So, you were guilty sinners, you were weak and helpless, and you were ungodly and deserving of the just and holy wrath of God. And in spite of all that, he loved you and gave his Son to die that you might live.

"Therefore I am well content with weaknesses, with insults, with distresses, with persecutions, with difficulties, for Christ's sake; for when I am weak, then I am strong." 2 Corinth 12:9

God wants you to take this very personally. He wants you to read and hear and know that you are being addressed very personally.

Why is faith so essential? He answers, it's because, it harmonizes with grace. And why is that important? Because God's grace is what gives the guarantee.

We Gentiles who believe on Jesus the Messiah are fellow heirs with Abraham and with him will inherit the world. Jews and Gentiles together, who believe in Christ, are heirs of the world.

It's because the gospel is the good news that our sins are laid on Christ and his righteousness is laid on us. The Great Exchange. The great imputation of our sin to Christ and God's righteousness to us – called justification

Faith will begin to overcome our ungodliness. But in the beginning of the Christian life - where justification happens - we are all ungodly.

Gal 5:4 “You, and anyone else who seeks to be on the right side of God through the law, have effectively been cut off from the Anointed, circumcised from grace, and cast off from the favor of God.