Dale Partridge - June 13, 2023


Lay Your PRIDE at the Foot of the Cross - Dale Partridge


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00:00:00.000 So we live in a time where most Christians proclaim an impotent gospel. 0.95
00:00:05.780 Because many believers reject the doctrines of grace or aka Calvinism, 0.61
00:00:11.200 they believe that salvation is about persuasion of a person's, quote, free will.
00:00:17.360 When you have that, essentially, you believe that coming to faith is about persuasion
00:00:27.000 rather than the sovereignty of God over salvation
00:00:30.920 through the proclamation of the gospel.
00:00:33.480 And as a result, what happens?
00:00:35.240 Well, people become winsome.
00:00:37.940 They become persuasive.
00:00:39.840 And this is how we got the pragmatic church movement
00:00:42.820 where you get a lion and smoke machines
00:00:45.740 and a rock band on the stage
00:00:48.880 in hopes that you might persuade people to Jesus.
00:00:52.980 And when you become winsome,
00:00:54.800 people tend to eliminate the bad news, which makes the good news so good. And what they do is they
00:01:03.660 refrain from telling people about God's law. They refrain from telling people about God's law. And
00:01:11.100 more than that, they refrain from telling people about their inability to keep that law, their
00:01:16.900 guilty standing before that law, and the eternal consequences of breaking that law. This is probably
00:01:24.160 the most absent piece of the modern gospel today. You see, when you fail to tell people
00:01:30.780 the bad news, the bad news that God's moral law has jurisdiction over their life
00:01:39.600 because they are creatures made by the creator and that they are guilty of breaking that law.
00:01:47.140 What we do as Christians, as people, is we compare ourselves to the moral standing of
00:01:53.260 another person. Well, I'm better than that guy. When reality, we should be comparing ourselves
00:02:00.220 to the standard of God for righteousness, which is his moral law. And when you look at the 10
00:02:05.320 commandments, you quickly realize that you cannot keep them, that you've broken all of them and that
00:02:10.380 you, maybe not all of them because not everybody's a murderer, but we do know that Jesus talks about
00:02:16.020 hatred in the heart is a similar sin. But what I'm saying is that when you compare yourself
00:02:24.600 to God's moral law, you realize that you fall short quickly. And this is important in the
00:02:31.080 preaching of the gospel. When you fail to tell people the bad news of their guilt and shame
00:02:40.540 before the jurisdiction of God's moral law,
00:02:44.900 the good news is really no longer impressive.
00:02:48.080 That is that when sinners don't see the gravity
00:02:50.480 of their own sinfulness,
00:02:52.420 they cannot appreciate the righteousness of a savior.
00:02:56.360 They cannot appreciate the desperate need
00:02:58.820 that they have to be found righteous.
00:03:01.120 And they want a way to get that righteousness.
00:03:05.280 And the only way to make an unrighteous person righteous
00:03:08.420 is to receive an alien righteousness.
00:03:11.720 You need to receive a righteousness
00:03:12.960 from someone who has kept the law
00:03:15.060 that will give you their righteousness.
00:03:17.960 And this is what Jesus Christ does through faith.
00:03:20.880 He pays for your sin as your substitute,
00:03:23.060 dying on your behalf,
00:03:24.560 and then gives you his righteous record
00:03:26.760 of perfectly keeping the law through faith.
00:03:30.180 The terror of the law is what drives people to grace.
00:03:35.120 This is what the Bible teaches.
00:03:36.800 is you always see the apostles preaching the law, 0.93
00:03:42.620 making sure that nobody believes
00:03:44.940 that they can earn salvation through obedience
00:03:48.140 or morality or righteous works.
00:03:51.300 Because once you've broken the law,
00:03:52.920 once you are guilty of it all.
00:03:56.120 James, man, I can't think of the verse,
00:03:58.460 but James 2.10, I think is what it is.
00:04:01.640 He who has broken the law at one point
00:04:03.260 is guilty of all of it.
00:04:05.400 And so even if you never broke the law
00:04:08.100 one time in your entire life,
00:04:11.140 and then at age 74, you broke the law,
00:04:14.820 that one break of the law
00:04:17.180 will make you unrighteous for eternity.
00:04:19.660 You need an alien righteousness.
00:04:21.320 Now, I believe that we have original sin,
00:04:24.120 the sin that's imputed to us from birth.
00:04:26.480 We don't, we're not sinners because we sin,
00:04:29.840 we sin because we're born sinners.
00:04:33.060 And so there's a lot there, but the law must be preached.
00:04:38.120 This is the normative gospel presentation
00:04:40.340 of the apostles in the scriptures.
00:04:42.460 They would afflict a person with the truth of the law
00:04:45.060 to bring them to their knees in sorrow, shame, and guilt.
00:04:48.980 And then they would present Jesus Christ
00:04:52.260 in whom they can find forgiveness,
00:04:54.300 redemption, and imputation of righteousness.
00:04:57.660 And this is how we must communicate to the LGBT community.
00:05:02.600 We have to lovingly tell them of God's law
00:05:06.260 around righteousness on gender and sexuality and marriage.
00:05:11.680 We can't withhold the very thing that produces guilt
00:05:17.880 that leads to repentance.
00:05:19.300 Again, no law, no repentance.
00:05:22.280 And this is what's absent in most of the preaching
00:05:24.740 of the gospel in the modern day.
00:05:27.700 And so remember, it's not about persuasion,
00:05:31.000 It's about proclamation.
00:05:32.920 And when it's God who changes the heart,
00:05:36.440 all you have to worry about is being faithful
00:05:39.100 to talk about the law.
00:05:40.300 And I often tell people, I say,
00:05:41.360 hey, you're a creature, you were made,
00:05:44.820 and you have a maker, and that maker has a law
00:05:47.800 and has a right to demand how you ought to live.
00:05:52.140 And he's revealed that in the 10 commandments,
00:05:54.440 and you've broken that law,
00:05:56.440 and you need to be found righteous.
00:05:58.880 That's your great need in humanity is to be found righteous
00:06:02.640 and you need to be forgiven.
00:06:05.340 And so everybody, I feel like my experience with people
00:06:08.540 is that everybody has an understanding
00:06:10.940 that they have something to be forgiven for.
00:06:14.340 They just don't know who they need to be forgiven by.
00:06:17.680 And so there's this conscience that people have
00:06:20.500 that they are struggling with guilt and shame,
00:06:24.060 but they don't know where to put that.
00:06:27.040 And the only way to really remove that guilt and shame
00:06:30.280 is to come to the cross.
00:06:32.040 And so, yes, we need to be passionate and sincere,
00:06:34.840 but we must not rely on our ability
00:06:37.620 to convince a person to come to Christ.
00:06:40.900 We simply need to present a bad news, good news gospel,
00:06:44.720 and allow God to change the heart.
00:06:46.460 So in the end, the Christian hope for Pride Month
00:06:51.240 is that those who are enslaved to sin 0.92
00:06:55.400 around issues of homosexuality and transgenderism,
00:06:58.780 they need to lay that pride at the foot of the cross,
00:07:03.000 where Christ by the power of the Holy Spirit
00:07:05.760 can change their affections of their hearts
00:07:08.360 and restore to them a righteous nature.
00:07:12.080 Grace restores nature.
00:07:15.180 God doesn't just change what we do,
00:07:17.320 he actually changes what we want to do.
00:07:25.400 We'll be right back.