1:12-15

SALVA TION JUSTIFICA TION PROPITIA TION SANCTIFICA TION GLORIFICA TION REGENERA TION RECONCILIA TION EXPIA TION REDEMP TION RESURREC TION ADOP TION

FOUNDA TIONS The Basics of Our Faith “And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ.” Ephesians 3: 17b-19

FOUNDA TIONS Do I want to be saved? Saved from what? Genesis 2: SALVA TION Disobedience = separation = death

FOUNDA TIONS Physical salvation Genesis 45: 4-7 Genesis 50: SALVA TION Spiritual salvation One saves many

FOUNDA TIONS Physical salvation Exodus 14: 10 – 15: 2 SALVA TION Spiritual salvation One saves many

FOUNDA TIONS Here are the boundaries… Exodus 20: 1-21 SALVA TION Thou shalt & Thou shalt not “…so that the fear of God will be with you to keep you from sinning.”

FOUNDA TIONS Obedience = blessings = life Disobedience = curses = death Deuteronomy 30 SALVA TION It is your choice “Now choose life, so that you and your children may live and that you may love the L ORD your God…”.”

FOUNDA TIONS “…they will reject Me & break My covenant…” Deuteronomy 31: SALVA TION And He still let them in???

FOUNDA TIONS Redemption from the pit Forgiveness of sin Not see death Job 33: Psalm 103: 1-4 Psalm 89: 48 Psalm 79: 9 SALVA TION

FOUNDA TIONS Righteous to life Wicked to death Psalm 37: Psalm 69: Psalm 14: 1-3 SALVA TION And who is righteous?

FOUNDA TIONS No one who does good All are unclean Isaiah 64: 4-9 Mark 10: 26 SALVA TION Who then, can be saved?

FOUNDA TIONS Mark 10: 27 SALVA TION Who then, can be saved? Only possible with God

FOUNDA TIONS Deuteronomy 30: Psalm 116: 1-9 Romans 10: 5-14 SALVA TION How then, can I be saved? “The word is near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart”

FOUNDA TIONS Acts 4: 12 SALVA TION “Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved.”

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FOUNDA TIONS Genesis 3: RECONCILIA TION A broken friendship Disobedience = separation = death

FOUNDA TIONS Deuteronomy 28: 58, 64 Deuteronomy 30: 1-6 RECONCILIA TION A broken friendship Obedience = blessings = gathering Disobedience = curses = separation

FOUNDA TIONS RECONCILIA TION “to restore friendly relations between” “to bring back into harmony with”

FOUNDA TIONS Romans 5: RECONCILIA TION Restoring a broken friendship From enemies to salvation

FOUNDA TIONS II Corinthians 5: RECONCILIA TION Restoring a broken friendship God reconciles us back to Himself

FOUNDA TIONS II Corinthians 5: 19 Colossians 1: RECONCILIA TION God reconciling the world back to Himself Reconcile to Himself all things Restoring a broken friendship

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FOUNDA TIONS II Corinthians 5: Colossians 1: JUSTIFICA TION “not counting men’s sins against them” “present you holy in His sight” “without blemish” “free from accusation”

FOUNDA TIONS Psalm 143: 2 JUSTIFICA TION “Do not bring your servant into judgment, for no one living is righteous before you.”

FOUNDA TIONS Genesis 18: JUSTIFICA TION “For the sake of fifty – Forty-five – Forty – Thirty – Twenty – Ten – I will not destroy it.”

FOUNDA TIONS Genesis 15: 1-6 JUSTIFICA TION Abram believes God justifies

FOUNDA TIONS Genesis JUSTIFICA TION Abram believes = God justifies Abram – Sarai – Hagar - Ishmael Circumcision Abraham – Sarah – Isaac

FOUNDA TIONS Isaiah 53: 11 JUSTIFICA TION “…by His knowledge My righteous servant will justify many, and he will bear their iniquities.”

FOUNDA TIONS Acts 13: JUSTIFICA TION “Through Him everyone who believes is justified from everything you could not be justified from by the law of Moses.”

FOUNDA TIONS Galatians 3: 24 JUSTIFICA TION “So the law was put in charge to lead us to Christ that we may be justified by faith.”

FOUNDA TIONS Romans 4: JUSTIFICA TION “…to whom God will credit righteousness – for us who believe in Him….”

FOUNDA TIONS Romans 3: JUSTIFICA TION “…all have sinned... [all] are justified freely by His grace…”

FOUNDA TIONS Romans 5: JUSTIFICA TION One man > sin > death for all One man > righteousness > life for all “My righteous servant will justify many”

FOUNDA TIONS Psalm 103: 12 Isaiah 43: 25 Jeremiah 31: 34 II Corinthians 5: 19 JUSTIFICA TION - as if we had never sinned OR - not counting our sins against us

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FOUNDA TIONS Romans 5: 8-11 “While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” PROPITIA TION EXPIA TION

FOUNDA TIONS Genesis 3: 6-7 made coverings for themselves PROPITIA TION EXPIA TION

FOUNDA TIONS Genesis 9: 3-5 Leviticus 17: covering that which is offensive PROPITIA TION EXPIA TION life-blood

FOUNDA TIONS Leviticus 16: covering that which is offensive PROPITIA TION EXPIA TION blood is sprinkled on the atonement cover

FOUNDA TIONS Leviticus 16: 1-2 Hebrews 10: 1-4, 11 covering that which is offensive PROPITIA TION EXPIA TION atonement cover - kapporeth

FOUNDA TIONS Romans 3: 25 “God put Yeshua forward as the kapparah for sin through his faithfulness in respect to his bloody sacrificial death.” PROPITIA TION EXPIA TION atonement – propitiation – expiation - mercy seat Complete Jewish Bible

FOUNDA TIONS II Corinthians 5: 21 “God made Him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that we might become the righteousness of God.” PROPITIA TION EXPIA TION

FOUNDA TIONS Hebrews 2: Hebrews 10: I John 2: 2; 4: 9-10 the perfect, final sacrifice PROPITIA TION EXPIA TION

FOUNDA TIONS John 14: 6 "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” PROPITIA TION EXPIA TION

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FOUNDA TIONS Romans 3: REDEMP TION “…justified freely by His grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus.”

FOUNDA TIONS Genesis 3: REDEMP TION Something was lost

FOUNDA TIONS Psalm 49: 7-9, 15 REDEMP TION “the ransom for a life is costly”

FOUNDA TIONS Psalm 130: 7-8 Hosea 13: 14 REDEMP TION Redemption from sin & death

FOUNDA TIONS John 8: 34 REDEMP TION Jesus replied, "I tell you the truth, everyone who sins is a slave to sin.”

FOUNDA TIONS I Peter 1: Romans 6: REDEMP TION Redemption from emptiness, death

FOUNDA TIONS Hebrews 9: REDEMP TION Perfect blood Perfect sacrifice Perfect ransom

FOUNDA TIONS Romans 8: Ephesians 1: REDEMP TION Redemption Phase #1 Phase #2

FOUNDA TIONS I Corinthians 6: REDEMP TION “You were bought at a price” “the ransom for a life is costly, no payment is ever enough” Psalm 49: 8

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FOUNDA TIONS ADOP TION God takes that broken relationship and reconciles us back to Himself and deems us as ‘blood’ relatives

FOUNDA TIONS ADOP TION Who will be my heir? Genesis 15: 1-6

FOUNDA TIONS ADOP TION Inherit the nations Possess the earth Rule over them Psalm 2: 7-9 “Though my father and mother forsake me, the Lord will receive me.” Psalm 27: 10

FOUNDA TIONS ADOP TION “Now a slave has no permanent place in the family, but a son belongs to it forever.” John 8: 33-47

FOUNDA TIONS ADOP TION 1) Child must agree to be adopted 2) Child will be considered ‘dead’ to previous family Legal adoption terms & conditions

FOUNDA TIONS ADOP TION Abraham’s seed = heirs = full rights Galatians 3: 29 – 4: 7 “If you belong to Christ…”

Ultra-Orthodox Jews prepare for Yom Kippur with kaparot ritual Kaparot is a custom connected to Yom Kippur, where white chickens are slaughtered as a symbolic gesture of atonement. The slaughtered chickens are then donated to the poor. Yom Kippur – sundown Friday, 9/17 – sundown Saturday, 9/18

It is believed that one transfers one's sins from the past year into the chicken. The kaparot ceremony is held before the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, which starts on Friday. Jews traditionally observe this holy day with a 25-hour period of fasting and intensive prayer.

FOUNDA TIONS ADOP TION the Spirit of Sonship Galatians 4: 6 Romans 8: 15 I Corinthians 2: Abba, Father!

FOUNDA TIONS ADOP TION back in the family Ephesians 1: 5, Predestined to be adopted Guaranteed inheritance

FOUNDA TIONS ADOP TION back in the family Ephesians 3: 6 Romans 8: Heirs with Israel Co-heirs with Christ

FOUNDA TIONS ADOP TION back in the family Hebrews 1: 1-2 Daniel 7: Revelation 22: 3-5 Our inheritance awaits

FOUNDA TIONS ADOP TION back in the family I Peter 1: 3-5 Our inheritance awaits It will never perish, spoil, or fade It is being kept in heaven for us It is ready to be revealed in the last time