THE PROVISION

OF SALVATIONRomans 3:21-31message six

AN EXPERIENTIAL EXEGESIS OFYOUR PRISON

WITHOUT BARS1. You know something about being in bondage to your self and padlocked to your past

AN EXPERIENTIAL EXEGESIS OFYOUR PRISON

WITHOUT BARS2. You know something about being handcuffed to a habit and incarcerated by your own rebelliousness

AN EXPERIENTIAL EXEGESIS OFYOUR PRISON

WITHOUT BARS3. You know something about being locked up in a lustful longing

Definition• The word, sinned,

simply means to miss a mark; to stumble, to fall, to come short.

Point 1Most people are not measuring themselves against God; they are measuring themselves against someone else.

Definition• Justification has to do

with a declaration of right relationship with God.

Definition• Justification has to do

with a declaration of right relationship with God.

• Redemption is the payment of the price required to set a prisoner free.

Point 2You cannot lose your salvation because the payment made was so effective that God can never again hear a charge against you.

Definit

ion

• Propitiation means satisfaction of offended justice.

Thesis• In order to be

saved, you have to let God select

what satisfies him.

Point 3

• The only person in the universe who could act as your

substitute and pay for God's offended holiness was God himself in the person of the perfection of Jesus Christ.

Definition• The forbearance of

God is his self-restraint in the Old Testament at punishing sin because of his anticipation of the cross.

Point 4• God can condemn you

with the law but he can only save you by his Son.

COME FORWARD

FOR PRAYER