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52:40-55:40
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To make sure that we clearly declare what it means to be Christian, and so I’ll tell you. There is one God. There is one God and he is the Maker of heaven and earth, and he made us in his image and likeness, male and female, with dignity, value, worth, and purpose. He made us to worship and we chose to sin against him; to rebel against him; to disobey him. As a result, we are separated from God and we live under the foolish myth that, to some degree, we are each our own god declaring right and wrong and living our own life by our own standards, and that God lovingly came into human history as the man, Jesus Christ, fully God, fully man.
That he was born of a virgin and he lived a life without sin, though he was tempted in every way as we are, and he went to the cross and there he substituted himself. Our first parents in the garden substituted themselves for God, and, at the cross, Jesus reversed that substitution and substituted himself for sinners, and, when Jesus went to the cross, he took willingly upon him the sin of those who would come to trust in him. That means me, as a sinner, Jesus went to the cross and took upon himself all my sin, past, present, and future, and Jesus Christ – God, who was a man – died in my place for my sins, paying my debt to God and purchasing my salvation. Jesus’ dead body was then laid in a tomb and for three days he was buried. On the third day, a Sunday, which is why we worship on that day – Jesus rose in victory over Satan, sin, death, demons, and hell.
And he commissioned us with the Holy Spirit to be missionaries telling this amazingly good news that there’s a God who passionately, lovingly, continually, relentlessly pursues us, and he ascended into heaven, and, today, Jesus is alive and well. And he’s seated on a throne, and he is ruling and reigning over all nations and all cultures and all philosophies and all races and all periods of time. He is ruling over moderns and post-moderns and women and men and children and the elderly and the rich and the poor and the wise and the simple and the black and the white and those who are living and those who are dead and those who have been born and those who will be born, and he is King of Kings and he is Lord of Lords, and he is ruling and reigning over all people, commanding everyone everywhere to repent of everything.
And he is coming again to judge the living and the dead, and those who trust in him will enjoy eternity in his Kingdom of heaven forever, and those who do not will suffer apart from him in the conscience eternal torments of hell. That is what I believe.
All is Great in the Lord
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