would at 123 start there right on the first opportunity that we have to freely gather sing
praises unto you and to your son for that you'd bless the remainder of the service at this time
lord and be with us as we sing praises unto you and fill us with your spirit for the remainder of
the service and be with pastor aus as well as he preaches from your word in jesus name i pray
amen for our next song if you would actually stay with the hymnal open our next song will be hymn
number 424 right there on the other side oh come all ye faithful hymn number 424 start there right
on the first side our service times are listed there sunday morning at 10 thursday sunday evening
it is day bible verse seven this evening below that we have all of our soul winning times and
all of those are still meeting here at the church building then below that we have our year to date
soul winning statistics make sure to let me know if you have any to report for this evening then
we have our upcoming events this friday in a few days is the ladies christmas party and i just
want to say thank you to all the ladies that are involved in decorating for that really appreciate
it there there was a reminder to bring a white elephant gift for about a 25 dollar value and
like i said if that's a deal breaker for anyone please just email me and i'll make sure to help
you out with that then on december 20th we we did move this date because someone informed me hey did
you know that oklahoma is playing alabama exactly at the time we're going christmas carolyn and i've
seen how soul winning goes when there's football games going on probably the worst soul winning
time i've ever had was when i was in vancouver washington and the seattle seahawks were in the
super bowl and we were soul winning during the super bowl and i've never ran into more angry
people out soul winning so it's like the whole purpose of this is to bring people joy and so
let's not interrupt the championship football game or whatever we're gonna do that on saturday
and so saturday will be when we're gonna do that they're gonna be more receptive to our joy that
we're bringing them on that day then december 24th christmas eve will be the kids choir before
the service really excited to hear that and then a cookie bake off afterwards and as a reminder you
could bring as many cookies entries as you would like and then december 31st will be our new year's
eve party there is a sign-up sheet in the back so if you'd like to preach for that evening service
for the men's preaching night please do sign up letting me know the topic you plan on preaching on
and as of now it's still going to be a 15 minute time limit for the sermon on the right we do have
our online visitor card i did get a chance to use that out soul winning this week and just had the
person sign up had them subscribe to our youtube right there and so i myself need to do it more
and i definitely encourage you all to do it as well it's a great way to get people's contact
info so we could stay in touch with them below that we have our online giving if you're interested
in that and then our prayer list no new additions for this week please do email me if you ever do
have one but before we go to our third song let's go ahead and go to lord in prayer as a church
family this evening lord we thank you very much for our church for the wednesday service i pray
that you would bless the service lord that everything done would be done to your honor
and glory i pray that you just help us to understand this chapter to clean truths from
it this evening lord i pray for our friends that are abroad pastor stuckey and brother urbanik that
you just bless the work that they're doing over in the philippines that you just help their the door
of opportunity to continue to be wide open for them i pray that you also bless all of our friend
churches as well lord and i pray that you just be with the requests of our church members tonight
according to your will i pray that you just bless these last weeks in 2025 help us to keep pushing
hard out soul winning and our bible reading and our prayer and everything that we want to do for
you god help us not to take a vacation from serving you this winter lord i also want to
bring these requests before you i pray that you please bless my brother that you keep him safe
on his combat deployment help bring him back to his family safe safely lord i also want to pray
for brother theodore's mother that you just bless her treatment that you would please heal her body
cancer and also that she would just bless his sister and as well as all of those church members
here who have unsaved loved ones that you just help those people to have soft hearts to the gospel
and that we would be provoked to preach the gospel to our loved ones this holiday season lord i also
pray for the hausburg family that you please bless brother miles and lord i especially want to pray
just for the safety of all of our church members here as people are going to be traveling for the
holidays please help them all to be safe on the roads or in the air and help us to just have a
good time as well we love you in jesus name we pray amen all right this time we'll go ahead and
go to our third song all right for our third song if you would at this time take your hymnals
and turn to hymn number 422 thou didst leave thy throne hymn number 422 start there right on the
first thou didst leave thy throne and thy kingly crown when thou camest to earth for me
shall we say then abraham our father as pertaining to the flesh hath found for if abraham were
justified by works he hath whereof to glory but not before god for what saith the scripture
abraham believed god and it was counted to him unto him for righteousness now to him that worketh
is the reward not reckoned of grace but of death but to him that worketh not but believeth on him
that justifieth the ungodly his faith is counted for righteousness even as david also describeth
the blessedness of the man unto whom god imputed righteousness without works saying blessed are they
whose iniquities are forgiven and whose sins are covered blessed is the man to whom the lord will
not impute sin cometh this blessedness then upon the circumcision only or upon the uncircumcision
also for we say that faith was reckoned to abraham for righteousness how was it then reckoned was he
in circumcision or an uncircumcision not in circumcision but in uncircumcision and he received
the sign of circumcision a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had being yet uncircumcised
that he might be the father of all them that believe though they be not circumcised that
righteousness may be imputed unto them also and the father of circumcision to them who are not of
the circumcision only but who also walk in the steps of the of that faith of our father Abraham
which he had being yet uncircumcised for the promise that he should be the heir of the world
was not to Abraham or to his seed through the law but through the righteousness of faith for they
which are of the law be heirs faith is made void and the promise made of none effect because the
law worketh wrath for where no law is there is no transgression therefore it is a faith that it might
be by grace to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed not to that only which is of the
law but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham who is the father of us all as it is
written i have made thee a father of many nations before him whom he believed even god who quickeneth
the dead and calleth those things which be not as though they were who against hope believed in hope
that he might become the father of many nations according to that which was spoken so shall they
seed be and being not weak in faith he considered not his own body now dead when he was about
and hundred years old neither yet the deadness of sarah's womb he staggered not at the promise of
god through unbelief but was strong in faith giving glory to god and being fully persuaded
that what he had promised he was able also to perform and therefore it was imputed to him
for righteousness now it was not written for his sake alone that it was imputed to him but for us
also to whom it shall be imputed if we believe on him that raised up jesus our lord from the dead
who was delivered for our office offenses and raised again for our justification let's bow
our heads for prayer father in heaven we thank you for our church this day we just have to feel
like that's the spirit help us to love you men we're in romans chapter number four
and if you remember the apostle paul so far has just been making the case that the world is wicked
and the jews are wicked for all have sinned and come short of the glory of god and this
epistle to the romans is periodically addressed to a mixed audience where at one time he's
addressing the gentiles at other times he's really focusing in on the jews and here he kind of gets
back to more focusing on the jewish audience because he poses this question in verse one
where it says what shall we say then that abraham our father as pertaining to the flesh hath found
if you remember especially in romans the apostle paul is constantly anticipating questions or ideas
that his audience might have and he's just preemptively answering that and of course if
you're a jew you're one who is trusting in the fact that you are of the seed of abraham let me
prove that to you go if you would to john chapter 8 and keep your place there in romans 4 but in
john chapter number 8 there's this exchange between jesus and the jews and in verse number 39 notice
says they answered and said unto him abraham is our father jesus saith unto them if you were
abraham's children you would do the works of abraham but now you seek to kill me a man that
hath told you the truth which i have heard of god this did not abraham ye do the deeds of your father
so the jews here they're kind of boasting or trusting in the fact that they are of the stock
of abraham so of course the apostle paul knows this he was a Pharisee of the Pharisees he
understands their way of thinking and he's already saying i already know you're going to
ask about abraham i already know you're going to bring up abraham so hey let's talk about abraham
then what what shall we say then in verse number one of romans four what shall we say then that
abraham our father as pertaining to the flesh hath found verse two for if abraham were justified by
works he hath whereof to glory but not before god so here we get this if meaning that he's not
justified by works but he's saying hey theoretically if abraham were justified by works from a salvation
perspective he would have whereof to glory but not before god verse three for what saith the
scripture abraham believed god and it was counted unto him for righteousness by the way this is a
great question to ask yourself when you are proving any doctrine what saith the scripture
i like that that's what the apostle paul appeals to he doesn't appeal to well i just think well i
just think that god would be like this well i just think you can't live however you want i mean of
course god expects us to keep the commandments to go to heaven i mean we all know that i mean come on
right he doesn't have this mentality that we constantly hear from people out soul winning
that are doing what leaning on their own understanding the bible says trust in the
lord with all thine heart and lean not unto thine own understanding in all thy ways acknowledge him
and he shall direct thy paths what does it mean to trust in the lord with all your heart it means
that you put your faith in what the bible says it means you don't sit here and your own human logic
or your own human reasoning is your god that surpasses the bible and you go at the bible with
your human logic no you go at the bible with what does the bible say and if you have a different
idea if you have a different understanding you submit yourself to what the bible says now someone
who's wise will do this and look we go out soul winning almost every single day in this church and
we approach people who actually do love the truth and we show them what sayeth the scripture and
someone who loves truth they're willing to repent you know what that means change from trusting in
their works or in confessing their sins or in whatever church they're part of and believe on
the lord jesus christ that's real repentance and that's them trusting in the lord but it says there
abraham believed god and it was counted unto him for righteousness right he doesn't say abraham got
circumcised and then he was seen as righteous in the sight of lord abraham you know did whatever
works and then he was seen righteous notice as abraham believed god and it was counted unto him
for righteousness also notice how salvation has always been by believing in god right because
you know these jews oftentimes are thinking like you know this is totally different than everything
we've heard in the old testament you know you're bringing this new religion christianity and it's
just so contradictory to the old testament that's not true everyone in the old testament was also
saved by faith in god and the reason these jews don't understand this is because they themselves
are not saved i don't know if you realize this people who don't understand salvation is because
they're not saved you see all the people defending kurt cameron right now and his heresy about hell
and it just so happens that they also believe in work salvation they also believe in lordship
salvation it's like why because they're unsaved notice verse four it says now to him that worketh
is the reward not reckoned of grace but of debt right so if abraham were justified by works
in the sight of god well then he would not have been receiving grace from god he would have been
having a debt that was owed to him right when we as men go to work we trade our time our labor our
skill our intellect whatever it is that you do you trade that for money and when you put in the
blood sweat and tears at the job and every two weeks you get that paycheck that is not your boss
doing you a favor that is not your company bestowing a gift unto you that is what is owed
unto you for your work right so it's not like you know you put in 40 hours and you get paid 40
hours and you're just like thank you for this gracious gift i mean you shouldn't have boss you
shouldn't have done this now here's the thing let's say christmas rolls around and your boss says hey
here's a bonus okay that's of grace right it's not like you did some sort of extra performance
on the job like a merit-based bonus sometimes bosses will just give you a christmas bonus
now is that because of your work no that's just grace right so he's explaining this idea that hey
if abraham were justified by works he would have whereof to glory just like hey you go to work
hey i earned that money i produced for the company i sold this product i got more customers whatever
you know those works are accredited to you but a gift it's not that way that's why he says in verse
number five but to him that worketh not but believeth on him that justifyeth the ungodly
his faith is counted for righteousness notice a person that worketh not what does that mean
zero works no church attendance no bible reading no repenting of your sins no preaching the gospel
no prayer no tithing but to him that worketh not but believeth it says keep reading on him that
justified the ungodly his faith is counted for righteousness people get this idea yeah of course
salvation is by faith of course salvation is by believing but you know if you actually believe
that means that you're going to work that means that you're going to have a completely changed
life everything about your life is going to change you're going to start repenting of your sins
you're going to start doing all this new stuff look that would not make sense with this verse
this verse does not say it is impossible for someone to believe and have no works
it says but to him that worketh not but believeth right so this just demolishes this foolish idea
that oh you know if you're saved you're for sure going to have the works or yeah it's by faith but
what faith actually means is doing good works right now that's just complete heresy i think
there are some people that are saved that get caught up with the idea of yeah salvation is
only by faith it's a free gift it's not of works but i just think that after you get saved you're
going to have some works or you're going to change your life a little bit and i think a lot of people
are saying that number one because they're not really well versed in the bible number two is
maybe they themselves had a change and look i personally had a change when i got saved i'm sure
many of you had a change when you got saved but let me tell you why you had a change is because
you decided to walk in the spirit because you decided to put on the new man because if you get
saved and you continue to walk in the flesh and you don't put on the new man you are going to be
exactly the person you were before you got saved and people who are saved can commit all manner
of heinous sins right people who are safe still have the flesh and the flesh is not saved now it
will be someday we will get a new body someday but look your soul is what saved your spirit is
what saved you still have that old man so if we choose to not read the bible and to not go to
church and to not fellowship with god's people yeah you're going to seem like the exact same
person that you were but that does not mean that you're not saved look if you believe on the lord
jesus christ you are saved don't sit here and have doubts about your salvation where it's like man
you know i struggle with sin and so i'm wondering if i'm saved it's like join the club everyone's
going to struggle with sin but there's a difference between the christian who's striving against sin
who's striving to walk in the spirit and of course is still going to fall short is still going to fall
and keeps going versus the person who just they don't go to church they don't read the bible
look there's going to be no difference for those people and let's be honest how what is the
percentage of people that we get saved that start coming to church that start reading their bible
that start living a new life it's very few and and people will act like oh that means that they
didn't get saved really because when jesus healed the 10 lepers only one came back to thank him
only one came back to give glory to god so it's like 90 percent of people are probably not going
to change anything but who cares they're going to heaven right like should we just be like well
you know kind of discourages me with soul winning that a lot of people don't come to church it
doesn't discourage me at all because those people are going to be in heaven when they die and you
know kids i've learned i've learned with kids that this truth kind of hits them because my daughters
are just like dad how come everyone keeps saying they're going to come to church but they never
come i'm just like that's a good question my daughter they're just like you know you're not
black-filled yet it still stings when they tell you i'm going to come to church and then they
don't show up whereas like those of us have been soul winning for a long time people say they're
going to show up we're just like okay yeah we'll see how that goes you know every once in a while
it happens praise god for that but we know that the 90 are not going to do works but guess what
but to him that worketh not but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly his faith is counted
for righteousness that's what salvation is it's a free gift go if you would to james chapter two
because inevitably when you talk about this when you talk about abraham when you talk about faith
and works the unlearned ignorant false prophets of this world are going to say well what about
what about uh what's the where's that place in the bible it says something about how faith without
works is dead they don't even know where it is in the bible but they're going to sit here and try to
refute your doctrine as a soul i mean you've got all the verses memorized you could just quote it
in your sleep and they're like just i heard somewhere in the bible something about how faith
without works is dead okay this does talk about abraham and this is why it's important let me just
say this to compare scripture with scripture because there are no contradictions in the bible
it's not like roman's four and james two are teaching contrary doctrines about salvation
because what people people act like that's what it is and people just want to pick one
or it's just like no it's just james two faith without works is dead look if your interpretation
of the bible is causing there to be a contradiction in the text you're wrong it shouldn't be that hard
to understand okay look at james chapter number two verse 14 this question is asked what doth it
profit my brethren though a man say he have faith and have not works can faith save him if a brother
or sister be naked and destitute of daily food and one of you say unto them depart in peace be
ye warmed and filled notwithstanding you give them not those things which are needful to the body
what doth it profit this question is not saying what does it take to get to heaven what does it
take to be justified to have your sins forgiven it's asking what does it profit other people
what does it profit humanity what does it profit your neighbor what does it profit your brother
if you say that you have faith but have not works then the bible gives a very specific example what
if someone is cold naked destitute of food and you tell them be ye warmed and filled
but you don't actually give them those things that are needful for the body hey can faith save that
person right and it always cracks me up we all soul winning and people believe in work salvation
and they'll say stay warm stay cool stay hydrated it's like well give me some water give me a hot
cup of hot coffee or something you know you're telling me that you have where's your works here
right so look of course works are very important we believe in doing good works we constantly
preach about doing good works the apostle paul talks about in titus how we need to constantly
exhort people to do good works that this is good and it's profitable unto men okay notice it's
profitable unto men right so me preaching this sermon hopefully is edifying you hopefully it's
building you up hopefully it's strengthening your faith i'm not just doing this you know for god
god knows the doctrine already right of course i'm preaching to please god but i'm not here to teach
god not here to encourage god god i just want you to know salvation is by faith like he doesn't need
that but people do need that right you know when i'm ripping hard on sin it's not so that god can
get something right so that you could get something right it's to be profitable to other people there
it says in verse number 17 even so faith if it hath not works is dead being alone and look that's
true right if and people use the car analogy hey if you have a car and the battery's dead you got
a dead car there and that car is not profitable it's not going to get you from point a to point b
now is it still a car yes it is just like but to him that worketh not but believeth on him that
justified the ungodly his faith is counted for righteousness hey if you have faith without works
you're still saved now is that what god's ideal plan for our life is that we would have faith and
know works no of course he wants us to also be profitable to him serving him preaching the gospel
to others and of course being profitable to others as well it says verse 18 yay a man may say thou
has faith and i have works show me thy faith without thy works and i will show thee my faith
by my works see god he knows the heart he can see where your trust is but you know what i can't
how is it that you could see that someone has a lot of faith it's when they have a lot of works
and when someone just has tons of works i'm going to say that's a man of a big faith right there
or that's a woman of big faith why because they have a lot of works to show that look also what
it says in verse number 19 it says thou believest that there is one god thou doest well the devils
also believe and tremble and people say see you can't just believe in god to get to heaven because
don't you know that the devils also believe but hold on the bible doesn't say that the devils put
their trust in god for salvation the bible says that the devils believe that one god exists
believing that one god exists does not save you because if you believe in a false god and you
think that that god exists that's certainly not going to save you and even just the god of the
bible just knowing that the god of the bible exists doesn't save you just knowing facts about
jesus doesn't save you you have to actually put your trust in what jesus did for you to save you
you have to actually your heart has to be trusting in the fact that the only way you're going to get
to heaven is by what jesus did on the cross not your works so that's such a stupid justification
people use verse 21 now notice it says was not abraham our father justified by works when he had
offered isaac his son upon the altar now we already saw that when it comes to salvation abraham was
not justified by works he was justified by faith here it's saying that there was a time where
abraham was justified by works but notice it's in a specific example in a specific context it says
there that he was sorry what verse was on 21 was not abraham our father justified by works when he
had offered isaac his son upon the altar seeest thou how faith wrought with his works and by works
was faith made perfect right so romans four is talking about faith with no works that person
saved but if you want to have a perfect faith meaning a complete a whole faith obviously you
should have works and faith right and it's like people have this straw man saying that we're
against works folks we're pro works we try to do a lot of work for the lord in this church but the
difference between us and people who are going to hell is that we're not trusting in our works to
save us i remember running into mormon missionaries and you know having this conversation with them
back before you know now i just tell them to go to hell and i don't i don't talk with them i used
to you know bang my head against the wall talking to these people and they were so confused they're
like well then why are you guys out here doing this if you don't think you have to do this to
go to heaven notice their mentality they think that they're getting to heaven by going out knocking
doors we're doing it because of this crazy thing that you that you mormons can't understand it's
called loving god and loving people crazy concept that we're not just doing everything that we do
in life selfishly and and look obviously if salvation were by works yeah you would try but
you'd fail because you don't want to go to hell but no we're actually doing works because we love
god and we love other people and because we fear god as well we don't want god to punish us for
being lazy verse 23 in the scripture was fulfilled would say if abraham believed god and it was
imputed unto him for righteousness and he was called the friend of god you see then how that
by works a man is justified and not by faith only right so how is your faith manifested to other
people by your works how are you justified in front of the eyes of man in front of other people
it's your works but guess what justified in the eyes of god it's by faith any other interpretation
you come up with is going to introduce a contradiction between romans 4 and james 2 and
i'm sorry i actually believe the bible is inspired and it's perfect in all cases so i'm not afraid
of james 2 i love james 2 hey faith without works is dead amen but guess what works don't save you
go back to romans 4 so he talked about abraham now he's going to bring up another old testament
character here because these jews that's just what they're obsessed with right he goes okay we talk
about abraham how about david verse 6 even as david also describeth the blessedness of the man
unto whom god imputeth righteousness without works oh old testament salvation was different
not according to david he was talking about what a blessing it is to have the righteousness of god
imputed to you without works right meaning just the sacrifice of jesus christ it's always been good
you've always been able to credit that for your salvation from the first man who's ever lived
to whoever the last person who's ever born that sacrifice was good for everyone and christ's
righteousness gets imputed unto you when you believe then he says saying blessed are they
whose iniquities are forgiven and whose sins are covered look what it says in psalm 32 let's turn
over to psalm chapter 32 i just want to show you where this is quoting from the bible is amazing
how it cross references itself it's not like the quran where it's just completely discombobulated
and makes no sense whatsoever the bible is very beautiful so this is what it's coming from psalm
32 verse 1 david said blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven whose sin is covered
blessed is the man unto whom the lord imputeth not iniquity and in whose spirit there is no
guile so notice your transgressions in the past are forgiven and covered so when you believe in
christ it's not well you know to get to heaven i have to repent of those sins atone for those
sins make up for those sins in order to be forgiven no it's when you believe on god when
you put your trust in the lord jesus christ those sins are forgiven and they are covered it's done
it's not you doing the work to get those sins forgiven they're just completely forgiven blessed
is the man unto whom the lord imputeth not iniquity so when we sin he's not going to count that
against us right and of course god will still punish us on this earth for our sins but when
he's looking at our eternal destiny he's not counting our sins against us anymore when we're
saved right he's not imputing those sins to us and he looks at us in whose spirit there is no guile
now look we sin we have the flesh but once we're saved god looks at us and he says hey in his
spirit there's no guile what's guile deception trickery lies that's something that's just not
found you know it's a blessing go back to roman chapter number four then it says in verse number
eight blessed is the man to whom the lord will not impute sin there's your future right god does not
just save you from your past sins it's not like he makes this deal hey now that you know the truth
i'll let you off the hook for what you did yesterday i'll let you off the hook for what
you did when you were a teen or when you were in your 20s or whatever but going forward man you
got to keep the commandments you got to keep on the straight and narrow or you're going to lose
your salvation that's not what the bible teaches hey it's blessed is the man to whom the lord
will not impute sin right so in the future god's never going to impute your sin there's just so
much in the bible that destroys this stupid idea of that you could lose your salvation and guess
what david taught it jesus taught it the apostle paul taught it it's all throughout the bible that
you can't lose your salvation then you get you know these these pious fake pious liars behind the
pulpit today that act like i'm living such a clean life now i'm on the straight and narrow i've
repented of my sins and that's why of course i have not lost my salvation oh but you all you all
have right and you know you got guys like paul washer who gets up and he's like you got people
today that are trusting in the fact that one time they prayed a prayer and they live like devils
and it's like first of all he's straw manning because no one's trusting in the fact that they
prayed a prayer to get them to heaven we're trusting the fact that we called upon the name
of the lord how is it that you put your faith in him you call out to him and ask him to save you
that's how you get saved you know and paul washer could mock that all he wants but he could laugh it
up while he's burning in hell because he's a false prophet that teaches work salvation teaches lordship
salvation teaches you can lose your salvation guess what if you live a wicked life if you
live a raunchy life if you've not repented of your sins if you're an alcoholic if you're a
fornicator if you're an adulterer and you trusted in lord jesus christ you're going to heaven
and the little perfect you know pious paul washer who thinks he's so wonderful he's gonna be burning
in hell and you know don't twist my words and say oh let's go be fornicators and adulterers
obviously it's not what we believe but hey but to him that worketh not but believeth on him that
justify the ungodly his faith is counted for righteousness then he kind of shifts gears in
verse nine he says come at this blessedness then upon the circumcision only or upon the
uncircumcision also for we say that faith was reckoned to abraham for righteousness he's saying
hey is this just this salvation we're talking about and that abraham was talking about and that
david is talking about was this something that was just gifted to the jews only is this just
a special pact only for the nation of israel for those who are circumcised he says or upon
the uncircumcision also verse 10 how was it then reckoned when he was in circumcision
or in uncircumcision not in circumcision but in uncircumcision he slows it down for these people
okay he just got it done explained to him it's not of works now he's going to bring up a specific
work because it's really funny well so winning and you see this i totally understand where paul's
coming from you hammer it's not of works you hammer eternal security and then you bring up a
specific situation well let's say someone believes in jesus but then they never read the bible they
never pray they never do works for god are they still saved like oh they're going to hell and
it's like man all right let's slow this down or you know hey you know you can never lose your
salvation here's a bunch of verses on it all right now if someone committed suicide are they
still safe are they going to lose their salvation oh for sure lose it right so you just got done
laying down the doctrine now he's going to give them a specific example circumcision why because
what are the jews trusting it oh i'm a i'm circumcised i'm of this stock of abraham i'm a
jew right okay well guess what when was abraham justified was it when he was circumcised or
uncircumcised when he was uncircumcised right and you know apply that to whatever modern situation
today hey when someone puts their faith in christ and then later in their life they change their
life they repent of some sin they start doing right it's like at what moment were they saved
though were they saved when they put their trust in christ or were they saved when they finally
got in church when they finally stopped drinking when they finally stopped fornicating hey it was
reckoned to them when they believed it was reckoned to them when they were in uncircumcision it was
reckoned to them while they were still yet sinners that's when people are saved notice verse 11 he
received the what that's an important word sign of circumcision a seal of the righteousness of
the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised that he might be the father of all them that believe
though they be not circumcised that righteousness might be imputed unto them also notice what
circumcision is referred to in the new testament it is a sign what does that mean it means it's a
picture of something here's another thing that people who are unsaved people who are are going
to hell unless they get saved constantly don't understand about the bible is they take things
that were given that were symbolic that were pictures of salvation and say that that picture
is what saves you and it just really goes to show that the carnal mind just cannot understand the
bible right the carnal man just cannot understand the things that are spiritually discerned you
know how explain to me how snipping a portion is going to get you into heaven sounds really
silly when you say it out loud right okay but you know what it's no less silly than the church
of christ that thinks that you getting wet in a tub is taking you to heaven people who believe
that you getting sprinkled by a catholic priest is going to get your sins revoked what kind of
silly nonsense is this you're you're a wicked sinner that's offended a righteous god you are
worthy of hell but i know it'll fix it squirt squirt snip snip right that's not how it works
folks these things are a picture he received the what sign of circumcision it says it's a seal of
the righteousness of the faith which he had that's past tense yet being uncircumcised so guess what
he was saved before he was circumcised and guess what i was saved before i was baptized and in fact
the bible teaches that you must be saved before getting baptized why because baptism is a picture
of what you've placed your faith in hey what doth hinder me to be baptized if thou believeest with
all thine heart thou mayest what is baptism picturing it's picturing jesus on the cross
right standing in the water hey being put under the water jesus died and was buried coming up out
of the water showing the resurrection of jesus christ what is that picturing that you're putting
your faith in that to save you and that someday your body too will rise again not because of your
baptism or your circumcision or your works or anything like that but because of the fact that
jesus rose again and that's what you're trusting in and so look it could not be more clear that
salvation has always been by faith alone without works abraham david anyone who's ever been saved
has been saved by faith verse 12 and the father of circumcision to them who are not of the
circumcision only but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father abraham which he had
being yet uncircumcised and right this reminds me again of john chapter 8 oh abraham's our father
well really it says that he's the father of those who are not of the circumcision only but who also
walk in the steps of that faith of our father abraham so you know what abraham is our father
abraham is the father of faith and jesus made it clear because those jews were not saved he says
you're of your father the devil right so abraham isn't even those people's father he's the father
of those that believe look at verse 13 it says for the promise that he should be the heir of the
world was not to abraham or to his seed through the law but through the righteousness of faith
go to genesis chapter 17 genesis chapter number 17 now notice he brings up this promise and boy oh
boy do the boomers love to talk about this promise even though they don't understand it
boy oh boy does senator ted cruz love to bring this up and he doesn't even understand it there
was a promise given to abraham that he should be the heir of the world but romans 4 says that that
was not given to him or to his seed through the law but through the righteousness of faith and
people say this promise was given to the jews and they'll point to the people in israel today the
people who practice judaism today which what are they trusting in they're trusting in the law
they observe the law at least they claim that they do they're trusting the law to save them
but the bible just said that the promise was not made to abraham or to his seed through the law
look at genesis chapter 17 verse number one and when abraham was 90 years old and nine the lord
appeared to abraham and said unto him i am the almighty god walk before me and be thou perfect
and i will make my covenant between me and thee and will multiply thee exceedingly and abraham fell
on his face and god talked with him saying as for me behold my covenant is with thee and thou shall
be a father of many nations oh yeah the promise was given to israel he's the father of many nations
so if this promise was just telling you about a certain bloodline coming from abraham explain to
me how this talk about many nations are nations different types of people different groups of
people absolutely neither shall thy name anymore be called abraham but thy name shall be called
abraham for a father of 1948 israel have i made oh no for a father of many nations have i made
thee and i will make the exceeding fruitful and i will make nations of thee and kings shall come
out of thee right that definitely resonates with the coming of the lord jesus christ and i will
establish my covenant between me and thee and i seed after thee and their generations for an
everlasting covenant to be a god unto thee and to thy seed after thee and people say look it's
everlasting covenant it's a promise given to the jews it's a promise given to israel that cannot
be broken well first of all you don't understand that the bible tells us that this promise was not
given through the law so you show me a group of people today that call themselves jews and what
they're trusting in to save them is circumcision which he just got done telling us that was not
how abraham was justified or they're telling us that they're justified by the law well then
that's not who this promise was for okay and this promise was given to what to his seed let's go
to galatians chapter number three galatians chapter number three look thank god a lot of
people are waking up to this but we ought to ask ourselves and i wish every baptist would ask this
question what sayeth the scripture hey that's the question that the apostle paul was asking
he doesn't say what sayeth the zionists what sayeth the commentaries what sayeth apac hey what say
it the scripture galatians 3 look at verse 16 now to abraham and his seed were the promises made
he sayeth not and to seeds as of many but as of one into thy seed which is christ hey how are all
the nations of the earth going to be blessed how is abraham going to be the father of many nations
it's through jesus christ because in every nation every language every tongue there are those who
have put their faith in the lord jesus christ and you know what there's millions and millions probably
billions of christians that have lived and you know what that's a fulfillment of that promise
it's not talking about the christ rejecting jews it's not talking about people that spit on the
ground at the name of christ it's not talking about people who think you have to be circumcised to go
to heaven it's nonsense what sayeth the scripture go back to romans chapter number four romans
chapter number four you see a bunch of you know pastors in the old ifb and these zionists they
want to show you all these charts and show you all these commentaries well guess what i don't
even have any notes tonight i'm just showing you the word of god it's simple it's easy to see from
the bible then he says here verse number 12 and the father of circumcision to them who are not
of the circumcision only but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father abraham which
which he had, being yet uncircumcised.
For the promise that he should be the heir of the world
was not to Abraham or to his seed through the law,
but through the righteousness of faith.
For if they which are of the law be heirs,
faith is made void, and the promise made of none effect.
What's he saying?
Hey, if the Jews, if those who are of the law,
if those who are trusting in the law to save them,
if those are the heirs,
if those are the heirs of the promise of Abraham,
if those are God's chosen people,
well then faith is made void
and the promise made of none effect.
It's funny how the old IFB and the Zionists
will tell you the exact opposite.
Oh, these replacement theologists
are saying that God broke his covenant,
that God made his covenant of none effect.
No, that's what you're saying.
It's actually the exact opposite.
According to Paul, he says that if you're saying
that those that are of the law be heirs,
then faith is made void and the promise of none effect.
Hey, I actually believe God's promise.
I'm not the one calling him a liar.
That's what these people are doing by saying,
hey, you know, those who hate Christ,
those who killed Christ, those who blasphemed Christ,
those who said his blood be on us and on our children,
those are God's special chosen people.
That's garbage.
It's a lie.
Notice what he says in verse number 15,
"Because the law worketh wrath,
"for where no law is, there is no transgression."
Right?
"He that believeth on the Son hath life.
"He that believeth not the Son shall not see life,
"but the wrath of God abideth on him."
They're not God's special chosen people.
God doesn't have extra, you know,
just grace for these people that hate him.
No, his wrath is abiding on the Jews today.
That's exactly what he says.
Hey, you wanna trust in the law?
Well, the law worketh wrath.
And guess what?
It's also the same for non-Jews
that are trusting in their works.
It's also the same for the repenting of sins Baptists.
It's also the same for the Catholics.
It's also the same for anyone who's trusting in their works.
You know, they've got the wrath of God abiding on them.
And when they go to hell,
it'll be abiding on them for all of eternity.
Therefore, verse 16, I love how organized Paul is.
Therefore it is of faith that it might be by grace.
To the end, the promise might be sure to all the seed,
not to that only which is of the law,
but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham,
who is the father of us all.
Right, here's the thing.
If the seed is referring to the blood descendants
of Abraham, there's gonna be a mixed bag
between people that are saved and unsaved.
So if that's all that it's talking about,
well, then that promise wouldn't be made sure
to all the seed.
But if it's just talking about people who are saved,
whether they are Jew or Gentile,
then that promise has been made sure to all the seed,
to all those who believe.
Therefore, it is the faith that it might be by grace.
See, because if it was by the law,
if it was by circumcision,
if it was by Abraham's works,
it would be of debt, like he already explained.
Verse 17, as it is written,
"I have made thee a father of many nations before him
whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead,
and calleth those things which be not as though they were."
Hey, though Christ was not yet born,
that promise was already good,
already as good as if it were fulfilled,
because, hey, in thee shall all nations
of the earth be blessed.
It's always been by Jesus Christ
that people have been saved.
And even though the actual timeline
of Christ's birth, ministry, death, resurrection
had not yet happened chronologically,
that sacrifice was already good for Abraham and for all.
Verse number 18 says,
"Who against hope believed in hope,
"that he might become the father of many nations,
"according to that which was spoken,
"so shall thy seed be."
Of course, him and his wife Sarah were very, very old
when they were promised to have a child,
not to mention to be the father of many nations,
not to mention that just all the world
would be blessed through his seed.
And you know what?
Just from a carnal perspective,
that doesn't logically compute.
But again, God's not pleased
with those who are just trusting in their own heart,
trusting in their own understanding, their own human logic.
Without faith, it is impossible to please him.
And so against hope, right?
It's like, what hope does an old man and an old woman
have of having a child, not to mention of becoming
the father of many nations, well, you know what?
Against hope, he's believed in hope anyways.
That's strong faith.
That's what faith is, folks.
Of course, there's faith to get saved.
There's faith in other areas of our life
where sometimes you look at the Bible,
you see what God's asking you to do,
and you use your human logic and your human understanding,
and you look at the task before you,
you look at the obstacles, you look at the problems,
and you think like, I can't do that.
How can I make that work?
But hey, against hope, believe in hope, right?
This could apply in so many areas.
So many people, they're just like, I'm shy,
I'm not eloquent, who have made man's mouth, right?
Some people think I'm too shy to go preach the gospel,
I can't do it, I'm not cut out for it,
that's not my ministry, that's not my gift,
that's not my talent.
Sounds like you don't have a lot of hope,
but you know what, believe in hope anyways,
because I've seen shy people preach the gospel,
and believe it or not, naturally,
I'm more of an introverted person myself.
I've grown on that a lot over the years,
and I've worked on that, but I just think
my natural state from a kid was kind of
just keep to myself, and read my books, and all that.
You know what I mean?
But hey, I've seen people that are way more shy than me,
way more shy than me, be great soul winners, right?
That's just one example, whatever.
You mean, there's so many things in your life
I'm probably sure you're thinking of right now,
but hey, that's what faith is.
Against hope, believe in hope.
Verse number 19, "And being not weak in faith,
he considered not his own body now dead,
when he was about a hundred years old,
neither yet the deadness of Sarah's womb."
- Notice, Abraham didn't say like, "I'm retired.
You know, I'm just gonna sit on the beach
and drink something out of a coconut
and relax or whatever."
No, you know, even though he was old,
he still had faith that God could do something
great with his life.
And you know, I hate the attitude
of people saying, "I'm too old, I'm too this, I'm too that."
You know what, you should just try to serve God
the best you can throughout your whole life.
And obviously it's ideal to start serving God in your youth
'cause that's when you have the most energy
and there's coming a day where maybe
you will be in that wheelchair
or you will be in that nursing home.
But you know what, if that day hasn't come yet,
still work for God, still go out soul winning,
still do something for him.
He didn't consider his own body now dead
when he was about 100 years old,
neither yet the deadness of Sarah's womb.
He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief
but was strong in faith, giving glory to God.
Notice he didn't even stagger at the promise.
He didn't even have any doubts.
He's just like, "Hey, God calls those things
"which be not as though they were."
Hey, if he says I'm gonna be the father of many nations,
then it's as good as done.
And here's the thing, when you see a promise in the Bible,
it's as good as done.
It's not an if, maybe.
When there's a promise in God's word,
you could take that to the bank.
That is just iron clad.
You know, his wife kind of did stagger a little bit.
What did she do?
She laughed.
You know, you think a girl my age can have pleasure.
You think a girl my age is gonna have a child.
She laughed, she staggered a little bit.
And you know what, men,
make sure that you're that spiritual leader in the family
that when your wife staggers, you're not staggering.
Please don't be the husband where your wife is like,
it'll be okay, honey.
Come on, you know, we can make it through this.
Like you be the rock.
You have the strong faith.
You be the shoulder to cry on.
And look, ladies, I'm not telling you
to have a staggering faith, but I'm telling you,
man, you better not have a staggering faith.
You better be that spiritual leader.
You say, I want a wife like Sarah.
She's super obedient.
She calls her husband Lord and she's hot in her nineties.
It's like, okay, well, you know what?
Be that spiritual leader like Abraham,
who's not gonna stagger at the promise of God
through unbelief and being fully persuaded
that what he had promised, he was able also to perform.
You know what, that's what it takes to get to heaven
is not acknowledging facts about God.
It's not believing that there is one God
like the devils believe.
It's being fully persuaded that what the Bible says,
God's gonna perform.
Hey, what must I do to be saved?
Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved.
It's not, well, maybe God'll save me.
Well, maybe if I do enough works, he'll save me.
No, if you're saved, you gotta be full.
To be saved, you have to be fully persuaded
that he's able to perform that which he's promised.
And look, we're not gonna all have mountains of faith
like Abraham, but whatever faith you got,
you gotta put it all in the Lord Jesus Christ.
It can't be divided up into different baskets
of part of it's confession, part of it's the catechism,
part of it's your works.
No, it's gotta be all Jesus, or you won't be saved.
And being fully persuaded that what he had promised,
he was able also to perform.
And therefore, it was imputed to him for righteousness.
Now it was not written for his sake alone
that it was imputed to him.
Right, so the apostle Paul saying,
"Hey, I'm not giving you this long lecture
and this long history, just so I could tell you cool things
about Abraham and David."
This was not just written for Abraham and David.
This plan of salvation is not just for a certain group
of peoples, not just for the Old Testament.
No, verse 24, "But for us also to whom it shall be imputed
if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord
from the dead, who was delivered for our offenses
and was raised again for our justification."
It could not be more clear if you are actually basing
your beliefs on what the Bible says,
when you're not leaning on your own understanding,
when you're not listening to the official doctrinal position
of the Catholic Church, when you just want to say,
what sayeth the scripture?
The Bible's gonna tell you what it takes to be saved,
and it's believe on the Lord Jesus Christ,
and thou shalt be saved.
And you know what, if you don't believe that message,
you are not saved.
If someone believes that it's partly Jesus
and partly in themselves,
they will burn in hell for all of eternity.
But of course, hey, I'm speaking to people.
I hope you all believe in Jesus.
I hope you all have already accepted that gift.
I hope that you already are saved.
So look, why preach this sermon for us then?
It's good to sharpen this up
and just really know this doctrine.
I mean, if there's any doctrine
that you should just know front and back,
it better be salvation.
Why?
Because this was not just written for us.
It's written for all those that would believe.
And you know what?
You know, faith without works is dead.
What does it profit, my brethren?
If a man say you have faith and have not works,
hey, the gospel's already profited us.
We already have that faith.
We're already saved.
But you know what?
If you wanna be like Abraham and have that perfect faith,
then you need to have some works that go along with it
and sharing that free gift of the gospel
with everyone else.
Let's pray.
Lord, thank you so much for your word.
Thank you for the powerful truths in Romans chapter four.
Lord, I just pray that you'd help use us in a mighty way
to convince those in Oklahoma City, our state,
our country, our world of these truths
that we'd be able to help people repent
and go from unbelief to belief
or go from trusting in themselves to trusting in Christ.
I pray that you'd help use our church to destroy
and preach against false prophets that teach lies,
that teach work salvation,
that teach you could lose your salvation.
Help us all when we believe any doctrine
to ask this question, what sayeth the scripture?
In Jesus' name we pray, amen.
- With that, we'll go ahead and sing one last song
to conclude the service.
If you would, at this time, take your hymnals
and turn to hymn number 426.
I heard the bells on Christmas day.
- Hymn number 426, we'll sing that right on the first.
♪ I heard the bells on ♪