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Cheers. The Grace of Failure, January 20, 2021. Introduction. Many Christians are dogged by two words and those words

are success and failure. We are lured on by the first and chased down alleys by the second.

We are harried by their plain definitions, we are haunted by their deeper spiritual definitions,

and then we are of course hounded by the realities they represent.

Think about this reality for a moment.

2 Corinthians 510.

For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ that everyone may receive the things

done in his body according to that he hath done whether it be good or bad.

So when we read these words it comes crashing in upon us that all of us are going to be

evaluated by Jesus and if you're anything like the rest of us you're going to say something

like GAC. What's the metric? By what standard? Never forget justification. In the

reformed world we all know that Christ is our righteousness.

That is, we all know this is part of our reflexive catacism answer.

We know that we are accepted as righteous, quote, not for anything wrought in us or done by us, but for Christ's sake alone.

But if anyone understood the doctrine of justification by faith alone, Paul did, and he is the

one who also said that we were all going to appear before the

judgment seat of Christ in order to receive his evaluation for the things we

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