Christopher Brenyo on the Problem of Holiness
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Clip from Pastor Brenyo's sermon on Mark 1:14-15.
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- 00:02
- God is a spirit, infinite, eternal, and unchangeable, and is being, wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness, and truth.
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- Holiness has been described in some places as the sum of all of those perfections.
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- So fundamentally, when we think about God, we need to think about a God who is holy.
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- And when we think about that, that is uncompromising holiness. You know how, when we're sinners, we say it's not really a big deal, it's just a little sin.
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- We understand the perfection of God, there is no compromise, it's absolute. The standards are clear, there's no wiggle room, there's no gray areas, there's no room for interpretation.
- 00:51
- God says, this is what I expect, this is my holiness. And you and I don't have any of that.
- 01:02
- We have zero of that. And so when we think about our own condition, we don't have the capacity to say,
- 01:12
- God, I can ascend Mount Zion in my holiness. I can't say that. So we've got a tremendous problem.
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- It's a desperate problem. We have a holy God whose character demands justice be poured out on sin.
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- And we have sinful men who don't want that justice poured out.
- 01:38
- And this is God's plan. God says, the only way that my holiness and my justice can be satisfied, my wrath can be satisfied, is there has to be a perfect sacrifice.
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- And there's only one who can be a perfect sacrifice, and that's my own dear son.
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- So God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit, they craft an eternity past the plan that would send
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- Jesus to the cross. What wondrous love has the Father for us.
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- He pays all of the price, Christ. He bears all the weight.
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- He's the one who's been offended in his divinity. Christ's divinity has been offended by the sinfulness of men.
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- And he's the one who says, Father, I'm ready, send me.
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- I'll go do and perform the perfect work. I will go and accomplish the redemption.
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- The Father's love comes at a sacrificial cost.
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- And it's the burden and the suffering of Christ that's the cost.
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- The wrath being poured out on Jesus is the cost.