How Did God Solve Man’s Problem? | GOD’s PROVISION

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This presentation (a.k.a The Gospel in ‘P’s) is structured around what I call the four ‘P’s – Purpose, Problem, Provision and Potential.

In our first lesson in this series, we saw that God’s PURPOSE for creating Man (in His image) was RELATIONSHIP.

In the second lesson, we saw that Man’s PROBLEM (which derailed God’s Purpose) was SEPARATION from God … caused by SIN and DEATH.

In this, our third lesson, we will investigate what the Bible says about God’s PROVISION.

 

How did God Solve Man’s Problem? | GOD’s PROVISION  

 

Who was Jesus Christ?

 

Isaiah 9:6  For unto us a Child is born, Unto us a Son is given; And the government will be upon His shoulder. And His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.  

  1. According to Isaiah 9:6, what is the third name by which the “Child” who was born unto them be called?

 

John 1:1-2,14  In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God … 14 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.  

  1. According to John 1:14, who became flesh?
  2. According to John 1:1, who was the Word?

John 8:58-59  Jesus said to them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I AM.”  59 Then they took up stones to throw at Him; but Jesus hid Himself and went out of the temple, going through the midst of them, and so passed by.

  1. According John 8:58-59, why did the people pick up stones to throw at Jesus?
    • Exodus 3:14 And God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM.” And He said, “Thus you shall say to the children of Israel, ‘I AM has sent me to you’.”     

John 10:30-33 “I and My Father are one.” 31 Then the Jews took up stones again to stone Him. 32 Jesus answered them, “Many good works I have shown you from My Father. For which of those works do you stone Me?”  33 The Jews answered Him, saying, “For a good work we do not stone You, but for blasphemy, and because You, being a Man, make Yourself God.”

  1. According to John 10:30-31, why did the people take up stones to stone Jesus?
  2. According to John 10:33, what reason did the Jews give for taking up stones to stone Jesus?

John 20:26-28   And after eight days His disciples were again inside, and Thomas with them. Jesus came, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and said, “Peace to you!” 27 Then He said to Thomas, “Reach your finger here, and look at My hands; and reach your hand here, and put it into My side. Do not be unbelieving, but believing.”  28 And Thomas answered and said to Him, “My Lord and my God!” 

  1. What did Thomas refer to Jesus as?

Titus 2:11-13  For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men,12 teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly in the present age, 13 looking for the blessed hope and glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ …. 

  1. According to Titus 2:13, Jesus Christ is our great what?

2 Peter 1:1   Simeon[a] Peter, a servant[b] and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have obtained a faith of equal standing with ours by the righteousness of our God and Saviour Jesus Christ:  

  1. According to 2 Peter 1:1, Jesus Christ is our Saviour and what else?

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What did Jesus Christ do?

 

Matthew 1:21“… she will bring forth a Son, and you shall call His name Jesus, for He will save His people from their sins.”

  1. Why was Joseph told to name Mary’s son JESUS?
  2. What was Jesus prophesied to do?

Luke 19:9-10  And Jesus said to him, “Today salvation has come to this house … 10 for the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost.”   

  1. According to Jesus, what was the reason the Son of Man had come?

Hebrews 4:14-15   Seeing then that we have a great High Priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession.  15 For we do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin.  

  1. Why can Jesus sympathize with us?
  2. How did Jesus respond to temptation?

Romans 5:8  But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

  1. According to Romans 5:8, what did Christ do for us?

1 Corinthians 15:3-4  For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, 4 and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures,

  1. According to 1 Corinthians 15:3-4, what three things did Jesus do?

2 Corinthians 5:18-19  Now all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation, 19 that is, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them ….

  1. How did God reconcile us to Himself?

2 Corinthians 5:21  God made Him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.   

  1. According to 2 Corinthians 5:21, what did God do so that we might become the righteousness of God?

John 14: 6   Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.

  1. Why did Jesus say He was the way?

Galatians 4:4-5… God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the law, 5 to redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption as sons.

  1. What did Jesus make it possible for people in the world to receive?

1 John 2:2  My little children … if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. 2 And He Himself is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the whole world.   

  1. What is Jesus the propitiation for?

 

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What did Jesus accomplish?

 

2 Corinthians 5:18-19  Now all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation, 19 that is, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them, and has committed to us the word of reconciliation.

  1. According to 2 Corinthians 5:18, what has happened as a result of what was done through Jesus Christ?
  2. According to 2 Corinthians 5:19, what was God doing to/with the world?
  3. Do you believe God succeeded?
  4. What did God have to do in order to accomplish what He wanted?
  5. What do you think would have happened to the “trespasses” of the world?
  6. What has God given to us?
  7. What has He committed to us?
  8. Whose reconciliation do you believe Paul is referring to?

2 Corinthians 5:21  For He (God) made Him (Jesus) who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.

  1. As a result of Jesus becoming sin for us, what might we become?
  2. What had to happen in order for us to become the righteousness of God?  (See 2 Cor.5:19)
  3. What does it mean Jesus was made to be sin for us?

 

Ephesians 1:7  In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace.

  1. According to Ephesians 1:7, what two things do we have in Christ, through His blood?
  2. Where is the forgiveness of sins to be found?
  3. What motivated the forgiveness of our sins?
  4. What brought about the forgiveness of our sins?

1 John 2:1-2  My little children, these things I write to you, so that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. 2 And He Himself is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the whole world.

  1. According to 1 John 2:2, what is Jesus?
  2. What is the difference between “expiation” and “propitiation”?
  3. Whose sins is Jesus the “propitiation” for?
  4. What do you understand the last part of 1 John 2:2 to mean?

Romans 5:9-11  Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him.  10 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.   

  1. What has happened to us because of Christ’s blood?
  2. What do the different tenses of the verb “reconciled” tell us about our reconciliation?
  3. What shall happen to us, through the death of Christ?
  4. As a result of what has happened through the death of Christ, what will happen to us by His life?

1 Corinthians 15:22  For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ all shall be made alive.  

  1. Why do “all” die?
  2. According to 1 Corinthians 15:22, what shall happen “in Christ”?
  3. Whom does that “all” refer to?
  4. Is it referring to the same “all” that is “in Adam”?
  5. What does it mean to be “in Adam”?  How does that happen?
  6. What does it mean to be “in Christ”?  How does that happen?

Ephesians 1:7,11   In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace … 11 In Him also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestined according to the purpose of Him who works all things according to the counsel of His will

  1. According to Ephesians 1:11, what do we have in Him?
  2. Why did we get that?  What was that because of?

Colossians 1:13-14  He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love,  14 in whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins.   

  1. According to Colossians 1:13-14, what has happened to us as a result of what Jesus Christ has done?
  2. What were we delivered from?
  3. What were we conveyed into?

Hebrews 10:4  It is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.   

Hebrews 7:26-27  For such a High Priest was fitting for us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and has become higher than the heavens; 27 who does not need daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifices, first for His own sins and then for the people’s, for this He did once for all when He offered up Himself.

  1. What could animal sacrifices not do with regard to sins?
  2. What could they do?
  3. By implication, what did the sacrifice of Jesus do?

Hebrews 9:11-12  But Christ came as High Priest of the good things to come, with the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands, that is, not of this creation. 12 Not with the blood of goats and calves, but with His own blood He entered the Most Holy Place once for all, having obtained eternal redemption.   

 

 

How did the death of Jesus Christ affect us?

 

2 Corinthians 5:18-19  Now all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation, 19 that is, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them ….

 

2 Corinthians 5:21  God made Him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. 

 

Galatians 4:4-5  … God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the law, 5 to redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption as sons.

 

1 John 2:2 My little children … if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. 2 And He Himself is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the whole world. 

 

Romans 6:1-4   What shall we say then?  Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound?  2 Certainly not! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it?  3 Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death?  4 Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.     

 

Romans 6:7  For he who has died has been freed from sin.   

 

Romans 7:1-6    Or do you not know, brethren (for I speak to those who know the law), that the law [a]has dominion over a man as long as he lives?  2 For the woman who has a husband is bound by the law to her husband as long as he lives. But if the husband dies, she is released from the law of her husband.  3 So then if, while her husband lives, she marries another man, she will be called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from that law, so that she is no adulteress, though she has married another man.  4 Therefore, my brethren, you also have become dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you may be married to another — to Him who was raised from the dead, that we should bear fruit to God.  5 For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were aroused by the law were at work in our members to bear fruit to death.  6 But now we have been delivered from the law, having died to what we were held by, so that we should serve in the newness of the Spirit and not in the oldness of the letter.  

 

Romans 8:1-2    There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who[a] do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.  2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.   

 

 

 

 

 

Questions

  1. Why was Joseph told to name Mary’s son JESUS? 
  2. According to Jesus, what was the reason the Son of Man had come?
  3. Why can Jesus sympathize with us?
  4. How did Jesus respond to temptation?
  5. According to Romans 5:8, what did Christ do for us?
  6. According to 1 Corinthians 15:3-4, what three things did Jesus do?
  7. How did God reconcile us to Himself?
  8. According to 2 Corinthians 5:21, what did God do so that we might become the righteousness of God?
  9. Why did Jesus say He was the way?
  10. What is Jesus the propitiation for?
  11. What did Jesus make it possible for people in the world to receive?

 

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How did the resurrection of Jesus Christ affect us?

 

Romans 5:8  But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

 

1 Corinthians 15:3-4  For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, 4 and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures,

 

2 Corinthians 5:21  God made Him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.   

 

John 14: 6  Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.

 

John 11:25  Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live.  

 

1 Peter 1:3      Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His abundant mercy has begotten us again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 

Ephesians 2:1   And you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins,

 

 

 

Questions

  1. According to 1 Corinthians 15:3-4, what three things did Jesus do?
  2. How did God reconcile us to Himself?
  3. According to 2 Corinthians 5:21, what did God do so that we might become the righteousness of God?
  4. Why did Jesus say He was the life?
  5. What is Jesus the propitiation for?
  6. What did Jesus make it possible for people in the world to receive?

 

1 Corinthians 15:12-19   Now if Christ is preached that He has been raised from the dead, how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?  13 But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ is not risen.  14 And if Christ is not risen, then our preaching is empty and your faith is also empty.   15 Yes, and we are found false witnesses of God, because we have testified of God that He raised up Christ, whom He did not raise up — if in fact the dead do not rise.  16 For if the dead do not rise, then Christ is not risen.  17 And if Christ is not risen, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins!  18 Then also those who have [c]fallen asleep in Christ have perished.  19 If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men the most pitiable.    

1 Corinthians 15:20-28   But now Christ is risen from the dead, and has become the firstfruits of those who have [d]fallen asleep.  21 For since by man came death, by Man also came the resurrection of the dead.  22 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ all shall be made alive.   23 But each one in his own order: Christ the firstfruits, afterward those who are Christ’s at His coming.  24 Then comes the end, when He delivers the kingdom to God the Father, when He puts an end to all rule and all authority and power.  25 For He must reign till He has put all enemies under His feet. 26 The last enemy that will be destroyed is death.  27 For “He has put all things under His feet.” But when He says “all things are put under Him,” it is evident that He who put all things under Him is excepted. 28 Now when all things are made subject to Him, then the Son Himself will also be subject to Him who put all things under Him, that God may be all in all.

  • When you know what rests on the resurrection, you know why if in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men the most pitiable.

i. The divinity of Jesus rests on the resurrection of Jesus (Romans 1:4).

ii. The sovereignty of Jesus rests on the resurrection of Jesus (Romans 14:9).

iii. Our justification rests on the resurrection of Jesus (Romans 4:25).

iv. Our regeneration rests on the resurrection of Jesus (1 Peter 1:3).

v. Our ultimate resurrection rests on the resurrection of Jesus (Romans 8:11).

vi. “The fact is, that the silver thread of resurrection runs through all the blessings, from regeneration onward to our eternal glory, and binds them together.” (Spurgeon)

Colossians 3:1-4    If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God.  2 Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth.  3 For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.  4 When Christ who is our life appears, then you also will appear with Him in glory.

 

 

 

How was Jesus Christ able to do what He did for us?

 

 

John 14:20  At that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you.

  1. According to John 14:20, where was Christ?
  2. According to John 14:20, where were the disciples?

Acts 17:26-28   And He has made from one blood every nation of men… 27 so that they should seek the Lord… though He is not far from each one of us; 28 for in Him we live and move and have our being ….

 

Ephesians 1:3-4  Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, 4 just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love, 5 having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will, 6 to the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He made us accepted in the Beloved.

 

Ephesians 3:8-10  Yet indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ 9 and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness, which is from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith;

 

1 Corinthians 1:30 But of Him you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God — and righteousness and sanctification and redemption —

 

1 Peter 5:14 Greet one another with a kiss of love.  Peace to you all who are in Christ Jesus. Amen.

 

1 John 2:5-6 But whoever keeps His word, truly the love of God is perfected in him. By this we know that we are in Him. 6 He who says he abides in Him ought himself also to walk just as He walked.

 

1 Corinthians 15:22  For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ all shall be made alive.

 

 

 

Romans 16:7 Greet Andronicus and Junia, my countrymen and my fellow prisoners, who are of note among the apostles, who also were in Christ before me.

Galatians 1:22 And I was unknown by face to the churches of Judea which were in Christ.

Philippians 1:1 Paul and Timothy, bondservants of Jesus Christ, To all the saints in Christ Jesus who are in Philippi, with the bishops and deacons:

Philippians 4:21 Greet every saint in Christ Jesus.   The brethren who are with me greet you.

Colossians 1:2 To the saints and faithful brethren in Christ who are in Colosse: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

1 Thessalonians 2:14 For you, brethren, became imitators of the churches of God which are in Judea in Christ Jesus. For you also suffered the same things from your own countrymen, just as they did from the Judeans,

 

 

 

 

 

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