Euangelion

0:01 Hi, so I want you to imagine a scenario or honestly speaking, it might not be difficult for you to imagine. It's probably something you've experienced, but basically you're in class, test scores are being shared like your results are being shared and you see your score. Maybe you had 95 / 100 in your math exam. Sounds good. Also, some people be very, very happy at that. And so someone asks you, oh, what do you do? Score? It's just normal people, you know, people, people would want to exchange scores and things like that.

0:36 See how everyone is doing. Find out just that does not matter to them. Anyway, someone asks you and you're excited to tell them, oh, I had 95. And you're like, oh, wow, you did well, I had 96. And I'm like, oh, nice. We will pass by your mind just like, OK, OK. And another person comes and that person tells you, oh, I had 98 and an A person 97. And it's like there's 9698 maybe you now see 194, you know, and by the time you look at it, it's like you're in the bottom 10% of the cars. So you had $0.95, which is such a good score, but in compared to others just seems like OK.

1:23 Then there's another scenario in this one, you had 62 / 100 and you just sit and you're like, I'm big, I'm messed up, I'm messed up bad and you don't understand anybody at score. Again, somebody eventually asks you and they open up to you like, or maybe no, maybe they didn't even open up to you. Just tell them grudging like I had 62 and you expect that. Oh, they were talking like, oh, sorry, you can do better next time. I know it's funny. They exclaim and they're like, how did you do it? Like, bro, I had 46, I'd even give give up to 50% and that person's like rule.

2:03 I had 54 and things like that. And before you might have been feeling bad, but now there's there's a tendency or there might have been a time when that kind of thing would have just made you feel a bit better. See, to be very honest, in a lot of cases, like let's be real, I don't know about you, but me you is that kind of thing happened. Like you made me feel much better. Like we're so we're all in this together. You know, High School Musical style, like I'm not a learning you just like I did. Well, like even if if they if they even ask you at home, like why is your school saluted?

2:40 See, I was there in the classroom, that kind of thing. So you probably had that kind of experience or if you haven't like have narrated this thing. So I just want you to keep that in mind and then I want to go ahead and tell you that we have a problem. We have a problem. And when I say we, I mean you and me, both of us, we have a problem. Honestly, it's not just both of us. Every human being in the world has that problem. It's that problem where in every human beings life there are there are moments when they've done bad things, they've done wrong things.

3:21 One person could have killed, and that person could have kidnapped somebody, and that person could have committed rape, and that person could have lied and that person could have committed fraud. I'm trying to think of as many things as possible. And that person could have gossiped. The different things, the different things. At some point, everybody has done something that's wrong, done something that's morally wrong, something that we ought not to do, something that's naturally we would not want out in the open.

3:59 Usually that's how you know this is something that you wouldn't just want out in the open. Like when you think about it, would I want everyone to know that I killed this person? No Would I want everyone to know that I lied or would I be proud to say that I lied? No Would I be proud to say that I gossip about this person to their face? You know, it's probably something I would want and look like. Most times, these are things that, you know, maybe you stole something, stealing, sneeze around the common ones.

4:26 You know, you wouldn't want it out in the open, that kind of thing. Like most times, especially at the moment when you do it or fresh off of doing that thing, we all have those things that we've done that we are not proud of that or that, OK, some people are proud of them. Actually in cases where maybe person has really share their conscience, but generally there are, there are there are things that every one of us have done that normally would not to do. Like every single human being, no human being who you find that has never told, like they tell you that they've never told a lie, then that's a lie.

5:05 That's a lie already. So that's really one of the slits. If they've not lied, they would have said something. Maybe if I abuse somebody, maybe you've said a, an insulting word towards someone. And then here's even the funnier part. Maybe you've not done everything. Maybe all you've done is just thought it's you're still in this category. You're still in this category. Point is, we have a sin problem. We have a sin problem. Like it doesn't have to be until you carry out the action. Jesus was speaking on the sermon in the mounts.

5:36 So I didn't it was not just the disciples were speaking to different people. And in Chapter 7 he says if you as much as look at the woman who has really you've committed adultery in your heart. So some things already wrong from just the inception from just the thought of it. You you think your mind. Oh, I just wish this person would die. I just wish this person would slip and fall into that gutter. Things like that. Everyone at some point has slipped into this, and so we all have that same problem.

6:08 And this is what a man named Paul, close to 2000 years ago, was trying to explain to a church in Rome. He was an apostle. Apostle Paul tries to explain to the Roman church. He's making a case, trying to get them to understand that all men have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. See, we must understand that the God that we serve, the God of this world is a holy God. He's a holy God. He stands in a class of his own. I want to take you to a story or an event that happens in the book of Isaiah chapter 6 specifically.

6:43 Now for a bit of context, Isaiah was a prophet. A prophet is basically a spokesperson of God, a person who speaks on behalf of God to his people or to the people. And so he was already a prophet of God. He was already serving God. He was ready, you know, following God's ways and things like that. And then in chapter 6, he has a vision where he sees got very dramatic. He sees God, you know, doesn't see God like face to face, but like sees the throne of God. You know God is too glorious for you to even look face to face to face with you have angels flying around his altar and whatnot around his throne.

7:25 And Isaiah says sometimes as I says, woe is me, woe is me, for I am a man of unclean lips dwelling amongst people of unclean lips. So before that time, Isaiah didn't think that. He didn't think woe is me. So the same way how you might have had 85 and you first, oh, that's good. But by the time you see somebody else in your class who has 89, oh, so you realize I'm not all that. But it's just that in this case, it's like 100 times more worse. It's like the disparity is 100 times more pronounced. It's more intense.

8:12 Isaiah thought it was OK before, but all of a sudden he stands before God or he's in a vision before God and he sees how unclean he is. This is a prophet. Like if we're trying to convert this to, you know, the whole scenario with the exams and things like that, it's like he's this 85% of 100 students and all of a sudden he sees someone who scores 120%. Like he can't even because normally it's an exam that's over 100 too. You won't even fathom getting 120%. So you see someone and then a person has 120% and you're struggling to comprehend it.

8:45 It was like that with Isaiah. He was so he was so shocked. He was in awe of the glory and the holiness of God. There's like the angels say holy, holy, holy. It's like, I think it was their way of like when they were, you know, translating the Bible to English was their way of saying holy, holier, holiest. Like so like this God is holy, He's holier than you. He is the holiest being. That's how holy this God is, right? So it doesn't matter whether what you might have done compared to somebody else might not look that much.

9:26 So for example, you had 62 and compared to somebody else who had 46, you look good. But when you are confronted with the one who is 100 out of 100, it looks meager. It does not match up. It basically does not match up. So it doesn't matter if you're in 99. So of course, compared to everybody else, they're either on your level or below you. But then you meet 100 and you're 100. You're still below the scale. And This is why every single person, every single person has seen that function of good. Nobody's perfect.

10:00 Nobody can match up to the scale or to the standard that God has, as everyone has the same problem. And then Paul then tells them in Romans 6, verse 23 that the wages of sin is dead. He uses the word wages intentionally. Wages are what you gets after working. Wages are what you deserve. So he's saying that what what you deserve as a result of the scene that you've exit, that you've exhibited at some points is death. I'm telling you basically that you deserved death. You deserve death. But there was a pot moments.

10:41 There was a pot moments he says in same verse Romans 6, verse 23, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus is eternal life in Christ Jesus. I'm not just talking about oh life here on it. What I'm saying even after you might die physically, even after your you might die physically, you still live. You still live on. In fact, in a more glorious life or emphasis is not even on that. Now point is you are saved from the consequence of that sin in Christ Jesus. You didn't ask yourself who is Christ?

11:18 He is the Son of God. He is the Son of God. So essentially, if you believe in this man Christ, if you believe in the Son of God, John 3 verse 16, for God to love the word that he sent his only Son that ever believes in him shall not perish, would have everlasting life. If you believe in him normally you deserved death, but if you believe in Him, you are saved from the consequences of sin, which is death.

11:51 Now I'm giving a bit of time to like just unpack all of that.

11:57 You see them in that same Romans 3. You see the 20 verse 24 and 25 saying that because God is just, you have to understand that our God is just God. He's a very just good. And so the same way how if a person steals 10,000 naira from you, as much as you want to be a loving person, you're not just going to allow OK, no 10,000 so small they steal $1,000,000 from you as much as you're a loving person. Such a person has to be punished, whether it's or they have to do something, whether it's that they repay the money back, you didn't pay the repay back.

12:28 There's some collateral they might have to collect or they save their jail time. It doesn't mean I know a loving person, it's just just it's fair essentially the same how God is just in fact, he's one who put in US that sense of justice topic for next episode, actually next episode going to try and answer a question. I'll leave it to guess what the question is anyway. So because he's just, he's not just going to he loves you. Make no mistake, our God is also a loving God, so he loves you good and fine, but at the same time he's trust, so he knows they are deserving of it and God's wrath must be satisfied.

13:11 God's wrath. Make no mistake, don't let anybody ever trick you or deceive you. God has a wrath. We see it in Romans chapter 1. So he has a rat and that rat must be satisfied. That rat must be poured out on someone. So instead of that rat being poured out on you, he offers Christ as a propitiation for your sins, for my sins, for the world's sins. And that's why John 3 verse 16 again tells that whoever believes in Christ, whoever believes in Christ's, shall be saved. So the sins, the consequences that were supposed to be poured out on you were poured out on Christ on the cross.

13:50 That's the beauty of what happened at Golgotha.

13:54 You were poured out on Christ, on Christ, on Christ. This, my friend, is the gospel. This is you and Gillian, This is the good news that normally you are deserving of death. You are deserving of death. You normally ought to have died. You should have been separated eternally from God, but instead his own Son took your place. And so all that you've done, you are doing or you even would do. Christ died for that very thing. And at that point, you, you have to pause and just ask yourself, like, are you saying that oh, I can continue to do or to live my life the way I've been living before, maybe even deep in sin, or maybe you've even been light and sin.

14:48 You've not been deep in sin. You just can I continue living my life? No. In fact, our poster Paul also answers this question in Romans 60, says, shall we continue in seeing that grace may abound? God forbid. So make no mistake, this message that I give to you is not a license for you to continue in that. But I also tell you that you're being saved will not be dependent or will never be dependent on your ability to live a clean life. It's not good people, morally upright people that make heaven, it's people that believe in Jesus Christ.

15:27 You're being saved will always be predicated on doubts and not your actions for granted. If really you believe in Jesus Christ, it will show in your actions. It will show in your actions. Make no mistake, your fate produces works. But that's the topic for another day. Point is this, it doesn't matter whether you have a 99 or whether you have a zero. It doesn't matter whether you're killed or you just thought something bad about somebody. You both don't meet up to 100. You both don't meet up to 100.

16:03 So we all have that problem, but there's a solution. There's a solution, and that solution is in Christ is in Christ. All you need to do is believe. I'm sure you're thinking, oh, I've been struggling with him for so long. What if I believe and eventually I can't deal with these issues? God is not asking you to deal with your issues. He's not asking. He's asking me to believe in him. And so many times people forget that. Like he heard his message and people think, oh, the gospel is an invitation to some sort of self righteousness, which is wrong.

16:36 That he literally, the gospel is literally there because you cannot be righteous by yourself. Like if men could be self-righteous, there will be no need for the gospel. But because we cannot be self-righteous, that is why the gospel isn't it. That's the very reason why it's in it, because we have that same problem. So the gospel is not inviting you to, you know, strive for self righteousness and things like that. So maybe you're worried, like, how would I do it? You know, he's asking to believe.

17:03 And when you believe, you receive the Spirit of God, right? You receive the life of God in you and he helps you. This same grace that I'm telling you is the same grace that teaches you to now to deny ungodliness. So the gospel doesn't just save you from the consequences of sin, it gives you the power to live above it. But more than that's, one day it will take us to a world where sin does not exist.

17:31 You Angelian, this is the gospel, so I will wrapped up here. I don't want this episode to be long. I hope this stirs something within you. Maybe we've heard this before. That's good. I hope that you believe it. Maybe you already believe it. That's even better. I hope that you allow it to affect your life. And if it's already affecting your life, beautiful. I pray that God keeps and preserves you in that way or in that path. And maybe you've heard it before, but you don't believe it. This is me urging you.

18:15 You might have thought so many things like I've like, you might have so many questions. Maybe you have questions. And really one of the things I'll try to do in the coming episodes is to try and answer some burning questions that you might have. Or maybe you've seen things, maybe you've had an experience, or maybe you just feel like, oh, how should I either? This is the right part. I'm asking you to just believe. Just give it a shot and see what God can do. Like just maybe, and maybe you're not convinced, like Lord, this is actually the right way.

18:47 Send me a sign, whatever it is that you need to see, just mutter those words, right? Like, OK, God, if you're real, show me. God, if you're real, prove it. I'm urging you to just believe this message. I'm urging you with all my heart, with all that. So they need to believe this message because it's a life giving message, right? It produces life, produces life. And maybe you've heard it before, but you believe it, but you're still struggling at things like that. I want you to know that your salvation is not dependent on your actions.

19:23 Never will be, never will be. So just strive, continue to struggle to yeah, I'm using the word struggle intentionally. So you get the idea that it's not going to be easy, but continue to struggle. And by the help of God, by the help of his Spirit within you, you will come out victorious. So yeah, that's a wrap for the episode. Please, if you're new here or if you're even old here, if you're in 10 episode, you're already old. So please share the episode I shared with someone. And I don't just mean to your city now, please do that by all means, but like if someone comes to your mind, I hope someone comes to your mind and don't, don't hide it.

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