Notes:

• You are not what you do, rather you are what has been done for you by Jesus Christ!
• The Christian life on the ground is that you are simultaneously sinner and justified.
• Not both sinner and justified before God – before God we are clothed completely in the RIGHTEOUSNESS of Christ!
• There are only 2 messages in the Bible.  Law which is everything that says what we should “do,” and Gospel which is everything that God has “done” for us.
• The failure to distinguish Law and Gospel accurately always leads to the abandonment of the Gospel.
  • The Law gets softened and produces moralism.
  • The Gospel gets hardened into a list of demands that must be lived out.
• The Law is God’s unwavering demand for Perfection… BE PERFECT!  The Law demands everything, but gives nothing.  The Law illuminates sin, but is powerless to eliminate sin.  The Law points to righteousness but is powerless to produce righteousness.  The Law shows us what love is, but cannot produce love in us.  The Law informs us of our sin but cannot transform the sinner.
• The Gospel tells us that since we can’t meet God’s demand, Jesus met it for us.  It’s anthem is, “it is finished!”  There is nothing else that we must do.  Christians live their lives under a banner that reads “IT IS FINISHED!”
• The law forces us to face our sin, but the Gospel alone forgives us from our sin.
• The Law accuses us, the Gospel acquits us!
• The Law exposes us, the Gospel exonerates us!
• The Law diagnoses sinners, the Gospel delivers sinners!
• The Law shows how quick we are to run from God, the Gospel shows how quick He is to run after us!
• The Law shows  us our desperation is greater than we ever realized, the Gospel shows our deliverance is greater than we could have imagined!
• The Law demands perfection, the Gospel declares perfect all who trust in Jesus!
• The Law demands that we do it all, the Gospel declares that Jesus paid it all!
• God’s Law is for those who think they are good, God’s Gospel is for those who know they are bad!
• We should speak God’s demand in such a way that we are reacquainted with our desperation for a Savior!
• Sins we cannot forget, God cannot remember.
• Though the accuser roar of sins that I have done, I know them all and thousands more, Jehovah knoweth none!
• God’s Demand:  BE PERFECT
• God’s Diagnosis:  YOU ARE NOT PERFECT
• God’s Deliverance:  JESUS WAS PERFECT FOR YOU
• The Gospel demands nothing, but gives everything.