1 00:00:00,600 --> 00:00:03,680 This is City Post Church. We're about three things. 2 00:00:03,960 --> 00:00:07,040 Build equipped and send. All under the. 3 00:00:07,040 --> 00:00:10,240 Lordship of Jesus Christ. A small church plant in Fort 4 00:00:10,240 --> 00:00:12,400 Worth, TX. Who decided to do things a 5 00:00:12,400 --> 00:00:14,640 little differently? Adoramos. 6 00:00:15,000 --> 00:00:18,480 Ajesu Cristo. I love City Post because of the 7 00:00:18,480 --> 00:00:20,480 people. It's where I belong. 8 00:00:20,640 --> 00:00:23,640 We truly preach the Word. I love City Post because of the 9 00:00:23,640 --> 00:00:25,000 community we've been able to build. 10 00:00:25,240 --> 00:00:28,040 To do ministry like Jesus. For light to push back. 11 00:00:28,040 --> 00:00:32,640 Darkness. This is City Post podcast. 12 00:00:38,080 --> 00:00:41,360 Good morning, everybody and. Yeah, like Ray said. 13 00:00:41,360 --> 00:00:44,640 Welcome to the. Summer and I know like. 14 00:00:44,640 --> 00:00:46,960 Soon as summer hit all the teachers, it's like roaches in 15 00:00:46,960 --> 00:00:48,480 the light. It's gone. 16 00:00:48,480 --> 00:00:50,760 Not going to see them for a minute, but it's all. 17 00:00:50,760 --> 00:00:52,000 Right. They deserve that break. 18 00:00:52,480 --> 00:00:54,560 Hey, but welcome guys. I'm glad you made it. 19 00:00:54,560 --> 00:00:56,240 Out today. If you have your Bibles, we're 20 00:00:56,240 --> 00:01:03,480 going to be in Romans chapter 5. Romans chapter 5 and man it is 21 00:01:03,480 --> 00:01:06,400 a. Busy season, lots going on. 22 00:01:06,520 --> 00:01:09,520 Lot of graduations, lots of celebrations, Lots. 23 00:01:09,520 --> 00:01:11,920 Of people. Traveling, vacation and my 24 00:01:11,920 --> 00:01:12,840 prayer. For. 25 00:01:12,840 --> 00:01:16,160 Just a few moments that. We have today that we're able 26 00:01:16,160 --> 00:01:18,160 just to. Focus on what God wants to tell 27 00:01:18,160 --> 00:01:19,320 us. So let me. 28 00:01:19,320 --> 00:01:22,160 Pray for us so, Father I. Just pray for this time 29 00:01:22,160 --> 00:01:23,720 together. Lord, I pray. 30 00:01:23,720 --> 00:01:25,880 That you help me to. Focus God that you. 31 00:01:26,560 --> 00:01:30,040 Just with everything going on that you just helped me to block 32 00:01:30,040 --> 00:01:32,720 things out so that way I could just focus on your word. 33 00:01:32,720 --> 00:01:35,560 I just for a few moments. Lord, I pray that you speak 34 00:01:35,560 --> 00:01:37,360 through me. Father, I pray that all these 35 00:01:37,360 --> 00:01:40,160 things come from You and not myself. 36 00:01:40,640 --> 00:01:43,080 So Jesus, we love. You and we praise you, and we 37 00:01:43,080 --> 00:01:44,360 thank you. And we be and we. 38 00:01:44,360 --> 00:01:46,880 Just pray that you be with those who are out of town right now, 39 00:01:47,400 --> 00:01:50,840 that you keep them safe and bring them back in Jesus name, 40 00:01:50,840 --> 00:01:52,520 Amen. Amen. 41 00:01:52,760 --> 00:01:54,840 All right, let's go ahead and dive into it. 42 00:01:55,480 --> 00:01:57,320 Romans chapter 5. I'm just going to read. 43 00:01:57,320 --> 00:02:01,360 The 1st 2 verses and then we got to talk about this whole. 44 00:02:01,360 --> 00:02:06,200 Idea of being justified, right? So it's pretty, it's a great, 45 00:02:06,920 --> 00:02:08,600 great truth, especially when you talk. 46 00:02:08,600 --> 00:02:09,520 About what? The Gospel. 47 00:02:09,520 --> 00:02:12,600 Message entails. So look at verses. 48 00:02:12,600 --> 00:02:16,520 One and two, it says, and we boast in the hope. 49 00:02:16,520 --> 00:02:19,880 Of the glory of God. What's a long sentence? 50 00:02:19,880 --> 00:02:21,160 Paul. Right. 51 00:02:21,160 --> 00:02:23,160 So let let's talk about this a little bit. 52 00:02:23,280 --> 00:02:24,400 I want to talk a little bit about. 53 00:02:24,400 --> 00:02:27,840 What means to be justified? Now I don't know. 54 00:02:27,840 --> 00:02:30,320 About you guys. But when I'm at home and when 55 00:02:30,320 --> 00:02:32,480 I'm working on something and I'm sitting on my. 56 00:02:32,480 --> 00:02:34,680 Couch I have to have. Something on anybody? 57 00:02:34,680 --> 00:02:38,080 Else like that. Like whether it's music, a a 58 00:02:38,080 --> 00:02:43,960 movie, ATV, show, something and I want to, I want something on 59 00:02:43,960 --> 00:02:46,520 that it's not going to cause me to pay too much attention to. 60 00:02:47,120 --> 00:02:50,240 So it's like reruns or something I've seen 100 times. 61 00:02:50,600 --> 00:02:53,920 So the other day. As as I was doing some reading 62 00:02:53,920 --> 00:02:56,800 and some research, you know I throw on The Dark Knight. 63 00:02:57,080 --> 00:02:59,120 That's my go to. Rach would agree with me. 64 00:02:59,480 --> 00:03:02,760 And I was watching. The Dark Knight Rises. 65 00:03:03,240 --> 00:03:06,680 And as I'm watching this movie, if you guys are not familiar, it 66 00:03:06,680 --> 00:03:09,680 came out 20. 12 as I'm. Watching this movie, it's not 67 00:03:09,680 --> 00:03:13,080 just Batman versus Bane. There's another character in 68 00:03:13,080 --> 00:03:18,400 there and her name is Catwoman and Catwoman in this movie. 69 00:03:18,400 --> 00:03:21,480 She has a little bit of a. Different plot line. 70 00:03:22,160 --> 00:03:24,840 She's after something called the clean slate. 71 00:03:25,920 --> 00:03:27,400 You know anything coming back to you all? 72 00:03:27,960 --> 00:03:29,400 You're like, I've never even seen this movie. 73 00:03:29,440 --> 00:03:30,880 It's alright, it came out in 2012. 74 00:03:30,880 --> 00:03:33,960 You only catch up, right? There's this thing that she's. 75 00:03:33,960 --> 00:03:37,400 After and it's called the. Clean slate and and pretty much 76 00:03:37,400 --> 00:03:39,440 what the whole premise. Of this is is that. 77 00:03:39,600 --> 00:03:42,040 She lived the kind of. Past that has caught up to her 78 00:03:42,040 --> 00:03:44,800 present. And because her past. 79 00:03:44,800 --> 00:03:46,000 Caught up to her. Present. 80 00:03:46,160 --> 00:03:49,960 It's actually impacting her. Future SO. 81 00:03:49,960 --> 00:03:52,440 In her mind, it's. Like if I could just. 82 00:03:52,440 --> 00:03:55,880 Get my hands on the clean. Slate, It'll take away all. 83 00:03:55,880 --> 00:03:58,280 Of my past. It'll it'll give me a fresh 84 00:03:58,280 --> 00:04:01,680 start. And I'll be able to continue. 85 00:04:01,680 --> 00:04:04,920 To live the future. That I want because right now my 86 00:04:04,920 --> 00:04:09,760 past is pressing on me and it's causing me to do all these 87 00:04:09,760 --> 00:04:13,200 things. So for Catwoman, the promise is 88 00:04:13,200 --> 00:04:15,560 the clean slate. She's like if I could. 89 00:04:15,600 --> 00:04:20,440 Erase my past, then that's going to put a New Hope in my present, 90 00:04:20,560 --> 00:04:21,880 and it's going to allow me to get. 91 00:04:21,880 --> 00:04:23,480 To the future that I. Imagine. 92 00:04:25,680 --> 00:04:27,760 And I don't know what. Christopher Nolan was thinking, 93 00:04:27,760 --> 00:04:31,880 but he just explained justification and as I'm paying. 94 00:04:31,880 --> 00:04:34,840 Attention and it's like, and then I was like at the gym and 95 00:04:34,840 --> 00:04:38,880 they had an early 2000s playlist and fabulous. 96 00:04:38,880 --> 00:04:41,840 Came on. Right or. 2004. 97 00:04:42,160 --> 00:04:44,880 And this song, like, it's one of my favorite songs, like Breathe. 98 00:04:45,120 --> 00:04:47,960 And as I'm running and I'm listening to it out loud, you 99 00:04:47,960 --> 00:04:51,080 know, in the gym, he says a line that I'm like, bro, that's the 100 00:04:51,080 --> 00:04:52,400 same. I'm like, that makes so much 101 00:04:52,400 --> 00:04:53,960 sense. He says your future. 102 00:04:53,960 --> 00:04:55,720 Looks better than the past when you're present. 103 00:04:55,720 --> 00:04:58,360 With the man. Breathe, right? 104 00:04:58,360 --> 00:05:00,080 I mean like. I was like, man, that makes so 105 00:05:00,160 --> 00:05:02,480 much. Yes, it's it's, it's all about 106 00:05:02,480 --> 00:05:05,360 like your future regardless of your past. 107 00:05:06,560 --> 00:05:09,640 And as I'm, I'm listening to all these things and then I look at 108 00:05:09,640 --> 00:05:11,720 scripture and we look. At what the? 109 00:05:11,720 --> 00:05:18,760 Gospel entails this whole idea of justification is given to us 110 00:05:18,760 --> 00:05:21,840 through Christ. Where Christ looks at us. 111 00:05:21,840 --> 00:05:24,760 When we ask for forgiveness. And we put our faith. 112 00:05:24,760 --> 00:05:30,440 In Him, and then he gives us his righteousness, and we are now 113 00:05:30,440 --> 00:05:35,440 able to stand in front of God, who is the ultimate judge, and 114 00:05:35,440 --> 00:05:37,440 God does not look. At us as a. 115 00:05:37,440 --> 00:05:40,160 Sinful person. He doesn't look at us as an 116 00:05:40,160 --> 00:05:41,320 enemy. He looks. 117 00:05:41,320 --> 00:05:44,680 At us as his. Sons and daughters, that's 118 00:05:44,680 --> 00:05:47,080 justification, and I want to talk. 119 00:05:47,080 --> 00:05:49,640 A little bit about this word because this is so. 120 00:05:49,640 --> 00:05:53,920 Important for us to understand what justification is so real 121 00:05:53,920 --> 00:05:55,280 quickly I want to put. Up a quick. 122 00:05:55,480 --> 00:05:58,480 Definition. We'll put up definition #1 when 123 00:05:58,480 --> 00:05:59,760 you. Look at the Greek. 124 00:05:59,760 --> 00:06:03,680 Instruction of justification in the English translation. 125 00:06:03,840 --> 00:06:07,560 With the the the. Definition is a one time legal 126 00:06:07,560 --> 00:06:12,240 declaration with continuing results, but it's not an ongoing 127 00:06:12,240 --> 00:06:17,120 process, so the ongoing. Process is what we call. 128 00:06:17,200 --> 00:06:20,280 Sanctification, and that's going to be another week. 129 00:06:20,520 --> 00:06:24,040 Right now we're talking about the one time thing that hits. 130 00:06:24,040 --> 00:06:26,120 US, which is called justification. 131 00:06:26,320 --> 00:06:30,720 So when I am justified through my faith in Christ, it is a one 132 00:06:30,720 --> 00:06:33,960 time deal. I don't have to continually. 133 00:06:33,960 --> 00:06:37,000 Go to God and be like OK. God, please find me. 134 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:38,640 Innocent. Please find me innocent. 135 00:06:38,760 --> 00:06:41,640 Please no. He finds you innocent one time 136 00:06:41,720 --> 00:06:43,480 because of Christ, and that's it. 137 00:06:44,600 --> 00:06:46,480 And because he finds you innocent. 138 00:06:46,480 --> 00:06:49,160 Because he sees his Son in you. You don't have to. 139 00:06:49,160 --> 00:06:52,800 Keep doing that. So it's a one time instance, but 140 00:06:52,800 --> 00:06:57,640 it's also an ongoing process. So every time I sin, every time 141 00:06:57,640 --> 00:07:02,480 I fall short in my shortcomings and in my sinful nature, I am 142 00:07:02,760 --> 00:07:04,680 covered. By the blood of Christ. 143 00:07:05,160 --> 00:07:07,960 I am covered by his. Sacrifice so I could go to God 144 00:07:08,560 --> 00:07:09,680 and God. Sees. 145 00:07:09,680 --> 00:07:14,960 Me as innocent, not guilty. That's justification right 146 00:07:14,960 --> 00:07:17,080 there. So what does? 147 00:07:17,080 --> 00:07:19,160 Justification mean even if you look at the Greek. 148 00:07:19,160 --> 00:07:22,720 Words like there's two Greek. Words in scripture because. 149 00:07:22,720 --> 00:07:26,480 Justification and righteousness actually come from the same 150 00:07:26,480 --> 00:07:28,000 meaning. So if you. 151 00:07:28,000 --> 00:07:32,560 Look at justification. It's dichosis, which is the way 152 00:07:32,560 --> 00:07:35,800 that you say it. It's like dichaosis. 153 00:07:35,800 --> 00:07:38,720 There you go, dichaosis. But then if you look at. 154 00:07:38,720 --> 00:07:41,960 Righteousness. Righteousness is dichaos, nae. 155 00:07:43,080 --> 00:07:46,880 So righteousness and justification are coming from 156 00:07:46,880 --> 00:07:50,120 the same language, which mean about the same thing. 157 00:07:50,920 --> 00:07:55,640 So that means that I'm able to stand in front of a judge with 158 00:07:55,640 --> 00:07:57,320 my chest held. High. 159 00:07:57,720 --> 00:08:00,200 Not having to. Worry about the. 160 00:08:00,200 --> 00:08:03,560 Punishment coming down on me. Like some, like some of us, we. 161 00:08:03,560 --> 00:08:05,440 We've had to stand in front. Of a judge before. 162 00:08:05,560 --> 00:08:09,360 And it is nerve racking because I have no idea what's going to 163 00:08:09,360 --> 00:08:12,440 happen and I don't got Johnny Cochran on my side. 164 00:08:13,960 --> 00:08:16,240 So I don't know what the judge is going to do to me. 165 00:08:16,520 --> 00:08:18,000 I don't know what's going to come down. 166 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:21,360 I don't know how they're feeling, what kind of evidence. 167 00:08:21,360 --> 00:08:22,840 I don't know how they feel about that. 168 00:08:22,840 --> 00:08:26,120 Like there's so many things that run through your mind as the 169 00:08:26,120 --> 00:08:28,000 sentence is going to be cast down on you. 170 00:08:28,840 --> 00:08:30,760 So whenever. You're justified. 171 00:08:31,040 --> 00:08:33,880 You're able to. Stand in front of the judge just 172 00:08:33,919 --> 00:08:38,000 and also right rightly, like you're not worried. 173 00:08:38,000 --> 00:08:41,159 You feel confident on what's going to come down on you. 174 00:08:42,200 --> 00:08:45,000 We could even break this down. I like to break down the word 175 00:08:45,000 --> 00:08:46,960 justified as. It's just. 176 00:08:46,960 --> 00:08:51,040 As if I'd never sinned. If you say that word slowly, 177 00:08:51,760 --> 00:08:53,520 right, so Jesus looks at us, we're. 178 00:08:53,520 --> 00:08:56,000 Justified, just as I've never sinned. 179 00:08:56,000 --> 00:08:58,880 Before even though I have. Sinned, but because I have his 180 00:08:58,880 --> 00:09:02,040 righteousness. Through his forgiveness, I'm 181 00:09:02,040 --> 00:09:05,360 justified. So this is a better. 182 00:09:05,360 --> 00:09:07,960 Definition. More of a biblical definition. 183 00:09:08,080 --> 00:09:09,800 When we look at justified, so go and put that. 184 00:09:09,800 --> 00:09:13,360 Second one up justification is a formal. 185 00:09:13,360 --> 00:09:16,880 Acquittal by God, whereby he. Pronounces a. 186 00:09:16,880 --> 00:09:20,960 Sinner to be righteous because. Of that sinner's faith in 187 00:09:20,960 --> 00:09:24,680 Christ, that makes a little bit more sense. 188 00:09:25,480 --> 00:09:27,360 When we look. At the gospel message. 189 00:09:28,680 --> 00:09:33,040 So justification is how? God sees us holy. 190 00:09:33,040 --> 00:09:35,240 And he sees. Us just this is that. 191 00:09:35,240 --> 00:09:38,920 Out of Ephesians. So when we look at the book. 192 00:09:38,920 --> 00:09:42,720 Of Romans, Gary so brilliantly talked us through what 193 00:09:42,760 --> 00:09:45,840 redemption looks like in Romans chapter. 3. 194 00:09:46,120 --> 00:09:49,040 Then when you get into Romans chapter 4, Paul writes. 195 00:09:49,480 --> 00:09:51,720 How we are justified through faith. 196 00:09:51,720 --> 00:09:54,800 In Christ, and even how. God justified. 197 00:09:54,800 --> 00:09:57,760 Abraham because of his faith. So. 198 00:09:57,960 --> 00:10:01,440 Paul is making the argument. That it's only through faith 199 00:10:01,960 --> 00:10:05,880 that you are justified that. Only through faith in Christ. 200 00:10:06,640 --> 00:10:09,080 It's not your works. Now, why does Paul make this 201 00:10:09,080 --> 00:10:11,720 argument in chapter? 4. 202 00:10:12,400 --> 00:10:14,200 We have to understand the Jewish culture. 203 00:10:15,200 --> 00:10:18,680 So the Jews believed that. If you are. 204 00:10:18,680 --> 00:10:22,960 Born out of the Jewish system. Like if you're born in a Jewish 205 00:10:22,960 --> 00:10:25,280 family, that means that. You still. 206 00:10:25,280 --> 00:10:30,200 Attain God's favor. It's like like let's bring it 207 00:10:30,200 --> 00:10:32,280 like this way. Like it's like if you're. 208 00:10:32,280 --> 00:10:35,520 Born Latino? Then you automatically have 209 00:10:35,520 --> 00:10:40,600 rhythm. If you're born Puerto Rican, you 210 00:10:40,600 --> 00:10:44,280 know how to dance. Which I don't know. 211 00:10:44,280 --> 00:10:45,200 Why you wouldn't have? Rhythm. 212 00:10:45,200 --> 00:10:46,920 That's a weird thing to me anyway, so. 213 00:10:46,920 --> 00:10:48,880 Like it, That's how did you saw it. 214 00:10:48,880 --> 00:10:51,880 They were like. If I'm born, if my parents and 215 00:10:52,160 --> 00:10:56,480 if my ancestors are born Christian, then that means that 216 00:10:56,480 --> 00:11:01,640 I get imputed the Christianity and the faith of my father's. 217 00:11:02,600 --> 00:11:05,400 So you're. Just not saved just because you 218 00:11:05,400 --> 00:11:07,080 were born in a Christian household. 219 00:11:07,800 --> 00:11:10,640 You attain it naturally, which is. 220 00:11:10,640 --> 00:11:13,880 So far from the truth, you cannot be. 221 00:11:13,880 --> 00:11:17,400 Justified that way, but also the Jews argued that you. 222 00:11:17,400 --> 00:11:20,280 Must follow and keep the commands and the law. 223 00:11:20,520 --> 00:11:25,520 In order to become justified. Where that's totally off what 224 00:11:25,600 --> 00:11:28,560 Jesus teaches us. So you cannot be. 225 00:11:28,560 --> 00:11:31,800 Justified by the law. Now we have the Law and the 226 00:11:31,800 --> 00:11:36,800 Prophets in the Old Testament. To show us, like Gary said, like 227 00:11:36,800 --> 00:11:39,120 a big. Mirror of how jacked up and how. 228 00:11:39,120 --> 00:11:42,600 Horrible we are as humans. We all need God. 229 00:11:42,600 --> 00:11:43,640 We're. All messed. 230 00:11:43,640 --> 00:11:45,360 Up. That's what we saw last week in. 231 00:11:45,360 --> 00:11:49,240 Romans 323 For all have sinned and followed short of the glory 232 00:11:49,240 --> 00:11:51,400 of God. Listen, we're all bad and 233 00:11:51,400 --> 00:11:52,400 terrible. People and. 234 00:11:53,400 --> 00:11:54,800 Some of you are like. Man Ricky, that hurts. 235 00:11:54,800 --> 00:11:58,080 My like self esteem, I was like, I don't care about yourself 236 00:11:58,080 --> 00:12:00,720 esteem, I care about your heart. Because that's what God's. 237 00:12:00,720 --> 00:12:05,400 After we have to be able to. Understand that God wants our 238 00:12:05,400 --> 00:12:08,200 heart. So real quick test, like just 239 00:12:08,200 --> 00:12:10,000 an. Example like we have, We all 240 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:12,880 know the 10 commandments. Some of us grew up in that 241 00:12:12,880 --> 00:12:15,320 world, and you grew up in. Church, You see it everywhere. 242 00:12:16,000 --> 00:12:19,400 So let me ask you guys by show of hands, how many of you? 243 00:12:19,400 --> 00:12:22,600 Guys have put things above God before you. 244 00:12:25,400 --> 00:12:31,240 Know what that makes you An idolater if you've put. 245 00:12:31,240 --> 00:12:35,040 Anything over the things of God, you have committed adultery. 246 00:12:35,840 --> 00:12:37,240 How many of you? Guys have ever lied? 247 00:12:39,160 --> 00:12:41,440 If you have your hands. On congratulations, you just 248 00:12:41,440 --> 00:12:44,560 joined the club, right? Some of us are like Ricky. 249 00:12:44,560 --> 00:12:45,240 I lied. But. 250 00:12:45,360 --> 00:12:48,080 I'm not a liar. Like I don't lie all. 251 00:12:48,080 --> 00:12:50,760 The time. If you lie, guess what? 252 00:12:51,400 --> 00:12:54,480 You are a liar. You have lied. 253 00:12:54,480 --> 00:12:55,800 You've. Broken God's law. 254 00:12:56,400 --> 00:12:59,000 I would even go as deep as like, OK, how many times like when 255 00:12:59,000 --> 00:13:00,560 something bad happens to somebody? 256 00:13:00,560 --> 00:13:03,160 You're just secretly like. Yeah, they deserve that one. 257 00:13:04,480 --> 00:13:06,640 I'm so glad. Or if somebody gets something 258 00:13:06,640 --> 00:13:07,520 really. Cool. 259 00:13:08,160 --> 00:13:09,880 Like like a new. Toy or a car? 260 00:13:09,880 --> 00:13:12,400 Whatever it is, I'm like. Oh, I wish I had that. 261 00:13:14,240 --> 00:13:15,920 That makes you that you're coveting. 262 00:13:16,520 --> 00:13:18,120 You just broke the 10 commandments. 263 00:13:19,080 --> 00:13:21,000 Listen. Yesterday at that diaper drive, 264 00:13:21,480 --> 00:13:24,200 I broke. It a lot of times so I'm 265 00:13:24,200 --> 00:13:25,480 watching these cars and I was like I. 266 00:13:25,480 --> 00:13:27,360 Wish I had that. I wish I had that. 267 00:13:27,920 --> 00:13:29,600 I wish he would just give me that like. 268 00:13:31,000 --> 00:13:34,040 Listen guys. We we're all you break God's. 269 00:13:34,040 --> 00:13:39,200 Law that makes you an enemy of. God, you have rebelled. 270 00:13:39,200 --> 00:13:42,320 Against your. Creator and what the law teaches 271 00:13:42,320 --> 00:13:44,640 us is that the law shows us that you. 272 00:13:44,640 --> 00:13:48,560 Can't do it. And that's why grace and what 273 00:13:48,560 --> 00:13:51,040 Christ did in the gospel so wonderful. 274 00:13:51,400 --> 00:13:53,280 This is why. It's the good news. 275 00:13:54,120 --> 00:13:56,160 So we can't do it because of the law. 276 00:13:56,400 --> 00:14:00,840 Listen, it's not about morality. God is not after our morality. 277 00:14:00,840 --> 00:14:03,720 Our morality is not. Pleasing. 278 00:14:04,040 --> 00:14:07,440 To a holy and righteous God, what He's after is our. 279 00:14:07,440 --> 00:14:11,960 Hearts so we can't become. Justified by the law. 280 00:14:11,960 --> 00:14:15,200 We can't become justified by our good morals. 281 00:14:15,520 --> 00:14:18,040 We cannot become. Justified through like. 282 00:14:18,040 --> 00:14:20,080 When my mom and. Dad are Christian so that makes 283 00:14:20,080 --> 00:14:23,480 me a Christian too. None of that stuff works. 284 00:14:24,280 --> 00:14:26,240 So Paul's. Argument is like no? 285 00:14:26,240 --> 00:14:28,960 We are justified by faith in Christ. 286 00:14:29,600 --> 00:14:31,640 That's how we're able to. Stand in front of a holy. 287 00:14:31,640 --> 00:14:34,800 And righteous God. And that's how we continue. 288 00:14:34,800 --> 00:14:37,760 Like we accept his love. So in verse 5I. 289 00:14:37,760 --> 00:14:41,120 Mean in in verse one. Therefore, since we have been 290 00:14:41,120 --> 00:14:43,520 justified through faith, that's where. 291 00:14:43,520 --> 00:14:46,280 Paul's starting us. Off Look at it therefore. 292 00:14:46,280 --> 00:14:49,280 So I'm connecting everything we just talked about to right now. 293 00:14:50,120 --> 00:14:52,880 Therefore, since we are justified through. 294 00:14:52,880 --> 00:14:57,480 Faith in. Christ we have peace with. 295 00:14:57,480 --> 00:14:59,480 God through Christ. Jesus, our Lord. 296 00:15:00,240 --> 00:15:01,680 Man, I love that. Because we have. 297 00:15:01,680 --> 00:15:04,840 Peace man Ricky, like this. Peace. 298 00:15:04,840 --> 00:15:07,720 Like what is this man with peace with in with? 299 00:15:07,720 --> 00:15:10,880 Christ, what is this peace? You got to understand something 300 00:15:11,160 --> 00:15:13,240 whenever. You become justified and our. 301 00:15:13,280 --> 00:15:16,520 Our sins are forgiven. We are no longer. 302 00:15:16,520 --> 00:15:18,240 At. War with God. 303 00:15:18,880 --> 00:15:21,040 Because right now if. You are unforgiven. 304 00:15:21,040 --> 00:15:23,720 If you don't have your. Faith in Christ you have. 305 00:15:23,720 --> 00:15:28,360 God's wrath over your head and. One day when we stand in front 306 00:15:28,360 --> 00:15:30,360 of him in. Glory that wrath. 307 00:15:30,360 --> 00:15:33,640 Is going to rain down. So. 308 00:15:33,640 --> 00:15:38,480 Walking through life not knowing whether I am at peace with. 309 00:15:38,480 --> 00:15:41,960 God, I have favor with God, or I do. 310 00:15:42,720 --> 00:15:46,160 Is extremely taxing and frustrating. 311 00:15:46,160 --> 00:15:49,520 And nerve wracking and you're. Spending most of your life 312 00:15:49,920 --> 00:15:54,880 trying to appease God, trying to please him, not knowing for 313 00:15:54,880 --> 00:15:56,920 sure. If he's going to be happy with 314 00:15:56,920 --> 00:15:58,080 me, if he. Loves me. 315 00:15:59,640 --> 00:16:00,720 But what? Paul is saying is. 316 00:16:00,720 --> 00:16:04,360 Because we're justified through Christ, I have a peace. 317 00:16:04,680 --> 00:16:08,760 Now with God my peace it it, it changes everything. 318 00:16:08,920 --> 00:16:10,520 Like the kids say, you're built different. 319 00:16:12,640 --> 00:16:14,400 Jesus, to our first point, because they. 320 00:16:14,960 --> 00:16:18,360 People like what about? Sin well listen when you. 321 00:16:18,360 --> 00:16:20,760 Are justified it? Doesn't make you sin less. 322 00:16:21,520 --> 00:16:24,560 But because you honor. God and because you love Jesus. 323 00:16:24,800 --> 00:16:27,160 You should send less. Hector inspired that, right? 324 00:16:28,040 --> 00:16:30,920 So when I'm justified and I understand that I'm justified 325 00:16:31,120 --> 00:16:34,520 and I understand that I have this new peace with God, knowing 326 00:16:34,520 --> 00:16:37,080 that I'm no longer at war with him, that he's looking at me, he 327 00:16:37,080 --> 00:16:38,040 says I. Love you. 328 00:16:38,360 --> 00:16:40,960 And I want to man, I can't. Wait to like, cherish. 329 00:16:40,960 --> 00:16:43,080 You and I want to build you up in my Son. 330 00:16:43,080 --> 00:16:44,720 That's what we call sanctification. 331 00:16:44,960 --> 00:16:48,000 Listen, that causes me not to want to sin. 332 00:16:48,880 --> 00:16:52,160 I don't care about sin anymore because I have this amazing 333 00:16:52,160 --> 00:16:56,120 peace with God. So I don't spend my life walking 334 00:16:56,120 --> 00:16:59,240 on egg shells trying not to sin like, Oh my God, I'm a screw up 335 00:16:59,240 --> 00:17:00,200 again. I'm a screw up again. 336 00:17:00,200 --> 00:17:03,440 No, now it's like because I know God and I have. 337 00:17:03,440 --> 00:17:05,720 Peace with him. I don't want to sin. 338 00:17:06,839 --> 00:17:10,920 I don't care. Like I hate it now. 339 00:17:11,280 --> 00:17:13,920 Because I saw how it jacked. Me up and I saw it jacked up my 340 00:17:13,920 --> 00:17:16,240 family and I saw. How it pulled people. 341 00:17:16,359 --> 00:17:19,319 From their calling I saw. It destroyed lives and. 342 00:17:19,319 --> 00:17:21,839 Destroyed marriages. Why do I want to take part in 343 00:17:21,839 --> 00:17:24,520 that? I don't care. 344 00:17:25,119 --> 00:17:26,520 So what I. Am now. 345 00:17:26,520 --> 00:17:29,480 Because I have peace with. God, I want to send less. 346 00:17:29,800 --> 00:17:33,560 Because I want to please him more and that only comes. 347 00:17:33,680 --> 00:17:39,240 When we are justified through Jesus Christ, through. 348 00:17:39,240 --> 00:17:42,760 Whom we have gained. Access man this is a. 349 00:17:42,760 --> 00:17:46,560 Crazy, crazy word right here. You know that. 350 00:17:46,560 --> 00:17:50,760 This whole like giving. Access like this sentence is 351 00:17:50,760 --> 00:17:52,520 only shown twice in the New Testament. 352 00:17:53,560 --> 00:18:00,160 The word access to God. That whole word access to God is 353 00:18:00,160 --> 00:18:02,240 wild. This would have the. 354 00:18:02,240 --> 00:18:05,200 Religious leaders turning in their sleep. 355 00:18:06,960 --> 00:18:10,880 For you to have access to God, for Paul to say because we're 356 00:18:10,880 --> 00:18:12,440 justified. In Christ. 357 00:18:12,600 --> 00:18:15,360 Because we have this peace with God through faith. 358 00:18:15,520 --> 00:18:17,240 Now you have. Access to the Father? 359 00:18:17,400 --> 00:18:19,200 Are you kidding me? Without. 360 00:18:19,200 --> 00:18:21,840 Going through all the sacrificial systems without 361 00:18:21,840 --> 00:18:24,560 going through the mercy seat. Without doing all of these. 362 00:18:24,560 --> 00:18:27,960 Things and you get to have access to God, a Gentile. 363 00:18:28,520 --> 00:18:31,720 Are you out of your mind? Paul and Paul's like, yes. 364 00:18:32,200 --> 00:18:34,720 This is. The Gospel, the Gospels, like 365 00:18:34,720 --> 00:18:36,640 men, you. Have access to God because. 366 00:18:36,760 --> 00:18:39,040 You are no longer an enemy of God. 367 00:18:39,160 --> 00:18:40,640 You are actually. A son and daughter. 368 00:18:40,640 --> 00:18:44,000 Of God, so the Bible. Says in Galatians that I'm able 369 00:18:44,000 --> 00:18:47,720 to approach the throne of grace. And call God ABBA father. 370 00:18:48,080 --> 00:18:49,560 Which means like my dad. So. 371 00:18:49,560 --> 00:18:52,320 We have access to him and I don't need to. 372 00:18:52,320 --> 00:18:54,600 Go through all of these. Things anymore I don't need to 373 00:18:54,600 --> 00:18:55,280 go. Specific. 374 00:18:55,280 --> 00:18:57,720 People, if I am justified, I have my faith in. 375 00:18:57,720 --> 00:19:01,760 Christ, I have direct access. To my heavenly Father. 376 00:19:02,080 --> 00:19:05,320 Which is awesome. And then let's go back to verse 377 00:19:05,320 --> 00:19:07,680 1 and 2. Because we got to walk. 378 00:19:07,680 --> 00:19:09,440 This thing out, it's just too much. 379 00:19:10,240 --> 00:19:11,920 Right, so we have. Access to him. 380 00:19:12,560 --> 00:19:16,880 It says that we've gained access by faith into this grace in 381 00:19:16,880 --> 00:19:21,480 which we now stand. So that word in which we now 382 00:19:21,480 --> 00:19:23,680 stand, that means? That you are. 383 00:19:23,680 --> 00:19:27,280 Permanent. It is a secure position. 384 00:19:27,760 --> 00:19:30,400 That means that we are permanently secure in God's. 385 00:19:30,400 --> 00:19:34,560 Grace. You ain't moving, so I'm. 386 00:19:34,600 --> 00:19:37,400 Going to talk to some of my old. School Cowboy fans y'all. 387 00:19:37,400 --> 00:19:40,600 Remember Larry Allen, You know that. 388 00:19:40,600 --> 00:19:45,600 Is so you're like, no. Larry Allen, Hall of Famer, 389 00:19:45,600 --> 00:19:49,920 offensive tackle. Like, like, this was a big boy. 390 00:19:50,880 --> 00:19:54,000 And I mean dude. This is when the Cowboys win all 391 00:19:54,000 --> 00:19:55,720 the Super. Bowls he would play. 392 00:19:55,720 --> 00:19:58,440 Guard and offensive tackle, everybody knew. 393 00:19:58,440 --> 00:20:03,120 Him, he was a bad. Man he broke the combine record 394 00:20:03,120 --> 00:20:04,760 benching like. 225 I think it was. 395 00:20:04,760 --> 00:20:10,920 Like 45 times he was a beast. He passed away last year and 396 00:20:10,920 --> 00:20:13,840 they were doing a. Special on Larry Allen and they 397 00:20:13,840 --> 00:20:17,240 were interviewing John Randall and John Randall. 398 00:20:17,240 --> 00:20:19,640 Was a defensive. Tackle from the Minnesota 399 00:20:19,640 --> 00:20:22,160 Vikings. That was another bad man. 400 00:20:23,040 --> 00:20:26,200 Dude talked a lot of trash. Like he talked a lot. 401 00:20:26,200 --> 00:20:29,480 That's what he was known for. And when they were interviewing 402 00:20:29,480 --> 00:20:32,440 him about Larry Allen, they asked him about Larry Allen and 403 00:20:32,640 --> 00:20:34,720 and when he would. Play the Dallas Cowboys. 404 00:20:35,000 --> 00:20:38,520 And John Randall said man. It was violently unpleasant. 405 00:20:41,040 --> 00:20:42,520 And then John Randall began to say. 406 00:20:42,520 --> 00:20:45,440 He said man Larry Allen was one of the only. 407 00:20:45,440 --> 00:20:48,920 Players that I would. Never talk trash to because I 408 00:20:48,920 --> 00:20:50,520 didn't want to. I didn't want to incite him 409 00:20:50,520 --> 00:20:52,480 anymore. But then he. 410 00:20:52,480 --> 00:20:56,760 Goes on in his interview. And he says he was. 411 00:20:56,760 --> 00:21:00,440 One of those immovable objects. Every single down. 412 00:21:01,400 --> 00:21:03,840 When you played Larry Allen, you knew. 413 00:21:03,920 --> 00:21:06,480 That he wasn't. Going nowhere and it was going 414 00:21:06,480 --> 00:21:09,400 to be a long day and when I read this. 415 00:21:09,400 --> 00:21:12,920 Passage That's exactly what Paul is saying is they listen the 416 00:21:12,920 --> 00:21:15,040 grace of God. Is an immovable object. 417 00:21:15,840 --> 00:21:17,920 Things are going to run into it. You're going to run into it, 418 00:21:17,920 --> 00:21:21,080 you're going to sin against it. Listen, it ain't going nowhere. 419 00:21:21,840 --> 00:21:24,680 I would even. Say it could. 420 00:21:24,680 --> 00:21:29,280 Sometimes be violently unpleasant because man, I am 421 00:21:29,280 --> 00:21:32,920 jacking things up and God is crushing me with his grace and 422 00:21:32,920 --> 00:21:36,960 the conviction of the Holy Spirit is so strong that it's 423 00:21:36,960 --> 00:21:39,520 like causing me to feel. Certain types of way. 424 00:21:39,720 --> 00:21:43,840 And God saying, listen, I'm not moving my grace. 425 00:21:43,840 --> 00:21:48,440 Is in movable, it's in shakable. It's not going nowhere. 426 00:21:49,760 --> 00:21:52,280 So because we stand. Permanently in a. 427 00:21:52,280 --> 00:21:57,240 Secure position with God's. Grace, look what it says. 428 00:21:58,600 --> 00:22:01,640 And we? Boast in the hope of the glory 429 00:22:01,960 --> 00:22:04,560 of. So because we don't. 430 00:22:04,560 --> 00:22:06,560 Move, because we're in God's grace. 431 00:22:06,680 --> 00:22:09,480 That's where our hope. Stems from that. 432 00:22:09,480 --> 00:22:13,240 Hope is that we have. Peace with God now. 433 00:22:13,480 --> 00:22:16,480 Through Jesus Christ. What he did on the cross and we 434 00:22:16,480 --> 00:22:19,880 are now covered in His grace. Man. 435 00:22:19,880 --> 00:22:21,880 God. Secures us. 436 00:22:22,680 --> 00:22:28,080 That's why we have hope. But point #2 that's coming in 437 00:22:28,080 --> 00:22:31,480 verse 3. Is that being at peace with God 438 00:22:31,480 --> 00:22:34,760 doesn't imply the absence of suffering. 439 00:22:36,000 --> 00:22:39,040 Paul is about to go. In saying because we've been 440 00:22:39,040 --> 00:22:41,840 justified. Because we have peace with God. 441 00:22:42,000 --> 00:22:45,800 Because this is where hope. Stems from it ain't going to be 442 00:22:45,800 --> 00:22:50,200 easy, but because now you're justified. 443 00:22:50,840 --> 00:22:52,360 Your. Purpose now has. 444 00:22:52,800 --> 00:22:56,800 Your suffering now has purpose. So you're going to suffer. 445 00:22:57,560 --> 00:23:00,560 For the cause of Christ. If you're following Jesus, 446 00:23:00,880 --> 00:23:03,200 there's going to be things that come at your life that are not 447 00:23:03,200 --> 00:23:07,760 easy, but it's purposeful. Now I'm not talking about you 448 00:23:07,760 --> 00:23:09,880 just making terrible. Choices and decisions in your 449 00:23:09,880 --> 00:23:12,360 life, That's, that's you. Those are consequences. 450 00:23:12,360 --> 00:23:14,400 Of sin. I'm talking about you following. 451 00:23:14,400 --> 00:23:17,080 Christ and look what happens. Look what it. 452 00:23:17,080 --> 00:23:23,040 Says in verse 3, not only so, but we also glory in our 453 00:23:23,040 --> 00:23:27,000 sufferings because we know that suffering produces perseverance. 454 00:23:27,280 --> 00:23:30,320 Perseverance. Character and character hope. 455 00:23:31,600 --> 00:23:34,120 So what is Paul? Showing us here he. 456 00:23:34,280 --> 00:23:36,800 Got to walk it out backwards, he's saying. 457 00:23:36,800 --> 00:23:39,760 Listen, you can't have hope. Without. 458 00:23:39,760 --> 00:23:42,440 Character and you can't have. Character without. 459 00:23:42,440 --> 00:23:45,080 Persevering. And you can't persevere until 460 00:23:45,080 --> 00:23:48,320 you suffer. It's this. 461 00:23:48,320 --> 00:23:51,680 Stepping stone to hope you have to go through. 462 00:23:51,680 --> 00:23:54,120 Some of this stuff as a believer in Christ. 463 00:23:55,440 --> 00:23:57,320 So what is he talking about? He says he's. 464 00:23:57,320 --> 00:23:59,280 Using these. Words suffering. 465 00:23:59,520 --> 00:24:02,480 Listen, the word suffering might translate into tribulations, 466 00:24:02,680 --> 00:24:04,400 man. It means to squeeze. 467 00:24:04,400 --> 00:24:07,720 It means to, to pressure, to put pressure on something. 468 00:24:07,720 --> 00:24:11,480 So as I'm following Christ, there's going to be some things 469 00:24:11,480 --> 00:24:13,840 that put pressure on me. There's going to be some things 470 00:24:13,840 --> 00:24:15,760 that squeeze me. There's some things in life. 471 00:24:15,960 --> 00:24:19,880 That are very, very difficult. But because you've been 472 00:24:19,880 --> 00:24:25,040 justified, it's not for nothing. So he says, and. 473 00:24:25,040 --> 00:24:27,280 Because of your. Suffering, it's going to produce 474 00:24:27,560 --> 00:24:30,760 perseverance. That word perseverance means 475 00:24:30,760 --> 00:24:33,040 patience. It means that. 476 00:24:33,040 --> 00:24:36,640 You are able to you are able to deal with great pressure. 477 00:24:36,640 --> 00:24:40,600 Without succumbing to it. You could handle a lot. 478 00:24:41,360 --> 00:24:45,640 You do not crack under pressure. You don't have meltdowns because 479 00:24:45,640 --> 00:24:50,400 you know that God is in control of all things because He's the 480 00:24:50,400 --> 00:24:54,080 one that we have our hope in. Like the young kids say, you 481 00:24:54,080 --> 00:24:59,560 don't crash out as often. Then we go from there. 482 00:24:59,560 --> 00:25:03,000 Suffering produces perseverance, perseverance character. 483 00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:04,440 Now this one's a tough one, y'all. 484 00:25:05,040 --> 00:25:06,680 Y'all bear with me on on this one. 485 00:25:07,680 --> 00:25:11,320 Where he's talking about. Character because of the Greek. 486 00:25:11,320 --> 00:25:13,280 The way that it's formed, it's. Proof. 487 00:25:13,680 --> 00:25:16,040 So he's not saying. Character, he's saying. 488 00:25:16,040 --> 00:25:20,120 Proven character. Talk is cheap y'all. 489 00:25:21,520 --> 00:25:25,120 And what he's saying is like, listen, you're suffering your 490 00:25:25,120 --> 00:25:28,640 perseverance. It shows character, not just 491 00:25:28,640 --> 00:25:29,480 character. So you don't. 492 00:25:29,480 --> 00:25:31,800 Go around telling everybody. How good? 493 00:25:31,800 --> 00:25:35,440 You are and how amazing things that you're doing and how you 494 00:25:35,440 --> 00:25:37,800 help people. No, it's proving character. 495 00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:40,480 Proving character is what you show. 496 00:25:42,040 --> 00:25:45,360 That means that there's fruit in your life that's coming out of 497 00:25:45,360 --> 00:25:47,520 your. Suffering because of the hope 498 00:25:47,520 --> 00:25:49,160 that you have, because you're justified. 499 00:25:49,960 --> 00:25:52,520 So as you're being squeezed and as you're being molded. 500 00:25:52,520 --> 00:25:55,920 By God, this. Proven character is starting to 501 00:25:56,160 --> 00:26:00,120 come out of your life. So listen, I'm so glad that you 502 00:26:00,120 --> 00:26:01,960 know all the Sunday school answers. 503 00:26:02,640 --> 00:26:04,120 I'm glad. That you could debate. 504 00:26:04,120 --> 00:26:08,000 Calvinism versus Arminianism. I'm glad that you know all the 505 00:26:08,000 --> 00:26:10,680 worship songs, and I'm glad you know when to shout and raise 506 00:26:10,680 --> 00:26:12,040 your hands. But if your life. 507 00:26:12,040 --> 00:26:13,760 Don't show it. It doesn't mean anything. 508 00:26:14,760 --> 00:26:18,440 That means that God is not working and God is trying to 509 00:26:18,440 --> 00:26:20,160 tell us. That the stuff that. 510 00:26:20,160 --> 00:26:24,400 He's doing in our. Life is to show character 511 00:26:25,080 --> 00:26:28,800 because proven character when. All of this is happening in our 512 00:26:28,800 --> 00:26:31,240 life. Because we've been justified by 513 00:26:31,240 --> 00:26:36,320 our faith in Christ. It's going to give you hope. 514 00:26:37,280 --> 00:26:39,360 It's going to bring hope. Listen, you're suffering ain't 515 00:26:39,360 --> 00:26:42,600 for nothing God is going to use. That. 516 00:26:43,600 --> 00:26:45,200 And you're. Stemming out of hope? 517 00:26:46,760 --> 00:26:49,840 So he is. Building us up and listen. 518 00:26:49,880 --> 00:26:52,200 Our life has to look. Different outside of this 519 00:26:52,200 --> 00:26:54,520 church. It has. 520 00:26:54,520 --> 00:26:57,480 To because that's the only way that we proved that. 521 00:26:57,480 --> 00:26:58,440 We've been. Justified. 522 00:26:59,520 --> 00:27:01,160 That's what he's showing us in verse 3. 523 00:27:01,280 --> 00:27:02,680 We got to run because I'm almost out of time. 524 00:27:03,200 --> 00:27:04,640 I've just. Done the beginning all right. 525 00:27:04,760 --> 00:27:08,440 Let's go to 5. So verse 5 Paul is. 526 00:27:08,560 --> 00:27:11,240 Is showing us this and he's like man, like man there's. 527 00:27:11,280 --> 00:27:13,360 There's a reason. Why things are going to happen 528 00:27:13,360 --> 00:27:15,200 to you. God is not going to waste your 529 00:27:15,200 --> 00:27:16,880 suffering now because we've been. 530 00:27:16,880 --> 00:27:20,440 Justified and then he. Says and verse 5. 531 00:27:20,600 --> 00:27:25,960 He says and hope does not put us to shame because God's love. 532 00:27:25,960 --> 00:27:28,120 Has been. Poured out into our. 533 00:27:28,120 --> 00:27:31,120 Hearts through the Holy Spirit. Who has been given to? 534 00:27:31,160 --> 00:27:35,160 Us so listen because we suffer because all that. 535 00:27:35,160 --> 00:27:37,640 Stuff is happening. Because we have that hope. 536 00:27:38,680 --> 00:27:40,400 There's no reason for you to hang your head. 537 00:27:41,600 --> 00:27:43,520 That means that you don't walk around mopey. 538 00:27:44,840 --> 00:27:51,160 You walk around in this hope that you have understanding that 539 00:27:51,160 --> 00:27:53,440 God is doing a work in your life. 540 00:27:53,440 --> 00:27:56,000 Understand that you can stand. Tall because of his 541 00:27:56,000 --> 00:27:59,880 righteousness. Has been imputed on you, so we 542 00:27:59,880 --> 00:28:02,080 don't. Walk around all shame like we. 543 00:28:02,080 --> 00:28:04,720 Jacked it all up like like. God's mad at us. 544 00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:08,240 He's not. And how do we know? 545 00:28:08,240 --> 00:28:10,960 That in verse 5. Because God's love. 546 00:28:10,960 --> 00:28:13,200 Has been poured out. Into our. 547 00:28:13,200 --> 00:28:16,080 Hearts through the Holy Spirit. Who he has given us guys. 548 00:28:16,280 --> 00:28:18,080 The Holy Spirit is a. Gift from God. 549 00:28:19,360 --> 00:28:21,760 So as we live justified as we put our. 550 00:28:21,760 --> 00:28:24,480 Faith in. Christ, He sends His Holy Spirit 551 00:28:24,480 --> 00:28:26,480 to live inside of each and every one of. 552 00:28:26,480 --> 00:28:28,680 Those who follow Jesus. And who believe in? 553 00:28:28,800 --> 00:28:33,440 Jesus, that is the greatest proof of love right there. 554 00:28:34,440 --> 00:28:38,760 But also what Paul is saying is that because God poured his. 555 00:28:38,760 --> 00:28:42,680 Love in us. There is evidence in the 556 00:28:42,680 --> 00:28:46,840 believers in that evidence that we have God's love. 557 00:28:47,920 --> 00:28:53,200 Is because we love the one who loved us first, the fruit that. 558 00:28:53,200 --> 00:28:57,400 Comes out of us as. Followers of Christ and those 559 00:28:57,400 --> 00:28:59,880 who believe. In God is that we? 560 00:28:59,880 --> 00:29:04,160 Love the God who loved us. There is a love that we show 561 00:29:04,160 --> 00:29:07,120 back. That's why we call Jesus the 562 00:29:07,120 --> 00:29:11,440 Lord of our lives so he loved. Us first, now it's about. 563 00:29:11,440 --> 00:29:14,880 To get deep real fast look at verse 6 because he's Paul's 564 00:29:14,880 --> 00:29:17,880 about to show us how this all. Works, you see. 565 00:29:19,160 --> 00:29:23,480 At just the right time. When we were still powerless, 566 00:29:23,480 --> 00:29:27,680 Christ died. For the ungodly at just. 567 00:29:27,680 --> 00:29:31,480 The right moment in time. And Paul says, man, we were all 568 00:29:31,480 --> 00:29:34,200 powerless. Listen, we were spiritually 569 00:29:34,200 --> 00:29:36,200 dead. We were incapable of doing 570 00:29:36,200 --> 00:29:38,920 anything to help ourselves and we were all trying to get 571 00:29:38,920 --> 00:29:40,120 ourselves. Out of a hole. 572 00:29:40,320 --> 00:29:43,800 And just at that time when we said no to God, and when we 573 00:29:43,800 --> 00:29:46,960 rebelled against God, and we said our way is better than 574 00:29:46,960 --> 00:29:48,720 your. Way God died for you. 575 00:29:50,000 --> 00:29:52,520 Even when you didn't want him. God died. 576 00:29:52,680 --> 00:29:55,440 For you he sent Jesus. To give his life. 577 00:29:55,600 --> 00:29:58,840 For you listen, that is. Love right there. 578 00:29:59,560 --> 00:30:00,880 And this is. At the right time. 579 00:30:00,880 --> 00:30:02,880 That means everybody's timing is different. 580 00:30:03,880 --> 00:30:08,560 God is working on all of us. And the time is when God. 581 00:30:08,560 --> 00:30:13,920 Chose so God's supreme act of love came when we were most 582 00:30:13,920 --> 00:30:16,560 undesirable. How crazy is that? 583 00:30:17,320 --> 00:30:19,360 Don't clean yourself up before you come to God. 584 00:30:19,360 --> 00:30:22,920 Just come as you are. He wants all your garbage. 585 00:30:22,920 --> 00:30:24,920 He wants all your trash. He wants all your hurt. 586 00:30:24,920 --> 00:30:27,320 He wants all your pain. He wants all your mistakes. 587 00:30:27,320 --> 00:30:30,080 He wants everything. You don't have to clean yourself 588 00:30:30,080 --> 00:30:31,040 up. Just come to God. 589 00:30:31,960 --> 00:30:34,320 He wants you. He died for you. 590 00:30:35,240 --> 00:30:38,720 He died for the ungodly. And I love how Paul in verse 7 591 00:30:38,720 --> 00:30:41,720 throws a little bit. Of shade to us, he says. 592 00:30:41,720 --> 00:30:43,840 Very. Rarely will anyone die for a 593 00:30:43,840 --> 00:30:46,120 righteous person. Though for a good. 594 00:30:46,120 --> 00:30:47,200 Person. Someone might. 595 00:30:47,200 --> 00:30:50,720 Possibly dare to die. I was looking at this text. 596 00:30:50,720 --> 00:30:52,240 I was like, why would Paul say something like? 597 00:30:52,240 --> 00:30:55,560 That because what he's. Doing is he's describing what we 598 00:30:55,560 --> 00:30:59,040 are not. We're not a righteous person and 599 00:30:59,040 --> 00:31:04,560 we're not a good person. He's showing us and he's like, 600 00:31:04,560 --> 00:31:06,840 man, very rare. I doubt somebody would. 601 00:31:06,840 --> 00:31:10,920 Catch a case for you. Let alone if they like you. 602 00:31:12,040 --> 00:31:16,360 But for somebody to give their life for you and you're not that 603 00:31:16,360 --> 00:31:20,920 good, man, that's crazy. And then he drops the bomb on 604 00:31:20,920 --> 00:31:24,560 verse 8. But God demonstrates his own 605 00:31:24,560 --> 00:31:28,160 love for us in this. While we were still. 606 00:31:28,160 --> 00:31:34,040 Sinners, Christ died for us. That crazy like even those. 607 00:31:34,240 --> 00:31:38,000 Who were yelling crucify him. God looks at them since I died 608 00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:44,240 for them too. Christ died for everyone and in 609 00:31:44,240 --> 00:31:46,840 verse 9 through 11. I love how he ends this thing. 610 00:31:48,360 --> 00:31:50,800 He died for us, regardless of what. 611 00:31:50,800 --> 00:31:53,960 We've done and then he goes. Since we have now been. 612 00:31:54,320 --> 00:31:56,000 Justified. There's that word again. 613 00:31:56,000 --> 00:31:59,960 Justified by his blood. How much more shall? 614 00:31:59,960 --> 00:32:04,920 We be saved from God's wrath through him for if while. 615 00:32:04,920 --> 00:32:09,880 We were God's enemies. We were reconciled to Him 616 00:32:09,880 --> 00:32:13,320 through the death of his Son. How much more, having been 617 00:32:13,320 --> 00:32:17,320 reconciled, shall? We be saved through his life. 618 00:32:17,880 --> 00:32:20,280 Not only is this so. But we. 619 00:32:20,280 --> 00:32:24,520 Also boast in God. Through our Lord Jesus Christ. 620 00:32:24,520 --> 00:32:30,640 Through whom we have we now received reconciliation, man? 621 00:32:31,080 --> 00:32:33,120 We have been justified. Let's go back. 622 00:32:33,120 --> 00:32:35,120 To verse 9 we're. Justified through his blood. 623 00:32:36,000 --> 00:32:39,080 Whenever you see the word blood in the New Testament, it's not 624 00:32:39,080 --> 00:32:41,960 really. As regards to the fluid blood, 625 00:32:42,120 --> 00:32:44,800 he's talking about the. Atoning sacrifice. 626 00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:47,480 The violent sacrifice of Jesus. Christ. 627 00:32:48,360 --> 00:32:51,880 And it's showing that he. Bled for us he actually died 628 00:32:51,880 --> 00:32:55,840 for. Us, how much more are we saved 629 00:32:55,840 --> 00:32:59,920 from God's wrath? Which leads me to point #3 that 630 00:32:59,920 --> 00:33:03,920 when it comes to a conviction now, conviction now is going to 631 00:33:03,920 --> 00:33:06,680 lead to forgiveness and not condemnation. 632 00:33:07,440 --> 00:33:14,800 I'm sorry, confession so now. When I confess my sin because. 633 00:33:14,800 --> 00:33:19,000 I'm justified through the blood. I'm not worried about God 634 00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:21,200 looking. At me and condemning me. 635 00:33:21,720 --> 00:33:23,760 Because in Romans 8 it says. There's no condemnation. 636 00:33:23,760 --> 00:33:27,800 For those founding Christ. So now when I confess my sin. 637 00:33:27,800 --> 00:33:30,440 To him. Because I'm covered and I'm 638 00:33:30,440 --> 00:33:33,000 justified instead of condemning me. 639 00:33:33,160 --> 00:33:35,320 He forgives me. There's. 640 00:33:35,360 --> 00:33:40,120 Ultimate forgiveness now in the. Blood of God with with Christ. 641 00:33:40,840 --> 00:33:44,160 So we don't have to walk around worried about like, I'm going to 642 00:33:44,160 --> 00:33:46,440 get the conviction, man, like the judge is going to drop the 643 00:33:46,440 --> 00:33:48,160 ball on me, No. Like if we. 644 00:33:48,160 --> 00:33:52,800 Confess our sin to Him. He is mighty to save and He will 645 00:33:52,960 --> 00:33:55,880 forgive. Us because we're saved from 646 00:33:55,880 --> 00:33:57,480 God's wrath. Through. 647 00:33:57,480 --> 00:34:04,960 Him, man, one of my. Favorite shows is verse 40. 8 on 648 00:34:04,960 --> 00:34:06,720 A&E. I talk about this all the time, 649 00:34:06,720 --> 00:34:08,719 man I love. Watching first 48. 650 00:34:09,040 --> 00:34:10,199 And for you guys that don't know what? 651 00:34:10,199 --> 00:34:14,760 This is it's, it's a reality show, but is that if there's a 652 00:34:14,760 --> 00:34:15,840 crime? That happens. 653 00:34:15,840 --> 00:34:18,719 Detectives have. 48 hours to try to get. 654 00:34:18,719 --> 00:34:24,760 Some leads and to try to get somebody to confess because 655 00:34:24,760 --> 00:34:25,920 after. 48. Hours. 656 00:34:25,920 --> 00:34:29,280 It makes it really difficult to solve the crime and you know, 657 00:34:29,280 --> 00:34:31,560 these are usually like murders or like something terrible 658 00:34:31,560 --> 00:34:34,159 happened. So the show is there them 659 00:34:34,159 --> 00:34:36,320 following detectives on trying to. 660 00:34:36,320 --> 00:34:38,719 Crack this case. On trying to break. 661 00:34:38,719 --> 00:34:41,920 This case and. You know what's something I've 662 00:34:41,920 --> 00:34:45,120 learned watching First 48? Those who don't? 663 00:34:45,120 --> 00:34:49,080 Talk, get to go home. And what? 664 00:34:49,080 --> 00:34:53,679 Detectives do is that. When somebody's guilty, they. 665 00:34:53,679 --> 00:34:57,240 Use strategies and they use. These methods to get into. 666 00:34:57,240 --> 00:35:02,240 People's guilt. And to get them to confess and 667 00:35:02,240 --> 00:35:05,320 to get them to. Speak up, but here's the. 668 00:35:05,320 --> 00:35:08,440 Thing because when you're guilty and you confess, you know that 669 00:35:08,440 --> 00:35:12,120 there's a punishment coming. So you see these guys in the. 670 00:35:12,120 --> 00:35:14,480 Room like they're struggling they they're they're on the 671 00:35:14,480 --> 00:35:17,640 floor crying like they know like they're conscious. 672 00:35:17,880 --> 00:35:21,040 It's just hurting them and listen and those who usually 673 00:35:21,040 --> 00:35:22,080 don't talk. Get to go home but. 674 00:35:22,080 --> 00:35:24,120 The evidence comes back and it gets them in. 675 00:35:25,920 --> 00:35:31,160 But you see with us. Confession doesn't lead to a. 676 00:35:31,160 --> 00:35:32,680 Conviction. It doesn't. 677 00:35:32,840 --> 00:35:36,440 It doesn't. Pain us confession actually 678 00:35:36,440 --> 00:35:38,600 leads to forgiveness, which frees. 679 00:35:38,600 --> 00:35:41,760 US. It's an upside down Kingdom, you 680 00:35:41,760 --> 00:35:43,480 see. In our world, we're like man if 681 00:35:43,480 --> 00:35:45,080 I confess. Something I'm in trouble. 682 00:35:45,080 --> 00:35:46,800 I'm. Weak man, like nobody's going to 683 00:35:46,800 --> 00:35:49,040 want to trust me no more. Like I can't do that. 684 00:35:49,160 --> 00:35:52,280 But you see in the Kingdom, because we're justified and God 685 00:35:52,280 --> 00:35:55,120 is the ultimate judge when you confess. 686 00:35:55,360 --> 00:35:58,960 You are forgiven. And when you're forgiven, you 687 00:35:58,960 --> 00:36:01,680 have more freedom. And when you have more freedom, 688 00:36:01,800 --> 00:36:04,640 you have more peace. And when you have more peace, 689 00:36:04,760 --> 00:36:07,680 you live more in joy. And when you live more in joy, 690 00:36:07,800 --> 00:36:09,840 you're more purpose driven in life. 691 00:36:10,040 --> 00:36:13,400 And you don't care about what everything what other people say 692 00:36:13,560 --> 00:36:16,640 and you hate Sid more. And listen all of this thing. 693 00:36:16,640 --> 00:36:19,800 Stuff. All this stuff starts with 694 00:36:19,800 --> 00:36:24,320 confession. And what we do is we try to mask 695 00:36:24,320 --> 00:36:27,200 our confession. And what God is saying is like, 696 00:36:27,200 --> 00:36:29,760 no, you've been justified. I want you to give confession, 697 00:36:30,520 --> 00:36:32,680 confess your sin to me. I will. 698 00:36:32,800 --> 00:36:37,240 Heal you, I will forgive. You, I will save you and there's 699 00:36:37,240 --> 00:36:38,720 this thing that. Starts to. 700 00:36:38,720 --> 00:36:42,240 Happen in your life where now there's joy, now there's 701 00:36:42,240 --> 00:36:44,640 healing. Yeah, it's going to be. 702 00:36:44,640 --> 00:36:48,480 Hard, but there's purpose now and I'm going to start living my 703 00:36:48,480 --> 00:36:52,320 life more of wanting to serve God and not serve myself. 704 00:36:53,040 --> 00:36:56,640 So now it's not just a career for me now, it's a way that God 705 00:36:56,640 --> 00:37:00,440 has called me to and everything intertwines together. 706 00:37:00,840 --> 00:37:05,600 And I'll close with this. My Time's Up verse 11, you know, 707 00:37:05,600 --> 00:37:07,720 verse 10. I think this is one of the 708 00:37:07,720 --> 00:37:09,440 coolest things in verse 10 and 11. 709 00:37:09,720 --> 00:37:15,280 For if while we were God's enemies, we were reconciled to 710 00:37:15,280 --> 00:37:16,920 him through the death of his Son. 711 00:37:18,120 --> 00:37:21,840 Guys, you understand that that before we were God's children's. 712 00:37:21,960 --> 00:37:24,400 If you don't have. Faith in faith in Christ. 713 00:37:25,360 --> 00:37:29,360 You're an enemy of God. Those are some strong words. 714 00:37:30,600 --> 00:37:34,160 You're an enemy, but. Paul. 715 00:37:34,160 --> 00:37:37,520 Uses this language because he has a lot of military language 716 00:37:37,520 --> 00:37:39,960 but. Also is to show the. 717 00:37:39,960 --> 00:37:42,000 Difference between being an enemy and being a. 718 00:37:42,000 --> 00:37:46,200 Child of God. We were someone horrible. 719 00:37:46,200 --> 00:37:50,800 Who went against God, and now we're somebody covered in grace, 720 00:37:50,800 --> 00:37:53,520 who loves and does everything that he asks us to. 721 00:37:53,760 --> 00:37:56,160 And there is real joy in this atoning work. 722 00:37:56,920 --> 00:38:01,000 Reconciled through His Son. The word reconciled means to fix 723 00:38:01,000 --> 00:38:03,120 something that is broken relationally. 724 00:38:05,000 --> 00:38:07,720 There is a. Brokenness when we sin. 725 00:38:07,720 --> 00:38:10,240 Against a holy, righteous God, there's something. 726 00:38:10,240 --> 00:38:12,400 Wrong. In that relationship and it's. 727 00:38:12,400 --> 00:38:17,640 On our part, but instead of us trying to reconcile with him. 728 00:38:17,640 --> 00:38:19,920 What God does, it says. I'm going to make a. 729 00:38:19,920 --> 00:38:23,800 Way for us to be reconciled. So I'm going to send. 730 00:38:23,920 --> 00:38:26,800 Jesus, and he's going to. Take your. 731 00:38:26,800 --> 00:38:30,880 Sin on the cross and this is going to fix our relationship 732 00:38:30,880 --> 00:38:33,440 forever and the only thing that I. 733 00:38:33,440 --> 00:38:38,240 Require is for you to. Receive the gift of salvation by 734 00:38:38,240 --> 00:38:42,080 putting your trust and faith in. Christ asking for the. 735 00:38:42,080 --> 00:38:46,920 Forgiveness of sins and then now our relationship is reconciled. 736 00:38:47,800 --> 00:38:49,480 We could come back to the Father now. 737 00:38:50,400 --> 00:38:52,080 And I say all this because listen because. 738 00:38:52,080 --> 00:38:54,640 We're reconciled with God. God. 739 00:38:54,640 --> 00:38:59,640 Is not disappointed in you. I feel like many of us live 740 00:38:59,640 --> 00:39:01,280 this. Life, like man, like God is. 741 00:39:01,280 --> 00:39:04,760 Disappointed in us like he's like a mad and upset dad. 742 00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:08,200 Like he's just pissed all. The time and that's not true. 743 00:39:08,440 --> 00:39:09,760 God is not disappointed. He. 744 00:39:09,760 --> 00:39:10,480 Loves. You. 745 00:39:11,240 --> 00:39:15,640 He wants you to come to him because he's like, I reconcile. 746 00:39:15,640 --> 00:39:18,560 Our relationship is good. Now come to the cross. 747 00:39:18,600 --> 00:39:20,640 And then we end with. This not only is this. 748 00:39:20,640 --> 00:39:24,120 So, but we also boast. In God. 749 00:39:24,320 --> 00:39:26,880 Through our Lord Jesus Christ through whom? 750 00:39:27,000 --> 00:39:29,920 We have now received reconciliation. 751 00:39:31,360 --> 00:39:33,080 I saw that where he says we boast. 752 00:39:33,880 --> 00:39:36,320 Which leads me to #4 There's two times in this passage. 753 00:39:36,440 --> 00:39:39,720 Where Paul talks about. Boasting in something so point. 754 00:39:39,720 --> 00:39:43,120 4 So what is he? Saying what do we? 755 00:39:43,120 --> 00:39:46,200 Boast in Paul's like. Man, what I want you to boast 756 00:39:46,200 --> 00:39:47,600 in, what I what I want you not to. 757 00:39:47,600 --> 00:39:54,040 Shut up about is this. Hope and glory and that we are 758 00:39:54,040 --> 00:39:58,600 reconciled in Christ. So whenever you talk about. 759 00:39:58,600 --> 00:40:01,080 Me you're going to talk about. How man like you've been. 760 00:40:01,080 --> 00:40:04,000 Justified by faith. So now we have hope in God. 761 00:40:04,160 --> 00:40:07,000 We're able to stand in. Front of him not knowing like 762 00:40:07,000 --> 00:40:10,840 knowing that we are found righteous regardless of our 763 00:40:10,840 --> 00:40:13,640 past, our present and future, and then also that God. 764 00:40:13,640 --> 00:40:16,480 Fixed a broken relationship through Christ and He's the one 765 00:40:16,480 --> 00:40:19,080 that did it, not us so. We can't go around bragging. 766 00:40:19,680 --> 00:40:21,200 But he says like if. You're going to boast. 767 00:40:21,200 --> 00:40:22,400 You better boast in these things, right? 768 00:40:22,400 --> 00:40:24,680 Here because this. Is where it's found. 769 00:40:26,960 --> 00:40:29,160 So, Church, let me just leave you with this. 770 00:40:31,880 --> 00:40:33,720 Some of us might. Believe that we're too bad? 771 00:40:33,720 --> 00:40:34,960 To come to God. I've been there. 772 00:40:34,960 --> 00:40:39,600 I know, but God wants all of it. He wants you to come to Him. 773 00:40:39,680 --> 00:40:41,320 Bring all your sin, Bring all your shame. 774 00:40:41,320 --> 00:40:42,680 Bring all your guilt. Bring all your hurt. 775 00:40:42,680 --> 00:40:44,840 Bring it all God wants. It because, he said. 776 00:40:44,840 --> 00:40:46,800 Listen, I'm the one that. Will give you hope. 777 00:40:46,920 --> 00:40:49,000 And I'm the one that's going to fix the relationship with us. 778 00:40:49,040 --> 00:40:51,320 And when I fix the relationship. With us you're then. 779 00:40:51,320 --> 00:40:53,080 Going to be able to. Fix the relationship with other 780 00:40:53,080 --> 00:40:56,240 people, those who hurt you. Those in your family, those who 781 00:40:56,240 --> 00:40:57,600 did. Wrong those that you did. 782 00:40:57,600 --> 00:40:59,920 Wrong too, because you're going to truly know what it's like to 783 00:40:59,920 --> 00:41:02,240 be forgiven, and when you're in on what. 784 00:41:02,240 --> 00:41:05,120 It's like to be forgiven. It's going to be easy for you to 785 00:41:05,120 --> 00:41:06,960 forgive others. But you got to surrender. 786 00:41:07,080 --> 00:41:08,480 You got to put your faith in Christ. 787 00:41:08,600 --> 00:41:09,360 Let us pray for us.