MUCH MORE
(Transcribed Message)

Sunday Morning:  May 13, 2001

Text: Romans 5:8-21

THE CROSS

Romans 5:8  "But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us."

GOD LOVED

John 3:16  "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son,. . . ."

THE LAMB DIED

John 1:29  "The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world."

MUCH MORE

Romans 5:9  "Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him."

THE BLOOD CLEANSETH

1 John 1:7-9  "But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. 8. If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. 9. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness."

NOT CHARGEABLE

Romans 8:33-34  "Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth. 34. Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us."

CHARGEABLE ACTS

Ephesians 5:3-6  "But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints; 4. Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks. 5. For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. 6. Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience."

THEY ALWAYS ERR

Hebrews 3:10-11  "Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways. 11. So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.)"

LOSS OF KINGDOM LIFE

James 5:19-20  "Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him; 20. Let him know, that he which converteth the sinner (brother) from the error of his way shall save a soul [or life] from death [qanatos. (loss of preferred kingdom life, inheritance)], and shall hide a multitude of sins."

ENEMIES

Romans 5:10  “For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved (from the wrath, v. 9) by his life (as our high priest, 1 John 1:9).”

UNFAITHFUL

James 4:4  "Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God."

SELF WILLED

Luke 19:27  "But those mine enemies, which would not that I should reign over them, bring hither, and slay them before me."

RECONCILIATION

Romans 5:11  “And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement [reconciliation].”

HUSBAND AND WIFE

1 Corinthians 7:11  "But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife."

THROUGH THANATOS

Colossians 1:21-23  "And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled

NOT CHARGEABLE

22. In the body of his flesh through [the] death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight:

CONDITIONAL

23. If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister;"