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  Galatians chapter 2. Let us pray.
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  We thank you, Lord, for today. We thank you, God, for all of
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  the many blessings that you've already poured out on us today.
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  Thank you for life, thank you for breath, thank you God for a
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  sound mind, and thank you God for hands and feet and eyes,
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  eyes and ears. Thank you God You've made all of
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  our organs work together inside of our body that we're not even
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  aware of. How that all is intricately
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  interwoven, Father, and it is a miracle.
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  And it is worth you being completely praised over.
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  And you do it for sinners and Saints alike.
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  You do it for the just and the unjust alike.
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  You make it rain on the same fields of those who curse your
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  holy name and those who bless your holy name.
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  And so God, you are a wonder working God.
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  You are far and exceedingly greater than any of the combined
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  knowledge of all humanity put together.
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  You are such a greater mind than any kind of computer program
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  that we could put together. Father, you are more powerful
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  than anything that is in this world, and greater is he who is
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  living in us than he who is in this world.
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  And so, God, we stand on the basis of the blood of Jesus
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  Christ covering us. We stand on the cornerstone, the
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  chief cornerstone. We build our lives upon Christ
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  Jesus. We know that we will inherit
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  eternal life. We know that we have been marked
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  by the Holy Spirit as a down payment in the same resurrection
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  power that raised Jesus Christ from the dead lives inside of
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  us. And where you are, we will be,
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  we will be caught up to be with you in the clouds.
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  And there we will be with you forever more.
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  And so God, we want to rule and reign with you.
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  We want to be the high priest God of our homes.
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  We want to see you lifted up high over all government, over
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  all entities, over all principalities.
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  Father, we tear down any strongholds of opposition in the
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  name of Jesus Christ. Lord, I pray that you will give
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  us a supernatural zeal for your house.
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  Lord, I pray that we'll consecrate this temple.
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  Lord, we kick out and drive out the money changers and all of
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  the idol worship got all the merchandisers got all of the
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  mammon and the love of mammon. God, I pray that we'll Kick It
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  Out into the streets and burn it.
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  All pride and vanity, God, all self seeking, all cowardice.
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  God, we drive it out into the streets and burn it.
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  Father, in the mighty name of Jesus Christ, let the Holy
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  Spirit fill this temple with your glory.
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  Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty, who was, who is, who
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  is to come. Blessed be the name, Yeshua.
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  We worship you today in spirit and truth.
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  We're asking today for a greater measure of your love and mercy
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  and joy. Inexpressible, Father.
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  Father, us. Lord, I pray that you'll help us
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  to love well. Father, I pray that you'll
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  increase the joy in our lives. God, I pray for the peace of you
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  God, It only comes from you God through a relationship with
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  Jesus. God, I pray that we can be
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  patient and not try to outpace you God and cause you to Co sign
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  on things that we've already decided in our hearts what we're
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  going to do, whether you're in it or not.
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  Help us not to grow impatient. God help us to wait well in the
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  middle God, while you pull out the draws.
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  Help us not to resist you, God, but to be patient and all of our
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  afflictions that you're producing, the perseverance in
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  our lives, God and the character, Lord.
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  God, I pray for meekness. Help us to bridle all of our
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  authority that you've given us. Help us God, not to just make a
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  point, but help us Lord, to make a difference in this world.
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  God, help us to be gentle and not rough with others.
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  Help us Lord, to wait for the proper time to speak a word that
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  pricks and cuts the right way. God not breaks people down, not
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  tears them down, Father, but I pray that we'll edify and build
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  each other up, Lord, with the gentleness that you've given us.
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  Lord, I pray that you will help us to have self-control.
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  Help us not to just speak whatever we comes into our
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  minds, but help us to be slow to speak and slow to anger God,
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  quick to listen. Lord God, I pray that you will
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  help us to exude all of the fruits of the Spirit.
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  Lord, help us not to succumb to negativity and backbiting and
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  gossip, slander. God help us not to give in to
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  the ways of this world, Lord, the ways that are totally
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  acceptable amongst those who do not belong to you or have your
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  heart. God, even those who call
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  themselves Christians and believers, but they're operating
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  within the same realm, in the same spirit of the world.
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  God, I pray that we'll be called out and caught up with you.
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  Father, I pray that we do not become debased and deplorable in
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  our speech and in our actions here on this earth.
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  God, I pray that you will help us to finish this race well.
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  We love you, King Jesus, open our hearts and our minds up to
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  your word. I decrease as you increase, and
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  it's all about you. King Jesus, we love you, and
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  it's in your holy and precious and powerful name that I pray.
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  Amen. Let's start in verse one.
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  Then 14 years after, I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas
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  and took Titus with me also. So here Paul is going to talk
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  about some of his companions that he traveled along with.
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  And we can see this is the behind the scenes at the first
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  council here at Jerusalem. And Titus was a best friend of
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  him, and Barnabas was a great companion.
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  So 14 years after Paul had received his conversion on the
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  road to Damascus and had received from the Lord and had
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  not gone and received any of his doctrine and theology from them,
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  they had already started to talk about the very things that Paul
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  had received on his own. And you can see it's one spirit
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  and it's congruent. And here's what you need to
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  understand, friends, is that all unrevealed prophecy, all
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  unrevealed visions, all unrevealed dreams will line up
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  perfectly with the revealed will of God.
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  If someone is preaching or teaching or talking or
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  propagating another gospel, if someone is speaking something
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  that does not line up perfectly with the revealed will of God,
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  it is not from God, friends. And here Paul received from our
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  Lord Jesus Christ, and it was very much confirmed here at this
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  council in Jerusalem, that God was the one that gave it to him,
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  and not man, because God had revealed the exact same things
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  to the apostles. To I went up by revelation, and
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  communicated unto them that gospel which I preach among the
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  Gentiles, but privately to them which were of reputation less by
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  any means I should run, or had run in vain.
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  So Paul here was wise enough to get the apostles aside out of
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  all of the view of the congregation, and he pulled them
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  aside and he spoke to them the things that he had received.
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  And he did not want them to feel inferior or that he that Paul
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  was not wanting to have to correct them on their theology.
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  And think about that for a second, friends.
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  These men walked with Jesus for three years.
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  Can you imagine them having to be corrected by someone who did
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  not walk with Jesus for three years but had received a divine
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  revelation from God? How embarrassing that would have
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  been to these apostles in Jerusalem.
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  And Paul was wise enough to counsel them apart and outside
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  of the view of the congregation. And Paul did not want them, if
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  he did have to correct them for their hurt feelings and their
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  offense, and perhaps them lashing out at Paul to cause
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  anybody to think less of him and his ministry.
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  So Paul took them aside, and very wisely conferred with them
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  all the things that he had learned from God, and allowed
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  them to munch and to wrestle with his words and his doctrine
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  and his theology. Three.
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  But neither Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled
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  to be circumcised. So here Paul is going to touch
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  on a little point that he was desirous to write to the
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  Galatians for this very point here, that they were trying to
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  Judaize the new converts who were Gentiles by telling them
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  that they needed to adhere to all the strict Jewish law.
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  And the law was only put in place to show us our need for
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  Jesus Christ and the fact that we could never behave our way
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  into heaven. We could never keep the entire
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  law. And no matter how much you
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  tried, it actually compounded into more and more and more
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  sinfulness, friends. And that is what Paul is
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  desirous to show them, and he's using the object lesson of
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  Titus, who was not compelled to be circumcised even though he
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  was widely accepted as a convert and a believer of our Lord Jesus
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  Christ. So Paul is going to touch on
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  this here in this chapter for and that because of false
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  brothers unawares were brought in who came in privately to spy
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  out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus that they might
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  bring us into bondage. That's what these heretics and
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  these apostate churches and teachers and leaders are trying
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  to do, is lead people back into bondage, friends.
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  And when you come to the Lord Jesus Christ, it is freedom in
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  whom the sun sets. Free is free indeed.
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  And we're not bound by the law, friends.
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  He completely fulfilled the law. He did not come to abolish it,
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  but to fulfill it. And in Christ we can know that
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  we know that we know that. We know that when we take our
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  last breath, none of our sins will ever be counted against us.
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  Praise God, Hallelujah. And these legalists, these
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  fundamentalists, they want to creep in and they want to start
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  teaching that it is our behavior that makes God more pleased with
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  us. And far be it from us to ever
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  fall into these camps where we get beguiled unawares by silly
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  little petty paper mache leaders who are teaching the doctrine of
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  demons. Friends, far be it from us, it
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  is grace and grace and grace alone, friends, that gets us
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  into the throne room of God. It is only by what Christ did
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  and not by anything that we do. But when we figure that out, it
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  will make us want to do the things that please Him.
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  And it is not because we have to, but it is because we want
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  to. Friends, big difference 5 to
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  whom we gave place by subjection.
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  No, not for an hour. That the truth of the gospel
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  might continue with you. So he's saying, don't even give
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  them a foothold, don't even allow them the time of day.
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  It is by their words that they are condemned, friends, and it
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  is by our words that we are justified.
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  And we can know that it is just if I'd never done it, just if
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  I'd never committed that sin, and that Jesus Christ paid it
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  all. And all the wrath of God was
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  poured out at the cross of Christ, friends.
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  And here these people are creeping in, telling the others
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  that they must behave their way into heaven by keeping the
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  kosher diet, by being circumcised.
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  And there is no difference in our day with this Jewish Roots
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  movement and the legalists and the fundamentalist friends who
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  try to preach legalism and try to preach works based salvation.
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  And it is garbage and it was garbage then and it's garbage
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  now. It is only by the blood of Jesus
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  Christ that will ever enter into the Holy Presence of God
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  Almighty. 6 But of these who seem to be somewhat whatsoever
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  they were, it makes no matter to me.
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  God accepts no man's person, for they who seem to be somewhat in
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  conference added nothing to me. So he's saying that God is not
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  the respecter of man. He does not look at the outward
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  appearance. He's not worried about what man
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  thinks about him. God is the great I am, and He
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  does whatever He pleases. Friends, that is what you need
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  to understand. It is only by God's grace that
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  we are saved and that we are chosen and predestined and
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  elected, friends. And we fall down prostate at His
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  feet. And we thank Him completely for
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  choosing us and for saving us and for giving us enough
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  wherewithal and mental fortitude to understand and to reason to
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  come and to actually grasp the truth of our salvation and to
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  walk in that reality, friends and that identity, friends.
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  And we should be the most gratitude, the most gracious.
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  We should have the most gratefulness friends when we
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  realize what God has called us into.
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  And Paul here saying he's not worried about what others think
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  about him. He only has an audience of 1, 7
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  But contrary was when they saw that the gospel of the
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  uncircumcision was committed unto me, as the gospel of the
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  circumcision was unto Peter. So Paul was preaching to the
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  Gentiles. Peter was preaching to the Jews.
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  That's what is referenced there in verse 7-8.
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  For he was for he that wrought effectually in Peter to the
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  apostleship of the circumcision. The same was mighty in me toward
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  the Gentiles. So Paul had a heart for the
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  Gentiles, and Peter had a heart for the Jews. 9 And when James
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  Cephus, John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace
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  that was given to me, they gave to me and Barnabas the right
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  hands of fellowship, that we should go unto the heathen, and
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  they unto the circumcision. So here Paul is talking with
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  James the brother of our Lord Jesus Christ, Peter, who is the
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  rock, and also to John the beloved.
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  And here Paul was extended a warm handshake of fellowship
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  into the ministry of the apostles, and they Co signed on
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  his ministry, and they were very glad that he was called to the
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  heathen, so that they could stay and work out their ministry to
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  the Jews, and expound upon the things to all the circumcised.
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  And they were welcoming of it, they were accepting of it, and
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  it pleased them enough to welcome him into fellowship.
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  And they saw that God was working mightily in his life and
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  that he had received all of his instruction from the Lord Jesus
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  Christ himself. 10 Only they would that we should remember
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  the poor the same which I also was forward to do.
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  We know that Paul's heart was to take up collections for the poor
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  in Jerusalem, where the groundswell all started for all
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  of create Christianity. Friends, that's what you need to
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  understand in Paul's heart was already bent towards the poor,
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  and so should ours. But whenever these apostles
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  examined Paul, the only thing that they could try to encourage
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  him with was, hey, just remember the poor.
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  Don't just make it about all of this grace and peace stuff.
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  Make sure you actually are practical in your faith.
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  And just remember what James, the brother of our Lord Jesus
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  Christ said when he said that faith without works is dead.
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  And that is what is referenced here, that Paul needed to have
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  some kind of outward expression and proof of what he inwardly
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  was teaching. 11:00 But when Peter was come to Antioch, I
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  withstood him to the face because he was to be blamed.
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  So here what you need to understand is we need to have a
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  little bit of context. So here Paul comes in and he
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  sees Peter and Peter's already received before he went and
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  talked to Cornelius whenever the sheet was let down with all the
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  unclean animals and God had told him to get up to kill and to
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  eat. And Peter said no.
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  And then he said don't. God told Peter don't call
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  anything unclean that I've made clean.
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  And it was this whole big process that got Peter to
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  understand that it wasn't about keeping the kosher dietary
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  restrictions and he didn't have to propagate circumcision and
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  have to tell all of the gentile converts to go and cut the
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  foreskin off. And Peter already knew all these
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  things, but because of Peter's flesh, and we could see it here,
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  Peter was trying to be pleasing of the Jews that were coming in.
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  And Peter was telling the gentiles who were usually at
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  this little potluck festival, this little eating and the
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  communion that would have taken place, Peter took them aside and
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  told them that they were not allowed to sit at the same table
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  with these prominent Jews that had come in.
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  And Paul witnessed it. And Paul here is going to oppose
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  him to his face and tell Peter, listen, what you're doing in
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  this moment is you are subconsciously telling all of
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  the Gentile converts that they must keep all the Jewish customs
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  and rituals in order to become saved.
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  And that is not what God has given to us.
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  And Peter was wise enough to accept it here, friends.
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  And we are eternally blessed because of Paul's boldness to
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  speak up and against what Peter was doing.
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  And this uncomfortableness is what needed to happen in this
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  moment. And God used Paul mightily to
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  correct Peter in his error. 12 For before that certain came
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  from James, he did eat with the Gentiles, but when they were
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  come, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing them which were
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  of the circumcision. There it is, friends, the fear
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  of man must go. We are to please God and God
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  alone. We are to listen to God and God
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  alone. We are not to go against what
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  the Bible tells us to do. And if we'll get in the Word of
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  God, if we'll study the Word of God, if we'll learn the Word of
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  God, if we'll own the Word of God, if we'll live the word of
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  God, the fear of man will leave friends.
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  And here Peter is operating in the spirit of fear.
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  Far be it from us, friends. 13 And the other Jews disassembled
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  likewise with him in so much that Barnabas also was carried
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  away with their dissimulation. So that is what you need to
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  understand is that Peter told all of the Gentile converts in a
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  roundabout way that they were not worthy to eat from the same
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  table and to take of the communion of our blessed Lord's
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  body and blood friends. And in a way, he was showing
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  them that they were not actually saved.
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  And Paul had enough fortitude to actually speak up.
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  And we are called to do the same.
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  Friends be men, act like men, rise up.
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  It is high time to stop being little boys, to stop being
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  animals, to stop being feminine friends, but to rise up and to
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  actually speak out against the things that are going on in our
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  time and our day. And we will give an account for
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  all the times that we shrunk back in cowardice and fear of
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  man. 14 But when I saw that they walked not uprightly, according
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  to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter before them all,
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  If you, being a Jew, live after the manner of Gentiles, and not
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  as do the Jews, why do you compel the Gentiles to live as
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  the Jews? He's calling Peter a hypocrite.
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  And here there's a little nugget that you need to see the truth
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  of the gospel. That is what we need more than
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  anything. Friends, the truth of the good
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  news of our Lord Jesus Christ propagated all over this entire
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  world. The Gospel Shoes of Peace ran
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  all all over every continent and every people group.
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  Friends, that is what we need more than anything.
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  We do not need to try to say it's the Bible plus something
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  else. The Bible plus a denomination,
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  the Bible plus another book, Bible plus another teacher, The
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  Bible plus another pastor preacher, the Bible plus.
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  Our preferences, the Bible plus. Musical styles the Bible plus
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  what you wear and what you dress up as.
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  The Bible plus anything equals bondage, friends.
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  It is the gospel that we need more than anything else,
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  friends, and Paul rightly corrects Peter by telling him,
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  Do not put that bondage back upon them. 15 we who are Jews by
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  nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles, 16 knowing that a man
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  is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of
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  Jesus Christ. Even we have believed in Jesus
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  Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ
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  and not by the works of the law. For by the works of the law
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  shall no flesh be just, If I'd so that is what you need to
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  understand is that the Jews must come in the same way that the
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  Gentiles come in. The Jews cannot rely upon the
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  law to get them into the fold and into the salvation.
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  It is only by the blood of Christ that we are made right
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  with God. We are made at one with God and
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  we are just if I'd in God friends with God and through
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  being covered by the blood of Jesus Christ.
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  It is just if I'd never done it. That is all you need to
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  understand about this word here justified.
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  You need to understand that we will stand before God Almighty
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  as if we have never sinned if we are covered in the blood of
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  Jesus. And here Paul is letting Peter
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  know that the Christian is dead to the law, that it's sentence
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  has been executed. Friends, no flesh will ever be
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  justified by the works. We will be rewarded by the
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  works, but we will not be saved by the works. 17 But if while we
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  seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found
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  sinners, is there for Christ the minister of sin?
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  God forbid. Here's another one of Paul's
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  coined phrases, God forbid. And it's always connected to the
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  most heretical sayings. If grace abounds in sin, maybe
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  we should sin all the more. And Paul says God forbid, and
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  here he's saying, is Christ the minister of sin?
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  Because it's in the sinfulness that Christ has glorified.
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  He says God forbid that to ever happen.
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  And it goes back to what I've said 1000 times.
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  Friends, if you're abusing grace, you do not know Him, But
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  if you know Him, you will want to do the things that please
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  him. 18 For if I build again the things which I destroyed, I make
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  myself a transgressor. The law never justified anybody.
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  The law only pointed to our desperate need for Jesus Christ.
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  That was the purpose of the law from the beginning all the way
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  to the cross of Christ is to point to the fact that we could
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  never save ourselves. 194I through the law, and dead to the
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  law, that I might live unto God. So we know that Jesus Christ
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  fulfilled the entire law, and if we will come and attach
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  ourselves to Jesus, all of his righteousness, all of his
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  purity, all of his sinlessness is our inheritance.
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  Friends, we live unto God, and we stand before God holy because
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  of what Jesus did, not because of anything that we do. 20 I am
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  crucified with Christ. Nevertheless, I live yet not I,
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  but Christ lives in me and the life which I now live in the
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  flesh. I live by the faith of the Son
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  of God who loved me and gave Himself for me.
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  Jesus Christ loved us before we were ever even born, friends.
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  He chose us before the foundations of the earth,
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  friends, and it pleased God to crush Him so that you and I
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  could be made right with Him and we can go to be with Him
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  forevermore. And to live is Christ, and to
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  die is gain. If you have breath in your
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  lungs, the sole purpose of your entire entire being is to
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  glorify God in the highest and to live a life of worship unto
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  Him. Every act, every menial act that
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  you do is unto God as worship to the King of kings and the Lord
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  of Lords, and we live for him and not for self.
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  We'll end on 21. I do not frustrate the grace of
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  God, for if righteousness comes by the law, then Christ is dead
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  in vain. Christ's death is in vain.
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  If we're trying to work our way into heaven, if we're trying to
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  measure where we stand with God by all of our external things,
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  then Christ and his sacrifice is for nothing and it means
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  nothing. And there will be many who stand
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  before God and say I perform miracles in your name.
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  I cast out demons in your name, I prophesied in your name.
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  And he will say, depart from me, for I never knew you.
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  That is people who are trying to work their way into heaven.
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  That is people who are steeped in legalism, friends, And it is
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  just as dangerous as liberalism. It is just as dangerous as those
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  that preach another gospel, who are trying to say that the Bible
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  plus something else or or people who try to omit parts of the
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  Bible are equally as dangerous, friends.
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  It is the complete, inerrant and fallible Word of God from
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  Genesis to Revelation that has the saving power.
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  Friends, it is the blood of Christ that makes us at one with
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  God and justifies us. It is not by any of our works so
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  that man can boast. That is what is referenced here
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  in this chapter. I hope that you've been blessed
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  by it. What an amazing paramount verse
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  chapter here in God's Word that we get to come in and to study
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  and to pick apart. And there's so much that could
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  be referenced and said, but suffice to say that Christ is
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  enough. Suffice to say that it is faith
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  in the Lord Jesus Christ that saves us.
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  Friends, It is not by trying to externally work out and show
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  others how super spiritual we are.
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  Is Christ enough? I pray that you've been blessed
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  by it. I know I sure have.
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  I love you, praying for you and we'll see you back here
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  tomorrow. God bless you.