The Message that leads to Relationship

Read Colossians 1:21.  Once, people were separated from whom?  (1) _____

Read Colossians 1:22.  What happened to Jesus' body in order to solve the problem?  (2) _____  Jesus is given what title? (3) ____ (this title means Jesus is the one who the Bible said would come to do what was needed in order to solve our problem with God, and would continue as king of God's people forever).

Read Colossians 1:23, just the first sentence.  The problem of separation is solved for people who keep on doing what? (4) _____  "Faith" means trusting in Jesus as the way to God.

Read Colossians 1:22.  Because Jesus died, what kind of relationship do people have with God? (5) _____.  

Many Bible passages about the message that brings relationship with God includes these same four aspects:

     (1) people's problem -- separation due to disobeying God
     (2) God's answer -- Jesus: who He is and what He did
     (3) The effect shown in peoples' response -- faith
     (4) The results of faith -- good relationship with God

Here is another Bible passage with the same four aspects:

Read Acts 10:36.  The word "peace" is which aspect? (6) ____
    What title is given to Jesus here, besides the one written above? (7) _____

Read Acts 10:37-40.  Besides dying, what else did Jesus do? (8) _____

Read Acts 10:42-43.  What words fit in aspect 3? (9) _____  What words fit in aspect 4? (10) _____

Read Acts 5:30-31.  What words are used here that fit in aspect 2 (11) _____. What words belong to aspect 3? (12) _____.  What words belong to aspect 4? (13) _____ 

Find words that fit the four categories in these verses: Acts 2:22-24.  Acts  3:13-19.  Titus 3:3-7.

The next page tells more detail about why Jesus needed to die for us.

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