Grace Abounds: Upholding God's Law Through Christ
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The law came in to increase the trespass, to make us more guilty. With the law comes light, with the law comes expression of God's will. You see, you can be out there doing wrong, you don't really know you're doing wrong, and then God says don't do that. Now suddenly your rebellion is confronted by wow, God is spoken, God has been clear, God has given certain precepts and statutes to govern my life, and now when I rebel I do it against that much more light so my transgression is that much more aggravated. [00:10:22]
Because of this man's this one man's obedience, because of that where sin increased no matter how aggravated it becomes, no matter how much it's increased, no matter how much the guilt is multiplied, grace abounded all the more because of the merits of what Christ and his obedience did. No matter how sin increases, the grace is greater than all my sin we sing. [00:12:25]
Brethren, do you recognize we can go out into this world of filth and depravity and unimaginable wretchedness and we can tell people what Paul told people. What can we tell them? No matter how great your sin is, you say but you don't know the things I've done. We just heard John Sidesmith said that they have made contact with a pastor in Reynosa who formerly was a cartel member, and he is now he has opened doors to preach the gospel to the cartel. [00:13:01]
Without any effort of your own, without any goodness on your part, without any law keeping on your behalf but solely based on the obedience of another man, you can be declared righteous by faith in that man. That brethren, God looks on the obedience of his son and says that's more than valuable for whatever you've done, it's always above, it's always beyond, it's always one step ahead. [00:14:03]
The terrible thing about sin like James was showing us, why do you break the whole thing if you break the law at one point? Because he who said the one is the same who said the other. Brethren, the thing about sin is that it is rebellion against God. It is man shaking his fisted God, it is man defying God. [00:18:15]
The thing we hear this so often we don't really grasp it, it comes off our tongue all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God but you have to recognize what that means. Brethren, the idea behind that, that's the real wickedness of sin. Sin is a depreciation of God's glory. Here the most spectacular, the most majestic, the most beautiful, the most valuable, the most worthy being ever imagined expresses his will to really very insignificant creatures of his. [00:19:29]
Brethren, the issue here is we sinners are bought with a price, but the price set for us did not have to do with our intrinsic worth because if you read scripture you know what it says we were worth, worth less. That's what scripture says worth less. I see so often sinners go wrong at this point. If the price to ransom us goes up and up and up, it's not like the first scenario it's not because our intrinsic value must be that high. [00:36:50]
Brethren, do you imagine that God would do such things as he did to his only son if there was any cheaper way to pay the price? He did this to his son, his son, the son from his own bosom, the sun in which he took delight, the son who is more precious to him than anything else. Do you imagine that God would ever have sent his only begotten son to the cross if he could have duly honored himself as a lawgiver any other way? [00:41:18]
You want to know the seriousness of our law breaking, you gaze at that cross and you see the wrath of God and you see the tremendous agony that Jesus faced even in the days before in the time before the months before, the agony that he was pressed with in this coming judgment falling upon his own head. This thing, terrible seriousness is displayed of man's rebellion against God as a lawgiver. [00:43:31]
Brethren, a man rightly instructed about God and his law will come to grips with this, the fact that to have insulted the law and the giver of that law. Brethren, what do you think? What do you think? Do you think God's gonna allow you because of some partial effort on your part to keep the law and the best of your ability to the best of your power and to be as good as you can be? [00:45:12]
Brethren, we should tremble for lawbreakers who do not know our Lord Jesus Christ. God will not deal with such lawbreakers slightly and those who are involved in our lives. Jesus told the 72 who went out preaching the gospel, those people you go and preach that gospel to who refuse and reject you gonna be more tolerable for Sodom in the day of judgment than for those people. [00:51:55]
Brethren, this just exalts the law and the law giver in a way that nothing else could. Father, we pray for mercy Lord you designed this, you gave man a way of escape a way out through the obedience of one the many will be made righteous. Oh Lord, I pray that there would be many in this room that would make up the many that are found to be righteous through the obedience of another. [00:57:36]
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Because of this man's this one man's obedience, because of that where sin increased no matter how aggravated it becomes, no matter how much it's increased, no matter how much the guilt is multiplied, grace abounded all the more because of the merits of what Christ and his obedience did. No matter how sin increases, the grace is greater than all my sin we sing. [00:12:25]
Brethren, do you recognize we can go out into this world of filth and depravity and unimaginable wretchedness and we can tell people what Paul told people. What can we tell them? No matter how great your sin is, you say but you don't know the things I've done. We just heard John Sidesmith said that they have made contact with a pastor in Reynosa who formerly was a cartel member, and he is now he has opened doors to preach the gospel to the cartel. [00:13:01]
Without any effort of your own, without any goodness on your part, without any law keeping on your behalf but solely based on the obedience of another man, you can be declared righteous by faith in that man. That brethren, God looks on the obedience of his son and says that's more than valuable for whatever you've done, it's always above, it's always beyond, it's always one step ahead. [00:14:03]
The terrible thing about sin like James was showing us, why do you break the whole thing if you break the law at one point? Because he who said the one is the same who said the other. Brethren, the thing about sin is that it is rebellion against God. It is man shaking his fisted God, it is man defying God. [00:18:15]
The thing we hear this so often we don't really grasp it, it comes off our tongue all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God but you have to recognize what that means. Brethren, the idea behind that, that's the real wickedness of sin. Sin is a depreciation of God's glory. Here the most spectacular, the most majestic, the most beautiful, the most valuable, the most worthy being ever imagined expresses his will to really very insignificant creatures of his. [00:19:29]
Brethren, the issue here is we sinners are bought with a price, but the price set for us did not have to do with our intrinsic worth because if you read scripture you know what it says we were worth, worth less. That's what scripture says worth less. I see so often sinners go wrong at this point. If the price to ransom us goes up and up and up, it's not like the first scenario it's not because our intrinsic value must be that high. [00:36:50]
Brethren, do you imagine that God would do such things as he did to his only son if there was any cheaper way to pay the price? He did this to his son, his son, the son from his own bosom, the sun in which he took delight, the son who is more precious to him than anything else. Do you imagine that God would ever have sent his only begotten son to the cross if he could have duly honored himself as a lawgiver any other way? [00:41:18]
You want to know the seriousness of our law breaking, you gaze at that cross and you see the wrath of God and you see the tremendous agony that Jesus faced even in the days before in the time before the months before, the agony that he was pressed with in this coming judgment falling upon his own head. This thing, terrible seriousness is displayed of man's rebellion against God as a lawgiver. [00:43:31]
Brethren, a man rightly instructed about God and his law will come to grips with this, the fact that to have insulted the law and the giver of that law. Brethren, what do you think? What do you think? Do you think God's gonna allow you because of some partial effort on your part to keep the law and the best of your ability to the best of your power and to be as good as you can be? [00:45:12]
Brethren, we should tremble for lawbreakers who do not know our Lord Jesus Christ. God will not deal with such lawbreakers slightly and those who are involved in our lives. Jesus told the 72 who went out preaching the gospel, those people you go and preach that gospel to who refuse and reject you gonna be more tolerable for Sodom in the day of judgment than for those people. [00:51:55]
Brethren, this just exalts the law and the law giver in a way that nothing else could. Father, we pray for mercy Lord you designed this, you gave man a way of escape a way out through the obedience of one the many will be made righteous. Oh Lord, I pray that there would be many in this room that would make up the many that are found to be righteous through the obedience of another. [00:57:36]
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