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Romans chapter 3 · Scripture Unscripted

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  Romans chapter 3 Let us pray, our Father, who is in heaven,
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  holy, your name, your Kingdom come, Your will be done on earth
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  just as it is in heaven. Give us this day Our Daily
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  Bread. Forgive us for our trespasses as
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  we forgive those who trespass against us.
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  Lead us not into temptation. Deliver us from the evil. 1 For
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  yours is the Kingdom, power and the glory forever.
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  Blessed be the name of our God. We love you Jesus Christ, holy
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  and precious name I pray, Amen. Let's start in verse one.
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  What advantage then has the Jew or what prophet is there of
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  circum decision? So Paul is going to make sure
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  that he buttons up the last chapter when he was sounding as
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  if there was no advantage to being a Jew, that it was no
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  advantage to be circumcised. And we know that Paul here must
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  come back full circle and to stake his claim to make sure
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  that we understand that God's heart is for the Jews.
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  They were trusted with the word of God.
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  The Messiah came through. God has an eternal plan for
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  them, friends, He's not turned his back on them, and they've
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  not been dissolved into the church too much every way,
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  chiefly because that unto them were committed the oracles of
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  God. God gave them his divine library
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  for them to house and to hold and to preserve for all time's
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  sake, and heaven and earth shall pass away, but not one of his
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  words. This spoken word the Rhema
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  friends, and they are blessed because he chose them to steward
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  all of his spoken words for all of humanity. 3 For what if some
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  did not believe? Shall their unbelief make the
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  faith of God without effect? It's ridiculous and preposterous
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  to think that because we try to say there is no God, somehow
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  that tears him down or makes him marginalized.
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  Just because someone does not obey the faith does not at all
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  in any way, shape or form, no facet, diminish the power of
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  God. For God forbid, yeah, let God be
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  true, but every man a liar, as it is written that you might be
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  justified in your sayings and might overcome when you are
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  judged. So here God is showing us that
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  He is the only truth, that every single man who has ever been
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  born, is living or will be born is a liar, friends.
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  And that is the importance of searching the Scriptures.
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  And don't take my word for it, just take a look.
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  It's in the book, Friends. From Genesis to Revelation is
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  the only truth that is in the entire world, period.
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  Jesus Christ is the truth and that every other thing that is
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  said by man is just an opinion, friends.
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  And that is why we need to be like the Bereans and we need to
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  search the scriptures. Be students of the word of God.
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  Don't just be those that TuneIn to podcasts.
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  Don't just be those that TuneIn to little short videos.
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  Do not just be those that try to get their theology from someone
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  else. You will be LED astray. 5 But if
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  our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall
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  we say? Is God unrighteous who takes
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  vengeance? I speak as a man.
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  So here he's pointing us back to the Assyrians and the
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  Babylonians and Judas. He's pointing us back to many
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  who will try to stand at the great white throne and say, but
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  God, you used my evil intentions to do great things.
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  And that is no excuse at all. Friends, He can use it without
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  excusing it, because God is omnipotent, it does not excuse
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  your evil heart and intentions. 6 God forbid, for then how shall
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  God judge the world? So that is the reason that God
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  put the serpent in the garden, and the tree of good, of the
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  knowledge of good and evil, is because it brings him the most
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  amount of glory. And all the serpent does is
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  reveal the evil intentions of man, and that is a divine
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  mystery. And this calls for wisdom. 7 For
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  if the truth of God has more abounded through my lie unto his
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  glory, why yet am I also judged as a Sinner?
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  It's preposterous, ridiculous When we try to come to God and
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  tell him how he ought to behave. We're not going to stand before
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  him one day and say, I'm a good person, you can't send me to
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  hell. I'm We are not going to stand
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  before God one day and said, yes, but my evil intentions
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  somehow brought you lots of glory.
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  It doesn't work that way. 8 And not rather, as we be
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  slanderously reported, and as some affirm, that we say, let us
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  do evil, that good may come, whose damnation is just.
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  He's saying those that are damned to hell because they
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  think that by their folly and lies and by their abomination,
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  somehow God is glorified. It does not work that way. 9
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  What then? Are we better than they?
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  No, in no way, for we have been proved by we have been proved
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  both Jews and Gentiles that they are all under sin.
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  That is the desperate need that we have for Jesus Christ and for
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  the atonement so we can be at one with God.
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  Justified. So we can be justified.
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  Never done it. That is why we need to be
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  covered in the blood of Jesus Christ and not resting on
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  Grandma's faith. Friends 10 As it is written,
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  there is none righteous, no, not one.
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  So he's going to wax eloquently and he's going to talk about
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  Ecclesiastes, lots of Psalms, the book of Isaiah here, and
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  he's going to paint a masterpiece to show us how
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  incredibly debased we are apart from Jesus Christ in the
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  covering of his righteousness. Not one person can claim their
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  own self righteousness. 11 There is none that understands, there
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  is none that seek after God. We can't even come to God unless
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  he draws us to Himself. 12 They are all gone out of the way.
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  They are together, become unprofitable.
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  There is none that does good. No, not one.
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  When we leave the way, which is Jesus, when we leave the way, it
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  is nothing but sin and sickness, death, disease and decay, and we
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  cannot save ourselves. 13 Their throat is an open tomb, their
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  tongues they have used deceit. The poison of ASPs is under
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  their lips 14 whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness
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  15. Their feet are swift to shed
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  blood, 16. Destruction and misery are in
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  their ways, 17 and the way of peace have they not known?
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  18 There is No Fear of God before their eyes.
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  Look, look at this X-ray that has been given on the body to
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  show us that we are corrupt and vile people apart from the
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  holiness of Jesus Christ. 19 Now we know that what things so ever
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  the law says, it says to them who are under the law, that
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  every mouth may be stopped in all the world, may become guilty
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  before God. That is our need for the Lord
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  Jesus Christ, because we are guilty and we are condemned and
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  we are deserving of hell. Thank God we don't get what we
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  deserve. Friends, thank God that our only
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  merit is faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and Christ alone. 20
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  Therefore, by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be
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  justified in his sight, for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
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  That's all the law ever did, Friends, is show us our need for
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  a Savior. 21 But now the righteousness of God without the
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  Law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the
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  prophets. So we can see that Christ alone
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  is the only remedy for our sins. It is justification by faith in
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  Christ crucified. And we can see here that we have
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  no excuse. We cannot try to enter in by our
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  own. We must come through the sheep
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  gate, and he is the Good Shepherd. 22 Even the
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  righteousness of God, which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto
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  all and upon all them that believe, For there is no
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  difference. So he's saying, just because
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  you're a Jew, it does not mean that through the lineage of
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  Abraham you're going to make it there.
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  You must come through Jesus. 23 For all have sinned and come
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  short of the glory of God. We cannot boast in our works.
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  We cannot say that we were good enough to get there.
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  We cannot all have fallen short. There's never been one person
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  apart from Jesus Christ that lived a perfect life and a
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  sinless life. We've all fallen short. 24 being
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  justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is
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  in Christ Jesus. Thank God for this free gift
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  that Jesus Christ offers us, friends, and we must by faith
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  take it, and we must by faith get covered in the blood, so
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  that we can be justified. 25 whom God has set forth to be a
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  propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his
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  righteousness for the remission of sins that are passed through
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  the forbearance of God. So God was well pleased to
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  accept Jesus Christ as our penalty.
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  We owed A sinners debt that we could never pay back, and it is
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  only by the blood of Jesus Christ that we can be made right
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  with God and that we're going to enter in to the presence of a
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  holy God. Friends, when you stand before
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  God one day, He's only going to see you one of two ways.
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  He is either going to see the blood of Jesus Christ covering
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  you from the top of your head to the soles of your feet, and he's
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  going to say, well done, good and faithful servant, come in to
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  the rest that I have prepared for you.
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  Come in to all of eternity in my presence or for those who refuse
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  Jesus Christ, but they live a good life and they give all
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  their money away and they do all of the humanitarian efforts and
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  they, they cast out demons in his name.
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  And they are going and they're working out of their own flesh,
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  friends. And they are doing miracles in
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  his name and prophesying in his name.
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  He's going to say, depart from me because they were never
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  covered in the blood of Jesus Christ.
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  Even those who think of themselves as white as snow, but
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  they have hidden sin that they have not put under the blood of
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  Christ. They will be eternally separated
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  from God Almighty. And there is no third option
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  here, friends. It is the forbearance of God
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  that allows you to wake up this morning.
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  And His mercies are new every day.
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  Surrender wholeheartedly to Him today.
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  Don't wait another day, friends. Today is the day of salvation.
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  It is this long-suffering of God that allows you to have another
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  moment to make a decision for Christ.
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  Do not blasphemy the Holy Spirit as He is calling you today. 26
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  To declare, I say at this time His righteousness, that He might
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  be just and the justifier of him which believes in Jesus.
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  That is the only way, Friends, you cannot outpace God and you
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  cannot try to get around the fact of the matter of the whole
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  crux of the whole situation, that it is Jesus and Jesus and
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  Jesus alone who gets us there. Don't try to explain Him away.
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  Don't try to say Jesus plus anything.
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  He is the justifier. He is our righteousness.
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  Today is the day of salvation. This is the day of salvation,
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  friends. This is the generation who seeks
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  your face, O Jacob 27 Where is boasting?
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  Then it is excluded by what law of of works?
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  No, but by the law of faith. We cannot boast in all of the
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  things that we do. There are many who lose their
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  rewards, even if they're accurately positioned with the
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  Lord Jesus Christ. They do not understand that by
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  boasting they've lost their reward.
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  And those that boast that they're good people are liars,
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  and there's none that do good. And every man desperately needs
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  Jesus Christ. It is by the law of faith,
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  friends, Jesus did not come to abolish the law, but to fulfill
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  it. And the law only pointed us to
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  the need of a Savior. 28 Therefore, we conclude that a
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  man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.
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  This does not contradict James. James is just telling us that
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  the natural overflow of a man sold out to the Lord Jesus
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  Christ will show us outwardly that he is a redeemed man. 29 Is
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  he the God of the Jews only? Is he also?
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  Is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also.
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  There's this movement right now that's going on in our day, in
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  our age, and it's not new. It happened even during the days
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  of Reformation where Christians start to persecute Jews.
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  Far be it from us to ever be the ones to persecute anybody,
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  period, much less God's chosen people.
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  We need to see here in verse 29 that God is the God of the Jews
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  and of the Gentiles, period 30 seeing it is one God which shall
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  justify the circumcision by faith and uncircumcision through
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  faith. So he's saying that once Jesus
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  Christ arrived on the scene, everything changed and God did a
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  new thing, friends. And cutting off of the foreskin
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  and having the temple. And having all the oracles never
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  amounted to anything. When we miss the mark, that
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  Jesus is the epitome, He's the paramount, He's the climax, He's
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  what all the law and the prophets pointed towards, and He
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  is what all the epistles point back towards.
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  And we are pressing towards Jesus Christ and Jesus alone. 31
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  Do we then make void the law through faith?
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  God forbid, Yeah, we establish the law.
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  So once again, divine counsel calling, deep calls to deep
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  here, friends. And all of that is just wrapped
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  up in one little thought. Jesus did not come to abolish
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  the law, but to fulfill it. And he didn't just take it and
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  throw it out, friends, He actually expounded upon it.
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  He didn't just give us the law and say, OK, I completed it,
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  you're all good, good to go. He said, follow the law plus the
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  things that I teach you. And it is, this is not hard.
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  His yoke is easy. His burden is light.
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  And the regenerate man, the man who's been born again, friends,
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  it is effortlessly locking eyes with Jesus Christ and allowing
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  him to fuel us and to give us his mind.
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  And when we walk in the Spirit, we will not satisfy the lust of
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  the flesh. We can stiff arm the lust of the
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  eyes, the lust of the flesh, and the pride of life that so tries
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  to entangle and ensnare us friends and choke out the
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  fruitfulness of God. Let's stay rooted and grounded
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  and let's stay connected and abide friends in him and him and
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  us and produce much fruit. Tell somebody about Jesus today
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  and what he's done for you. Hope you've been blessed by this
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  chapter. No, I sure have.
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  Praying for you. I love you.
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  I'll see you back here tomorrow. God bless you.