At the cross, God not only clears a path for sinners to himself. He also vindicates his righteousness after passing over centuries of sin. On this podcast we frequently return to fundamental realities, essential truths, things most precious to us, like the glory of God and the cross of Jesus Christ. If you get these fundamentals right, everything else eventually falls into place. Get the fundamentals wrong, and nothing will fall exactly into place. Something will always be off. In light of this, some of the most essential questions include these: Why, in the first place, do I need to be saved? Saved from whom? Saved from what? What is my problem? And how does God, and specifically Christ, address my problem? To explain, I love this following sermon excerpt from a 2009 message delivered at a Campus Crusade event in Minneapolis. There Pastor John expounded Romans 3:23 23 for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God; –26, in which the apostle Paul says this: “For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God’s righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins. It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.” A glorious text of essential, must-know truth. Here’s Pastor John to explain it. Read or listen to this interview at our website: https://www.desiringgod.org/interviews/why-do-i-need-to-be-saved Find other recent and popular Ask Pastor John episodes: https://www.desiringgod.org/ask-pastor-john