****NOTE: In an effort to bring encouragement to others during these uncertain times I have recorded (albeit lamely!) some Scripture recitation. If you are interested in viewing these they are on the links below or you can go to Beth Yoe at Instagram. I will be changing out these links each Monday (Lord willing!) ****
NOW
NO CONDEMNATION
BREAD
1 Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who
are in Christ Jesus, 2 because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of
life set me free from the law of sin and death. 3 For
what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the sinful nature,
God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful man to be a sin
offering. And so he condemned sin in sinful man, 4 in
order that the righteous requirements of the law might be fully met in us, who
do not live according to the sinful nature but according to the Spirit. Romans
8:1-4 (NIV)
14 For Christ’s love compels us, because we are
convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died. 15 And he died for all, that those
who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and
was raised again. 16 So
from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once
regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. 17 Therefore, if anyone is in
Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! 18 All this is from God, who
reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of
reconciliation: 19 that
God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men’s sins
against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. 20 We are therefore Christ’s
ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on
Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God. 21 God
made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the
righteousness of God. 1 As
God's fellow workers we urge you not to receive God's grace in vain. 2 For he says, “In the time of my
favor I heard you, and in the day of salvation I helped you.” I tell you, now is the time of God's favor,
now is the day of salvation. 2 Corinthians
5:14-6:2 (NIV)
2 He grew up before him like a tender shoot, and like a
root out of dry ground. He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing
in his appearance that we should desire him. 3 He
was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, and familiar with
suffering. Like one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we
esteemed him not. 4 Surely he took up our infirmities and carried our
sorrows, yet we considered him stricken by God, smitten by him, and afflicted. 5 But
he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the
punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed.
6 We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has
turned to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all. Isaiah 53:2-6 (NIV)
13 When you were dead in your sins and in the
uncircumcision of your sinful nature, God made you alive with Christ. He
forgave us all our sins, 14 having canceled the written code, with its
regulations, that was against us and that stood opposed to us; he took it away,
nailing it to the cross. 15 And having disarmed the powers and authorities, he
made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross. Colossians 2:13-15 (NIV)
23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is
eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 6:23 (NIV)
BUTTER
“When
Jesus started to cry out [on the cross], he didn’t say, ‘My friends, my friends’
‘My head, my head!’ ‘My hands, my hands!’ He said, ‘My God, my God.’ On the
cross, Jesus was forsaken by God. He
said, ‘My God’. That’s the language of intimacy… Jesus the Maker of the world
was being unmade. Why? Jesus was experiencing our judgment day. ‘My God, My
God, why have you forsaken me?’ It wasn’t a rhetorical question. And the answer
is: For you, for me, for us. Jesus was forsaken by God the Father so that we
would never have to be. The judgment that should have fallen on us fell instead
on Jesus.”
Dr.
Tim Keller, King’s Cross
“Don't
sit in the shadow of the broom tree saying, ‘It is enough!’ Instead, sit in the
shadow of the cross and say, ‘It is finished!’” Paige Benton Brown
“How deep the
Father’s love for us, how vast beyond all measure that He should give His only
Son to make a wretch His treasure. How
great the pain of searing loss, the Father turns His face away As wounds which
mar the chosen One, bring many sons to glory.
Behold the Man upon a cross, my sin upon His shoulders ashamed I hear my
mocking voice, call out among the scoffers.
It was my sin that held Him there until it was accomplished His dying
breath has brought me life I know that it is finished. I will not boast in anything no gifts, no
power, no wisdom but I will boast in Jesus Christ His death and resurrection. Why should I gain from His reward? I cannot give an answer but this I know with
all my heart His wounds have paid my ransom.” Stuart Townend
“See
the cross. See who was hanging there, why he had to die, and why he couldn’t
stay dead. Sin is worse than we think. The good news is better than you
imagine. Jesus lived. Jesus died. Jesus lives again. Christ arose. Christ
reigns. Christ will return. We have sinned. We will die. We can live again. Let
us not tire of singing the same old songs. Let us not be bored in preaching the
same good news. And let us never grow weary of the old rugged cross.” Kevin DeYoung
HEART SAVOR
·
In Christ, there is now no condemnation.
·
Jesus took away my sins by nailing them to the cross.
·
He rescued me “from this body of death”.
