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Romans chapter 4 let us pray our God who reigns on high Elohim,
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we love you God. We thank you, Father, for
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everything that you are already doing for us, Lord, the things
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seen and unseen, God, the things we're aware of and the things
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we're unaware of, God, the things that are so incredibly
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minute and the things that are so incredibly obvious.
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And so, God, we get out of our own way.
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We laid down, Lord. We laid down in your presence
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like dead men, Father. We want to touch from you, God.
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We want to receive the fullness that you have for us.
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Glory in the highest God Almighty, holy, holy, holy is
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your name. God, we throw our crowns at your
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feet. God, we acknowledge your
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supremacy over all lands and all people groups.
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We acknowledge your deity over every false God and everything
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that tries to exalt itself over the knowledge of Christ Jesus.
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Lord, we tear down strongholds in the name of Jesus Christ,
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anything that is in opposition to your holy name.
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God, purge the things out of us that do not belong.
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Refine us in the refiners fire. We thank you, Lord Jesus for
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treading the winepress. We thank you, Lord Jesus for our
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robes. God that are stained in your
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blood. Father, Father, us.
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Teach us your eternal paths. Show us more of who you are.
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God, take us to new heights. We want to see you rightly.
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We want to see you high and lifted up.
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We love you, King Jesus, we worship you, King Jesus, in
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spirit and truth. Holy Spirit, indwell us and fill
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us. Holy Spirit, teach us.
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Holy Spirit, comfort and exhort us and discipline us.
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Holy Spirit, give us discernment for this hour, for this time,
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for such a time as this. We cry out.
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Marry not to come, Lord, come the Spirit and the Bride say,
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Come, Lord, I pray against the Wiles of the evil. 1 Lord, I
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pray against all demonic strongholds in the name of
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Jesus, God, purify us, God, sanctify us as we consecrate
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this temple. Lord, get rid of all idol
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worship. Get rid of all fear and doubt,
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God, and let us rise to the occasion, Father, let us rise to
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new heights with you, Lord God Almighty, the God of Abraham,
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Isaac and Jacob, Israel's God, you are our everything.
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Eli Eliyon, thank you. Thank you God for this complete
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word. Thank you God for your holy
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scriptures. Thank you, God, that You've
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given us life and life abundant, Father.
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We want to know You and know all of Christ's sufferings.
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God, Christ and Christ crucified is all we desire, Father.
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So as we get into Your word today, let it get into us.
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Hide it in our hearts, Father, so that we might not sin against
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You. Father, I pray in the deepest
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parts of our innermost being, God, it'll be truth that we're
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standing on, righteousness that we're living in.
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Running the race well, God, taking the gospel out.
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Give us peace today, Father. Remind us of how far we've come.
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Father, remind us that we were once dead in our trespasses,
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God, and I pray that you'll help us to understand just how much
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you love us, God, I pray that we can share our testimony with
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others today. Lord, divine encounters, God,
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divine appointments. Father, I pray that we'll raise
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our level of faith up over our emotions, over our feelings,
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over what the dialogue, God of all the propaganda is.
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God will raise faith up over that, Father, and will rightly
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divide the word today that is alive and active, God.
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And I pray that it'll go out to the ends of the earth, Father,
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to save many, to bring many into repentance and the remission of
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sins. And blessed is he whose sins are
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not counted against Him. Father, I thank you, Lord, for
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all the many things that you do. I thank you, Father, for who you
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are. For you are a great and loving
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and merciful God. We say yes and Amen to all of
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your ways and all of your words. God, heaven and earth shall pass
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away, but not one of these words.
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God discern us. God teach us.
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God, show us more of your revealed will for our lives
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today. We love you, King Jesus, heal
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our broken bodies. Help us to know that you're
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near. You're fighting our battles.
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You are for us and not against us.
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Help make us to be the peacemakers for this earth, the
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ministers of reconciliation. God, a Kingdom of priests.
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God help us, Lord, to step into our bridal identity today.
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And it's in Jesus Christ, holy and precious name that I pray.
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Amen. Well, let's start in verse one.
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What shall we say then that Abraham, our father, as
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pertaining to the flesh, has found?
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So we're going to see that this is justification by faith, and
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Paul's going to illustrate it for us as he paints this
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masterpiece. And every single one of these
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words holds so much weight. There is no mincing of words
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throughout the book of Romans. Paul was very, very careful to
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choose every single one of these words and it is divinely
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inspired by the Holy Spirit. So lock in, let's pay attention.
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He's going to wax eloquently about Father Abraham, verse 2
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For if Abraham were justified by works, he has what to glory, but
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not before God. So he's saying that if Father
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Abraham had lived a perfect little life, then he would have
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been able to glory in that. But we know that he did not, and
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he was. There's no way that he could be
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justified before God by his works.
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It is by grace and grace alone, which is what we're going to see
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through this chapter 3. For what says the Scripture?
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Abraham believed God and it was counted unto him for
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righteousness. So we know that God imputed
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righteousness into Abraham's account for his salvation
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because he raised his level of faith friends, and he was not
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circumcised at this time. And so this is an argument for
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all the new early 1st century church where the Jews thought
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that all the new believers had to go through Moses, They had to
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be circumcised to be able to be made right with God.
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And Paul's going to paint a picture here that shows them
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that Abraham, the father of faith, the one that they look to
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for their salvation, was not circumcised before God
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accredited to him as righteousness.
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For now, to him that works is the reward not reckoned of
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grace, but of debt. So he's telling us here in verse
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four that if we were to work for something, we should expect our
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payment for it. We don't do it for free.
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And he's going to show us here that Abraham could never work
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his way into the salvation. It was faith, friends.
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That is how it was imputed to him, his righteousness, and we
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must increase our level of faith.
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Faith is believing the things that are not yet as if they
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already are. We're we're by faith.
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We're taking hold of the promises.
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And what did Jesus Christ tell Thomas?
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He said, blessed are you because you see and believe, but how
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much more blessed are they that don't see and believe?
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And that's you, and that's me. And Jesus also said that of all
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the prophets, there was none greater than John the Baptist.
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But the least in the Kingdom of God is greater than John the
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Baptist. You can see here, friends, that
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you and I are so incredibly blessed to house the Holy
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Spirit, to be saved by grace, friends.
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And we know that Abraham all the way back before God made the
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nation Israel, before he gave them the complete scripture and
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all the Canon that Abraham believed by faith.
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And that is what the currency of heaven is.
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That is what pleases God. It is impossible to please God
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without faith. And Abraham took hold of that.
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Even whenever he was led up on the mountain to sacrifice his
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only son, Isaac, he believed by faith that God could raise him
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from the dead. And you Fast forward to Jesus,
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and that's exactly what he did. And so you can see here that God
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is looking for us to increase our faith.
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Do not believe all of the dialogue of the natural and the
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physical, friends. It will rob you of faith.
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Fear and faith cannot cohabitate.
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And you must see that we cannot be steeped in our own
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understanding and have faith. Faith supersedes all of our
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natural carnal thinking and reasoning ponderings.
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Friends, we must step in to the realm of the spiritual and by
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faith see what is actually happening all around us.
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And that is what Abraham was able to do.
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And God was well pleased to birth an entire nation and to
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give Abraham many sons and daughters of glory.
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Friends 5 But to him that works, and it's showing us in five that
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not but believes on him, but justifies the ungodly.
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His faith is counted for righteousness.
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So He's showing us here in verse 5 that all we need to do is
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believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and it will be just if I'd never
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done it, even though while we were sinning, Jesus died for us
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and we love because He first loved us and He loved us while
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we were still dead in our trespasses.
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What an amazing thought. Here in verse 5 is showing that
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it is faith, friends, faith in the Lord Jesus Christ that
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results in his righteousness, His perfect life, His sinless
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life being imputed on to you and to me.
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And that is the only way that we're going to enter into the
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presence of God Almighty is by the blood of the Lamb, friends,
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covering us from the very top of our head, the palms of our
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hands, the back of our hands, our back, our stomachs, friends,
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our face, our legs, friends, our rear and our bottom of our feet,
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the top of our feet, our toes and fingers is being covered by
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the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ that was shed on Calvary
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for you and for me. That is the only way we're going
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to get there. And Paul here is showing us that
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if you're trying to work your way into heaven, it will never
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happen. You're not going to stand before
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God and say, look at all the things I've done.
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Look at all the money I've given away.
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Look at all the charities I've donated to, look at my tax
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exempt. Look at all of the things, the
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works. Look at every the miracles that
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were done in your name and look at all of the demons I cast out
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in your name. And he's going to say depart
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from me because you're not covered in the blood of Jesus
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Christ. Friends, that's it.
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That's the culmination of every single thing that you're reading
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about here in chapter 4. You need to understand that Paul
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wants us and he wanted the early church.
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And God wants us to know that it is not by works that we are
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saved, should any lest any man should boast, but it is by grace
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and grace alone, friends. It is a gift that we did not
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deserve. You and I deserved hell,
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friends, and because of His wonderful, beautiful gift that
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He wrought for us, He snatched the keys to death and hell, and
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He offers us eternal life. And not just then, but now.
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We get to see heaven come to earth, and His will be done here
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just as it is there. And that's what you need to
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understand, friends, is that if you are trying to work your way
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into heaven by all of the boxes that you check, it'll never
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amount to anything. It is a natural overflow of our
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correct understanding that we are sinners saved by grace, and
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that it is not by anything we do, but it is by everything that
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He did for us. And from that flows charitable
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acts, from that flows alms to the poor, from that flows taking
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care of widows and orphans in their time of distress.
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That's what you're going to have to understand here as we get
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through this chapter 6, even as David also describes the
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blessedness of the man unto whom God imputes righteousness
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without works. So here he's talking about in
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the book of Psalms, God hijacked David, the Holy Spirit hijacked
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him and had him pin down some words that Paul has captured the
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heart of God and he wants to reintroduce them into the New
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Testament. This is not just an Old
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Testament idea. It's it's, it was well beyond
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its years. It was speaking to the cross.
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And here Paul understands it also.
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The same spirit that hijacked David is hijacking Paul in this
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moment. And Paul remembers these words
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out of the book of Psalms. And what does he say?
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7 Saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven and
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whose sins are covered. Blessed is the man to whom the
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Lord will not impute sin. Blessed is he whose sins will
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never be counted against him. Friends, that is the whole idea.
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When you stand before a holy God, He is not going to see any
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of your sins because you are bathed in the blood of Christ.
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That is, the only way that we're ever going to stand before holy
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God, before we're ever going to be ushered into an eternal
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existence with God Almighty, is by the blood of the Lamb.
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And that's it. This perfect sinless life that
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He lived. And if you think that you can
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behave your way into heaven, you've missed the mark. 9 Comes
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this blessedness, then upon the circumcision only, or upon the
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uncircumcision also? For we say that faith was
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reckoned to Abraham for righteousness.
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So here Paul is going to understand that this
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justification is apart from any of the outward ordinances that
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everyone was trying to look and to gauge where people sat with
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the Lord. Only God knows when a man or a
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woman is truly saved. It is not for us to try to
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determine. There are many ravenous wolves
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in sheep's clothing, friends, and there are many drug addicts
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and Alcoholics right now who are going to be there.
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So it's an upside down, inside out, paradoxical Kingdom.
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And that is what you need to understand, that it was the
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Pharisee that was the publican who was looking at the center
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and looking down on him as he was praying.
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And he says just I'm a Sinner. And the publican says, thank
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you. I'm not like this man.
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And he gives his pedigree. And God did not hear that man's
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prayer. And look at the 99 benchwarmers
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who sit on their blessed assurance and God's going hard
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after the one who is lost. You can see it, friends.
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You can see God's heart. If you think that you are
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standing, you are sinking. If you think that you have
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arrived, you're on the brink of dismay.
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It is only by acknowledging our sinfulness and our desperate
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need for a Savior that we are right with God.
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We have peace with God. Friends 10.
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How was it then reckoned when he was in circumcision or in
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uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in
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uncircumcision? So it was imputed to him, this
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blessedness from God Almighty, while he was still
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uncircumcised. And that is what you need to
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know about salvation, this outward expression of an inward
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change. The baptism, Friends, does not
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save somebody. It is.
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What God had already done to them, and it was just an outward
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expression, and circumcision is the same way. 11 And he received
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the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the
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faith which he had, yet, being uncircumcised, that he might be
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the father of all them that believe, though they not be
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circumcised, that righteousness might be imputed unto them also.
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So Paul is telling the early church, this 1st century church,
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he is showing them that they cannot require new converts into
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Christianity to be asked to be circumcised.
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And there is a movement even in this day, in this hour, that we
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think we can obtain some kind of super St. status by following
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after all of the Hebrew traditions and for people that
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are not for the people that are not circumcised, to get
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circumcised in a literal physical way today.
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And I want you to know that that is not the heart of God.
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God desires for you to circumcise the heart, friends.
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God desires for you to put on the righteousness of Jesus
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Christ that He won for us. He exuded naturally because He
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is the God man, all God and all man.
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And that is the only way that we're going to come unto the
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Father is through Jesus Christ. And that is what you need to
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know. It's not by these outward works,
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friends. And I know what the book of
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James says. What you need to know more than
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anything is that if you truly know the Lord Jesus Christ, all
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of the fruit that He is after will naturally come to fruition.
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There is no striving. His yoke is easy.
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His burden is light. If you are striving, friends,
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that is not from the Lord God Almighty. 12 And the father of
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circumcision to them who are not of the circumcision only, but
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who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father
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Abraham, which he had, being yet uncircumcised.
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So you can see that it is not the outward workings that mark
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what is inwardly happening, friends, it's the other way
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around. When inwardly we become children
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of Abraham, we will outwardly express that out. 13 For the
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promise that he should be the heir of the world was not to
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Abraham or to his seed through the law, but through the
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righteousness of faith. So we can see this justification
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apart from the law. So here the Jews at this time,
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they were thinking by keeping the law is what made them right
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with God. And when Jesus arrived on the
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scene, he fulfilled the entire law.
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And the law was, and we're going to see it in this little
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section, the law was only given to make us see our need for the
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Lord Jesus Christ. It was showing them throughout
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the time from Moses all the way to Christ, it was showing them
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that they could never uphold all of the law.
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And if they were to break one single commandment, they were
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guilty of breaking all of the law.
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And that is what we're going to see as we move through this.
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It is our dire need to be associated with the Lord Jesus
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Christ in His death, in His burial, in His resurrection and
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ascension, friends, and we are seated with Him in heavenly
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places. Praise God.
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Hallelujah, we love you, King Jesus. 14 For if they which are
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of the law be heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made
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of no effect. Did you catch that?
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I pray that you did. I pray that you see that if we
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think that it is our own righteousness that gets us
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there, then everything that Christ did is of no effect.
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You can see that faith is made void, friends, if we think we
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can work our way into heaven, 15 because the law works wrath for
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where no law is, there is no transgression.
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So imagine that friends, and this is a great theological deep
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dive that you should go on in the Hallows of your mind to try
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to understand what he was talking about back there in
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chapter 2 of Romans verses 131415, whenever he was talking
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about. They are a law unto themselves,
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those that do not have the law. And you can see here that he
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mentions it again in the sense that before Moses arrived on the
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scene and was given the tablets of the commandments, you can see
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here, and all the ordinances that followed in the law, You
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can see here that beforehand they were not guilty of
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transgressing the law because they had no law, and they were a
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law unto themselves. And God saw that it pleased Him
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to introduce the law to them to show them their need for Jesus
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Christ. And that is the divine mystery
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of the whole matter. Friends, when you look back on
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it, you can see God wanting to show us all the way up till now
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that we could never save ourselves and we desperately
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need the Lord Jesus Christ. And even those who died before
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the law was given, you can see that they still have to come
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through the Lord Jesus Christ. You see that in scriptures that
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no one comes unto the Father except through Him.
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He is the Way, He is the truth, and He is the life, and
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everything hangs in the balance of Jesus and the blood of Jesus,
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and we need to know that it is only by Jesus that we're going
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to make it there. 16 Therefore it is a faith that it might be
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by grace to the end. The promise might be sure to all
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the seed, not to that only which is of the law, but to that also
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which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us
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all. So you can see, friends, that we
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must increase our faith, and we cannot rely on the works to get
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us there. 17 As it is written, I have made you a father of many
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nations before him who believed even God, who quickens the dead,
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and calls those things which be not as though they were.
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That is faith in a nutshell. Verse 7 teen highlight it
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underline it. What is faith?
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What pleases God? You need to know that God can
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raise the dead. God can call a valley of dry
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bones back to life. He called you and me the
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Lazaruses who were dead in the tomb and stunk friends.
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He said rollback the stone and he said, Lazarus come forth, and
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you and I came out in our grave clothes and he took them all
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friends. And we can see here that we were
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dead and he called us back to life.
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And we have to believe the things that are not yet all the
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promises that God has promised us to us throughout His entire
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Scripture, from Genesis to Revelation.
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If they have not happened yet, we need to believe them as if
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they already have been, because they are that sure.
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And it is that faith that pleases Him.
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Friends 18 who hope against hope, believed in hope that he
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might become the father of many nations, according to that which
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was spoken, so shall your seed be.
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That is why Abraham was the father of faith, friends,
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because he hoped without hope. Sarah was barren, Sarah was
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elderly. There was no good reason for
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Abraham to believe that God could actually do what he said
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he was going to do. Abraham had no child at the
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time. And God said you will be a
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father of the nations and that he was going to give it to him
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as an inheritance, and he would have more descendants than the
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stars in the sky, than the grains of sand in the seashore.
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Think about it, friends. You and I are here today and we
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know the only one true living God because Abraham increased
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his faith over his own circumstances that were railing
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against him. The common sense saying that he
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should not believe what God had promised him, but he refused to
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go off in that carnal way of thinking and because of his
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obedience to the faith. You and I are blessed for all of
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eternity. Praise God, Hallelujah, we love
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you King Jesus. 19 And being not weak in faith, he considered not
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his own body now dead when he was about 100 years old, neither
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yet the deadness of Sarah's womb. 20 He staggered not at the
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promise of God through unbelief, but was strong in faith, giving
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glory to God. That is our call, friends.
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Increase your faith today. Give glory to God, and call the
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things that are not yet as if they already are.
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Step into that reality. Push down on your senses, push
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down on the things that are trying to rob you of this faith,
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and give God his glory. 21 being fully persuaded that what he had
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promised, he was able also to perform.
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Do you believe that? Are you rooted and steeped and
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grounded in the word of God? And when you come across a
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promise, do you highlight it, underline it, mark it, believe
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it as if it's yours? Take it, friends.
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This is not a book of rules. This is a book of promises.
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Never forget that. 22 And therefore it was imputed to him
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for righteousness. So God made a deposit into his
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account of the righteousness. Even though Abraham was a
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Sinner, it was the faith that of Abraham that pleased God to
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impute to him this righteousness. 24 But for us
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also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on him
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that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead, the same power
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that raised Jesus Christ from the dead lives in you and lives
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in me, friends. If you are a blood bot born
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again believer, you're going to bust heaven wide open, friends.
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And He gave you the Holy Spirit as a down payment, friends, as a
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security deposit of what is to come.
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And we can start to bring heaven down to earth today.
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We can start to perform His will today, just as it is there in
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heaven. We can start to see like Elijah.
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We can start to see all the Chariots of fire and all the
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angels in camping and surrounding us.
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By faith, we know that they're fighting our battles.
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By faith we know that we are His and marked by His goodness and
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grace, and we can experience His Holiness and glory here on this
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earth. Friends, and it is only a taste.
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It is only a taste of what is to come.
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We have tasted and seen that He is good and we are yearning and
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we are lovesick for a home that we have not yet gone to, and we
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are just pilgrims passing through the strange land.
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Friends and I pray that you understand all of these amazing
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spiritual principles and that it is not.
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You're not getting robbed of it by trying to rely on your own
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abilities, your 4O1K, your retirement.
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You're not relying on the government, you're not relying
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on programs. You're not relying on any single
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entity other than God and God Almighty for your daily bread.
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I pray that over you today, friends. 25 who was delivered
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for our offenses and was raised again for our justification.
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Friends, Jesus Christ suffered a horrible criminal's death, was
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spat on, his beard plucked out, the crown of thorns pressed
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against his head. In Isaiah we see someone who
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does not even resemble a man. He was so mangled, friends, and
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he suffered that way. The Son of God came and suffered
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that way, and then proved to the whole world, proved to every
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single person who had ever been born, was born, or will be born,
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that he is the Son of God. And He has all power to lay down
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his life and to take it up again.
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And if you and I will come to him by faith, and if you and I
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will believe him even though we can't see him, and we will be
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blessed eternally, and He will give us the Holy Spirit, we will
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be indwelled with the Holy Spirit.
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We will be filled with the Holy Spirit.
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And when we die as a seed and get pushed down into the ground,
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we will be raised from the dead, just like He was.
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And there, wherever He is, we will be with Him also.
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Friends, it is just if I'd never committed that sin ever, we're
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going to stand before Almighty God.
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He's going to gird up our loins and help us to stand in His
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presence, praise God. Hallelujah.
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I pray that you have this justification.
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I pray that you have His righteousness and you are
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clothed in it, friends, and you are bathed in the blood of Jesus
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Christ. Every entity of you, friends,
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don't just get dunked in water. Don't just pray the little
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Jingle friends, but you need to know that you know that you know
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that you know if you were to die today where you would spend
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eternity. And you can have that assurance
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today by placing your faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, believing
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that He is enough, believing that he died on the cross for
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your sins, that he was crucified, buried, resurrected,
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raised to life by God, and he's seated at the right hand of God.
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He has gone on to prepare a place for us.
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I pray that you've been blessed by this amazing chapter here in
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God's Word. I know I sure have.
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I'm praying for you. I love you, so does God.
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We'll see you back here tomorrow.
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God bless you.