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285 | Continuing Down the Romans Road - Romans 3:23 and Romans 6:23 · The Woman at the Well Ministries Podcast

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  Music.
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  Hello, friends, and welcome back to another podcast of Woman at the Well Ministries,
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  where we believe that all of us have to come to Jesus like the woman at the
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  well in John chapter four.
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  Our highest priority is making God real in your life.
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  Whether you are listening in our app, in your favorite podcasting app,
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  or on our website at watwm.org,
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  we invite you to sit down with us as we look to the scriptures to learn more
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  about God and to strengthen in your daily walk with Jesus Christ.
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  Living her life for Christ. She's a happy girl.
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  Music.
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  She's a happy girl.
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  In this episode of the Woman at the Well Ministries podcast,
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  join Kim Miller and Erica Close in a conversation as we walk with Jesus.
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  In today's conversation, we continue to discuss the importance of the Roman's
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  road and the power it has as a tool to witness to others and build the kingdom of God.
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  Well, thank you all so much for joining us in our conversation today.
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  My name is Erica Close, and I am here with Kim Miller.
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  And I am so glad that you have decided to spend the next few moments with us
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  as we examine the Roman's Road further and take a really close look at Romans 3.23 and Romans 6.23.
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  So if you were with us last week on our Wednesday, day, you would have heard
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  an introduction to the Romans Road, and you would have heard one of the reasons,
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  a couple of reasons that we gave for why knowing the Romans Road is important.
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  We talked about what the Romans Road was, that it's a series essentially of
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  five verses that you can use as a tool to explain to someone what it means to
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  be saved and why we need to be saved.
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  But it's also important to understand why we need to be able to tell someone.
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  And last week we did talk about 1 Peter 3.15 that says, But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts,
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  and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason
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  of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear.
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  The Lord wants us to be ready to give an answer to the Lord
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  for why we have faith, to give an answer to the question of what has Jesus done for you.
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  We are called to be ready. We're called to be ready in the same way that we
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  are called to be light in this world.
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  In Matthew 5, 14, we read, you.
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  Are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hid.
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  And in 15, neither do men light a candle and put it under a bushel,
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  but on a candlestick, and it giveth light unto all that are in the house.
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  And then verse 16, let your light so shine before men that they may see your
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  good works and glorify your Father, which is in heaven.
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  We've been given a charge to be light in this world and to share Jesus with others.
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  In Matthew chapter 28 and verses 19 and 20, we read what we commonly call the the Great Commission,
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  it says, Go ye therefore and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of
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  the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost, teaching them to observe all
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  things whatsoever I have commanded you.
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  And lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world.
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  We're called to go out into the world, but we have to have something to take them.
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  And that is why we're talking about the Roman's road, because it is a something that you can give.
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  It is the truth that you can give.
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  So the Romans Road is made up of five verses, the first of which is Romans 3.23
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  that gives us the truth about the predicament that we are in.
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  It says Romans 3.23, for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God.
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  And moving on to the next verse is Romans 6.23, for the wages of sin is death,
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  but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
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  And then we step back into Romans 5, 8.
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  But God commendeth his love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners,
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  Christ died for us. Hallelujah.
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  And then we move into Romans chapter 10.
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  And we read in 10, 9, and 10, that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the
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  Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the
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  dead, thou shalt be saved.
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  For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
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  And the last verse in the Romans road holds the promise.
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  Romans 10, 13, 13 for whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
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  When we're called to go out into the world, we're called to tell our story,
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  but we also have to give those that we're talking to the truth of the scriptures
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  because it's the truth of what Jesus did,
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  who Jesus is, and his love for us that transforms people's lives.
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  So to that end, we're going to start today talking deeply about Romans 3.23 and Romans 6.23.
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  So again, Romans 3.23, we start at the beginning of the road,
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  is for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God.
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  And let's take a look at what it means to sin.
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  I think people get a little off on that.
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  And sin is anything we do that is contrary to what God would have us to do.
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  Could you read Romans 3, 10 through 18 for us?
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  Their lips, whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness. Their feet are swift to shed blood.
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  Destruction and misery are in their ways, and the way of peace have they not known.
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  There is no fear of God before their eyes.
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  And when you think about that for a moment, I want you to think about when you
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  willingly sin, you clearly do not fear the consequences.
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  And something is wrong with your heart. It's unclean.
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  And no one comes into this world innocent.
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  But we are told very clearly in Romans 3.23 that we all have sinned and come
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  short of the glory of God.
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  Isaiah speaks about it in Isaiah 64 6 when he says this,
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  but we are all as an unclean thing and all our righteousness are as filthy rags
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  and we all do fade as a leaf and our iniquities like the wind have taken us away.
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  So we come into this world sinners in need of a savior.
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  Let's look at what he says when we begin to look at Isaiah 1.18.
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  Isaiah 1.18 says this, Come now and let us reason together, saith the Lord.
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  Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be white as snow.
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  Though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. So what we see in Isaiah
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  118 is that the Lord washes away our sin. We have sin.
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  We are born with sin.
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  In Isaiah 53, 6, it says, All we like sheep have gone astray.
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  We have turned everyone to his own way, and the Lord hath laid on him,
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  that is Jesus, the iniquity of us all. We don't often think...
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  Of going our own way as being a defiant action against God.
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  We don't always think the truth, which is when we seek our logic,
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  when we seek our knowledge, when we try to make our way the right way and we ignore God,
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  we are sinning and we must stop that.
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  We can't live our lives in that kind of way. and he tells us in 1 John 1 8 this truth.
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  He says, if we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us.
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  Now, the Romans road establishes very quickly with that one verse in Romans
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  3 23 that we have all sinned and we need a savior.
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  It establishes that no one is free from needing to be saved.
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  In fact, we also see that in John 3, 7, when he says, marvel not that I say
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  unto thee, ye must be born again.
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  In Romans 3, 10, he says, as it is written, there is none righteous, no, not one.
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  In Romans 5, 12, he says, wherefore, as by one man, sin entered into the world and death by sin.
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  And so death passed upon all men for that all have sinned.
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  So you may not want to consider yourself a dirty, rotten sinner.
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  You may not think that you did needed anything, that you didn't kill anybody,
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  you didn't murder your wife, or you didn't steal anything.
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  But my friend, your self-righteousness is a sin.
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  Anything done without faith, the scripture tells us, is sin.
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  We all have sinned, and we all need a Savior that will forgive us.
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  In fact, 1 John 1 says, if we confess our sins, He's faithful and just to forgive
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  us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
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  It has been proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that each and every one of us
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  need Jesus as our Savior.
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  Romans 3.23, our starting point on the Romans road, tells us that.
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  And in addition, we know what sin is. Erica read it in your hearing.
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  And as we begin to continue to walk down the road and look at what it says,
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  so we know we're sinners. We know we sin.
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  Now what? Well, after we establish that we're all sinners, Romans 6.23,
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  which is that next stop on the Roman's road, lets us know the consequence of that sin.
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  And be not deceived, God is not mocked. For whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
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  Galatians 6.7. And what we sow, if we are sinners, what we are sowing is sin,
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  and what we would reap is death.
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  So Romans 6.23 says, For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal
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  life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
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  So the wages, if we are working sin out, then the wages, what we would get in
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  exchange for the work we have done, done.
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  The effort we put in. The effort we put in. The actions we have done. Is death.
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  So what we deserve, because we are sinners in need of a Savior,
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  what we deserve is death.
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  And praise be to God, His grace is sufficient.
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  So we don't get what we deserve. No, because the gift of God is eternal life
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  through Jesus Christ, our Lord. And it is a gift.
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  If we look at Proverbs 11, 11 verse 19, it reads, as righteousness tendeth to
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  life, so he that pursueth evil pursueth it to his own death.
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  And you may say, I'm not an evil person.
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  I'm a good person. But it's not of works of righteousness, which we have done.
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  It's the finished work on Calvary that saves us.
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  We can't be good enough on our own.
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  It is only the shedding of the sinless, spotless blood that washes away our
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  sins when we receive his mercy,
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  his love, his grace, and allow him to wash our sins away and to take up residence
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  in our heart and in our life.
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  Any other pursuit.
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  Is going to result in eternity in hell, life without Jesus, and death.
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  Our other verse I would like to read in your hearing regarding Romans 6.23 is Isaiah 59.2.
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  And there he says, But your iniquities have separated between you and your God,
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  and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.
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  The only prayer that God hears from a sinner is the prayer of repentance.
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  And I can't stress enough what repentance is.
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  Repentance means turning away.
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  It means acknowledging your sin, confessing to God who you know is the one true
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  living God whose sinless, perfect, spotless blood is the only payment for sin.
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  And when he died on the cross and shed his blood for you and me,
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  when we believe and receive him, he washes away our sin and we are justified,
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  just as if we never sinned.
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  This is the only payment that we have for sin.
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  And he then removes the separation because sin's no longer between us and him.
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  And we now are in right standing and he imputes his righteousness into us,
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  not because we're worthy, not because we deserve it, but because Jesus loves me. This I know.
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  Amen. And that love is on full display. The love's on full display in 623.
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  The gift of God is eternal life through through Jesus Christ our Lord.
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  Well, we thank you so much for joining us in this podcast of Women at the Well Ministries.
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  And it has been a pleasure to walk through Romans 3.23 and Romans 6.23 with you this evening.
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  And we ask that as you join back again in our next appointed podcast with conversations
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  about Jesus and the Word, that you would join us as we continue our journey on on the Romans Road,
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  we are praying that each of you develop a personal desire to win the lost at
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  any cost, to tell the world your story of how Jesus saved you,
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  how you once were lost, but now you're found,
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  how you once was blind, but now you see.
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  Remember, you are loved. Jesus loves you.
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