00:00 Introduction to Romans Five

00:06 Understanding Justification by Faith

02:26 Three Results of Justification

04:35 Peace with God

06:38 Trust Jesus to Remove God's Wrath

14:15 Trust Jesus for Favor from God

22:12 Trust Jesus to Enjoy Life's Greatest Treasure

27:43 Conclusion and Prayer

So we're in Romans five.

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We're gonna just look

at two verses tonight.

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All right.

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Romans five verses one and two.

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But before we get there, this

passage talks a lot about.

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Um, this thing called

justification by faith, right?

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And we've been talking about that a lot.

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And just to catch you up, if you

haven't been here, that means that

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God makes people righteous, not by

things that we do, but as a gift.

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And we receive that gift by faith.

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We receive it by trusting

Jesus, by depending on him.

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We spent a long time talking

about how righteousness is a gift.

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And we just got, we just entered a

season where we got a lot of gifts.

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We just got a lot of gifts for Christmas.

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Hopefully you got some good ones, but

every year you get some lame gifts

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for Christmas, you get some gifts.

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You're like, Hey, thanks.

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But I'm just, I'm grateful that

you got me something, but I'm just

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kind of leave it in the closet.

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I don't know if you've ever

gotten a gift like that.

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I got a couple gifts like that this

Christmas where really grateful that

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they thought of me, really grateful

that they wanted to get something for

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me, but not what I would've picked.

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Right.

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Um.

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No, it wasn't pajamas.

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That wasn't one of them.

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It was another article of clothing.

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My, someone got me these hats and I was

like, I don't think I'd ever wear those,

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but, and I don't think my wife would ever

want me to wear them, more importantly.

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Um, but they're, they're

there, they're hats.

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And I got 'em anyway.

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So, um, sometimes right, you

get a gift and you just, you're

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like, thanks, put it in the box.

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Forget about it.

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Right.

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Sometimes Christians can do that

with justification, with being made

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righteous, being made acceptable to God.

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Sometimes if you're a Christian,

you can think of your justification

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like, great, I got saved.

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I got made righteous.

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God took away my sin, and then I

leave that and I move on to what

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I'm supposed to do as a Christian.

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What we're gonna see in Romans

chapter five is we're gonna see

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that that being that action of being

made righteous, God does that to us.

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It's a gift that matters for

the rest of a Christian's life.

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Okay, so look with me Romans

five, verses one and two.

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Okay.

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Therefore, whenever we see a, therefore

right, we ask what is therefore there for?

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It means it's, we're talking

about what we just talked about,

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therefore it's like a connection.

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So whenever you see it, therefore,

you should look at what we just talked

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about and what we just talked about

in Romans four was justification.

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By faith being made righteous.

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Being righteous, applied by faith.

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So therefore, because we've been justified

by faith, then there's gonna be three

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things that happen as a result of that.

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Three things that matter forever.

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First thing, we have peace with

God through our Lord Jesus Christ.

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Second thing, through him, through

Jesus, we also have obtained access by

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faith into this grace in which we stand.

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So that's the second thing.

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We've got peace.

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We have access into this, this stuff,

and we'll talk about what that is.

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And the third thing, we rejoice

in the hope of the glory of God.

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Three things.

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So sometimes it's helpful for me when

I read the Bible to kind of break

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them up into sections like that.

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It helps me just see it better, right?

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Because sometimes you look at your Bible

and it's a bunch of words and you're

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like, I don't know where to start.

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I like doing stuff like this.

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Helps me see it, right?

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So three things that, three results

of being justified by faith.

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First.

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One second.

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One third one.

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Now, what I want you to notice

here is, right, these are all not

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something that we earned, right?

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These are not things that we got because

we're so great, because we did awesome

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things because we're a good person,

because we have Christian parents.

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'cause we go to church, 'cause we

grew up believing the right things.

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They come through Jesus.

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We've talked about that a lot

in the book of Romans so far,

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we've talked about that a lot.

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That all of the, all of the

goodness of God to us comes

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through Jesus Christ, right?

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We don't earn God's blessings.

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They come as a gift by faith, right?

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Grace has to be unearned.

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It can't be earned otherwise.

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It's not a gift anymore.

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If you worked for it, if you

deserved it, it wasn't a gift.

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It wasn't something that

God showed to you as grace.

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It was something that you earned from God.

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You put God in debt.

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You said, I'm so good.

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God, you better give this to me.

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I deserve it.

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That's not how it works.

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All of this comes because of

someone else, because of Jesus,

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and we receive it by faith.

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But anyway, three results, right?

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Three results of being justified by faith.

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Those are our three results.

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So that first one, we're gonna

focus on that one right now.

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All right.

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Peace with God.

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Why is that such a big deal?

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Well, I don't know if you've

ever thought about this before.

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This might be new to you.

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Hopefully it's not.

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But at one point in your life,

and this might still be true to

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you today, God was your enemy.

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That might be new for you.

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God was your enemy.

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Maybe you just thought, oh,

I just didn't believe in God.

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Or, oh, I just wasn't a Christian,

or I just didn't give my life to

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Christ, or I wasn't following Jesus.

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At one point in your

life, God was your enemy.

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If you aren't a Christian.

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God is presently right now, your enemy.

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There is hostility between you and God.

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There's, it's not just ignoring God.

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There is hostility.

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There is anger there.

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God's wrath is directed at your sin

because as we've talked about in Romans

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chapter one, what you're saying to God

is you're not, you're not good enough.

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I don't want you, I just

want your stuff, right?

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That's what, not trusting God is.

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That's what worshiping other things,

loving things more than God is.

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And so at some point in your life, if, if

you're a Christian, it was in the past.

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If you're not a Christian,

it's you right now.

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God was your enemy.

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You are opposed to God.

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You are in rebellion against God.

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That's why this is such a big deal.

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Because the only way you can fix that, the

only way you can get God to not be your

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enemy anymore is through Jesus Christ.

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So God is the enemy of those

who are not following him, who

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aren't trusting him, right?

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You can't just ignore God and

say, oh, well, just me and God.

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We don't just get along.

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We're just gonna go our separate ways.

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That's not how it works.

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You are opposing God.

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If you are not following Jesus, and

so the only way to get that taken

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away is through Jesus Christ by faith.

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So our first point tonight, trust

Jesus to remove God's wrath.

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You could write more.

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You could say from you or from me.

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The only way that you can have peace

with God, you can solve the problem that

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God is opposed to me and I'm opposed

to God is through Jesus trusting him.

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I don't know if you've ever had a

teacher who feels like, feels like

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your teacher's out to get you.

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Have you ever been in

one of those classes?

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Carson just nodded so hard.

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I'm not surprised at all, but if

you ever been in a class where you

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feel like, man, my teacher is just.

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They're just looking and

waiting for me to mess up.

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Right.

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Or you maybe had a coach like that.

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Like, oh man, they are just waiting.

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Every time I do something wrong, every

time I mess up, every time I even look at

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my friend to talk to them, they're on me.

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Right?

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I, I was in, I was in a class like that.

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Mostly it was my fault because

I deserved it, but I felt like,

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man, my teacher is out to get me.

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He.

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Even accused me of forging

my mom's signature.

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I'm in fourth grade, he accused me

of forging my mom's signature on a

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permission slip because it was bumpy,

because she signed it on like a,

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like a concrete table at the park.

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And so it was bumpy and he

was like, let me see your mom.

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You need to talk.

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And I was like, okay.

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And he was like, he brought it up.

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Did you sign this?

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Mrs.

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Azuma and I, she was like, yeah.

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And I was like, see, I told you.

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And so anyway, he was just looking for,

for anything to, to get me in trouble.

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That's how I felt.

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Right.

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I don't know if you've ever been

in a class like that, but, um,

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there's that tension, right, of,

man, my teacher is opposed to me.

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They, they're not on my team.

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They're not, they're

not looking out for me.

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If you are.

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Not following Jesus.

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You are God's enemy.

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There is opposition between you and God.

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You are not merely ignoring God

or doing things your own way.

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You are actively opposing

the king of the universe.

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You're not just agreeing to disagree.

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You're not just saying, well, maybe

later I'll, I'll get on the right track.

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You're telling God I don't want you.

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You're not important.

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You're not glorious, you're not valuable.

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You're not worth following,

you're not trustworthy.

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You are opposing God.

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If you are a Christian, that's

where you were before God saved you.

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You weren't just a good kid

waiting to become a Christian.

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You were opposing God.

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You were the object of God's wrath.

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God's holy anger was going

to be poured out on your sin.

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That's why peace with

God is such a big deal.

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It removes that, it removes God's

anger, God's right anger, right?

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So my teacher had a lot of good

reasons to not like me as a student.

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I talked a lot to my friends.

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I messed around in class a lot.

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Um, and I was very, I, I made a

lot of, I made a lot of jokes.

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I did a lot.

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I messed around in class

and whatever, right?

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He had a lot of good reasons to, to

be assuming the worst about me, right?

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Even more so with God.

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God's anger is perfectly

justified towards sin.

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It's the right response that

he should show towards our sin.

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And so the only way to get rid of God's

anger is not to try to make it up to

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God and try to do better next time.

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It's not to, um, just try really hard.

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It's not to do all the Christian things.

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That's not how you get

rid of God's wrath, right?

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Even if you are a Christian, if you sin.

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The first thing you should do

isn't try really hard to not do it.

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The first thing you

should do is go to Jesus.

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Jesus is the only one who can

remove God's wrath from you, and

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you need that every day of your

life, even if you are Christian

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closeness with God, right?

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We talk about, oh, I just

wanna be close with God.

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Sometimes Christians say that you

hear Christians say something like,

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oh, I just wanna draw closer to God.

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I want, I just want want to.

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Feel closer to God.

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I don't feel close to God right now.

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Closeness with God is grounded

in an objective reality, right?

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A a concrete thing that really happened.

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Jesus really died on the cross.

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He really took away the sin of his people.

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That's where closeness

with God comes from.

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It doesn't start with you being

really good at reading your Bible.

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It doesn't start with you

knowing a lot about God.

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It doesn't start with

you serving in church.

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It starts with Jesus.

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You go to Jesus.

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That's where you remove the

obstacle between you and God.

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You can't add to it.

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You can't take away from it.

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That's such a good thing, right?

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Maybe you are a Christian and

you feel terrible after you sin.

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That doesn't change what Jesus did.

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You can't outs sin, Jesus saving work.

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So the first thing you

should do is go to Jesus.

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There's one pastor he calls

it, he calls it gutsy guilt.

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You feel bad about your

sin, you're convicted.

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You go to God.

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You don't hide from God.

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You go to God.

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You say, God, I'm a sinner.

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I need you.

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I need you to forgive me.

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Please help me repent.

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I hate that I did this.

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I love you.

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I don't wanna do this anymore.

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That's the way to remove God's wrath.

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You go to Jesus.

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You don't hide from him.

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You don't try to clean yourself

up and then come to God.

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You go to Jesus to take away your guilt.

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But justification by faith.

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Right.

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What we talked about doesn't

just get rid of God's wrath.

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It doesn't just stop God

from being your enemy.

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It also makes God your friend,

and that's what we see later

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on in this passage, right?

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It's like you went from being

the, you know, the problem

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child of the class to being the

teacher's favorite student, right?

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You're not just a normal student anymore.

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Once you become a Christian, you're

actually the favorite student.

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Right.

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That's what we're talking

about in verse two right here.

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So we've been justified by faith.

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So the first thing means

we have peace with God.

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The second thing, through him,

through Jesus, we have obtained.

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That means you've got something

access by faith into this grace.

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So this is a really interesting

description of grace 'cause it's almost

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like grace is like a room, right?

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You went from the wrath

room to the grace room.

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You didn't just go from the

wrath room to the neutral room.

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You went from the wrath

room to the grace room.

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Now what even is grace, right?

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What does that even mean?

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Well, you're in the the realm of grace.

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Another way you could

translate this would be favor.

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God is now

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he's his.

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Instead of his wrath being poured out to

you, his love is being poured out to you.

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God is no longer opposed to you.

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He is for you.

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Everything that he does

is working for your good.

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For what's best for you.

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And the best part is there's nothing

you can do to get out of it, right,

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because you didn't get yourself in it.

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'cause you got there by faith.

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So God puts you in it by faith,

and that means you're stuck.

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You can't get out of it,

which is a great thing.

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And so you don't just trust

Jesus to take away God's wrath.

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You also trust Jesus to

give you God's favor.

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That's our second point.

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Trust Jesus for favor.

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From God.

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The word favor has kind of been hijacked

from for by some, uh, some types of

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churches that will tell you that favor

from God means a lot of money or favor

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from God means, um, you're never gonna get

sick or nothing bad's gonna happen to you.

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Right.

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You probably might not have run into

that, but, um, your people, your

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leaders might have heard stuff like

that, and you might as you get older.

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So what we really need to

talk about is what actually

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does favor from God look like?

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Right?

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What does it mean to

experience God's goodness?

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What does it mean to

experience God's favor?

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What does it mean that God is for

me and not against me anymore?

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Well, we can start with

what it isn't, right?

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Favor from God isn't everything you want.

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And the reason is because everything that

I want for me isn't always good for me.

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Simple example.

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I love Mountain Dew.

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Mountain Dew is not good for me, right?

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But I want it, right?

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There's a lot of things that I want

that aren't good for me, not just

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physically, but emotionally, spiritually.

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There's a lot of things that.

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I'm like, oh yeah, that would

be so great if I had that thing.

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And maybe the thing

itself isn't bad, right?

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Maybe it's, uh, you know, you, you want

to go into this type of career, or maybe

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you wish you had this type of family,

or maybe you wish you had this much

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money, or maybe you wish you looked like

this, or maybe you wish whatever, right?

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Not necessarily a bad thing, but it

might not be good for you to have.

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So favor from God doesn't mean

getting everything you want.

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Favor from God doesn't

mean your life is easy.

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It doesn't mean a problem free life.

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You think about God's favorite

person in the world is Jesus.

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Jesus had a really hard life.

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It wasn't problem free.

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It wasn't easy.

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It doesn't mean a lot of money

or success on your terms, right?

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It doesn't mean all of

your dreams will come true.

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Don't say, oh, well now I'm Christian.

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God's gonna help me do

everything I want to do, right?

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That's not what it means

that God is for you.

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Because if God's really for you,

he's actually gonna not let you

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do things that you want to do.

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'cause they might be bad for you, right?

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Kind of like your parents.

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They're for you.

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They're for your good.

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And so they don't let you do certain

things, or they don't let you do

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certain things because they, they say

that that's not gonna be good for you.

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So.

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Well then what is it?

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What is favor from God?

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Doesn't sound very attractive anymore.

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You've ruined it Well.

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What is favor from God?

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Well, it's God's unwavering

commitment to your good.

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I think I've said this to you guys before,

but God is more committed to your good,

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to your eternal happiness than you are.

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God cares more about you

being happy than you do.

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Maybe you've never heard

it put like that before.

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Psalm 16 says that at God's right hand are

pleasures forevermore, the most amount of

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happiness for the longest amount of time.

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And God wants that for you.

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And that's why he offers you himself.

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He says, the way you're gonna be happiest

is if you get me the, the most loving

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thing for God to do is say, I want you

to have as much of me of God as possible.

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That's the most loving thing

you forgot to do, right?

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It'd be like, if I was the best chef

in the world, let's say imagine I

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was the, the best chef in the world

and, um, you came to me and you were

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like, alright, I'm, I'm, I'm trying

to, you know, I've met this special

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someone and I wanna take him to dinner.

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Where should I take him?

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Right?

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I wanna take him on this date.

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I wanna have an awesome dinner.

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If I loved you, I wouldn't send

you to the second best restaurant.

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I would say, I'll make you dinner

because I am the best chef.

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Objectively.

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I'm the, I make the best food,

so I should make you the food

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because if you go somewhere

else, it's gonna be worse, right?

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If I loved you, that's what I would do.

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And so similarly, God will make you

happier to satisfy you more than

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anything else the world has to offer.

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And so the most loving thing for him to

do is say, here's how you get more of me,

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more of my glory, more of my goodness.

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More, here's how you experience more

closeness with me, and that's the

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most loving thing for God to do.

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And so it's almost like, like in

sports, there's always those players

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that you hate playing against, right?

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You're like, man, that guy, I, I really

hate playing against him usually because

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they're, they're really good and you don't

like playing against him, and they're

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really frustrating to play against.

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But then when they get like

traded to your team, you're

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like, oh yeah, this is awesome.

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This is the best.

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I love this guy.

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They're, they're like

the best player ever.

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It's kinda like that just happened

when you became a Christian.

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You went from being on the

opposite team from God.

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He was against you, you were against him.

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You were hostile to him, and

now he's, you're on his team.

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You got traded.

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Now you're on his team and now

he's working for your good, right?

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He's throwing touchdowns for your team.

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Now he's scoring goals for your team.

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And you're like, that's great.

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That's what I want.

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You could score all the

goals you want now, right?

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Because you're on my team now, or

I'm on your team rather, right?

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So

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Jesus is the way.

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You get favor from God, right?

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For God to look at you and say, well done.

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Good and faithful servant

that comes through Jesus.

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It doesn't come by your own effort, right?

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So even if you are a Christian,

maybe you say, great, I'm saved.

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I wanna live for God.

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You do that through Jesus.

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You don't do that apart from Jesus.

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You don't move on from Jesus once you get

saved and then say, all right, now I'm

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gonna try really hard and and love God.

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You still do that through Jesus.

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The only way that any of the good

things that Christians do are

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acceptable to God is through Jesus.

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So you still trust Jesus.

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Even in your good works, you still trust

Jesus, even in how you worship God.

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So we trust Jesus to take away

God's wrath and we trust Jesus

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to give us favor from God.

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And like I mentioned earlier, um,

the goal of being saved, the goal

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of justification by faith is not

to be justified to be saved, right?

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The goal of being saved isn't being saved.

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The goal of being saved is to get God.

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The goal of being saved is to get God.

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That's where Paul goes with

this last point right here.

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So you get peace with God,

you get access to God's grace.

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But most importantly he says, we

rejoice in the hope of the glory of God.

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When you see hope in the Bible,

I don't want you to think hope,

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like, oh, I hope the Cowboys

actually get a good defense one day.

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Right?

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I don't want you to think hope like that.

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I want you to think hope,

like I am confident that

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this is gonna happen, right?

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Like a, a certain confidence you have

of like, man, this is gonna happen.

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I know it's gonna happen, but I'm just

looking forward to it happening, right?

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Like I hope Winter revival is

going to be awesome, right?

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You're confident, you're

like, I know this is gonna be

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awesome, so I'm gonna expect it.

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Right?

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That's the kind of hope that when you see

hope in the Bible, that's what that means.

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So we are rejoicing in the

hope of the glory of God.

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One day we are going to see God.

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As he is, we're gonna finally be

with God and enjoy him free from

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sin, free from anything that hinders

your, your experience of God.

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And that is the goal of

being justified by faith.

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The point of being saved

isn't just to be saved.

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The point of being saved is that you get

God, you get the greatest thing ever.

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You get God himself.

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So that's our third point.

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Trust Jesus to enjoy

life's greatest treasure.

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Which is God, in case you could

put that in parentheses, God,

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right after that, if you wanted to.

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The best part about being a Christian is

that you get God, that's the best part.

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Hands down.

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The best part isn't that you're forgiven.

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The best part isn't that

you're not gonna go to hell.

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The best part isn't that

now you're part of a church.

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The best part is that you get God.

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I want you to imagine that someone

gave you tickets to the Super Bowl.

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Like let's say they just showed up

on Christmas Day and you, you opened

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a Christmas present and you were

like, man, tickets to the Super Bowl.

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Or let's say you're a

more refined sports fan.

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Tickets to the World

Cup this summer, right?

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Way better than the Super Bowl.

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Imagine that that happened.

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To you, or maybe you don't care

about sports concert tickets, right?

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Or something like that, right?

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To your favorite Taylor Swift.

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No.

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Um, imagine that you got

surprised by, by tickets, right?

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Whatever it is.

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Super Bowl concert, anything like that.

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And then all you did was like,

you, you frame the ticket.

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You're so excited about the ticket.

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You're like, I have this ticket.

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To go to the Super Bowl

and you post about it.

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You tell everyone, you, you just tell all

your friends, you bring it to school with

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you, you know, and it like, you've got

like a bulletproof glass frame for it.

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You're like, look at my ticket, look

at my ticket, look at my ticket.

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And then you never actually go,

but you're like, guys, I have

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a ticket to the Super Bowl.

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Isn't that awesome?

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I have a ticket that gets

me into the Super Bowl.

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Isn't that great?

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I have a ticket for it.

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And you tell everyone.

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Then they'll ask, how was the Super Bowl?

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They're like, oh, it was cool, but

I have a ticket for the Super Bowl.

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Isn't that awesome?

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That's really dumb, right?

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That's what it's like to be more excited

about being saved than getting God

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being saved is the ticket.

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God is the prize.

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That's what you look forward

to about being saved.

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That's the best part.

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The best part isn't that you're saved.

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The best part is you're

saved, so you get God.

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The best part isn't that

you're made righteous.

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The best part is that you get God.

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The best part isn't that

you're forgiven of your sin.

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The best part is that

forgiveness gets you God.

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Forgiveness isn't primarily about

getting your guilt taken away.

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Forgiveness is primarily about,

you get Jesus, your guilt is

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gone, and now you get Jesus.

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You have the ticket,

and now you get to go.

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That's, that's the point.

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Justification isn't just about

finally feeling good enough.

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It's about getting Jesus going to heaven

isn't about not having to go to Hell.

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It's about getting to be with Jesus.

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That's everything as a Christian, right?

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The point of praying is

not necessarily to pray.

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The point of praying is you can talk

to God and that's awesome, right?

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The point of reading your

Bible isn't to read the Bible.

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It's not to do the Dbr R.

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The point of praying is

you get to hear from God.

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You get to see God in his word.

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You get to enjoy him and worship him and

so him in and just man God is so awesome.

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That's the point of reading the Bible.

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That's the point of going to church.

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The point of going to church

isn't to say hi to your friends.

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The point of going to church isn't

just to, to do the right thing

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or, or fuel up on the sermon.

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Those are all good things about being in

church, but the best part about church

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is it's God's people and they show

you a little bit more of who God is.

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You get to see more of

God through his people,

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and all of that comes through Jesus.

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You get God because of Jesus.

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Jesus saves you to bring you to

God, but he also saves you to

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establish a relationship with God.

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So you, God goes from being your enemy

to being your friend, to being for you.

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And then also he shows you

who God is most clearly right?

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Jesus shows us who God

is He God in the flesh?

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Where do we see the glory of

God most clearly, it's in Jesus,

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who He is, what He's like.

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And so faith is how you enjoy

God the way you're supposed to.

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Faith is the way, like we

talked about a few weeks ago.

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Faith is the way you see

things the right way.

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Faith is the the way you get connected

to this greatest treasure, right?

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It's the ticket to the game.

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And so I hope for you tonight.

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When you think of the best part

about being a Christian, you think

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of God, and I hope when you think of

all the things that Christians do,

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you don't think of a bunch of rules.

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You don't think of a

bunch of boxes to check.

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You don't think about a bunch of

things to measure up to, but you think

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about, these are ways that I enjoy God.

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These are ways that God and

I deepen our relationship.

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These are ways that God,

I get to hear from God.

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I get to talk to God.

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I get to spend time with God's people.

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I get to see more of who God

is and ultimately one day.

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You get to go to heaven and

you get to finally be with

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the God that you love so much.

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Let's pray and we'll go to small groups.

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Father, you are amazing.

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You are glorious.

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You are so important, so awesome, so

loving, so faithful, and I am just so

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glad that you made yourself known to us.

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Thank you that you love us and that

you've shown us who you are in your word.

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And so I pray that as we talk more about

trusting you, as we talk more about, um,

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these big ideas that you would help us

to, um, remember that the, the best part

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of everything is you and I pray that you

help us to, um, not just see following

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you as a, a bunch of chores to do or.

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Um, things that we just have to do to,

to, to make it, but rather that we would

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see it as a relationship with, um, the

most amazing person we could ever know.

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Pray this in Jesus name.

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Amen.