WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.940 Good morning. Take out your Bible and turn to Romans chapter 3. 00:00:07.299 --> 00:00:11.320 ! We've been promoting books and stuff. 00:00:11.320 --> 00:00:19.580 ! I think if I had to promote one good Reformation book, I think I would pick this one. 00:00:19.580 --> 00:00:28.500 ! This is a book that I read when I was on the waiting list for my lung transplant. 00:00:28.500 --> 00:00:33.539 So, right under the Bible, I was reading this. 00:00:33.980 --> 00:00:42.120 And I can't tell you how much this ministered to my soul during that time as I thought about what was ahead of me. 00:00:43.519 --> 00:00:48.439 So, it's not just dead doctrine, dead theology. 00:00:48.620 --> 00:00:51.939 It was like really encouraging me in the Word of God. 00:00:51.939 --> 00:00:58.479 And so, this is John Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion. 00:00:59.259 --> 00:01:00.719 And this is the abridged version. 00:01:01.799 --> 00:01:06.519 So, halfway through, I just kind of donked on me, wait a minute, this is the abridged version. 00:01:06.620 --> 00:01:07.859 The real one's about like that. 00:01:07.859 --> 00:01:17.579 But it just really explains so much about the person of God, the person of Christ, the Scripture. 00:01:19.039 --> 00:01:23.879 And it really ministered to me, particularly the part about God's providence, God's sovereignty, 00:01:24.700 --> 00:01:26.180 through what I was going through. 00:01:26.739 --> 00:01:30.319 And so, I commend this one to you, the Institutes of the Christian Religion. 00:01:30.319 --> 00:01:35.759 It was written in 1559, I believe. 00:01:36.059 --> 00:01:38.759 So, pretty awesome to read the old dead guys. 00:01:39.959 --> 00:01:41.639 So, this would be mine. 00:01:42.079 --> 00:01:43.139 I can't give it to you. 00:01:43.280 --> 00:01:44.199 This is my copy. 00:01:45.419 --> 00:01:46.899 It's got like everything. 00:01:47.379 --> 00:01:48.759 You wouldn't like my notes in here anyway. 00:01:49.079 --> 00:01:55.439 So, Romans 3 is what we're going to be picking up today. 00:01:55.439 --> 00:02:01.399 And as it's already been said, we're coming up on October 31st, 00:02:01.399 --> 00:02:05.439 which is the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation. 00:02:06.359 --> 00:02:11.120 It kind of marks the day that Martin Luther in 1517 00:02:11.120 --> 00:02:15.099 nailed his 95 Theses to the door of the Church of Wittenberg. 00:02:15.780 --> 00:02:18.199 And so, we're going through the five solas, 00:02:18.199 --> 00:02:25.679 which really are a summarized, condensed way of saying this is what the Reformers taught. 00:02:26.379 --> 00:02:30.419 But it probably wasn't really even consolidated like that until about the 20th century. 00:02:30.979 --> 00:02:32.639 But it's what they were teaching. 00:02:33.119 --> 00:02:35.899 And that's what we believe in our church. 00:02:36.019 --> 00:02:40.659 And any church that's really a Protestant evangelical church holds these things dear. 00:02:42.199 --> 00:02:44.919 So, I mean, why is this so important, though? 00:02:44.919 --> 00:02:50.819 Well, the sola alone is so important to what we believe. 00:02:51.539 --> 00:02:52.839 And what we believe Scripture teaches. 00:02:53.739 --> 00:02:58.759 If it's not sola, then it is something that's got to be added in. 00:02:58.839 --> 00:03:01.519 If it's not alone, there's something else that's added to it. 00:03:02.060 --> 00:03:05.459 It will be Scripture and something else is our authority. 00:03:06.199 --> 00:03:07.399 Grace and something. 00:03:08.060 --> 00:03:09.239 Faith and something. 00:03:09.359 --> 00:03:10.459 Christ and something. 00:03:10.659 --> 00:03:12.939 And to the glory of God and something else. 00:03:12.939 --> 00:03:18.419 And so, the sola is really, by saying what is true, they're also saying this is false. 00:03:18.460 --> 00:03:21.699 Like, if you add something to this, it's not true. 00:03:22.579 --> 00:03:25.079 And so, the Reformers were saying, 00:03:26.060 --> 00:03:28.840 Scripture is not only necessary, but it's sufficient. 00:03:30.039 --> 00:03:34.319 Christ's work is not only necessary, but it is enough to save us. 00:03:35.180 --> 00:03:41.280 That grace is not only necessary, but it is perfectly the only way, like we are made right with God. 00:03:41.280 --> 00:03:43.939 And Scripture is just not a authority. 00:03:44.080 --> 00:03:45.379 It's the only authority. 00:03:46.039 --> 00:03:46.520 Period. 00:03:47.680 --> 00:03:56.400 So, you pull out your bullets and there's a quote there by Calvin that I thought would be good to kind of put our mind on. 00:03:56.520 --> 00:04:00.539 I just want to pray briefly, but it says, 00:04:00.539 --> 00:04:06.139 The gospel is not a doctrine of the tongue, but of life. 00:04:06.659 --> 00:04:10.180 It cannot be grasped by reason and memory only. 00:04:10.979 --> 00:04:19.659 But it is fully understood when it possesses the whole soul and penetrates to the inner recesses of the heart. 00:04:19.660 --> 00:04:23.180 So, that's what we want. 00:04:23.240 --> 00:04:26.720 We want this not just to be head knowledge, not just to be mental assembly. 00:04:26.860 --> 00:04:34.060 We want our hearts and our souls to rejoice in the gospel and have these truths penetrate us to our inner heart. 00:04:34.920 --> 00:04:35.879 So, let's pray together. 00:04:35.879 --> 00:04:46.399 Father, as we join together this morning as your people, I pray you give us eyes to see, ears to hear. 00:04:48.019 --> 00:04:51.959 God, you would soften our hearts to receive your word. 00:04:53.040 --> 00:04:56.480 That you would make us teachable. 00:04:56.480 --> 00:05:03.379 That we would sit quietly before your word and receive what is there. 00:05:04.400 --> 00:05:15.259 And I pray that this feeble attempt to describe Christ and his work would move in our hearts today. 00:05:16.140 --> 00:05:17.560 And I just ask that in his name. 00:05:18.180 --> 00:05:18.439 Amen. 00:05:18.439 --> 00:05:30.759 So, today, we are looking at solus Christus, Christ alone, which emphasizes the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. 00:05:31.279 --> 00:05:35.100 It's not only necessary, again, for salvation, but it is sufficient. 00:05:35.939 --> 00:05:40.019 Enough to say to the uttermost, all those who come to Christ. 00:05:40.399 --> 00:05:45.560 So, this means that no amount of human work can be added to the work of Christ. 00:05:45.560 --> 00:05:51.959 It's like Christ's work is so sufficient, so perfect, that it can't be improved upon in any way. 00:05:53.000 --> 00:05:55.579 So, that is really important to understand. 00:05:56.420 --> 00:06:02.319 And it implies, then, if Christ's work is sufficient, that any work we bring in is insufficient. 00:06:03.540 --> 00:06:03.899 All right? 00:06:04.040 --> 00:06:07.439 Like Paul said in 2 Corinthians 3.5, 00:06:07.439 --> 00:06:17.259 Now, not that we are adequate in ourselves to consider anything as coming from ourselves, but our adequacy is from God. 00:06:17.879 --> 00:06:21.360 So, the heart of the gospel is that Christ is for us. 00:06:22.000 --> 00:06:23.120 He is for us. 00:06:23.620 --> 00:06:27.839 It's the message of the New Testament, indeed, really the Scripture, the whole of Scripture. 00:06:27.839 --> 00:06:30.060 So, Christ lived. 00:06:30.560 --> 00:06:31.359 He obeyed. 00:06:31.839 --> 00:06:32.899 He was crucified. 00:06:33.259 --> 00:06:33.939 He was raised. 00:06:34.019 --> 00:06:34.639 And He ascended. 00:06:34.819 --> 00:06:35.619 And He is returning. 00:06:35.799 --> 00:06:37.299 That's what we are saying. 00:06:37.399 --> 00:06:43.699 So, all that is embodied by Jesus Christ Himself is what we are saying when we say Christ alone. 00:06:45.139 --> 00:06:48.839 Romans 1.9 is called, the gospel is kind of summed up as, 00:06:49.559 --> 00:06:51.339 The Good News of His Son. 00:06:51.339 --> 00:06:57.439 So, we are going to just look at some different aspects of Christ's work. 00:06:58.159 --> 00:07:00.979 And man, I was just overwhelmed studying all this. 00:07:01.239 --> 00:07:10.519 But, I want you to not run from, I've even heard recently some leaders in our Dahlonega community say, 00:07:10.639 --> 00:07:12.039 You know, doctrine doesn't matter. 00:07:12.239 --> 00:07:12.979 Theology doesn't matter. 00:07:13.059 --> 00:07:15.159 All we really care about is a relationship with Jesus. 00:07:16.439 --> 00:07:18.319 Well, what does that mean? 00:07:18.319 --> 00:07:21.899 Don't throw out a Bible word. 00:07:22.040 --> 00:07:25.680 Paul uses the word doctrine at least 15 times in the New Testament. 00:07:26.500 --> 00:07:30.519 And what he's trying to say is doctrine is explaining, clarifying. 00:07:30.639 --> 00:07:33.560 So, the Good News has to be explained verbally. 00:07:33.779 --> 00:07:36.379 It has to be clarified, expounded upon. 00:07:36.500 --> 00:07:37.600 And that's what doctrine is. 00:07:38.240 --> 00:07:41.539 So, if you're talking about Jesus and it's truthful, you're talking doctrine. 00:07:42.560 --> 00:07:44.699 So, I want us to see, 00:07:45.699 --> 00:07:47.480 Man, this is the only thing I can grab. 00:07:47.480 --> 00:07:53.879 So, imagine this is like a gem, if you will, like a precious gem that was found. 00:07:54.040 --> 00:07:55.379 It's not a gem, it's a stupid iPhone. 00:07:55.500 --> 00:07:56.040 I hate iPhones. 00:07:56.800 --> 00:08:01.360 But, just imagine this is like a precious diamond or gem. 00:08:01.939 --> 00:08:04.200 And it's called the work of Christ. 00:08:04.980 --> 00:08:05.200 Alright? 00:08:05.360 --> 00:08:08.300 So, if you look at it this way, you can explain it. 00:08:08.319 --> 00:08:10.780 And your explaining it is doctrine. 00:08:11.200 --> 00:08:15.180 And you tilt it a little bit and explain a different facet of it. 00:08:15.180 --> 00:08:19.360 So, that's what we're going to do today as we look at the work of Christ. 00:08:19.459 --> 00:08:21.680 All part of the same diamond. 00:08:21.980 --> 00:08:24.100 But just different angles on it. 00:08:24.139 --> 00:08:26.100 Different descriptions on what he has done. 00:08:26.639 --> 00:08:27.460 If you will. 00:08:27.759 --> 00:08:30.259 So, Romans 3. 00:08:31.500 --> 00:08:33.080 We'll start in verse 21. 00:08:34.279 --> 00:08:34.759 Together. 00:08:34.759 --> 00:08:43.039 But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law. 00:08:43.679 --> 00:08:46.840 Although the law and the prophets bear witness to it, 00:08:47.399 --> 00:08:52.379 the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. 00:08:53.240 --> 00:08:54.500 For there is no distinction. 00:08:54.500 --> 00:09:00.000 For all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. 00:09:00.919 --> 00:09:03.980 And are justified by his grace as a gift. 00:09:04.360 --> 00:09:07.919 Through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus. 00:09:08.679 --> 00:09:12.539 Whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood. 00:09:13.539 --> 00:09:15.500 To be received by faith. 00:09:16.299 --> 00:09:18.159 This was to show God's righteousness. 00:09:18.519 --> 00:09:20.759 Because in his divine forbearance. 00:09:20.980 --> 00:09:23.139 He passed over former sins. 00:09:23.139 --> 00:09:27.139 It was to show his righteousness at the present time. 00:09:27.519 --> 00:09:29.220 So that he might be just. 00:09:29.919 --> 00:09:34.679 And the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus. 00:09:36.259 --> 00:09:39.659 So, that will be our primary text. 00:09:39.779 --> 00:09:42.539 That I want to draw some things out of. 00:09:44.159 --> 00:09:47.000 So, I have a few points today. 00:09:47.379 --> 00:09:49.779 And off of Nathan's pun last week. 00:09:49.819 --> 00:09:51.600 It's just going to be points and not questions. 00:09:51.600 --> 00:09:53.980 I'm going to try not to do questions at this point. 00:09:54.580 --> 00:09:55.980 So, the first point. 00:09:56.980 --> 00:09:58.060 The first point. 00:09:59.320 --> 00:10:04.700 Is that Christ alone is our mediator with God. 00:10:05.560 --> 00:10:08.980 Christ alone is our mediator with God. 00:10:09.980 --> 00:10:12.159 So, a mediator, simply put. 00:10:12.159 --> 00:10:15.639 Christ alone is one who intervenes between two parties. 00:10:16.480 --> 00:10:20.519 To resolve some conflict, intimacy, or strife. 00:10:21.139 --> 00:10:24.120 So, it's one who intervenes and solves the problem. 00:10:25.039 --> 00:10:28.259 So, this is the role we see of Jesus in our text. 00:10:28.339 --> 00:10:30.379 We see some hostility. 00:10:31.079 --> 00:10:31.519 Right? 00:10:31.719 --> 00:10:34.860 We see that we have sinned and fallen short in the glory of God. 00:10:35.539 --> 00:10:38.480 And that we have to be made right with God some way. 00:10:38.480 --> 00:10:41.940 So, Christ is our mediator. 00:10:42.700 --> 00:10:43.100 Right? 00:10:43.220 --> 00:10:44.940 He's coming between us and God. 00:10:45.100 --> 00:10:46.100 And like reconciling. 00:10:46.200 --> 00:10:48.120 He's bringing us back together. 00:10:48.980 --> 00:10:51.240 So, it's important that you understand that. 00:10:51.279 --> 00:10:55.200 Because Jesus alone, again, is our mediator. 00:10:55.200 --> 00:11:12.280 During the period of the Reformation, in the medieval time, you could even say today, Rome taught that the Pope and even the Roman Church itself was the mediator between God and man. 00:11:12.279 --> 00:11:25.019 So, anyone outside of them, their doctrine says this, even today, anyone outside of the Roman Catholic Church is outside of salvation. 00:11:25.980 --> 00:11:27.079 They would teach that. 00:11:27.080 --> 00:11:35.120 Pope Clement, who was Pope between 1342 and 1352, he said, 00:11:36.240 --> 00:11:41.600 No man outside of obedience to the Pope of Rome can ultimately be saved. 00:11:42.720 --> 00:11:50.940 All who have raised themselves against the faith of the Roman Church and died in final impenitence have been damned and gone to hell. 00:11:52.220 --> 00:11:55.840 That is still taught, even today. 00:11:55.840 --> 00:12:02.360 And I want you to know that I say these things with a heavy heart. 00:12:04.240 --> 00:12:14.340 Many of you know I have had countless trips to the Emerald Isle of Ireland and talked to many Catholics there. 00:12:15.420 --> 00:12:21.560 And so, it breaks my heart to see how falsely they have been instructed. 00:12:21.559 --> 00:12:29.839 And so, if you hear anger, just hear anger at the false teaching and not the lost soul. 00:12:30.500 --> 00:12:33.759 I want them to be reconciled to God. 00:12:34.719 --> 00:12:38.419 Even as I've cried tears praying for some of them before. 00:12:38.419 --> 00:12:48.439 And so, at that point, like I said, they even taught, I mean, even now really, that Jesus is not that approachable. 00:12:49.439 --> 00:12:49.919 Okay? 00:12:50.059 --> 00:12:54.000 That he is still very holy, very set apart, very other. 00:12:54.539 --> 00:12:57.939 That you have to find another mediator to even go to Jesus. 00:12:57.940 --> 00:13:03.800 And that's where the idea of the Virgin Mary and her son is so pivotal. 00:13:03.940 --> 00:13:06.920 Because who can get at a man, his mom? 00:13:07.360 --> 00:13:09.220 You know, this is a soft part of him. 00:13:09.760 --> 00:13:15.320 Even, I went to Birmingham this past week, and we drove by one of the biggest Mary worship shrines in the southeast. 00:13:15.320 --> 00:13:21.540 Thousands of people gathered there to get a vision of the Virgin Mary and have someone say, 00:13:21.660 --> 00:13:24.840 This is what Mary says to you from Jesus. 00:13:26.360 --> 00:13:28.060 Heartbreaking and demonic. 00:13:30.000 --> 00:13:33.200 And so, even then, they've added in saints. 00:13:33.320 --> 00:13:34.360 You can pray to the saints. 00:13:35.220 --> 00:13:41.020 You can pray to your dead relatives who have gone on to be with the Lord. 00:13:41.019 --> 00:13:49.079 I had a dear friend, a man that was in his late 70s, that I worked out with at a gym for a long time. 00:13:49.139 --> 00:13:52.159 And he and I would talk about this kind of stuff. 00:13:53.039 --> 00:13:54.039 A devout Catholic. 00:13:55.740 --> 00:13:58.299 He had an Italian, really deep Italian last name. 00:13:59.179 --> 00:14:05.699 And we talked, and he was just always encouraging me to pray with my dead relatives. 00:14:05.980 --> 00:14:07.559 And how encouraging that was. 00:14:07.659 --> 00:14:09.079 I'm like, man, no. 00:14:09.080 --> 00:14:15.879 And just begged him to say, Christ is the mediator alone. 00:14:16.780 --> 00:14:22.400 And so, the reformers were banging their heads and banging their Bibles, saying, 00:14:22.800 --> 00:14:26.580 Look, there is no other mediator between God and man. 00:14:27.240 --> 00:14:28.860 It's Jesus Christ, and that's it. 00:14:29.800 --> 00:14:32.840 Don't misrepresent the character of God. 00:14:32.960 --> 00:14:36.040 He also can be approachable through Christ. 00:14:36.900 --> 00:14:37.200 Right? 00:14:37.200 --> 00:14:39.440 So, not Virgin Mary. 00:14:40.180 --> 00:14:42.720 Not the saints or cardinals or priests. 00:14:43.120 --> 00:14:44.440 Only Christ alone. 00:14:44.900 --> 00:14:45.980 They're not crazy. 00:14:46.120 --> 00:14:50.940 They're just basically saying what Paul said in 1 Timothy 2, 5-6. 00:14:51.080 --> 00:14:51.600 This is Paul. 00:14:51.680 --> 00:14:52.120 Listen to this. 00:14:52.660 --> 00:14:58.420 For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men. 00:14:58.419 --> 00:15:07.519 The man, Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all, which the testimony given at the proper time. 00:15:08.059 --> 00:15:12.199 So, again, Luther, Calvin, Tyndale, Wycliffe. 00:15:12.259 --> 00:15:16.579 They were all saying, Brum, stop marring the character of God. 00:15:16.580 --> 00:15:17.759 Yes, he is holy. 00:15:18.120 --> 00:15:19.340 Yes, he is just. 00:15:20.240 --> 00:15:21.180 Yes, he is righteous. 00:15:22.000 --> 00:15:25.740 But he is also a loving God and gracious. 00:15:25.960 --> 00:15:30.440 And he has provided a way through his Son to be brought back to man. 00:15:30.440 --> 00:15:37.360 And Luther, if you study his life, the whole first part of his life, he was terrified of the judgment of God. 00:15:37.420 --> 00:15:39.360 That's all he thought about was God is wrath. 00:15:40.060 --> 00:15:41.140 God is damnation. 00:15:41.300 --> 00:15:44.100 And he had no way to be made right with God. 00:15:44.100 --> 00:15:47.740 So, when he began reading Romans, he was like, wait a minute. 00:15:48.120 --> 00:15:49.220 This God is a loving God. 00:15:49.320 --> 00:15:50.440 This God is a gracious God. 00:15:50.920 --> 00:15:53.899 And he was transformed by the Word. 00:15:55.000 --> 00:15:57.759 And so, Christ alone is the mediator. 00:15:58.399 --> 00:15:59.820 Hebrews 9, 15, it says, 00:15:59.820 --> 00:16:09.259 Therefore, Christ is the mediator of the new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the promise of an eternal inheritance. 00:16:10.600 --> 00:16:11.120 It's awesome. 00:16:11.120 --> 00:16:19.580 So, this idea that Jesus is the only mediator spills into a lot of our thinking of saying that Jesus is the only way to God. 00:16:20.139 --> 00:16:23.960 He came from the Father and he went back to the Father. 00:16:24.060 --> 00:16:25.019 He's the only one. 00:16:25.620 --> 00:16:27.519 So, this is not just a problem back then. 00:16:27.620 --> 00:16:29.220 It is today as well. 00:16:30.460 --> 00:16:34.279 Shockingly, in the late 90s, there was a study conducted of, quote, 00:16:35.799 --> 00:16:40.320 evangelical seminaries who agreed with the following statement. 00:16:40.320 --> 00:16:43.400 35% of them agreed with the following statement. 00:16:44.100 --> 00:16:50.360 God will save all good people when they die, regardless of whether they know and have trusted Jesus Christ. 00:16:51.540 --> 00:16:57.140 And now those people are pastoring churches outside of Christ. 00:16:58.240 --> 00:17:01.740 So, that's a struggle if we don't see our need for Christ. 00:17:01.740 --> 00:17:02.580 Right? 00:17:02.580 --> 00:17:07.600 And one of the things that the Reformers kept bringing up is, 00:17:08.440 --> 00:17:14.079 Popes and councils over the history have just contradicted themselves over and over and over. 00:17:14.620 --> 00:17:18.579 You just heard me read Pope Clement from the 1300s. 00:17:18.620 --> 00:17:18.840 He said, 00:17:18.920 --> 00:17:22.460 There is no salvation outside of the Holy Roman Church. 00:17:23.039 --> 00:17:23.960 You heard me read that. 00:17:23.960 --> 00:17:29.079 More recent, though, Pope John Paul II. 00:17:30.100 --> 00:17:38.120 He stood in December 6, 2000, and addressed 30,000 pilgrims at St. Peter's Square. 00:17:38.240 --> 00:17:39.000 Listen to what he said. 00:17:39.000 --> 00:17:55.839 Listen to this. 00:17:55.839 --> 00:17:57.839 No. 00:17:57.839 --> 00:18:15.379 Jesus, the only way, the only mediator to God. 00:18:15.380 --> 00:18:19.680 We know our famous verse, John 14, 6. 00:18:20.380 --> 00:18:20.960 Jesus told them, 00:18:21.060 --> 00:18:28.720 I am the way, the truth, and the life, and no one whatsoever comes to the Father except through me. 00:18:28.800 --> 00:18:29.880 I am the mediator. 00:18:31.220 --> 00:18:32.180 Acts 4, 12. 00:18:32.960 --> 00:18:34.860 There is salvation in no one else, 00:18:35.340 --> 00:18:39.920 for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we may be saved. 00:18:39.920 --> 00:18:42.940 So if we are to be saved and restored back to God, 00:18:43.019 --> 00:18:46.320 we have to come through Christ alone as our mediator. 00:18:47.920 --> 00:18:49.759 So that is the first point. 00:18:50.740 --> 00:18:52.320 Each one of these begin with Christ alone. 00:18:52.420 --> 00:18:53.120 But number two, 00:18:53.940 --> 00:18:55.759 we are going to get into more of our text now. 00:18:57.200 --> 00:19:03.060 Christ alone made full atonement for our sin to God. 00:19:04.700 --> 00:19:08.820 Christ alone made full atonement for our sin to God. 00:19:09.920 --> 00:19:15.000 Okay, so we see in our text that like it says that God's righteousness had to be upheld. 00:19:15.680 --> 00:19:20.539 We see that he had to show that he was righteous, prove that he was righteous. 00:19:21.220 --> 00:19:24.880 And so it just means that God always does what is right, what is good. 00:19:25.560 --> 00:19:29.180 He, by his nature, is the very definition of what is right and good. 00:19:30.220 --> 00:19:31.620 It means that he is holy. 00:19:31.740 --> 00:19:34.740 He is totally separated from all evil. 00:19:36.019 --> 00:19:39.400 And that also means that he is devoted to destroying evil. 00:19:39.920 --> 00:19:42.000 And we want him to be that way. 00:19:42.920 --> 00:19:48.460 We want him to be a God who seeks to uphold what is right and beautiful and good and true. 00:19:49.400 --> 00:19:52.240 So, if God opposes evil, 00:19:52.740 --> 00:19:56.700 then we should not be shocked that he is out to destroy it. 00:19:57.220 --> 00:19:58.800 That's what we see in our text. 00:19:58.799 --> 00:20:02.980 We want God to be a God who upholds justice. 00:20:02.980 --> 00:20:12.000 A Roman citizen who lived under the Julio-Claudian Caesars, Augustus, you know, 00:20:12.079 --> 00:20:14.220 then all the way up into like Nero. 00:20:14.460 --> 00:20:15.680 That was that dynasty. 00:20:15.819 --> 00:20:19.640 This is something that he said when a man has absolute power. 00:20:19.759 --> 00:20:20.180 He said, 00:20:20.180 --> 00:20:35.620 And God is not like that. 00:20:35.619 --> 00:20:40.199 God intrinsically, in his very core, hates evil. 00:20:41.199 --> 00:20:44.039 And we want him to be a God who upholds justice. 00:20:44.159 --> 00:20:50.379 We all see things on TV and the news that just cry out injustice. 00:20:51.179 --> 00:20:52.319 And we want that. 00:20:52.419 --> 00:20:53.559 It's part of who we are. 00:20:53.559 --> 00:20:57.419 But if we really want that, then God also has to destroy us. 00:20:57.480 --> 00:21:00.119 Because we are a part of that same evil. 00:21:01.639 --> 00:21:03.799 It says in our text, you look at verses 25, 00:21:04.139 --> 00:21:05.839 This was to show God's righteousness. 00:21:06.500 --> 00:21:10.379 Because in his divine forbearance, he had passed over former sins. 00:21:11.279 --> 00:21:13.799 It was to show his righteousness at the present time, 00:21:13.879 --> 00:21:16.000 so that he might be just and the justifier. 00:21:16.940 --> 00:21:20.799 So we see in the wisdom of God's sovereign plan, 00:21:20.799 --> 00:21:25.720 that he allowed Jesus to be punished in the place of sinners, 00:21:26.399 --> 00:21:32.279 and thereby justified those who were guilty without compromising his justice. 00:21:33.259 --> 00:21:36.079 It's a beautiful text for you just to chew over. 00:21:36.759 --> 00:21:39.019 So let's talk about this word atonement a little bit. 00:21:39.099 --> 00:21:45.180 It is a very broad term that is used to entail a lot of things in the Scripture. 00:21:46.039 --> 00:21:50.059 But in short, we're just going to define it simply as this. 00:21:50.799 --> 00:21:55.139 It's the work of Christ in his life and his death, 00:21:55.839 --> 00:21:58.339 all that he did to earn us salvation. 00:21:59.960 --> 00:22:04.079 It's the work of Christ, all that he did in his life and his death, 00:22:04.139 --> 00:22:05.460 to earn us salvation. 00:22:06.460 --> 00:22:11.039 So Christ made right the hostility between us and God. 00:22:11.039 --> 00:22:14.420 And he opened the door for spiritual blessings. 00:22:15.359 --> 00:22:19.559 So let's talk about just the nature of this atonement for a second. 00:22:20.480 --> 00:22:25.019 Just two words, big words, but I hope they stand out to you and you remember them. 00:22:25.079 --> 00:22:27.720 That's the purpose of using big words. 00:22:29.359 --> 00:22:30.599 Penal substitution. 00:22:30.599 --> 00:22:31.599 Penal substitution. 00:22:31.599 --> 00:22:32.399 All right? 00:22:32.619 --> 00:22:33.599 Penal substitution. 00:22:34.559 --> 00:22:40.839 It's the idea that the penalty we deserve was given to someone else, 00:22:40.899 --> 00:22:42.719 to another who did not deserve it, 00:22:43.279 --> 00:22:45.359 and who took it voluntarily for us. 00:22:46.319 --> 00:22:46.679 All right? 00:22:46.740 --> 00:22:49.019 It's this idea that Christ stood in our place, 00:22:50.139 --> 00:22:51.019 took our punishment, 00:22:51.240 --> 00:22:52.639 even though he didn't deserve it, 00:22:52.740 --> 00:22:53.579 but he took it willingly. 00:22:53.579 --> 00:22:55.559 That's what we did. 00:22:55.960 --> 00:22:57.980 We are spared the penalty. 00:22:59.000 --> 00:23:02.379 This also can be described as a vicarious atonement, 00:23:03.240 --> 00:23:06.839 a vicarous someone who stands in the place of another and represents them. 00:23:07.500 --> 00:23:09.759 And so Christ stood in our place. 00:23:10.399 --> 00:23:11.559 He represented us. 00:23:12.220 --> 00:23:13.799 He took the penalty we deserve. 00:23:14.899 --> 00:23:15.119 All right? 00:23:15.240 --> 00:23:16.559 So stay in Romans 3, 00:23:16.679 --> 00:23:21.460 but I just want you to turn to the famous Isaiah 53. 00:23:21.460 --> 00:23:25.200 I just want you to see this idea of substitution, 00:23:25.480 --> 00:23:28.420 that Christ stood in our place and bore our punishment. 00:23:30.900 --> 00:23:37.180 This atonement was foretold 700 years before Christ. 00:23:38.460 --> 00:23:39.700 Isaiah 53. 00:23:40.100 --> 00:23:41.640 Then go to verse 4. 00:23:42.680 --> 00:23:44.460 I want you to see this. 00:23:44.460 --> 00:23:51.340 Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows. 00:23:51.420 --> 00:23:53.200 Just look at the ours in this text. 00:23:54.140 --> 00:23:56.799 Borne our griefs and carried our sorrows. 00:23:57.500 --> 00:23:59.039 Yet we esteemed him stricken, 00:23:59.299 --> 00:24:00.240 smitten by God, 00:24:00.299 --> 00:24:00.960 and afflicted. 00:24:01.620 --> 00:24:04.460 But he was wounded for our transgressions. 00:24:04.860 --> 00:24:07.380 He was crushed for our iniquities. 00:24:08.440 --> 00:24:11.579 Upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace. 00:24:11.579 --> 00:24:14.299 And with his stripes we are healed. 00:24:15.240 --> 00:24:17.299 All we like sheep have gone astray. 00:24:17.519 --> 00:24:19.740 We have turned everyone to his own way. 00:24:20.460 --> 00:24:21.319 And the Lord, 00:24:21.619 --> 00:24:22.099 Yahweh, 00:24:22.759 --> 00:24:25.519 has laid on him the iniquity of us all. 00:24:26.779 --> 00:24:28.579 He was oppressed and he was afflicted. 00:24:29.779 --> 00:24:31.639 Yet he opened not his mouth. 00:24:31.699 --> 00:24:34.379 Like a lamb that is led to the slaughter. 00:24:35.179 --> 00:24:37.939 And like a sheep that is before its shearers is silent. 00:24:38.099 --> 00:24:39.899 So he opened not his mouth. 00:24:39.900 --> 00:24:42.080 By oppression and judgment, 00:24:42.720 --> 00:24:43.759 he was taken away. 00:24:44.360 --> 00:24:45.600 As for his generation, 00:24:46.280 --> 00:24:48.519 who considered that he was cut off of the land, 00:24:48.620 --> 00:24:49.720 out of the land of the living, 00:24:50.480 --> 00:24:52.759 stricken for the transgression of my people. 00:24:53.460 --> 00:24:55.620 So if you see this idea of substitution there, 00:24:55.800 --> 00:24:56.040 our, 00:24:56.180 --> 00:24:58.460 you see that he was wounded for our transgressions, 00:24:58.580 --> 00:24:59.900 crushed for our iniquities. 00:25:01.460 --> 00:25:02.980 And so in our text, 00:25:03.040 --> 00:25:04.019 back in Romans 3, 00:25:04.019 --> 00:25:06.559 we see a really big Bible word 00:25:06.559 --> 00:25:08.339 that I beg of you to like, 00:25:08.879 --> 00:25:09.720 get in your head 00:25:09.720 --> 00:25:12.720 and really gnaw over it 00:25:12.720 --> 00:25:13.599 and pray over it. 00:25:14.359 --> 00:25:16.099 It's in our Romans text, 00:25:16.180 --> 00:25:16.700 but it says, 00:25:16.900 --> 00:25:17.539 it's the word, 00:25:18.559 --> 00:25:19.339 propitiation. 00:25:19.339 --> 00:25:23.519 It's a big word. 00:25:24.339 --> 00:25:25.699 And the same Greek word 00:25:25.699 --> 00:25:27.919 is translated both propitiation 00:25:27.919 --> 00:25:29.699 and expiation. 00:25:30.559 --> 00:25:32.659 And they carry slightly different meanings. 00:25:32.859 --> 00:25:33.359 So again, 00:25:33.419 --> 00:25:35.699 they're a part of the same gem, 00:25:35.839 --> 00:25:36.500 if you would. 00:25:37.299 --> 00:25:37.399 And, 00:25:37.480 --> 00:25:37.980 but together, 00:25:38.099 --> 00:25:39.240 they give a beautiful picture 00:25:39.240 --> 00:25:40.740 of what Christ has done for us. 00:25:41.259 --> 00:25:42.500 And as we've been reading, 00:25:42.579 --> 00:25:43.279 it's just really cool 00:25:43.279 --> 00:25:44.679 that we've been reading through Leviticus 00:25:44.680 --> 00:25:47.180 and we're moving in the numbers now. 00:25:48.259 --> 00:25:50.720 We've read over the scripture 00:25:50.720 --> 00:25:52.700 that talks about the day of atonement 00:25:52.700 --> 00:25:54.539 in Leviticus, 00:25:55.000 --> 00:25:55.940 right? 00:25:56.840 --> 00:25:58.840 It's the day that Israel offered up 00:25:58.840 --> 00:25:59.680 a symbolic atonement 00:26:00.279 --> 00:26:03.140 that prefigured Christ's final atonement. 00:26:04.120 --> 00:26:05.519 And if you remember in the text, 00:26:05.600 --> 00:26:07.140 it talks about there are two different 00:26:07.140 --> 00:26:09.660 spotless goats. 00:26:10.500 --> 00:26:11.039 One, 00:26:11.160 --> 00:26:11.900 the first goat 00:26:11.900 --> 00:26:14.080 was used as an act 00:26:14.079 --> 00:26:15.740 of propitiation. 00:26:15.919 --> 00:26:16.579 It was killed 00:26:16.579 --> 00:26:18.419 for the sins of the people 00:26:18.419 --> 00:26:20.199 and the blood was sprinkled 00:26:20.199 --> 00:26:21.159 on the mercy seat. 00:26:21.720 --> 00:26:22.720 And so it was focused on, 00:26:22.799 --> 00:26:23.359 in that sense, 00:26:23.439 --> 00:26:25.279 like satisfying the wrath of God. 00:26:26.240 --> 00:26:27.319 The second goat 00:26:27.319 --> 00:26:28.899 was not killed, 00:26:29.019 --> 00:26:30.599 but it was actually set free. 00:26:31.099 --> 00:26:31.919 It was sent out 00:26:31.919 --> 00:26:33.740 as an act of expiation, 00:26:34.419 --> 00:26:36.619 removing or blotting out our sins, 00:26:37.039 --> 00:26:37.519 right? 00:26:37.639 --> 00:26:38.460 Before God. 00:26:39.659 --> 00:26:41.079 And in the focus, 00:26:41.339 --> 00:26:42.419 in this case, 00:26:42.500 --> 00:26:43.139 is that 00:26:43.140 --> 00:26:44.780 the second goat 00:26:44.780 --> 00:26:45.700 was called the scapegoat. 00:26:45.780 --> 00:26:46.680 That's where we get this from. 00:26:47.440 --> 00:26:48.780 It was sent out into the wilderness 00:26:48.780 --> 00:26:49.580 and it represented 00:26:49.580 --> 00:26:50.600 carrying away 00:26:50.600 --> 00:26:52.340 the sins of the people 00:26:52.340 --> 00:26:54.400 from the presence of God. 00:26:55.360 --> 00:26:55.820 So, 00:26:55.980 --> 00:26:56.800 we see this 00:26:56.800 --> 00:26:57.560 in Jesus. 00:26:58.259 --> 00:26:59.060 Christ fulfilled 00:26:59.060 --> 00:26:59.940 both of those 00:26:59.940 --> 00:27:01.120 at the same time. 00:27:01.880 --> 00:27:02.940 He represented 00:27:02.940 --> 00:27:04.080 this complete work. 00:27:04.079 --> 00:27:04.759 So, 00:27:04.879 --> 00:27:05.720 Jesus not only 00:27:05.720 --> 00:27:06.639 propitiated 00:27:06.639 --> 00:27:07.819 the wrath of God 00:27:07.819 --> 00:27:09.519 by offering himself 00:27:09.519 --> 00:27:10.379 as a sacrifice, 00:27:11.119 --> 00:27:12.119 but he also 00:27:12.119 --> 00:27:13.259 removed our sin 00:27:13.259 --> 00:27:13.859 and guilt 00:27:13.859 --> 00:27:15.220 from the presence of God, 00:27:15.919 --> 00:27:16.859 which is a symbol 00:27:16.859 --> 00:27:18.679 of that second goat, 00:27:18.799 --> 00:27:19.299 if you would. 00:27:20.339 --> 00:27:20.740 So, 00:27:20.819 --> 00:27:21.419 let's just break down 00:27:21.419 --> 00:27:22.079 these words. 00:27:23.379 --> 00:27:23.899 Propitiation, 00:27:24.759 --> 00:27:25.179 again, 00:27:25.339 --> 00:27:25.859 the act 00:27:25.859 --> 00:27:27.299 is the act 00:27:27.299 --> 00:27:28.500 by which the sacrifice, 00:27:28.599 --> 00:27:29.059 in our case, 00:27:29.139 --> 00:27:29.519 Christ, 00:27:29.639 --> 00:27:30.720 bears the full wrath 00:27:30.720 --> 00:27:31.199 of God. 00:27:32.160 --> 00:27:33.360 And it results 00:27:33.360 --> 00:27:33.980 in a changing 00:27:33.980 --> 00:27:34.900 of God's attitude 00:27:34.900 --> 00:27:36.039 towards us. 00:27:36.960 --> 00:27:38.240 Before we were enemies, 00:27:38.360 --> 00:27:38.980 we were hostile, 00:27:39.340 --> 00:27:40.400 and this sacrifice 00:27:40.400 --> 00:27:42.100 changed his attitude 00:27:42.100 --> 00:27:42.900 to favorable 00:27:42.900 --> 00:27:43.840 and acceptable 00:27:43.840 --> 00:27:45.380 and loving. 00:27:46.620 --> 00:27:48.039 Some of your translations 00:27:48.039 --> 00:27:50.440 may use different words, 00:27:50.680 --> 00:27:52.259 but I guess 00:27:52.259 --> 00:27:52.920 if you had to come up 00:27:52.920 --> 00:27:53.940 with a really good, 00:27:54.480 --> 00:27:55.279 clear definition 00:27:55.279 --> 00:27:56.220 of what propitiate 00:27:56.220 --> 00:27:56.759 could say, 00:27:57.440 --> 00:27:58.100 it's not 00:27:58.100 --> 00:27:59.319 to appease, 00:28:00.200 --> 00:28:01.160 to placate, 00:28:01.900 --> 00:28:03.240 or to just, 00:28:03.360 --> 00:28:03.700 you know, 00:28:04.019 --> 00:28:04.940 glance off. 00:28:05.860 --> 00:28:06.740 To appease 00:28:06.740 --> 00:28:08.019 carries like a negative 00:28:08.019 --> 00:28:09.100 kind of connotation 00:28:09.100 --> 00:28:09.519 for it. 00:28:09.920 --> 00:28:10.779 It's this idea 00:28:10.779 --> 00:28:12.360 of buying off 00:28:12.360 --> 00:28:13.039 an aggressor 00:28:13.039 --> 00:28:14.259 at a certain expense. 00:28:15.259 --> 00:28:16.420 To placate 00:28:16.420 --> 00:28:17.819 is very inadequate 00:28:17.819 --> 00:28:20.080 because it suggests 00:28:20.080 --> 00:28:20.819 like a soothing 00:28:20.819 --> 00:28:22.140 of the wrath of God. 00:28:22.240 --> 00:28:22.700 Like he actually 00:28:22.700 --> 00:28:23.640 didn't unleash it, 00:28:23.680 --> 00:28:24.559 he was just kind of like, 00:28:25.080 --> 00:28:26.039 calm down, God. 00:28:26.120 --> 00:28:26.380 So, 00:28:26.440 --> 00:28:27.100 that's not what 00:28:27.100 --> 00:28:28.539 the word means either. 00:28:28.539 --> 00:28:30.940 It doesn't mean 00:28:30.940 --> 00:28:32.779 to deflect. 00:28:33.740 --> 00:28:34.059 Right? 00:28:34.700 --> 00:28:35.599 Like a boxer 00:28:35.599 --> 00:28:36.659 would strike away 00:28:36.659 --> 00:28:37.259 a blow, 00:28:37.379 --> 00:28:37.579 you know, 00:28:37.579 --> 00:28:38.259 by blocking. 00:28:39.399 --> 00:28:40.159 That's not what 00:28:40.159 --> 00:28:41.159 it implies as well. 00:28:41.960 --> 00:28:42.480 But the word, 00:28:42.579 --> 00:28:43.000 I think, 00:28:43.299 --> 00:28:44.159 that I've studied, 00:28:44.279 --> 00:28:44.779 that I've read, 00:28:45.379 --> 00:28:45.960 that I believe 00:28:45.960 --> 00:28:47.240 best describes this 00:28:47.240 --> 00:28:47.779 is that 00:28:47.779 --> 00:28:49.359 word exhausted. 00:28:49.359 --> 00:28:52.199 Christ exhausted 00:28:52.199 --> 00:28:53.939 the wrath of God 00:28:53.939 --> 00:28:54.639 on the cross. 00:28:55.339 --> 00:28:55.779 So, 00:28:55.819 --> 00:28:56.759 not deflected it 00:28:56.759 --> 00:28:57.759 and just prevented it 00:28:57.759 --> 00:28:58.399 from reaching us, 00:28:58.439 --> 00:28:59.359 but he absorbed it, 00:28:59.419 --> 00:29:00.379 he exhausted it. 00:29:01.099 --> 00:29:01.359 So, 00:29:01.439 --> 00:29:02.219 all of God's 00:29:02.219 --> 00:29:02.879 holy fury 00:29:02.879 --> 00:29:03.679 was unleashed 00:29:03.679 --> 00:29:04.799 on his beloved son 00:29:04.799 --> 00:29:05.699 and he held 00:29:05.699 --> 00:29:06.559 none of it back 00:29:06.559 --> 00:29:07.899 on behalf 00:29:07.899 --> 00:29:08.519 of his people. 00:29:09.779 --> 00:29:10.199 So, 00:29:10.279 --> 00:29:10.839 that is the word 00:29:10.839 --> 00:29:11.619 propitiate. 00:29:12.179 --> 00:29:13.000 It means that 00:29:13.000 --> 00:29:14.119 Christ exhausted 00:29:14.119 --> 00:29:15.159 the wrath of God. 00:29:16.079 --> 00:29:16.279 So, 00:29:16.339 --> 00:29:17.099 that's the one part. 00:29:17.199 --> 00:29:17.759 Then tilt it 00:29:17.759 --> 00:29:18.799 to expiation. 00:29:19.879 --> 00:29:20.679 It implies, 00:29:20.839 --> 00:29:21.039 again, 00:29:21.119 --> 00:29:21.740 the removal 00:29:21.740 --> 00:29:22.799 of our sin 00:29:22.799 --> 00:29:24.240 and our guilt 00:29:24.240 --> 00:29:25.059 from the presence 00:29:25.059 --> 00:29:25.659 of God. 00:29:26.859 --> 00:29:27.000 Alright? 00:29:28.639 --> 00:29:29.119 Sin, 00:29:29.879 --> 00:29:30.579 do you know that, 00:29:30.639 --> 00:29:30.799 like, 00:29:30.819 --> 00:29:31.519 let's say you committed 00:29:31.519 --> 00:29:32.539 a serious crime 00:29:32.539 --> 00:29:33.179 and you went to court 00:29:33.179 --> 00:29:34.559 and it was really 00:29:34.559 --> 00:29:36.559 killing your soul, 00:29:36.879 --> 00:29:37.779 gnawing on you, 00:29:38.719 --> 00:29:39.779 vexing your conscience, 00:29:40.039 --> 00:29:40.879 weighing you down 00:29:40.879 --> 00:29:42.099 with guilt and shame. 00:29:42.879 --> 00:29:43.899 And the judge 00:29:43.899 --> 00:29:44.759 forgave you 00:29:44.759 --> 00:29:45.699 and pardoned you, 00:29:46.199 --> 00:29:47.279 but you still went home 00:29:47.279 --> 00:29:48.319 with that same guilt, 00:29:48.319 --> 00:29:49.639 that same 00:29:49.639 --> 00:29:50.799 torn up conscience. 00:29:51.960 --> 00:29:52.399 This is what 00:29:52.399 --> 00:29:53.439 expiation does. 00:29:53.639 --> 00:29:55.379 It means that 00:29:55.379 --> 00:29:56.259 Christ's sacrifice 00:29:56.259 --> 00:29:57.039 has the power 00:29:57.039 --> 00:29:57.859 to cleanse you 00:29:57.859 --> 00:29:58.399 of guilt 00:29:58.399 --> 00:29:59.759 and of shame 00:29:59.759 --> 00:30:00.659 so that you can 00:30:00.659 --> 00:30:01.379 walk away 00:30:01.379 --> 00:30:02.480 clean 00:30:02.480 --> 00:30:03.939 and free. 00:30:04.899 --> 00:30:05.139 Right? 00:30:05.159 --> 00:30:05.819 That's that picture 00:30:05.819 --> 00:30:07.059 of the second goat. 00:30:07.740 --> 00:30:08.539 That God has 00:30:08.539 --> 00:30:09.939 removed our sins 00:30:09.939 --> 00:30:10.879 from his presence. 00:30:11.799 --> 00:30:12.259 Right? 00:30:12.259 --> 00:30:14.180 That famous verse 00:30:14.180 --> 00:30:16.000 in Psalm 103, 00:30:16.200 --> 00:30:17.220 11-12, 00:30:17.579 --> 00:30:18.720 For as high 00:30:18.720 --> 00:30:19.379 as the heavens 00:30:19.379 --> 00:30:20.599 are above the earth, 00:30:21.099 --> 00:30:22.220 so great 00:30:22.220 --> 00:30:23.519 is his steadfast love 00:30:23.519 --> 00:30:24.059 for those 00:30:24.059 --> 00:30:24.779 who fear him. 00:30:25.359 --> 00:30:26.660 As far as the east 00:30:26.660 --> 00:30:28.039 is from the west, 00:30:28.579 --> 00:30:29.619 so far 00:30:29.619 --> 00:30:30.379 does he remove 00:30:30.379 --> 00:30:31.400 our transgressions 00:30:31.400 --> 00:30:32.019 from us. 00:30:32.700 --> 00:30:33.440 So that's a 00:30:33.440 --> 00:30:34.339 cultural idiom 00:30:34.339 --> 00:30:35.700 to suggest 00:30:35.700 --> 00:30:36.920 an infinite distance. 00:30:37.440 --> 00:30:38.240 East to west, 00:30:38.460 --> 00:30:38.680 right? 00:30:39.680 --> 00:30:41.100 Heaven to earth, 00:30:41.779 --> 00:30:42.900 an infinite distance. 00:30:43.980 --> 00:30:44.259 So, 00:30:44.420 --> 00:30:45.420 Jesus bore 00:30:45.420 --> 00:30:46.080 our punishment 00:30:46.080 --> 00:30:47.580 and propitiation, 00:30:47.720 --> 00:30:48.120 but he also 00:30:48.120 --> 00:30:48.860 carried away 00:30:48.860 --> 00:30:49.480 our sin 00:30:49.480 --> 00:30:50.100 and our guilt 00:30:50.100 --> 00:30:50.840 from the presence 00:30:50.840 --> 00:30:51.920 of God. 00:30:52.960 --> 00:30:53.900 When it says 00:30:53.900 --> 00:30:54.259 that Christ 00:30:54.259 --> 00:30:55.539 remembers our sins 00:30:55.539 --> 00:30:55.980 no more, 00:30:56.960 --> 00:30:57.360 it's not, 00:30:57.600 --> 00:30:58.380 it just basically 00:30:58.380 --> 00:30:58.920 means that he's 00:30:58.920 --> 00:30:59.560 choosing not to 00:30:59.560 --> 00:31:00.340 bring them up again. 00:31:00.440 --> 00:31:00.779 It doesn't mean 00:31:00.779 --> 00:31:01.500 that God literally 00:31:01.500 --> 00:31:02.080 forgets. 00:31:02.100 --> 00:31:02.759 It just means that 00:31:02.759 --> 00:31:03.640 he's not going 00:31:03.640 --> 00:31:04.160 to hold them 00:31:04.160 --> 00:31:04.900 against us 00:31:04.900 --> 00:31:06.019 any longer. 00:31:06.620 --> 00:31:07.740 So our consciousness 00:31:07.740 --> 00:31:08.740 can be freed 00:31:08.740 --> 00:31:09.579 from guilt 00:31:09.579 --> 00:31:10.240 and shame 00:31:10.240 --> 00:31:11.859 by the blood 00:31:11.859 --> 00:31:12.579 of Christ. 00:31:13.940 --> 00:31:14.359 So, 00:31:15.079 --> 00:31:15.839 if you want 00:31:15.839 --> 00:31:17.799 one more tilt 00:31:17.799 --> 00:31:18.440 on this idea 00:31:18.440 --> 00:31:19.079 of atonement, 00:31:19.960 --> 00:31:20.720 it's very important 00:31:20.720 --> 00:31:21.259 that you understand 00:31:21.259 --> 00:31:21.480 this. 00:31:21.519 --> 00:31:22.539 It was a decisive 00:31:22.539 --> 00:31:24.059 atonement. 00:31:25.079 --> 00:31:25.680 Decisive. 00:31:26.259 --> 00:31:27.519 It was so powerful, 00:31:28.440 --> 00:31:28.920 perfect, 00:31:29.819 --> 00:31:30.940 and clear, 00:31:31.559 --> 00:31:32.400 it never needs 00:31:32.400 --> 00:31:32.920 to be repeated 00:31:32.920 --> 00:31:33.480 again. 00:31:34.920 --> 00:31:35.799 Hebrews 10 00:31:35.799 --> 00:31:37.159 says, 00:31:38.399 --> 00:31:39.259 every priest, 00:31:39.419 --> 00:31:40.099 he's referring 00:31:40.099 --> 00:31:40.559 to the old 00:31:40.559 --> 00:31:40.899 covenant, 00:31:41.639 --> 00:31:42.440 every priest 00:31:42.440 --> 00:31:43.960 stands daily 00:31:43.960 --> 00:31:44.819 at his service 00:31:44.819 --> 00:31:45.839 offering repeatedly 00:31:45.839 --> 00:31:46.539 the same 00:31:46.539 --> 00:31:47.220 sacrifices, 00:31:47.639 --> 00:31:49.000 which can never 00:31:49.000 --> 00:31:50.079 take away sins. 00:31:50.180 --> 00:31:50.799 But listen to this, 00:31:51.480 --> 00:31:52.440 but when Christ 00:31:52.440 --> 00:31:53.460 had offered 00:31:53.460 --> 00:31:54.440 for all time 00:31:54.440 --> 00:31:55.559 a single 00:31:55.559 --> 00:31:56.139 sacrifice 00:31:56.139 --> 00:31:56.980 for sins, 00:31:57.200 --> 00:31:58.339 he sat down 00:31:58.339 --> 00:31:58.819 at the right 00:31:58.819 --> 00:31:59.839 hand of God. 00:32:00.799 --> 00:32:01.240 Right? 00:32:01.339 --> 00:32:01.859 And this is, 00:32:02.079 --> 00:32:03.099 this word is 00:32:03.099 --> 00:32:03.659 implied, 00:32:03.779 --> 00:32:04.099 I think, 00:32:04.099 --> 00:32:04.879 four times 00:32:04.879 --> 00:32:05.899 in the book 00:32:05.899 --> 00:32:06.439 of Hebrews 00:32:06.439 --> 00:32:07.719 because in 00:32:07.719 --> 00:32:08.039 the old 00:32:08.039 --> 00:32:08.359 covenant, 00:32:08.500 --> 00:32:09.019 the priests, 00:32:09.119 --> 00:32:09.899 the sacrifices, 00:32:10.139 --> 00:32:10.559 the rituals 00:32:10.559 --> 00:32:11.819 were never 00:32:11.819 --> 00:32:12.219 ending, 00:32:12.919 --> 00:32:13.439 over and over 00:32:13.439 --> 00:32:13.759 and over. 00:32:14.779 --> 00:32:15.259 And so when 00:32:15.259 --> 00:32:15.859 Christ came, 00:32:15.939 --> 00:32:16.439 he fulfilled 00:32:16.439 --> 00:32:17.179 those things 00:32:17.179 --> 00:32:17.959 that never 00:32:17.959 --> 00:32:18.639 needed to be 00:32:18.639 --> 00:32:19.740 repeated again, 00:32:20.279 --> 00:32:20.899 ever. 00:32:22.000 --> 00:32:22.500 It's the, 00:32:22.619 --> 00:32:23.879 it's the Greek 00:32:23.879 --> 00:32:24.339 word, 00:32:25.519 --> 00:32:26.139 hapax, 00:32:26.799 --> 00:32:27.480 and it means 00:32:27.480 --> 00:32:28.619 once for all 00:32:28.619 --> 00:32:29.079 time. 00:32:30.059 --> 00:32:31.079 It means that 00:32:31.079 --> 00:32:31.859 something happened 00:32:31.859 --> 00:32:32.439 that was so 00:32:32.439 --> 00:32:32.979 decisive 00:32:32.979 --> 00:32:34.519 and accomplished 00:32:34.519 --> 00:32:35.240 so much 00:32:35.240 --> 00:32:35.919 that it never 00:32:35.919 --> 00:32:36.599 needs to be 00:32:36.599 --> 00:32:37.099 repeated. 00:32:38.299 --> 00:32:38.459 So, 00:32:38.619 --> 00:32:39.219 and in fact, 00:32:39.279 --> 00:32:39.839 any effort 00:32:39.839 --> 00:32:40.979 to repeat it 00:32:40.979 --> 00:32:41.399 would be 00:32:41.399 --> 00:32:42.279 to be, 00:32:42.279 --> 00:32:42.599 to be, 00:32:42.719 --> 00:32:43.419 make a mockery 00:32:43.419 --> 00:32:43.839 of that 00:32:43.839 --> 00:32:44.479 sacrifice. 00:32:45.699 --> 00:32:45.879 Right? 00:32:46.219 --> 00:32:46.859 So Christ's 00:32:46.859 --> 00:32:47.439 work was 00:32:47.439 --> 00:32:48.459 hapax. 00:32:49.299 --> 00:32:50.139 That's why, 00:32:50.259 --> 00:32:50.579 again, 00:32:50.799 --> 00:32:51.419 this idea 00:32:51.419 --> 00:32:52.779 that the Roman 00:32:52.779 --> 00:32:53.439 Eucharist, 00:32:53.500 --> 00:32:53.859 where they, 00:32:53.859 --> 00:32:54.939 they shed 00:32:54.939 --> 00:32:55.419 the blood 00:32:55.419 --> 00:32:55.939 of Christ 00:32:55.939 --> 00:32:56.439 afresh 00:32:56.439 --> 00:32:56.959 on the altar 00:32:56.959 --> 00:32:57.399 table 00:32:57.399 --> 00:32:58.939 and partake 00:32:58.939 --> 00:32:59.179 of it 00:32:59.179 --> 00:33:00.259 is so disgraceful 00:33:00.259 --> 00:33:00.819 and sad. 00:33:00.920 --> 00:33:01.500 It's not real. 00:33:02.240 --> 00:33:03.059 Christ made 00:33:03.059 --> 00:33:03.700 that sacrifice. 00:33:03.920 --> 00:33:04.420 It's done. 00:33:05.200 --> 00:33:05.759 So all we do 00:33:05.759 --> 00:33:06.920 now is remember 00:33:06.920 --> 00:33:07.819 and rejoice 00:33:07.819 --> 00:33:08.460 in what he's 00:33:08.460 --> 00:33:08.759 done. 00:33:09.740 --> 00:33:10.019 Right? 00:33:10.160 --> 00:33:10.819 It was so 00:33:10.819 --> 00:33:11.619 sufficient, 00:33:12.779 --> 00:33:13.299 monumental, 00:33:13.720 --> 00:33:14.359 and effectuous 00:33:14.359 --> 00:33:14.960 that it never 00:33:14.960 --> 00:33:15.839 has to be done 00:33:15.839 --> 00:33:16.160 again. 00:33:16.279 --> 00:33:17.359 Once for all 00:33:17.359 --> 00:33:17.859 time. 00:33:19.000 --> 00:33:19.900 Hebrews 9, 00:33:19.900 --> 00:33:20.259 26, 00:33:20.500 --> 00:33:20.740 again, 00:33:20.819 --> 00:33:21.279 this word's 00:33:21.279 --> 00:33:21.640 repeated. 00:33:22.519 --> 00:33:23.440 But as it is, 00:33:23.700 --> 00:33:25.039 Christ has 00:33:25.039 --> 00:33:25.839 appeared once 00:33:25.839 --> 00:33:26.460 for all 00:33:26.460 --> 00:33:27.640 at the end 00:33:27.640 --> 00:33:28.200 of the ages 00:33:28.200 --> 00:33:29.039 to put away 00:33:29.039 --> 00:33:30.440 sin by 00:33:30.440 --> 00:33:31.119 the sacrifice 00:33:31.119 --> 00:33:32.059 of himself. 00:33:33.240 --> 00:33:34.200 The conclusion 00:33:34.200 --> 00:33:34.659 then, 00:33:35.240 --> 00:33:36.359 of all that, 00:33:37.359 --> 00:33:37.920 is to say 00:33:37.920 --> 00:33:39.359 that Christ's 00:33:39.359 --> 00:33:40.099 suffering and 00:33:40.099 --> 00:33:40.480 death, 00:33:40.920 --> 00:33:41.420 if that was 00:33:41.420 --> 00:33:41.799 accomplished 00:33:41.799 --> 00:33:42.579 once for all 00:33:42.579 --> 00:33:42.980 time, 00:33:43.379 --> 00:33:44.420 we no longer 00:33:44.420 --> 00:33:45.299 can be condemned 00:33:45.299 --> 00:33:47.159 if we stand 00:33:47.159 --> 00:33:47.680 in Christ. 00:33:48.680 --> 00:33:49.180 But there is 00:33:49.180 --> 00:33:50.039 therefore now 00:33:50.039 --> 00:33:52.019 no condemnation 00:33:52.019 --> 00:33:52.659 for those 00:33:52.659 --> 00:33:53.339 who are in 00:33:53.339 --> 00:33:54.680 Christ Jesus 00:33:54.680 --> 00:33:55.960 at all. 00:33:56.460 --> 00:33:57.359 So those of you 00:33:57.359 --> 00:33:57.899 who are a criminal 00:33:57.899 --> 00:33:58.659 justice major, 00:33:58.660 --> 00:33:59.100 there is no 00:33:59.100 --> 00:34:00.180 double jeopardy 00:34:00.180 --> 00:34:01.320 in God's 00:34:01.320 --> 00:34:01.700 courtroom. 00:34:01.900 --> 00:34:02.100 There will 00:34:02.100 --> 00:34:02.540 be no, 00:34:02.680 --> 00:34:03.060 you will not 00:34:03.060 --> 00:34:03.560 be tried 00:34:03.560 --> 00:34:04.200 twice for 00:34:04.200 --> 00:34:04.740 the same 00:34:04.740 --> 00:34:05.300 crime 00:34:05.300 --> 00:34:06.540 at all. 00:34:07.980 --> 00:34:08.159 It's 00:34:08.159 --> 00:34:09.059 basis, 00:34:09.539 --> 00:34:10.119 Paul goes 00:34:10.119 --> 00:34:10.559 on in Romans 00:34:10.559 --> 00:34:10.720 8, 00:34:10.780 --> 00:34:10.920 it says, 00:34:11.000 --> 00:34:11.440 who is to 00:34:11.440 --> 00:34:11.940 condemn? 00:34:12.680 --> 00:34:13.139 And then it's 00:34:13.139 --> 00:34:13.579 assumed, 00:34:13.700 --> 00:34:14.220 no one. 00:34:15.039 --> 00:34:15.800 And then why? 00:34:15.900 --> 00:34:16.320 Because it's 00:34:16.320 --> 00:34:16.960 Christ Jesus, 00:34:17.099 --> 00:34:17.539 he was the 00:34:17.539 --> 00:34:18.000 one who 00:34:18.000 --> 00:34:18.400 died. 00:34:19.480 --> 00:34:19.900 The death 00:34:19.900 --> 00:34:20.360 of Christ 00:34:20.360 --> 00:34:21.139 secures our 00:34:21.139 --> 00:34:21.840 freedom from 00:34:21.840 --> 00:34:22.780 that condemnation. 00:34:23.880 --> 00:34:24.139 So, 00:34:24.800 --> 00:34:25.360 listen to 00:34:25.360 --> 00:34:25.940 something Luther 00:34:25.940 --> 00:34:26.320 said. 00:34:26.320 --> 00:34:26.700 I just want 00:34:26.700 --> 00:34:28.039 to throw 00:34:28.039 --> 00:34:28.539 this out 00:34:28.539 --> 00:34:28.960 there just 00:34:28.960 --> 00:34:29.400 before we 00:34:29.400 --> 00:34:29.780 move on to 00:34:29.780 --> 00:34:30.080 the next 00:34:30.080 --> 00:34:30.660 point and 00:34:30.660 --> 00:34:31.100 the idea 00:34:31.100 --> 00:34:31.340 of the 00:34:31.340 --> 00:34:31.840 atonement. 00:34:33.400 --> 00:34:33.800 So, 00:34:34.680 --> 00:34:35.820 I love 00:34:35.820 --> 00:34:36.160 this. 00:34:37.440 --> 00:34:38.200 Talking about 00:34:38.200 --> 00:34:38.760 what Christ 00:34:38.760 --> 00:34:39.300 did for us, 00:34:39.320 --> 00:34:39.680 he said, 00:34:39.679 --> 00:34:40.899 so when the 00:34:40.899 --> 00:34:42.980 devil throws 00:34:42.980 --> 00:34:43.659 your sins 00:34:43.659 --> 00:34:43.980 in your 00:34:43.980 --> 00:34:45.460 face and 00:34:45.460 --> 00:34:46.239 declares that 00:34:46.239 --> 00:34:46.899 you deserve 00:34:46.899 --> 00:34:47.559 death and 00:34:47.559 --> 00:34:47.839 hell, 00:34:48.619 --> 00:34:49.119 tell him 00:34:49.119 --> 00:34:49.480 this, 00:34:50.219 --> 00:34:51.039 I admit 00:34:51.039 --> 00:34:51.559 that I 00:34:51.559 --> 00:34:52.059 deserve 00:34:52.059 --> 00:34:52.559 death and 00:34:52.559 --> 00:34:52.839 hell, 00:34:53.059 --> 00:34:53.379 what of 00:34:53.379 --> 00:34:53.559 it? 00:34:54.299 --> 00:34:54.659 For I 00:34:54.659 --> 00:34:55.199 know one 00:34:55.199 --> 00:34:55.879 who suffered 00:34:55.879 --> 00:34:56.299 and made 00:34:56.299 --> 00:34:57.000 satisfaction 00:34:57.000 --> 00:34:57.699 on my 00:34:57.699 --> 00:34:58.119 behalf. 00:34:58.779 --> 00:34:59.259 His name 00:34:59.259 --> 00:34:59.739 is Jesus 00:34:59.739 --> 00:35:00.259 Christ, 00:35:00.500 --> 00:35:01.159 Son of 00:35:01.159 --> 00:35:01.500 God, 00:35:01.599 --> 00:35:01.859 and where 00:35:01.859 --> 00:35:02.480 he is, 00:35:02.579 --> 00:35:02.899 there I 00:35:02.899 --> 00:35:03.259 shall be 00:35:03.259 --> 00:35:03.619 also. 00:35:05.119 --> 00:35:05.679 The 00:35:05.679 --> 00:35:06.079 atonement 00:35:06.079 --> 00:35:06.599 of Christ, 00:35:07.099 --> 00:35:07.739 a complete, 00:35:07.919 --> 00:35:08.279 perfect, 00:35:08.440 --> 00:35:09.059 finished work, 00:35:09.059 --> 00:35:10.659 satisfied the 00:35:10.659 --> 00:35:11.019 wrath of 00:35:11.019 --> 00:35:11.440 God and 00:35:11.440 --> 00:35:12.079 carried away 00:35:12.079 --> 00:35:12.659 our guilt 00:35:12.659 --> 00:35:13.239 and shame 00:35:13.239 --> 00:35:14.320 from his 00:35:14.320 --> 00:35:14.739 presence. 00:35:15.739 --> 00:35:16.519 Point number 00:35:16.519 --> 00:35:16.860 three, 00:35:18.659 --> 00:35:19.759 Christ alone 00:35:19.759 --> 00:35:21.860 is fully 00:35:21.860 --> 00:35:23.539 ours by 00:35:23.539 --> 00:35:24.279 faith alone. 00:35:25.119 --> 00:35:25.420 So, 00:35:25.500 --> 00:35:26.039 it's tying it 00:35:26.039 --> 00:35:26.759 into what we 00:35:26.759 --> 00:35:27.480 spoke of last 00:35:27.480 --> 00:35:27.799 week. 00:35:28.299 --> 00:35:28.820 If you look at 00:35:28.820 --> 00:35:29.380 our text in 00:35:29.380 --> 00:35:30.000 Romans 3, 00:35:30.820 --> 00:35:31.460 the righteousness 00:35:31.460 --> 00:35:32.239 of God 00:35:32.239 --> 00:35:33.679 through faith 00:35:33.679 --> 00:35:34.739 in Jesus 00:35:34.739 --> 00:35:35.380 Christ for 00:35:35.380 --> 00:35:35.980 all who 00:35:35.980 --> 00:35:36.460 believe. 00:35:37.719 --> 00:35:37.940 He 00:35:37.940 --> 00:35:38.699 propitiated 00:35:38.699 --> 00:35:40.000 by his 00:35:40.000 --> 00:35:40.539 blood to 00:35:40.539 --> 00:35:41.159 be received 00:35:41.159 --> 00:35:41.919 by faith. 00:35:42.839 --> 00:35:43.219 Then you 00:35:43.219 --> 00:35:43.519 move on 00:35:43.519 --> 00:35:44.219 to 26, 00:35:44.559 --> 00:35:44.779 that he 00:35:44.779 --> 00:35:45.039 would be 00:35:45.039 --> 00:35:45.519 just and 00:35:45.519 --> 00:35:45.679 the 00:35:45.679 --> 00:35:46.339 justifier 00:35:46.339 --> 00:35:46.679 of the 00:35:46.679 --> 00:35:47.079 one who 00:35:47.079 --> 00:35:47.719 has faith 00:35:47.719 --> 00:35:48.859 in Jesus. 00:35:48.980 --> 00:35:49.079 So, 00:35:49.139 --> 00:35:49.460 that word 00:35:49.460 --> 00:35:49.980 is repeated 00:35:49.980 --> 00:35:50.379 multiple 00:35:50.379 --> 00:35:51.199 times for 00:35:51.199 --> 00:35:51.619 emphasis, 00:35:52.339 --> 00:35:52.799 meaning that 00:35:52.799 --> 00:35:53.279 you cannot 00:35:53.279 --> 00:35:54.799 earn what 00:35:54.799 --> 00:35:55.139 Christ 00:35:55.139 --> 00:35:55.639 accomplished. 00:35:55.799 --> 00:35:56.219 You cannot 00:35:56.219 --> 00:35:57.279 be good 00:35:57.279 --> 00:35:57.599 enough, 00:35:57.699 --> 00:35:58.039 do enough 00:35:58.039 --> 00:35:58.739 good works. 00:35:59.059 --> 00:35:59.759 It is to 00:35:59.759 --> 00:36:00.239 be received 00:36:00.239 --> 00:36:01.319 alone by 00:36:01.319 --> 00:36:01.679 faith. 00:36:02.659 --> 00:36:03.079 So, 00:36:03.739 --> 00:36:04.539 that is the 00:36:04.539 --> 00:36:05.019 ground for 00:36:05.019 --> 00:36:05.659 our acceptance 00:36:05.659 --> 00:36:06.359 with God. 00:36:07.039 --> 00:36:07.460 As you 00:36:07.460 --> 00:36:07.879 read in 00:36:07.879 --> 00:36:08.399 Romans and 00:36:08.399 --> 00:36:09.079 other places 00:36:09.079 --> 00:36:09.980 in the New 00:36:09.980 --> 00:36:10.279 Testament, 00:36:10.420 --> 00:36:10.899 you see that 00:36:10.899 --> 00:36:11.259 when we 00:36:11.259 --> 00:36:12.539 place saving 00:36:12.539 --> 00:36:13.099 faith in 00:36:13.099 --> 00:36:13.519 Christ, 00:36:14.019 --> 00:36:14.799 it unites 00:36:14.799 --> 00:36:16.019 us to 00:36:16.019 --> 00:36:16.399 Christ. 00:36:16.539 --> 00:36:16.879 We become 00:36:16.879 --> 00:36:17.420 one with 00:36:17.420 --> 00:36:17.639 him, 00:36:18.179 --> 00:36:18.859 so that 00:36:18.859 --> 00:36:19.619 his life 00:36:19.619 --> 00:36:20.219 becomes our 00:36:20.219 --> 00:36:20.559 life, 00:36:21.099 --> 00:36:21.719 his death 00:36:21.719 --> 00:36:22.339 becomes our 00:36:22.339 --> 00:36:22.659 death, 00:36:23.219 --> 00:36:23.879 and his 00:36:23.879 --> 00:36:24.359 resurrection 00:36:24.359 --> 00:36:24.839 will become 00:36:24.839 --> 00:36:25.059 our 00:36:25.059 --> 00:36:25.539 resurrection. 00:36:26.639 --> 00:36:27.259 It is a 00:36:27.259 --> 00:36:27.839 beautiful, 00:36:27.839 --> 00:36:28.879 beautiful thing. 00:36:30.139 --> 00:36:31.119 It is important 00:36:31.119 --> 00:36:32.039 to throw 00:36:32.039 --> 00:36:32.559 this in as 00:36:32.559 --> 00:36:32.799 well, 00:36:33.460 --> 00:36:35.119 that it is 00:36:35.119 --> 00:36:35.759 the object 00:36:35.759 --> 00:36:36.440 of our 00:36:36.440 --> 00:36:37.400 faith that 00:36:37.400 --> 00:36:38.099 saves us, 00:36:38.759 --> 00:36:39.500 not our 00:36:39.500 --> 00:36:40.139 faith itself. 00:36:41.339 --> 00:36:41.619 Okay? 00:36:41.719 --> 00:36:41.819 So, 00:36:41.819 --> 00:36:42.099 you can have 00:36:42.099 --> 00:36:42.799 a very weak 00:36:42.799 --> 00:36:43.239 faith. 00:36:43.940 --> 00:36:44.359 Jesus even 00:36:44.359 --> 00:36:44.679 said, 00:36:44.779 --> 00:36:45.099 even the 00:36:45.099 --> 00:36:45.759 side of a 00:36:45.759 --> 00:36:46.420 mustard seed 00:36:46.420 --> 00:36:46.839 would move 00:36:46.839 --> 00:36:47.219 a mountain, 00:36:48.159 --> 00:36:48.960 but it is 00:36:48.960 --> 00:36:49.519 the object 00:36:49.519 --> 00:36:50.119 of our 00:36:50.119 --> 00:36:50.880 faith that 00:36:50.880 --> 00:36:51.339 saves. 00:36:51.339 --> 00:36:51.960 All right? 00:36:52.659 --> 00:36:53.219 That is 00:36:53.219 --> 00:36:53.699 Christ, 00:36:54.219 --> 00:36:55.019 the Savior. 00:36:56.019 --> 00:36:56.440 So, 00:36:56.539 --> 00:36:56.859 we cannot 00:36:56.859 --> 00:36:57.759 add to what 00:36:57.759 --> 00:36:58.299 Christ has 00:36:58.299 --> 00:36:58.579 done. 00:36:58.679 --> 00:36:59.119 This is a 00:36:59.119 --> 00:36:59.539 gift that we 00:36:59.539 --> 00:37:00.319 are to receive 00:37:00.320 --> 00:37:01.120 by faith 00:37:01.120 --> 00:37:03.200 in Christ. 00:37:04.059 --> 00:37:04.500 So, 00:37:04.900 --> 00:37:05.340 for sake of 00:37:05.340 --> 00:37:05.580 time, 00:37:05.640 --> 00:37:06.019 better move 00:37:06.019 --> 00:37:07.300 on to the 00:37:07.300 --> 00:37:07.800 next point. 00:37:08.180 --> 00:37:08.600 Point number 00:37:08.600 --> 00:37:09.000 four. 00:37:10.080 --> 00:37:10.539 Go back and 00:37:10.539 --> 00:37:11.160 listen to Nathan's 00:37:11.160 --> 00:37:11.620 sermon last 00:37:11.620 --> 00:37:12.220 week on faith 00:37:12.220 --> 00:37:12.539 if you want 00:37:12.539 --> 00:37:13.019 more on that. 00:37:13.180 --> 00:37:13.300 But, 00:37:13.559 --> 00:37:14.600 point number 00:37:14.600 --> 00:37:14.920 four. 00:37:16.880 --> 00:37:17.860 Christ alone 00:37:17.860 --> 00:37:19.280 brought 00:37:19.280 --> 00:37:20.000 reconciliation 00:37:20.000 --> 00:37:21.220 with God. 00:37:23.200 --> 00:37:24.059 This is so 00:37:24.059 --> 00:37:24.240 key. 00:37:24.360 --> 00:37:25.100 Christ alone 00:37:25.100 --> 00:37:25.380 brought 00:37:25.380 --> 00:37:26.000 reconciliation 00:37:26.000 --> 00:37:27.080 with God. 00:37:28.300 --> 00:37:28.700 So, 00:37:28.699 --> 00:37:30.939 we understand 00:37:30.939 --> 00:37:31.719 our sin 00:37:31.719 --> 00:37:32.019 and our 00:37:32.019 --> 00:37:32.460 rebellion 00:37:32.460 --> 00:37:33.679 separated us 00:37:33.679 --> 00:37:34.980 from God. 00:37:36.279 --> 00:37:37.239 Isaiah 59, 00:37:37.539 --> 00:37:37.819 but your 00:37:37.819 --> 00:37:38.739 iniquities have 00:37:38.739 --> 00:37:39.059 made a 00:37:39.059 --> 00:37:39.719 separation 00:37:39.719 --> 00:37:40.559 between you 00:37:40.559 --> 00:37:40.939 and your 00:37:40.939 --> 00:37:41.379 God, 00:37:42.219 --> 00:37:42.739 and your 00:37:42.739 --> 00:37:43.339 sins have 00:37:43.339 --> 00:37:43.839 hidden his 00:37:43.839 --> 00:37:45.079 face from 00:37:45.079 --> 00:37:45.699 you so that 00:37:45.699 --> 00:37:46.119 he does 00:37:46.119 --> 00:37:46.819 not hear. 00:37:47.619 --> 00:37:48.059 For God 00:37:48.059 --> 00:37:48.559 to hide his 00:37:48.559 --> 00:37:49.199 face means 00:37:49.199 --> 00:37:49.859 disgust, 00:37:50.000 --> 00:37:50.500 disfavor, 00:37:51.279 --> 00:37:51.599 judgment. 00:37:52.639 --> 00:37:53.139 And to see 00:37:53.139 --> 00:37:53.659 God's face 00:37:53.659 --> 00:37:54.279 means blessing. 00:37:54.500 --> 00:37:54.659 So, 00:37:54.739 --> 00:37:55.299 our sin 00:37:55.299 --> 00:37:56.399 separates us 00:37:56.400 --> 00:37:57.440 from God. 00:37:57.519 --> 00:37:58.019 That's the 00:37:58.019 --> 00:37:58.820 tragedy of 00:37:58.820 --> 00:37:59.260 our sin. 00:37:59.380 --> 00:38:00.260 It destroyed 00:38:00.260 --> 00:38:01.700 the perfect 00:38:01.700 --> 00:38:02.539 relationship we 00:38:02.539 --> 00:38:03.019 have with 00:38:03.019 --> 00:38:03.220 him. 00:38:04.440 --> 00:38:05.119 A beautiful, 00:38:05.340 --> 00:38:05.780 incredible 00:38:05.780 --> 00:38:07.380 being such 00:38:07.380 --> 00:38:07.960 as God 00:38:07.960 --> 00:38:09.480 separated 00:38:09.480 --> 00:38:10.000 because of 00:38:10.000 --> 00:38:10.440 our evil. 00:38:11.380 --> 00:38:11.559 So, 00:38:11.599 --> 00:38:12.039 this is why 00:38:12.039 --> 00:38:12.519 the gospel 00:38:12.519 --> 00:38:12.900 is good 00:38:12.900 --> 00:38:13.280 news, 00:38:13.360 --> 00:38:13.599 okay? 00:38:14.139 --> 00:38:14.680 Because we 00:38:14.680 --> 00:38:15.639 are reconciled 00:38:15.639 --> 00:38:16.220 to God. 00:38:17.680 --> 00:38:18.039 Alright? 00:38:19.200 --> 00:38:20.119 Romans 5, 00:38:20.280 --> 00:38:20.780 a few chapters 00:38:20.780 --> 00:38:21.320 later, 00:38:22.000 --> 00:38:22.420 says, 00:38:22.420 --> 00:38:22.940 for if 00:38:22.940 --> 00:38:23.420 we were 00:38:23.420 --> 00:38:24.200 enemies, 00:38:24.880 --> 00:38:25.240 we were 00:38:25.240 --> 00:38:26.139 reconciled 00:38:26.139 --> 00:38:26.659 to God 00:38:26.659 --> 00:38:27.079 by the 00:38:27.079 --> 00:38:27.420 death 00:38:27.420 --> 00:38:27.820 of his 00:38:27.820 --> 00:38:28.180 son. 00:38:29.380 --> 00:38:29.740 Much 00:38:29.740 --> 00:38:30.159 more, 00:38:30.460 --> 00:38:30.860 now that 00:38:30.860 --> 00:38:31.159 we are 00:38:31.159 --> 00:38:32.039 reconciled, 00:38:32.559 --> 00:38:32.920 shall I 00:38:32.920 --> 00:38:33.500 be saved 00:38:33.500 --> 00:38:33.920 by his 00:38:33.920 --> 00:38:34.300 life. 00:38:35.159 --> 00:38:35.480 So, 00:38:35.700 --> 00:38:36.000 again, 00:38:36.119 --> 00:38:36.639 Christ comes 00:38:36.639 --> 00:38:37.019 in as our 00:38:37.019 --> 00:38:37.539 mediator, 00:38:37.639 --> 00:38:37.760 and he 00:38:37.760 --> 00:38:38.860 takes God, 00:38:38.920 --> 00:38:39.079 and he 00:38:39.079 --> 00:38:39.619 takes us, 00:38:39.659 --> 00:38:39.840 and he 00:38:39.840 --> 00:38:40.460 brings us 00:38:40.460 --> 00:38:41.159 back into 00:38:41.159 --> 00:38:41.599 fellowship 00:38:41.599 --> 00:38:42.619 together again. 00:38:43.320 --> 00:38:43.599 Now, 00:38:43.720 --> 00:38:44.079 hear me, 00:38:44.260 --> 00:38:44.840 a lot of 00:38:44.840 --> 00:38:46.159 people today 00:38:46.159 --> 00:38:46.559 want to 00:38:46.559 --> 00:38:46.960 preach the 00:38:46.960 --> 00:38:47.559 good news 00:38:47.559 --> 00:38:48.599 of the 00:38:48.599 --> 00:38:49.000 gospel 00:38:49.000 --> 00:38:51.039 apart from 00:38:51.039 --> 00:38:51.940 God himself. 00:38:52.420 --> 00:38:53.159 They don't 00:38:53.159 --> 00:38:53.920 understand that 00:38:53.920 --> 00:38:54.559 God is the 00:38:54.559 --> 00:38:54.920 gospel. 00:38:55.500 --> 00:38:56.200 Being restored 00:38:56.200 --> 00:38:56.900 back to 00:38:56.900 --> 00:38:57.659 him is the 00:38:57.659 --> 00:38:58.220 good news. 00:38:59.220 --> 00:38:59.700 That's what 00:38:59.700 --> 00:39:00.260 all the 00:39:00.260 --> 00:39:01.119 gospel points 00:39:01.119 --> 00:39:02.220 towards. 00:39:03.380 --> 00:39:03.760 It is, 00:39:04.000 --> 00:39:05.900 Jesus said 00:39:05.900 --> 00:39:06.820 in John 17, 00:39:08.159 --> 00:39:09.000 this is 00:39:09.000 --> 00:39:09.940 eternal life, 00:39:10.500 --> 00:39:10.900 that you 00:39:10.900 --> 00:39:12.440 know the 00:39:12.440 --> 00:39:13.079 only true 00:39:13.079 --> 00:39:14.460 God in 00:39:14.460 --> 00:39:15.280 Jesus Christ 00:39:15.280 --> 00:39:15.639 whom he 00:39:15.639 --> 00:39:16.059 has sent. 00:39:16.840 --> 00:39:17.059 So, 00:39:17.159 --> 00:39:17.559 this is all 00:39:17.559 --> 00:39:17.960 about being 00:39:17.960 --> 00:39:19.880 restored back 00:39:19.880 --> 00:39:20.220 into a 00:39:20.220 --> 00:39:20.599 relationship 00:39:20.599 --> 00:39:21.119 with God. 00:39:22.420 --> 00:39:23.300 John 00:39:23.300 --> 00:39:23.619 Piper, 00:39:23.740 --> 00:39:23.940 in that 00:39:23.940 --> 00:39:24.320 book that 00:39:24.320 --> 00:39:24.539 Nathan 00:39:24.539 --> 00:39:24.940 actually 00:39:24.940 --> 00:39:25.340 commented 00:39:25.340 --> 00:39:25.680 to you 00:39:25.680 --> 00:39:26.200 earlier, 00:39:27.220 --> 00:39:27.599 he made 00:39:27.599 --> 00:39:28.139 this point. 00:39:29.380 --> 00:39:30.360 All words 00:39:30.360 --> 00:39:30.700 of the 00:39:30.700 --> 00:39:31.059 gospel 00:39:31.059 --> 00:39:31.940 lead to 00:39:31.940 --> 00:39:32.340 God, 00:39:32.539 --> 00:39:32.880 or they 00:39:32.880 --> 00:39:33.159 are not 00:39:33.159 --> 00:39:33.320 the 00:39:33.320 --> 00:39:33.639 gospel. 00:39:34.639 --> 00:39:34.880 For 00:39:34.880 --> 00:39:35.320 example, 00:39:36.340 --> 00:39:36.860 salvation 00:39:36.860 --> 00:39:37.380 is not 00:39:37.380 --> 00:39:38.159 good news 00:39:38.159 --> 00:39:38.559 if it 00:39:38.559 --> 00:39:39.159 only saves 00:39:39.159 --> 00:39:39.500 us from 00:39:39.500 --> 00:39:39.860 hell 00:39:39.860 --> 00:39:40.700 and not 00:39:40.700 --> 00:39:41.539 for God. 00:39:42.539 --> 00:39:43.099 Forgiveness 00:39:43.099 --> 00:39:43.720 is not 00:39:43.720 --> 00:39:44.360 good news 00:39:44.360 --> 00:39:45.119 if it 00:39:45.119 --> 00:39:45.599 only gives 00:39:45.599 --> 00:39:46.200 us relief 00:39:46.200 --> 00:39:46.840 from guilt 00:39:46.840 --> 00:39:47.720 and does 00:39:47.720 --> 00:39:48.200 not open 00:39:48.200 --> 00:39:48.579 the way 00:39:48.579 --> 00:39:49.280 to God. 00:39:49.280 --> 00:39:50.280 God 00:39:50.280 --> 00:39:50.920 is not 00:39:50.920 --> 00:39:52.700 good news 00:39:52.700 --> 00:39:53.620 if it 00:39:53.620 --> 00:39:54.160 only makes 00:39:54.160 --> 00:39:54.840 us legally 00:39:54.840 --> 00:39:55.500 acceptable 00:39:55.500 --> 00:39:56.180 to God 00:39:56.180 --> 00:39:57.280 but does 00:39:57.280 --> 00:39:57.860 not bring 00:39:57.860 --> 00:39:58.240 us into 00:39:58.240 --> 00:39:58.660 fellowship 00:39:58.660 --> 00:39:59.280 with God. 00:40:00.720 --> 00:40:01.300 Adoption 00:40:01.300 --> 00:40:03.100 is not 00:40:03.100 --> 00:40:03.760 good news 00:40:03.760 --> 00:40:04.720 if it 00:40:04.720 --> 00:40:05.260 only puts 00:40:05.260 --> 00:40:05.800 us in 00:40:05.800 --> 00:40:06.400 the Father's 00:40:06.400 --> 00:40:07.240 family but 00:40:07.240 --> 00:40:07.820 not into 00:40:07.820 --> 00:40:08.420 his arms. 00:40:10.300 --> 00:40:11.019 God is 00:40:11.019 --> 00:40:11.500 the gospel. 00:40:12.620 --> 00:40:12.880 So, 00:40:13.060 --> 00:40:13.360 if you 00:40:13.360 --> 00:40:14.440 simply have, 00:40:15.260 --> 00:40:15.700 if your 00:40:15.700 --> 00:40:16.440 gospel simply 00:40:16.440 --> 00:40:16.860 means I 00:40:16.860 --> 00:40:17.140 get to 00:40:17.140 --> 00:40:17.720 not go to 00:40:17.720 --> 00:40:18.220 hell and I 00:40:18.220 --> 00:40:18.540 get to go 00:40:18.540 --> 00:40:19.040 live forever 00:40:19.039 --> 00:40:19.480 in heaven, 00:40:20.119 --> 00:40:20.480 if that's 00:40:20.480 --> 00:40:20.759 where it 00:40:20.759 --> 00:40:21.119 ends, 00:40:22.360 --> 00:40:23.179 you need 00:40:23.179 --> 00:40:23.960 to think, 00:40:24.539 --> 00:40:24.820 you need 00:40:24.820 --> 00:40:25.320 to examine 00:40:25.320 --> 00:40:25.840 your heart. 00:40:26.820 --> 00:40:27.380 If someone 00:40:27.380 --> 00:40:27.920 went through 00:40:27.920 --> 00:40:28.719 this brutal, 00:40:29.300 --> 00:40:30.079 awful death 00:40:30.079 --> 00:40:30.579 for you, 00:40:31.079 --> 00:40:31.619 to save 00:40:31.619 --> 00:40:32.000 you from 00:40:32.000 --> 00:40:32.559 the greatest 00:40:32.559 --> 00:40:33.179 eternal 00:40:33.179 --> 00:40:34.239 torture ever 00:40:34.239 --> 00:40:35.119 and then 00:40:35.119 --> 00:40:35.699 gave you 00:40:35.699 --> 00:40:36.159 the greatest 00:40:36.159 --> 00:40:36.980 gift ever 00:40:36.980 --> 00:40:37.360 which would 00:40:37.360 --> 00:40:37.579 be to 00:40:37.579 --> 00:40:38.059 restore 00:40:38.059 --> 00:40:38.759 back to 00:40:38.759 --> 00:40:39.119 God 00:40:39.119 --> 00:40:39.279 in 00:40:39.279 --> 00:40:39.920 relationship 00:40:39.920 --> 00:40:40.980 and 00:40:40.980 --> 00:40:41.480 fellowship, 00:40:42.840 --> 00:40:43.759 that should 00:40:43.759 --> 00:40:44.199 change your 00:40:44.199 --> 00:40:44.500 heart. 00:40:46.259 --> 00:40:46.960 In fact, 00:40:47.039 --> 00:40:47.340 that's what 00:40:47.340 --> 00:40:47.759 our word 00:40:47.759 --> 00:40:48.400 faith and 00:40:48.400 --> 00:40:50.340 believe in 00:40:50.340 --> 00:40:50.539 the New 00:40:50.539 --> 00:40:50.800 Testament 00:40:50.800 --> 00:40:51.200 means. 00:40:51.280 --> 00:40:51.579 It means 00:40:51.579 --> 00:40:52.420 that you 00:40:52.420 --> 00:40:52.900 have such 00:40:52.900 --> 00:40:53.480 a strong 00:40:53.480 --> 00:40:54.160 conviction 00:40:54.160 --> 00:40:54.599 about 00:40:54.599 --> 00:40:55.119 something 00:40:55.119 --> 00:40:55.940 that it 00:40:55.940 --> 00:40:56.340 changes 00:40:56.340 --> 00:40:56.860 how you 00:40:56.860 --> 00:40:57.280 live. 00:40:57.680 --> 00:40:58.039 It's not 00:40:58.039 --> 00:40:58.599 just a 00:40:58.599 --> 00:40:59.039 mental 00:40:59.039 --> 00:40:59.760 ascent of 00:40:59.760 --> 00:41:00.320 I believe 00:41:00.320 --> 00:41:00.599 that. 00:41:01.639 --> 00:41:01.980 So, 00:41:02.139 --> 00:41:03.019 God is 00:41:03.019 --> 00:41:03.500 the gospel. 00:41:04.920 --> 00:41:05.420 He is 00:41:05.420 --> 00:41:05.920 the gospel. 00:41:06.900 --> 00:41:07.220 So, 00:41:07.340 --> 00:41:08.000 another verse 00:41:08.000 --> 00:41:08.480 for you. 00:41:09.340 --> 00:41:10.099 1 Peter 3 00:41:10.099 --> 00:41:10.780 18 says, 00:41:10.780 --> 00:41:11.640 Christ also 00:41:11.640 --> 00:41:12.060 suffered 00:41:12.060 --> 00:41:12.760 once for 00:41:12.760 --> 00:41:13.260 sins, 00:41:14.200 --> 00:41:14.700 the righteous 00:41:14.700 --> 00:41:15.060 for the 00:41:15.060 --> 00:41:15.640 unrighteous, 00:41:16.280 --> 00:41:16.580 that he 00:41:16.580 --> 00:41:17.180 may bring 00:41:17.180 --> 00:41:17.900 us to 00:41:17.900 --> 00:41:18.240 God. 00:41:20.260 --> 00:41:20.860 Christ 00:41:20.860 --> 00:41:22.480 enables us 00:41:22.480 --> 00:41:23.100 to experience 00:41:23.100 --> 00:41:23.680 the full 00:41:23.680 --> 00:41:24.200 and lasting 00:41:24.200 --> 00:41:25.140 joy of 00:41:25.140 --> 00:41:26.340 seeing and 00:41:26.340 --> 00:41:26.880 savoring the 00:41:26.880 --> 00:41:27.400 glory of 00:41:27.400 --> 00:41:28.140 God forever. 00:41:29.060 --> 00:41:29.840 That is 00:41:29.840 --> 00:41:30.620 what Christ 00:41:30.620 --> 00:41:30.920 came to 00:41:30.920 --> 00:41:31.160 do. 00:41:31.820 --> 00:41:32.200 So that we 00:41:32.200 --> 00:41:32.780 would glorify 00:41:32.780 --> 00:41:33.120 him, 00:41:33.340 --> 00:41:33.780 walk with 00:41:33.780 --> 00:41:33.980 him, 00:41:34.240 --> 00:41:34.820 know him, 00:41:35.460 --> 00:41:35.820 that what 00:41:35.820 --> 00:41:36.780 was lost 00:41:36.780 --> 00:41:37.380 in Genesis 00:41:37.380 --> 00:41:38.960 3 is 00:41:38.960 --> 00:41:39.440 restored, 00:41:39.699 --> 00:41:40.039 but even 00:41:40.039 --> 00:41:40.340 in a 00:41:40.340 --> 00:41:40.699 greater 00:41:40.699 --> 00:41:41.159 sense 00:41:41.159 --> 00:41:42.360 than what 00:41:42.360 --> 00:41:42.740 Adam and 00:41:42.740 --> 00:41:43.199 Eve had. 00:41:44.440 --> 00:41:44.880 So, 00:41:45.199 --> 00:41:46.260 we can't 00:41:46.260 --> 00:41:46.940 just leave 00:41:46.940 --> 00:41:47.320 it there. 00:41:48.179 --> 00:41:48.720 Our sins 00:41:48.720 --> 00:41:49.480 alienated us 00:41:49.480 --> 00:41:50.019 from God, 00:41:50.480 --> 00:41:50.720 we were 00:41:50.720 --> 00:41:51.139 hostile, 00:41:51.480 --> 00:41:51.780 yet, 00:41:53.019 --> 00:41:53.320 Christ 00:41:53.320 --> 00:41:53.699 Jesus 00:41:53.699 --> 00:41:55.380 has once 00:41:55.380 --> 00:41:56.119 brought us 00:41:56.119 --> 00:41:57.240 for all 00:41:57.240 --> 00:41:57.679 time 00:41:57.679 --> 00:41:58.920 near to 00:41:58.920 --> 00:41:59.260 God 00:41:59.260 --> 00:41:59.599 through 00:41:59.599 --> 00:41:59.820 his 00:41:59.820 --> 00:42:00.159 blood. 00:42:01.079 --> 00:42:01.659 That is 00:42:01.659 --> 00:42:02.119 the gospel. 00:42:03.139 --> 00:42:03.480 These are 00:42:03.480 --> 00:42:04.019 just a few 00:42:04.019 --> 00:42:04.579 things that 00:42:04.579 --> 00:42:05.659 I know 00:42:05.659 --> 00:42:06.059 scripture 00:42:06.059 --> 00:42:06.579 teaches 00:42:06.579 --> 00:42:07.960 very clearly 00:42:07.960 --> 00:42:08.519 about what 00:42:08.519 --> 00:42:09.019 Christ did 00:42:09.019 --> 00:42:09.460 for us 00:42:09.460 --> 00:42:10.159 once and 00:42:10.159 --> 00:42:10.659 for all. 00:42:11.599 --> 00:42:11.759 It's 00:42:11.759 --> 00:42:12.440 Christ 00:42:12.440 --> 00:42:13.039 alone. 00:42:13.820 --> 00:42:14.199 So a few 00:42:14.199 --> 00:42:15.199 little things 00:42:15.199 --> 00:42:15.920 to walk 00:42:15.920 --> 00:42:16.500 away with, 00:42:17.019 --> 00:42:17.599 to chew 00:42:17.599 --> 00:42:17.940 on, 00:42:18.759 --> 00:42:19.500 in conclusion, 00:42:20.619 --> 00:42:21.920 that if 00:42:21.920 --> 00:42:22.440 all this 00:42:22.440 --> 00:42:22.900 be true 00:42:22.900 --> 00:42:23.219 then, 00:42:24.340 --> 00:42:24.840 Christ 00:42:24.840 --> 00:42:25.519 alone, 00:42:25.739 --> 00:42:26.440 it is to 00:42:26.440 --> 00:42:26.759 Christ 00:42:26.759 --> 00:42:27.420 alone we 00:42:27.420 --> 00:42:27.800 must be 00:42:27.800 --> 00:42:29.019 faithful and 00:42:29.019 --> 00:42:29.599 devoted to. 00:42:30.179 --> 00:42:31.199 It demands 00:42:31.199 --> 00:42:31.759 everything, 00:42:31.900 --> 00:42:32.259 it demands 00:42:32.259 --> 00:42:33.079 our lives. 00:42:34.800 --> 00:42:35.159 I mean, 00:42:35.259 --> 00:42:36.360 I grew 00:42:36.360 --> 00:42:36.980 up most 00:42:36.980 --> 00:42:37.679 of my life 00:42:37.679 --> 00:42:38.219 having a 00:42:38.219 --> 00:42:38.679 false 00:42:38.679 --> 00:42:39.279 sense 00:42:39.279 --> 00:42:40.579 of assurance 00:42:40.579 --> 00:42:41.159 in Christ. 00:42:41.879 --> 00:42:42.559 I fought 00:42:42.559 --> 00:42:44.459 because I 00:42:44.459 --> 00:42:45.119 prayed a 00:42:45.119 --> 00:42:46.259 prayer, 00:42:46.439 --> 00:42:47.359 an incantation, 00:42:48.159 --> 00:42:48.799 and that 00:42:48.799 --> 00:42:49.439 made me 00:42:49.439 --> 00:42:49.939 okay with 00:42:49.939 --> 00:42:50.239 God, 00:42:50.339 --> 00:42:50.519 and I 00:42:50.519 --> 00:42:50.959 lived like 00:42:50.959 --> 00:42:51.480 the devil 00:42:51.480 --> 00:42:52.339 for probably 00:42:52.339 --> 00:42:53.259 16 years. 00:42:54.539 --> 00:42:55.480 No evidence 00:42:55.480 --> 00:42:55.939 at all 00:42:55.939 --> 00:42:56.819 that I 00:42:56.819 --> 00:42:57.379 loved Christ 00:42:57.379 --> 00:42:57.719 or knew 00:42:57.719 --> 00:42:57.959 him. 00:42:59.219 --> 00:42:59.539 And 00:42:59.539 --> 00:43:01.459 finally, 00:43:01.779 --> 00:43:02.899 I believe 00:43:02.899 --> 00:43:03.539 God saved 00:43:03.539 --> 00:43:03.859 me when I 00:43:03.859 --> 00:43:04.159 was around 00:43:04.159 --> 00:43:04.519 18. 00:43:04.519 --> 00:43:06.860 and after 00:43:06.860 --> 00:43:07.099 that 00:43:07.099 --> 00:43:07.500 happened, 00:43:08.460 --> 00:43:08.960 I didn't 00:43:08.960 --> 00:43:09.219 want to 00:43:09.219 --> 00:43:09.400 do 00:43:09.400 --> 00:43:10.179 anything 00:43:10.179 --> 00:43:11.539 but live 00:43:11.539 --> 00:43:11.920 for him 00:43:11.920 --> 00:43:12.239 and even 00:43:12.239 --> 00:43:12.719 die for 00:43:12.719 --> 00:43:12.900 him. 00:43:13.900 --> 00:43:14.539 And we 00:43:14.539 --> 00:43:14.940 have to 00:43:14.940 --> 00:43:15.179 get to 00:43:15.179 --> 00:43:15.719 that point 00:43:15.719 --> 00:43:16.639 where we 00:43:16.639 --> 00:43:17.099 see this 00:43:17.099 --> 00:43:17.940 sacrifice that 00:43:17.940 --> 00:43:18.320 he made, 00:43:18.420 --> 00:43:18.880 this work 00:43:18.880 --> 00:43:19.400 he accomplished, 00:43:19.519 --> 00:43:19.900 it's worth 00:43:19.900 --> 00:43:20.739 all you have, 00:43:21.179 --> 00:43:21.800 your time, 00:43:21.920 --> 00:43:22.380 your life, 00:43:22.500 --> 00:43:23.139 your money, 00:43:23.579 --> 00:43:23.940 everything. 00:43:24.980 --> 00:43:25.739 He is to be 00:43:25.739 --> 00:43:26.400 the goal 00:43:26.400 --> 00:43:27.320 of it all. 00:43:27.320 --> 00:43:29.580 in fact, 00:43:29.660 --> 00:43:30.000 he even 00:43:30.000 --> 00:43:30.740 demands that 00:43:30.740 --> 00:43:30.980 if you 00:43:30.980 --> 00:43:31.660 follow him 00:43:31.660 --> 00:43:32.519 that you 00:43:32.519 --> 00:43:33.120 be willing 00:43:33.120 --> 00:43:33.800 to even 00:43:33.800 --> 00:43:34.220 take up 00:43:34.220 --> 00:43:34.760 your cross 00:43:34.760 --> 00:43:35.760 and die 00:43:35.760 --> 00:43:36.160 for him 00:43:36.160 --> 00:43:36.519 if need 00:43:36.519 --> 00:43:36.780 be. 00:43:37.880 --> 00:43:38.300 And 00:43:38.300 --> 00:43:38.940 many of 00:43:38.940 --> 00:43:39.280 our brothers 00:43:39.280 --> 00:43:39.740 and sisters 00:43:39.740 --> 00:43:40.180 around the 00:43:40.180 --> 00:43:40.360 world, 00:43:40.440 --> 00:43:40.720 that's a 00:43:40.720 --> 00:43:41.180 reality. 00:43:42.240 --> 00:43:42.940 They become 00:43:42.940 --> 00:43:43.380 believers, 00:43:43.559 --> 00:43:43.780 they could 00:43:43.780 --> 00:43:45.340 face alienation 00:43:45.340 --> 00:43:45.820 from their 00:43:45.820 --> 00:43:46.539 family, 00:43:46.640 --> 00:43:47.240 their community, 00:43:47.920 --> 00:43:48.500 in prison, 00:43:48.760 --> 00:43:49.000 death, 00:43:49.039 --> 00:43:49.400 so they have 00:43:49.400 --> 00:43:49.740 to weigh 00:43:49.740 --> 00:43:50.059 that. 00:43:50.640 --> 00:43:51.700 But what 00:43:51.700 --> 00:43:52.640 Christ did 00:43:52.640 --> 00:43:53.840 is so precious 00:43:53.840 --> 00:43:54.260 to them, 00:43:54.300 --> 00:43:54.519 they don't 00:43:54.519 --> 00:43:54.820 care. 00:43:55.780 --> 00:43:55.960 Right? 00:43:55.960 --> 00:43:56.740 So if 00:43:56.740 --> 00:43:57.740 following 00:43:57.740 --> 00:43:58.420 Christ would 00:43:58.420 --> 00:43:58.980 cost you 00:43:58.980 --> 00:43:59.559 your life, 00:43:59.619 --> 00:43:59.860 would you 00:43:59.860 --> 00:44:00.099 do it 00:44:00.099 --> 00:44:00.440 anyway? 00:44:01.179 --> 00:44:01.400 Is he 00:44:01.400 --> 00:44:02.119 that precious 00:44:02.119 --> 00:44:02.579 to you 00:44:02.579 --> 00:44:02.900 that you 00:44:02.900 --> 00:44:05.079 want all 00:44:05.079 --> 00:44:05.679 he has, 00:44:06.039 --> 00:44:06.360 that you're 00:44:06.360 --> 00:44:06.740 willing to 00:44:06.740 --> 00:44:07.039 surrender 00:44:07.039 --> 00:44:07.559 anything? 00:44:08.820 --> 00:44:09.340 So if 00:44:09.340 --> 00:44:09.659 this be 00:44:09.659 --> 00:44:09.900 true, 00:44:10.000 --> 00:44:10.460 it is Christ 00:44:10.460 --> 00:44:10.940 alone that 00:44:10.940 --> 00:44:11.159 we must 00:44:11.159 --> 00:44:11.679 be faithful. 00:44:13.179 --> 00:44:13.579 And so 00:44:13.579 --> 00:44:14.740 another 00:44:14.740 --> 00:44:15.320 spinoff of 00:44:15.320 --> 00:44:16.480 this is 00:44:16.480 --> 00:44:16.699 that we 00:44:16.699 --> 00:44:17.019 need to 00:44:17.019 --> 00:44:18.420 treat the 00:44:18.420 --> 00:44:18.780 blood of 00:44:18.780 --> 00:44:19.619 Jesus as 00:44:19.619 --> 00:44:20.079 precious. 00:44:20.840 --> 00:44:21.240 Again, 00:44:21.280 --> 00:44:21.579 I talked 00:44:21.579 --> 00:44:22.039 about this 00:44:22.039 --> 00:44:22.500 probably the 00:44:22.500 --> 00:44:22.940 last time I 00:44:22.940 --> 00:44:23.519 was up here. 00:44:24.320 --> 00:44:24.740 It is not 00:44:24.740 --> 00:44:25.420 something cheap, 00:44:25.460 --> 00:44:25.659 it is 00:44:25.659 --> 00:44:25.940 something, 00:44:25.960 --> 00:44:26.720 beautiful that 00:44:26.720 --> 00:44:27.099 we must 00:44:27.099 --> 00:44:28.820 guard and 00:44:28.820 --> 00:44:29.740 talk about 00:44:29.740 --> 00:44:30.840 in the most 00:44:30.840 --> 00:44:31.920 beautiful way 00:44:31.920 --> 00:44:33.099 is the 00:44:33.099 --> 00:44:33.460 blood of 00:44:33.460 --> 00:44:33.820 Christ. 00:44:35.159 --> 00:44:36.019 Then lastly, 00:44:36.740 --> 00:44:37.440 I just want 00:44:37.440 --> 00:44:38.220 you to turn 00:44:38.220 --> 00:44:38.980 to 1 John 00:44:38.980 --> 00:44:39.699 and we'll 00:44:39.699 --> 00:44:40.079 end right 00:44:40.079 --> 00:44:40.260 here. 00:44:40.360 --> 00:44:40.800 1 John 00:44:40.800 --> 00:44:41.380 chapter 4. 00:44:48.380 --> 00:44:49.179 So I 00:44:49.179 --> 00:44:49.880 know probably 00:44:49.880 --> 00:44:50.659 in a crowd 00:44:50.659 --> 00:44:51.199 this big 00:44:51.199 --> 00:44:52.440 that some 00:44:52.440 --> 00:44:53.039 of you are 00:44:53.039 --> 00:44:54.460 not sure 00:44:54.460 --> 00:44:55.079 maybe where 00:44:55.079 --> 00:44:55.699 you stand 00:44:55.699 --> 00:44:55.699 00:44:55.699 --> 00:44:57.639 with God. 00:44:58.719 --> 00:44:59.659 And again, 00:44:59.759 --> 00:45:00.319 it is never 00:45:00.319 --> 00:45:01.340 too late 00:45:01.340 --> 00:45:02.579 even now 00:45:02.579 --> 00:45:03.519 to place 00:45:03.519 --> 00:45:04.480 saving faith 00:45:04.480 --> 00:45:05.579 your complete 00:45:05.579 --> 00:45:06.159 trust in 00:45:06.159 --> 00:45:06.819 Christ's work 00:45:06.819 --> 00:45:08.179 to reconcile 00:45:08.179 --> 00:45:08.940 you to God. 00:45:10.400 --> 00:45:11.679 So 1 John 00:45:11.679 --> 00:45:12.219 chapter 4 00:45:12.219 --> 00:45:12.980 verse 9 00:45:12.980 --> 00:45:15.519 in this 00:45:15.519 --> 00:45:16.380 the love 00:45:16.380 --> 00:45:16.960 of God 00:45:16.960 --> 00:45:18.099 was made 00:45:18.099 --> 00:45:18.599 manifest 00:45:18.599 --> 00:45:19.460 among us 00:45:19.460 --> 00:45:20.679 that God 00:45:20.679 --> 00:45:21.400 sent his 00:45:21.400 --> 00:45:22.360 only son 00:45:22.360 --> 00:45:22.840 into the 00:45:22.840 --> 00:45:23.240 world 00:45:23.240 --> 00:45:24.539 so that we 00:45:24.539 --> 00:45:25.380 might live 00:45:25.380 --> 00:45:26.179 through him. 00:45:27.179 --> 00:45:27.619 And this 00:45:27.619 --> 00:45:28.199 is love, 00:45:28.559 --> 00:45:29.820 not that we 00:45:29.820 --> 00:45:30.360 have loved 00:45:30.360 --> 00:45:30.820 God, 00:45:31.159 --> 00:45:32.199 but that he 00:45:32.199 --> 00:45:33.139 loved us 00:45:33.139 --> 00:45:34.500 and sent his 00:45:34.500 --> 00:45:35.440 son to be 00:45:35.440 --> 00:45:36.300 the propitiation 00:45:36.300 --> 00:45:37.639 for our 00:45:37.639 --> 00:45:38.019 sins. 00:45:38.019 --> 00:45:40.039 let's pray 00:45:40.039 --> 00:45:40.380 together. 00:45:40.380 --> 00:45:40.039 Let's pray 00:45:40.039 --> 00:45:40.400 together.