The Man on the Middle Cross Said I Could Come (with Alistair Begg)

If you were to die today and found yourself standing before God and He were to say to you, why should

I let you into heaven? How would you answer? If you answer that and if I answer it in the first person, we've immediately gone wrong.

Because I, because I believed, because I have faith, because I am this, because I am continuing, loved one's the only proper answers in the third person, because he, because he, think about the thief on the cross, and what an immense,

I can't wait to find that fellow one day to ask him, how did that shake out for you?

Because you were, you were, you were, you were cussing the guy out with your friend. You'd never been in a

Bible study, you'd never got baptized, you didn't know a thing about church membership, and yet, and yet, you made it!

You made it! How did you make it? That's what the angel must have said, you know, like, what are you doing here?

Well, I don't know. What do you mean you don't know? Well, because I don't know.

Well, you know, did you, excuse me, let me get my supervisor.

Okay, the supervisor ranger. So we have just a few questions for you.

First of all, are you clear on the doctrine of justification by faith?

The guy said, I've never heard of it in my life. And what about—let's just go to the doctrine of Scripture immediately.

This guy's just staring. And eventually, in frustration, he says, on what basis are you here? And he said, the man on the middle cross said,

I can come. Now, that is the only answer.