Today’s Key Words is - The Barrier
That which comes between God and man
The Barrier Stands Between
God, Heaven and Fellowship with Him
God’s Compassion, Mercy, Forgiveness
& Grace
Though Jesus Christ the only expert removalist
Man
An Impassable barrier exits between God and man
The Red, White, Blue and Purple Curtains of the Tabernacle show
this barrier problem. If anyone dared to come to God (unauthorised) into
the
“Holy of Hollies” or the “
Our condition before God is sin and death.
The barrier has to be removed for us to gain access to God.
View of the curtain barrier
(Please fill in the blanks)
Sword Drill 1 Timothy 6:15-16
“God the blessed and only ruler, the _____________ and ______________,
who alone is Immortal and who lives in _________________ Light, whom no
one has seen or
Can see.
To Him be Honour and Might forever. Amen.
The barrier is made up of Big - Big
problems for Man
(Find The Problems
between God and Man in the Barrier Verses)
Sword Drill: Romans 3:23 Big problem! of Sin
Sword Drill: Hebrews 9:27 Big
problem! Penalty of Sin
Sword Drill: Psalm 51:5 Big problem! Human Birth
Sword Drill: Isaiah 64:6 Big
problem! Human Rightness
Sword Drill: Isaiah 1:11 Big problem! God’s Character
Sword Drill: 1 Corinthians
15:22A
Big problem! In Adam
Mans Solutions for avoiding and resolving
the Barrier problem between God and Man!
Mans Solutions Sword Drill -Jeremiah 13:23 
Mans tries to blasts his way through Gods “Goodness” barrier with human Goodness.
!!!
Mans Solutions Sword Drill-Romans 2:4
Man tries to bulldoze the “Kindness of God barrier, with his own
kindness”
Mans Solutions Sword
Drill -Matthew19: 16-22
Some try to ease their burden of guilt, by trying to lift their
burden of guilt up and over the barrier, thus quashing their guilt before
God, This is often done with human kindness giving.
Mans Solutions
Sword Drill: Isaiah 64:6
Man tries to undermine the “Righteosnesss
Barrier”, with his own “Righteousness”
Mans Solutions Sword Drill: Ephesians 2:9
Some try to race around and short cut the barrier with speed and
ability, just so they can be proud and boast in their human effort.
Mans Solutions
Some try to pray and study the bible, keep the Ten Commandments
and partake in other “Religious works, rituals and practices”
They do this to try to gain God’s approval.
(Please fill in the blanks)
Sword Drill Ephesians 2:8-9
“For it is by ______you have been _______, through faith and this
not from yourselves, it is the gift of God, not by works, so that no one
can________”
The barrier is made up of Big- Big problems for
Mankind!
God provides Big- Big Solutions for Mankind
We must Come God’s one Way only, to be accepted by God.
We must take Gods Detour to come to Him.
(Please fill in the blanks)
Sword Drill Matthew 7:13-14
“Enter through the narrow gate. For _______ is the gate and broad is
the road that leads to _____________, and many enter through it. But _________
is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life and only a _____ find
it”
Sword Drill Matthew 7:13
The Small Gate
Or
The Wide Gate
Jesus said, “I am the _____, the _______ and the ______, no one comes
to the Father except through me” Sword Drill John 14:6
“____________ Is found in ________ else, for there is no other Name
under heaven given to men by which we must be saved” Acts 4:12
“Jesus Christ Himself ________ (was punished)
our sins in His body on the cross”
Sword Drill 1 Peter 2:24
“God our saviour, who wants ____ to be saved
and to come to the knowledge of the Truth, for there is _____ God and ____
Mediator between God and man, the man Christ Jesus, who gave Himself as
a ransom for all men” Sword Drill 1 Timothy 2:3-5
Jesus Christ said a few things as He
was hanging on the Cross.
What was the last thing He said, as He
hung on the cross and just before He dismissed His Spirit? Sword Drill John 19:30
____________________
What happened next? And what did this
mean?
Sword Drill Matthew 27:50-51
_________________________________
The curtain of the “
God tore is apart from top to bottom.
Our way to God is now open. We now can
come to God through the sacrificial substitute Spiritual Death of His Son,
on the cross.
Our debt to God was paid in full.
Sword Drill Matthew 27:46
God’s forgiveness and His richest blessings
is open for all who will come and believe in His Son Jesus Christ, and what
He did for them on the cross in taking their punishment for sin.
Sword
Drill: 1 Peter 2:24- Gods Big
solution for Sin
Sword Drill: Romans 8:1- Gods
Big solution sins penalty
Sword Drill: John 3: 1-8 - Gods
Big solution for our birth
Sword Drill: 2 Cor 5:21 Gods
Big solution for unrighteousness
Sword Drill: 1 John 2:2 - Gods
Big solution for His Person
Sword Drill: 1 Cor 15:22b- Gods
Big solution in Christ
At our faith in Jesus Christ, God richly
blesses us.
Sword Drill: Ephesians 1:3
When a person believes in Jesus Christ
God is free to do so many, many things for them. These are all by Grace
at the moment of eternal salvation. The curtain is now gone and God’s grace
gifts at salvation are our eternal possession. We now become Gods Workmanship.
The “Barrier” between God and man is gone.
All that now stands between God and man
is what we think about God’s Son Jesus Christ and His work on our behalf.
Sword Drill John 16:8-11& John 3:18
& 36
God at work means!!
His Gifts for us are Irrevocable
The barrier is Split and GONE.
God is free to bless through Jesus Christ
alone.
The Throne of Grace
Sword Drill Hebrews 4:16
(Please fill in the blanks)
“We are Gods _____________ , created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared
in advance for us to do”
Sword Drill Ephesians 2:10
“I know that whatever God does will _______
forever. _______ Can be added to it and nothing
taken from it.
God does it that men will revere Him”
Sword Drill Ecclesiastes 3:14
“God is not a man that He should _____, nor
the Son of Man that He should change His mind. Does He speak and then ____
act? Does He _________ and not fulfil. I have received
a command to bless, He has blessed and I _________t change it.
Sword Drill Numbers 23:19-20
Using the bible verses, fill in one of
the many gifts that we received at the moment of salvation. Fill in the
missing word.
Sword Drill 1 Peter 1:23 “You have been Born A_________”
Sword Drill Ephesians 2:18 “Through Him we have A_______to the
Father”
Sword Drill
Romans 5:10 “R_______us to Himself through Christ”
Sword Drill
Colossians 3:13 “As the Lord has F__________ You”
Sword Drill
1 Peter 1:4 ”Into an I________ that can never
perish”
Sword DrillEphesians1:7 “In Him we have R_______through His
Blood”
Sword Drill
Ephesians 3:20 “according to His P______working
within us”
Sword Drill
Romans 8:1 “ There is now no C___________ to
those”
Sword Drill
Jude 24 “To Him who is able to keep us from
F_______”
Sword Drill Philippians 4:19 “I will S________all your
needs “
There are many, many other gifts at salvation
God gives to us.
These can be seen at a later time on
this web site
“Live a life worthy of the calling you have received. Be completely humble
and gentle. Be patient bearing with one another in love” Sword Drill Ephesians 4:1
Gods Command and Promise- for You!
“ Love each other as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this,
than he lay down his life for his friends. You are My friends, if you do
what I command” Sword
Drill John 15:12-14
Thank You that you that you have saved me and made me so rich in Jesus
Christ .Help me through Your Word and Holy Spirit to live worthy of all
You have done for me, in the Name
of my Lord Jesus Christ I ask this.
Amen
