Speaker 1: You know, we really live in a world that's full
Speaker 1: of competing beliefs and values and choices, and what you
Speaker 1: believe shapes how you live and ultimately who you become.
Speaker 1: But the good news is God hasn't left us to
Speaker 1: figure it all out alone.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 1: In fact, today, on Pastor Rick's Daily Hope, we're going
Speaker 1: to continue our series Reframing Your Worldview, where Rick Warren
Speaker 1: unpacks powerful truths from God's Word to help you see
Speaker 1: life clearly and live it with confidence and purpose. All right,
Speaker 1: here's Rick with part two of a message called What's
Speaker 1: the Solution.
Speaker 3: Here's a third attitude of the heart, a heart disease.
Speaker 4: It's alienation. Alienation.
Speaker 3: An alienation means I feel disconnected, and a lot of
Speaker 3: people feel disconnected.
Speaker 5: I feel disconnected from God.
Speaker 3: They feel disconnected from other people, their friends, their family.
Speaker 3: Many people are married and feel disconnected from their spouse.
Speaker 3: To go, I just don't understand you and I feel
Speaker 3: like we're in two different worlds. That's part of the
Speaker 3: cause of sin and evil in our world. It causes
Speaker 3: a breach in relationships. We talked about that in detail
Speaker 3: last week. Now, as a result of that alienation in
Speaker 3: the heart, that many people feel. Many people here's the symptom.
Speaker 3: They feel aimless and lonely. They feel actually lonely. Loneliness
Speaker 3: is what it is. Loneliness. It says, I can't really
Speaker 3: get close to anybody. Most people have never really experienced
Speaker 3: genuine intimacy in their life, that soul, the soul, heart
Speaker 3: to heart companionship. And they feel separated. They feel like
Speaker 3: they're detached. And of course, before you accepted the Lord
Speaker 3: into your life, that's the way you were with God.
Speaker 3: The Bible says this here on the screen. Once you
Speaker 3: were alienated from God and you were enemies in your
Speaker 3: mind because of your evil behavior Colossians one twenty one.
Speaker 4: And so alienation creates loneliness.
Speaker 3: You know, here in America we have so valued, so
Speaker 3: valued the American spirit of independence, that we have created
Speaker 3: the greatest generation of loneliness in history. There are a
Speaker 3: lot of lonely people today, and a lot of them
Speaker 3: are married, and they're still lonely because it's a problem
Speaker 3: in the heart. Fourth heart disease confusion. Confusion in the
Speaker 3: heart creates a feeling aimless in life. In other words,
Speaker 3: I don't really know where I am, where I came from,
Speaker 3: where I'm going a lot of people just kind of
Speaker 3: drift through life. They say, you know, I don't have
Speaker 3: any goal. I don't know what my purpose is. I
Speaker 3: don't know what the meaning of my life is. The
Speaker 3: fact is, most people in life live aimless lives of distraction,
Speaker 3: and they just kind of drift through life. Now, you know,
Speaker 3: the thing is, the longer you've been a follower of
Speaker 3: Jesus Christ and you've found and discovered your purpose in life,
Speaker 3: you forget how lousy you felt before you became a believer.
Speaker 3: You forget how miserable it feels to get up in
Speaker 3: the morning, going is this all there is? Get up
Speaker 3: in the morning, go to work, come home, watch TV,
Speaker 3: go to bed, get up in the morning, come to work,
Speaker 3: go to work, come home, go to bed, go to
Speaker 3: a party on the weekend. Think I'm living. No, that's
Speaker 3: not living, that's just existing. And so there is a
Speaker 3: sense of aimlessness that people have because of the confusion
Speaker 3: in their hearts. Now, this is not a new problem.
Speaker 3: It's been a problem for centuries. In fact, two thousand
Speaker 3: years ago, the Bible says this in an experience with
Speaker 3: Jesus on the screen Matthew nine when Jesus looked out
Speaker 3: over the crowds.
Speaker 5: His heart broke for them.
Speaker 3: Why because they were so confused and aimless, like sheep
Speaker 3: with no shepherd, confused and aimless. That's not a twenty
Speaker 3: first century problem. That's a human problem of the heart.
Speaker 3: And no politics and no education and no amount of
Speaker 3: money is going to solve that. It starts in the heart. Finally,
Speaker 3: let me give you one more worry. Worry is a
Speaker 3: universal heart disease, and people worry in every single culture.
Speaker 3: And when you worry, what is the symptom of worry?
Speaker 3: What's the outward visible symptom of worry?
Speaker 5: Restless?
Speaker 3: When people worry, they feel restless, they feel disengaged, they
Speaker 3: feel anxious, they feel restless. The Bible says this in scripture,
Speaker 3: My thoughts are restless, and I am confused, Psalm fifty five.
Speaker 3: And then the other one Proverbs twelve says, an anxious
Speaker 3: heart weighs a man down. When you're worried, you can't
Speaker 3: be happy at the same time. When you're worried, it's
Speaker 3: like guilt. You can't be happy and worried in the
Speaker 3: same heart. And so it weighs the man down, and
Speaker 3: it creates this sense of restlessness. Now you look at
Speaker 3: those heart diseases, and you look at how the world
Speaker 3: has attempted to solve these problems, and that's not a
Speaker 3: very pretty picture. But I've got some good news for you,
Speaker 3: and this is what we're going to talk about today.
Speaker 3: The good news is that Jesus Christ specializes in heart transplants.
Speaker 3: He specializes in heart transplants. The scripture says this, I
Speaker 3: will give them a new heart and a new mind.
Speaker 3: And that's what we're going to look at today. How
Speaker 3: Jesus Christ changes hearts. How does he replace the heart
Speaker 3: filled with guilt and worry and alienation and compulsion and
Speaker 3: confusion with a new heart? How does he replace the
Speaker 3: feeling of worthless and powerless and loneliness and aimless and restless.
Speaker 3: How does he do that? And what did Jesus do
Speaker 3: on the cross? And how did that make a difference.
Speaker 3: If I were to go over to Irvine Spectrum, a
Speaker 3: shopping mall, this afternoon and stand down and take a survey,
Speaker 3: and I said, tell me what you think is the
Speaker 3: most common, the most universal, the most ubiquitous symbol in
Speaker 3: the world. Probably some people say, well, if they were here,
Speaker 3: they might say Starbucks, you know, it seems like there
Speaker 3: was one every corner. Or they might say it's the
Speaker 3: McDonald arches, or they might say, you know, it's the
Speaker 3: CNN logo. Or they might say, if they thought about, well,
Speaker 3: maybe it's a Chinese flag because a billion people would
Speaker 3: probably know that one. Or they might say, stop sign.
Speaker 3: Stop sign is a pretty well known symbol around the world.
Speaker 5: But they'd all be wrong.
Speaker 3: The most ubiquitous symbol on the planet is the Christian cross.
Speaker 3: It's the cross of Jesus Christ. It's on millions and
Speaker 3: millions of buildings, It's in tens of millions of cemeteries
Speaker 3: and places, you know, crosses everywhere, millions and millions of
Speaker 3: crosses and cemeteries, and hundreds of millions of people wear
Speaker 3: it around their neck.
Speaker 4: What is the big deal about the cross? Why is
Speaker 4: it so important?
Speaker 5: What did it accomplish?
Speaker 3: Why do Christians you know, use the cross as a
Speaker 3: symbol of hope. It was an instrument of death. It's
Speaker 3: not a very pretty sign.
Speaker 4: But it is.
Speaker 3: It is worn as a symbol of hope around people's necks.
Speaker 3: And why do we date everything in the world according
Speaker 3: to that one event?
Speaker 4: Even non believers?
Speaker 3: Every day they write a date, or they write a
Speaker 3: check and they write a date on it. They are
Speaker 3: using Jesus Christ and the Cross as the focal point,
Speaker 3: the reference point for history. Why is it such a
Speaker 3: big deal. Well, what Jesus did on the cross solved
Speaker 3: your five biggest problems, your.
Speaker 5: Five biggest problems.
Speaker 3: And it is not only the solution to the problems
Speaker 3: of the heart, it is the solution to all of
Speaker 3: these other problems. It is the problem, the solution to
Speaker 3: the root.
Speaker 4: Behind every other problem on the planet.
Speaker 3: So today we're going to quickly look at five benefits
Speaker 3: of what Jesus Christ did on the cross. Now, if
Speaker 3: you claim to be a follower of Jesus, you need
Speaker 3: to be able to explain this. And somebody says to you,
Speaker 3: what's the big deal? Why did Jesus die on the cross?
Speaker 3: You should be able to say the five reasons. Now,
Speaker 3: there are five words. You may learn some new terms today,
Speaker 3: but there are five reasons that explain what those terms are.
Speaker 3: So I want you to pay attention so you can
Speaker 3: pass this on to others. Now, here's the first and
Speaker 3: credible benefit of what Jesus did on the cross. We
Speaker 3: call it replacement and replacement simply means this. He took
Speaker 3: my punishment on the cross. Jesus Christ took punishment that
Speaker 3: I deserved to have. He was my replacement, He was
Speaker 3: my substitute. The Bible says in Romans three, verse twenty five,
Speaker 3: there on your outline. God sent Christ Jesus to take
Speaker 3: the punishment for our sins and to end all of
Speaker 3: God's anger against us up here on the screen. The
Speaker 3: Bible also says in Glatians three, Christ took away the
Speaker 3: curse the law put on us. He changed places with us.
Speaker 3: He said, okay, look, I will be the substitute. I'll
Speaker 3: be your replacement. I will be the stand in. I
Speaker 3: will change places with you.
Speaker 4: Now what does that mean.
Speaker 5: Well, we know that nobody's perfect.
Speaker 3: None of us have measured up to our own standards,
Speaker 3: as they said, much less God. So the Bible says,
Speaker 3: all have sins, me, you, the Pope, everybody in history.
Speaker 3: Everybody's made mistakes. We've all blown it. Now, when you
Speaker 3: go out and you break a human law, you have
Speaker 3: to pay a human penalty. If I go out here
Speaker 3: and I speed down the freeway, then I get stopped,
Speaker 3: I pay a ticket for it. If I go shoot
Speaker 3: somebody I serve some time. If I'm in a car accident,
Speaker 3: I have to pay the penalty that maybe for reckless driving.
Speaker 3: You break man's laws, you pay man's penalties. You break
Speaker 3: God's laws, you pay God's penalties. And God says, the
Speaker 3: wages of sin is death. That means I deserve to die.
Speaker 3: And I don't know if you've noticed it, but the
Speaker 3: mortality rate in the world is now one hundred percent. Okay,
Speaker 3: everybody dies. I suppose if somebody lived a perfect life,
Speaker 3: they wouldn't have to die, but nobody can do that.
Speaker 4: But the truth is the wages of sin, of death.
Speaker 3: That means Somebody's got to pay for all the things
Speaker 3: I've done wrong, all the mean, evil, ugly things I've
Speaker 3: done wrong. Either I have to pay for it or
Speaker 3: somebody else does. And Jesus Christ said, I will do it.
Speaker 3: I'm going to pay for all of Rick Warren's sins.
Speaker 3: I'm going to pay for all of yours, all the
Speaker 3: ones you've already committed, in fact, all the ones you
Speaker 3: haven't even committed yet that you don't even know about,
Speaker 3: that will happen next week, next year, and whatever year
Speaker 3: you live to in age. The good news is this
Speaker 3: somebody has already paid the death.
Speaker 5: Penalty for your sins.
Speaker 4: You don't have to do it.
Speaker 3: You've had a substitute, you've had a replacement. And everything
Speaker 3: you've ever done wrong has already been paid for. And
Speaker 3: everything you ever will do wrong that you haven't even
Speaker 3: done yet, it's already been paid for. That's like going
Speaker 3: in to eat a dinner and somebody's already paid for
Speaker 3: it at the restaurant or going somewhere, and somebody's already
Speaker 3: paid for it in advance, and you just get to
Speaker 3: go in and enjoy it. The Bible says this in
Speaker 3: Hebrews ten. Up on the screen, God did away with
Speaker 3: the old sacrifices in the Old Testament, the Jewish nation
Speaker 3: offered animal sacrifices as a symbol of our repentance, our sorrow.
Speaker 3: And God said, no, you don't. We don't need to
Speaker 3: do that. You don't have to do that, And he
Speaker 3: put He did away with the old sacrifices and put
Speaker 3: the sacrifice of Christ in their place. Because Jesus Christ
Speaker 3: did what God wanted him to do, we're all purified
Speaker 3: from sin by his offering of his own body. Would
Speaker 3: you read this last phrase with me once? And for
Speaker 3: all that means he did it all at one time,
Speaker 3: and it's finished, and nobody else has.
Speaker 5: To deal with it.
Speaker 4: Jesus was hung up for your hang ups.
Speaker 3: He was nailed to the cross, So you can stop
Speaker 3: nailing yourself to the cross for all the things you've
Speaker 3: done wrong. He says, I came to take away that
Speaker 3: first heart problem. It's called guilt, and I can get
Speaker 3: rid of it. You don't have to feel guilty because
Speaker 3: I I have paid for it all. When Jesus Christ
Speaker 3: died on the cross, one of the seven things that
Speaker 3: he said was.
Speaker 4: It is finished.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 3: I didn't say I am finished, because he wasn't. Came
Speaker 3: back to life three days later to prove that he
Speaker 3: was who he said he was, and he said, he
Speaker 3: didn't say I'm finished.
Speaker 5: It is finished. What is that?
Speaker 3: The payment for all of your sins, the payment for
Speaker 3: everything you've ever done around It is finished.
Speaker 4: It's paid for.
Speaker 3: In fact, that phrase it is finished in the Greek.
Speaker 3: The Bible is written in Greek and Hebrew. It is
Speaker 3: one phrase. It is the word to tell us sty.
Speaker 3: In Greek, to tell us sty was a legal term,
Speaker 3: and they would actually stamp it on a bill that
Speaker 3: had been paid. They would stamp to tell usty it
Speaker 3: is finished. It meant paid in full. You've paid this
Speaker 3: bill off. By the way, once you've paid a bill off,
Speaker 3: how long do you remember it? Well, you don't think
Speaker 3: about it anymore. You pay your car off, You're not
Speaker 3: still thinking, oh, think about that bill. Well, once God's
Speaker 3: paid for your sins, how much do you have to
Speaker 3: remember them?
Speaker 5: None?
Speaker 3: You forget about a bill that's been paid. They would
Speaker 3: stamp to tell us die on a prison sentence that
Speaker 3: had been commuted, or a guy who had served his
Speaker 3: time and paid his debt to society. And as they
Speaker 3: would let the guy go out of prison and other
Speaker 3: Romans prisons, they would give him a certificate and it
Speaker 3: was stamped to tell us, dife paid in full.
Speaker 5: It is finished.
Speaker 3: And when Jesus said on the cross it is finished,
Speaker 3: he meant I have paid for every sin ever to
Speaker 3: be committed in the history of mankind.
Speaker 5: It's paid for. It's finished. Now, Why would God do
Speaker 5: that for you?
Speaker 3: God so loved the world that he gave his only
Speaker 3: begotten son, John three point sixty. He did it because
Speaker 3: he loves you. He made you, He loves you. He
Speaker 3: wants you to have a relationship with him. Nobody will
Speaker 3: ever love you more than Jesus Christ. No man will
Speaker 3: ever love you, no woman will ever love you more
Speaker 3: than Jesus Christ does. The Bible says this in Isaiah
Speaker 3: up here on the screen. It was our weaknesses. He
Speaker 3: carried our weaknesses. It was our sorrow that weighed him down.
Speaker 3: He was wounded and crushed for our sins. He hadn't
Speaker 3: done anything wrong. He was beaten that we might have peace.
Speaker 3: He was whipped, and we were healed. All of us
Speaker 3: have straightaway like sheep, the Bible says. But it says
Speaker 3: that we have gone on to do our own ways,
Speaker 3: and we have left. We have left God's path to.
Speaker 5: Follow our own.
Speaker 3: Yet the Lord laid on him the guilt and sins
Speaker 3: of us all Jesus became our substitute, our replacement. Now,
Speaker 3: let me tell you why that's good news. Let me
Speaker 3: give you a little secret. Because most of the people
Speaker 3: in the world are dying, dying to hear three words.
Speaker 5: You are forgiven. Most of the people in the world
Speaker 5: are dying to hear those three words. You are forgiven.
Speaker 3: When you accept what Jesus Christ has done for you
Speaker 3: on the cross heath I'm accepting you as my replacement,
Speaker 3: as my substitute. I'm putting my faith in you. Jesus
Speaker 3: says you are forgiven.
Speaker 4: And why do we need that?
Speaker 3: Because guilt is probably the most paralyzing emotion. I read
Speaker 3: a study, actually I've read several studies that has said
Speaker 3: that about half the people in the hospitals that are
Speaker 3: sick right now could go home if they could get
Speaker 3: rid of guilt or resentment. Guilt what we've done to others,
Speaker 3: and resentment what they've done to us.
Speaker 4: That guilt and resentment have.
Speaker 3: Such physiological effects on our bodies. You weren't made to
Speaker 3: walk around caring guilt. And God says, I don't intend
Speaker 3: for you to live that way. I want you to
Speaker 3: be forgiven. It is finished. Now, How does Jesus forgive
Speaker 3: you instantly, completely and freely? The Bible says this, They're
Speaker 3: on your outline, and here on the screen. God took
Speaker 3: the sinless Christ and poured out our sin our into him,
Speaker 3: our sins. Then in exchange, here's the replacement. He poured
Speaker 3: God's goodness into us.
Speaker 4: What a deal?
Speaker 5: You like?
Speaker 4: This deal?
Speaker 3: God took the sinless Christ and took I'm gonna take
Speaker 3: everything dirty in your life and dump it on Jesus
Speaker 3: and He's gonna.
Speaker 5: Pay for it.
Speaker 3: And then I'm gonna take his goodness and I'm gonna
Speaker 3: pour that onto you. And that's why the Bible says
Speaker 3: there is no condemnation.
Speaker 5: For those who are in Christ Jesus.
Speaker 3: When God looks down on you and you will put
Speaker 3: your trust in him, God says, I don't condemn you.
Speaker 3: There is no condemnation. Doesn't matter what you've done. I
Speaker 3: don't condemn you. Why because that sin was placed on Christ.
Speaker 3: That is the most amazing love ever considered.
Speaker 2: The second benefit of jesus death on the cross is
Speaker 2: called redemption.
Speaker 6: It means that he bought my freedom.
Speaker 2: One Timothy two six says he gave his life to
Speaker 2: purchase freedom for everyone. The Greek word for redemption here
Speaker 2: actually refers to slaves that were purchased in a marketplace.
Speaker 2: In a spiritual sense, all of us are slaves to
Speaker 2: sin until Jesus purchased us out of the slave market
Speaker 2: and sit us free from sins bondage. Now you may
Speaker 2: be thinking, well, I'm not a slave, so why do
Speaker 2: I need redemption from That's a great question. The Bible
Speaker 2: says in two Peter two nineteen that you are a
Speaker 2: slave to whatever controls you. So based on this definition alone,
Speaker 2: all of us are slaves to something.
Speaker 6: You could be a slave to your peers.
Speaker 2: You might be a slave to your schedule, or to
Speaker 2: your work, or to your past or to memories, or
Speaker 2: to guilt or to resentment.
Speaker 6: You fill in the blank on what you may be
Speaker 6: a slave to.
Speaker 2: Look at some verses up on the screen with me
Speaker 2: to talk about some of the things that were slaves to.
Speaker 2: One Thessalonians four or five says, don't be a slave
Speaker 2: of your desires, living like people who don't know God.
Speaker 2: Are you a slave to your desires? Are you slaved
Speaker 2: your lusts? Are you a slave to what your I see?
Speaker 2: One Corinthian seven twenty three says God bought you for
Speaker 2: a price, So do not become slaves of people. The
Speaker 2: Bible says that we can become slaves of people. We
Speaker 2: can begin living for the approval of others. It could
Speaker 2: be the approval of parents, it could be the approval
Speaker 2: of our boss, or a boyfriend or girlfriend. But what
Speaker 2: Jesus did on the cross when he came, he came
Speaker 2: to set us free from slavery. He came to set
Speaker 2: us free from the slave of our desires and the
Speaker 2: slave the slavery of people. Glatians five to one said
Speaker 2: says this upon the screen.
Speaker 6: Freedom is what we have. Christ has set us free.
Speaker 2: So stand in as free people, and do not allow
Speaker 2: yourselves to become slaves.
Speaker 6: Again, what is this freedom for? Well, this freedom is
Speaker 6: to be used for good.
Speaker 2: One Peter two sixteen says, exercise your freedom by serving God,
Speaker 2: not by breaking the rules. So here's the question. What
Speaker 2: is it that controls you? Are you controlled by your past?
Speaker 2: Are you controlled by your habits for living for the
Speaker 2: approval of others? Are you controlled by your schedule? I
Speaker 2: know some people whould rather die than be late to anywhere.
Speaker 2: Let me give you a picture of what Jesus's death
Speaker 2: on the cross did to purchase our freedom.
Speaker 6: Imagine a busy marketplace.
Speaker 2: A lot of commerce going on, people all around selling things, clothes, vegetables.
Speaker 2: But then in the center of the marketplace there's something
Speaker 2: else that's being sold, and it's people who are being
Speaker 2: sold as slaves. Now, to really picture this, you've got
Speaker 2: to put yourself on the auctioning block. You have to
Speaker 2: be the one who's up on the slave block being sold.
Speaker 2: Prospective buyers are eyeing you, looking you up and down,
Speaker 2: thinking you as if a thing and not as a person,
Speaker 2: and the bids begin to start, and as each successive
Speaker 2: bid is shouted out, you start to look into the
Speaker 2: eyes of those who are bidding on you, trying to
Speaker 2: size them up, finding out are they kind or are
Speaker 2: they cruel? But it really doesn't matter, because they're still
Speaker 2: trying to buy you for their own person purposes. And
Speaker 2: just as the auction is winding down, a stranger off
Speaker 2: in the crowd stands up and he offers a bid
Speaker 2: that is a thousand times higher than anyone else's bid.
Speaker 2: There is no way that anyone could ever match that
Speaker 2: bid or beat the bid. And as the auctioneer hastily
Speaker 2: begins to accept that stranger's bid, you look into that
Speaker 2: stranger's eyes and you realize that he's not there to
Speaker 2: buy you to use you. He's there to set you free.
Speaker 2: And that's what Jesus did for us on the Cross.
Speaker 2: He paid for us to set us free. He paid
Speaker 2: the price to set us free that was so high,
Speaker 2: a free gift that you and I could never purchase
Speaker 2: on our own.
Speaker 6: It would be like waking up on Christmas.
Speaker 2: Morning, going downstairs, opening up all your presents, and then
Speaker 2: going around and collecting all the name tags of the
Speaker 2: people who gave you those presents to find out who
Speaker 2: gave you the present, and then whipping out your checkbook
Speaker 2: and trying to pay him for those presents.
Speaker 6: It's absurd.
Speaker 2: You wouldn't do that, No one would do that, And
Speaker 2: yet so many of us try to feel like. So
Speaker 2: many of us feel like we have to pay for
Speaker 2: God's love by good work, so by the things we do.
Speaker 2: But it's impossible because the price is so high. It's
Speaker 2: so great. Read with me out loud, the next person
Speaker 2: on your outlined Psalm for Psalm forty nine to seven.
Speaker 2: We can never redeem ourselves. We cannot pay God the
Speaker 2: price for our lives because the payment for human life
Speaker 2: is too great.
Speaker 6: This past week, I was.
Speaker 2: Talking with a man who has enjoyed significant success in
Speaker 2: his career. He's made a whole lot of money and
Speaker 2: done a whole lot of things, and he was telling
Speaker 2: me about his own spiritual journey of quests to fulfill
Speaker 2: his own deep desire inside to find freedom and spiritual fulfillment,
Speaker 2: and the hole in his soul he became a Buddhist
Speaker 2: a few years ago and decided to go to the
Speaker 2: mountains of Asia and go on a one year trek,
Speaker 2: and he hiked three thousand.
Speaker 6: Miles through the mountains to find enlightenment.
Speaker 2: Now, to give you a perspective of this, it would
Speaker 2: be like starting throwing a backpack on you and starting
Speaker 2: in Orlando, Florida, and walking across the United States to
Speaker 2: Orange County, California, for the sole purpose of maybe finding
Speaker 2: one insight on the journey that can give you some
Speaker 2: kind of spiritual awareness, some kind of spiritual wisdom.
Speaker 6: That possibly could help you get to Heaven.
Speaker 2: You say, well, that's crazy, and I'd agree it's not
Speaker 2: only crazy, but it's sad. It's sad because so many
Speaker 2: people spend their lives trying to passionately seek significance and
Speaker 2: find freedom and redemption on man made dead in the pass.
Speaker 6: And here's the amazing truth. The price the freedom, it's
Speaker 6: already been paid for. It's already been bought.
Speaker 2: All you have to do is accept Jesus into your
Speaker 2: life and begin to walk and follow him because you're
Speaker 2: already free.
Speaker 6: In christ. Rick's going to come back and talk about
Speaker 6: the third benefit that we have.
Speaker 3: Jesus took my punishment on the cross. That's called replacement.
Speaker 3: He was my substitute, and Jesus bought my freedom on
Speaker 3: the cross that's called redemption.
Speaker 5: He redeems me by.
Speaker 3: Paying so I can be free.
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