Redemption in Christ. Shadows vs Substance

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1 Circumcised with Christ 1. Deut 10:12-22 The Lord s Requirements & The Required Response 2. Deut 30:1-10 Promises of Restoration & Prosperity 3. Jer 4:1-4 The People Called to Return 4. Rom 2:25-29 The True Jew & True Circumcision How This Teaching Was Perverted 1. 1 Cor 7:18-24 Remain in Condition Called 2. Gal 5:1-15 Christian Liberty 3. Gal 6:12-16 Paul s Adversaries & Paul s Boast Food Mark 7:14-23 Redemption in Christ Buried With Him in Baptism 1. Rom 6:1-13 The Death of a Believer with Christ 2. 1 Cor 12:12-13 Spirit Baptism into Christ s Body The Incidents 1. Acts 2:37-42 Peter on Pentecost 2. Acts 10:44-48 Peter in Cornelius House The Explanation 1. 1 Peter 1:1-5 Truths about a Believer 2. 1 Peter 1:14-23 A Believer s Responsibilities 3. 1 Peter 3:18-22 Christ s Death and Resurrection How to Refute False Teachings like Baptismal Regeneration Shadows vs Substance Gentile Inclusion Acts 10:9-29 Certificate of Debt Cancelled 1. Eph 2:1-10 Saved by Grace through Faith What Alone Takes Away Sin 1. Ps costly redemption which no man can pay 2. 1 Peter 1:18-19 precious blood of Christ 3. Heb 9:22-28 The Superior Sacrifice 4. Heb 10:10-18 The Superior Benefits Circumcision Acts 15:5-32 Galatians 2:1-16 Triumph Over Rulers & Authorities 1. Luke 23:42-43 Jesus Saves the thief on the Cross 2. Acts 2:22-33 Jesus Death & Resurrection 3. 1 Peter 3:18-20 Jesus in the Interim between His Death & His Resurrection 4. Luke 16:19-31 What Happens after a Person Dies Feasts 1 Cor 5:6-8

2 2:11 and Mark 14:58 - "We heard Him say, 'I will destroy this temple made with hands, and in three days I will build another made without hands.' 2 Corinthians 5:1 - For we know that if the earthly tent which is our house is torn down, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. in Him aor pass ind, peritemno, 18x, to cut around, to circumcise, since by the rite of circumcision a man was separated from the unclean world and dedicated to God, the word is transferred to denote the extinguishing of lusts and the removal of sins you were also circumcised peritome, AV 36x, the act or rite of circumcision, the state of circumcision; metaph. of believers separated from the unclean multitude & truly consecrated to God; the extinction of passions & the removal of spiritual impurity with a circumcision made without hands, acheiropoietos, AV 3x, not made with hands (s. Mk 14:58; 2Cor 5:1) apekdusis, AV 1x, a putting off, laying aside in the removal of the body of the flesh peritome, AV 36x, by the circumcision of Christ;

3 aor pass ptc, sunthapto, 2x, to bury together with For all who in the rite of believer's baptism are plunged into the water, thereby declare that they put faith in the expiatory death of Christ for the pardon of their past sins; therefore Paul likens baptism to a burial by which the former sinfulness is buried, i.e. utterly taken away (s, Rom 6:4) 2:12 having been buried with Him in baptism, baptisma, 22x, 1) immersion, submersion 1a) of calamities and afflictions with which one is quite overwhelmed 1b) of John s baptism, that purification rite by which men on confessing their sins were bound to spiritual reformation, obtained the pardon of their past sins and became qualified for the benefits of the Messiah s kingdom soon to be set up. This was valid Christian baptism, as this was the only baptism the apostles received and it is not recorded anywhere that they were in which ever rebaptised after Pentecost. 1c) of Christian baptism; a rite of immersion in water as commanded by Christ, by which one after confessing his sins and professing his faith in Christ, having been born again by the Holy Spirit unto a new life, identifies publicly with the fellowship of Christ and the church In Rom. 6:3 Paul states we are baptised unto death meaning that we are not only dead to our former ways, but they are buried. To return to them is as unthinkable for a Christian as for one to dig up a dead corpse! In Moslem countries a new believer has little trouble with Moslems until he is publicly you were also raised up with Him baptised. It is then, that the Moslems know he aor pass ind, sunegeiro, 3x, to raise up together from mortal death to means business, and then the persecution starts. a new & blessed life dedicated to God (s. Eph 2:6; Col 3:1) pistis, 244x, 1) conviction of the truth of anything, belief; in the NT of a conviction or belief respecting man's relationship to God and divine things, generally with the included idea of trust and holy fervour born of faith and joined with it 1a) relating to God 1a1) the conviction that God exists and is the creator and ruler of all things, the provider and bestower of eternal salvation through Christ 1b) relating to Christ 1b1) a strong and welcome conviction or belief that Jesus is the Messiah, through whom we obtain eternal salvation in the kingdom of God 1c) the religious beliefs of Christians 1d) belief with the predominate idea of trust (or confidence) whether in God or in Christ, springing from faith in the same 2) fidelity, faithfulness 2a) the character of one who can be relied on through faith energeia, 8x, working, efficiency, in the NT used only of superhuman power, whether of God or of the Devil; operative power in the working of God, aor act ptc, egeiro, 141x, 1) to arouse, cause to rise 1a) to arouse from sleep, to awake 1b) to arouse from the sleep of death, to recall the dead to life 1c) to cause to rise from a seat or bed etc. 1d) to raise up, produce, cause to appear 1d1) to cause to appear, bring before the public 1d2) to raise up, stir up, against one 1d3) to raise up i.e. cause to be born 1d4) of buildings, to raise up, construct, erect who raised Him from the dead. nekros, adjx, 132x, properly, one that has breathed his last, lifeless, destitute of life, without life, inanimate; metaph. spiritually dead, destitute of a life that recognises & is devoted to God, because given up to trespasses and sins, inactive as respects doing right, destitute of force or power, inactive, inoperative

4 2:13 nekros, adjx, 132x, properly, one that has breathed his last, lifeless, destitute of life, without life, inanimate; metaph. spiritually dead, destitute of a life that And recognises & is devoted to God, because given up to trespasses and sins, inactive as respects doing right, destitute of force or power, inactive, inoperative pres act ptc, eimi when you were dead in your transgressions paraptoma, 23x, to fall beside or near something, a lapse or deviation from truth and uprightness, a sin, misdeed and akrobustia, 20x, 1) having the foreskin, uncircumcised 2) a Gentile 3) a condition in which the corrupt desires rooted in the flesh were not yet extinct the uncircumcision of your flesh, aor act ind, suzoopoieo, 2x to make one alive together, of Christians, with Christ (s. Eph 2:5) He made you alive together with Him, aor mid ptc, charizomai, 23x, to grant forgiveness, to pardon, to forgive dogma, 5x, doctrine, decree, ordinance, of public decrees; the rules and requirements of the law of having forgiven us all our transgressions, Moses; carrying a suggestion of severity and of threatened judgment; of certain decrees of the apostles relative to right living 2:14 having canceled out the certificate of debt consisting of decrees against us aor act ptc, exaleipho, 5x, to wipe cheirographon, 1x, a handwriting, what one has written by his off, wipe away, to obliterate, erase, and own hand, a note of hand or writing in which one acknowledges wipe out, blot out that money has either been deposited with him or lent to him by another, to be returned at the appointed time which was hostile to us; hupenantios, 2x, opposed to, contrary to, an adversary (s. Heb 10:27) and perf act ind, airo, 102x, to raise up; to take upon one's self & carry what has been raised up, to bear; to bear away what has been raised, carry off, cause to cease He has taken it out of the way, aor act ptc, proseloo, 1x, to fasten with nails to, nail to having nailed it to the cross.

5 aor mid ptc, apekduomai, 2x, wholly put off from one's self denoting separation from what is put off; wholly to strip off for one's self (for one's own advantage); despoil, disarm (s. Col 3:9) 2:15 When He had disarmed the rulers and authorities, aor act ind, deigmatizo, 1x, to make an example of, to show as an example He made a public display of them, aor act ptc, thriambeuo, 2x, to triumph, to celebrate a triumph; cause one to triumph (s. 2Cor 2:14) having triumphed over them through Him. 2 Corinthians 2:14 - But thanks be to God, who always leads us in His triumph (pres act ptc) in Christ, and manifests through us the sweet aroma of the knowledge of Him in every place.

6 Luke 16:19-31 Hot Part of Hades Torment, flames Paradise (Luke 23:43) Cool Part of Hades Comfort Tartarus Abyss (2Pet 2:4; Jude 6) Bottomless Pit Copyright Cecilia Perh Rev 9:1-11; 20:1-3 Lake of Fire Rev 20:12-15 Gehenna (Mt 5:22,29,30; 10:28; 18:9; 23:15,33; Mk 9:43,45,47; Lk 12:5; Jam 3:6

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