1 00:00:01,100 --> 00:00:04,400 Good morning. It's great to be here with you. 2 00:00:04,400 --> 00:00:08,100 This morning, glad to have every single one of you present here 3 00:00:08,100 --> 00:00:09,800 this morning. And we're so thankful for this 4 00:00:09,800 --> 00:00:14,700 opportunity to worship together. For those of you maybe that I 5 00:00:14,700 --> 00:00:18,100 haven't met before. My name is Matt Trent and I work 6 00:00:18,100 --> 00:00:21,900 with the church in Norman. Oklahoma, of course, I'm from 7 00:00:21,900 --> 00:00:25,100 California and really still a California and I just happened 8 00:00:25,100 --> 00:00:29,500 to live in in Oklahoma now. And so Rachel's here with me my 9 00:00:29,500 --> 00:00:32,800 wife, Rachel Glad she's with me. The kids are in Clovis this 10 00:00:32,800 --> 00:00:36,300 morning with my dad and so anyway, but we're glad to be 11 00:00:36,300 --> 00:00:39,200 here with you and very, very thankful for the invitation to 12 00:00:39,200 --> 00:00:41,400 be your speaker. This morning, I want to read 13 00:00:41,400 --> 00:00:43,100 with you. Just one passage of scripture 14 00:00:43,100 --> 00:00:46,000 this morning, as we begin our study from the book of First 15 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:48,700 John, and it's just a short passage. 16 00:00:48,700 --> 00:00:51,200 And we're going to come back to it again later in our lesson. 17 00:00:51,200 --> 00:00:54,700 But I want to just use this one passage to introduce our study 18 00:00:54,700 --> 00:00:58,400 for this morning. 1st, John Chapter 2 and verse 2. 19 00:00:58,700 --> 00:01:04,200 The Bible says and He himself is the propitiation for our sins. 20 00:01:05,300 --> 00:01:09,900 And not for ours only, but also for the whole world. 21 00:01:12,700 --> 00:01:19,700 You know, in our family. I am a big fan of routine and 22 00:01:20,200 --> 00:01:24,700 for a few years there, it was just me and three kids and I 23 00:01:24,700 --> 00:01:27,900 like the routine before but that time I liked it even more 24 00:01:28,500 --> 00:01:31,200 because it's a little bit challenging to keep track of 25 00:01:31,200 --> 00:01:34,200 three kids and what they're all supposed to do and all of that. 26 00:01:34,900 --> 00:01:39,000 And that is especially true with their homework and so when they 27 00:01:39,000 --> 00:01:41,900 would come home with their different, Mints or whatever. 28 00:01:42,100 --> 00:01:44,900 I like to kind of have a schedule where I would work with 29 00:01:44,900 --> 00:01:49,800 them on particular things. And so a few years ago, Michael 30 00:01:49,800 --> 00:01:53,300 would come home every afternoon and he had his vocab for the 31 00:01:53,300 --> 00:01:56,800 week. And he'd get this list of 10 32 00:01:56,800 --> 00:01:59,000 words or 12 words, whatever it was. 33 00:02:00,100 --> 00:02:03,700 And those were his words to learn in every single day of the 34 00:02:03,700 --> 00:02:07,000 week, you had a different assignment with that vocabulary 35 00:02:07,000 --> 00:02:10,699 list and so, you know, on Monday, he just had to ride him 36 00:02:10,699 --> 00:02:12,400 out. I don't know, five times or 37 00:02:12,400 --> 00:02:16,300 something, and then Tuesday he had to write a definition for 38 00:02:16,300 --> 00:02:19,300 them and then by Friday, he's supposed to be able to take a 39 00:02:19,308 --> 00:02:24,100 spelling test and spell them correctly and I think be able to 40 00:02:24,100 --> 00:02:28,800 Define them and so they would send us those vocab words and 41 00:02:28,800 --> 00:02:32,200 they would help us. Or help him to explore some 42 00:02:32,200 --> 00:02:34,100 particular topic. He'd been studying. 43 00:02:34,100 --> 00:02:38,000 So they're studying about space, you know, all the words may have 44 00:02:38,100 --> 00:02:41,500 something to do with, with outer space and stars and all of that 45 00:02:41,500 --> 00:02:44,300 sort of a thing more. If they're studying about some 46 00:02:44,300 --> 00:02:47,300 unit in history, maybe it would be a words that are associated 47 00:02:47,300 --> 00:02:50,400 with the Revolutionary War, something like that. 48 00:02:50,400 --> 00:02:53,500 So it's kind of interesting, because as he learned these 49 00:02:53,500 --> 00:02:56,400 words, he could think more deeply about various things. 50 00:02:56,400 --> 00:02:58,800 He was learning about different topics and everything. 51 00:02:59,400 --> 00:03:04,200 So I got to thinking about this idea of a vocabulary list. 52 00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:07,500 And I noticed in my own reading through the Bible. 53 00:03:07,500 --> 00:03:10,000 I got to noticing, you know, when God talks about how he 54 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:13,300 saves, man. He doesn't just use the same 55 00:03:13,300 --> 00:03:17,700 word over and over again. Fact, he uses lots of different 56 00:03:17,700 --> 00:03:20,800 words to talk about how he saves man. 57 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:25,800 What if I was to make a vocabulary list of the 58 00:03:25,800 --> 00:03:29,500 vocabulary of salvation? You know, on that list, you 59 00:03:29,500 --> 00:03:35,200 would have words like, grace and mercy and justification. 60 00:03:35,800 --> 00:03:43,400 Forgiveness reconciliation. Redemption cleansing election 61 00:03:44,100 --> 00:03:46,400 remission. Just think of that list. 62 00:03:47,500 --> 00:03:50,800 That's a heavy list. The god used those words in a 63 00:03:50,808 --> 00:03:54,700 whole bunch of other ones to describe how he saves man from 64 00:03:54,700 --> 00:03:57,700 sin. Why did he do that? 65 00:03:57,700 --> 00:03:59,500 Why did you say over and over again? 66 00:03:59,500 --> 00:04:01,500 I saved you, I saved you. I saved you. 67 00:04:02,500 --> 00:04:05,300 You know each of these different terms is used by God 68 00:04:05,300 --> 00:04:08,300 intentionally to teach us something. 69 00:04:08,300 --> 00:04:12,200 Maybe about himself, something about man, something about 70 00:04:12,200 --> 00:04:15,200 Jesus. In fact, these terms help us to 71 00:04:15,200 --> 00:04:18,300 learn about those sorts of things in a deeper level. 72 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:21,000 And so I got to noticing around that time. 73 00:04:21,000 --> 00:04:26,000 There's one of these words that God uses propitiation I don't 74 00:04:26,000 --> 00:04:29,400 really know very much about I read it. 75 00:04:29,400 --> 00:04:31,600 I'd see it there in the Bible from time to time. 76 00:04:32,300 --> 00:04:36,900 But what does that word mean? when you read first, John 2 and 77 00:04:36,900 --> 00:04:43,400 2 and it says and he himself is the propitiation What does that 78 00:04:43,400 --> 00:04:46,900 mean? What is the word propitiation 79 00:04:46,900 --> 00:04:49,900 means? And so for me, the starting 80 00:04:49,900 --> 00:04:52,400 point, of course, I'd have to make sure I'm spelling it 81 00:04:52,400 --> 00:04:54,100 correctly. Hopefully, I spelled it 82 00:04:54,200 --> 00:04:57,900 correctly up here this morning, but then beyond that we want to 83 00:04:57,900 --> 00:04:59,700 look at it. Meaning of this term. 84 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:03,300 And we want to understand from this particular term. 85 00:05:03,300 --> 00:05:05,700 What does this term? Teach us about, man? 86 00:05:07,400 --> 00:05:09,900 And what does this term teach us about God. 87 00:05:10,900 --> 00:05:13,100 So, I want to give you this morning as we begin, just a real 88 00:05:13,100 --> 00:05:16,500 simple, definition of the word propitiation. 89 00:05:17,300 --> 00:05:22,900 The word propitiation means a sacrifice to take away wrath. 90 00:05:23,800 --> 00:05:27,900 That's what the word means. As you study, the history of the 91 00:05:27,900 --> 00:05:32,400 word back in the early days of the use of the Greek language 92 00:05:32,400 --> 00:05:37,100 when they began the sorted using this term. they had these this 93 00:05:37,100 --> 00:05:42,800 system of polytheism, they had hundreds of different gods, And 94 00:05:42,800 --> 00:05:46,900 they'd have some event happened, maybe they'd have a fire or 95 00:05:46,900 --> 00:05:50,500 they'd have a drought, or they have flooding or something like 96 00:05:50,500 --> 00:05:52,700 that. And they would decide that they 97 00:05:52,700 --> 00:05:57,400 had somehow made some God, angry, one of their false gods. 98 00:05:58,200 --> 00:06:01,400 And as you learn about their false gods, their false gods are 99 00:06:01,400 --> 00:06:05,400 actually just a whole lot like people with unchecked power. 100 00:06:06,400 --> 00:06:09,600 And so they figure, well they had done something to make this 101 00:06:09,600 --> 00:06:13,600 God angry and we got to figure out how to make him happy with 102 00:06:13,600 --> 00:06:17,200 us again and so they kind of would invent these different 103 00:06:17,200 --> 00:06:21,500 sacrifices or services or whatever and they would offer 104 00:06:21,500 --> 00:06:27,200 these sacrifices to take away the wrath of this false god. 105 00:06:28,500 --> 00:06:31,600 So there's kind of the background of this term. 106 00:06:33,600 --> 00:06:37,700 When this term is used in the New Testament, it's not used in 107 00:06:37,700 --> 00:06:41,900 reference to a false. God, it's not used to some 108 00:06:42,400 --> 00:06:46,100 Maniac with unchecked power, like the false gods of the 109 00:06:46,100 --> 00:06:49,900 Greeks. Instead, it's used in reference 110 00:06:49,900 --> 00:06:54,500 to our God and it's used to teach us about our God. 111 00:06:55,300 --> 00:06:58,100 I want to begin by noticing with you as we've talked about this 112 00:06:58,100 --> 00:07:01,200 word, what this teaches us about, man. 113 00:07:02,500 --> 00:07:05,400 What this particular term teaches us about man in our 114 00:07:05,400 --> 00:07:09,000 relationship with God. The fact of the matter is is 115 00:07:09,100 --> 00:07:15,400 that we as individuals when we become guilty of sin, Are the 116 00:07:15,400 --> 00:07:21,000 recipients of the wrath of God. Sin. 117 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:25,700 We have to understand that its very nature sin is an affront to 118 00:07:25,700 --> 00:07:30,500 God. Sin is an act of war against God 119 00:07:32,100 --> 00:07:36,400 and God hates sin. God doesn't hate you. 120 00:07:36,400 --> 00:07:40,100 He doesn't hate me but he hates sin. 121 00:07:41,800 --> 00:07:46,200 And When sin becomes part of our life, we make ourselves an 122 00:07:46,200 --> 00:07:50,600 opponent of God. A recipient of his wrath. 123 00:07:50,600 --> 00:07:54,300 Listen to what? Romans chapter 1 verses 18 and 124 00:07:54,300 --> 00:07:57,300 19 says. And let me just actually read 125 00:07:57,300 --> 00:07:59,000 with you. Through verse 21 of Romans 126 00:07:59,000 --> 00:08:01,600 chapter 1 Romans 1, verses 18 to 21. 127 00:08:02,000 --> 00:08:05,900 Paul says for the wrath of God is revealed from Heaven against 128 00:08:05,900 --> 00:08:09,800 all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who 129 00:08:09,800 --> 00:08:13,000 suppress the truth in unrighteousness, because what 130 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:16,500 may be known of God is Manifest in them, for God has shown it to 131 00:08:16,500 --> 00:08:19,400 them. For since the creation of the 132 00:08:19,400 --> 00:08:23,700 world, his invisible attributes are clearly seen being 133 00:08:23,700 --> 00:08:26,500 understood by the things that are made even his eternal power 134 00:08:26,500 --> 00:08:29,500 and godhead. So that they are without excuse 135 00:08:30,000 --> 00:08:34,900 because although they knew God they did not glorify him as God 136 00:08:35,500 --> 00:08:40,200 nor we're thankful but became futile in their thoughts and 137 00:08:40,200 --> 00:08:42,600 their foolish Hearts were darkened. 138 00:08:43,700 --> 00:08:47,600 You know, for mankind, we have this this problem. 139 00:08:49,000 --> 00:08:55,100 And this problem is that we have all committed sin. and Paul 140 00:08:55,100 --> 00:08:58,200 says, in Romans chapter 1 that the wrath of God is revealed 141 00:08:58,200 --> 00:09:06,100 because he told us We know. But we ignored it. 142 00:09:08,200 --> 00:09:11,300 And we became guilty of sin that he did it and we've done the 143 00:09:11,300 --> 00:09:17,300 same exact thing. And all by yourself, all on your 144 00:09:17,300 --> 00:09:20,400 own, once you become guilty, what can you do about that? 145 00:09:22,000 --> 00:09:26,400 Once you've committed a sin. What can you do about it? 146 00:09:28,700 --> 00:09:30,700 Maybe you think aback over this week. 147 00:09:32,200 --> 00:09:34,700 Maybe you think back over your life, you can think of of the 148 00:09:34,700 --> 00:09:36,300 sin you've committed in particular. 149 00:09:36,300 --> 00:09:39,500 What can you do about it? What can you do about? 150 00:09:39,500 --> 00:09:42,300 What you did yesterday? You know what you can do? 151 00:09:42,300 --> 00:09:47,100 All on your own. We're unable to do anything. 152 00:09:48,800 --> 00:09:52,700 All on our own, we can't do a thing about the sin that has 153 00:09:52,700 --> 00:09:57,100 been committed. Think of the position, we put 154 00:09:57,100 --> 00:10:00,000 ourselves in, we don't really realize the moment. 155 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:02,900 This happens in our lives. What we've actually done, 156 00:10:04,700 --> 00:10:10,100 typically this happens when we were younger, Maybe you're just 157 00:10:10,100 --> 00:10:11,600 getting close to being a teenager. 158 00:10:11,600 --> 00:10:17,100 Maybe you are a teenager and all of a sudden here comes the age 159 00:10:17,100 --> 00:10:20,000 of accountability. There's not an absolute point 160 00:10:20,000 --> 00:10:22,100 where that shows up in every person's life. 161 00:10:24,100 --> 00:10:26,300 But it does show up where, you know, right and wrong. 162 00:10:26,700 --> 00:10:29,400 You know what you ought to do, what you ought not to do. 163 00:10:31,800 --> 00:10:36,500 And then you violate it anyway. You know what's wrong to lie and 164 00:10:36,500 --> 00:10:38,100 you tell a lie? Anyway? 165 00:10:40,200 --> 00:10:42,000 You know, what's wrong to be hateful? 166 00:10:42,200 --> 00:10:45,200 Disrespectful to your parents but you are disrespectful and 167 00:10:45,200 --> 00:10:48,600 hateful to your parents. Anyway, well, those are sins. 168 00:10:50,200 --> 00:10:52,000 And they're so easily committed, aren't they? 169 00:10:52,000 --> 00:10:54,100 Just right there in the flash of a moment. 170 00:10:54,200 --> 00:11:00,400 You've committed your first sin. And what can you do about it? 171 00:11:00,400 --> 00:11:03,800 Not a thing, there it is. Sits on your record. 172 00:11:05,900 --> 00:11:08,200 And if it's just left to me, he just left to you. 173 00:11:08,200 --> 00:11:13,000 It's never going away. No way, we could pay for it. 174 00:11:16,000 --> 00:11:18,300 The wrath of God remains of Honest. 175 00:11:18,300 --> 00:11:20,300 John 3 and 36 says that this way. 176 00:11:21,400 --> 00:11:24,300 That if you do not believe in Jesus, that the wrath of God 177 00:11:24,300 --> 00:11:28,900 remains upon you. It's a horrible thought isn't it 178 00:11:28,900 --> 00:11:30,700 to think of the almighty creator? 179 00:11:32,500 --> 00:11:36,300 All powerful and he's angry at me. 180 00:11:37,800 --> 00:11:41,000 I've put myself in opposition to him. 181 00:11:43,100 --> 00:11:46,500 What do I do about it? And I learned something really 182 00:11:46,500 --> 00:11:49,000 neat in this study that I want to share with you from The Book 183 00:11:49,000 --> 00:11:52,800 of Luke because in Luke chapter 18 this is the Dilemma. 184 00:11:52,800 --> 00:11:55,900 Another person faced a long time before you and me came along. 185 00:11:57,100 --> 00:12:02,700 Luke chapter 18 is a familiar parable about the rich man or 186 00:12:02,700 --> 00:12:04,700 the public. And I mean in the tax collector, 187 00:12:04,900 --> 00:12:07,200 These Guys Smoke might have been wealthy actually come to think 188 00:12:07,200 --> 00:12:09,700 of it. But anyway, in Luke chapter 18 189 00:12:09,700 --> 00:12:12,600 verses 9 through 14. This is a story about two 190 00:12:12,600 --> 00:12:17,200 different kinds of Prayer. And two different ways of 191 00:12:17,200 --> 00:12:20,200 approaching God, really? And I want to just show you this 192 00:12:20,200 --> 00:12:24,800 relates to this concept of propitiation Luke chapter 18. 193 00:12:24,800 --> 00:12:26,900 I want to begin reading with you here at verse 9. 194 00:12:27,700 --> 00:12:31,100 Also, he spoke this Parable to some who trusted in themselves 195 00:12:31,400 --> 00:12:34,200 that they were righteous and despised by others. 196 00:12:35,700 --> 00:12:37,700 Two men went up to the temple, to pray. 197 00:12:37,700 --> 00:12:40,800 One, a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. 198 00:12:42,200 --> 00:12:44,700 The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself. 199 00:12:44,700 --> 00:12:49,700 God, I thank you that I am not like other men, extortioners 200 00:12:49,700 --> 00:12:54,500 unjust adulterers or even as this tax collector, I fast twice 201 00:12:54,500 --> 00:12:57,300 a week. I give tithes of all that I 202 00:12:57,300 --> 00:13:02,100 possess and the tax collector standing afar off would not so 203 00:13:02,100 --> 00:13:03,900 much as raised his eyes to heaven. 204 00:13:04,900 --> 00:13:09,500 But beat his breast saying, God, be merciful to me a sinner. 205 00:13:10,900 --> 00:13:15,000 I tell you this man went down to his house Justified rather than 206 00:13:15,000 --> 00:13:18,700 the other for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled 207 00:13:18,700 --> 00:13:22,100 and he who humbles himself will be exalted. 208 00:13:23,200 --> 00:13:27,600 You know, this Pharisee provides a tremendous example of what not 209 00:13:27,600 --> 00:13:33,200 to do, how not to pray, how not to look at yourself, how not to 210 00:13:33,200 --> 00:13:36,300 speak to God. There's nothing that he does. 211 00:13:36,300 --> 00:13:38,600 That is that is a good example, really? 212 00:13:39,800 --> 00:13:42,200 Here he is in the temple. Just notice, as you read his 213 00:13:42,200 --> 00:13:45,200 prayer, how many times he uses that word? 214 00:13:45,200 --> 00:13:48,300 I, I did this. I did that. 215 00:13:48,300 --> 00:13:52,800 I did this, I did that. In his mind salvation is all 216 00:13:52,800 --> 00:13:56,500 about a checklist. I've gone down the checklist, so 217 00:13:56,500 --> 00:14:00,300 God, you owe me. He kind of missed this point, 218 00:14:00,300 --> 00:14:03,100 didn't he? Of the fact that sin came into 219 00:14:03,100 --> 00:14:05,200 his life? And he really on his own, 220 00:14:05,900 --> 00:14:09,400 couldn't do anything and she's guilty of sin. 221 00:14:09,400 --> 00:14:14,100 What can he do about it? But there he is bragging. 222 00:14:15,100 --> 00:14:16,900 There he is. Looking down his nose at 223 00:14:16,900 --> 00:14:20,900 everybody else. There he is completely blind to 224 00:14:20,900 --> 00:14:22,900 the fact that he's going to leave the temple. 225 00:14:24,000 --> 00:14:29,100 At a guilty distance from God. But then, Here Comes as tax 226 00:14:29,100 --> 00:14:34,100 collector. In the heroes of Jesus story are 227 00:14:34,100 --> 00:14:36,900 always, you know, Tax Collectors, or Samaritans, or 228 00:14:36,900 --> 00:14:38,700 people like that. That everyone else hated. 229 00:14:38,700 --> 00:14:41,800 Jesus shows how because of Faith these folks live. 230 00:14:41,800 --> 00:14:45,100 Great lives sometimes. So here's this tax collector. 231 00:14:46,900 --> 00:14:52,200 Who comes into the temple. And you can just sense the 232 00:14:52,200 --> 00:14:54,400 humility and the guy who in his posture. 233 00:14:55,600 --> 00:14:58,000 It says he won't even hardly even lift his eyes. 234 00:15:00,500 --> 00:15:06,300 And what is he pray? He says God be merciful to me a 235 00:15:06,300 --> 00:15:09,800 sinner. Know what I learned about this 236 00:15:09,800 --> 00:15:13,200 little statement here is that when he says be merciful to me 237 00:15:14,000 --> 00:15:16,800 that's not the term. Usually translated Mercy in the 238 00:15:16,808 --> 00:15:21,100 New Testament. It's actually the term, usually 239 00:15:21,100 --> 00:15:26,400 translated propitiation. Do you know what the tax 240 00:15:26,400 --> 00:15:29,200 collector says? He says God. 241 00:15:29,300 --> 00:15:31,800 I cannot do anything about my sin. 242 00:15:32,000 --> 00:15:33,000 There it is. In my life. 243 00:15:33,000 --> 00:15:36,000 I can't do anything. Can you? 244 00:15:39,000 --> 00:15:43,300 I can't take care of my sin. Will you help me? 245 00:15:45,500 --> 00:15:51,300 Can you help me with my sin? And he's humble because he knows 246 00:15:51,300 --> 00:15:56,200 he committed the sin, it's his guilt is responsibility, but he 247 00:15:56,200 --> 00:16:01,200 can't do anything about it. So he says, God, can you help 248 00:16:01,200 --> 00:16:05,000 me? Be glad to tell you this morning 249 00:16:05,900 --> 00:16:08,000 that God's answer to that question is. 250 00:16:08,000 --> 00:16:11,600 Yes, because we're all right there with the tax collector, 251 00:16:12,400 --> 00:16:15,200 we're guilty of sin and on our own, we can't take anything away 252 00:16:15,200 --> 00:16:17,400 from our sin. So what do we need? 253 00:16:17,700 --> 00:16:20,600 We call out to God. And what does he provide? 254 00:16:20,600 --> 00:16:25,800 He provided his son? And when we were asked, God, can 255 00:16:25,800 --> 00:16:28,900 you do something about it? He said, yes. 256 00:16:29,500 --> 00:16:32,300 And he sent his son to die upon the cross. 257 00:16:32,800 --> 00:16:36,700 And this morning, we can preach this gospel that those who hear 258 00:16:36,700 --> 00:16:40,800 the word, those who believe it, those who repent of their sins, 259 00:16:40,800 --> 00:16:44,800 those who confess their sins and those who are immersed in, this 260 00:16:44,800 --> 00:16:49,100 is God's Plan of Salvation And I can preach this gospel this 261 00:16:49,100 --> 00:16:52,800 morning because God answered, yes, I'll do. 262 00:16:52,900 --> 00:16:57,900 Do something about your sin. I'm going to send my son and 263 00:16:57,900 --> 00:17:04,500 he's going to die in your place and if you believe in him, I'll 264 00:17:04,500 --> 00:17:08,900 take away your sin. If you'll obey the gospel, I'll 265 00:17:08,900 --> 00:17:12,599 take away your sin. If you follow my plan. 266 00:17:13,800 --> 00:17:16,400 I'll take away your sin. Aren't you glad this morning? 267 00:17:16,599 --> 00:17:21,200 That God said, yes. And as we think about our own 268 00:17:21,200 --> 00:17:25,000 lives and think about our own relationship with God, we need 269 00:17:25,000 --> 00:17:27,900 him. We need his plan. 270 00:17:29,100 --> 00:17:33,700 We need to be close to him. Because when we're away from him 271 00:17:33,700 --> 00:17:37,900 and recipients of his wrath, we do not want to bear that, we 272 00:17:37,900 --> 00:17:41,800 need to be close to him. And so we cry out to him just 273 00:17:41,800 --> 00:17:45,400 like this tax collector. Did God, please help me? 274 00:17:46,300 --> 00:17:49,300 Please help me. And here's his answer this 275 00:17:49,300 --> 00:17:51,700 morning. This is his answer for all of us 276 00:17:52,000 --> 00:17:55,200 that we would obey the gospel. And in that way, we would be 277 00:17:55,200 --> 00:17:58,400 safe from our sins. And what I want to do for the 278 00:17:58,400 --> 00:18:02,600 rest of our time together is to read for passages in the New 279 00:18:02,600 --> 00:18:06,600 Testament. That use the word propitiation. 280 00:18:07,800 --> 00:18:10,300 because what I really believe about this word is that this 281 00:18:10,300 --> 00:18:15,300 word teaches us some really important lessons about God, the 282 00:18:15,300 --> 00:18:19,300 fact that God would send his son to pay a sin, that was my 283 00:18:19,300 --> 00:18:22,900 responsibility. That teaches us some important 284 00:18:22,900 --> 00:18:25,700 lessons about God. So grab your Bibles and turn 285 00:18:25,700 --> 00:18:30,400 with me first of all to Romans chapter 3 and in Romans chapter 286 00:18:30,400 --> 00:18:32,800 3, we want to read together a couple of verses here. 287 00:18:33,500 --> 00:18:40,700 The word propitiation itself is going to be in verse 25. 288 00:18:42,400 --> 00:18:46,100 We want to notice together, beginning at verse 21, and we're 289 00:18:46,100 --> 00:18:48,500 going to read through verse 26. I'd like to just kind of make 290 00:18:48,500 --> 00:18:52,300 sure we read this line of thought here, Romans chapter 3, 291 00:18:52,300 --> 00:18:55,800 beginning of verse 21. But now the righteousness of God 292 00:18:55,900 --> 00:19:00,200 apart from the law is revealed being witnessed by the law and 293 00:19:00,200 --> 00:19:03,900 the prophets, even the righteousness of God through 294 00:19:03,900 --> 00:19:09,600 faith in Jesus Christ to all. And on all who believe, For 295 00:19:09,600 --> 00:19:14,300 there is no difference for all have sinned and fall short of 296 00:19:14,300 --> 00:19:18,200 the glory of God being justified, freely by his grace 297 00:19:18,200 --> 00:19:20,300 through the Redemption that is in Christ. 298 00:19:20,300 --> 00:19:25,000 Jesus whom God set forth as a propitiation by his blood 299 00:19:25,500 --> 00:19:30,100 through faith to demonstrate his righteousness because in his 300 00:19:30,100 --> 00:19:33,800 forbearance God had passed over the sins that were previously 301 00:19:33,800 --> 00:19:36,700 committed. To demonstrate at the present 302 00:19:36,700 --> 00:19:39,600 time, his righteousness that he might be. 303 00:19:39,600 --> 00:19:46,200 Just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus want 304 00:19:46,200 --> 00:19:48,300 to notice with you. The first thing we learn about 305 00:19:48,300 --> 00:19:53,000 God, when we study about the concept of propitiation is we 306 00:19:53,000 --> 00:19:57,900 learned that God is righteous. You notice at least twice in 307 00:19:57,900 --> 00:20:00,600 this passage, and maybe you could argue more than that, it 308 00:20:00,600 --> 00:20:03,800 mentions. The idea that this demonstrates 309 00:20:03,900 --> 00:20:08,800 God's Justice. What is the word righteousness? 310 00:20:08,800 --> 00:20:12,600 Mean righteousness, is all about conforming to what's right 311 00:20:13,300 --> 00:20:14,600 doing? What's right? 312 00:20:17,200 --> 00:20:20,100 So what does this passage in Romans 3 all about? 313 00:20:21,200 --> 00:20:23,500 The whole point of this section is to prove. 314 00:20:23,500 --> 00:20:25,900 Everybody's guilty of sin verse 23. 315 00:20:27,700 --> 00:20:32,300 Everybody's guilty of sin. That being true. 316 00:20:33,200 --> 00:20:35,100 How does God have a relationship with me? 317 00:20:38,000 --> 00:20:43,300 You know why didn't God, why didn't he just give us a pass? 318 00:20:46,100 --> 00:20:48,800 Why didn't God just say, okay, I know you committed sin but I'm 319 00:20:48,800 --> 00:20:50,900 just not going to worry about it because I love you. 320 00:20:53,900 --> 00:20:58,000 God doesn't view sin that way. You know, the way man, you said 321 00:20:58,000 --> 00:21:01,600 in the way God, you sin is different and sin is not 322 00:21:01,600 --> 00:21:05,900 something God can ignore. It's impossible. 323 00:21:07,900 --> 00:21:10,600 And so, how is it that God could have a relationship with all 324 00:21:10,600 --> 00:21:14,900 these people? He sent Jesus as a propitiation. 325 00:21:15,400 --> 00:21:18,700 Want you to notice there in verse 25 because in his 326 00:21:18,700 --> 00:21:21,900 forbearance God had passed over the sins that were previously 327 00:21:21,900 --> 00:21:26,800 committed, the cross. Paid for all these sins that 328 00:21:26,800 --> 00:21:29,400 were committed way back in the Old Testament. 329 00:21:31,000 --> 00:21:35,800 When did Davidson ever get paid for his paid for on the cross? 330 00:21:36,800 --> 00:21:40,300 What about Moses, Moses committed sin, when did his sin 331 00:21:40,300 --> 00:21:46,100 get paid for on the cross? All of those millions of people 332 00:21:46,100 --> 00:21:50,100 live before Jesus, when did their billions or trillions of 333 00:21:50,100 --> 00:21:55,200 sins, when did the debt get paid for all of those on the cross? 334 00:21:56,500 --> 00:22:00,500 God paid for all of those debts. And all of that they were doing, 335 00:22:00,500 --> 00:22:03,200 they were doing things. Looking forward to the Messiah, 336 00:22:03,200 --> 00:22:05,900 their sacrifices, were looking forward to the time. 337 00:22:05,900 --> 00:22:10,100 When the Messiah, I would come. God, demonstrates his 338 00:22:10,100 --> 00:22:14,700 righteousness because he took care of all of that sin, and 339 00:22:14,700 --> 00:22:18,500 every faithful person from the Old Testament is saved because 340 00:22:18,500 --> 00:22:25,100 Jesus Paid the debt for their sin and then look at verse 26 to 341 00:22:25,100 --> 00:22:27,700 demonstrate that at the present time is righteousness, that he 342 00:22:27,700 --> 00:22:32,700 might be just and the justifier. So he's just in that, he took 343 00:22:32,700 --> 00:22:36,700 care of this, he's the justifier and that that's the death of 344 00:22:36,700 --> 00:22:39,800 jesus takes care of all of the sins of the New Testament age. 345 00:22:41,300 --> 00:22:43,400 Do you see how that points? Both ways? 346 00:22:44,700 --> 00:22:47,300 He's just because he took care of all those sins. 347 00:22:47,300 --> 00:22:50,700 In the Old Testament, the justifier taking care of all the 348 00:22:50,700 --> 00:22:55,400 sins in the New Testament. Do you see how thorough his plan 349 00:22:55,400 --> 00:23:00,600 is? All of the sin for all time is 350 00:23:00,600 --> 00:23:03,400 paid for by the sacrifice of Jesus. 351 00:23:04,900 --> 00:23:07,900 And he saves the faithful for all of the ages. 352 00:23:08,500 --> 00:23:11,900 Based upon the sacrifice of Jesus Christ. 353 00:23:12,500 --> 00:23:17,400 God is righteous and sin had to be dealt with. 354 00:23:18,100 --> 00:23:21,200 And so, he dealt with every sin that's ever committed or ever 355 00:23:21,200 --> 00:23:25,000 will be committed by the death of Jesus Christ on the cross. 356 00:23:25,400 --> 00:23:27,700 The second passage, I'd like to look at with you for a few 357 00:23:27,700 --> 00:23:29,500 moments is in the book of Hebrews. 358 00:23:30,000 --> 00:23:34,200 Hebrews chapter 2 and the like to read here, verses 14 through 359 00:23:34,200 --> 00:23:36,700 18. Teen Hebrews chapter 2, verses 360 00:23:36,700 --> 00:23:41,400 14 through 18, fair warning. If you're reading the Old King 361 00:23:41,400 --> 00:23:45,000 James, the word we're looking for is in verse 17. 362 00:23:45,000 --> 00:23:47,400 The new King James is going to say, propitiation the Old King 363 00:23:47,400 --> 00:23:50,600 James, it will say reconciliation, but it's the 364 00:23:50,600 --> 00:23:52,900 same Greek word. That's translated propitiation 365 00:23:52,900 --> 00:23:55,800 everywhere else. And so anyway, just to give you 366 00:23:55,800 --> 00:23:57,100 a little bit of a heads up there. 367 00:23:57,400 --> 00:24:00,500 Let's start in Hebrews 2 verse 14 and as much then as the 368 00:24:00,500 --> 00:24:04,700 children have partaken of flesh and blood He himself that 369 00:24:04,700 --> 00:24:07,600 speaking of Jesus likewise shared in the same. 370 00:24:08,700 --> 00:24:10,900 That through death, he might destroy him. 371 00:24:10,900 --> 00:24:15,100 Who had the power of death. That is the devil and release 372 00:24:15,100 --> 00:24:18,400 those who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject 373 00:24:18,400 --> 00:24:23,300 to bondage, for indeed. He does not give Aid to Angels, 374 00:24:24,200 --> 00:24:26,600 but he does give Aid to the Seed of Abraham. 375 00:24:27,700 --> 00:24:32,000 Therefore in all things he had to be made like his Brethren. 376 00:24:32,700 --> 00:24:35,700 That he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things 377 00:24:35,700 --> 00:24:40,700 pertaining to God to make propitiation for the sins of the 378 00:24:40,700 --> 00:24:43,500 people. For in that he himself has 379 00:24:43,500 --> 00:24:48,500 suffered being tempted, he is able to Aid those who are 380 00:24:48,500 --> 00:24:52,200 tempted want to just emphasize one point from this passage as 381 00:24:52,200 --> 00:24:54,400 well. And that is is that God 382 00:24:54,500 --> 00:25:00,600 understands you know, this passage talks about Jesus 383 00:25:00,600 --> 00:25:07,000 Christ, becoming human becoming flesh and he became flesh lived 384 00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:11,600 in the flesh, to destroy the power of the devil to destroy 385 00:25:11,600 --> 00:25:17,800 the power, he has through death And he accomplished that. 386 00:25:19,400 --> 00:25:22,700 When he died, he then Rose from the grave and he now has opened 387 00:25:22,700 --> 00:25:25,800 the way for all of us to raise to live eternally. 388 00:25:27,700 --> 00:25:32,200 Then verse 17 mentions that in all things, he became like his 389 00:25:32,200 --> 00:25:33,300 Brethren. I'll be key things. 390 00:25:33,300 --> 00:25:36,000 He became like us. He became human just like us. 391 00:25:38,200 --> 00:25:40,800 That he might be a merciful and faithful high priest. 392 00:25:40,800 --> 00:25:44,500 That's our representative to the father is Jesus. 393 00:25:46,900 --> 00:25:49,500 And look what it says in things pertaining to God, to make 394 00:25:49,500 --> 00:25:53,000 propitiation for the sins from that he has suffered. 395 00:25:54,000 --> 00:25:56,100 He is able to Aid those who are tempted. 396 00:25:58,800 --> 00:26:06,000 You know, God is righteous, every sin matters to him. and 397 00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:09,000 sometimes, when you think about someone who's really, really 398 00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:11,600 good at something, it's hard for them to relate to someone who 399 00:26:11,600 --> 00:26:15,600 isn't And so I think of Math teachers, when I think of that, 400 00:26:15,600 --> 00:26:19,700 and I don't mean any insult by that, but I really liked math 401 00:26:20,700 --> 00:26:23,600 wasn't a super. Excellent math student. 402 00:26:25,300 --> 00:26:29,100 So, I had to work really hard to learn these different 403 00:26:29,100 --> 00:26:33,400 mathematical Concepts. And I had teachers sometimes who 404 00:26:33,800 --> 00:26:35,500 they didn't have to work hard to learn it. 405 00:26:35,500 --> 00:26:39,000 It just made sense to them. Maybe some of you are like that. 406 00:26:40,300 --> 00:26:42,800 That's not how I was. And so when I had challenges and 407 00:26:42,800 --> 00:26:48,400 I talked to these Math teachers, I didn't understand Do you just 408 00:26:48,400 --> 00:26:49,900 do it? What do you mean? 409 00:26:49,900 --> 00:26:52,600 It's are you just do it? If there's the answer, that's 410 00:26:52,600 --> 00:26:55,600 not that works for me. Then I finally got this teacher, 411 00:26:56,500 --> 00:27:01,600 had this math teacher who was like me and he started telling 412 00:27:01,600 --> 00:27:02,800 me. Here's what you need to do to 413 00:27:02,800 --> 00:27:04,900 build your math up. Here's the steps you need to 414 00:27:04,900 --> 00:27:07,200 take. It was a lot of extra work, but 415 00:27:07,200 --> 00:27:11,000 I did it and I finally got an A in a math class with that guy, 416 00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:13,900 that was a great class. She'll the difference. 417 00:27:13,900 --> 00:27:17,700 Was he understood my struggle. He understood why it was hard. 418 00:27:18,100 --> 00:27:21,800 So he could relate to me. and so, when we think about the idea 419 00:27:21,800 --> 00:27:27,100 that God is righteous, that can sort of give people sometimes, 420 00:27:27,100 --> 00:27:30,000 maybe the idea that God is somewhat distant and doesn't 421 00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:32,200 understand maybe the challenges that we face. 422 00:27:33,200 --> 00:27:36,800 So that's why you read Hebrews chapter 2 because he does 423 00:27:36,800 --> 00:27:40,200 understand. There's Jesus sitting at God's 424 00:27:40,200 --> 00:27:43,900 right hand. And Jesus lived on this Earth 425 00:27:44,700 --> 00:27:48,300 and he faced every single Temptation that we face. 426 00:27:49,500 --> 00:27:52,600 The Temptations of First, John to the lust of the flesh, the 427 00:27:52,600 --> 00:27:54,300 lust of the eyes and the pride of life. 428 00:27:54,300 --> 00:27:56,900 The devil hit him with those through his life just like he 429 00:27:56,900 --> 00:28:01,100 hits him with us, through ours. And he hit him hard. 430 00:28:02,700 --> 00:28:04,800 He didn't give up. You just kept coming at him. 431 00:28:08,500 --> 00:28:14,500 Jesus knows it's her. He understands. he understands 432 00:28:14,500 --> 00:28:19,900 this way that the devil has over this world, He understands the 433 00:28:19,900 --> 00:28:23,400 challenges that we face in various settings of life. 434 00:28:24,300 --> 00:28:27,500 I don't mean to say this morning that Jesus justify sinful 435 00:28:27,500 --> 00:28:30,300 decisions. Because he doesn't. 436 00:28:31,800 --> 00:28:33,500 But he understands that it's hard. 437 00:28:35,200 --> 00:28:39,800 And when you have a tough day, And you can tell the devil is 438 00:28:39,800 --> 00:28:45,100 really her coming at you and you pray to God about it. 439 00:28:46,500 --> 00:28:50,300 There's Jesus at God's right hand and he gets it. 440 00:28:51,400 --> 00:28:54,000 He knows what you feeling knows what that feels like. 441 00:28:56,200 --> 00:28:59,600 It's great to know this morning. As you pray to this perfect. 442 00:28:59,600 --> 00:29:04,600 God, who cannot tolerate sin that he has his son sitting at 443 00:29:04,600 --> 00:29:08,800 his right hand. And he understands he 444 00:29:08,800 --> 00:29:11,000 understands. I want to look at again. 445 00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:14,800 Now at first John chapter 2 because we've learned that God 446 00:29:14,800 --> 00:29:16,400 is righteous. We've learned that God 447 00:29:16,400 --> 00:29:19,200 understands the struggle that we face with sin. 448 00:29:19,800 --> 00:29:22,800 I want to emphasize to you now, another important Point as we go 449 00:29:22,800 --> 00:29:27,000 back to 1st, John Chapter 2 and verse 2, Here, the Bible says 450 00:29:27,000 --> 00:29:30,300 and he himself is the propitiation for our sins. 451 00:29:31,600 --> 00:29:37,500 And not for ours only but also for the whole world, you know, 452 00:29:37,500 --> 00:29:41,300 this particular passage teaches us where I am unable. 453 00:29:42,700 --> 00:29:47,000 God is able he can do it. I want you to just stop and look 454 00:29:47,000 --> 00:29:51,800 at this verse for second, just let it kind of soak in Where it 455 00:29:51,800 --> 00:29:56,900 says, he is the propitiation for our sins and not for ours only, 456 00:29:56,900 --> 00:30:01,500 but for the whole world. You know, this morning, I 457 00:30:01,500 --> 00:30:04,900 couldn't do a thing on my own without God's help about a 458 00:30:04,900 --> 00:30:10,600 single sin, not one. I don't have the power to change 459 00:30:10,600 --> 00:30:15,300 one, sinful act to make it go away after it's been committed. 460 00:30:18,200 --> 00:30:21,000 But look at what that says, God has the power to take away the 461 00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:28,000 sins of the whole entire world. Now, here we are in Bakersfield 462 00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:29,200 California. This morning. 463 00:30:29,200 --> 00:30:31,300 I don't know the population of Bakersfield anymore. 464 00:30:31,300 --> 00:30:35,600 I used to a couple of hundred thousand people, maybe some, 465 00:30:35,600 --> 00:30:38,800 maybe more than that. How many sins you think have 466 00:30:38,800 --> 00:30:41,400 been committed in Bakersfield California this morning? 467 00:30:44,100 --> 00:30:47,700 I don't know. Thousands, maybe Millions. 468 00:30:47,700 --> 00:30:51,800 I don't know. How many have been committed in 469 00:30:51,808 --> 00:30:54,800 the state of California this morning, just this morning. 470 00:30:56,500 --> 00:30:59,000 You have what is it now around? 40 million people. 471 00:31:01,500 --> 00:31:06,400 What about in the United States? We're by the 7 billion 472 00:31:06,400 --> 00:31:08,800 inhabitants of the whole entire world this morning. 473 00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:11,900 How many sins have been committed? 474 00:31:13,200 --> 00:31:18,600 On June 9. 2009 teen. Isn't that kind of blow you just 475 00:31:18,600 --> 00:31:24,800 to think of that? And God can take care of all of 476 00:31:24,800 --> 00:31:28,400 them. I couldn't take change one. 477 00:31:30,100 --> 00:31:31,900 And he can take care of all of them. 478 00:31:33,500 --> 00:31:35,200 And not just for what's happened this morning. 479 00:31:35,200 --> 00:31:39,900 But for what's happened all through time, and for every 480 00:31:39,900 --> 00:31:44,600 single life Doesn't that teach you this morning about the power 481 00:31:44,600 --> 00:31:47,500 of God? That God is able. 482 00:31:48,600 --> 00:31:50,800 He is righteous. He understands that the 483 00:31:50,900 --> 00:31:54,800 challenge that we face and he has the ability then to do 484 00:31:54,800 --> 00:31:57,700 something about it. Want to look at one last passage 485 00:31:57,700 --> 00:31:59,400 with you. This one from first John chapter 486 00:31:59,400 --> 00:32:05,000 4, And I want to notice here with you verse 10, because I 487 00:32:05,000 --> 00:32:06,700 want to look at one last Point here. 488 00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:08,600 And that is the question of motive. 489 00:32:09,700 --> 00:32:13,800 Why would he do it? In this is love. 490 00:32:14,800 --> 00:32:20,200 Not that, we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his son to 491 00:32:20,200 --> 00:32:23,500 be the propitiation for our sins. 492 00:32:23,500 --> 00:32:27,400 Why would God do that? Why would he use all of his 493 00:32:27,400 --> 00:32:33,000 power to take away my sin? Because of love because of love, 494 00:32:33,800 --> 00:32:37,100 you know, I don't know about you, but I'm kind of suspicious 495 00:32:37,100 --> 00:32:40,700 at times when people want to do something nice for me. 496 00:32:41,900 --> 00:32:44,600 I don't mean like my, like, Rachel I'm not suspicious when 497 00:32:44,600 --> 00:32:47,100 she brings me coffee, I think that's fantastic. 498 00:32:47,400 --> 00:32:50,100 But I mean, maybe somebody that's a little bit more 499 00:32:50,100 --> 00:32:52,800 distant. So a few years ago, Mike and I, 500 00:32:52,800 --> 00:32:57,600 for example, went to a baseball game in Chicago and went to a 501 00:32:57,900 --> 00:33:00,700 game on the south side of Chicago, we saw the White Sox 502 00:33:00,700 --> 00:33:04,500 play And we're standing there in line getting ready to buy some 503 00:33:04,500 --> 00:33:06,600 tickets. And we're chatting about 504 00:33:06,600 --> 00:33:09,900 whatever, you know, and trying to figure out what seats were 505 00:33:09,900 --> 00:33:14,400 going to buy and all of that. And there were, there was not a 506 00:33:14,408 --> 00:33:18,100 long line to buy tickets there, and there were plenty of seats 507 00:33:18,100 --> 00:33:20,500 available. Not like going to a Dodger game. 508 00:33:20,700 --> 00:33:25,100 It's anyway, there are lots of seats available so we're stand 509 00:33:25,100 --> 00:33:26,800 there. Looking at the available seats. 510 00:33:28,500 --> 00:33:30,500 And I'll send this gentleman walks up to me. 511 00:33:32,500 --> 00:33:40,000 He says, are you buying tickets? Well, yeah, I hope so that's 512 00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:44,100 what this line is for, isn't it? He said, I've got something for 513 00:33:44,100 --> 00:33:48,000 you. Really, okay? 514 00:33:48,000 --> 00:33:52,000 So I stepped out of line. He says, you know, I've been 515 00:33:52,000 --> 00:33:58,000 standing here for 10 minutes. Just watching for the right 516 00:33:58,000 --> 00:34:00,200 father-son combination, to walk by. 517 00:34:01,200 --> 00:34:02,500 He said I've got a couple of tickets. 518 00:34:02,500 --> 00:34:04,100 I want to give you these tickets. 519 00:34:08,400 --> 00:34:12,400 I thought, who are you? And you know, you sort of get to 520 00:34:12,400 --> 00:34:16,400 looking around and I don't know, Candid Camera still on TV or 521 00:34:16,400 --> 00:34:19,500 not, but you kind of have these memories of these practical 522 00:34:19,500 --> 00:34:21,600 jokes being played on people or whatever. 523 00:34:23,600 --> 00:34:26,699 And so I think, okay, we got a lot of time before the game, 524 00:34:26,699 --> 00:34:29,000 even if this is a joke or whatever, got time to come back 525 00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:31,000 and buy tickets, and still make it in for the game. 526 00:34:31,800 --> 00:34:37,300 So it gives me this envelope. And we walk in and I flash these 527 00:34:37,300 --> 00:34:41,000 tickets to the guy and they let me in and along with these 528 00:34:41,000 --> 00:34:42,500 tickets. There's these passes on. 529 00:34:42,500 --> 00:34:44,600 I don't know what these passes are all meant. 530 00:34:45,300 --> 00:34:47,100 So we walk in and find the signs. 531 00:34:48,699 --> 00:34:52,300 And I begin following these signs to go where these passes 532 00:34:52,500 --> 00:34:55,900 would admit us. And we found our way to this 533 00:34:55,900 --> 00:34:58,500 kind of remote little part of the stadium where there was this 534 00:34:59,500 --> 00:35:04,700 nice restaurant. And there was a guy there like 535 00:35:04,700 --> 00:35:07,200 preventing people from coming in and when I showed him, what I 536 00:35:07,207 --> 00:35:09,700 had, he said, well, you can come in your meals taken care of. 537 00:35:12,500 --> 00:35:15,300 And I didn't eat there because when you go to a baseball game 538 00:35:15,300 --> 00:35:18,400 you Dodger Dog, you know that's why I've grown up so you don't 539 00:35:18,400 --> 00:35:20,900 eat a nice dinner and a baseball game like that. 540 00:35:21,100 --> 00:35:24,500 But anyway it was impressive and I thought wow this might be 541 00:35:24,500 --> 00:35:27,900 something. And so, we go find our way to 542 00:35:28,600 --> 00:35:32,000 our seats. And we just kept going down and 543 00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:35,500 down and down. And before, you know, it there 544 00:35:35,500 --> 00:35:38,300 were sitting about 10 rows behind home plate. 545 00:35:39,500 --> 00:35:41,600 And there's all these guys sitting around us with these 546 00:35:41,600 --> 00:35:44,100 stopwatches and stuff, they were Scouts. 547 00:35:45,400 --> 00:35:47,400 We were sitting where all the scouts it. 548 00:35:49,600 --> 00:35:53,500 You know, the more I went into that the more I liked that guy. 549 00:35:55,300 --> 00:35:57,800 And we sat ended up sitting there next to him and his wife 550 00:35:57,800 --> 00:35:59,500 had just happened. His son, couldn't come to the 551 00:35:59,500 --> 00:36:00,700 game. So he wanted to share it with 552 00:36:00,700 --> 00:36:04,200 somebody else and we sat there next to his wife and chatted 553 00:36:04,200 --> 00:36:06,200 with them through the game. Nice, nice people. 554 00:36:07,900 --> 00:36:10,900 This is that sort of how this works with this subject this 555 00:36:10,900 --> 00:36:14,000 morning. You begin learning about these 556 00:36:14,000 --> 00:36:16,100 Concepts, right? And guilty of sin. 557 00:36:18,000 --> 00:36:22,200 In the one I'm guilty against. What's he going to do? 558 00:36:24,300 --> 00:36:28,400 He's mad at me. What's he going to do this 559 00:36:28,400 --> 00:36:32,400 righteous God? Well, it just so happens that he 560 00:36:32,400 --> 00:36:34,800 understands the struggle. He has the power to do something 561 00:36:34,800 --> 00:36:38,100 about it and he loves you, he loves you. 562 00:36:40,700 --> 00:36:43,200 And so he's going to do everything he can to help you. 563 00:36:45,400 --> 00:36:47,600 This morning, I don't know everything about your life, I 564 00:36:47,600 --> 00:36:49,300 don't know the struggles that you face. 565 00:36:50,400 --> 00:36:54,000 But I know sin is awful and I know sin is a cruel, cruel 566 00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:58,000 companion. and when it comes into your life that just Beach 567 00:36:58,000 --> 00:37:02,600 on you, And maybe this morning, that's where we are. 568 00:37:04,600 --> 00:37:07,800 Maybe sins been beating on you for a while and you're tired of 569 00:37:07,800 --> 00:37:10,400 it. Well, I'm going to tell you. 570 00:37:10,400 --> 00:37:13,300 You have a God that loves you on your own. 571 00:37:13,300 --> 00:37:17,400 You never going to fix those problems, but cry out to him. 572 00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:22,300 Call out to him and he will answer you. 573 00:37:23,200 --> 00:37:24,700 Here's the way we call out to him. 574 00:37:25,400 --> 00:37:27,600 You see we hear the good news that we've talked about this 575 00:37:27,600 --> 00:37:29,400 morning about God's Plan of Salvation. 576 00:37:29,400 --> 00:37:34,300 We believe that good news. We commit to a change of life 577 00:37:34,300 --> 00:37:38,400 from living our way to living God's way we confess our faith 578 00:37:38,400 --> 00:37:40,100 in Jesus Christ as the Son of God. 579 00:37:40,100 --> 00:37:43,700 And then we're immersed in water for the Forgiveness of sins. 580 00:37:44,200 --> 00:37:46,300 This is God's Plan of Salvation this morning. 581 00:37:46,300 --> 00:37:50,300 This is how this morning that the sacrifice of Jesus Christ. 582 00:37:50,800 --> 00:37:54,100 Take away the Wrath that is in your life because of sin. 583 00:37:55,500 --> 00:37:58,200 We thank you for listening to our podcast, put on by the 584 00:37:58,200 --> 00:38:03,900 Church of Christ at 22:15 plans. 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