1. "The Bible makes no sense until you realize that God is way up here and we are all way down here. And the big problem Paul is addressing is that the Jews, a lot of the Jews thought they weren't down here. They thought they were up here because they had the law. And especially those, you know, really good Jews, the teachers of the law and the Pharisees and the Sadducees, they felt like because they were keeping the law, they were up here. And Paul is just trying to get it through their thick heads. And I want you to understand this too. God is up here and you are down here. You're not, it doesn't matter how good you are. You can't get closer to up there. It doesn't matter."
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2. "What Jesus taught is, is that good people don't go to heaven. Jesus taught that forgiven people go to heaven. And my favorite example, I'm so glad Shane did all the hard passages and gave me this one. My favorite example is this, is on the cross, okay? And it's irrefutable. Come at me if you want to on this one, but it's irrefutable. Jesus is being crucified next to two criminals on the cross. And in your Bible, it says that they were thieves or maybe it just says criminals, criminals or whatever. But the word, like it's translated pirates. They were like, they were really, really bad people, okay?"
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3. "Christianity is not about do, it's about done, right? It's not about what you do, it's about what's been done. Christianity teaches that good people don't go to heaven, and forgiven people go to heaven. And the way that we get forgiven is not by making up extra credit, it's by throwing ourself on the mercy of the only one who could pay for our sins. It's by doing exactly what the criminal on the cross did and admitting I'm not a good person and recognizing who Jesus was and asking. I believe you're the king. If there's any hope for me, it's certainly not in my deeds because my deeds got me here, if there's any hope for me, Jesus, it's in you forgiving me."
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4. "So what shall we conclude then? Do we have any advantage? Not at all. We are they. We have already made the charge that Jews and Gentiles alike are under the power of sin. Okay, so your next question should be, well, Tim, if we're all, just down here, and we're all buried under the power of sin, then why do we have this thing in the first place? And this is a really important verse. I hope you'll hang on to this for a second. Paul says, here's the answer to your question. Therefore, no one will be declared righteous in God's sight by the works of the law. Can I just say that again? No one will be declared righteous in God's sight by the works of the law. You can't be, be good enough. Rather, through the law, we're conscious of our sin."
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5. "All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. All. Okay? In verse 10, he says, there's no one righteous, not even one. In verse 20, therefore, no one will be declared righteous in his sight by observing the law. Okay? Are you with me? No, it's not happening. Rather, through the law, we become conscious of sin. So that's what we're doing here today. But there's one more major problem with this whole idea that good people go to heaven. And that is this. It makes a liar out of Jesus Christ. No religious leader ever taught what Jesus taught. Jesus taught that good people don't go to heaven. Jesus didn't teach karma. Jesus didn't teach that you can make up for your own sins."
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6. "The problem is some people might be better at game playing than others. And the greater problem, as Andy continues, is every once in a while, I'd meet people who had never played Jesus Says and they were like sinners and bad people. And I think, you know, they really need to play Jesus Says, but they don't want to. And again, he's just being honest. And a part of me kind of envied them because they don't carry any guilt. They just kind of do whatever they want. But then somebody would come along and say, Andy, you need to go talk to these people who don't believe in Jesus Says and tell them that they need to play, which kind of makes sense because Jesus is awesome. But I was never really sure I wanted to tell them."
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7. "And the truth is, figuratively, you're hanging on that cross next to Jesus. Please understand, as we do Amazing Grace, as we sing Amazing Grace right now, that it is available for everyone. That it is there for everyone. And let me tell you, let me finish this passage. The end of this passage. I didn't finish it yet because I wanted you to have it as the punchline. Again, the righteousness from God has been made known to which the law and prophets testify. This righteousness has been given through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There's no difference between Jew and Gentile for all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. And, here's the part I haven't read yet, that all are justified freely by His grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus."
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8. "And listen, I'm not trying to convince you today that Christianity is right. That's not my point. I'm just trying to convince you that it's different. So here's a couple of problems that we have, major problems that we should have with the good people go to heaven thing, okay? Because chances are, some of you believe this, and you're going to run into this. Problem number one, we don't know the grading system, all right? Did you ever have one of those teachers in class that changed the grading system and made 93 and up be an A? Anybody feel my pain there, right? I mean, what was wrong with that teacher? I mean, a 92 is an A minus, it's not a B plus. Can I get an amen? But sometimes the teacher would just go in and be like arbitrarily like, I'm going to do whatever I feel like doing. And what if you started the class and the teacher's like, look, I don't even know what I'm going to do. I don't know what the grading system is. Just do your best. That's basically where we're at with the good enough thing. If all good people go to heaven, then we need to know what it means to be good. And we need to know the scale, okay?"
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9. "And then they get to Lent the next year and they're like, okay, all of a sudden they're smelling steak again. And they're calling each other like, where's that coming from? Do you know where that's coming from? And he's like, no, no, nobody knows. And so they're like, oh, I think it's Bill. He doesn't, he didn't get the rule. He doesn't understand. We better go over and tell him. And they go over to Bill's house just in time to see him with a little bit of water going, you were born a cow, you were raised a cow, and now you are a fish. Thank you. Thank you. All week, try the veal. That's not how transformation happens, okay? It's not just some magic thing. But if you haven't been baptized by immersion, man, I want to encourage you because we're going to have several of them. You guys have had 108 baptisms at this church already this year. I'm keeping track."
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10. "And listen, I think good stuff is important. Good works are important. I think you should be a good person. But there is not enough extra credit to bring a 30% up to an A. No teacher ever gave you that opportunity. Unless it was a chemistry teacher and wanted you to help him make crystal meth in the lab. But, you know, that's a whole other story. Okay? Let me get. Let me get back to it again. I can see what TV shows you watch. This is good. I love this church. Okay? All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. All. Okay? In verse 10, he says, there's no one righteous, not even one. In verse 20, therefore, no one will be declared righteous in his sight by observing the law. Okay? Are you with me? No, it's not happening. Rather, through the law, we become conscious of sin. So that's what we're doing here today."
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