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

Dr. Tony Evans says our acceptance is guaranteed by grace.

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

This is the alternative with Dr. Tony Evans, author, speaker,

senior pastor of Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship

in Dallas, Texas, and President of the Urban Alternative.

When Jesus died on the cross, our sins were forgiven, but today Dr. Evans says 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. It's just as if I've never sin. 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.

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