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>>GOOD MORNING, EVERYONE.
WELCOME, AGAIN, TO SABBATH
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SCHOOL STUDY HOUR HERE AT
THE GRANITE BAY SEVENTH-DAY
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ADVENTIST CHURCH. I'D
LIKE TO WELCOME THOSE WHO
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ARE JOINING US ACROSS THE
COUNTRY AND AROUND THE WORLD.
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I KNOW WE HAVE ONLINE CHURCH
MEMBERS THAT TUNE IN EVERY WEEK
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TO STUDY WITH US, AS WELL
AS MANY OTHER FRIENDS THAT
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PARTICIPATE IN OUR
BIBLE STUDY TOGETHER.
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I'D ALSO LIKE TO WELCOME THE
MEMBERS AND THE VISITORS RIGHT
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HERE AT THE GRANITE BAY CHURCH
- ALWAYS GOOD TO SEE YOU HERE,
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WEEK AFTER WEEK, COMING TO
STUDY THE WORD OF GOD TOGETHER.
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NOW, OVER THE PAST FEW WEEKS,
WE HAVE BEEN STUDYING OUR LESSON
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QUARTERLY, DEALING WITH THE BOOK
OF ROMANS - ACTUALLY, THE LESSON
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QUARTERLY IS ENTITLED SALVATION
BY FAITH ALONE: THE BOOK OF
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ROMANS . TODAY
WE FIND OURSELVES ON
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LESSON #5 IN THIS STUDY AND
THAT IS ENTITLED THE FAITH OF
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ABRAHAM - A GREAT CHAMPION OF
THE OLD TESTAMENT - AN EXAMPLE
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OF FAITH - AND THAT'S GOING TO
BE OUR STUDY FOR THIS MORNING.
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NOW, FOR THOSE OF YOU JOINING US
ONLINE, IF YOU DON'T HAVE A COPY
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OF THE STUDY THAT WE'RE GOING TO
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DOWNLOAD ONE AT THE
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JUST AMAZINGFACTS.ORG . AS
I MENTIONED, WE'RE STUDYING
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LESSON #5 ENTITLED
THE FAITH OF ABRAHAM .
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FAITH AND THIS IS
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SPECIFICALLY, IS AVAILABLE
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NOW, USUALLY, FOR OUR SABBATH
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SCHOOL STUDY HOUR, WE LIKE TO
BEGIN BY LIFTING OUR VOICES IN
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SONG, BUT WE'VE GOT A SPECIAL
TREAT TODAY. INSTEAD OF HAVING
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OUR REGULAR CONGREGATIONAL
SINGING, WE HAVE KIRSTEN CLARK.
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SHE IS FROM THE SEATTLE AREA
- SEATTLE, WASHINGTON - SHE IS A
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STUDENT HERE AT
THE AFCOE PROGRAM.
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AFCOE IS THE AMAZING FACTS
CENTER OF EVANGELISM, IT IS A
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FOUR-MONTH TRAINING PROGRAM
AND SHE IS GOING TO BE PLAYING A
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SPECIAL MUSICAL ITEM FOR
US ON THE PIANO THIS MORNING.
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FOLLOWING THAT, WE'LL HAVE OUR
OPENING PRAYER FOR OUR STUDY AND
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THEN WE'LL HAVE OUR LESSON.
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(PIANO MUSIC)
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>>AMEN. THANK YOU,
KIRSTEN - APPRECIATE THAT.
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I'D LIKE TO INVITE YOU TO
BOW YOUR HEADS AS WE OPEN WITH A
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WORD OF PRAYER. DEAR
FATHER IN HEAVEN, WHAT A
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PRIVILEGE TO BE ABLE TO GATHER
IN YOUR HOUSE ON THIS, YOUR DAY,
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THE SABBATH, AND OPEN UP YOUR
WORD AND STUDY A GREAT BIBLE
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CHARACTER - ONE THAT IS SET
FORTH AS AN EXAMPLE OF FAITH.
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I PRAY THAT YOU'D BLESS OUR
TIME AS WE LOOK AT THE STORY OF
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ABRAHAM. WE PRAY,
LORD, THAT WE MIGHT
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LEARN THOSE VERY IMPORTANT
LESSONS THAT YOU WOULD HAVE US
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UNDERSTAND, ESPECIALLY IN THE
CONTEXT OF THE MESSAGE OF THE
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BOOK OF ROMANS AND THE GOSPEL,
SO BLESS OUR TIME THIS MORNING,
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FOR WE ASK THIS
IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN.
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OUR LESSON TODAY IS GOING TO
BE BROUGHT TO US BY PASTOR DOUG.
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>>THANK YOU, PASTOR ROSS,
AND THANK YOU FOR THAT BEAUTIFUL
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MUSIC. I
APPRECIATE THAT VERY MUCH.
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MORNING. >>MORNING.
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>>HOW IS
EVERYBODY? GOOD TO SEE YOU.
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I WANT TO WELCOME THOSE WHO ARE
WATCHING, AGAIN, OUR EXTENDED
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CLASS AND SOME WHO ARE ACTUALLY
MEMBERS OF THE GRANITE BAY
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COMMUNITY FROM AROUND THE WORLD.
WE'RE CONTINUING OUR STUDY ON
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ROMANS AND TODAY WE'RE ON LESSON
#5. JUST TO GIVE YOU A LITTLE
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BACKGROUND, BEFORE WE GET INTO
IT, WE ALWAYS HAVE PEOPLE WHO
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ARE TUNING IN FOR THE FIRST TIME
OR MAYBE ARE HERE VISITING FOR
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THE FIRST TIME. WHAT'S
GOING ON IN THE BOOK OF
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ROMANS? THE JEWS
WHO HEARD PETER PREACH
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AT PENTECOST FROM ROME - IT
MENTIONS THEM IN ACTS CHAPTER
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2 - THEY ACCEPTED, THEY WERE
BAPTIZED, THEY WENT BACK TO ROME
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AND BEGAN TO SHARE THEIR FAITH.
THE CHURCH BEGAN TO GROW IN ROME
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BEFORE PETER OR PAUL OR
THE APOSTLES WERE EVEN THERE.
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WELL, EVENTUALLY, BY THE TIME
THAT PETER PREACHES TO CORNELIUS
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AND THEY REALIZE THAT GOD
IS NOW TAKING THE GOSPEL TO THE
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GENTILES - BECAUSE, AT FIRST,
THE JEWS IN ROME PREACHED TO
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OTHER JEWS - THERE WERE JEWISH
COMMUNITIES ALL OVER THE WORLD
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AND THEY HAD SYNAGOGUES IN ROME
WAY BACK IN THE TIME OF JESUS.
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AND WHEN THEY REALIZED THAT
GOD HAD GIVEN A MESSAGE THAT THE
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GOSPEL SHOULD ALSO GO TO
THE GENTILES THAT WERE IN ROME,
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WELL, THE JEWS IN ROME STARTED
SAYING, 'OKAY, YOU CAN ACCEPT
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CHRIST, AND DON'T FORGET,
YOU NEED TO KEEP THE CEREMONIAL
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FEAST DAYS, YOU NEED TO
BE CIRCUMCISED, YOU NEED TO
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PRACTICE A LOT OF THE CEREMONIAL
LAWS AND EVEN SOME OF THE
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MAN-MADE LAWS.' AND YOU'LL SEE,
THIS IS A BIG BATTLE THROUGHOUT
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THE NEW TESTAMENT
- NOT JUST IN ROME.
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PAUL, BEFORE HE EVER GETS THERE,
HE SAYS, 'LOOK, LET ME EXPLAIN
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HOW THE GOSPEL WORKS: JEW OR
GENTILE, YOU ARE NOT SAVED BY
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KEEPING ANY LAW.' AND SO, IN THE
BOOK OF ROMANS, PAUL LAYS OUT
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ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL
EXAMPLES OF WHAT IS THE GOSPEL,
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AND HE CONTINUES TO GO BACK AND
FORTH BETWEEN THE JEW AND THE
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GENTILE THROUGH THE WHOLE BOOK,
PRESENTING ARGUMENTS THAT PAUL
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COULD UNDERSTAND BECAUSE PAUL
CAME FROM, OF COURSE, A JEWISH
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BACKGROUND, BUT HE WAS BORN
AND RAISED IN A GENTILE CITY.
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HE SPOKE HEBREW, HE SPOKE
GREEK. THE BIBLE SAYS PAUL SAYS,
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'I SPEAK WITH TONGUES
MORE THAN ANY OF YOU.'
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HE SPOKE WITH MANY
DIFFERENT LANGUAGES.
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AND SO, HE UNDERSTOOD
HOW HE COULD RELATE TO BOTH.
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AND SO, HE DOES A MASTERFUL
PRESENTATION OF WHAT THE GOSPEL
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IS, THAT HAS, YOU KNOW,
BECOME THE FOUNDATION FOR THE
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REFORMATION. NOW, IT
IS NO ACCIDENT - I WAS
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BACK AT THE GENERAL
CONFERENCE LAST WEEK.
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SOME OF YOU WERE TUNING IN FOR
SOME OF THE PROCEEDINGS THERE.
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ONE OF THE THINGS THEY SHARED IS
THE PLAN FOR THE SABBATH SCHOOL
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LESSON. YOU NOTICE, THE LAST TWO
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QUARTERS WE'VE BEEN DEALING WITH
GALATIANS AND WITH ROMANS, AND
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THERE'S SOME
OVERLAP IN OUR LESSON TODAY.
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THAT'S NOT BY ACCIDENT, IT'S
BECAUSE WE ARE NOW ON THE CUSP
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OF THE FIVE HUNDRED-YEAR
ANNIVERSARY FOR THE REFORMATION
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- A GREAT REFORM MOVEMENT WITHIN
CHRISTIANITY THAT, WELL, MARTIN
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LUTHER SORT OF GETS THE CREDIT
FOR WHEN HE NAILED HIS THESES TO
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THE DOORS OF THE CHURCH IN
WITTENBERG, BUT THE REFORMATION
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GOES BACK TO WYCLIFF,
HUSS - THEY PREDATED LUTHER.
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THEY WERE CALLING FOR REFORM
THAT CHRISTIANS GET BACK TO THE
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SCRIPTURES. IN
ALMOST EVERY CASE, YOU KNOW
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WHAT THEIR PRINCIPLE MANUSCRIPT
WAS FOR THE REFORMATION? ROMANS.
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AND SO, IT'S REALLY
IMPORTANT FOR US, AS PROTESTANT
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CHRISTIANS, TO UNDERSTAND WHAT
PAUL IS SAYING IN ROMANS AND
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UNDERSTAND THE DISTINCTION
BETWEEN FAITH AND WORKS.
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THIS IS ONE OF THE MORE COMMON
MISUNDERSTANDINGS WE RUN INTO.
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SO, OUR LESSON TODAY
IS THE FAITH OF ABRAHAM .
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PAUL DECIDES TO USE
ABRAHAM AS A GREAT EXAMPLE -
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WHAT WAS ABRAHAM'S
RELIGION BEFORE HE BECAME A JEW?
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IT'S A TRICK QUESTION.
WERE THERE JEWS BEFORE ABRAHAM?
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WAS ABRAHAM A JEW?
NO, ABRAHAM WAS A HEBREW.
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JEWS - THAT'S A WORD
THAT HAS, SORT OF, BECOME AN
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ALL-ENCOMPASSING WORD FOR MODERN
HEBREWS, BUT THE WORD 'JEW'
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REALLY IS A DERIVATIVE OF THE
TRIBE OF JUDAH - THOSE WHO CAME
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BACK FROM THE BABYLONIAN
CAPTIVITY, FROM THE SOUTHERN
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KINGDOM, WERE PRINCIPALLY FROM
THE TRIBE OF JUDAH AND IT SORT
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OF BECAME THE WORD 'JEW'.
BUT THE WORD 'ABRAHAM' - OR THE
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WORD 'HEBREW', I SHOULD SAY,
IT'S - BELIEVES IT GOES BACK TO
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THE PERSON NAMED EBER WHO
WAS ONE OF THE DESCENDENTS OF
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ABRAHAM, BUT THEY WERE A PEOPLE
WHO - IT MEANS 'TO CROSS OVER'.
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WHEN ABRAHAM WAS CALLED OUT OF
THE LAND OF THE CHALDEES - UR -
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HE CROSSED OVER THE EUPHRATES,
WHICH WAS A MAJOR BOUNDARY BACK
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THEN - AND SO, THESE WERE
THE PEOPLE THAT WERE CALLED THE
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HEBREWS - THEY'RE THE
ONES WHO CROSSED OVER.
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JOSEPH IS REFERRED TO AS A
HEBREW WHEN HE WAS IN EGYPT -
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SOME OF THE PEOPLE
WHO HAD CROSSED OVER.
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AND SO, ABRAHAM IS CONSIDERED
THE FATHER OF THE HEBREWS AND
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THE JEWISH NATION, BUT
HE'S REALLY THE FATHER OF THE
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ISRAELITES AND
THE PROMISED SEED.
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SO WE'LL SAY MORE
ABOUT THAT. WAS ISAAC A JEW?
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ISAAC WAS NOT A JEW, NEITHER WAS
HE AN ISRAELITE, BECAUSE ISRAEL
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HAD NOT BEEN BORN YET, SO
HE'S REALLY IN NO-MAN'S LAND.
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BUT THESE WERE
THE GREAT PATRIARCHS.
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ALRIGHT, LET'S GO AHEAD
AND LOOK AT OUR MEMORY VERSE.
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THE MEMORY VERSE IS
ROMANS 3:31. >>AMEN.
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>>AND I INVITE YOU TO SAY
THAT WITH ME, ROMANS 3:31.
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READY? "DO WE THEN MAKE
VOID THE LAW THROUGH FAITH?
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GOD FORBID! YEA,
WE ESTABLISH THE LAW."
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NOW, YOU CAN TELL RIGHT AWAY THE
- THE BATTLE THAT THEY'RE HAVING
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HERE IN THIS BOOK. NOW
SOMEONE IS GOING TO LOOK UP,
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FOR ME, ROMANS 2:13 - YOU'LL
HAVE THAT IN JUST A MOMENT.
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WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT THE FAITH
OF ABRAHAM, WE TALK ABOUT FAITH,
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WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT BELIEF, WHEN
YOU TALK ABOUT RIGHTEOUSNESS BY
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FAITH, A COMMON MISUNDERSTANDING
IS THAT ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS
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BELIEVE AND, BECAUSE YOU
BELIEVE, YOU NEVER HAVE TO OBEY
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- OR OBEDIENCE IS NOT
EXPECTED - AND THAT'S A MYTH.
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AND SO, THERE'S A NUMBER OF
VERSES WE'RE GOING TO LOOK AT IN
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OUR NEXT SECTION HERE UNDER THE
LAW, THAT HELP EXPLAIN WHAT IS
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THIS RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FAITH
AND LAW. I'M GOING TO GO AHEAD
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AND HAVE DAN READ ROMANS
CHAPTER 2, VERSE 13 FOR US.
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>>"(FOR NOT THE HEARERS OF
THE LAW ARE JUST IN THE SIGHT OF
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GOD, BUT THE DOERS OF
THE LAW WILL BE JUSTIFIED;"
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>>I MIGHT JUST THROW IT OUT
THERE TO YOU - THANK YOU VERY
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MUCH, DAN - WHERE DO PEOPLE
GET THE IDEA THAT WHEN YOU'RE
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CHRISTIAN, YOU NO LONGER NEED
TO KEEP THE TEN COMMANDMENTS?
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HAVE YOU HEARD ANY
VERSES? HAVE YOU EVER HEARD
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'NOT UNDER THE
LAW'? NAME ANOTHER ONE.
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WHERE DO PEOPLE
- A LOT OF PEOPLE -
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HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE RUN
INTO FOLKS THAT THINK THAT,
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YOU KNOW, ONCE YOU'RE
SAVED - WE'RE SAVED BY FAITH -
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WE DON'T NEED TO KEEP THE
LAW. WHY DO THEY BELIEVE THAT?
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>>NAILED TO THE CROSS.
>>IT'S NAILED TO THE CROSS
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- COLOSSIANS CHAPTER 2.
WHAT ELSE? I'LL REPEAT WHAT YOU
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SAY SO THAT PEOPLE LISTENING CAN
HEAR. WHAT ARE THE OTHER REASONS
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PEOPLE GET THAT IDEA?
DELIVERED FROM THE LAW.
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>>EVERY DAY IS
ALIKE. >>WHERE'S THAT VERSE?
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LET NO MAN JUDGE YOU IN REGARDS
- THAT'S COLOSSIANS 2, AGAIN.
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THERE'S A NUMBER OF VERSES, BUT
ONE THING I WANT YOU TO KNOW -
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OR NOTICE - WHO IS THE WRITER
OF VIRTUALLY EVERY VERSE THAT IS
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USED WHERE PEOPLE GET THE IDEA
THAT YOU DON'T HAVE TO KEEP THE
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LAW? PAUL. IN
ALMOST EVERY CASE, HE IS
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THE ONE WHO SAYS THESE THINGS.
LOOK, WITH ME, IN THE SECOND
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BOOK OF PETER, CHAPTER 3.
I WANT TO SHOW YOU SOMETHING.
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2 PETER 3 - GO TO VERSE 15, "AND
CONSIDER THAT THE LONGSUFFERING
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OF OUR LORD IS SALVATION - AS
ALSO OUR BELOVED BROTHER PAUL,
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ACCORDING TO THE WISDOM GIVEN TO
HIM, HAS WRITTEN TO YOU, AS ALSO
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IN ALL HIS EPISTLES, SPEAKING IN
THEM OF THESE THINGS, IN WHICH
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ARE SOME THINGS HARD TO
UNDERSTAND," - NOW PETER IS
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WRITING - HE'S TALKING ABOUT OUR
BROTHER PAUL WHO'S WRITTEN TO
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YOU MANY EPISTLES, AND HE TALKS
ABOUT SALVATION, BUT IN HIS
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EPISTLES, THERE ARE SOME THINGS
THAT ARE HARD TO UNDERSTAND.
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IT SAYS, "ACCORDING TO THE
WISDOM GIVEN TO HIM," - PAUL WAS
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PROBABLY THE MOST
EDUCATED OF THE APOSTLES.
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WE'RE GOING TO BE TALKING, A
LITTLE LATER TODAY, ABOUT THE
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APOSTLE ANDREW - AND YOU'LL SEE,
MOST OF THE APOSTLES, WITH THE
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EXCEPTION OF JUDAS AND MATTHEW,
WHO WAS AN ACCOUNTANT, AND,
00:16:22.38\00:16:27.65
LATER, PAUL IS CONSIDERED AN
APOSTLE - THEY WERE UNEDUCATED -
00:16:27.68\00:16:32.15
THEY'RE FISHERMEN, THEY'RE
SHEPHERDS, AND PAUL SPOKE MANY
00:16:32.19\00:16:37.46
LANGUAGES, WIDELY TRAVELED,
STUDIED AT THE FEET OF GAMALIEL,
00:16:37.49\00:16:40.96
ONE OF THE WISEST PROFESSORS IN
JERUSALEM, WROTE DEEPER THINGS,
00:16:41.00\00:16:49.90
AND SOME OF IT WAS SOPHISTICATED
AND EVEN PETER UNDERSTOOD THERE
00:16:49.94\00:16:54.21
ARE SOME THINGS THAT HE SAID
THAT ARE HARD TO UNDERSTAND, AND
00:16:54.24\00:16:56.31
THOSE - I WANT TO FINISH WHAT
PETER SAID, "AND CONSIDER THAT
00:16:56.34\00:16:59.11
THE LONGSUFFERING OF OUR LORD IS
SALVATION - AS ALSO OUR BELOVED
00:16:59.15\00:17:02.02
BROTHER PAUL, ACCORDING TO THE
WISDOM GIVEN TO HIM, HAS WRITTEN
00:17:02.05\00:17:04.49
TO YOU, AS ALSO IN ALL HIS
EPISTLES, SPEAKING IN THEM OF
00:17:04.52\00:17:08.49
THESE THINGS, IN WHICH ARE SOME
THINGS HARD TO UNDERSTAND, WHICH
00:17:08.52\00:17:11.76
UNTAUGHT AND UNSTABLE PEOPLE
TWIST TO THEIR OWN DESTRUCTION
00:17:11.79\00:17:17.53
AS THEY DO ALSO THE
REST OF THE SCRIPTURES."
00:17:17.57\00:17:19.53
NOW, IT'S INTERESTING, HE
COMPARES PAUL'S WRITING TO
00:17:19.57\00:17:21.37
SCRIPTURE. SO PETER
IS NOT DIMINISHING THE
00:17:21.40\00:17:25.64
INSPIRATION OF WHAT PAUL WRITES.
"YOU THEREFORE, BELOVED, SINCE
00:17:25.67\00:17:29.31
YOU KNOW THIS BEFOREHAND, BEWARE
LEST YOU ALSO FALL FORM YOUR OWN
00:17:29.34\00:17:32.58
STEADFASTNESS, BEING LED AWAY
WITH THE ERROR OF THE WICKED."
00:17:32.61\00:17:36.35
NOW, THAT WORD THERE
'WICKED' IS 'LAWLESSNESS'.
00:17:36.38\00:17:39.45
PETER IS SAYING, 'DON'T FOLLOW
THOSE WHO TWIST THE THINGS THAT
00:17:39.49\00:17:44.93
PAUL SAYS, SO
THAT THEY'RE LAWLESS.
00:17:44.96\00:17:49.93
LAWLESS MEANS 'WITHOUT LAW'.
PEOPLE TAKE THE THINGS THAT PAUL
00:17:49.96\00:17:53.17
SAYS AND THEY TRY TO
MAKE IT SOUND LIKE YOU DON'T
00:17:53.20\00:17:54.97
NEED TO KEEP THE LAW.
WHAT DID JESUS SAY ABOUT THE
00:17:55.00\00:17:58.27
RELATION BETWEEN
THE LAW AND SALVATION?
00:17:58.31\00:18:02.34
MATTHEW CHAPTER 5 -
WHAT IS IT, VERSE 19 [17]?
00:18:02.38\00:18:04.51
- "THINK NOT THAT I HAVE COME TO
DESTROY THE LAW OR THE PROPHETS.
00:18:04.55\00:18:07.02
I DID NOT COME TO
DESTROY BUT TO FULFILL.
00:18:07.05\00:18:10.32
FOR....HEAVEN AND EARTH WILL
PASS AWAY BEFORE ONE JOT OR ONE
00:18:10.35\00:18:13.09
TITTLE WILL BY NO MEANS
PASS FROM THE LAW....WHOSOEVER
00:18:13.12\00:18:16.26
THEREFOR BREAKS ONE OF THE
LEAST OF THESE COMMANDMENTS, AND
00:18:16.29\00:18:19.56
TEACHES MEN SO, SHALL BE CALLED
LEAST IN THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN;
00:18:19.59\00:18:22.56
BUT WHOEVER DOES AND TEACHES
THEM, HE SHALL BE CALLED GREAT
00:18:22.60\00:18:24.97
IN THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN;" -
'GOOD MASTER, WHAT GOOD THINGS
00:18:25.00\00:18:27.97
SHOULD I DO THAT I MIGHT
EXPERIENCE ETERNAL LIFE?'
00:18:28.00\00:18:30.81
JESUS SAYS, 'WHY
DO YOU CALL ME 'GOOD'?
00:18:30.84\00:18:33.14
THERE IS ONE GOOD, THAT IS GOD,
BUT IF YOU WOULD ENTER LIFE KEEP
00:18:33.17\00:18:35.81
THE COMMANDMENTS.'
AND HE SAID, 'WHICH?'
00:18:35.84\00:18:39.41
'THOU SHALT NOT KILL, THOU SHALT
NOT COMMIT ADULTERY, THOU SHALT
00:18:39.45\00:18:42.65
NOT LIE'' - AND HE STARTS TO
GO THROUGH THE TEN COMMANDMENTS.
00:18:42.68\00:18:46.25
NOT THAT WE'RE SAVED BY KEEPING
THEM, BUT YOU'RE DEFINITELY NOT
00:18:46.29\00:18:50.59
GOING TO HEAVEN DELIBERATELY
BREAKING THEM. NOW, LET ME SEE
00:18:50.63\00:18:54.10
IF I CAN ILLUSTRATE IT THIS WAY:
ARE WE SAVED BY FAITH OR WORKS?
00:18:54.13\00:18:59.40
>>FAITH. >>FAITH.
THAT'S JUST SIMPLE,
00:18:59.43\00:19:01.70
RIGHT? THE
CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, WERE
00:19:01.74\00:19:04.57
THEY SAVED FROM
EGYPT BY WORKS OR BY FAITH?
00:19:04.61\00:19:07.98
>>FAITH. >>WHAT HAPPENED?
00:19:08.01\00:19:12.11
MOSES SAID, 'TAKE A LAMB, TAKE
THE BLOOD OF A LAMB, THE ANGEL
00:19:12.15\00:19:15.88
OF JUDGMENT WILL PASS OVER YOU
BECAUSE OF THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB
00:19:15.92\00:19:20.22
AND YOU WILL BE FREE FROM
YOUR SLAVERY.' AND AFTER THE
00:19:20.26\00:19:23.36
PASSOVER, THEY LEFT. RIGHT?
THEN, AFTER THEY CROSSED THE RED
00:19:23.39\00:19:28.56
SEA, HE BRINGS
THEM TO MOUNT SINAI.
00:19:28.60\00:19:31.77
WHAT DOES THE RED SEA SYMBOLIZE?
BAPTISM. WHEN DOES HE GIVE THEM
00:19:31.80\00:19:37.54
THE LAW, BEFORE
OR AFTER THE RED SEA?
00:19:37.57\00:19:40.78
>>AFTER THE RED SEA.
>>WERE THEY SAVED BY KEEPING THE
00:19:40.81\00:19:43.01
LAW OR WERE THEY
SAVED BY THE LAMB?
00:19:43.04\00:19:44.81
>>THE LAMB. >>BUT
AFTER THEY ARE SAVED, DOES
00:19:44.85\00:19:48.92
THE BIBLE SAY, 'GO THEREFORE,
TEACH ALL NATIONS, BAPTIZING
00:19:48.95\00:19:51.45
THEM IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER,
SON, AND HOLY SPIRIT, TEACHING
00:19:51.49\00:19:54.56
THEM TO OBSERVE ALL THINGS
I'VE COMMANDED YOU.' IS THERE
00:19:54.59\00:19:57.69
TEACHING TO OBSERVE COMMANDMENTS
THAT COMES AFTER BAPTISM?
00:19:57.73\00:20:01.83
>>YES. >>AND WHY DO WE OBEY?
00:20:01.86\00:20:05.07
IF WE LOVE HIM. HOW DOES
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS BEGIN?
00:20:05.10\00:20:08.70
"I AM THE LORD YOUR GOD WHO
BROUGHT YOU OUT OF THE LAND OF
00:20:08.74\00:20:11.34
EGYPT, OUT OF THE HOUSE OF
BONDAGE" - IN OTHER WORDS, 'I'VE
00:20:11.37\00:20:13.54
SAVED YOU FROM SLAVERY, IF YOU
LOVE ME, HERE'S MY LAW.' SO EVEN
00:20:13.58\00:20:17.71
THE PREAMBLE FOR THE TEN
COMMANDMENTS - PART OF WHAT GOD
00:20:17.75\00:20:20.25
SPOKE AND WROTE - IS SAYING,
'I'VE SHOWN YOU I LOVE YOU.
00:20:20.28\00:20:23.75
NOW, DO YOU LOVE ME?
OBEY MY LAW.' SO, IT'S
00:20:23.79\00:20:26.52
ALWAYS BEEN THAT WAY.
THE IDEA THAT WE'RE SAVED BY
00:20:26.55\00:20:29.29
FAITH IS NOT A NEW
TESTAMENT CONCEPT, IT'S AN OLD
00:20:29.32\00:20:33.53
TESTAMENT CONCEPT.
YOU FIND THE NEW COVENANT
00:20:33.56\00:20:36.00
IN THE OLD TESTAMENT.
I'VE SAID THAT SEVERAL TIMES.
00:20:36.03\00:20:38.57
ALRIGHT, SO LET'S GET BACK
TO WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT.
00:20:38.60\00:20:41.37
I BROUGHT OUT A FEW OF THESE
VERSES HERE - I SHOULDN'T SAY 'I
00:20:41.40\00:20:44.91
DID' - THEY'RE ALSO IN THE
LESSON - BECAUSE IT ILLUSTRATES
00:20:44.94\00:20:48.38
THAT EVEN PAUL UNDERSTANDS
THAT. PAUL SAID - CANNOT BE
00:20:48.41\00:20:51.78
MISUNDERSTOOD - ROMANS 2:13,
"(FOR NOT THE HEARERS OF THE LAW
00:20:51.81\00:20:55.28
ARE JUST IN THE SIGHT OF GOD,
BUT THE DOERS OF THE LAW..."
00:20:55.32\00:20:58.29
DIDN'T JESUS SAY, 'IT'S NOT
EVERYONE THAT SAYS 'LORD, LORD',
00:20:58.32\00:21:01.32
BUT THEY THAT DO'.
AND JAMES SAYS, 'DON'T BE
00:21:01.36\00:21:04.79
JUST HEARERS OF THE WORD, BE
DOERS...NOT HEARERS, DECEIVING
00:21:04.83\00:21:08.53
YOUR OWN SELVES.' SO THE BIBLE
WRITERS ARE PRETTY CLEAR, JESUS
00:21:08.56\00:21:11.90
AND THE APOSTLES - WE'RE
NOT JUST TO HEAR THE LAW,
00:21:11.93\00:21:14.54
WE'RE TO DO WHAT? DO
THE LAW. DO THE WILL OF GOD.
00:21:14.57\00:21:21.11
AND - BUT WHY DO WE DO IT?
GENESIS 26, VERSE 5 - NOW WE'RE
00:21:21.14\00:21:26.68
GOING TO TALK ABOUT ABRAHAM.
ABRAHAM WAS SAVED BY FAITH,
00:21:26.72\00:21:30.19
SO HE DIDN'T NEED TO OBEY.
BUT YOU LOOK IN GENESIS 26:5,
00:21:30.22\00:21:34.86
"BECAUSE ABRAHAM OBEYED MY
VOICE AND KEPT MY CHARGE, MY
00:21:34.89\00:21:37.69
COMMANDMENTS, MY
STATUES, AND MY LAWS."
00:21:37.73\00:21:39.76
BOY, THAT COVERS THE WHOLE
GAMUT, IF YOU SAY, 'WELL, IT'S
00:21:39.79\00:21:42.16
JUST TALKING ABOUT CEREMONY
HERE' OR 'IT'S JUST TALKING
00:21:42.20\00:21:44.80
ABOUT THE STATUTES - IT COVERS
THEM ALL - 'MY VOICE, MY CHARGE,
00:21:44.83\00:21:49.84
MY COMMANDMENTS, MY STATUTES,
MY LAW' - IF YOU DO ALL THAT,
00:21:49.87\00:21:54.44
YOU'RE IN GOOD SHAPE.'
BUT WHY DID ABRAHAM DO IT?
00:21:54.48\00:21:57.35
TO BE SAVED OR
BECAUSE HE LOVED GOD?
00:21:57.38\00:22:00.48
DID HE SHOW HIS LOVE FOR
GOD? ROMANS 6:1 - 4, AGAIN, LEST
00:22:00.52\00:22:07.92
ANYONE MISUNDERSTAND, PAUL
WRITES, "WHAT SHALL WE SAY THEN?
00:22:07.96\00:22:11.49
SHALL WE CONTINUE IN
SIN THAT GRACE MAY ABOUND?"
00:22:11.53\00:22:14.10
- ALRIGHT, WHAT IS SIN?
>>TRANSGRESSION OF THE LAW.
00:22:14.10\00:22:17.23
>>AMONG OTHER THINGS,
SIN IS BREAKING THE LAW.
00:22:17.27\00:22:19.47
DO WE CONTINUE TO BREAK THE LAW
SO WE CAN HAVE LOTS OF GRACE IN
00:22:19.50\00:22:22.24
OUR LIVES? BOY IF I
- YOU KNOW, WHENEVER
00:22:22.27\00:22:25.11
I SIN, I TURN TO GOD.
HE EXTENDS GRACE TO ME.
00:22:25.14\00:22:27.84
IF I WANT MORE GRACE, I NEED TO
JUST SIN MORE.' WELL, THAT'S THE
00:22:27.88\00:22:31.48
WAY SOME PEOPLE INTERPRET IT -
WHERE SIN ABOUNDS, GRACE ABOUNDS
00:22:31.51\00:22:34.82
- SO LET'S JUST ABOUND IN SIN.
THAT'S NOT WHAT HE'S SAYING.
00:22:34.85\00:22:40.22
"WHAT SHALL WE SAY
THEN? SHALL WE CONTINUE IN SIN
00:22:40.26\00:22:42.36
THAT GRACE MAY
ABOUND? CERTAINLY NOT!"
00:22:42.39\00:22:44.79
I WAS SHARING MY TESTIMONY IN
TEXAS, YEARS AGO, AND AFTERWARD
00:22:44.83\00:22:52.17
A LADY CAME UP TO ME AND SHE
WAS MARRIED AND A MEMBER OF THE
00:22:52.20\00:22:56.27
CHURCH AND A LEADER IN
THE CHURCH AND SHE - SHE SAID,
00:22:56.30\00:22:59.57
'PASTOR DOUG,' -
SHE SAID - 'I ENVY YOU.
00:22:59.61\00:23:03.45
YOU KNOW, YOU WERE OUT THERE IN
THE WORLD AND YOU DID EVERYTHING
00:23:03.48\00:23:06.25
AND THEN YOU HAD THIS DRAMATIC
CONVERSION AND NOW YOU'RE SO
00:23:06.28\00:23:08.28
EXCITED ABOUT YOUR FAITH
AND YOU'RE SHARING YOUR FAITH' -
00:23:08.32\00:23:10.75
AND SHE SAID - 'I'VE
BEEN IN THE CHURCH FOR SEVERAL
00:23:10.79\00:23:13.05
GENERATIONS. I FEEL
LIKE, MAYBE IF I JUST GET
00:23:13.09\00:23:15.69
OUT THERE AND EXPERIENCE THE
WORLD, THEN I'LL FALL IN LOVE
00:23:15.72\00:23:19.39
WITH THE LORD.' I
SAID, 'OH, HEAVEN FORBID!'
00:23:19.43\00:23:22.70
I THOUGHT SHE WAS JUST KIDDING.
A FEW MONTHS LATER SHE LEFT
00:23:22.73\00:23:27.04
HER HUSBAND, MOVED IN
WITH A GIRLFRIEND AND WENT
00:23:27.07\00:23:31.04
WAY OUT IN THE WORLD. AND
I NEVER HEARD SHE CAME BACK.
00:23:31.07\00:23:35.68
AND I THOUGHT, 'DID I EVER
SAY ANYTHING THAT GAVE HER THAT
00:23:35.71\00:23:38.15
IDEA?' THAT'S NOT
WHAT GOD'S SAYING.
00:23:38.18\00:23:42.48
DON'T - DON'T SAY, 'OH, I'M JUST
GOING TO GO SIN AND THEN I'LL
00:23:42.52\00:23:45.05
HAVE LOTS OF GRACE.' YOU
KNOW, OTHER PEOPLE LOOK AT MARY
00:23:45.09\00:23:47.69
MAGDALENE - TO WHOM - HE,
TO WHOM MUCH IS FORGIVEN, LOVES
00:23:47.72\00:23:51.79
MUCH' - YOU KNOW, THAT VERSE.
AND THEY SAY, 'WELL, IF I JUST
00:23:51.83\00:23:54.83
GO OUT - AND THE MORE I SIN
AND I REPENT, THEN I'LL LOVE HIM
00:23:54.86\00:23:57.27
MORE.' NO, PAUL IS
SAYING, 'GOD FORBID!
00:23:57.30\00:24:00.87
DON'T THINK THAT WAY.' PEOPLE
WHO THINK LIKE THAT OFTEN REACH
00:24:00.90\00:24:03.00
THE EDGE AND NEVER COME BACK.
AND SO, HE'S SAYING, "HOW SHALL
00:24:03.04\00:24:07.24
WE WHO [DIED] TO SIN" - I'M
STILL IN ROMANS 6:2 - "HOW SHALL
00:24:07.28\00:24:12.28
WE WHO [DIED] TO SIN
LIVE ANY LONGER IN IT?
00:24:12.31\00:24:15.35
OR DO YOU NOT KNOW THAT AS
MANY OF US AS WERE BAPTIZED INTO
00:24:15.38\00:24:17.95
CHRIST JESUS WERE
BAPTIZED INTO HIS DEATH?
00:24:17.99\00:24:20.76
THEREFORE WE WERE [BURIED] WITH
HIM THROUGH BAPTISM INTO DEATH,
00:24:20.79\00:24:24.29
THAT JUST AS CHRIST WAS RAISED
FROM THE DEAD BY THE GLORY OF
00:24:24.33\00:24:26.36
THE FATHER," - WHAT SHOULD
HAPPEN AFTER WE'RE CRUCIFIED
00:24:26.39\00:24:29.30
WITH CHRIST, WE'RE RAISED?
- "SO WE ALSO SHOULD WALK IN
00:24:29.33\00:24:32.93
NEWNESS OF LIFE." NOW WHAT
DOES THAT NEW LIFE LOOK LIKE?
00:24:32.97\00:24:37.77
PAUL SAYS, 'OLD THINGS ARE
PASSED AWAY, ALL THINGS ARE
00:24:37.81\00:24:40.01
BECOME NEW'.
YOU'RE A NEW CREATURE.
00:24:40.04\00:24:44.48
SO, ARE WE LIVING THE OLD
LIFE OF THE OLD MAN IF WE'RE NEW
00:24:44.51\00:24:46.98
CREATURES? >>NO.
00:24:47.02\00:24:48.62
>>NO, THIS IS WHAT HE'S SAYING,
'GOD FORBID THAT YOU THINK I
00:24:48.65\00:24:50.79
SHOULD CONTINUE IN SIN.'
ALRIGHT, LET'S GO TO THE SECTION
00:24:50.82\00:24:53.59
WHERE IT TALKS ABOUT GRACE AND
DEBT - IN HEBREWS 11 IT SAYS,
00:24:53.62\00:24:59.19
'BY FAITH, WHEN HE WAS CALLED'
- ABRAHAM - 'TO GO INTO A PLACE
00:24:59.23\00:25:03.73
THAT HE SHOULD AFTER RECEIVE FOR
INHERITANCE, HE OBEYED AND HE
00:25:03.77\00:25:06.67
WENT OUT NOT KNOWING WHERE
HE WENT.' SO, SOMETHING YOU'LL
00:25:06.70\00:25:13.34
NOTICE IS THE AGE OF
CHRISTIANITY IS DIVIDED IN THREE
00:25:13.38\00:25:16.71
GREAT EPOCHS. THE
FIRST TWO THOUSAND YEARS OF
00:25:16.75\00:25:20.85
BIBLE HISTORY YOU HAVE
THE AGE OF THE PATRIARCHS.
00:25:20.88\00:25:24.89
FROM THE TIME OF CREATION - AND
NO ONE KNOWS THAT EXACT DATE - I
00:25:24.92\00:25:28.56
THINK BISHOP USHER USED TO
SURMISE THAT IT WAS 2004 B.C.
00:25:28.59\00:25:34.13
- TO THE TIME OF ABRAHAM,
WHO WAS BORN ABOUT 2000 - RATHER
00:25:34.20\00:25:38.17
BISHOP USHER WAS 4004 B.C.
- ABRAHAM WAS BORN 2004 B.C.
00:25:38.20\00:25:42.90
- YOU'VE GOT THE AGE OF
THE PATRIARCHS. WHO ARE THEY?
00:25:42.94\00:25:46.44
ADAM, METHUSELAH, NOAH,
ENOCH - THEY'RE ALL SAVED, OKAY?
00:25:46.47\00:25:54.02
THERE'S OTHERS I DIDN'T
MENTION. WERE THEY CIRCUMCISED?
00:25:54.05\00:25:57.99
I ASK BECAUSE THAT'S GOING TO
COME UP IN THIS CHAPTER TODAY.
00:25:58.02\00:26:00.62
THEN ABRAHAM'S BORN - GOD
NOW CALLS ABRAHAM - CALLS HIM TO
00:26:00.66\00:26:04.33
LEAVE THE LAND OF MESOPOTAMIA,
WHERE THE SETTLERS FROM THE
00:26:04.36\00:26:07.86
FLOOD HAD BEGUN TO TURN
TO OTHER GODS - 'COME OUT.
00:26:07.93\00:26:11.80
I'M GOING TO CALL YOU TO A
NATION WHERE YOU CAN BE A LIGHT
00:26:11.83\00:26:14.70
TO THE WORLD.' AND
ABRAHAM GOES OUT - NOW, FOR
00:26:14.74\00:26:17.44
THE NEXT 2,000 YEARS, GOD WORKS
THROUGH THE HEBREWS - THE JEWS
00:26:17.47\00:26:23.58
- MAKES A SPECIAL
COVENANT WITH THEM.
00:26:23.61\00:26:25.95
THEN, ABOUT 4
B.C., JESUS IS BORN.
00:26:25.98\00:26:28.62
IT'S 2,000 YEARS LATER.
NOW, CHRIST APPEALS TO WHOSOEVER
00:26:28.65\00:26:32.69
WILL - SPIRITUAL JEWS
- WHETHER JEW OR GENTILE,
00:26:32.72\00:26:36.36
THE GOSPEL GOES TO EVERYBODY.
YOU'VE GOT 2,000, 2,000, 2,000 -
00:26:36.39\00:26:39.89
A TOTAL OF 6,000
YEARS - BRINGS US TO TODAY.
00:26:39.93\00:26:42.06
RIGHT NOW, YOU AND I ARE LIVING
ABOUT, IF WE WENT BACK 2,000
00:26:42.10\00:26:45.63
YEARS, JESUS WOULD
BE 21 OR SOMETHING NOW.
00:26:45.67\00:26:48.94
HE WAS BORN ABOUT
3 OR 4 B.C., RIGHT?
00:26:48.97\00:26:51.54
YOU STILL WITH ME? SO
IT'S INTERESTING, WE'RE
00:26:51.57\00:26:54.04
LIVING EXACTLY 2,000 YEARS AFTER
CHRIST - MORE THAN 2,000 YEARS
00:26:54.08\00:26:58.38
AFTER HIS BIRTH, LESS THAN
2,000 YEARS AFTER HIS DEATH.
00:26:58.41\00:27:01.88
IT'S JUST INTERESTING.
AND THEN, HOW LONG DO WE SPEND
00:27:01.92\00:27:04.19
IN HEAVEN LIVING AND
REIGNING WITH THE LORD?
00:27:04.22\00:27:06.69
IT'S LIKE A
THOUSAND-YEAR SABBATH, RIGHT?
00:27:06.72\00:27:09.26
MANY OF THE ANCIENT PROTESTANT
REFORMERS TALKED ABOUT THE GREAT
00:27:09.29\00:27:12.89
WEEK OF TIME AND THAT THESE
MILLENNIAL WEEKS ARE FILLED WITH
00:27:12.93\00:27:18.23
THOUSAND-YEAR EPOCHS.
ANYWAY - AND SO YOU'VE GOT
00:27:18.27\00:27:22.00
THESE THREE DIFFERENT AGES.
WHEN ABRAHAM IS CALLED, HE IS
00:27:22.04\00:27:25.67
CALLED TO GO TO A PLACE THAT
HE'S NOT SEEN, AND HE OBEYS AND
00:27:25.71\00:27:28.78
HE GOES AND GOD
BEGINS THIS NEW AGE.
00:27:28.81\00:27:31.35
GO TO HEBREWS 11:17, "BY FAITH
ABRAHAM, WHEN HE WAS TESTED,
00:27:31.38\00:27:36.79
OFFERED UP ISAAC, AND HE
WHO HAD RECEIVED THE PROMISES
00:27:36.82\00:27:41.49
OFFERED UP HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN
SON," - NOW WHY DO YOU THINK
00:27:41.52\00:27:44.43
PAUL IS USING THAT
LANGUAGE 'ONLY BEGOTTEN'?
00:27:44.46\00:27:48.30
WHERE DO YOU HEAR THE
WORDS 'ONLY BEGOTTEN'?
00:27:48.33\00:27:50.73
SPEAKING OF WHO? >>JESUS.
00:27:50.77\00:27:53.34
>>SPEAKING OF JESUS.
DIDN'T ABRAHAM HAVE ANOTHER SON?
00:27:53.37\00:27:59.47
WHY IS ISAAC CALLED HIS ONLY
BEGOTTEN? BECAUSE ONE WAS BORN
00:27:59.51\00:28:04.25
OF THE FLESH AND ONE
WAS BORN OF THE SPIRIT.
00:28:04.28\00:28:07.48
ONE WAS BORN BY WORKS
AND ONE WAS BORN BY FAITH.
00:28:07.52\00:28:12.85
AND HE OFFERS UP HIS ONLY
BEGOTTEN SON, "OF WHOM IT WAS
00:28:12.89\00:28:15.99
SAID, 'IN ISAAC YOUR SEED SHALL
BE CALLED,'" - THE PROMISES, THE
00:28:16.02\00:28:19.39
MESSIANIC PROMISE WOULD COME
THROUGH ISAAC - "CONCLUDING THAT
00:28:19.43\00:28:23.00
GOD WAS ABLE TO RAISE HIM UP,
EVEN FROM THE DEAD, FROM WHICH
00:28:23.03\00:28:26.67
HE ALSO RECEIVED HIM
IN A FIGURATIVE SENSE."
00:28:26.70\00:28:28.64
- I MEAN, HE WAS ABOUT TO
KILL HIM. IT'S LIKE HE HAD SAID,
00:28:28.67\00:28:31.04
'HE'S DEAD'. WHEN
THE ANGEL STOPPED HIM
00:28:31.07\00:28:32.87
IT WAS LIKE A RESURRECTION.
AND HE IS A FIGURE MEANS HE IS A
00:28:32.91\00:28:36.34
TYPE OF CHRIST WHO
ROSE FROM THE DEAD.
00:28:36.38\00:28:40.35
AND ABRAHAM OFFERING HIS SON HAS
BECOME AN ALLEGORY, TO US, OF
00:28:40.38\00:28:44.42
GOD OFFERING HIS SON.
SO THAT'S A LOT OF FAITH.
00:28:44.45\00:28:47.69
ABRAHAM IS THE GREAT
PATRIARCH OF THE JEWISH NATION.
00:28:47.72\00:28:54.73
SOMEONE'S GOING TO READ, FOR
ME, JAMES 2:21 AND 22 - ALRIGHT?
00:28:54.76\00:28:58.83
BEFORE YOU DO THAT, I'M GOING
TO READ JOHN 8:56 AND 58, JESUS
00:28:58.87\00:29:03.84
SAID, "'YOUR FATHER ABRAHAM
REJOICED TO SEE MY DAY, AND HE
00:29:03.87\00:29:07.11
SAW IT AND WAS GLAD.' AND THE
JEWS SAID TO HIM, 'YOU ARE NOT
00:29:07.14\00:29:10.58
YET FIFTY YEARS OLD,
AND HAVE YOU SEEN ABRAHAM?'
00:29:10.61\00:29:12.65
" - I MEAN, OBVIOUSLY,
HE'S SPEAKING IN FIGURES.
00:29:12.68\00:29:14.25
JESUS LIVED 2,000 YEARS AFTER
ABRAHAM - AND HE SAID, 'ABRAHAM
00:29:14.28\00:29:17.12
LONGED TO SEE MY DAY'.
ISN'T THAT INTERESTING?
00:29:17.15\00:29:20.39
ABRAHAM WAS LONGING TO SEE THE
COMING OF THE LORD AND HE HAD TO
00:29:20.42\00:29:23.39
WAIT 2,000 YEARS.
WELL, HE DIDN'T WAIT
00:29:23.43\00:29:25.26
2,000 YEARS, HE DIED.
BUT IT TOOK 2,000 YEARS.
00:29:25.29\00:29:28.66
AND THEN THE DISCIPLES WERE
LONGING TO SEE THE SECOND COMING
00:29:28.70\00:29:31.77
OF JESUS. HOW LONG HAS
IT BEEN? >>2,000 YEARS.
00:29:31.80\00:29:35.64
>>2,000 - DOES GOD FORGET HIS
PROMISES? NO, HE'LL COME AGAIN.
00:29:35.67\00:29:40.48
BUT JESUS SAID, 'ABRAHAM LONGED
TO SEE MY DAY AND HE SAW IT AND
00:29:40.51\00:29:45.75
WAS GLAD.' WHEN DID
ABRAHAM SEE JESUS' DAY?
00:29:45.78\00:29:49.75
ON THE MOUNTAIN
WHEN HE OFFERED HIS SON.
00:29:49.78\00:29:52.89
THE BEAUTY OF THE GOSPEL,
THE STORY OF SALVATION THAT GOD
00:29:52.92\00:29:55.42
WOULD OFFER HIS SON,
FINALLY BECAME CLEAR.
00:29:55.46\00:29:58.56
GOD REVEALED, THROUGH THE
SPIRIT, TO HIM, THROUGH THAT
00:29:58.59\00:30:00.83
WHOLE EXPERIENCE, 'ABRAHAM, YOU
MIGHT BE WONDERING WHY DID I ASK
00:30:00.86\00:30:04.07
YOU TO OFFER MY SON?
BECAUSE YOU'RE GOING TO BE THE
00:30:04.10\00:30:06.07
FATHER OF A GREAT
NATION AND THEY WILL BE SAVED
00:30:06.10\00:30:08.07
BECAUSE I OFFER MY SON. AND
WHAT YOU DID, YOU ARE WORTHY
00:30:08.10\00:30:13.11
OF BEING THE FATHER OF
THIS NATION, BECAUSE YOU WERE
00:30:13.14\00:30:16.28
WILLING TO MAKE THAT SUPREME
SACRIFICE.'' THIS IS, YOU KNOW,
00:30:16.31\00:30:21.12
I'M READING
BETWEEN THE LINES HERE.
00:30:21.15\00:30:22.32
GOD DOESN'T SAY IT JUST LIKE
THAT, BUT I THINK YOU ALL KNOW
00:30:22.35\00:30:24.05
THAT'S THE IMPLIED
STORY THAT'S HAPPENING HERE.
00:30:24.09\00:30:27.89
ALRIGHT, GO AHEAD,
READ, FOR US, JAMES 2:21-22.
00:30:27.92\00:30:32.16
>>"WAS NOT ABRAHAM OUR FATHER
JUSTIFIED BY WORKS WHEN HE
00:30:32.19\00:30:35.76
OFFERED ISAAC
HIS SON ON THE ALTAR?
00:30:35.80\00:30:38.40
DO YOU SEE THAT FAITH WAS
WORKING TOGETHER WITH HIS WORKS,
00:30:38.43\00:30:42.47
AND BY WORKS
FAITH WAS MADE PERFECT?"
00:30:42.50\00:30:45.31
>>THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
YOU KNOW, WHEN I FIRST STARTED
00:30:45.34\00:30:48.64
DOING EVANGELISM, I WOULD
USE THIS ILLUSTRATION - I HEARD
00:30:48.68\00:30:52.78
ANOTHER EVANGELIST USE IT AND
I JUST PERMANENTLY BORROWED IT -
00:30:52.81\00:30:56.89
THAT THERE WAS A MAN WHO USED TO
FERRY PEOPLE ACROSS THE RIVER,
00:30:56.92\00:31:00.69
AND HE WAS A CHRISTIAN. AND
WHEN THEY WOULD CLIMB IN HIS
00:31:00.72\00:31:03.29
ROWBOAT, YOU KNOW, HE'D START
TAKING THEM ACROSS THE RIVER
00:31:03.32\00:31:06.09
AND, AS THEY WERE SITTING THERE
IN THE BRIEF LITTLE PASSENGER
00:31:06.13\00:31:10.17
SECTION, THEY NOTICED THAT
HE HAD BURNED, IN HIS OARS, TWO
00:31:10.20\00:31:14.07
WORDS - ONE OAR SAID 'FAITH',
THE OTHER OAR SAID 'WORKS'.
00:31:14.10\00:31:18.01
AND, INVARIABLY, SOMEWHERE
ACROSS THE RIVER, THEY WOULD SAY
00:31:18.04\00:31:20.61
TO THE OLD MAN THAT WAS ROWING
THEM, 'WHY DO YOU HAVE 'FAITH'
00:31:20.64\00:31:24.48
ON ONE PADDLE AND
'WORKS' ON THE OTHER?'
00:31:24.51\00:31:26.11
HE'D SAY, 'I'M GLAD YOU ASKED.'
AND HE WOULD PULL IN ONE OAR AND
00:31:26.15\00:31:29.45
HE'D ROW WITH ONE. OF
COURSE, THEY'D GO IN A CIRCLE.
00:31:29.48\00:31:31.85
THEN HE'D PUT THAT ONE BACK
IN THE WATER AND PULL ON THE
00:31:31.89\00:31:33.72
'FAITH' OAR AND HE'D
GO IN THE OTHER CIRCLE.
00:31:33.76\00:31:36.22
HE'D SAY, 'IF YOU WANT TO GET
ACROSS THE RIVER, YOU NEED FAITH
00:31:36.26\00:31:39.16
AND WORKS TOGETHER.' >>AMEN.
00:31:39.19\00:31:42.06
>>WELL, I DON'T SHARE THAT
ILLUSTRATION ANYMORE BECAUSE
00:31:42.10\00:31:43.60
IT'S NOT ACCURATE.
IT'S A GOOD STORY THOUGH.
00:31:43.63\00:31:50.41
DO WORKS GET US
ACROSS THE RIVER.
00:31:50.44\00:31:54.51
>>YES. >>GOT TO BE VERY CAREFUL,
00:31:54.54\00:31:58.68
HERE, BECAUSE THIS IS WHAT THE
CATHOLICS SAID TO LUTHER, 'IT'S
00:31:58.71\00:32:01.68
A COMBINATION OF FAITH AND
WORKS' - LUTHER SAID IT'S FAITH
00:32:01.72\00:32:05.12
ALONE. WHAT IS THE - WHAT IS
THE STORY OF THE REFORMATION?
00:32:05.15\00:32:09.82
SOLA FIDE - FAITH ALONE - SOLA
SCRIPTURA - SCRIPTURE ALONE -
00:32:09.86\00:32:15.23
GRACIA - SOLA GRACIA - GRACE
ALONE - FOR THE GLORY OF GOD
00:32:15.26\00:32:18.90
ALONE - I'M FORGETTING ONE OF
THE FIVE PREMISES THERE, OF THE
00:32:18.93\00:32:23.57
REFORMATION. BUT
IT'S NOT THE OAR OF WORKS
00:32:23.61\00:32:28.98
ALONG WITH FAITH - THAT'S
NOT THE BEST ILLUSTRATION.
00:32:29.01\00:32:32.15
WILL THERE BE WORKS
IN THE FAITHFUL LIFE?
00:32:32.18\00:32:34.85
YES, BUT WE ARE NOT ROWING
OUR WAY ACROSS BY OUR WORKS.
00:32:34.88\00:32:39.32
THE WORKS COME IN
THE WAKE OF YOUR FAITH.
00:32:39.35\00:32:44.09
SO YOU'VE GOT TWO OARS THAT SAY
'FAITH' AND YOU'VE GOT A RUDDER
00:32:44.13\00:32:46.83
THAT SAYS 'WORKS'.
SEE WHAT I'M SAYING?
00:32:46.86\00:32:49.93
IT'S HAPPENING BECAUSE OF THE
POWER OF FAITH. AND SO, I THINK
00:32:49.96\00:32:55.10
IT'S JUST IMPORTANT
TO MAKE THAT DISTINCTION.
00:32:55.14\00:32:57.27
NOW, IT'S INTERESTING - JOHN WAS
JUST READING A VERSE FROM JAMES
00:32:57.31\00:33:01.08
WHERE IT SAYS 'ABRAHAM WAS
JUSTIFIED BY WORKS' AND THEN WE
00:33:01.11\00:33:05.85
READ 'ABRAHAM WAS
JUSTIFIED BY FAITH'.
00:33:05.88\00:33:09.58
DID YOU NOTICE I JUST READ, IN
HEBREWS, ABOUT ABRAHAM'S FAITH?
00:33:09.62\00:33:12.35
HERE JAMES SAYS 'WORKS'.
CAN YOU THINK OF ANOTHER BIBLE
00:33:12.39\00:33:14.79
CHARACTER WHERE IT SAYS
THAT THEY SHOWED THEIR WORKS AND
00:33:14.82\00:33:18.43
THEY SHOWED THEIR
FAITH? THE BIBLE SAYS RAHAB.
00:33:18.46\00:33:21.60
WAS NOT SHE SAVED BY FAITH
WHEN SHE HID THE TWO MESSENGERS?
00:33:21.63\00:33:25.83
AND THEN, JAMES SAYS,
'WAS NOT RAHAB SAVED BY WORKS?'
00:33:25.87\00:33:30.37
HE DOESN'T USE THE PHRASE 'SAVED
BY WORKS', BUT DIDN'T SHE SHOW
00:33:30.41\00:33:32.67
HER WORKS? AND SO YOU GO, WELL,
WHICH IS IT? COULD YOU COME UP
00:33:32.71\00:33:41.02
HERE FOR A MINUTE? I
WANT TO DO AN ILLUSTRATION.
00:33:41.05\00:33:42.95
YEAH - NO, NO, NO, DEANNE, I'M
POINTING TO THE GUY BEHIND YOU.
00:33:42.98\00:33:45.25
HE'S ONE OF OUR AFCOE STUDENTS.
THANK YOU, I KNOW IT LOOKS -
00:33:45.29\00:33:46.96
IT'S HARD TO TELL, AT THAT
DISTANCE, WHERE I'M POINTING.
00:33:46.99\00:33:48.79
(LAUGHTER) I JUST FORGET
YOUR NAME AND SO I POINTED.
00:33:48.82\00:33:51.59
>>BOGDAN.
>>BOGDAN, THAT'S RIGHT.
00:33:51.63\00:33:53.40
OKAY, YOU DON'T FIND THAT ON
A KEY CHAIN SO I CAN FORGET IT.
00:33:53.43\00:33:58.40
IN THREE SECONDS, LIGHTNING IS
GOING TO STRIKE THE SPOT WHERE
00:33:58.43\00:34:02.20
YOU'RE STANDING. HE BELIEVED ME.
00:34:02.24\00:34:07.58
NOW, HE DIDN'T NEED TO BELIEVE
ME BECAUSE IT'S NOT GOING TO
00:34:07.61\00:34:08.94
HAPPEN. >>JUST IN CASE.
00:34:08.98\00:34:11.38
>>THANK YOU, THAT'S
ALL I WANTED TO ILLUSTRATE.
00:34:11.41\00:34:14.65
I DIDN'T MAKE HIM MOVE, I JUST
TOLD HIM SOMETHING WAS GOING TO
00:34:14.68\00:34:18.29
HAPPEN AND HE ACTED
BASED ON FAITH IN WHAT I SAID.
00:34:18.32\00:34:23.73
SO, WHEN THE BIBLE SAYS, 'FOR
GOD SO LOVES THE WORLD HE GAVE
00:34:23.76\00:34:26.73
HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON THAT
WHOSOEVER BELIEVES IN HIM WILL
00:34:26.76\00:34:31.93
NOT PERISH BUT HAVE EVERLASTING
LIFE' - THAT'S A VERY IMPORTANT
00:34:31.97\00:34:35.50
VERSE, BUT THAT VERSE IS
MISUNDERSTOOD BY A LOT OF
00:34:35.54\00:34:38.01
PEOPLE. WHY? BECAUSE
THEY MISUNDERSTOOD 'BELIEVE'.
00:34:38.04\00:34:43.85
PEOPLE THINK 'BELIEVE', IN OUR
LANGUAGE AND PROBABLY OTHERS,
00:34:43.88\00:34:47.55
MEANS THAT IT IS TRUE - THAT WE
BELIEVE THAT GOD DIED FOR US, WE
00:34:47.58\00:34:53.69
BELIEVE THAT GOD LOVES US - BUT
TO BELIEVE IN JESUS MEANS NOT
00:34:53.72\00:34:57.29
JUST TO BELIEVE HE DIED ON THE
CROSS, IT MEANS TO BELIEVE THE
00:34:57.33\00:35:00.10
TEACHINGS OF JESUS AND
ACT ACCORDING TO THAT BELIEF.
00:35:00.13\00:35:04.93
IN THE HEBREW MIND, IF SOMEONE
SAID, 'LIGHTNING'S GOING TO
00:35:04.97\00:35:08.10
STRIKE. DO YOU
BELIEVE ME?' THEY MOVE.
00:35:08.14\00:35:11.41
IF JESUS SAID, 'ONLY THOSE WHO
TAKE UP THEIR CROSS AND FOLLOW
00:35:11.44\00:35:14.34
ME HAVE ETERNAL LIFE' - IF YOU
BELIEVE HIM, YOU DENY YOURSELF,
00:35:14.38\00:35:19.01
YOU TAKE UP YOUR
CROSS, YOU FOLLOW HIM.
00:35:19.05\00:35:20.58
THAT SHOWS YOU BELIEVE
HIM. YOU SEE WHAT I'M SAYING?
00:35:20.62\00:35:23.95
SO REAL FAITH IS
GOING TO BE SEEN IN ACTION.
00:35:23.99\00:35:29.12
DOES THAT MAKE SENSE? >>YES.
00:35:29.16\00:35:30.23
>>YOU STILL WITH ME?
THERE'S A LOT OF - THEY CALL IT
00:35:30.26\00:35:33.36
'SLOPPY AGAPE' AND 'DISGRACE
GRACE' AND 'BLAB IT AND GRAB IT'
00:35:33.40\00:35:41.07
AND THERE'S ALL THESE DIFFERENT
VERBS FOR IRRESPONSIBLE
00:35:41.10\00:35:46.64
CHRISTIANITY - THE IDEA THAT YOU
CAN SAY, 'WELL, I'VE GOT FAITH
00:35:46.68\00:35:49.64
AND I'M JUST GOING TO CONTINUE
IN A LIFE OF SIN.' THIS IS WHAT
00:35:49.68\00:35:51.88
PAUL SAYS: 'DO WE CONTINUE
IN SIN THAT GRACE MIGHT ABOUND?
00:35:51.91\00:35:54.18
GOD FORBID! YOU
DON'T UNDERSTAND WHAT FAITH
00:35:54.22\00:35:55.95
IS.' REAL FAITH MEANS YOU
BELIEVE IN THE WORD OF GOD AND
00:35:55.98\00:36:01.79
YOU ACT UPON WHAT YOU BELIEVE.
YOU BELIEVE HE FORGIVES YOU
00:36:01.82\00:36:05.76
WHEN YOU ASK HIM AND
YOU, ACCORDINGLY, ARE HAPPY.
00:36:05.79\00:36:09.83
AND, BECAUSE HE SAYS 'I GIVE
YOU ETERNAL LIFE AS A GIFT',
00:36:09.86\00:36:12.50
YOU SAY, 'WOW, JESUS
DIED TO SAVE ME FROM MY SINS.
00:36:12.53\00:36:16.07
I AM SO THANKFUL FOR THAT
GIFT, I, NOW, WANT TO FOLLOW HIS
00:36:16.10\00:36:19.27
WORD.' YOU'RE NOT FOLLOWING
HIS WORD TO BE SAVED, YOU'RE
00:36:19.31\00:36:22.78
FOLLOWING HIS WORD BECAUSE YOU
ARE THANKFUL TO HAVE THE GIFT OF
00:36:22.81\00:36:24.88
ETERNAL LIFE. AM I RIGHT?
DOES ANYONE DISAGREE WITH ME?
00:36:24.91\00:36:32.69
THIS IS HOW IT WORKS, BUT
IT'S NOT ALWAYS HOW IT'S TAUGHT.
00:36:32.72\00:36:37.26
ALRIGHT, LET'S KEEP GOING.
GALATIANS 3:5 - WE HAVEN'T EVEN
00:36:37.29\00:36:40.73
GOTTEN TO ROMANS YET AND I
WANT TO READ ROMANS 4:1-17.
00:36:40.76\00:36:44.90
GALATIANS 3:5, "THEREFORE HE WHO
SUPPLIES THE SPIRIT TO YOU AND
00:36:44.93\00:36:49.80
WORKS MIRACLES AMONG YOU, DOES
HE DO IT BY THE WORKS OF THE
00:36:49.84\00:36:52.91
LAW," - BY THE WAY, IT'S
INTERESTING TO NOTICE THAT PAUL,
00:36:52.94\00:36:55.38
WRITING TO THE GALATIANS, SAID
THAT THERE WERE EVEN MIRACLES
00:36:55.41\00:36:57.45
STILL HAPPENING AMONG THEM
AT THAT TIME - "DOES HE DO IT BY
00:36:57.48\00:37:01.65
THE WORKS OF THE LAW OR
BY THE HEARING OF FAITH?
00:37:01.68\00:37:04.32
- JUST AS ABRAHAM" - NOW PAUL,
AGAIN, IS USING ABRAHAM AS A
00:37:04.35\00:37:07.26
MODEL - "JUST AS ABRAHAM
'BELIEVED GOD, AND IT WAS
00:37:07.29\00:37:10.33
ACCOUNTED TO HIM FOR
RIGHTEOUSNESS.' THEREFORE KNOW
00:37:10.36\00:37:13.06
THAT ONLY
THOSE...ARE SONS OF ABRAHAM."
00:37:13.09\00:37:16.23
- AND THE SCRIPTURE - YEAH -
"THEREFORE KNOW THAT ONLY THOSE
00:37:16.26\00:37:21.67
WHO ARE OF FAITH
ARE SONS OF ABRAHAM.
00:37:21.70\00:37:24.81
AND THE SCRIPTURE, FORESEEING
THAT GOD WOULD JUSTIFY THE
00:37:24.84\00:37:27.08
GENTILES BY FAITH, PREACHED THE
GOSPEL TO ABRAHAM BEFOREHAND,
00:37:27.11\00:37:30.88
SAYING, 'IN YOU ALL THE NATIONS
SHALL BE BLESSED.'" - IT WASN'T
00:37:30.91\00:37:35.15
JUST THE JEWS WOULD BE BLESSED,
WHO ELSE WOULD BE BLESSED?
00:37:35.18\00:37:38.55
>>THE NATIONS.
>>ALL THE NATIONS -
00:37:38.59\00:37:39.82
EVEN THE GENTILES. THROUGH WHO?
THROUGH ABRAHAM. NOW THIS WENT
00:37:39.85\00:37:42.69
AGAINST SOME OF THE - THE
HARD LINE JEWISH BELIEVERS IN
00:37:42.72\00:37:46.49
CHRISTIANITY THAT WERE SAYING,
YOU KNOW, 'YOU'VE GOT TO DO THE
00:37:46.53\00:37:49.03
LAWS OF MOSES AND YOU SOMEHOW
EARN SALVATION BY DOING THAT.
00:37:49.06\00:37:52.73
PAUL SAID, 'NO, JEWS ARE SAVED
BY FAITH, JUST LIKE ABRAHAM WAS
00:37:52.77\00:37:55.27
A JEW - OR HEBREW - SAVED
BY FAITH, GENTILES ARE SAVED BY
00:37:55.30\00:37:58.01
FAITH.' AND THE PROMISE WAS THAT
ALL NATIONS WOULD BE BLESSED
00:37:58.04\00:38:03.21
THROUGH ABRAHAM, AND THAT
PROMISE CAME BEFORE THE LAW OF
00:38:03.24\00:38:06.85
CIRCUMCISION. ALRIGHT, I AM
GOING TO READ - GO WITH ME TO
00:38:06.88\00:38:11.85
ROMANS CHAPTER 4 - THIS IS OUR
PRINCIPLE STUDY FOR TODAY - JUST
00:38:11.89\00:38:17.03
TO MAKE SURE WE GET THROUGH IT,
I'M GOING TO READ ROMANS 4:1-17
00:38:17.06\00:38:20.66
- BEAR WITH ME - AND THEN WE'LL
BACK UP AND LOOK AT IT TOGETHER.
00:38:20.70\00:38:24.17
"WHAT THEN SHALL WE SAY THAT
ABRAHAM OUR FATHER HAS FOUND
00:38:24.20\00:38:28.04
ACCORDING TO THE FLESH?
FOR IF ABRAHAM WAS JUSTIFIED BY
00:38:28.07\00:38:31.07
WORKS, HE HAS SOMETHING TO
BOAST ABOUT, BUT NOT BEFORE GOD.
00:38:31.11\00:38:34.84
FOR WHAT DOES THE SCRIPTURE SAY?
00:38:34.88\00:38:36.85
'ABRAHAM BELIEVED GOD, AND
IT WAS ACCOUNTED TO HIM FOR
00:38:36.88\00:38:39.01
RIGHTEOUSNESS.'" - HE'S QUOTING
GENESIS 15:6 - "NOW TO HIM WHO
00:38:39.05\00:38:43.05
WORKS, THE WAGES ARE NOT
COUNTED AS GRACE BUT AS DEBT.
00:38:43.08\00:38:47.06
BUT TO HIM WHO DOES NOT WORK BUT
BELIEVES ON HIM WHO JUSTIFIES
00:38:47.09\00:38:49.92
THE UNGODLY, HIS FAITH IS
ACCOUNTED FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS,
00:38:49.96\00:38:53.80
JUST AS DAVID ALSO DESCRIBES THE
BLESSEDNESS OF THE MAN TO WHOM
00:38:53.83\00:38:56.90
GOD IMPUTES RIGHTEOUSNESS APART
FROM WORKS:" - WHEN DAVID WROTE,
00:38:56.93\00:39:00.07
IN PSALM 32 - "'BLESSED ARE
THOSE WHOSE LAWLESS DEEDS ARE
00:39:00.10\00:39:03.47
FORGIVEN, AND WHOSE SINS ARE
COVERED; BLESSED IS THE MAN TO
00:39:03.51\00:39:06.71
WHOM THE LORD SHALL NOT IMPUTE
SIN.' DOES THIS BLESSEDNESS THEN
00:39:06.74\00:39:11.11
COME UPON THE CIRCUMCISED ONLY,
OR UPON THE UNCIRCUMCISED ALSO?
00:39:11.15\00:39:15.72
FOR WE SAY THAT FAITH
WAS ACCOUNTED TO ABRAHAM FOR
00:39:15.75\00:39:18.29
RIGHTEOUSNESS. HOW
THEN WAS IT ACCOUNTED?
00:39:18.32\00:39:21.09
WHILE HE WAS
CIRCUMCISED, OR UNCIRCUMCISED?
00:39:21.12\00:39:23.96
NOT WHILE CIRCUMCISED,
BUT WHILE UNCIRCUMCISED.
00:39:23.99\00:39:27.30
AND HE RECEIVED THE SIGN
OF CIRCUMCISION, A SEAL OF THE
00:39:27.30\00:39:30.43
RIGHTEOUSNESS OF THE
FAITH WHICH HE HAD WHILE STILL
00:39:30.47\00:39:32.93
UNCIRCUMCISED, THAT HE MIGHT
BE THE FATHER OF ALL THOSE WHO
00:39:32.97\00:39:36.44
BELIEVE, THOUGH THEY
ARE UNCIRCUMCISED, THAT
00:39:36.47\00:39:40.71
RIGHTEOUSNESS MIGHT BE IMPUTED
TO THEM ALSO, AND THE FATHER OF
00:39:40.74\00:39:44.11
CIRCUMCISION TO THOSE WHO NOT
ONLY ARE OF THE CIRCUMCISION,
00:39:44.15\00:39:47.22
BUT WHO ALSO WALK IN THE STEPS
OF THE FAITH WHICH OUR FATHER
00:39:47.25\00:39:50.85
ABRAHAM HAD WHILE
STILL UNCIRCUMCISED."
00:39:50.89\00:39:52.99
- I'LL BREAK THIS DOWN IN JUST
A MINUTE - "FOR THE PROMISE THAT
00:39:53.02\00:39:55.96
HE WOULD BE THE HEIR OF THE
WORLD WAS NOT TO ABRAHAM OR TO
00:39:55.99\00:39:58.83
HIS SEED THROUGH THE LAW,
BUT THROUGH THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF
00:39:58.86\00:40:01.20
FAITH. FOR IF
THOSE WHO ARE OF THE LAW
00:40:01.23\00:40:04.13
ARE HEIRS, FAITH IS MADE
VOID AND THE PROMISE MADE OF NO
00:40:04.17\00:40:07.34
EFFECT, BECAUSE THE LAW
BRINGS ABOUT WRATH; FOR WHERE
00:40:07.37\00:40:10.17
THERE IS NO LAW
THERE IS NO TRANSGRESSION."
00:40:10.21\00:40:13.14
- NOW, BY THE WAY, THAT'S A VERY
IMPORTANT VERSE - 'WHERE THERE'S
00:40:13.17\00:40:16.18
NO LAW THERE'S
NO TRANSGRESSION'.
00:40:16.21\00:40:18.35
WILL THERE BE - IS THERE
TRANSGRESSION IN THE WORLD
00:40:18.38\00:40:21.98
TODAY? >>YES.
00:40:22.02\00:40:23.05
>>THEN THERE MUST
STILL BE LAW, RIGHT? -
00:40:23.08\00:40:25.59
"THEREFORE IT IS OF FAITH THAT
IT MIGHT BE ACCORDING TO GRACE,
00:40:25.62\00:40:29.72
SO THAT THE PROMISE MIGHT BE
SURE TO ALL THE SEED, NOT ONLY
00:40:29.76\00:40:33.33
TO THOSE WHO ARE OF THE LAW,
BUT ALSO TO THOSE WHO ARE OF THE
00:40:33.36\00:40:35.63
FAITH OF ABRAHAM, WHO IS THE
FATHER OF US ALL" - AND THEN THE
00:40:35.66\00:40:39.33
LAST VERSE - VERSE 17 - "(AS IT
IS WRITTEN, 'I HAVE MADE YOU A
00:40:39.37\00:40:42.50
FATHER OF MANY NATIONS')" -
NOT JUST THE HEBREWS - "IN THE
00:40:42.54\00:40:45.84
PRESENCE OF HIM WHOM HE BELIEVED
- GOD, WHO GIVES LIFE TO THE
00:40:45.87\00:40:50.58
DEAD AND CALLS THOSE THINGS
WHICH DO NOT EXIST AS THOUGH
00:40:50.61\00:40:53.52
THEY DID." SO EVEN BEFORE THESE
OTHER NATIONS WERE BORN, GOD
00:40:53.55\00:40:59.52
DECLARED THAT, THROUGH ABRAHAM,
THEY WOULD ALL BE REDEEMED.
00:40:59.55\00:41:02.36
ALRIGHT, LET'S BACK UP NOW,
WE'RE GOING TO BE BREAKING THIS
00:41:02.39\00:41:04.96
DOWN, HERE, IN A LITTLE BIT.
LET'S TALK ABOUT THE PROMISE
00:41:04.99\00:41:08.93
THAT GOD MADE TO ABRAHAM. NOW,
THERE'S SEVERAL PROMISES. GO
00:41:08.96\00:41:11.37
WITH ME, FIRST, TO GENESIS
12. NOW, WHICH COMES FIRST,
00:41:11.40\00:41:14.80
GENESIS 12 OR
GENESIS 15? >>GENESIS 12.
00:41:14.84\00:41:17.94
>>THAT'S, OF COURSE,
A RHETORICAL QUESTION.
00:41:17.97\00:41:19.74
THAT'S IMPORTANT, AND WHAT
PAUL SAYS HERE - HE WANTS YOU TO
00:41:19.77\00:41:22.14
NOTICE THAT. GO TO
GENESIS 12 - NOTICE - YOU
00:41:22.18\00:41:29.08
DON'T HAVE TO LOOK IT UP; TAKE
MY WORD FOR IT - PAUL - ABRAHAM
00:41:29.12\00:41:32.02
DOES NOT PRACTICE CIRCUMCISION
OR GET THE COVENANT OF
00:41:32.05\00:41:34.99
CIRCUMCISION UNTIL GENESIS 17.
SO WHEN DOES HE GET THE PROMISE
00:41:35.02\00:41:40.06
THAT HE'S GOING TO
BE A FATHER OF NATIONS?
00:41:40.10\00:41:42.83
WHILE HE'S A JEW OR
WHILE HE'S A GENTILE?
00:41:42.86\00:41:46.33
SEE, WHAT PAUL IS DOING IS
HE'S WRITING TO THE JEWS WHO ARE
00:41:46.37\00:41:48.97
STRUGGLING WITH THE MINISTRY
TO THE GENTILES IN ROME.
00:41:49.00\00:41:51.51
HE SAYS, 'YOU
GUYS DON'T UNDERSTAND.
00:41:51.54\00:41:53.11
YOUR FATHER, THE ONE WHO'S
THE MOST REVERED JEW OF ALL,
00:41:53.14\00:41:57.68
ABRAHAM, GOD CALLED
HIM WHILE HE WAS A GENTILE.
00:41:57.71\00:42:01.08
HE MADE THE PROMISES TO
HIM. HE ACCEPTED THEM BY FAITH,
00:42:01.12\00:42:03.55
WHILE HE WAS A GENTILE.
GENESIS 12:1, "NOW THE LORD HAD
00:42:03.59\00:42:08.42
SAID TO ABRAM: 'GET OUT OF YOUR
COUNTRY, FROM YOUR FAMILY AND
00:42:08.46\00:42:11.19
FROM YOUR FATHER'S HOUSE,
TO A LAND THAT I WILL SHOW YOU.
00:42:11.23\00:42:13.43
I WILL MAKE YOU A GREAT NATION;
I WILL BLESS YOU AND MAKE YOUR
00:42:13.46\00:42:16.63
NAME GREAT; AND YOU
SHALL BE A BLESSING.
00:42:16.67\00:42:18.70
I WILL BLESS THOSE WHO BLESS
YOU, AND I WILL CURSE HIM WHO
00:42:18.73\00:42:21.07
CURSES YOU; AND IN YOU ALL THE
FAMILIES OF THE EARTH SHALL BE
00:42:21.10\00:42:24.17
BLESSED.' SO ABRAM DEPARTED..."
SO GOD MAKES A PROMISE TO
00:42:24.21\00:42:28.68
ABRAHAM TO GO TO A
COUNTRY HE'S NEVER SEEN.
00:42:28.71\00:42:31.08
HE COULDN'T LOOK
IT UP ON THE INTERNET.
00:42:31.11\00:42:33.15
SARAH WAS PROBABLY SAYING,
'WHAT WILL IT LOOK LIKE?'
00:42:33.18\00:42:35.65
HE SAID, 'I DON'T KNOW.' SHE
SAID, 'YOU SURE WE WANT TO DO
00:42:35.68\00:42:37.45
THIS?' I MEAN, DON'T YOU THINK
00:42:37.49\00:42:38.75
THEY HAD SOME CONVERSATIONS?
'YOU'RE MOVING TO THIS NEW
00:42:38.79\00:42:43.59
COUNTRY, DO YOU HAVE
GUARANTEED EMPLOYMENT?'
00:42:43.63\00:42:45.79
'NO.' 'AND YOU'RE MOVING?
DO WE HAVE ANY FAMILY THERE?'
00:42:45.83\00:42:50.30
'NO.' 'WE'RE GOING AWAY FROM
OUR FATHER'S HOUSE.' WE'VE OFTEN
00:42:50.33\00:42:54.77
SEEN THAT WHEN A PERSON MOVES
WITH THEIR SPOUSE AND THEIR
00:42:54.80\00:42:59.07
FAMILY'S IN ANOTHER PART
OF THE COUNTRY, IT'S HARD.
00:42:59.11\00:43:03.81
THEY HAVE TO GO BACK A
LOT. ABRAHAM - THAT TOOK FAITH.
00:43:03.85\00:43:06.78
NOW, DOES HE ACT ON THIS
FAITH WHILE HE IS CIRCUMCISED OR
00:43:06.82\00:43:10.19
UNCIRCUMCISED? >>UNCIRCUMCISED.
00:43:10.22\00:43:11.95
>>SO, TECHNICALLY, HE'S STILL A
GENTILE, YOU SEE, AT THIS POINT.
00:43:11.99\00:43:15.29
THIS IS WHAT PAUL IS ARGUING
TO THE BELIEVERS IN ROME.
00:43:15.32\00:43:18.33
AND SO, IT SAYS HE
DEPARTED. HE WENT OUT BY FAITH.
00:43:18.36\00:43:21.33
WELL, THIS ISN'T THE ONLY PLACE.
00:43:21.36\00:43:24.27
SO WE'RE LOOKING
ABOUT THE PROMISES.
00:43:24.30\00:43:26.03
HE OBEYED THE PROMISE
OF GOD, HE BELIEVED HIM.
00:43:26.07\00:43:28.37
2 PETER 1:4, "BY WHICH HAVE BEEN
GIVEN TO US EXCEEDINGLY GREAT
00:43:28.40\00:43:33.64
AND PRECIOUS PROMISES,
THAT THROUGH THESE YOU MAY BE
00:43:33.68\00:43:36.75
PARTAKERS OF THE DIVINE NATURE,
HAVING ESCAPED THE CORRUPTION
00:43:36.78\00:43:40.42
THAT IS IN THE
WORLD THROUGH LUST."
00:43:40.45\00:43:42.38
- EXCEEDING GREAT
AND PRECIOUS PROMISES.
00:43:42.42\00:43:44.52
HAVE YOU EVER ACCUMULATED A
COMPILATION OF BIBLE PROMISES?
00:43:44.55\00:43:54.46
WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT? AMMO.
00:43:54.50\00:44:00.30
WHEN YOU PRAY AND YOU CLAIM THE
PROMISES OF GOD, DOES GOD HONOR
00:44:00.34\00:44:05.84
HIS WORD? >>YES.
00:44:05.87\00:44:07.94
>>IF YOU'VE GOT A PROMISE THAT
YOU CAN BRING TO THE LORD WHEN
00:44:07.98\00:44:10.41
YOU PRAY, YOU'VE GOT A POTENT
PRAYER. PETER SAYS WE'VE GOT
00:44:10.45\00:44:14.98
EXCEEDING GREAT AND PRECIOUS
PROMISES, THAT THROUGH THESE,
00:44:15.02\00:44:19.29
YOU MIGHT BE PARTAKERS OF THE
DIVINE NATURE. HOW MANY OF YOU
00:44:19.32\00:44:22.46
WOULD LIKE TO HAVE THE NATURE
OF CHRIST? HOW DO WE GET IT?
00:44:22.49\00:44:26.66
YOU'RE THINKING THE PROMISES OF
GOD ARE PROMISES THAT SAY, 'I'M
00:44:26.70\00:44:29.43
GOING TO HAVE MONEY, AND
I'M GOING TO HAVE A NEW PICK-UP
00:44:29.46\00:44:33.47
TRUCK, AND I'M GOING TO
HAVE HEALTH, AND...' - A LOT OF
00:44:33.50\00:44:36.97
PROSPERITY PREACHERS SAY THE
PROMISES OF GOD ARE ALL ABOUT
00:44:37.01\00:44:39.17
YOU BEING
WEALTHY, HEALTHY, AND WISE.
00:44:39.21\00:44:41.91
WHY DOES PETER SAY WE
WANT THE PROMISES OF GOD?
00:44:41.94\00:44:45.05
THAT WE MIGHT BE
PARTAKERS OF THE DIVINE NATURE.
00:44:45.08\00:44:47.78
WHAT IS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING
WE SHOULD PRAY FOR AS BELIEVERS?
00:44:47.82\00:44:51.42
BE LIKE JESUS - THAT'S FIRST.
00:44:51.45\00:44:54.62
ALL THE OTHER THINGS ARE
ANCILLARY BLESSINGS - BUT GOD
00:44:54.66\00:44:57.46
HAS PROMISES ON THOSE THINGS TOO
- "HAVING ESCAPED THE CORRUPTION
00:44:57.49\00:45:01.53
THAT IS IN THE
WORLD THROUGH LUST."
00:45:01.56\00:45:03.47
HE'LL GIVE YOU THE DIVINE NATURE
TO ESCAPE THE LUST OF THE FLESH
00:45:03.50\00:45:07.40
AND THE LUST OF THE
EYES AND THE PRIDE OF LIFE.
00:45:07.44\00:45:10.17
AND THROUGH THESE
PROMISES WE'RE TRANSFORMED.
00:45:10.21\00:45:12.71
ROMANS 4:13 - IT SAYS, "FOR
THE PROMISE THAT HE WOULD BE THE
00:45:12.74\00:45:18.78
HEIR OF THE WORLD WAS NOT TO
ABRAHAM OR TO HIS SEED THROUGH
00:45:18.81\00:45:22.05
THE LAW, BUT THROUGH
THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF FAITH."
00:45:22.08\00:45:25.89
NOW, WE JUST READ
THAT. IT'S RIGHTEOUSNESS THAT
00:45:25.92\00:45:28.66
THESE PROMISES BECOME TRUE.
NOW WE READ THE PROMISE THAT GOD
00:45:28.69\00:45:32.59
MADE TO ABRAHAM IN GENESIS 12,
NOW LET'S LOOK AT THE PROMISE IN
00:45:32.63\00:45:35.90
GENESIS 15:13, "THEN HE SAID
TO ABRAHAM: 'KNOW CERTAINLY THAT
00:45:35.93\00:45:40.80
YOUR DESCENDANTS WILL BE
STRANGERS IN A LAND THAT IS NOT
00:45:40.84\00:45:43.41
THEIRS, AND WILL SERVE THEM,
AND THEY WILL AFFLICT THEM FOUR
00:45:43.44\00:45:46.21
HUNDRED YEARS. AND ALSO THE
NATION WHOM THEY SERVE I WILL
00:45:46.24\00:45:49.74
JUDGE; AFTERWARD THEY SHALL COME
OUT WITH GREAT POSSESSIONS.'"
00:45:49.78\00:45:53.31
THAT'S ACTUALLY NOT THE
PROMISE I WAS GOING TO READ.
00:45:53.35\00:45:55.65
I WANTED TO READ THE PROMISE
WHERE IT SAYS ABRAHAM BELIEVED
00:45:55.68\00:45:58.52
GOD AND HE ACCOUNTED IT
TO HIM FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS.
00:45:58.55\00:46:00.66
WELL, TELL YOU WHAT, LET'S GO
TO THE NEXT SECTION HERE BECAUSE
00:46:00.69\00:46:02.49
I'M RUNNING OUT OF TIME
AND THAT GETS COVERED UP AHEAD.
00:46:02.52\00:46:06.03
SOMEONE IS GOING TO READ, FOR
ME, ROMANS 2:29, IN A MINUTE,
00:46:06.06\00:46:09.50
OKAY? LET ME READ GALATIANS
3:7. WHAT IS A REAL JEW?
00:46:09.53\00:46:14.94
"THEREFORE KNOW THAT ONLY THOSE
WHO ARE OF FAITH ARE SONS OF
00:46:14.97\00:46:18.71
ABRAHAM." NOW EVERY
JEW IS GOING TO SAY,
00:46:18.74\00:46:23.04
'I'M A SON OF ABRAHAM.' DID
JESUS, SOMETIMES, TELL CERTAIN
00:46:23.08\00:46:26.35
JEWS THAT YOU
WEREN'T REALLY JEWS?
00:46:26.38\00:46:28.65
THAT THEY WEREN'T
CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM?
00:46:28.68\00:46:30.12
THEY SAID,
'WE'RE ABRAHAM'S SEED.
00:46:30.15\00:46:31.25
WE HAVEN'T BEEN SLAVES TO
ANYONE.' JESUS SAID, 'NO, YOU'RE
00:46:31.29\00:46:34.46
THE DEVIL'S CHILDREN AND
YOU DO THE WORKS OF YOUR MASTER.
00:46:34.49\00:46:38.46
IF YOU WERE ABRAHAM'S CHILDREN,
YOU WOULDN'T TRY TO KILL ME.'
00:46:38.49\00:46:42.16
THAT'S PRETTY STRAIGHT
LANGUAGE. SO, HOW DO YOU QUALIFY
00:46:42.20\00:46:45.40
TO BE A CHILD OF ABRAHAM?
YOU DO WHAT ABRAHAM DID, WHICH
00:46:45.43\00:46:49.97
WAS BELIEVE LIKE
ABRAHAM. DID ABRAHAM BELIEVE
00:46:50.01\00:46:53.21
IN THE MESSIAH? >>YES.
00:46:53.24\00:46:55.08
>>JESUS SAID, 'IF YOU WERE OF
YOUR FATHER ABRAHAM, YOU WOULD
00:46:55.11\00:46:57.98
BELIEVE ME BECAUSE HE LOOKED FOR
MY DAY.' GALATIANS 3:29, "AND IF
00:46:58.01\00:47:02.62
YOU ARE CHRIST'S, THEN YOU
ARE ABRAHAM'S SEED, AND HEIRS
00:47:02.65\00:47:05.22
ACCORDING TO THE
PROMISE." SO HOW MANY HERE WOULD
00:47:05.25\00:47:08.56
SAY YOU'RE CHRIST'S?
EVERY HAND SHOULD HAVE GONE UP,
00:47:08.59\00:47:12.79
IF YOU'RE A CHRISTIAN,
RIGHT? IF YOU'RE A CHRISTIAN
00:47:12.83\00:47:14.60
YOU'RE CHRIST'S. PAUL
SAYS THEN YOU ARE ABRAHAM'S
00:47:14.63\00:47:17.27
SEED AND HEIRS - ALL THE
PROMISES GOD MADE TO ABRAHAM
00:47:17.30\00:47:20.07
BELONG TO YOU,
IF YOU ARE CHRIST'S.
00:47:20.10\00:47:23.34
ALRIGHT, GO AHEAD, READ,
FOR US, PLEASE, THE NEXT VERSE.
00:47:23.37\00:47:26.71
>>"BUT HE IS A JEW WHO IS ONE
INWARDLY; AND CIRCUMCISION IS
00:47:26.74\00:47:30.95
THAT OF THE HEART, IN THE
SPIRIT, NOT IN THE LETTER; WHOSE
00:47:30.98\00:47:34.62
PRAISE IS NOT
FROM MEN BUT FROM GOD."
00:47:34.65\00:47:37.89
>>SEE, WHEN ONE RABBI WOULD
CIRCUMCISE A LITTLE BOY AT EIGHT
00:47:37.92\00:47:41.92
DAYS OLD, HE'D
SAY, 'I'M THE ONE.
00:47:41.96\00:47:43.43
I'M THE GODFATHER' - SO TO
SPEAK - 'I CIRCUMCISED HIM.' THE
00:47:43.46\00:47:45.63
PRAISE OF MEN - THEY'D
TAKE THE CREDIT FOR IT.
00:47:45.66\00:47:48.86
PAUL SAID 'NO, IT'S NOT THE
PHYSICAL CIRCUMCISION, IT'S THE
00:47:48.90\00:47:52.20
HEART CIRCUMCISION.' BECAUSE
WHAT WAS GOING ON IN ROME - YOU
00:47:52.23\00:47:55.87
REMEMBER PAUL CIRCUMCISED
TIMOTHY, EVEN AFTER TIMOTHY WAS
00:47:55.90\00:47:58.57
AN ADULT, WHICH IS A LITTLE MORE
PAINFUL PROCEDURE AND TAKES A
00:47:58.61\00:48:02.71
WHILE TO HEAL, BUT THEY WOULD GO
AROUND - THE CHRISTIANS IN ROME
00:48:02.74\00:48:08.42
WERE BRAGGING ABOUT THE
GENTILES THEY'D CIRCUMCISED.
00:48:08.45\00:48:11.85
AND SO, THEY WERE TAKING THE
PRAISE - HE SAYS, 'NO, NO, THAT
00:48:11.89\00:48:13.62
- THAT DOESN'T MATTER.
IT'S THE CIRCUMCISION OF THE
00:48:13.66\00:48:15.32
HEART, AND THAT GLORY BELONGS
TO GOD.' BECAUSE IT'S SOMETHING
00:48:15.36\00:48:18.39
THAT HAPPENS BY FAITH, IT
ISN'T A SURGICAL PROCEDURE.
00:48:18.43\00:48:21.63
IF I COULD SURGICALLY HAVE MY
CARNAL NATURE REMOVED, I WOULD
00:48:21.66\00:48:25.57
RUN TO THE DOCTOR. IF I
COULD SURGICALLY HAVE A NEW
00:48:25.60\00:48:29.70
HEART PLACED IN ME, I
WOULD RUN TO THE DOCTOR.
00:48:29.74\00:48:32.57
BUT YOU CAN'T DO
IT THAT WAY, CAN YOU?
00:48:32.61\00:48:34.64
IT'S SOMETHING THAT GOD DOES.
IT'S A SUPERNATURAL SURGERY.
00:48:34.68\00:48:38.31
LET ME GIVE YOU ANOTHER ONE,
MATTHEW 3:9 - I THINK THIS IS
00:48:38.35\00:48:42.12
JOHN THE BAPTIST SPEAKING HERE,
"AND DO NOT THINK TO SAY TO
00:48:42.15\00:48:44.59
YOURSELVES, 'WE HAVE ABRAHAM
AS OUR FATHER.' FOR I SAY TO YOU
00:48:44.62\00:48:47.79
THAT GOD IS ABLE TO RAISE UP
CHILDREN TO ABRAHAM FROM THESE
00:48:47.82\00:48:49.99
STONES." WAS THERE
A RISK THAT, BACK IN
00:48:50.03\00:48:52.79
THE TIME OF CHRIST, PEOPLE WERE
SAYING, 'WELL, ABRAHAM'S OUR
00:48:52.83\00:48:55.20
ANCESTOR SO
YOU'VE GOT TO SAVE US.
00:48:55.23\00:48:57.20
WE'RE THE CHOSEN
FROZEN' OR THE PEOPLE OF GOD.
00:48:57.23\00:49:00.87
NOW THAT WAS JUST
THE JEWS BACK THEN.
00:49:00.90\00:49:02.30
WE DON'T EVER DO THAT,
RIGHT? WE DON'T EVER SAY, 'I'M A
00:49:02.34\00:49:04.31
THIRD OR A FOURTH GENERATION
CHRISTIAN.' 'MY UNCLE'S A
00:49:04.34\00:49:11.88
PASTOR.' 'MY FATHER'S A PASTOR.
I GET EXTRA CREDIT WHEN I STAND
00:49:11.91\00:49:16.15
AT THE PEARLY GATES.'
DOES ANYONE GET SAVED BY VIRTUE
00:49:16.18\00:49:19.99
OF YOUR CHRISTIAN GENEALOGY?
BUT HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE HEARD
00:49:20.02\00:49:23.39
SOMEONE SORT OF BOAST ABOUT
THEIR HERITAGE IN THE CHURCH?
00:49:23.43\00:49:27.40
SOMETIMES THAT
CAN WORK AGAINST YOU.
00:49:27.46\00:49:30.43
IN THE TIME OF CHRIST, DID THOSE
WHO HAD BEEN IN THE CHURCH FOR
00:49:30.47\00:49:33.10
GENERATIONS START GETTING
SWALLOWED UP BY THEIR OWN
00:49:33.13\00:49:35.84
CUSTOMS? THE LAWS OF MEN?
00:49:35.87\00:49:39.24
DOES IT STILL HAPPEN
TODAY, WHERE WE FORGET ABOUT THE
00:49:39.27\00:49:42.21
IMPORTANCE OF GENUINE FAITH?
LET ME GIVE YOU ANOTHER ONE.
00:49:42.24\00:49:45.55
LUKE 13:28, "THERE WILL BE
WEEPING AND GNASHING OF TEETH,
00:49:45.58\00:49:49.25
WHEN YOU SEE ABRAHAM AND ISAAC
AND JACOB AND ALL THE PROPHETS
00:49:49.28\00:49:51.85
IN THE KINGDOM OF GOD,
AND YOURSELVES THRUST OUT.
00:49:51.89\00:49:55.52
THEN THEY WILL COME FROM
THE EAST AND THE WEST," - THE
00:49:55.56\00:49:57.53
GENTILES - "FROM THE NORTH AND
THE SOUTH, AND SIT DOWN IN THE
00:49:57.56\00:50:00.53
KINGDOM OF GOD" - WITH
ABRAHAM, ISAAC, AND JACOB.
00:50:00.56\00:50:03.26
OBVIOUSLY, THE SAVED PROPHETS
ARE THERE, THE PATRIARCHS ARE
00:50:03.30\00:50:05.50
THERE, AND THERE'LL BE
MANY FAITHFUL THERE, BUT THERE'S
00:50:05.53\00:50:08.24
GOING TO BE OTHERS WHO WILL COME
FROM THE EAST AND THE WEST - THE
00:50:08.27\00:50:10.61
GENTILES - AND THEY MIGHT HAVE
THE DNA OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE,
00:50:10.64\00:50:14.94
BUT THEY'RE NOT IN THE KINGDOM
IF THEY DON'T HAVE FAITH.
00:50:14.98\00:50:17.38
NOW, IS THAT A STRETCH
OR IS THAT WHAT HE'S SAYING?
00:50:17.41\00:50:20.25
IT'S PRETTY CLEAR WHAT IT
MEANS. NOW, SOME PEOPLE THINK,
00:50:20.28\00:50:24.35
'PASTOR DOUG, ARE YOU
TEACHING REPLACEMENT THEOLOGY?'
00:50:24.39\00:50:27.02
DO YOU KNOW WHAT
REPLACEMENT THEOLOGY IS?
00:50:27.06\00:50:28.92
THAT ONCE JESUS DIED, GOD HAS
NO MORE PROMISES TO KEEP TO THE
00:50:28.96\00:50:33.36
JEWS - THAT THERE'S NOTHING
SPECIAL FOR THE JEWISH NATION -
00:50:33.40\00:50:35.40
THAT HAS ALL BEEN
REPLACED BY CHRISTIANITY.
00:50:35.43\00:50:38.97
NO, I DON'T
BELIEVE IT LIKE THAT.
00:50:39.00\00:50:41.37
I DO BELIEVE THAT GOD STILL HAS
THINGS THAT HE'S DOING WITH THE
00:50:41.40\00:50:43.94
JEWS - THERE'S PROMISES AND
PROPHECIES THAT APPLY TO THE
00:50:43.97\00:50:46.34
JEWS, BUT I DO THINK IT'S CLEAR
THAT GENTILES ARE GRAFTED INTO
00:50:46.37\00:50:51.88
THE STALK OF ISRAEL AND WE
GET TO LAY CLAIM ON ALL THE
00:50:51.91\00:50:55.52
PROMISES. HOW DO I KNOW THAT?
00:50:55.55\00:50:58.79
ARE WE SAVED UNDER THE NEW
COVENANT OR THE OLD COVENANT?
00:50:58.82\00:51:01.59
>>NEW COVENANT. >>NEW COVENANT.
00:51:01.62\00:51:03.96
YOU'RE AFRAID TO ANSWER BECAUSE
YOU SAY, 'PASTOR DOUG ALWAYS HAS
00:51:03.99\00:51:05.93
THESE TRICK QUESTIONS.
WE DON'T KNOW WHAT HE'S UP
00:51:05.96\00:51:08.73
TO.' WHERE'S THE NEW COVENANT?
WHAT DOES THE NEW COVENANT SAY?
00:51:08.76\00:51:12.90
'I WILL MAKE A NEW COVENANT
AFTER THOSE DAYS, SAYS THE LORD,
00:51:12.93\00:51:15.17
WITH THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL AND THE
HOUSE OF JUDAH.' SO, DOES GOD
00:51:15.20\00:51:19.81
MAKE THE NEW COVENANT WITH
GENTILES OR WITH THE HOUSE OF
00:51:19.84\00:51:22.08
ISRAEL AND THE HOUSE OF JUDAH?
SO IF YOU ARE SAVED UNDER THE
00:51:22.11\00:51:25.48
NEW COVENANT, YOU HAVE TO
BE ADOPTED INTO THE SPIRITUAL
00:51:25.51\00:51:29.18
CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM, RIGHT?
IF YOU'RE CHRIST'S THEN YOU
00:51:29.22\00:51:33.29
ARE ABRAHAM'S SEED AND
HEIRS ACCORDING TO THE PROMISE.
00:51:33.32\00:51:35.66
HEIRS OF WHAT? THE NEW COVENANT.
00:51:35.69\00:51:37.09
>>AMEN. >>SO YOU
GET THE NEW COVENANT
00:51:37.13\00:51:38.76
BECAUSE YOU ARE
ADOPTED IN THROUGH CHRIST.
00:51:38.79\00:51:42.26
ALRIGHT, SO THAT'S NOT THE
SAME AS REPLACEMENT THEOLOGY.
00:51:42.30\00:51:45.93
THE LAW AND FAITH - ALRIGHT,
"DOES THIS BLESSEDNESS" -
00:51:45.97\00:51:51.54
ROMANS 4:9 - "COME
UPON THE CIRCUMCISED
00:51:51.57\00:51:54.08
ONLY, OR UPON
THE CIRCUMCISED ALSO?
00:51:54.11\00:51:57.08
FOR WE SAY THAT FAITH
WAS ACCOUNTED TO ABRAHAM FOR
00:51:57.11\00:51:59.65
RIGHTEOUSNESS." -
AND GO TO VERSE 10 - "HOW
00:51:59.68\00:52:02.45
THEN WAS IT ACCOUNTED?"
- I'M IN ROMANS 4:10 -
00:52:02.48\00:52:05.75
"WHILE HE WAS
CIRCUMCISED, OR UNCIRCUMCISED?
00:52:05.79\00:52:08.92
NOT WHILE CIRCUMCISED,
BUT WHILE UNCIRCUMCISED.
00:52:08.96\00:52:12.26
AND HE RECEIVED THE SIGN
OF CIRCUMCISION, A SEAL OF THE
00:52:12.29\00:52:15.50
RIGHTEOUSNESS OF THE
FAITH WHICH HE HAD WHILE STILL
00:52:15.53\00:52:20.14
UNCIRCUMCISED, THAT HE MIGHT
BE THE FATHER OF ALL THOSE WHO
00:52:20.17\00:52:22.37
BELIEVE," - NOW IF YOU LOOK IN
GENESIS 15:5 - THIS IS THE ONE I
00:52:22.40\00:52:26.14
WANTED EARLIER. WHICH
COMES FIRST, GENESIS 17
00:52:26.17\00:52:29.78
WHERE THERE'S
CIRCUMCISION OR GENESIS 15?
00:52:29.81\00:52:33.08
15 COMES FIRST. WHERE IS
ABRAHAM ACCOUNTED RIGHTEOUS?
00:52:33.11\00:52:37.79
AFTER HE'S CIRCUMCISED -
GENESIS 17? OR GENESIS 15?
00:52:37.82\00:52:40.92
LET'S READ IT: "THEN HE BROUGHT
HIM OUTSIDE AND SAID, 'LOOK NOW
00:52:40.96\00:52:44.13
TOWARD HEAVEN, AND COUNT THE
STARS IF YOU ARE ABLE TO NUMBER
00:52:44.16\00:52:46.63
THEM.' AND HE SAID TO HIM, 'SO
SHALL YOUR DESCENDANTS BE.' AND
00:52:46.66\00:52:50.33
HE" - ABRAHAM - "BELIEVED IN THE
LORD, AND HE" - GOD - "ACCOUNTED
00:52:50.37\00:52:54.27
IT TO HIM FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS."
YOU KNOW WHAT THAT'S CALLED?
00:52:54.30\00:52:57.07
HE WAS RIGHTEOUS
BY BELIEF OR FAITH.
00:52:57.11\00:53:01.28
THIS IS RIGHTEOUSNESS BY FAITH.
ABRAHAM BELIEVED THE PROMISE
00:53:01.31\00:53:05.81
AND HE WAS DECLARED
RIGHTEOUS BECAUSE HE BELIEVED
00:53:05.85\00:53:08.85
- HE TRUSTED IN GOD.
DID THAT HAPPEN WHILE HE WAS
00:53:08.88\00:53:12.42
CIRCUMCISED OR
UNCIRCUMCISED? UNCIRCUMCISED.
00:53:12.45\00:53:15.66
DO YOU SEE THE ARGUMENT PAUL
IS MAKING TO THE CHRISTIANS IN
00:53:15.69\00:53:17.43
ROME, NOW? AND TO THE
JEWS - JEWISH CHRISTIANS?
00:53:17.46\00:53:20.56
HE'S SAYING, 'THE GENTILES
CAN ACCEPT THE SALVATION OF GOD,
00:53:20.60\00:53:25.13
JUST LIKE OUR FATHER ABRAHAM
DID.' NOW, IF YOU'RE APPEALING
00:53:25.17\00:53:28.70
TO JEW - JEWISH READERS, WHO
COULD YOU APPEAL TO THAT'S MORE
00:53:28.74\00:53:32.64
MAGNIFICENT THAN
ABRAHAM? I MEAN, THEY ALL TRACE
00:53:32.67\00:53:35.61
THEMSELVES BACK TO ABRAHAM.
HE'S SAYING, 'ABRAHAM WAS
00:53:35.64\00:53:38.15
DECLARED RIGHTEOUS BY FAITH,
WHILE STILL UNCIRCUMCISED.
00:53:38.18\00:53:41.58
SO HOW DARE YOU SAY TO THESE
GENTILES - THESE ROMANS - THESE
00:53:41.62\00:53:45.92
GREEKS THAT ARE COMING TO
CHRIST, 'OH, YOU CAN'T BE SAVED
00:53:45.95\00:53:48.72
BY FAITH UNTIL
YOU'RE CIRCUMCISED'?
00:53:48.76\00:53:50.43
GOD DIDN'T EVEN
REQUIRE THAT OF ABRAHAM.
00:53:50.46\00:53:52.76
HOW CAN YOU SAY IT TO
THEM?' YOU SEE THE ARGUMENT
00:53:52.79\00:53:55.13
THAT PAUL IS MAKING HERE?
HE'S TRYING TO DEAL WITH A
00:53:55.16\00:53:57.97
SPECIFIC PROBLEM AND HE'S
USING GOOD BIBLICAL ARGUMENTS.
00:53:58.00\00:54:02.17
AND, OF COURSE, YOU HAVE GENESIS
12 - HE WAS RECEIVED BY FAITH
00:54:02.20\00:54:05.31
THERE, ALSO. SO GO
TO ACTS 10:28 - PETER,
00:54:05.34\00:54:11.75
HERE, JUST TO REMIND
YOU WHAT THE CHALLENGE WAS
00:54:11.78\00:54:14.25
THEY WERE HAVING.
PETER SAID TO THEM, "YOU KNOW
00:54:14.28\00:54:17.55
HOW IT IS UNLAWFUL FOR A JEWISH
MAN TO KEEP COMPANY OR TO GO
00:54:17.59\00:54:21.52
IN TO ONE FROM ANOTHER NATION.
BUT GOD HAS SHOWN ME THAT I
00:54:21.56\00:54:26.19
SHOULD NOT CALL ANY
MAN COMMON OR UNCLEAN."
00:54:26.23\00:54:28.93
WHEN PETER GOES TO THE HOUSE OF
CORNELIUS, HE SAID, 'YOU REALIZE
00:54:28.96\00:54:32.93
WE'VE BELIEVED, FOR GENERATIONS,
WE'RE NOT EVEN SUPPOSED TO COME
00:54:32.97\00:54:35.20
UNDER YOUR ROOF BECAUSE YOU'RE
UNCLEAN, BUT GOD'S SHOWN ME
00:54:35.24\00:54:37.94
THAT'S WRONG, THAT GOD HAS SAID
THAT GENTILES CAN NOW RECEIVE
00:54:37.97\00:54:44.01
SALVATION THROUGH
CHRIST - THROUGH HIS SACRIFICE.
00:54:44.05\00:54:48.72
AND GO TO ACTS CHAPTER 11, VERSE
2, "AND WHEN PETER CAME UP TO
00:54:48.75\00:54:55.06
JERUSALEM, THOSE OF THE
CIRCUMCISION CONTENDED WITH HIM,
00:54:55.09\00:54:58.29
SAYING, 'YOU WENT IN TO
UNCIRCUMCISED MEN AND ATE WITH
00:54:58.33\00:55:01.70
THEM!'" - NON JEWS! -
00:55:01.73\00:55:05.20
ACTS 11 - WHEN THEY HEARD
THIS, PETER TOLD THEM ABOUT THE
00:55:05.23\00:55:08.17
EXPERIENCE, HOW GOD'S ANGELS
TOLD HIM TO DO IT - ACTS 11:18,
00:55:08.20\00:55:11.87
"WHEN THEY HEARD THESE THINGS
THEY BECAME SILENT; AND THEY
00:55:11.91\00:55:14.98
GLORIFIED GOD," - LISTEN TO WHAT
THEY SAID - "THEN GOD HAS ALSO
00:55:15.01\00:55:18.61
GRANTED TO THE
GENTILES REPENTANCE TO LIFE.'"
00:55:18.65\00:55:22.02
DID THAT WORD REACH ROME?
THEY SAID, 'YEAH, HE'S GRANTED
00:55:22.05\00:55:24.95
YOU REPENTANCE BUT YOU STILL
NEED TO BE CIRCUMCISED.' PAUL
00:55:24.99\00:55:27.62
SAID, 'NO THEY DON'T.'
AND THAT WAS THE BIG DEBATE
00:55:27.66\00:55:30.83
THAT'S GOING ON HERE. YOU
KNOW, THERE'S AN INTERESTING
00:55:30.86\00:55:32.99
QUOTE FROM THE BOOK DESIRE
OF AGES , HERE, AND THIS IS PAGE
00:55:33.03\00:55:37.37
35, "THE PRINCIPLE THAT MAN CAN
SAVE HIMSELF BY HIS OWN WORKS
00:55:37.40\00:55:42.07
LAYS AT THE FOUNDATION
OF EVERY HEATHEN RELIGION.
00:55:42.10\00:55:45.34
WHEREVER IT IS HELD, MEN
HAVE NO BARRIER AGAINST SIN".
00:55:45.37\00:55:49.64
THE IDEA THAT WE CAN WORK OUR
WAY INTO RIGHTEOUSNESS, IT JUST
00:55:49.68\00:55:54.38
DESTROYS THE BARRIER TO SIN.
IT IS ONLY THROUGH FAITH THAT WE
00:55:54.42\00:55:56.72
CAN OVERCOME AND ANYONE WHO'S
TRYING TO WORK THEIR WAY TO
00:55:56.75\00:56:00.89
HOLINESS - MARTIN LUTHER TRIED
IT AND HE BECAME SO FRUSTRATED,
00:56:00.92\00:56:04.29
HE WOULD WHIP
HIMSELF. HE BEAT HIMSELF.
00:56:04.33\00:56:07.03
HE'D CRAWL AROUND ON HIS KNEES
AND SAY THESE LONG PRAYERS AND
00:56:07.10\00:56:10.33
HE'S TRYING TO WORK
HIS WAY TO FINDING PEACE.
00:56:10.37\00:56:12.90
AND IT ACTUALLY
BECOMES AN OBSTACLE.
00:56:12.93\00:56:15.70
YOU GET THE POWER THROUGH FAITH,
BY EMBRACING THE GIFT THAT GOD
00:56:15.74\00:56:19.64
HAS GIVEN US. AND
THEN WE HAVE ONE LAST VERSE
00:56:19.67\00:56:25.58
THAT YOU'RE GOING TO READ
FOR US, AND THAT WOULD BE ROMANS
00:56:25.61\00:56:28.18
3:20 AND THIS IS
WHERE WE STARTED.
00:56:28.22\00:56:30.29
IT'S A GOOD PLACE
FOR US TO CONCLUDE.
00:56:30.32\00:56:34.02
>>"THEREFORE BY THE DEEDS OF THE
LAW NO FLESH WILL BE JUSTIFIED
00:56:34.06\00:56:37.79
IN HIS SIGHT, FOR BY THE
LAW IS THE KNOWLEDGE OF SIN."
00:56:37.83\00:56:42.60
>>SO DOES THE LAW STILL
HAVE A VERY IMPORTANT PURPOSE?
00:56:42.63\00:56:45.73
IT SHOWS US OUR SIN.
THEN WE REPENT OF OUR SINS, WE
00:56:45.77\00:56:49.24
TURN TO JESUS FOR MERCY, AND
HE GIVES US GRACE, NOT ONLY TO
00:56:49.27\00:56:54.44
FORGIVE US, BUT GRACE
TO LIVE A NEW KIND OF LIFE.
00:56:54.48\00:56:57.68
AND THAT'S WHAT THE
POWER OF THE GOSPEL DOES.
00:56:57.71\00:57:00.35
ALRIGHT, I'VE GOT A LITTLE MORE
TO SAY, BUT I AM OUT OF TIME.
00:57:00.38\00:57:03.22
I THINK WE'VE
COVERED THE MAIN POINTS.
00:57:03.25\00:57:04.92
I WANT TO REMIND THOSE WHO MAY
HAVE TUNED IN LATE, WE HAVE A
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BOOK I THINK YOU'LL REALLY
ENJOY, IT IS A SPECIAL PREMIUM
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YOU DID. PLEASE READ IT AND THEN
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SHARE IT WITH SOMEBODY.
GOD BLESS YOU, FRIENDS, WE'LL
00:57:26.81\00:57:29.18
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TOGETHER AGAIN NEXT WEEK.
00:57:29.21\00:57:32.51
>>FIVE HUNDRED YEARS AGO, GOD
USED MARTIN LUTHER TO INSPIRE A
00:57:32.55\00:57:36.08
GREAT REFORMATION; HOWEVER, IN
THE CENTURIES THAT FOLLOWED, THE
00:57:36.12\00:57:40.02
CHURCH HAS SLIPPED OFF THE
BEDROCK OF TRUTH INTO THE VALLEY
00:57:40.06\00:57:43.53
OF LUKEWARM WORLDLINESS.
THAT'S WHY, THIS FALL, I'LL BE
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PRESENTING A BRAND-NEW
NINE-PART SERIES CALLED
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PLEASE PLAN, NOW, TO JOIN ME IN
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TELEVISION AND BE SURE TO INVITE
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