TODAY SHALT THOU BE WITH ME
LUKE 23:33-43
Pastor Rick Jackson
I. THE PLAN OF SALVATION
1. The Position of Salvation [v. 33-40, Luke 18:13]
And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner.
2. The Person of Salvation [v. 33-42, John 14:6, Acts 4:12, 1 Timothy 2:5]
-Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given
among men, whereby we must be saved.
-For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;
3. The Pace of Salvation [v. 43, 2 Cor. 6:2]
(For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.)
II. THE PATTERN OF SALVATION
1. The Price of Salvation [v. 33, 1 Cor. 6:20, 7:23, 15:3-4, 1 Peter 1:18-19]
-For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.
-Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:
2. The Perspective of Salvation [v. 42]
3. The Paradise of Salvation [v. 43, 2 Corinthians 12:1-4]
It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory . I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord. I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.
And I knew such a man, (whether in the body, or out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;)
And I knew such a man, (whether in the body, or out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;)
How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.
III. THE PERFECTION OF SALVATION [v. 43]
1. The promise of a Gentleman – “And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee”
2. The Personhood of Grace – “I say unto thee, To day shalt thou be”
Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.
3. The Presence of God – “with me” [1 Th. 4:16-17]
For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are
alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
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