The Bookends of the Christian Life Flashcards
Centrality of the Cross –
1 Corinthians 1
“For Jews demand …
1 Cor. 1:22-24 - “For Jews demand signs and Greeks seek wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles, but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.”
Righteousness of God -
Romans 1
“I am not ashamed of …
Rom. 1:16-17 - “I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. For in the gospel the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith as it is written, “The righteous shall live by faith.”
2 Cor. 5:21 - “For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.”
Love of God in Christ is the Motivating Power -
2 Corinthians 5
“For the love of …
2 Cor. 5:14-15 - “For the love of Christ *controls us, because we have concluded this: that One has died for all (those in Christ) therefore all have died; and he died for all, that those who live might no longer live for themselves but for him who for their sake died and was raised.”
Romans 5:5 - “God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit”
False Righteousness - Romans 10
“For I bear them witness that …
Rom. 10:2-4 - “For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge. For, being ignorant of the righteousness of God, and seeking to establish their own, they did not submit to God’s righteousness. For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.”
Paralyzing Guilt - Self loathing - Galatians 2
I do not …
Gal. 2:21 - “I do not nullify (make void) the grace of God, for if righteousness were through the law, then Christ died for no purpose.
(defeating it’s purpose)
Leaning on His Righteousness - Gal. 2
I have been …
Gal. 2:20 - “I have been crucified with Christ.
(completed with enduring effect through Representative Union)
It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me.
And the life I now live (present continuous) in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
Synergistic Power -
Phil. 2
Therefore, my beloved, as you have always …
Phil. 2:12-13 - “Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, so now, not only as in my presence but much more in my absence, work out (dunamis) your own salvation with fear and trembling,
13 for it is God who works in you, both to will (motivate, give the desire)
and to work (enabling power) for his good pleasure.”
Enabling Power of Grace -
2 Tim.
You then, my child, be …
2 Tim. 2:1 - “You then, my child, be strengthened …
(Gr. passive imperative, something done to us)
… by the grace that is in Christ Jesus.”
(enabling grace)
New Affections - Expulsive Power - Colossians
May you be …
Col. 1:11-12, 29 - “May you be strengthened with all power …
(enabling),
… according to his glorious might,
(triumphant)
… for all endurance (standing firm)
… and patience (longsuffering)
… with (accompanied) joy, giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in light.
(29) “For this I toil (hard), struggling with all His (the Spirit’s) energy that He powerfully works within me.”
(divine enablement needed - dependent responsibly)
Sufficiency from God -
2 Corinthians 3
Such is the confidence that …
2 Cor. 3:4-6 - “Such is the confidence that we have through Christ toward God.
5 Not that we are sufficient (capable) in ourselves to claim anything as coming from us, but our sufficiency (adequacy) is from God (the All Sufficient One),
6 who has made us competent (continuously) to be ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit.
For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life (continuously).”
Sustaining Grace -
2 Cor. 3
And we all, with …
2 Cor. 3:18 - “And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another. For this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit.”
Grace and Spirit from beginning - Galatians 3
Did you receive the …
Gal. 3:2-3 - “Did you receive the Spirit by works of the law …
(through performance, merit) or (was it simply) by hearing with faith?
Are you so foolish?
Having begun by the Spirit, are you now being perfected by the flesh?”
