Believers’ Institute Confession of Faith

• I believe Jesus is Lord and His Word is always true - He cannot lie.

• I love God my heavenly Father with all my heart, my soul and my strength (Selah and do).

• I love others and love myself (Selah and do).

• I am filled with the Holy Spirit so I hear the voice of the Good Shepherd and I promptly obey.

“Because I obey His Word and walk in love, His will is done in my life.
I am the Righteousness of God in Christ. I can do all things through Christ.
I live by faith. I am more than a conqueror through Him who loves me.”

Heritage of Faith Foundation Scripture

Ephesians 1:17 - 18

17) That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom
and revelation in the knowledge of Him;

18) The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of His
calling, and what the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints . . .

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Wednesday Night BI - Heritage of Faith
Lesson 2 - Revelation of Redemption

The Redemption of Man

I. Genesis 1:26—God makes man in His own image

A. Fellowship is the reason for man
B. In order to fellowship with God, man had to be created in God’s image
C. To partake of God’s life, man had to be in God’s class
D. God gave Adam dominion (Psalm 8:6)

II. The Fall (Gen 2: 15 - 17; 3:6-7, 17-19; Rom 5:12)

A. God’s children did not act on God’s Word
B. Satan became the god of this world legally!

The Reality of Redemption

Foundation Scriptures: Colossians 1: 13-14

III. The plan of redemption called for an incarnation

A. Man born into a world ruled by Satan did not by nature know his creator
B. A man was the key figure in the Fall; a man had to be the key figure in
redemption
C. The object of the Incarnation was that man might be given the right to become a
child of God by receiving the nature of God (John 1:12)
D. Man could receive eternal life only after he had been legally removed from
Satan’s authority
E. The incarnation of Christ gave Him no relationship to Satan—Satan was never
lord over Jesus. The life of Christ on earth is an example of a man free from the
lordship of Satan

IV. The Great Exchange

A. Redemption revolves around identification
B. Identification is twofold—Adam or Jesus - the curse or the blessing (Rom 5)
C. Redemption From:
1. Spiritual death
2. Sickness and disease
3. Poverty
Redemption To:
1. God
2. Revelation 5:9-10

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The Reality of Redemption (Continued)

D. There are two sides to redemption

1. The legal side—what has been done - The facts: “He has” “We were”
2. The vital side—what is being done in us now - what is produced by faith
(Mark 11:22-24)
E. This redemption was revealed to Paul (Galatians 1; Ephesians 3:1-12)

V. Satan’s lordship broken

A. Romans 5:12, 14-15, 17; Hebrews 2:14—Satan had the power of death
B. Eph 1: 19-22; Revelation 1:18—Jesus says He now has it
C. Revelation 12:11—We overcome Satan by the blood of the Lamb and the word of
our testimony (confession)
D. We can stop Satan from lording over us every time he tries

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