Oakwood Church

“And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, ‘You may surely eat of every tree of the garden, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”
Genesis 2:16-17

“Then the eyes of both were opened, and they knew that they were naked. And they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loincloths.”
Genesis 3:7

“Weakened by the flesh… in the likeness of sinful flesh… he condemned sin in the flesh… who walk not according to the flesh.” Romans 8:3-4

The Bad News:

Apart from Jesus, people are in Adam:

“By the one man’s disobedience the many were made sinners.”
Romans 5:19

Apart from Jesus, people are in Adam:

“Sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned.”
Romans 5:12

Apart from Jesus, people are in Adam:

“Death reigned through that one man… Sin reigned in death…”
Romans 5:17,21

Apart from Jesus, people are in Adam:

“As in Adam all die so also in Christ shall all be made alive.”
1 Corinthians 15:22

Apart from Jesus, people are in Adam:

“As in Adam all die so also in Christ shall all be made alive.”
1 Corinthians 15:22

• Blind
• Lost
• Slaves
• Dead

Apart from Jesus, people are in Adam:

• Blind - unable to See the truth

“They became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened.”
Romans 1:21

Apart from Jesus, people are in Adam:

• Lost - unable to Find God

“For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures.”
Titus 3:3

Apart from Jesus, people are in Adam:

• Slaves - unable to consistently Do what is right

“God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done. They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice.”
Romans 1:28-29

Apart from Jesus, people are in Adam:

• Dead - unable to Change spiritually

“Desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death.”
James 1:15

Apart from Jesus, people are in Adam:

“As in Adam all die so also in Christ shall all be made alive.”
1 Corinthians 15:22

• Blind
• Lost
• Slaves
• Dead

“Sin aims always at the utmost; every time it rises up to tempt or entice, might it have its own course, it would go out to the utmost sin in that kind. Every unclean thought or glance would be adultery if it could; every covetous desire would be oppression, every thought of unbelief would be atheism, might it grow to its head.”

~ John Owen, On the Mortification of Sin

The Good News:

In Jesus you can have:

• Clarity - understanding of the Truth

“The law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death.”
Romans 8:2

In Jesus you can have:

• Clarity - understanding of the Truth

“For God, who said, ‘Let light shine out of darkness,’ has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.”
2 Corinthians 4:6

• Clarity – understanding of the Truth

“These things God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God… Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might understand the things freely given us by God.”
1 Corinthians 2:10,12

• Clarity – understanding of the Truth

“The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned. The spiritual person judges all things, but is himself to be judged by no one… But we have the mind of Christ.”
1 Corinthians 2:14-16

In Jesus you can have:

• Direction – constant internal Guidance

“But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.”
John 14:26

In Jesus you can have:

• Direction – constant internal Guidance

“When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth.”
John 16:13

• Direction – constant internal Guidance

“You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if in fact theSpirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spiritof Christ does not belong to him. But if Christ is in you, although the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit is life because of righteousness.”
Romans 8:9-10

In Jesus you can have:

• Freedom – from the Controlling power of sin

“The law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death.”
Romans 8:2

“Sin is no longer your master, but it is still your enemy.”
~ Pastor Colin Smith

In Jesus you can have:

• Freedom – from the Controlling power of sin

“You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you… But if Christ is in you, although the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit is life because of righteousness.”
Romans 8:9-10

In Jesus you can have:

• Life – new Desires and ability to serve God

“He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.”
Romans 8:11

“For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.”
Romans 8:3-4