Short YouTube sermon clip in which Stephen Larry Stevens Furtick Jr. reframes common teachings about salvation that can damage self-worth. He affirms that sin required Christ's atonement but argues Christians are not merely "covered" by a transactional forgiveness; God originally made humans "very good" and wants to restore their created identity. The video ends with Holly Furtick's brief encouragement and channel call-to-action.
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One of the ways we are taught salvation is actually destructive to our sense of self worth. It's God doesn't like you. God, in fact is so angry with you that the only way he could deal with it was sending his son to die for you. Now, did God send Jesus to die for us because we couldn't pay the penalty? Yes, because sin demands a price and the price is perfection. And you couldn't pay it. So Jesus did. How many are grateful that he did? Come on. All of my fellow perfectionists. You don't have to get it right all the time. That he got it right, he lived as if he had sinned. So I can live as if I never did. So I can hold my head up so I can belong to Jesus. But here's the part that got me. I started hearing it described in certain classes I took for Bible college and all of that almost like a group insurance policy. Jesus died for you. God really doesn't like you. He really can't stand you because he knows all about you. And he sees you at three in the morning. He knows where you were last night and he knows what you did last summer and last fall. You're so funny. Thank you. Because he can't stand you, he sent his son. Now when he sees you, he doesn't see you. He sees his son. Because he doesn't have to look at your terrible, worthless self. He loves you. Cool. It's like I have a pre existing condition called sucking. But I prayed a prayer, accepted Jesus, I got in on the policy and I'm good. And God has to forgive me, but he really doesn't want to. Remember this. Whenever you're tempted to think that way. Yes, we're all sinners in need of a Savior. No, there's nothing in me that can save myself. Yes, I need Jesus in order to be right with God. No, but just that. Now from that. Did the Bible start in Genesis 3? No. Come on. When we sinned and became separated from God. Or did the Bible start with let us make man in our image? When God made snakes, he said it's good. Everything he made, he said it's good. When he made you, he said, very good. I know you have some very bad things you struggle with and some very ugly parts of you that you're working on. I know you have some very deep issues that go really deep. But remember that it started out with a God who made you very good. Very good. God is trying to get me back as Stephen Larry Stevens Furtick Jr. He's trying to get me back to very good. He's trying to give me a vision of his. Very good. For my life. He's trying to get me back to the seed of Steven. He's trying to shine light, give water and, yes, even fertilizer to your life to bring you back to what you put inside of you.
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