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One day they let

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verse with me before we just move on so quickly this song expresses so much that I just don't

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want to rush through I love the second verse it says empty that thou shouldest fill me

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it's a choice that we have to make a clean vessel in thy hand with no power

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but as thou givest graciously with each command.

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We know that the Lord will give us grace

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if we allow that to come into our life with humility.

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And that's the choice that we have to make.

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I pray that that's each and every one

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of our hearts this morning.

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Let's lift up that second verse to him once again

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with all of your heart as a prayer to the Lord this morning.

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Empty that mouth.

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Good afternoon everyone. It's great to see everybody here. Welcome to Steadfast Baptist

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Church. If we can find our seats we will get started with the service.

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And once you've found a seat grab a hymnal. We'll all go to song number 82 together.

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Song number 82.

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we can on the first wave.

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Great singing, everybody.

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Let's open up the service now with a word of prayer.

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Lord, we love you so much.

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We thank you for the opportunity to serve you

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and just all the souls that are one unto you this afternoon.

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We just ask now that you bless this church

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and bless the service and fill us all with your spirit

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as we sing out unto you.

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And it's in Jesus' name that we pray, amen.

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All right, for our next song, let's go to song number 62.

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you

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song number 62

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saved by grace

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song number 62

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let's all sing that out together

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someday the silver

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Thanks for coming to Steadfast Baptist Church.

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If you didn't get a bulletin already and you'd like one,

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just lift up your hand nice and high

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and one of our ushers can come by

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and get you guys a bulletin.

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On the front is our Bible memory passage.

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We have Philippians 4,

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so if you can quote all of Philippians 4 of Word Perfect,

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you can receive a prize on the inside.

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We have our service, soul winning times, our church stats.

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Make sure you're updating our group chat on that.

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On the right is a list of expecting ladies.

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Please be in prayer for those who are expecting.

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We have an overflow parking option.

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If ever our parking lot is filled up, you can use this back spot.

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And especially if that pertains to our conference coming up, make sure you can still use that

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area.

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If you ever need assistance, you can pull up, ask one of the ushers and they can help

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you and assist you with parking.

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Upcoming events this weekend. So this Friday night, we're gonna have pastor Corbin Russell coming in and preaching for us

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We have some kid activities are gonna begin that morning. We have a Saturday activities

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We have a park day. So we'll be feeding you lunch and just having fun in the park

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Hopefully God willing we'll have good weather

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Just pray for that and then we'll be having two services again on Sunday. I'll be preaching both of those

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We have a men's conference October 23rd of the 24th pastor Steven Anderson's every preaching

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us that Friday night and we're providing a dinner and a gift and everything's free of course but

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please do sign up so that way we can anticipate the right number of people and that Saturday

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we'll be having some of our normal activities as a men's group. We have our October 31st chili cook

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off and so Texas chili competition if you'd like to do that. Usually we try to serve by around 6 p.m.

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So we try to ask if you can, if you're in.

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a chili for our competition portion that you'd bring your chili before 6 p.m.

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That way we can have everything set up and we can still serve people kind of in

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a timely manner.

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There's a preaching boot camp November 12th of the 14th, Trinidad soul-wanting

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missions trip opportunity. See evangelists for about that or Shreveport soul-wanting

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marathon. See Brother Marcel if you're interested in that. And then 2027,

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we have a Philippines missions trip. So if you're interested in going to the Philippines. On the

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back is our prayer list. We have a lot of family members and church members to be in prayer for.

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Please keep them in your prayers. We have our missionary letter as well. You can hear

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about our missionary in the Philippines and what he's been doing. And they've been doing

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a really good job this year, but they have a couple prayer requests of their own on the

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back of their sheet so you can keep them in your prayers as well. So that's pretty much

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all I have as far as announcements. We're going to be seeing our Psalm of the Week,

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Psalm 126. So it's in our Psalm books. It's different than our hymnals. So if you get

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out the Psalm books and turn to Psalm 126, or you can use the King James Bible, Psalm

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126.

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All right that was Psalm 126.

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Psalm 126. Let's all sing that out together this afternoon. Psalm 126.

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Now as the offering plates are being passed around, go and open your Bibles to the Book of Romans, Chapter number 4.

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That is Romans, Chapter 4.

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Romans chapter number four, the Bible says,

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what shall we say then that Abraham our father

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as pertaining to the flesh have found?

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For if Abraham were justified by works,

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he hath whereof to glory, but not before God.

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For what sayeth the scripture?

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Abraham believed God and it was counted unto him

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for righteousness.

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Now to him that worketh is the reward

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not reckoned of grace, but of debt.

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but to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly,

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his faith is counted for righteousness.

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Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man

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unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works,

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saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.

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Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin.

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Come at this blessedness then upon the circumcision only or upon the uncircumcision also

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For we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness

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How was it then reckoned when he was in circumcision or in uncircumcision?

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Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision and he received the sign of circumcision

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a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had, yet being uncircumcised,

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that he might be the father of all them that believe, though they be not circumcised,

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that righteousness might be imputed unto them also, and the father of circumcision,

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to them who are not of the circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of that faith

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of our father Abraham, which he had, being yet uncircumcised.

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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.

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For if they which are of the law be heirs, faith is made void and the promise made of none effect, because the law worketh wrath.

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For where no law is, there is no transgression. Therefore it is of faith that it might be by grace. To the end the promise might be sure to all the seed.

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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.

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As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations, before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead,

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and calleth those things which be not as though they were.

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who against hope believed in hope that he might become the father of many nations.

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According to that which was spoken, so shall thy seed be. And being not weak in faith,

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he considered not his own body now dead when he was about 100 years old,

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neither yet the deadness of Sarah's womb. He staggered not at the promise of God through

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unbelief, but was strong in faith, giving glory to God.

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and being fully persuaded that what he had promised,

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he was able also to perform.

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And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness.

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Now it was not written for his sake alone

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that it was imputed to him,

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but for us also to whom it shall be imputed

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if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord

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from the dead, who was delivered for our offenses

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and was raised again for our justification.

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Let's go to the Lord in prayer.

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Dear heavenly father, thank you for this day.

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I want to thank you for the morning sermon that we heard and I ask you to please help us to

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rightly divide the word of God. I ask you to please bless Pastor Shelley now as he preaches

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your word to us. Please help us to be attentive and hear what you've laid on his heart in Jesus name.

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Amen. Amen. So here in Romans chapter number four, we have a really clear statement in verse five.

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It says, but to him that worketh not.

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But believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly

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His faith is counted for righteousness and I believe this is an important verse to help us understand

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That faith alone is enough to save someone, you know

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That's an important phrase and that's what I'm preaching about tonight is faith alone enough

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And the answer is yes.

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And it's really to combat what I hear often taught about saving faith.

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Some people will give this terminology of saving faith versus a non-saving faith.

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And they try to act like you can believe the gospel,

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but if you don't have enough works that you're still not saved.

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And, you know, I really want to dispel that idea this evening

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and look at what scripture says, but...

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Notice very carefully a few things about verse 5.

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It says,

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someone that worketh not.

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So it's not saying that they're working,

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but they were justified by their faith.

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It's saying they're not working.

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So it's saying someone that's not doing any works.

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And then it says additionally,

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but believeth on that justifieth.

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Notice this,

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the ungodly.

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It's not,

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the word justify.

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in the Bible is meaning to declare just.

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Okay, we're declaring someone just.

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Declaring someone just is declaring someone morally right.

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How can we declare someone morally right that is ungodly?

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This is almost like a contradiction

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because ungodly means they're not morally right,

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but we're declaring them morally right.

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Why? Through faith.

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Now again, how can that make sense?

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It's because Jesus was morally right.

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Jesus was righteous.

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And so when we believe in Jesus,

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His righteousness is then applied to us.

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So what causes me to be just,

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what causes me to be justified,

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what causes me to be righteous

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is Christ's righteousness given to me

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by me believing in Him.

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Now this is spelled out.

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in the previous chapter. Let's look at a few times where it's mentioning this idea of justification.

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Look at verse 24. Being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.

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So I am justified.

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freely. That means I am considered right with God, absolutely free. I didn't do anything

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through my works or good efforts to be considered right with God. I'm justified freely and I was

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redeemed by what specifically? I was redeemed through Jesus Christ, His grace. It says in verse

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24, being justified freely by His grace, right? Verse 25, whom God has set

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forth to be a propitiation through faith in His blood to

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declare His righteousness for the remission of sins that are

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passed through the forbearance of God.

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So God allowed the payment or the propitiation to be done

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through our faith in Jesus' blood.

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So the payment for my sin is my faith in Jesus' blood.

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He paid it and has applied to me through my faith.

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And we're really just declaring Jesus' righteousness for the forgiveness of my sins.

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Verse 26, to declare I say at this time His righteousness.

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Whose righteousness?

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Jesus' righteousness.

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That He might be just.

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So Jesus is just because He actually is just.

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He's the only one that was righteous.

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He was the only one that did good.

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Keep your finger right because we're coming right back.

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Look at chapter five again and look at verse number 18.

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It says, in the middle,

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even so, by the righteousness of one,

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the free gift came upon all men

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and the justification of life.

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Who is the only one that was righteous?

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It was Jesus.

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And what does it mean to be righteous?

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It means that he always did right.

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The Bible says Jesus was tempted in all points like as we are, yet without sin.

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So what the Bible teaches is that Jesus Christ never lied, he never disobeyed his parents,

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he never committed any sin in the Bible, he was righteous all the time,

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and so by the righteousness of one, the free gift is given to us.

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Go back to verse 26, to declare, I say at this time, His righteousness.

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Whose righteousness are we declaring?

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The righteousness of the one, Jesus Christ, that He might be just.

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And notice this, and the justifier of Him which believeth in Jesus.

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Notice He's a justifier, meaning He's making other people just.

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Who does Jesus make just?

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Those who believe in Him.

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not those who were good enough, not those who had enough works,

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but those who believed in him.

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So then the question would be, where is boasting then?

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And the answer is clear, it is excluded.

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So you can't boast in anything you've ever done

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because that didn't get you saved.

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by what law of works, enabled by the law of faith.

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Therefore, we conclude that a man is justified by faith

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without the deeds of the law.

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So a man is declared morally right with God

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without any works, just his faith in Jesus Christ, okay?

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And then it's like verse 1 of chapter 4.

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What shall we say then that Abraham our father is

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retaining to the flesh hath found?

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For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof the glory, but not before God.

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So it's saying, okay, then what the heck is going on with Abraham?

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Like, what's the whole story about Abraham?

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And like, how do we understand this?

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Well, Abraham was not justified by works.

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Otherwise, he could brag about it.

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If what got me saved was turning my life over, turning over a new leaf, repenting of my sin,

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giving up, then I could brag about that.

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I could say, well, I used to be a drug dealer, now I'm not.

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Or I used to smoke crack, and now I don't.

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Or I used to be a gang banger, now I don't.

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Or I kill people in prison, and I have all these teardrops, and now I don't kill people.

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And look, you go to churches, and it'll be like that.

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And they'll be like, that's why they're going to heaven.

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Oh, I repented of my sin. I gave my money. I gave up this. I did this."

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So they're boasting, they're bragging in what they did.

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But the Bible says there is no boasting, it's excluded.

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All we do when we preach the gospel is we declare His righteousness.

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We're declaring that Jesus is perfect and Jesus paid for all of our sins.

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That's what we're declaring.

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Abraham has nowhere to glory. He cannot glory in anything.

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So then verse 3, for what saved the scripture?

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Abraham believed God and it was counted unto him for righteousness.

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So Abraham got saved the same way I did.

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He believed the gospel and he got saved by believing the gospel.

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Verse 4, now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace but of debt.

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Now this is just basically an explanation of saying that if salvation were of works,

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then God would basically owe us something.

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If salvation had anything to do with me doing something, then God has a debt obligation

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to me.

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He owes me something.

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But that's the whole reason why salvation's not of works is God doesn't owe me salvation.

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It's by grace.

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It's not by debt.

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God is not indebted to me.

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God does not owe me heaven.

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God is not indebted to me to put me in heaven.

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I get to go to heaven by grace.

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and that grace is given to us because God loves us.

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God loves us to give us the grace of the opportunity to go to heaven.

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What gets us to heaven is our faith in what Jesus Christ did.

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And the Bible takes it to an extreme to say that someone that literally did nothing...

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I mean, it says in verse five, but to him that worketh not, he did no works, but believed on him

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that justified the ungodly, his faith is kind of a righteousness. So that's why we can see someone

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like the thief on the cross who was ungodly, had no works, never did works, but yet believed in Jesus

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Christ in the last moments of his life, still went to heaven because he was justified by his faith.

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He was justified by believing in Jesus Christ.

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Now some people believe that this thief that died on the cross

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would have magically got off that cross and been the greatest Christian to ever live

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if given the chance and he just didn't get the chance.

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But here's the thing, there's no evidence that he was going to be that way.

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Lot, you know, this guy is according to the Bible considered just,

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just Lot as the Bible describes him.

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Show me his accolades.

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Show me the evidence and the fruit of this guy's life.

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Here's a guy who departed from the greatest man in the Bible at the time.

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I mean, he was living with one of the greatest Christians, leaves him, leaves him for money,

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decides to live in the most wicked city, chasing after money, chasing after covetousness, marries

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his daughters to sodomites.

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Then he commits some weird Kentucky backwoods country song and basically knocks up both

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of his own daughters after getting drunk.

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He gets so drunk.

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that he knocks up both of his daughter and doesn't even know.

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I'm my own grandpa and don't even know.

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It's like, I mean this is weirder than most country music songs you'd ever dream up.

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And it's like I'm supposed to believe that this guy, Lot, is a picture of someone that's just, you know,

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doing all the works or something. It's like what work did Lot even do?

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He lives in the most wicked city.

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According to the sodomite testimony,

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they say this guy must need to be a judge.

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Like he hasn't been a judge before.

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So he got no one saved in the town.

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Let's be honest, no one was saved there.

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No one got saved there.

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No one got judged there.

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Then he left and hid in a cave,

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knocked up his own two daughters.

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Okay.

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I don't even know how that works.

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It's just, it's insane. The whole story is crazy and insane.

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And it's like, but you know what?

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It just goes to show you that some people are saved by faith alone.

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Hey, the guy, the thief on the cross, was faith alone enough?

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Yes.

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Hey, is faith alone enough for a lot?

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Yes.

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How about the nine? Where are the nine?

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Was faith alone enough? They didn't come back to just say thank you.

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It wasn't even a thank you.

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Yet, hey, they were cleansed.

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Ten lepers are cleansed.

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Where are the nine?

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It's not that they weren't cleansed.

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It's that they were cleansed and they didn't even come back to say thank you.

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Let alone actually then have this complete transformation of their life.

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Naaman is cleansed.

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And then his first act, his first act is to say,

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hey, I'm going to still worship a false god.

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Is that OK?

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I mean, what is, how is that a picture?

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of repentance. I mean, you know, we can of course wish for and hope for people to change their lives radically.

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The apostle Paul pretty much changes his life radically after getting saved.

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I mean the guy just goes out there and lives the most transformed life you could ever imagine.

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Many of the heathen drop their idolatry, they burn their books,

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they dedicate their lives to the Lord Jesus Christ, they get saved.

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So yeah, some people get, as they would call, radically saved.

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But let me tell you something, you don't have to be radically saved to be saved, you just have to be saved.

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And faith alone is enough.

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The Bible is crystal clear on this point.

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Let's just keep reading though.

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Look at chapter 5.

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Well, let's keep reading here in verse 4 a little bit more and then we'll go to chapter 5.

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Look at verse 6.

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David also described the blessedness of the man into whom God imputed righteousness without

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works, saying...

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Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven and whose sins are covered.

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Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin."

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So, let's just think about it this way.

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If all my sins were forgiven when I believed in Jesus Christ,

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and then all my future sins will not be imputed,

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how could I not go to heaven?

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Like, even if I do nothing good,

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Well, all my sins have been forgiven and all my sins are not imputed.

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So then how could I not go to heaven?

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It's just I will go to heaven.

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Now here's the thing, will I get any rewards for doing nothing?

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No, God is not a communist.

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Okay, God is not going to just give you rewards just because.

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But guess what?

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You're not going to go to hell.

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So if all my sins have been forgiven and all my sins are not going to be imputed, well,

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then sounds like I'm good.

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And of course, He saves both the Gentiles and the Jews by faith alone.

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And we could go to other verses on this, but look at chapter 5 verse 1,

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therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God the Lord Jesus Christ.

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So what declares me morally right? My faith.

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Look at chapter 5 verse 9, much more than being now justified by His blood,

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But we shall be saved from wrath.

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through him. So notice I'm declared righteous again because of his blood, which is illustrated

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in chapter 3, continued all the way to chapter 5. Verses 16 through 18, we read a little

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bit of 18, but let's read verse 16.

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16 And not as it was by one that sins, so is the gift, for the judgment was by one deconumnation.

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But the free gift is of many offenses unto justification. So even though we have so many

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sins,

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we were still given the free gift and were considered justified,

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even though it's just one gift to many offenses.

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It says in verse 17,

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For by one man's offense death reigned by one,

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much more they which receive abundance of grace and the gift of righteousness

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shall reign in life by one Jesus Christ.

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Therefore, as by the offense of one judgment came upon all men into condemnation,

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even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men in justification of life.

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So, one guy sinned caused us all to go down the same path that we all

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send but then one guy was righteous and it causes all of us that believe in him to then

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be righteous.

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So it's kind of just showing how one person kind of had the impact on both groups, right?

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The impact of one sinner caused us all to sin.

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The impact of the one being righteous causes those who believe in him to then be righteous.

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not because I'm righteous by my own work,

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not because I'm righteous by my own accord,

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but I'm simply righteous because of my faith and belief in Jesus Christ.

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And that's it.

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Go to Galatians chapter 2 now, go to Galatians chapter number 2.

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So we're answering this question again.

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I'm going to get into why this question is important a little bit more in the sermon,

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but I'm just trying to prove very clearly.

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The Bible makes it clear that salvation is a free gift.

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We receive it by faith alone in Jesus Christ and that faith alone...

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can be alone and still get you to heaven.

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Now, we don't believe that faith should be alone.

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We just believe faith alone's enough.

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And this is an important doctrine.

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Of course, a lot of people will say,

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well, it's faith alone, but that faith is never alone.

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What's the point of faith alone if faith's never alone?

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then it doesn't even matter.

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Here's the question.

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If faith alone saves,

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yet no one ever actually had faith alone,

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then it's a meaningless statement.

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Because you would have to say it's faith and works.

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Because if you didn't have the works, then you're not saved,

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and that's what a lot of lying false teachers will say.

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And of course they say this because the vast majority of Christian teachers in this world are not saved.

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And the vast majority of people throughout history have not been saved.

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And the Bible says that there's many false prophets that have gone out into the world.

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And the Roman Catholic Church is a church that's not of God, that doesn't have the Spirit of God, that teaches lies.

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And people say, well if you want to go with the historic position, the historic position's always been faith and works.

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So then they have to figure out how to give either lip service to that or believe in that

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so they don't feel like they're part of the historic church.

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Well, you know what? I don't care if I'm part of the quote historic church or not

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because the vast majority of people have been wrong.

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And you say, well, how far back does that go?

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Well, it goes all the way back to Cain and Abel.

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Your historic church goes back to the church of Cain, which is by works.

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And you know what? His offering was not respected.

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It's not that he didn't offer to the Lord.

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I mean, can't you argue that Cain has some faith in the Lord?

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He's offering a sacrifice to him.

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It's not that he denies his existence.

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It's not that he doesn't realize he even needs to offer a sacrifice.

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It's that he's offering a sacrifice picturing his works, and Abel is offering a sacrifice

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picturing his faith.

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And so Abel realizes he's saved by faith alone and that's enough.

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And we have Cain who thinks his works need to be in there and he wants to glory.

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And you know what? God did not have respect into Cain's offering.

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God does not respect the faith of the Catholic Church or the faith of these other churches

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because they're believing in their works to save them.

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And if you think you have to be a good person to go to heaven, you won't make it.

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If you think you have to be a good swimmer,

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to swim over to Europe, you're not going to make it.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Either you put all your faith in that pilot, and he's going to get you there, and you're

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going to do absolutely nothing contributing to your effort to getting there, other than

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just simply getting on the plane.

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But it's like, well, you also have to be a good swimmer to get there.

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What does that mean, I have to be a good swimmer?

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Like are you saying like halfway out, they're going to drop me off and I'm going to have

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to swim the rest of the way across the ocean?

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Because if that's true, you're not going to make it.

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It's like, well, Jesus did his part.

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He flew the plane a little bit.

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Now you have to get out and swim the rest of the way.

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Well, how far would it even have to get?

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Like, how close would you have to get for you

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to actually make it?

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Right?

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It'd be like, in theory, it's like, well, you can't sin again after getting saved and

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then still make it to heaven.

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Well, then I better hope I'm only going to live for about five or ten more seconds.

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You know?

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And it's like, well, if the flight is, I have to swim part of the way, I better be dropped

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off about, you know, 20 meters from the shore or something.

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Because otherwise, and if I have to fall out of the plane at 20 meters, you know, depth,

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I might just die from the impact, okay?

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It'd be too shallow or something.

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I mean, this scenario's weird.

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You know why salvation's by faith alone?

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Because that's the only thing that was going to get you there.

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But alone from that particular analogy, if you put me in the cockpit of a plane, I can't

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fly to Europe because I don't even know where to go.

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I don't know how to fly to Europe.

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If I got up in the clouds, it would just all look like clouds to me.

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I wouldn't know without someone telling me or instructing me or guiding me or whatever.

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And you're thinking, I don't know how to get to heaven either.

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But Jesus does.

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And so that's why we believe in Jesus and he gets us to heaven.

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And you know what?

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I can be a passenger that literally just puts on the blinders and the earbuds and falls asleep and I'm getting there.

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I can do absolutely nothing on that plane ride and I'm getting to heaven.

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Okay.

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And so I use this analogy sometimes, but it's just like, look, that's what it means to believe in Jesus is they're getting on his plane and they're letting him take you to heaven.

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It's not by I'm not gonna be swimming my way or working my way or riding a bike or anything else

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And I'm definitely not taking over the plane that ends up in a crash

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Okay into two towers, and you that's a train wreck. You know it's a confusing all right

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It's really hot magically. You know it's like 2,000 degrees lava pool at the bottom of that plane crash somehow magically

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I mean jet fuel can't even burn that hot, but somehow it does you know

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Well, guess what? Hot's even, you know, hell's even hotter, okay? So, uh, and you're not getting shipped to China or any of this weird stuff, you know, it's just gonna be, you're gonna burn in hell for all of eternity.

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So, you know, you just really believe in Jesus Christ, and then you get to heaven. It's that simple.

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Acts 13, did I have you turn there? No, I had you do Galatians first, okay? Let's look at Galatians chapter 2 verse 16.

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knowing that a man is not.

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justified by the works of law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed

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in Jesus Christ.

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That we might be justified by the faith of Christ and not by the works of law, for by

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the works of the law shall no flesh be justified."

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Again, and justified is meaning what?

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Declared morally right.

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We're not declared morally right with God by the works of the law, but only by faith

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in Jesus Christ.

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How could anyone be one of these hyper-dispensationalists?

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panelists.

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that get up and say in the Old Testament they had to also have works.

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I mean think about what we read in Romans chapter 4.

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We read about Abraham and David and then now we have Paul.

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So it's like which dispensation do you want to talk about?

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Because David is definitely in the dispensation of the law.

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You know it's like before the law saved by grace.

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During the law saved by grace.

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After the law, saved by grace.

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And you know what? No flesh.

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It's not like, oh, except for the millions of people that were saved in the Old Testament.

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No, no. No flesh shall be justified by the works of the law.

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Look, we are not even under the law.

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What would be the point of telling us this when we weren't even the ones under the law?

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How about the ones that were actually under the law?

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Hey, the ones that are actually under the law, they also weren't justified by the works of the law.

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No one's ever been justified by the works of the law or ever will be justified by the works of the law.

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And such as people that believe such nonsense, I think are unsaved.

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If someone gets up and says, salvation was by works in the Old Testament,

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and salvation will be by works in the New Testament in the future, I don't believe that person's saved.

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You can you can argue with me. They're like, well, that's my faith now. Okay. Well, you're weird, you know, there's something weird about you

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Okay, there's something really off about you

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And I just don't even think that you're saved and I don't I don't want to fellowship with anybody that believes this nonsense

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I don't even want to be nice to that kind of a person

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I don't want to subject myself to a two-hour podcast of this nonsense, you know

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Doesn't the Apostle Paul say only one hour?

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I also don't want to try and word your things better for you to help you sound a little

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bit better.

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Like, I don't want to clean up your heresy to make it sound a little cooler or something

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like that.

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No, I would just say, hey, you're a heretic.

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Look at chapter three, verse eight, and the scripture for seeing that God would justify

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the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel and Abraham saying, in thee shall

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all nations be blessed.

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Verse 11.

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that no man.

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is justified by the law on the side of God, it is evident.

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For the just shall live by faith.

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And the law is not of faith,

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but the man that doeth them shall live in them.

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Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law,

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being made a curse for us.

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For it is written,

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curse is everyone that hangeth on a tree,

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that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles

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through Jesus Christ,

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that we might receive the promise of the Spirit

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through faith.

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So what is the Bible saying?

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The Bible is saying that

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When we believe in Jesus Christ, we are saved from the curse of the law.

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What was the curse of the law?

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The curse of the law is that when you die, you would go to hell.

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that you would die physically and go to hell.

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So what Jesus did is he became a curse for us

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by dying, taking our place in hell, so that we wouldn't have to go.

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He tasted of death so that we would not have to taste death.

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The Bible says he tasted death for every man too.

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So he didn't just taste death for some people, he tasted death for every man.

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And we that believe shall never taste of death, is what the Bible says.

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Meaning we'll never experience hell even for a moment, let alone a thousand year cooking off period or something.

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You know, the Catholics believe in this purgatory, word not found in your Bible.

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They believe that many people will go to hell just for a little while.

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Like they just, you know, you got to get cleaned up or whatever.

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You got to get punished a little bit, and then eventually we'll let you back into heaven or something like that.

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And so they'll pray for people in purgatory.

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They used to sell indulgences and sell to the congregation.

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They'd say, hey, give us money, and your grandma, she'll get a few years off her sentence in purgatory.

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Which is crazy, I mean like if you actually believe this,

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you're like, well grandma is gonna be in purgatory for a while.

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You know, and I love grandma, she was a really nice lady, but she, you know, she had some issues.

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And it's like, I don't want her to be in hell, I don't want to be in purgatory for a really long time,

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so I better give money to the church to try and get...

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Look, no money to a Catholic pedophile is gonna get grandma out of purgatory.

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Yeah.

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Okay.

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God doesn't accept any ransom like that.

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You know what gets you out of hell?

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Never going ever because Jesus took your place.

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Once you go, you're stuck.

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The only people that we really see in the Bible getting out

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are Jesus, the Antichrist, and Satan.

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Okay?

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And unfortunately, you're not Satan,

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you know, or fortunately, you know,

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it just depends on how you look at that.

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And you're also not the Antichrist, okay?

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So the Bible says that He descends out, you know, He descends out of the bottom of His pit somehow after three days of dying.

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The devil, after being there for a thousand years, He gets out, no one else, to deceive the nations one last time.

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But everyone else, hey, you're stuck in hell, and you're gonna be judged and go into the lake of fire for all of eternity.

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You know, there's no, hey, I'm gonna get out of hell and go back to heaven.

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Never gonna happen.

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Once you're there, you're there.

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That's why it's important to believe now.

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That's why we believe it's important to help people make the decision now.

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And you know, that's why we say, if you were to die today,

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because no one's promised another second.

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No one knows when they're going to die.

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And so that's why we have preaching with urgency

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the message of the gospel of Jesus Christ,

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trying to get people saved now,

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so that you know that you'll never go to hell.

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So you know you have eternal life.

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I want to go to one more place, go to Acts chapter 13,

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and we'll see another verse here.

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Acts chapter 13, is faith alone enough?

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Absolutely.

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Yes, it is.

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Because what Jesus did is He paid all of our sins.

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His blood is enough.

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His work is enough.

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His death is enough.

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To say that it's not enough is to say what Jesus did

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is not enough.

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To say it's not enough is to say Jesus

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didn't pay for all your sins.

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To say it's not enough says that Jesus did not impute

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His righteousness unto you.

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To say it's not enough is to say His righteousness

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isn't enough righteousness.

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But you know what?

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Those of us that believe in Jesus

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Jesus believed He paid all of our sins, that His blood was shed for all of our sins, that

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we get the forgiveness of sins through Him, that He was righteous and that He declares

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us righteousness by putting our faith in Him.

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We believe that.

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That's why the Catholic doesn't actually believe in Jesus, because he doesn't believe that

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Jesus paid for all of his sins.

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He may say that, but he doesn't believe it.

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He may say that Jesus died on the cross and went to hell, but they don't realize they

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did it in His place.

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They're not really believing in that.

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They think they have to be good enough.

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They don't believe that Jesus' righteousness has been imputed unto them.

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They think they have to be righteous enough to get to heaven.

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They don't believe when the Bible says the righteous have won, that there's only been

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one righteous.

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They think they're actually righteous by their works.

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And the Bible says there's no flesh that's going to be justified by the deeds of law.

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No flesh can be justified by the

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works of the law. No one can be justified that way. What justifies you? Well, Acts chapter

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13, look at verse 38. Be it known unto you therefore men and brethren, that through this

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man talking of Jesus is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins. And by him.

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all that believe are justified from all things from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.

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So you know what? The law of Moses never justified a single person.

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It was only ever faith in Jesus Christ.

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That's how you get the forgiveness of sins and that's how you were declared right, morally right,

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with God was your faith in Jesus Christ specifically.

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Now...

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Bear with me for a moment.

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We're going to get to James 2 here in a second.

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But I have with me a sermon, and I'm just going to read some excerpts for it.

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Okay, so try...

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I know sometimes it can be a little boring to hear some excerpts,

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but I'll try to read it as best I can.

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It's a sermon from the 1500s by a guy named Martin Luther.

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Who knows who Martin Luther is?

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All right?

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He's typically considered the person who started the Protestant Reformation.

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He had a sermon that he preached called justification by faith.

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And in his sermon, and I'm not going to read the whole sermon.

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The sermon is arguing against Catholics who believe that you have to basically pray to the saints and do good to dead saints and hopes that they'll bring you into their everlasting habitations in heaven.

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Okay. And he's preaching against that. I agree. That's stupid. It's nonsense. It's not true. It's not real. It's a bad idea.

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And he makes a lot of great statements in the sermon at the beginning.

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So I want to clarify that I agree with virtually everything I'm about to read.

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OK, and then I'll tell you when I switch.

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All right.

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But this is what Martin Luther said in the fifteen hundreds.

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This is what he said.

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I have taught very extensively how faith alone without work justifies.

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I mean, how can you disagree with that?

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He said good works are done first after we believe.

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He says, I perceive that the gospel abides and prospers only among the few.

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Yeah, I agree with that too.

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Saying there's very few people teaching this, very few people that actually believe this.

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He says, about the Catholics, he says...

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Quote, the friends may receive us in everlasting habitation, just as though we should serve

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the saints and trust in them to get to heaven.

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So he's saying they're preaching that you have to serve dead saints and trust in them

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to get into heaven.

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False.

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There's only one way in heaven.

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It's Jesus Christ and it's not by works.

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So he's preaching against this.

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He says the foundation must be maintained without wavering.

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That faith without any works, without any merit,

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reconciles man to God and makes him good, as Paul says to the Romans.

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But now the righteousness of God without the laws manifested, being witnessed by the law

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and the prophets, even the righteousness of God, which is by faith of Jesus Christ, unto

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all them that believe, Romans 3, 21, verses 22.

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Paul in another place says to Abraham, his faith was reckoned for righteousness, so also

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with us again.

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Therefore, being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,

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Romans 5, 1.

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Again, for with the heart man believeth under righteousness, and with the mouth confession

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is made unto salvation.

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and Romans 10.

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10, 10.

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These and many similar passages we must firmly hold

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and trust in them immovably so that to faith alone

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without any assistance of works is attributed

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the forgiveness of sins and our justification.

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I mean, this guy sounds like us in this section, okay?

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All right, I'm just trying to make,

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I'm just trying to be honest with the text.

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He sounds exactly like us, he's saying the same verses,

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he's doing the same proof points.

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Take for an illustration the parable of Christ,

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even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit,

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but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.

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Matthew 7, 17.

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Here you see that the fruit does not make the tree good,

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but without any fruit, and before any fruit,

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the tree must first be first good,

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or made good before it can bear good fruit.

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as he also says, either make the tree good and its fruit good, or else make the tree

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corrupt and its fruit corrupt, for the tree is known by its fruit.

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Then he quotes Matthew 12 33, and he says, it is clear how impossible it is that a man

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should become good by works when he is not good before he does the good works.

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For Christ stands firm when he says, how can ye being evil speak good things?

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And hence follows, how can ye being evil do good things?

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Again, how can I disagree with it? Pretty good logic. He's saying the tree has to be good before it does anything

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Before it can actually do something good

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Saying it has to be a good tree before it could ever even produce a good fruit and I'm like, amen

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You can't even do good things until you're a good tree. You can't even do good works until you're even saved

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You know who couldn't do good works?

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Judas Iscariot. Okay, he wasn't good so he could never produce a good a good fruit

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He also says, this great and precious something is the noble word of God, which offers us

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in the gospel, excuse me, the grace of God in Christ.

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He who hears and believes this thereby becomes good and righteous.

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So again, sounds good.

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He says, wherefore it is called the word of life, a word of grace, a word of forgiveness,

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but he who neither hears nor believes it can in no way become good.

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Just re-emphasizing that entire point.

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out.

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Here is where the shift is made though.

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And I think this is important.

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And this is why I'm preaching the sermon a little bit.

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Is because many people will give the right answer

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about salvation and say salvation is faith alone.

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Without works.

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But then they create this saving faith idea.

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Okay, and this is where, you know,

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I want to combat this idea.

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He says this.

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Therefore, faith is something very powerful, active, restless, effective, which at once

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renews a person and again regenerates him and leads him altogether into a new manner

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and character of life.

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So that it is impossible not to do good without ceasing.

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So he went from salvation is faith alone to then saying, if you do get saved though, it's

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impossible for you to never not do good.

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without ceasing meaning forever.

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So you're going to only ever do good until you die

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because you've been saved.

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Now that starts to sound Calvinistic a little bit.

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Okay.

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And it's like, well,

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why would the Bible bring up the guy that's not working

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getting saved

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if when you get saved it's impossible

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not to only do good but do it without ceasing.

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Why is the Bible constantly telling us to do good things?

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We wouldn't even need it.

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You don't even need church. You just need to get saved and then once you're saved you're gonna you're gonna do it listen to this

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It is impossible not to do good without ceasing

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What have you ever met someone that's like that have you ever met the person that it's

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Impossible for them to do anything, but good stuff, and they never stop doing good stuff. I mean I'm

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It's crazy

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He says, for just as natural it is for the tree to produce fruit, so natural it is for

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faith to produce good works, and just as it is quite unnecessary to command the tree to

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bear fruit, so there is no command given to the believer, as Paul says, nor urging necessary

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for him to do good.

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Now, who in here believes that the Bible has zero commandments to believers to do good?

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It's like, what do you mean?

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That's the whole New Testament.

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Yeah.

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I mean, in fact, sometimes the Bible just says, be good, okay, to do good.

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The Bible says to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth not to him it is a sin.

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Oh, just kidding, you can never do that because you're a saved believer.

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No, no, no, obviously the Bible's constantly telling us to do good.

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Because you can not do good.

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It's called Romans 7.

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Bro needed to just go a little bit further in Romans 7 when the Apostle Paul is saying,

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hey, you know, I find that which is to do good and I find myself not doing it.

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He's like saying, hey, I want to do good and I'm not doing it and I'm carnal and I'm not

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doing what I preaching. It's just like, bro,

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it's silly to say that nowhere in the Bible are we told to do good.

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You just do it automatically.

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Just as you sleep, eat, drink, put on clothes, hear, speak, and go, and come.

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So just like you breathing.

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No one has to tell you to breathe.

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That's true, right?

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Isn't that called an involuntary response to the body?

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Your heart beating.

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No one's told, like, make sure your heart's beating.

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Hey, is it beating?

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Beat your heart, okay?

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Don't stop beating your heart.

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We don't have to tell people that.

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And we get this, it's called an involuntary response.

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You know what? We don't have to be like that with church

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and say like, oh you know what, we don't need church anymore.

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We're all just going to do all the things right.

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Let's just go.

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What would be the point of reading the Bible

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or studying or praying or going to church or at?

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Like, no one could even be church disciplined.

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Because if you're church disciplined, you obviously weren't even saved

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because you did something wrong.

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I mean, like, this is nonsense.

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And how far are you going to take this?

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And of course, this is what the saving faith type mentality

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typically produces, is they have to create a scenario

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where you are perfect and you're doing good,

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so they have to lower the standard of what good actually is,

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because they have to say you're good all the time.

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And then this is where you get the practicing sin doctrine

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you'll hear from non-nominators.

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They're like, well, no one that makes a practice of sin

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is actually saved.

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And it's like, what's a practice of sin anyways?

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First of all, I don't know if I've ever actually practiced sin, but I have sinned a lot.

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You know, I wasn't like, hey, I'm going to practice lying.

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It's just you just lied. You know, you just like, I'm not practicing disobeying my parents.

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It's like, okay, I'm going to practice sneaking in and getting a cookie when I can,

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so that when I'm told I'm not, then I'll know what to do.

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It's like, no, no, no, they're just, they just sneak in and get a cookie.

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It's like, you don't need to practice. You're already an expert.

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Two-year-olds are already experts at this, okay?

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You didn't need practice, you've been doing this your whole life.

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It's silly, the practicing Zen doctrine is a lie.

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Here's more of his statements. He says,

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where works do not follow,

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a man cannot know whether his faith is right.

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So Zain, if you don't have any works, you can't know.

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He says, yea, he may be certain that his faith is a dream,

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and not right as it should be.

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He says...

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Externally and publicly before men and himself,

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he is justified by works that he is at heart

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an honest believer in pious.

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So let me read a little bit more of this, Connie.

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He said, justified, we're justified by faith alone

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without works, but externally and publicly

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before men and himself, he is justified by works

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that he is at heart an honest believer in pious.

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Now, this is where you can tell

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he's kind of getting James 2 vibes,

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and that's where we're gonna go there.

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But then he spells out something else from James 2.

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He says, this is what James means when he says in his epistle,

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faith without works is dead.

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That is, as the works do not follow, it is a sure sign that there is no faith there,

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but only an empty thought and dream, which they falsely call faith.

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So in his sermon, he, and I'm not reading all the sections,

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but he says there's a true faith and a false faith.

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And he says, if you don't have works, then you have a false faith.

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And he's like, there's some people that claim this, that they're claiming a false faith.

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Well, let's read some James 2 and let's see what the text actually says.

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Now, he's quoting the last verse here in James chapter number 2.

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And of course, James chapter 1, I'm sorry, James chapter 2 verse 1 says, my brethren,

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we're talking about saved people here.

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It says in verse 26, for as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works

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is dead also.

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That's a true statement.

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The Bible says that.

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It's recorded.

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But you know what he's not quoting is verse 17.

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Look at this.

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Even so, if it hath not works, is dead being alone.

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So faith, if it doesn't have works, does the Bible say it's false faith?

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No, it never says false faith.

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Does it say it doesn't exist?

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No, it doesn't say it's a dream.

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It just says it's alone.

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So, you know, a lot of people say,

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oh, faith that works doesn't exist.

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No, no, no, the Bible says it does exist.

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It's just alone.

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It's something that is real.

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The question is then, if I have a faith

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that doesn't have works, can I be safe?

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Well, we already answered that in Romans chapter four,

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verse five, if I work not and I'm ungodly,

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I'm still justified by my faith in Jesus Christ.

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Yep.

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So, yes I am. I'm saved. So, they say, oh, okay, then what is James 2 telling us? Well,

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in the first section of James chapter 2, it's saying that we shouldn't have respect of

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persons. That's what it says in verse 1. My brethren, I'm not the faith of the Lord Jesus

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Christ the Lord of Glory with respect of persons.

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Okay, if they come.

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unto your assembly a man with a gold ring and gold goodly apparel and there come in

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also a poor man in vile raiment and you respect him that weareth the gay clothing and say unto

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him sit thou here in a good place and say to the poor stand thou there or sit here under

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my footstool are you not then partial in yourselves and are you become judges of evil thoughts?

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So what is he saying?

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We shouldn't treat rich people better than poor people.

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Clear statement.

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We don't want to have a faith in Jesus Christ where we prefer rich people over poor people.

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And that we don't want to be around poor people.

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Look at verse 6, but you have despised the poor.

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So you're saying, don't have a respected person who serves the poor.

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Don't despise the poor.

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Then, and a little bit later, he says here in verse number 14,

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what does it profit my brethren, though a man say he hath faith,

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and have not worse, can faith save him, if a brother or sister be naked,

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and desidered daily food, and one of you say unto them,

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to part eat in peace, be warmed and filled, notwithstanding you give them not those things which are needful to the body?

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What does it profit?

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Saying, okay, we shouldn't have a bad opinion of poor people.

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We shouldn't treat them differently than we would treat a rich person.

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We shouldn't despise poor people.

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And we also shouldn't tell people that are poor,

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hey, I hope God helps you and not help them.

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Because then what does that actually do?

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What does that actually profit?

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Isn't that what it starts?

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Verse 14.

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What does it profit?

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Then notice in verse 16, the last statement.

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What does it profit?

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That means that verses 14 to 16 are the same thought.

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Okay.

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A man says he has faith, but he doesn't have works.

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Then we have in this story, in the example,

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he says unto him, depart in peace, be warm and filled.

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So there's the, it sounds like faith,

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notwithstanding he gives them not those things which are evil,

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meaning he didn't have any works.

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Then it's like, how did it profit that guy?

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Okay.

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Can a guy who is starving to death and has no clothes,

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Is he going to be profited by you just telling him,

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have a good day?

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Right?

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Is that going to help him in any way?

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No, it's not going to help him.

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In fact, while we live in America,

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so we don't necessarily fully understand

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some of these things, not having food

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and having insufficient clothing and harsh conditions outside,

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you will die.

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You would literally die.

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It's like a real death threat.

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OK?

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Especially, I mean, it's saying he's naked.

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And, you know, in some parts of the world especially, it can get very cold, it is very cold, it's rainy, you get pneumonia, whatever.

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I mean, the chances of you dying by being insufficiently fed and not having sufficient clothing is a real threat.

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So this guy is like on the verge of death and you just saying, I hope someone helps you, doesn't help him, does it?

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Giving him what he actually needs would help him.

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Now, this is where I want to be very clear about what I'm saying here, okay?

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And I want to be clear about my interpretation of this passage, okay?

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I don't think that we have to worry about this phrase, but I'm just going to tell you

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what I think about this phrase.

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But this is what people will say, they look at this can-face save him.

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They'll say, well, this is saying a guy that says he has faith and doesn't have works isn't

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saved and isn't going to go to heaven.

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At no point in James chapter 2 have we been bringing up heaven, having eternal life,

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who's justified in the sight of God to go to heaven or not, whose sins have been forgiven.

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Like that's never been in view in this chapter at any point, okay?

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Poor people have been in view the entire time, okay?

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Including in verse 6, we have despised the poor.

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So in an extreme minority reading,

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and in extreme minority opinion, which I also hold,

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they would say that when it says, can they save him,

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we're not actually talking about the guy in verse 14.

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We're talking about a poor guy.

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We're talking about the poor guy that was brought up in verse 6 and is then explained

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in verses 15 and 16.

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Now people would say grammatically that doesn't make sense because you're kind of bringing

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in a pronoun before you explain the guy.

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And I understand that argument and I'm not going to say that this is grammatically the

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most coherent interpretation.

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And if you have a different interpretation, go for it.

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But I believe what it's saying is can faith save him is like,

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hey, can your faith without works save this poor guy?

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This destitute of daily food and destitute of clothing.

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Can you actually save that guy?

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And the answer is no.

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Okay.

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But what it's definitely not saying, even if you disagree with what I just said,

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even if you said I think it's something else, you know, it's not saying,

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hey, you have to have works to go to heaven.

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That's not in view.

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That's not brought up in the context.

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It disagrees with every other portion of scripture.

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But they'll say, oh, this proves that there's a saving faith and a non-saving faith.

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Saving faith is not a phrase used in the Bible ever.

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Yeah.

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But again, why, why would it bring up, again, notice the sandwich again, verse 14, what, what did the prophet, verse 16, what did the prophet,

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it makes clear that we're kind of talking about saving somebody from what?

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Dying of, of not having food, not having clothing.

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Yeah, is it possible that in a strange rhetorical sense, he's kind of bringing up the guy before

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he answers the question?

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I think it's possible.

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Now, if you have a different interpretation, I haven't heard a good explanation of this

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from people that actually saved, especially not the unsaved crowd.

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But to take this question, can they save him, and then flip all the clear statements in

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the Bible on their head is a horrible way to reinterpret the Bible.

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You know, and even if we were to answer the question, if you believe in Jesus Christ,

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if you are saved, and some poor person comes into our church, and they're completely naked,

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and they haven't eaten a meal in weeks, and you just say, well I hope someone helps you,

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and they leave.

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Are you still saved?

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The answer is yes!

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Even if that's what this is asking, even if the question was, can that type of faith save this guy?

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Well, guess what? If he believed in Jesus, he's still saved. You know what I mean?

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But I just think that's kind of strange because that's not really been the context.

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That's not what we're really talking about.

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We don't have to give money to poor people to prove that we're saved or to stay saved or become saved or get saved.

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You know, we give money to the poor because we love them.

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And you know what? Hey, that's the right thing to do.

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Not because we're going to get to heaven because we give money to the poor.

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And people say, where's your soup kitchen? Well, I don't have a soup kitchen.

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Okay.

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But you know what? We will do is we'll go into the highways and hedges and we'll give the gospel to people.

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And it's not that none of us have ever helped the poor person.

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We're just not going to go around bragging about it.

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Because that's not the point.

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Now, again, it says in verse 17,

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even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead.

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Being alone, yea, a man may say,

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thou's faith, and I have works.

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Show me thy faith, thou have thy works,

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and I will show thee my faith by my works.

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Thou believest that there is one God, thou doest well.

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The devils also believe and tremble.

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But wilt thou know, O vain man,

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that faith thou works is dead?

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Meaning what?

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That it's not helping.

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If your phone is dead, you can't use it.

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What if I said, hey, I'm gonna give you a phone.

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It has no battery and it's dead and you can never have another battery.

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What does it profit?

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It's like it doesn't really profit anything, okay?

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You know, the whole point of having a phone battery so you can call people,

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you can actually text people, you can do something with it, right?

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In the same way that if I know that you can go to heaven

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by believing in Jesus Christ and I never tell you,

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what is that going to profit you?

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You're not going to know how to call on God and get saved.

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I had to actually do some.

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I had to go out there and preach the gospel, and I have to help you.

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And of course, if I believe in Jesus Christ and I've been saved and He's helped me,

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then if I never do anything to help anybody, what was the point, you know, of being saved before I die?

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Like, I might as well just die on my deathbed rather than getting saved way earlier in life,

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if I'm never going to do anything with that salvation.

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I've never actually served God or have any good works.

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Okay.

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So the whole point is the

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get saved is to not live for ourselves and be selfish anymore, but rather to help other

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people of course, and to do good things.

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Verse 21, was not Abraham our father justified by works when he had offered Isaac his son

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upon the altar?

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See, is that how faith wrought with his works, and by works his faith made perfect, and the

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scripture was fulfilled, which said Abraham believed God, and was puted unto him for righteousness,

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and he was called the friend of God.

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You see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only.

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Now here's the thing.

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We've read so many verses this evening on justification and justified, meaning that

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you're declared morally right.

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Okay?

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You're declared morally right by believing in Jesus Christ.

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You're right with God.

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So then how could this passage exist?

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And of course, Martin Luther didn't think James 2 was even the Bible.

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which is interesting.

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It's like, I've heard that he didn't even want James 2 to be in the Bible,

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and then he's quoting James 2 in his sermon.

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Okay, so I don't know how that works.

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I don't know how to reconcile those two things.

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Okay.

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But either way,

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when we're reading here in this particular passage,

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you know, most people that are saved,

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this is how they would interpret it,

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they say that this justification is not before God,

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it's before man.

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Okay, that is just saying I'm declared to be morally right in the eyes of man by my works.

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Meaning what? If a poor person needs help and I help them, won't people look at me and think that I'm a good person because I did that?

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But you know, at the end of the day, that's just not what gets me into heaven.

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And I'm not justified in the sight of God for anything that I did.

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It's just that people will see that and they will think this guy is a just person.

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This guy is a morally right person.

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Could I convince somebody that I am morally right if I literally do nothing good ever?

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Like, could I convince you that Joe Biden is morally good?

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Or, you know, some guy that, some Jew that owns all of the online smut industry or something,

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like this guy is morally good.

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You know, can I prove?

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No one's going to believe that.

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Okay.

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So, in a sense, you know, you're not going to be considered just if you're never doing anything good.

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And so, you could argue that works helps us to be justified in the sight of man.

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Okay.

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Why would that be important? Well, I think it's only important in the context of the fact that, you know, we're saved to do good works and to give glory to God.

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Okay, so if people being saved, let's just think about it this way, if everybody that got saved did nothing different,

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well then that doesn't really give much glory to God as salvation being very special.

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But if everybody, if the vast majority of people getting saved,

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if the normal experience is people actually being different and doing good things,

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well then it gives glory to God to show like, oh see.

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Salvation and the gospel is good.

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It's teaching us to deny ungodliness and to live soberly and to do right.

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So then you get passages like Matthew 25 and others that are showing a clear difference

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between the group of saved people versus the unsaved.

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Hey, the saved people are doing good things.

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The unsaved are kind of doing rotten things, okay?

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So there is a difference from categories.

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But that doesn't mean that an individual who didn't contribute, who is just drug along

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on the team.

01:22:47.600 --> 01:22:50.100
that he doesn't get the trophy, he still gets the trophy.

01:22:50.100 --> 01:22:53.040
The guy on the bench that never got in the game

01:22:53.040 --> 01:22:57.060
the whole season, a guy that got traded to our team

01:22:57.060 --> 01:22:59.680
at the end of the season and never played,

01:22:59.680 --> 01:23:03.120
still gets the ring, still gets the trophy.

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He did no works.

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Okay, but but here's the thing. It's not like everybody on the team is that guy. Okay

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There was somebody on our team that was scoring. Okay, there was somebody in the game passing the ball

01:23:16.540 --> 01:23:21.160
Otherwise wouldn't have won. Okay. So in a sense from a Christian perspective as a whole. Yes

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Lots of Christians are living different lives. Lots of Christians are doing good things

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Lots of Christians are serving the Lord and you know, that's what we want to see that's what we that's the good experience

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But we're not gonna sit here

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and demonize those that are not and say,

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well, you're not even on the team.

01:23:38.400 --> 01:23:41.200
Those that are not doing works, you're not even saved.

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That's the wrong attitude.

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That's the wrong belief, okay?

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And I think it's important for a couple reasons.

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And I'm gonna go there, go to Luke chapter eight.

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Go over to Luke chapter eight.

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Now you say, well, so is Martin Luther saved or not saved?

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What's the thing?

01:23:56.780 --> 01:23:58.900
You know, when I try to figure out if someone's saved or not,

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you know what I do?

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I ask them what they believe.

01:24:02.800 --> 01:24:03.800
Right?

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And here's what I, based on what I've read, this is what I think would happen.

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If I asked Martin Luther, hey, what do you think it takes to go to heaven?

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You know what I think you would have said?

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What's faith alone in what Jesus Christ did?

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But here's the thing, when I go soul-witting, you know that's not the only question I ask.

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I ask a second question.

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And you know what that second question is I ask?

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Could you lose your salvation?

01:24:24.800 --> 01:24:25.880
Alright?

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So, I'm going to read another thing that Martin Luther wrote, okay, or another sermon excerpt

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or something.

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I don't know if it's a sermon specifically or is it some letter he wrote.

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This is something that he wrote though.

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He said, it is accordingly necessary to know and teach that when holy men still having

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and filling original sin.

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also daily repenting of and striving with it,

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happened to fall into manifest sense,

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as David into adultery, murder, and blasphemy,

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that then faith in the Holy Ghost has departed from them.

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for they cast out faith in the Holy Ghost.

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For the Holy Ghost does not permit sin to have dominion,

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to gain the upper hand so as to be accomplished,

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but represses and restrains it so that it must not do what it wishes.

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But if it does what it wishes, the Holy Ghost and faith are certainly not present.

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For St. John says,

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Whose servant is born of God does not commit sin, and he cannot sin.

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So according to Martin Luther, he's saying if you ever commit murder or adultery or you're like David, you're not saved.

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Not only that you're not saved, he lost yourself. You pushed the Holy Ghost out.

01:25:35.600 --> 01:25:41.600
Now, if you heard that at the door, would you say this guy is saved or unsaved?

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Well, that's my opinion too.

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Okay, now again, it's weird because he sounds really good.

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on the faith alone part.

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But then you have to understand a lot of these people

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have this weird saving faith idea,

01:25:55.760 --> 01:25:58.360
and they say, well, saving faith is never alone,

01:25:58.360 --> 01:26:01.160
it has all these works, and it's gonna endure until the end,

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and it's never gonna commit these big sins,

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and it's never gonna practice sin, whatever.

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It just seems like most of the preachers

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and pastors teaching this stuff are just not saved.

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A Lordship style salvation, a saving faith salvation.

01:26:15.000 --> 01:26:19.540
A lot of Calvinists kind of teach this stuff, okay?

01:26:19.540 --> 01:26:24.820
But I do want to make something clear to our group and to our congregation that if someone

01:26:24.820 --> 01:26:30.560
does adhere to this saving faith doctrine, okay, they believe that if someone gets saved

01:26:30.560 --> 01:26:32.280
they will have some good works.

01:26:32.280 --> 01:26:34.120
They will have a change.

01:26:34.120 --> 01:26:37.960
That they are wrong, but I do not believe that means they're unsaved.

01:26:39.100 --> 01:26:41.900
If I asked Martin Luther, what he had to do to be saved,

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he said, faith, lo and Christ.

01:26:42.860 --> 01:26:43.660
And I said, can you lose it?

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And he said, no, I would say he saved,

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even if he has this wrong saving faith doctrine.

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Because if we throw everybody in hell

01:26:51.420 --> 01:26:53.140
that has the saving faith doctrine,

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it's going to be a really small group.

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Because the vast majority of Christians have this weird saving faith doctrine.

01:26:59.740 --> 01:27:03.640
Now again, a lot of people have an experience where they believe in Jesus Christ and they

01:27:03.640 --> 01:27:05.080
do change.

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So it is a pretty normal common experience.

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The problem is we don't want to believe that those are the only ones going to heaven for

01:27:13.340 --> 01:27:15.880
a lot of reasons, okay?

01:27:15.880 --> 01:27:16.880
Why a lot of reasons?

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Well look at Luke chapter 8 verse 12.

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those by the wayside are they that hear,

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then come to the devil and take away the word

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out of their hearts, lest they should believe and be saved.

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They on the rock are they, which when they hear,

01:27:28.140 --> 01:27:31.240
receive the word of joy, and these have no root,

01:27:31.240 --> 01:27:33.040
which for a while believe, and in time of temptation

01:27:33.040 --> 01:27:34.280
fall away."

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All these saving faith people would say that verse 12,

01:27:36.420 --> 01:27:38.920
all those people are not saved.

01:27:38.920 --> 01:27:43.280
Then they would say, and verse 13, that next group,

01:27:43.280 --> 01:27:45.120
verse 13 and 14 are not saved.

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Look at this, they on the rock are they.

01:27:47.700 --> 01:27:49.660
which when they hear is she of the word of joy,

01:27:49.660 --> 01:27:51.780
and these have no root, which for a while believe,

01:27:51.780 --> 01:27:52.980
and in time of temptation fall away,

01:27:52.980 --> 01:27:55.900
and that which fell among thorns are they which,

01:27:55.900 --> 01:27:58.320
when they have heard, go forth, and are choked with cares

01:27:58.320 --> 01:27:59.860
and riches and pleasures of this life,

01:27:59.860 --> 01:28:01.500
and bring no fruit to perfection."

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Does the group 14 have any fruit?

01:28:05.260 --> 01:28:06.540
They have no fruit.

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Which according to Martin Luther,

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it's impossible to not have good fruit without ceasing.

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So they would say only.

01:28:14.800 --> 01:28:16.800
Only the group 15 is saved.

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And look, I hear this from non-denom preachers,

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from Calvinist preachers, from Presbyterian teachers,

01:28:23.100 --> 01:28:26.000
just virtually everyone is saying this kind of stuff.

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And so, either everyone's unsaved,

01:28:29.700 --> 01:28:32.700
or just most everybody's wrong, okay?

01:28:32.700 --> 01:28:35.000
Again, most everybody is wrong.

01:28:35.000 --> 01:28:37.900
But how do I determine who's saved and who's not saved?

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Well, the ones that are saying it's faith alone

01:28:39.800 --> 01:28:41.400
and you can't lose it, I think are saved.

01:28:42.000 --> 01:28:45.000
Even though they might adhere to this weird saving faith doctrine.

01:28:45.000 --> 01:28:47.000
The ones that are like Martin Luther that says,

01:28:47.000 --> 01:28:52.000
well, yeah you could lose it, or if you don't have the works, you're not saved, whatever.

01:28:52.000 --> 01:28:56.000
I'm definitely afraid of someone that has any combination.

01:28:56.000 --> 01:28:58.700
If they say you can't lose it, I think they're just not saved.

01:28:59.100 --> 01:29:04.860
Anybody that's denying that you, or anybody that's saying you can push the Holy Ghost out,

01:29:04.860 --> 01:29:08.700
anybody that's saying that you can lose your salvation or walk away or whatever,

01:29:08.700 --> 01:29:14.140
I don't think they're saved at all. Okay. And I will continue to believe that. Now again,

01:29:16.700 --> 01:29:18.940
I go to go to Matthew 13 as well.

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If somebody says, I think you lose your salvation if you become an atheist or something,

01:29:25.300 --> 01:29:30.000
or I think if you stop believing, I'm not going to say that person's unsaved.

01:29:30.000 --> 01:29:33.500
I think that some people are confused about apostasy specifically.

01:29:33.500 --> 01:29:39.500
But I'm saying, if they're saying you commit murder or adultery or a sin or unrepentance sin and you're losing your salvation,

01:29:39.500 --> 01:29:41.100
I don't believe those people are saved ever.

01:29:42.100 --> 01:29:45.100
If you think sin is losing your salvation, not saved.

01:29:45.100 --> 01:29:49.600
If you're a little bit confused on apostasy, I think you could still probably be saved.

01:29:49.600 --> 01:29:52.100
I would still sure them up on that. I'd still correct them on that.

01:29:52.100 --> 01:29:54.100
But I wouldn't necessarily say they're unsaved.

01:29:54.100 --> 01:29:58.100
And the reason why I think this is important is because when we go soul winning,

01:29:58.100 --> 01:30:03.100
I'll see sometimes people, I feel like they're a little bit hyper on this issue.

01:30:03.100 --> 01:30:07.100
Because I'll see them, they'll talk to me, they'll say, hey, what do you have to do to go to heaven?

01:30:07.100 --> 01:30:09.800
And the person will say, oh, it's believing in Jesus.

01:30:09.900 --> 01:30:13.700
And they're like, yeah, well, do you think someone can lose their salvation?

01:30:13.700 --> 01:30:14.700
No.

01:30:14.700 --> 01:30:19.100
And they're like, OK, well, what if someone believed, but then they're like an axe murdering

01:30:19.100 --> 01:30:20.100
psycho killer?

01:30:20.100 --> 01:30:22.760
Do you still think that person's saved?

01:30:22.760 --> 01:30:24.340
And they're like, I'm not sure.

01:30:24.340 --> 01:30:27.640
Well, actually, you don't believe right at all, and you're not saved.

01:30:27.640 --> 01:30:28.640
Can I show you?

01:30:28.640 --> 01:30:29.640
The Bible teaches something completely different.

01:30:29.640 --> 01:30:33.060
And I'm like, completely different?

01:30:33.060 --> 01:30:33.680
What do you mean?

01:30:34.100 --> 01:30:37.940
This person is just confused that a psycho serial killer actually believes the gospel.

01:30:37.940 --> 01:30:40.740
That's all he's confused about, is your weird hypothetical.

01:30:40.740 --> 01:30:43.540
He's also getting a weird vibe from you, okay?

01:30:46.020 --> 01:30:47.940
Like, you don't have to be so weird.

01:30:49.140 --> 01:30:53.380
If they think it's faith alone and you can't lose it, like, go team, you know?

01:30:54.420 --> 01:30:58.340
It's like we don't have to get super weird about this kind of stuff, all right?

01:30:59.600 --> 01:31:03.600
To me, if I don't have something really clear,

01:31:03.600 --> 01:31:06.600
I'm not going to sit here and jump all over these people or whatever.

01:31:06.600 --> 01:31:10.600
And if they have this saving faith doctrine, I'm not going to declare them unsaved.

01:31:10.600 --> 01:31:12.600
I've seen it, I've heard it.

01:31:12.600 --> 01:31:15.600
I think it's a waste of time. I'll correct them out.

01:31:15.600 --> 01:31:18.600
I'll say, hey, can I show you a verse? Show them Romans 4 or 5.

01:31:18.600 --> 01:31:19.600
I'll say, hey...

01:31:20.000 --> 01:31:23.040
Or if you feel like you've spent just a few minutes,

01:31:23.040 --> 01:31:25.000
like I don't want to spend very long questioning people.

01:31:25.000 --> 01:31:27.600
I'm just saying if you've gone like two or three questions deep

01:31:27.600 --> 01:31:30.600
and it's a little confusing, here's the best thing to do.

01:31:30.600 --> 01:31:32.040
Just tell them exactly what we believe

01:31:32.040 --> 01:31:33.720
and ask if they believe it or not.

01:31:33.720 --> 01:31:36.680
Just say, well, I believe salvation is a free gift by faith

01:31:36.680 --> 01:31:38.320
and you can never lose it for any reason.

01:31:38.320 --> 01:31:39.600
Is that what you believe?

01:31:40.760 --> 01:31:43.520
And if they're like, no, right, well, can I show you that?

01:31:43.520 --> 01:31:45.680
And if they say yes, then be like, go team.

01:31:46.200 --> 01:31:48.800
You know, we're not out there to trip people up.

01:31:48.800 --> 01:31:51.800
We're not out there to like trap them or something like that.

01:31:51.800 --> 01:31:52.800
Okay?

01:31:52.800 --> 01:31:57.200
I get that we're trying to help them figure out where they're at in life.

01:31:57.200 --> 01:31:58.200
But you know what?

01:31:58.200 --> 01:31:59.200
We can be pretty clear.

01:31:59.200 --> 01:32:02.600
I used to think that you couldn't say this, and now I use it every time.

01:32:02.600 --> 01:32:05.800
It's like, do you think salvation is faith alone or faith works?

01:32:05.800 --> 01:32:08.800
Because I thought, well, we can't say that because it'll all just say faith.

01:32:08.800 --> 01:32:11.200
But virtually everybody just says it's faith and works.

01:32:13.400 --> 01:32:15.400
Because I'm not trying to trap anybody.

01:32:15.400 --> 01:32:17.160
I'm just trying to figure out, what do you believe?

01:32:17.160 --> 01:32:18.040
This is what I believe.

01:32:18.040 --> 01:32:20.400
Do you want me to show you something different or not?

01:32:20.400 --> 01:32:22.880
Do you want me to show you it's a free gift by faith?

01:32:22.880 --> 01:32:28.080
And again, are people who think that someone who has no works

01:32:28.080 --> 01:32:30.000
is not saved, does that mean they're not saved?

01:32:30.000 --> 01:32:31.000
Not necessarily.

01:32:31.100 --> 01:32:33.900
We want to ask the questions that we stick to, okay?

01:32:33.900 --> 01:32:36.200
We want to stick to the simple things.

01:32:36.200 --> 01:32:40.000
And again, Martin Luther would have failed the test, so we're fine, okay?

01:32:40.000 --> 01:32:41.500
The test works.

01:32:41.500 --> 01:32:45.500
Don't try and reinvent the test to some other idea.

01:32:45.500 --> 01:32:49.400
Look, if we were going to see what other doctrines are you wrong on to see if you're saved or not,

01:32:49.400 --> 01:32:50.600
no one's saved, okay?

01:32:50.600 --> 01:32:53.400
Because people are screwed up on virtually anything and everything, all right?

01:32:53.700 --> 01:32:57.900
But, in general, you know, we're just trying to test to see, hey, do they believe in faith

01:32:57.900 --> 01:32:58.900
alone?

01:32:58.900 --> 01:33:01.020
Do they believe they can lose their salvation?

01:33:01.020 --> 01:33:03.260
And this is important because we want to protect these groups.

01:33:03.260 --> 01:33:05.940
We do believe that you can have no works and be saved.

01:33:05.940 --> 01:33:12.140
Look at Mark, Matthew chapter 13 verse 21, yet, this is talking about the parable of

01:33:12.140 --> 01:33:15.220
the Sower, yet Hath he no root in himself but dureth for a while, for when tribulation

01:33:15.220 --> 01:33:18.580
and persecution arrive because of the word, by and by he is offended.

01:33:18.580 --> 01:33:20.580
Look, if someone we get saved...

01:33:21.000 --> 01:33:25.400
out soul winning comes into church and they don't like the service and they immediately leave

01:33:26.000 --> 01:33:28.000
I'm not going to say they're unsaved

01:33:28.400 --> 01:33:31.760
I've known somebody that was in my that I got saved I

01:33:32.440 --> 01:33:35.120
Brought them a church they got baptized

01:33:35.560 --> 01:33:37.560
They were going to end up getting married

01:33:37.840 --> 01:33:43.840
But then they stumbled they offended okay, and then I never saw them again, and they got out of church or whatever

01:33:44.400 --> 01:33:48.560
But, you know, praise God, even my pastor, my old, happy pastor, he came up to me and said,

01:33:48.560 --> 01:33:52.240
well, at least we know he's going to heaven. And it's like, yeah.

01:33:53.600 --> 01:33:58.160
And you know what? Even if he didn't get baptized, he's still saved.

01:33:59.360 --> 01:34:01.760
You know, some pastors, I guess, need that message again.

01:34:02.640 --> 01:34:05.920
You know, there was a podcast where Pastor Jason Robinson was on.

01:34:07.200 --> 01:34:10.700
where he's letting a Calvinist explain the saving faith doctrine,

01:34:10.700 --> 01:34:14.000
and then he affirmed and agreed and amplified by saying this.

01:34:14.000 --> 01:34:18.500
He said, if a believer, if someone's really a believer,

01:34:18.500 --> 01:34:23.300
and they completely reject baptism, are they really a believer?

01:34:24.600 --> 01:34:27.400
Well, let's just go with your statement, because you said they're really a believer.

01:34:27.400 --> 01:34:33.000
I think about it. If someone's really a believer, but they rejected baptism,

01:34:33.000 --> 01:34:36.920
are they really a believer? Well, yeah, because you said they were really a believer.

01:34:38.040 --> 01:34:42.920
This is weird. I think about it. You know what that does? That just puts a wet blanket on soul winning.

01:34:43.300 --> 01:34:47.220
If we're going to say the only people that actually got saved were the people that showed

01:34:47.220 --> 01:34:51.100
up and got baptized later, we're going to have, again, a really small list.

01:34:51.100 --> 01:34:52.100
And you know what?

01:34:52.100 --> 01:34:55.060
It's going to make us not even want to go soul-winning anymore, and it's going to make

01:34:55.060 --> 01:35:01.220
us want to become some Greek theologian, some Calvinist again, studying church history because

01:35:01.220 --> 01:35:03.500
we have nothing else to do with our lives.

01:35:03.500 --> 01:35:07.780
You know, instead of becoming so smart and just learning all the church history, why

01:35:07.780 --> 01:35:08.780
don't you just go soul-winning?

01:35:08.780 --> 01:35:09.780
You know what?

01:35:09.780 --> 01:35:10.780
Amen.

01:35:10.780 --> 01:35:11.300
Why don't you just go preach the gospel?

01:35:11.300 --> 01:35:15.100
And you know what, some people would be a little bit wiser if they would just preach

01:35:15.100 --> 01:35:20.220
the gospel instead of preaching all these church fathers nonsense.

01:35:20.220 --> 01:35:23.340
You start going down that road and you're going to sound like an idiot, you're going

01:35:23.340 --> 01:35:25.540
to sound like a fool.

01:35:25.540 --> 01:35:28.140
You know what, it's tearing down soul winning.

01:35:28.140 --> 01:35:29.900
It's putting a wet blanket on soul winning.

01:35:29.900 --> 01:35:31.660
And I'm not saying these people don't go soul winning.

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I'm not saying they aren't going to put some effort in.

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But you know what, it's going to hinder the gospel and it's going to hinder soul winning

01:35:36.980 --> 01:35:38.540
and it's going to cause some people to not want to go.

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I don't look I'm a Baptist. I believe in baptism. I want to baptize every person that gets saved.

01:35:47.320 --> 01:35:51.480
But let me tell you something. I am not wondering if they're saved or not if they get baptized.

01:35:52.200 --> 01:35:57.400
Yeah, when I go back out in the ghetto and I run back into them and they haven't gotten baptized yet.

01:35:57.400 --> 01:36:00.600
I'm saying hey what do you believe and if they believe right hey you're saved.

01:36:01.320 --> 01:36:07.640
It's stuck. It's not like did you get wet yet? Well I don't know if you really believe them brother.

01:36:08.600 --> 01:36:09.600
Yeah?

01:36:09.600 --> 01:36:11.480
Because then what else are you going to add?

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And again, in the context of this conversation, then they say, oh, that's why all the Roman

01:36:17.600 --> 01:36:21.720
Catholics for history said you had to follow the sacraments too, because well, if you're

01:36:21.720 --> 01:36:25.760
a believer, then you're going to, of course, follow the sacraments.

01:36:25.760 --> 01:36:29.560
And if you're a believer, then you're going to keep doing good without ceasing, as Martin

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Luther clearly said.

01:36:30.920 --> 01:36:35.200
And then the guy that didn't keep believing or keep doing the works or whatever, it doesn't

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really say to them, you know.

01:36:37.380 --> 01:36:39.680
It's like, because they use believe as just doing works.

01:36:40.100 --> 01:36:44.500
They just twist that word into like, well, he must not be believing because he's not doing the works anymore.

01:36:44.500 --> 01:36:49.020
And again, their works are never like actually going soul winning and preaching the gospel.

01:36:49.020 --> 01:36:54.940
Their works are whatever they dream up in their mind, selling indulgences or something.

01:36:54.940 --> 01:36:59.060
Go with Luke. I'm sorry, go to 1 Corinthians 3. Go to 1 Corinthians 3.

01:37:00.600 --> 01:37:05.960
Like the thief on the cross, we're going to put him in heaven because you don't have to have any works.

01:37:05.960 --> 01:37:09.320
The parable of the sower, we're putting those two groups in heaven.

01:37:10.440 --> 01:37:14.440
The nine, where are the nine? They're in heaven! That's where they are.

01:37:16.120 --> 01:37:20.360
How many works do they have or how many rewards do they have? I don't know if they had any.

01:37:21.240 --> 01:37:23.480
But you know what? They're in heaven. You say, how do you know they're in heaven?

01:37:23.480 --> 01:37:25.400
1st Corinthians chapter number three.

01:37:27.100 --> 01:37:29.340
And again, how could this even apply?

01:37:29.340 --> 01:37:32.660
How could 1 Corinthians 3 even apply according to Martin Luther's doctrine?

01:37:32.660 --> 01:37:35.660
Because according to Martin Luther's doctrine, if you are saved,

01:37:35.660 --> 01:37:41.660
just as natural it is to breathe will be the good works that come out of you.

01:37:41.660 --> 01:37:43.940
So who wouldn't have good works?

01:37:43.940 --> 01:37:49.140
Everyone, I mean, who's not taken a breath since they've gotten saved?

01:37:49.140 --> 01:37:51.660
1 Corinthians 3, though, what does it say?

01:37:52.300 --> 01:37:53.300
Verse 13,

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15 Every man's work shall be made manifest,

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16 for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire.

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17 And the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is.

01:38:00.700 --> 01:38:03.200
18 If any man's work abide which yet built thereupon,

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19 thereupon, he shall receive reward.

01:38:05.100 --> 01:38:08.500
20 If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss,

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21 but he himself shall be saved, yet so is my fire.

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So there could be a guy,

01:38:12.600 --> 01:38:15.100
hey, he doesn't have any works, they're all burned up.

01:38:15.100 --> 01:38:18.100
But yet he himself is still saved.

01:38:18.600 --> 01:38:22.280
Wow, but the works show that His faith wasn't genuine.

01:38:22.280 --> 01:38:23.280
It wasn't a genuine faith.

01:38:23.280 --> 01:38:24.280
It wasn't a saving faith.

01:38:24.280 --> 01:38:25.600
It wasn't a good faith.

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Look, sorry, your works are not going to have any impact on if you're in heaven or hell.

01:38:33.120 --> 01:38:34.120
If you believed.

01:38:34.120 --> 01:38:37.640
If you believed in Jesus Christ, is faith alone enough?

01:38:37.640 --> 01:38:38.640
Yes.

01:38:38.640 --> 01:38:39.760
What is saving faith?

01:38:39.760 --> 01:38:41.880
Saving faith is believing the right thing about the gospel.

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There is, I guess, a vain faith the Bible brings up in 1 Corinthians 15.

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If you deny the resurrection, you're not saved.

01:38:50.300 --> 01:38:53.800
If you don't believe what Jesus did fully pay all your sins, you're not saved.

01:38:53.800 --> 01:38:56.200
If you have a different Jesus, you're not saved.

01:38:56.200 --> 01:38:58.600
But here's the thing, if you really believe, you're saved.

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Case closed. I don't care if you got baptized or not.

01:39:00.900 --> 01:39:02.300
I don't care if you went to church or not.

01:39:02.300 --> 01:39:04.000
I don't care if you performed communion or not.

01:39:04.000 --> 01:39:06.400
I don't care if you've ever given the gospel to anybody else.

01:39:06.400 --> 01:39:07.500
You are saved.

01:39:08.000 --> 01:39:11.440
And you know what? It's important that we teach that and believe that

01:39:11.440 --> 01:39:14.000
so that we'll all go keep preaching the gospel.

01:39:14.000 --> 01:39:19.760
Because the vast majority of people are probably going to do very little after getting saved.

01:39:19.760 --> 01:39:23.040
Did you notice it was where is the nine? Ten people get cleansed.

01:39:23.040 --> 01:39:24.400
One only says thank you.

01:39:25.360 --> 01:39:28.880
So you know what that tells me? The vast majority of people aren't even going to say thank you.

01:39:29.800 --> 01:39:31.800
The vast majority of people aren't going to show up.

01:39:31.800 --> 01:39:36.800
You know, you really expect me that Jesus Christ and all of his disciples for three plus years

01:39:36.800 --> 01:39:39.600
go out and they only got 120 people saved?

01:39:41.800 --> 01:39:44.800
Riddle me this, Pastor Jason Robinson.

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What about the Jews who the Bible says they believed,

01:39:48.900 --> 01:39:52.740
but they were afraid to confess Him openly for fear of the Jews?

01:39:52.740 --> 01:39:56.480
Did they get publicly baptized?

01:39:56.480 --> 01:39:58.120
Or were they afraid to get baptized?

01:39:58.120 --> 01:40:00.880
I mean, baptism is a pretty open public thing,

01:40:00.880 --> 01:40:04.480
and they're afraid to even say they believe in Jesus Christ

01:40:04.480 --> 01:40:05.620
for fear of the Jews.

01:40:05.620 --> 01:40:07.560
Oh, I guess they didn't really believe then.

01:40:07.560 --> 01:40:09.320
We're just going to throw them in hell too.

01:40:09.700 --> 01:40:13.100
We're just going to throw everybody in hell that isn't a Calvinist,

01:40:13.100 --> 01:40:14.700
that has all the works and whatever.

01:40:14.700 --> 01:40:16.900
You know what? Get out of this stupid junk.

01:40:16.900 --> 01:40:18.700
Calvinism is lies.

01:40:18.700 --> 01:40:20.000
Amen.

01:40:20.000 --> 01:40:22.100
Calvinism is false.

01:40:22.100 --> 01:40:25.500
You know what? You have a choice. Reject Calvinism.

01:40:25.500 --> 01:40:27.000
Because it's stupid.

01:40:27.000 --> 01:40:30.300
Reject Roman Catholicism. Reject the Church Father.

01:40:30.300 --> 01:40:32.300
I don't need to know what all these people believe.

01:40:32.300 --> 01:40:35.600
Oh, well Martin Luther. Martin Luther isn't saved.

01:40:37.300 --> 01:40:41.300
If you believe your gospel presentation is right, then Martin Luther is not saved.

01:40:41.300 --> 01:40:46.260
Because he's clearly saying that, hey, David's not even saved, he committed murder.

01:40:46.260 --> 01:40:49.780
You think that David lost his salvation in the Bible? What's wrong with you?

01:40:50.980 --> 01:40:53.380
And if David's not saved, then who's saved, you know?

01:40:54.500 --> 01:40:59.460
I'm like, good night. Just Martin Luther, right? The drunkard. The guy that loves drinking.

01:41:00.420 --> 01:41:04.580
Guy that's sitting, drinking alcohol under a tree and figured out the Bible.

01:41:05.200 --> 01:41:07.200
That's a pretty common experience, isn't it?

01:41:07.200 --> 01:41:10.200
And look, he has all kinds of other weird beliefs.

01:41:10.200 --> 01:41:13.200
You know, that's why when you run into Lutherans, they're not saint.

01:41:13.200 --> 01:41:15.200
By and large. They don't believe.

01:41:15.200 --> 01:41:18.200
And they believe, like, you have to do the works and you can...

01:41:18.200 --> 01:41:20.200
It's like the sole of... sole fide.

01:41:20.200 --> 01:41:22.200
Just joking.

01:41:22.200 --> 01:41:27.200
Fade alone is meaningless if it's not actually something that could really save you.

01:41:27.200 --> 01:41:29.200
We actually believe it.

01:41:29.300 --> 01:41:34.900
Hey, I love Faith Alone. I love Sol Lafite. Hey, Faith Alone is enough and we should continue to champion this.

01:41:34.900 --> 01:41:38.500
And you know what? It's going to put a wet blanket on Sol winning if we deny it.

01:41:39.500 --> 01:41:43.900
I'm not willing to do it. Isn't it interesting? The people that break with us...

01:41:44.300 --> 01:41:54.300
They're always somehow putting down soul winning, tacking soul winning, getting weird, changing doctrines, going to a Catholic Trinity.

01:41:54.300 --> 01:42:01.300
I mean, why do we need to become more Catholic? Let's be less Catholic in 2026. Not more Catholic.

01:42:01.300 --> 01:42:09.300
I don't need Catholic theologians to tell me what the Bible really means. They're not saved. They've never been saved. They're not going to get saved.

01:42:09.300 --> 01:42:11.300
They're not getting out of purgatory.

01:42:11.500 --> 01:42:20.500
It's called hell. They're not getting out. Mother Teresa's in hell. I'm sorry. She gave a bunch of food to the poor, but she's still not saved.

01:42:20.500 --> 01:42:27.500
Okay. I don't think she did that. She did weird stuff or whatever. Look, this is important, folks. And you know what?

01:42:27.500 --> 01:42:35.500
There's so many reasons to stop going soul winning. And there's going to be so many attacks and there's going to be so many excuses because the flesh is lazy.

01:42:35.900 --> 01:42:39.620
because we're prideful and people don't want to go into the ghetto

01:42:39.620 --> 01:42:43.700
and people don't want to waste their time and people want to go out in the rain

01:42:43.700 --> 01:42:46.780
and I want to go out the cold and I want to go in the dark

01:42:46.780 --> 01:42:50.820
and I want to see all the drugs in this in the mud and the stains in the

01:42:50.820 --> 01:42:51.580
whatever

01:42:51.580 --> 01:42:54.200
but you know what who's gonna save

01:42:54.300 --> 01:42:57.300
You know, Brittany and who's going to save?

01:42:57.300 --> 01:43:00.700
Amari and is going to save the people that I went and knocked on the door.

01:43:00.700 --> 01:43:04.000
They're going to full gospel church right now is where they were going,

01:43:04.000 --> 01:43:08.900
which is a Pentecostal church where they bark like a dog and do whatever.

01:43:08.900 --> 01:43:10.700
Who's going to go get that person saved?

01:43:10.700 --> 01:43:11.700
Yeah.

01:43:11.700 --> 01:43:16.000
What Calvinist is going to go down there and explain divine simplicity to her?

01:43:16.400 --> 01:43:17.900
so that she can figure it out.

01:43:17.900 --> 01:43:19.800
I mean, look, these Calvinists,

01:43:19.800 --> 01:43:22.300
they can sit here and pretend like they're so smart,

01:43:22.300 --> 01:43:23.200
but at the end of the day,

01:43:23.200 --> 01:43:26.800
what's your practical solution for that person getting saved?

01:43:26.800 --> 01:43:28.800
Yeah. Amen.

01:43:28.800 --> 01:43:30.700
She said she can't even, she's not,

01:43:30.700 --> 01:43:33.300
she's not capable of even leaving the house right now

01:43:33.300 --> 01:43:35.200
because of physical problems.

01:43:35.200 --> 01:43:36.900
How is she going to get baptized?

01:43:37.500 --> 01:43:40.380
How are the elderly going to sometimes get baptized?

01:43:40.380 --> 01:43:41.660
How is every one of these kids going to get baptized?

01:43:41.660 --> 01:43:44.620
Well, if they didn't get baptized, they didn't really get saved.

01:43:44.620 --> 01:43:45.500
Lies!

01:43:47.800 --> 01:43:52.680
Hey, I'm for baptism. I want to make it as available and easy as possible.

01:43:52.680 --> 01:43:57.160
But you know what? It's stupid to go down this road. And why are people going down this road?

01:43:58.920 --> 01:44:05.320
I'll tell you why. It's because of pride. It's always pride. It's because they know that they're wrong.

01:44:05.500 --> 01:44:07.980
and they know they've left the good thing,

01:44:07.980 --> 01:44:10.180
and so they have to try and put it down

01:44:10.180 --> 01:44:12.980
to try and justify their wicked actions.

01:44:12.980 --> 01:44:14.460
You know what, just be a soul winner.

01:44:14.460 --> 01:44:16.380
But you know what, these people are afraid of saying,

01:44:16.380 --> 01:44:18.380
like, soul winning is the most important thing,

01:44:18.380 --> 01:44:20.580
and soul winning is why we're here,

01:44:20.580 --> 01:44:22.240
and soul winning is what we should be after,

01:44:22.240 --> 01:44:23.740
because you know what, then they'll be like,

01:44:23.740 --> 01:44:25.800
well then why do we hate the new FBI again?

01:44:27.400 --> 01:44:30.200
And they'd be like, can I go on a soul hunting trip with them?

01:44:30.200 --> 01:44:32.120
And can I go on a missions trip with them?

01:44:32.120 --> 01:44:35.400
And oh, man, their sermons are always better.

01:44:35.400 --> 01:44:37.120
And they're afraid of that.

01:44:37.120 --> 01:44:39.760
So they have to tear it down and make it seem bad.

01:44:39.760 --> 01:44:43.100
And oh, they don't have the historic Catholic position.

01:44:43.800 --> 01:44:49.800
They don't understand the difference between divine simplicity and soteriology.

01:44:49.800 --> 01:44:53.800
And they don't have all the philosophical terminology.

01:44:53.800 --> 01:44:55.800
They don't understand these theological terms.

01:44:55.800 --> 01:44:58.800
They're not going to get a degree in seminary.

01:44:58.800 --> 01:45:00.800
They don't speak Greek.

01:45:00.800 --> 01:45:04.800
They don't know the difference between theostos and theos.

01:45:06.600 --> 01:45:14.280
Or as you know some of these freaks say like Thales you know it's like you don't speak Greek like I do

01:45:14.960 --> 01:45:19.480
You know it's Thales and Alpha and Amiga

01:45:20.880 --> 01:45:26.520
It's like bro. I don't think you speak Greek. I just have a feeling okay. I think that you might be a fraud

01:45:27.280 --> 01:45:32.080
And these people are a fraud because you know what if you spoke Greek you know what you would read?

01:45:33.300 --> 01:45:35.600
that faith alone is enough to save you.

01:45:35.600 --> 01:45:37.300
If you can speak Greek, you know what you would believe,

01:45:37.300 --> 01:45:39.140
so many is the thing that matters.

01:45:39.140 --> 01:45:41.440
If you can speak Greek, you know what you would believe,

01:45:41.440 --> 01:45:43.300
we just need the King James Bible.

01:45:43.300 --> 01:45:45.140
Because it says the same thing.

01:45:45.140 --> 01:45:46.620
These people that have to go back to the Greek

01:45:46.620 --> 01:45:48.340
don't speak Greek because if you spoke Greek,

01:45:48.340 --> 01:45:50.980
you'd realize all you need is the King James Bible.

01:45:50.980 --> 01:45:51.820
Amen.

01:45:53.060 --> 01:45:55.880
Because I do know someone that speaks Greek really well

01:45:55.880 --> 01:45:57.720
and has read the Greek New Testament cover to cover

01:45:57.720 --> 01:45:59.000
and he says, you don't need it.

01:45:59.700 --> 01:46:01.460
Because it's the same thing right here.

01:46:01.460 --> 01:46:05.860
It's the same word of God, it's the same concepts, it's the same ideas.

01:46:05.860 --> 01:46:10.500
There's not a secret understanding in the Greek or in the Hebrew.

01:46:10.500 --> 01:46:18.100
And look, if you're learning Greek for any reason other than to make these fools look like fools, it's in vain.

01:46:18.100 --> 01:46:22.420
If you're not learning Greek to get people saved in Greek, you should just stop.

01:46:23.100 --> 01:46:25.700
Because there's no other hidden secret meeting.

01:46:25.700 --> 01:46:27.800
We have the sufficiency in the King James Bible.

01:46:27.800 --> 01:46:28.700
And you know what?

01:46:28.700 --> 01:46:34.500
We need to just die living our lives like faith alone justifies.

01:46:34.500 --> 01:46:38.100
Because then you'll be motivated to go into the highways and the hedges and the ghettos

01:46:38.100 --> 01:46:40.900
where people are never going to say thank you.

01:46:40.900 --> 01:46:43.800
They're never going to darken the door of our church.

01:46:43.800 --> 01:46:45.100
They're never going to...

01:46:45.100 --> 01:46:47.300
Some of them are never even get baptized.

01:46:47.300 --> 01:46:47.800
But you know what?

01:46:47.800 --> 01:46:49.700
They're going to go with us to heaven.

01:46:49.800 --> 01:46:51.200
We're going to see them in heaven.

01:46:51.200 --> 01:46:52.200
And that's what matters.

01:46:52.200 --> 01:46:53.200
Yeah.

01:46:53.200 --> 01:46:56.600
You know, baptism is a picture of someone that wants to be a disciple of Jesus.

01:46:56.600 --> 01:46:59.920
Not everybody's going to be a disciple.

01:46:59.920 --> 01:47:01.320
We want to be disciples.

01:47:01.320 --> 01:47:05.600
Our church is, hey, everybody here's baptized because we're disciples and we want to go

01:47:05.600 --> 01:47:08.240
out and do the work and we want to be rewarded.

01:47:08.240 --> 01:47:11.300
Not every Christian wants that, but they do like the free gift.

01:47:11.300 --> 01:47:13.800
And so we're going to go out for the free gift to everybody and say, hey, come with

01:47:13.800 --> 01:47:14.800
us and be baptized.

01:47:14.800 --> 01:47:15.600
but if they don't.

01:47:15.900 --> 01:47:18.900
Hey, you're still coming with us to heaven.

01:47:18.900 --> 01:47:20.600
Let us never forget this.

01:47:20.600 --> 01:47:23.200
Never become a Calvinist, please.

01:47:23.200 --> 01:47:24.800
You have the choice, all right?

01:47:24.800 --> 01:47:27.600
It's not irresistible.

01:47:27.600 --> 01:47:28.900
It's stupid.

01:47:28.900 --> 01:47:30.000
Okay.

01:47:30.000 --> 01:47:31.300
Don't fall down this line.

01:47:31.300 --> 01:47:33.300
Don't, and again, it's just pride.

01:47:33.300 --> 01:47:36.000
Let us not be prideful and think that we're better than others.

01:47:36.000 --> 01:47:37.700
Think that we're smarter than others.

01:47:37.700 --> 01:47:41.500
Hey, we just go out and preach the simple gospel and we get people saved by faith.

01:47:41.800 --> 01:47:43.680
And that's how we should live our lives until we die.

01:47:43.680 --> 01:47:44.560
Let's close in prayer.

01:47:44.560 --> 01:47:46.020
Thank you, Heavenly Father, so much for your word.

01:47:46.020 --> 01:47:47.720
Thank you so much for the simple free gospel.

01:47:47.720 --> 01:47:51.560
Thank you for making it just so accessible to everyone.

01:47:51.560 --> 01:47:53.760
Thank you for giving us the opportunity to go out and share

01:47:53.760 --> 01:47:55.400
the good news with so many different people

01:47:55.400 --> 01:47:56.500
and get them saved.

01:47:56.600 --> 01:48:02.120
I pray that we wouldn't be discouraged by the limited number of disciples, the limited number

01:48:02.120 --> 01:48:07.480
of people that want to serve you dedicated, that we would realize that salvation is such a free gift,

01:48:07.480 --> 01:48:12.680
that no works are ever required and never will be required. I pray they would help us never get that

01:48:12.680 --> 01:48:17.000
doctrine wrong. I pray they would help us to correct people that are wrong on this issue.

01:48:17.640 --> 01:48:22.760
I pray they would help us to see as many people saved to be a bright and shining light.

01:48:23.300 --> 01:48:26.500
I pray that you would help us to never be so prideful,

01:48:26.500 --> 01:48:30.660
to lift ourselves up and think that we're better than other people that got saved,

01:48:30.660 --> 01:48:33.060
to realize that we're all just saved by grace.

01:48:33.060 --> 01:48:35.140
It was just a free gift to all of us.

01:48:35.140 --> 01:48:39.780
And that when we serve you, we serve you for reward, not for going to heaven.

01:48:39.780 --> 01:48:42.500
And I pray that you would just bless the soul winning of our church,

01:48:42.500 --> 01:48:43.460
that you'd keep it red hot.

01:48:43.460 --> 01:48:44.900
In Jesus' name we pray, Amen.

01:48:51.000 --> 01:48:53.300
Alright in closing let's go to song number two

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Song number two.

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Oh, hold on, hold on, hold on.

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Oh, we're not ready.

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I don't know what you're doing.

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Song number two, let's all sing that out together.

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Down at the cross where my Savior died.

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Down where my Savior died.

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Baptism this evening brother Jay is coming for baptism for the J if you trust in Christ your Savior

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Then I baptize you in the name of the Father Son and Holy Ghost

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Buried in likeness of his death raised to walk in newness of life

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Make sure to congratulate our baptism. God bless you guys. You're dismissed.