{"id":2128,"date":"2015-12-20T17:46:16","date_gmt":"2015-12-20T21:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/?p=2128"},"modified":"2015-12-20T17:46:16","modified_gmt":"2015-12-20T21:46:16","slug":"the-purpose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/?p=2128","title":{"rendered":"The Purpose"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Message by Dr. David Drake<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/rec1220-113120.mp3\">rec1220-113120<\/a><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8220;The Purpose&#8221;<\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Galatians 4:4-7 (NASB)<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b> <\/b> 4 \u00a0But when the fullness of the time came, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the Law, 5 \u00a0so that He might redeem those who were under the Law, that we might receive the adoption as sons. 6 \u00a0Because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying, &#8220;Abba! Father!&#8221; 7 \u00a0Therefore you are no longer a slave, but a son; and if a son, then an heir through God.<\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>1. Before the world was created, HE DIED FOR US!<\/h3>\n<p><b>Revelation 13:8 (NASB) <\/b>8 \u00a0All who dwell on the earth will worship him, <i>everyone<\/i> whose name has not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who has been slain.<\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>2. Before He was physically born, HE DIED FOR US!<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Matthew 1:21 (NASB) <\/strong>21 \u00a0\u201dShe will bear a Son; and you shall call His name Jesus, for He will save His people from their sins.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>3. In what He taught, HE DIED FOR US!<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Luke 9:22b (NASB)<\/strong> 22 \u00a0&#8220;The Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed and be raised up on the third day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>4. In what was told about Him, HE DIED FOR US!<\/h3>\n<p><strong>John 11:47-51 (NASB)<br \/>\n<\/strong><sup><span style=\"color: #000000;\">47 <\/span><\/sup><span class=\"ind\">\u00a0Therefore the chief priests and the Pharisees convened a council, and were saying, &#8220;What are we doing? For this man is performing many signs.<br \/>\n<sup><span style=\"color: #000000;\">48 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0<span class=\"versemode\">&#8220;<\/span>If we let Him <i>go on<\/i> like this, all men will believe in Him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.&#8221;<br \/>\n<sup><span style=\"color: #000000;\">49 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, &#8220;You know nothing at all,<br \/>\n<sup><span style=\"color: #000000;\">50 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0nor do you take into account that it is expedient for you that one man die for the people, and that the whole nation not perish.&#8221;<br \/>\n<sup><span style=\"color: #000000;\">51 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0Now he did not say this on his own initiative, but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus was going to die for the nation, <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Question&#8230;&#8221;What can His death do for you and me today?&#8221;<\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>1. He provides the way to God.<\/h3>\n<p><strong>John 14:6 (NASB)<\/strong> 6 \u00a0Jesus said to him, &#8220;I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me.<\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>2. He frees us from the guilt of sin.<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Ephesians 1:7 (NASB)<\/strong> 7 \u00a0In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace<\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>3. He gives us abundant life.<\/h3>\n<p><strong>John 10:10 (NASB)<\/strong> 10 \u00a0&#8220;The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Message by Dr. David Drake rec1220-113120 &#8220;The Purpose&#8221; &nbsp; Galatians 4:4-7 (NASB) 4 \u00a0But when the fullness of the time came, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the Law, 5 \u00a0so that He might redeem &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/?p=2128\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-messages"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2128"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2128"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2134,"href":"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2128\/revisions\/2134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}