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Life in the Bible Club
Maple Woods College

Bible Study Outlines

March 7, 2007

The Mystery of Christ in His Process and Work - Death

  1. Introduction
    1. Last week in the introduction we mentioned that the Lord had a wonderful death. Perhaps it sounds odd to you to speak of the Lord's death as being "wonderful." This week we review the very things in the scriptures that allow us to see how wonderful it WAS and how wonderful it still IS.
    2. One of the verses below, John 12:24 is spoken at a time when it seemed that the Jews and the unbelieving gentiles were very interested in Jesus Christ and they were seeking Him out. It would have been very easy for Jesus to declare that He was their new king, but it is evident that He had another goal in view. That goal was to give His life for the world. His death was not a martyr's death. Instead it was purposeful in a process to become the sacrifice for our sins and simultaneously release the life within Him which would be able to produce the same life in all of us as believer's. This would bring in a new entity on the earth which contains the life of God. This entity is the church and it was revealed in the writings of the apostle Paul as the body of Christ.
  2. Crucial verses and footnotes in the New Testament Recovery Version Bible.
    1. John 19:341 - But one of the soldiers pierced His side with a spear, and immediately there came out blood and water.
    2. 1 Peter 2:241 - Who Himself bore up our sins in His body on the tree, in order that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness; by whose bruise you were healed.
    3. I Peter 3:181-2 - For Christ also has suffered once for sins, the Righteous on behalf of the unrighteous, that He might bring you to God, on the one hand being put to death in the flesh, but on the other, made alive in the spirit
    4. 2 Corinthians 5:211-4 - Him who did not know sin He made sin on our behalf that we might become the righteousness of God in Him. 6:1 And working together with Him, we also entreat you not to receive the grace of God in vain
    5. Hebrews 2:141 - Since therefore the children have shared in blood and flesh, He also Himself in like manner partook of the same, that through death He might destroy him who has the might of death, that is, the devil
    6. John 12:311, 241, 321 - Now is the judgment of this world; now shall the ruler of this world be cast out. 24 Truly, truly, I say to you, Unless the grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it abides alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit. 32 And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men to Myself.
  3. Questions
    1. What would have been the result if Jesus had just established an earthly kingdom?
    2. What the significance of the serpent in John chapter three that was lifted up (John 3:14)?
    3. How can Satan be already judged and made of none effect (Hebrews 2:14) when he still seems so active in our experience?

 

NOTE: The footnotes referenced in the outlines are from the The Holy Bible, Recovery Version © 2003 Living Stream Ministry. An online Recovery Version may be searched for verses and footnotes at: The Holy Bible, Online Recovery Version. You may also obtain a free Recovery Version New Testament by filling out a request form on the Bibles for America website.