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Jesus, I’ve Sinned
About this series:
Obviously we are always focussed on Jesus, but in our first series - Just Jesus - we’re going to look, over 13 weeks, at some of the high points in the New Testament that show us who Jesus is, why he’s so wonderful, what he’s done for us and what it means to live in the light of all that.
Sinclair Ferguson wrote, ‘We need to expend our energies admiring, exploring, expositing and extolling Jesus Christ’ - that is precisely our aim in the Just Jesus series. The more we see of Jesus, the more we’ll have to be delighted in and the greater will be our motivation to live for him in our everyday lives.So, come with great expectation that the Holy Spirit will be powerfully at work leading us to know and love our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
About this talk:
Paul’s argument to this point has been, “There is no one righteous, not even one” (3:10). Whether Jew or Gentile, “All have turned away, they have together become worthless; there is no one who does good, not even one” (3:12). The conclusion is that “all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God” (3:23) and therefore stand condemned before him with no means of rectifying this dire situation. Into this darkness Paul shines the light of one of the New Testament’s “But”s (3:21). But God has done something about our predicament, righteously made a way for the unrighteous to be made righteous. And in a break from theOld Testament, though to which it testifies, he has done so “apart from the law.” A righteous status is conferred upon those who put their “faith in Jesus Christ” (3:22). All (universally) have fallen short and all who put their trust in him “are justified freely by his grace.” The terms used here are rich and very important: righteousness, justified, grace, redemption, atonement. This is truly the gospel unpacked succinctly in six profound verses. And in case anyone should question whether God can be just in justifying the guilty (vs 25-26), there is no question that sin has truly been paid for in Christ’s atoning death and that God does indeed remain “just [in being] the one who justifies those who have faith in Jesus.” What a glorious, remarkable, undeserved turnaround God works by grace through faith in Christ!
We look further into:
- The gospel is such amazingly good news because the bad news from which it rescues us is so exceedingly bad.
- How should followers of Jesus handle their experience of present sin? By going back to grace through faith in Christ. See also 1 John 1:8-2:1 and Psalm 51.
- How does this truth help us defeat the lies of accusation and condemnation?
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By Citygate ChurchAbout this series:
Obviously we are always focussed on Jesus, but in our first series - Just Jesus - we’re going to look, over 13 weeks, at some of the high points in the New Testament that show us who Jesus is, why he’s so wonderful, what he’s done for us and what it means to live in the light of all that.
Sinclair Ferguson wrote, ‘We need to expend our energies admiring, exploring, expositing and extolling Jesus Christ’ - that is precisely our aim in the Just Jesus series. The more we see of Jesus, the more we’ll have to be delighted in and the greater will be our motivation to live for him in our everyday lives.So, come with great expectation that the Holy Spirit will be powerfully at work leading us to know and love our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
About this talk:
Paul’s argument to this point has been, “There is no one righteous, not even one” (3:10). Whether Jew or Gentile, “All have turned away, they have together become worthless; there is no one who does good, not even one” (3:12). The conclusion is that “all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God” (3:23) and therefore stand condemned before him with no means of rectifying this dire situation. Into this darkness Paul shines the light of one of the New Testament’s “But”s (3:21). But God has done something about our predicament, righteously made a way for the unrighteous to be made righteous. And in a break from theOld Testament, though to which it testifies, he has done so “apart from the law.” A righteous status is conferred upon those who put their “faith in Jesus Christ” (3:22). All (universally) have fallen short and all who put their trust in him “are justified freely by his grace.” The terms used here are rich and very important: righteousness, justified, grace, redemption, atonement. This is truly the gospel unpacked succinctly in six profound verses. And in case anyone should question whether God can be just in justifying the guilty (vs 25-26), there is no question that sin has truly been paid for in Christ’s atoning death and that God does indeed remain “just [in being] the one who justifies those who have faith in Jesus.” What a glorious, remarkable, undeserved turnaround God works by grace through faith in Christ!
We look further into:
- The gospel is such amazingly good news because the bad news from which it rescues us is so exceedingly bad.
- How should followers of Jesus handle their experience of present sin? By going back to grace through faith in Christ. See also 1 John 1:8-2:1 and Psalm 51.
- How does this truth help us defeat the lies of accusation and condemnation?