WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:08.380 Well, good evening everyone. 00:00:09.320 --> 00:00:10.080 How are you? 00:00:11.500 --> 00:00:13.140 It's a bad question to ask from up here. 00:00:14.080 --> 00:00:14.900 You can't really answer. 00:00:18.820 --> 00:00:21.820 I love the parable of the unforgiving servant. 00:00:22.879 --> 00:00:24.460 Parable of the unforgiving servant. 00:00:24.580 --> 00:00:25.699 It's one of my favorite parables. 00:00:25.859 --> 00:00:27.000 So it kind of goes like this. 00:00:27.000 --> 00:00:32.780 There's someone that owes a lot, a lot of money to someone very important. 00:00:34.320 --> 00:00:43.019 And someone very important drags the someone that owes bags and bags of gold and money to court. 00:00:44.320 --> 00:00:50.159 And the servant throws himself on the mercy of the court. 00:00:51.159 --> 00:00:56.240 And the important person forgives the entire debt. 00:00:57.000 --> 00:01:05.460 And the unforgiving servant walks out of there a free man. 00:01:05.459 --> 00:01:12.179 But then he encounters someone that he knows that owes him money. 00:01:12.699 --> 00:01:16.439 And instead of bags of gold, it's just a pittance, some small amount of money. 00:01:17.579 --> 00:01:24.639 And he chokes the man and demands repayment and wants to press full charges. 00:01:24.640 --> 00:01:34.500 And of course, the important man hears of this and gets very angry and throws the unforgiving servant into jail. 00:01:34.579 --> 00:01:43.480 And the reason I love this parable so much is because it's about sin. 00:01:43.480 --> 00:01:48.900 And it's about underestimating sin. 00:01:49.060 --> 00:01:57.280 It's about undervaluing the debt that we owe to God. 00:01:58.939 --> 00:02:05.920 And tonight we have a passage that's all about sin. 00:02:05.920 --> 00:02:11.300 We're going to be looking at 2 Samuel chapter 11. 00:02:11.640 --> 00:02:14.300 It's the famous passage about David and Bathsheba. 00:02:18.099 --> 00:02:19.520 A quick note, by the way. 00:02:20.240 --> 00:02:23.000 Next week's passage is chapter 12. 00:02:23.180 --> 00:02:25.300 And that's where all the repentance happens. 00:02:25.939 --> 00:02:29.219 So this week we're not going to be talking too much about repentance. 00:02:29.219 --> 00:02:33.800 Of course, it's a very important subject and I would love to preach a whole sermon about it. 00:02:35.099 --> 00:02:42.300 So our passage is on page 262 in the Pew Bible if you want to follow along. 00:02:43.780 --> 00:02:49.240 And let me pray for us as we get started. 00:02:51.159 --> 00:02:55.259 Our Father in heaven, I simply pray that you would be here by your spirit tonight. 00:02:56.039 --> 00:02:58.699 That you would be at work in each one of our hearts. 00:02:59.219 --> 00:03:02.039 And that your word would accomplish what you have for it. 00:03:02.400 --> 00:03:03.879 In Jesus' name, amen. 00:03:07.060 --> 00:03:17.539 So as we approach the text tonight, I'd like us to keep in mind that David was not just an ordinary Israelite. 00:03:17.639 --> 00:03:19.020 He was God's anointed. 00:03:19.020 --> 00:03:29.740 He was specially chosen by God and called by God to a particular task. 00:03:29.740 --> 00:03:36.820 And he had several responsibilities as God's anointed and as the king. 00:03:37.480 --> 00:03:42.200 Such as to save the people from their enemies. 00:03:43.240 --> 00:03:45.840 And to protect the people. 00:03:46.900 --> 00:03:53.200 And to establish and uphold God's law in the land. 00:03:53.199 --> 00:03:55.079 And to judge the people. 00:03:56.699 --> 00:04:00.500 The kings back then, they would hear people's cases. 00:04:00.780 --> 00:04:03.699 And they would discern between people's arguments. 00:04:03.959 --> 00:04:05.819 And they would also execute justice. 00:04:05.819 --> 00:04:14.479 When David was faithful, the people were blessed. 00:04:16.180 --> 00:04:21.360 And when David was unfaithful, the people suffered. 00:04:22.659 --> 00:04:26.800 So David was also a representative of the people to God. 00:04:26.800 --> 00:04:32.759 Okay, so with that in mind, let's read this familiar passage. 00:04:32.759 --> 00:04:45.620 In the spring of the year, the time when kings go out to battle, David sent Joab and his servants with him and all Israel. 00:04:46.120 --> 00:04:48.879 And they ravaged the Ammonites and besieged Graba. 00:04:49.699 --> 00:04:51.959 But David remained at Jerusalem. 00:04:53.480 --> 00:04:59.339 It happened late one afternoon when David arose from his couch and was walking on the roof of the king's house. 00:04:59.339 --> 00:05:02.659 That he saw from the roof a woman bathing. 00:05:04.159 --> 00:05:06.099 And the woman was very beautiful. 00:05:07.599 --> 00:05:09.639 And David sent and inquired about the woman. 00:05:10.919 --> 00:05:11.759 And one said, 00:05:12.319 --> 00:05:16.659 Is not this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite? 00:05:17.519 --> 00:05:19.699 So David sent messengers and took her. 00:05:19.879 --> 00:05:20.839 And she came to him. 00:05:21.179 --> 00:05:22.179 And he lay with her. 00:05:23.199 --> 00:05:26.039 Now she had been purifying herself from her uncleanness. 00:05:26.799 --> 00:05:28.419 Then she returned to her house. 00:05:29.339 --> 00:05:30.419 And the woman conceived. 00:05:31.319 --> 00:05:32.719 And she sent and told David, 00:05:33.039 --> 00:05:33.899 I am pregnant. 00:05:36.119 --> 00:05:38.619 So David sent word to Joab, 00:05:38.819 --> 00:05:40.179 Send me Uriah the Hittite. 00:05:40.979 --> 00:05:43.599 And Joab sent Uriah to David. 00:05:44.560 --> 00:05:45.979 When Uriah came to him, 00:05:46.239 --> 00:05:47.120 David asked Joab, 00:05:48.719 --> 00:05:52.979 David asked how Joab was doing and how the people were doing and how the war was going. 00:05:52.980 --> 00:05:55.780 Then David said to Uriah, 00:05:56.360 --> 00:05:58.600 Go down to your house and wash your feet. 00:05:59.660 --> 00:06:04.920 And Uriah went out of the king's house and there followed him a present from the king. 00:06:05.860 --> 00:06:13.340 But Uriah slept at the door of the king's house with all the servants of his lord and did not go down to the house. 00:06:13.339 --> 00:06:15.479 When they told David, 00:06:15.959 --> 00:06:17.479 Uriah did not go down to his house. 00:06:17.899 --> 00:06:18.959 David said to Uriah, 00:06:19.859 --> 00:06:20.539 Have you come? 00:06:20.959 --> 00:06:21.539 Have you? 00:06:22.039 --> 00:06:23.739 Have you not come from a journey? 00:06:24.319 --> 00:06:25.879 Why did you not go down to your house? 00:06:27.259 --> 00:06:28.199 Uriah said to David, 00:06:28.199 --> 00:06:31.219 The ark and Israel and Judah dwell in booths. 00:06:31.420 --> 00:06:35.019 And my lord Joab and the servants of my lord are camping in the open field. 00:06:35.740 --> 00:06:39.879 Shall I then go down to my house to eat and drink and to lie with my wife? 00:06:40.259 --> 00:06:43.620 As you live, as your soul lives, I will not do this thing. 00:06:45.019 --> 00:06:46.620 Then David said to Uriah, 00:06:46.839 --> 00:06:50.399 Remain here today also and tomorrow I will send you back. 00:06:51.279 --> 00:06:54.319 So Uriah remained in Jerusalem that day and the next. 00:06:54.319 --> 00:07:00.839 And David invited him and he ate in his presence and drank so that he made him drunk. 00:07:01.519 --> 00:07:05.920 And in the evening he went out to lie on his couch with the servants of his lord. 00:07:06.719 --> 00:07:08.620 And he did not go down to his house. 00:07:10.759 --> 00:07:14.379 In the morning David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it by the hand of Uriah. 00:07:15.000 --> 00:07:16.180 In the letter he wrote, 00:07:17.039 --> 00:07:23.159 Set Uriah in the forefront of the hardest fighting and then draw back from him that he may be struck down and die. 00:07:24.319 --> 00:07:29.219 And as Joab was besieging the city, he assigned Uriah to the place where he knew there were valiant men. 00:07:29.779 --> 00:07:34.259 And the men of the city came out and fought with Joab and some of the servants of David among the people. 00:07:35.060 --> 00:07:36.920 Uriah the Hittite also died. 00:07:38.620 --> 00:07:43.639 Then Joab sent and told David all the news about the fighting. 00:07:43.639 --> 00:07:46.060 And he instructed the messenger, 00:07:46.060 --> 00:07:50.019 When you have finished telling all the news about the fighting to the king, 00:07:50.620 --> 00:07:53.860 Then, if the king's anger rises and if he says to you, 00:07:54.139 --> 00:07:55.919 Why did you go so near the city to fight? 00:07:56.779 --> 00:08:00.060 Why did you not know that they would shoot from the wall? 00:08:00.680 --> 00:08:04.079 Who killed Abimelech, the son of Jerubbosheth? 00:08:04.680 --> 00:08:10.120 Did not a woman cast an upper millstone on him from the wall so that he died at Thebes? 00:08:10.120 --> 00:08:13.420 Why did you go so near the wall? 00:08:13.780 --> 00:08:14.600 Then you shall say, 00:08:14.840 --> 00:08:17.259 Your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also. 00:08:19.579 --> 00:08:23.879 So the messenger went and came and told David all that Joab had sent him to tell. 00:08:24.340 --> 00:08:25.699 And the messenger said to David, 00:08:26.120 --> 00:08:30.280 The men gained an advantage over us and came out against us in the field. 00:08:30.540 --> 00:08:32.639 But we drove them back to the entrance of the gate. 00:08:33.120 --> 00:08:35.919 Then the archer shot at your servant from the wall. 00:08:35.919 --> 00:08:38.059 Some of the king's servants are dead. 00:08:39.279 --> 00:08:42.719 And your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also. 00:08:44.500 --> 00:08:46.139 David said to the messenger, 00:08:47.240 --> 00:08:48.679 Thus shall you say to Joab, 00:08:48.839 --> 00:08:50.759 Do not let this matter displease you. 00:08:51.439 --> 00:08:53.959 For the sword devours now one and now another. 00:08:54.959 --> 00:08:57.379 Strengthen your attack against the city and overthrow it. 00:08:57.719 --> 00:08:58.719 And encourage him. 00:08:58.720 --> 00:09:04.360 When the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead, 00:09:04.879 --> 00:09:06.519 She lamented over her husband. 00:09:07.899 --> 00:09:09.440 And when the morning was over, 00:09:09.639 --> 00:09:11.600 David sent and brought her to his house. 00:09:12.200 --> 00:09:15.100 And she became his wife and bore him a son. 00:09:16.320 --> 00:09:19.840 And the thing that David had done displeased the Lord. 00:09:21.100 --> 00:09:22.019 Or literally, 00:09:22.019 --> 00:09:26.720 But the thing that David had done was evil in the sight of the Lord. 00:09:26.720 --> 00:09:35.180 Well, if the charges were brought against David, 00:09:36.519 --> 00:09:38.759 Here's how it might read. 00:09:40.220 --> 00:09:42.240 Stealing another man's wife. 00:09:43.740 --> 00:09:45.660 Committing adultery with her. 00:09:47.379 --> 00:09:48.740 Betraying a close friend. 00:09:50.399 --> 00:09:51.779 Murdering innocent men. 00:09:53.259 --> 00:09:55.320 Commanding other people to commit sin. 00:09:56.720 --> 00:09:59.860 And then belittling the whole thing as no big deal. 00:10:02.480 --> 00:10:04.080 And you know, when we read it, we say, 00:10:04.220 --> 00:10:06.840 Ah, these are the real sins. 00:10:07.600 --> 00:10:09.980 These are the big ones. 00:10:11.420 --> 00:10:16.580 Adultery and murder and plotting and scheming and lying and covering it up. 00:10:16.879 --> 00:10:20.120 And this is what, now we're talking. 00:10:20.259 --> 00:10:21.240 This is real sin. 00:10:21.240 --> 00:10:28.340 But I'd like us to take a closer look, a deeper look tonight. 00:10:32.000 --> 00:10:40.259 The first move of the heart in sin 00:10:40.259 --> 00:10:44.299 Is a dethroning of God. 00:10:44.299 --> 00:10:50.080 Off of his rightful position in our hearts. 00:10:50.659 --> 00:10:52.559 As our number one love. 00:10:53.899 --> 00:10:57.360 And enthroning ourselves. 00:10:57.360 --> 00:11:06.779 So to use familiar language from 2 Samuel, 00:11:08.180 --> 00:11:11.700 David has become a man after David's own heart. 00:11:11.700 --> 00:11:31.040 He has stopped loving God in this period of time. 00:11:31.039 --> 00:11:35.699 And is now living by a different set of values. 00:11:35.700 --> 00:11:45.140 All sin is vertical first before it's horizontal. 00:11:45.139 --> 00:11:54.679 And by that I mean all sin is sin against God first before it's horizontal. 00:11:54.919 --> 00:11:57.860 And that's an interesting thing to observe when we have a passage like this. 00:11:58.000 --> 00:12:04.340 Because it's all these sins as they come at us in the passage are horizontal sins. 00:12:04.919 --> 00:12:06.240 It's lust. 00:12:07.019 --> 00:12:08.360 He sees. 00:12:08.620 --> 00:12:09.399 He takes. 00:12:09.399 --> 00:12:12.039 It's adultery. 00:12:12.879 --> 00:12:16.939 It's pride. 00:12:17.039 --> 00:12:18.419 And now I have to cover it up. 00:12:20.379 --> 00:12:23.240 And all these things are happening against other people. 00:12:24.100 --> 00:12:28.500 But it's interesting if we look in chapter 12 and we see the way God responds. 00:12:30.740 --> 00:12:32.000 I'm just going to read a couple. 00:12:32.220 --> 00:12:34.740 I'm going to paraphrase a couple verses from chapter 12. 00:12:34.740 --> 00:12:45.399 And God says through Nathan, 00:12:45.899 --> 00:12:50.659 By what you have done, you have utterly scorned the Lord. 00:12:50.659 --> 00:13:05.000 And David says in Psalm 51, his famous Psalm of repentance, he says regarding the sin, 00:13:05.459 --> 00:13:12.000 Against you, you only have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight. 00:13:12.000 --> 00:13:22.080 And I'd like us to see that not only for David, but for all of us, this is the dynamic of sin. 00:13:22.200 --> 00:13:24.659 This is how sin works. 00:13:25.279 --> 00:13:34.820 If we go back to the law, if we go back to what God wants from us, here's how Jesus puts it. 00:13:34.820 --> 00:13:41.540 You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. 00:13:43.340 --> 00:13:45.540 This is the first and great commandment. 00:13:46.740 --> 00:13:48.340 And a second is like it. 00:13:48.460 --> 00:13:50.200 You shall love your neighbor as yourself. 00:13:50.760 --> 00:13:55.740 On these two commandments depend all the law and the prophets. 00:13:55.740 --> 00:14:03.940 In other words, we love God. 00:14:05.039 --> 00:14:07.419 We see his goodness. 00:14:07.860 --> 00:14:12.360 We see his, for Christians, we see his grace. 00:14:13.060 --> 00:14:16.740 We see his undeserved mercy and love for us. 00:14:16.740 --> 00:14:27.740 And then we turn to other people and we live out of that paradigm of love and grace. 00:14:29.019 --> 00:14:34.180 So all sin in its first instance is against God. 00:14:34.259 --> 00:14:42.039 And that's why I think that when we hear Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount, when we hear Jesus say things like this, 00:14:42.039 --> 00:14:46.959 when he says, you say it's sin to commit adultery. 00:14:47.159 --> 00:14:50.779 I say it's sin to even look at a woman lustfully at all. 00:14:52.839 --> 00:14:55.179 You say it's sin to commit murder. 00:14:56.120 --> 00:15:00.879 I say it's sin to even be angry with your brother and call him a fool. 00:15:02.360 --> 00:15:04.439 Now, how is Jesus saying that? 00:15:04.639 --> 00:15:05.679 What is the dynamic? 00:15:05.679 --> 00:15:20.599 If you are in a state of heart to look at a woman and lust, you haven't done anything, but you've lusted. 00:15:21.359 --> 00:15:29.919 God has been dethroned off out of your heart in those times. 00:15:29.919 --> 00:15:40.719 You have taken God from his rightful place as king of your heart, love of your life. 00:15:41.019 --> 00:15:45.799 You've put him down and you've enthroned yourself. 00:15:45.799 --> 00:16:04.659 If that makes you a little uncomfortable, the ramifications of that are pretty dramatic. 00:16:04.659 --> 00:16:23.100 Because the core of the sin is that we've take the God of the universe who created everything out of nothing, 00:16:23.100 --> 00:16:32.300 who is all-powerful, all-knowing, infinite, eternal, 00:16:33.500 --> 00:16:40.659 on top of that gracious, loving, merciful, kind. 00:16:40.659 --> 00:16:50.459 And we have put him in a position subordinate to us. 00:16:52.039 --> 00:16:53.459 If I can put it that way. 00:16:53.459 --> 00:16:57.600 When you pull God down off of his throne and erect yourself, 00:16:58.240 --> 00:17:02.019 you are putting God in a subordinate position to you. 00:17:02.019 --> 00:17:08.420 And what I want to argue, what I want to try to get us to think about tonight, 00:17:08.980 --> 00:17:16.539 is that that sin is the sin. 00:17:17.160 --> 00:17:18.599 That's the root of it. 00:17:19.059 --> 00:17:21.720 That's the heart of sin right there. 00:17:22.400 --> 00:17:30.599 Then it blossoms into actual evil that we do. 00:17:32.019 --> 00:17:42.500 And I think that if we don't see that, we're on the path to undervaluing sin. 00:17:42.700 --> 00:17:48.279 We're on the path to being able to read a passage like we just read and go, 00:17:49.279 --> 00:17:58.420 that's not me because I don't go that far. 00:17:58.779 --> 00:18:00.900 And we know we're not supposed to say that. 00:18:00.900 --> 00:18:02.720 I know no one's sitting in this room. 00:18:04.660 --> 00:18:09.540 But deep in our hearts, we minimize the standard. 00:18:09.900 --> 00:18:15.759 It's an inclination of our heart to pull the standard down so that we squeak under it. 00:18:16.180 --> 00:18:21.860 But when we actually see the standard, that it's a heart issue, 00:18:22.280 --> 00:18:26.300 and that we all know what it's like to just turn our heads, 00:18:26.299 --> 00:18:28.119 and all of a sudden God's down off the throne. 00:18:31.259 --> 00:18:35.940 And when we do that, 00:18:36.940 --> 00:18:40.539 that's the root of sin. 00:18:40.539 --> 00:18:46.720 So I want to talk a few minutes about the consequences of sin. 00:18:48.619 --> 00:18:50.220 The consequences of sin. 00:18:50.399 --> 00:18:57.359 Here again, I think, so often what we look at is David's and Bathsheba's baby died, 00:18:57.359 --> 00:18:59.220 okay, as a result of this. 00:19:00.079 --> 00:19:02.940 David's whole career now takes a turn for the worse. 00:19:02.940 --> 00:19:09.160 David starts making other mistakes, sinful errors. 00:19:10.000 --> 00:19:14.480 He begins, his rule begins to spiral down. 00:19:14.480 --> 00:19:22.500 God has, as we'll see next week in chapter 12, 00:19:23.240 --> 00:19:30.400 has responded by removing some of the blessings that he'd been giving to David 00:19:30.400 --> 00:19:37.079 and enacting some consequences for David that are temporal, 00:19:37.940 --> 00:19:40.279 that are in the here and now, as it were. 00:19:40.279 --> 00:19:47.079 In fact, as a result of David's sin, 00:19:47.420 --> 00:19:49.339 the people end up suffering. 00:19:50.279 --> 00:19:53.299 The people that David represents, they end up suffering 00:19:53.299 --> 00:19:59.200 because down the road, David starts making other bad choices and sinning. 00:20:00.920 --> 00:20:04.139 And further down the road, David's descendants, 00:20:04.460 --> 00:20:07.559 not too far after David, the wheels come off. 00:20:07.559 --> 00:20:20.720 And even though God had promised to bless David 00:20:20.720 --> 00:20:26.059 and set his steadfast covenant love on David 00:20:26.059 --> 00:20:29.799 and had promised that an heir of David would be on the throne forever, 00:20:31.019 --> 00:20:34.139 even though that promise was there in chapter 7, 00:20:34.140 --> 00:20:39.300 just three chapters later, four chapters later, 00:20:39.880 --> 00:20:44.420 we have this fall. 00:20:50.740 --> 00:20:56.380 And the descendants of David don't last long in their faithfulness to God. 00:20:56.380 --> 00:21:01.560 In fact, as we know, Israel ends up in exile. 00:21:01.700 --> 00:21:04.640 And there is not only no Davidic king on the throne, 00:21:04.720 --> 00:21:06.120 there's no king on the throne at all. 00:21:06.200 --> 00:21:07.620 The people are dispersed. 00:21:10.740 --> 00:21:15.600 Now, what I would like us to be careful about 00:21:15.599 --> 00:21:23.639 is that we do not view the temporal discipline of God on David 00:21:23.639 --> 00:21:30.199 as David paying for the sins that he committed in chapter 11. 00:21:33.339 --> 00:21:37.240 The temporal judgments of God 00:21:37.240 --> 00:21:42.679 are never payment for sin. 00:21:42.680 --> 00:21:47.140 The reason is because no temporal punishment 00:21:47.140 --> 00:21:52.640 can cover the sin of us dethroning God 00:21:52.640 --> 00:21:54.740 from his place as God of the universe. 00:21:55.600 --> 00:21:57.779 Us, created human beings, 00:21:57.940 --> 00:22:00.180 rising up in rebellion against God 00:22:00.180 --> 00:22:02.660 and putting him down. 00:22:04.840 --> 00:22:08.460 None of these temporal disciplines or punishments 00:22:08.460 --> 00:22:09.880 pay for that sin. 00:22:10.000 --> 00:22:11.080 Those sins are out there. 00:22:11.079 --> 00:22:18.000 God is infinite. 00:22:18.379 --> 00:22:22.199 The offense against God is infinite. 00:22:23.779 --> 00:22:26.839 The price to be paid, 00:22:26.919 --> 00:22:29.099 if it were to be paid by a person, 00:22:29.679 --> 00:22:31.699 could not be paid in space and time. 00:22:31.819 --> 00:22:35.379 And that's what hell is. 00:22:35.380 --> 00:22:39.920 Hell is us paying for our sins 00:22:39.920 --> 00:22:41.920 against God himself. 00:22:44.680 --> 00:22:46.600 And it never runs out 00:22:46.600 --> 00:22:48.760 because God is that holy. 00:22:48.960 --> 00:22:50.000 He is that 00:22:50.000 --> 00:22:53.820 majestic. 00:22:53.819 --> 00:23:01.639 However, 00:23:02.419 --> 00:23:04.879 David doesn't die. 00:23:08.319 --> 00:23:10.980 Nor does God revoke his covenant promises 00:23:10.980 --> 00:23:14.919 that he made back in chapter 7. 00:23:14.920 --> 00:23:18.380 I would like to suggest 00:23:18.380 --> 00:23:20.820 that when we're thinking rightly 00:23:20.820 --> 00:23:24.160 about God and who God is 00:23:24.160 --> 00:23:25.759 and when we're reading the Bible 00:23:25.759 --> 00:23:29.620 through the lens of seeing God properly, 00:23:30.720 --> 00:23:32.779 questions like, 00:23:33.300 --> 00:23:36.620 how is David survive this? 00:23:36.619 --> 00:23:36.959 Like, 00:23:37.079 --> 00:23:39.379 how is it 00:23:39.379 --> 00:23:44.319 that David 00:23:44.319 --> 00:23:53.379 goes on to be 00:23:53.379 --> 00:23:55.559 blessed by God, 00:23:55.679 --> 00:23:57.279 continued to be loved by God, 00:23:57.459 --> 00:23:58.619 established by God, 00:24:00.039 --> 00:24:01.619 forgiven by God? 00:24:01.619 --> 00:24:09.239 In other words, 00:24:09.679 --> 00:24:14.379 how is a good judge 00:24:14.379 --> 00:24:19.219 going to just pass over 00:24:19.219 --> 00:24:24.500 our offenses of sin against him? 00:24:31.619 --> 00:24:37.099 Well, 00:24:37.939 --> 00:24:42.679 the answer is 00:24:42.679 --> 00:24:44.079 that God himself 00:24:44.079 --> 00:24:49.699 has to come 00:24:49.699 --> 00:24:52.139 and become a man 00:24:52.139 --> 00:24:56.919 and pay for our sins 00:24:56.919 --> 00:24:58.559 by dying in our place 00:24:58.559 --> 00:24:59.919 himself. 00:25:01.619 --> 00:25:05.439 He is the only 00:25:05.439 --> 00:25:07.599 payment 00:25:07.599 --> 00:25:09.299 that will satisfy 00:25:09.299 --> 00:25:11.239 that kind of debt 00:25:11.239 --> 00:25:12.659 for David 00:25:12.659 --> 00:25:13.500 or for us 00:25:13.500 --> 00:25:15.079 or for any human being. 00:25:18.779 --> 00:25:20.319 And I'd like to go back 00:25:20.319 --> 00:25:21.059 and 00:25:21.059 --> 00:25:23.319 I've been trying 00:25:23.319 --> 00:25:24.259 to move along 00:25:24.259 --> 00:25:25.000 because I have 00:25:25.000 --> 00:25:25.919 several segments 00:25:25.919 --> 00:25:26.419 of scripture 00:25:26.419 --> 00:25:27.739 that I want to read to you 00:25:27.739 --> 00:25:29.000 and I'm just going to tell you up front. 00:25:29.399 --> 00:25:29.839 It's going to be 00:25:29.839 --> 00:25:30.719 a little bit of reading 00:25:30.720 --> 00:25:33.079 but I want to drop this on you. 00:25:33.140 --> 00:25:34.259 It's so beautiful. 00:25:34.640 --> 00:25:35.640 It is so 00:25:35.640 --> 00:25:38.299 as bad 00:25:38.299 --> 00:25:39.559 as the bad news 00:25:39.559 --> 00:25:40.259 of sin 00:25:40.259 --> 00:25:41.079 is. 00:25:44.480 --> 00:25:45.360 This is better. 00:25:46.700 --> 00:25:47.259 This is 00:25:47.259 --> 00:25:50.680 the good news. 00:25:51.039 --> 00:25:51.220 Okay. 00:25:51.220 --> 00:25:54.960 So God made a covenant 00:25:54.960 --> 00:25:56.200 promise to David 00:25:56.200 --> 00:25:58.420 to love him forever. 00:25:59.680 --> 00:26:01.339 When he made that promise 00:26:01.339 --> 00:26:04.220 he knew what he was getting into. 00:26:05.900 --> 00:26:06.740 He knew 00:26:06.740 --> 00:26:09.500 all of David's sin 00:26:09.500 --> 00:26:10.160 past, 00:26:10.460 --> 00:26:10.819 present, 00:26:10.960 --> 00:26:11.839 and future. 00:26:12.000 --> 00:26:13.140 He knew what was going to happen 00:26:13.140 --> 00:26:14.000 in chapter 11. 00:26:14.000 --> 00:26:19.140 And I want to read 00:26:19.140 --> 00:26:21.500 from 00:26:21.500 --> 00:26:22.099 Psalm 00:26:22.099 --> 00:26:23.119 chapter 89. 00:26:23.279 --> 00:26:24.160 You just listen along 00:26:24.160 --> 00:26:24.579 with me. 00:26:25.779 --> 00:26:26.599 It's about 00:26:26.599 --> 00:26:27.180 the covenant. 00:26:30.420 --> 00:26:31.220 God's covenant 00:26:31.220 --> 00:26:31.759 with David. 00:26:33.700 --> 00:26:34.180 I, 00:26:34.359 --> 00:26:34.619 God, 00:26:34.700 --> 00:26:35.319 will maintain 00:26:35.319 --> 00:26:36.359 my love 00:26:36.359 --> 00:26:37.140 to David 00:26:37.140 --> 00:26:37.740 forever. 00:26:38.680 --> 00:26:39.759 And my covenant 00:26:39.759 --> 00:26:40.380 with him 00:26:40.380 --> 00:26:41.500 will never fail. 00:26:41.500 --> 00:26:43.720 I will establish 00:26:43.720 --> 00:26:44.380 his line 00:26:44.380 --> 00:26:44.880 forever, 00:26:45.460 --> 00:26:46.039 his throne 00:26:46.039 --> 00:26:47.099 as long as the heavens 00:26:47.099 --> 00:26:47.599 endure. 00:26:49.140 --> 00:26:50.420 If his children 00:26:50.420 --> 00:26:51.700 forsake my law 00:26:51.700 --> 00:26:52.740 and do not walk 00:26:52.740 --> 00:26:53.980 according to my rules, 00:26:54.559 --> 00:26:55.720 if they violate 00:26:55.720 --> 00:26:56.660 my statutes 00:26:56.660 --> 00:26:57.839 and do not keep 00:26:57.839 --> 00:26:58.500 my commandments, 00:26:59.599 --> 00:27:00.660 then I will punish 00:27:00.660 --> 00:27:01.660 their transgressions 00:27:01.660 --> 00:27:02.400 with the rod 00:27:02.400 --> 00:27:03.480 and their iniquity 00:27:03.480 --> 00:27:04.220 with stripes. 00:27:06.039 --> 00:27:06.599 But 00:27:06.599 --> 00:27:07.799 I will not 00:27:07.799 --> 00:27:08.299 remove 00:27:08.299 --> 00:27:09.240 from him 00:27:09.240 --> 00:27:10.420 my steadfast 00:27:10.420 --> 00:27:10.940 love 00:27:10.940 --> 00:27:11.820 or be 00:27:11.820 --> 00:27:12.360 false 00:27:12.360 --> 00:27:12.799 to my 00:27:12.799 --> 00:27:13.559 faithfulness. 00:27:15.259 --> 00:27:16.400 I will not 00:27:16.400 --> 00:27:16.799 violate 00:27:16.799 --> 00:27:17.420 my covenant 00:27:17.420 --> 00:27:18.200 or alter 00:27:18.200 --> 00:27:18.920 the word 00:27:18.920 --> 00:27:19.600 that went 00:27:19.600 --> 00:27:20.180 forth from 00:27:20.180 --> 00:27:20.779 my lips. 00:27:22.360 --> 00:27:23.519 Once for all 00:27:23.519 --> 00:27:24.320 have I sworn 00:27:24.320 --> 00:27:25.220 by my holiness 00:27:25.220 --> 00:27:25.980 I will not 00:27:25.980 --> 00:27:26.700 lie to David. 00:27:27.080 --> 00:27:27.779 His offspring 00:27:27.779 --> 00:27:28.720 shall endure 00:27:28.720 --> 00:27:29.340 forever, 00:27:30.700 --> 00:27:31.539 his throne 00:27:31.539 --> 00:27:32.220 as long 00:27:32.220 --> 00:27:32.960 as the sun 00:27:32.960 --> 00:27:33.700 before me. 00:27:37.279 --> 00:27:37.880 Now, 00:27:38.059 --> 00:27:39.279 what I want 00:27:39.279 --> 00:27:39.759 to say 00:27:39.759 --> 00:27:41.220 is that 00:27:41.220 --> 00:27:43.000 when God 00:27:43.000 --> 00:27:43.420 says, 00:27:43.839 --> 00:27:44.399 if his 00:27:44.399 --> 00:27:45.079 offspring 00:27:45.079 --> 00:27:46.500 disobey 00:27:46.500 --> 00:27:47.279 my covenant 00:27:47.279 --> 00:27:48.180 and do not 00:27:48.180 --> 00:27:49.220 meet the terms 00:27:49.220 --> 00:27:50.579 of faithfulness 00:27:50.579 --> 00:27:51.299 that the covenant 00:27:51.299 --> 00:27:52.000 demands, 00:27:52.259 --> 00:27:53.420 I will discipline 00:27:53.420 --> 00:27:53.859 them. 00:27:58.299 --> 00:27:59.220 But as 00:27:59.220 --> 00:28:00.019 we've seen, 00:28:01.299 --> 00:28:02.720 what sin 00:28:02.720 --> 00:28:04.180 demands 00:28:04.180 --> 00:28:05.019 as a price 00:28:05.019 --> 00:28:05.879 is not 00:28:05.879 --> 00:28:08.099 temporal 00:28:08.099 --> 00:28:08.859 discipline. 00:28:09.420 --> 00:28:10.000 So God's 00:28:10.000 --> 00:28:10.660 talking about 00:28:10.660 --> 00:28:11.339 some other 00:28:11.339 --> 00:28:11.819 kind of 00:28:11.819 --> 00:28:12.259 discipline 00:28:12.259 --> 00:28:12.980 to some 00:28:12.980 --> 00:28:13.660 other 00:28:13.660 --> 00:28:14.740 son of 00:28:14.740 --> 00:28:15.139 David. 00:28:17.859 --> 00:28:18.680 Listen to 00:28:18.680 --> 00:28:19.220 this from 00:28:19.220 --> 00:28:19.660 Isaiah, 00:28:19.799 --> 00:28:20.359 about 300 00:28:20.359 --> 00:28:21.160 years later. 00:28:22.000 --> 00:28:22.539 It's Isaiah 00:28:22.539 --> 00:28:23.519 chapter 53. 00:28:26.680 --> 00:28:27.379 This is 00:28:27.379 --> 00:28:27.920 talking about 00:28:27.920 --> 00:28:28.299 Jesus. 00:28:30.539 --> 00:28:31.299 This is 00:28:31.299 --> 00:28:31.680 familiar, 00:28:31.900 --> 00:28:32.160 but it's 00:28:32.160 --> 00:28:32.720 so beautiful. 00:28:32.720 --> 00:28:34.640 Surely 00:28:34.640 --> 00:28:35.059 he has 00:28:35.059 --> 00:28:35.579 come to 00:28:35.579 --> 00:28:35.799 bore 00:28:35.799 --> 00:28:36.059 our 00:28:36.059 --> 00:28:36.799 griefs 00:28:36.799 --> 00:28:38.600 and 00:28:38.600 --> 00:28:39.039 carry 00:28:39.039 --> 00:28:39.420 our 00:28:39.420 --> 00:28:40.019 sorrows. 00:28:41.720 --> 00:28:41.900 Yet 00:28:41.900 --> 00:28:42.279 he was 00:28:42.279 --> 00:28:43.339 esteemed, 00:28:43.900 --> 00:28:45.400 yet we 00:28:45.400 --> 00:28:45.880 esteemed 00:28:45.880 --> 00:28:46.100 him 00:28:46.100 --> 00:28:46.640 stricken, 00:28:47.000 --> 00:28:47.279 smitten 00:28:47.279 --> 00:28:48.000 by God 00:28:48.000 --> 00:28:48.940 and afflicted. 00:28:50.160 --> 00:28:51.039 But he 00:28:51.039 --> 00:28:51.860 was pierced 00:28:51.860 --> 00:28:52.400 for our 00:28:52.400 --> 00:28:53.380 transgressions. 00:28:53.920 --> 00:28:54.339 He was 00:28:54.339 --> 00:28:54.920 crushed 00:28:54.920 --> 00:28:55.940 for our 00:28:55.940 --> 00:28:56.600 iniquities. 00:28:58.680 --> 00:28:59.079 Upon 00:28:59.079 --> 00:28:59.620 him 00:28:59.620 --> 00:29:00.240 was the 00:29:00.240 --> 00:29:00.980 chastisement 00:29:00.980 --> 00:29:01.740 that brought 00:29:01.740 --> 00:29:02.380 us 00:29:02.380 --> 00:29:03.180 peace. 00:29:04.180 --> 00:29:04.940 And with 00:29:04.940 --> 00:29:06.000 his wounds 00:29:06.000 --> 00:29:06.980 we are 00:29:06.980 --> 00:29:07.440 healed. 00:29:09.360 --> 00:29:10.300 All we 00:29:10.300 --> 00:29:11.000 like sheep 00:29:11.000 --> 00:29:11.380 have gone 00:29:11.380 --> 00:29:11.860 astray. 00:29:12.020 --> 00:29:12.280 We have 00:29:12.280 --> 00:29:12.700 turned 00:29:12.700 --> 00:29:13.200 everyone 00:29:13.200 --> 00:29:13.720 to his 00:29:13.720 --> 00:29:14.400 own way. 00:29:14.860 --> 00:29:15.360 And the 00:29:15.360 --> 00:29:15.980 Lord has 00:29:15.980 --> 00:29:16.680 laid on 00:29:16.680 --> 00:29:17.660 him the 00:29:17.660 --> 00:29:18.320 iniquity 00:29:18.320 --> 00:29:19.280 of us 00:29:19.280 --> 00:29:19.580 all. 00:29:20.540 --> 00:29:21.020 Jesus 00:29:21.020 --> 00:29:21.580 is the 00:29:21.580 --> 00:29:22.300 one that 00:29:22.300 --> 00:29:22.760 took 00:29:22.760 --> 00:29:24.240 the stripes 00:29:24.240 --> 00:29:26.880 of the 00:29:26.880 --> 00:29:28.300 rod of 00:29:28.300 --> 00:29:28.840 God's 00:29:28.840 --> 00:29:29.280 wrath 00:29:29.279 --> 00:29:29.839 against 00:29:29.839 --> 00:29:31.319 the sin 00:29:31.319 --> 00:29:32.119 of our 00:29:32.119 --> 00:29:32.940 unfaithfulness. 00:29:39.940 --> 00:29:40.740 We see 00:29:40.740 --> 00:29:41.039 that 00:29:41.039 --> 00:29:43.839 the promise 00:29:43.839 --> 00:29:44.259 to David 00:29:44.259 --> 00:29:44.879 is fulfilled 00:29:44.879 --> 00:29:46.059 in Jesus. 00:29:46.059 --> 00:29:49.359 I'm going 00:29:49.359 --> 00:29:49.740 to read a 00:29:49.740 --> 00:29:50.059 short 00:29:50.059 --> 00:29:50.579 passage 00:29:50.579 --> 00:29:52.359 from Luke. 00:29:52.659 --> 00:29:53.059 It's the 00:29:53.059 --> 00:29:53.759 angel Gabriel 00:29:53.759 --> 00:29:54.339 speaking to 00:29:54.339 --> 00:29:54.579 Mary. 00:29:55.059 --> 00:29:55.539 Behold, 00:29:55.619 --> 00:29:55.899 you will 00:29:55.899 --> 00:29:56.480 conceive in 00:29:56.480 --> 00:29:56.960 your womb 00:29:56.960 --> 00:29:57.339 and bear 00:29:57.339 --> 00:29:57.879 a son, 00:29:58.319 --> 00:29:58.759 and you 00:29:58.759 --> 00:29:59.240 shall call 00:29:59.240 --> 00:29:59.659 his name 00:29:59.659 --> 00:30:00.079 Jesus. 00:30:00.579 --> 00:30:00.919 He will 00:30:00.919 --> 00:30:01.559 be great, 00:30:01.720 --> 00:30:02.039 and he 00:30:02.039 --> 00:30:02.319 will be 00:30:02.319 --> 00:30:02.779 called the 00:30:02.779 --> 00:30:03.259 son of 00:30:03.259 --> 00:30:03.619 the most 00:30:03.619 --> 00:30:04.079 high. 00:30:04.079 --> 00:30:05.539 and the 00:30:05.539 --> 00:30:06.279 Lord God 00:30:06.279 --> 00:30:06.919 will give 00:30:06.919 --> 00:30:07.480 him the 00:30:07.480 --> 00:30:08.119 throne of 00:30:08.119 --> 00:30:08.720 his father 00:30:08.720 --> 00:30:09.199 David, 00:30:10.139 --> 00:30:10.960 and he 00:30:10.960 --> 00:30:11.500 will reign 00:30:11.500 --> 00:30:11.859 over the 00:30:11.859 --> 00:30:12.299 house of 00:30:12.299 --> 00:30:12.599 Jacob 00:30:12.599 --> 00:30:13.179 forever, 00:30:14.220 --> 00:30:15.099 and of 00:30:15.099 --> 00:30:15.779 his kingdom 00:30:15.779 --> 00:30:16.939 there will 00:30:16.939 --> 00:30:17.460 be no 00:30:17.460 --> 00:30:17.899 end. 00:30:22.639 --> 00:30:23.559 I think 00:30:23.559 --> 00:30:26.299 that if 00:30:26.299 --> 00:30:26.639 you're a 00:30:26.639 --> 00:30:27.259 Christian long 00:30:27.259 --> 00:30:27.539 enough, 00:30:27.599 --> 00:30:28.000 you begin 00:30:28.000 --> 00:30:28.579 to see 00:30:28.579 --> 00:30:30.779 how God 00:30:30.779 --> 00:30:31.759 is not 00:30:31.759 --> 00:30:33.019 just forgiving 00:30:33.019 --> 00:30:33.779 our sins. 00:30:33.779 --> 00:30:34.539 That's just 00:30:34.539 --> 00:30:35.240 the beginning 00:30:35.240 --> 00:30:35.779 of what 00:30:35.779 --> 00:30:36.119 God's 00:30:36.119 --> 00:30:36.420 doing. 00:30:36.599 --> 00:30:37.500 God is 00:30:37.500 --> 00:30:40.819 restoring 00:30:40.819 --> 00:30:41.399 us, 00:30:41.899 --> 00:30:42.539 renovating 00:30:42.539 --> 00:30:43.079 us. 00:30:44.579 --> 00:30:45.420 He is 00:30:45.420 --> 00:30:46.339 taking 00:30:46.339 --> 00:30:47.259 even our 00:30:47.259 --> 00:30:48.339 sins and 00:30:48.339 --> 00:30:49.379 turning them 00:30:49.379 --> 00:30:50.920 into things 00:30:50.920 --> 00:30:51.379 that he 00:30:51.379 --> 00:30:52.139 uses for 00:30:52.139 --> 00:30:52.720 his good 00:30:52.720 --> 00:30:53.259 purpose. 00:30:54.740 --> 00:30:55.599 And do 00:30:55.599 --> 00:30:55.920 you know 00:30:55.920 --> 00:30:59.160 that Jesus 00:30:59.160 --> 00:31:00.000 was a 00:31:00.000 --> 00:31:00.519 fulfillment 00:31:00.519 --> 00:31:02.359 of God's 00:31:02.359 --> 00:31:03.019 promise to 00:31:03.019 --> 00:31:03.379 David, 00:31:03.779 --> 00:31:04.779 God's 00:31:04.779 --> 00:31:05.240 love. 00:31:05.240 --> 00:31:06.359 And it 00:31:06.359 --> 00:31:06.879 came, 00:31:07.339 --> 00:31:07.740 and so 00:31:07.740 --> 00:31:08.200 Jesus, 00:31:08.399 --> 00:31:09.019 the line 00:31:09.019 --> 00:31:10.460 from David 00:31:10.460 --> 00:31:11.319 to Jesus 00:31:11.319 --> 00:31:12.339 includes 00:31:12.339 --> 00:31:13.559 Bathsheba, 00:31:14.079 --> 00:31:15.539 the very 00:31:15.539 --> 00:31:17.139 person that 00:31:17.139 --> 00:31:18.660 David went 00:31:18.660 --> 00:31:19.339 and stole 00:31:19.339 --> 00:31:19.960 and committed 00:31:19.960 --> 00:31:20.639 this horrible 00:31:20.639 --> 00:31:21.519 sin with. 00:31:22.359 --> 00:31:23.539 But through 00:31:23.539 --> 00:31:25.660 the fruit 00:31:25.660 --> 00:31:27.839 of David 00:31:27.839 --> 00:31:28.619 and Bathsheba 00:31:28.619 --> 00:31:30.339 comes the 00:31:30.339 --> 00:31:30.799 savior of 00:31:30.799 --> 00:31:31.219 the world. 00:31:33.559 --> 00:31:34.359 So we're 00:31:34.359 --> 00:31:34.919 not only 00:31:34.919 --> 00:31:35.359 forgiven, 00:31:35.619 --> 00:31:36.639 we're being 00:31:36.639 --> 00:31:37.919 restored. 00:31:38.759 --> 00:31:39.299 The bad 00:31:39.299 --> 00:31:39.679 things are 00:31:39.679 --> 00:31:40.199 being turned 00:31:40.199 --> 00:31:40.899 into good 00:31:40.899 --> 00:31:41.439 things. 00:31:43.159 --> 00:31:43.639 And I have 00:31:43.639 --> 00:31:44.079 one more 00:31:44.079 --> 00:31:45.119 passage to 00:31:45.119 --> 00:31:45.719 drop on 00:31:45.719 --> 00:31:45.919 you. 00:31:48.199 --> 00:31:49.000 Back to 00:31:49.000 --> 00:31:49.399 Isaiah 00:31:49.399 --> 00:31:50.500 chapter 55. 00:31:50.500 --> 00:31:54.279 this is an 00:31:54.279 --> 00:31:54.839 invitation 00:31:54.839 --> 00:32:00.119 from God 00:32:00.119 --> 00:32:01.380 to us. 00:32:02.039 --> 00:32:03.119 Come all 00:32:03.119 --> 00:32:04.440 you who 00:32:04.440 --> 00:32:05.099 are thirsty, 00:32:05.500 --> 00:32:06.019 come to 00:32:06.019 --> 00:32:06.579 the waters. 00:32:08.000 --> 00:32:08.519 And you 00:32:08.519 --> 00:32:08.880 who have 00:32:08.880 --> 00:32:09.559 no money, 00:32:09.819 --> 00:32:10.480 come buy 00:32:10.480 --> 00:32:11.079 and eat. 00:32:12.359 --> 00:32:13.279 Come buy 00:32:13.279 --> 00:32:13.920 wine and 00:32:13.920 --> 00:32:14.680 milk without 00:32:14.680 --> 00:32:15.380 money and 00:32:15.380 --> 00:32:16.220 without cost. 00:32:16.220 --> 00:32:18.200 Why spend 00:32:18.200 --> 00:32:18.740 money on 00:32:18.740 --> 00:32:19.039 what is 00:32:19.039 --> 00:32:19.620 not bread 00:32:19.620 --> 00:32:20.100 and your 00:32:20.100 --> 00:32:20.779 labor on 00:32:20.779 --> 00:32:21.200 what does 00:32:21.200 --> 00:32:22.160 not satisfy? 00:32:23.539 --> 00:32:24.100 Listen, 00:32:24.700 --> 00:32:25.400 listen to 00:32:25.400 --> 00:32:26.960 me and 00:32:26.960 --> 00:32:27.559 eat what 00:32:27.559 --> 00:32:29.039 is good and 00:32:29.039 --> 00:32:29.360 you will 00:32:29.360 --> 00:32:30.019 delight in 00:32:30.019 --> 00:32:30.500 the richest 00:32:30.500 --> 00:32:31.079 affair. 00:32:31.299 --> 00:32:31.880 Give ear 00:32:31.880 --> 00:32:32.319 and come 00:32:32.319 --> 00:32:32.720 to me, 00:32:32.880 --> 00:32:33.220 listen, 00:32:33.360 --> 00:32:33.680 that you 00:32:33.680 --> 00:32:34.400 may live. 00:32:36.019 --> 00:32:36.779 I will 00:32:36.779 --> 00:32:37.200 make an 00:32:37.200 --> 00:32:37.640 everlasting 00:32:37.640 --> 00:32:38.140 covenant 00:32:38.140 --> 00:32:38.819 with you. 00:32:39.680 --> 00:32:39.900 My 00:32:39.900 --> 00:32:40.779 faithfulness, 00:32:41.039 --> 00:32:41.620 my faithful 00:32:41.620 --> 00:32:42.839 love promised 00:32:42.839 --> 00:32:43.539 to David. 00:32:44.160 --> 00:32:44.980 The same 00:32:44.980 --> 00:32:45.519 covenant 00:32:45.519 --> 00:32:46.140 love, 00:32:46.220 --> 00:32:48.220 that God 00:32:48.220 --> 00:32:49.160 set on 00:32:49.160 --> 00:32:49.640 David, 00:32:50.140 --> 00:32:50.819 we are 00:32:50.819 --> 00:32:51.759 all invited 00:32:51.759 --> 00:32:52.420 to 00:32:52.420 --> 00:32:55.620 partake 00:32:55.620 --> 00:32:55.960 of. 00:32:58.779 --> 00:32:59.680 And I 00:32:59.680 --> 00:33:00.079 want to 00:33:00.079 --> 00:33:02.519 add one 00:33:02.519 --> 00:33:03.059 more thing 00:33:03.059 --> 00:33:03.360 and then 00:33:03.360 --> 00:33:04.120 I'll close. 00:33:05.680 --> 00:33:06.640 When we 00:33:06.640 --> 00:33:07.539 see sin 00:33:07.539 --> 00:33:08.660 for what 00:33:08.660 --> 00:33:09.180 it is 00:33:09.180 --> 00:33:10.220 and when 00:33:10.220 --> 00:33:10.620 we see 00:33:10.620 --> 00:33:11.259 the magnitude 00:33:11.259 --> 00:33:11.839 of it, 00:33:13.319 --> 00:33:13.980 faith 00:33:13.980 --> 00:33:15.980 as a 00:33:15.980 --> 00:33:16.640 response, 00:33:16.980 --> 00:33:17.660 faith in 00:33:17.660 --> 00:33:18.220 Christ 00:33:18.220 --> 00:33:20.140 as our 00:33:20.140 --> 00:33:21.980 substitute 00:33:22.980 --> 00:33:25.980 becomes 00:33:26.599 --> 00:33:27.299 a 00:33:27.299 --> 00:33:30.039 joyful, 00:33:30.660 --> 00:33:31.740 wonderful, 00:33:33.740 --> 00:33:33.980 logical, 00:33:35.360 --> 00:33:35.920 reasonable 00:33:35.920 --> 00:33:37.120 thing to 00:33:37.120 --> 00:33:37.779 step into. 00:33:38.160 --> 00:33:38.940 When sin 00:33:38.940 --> 00:33:39.779 isn't sin, 00:33:39.779 --> 00:33:41.779 when sin 00:33:41.779 --> 00:33:44.019 is not 00:33:44.019 --> 00:33:46.680 an offense 00:33:46.680 --> 00:33:47.319 against the 00:33:47.319 --> 00:33:47.779 God of 00:33:47.779 --> 00:33:48.440 the universe 00:33:48.440 --> 00:33:49.359 by us, 00:33:49.599 --> 00:33:50.139 but it's 00:33:50.139 --> 00:33:50.519 just, 00:33:50.879 --> 00:33:51.079 oh, 00:33:51.160 --> 00:33:51.660 bad things 00:33:51.660 --> 00:33:51.899 we do, 00:33:51.980 --> 00:33:52.379 everyone's, 00:33:53.660 --> 00:33:54.039 no one's 00:33:54.039 --> 00:33:54.399 perfect. 00:33:55.259 --> 00:33:55.599 You know what, 00:33:55.660 --> 00:33:55.960 no one's 00:33:55.960 --> 00:33:56.279 perfect, 00:33:56.480 --> 00:33:56.839 you know how 00:33:56.839 --> 00:33:57.420 many people 00:33:57.420 --> 00:33:58.139 are probably 00:33:58.139 --> 00:33:58.740 going to hell 00:33:58.740 --> 00:33:59.279 right now 00:33:59.279 --> 00:33:59.680 because of 00:33:59.680 --> 00:33:59.980 no one's 00:33:59.980 --> 00:34:00.299 perfect? 00:34:01.980 --> 00:34:02.799 It's true, 00:34:02.920 --> 00:34:03.379 no one is 00:34:03.379 --> 00:34:03.839 perfect, 00:34:03.839 --> 00:34:07.740 but we 00:34:07.740 --> 00:34:08.299 need to 00:34:08.299 --> 00:34:09.739 see how 00:34:09.739 --> 00:34:11.299 bad sin 00:34:11.299 --> 00:34:12.059 is and 00:34:12.059 --> 00:34:12.599 let it 00:34:12.599 --> 00:34:13.519 drive us 00:34:13.519 --> 00:34:14.739 to Jesus 00:34:14.739 --> 00:34:15.880 and if we're 00:34:15.880 --> 00:34:16.719 already trusting 00:34:16.719 --> 00:34:17.319 in Jesus, 00:34:17.559 --> 00:34:18.299 we need to 00:34:18.299 --> 00:34:18.980 see how 00:34:18.980 --> 00:34:19.960 bad sin 00:34:19.960 --> 00:34:20.480 is and 00:34:20.480 --> 00:34:21.000 see what 00:34:21.000 --> 00:34:21.380 we're being 00:34:21.380 --> 00:34:22.059 saved from 00:34:22.059 --> 00:34:22.480 and let 00:34:22.480 --> 00:34:23.219 that grace 00:34:23.219 --> 00:34:25.819 grow in 00:34:25.819 --> 00:34:26.819 our estimation 00:34:26.819 --> 00:34:27.440 of it and 00:34:27.440 --> 00:34:27.819 let it 00:34:27.819 --> 00:34:28.519 fuel 00:34:28.519 --> 00:34:30.280 are 00:34:30.280 --> 00:34:34.659 living for 00:34:34.659 --> 00:34:35.159 God 00:34:35.159 --> 00:34:37.199 and a 00:34:37.199 --> 00:34:38.059 life of 00:34:38.059 --> 00:34:38.960 loving other 00:34:38.960 --> 00:34:39.380 people 00:34:39.380 --> 00:34:41.559 as we 00:34:41.559 --> 00:34:41.739 love 00:34:41.739 --> 00:34:42.320 ourselves. 00:34:44.039 --> 00:34:44.900 Let me 00:34:44.900 --> 00:34:45.559 pray for us. 00:34:46.380 --> 00:34:47.119 Our Father 00:34:47.119 --> 00:34:47.460 in Heaven, 00:34:47.559 --> 00:34:48.039 we pray that 00:34:48.039 --> 00:34:48.300 you would 00:34:48.300 --> 00:34:49.119 grant us 00:34:49.119 --> 00:34:49.920 eyes to 00:34:49.920 --> 00:34:50.420 see 00:34:50.420 --> 00:34:51.300 reality. 00:34:53.699 --> 00:34:54.980 We pray 00:34:54.980 --> 00:34:55.960 that you 00:34:55.960 --> 00:34:56.519 would not 00:34:56.519 --> 00:34:57.340 let us 00:34:57.340 --> 00:34:59.380 diminish 00:34:59.380 --> 00:35:00.180 the debt 00:35:00.180 --> 00:35:00.880 that our 00:35:00.880 --> 00:35:01.820 sin creates 00:35:01.820 --> 00:35:03.420 and Father 00:35:03.420 --> 00:35:04.480 we are so 00:35:04.480 --> 00:35:05.900 thankful 00:35:05.900 --> 00:35:06.820 and grateful 00:35:06.820 --> 00:35:08.460 that you 00:35:08.460 --> 00:35:09.600 came yourself 00:35:09.600 --> 00:35:11.720 to pay 00:35:11.720 --> 00:35:12.440 this debt 00:35:12.440 --> 00:35:13.160 for us. 00:35:13.500 --> 00:35:14.440 I pray that 00:35:14.440 --> 00:35:14.740 you would 00:35:14.740 --> 00:35:16.280 break our 00:35:16.280 --> 00:35:16.700 hearts. 00:35:16.980 --> 00:35:17.620 I pray that 00:35:17.620 --> 00:35:19.260 you would 00:35:19.260 --> 00:35:20.019 help us 00:35:20.019 --> 00:35:22.079 to love 00:35:22.079 --> 00:35:22.440 you 00:35:22.440 --> 00:35:25.620 in response 00:35:25.619 --> 00:35:27.339 and that 00:35:27.339 --> 00:35:27.579 you would 00:35:27.579 --> 00:35:27.980 help us 00:35:27.980 --> 00:35:28.519 to love 00:35:28.519 --> 00:35:29.119 other 00:35:29.119 --> 00:35:29.500 people. 00:35:29.679 --> 00:35:30.059 Thank you 00:35:30.059 --> 00:35:30.420 for your 00:35:30.420 --> 00:35:30.759 word. 00:35:31.759 --> 00:35:32.099 In Jesus' 00:35:32.279 --> 00:35:32.460 name, 00:35:32.659 --> 00:35:32.859 Amen.