Lent (11)
  1. The prophet is clear that this coming King would be different from the common experience of kings, both in Israel and among all the kings of the earth.
  2. God has chosen to covenant with us, to forgive us, and not hold our sins and trespasses against us. He has changed His attitude towards us.
  3. By looking to Him in faith we receive healing and eternal life through the salvation He bore for us on the cross and secured in His resurrection.
  4. The Law does its work of killing so we are drawn to Christ who makes us alive by His death and resurrection.
  5. The promise between God and Abraham reflects God’s relationship with all of His people, which includes the Church, and through the Church to each one of us.
  6. Abraham had a daring confidence that God would reveal a saving work to him on that mountain.
  7. God will change His attitude towards His rebellious and idolatrous people and raise them from their graves. They will be His living people once again.
  8. God identifies the savior as bearing the same problem all people have. But rather than bearing the problem because He Himself was a sinner, it is better to say He bore the problem with sinners, so He might bring them to salvation.
  9. We live our lives of flesh dependent like slaves, but God has made us children and heirs through Christ. So, we must “unlearn” what we have learned in our lives of sin.
  10. People often get confused by Abram’s blessing, believing it was about ethnicity or real estate, but we know the blessing of Abram was the promise that would be fulfilled in Christ for you.
  11. Jesus reverses the curse on the tree! By His bloody sweat, suffering, death, and burial, He peeled away sins punishment.