Why Do I Need to Be Saved?

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John Piper, Unknown, 163859, Pastor, Ask, Theology, Desiring God, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Questions

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🗓️ 8 July 2020

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

At the cross, God not only clears a path for sinners to himself. He also vindicates his righteousness after passing over centuries of sin.

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0:00.0	While in this podcast, we frequently return to fundamental realities, the essential truths,
0:10.2	the things most precious to us, things like the glory of God and the cross of Jesus Christ.
0:16.2	If you get these fundamentals right, everything else eventually falls into place.
0:21.2	Get these fundamentals wrong and nothing will fall exactly into place.
0:25.1	Something will always be off.
0:28.3	In light of this, some of the most essential questions include these.
0:33.2	Why in the first place do I need to be saved, saved from whom, saved from what?
0:38.6	What is my problem?
0:40.1	And how do God and specifically Christ Himself address my problem?
0:44.2	To explain, I love this following sermon excerpt from a 2009 message delivered at a campus
0:49.3	crusade event in Minneapolis.
0:50.9	Their Pastor John expounded Romans chapter 3 verses 23 to 26, a text in which the Apostle Paul
0:57.0	says this.
0:58.7	For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God and are justified by His grace as
1:04.0	a gift through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as a propitiation
1:11.0	by His blood to be received by faith.
1:15.6	This was to show God's righteousness because in His divine forbearance He had passed over
1:20.8	former sins.
1:22.2	It was to show His righteousness at the present time so that He might be just and the just
1:29.8	a fire of the one who has faith in Jesus.
1:34.8	A glorious text of essential must know truth.
1:38.8	Here's Pastor John to explain it.
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