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- Now, I want to make a point here, and this is very important.
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- I am not saying that when you come to Christ that you become perfect in your behavior or sinless in your daily life.
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- You do not.
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- Christians battle with sin every day.
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- What I am saying is that the perfection that God demands cannot come from you.
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- The perfection that God demands, you cannot achieve from outside of it.
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- It has to come from another source.
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- Christ's perfection becomes the possession of the believer.
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- We possess His perfect righteousness, which is how we are able to stand before God and not be punished, but rather be rewarded.
- 01:08
- I am not perfect in my flesh, but God counts me as perfect because I am in Christ.
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- This is what the Apostle Paul says, and be found in Him, not having the righteousness of my own that comes from the law.
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- To be found in Him, not having the righteousness that came from my obedience.
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- Found in Him, not by any good that I have done, but to wholly and fully trust in the goodness of Christ.
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- That is my righteousness.
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- I gain the reward He deserved, and He takes the guilt and the punishment.
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- That is the greatness of the atonement.
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- It is what we celebrate today.
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- Today is Good Friday.
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- We celebrate our sins being nailed to the tree in the person of Jesus Christ.
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- Him taking our punishment and giving us His righteousness.
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- God demands perfection.
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- Perfection does not come from within us.
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- Perfection comes from Christ.
