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The Great Exchange, Part 2 Series: Tzadik #4

Romans 5 Dr. Matt Cassidy --- April 14, 2019

It is Palm Sunday. We’re celebrating Palm Sunday, we’re singing that He is our king, and

we sang, “Hosanna!” --- that’s the idea that goes back 2,000 years ago. Jesus is coming off the

Mount of Olives, riding that donkey, and they are thinking that they are going to have a king that

would help take over the government. They would change the government. And He came down,

but for so much more. He didn’t come down from some little hill outside of the walls of

Jerusalem; He came down from heaven. He left a throne. And He didn’t come just so that they

might be free from Rome ---- so much more. He came down that they might be free from the

wrath of God’s righteousness. He didn’t just come down so that they would be free --- way more

than that. He came down so that they would reign, so that we would reign with Him --- so much

more. He didn’t come down, live this life, die that wicked death on the cross, be raised three days

later so that we would --- I don’t know --- hope, wish, cross our fingers that we could spend

eternity with Him; that we would just think, Oh, I hope it works out; that we would doubt --- so

much more. He did what He did so that we would know that He could and will take us into

eternity.

Look at this passage we’re about to look at. Look at how it’s talking about the certainty

of our destiny with Him. And look at the reason why. Chapter 5, verses 8, 9, and 10: “But God

demonstrates His own love towards us in that, while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Romans 5:8-10

But God demonstrates His own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. 9 Since we have now been justified by His death, how much more shall we be saved from God’s wrath through Him! 10 For if, while we were God’s enemies, we were reconciled to Him through the death of His Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through His life!

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Since we have been justified” --- declared tzadik --- “Since we have been justified by His death,

how much more shall we be saved from God’s wrath through Him! For if, while we were God’s

enemies, we were reconciled to Him through the death of His Son, how much more, having been

reconciled, shall we be saved through His life!”

Look at all the “how much more”’s --- reconciled, now and forever, surely. You are to

have a conviction of that certainty. And here’s why. Because He says that the work He began in

our lives, when He began it, we were His enemies. We were His enemies! And He had to die to

save us. How much more …. now that we are His children and He’s been resurrected.

Let me put it another way. Envision this. We are drowning in a swamp, a sludge, of our

own sinfulness. If Jesus were to enter this sinfulness, it would kill Him. And He does. While

we’re His enemies He jumps in and saves us. It costs Him His life --- He dies. Is He going to

bring us all the way to heaven with Him? How much more, now that we’ve been cleaned up,

now that we’ve been given His righteousness, now that He’s been resurrected, how much more

would He not bring us all the way home? We should know that with confidence, because when

we were His enemies and we died, He did it. How much more, now that He’s alive and we’re His

friends. That’s Romans 5. How much more … there’s so much more to the gospel.

This series that we’re doing right now is called “Tzadik.” It’s the best series ever, I’ll just

tell you. And it’s because it’s the best outline you could ever imagine. It’s the best topic you

could ever learn. And the reason is because it’s the gospel. The outline is the Book of Romans.

And just to give you a quick review, one was that God is tzadik. God is holy. The word

means “righteous.” God is righteous. That means He’s perfect. We say “perfectly perfect.”

Point two: man is not. There is none righteous, not even one. We can’t even have a

motive that pure.

Point three: God has changed us. He has changed our essence so as to make us righteous.

And today we’re going to look at so much more --- how to love and appreciate and to understand

the more-ness to this.

Now the divine dilemma that God is in to make this happen, as Pascal says, “It is

unworthy for God to unite with the wretchedness of man.” He can’t. “But it is not unworthy for

Review of Tzadik Series

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God to raise man up and to make him righteous” --- to make him worthy. That’s what the gospel

is.

How did YHWH make a man righteous? Last week we saw it in a word. The word was

“both.” He was able to do it because He had to be both just and the one who justified.

Here are the two sentences, the most profound, the most important two sentences that have ever

been penned, Romans chapter 3, verses 25 and 26: “God publicly displayed Christ as a sacrifice

of atonement” or ransom, “through the shedding of His blood --- to be received by faith. Now He

did this to demonstrate His righteousness” --- His tzadik-ness.

The next sentence starts with the exact same phrase. “God did this to demonstrate His”

tzadik-ness, “His righteousness at the present time, so as to be both just and the one who

justifies” --- the one who declares righteousness, the one who declares tzadik --- those who have

faith in Jesus Christ. If you understand those two sentences, if you believe those, it will change

your life. It will change the way you behave, it will change who you befriend, it will change the

sense of destiny that you have for yourselves.

As one scholar said, “It is not salvation in general, but salvation by the way of the cross

that shows God to be righteous.” Because it’s the only way He could be both just and the one

that justifies. It’s called in theology the Great Exchange. And the Great Exchange is the

exchange of identity, of value, of your essence. It’s a gift graced to us. And we give Jesus our

sinfulness and Jesus gives us His righteousness. We give Him our shame, He gives us His honor.

We give Him our weakness, He gives us His strength. And that’s why this word, “righteousness”

or “tzadik”, for generations, has made so much influence and impact on people’s lives. That’s

why it’s etched into shirts, it’s why it is inked into people’s skin, it is why it is placed or carved

into stone.

Romans 3:25-26 God publicly displayed Christ as a sacrifice of atonement, through the shedding of His blood --- to be received by faith. He did this to demonstrate His righteousness. 26 God did this to demonstrate His righteousness at the present time, so as to be both just and the one who justifies those who have faith in Jesus.

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Here’s one of our stones that has “tzadik” written on it from 1991 or so. And it’s even

spelled wrong, so there … yeah, you know, what can you do? This is how God views us. That’s

the point of tzadik. That’s how He views us. That’s our identity. If there’s some tape playing in

your head and it’s your voice or anyone else’s, it’s a lie. Tell it to shut up and get out of your

head. Because this is the gospel truth.

Today we’re going to look at the depth of that, the height and the depth of the Great

Exchange. Today we’re going to look at the two ways the very nature of the human soul can

change, the two way to alter the essence of a human being. That’s what we’re going into today.

How did the Great Exchange happen? How could God have changed us and be both just and the

justifier?

It said in chapter 3 that he presented publicly Jesus as a ransom payment of atonement.

For that to happen, for Jesus to qualify as a payment for us, He had to be a human being that was

perfect, but then still a different kind of human being, because He had to pay for all people’s sins

for all time --- all the sins all the time. So He had to be a perfect man, because if Jesus were not a

How Does the Great Exchange Happen?

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perfect man, He’d have to pay for His own sins. So if He were a perfect man, but just a perfect

man, then He could pay for one person’s sin, because it’s a one-to-one ratio.

So the two problems are that He had to be perfect and then He’d have to be a special kind

of perfect so that He could pacify the divine holiness of all sins of all men all the time. So let’s

look at the first one, that He had to be human. What does that mean? What does it mean to be

human?

Let’s look at the first human. Go back to the first human, Adam. When God made Adam,

he made Adam tzadik. He made him righteous. He made him holy, He made him perfect. That

way he could enjoy the presence of God. The whole purpose of life is to know God and to enjoy

Him. And he did that. In the Garden of Eden, literally paradise on earth, heaven on earth,

paradise --- that’s how it starts. That’s how He makes Adam.

And then there’s the fall, the one transgression that enters the world. And when Adam

was originally made, when He made Adam tzadik, He also made him to be a mold or die or

template for all of mankind. Then he fell and bent that tzadik-ness, he broke it. But he was still a

mold. He was still a die. He was still a template.

And watch what happens. “This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day when

God created man, He made him in His likeness” --- tzadik. Then Adam fell. And then it says,

“Later, Adam became the father of a son in his own likeness, according to his own image, and

named him Seth.”

This is what changed. This is the nature of Adam [holds up a large white poster board

circle.] Assume this is a perfect circle. It is a tzadik circle. It is without fault. And this was the die

that he was supposed to be. But when the fall happened he was broken or bent. [Cuts the circle

The First Adam

Genesis 5:1, 3 This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day when God created man, He made him in the likeness of God.

3 Later, Adam became the father of a son in his own likeness, according to his image, and named him Seth.

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into two jagged pieces.] And all was lost. We’re still in the image of God, right? But we have

lost the tzadik-ness that we were meant to have. And in that curse, through the one man, death

entered into the world and death through sin. All men die because all men sin. And so Adam

becomes this die. And this is one of the ways the nature of man changes. This is when soul

change takes place, at the original sin. He was the die. And so that was Adam, and so this was

Seth [holds up another jagged half circle.] This is all that’s left. And you know what, since we

have so many Calvinists in our church, this is all that’s left of man. That’s all the righteousness --

- it’s lost.

And then generation after generation [picks up multiple jagged half circles and lets them

fall to the ground], every person is cursed. And they’ve lost the tzadik-ness that they were meant

to have. And it continues on and on and on, a defective mold, leading to who we are today. One

man --- sin enters the world and death through sin. And death goes to all men because all men

sin.

Look at it this way. At the moment of conception, an agent from the highest court comes

and knocks on the door to your soul and says, “Hi, you know, you’re human. You inherit this.

This is what you get from your ancestor Adam, this bent. That’s the nature of being human, a

long lost relative.” And that’s family --- isn’t it though?

Anyway, then the universe changed. The day the universe changed, Jesus leaves the

throne and becomes one of us. He becomes human. He becomes the second Adam. And when we

talk about the second Adam, we’re talking about not this Adam [holds up a second white full

circle], but this Adam [flips the circle to the other side, which is gold]. In the first Adam, the

template, before he fell, we talk about the nature of Jesus being human, this is what we’re talking

about. He’s born of a virgin. Why? It’s important he’s born of a virgin so He doesn’t inherit, so

that at the moment of conception He doesn’t get anyone knocking on His door saying, “You’ve

inherited …” “I’m not from that family tree.” That’s who Jesus is in His humanity.

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Look how this is summarized right here in 1 Corinthians 15: “The first Adam was from the earth,

earthly; the second Adam was from heaven, heavenly.”

So the point is that Jesus was not less human than us, He was so much more human than

us. Because this is who we were meant to be like [holds up perfect white circle], not like the

mold that was bent and ruined. Jesus is much more human. And when we talk about Jesus’

perfection, it’s not because of His deity. He is God and man, but this is not what makes Him

perfect. What makes Him perfect is that He was like the first Adam. He’s the perfect man.

His divinity is for the second problem that we have in Him being a ransom payment, that

one man could die for all sins for all men for all time. This is how you satisfy the divine nature.

He had to be both divine and human. So here we go. This is the “so much more” that I want to

talk to you about today, to understand this “so much more” of salvation. So what Paul’s going to

do is, in Romans chapter 5, he’s going to go through and do what’s called a contrast of

parallelism. What that means is he’s going to keep going back and forth between the first Adam

and the second Adam. And what you get with the first Adam, but so much more with the second

Adam, back and forth, back and forth. To be able to understand what he’s doing, rapid fire, we

have to understand a few words that he’s going to repeat over and over again for power.

Here are those words.

1 Corinthians 15:47 The first Adam is from the earth, earthly; the second Adam is from heaven.

The One (12 times) Adam One: Jesus The Transgression: original sin that give us original sin God’s grace and the gift God’s grace: Motive is love + generosity The gift (of righteousness) = tzadik = perfectly perfect Justification: declared righteous

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Twelve times he’ll use the word “the one.” And “the one” is going to be referring to the

one, the first Adam, or the one, the second Adam. The other word he’ll be using is “the

transgression.” “The transgression” is the original sin Adam committed to give us original sin.

Here’s a phrase that’s unusual because it’s redundant, but it’s purposeful. It will say,

“God’s grace and the gift.” Now grace means “gift.” It’s the same word. So, God’s grace is

talking about the motive of the gift. And in this case, it would mean that He is loving, God is

loving, and because He’s loving and generous, loving generosity provides you with the gift. And

the gift is righteousness --- tzadik-ness. Perfectly perfect. A word that is very much related to this

word “righteousness” is the word “justification.” Justification means “a legal declaration of

righteousness, to be declared tzadik, to be declared righteous.

Those are the words. You’re going to see it over and over again. It’s all for power. It’s so

that we can grasp this. This is God’s words to our soul so that we could understand the height

and the depth of the gospel; so that we can see what we inherit in the Great Exchange; so that we

can grasp the power and the importance of a single word: tzadik.

Here we go. Watch this. “But the gift is not like the trespass. For if many died by the

trespass of the one, how much more did God’s grace and the gift that came by the grace of the

one man, Jesus Christ, overflow to the many!” Next verse. “Nor can the gift of God even be

compared with the result of one man’s sin: The judgment followed one sin and brought about

condemnation, but the gift followed many transgressions and brought about justification.” That’s

declared righteousness.

There are two ways to alter the nature of a soul. Sin and the grace of God --- the generous

grace of God’s gift of righteousness. It’s the only way it works. Let me put it this way. At the

Romans 5:15-16 But the gift is not like the trespass. For if the many died by the trespass of the one man, how much more did God’s grace and the gift that came by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, overflow to the many! 16 Nor can the gift of God even be compared with the result of one man’s sin: The judgment followed one sin and brought condemnation, but the gift followed many trespasses and brought justification.

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moment of conception of your faith, some agent from the highest court comes and knocks on

your door and says, “Hello. I want to inform you that we read a will and you’ve inherited --- wait

for it --- this --- the very righteousness of Jesus Christ. It came because of the graceful

generosity. That’s why you have this gift.”

And you say, “What? That’s not fair.” It’s not. You say, “But I didn’t earn that.” You’re

right. Someone else had to earn it. This is the fact that you’ll be clothed in Christ.

Wait. There’s more. The passage goes on. Paul wants us to know about the power and

efficacy in contrast to these two Adams. And so I want you to look here. Watch what it says here

in verse 17: “For if by the transgression of the one, death reigned through the one, how much

more those who receive the abundance of grace and the gift of tzadik-ness will reign through the

One, Jesus Christ.”

That is loaded. It’s layered with contrast. He’s talking about this. Look how he says,

“With this one transgression, death reigned over us.” Picture this --- death rules over us. It

controls us, it always wins. But in the abundance of grace that was given to us as a gift of

righteousness, it says that we reign, in contrast to death, in life through Jesus Christ.

You might have missed it. I’m going to say it again. We are under the reign of death. If

Jesus came and set us free and we got to be free citizens with the new king, I think we’d be

pretty happy. But that’s not what it says. It says so much more. It says we are not free citizens ---

it says we get to reign with Him in His life. He doesn’t make us new slaves to a new kingdom.

He makes us heirs. He makes us royalty. That’s what it’s saying. That’s the “so much more.”

This is the Bible. This is what it says is true. This is how soul change takes place. He tells

us, He declares, “This is who you are and then I fix that. The first Adam --- death rules you. The

second Adam, because of His generous, abundant, gracious gift of grace, of righteousness --- you

rule with Him in life. That’s what it means --- so much more.

Romans 5:17 For if by the transgression of the one, death reigned through the one, much more those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ.

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Let me say it a different way. The gospel is not us regaining our innocence alone. It’s not

as though our debt has been paid --- so much more. Our account, our justification, our lack of

righteousness, is not zeroed out. It’s zeroed out on Good Friday, sure, with His death. But upon

His resurrection we received so much more. There’s a verse, 2 Corinthians 5:21, and the theme

of the series: “God made Jesus who knew no sin, to be sin on our behalf so that we might

become the tzadik-ness of God in Him.”

This is more than Adam ever had when he was righteous, that we would get to rule, that

we would have life, that we would eternal life with Him.

First application. When we talk about being conformed to the image of Christ --- actually,

the Bible says you are predestined to be conformed to the image of Christ. It’s not uncommon for

people to think, Wow, I don’t see that ever happening. I could never be like Christ. You can’t.

That’s the divine nature of Christ. There is a group of people who believe this. They’re called

heretics.

When we talk about being conformed to the image of Christ, we’re also not talking about

being --- I don’t know --- a thirty-two-year-old brown-haired, brown-eyed Jewish man that’s

right-handed and likes bagels. That’s not Jesus. I mean, that’s Jesus, but that’s not the Jesus you

are predestined to be conformed to.

He wants to conform you to the image of Christ so that you could become you. This is

unique to the Bible. God is very happy with the way you were meant to be and He wants you to

be that way. As a matter of fact, He has predestined you to become that way. With your

personality and your temperament and your tastes --- without the guile.

Second application. There are some questions that come up here like, How do you make

this happen experientially in. your life? Here’s what you do. You keep reading this. You

2 Corinthians 5:21 God made Jesus who knew no sin, to be sin on our behalf so that we might become the righteousness of God in him.

What Being Conformed to His Image Means

How Do You Conform to His Image?

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memorize this. You meditate on these truthful words. And then you take every thought captive.

While you have a truth filter going on now, Romans 1 through 5 at this point, you take every

thought captive.

And when you hear voices in in your head, you find out --- Where is that coming from?

Is that your own voice? Is that a parent, a coach, I don’t know, a teacher, a boss, some stupid

beer commercial? I hear this in people’s heads. Beer commercials, the country club values, some

kind of crazy cultural expression … here’s what you do. You just say, Shut up and get out of my

house. That’s a lie. This is truth. This is how I think I should be seen, but this is how God sees

me.

This is a transformation of identity. This is a value system of what our soul is worth. This

is how we keep score in whether or not we’re successful. And I’ll tell you, if your identity or

your value can in any way be lost, you should worry. You’ve made a foolish decision and all it

takes sometimes, depending on where your values are, all it takes is a change in the stock market,

a small virus could come through and take you down to your knees. You’re a ligament away

from not being who you are, or a disease, or just a change in hormones. We’re so fragile. All

these things can be lost. And God says, “I have a promise for you and it’s true --- it’s a true

statement. This is how I view you. And you should see you from my point of view.”

When we look up at God we see this, right? [Holds up the gold side of the circle.] We see

His divine nature. When He looks down at us He sees this. [Holds up the white side of the

circle.] This is who we are, the second Adam. He declared it to be true.

I’ve taught this and I’ve had conversations with people and when they hear this and when

they read it, they’ll say, “I can’t believe this. I can’t imagine this on me. And I could see where it

would work for other people, but you don’t know what I’ve done, you don’t know the shame I

have in my life, and you don’t know the shame that I’ve brought to other people that I love.”

Those can be encouraging phrases. But what I have found to be true in a lot of people’s

lives is that those are actually strongholds. Those are values that the devil has been allowed to

play anytime, all the time.

Here’s another thing. When people say that, and if you say that, just listen for a second.

It’s not humility. It’s arrogance. It sounds like you might be bumping into “There is none

“I Can’t Believe It …”

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righteous …” But if you know the whole gospel story, what you’re saying is, “You have no idea

what I have done.”

And the gospel comes back and says, Do you have any idea what God has done? His

gracious gift of righteousness, that God would become man and then die that death and prove

everything by His resurrection? And you say that’s not enough? What in Hell will it take?

There is nothing of value in heaven that hasn’t already been spent to make us righteous.

And so when you say, “Oh, I couldn’t be that,” you’re saying that your standards are higher than

God Almighty. The Holy of Holies. Do you hear it now? Yeah.

Listen, I understand this. I get this. I lived in so many years of shame. When I heard the

gospel, this is what I saw all the time, is what I was not. And I understood it was a stronghold

and it was a tape that wouldn’t stop playing, so I got another set of tapes. I literally got another

set of tapes. I went and bought the Bible on tape and I sought to memorize Romans chapters 1

through 8. Everywhere I went, on the way to school --- I was in college --- when I walked to

school, when I was driving around, every night when I went to bed, Romans 1 through 8. It

changed the way I was thinking and it got the demons out of my head and got the Bible and the

gospel into my head. It made things true in my life and shame had no place anymore. The first

Adam could get out of my life.

I hope Paul has been clear. Maybe he hasn’t. There’s so much more. There are two more

verses that summarize what he’s talking about, the greater essence of the actions of the second

Adam. The obedience of the second Adam is greater than the disobedience of the first Adam.

Look at Romans 5:18. He says, “So then as through the transgression of the one there

resulted condemnation to all men, even so through the one act of righteousness” --- tzadik-ness --

- “there resulted justification” --- declared righteousness --- “to all men.”

Paul’s Summary

Romans 5:18 So then as through one transgression there resulted condemnation to all men, even so through one act of righteousness there resulted justification of life to all men.

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Next sentence. “For as through the one man’s disobedience the many were made sinners,

even so through the obedience of the One, many would be made righteous.” Tzadik … perfectly

perfect.

Here’s the point. Here’s Romans chapter 5 --- there’s so much more. You’re already

changed! You just need to catch up. That’s all --- you just need to catch up. You need to believe

in it, and the belief in this will change how you behave and who you befriend and what you do

with your life. And you do whatever it takes. You stitch it into your clothing, you carve it into

rocks, if you spill ink on you, you make it a tattoo --- I’m not recommending tattoos, you didn’t

hear that, okay? I don’t care, it’s just that there are parents in the room. I don’t care … But this

year one of our graduates tattooed this onto her: a simple little circle, a perfect little circle, to

remind her of what’s already happened so that she would see herself from God’s point of view.

She just wants to believe what’s already true.

The last application in Romans chapter 5 is this. You need to receive it. You need to

believe it, you need to buy it. In the living room of your soul, right over the fireplace, there’s a

family crest, a family tree. Who’s on that crest? Who is the root of that tree? I’m going to preach

what Paul taught. You need to choose your Adam. There are two ways to change a soul:

transgression and the gracious gift of righteousness.

So, who’s your family? Adam from earth or Jesus from heaven? Adam who was tested,

literally in paradise, and failed? Or the second Adam, Jesus, who was tested in the desert in the

wilderness and on the cross, and He passed, and He was righteous?

This Adam, you get cursed. You will die.

This Adam, so much more. You get righteousness, tzadik, everlasting life.

This Adam, your identity brings about condemnation, shame. This guy’s a thief. He was

run out of paradise.

Romans 5:19 For as through the one man’s disobedience the many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the One the many will be made righteous.

Receive It

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This man, He was holy. He brings life. He turned to a thief and said, “I’ll see you in

paradise.”

Death reigns with all men because all sin. This leaves you condemned.

So much more. You reign with Christ in life.

Who are you going to follow? The one who transgressed, the sinner? Or the One who is

righteous and holy and was sent here by the grace so that we might receive the gift, and the gift

would be His righteousness. That’s the gospel. It’s so much more. I told you, it’s so much more.

[Clapping in the congregation.] Yeah, sure, let’s do that. If we could just believe this,

right? Do whatever it takes to remind you of what’s already happened.

Some of you might want to come down and receive counseling afterwards. We’re going

to be able to provide that for you. But right now, let’s just thank God if you’ve received that

second Adam. Let’s enjoy that second Adam. Let’s understand how much more we have in the

power of the gospel, in that one word, tzadik. That’s what we inherited --- righteousness.

Bow your head and close your eyes, if you would, with me. I want to read you just a

paragraph from Paradise Lost. Could you imagine this with me? This is right after the

transgression. It’s announced that “ ‘Unless someone will die for man, someone whose nature

is such that he will be able to make full recompense for man’s offense, who then will take

this burden upon himself?’ All present were silent. Then the compassionate Son offers to

give His life in order to save men. ‘Man will find grace’, says the Son, ‘because I shall take

man’s nature, permitting death to wreak his full vengeance upon Me. Then I shall rise

again, despoiling death of his victim. Thus, I shall kill death.’ The rest of the heavenly host

gaze in admiration upon the Son, and the Father accepts the sacrifice and commands His

angels to adore the Son.”

Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God all righteous, that He would love us while we were the

enemies of His holiness and He would save us and deliver us from all unrighteousness. Where

then is boasting? Not in trying to get things fixed. We boast in our Lord Jesus Christ through

whom we receive this reconciliation.

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[Prayer]

Lord Jesus, we are grateful for Your choice to follow the will of the Father, Your

obedience unto death, even death on the cross. Father, we thank You that You would send your

only begotten Son. Spirit, help us grasp this “so much more” of what we have, that we might

honor You in our lives, what we do, what we say, what we think; that our lives would be a logical

expression of a living sacrifice for what You’ve done for us. We pray this in Jesus’ holy name.

Amen.