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>>GOOD MORNING, FRIENDS,
AND WELCOME TO SABBATH SCHOOL
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STUDY HOUR COMING TO YOU HERE
FROM THE GRANITE BAY SEVENTH-DAY
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ADVENTIST CHURCH. I'D
LIKE TO WELCOME OUR ONLINE
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MEMBERS AND, ALSO, THOSE OF
YOU WATCHING AROUND THE WORLD.
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WELCOME TO OUR
LESSON STUDY TODAY.
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ALSO TO THE MEMBERS AND
THE VISITORS RIGHT HERE AT THE
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GRANITE BAY CHURCH, ALWAYS
GOOD TO SEE YOU SABBATH AFTER
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SABBATH HERE, READY
TO STUDY GOD'S WORD.
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WE'VE BEEN STUDYING THROUGH THE
LESSON ON GALATIANS - THE BOOK
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OF GALATIANS IS WHAT
THE THEME OF OUR STUDY IS.
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TODAY WE'RE ON LESSON #4, WHICH
IS ENTITLED JUSTIFICATION BY
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FAITH ALONE - A
GREAT REFORMATION THEME -
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JUSTIFICATION BY FAITH
ALONE - THAT'S LESSON #4.
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FOR OUR FRIENDS WHO ARE
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WE HAVE A FREE OFFER THAT GOES
ALONG WITH OUR THEME FOR TODAY,
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A BOOK WRITTEN BY
PASTOR DOUG ENTITLED ASSURANCE:
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JUSTIFICATION MADE SIMPLE .
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WELL, BEFORE WE GET TO OUR
TIME OF STUDY, WE ALWAYS LIKE TO
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BEGIN BY LIFTING
OUR VOICES IN SONG.
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I'D LIKE TO INVITE OUR
SONG LEADERS TO COME JOIN ME.
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>>GOOD MORNING, SABBATH
SCHOOL STUDY HOUR FAMILY.
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IT'S SUCH A PRIVILEGE TO HAVE
AN OPPORTUNITY TO SING WITH YOU
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THIS MORNING, AND WE'RE GOING
TO BEGIN OUR SINGING WITH THE
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SEVENTH-DAY
ADVENTIST CHURCH HYMNAL #567.
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WE'LL SING ALL FOUR VERSES
OF HAVE THINE OWN WAY, LORD .
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(PIANO MUSIC)
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>>AND, FOR OUR NEXT SONG, #301 -
NEARER, STILL NEARER - AND WE'LL
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SING ALL VERSES OF NEARER,
STILL NEARER ALSO.  (A CAPELLA)
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>>DEAR FATHER IN HEAVEN, WHAT A
PRIVILEGE TO BE ABLE TO OPEN UP
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YOUR WORD AND, INDEED, DRAW NEAR
TO YOU THROUGH THE SCRIPTURES.
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TODAY, AS WE STUDY A VERY
IMPORTANT THEME - A THEME THAT
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HAS JUST SPARKED GREAT
REFORMATION IN THE CHURCH - THE
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THEME OF JUSTIFICATION - WE PRAY
FOR THE HOLY SPIRIT TO COME AND
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GUIDE OUR HEARTS, OUR MINDS,
LORD, IMPRESS UPON US THIS
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WONDERFUL GOOD NEWS AND MAY
WE APPLY IT TO OUR LIVES, FOR WE
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ASK THIS IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN.
OUR LESSON THIS MORNING IS GOING
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TO BE BROUGHT TO
US BY PASTOR DOUG.
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>>THANK YOU, PASTOR ROSS.
I WANT TO WELCOME EVERYBODY
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THAT IS JOINING US. WE
NOT ONLY HAVE, NOW, OUR
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PEOPLE WATCHING LIVE ON THE
INTERNET, IN THE LAST COUPLE OF
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WEEKS WE STARTED TO USE FACEBOOK
LIVE FOR BOTH OUR SABBATH SCHOOL
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SERVICE AND CHURCH, SO I WANT
TO WELCOME THOSE WHO TUNE IN.
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WE ARE CONTINUING IN OUR
STUDY ON GALATIANS AND TODAY OUR
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LESSON IS #4 - IT IS
JUSTIFICATION BY FAITH ALONE .
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AS PASTOR ROSS WAS SAYING,
A VERY IMPORTANT SUBJECT.
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AND WE HAVE A MEMORY VERSE - THE
MEMORY VERSE IS GALATIANS 2:20.
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NOW, WE DO MEMORY VERSES EVERY
WEEK AND, I THINK, IF WE'D ALL
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BE HONEST, WE'D ADMIT WE DIDN'T
REMEMBER THE MEMORY VERSE.
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BUT THIS IS ONE
YOU OUGHT TO REMEMBER.
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SOME OF YOU PROBABLY ALREADY
HAVE REMEMBERED THIS, BUT WHY
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DON'T YOU SAY IT
OUT LOUD WITH ME?
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IN YOUR LESSON - IT'S FROM THE
ENGLISH STANDARD VERSION, WHICH
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IS - IT'S VERY SIMILAR
TO THE AUTHORIZED VERSIONS.
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ARE YOU READY?
GALATIANS 2:20, "I HAVE BEEN
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CRUCIFIED WITH CHRIST; IT IS NOT
LONGER I WHO LIVE, BUT CHRIST
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WHO LIVES IN ME; AND THE LIFE
WHICH I NOW LIVE IN THE FLESH I
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LIVE BY FAITH IN THE SON OF GOD,
WHO LOVED ME AND GAVE HIMSELF
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FOR ME." THAT'S
A WONDERFUL VERSE.
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IT'S TELLING US, NOW, THAT WE
LIVE A NEW LIFE THROUGH CHRIST.
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SO, OUR MISSION TODAY, IF YOU
SHOULD CHOOSE TO ACCEPT IT, IS
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WE ARE GOING TO BE COVERING
GALATIANS CHAPTER 2, VERSES 15
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THROUGH THE END OF THAT CHAPTER
- GALATIANS 2, VERSES 15-21.
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AND SO, WHAT I'D LIKE TO DO,
JUST TO MAKE SURE WE AT LEAST
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GET OUR ASSIGNMENT DONE, I'M
JUST GOING TO READ THESE VERSES.
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IT'S NOT THAT MANY VERSES - IT'S
ALWAYS GOOD TO GET SOMETHING IN
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CONTEXT, RIGHT? SO
GALATIANS 2:15-21, "WE WHO
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ARE JEWS BY NATURE, AND NOT
SINNERS OF THE GENTILES," - I'LL
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EXPLAIN WHAT THAT MEANS IN A
MINUTE - "KNOWING THAT A MAN IS
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NOT JUSTIFIED BY THE WORKS
OF THE LAW BUT BY FAITH IN JESUS
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CHRIST, EVEN WE HAVE BELIEVED IN
CHRIST JESUS, THAT WE MIGHT BE
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JUSTIFIED BY FAITH IN CHRIST AND
NOT BY THE WORKS OF THE LAW; FOR
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BY THE WORKS OF THE LAW
NO FLESH SHALL BE JUSTIFIED.
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"BUT IF, WHILE WE SEEK TO
BE JUSTIFIED BY CHRIST, WE
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OURSELVES ALSO ARE FOUND
SINNERS, IS CHRIST THEREFORE A
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MINISTER OF SIN? CERTAINLY NOT!
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FOR IF I BUILD AGAIN THOSE
THINGS WHICH I DESTROYED, I MAKE
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MYSELF A TRANSGRESSOR.
FOR I THROUGH THE LAW DIED TO
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THE LAW THAT I
MIGHT LIVE TO GOD.
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I HAVE BEEN CRUCIFIED WITH
CHRIST; IT IS NO LONGER I WHO
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LIVE, BUT CHRIST LIVES IN ME;
AND THE LIFE WHICH I NOW LIVE IN
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THE FLESH I LIVE BY FAITH IN
THE SON OF GOD, WHO LOVED ME AND
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GAVE HIMSELF FOR ME. I DO
NOT SET ASIDE THE GRACE OF
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GOD; FOR IF RIGHTEOUSNESS
COMES THROUGH THE LAW, THEN
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CHRIST DIED IN VAIN."
OKAY, SO NOW, NO MATTER HOW FAR
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ALONG IN THE LESSON WE GET,
WE AT LEAST READ THE ASSIGNMENT.
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SO LET'S BEGIN STUDYING THIS
- AND I WANT TO BACK UP AGAIN TO
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VERSE 15, WHICH SAYS SOMETHING
THAT PEOPLE THINK MIGHT SOUND A
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LITTLE BIT STRONG, "WE WHO ARE
JEWS BY NATURE, AND NOT SINNERS
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OF THE GENTILES," - THEY'RE
CALLING ALL OF THE GENTILES
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SINNERS - WHAT
DOES HE MEAN BY THAT?
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THE GREEK WORD THERE, FOR
THE 'SINNERS', IS HAMARTOLOS -
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HAMARTOLOS - AND IT SIMPLY MEANS
'A HEATHEN' - MERELY ONE WHO HAS
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NO KNOWLEDGE OF THE TRUE GOD.
SO, IF SOMEBODY CALLED YOU A
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SINNER, YOU WOULDN'T TAKE
THAT VERY NICELY, BUT WHAT HE'S
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REALLY SAYING HERE IS THE
PEOPLE WHO DO NOT KNOW GOD.
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THE JEWS, THEY BELIEVE, WERE
CALLED AND CHOSEN BY GOD, HAD A
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RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD, HAD BEEN
GIVEN THE ORACLES OF GOD, AND
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SO, WHAT PAUL IS SAYING IS,
WHEN WE WHO ARE JEWS BY NATURE -
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WE'RE BORN AND RAISED WITH THE
RELIGION AND THE CULTURE OF THE
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JEWS AND NOT OF THE
HEATHEN - THE GENTILES.
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NOW, FIRST THING YOU
NEED TO ASK ABOUT THIS VERSE:
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WHO IS PAUL SPEAKING
TO IN GALATIANS 2:15?
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READ BACK IN GALATIANS 2:14 -
MOST PEOPLE DON'T CATCH THIS -
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GALATIANS 2:14, "BUT
WHEN I SAW THAT THEY WERE NOT
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STRAIGHTFORWARD ABOUT THE TRUTH
OF THE GOSPEL, I SAID TO PETER
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BEFORE THEM ALL," - SO WHO
IS HE TALKING TO IN CHAPTER 14?
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- "I SAID TO PETER" - SO HE'S
TELLING THE GALATIANS ABOUT A
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CONVERSATION HE HAD IN THE
PRESENCE OF OTHERS WITH WHO?
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WITH PETER, BECAUSE HE THOUGHT
PETER WAS ACTING THE HYPOCRITE.
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VERSE 15 IS A
CONTINUATION OF THAT STATEMENT.
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THERE'S NO PAUSE IN THE THOUGHT.
SO WHAT YOU'RE READING HERE
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IN VERSE 15, CHAPTER 2 OF
GALATIANS, IS PAUL CONTINUING
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TO SAY A QUESTION
THAT HE ASKED PETER.
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HE SAYS, "WE WHO ARE JEWS BY
NATURE, AND NOT SINNERS OF THE
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GENTILES," - AND HE GOES ON TO
SAY, "KNOWING THAT A MAN IS NOT
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JUSTIFIED BY THE WORKS OF
THE LAW BUT BY FAITH IN JESUS
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CHRIST, EVEN WE HAVE BELIEVED IN
CHRIST JESUS, THAT WE MIGHT BE
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JUSTIFIED BY FAITH IN CHRIST
AND NOT BY THE WORKS OF THE LAW;
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FOR BY THE WORKS OF THE LAW
NO FLESH SHALL BE JUSTIFIED."
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SO, AT LEAST THROUGH THE END
OF VERSE 16, HE'S EXPLAINING A
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CONVERSATION HE HAD - A
CHALLENGE HE GAVE TO PETER -
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ABOUT 'WHY ARE YOU PRETENDING
THAT YOU'RE JUSTIFIED BY FAITH
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AND NOT BY THE WORKS OF THE
LAW UNTIL THE VISITORS CAME FROM
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JERUSALEM AND FROM JAMES, ALL OF
A SUDDEN YOU START TO ACT LIKE A
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JEW AGAIN AND ACT LIKE
WE'RE JUSTIFIED BY THE LAW.
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AND SO, HE'S CONFRONTING PETER
PUBLICLY WITH THE STATEMENT.
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SO WHAT YOU'RE READING HERE IN
THESE VERSES - AT LEAST VERSES
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14 THROUGH 16, IS WHAT
PAUL SAID TO PETER, OKAY?
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PAUL USES THE WORD 'JUSTIFIED'
IN CHAPTER 2, VERSES 16 AND 17
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FOUR TIMES. NOW
HERE'S ONE OF THE MOST
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IMPORTANT QUESTIONS WE CAN
ASK IN THIS STUDY: WHAT DOES
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THE WORD 'JUSTIFY'
OR 'JUSTIFICATION' MEAN?
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I THINK THE WORD 'JUSTIFY' OR
'JUSTIFICATION' IS FOUND ABOUT
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53 TIMES IN THE
BIBLE; WHAT DOES IT MEAN?
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I MEAN THE WHOLE REFORMATION
PIVOTED ON AN UNDERSTANDING OF
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THAT WORD - 'THE JUST SHALL
LIVE BY FAITH' - JUSTIFICATION.
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I HEARD ONE EVANGELIST
PUT IT THIS WAY: WHEN YOU SAY
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'JUSTIFICATION' IT MEANS THAT
WHEN YOU COME TO CHRIST, AND BY
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FAITH IN CHRIST, YOU ACCEPT
THE FORGIVENESS THAT HE OFFERS
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BECAUSE HE DIED AND
SUFFERED IN YOUR PLACE.
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HE LOOKS UPON YOU JUST
AS IF YOU HAD NEVER SINNED.
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AND SO, IT'S
'JUST-AS-IF - ICATION'.
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GET IT? IF YOU THINK OF IT
THAT WAY AND IT KIND OF MAKES IT
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EASIER TO REMEMBER WHAT IT
MEANS. IT'S - THE LORD LOOKS AT
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YOU, WHEN YOU HAVE ACCEPTED
CHRIST, JUST AS IF YOU HAD NEVER
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SINNED AND SO IT'S
CALLED 'JUST-AS-IF - ICATION'.
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BUT, OF COURSE, THAT'S
REALLY NOT WHAT THE WORDS MEAN.
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IT MEANS 'TO JUSTIFY' - AND A
DEFINITION OF JUSTIFY WOULD MEAN
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'THE ACTION OF SHOWING SOMETHING
TO BE RIGHT OR REASONABLE' - YOU
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EVER TRY TO JUSTIFY YOURSELF?
YOU'RE DEFENDING YOUR ACTIONS.
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BUT THAT'S NOT WHAT - THE
DEFINITION WE'RE TALKING ABOUT.
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IT'S MORE THE SECOND DEFINITION:
'THE ACTION OF DECLARING OR
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MAKING RIGHTEOUS IN THE SIGHT OF
GOD'. WHEN SOMEONE IS DECLARED
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OR MADE RIGHTEOUS IN THE SIGHT
OF GOD, THEY ARE JUSTIFIED BY
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GOD. THAT IS JUSTIFICATION.
NOW, WHAT ARE SOME
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EXAMPLES OF JUSTIFICATION?
IT USES ONE FROM ABRAHAM WE'LL
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GET TO IN JUST A MINUTE,
BUT - THE THIEF ON THE CROSS.
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WE ALL KNOW THAT JESUS WAS
CRUCIFIED BETWEEN TWO THIEVES -
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ONE ON THE RIGHT, ONE ON
THE LEFT, JESUS IN THE MIDDLE.
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IT'S INTERESTING - THOSE
TWO THIEVES REPRESENT ALL OF
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HUMANITY - ONE SAVED, ONE LOST.
THEY BOTH WANTED TO BE SAVED.
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ONE CALLED OUT FOR HELP
AND HE CALLED JESUS LORD AND HE
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REPENTED OF HIS SINS. HE
SAYS, 'WE ARE GETTING WHAT WE
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DESERVE', HE CONFESSED JESUS,
HE ASKED, AND HE BELIEVED.
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HE WILL BE SAVED. THE
OTHER ONE WANTED TO BE
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SAVED, BUT HE SAID, 'IF
YOU ARE THE SON OF GOD'.
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DOES 'IF' DENOTE FAITH
OR DOES 'IF' DENOTE DOUBT?
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HE WILL NOT BE SAVED.
THOSE TWO MEN, WHO WERE HOPELESS
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TO SAVE THEMSELVES,
REPRESENT ALL OF HUMANITY.
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WE ARE ALL
HELPLESS TO SAVE OURSELVES.
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THOSE TWO MEN WHO WERE GUILTY
AND DYING, REPRESENT ALL OF
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HUMANITY. WE ARE ALL GUILTY AND
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UNDER A DEATH SENTENCE.
ONE WAS SAVED - WAS HE SAVED
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BECAUSE OF WORKS
HE DID WITH HIS HANDS?
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WHAT WAS THE CONDITION OF HIS
HANDS WHEN HE CALLED FOR HELP?
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THEY WERE NAILED. HE
COULD NOT SAVE HIMSELF.
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AND SO HE CALLED OUT TO JESUS
SAYING, 'LORD, REMEMBER ME WHEN
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YOU COME INTO YOUR KINGDOM.'
THAT MEANS HE CALLED LORD -
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JESUS HIS LORD AND
HE CALLED HIM HIS KING.
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JESUS TURNED TO HIM AND
EVERYONE, OF COURSE, MIXES THIS
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UP IN THE SEQUENCE OF THINGS.
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THEY SAY THAT JESUS SAID TO
HIM, 'VERILY I SAY TO YOU, TODAY
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YOU'LL BE WITH ME IN
PARADISE.' HE DIDN'T SAY THAT.
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HE SAID, 'VERILY I SAY TO
YOU TODAY,' - COMMA - 'YOU'LL BE
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WITH ME IN PARADISE.' HE IS
SIMPLY EMPHASIZING, 'I'M MAKING
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A STATEMENT TODAY, WHEN I DON'T
LOOK LIKE A KING AND A LORD,
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THAT I AM PROMISING YOU
PARADISE' AND PEOPLE HAVE PUT
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THE COMMA IN THE WRONG PLACE,
BUT THE SCRIPTURES HAD IT RIGHT.
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WAS HE SAVED? WILL THAT MAN
- THAT THIEF - BE RESURRECTED?
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>>YES. >>WHICH RESURRECTION?
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>>FIRST. >>FIRST RESURRECTION.
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SO HE'S GOING TO BE SAVED
BECAUSE OF ALL THE GOOD WORKS HE
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DID. >>NO.
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>>WILL HE BE
DECLARED JUST BY GOD?
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DID JESUS DECLARE HIM JUST?
HE SAID, 'YOU'LL BE WITH ME IN
00:19:19.39\00:19:22.06
MY KINGDOM' - AND ONLY THOSE
WHO ARE JUSTIFIED WILL BE SAVED.
00:19:22.09\00:19:27.10
SO HOW DOES HE GET JUSTIFIED?
HE LOOKED TO CHRIST IN
00:19:27.13\00:19:34.84
FAITH AND ASKED FOR
MERCY. THAT MAN, HE DID NOT DO
00:19:34.87\00:19:43.21
ANY WORKS OF THE LAW. NOW,
WHEN SOMEONE SAID, 'HOW CAN
00:19:43.24\00:19:48.05
WE DO THE WORKS OF
GOD, HOW DID JESUS RESPOND?
00:19:48.08\00:19:51.89
'THIS IS THE WORK OF GOD, THAT
YOU BELIEVE ON THE ONE WHOM HE
00:19:51.92\00:19:54.32
HAS SENT.' SO IS THERE A WORK
FOR EVERYBODY TO DO TO BE SAVED?
00:19:54.36\00:19:58.13
>>YES. >>AT LEAST THE WORK
00:19:58.16\00:20:00.46
OF BELIEVING, RIGHT?
BUT NOW, HYPOTHETICALLY,
00:20:00.50\00:20:05.73
THAT THIEF WILL BE SAVED.
HE WAS JUSTIFIED BY FAITH.
00:20:05.77\00:20:09.04
HE WAS NOT JUSTIFIED BY
ANYTHING GOOD HE HAD DONE.
00:20:09.07\00:20:11.84
IF BY SOME QUIRK OF PROVIDENCE,
AFTER THAT MAN ACCEPTED JESUS
00:20:11.87\00:20:17.08
AND HE FELT PEACE SWEEP
OVER HIS SOUL - EVEN THOUGH HE'S
00:20:17.11\00:20:19.48
SUFFERING PHYSICALLY AND HE'S
DYING - IF ALL OF A SUDDEN A
00:20:19.51\00:20:24.12
LETTER HAD COME FROM PILATE THAT
SAID, 'YOU KNOW, YOU'VE BEEN
00:20:24.15\00:20:26.12
REPRIEVED. YOU'RE BEING
FORGIVEN. YOU'RE BEING PARDONED.
00:20:26.15\00:20:31.13
WE KNOW THAT YOU'RE CRUCIFIED,
BUT WE'RE GOING TO GET A
00:20:31.16\00:20:32.96
CROWBAR, WE'RE GOING TO TAKE THE
NAILS OUT, WE'RE GOING TO BRING
00:20:32.99\00:20:34.93
YOU DOWN, WRAP UP YOUR HANDS,
AND SET YOU FREE.' SO, SUPPOSING
00:20:34.93\00:20:39.63
HE COULD SURVIVE AND RECOVER
FROM HIS WOUNDS, HE'S NOW BEEN
00:20:39.67\00:20:43.10
JUSTIFIED BY FAITH. WOULD HE
LIVE A DIFFERENT KIND OF LIFE?
00:20:43.14\00:20:48.48
>>HOPEFULLY. >>WE
HOPE SO. YOU WOULD HOPE
00:20:48.51\00:20:52.98
THAT HE WOULD BE SO GRATEFUL
THAT HE HAS BEEN SAVED, BOTH BY
00:20:53.01\00:20:57.19
CHRIST AND PILATE PARDONING HIM,
THAT HE WOULD NOT GO BACK AND
00:20:57.22\00:21:01.16
CONTINUE STEALING. SO
NOW, IF HE WALKS IN A NEW
00:21:01.19\00:21:06.23
WAY OF LIFE, THAT IS
CALLED SANCTIFICATION.
00:21:06.26\00:21:09.93
SANCTIFICATION THAT IS THE
APPROVED KIND OF SANCTIFICATION,
00:21:09.96\00:21:14.54
COMES AFTER REAL JUSTIFICATION.
WHEN YOU HAVE BEEN DECLARED
00:21:14.57\00:21:19.34
JUST, YOU LOVE THE LORD SO MUCH
FOR FORGIVING YOU, YOU WANT TO
00:21:19.37\00:21:22.78
LIVE A DIFFERENT KIND OF
LIFE. WE LOVE HIM BECAUSE HE
00:21:22.81\00:21:25.75
FIRST LOVED US, RIGHT?
AND SO, BECAUSE WE'VE BEEN
00:21:25.78\00:21:28.92
JUSTIFIED BY FAITH, WE
NOW WANT TO LIVE HOLY LIVES.
00:21:28.95\00:21:33.86
THAT'S SANCTIFICATION.
AND THEN, WHEN THE LORD COMES,
00:21:33.89\00:21:36.32
BECAUSE WE HAVE JUSTIFICATION BY
FAITH AND WE LIVE THE HOLY LIFE,
00:21:36.36\00:21:41.73
WE THEN EXPERIENCE GLORIFICATION
AND GET THE NEW BODIES.
00:21:41.76\00:21:45.30
THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, WHEN
THEY WERE SAVED FROM EGYPT, WERE
00:21:45.33\00:21:48.37
THEY SAVED BECAUSE OF THEIR GOOD
WORKS OR WERE THEY SAVED BECAUSE
00:21:48.40\00:21:54.21
THEY FOLLOWED THE LORD - BECAUSE
OF HIS MERCY - BECAUSE OF THE
00:21:54.24\00:21:57.25
LAMB? RIGHT? BUT
THEN, AFTER THEY WERE SAVED
00:21:57.28\00:22:01.58
FROM THEIR SLAVERY, DID THEY
MAKE IT TO THE PROMISED LAND
00:22:01.62\00:22:05.19
IF THEY REFUSED TO OBEY? NO.
00:22:05.22\00:22:09.12
SO EVEN THOUGH WE ARE SAVED
OR JUSTIFIED BY FAITH, IF WE
00:22:09.16\00:22:13.26
CONTINUE TO WILLFULLY LIVE IN
SIN, DO WE EXPERIENCE SALVATION?
00:22:13.29\00:22:19.63
THAT'S WHY - YOU KEEP READING IN
GALATIANS - PAUL SAID, "BUT IF,
00:22:19.67\00:22:25.64
WHILE WE SEEK TO BE JUSTIFIED
BY CHRIST, WE OURSELVES ALSO ARE
00:22:25.67\00:22:28.54
FOUND SINNERS, IS CHRIST
THEREFORE A MINISTER OF SIN?"
00:22:28.58\00:22:31.95
- GOD FORBID! - "CERTAINLY NOT!"
00:22:31.98\00:22:33.95
- DON'T THINK THAT! NOW
I'M GETTING AHEAD OF MYSELF.
00:22:33.98\00:22:36.32
ALRIGHT, NEXT
SECTION: WORKS OF THE LAW .
00:22:36.35\00:22:39.65
PAUL SAYS, THREE TIMES, IN
GALATIANS 2:16 THAT A PERSON IS
00:22:39.69\00:22:43.16
NOT JUSTIFIED BY
THE WORKS OF THE LAW.
00:22:43.19\00:22:46.73
WHAT DOES HE MEAN BY THE
EXPRESSION 'WORKS OF THE LAW'?
00:22:46.76\00:22:51.00
ARE WE JUSTIFIED BY OBEDIENCE
OR DO WE OBEY BECAUSE WE'RE
00:22:51.03\00:22:55.34
JUSTIFIED? DO WE DO
GOOD WORKS TO BE SAVED
00:22:55.37\00:22:58.67
OR DO WE DO THE GOOD
WORKS BECAUSE WE ARE SAVED?
00:22:58.71\00:23:03.98
DOES A TREE PRODUCE GOOD FRUIT
BECAUSE YOU PUT A LABEL ON THE
00:23:04.01\00:23:10.45
TREE THAT SAYS THIS IS A GOOD
FRUIT TREE, OR DOES IT PRODUCE
00:23:10.49\00:23:15.52
GOOD FRUIT BECAUSE
IT IS A GOOD FRUIT TREE?
00:23:15.56\00:23:18.83
AND THIS IS WHAT JESUS
SAYS, 'YOU'LL KNOW THEM BY THEIR
00:23:18.86\00:23:20.10
FRUITS'. THE ESSENCE OF THE TREE
00:23:20.13\00:23:21.80
CREATES A DIFFERENT FRUIT.
WHEN YOU ARE BORN AGAIN, YOU
00:23:21.83\00:23:26.00
WILL HAVE BORN-AGAIN
FRUIT. DOES THAT MAKE SENSE?
00:23:26.03\00:23:30.17
AND SO, THE WORKS OF THE
LAW - WHY IS THE LAW THERE?
00:23:30.21\00:23:33.31
IS THE LAW THERE TO
CHANGE THE NATURE OF WHO WE ARE?
00:23:33.34\00:23:37.25
OR IS THE LAW SIMPLY THERE AS A
MIRROR AND A STANDARD TO SHOW US
00:23:37.28\00:23:40.65
WHAT IS RIGHT AND WRONG?
SO THREE TIMES HE SAYS, 'BY
00:23:40.68\00:23:43.72
THE WORKS OF THE
LAW NO ONE IS JUSTIFIED.
00:23:43.75\00:23:45.82
NOW, WHEN I READ THAT - AND LET
ME - BY THE WAY, I'LL READ VERSE
00:23:45.85\00:23:48.72
16 TO YOU AGAIN - AND THIS IS
GALATIANS 2:16, "KNOWING THAT A
00:23:48.76\00:23:53.46
MAN IS NOT JUSTIFIED BY THE
WORKS OF THE LAW, BUT BY FAITH
00:23:53.50\00:23:57.07
IN JESUS CHRIST, EVEN WE HAVE
BELIEVED IN CHRIST JESUS, THAT
00:23:57.10\00:24:00.70
WE MIGHT BE JUSTIFIED BY FAITH
IN CHRIST AND NOT BY THE WORKS
00:24:00.74\00:24:03.81
OF THE LAW; FOR BY THE WORKS
OF THE LAW NO FLESH SHALL BE
00:24:03.84\00:24:07.04
JUSTIFIED." WHAT LAW IS HE
TALKING ABOUT? REALLY ALL OF IT.
00:24:07.08\00:24:14.22
IS ANYONE JUSTIFIED BY THE
CEREMONIAL WORKS OF THE LAW?
00:24:14.25\00:24:17.99
IS ANYONE JUSTIFIED BY CIVIL
WORKS OF THE LAW - THERE'S CIVIL
00:24:18.02\00:24:21.56
LAW - IS ANYONE
JUSTIFIED BY THE HEALTH LAWS?
00:24:21.59\00:24:24.99
THERE WAS HEALTH LAW.
THOSE THINGS ALL MAY BE
00:24:25.03\00:24:27.03
GOOD, BUT THAT'S NOT
WHERE JUSTIFICATION - WE'RE NOT
00:24:27.03\00:24:31.20
JUSTIFIED BECAUSE WE
DON'T LIE AND WE DON'T STEAL.
00:24:31.23\00:24:36.27
WE'RE NOT
JUSTIFIED BY SABBATH KEEPING.
00:24:36.30\00:24:38.61
THE PEOPLE WHO CRUCIFIED JESUS
RAN HOME TO KEEP THE SABBATH.
00:24:38.64\00:24:42.38
THAT DIDN'T JUSTIFY THEM.
SO WE'RE JUSTIFIED BY FAITH.
00:24:42.41\00:24:47.78
AND THEN, IF WE HAVE GENUINE
FAITH, YOU'LL SEE A CHANGE.
00:24:47.82\00:24:50.05
NOW, WHEN I READ THIS -
WELL, WAIT, I'M GETTING AHEAD OF
00:24:50.09\00:24:55.02
MYSELF - SOMEONE'S GOING TO
READ, FOR ME, ROMANS 2, VERSE -
00:24:55.06\00:24:57.99
I'M SORRY, ROMANS 3:28.
HAFDIS, YOU'LL HAVE THAT?
00:24:58.03\00:25:01.00
ALRIGHT, YOU'RE UP
TO BAT RIGHT AFTER ME.
00:25:01.03\00:25:03.06
I'M GOING TO READ ROMANS
2:15, "(...WHO SHOW THE WORK
00:25:03.10\00:25:07.30
OF THE LAW WRITTEN IN THEIR
HEARTS. THEIR CONSCIENCE ALSO
00:25:07.34\00:25:11.04
BEARING WITNESS, AND BETWEEN
THEMSELVES THEIR THOUGHTS
00:25:11.07\00:25:14.34
ACCUSING OR ELSE EXCUSING
THEM)" - AND HE'S TALKING ABOUT
00:25:14.38\00:25:17.91
THE PAGANS WHO CAN EVEN SHOW THE
WORKS OF THE LAW ARE WRITTEN IN
00:25:17.95\00:25:21.68
THEIR HEART OR THEIR CONSCIENCE.
ALRIGHT, GO AHEAD, READ,
00:25:21.72\00:25:25.79
FOR US, ROMANS 3:28.
>>"THEREFORE WE CONCLUDE THAT A
00:25:25.82\00:25:30.26
MAN IS JUSTIFIED BY FAITH APART
FROM THE DEEDS OF THE LAW."
00:25:30.29\00:25:35.60
>>NOTICE HOW HE WORDS IT HERE:
HE'S JUSTIFIED BY FAITH APART
00:25:35.63\00:25:38.33
FROM OR SEPARATED FROM THE WORKS
OF THE LAW - IT'S TWO SEPARATE
00:25:38.37\00:25:40.80
THINGS - A PERSON WHO IS A
LAW-KEEPING PERSON - WHO - WHAT
00:25:40.84\00:25:45.94
KIND OF NEIGHBOR DO
YOU WANT? >>A LAW KEEPING.
00:25:45.97\00:25:49.21
>>I MEAN, DON'T - ISN'T THAT A
GOOD THING TO HAVE A LAW-KEEPING
00:25:49.24\00:25:52.71
PERSON? SO THAT'S A GOOD THING.
THAT'S NOT WHERE WE GET OUR
00:25:52.75\00:25:56.72
JUSTIFICATION BEFORE GOD BECAUSE
ACCORDING - IF YOU'RE GOING TO
00:25:56.75\00:25:59.15
GO BY THE LAW, ALL YOU'VE GOT
TO DO IS BREAK IT ONCE AND THE
00:25:59.19\00:26:02.89
PENALTY FOR SIN
IS WHAT? >>DEATH.
00:26:02.92\00:26:05.93
>>SO WE'VE GOT TO LOOK
FOR SOMETHING BEYOND THE LAW.
00:26:05.96\00:26:07.66
EVEN IF YOU SIN ONE TIME AND YOU
BECOME A GOOD LAW-KEEPING PERSON
00:26:07.73\00:26:11.33
- YOU KNOW, I CAN'T REMEMBER THE
PARTICULARS, BUT I REMEMBER JUST
00:26:11.37\00:26:14.60
READING THAT THEY ARRESTED A
MAN WHO WAS GUILTY OF A PRISON
00:26:14.64\00:26:24.35
ESCAPE AND, AFTER ESCAPING FROM
PRISON, HE LIVED THIRTY YEARS AS
00:26:24.38\00:26:28.85
A GOOD LAW-ABIDING CITIZEN.
BUT, YOU KNOW WHAT THEY DID?
00:26:28.88\00:26:33.89
THEY PUT HIM BACK IN PRISON.
NOW THEY REDUCED HIS SENTENCE
00:26:33.92\00:26:38.23
BECAUSE THEY SAID THOSE THIRTY
YEARS HE WAS FREE, HE WAS A
00:26:38.26\00:26:41.13
MODEL CITIZEN, BUT HE DID ESCAPE
FROM PRISON, AND YOU CAN'T
00:26:41.16\00:26:46.94
ENCOURAGE PRISONERS TO SAY,
'LOOK, IF YOU CAN GET OUT AND
00:26:46.97\00:26:49.64
STAY GOOD FOR THIRTY
YEARS, WE'LL LET YOU GO.
00:26:49.67\00:26:52.57
YOU SEE, WHAT KIND OF MESSAGE
DOES THAT SEND TO THE PRISONER?
00:26:52.61\00:26:55.14
IF I CAN JUST GET OUT AND KIND
OF HIDE IN SOCIETY THEN, YOU
00:26:55.18\00:26:59.91
KNOW, STATUTES OF
LIMITATIONS IS UP.
00:26:59.95\00:27:02.35
SOME OF YOU REMEMBER THERE
WAS A - ANOTHER GAL WHO, UP IN
00:27:02.38\00:27:06.19
WASHINGTON, SHE WAS IN THE
60S PROTEST AND CONNECTED WITH A
00:27:06.22\00:27:10.63
BOMB THREAT OR SOMETHING AND SHE
ESCAPED AND LIVED LIKE 35, 40
00:27:10.66\00:27:15.63
YEARS AND WAS A REALTOR AND
VERY WELL KNOWN AND LOVED IN HER
00:27:15.66\00:27:18.97
COMMUNITY AND ALL OF HER FRIENDS
LOVED HER AND THEY FOUND OUT
00:27:19.00\00:27:22.44
THAT SHE HAD A DIFFERENT NAME
AND SHE HAD A CRIMINAL RECORD
00:27:22.47\00:27:25.01
AND SHE HAD BEEN PART OF SOME
KIND OF HIPPIE TERRORIST GROUP
00:27:25.04\00:27:27.44
AND - AND THEY
COULDN'T BELIEVE IT.
00:27:27.48\00:27:30.88
THEY GAVE HER, LIKE, SIX
MONTHS AND THEN THEY LET HER OUT
00:27:30.91\00:27:34.02
BECAUSE THEY REALIZED SHE WAS
NO THREAT - BUT SHE HAD TO PAY
00:27:34.05\00:27:36.02
SOMETHING, YOU KNOW, BECAUSE YOU
CAN'T ENCOURAGE PEOPLE TO JUST
00:27:36.05\00:27:39.82
BREAK OUT. SO
ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS
00:27:39.85\00:27:42.36
BREAK THE LAW ONE
TIME AND YOU'RE GUILTY.
00:27:42.39\00:27:46.26
SO IT'S ONLY GOING TO BE BY
GRACE THAT ANYBODY IS SAVED.
00:27:46.29\00:27:49.56
SO, NOW WE GO INTO THE SECTION
THE BASIS - THE TRUE BASIS FOR
00:27:49.60\00:27:54.04
OUR JUSTIFICATION - TRUSTING
- IS IT TRUSTING IN OUR GOOD
00:27:54.07\00:27:58.11
WORKS? CAN YOU THINK OF ANY
STORIES IN THE BIBLE OF BIBLE
00:27:58.14\00:28:02.31
HEROES OR CHARACTERS THAT
SOMEHOW THOUGHT THEIR GOOD WORKS
00:28:02.34\00:28:04.98
WERE GOING TO GIVE THEM CREDIT?
A COUPLE CAME TO MIND - I
00:28:05.01\00:28:09.45
THOUGHT YOU MIGHT THINK
OF SOME I HADN'T THOUGHT OF.
00:28:09.48\00:28:10.89
I THOUGHT OF A COUPLE
BUT I THINK THERE'S OTHERS.
00:28:10.92\00:28:13.15
HOW MANY OF YOU REMEMBER
WHEN ISAIAH THE PROPHET CAME TO
00:28:13.19\00:28:15.82
HEZEKIAH AND HE SAID, 'YOU
BETTER GET YOUR WILL IN ORDER -
00:28:15.86\00:28:20.46
SET YOUR HOUSE IN ORDER -
BECAUSE THIS SICKNESS YOU'VE
00:28:20.50\00:28:22.60
GOT, YOU'RE NOT GOING TO RECOVER
BUT YOU'RE GOING TO DIE'?
00:28:22.63\00:28:26.80
AND IT TELLS US THEN - THIS
IS 2 KINGS 20, VERSE 2, "THEN HE
00:28:26.84\00:28:31.01
TURNED HIS FACE TOWARD THE WALL,
AND PRAYED TO THE LORD, SAYING,
00:28:31.04\00:28:33.81
'REMEMBER NOW, O LORD, I PRAY,
HOW I HAVE WALKED BEFORE YOU IN
00:28:33.84\00:28:39.95
TRUTH AND WITH A LOYAL HEART,
AND HAVE DONE WHAT WAS GOOD IN
00:28:39.98\00:28:43.12
YOUR SIGHT.' AND
HEZEKIAH WEPT BITTERLY."
00:28:43.15\00:28:45.32
WHAT IS HEZEKIAH PLEADING
FOR THAT GOD MIGHT ANSWER HIS
00:28:45.35\00:28:49.72
PRAYER? IS HE
PLEADING FOR THE MERCY OF
00:28:49.76\00:28:51.36
GOD OR IS HE
PLEADING HIS GOOD WORKS?
00:28:51.39\00:28:53.83
>>HIS GOOD WORKS.
>>HE'S SAYING - YEAH - HE'S
00:28:53.86\00:28:56.13
SAYING, 'LORD,
I'VE BEEN A GOOD KING.
00:28:56.16\00:28:58.83
I'VE LED THE
PEOPLE TO SERVE YOU.
00:28:58.87\00:29:00.34
I'VE HAD - THERE'S SO MANY KINGS
THAT DIDN'T DO THAT, BUT I'VE
00:29:00.37\00:29:02.37
BEEN DOING IT AND HERE YOU'RE
TAKING ME OUT EARLY.' AND, BY
00:29:02.40\00:29:07.48
THE WAY, WE'RE ALL TERMINAL,
BUT HE GAVE HIM ANOTHER FIFTEEN
00:29:07.51\00:29:10.78
YEARS AFTER THIS.
HE PRAYED AND GOD SAID,
00:29:10.81\00:29:13.31
'OKAY.' GOD HEARD HIS PRAYER.
BUT IT WAS INTERESTING, GOD
00:29:13.35\00:29:15.88
ANSWERED HIS PRAYER, BUT
HE'S SAYING, 'I'VE BEEN GOOD.'
00:29:15.92\00:29:18.99
NEHEMIAH DID IT
TWO OR THREE TIMES.
00:29:19.02\00:29:22.09
NEHEMIAH 13:14, "REMEMBER ME, O
MY GOD, CONCERNING THIS, AND DO
00:29:22.12\00:29:26.73
NOT WIPE OUT MY GOOD DEEDS THAT
I HAVE DONE FOR THE HOUSE OF MY
00:29:26.76\00:29:30.70
GOD," - LOOK LORD, I'VE DONE
THESE GOOD THINGS FOR YOU - "AND
00:29:30.73\00:29:33.87
FOR ITS SERVICES!" THEN
YOU GO TO CHAPTER 13, VERSE
00:29:33.90\00:29:37.17
22, "...REMEMBER ME, O MY GOD,
CONCERNING THIS ALSO, AND SPARE
00:29:37.21\00:29:40.71
ME ACCORDING TO THE
GREATNESS OF YOUR MERCY!"
00:29:40.74\00:29:43.75
WELL, THERE,
HE'S ASKING FOR MERCY.
00:29:43.78\00:29:45.38
THE FORMER ONE HE'S
PLEADING HIS GOOD DEEDS.
00:29:45.41\00:29:47.25
SO, I GUESS, ONE
CANCELS OUT THE OTHER.
00:29:47.28\00:29:50.49
CAN YOU THINK OF ANY STORIES IN
THE BIBLE WHERE SOMETIMES THEY
00:29:50.52\00:29:52.82
SORT OF WERE
LOOKING TO THEIR GOOD WORKS?
00:29:52.85\00:29:56.42
THERE'S A FEW DIFFERENT CASES
WHERE - I KNOW, MY MIND HAS JUST
00:29:56.46\00:30:01.03
JUMPED OUT AT ME A FEW TIMES
WHEN I COULD SEE THAT THEY WERE
00:30:01.06\00:30:03.30
PLEADING. WHEN
THE BIBLE TALKS ABOUT
00:30:03.33\00:30:06.20
ZECHARIAH AND ELIZABETH
- IT INTRODUCES THE PARENTS
00:30:06.23\00:30:10.01
OF JOHN THE BAPTIST.
HOW DOES IT IDENTIFY THEM?
00:30:10.04\00:30:14.61
'THEY WERE RIGHTEOUS, WALKING
IN ALL THE COMMANDMENTS OF THE
00:30:14.64\00:30:17.48
LORD.' THE QUESTION IS WERE THEY
DECLARED RIGHTEOUS BECAUSE THEY
00:30:17.51\00:30:22.02
WALKED IN ALL THE COMMANDMENTS
OR WERE THEY DECLARED RIGHTEOUS
00:30:22.05\00:30:27.09
- OR WERE THEY RIGHTEOUS - WAIT,
IT'S NOT - I'M SAYING THIS WRONG
00:30:27.12\00:30:31.99
- OR WERE THEY WALKING IN ALL
THE COMMANDMENTS BECAUSE THEY
00:30:32.03\00:30:33.80
WERE RIGHTEOUS?
THAT'S WHAT I WANTED TO SAY.
00:30:33.83\00:30:36.56
AND - BUT, YOU
KNOW, THEY WERE OBEDIENT.
00:30:36.60\00:30:38.87
THAT DOESN'T MEAN
THEY WERE SINLESS.
00:30:38.90\00:30:41.07
JOB WAS A PERFECT AND UPRIGHT
MAN - WELL, THAT DOESN'T MEAN HE
00:30:41.10\00:30:43.71
WAS SINLESS, BUT HERE
WAS SOMEONE WHO OBEYED GOD.
00:30:43.74\00:30:46.34
YOU NOTICE THAT JOB PLEADS
HIS GOOD WORKS, DOESN'T HE?
00:30:46.37\00:30:50.08
A COUPLE OF TIMES. HE
SAYS, 'YEAH, I FED THE POOR.
00:30:50.11\00:30:52.18
I CARED FOR THE WIDOW' - HE
SAID, 'THERE WAS NO ONE HUNGRY
00:30:52.21\00:30:54.25
AROUND ME' - AND SO, HE
KIND OF SAYS, 'LORD, WHY IS THIS
00:30:54.28\00:30:57.65
HAPPENING? I DID
ALL THESE RIGHT THINGS.
00:30:57.69\00:31:00.69
THE MESSAGE OF JOB IS BAD THINGS
HAPPEN TO GOOD PEOPLE AND GOOD
00:31:00.72\00:31:03.69
THINGS HAPPEN TO BAD
PEOPLE. ALRIGHT, SO WE DON'T
00:31:03.73\00:31:06.49
TRUST IN OUR WORKS.
PHILIPPIANS 3:9, "AND BE FOUND
00:31:06.53\00:31:10.87
IN HIM, NOT HAVING MY OWN
RIGHTEOUSNESS, WHICH IS FROM THE
00:31:10.90\00:31:15.14
LAW, BUT THAT WHICH IS
THROUGH FAITH IN CHRIST, THE
00:31:15.17\00:31:19.07
RIGHTEOUSNESS WHICH IS FROM GOD
BY FAITH;" - SO IN THE JUDGMENT
00:31:19.11\00:31:22.98
DAY, SUPPOSE THAT YOU
WERE A GOOD, MODEL CITIZEN.
00:31:23.01\00:31:26.45
I'VE ACTUALLY MET PEOPLE BEFORE
AND I TALK TO THEM ABOUT THEIR
00:31:26.48\00:31:30.65
SALVATION AND I SAID, YOU KNOW,
'HAVE YOU CONFESSED AND REPENTED
00:31:30.69\00:31:34.96
OF YOUR SINS?' AND THEY KIND OF
LOOKED AT ME SURPRISED AND SAID,
00:31:34.99\00:31:38.33
'I'VE GONE TO CHURCH ALL
MY LIFE. I DON'T REALLY HAVE
00:31:38.36\00:31:42.30
ANYTHING TO REPENT OF.' I'M
THINKING, 'ARE YOU SERIOUS?'
00:31:42.33\00:31:47.60
REALLY, I'VE HAD A COUPLE OF
CONVERSATIONS LIKE THAT WHERE
00:31:47.64\00:31:49.34
SOMEBODY COULDN'T THINK
OF ANYTHING THEY EVER SINNED.
00:31:49.37\00:31:52.77
THEY SAID - AND I THOUGHT, 'THEY
MUST NOT UNDERSTAND WHAT SIN IS
00:31:52.81\00:31:58.71
BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, SIN IS - IT'S
PRIDE ALSO - IT'S SELFISHNESS.
00:31:58.75\00:32:03.89
IT'S ALL KINDS OF THINGS THAT
COVER - MOST OF US FALL IN THOSE
00:32:03.92\00:32:06.99
CATEGORIES. BUT,
YOU KNOW, WE CAN'T BE
00:32:07.02\00:32:12.53
PLEADING OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.
WOULD YOU WANT TO GO AND STAND
00:32:12.56\00:32:15.26
BEFORE THE LORD IN THE JUDGMENT
AND SAY, 'LOOK, I HAVE BEEN
00:32:15.30\00:32:17.33
99.9% - MY RIGHTEOUSNESS
IS GOOD.' OR WOULD YOU RATHER
00:32:17.37\00:32:22.10
HAVE JESUS' RIGHTEOUSNESS?
SO THAT'S WHAT HE'S SAYING HERE.
00:32:22.14\00:32:26.34
SOMEONE'S GOING TO READ, FOR ME,
ROMANS 3:27 IN JUST A MOMENT,
00:32:26.37\00:32:30.01
OKAY? LET ME READ
THAT VERSE AGAIN -
00:32:30.05\00:32:32.18
PHILIPPIANS 3:9, "AND BE
FOUND IN HIM, NOT HAVING MY OWN
00:32:32.21\00:32:36.38
RIGHTEOUSNESS, WHICH IS
FROM THE LAW, BUT THAT WHICH IS
00:32:36.42\00:32:40.16
THROUGH FAITH IN CHRIST,
THE RIGHTEOUSNESS WHICH IS FROM
00:32:40.19\00:32:43.39
GOD BY FAITH;" - WHICH IS
THE SUPERIOR RIGHTEOUSNESS?
00:32:43.43\00:32:47.76
WHICH IS A HIGHER
QUALITY RIGHTEOUSNESS?
00:32:47.76\00:32:50.27
OBVIOUSLY THE
RIGHTEOUSNESS OF CHRIST.
00:32:50.30\00:32:53.40
GO AHEAD, READ
THAT VERSE FOR US.
00:32:53.44\00:32:56.44
>>ROMANS 3:27,
"WHERE IS BOASTING THEN?
00:32:56.47\00:33:00.68
IT IS EXCLUDED. BY WHAT LAW?
00:33:00.71\00:33:05.08
OF WORKS? NO, BUT
BY THE LAW OF FAITH."
00:33:05.11\00:33:10.92
>>WHEN WE HUMBLY ACCEPT THE
RIGHTEOUSNESS OF CHRIST - THAT
00:33:10.95\00:33:15.12
HE'S GIVEN - THAT HE'S PROVIDED
BY OFFERING HIS LIFE AND HIS
00:33:15.16\00:33:19.66
SUFFERINGS AND HIS BLOOD, THEN
HOW CAN WE BOAST ABOUT BEING
00:33:19.69\00:33:23.26
RIGHTEOUS? SO IF
ANYBODY IS RIGHTEOUS - IF
00:33:23.30\00:33:27.54
THEY'RE TRULY RIGHTEOUS,
WHERE DOES IT COME FROM?
00:33:27.57\00:33:29.94
FROM CHRIST. SO, IF
ANYONE IS RIGHTEOUS, DOES
00:33:29.97\00:33:33.54
ANYONE HAVE A RIGHT
TO BOAST ABOUT THAT?
00:33:33.58\00:33:35.58
IF YOU'RE BOASTING ABOUT
YOUR OWN RIGHTEOUSNESS, YOU'RE
00:33:35.61\00:33:38.35
PROBABLY NOT SAVED.
IS THAT SAFE TO SAY?
00:33:38.38\00:33:43.18
FIRST OF ALL, BECAUSE YOU'RE
BOASTING, SECOND OF ALL YOU'RE
00:33:43.22\00:33:45.19
BOASTING ABOUT A
FLAWED RIGHTEOUSNESS.
00:33:45.22\00:33:48.59
AND SO, IF ANY OF US REALLY ARE
RIGHTEOUS, WE HAVE NOTHING TO
00:33:48.62\00:33:51.56
BOAST ABOUT BECAUSE IT WAS GIVEN
TO US AS A GIFT - YOU CAN'T
00:33:51.59\00:33:54.86
REALLY BRAG ABOUT THAT.
ROMANS 1:17, "FOR IN IT THE
00:33:54.93\00:33:59.53
RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD IS REVEALED
FROM FAITH TO FAITH; AS IT IS
00:33:59.57\00:34:03.71
WRITTEN, 'THE JUST
SHALL LIVE BY FAITH.'"
00:34:03.74\00:34:06.54
BY THE WAY, THAT'S THE
WONDERFUL STATEMENT MADE IN
00:34:06.57\00:34:08.98
CONNECTION WITH ABRAHAM.
HAVE YOU NOTICED THAT, AS WE'RE
00:34:09.01\00:34:11.88
TRYING TO DECIPHER GALATIANS
- GALATIANS IS A DEEP BOOK.
00:34:11.91\00:34:15.65
GALATIANS IS A BOOK THAT IS
OFTEN MISUNDERSTOOD, NEXT TO
00:34:15.68\00:34:21.79
ROMANS AND ROMANS IS A
GOOD WAY TO DECIPHER GALATIANS.
00:34:21.82\00:34:27.36
SO YOU NOTICE WE'RE GOING BACK
AND FORTH AND FINDING THE KEYS
00:34:27.40\00:34:29.63
TO UNLOCK GALATIANS IN ROMANS.
00:34:29.66\00:34:32.47
HERE'S A STATEMENT I WANT TO
READ TO YOU FROM ELLEN WHITE.
00:34:32.50\00:34:36.14
IT'S FROM THE BOOK FAITH AND
WORKS - P. 18 AND 19, "THERE IS
00:34:36.17\00:34:39.91
NOT A POINT THAT NEEDS TO
BE DWELT UPON MORE EARNESTLY,
00:34:39.94\00:34:44.28
REPEATEDLY, MORE FREQUENTLY, OR
ESTABLISHED MORE FIRMLY IN THE
00:34:44.31\00:34:48.85
MINDS OF ALL THAN" - OKAY, I'M
GOING TO JUST DO THE DRUM ROLL -
00:34:48.88\00:34:55.12
I'M GOING TO TELL YOU, AGAIN,
WHAT I'M ABOUT TO SAY. LOOK AT
00:34:55.16\00:34:58.23
THE EMPHASIS SHE PLACES -
"THERE IS NOT A POINT THAT NEEDS
00:34:58.26\00:35:02.06
TO BE DWELT UPON MORE EARNESTLY,
REPEATED MORE FREQUENTLY, NOR
00:35:02.10\00:35:07.37
ESTABLISHED MORE FIRMLY IN
THE MINDS OF ALL" - EVERYBODY -
00:35:07.40\00:35:11.67
"THAN" - HERE IT COMES -
"THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF FALLEN MAN
00:35:11.71\00:35:16.78
MERITING ANYTHING BY HIS OWN
BEST GOOD WORKS. SALVATION IS
00:35:16.81\00:35:22.18
THROUGH FAITH IN JESUS CHRIST
ALONE. THAT'S REALLY IMPORTANT
00:35:22.22\00:35:26.92
BECAUSE I'VE HEARD PEOPLE USE
HER WRITINGS TO TRY TO SAY THE
00:35:26.96\00:35:29.82
OPPOSITE - AND SHE
DIDN'T BELIEVE THAT.
00:35:29.86\00:35:32.96
SHE BELIEVED WE ARE JUSTIFIED
BY FAITH ALONE, WHICH IS, OF
00:35:32.99\00:35:36.56
COURSE, THE TITLE OF OUR LESSON.
ROMANS 5 - I'M SORRY - ROMANS
00:35:36.60\00:35:40.60
4:5-8 - THIS ALSO BEARS OUT
OUR POINT HERE IN THIS SECTION.
00:35:40.64\00:35:47.48
"BUT TO HIM WHO DOES NOT
WORK BUT BELIEVES ON HIM WHO
00:35:47.51\00:35:50.48
JUSTIFIES THE UNGODLY, HIS FAITH
IS ACCOUNTED FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS,
00:35:50.51\00:35:55.28
JUST AS DAVID ALSO DESCRIBES THE
BLESSEDNESS OF THE MAN TO WHOM
00:35:55.32\00:35:59.22
GOD IMPUTES RIGHTEOUSNESS APART
FROM WORKS: 'BLESSED ARE THOSE
00:35:59.25\00:36:03.43
WHOSE LAWLESS DEEDS ARE
FORGIVEN, AND WHOSE SINS ARE
00:36:03.46\00:36:06.86
COVERED; BLESSED IS THE MAN TO
WHOM THE LORD SHALL NOT IMPUTE
00:36:06.90\00:36:10.83
SIN.'" WHO KNOWS,
WHERE IS PAUL QUOTING FROM?
00:36:10.87\00:36:17.71
WHAT PSALM OF
DAVID WAS HE QUOTING?
00:36:17.74\00:36:19.97
PSALM 32 - YEAH -
IT'S NOT PSALM 51.
00:36:20.01\00:36:22.74
PSALM 51 IS ANOTHER ONE
THAT DEALS WITH FORGIVENESS.
00:36:22.78\00:36:26.28
BUT HE'S TALKING ABOUT BLESSED
IS THE MAN WHOSE TRANSGRESSION
00:36:26.31\00:36:29.15
IS FORGIVEN - TO WHOM THE
LORD DOES NOT IMPUTE INIQUITY.
00:36:29.18\00:36:33.09
WHY IS HE NOT DECLARED SINFUL?
BECAUSE GOD HAS FORGIVEN HIM.
00:36:33.12\00:36:37.59
WHAT DID NATHAN THE PROPHET SAY
TO DAVID AFTER DAVID SAID, 'I
00:36:37.63\00:36:41.96
HAVE SINNED'? WE JUST
GOT DONE WITH A 45-WEEK
00:36:42.00\00:36:45.70
SESSION ON DAVID - IT WASN'T
THAT LONG, BUT IT WAS LONG.
00:36:45.73\00:36:49.74
WHAT DID NATHAN SAY?
'YOUR SIN IS PUT AWAY.' WHY?
00:36:49.77\00:36:58.48
WHAT DID DAVID DO TO DESERVE
HAVING THE SIN OF MURDER AND
00:36:58.51\00:37:01.12
ADULTERY PUT AWAY?
HE DIDN'T DESERVE IT,
00:37:01.15\00:37:05.85
HE DESERVED DEATH. HE
REPENTED AND HE CONFESSED.
00:37:05.89\00:37:10.79
AND WHEN HE CRIED, REPENTED AND
CONFESSED, GOD SAID, 'I PUT AWAY
00:37:10.83\00:37:13.29
YOUR SIN. DO YOU
REMEMBER THE STORY IN
00:37:13.33\00:37:15.76
ISAIAH CHAPTER 6, WHERE ISAIAH
SEES THE LORD IN HIS GLORY AND
00:37:15.80\00:37:22.04
THEN HE REALIZES HIS
SINFULNESS AND HE SAYS, 'WOE
00:37:22.07\00:37:24.51
IS ME, I AM UNDONE. I AM
A MAN OF UNCLEAN LIPS AND I
00:37:24.54\00:37:27.34
DWELL IN THE MIDST OF
A PEOPLE OF UNCLEAN LIPS.
00:37:27.38\00:37:29.54
FOR MINE EYES HAVE SEEN THE
KING, THE LORD OF HOSTS.' SOON
00:37:29.58\00:37:32.18
AS HE REPENTS AND
CONFESSES, WHAT HAPPENS?
00:37:32.21\00:37:35.18
GOD SENDS AN ANGEL WITH A
COAL FROM THE ALTAR, TOUCHES HIS
00:37:35.22\00:37:38.29
LIPS, AND SAYS, 'YOUR INIQUITY
IS TAKEN AWAY AND YOUR SIN IS
00:37:38.32\00:37:41.76
PURGED.' WHEN YOUR
SIN IS TAKEN AWAY AND
00:37:41.79\00:37:44.86
YOUR INIQUITY IS
PURGED, YOU ARE JUSTIFIED.
00:37:44.89\00:37:49.30
WHAT LED TO HIS
JUSTIFICATION, GOOD WORKS?
00:37:49.33\00:37:52.53
HE HADN'T DONE
ANYTHING DIFFERENT.
00:37:52.57\00:37:54.40
THE ONLY THING HE DID
WAS REPENT AND CONFESS.
00:37:54.44\00:37:57.47
BUT, EVIDENTLY, HE BELIEVED WHAT
THE LORD SAID, BECAUSE WHEN THE
00:37:57.51\00:38:00.14
LORD SAID, 'WHO SHALL I
SEND?' AND 'WHO WILL GO FOR US?'
00:38:00.18\00:38:02.28
ISAIAH SAID, 'SEND ME.' HE JUST
SAID HE WAS A MAN OF UNCLEAN
00:38:02.31\00:38:04.78
LIPS, WHY WOULD YOU SEND
HIM TO TELL ANYONE ANYTHING?
00:38:04.81\00:38:07.72
BECAUSE HE'D BEEN JUSTIFIED.
HOW LONG DID IT TAKE BETWEEN THE
00:38:07.75\00:38:11.09
TIME HE REPENTED AND
CONFESSED AND JUSTIFICATION?
00:38:11.12\00:38:16.06
IT WAS IMMEDIATE.
THAT'S A WONDERFUL TRUTH.
00:38:16.09\00:38:18.06
YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS?
THAT IF YOU REPENT AND CONFESS
00:38:18.09\00:38:21.83
YOUR SINS NOBODY NEEDS TO
LEAVE HERE TODAY - OR WHEREVER
00:38:21.86\00:38:25.63
YOU HAPPEN TO BE
WATCHING - UNJUSTIFIED.
00:38:25.67\00:38:29.20
THAT IT'S ALWAYS A PRAYER AWAY
THAT GOD DECLARES US JUSTIFIED.
00:38:29.24\00:38:33.91
'BUT, PASTOR DOUG' - DON'T
SAY 'BUT' - THAT MEANS YOU DON'T
00:38:33.94\00:38:38.11
BELIEVE. IF YOU
ACCEPT IT BY FAITH, THAT
00:38:38.15\00:38:43.02
GOD SAID IT, IF WE CONFESS
OUR SINS HE IS FAITHFUL AND JUST
00:38:43.05\00:38:47.72
TO FORGIVE US OUR SINS
AND TO CLEANSE US FROM ALL
00:38:47.76\00:38:49.66
UNRIGHTEOUSNESS.
THAT'S JUSTIFICATION, RIGHT?
00:38:49.69\00:38:53.50
HOW DO WE GET IT?
BECAUSE HE SAID IT AND I
00:38:53.53\00:38:56.20
BELIEVE IT AND THAT SETTLES IT.
THAT'S JUSTIFICATION BY FAITH.
00:38:56.23\00:38:59.73
IT'S NOT THAT HARD
TO UNDERSTAND, RIGHT?
00:38:59.77\00:39:01.90
AND PAUL, THROUGH GALATIANS,
HE'S ALMOST SPENDING MORE TIME
00:39:01.94\00:39:04.74
TRYING TO EXPOSE THE WRONG IDEA
OF JUSTIFICATION THAN THE RIGHT
00:39:04.77\00:39:11.21
CONCEPT OF JUSTIFICATION.
SO IT'S A GIFT THAT
00:39:11.25\00:39:14.48
COMES BY FAITH. NOW, LET ME SEE,
00:39:14.52\00:39:18.49
WHERE DID I LEAVE
OFF? OH YEAH, OKAY.
00:39:18.52\00:39:22.09
SOMEONE'S GOING TO READ, FOR ME,
ROMANS 14:12, IN JUST A MOMENT.
00:39:22.12\00:39:25.66
IS THAT GOING TO BE
YOU, CAROL? WHO HAS THAT ONE?
00:39:25.69\00:39:28.03
DOES SOMEONE HAVE REVELATION
- SORRY - REVELATION 14:12.
00:39:28.06\00:39:32.20
>>REVELATION 14:12, "HERE IS THE
PATIENCE OF THE SAINTS; HERE ARE
00:39:32.23\00:39:38.37
THOSE WHO KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS
OF GOD AND THE FAITH OF JESUS."
00:39:38.41\00:39:43.11
>>YOU NOTICE, IN GALATIANS
2:16, HE SAYS, 'THE FAITH OF THE
00:39:43.14\00:39:50.09
MESSIAH THAT WE
MIGHT BE JUSTIFIED'.
00:39:50.12\00:39:53.46
IT IS NOT THE FAITH IN
JESUS, IT IS THE FAITH OF JESUS.
00:39:53.49\00:39:57.09
JUST LIKE WHAT YOU JUST HEARD
IN - I KEPT SAYING ROMANS -
00:39:57.13\00:40:00.30
REVELATION 14:12, 'KEEP
THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD AND THE
00:40:00.33\00:40:04.97
FAITH OF JESUS. SO
THE FAITH THAT JESUS HAD
00:40:05.00\00:40:09.90
IN THE FATHER, HE
CAME AND DEMONSTRATED FAITH
00:40:09.94\00:40:11.84
FOR US IN HIS LIFE. HE
GIVES US HIS FAITH AND WE ARE
00:40:11.87\00:40:17.28
JUSTIFIED BY
HAVING THE FAITH OF JESUS.
00:40:17.31\00:40:19.95
AND IT'S FAITH
IN HIS WORD AS WELL.
00:40:19.98\00:40:23.69
SO THE GREEK PHRASE THERE
IS LITERALLY TRANSLATED AS 'THE
00:40:23.72\00:40:27.22
FAITH' OR 'THE
FAITHFULNESS OF JESUS'.
00:40:27.26\00:40:31.39
WE'RE NOT JUSTIFIED ON THE BASIS
OF OUR FAITH, BUT ON THE BASIS
00:40:31.43\00:40:34.93
OF CHRIST'S FAITHFULNESS FOR
US, WHICH WE CLAIM FOR OURSELVES
00:40:34.96\00:40:39.63
THROUGH OUR FAITH.
SO, HOPEFULLY, THAT DIDN'T
00:40:39.67\00:40:43.44
GET TOO COMPLICATED.
BUT NOW WE'RE GOING TO DELVE
00:40:43.47\00:40:45.41
INTO THAT NEXT
SECTION - IT TALKS ABOUT -
00:40:45.44\00:40:47.81
OBEDIENCE OF FAITH . NOW
WHEN YOU ARE MADE RIGHTEOUS
00:40:47.84\00:40:50.15
BY FAITH, WHAT
DOES THAT PRODUCE?
00:40:50.18\00:40:53.45
AN OBEDIENCE.
IT ACTS ITSELF OUT.
00:40:53.48\00:40:56.12
THIS IS THE POINT
WHERE MANY CHRISTIANS FAIL.
00:40:56.15\00:40:58.89
A LOT OF EVANGELICAL CHURCHES
MESS UP ON THIS POINT AND IT'S
00:40:58.92\00:41:02.52
VERY DANGEROUS NOT
TO GET THIS STRAIGHT.
00:41:02.56\00:41:04.46
TO UNDERSTAND THIS JUSTIFICATION
BY FAITH, YOU ALMOST HAVE TO GO
00:41:04.49\00:41:07.56
BACK TO THE BEGINNING WHERE
IT'S FIRST USED IN RELATION TO
00:41:07.60\00:41:11.13
ABRAHAM, THE
FATHER OF THE FAITHFUL.
00:41:11.17\00:41:14.34
GENESIS 15:5 AND 6 - GOD BROUGHT
ABRAHAM OUTSIDE, IT WAS AT
00:41:14.37\00:41:19.34
NIGHT, HE SAID 'LOOK UP TOWARDS
THE HEAVEN, COUNT THE STARS.' HE
00:41:19.37\00:41:22.98
LOOKED UP AT THAT CLEAR NIGHT
- THERE WAS NO LIGHT POLLUTION
00:41:23.01\00:41:25.08
BACK THEN - 'IF YOU'RE ABLE TO
NUMBER THEM.' HE SAID, 'SO SHALL
00:41:25.11\00:41:28.98
YOUR DESCENDENTS BE.' - HE'S GOT
NO CHILDREN YET AND GOD SAID,
00:41:29.02\00:41:31.82
'YOUR DESCENDENTS WILL
BE LIKE THE STARS OF HEAVEN.
00:41:31.85\00:41:34.19
HE CHANGED HIS NAME TO ABRAHAM,
WHICH MEANS 'FATHER OF A
00:41:34.22\00:41:37.89
MULTITUDE', BUT
HE HAS NO CHILDREN.
00:41:37.93\00:41:40.66
AND IT SAYS, 'ABRAHAM BELIEVED
THE LORD' - EVEN THOUGH HE'S AN
00:41:40.70\00:41:43.30
OLD MAN NOW - 'HE BELIEVED THE
LORD AND, BECAUSE HE BELIEVED
00:41:43.33\00:41:46.94
THE LORD, HE ACCOUNTED IT TO
HIM FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS.' WHAT IF
00:41:46.97\00:41:51.14
ABRAHAM DIDN'T BELIEVE THE
LORD? WOULD IT HAVE HAPPENED?
00:41:51.17\00:41:57.25
I WONDER HOW MANY MIRACLES WE
HAVE MISSED IN OUR LIFE BECAUSE
00:41:57.28\00:42:01.92
WE DID NOT BELIEVE
THE PROMISES OF GOD.
00:42:01.95\00:42:06.29
WHEN GOD TOLD THE CHILDREN OF
ISRAEL, 'I'M GOING TO TAKE YOU
00:42:06.32\00:42:09.92
OUT OF EGYPT AND LEAD YOU INTO
THE PROMISED LAND, THOSE WHO DID
00:42:09.96\00:42:14.10
NOT BELIEVE DIED
IN THE WILDERNESS.
00:42:14.10\00:42:18.17
THE TEN SPIES WHO SAID, 'WE
CANNOT MAKE IT', THEY DIDN'T
00:42:18.20\00:42:22.10
MAKE IT. THE TWO
SPIES WHO SAID, 'WE CAN.
00:42:22.14\00:42:25.11
WE ARE ABLE.' THEY MADE IT.
00:42:25.14\00:42:27.64
JESUS SAID, 'BE IT UNTO
YOU ACCORDING TO YOUR FAITH.'
00:42:27.68\00:42:31.51
ISN'T THAT WHAT HE SAID?
AND SO, ABRAHAM BELIEVED GOD.
00:42:31.55\00:42:35.38
NOW I THINK THAT GOD,
PROVIDENTIALLY, WOULD HAVE
00:42:35.42\00:42:37.72
BROUGHT HIM AROUND.
ZECHARIAH DIDN'T BELIEVE GOD
00:42:37.75\00:42:40.86
WHEN GOD SAID, 'YOU'RE GOING
TO HAVE A CHILD IN YOUR OLD AGE'
00:42:40.89\00:42:43.19
AND HE WAS STRICKEN
DUMB UNTIL THE BABY WAS BORN.
00:42:43.22\00:42:46.53
BUT HE STILL
HAD THE BABY, RIGHT?
00:42:46.56\00:42:50.67
SO ISAAC MAY HAVE STILL COME -
GOD MIGHT HAVE HAD TO TEACH HIM
00:42:50.70\00:42:52.80
A FEW MORE LESSONS, BUT ABRAHAM
BELIEVED GOD AND HE WAS COUNTED
00:42:52.83\00:42:57.04
RIGHTEOUS BECAUSE OF HIS FAITH.
00:42:57.07\00:42:59.74
WE ARE DECLARED
RIGHTEOUS BECAUSE OF OUR FAITH.
00:42:59.77\00:43:03.11
ANOTHER STORY JESUS POINTS TO,
TO ILLUSTRATE RIGHTEOUSNESS BY
00:43:03.14\00:43:06.41
FAITH: HE TALKS ABOUT, AND THIS
IS BEFORE THAT GREAT VERSE -
00:43:06.45\00:43:09.58
JOHN 3:16 - EVERYBODY KNOWS, BUT
NOT EVERYBODY KNOWS JOHN 3:14
00:43:09.62\00:43:13.12
AND 15 WHERE IT SAYS, "AS MOSES
LIFTED UP THE SERPENT IN THE
00:43:13.15\00:43:17.66
WILDERNESS, EVEN SO MUST THE SON
OF MAN BE LIFTED UP THAT WHOEVER
00:43:17.69\00:43:22.20
BELIEVES IN HIM SHOULD NOT
PERISH BUT HAVE EVERLASTING
00:43:22.23\00:43:26.40
LIFE." YOU REMEMBER THE STORY?
00:43:26.43\00:43:29.87
THAT PEOPLE WERE COMPLAINING
ABOUT THE MANNA - THEY'D BEEN
00:43:29.90\00:43:32.67
EATING MANNA FOR YEARS.
THEY WERE GOING, 'MANNA, MANNA,
00:43:32.71\00:43:35.88
MANNA - WE'RE TIRED OF
MANNA IN THE MORNING, MANNA FOR
00:43:35.91\00:43:38.08
LUNCH' - 'WHAT'S
FOR DINNER?' 'MANNA'.
00:43:38.11\00:43:40.98
AND THEY SAID, 'OH, IF
WE COULD GO BACK TO EGYPT.
00:43:41.02\00:43:43.89
BACK IN EGYPT WE HAD THE ONIONS
AND THE GARLIC AND THE FISH.'
00:43:43.92\00:43:47.06
AND THEY THOUGHT - THEY
COULD ONLY REMEMBER - ISN'T IT
00:43:47.09\00:43:49.46
INTERESTING, NOSTALGIA - YOU
ALWAYS THINK THE GOOD OLD DAYS
00:43:49.49\00:43:52.29
WERE SO GOOD.
SOMETIMES THEY WEREN'T SO GOOD.
00:43:52.33\00:43:54.96
THE MEMORIES - YOU
THINK THEY WERE GOOD.
00:43:55.00\00:43:58.23
AND THEY START TO
COMPLAIN ABOUT THE MANNA.
00:43:58.27\00:44:00.87
SO IT SAYS, 'GOD WITHDREW
HIS PROTECTION AND THERE WAS A
00:44:00.90\00:44:03.67
PLAGUE OF SERPENTS AND THE
PEOPLE WERE BEING BITTEN BY
00:44:03.71\00:44:06.07
THESE DEADLY SERPENTS AND THEY
FOUND SNAKES WERE IN THEIR TENTS
00:44:06.11\00:44:09.04
AND THEIR RUGS AND THEIR BOOTS
AND THEY'D GET BIT AND THEN
00:44:09.08\00:44:14.32
THEY'D GO THROUGH THE
SICKNESS AND EVENTUALLY DIE.
00:44:14.35\00:44:17.59
SO GOD TOLD MOSES - THE PEOPLE
CRIED AND THEY PRAYED AND SAID,
00:44:17.62\00:44:21.02
'WE'VE SINNED.
FORGIVE US.' AND THEY
00:44:21.06\00:44:22.59
REPENTED AND CONFESSED.
GOD SAID, 'OKAY, MOSES IS GOING
00:44:22.62\00:44:25.59
TO PUT A BRONZE
SERPENT ON A POLE.
00:44:25.63\00:44:28.30
HE'LL LIFT IT UP HIGH
WHERE EVERYONE CAN SEE.
00:44:28.33\00:44:30.37
IT'LL BE ON LIKE
A SHEPHERD'S STAFF.'
00:44:30.40\00:44:34.14
AND THEY ALL UNDERSTOOD
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THAT.
00:44:34.17\00:44:36.77
SHEPHERDS WERE FREQUENTLY
KILLING SNAKES THAT WOULD
00:44:36.81\00:44:38.87
THREATEN THE SHEEP.
IF A SHEEP IS BIT BY A
00:44:38.91\00:44:41.34
VENOMOUS SERPENT, IT WILL
DIE. SO THEY WOULD KILL IT.
00:44:41.38\00:44:45.28
AND YOU DON'T PICK UP A VENOMOUS
SNAKE WHEN YOU'VE CLOBBERED IT
00:44:45.31\00:44:47.82
WITH A STICK, YOU HAVE A
SNAKE STICK - YOU PICK IT UP.
00:44:47.85\00:44:50.79
WHEN I LIVED IN THE
CAVE WE KILLED RATTLESNAKES.
00:44:50.82\00:44:52.55
I PICKED IT UP WITH A STICK I
HAD, BECAUSE YOU THINK THEY'RE
00:44:52.59\00:44:56.93
DEAD, YOU GO GRAB 'EM AND
THEY SNAP AROUND - THEY'RE VERY
00:44:56.96\00:44:59.59
TENACIOUS - SO YOU PICK IT UP,
YOU CARRY IT OFF, YOU BURY IT.
00:44:59.63\00:45:03.37
A SNAKE ON A POLE, TO THAT
NATION, REPRESENTED A DEFEATED
00:45:03.40\00:45:06.20
SERPENT. IT WAS NOT
AN UNCOMMON SIGN FOR
00:45:06.23\00:45:09.27
THEM TO SEE A SHEPHERD
CARRYING OFF A SNAKE ON
00:45:09.30\00:45:11.71
THE END OF A STICK. HE DIDN'T
GRAB IT. AND THEN THEY'RE TOLD,
00:45:11.74\00:45:19.61
'LOOK AT THAT DEFEATED SERPENT
ON THE POLE AND YOU WILL BE
00:45:19.65\00:45:24.22
HEALED OF THE
VENOM OF THE SERPENT.'
00:45:24.25\00:45:27.66
NOW, WHAT DOCTOR WOULD EVER
PRESCRIBE THAT, IF YOU GOT BIT
00:45:27.69\00:45:31.49
BY A SNAKE. >>A CRAZY ONE.
00:45:31.53\00:45:33.90
>>SO, OBVIOUSLY,
THIS REQUIRED FAITH.
00:45:33.93\00:45:38.97
AND SO THOSE WHO
LOOKED IN FAITH WERE HEALED.
00:45:39.00\00:45:44.37
THEY WERE HEALED
BASED ON A LOOK OF FAITH.
00:45:44.41\00:45:46.88
THAT'S WHY JESUS SAID, 'IF I AM
LIFTED UP I WILL DRAW ALL MEN.'
00:45:46.91\00:45:50.25
WE LOOK IN FAITH TO
CHRIST AND WE ARE HEALED.
00:45:50.28\00:45:55.58
WE ARE JUSTIFIED
BY THAT LOOK OF FAITH.
00:45:55.62\00:45:57.82
WE LOOK AT CHRIST ON THE CROSS
AND THAT WAS THE - THE LESSON
00:45:57.85\00:46:00.62
HE'S TRYING TO
BRING OUT FOR US THERE.
00:46:00.66\00:46:02.56
ROMANS CHAPTER 4, VERSE 3, "FOR
WHAT DOES THE SCRIPTURE SAY?
00:46:02.59\00:46:08.53
'ABRAHAM BELIEVED GOD, AND
IT WAS ACCOUNTED TO HIM FOR
00:46:08.56\00:46:11.30
RIGHTEOUSNESS.'" SAME THING THAT
YOU'RE FINDING IN GALATIANS.
00:46:11.33\00:46:15.80
JAMES 2:23, "AND THE SCRIPTURE
WAS FULFILLED WHICH SAYS,
00:46:15.84\00:46:19.44
'ABRAHM BELIEVED GOD, AND
IT WAS ACCOUNTED TO HIM FOR
00:46:19.47\00:46:21.98
RIGHTEOUSNESS.' AD HE WAS
CALLED THE FRIEND OF GOD."
00:46:22.01\00:46:25.55
SO FAITH IS OUR RESPONSE TO
BELIEVING IN GOD'S PROMISES.
00:46:25.58\00:46:32.35
SO, WHEN THE BIBLE
TELLS US THAT, WE HAVE FAITH.
00:46:32.39\00:46:35.09
IT USED TO ALWAYS IRRITATE
ME BEFORE I WAS A CHRISTIAN, I'D
00:46:35.12\00:46:37.69
HEAR SOME PASTOR UP FRONT AT
A CHRISTIAN MISSION OR YOU HEAR
00:46:37.73\00:46:41.73
HIM ON TV, THEY'D
SAY, 'JUST BELIEVE'.
00:46:41.76\00:46:44.67
I'D SAY, 'YOU'VE GOT TO BE
CRAZY, 'JUST BELIEVE' - WHAT DO
00:46:44.70\00:46:47.34
YOU MEAN 'JUST BELIEVE'?'
IT'S LIKE YOU GIVE A KID A CAPE
00:46:47.37\00:46:50.11
AND SAY, 'YOU'RE
SUPERMAN, JUMP OFF A ROOF.
00:46:50.14\00:46:52.07
JUST BELIEVE.'
THAT'S NOT VERY SMART.
00:46:52.11\00:46:56.11
AND SO, IF YOU'RE GOING TO JUMP
LIKE THAT, YOU NEED EVIDENCE.
00:46:56.14\00:47:00.35
DOES GOD SUPPLY
EVIDENCE FOR OUR FAITH? HE DOES.
00:47:00.38\00:47:07.16
EVEN DAVID, WHEN HE WENT AGAINST
GOLIATH - AND YOU'VE HEARD ME
00:47:07.19\00:47:10.19
SAY THIS BEFORE - HE SITES
EVIDENCE FIRST, FOR HIS FAITH.
00:47:10.23\00:47:16.20
HE SAID, 'GOD SAVED ME FROM THE
BEAR, HE SAVED ME FROM THE LION
00:47:16.23\00:47:19.80
- I BELIEVE, BASED ON THE
WAY HE DELIVERED ME THEN, HE CAN
00:47:19.83\00:47:22.44
DELIVER ME NOW.' SO WHEN WE SEE
THAT GOD IS FAITHFUL IN KEEPING
00:47:22.47\00:47:27.21
HIS PROMISES, WE HAVE FAITH IN
THE OTHER AREAS OF - WHEN WE SEE
00:47:27.24\00:47:31.98
THAT HE'S FAITHFUL IN THE
PROPHECIES, THAT THEY COME TRUE,
00:47:32.01\00:47:34.68
WE BELIEVE HIS WORD AND
WE HAVE FAITH IN HIS WORD.
00:47:34.72\00:47:37.39
SO HE'S GIVEN US EVIDENCE
ON WHICH TO BASE OUR FAITH.
00:47:37.42\00:47:40.22
THAT'S VERY IMPORTANT. WE
SHOULD HAVE ABSOLUTE FAITH IN
00:47:40.26\00:47:43.26
THE PROMISES OF GOD BASED
ON THE ABUNDANCE OF EVIDENCE.
00:47:43.29\00:47:46.86
LUKE 6:46, JESUS SAID, "BUT WHY
DO YOU CALL ME, 'LORD, LORD,'
00:47:46.90\00:47:50.77
AND NOT DO THE
THINGS WHICH I SAY?"
00:47:50.80\00:47:52.70
SO, WHEN YOU'VE GOT THAT SAVING
FAITH, IS THERE A DIFFERENCE IN
00:47:52.73\00:47:55.94
THE LIFE? WHAT'S THE RESPONSE OF
00:47:55.97\00:48:00.14
BEING SAVED BY FAITH? WE
TRUST GOD AND WE OBEY HIM.
00:48:00.18\00:48:05.51
'WHOSOEVER BELIEVES IN HIM WILL
NOT PERISH BUT HAVE EVERLASTING
00:48:05.55\00:48:09.92
LIFE.' WHAT DOES IT
MEAN TO BELIEVE IN HIM?
00:48:09.95\00:48:13.36
IT MEANS TO BE-LIVE IN HIM.
YOU'VE HEARD ME SAY THAT BEFORE.
00:48:13.39\00:48:17.93
GO WITH ME, IN THE BOOK OF
DANIEL - GO TO DANIEL CHAPTER 6,
00:48:17.96\00:48:21.36
I WANT TO SHOW YOU SOMETHING.
00:48:21.40\00:48:24.17
YOU KNOW THE STORY OF
DANIEL IN THE LION'S DEN?
00:48:24.20\00:48:26.47
DANIEL CHAPTER 6 - AFTER DANIEL
SPENDS THE NIGHT WITH THE LIONS
00:48:26.50\00:48:30.57
AND THE KING COMES AND TAKES
AWAY THE STONE, AND THEY CALL TO
00:48:30.61\00:48:34.11
DANIEL AND DANIEL SAYS, 'GOD
HAS SENT HIS ANGEL AND SHUT THE
00:48:34.14\00:48:37.41
LION'S MOUTH, IT SAYS, "SO
DANIEL WAS TAKEN UP OUT OF THE
00:48:37.45\00:48:41.22
DEN, AND NO INJURY WHATEVER WAS
FOUND ON HIM," - JUST LIKE THERE
00:48:41.25\00:48:46.05
WAS NO SINGED SMOKE ON SHADRACH,
MESHACH, AND ABEDNEGO WHEN THEY
00:48:46.09\00:48:50.09
CAME UP OUT OF THE FURNACE -
"NO INJURY WHATEVER WAS FOUND ON
00:48:50.13\00:48:54.00
HIM," - WHY? - "BECAUSE
HE BELIEVED IN HIS GOD."
00:48:54.00\00:48:58.20
HOW DID DANIEL BELIEVE
IN GOD? WHEN THE KING SAID,
00:48:58.23\00:49:02.00
'CLOSE YOUR WINDOWS.
DON'T PRAY PUBLICLY, PRAY
00:49:02.04\00:49:04.07
TO NO ONE BUT ME' -
DANIEL BELIEVED, 'NO, I'M
00:49:04.11\00:49:07.01
GOING TO PRAY TO GOD. I
BELIEVE GOD IS GOING TO TAKE
00:49:07.04\00:49:08.88
CARE OF ME.' AND GOD TOOK
CARE OF HIM BECAUSE HE BELIEVED.
00:49:08.91\00:49:13.05
DANIEL'S BELIEF
WAS SEEN IN ACTION.
00:49:13.08\00:49:17.92
REAL CHRISTIAN BELIEF
WILL BE SEEN IN ACTION.
00:49:17.95\00:49:22.29
WHEN WE ARE JUSTIFIED BY FAITH,
THEN WE WILL LIVE A SANCTIFIED
00:49:22.32\00:49:26.76
LIFE. OR AT LEAST WE'LL BE
00:49:26.80\00:49:28.26
STRIVING FOR THAT.
DOES THAT MAKE SENSE?
00:49:28.30\00:49:31.00
ALRIGHT, SOMEONE READ FOR ME
GALATIANS 2:17 - ALRIGHT, JOHN,
00:49:31.03\00:49:35.80
JUST BEFORE YOU DO I'M GOING
TO READ A COUPLE OTHER VERSES.
00:49:35.84\00:49:38.94
DOES FAITH PROMOTE
SIN? IF WE HAVE FAITH,
00:49:38.97\00:49:42.48
DOES THAT PROMOTE
SIN? OR IS IT THE OPPOSITE?
00:49:42.51\00:49:44.75
ROMANS 3:31, "DO WE THEN MAKE
VOID THE LAW THROUGH FAITH?"
00:49:44.78\00:49:48.68
- GOD FORBID! - "CERTAINLY NOT!
00:49:48.72\00:49:50.59
ON THE CONTRARY,
WE ESTABLISH THE LAW."
00:49:50.62\00:49:53.62
ALRIGHT, YOU GO
AHEAD AND READ YOUR VERSE.
00:49:53.66\00:49:55.96
>>GALATIANS 2:17, "BUT IF,
WHILE WE SEEK TO BE JUSTIFIED BY
00:49:55.99\00:50:00.33
CHRIST, WE OURSELVES ALSO
ARE FOUND SINNERS, IS CHRIST
00:50:00.36\00:50:04.33
THEREFORE A MINISTER
OF SIN? CERTAINLY NOT!"
00:50:04.37\00:50:07.97
>>ALRIGHT, GALATIANS IS
FREQUENTLY USED AS THE CHAPTER
00:50:08.00\00:50:11.34
IN THE BIBLE WHEN SOME PROFESSED
CHRISTIANS WANT TO GET RID OF
00:50:11.37\00:50:15.68
THE LAW. THEY
SOMEHOW THINK THEY CAN USE
00:50:15.71\00:50:18.31
THE BOOK OF GALATIANS TO SAY
THAT WE CAN LIVE LAWLESS LIVES
00:50:18.35\00:50:21.62
BECAUSE WE ARE
JUSTIFIED BY FAITH.
00:50:21.65\00:50:23.65
PAUL IS SAYING, RIGHT IN THE
MIDDLE OF THE BOOK, 'DON'T THINK
00:50:23.69\00:50:26.86
THAT. I'M NOT
SAYING THAT.' WHAT IS SIN?
00:50:26.89\00:50:31.33
>>TRANSGRESSION OF THE LAW.
>>SIN IS BREAKING THE LAW OF GOD
00:50:31.36\00:50:33.13
- IT'S TRANSGRESSION OF THE LAW.
AND SO, THE IDEA THAT WE ARE TO
00:50:33.16\00:50:38.80
CONTINUE TO SIN BECAUSE WE'RE
NOT UNDER THE LAW BUT UNDER
00:50:38.83\00:50:42.44
GRACE - ROMANS 6:15, "WHAT THEN?
SHALL WE SIN BECAUSE WE ARE
00:50:42.47\00:50:45.64
NOT UNDER LAW BUT UNDER
GRACE?" - SHALL WE BREAK THE LAW
00:50:45.67\00:50:48.28
BECAUSE WE'RE NOT
UNDDER THE LAW? - "GOD FORBID!"
00:50:48.31\00:50:50.45
WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO NOT BE
UNDER THE LAW OR NOT JUSTIFIED
00:50:50.48\00:50:54.68
BY THE WORKS OF LAW?
WELL, FOR ONE THING, NOT BEING
00:50:54.72\00:50:58.15
UNDER THE LAW MEANS YOU'RE NOT
UNDER THE PENALTY OF THE LAW.
00:50:58.19\00:51:01.96
YOU'RE NOT DEPENDENT ON
THE LAW FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS.
00:51:01.99\00:51:05.29
BUT DO WE OBEY THE LAW?
ROMANS 6:1 AND 2, "...SHALL WE
00:51:05.33\00:51:10.57
CONTINUE IN SIN, THAT
GRACE MAY ABOUND? GOD FORBID.
00:51:10.60\00:51:14.40
HOW SHALL WE, THAT ARE DEAD TO
SIN, LIVE ANY LONGER THEREIN?"
00:51:14.44\00:51:18.87
IS THAT CLEAR? >>YES.
00:51:18.91\00:51:21.24
>>AND IN GALATIANS 5:13, "FOR
YOU, BRETHREN, HAVE BEEN CALLED
00:51:21.28\00:51:25.95
TO LIBERTY; ONLY DO NOT USE
LIBERTY AS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR
00:51:25.98\00:51:30.79
THE FLESH," - HE KNEW THAT SOME
WOULD SAY, 'OH WE'VE BEEN SAVED.
00:51:30.82\00:51:34.26
WE WERE UNDER BONDAGE BECAUSE OF
OUR DISOBEDIENCE UNDER THE CURSE
00:51:34.29\00:51:37.83
OF THE LAW, BUT THROUGH
GRACE WE'VE BEEN JUSTIFIED.
00:51:37.86\00:51:40.00
WE'RE SAVED. WE'RE FREE.' AND
PAUL SAYS, 'THAT'S NOT FREE TO
00:51:40.03\00:51:43.13
SIN. DON'T UNDERSTAND IT THAT
WAY.' AND HE'S GUARDING AGAINST
00:51:43.16\00:51:48.54
THAT. YOU'VE BEEN CALLED TO
LIBERTY. DON'T USE LIBERTY AS AN
00:51:48.57\00:51:51.57
OPPORTUNITY. PETER TALKS ABOUT
THE SAME THING - 1 PETER 2:16 -
00:51:51.61\00:51:57.95
WE ARE TO LIVE "AS FREE, YET
NOT USING LIBERTY AS A CLOAK FOR
00:51:57.98\00:52:03.15
VICE, BUT AS
BONDSERVANTS OF GOD."
00:52:03.18\00:52:06.32
HAVE YOU SEEN PEOPLE BEFORE
THAT, YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU TALK TO
00:52:06.35\00:52:08.46
THEM ABOUT, MAYBE, SOME
DISOBEDIENCE IN THEIR LIVES
00:52:08.49\00:52:11.53
THEY'LL SAY, 'OH MAN, DON'T PUT
ME UNDER THE BONDAGE OF THE LAW.
00:52:11.56\00:52:14.30
I'M FREE IN
CHRIST.' THAT'S DIABOLICAL.
00:52:14.36\00:52:18.23
THEY'RE SAYING, 'THEY'RE FREE TO
SIN.' THAT'S NOT WHY JESUS DIED.
00:52:18.27\00:52:21.87
SIN IS WHAT PUT
HIM ON THE CROSS.
00:52:21.90\00:52:23.30
IF YOU REALLY LOVE HIM
YOU WILL TURN FROM SIN.
00:52:23.34\00:52:26.31
YOU'LL HATE
SIN.' SAY AMEN. >>AMEN.
00:52:26.34\00:52:29.38
>>JUDE 4 - JUST ONE CHAPTER -
VERSE 4 - "FOR CERTAIN MEN HAVE
00:52:29.41\00:52:34.78
CREPT IN UNNOTICED, WHO LONG
AGO WERE MARKED OUT FOR THIS
00:52:34.82\00:52:38.05
CONDEMNATION, UNGODLY MEN, WHO
TURN THE GRACE OF OUR GOD INTO
00:52:38.09\00:52:43.56
LEWDNESS AND DENY THE ONLY LORD
GOD AND OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST."
00:52:43.59\00:52:51.57
THEY'RE UNGODLY PEOPLE THAT
CREEP INTO THE CHURCH THAT START
00:52:51.60\00:52:55.87
TO USE GRACE AS AN EXCUSE
FOR UNGODLINESS AND LEWDNESS.
00:52:55.90\00:53:02.44
AND THERE'S A LOT OF VERSES
IN THE BIBLE THAT MAKE IT PRETTY
00:53:02.48\00:53:05.05
CLEAR. AND THEN,
OF COURSE, THE GREAT
00:53:05.08\00:53:06.85
ONE THAT WE STARTED WITH, WE'LL
END WITH, "I HAVE BEEN CRUCIFIED
00:53:06.88\00:53:11.32
WITH CHRIST; IT IS NO LONGER
I WHO LIVE, BUT CHRIST LIVES IN
00:53:11.35\00:53:14.59
ME; AND THE LIFE THAT I NOW LIVE
IN THE FLESH I LIVE BY FAITH IN
00:53:14.62\00:53:18.79
THE SON OF GOD, WHO LOVED
ME AND GAVE HIMSELF FOR ME."
00:53:18.83\00:53:21.30
SO THERE'S NEW
LIFE THAT HE'S LIVING.
00:53:21.33\00:53:23.23
SEE, WHEN YOU'RE DEAD TO
SIN, YOU LIVE A NEW LIFE.
00:53:23.26\00:53:27.44
ROMANS 6:3 - YOU CAN READ ALL
THE WAY THROUGH VERSE 14 - "OR
00:53:27.47\00:53:32.94
DO YOU NOT KNOW THAT AS MANY OF
US AS WERE BAPTIZED IN TO CHRIST
00:53:32.97\00:53:36.31
JESUS WERE
BAPTIZED INTO HIS DEATH?
00:53:36.34\00:53:38.85
THEREFORE WE WERE BURIED WITH
HIM THROUGH BAPTISM INTO DEATH,
00:53:38.88\00:53:42.45
THAT JUST AS CHRIST WAS RAISED
FROM THE DEAD BY THE GLORY OF
00:53:42.48\00:53:44.59
THE FATHER, EVEN SO WE ALSO
SHOULD WALK IN NEWNESS OF LIFE."
00:53:44.62\00:53:48.92
- SO WHEN IT SAYS YOU'RE
CRUCIFIED WITH CHRIST, YOU WALK
00:53:48.96\00:53:51.13
IN A NEWNESS OF LIFE.
OLD THINGS ARE PASSED AWAY.
00:53:51.16\00:53:53.53
NEW CREATURE - "FOR IF WE
HAVE BEEN UNITED TOGETHER IN THE
00:53:53.56\00:53:57.03
LIKENESS OF HIS DEATH, CERTAINLY
WE ALSO SHALL BE IN THE LIKENESS
00:53:57.07\00:53:59.43
OF HIS RESURRECTION, KNOWING
THIS, THAT OUR OLD MAN WAS
00:53:59.47\00:54:02.04
CRUCIFIED WITH HIM, THAT THE
BODY OF SIN MIGHT BE DONE AWAY
00:54:02.07\00:54:06.57
WITH, THAT WE SHOULD NO
LONGER BE SLAVES OF SIN."
00:54:06.61\00:54:10.05
- SO BEING CRUCIFIED WITH
CHRIST, IS IT CLEAR? THAT'S
00:54:10.08\00:54:13.28
SAYING WE DON'T LIVE THOSE LIVES
OF SIN ANYMORE - "FOR HE WHO HAS
00:54:13.31\00:54:17.15
DIED HAS BEEN FREED FROM
SIN." DEAD PEOPLE ARE USUALLY
00:54:17.19\00:54:20.92
PRETTY WELL BEHAVED.
ALRIGHT, WE'RE OUT OF TIME.
00:54:20.96\00:54:24.83
I THINK WE COVERED THE LESSON
BUT, IN CLOSING, I WANT TO
00:54:24.86\00:54:26.70
REMIND OUR VIEWERS
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AND THEY MISS THE ANNOUNCEMENT.
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GOD WILLING, WE'LL STUDY HIS
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WORD TOGETHER
AGAIN NEXT WEEK. (MUSIC)
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>>CAN YOU HEAR ME
NOW? CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW?
00:55:04.80\00:55:07.74
CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW?
ACTUALLY, I KNOW THEY CAN'T HEAR
00:55:07.77\00:55:11.31
ME BECAUSE THERE'S NO
CELL PHONE RECEPTION HERE.
00:55:11.34\00:55:14.08
WE'RE, RIGHT NOW, STANDING IN
WHAT IS KNOWN AS 'A QUIET ZONE'
00:55:14.11\00:55:17.95
AND THERE'S A VERY
GOOD REASON FOR THAT.
00:55:17.98\00:55:20.08
HIDDEN, NESTLED AMONG THE JUNGLE
MOUNTAINS OF PUERTO RICO, IS A
00:55:20.12\00:55:23.69
GIANT SENTINEL, AN
ALUMINUM EAR 1,000 FEET ACROSS.
00:55:23.72\00:55:28.62
LOCATED TEN MILES SOUTH OF THE
COASTAL CITY OF ARECIBO, THIS
00:55:28.66\00:55:32.33
ENORMOUS SPACE-AGE PARABOLIC
DISH IS AIMED AT THE SKY,
00:55:32.36\00:55:36.23
LISTENING. BUILT
IN 1963 BY CORNELL
00:55:36.26\00:55:39.63
UNIVERSITY, THE ARECIBO
OBSERVATORY DISH IS ONE OF THE
00:55:39.67\00:55:43.04
LARGEST CURVED
FOCUSING ANTENNAE ON EARTH.
00:55:43.07\00:55:46.61
THE DISH SURFACE IS MADE
OF NEARLY 40,000 PERFORATED
00:55:46.64\00:55:50.11
ALUMINUM PANELS, EACH MEASURING
ABOUT 3-FEET BY 6-FEET AND
00:55:50.15\00:55:54.12
SUPPORTED BY A
MESH OF STEEL CABLES.
00:55:54.15\00:55:56.52
THE VAST ANTENNAE SURFACE COVERS
18 ACRES, OR ABOUT THE SAME SIZE
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AS 26 FOOTBALL FIELDS.
WHEN THE HUGE TELESCOPE SWITCHES
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TO RADAR MODE, IT BEAMS OUT
A POWERFUL SIGNAL OF 1 MILLION
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WATTS, TOWARDS THE PLANETS,
MOONS, ASTEROIDS, AND COMETS.
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THE FAINT ECHO OF THE SIGNAL
BOUNCING OFF ITS ASTRONOMICAL
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TARGETS IS COLLECTED BY THE
HUGE DISC AND THEN AMPLIFIED,
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ALLOWING SCIENTISTS TO CREATE
SCANNER-LIKE IMAGES AND MAPS OF
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THE OBJECT. BUT
ANOTHER PRIMARY PURPOSE FOR
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THE ARECIBO OBSERVATORY IS SETI.
SETI'S AN ACRONYM FOR SEARCH
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FOR EXTRA TERRESTRIAL
INTELLIGENCE - THEY'RE LISTENING
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FOR MESSAGES FROM
ABOVE. FOR OVER 50 YEARS, RADIO
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ASTRONOMERS HAVE USED THE
WORLD'S LARGEST RADIO TELESCOPE
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TO STUDY THE RADIO SIGNALS
EMANATING FROM THE COSMOS.
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WHILE LISTENING TO THE STRANGE
SONGS BURIED IN THE HEART OF THE
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DISTANT STARS AND QUASARS,
THEY'RE ALSO LISTENING AND
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ANALYZING EVERY SIGNAL
FOR SIGNS OF INTELLIGENT LIFE.
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IT'S REALLY ASTONISHING, WHEN
YOU THINK ABOUT IT, FOR MORE
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THAN 50 YEARS NOW THE ARECIBO
OBSERVATORY HAS BEEN SCANNING
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THE HEAVENS, SPENDING MILLIONS
OF DOLLARS, WONDERING IF THERE'S
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INTELLIGENT LIFE OUT THERE.
YET, IN MORE THAN HALF A CENTURY
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OF LISTENING, SETI HAS NOT
IDENTIFIED A SIGNAL RADIO SIGNAL
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THAT SEEMS TO COME FROM
EXTRA TERRESTRIAL INTELLIGENCE.
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PERHAPS THEY'RE MISSING THE
FOREST BECAUSE THE TREES ARE IN
00:57:15.26\00:57:17.60
THE WAY. SOME
MESSAGES HAVE ACTUALLY
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ALREADY COME FROM SPACE.
YOU KNOW, THE BIBLE TELLS US, IN
00:57:20.20\00:57:23.17
THE BOOK OF ROMANS, 'FAITH COMES
BY HEARING AND HEARING COMES
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BY THE WORD OF GOD.' IT SEEMS,
OFTEN WHEN GOD WANTS TO TALK TO
00:57:26.34\00:57:29.71
US, HE HAS TO TAKE US WHERE
WE CAN ACTUALLY HEAR HIS VOICE.
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WHEN GOD WANTED TO SPEAK TO
ELIJAH, HE ENDED UP DOWN IN THE
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DESERTS OF MOUNT
SINAI. THERE WAS A FIRE, AND
00:57:36.25\00:57:39.09
EARTHQUAKE, AND A WIND, BUT GOD
WAS NOT IN THE EARTHQUAKE OR THE
00:57:39.12\00:57:42.46
FIRE OR THE WIND, BUT GOD SPOKE
THROUGH A STILL SMALL VOICE.
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JESUS WANTS TO TALK TO YOU.
HE HAS A PLAN FOR YOUR LIFE, BUT
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YOU NEED TO HAVE A QUIET
PLACE WHERE YOU CAN HEAR HIM.
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(PHONE RINGING) OH,
IT'S FOR YOU. (MUSIC)
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