Not What I Do however What Jesus Has Carried out

Not What I Do but What Jesus Has Done

After failing in his first try as Israel’s deliverer from Egypt, Moses spent the subsequent forty years residing the routine lifetime of a shepherd—but throughout these “silent” years, God was getting ready him to shepherd His individuals. In his final Sunday morning message from the Parkside Church pulpit, Alistair Begg turns our gaze to Jesus, the final word Deliverer for God’s individuals, and invitations us to contemplate what it actually means to comply with Him:

The congregation that I’ve had the privilege of preaching to shouldn’t be largely made up of women and men that come to me on the finish of a service to say, “You recognize, I’m such a wretched sinner that I can’t imagine there’s a chance of forgiveness”—possibly one in a thousand. No, the type of those who discuss to me afterwards, they don’t say, “I can’t imagine that God would forgive me.” They are saying, “I can’t imagine that I must be forgiven. I come to church. I’ve ‘religion.’ I try to do my greatest. I imagine in God.”

… However you and I can do all of that and nonetheless not be a Christian. Nonetheless not be a Christian! Being a Christian shouldn’t be about what I do. It’s about what Jesus has completed.

When an individual turns into a Christian, they’re accepting the truth that when Jesus died upon the cross, He wasn’t merely coping with sin. He was coping with my sin, my messed-up life, my super-religious life, the place I’m making an attempt to depend on all the nice issues I’ve completed, or my sorry life, the place I’ve been making an attempt to repair all the things underneath my very own agenda. Jesus does that.

And when an individual turns into a Christian, they settle for that “Jesus has completed that on my behalf.” “On my behalf.” It signifies that we flip away from our sin. We flip away from going our personal path with a view to stroll on the slim method with Jesus. And after we do, He forgives our sin; He grants us everlasting life, starting now; and He provides us the Holy Spirit to dwell in our lives, to repeatedly trend us, knock the unhealthy components out, put the nice components in, repair us up over the lengthy haul.

And that is what I needed to say to you. Let me ask you this: Are you a Christian?