#221 – The Essence of the Gospel (Romans 3:23–25)

Pray the Word with David Platt

David Platt

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🗓️ 19 March 2018

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Though you have sinned against a holy God, you can be justified by the grace of God—it's a gift made possible through Christ.

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0:00.0	Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from radical dot net.
0:05.8	Romans chapter 3 verses 23 through 25
0:11.2	for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God and are justified by his
0:19.2	grace as a gift through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as a
0:27.2	propitiation by His blood to be received by faith.
0:34.0	These are three of the greatest verses in all of the Bible.
0:38.3	I'm not saying there's Bible verses that aren't great,
0:40.8	but these are glorious.
0:44.0	Like when you read these verses and you realize what they mean,
0:48.0	that we have all, you and I have all sinned against God,
0:52.0	we've rebelled against God. We deserve eternal separation
0:56.6	from God. Yet we can be justified before God, declared innocent before God, forgiven of all our sins.
1:04.8	How is that possible?
1:05.8	By His Grace as a gift.
1:08.1	So this is a gift God gives us.
1:09.8	By His grace, he makes it possible for us to be forgiven of all of our sins. How is that possible through the redemption that's in Christ Jesus?
1:17.0	What did Christ Jesus do? God put him forward as a propitiation by his blood.
1:22.0	A word propitiation by his blood. A word
1:22.5	propitiation basically means one who would bear the judgment we
1:27.2	deserve, the wrath we deserve in our sin. Jesus has been put forward by God the Father, God the Son has endured the judgment we deserve in our place.
1:39.0	In such a way that we don't have to do anything to earn our salvation forgiveness before God.
1:46.0	Redemption before God cannot be earned.
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