1. “The Fullness of Salvation:
The Exchange”
Northside Mission Church (17-Sep-2011)

2. Review
To not neglect the “great salvation” the Lord has given to us (Hebrews 2:3)
The sad history of the Israelites in the wilderness, how they “did not believe in God”, “did not trust in His salvation” and sinned by “limiting the Holy One” (Psalms 78:21-22, 41)
3. “Salvation” is the all-inclusive word that describes all God’s wonderful benefits to us made possible by Jesus’ sacrifice on the cross

3. Review
4. Our salvation, based on Christ’s finished work on the cross is completely complete. But our appropriation of all the benefits of this salvation is ongoing (Hebrews 10:14)
5. There are 3 tenses to Salvation:
The Perfect Tense (Ephesians 2:8)
The Simple Past (Titus 3:5)
The Continuing Present (1 Corinthians 1:18)

4. Review 5. “SOZO” – “to save” (most common)
“to heal” (Matthew 14:35-36)
“to be delivered (from oppression)” (Luke 8:35-36)
“to make whole” (Acts 14:9)
“to make well” (Acts 4:9)
“to be brought back to life” (Luke 8:50)
“to preserve” (2 Timothy 4:18)

5. Trade places with Darren Lockyer?

6. Trade places with Sam Stosur?

7. Grace & Mercy
Grace – to receive from God what we don’t deserve and can never earn
Ephesians 2:8-9 “For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— not by works, so that no one can boast.”

8. Grace & Mercy
Mercy – to not receive from God what we do deserve and rightfully earned
Matthew 18:33-34 “Then the master called the servant in. ‘You wicked servant,’ he said, ‘I canceled all that debt of yours because you begged me to. Shouldn’t you have had mercy on your fellow servant just as I had on you?’ ”

9. Exchange
Both Grace and Mercy is explained beautifully in just one word – Exchange
Hebrews 10:14 “For by one offering He has perfected forever those who are being sanctified”

10. The Hebrew word “AVON”
Isaiah 53:6 “All we like sheep have gone astray; We have turned, every one, to his own way; And the LORD has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.”
Avon – Hebrew for ‘iniquity’ AND ‘punishment’
Lamentations 4:6a “The punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the punishment of the sin of Sodom”

11. “Jesus was punished that we might be forgiven”
Scriptures
Isaiah 53:4-5 “Surely He has borne our griefs
And carried our sorrows;
Yet we esteemed Him stricken,
Smitten by God, and afflicted.
But He was wounded for our transgressions,
He was bruised for our iniquities;
The chastisement for our peace was upon Him,
And by His stripes we are healed.”
“Jesus was punished that we might be forgiven”

12. Scriptures Isaiah 53:4-5 “Surely He has borne our griefs
And carried our sorrows;
Yet we esteemed Him stricken,
Smitten by God, and afflicted.
But He was wounded for our transgressions,
He was bruised for our iniquities;
The chastisement for our peace was upon Him,
And by His stripes we are healed.”
“griefs” = sicknesses “sorrows”=pains

13. Scriptures “Jesus was wounded that we might be healed”
Isaiah 53:5b “And by His stripes we are healed”
1 Peter 2:24b “by whose stripes you were healed”
“Jesus was wounded that we might be healed”

14. Scriptures Isaiah 53:10b “When You make His soul an offering for sin”
2 Corinthians 5:21 “For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.”
“Jesus was made sin with our sinfulness that we might be made righteous with His righteousness”

15. Scriptures Ezekiel 18:4 “The soul that sins shall die”
Hebrews 2:9 “But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honor, that He, by the grace of God, might taste death for everyone”
Romans 6:23 “For the wages of sin is death but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord”

16. Scriptures
Psalms 107:2 “Let the redeemed of the LORD say so, whom He had redeemed from the hand of the enemy”
“Jesus died our death that we might receive His life”

17. Scriptures
2 Corinthians 8:9 “For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, that you through His poverty might become rich.”
Deuteronomy 28:48 “therefore you shall serve your enemies, whom the LORD will send against you, in hunger, in thirst, in nakedness, and in need of everything; and He will put a yoke of iron on your neck until He has destroyed you.”

18. Scriptures
2 Corinthians 9:8 “And God is able to make all grace abound toward you, that you, always having all sufficiency in all things, may have an abundance for every good work.”
Acts 20:35 “It is more blessed to give than to receive”
“Jesus endured our poverty that we might share His abundance”

19. Scriptures
Hebrews 12:2 “looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.”
Hebrews 2:10 “For it was fitting for Him, for whom are all things and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons to glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings. ”

20. Scriptures “Jesus bore our shame that we might share His glory”
Isaiah 54:6 “The LORD will call you back as if you were a wife deserted and distressed in spirit— a wife who married young, only to be rejected,” says your God.”
Matthew 27:46 “Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying ‘Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?’ that is, ‘My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?’ ”

21. Scriptures
Ephesians 1:5-6 “Having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will, to the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He made us accepted in the Beloved”
“Jesus endured our rejection that we might have His acceptance with the Father”

22. Scriptures
Galatians 3:13-14 “Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us (for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree”), that the blessing of Abraham might come upon the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.”
Deuteronomy 21:23 “his body shall not remain overnight on the tree, but you shall surely bury him that day, …; for he who is hanged is accursed of God.”

23. Scriptures Deuteronomy 28:15-68 – a biblical list of curses
Humiliation
Barrenness, unfruitfulness
Mental and physical sickness
Family breakdown
Poverty
Defeat
Bondage (to sin and to oppression)
Failure
God’s disfavor
“Jesus became a curse that we might enter into the blessing”

24. Conclusion The prophetic promises of God to us…
“To console those who mourn in Zion,
To give them beauty for ashes,   The oil of joy for mourning,   The garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness;   That they may be called trees of righteousness,   The planting of the LORD, that He may be glorified” (Isaiah 61:3)

25. Conclusion Jesus invites us…
“Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.” (Matthew 11:28-29)