1. One works to receive payment.

2 Thessalonians 3:10b “If anyone is not willing to work, let him not eat.”

2. Our belief provides payment.

3. Jesus provided our sins' payment.

4. I am blessed for Jesus' payment.

“The Jew understood blessedness always in terms of the proximity that one had to the presence of God.” (The Righteous Shall live by Faith-Romans, Sproul, 99)

“…the highest experience and joy of the human soul is to experience the blessedness that only God can give.” (The Righteous Shall live by Faith-Romans, Sproul, 100)

Sermon Questions

1. Do you feel people struggle to understand this concept of God's free gift of salvation? Did you?

2. Do people struggle to understand the awfulness of sin?

3. What are some other ways to understand our sin being covered?

4. What other Bible verses/stories correspond to these verses?

5. What are other ways to describe the awesome blessing we have of God not counting our sin against us?

6. What other references from David and Abraham help us understand what Paul is saying?