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What's Good Friday all about?

And I know we have, and why is it called Good Friday if something so, so grotesque happened

in history with the crucifixion of this person called Jesus who claimed, and don't let anybody ever tell you this didn't happen,

he claimed that he was God. He was 100% man, 100% God, born of a virgin, tempted, and

lived a sinless life in order to be the, met the standard, let's talk about that

first, that a holy God required. So let's talk about that for just a minute. Because raise your

hand out there if you're driving, you can keep one on the wheel. If you have ever heard anyone

say to you, you don't got to be perfect to go to heaven.

Have you ever heard that?

That's actually not true.

We have to be perfect or we will be rejected from heaven because perfection is the standard.

Because God is holy, holy, holy, and sin cannot walk into the presence of a holy God,

even the smallest, tiniest amount of sin. So the standard is full righteousness, not partial.

Hey, the other thing I always say, does God meet us right where we are? Yes,

he does, but he didn't leave you there. He transforms you, he changes you. And so how did that

happen? Well, the standard is perfection, and none of us are ever going to be able to live a perfect life. So that's

where we look to God who is holy, holy, holy, who is judgment, who is wrath, but praise God,

thank you, is also mercy, grace, and love. Now, it is important that we don't pick our favorite

characteristic of god i've done that um that that has that has been corrected because what we do

if we just say i don't want to hear about god's wrath i don't want to hear about his judgment and i don't want to hear about God's wrath, I don't want to hear about his judgment, and I don't want to hear about his holiness. We're human beings. I will tell you what we'll do if we reject that. Then when we hear about what happened today, and we hear about his mercy and his grace and his love, will always cheapen it. Because we think, oh, okay, good.

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