2.26.23 - Things Jesus Never Said Week 4
You Get What You Deserve
Part of Modern Sermons 2023
February 26, 2023

Question: What feelings of guilt do you personally battle?


32 Two other men, both criminals, were also led out with him to be executed. 33 When they came to the place called the Skull, they crucified him there, along with the criminals—one on his right, the other on his left. —Luke 23:32-33

39 One of the criminals who hung there hurled insults at him: “Aren’t you the Messiah? Save yourself and us!” 40 But the other criminal rebuked him. “Don’t you fear God,” he said, “since you are under the same sentence?41 We are punished justly, for we are getting what our deeds deserve. But this man has done nothing wrong.” —Luke 23:39-41


42 Then he said, “Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.” 43 Jesus answered him, “Truly I tell you, today you will be with me in paradise.” —Luke 23:42-43


Mercy
Not receiving the

we deserve.

Grace
Receiving a

we don’t deserve. —Mercy vs Grace


Jesus didn’t just come to make bad people good
Jesus came to make dead people come alive —Come Alive


3Like the rest, we were by nature deserving of wrath. 4 But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, 5 made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions… 8 For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—9 not by works, so that no one can boast. —Ephesians 2:3-5, 8-9


Numerology

  • 1 - Unity/God
  • 4 - Earth
  • 5 - Grace
  • 7 - Perfection
  • 6 - Weakness of man/Sign of Devil (666)
  • 8 - New beginnings
  • 40 - Testing/Trials
  • 3 - Wholeness, Completion!

10 He does not treat us as our sins deserve
or repay us according to our iniquities.

11 For as high as the heavens are above the earth,
so great is his love for those who fear him;

12 as far as the east is from the west,
so far has he removed our transgressions from us. —Psalm 103:10-12