Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble, and I'm your host for the Bible Recap.

There's a chance that you might be here listening to me right now, and that you've never heard the gospel.

It's the most important thing I could ever say to you or to anyone. And even if you've

heard the gospel, even if you've built your whole life around it, the reality is we all need to hear

the gospel every day. We all need to be reminded of the finished work of Christ, because when we

forget, we'll be tempted to try to earn our own salvation, or to maintain it,

or some other lie that isn't possible. Jesus didn't come solely as a good example or a good

teacher. Yes, he was both of those things, but those things cannot save us. Jesus came to do

what we cannot do. So let me tell you what he did. This is the

gospel, literally the good news of Jesus. Romans 323 says all of us were born with a sinful

human nature and it separates us from a perfect, holy God.

Our sin has to be paid for somehow.

We're all in debt to God.

Every false religion in the world will tell you some way you have to live or think or be,

some ladder you have to climb to make your way back to God, or to perfection,

or to some unattainable life

without suffering or to pay for your sin through good works. Most of those religions lead people

to a life of fear, wondering if they've been able to earn or keep good standing with God. But here's

the thing. None of us can do it. We can't be good enough.

He made us good, but his standard is perfection. So God the Father sent someone to be perfect

on our behalf. He sent his son Jesus, fully God, fully man, to bridge the gap that separates us from him. Jesus not only paid

our sin debt by his death on the cross, but he also granted us the righteousness he earned through

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