Oakwood Church

“When you hear what you’re about to hear, if you don’t think it’s the best news you’ve ever heard, you can be absolutely certain you have not yet understood it.”
~ Rico Tice, Christianity Explored
(available on RightNow Media)

“There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.”
Romans 8:1

“Nothing you do can make God love you more. Nothing you do can make God love you less.”
~ Preacher at a Challenge Conference, 1989

God’s Astounding Free Gift:

“There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.”
Romans 8:1

God’s Astounding Free Gift:

● The Struggle - there is good and bad in all of us

“There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.”
Romans 8:1

God’s Astounding Free Gift:

● The Struggle - there is good and bad in all of us

“I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out.”
Romans 7:18

God’s Astounding Free Gift:

● The Reality - no one is perfect, which is the requirement for heaven

“For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.”
Romans 3:23

God’s Astounding Free Gift:

● The Reality - no one is perfect, which is the requirement for heaven

“For the wages of sin is death.” Romans 6:23

God’s Astounding Free Gift:

● The Offer - You can exchange your sin for Jesus’ Righteousness

“God has done what the law… could not do by sending his own Son.”
Romans 8:3

God’s Astounding Free Gift:

● The Offer - You can exchange your sin for Jesus’ Righteousness

“In order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us.”
Romans 8:4

God’s Astounding Free Gift:

● The Decision - Trust in what you can Do or what God has Done

“God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do.”
Romans 8:3

“Here I felt that I was altogether born again and had entered paradise itself through open gates. There a totally other face of the entire Scripture showed itself to me. Thereupon I ran through the Scriptures from memory. I also found in other terms an analogy, as, the work of God, that is, what God does in us, the power of God, with which he makes us strong, the wisdom of God, with which he makes us wise, the strength of God, the salvation of God, the glory of God.”
~ Martin Luther

God’s Astounding Free Gift:

● The Decision - Trust in what you can Do or what God has Done

“What the law was powerless to do… God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh to be a sin offering.”
Romans 8:3 (NIV)

God’s Astounding Free Gift:

● The Decision - Trust in what you can Do or what God has Done

“If you confess with your mouth, ‘Jesus is Lord,’ and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.”
Romans 10:9

● The Decision - Trust in what you can Do or what God has Done

“If you confess with your mouth, ‘Jesus is Lord,’ and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.”
Romans 10:9

- Publicly Declare Jesus as your King
- Personally Believe He died for you and rose again

God’s Astounding Free Gift:

● The Bonus - You can be Forgiven, declared perfect, by becoming One with Jesus

“There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.”
Romans 8:1

● The Bonus - You can be Forgiven, declared perfect, by becoming One with Jesus

“We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.”
Romans 6:4

● The Bonus - You can be Forgiven, declared perfect, by becoming One with Jesus

“For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his.”
Romans 6:5

“The Spirit and the Bride say, ‘Come.’ And let the one who hears say, ‘Come.’ And let the one who is thirsty come; let the one who desires take the water of life without price.”
Revelation 22:17