Practical Discipleship

Ep 34: You Cannot Outsin Gods Grace, But You Cannot Abuse It Either (Romans 5-6)

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Start with a small act of courage: ask, “How can I pray for you?” Then hold a hand, repeat the words you just heard to God, and watch a home soften. We open with that kind of everyday leadership and then move straight into Romans 5–6, where Paul shows how the cross secures peace with God and why grace does not excuse sin—it ends sin’s rule.

We trace the big arc of salvation: righteousness revealed to those who believe and wrath for those who refuse, a contrast that makes sense only when we see Jesus as more than a martyr. The Father sends the Son; the Son sheds His blood to fulfill the covenant; the Spirit applies redemption—Scripture drives us to a Trinitarian view. From the shadow of sacrifices to the substance of Christ, Hebrews and Leviticus line up like promise and fulfillment, making sense of why blood was always the price and why the Son’s death truly reconciles.

Universalism often camps on Romans 5:18’s “all,” but the context insists on response. Verse 17 highlights “those who receive” the abundance of grace, echoing Romans 1: the gospel saves everyone who believes. We dig into baptism as more than a declaration—union language that signals burial and rising, a summons to walk in newness of life. Then we get practical about holiness: you will be mastered by sin or shaped by obedience. Grace changes your master, then trains your habits.

If you’ve wondered whether your failure is final, hear the better word: you cannot outsin God’s grace, but you also cannot use grace to bless your sin. Let that tension form you—repent quickly, reconcile freely, and practice small daily acts of faith, especially in your own home. If this conversation helped you, follow the show, share it with a friend who needs courage, and leave a review so more people can find these talks.

***Link to the podcast episode that I mentioned https://youtu.be/K_9P78au3MU


*** Mistake made @ 8:25 I meant to say Hebrews 9:22 not Romans 9:22***

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Welcome back to another episode of Practical Discipleship. I'm Mustin.

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And I'm Cheyenne, and here we discover what it means to follow God by engaging with scripture and igniting our faith.

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So others may know. Let's do it. Alright, so this episode was going to be about biblical manhood. Funny enough, I was actually watching this other podcast episode last night, and it was the best the best podcast that I've ever heard, or the best episode that I've ever heard on biblical manhood. And so what I want to do is I'm just going to play a little clip from that podcast because he sums it up better than I ever could. And so I'm just going to recommend you guys to this podcast. But here's uh I'm just going to play a little clip from this episode real quick.

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If you want to lead at home, we give you three ways to lead. This is just a hack. You'd be a great leader at home as a dad. Be the lead repenter. Be the lead apologizer. And just pray out loud over your wife and kids. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And some some guys are like, well, I'm not good at it. You know, biggest word I know is delicatess. I don't know how to work it in. This one, this is how easy it is. You go to your wife and you go, Baby, how can I pray for you? Yeah. Now here's important. She's going to say words. Yeah. Pay attention to those words. Then all you do is hold her hand and say, Dear God, and literally verbatim is repeat exactly what she said and say amen. That's good. And she's going to say Hercules, Hercules. Yeah. That's it, bro. Because it's kind of it's one of the only ways you can fight for a heart anymore. Yeah. You know, there are no more dragons to slay. Yeah. If you want to leave.

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Yeah. That whole podcast episode is about um, I think it was like 30 minutes long, but they really go in depth about just telling you that it's okay to be a man and act like men. God has designed men and women differently for a reason. And they go into like the whole um how the church uses more of like feminine language and that's actually hurt the men in the church and everything a little bit more. Anyways, I'm not going to go into the whole thing of everything that they talk about. Um, but it's great Cross Point City by Joby Martin and Brian Tome. So if I have any of the men listening to this episode, I highly recommend going and listen to that episode. Um, because like I said, it's one of the best episodes that I've heard on biblical manhood. You you hear all the time when people are like, all right, you uh you need to be a better man of God. But it's like, okay, what does that mean? Teach me how I can be a better man of God. So, anyways, go check out that podcast. Really good stuff. I think you guys will enjoy it. And going off of that, if you guys have listened to this uh podcast for a while, you know that we are part of a podcast network. That's HFW.network. We're involved with five different podcast episodes, of course, all Christian content produced, all for free for you guys, um, because we are just trying to spread the gospel and using technology to our benefit to reach other places of the world that we wouldn't necessarily have the money to go and and do that stuff. And it's growing, so that's good. Uh and it's all free, like I said, but you guys, there is an option to donate, which would be very helpful. It's not um it's not required, but uh there's an option to to donate on the podcast network website, which is hw.network, or if you're listening to uh practical discipleship on Apple or Spotify, there you can scroll down and hit that little link that says support the show if you feel like God's calling you to do that. But all right, diving into this episode, we're gonna be picking up in Romans chapter five. If you guys listened to the last one, you know that I had Pastor Dustin on here, and we pretty much summed up Romans two, three, and four, talked about all that, the whole faith and works thing. So if you missed that episode, go back and listen to that one. We're gonna be jumping into chapter five here. So starting off in chapter five, after you know, talking about the whole Abraham justified by faith thing, he says, Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Put it in simpler terms, obviously, there is no other way to be justified without Jesus Christ. There is no way to come to God the Father without going through Jesus Christ. You can't go around the cross. That's not an option. You have to accept Jesus as your Lord and Savior, and you are justified by faith. That's what that's what he's saying here. I like how he what how he puts it in verse nine. He says, Since therefore we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God. So it's interesting about this. It's like, how do you get saved by the wrath of God? It's by coming to God himself. And this is again going back to Romans chapter 1, the whole key verse that I mentioned. Um, this is Romans chapter 1, verses 16 through 17. This is the key verse of the entire book of Romans. This is the whole point that Paul is making. And I'll read it again. It says, For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek, for in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written, the righteous shall live by faith. And so in verse 9, when he says, Since therefore we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God, because the entire book of that of that key verse that I was talking about in Romans chapter one, the contrast is that if you put your faith in Christ, the righteousness of God is revealed, and if you don't, then the wrath of God is revealed, right? I've I've mentioned this on the first episode that I did Romans, and then I've mentioned this when we when I did it with Dustin. And so the only way to save yourself from the wrath of God is actually coming to God Himself, and that we are reconciled to God by the death of his son. So this is this is something that uh I hear a lot of non-believers kind of um making fun of the gospel message at this point about how can Jesus be God? And then they'll ask, well, who was Jesus praying to, you know, in uh in the garden? Uh why was Jesus crying uh crying out when he was on the cross? You know, just the all the people who who ask questions about that and like don't understand the doctrine of the Trinity. First and foremost, yes, the word Trinity is not in the Bible, but I argue that the Bible demands that we understand God in a Trinitarian view. I'm not gonna go through all the examples in this episode. I believe that we have an episode on the podcast of Doing the Trinity. I'll have to go back and and look. Um, but if we don't, I will dedicate an entire episode of explaining the doctrine of Trinity. Well, the best that I can. Okay, let me just first start out by saying no, yes, we like in our human finite mind, I don't think we can properly comprehend the fullness of the doctrine of the Trinity. There are aspects of God that we just accept by faith because we can't fully understand God in our human finite mind, and I am okay with that. However, what we can do is pull up verses and look at like Paul's theology or things that Moses was talking about in the old and the new and the new testaments, things that Peter says, where we see God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit, where Jesus is doing things that only God Himself can do. Right? And then uh in Acts where Peter taught uh he refers to the Holy Spirit as being God himself. So, anyways, there's there there's a whole different there there's all these different examples in scripture that we can refer to the doctrine of the Trinity, even though that the word Trinity is not in the Bible. But the like I said, the Bible demands that we understand God in a Trinitarian view. And so, yes, Jesus Himself, God coming down in the flesh, reconciled us back to God from the death of Jesus. Now, what this is referring to is sorry that if you guys heard that notification, my phone is plugged into the thing here. Um, anyways, what this is referring to is that blood has to be shed for the forgiveness of sin. Uh yeah, Romans 9 22 it says, indeed, under the law, almost everything is purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood, there is no forgiveness of sin. Okay, so going back to the Old Testament, right? They're under the Mosaic covenant. The the Mosaic covenant, the whole point of it, of course, was a foreshadowing of Christ to come. Um, but they were God was teaching them that blood has to be shed for the forgiveness of sin, of bulls and goats and everything. But then when Jesus comes, this is why Jesus says, I did not come to abolish the law, but to fulfill the law. So Jesus himself comes and takes the punishment for us, shedding his own blood, and that by Jesus' blood we were reconciled back to God, of him fulfilling that Mosaic covenant. Um, and this is a this is a big thing of understanding the overall redemptive story of the Bible. And this is why I always like I was talking to somebody the other day, and they're like, Yeah, you know, the the Old Testament just really isn't for me. I just don't like the history and all that stuff. I just read the New Testament, and I was like, I mean, I like I understand what you're saying because I used to say the exact same thing, but the more that I read, the more that I realized that you can't understand the New Testament without the Old Testament, and you can't understand the Old Testament necessarily without the New Testament because try could because Christ is the fulfillment of all of that. And one of those things right here is what Paul's talking about being reconciled back to God by the death of his son. So if if you don't understand the Old Testament at all, I would be curious of how someone would interpret this verse, and I think that's where people kind of get in this mindset of, well, you know, why did Jesus have to come down and die? And then you start come bringing um start believing these weird things. Actually, side note here, so the the Muslims they believe in Jesus, they don't believe that he is God, so it's a completely different Jesus that we believe in as Christians. However, in their Quran, I've never read the Quran themselves, but this is coming from Muslims themselves that say this to me. Um they say that Jesus was not crucified. Okay, and for us as Christians, that is the entire point of the New Testament. The death and resurrection of Jesus Christ is 100% necessary because of the fulfillment of the Mosaic Covenant, that blood has to be shed for the forgiveness of sin. I mean, it's just it's not only the Mosaic Covenant, but that's that that's the main one that we can point to that is the the foreshadowing of Christ here. Because even prior, um, obviously, prior of the Mosaic covenant from Adam to Moses, before they were under the Mosaic covenant, death, you know, people were dying. Why were they dying? Because they're in sin. Sin brings forth death. Romans chapter 6, the wages of sin is death, therefore, if you sin, you die. And the only way to be reconciled back to God is through faith in Jesus Christ, accepting him as your Lord and Savior, and the death that he did on the cross because of the shedding of his blood has covered a multitude of sins. And this is basically the entire book of Hebrews. Uh the book of Hebrews, um, if you ever read the book of uh Leviticus and then read Hebrews, Hebrews is basically like all of the fulfillment of that. If you ever do a study on that, I highly recommend you studying the book of Leviticus, which is in the Old Testament, and then the book of Hebrews, which is in the New Testament, and uh study those together hand in hand and then just see the fulfillments in there. It's it's amazing. So then Paul goes on in verse 11, he says, More than that, we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation. Right. So basically everything that I just said, sin has separated us from God, and what he's saying here is that through Jesus Christ we have now been reconciled back to God. Um, only those who have received the free gift that he's given, though. Okay, because going going into these next verses here, ch uh verse verse 12 through the rest of the chapter of chapter five here, um uh this is where people kind of believe or get the doctrine of universalism. And if you don't know, you uh universalism is basically where they believe that everybody will is going to be saved. And there, I mean, there's there's different like extremes of this of this belief, just like in you know, anything else. Um, but the people who are like on the real extreme side of universalism, they'll even say that actually Satan himself and the demons are gonna be saved. And where they get this from is taking these verses completely out of context, and this is why it's so important. Uh, I'm gonna show you guys why it's so important to read verses in context and not just verse pluck things out of chapters or out of out of books to try and form your own theology. We have to let the Bible interpret the Bible. So after, you know, what I just started out reading in chapter five, you know, we see that we are reconciled back to God through Jesus Christ, right? Well, now we get into the section of verses twelve through the rest of the chapter where he's talking about how death through Adam, um, or sorry, because of Adam's sin, death has come into the world, right? And everyone has sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. So Paul says in verse 17, he says, For if because of one man's trespass death reigned through that one man, much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and the free gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man, Jesus Christ. Okay, so he's saying, Adam brought in death, Christ is bringing in life, right? And verse 18 here, and this is where people will get the doctrine of uh universalism, not just this verse. They though there's a bunch of other verses, but I'm gonna show you how verse plucking is really dangerous here. So verse 18, he says, Therefore, as one man's trespass led to condemnate condemnation for all men, so one act of righteousness leads to justification and life for all men. Okay, so they'll read that and they'll say, See, it says all men. One man's trespass led to condemnation for all men, but one man's act of righteousness leads to justification and life for all men. And so they'll ask you, they'll be like, So why do you believe that Adam, Adam's sin, was powerful enough to bring in death to everyone in the world, but Christ can't save everybody in the world? And they'll ask it in that the they'll they'll ask that question in that way, and it's kind of it makes you it's a it's a trick question because the way they're asking the question doesn't make any sense. And so if you just go up one more verse, right, we can see that the context of that Paul is talking about, the all men are those who have received the gift that God has given, or the the um the gift that God has offered, which is salvation. So verse 17 it says, For if because of one man's trespass, that would be Adam, death reigned through that one man. Okay, he's talking about Adam. Much more will those who receive, okay, those who receive, key word right there, the abundance of grace and the free gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man Jesus Christ. Not only that, again, let's go back to Romans chapter one, verses sixteen and seventeen. Again, the key verse of the entire book of Romans, he says, For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of salvation to everyone who what who believes. Everyone who believes. And then he says, the righteous shall live by faith. Again, that whole contrast of those who put their faith in Christ, the righteousness of God is revealed, those who don't, the wrath of God is revealed. There's a contrast here. And so when Paul is talking about all men here in chapter five, the context of that we know that he's talking about, because if we read this as like just a regular book, we know that the all people that he's talking about here are the people who have put their faith in Christ and received the abundance of grace and the free gift of righteousness because of what Jesus has done. So this isn't talking about no matter what you have done in your life, um, you know, even Satan himself, that all people are going uh that are going to be saved. And this is, I mean, this isn't just one of these verses that uh people who believe in universalism will bring up, but this is a this is a huge one that that people do bring up because it does say all men. A really popular verse to bring up is John 3.16, right? God so loved the world that he gave his only son. And so they'll say, see, God so loved the world that he gave his only son. But if you keep on reading, what does John say? He says, God so loved the world that he gave his only son that whoever believes, whoever believes. I completely reject the the whole belief in universalism. I don't see how that is biblically accurate. You would have to explain to me all the times that Jesus talks about hell, warning people about hell. Um, you'd have to really explain to me the book of Revelation. Yeah, it just I don't see that here. Throughout the entire Bible, we see a clear contrast between those who put their faith in God and those who don't. And the wrath of God comes down on those who uh who disobey and don't put their faith in Christ. So, and then going into chapter six here, he even explains this further. And this is where um he talks about how you're dead in sin, but you're alive in Christ. So after after chapter five, how he's talking about um that you have those who put their faith in Christ, you've received the abundance of grace and the free gift of righteousness. And then he comes into the opening of chapter six here, and he asks a rhetorical question. He says, What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? By no means. Basically, what he's saying, he's like, there is still such a thing as sin. Uh essentially, once you have put your faith in Christ, that doesn't mean that you can just go do whatever you want, and then like sin just doesn't exist anymore. I've actually heard weird beliefs on that as well, where people and you know, people who are who are Christian or who say they're Christian, and I've heard the the belief where people be like, Yeah, sin doesn't exist anymore for me, because the Bible says that Christ died for my sin. So therefore, uh sin doesn't exist in my life. And then I'm like, okay, uh, let's read Romans chapter six here. Paul literally says, What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? By no means. So the people who um who believe that there's no such thing as sin anymore, they'll read Romans chapter six in this context and they'll say, See, Paul even says, How can we who die to sin still live in it? And then, you know, he talks about the whole baptism being baptized in uh into his death and everything. So, yes, that's that's clearly uh what Paul says. And he's talking about, you know, you're baptized into Christ Jesus, where you um it's symbolizing that you are buried, therefore, into his death through baptism, and that you're raised up into the glory of the Father, that we too might walk in newness of life. Um, I am a huge supporter in baptism, that baptism is not just uh a public declaration of your faith. I believe it's much more spiritual than that. I'm not saying that you were saved through baptism, okay? Me and Dustin talked uh we talked a little bit about this on our last episode, so I'm not gonna dive into it too much, but um, baptism is very important. It's a commandment, and it's much more than just a like declaration of your faith, how the modern church has kind of portrayed it. I'll just leave it at that for now. Uh, you guys can go back and listen to our uh the episode that I did with Dustin, and he he explains baptism a little bit more. So through baptism, we are um in verse five he says, For if we have been united with him in a death like this, we shall surely be united with him in a resurrection like this. It's symbolizing the whole uh being being crucified, uh crucify your flesh. This is Galatians chapter two, I believe it is. Let me go to it real quick so that I'm not oh no, it's it's Galatians five, twenty-four. It says, For those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. Okay, so kind of going along here, obviously, with with Romans chapter six of what he's talking about. But if you continue to go on in verse 15, he starts talking about how you know you were once uh a slave to sin, but now you're a slave to righteousness. Um, but again, he asks another rec uh another rhetorical question. He says, What then? Are we to sin because we are not under the law, but under grace? And he says, By no means. Like, of course not. So Paul wouldn't say that if it was like impossible for a Christian to sin. And I'm talking about this for for people that have read Romans chapter six and they're like, see, there's no such thing as sin anymore for a Christian because we've died to it. Galatians 5, you know, you've you've you've crucified the flesh. But Paul even talks about the things that he has struggled and that he keeps on doing the things that he does not want to do. So this is in Romans chapter 7, verse 19. He says, For I do not do the good that I want, but the evil I do not want is what I keep on doing. Verse 20. Now, if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me. So that's Paul talking about the thing like being honest in the and the struggles that he has. So this isn't saying that it's like that it's impossible for a Christian to sin. So that would be, I mean, if uh if a Christian told me that the day that they became a Christian and that they have never sinned since that day, I would be very skeptical to believe that. I mean, because like what I just said in Romans chapter 7, Paul is literally talking about the things that he has struggled with. I mean, look at the disciples who have walked with Christ, and even uh Paul has to correct Peter at one point because he's worried of the circumcision party and he's only eating with the Jews and kind of disregarding the Gentiles. You know, not I mean, not on purpose, but it's just kind of like a where fear has kind of settled into his heart. Now, I'm not saying that I would just flat out call them a liar, but I would be very, very, very skeptical to believe that, you know, I was just picking up in in verse 15 of chapter six. So after he asked that rhetorical question, just because we're not under the law, we're under grace, that doesn't mean there's no such thing as sin. And then he says, To present yourselves obedient. Sorry, he actually in verse 16 he says, Do you not know that if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves, you are slaves to that one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or or of obedience, which leads to righteousness. Okay. He's talking about this after he's literally just talked about baptism, being baptized into Christ's death and raised with him. Okay, so he's literally just confirming the point that I just made where he's like, listen, uh, you either make yourselves slaves to sin, which lead to death, or obedience, which leads to righteousness. And that's even them of being under the law of grace. Because in verse 15, are we to sin because we are not under the law of grace? By no means. Okay, he's like, of course not. You you were either a slave to sin, which leads to death, or obedience, which leads to righteousness. But then he goes on to say, you know, thanks be to God that you have been set free and have become slaves of righteousness. So it's obviously uh a work through the Holy Spirit that is continually teaching us to be more Christ-like. We have been set free from sin in the sense where like we're not under the law, but we're under grace. And Jesus' love and grace and mercy is new every day. If we have a repent of heart and come to him and just be honest, you know, obviously, I mean, this goes without saying, but obviously no sin God doesn't know about. There's not a single sin that God does not know about. Even if you have that secret sin that you think that nobody knows, God obviously knows. So in our English Bible, we'll see things that will it'll say like sin or iniquity or transgression. And in case you didn't know, I'll just kind of I'll quickly explain, explain those. There's obviously, I mean, you you could go in in a lot of depth here, but basically sin is just like the general term of missing the mark. That's what sin is. So imagine if you had like a uh um a dart board and you got the bullseye, right? And you're trying to throw the throw the darts and hit the bullseye. Well, if you haven't hit the bullseye, you've missed the mark. I don't care how close or far away you are, if you missed it, you missed it. So that that that's what sin is. No matter how how how much that you've sinned or how little that you've sinned, it doesn't necessarily matter in the sense of like, well, you've sinned. Okay. Transgression is more of the act like like willfully disobeying a specific command. Okay, that would be transgression. And iniquity is more of um it refers to more of like a corrupt nature or like the habitual practice of sin that leads to wickedness. Okay, so it's more of like a like a moral, moral thing. So again, sin is like the overall umbrella term where it's like everything that's under this umbrella is sin, but then there's like specific things where the in in our English Bible we'll say like transgression or iniquity, right? Transgression, willfully disobeying a specific command, iniquity, the corrupt nature of like a habitual practice sin that leads to wickedness. So that's kind of the kind of the difference there when when when the Bible talks about that. And actually the good news is that in Psalms it talks about um this is in Psalm chapter 32, verses 1 and 2. It says, Blessed is the one whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered, blessed is the man against whom the Lord counts no iniquity. So I mean, that's just really powerful. Now knowing the difference between like sin, transgression, iniquity, the Bible actually even says God is so faithful that those who come with a repent of heart, you're you know, he basically sums up any sin, and this is where we get where it's like you you're you are unable to out sin the grace of God. There is no sin that God cannot forgive. The unforgivable sin that's talked about in the gospel, I would say, is an unbeliever. So the only sin, if you want to to to kind of say, the only thing that God can't forgive necessarily is you denying the free gift that God has given you. That's the only thing that that that got God's not going to push himself on you and force you into the kingdom of heaven and be with him if you don't want to be with him. So God is like, imagine God holding out his hands, he's trying to give you this gift, he said, here's here's a free gift, it's salvation, and you say no, turn away and walk, well, then your sins aren't forgiven because you have rejected the only way that your sins can be forgiven. Okay. So when people talk about like those, you know, those who are Christian who obviously you you accept um the gospel, but you know, we still we we still live in our flesh and we you know, we still have these fleshly desires, but God is so gracious and merciful that he forgives us of our sin, our transgression, and our iniquities. And I think that's just really powerful. And Psalm 32 isn't just the only only spot that we can go to. I mean, there's places in Isaiah, uh, you know, Isaiah 43, Isaiah 44, Micah chapter 7. These are and that that you know, that's just Old Testament. If you want to talk about the new, I mean there's Colossians 1, Colossians 2, Ephesians 4, you know, talking about the the the forgiveness and the grace that we have through Jesus Christ. So I don't know how I got on that necessarily. Um, I just kind of wanted to I don't know, if anyone was kind of struggling, but it's like, oh, what's the difference between sin? What's the difference between transgression or iniquity? Well, there you go. I think it's just really powerful to see that throughout the Bible of knowing what you know, sin, transgression, and iniquity is, and both the old and the new testament uh confirm and talk about God's grace and mercy, about forgiving and blotting out transgression or sin or iniquity. And, you know, if you're somebody who thinks that you have sinned to the point where God can't forgive you, I just want to remind you that you are unable to outsin the grace of God. That doesn't mean that we just go and continue to do whatever we want and take an advantage of grace, literally everything that we just read in Romans chapter five and six, the whole point that Paul's making. But we have confidence in Jesus, the faith that we put in Jesus Christ because of what. What he has done, and that he is faithful to forgive us, that we are not under the law, but we are under grace again, all because of what Jesus has done. That's the good news. That's the good news of the gospel. God himself comes down and takes that for us, and all we have to do is receive. I don't know what kind of led me to kind of talk about that. I don't know if you know, if you're somebody who's struggling with a certain sin and you think that you're a horrible, wicked person because you do this one sin or multiple sins or whatever, just know that if you come to Jesus and repent, that I know for a fact that he will forgive you of your sin. If, you know, if you do have a true repentative heart and want forgiveness, that Jesus will always be faithful to forgive you of your sin. That's the good, that's the goodness of God. That is the God that we worship. Merciful, slow to anger, abounding in steadfast love, merciful, gracious, all those good things. That is the God who we worship. Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. All glory be to Jesus.

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