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Hi, I'm Nathan W Bingham, host of Renewing Your Mind, and I hope you'll join us along with thousands

of other Christians in Orlando this May.

Over three days, we'll consider the person and work of Jesus Christ.

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When you stand before God at the end of your life and he requires an accounting for all the life and the breath that he's breathed into you,

what will you say that you've done your best that you were probably on average better than most other people.

According to Jesus in Luke chapter 10, there's only one method for justifying ourselves in the eyes of God.

Jesus says, you need only do two things.

First, you need to have loved God with all your heart, soul, strength and mind. And secondly,

you also need to have loved your neighbor as you love yourself.

Hearing those words, it's a bit like the time that a friend of mine gave me feedback on an early version of a book I was writing and he said

there were only two things I needed to do. Number one, change the words, and number two, change

the order they were in. It's the kind of feedback that drives you to despair.

In the same way Jesus says only two things are necessary for justification.

Firstly, love God perfectly and secondly love other people perfectly.

As long as you're completely perfect all the time, there's absolutely nothing to worry about.

Now when Jesus is explaining this in Luke chapter 10, he's speaking to a lawyer.

And like any good lawyer, this lawyer immediately tries to discover a possible loophole in what Jesus has said, anything at all

which might make justification a little bit easier.

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