WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.480 --> 00:00:04.960 You know, we really live in a world that's full 2 00:00:04.960 --> 00:00:09.480 of competing beliefs and values and choices, and what you 3 00:00:09.679 --> 00:00:14.400 believe shapes how you live and ultimately who you become. 4 00:00:14.919 --> 00:00:18.760 But the good news is God hasn't left us to 5 00:00:18.920 --> 00:00:20.800 figure it all out alone. 6 00:00:21.160 --> 00:00:21.239 No. 7 00:00:21.760 --> 00:00:25.000 In fact, today, on Pastor Rick's Daily Hope, we're going 8 00:00:25.079 --> 00:00:30.079 to continue our series Reframing Your Worldview, where Rick Warren 9 00:00:30.280 --> 00:00:34.119 unpacks powerful truths from God's Word to help you see 10 00:00:34.159 --> 00:00:39.240 life clearly and live it with confidence and purpose. All right, 11 00:00:39.359 --> 00:00:42.359 here's Rick with part two of a message called What's 12 00:00:42.439 --> 00:00:43.159 the Solution. 13 00:00:45.000 --> 00:00:48.240 Here's a third attitude of the heart, a heart disease. 14 00:00:48.560 --> 00:00:52.320 It's alienation. Alienation. 15 00:00:53.679 --> 00:00:58.479 An alienation means I feel disconnected, and a lot of 16 00:00:58.520 --> 00:00:59.640 people feel disconnected. 17 00:00:59.640 --> 00:01:01.119 I feel disconnected from God. 18 00:01:01.880 --> 00:01:06.159 They feel disconnected from other people, their friends, their family. 19 00:01:06.200 --> 00:01:08.879 Many people are married and feel disconnected from their spouse. 20 00:01:08.959 --> 00:01:11.920 To go, I just don't understand you and I feel 21 00:01:11.920 --> 00:01:15.079 like we're in two different worlds. That's part of the 22 00:01:15.120 --> 00:01:17.959 cause of sin and evil in our world. It causes 23 00:01:17.959 --> 00:01:20.599 a breach in relationships. We talked about that in detail 24 00:01:20.680 --> 00:01:25.120 last week. Now, as a result of that alienation in 25 00:01:25.159 --> 00:01:29.200 the heart, that many people feel. Many people here's the symptom. 26 00:01:29.239 --> 00:01:34.519 They feel aimless and lonely. They feel actually lonely. Loneliness 27 00:01:34.560 --> 00:01:38.760 is what it is. Loneliness. It says, I can't really 28 00:01:38.760 --> 00:01:41.840 get close to anybody. Most people have never really experienced 29 00:01:42.000 --> 00:01:45.000 genuine intimacy in their life, that soul, the soul, heart 30 00:01:45.040 --> 00:01:50.959 to heart companionship. And they feel separated. They feel like 31 00:01:51.000 --> 00:01:56.239 they're detached. And of course, before you accepted the Lord 32 00:01:56.280 --> 00:01:58.280 into your life, that's the way you were with God. 33 00:01:58.359 --> 00:02:00.760 The Bible says this here on the screen. Once you 34 00:02:00.840 --> 00:02:04.760 were alienated from God and you were enemies in your 35 00:02:04.879 --> 00:02:09.039 mind because of your evil behavior Colossians one twenty one. 36 00:02:09.639 --> 00:02:11.680 And so alienation creates loneliness. 37 00:02:11.759 --> 00:02:15.039 You know, here in America we have so valued, so 38 00:02:15.360 --> 00:02:19.719 valued the American spirit of independence, that we have created 39 00:02:20.000 --> 00:02:24.960 the greatest generation of loneliness in history. There are a 40 00:02:25.039 --> 00:02:28.719 lot of lonely people today, and a lot of them 41 00:02:28.759 --> 00:02:33.360 are married, and they're still lonely because it's a problem 42 00:02:33.599 --> 00:02:39.360 in the heart. Fourth heart disease confusion. Confusion in the 43 00:02:39.439 --> 00:02:45.240 heart creates a feeling aimless in life. In other words, 44 00:02:45.919 --> 00:02:48.360 I don't really know where I am, where I came from, 45 00:02:48.439 --> 00:02:50.800 where I'm going a lot of people just kind of 46 00:02:50.879 --> 00:02:52.639 drift through life. They say, you know, I don't have 47 00:02:52.680 --> 00:02:55.199 any goal. I don't know what my purpose is. I 48 00:02:55.199 --> 00:02:58.360 don't know what the meaning of my life is. The 49 00:02:58.400 --> 00:03:04.240 fact is, most people in life live aimless lives of distraction, 50 00:03:05.120 --> 00:03:07.240 and they just kind of drift through life. Now, you know, 51 00:03:07.319 --> 00:03:10.719 the thing is, the longer you've been a follower of 52 00:03:10.800 --> 00:03:15.240 Jesus Christ and you've found and discovered your purpose in life, 53 00:03:16.159 --> 00:03:20.199 you forget how lousy you felt before you became a believer. 54 00:03:21.120 --> 00:03:23.840 You forget how miserable it feels to get up in 55 00:03:23.840 --> 00:03:26.840 the morning, going is this all there is? Get up 56 00:03:26.879 --> 00:03:28.680 in the morning, go to work, come home, watch TV, 57 00:03:28.800 --> 00:03:30.479 go to bed, get up in the morning, come to work, 58 00:03:30.800 --> 00:03:32.919 go to work, come home, go to bed, go to 59 00:03:32.960 --> 00:03:34.919 a party on the weekend. Think I'm living. No, that's 60 00:03:34.919 --> 00:03:38.479 not living, that's just existing. And so there is a 61 00:03:38.520 --> 00:03:42.800 sense of aimlessness that people have because of the confusion 62 00:03:42.840 --> 00:03:45.919 in their hearts. Now, this is not a new problem. 63 00:03:46.800 --> 00:03:49.360 It's been a problem for centuries. In fact, two thousand 64 00:03:49.479 --> 00:03:53.039 years ago, the Bible says this in an experience with 65 00:03:53.159 --> 00:03:56.560 Jesus on the screen Matthew nine when Jesus looked out 66 00:03:56.599 --> 00:03:57.439 over the crowds. 67 00:03:58.719 --> 00:04:00.840 His heart broke for them. 68 00:04:00.879 --> 00:04:06.400 Why because they were so confused and aimless, like sheep 69 00:04:06.800 --> 00:04:10.319 with no shepherd, confused and aimless. That's not a twenty 70 00:04:10.319 --> 00:04:13.599 first century problem. That's a human problem of the heart. 71 00:04:14.400 --> 00:04:17.680 And no politics and no education and no amount of 72 00:04:17.720 --> 00:04:21.759 money is going to solve that. It starts in the heart. Finally, 73 00:04:21.800 --> 00:04:25.639 let me give you one more worry. Worry is a 74 00:04:25.800 --> 00:04:31.920 universal heart disease, and people worry in every single culture. 75 00:04:32.639 --> 00:04:35.920 And when you worry, what is the symptom of worry? 76 00:04:35.920 --> 00:04:37.720 What's the outward visible symptom of worry? 77 00:04:38.319 --> 00:04:38.879 Restless? 78 00:04:39.959 --> 00:04:45.000 When people worry, they feel restless, they feel disengaged, they 79 00:04:45.040 --> 00:04:50.079 feel anxious, they feel restless. The Bible says this in scripture, 80 00:04:50.360 --> 00:04:54.519 My thoughts are restless, and I am confused, Psalm fifty five. 81 00:04:54.560 --> 00:04:57.839 And then the other one Proverbs twelve says, an anxious 82 00:04:57.879 --> 00:05:02.839 heart weighs a man down. When you're worried, you can't 83 00:05:02.879 --> 00:05:04.959 be happy at the same time. When you're worried, it's 84 00:05:04.959 --> 00:05:08.040 like guilt. You can't be happy and worried in the 85 00:05:08.079 --> 00:05:12.000 same heart. And so it weighs the man down, and 86 00:05:12.040 --> 00:05:16.480 it creates this sense of restlessness. Now you look at 87 00:05:16.480 --> 00:05:19.079 those heart diseases, and you look at how the world 88 00:05:19.160 --> 00:05:21.839 has attempted to solve these problems, and that's not a 89 00:05:21.959 --> 00:05:25.360 very pretty picture. But I've got some good news for you, 90 00:05:25.519 --> 00:05:27.839 and this is what we're going to talk about today. 91 00:05:28.279 --> 00:05:34.240 The good news is that Jesus Christ specializes in heart transplants. 92 00:05:36.920 --> 00:05:40.519 He specializes in heart transplants. The scripture says this, I 93 00:05:40.639 --> 00:05:44.680 will give them a new heart and a new mind. 94 00:05:44.800 --> 00:05:47.199 And that's what we're going to look at today. How 95 00:05:47.360 --> 00:05:50.839 Jesus Christ changes hearts. How does he replace the heart 96 00:05:50.879 --> 00:05:56.040 filled with guilt and worry and alienation and compulsion and 97 00:05:56.079 --> 00:05:59.480 confusion with a new heart? How does he replace the 98 00:05:59.519 --> 00:06:04.800 feeling of worthless and powerless and loneliness and aimless and restless. 99 00:06:04.920 --> 00:06:07.959 How does he do that? And what did Jesus do 100 00:06:08.040 --> 00:06:10.120 on the cross? And how did that make a difference. 101 00:06:11.319 --> 00:06:14.680 If I were to go over to Irvine Spectrum, a 102 00:06:14.720 --> 00:06:17.720 shopping mall, this afternoon and stand down and take a survey, 103 00:06:18.120 --> 00:06:21.040 and I said, tell me what you think is the 104 00:06:21.079 --> 00:06:26.199 most common, the most universal, the most ubiquitous symbol in 105 00:06:26.279 --> 00:06:30.199 the world. Probably some people say, well, if they were here, 106 00:06:30.240 --> 00:06:33.279 they might say Starbucks, you know, it seems like there 107 00:06:33.319 --> 00:06:36.839 was one every corner. Or they might say it's the 108 00:06:36.959 --> 00:06:40.839 McDonald arches, or they might say, you know, it's the 109 00:06:40.839 --> 00:06:45.000 CNN logo. Or they might say, if they thought about, well, 110 00:06:45.000 --> 00:06:48.000 maybe it's a Chinese flag because a billion people would 111 00:06:48.000 --> 00:06:51.920 probably know that one. Or they might say, stop sign. 112 00:06:52.319 --> 00:06:56.040 Stop sign is a pretty well known symbol around the world. 113 00:06:56.480 --> 00:06:57.399 But they'd all be wrong. 114 00:06:58.360 --> 00:07:03.560 The most ubiquitous symbol on the planet is the Christian cross. 115 00:07:04.839 --> 00:07:08.920 It's the cross of Jesus Christ. It's on millions and 116 00:07:09.040 --> 00:07:16.759 millions of buildings, It's in tens of millions of cemeteries 117 00:07:16.800 --> 00:07:20.000 and places, you know, crosses everywhere, millions and millions of 118 00:07:20.000 --> 00:07:23.319 crosses and cemeteries, and hundreds of millions of people wear 119 00:07:23.360 --> 00:07:24.079 it around their neck. 120 00:07:25.879 --> 00:07:29.600 What is the big deal about the cross? Why is 121 00:07:29.639 --> 00:07:30.519 it so important? 122 00:07:31.839 --> 00:07:34.279 What did it accomplish? 123 00:07:34.160 --> 00:07:38.120 Why do Christians you know, use the cross as a 124 00:07:38.120 --> 00:07:41.759 symbol of hope. It was an instrument of death. It's 125 00:07:41.759 --> 00:07:43.360 not a very pretty sign. 126 00:07:43.480 --> 00:07:43.959 But it is. 127 00:07:44.040 --> 00:07:47.319 It is worn as a symbol of hope around people's necks. 128 00:07:48.279 --> 00:07:53.319 And why do we date everything in the world according 129 00:07:53.360 --> 00:07:54.720 to that one event? 130 00:07:55.120 --> 00:07:56.360 Even non believers? 131 00:07:56.439 --> 00:07:58.959 Every day they write a date, or they write a 132 00:07:59.079 --> 00:08:00.800 check and they write a date on it. They are 133 00:08:00.920 --> 00:08:04.839 using Jesus Christ and the Cross as the focal point, 134 00:08:04.920 --> 00:08:08.800 the reference point for history. Why is it such a 135 00:08:08.800 --> 00:08:13.600 big deal. Well, what Jesus did on the cross solved 136 00:08:14.040 --> 00:08:18.040 your five biggest problems, your. 137 00:08:17.920 --> 00:08:18.959 Five biggest problems. 138 00:08:19.360 --> 00:08:21.480 And it is not only the solution to the problems 139 00:08:21.480 --> 00:08:23.680 of the heart, it is the solution to all of 140 00:08:23.720 --> 00:08:26.399 these other problems. It is the problem, the solution to 141 00:08:26.480 --> 00:08:27.199 the root. 142 00:08:27.439 --> 00:08:30.079 Behind every other problem on the planet. 143 00:08:30.399 --> 00:08:33.799 So today we're going to quickly look at five benefits 144 00:08:33.879 --> 00:08:36.399 of what Jesus Christ did on the cross. Now, if 145 00:08:36.440 --> 00:08:38.639 you claim to be a follower of Jesus, you need 146 00:08:38.720 --> 00:08:41.480 to be able to explain this. And somebody says to you, 147 00:08:42.039 --> 00:08:44.919 what's the big deal? Why did Jesus die on the cross? 148 00:08:45.240 --> 00:08:48.679 You should be able to say the five reasons. Now, 149 00:08:48.679 --> 00:08:51.120 there are five words. You may learn some new terms today, 150 00:08:51.799 --> 00:08:54.840 but there are five reasons that explain what those terms are. 151 00:08:54.879 --> 00:08:57.039 So I want you to pay attention so you can 152 00:08:57.159 --> 00:08:59.759 pass this on to others. Now, here's the first and 153 00:09:00.080 --> 00:09:03.000 credible benefit of what Jesus did on the cross. We 154 00:09:03.080 --> 00:09:08.039 call it replacement and replacement simply means this. He took 155 00:09:08.559 --> 00:09:14.519 my punishment on the cross. Jesus Christ took punishment that 156 00:09:14.639 --> 00:09:18.080 I deserved to have. He was my replacement, He was 157 00:09:18.360 --> 00:09:24.159 my substitute. The Bible says in Romans three, verse twenty five, 158 00:09:24.159 --> 00:09:28.279 there on your outline. God sent Christ Jesus to take 159 00:09:28.399 --> 00:09:32.399 the punishment for our sins and to end all of 160 00:09:32.440 --> 00:09:36.360 God's anger against us up here on the screen. The 161 00:09:36.360 --> 00:09:39.919 Bible also says in Glatians three, Christ took away the 162 00:09:40.039 --> 00:09:43.840 curse the law put on us. He changed places with us. 163 00:09:43.879 --> 00:09:47.000 He said, okay, look, I will be the substitute. I'll 164 00:09:47.000 --> 00:09:49.639 be your replacement. I will be the stand in. I 165 00:09:49.720 --> 00:09:51.720 will change places with you. 166 00:09:51.759 --> 00:09:52.639 Now what does that mean. 167 00:09:53.960 --> 00:09:55.480 Well, we know that nobody's perfect. 168 00:09:56.639 --> 00:09:58.679 None of us have measured up to our own standards, 169 00:09:58.679 --> 00:10:01.639 as they said, much less God. So the Bible says, 170 00:10:01.759 --> 00:10:05.440 all have sins, me, you, the Pope, everybody in history. 171 00:10:05.480 --> 00:10:09.440 Everybody's made mistakes. We've all blown it. Now, when you 172 00:10:09.480 --> 00:10:11.360 go out and you break a human law, you have 173 00:10:11.399 --> 00:10:14.840 to pay a human penalty. If I go out here 174 00:10:14.840 --> 00:10:17.960 and I speed down the freeway, then I get stopped, 175 00:10:18.000 --> 00:10:19.799 I pay a ticket for it. If I go shoot 176 00:10:19.840 --> 00:10:23.399 somebody I serve some time. If I'm in a car accident, 177 00:10:23.480 --> 00:10:27.279 I have to pay the penalty that maybe for reckless driving. 178 00:10:27.600 --> 00:10:30.559 You break man's laws, you pay man's penalties. You break 179 00:10:30.600 --> 00:10:33.559 God's laws, you pay God's penalties. And God says, the 180 00:10:33.600 --> 00:10:39.039 wages of sin is death. That means I deserve to die. 181 00:10:39.080 --> 00:10:40.480 And I don't know if you've noticed it, but the 182 00:10:40.480 --> 00:10:44.679 mortality rate in the world is now one hundred percent. Okay, 183 00:10:45.240 --> 00:10:48.440 everybody dies. I suppose if somebody lived a perfect life, 184 00:10:48.480 --> 00:10:50.720 they wouldn't have to die, but nobody can do that. 185 00:10:51.600 --> 00:10:53.960 But the truth is the wages of sin, of death. 186 00:10:54.000 --> 00:10:57.039 That means Somebody's got to pay for all the things 187 00:10:57.080 --> 00:11:00.320 I've done wrong, all the mean, evil, ugly things I've 188 00:11:00.320 --> 00:11:02.840 done wrong. Either I have to pay for it or 189 00:11:02.879 --> 00:11:06.759 somebody else does. And Jesus Christ said, I will do it. 190 00:11:07.840 --> 00:11:11.000 I'm going to pay for all of Rick Warren's sins. 191 00:11:11.440 --> 00:11:13.279 I'm going to pay for all of yours, all the 192 00:11:13.279 --> 00:11:15.519 ones you've already committed, in fact, all the ones you 193 00:11:15.559 --> 00:11:17.799 haven't even committed yet that you don't even know about, 194 00:11:17.799 --> 00:11:21.080 that will happen next week, next year, and whatever year 195 00:11:21.159 --> 00:11:24.840 you live to in age. The good news is this 196 00:11:25.720 --> 00:11:28.240 somebody has already paid the death. 197 00:11:28.039 --> 00:11:30.000 Penalty for your sins. 198 00:11:30.639 --> 00:11:31.559 You don't have to do it. 199 00:11:32.120 --> 00:11:35.559 You've had a substitute, you've had a replacement. And everything 200 00:11:35.639 --> 00:11:38.919 you've ever done wrong has already been paid for. And 201 00:11:38.960 --> 00:11:41.960 everything you ever will do wrong that you haven't even 202 00:11:42.000 --> 00:11:47.559 done yet, it's already been paid for. That's like going 203 00:11:47.559 --> 00:11:49.600 in to eat a dinner and somebody's already paid for 204 00:11:49.639 --> 00:11:53.440 it at the restaurant or going somewhere, and somebody's already 205 00:11:53.519 --> 00:11:55.840 paid for it in advance, and you just get to 206 00:11:55.879 --> 00:11:59.159 go in and enjoy it. The Bible says this in 207 00:11:59.279 --> 00:12:03.480 Hebrews ten. Up on the screen, God did away with 208 00:12:03.639 --> 00:12:07.279 the old sacrifices in the Old Testament, the Jewish nation 209 00:12:07.720 --> 00:12:13.240 offered animal sacrifices as a symbol of our repentance, our sorrow. 210 00:12:13.919 --> 00:12:15.320 And God said, no, you don't. We don't need to 211 00:12:15.360 --> 00:12:17.000 do that. You don't have to do that, And he 212 00:12:17.039 --> 00:12:19.799 put He did away with the old sacrifices and put 213 00:12:19.799 --> 00:12:24.679 the sacrifice of Christ in their place. Because Jesus Christ 214 00:12:24.799 --> 00:12:28.480 did what God wanted him to do, we're all purified 215 00:12:28.480 --> 00:12:31.840 from sin by his offering of his own body. Would 216 00:12:31.879 --> 00:12:35.159 you read this last phrase with me once? And for 217 00:12:35.440 --> 00:12:38.919 all that means he did it all at one time, 218 00:12:39.120 --> 00:12:41.399 and it's finished, and nobody else has. 219 00:12:41.320 --> 00:12:41.879 To deal with it. 220 00:12:42.519 --> 00:12:44.759 Jesus was hung up for your hang ups. 221 00:12:45.919 --> 00:12:48.080 He was nailed to the cross, So you can stop 222 00:12:48.200 --> 00:12:50.919 nailing yourself to the cross for all the things you've 223 00:12:50.919 --> 00:12:53.960 done wrong. He says, I came to take away that 224 00:12:54.039 --> 00:12:57.039 first heart problem. It's called guilt, and I can get 225 00:12:57.120 --> 00:12:59.759 rid of it. You don't have to feel guilty because 226 00:12:59.799 --> 00:13:02.320 I I have paid for it all. When Jesus Christ 227 00:13:02.360 --> 00:13:04.759 died on the cross, one of the seven things that 228 00:13:04.799 --> 00:13:05.639 he said was. 229 00:13:06.000 --> 00:13:07.879 It is finished. 230 00:13:08.679 --> 00:13:08.759 Now. 231 00:13:08.799 --> 00:13:11.759 I didn't say I am finished, because he wasn't. Came 232 00:13:11.840 --> 00:13:14.679 back to life three days later to prove that he 233 00:13:14.720 --> 00:13:17.799 was who he said he was, and he said, he 234 00:13:17.840 --> 00:13:18.759 didn't say I'm finished. 235 00:13:18.840 --> 00:13:20.279 It is finished. What is that? 236 00:13:21.039 --> 00:13:24.240 The payment for all of your sins, the payment for 237 00:13:24.279 --> 00:13:25.879 everything you've ever done around It is finished. 238 00:13:25.919 --> 00:13:26.399 It's paid for. 239 00:13:26.679 --> 00:13:30.039 In fact, that phrase it is finished in the Greek. 240 00:13:30.080 --> 00:13:33.559 The Bible is written in Greek and Hebrew. It is 241 00:13:33.600 --> 00:13:35.799 one phrase. It is the word to tell us sty. 242 00:13:35.960 --> 00:13:38.799 In Greek, to tell us sty was a legal term, 243 00:13:39.360 --> 00:13:41.960 and they would actually stamp it on a bill that 244 00:13:42.000 --> 00:13:44.759 had been paid. They would stamp to tell usty it 245 00:13:44.840 --> 00:13:47.600 is finished. It meant paid in full. You've paid this 246 00:13:47.720 --> 00:13:50.879 bill off. By the way, once you've paid a bill off, 247 00:13:51.000 --> 00:13:54.279 how long do you remember it? Well, you don't think 248 00:13:54.320 --> 00:13:56.679 about it anymore. You pay your car off, You're not 249 00:13:56.720 --> 00:13:59.679 still thinking, oh, think about that bill. Well, once God's 250 00:13:59.679 --> 00:14:02.039 paid for your sins, how much do you have to 251 00:14:02.080 --> 00:14:02.600 remember them? 252 00:14:02.720 --> 00:14:03.879 None? 253 00:14:04.159 --> 00:14:06.879 You forget about a bill that's been paid. They would 254 00:14:06.919 --> 00:14:10.480 stamp to tell us die on a prison sentence that 255 00:14:10.519 --> 00:14:12.720 had been commuted, or a guy who had served his 256 00:14:12.840 --> 00:14:15.399 time and paid his debt to society. And as they 257 00:14:15.440 --> 00:14:17.440 would let the guy go out of prison and other 258 00:14:17.519 --> 00:14:19.919 Romans prisons, they would give him a certificate and it 259 00:14:20.000 --> 00:14:22.480 was stamped to tell us, dife paid in full. 260 00:14:22.799 --> 00:14:23.799 It is finished. 261 00:14:24.320 --> 00:14:26.799 And when Jesus said on the cross it is finished, 262 00:14:26.799 --> 00:14:29.759 he meant I have paid for every sin ever to 263 00:14:29.759 --> 00:14:31.919 be committed in the history of mankind. 264 00:14:32.799 --> 00:14:36.279 It's paid for. It's finished. Now, Why would God do 265 00:14:36.399 --> 00:14:38.000 that for you? 266 00:14:38.120 --> 00:14:41.759 God so loved the world that he gave his only 267 00:14:41.759 --> 00:14:44.720 begotten son, John three point sixty. He did it because 268 00:14:44.720 --> 00:14:48.399 he loves you. He made you, He loves you. He 269 00:14:48.440 --> 00:14:51.600 wants you to have a relationship with him. Nobody will 270 00:14:51.600 --> 00:14:55.240 ever love you more than Jesus Christ. No man will 271 00:14:55.279 --> 00:14:57.679 ever love you, no woman will ever love you more 272 00:14:57.840 --> 00:15:01.679 than Jesus Christ does. The Bible says this in Isaiah 273 00:15:01.759 --> 00:15:04.720 up here on the screen. It was our weaknesses. He 274 00:15:04.799 --> 00:15:08.600 carried our weaknesses. It was our sorrow that weighed him down. 275 00:15:09.120 --> 00:15:12.480 He was wounded and crushed for our sins. He hadn't 276 00:15:12.519 --> 00:15:15.759 done anything wrong. He was beaten that we might have peace. 277 00:15:15.799 --> 00:15:19.080 He was whipped, and we were healed. All of us 278 00:15:19.120 --> 00:15:23.639 have straightaway like sheep, the Bible says. But it says 279 00:15:23.679 --> 00:15:26.399 that we have gone on to do our own ways, 280 00:15:27.320 --> 00:15:30.440 and we have left. We have left God's path to. 281 00:15:30.399 --> 00:15:31.279 Follow our own. 282 00:15:31.480 --> 00:15:35.480 Yet the Lord laid on him the guilt and sins 283 00:15:35.519 --> 00:15:41.440 of us all Jesus became our substitute, our replacement. Now, 284 00:15:41.480 --> 00:15:43.320 let me tell you why that's good news. Let me 285 00:15:43.360 --> 00:15:46.440 give you a little secret. Because most of the people 286 00:15:46.480 --> 00:15:50.360 in the world are dying, dying to hear three words. 287 00:15:50.840 --> 00:15:56.519 You are forgiven. Most of the people in the world 288 00:15:56.559 --> 00:16:00.240 are dying to hear those three words. You are forgiven. 289 00:16:00.960 --> 00:16:03.600 When you accept what Jesus Christ has done for you 290 00:16:03.639 --> 00:16:06.320 on the cross heath I'm accepting you as my replacement, 291 00:16:06.559 --> 00:16:09.840 as my substitute. I'm putting my faith in you. Jesus 292 00:16:09.840 --> 00:16:12.080 says you are forgiven. 293 00:16:13.000 --> 00:16:13.840 And why do we need that? 294 00:16:14.120 --> 00:16:18.840 Because guilt is probably the most paralyzing emotion. I read 295 00:16:18.879 --> 00:16:21.799 a study, actually I've read several studies that has said 296 00:16:22.000 --> 00:16:24.799 that about half the people in the hospitals that are 297 00:16:24.840 --> 00:16:27.360 sick right now could go home if they could get 298 00:16:27.399 --> 00:16:30.320 rid of guilt or resentment. Guilt what we've done to others, 299 00:16:30.320 --> 00:16:31.799 and resentment what they've done to us. 300 00:16:32.159 --> 00:16:34.200 That guilt and resentment have. 301 00:16:34.279 --> 00:16:37.440 Such physiological effects on our bodies. You weren't made to 302 00:16:37.480 --> 00:16:40.279 walk around caring guilt. And God says, I don't intend 303 00:16:40.320 --> 00:16:43.879 for you to live that way. I want you to 304 00:16:43.960 --> 00:16:48.120 be forgiven. It is finished. Now, How does Jesus forgive 305 00:16:48.159 --> 00:16:53.399 you instantly, completely and freely? The Bible says this, They're 306 00:16:53.440 --> 00:16:56.799 on your outline, and here on the screen. God took 307 00:16:56.879 --> 00:17:02.279 the sinless Christ and poured out our sin our into him, 308 00:17:02.399 --> 00:17:06.359 our sins. Then in exchange, here's the replacement. He poured 309 00:17:06.400 --> 00:17:08.319 God's goodness into us. 310 00:17:08.680 --> 00:17:09.359 What a deal? 311 00:17:10.880 --> 00:17:11.160 You like? 312 00:17:11.240 --> 00:17:11.720 This deal? 313 00:17:12.680 --> 00:17:15.359 God took the sinless Christ and took I'm gonna take 314 00:17:15.359 --> 00:17:18.160 everything dirty in your life and dump it on Jesus 315 00:17:18.160 --> 00:17:18.880 and He's gonna. 316 00:17:18.680 --> 00:17:19.160 Pay for it. 317 00:17:19.359 --> 00:17:22.000 And then I'm gonna take his goodness and I'm gonna 318 00:17:22.039 --> 00:17:25.519 pour that onto you. And that's why the Bible says 319 00:17:26.319 --> 00:17:29.079 there is no condemnation. 320 00:17:28.720 --> 00:17:30.559 For those who are in Christ Jesus. 321 00:17:31.440 --> 00:17:33.279 When God looks down on you and you will put 322 00:17:33.279 --> 00:17:35.400 your trust in him, God says, I don't condemn you. 323 00:17:35.799 --> 00:17:38.720 There is no condemnation. Doesn't matter what you've done. I 324 00:17:38.759 --> 00:17:43.519 don't condemn you. Why because that sin was placed on Christ. 325 00:17:43.799 --> 00:17:47.319 That is the most amazing love ever considered. 326 00:17:48.400 --> 00:17:50.799 The second benefit of jesus death on the cross is 327 00:17:50.839 --> 00:17:51.599 called redemption. 328 00:17:53.000 --> 00:17:54.720 It means that he bought my freedom. 329 00:17:55.359 --> 00:17:57.880 One Timothy two six says he gave his life to 330 00:17:57.920 --> 00:18:01.599 purchase freedom for everyone. The Greek word for redemption here 331 00:18:01.599 --> 00:18:05.559 actually refers to slaves that were purchased in a marketplace. 332 00:18:06.200 --> 00:18:09.079 In a spiritual sense, all of us are slaves to 333 00:18:09.160 --> 00:18:12.960 sin until Jesus purchased us out of the slave market 334 00:18:12.960 --> 00:18:15.720 and sit us free from sins bondage. Now you may 335 00:18:15.720 --> 00:18:18.039 be thinking, well, I'm not a slave, so why do 336 00:18:18.119 --> 00:18:21.680 I need redemption from That's a great question. The Bible 337 00:18:21.680 --> 00:18:23.720 says in two Peter two nineteen that you are a 338 00:18:23.720 --> 00:18:27.759 slave to whatever controls you. So based on this definition alone, 339 00:18:27.799 --> 00:18:29.720 all of us are slaves to something. 340 00:18:31.160 --> 00:18:32.640 You could be a slave to your peers. 341 00:18:33.400 --> 00:18:35.279 You might be a slave to your schedule, or to 342 00:18:35.359 --> 00:18:38.799 your work, or to your past or to memories, or 343 00:18:38.799 --> 00:18:39.960 to guilt or to resentment. 344 00:18:40.720 --> 00:18:42.240 You fill in the blank on what you may be 345 00:18:42.279 --> 00:18:42.799 a slave to. 346 00:18:44.039 --> 00:18:45.759 Look at some verses up on the screen with me 347 00:18:46.680 --> 00:18:48.720 to talk about some of the things that were slaves to. 348 00:18:49.519 --> 00:18:52.839 One Thessalonians four or five says, don't be a slave 349 00:18:52.880 --> 00:18:56.240 of your desires, living like people who don't know God. 350 00:18:56.799 --> 00:18:59.920 Are you a slave to your desires? Are you slaved 351 00:19:00.119 --> 00:19:03.799 your lusts? Are you a slave to what your I see? 352 00:19:05.200 --> 00:19:08.079 One Corinthian seven twenty three says God bought you for 353 00:19:08.119 --> 00:19:11.480 a price, So do not become slaves of people. The 354 00:19:11.480 --> 00:19:13.400 Bible says that we can become slaves of people. We 355 00:19:13.400 --> 00:19:16.519 can begin living for the approval of others. It could 356 00:19:16.519 --> 00:19:18.480 be the approval of parents, it could be the approval 357 00:19:18.720 --> 00:19:22.200 of our boss, or a boyfriend or girlfriend. But what 358 00:19:22.319 --> 00:19:24.759 Jesus did on the cross when he came, he came 359 00:19:24.799 --> 00:19:27.440 to set us free from slavery. He came to set 360 00:19:27.480 --> 00:19:29.319 us free from the slave of our desires and the 361 00:19:29.359 --> 00:19:33.759 slave the slavery of people. Glatians five to one said 362 00:19:34.119 --> 00:19:35.359 says this upon the screen. 363 00:19:35.960 --> 00:19:38.640 Freedom is what we have. Christ has set us free. 364 00:19:39.119 --> 00:19:41.640 So stand in as free people, and do not allow 365 00:19:41.680 --> 00:19:43.079 yourselves to become slaves. 366 00:19:43.240 --> 00:19:47.599 Again, what is this freedom for? Well, this freedom is 367 00:19:47.920 --> 00:19:49.279 to be used for good. 368 00:19:49.839 --> 00:19:53.599 One Peter two sixteen says, exercise your freedom by serving God, 369 00:19:54.000 --> 00:19:56.519 not by breaking the rules. So here's the question. What 370 00:19:56.599 --> 00:19:59.680 is it that controls you? Are you controlled by your past? 371 00:19:59.799 --> 00:20:02.200 Are you controlled by your habits for living for the 372 00:20:02.200 --> 00:20:05.640 approval of others? Are you controlled by your schedule? I 373 00:20:05.680 --> 00:20:08.559 know some people whould rather die than be late to anywhere. 374 00:20:10.240 --> 00:20:12.960 Let me give you a picture of what Jesus's death 375 00:20:13.000 --> 00:20:14.960 on the cross did to purchase our freedom. 376 00:20:15.920 --> 00:20:18.200 Imagine a busy marketplace. 377 00:20:18.160 --> 00:20:23.440 A lot of commerce going on, people all around selling things, clothes, vegetables. 378 00:20:24.279 --> 00:20:26.480 But then in the center of the marketplace there's something 379 00:20:26.480 --> 00:20:30.480 else that's being sold, and it's people who are being 380 00:20:30.480 --> 00:20:33.079 sold as slaves. Now, to really picture this, you've got 381 00:20:33.079 --> 00:20:35.960 to put yourself on the auctioning block. You have to 382 00:20:35.960 --> 00:20:38.519 be the one who's up on the slave block being sold. 383 00:20:39.359 --> 00:20:41.960 Prospective buyers are eyeing you, looking you up and down, 384 00:20:42.759 --> 00:20:44.920 thinking you as if a thing and not as a person, 385 00:20:46.839 --> 00:20:49.680 and the bids begin to start, and as each successive 386 00:20:49.680 --> 00:20:51.680 bid is shouted out, you start to look into the 387 00:20:51.720 --> 00:20:53.440 eyes of those who are bidding on you, trying to 388 00:20:53.480 --> 00:20:55.319 size them up, finding out are they kind or are 389 00:20:55.400 --> 00:20:58.640 they cruel? But it really doesn't matter, because they're still 390 00:20:58.640 --> 00:21:02.319 trying to buy you for their own person purposes. And 391 00:21:02.519 --> 00:21:06.480 just as the auction is winding down, a stranger off 392 00:21:06.519 --> 00:21:09.519 in the crowd stands up and he offers a bid 393 00:21:09.559 --> 00:21:12.119 that is a thousand times higher than anyone else's bid. 394 00:21:12.200 --> 00:21:14.480 There is no way that anyone could ever match that 395 00:21:14.519 --> 00:21:18.359 bid or beat the bid. And as the auctioneer hastily 396 00:21:18.400 --> 00:21:21.079 begins to accept that stranger's bid, you look into that 397 00:21:21.079 --> 00:21:24.720 stranger's eyes and you realize that he's not there to 398 00:21:24.799 --> 00:21:27.799 buy you to use you. He's there to set you free. 399 00:21:29.319 --> 00:21:31.240 And that's what Jesus did for us on the Cross. 400 00:21:32.079 --> 00:21:34.880 He paid for us to set us free. He paid 401 00:21:34.920 --> 00:21:37.319