Living Justified: Embracing Grace and Humility in Christ

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The new covenant is the new agreement between God and man, and a new agreement is that we must be like Jesus in the purity of his character just like Jesus who never sinned never sinned even once for 10,000 days he never sinned for two hundred and ninety thousand hours and the agreement we make with Jesus's I must be like him. [00:29:59]

Grace is that word which is God's riches at Christ's expense and I can increasingly live as if I am the richest man in the universe and the richest woman in the universe because of what God did for me in Christ and there's a word relating related to that that I want to speak about today related to grace they go hand in hand. [00:81:45]

All have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God all of us have seen nobody is excluded and but it doesn't start a end with a period there a lot of us tend to think we are all sinners and then we put a period there but there's a put a comma at least in my translation he says we've been justified. [00:173:209]

Propitiation means taking away the anger of God Jesus was a propitiation which means he took away God's anger and wrath wrath take her anger ticket Jesus was the anger ticker the rusticana what was God's anger directed at act it was directed at us because of our sins not because of us because of who we are God created us wonderfully beautifully. [00:255:89]

The message here is that all have sinned in Romans chapter 3 verse 23 but that Jesus came in the way the wrath was meant for me not Jesus died for the sins of the whole world Jesus died for me because the wrath of God was coming towards me and Jesus came in the way that is the beginning of our relationship with Jesus. [00:359:4]

The Christians definition of gratitude is founded in what Jesus did for me when he took away the wrath that you won't find any new age blog talking about Jesus came in the way of that bullet that was headed for me it was a spear that was headed for me we lose sight of that so easily take me back dear Lord to the time when I first believed. [00:473:37]

Propitiation means that God took the wrath I was destined for me the other thing that's the first word wrath taker dear brothers and sisters gratitude will come easy to you gratitude will be natural if you recognize what happened then there was the wrath of God that was destined for you and that Jesus stood in the way and took it he took the fall he took the hit. [00:537:62]

Justification is not just that Jesus died it's also have a component in in in that he was raised I talked about propitiation the Jews took the hit and that he did died but part of our justification is also in the component that he was raised and the next verse tells me that in verse 25 the justification of faith is verse 24 is available to us to who believe that Jesus raised him from the dead. [00:726:14]

We have to really see how God took all of the wrath that was meant for us in his son Jesus that's what happened to our sins but now we are sinless that doesn't mean we are full of righteousness taking away the sin is like cleaning a cup and making it empty so it's clean but it's empty that's just not that's not the gospel. [00:786:18]

The race is much harder than you can imagine because the race before you is be like Jesus who never sinned for two hundred and ninety thousand hours that's the race it's made very clear about it the race is not to have our time and there is not to have raised godly children the race is not to have a ministry nothing except that to run like Jesus who never sinned for $290,000. [01:119:73]

If you do not have humility you are excluded from the race where then is any pride where then is any boasting it is excluded there is no such thing as a proud Christian because a Christian is someone who's running the race to be like Jesus and pride is excluded this is why we must hate all pride my dad says that pride is like dust that is how easily bright comes into ourselves. [01:194:71]

I had to get rid of my robes all I could offer was my sin stained robes all I could offer was my sin stain crowns things that I thought were crowns full of sin filthy that's all I could give him God said it's not gonna get you in your righteousness your ministry your blogposts your sermons your mission trips to Africa and India and Asia and that's gonna get you in No. [01:457:71]

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