You can't be so bad that Jesus can't be so bad that Jesus can't be so bad that Jesus

can't save you. You also can't be so good that you don't need a savior. Everyone needs to hear and believe the good news of the gospel.

We'll find out why today on Truth for Life as Alistair Begg teaches from the Book of Ephesians chapter 3, we're looking at verses 11-13.

The Church, the existence of the Church, serve, says Paul, as a strong reminder to the hosts of heaven that as we often say, death is dead, love has won. Christ has conquered.

The existence of the Church causes the angels to rejoice and causes the demons to shudder so that the reality of the heavenly hosts testify to the fact that Jesus has accomplished in time the purposes of God from all of eternity.

No matter where or when in history, the forces of darkness seek to do their worst. God is accomplishing his eternal purpose. He has revealed this in and through the person of his son.

And the Christian believer in Cleveland this morning reading Paul's letter to Ephesus, we're supposed to then take this and bow down under the wonder and the weight of this, that God is actually doing things in his Church that sounds the death now of everything that is opposed to his Church.

That God actually is saving the most unlikely people. That God is putting together companies and congregations and assemblies that are not made up of a bunch of little self-righteous individuals who were always interested in trying to be nice and proper and so on.

No, if you can take the lid off the average congregation and find out what we were, then it will be an amazing testimony to the power of Christ, to the reality of God's purpose, to the triumph of his grace.

That, you see, is the significant surely of 1 Corinthians 6 and the way in which Paul in addressing the Corinthians there assesses to them.

Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? If you're unrighteous, you'll never inherit the kingdom of God. How righteous do you have to be?

Unless your righteousness exceeds the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, said Jesus, you will in no way enter the kingdom of heaven.

Wow, that sounds like you have to be perfect. The unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God. Do not be deceived neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor men who practice homosexuality nor thieves nor the greedy nor drugs.

Nor are the vile or the nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. So we're bustling. Then comes this great sentence and such where some of you.

You see, this is the mystery of great sister. How did these people find themselves in this position?

Because the blood of Jesus Christ cleanses us from all our sins. It is only in Jesus. There is a fountain filled with blood drawn from Emmanuel's veins and sinners plunged beneath that flood, lose all their guilty stains.

And he says, you were like that, but you were washed. You were sanctified. You were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the spirit of our God.

Last night when I was waiting for the game to come on, I was clicking through and I found sister Angelica. How many of you know sister Angelica?

She's gone now. Well, she's gone, but she's still there because I saw her last night. One of the questions that was called into her was, she's a Roman Catholic non-incidant. One of the questions was called into her was, well, what about purgatory?

Why do we have to have purgatory? She said, well, purgatory is very necessary.

She said, you know, I mean, if you died, I mean, you couldn't go straight. You couldn't go straight to meet God. You couldn't go straight to paradise. I mean, think about it.

You've got to go somewhere, get cleaned up for the program. You're going to have to have some mechanism so you can get fixed before the big interview.

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