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Outline—Mark 10:21–31

  1. Getting saved is easy, and easier for some (vv. 23–25)
  2. Getting saved is within everyone’s grasp (vv. 26, 27)
  3. Getting saved will solve all your problems (vv. 28–31)

Take Home Points

  • Salvation is hard—it requires a miracle!
  • Man’s difficulties are God’s opportunities.
  • Whatever detracts from the sovereignty of God must be done away with.
  • The cost for knowing Christ is more than made up by blessing from God.

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Outline—Romans 3:9–26

  1. Divine justice is offended by our unjustness. (vv. 9–20)
  2. Divine justice is revealed. (vv. 21–23)
  3. Divine justice in action (v. 24)
  4. Divine justice is satisfied. (v. 25)
  5. Divine justice is exhonerated. (v2. 25, 26)
  6. Divine justice is intact. (v. 26)

Take Home Points

  • God is just.
  • We are unjust
  • Jesus is the answer to our souls’ need.

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He Saved Us!

Outline—Titus 3:5–7

  1. We are really saved (v. 5)
  2. We are generously saved (v. 6)
  3. We are richly saved (v. 7)

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Outline—Romans 3–5

  • God’s justification of a sinner is necessary (vv. 3:9–20)
  • Justification is real (vv. 3:21–4:25)
  • Justification is fruitful (v. 5:1, 2)

Take Home Points

  • Our lives are transformed when we believe in Christ.
  • Do you take advantage of your access to God?
  • How will God glorify Himself through you this year?
  • How can you be more fruitful for God?
  • If you don’t believe in Jesus Christ, pray and ask Him to save you.

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Related Scripture:

  • Philippians 3:7–11
  • Colossians 3:1–3
  • 1 Thessalonians 4
  • Ephesians 2

Thoughts:

  • When Jesus Christ rose from the grave, He was the firstfruits of all those who sleep in Christ. He rose from the grave to life. It is not just a story, not just a picture of something mystical that happened long ago—it is a reality. He is alive!
  • Before we are saved, we are spiritually dead in trespasses and sins. There is no power in the withered hand to get a hold of God by faith. There is no mind that can conceive of such a dying love in Jesus, and trust in the fact that He literally rose from the grave. (Ephesians 2)
  • Unless God works on your heart, there is maybe a thought of “what happens when I die,” but there is no conviction that would lead you to salvation, because that’s too painful. Conviction is that first painful inkling that you need to be brought to life. (It’s pain like unto a hand or foot that’s gone to sleep, and when the blood finally circulates again, there is a painful tingling.)
  • If you are not saved, you are going to find that when God really does bring you under conviction, that all-of-a-sudden there’s a painful experience. It is a conviction that you have not known Christ and you are lost without Him, and you are dead. You do not have a hope because you do not have a living Christ.
  • Believers, pray that God will bring the unbelievers around you to a saving knowledge of Christ, because life is not designed to stay in the grave.
  • Is the grave where you want to be for the rest of eternity? Neither is the grave of fleshly self-centered life where we belong for the Christian existence on earth. (“If you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above….” Colossians 3) As with Lazarus, the grave clothes—that which stinks of decay—is to be cast-off.

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Outline—Hebrews 1–13

Jesus Christ is:

  1. The name above all angels (vv. 1–7)
  2. The name of absolute sovereignty (v. 8)
  3. The name of royal annointing (v. 9)
  4. The name of eternal immutability (vv. 10–12)
  5. The name of assured triumph. (v. 13)

Take Home Points

  • Do you know Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior?
  • Is Jesus—the name that stands for us as absolute sovereignty—in control of your life? Have you yielded to His control? Have you done so while you still have breath? (Know this: One day you will do so when you are resurrected unto judgment.)
  • Is His the name of assured triumph? Has He conquered you? Have you yielded to His conquering grace?

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