OUR
WORTH IS BOUND UP IN THE BLOOD OF CHRIST
BREAD
3 The
LORD appeared to us in the past, saying: “I have loved you with an everlasting
love; I have drawn you with loving-kindness.”
Jeremiah 31:3 (NIV)
15 “Can
a mother forget the baby at her breast and have no compassion on the child she
has borne? Though she may forget, I will not forget you! 16 See,
I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; your walls are ever before
me. Isaiah 49:15-16 (NIV)
21 But
now a righteousness from God, apart from law, has been made known, to which the
Law and the Prophets testify. 22 This righteousness from God comes through faith in
Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference, 23 for
all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24 and
are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ
Jesus. Romans 3:21-24 (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)
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. 2 Corinthians 5:14-15 (NIV)
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. 2 Corinthians
5:17-21 (NIV)
7 But
we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is
from God and not from us. 8 We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed;
perplexed, but not in despair; 9 persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not
destroyed. 10 We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus,
so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body. 11 For
we who are alive are always being given over to death for Jesus’ sake, so that
his life may be revealed in our mortal body. 12 So
then, death is at work in us, but life is at work in you. 2 Corinthians 4:7-12
(NIV)
31 What,
then, shall we say in response to this? If God is for us, who can be against
us? 32 He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for
us all--how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? 33 Who
will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who
justifies. 34 Who is he that condemns? Christ Jesus, who died--more
than that, who was raised to life--is at the right hand of God and is also
interceding for us. 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall
trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? 36 As
it is written: “For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as
sheep to be slaughtered.” 37 No,
in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38 For
I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither
the present nor the future, nor any powers, 39 neither
height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate
us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 8:31-39 (NIV)
17 “The
LORD your God is with you, he is mighty to save. He will take great delight in you, he will
quiet you with his love, he will rejoice over you with singing.” Zephaniah 3:17
(NIV)
BUTTER
“His love to us counted nothing too costly, too difficult,
too grievous. Let us likewise show our
love to Christ.” David Clarkson
“God doesn’t love us because of our
worth, we are of worth because God loves us.”
Martin Luther
“When men suffer
great pain of mind, the blood apparently rushes to the heart. The cheeks are pale; a fainting fit comes on;
the blood has gone inward as if to nourish the inner man while passing through
its trial. But look at Christ in His
agony; he is so utterly oblivious of self that instead of His agony driving His
blood to the heart to nourish Himself, it drives it outward falling to the
ground. The agony of Christ, inasmuch as it pours Him out upon the ground,
pictures the fullness of the offering that He made for men. Can we fathom how intense the wrestling must
have been through which he passed, and will we not hear its voice to us? ‘In
your struggle against sin you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding
your blood.’ Behold the great Apostle and High Priest of our profession, and
sweat even to blood rather than yield to the great tempter of your souls.” C.
H. Spurgeon revised by Alistair Begg
“Although the love of Christ surpasses our
present knowledge, we may know enough to feed us in this life and whet our
appetite for more in the life to come.
We have enough to guide us through our pilgrimage on earth, and an
abundance reserved for us in heaven.
Christ’s love has depths in which the daring soul may drown, and
abundant shallows for the humble to safely wade. Though our knowledge of Christ’s love is
imperfect, we may know enough to shame us that we have not loved Him more. His love allowed him to suffer the most
dreadful things on our account. As we
reflect upon it, it is with great shame that we have been so weak to suffer for
His name.” Vincent
Alsop
“The prosecutor of your soul can’t ever nail
you: Time can’t wreck your life. You
can’t wreck your life. Nothing in all of
this world can separate you from the love of Christ and His love is your life. Your life is unwreckable
because Christ’s love is unstoppable.” Ann Voskamp
“The
believer is in spiritual danger if he allows himself to go for any length of
time without tasting the love of Christ and savoring the felt comforts of a
Savior’s presence. When Christ ceases to fill the heart with satisfaction, our
souls will go in silent search of other lovers… By the enjoyment of the love of
Christ in the heart of a believer, we mean an experience of the ‘love of God
shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given to us’ (Rom. 5:5)…
because the Lord has made himself accessible to us in the means of grace, it is
our duty and privilege to seek this experience from Him in these means till we
are made the joyful partakers of it.” John Flavel (1630-1691)
“The wisdom of God has ordained a way for
the love of God to deliver us from the wrath of God without compromising the
justice of God. The gospel.” John Piper
“Once you realize
all that it cost God to forgive you, you will be held as in a vise, constrained
by the love of God.” Oswald
Chambers
HEART SAVOR
- · “O the deep, deep love of Jesus. Vast, unmeasured, boundless, free! Rolling as a mighty ocean in its fullness over me! Underneath me, all around me, is the current of Thy love, leading onward, leading homeward, to my glorious rest above! O the deep, deep love of Jesus, spread His praise from shore to shore! How He loveth, ever loveth, changeth never, never more! How He watches o’er His loved ones, died to call them all His own; how for them He intercedeth, watcheth o’er them from the throne! O the deep, deep love of Jesus, love of every love the best! ‘Tis an ocean full of blessing, ‘tis a haven giving rest! O the deep, deep love of Jesus, ‘tis a heav’n of heav’ns to me; and it lifts me up to glory, for it lifts me up to Thee!” Samuel Trevor Francis
- · We are engraved on the palms of God’s hand. We are ever before Him.
- · Jesus’ blood purifies us from all unrighteousness.
