According to the Bible, every one of us is stricken with an insurmountable disease.

It's part of the human condition, and without divine intervention, none of us can escape

its devastating ways.

That illness, of course, is our sinfulness, our intrinsic depravity.

Today, on Insight for Living, Chuck Swindall continues a message he introduced last time,

on Paul's Letter to the Romans, chapter 3.

In this passage, we discover the divine remedy to our sin problem.

We'll begin right where we left off on the previous program.

Chuck titled his talk, Mr. Smith, Meet Your Substitute.

God is righteous, holy, a good word perfect.

In order for you to fellowship with Him, your triangle has to be congruent.

It has to be just like His triangle, and the problem is, no one qualifies as perfect.

Verse 23, all have sanded and fall short of the glory of God, being justified as a gift

by His grace.

Through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus, whom God displayed publicly as a propitiation,

that word means satisfaction in His blood through faith.

This was to demonstrate God's righteousness because in the forbearance of God, He passed

over the sins previously committed.

Is that great news?

Here is Christ, on a cross, the only perfect one who ever lived, nails in His hands and

in His feet, blood coming out.

Why?

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