Ideas Flashcards
What is Salvation
Deliverance from sin and its consequences, believed by Christians to be brought about by faith in Christ.
Sin
Trespassing……Going beyond a boundary
Sin………………..Missing the Mark (accurate representation of God)
Sin………………..All sin is an assault on God
Man has the potential to be corrupted sense we are created beings
Justification
God’s gracious and full acquittal upon principles of righteousness of all sinners who repent and believe in Christ.
Life
The condition that distinguishes animals and plants from inorganic matter, including the capacity for growth, reproduction, functional activity, and continual change preceding death.
Union with God vs. separation from God
Desire
A strong feeling of wanting to have something or wishing for something to happen.
Desires: Reflect our thirst for God.
The Image of God
Mentally
Mentally, man was created as a rational, volitional agent. In other words, man can reason and man can choose. This is a reflection of God’s intellect and freedom. Anytime someone invents a machine, writes a book, paints a landscape, enjoys a symphony, calculates a sum, or names a pet, he or she is proclaiming the fact that we are made in God’s image.
The Image of God
Morally
Morally, man was created in righteousness and perfect innocence, a reflection of God’s holiness. God saw all He had made (mankind included) and called it “very good” (Genesis 1:31). Our conscience or “moral compass” is a vestige of that original state. Whenever someone writes a law, recoils from evil, praises good behavior, or feels guilty, he is confirming the fact that we are made in God’s own image.
The Image of God
Socially
Socially, man was created for fellowship. This reflects God’s triune nature and His love. In Eden, man’s primary relationship was with God (Genesis 3:8 implies fellowship with God), and God made the first woman because “it is not good for the man to be alone” (Genesis 2:18). Every time someone marries, makes a friend, hugs a child, or attends church, he is demonstrating the fact that we are made in the likeness of God.
Integrity
The most basic definition of integrity is “wholeness.” By its nature, integrity cannot be compartmentalized. You will not find a business of integrity being led by a person whose own life is marked by dishonesty, laziness or pride. The character we cultivate choice after choice determines the values that will define our leadership and either enrich or damage those we lead and the mission we seek to advance.
As we pursue our callings and leadership opportunities, it’s important to remember that integrity will preserve you (Proverbs 10:9), but integrity isn’t just leadership insurance. Integrity for the Christian leader allows you the opportunity to mirror the heart, the wisdom, the humility of Christ and in doing so advance God’s Kingdom whether your lead in ministry or in a small business or in a government building.
Christ Death
For as Priest Christ delivers men from guilt of conscience and, by so doing, delivers them from their fear of death; as King He destroys him who had the power to destroy. He is “death of death and hell’s destruction.” It has been well said that the two terrors from which none but Christ can deliver men are guilt of sin and fear of death. The latter is the offspring of the former. When the conscience of sin is no more, dread of death yields to peace and joy.
That through death - That by the merit of his own death, making atonement for sin, and procuring the almighty energy of the Holy Spirit, he might counterwork καταργηση , or render useless and ineffectual, all the operations of him who had the power, κρατος , or influence, to bring death into the world; so that death, which was intended by him who was a murderer from the beginning to be the final ruin of mankind, becomes the instrument of their exaltation and endless glory; and thus the death brought in by Satan is counterworked and rendered ineffectual by the death of Christ.
Peace, shalom (shah–loam)
Shalom comes from the root verb shalam, meaning “to be complete, perfect, and full.” Thus shalom is much more than the absence of war and conflict; it is the wholeness that the entire human race seeks. The word shalom occurs about 250 times in the Old Testament.
