Best Passage Ever

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🗓️ 10 October 2025

⏱️ 4 minutes

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The greatest news is that the cross upholds the worth of God’s glory, the honor of his Son, and the eternal salvation of his elect.

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0:00.0	October 10, best passage ever.
0:05.3	God put Jesus forward as a propitiation by his blood to be received by faith.
0:16.6	This was to show God's righteousness, because in His divine forbearance he had passed over former sins.
0:26.6	It was to show His righteousness at the present time so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.
0:42.7	Romans 3, 25, and 26.
0:46.8	Romans 3, 25, and 26 may be the most important verses in the Bible.
0:56.6	God is wholly just,
0:59.8	and he justifies the ungodly.
1:05.8	Really?
1:07.6	A just judge acquitting the guilty.
1:12.6	Not either or, both.
1:14.6	He acquits the guilty, but he is not guilty in doing so.
1:20.6	This is the greatest news in the world.
1:24.6	God made Jesus to be sin
1:28.3	who knew no sin so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.
1:34.3	2 Corinthians 521. He takes our sin, we take His righteousness.
1:42.3	By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin,
1:48.0	He condemned sin in the flesh, Romans 8 3.
1:53.0	Whose flesh?
1:56.0	Christ's.
1:58.0	Whose sin condemned in that flesh.
2:01.6	Ours. For us then? No condemnation.
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