Transformative Power of Christ's Sacrifice

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The Lord said 700 years before it happened I'm going to take the sins of my people and lay them on my servant my son who now we know to be Jesus. Paul said it like this in 1 Corinthians 15 I remind you brethren in what terms I preach to you the gospel that Christ Christ died for our sins in accordance with the scriptures. [00:06:41]

It is the only hope for our church in view of what we've been through together it's the only hope that we have that Christ bore our sins he bore my sins he bore your sins that's our only hope and that's a powerful hope I mean just think of it think of what we are saying when we say that Jesus is no ordinary person he is the son of the Living God. [00:07:38]

Do you believe this morning that your sins were carried by Jesus that he bore in his body your sins do you believe that he bore the sins of those that you are most angry with for their sin do you believe that the implications are tremendous for us if we will if we will we can leave that with God we can leave it and that would be a refreshing thing for us. [00:09:04]

I trust you Jesus that all my sins all the ones that are public all the ones that are private all of them are lifted born suffered for removed I bear them no more I do not carry my guilt into the future oh how I want you to be able to say that about your life you don't have to go to bed guilty at night. [00:09:41]

You don't have to go to bed guilty and you don't have to get out of bed guilty because 1 Peter 2:24 says he himself bore our sins in his body on the tree and if you trust him that his achievement is so great that you don't have to carry that into the future it will make all the difference in the world in your life and in the life of this church. [00:10:48]

Notice clearly again what the aim of this death of Jesus was this sin bearing guilt bearing death he says it was in order that we might die to sin and live to righteousness so the correspondence as I pointed out is the same with verse 21 there he suffered that we might walk in his footsteps here he Bears our sin so that we might live to righteousness. [00:11:27]

The suffering of Jesus is a vicarious substitutionary suffering for you and the death of Jesus is a vicarious substitutionary death for you and the aim of both of those substitutionary vicarious sufferings and dying is that we might walk in his steps and live to righteousness now that's really important to see the purpose of this precious sin-bearing work. [00:12:11]

The grace of the Cross is its lifting of sin off of us and the guilt goes and the shame goes and you're pronounced and judged clean and Justified and then it feels I think a lot of people exalted that say yes that's the gospel to me that's my only hope that's the way I live. [00:13:09]

Would it really be good news to you if you heard God say this morning I hereby lift from everyone in this room the Everlasting guilt of any sin you have ever done are doing maybe right now and will do I lift it from you and I will never take from you the power to keep you from sinning. [00:14:02]

This text is teaching that God commits himself with Almighty love through the death of his son not only to lift from you your guilt but to take a lifetime if necessary to sever the power of sinning in your life that's good news because I frankly am not content to be redeemed only from guilt I want sin to be gone out of my life. [00:15:22]

He died that we might die to sin and live to righteousness he commits himself to do that but you might you might be saying right now are are you sure that it's a commitment might it not might the cross not be just a an offer might the cross not just create for God's people a possibility that that would happen. [00:16:07]

Is it really a security and an achievement of the cross that that will most definitely happen is it really a security and an achievement of the cross that that will most definitely happen is it really a security and an achievement of the cross that that will most definitely happen. [00:16:37]

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