1 00:00:00,049 --> 00:00:02,809 Speaker: Alright, well we are in Romans five. 2 00:00:02,839 --> 00:00:03,829 Romans five. 3 00:00:04,159 --> 00:00:06,709 Um, so make sure you're turning there in your Bibles. 4 00:00:07,099 --> 00:00:09,829 Um, this is gonna be fun. 5 00:00:09,829 --> 00:00:12,574 I've got tectonic plates right here. 6 00:00:12,890 --> 00:00:14,839 So anyway, Romans five is where we're going. 7 00:00:15,229 --> 00:00:18,979 Uh, we're looking at verses nine through 11. 8 00:00:19,280 --> 00:00:19,789 Um. 9 00:00:21,004 --> 00:00:24,095 But I wanted to start with something that isn't super 10 00:00:24,095 --> 00:00:26,974 fun, but is, uh, kind of scary. 11 00:00:27,004 --> 00:00:31,265 It's, I, I think this is one of the scariest verses in the Bible. 12 00:00:31,474 --> 00:00:35,285 Um, I was terrified of this verse when I was in high school. 13 00:00:35,345 --> 00:00:39,155 I, whenever the, whenever someone put this verse up on the screen or 14 00:00:39,185 --> 00:00:42,304 talked about this verse, I was super uncomfortable and I, I didn't like it. 15 00:00:42,310 --> 00:00:43,985 It made me feel not good. 16 00:00:44,405 --> 00:00:46,775 Um, and that's this verse in Matthew that Jesus says in the Sermon on the 17 00:00:46,775 --> 00:00:47,745 Mount, maybe you remember this from. 18 00:00:48,379 --> 00:00:53,000 Um, last year when we were in Matthew, um, Jesus says, not everyone 19 00:00:53,000 --> 00:00:55,009 who says to me, Lord, Lord, right? 20 00:00:55,009 --> 00:00:57,560 Not everyone who, who calls me Lord, will enter the kingdom of 21 00:00:57,560 --> 00:01:01,069 heaven, but the one who does the will of my father, who is in heaven. 22 00:01:01,280 --> 00:01:04,370 On that day, many will say to me, Lord, didn't we do all 23 00:01:04,370 --> 00:01:05,450 this stuff for you, right? 24 00:01:05,450 --> 00:01:08,990 Didn't we prophesy, we cast out demons, we did all these awesome things in your 25 00:01:08,990 --> 00:01:13,880 name and what she's gonna say to them, I will declare to them, I never knew you. 26 00:01:14,809 --> 00:01:17,210 You lived your whole life thinking you were a Christian. 27 00:01:17,330 --> 00:01:19,160 You did all these great things for God. 28 00:01:19,310 --> 00:01:20,990 You, you, they went to church, they read the Bible. 29 00:01:20,990 --> 00:01:22,399 They, they did all the Christian things. 30 00:01:22,399 --> 00:01:23,839 They, they went to, to camp. 31 00:01:23,929 --> 00:01:25,160 They did all the right things. 32 00:01:25,550 --> 00:01:26,899 Um, and they get to heaven. 33 00:01:26,929 --> 00:01:28,970 And Jesus says, I don't even know who you are. 34 00:01:29,839 --> 00:01:30,470 I never knew you. 35 00:01:30,470 --> 00:01:31,520 You didn't have a relationship with me. 36 00:01:32,840 --> 00:01:34,489 I was so scared that this would be me. 37 00:01:35,329 --> 00:01:38,239 I was terrified that I would be one of these people, and 38 00:01:38,239 --> 00:01:39,320 I would hear that from Jesus. 39 00:01:39,320 --> 00:01:40,340 I wouldn't hear well done. 40 00:01:40,699 --> 00:01:41,630 Good and faithful servant. 41 00:01:42,394 --> 00:01:44,255 I would hear that depart from me. 42 00:01:44,524 --> 00:01:46,204 I never knew you. 43 00:01:46,804 --> 00:01:47,734 And I wonder if that's you. 44 00:01:47,945 --> 00:01:48,544 Maybe that's you. 45 00:01:48,544 --> 00:01:50,404 Maybe you're out there, you're like, I'm not sure if I'm a Christian. 46 00:01:50,464 --> 00:01:51,814 Or what if it's not true? 47 00:01:51,844 --> 00:01:52,714 Maybe you're not a Christian. 48 00:01:52,714 --> 00:01:54,154 You're saying, well, what if I do become a Christian? 49 00:01:54,154 --> 00:01:54,725 It doesn't work. 50 00:01:54,755 --> 00:01:55,654 What if nothing happens? 51 00:01:56,285 --> 00:01:58,264 What if I wake up the next day and I'm exactly the same? 52 00:01:59,225 --> 00:02:00,964 Maybe that's you. 53 00:02:01,024 --> 00:02:04,475 And so I wanna ask you, how do you know that you won't hear this? 54 00:02:04,894 --> 00:02:06,785 Maybe you think you're a Christian and you're doing, 55 00:02:06,845 --> 00:02:07,864 you think you're doing great. 56 00:02:08,134 --> 00:02:10,339 How do you know that you won't hear this? 57 00:02:12,395 --> 00:02:17,585 If your reasoning, your sentence to respond to that starts the way theirs 58 00:02:17,585 --> 00:02:22,085 did, didn't I, didn't we do this? 59 00:02:22,355 --> 00:02:26,435 You might be in danger of hearing that because you're showing that 60 00:02:26,435 --> 00:02:27,845 you are relying on yourself. 61 00:02:28,715 --> 00:02:33,065 You're showing that the reason God you should accept me is because of 62 00:02:33,065 --> 00:02:35,405 what I did my spiritual report card. 63 00:02:36,290 --> 00:02:37,640 And I don't want you to rely on yourself. 64 00:02:37,700 --> 00:02:38,750 I want you to rely on Jesus. 65 00:02:38,780 --> 00:02:42,739 Because even if you are Christian, but your reasoning, your assurance, what 66 00:02:42,739 --> 00:02:43,910 you hold onto to say, you know what? 67 00:02:43,910 --> 00:02:44,929 That's how I know I'm a Christian. 68 00:02:45,170 --> 00:02:47,869 If you're pointing at yourself for saying, this is how I know I'm a Christian, 69 00:02:48,559 --> 00:02:51,140 you're gonna be like me and be scared of this passage every time you read 70 00:02:51,140 --> 00:02:54,290 it, because we're unreliable, right? 71 00:02:54,290 --> 00:02:57,890 Even for those of us who are Christians, we're not super great at it all the time. 72 00:02:58,790 --> 00:03:01,670 And so if you're pointing at yourself to say, man, that's how I know 73 00:03:02,149 --> 00:03:05,239 I'm gonna make it to heaven, then. 74 00:03:05,600 --> 00:03:07,279 You're relying on the wrong thing. 75 00:03:07,820 --> 00:03:13,519 And what we're gonna see in our passage is that um, you can be 100% 76 00:03:13,519 --> 00:03:15,439 sure that you're not gonna hear this. 77 00:03:15,619 --> 00:03:19,760 You can be 100% sure that when you die and stand before God, you're 78 00:03:19,760 --> 00:03:22,700 gonna hear well done, good and faithful servant, and you're gonna 79 00:03:22,700 --> 00:03:25,730 be welcomed by him, um, as his child. 80 00:03:25,939 --> 00:03:29,779 And you don't have to be afraid of something like this happening to you. 81 00:03:30,665 --> 00:03:31,925 And that's what we're gonna see in Romans five. 82 00:03:31,925 --> 00:03:36,395 And what we've learned so far, right in Romans, is that we have a big problem 83 00:03:36,965 --> 00:03:42,155 we've learned so far in the book of Romans that us and God start out at odds. 84 00:03:42,335 --> 00:03:43,624 We don't start out on the same team. 85 00:03:44,225 --> 00:03:46,025 We don't start out in the same family. 86 00:03:46,984 --> 00:03:48,665 We actually are enemies of God. 87 00:03:48,695 --> 00:03:52,625 That's how we all start our lives, because we disobey God, right? 88 00:03:52,625 --> 00:03:55,475 We do things that say, God, you're not important. 89 00:03:55,835 --> 00:03:58,114 God, you're not trustworthy, God, you're. 90 00:03:59,735 --> 00:04:00,395 You don't matter. 91 00:04:01,325 --> 00:04:02,705 You don't deserve my time. 92 00:04:02,705 --> 00:04:03,815 You don't deserve my energy. 93 00:04:03,965 --> 00:04:04,925 You don't deserve my money. 94 00:04:04,925 --> 00:04:06,335 You don't deserve my attention. 95 00:04:06,635 --> 00:04:08,075 Other things are way better than you. 96 00:04:08,075 --> 00:04:08,345 God. 97 00:04:08,345 --> 00:04:09,195 That's how we live our life. 98 00:04:09,920 --> 00:04:11,990 That's what we've learned so far in Romans. 99 00:04:11,990 --> 00:04:15,080 There's this massive problem, and the only way to fix it is not for 100 00:04:15,080 --> 00:04:18,079 you to do something about it, but for God to do something about it. 101 00:04:18,409 --> 00:04:19,880 That's what we talked about, Romans chapter four, right? 102 00:04:19,880 --> 00:04:24,170 We talked about faith justification by faith, trusting in God is the only way 103 00:04:24,409 --> 00:04:27,590 to fix this problem because God is the only one who can do something about it. 104 00:04:27,740 --> 00:04:28,909 We can't do anything about it. 105 00:04:28,909 --> 00:04:29,810 We can't be good enough. 106 00:04:30,050 --> 00:04:31,730 We can't do enough good things. 107 00:04:31,940 --> 00:04:34,159 We can't be part of the right group. 108 00:04:35,540 --> 00:04:36,650 We can't try hard enough. 109 00:04:38,150 --> 00:04:40,580 God has to do something about it because he's a good judge. 110 00:04:40,730 --> 00:04:43,010 He has to punish sin, and we've all sinned. 111 00:04:43,010 --> 00:04:47,058 We all are in this situation where we're rebelling against God and the right thing 112 00:04:47,058 --> 00:04:50,510 for God to do is to, to send us to hell. 113 00:04:50,900 --> 00:04:54,140 And so he lovingly made a way for that not to happen. 114 00:04:54,140 --> 00:04:57,830 He sent Jesus, he said, Jesus can, can be your righteousness. 115 00:04:57,890 --> 00:04:58,789 You don't have any righteousness. 116 00:04:58,789 --> 00:04:59,900 We're not good enough to go to heaven. 117 00:05:00,409 --> 00:05:03,439 But if you trust Jesus, you can have his righteousness and he can take away 118 00:05:03,439 --> 00:05:06,500 all the, the penalty for your sin and. 119 00:05:07,070 --> 00:05:09,620 You can trust him that you're gonna live with God forever because 120 00:05:09,620 --> 00:05:11,390 he was raised from the dead. 121 00:05:11,600 --> 00:05:11,810 Right? 122 00:05:11,810 --> 00:05:15,169 We receive what God did by faith, but maybe you're thinking, 123 00:05:15,500 --> 00:05:17,060 can you unre receive it? 124 00:05:17,960 --> 00:05:22,610 Can a Christian unre receive right gift receipt God's God's 125 00:05:22,610 --> 00:05:23,720 grace back to him, right? 126 00:05:23,840 --> 00:05:24,049 What? 127 00:05:24,049 --> 00:05:24,740 Can you lose it? 128 00:05:25,460 --> 00:05:29,570 Can you become a Christian and then not end up actually being a Christian? 129 00:05:29,570 --> 00:05:31,640 Can you become a Christian and sin too much? 130 00:05:31,850 --> 00:05:33,260 Can you become a Christian and. 131 00:05:33,680 --> 00:05:35,120 What if I actually don't? 132 00:05:35,480 --> 00:05:37,070 What if I, what if I don't wanna be a Christian anymore? 133 00:05:37,070 --> 00:05:37,700 What happens then? 134 00:05:37,880 --> 00:05:38,150 Right? 135 00:05:38,420 --> 00:05:41,120 Maybe I go to college and I'm like, I don't really don't think this is for me. 136 00:05:42,890 --> 00:05:45,110 Can you ever stop being a Christian? 137 00:05:45,470 --> 00:05:45,620 Right. 138 00:05:45,620 --> 00:05:49,670 Or will you ever find out one day that you weren't really saved? 139 00:05:51,080 --> 00:05:55,130 And what we're gonna learn today is that the way that God saves people, right? 140 00:05:55,130 --> 00:05:57,770 Specifically what we've talked about, justification by faith. 141 00:05:57,770 --> 00:05:59,360 That's how this chapter started, right? 142 00:05:59,360 --> 00:06:01,280 Since we have been justified by faith. 143 00:06:03,169 --> 00:06:07,250 Makes it certain, makes sure that no one can actually lose their salvation. 144 00:06:07,640 --> 00:06:12,620 The way that God saves people makes it so that no one can can ever lose it, right? 145 00:06:12,620 --> 00:06:15,350 You can't, if you become a Christian, you can't ever become 146 00:06:15,830 --> 00:06:17,120 not a Christian ever again. 147 00:06:17,510 --> 00:06:18,380 You can't opt out of it. 148 00:06:18,380 --> 00:06:19,220 You can't give it back. 149 00:06:19,850 --> 00:06:24,950 There's nothing you can do to get out of it, and so you can have 100% confidence 150 00:06:24,950 --> 00:06:27,230 because of Jesus that this won't be you. 151 00:06:30,530 --> 00:06:34,549 So being made righteous by faith, justification by faith gives Christians 152 00:06:34,549 --> 00:06:38,360 a certain 100% certain future with God. 153 00:06:38,750 --> 00:06:42,020 And that's what we see here in our passage, and that's first of all, 154 00:06:42,020 --> 00:06:44,539 the thing we're gonna see is that God doesn't partly save anyone. 155 00:06:45,049 --> 00:06:47,630 He doesn't give you half your salvation on the front end and give you the 156 00:06:47,630 --> 00:06:48,860 rest of it on the back end, right? 157 00:06:48,860 --> 00:06:51,319 He doesn't say, well, I'll give you some of it now and then if you do really well, 158 00:06:51,500 --> 00:06:53,900 then I'll, I'll definitely save you later. 159 00:06:54,409 --> 00:06:55,579 He doesn't partly save anyone. 160 00:06:55,579 --> 00:06:57,799 That's our first point tonight before we look at our, our verses, 161 00:06:57,799 --> 00:07:00,409 God doesn't partly save anyone. 162 00:07:00,470 --> 00:07:03,289 That's the first thing I want you to see in our passage. 163 00:07:10,220 --> 00:07:14,329 He doesn't give you, hopefully you'll be saved one day. 164 00:07:15,199 --> 00:07:21,919 He gives you 100% certain salvation right from the first moment you trust Jesus. 165 00:07:23,179 --> 00:07:28,700 Look with me at Romans five, verse nine, Romans five, verse nine. 166 00:07:29,299 --> 00:07:34,100 Since therefore we have now been justified by his blood, Jesus blood, we've been 167 00:07:34,100 --> 00:07:40,845 made righteous much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God. 168 00:07:41,510 --> 00:07:42,679 Now, this is really interesting, right? 169 00:07:42,860 --> 00:07:45,530 Because we've past tense, been justified. 170 00:07:46,505 --> 00:07:50,405 And then if we've been justified, then in the future we'll be saved 171 00:07:50,405 --> 00:07:51,424 by him from the wrath of God. 172 00:07:51,424 --> 00:07:51,933 What does that mean? 173 00:07:52,115 --> 00:07:55,534 Well, really all that means is that you don't have to worry that one day you're 174 00:07:55,534 --> 00:07:59,674 gonna stand before God and actually end up receiving his wrath because of 175 00:07:59,674 --> 00:08:00,725 something that happened in the past. 176 00:08:01,475 --> 00:08:02,554 You've been justified. 177 00:08:03,184 --> 00:08:05,554 So in the future, when you die, you're gonna be okay. 178 00:08:05,975 --> 00:08:10,625 That's really all that, that this verse is saying, because you've been justified. 179 00:08:10,834 --> 00:08:11,975 Your future is safe. 180 00:08:12,860 --> 00:08:16,100 Right past trusting in Jesus, Jesus gave me righteousness. 181 00:08:16,970 --> 00:08:19,490 Now I'm qualified to go to heaven because of what Jesus did. 182 00:08:20,720 --> 00:08:24,230 Now I don't have to worry about the future, past event 183 00:08:24,319 --> 00:08:26,750 secures my future with God. 184 00:08:28,819 --> 00:08:34,850 I think sometimes because of that, we kind of think that becoming a Christian 185 00:08:35,480 --> 00:08:37,460 is almost like getting a vaccine. 186 00:08:38,000 --> 00:08:38,299 Right. 187 00:08:38,510 --> 00:08:41,929 Uh, you get your, your Jesus justification shot, and now you do whatever you want for 188 00:08:41,929 --> 00:08:44,240 the rest of your life, and you're good. 189 00:08:44,540 --> 00:08:46,189 You don't have to do, you just believe in Jesus. 190 00:08:46,189 --> 00:08:46,640 You're great. 191 00:08:46,699 --> 00:08:47,300 You're covered. 192 00:08:47,510 --> 00:08:48,380 Don't worry about it anymore. 193 00:08:48,380 --> 00:08:49,310 You can do whatever you want. 194 00:08:49,760 --> 00:08:50,090 You're good. 195 00:08:50,090 --> 00:08:51,260 You got your, you got your shot. 196 00:08:52,819 --> 00:08:55,819 Really, it's, it's more like you had surgery and then you 197 00:08:55,819 --> 00:08:57,560 have physical therapy, right? 198 00:08:57,740 --> 00:08:59,840 The, the problem is gone, right? 199 00:08:59,840 --> 00:09:02,600 You had surgery, you removed the thing that was causing you problems, 200 00:09:02,600 --> 00:09:05,745 or you fixed your, your ACL or your rotator cuff or whatever, but. 201 00:09:06,724 --> 00:09:11,344 Now you have a relationship with this doctor who loves you and is committed to 202 00:09:11,344 --> 00:09:15,274 you and cares about you so much that he's gonna make sure that you get all the way 203 00:09:15,274 --> 00:09:17,915 back to flinging fully healthy, right? 204 00:09:18,035 --> 00:09:19,894 It's, it's less about a one time thing. 205 00:09:19,894 --> 00:09:23,974 You forget about it, and it's more about the, the, the main thing 206 00:09:23,974 --> 00:09:28,864 happened and now the doctor is gonna help me finish this thing out and 207 00:09:28,864 --> 00:09:30,334 he's gonna make sure that I do it. 208 00:09:30,995 --> 00:09:33,875 He's gonna make sure that I make it all the way to the end, right? 209 00:09:33,875 --> 00:09:37,834 What, what Paul is saying here is that if Jesus justified you, right, 210 00:09:37,834 --> 00:09:41,045 if you trusted Jesus and he saved you, he's gonna make sure that you 211 00:09:41,045 --> 00:09:42,155 make it all the way to the end. 212 00:09:43,175 --> 00:09:46,594 He's gonna make sure that up until the, the moment you stand before 213 00:09:46,594 --> 00:09:48,305 God, you're not gonna drop out. 214 00:09:48,479 --> 00:09:48,829 Right? 215 00:09:49,805 --> 00:09:54,515 You're not gonna be like those, those guys I told you about that, 216 00:09:54,545 --> 00:09:57,094 that pastor, that youth pastor who had to take all the pictures down 217 00:09:57,094 --> 00:09:58,415 'cause he, he was too tired of. 218 00:09:58,759 --> 00:10:02,660 And too sad to look at all these students who walked away from the faith, right? 219 00:10:02,660 --> 00:10:04,999 He, you're not gonna be one of those people if you've really been 220 00:10:04,999 --> 00:10:10,459 justified, because Jesus is gonna make sure that you get saved, right? 221 00:10:10,459 --> 00:10:12,319 All the way till the end. 222 00:10:14,449 --> 00:10:17,780 And that's because of what justification is, right? 223 00:10:17,780 --> 00:10:22,670 It it means that nothing legally can change between you and God, right? 224 00:10:22,729 --> 00:10:24,290 Because Jesus righteousness doesn't change. 225 00:10:24,349 --> 00:10:25,729 He already lived his perfect life. 226 00:10:25,819 --> 00:10:26,239 He's done. 227 00:10:26,269 --> 00:10:27,109 He's not adding to it. 228 00:10:27,109 --> 00:10:27,979 He's not taking away from it. 229 00:10:28,745 --> 00:10:32,495 So if, if you get Christ's righteousness, you get a finished product, there's no 230 00:10:32,495 --> 00:10:35,495 more modifications, there's no, there's nothing else that's happening to it. 231 00:10:35,825 --> 00:10:39,815 You get full 100% perfect righteousness and there's nothing 232 00:10:39,815 --> 00:10:41,645 that you do to change it, right? 233 00:10:41,645 --> 00:10:45,965 You don't do anything to add to or subtract from Jesus's work. 234 00:10:46,025 --> 00:10:49,085 So if you have Jesus' righteousness, you can't change it. 235 00:10:49,745 --> 00:10:53,015 There's nothing you can do about it to make it better or worse, 236 00:10:53,585 --> 00:10:56,645 and also justified by his blood. 237 00:10:56,825 --> 00:10:57,845 Jesus paid for. 238 00:10:58,235 --> 00:10:58,564 Sin. 239 00:10:59,194 --> 00:11:00,785 He took away the punishment for sin. 240 00:11:00,785 --> 00:11:01,865 He died on the cross. 241 00:11:02,735 --> 00:11:05,375 And there's nothing that you can do to change that, right? 242 00:11:05,495 --> 00:11:06,245 Jesus already died. 243 00:11:06,334 --> 00:11:07,265 You can't do anything about it. 244 00:11:08,105 --> 00:11:12,574 You can't take away from the penalty that he already paid for you and 245 00:11:12,574 --> 00:11:15,365 you can't add more stuff onto it 'cause he already paid for all of it. 246 00:11:16,084 --> 00:11:19,564 Or you can't add more to what Jesus already paid for. 247 00:11:19,954 --> 00:11:20,915 He's already paid for all of it. 248 00:11:22,625 --> 00:11:23,314 And so. 249 00:11:23,944 --> 00:11:29,915 What this does for us, if you're a Christian, is it gives you a certain event 250 00:11:30,334 --> 00:11:34,625 to look back on to give you confidence that you're gonna make it right. 251 00:11:34,714 --> 00:11:37,444 You don't have to look at, well, how did I, how did I do this week? 252 00:11:38,314 --> 00:11:39,844 Was I, was I loving? 253 00:11:40,354 --> 00:11:42,155 Was I trustworthy? 254 00:11:42,635 --> 00:11:44,285 Did I honor God with my thoughts? 255 00:11:45,035 --> 00:11:45,395 You don't. 256 00:11:45,545 --> 00:11:47,405 You don't have to look to that to know if you're gonna make it. 257 00:11:48,755 --> 00:11:51,334 What you look to is, well, look what Jesus did. 258 00:11:52,055 --> 00:11:53,224 That's why I know I'm gonna make it. 259 00:11:53,915 --> 00:11:54,605 Because I trust him. 260 00:11:55,265 --> 00:11:56,195 I trust Jesus. 261 00:11:56,675 --> 00:11:59,435 And the reason that I'm gonna make it is because he saved me. 262 00:11:59,615 --> 00:12:01,775 It's not because I started doing really good. 263 00:12:02,705 --> 00:12:05,705 That's not why anyone makes it to heaven, right? 264 00:12:05,705 --> 00:12:09,095 No one makes it to heaven because they started reading their Bible. 265 00:12:09,785 --> 00:12:12,665 No one makes it to heaven because they started doing all these 266 00:12:12,665 --> 00:12:13,835 really good things for God. 267 00:12:14,314 --> 00:12:16,685 No one makes it to heaven because they learned a bunch of Bible verses. 268 00:12:18,365 --> 00:12:22,805 No one doesn't make it to heaven because they. 269 00:12:23,930 --> 00:12:27,650 They tried really hard and it didn't work out right. 270 00:12:28,490 --> 00:12:31,520 Really what the, the reason behind that is, is they didn't trust Jesus. 271 00:12:32,630 --> 00:12:39,500 So if you are a Christian, you don't have to look at yourself to, to give you 272 00:12:39,500 --> 00:12:40,700 confidence that you're gonna make it. 273 00:12:40,730 --> 00:12:42,320 You can look to Jesus. 274 00:12:44,300 --> 00:12:47,030 So if you're in that situation, I've been there, you're like, 275 00:12:47,030 --> 00:12:48,470 man, I, I really messed up. 276 00:12:48,470 --> 00:12:49,430 I'm not sure if I'm a Christian. 277 00:12:49,850 --> 00:12:51,140 I don't think a Christian would really do that. 278 00:12:51,140 --> 00:12:52,520 I'm that, that was horrible. 279 00:12:53,600 --> 00:12:53,930 Right. 280 00:12:54,950 --> 00:12:56,870 You don't have to say, well, I don't know. 281 00:12:56,870 --> 00:12:57,440 I'm not a Christian. 282 00:12:57,500 --> 00:12:58,850 What you do is you come to Jesus. 283 00:12:59,960 --> 00:13:03,500 You say, Jesus, you paid for that sin, right? 284 00:13:03,530 --> 00:13:05,030 You died because of that sin. 285 00:13:05,030 --> 00:13:08,150 That's, that's why I trust you, is because I'm a sinner. 286 00:13:09,920 --> 00:13:13,310 When your conscience tells you you're a sinner, you're, you're terrible. 287 00:13:13,310 --> 00:13:13,940 You're not good enough. 288 00:13:13,940 --> 00:13:14,840 God would never love you. 289 00:13:15,440 --> 00:13:17,600 You look at Jesus, you say, well, yeah, that's why he died. 290 00:13:18,320 --> 00:13:19,190 He just died for sinners. 291 00:13:19,190 --> 00:13:20,240 He didn't die for righteous people. 292 00:13:22,070 --> 00:13:22,520 You have. 293 00:13:23,915 --> 00:13:27,035 An unchanging person that you can look to to give you confidence 294 00:13:27,035 --> 00:13:27,844 that you're gonna make it. 295 00:13:28,204 --> 00:13:31,954 And it's such a great thing that you don't have to worry about how 296 00:13:31,954 --> 00:13:35,015 you're doing to give you confidence that you're gonna make it to heaven. 297 00:13:37,535 --> 00:13:45,214 I had a friend in marching band who gave me a lot of confidence, um, and it was not 298 00:13:45,214 --> 00:13:48,574 because he was really encouraging, it was 'cause he was really bad at marching band. 299 00:13:48,994 --> 00:13:50,194 Um, so he was. 300 00:13:50,600 --> 00:13:53,540 I was scared going into, I was like scared that I was gonna learn everything. 301 00:13:53,690 --> 00:13:55,790 I was like, how do, how do you know where to be all the time? 302 00:13:55,910 --> 00:13:58,130 You gotta memorize all your music, you gotta memorize all your spots 303 00:13:58,130 --> 00:14:00,470 that you're supposed to be at at this time and do all this stuff. 304 00:14:00,470 --> 00:14:01,700 And I was like, I don't think I could do it. 305 00:14:01,730 --> 00:14:02,540 I was really nervous. 306 00:14:03,080 --> 00:14:04,700 But there was this guy, he was a great ahead of me. 307 00:14:05,270 --> 00:14:08,450 Um, his name was, his name was Dago Dog Alberto. 308 00:14:08,930 --> 00:14:11,780 And, um, he was terrible. 309 00:14:12,380 --> 00:14:15,560 Like he was the worst, like if you think of like the worst player on the football 310 00:14:15,560 --> 00:14:18,020 team or whatever, he was like the worst. 311 00:14:18,440 --> 00:14:19,740 Um, but he could do it. 312 00:14:20,795 --> 00:14:21,665 He, he did it. 313 00:14:21,725 --> 00:14:22,505 He survived. 314 00:14:22,865 --> 00:14:23,735 He didn't get cut. 315 00:14:24,155 --> 00:14:30,035 Um, he made it, and every time I was like, man, I'm not sure if I can do this. 316 00:14:30,485 --> 00:14:31,505 I thought, you know what? 317 00:14:32,225 --> 00:14:35,765 Doggo did it so that means I can do it too, right? 318 00:14:35,795 --> 00:14:38,105 So every time I was nervous, man, I don't know if I can do this. 319 00:14:38,105 --> 00:14:39,785 I don't know if I, I, I scary. 320 00:14:39,785 --> 00:14:41,075 I'm not sure if I'll be able to learn all this. 321 00:14:41,255 --> 00:14:42,815 I thought, and I was like, you know what? 322 00:14:43,535 --> 00:14:46,385 Doggo did it so I think I can do it right. 323 00:14:46,895 --> 00:14:49,295 I don't know if I can, I can make it to all these things. 324 00:14:49,295 --> 00:14:51,214 I don't know if it's such a big commitment or I don't know 325 00:14:51,214 --> 00:14:52,295 if I can learn all this stuff. 326 00:14:52,295 --> 00:14:53,165 I don't know if I'm good enough. 327 00:14:53,165 --> 00:14:54,005 And I was like, you know what? 328 00:14:54,814 --> 00:14:55,265 He did it. 329 00:14:55,295 --> 00:14:55,925 I could do it too. 330 00:14:56,405 --> 00:14:56,704 Right? 331 00:14:56,855 --> 00:15:00,545 Looking to doggo gave me confidence that I could do it too. 332 00:15:00,635 --> 00:15:00,875 Right? 333 00:15:00,935 --> 00:15:03,485 And it's kind of the opposite if you're a Christian, right? 334 00:15:03,545 --> 00:15:05,194 The, the reality is you can't do it. 335 00:15:05,285 --> 00:15:06,305 You're not good enough. 336 00:15:06,814 --> 00:15:08,105 But you looked at Jesus and you say, you know what? 337 00:15:08,105 --> 00:15:08,675 He did it. 338 00:15:09,425 --> 00:15:10,954 And that's where I get my confidence from. 339 00:15:11,765 --> 00:15:13,595 I don't, you don't get your confidence from your own 340 00:15:13,595 --> 00:15:15,305 ability to make it to heaven. 341 00:15:15,485 --> 00:15:18,485 You get confidence from Jesus' ability to keep you to save you. 342 00:15:18,605 --> 00:15:19,445 He does the saving. 343 00:15:19,445 --> 00:15:20,285 You don't do the saving. 344 00:15:20,495 --> 00:15:22,085 That's the whole point is you can't do it. 345 00:15:22,085 --> 00:15:23,675 So you say, Jesus, I needed you to do it. 346 00:15:24,125 --> 00:15:24,965 And so you look to him. 347 00:15:25,655 --> 00:15:29,885 There's a famous quote that says, for every look at yourself. 348 00:15:29,945 --> 00:15:34,205 Take 10 looks at Christ for every look at yourself. 349 00:15:34,205 --> 00:15:35,885 Take 10 looks at Christ. 350 00:15:35,915 --> 00:15:37,325 You think about, man, I'm such a sinner. 351 00:15:37,325 --> 00:15:39,410 Well think about, man, Jesus is just so merciful. 352 00:15:39,995 --> 00:15:41,165 He's so gracious. 353 00:15:41,525 --> 00:15:42,724 He paid for my sin. 354 00:15:42,905 --> 00:15:43,805 He died on the cross. 355 00:15:44,944 --> 00:15:48,305 God said, it is finished, it's paid in full. 356 00:15:48,365 --> 00:15:49,025 It's all done. 357 00:15:51,515 --> 00:15:56,495 You have to talk to yourself and, and fight yourself to trust Jesus, right? 358 00:15:56,495 --> 00:15:58,625 And to not rely on yourself. 359 00:15:59,525 --> 00:16:01,625 So if you have those, those doubts, am I really a Christian? 360 00:16:01,625 --> 00:16:02,735 Will I really make it to heaven? 361 00:16:03,214 --> 00:16:08,620 Will God accept me right after everything that I've done or after what I just did? 362 00:16:10,385 --> 00:16:12,244 That's when you look to Jesus, you don't look at yourself. 363 00:16:12,244 --> 00:16:13,655 You don't keep looking at, man, I'm so bad. 364 00:16:13,655 --> 00:16:15,844 I really, you know, I really am a sinner. 365 00:16:15,844 --> 00:16:17,525 I wouldn't accept me if I was God. 366 00:16:18,094 --> 00:16:18,244 Right? 367 00:16:18,244 --> 00:16:21,874 That's you looking at yourself, and that's not gonna help you. 368 00:16:22,834 --> 00:16:24,064 That's not trusting Jesus. 369 00:16:26,435 --> 00:16:31,624 But what's cool about this next verse, verse 10, is there's also that question 370 00:16:31,624 --> 00:16:33,005 of what about God's love for me, right? 371 00:16:33,005 --> 00:16:35,194 We talked about this the last time we were here, which feels 372 00:16:35,194 --> 00:16:38,255 like forever ago, but um. 373 00:16:39,680 --> 00:16:44,570 Maybe you're thinking, I know God could save me, but I just don't 374 00:16:44,570 --> 00:16:45,950 think he would really want to. 375 00:16:46,850 --> 00:16:47,810 Maybe that's what you're thinking. 376 00:16:48,050 --> 00:16:52,190 I know that hypothetically, like on a test, God could save me. 377 00:16:52,190 --> 00:16:53,000 Like Yeah, I know. 378 00:16:53,000 --> 00:16:53,330 Okay. 379 00:16:53,540 --> 00:16:56,300 No one's too sinful, but I just don't think he'd really want to. 380 00:16:56,690 --> 00:16:57,590 Maybe that's what you're thinking. 381 00:16:57,890 --> 00:16:58,995 Maybe you're thinking, I just dunno. 382 00:16:59,000 --> 00:17:02,840 If God really loves me, I'm too sinful, or I'm too unimportant, or I still sin even 383 00:17:02,840 --> 00:17:04,130 though I really think I'm a Christian. 384 00:17:04,640 --> 00:17:06,589 Maybe you're just thinking, I just don't know if God would really. 385 00:17:06,920 --> 00:17:07,730 Want to save me. 386 00:17:07,730 --> 00:17:10,040 I don't know if God really like cares about me enough to save me. 387 00:17:10,760 --> 00:17:15,980 He doesn't seem involved in my life, and that's where we see verse 10 come in. 388 00:17:16,010 --> 00:17:19,310 We talked about if we've been justified in the past, then we know 389 00:17:19,310 --> 00:17:20,630 we're gonna make it to the end. 390 00:17:21,020 --> 00:17:25,550 But verse 10 says that if while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by 391 00:17:25,550 --> 00:17:28,740 the death of his son, much more Now that we are reconciled, that means. 392 00:17:29,660 --> 00:17:31,520 Two people who were enemies, who became friends. 393 00:17:32,030 --> 00:17:35,180 Um, we shall we be saved by his life. 394 00:17:35,330 --> 00:17:36,350 So same thing happening here. 395 00:17:36,350 --> 00:17:36,590 Right? 396 00:17:36,860 --> 00:17:38,780 Past event, we were reconciled. 397 00:17:38,900 --> 00:17:39,830 We talked about this. 398 00:17:40,130 --> 00:17:45,140 Um, at the beginning, God, we were enemies of God and he made peace between us. 399 00:17:46,040 --> 00:17:46,700 How did he do that? 400 00:17:46,700 --> 00:17:49,070 Well, he took away all his wrath by dumping it on Jesus. 401 00:17:49,790 --> 00:17:51,050 And so then all of it's gone. 402 00:17:51,200 --> 00:17:55,160 So now he, when you become a Christian, he adopts you into his family, and instead 403 00:17:55,160 --> 00:17:57,680 of God's hostility, you get God's favor. 404 00:17:58,805 --> 00:18:02,675 All of God's goodness is for you as a Christian because 405 00:18:02,675 --> 00:18:03,965 all of his wrath is gone. 406 00:18:05,465 --> 00:18:08,945 So because that happened in the past, you can be confident that he's 407 00:18:08,945 --> 00:18:11,555 definitely gonna save you in the future. 408 00:18:12,575 --> 00:18:15,485 He's gonna welcome you into heaven when you get there. 409 00:18:17,255 --> 00:18:21,245 And the idea here is that if God loves you enough to do that when 410 00:18:21,635 --> 00:18:25,505 you are his enemy, of course he'll do that now that you're his child. 411 00:18:25,565 --> 00:18:26,325 That's that's the whole point. 412 00:18:27,290 --> 00:18:29,240 We talked about this earlier in this passage. 413 00:18:29,570 --> 00:18:33,020 Um, God showed his love for us that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. 414 00:18:33,200 --> 00:18:38,150 If God decided to love you at your worst, of course he'll love you at your 415 00:18:38,150 --> 00:18:42,290 best because you're part of his family. 416 00:18:42,290 --> 00:18:44,250 Now, of course, he will love you. 417 00:18:46,550 --> 00:18:49,970 So God's love for you to save you proves that He will keep you saved. 418 00:18:50,060 --> 00:18:50,270 Right? 419 00:18:50,270 --> 00:18:52,640 If God loves you enough to save you in the first place, he's gonna 420 00:18:52,640 --> 00:18:56,090 love you enough to keep you saved and help you make it to the end. 421 00:18:58,055 --> 00:18:58,235 Right. 422 00:18:58,235 --> 00:19:01,445 It's like if your parents said, we'll take you on a really nice vacation, we're 423 00:19:01,445 --> 00:19:04,925 gonna go to, I don't know, we're gonna go to Hawaii and we're gonna be there 424 00:19:04,925 --> 00:19:06,754 for two weeks and it's gonna be awesome. 425 00:19:06,754 --> 00:19:07,805 Everything's paid for. 426 00:19:08,165 --> 00:19:11,915 Um, and then you were like, are you gonna feed us? 427 00:19:13,655 --> 00:19:15,185 That would be such a dumb question to ask. 428 00:19:15,365 --> 00:19:15,695 Right? 429 00:19:15,965 --> 00:19:18,455 They've paid for the flights, they've paid for the tickets, they paid 430 00:19:18,455 --> 00:19:20,855 for all the places to stay, they paid for all the fun activities. 431 00:19:20,855 --> 00:19:22,745 And you're like, did you guys pay for food or not? 432 00:19:23,900 --> 00:19:26,390 That's what it's like when you're saying, God, I know you can save me, but 433 00:19:26,390 --> 00:19:27,650 I don't know if you'll keep me saved. 434 00:19:29,120 --> 00:19:30,260 That's the same type of question. 435 00:19:30,950 --> 00:19:32,720 God, I know you love me enough to save me. 436 00:19:32,840 --> 00:19:34,670 I know you love me enough to pay for my sin. 437 00:19:34,790 --> 00:19:36,830 I know you love me enough to give me Jesus righteousness. 438 00:19:36,980 --> 00:19:39,290 I know you love me enough to give me the Holy Spirit. 439 00:19:39,379 --> 00:19:41,600 I know you love me enough to adopt me into your family, but are 440 00:19:41,600 --> 00:19:42,740 you really gonna keep me saved? 441 00:19:44,210 --> 00:19:45,680 That's what, that's what really we're doing. 442 00:19:46,310 --> 00:19:48,680 We're saying, God, I know you love me enough to do all this stuff for me 443 00:19:49,310 --> 00:19:51,620 to save me, but I just don't know if you love me enough to keep me saved. 444 00:19:53,240 --> 00:19:59,240 We're showing so much doubt in God's love, and that's what God says is, look, 445 00:19:59,295 --> 00:20:04,160 I, I proved my love to you because I, I sent Jesus to die for you when you 446 00:20:04,160 --> 00:20:09,470 were my enemy, when you were hating me, when you were worshiping everything else 447 00:20:09,590 --> 00:20:13,070 instead of me, when you were looking for everything else to make you happy. 448 00:20:13,280 --> 00:20:13,940 I loved you. 449 00:20:13,940 --> 00:20:15,110 I sent Jesus for you. 450 00:20:16,700 --> 00:20:18,290 Of course, I'll love you now. 451 00:20:19,460 --> 00:20:20,240 And that's what God says. 452 00:20:21,335 --> 00:20:25,235 Of course, I'll love you now that I've adopted you and so you can trust him 453 00:20:25,445 --> 00:20:27,185 because you know, you know he did do that. 454 00:20:27,755 --> 00:20:29,135 And it's a concrete event, right? 455 00:20:29,135 --> 00:20:33,275 It's not, well, God loves me more this week because I was really nice to my 456 00:20:33,275 --> 00:20:34,655 siblings, so he must love me more. 457 00:20:34,655 --> 00:20:35,910 That's not how this works, right? 458 00:20:37,145 --> 00:20:39,905 Or I'm, I'm more sure that I'm gonna make it to heaven because I 459 00:20:39,905 --> 00:20:41,495 read the Bible every day this week. 460 00:20:42,095 --> 00:20:43,805 That's, that's not how this works. 461 00:20:44,855 --> 00:20:48,695 God already loved you before you even knew who he was. 462 00:20:49,280 --> 00:20:54,020 God loved you before you loved him back, and so your love back to God 463 00:20:54,020 --> 00:20:55,430 doesn't change His love for you. 464 00:20:55,610 --> 00:20:57,230 God's love for you comes from God. 465 00:20:57,260 --> 00:20:58,130 It doesn't come from you. 466 00:20:58,790 --> 00:21:00,980 God's love for you is not a reaction to you. 467 00:21:01,070 --> 00:21:03,290 It's not a response to, to the stuff you do. 468 00:21:03,590 --> 00:21:04,790 It's self-generated. 469 00:21:04,790 --> 00:21:05,720 It's God generated. 470 00:21:05,780 --> 00:21:10,970 God is a, he's like a fountain of love and he generates his 471 00:21:10,970 --> 00:21:12,740 own water, his own love, right? 472 00:21:13,610 --> 00:21:14,480 And it just comes outta him. 473 00:21:14,480 --> 00:21:16,070 That's what he does when we say God is love. 474 00:21:16,070 --> 00:21:16,740 That's what, that's what we need. 475 00:21:18,290 --> 00:21:20,690 Okay, so nothing changes. 476 00:21:20,690 --> 00:21:22,220 God's love for you, right? 477 00:21:22,280 --> 00:21:25,880 When bad things happen to you, you can look back and say, you know what? 478 00:21:26,270 --> 00:21:29,930 I was a horrible sinner, rebelling against God, and he loved me then so 479 00:21:29,930 --> 00:21:32,900 surely he still loves me now even though this really hard thing's happening, 480 00:21:33,410 --> 00:21:36,320 or even though this family situation is really hard, even though school's 481 00:21:36,320 --> 00:21:40,310 really hard, even though my friendships are really hard right now, God loved me 482 00:21:40,310 --> 00:21:45,230 when I was rebelling against him, and so surely he still loves me now, right? 483 00:21:45,230 --> 00:21:45,620 God. 484 00:21:47,795 --> 00:21:49,835 Loves me, even though you know what? 485 00:21:50,105 --> 00:21:51,935 My life isn't going the way I wanted it to. 486 00:21:51,935 --> 00:21:55,025 I'm not as talented, or I don't look the way I want to, or I'm 487 00:21:55,025 --> 00:21:56,735 not as smart as I I want to be. 488 00:21:57,695 --> 00:21:59,285 And you think, well, maybe God doesn't love me. 489 00:21:59,315 --> 00:21:59,975 Maybe he loved me. 490 00:21:59,975 --> 00:22:00,665 Things would be different. 491 00:22:01,355 --> 00:22:02,435 You can look back and say, you know what? 492 00:22:02,435 --> 00:22:06,005 God loved me when I hated him. 493 00:22:06,455 --> 00:22:09,185 Surely he still loves me now. 494 00:22:11,525 --> 00:22:14,255 Also, God already knew all of your sin before he saved you. 495 00:22:15,925 --> 00:22:18,995 If God knew, and this is crazy to think about. 496 00:22:19,115 --> 00:22:22,955 God knew you were gonna sin against him before he saved you. 497 00:22:23,795 --> 00:22:25,355 And if you're a Christian, you're thinking, man, I've 498 00:22:25,355 --> 00:22:27,065 sinned so much against God. 499 00:22:28,295 --> 00:22:29,555 I don't know if I really am. 500 00:22:30,065 --> 00:22:30,245 Right. 501 00:22:30,245 --> 00:22:33,755 God knew you were gonna do all those things right. 502 00:22:34,445 --> 00:22:38,945 Um, he made that commitment to save you knowing. 503 00:22:39,065 --> 00:22:39,395 Yep. 504 00:22:40,685 --> 00:22:41,975 Lewis isn't gonna be perfect. 505 00:22:42,305 --> 00:22:44,105 Lewis is gonna sin against me still. 506 00:22:44,645 --> 00:22:51,215 Lewis is gonna say he's a Christian and still not be, still not act 507 00:22:51,215 --> 00:22:55,955 like it sometimes, but I'm gonna save him anyway because I love him. 508 00:22:56,915 --> 00:22:57,155 Right? 509 00:22:57,155 --> 00:23:02,765 God's love, um, is he already, he already sees everything about you, right? 510 00:23:02,765 --> 00:23:07,055 There's nothing that you, you've hidden from God and you're like, well, if God 511 00:23:07,055 --> 00:23:08,405 really knew this, he wouldn't save me. 512 00:23:09,035 --> 00:23:09,755 That's not gonna happen. 513 00:23:09,755 --> 00:23:09,965 Right? 514 00:23:09,965 --> 00:23:10,775 God already knows everything. 515 00:23:12,890 --> 00:23:17,060 And so you can be very, very confident in God's love. 516 00:23:17,240 --> 00:23:21,980 God will love you enough to keep you until the end, and hopefully 517 00:23:21,980 --> 00:23:24,680 that makes you a quick repenter. 518 00:23:25,220 --> 00:23:29,750 And I know that seems unrelated, but if you think about it, when you sin God, 519 00:23:30,290 --> 00:23:31,610 one already knew you're gonna do it. 520 00:23:31,790 --> 00:23:32,990 Two, still loved you. 521 00:23:33,230 --> 00:23:35,780 Three loved you regardless. 522 00:23:36,230 --> 00:23:38,960 Like even before when you weren't sorry for your sin. 523 00:23:40,805 --> 00:23:43,835 Hopefully instead of running away from God with your sin, 524 00:23:43,865 --> 00:23:45,785 you run to God with your sin. 525 00:23:46,715 --> 00:23:46,925 Right? 526 00:23:46,925 --> 00:23:49,565 When you feel guilty of something, don't hide it from God. 527 00:23:49,565 --> 00:23:49,745 Right? 528 00:23:49,745 --> 00:23:50,405 Bring it to God. 529 00:23:51,545 --> 00:23:52,985 God loves you. 530 00:23:53,435 --> 00:23:57,995 He wants to, to deal with your sin because he loves you, right? 531 00:23:57,995 --> 00:24:00,725 He, he's not gonna harm you. 532 00:24:01,235 --> 00:24:04,925 He's gonna help you because he loves you, right? 533 00:24:04,925 --> 00:24:07,325 Hiding your sin from God doesn't. 534 00:24:08,515 --> 00:24:11,330 It actually takes you away from the very thing that will help you. 535 00:24:12,260 --> 00:24:14,960 And the only way you're gonna deal with it is if you bring it to God. 536 00:24:15,590 --> 00:24:19,490 And so hopefully God's love actually helps you repent faster 537 00:24:19,700 --> 00:24:20,720 because you say, you know what? 538 00:24:21,350 --> 00:24:25,340 God will love me even though I am gonna confess this. 539 00:24:25,460 --> 00:24:26,105 'cause you can trust. 540 00:24:26,105 --> 00:24:26,360 You know what? 541 00:24:26,360 --> 00:24:27,230 He loved me in the past. 542 00:24:27,440 --> 00:24:28,580 He'll still love me, right? 543 00:24:28,580 --> 00:24:32,750 I can bring this sin to God, I can confess it to him and trust Jesus. 544 00:24:32,930 --> 00:24:36,200 His righteousness is my standing before God, not how I'm doing. 545 00:24:39,605 --> 00:24:42,275 One of the hymns I really love has a line like that. 546 00:24:42,275 --> 00:24:48,125 It says, um, it, it's, it's, it's this sentence where, um, it's talking about 547 00:24:48,125 --> 00:24:52,925 God's love and it says, I'm loved not for works that I have done right. 548 00:24:52,925 --> 00:24:55,175 You're not loved because of what you do for God. 549 00:24:56,045 --> 00:24:57,695 You're loved because of who God is. 550 00:24:57,725 --> 00:25:00,395 God just, he decided to love you, right? 551 00:25:00,395 --> 00:25:02,765 You're not loved because of the things that you do for God. 552 00:25:03,395 --> 00:25:03,785 Um. 553 00:25:06,080 --> 00:25:11,390 Later on in the hymn, it says that, um, the highest judge took all my 554 00:25:11,390 --> 00:25:13,940 wrongs and set them on his only son. 555 00:25:14,300 --> 00:25:14,540 Right? 556 00:25:14,540 --> 00:25:17,240 All your things that you've done wrong, he put them on Jesus. 557 00:25:17,750 --> 00:25:21,110 And because of that, Jesus took your sin, and now you get God's love. 558 00:25:22,250 --> 00:25:22,430 Right? 559 00:25:22,430 --> 00:25:26,930 There's, there's zero wrath from God directed toward you. 560 00:25:26,930 --> 00:25:30,980 If you're a Christian, nothing, none of it at all, right? 561 00:25:30,980 --> 00:25:32,270 It's completely gone. 562 00:25:33,470 --> 00:25:39,830 Um, and you can be confident in that because of what Jesus did, right? 563 00:25:40,040 --> 00:25:41,030 And that's where we started this thing. 564 00:25:41,030 --> 00:25:42,350 But I, I wanna highlight this to you. 565 00:25:42,530 --> 00:25:44,870 This is how big of a deal sin is, right? 566 00:25:44,870 --> 00:25:47,630 Sin you, you don't just say, oops, I sin God will forgive me anyway. 567 00:25:48,590 --> 00:25:48,830 Right? 568 00:25:48,830 --> 00:25:52,760 When you think about God's love, you think about, well, Jesus 569 00:25:53,150 --> 00:25:56,390 died because of my sin, right? 570 00:25:56,390 --> 00:25:57,470 That's how much God loves me. 571 00:25:57,530 --> 00:26:00,770 But also at the same time, it, it doesn't let you take sin lightly. 572 00:26:01,550 --> 00:26:05,210 God's love doesn't let you take sin lightly because you realize, man, to show 573 00:26:05,210 --> 00:26:06,890 his love for me, God had to kill his son. 574 00:26:08,300 --> 00:26:11,720 And that makes my sin a big deal and also makes God love a huge deal. 575 00:26:12,530 --> 00:26:16,100 And so even though God loves me so much, and I'm so confident he'll accept me, 576 00:26:16,100 --> 00:26:17,660 it doesn't make me okay with my sin. 577 00:26:18,710 --> 00:26:21,710 And so even in this passage, you can be so confident in God's love for 578 00:26:21,710 --> 00:26:26,300 you, and you also are so uncomfortable with your sin at the same time. 579 00:26:28,580 --> 00:26:28,880 And so. 580 00:26:30,560 --> 00:26:35,840 The reason you get that confidence is because you see, man, my sin 581 00:26:35,840 --> 00:26:39,260 is a huge deal, but God's love is an even bigger deal, and I can see 582 00:26:39,260 --> 00:26:43,070 what he did to show his love for me. 583 00:26:46,520 --> 00:26:48,620 So God doesn't partly save anyone, right? 584 00:26:48,710 --> 00:26:51,980 You don't, there's no, there's no dropouts between getting saved 585 00:26:51,980 --> 00:26:53,840 and making it to heaven, right? 586 00:26:53,840 --> 00:26:57,560 There's no one who's kind of saved and kind of part of God's family. 587 00:26:58,070 --> 00:27:01,040 There's, you're, you're fully saved and if you're fully saved, you're 588 00:27:01,040 --> 00:27:02,750 gonna stay fully saved the whole time. 589 00:27:03,680 --> 00:27:08,990 Um, but this paragraph, there's one more verse and it's kind of like, 590 00:27:08,990 --> 00:27:11,600 you know, those old commercials and they go, but wait, there's more. 591 00:27:12,050 --> 00:27:14,330 There's one of those, there's one of those things right here. 592 00:27:14,390 --> 00:27:20,090 And what I think this verse is showing us in verse 11 is that the, we talked 593 00:27:20,090 --> 00:27:22,400 about being a Christian isn't like a vaccine where you just get the 594 00:27:22,400 --> 00:27:23,360 booster shot and forget about it. 595 00:27:23,510 --> 00:27:26,600 The point of being a Christian isn't just to fix your future. 596 00:27:27,020 --> 00:27:28,520 So that you're like, great, I'm gonna go to heaven. 597 00:27:28,640 --> 00:27:29,030 I'm good. 598 00:27:29,030 --> 00:27:29,930 I don't have to worry about it anymore. 599 00:27:29,960 --> 00:27:31,010 Now I'm gonna go do whatever I want. 600 00:27:31,880 --> 00:27:32,060 Right? 601 00:27:32,060 --> 00:27:34,280 That's not what being a Christian is all about. 602 00:27:34,670 --> 00:27:39,110 It's not, well, okay, great, I'm not gonna go to hell, so now I can go do whatever 603 00:27:39,110 --> 00:27:40,580 I want and live my life however I want. 604 00:27:41,180 --> 00:27:45,530 That's how a lot of people today, people probably, you know, believe 605 00:27:45,530 --> 00:27:46,760 that being a Christian works. 606 00:27:46,820 --> 00:27:48,140 That's how I thought it was growing up. 607 00:27:48,350 --> 00:27:49,970 I thought, yeah, I believe God exists. 608 00:27:50,360 --> 00:27:51,590 Um, Jesus died from me. 609 00:27:51,590 --> 00:27:52,400 I'm gonna go to heaven now. 610 00:27:52,400 --> 00:27:53,180 I just do whatever I want. 611 00:27:53,660 --> 00:27:54,770 That's what I thought being a Christian was. 612 00:27:55,790 --> 00:27:56,240 Um. 613 00:27:56,975 --> 00:28:01,445 The point of being a Christian is actually that it's, it's less about 614 00:28:01,445 --> 00:28:05,315 what you're saved from and it's more about what you're saved for. 615 00:28:06,005 --> 00:28:08,855 It's less about I'm saved from hell, and it's more about I'm 616 00:28:08,855 --> 00:28:11,765 saved so that I get to be with God. 617 00:28:11,825 --> 00:28:12,120 And that's the point. 618 00:28:13,835 --> 00:28:14,525 More than that. 619 00:28:14,585 --> 00:28:17,345 More than being justified, more than being saved. 620 00:28:17,345 --> 00:28:21,905 In the end, we rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom 621 00:28:21,905 --> 00:28:24,004 we've now received reconciliation. 622 00:28:24,035 --> 00:28:24,245 Right? 623 00:28:24,245 --> 00:28:28,235 The point of reconciliation is there's a relational repair, right? 624 00:28:28,235 --> 00:28:30,185 Justification is like a legal repair. 625 00:28:30,215 --> 00:28:31,565 Like you're not guilty anymore. 626 00:28:31,745 --> 00:28:33,995 You're not gonna go to jail, you're gonna go free, right? 627 00:28:35,105 --> 00:28:40,175 Reconciliation is the, the emotional relationship has been fixed, right? 628 00:28:40,175 --> 00:28:40,385 You're. 629 00:28:40,715 --> 00:28:41,225 Forgiven. 630 00:28:41,495 --> 00:28:43,835 You're friends again, right? 631 00:28:43,835 --> 00:28:49,565 You, and the whole point of forgiveness is you get your friend back, right? 632 00:28:49,565 --> 00:28:53,645 The whole point of forgiveness is, I sinned against, I sinned against you. 633 00:28:54,215 --> 00:28:55,505 And now there's, there's a barrier here. 634 00:28:55,505 --> 00:28:57,425 There's tension, there's problems, there's conflict. 635 00:28:57,785 --> 00:28:59,435 And the whole point of being forgiveness isn't just so I 636 00:28:59,435 --> 00:29:00,425 can say, great, I'm forgiven. 637 00:29:00,425 --> 00:29:01,535 Now I'm gonna go do my own thing. 638 00:29:01,985 --> 00:29:07,055 The point of forgiveness is I get you back the point like, when, when Shay 639 00:29:07,055 --> 00:29:08,465 and I sin against each other, right? 640 00:29:08,465 --> 00:29:10,115 And we have to forgive each other. 641 00:29:11,240 --> 00:29:13,280 The point isn't so we can forgive each other and move 642 00:29:13,280 --> 00:29:15,080 on and, and do our own things. 643 00:29:15,350 --> 00:29:17,780 The point of forgiveness is, I, I get to hang out with her and 644 00:29:17,780 --> 00:29:20,270 it's not, it's not tense anymore. 645 00:29:20,810 --> 00:29:21,080 Right. 646 00:29:21,110 --> 00:29:22,430 It's, it's sweet. 647 00:29:22,430 --> 00:29:23,030 It's good. 648 00:29:23,360 --> 00:29:23,990 We're back. 649 00:29:25,040 --> 00:29:25,220 Right. 650 00:29:25,220 --> 00:29:27,800 That's, that's the point of forgiveness is I get her back. 651 00:29:28,460 --> 00:29:28,700 Right. 652 00:29:28,700 --> 00:29:31,940 I don't, we're not at odds anymore. 653 00:29:32,030 --> 00:29:34,880 That's the point of forgiveness is you get the person back. 654 00:29:35,270 --> 00:29:36,500 That's the point of being saved. 655 00:29:36,530 --> 00:29:37,655 That's the point of being reconciled to God. 656 00:29:38,405 --> 00:29:40,595 It's less about reconciliation, it's more about God. 657 00:29:40,595 --> 00:29:41,375 You get God. 658 00:29:41,375 --> 00:29:41,945 That's the point. 659 00:29:43,505 --> 00:29:46,955 And so our second point tonight is that the best part about being with 660 00:29:46,955 --> 00:29:51,005 God, or the best part about being saved is that you get to be with God. 661 00:29:51,665 --> 00:29:53,705 And don't worry, the second point is way shorter than the first point. 662 00:30:01,055 --> 00:30:04,715 Being with God is the best part about being saved. 663 00:30:06,890 --> 00:30:08,300 Being with God is the best part. 664 00:30:09,470 --> 00:30:16,640 I almost put being with God is better than being saved, and I still might 665 00:30:16,700 --> 00:30:22,940 believe that, but being with God is the best part about being saved. 666 00:30:27,705 --> 00:30:31,130 In this verse, it says something about rejoicing in God. 667 00:30:32,375 --> 00:30:33,815 And maybe you're thinking, what does that mean? 668 00:30:34,115 --> 00:30:36,215 What you hear something like, oh, the joy of the Lord, or, 669 00:30:36,275 --> 00:30:38,075 you know, uh, rejoice in God. 670 00:30:38,075 --> 00:30:39,245 What does, what does that even mean? 671 00:30:39,665 --> 00:30:44,435 Um, I was reading a book this morning that actually was really 672 00:30:44,435 --> 00:30:45,875 helpful in explaining this. 673 00:30:46,325 --> 00:30:52,745 Um, the guy who wrote it, he was talking about how sometimes when you 674 00:30:52,745 --> 00:30:57,905 say you love something, you're really saying, I love me, not I love you. 675 00:30:58,745 --> 00:31:00,725 And that might be weird to think about, but. 676 00:31:01,970 --> 00:31:05,840 Really, when you say you love something, sometimes you just love 677 00:31:05,840 --> 00:31:10,250 that thing or that person because of what they do for you, right? 678 00:31:10,250 --> 00:31:14,120 You say something like, oh, I love this person because they make me happy. 679 00:31:15,410 --> 00:31:18,320 I love this person because they are really nice to me. 680 00:31:18,890 --> 00:31:22,790 I love this person because right, all the things that they do for me. 681 00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:24,530 So really, you don't love them. 682 00:31:24,530 --> 00:31:25,550 You love what they do for you. 683 00:31:25,910 --> 00:31:27,440 So really you love you, right? 684 00:31:27,620 --> 00:31:29,420 You don't love them for who they are. 685 00:31:29,510 --> 00:31:30,680 You just love what they do for you. 686 00:31:30,920 --> 00:31:34,220 And if they stop doing those things for you, then you don't 687 00:31:34,220 --> 00:31:35,180 love them anymore, right? 688 00:31:35,180 --> 00:31:37,220 That's why the divorce rate in our country is so high. 689 00:31:37,670 --> 00:31:41,180 People get married because they don't love their spouse, they love themselves, 690 00:31:41,420 --> 00:31:45,020 and as soon as their spouse stops making them happy, they say, well, 691 00:31:45,050 --> 00:31:46,070 I actually don't love you anymore. 692 00:31:46,460 --> 00:31:48,590 But really, they never love them in the first place, right? 693 00:31:48,680 --> 00:31:50,690 They always just love themselves and they just wanted to use their 694 00:31:50,690 --> 00:31:53,090 spouse to make them happy, right? 695 00:31:53,090 --> 00:31:53,510 That that's. 696 00:31:54,185 --> 00:31:58,955 A lot of marriage problems right there that you could save a lot of drama if 697 00:31:58,955 --> 00:32:00,455 you figured that out on the front end. 698 00:32:00,455 --> 00:32:00,695 Right. 699 00:32:00,845 --> 00:32:03,905 But maybe even with like with, you could do this with friends. 700 00:32:04,085 --> 00:32:05,195 This happens with friends all the time. 701 00:32:05,675 --> 00:32:10,235 As soon as your friend stops benefiting you, you're not friends anymore. 702 00:32:11,015 --> 00:32:11,885 You go your separate ways. 703 00:32:12,335 --> 00:32:15,515 And really, it wasn't about them, it was just you were really using them 704 00:32:15,515 --> 00:32:17,465 to, to get something outta them right. 705 00:32:19,235 --> 00:32:21,400 As soon as they stopped making you happy. 706 00:32:23,420 --> 00:32:23,900 You leave. 707 00:32:25,070 --> 00:32:29,510 So when we talk about rejoicing in God, I wanna ask you, when you say you 708 00:32:29,510 --> 00:32:32,480 love God is your I love you to God. 709 00:32:32,480 --> 00:32:34,430 Really just an I love me in disguise. 710 00:32:35,780 --> 00:32:36,950 Do you just love God? 711 00:32:37,640 --> 00:32:39,710 Because you want God's stuff. 712 00:32:40,340 --> 00:32:41,255 You just don't wanna go to hell. 713 00:32:41,255 --> 00:32:44,720 You just don't wanna have to worry about feeling bad about your sin, 714 00:32:45,560 --> 00:32:46,610 and it's really just for you. 715 00:32:47,390 --> 00:32:49,010 You don't really want the God part of it. 716 00:32:49,040 --> 00:32:50,600 You just want the forgiveness part of it. 717 00:32:51,125 --> 00:32:52,505 You don't really want the God part of it. 718 00:32:52,505 --> 00:32:54,395 You just want the no hell part of it. 719 00:32:55,565 --> 00:32:56,705 You don't want the God part of it. 720 00:32:56,705 --> 00:32:58,685 You just want the heaven part of it, but you really wouldn't like heaven 721 00:32:58,685 --> 00:33:01,115 that much 'cause heaven's all about God anyway, and you'd feel outta place. 722 00:33:01,835 --> 00:33:02,285 So 723 00:33:04,325 --> 00:33:08,945 when you're thinking about rejoicing in God, are you actually 724 00:33:09,995 --> 00:33:11,645 enjoying God for who he is? 725 00:33:12,245 --> 00:33:13,910 If you're a real Christian, that's what Christians do. 726 00:33:15,155 --> 00:33:17,585 Christians enjoy God for who he is as a person. 727 00:33:17,825 --> 00:33:22,775 God is a person, God thinks and feels and does He, he, he's personal, right? 728 00:33:24,635 --> 00:33:25,085 So 729 00:33:27,305 --> 00:33:28,805 God is 730 00:33:31,025 --> 00:33:37,115 is to, is a a, like a, a person to be enjoyed in that sense of not 731 00:33:37,175 --> 00:33:38,975 just you, oh, I want God's stuff. 732 00:33:38,975 --> 00:33:41,105 I want the benefits of being a Christian and I don't really care about God. 733 00:33:42,230 --> 00:33:44,900 It's the, the, the whole point of getting a relationship with God is 734 00:33:44,900 --> 00:33:46,130 that it's a relationship with God. 735 00:33:46,850 --> 00:33:49,010 So I get to talk to God, I get to hear from God. 736 00:33:49,310 --> 00:33:50,420 I get to be with God. 737 00:33:52,610 --> 00:33:54,830 That's the best part about being a Christian. 738 00:33:55,190 --> 00:33:56,720 It's not that you get your sins taken away. 739 00:33:56,990 --> 00:33:58,010 It's not that you get to go to heaven. 740 00:33:58,400 --> 00:33:59,660 It's not that you don't have to be scared of death. 741 00:33:59,660 --> 00:34:05,000 It's, the point is, I get God, and God is amazing and I love him. 742 00:34:06,560 --> 00:34:10,219 That's the best part about being a Christian, and that's only 743 00:34:10,219 --> 00:34:16,310 possible through Jesus because God is deadly to you without Jesus. 744 00:34:17,840 --> 00:34:19,790 Because without Jesus you're guilty. 745 00:34:20,810 --> 00:34:23,299 It's kinda like you remember the solar eclipse that happened a while ago? 746 00:34:24,199 --> 00:34:26,985 I was further north when it happened, so we were like right in the. 747 00:34:27,935 --> 00:34:28,924 Or you were right in the area. 748 00:34:28,924 --> 00:34:29,614 We were out of the area. 749 00:34:29,793 --> 00:34:31,355 You guys were here, right in the area. 750 00:34:31,504 --> 00:34:34,534 But they gave you those like glasses to like look at it the right way. 751 00:34:34,924 --> 00:34:37,384 'cause if you didn't look at it with the glasses, it would hurt you. 752 00:34:37,625 --> 00:34:39,665 It would like burn your eyes and, 'cause you're basically 753 00:34:39,665 --> 00:34:40,685 looking at the sun, right? 754 00:34:41,074 --> 00:34:43,745 But if you put the glasses on, it was like, oh, this is actually really cool. 755 00:34:44,134 --> 00:34:45,754 This is actually a beautiful thing. 756 00:34:45,754 --> 00:34:47,043 This is so cool to see. 757 00:34:47,225 --> 00:34:48,605 I, it's really interesting. 758 00:34:48,634 --> 00:34:49,955 But if you don't have the glasses on, it's bad for you. 759 00:34:50,134 --> 00:34:50,435 Right? 760 00:34:50,855 --> 00:34:53,495 That's kind of like how God is, right? 761 00:34:53,495 --> 00:34:55,625 If, if you are still in your sin. 762 00:34:55,879 --> 00:35:01,789 If you're opposing God, God is bad for you because God is opposed to you and 763 00:35:01,789 --> 00:35:05,329 you're opposed to God, you need, right. 764 00:35:06,049 --> 00:35:07,039 I'm not gonna, I'll say it. 765 00:35:07,220 --> 00:35:09,140 You need sunglasses, right? 766 00:35:09,229 --> 00:35:10,369 Like Jesus, the sun. 767 00:35:10,430 --> 00:35:10,640 Yeah. 768 00:35:10,879 --> 00:35:13,009 You need, you need sunglasses 769 00:35:15,289 --> 00:35:19,519 for God not to be bad for you anymore, right? 770 00:35:20,329 --> 00:35:25,069 Because Jesus blocks out the rays of God's wrath. 771 00:35:26,240 --> 00:35:29,900 From you, so you get to enjoy God for who he is now without 772 00:35:29,900 --> 00:35:31,310 experiencing God's wrath. 773 00:35:31,850 --> 00:35:34,790 So now God is good for you, not bad for you anymore. 774 00:35:37,850 --> 00:35:40,280 Jesus is how you get connected to God. 775 00:35:40,280 --> 00:35:43,610 And God becomes instead of against you, God becomes for you, right? 776 00:35:44,300 --> 00:35:45,410 That's how this works. 777 00:35:45,410 --> 00:35:47,150 You enjoy God through Jesus. 778 00:35:48,290 --> 00:35:52,280 You the only way for God to not be deadly to you is through Jesus. 779 00:35:52,280 --> 00:35:54,830 You come to him on Jesus' righteousness, not your own. 780 00:35:56,495 --> 00:36:01,025 You get to enjoy God for who he is instead of being scared of him. 781 00:36:03,815 --> 00:36:05,945 And Jesus is the best way to enjoy God. 782 00:36:05,945 --> 00:36:06,095 Right? 783 00:36:06,095 --> 00:36:10,355 The point of of reading the Bible isn't to read your Bible. 784 00:36:10,355 --> 00:36:12,155 The point of reading the Bible is, I see God. 785 00:36:12,545 --> 00:36:13,805 I see the things God does. 786 00:36:13,985 --> 00:36:15,395 I see what God says to me. 787 00:36:15,395 --> 00:36:18,995 I see God's promises and I I get more of him. 788 00:36:19,235 --> 00:36:20,315 That's the point of reading your Bible. 789 00:36:20,615 --> 00:36:21,665 It's not to learn information. 790 00:36:22,085 --> 00:36:24,420 It's not to be smarter than your friends. 791 00:36:25,265 --> 00:36:27,935 It's not to impress your leaders or your parents, it's 'cause the 792 00:36:27,935 --> 00:36:31,385 Bible's where you see God, that's what God told you about himself. 793 00:36:32,045 --> 00:36:34,265 And you say, man, I love God and I wanna see more of him. 794 00:36:34,265 --> 00:36:37,235 So I'm gonna read even when it's a bunch of laws that I 795 00:36:37,385 --> 00:36:38,495 might not understand, right? 796 00:36:38,495 --> 00:36:42,485 Because God wrote this and God loves me and this shows me who he is, right? 797 00:36:43,955 --> 00:36:50,285 So I hope that as you think about why am I a Christian? 798 00:36:51,545 --> 00:36:53,255 I hope you think about, I love God. 799 00:36:53,899 --> 00:36:54,740 I want God. 800 00:36:54,890 --> 00:36:57,049 And that's why I'm a Christian, right? 801 00:36:57,049 --> 00:36:58,160 I don't just want God's stuff. 802 00:36:58,160 --> 00:36:59,270 I want God. 803 00:37:00,379 --> 00:37:04,850 And you can be 100% confident that one day you're gonna be there with him in 804 00:37:04,850 --> 00:37:10,399 heaven, and you get to enjoy him forever without any of your sin and without ever 805 00:37:10,399 --> 00:37:15,259 dying and without ever worrying about anything else, you get all of God forever. 806 00:37:15,560 --> 00:37:17,089 Let's pray and we'll go to small groups. 807 00:37:18,620 --> 00:37:20,660 God, we are thankful for you. 808 00:37:20,660 --> 00:37:22,260 We're thankful that you've made a way for us. 809 00:37:22,895 --> 00:37:26,735 To be at peace with you, that we can be, um, part of your family 810 00:37:26,735 --> 00:37:28,115 instead of being under your wrath. 811 00:37:28,115 --> 00:37:32,375 So I pray that you help us right now to, um, focus and ask good questions 812 00:37:32,375 --> 00:37:35,855 and to be honest, and to respect our leaders and respect each other. 813 00:37:36,335 --> 00:37:41,345 Um, I pray that you help us to be excited about you, to enjoy you, to 814 00:37:41,375 --> 00:37:44,525 see you for who you are, um, and to trust you and take you at your word. 815 00:37:44,585 --> 00:37:45,425 We pray this in Jesus name. 816 00:37:45,725 --> 00:37:46,025 Amen.