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Now let's get started with today's teaching here is Alan Wright you I say I really love God with all your heart mind soul and strength and love your neighbor as yourself who's done that was done that there might be some way The 10 Commandments but whose love their neighbor as himself who ever got enough selfishness at her like to do that. In other words, you can't keep the law and therefore the problem is sin and what to do with sin, and so in the spirit of the age ideologically were trying to say.

Well, there's no really such thing as sin or trying to blur all the issues but the guilt of the human heart is never alleviated from that whenever whenever relieved whenever have peace with God to the beginning of understand the gospel is to understand the dilemma of human sin Jerry Bridges puts it this way to think about the magnitude of our sin to God. If you were to accidentally spill some black ink on somebody's doormat. You feel kinda bad about that mining try to replace it for them. But if you went into a palace and you still black ink onto iPod priceless Persian heirloom the same active spill in the same Inc. would feel altogether different.

Because the value of what you just hurt or, as I said, not too long ago, someone put it this way if you if you're if you as a little boy. You poke your little sister in the backseat of the car you hit your little sister back to the car your parents from going rebuke you.

They might even draw that invisible line you know they're in the back of the station wagon and if you go to school the next day and you hit the student sit next to a probably send you home and call your parents and you will be more trouble. You know, same thing you same hit, but just different different person different context. And if you if you come back to school the next day and you go hit the teacher.

You probably won't get expelled from that school and if the if the police officer who escort you out of the school. If you hit him.

You probably going to jail and if when you get out of jail you drive up to Washington DC, crossed the fence, run across the white house lawn. I'm going to punch the president in the face. Then you get shot by the words.

The same thing can have a far different impact of its magnitude because of the of the of the grandeur of the one offended may have to envision God is perfect and holy, and majestic.

Beyond description, and any any form of sin, any formants.

The Bible says is as if it is of utmost and were separated from God because what makes the church not to be bigots or hypocrites is when instead of saying we are righteous, you're not. We say all sinners, we all fall short of the glory of God and we have hope. That's the gospel announcement so it begins with understanding our predicament as centers and until we understand that that is the deep, deep need and will never truly truly appreciate the magnitude of what the gospel is announcing that here it is.

I've written this down as it came to me and this is what I believe with all my heart that the Bible teaches and what Paul is saying in Galatians chapter 2 just means that when you are justified through faith in Christ. You can never be held accountable for punished for made to be ashamed of penalized or experience the disappointment of God, for any past sin that you have committed or for any sinful posture of your heart. It means beloved that while the Christian may experience the loving discipline of God. Here she will never experience the wrath of God or any of the penalty that he or she so deeply deserves to good visitor go back can't really be a about something that was wrong. I will say it again because Martin Luther said my job is to beat it into your head. It means to be justified. That is just as if I never sin and therefore if this is the way God regards you through Jesus Christ. It means logically, does it not, you cannot be held accountable for punished for made to be ashamed of or penalized or experience the disappointment of God, for any past sin that you have committed for any sinful posture of your heart. It means instead that while the Christian may experience the loving discipline of God, he or she will never experience the wrath of God or any of the penalty that he or she so deeply deserves is just as if I never stand. Let us not settle for any thing less than a gospel that proclaims that because Jesus died on the cross so that we could say that so that you could truly be forgiven. Let's not let one or 2% of a mixture of creep back in this as well yeah but God still probably going to punish me for certain of my sins or notes on my newsstands is God punish me for the let's not let that creep in.

Why because as soon as that creeps into your thinking where is its end. The accuser of the brethren, the one with the father of lies. One who is called Satan will find it every point of legalism in your life will find a way to accuse you so that you will either despair of life, sabotage yourself, punish yourself, or fear of God or make yourself a slave but when you believe that is just as if I'd never send it is like the power the power of all legalistic thought the written code. Paul says in Romans is canceled and nailed to the cross is a big part of what Paul means when he says I died with Christ. I was crucified with Christ. Calvin said I was engrafted into the death of Christ that I died to the wall that I might live is dying to a whole system of thoughts and this is what Paul is laying out for us in glazing.

It is an extraordinary thought. But when God looks at the Christian he sees you as not guilty completely innocent, but if the gospel stop there. We would only have part of the full counsel of God. If God forgave you of your sin and declared you not guilty and said is just as if I'd never sin, it would be glorious unto itself but it would not make you meritorious it would not make you as if you had deserved any blessing, it would make you morally neutral and make you like Adam before Senate ever end of the world.

God does something incredible in justification, that when you're justified through faith in Christ.

You are not only declared not guilty, but you are reckoned by God through your faith that you have lived a perfectly righteous life just like Jesus Christ and as such, you are apt to be rewarded, favored and blessed as if you had lived a completely meritorious life is hard to believe this.

This is what the Bible teaches is always been God's plan. Isaiah's editing Isaiah 6110. He has clothed me with the garments of salvation, and he has cover me with the robe of righteousness. It is our righteousness that is imputed to us not it all by our own merit. It means this is what is astounding that when God looks upon the Christian one who has accepted Christ through faith. God sees first one that he looks upon as not guilty and declares it. It's as if you never send and more than that because he imputes the righteousness of Jesus to you, he sees you as if you had lived the perfect life that Jesus live which means that therefore God is justified himself importing out unlimited eternal blessings upon your life. He always said that obedience would be rewarded and disobedience would be punished through the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ, God has accomplished at the same time. At the same time, he has kept his word that obedience would be rewarded disobedience would be punished and made such reward available to those who were otherwise disobedient because we are reckoned as if we are righteous through the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. He changes that's Alan Wright will have more teaching moment from today's important series an option for 99 days in a row.

Someone tells you, I love you I'll never forsake when you feel cherished. The what would happen if I'm hundred day that same person. Sad that Shayna got enough for me to measure found the Colletti anymore. When that one day contaminate the meaning of the other 99 days when 1% of conditional love poison. The other 99% will just 1% of lies enough to spoil grace instead of locking introducing unlimited capacity for fear if I don't measure up. When my heavy rejected when the Judaizers infiltrated the Galatian church a possible policy outraged and read a letter that describes the essence of the gospel of grace and why it must not be mixed with any form of Alan Wright's 12 message idea series trumpets the power of the gospel in order to set you free empower you with pure grace.

It's called Galatians and asked the gospel discover the purity and power the grace of God. When you make your gift to Alan Wright ministry said I will send you pastor outlines messages in an attractive CD album or through digital download as our way of saying thanks for your partnership. Call us at 877-544-4860 877-544-4861 come to our website pastor. Our and data work. Today's teaching now continues here once again is Alan Wright saying before you start the class I'm giving you an a is if you had done a level work. So live your life instead of fear of making a failing grade. Live your life with faith that you're already in a student go ahead and live an a student life is the different between fear and faith is said to his death in life.

This is the glory of the gospel. Now, it is important to understand what we mean by imputed I don't I don't mean to bring about a technical theological words to you, but there's just some words that we use in theology because we don't have another word for it. And this is one of those cases imputed. It's not the 1st Pl. in Scripture where we see this idea of imputation. We get the same idea when we say that we are all born in sin because of Adam and Eve sin.

In other words, because the first humans were sinful. We who are also human are imputed with their sin.

So that's what the Bible teaches. Even before your born as you are born into this world is already imputed to you as a human being your born in the condition of sin. But then we see this idea of imputation again when Jesus is on the cross because it is there. Paul says elsewhere that Jesus became our sin. So Adam's sin is imputed to us and then on the cross. Our sin is imputed to Christ, so this then is the third image of imputation that while our sin is imputed to Christ in the same way that Adamson was imputed to us Christ's righteousness in this great exchange is imputed to us. It is granted to us.

It is reckoned as if an hour account and this is important theologically because what this is saying is that it is not your own righteousness. It is always Christ's righteousness, which goes far to say understand what Paul means when he says I've been crucified with Christ is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me.

It is why Paul can say in first Corinthians 130 that God made Christ to be our wisdom, our righteousness and sanctification and redemption. Christ is our righteousness.

I am I am reckoned is righteous because Christ is my righteousness. And Paul says that his goal in Philippians 39 is to be found in Christ, not having a righteousness of my own baseball law, but that which is through faith in Christ righteousness from God depends upon faith. In other words, the righteousness of Jesus Christ is reckoned unto you under your account as if you had lived a perfectly obedient life and therefore in Jesus Christ is just as if I'd never sin and is just as if I live a beautiful meritorious life and and done many good things that deserve to be blessed. This is the Christian life.

It is technically and this is important to say that justification is a legal declaration from God that is separate and distinct from conversion which is called regeneration and our Christian growth, which is called sanctification. It is to say that our justification knowing that I'm justified is the fuel it is the substance and source of all of my sanctification. All of my Christian growth. When I served on a jury last year. We, we, the defendant was accused of a possession of drug paraphernalia and he was accused of possession of cocaine with intent to sell and we, the jury found him guilty of possession of drug paraphernalia and it seemed clear that goods it had to be that this was his drug paraphernalia. That was the lesser of the offenses, but there was not enough evidence to convict him that he possessed cocaine he intended to sell it just wasn't enough as an evidence of that. And so we declared him not guilty on that count. Now when we did that not know anything else about that man. What we did was it meant in all likelihood he wasn't going to jail.

It meant that he was going to have a more minor offenses on his record. These go walk out of there free admin many good things for his life. I don't have any idea what he was going to do with with that, he could've gone out and done drugs and next day or or hopefully not. Hopefully he will have in a not guilty verdict. He would live that out as live. I don't know what we did announce was no you're not guilty and in so doing nothing or not guilty of possession of cocaine with intent to sell where saying you can't be tried for this anymore. You are not guilty of this. But that not guilty announcement does not necessarily bring any inward change in him. When you accept Christ through faith God gives you a not guilty and he gives you a granting or imputation of righteousness but that righteousness is Christ's righteousness is not necessarily about any infusion of that righteousness into your life.

Why is this important is important because what Martin Luther came up against in the Reformation was a a doctrine that was teaching that righteousness is something that God in his in to you so that you become more righteous inwardly and start showing up in your good works and this is how you could know was in a state of grace and who's not what you mean.

Some people are more justified than other people and would lead to all manner of confusion about the gospel. So to be clear what were saying is that justification is something distinct from conversion or when you're spiritually regenerated and is distinct from that leads into all of your Christian growth and sanctification.

In other words, the more that you understand that your justified.

The more that you understand the power of the gospel more that you understand and believe with all your heart, what God has done for you in Christ Jesus, the more it changes every aspect of your life.

The more that your life becomes increasingly conformed to that of Christ.

This is the power of the gospel at work. It's the power of faith that is receiving God's blessings and transformation in our life through the presence of the Holy Spirit rather than the power of fear and trying to conform to law and what we ought to do and so it's all the difference in the world. The gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ is an announcement of unbelievable implication because of the doctrine of justification, and I could spend literally hours just going on all with joy about the implications of the astounding news of our justification but let me mention a few.

These first is faith. When you know that God has absolutely forgiving you and it is been declared.

That is, as if you never sin and it is been declared that you been reckoned as righteous is it not change everything about how you come to God if you come for prayer today and somebody is praying with you, and you, knowing fully that you have been justified by the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ and there's no merit of your own ticket ever add anything to the love and favor of God upon your life because God is all ready predisposed with utmost favor towards you in the same way that he has favor towards his only begotten son, the Lord Jesus Christ. If you know that that's the way God sees you when you come before him and you come to the throne of grace and see your sin. He doesn't see all your mistakes to see your shortcomings but instead what he sees the reckoned righteousness of the Lord Jesus Christ is someone who is absolutely therefore meritorious in his sight deserving of his good pleasure instead of deserving of a displeasure. If you see yourself through the blood of the Lord Jesus is fully justified. Would you not come to the throne of grace boldly in your time of need. This is the gospel come to the throne of grace boldly in your time of need be filled with the Holy Spirit filled with the life of God with all of it is good to be filled with every spiritual blessing in Christ and look forward to the day of his complete consummation. You will live with him forever morning and nothing can ever snatch you out of his hand and live your life like that.

I made known is just as if I never, and freedom. What glorious freedom comes. If you have in your thinking a bit of angst that you haven't done quite enough. You don't quite measure up the word for that is shame and what happens is that you can end up spending your energy in your life. Striving to try to please a God through your own righteousness when he is already pleased with you through the righteousness of Jesus Helen Wright and sometimes it is all about the attitude you look at things and continue this teaching on an expedition, but Allen is back in the studio with additional insight on this for your life in our final word today. The teaching you got an A+ in the series deletions the power of blessing your life, discover God's grace filled vision for your life by signing up for our rights, free daily address. If you want to fill your heart with grace and encouragement. Allen writes a daily blessing.

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The other 99% will just 1% of lies enough to spoil grace instead of locking introducing unlimited capacity for fear if I don't measure up. When my heavy rejected when the Judaizers infiltrated the Galatian church, the apostle policy outraged and read a letter that describes the essence of the gospel of grace and why it must not be mixed with any form of Allen writes 12 message idea series trumpets the power of the gospel in order to set you free empower you with care grace.

It's called Galatians and asked the gospel discover the purity and power the grace of God.

When you make your gift to Allen Wright ministries today will send you pastor's message as an attractive CD album or through digital download as our way of saying thanks for your partnership.

Call us at 877-544-4860 877-544-4861 come to our website pastor. Our in.work Allen right here. We put the bookmark in this teaching you got an A+ somebody's listening right now and it's really touching their heart. What's our take away today, Malawi Charles Spurgeon put it, he said, when I thought God was hard. I found it easy to sin, but when I found God so kind, so good, so overflowing with compassion. I smoked upon my breast to think that I could ever have rebelled against one who loved me so and that really is the essence of all gospel based living there something that happens in you. When you accept the infinite goodness of God and his grace for you that stuns you delight you and causes you to want to live a different life. Today's good news message is a listener supported production Allen Wright ministries