How the Cross of Jesus Christ deals with the accusations of the Devil and sets us right with God. Why we do not have to feel inadequate because God makes us adequate.

2. Not Good Enough
• Not good enough as a person
• Not good enough at a task or achievement
• Not good enough to please God
• Not good enough at life, not getting anywhere
• Not good enough socially
• Not good enough for your friends and family
• Not good enough to solve your own life problems
• Most of the time these are feelings and not facts!

3. The Accuser
• Revelation 12:9-10 And the great dragon was
thrown down, that ancient serpent, who is called
the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole
world—he was thrown down to the earth, and his
angels were thrown down with him. (10) And I
heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, "Now the
salvation and the power and the kingdom of our
God and the authority of his Christ have come, for
the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down,
who accuses them day and night before our God.

4. Grace in Action
Then he showed me Joshua the high priest standing
before the Angel of the LORD, and Satan standing at
his right hand to oppose him. And the LORD said to
Satan, “The LORD rebuke you, Satan! The LORD who
has chosen Jerusalem rebuke you! Is this not a brand
plucked from the fire?” (Zechariah 3:1,2)

5. False Laws
• Colossians 2:13-16 And you, who were dead in
your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your
flesh, God made alive together with him, having
forgiven us all our trespasses, (14) by canceling
the record of debt that stood against us with its
legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the
cross. (15) He disarmed the rulers and authorities
and put them to open shame, by triumphing over
them in him. (16) Therefore let no one pass
judgment on you in questions of food and drink, or
with regard to a festival or a new moon or a
Sabbath.

6. Ineffective Standards
• Colossians 2:20-23 If with Christ you died to the
elemental spirits of the world, why, as if you were
still alive in the world, do you submit to
regulations— (21) "Do not handle, Do not taste, Do
not touch" (22) (referring to things that all perish
as they are used)—according to human precepts
and teachings? (23) These have indeed an
appearance of wisdom in promoting self-made
religion and asceticism and severity to the body,
but they are of no value in stopping the indulgence
of the flesh.

7. Invented Human
Commandments
• The subjective sense of being a good person can be
obtained artificially by following invented human
rules and commandments.
• These commandments are completely arbitrary and
change with time, culture, personality, trends etc.
• They are like a small addictive “high” or a brief “hit”
of feeling “whew, now I am a good person”.
• They can turn into strange habits, strange thoughts,
rituals, obsessions and compulsions and become life-
dominating and even addictive and cruel.
• They are accompanied by a sense of failure and
worthlessness when rules are broken and thus feed a
vicious cycle of legalism and condemnation

8. Loosening Up a Bit
• Replace words and phrases such as:
ought, should, must, have to, got to, always, never,
now, hurry, its very important, immediately, no choice,
obligated, compelled, required to or else…
• With words and phrases such as:
I would prefer to, I would like to, it would be nice to, it
would be better if, it would work better if, maybe it
would be a good idea to, it would be a sensible idea if,
maybe, mostly, and with more accurate descriptors e.g.
seldom is anything “always” or “never”.

9. Ethics
• Micah 6:6-8 "With what shall I come before the
LORD, and bow myself before God on high? Shall I
come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a
year old? (7) Will the LORD be pleased with
thousands of rams, with ten thousands of rivers of
oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression,
the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?" (8) He
has told you, O man, what is good; and what does
the LORD require of you but to do justice, and to
love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?

10. Not Performance Based
• Galatians 2:16 yet we know that a person is not
justified by works of the law but through faith in
Jesus Christ, so we also have believed in Christ
Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and
not by works of the law, because by works of the
law no one will be justified.

11. Even The Ungodly Get Saved!
Romans 4:4-8 Now to him who works, the wages are
not counted as grace but as debt. (5) But to him
who does not work but believes on Him who justifies
the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness,
(6) just as David also describes the blessedness of
the man to whom God imputes righteousness apart
from works: (7) "Blessed are those whose lawless
deeds are forgiven, And whose sins are covered; (8)
Blessed is the man to whom the LORD shall not
impute sin."

12. By Grace, Through Faith
• Ephesians 2:8-10 For by grace you have been
saved through faith. And this is not your own doing;
it is the gift of God, (9) not a result of works, so
that no one may boast. (10) For we are his
workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good
works, which God prepared beforehand, that we
should walk in them.

13. From Death To Life
• John 5:24 Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears
my word and believes him who sent me has eternal
life. He does not come into judgment, but has
passed from death to life.

14. Two Kinds Of Judgment
• KRINO – absolute judgement, good or evil,
condemnation, the punishment of the whole
person by a great Judge. Not for Christians!
• DOKIMAZO – judgement of individual acts as
worthy or not worthy, competent or not
competent, more like an annual performance
review. Christians are evaluated for their eternal
reward for faithfulness.

15. Romans 3:23-24 for all have sinned and fall
short of the glory of God, (24) and are
justified by His grace as a gift, through the
redemption that is in Christ Jesus,
Salvation Is An Undeserved
Gift

16. God Chose Paul
This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptance,
that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners,
of whom I am chief. However, for this reason I
obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might
show all longsuffering, as a pattern to those who are
going to believe on Him for everlasting life.
(1 Timothy 1:15,16)

17. It Is Christ In Us
• Galatians 2:20-21 I have been crucified with Christ.
It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me.
And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in
the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for
me. (21) I do not nullify the grace of God, for if
righteousness were through the law, then Christ
died for no purpose.

18. It Is God Who Justifies!
Romans 8:30-34 Moreover whom He predestined,
these He also called; whom He called, these He also
justified; and whom He justified, these He also
glorified. (31) What then shall we say to these
things? If God is for us, who can be against us? (32)
He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him
up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely
give us all things? (33) Who shall bring a charge
against God's elect? It is God who justifies. (34)
Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and
furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right
hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.

19. God’s Love Is Permanent!
Romans 8:35-39 Who shall separate us from the love of
Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or
famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? (36) As it is
written: "For Your sake we are killed all day long; We are
accounted as sheep for the slaughter." (37) Yet in all
these things we are more than conquerors through Him
who loved us. (38) For I am persuaded that neither
death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers,
nor things present nor things to come, (39) nor height
nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to
separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus
our Lord.