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Sermon by Ernest & Rohan Prabhakar, April 28, 2013. Kingsway Rose Garden, San Jose, California. OUR PURPOSE To Enjoy Everything in God As He Glorifies Himself In and Through Us As Part of His Family On Mission Together With Him
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Ernie & Rohan Prabhakar
Why Did Jesus Die?
Kingsway Rose GardenApril 28, 2013
Kingsway.usSan Jose, CA
New City Catechism
• Q24: Why was it necessary for Christ, the Redeemer, to die?
• Since death is the punishment for sin, Christ died willingly in our place to deliver us from the power and penalty of sin and bring us back to God.
• By his substitutionary atoning death, he alone redeems us from hell and gains for us forgiveness of sin, righteousness, and everlasting life.
A Brief Confession
St. Paul
Romans 5:6-10 (NIV)
You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly.
Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person someone might possibly dare to die.
But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Since we have now been justified by his blood, how much more shall we be saved from God’s wrath through him!
For if, while we were God’s enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through his life!
Romans 6:3-10 (NIV)
Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.
For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we will certainly also be united with him in a resurrection like his.
For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body ruled by sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin— because anyone who has died has been set free from sin.
Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, he cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over him. The death he died, he died to sin once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God.
St. Rohan
“To Kill Sin”
We Need To Know
• What it is
• Where it is
• How to kill it
What Is Sin
Missing the Mark
Not fulfilling our purpose
Our Purpose
• To Enjoy Everything in God
• As He Glorifies Himself
• In and Through Us
• As Part of His Family
• On Mission
• Together
• With Him
Isaiah 58:11-12 (NIV)
The Lord will guide you always; he will satisfy your needs in a sun-scorched land and will strengthen your frame.
You will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring whose waters never fail.
Your people will rebuild the ancient ruins and will raise up the age-old foundations;
You will be called Repairer of Broken Walls, Restorer of Streets with Dwellings.
Redemption
• “The Lord will guide you always”
• Head
• “You will be like a well-watered garden”
• Heart
• “Your people will rebuild the ancient ruins”
• Hand
Holiness
• Know What’s Right
• Head
• Want What’s Right
• Heart
• Do What’s Right
• Hand
Spreading the Kingdom
Promise Plan Problem
Head “Guide”Divine
DirectionMental
Confusion
Heart “Garden”Personal
FlourishingIntentionalRebellion
Hand “Rebuild”Societal
TransformationVisceral
Compulsion
Holiness
Do
Wan
t Know
Heart
Hand
Head
Self
Sin
Compulsion
Rebe
llion
ConfusionSelf
Heart
Hand
Head
Where Is Sin
Is Sin Real?
Define Reality
• “The Extra-Credit Question From Hell”
• Define the Universe.
• Give Three Examples.
The Objective Reality behind our
Subjective Experience
Three Universes
Experience Reality Name
Head Think Logical Logos
Heart Feel Spiritual Pneuma
Hand Touch Physical Cosmos
One Reality
Cosmos
Pneu
ma Logos
Heart
Hand
Head
GOD
Universal Corruption
PhysicalCompulsion
Spiri
tual
Rebe
llion
Logical
Confusion
Heart
Hand
Head
SIN
How To Kill Sin
Comprehensive Redemption
PhysicalTransformation
Spiri
tual
Flou
rishi
ngLogical
Direction
Heart
Hand
Head
✝
Only Christ’sPhysical Death
Could Kill All Sin
Head
• From Confusion to Direction
• “But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”
Romans 5:8
Heart
• From Rebellion to Flourishing
• “For if, while we were God’s enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through his life!”
Romans 5:10
Hand
• From Compulsion to Transformation
• “For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we will certainly also be united with him in a resurrection like his.
• For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body ruled by sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin— because anyone who has died has been set free from sin.”
Romans 6:5-7
Response
