You’ll learn in this lesson what it means that Jesus bore our sins. It is not just what happened on the cross, that’s the climax of His holiness. Rather it’s everything about Jesus coming to be a man and identify with us in our sin and guilt and through his love and compassion be the sin offering so that we can be reconciled to our Father. This lesson is modified, but almost completely, Jim McGuiggan’s (Jim McGuiggan: The Dragon Slayer, Chapter 7: Not Ashamed to be Called their Brother (p. 212-250)

1. He Bore
Our Sins(part 3)
What It Means

2. Ezra’s Prayer for Israel’s Faithlessness
Ezra 9

3. O my God, I am ashamed and
blush to lift my face to you, my
God, for our iniquities have
risen higher than our heads,
and our guilt has mounted up to
the heavens.
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Ezra’s Prayer for Israel’s Faithlessness
Ezra 9

4. From the days of our fathers to
this day we have been in great
guilt. And for our iniquities we,
our kings, and our priests have
been given into the hand of the
kings of the lands, to the sword,
to captivity, to plundering, and
to utter shame, as it is today.
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Ezra’s Prayer for Israel’s Faithlessness
Ezra 9

5. Yet our God has not forsaken us
in our slavery, but has extended
to us his steadfast love
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Ezra’s Prayer for Israel’s Faithlessness
Ezra 9

6. And now, O our God, what shall
we say after this? For we have
forsaken your commandments
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Ezra’s Prayer for Israel’s Faithlessness
Ezra 9

7. And after all that has come
upon us for our evil deeds and
for our great guilt, seeing that
you, our God, have punished us
less than our iniquities
deserved
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Ezra’s Prayer for Israel’s Faithlessness
Ezra 9

8. shall we break your
commandments again and
intermarry with the peoples
who practice these
abominations? Would you not
be angry with us until you
consumed us, so that there
should be no remnant, nor any
to escape?
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Ezra’s Prayer for Israel’s Faithlessness
Ezra 9

9. Behold, we are before you in
our guilt, for none can stand
before you because of this.
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Ezra’s Prayer for Israel’s Faithlessness
Ezra 9

11. Behold, we are before you in
our guilt, for none can stand
before you because of this.
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Ezra’s Prayer for Israel’s Faithlessness
Ezra 9

12. Consider Jesus

13. Since therefore the children share in flesh
and blood, he himself likewise partook of
the same things
Hebrews 2:14

14. that through death he might destroy the one
who has the power of death, that is, the devil,
and deliver all those who through fear of
death were subject to lifelong slavery.
Hebrews 2:14-15

15. By sending his own Son
in the likeness of sinful flesh
and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh
Romans 8:3

16. “Let it be so now, for thus it is fitting for us to
fulfill all righteousness.”
Matthew 3:15

17. The Spirit of the Lord is upon me,
because he has anointed me
to proclaim good news to the poor.
He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives
and recovering of sight to the blind,
to set at liberty those who are oppressed,
to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor.”
Luke 4:18-19

18. The Spirit of the Lord is upon me,
because he has anointed me
to proclaim good news to the poor.
He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives
and recovering of sight to the blind,
to set at liberty those who are oppressed,
to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor.”
Luke 4:18-19

19. The Spirit of the Lord is upon me,
because he has anointed me
to proclaim good news to the poor.
He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives
and recovering of sight to the blind,
to set at liberty those who are oppressed,
to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor.”
Luke 4:18-19

20. The Spirit of the Lord is upon me,
because he has anointed me
to proclaim good news to the poor.
He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives
and recovering of sight to the blind,
to set at liberty those who are oppressed,
to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor.”
Luke 4:18-19

21. When he went ashore he saw a great crowd,
and he had compassion on them, because
they were like sheep without a shepherd.
And he began to teach them many things.
Mark 6:34

22. “Father, forgive them, for they know not
what they do.”
Luke 23:34

23. “Father, forgive them, for they know not
what they do.”
Luke 23:34
“You shall be holy, for I am holy.”
1 Peter 1:16

24. We implore you on
behalf of Christ,
be reconciled to God.
2 Corinthians 5:20

25. Text

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29. References:
http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/publications/publicroads/00mayjun/onemileinfive.cfm
Wayne Jackson: https://www.christiancourier.com/articles/1512-did-christ-literally-bear-our-sins-on-the-cross
Maurice Barnett: http://www.westsidechurchofchristphoenix.com/page25.html
http://www.westsidechurchofchristphoenix.com/page18.html
http://www.biblebanner.com/ga_art/deity/vicar1.htm
http://www.biblebanner.com/ga_art/deity/vicar2.htm
http://www.biblebanner.com/ga_art/deity/vicar3.htm
http://www.biblebanner.com/ga_art/deity/vicar4.htm
http://www.biblebanner.com/ga_art/deity/vicar5.htm
http://www.westsidechurchofchristphoenix.com/page16.html
Jim McGuiggan: The Dragon Slayer, Chapter 7: Not Ashamed to be Called their Brother (p. 212-250)

30. Understanding Our Salvation
#12
He Bore Our Sins - part 3
Compiled and Presented by:
Dave Stewart
2 August 2015
www.churchofchristmiranda.com
Synopsis: You’ll learn in this lesson what it means that Jesus bore our sins. It is not just what happened
on the cross, that’s the climax of His holiness. Rather it’s everything about Jesus coming to be a man
and identify with us in our sin and guilt and through his love and compassion be the sin offering so that
we can be reconciled to our Father. This lesson is modified, but almost completely, Jim McGuiggan’s
(Jim McGuiggan: The Dragon Slayer, Chapter 7: Not Ashamed to be Called their Brother (p. 212-250)
“Let all that you do be done with love.”
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