Acts 12:4 (KJV) “And when he had apprehended him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers to keep him; intending after Easter to bring him forth to the people.”

The original Greek word there is pascha, and it should have been translated as Passover.

The original Greek word there is pascha, and it should have been translated as Passover.

King James had instructed them to use words that conformed to the beliefs and practices of the Church of England.

DEATHLuke 23:44-49

DEATHLuke 23:44-49

BURIALLuke 23:50-56

DEATHLuke 23:44-49

BURIALLuke 23:50-56

RESURRECTIONLuke 24:1-9

Jesus died, He was buried, and God raised Him from the dead.

God wants to do the same thing in us!!!

Romans 6:3-5

“Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death? Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life. For if we have become united with Him in the likeness of His death, certainly we shall also be in the likeness of His resurrection.”

Romans 6:3-5

Just like Jesus was put to DEATH God wants to put to death your old sinful self

Romans 6:3-5

Just like Jesus was put to DEATH God wants to put to death your old sinful self

Just like Jesus was BURIED God wants to bury old self in waters of baptism

Romans 6:3-5

Just like Jesus was put to DEATH God wants to put to death your old sinful self

Just like Jesus was BURIED God wants to bury old self in waters of baptism

Just like Jesus was RESURRECTED God wants to resurrect you as new Christian

Romans 6:3-5

God wants to do the same thing in each one of us as He did concerning His own Son.

And He will accomplish that in your life when you put your faith in Jesus Christ as the one and only Son of God, and then allow God to wash away your sins by being baptized into Christ.

Romans 6:6-7

“Knowing this, that our old self was crucified with Him, in order that our body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin; for he who has died is freed from sin.”

Romans 6:6-7

God wants to do even more than save you from the guilt of sin in your life.

Romans 6:6-7

God wants to do even more than save you from the guilt of sin in your life.

He wants to fully remove the burden of your sin.

Romans 6:6-7

God wants to do even more than save you from the guilt of sin in your life.

He wants to fully remove the burden of your sin.

God also wants to save you from the power of sin in your life.

Romans 6:6-7

Rock of Ages, cleft for me…Let me hide myself in Thee;Let the water and the blood…From Thy riven side which flowed,Be of sin the double cure…Cleanse me from its guilt and power!

Romans 6:6-7

How does God free us from the power of sin?By crucifying the old self that wants to sin.

Romans 6:6-7

How does God free us from the power of sin?By crucifying the old self that wants to sin.

God wants to change you from being a person who all too easily gives in to sin time and time again to a new person who no longer is enslaved to sin.

Romans 6:6-7

“Our old self was crucified with Him, that our body of sin might be done away with.”

katargatha = getting rid of something that is unnecessary, counterproductive, or even harmful

Romans 6:6-7

Luke 13:6-7 “A man had a fig tree which had been planted in his vineyard; and he came looking for fruit on it and did not find any. And he said to the vineyard-keeper, ‘Behold, for three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree without finding any. Cut it down! Why does it even use up the ground?’”

Romans 6:6-7

1 Peter 4:1-3 “Therefore, since Christ has suffered in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same purpose, because he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin, so as to live the rest of the time in the flesh no longer for the lusts of men, but for the will of God. For the time already past is sufficient for you to have carried out the desire of the Gentiles, having pursued a course of sensuality, lusts, drunkenness, carousing…”

Romans 6:8-11

“Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him, knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, is never to die again; death no longer is master over Him. For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God. Even so consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.”

Romans 6:8-11

Galatians 2:20, “I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me...”

2 Corinthians 5:17 “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.”

Romans 6:8-11

Galatians 2:20, “I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me...”

2 Corinthians 5:17 “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.”

This is what God wants to do in your life!