DAILY TRUTH - Christ Did NOT Die For Good People
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God did not send His son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. God sent his only begotten son so that whoever should believe in him shall not perish, but have eternal life.
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The gospel is for sinners. If you are not a sinner, Jesus is not for you.
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If you are not a sinner, the gospel is not for you. If you are a basically good person who's
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made some mistakes along the way, the gospel is not for you. If you are a victim, that ultimately
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all of your failures can be tracked back to the sin of someone else, but you yourself, if protected
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in a vacuum, in a perfect scenario, a perfect context, if it wasn't for all the toxic people
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around you, you would have done very well. If that's you, then the gospel is not for you.
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Christ died for sinners. He died for sinners. It is true that Christ came to save the world.
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to john 3 16 17 18 and following we see for god so loved the world that he sent his only begotten
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son that whoever should believe in him shall not perish but have eternal life god did not send his
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son into the world to condemn the world but in order that the world might be saved through him
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jesus came to save the world he came to save the world to save humanity to save people
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but throughout scripture we find that there is a specific type of person in a particular sense
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that jesus came to save he came to save people yes but he came to save specifically sinners
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now the reality is that all people are sinners all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of god
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if christ came to save sinners then there is a sense in which christ came to save all because
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all fall into that category of sinners. But what's unique in our text today, what rises to the top
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of what Paul's saying is not only that Paul is a sinner, but what we should glean from the text is
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that Paul has an acute recognition of his sinfulness. It's not only that he is objectively
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sinful, but it is that he is aware of his sinfulness. The sinners that Christ came to save
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are not just great sinners but great sinners who are aware and acknowledge their great sinfulness
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everyone is a sinner the determinative factor between the two the sinner and the self-righteous
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is not at the objective level of someone who actually didn't sin that person doesn't exist
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everyone at the objective level he is in fact a sinner the determining factor between two different
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kinds of people, the sinner and the self-righteous, is that the sinner admits his sin. He acknowledges
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his sin, and he looks to Christ as the only Savior for his sin. And this is the gospel that Paul
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exalts in in our text today. Stephen J. Cole, in his commentary on this particular passage, says
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this, Christ came to save sinners. If you're a basically good person, church-going person,
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that Christ did not come to save you. He came to save sinners only. If you're a person with a few
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faults and shortcomings, then Christ did not come to save you. He came to save sinners only. If you're
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a person with too much dignity, too much self-worth, right? You're just self-care, self-love, right?
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You're just trying to, you know, love yourself so you can better love others, right? Because you love
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your neighbor as yourself. And we know that the proper, you know, exegesis of that text is I need