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God's Love Covers Me with Christ

Jeremiah 23:1-8

Pastor Bob Hiller
11/28/2010

Jeremiah 23:5-6 "Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch, and he shall reign as king and deal wisely, and shall execute justice and righteousness in the land. In his days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell securely. And this is the name by which he will be called: 'The LORD is our righteousness.'

1. We don't have what is ___________ to get into God's ___________.

2. We cannot ___________ a holy God because we are sinners. But that holy God ___________ sinners to grant them ___________!

3. God loves us dearly and grants us salvation because Christ is our ____________ and by Him we are ____________.

Scripture Readings
Jeremiah 23:1-8
Romans 13:11-14
Luke 1:5-25

Take It With You!

Here we will offer thoughts and meditations on the message to help us as we contemplate and discuss and wrestle with what we are hearing.

What a blessed substitute before God's judgment. In place of our sinful conception -- for we all like King David, as Psalm 51:5 testifies, inherited sin from our parents -- God places in evidence the sinless conception of Jesus. In place of our childhood disobedience, God places in evidence the perfect obedience of Mary's Son. In place of our teenage foolish choices, God places in evidence the wise choices of Jesus' early manhood. In place of all the good we've meant to do but left undone, God places in evidence the completed work of the God-man. In place of our death, part of the wages of our sin, God places in evidence Jesus' death because it is the wages of all our sins. In other words, when God the Judge opens your record, O Christian, He sees Jesus' record. According to God's judgment you've lived every moment from the womb to the tomb without a single failure of any kind. For "the Lord is our righteousness!" Not even the tiniest smidgen of your sin is showing -- only Christ.

But remember, it's not that you are righteous, that you've done the good you ought. It's that He is righteous. And by being in Christ you are righteous, for "the Lord is our righteousness."

David C. Fleming, "God's Love at Christmas"

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