slides for sermon Sunday PM 2-26-17 Jeff May

2. We all have a deadly illness…sin.
If left unattended,
it will result in death;
eternal separation from God
in a place of God’s wrath.

3. • The world is on trial
• Charge: You have all sinned.
• Jesus is the Judge
• Paul is the prosecuting attorney.
• The verdict comes in.
Ch. 1 – Case against Gentiles
Ch. 2 – Case against Jews

4. HE VERDIC
“All the world may become
guilty before God”
(Romans 3:19)

5. HE VERDIC
“For all have sinned and fall short
of the glory of God”
(Romans 3:23)

6. Every mouth (defense)
is stopped!!
HE VERDICWho will speak to defend us?
• God will not.
• Satan will not.
• We cannot.

7. GOD’S WRATH
IN CHAPTERS 1-3
1:1
82:5
2:8-9
3:5

8. GOD’S WRATH:
DEATH PENALTY
6:23
Physical Death –
Separation of
spirit & body
Spiritual Death –
Separation of the
soul from God

9. IT’S OVER…
IF WE END
AT 3:20

10. “God is angry with the
wicked every day”
(Psa. 7:11)

12. But now…
God!!
“This is possibly
the greatest
single paragraph
ever written.”
Leon Morris

13. Just
Demand the
penalty paid
Justify
Release us
from paying
God’s Wrath and
“the Divine Dilemma”
Pardon the
wrong.
Vindicate
the right.

14. GOD SET JESUS FORTH
(Romans 3:25)

15. “To demonstrate at
the present time
His righteousness”
(3:26)
LET IT GO:
JUSTICE?
MAKE USPAY:LOVE?
PAY IT HIMSELF: BALANCE!PAY IT HIMSELF: BALANCE!

16. If the full magnitude
of Calvary could be put
on a richter scale, it
would blow the
needle off!!

17. Rom. 3:25; Num. 16:46; Num. 25:11;
Isaiah 53:3-6,10-11

18. “Make atonement.”
“Wrath has gone out
from the Lord.”
(Numbers 16:46)

19. “Turned
back my
wrath”
(Numbers
25:11)
“Intervened”
Psa. 106:30

20. Who ran in for us
God gave Himself,
to Himself, for Himself,
to save us from Himself.

21. Who can avoid God’s wrath?
All who come in faith to Jesus
(Rom. 3:21-22)

22. WHAT GREAT THINGS COME TO US?
Justified –
“To declare or
pronounce
righteous &
acceptable.”
Romans 3:24-25
“Just-as-if-I’d”
never sinned.

23. WHAT GREAT THINGS COME TO US?
Redemption –
“A releasing
by payment
of a ransom.”
Romans 3:24-25

25. GOD US
Reconciled by the Cross
“We have peace with God”
Ungodly
Sinners
Enemies
At-one-ment