Unwrapping the Gift
Unwrapping Christmas Week #2
Unwrapping the Gift
Romans 5:1-11
8 Gifts Unwrapped
Who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness—by whose stripes you were healed. –1 Peter 2:24
• Faith is the key to victory because faith is the way we experience being born of God.
For a child has been born for us; a son has been given to us. And the dominion will be on his shoulder, and his name is called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. His dominion will grow continually, and to peace there will be no end on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish it and sustain it with justice and righteousness now and forever. The zeal of Yahweh of hosts will do this. Isaiah 9:6-7
1. Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. –Romans 5:1(NIV)
• Peace Unwrapped
20 It was through what his Son did that God cleared a path for everything to come to him—all things in heaven and on earth—for Christ’s death on the cross has made peace with God for all by his blood. 21 This includes you who were once so far away from God. You were his enemies and hated him and were separated from him by your evil thoughts and actions, yet now he has brought you back as his friends. -Colossians 1:20-21
2. Because of our faith, Christ has brought us into this place of undeserved privilege where we now stand, and we confidently and joyfully look forward to sharing God’s glory. –Romans 5:2(NLT)
• Access Unwrapped
3. Through whom also we have access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. –Romans 5:2 (NIV)
• Hope Unwrapped
4. And not only that, but we also glory in tribulations, knowing that tribulation produces perseverance; and perseverance, character; and character, hope. –Romans 5:3, 4 (NIV)
• Perseverance Unwrapped
5. Now hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts …. –Romans 5:5 (NIV)
• Love Unwrapped
For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. –John 3:16 (NIV)
6. The love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us. –Romans 5:5 (NIV)
• Holy Spirit Unwrapped
And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever—the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you. I will not leave you orphans; I will come to you. –John 14:16-18 (NIV)
7. Much more than, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him. For if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life. –Romans 5:9-10 (NIV)
• Deliverance Unwrapped
8. And not only that, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation. –Romans 5:11 (NIV)
• Joy Unwrapped