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Let's put God's absolute authority underneath that song, like a rock foundation so that you don't feel that song just as

poetic sentiment or musical pleasure alone, but as unshakable reality.

And I have in mind not just the thousands of believers in this room but the hundreds of you who have come by

Providence that you might believe. I see three paradoxes in what was just sung. Number one, we are unworthy of Christ and we have great worth because of Christ at the

cross. Number two, with all your worth you are not your own treasure

Christ is at the cross. Number three, trust that looks away from self to Christ becomes the ultimate satisfaction of the self at the cross. Let's take those one of the

cross. Let's take those one at a time and put God's authority

underneath them and I invite you to hear for your own soul.

Number one, we are unworthy of Christ and we have great

worth because of Christ.

The final verse went like this.

Two wonders here that I confess, my worth and my unworthiness, my value fixed, my ransom paid at the

cross. One of the most beautiful sentences in the Bible is that

Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners. What is sin? Sin is a mindset that prefers other things

more than God and therefore sin exchanges God. And therefore sin exchanges God for created things. And therefore

sin belittles God, demeans God, is rebellious against God.

And that's who we are, every one of you.

We are that way. There is none righteous, no not one. Christ died for us not because we are worthy, but because we are unworthy and there was no other way for us to be made worthy.

While we were still weak at the right time Christ died for the

ungodly, for one will scarcely die for a righteous man, yet perhaps for a good man one might dare to die.

But God shows his love for us in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

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