I'm John Carter in Moscow.
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In Havana, Cuba.
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Now in Kiev, the
capital of Ukraine.
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I'm John Carter in Petra.
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Right here in Communist China.
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Reporting from India.
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Hi, I'm John Carter
in the Solomon Islands.
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I'm John Carter in Soweto.
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From El Salvador.
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I'm John Carter
in Sydney, Australia.
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John Carter informs us about
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"The Jesuits and
the True Gospel."
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This is a
continuation of the talk
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on "The Jesuits
and the True Gospel."
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In the last segment,
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we spoke about
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how a person can
be right with God.
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How much in a
goodness do I have to have?
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Now the Jesuits
would teach this,
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now try to get
this into your mind.
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It's not easy.
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The Jesuits teach that a
person is saved by grace alone.
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Is that good?
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Yeah, by Christ alone,
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by faith,
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plus the works of love
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wrought in the
heart by the Holy Spirit.
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And the
Protestant reformers said,
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"No, no, no."
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They said, "Christ
alone, scripture alone,
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grace alone, and faith alone."
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Because when you say, faith,
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plus the works of love
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wrought in the
heart by the Holy Spirit,
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you bring in a
subjective element.
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Let me explain this to you.
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This is not easy,
but all of a sudden,
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you're going to see it,
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and the light is going to become
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very, very, very plain.
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I've seen many people die.
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And some people die
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with great
faith and great peace.
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And some people
die fearing the flame.
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How do I know? I've seen it.
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I've seen people dying in fear
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because some of those people
are afraid of going into hell,
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or going into purgatory.
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And so if you believe
the idea of the Jesuit,
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as taught at the
Council of Trent,
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"Saved by Christ through grace
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by faith plus the works of
love wrought in the heart."
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They're saying,
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"But I don't
have enough goodness."
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Now, I'm going
to go into purgatory
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for millions and
millions of years,
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and I'm going to be,
I'm going to be screaming.
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So Martin Luther
came along and he said,
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"No, no, no, Christ
alone, scripture alone,
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grace alone, faith alone."
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Because once I
truly believe in Christ,
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His
righteousness covers my sins.
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And there's no
need of purgatory.
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And I'm right
with God right now.
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Let me tell you a story.
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A person whom I
have always admired
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was Mother Teresa.
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Mother Teresa was
trained in Jesuit theology.
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Did you know this?
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Trained in Jesuit theology.
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She was taught, you
know, grace alone, plus faith,
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plus the works of love
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wrought in the
heart by the Holy Spirit.
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Mother Teresa after she died,
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they found her letters.
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Don't misunderstand me,
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I think she was a great
lady with a heart for people.
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But she says,
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she could never see
the face of a God of love.
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And she never had
a moments of peace
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in all her life.
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And she was
filled with so much dread
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that she thought
on numerous occasions
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of becoming an atheist.
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Never good enough.
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Maybe one day, I'm going
to make it like some of you,
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but never good enough.
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Look at Galatians again.
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Galatians 2:20-21.
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Look at this again,
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and let these words
sink down into the mind.
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"I have been
crucified with Christ," when?
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"On the cross."
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Later on, I must crucify myself
in my sins, by God's grace,
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but we're not
talking about that.
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"I have been
crucified with Christ.
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It is no longer I who
live, but Christ lives in me.
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And the life which I
now live in the flesh
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I live by faith
in the Son of God,
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who loved me and
gave Himself for me.
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I do not set
aside the grace of God,
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for if righteousness
comes through the law,
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then Christ died in vain."
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If I can be
saved by my attainment
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even with the help
of the Holy Spirit,
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Christ has died in vain.
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I am not saved by attainment.
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I am not saved by my attainment.
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I am saved, listen,
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by His atonement,
not my attainment,
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His atonement.
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There was a Negro
spiritual, beautiful, it said,
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"Were you there when
they crucified my Lord?"
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And the answer is,
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"Yes, I was there.
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When He hung on the cross,
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I was there legally in Him."
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And that is why if I died
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when Christ died for my sins,
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the law cannot
condemn a dead man.
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Have you ever
thought about this?
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The law can only
condemn living people.
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You say but I know I didn't die.
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Come over here.
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Would you please
to 2 Corinthians 5:14.
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And quite likely,
you've never read this text,
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2 Corinthians 5:14.
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Here it is.
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This is amazing.
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Now think about this, please.
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"For the love of
Christ compels us,
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because we judge thus,"
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listen to this.
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What does it say?
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"That if One died for all,"
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what does it say?
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Now, what does it say?
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It says, if one died for all,
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then all died
legally when Christ died,
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bearing the wrath of God,
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I died on the cross.
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And therefore, if I
died on the cross...
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the law cannot condemn me.
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There's no condemnation.
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Christ on the cross legally
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bore my sin and
tasted God's wrath.
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If you don't
understand God's wrath,
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you can never
understand the Gospel of God.
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And that is why the
moral influence theory
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is a travesty.
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And it is an
abominable doctrine,
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not believed by
any mainstream church.
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My church does not believe it.
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Look at Galatians 3:11-13.
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Galatians 3:11,
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"But that no one is
justified by the law
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in the sight of God is evident,
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for 'the just
shall live by faith.'
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Christ has redeemed us
from the curse of the law,
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having become a curse
for us, for it is written,
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'Cursed is everyone
who hangs on a tree.' "
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People say,
"That's a terrible text."
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It says cursed is
everyone who hangs on a tree
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and it is talking about Christ
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bearing the sin
of the human race.
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God is a righteous God.
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God loves the sinner,
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but God hates the sin.
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Can you understand this?
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God is not an old
funny benevolent grandfather.
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One man said to me,
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"Oh, my God is
a big teddy bear."
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How superficial can you get?
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God is a God of wrath.
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And on the cross God
takes his own medicine.
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Because God react against sin,
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the sinner must be punished
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to the last drop of blood.
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And so God
doesn't send an angel.
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God comes in the
person of His own Son.
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Hallelujah.
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Hanging on the cross
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was Yahweh Elohim in human form,
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what's wrong with us?
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Why are we so superficial?
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We are so superficial
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because we can no
longer read scripture.
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But hanging on the cross
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was Yahweh Elohim
and the wrath of God
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was directed against Christ.
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Why do you think He
cried out, My God, My God?
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Jesus did not die
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as a joyful Christian.
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Yes, He did.
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No, no, no,
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Jesus did not die
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as a joyful Christian.
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He died under
the curse of the law.
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Cursed is everyone
that hangeth on a tree.
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When he hung on the tree,
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the wrath of God was
directed against His Son.
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That's why He
cried out, "My God,
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My God.
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Why have You forsaken me?"
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Come now to Romans 3:25.
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Romans 3,
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the greatest book in the Bible
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on this subject is
the Book of Romans.
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Tyndale, the
English reformer called it
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"Good glad and merry tidings
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that makes a man's
heart to sing for joy
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and his feet to dance."
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Romans 3:25,
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now this is a difficult text.
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This is the high
point of scripture.
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Some would say
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this is the most
important part of the Bible.
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It is difficult.
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And because most of
us are very superficial,
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we don't read it.
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But look at it now.
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Romans Chapter 3,
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my dear friends, verse 25,
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"Whom God set
forth as a propitiation,"
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because God is wrath,
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"by his blood, through faith,
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to demonstrate
His righteousness."
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God has to be righteous.
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God just can't
say, oh, that's okay.
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That's okay.
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"To demonstrate
His righteousness,
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because in His forbearance
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God had passed over the sins
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that were previously committed."
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And so we have this saying,
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she took her own medicine.
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God took His own medicine.
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He bore my sin,
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He was punished in my place.
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That's why he cried out,
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My God, My God.
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Go back to the
last presentation,
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when I spoke
about Robert Carter,
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when he let all
the slaves go free.
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He said, "You are free."
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When Christ hung on the cross,
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cursed for us, curseth.
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Cursed is everyone
that hangs on a tree.
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He shouted out
all across creation.
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Let freedom ring.
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Let freedom ring
that the slaves go.
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The problem is,
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most people don't believe it.
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And that's why they
still act as slaves.
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They have the slave mentality.
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Now we're going to read again,
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Romans 3,
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the most difficult and
the most important text
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in the Bible, Romans 3:23-25.
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And read it sometime
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in a easy to
understand translation.
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Romans 3,
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"For all have
sinned," past tense,
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"and fall short
of the glory of God,"
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that's now, "being justified,"
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declared righteous,
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"freely by his grace
through the redemption
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that is in Christ Jesus,
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whom God set forth as a
propitiation by His blood,
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through faith,
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to demonstrate
His righteousness,"
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God has to be righteous,
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"because in His forbearance
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God had passed over the sins
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that were previously committed."
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Now, this is not
a throwaway text.
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Now, I'm going to put up
some big words on the screen
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and say a few words
about the big words.
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Sin.
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Sin is breaking the law of God.
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It is anything that fall
short of the glory of God.
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It is lack of
faith and lack of love.
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Jesus said, "Love
your neighbor as yourself.
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If you don't do that,
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you're guilty of sin."
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So who is ready for the judgment
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on the basis of works?
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Nobody I would think.
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Justified.
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Justified does not
mean ever in scripture,
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to make righteous.
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So the Church of Rome has
justification as a process.
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And as you go along,
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you're justified
a little bit more,
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and then you go into purgatory,
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and at the end of purgatory,
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you're totally justified
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because only
sinless people go to heaven.
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The Jesuits, great scholars,
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a total perfectionists
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like some people I know.
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Where do they get it from?
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Well, I don't know.
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But the Jesuits
say amen to them.
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Justified,
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declared righteous
not made righteous.
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Grace, the mercy of God.
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I don't deserve it.
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When I get home to
glory, it'll be by grace,
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it won't because I
am a perfect person
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but because Christ died for me.
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So you see, I am saved by works.
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I am saved by works.
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But they're not mine.
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They're His.
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You see.
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Grace, redemption.
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Robert Carter last week,
the descendant of John Carter.
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He said, "You're all redeemed.
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You can all go home.
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You're all free."
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That's what
Christ said on the cross.
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I have paid for you.
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Propitiation.
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Very difficult word.
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But the best scholarship says,
it means something like this.
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God has wrath against sin,
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not against the person,
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but against sin.
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And therefore,
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there is a price to be paid
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to propitiate the wrath of God.
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And this is
through the atonement,
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which is by blood,
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Christ blood that
we accept by faith
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and it says it's to
show God's righteousness.
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What does this mean,
00:16:08.43\00:16:10.37
to show God's righteousness?
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You got to think about this
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because most of us
are so superficial.
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God is righteousness.
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God is righteous.
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God is totally righteous.
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God, you know,
what God demands of us.
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Total perfection.
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From the moment I'm conceived
until the moment I die,
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perfect righteousness,
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perfect love, perfect obedience,
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perfect faith
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because God is righteous.
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God demands of you and me
a state of 100% perfection.
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But we don't have it,
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we're sinners.
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And some of us are so sinful,
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we don't know how sinful we are.
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Some of us are so deluded
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that we think we're good.
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But you know what happens?
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God says, I demand
complete perfection,
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because I'm righteous.
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Here is My Son.
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And He is my substitute.
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He comes and stands in my place.
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He dies my death,
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to give me as a gift.
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He's 100% perfect righteousness.
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And so someone comes
into the studio today,
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and he is a
sinner like all of us,
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but he's never known it before.
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And most likely he
is a religious sinner.
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That is the very worst type.
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Because I'm not joking,
00:18:05.95\00:18:07.28
know what
religious sinner is a pain
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to be around
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because he is so self righteous.
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It stinks.
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It does.
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He's always criticizing people,
always putting people down.
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Only way he can go up,
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is by putting
somebody else down.
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Have you met people like that?
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Yeah. Yeah, of course you have.
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Well, this person comes in here
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and today he sees
himself as a sinner.
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And he cries out for mercy.
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And God
immediately gives him mercy
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and shows him grace,
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as the person is a penitent.
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He's saying, "Lord, I'm sorry."
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I've been such a
pain all my life,
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such a rotten
husband, such a rotten father,
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such a terrible church elder.
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And God says,
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not because of your penitence,
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but because of My Son,
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I declare
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that you are as
righteous as Jesus.
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Amen.
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It's a declaration.
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It's a declaration,
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and it happens in a moment.
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The Jesuits and
the purpose of Jesuit
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came into existence
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to destroy
Protestantism and democracy.
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And they came up with
the counterfeit theology.
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Remember Mother Teresa?
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After her death,
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they found her letters
written to her confessor.
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Her letters full of fear,
00:19:44.48\00:19:46.98
depression, purgatory,
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no assurance.
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She said, "I've never
seen the face of a loving God
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for one moment in my life."
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Like some people I know.
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But justify means
to declare righteous.
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She never got it, but you can.
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Romans 4:3-7.
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Look at this.
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Romans Chapter 4.
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"What does the Scripture say?
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'Abraham believed God,
00:20:14.24\00:20:15.58
it was accounted to
him for righteousness.'
00:20:15.61\00:20:19.91
But to him who does
not work for salvation,
00:20:19.95\00:20:22.58
but believes in Him
who justifies the ungodly,"
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you want to be justified,
00:20:25.45\00:20:27.46
or recognize you're ungodly.
00:20:27.49\00:20:29.22
Oh,
00:20:29.26\00:20:30.76
"his faith is
accounted for righteousness,
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just as David also describes
the blessedness of the man
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to whom God
imputes righteousness
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apart from works.
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'Blessed are those
00:20:41.37\00:20:42.70
whose lawless
deeds are forgiven,
00:20:42.74\00:20:44.27
and whose sins are covered.'"
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It is an accounting.
00:20:46.41\00:20:49.78
God gives it to you,
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and you don't have it.
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Today, many
Roman Catholic scholars
00:20:54.75\00:20:56.82
have accepted
Martin Luther's gospel,
00:20:56.85\00:21:01.36
that God justifies the ungodly.
00:21:01.39\00:21:04.59
It doesn't say that God
justifies the righteous,
00:21:04.63\00:21:08.03
but the ungodly.
00:21:08.06\00:21:09.86
And if you think
you're a really good person,
00:21:09.90\00:21:13.37
this is not for you.
00:21:13.40\00:21:17.71
It's for the person
who knows he's ungodly.
00:21:17.74\00:21:22.41
He's such a
person easy to live with?
00:21:22.44\00:21:24.55
Here he is.
00:21:24.58\00:21:26.11
He's not trying to put you down,
00:21:26.15\00:21:28.15
because he knows he's ungodly.
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So there's hope for all,
the dying thief was ungodly.
00:21:31.32\00:21:34.56
Mary Magdalene was ungodly.
00:21:34.59\00:21:36.76
Peter was ungodly.
00:21:36.79\00:21:38.13
Paul was ungodly.
00:21:38.16\00:21:39.49
The colonel I baptized in Kiev,
who was the teacher of atheism,
00:21:39.53\00:21:42.76
he was ungodly.
00:21:42.80\00:21:44.13
Sergei the mafia
man in Nizhny Novgorod,
00:21:44.17\00:21:46.63
he was ungodly.
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You and me are the ungodly.
00:21:48.17\00:21:52.77
There's no place
for pride and arrogance.
00:21:52.81\00:21:55.81
Right with God right now
free, forgiven, justified.
00:21:55.84\00:22:00.15
And it's a gift that transforms.
00:22:03.28\00:22:06.69
It's a transforming gift.
00:22:06.72\00:22:08.86
Well, I've got to tell you this
00:22:08.89\00:22:10.23
or if somebody's
gonna go ahead and say,
00:22:10.26\00:22:11.86
oh, all that's cheap
grace, can't believe that.
00:22:11.89\00:22:14.16
Can't believe the good news.
00:22:14.20\00:22:15.63
I want to be miserable
for the rest of my life.
00:22:15.66\00:22:18.57
Look at Roman 6:14-16.
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Romans 6:14,
00:22:21.17\00:22:24.24
"The sin shall not
have dominion over you,
00:22:24.27\00:22:28.24
for you are not
under law but under grace.
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What then?
00:22:32.25\00:22:33.58
Shall we sin
because we are not under law
00:22:33.62\00:22:34.98
but under grace?
00:22:35.02\00:22:36.35
Certainly not!
00:22:36.38\00:22:37.89
Do you not know that
00:22:37.92\00:22:39.25
to whom you present
yourselves slaves to obey,
00:22:39.29\00:22:42.52
you are that one's slaves
00:22:42.56\00:22:44.39
whom you obey,
00:22:44.43\00:22:45.76
whether of sin leading to death,
00:22:45.79\00:22:47.66
or of obedience
00:22:47.70\00:22:49.53
leading to righteousness?"
00:22:49.56\00:22:53.50
When you come to Christ,
00:22:53.54\00:22:55.80
He changes you.
00:22:55.84\00:22:58.94
Listen, you don't need
00:22:58.97\00:23:01.11
to be good to be saved,
00:23:01.14\00:23:04.71
but you do need to
be saved to be good.
00:23:04.75\00:23:08.98
We come like the
lepers just as I am.
00:23:09.02\00:23:12.82
But we don't stay just as I am.
00:23:12.85\00:23:16.89
Imagine the lepers
00:23:16.93\00:23:18.26
that came in Jesus
day ever seen leprosy?
00:23:18.29\00:23:20.50
I have.
00:23:20.53\00:23:22.36
Filthy, rotting, decaying,
smelling, stinking, dying.
00:23:22.40\00:23:28.90
That's the sinner
outside of Christ,
00:23:28.94\00:23:31.84
the self righteous
Pharisee, stinks to God.
00:23:31.87\00:23:36.44
But it comes to Christ.
00:23:36.48\00:23:39.11
He touches Christ and he
saved by grace through faith.
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Think of a man
00:23:42.85\00:23:44.65
who came in the days of Jesus.
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We say he's John.
00:23:48.59\00:23:49.92
He's married to Mary.
00:23:49.96\00:23:51.96
This is a leprosarium
over in Louisiana years ago,
00:23:51.99\00:23:56.16
leprosy in America.
00:23:56.20\00:23:58.87
So this man, he is
covered in leprosy,
00:23:58.90\00:24:02.60
one of my great stories.
00:24:02.64\00:24:05.84
And he finds his way to Christ.
00:24:05.87\00:24:08.21
And he puts out his hands,
00:24:08.24\00:24:10.51
and he's stinking, he's filthy,
00:24:10.55\00:24:12.85
and Christ touches him.
00:24:12.88\00:24:15.32
And when Christ touches him,
00:24:15.35\00:24:18.59
he's a new person.
00:24:18.62\00:24:20.82
Imagine what his wife says.
00:24:20.86\00:24:23.43
You're new person.
00:24:23.46\00:24:25.83
You went away
stinking and filthy.
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Listen.
00:24:28.23\00:24:29.56
I come just as I am.
00:24:32.80\00:24:34.74
But I don't stay just as I am.
00:24:37.74\00:24:41.61
Otherwise, it's cheap grace.
00:24:41.64\00:24:44.88
Transformed by grace divine.
00:24:44.91\00:24:47.98
Not the root but the fruit.
00:24:48.02\00:24:50.75
I love Wesley.
00:24:50.79\00:24:52.99
"He left his Father's
throne above, so free,
00:24:53.02\00:24:56.12
so infinite His grace.
00:24:56.16\00:24:58.29
Emptied Himself
of all about love,
00:24:58.33\00:25:00.33
and bled for
Adam's helpless race,
00:25:00.36\00:25:03.16
'Tis mercy all,
immense and free.
00:25:03.20\00:25:05.23
For, O my God, it found out me.
00:25:05.27\00:25:08.10
'Tis mercy all,
immense and free.
00:25:08.14\00:25:10.34
For, O my God, it found out me.
00:25:10.37\00:25:13.68
Long my imprisoned
spirit lay fast bound in sin
00:25:13.71\00:25:19.38
and nature's night.
00:25:19.41\00:25:20.78
Thine eye
diffused a quickening ray,
00:25:20.82\00:25:23.25
I woke,
00:25:23.28\00:25:24.62
the dungeon flamed with light.
00:25:24.65\00:25:27.82
My chains fell off,
00:25:27.86\00:25:30.23
my heart was free,
00:25:30.26\00:25:32.03
I rose, went
forth, and followed Thee.
00:25:32.06\00:25:37.47
My chains fell
off, my heart was free,
00:25:37.50\00:25:40.77
I rose, went
forth and followed Thee.
00:25:40.80\00:25:44.74
No condemnation
now I dread Jesus,
00:25:44.77\00:25:48.38
and all in Him, is mine.
00:25:48.41\00:25:50.85
Alive in Him, my living Head,
00:25:50.88\00:25:53.11
and clothed in
righteousness Divine.
00:25:53.15\00:25:57.52
Bold I approach
the eternal throne,
00:25:57.55\00:26:01.62
and claim the crown,
through Christ my own.
00:26:01.66\00:26:05.63
Bold I approach
the eternal throne,
00:26:05.66\00:26:09.63
and claim the crown,
through Christ my own."
00:26:09.66\00:26:14.07
Little wonder.
00:26:14.10\00:26:15.44
He said, amazing love...
00:26:15.47\00:26:19.07
how can it be?
00:26:22.18\00:26:23.51
There's only one thing
00:26:28.08\00:26:29.42
that really
counts in this lifetime,
00:26:29.45\00:26:32.02
your relationship to Christ.
00:26:32.05\00:26:34.49
And then if you
have a right relationship
00:26:34.52\00:26:36.69
with Christ,
00:26:36.73\00:26:38.46
you want to tell
people about Christ.
00:26:38.49\00:26:41.23
That's why Jesus said,
00:26:41.26\00:26:42.60
"Go into all the world
00:26:42.63\00:26:43.97
and preach the
gospel to every creature."
00:26:44.00\00:26:47.77
By the grace of God,
we're going to do that,
00:26:47.80\00:26:50.61
we are doing that.
00:26:50.64\00:26:52.64
That is why we're
going back to Cuba,
00:26:52.67\00:26:55.04
to this communist land,
00:26:55.08\00:26:57.05
to preach Christ.
00:26:57.08\00:26:59.61
We're accepting an
invitation to go to the vast,
00:26:59.65\00:27:03.75
huge city of Manila, the
capital of the Philippines.
00:27:03.79\00:27:07.86
Been there before,
but by the grace of God,
00:27:07.89\00:27:11.06
we're going back.
00:27:11.09\00:27:12.99
Please support us.
00:27:13.03\00:27:14.60
And please stand with us
00:27:14.63\00:27:17.17
in the preaching of
the everlasting gospel.
00:27:17.20\00:27:19.97
You say, "How do you do it?
00:27:20.00\00:27:21.54
Who pays the bills?"
00:27:21.57\00:27:23.20
We do.
00:27:23.24\00:27:24.57
"Do you get any help,
00:27:24.61\00:27:25.94
financial help from the church?"
00:27:25.97\00:27:27.31
No, my friend, we don't.
00:27:27.34\00:27:29.21
But we get a
lot of help from God
00:27:29.24\00:27:32.15
and from His children.
00:27:32.18\00:27:33.65
Please support us
00:27:33.68\00:27:35.42
in the preaching of
the everlasting gospel.
00:27:35.45\00:27:38.45
It's the most
important work in all the world.
00:27:38.49\00:27:41.46
Everything else
is almost trivia.
00:27:41.49\00:27:44.69
So would you please write to me?
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John Carter, P.O.
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California 91358.
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00:27:56.57\00:27:58.57
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00:28:01.04\00:28:04.78
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00:28:04.81\00:28:07.62
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00:28:07.65\00:28:10.02
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00:28:10.05\00:28:12.39
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00:28:12.42\00:28:14.89
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00:28:19.46\00:28:20.83
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