Episode 31 - Benefits of the Cross

Speaker 1 00:00:07 Hello, and welcome to the unveiling with your hosts, IJ, mark, and Tim three guys discussing the one true gospel. We hope you enjoy today's discussion. Let's dive right in. Speaker 1 00:00:23 Welcome to the unveiling with your hosts. AJ mark, and Tim. This is episode 31, which we've titled benefits of the cross. We just finished up a, a couple episode arc on Jesus Christ and him crucified. And it seemed like the next logical step was to move forward to so Christ died for us. What does that do for us? So we've come up with this. Probably gonna be a couple of episodes of its own on what actually happened at the cross. And what does it mean to us and how does it affect us? So we are going to move forward. AJ, I'm gonna go ahead and let you start us off today with the benefits of the cross. Speaker 2 00:01:07 Yeah. Thank you, Tim. You know, uh, all the benefits, in fact, you know, because of the cross, we have the inheritance in our large Christ and this inheritance is unexplainable, right? So the Bible says UN searchable, riches of Christ. When we talk about the benefits of the cross, you know, we're just scratching the surface, but even scratching the surface surface is good enough for us, right? Because there is so much blessing in it. So one of the first and the foremost benefits of the cross is the forgiveness of sins. The Bible says in Romans chapter four, verse five, blessed is a man who sin are forgiven and blessed is a man to whom the Lord does not impute sin. And in fact, preaching the gospel, Paul says, right? It is in fact in the Bible, you know, if you ever wonder what Paul preached and what Peter preached it is actually recorded in the Bible. Speaker 2 00:02:01 If, uh, go to acts 13 and verse 38, therefore my friends, I want to know that through Jesus, the forgiveness of census proclaimed to you through him, everyone who believes is set free from every sin, a justification, you are not able to obtain under the law of Moses. So the first and foremost that we need to understand, it's very important for us is at the cross. Our sins are forgiven. And the reason why our Sinor forgiven is Lord Jesus Christ. He became our sin sacrifice and he paid it all right. You know, there are only two things. Either Jesus paid it all or he did not pay it all. So if we believe that the Lord Jesus Christ was the perfect sacrifice for us sin. That means our all our sin since are forgiven. Sometimes we have this, um, belief, especially among believers who came to the largest Christ through faith, in him at salvation. Speaker 2 00:02:58 They think, you know, after salvation that somehow they have to keep on getting forgiveness. And sometimes they believe that their since are forgiven only up to the point of salvation. And after that, you have to keep on getting fresh forgiveness. But the truth of the matter is all of us, since, because without the shutting of the blood, the Bible says there is no forgiveness. And because Jesus shut his blood for us, there is forgiveness and there's not forgiveness of just our past sin or the present sin or the future sin, but all our sin are forgiven. And it is important to understand this because even as believers, we do things that are sins every day. So if you don't understand that our sins are forgiven, we will never have this peace and rest in our conscience that we need in order to bear the fruit of God, Romans chapter five, our son says, therefore being justified by faith. We have peace with God. So unless we understand that all our sin are forgiven once. And for all, we cannot really enjoy that rest and fellowship and peace with God, Speaker 1 00:04:05 Man, AJ, this has become a point in the Christian community, outside of the Christian community, that people just have a real seem to have a real problem with understanding. It says that God came to forgive us. Our, you know, came to die for the world. And we know non-Christians Christians, like all know that Christ died for our sins and to give us eternal life. But that this forgiveness of sins part seems to be very difficult. Mark. I think that what most people understand that as I come to Jesus and he forgives me all the sins, I've committed up to that point, but now I have to straighten up and fly, right? Pull myself up by my boots, straps, you know, all those great, uh, sayings that we have, but it's not true. God. As Andre said, God sent his son to die once for all the sins of the world, all past present future, uh, whether they were little sins or big sins, it doesn't matter. He came to die for all our sins. What is the, what is the difficulty with people understanding that? Speaker 3 00:05:09 Well, I think a lot of people don't realize, especially UN believers, that the Christian faith is saying that Jesus is God. And I remember I had been a believer for a number of years and I went to a Christian concert and the singer was wearing a t-shirt that said, Jesus is God. And for a moment, it took me aback, cuz I always thought, oh Jesus is the son of God. And you know, I hadn't, there's so much scripture that just tells us that Jesus is God, that all things were created through him and for him. And he sustains them all. When you take that fact into account, you realize, well, wait a minute. If Jesus is God, Jesus was OmniGen. And he was there before the creation of the world. He knew us. So when he went to that cross for our sin, you think he only knew the sin that we were going to commit up until we became Christians or as he said yes, to going to that cross to humbling himself to the lowest possible worst possible death. Speaker 3 00:06:18 He knew all our sins because he's God. So he died for them all. And you quoted the one very quintessential scripture once for all. He meant once for all, not just for the ones that we do until we become a Christian. And now we have no excuse and therefore should not be in need of any more forgiveness. Of course we are <laugh> so, but, uh, what, what, uh, you know, and I'm glad we're starting this one because it's the one most of the world knows, but it's the one that I think most people haven't reflected on and contemplate all the meaning in that, um, a couple scriptures that I want to do. One that I love and that many songs have been written on a Psalm 1 0 3, 11 through 12 says for as high as the heavens are above the earth. So great as his love for those who fear him as far as the east is from the west so far, has he removed our transgres from us? Speaker 3 00:07:20 How far is that? <laugh> though you're sin and you are going in opposite directions forever. And I, I just love the depth of that forgiveness. That scripture tells us. It's not like human forgiveness where you can forgive your wife. And then maybe 15 years later, you get a get in an argument and you bring that up and use it in as a weapon in your fight that that's not it. Another great scripture is, uh, Romans 9 33. Speaking of Christ, God says, see, I lay in Zion, a stone that causes people to stumble and a rock that makes them fall. And the one who believes in him will never be put to shame. So your sins are going the opposite direction of you from the minute Christ went on the cross and you will never, he's never gonna bring them up against you when you, if when you stand before him, there's gonna be no shame. Speaker 3 00:08:21 Those are gone. And then another great one that just ties in with that, that we love to talk about is Hebrews 10, 16 through 17. Speaking of the new covenant in Christ blood, God says, this is the covenant I will make with them. After that time says the Lord, I will put my laws in their hearts and I will write them on their minds. Then he adds their sins and lawless act. I will remember no more. Wow. The depth of that forgiveness is just amazing. Not only are they going in the opposite direction for us, never will God bring them up again to shame us with them or to say, I told you so, but he doesn't, he's chosen not to even remember them anymore. So us not remember our own sin and shame ourselves for our own sin, cuz that's not the life Christ died to give us Speaker 1 00:09:19 The beauty of, of Christ choosing to say, as far as the east is from the west versus north or south, there's a north pole, there's a south pole. There's only so far. You can go north before you, your headed south. And there's a finite amount of space between you and either of those poles, but there is no east pole. There is no west pole. You can go either direction forever without ever varying. So it's a it's as far as it's infin, infinite it's as far as you can get. And I'm, you know, I, I, I'm constantly amazed by the simplicity of taking those two directions versus the other two as the example. I'm sorry, AJ. I think you were gonna try and say something there. Speaker 2 00:10:05 Yeah. In fact, you know, uh, adding to your point that, you know, we are never going to see forgiveness again, I'm in the, our sin again, sometimes, you know, we understand forgiveness as just pardon, right? If you pardon somebody, you know, he still committed the sin, but uh, it's still associated with him. But uh, the true meaning of, uh, forgiveness, in fact, in some of the versions, it says remission of sin, right? Remission is like, if you have money in your bank account, when you remit the money, is it ever going to come back? The one that you remitted never, there's no way it'll come back. Right? So that's what it is like remission of, since it was sending away of our sense. And in the old Testament, there's a picture of, uh, two goats. You know, one goat is sacrificed another goat, um, uh, the sinner lace hands on the goat and then sends the goat away into the wilderness. Speaker 2 00:11:00 So never to come back. So here again, I think God gave us several pictures and uh, several words for us to simply, um, understand that, you know, your sin are forgiven forever and I'm not going to remember your sins and law states. In fact, you know, this sea of gospel, right? This is a fundamental doctrine of Christianity. And in fact it is so important that we read in, uh, acts chapter 10, that is a recorded, uh, uh, gospel that preached by that was preached by Peter. I am reading verse 43 and 44. And after explaining that Lord Jesus Christ died and rose again from the death, he says all the prophets testify to him that through this, through his name, everyone who believes in him receives forgiveness of sin while Peter was still speaking. These words, the holy spirit fell on those who were listening to the message. So the moment when Peter said through this, man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sin. And when they believed it, the holy spirit fell on them. So this is the most important and fundamental truth that we believe that actually saves us is that Lord Jesus Christ, two colors sin, and our sin are forgiven. Speaker 1 00:12:20 This seems like a good place for my usual disclaimer. Um, and that being, it doesn't mean we don't do bad things, which would be defined as sin under the law. We can still hurt ourselves. We can still hurt others, but God doesn't count those against us anymore. It's like as if you were to walk into a store, fill up a bag of with whatever goods or services and walk out and not pay for them, then you never owe for them. Uh, because the, that account has been settled and it's constantly settled, but there are still things that we will, we will, uh, experience as a result of some of the actions and activities we still do on the physical plane. But when we die and go to heaven, God said, says, I don't see your sin. I have chosen to forget your sin. I have cast your sin away. And as far as our relationship goes, we're still good. Speaker 3 00:13:18 Yeah. One key is the reason our sin has been forgiven. The reason it has been removed as far as the east is from the rest of the west, the reason he has chosen to for, for, uh, to remember them no more to forget them. And the reason we will never be put to shame on them is because God made him who had no sin to be sin for us. Our sins Christ was made our sin and nailed to the cross. That's why it's, as far as the east is from the west. That's why God didn't just sweep it under a rug to fulfill all justice Christ became our sin and died for us. So our sin has been crucified to that cross and that's, what's bought us E from the west. I will remember them. I will never put them to, to shame for them. Speaker 2 00:14:16 Yeah. In fact, uh, mark, I think that's an awesome segue to one of the things I want to talk about is our righteousness in Christ, the scripture that you quoted says, you know, he knew no sin became sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in him. In fact, you know, many people understand, uh, forgiveness, but the other side of the coin is our righteousness. In fact, if you look at the scriptures, right, they treat them as one. And the same in Roman chapter four, six, just as David also speaks of the blessing of the person to whom God imputs righteous and apart from works saying blessed are those whose knowledge deeds are forgiven, whose knowledge deeds have been forgiven. And whose sin have been covered. Blessed is a man to who sin. The Lord will not take into account. So yeah, here, as you see, right? Speaker 2 00:15:12 You know, he's saying blessed, David speaks of the blessing of the person to whom God credits righteousness apart from works saying blessed. All those whose law did are forgiven. So in our human world, right? When somebody sins against us, we forgive them. We still see them as sinners because that sin is still attached to them. But in God's economy, if he forgive our sin, not only he pardons our sins, but he also detaches that sin from us. If sin is detached from us, what do we become? We are not sinners anymore, but we are righteous. So that is also very important to understand that the cross, what happened was he became sin so that we might become the righteousness of God. You know, when we understand that we are made righteous and God is not imputing sin to us. In fact, uh, the Bible here, I think I'll read in another version. Speaker 2 00:16:08 Uh, I'm sorry. I have to use K J here, particularly for this verse, but, uh, Roman chapter four and verse six, even as David also describes the ness of the man unto whom God imputs righteousness with ThoughtWorks saying blessed are those whose inequities are forgiven and whose sins are covered. Blessed is a man to whom the Lord will not impute sin here. The will not is a very, very strong negative. No, never blessed is a man to whom the Lord will never impute sin. So, you know, when we understand that God is not imputing sin to us, the question of forgiveness doesn't even come up, right. If God is not counting my sin against me, why do I need forgiveness? Most of the time, you know, we also struggle with forgiveness and understanding and resting our forgiveness because we fail to realize that at the cross, we are made the righteousness of God in Christ. Speaker 2 00:17:03 And because of that, righteousness Bible says we will reign in life. So the, again, like if you look at the Bible and if you look at the old Testament, and if you look at the, um, truth that the Bible is trying to communicate throughout is the soul that sins must die. But the soul that is righteous must live even the old Testament, right? It says, if you keep all these commandments, you will be considered righteous. And the reward of righteousness is life. And if you don't keep all these commandments, you're basically sinned and the reward for sin death. So now that we are righteous, God is able to give us life. That's what says in Romans five 17, there that receive the gift of righteousness will reign in life. So understanding our righteousness is also very, very key to actually living this, uh, Christian life that is full of, uh, peace and joy. Speaker 2 00:17:57 In fact, uh, the theological term is justification, right? I think we talk about justification and we think that, um, it is only limited to our salvation, right? Oh, it's salvation was justified. And now after that, I'm back to square one, but it's not like that being justified means that we are made righteous. Irreversible made righteous. That means we are continually righteous before God. And that means we are continually have access to everything. God is for us. The only thing that separated us from God to begin with is the sin. Adam sin separated us from God and brought curse upon us, right. Instead of blessing. But now that the sin is removed, and if we are continually righteous, we have access to everything God has for us all is blessing. So we can boldly go to God and receive everything we need in time of our need because of our righteousness. Speaker 2 00:18:50 Most of the time, people fail to go to God boldly because they fail to recognize that they're righteous before him. And when we are actually constantly understanding that we are righteous and we are constantly, um, appropriate, um, appropriating the righteousness to us. Now this question of forgiveness doesn't even come, why does a righteous man need to be forgiven? Right? The only thing that we can expect from God is blessing after blessing. That's what Bible says, you know, and grace upon grace, the only thing now we can expect from God because of our righteousness is blessing. Otherwise God would be unjust. If God sends punishment across our way, then God would be unjust because the Bible clearly says it is, it is an abomination to, to, to a punish the righteous. And it is an abomination to forgive the sinner. So at the cross, God took care of both, right? So because he shut out blood for us. And if, and he like, uh, uh, mark said, because he became sin for us. Now God can just leave, forgive the sinner. And then after that, you know, God can only bless us. He cannot punish us anymore. Speaker 3 00:20:04 You know, uh, I wanted to touch on the righteousness here just, and the reason we're doing this, the reason we're discussing these things and contemplating them and trying to gain greater understanding, isn't just so that we're smarter or so we can be theologians. But scripture tells us that as we contemplate the Lord's glory, contemplate the cross, the great salvation contemplate the fact that we are the righteousness of God. That's where transformation comes from. We are transformed into the image of Christ and going back to the forgiveness thing, uh, while you were just starting, you had mentioned it to AJ, uh, this last segment, um, about forgiveness. Think about how many parables Jesus taught about forgiveness and what an important thing that is to human life and how, how, I mean, unforgiveness has wrecked. So it just leaves a trail of broken bodies behind it. How many families have been ripped apart by unforgiveness? Speaker 3 00:21:10 We're all in dire need of forgiveness. And one of, one of the stories I love, and one of the most beautiful pictures of that transformation is the woman who had been an adulterous, a sinful woman, who is behind Jesus at his feet, weeping tears on his feet, drying them with her hair. And, and the, the Pharisees were thinking, wow, if he knew who this woman was, you know, he wouldn't let her do that. And Jesus said, those who have been forgiven much love much. He didn't mean those who would sin the most love much. He means those who understand the forgiveness that's been extended to him. She was so transformed by that forgiveness and love that she wept and worshiped at his feet. And that's one of my favorite pictures of worship in the Bible. That's why all these things, as we go through our life, it's so important to contemplate them because they change us. Speaker 1 00:22:14 It's another story, biblically of a woman who came to Jesus, who needed was in need of healing. And he, he actually started by forgiving her and then letting her know she was healed and then telling her as she left now go and sin, no more. A lot of people will look at that story as the analogy for our salvation forgiveness. And that is now you, I forgive you, your sins. We're good for right now. Now go and sin no more. It's not a commandment. It's not a commandment to go out and suddenly be able to cuz we can't live a life without any error, without any pain, without any suffering that we either bring on ourselves or that comes upon us. What it is is he's telling her now go and live your life and understand that I've forgiven you everything. So you cannot sin sin no more. Speaker 1 00:23:07 Isn't the commandment. It's an it's, it's a teaching more or less she's being told, you know, you're saved go forward and you will sin no more. But uh, you know, that's and to understand that as a Christian, how many Christians do? I know that every week come in defeated because they went through another week where they got mad at somebody or they lied about something and they're sitting there going, oh, and God's turned his back on me and I have to get right. I have to seek forgiveness again. That's a hamster wheel. That's a hamster wheel will never get off and we'll never stop rolling and will just eventually discard us, uh, as broken and, and useless. That's not what Jesus brought us at the cross. He brought us total forgiveness. Speaker 3 00:23:54 You reminded me, Tim. I'm dating myself here, but of a Christian song from years ago about somebody who was beaten their self up about their sin. Their constant failure went to God to confess it to him. And the name of the song was sin. What sin that's God's response. If he remembers it no more. If he's removed it, as far as the east is from the west. If he's promised that you're never gonna be put to shame for it, when you bring your sin to him, he's gonna say, sin, what sin? I see the righteousness of Jesus Christ. You know, that's just such a powerful, um, powerful statement right there. You know, especially with some people will try to use, uh, John, what is it, John one about confessing your sins. He's gonna say sins, what sins? There's no sins for you to confess. They've been removed as far as theses from the west. In fact, it tells us one of my favorite scriptures is Ephesians one four. He says for, he chose us in Christ before the creation of the world to be wholly and blameless in his sight. Before you were, you were even existed before you were born. He had already chosen in Christ, in his son, going to the cross to see you as holy and blameless. So don't bring me your sin. I already took care of that. <laugh>, you Speaker 1 00:25:21 Know, there's a certain amount of ego that has to be involved with the idea that well I've sin and I've gotta take it to God. And God keeps saying, I forgave you all your sin and I've chosen to forget all your sin. Why do you keep trying to bring it back to me? Well, God, I'm so bad. I have done these things. I don't remember them. Quit trying to bring 'em back up. Speaker 3 00:25:40 Yeah. Right. It seems pious and religious and humbling. But in reality, you're just underestimating what Christ did on the cross, the power of the cross. It just, it seems like very religious and pious to be groveling in the dirt, over your sin in, in, in what is it? Sack, cloth and ashes. But it's really, and it's really just greatly underestimating the power, the perfect sacrifice and the finished work of the cross. Speaker 2 00:26:13 In fact, I think many well, meaning people think the reason why they subscribe to this constantly beating yourself up and uh, seeking forgiveness again. And again is because they think that, you know, if they beat them up or beat themselves up and if they shame themselves up or if they shame others out of that shame and guilt, they will behave better next time. But the thing is this guilt doesn't help us behave better. In fact, it'll take us into this, um, perpetual cycle of sin. The more you feel guilty, I can bet you the more you will end up sending more. It's a vicious cycle that you can never get out out of. So the only way out is actually having a clean conscience and a heart without condemnation and that no condemnation, a heart that is free of condemnation. And the conscience that is free of guilt comes only, you know, when we accept what Lord Jesus Christ did for us, when we realize that the blood of Jesus is enough for me to be forgiven of all my sins, right? Speaker 2 00:27:24 When we, when we start resting in that, um, uh, finish work. And then only when we receive the gift of no condemnation, that's when we will actually start living a victorious life. In fact, Bible is clear. Let Bible says we are, we will not since shall not have dome in over you. Not because, you know, because you're not under the law, but under grace and under the grace, no under grace, there is no sin imputed to us, right? We are constantly God ceases as righteous. And I quoted the scripture before. Also there that receives the gift of righteousness will reign in life. You know, God is not lying. So when we see ourselves as righteous will reign in life, and if you're reigning in life, sin will not reign over us. So people have well meaning intentions, but the thing is, it doesn't work. It produces the exact opposite effect. And in fact, they will start blaming people like us saying that, okay, your sins are forgiven and go and sin like a devil. But the thing is, their theology is the one that causes people to go and sin more. Whereas our theology or whatever you want to call it is knowing the truth that our sin are forgiven is the basis, or is the foundation for actually living a Victoria's Christian life. Speaker 3 00:28:44 If the only one who can condemn us has is the one who said there is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ. Jesus, who are we to condemn ourselves? The only one who can condemn us for our sin is God. And he said, there is no condemnation in Christ Jesus, because through Christ Jesus, the law of the spirit who gives life has set you free from the law of sin and death. It's a done deal. If the only one who can condemn has removed, you know, has already said, I've forgotten it. I've removed it. I will never shame you for it. I'll never condemn you for it. It, it just seems religious somehow and pious, but it's like, you're trying to pay your own. You're trying to make your own sacrifice for your own sin. Like a penance walking around, feeling bad. Speaker 3 00:29:41 That's somehow gonna pay for my sin and somehow make it cleaner. And I used to do that when I would follow that same old thing before I understood the gospel, I would spend two or three days groveling around feeling really guilty. And if in the, after those three days, I hadn't fallen again. Well now I felt clean and I would go back to God and start over. But that's, that's just ludicrous. And it's like, when we are weak, the thing we need more than anything is to turn to God right then and there not to beat ourselves up for the appropriate amount of time. <laugh> and that I'm clean again, Speaker 1 00:30:24 That constant harassment of ourselves, that constant internal reminder of our unworthiness, uh, for what we've received only produces one thing. And that shame and shame is a separator. It separates us from God and his love. And it's very modeled very well in Genesis with Adam and even the garden when they've eaten of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, and they understood their condition, they had shame. So when the Lord came at his usual time to have fellowship with them, they hid from him. He didn't hide. He knew what had happened. He's God, he knows everything. He didn't hide from them. They hid from him. We, they, they voluntarily removed themselves from the one thing they needed most. And that shame continues to work in us today in that way, if we continue to keep putting ourselves up as the antithesis of what we want to be, or the, you know, the, the example of what not to be that shame is gonna separate us. Not because God wants any separation, but because we are separating ourselves. Speaker 2 00:31:32 Yeah. But I, other thing I wanted to mention quick is, you know, because of lack of understanding of this forgiveness, there's a very, uh, very, uh, bad and sad, uh, consequences when bad things happen to us as believers in our life, we associate immediately with some sin or there is some unforgiven sin in my life. Therefore, you know, it just forgot to punish me. So when bad things happen, you know, it could be even from the devil, we actually accept it as a, just punishment for our sins. And then we, uh, actually, um, bear it, right? In fact, it gets even worse. If one of our Lord ones, something bad happens to our kids. They immediately go to some sin. They committed, you know, because of mice and now my kid is suffering and then they go in this cycle of beating themself up. But instead of, you know, at that moment, you know, when they understand that, you know, that is not because of their sin and they still have the right to healing in spite of that, then their response will be different when they go through a tough situation. So I've seen like, uh, many people or heard many people, right, who went through some really, really terminal illnesses. They simply accept it as a punishment for this since, but that is not the case. In fact, it might be the devil that is sending this sickness and they're accepting it as it is from God. Speaker 3 00:32:59 I think some people actually see that PA's beating of one self up and that self-inflicted guilt as a sign of Christian maturity and devotion to God when reality becoming mature as a Christian and growing in grace is learning instead of beating ourself up and grieving over our sin, to rejoice in our savior, to rejoice and be transformed by what the cross is to us, what it means to us, what Christ did for us to rest in that. And to really, it's a hard thing to do because we immediately feel guilty when we mess up. But just to stop right then and there, and just turn to God and say, Lord, thank you. Thank you. Thank you for the cross and just worship right then and there in the midst of that sin in the midst of just finishing that sin, it's the best thing you can do. It's fairly counterintuitive, isn't it? But a lot of things are a paradox because things are messed up in this world. Things are 180 degrees out of phase, but that's the best thing we can do is turn to Christ. Thank them for the cross and worship him and not beat ourself up because guilt never did one good thing for any Christian. Speaker 1 00:34:20 Amen. And with that, I'm going to give us a wrap here. Uh, we've talked about tonight, we've started to discuss the benefits of the cross. We've talked about forgiveness and righteousness, and those are the basis for pretty much everything in the Christian life. We're gonna go over some more topics over the coming episodes. But biz as is my usual want, I'm gonna give each of you a chance to, uh, summarize anything that you might wanna S summarize before we sign off. So mark, why don't we start with you tonight? Speaker 3 00:34:53 Sure. Um, I'm, I'm reminded of the scripture and Corinth. One of the Corinthians don't have it offhand. It just K popped into my head as you were handing it back to me. And that's the one that says no eye is seen, no ears heard, no human mind conceived the things that God has prepared for those who love him. Who's he, who he's re who he is revealing by his spirit. And it says that he's given us the spirit so that we may understand everything he's freely given us. And I just love that we are doing this topic and you know, those of you who are listening out there, make your own list of what got accomplished on the cross in your life. And contemplate 'em think about 'em because G God wants us to know those things. What, as Paul said, that he prayed that we would know this love that cannot be known. And that's such an awesome, mysterious saying, but it's through his spirit. As we contemplate the Lord's glory, we get this knowledge that transforms us, and God wants that. He wants us to know everything. His precious son accomplished for us on the cross and in his resurrection. Speaker 1 00:36:13 Amen. Mark. Caj. Speaker 2 00:36:15 Yeah, I would say again, going back to the scripture, Romans four, based on that scripture, Lord is continually not imputing sin to us or not counting our sin against us continually and is continually seeing us as righteous. So I would say, you know, just think about this and understand and know and believe that once you put your faith in our Lord is Christed that he died for your sins and rose again, from that moment, onwards, God is continually seeing you as righteous. So next time when you fall, just remember that at this moment, God is still seeing me as righteous. Speaker 3 00:36:56 One final thought, sin, what? Sin, Speaker 1 00:37:00 Hey, man, I'm gonna cut you off right there, mark. Cuz that's the perfect ending for this discussion today. Thank you very much, everybody for listening. We appreciate you. And we hope that we can earn your subscription over time. And as always, if you want to contact us, please send us an email. 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