www.elijahhouse.org

Body Soul (mind, emotions, will) Spirit

Body Soul (mind, emotions, will) Spirit Justification

Body Soul (mind, emotions, will) Spirit Justification Sanctification

Body Soul Spirit Glorification Sanctification (mind, emotions, will) Justification Sanctification Glorification

Body Soul Spirit Glorification Sanctification (mind, emotions, will) Justification Sanctification Glorification

What Really Happened at the Cross

“My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” —Matthew 27:46

Psalm 22

Ramifications of bad theology:

Ramifications of bad theology: Cross diminished (punishment)

Ramifications of bad theology: Cross diminished (punishment) God cannot look upon sin

Ramifications of bad theology: Cross diminished (punishment) God cannot look upon sin Good cop/Bad cop Godhead

What really happened:

What really happened: Cross doesn’t merely punish sin but DESTROYS sin’s power & RESTORES us to relationship Father always wanted!

What really happened: God is not a distant observer but an active participant in the cross

2 Corinthians 5:17-21 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here! 18 All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: 19 that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. 20 We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God. 21 God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

John 17:22-23 …that they may be one as we are one—23 I in them and you in me

What really happened: God has never run from sinful humanity

Genesis 3:8-9 Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the Lord God among the trees of the garden. 9 But the Lord God called to the man, “Where are you?” 10 He answered, “I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid.” 11 And he said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?” 12 The man said, “The woman you put here with me—she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”

What really happened: Jesus yielded his will to deliver us from refusing to yield ours

Luke 22:42 “Father, if you are willing, take this cup from me; yet not my will, but yours be done.”

John 10:17-18 The reason my Father loves me is that I lay down my life—only to take it up again. 18 No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down and authority to take it up again. This command I received from my Father.”

Luke 23:46 Jesus called out with a loud voice, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit.” When he had said this, he breathed his last.

Philippians 2:12-13 Therefore, my dear friends, as you have always obeyed—not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence—continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling, 13 for it is God who works in you to will and to act in order to fulfill his good purpose.

What really happened: The cross doesn’t just punish sin, it overcomes the power of sin because it restores TRUST in relationship with Father God

What really happened: The cross doesn’t just punish sin, it overcomes the power of sin because it restores TRUST in relationship with Father God We turn to sin because we feel like God has forsaken us!

Psalm 22:9-10 Yet you brought me out of the womb; you made me trust in you, even at my mother’s breast. 10 From birth I was cast on you; from my mother’s womb you have been my God.

Hebrews 2:18 Because he himself suffered when he was tempted, he is able to help those who are being tempted.

What really happened: Jesus did on the cross what Adam & Eve couldn’t do:

What really happened: Jesus did on the cross what Adam & Eve couldn’t do: Trust Father God

Galatians 2:20 I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

Trust “Jesus, I choose to believe in Father’s love for me because you did. Grant me your faith to stand here in trust that my whole life is in your hands.”

We don’t enter the Kingdom by… Doing good works Attending church Reciting a creed Responding to an altar call Praying a sinner’s prayer

We enter God’s Kingdom by learning to TRUST who he is & living in that trust no matter what life brings