The Great Exchange

We Have a Problem

• What does God require of us?

• Leviticus 19:2• “Be Holy because I, the Lord your God, am holy.”

• Luke 10:28 • “Do this (love God and your neighbor perfectly)

and you will live.”

+ Holiness-Sin________=Life

We Still Have a Problem

• What does God see?

• Romans 3:23• “For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.”

• Isaiah 59:2• “Your iniquities have separated you from your God.”

• Romans 6:23• “The wages of sin is death.”

-Holiness+ Sin________= Death

Man’s Solution

• If I do more good than evil, I will be right with God.

• I’ll try harder from now on.

• I’m better than…

However…

• Proverbs 16:25• There is a way that seems right to a man, but

in the end leads to death.

• James 2:10• Whoever keeps the whole law and yet

stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it.

God’s Solution

• Jesus is…

– 1Peter 1:19• A Lamb without blemish or defect

– 1John 5:20• The true God and eternal life

– Jeremiah 23:6• The Lord our Righteousness

What Jesus has done

• John 1:29– Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of

the world! • Isaiah 53:6– The Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

• 2Corinthians 5:21– God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so

that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

How we receive this “Great Exchange”

• By Grace (Sola Gratia)

– Titus 3:5• He saved us, not because of righteous things we had

done, but because of his mercy.

– Romans 6:23• The wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal

life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

How we receive this “Great Exchange”

• Through Faith (Sola Fidei)

– John 3:36• Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life but

whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God’s wrath remains on him.

– Ephesians 2:8• By grace you have been saved through faith – and this

is not of yourselves, it is the gift of God.

How we receive this “Great Exchange”

• Via His Word (Sola Scriptura)

– Romans 10:17• Faith comes from hearing the message… through the

Word of Christ.

– Romans 1:16• The gospel… is the power of God for the salvation of

everyone who believes.

Sanctified Christians

• John 10:10– I have come that they may have life, and have it to

the full. • Ephesians 2:10– We are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus

to do good works. • Ephesians 2:19– You are no longer… aliens, but… members of God’s

household.

Sanctified Christians

• Matthew 11:28– Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened,

and I will give you rest. • Galatians 5:22-23– The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience,

kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.

• Psalm 50:15– Call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you.

** Good works do not produce Christians, Christians produce good works! **