True Belief

"If we want to be saved, we must both be persuaded that no one ever spoke like this man (Jesus), He is who He says He is - He is true AND come to Him to drink. We must come to Him as our all-satisfying supreme treasure, we must come to Him as our thirst-quenching, life-giving water, we must come to Him as our hunger-stilling bread from heaven, we must come to Him as our perfect, precious, sacrificed Lamb of God in our place, we must come to Him as the all-illuminating, all guiding light of our life and we must embrace this water and this bread and this light and this Lamb as our supreme portion and feed off of Him and be transformed little by little into His image. He is everything to us - that's what belief is."

- John Piper

The Gospel

Tim Chaddick (Pastor of Reality LA): Jesus took our place as the condemned sinner. Jesus took our rightful place on the cross as the condemned one and we get put in the place of the innocent one. For it was there that Jesus would be judged and He did not receive mercy and even though Jesus was the perfect Son, He was treated as a common criminal guilty for the sins of humanity. But He rose again and through believing in His name we are justified so that the cross, Calvary, the place of judgment becomes the place of hope. The place where it is said "you are a sinner" it is also said "you are justified" if you've trusted in Christ.