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Romans 10:5-13 · Providence Baptist Church - Sermons

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Good morning, I invite you to open up your Bibles to Hebrews.
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Excuse me, we're not in the book of Hebrews.
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We're in the book of Romans, chapter 10.
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We spent a little time in Hebrews earlier today.
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Romans, chapter 10.
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Our text for today is Romans, chapter 10, verses 5 through 13.
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Before we get into our text, I want to tell you that I am very tired.
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Physically tired.
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We have had a lot going on here in the life of the church.
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Most of you know I'm in the process of building a house.
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Yesterday I was here, down in my study, working on this sermon today.
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And I'm not sure that he knew it, but some people were here cleaning,
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and Coulson came down and knocked on my door to ask me some questions about chairs,
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and I had passed out, and not even thought about passing out.
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I don't know if he sensed that I felt awkward when he knocked on the door.
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And I said, come in.
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I was very startled awake.
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So I'm finding myself sitting and just fading into unconsciousness all of a sudden.
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So physically very tired.
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But more than that, I'm just finding myself lately spiritually tired.
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I am tired of unimportant theological debates.
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There is so much going on out there and sometimes even in here.
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I'm tired of people confusing gospel implications with the gospel itself.
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I'm tired of strained relationships and family conflict.
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I'm tired of misplaced trust in political parties.
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I'm tired of denominational fights and denominational infighting.
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I'm tired of people who profess Christ ignoring the word of Christ.
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Seems often you can't even have a conversation with people who say they're people of the word.
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I'm tired of nitpicky preferences and grumbling.
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I'm tired of mission drift.
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I'm tired of mental illness and faith deconstruction and lack of assurance.
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And in all this exhaustion, I am tempted to lose hope.
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Feel this tug to just lose hope as we live in the time between what will be fully realized in Christ.
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The days feel really long.
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So I'm tempted to lose hope or rather, I may say, to forget the hope that is mine.
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And the hope that is the hope of the world.
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Beloved, we ought never to grow tired of hearing the gospel.
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For it is the greatest of news for a dismally rebellious humanity.
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It must be believed, cherished, defended, and shared.
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You and I need to be reminded of the good news of Jesus Christ.
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I need to hear it all the time.
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The following is a quotation that I shared with you on the very first week that we picked up our study of the book of Romans.
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Martin Luther said this of the letter.
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This epistle is really the chief part of the New Testament and is truly the purest gospel.
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It is worthy not only that every Christian should know it word for word by heart,
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but also that he should occupy himself with it every day as the daily bread of the soul.
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We can never read it or ponder over it too much.
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For the more we deal with it, the more precious it becomes and the better it tastes.
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And so we have before us this morning another opportunity to revel in the good news of Jesus Christ.
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This text is straightforward and I expect my comments this morning to be brief.
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Often I struggle to condense my notes for our planned time together.
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Today, that is not the case.
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However, short and simple our consideration of this text is today,
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let us not miss the profundity of God's mercy expressed to a people in the redemptive work of Jesus Christ.
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So I'll begin reading in verse 5 of chapter 10.
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Before I read, let me remind you, beloved, that this is God's word to us.
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It was written for his glory and for our good.
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And so we would all do well to listen to it in order to believe its promises and to obey its commands.
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Paul writes,
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But what does it say?
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The word is near you in your mouth and in your heart.
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That is the word of faith that we proclaim.
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Because if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead,
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you will be saved.
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For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.
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For the scripture says,
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Everyone who believes in him will not be put to shame.
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For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek.
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For the same Lord is Lord of all, bestowing his riches on all who call on him.
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For everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.
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The four at the beginning of verse 5 tells us that Paul is further explaining what he has previously stated.
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Last week we saw Paul juxtapose righteousness pursued by the law and righteousness that is by faith.
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And in verse 4 of chapter 10, Paul says,
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For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.
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That is, Christ puts away any idea that we might pursue the law for righteousness.
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So in today's text, he's going to help his hearers understand exactly what he means in verse 4.
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And he's going to appeal to the writing of Moses to do so.
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He goes to the scripture to make his point.
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So look at verse 5.
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That is, if you desire to live a life that is pleasing to God, to be called righteous, that is to be perfect,
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and you pursue this righteousness by the law, then you will have to conduct yourself entirely by the law.
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Your very life will depend on it.
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Paul here is citing Leviticus 18 and verse 5, where Moses records the words of God.
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Hear them.
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You shall therefore keep my statutes and my rules.
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If a person does them, he shall live by them.
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I am the Lord.
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And so let me just say it more plainly.
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If the basis of your perfection is your perfection, then you will have to be perfect.
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Before we proceed any further, I think at this point it may serve someone here to consider why anyone would even desire to pursue righteousness.
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Gospel responses must start with an understanding of our sinfulness.
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That we are in fact wicked and rebellious and deserve God's wrath.
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Romans chapter 1.
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Paul has laid this case out for us extensively.
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Let me just read to you a couple of verses.
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First, verse 18.
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There he says,
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The wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men,
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who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth.
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So their non-perfection, their wickedness, right?
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The wrath of God is what is due that kind of living.
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You should want to flee from unrighteousness and toward righteousness to avoid the just wrath of God.
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This is a thing to tremble before.
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That the creator of all things would say of you,
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You deserve wrath.
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God's wrath is white hot.
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And we have purchased it with our sin.
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Someone may say, though,
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I am not sure there even is such a God.
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Well, Paul goes on in verse 19 of the same chapter.
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For what could be known about God is plain to them,
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because God has shown it to them.
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Paul argues, chapter 1, verse 19,
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Oh no, you do know that there is a God,
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and that His wrath awaits you.
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Verse 20,
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For His invisible attributes,
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namely, His eternal power and divine nature,
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have been clearly perceived,
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ever since the creation of the world,
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and the things that have been made.
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So it can be seen there is a creator, God.
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And then Paul finishes verse 20 by saying,
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So they are without excuse.
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So we will all one day stand before God in judgment.
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And the basis of that judgment will be righteousness.
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You will either be found perfect on that day
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and avoid the wrath of God,
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or found imperfect,
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and the wrath of God will bear on you forever.
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And if you need some further evidence,
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Paul goes on into chapter 2
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to say that our conscience bears witness
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that there is a God
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because we have God's law on our hearts.
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That you have ever recognized
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that anything is right
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or that anything is wrong
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is because God made you
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and He wrote that law on your hearts.
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That's verse 15 of chapter 2.
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There's evidence even within our own thinking,
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our own moral compass,
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that this God does in fact exist.
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And we know that we have all done things
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that are wrong.
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Righteousness should be of great concern to everyone.
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Trying to understand and sort out
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the right and the wrong of the world
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should concern us.
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And how we are to be found right
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matters greatly.
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And it matters greatly
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that you know that you cannot achieve
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righteousness on your own.
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It grieves me how many Christian traditions,
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at least claim to be Christian,
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and mess this up,
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want to add to God's grace,
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works for justification.
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If you look out there,
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it's all over the place.
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It's rampant.
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Rob Ventura,
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the author of a great commentary
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on the book of Romans,
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said this,
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This attempting to be made right with God
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by our own strivings
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is a tyranny of the highest order
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and tragic for the one
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who does not comply.
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It reigns over us
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and it is tragic.
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Paul tells us in his letter to the Romans
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that righteousness is achieved
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through faith alone
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in the person and work
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of Jesus Christ alone.
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I've said to you,
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this is the theme of the book,
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that we're justified
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by grace alone,
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through faith alone,
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in Christ alone.
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And Paul is working out
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the great implications of that
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all the way through the end
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of chapter 11.
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And then he tells us
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how we should live in light
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of this wonderful truth.
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Proceeding the verses
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that I just read to you
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in Romans chapter 1,
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this is verse 16 and 17,
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the thesis statement of the letter.
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He says,
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Therefore I am not ashamed
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of the gospel.
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And I just like to insert
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the positive of that.
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For I am proud of the gospel.
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For it is the power of God
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for salvation
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to everyone who believes,
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to the Jew first
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and also to the Greek.
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For in it the righteousness of God
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is revealed from faith
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for faith.
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As it is written,
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the righteous shall live
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by faith.
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Paul is continually
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unpacking
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what he has said
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in verse 16 and 17
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of chapter 1.
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We see him here again
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doing that very thing.
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You have to ask the question,
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why?
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Why is Paul going
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through such labor
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to do it?
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And it's because
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it's so important
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for us
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to understand.
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Justification
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by faith,
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through faith alone.
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This is exactly
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what Paul is teaching
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here in verses 6-8
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as he further employs
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the writing of Moses.
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Here Paul is citing
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Deuteronomy chapter 30
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verse 11-14
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with the introductory phrase
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there at the beginning
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of verse 6,
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but the righteousness
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based on faith
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says.
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So the righteousness
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based on works,
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this pursuit
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of works
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says you must be perfect
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and you must be perfect
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by your own doing.
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But the righteousness
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based on faith
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says,
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and here citing
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Deuteronomy 30
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verse 11-14,
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for this commandment
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that I command you today,
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that is,
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to keep the law,
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is not too hard for you,
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neither is it far off.
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It is not in heaven
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that you should say,
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who will ascend to heaven
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for us
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and bring it to us
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that we may hear it
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and do it.
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Neither is it beyond the sea
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that you should say,
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who will go over the sea
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or into the abyss
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for us
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and bring it to us
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that we may hear it
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and do it.
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But the word is very near you.
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It is in your mouth
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and in your heart
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so that you can do it.
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If you are looking at chapter 10
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verses 6-8
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and listening astutely
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as I read from Deuteronomy,
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you have surely noticed
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that Paul's inspired
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parenthetical insertions.
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You see them there?
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The Deuteronomy text
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in a simple reading
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seems to be saying
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that God's law
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can be easily kept
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by one's own volition.
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But Paul helps us
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to see its connection
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to Christ,
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the unfolding reality
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of the gospel.
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There he says,
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but the righteousness
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based on faith says,
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do not say in your heart
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who will ascend
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into heaven
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and here's the inspired
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insertion,
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that is to bring Christ down.
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Or who will descend
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into the abyss,
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that is to bring Christ
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up from the dead.
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But what does it say?
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The word is near you,
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in your mouth,
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and in your heart.
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That is the word of faith
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or the gospel
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that we proclaim.
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Now the law
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was always
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meant to be kept
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by faith.
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This has not changed
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Old to New Testament.
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It could have never
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been kept perfectly.
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It was meant
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to press
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those who tried
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to keep it
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toward faith.
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They had to believe
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that they were
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in pursuing righteousness,
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somehow
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God
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would save them.
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They knew they couldn't
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keep it perfectly,
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but yet promises
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somehow
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are being kept
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as we work
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to do this thing.
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But now because of
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the progressive revelation,
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we understand
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how it is
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that it's kept.
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We now
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have
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Christ
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and He
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is not far off.
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That is the point
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that Paul
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is driving at here.
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This confession
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of righteousness
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based on faith
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is in a
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Christ
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who is near.
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He
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is near.
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Paul
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arcs us
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through
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all that he
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has taught
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so far
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and he brings
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us
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to the
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simple
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profundity
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of verses
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9 and 10.
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There he says,
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because
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if you confess
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with your mouth
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that Jesus
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is Lord
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and believe
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in your heart
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that God
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raised Him
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from the dead,
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you
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will
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be
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saved.
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For with the
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heart one
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believes
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and is justified
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and with the
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mouth
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one confesses
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and is saved.
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Sincerity
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of belief
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at the very
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core
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of
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your
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being.
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Believing
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something is
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true
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and then living
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in light
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of that truth
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and confession
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with your mouth
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the initial
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evidence
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of your
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belief
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that Jesus
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is God.
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He is
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who He
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said He
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is.
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He is
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who God
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the Father
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said He
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is.
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And that His
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resurrection
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is factual
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and it
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validates
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His
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completed
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work
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is the
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work
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of faith.
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Believing
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in your heart,
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confessing
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with your
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mouth
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is the
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work
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of faith
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and the
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means
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and the
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only
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means
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through
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which
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God
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saves
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sinners.
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And this
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is not
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meant to
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be
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formulaic.
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Paul is
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not laying
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out a
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rubric
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for us
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that we
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must go
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through
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in order
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to be
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saved.
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It is
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just
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rather
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an
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explanation
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of
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faith.
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Believing
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in your
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heart,
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grasping
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hold of
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the reality
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of who
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Jesus
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is
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and
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what
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He
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has
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accomplished
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and
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evidencing
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that that's
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true.
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confessing
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with your
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mouth
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that He
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is
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in
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fact
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who
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He
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said
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He
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is.
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It's an
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explanation
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of faith.
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And it's
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not a
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lifelong
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labor.
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It sets
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us on a
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course where
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we must
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now earn
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God's
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favor.
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It's a
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liberating
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hope.
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It sets
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us free
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from the
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law for
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righteousness.
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We're still
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given the
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moral law
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as a
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guide for
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us that
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we might
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grow in
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holiness,
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but it
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is not
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for our
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standing
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before God.
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When we
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become
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Christians,
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we're
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changed in
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kind.
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We're
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those who
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will stand
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before Him
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in judgment
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and He
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will say
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of us,
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well done,
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my good
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and faithful
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servant,
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because we're
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clothed in
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the righteousness
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of Christ.
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You've
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heard me
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talk at
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length
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about
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double
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imputation
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and I
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think it's
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so important.
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That's why
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I say it
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so often.
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That is
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to say,
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believing in
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the gospel
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doesn't just
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forgive us
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our sin,
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which is so
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incredibly
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important.
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We need our
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record expunged
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if we're not
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going to bear
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God's wrath
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forever.
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But not
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only that,
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we need
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the perfection
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that the law
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requires.
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And so we're
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granted that
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also in
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Christ,
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the double
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trade,
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right?
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Christ taking
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away our
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sin and
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giving to
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us his
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righteousness.
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We need
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both things.
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And if we
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only think
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that Christ
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died to
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expunge
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my sin,
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we often
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think that
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he expunged
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my sin
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past.
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And now
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it's up to
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me to
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live
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righteously,
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prove that
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I was worth
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it,
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right?
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Some kind
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of debtor's
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ethic kicks
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into our
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minds.
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And in
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fact,
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he's also
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granted us
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his
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righteousness.
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We are
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declared
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perfect
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already.
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And this
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becomes the
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impetus for,
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the power for,
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the foundation
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for righteous
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living,
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right?
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I now
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pursue
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righteousness
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by the
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power of
21:21
the Spirit
21:21
of grateful
21:23
heart.
21:24
I want
21:25
to live
21:26
a life
21:27
that honors
21:27
my God
21:28
because he
21:28
has declared
21:29
me
21:30
righteous.
21:33
Charles Spurgeon
21:34
said this
21:35
of this text,
21:36
how very
21:37
simple.
21:39
No
21:39
climbing,
21:40
no diving,
21:41
no imagining,
21:43
no long
21:44
reckoning of
21:44
the understanding,
21:46
no strangling
21:47
of the mental
21:48
faculties.
21:49
It is just
21:50
believe God's
21:52
testimony
21:52
concerning
21:53
his Son
21:54
and thou
21:55
shalt
21:56
be
21:56
saved.
21:59
You need
22:00
not be
22:01
brilliant
22:02
to come
22:03
to Christ.
22:03
Christ.
22:04
You need
22:05
only to
22:05
recognize
22:06
your
22:06
transgression
22:08
and your
22:08
need of
22:09
a Savior
22:09
and then
22:10
to believe
22:11
that Jesus
22:12
is that
22:13
Savior.
22:15
We are
22:15
justified
22:16
by grace
22:17
alone,
22:18
through faith
22:19
alone,
22:20
in the person
22:20
and work
22:21
of Jesus
22:21
Christ
22:22
alone.
22:23
I will
22:25
read to
22:26
you a
22:26
poem.
22:27
I believe
22:28
the last
22:28
time I
22:29
read this
22:29
poem,
22:30
I didn't
22:30
know who
22:30
to attribute
22:31
it to.
22:33
I now
22:34
know who
22:35
to attribute
22:35
it to.
22:35
It is
22:35
called
22:36
The Stairs
22:36
and it is
22:37
by Theodosia
22:38
Pickering
22:39
Garrison.
22:41
It was
22:41
written in
22:42
1907.
22:43
If this
22:44
comes up
22:44
familiar to
22:45
you,
22:45
now we
22:46
know who
22:46
actually
22:47
wrote this
22:48
poem.
22:48
She wrote
22:48
this.
22:49
Oh,
22:51
long and
22:52
dark,
22:53
the stairs
22:53
I trod,
22:55
with stumbling
22:56
feet to
22:56
find my
22:57
God,
22:59
gaining a
22:59
foothold bit
23:00
by bit,
23:01
then slipping
23:01
back and
23:03
losing it.
23:04
There came
23:05
a certain
23:06
time when
23:06
I loosened
23:07
my hold
23:08
and fell
23:09
thereby,
23:10
down to
23:11
the lowest
23:11
step my
23:12
fall as
23:12
if I had
23:13
not climbed
23:14
at all.
23:16
And as
23:17
I lay,
23:18
despairing
23:18
there,
23:19
there came
23:20
a footfall
23:21
on the
23:22
stairs,
23:23
and lo,
23:24
when hope
23:25
had ceased
23:26
to be,
23:27
my God,
23:28
this poem
23:29
of one
23:30
who had
23:30
labored
23:31
to find
23:32
themselves
23:32
approved
23:33
before God
23:33
by their
23:34
own effort
23:34
and failed
23:35
and failed
23:36
and failed
23:36
and came
23:37
to a point
23:38
of absolute
23:39
despair.
23:42
I have
23:43
nothing,
23:44
I can do
23:44
nothing,
23:45
which is a
23:46
prerequisite
23:46
that we might
23:47
be saved,
23:47
that we
23:47
would be
23:48
humble.
23:48
I can
23:49
add nothing
23:49
to the
23:50
equation
23:50
of my
23:51
salvation
23:52
and God
23:53
becomes a
23:53
man,
23:55
comes into
23:55
a world,
23:56
perfectly
23:56
keeps the
23:57
law on
23:57
our behalf,
23:58
dies the
23:59
death that
23:59
we deserved,
24:01
doesn't stay
24:02
dead but is
24:02
resurrected three
24:03
days later,
24:04
proving that he
24:04
is in fact
24:05
the Christ.
24:07
He is now
24:07
ascended,
24:08
seated at the
24:09
right hand
24:09
of God.
24:10
He intercedes
24:11
for his
24:12
people and he
24:13
reigns from
24:14
that place.
24:16
one day
24:17
he will be
24:19
told to get
24:20
up and come
24:20
back for his
24:21
people.
24:22
If we
24:24
are alive
24:25
in that day,
24:26
we will join
24:26
him in the
24:27
air,
24:27
he will judge
24:27
all the
24:28
peoples and
24:28
he will make
24:29
all things
24:30
new.
24:33
And it's
24:33
because of
24:34
that that we
24:36
have hope
24:36
in tired
24:37
days.
24:39
On the
24:40
final day
24:40
when we
24:41
stand before
24:41
God in
24:42
judgment,
24:42
Paul tells
24:44
us in
24:44
verse 11,
24:46
for the
24:46
scripture says,
24:47
and here he
24:47
is quoting
24:48
Isaiah 28
24:49
and verse 16,
24:50
everyone who
24:51
believes in
24:52
him will
24:53
not be put
24:54
to shame.
24:57
He goes on
24:58
to tell us
24:58
the extent
25:00
of the
25:00
offer of
25:02
the gospel
25:02
which we'll
25:03
look at
25:03
further next
25:04
week.
25:05
He has
25:05
stated
25:06
precisely in
25:07
his letter
25:08
that all,
25:09
whether Jew
25:10
or Greek,
25:11
are saved
25:11
by graceful
25:12
and through
25:12
faithful,
25:12
alone,
25:13
and the
25:13
completed
25:13
person and
25:14
work of
25:14
Jesus Christ
25:15
alone.
25:17
He said
25:18
this before,
25:18
but it
25:19
bears repeating,
25:20
especially as
25:21
he unfolds
25:22
God's purpose
25:23
for Jews
25:24
and Gentiles
25:25
in chapters
25:26
9 through
25:28
11.
25:29
Whether
25:29
Jew
25:30
or Greek,
25:32
there is
25:33
no distinction,
25:34
verse 12
25:35
tells us,
25:36
for the same
25:36
Lord is
25:38
Lord of
25:38
all,
25:40
bestowing
25:40
his riches
25:41
on all
25:42
who call
25:42
on him,
25:44
that we
25:44
would be
25:44
saved,
25:46
right,
25:46
for everyone
25:47
who calls
25:48
on the
25:49
name of
25:50
the Lord.
25:50
And that
25:50
is to
25:51
say,
25:52
the name
25:52
of the
25:52
Lord
25:52
represents
25:53
all that
25:53
he is,
25:54
cries out
25:55
to him,
25:56
his person
25:56
and his
25:57
work
25:57
will
25:59
be
26:00
saved.
26:01
God
26:03
and
26:03
so today,
26:04
if you
26:05
have yet
26:05
to call
26:06
on the
26:07
name
26:07
of the
26:08
Lord,
26:09
do so.
26:11
I feel
26:12
like the
26:12
application
26:13
is much
26:13
more complicated
26:14
than that.
26:14
There is
26:15
a way
26:15
to be
26:16
saved,
26:17
and it
26:17
is by
26:17
grace
26:18
through
26:18
faith
26:19
in
26:20
Christ.
26:21
Do
26:22
not
26:22
labor
26:22
to
26:23
save
26:23
yourself,
26:25
which
26:26
will end
26:26
in your
26:26
demise,
26:28
but throw
26:28
yourself
26:29
on the
26:29
mercy
26:29
of
26:30
God.
26:31
Confess
26:32
with your
26:32
mouth that
26:33
Jesus is
26:33
Lord,
26:33
and believe
26:34
in your
26:34
heart that
26:35
God raised
26:36
him from
26:37
the dead.
26:39
If you
26:39
have called
26:40
on the
26:41
name of
26:42
the Lord,
26:42
do not
26:44
lose hope.
26:45
The
26:46
gospel is
26:46
the power
26:47
of God
26:47
for salvation,
26:49
and we
26:49
should be
26:50
proud of
26:51
it.
26:52
We
26:52
should
26:52
believe
26:52
it,
26:53
we
26:54
should
26:54
cherish
26:54
it,
26:55
we
26:55
should
26:56
defend
26:56
it,
26:57
and we
26:57
should
26:58
share
26:59
it.
27:00
For
27:00
everyone
27:01
who
27:01
believes
27:01
in
27:02
him
27:02
will
27:02
not
27:03
be
27:03
put
27:03
to
27:05
shame.
27:06
I'm
27:08
so very
27:08
glad
27:09
that we
27:09
have
27:09
this
27:11
letter
27:11
that
27:11
Paul
27:11
wrote
27:12
under
27:13
inspiration
27:13
to the
27:14
Roman
27:14
believers
27:15
here in
27:16
front of
27:17
us for
27:17
our
27:17
benefit
27:18
today.