in Jesus' name, Amen.
Okay we're continuing this evening in the book of Ephesians and we're actually going to do a part two
of Ephesians chapter number two. Last week we spent the entire basically service going through
the first I would say about three or four verses and so we're going to we're going to finish the
chapter tonight and if I were to really try to title this chapter or give it a theme it would
be the the grafting in of the Gentiles the grafting in of the Gentiles and before we get into
the second half of Ephesians chapter number two let me just give you a bit of an introduction
from last week we talked about being raised from the dead and in the first verse of chapter two it
says you have the quickened who were dead in trespasses and sin we explain what that word
quicken means it means to be brought back to life and the reason God had to bring us back to life
was because of the fact that we were slain by the law of course we know that the Bible says that it
is the spirit that quickened it the flesh profited nothing my words that I speak unto you they are
spirit and they are life so the only way we were able to come back to life so to speak was because
we got saved we believe on Jesus Christ the Holy Spirit came to live within us he regenerated our
dead spirit brought it back to life and now we are saved Amen and so it says you have to quicken
who were dead in trespasses and sin and so we talked about the the condition prior to salvation
we were dead we talked about our destination it said that wherein in time past ye walked according
to the course of this world right and the course that we were talking about last week is basically
that this world is on its way to hell in a handbasket and we were on that course we were
going in that broad way because of the fact that we were not saved but not only that we were also
adhering to the ideologies and the false doctrines and the philosophies of this world we were going
according to the course of this world that was our destination and then we see also see that
we also see the devil's influence because it says according to the prince of the power of the air
the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience and we explain why the Bible calls
us children of disobedience prior to salvation it's because of the fact that our parents not
necessarily the parents that literally brought us forth but referring to Adam and Eve their parents
of disobedience okay they're the ones you know Adam is basically the one who you know what he
wasn't deceived he willingly transgressed and therefore damned the entire human race okay so
we're we are children of disobedience we're children of Adam and Eve in a physical sense
because we actually stem from them so we see that the condition prior to salvation now we're going
to look at the result of our salvation look at verse number seven we're going to look at the
creation of the new man it says that in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his
grace and his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus for by grace are you saved through faith
now verse eight and nine is one of the probably one of the best verses in the Bible right
just because of the fact that you know it's it's a common verse in regards to salvation it explicitly
explains salvation so well it's so basic you know it's it's the cookie on the bottom shelf
and if you've done so many for any length of time you've probably quoted this hundreds and
hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of times right it's a great verse and the thing is you can
literally just use this verse as a means to either start your gospel presentation or in the middle of
your gospel presentation anywhere in the gospel i mean it'll make perfect sense to whoever's
listening to it because it's so basic he says for by grace now what is grace grace is receiving
what we don't deserve right he says for by grace are you saved but here's the thing Calvinists
it's not just God's grace right it says through faith okay so he's saying look you're saved by
grace but it's your faith right believing on Jesus Christ that gets you saved gives you access to that
grace he says for by grace are you saved through faith and i want you to notice this
and that not of yourselves now is that so hard to understand is that like written so deep and
dreak i mean is it is it so like difficult to comprehend is it hieroglyphic when you read that
to understand that it's not of yourself what does he mean when he says it's not of yourself well
first and foremost it's not referring to your faith as the Calvinists like to say the faith
is not of yourself no Jesus said in the gospels thy faith has saved you okay what he's talking
about there is salvation is not of yourself now what does it mean when it says not of yourself
it's not based upon your effort your obedience your effort the amount of work that you put into
salvation it's not of your self it says it is the gift of God not of works that any man should boast
i love this verse because of the fact that it has that phrase there not of your self but here's
here's the funny thing is that you have people today who do believe it's of themselves despite
the fact that this verse is clearly written in the bible that says it's not of you it's not because
of your effort or your obedience it's nothing that you do that gets you saved other than your faith
in Christ no work involved yet you have people today that will say this well of course you know
it's not of works because they have to say that because it's written in the text you know because
it says not of works and for them to say no you do have to work it's just a complete disregard
what this is saying ignore that it says not of works it says it's not of works and we don't
believe you have to keep the commandments to be saved you know but you do have to repent of your
sins to be saved though you know that salvation requires for you to repent of your sin but folks
repenting of sin first and foremost think about the how ridiculous this is this is an oxymoron
folks to say well you don't have to keep god's commandments to be saved but you do have to repent
of your sins think about it look folks the bible says that sin is the transgression of the law
so if you invert that what does that mean it means if you keep the law you're not sinning sin
is the transgression of the law thereby if you don't sin you're keeping the law so if someone
says hey you have to repent of your sin you have to turn from your sin what are they saying you
have to keep god's commandments because folks it's god's commandments that tells you don't sin
it's god's commandments that tells you don't steal don't bear false witness don't commit adultery
don't murder don't do all these things it's god's commandments to say these things so if you repent
and turn from the act of doing those things you're keeping that god's commandments thereby
it's a work i mean is that so hard to understand don't people realize that when it says not of
yourselves it's referring even referring to your obedience to god's commands i mean think about
that and the bible tells us therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds
of the law he says for by the deeds of the law shall no flesh be justified in his sight
what don't you understand of no flesh but somehow they're the exception to that rule right
you know the hebrew roots movement they're the exception to that rule it literally says for by
the deeds of the law shall no flesh be justified in his sight nobody can be justified by by keeping
law you say well why not for by the lead these laws shall no flesh be justified in his sight
for by the law is the knowledge of sin the bible says it's like you're misusing the law the law
was never meant to save you it's meant to show you how short you fall you know because the bible says
that for all have sinned and come short of the glory of god well how how far do you know you
you've how how much do you know or how how far do you know you're falling short
well look at the law right and wouldn't you say that even after you got saved and you begin to
read the bible you really begin to recognize how far you fall because now you're starting to read
the bible more you see what god requires of you more you start seeing god's commandments even
more and you start saying whoa i fall really short but somehow they don't fall short no i
keep god's commandments i mean i literally had a discussion with the person uh this week
and they're like baptism saves baptism saves acts 238 acts 238 i'm like so the commandment save you
no baptism wasn't even a baptism a commandment well we're supposed to you know keep god's
commandments yeah so do you keep all of god's commandments well i keep baptism
and then and then he said this well at least i'm striving to get baptized
i'm like so you haven't even gotten baptized what in the world
but this is the kind of nonsense that's out there folks where people want to contribute to their
salvation they want to participate in their salvation and let me show you just how blasphemous
and wicked this thought is okay because what are they really saying when they say you know you got
to keep god's commandments you got to do your part you got to turn from your sin you got to repent
you got to do all these things you got to keep god's commandments what are they saying what
they're really saying because you got to read between the lines they're saying the sacrifice
of jesus and his resurrection is insufficient to save me it's not enough isn't that what they're
saying in order for them to say no you have to do something you have to keep god's commandments
you have to repent you have to be baptized what they're really saying is this i know that the
word of god was made flesh and dwelt among us i know that he was sinless i know that he shed his
blood for all the world but it's insufficient we have to do something on our part as well
so they're sliding the lord jesus christ they're undermining jesus christ who is the son of god
they're undermining his sacrifice the bible says that he was delivered for our offenses
raised again for our justification they're undermining his resurrection and saying that's
not enough it's not enough you also have to do your part you also have to repent you got to turn
from your sin you got to get baptized you got to clean up your lives you got to do all these things
it's of ourselves is what they're saying it's a 50-50 relationship right jesus does something
but we also got to put in 52 what they don't really what they don't even realize is they
don't even have one percent they're in the they're in the red like like red as in hellfire red
their deficit is so deep they can do nothing to pay back and to make a payment for to atone for
their sin it's impossible so they're saying well our righteousness saves us right but but i mean
folks the bible literally says not by works of righteousness which we have done but according to
his mercy he saved us and on top of that there's none righteous no not one and on top of that he
says that our righteousness are as filthy rags in the eyes of god he's being facetious when he
says that you know why because he's basically saying you don't have righteousness you don't
possess any righteousness at all not a lick of righteousness and what you think to be righteous
okay we'll use that term there's filthy rags because they can't wash away anything because
it's dirty this is why the bible says that the righteousness of christ has to be imputed unto us
the full righteousness of jesus christ has to be given to us in order for us to have access to
eternal life that's how it works it has to be imputed unto us he hath made him to be sin who
knew no sin that we might be made the righteousness of god in him we take from his righteousness upon
us it's not of ourselves and it's frustrating sometimes quite frankly and and i've been dealing
with this more and more the last couple of weeks just because i'm dealing with a new group of
people who who just you know have been indoctrinated with stupid doctrine
a lot of there's a lot of stupid doctrine out there and and people who adhere to these doctrines
and they're i mean it's it's crazy you think to yourself like you're crazy you my friend are
crazy and i literally had someone tell me this they said this well prove they said prove that
that we don't need our righteousness without using the apostle paul
because they know that the apostle paul obviously wrote the vast majority of the new testament
and he's the one who makes some of the best cases for the fact that we need the righteousness of
jesus right in the book of romans you have first and second corinthians you have all these portions
of scripture where he just hammers this concept so this individual because he's so wicked
yeah knows that i can make i can just completely destroy his doctrine if i don't use the apostle
paul or if i use the apostle paul so he's like prove this without using the apostle paul and i
said this red flag number one you want me to prove the bible without using the bible
i said all scripture is given by inspiration of god and is profitable
for doctrine for proof for correction and instruction in righteousness
i said but since you asked i'll do it and i gave him i gave him other verses from james
you know i gave him other verses from i gave him a verse from isaiah what now fool you know why
because the bible works in tandem with one with another it's in harmony it's not going to
contradict itself right but this torah observer heretic doesn't seem to understand that we need
to observe the torah we need to observe the pentateuch really then why did jesus christ quote
other books of the bible other than the first five books of the bible the pentateuch
why did he quote isaiah why did he quote the psalms that's not the pentateuch penta means five
it means the first five books of the bible and we have jesus christ the son of god quoting other
books from the minor prophets the major prophets from the book of psalms and other portions of
scripture oh you know why because it's god's word that's why but i love it all and here's the thing
peter writing of paul said that paul's epistles were scripture even as he was penning that down
so it's nonsense you know that's the only way you can disprove salvation is if you don't use the
bible prove to me your doctrine but don't use the bible don't use scripture nonsense folks for by
grace are you saved through faith doesn't say through works doesn't say through repenting of
your sin doesn't say they're keeping god's commandments through faith and he made he made
the nil in the coffin when he said therefore we conclude what does it mean to conclude something
means this is the conclusion of the matter just shut up about it this is where it ends therefore
we conclude that man is justified by faith yeah but we also need deeds without the deeds of the
law it says that we'll compare scripture with scripture right here and then out of yourselves
because it requires yourself to keep god's commandments and do his deeds
do the deeds of the law well it says deeds it doesn't say really works and they get into these
semantics as though like they mean something different let me just say this you could put
works on the diagram right just say just put the word works and then you could put repenting your
sins under that keeping god's commandments obedience holiness calvinism anything because
all of these things are works because anything that you're placing your faith in outside of
christ or in addition to christ is a work in god's eyes that makes sense
and look folks the bible says and if by grace then it is no more works and here's the kicker
otherwise grace is no more grace so you want to add works to you to to grace okay no more for you
you've just made grace null and void to yourself why because it has to be exclusively
by faith alone in christ okay for by grace are you safe through faith and that not of yourselves
here's another kicker this is uh this is a Muay Thai bout right here it is the gift of god
i mean so he says look it's by grace it's by faith it's not of yourself it is the gift of god
now folks if he's saying that salvation is a gift
i mean that's the most layman's terms that you can use to describe something that's free
it is a gift but yeah you have people who say no we still have to pay for it though
we got to do our part of course it's free of course it's a gift we're not always denying that
but look if you're really saved though you'll pay for that gift that's what they're saying
you got to do the works okay verse nine not of works
amen by grace by faith not of yourself it is the gift of god not of works
and you wonder why you know god damns people to hell sometimes because it's like i told you just
in two verses five times different ways for you to understand how free this this is and if you
take ephesians uh eight and nine and just say nah it still works god says okay if that's what
you want then that's what you want that's what you're gonna get amen let me just say this folks
whenever you get into a discussion with someone and it just seems like you're talking to a brick
wall just know this don't get frustrated with them just recognize this they've just been given
over to a delusion they're an individual who has rejected the word of god so much that god basically
says okay sure that's what you want i'll just remove your ability to understand the scripture
then and it happens all the time i mean how many of you spoken to somewhere you just like
you're just like hello and they're just like works works works
you gotta do gotta get baptized works works works it's crazy it's nuts
you know this guy was telling me you gotta get baptized no baptism saves
jesus was baptized and of course you know what i'm gonna say so did jesus need salvation
because according to your theology you're using jesus as a reason why we should get saved for
salvation are you saying that that's how he got saved that he needed salvation that's blasphemous
why is it not of works lest any man should boast
folks if you can do something to merit eternal life even five percent of it even one percent
of it according to the bible you can boast about it but let me say this true salvation
that's by faith alone nobody's going to boast and in fact what does the bible specifically say
if any man glory let him glory in what the cross we glory in the cross we don't boast of ourselves
because we didn't we didn't give ourselves eternal life all we did was respond to the
light that god gave us a soul winner was sent to us to give us the gospel we got saved but
we didn't marry eternal life because we're not righteous in and of ourselves so when we get
to heaven what's going to happen we're not going to boast we glory in the cross
we glory in the resurrection we glory in jesus not of works lest any man should boast
and there's so many verses in the new testament it's beautiful that god will put so many verses
to debunk this nonsense you know the bible says in galatians 2 16 knowing that a man is not
justified by the works of the law but by the faith of jesus christ even we have believed in
jesus christ that we might be justified by the faith of christ and not by the works of the law
for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified
i mean it seems a little redundant doesn't it let's be honest that verse seemed a little
redundant he just kind of like said the same thing like four different ways in one verse
but you know why he did that number one because he loves people
and he wants people to see it it's like oh i get it i get it so you can see why the lord
will be so angry with those who would seek to pervert and twist the scriptures
and impose their own definition upon what it means to be saved when he's clearly laid it out
here this is why the bible says by thy words thou shall be justified and by thy words thou
shall be condemned now here's the buzz phrase because you know there's certain people out there
they're smart enough to know that these verses exist
you know they know ephesians 2 8 9 exists so they'll say of course it's by grace of course
it's by faith of course it's a gift of course it's not of yourself of course it's not of works we
know that it's what the holy scripture say that's what the text says absolutely by faith sola
scriptura but then the buzz phrase is this but if you're saved we're saved by faith alone but real
faith what works oh of course it's free absolutely you can't lose your salvation no that's a wicked
doctrine but of but true faith saving faith is working faith
that sounds cute that sounds very poetic of you to come up with a phrase like that
you know it sounds very um you know it sounds like a it sounds like a good title to like a
song or something like that maybe you could make it into a haiku or something jason maybe you can
work on that he's our haiku expert right here but you're just not gonna find it in the bible
see the real what the bible actually says in james 2 because that's what they're referring to
it says even so faith if it hath not works doesn't exist is that what it says no it says even so
faith if it hath not works is dead being what alone now folks if something is alone does that
mean it's just not there no it means it's it's absent of any companions right right
means it's still there it's present it just doesn't have anything around them
it's it's it's exclusive it's isolated oh no no you know we're saved by faith alone
but faith alone true faith true saving faith works amen amen amen
no actually no no that's wrong and look sometimes you just gotta tell these people
no actually that's wrong you don't say hey that's a good point
i get what you're saying about that you just say actually that's just wrong
that's actually just wrong but it actually says even so faith if it has not works is dead
being alone meaning the faith is still present
and what's the purpose of james 2 to accompany your faith with works to be justified for
salvation before god no to be justified before man so god doesn't need us to work in order for us to
you know validate and justify ourselves before his eyes because he knows if we have faith and
that's why the bible says you know not by works of righteousness but to him that worketh not
but believeth on him to justify the ungodly his faith is counted for righteousness why because
god sees the heart amen this vindicates us before man because if i say i have faith and i have not
works how is that going to benefit you how is that going to benefit a person who's in need
how does that benefit my brothers and sisters in christ if i'm not exercising my faith you say
what's going to happen if you don't exercise your faith then my faith is just alone i have it unto
myself okay so god still recognizes that faith is present is just alone
now here's the thing is that people will bring this up look at verse 10 for we are as workmanship
created in christ jesus unto good works which god hath before ordained that we should walk in them
i've had people bring this up after i quote ephesians 8 and 9
and they'll say hey but we're his workmanship created in christ jesus unto good works but notice
it doesn't say unto good works for salvation and it would be nonsensical for you to just focus on
verse number 10 and just completely ignore verses 8 and 9 where he went specifically into saying
that it's not of works yeah we are his workmanship created in christ jesus unto good works yes we
should walk in them but it doesn't mean that everyone will walk in them folks that's the
reality and it's funny every single one of these people that i've spoken to this week
when they try to say no you have to turn from your sin acts 238 you got to turn from your sin you
got to repent you got to repent i just asked them so have you repented of all your sin
i said honest question have you repented of all your sin you could hear a pin drop on social
media when i asked them that they can't answer that why because they know how stupid it would
sound if they said yes so i asked them so oh okay so we have to so have you repented of
ever seen you've ever committed crickets crickets crickets because it's so wicked to say that you
have who can say i have made myself pure no one can't and people see don't seem to oh yeah but
flesh and blood shall not inherit the kingdom of god yeah but my spirit will amen and so will my
resurrected body right so there you go so ephesians 2 verse 8 and 9 is one of the best portions of
scripture in regards to salvation it's it's and in fact this is actually the scripture
that was given to me for eternal security when i first got saved i remember being at my old church
and my the song leader was there and i asked him i said so you you can never we can never
lose our salvation like there's no way you can lose it and he just like kind of just flippantly
just with no passion whatsoever he was just like for by grace are you saved through faith and that
not of yourselves it is the gift of god and not of works the same man should boast and then he
kind of just like walked away and i was just like i got it and i'm like whoa i didn't even know that
verse was in the bias says that i'm like that's like four different ways of saying it and we're
at that moment i realize i understood eternal security beyond shadow of a doubt
it's a powerful it's a powerful verse
now in light of that should we work for god of course
duh yes we should work for god yet we yes we should labor for him
yes and it's funny because all these people who condemn us for believing in this greasy grace
or whatever you know they're condemning us but it's just like we're the ones who are actually
soul winning right we're the ones who are actually doing the works for god we're actually the ones
who are have a have a good godly work ethic what are they doing they're not preaching the gospel
they're yeah they're getting drunk and turning the grace listen to this they're turning the
grace of god into lasciviousness is what they're doing
they're yeah oh yeah they're working they're workers of iniquity
verse 11 let's move on it frustrates me folks because of the fact that i see people out there
and they're they're very sincere some people are very sincere and they want to know the truth
and they've messaged me and they're just like i never knew this i thought that
you did have to repent of your sin i thought you did have to turn i thought you did have
to get baptized i thought and it's because of these idiots out there that are teaching
that nonsense oh you should be more kind and compassionate to them folks the bible says
that if another person brings another gospel let them be a curse so the bible actually
refers to them as damned prophets is what they are teaching a false gospel and god considers
them workers of iniquity you know why because they're damning souls to hell that's why they
make it their full-time job to pervert god's word to damn souls to hell that's wicked you know
people who are just ignorant about it they're just ignorant about it but folks when you bring
the bible and you show them and they say no it's not what it says esv says this niv says this
forget the king james version it's old this is what it says
that that brings out the rage in me i'll just be honest with you
because at that point i'm working with a person or i'm speaking to a person
who is undermining god's work not a sincere humble person who honestly wants the truth
this is a person who's rejecting the truth so my counseling definitely changes
towards these individuals once i find out that they just want to propagate and promote a false
gospel let's move on now let's look at our condition without christ look at verse 11
wherefore remember that ye being in time past gentiles in the flesh and the reason he's saying
remember is because he just got finished telling us all these great things that just happened to
us when we get saved all these blessings were saved by grace through faith and then he says
remember so this is a good thing for us to do every once in a while just every once in a while
remember what it was like not to be saved remember what it was like not to have the truth wherefore
remember it's good to just think back you know especially if you've been a christian for any
length of time for a long period of time you can often you know sometimes you can become proud
because you know a lot of truth you know what the bible says you're in a good church
hearing preaching you're reading the right bible i mean you you're winning souls to christ and you
can get a little high-minded so it's important to just remember call my my father-in-law used to call
it the hall of shame every once in a while it's good to take a road down a walk down the the hall
of shame just remember what it was like before christ bc it says wherefore remember that ye being
in time past gentiles in the flesh who are called uncircumcision by that which is called the
circumcision in the flesh flesh made by hands that at the time ye were listen to this without
christ what a scary place to be you think you think your problems are bad now you think your
problems are bad think about people who are going through the same things as you are if not worse
without christ
let that sink in for a little bit you think you're going through a difficult trial a difficult
tribulation you're suffering now okay now apply that same trial to a person out in the world
without christ at least you have jesus
right he says that at the time you were without christ being aliens from the commonwealth of
israel that's a good verse for all the republicans to to uh memorize a little bit right like no
immigrants you're an immigrant because you're not even saved
any person who's not saved is an illegal immigrant in the eyes of god
they're aliens from the commonwealth of israel right
i mean this is a good verse for all the conservative republicans who just hate all
the mexicans and just like no one coming over here and all these things this is our country
shut up if you're a christian this is not your country
shut up about that you live here you're not going to be here forever
and even worse for those who who are republicans who are not even saved you
shut up because you are a immigrant you're an illegal alien and you're over here at at at home
depot baptist church on the corner trying to get some work to earn your way into heaven so
you can have these you know riches of heaven or whatever you know you're an illegal alien
you're an alien of the commonwealth of israel there i said it all the republicans are all
mad good get mad well we shouldn't mix politics with religion i just did
so he says ye were without christ being aliens from the commonwealth of israel
it's referring to gentiles right and even jews at some point were aliens because they were not
part of israel at one point okay until that old covenant was established there were strangers and
foreigners in egypt right that's why he told them hey don't vex the stranger for your one strangers
in the land of egypt he says being aliens from the commonwealth of israel and strangers from the
covenants of prominence having no hope who and without god in the world this applies to all of
us there's a time when we were illegal aliens we were at home depot in this world we were you know
we're running from ice strangers from the covenants of promise we had no hope we were
without god in the world the bible says okay now when it says the circumcision it's what is that
referring to it's referring to jews okay so in the bible whenever you read that phrase circumcision
in the bible it's obviously the physical act of circumcision but it's referring to a specific
people who adhere to an ordinance of circumcision in order to be a part of the people of god and
that was israel those are jews okay and in fact you know the apostle paul when writing to the
church at philip high he says beware of dogs beware of evil workers beware of the
concision which is synonymous with circumcision he's saying beware of these jews that's what he's
telling them he's not saying beware of the you know the hospitals that practice this stuff he's
saying beware of the people who adhere to that act which are jews so the jews who are the
circumcision would call gentiles the uncircumcision why because of the fact that they referred they
in their minds they're thinking to themselves these are not the people of god which at one
point they were right about that gentiles were not the people of god at one point so he's talking
about our condition their condition our condition without christ before christ we we weren't part of
the commonwealth of israel we were not the people of god we were strangers from the covenants of
promise we didn't know what the covenant said we didn't know the promises that were made to israel
and to abraham and in seed we were without god we were without hope we were lost folks
and now we're going to look at the positioning our position in christ he says in verse 13
but now these are some great phrases but now i preached the sermon one time and i think it was
in bible college it was called but now i was trying to teach the bible college students to
stop whining so much i'm like yeah you know you had all these problems but now it's different
you have a bible you have you have a church you're saved you have all these things oh but my dad
didn't you he left me when i was a kid my mom left me when i was a kid and you know i was adopted yeah
yeah but now though but now it's different and look i'm not undermining the problems of
individuals we all went through issues like that you know my father left when i was very little
okay and i grew up in a single-parent home but here's the thing but now
what's up now but now it's different okay we all had things that that hurt us or we've suffered
through or afflicted but here's the thing but now it's different okay he says but now in christ
jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of christ night to what the covenants
of promise night to what the the citizenship of israel night to what the hope of god
and i want you to notice it says by the blood of christ
uh it's not the physical blood no it's the physical blood that was shed that was put on
the mercy seat in heaven folks don't ever undermine the blood i like the fact that we
sang two songs today dealing with the blood amen it's great verse 14 says for he is our peace
who hath made both one and has broken down the middle wall partition between us i'm gonna explain
all this having abolished in his flesh the enmity even the law of commandments contained in
ordinances for to make it himself of twain twain meaning two one new man so making peace and that
he might reconcile both unto god in one body by the cross having slain the enmity thereby so let
me explain a couple things here he says in verse 14 that he's broken down the middle wall partition
between us and really what that's signifying is is in the old testament you had the tabernacle
and in that tabernacle you had the veil that would separate right the person from the holiest of all
well that veil represented the commandment of ordinances that was against us the bible says
it was at enmity with us okay and the ordinances that he's referring to is the meats drinks and
diverse washings okay well he abolished that in his flesh and in fact when he died that veil was
rent and twain from top to bottom and the spiritual significance of that is basically
god rent that from heaven all the way down to earth he broke down the middle wall partition
between us now here's the thing when it says here in verse 15 having abolished in his flesh the
enmity even the law of commandments he's not saying that he broke the 10 commandments
right he's not saying hey god broke the commandments and he abolished them you know
that's such a stupid doctrine you say why bring that up because there's a pastor out there named
steve furtick how many of you've ever heard of steve furtick raise your hand don't be embarrassed
if you used to listen to him i see that hand steve furtick who's this liberal pastor
who's a complete devil and a heretic who literally said this god broke the law for love
and people tell me oh yeah yeah you took him out of context he says it twice
he's like god broke the law for love no folks he fulfilled the law didn't he say i came not to
destroy the law but to fulfill and just remember this sin is the transgression of the law
so if you're saying that god broke the law what are you saying that god sinned
which is blasphemy heresy devil stuff satan okay no jesus christ did not break the moral law
okay and when he came he didn't break the law so that oh yeah now he could just murder and commit
adultery and fornicate and steal and people can can you know cross dress and be transvestites
and sodomites and all these things and you know god still loves you
but this is what people think and what they don't they never people don't understand the the
timeline of the bible sometimes they don't really realize that god's law his moral law existed prior
to moses did you know that did you know that god's law did you know murder was already wrong
prior to moses coming on the scene it's like moses since you're here you know i've been really
thinking about this thing of what should be sin and what is not and i made a list of 10 things
that i think are pretty bad can i just touch bases with you on that no it existed prior to that folks
why because the bible says that the law of god is written in our hearts even in the
hearts of the gentiles law of god is written in our hearts the bible says in romans chapter
number two it existed prior to the law being established by moses from mount sinai and exists
after the old covenant or the old testament was completed with jesus christ being crucified on the
cross so what is it referring to when he says the law of commandments contained in what ordinances
this is referring to the meats drinks and diverse washings go to colossians chapter number two
colossians chapter number two
so aside from god's moral law the mosaic law or the levitical law according to the bible was
meats drinks and diverse washings carnal ordinances these are the animal sacrifices
this is where the different washings that they had to do the the observance of the sabbath okay
that's what that's referring to no no no that's referring to you know that's not done away with
we're supposed to keep still keep the sabbath folks here's the ridiculousness of that of that
way of thinking okay if god says that his law is written in our hearts how many of you here
just automatically knew you know what i broke the sabbath
i went to oh man i know in my heart i'm breaking the sabbath right now
something in me is telling me that i need to go do an animal sacrifice
something in me is telling me that i need to go get circumcised
just like this law written in my heart
i mean is that one is that has anybody ever had that thought good
because if you did that you know you'd be a laughing stock
everyone knows that the law of god that's written in our hearts is referring to god's moral law
but here's the thing no one's ever thought oh man i didn't keep the sabbath on the
wait a minute how did i know about a sabbath where'd that word come from
right but you know what we did know that stealing was wrong we didn't know that lying was wrong
murder adultery fornication we knew these things were wrong why because it's god's moral
law it's written in our hearts look at colossians 2 verse 11 in whom also ye are circumcised with
the circumcision made without hands so he's like don't worry if you haven't been physically
circumcised that that's that's not what you need in order to be a part of the people of god
if you believed on jesus christ your heart has been circumcised and in fact the bible specifically
says for he is not a jew which is one outwardly neither is that circumcision outward in the flesh
made of hands but he is a jew which is one inwardly and circumcision is that of the heart
and of the spirit whose praise is not a man but of god so the circumcision that god recognizes
is not the physical circumcision he recognizes the circumcision of the heart which means that
you've believed on jesus christ according to this verse right he says in putting off the body of the
sins of the flesh by the circumcision of christ buried with him in baptism wherein also you're
arisen with him through the faith of the operation of god who has raised him from the dead and you
being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh hath he quickened together with
him having forgiven you of all trespasses not some not just your past all verse 14
blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us which was contrary to us why because
gentiles had no idea about the animal sacrifices they had no idea about the sabbath they had no
idea about any of these things that were common to israel it was contrary to us foreign he says
and took it out of the way nailing it to the cross now let me ask you this he says that these things
were nailed to the cross wait a minute who was nailed to the cross jesus was nailed to the cross
so it's not like he took the the animal sacrifice he nailed it to the cross all these washings he
nailed them to the cross when he says that it was nailed to the cross he's saying he was nailed to
the cross and he was a fulfillment and a representation of those ordinances prove it
where we at here
look what it says in verse number where we had i think my notes got mixed up colossians
let me go there myself because i think i i left out these verses here
verse number 14 blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us which was contrary
to us and took it out of the way nailing to the cross and having spoiled all principalities and
powers look what it says he made a show of them openly triumphing over them in it let no man
therefore judge you in meat or in drink or respect of a holy day or of the new moon or of the sabbath
days which are a shadow of things to come but the body which is what the part that was nailed to the
cross is of christ so when the bible specifically says he nailed them to the cross the ordinances
it's synonymous with jesus christ because he is the fulfillment of those ordinances he's the
lamb of god who should take away the sins of the world he is our sabbath right
and so that explains that pretty well go to ephesians chapter number two if you would
so it says having abolished in his flesh the enmity enmity referring to the law of
commandments containing ordinances because it was contrary to us for to making himself of twain one
new man so making peace so this is where the concept of grafting in comes into play
how many of you have heard that phrase before to be grafted in right and this is something that we
see in roman chapter number 11 we're going to turn there in just a bit so i want you to notice this
he says that he blotted out the handwriting of ordinances and of twain referring to jew and
gentile he made one new man so he didn't say you know after he did this now the jews are
messianic jews right now the jews are just messianic jews they're they're they're specialized
christians they can still keep their little skull cap and they're you know call them themselves
rabbi because they're jews no it says of twain one new man
so making peace and that he might reconcile both both who jew and gentile both unto god
in one body by the cross not just by the torah
not just by the torah not by uh judaism by the cross so what does that tell me in order for a jew
to remain the people of god he has to come to the foot of the cross
not literally spiritually in other words he has to trust christ as a savior
one body by the cross having slain the enmity thereby now let me just explain
this real quick go to romans 11 and we'll be done in a few minutes okay
because a lot of times people get confused with this okay so it's like what do we believe do we
believe in replacement theology do we believe in covenant theology which one do we believe
we believe both it's the same thing okay and here's the thing replacement theology
is dealing with israel as a nation you know jesus said the kingdom of god shall be taken from you
referring to jews and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof now what nation was that
it's not talking about like the kainanites he's not referring to the greek nation he's not
referring to whatever nation that existed at that point he's referring to a nation a spiritual
nation made up of all believers because it's the spiritual nation that what brings forth the fruits
thereof which means that they're getting people saved so now the title of people of god has been
removed from a physical nation known as israel and given to a spiritual nation made up of all
believers but here's the thing this concept of being grafted in is also biblical okay look at
romans 11 verse 14 for i speak to you gentiles in as much as i am the apostle of the gentiles
i magnify mine office if by any means i may provoke to emulation then which are my flesh
and might save some of them for if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world
what shall the receiving of them be but life from the dead for if the first fruits be holy
the lump is also holy and if the root be holy so are the branches now people try to use this verse
to try to prove that you know the jews are still god's chosen people well first of all let me just
say this the first fruits is referring to jesus and the and the root is also jesus
so don't give that label to jews it doesn't belong to jews it belongs to jesus
he says in verse 17 and if some of the branches were broken off referring to jews
and thou being a wild olive tree here i recognize that name were graft in among them
and with them partakers of the root and the fatness of the olive tree
boast not against the branches but if thou boast thou bearest not the root but the root
so what is he saying well look the jews of the old testament what do they do they boasted against
the root how do they boast against the root they crucified him what do you mean
right they rejected him they crucified him
and because of their fall salvation is coming to the gentiles okay he says in verse 19 that will
say then the branches were broken off that i might be graft in well because of unbelief they were
broken off and thou standest by faith be not high-minded but fear for if god spare not the
natural branches take heed lest he also spare not thee now what does that mean well let me explain
a couple things here first so what this is saying is that at one time israel there were the people
of god but some of those branches were broken off some of them remained though why because some of
those who remain were believers i mean peter right i mean john james you know we can't hate
these jews folks did some of them were actually saved some of these pinned down some of the most
awesome portions of scripture in the bible and they were formerly jews
so there are plenty of branches that actually stayed so in order for them to basically you
know i think of like um of chase i think prior to chase the bank chase it was a washington mutual
is that am i correct on that i think mutual so i used to have that and i remember when they
transferred over to chase i had a grandfather account so i got some of those benefits from
the washington washington mutual bank i still had those in the chase area whatever because i
was kind of crossed over you understand so it was like from one covenant to another because there's
literally those two covenants chase and washington mutual understand but here's the thing is some of
the jews because they just completely closed down their accounts and were no longer part of
washington mutual you know they don't get the same thing right they don't keep saying well yeah i'm
still really technically a part of chase i'm still washington washington mutual doesn't exist anymore
so people are like oh you know i'm still a jew in judays god doesn't even recognize that anymore
as a legitimate religion it's actually a false religion it's actually called the synagogue of
satan but peter you know he he stayed faithful in that washington mutual and he got that
grandfather stuff so now he's he's yeah he's he's of israel physically but he's a believer
but because he was carried over from the old covenant there's certain promises that were
made to him that he's going to receive in the millennial reign judging the 12 tribes of israel
according to the bible right but then we who were not in washington mutual we just you know
found out about this bank when it was chase we get the benefits of chase and all these things
of chase or whatever but we're graphed in among them so we're both members of the same bank
and i'm using bank because you know jews and banks and stuff you know
it'll help you it'll help you to remember
so we're graphed in among them okay now look they were broken off and they're no longer the people
of god if they weren't saved now is it possible for us to get broken off yes but here's the
difference if we are broken off it doesn't mean we're no longer the people of god what
it means to be broken off it means basically you're good for nothing right because a branch
that is attached to the vine is producing what fruit and the bible says that you know if if
you're broken off if you don't abide at the vine the same is cast forth into the fire and they are
burned in other words they're broken off they're worthless they're to be cast out and to be trotted
the foot of men you just become a worthless christian but the same principle applies okay
go back to uh ephesians chapter two let's finish up the chapter here and came and preached verse
17 peace to you which were afar off and to them that were nigh for through him
we both both jew and gentile have access by one spirit unto the father
verse 19 now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners but fellow citizens with the saints
and of the household of god and are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets
jesus christ himself being the chief cornerstone so look folks if you really want to see if a jew's
saved if they say that they're saved they better stop calling themselves a jew amen amen don't be
bringing this you know mazianic jew mazianic believer whatever christian crap around me
it's not in the bible once a jew gets saved and they believe on jesus christ they cease being
part of judaism they're not a mazianic jew they're a christian use the name christ
we believe on jesus christ not rabbi or yahshua or whatever yahweh or whatever
use the right terminology amen
sick and tired of this hebrew roots movement who's trying to judaize christianity
right verse 20 and are built upon the foundation of the apostles of prophets
jesus christ himself being the chief cornerstone and whom all the building fitly framed together
growth into an holy temple in the lord and whom you also are building together for an
habitation of god through the spirit so at the end we see there our fellowship with the saints
so now jew gentile you know doesn't matter what race you are in god's eyes if you're
saved you're just part of the people of god that's why we don't care about race
people out there care about race we do not care about race at all we shouldn't care about race
we should not care how black you are how white you are how yellow you are how purple
or green or red who cares and some people make a big deal about those things
well you know yeah but certain cultures christian culture that's what we're striving for christian
culture right we need to americanize them no we need to christianize people that's the culture we
need so you know i'm a fellow citizen of the household of god you know i'm part of the
habitation of god's house that's what i am i just so happen to be brown i just you know i'm a
christian who just so happens to be a guatemalan you know john's a christian who just so happens
to be a syrian vito is a christian who happens to be a brazilian right who cares about those things
what matters is the fact that we're safe folks because you know what you can be the most
americanized trump 2024 conservative republican but if you're not saved you're an illegal immigrant
in the eyes of god and his immigration service works to the t because when you try to show up
without without a garment he's going to say depart from me ye that work iniquity
and he's going to call ice which are his angels to cast you into the lake of fire
that's what i'm concerned with right there amen so let's pray father we thank you so much for
your word thank you for the fact that uh at one point we were without christ without god but now
in christ jesus now we're made nigh by the blood of christ we're fellow citizens and i know that's
not a popular message today but who cares that's what the bible says we're to believe the bible
regardless if it's popular or not regardless if christians agree with it or not if it's what the
bible says that's what we got to believe and and we seek for a better country according to the
bible a heavenly country and although i love being in this country because we have a lot of freedoms
there's a lot of people here that need to get saved this is where you planted us and placed us
we're sojourners here on this earth we're sojourners in this country so when people
tell me to leave this country if i don't like it i mean where am i going to go i this is where
god's placed me and i am going to leave one day but i'm going somewhere where the unsaved will
never be able to attain unless they get saved and i pray god that you'd help us to appreciate that
new jerusalem that heavenly that's that mount zion to think upon that better country that you
have prepared for us lord we love you so much and we thank you pray these things in jesus name amen