As The Father Sent Me

John 20:21    (English Standard Version)

²¹ Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, even so I am sending you.”

Additional Scriptures used in this sermon (ESV unless otherwise noted):

John 15:5
⁵ I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

John 3:16
¹⁶ “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

1 John 4:9-11
⁹ In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. ¹⁰ In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. ¹¹ Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

Matthew 1:21
²¹ She will bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins.”

2 Corinthians 5:21   (New King James Version)
²¹ For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.

Philippians 2:5-11
⁵ Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, ⁶ who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, ⁷ but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. ⁸ And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. ⁹ Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, ¹⁰ so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, ¹¹ and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

2 Corinthians 9:22  (New American Standard Version)
²² To the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak; I have become all things to all men, so that I may by all means save some.

Luke 9:23
²³ And he said to all, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.