Tract Idea Richard Church

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know how you can pray love it all right brother you want to give us the gospel how do we how do

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we get saved I don't know where I'm going to spend eternity do you have any good news for me brother sure yeah

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there's some there's some really good news um and you know that's a that's a

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that's a good that's a good place to be when you can admit that you don't know

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and uh that that you would like to know because the word word of God has an answer for that and uh so often religion

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gets it wrong there's plenty of religious people that have no idea whether or not they're going to spend eternity with the Lord or not um but the

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scripture says uh that we all are sinners it says all have sinned and come

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short of the glory of God uh there is none righteous no not one and so we

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can't we can't approach God that way we we've all fallen short um but God has

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provided a another way for us um and the

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the verse you mentioned is really one of my favorite gospel verses 2 Corinthians 5 verse 21 it says for he that's God the

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Father hath made him the Lord Jesus Christ to be sin for us am as if Christ

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became sin uh incarnate on the cross he became

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man incarnate at his birth but at the cross he became sin incarnate and that's

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a there's a there's a Bible track that I know of where the front cover has a picture of the Lord Jesus Christ with

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all of these sins written all over the you know the picture of him and uh um

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they did that to to represent that that when Christ was on the cross that that

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that man who is God in human flesh uh who never sinned who did not know sin it

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says it says he made him to be sin for us who knew no sin right right uh that

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God took our sin and put it on him and that's what the suffering of the Cross

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was about you know we often focus on what what the Romans did to him which

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was terrible don't get me wrong uh but you know the Romans crucified many many

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many people y um tortured them in the same ways that Christ was tortured you

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know the real suffering of the Cross is what Isaiah writes about when he says it

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the Lord to bruise him it wasn't just that the Romans bruised him it was that

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God the Father bruised him because the real suffering of the Cross was that

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Christ was suffering the Judgment of God for our

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sins uh you know if if we if we try to approach God by our works and of course

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we don't have any way to deal with our our sin our sin sends us to the Lake of

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Fire for eternity okay um but in essence what

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Christ was suffering on our behalf was if you could think about if you could take that that Lake of Fire and and um

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compress it into those few hours that he was on the cross that's what he suffered

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um it's as if God took all of the sin of all mankind of all time added it up said

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here's what the just sentence is that's what Christ suffered in those hours on the cross and um somebody asked me one

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time you know how those things could ever be equivalent how could the Lake of Fire for eternity For All Mankind be

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equivalent to those few hours on the cross um you know if you have if you

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have a big bill to pay and you pay it in thousand bills uh is there even a

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thousand bill I don't know if there is or not but but if you pay it in that uh you know it's going to take you a lot

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less time to pay it than if you're paying it in pennies right if you're paying it in naira naira yeah that's

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here and and so Christ could do that as God in human flesh Christ could do that

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uh on that cross and that's what he suffered so so he knew no sin but he was

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made to be sin for us

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it says that we might be made the righteousness of God in

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him and you know God accounted something of Christ he imputed something to Christ

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that really by right was not true of Christ Christ was not a sinner Christ did not deserve to die Christ did not

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deserve the punishment of God the justice of God but God imputed our sin to him

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and then what God says is if we'll believe what he did for us he'll impute

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Christ's righteousness to us and so uh as Joel sometimes gives me

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credit and sometimes doesn't he was made what he was not so

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that we could be made what we are not right he was made sin so that we could

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be made righteous our sin was imputed to him so his righteousness can be imputed to us and I don't know about you but

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that's a that's a pretty good deal in my book if it's God that's making that

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offer if it's God that's making that Pro that promise how can I not believe it um

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that's what that's what God offers to someone who knows that their sin uh

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makes them Unworthy of heaven and knows that they are lost and yet God says

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you're sin's already been imputed to Christ it's already been paid for God's

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justice has already been satisfied and God says just believe what Christ did for you and he will give Christ's

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righteousness to you in in a way that you never have to worry about that issue

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again um when if God imputes his righteousness to you then you are

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righteous and um that's the that's the promise of the Gospel that's what Christ

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accomplished for us and and it's as simple as believing what he did you

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don't have to you know you don't have to pray a prayer or walk an aisle or

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anything like that but Christ paid the price Christ did the work and we just

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trust what he did for us I love that yeah that was good did

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you find that satisfying very satisfied I was very satisfied with that I may make a make a clip out of that uh hey uh