Have you ever walked past a park bench with a wet paint sign on it and wanted to run your finger across it?

Well, today, on Insight for Living, Chuck Swindal exposes the uncomfortable fact.

We're all rule breakers at heart.

Whether it's pushing the speed limit or flirting with boundaries, something inside us whispers,

You can't tell me what to do. Sinfulness saturates the human condition.

Yet here's the scandalous truth. God knows exactly who we are and loves us anyway. Teaching from Romans

Chapter 4, Chuck titled today's message, righteousness is a five-letter word.

The Lord Jesus Christ came to live and to die.

And when he died, he paid the complete penalty for the sins that you and I have committed.

Past, present and future paid for them all, paid them in full.

So that a holy God would be satisfied that there had been a payment for sin, it is only

just that that happened. And now the Lord God says to us, I offer you salvation. Christ having paid

the penalty, I offer you the gift of salvation. Believe it. Accept it. Just like Abram

trusted me. You trust me for this. Now, as if that isn't enough, Paul goes further. He's been

known to do that too. So he goes back to something else that's familiar and that's something altogether

different from Abrams standing under the stars. This illustration is an illustration of a paycheck.

Verse four, he goes into that one. Now to the one who works, his wage is not credited as a favor,

but as what is due. By the way, credited means credited to his

account. It's a financial term for adding to the ledger when nothing is there, bankrupt, and now

it's credited to your account. Now, in this case, we've got a person who has a job. At the end of

the pay period, he picks up his check,

or she picks up her check. And the employer has a responsibility to pay you your wage.

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