The Great Exchange By Jeremy Anderson

And I'm gonna say the unpopular thing. That's not true. That is a lie, and it is deceiving a great many people to their eternal ruin. There is salvation found in no one else, Not in yourself, not in some other religion, not in some philosophical pursuit, not in some achievement. There is salvation found only in Jesus Christ. There is no other name given among men by which we must be saved. That name is Jesus. Our redemption is in him and it's in him alone. [00:31:45] (41 seconds)  #OnlyJesusSaves

What does the resurrection have to do with any of this? I thought we came to talk about the empty tomb, not all of our sin. Well, here's here's what the resurrection how the resurrection reminds us of our poverty. Because there is no resurrection without death. And the ultimate where where our poverty ultimately leads is death. There's no resurrection Sunday without Good Friday. So we're here to celebrate and we celebrate the resurrection recognizing that Jesus traded his riches for all the poverty that we just spoke about. [00:19:21] (43 seconds)  #ResurrectionRevealsPoverty

But this isn't just some fairytale thing that we like to, you know, throw around once a year on Easter from time to time. This is the invitation is there for you to to receive it, not for you to earn it, not for you to work towards it, but to receive it by faith, to turn from your poverty, to exchange it for the riches of Christ. That stands before you today. Let today be that day of salvation for you. [00:36:39] (40 seconds)  #ReceiveByFaithToday

Friends, Jesus has graciously exchanged his riches for your poverty. Graciously. He didn't have to. You didn't earn it. We didn't merit this kind of, benevolence from our God, but he did so graciously. That's the great exchange that Jesus took on our sin. He took on our separation from God. He bore suffering in his own body so that we might become rich. [00:20:27] (30 seconds)  #GreatExchangeOfGrace

What we deserve, Jesus bore upon himself. He experienced suffering, humbling himself to take on human flesh. God in the flesh, he experienced hunger, pain, sadness, tiredness. Not to mention the fact that Jesus suffered the the evils of injustice as he was he was unjustly sentenced to death on the cross. He was betrayed and rejected by the very people he came to save. He suffered all the pain and the agony of the cross both physically and spiritually. He provided the great exchange where Jesus, though rich, graciously exchanged his riches for our poverty so that we might become rich. [00:22:17] (60 seconds)  #JesusBoreOurSuffering

By by our standards, it's a completely unfair trade. We stand to gain everything while Jesus takes on all of our poverty. And we call this the great exchange because it's there at the cross as we celebrate and we remember that Jesus took all of our sin, all of our shame, all of our guilt, and all the consequences thereof upon himself and gave us his righteousness. Not a fair trade, but it's one that has completely changed the game, if you will. [00:02:43] (33 seconds)  #UnfairGraceTrade

God's word answers those questions if we'll listen. It teaches us that we were created by the god of the universe, and we were brought into existence to relate with him. That's why we are relational beings. We were created relational beings not just to relate with one another, but so that we would relate with our God. The problem is we chose to reject our God, and we rebelled against him in sin. We chose poverty over the riches of our God. [00:14:27] (42 seconds)  #CreatedForRelationship

We are separated from our God, not because he's just some big jerk in the sky, but because he's just and he's holy. And because of that, God can't just brush sins under the rug and pretend like he didn't see them. He has to deal with them. Sin must be dealt with. Because of all this, the scriptures teach us that we are on the fast track to an eternity of separation from our Lord. [00:15:16] (27 seconds)  #HolinessRequiresJustice