Cristo Murió Por Nosotros (Spanish) - Christ Died for Us — Paul Washer

Take a seat, brothers. Let's open the Bible to 1 Corinthians, chapter 15. 1 Corinthians, chapter 15, verse 3. For I have given you first of all that which I received, that Christ died for our sins, according to the Scriptures, that he was buried and that he rose again the third day, according to the Scriptures.

Let us pray. In the name of Christ I speak to you. Be what you are, Lord. Be what we are. And the great need we have, Lord, of your mercy. Lord, we live in ignorance. We do not know what your word says.

We make, Lord, many mistakes. We have a constant need, Lord, of your grace. Lord, I know that you hear me. I ask you, Lord, to bless us tonight. May the Holy Spirit open in us, teaching us, teaching us, Lord, your word.

So that we can see the cross of Calvary, in the name of Christ. Amen. Christ died for you. How? Why? So many times we say, Christ died for me, lightly, without reverence, without realizing what we are saying.

The Reverence of Christ’s Death on the Cross

Every time we speak in the name of Christ, of Jesus, we must do it with reverence. Every time we speak of his cross, we must do it with reverence. That the Son of God died for us is something that cannot be explained.

No preacher in any language can explain or understand what it means that Christ died for us. But we are going to see some things tonight, and it is my prayer that you listen very well. Because there is no other subject more important than the subject of the cross of Calvary.

First, why did Christ die? Well, it says here that Christ died for our sins. The biggest problem today is that man does not believe himself a sinner. Even believers do not realize how sinners they are.

Humanity’s Sinful Nature

So tonight, to begin, we are going to see what Scripture says about you. What does the Bible say about you? What does the Bible say about me? Let's see. Let's go to Genesis, chapter 3. Genesis, chapter 3, verse 5.

And the Lord saw that the wickedness of the men on the earth was great, and that all the intention of the thoughts of their hearts was only to always do evil. Once I was preaching like this, using this text in a university, and a student came up to me very angry and said to me, You are a liar.

And why am I a liar? Because it is not true that all my thoughts are bad. And I said to him, young man, first of all, I read from the word of God. It is not my opinion, it is what the word of God says.

I am not a liar, I am just reading what God says in his word. And God says in his word that all our thoughts are sinful. What you have to understand is that God is not like man. Compare yourself to Hitler.

We are good people. Compare yourself to God. We are worse than Hitler. But the young man said, but all my thoughts are not so bad, they are not so sinful. Look, do you think the same? If I could, this night, if I could take out your heart, if I could put all your thoughts in a video, and if I could give the video here this night, showing all the thoughts that have passed through your heart, not only your deeds or your words, but everything you have thought.

Friend, you would run away from here and never return to this place. You would be so ashamed that you could not approach any of us. And you know that is the truth. You have thought things so horrible that you can not even share your thoughts with your best friends.

And you know that is the truth. But the Bible says that God knows everything you have thought. And not only everything you have thought, everything you have done, and everything you have said. Your words are full of sin.

Your deeds are full of sin. Your thoughts do not speak. So many perversions, so many evils have passed through your heart, and God sees everything. Also the Bible says in Genesis chapter 8, verse 21,.

And the LORD perceived the pleasant aroma, and said to the LORD, I will never again make the earth weak because of man, because the intention of the heart of man is evil since his youth. This word can be translated into Hebrew, or it is not.

What you have to understand is that man is not born neutral, morally. Man is born in sin, inclined to sin. Do you have to teach a child how to lie? Do you have to teach a child how to manipulate his parents?

How to be selfish? How to fight? How to scream? No. Why? Because what the Bible says about us is true. We are men, women, young people, fallen children. We are sons of Adam, twisted, perverted, full of sin.

This is what the Bible says. Let's go to Isaiah 64, Isaiah 64, verse 6. We are all like the filthy, and like a cloth of filth all our righteous works. We are all like the filthy, and like a cloth of filth all our righteous works.

We are all like the filthy. What is he talking about? Well, there are several possibilities, but you can refer to a leper. Have you ever been with a leper? I have. I worked with lepers in the jungle of San Pablo, in Peru.

It's something horrible, brother. If I had a leper here with me, it would be horrible. The smell would be horrible. His appearance would be horrible. Blood and pus. Toasted, ugly, rotten, rotten meat.

Imagine, a man so ugly that you can't see him, you can't look at him, you can't smell him. The disease is so ugly. To be a leper is a horrible thing. His skin is rotting. The Bible says that we, before God, are morally like this.

Today, people laugh at sin. You also laugh at sin. You like sin. Really. We should not lie. We should not be hypocrites. On television, on the radio, your eyes, you like sin. But for God, it is the sickest thing.

Dirtiest, most perverted. And the Bible says that we, without the grace of God, we alone are like a leper. Now, let's say that we are going to try to improve the appearance of the leper. We go out and we go to Dallas.

We buy a very, very thin cloth. And we bring the cloth here. And we dress the leper in the cloth. And now it looks very nice. Only a few seconds. After what happens? The same corruption of his body. It will also corrupt the cloth.

And the beautiful cloth becomes as ugly, as horrible as man. For this reason, we cannot do anything to save ourselves through our works. What must be understood is that our works are like rags of filth before God.

Our best works are contaminated with the corruption of our hearts. There is nothing you can do to present yourself before God. Accepted. When the Bible says that Christ died for our sin, we have to understand what sin is.

Sin, Judgment, and the Need for Salvation

In our culture, in the United States, it is almost impossible to understand. Nobody takes sin seriously. Neither the pastors, nor the preachers. We do not preach against sin because we do not want to be offensive.

Because we do not want to lose our work, our churches. We speak very beautifully. But the world is going to hell. Because we are not demonstrating through Scripture that sin is more than a disease. It is something grotesque, it is something horrible.

It is something that God can never bear. What makes you laugh, God hates. Now let's go to Romans chapter 3. Let's go to chapter 3. Verse 10. What does just mean? Well, the word in Hebrew basically means right.

We have a stick here. Right. If I put another stick next to it, which goes in the same direction, then it is also right. It is just. But if it is extracted like this, it is no longer just. It does not conform to this norm.

It is not just. We are not just because we do not conform to the nature or the will of God. We have been enslaved in everything that God has sent us, everything. You have not violated only one law or some laws.

You have violated everything. You have done good to God, not once. There is no right, not even once. There is no one who understands. Education in the United States is terrible, terrible. It is horrible.

I travel around the world teaching theology. That is what I do. A year and a half ago, a friend of mine from British Columbia sent me a book on logic. Logic. I teach pastors. I teach pastors' teachers.

A book on logic. I started reading the first chapter. How hard can it be? And I teach logic. It was very difficult, the book. So I read the first chapter again. Again, very difficult, but now I understand.

You know what? The book was written for children in the 8th grade who lived 200 years ago. A chapter that probably not even a young person in this group can read. We are not intelligent. We are not more intelligent than before.

Compared to the peasants from 200 years ago, we are ignorant. We don't know anything. We don't know how to read. When we talk about leaders, about groups of young people, most of them have not even read the Bible.

They graduate from seminary. And we are spiritual because we sing songs and we put on Christian clothes. We don't understand. When I talk about sin, when I talk about the need to decently read everything else, they don't listen to me.

They laugh at me. Why? Because they don't understand. They don't understand anything. They have no light. Oh, look how we are. There is no one who understands. There is no one who seeks God. People, sometimes when young people come and want to give their testimony, they say, I was looking for God, looking for God, and I finally found Him.

A lie. Do you know what? I am going to teach you something about theology. According to the historical Christian theology, and also the Baptist theology, you were born an enemy of God. All your life you have abhorred God.

There are people who say, all my life I have loved God. No. You did not love God. You loved an idol that you created in your own mind. You did not love the true God of the Bible. Most people do not understand that man is not only a cheater, but also an enemy of God.

He hates God. And man looks for God. Man looks for God like a criminal looks for a warrant. We do not look for God because we are sinners. We hate God, and God's wrath is upon us. There is no one who understands.

There is no one who seeks God. Everyone has deviated. Some have become useless. Look. One of the characteristics of a non-Christian person is that he is useless to the Lord. How many people in the church do nothing in the name of the Lord?

They are members of the church, but they do nothing. They come to the church on Sunday, perhaps Wednesday, but they do nothing. They are useless. A description of the incredulous is that they are useless.

The church is full of non-Christian people. It says, there is no one who does good. There are many people who think that God has a scale in heaven, and if we have more good works than bad works, we will enter.

It is not true, my friend, because we do not have good works. I say, well, I am a sinner, but I do not sin much. Well, how many times do you have to sin? How many times have you sinned, Adam and Eve, before you were cast out of the presence of God?

Just once. And you have sinned so many times that you cannot even count. So, it says, there is no one who does good. There is not even one. Verse 19. Ah, let's continue with a very important thing. Look at verse 18.

There is no fear of God before your eyes. The beginning of wisdom is the fear of Jehovah. Today, everyone thinks that God is my friend. I and God are, as we say in Peru, partners. Compadre. It is not true.

God is God and you are not. People do not fear God. The God who created the universe and one day will destroy the universe. Even Christians play with God and play with his commandments. How many people can now stand here in this building and start to excite me with the commandments that God has given us?

No, nothing. Why? Today, we do not speak of commandments. We only say, be in Christ and then we will live with him. Lie. Because Christ said, not those who say, Lord, Lord, will enter the kingdom of God, but those who do the will of God.

There is no fear of God before your eyes. Verse 19. Now, we know that when the law says, it says to those who are under the law that all mouths be shut and that all the world be made responsible before God.

The Apostle Paul used the first three chapters of the book of Romans to convince us that we were sinners, that we are sinners. A man cannot understand his need for Christ unless he first understands his sin.

And his state condemned before God. Most people do not seek Christ because they do not recognize his need. Most of those who say they are Christians do not love Christ because they do not recognize the depth of their sin and what Christ has done for them.

Does anyone have keys? I never have my keys. Does anyone have keys? Tell me, brother. Listen. Does it give you joy? If it gives you joy, you need a companion. It does not give you joy, does it? But if you were locked up in prison, yes.

It would give you a lot of joy to hear keys. Preachers, pastors, young people, leaders, listen to me. The reason why most people in our church play with Christ, the reason why most people in the world cannot see their need for Christ is because they cannot see that they are locked up in the prison of God.

Condemned. Most people do not understand. They do not understand the danger they are in. That they are going to die and go to hell. That God comes to run against sin. People do not understand this and that is why they do not seek salvation in Christ.

So we have to be honest. We have to speak with love. But we have to tell everyone a thousand times that because of the vice of God, people are going to die and go to hell. If you do not repent and believe in the only hope that is Christ.

Thank you very much. We are sinners. Now I am going to teach you something that is rarely heard today. 75 years ago, always, but today almost never. Once they have heard, God hates sin, but loves the sinner.

Beautiful, right? Yes, it is beautiful, but it is wrong. It is not what the word of God intends. It is something that is understood very beautiful to be without a pulse. And the singers who do not study their Bibles but write songs too.

But brothers, they do not find the Bible. Let's go to Psalm 5. I'm going to show you something that you will not like. Psalms chapter 5, verse 5. I'm going to read it in the Bible of the Americas. And then I'm going to ask someone to read the same verse in Queen Valera.

Psalm 5, verse 5. Those who sin will not be before their eyes. Abhor all who commit iniquity. Does it say that God abhors iniquity? No. It says that God abhors those who commit iniquity. Does anyone have Queen Valera here?

Can anyone read Queen Valera? Abhors all who commit iniquity. Oh, how beautiful. So when we say God loves the sinner, but hates sin, but never hates the sinner. It is false. What does the Bible say? God abhors all who commit iniquity.

We teach so many false things today. In the name of not being offensive. Do you know what scares me? Many of you are not afraid. Read. What does it say? When I read this verse teaching in a theology class.

I read this verse and people always say to me. But 1 .3 .16 says. Because in such a way God loves the world that he has given his son an inheritance so that all those who do not believe do not perish but have eternal life.

God loves the world and the world are sinners.

So God loves the sinner.

Well, 1 .3 .16 says. Because in such a way God loves the world. But Psalm 5, verse 5 also says something. That God abhors those who commit iniquity. The two texts are inspired by the Holy Spirit. What does that mean?

In his holiness and his justice. God has to hate sin and the sinner. But his love is so great that God can still love the objects of his hatred. What I'm saying is. The wrath of God comes upon the sinner.

But in his love God has made a way by which the sinner can be saved. But if the sinner does not accept Christ. Well, what awaits him forever is the hatred and the anger of Jehovah. If you reject Christ as your Lord and Savior.

The only thing that awaits you is the eternal hatred of an unjust holy God. People sometimes tell me. Always the seminarians and the university students say.

But God is love.

That's why God can not hate. God is love. That's why he has to hate. I'll give you an example. Raise your hand. How many people here love children? Raise your hand. If you love children, raise your hand.

Keep going, keep going. Are there any here who do not love children? Raise your hand. If you love children, raise your hand. OK. If you hate.

If you hate. Abortion. Raise your hand. Ah. So if you love children.

You have to hate abortion. Abortion. If God loves everything that is so unfair. God has to abhor everything that contradicts his nature and his will. What the world does not understand is that the anger of God.

The word anger comes from the Hebrew word ah. What does nose mean? Many of you were not born in a ranch like me. When a fox gets angry. He gets angry but he tells it. What does he do? His nose opens. That's what it means.

God is angry with the sinner every day. And one day the anger, the anger, the fury of God against the sinner. And the only thing they understand. They fall and hide from the anger of the Lord. He says the same presence of the same universe is going to join the presence of God.

When he comes in his fury. Pastor, are you trying to scare me? Of course. You must be scared. That's the problem today. People do not know. They do not understand. What is going to happen here one day.

You say, but Christ is not going to come in a thousand years. What does it matter? You're going to see him in less than a hundred. If he does not come here. You're going to ask where he is. And some of you are not even a hundred years.

Not even fifty. Not even ten. I am not a prophet. I am not a prophet. But probably several people here in five years will be dead. And they will be in hell. Sad, right? Sad. Now, the man is a sinner. I am going to teach you something that is the most important truth of all.

Divine Justice and the Necessity of Atonement

And you will understand what I am going to teach you. So. You are going to understand a lot. You are going to understand more or less everything. The reason I am telling you. Why did Christ have to die?

Why did he have to die? Well. There is a problem. If God is just. Is it fair? If God is just, he cannot forgive you. And if God forgives you. He is not just. So. This problem in all Scripture. How can God be just and at the same time forgive the sinner?

I am going to show you the problem. Let's say that after the covenant you go to your house. And you find all your family there. Murdered. All of them. All of your family. Right. And when you are there and you see all of your family there.

The murderer is coming out of the window. You don't catch him. You take. You take. The murderer to the police. The police take him to the judge. And the judge says. Only the judge. The judge. The judge.

Forgives you. Forgives you. What are you going to say? I tell you what you are going to say. He is not just. You are going to start calling the police. You are going to start writing to the governor. Congressmen.

And senators. And all of you. You are going to start calling the police. You are going to start telling everyone. That this man is not just. He is a criminal man. He is a criminal man. Because he is a criminal man.

In Jerusalem. One of our biggest complaints is that judges are not just. In Mexico they say the same thing. Judges do not do justice. Because the guilty are set free. It is not just. We say. So how can God forgive you?

The Bible says in Romans 17 .15. That for God. He who justifies the guilty. Is an abomination to God. He who justifies the sinner. Is an abomination to God. So how can God forgive me? And everything has to be just.

It is the biggest problem in religion. If God forgives you. He is not just. If he forgives you. He is not just. The angels when they fell. Did God forgive them? Did he send them a savior? He did not have to send you.

A savior. Neither. How can God do it? How can God forgive you? When the justice of God commands you to die. And if God does not punish you. If he does not punish you. He is not a just God. But it is like the unjust judge who forgave the man who killed his family.

It is the biggest problem in the whole Bible. Justice demands that all of us go to hell. If God forgives us. He is not a just God. The law demands our death. In very old Spanish. We use a real word. Latin.

Proficio. Be proficient of me. For example. Let's say that I am your slave. And the law says that the slave who steals has to die. So one day you return home. And I am your slave. And you love me. And you want me to die.

At home. I fall out of pain. And I cry. Be proficient of me. Have mercy on me. But do you really know what I'm asking for? I'm begging you. And I'm telling you. Please. Do not violate the law. Do not speak your tongue.

That's where the problem is. If the law demands that I die and you kill me. Then you are a criminal too. The biggest problem in the whole Bible is. How can God. Forgive you. Yes. And forgive you a just God.

That's the biggest problem in the Bible. But he did it. Do you know how? God. Came down from heaven. The Son of God took the form of a man. One hundred percent God. One hundred percent man. And he walked over the earth as a man.

Subject to everything the law said. Not once did he submit to God. A man. He went to the cross. And on the cross he took all his sins. And all the help of God. He suffered in his place. Now. I'm going to teach you something very important.

Christ’s Substitutionary Suffering on the Cross

Many of the preachers when they talk about the cross. They really do not know what they are saying. They talk about how Christ was crucified on a cross. They talk about how the Jews and the Romans crucified him.

How they put a crown of thorns on his head. How they pierced his heart with a spear. If you are Christian. It is not because they crucified Christ with thorns. It is not because the Jews and the Romans crucified Jesus.

Brothers, if you are Christian. If you are a Christian. It is because two weeks ago the Son of God. When he was on the cross. He took his sins. And he was crushed. For his own part. All the life of God.

That must fall on you. He fell on the Son of God. And he paid the price with the cross. He died. He had to die. And he died. The Romans did not kill Christ. The Jews did not kill Christ. The cross did not kill Christ.

Christ took our sins. And all the anger. All the anger. All the anger. Of his Father. Against our sin. He fell on the earth. Let's go to Matthew chapter 27. Matthew 27. Verse 45. And from the sixth hour there was darkness on the earth.

Until the ninth hour. And around the ninth hour. Jesus exclaimed loudly. Saying. Give me. This is my God. I am abandoned. Now. You have read the little poems we give to the sinners. No? Sin separates us.

From whom? From God. Because of the animosity between us and God. Because of our sin. We are abandoned from God. Christ. He took his sins. And he was abandoned. By God. In this place. Jesus. The Son of God.

Forever. He has lived. In a perfect companionship. With his Father. On the cross. His Father. He separated from him. The windows. And the door. Of heaven. Were closed. And Christ was left. To die. Abandoned.

From his own Father. We must suffer. An eternal separation. From God. Christ suffered. The separation. In our place. Now. When the Bible says something in the New Testament. For example. You have to understand.

What is happening. There are not ten chapters or verses. If a rabbi. Wanted to. Indicate a text. In the Old Testament. He simply. Quoted. The first verse. When Christ was dying. And heaven was suffering.

At night. Let's go there. And let's see what happened on the cross. Let's go between the two. There. He was abandoned. Aha. A prophecy. About Jesus. Dying. Abandoned. By his own Father. He says in verse 2.

My God. Day. I cry. And you do not answer me. And at night. But there is no rest for me. However. They are disappointed. But I am a worm. What is he saying? He is basically saying. My God. Why do you make me talk?

From there he begins his argument. Through all the history of Israel. God. You have never abandoned anyone.

History of Israel. Never fair. But here I am. Your son. Hanged. Why? Verse 3.

He gives us the answer. You are a saint. Verse 6. But I am. A worm. On the cross. The precious Son of God. He came to be. Sinner. The serpent. Raised in the desert. In the time of Israel. There was a chariot.

Like this. And all the leaders of Israel. They had to put their hands on it. And he. He came. The sinner. From Israel. To the desert. And there. The animal died. Cut off from God. And cut off from the body of God.

On the cross. Not only was he abandoned. By the body of God. But the Lord Jesus Christ. He was abandoned. By God himself. Separated from him. We had come to be. Sinner. In our place. That humanism. Between father and son.

It was destroyed. Someone. Had to suffer. Because of the presence of God. This is what Jesus did. What he did. In his place. But not only that. Not only God is so. And can not have companionship. With the sinner.

But God is just. And has to punish. The sinner. You remember when Jesus was. In Gethsemane. That he cried three times. Father. This cup. Lord. I do not want to drink the cup. Lord. I do not want to drink the cup.

What was inside the cup? I tell you. The life. Of God. The fury. And the hatred. And the punishment. And the condemnation. Of a dirty God. Who was in the cup. And when the Lord Jesus Christ. He drank the cup.

Of a life of God. That must fall on you. He drank the cup. And drank the cup. And when he drank the cup. Not a drop of it fell. Because he drank. All a life of God. In his place. Imagine. A lake.

And a wall. That is separating itself. From the water. That is behind the wall. A wall. A million miles high. A million miles high. And behind the wall. Water. An immense body of water. And in a second.

The wall. And all the water. Is coming out. On top of you. But before. The water could get. To where you are. The leaves open. And swallow. All the water. And you are dry. And dry. All the life of God.

Falling on you. And Christ. He put himself in the middle. And fulfilled. All the life of God. You know what? Now I have a son. The doctors. About ten years ago. When they saw that my wife. Had a tumor in her brain.

They told us. Dear. You will never be able to have children. Never. Never. Listen. It is impossible. It is impossible to have children. But a year ago. Nine months. My wife had to go to the hospital. Because she always had to go.

To see her son. And. The doctor said. Well. I think it is almost impossible. But we have to go. Because here is where. We have to do something. I think it is impossible. But there is my father. With my son.

And how. I. I do not lie. I love this man. With a song. He's a bastard. If a person. Tried. To hurt my son. I would not kill him. I would fight against any army. To protect my son. I would go. To hell.

A million times. To save my son. I don't love you, and if you are a father, you should know that I am a son. Imagine that. I can't hurt my son. I would die before hurting my son. But the Bible says that God, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

We are a bunch of dirty, perverted perverts. Why do I have to be here? I am so angry with those people who call themselves Christians and live like women, blaspheming the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.

You must decide now. You must be able to be a father. You must forgive Christ. You must love Him. You must be faithful to Him. You must love Him. You must be faithful to Him. You must love Him. Whenever I am in a debate or I speak at a university, I ask them, They say, But how can it be that a man can only suffer two or three hours on a cross And this is not enough to save millions and millions of men from an eternity in hell?

No, it can't be. How can Jesus suffer only a few hours on the cross to save everyone? For an eternity? Do you know how he can do it? Because he is worth more than all of us together. The songs of today.

Someone who reads the Bible must write songs. There is a song that says, God loves man more than anything else. It's a lie. It's true. I'm sorry, but it's a lie. God loves his Son more than man. God loves his Son more than all.

But God wanted to break his Son. His Son is worth more than all of you together. He is worth more than me. He is worth more than all the men who have come to this earth. He is more important and worth more than the whole universe.

But he is a good thing. We can't. And that's why we must live. Do you know that when I was 21 years old, I was in college. One night I came to my apartment, I don't know how. Drunk. Because I was taking drugs.

Drunk. Someone had told me about Christ, but I didn't pay attention. I came, I had money, my family has money. I was there, but I was young, I was going to be a lawyer, and everything else, my world was perfect.

It was. But I got to my apartment one night, like, I don't know, two in the morning. Drunk. Like five thirty. I woke up, I don't know why. But my face and my body, all wet. Why? There in the dark, confused, drunk.

Because I'm wet everywhere. So I went to the mirror, and I turned on the light, and I saw that I had slept all night in my vomit. It can't be a man worse than me. But two nights later, the Lord Jesus Christ saved me.

He saved me. A man so, in all aspects, so horrible, so immoral, so sinful. A man so cruel. He saved me. And I went, I bought a Bible, and I began to preach in the streets, everywhere. Christ saved me.

I began to preach in the same university. Christ saved me. My friends who were Christians, they said to me, Pablo, please. Everyone thought well of you. Now everyone thinks you're a fanatic. You're going to destroy your reputation here at the university and everything else.

And I asked them, but you are Christians, aren't you? I was so stupid, I didn't know. I thought that all those who were in the church were Christians. But you are Christians, aren't you? Yes, Pablo, but that's too much, isn't it?

Preaching and sharing in the classes and everything else. You have to stop doing it. But, he died for me, didn't he? He died for me. How am I not going to share? And, oh, my God, I was so, my clothes, my hair, everything was perfect.

I looked like a young man, but the best, as we always say. I cut my hair. I took off my earring. I changed my clothes. And Christians again said to me, but Pablo, why are you saying that? You have the freedom to dress as you want.

Well, I know I have the freedom to dress as I want, but in the church where I go, there are some elders, they, they don't like it. But, Pablo, what does it matter? The Bible says that if I offend a brother, I have to change.

What does it matter if they are legalists or not? But you have your rights. I am so sick of these Christians with their rights. My Christian freedom. And Christian egoism, perhaps. We are slaves. We were bought.

We must live in love. And we must do anything not to offend. We must stop thinking about ourselves. And we must think about Christ and others. Now, if you are here tonight, you are saying, I have never heard these things about Christ and what He did for me.