When you come to the cross of Jesus Christ, you pre-qualified.

In other words, our acceptance is guaranteed by grace.

And Dr. Tony Evans says that sets us free to do the right things for the right reason.

And he wants that to be our motivation for loving, serving, following him.

This is the alternative broadcast featuring the timeless biblical teachings from the archives of Dr. Tony Evans.

When Jesus died on the cross, our sins were forgiven. But today, Dr. Evans tells us why that was only the beginning.

Let's turn to Romans 324 for a look at some of the other accomplishments of the cross.

Justification is a theological, a technical theological term, a legal concept,

because the word justification is related to a court venue.

People talk about the justice system, a system that is supposed

to enact fairness. Justification is connected with justice. If I were to put it in everyday language,

justification is just as if I've never sinned. It's just as if I've never

sinned. The problem is, I have sinned. You have sinned over and over and over again. So God had to

satisfy his perfection in a way that sinful men could be made so righteous it would be

just as if they never sinned. Justification. Since that is not our reality, because we have sin, God had to come up with a way to make that real or condemn us.

So what God did was came up with a legal means to equip the sinner without skipping the sin.

To declare the sinner innocent, even though the sinner is guilty.

The way that a holy God came up with being able to acquit a sinner even though the sinner has sinned and to do it legally

was through the doctrine of imputation or credit justification occurs not because the sinner hasn't sinned but the sinner has gotten a credit on his account

that has addressed the debt that sin has incurred.

Sin has created a debt that we can't pay.

The best we do is minimal payments like our credit cards.

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