1 00:00:00,050 --> 00:00:03,259 Speaker: I want you to imagine, I want you to imagine that you. 2 00:00:03,800 --> 00:00:05,629 Um, maybe you don't have to imagine this. 3 00:00:05,750 --> 00:00:09,290 Imagine that your sibling, maybe your brother or your sister 4 00:00:09,620 --> 00:00:11,059 gets away with everything. 5 00:00:12,020 --> 00:00:13,010 They get away with everything. 6 00:00:13,190 --> 00:00:14,629 They never get in trouble for anything. 7 00:00:14,629 --> 00:00:14,929 They do. 8 00:00:15,800 --> 00:00:21,860 Imagine that they get away with all sorts of stuff, and you know it, that, that 9 00:00:21,890 --> 00:00:25,789 they're guilty, that they do all this bad stuff and your parents have no clue. 10 00:00:26,420 --> 00:00:30,045 And then imagine you, you get older, you grow up, you're, you're like at. 11 00:00:30,859 --> 00:00:35,120 This is the fun part about, about having like an adult, like adult to 12 00:00:35,120 --> 00:00:38,000 adult relationship with your parents is you get to like, tell them things and 13 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:39,080 they can't get you in trouble for it. 14 00:00:39,080 --> 00:00:40,580 You're like, oh yeah, did you know that I used to do this? 15 00:00:40,580 --> 00:00:41,269 And they're like, what? 16 00:00:41,269 --> 00:00:42,140 You did what? 17 00:00:42,619 --> 00:00:43,699 Anyway, it's really fun. 18 00:00:43,759 --> 00:00:48,860 But, um, imagine that you're hanging out with your, with your parents and 19 00:00:48,860 --> 00:00:52,039 your sibling who used to get away with everything and he tells, he finally 20 00:00:52,039 --> 00:00:56,660 tells your parents, Hey, you know what, mom and dad, this is what I did for. 21 00:00:57,019 --> 00:00:58,640 18 years living in your house. 22 00:00:58,640 --> 00:00:59,450 This is what I did. 23 00:00:59,599 --> 00:01:02,929 I did all these things and they're like, oh, it's okay. 24 00:01:02,929 --> 00:01:03,440 We forgive you. 25 00:01:04,940 --> 00:01:10,730 You'd be like, seriously, after all the groundings I got, after all the timeouts 26 00:01:10,730 --> 00:01:13,520 you put me in after all the times you took away my stuff or what all the 27 00:01:13,520 --> 00:01:17,539 times you disciplined me, you're just gonna say, I forgive you and move on. 28 00:01:18,860 --> 00:01:20,449 You would be so upset. 29 00:01:20,449 --> 00:01:21,470 You'd be like, that's not fair. 30 00:01:21,770 --> 00:01:25,490 You can't just let them off and let, let have 'em have no consequences 31 00:01:25,639 --> 00:01:29,780 after their whole life of disobeying, after their whole life of, of 32 00:01:29,780 --> 00:01:30,859 doing things behind your back. 33 00:01:30,889 --> 00:01:33,320 I got in trouble for all this stuff and they're not, that's not fair. 34 00:01:33,500 --> 00:01:34,309 That's not okay. 35 00:01:36,289 --> 00:01:43,519 Tonight I want you guys to see the biggest problem in the history of the world, which 36 00:01:43,519 --> 00:01:46,699 is very similar to the scenario that I just gave you, which might not be that. 37 00:01:47,404 --> 00:01:51,755 Imaginary for some of you, but the biggest problem in the history of 38 00:01:51,755 --> 00:01:59,195 the world is that God, for thousands of years just forgave people 39 00:02:01,624 --> 00:02:02,974 and nothing bad happened to them. 40 00:02:04,505 --> 00:02:04,714 Right? 41 00:02:04,714 --> 00:02:09,663 Think about maybe some, some king in, in Israel, there's a king named Manasseh. 42 00:02:09,815 --> 00:02:10,894 He's a terrible king. 43 00:02:10,894 --> 00:02:13,984 His whole life, he's, he's literally murdering children and 44 00:02:13,984 --> 00:02:15,695 sacrificing them to false God. 45 00:02:16,655 --> 00:02:18,305 At the end of his life, he repents. 46 00:02:18,305 --> 00:02:19,565 He says, I was wrong. 47 00:02:19,685 --> 00:02:20,585 I shouldn't have done that. 48 00:02:20,915 --> 00:02:22,085 I'm gonna follow God now. 49 00:02:22,295 --> 00:02:22,924 And guess what? 50 00:02:24,394 --> 00:02:25,234 He gets to go to heaven. 51 00:02:27,695 --> 00:02:28,655 That should bother you. 52 00:02:29,195 --> 00:02:29,495 God. 53 00:02:29,495 --> 00:02:30,695 Why don't you do something about that? 54 00:02:31,385 --> 00:02:33,454 He doesn't suffer any consequences for his actions. 55 00:02:33,454 --> 00:02:35,674 He doesn't have any punishment for his sin. 56 00:02:35,765 --> 00:02:37,685 He just gets forgiven and goes to heaven. 57 00:02:38,644 --> 00:02:39,454 That should bother. 58 00:02:40,745 --> 00:02:43,894 That's the biggest problem in the history of the world because, and in fact, a 59 00:02:43,894 --> 00:02:47,375 lot of people feel that today, a lot of the most common objection you'll 60 00:02:47,375 --> 00:02:51,454 get to Christianity is if God is good, why does he let bad things happen? 61 00:02:51,935 --> 00:02:54,815 Why does he let bad people get away with the bad things that they do? 62 00:02:54,815 --> 00:02:56,375 Why does nothing bad happen to them? 63 00:02:57,155 --> 00:02:57,995 Isn't God a good judge? 64 00:02:57,995 --> 00:02:58,685 Doesn't God care? 65 00:02:58,714 --> 00:03:00,515 Why doesn't God do something about it? 66 00:03:00,515 --> 00:03:04,415 Just like you might say, mom and dad, why don't you do something about my sibling? 67 00:03:05,015 --> 00:03:07,055 You can't just forgive them and let them go. 68 00:03:08,180 --> 00:03:12,290 Tonight, what we're gonna see is that the only reason, the only 69 00:03:12,290 --> 00:03:16,760 reason that God can forgive anyone is not just because he is nice. 70 00:03:16,880 --> 00:03:18,290 It's not just because he's kind. 71 00:03:18,290 --> 00:03:20,060 It's not just because he's merciful. 72 00:03:20,120 --> 00:03:22,160 It's because of Jesus. 73 00:03:22,400 --> 00:03:27,200 Jesus is the only reason that it's okay for God to forgive sinners. 74 00:03:28,160 --> 00:03:32,329 The only reason, because otherwise God would be a really bad judge. 75 00:03:33,620 --> 00:03:33,860 Right? 76 00:03:33,860 --> 00:03:35,810 If he just, if you just say, imagine if someone just. 77 00:03:36,770 --> 00:03:40,190 Even think about some recent scenarios at, at, maybe at your, 78 00:03:40,370 --> 00:03:44,450 at schools or in the news lately, someone murdered someone, right? 79 00:03:44,450 --> 00:03:47,780 We had a, there was a high schooler, I think a year ago who got stabbed, right? 80 00:03:50,420 --> 00:03:53,240 And then we're just supposed to say, oh, that guy's forgiven. 81 00:03:53,899 --> 00:03:58,399 If, if that, if that murderer who, if he repents and puts his faith in 82 00:03:58,399 --> 00:04:01,550 Jesus, that guy's forgiven, God's gonna forgive him and let him go. 83 00:04:02,630 --> 00:04:05,000 God's not gonna punish him for, for killing someone else. 84 00:04:06,440 --> 00:04:13,880 That bothers us because it's exposing this problem that God just forgives 85 00:04:13,880 --> 00:04:17,329 people apparently, apart from Jesus. 86 00:04:17,390 --> 00:04:21,290 Jesus is the only, only way that this all works. 87 00:04:21,320 --> 00:04:24,080 For God to forgive you, your sin has to be paid for. 88 00:04:24,500 --> 00:04:26,570 God just can't ignore sin and forgive it. 89 00:04:26,960 --> 00:04:29,510 He has to do something about it. 90 00:04:30,424 --> 00:04:34,025 So far in the book of Romans, I've showed you this slide before. 91 00:04:34,145 --> 00:04:35,705 This is what we've seen, right? 92 00:04:35,705 --> 00:04:39,185 We've seen that God should punish people's sin. 93 00:04:39,664 --> 00:04:41,645 We all want God to punish people's sin, right? 94 00:04:41,765 --> 00:04:44,914 When someone cuts you off, when you're driving, when someone gets 95 00:04:44,914 --> 00:04:47,765 away with something that you don't like, you want God to do something 96 00:04:47,765 --> 00:04:50,044 about it or on a bigger level, right? 97 00:04:50,315 --> 00:04:52,294 When bad things happen, you want God to fix them. 98 00:04:54,065 --> 00:04:57,005 When things are wrong with the world, you want God to fix them, and so we can all 99 00:04:57,005 --> 00:04:58,265 agree that we want God to punish them. 100 00:04:58,760 --> 00:05:03,739 We want God to do, to do what he's supposed to do to, to fix the things 101 00:05:03,739 --> 00:05:05,539 that are wrong with the world. 102 00:05:06,409 --> 00:05:08,930 But the problem, right, is that we're part of the problem. 103 00:05:09,620 --> 00:05:13,280 The problem for us is that if we want God to, to get rid of all the bad stuff in the 104 00:05:13,280 --> 00:05:15,020 world, guess who He's gonna get rid of? 105 00:05:15,859 --> 00:05:17,240 Me and you, right? 106 00:05:17,240 --> 00:05:17,900 Because we're sinners. 107 00:05:18,109 --> 00:05:19,310 We fall short. 108 00:05:19,310 --> 00:05:21,109 No one is righteous. 109 00:05:21,140 --> 00:05:24,979 God is a good judge, and because he is a good judge, he has to 110 00:05:24,979 --> 00:05:26,330 punish everyone's sin, not just. 111 00:05:26,705 --> 00:05:29,255 Other people's sin, he's to punish our sin too. 112 00:05:31,114 --> 00:05:37,683 So in order for God to forgive us, he has to punish our sin, and he 113 00:05:37,683 --> 00:05:41,344 has to, we need, we need perfect righteousness to be forgiven. 114 00:05:41,405 --> 00:05:45,275 We can't just be kind of good because we already established right that, that 115 00:05:45,275 --> 00:05:46,804 no one's good, no one's good enough. 116 00:05:46,895 --> 00:05:49,683 Everyone falls short of God's perfect standard. 117 00:05:50,104 --> 00:05:53,433 So we need our sin to be paid for and we need perfect righteousness. 118 00:05:53,554 --> 00:05:54,244 We need to be good enough. 119 00:05:56,495 --> 00:05:59,105 That is what we're gonna call justification. 120 00:05:59,284 --> 00:06:01,025 That's a fancy church word that you probably heard before. 121 00:06:01,295 --> 00:06:02,435 But justification. 122 00:06:02,615 --> 00:06:07,805 That is the when God gives you perfect righteousness, and we're 123 00:06:07,805 --> 00:06:10,115 gonna learn all about how that works. 124 00:06:10,115 --> 00:06:14,285 We don't have any righteousness, so we need someone to give it to us, and 125 00:06:14,285 --> 00:06:17,525 that's what tonight's passage is all about, how God made a way to forgive 126 00:06:17,525 --> 00:06:21,995 sinners while still being a good judge, while still punishing their sin. 127 00:06:22,385 --> 00:06:22,535 Right? 128 00:06:22,535 --> 00:06:23,735 God forgave me. 129 00:06:24,275 --> 00:06:27,605 Even though all the bad things I've done and he punished all 130 00:06:27,605 --> 00:06:31,655 of the bad things I did and will do, he doesn't just let them go. 131 00:06:31,805 --> 00:06:32,555 He punishes them. 132 00:06:32,555 --> 00:06:33,695 He just doesn't punish me for them. 133 00:06:33,845 --> 00:06:39,515 He punishes someone else and he gives me the righteousness that 134 00:06:39,515 --> 00:06:43,895 I need to be counted as, as not just innocent, but good enough. 135 00:06:44,165 --> 00:06:46,385 I'm so that's how justification. 136 00:06:47,555 --> 00:06:50,675 How God can forgive sinners while still being a good judge. 137 00:06:50,675 --> 00:06:52,715 So look at verses 21 through 26. 138 00:06:52,715 --> 00:06:55,745 I probably should have split this up into more verses, so if it's too 139 00:06:55,745 --> 00:06:57,575 small, read along in your Bible. 140 00:06:57,575 --> 00:07:01,175 So I'm just gonna summarize it and explain it and then we're gonna break it down. 141 00:07:01,205 --> 00:07:01,505 Okay? 142 00:07:01,685 --> 00:07:04,205 So read along with me, verse 21. 143 00:07:04,355 --> 00:07:07,025 But now, right, we're at a big turning point in the book of Romans. 144 00:07:07,025 --> 00:07:09,695 We've, Paul just said, no one's good enough. 145 00:07:10,355 --> 00:07:13,534 Verse 20 said, by works of the law, no one will be justified. 146 00:07:13,865 --> 00:07:14,640 No one is righteous. 147 00:07:15,724 --> 00:07:18,784 Verse 21, but now the righteousness of God, right? 148 00:07:18,784 --> 00:07:22,115 The fact that God is a good judge has been manifested. 149 00:07:22,145 --> 00:07:24,844 That word manifested means something different in the Bible than what you 150 00:07:24,844 --> 00:07:27,724 might think it means when you hear the word manifested in our culture, right? 151 00:07:27,724 --> 00:07:31,085 That's like someone is making something happen or they're speaking something 152 00:07:31,085 --> 00:07:33,340 to existence manifested in the Bible just means it's been revealed. 153 00:07:33,859 --> 00:07:36,080 Something that was hidden, you couldn't see it super clearly. 154 00:07:36,260 --> 00:07:36,979 Now it's revealed. 155 00:07:37,130 --> 00:07:39,650 So when you see the word manifested, the righteousness of God has 156 00:07:39,650 --> 00:07:41,960 been revealed apart from the law. 157 00:07:42,140 --> 00:07:46,760 So not just that God condemns sin, that's one way God shows he's righteous, right? 158 00:07:47,270 --> 00:07:50,058 And we know that God is a good judge because he says the bad things are 159 00:07:50,058 --> 00:07:52,250 bad and he does something about them. 160 00:07:52,429 --> 00:07:57,859 That's one way we know God is righteous, but it's also been shown another way. 161 00:07:58,400 --> 00:08:00,469 And the law and the prophets bear witness to it. 162 00:08:00,469 --> 00:08:00,835 They talk about it. 163 00:08:01,505 --> 00:08:02,615 Here's how that happens. 164 00:08:02,615 --> 00:08:06,935 Verse 22, the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus 165 00:08:06,935 --> 00:08:09,245 Christ, for all who believe. 166 00:08:10,055 --> 00:08:13,175 So God says, okay, you don't have any righteousness. 167 00:08:13,175 --> 00:08:13,595 Guess what? 168 00:08:14,375 --> 00:08:15,935 I'm gonna make it available to you. 169 00:08:17,135 --> 00:08:19,715 I'm gonna make the righteousness that you need available. 170 00:08:19,955 --> 00:08:22,205 That's what verse 22 is saying, and we'll continue on. 171 00:08:22,235 --> 00:08:23,555 There is no distinction. 172 00:08:23,585 --> 00:08:28,055 Verse 23, everyone has sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. 173 00:08:28,115 --> 00:08:28,835 Everyone. 174 00:08:29,209 --> 00:08:31,219 Doesn't measure up to God's perfect standard. 175 00:08:31,309 --> 00:08:35,419 Everyone's guilty, but just like everyone's in the same boat in 176 00:08:35,419 --> 00:08:40,459 terms of our, our punishment, our condemnation, everyone also can be 177 00:08:40,880 --> 00:08:44,510 saved the same way, anyone, right? 178 00:08:44,510 --> 00:08:47,270 Because we talked about a lot about Jews and gentiles before anyone 179 00:08:47,270 --> 00:08:49,880 and are justified by his grace. 180 00:08:49,880 --> 00:08:52,670 Verse 24 as a gift through the redemption. 181 00:08:52,730 --> 00:08:56,420 That means what Jesus did, he, he bought us back from sin. 182 00:08:57,035 --> 00:08:59,075 Through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus. 183 00:08:59,075 --> 00:09:02,555 Verse 25, whom God put forward as a propitiation. 184 00:09:02,585 --> 00:09:07,715 That's a fancy word we'll talk about later by his blood to be received by faith. 185 00:09:08,735 --> 00:09:14,255 So God did something about our guilt by sending Jesus to die. 186 00:09:14,645 --> 00:09:15,725 That's what this verse is talking about. 187 00:09:15,995 --> 00:09:19,565 This was to show God's righteousness, verse 25, continuing on. 188 00:09:19,565 --> 00:09:23,615 So the whole point of this is to show that God is a good judge still, even 189 00:09:23,615 --> 00:09:26,255 though he's forgiving people, even though he's not punishing people for their sin. 190 00:09:27,454 --> 00:09:28,355 He's still a good judge. 191 00:09:28,385 --> 00:09:32,045 Even though he's letting people go, he's still a good judge because in his 192 00:09:32,045 --> 00:09:34,324 divine forbearance, that means patience. 193 00:09:34,655 --> 00:09:36,905 He passed over former sins, right? 194 00:09:36,905 --> 00:09:40,235 We talked about in the Old Testament when someone sinned, if they 195 00:09:40,235 --> 00:09:41,584 ended up in heaven, what happened? 196 00:09:42,094 --> 00:09:43,084 Why did God let him go to heaven? 197 00:09:43,564 --> 00:09:44,824 Why did God let Abraham go to heaven? 198 00:09:44,975 --> 00:09:46,324 Why did God let David go to heaven? 199 00:09:46,594 --> 00:09:48,185 Why did God let Joseph go to heaven? 200 00:09:48,875 --> 00:09:49,475 They all sinned. 201 00:09:49,714 --> 00:09:50,675 Why did he let them go to heaven? 202 00:09:51,454 --> 00:09:52,685 He ignored their sin. 203 00:09:53,165 --> 00:09:53,495 Why? 204 00:09:54,005 --> 00:09:54,725 Why is that okay? 205 00:09:55,250 --> 00:09:57,290 That's the problem that this passage is solving. 206 00:09:57,620 --> 00:09:58,280 Verse 26. 207 00:09:58,430 --> 00:10:02,060 It was to show his righteousness at the present time so that he might be 208 00:10:02,060 --> 00:10:03,710 just so that God could be righteous. 209 00:10:03,949 --> 00:10:07,970 And the justifier, the one who makes people righteous of the one 210 00:10:07,970 --> 00:10:09,590 who has faith in Christ Jesus. 211 00:10:09,590 --> 00:10:11,510 So God makes specific types of people righteous, the 212 00:10:11,510 --> 00:10:14,150 ones who have faith in Jesus. 213 00:10:15,079 --> 00:10:18,829 So tonight we're gonna see three things that you need to know about justification. 214 00:10:19,430 --> 00:10:22,819 And if you don't understand these things, you probably aren't a Christian. 215 00:10:23,360 --> 00:10:24,500 I'm just gonna say that very clearly. 216 00:10:24,650 --> 00:10:27,260 If you don't understand these things, you're probably not a Christian 217 00:10:27,980 --> 00:10:32,870 because you don't understand how God can forgive you, and you might not 218 00:10:32,870 --> 00:10:34,580 even believe that God can forgive you. 219 00:10:34,760 --> 00:10:36,650 So that's why these things are so important, okay? 220 00:10:36,800 --> 00:10:39,170 Usually the points are things that I want you to do tonight. 221 00:10:39,170 --> 00:10:42,120 It's just things I want you to know because these things are so essential to, 222 00:10:42,890 --> 00:10:45,170 to you trusting God to forgive your sin. 223 00:10:45,200 --> 00:10:47,210 Okay, so how exactly. 224 00:10:47,615 --> 00:10:48,245 Does this work? 225 00:10:48,275 --> 00:10:51,785 Well, the first thing I want you to see from this passage is that justification is 226 00:10:51,785 --> 00:10:57,935 about God, the point of justification, the point of God giving people righteousness. 227 00:10:57,964 --> 00:11:02,405 That's what justification means, is actually to show us something about God. 228 00:11:02,855 --> 00:11:06,694 Remember, way back in one of our first sermons from Romans, we talked about how 229 00:11:06,694 --> 00:11:08,885 the gospel shows us something about God. 230 00:11:09,725 --> 00:11:11,255 The gospel shows us who God is. 231 00:11:12,485 --> 00:11:15,605 Justification does the same thing. 232 00:11:18,800 --> 00:11:21,560 We talked about the big problem in this passage, right? 233 00:11:22,610 --> 00:11:24,650 It's even a problem if you just read the Bible. 234 00:11:26,030 --> 00:11:29,120 Proverbs 1715, this is God's word. 235 00:11:29,569 --> 00:11:34,610 God says, someone who justifies the wicked and condemns the righteous. 236 00:11:34,610 --> 00:11:37,610 So in Proverbs, usually there's like a parallel when you're reading it. 237 00:11:38,120 --> 00:11:39,709 I'll go on this side so you guys can see better. 238 00:11:40,130 --> 00:11:43,579 In Proverbs, usually there's like a parallel, so you can read it parallel. 239 00:11:43,579 --> 00:11:45,140 So you can say, okay, justifies. 240 00:11:45,589 --> 00:11:48,050 Versus condemns, wicked versus righteous. 241 00:11:48,050 --> 00:11:49,099 So those things are parallel. 242 00:11:49,250 --> 00:11:50,449 So these are opposites, right? 243 00:11:50,599 --> 00:11:54,020 So the righteous is the opposite of the wicked. 244 00:11:54,110 --> 00:11:57,230 So that means condemn is the opposite of justify, right? 245 00:11:57,709 --> 00:12:00,709 So if you're not sure what justify means, it's the opposite of condemn. 246 00:12:01,339 --> 00:12:03,500 So this is to say someone's guilty. 247 00:12:03,740 --> 00:12:05,120 This is to say someone's righteous. 248 00:12:05,329 --> 00:12:05,750 You're good 249 00:12:07,790 --> 00:12:13,430 if you say that bad people are good and that good people are bad. 250 00:12:14,675 --> 00:12:16,385 You're an abomination to the Lord. 251 00:12:17,045 --> 00:12:18,035 God hates that. 252 00:12:19,565 --> 00:12:20,555 That's what God is saying. 253 00:12:21,395 --> 00:12:22,145 Now, guess what? 254 00:12:22,145 --> 00:12:24,575 God also says later on in Romans, we'll see this in a couple weeks. 255 00:12:25,745 --> 00:12:28,715 God justifies the ungodly. 256 00:12:31,445 --> 00:12:32,345 You see the problem here? 257 00:12:33,755 --> 00:12:36,785 The Old Testament says that if you justify the wicked, you're 258 00:12:36,785 --> 00:12:37,805 an abomination to the Lord. 259 00:12:38,255 --> 00:12:41,405 Guess what God does throughout all of human history? 260 00:12:42,680 --> 00:12:43,910 Justify ungodly people. 261 00:12:45,590 --> 00:12:46,460 That's a big problem. 262 00:12:47,210 --> 00:12:48,140 How can God do that? 263 00:12:48,170 --> 00:12:52,580 How can God say, yeah, I hate it when people say that wicked people are 264 00:12:52,580 --> 00:12:56,720 righteous when you get rid of all their sin and just say, you're, you're fine. 265 00:12:57,860 --> 00:12:59,960 But at the same time, he says that, that's what I do. 266 00:13:00,170 --> 00:13:01,220 That's how I forgive people. 267 00:13:01,225 --> 00:13:03,890 That's everyone's an ungodly person. 268 00:13:04,220 --> 00:13:06,350 Everyone's unrighteous, but I justify them. 269 00:13:06,770 --> 00:13:07,190 So how? 270 00:13:07,190 --> 00:13:08,210 How can God do that? 271 00:13:08,210 --> 00:13:11,360 That's the problem I want you to see in these verses. 272 00:13:13,219 --> 00:13:14,390 So justification is about God. 273 00:13:14,420 --> 00:13:17,180 Well look back at our passage. 274 00:13:17,180 --> 00:13:17,510 Okay? 275 00:13:18,860 --> 00:13:21,829 I want you to see verses the second half of 25. 276 00:13:21,829 --> 00:13:25,130 Starting with this, you see that this was to show God's righteousness 277 00:13:26,089 --> 00:13:30,275 again, because in his divine patience, he passed over a former sin. 278 00:13:30,275 --> 00:13:30,770 He ignored them. 279 00:13:30,770 --> 00:13:31,490 He didn't punish them. 280 00:13:32,209 --> 00:13:32,689 Why? 281 00:13:32,810 --> 00:13:37,430 To show his righteousness so that he might be the just and the justifier. 282 00:13:37,459 --> 00:13:41,064 So God punished Jesus for all the sins that he ignored. 283 00:13:43,100 --> 00:13:48,740 All, all the, all of Abraham's sins, all of David's sins, all of Solomon's sins, 284 00:13:49,130 --> 00:13:53,390 all of Isaiah's sins, all of Jacob's sins, all of Joseph's sins, all of Moses's sins. 285 00:13:53,930 --> 00:13:54,830 God didn't do anything about 'em. 286 00:13:55,070 --> 00:13:59,060 He didn't send them to hell, but he punished Jesus for their sins. 287 00:13:59,060 --> 00:14:00,290 So God is still a good judge. 288 00:14:01,160 --> 00:14:04,670 Jesus said, I'll take the punishment for Moses' sin. 289 00:14:06,260 --> 00:14:08,210 That's how God can say, you know what, Moses, it's fine. 290 00:14:09,650 --> 00:14:10,250 Your sin. 291 00:14:10,790 --> 00:14:13,040 You rejected me, you turned from me. 292 00:14:13,250 --> 00:14:15,229 You're scared of things that, that weren't me. 293 00:14:16,790 --> 00:14:19,550 I'm gonna ignore your sin because I know that Jesus is gonna pay for it. 294 00:14:20,839 --> 00:14:23,989 It's kinda like, you know how credit cards work versus debit cards. 295 00:14:24,800 --> 00:14:27,199 When you, when you pay for something with a debit card, it comes 296 00:14:27,199 --> 00:14:28,069 outta your account right away. 297 00:14:29,209 --> 00:14:32,510 When you pay for something with a credit card, it comes outta your account later. 298 00:14:32,775 --> 00:14:39,560 So like Moses, his sin was punished later on. 299 00:14:39,560 --> 00:14:40,010 Jesus. 300 00:14:40,340 --> 00:14:40,700 Right? 301 00:14:41,000 --> 00:14:41,120 Yep. 302 00:14:41,180 --> 00:14:44,360 Our sin was already punished on Jesus. 303 00:14:44,900 --> 00:14:50,120 If you forgive him, so Old Testament people before Jesus. 304 00:14:50,330 --> 00:14:51,530 How did Jesus pay for their sin? 305 00:14:51,620 --> 00:14:53,510 Well, it was like a credit card, right? 306 00:14:54,260 --> 00:14:58,400 Jesus paid for their sin way after they already did it, but God knew, right? 307 00:14:58,400 --> 00:15:00,170 'cause God made time. 308 00:15:00,170 --> 00:15:01,010 God exists outside of time. 309 00:15:01,130 --> 00:15:03,350 He can say, okay, I know Moses, you're sinning right now. 310 00:15:03,380 --> 00:15:05,240 I know David, you're sinning right now. 311 00:15:05,300 --> 00:15:05,750 But guess what? 312 00:15:05,750 --> 00:15:07,040 I'm gonna punish Jesus for that sin. 313 00:15:07,070 --> 00:15:07,860 'cause you trust me. 314 00:15:09,064 --> 00:15:10,444 So that's how God can do that. 315 00:15:10,505 --> 00:15:13,175 He can pass over former sins, sins. 316 00:15:13,204 --> 00:15:18,635 In the past, God has to punish sin, right? 317 00:15:18,635 --> 00:15:24,275 In fact, he, he had to kill Jesus to punish your sin and my sin. 318 00:15:24,755 --> 00:15:26,135 That's how big of a deal sin is to God. 319 00:15:26,824 --> 00:15:29,314 God is not gonna let any sin go unpunished. 320 00:15:29,375 --> 00:15:32,885 Every single sin committed in all of history is punished. 321 00:15:33,694 --> 00:15:37,630 Every Christian sin, every non-believer sin is punished. 322 00:15:39,410 --> 00:15:43,820 God takes sin very seriously, and hopefully that's helpful for you to 323 00:15:43,820 --> 00:15:47,000 know that God's not gonna let anyone get away with their sin, even if you 324 00:15:47,000 --> 00:15:47,870 think they're getting away with it. 325 00:15:47,900 --> 00:15:50,570 Even if your sibling or that person at school is cheating on tests 326 00:15:50,570 --> 00:15:53,600 and they never get caught, God's gonna punish them for their sin. 327 00:15:54,410 --> 00:15:57,350 But I hope also that helps you see your sin, but God is not 328 00:15:57,350 --> 00:15:59,690 gonna let any of your sin go. 329 00:15:59,840 --> 00:16:02,630 He either is gonna punish you for it, or you trust Jesus and 330 00:16:02,630 --> 00:16:04,040 he's gonna punish Jesus for it. 331 00:16:05,840 --> 00:16:07,175 But also what I want you to see is that. 332 00:16:07,745 --> 00:16:09,574 Forgiveness is God's idea. 333 00:16:10,055 --> 00:16:11,675 You see that in these verses. 334 00:16:12,755 --> 00:16:18,844 God had always planned to make a way to forgive people. 335 00:16:21,155 --> 00:16:22,954 God wasn't like, oh man, people sin. 336 00:16:23,405 --> 00:16:24,125 What should I do about it? 337 00:16:25,954 --> 00:16:28,145 I'm, I guess I'll have to figure out a way to forgive them. 338 00:16:28,895 --> 00:16:30,725 God planned, okay. 339 00:16:31,025 --> 00:16:31,895 I love people. 340 00:16:31,895 --> 00:16:34,594 I wanna show people how forgiving I am, how gracious I am. 341 00:16:35,495 --> 00:16:37,415 I wanna show people how merciful and patient I am. 342 00:16:37,775 --> 00:16:39,185 So God created. 343 00:16:39,185 --> 00:16:40,415 God invented forgiveness. 344 00:16:40,415 --> 00:16:41,045 Isn't that crazy? 345 00:16:41,735 --> 00:16:44,795 You like, you realize that forgiveness didn't exist and then God was 346 00:16:44,795 --> 00:16:45,814 like, here's what we're gonna do. 347 00:16:46,865 --> 00:16:47,824 We're gonna forgive people. 348 00:16:48,064 --> 00:16:51,125 And that was like the first time anyone had ever thought about forgiving someone. 349 00:16:51,965 --> 00:16:52,564 Isn't that crazy? 350 00:16:53,105 --> 00:16:55,385 And the reason that that you and I can know what forgiveness 351 00:16:55,385 --> 00:16:56,165 is, is because of God. 352 00:16:57,635 --> 00:17:00,814 God introduced the idea of forgiveness, which is so cool, right? 353 00:17:01,655 --> 00:17:04,984 Like no one would think of forgiveness if it wasn't for God. 354 00:17:06,275 --> 00:17:09,635 No one would think of reconciliation and, and two people working 355 00:17:09,635 --> 00:17:13,655 something out and, and being patient and kind and, and compassionate. 356 00:17:13,925 --> 00:17:16,714 If it wasn't for God, God invented forgiveness. 357 00:17:16,925 --> 00:17:17,615 It's God's idea. 358 00:17:17,645 --> 00:17:20,944 He's, he's so loving, he made this way to forgive people. 359 00:17:20,944 --> 00:17:23,885 'cause hopefully what you've seen from Romans one through three is 360 00:17:23,885 --> 00:17:25,145 that God doesn't have to forgive us. 361 00:17:25,145 --> 00:17:25,444 Right? 362 00:17:27,185 --> 00:17:31,175 A lot of people say, well, how can A, how can God not save everyone? 363 00:17:32,345 --> 00:17:34,115 The real question is, why does God save anyone? 364 00:17:35,150 --> 00:17:36,920 God has no obligation to save anyone. 365 00:17:38,390 --> 00:17:42,890 God doesn't even have to share the gospel with anyone because everyone's guilty. 366 00:17:43,010 --> 00:17:43,250 Right? 367 00:17:43,250 --> 00:17:46,910 There's no obligation for God to make a way for us to be saved. 368 00:17:47,960 --> 00:17:50,240 But he did it because He's loving, because he cares. 369 00:17:50,810 --> 00:17:51,890 He wants to save people. 370 00:17:53,420 --> 00:17:54,950 He doesn't have to, but he wanted to. 371 00:17:55,550 --> 00:17:57,830 So the real question is not why doesn't God save everyone? 372 00:17:57,830 --> 00:17:59,330 It's why did God save even one person? 373 00:17:59,720 --> 00:18:00,470 Because he didn't have to do that. 374 00:18:01,010 --> 00:18:03,135 But he decided that he wanted to do that 'cause he loves people. 375 00:18:06,575 --> 00:18:09,425 But I also, when we think about justification, is about God, I want you 376 00:18:09,425 --> 00:18:14,195 to remember that forgiveness is about God. 377 00:18:15,275 --> 00:18:17,945 Forgiveness is about getting God. 378 00:18:19,085 --> 00:18:21,605 It's not about getting to heaven. 379 00:18:23,525 --> 00:18:27,815 I remember I probably told you guys before, I remember one time, um, someone 380 00:18:27,815 --> 00:18:31,055 asked me, if you got to heaven and Jesus wasn't there, would you be happy? 381 00:18:33,715 --> 00:18:36,200 If you got to heaven and Jesus wasn't there, would you be okay with that? 382 00:18:37,370 --> 00:18:38,750 And I think that'll do a lot to show you. 383 00:18:38,750 --> 00:18:41,390 Do I just want, do I want Jesus or do I just want His stuff? 384 00:18:43,370 --> 00:18:45,470 Do I really love Jesus and wanna be with Jesus? 385 00:18:45,650 --> 00:18:48,620 Or do I just want all the benefits of Jesus and I don't really care about Jesus? 386 00:18:50,030 --> 00:18:52,280 The point of forgiveness is that you get God. 387 00:18:53,180 --> 00:18:54,080 Your sins are gone. 388 00:18:54,080 --> 00:18:54,350 Now. 389 00:18:54,350 --> 00:18:57,170 You can have a relationship with God now you can be adopted by God. 390 00:18:57,290 --> 00:19:02,660 Now God, and and God loves you and you experience His, his care as a, as a son 391 00:19:02,660 --> 00:19:05,420 or a daughter, and you experience his forgiveness and his grace, that's the 392 00:19:05,420 --> 00:19:07,310 point of forgiveness is you get God. 393 00:19:08,180 --> 00:19:10,880 It's not that you get, oh, I'm not guilty anymore. 394 00:19:11,150 --> 00:19:12,290 I get to go to heaven. 395 00:19:12,320 --> 00:19:13,970 Sure, that's great, but you get God. 396 00:19:13,970 --> 00:19:16,190 That's the best part about forgiveness. 397 00:19:17,630 --> 00:19:19,340 One person, he put it like this is. 398 00:19:19,745 --> 00:19:24,455 Is forgiveness about what God gives to you or what God is to you. 399 00:19:25,265 --> 00:19:27,095 Who God is to you is God. 400 00:19:27,275 --> 00:19:28,385 Your treasure is God. 401 00:19:28,385 --> 00:19:29,495 Your joy is God. 402 00:19:29,765 --> 00:19:31,175 Your your friend is God. 403 00:19:31,175 --> 00:19:34,235 Your Father is God, is God. 404 00:19:34,235 --> 00:19:37,025 Your the, the prize of your life, right? 405 00:19:40,535 --> 00:19:44,465 Don't just make forgiveness about getting God's stuff and not going to Hell. 406 00:19:45,815 --> 00:19:46,745 We talked about that before. 407 00:19:46,745 --> 00:19:47,825 That's like someone dating you. 408 00:19:47,855 --> 00:19:48,400 'cause they don't wanna be single. 409 00:19:49,805 --> 00:19:50,435 That stinks. 410 00:19:51,035 --> 00:19:51,875 Don't do that to God. 411 00:19:54,665 --> 00:19:58,535 And something else that's really cool about justification is that no 412 00:19:58,535 --> 00:20:01,325 other religion has this type of idea. 413 00:20:02,375 --> 00:20:07,295 I remember one time I was talking to a Muslim and he was telling me that 414 00:20:07,715 --> 00:20:10,445 Allah is just, he's a good judge. 415 00:20:10,445 --> 00:20:11,165 He punished his sin. 416 00:20:11,585 --> 00:20:12,365 Allah hates sin. 417 00:20:13,655 --> 00:20:16,265 And I was asking, well, how do you know that you're gonna go to heaven 418 00:20:16,325 --> 00:20:18,125 if, if your God hates sin so much. 419 00:20:18,800 --> 00:20:23,000 And the whole point of his religion was that he was hoping that he could do enough 420 00:20:23,000 --> 00:20:28,400 good things so that hopefully he, he's good enough because Allah can't forgive 421 00:20:28,400 --> 00:20:30,470 him because Allah has to punish sin. 422 00:20:31,520 --> 00:20:34,220 There's no one for Allah to punish. 423 00:20:34,220 --> 00:20:34,730 Instead of him, 424 00:20:36,860 --> 00:20:37,880 he has to punish his sin. 425 00:20:38,330 --> 00:20:42,140 Every other religion is just designed for you to make up for your. 426 00:20:43,430 --> 00:20:44,780 That's what every other religion is about. 427 00:20:45,020 --> 00:20:47,900 Every other religion is about you making up for your sin. 428 00:20:47,900 --> 00:20:50,660 You do enough good things, you follow enough rules, you check enough 429 00:20:50,660 --> 00:20:53,090 boxes, you make up for your sin, and then God will be happy with you 430 00:20:53,090 --> 00:20:54,590 and, and maybe lets you into heaven. 431 00:20:55,400 --> 00:20:56,390 That's every other religion. 432 00:20:57,020 --> 00:21:01,940 No other religion is your acceptance by God based on someone else, 433 00:21:04,035 --> 00:21:09,980 and that's why no other religion can, can give you the certainty that you are saved. 434 00:21:11,480 --> 00:21:14,090 It's up to you and you're fallible, you're imperfect. 435 00:21:14,120 --> 00:21:15,350 You don't do the right thing all the time. 436 00:21:16,550 --> 00:21:20,540 No other religion can come up with something like this 'cause no other 437 00:21:20,540 --> 00:21:22,400 religion was made by God, right? 438 00:21:22,610 --> 00:21:23,840 God is a genius. 439 00:21:24,680 --> 00:21:29,960 I hope you see just how intricate this plan is, that God is just, but God 440 00:21:30,440 --> 00:21:34,035 punishes sin, but he punishes someone else for your sin so that you can be forgiven. 441 00:21:34,745 --> 00:21:35,945 You can be counted righteous. 442 00:21:35,945 --> 00:21:39,725 You can get Jesus righteousness and be counted as righteous and as like you 443 00:21:39,725 --> 00:21:42,065 did nothing wrong and everything right. 444 00:21:43,535 --> 00:21:44,645 God is a genius. 445 00:21:44,645 --> 00:21:45,815 Only God can come up with that plan. 446 00:21:46,445 --> 00:21:49,085 No other manmade religion has come up with anything like that. 447 00:21:51,635 --> 00:21:56,825 So we talk a lot about justification, but how exactly does it work? 448 00:21:56,885 --> 00:21:59,135 I just realized that I should have shown you these verses earlier. 449 00:21:59,165 --> 00:21:59,770 That would've helped you a lot. 450 00:22:00,530 --> 00:22:01,490 But that's okay. 451 00:22:01,790 --> 00:22:05,210 Second point, I want you to see that justification is because of Jesus. 452 00:22:06,230 --> 00:22:07,850 Justification is because of Jesus. 453 00:22:07,850 --> 00:22:09,050 So justification is about God. 454 00:22:09,290 --> 00:22:12,230 The point of of God's plan of salvation is that it shows 455 00:22:12,230 --> 00:22:13,370 that he's still a good judge. 456 00:22:13,400 --> 00:22:19,490 It preserves his integrity as God, but also justification is because of Jesus. 457 00:22:19,490 --> 00:22:22,730 Now, this might seem like something that you feel like you already knew, 458 00:22:24,710 --> 00:22:26,630 but here's what I want you to see. 459 00:22:26,660 --> 00:22:27,245 Okay, we'll look at verses. 460 00:22:28,475 --> 00:22:29,915 Starting at the end of verse 22. 461 00:22:30,065 --> 00:22:32,825 Okay, so there's no distinction. 462 00:22:34,085 --> 00:22:37,385 Everyone's sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. 463 00:22:38,465 --> 00:22:39,815 That word falls short. 464 00:22:39,815 --> 00:22:41,885 You can also say like, we lack God's glory. 465 00:22:42,785 --> 00:22:44,675 We devalue God, right? 466 00:22:44,675 --> 00:22:47,525 We all say, God, I'd rather have fill in the blank than you. 467 00:22:47,615 --> 00:22:48,845 That's sin, right? 468 00:22:48,845 --> 00:22:51,935 We talked all about that these past couple months of what sin is. 469 00:22:51,935 --> 00:22:53,195 Sin is really about God. 470 00:22:53,915 --> 00:22:56,945 Sin isn't about you doing bad things to other people or you hurting people. 471 00:22:57,350 --> 00:23:00,050 Sin primarily is an offense against God. 472 00:23:00,140 --> 00:23:01,820 It's, it's loving something else more than God. 473 00:23:01,820 --> 00:23:04,610 It's saying, God, I'd rather have this stuff than you God. 474 00:23:04,610 --> 00:23:06,740 I'd rather have this reputation than you God. 475 00:23:06,740 --> 00:23:09,230 I'd rather be this type of person than have you. 476 00:23:09,380 --> 00:23:09,890 That's sin. 477 00:23:11,180 --> 00:23:13,430 It's when we prefer something else to God. 478 00:23:15,380 --> 00:23:16,700 So we all lack God's glory. 479 00:23:16,700 --> 00:23:22,790 We all reject God, but at the same time, anyone, verse 24 can be justified. 480 00:23:23,450 --> 00:23:28,070 By his grace as a gift through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus. 481 00:23:28,070 --> 00:23:33,500 You see that the way you get justified is through something that Jesus did. 482 00:23:35,480 --> 00:23:40,850 Justification being accepted by God and not condemned is through something 483 00:23:40,850 --> 00:23:45,740 that Jesus did, and it's redemption and propitiation, okay, redemption. 484 00:23:46,130 --> 00:23:47,900 That means that Jesus paid for something. 485 00:23:48,770 --> 00:23:50,555 He bought something like when you, you know how you redeem a coupon. 486 00:23:51,545 --> 00:23:53,915 You're like using the coupon to pay for your meal, right? 487 00:23:54,005 --> 00:23:56,795 Like at Chick-fil-A, you redeem your reward, you get your free sandwich 488 00:23:56,825 --> 00:23:58,895 so you don't have to pay for your sandwich anymore 'cause the coupon 489 00:23:58,895 --> 00:24:00,155 paid for your sandwich, right? 490 00:24:00,425 --> 00:24:03,425 Jesus paid for your sandwich, right? 491 00:24:03,425 --> 00:24:10,025 You owed God a big debt, an infinite debt, not just one sandwich, and he paid for it. 492 00:24:10,175 --> 00:24:11,465 That's what redemption means. 493 00:24:12,845 --> 00:24:16,055 And propitiation, that's a fun word. 494 00:24:17,015 --> 00:24:20,370 I should have made this bigger, but you know that meme with the soldier. 495 00:24:21,125 --> 00:24:27,125 Um, protecting that like sleeping kid from the, um, the stuff. 496 00:24:27,125 --> 00:24:27,365 Let's see. 497 00:24:27,395 --> 00:24:28,625 Can I edit this on the fly? 498 00:24:29,075 --> 00:24:29,555 I can't. 499 00:24:30,755 --> 00:24:32,075 That's propitiation. 500 00:24:32,285 --> 00:24:32,705 Okay. 501 00:24:35,015 --> 00:24:38,345 God's wrath hits Jesus instead of you. 502 00:24:38,345 --> 00:24:38,585 Have you? 503 00:24:38,585 --> 00:24:39,755 Has anyone seen this meme before? 504 00:24:40,475 --> 00:24:40,745 No. 505 00:24:40,745 --> 00:24:41,765 You've never seen this meme? 506 00:24:41,945 --> 00:24:42,035 I have. 507 00:24:42,935 --> 00:24:43,745 Thank you, Caleb. 508 00:24:44,525 --> 00:24:45,935 One person has seen this meme. 509 00:24:46,985 --> 00:24:48,005 Now you've all seen it, so this. 510 00:24:48,575 --> 00:24:50,495 I'm kind of shocked that no one's seen this meme. 511 00:24:50,525 --> 00:24:54,245 Anyway, basically what's happening, right, is so people 512 00:24:54,245 --> 00:24:56,885 would use this meme as like, um, 513 00:24:59,105 --> 00:24:59,585 let's see. 514 00:25:00,725 --> 00:25:02,315 I don't know, but anyway, you get the meme, right? 515 00:25:02,315 --> 00:25:03,065 I don't have to explain this to you. 516 00:25:03,065 --> 00:25:03,695 You guys are young. 517 00:25:04,565 --> 00:25:05,975 I'm not teaching adults right now. 518 00:25:06,335 --> 00:25:09,035 Um, I heard this one. 519 00:25:09,155 --> 00:25:13,445 Church staff, they, their youth director sits down with the staff 520 00:25:13,445 --> 00:25:18,185 once a week and explains like some slang or like meme to them every week. 521 00:25:19,040 --> 00:25:20,960 Um, which I'd be terrible at. 522 00:25:21,110 --> 00:25:24,830 But anyway, I don't have to do that with you guys, hopefully. 523 00:25:25,070 --> 00:25:26,000 But here's the point, right? 524 00:25:26,000 --> 00:25:30,920 God's wrath is supposed to hit you, but instead it hits Jesus, right? 525 00:25:30,920 --> 00:25:32,660 Propitiation, that's what that means. 526 00:25:32,870 --> 00:25:34,100 It means it's like a sponge. 527 00:25:34,130 --> 00:25:35,690 Wrath absorber, right? 528 00:25:35,990 --> 00:25:38,390 Jesus soaked up God's wrath for you. 529 00:25:38,720 --> 00:25:40,850 That's what propitiation means. 530 00:25:42,200 --> 00:25:45,980 Now, some people would say that this is overkill, right? 531 00:25:46,775 --> 00:25:49,235 Some people would say that, why did God have to kill his son? 532 00:25:49,535 --> 00:25:51,725 Just because I, you know, no one's perfect. 533 00:25:53,105 --> 00:25:55,805 And that's when we talk about what's what's sin, right? 534 00:25:55,805 --> 00:25:57,155 Sin is a big deal. 535 00:25:57,965 --> 00:25:59,285 Sin isn't just messing up. 536 00:25:59,285 --> 00:26:02,885 Sin isn't just, oh, well, yeah, I'm not as good as I should be, 537 00:26:03,125 --> 00:26:04,745 or sometimes I do the wrong thing. 538 00:26:04,745 --> 00:26:05,645 Or sometimes I'm selfish. 539 00:26:06,875 --> 00:26:13,295 Sin is rejecting the most amazing person in the world, right? 540 00:26:13,300 --> 00:26:13,550 You're saying? 541 00:26:14,240 --> 00:26:18,590 You're telling the the most valuable, the most awesome, the most glorious 542 00:26:19,310 --> 00:26:21,170 thing person that's ever existed. 543 00:26:21,920 --> 00:26:22,160 Yeah. 544 00:26:22,160 --> 00:26:23,540 I'd rather have this than you. 545 00:26:25,010 --> 00:26:26,360 That's what sin is, right? 546 00:26:26,600 --> 00:26:28,040 It's a big deal. 547 00:26:28,460 --> 00:26:29,420 This isn't overkill. 548 00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:36,860 This is actually the only way you can remove your sin is 549 00:26:37,160 --> 00:26:38,150 Jesus has to take it away. 550 00:26:38,660 --> 00:26:39,260 You can't do it. 551 00:26:41,060 --> 00:26:43,880 Nothing you do can take away your sin. 552 00:26:44,825 --> 00:26:46,385 Does anyone have to read Macbeth in school? 553 00:26:47,705 --> 00:26:48,005 No. 554 00:26:48,125 --> 00:26:49,835 Yes, Adam has to. 555 00:26:49,865 --> 00:26:50,615 No one else has to. 556 00:26:50,645 --> 00:26:50,795 Okay. 557 00:26:50,795 --> 00:26:51,935 I won't even talk about Macbeth then. 558 00:26:52,715 --> 00:26:54,725 Um, whatever. 559 00:26:54,725 --> 00:26:55,385 It's this book. 560 00:26:55,415 --> 00:26:59,255 There's this lady, she kills someone and she imagines that there's blood 561 00:26:59,255 --> 00:27:03,425 on her hands because she feels guilty and she can't get it off. 562 00:27:03,725 --> 00:27:05,765 'cause it's in her brain, not actually on her hands. 563 00:27:05,885 --> 00:27:06,665 She can't get it off. 564 00:27:06,815 --> 00:27:11,105 And so she goes crazy because she can't get rid of her guilt. 565 00:27:13,280 --> 00:27:16,970 There's a lot of ways that we try to cover up our guilt, right? 566 00:27:16,970 --> 00:27:22,190 Maybe we try to do better next time, or maybe we just wait and, or we bury it. 567 00:27:22,490 --> 00:27:24,590 Or maybe we compare, we say, I'm not as bad as that person. 568 00:27:24,920 --> 00:27:27,650 Or, well, yeah, I know I'm a sinner, but those people over there are worse. 569 00:27:28,730 --> 00:27:30,635 Or maybe we rationalize it. 570 00:27:30,635 --> 00:27:33,260 We say, well, I did it because of X, Y, and Z. 571 00:27:33,260 --> 00:27:33,470 Right? 572 00:27:33,500 --> 00:27:36,560 Well, well, I said those words because this person did this to me 573 00:27:36,890 --> 00:27:40,400 or I, I, well, if the Bible was more interesting, I would love God more. 574 00:27:41,135 --> 00:27:43,625 If sermons were better, then I would, then I would do it. 575 00:27:43,625 --> 00:27:46,985 Or if I could, you know, if, if God appeared to me, then I, 576 00:27:47,045 --> 00:27:48,185 then I would become a Christian. 577 00:27:48,365 --> 00:27:49,925 We rationalize your sin, or we just give up. 578 00:27:49,925 --> 00:27:52,595 We say, I'm not, I'm, I'm not good enough and I'm just gonna go sin. 579 00:27:54,605 --> 00:27:57,845 There's all these different ways that we try to get rid of our sin, right? 580 00:27:57,845 --> 00:27:58,835 We try to drown it out. 581 00:27:59,045 --> 00:28:00,005 We try to make up for it. 582 00:28:00,005 --> 00:28:00,815 We try to do better. 583 00:28:01,595 --> 00:28:04,085 We try to say, well fill in the blank. 584 00:28:04,715 --> 00:28:08,075 The only way you can get rid of your sin is trusting Jesus. 585 00:28:09,530 --> 00:28:12,680 Jesus is the only person who can get rid of your sin because you don't have 586 00:28:12,680 --> 00:28:14,420 enough money to pay the debt you owe. 587 00:28:14,420 --> 00:28:14,690 God. 588 00:28:16,280 --> 00:28:17,000 You're not good enough. 589 00:28:17,240 --> 00:28:17,900 You can't do it. 590 00:28:20,210 --> 00:28:24,530 But also you need Jesus perfect righteousness. 591 00:28:25,280 --> 00:28:28,100 That's why Jesus didn't show up on Palm Sunday and then die on 592 00:28:28,100 --> 00:28:29,420 the cross the next, the next week. 593 00:28:29,420 --> 00:28:30,650 Have you ever thought about that? 594 00:28:31,040 --> 00:28:34,340 Why did Jesus have to appear and like be born and then live 595 00:28:34,340 --> 00:28:35,810 like a full life and then die? 596 00:28:37,070 --> 00:28:41,120 Because Jesus had to earn a spot in heaven for people like me and you. 597 00:28:41,270 --> 00:28:42,050 'cause we can't do it. 598 00:28:42,620 --> 00:28:46,010 We're not good enough because righteous is different than innocent, right? 599 00:28:46,610 --> 00:28:50,840 Innocent just means, okay, great you, you didn't do anything wrong. 600 00:28:51,650 --> 00:28:53,360 Righteous means you did everything right. 601 00:28:54,860 --> 00:28:57,020 You did everything that God expected you to do. 602 00:28:57,020 --> 00:28:57,560 Think about that. 603 00:28:57,680 --> 00:29:00,260 Think about all the things that God asks you to do or commands 604 00:29:00,260 --> 00:29:01,610 you to do that you don't do. 605 00:29:02,945 --> 00:29:04,895 Not just all the things you do wrong, but think about all the thing, all 606 00:29:04,895 --> 00:29:08,555 the, all the ways you should love people, even just what love of 607 00:29:08,555 --> 00:29:09,905 Lord your God with all your heart. 608 00:29:11,765 --> 00:29:14,885 That's a lot of not loving God that, that I haven't done right? 609 00:29:16,625 --> 00:29:22,415 Jesus gives us perfect righteousness and we can't add anything or 610 00:29:23,105 --> 00:29:30,455 take anything away from it, and this is where justification is. 611 00:29:30,455 --> 00:29:30,515 So. 612 00:29:31,265 --> 00:29:33,305 Important that you don't try to take credit for it, 613 00:29:35,885 --> 00:29:40,175 because even as a Christian, sometimes we try to take credit 614 00:29:40,235 --> 00:29:42,005 for what Jesus did, right? 615 00:29:42,005 --> 00:29:46,235 Like of course God would save me, or well, yeah, I'm a Christian 616 00:29:46,235 --> 00:29:49,715 and I started doing all these good things, and then here we go. 617 00:29:50,285 --> 00:29:51,785 We try to, to take credit. 618 00:29:51,845 --> 00:29:56,645 Maybe sometimes for what Jesus did, I wish I had to add to it like, well, God 619 00:29:56,645 --> 00:29:59,495 saved me because of Jesus and because look at all the good things I've done. 620 00:30:01,085 --> 00:30:02,525 No, that's, that's not how that works. 621 00:30:02,555 --> 00:30:03,395 Gotta say 'cause of Jesus. 622 00:30:03,395 --> 00:30:07,085 Even if you do a lot of really good things for God, right? 623 00:30:07,445 --> 00:30:09,755 I don't know what's happening over there, but try to focus please. 624 00:30:09,845 --> 00:30:10,145 Okay. 625 00:30:13,685 --> 00:30:14,225 Also, 626 00:30:17,705 --> 00:30:20,135 justification is so important for you. 627 00:30:20,345 --> 00:30:23,315 If you are a Christian, it's easy to think, well, I got saved. 628 00:30:23,615 --> 00:30:24,395 Jesus made me righteous. 629 00:30:24,425 --> 00:30:24,755 Cool. 630 00:30:25,085 --> 00:30:25,865 Move on with my life. 631 00:30:26,405 --> 00:30:27,125 Now I just live for. 632 00:30:30,620 --> 00:30:38,960 Justification fuels all of your growth in godliness, because if you think 633 00:30:38,960 --> 00:30:43,700 about it, all of all of your sin, even as a Christian, is you searching for 634 00:30:43,700 --> 00:30:46,490 something to make you good enough, right? 635 00:30:46,490 --> 00:30:50,120 The reason that you, you want, you covet and you want, oh, I wish I had 636 00:30:50,120 --> 00:30:53,360 those clothes, or I wish I looked like that, or, I wish I was that talented, 637 00:30:53,360 --> 00:30:54,270 or I wish I could do that thing. 638 00:30:55,595 --> 00:31:00,485 Because you think once I get that, that'll be, that'll I'll be good enough. 639 00:31:00,635 --> 00:31:01,355 I'll, I'll make it. 640 00:31:01,985 --> 00:31:04,715 Or once those people like me, or once I get that relationship, or once I get 641 00:31:04,715 --> 00:31:07,445 into this school or get these grades, or once I'm able to drive, or once 642 00:31:07,445 --> 00:31:10,025 this happens, then I'll be good enough. 643 00:31:11,135 --> 00:31:14,645 Or once I get to do those things, then I'll be happy. 644 00:31:15,785 --> 00:31:19,265 There's a lot of things that we turn to to, to fill us up, right? 645 00:31:20,135 --> 00:31:22,200 Even any sin. 646 00:31:23,735 --> 00:31:24,965 Is related to that. 647 00:31:24,965 --> 00:31:25,415 So 648 00:31:28,265 --> 00:31:34,625 I hope you see that justification is not just for the unbelievers in the room. 649 00:31:34,715 --> 00:31:40,625 I hope if you're a Christian in this room, you see that all of life is relevant to 650 00:31:41,735 --> 00:31:43,475 whether Jesus makes me good enough or not. 651 00:31:45,245 --> 00:31:46,775 One person, he, he put it like this. 652 00:31:46,865 --> 00:31:48,350 He asked what would it look like? 653 00:31:49,520 --> 00:31:54,620 If you went through this coming week fully justified not needing any further 654 00:31:54,620 --> 00:32:00,260 ratification or approval from any person or accomplishment, what would 655 00:32:00,260 --> 00:32:03,260 that look like if you didn't feel the need to, to get those people to laugh 656 00:32:04,430 --> 00:32:05,600 so that you feel good about yourself? 657 00:32:06,230 --> 00:32:08,480 What would it look like if you felt like, oh, I don't have to impress 658 00:32:08,480 --> 00:32:12,410 those people or live up to their expectations because I know that I'm 659 00:32:12,410 --> 00:32:14,300 accepted by God because of Jesus? 660 00:32:15,200 --> 00:32:15,890 That would change a lot. 661 00:32:19,265 --> 00:32:24,635 So justification is more than just for, okay, I got saved. 662 00:32:24,635 --> 00:32:25,805 Now I can put it in a box and leave it. 663 00:32:27,305 --> 00:32:33,035 It's for Christians too, but for salvation. 664 00:32:33,755 --> 00:32:38,315 Essentially what it comes down to is this right is God has what 665 00:32:38,315 --> 00:32:39,845 we need and we don't deserve. 666 00:32:40,025 --> 00:32:41,105 That is righteousness. 667 00:32:41,945 --> 00:32:42,995 God is perfect. 668 00:32:43,175 --> 00:32:43,520 God is holy. 669 00:32:44,150 --> 00:32:45,110 God has righteousness. 670 00:32:45,200 --> 00:32:48,530 We need that and we don't deserve it, God. 671 00:32:50,180 --> 00:32:51,440 So God has those things, right? 672 00:32:51,440 --> 00:32:52,190 God has righteousness. 673 00:32:52,190 --> 00:32:52,700 We need it. 674 00:32:52,910 --> 00:32:53,540 We don't deserve it. 675 00:32:53,960 --> 00:32:57,410 We have sin, and that's what God hates and rejects. 676 00:32:59,150 --> 00:33:02,690 So the way that this works is there's an exchange that happens. 677 00:33:03,530 --> 00:33:04,370 God has righteousness. 678 00:33:04,400 --> 00:33:05,780 We need it, but we don't deserve it. 679 00:33:06,080 --> 00:33:06,830 We have sin. 680 00:33:06,860 --> 00:33:07,490 God hates it. 681 00:33:08,690 --> 00:33:11,780 So what happens is God says, here, I'll take your sin and I'll put it on Jesus 682 00:33:12,350 --> 00:33:13,550 and I'll give you my righteousness. 683 00:33:13,910 --> 00:33:14,480 Jesus earned. 684 00:33:16,760 --> 00:33:20,750 That's how propitiation works, right? 685 00:33:20,750 --> 00:33:22,490 You get Christ's righteousness. 686 00:33:23,030 --> 00:33:24,020 He gets your sin. 687 00:33:24,350 --> 00:33:29,120 You get treated like Jesus did, and he gets treated like you should have been. 688 00:33:29,870 --> 00:33:32,960 He suffers God wrath, God's wrath for you. 689 00:33:33,380 --> 00:33:36,080 Now, you might be thinking, well, because of that, doesn't that just 690 00:33:36,080 --> 00:33:38,060 mean everyone goes to heaven, right? 691 00:33:38,060 --> 00:33:39,980 If you just died for everyone, that doesn't everyone go to heaven. 692 00:33:40,010 --> 00:33:41,270 Well, here's. 693 00:33:42,590 --> 00:33:45,860 The thing is this justification, right? 694 00:33:45,860 --> 00:33:51,199 Jesus righteousness applied to you has to be received a certain way, right? 695 00:33:51,199 --> 00:33:53,179 Just because Jesus died doesn't mean everyone goes to heaven. 696 00:33:54,080 --> 00:33:56,330 How do you get that applied to you? 697 00:33:56,780 --> 00:33:59,780 How do you get connected to what Jesus did? 698 00:34:00,020 --> 00:34:00,199 Right? 699 00:34:00,199 --> 00:34:01,040 That's the question we're asking. 700 00:34:01,040 --> 00:34:03,260 Well, that's what Paul talks about here. 701 00:34:03,949 --> 00:34:05,600 He says that everyone is sinned, right? 702 00:34:05,600 --> 00:34:06,290 Everyone's guilty. 703 00:34:06,409 --> 00:34:09,290 We've all sinned, but we are. 704 00:34:09,800 --> 00:34:12,530 Justified by his grace as a gift. 705 00:34:13,250 --> 00:34:15,590 So it's a gift and it comes by grace. 706 00:34:16,070 --> 00:34:16,940 How do we get it? 707 00:34:17,060 --> 00:34:18,980 We receive that gift by faith. 708 00:34:20,270 --> 00:34:22,580 So how do I get this gift of justification? 709 00:34:22,610 --> 00:34:26,480 Well, you can't deserve it and you can't buy it. 710 00:34:27,110 --> 00:34:29,179 You can't buy a gift for yourself. 711 00:34:29,300 --> 00:34:29,960 That's not a gift. 712 00:34:30,440 --> 00:34:31,550 And you can't earn it. 713 00:34:31,580 --> 00:34:32,480 You can't work for it. 714 00:34:33,440 --> 00:34:34,280 So how do you get it? 715 00:34:34,460 --> 00:34:36,830 Well, you have to get it by faith. 716 00:34:37,355 --> 00:34:43,114 So our third point tonight, justification is a gift received by faith. 717 00:34:51,784 --> 00:34:52,804 So how does this work? 718 00:34:53,195 --> 00:34:56,105 If, if Jesus can really give me his righteousness and he can 719 00:34:56,105 --> 00:34:59,555 really take my sin away, how do that, how does that happen? 720 00:34:59,705 --> 00:35:01,385 How do I get that to happen to me? 721 00:35:03,065 --> 00:35:04,715 That's the question we're asking here. 722 00:35:07,940 --> 00:35:12,920 So the first thing that we saw, right, is that it happens. 723 00:35:13,550 --> 00:35:16,040 It's, it's a, it's by grace, right? 724 00:35:16,160 --> 00:35:22,370 That means that it's, it's not deserved in the sense of it doesn't make sense 725 00:35:24,530 --> 00:35:28,700 if something happens by grace, it means, oh yeah, that really 726 00:35:28,700 --> 00:35:29,990 shouldn't have happened that way. 727 00:35:32,060 --> 00:35:32,540 Some things. 728 00:35:33,665 --> 00:35:34,265 Undeserved. 729 00:35:34,265 --> 00:35:36,245 It's not because of anything you did. 730 00:35:37,325 --> 00:35:38,765 It wasn't because you were so good. 731 00:35:38,885 --> 00:35:41,765 It wasn't because you were born in a certain place or just certain parents. 732 00:35:41,945 --> 00:35:47,855 It wasn't because God just thought you would be so awesome if he saved you. 733 00:35:47,885 --> 00:35:49,805 'cause then you would do all these awesome things for him. 734 00:35:50,585 --> 00:35:51,935 It has nothing to do with you. 735 00:35:52,955 --> 00:35:53,795 It's undeserved. 736 00:35:53,825 --> 00:35:54,515 That's what that means. 737 00:35:56,495 --> 00:35:59,045 So part of receiving this gift of justification means 738 00:35:59,045 --> 00:35:59,975 you have to recognize that. 739 00:35:59,975 --> 00:36:00,665 You have to admit that. 740 00:36:01,235 --> 00:36:02,015 You have to say, I. 741 00:36:02,615 --> 00:36:03,365 I don't deserve it. 742 00:36:03,695 --> 00:36:04,625 I shouldn't get this. 743 00:36:04,865 --> 00:36:10,685 There's nothing about me that makes God have to do this for me. 744 00:36:11,015 --> 00:36:12,905 That's what it's, that's what undeserved means. 745 00:36:13,715 --> 00:36:15,065 There's nothing about me that deserves it. 746 00:36:16,445 --> 00:36:19,985 It's also a gift, which means it's unwinnable, right? 747 00:36:19,985 --> 00:36:25,565 You can't earn a gift because if you, if you worked for it, then 748 00:36:25,565 --> 00:36:27,305 God would owe it to you, right? 749 00:36:28,295 --> 00:36:30,665 God would you would, you would deserve it from God. 750 00:36:30,665 --> 00:36:30,980 You would earn it. 751 00:36:32,015 --> 00:36:34,175 God would be like in your debt, so to speak, right? 752 00:36:34,565 --> 00:36:37,745 Because if you work for someone and they say they're gonna pay you, then 753 00:36:38,285 --> 00:36:41,375 you're in, they're actually in your debt 'cause they owe you money, right? 754 00:36:41,495 --> 00:36:44,525 If you worked for your salvation God, God would be in your debt and 755 00:36:44,525 --> 00:36:46,835 he would have to owe you salvation for the good things that you did. 756 00:36:47,525 --> 00:36:49,715 But you can't put God in debt, right? 757 00:36:49,715 --> 00:36:52,055 God owns everything God made you. 758 00:36:52,085 --> 00:36:53,315 You can't put God in debt. 759 00:36:54,035 --> 00:37:00,705 So you have to give up any claim or sense that, that God owes this to me. 760 00:37:01,430 --> 00:37:04,970 You can't say, well God, I did all these things for you, so you have to forgive me. 761 00:37:06,440 --> 00:37:07,580 That's what it means, that it's a gift. 762 00:37:07,970 --> 00:37:09,800 You can't say, God, you better do this for me. 763 00:37:11,330 --> 00:37:14,090 You can't get mad at God for not doing it for you because it's a gift. 764 00:37:17,570 --> 00:37:19,400 It's kinda like when I, so I used to work at Chick-fil-A. 765 00:37:20,120 --> 00:37:22,730 Do you guys ever this ever happen to you when someone pays for your food, 766 00:37:22,730 --> 00:37:24,050 like in front of you in the drive-thru? 767 00:37:25,160 --> 00:37:27,950 So at Chick-fil-A, I guess people feel nicer when they go to Chick-fil-A. 768 00:37:28,460 --> 00:37:30,740 Um, it's probably 'cause we say my pleasure all the time. 769 00:37:31,250 --> 00:37:33,050 But they would pay for the people. 770 00:37:33,050 --> 00:37:34,670 Sometimes people would pay for the someone behind them, right? 771 00:37:34,670 --> 00:37:36,500 They'd be like, oh, can I pay for that car behind these meal? 772 00:37:36,680 --> 00:37:38,420 And then that person would be like, oh, they paid for my meal. 773 00:37:38,420 --> 00:37:39,770 I'm gonna pay for that person behind me. 774 00:37:40,280 --> 00:37:40,460 Right? 775 00:37:40,460 --> 00:37:41,240 You ever seen these things? 776 00:37:41,300 --> 00:37:42,590 We got some like pretty long list. 777 00:37:42,590 --> 00:37:44,990 It was really fun at Chick-fil-A, someone would be like, and then there's that one 778 00:37:44,990 --> 00:37:46,340 person that's like, oh no, I won't do it. 779 00:37:46,340 --> 00:37:50,720 And you're like, dude, you're that person that didn't do it anyway. 780 00:37:51,200 --> 00:37:52,940 Or they like pay for the person behind them and it ends up 781 00:37:52,940 --> 00:37:54,560 being like this like big family. 782 00:37:54,560 --> 00:37:57,350 And I always feel bad, but hey, that's what you get for being generous, I guess. 783 00:37:57,350 --> 00:37:57,680 I don't know. 784 00:37:58,040 --> 00:37:59,330 But um. 785 00:38:00,515 --> 00:38:05,795 The whole point of that, right, is it's supposed to show God's love, right? 786 00:38:05,795 --> 00:38:08,465 Because if, if you're driving, if you're in the drive through, you 787 00:38:08,465 --> 00:38:10,355 have no idea who's behind you, right? 788 00:38:10,355 --> 00:38:13,325 There's nothing about them that makes you wanna pay for them. 789 00:38:14,465 --> 00:38:18,185 There's nothing about them that's like, oh yeah, I should do this for them. 790 00:38:19,355 --> 00:38:21,485 You're just doing it because you love them, right? 791 00:38:21,485 --> 00:38:22,415 You have no idea who they are. 792 00:38:22,445 --> 00:38:23,105 You've never met them. 793 00:38:24,005 --> 00:38:26,465 You, maybe they were in the separate lane of the drive through and you 794 00:38:26,465 --> 00:38:27,315 didn't even see them until right now. 795 00:38:28,670 --> 00:38:32,570 But you did it because it's, it's not, they, they didn't deserve it. 796 00:38:32,600 --> 00:38:33,230 They didn't earn it. 797 00:38:33,235 --> 00:38:33,950 It wasn't 'cause anything. 798 00:38:33,950 --> 00:38:34,280 I did. 799 00:38:34,340 --> 00:38:35,300 It wasn't 'cause they worked for you. 800 00:38:35,300 --> 00:38:36,710 It wasn't, you're not paying them back for something. 801 00:38:37,520 --> 00:38:38,090 You just did it. 802 00:38:40,940 --> 00:38:44,900 That's how justification is a gift. 803 00:38:46,340 --> 00:38:49,460 It's not something that, that you say, well, I did this for 804 00:38:49,460 --> 00:38:50,570 God, so he did this for me. 805 00:38:50,720 --> 00:38:52,640 It's not a transaction in that sense. 806 00:38:54,560 --> 00:38:54,800 Right. 807 00:38:54,800 --> 00:38:57,260 You just trust God to do it. 808 00:38:57,725 --> 00:38:58,205 He does it. 809 00:38:58,355 --> 00:39:02,975 It's, it's God's initiated idea for you. 810 00:39:04,235 --> 00:39:05,435 So then how do I get it right? 811 00:39:05,435 --> 00:39:07,535 I have to admit that I, that I don't deserve it. 812 00:39:07,685 --> 00:39:09,005 I have to admit that I can't earn it. 813 00:39:10,265 --> 00:39:10,895 How do I get it? 814 00:39:10,895 --> 00:39:13,685 Well, it's, it's really simple, but it's really hard, right? 815 00:39:14,315 --> 00:39:15,215 It's through faith. 816 00:39:15,215 --> 00:39:17,495 Hopefully you saw that in our passage, right? 817 00:39:18,695 --> 00:39:19,415 It's through faith. 818 00:39:19,445 --> 00:39:20,345 It's received by faith. 819 00:39:20,375 --> 00:39:21,395 It's faith in Jesus. 820 00:39:22,835 --> 00:39:26,015 That's how you get this applied to you. 821 00:39:27,110 --> 00:39:28,430 Now it's simple and it's really hard. 822 00:39:28,430 --> 00:39:29,000 What do I mean by that? 823 00:39:29,030 --> 00:39:33,170 Well, it's, it's hard because you have to acknowledge that you're helpless. 824 00:39:33,230 --> 00:39:34,640 That's what faith is, right? 825 00:39:35,690 --> 00:39:39,530 Faith is acknowledging that that's how it starts, that I can't do this. 826 00:39:40,250 --> 00:39:41,960 And we don't like to admit that, right? 827 00:39:42,950 --> 00:39:47,000 We don't like to admit that we're not, we're helpless. 828 00:39:47,180 --> 00:39:49,190 We can't do anything about arson. 829 00:39:49,820 --> 00:39:50,780 We can't take it away. 830 00:39:50,960 --> 00:39:51,650 We can't hide it. 831 00:39:51,800 --> 00:39:52,700 We can't cover it up. 832 00:39:52,790 --> 00:39:53,660 We can't make up for it. 833 00:39:54,530 --> 00:39:56,240 We can't do anything about our sin. 834 00:40:00,920 --> 00:40:04,970 Someone I was reading this week, they put it this way. 835 00:40:06,140 --> 00:40:11,030 They said that God forgives or they said, God doesn't forgive excuses. 836 00:40:12,980 --> 00:40:17,300 If you try to justify or rationalize your sin, you're, 837 00:40:17,300 --> 00:40:18,590 you're not confessing your sin. 838 00:40:20,510 --> 00:40:22,355 You're, you're making excuses for your. 839 00:40:25,265 --> 00:40:25,805 Faith. 840 00:40:25,805 --> 00:40:29,705 Real faith leads to confession, not excuses. 841 00:40:31,745 --> 00:40:36,095 Really admitting that, Hey, I, I don't deserve God's forgiveness. 842 00:40:36,215 --> 00:40:37,325 I don't deserve God's grace. 843 00:40:37,715 --> 00:40:38,765 I'm guilty of sin. 844 00:40:40,145 --> 00:40:44,915 That type of person isn't gonna confess their sin by saying, God, this person 845 00:40:44,915 --> 00:40:46,475 may be really mad at, I'm really mad. 846 00:40:47,855 --> 00:40:48,665 'cause whose fault is that? 847 00:40:49,145 --> 00:40:49,715 It's not your fault. 848 00:40:49,720 --> 00:40:50,375 It's that person's fault. 849 00:40:50,375 --> 00:40:51,275 They made you mad, right? 850 00:40:54,185 --> 00:40:54,665 Or 851 00:40:56,885 --> 00:41:00,065 the other reason it's hard is we naturally wanna take credit for it, right? 852 00:41:01,685 --> 00:41:04,535 With, when we talk about faith, we naturally want to 853 00:41:04,535 --> 00:41:06,515 say, well, I, I added to this. 854 00:41:07,445 --> 00:41:09,245 It wasn't just Jesus, it was Jesus plus me. 855 00:41:12,365 --> 00:41:18,185 We naturally want to take credit for things, so that's 856 00:41:18,185 --> 00:41:20,015 why it's hard to trust Jesus. 857 00:41:20,870 --> 00:41:24,500 You have to admit that I'm not contributing anything to it. 858 00:41:25,580 --> 00:41:28,280 I'm not adding anything to why I'm saved. 859 00:41:29,390 --> 00:41:30,830 Jesus did a hundred percent of it. 860 00:41:32,480 --> 00:41:34,310 I did 0% of the saving. 861 00:41:36,080 --> 00:41:38,300 There's a famous theologian who said, the only thing you 862 00:41:38,360 --> 00:41:41,870 contribute to your salvation is the sin that made it necessary. 863 00:41:43,250 --> 00:41:46,130 The only thing you add to your salvation is the fact that you 864 00:41:46,130 --> 00:41:47,510 sinned and you needed to be saved. 865 00:41:47,540 --> 00:41:48,320 That's all you. 866 00:41:48,380 --> 00:41:48,995 That's all you did. 867 00:41:50,375 --> 00:41:51,095 This equation, 868 00:41:53,195 --> 00:41:55,145 but it's simple because anyone can do it. 869 00:41:55,460 --> 00:41:56,945 It doesn't matter how smart you are. 870 00:41:58,115 --> 00:41:59,825 It doesn't matter how well you know the Bible. 871 00:42:00,575 --> 00:42:04,265 Doesn't matter how old you are, it doesn't matter who your parents are. 872 00:42:04,265 --> 00:42:08,855 It doesn't matter what you've done because anyone can admit that they're 873 00:42:08,855 --> 00:42:12,395 a sinner and say, I am bankrupt. 874 00:42:12,485 --> 00:42:12,785 Right? 875 00:42:12,875 --> 00:42:15,515 When you play Monopoly, the game's over when you declare bankruptcy. 876 00:42:16,715 --> 00:42:19,835 I, I can't repay all of the, the bills I owe. 877 00:42:19,985 --> 00:42:22,355 'cause I landed on your hotel on Broadway. 878 00:42:23,285 --> 00:42:23,615 Broad. 879 00:42:23,705 --> 00:42:24,425 Was it Broadway? 880 00:42:24,485 --> 00:42:25,145 Boardwalk. 881 00:42:25,145 --> 00:42:25,155 Boardwalk. 882 00:42:25,155 --> 00:42:25,260 Boardwalk. 883 00:42:25,260 --> 00:42:25,660 Boardwalk. 884 00:42:25,775 --> 00:42:30,365 That's clearly, I don't play Monopoly very much, um, because it's 885 00:42:30,515 --> 00:42:31,805 like one of the worst games ever. 886 00:42:32,405 --> 00:42:37,865 Um, 'cause then you start losing, you're losing for like hours and 887 00:42:37,865 --> 00:42:39,395 then you finally get bankrupt. 888 00:42:39,485 --> 00:42:40,025 You know what I mean? 889 00:42:40,025 --> 00:42:41,705 You have to sell all your stuff and it's terrible. 890 00:42:41,735 --> 00:42:45,215 Anyway, um, I don't even know what I was talking about. 891 00:42:46,220 --> 00:42:46,850 Bankruptcy. 892 00:42:46,880 --> 00:42:47,240 Yeah. 893 00:42:47,420 --> 00:42:51,560 So you get the, the first step of faith is declaring bankruptcy. 894 00:42:51,560 --> 00:42:53,570 I, I can't do this. 895 00:42:54,230 --> 00:42:55,640 I can't repay this debt. 896 00:42:57,080 --> 00:42:57,980 Anyone can do that. 897 00:42:59,210 --> 00:42:59,810 So it's simple. 898 00:42:59,810 --> 00:43:00,680 It's very simple. 899 00:43:01,100 --> 00:43:03,050 You say, God, I'm not good enough. 900 00:43:03,110 --> 00:43:04,250 I've disobeyed you. 901 00:43:04,250 --> 00:43:05,180 I've rebelled against you. 902 00:43:05,360 --> 00:43:06,710 I need not just help. 903 00:43:06,710 --> 00:43:07,520 I need saving. 904 00:43:08,600 --> 00:43:10,010 I don't just need you to help me. 905 00:43:10,190 --> 00:43:11,540 I need you to rescue me. 906 00:43:13,010 --> 00:43:14,755 And then you say, Jesus, I need your righteousness. 907 00:43:16,910 --> 00:43:17,930 I'm not good enough. 908 00:43:18,200 --> 00:43:19,400 You need to make me good enough. 909 00:43:21,230 --> 00:43:23,240 And you say, Jesus, I can't get rid of my sin. 910 00:43:23,240 --> 00:43:26,990 You have to take it away, and so I'm gonna depend on you to do that. 911 00:43:30,050 --> 00:43:33,440 Faith isn't just mentally acknowledging that Jesus could save you. 912 00:43:34,820 --> 00:43:39,140 I think a lot of you believe that Jesus could save you, but that 913 00:43:39,140 --> 00:43:42,500 doesn't do you any good, right? 914 00:43:42,530 --> 00:43:44,210 Knowing that the lifeboat's there. 915 00:43:45,080 --> 00:43:48,740 You could get off the ship and get in the lifeboat doesn't help 916 00:43:48,740 --> 00:43:50,060 you if you go down with the ship. 917 00:43:52,280 --> 00:43:54,980 So if, if all you're saying is, yeah, I agree with everything that you said in the 918 00:43:54,980 --> 00:43:57,830 sermon, doesn't mean you're a Christian. 919 00:44:01,010 --> 00:44:02,660 What makes you a Christian is when you, you get in the 920 00:44:02,660 --> 00:44:05,150 boat and you depend on Jesus. 921 00:44:05,150 --> 00:44:06,080 You say, I'm not good enough. 922 00:44:06,350 --> 00:44:06,680 Jesus. 923 00:44:06,680 --> 00:44:10,130 I need you to make me good enough and I trust you to do that. 924 00:44:10,910 --> 00:44:12,900 So let's pray and we'll talk about that more in small group. 925 00:44:15,634 --> 00:44:19,654 God, thank you that you made a way for us to be saved, that you love us enough 926 00:44:20,194 --> 00:44:25,145 to kill your son so that we could be made righteous, so that we could be 927 00:44:25,145 --> 00:44:27,785 accepted by you and not endure your wrath. 928 00:44:27,845 --> 00:44:29,674 And we're so thankful that this is your idea. 929 00:44:29,975 --> 00:44:31,505 We didn't ask for you to do this. 930 00:44:32,315 --> 00:44:35,585 You did this knowing that we would sin. 931 00:44:35,734 --> 00:44:39,484 You actually planned all this before we would even exist. 932 00:44:40,205 --> 00:44:40,535 Um. 933 00:44:41,555 --> 00:44:44,045 I pray that we see your mercy, your your goodness. 934 00:44:44,045 --> 00:44:46,895 I pray that we see that you're worth everything, you're worth 935 00:44:46,895 --> 00:44:48,155 giving up everything for. 936 00:44:48,635 --> 00:44:50,795 Um, and so help us to get to just be clear. 937 00:44:50,795 --> 00:44:54,125 Help us ask good questions, help us to be focused and get a lot 938 00:44:54,125 --> 00:44:55,085 out of our time in small groups. 939 00:44:55,085 --> 00:44:56,195 We pray this in Jesus name. 940 00:44:56,435 --> 00:44:56,765 Amen.