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Andy Stanley - How Good Is Good Enough? (Part 2)

May 24, 2025 | 28:29

Andy Stanley - How Good Is Good Enough? (Part 2)
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Your Move with Andy Stanley | Andy Stanley - How Good Is Good Enough? (Part 2) | May 24, 2025
  • ...
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  • Andy stanley: hey, everybody, welcome to "your move," where we
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  • Help you make better decisions and live with fewer regrets.
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  • I'm andy stanley and i'll be your guide.
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  • So, think about this, one of the many criticisms of christianity
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  • Is that it's not fair, which is true, but that's actually good
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  • News for you and for me and if you stick around, i will tell
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  • You why right here on "your move."
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Andy stanley: most people, certainly most americans,
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  • Believe in heaven.
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  • Not everybody views heaven the same way, and not everybody
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  • Pictures heaven the same way, and not everybody is sure
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  • Exactly what that's like.
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  • But most americans believe there's a heaven and of course,
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  • Maybe because we're americans, most americans believe they're
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  • Gonna go there, and no american
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  • Is in a hurry to get there, okay?
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  • So that's kind of what we all have in common, even though we
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  • View this different.
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  • And there's, you know, there's so many questions, there's
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  • Always mystery, there's so much mystery and we're busy, you
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  • Know, who has time to think about that and it's just gonna
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  • Work out.
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  • But the assumption--there are two assumptions that kind of
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  • Fuel this extraordinary confidence we have that somehow
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  • It's all gonna work out, and we talked about this last time, and
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  • The two assumptions are this: the good people go to heaven and
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  • I'm a good person.
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  • That somehow good people go to a good place after they die,
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  • Because it's very difficult for human beings not to imagine that
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  • There's an afterlife, even if we're not sure how the whole
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  • Thing works out.
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  • And the good people go to heaven and i'm a good person, this
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  • Makes sense, and there's so many things--there are things that
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  • Fuel this kind of thinking.
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  • For example, it just seems fair.
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  • I mean, it seems fair.
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  • These assumptions are fueled by the idea that it's fair, that if
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  • I'm a good person or if you're a good person, you should be
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  • Rewarded for being good.
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  • And if you're good in this life, then certainly, if there's an
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  • Afterlife, it should be good.
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  • The other idea, that fuels this--the reason it's so easy
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  • To lean into this assumption that, you know, good people go
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  • To heaven, i'm a good person, it's consistent with the notion
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  • Of a good god.
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  • I mean, a good god would want-- i mean, that's kind of, kind of,
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  • Trite to say this, populate heaven with good people.
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  • I mean, good god, good people that kind of works.
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  • And then of course, the other thing that fuels this idea and
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  • The reason we want to lean into it is that, of course, you make
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  • The cut, right?
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  • You make the cut because you're a good person, and you're a good
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  • Person, especially compared to--right?
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  • In fact, you're not just a good person, compared to some people,
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  • You are an amazing person.
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  • In fact, compared to most people, you're at least
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  • Above average.
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  • I mean, that's, you know, just sort of our positive self
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  • Esteem, and we're not perfect.
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  • I mean, we're quick to say nobody's perfect.
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  • Isn't it interesting-- it's nobody's perfect.
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  • In other words, i'm part of all the nobodies.
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  • Nobody's perfect, okay.
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  • But i'm certainly a good person, right?
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  • But as we said last time, when you start examining this whole,
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  • You know, good people go to heaven, you know, i'm a good
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  • Person thing, it begins to fall apart really, really quickly.
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  • And there are two or three things i wanna touch on that we
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  • Talked about last week, then i'm gonna add fourth one as we
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  • Continue this series.
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  • And to begin with, the first thing that kind of undermines
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  • This whole idea that, you know, good people go to heaven and i'm
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  • A good person, is that good is a moving target.
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  • Good is a moving target.
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  • Historically, what was considered good 1,000 years ago
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  • Is considered evil now.
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  • What was considered evil 1,000 years ago in some capacity is
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  • Actually considered good.
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  • So depending on when you drop into history, the history of
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  • Mankind, gosh, the definition of good, it's kind of all over
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  • The place.
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  • And it's good--it's different-- it's a moving target culturally.
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  • I mean, right now you can go to different parts of the world,
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  • And what's considered good in some parts of the world, we
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  • Consider evil and what we consider evil in some parts of
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  • The world, they consider good.
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  • But the bible, the bible tells us what's good and bad, and the
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  • Difference between right and wrong, is that some people want
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  • To use the bible as the standard.
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  • And as we said last time, that's a terrible idea because if the
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  • Bible is the standard, you, in fact, don't make the cut.
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  • You aren't a good person.
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  • And i'm not judging you.
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  • I'm just telling you if you hold your standard of behavior up
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  • Against the bible standard of, you know, right and wrong, good
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  • And bad, you're not all that good.
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  • Paul, who wrote about half of the new testament, said, "there
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  • Is no one righteous, not even one."
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  • He says, he writes, no one will be declared righteous or good
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  • Enough by keeping the law or by attempting to be good and keep
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  • The rules.
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  • And then a verse that many of us have heard our whole lives is,
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  • "all have sinned," he writes, "and fall short."
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  • Because of your sin, you fall short.
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  • Now, i'm not judging you.
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  • I'm just saying, when you pick up the new testament it's not
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  • Pretty picture.
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  • It's not a pretty picture and there's nothing in the new
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  • Testament that says if you'll keep the following rules or the
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  • Following commandments, then you go to heaven when you die.
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  • So, if you're looking for an answer to the question, how good
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  • Is good enough?
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  • The bible is really of no help because we're not that good.
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  • And then this was kind of the clincher last time if being good
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  • Gets us to heaven, and yet god has been so mysterious in terms
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  • Of refusing to even reveal universally and trans-culturally
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  • What it means to be good.
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  • If god failed to tell us how good we have to be to get
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  • To heaven.
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  • Again, is it a 50% cut, 70% cut, do thoughts and motives count,
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  • Does our origin--family of origin count?
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  • You know this--if god has refused to make it clear to us
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  • How good we have to be to get to heaven, then the truth is, by
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  • Our understanding, god is not good.
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  • He's toying with us.
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  • He's teasing us.
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  • He's not just moving the goalpost, he's hiding it
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  • From us.
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  • And then there's this, and this is where we're gonna move on
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  • From last time.
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  • And i hope this bothers you a little bit.
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  • I hope, really, it just makes you think a little bit or maybe
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  • Rethink a little bit.
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  • If only good people go to heaven, if only good people go
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  • To heaven, then jesus was mistaken.
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  • In fact he wasn't just mistaken, jesus was actually misleading.
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  • And perhaps, since if good people go to heaven, then jesus
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  • Wasn't just misleading, apparently jesus had
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  • Been misled.
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  • Because jesus did not teach that good people go to heaven.
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  • I mean, follow jesus through the gospels and he levels the
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  • Playing field.
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  • In the sermon on the mount, in particular, he levels the
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  • Playing field.
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  • Jesus, this is amazing, he raised the standard of good
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  • Enough so high, that everybody fell short.
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  • Over and over and over, he said, you've heard it said, you've
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  • Heard it said this is the standard.
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  • I say this is the standard.
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  • You've heard it said this is the standard.
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  • I say this is the standard.
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  • You've heard it said this is how good you have to be.
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  • I say this is how good you have to be.
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  • And by the end of it, his disciples are like, well, then
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  • There's no hope, we're all doomed.
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  • And jesus didn't say, oh, no, no, no, you misunderstood.
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  • I think he just smiled and walked on like, yeah, you're
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  • All doomed.
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  • The pharisees are doomed, the fishermen are doomed, the men
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  • Are doomed, the women are doomed, everybody's doomed.
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  • But he has this big grin on his face because he's jesus,
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  • Okay?
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  • And he knew how to teach and get people's attention.
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  • And here was the differentiator.
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  • This is so important, especially if you're not a christian or
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  • Used to be, this is so important.
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  • If you grew up in church, this is so important for all of us
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  • And it's so easy to miss because when we begin to read the bible
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  • Or we begin to consider religion or consider christianity, we all
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  • Bring with us a paradigm, we all bring with us a framework that
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  • May or not be accurate.
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  • But here's the thing that set jesus apart and this is why what
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  • He taught was so different.
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  • And this is also why it wasn't until after the resurrection
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  • That his first century followers had their "oh" moment.
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  • Jesus consistently rejected, jesus consistently rejected the
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  • Religious notion that a person could be in good standing with
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  • God while mistreating people god loves.
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  • Jesus completely rejected the idea that you could be in a good
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  • Standing with god, that you were in--that you and god, you were
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  • On the same page, that you could be on the same page with god, in
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  • Good standing with god, on your way to heaven, while at the same
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  • Time mistreating people that god loved.
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  • This was a game changer.
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  • This was the show stopper.
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  • This was the differentiator.
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  • So before we move on, i wanna ask you a question and don't
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  • Answer this out loud.
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  • I already know the answer, even though we've never met.
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  • Have you ever mistreated another person?
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  • Have you ever, in your whole life, i mean, mistreated
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  • Another person?
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  • Maybe by accident, but hey, i don't think we all have to go
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  • Too far back to know that we said things we shouldn't have
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  • Said to people about that person that we knew in the moment we
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  • Shouldn't say.
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  • Have you ever mistreated another person?
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  • See, doesn't this question level the playing field?
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  • Does anybody stand up who's over, you know, 18 and say, "no,
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  • I've never--i didn't mistreat my mom, i didn't mistreat my
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  • Dad, i didn't mistreat my younger brother, i didn't
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  • Mistreat those people at work, i didn't mistreat and say bad
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  • Things about the people i disagree with politically, i
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  • Didn't gossip, i've never gossiped, i've never lied, i've
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  • Never mistreated anyone in my whole life."
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  • This is the question, even though these are my words, not
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  • Jesus, this is the question that jesus drew people's hearts and
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  • Minds and emotions to, and when he did, everybody was guilty.
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  • According to jesus, this makes you and makes me a sinner.
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  • This is sin.
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  • Now, again, real quick, if you're not a christian, you're
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  • Gonna love this.
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  • Isn't it true, if you're not a christian, not a jesus follower,
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  • Not a religious person, isn't it true?
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  • Doesn't it irritate you?
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  • Doesn't it irritate you when christians, who claim to be
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  • Right about god, like we got the corner on the market, we got god
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  • All figured out, who claim to be right about god and who claim to
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  • Be right with god because, you know, i'm right with god, god
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  • Loves me.
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  • I'm in good standing with god, doesn't it irritate you with
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  • Christians who claim to be, you know, right about god and right
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  • With god, turn around and mistreat and devalue
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  • Other people.
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  • Does that irritate you?
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  • It should irritate you because it irritated jesus.
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  • He had no patience.
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  • Read it for yourself.
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  • Matthew, mark, luke, and john, he had no patience.
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  • He had no patience with internalized
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  • Believe-only-religion that thought somehow i can do
  • 00:10:40.257 --> 00:10:44.395
  • Something in this life and be right with god, regardless of
  • 00:10:44.395 --> 00:10:47.465
  • How i treat or mistreat the people around me.
  • 00:10:47.465 --> 00:10:49.967
  • He had no patience with that.
  • 00:10:49.967 --> 00:10:52.403
  • What jesus taught is this, that when you sin against someone
  • 00:10:52.403 --> 00:10:57.475
  • That god loves, you sin against god.
  • 00:10:57.475 --> 00:11:02.279
  • Now, pause, imagine, if you're a christian specifically, imagine
  • 00:11:02.279 --> 00:11:10.121
  • If the church had maintained this standard since the time
  • 00:11:10.121 --> 00:11:15.793
  • Of jesus.
  • 00:11:15.793 --> 00:11:17.294
  • Imagine if the church decided, no, good and bad isn't, you
  • 00:11:17.294 --> 00:11:20.931
  • Know, something i'm doing to try to please god, so god likes me
  • 00:11:20.931 --> 00:11:23.768
  • And i went to church and i said this and i did this, and now,
  • 00:11:23.768 --> 00:11:26.437
  • Imagine if sin was viewed the way that jesus introduced the
  • 00:11:26.437 --> 00:11:30.975
  • Way the sin is to be viewed.
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  • That i cannot be right with my father in heaven and mistreat
  • 00:11:32.777 --> 00:11:35.646
  • People my father in heaven loves.
  • 00:11:35.646 --> 00:11:37.748
  • And jesus, this is so revolutionary.
  • 00:11:37.748 --> 00:11:40.684
  • Jesus says, that's how god your father views the world and
  • 00:11:40.684 --> 00:11:46.624
  • Views people and views you and that's his definition of sin.
  • 00:11:46.624 --> 00:11:51.729
  • Sin isn't breaking some religious tradition, sin and
  • 00:11:51.729 --> 00:11:55.166
  • Being right with god isn't keeping some
  • 00:11:55.166 --> 00:11:57.001
  • Religious tradition.
  • 00:11:57.001 --> 00:11:58.369
  • It is all about how you treat the people that god loves.
  • 00:11:58.369 --> 00:12:04.542
  • So let me try to do my best jesus, level the playing field
  • 00:12:04.542 --> 00:12:08.979
  • One more time.
  • 00:12:08.979 --> 00:12:12.383
  • Have you ever mistreated another person?
  • 00:12:12.383 --> 00:12:18.322
  • If so, then, from the perspective of god, as presented
  • 00:12:18.322 --> 00:12:24.328
  • By jesus, you fall short of the goodness and the glory of god.
  • 00:12:24.328 --> 00:12:33.270
  • According to jesus, mistreating other people separates us from
  • 00:12:33.270 --> 00:12:39.710
  • God because that is sin, which means we are all doomed.
  • 00:12:39.710 --> 00:12:48.052
  • Every single one of us, even the nicest among you, even the worst
  • 00:12:48.052 --> 00:12:52.223
  • Among you, the best among you.
  • 00:12:52.223 --> 00:12:54.058
  • We're all doomed because god-- jesus raised the standard so
  • 00:12:54.058 --> 00:12:58.128
  • High when we say, i mean, i'm just, you know, put my words
  • 00:12:58.128 --> 00:13:00.965
  • Around what you're thinking or maybe feeling it's like, wait a
  • 00:13:00.965 --> 00:13:02.900
  • Minute, wait, wait, wait, wait, it can't be that way.
  • 00:13:02.900 --> 00:13:06.503
  • I mean, wait, wait, that's so unfair.
  • 00:13:06.503 --> 00:13:09.139
  • I mean, andy, that standard is way too high.
  • 00:13:09.139 --> 00:13:11.442
  • It is high and here's where we are all hypocrites, if we're
  • 00:13:11.442 --> 00:13:15.880
  • Not careful.
  • 00:13:15.880 --> 00:13:17.248
  • It may seem like too high of a standard when it comes to my
  • 00:13:17.248 --> 00:13:19.650
  • Behavior toward others.
  • 00:13:19.650 --> 00:13:22.620
  • But it sounds about right when it comes to others behavior
  • 00:13:22.620 --> 00:13:27.725
  • Toward me.
  • 00:13:27.725 --> 00:13:30.828
  • If you mistreat me, i think you fall short of the glory of god.
  • 00:13:30.828 --> 00:13:35.900
  • If you mistreat me and take advantage of me and steal from
  • 00:13:35.900 --> 00:13:39.503
  • Me or steal my ideas or mess up my reputation.
  • 00:13:39.503 --> 00:13:42.606
  • If you hurt or do something against me, then i feel like you
  • 00:13:42.606 --> 00:13:47.111
  • Aren't right with god.
  • 00:13:47.111 --> 00:13:48.846
  • And jesus smiles and says, exactly, welcome to the lost
  • 00:13:48.846 --> 00:13:55.286
  • Human race who don't even treat each other the way your heavenly
  • 00:13:55.286 --> 00:14:02.593
  • Father wants you to be treated.
  • 00:14:02.593 --> 00:14:06.297
  • And now, now we stumble upon the great differentiator between
  • 00:14:06.297 --> 00:14:12.703
  • Jesus and religion.
  • 00:14:12.703 --> 00:14:16.006
  • Good.
  • 00:14:16.006 --> 00:14:17.474
  • Good is a moving, confusing target.
  • 00:14:17.474 --> 00:14:22.379
  • As long as we view good as a bargaining chip for our benefit,
  • 00:14:22.379 --> 00:14:27.885
  • Good will always be a moving, confusing target.
  • 00:14:27.885 --> 00:14:31.622
  • How good do i have to be?
  • 00:14:31.622 --> 00:14:33.023
  • Is it 50% or 70%?
  • 00:14:33.023 --> 00:14:35.025
  • Do motives count against me?
  • 00:14:35.025 --> 00:14:36.627
  • Does my family of, you know, upbringing, does that impact?
  • 00:14:36.627 --> 00:14:40.097
  • Does my life experience impact?
  • 00:14:40.097 --> 00:14:41.865
  • How do i know?
  • 00:14:41.865 --> 00:14:43.200
  • Good will always be a moving and confusing target, as long as
  • 00:14:43.200 --> 00:14:46.704
  • You're trying to use your good behavior as a bargaining chip
  • 00:14:46.704 --> 00:14:50.274
  • With god.
  • 00:14:50.274 --> 00:14:51.642
  • How good do i have to be to ensure heaven for me?
  • 00:14:51.642 --> 00:14:55.713
  • But good sits uncomfortably still when it comes to what's
  • 00:14:55.713 --> 00:15:01.919
  • Good for others, doesn't it?
  • 00:15:01.919 --> 00:15:06.256
  • As long as it's about you, as long as it's about me, it's
  • 00:15:06.256 --> 00:15:08.926
  • A fog.
  • 00:15:08.926 --> 00:15:10.494
  • But as soon as i look at you and your family and as soon as you
  • 00:15:10.494 --> 00:15:14.598
  • Look at me and my family, as soon as i look at you in your
  • 00:15:14.598 --> 00:15:16.767
  • Circumstances, i know what's good for you.
  • 00:15:16.767 --> 00:15:20.537
  • I know how to treat you well, i know the difference between
  • 00:15:20.537 --> 00:15:23.974
  • Right and wrong.
  • 00:15:23.974 --> 00:15:25.342
  • And i know the difference between good and bad.
  • 00:15:25.342 --> 00:15:26.677
  • And i know what's good for you and best for you.
  • 00:15:26.677 --> 00:15:28.946
  • And i know what would undermine your integrity, undermine your
  • 00:15:28.946 --> 00:15:32.116
  • Relationships, undermine your career.
  • 00:15:32.116 --> 00:15:34.752
  • And you know the same about me and this is the jesus version.
  • 00:15:34.752 --> 00:15:41.759
  • That what's best for him, what's best for them, what's best for
  • 00:15:41.759 --> 00:15:46.296
  • Her, that's what's best.
  • 00:15:46.296 --> 00:15:49.133
  • What--the question that we come back to all the time
  • 00:15:49.133 --> 00:15:51.535
  • Around here.
  • 00:15:51.535 --> 00:15:52.903
  • What does love for them require of me?
  • 00:15:52.903 --> 00:15:55.439
  • That is the standard and i fall short and you fall short.
  • 00:15:55.439 --> 00:16:01.378
  • Religion says, look up and try to make things right with god
  • 00:16:01.378 --> 00:16:04.448
  • Just between you and god.
  • 00:16:04.448 --> 00:16:05.816
  • Jesus says, no, i want you to look around, i want you to look
  • 00:16:05.816 --> 00:16:11.188
  • Around at the people around you, the people that god loves and
  • 00:16:11.188 --> 00:16:14.358
  • Don't think for a minute you can mistreat them and be good with
  • 00:16:14.358 --> 00:16:17.027
  • Your father in heaven.
  • 00:16:17.027 --> 00:16:19.296
  • By jesus's definition, we've all sinned and we all know it.
  • 00:16:19.296 --> 00:16:26.303
  • That is the bad news, but the bad news is what makes the good
  • 00:16:26.303 --> 00:16:32.443
  • News such good news.
  • 00:16:32.443 --> 00:16:34.211
  • It's no mistake that in the first century, think about it,
  • 00:16:34.211 --> 00:16:37.114
  • We overlook this, we, you know, we have different words we use,
  • 00:16:37.114 --> 00:16:40.551
  • We say words, don't think about what they mean.
  • 00:16:40.551 --> 00:16:42.319
  • The word "gospel," "euangelion," means good news.
  • 00:16:42.319 --> 00:16:45.255
  • The reason it was called good news is because when jesus
  • 00:16:45.255 --> 00:16:48.926
  • Showed up, he leveled the playing field and introduced
  • 00:16:48.926 --> 00:16:52.663
  • Hope all at the same time.
  • 00:16:52.663 --> 00:16:54.565
  • That's why he could say the things that he said with a smile
  • 00:16:54.565 --> 00:16:56.800
  • On his face.
  • 00:16:56.800 --> 00:16:58.168
  • That's why, at the end of the day it wasn't, oh, just gloom
  • 00:16:58.168 --> 00:17:00.204
  • And doom and we're hopeless and we're all damned and we all
  • 00:17:00.204 --> 00:17:02.573
  • Fall short.
  • 00:17:02.573 --> 00:17:04.007
  • It's called good news because of the bad news.
  • 00:17:04.007 --> 00:17:07.578
  • That jesus, think about this, jesus is the only person in
  • 00:17:07.578 --> 00:17:11.682
  • History, no one's even claimed this before, no one's even
  • 00:17:11.682 --> 00:17:14.051
  • Claimed this about another person before.
  • 00:17:14.051 --> 00:17:16.653
  • That jesus is the only person in history to offer a succinct and
  • 00:17:16.653 --> 00:17:20.524
  • Clarifying answer to the question of how good is
  • 00:17:20.524 --> 00:17:25.529
  • Good enough.
  • 00:17:25.529 --> 00:17:26.864
  • And do you know what his answer was?
  • 00:17:26.864 --> 00:17:28.532
  • Or is?
  • 00:17:28.532 --> 00:17:29.900
  • You ready?
  • 00:17:29.900 --> 00:17:31.235
  • It's offensive in the first century.
  • 00:17:31.235 --> 00:17:32.803
  • It got him crucified.
  • 00:17:32.803 --> 00:17:34.338
  • How good is good enough?
  • 00:17:34.338 --> 00:17:38.909
  • That good and you're not that good and i'm not that good and
  • 00:17:38.909 --> 00:17:46.550
  • It's why you need a savior, not a list, not an 11th commandment,
  • 00:17:46.550 --> 00:17:54.625
  • Not a loophole, not a work around, not an excuse, not a
  • 00:17:54.625 --> 00:17:59.596
  • Do over.
  • 00:17:59.596 --> 00:18:01.098
  • It's why you need, it's why i need, it's why the world needed
  • 00:18:01.098 --> 00:18:06.570
  • A savior.
  • 00:18:06.570 --> 00:18:08.205
  • This is why it's called good news because jesus was the only
  • 00:18:08.205 --> 00:18:14.578
  • One good enough to do for us what we could not do
  • 00:18:14.578 --> 00:18:18.315
  • For ourselves.
  • 00:18:18.315 --> 00:18:20.651
  • The apostle paul, who as you know, steps onto the pages of
  • 00:18:20.651 --> 00:18:24.254
  • History as a pharisee, a do-gooder.
  • 00:18:24.254 --> 00:18:27.291
  • I mean, he--in fact, he brags when he talks about his little
  • 00:18:27.291 --> 00:18:29.826
  • Autobiography, he's like, i was the best, i was the best.
  • 00:18:29.826 --> 00:18:33.197
  • I was the best of--all the do-gooders, i was the
  • 00:18:33.197 --> 00:18:35.599
  • Best do-gooder.
  • 00:18:35.599 --> 00:18:36.967
  • Nobody kept the law as well as i did.
  • 00:18:36.967 --> 00:18:39.536
  • And then he meets jesus and all falls short.
  • 00:18:39.536 --> 00:18:42.139
  • I mean he, the do-gooder pharisee, is the one who wrote
  • 00:18:42.139 --> 00:18:44.675
  • The words for all have sinned and fall short of the glory
  • 00:18:44.675 --> 00:18:47.844
  • Of god.
  • 00:18:47.844 --> 00:18:49.179
  • Paul, even you, paul is like, you know what paul said
  • 00:18:49.179 --> 00:18:50.647
  • About himself?
  • 00:18:50.647 --> 00:18:51.982
  • Some of you know this, he said of all the sinners in the world
  • 00:18:51.982 --> 00:18:53.850
  • In the first century.
  • 00:18:53.850 --> 00:18:55.185
  • He said, i am the chief among sinners.
  • 00:18:55.185 --> 00:18:58.288
  • Wait, paul, how could you be the chief among sinners?
  • 00:18:58.288 --> 00:18:59.957
  • You kept the law perfectly you say.
  • 00:18:59.957 --> 00:19:02.659
  • He's like, yeah, but i mistreated people like no one
  • 00:19:02.659 --> 00:19:08.699
  • Else i've ever met.
  • 00:19:08.699 --> 00:19:12.636
  • And he becomes a jesus follower.
  • 00:19:12.636 --> 00:19:14.972
  • And here's what he says to kind of put all of this together,
  • 00:19:14.972 --> 00:19:17.341
  • Hopefully in terms that us gentiles could understand
  • 00:19:17.341 --> 00:19:19.610
  • Because he was writing to gentiles who were just--had so
  • 00:19:19.610 --> 00:19:22.212
  • Many questions about jesus in the city of corinth.
  • 00:19:22.212 --> 00:19:24.781
  • Here's what he writes: he says, "we beg you," he and his guys,
  • 00:19:24.781 --> 00:19:29.019
  • "we beg you on behalf of christ," which means this is
  • 00:19:29.019 --> 00:19:31.822
  • What christ is begging you to do.
  • 00:19:31.822 --> 00:19:33.690
  • This is jesus's desire for you.
  • 00:19:33.690 --> 00:19:36.026
  • We beg you on behalf of christ.
  • 00:19:36.026 --> 00:19:37.861
  • Be reconciled to god.
  • 00:19:37.861 --> 00:19:41.098
  • That is, you and god don't fit, we want you to fit, and there's
  • 00:19:41.098 --> 00:19:44.768
  • Something that you--you have a part in this, you have a role to
  • 00:19:44.768 --> 00:19:47.971
  • Play in this.
  • 00:19:47.971 --> 00:19:49.339
  • We want you to be reconciled to god, we want you to be right
  • 00:19:49.339 --> 00:19:51.208
  • With god, we want you to be in a right relationship with god.
  • 00:19:51.208 --> 00:19:54.978
  • And i was like, okay paul, you want us to be reconciled to god,
  • 00:19:54.978 --> 00:19:57.881
  • What do we do?
  • 00:19:57.881 --> 00:19:59.449
  • You know, jump high or duck low or try it hard or be good or--
  • 00:19:59.449 --> 00:20:02.586
  • He goes, no, no, no, no, no.
  • 00:20:02.586 --> 00:20:04.021
  • Then listen to what he says.
  • 00:20:04.021 --> 00:20:05.489
  • And the--this is tricky, but this is amazing.
  • 00:20:05.489 --> 00:20:09.092
  • You're smart, you'll understand this.
  • 00:20:09.092 --> 00:20:11.662
  • He says, "god made him," jesus, "who knew no sin to be sin
  • 00:20:11.662 --> 00:20:21.672
  • On our behalf."
  • 00:20:21.672 --> 00:20:25.609
  • That god made jesus who knew no sin, which means he did no sin,
  • 00:20:25.609 --> 00:20:30.681
  • To become sin on our behalf so that we, he did this for us.
  • 00:20:30.681 --> 00:20:38.922
  • He did for you what you could not do for yourself on your very
  • 00:20:38.922 --> 00:20:42.125
  • Best day, so that we--he did something that--he did
  • 00:20:42.125 --> 00:20:45.762
  • Something for us that we couldn't do on our own.
  • 00:20:45.762 --> 00:20:47.998
  • It was impossible for us to do.
  • 00:20:47.998 --> 00:20:50.334
  • So that we, look at this, might become, don't go too fast, might
  • 00:20:50.334 --> 00:20:55.639
  • Become, in other words, not do, become.
  • 00:20:55.639 --> 00:20:58.408
  • Paul says because of what jesus did for you, he has paved the
  • 00:20:58.408 --> 00:21:02.279
  • Way for you to become something different, become something new.
  • 00:21:02.279 --> 00:21:07.351
  • It's not a do, it's a new status.
  • 00:21:07.351 --> 00:21:09.753
  • It's a new standing.
  • 00:21:09.753 --> 00:21:11.121
  • It's a new type of relationship with god.
  • 00:21:11.121 --> 00:21:13.790
  • That you might become, look at this, "the righteousness of god
  • 00:21:13.790 --> 00:21:18.662
  • In him."
  • 00:21:18.662 --> 00:21:19.996
  • Paul is like, i wish i could explain it better.
  • 00:21:19.996 --> 00:21:22.032
  • I wish i had better words.
  • 00:21:22.032 --> 00:21:23.533
  • But the best way i can say it is this: that god, through christ,
  • 00:21:23.533 --> 00:21:28.538
  • Gave you his righteousness.
  • 00:21:28.538 --> 00:21:32.642
  • That god, through christ, gave you a right standing with jesus,
  • 00:21:32.642 --> 00:21:37.714
  • That he transferred onto you and transferred on to me what we
  • 00:21:37.714 --> 00:21:41.585
  • Could never earn on our own.
  • 00:21:41.585 --> 00:21:43.286
  • He didn't, this is amazing, he didn't just take our place,
  • 00:21:43.286 --> 00:21:47.124
  • Jesus gave us a brand new place, a brand new type of relationship
  • 00:21:47.124 --> 00:21:53.463
  • With god not based on anything we could do because we all fell
  • 00:21:53.463 --> 00:21:56.833
  • Short, but based on what only jesus could do.
  • 00:21:56.833 --> 00:21:59.436
  • And jesus took his righteousness and he made it available to you
  • 00:21:59.436 --> 00:22:05.175
  • So that we would have what he had with god and he took upon
  • 00:22:05.175 --> 00:22:10.414
  • Himself all of your falling short and all of my falling
  • 00:22:10.414 --> 00:22:14.785
  • Short, all of my sin and all of yours based on nothing
  • 00:22:14.785 --> 00:22:20.390
  • We've done.
  • 00:22:20.390 --> 00:22:22.292
  • Based on what was done for us.
  • 00:22:22.292 --> 00:22:27.431
  • According to jesus, good people, they don't go to heaven.
  • 00:22:27.431 --> 00:22:34.704
  • Because compared to jesus, there aren't any good people.
  • 00:22:34.704 --> 00:22:39.576
  • Good people don't go to heaven.
  • 00:22:39.576 --> 00:22:40.977
  • You know who goes to heaven?
  • 00:22:40.977 --> 00:22:42.379
  • Forgiven people, that's who goes to heaven.
  • 00:22:42.379 --> 00:22:45.749
  • And jesus underscored this throughout his entire life,
  • 00:22:45.749 --> 00:22:49.753
  • Right up to the bitter end of his life because this was the
  • 00:22:49.753 --> 00:22:55.025
  • Point of his life.
  • 00:22:55.025 --> 00:22:58.161
  • Luke, who researched thoroughly everything that had anything to
  • 00:22:58.161 --> 00:23:01.865
  • Do with jesus in the first century, and brought us the
  • 00:23:01.865 --> 00:23:03.834
  • Gospel of luke.
  • 00:23:03.834 --> 00:23:05.202
  • Listen to what he records based on the eye witnesses who were
  • 00:23:05.202 --> 00:23:07.604
  • There that he talked to later.
  • 00:23:07.604 --> 00:23:09.072
  • This is amazing.
  • 00:23:09.072 --> 00:23:10.540
  • It says that when they, this is at the end of jesus life, "when
  • 00:23:10.540 --> 00:23:13.777
  • They came to the place called the skull," jesus has already
  • 00:23:13.777 --> 00:23:16.847
  • Been arrested.
  • 00:23:16.847 --> 00:23:18.215
  • He's been beaten, he's been tried, and now he's about to
  • 00:23:18.215 --> 00:23:21.318
  • Be crucified.
  • 00:23:21.318 --> 00:23:22.686
  • "when they came to the place called the skull, they crucified
  • 00:23:22.686 --> 00:23:24.621
  • Him there along with the criminals."
  • 00:23:24.621 --> 00:23:27.591
  • And luke says, i know this is hard to believe.
  • 00:23:27.591 --> 00:23:31.261
  • I know that anyone who has ever seen a crucifixion before will
  • 00:23:31.261 --> 00:23:33.964
  • Find this almost impossible to believe.
  • 00:23:33.964 --> 00:23:36.533
  • But peter was there and mary was there and martha was there and
  • 00:23:36.533 --> 00:23:40.871
  • John was there and james was there and this is what they said
  • 00:23:40.871 --> 00:23:45.408
  • He said.
  • 00:23:45.408 --> 00:23:46.776
  • Jesus looked down from the cross and he said, "father, forgive
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  • All of them."
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  • Father, don't hold their sin against them.
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  • Father, don't make them pay for what they did and what they are
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  • Doing, even though they know they're doing wrong.
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  • This is not just, this is not justice, this is not fair, this
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  • Is not fairness.
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  • Do you know what that is?
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  • It's this word, it's grace, it's getting what we don't deserve.
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  • It's mercy, it's not getting what we do deserve.
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  • And that's good news.
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  • Religion.
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  • Religion has always been defined by do.
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  • Jesus rejected that whole paradigm.
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  • His message was simply this: done.
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  • Done. done.
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  • Let me say it more directly.
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  • There's nothing you can do.
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  • There's nothing you can do to make up for you.
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  • There is just a gift to be received, the gift
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  • Of forgiveness.
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  • A right standing with god, that god through christ transfers his
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  • Righteousness onto you.
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  • Ready for this?
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  • Just because he wants to.
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  • How great is the father's love that he would bestow upon us the
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  • Standing that his very son has with him?
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  • Jesus declared you a sinner, then he died for your sin, or so
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  • He claimed.
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  • But of course, anybody could claim that, right?
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  • I mean, isn't that the gotcha?
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  • How do we know?
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  • Again, the apostle paul just a few years after these events,
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  • Summarizes it perfectly and i'm gonna close with this.
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  • "i wanna remind you of the good news.
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  • I preach you that christ died for our sins and he was buried,"
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  • You know why he was buried?
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  • Because that's what you do, when someone dies.
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  • He was actually dead.
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  • They saw where he was buried.
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  • He didn't swoon, he didn't pretend, there wasn't a
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  • Confusion at the last minute.
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  • He was buried.
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  • "that he was raised from the dead on the third day."
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  • And then here's what he writes about 15, 20 years after
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  • These events.
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  • "and then he appeared to peter," paul how do you know that?
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  • Because i know peter, he appeared to peter.
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  • Then he appeared to all the apostles.
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  • Then he appeared to more than 500 people all at one time and
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  • He goes on to say, and some of them are asleep, but many of
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  • Them are still alive.
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  • If you don't believe me, just visit judea, they're everywhere,
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  • These followers of jesus.
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  • And then, i love this, and then he appeared to james, you know
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  • Who james was.
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  • The brother of jesus.
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  • And of course, james shows up as a leader in the first century
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  • Church because he saw his brother crucified and then he
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  • Met his brother afterwards and he consists, this is amazing.
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  • Read the book of james, a little letter in the new testament
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  • Written by the brother of jesus, how fascinating is that?
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  • And james calls his brother, his lord.
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  • It's good news.
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  • The bad news is you.
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  • The bad news is me.
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  • The bad news is the playing field has been leveled.
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  • The bad news is you have mistreated people god loves.
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  • The bad news is you are a sinner and you are separated from god,
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  • We all are.
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  • And then jesus, who declared as much, came and paid for
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  • Your sin.
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