WEBVTT 01:14.600 --> 01:15.300 you 01:24.400 --> 01:33.400 Trying to walk in the steps of the Savior, trying to follow our Savior and King, 01:33.400 --> 01:35.300 Chapin' our lives. 01:37.400 --> 01:42.400 Happy, how happy the songs that we bring. 01:42.400 --> 01:47.400 How beautiful to walk in the steps of the Savior. 01:47.400 --> 01:51.400 Walking in the light, stepping in the light. 01:51.400 --> 01:57.400 How beautiful to walk in the steps of the Savior. 01:57.400 --> 02:00.400 Pads of light. 02:00.400 --> 02:03.200 Pressing more closely to- 02:04.200 --> 02:12.200 is me when we are tempted to turn from the way trust me we are that is strong 02:12.200 --> 02:18.200 to defend us happy how happy our praises each day 02:21.200 --> 02:26.560 Steps of the Savior, stepping in the light, stepping in the light. 02:29.500 --> 02:31.000 Steps of the same 03:42.800 --> 03:43.300 Bye! 03:49.300 --> 03:57.620 do not have a bulletin. Brother Eli can pass one out. Today is July 22nd. Our service times 03:57.620 --> 04:04.020 are right there. Sunday morning, 1030 AM, Sunday evening, 430 PM. Wednesday service 04:04.020 --> 04:12.620 is 530 PM. Our soul winning time is 2 PM. And then the memory verse is Psalm 15, 2. 04:12.620 --> 04:14.620 I think I updated for the weekend. 04:15.700 --> 04:18.700 So that might be a little confusing, but whatever. 04:18.700 --> 04:22.460 Well, 51, but we're moving into 52. 04:22.460 --> 04:25.780 He that walketh uprightly and worketh righteousness 04:25.780 --> 04:28.940 and speaketh the truth in his heart. 04:28.940 --> 04:34.180 And then year today, we have 722 souls won. 04:34.180 --> 04:37.180 And then we did have one baptism on Sunday. 04:37.180 --> 04:39.260 So we have two baptisms for the year. 04:39.600 --> 04:42.520 Then we've got all these birthdays that still need to come up. 04:42.520 --> 04:44.960 My daughter, Kevin, Jerry. 04:44.960 --> 04:46.400 But today's Aubrey's birthday. 04:46.400 --> 04:47.860 They had a little birthday party for her. 04:47.860 --> 04:49.600 So happy birthday, Aubrey. 04:49.600 --> 04:50.980 I didn't realize that's what it was. 04:50.980 --> 04:52.480 I mean, I knew you wanted to do something nice. 04:52.480 --> 04:56.240 I just didn't realize it was actually her birthday today. 04:56.240 --> 04:58.680 I can barely keep up with what I need to do in my life, 04:58.680 --> 05:00.600 let alone. 05:00.600 --> 05:02.080 I don't even know when my daughter is. 05:02.080 --> 05:02.680 Is it Monday? 05:02.680 --> 05:03.920 It's Monday, right? 05:03.920 --> 05:04.480 Next Monday? 05:04.480 --> 05:05.240 OK. 05:05.240 --> 05:06.200 I didn't know that. 05:06.400 --> 05:12.480 And then this Sunday, make sure you come out. Pastor Cobb is preaching the evening service. 05:12.480 --> 05:17.920 Brother Mike Malutich is preaching the Sunday morning service. I will be gone. It just worked 05:17.920 --> 05:21.520 out. I don't know if, you know, sometimes things just kind of line up like that. 05:22.720 --> 05:28.480 Brother Heath is actually leaving on a vacation for a couple of days with his wife and family. 05:29.100 --> 05:35.740 So, I already texted the men, I mean I'll give the instructions to my wife in case the 05:35.740 --> 05:40.700 men have any questions, but they'll be running the church service again this Sunday, so that's 05:40.700 --> 05:46.140 a blessing to be able to just have that kind of backing. 05:46.140 --> 05:51.820 And then the baby shower is also between services for Christian Rogers. 05:51.820 --> 05:53.940 So any questions, ask my wife. 05:53.940 --> 05:56.100 I think her registry is on Amazon. 05:56.100 --> 05:56.600 of you. 05:57.400 --> 06:02.200 need to get or anything to do that through there. Then in August I am going, not the whole week, 06:02.760 --> 06:10.360 but I will be going at least Tuesday and I'll be there Wednesday through Saturday 06:11.000 --> 06:17.320 in Mexico City for a soul-winning mission strip with some of the members of Steadfast. 06:17.320 --> 06:22.040 And then we have the baby shower for Marcel Whitcliffe, September 13th. 06:22.400 --> 06:25.680 And then I did add for the for the bulletins for the Sunday, 06:26.560 --> 06:30.560 Cynthia Garcia is also expecting. So pray for the expecting mothers. 06:30.560 --> 06:36.480 We've got Christian, Marcel and Cynthia. And then just the housekeeping rules 06:37.680 --> 06:43.600 there for the parents specifically. And they need to deal with children. 06:43.600 --> 06:47.440 We've got the updated prayer list. Oh, I forgot to remove 06:47.440 --> 06:48.440 move. 06:48.440 --> 06:49.440 Carries 4-0. 06:50.500 --> 06:58.020 I'll do that. Is there any update that we need on the prayer list? Just be praying for everybody, 06:58.020 --> 07:02.740 anybody who's traveling, anybody who's sick on the prayer list, but are there any pastor? 07:04.980 --> 07:11.860 Yeah, I just said that. You're right pastor. I forgot. I will make sure it gets done. And then 07:13.380 --> 07:17.060 just pray for me. So I will be preaching one service on Sunday. 07:17.800 --> 07:22.360 In Boise, Idaho for pastor Russell. He has a church plant in Boise, Idaho 07:23.200 --> 07:25.200 straight paths Baptist Church 07:25.560 --> 07:29.480 If you've not heard of them or don't know they're actually meeting out of a house 07:30.160 --> 07:37.440 So just pray for them. They actually there was another church there and that pastor just went cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs 07:37.440 --> 07:43.940 I mean, he's literally insane. I don't know if it's a judgment from God or he's literally just like not right in the head 07:44.400 --> 07:49.400 But some of the stuff that comes out of a guy's mouth is just beyond anything I could... 07:49.400 --> 07:52.400 It's incoherent at best. 07:52.400 --> 07:57.400 So just pray for them. I'll preach one service. I'll be there for work. 07:57.400 --> 08:02.400 And then I will fly back. And God willing, we'll get back to it next week. 08:02.400 --> 08:04.400 You know, back to normal services. 08:04.400 --> 08:09.100 And if nothing else, turn your handels over to page 351 and then we'll be in Galatians 3. 08:09.800 --> 08:12.400 351, tell it to Jesus. 08:18.200 --> 08:23.160 By the way, thank you for being here. We were looking for the heat. I don't know where it popped 08:23.160 --> 08:29.720 up, but today is supposed to be the hottest day of the year for Houston and it's been hot. 08:30.440 --> 08:36.920 I haven't really complained, but today we felt it. So just stay cool. Best of possible. 08:37.200 --> 08:43.100 I already gave instructions for the soul winning. We have the the cooler back here. We got plenty of ice or 08:43.740 --> 08:46.040 Services anyways 351 tell it to Jesus 09:23.200 --> 09:24.000 Welcome! 09:28.200 --> 09:37.640 friend or brother tell it to Jesus alone. Do the tears flow down your cheeks 10:01.400 --> 10:05.400 Do you know other such a friend or brother? 10:05.400 --> 10:09.400 Tell it to Jesus alone. 10:09.400 --> 10:13.400 Do you fear the clattering clouds of sorrow? 10:13.400 --> 10:17.400 Tell it to Jesus. 10:17.400 --> 10:21.400 Are you anxious what shall be tomorrow? 10:41.600 --> 10:42.900 So we get to see you at the end and that's it. 10:42.900 --> 10:43.000 We all know in the world the world is so big. 10:43.640 --> 10:43.000 So it's a him. 10:44.240 --> 10:43.000 So it's a me. 10:44.480 --> 10:43.000 So it's a me. 10:44.580 --> 10:43.000 So it's a me. 10:44.640 --> 10:43.000 So it's a me. 10:44.700 --> 10:43.000 So it's a me. 10:44.780 --> 10:43.000 So it's a me. 10:44.840 --> 10:43.000 So it's a me. 10:44.920 --> 10:43.000 So it's a me. 10:44.980 --> 10:43.000 So it's a me. 10:45.040 --> 10:43.000 So it's a me. 10:45.100 --> 10:43.000 So it's a me. 10:45.160 --> 10:43.000 So it's a me. 10:45.200 --> 10:43.000 So it's a me. 10:45.260 --> 10:43.000 So it's a me. 10:45.300 --> 10:43.000 So it's a me. 10:45.360 --> 10:43.000 So it's a me. 10:45.420 --> 10:43.000 So it's a me. 10:45.480 --> 10:43.000 So it's a me. 10:45.540 --> 10:43.000 So it's a me. 10:45.600 --> 10:43.000 So it's a me. 10:45.640 --> 10:43.000 So it's a me. 10:45.680 --> 10:43.000 So it's a me. 10:45.700 --> 10:43.000 So it's a me. 11:16.200 --> 11:20.360 Alright, let's turn our Bibles over to Galatians 3. 11:20.360 --> 11:23.360 We're going to be in the book of Galatians. 11:23.360 --> 11:23.560 Galatians 3. 11:34.700 --> 11:39.660 Galatians 3, chapter 3 verse 1, 11:39.660 --> 11:45.580 O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth before whose eyes 11:45.580 --> 11:53.020 Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you. This only would I learn 11:53.020 --> 11:57.660 of you received ye the Spirit by the works of the law or by the hearing of faith. 11:58.600 --> 12:03.160 Are you so foolish? Have you begun in the Spirit? Are you now made perfect by the flesh? 12:03.960 --> 12:10.600 Have you suffered so many things in vain? If it be yet in vain, he therefore that ministereth to you 12:10.600 --> 12:15.960 the Spirit and worketh miracles among you, doeth it he by the works of the law or by the hearing of 12:15.960 --> 12:21.900 faith. Even as Abraham believed God and it was accounted to him for righteousness. 12:22.100 --> 12:26.740 Know ye therefore that they which are of faith the same are the children of Abraham. 12:27.380 --> 12:30.980 In the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, 12:30.980 --> 12:36.260 preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed. 12:36.980 --> 12:41.860 So then they which be of the faith are blessed with faithful Abraham. 12:41.860 --> 12:44.180 For as many as are the works of the law, 12:44.700 --> 12:48.300 are under the curse for it is written cursed is everyone that 12:48.780 --> 12:52.860 Continueth not in all things which were written in the book of the law to do them 12:53.420 --> 12:57.340 But the no man is justified by the law in the sight of god. It is evident 12:57.980 --> 13:00.140 For the just shall live by faith 13:00.140 --> 13:04.220 And the law is not a faith but the man that doeth them shall live in them 13:04.780 --> 13:08.700 Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law being made a curse for us 13:09.260 --> 13:11.900 For it is written cursed is everyone that hangeth on a tree 13:12.700 --> 13:17.340 that the blessing of Abraham might come unto the Gentiles through Jesus Christ, 13:17.340 --> 13:22.460 that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith. Brethren, I speak after the manner 13:22.460 --> 13:29.740 of men, though it be not a man's covenant, yet if it be confirmed, no man disannulleth 13:29.740 --> 13:35.260 or addeth thereto. Now to Abraham and his seed where the promise is made, he saith, 13:35.260 --> 13:37.900 and not two seeds as of many. 13:38.200 --> 13:42.900 but as of one, and to thy seed, which is Christ. 13:42.900 --> 13:46.860 This I say that the covenant that was confirmed before of God and Christ, 13:46.860 --> 13:49.560 the law which was four hundred and thirty years after, 13:49.560 --> 13:53.460 cannot disenal that it should make the promise of non-effect. 13:53.460 --> 13:58.340 For if the inheritance be of the law, it is no more of promise, 13:58.340 --> 14:00.940 but God gave it to Abraham by promise. 14:00.940 --> 14:03.700 Wherefore then serveth the law? 14:03.900 --> 14:08.700 It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come, to whom the promise was made, 14:08.700 --> 14:14.300 and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator. Now a mediator is not a mediator of one, 14:14.300 --> 14:20.380 but God is one. Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid. For if there had 14:20.380 --> 14:25.660 been a law given which could have given life, verily, righteousness should have been by the law. 14:25.660 --> 14:29.500 But the scripture hath concluded, All are under sin. 14:29.800 --> 14:36.360 that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe. But before faith came, 14:36.360 --> 14:42.600 we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed. 14:43.880 --> 14:49.000 Wherefore, the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by 14:49.000 --> 14:55.240 faith. But after that faith has come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster. For ye are all the 14:55.240 --> 14:57.480 the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. 14:57.800 --> 15:03.800 for as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew 15:03.800 --> 15:10.840 nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female, for ye are all one in 15:10.840 --> 15:18.680 Christ Jesus. And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed and heirs according to the promise. 15:19.400 --> 15:21.400 Pastor Cobb, will you pray for the preaching? 15:56.500 --> 15:57.000 church. 16:09.000 --> 16:10.000 Amen. 16:10.000 --> 16:17.600 All right, well let's go there to Galatians 3 and you know, it's going to sound repetitive 16:17.600 --> 16:21.840 again because the whole book of Galatians is to re-emphasize 16:22.200 --> 16:25.640 the faith in Christ and not the laws, right? 16:25.640 --> 16:29.160 And also we see a very interesting distinction also, 16:29.160 --> 16:33.800 especially Galatians 3, it's a really popular set of scriptures that's often contended. 16:33.800 --> 16:38.200 We that believe in replacement theology will contend that this is speaking to us, 16:38.200 --> 16:41.320 the believers, that we are spiritual seed of Abraham, 16:41.320 --> 16:43.400 we are the spiritual seed of Jesus Christ, 16:43.400 --> 16:46.520 we are actually spiritual Israel or spiritual Jews, 16:46.520 --> 16:50.120 but others would then say that, you know, because of Genesis 12, 16:50.200 --> 16:55.800 and this that we need to bless Israel the modern-day state of Israel which 16:56.360 --> 16:58.360 are believers in 16:58.560 --> 17:02.040 Judaism which is a religion that does not believe in Jesus Christ 17:02.600 --> 17:08.360 They would contend that the Bible actually backs that up which is not even true as a matter of fact Jews 17:08.880 --> 17:14.880 modern-day Jews today hate Jesus Christ and there's been an uptick in 17:15.200 --> 17:18.560 This rhetoric in both sides, you know the side that's pushing for 17:19.440 --> 17:24.860 Zionism that's pushing for the state of Israel that's pushing for the building of the third temple 17:24.860 --> 17:30.600 I mean, they're just constantly just brainwashing you it you know, it's it's the same tactic. They're using for pushing 17:30.600 --> 17:36.920 the LGBTQ agenda and all other false gospels and religions and things of this world, whereas 17:36.920 --> 17:41.600 we are constantly just reminding everybody it's specifically by faith. 17:41.600 --> 17:49.160 As a matter of fact, one of my friends, Pastor Oz, was interviewed by public television, 17:49.160 --> 17:54.100 The public, I guess, the PBS of Israel. 17:54.200 --> 17:59.440 I guess he was interviewed by some Jew who said he's not a practicing Jew, but like a 17:59.440 --> 18:03.560 secular Jew, like he was born there, whatever that means. 18:03.560 --> 18:06.560 But the thing that he kept coming back to is he's like, wouldn't you agree that the 18:06.560 --> 18:10.240 statements you make are, you know, anti-Semitic and aggressive? 18:10.240 --> 18:12.720 And he's like, no, I mean, I'm just preaching the Bible. 18:12.720 --> 18:20.200 The Bible is very clear that the, you know, the fault for kill the people who are responsible 18:20.200 --> 18:21.600 for killing Jesus are the Jews. 18:22.000 --> 18:26.700 that anybody who believes in this false religion that curse is upon them and 18:26.820 --> 18:29.700 Then all they have to do though is believe on the Lord Jesus Christ 18:30.020 --> 18:33.740 And he's like well, what's the one message and he kept coming back to his like what's the one message? 18:33.740 --> 18:36.560 You want to leave the people he's like just believe on the Lord Jesus Christ 18:36.860 --> 18:40.700 If you believe you're gonna go to heaven if you don't believe you're not gonna go to heaven 18:40.700 --> 18:45.060 So Galatians 3 is just a continuation in that he just keeps harping 18:45.320 --> 18:49.940 He keeps talking down. He keeps kind of sending to them and just remind him like how 18:50.000 --> 18:55.040 simple it is to believe and how stupid it is to get off on this track right and 18:55.040 --> 18:59.560 so the title of the sermon this afternoon is Galatians 3 faith over the 18:59.560 --> 19:04.100 law because this is really what he's focusing on here right the theme is that 19:04.100 --> 19:06.700 salvation has always been by faith 19:06.900 --> 19:12.860 And as a matter of fact, Galatians 3 makes a great argument for the fact that the Old Testament 19:12.860 --> 19:16.900 salvation is the same salvation in the New Testament. 19:16.900 --> 19:19.900 It's not a different salvation, it's the same one. 19:19.900 --> 19:25.900 Abraham, who's the originator, like the guy who sent out originally, you have Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. 19:26.600 --> 19:30.200 Abraham believed and it was accounted to him for righteousness in the Bible. 19:30.200 --> 19:35.800 And it's like not just once, it's very prominent in the Old Testament and in the New Testament. 19:35.800 --> 19:38.800 Right? And it's not by the works. 19:38.800 --> 19:45.600 It has nothing to do, you know, Abraham wasn't saved because he was circumcised or uncircumcised. 19:45.600 --> 19:49.000 He was saved because he believed on the Lord Jesus Christ. Right? 19:49.300 --> 20:03.300 And so, as a matter of fact, one of the greatest pictures of salvation is Abraham and Isaac as they go up and he's willing to sacrifice his own son in obedience to the Lord Jesus Christ. 20:03.300 --> 20:07.300 And so, the one thing that we know, the law, what is the law's purpose? 20:07.300 --> 20:11.300 You know, and I'm not going to go too deep into that today. The Bible gives us a lot. There's a whole sermon there. 20:11.300 --> 20:13.900 there, but just as a quick... 20:14.200 --> 20:19.400 Synopsis here in the Bible the law is very clear that it reminds us that we're not perfect 20:19.520 --> 20:23.540 the law is there to point out our imperfections our 20:24.640 --> 20:26.560 fallacies our 20:26.560 --> 20:34.040 Fallibility right because the one thing that's that's true of all humans is if I were to ask most people because we do actually ask most 20:34.040 --> 20:38.040 people and even yourselves you probably lie to yourself and 20:38.280 --> 20:42.120 If you look yourself in the mirror unless you're having a really bad day you 20:42.200 --> 20:47.560 probably don't think you're that bad. Especially if you compare yourself to the rest of the world, 20:47.560 --> 20:53.720 right? I'm not out murdering, I'm not selling drugs, I'm not an alcoholic, you know, I'm not 20:53.720 --> 20:59.480 cheating on my wife, I don't abuse of my children, you know, so I must not be that bad. But the Bible 20:59.480 --> 21:04.840 says, for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. And it said, the Bible even tells 21:04.840 --> 21:08.360 us that if we just break one of these, we were guilty of the whole thing. 21:09.200 --> 21:13.120 So, and I think that the reason that that's, it's not an exaggeration, the reason that 21:13.120 --> 21:18.200 that's there is because the reality is if we're capable of breaking one law, we're 21:18.200 --> 21:19.960 capable of breaking any law. 21:20.900 --> 21:24.660 You say, are you saying that people in church are capable of committing murder? 21:24.660 --> 21:25.860 Yeah, absolutely. 21:25.860 --> 21:30.900 You're saying people in church are capable of committing abuse and atrocities and cheating 21:30.900 --> 21:35.540 on their wives and committing adultery and fornication and being drug addicts and 21:35.540 --> 21:38.500 and getting tatted up and doing all kinds of wicked things? 21:39.140 --> 21:39.860 Absolutely. 21:39.860 --> 21:42.020 That's why the law exists to remind us of all that. 21:42.820 --> 21:43.060 Right? 21:43.060 --> 21:44.340 I mean, how many of you 21:45.600 --> 21:50.160 just drive and the first thing you do when you get in the car is you drive and you just look at 21:50.160 --> 21:57.040 your speedometer. You know the law is there to remind you what speed you need to be driving at 21:57.040 --> 22:00.800 right? I mean oftentimes I'm just driving and driving and I'll be in a neighborhood and I'll 22:00.800 --> 22:02.400 be like oh man I need to slow down. 22:02.800 --> 22:06.880 The law is my reminder that I can't be going 85 in a 55. 22:06.880 --> 22:10.080 By the way, I don't know if I'm doing that or not, but probably sometimes, you know, 22:10.080 --> 22:14.240 I just like to drive fast, right? But the law is there to remind us about that. 22:15.360 --> 22:20.720 And the other thing is, but the Bible makes it clear that the law, once we're in the Spirit, 22:20.720 --> 22:23.840 no longer applies because we're saved by the blood of Jesus Christ. 22:25.120 --> 22:30.080 You say, how is that important? Well, it's so important because when we get to heaven, 22:30.600 --> 22:34.680 And of course, we know we're going to be raptured up, we're going to be taken. 22:34.680 --> 22:37.620 I don't know what that looks like as far as like the completion of that. 22:37.620 --> 22:38.620 I know we're going to be there. 22:38.620 --> 22:39.680 There's going to be all these things. 22:39.680 --> 22:44.820 But proverbially, it's been said, and people like to use an example like this, how would 22:44.820 --> 22:48.240 you respond if you get to heaven and you get to the pearly gates, right? 22:48.240 --> 22:49.660 Why should I let you in? 22:49.660 --> 22:52.060 The reality is you shouldn't let me in. 22:52.060 --> 22:54.600 You're letting me in because you don't recognize me. 22:55.200 --> 23:02.000 God's not looking at Enrique or Pastor Cobb or church member from Spring Crest. 23:02.000 --> 23:03.480 He's looking at the blood of Jesus. 23:03.480 --> 23:05.280 He's like, you're in. 23:05.280 --> 23:08.080 We're going to be covered in the blood of Jesus. 23:08.080 --> 23:09.560 We are incorruptible. 23:09.560 --> 23:14.240 We don't look, we won't sound, we won't act like the person that we are today. 23:14.240 --> 23:18.800 The person I am today is capable of all kinds of just sin. 23:19.400 --> 23:23.080 Not that I'm actively seeking that, but I'm just capable of it. 23:23.080 --> 23:27.880 Right? The Bible, Paul said all things are lawful to me, but not that all things are expedient. 23:27.880 --> 23:32.520 But when we get to heaven, we will no longer be capable of those things. 23:32.520 --> 23:35.000 We will be incapable of corruption. 23:35.300 --> 23:36.620 And that's the coolest thing. 23:36.620 --> 23:38.180 That's why I love the book of Galatians, 23:38.180 --> 23:41.100 because it just drives this thing home. 23:41.100 --> 23:45.940 And Galatians reminds me of when your mom would just 23:45.940 --> 23:47.300 always remind you. 23:47.300 --> 23:50.460 She'd say the same thing over and over. 23:50.460 --> 23:53.060 I feel like Paul is, in this case, 23:53.060 --> 23:54.020 he's a spiritual father. 23:54.020 --> 23:56.100 But he's the frustrated spiritual father 23:56.100 --> 23:59.220 who has to just say, don't do that, and don't do that, 23:59.220 --> 24:01.020 and don't do that, and why are you doing that, 24:01.020 --> 24:03.220 and why are you doing that, and stop it, and stop it. 24:03.300 --> 24:06.540 And this is like, Galatians 1, stop it. 24:06.540 --> 24:07.940 Galatians 2, stop it. 24:07.940 --> 24:10.500 Galatians 3, hey, you really need to stop it. 24:10.500 --> 24:12.180 What are you doing? 24:12.180 --> 24:15.380 And so we see that this is like, and if you look at it, 24:15.380 --> 24:19.460 it's really, I would consider it, 24:19.460 --> 24:22.580 it's masterful the way that he delivers this justification 24:22.580 --> 24:24.940 by faith here in Galatians 3. 24:24.940 --> 24:25.780 And so. 24:26.100 --> 24:31.300 In one and two, he's like, hey, you're so removed, but he also defends himself. 24:31.300 --> 24:36.620 He speaks of his pedigree and the things that he's doing. 24:36.620 --> 24:41.020 But now he's really just going to focus on the justification aspect of it, right? 24:41.020 --> 24:42.780 That it's not by the law. 24:42.780 --> 24:45.040 And he points to Abraham and why? 24:45.040 --> 24:45.500 Because 24:45.800 --> 24:50.380 Even modern-day Jews will point to the patriarchs Abraham Isaac 24:50.940 --> 24:55.880 Jacob Moses that that's where they want to focus on right they want to focus on the law of Moses 24:56.080 --> 25:01.660 They want to focus on father Abraham, then they'll take you to those verses up. They'll preach him out of context 25:01.920 --> 25:04.720 But the Bible is really clear that it's by faith alone 25:07.300 --> 25:13.380 But that is the crux of the thing, right? In Galatians 3, you have the Judaizers, 25:14.580 --> 25:20.660 but you could plug in any religion in here. And what are they teaching? They're teaching 25:20.660 --> 25:26.580 that Jesus Christ is not enough. And it's funny, I got frustrated with one of my employees today 25:27.860 --> 25:32.020 because they did what I asked, but then they did more than what I asked. 25:32.900 --> 25:35.900 And it's not like, you know, sometimes you want to go above and beyond. 25:35.900 --> 25:37.900 It was more like they're just messing things up. 25:38.700 --> 25:44.100 And so I was so frustrated. I was like look because they know you know I mean as a matter of fact most of my staff is 25:44.100 --> 25:51.340 Saved you know and and they believe and I like guys. I need you to do exactly like I said. It's like salvation 25:51.340 --> 25:53.900 I don't want more Jesus. I don't want less Jesus 25:53.900 --> 25:56.780 I just want the Jesus of the Bible if when I ask you something 25:56.780 --> 26:00.620 I don't want more of what I asked or less of what I asked just what I asked you know 26:00.620 --> 26:06.220 I was so frustrated. I'd like jump to that analogy because that's the problem with all of us like the Bible says 26:06.700 --> 26:09.260 this and we want to take it further. 26:09.260 --> 26:11.060 You know, the Bible says that and we're like, 26:11.060 --> 26:12.620 no, we're going to do the opposite. 26:12.620 --> 26:13.620 And it's real simple. 26:13.620 --> 26:15.580 If we just do what the Bible says, 26:15.580 --> 26:17.540 then we're not going to be in trouble. 26:17.540 --> 26:19.660 But people want to draw their own conclusions. 26:19.660 --> 26:21.460 They want to put in their opinion. 26:21.460 --> 26:24.500 They want to put in their interpretation. 26:24.500 --> 26:25.340 And everybody's like, 26:25.340 --> 26:26.780 oh, the Bible is open to interpretation. 26:26.780 --> 26:27.900 Anybody can interpret it. 26:28.400 --> 26:34.880 I agree that there's aspects of the Bible that we as a group might collectively disagree on, right? 26:34.880 --> 26:39.920 There might be aspects. I think the end times is something where if we were to take a poll in the 26:39.920 --> 26:46.400 church, you know, we'd have varying opinions. You know, we'd have, I know Pastor Cobb has preached 26:46.400 --> 26:51.680 about how the man of sin will probably be Assyrian and, you know, other people believe it's Jewish. 26:52.300 --> 26:55.500 We can sit there and argue all that all day long. It's not going to break fellowship 26:55.900 --> 26:57.340 We're going to have varying opinions of that 26:57.340 --> 27:03.040 But when the bible says that all you have to do is believe on faith and that it's not of works. There's no interpretation 27:03.900 --> 27:05.740 It's plain 27:05.740 --> 27:06.940 right 27:06.940 --> 27:11.100 It's it would be like the doctor like a group of doctors sitting around a dead person being like well 27:11.820 --> 27:13.180 How dead is he? 27:13.180 --> 27:14.780 You know like how? 27:14.780 --> 27:18.140 Let's gauge the the level of deadness this person is right 27:18.600 --> 27:23.720 That's why that statement like I was half dead or I was almost dead always throws me off because 27:24.440 --> 27:30.360 there is no such thing. You're either dead or you're not dead. Now you might not be as strong 27:30.360 --> 27:35.080 and that's why people would liken it to like you're almost dead, right? You're knocking on 27:35.080 --> 27:39.160 heaven's doors or whatever people want to say. But the reality is that's just the way we want to 27:39.160 --> 27:44.200 interpret it. Look, if you're breathing you're alive and if you're not breathing you're dead. 27:45.200 --> 27:51.000 That's the way we need to treat the Bible, but the Judaizers constantly in the Old Testament, 27:51.000 --> 27:56.240 in the New Testament, they're adding works, they're confusing the issue, and Paul's not 27:56.240 --> 27:58.120 having it, right? 27:58.120 --> 28:01.400 And so this is where we're going to go through it. 28:01.400 --> 28:02.400 So let's go to Galatians 3. 28:02.400 --> 28:07.200 I only have four points for you this afternoon, and I didn't put a timer, but let me just 28:07.200 --> 28:11.800 go ahead and put one here just so that when I hit an hour, we know we're at an hour and 28:11.900 --> 28:15.420 or something like that. I'm kidding guys, we won't. I'm trying to keep it on. 28:16.380 --> 28:20.140 By the way, I mean you guys can't be that big in that big of a hurry because 28:20.140 --> 28:22.940 by the time we leave, hopefully it's cooler than it is now. 28:23.200 --> 28:26.560 So I'll keep you in here. But Galatians 3 right there in verse 9 says, 28:26.560 --> 28:31.360 Oh, foolish Galatians. People say, oh, you shouldn't say mean stuff to people. 28:31.360 --> 28:38.880 I mean, let's translate it to modern day vernacular. Oh, stupid. Oh, moronic. Oh, idiotic. 28:38.880 --> 28:42.800 You know, just plug in any sentiment, that synonym, not cinnamon. I don't know what I'm 28:42.800 --> 28:47.280 thinking of. But synonym in there, that's what he said. He's like, oh, fully. That's a, that's a 28:47.280 --> 28:48.560 strong insult. 28:49.700 --> 28:51.540 He's like, you guys are a bunch of dumb bunnies. 28:51.540 --> 28:56.580 He says, who hath bewitched you that you should not obey the truth 28:56.580 --> 29:00.940 before whose eyes Jesus Christ had evilly set forth crucified among you? 29:00.940 --> 29:03.060 He's like, it's obvious. 29:03.060 --> 29:05.900 Evidence means that it's like, you know, the evidence is there. 29:05.900 --> 29:07.140 It's proof. 29:07.140 --> 29:08.860 There is no argument. 29:08.860 --> 29:11.300 You know, it's beyond the shadow of a doubt. 29:11.300 --> 29:13.260 Says this only what I learned of you. 29:13.700 --> 29:18.020 Received ye by the spirit the spirit this only would I learn of you 29:18.420 --> 29:23.700 Received ye and he asked him a question the spirit by the works of the law or by the hearing of faith 29:24.100 --> 29:26.100 He's like, are you so foolish? 29:26.700 --> 29:31.140 Having begun in the spirit. Are you now made perfect by the flesh? 29:31.820 --> 29:36.340 Have you suffered so many things in vain if it be yet in vain? 29:37.100 --> 29:41.340 He therefore that ministereth to you the Spirit and worketh miracles among you, 29:41.340 --> 29:45.420 doeth it by the works of the law or by the hearing of faith." He keeps asking him, 29:45.420 --> 29:51.180 you know, you ever been so frustrated that, you know, you're just kind of like keep asking 29:51.180 --> 29:55.420 these questions? I know, I feel Paul here because sometimes in an argument, I'm like, 29:55.420 --> 29:59.500 are you kidding me? Are you really serious? Like you really think that I'm that, you know, 29:59.500 --> 30:04.060 whatever it is, you know, the argument. He says, even as Abraham believed God, 30:04.700 --> 30:07.900 and it was accounted to him for righteousness, 30:07.900 --> 30:11.020 know ye therefore that they which are of faith, 30:11.020 --> 30:13.260 the same are the children of Abraham." 30:14.700 --> 30:18.140 In the scripture foreseeing that God would justify the heathen 30:18.140 --> 30:19.500 through faith, and so the Bible says, 30:19.500 --> 30:22.060 hey, God already had foreordained 30:22.060 --> 30:23.740 that the heathen was going to be plugged in. 30:24.400 --> 30:27.200 because he knew that Israel was going to reject. He said, 30:27.200 --> 30:32.640 Preach before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed, 30:32.640 --> 30:37.600 so then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham. 30:37.600 --> 30:41.040 Notice he's not just referring to him as Abraham, but faithful Abraham. 30:41.680 --> 30:47.120 And it's not just a blessing to Abraham. That was the blessing for his people, 30:47.120 --> 30:51.440 like his seed, like Cardinal seed. But here he's saying, hey, it's a spiritual thing. 30:52.700 --> 30:54.180 Why is he using Abraham? 30:54.180 --> 30:56.540 Because that's where the Judaizers will have you go, right? 30:56.540 --> 30:59.660 I mean, constantly you hear of the Torah, 30:59.660 --> 31:02.260 and they'll never tell you of all their other books, 31:02.260 --> 31:04.940 like the Kabbalah and the Talmud, 31:04.940 --> 31:07.660 and what is it, the Kabad, or whatever. 31:07.660 --> 31:08.820 I don't know how to, 31:08.820 --> 31:11.220 and they constantly have other books 31:11.220 --> 31:13.220 and other teachings and other writings, 31:13.220 --> 31:14.940 but when they're dealing with Christians, 31:14.940 --> 31:17.340 they're always like, well, we believe in the Torah. 31:17.400 --> 31:20.040 I like the first five books of the Bible, but you know what? 31:20.040 --> 31:23.520 I also like the rest of the books the 61 books in the Bible. I love them all 31:24.040 --> 31:27.200 The Bible constantly points turn over to Matthew 8 31:27.720 --> 31:32.340 You know you go to Matthew 8. It's constantly pointing to this as a matter of fact 31:32.340 --> 31:36.200 The Bible has a lot to say about Abraham specifically and it makes sense because 31:36.900 --> 31:40.680 Abraham seems to be kind of like the cornerstone of the false religions 31:41.100 --> 31:48.940 Whereas we recognize Abraham and we think that he has a very special place in history. 31:48.940 --> 31:53.260 Abraham was just a man like you and me. He had to still believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. 31:53.820 --> 31:58.780 Abraham isn't more special than me and I'm not any more special than Abraham. The only thing that 31:58.780 --> 32:07.260 makes Abraham special is that he happened to be the person in history that started this journey 32:07.260 --> 32:08.460 in the Old Testament. 32:09.200 --> 32:16.080 Right? And the Bible talks about how he's in heaven, you know, said Abraham lived to see my day and he saw it. 32:16.080 --> 32:17.760 Well right there Matthew 8 verse 1 says, 32:17.760 --> 32:21.840 When he was come down from the mountain great multitudes followed him, this is Jesus, 32:21.840 --> 32:27.760 and behold there came a leper and worshiped him saying, Lord if thou wilt thou canst make me clean. 32:27.760 --> 32:30.160 And Jesus put forth his hand and touched him saying, 32:31.100 --> 32:37.220 Will be thou clean and immediately his leper said was cleansed and Jesus say that same see thou tell no man 32:37.220 --> 32:42.440 But go thy way show thyself to thy priest and offer the gift that Moses commanded for a testimony to them 32:42.660 --> 32:48.060 When Jesus entered into Capernaum there came unto him a centurion beseeching him and say Lord 32:48.600 --> 32:52.680 My servant lieth at home sick of the palsy grievously tormented. 32:52.680 --> 32:55.160 And Jesus said unto him, I will come and heal him. 32:55.160 --> 32:59.800 The centurion answered and said, Lord, I am not worthy that thou shouldest come under my roof, 33:00.440 --> 33:03.160 but speak the word only and my servant shall be healed. 33:03.400 --> 33:07.240 For I am a man under authority, having soldiers under me. 33:07.240 --> 33:13.540 And I say to this man, Go, and he goeth, and to another come, and he cometh, and to my servant do this, and he doeth it. 33:13.540 --> 33:17.580 When Jesus heard it, he marveled and said to them that followed, Verily I say unto you, 33:17.580 --> 33:20.640 I have not found so great faith. 33:20.640 --> 33:22.940 Do not where? In Israel. 33:23.500 --> 33:27.980 And I say unto you that many shall come from the east and west and shall sit down with Abraham 33:27.980 --> 33:32.700 and Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven. But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out 33:33.660 --> 33:37.020 into outer darkness." And he's talking to who? He's talking to the Jews. 33:37.300 --> 33:45.540 Pharisees and the Sadducees the scribes there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth and Jesus saith unto the centurion go thy way and 33:45.700 --> 33:51.640 As thou hast believed so be it done unto thee and a servant was healed in the self same hour 33:51.640 --> 33:56.440 You say what does this have to do with what we're talking about? Well, where's Abraham in this scenario? He's in heaven 33:57.220 --> 33:59.860 Well, how do you get to heaven? You gotta believe on the Lord Jesus Christ 34:01.200 --> 34:04.240 Many will come from the east and the west and sit at his feet." 34:04.240 --> 34:06.240 Now, I love this verse 9, he says, 34:06.240 --> 34:09.120 for I am a man under authority. 34:09.120 --> 34:10.880 You notice he's not saying, because he says, 34:10.880 --> 34:12.560 hey, I'm bossing people around, 34:12.560 --> 34:13.760 but notice the way he words it. 34:13.760 --> 34:16.160 He doesn't say, I am a man in leadership. 34:16.160 --> 34:17.600 He says, I am a man of authority, 34:17.600 --> 34:21.120 because honestly, anybody who's in leadership understands 34:21.120 --> 34:23.920 that you're also under someone's authority. 34:25.040 --> 34:26.960 Right? There's no ultimate leader. 34:28.700 --> 34:33.260 You know, I mean, you could, Trump could make the argument that he's the leader of the free world. 34:35.600 --> 34:36.100 But... 34:38.600 --> 34:43.600 Ben and Yahweh and Israel remind them that they're their boss. 34:43.600 --> 34:45.600 You know, he's under their authority. 34:45.600 --> 34:51.600 But, you know, I'm not being facetious, I really believe that, but everybody answers to somebody. 34:51.600 --> 34:58.600 And even if I didn't answer to anybody here in this world, even the centurion understood we are under the ultimate authority. 34:58.600 --> 35:02.600 I mean, he recognized that Jesus is God, that He is... 35:03.400 --> 35:08.840 the ultimate authority. And so ultimately we all are under authority. So the only reason that we're 35:08.840 --> 35:13.800 able to give orders is because we're also serving and we're adding to, you know, we're delegating at 35:13.800 --> 35:22.440 times. Go to Genesis 15, go to Genesis 15. And so, I mean, honestly, Galatians 3 is one of those 35:22.440 --> 35:26.840 chapters I'll probably end up coming back to because as we go through these Bible studies, 35:26.840 --> 35:30.440 my goal oftentimes is when I address them the first time is just to kind of 35:31.000 --> 35:34.040 generalize or give the general synopsis. 35:34.040 --> 35:37.960 But there's so many verses I can just focus on and then only preach on that alone. 35:37.960 --> 35:41.800 But if you go to Galatians, I mean Genesis 15 right there in verse 1, the Bible says, 35:41.800 --> 35:45.720 after these things the word of the Lord came onto Abraham in a vision saying, 35:45.720 --> 35:47.960 fear not Abraham, or Abraham, I'm sorry. 35:48.300 --> 35:51.180 I am thy shield and thy exceeding great reward. 35:51.180 --> 35:54.220 And Abraham said, Lord God, what will thou give me, 35:54.220 --> 35:57.340 seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house 35:57.340 --> 35:59.980 is this Eleazar of Damascus? 35:59.980 --> 36:03.740 And Abraham said, behold, to me thou has given no seed, 36:03.740 --> 36:06.620 and lo, one born in mine house is mine heir. 36:06.620 --> 36:08.620 And behold, the word of the Lord came unto him, saying, 36:08.620 --> 36:13.260 this shall not be thine heir, but he shall come forth 36:13.260 --> 36:14.380 out of thine own bowels. 36:14.900 --> 36:20.660 shall be thine heir and he brought him forth abroad and said look now toward heaven and tell the stars 36:20.660 --> 36:26.500 if thou be able to number them and he said unto him so shall thy seed be and what does it say 36:26.500 --> 36:35.460 there and he believed in the lord and he counted it to him for righteousness there's no i mean that's 36:35.460 --> 36:40.740 pretty plain there's no interpretation there how do you how does abraham be count 36:41.300 --> 36:48.860 Become righteous. How is how is it counted to him for righteousness? How is he marked? How is he called out because he believed on the Lord 36:50.360 --> 36:52.640 So that's the Old Testament that's God the Father 36:52.640 --> 36:57.620 Well, the Bible is very clear that the Old Testament Jesus was there from the beginning in John 1 36:57.620 --> 37:00.760 It says in the beginning was the word and the word was with God and the word was God, right? 37:01.740 --> 37:05.140 He was manifesting the flesh go to a Romans 4 go to Romans 4 37:15.200 --> 37:20.800 Right there in verse number one, I know we've looked at this a lot, but we're going to look at it until we're done through the book of 37:20.800 --> 37:26.320 relations, but it says, what shall we say then that Abraham our father is pertaining to the flesh hath found? 37:26.960 --> 37:29.600 For if Abraham were justified by works, 37:30.400 --> 37:35.360 he hath whereof to glory, but not before God. For what sayeth the scripture, Abraham believed God, 37:36.240 --> 37:41.040 and it was counted unto him for righteousness. Where is this quoting? Genesis 15. 37:42.700 --> 37:46.220 It's saying, hey, it was counted to him for righteousness. 37:46.220 --> 37:52.780 Skip down to verse nine, but here Paul reminds the Galatians, hey, you're saved by grace, 37:55.260 --> 37:56.220 not by the law. 38:01.900 --> 38:06.740 We start by grace and then we get the works and we get to do the other great things 38:06.740 --> 38:14.100 It's not we have great works and that's why we get grace we get grace and then if we're willing then we can do the works 38:17.100 --> 38:18.140 Right there in verse 9 it says, 38:18.140 --> 38:22.140 cometh this blessedness then upon the circumcision only, 38:22.140 --> 38:24.380 or upon the uncircumcision also. 38:24.380 --> 38:27.580 For we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness. 38:28.300 --> 38:29.420 How was it then reckoned? 38:30.060 --> 38:34.460 When he was in circumcision or in uncircumcision? 38:34.460 --> 38:36.940 Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision. 38:37.300 --> 38:42.900 and he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of righteousness of faith which he hath yet 38:42.900 --> 38:48.100 been uncircumcised, that he might be the father of all them that believe, though they be not 38:48.100 --> 38:54.580 circumcised, that righteousness might be imputed unto them also, and the father of circumcision to 38:54.580 --> 39:02.340 them who are not of the circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father 39:02.340 --> 39:04.580 Abraham which he has been yet. 39:04.900 --> 39:12.100 being yet uncircumcised, for the promise that he should be the heir of the world was not to Abraham 39:12.100 --> 39:17.940 or to Hissi through the law, but through the righteousness of faith." 39:19.140 --> 39:25.140 I mean, I know I understand Paul's frustration. It's frustrating even preaching this in the sense of, 39:25.140 --> 39:30.180 I'm going to preach through every verse in the Bible, but it's like, how do you not get it? 39:32.400 --> 39:38.960 And here's the challenge, right? If you're saved and you're not reinforcing this, you get off on 39:38.960 --> 39:47.440 bad doctrine, right? The people who attack us, whether it's through drama or directly 39:47.440 --> 39:54.560 or whatever way it is, usually they're fighting semantics on clear scripture, right? They're 39:54.560 --> 39:58.320 never fighting semantics on unclear scripture. They're always fighting on clear scripture. 39:58.320 --> 39:59.920 they're always trying to twist stuff. 40:01.300 --> 40:06.600 But then those that are, but what happens is they can easily team up with the unsaved because the unsaved 40:06.980 --> 40:11.140 Are gonna confuse the issue. That's why Paul's so hard on the Galatians. He's like look 40:11.140 --> 40:13.140 It's not that hard for you to look like the world 40:13.580 --> 40:15.900 For you to sound like the world for you to confuse the world 40:15.900 --> 40:20.100 I mean in Galatians 2 he had to confront Peter and he's like hey man, you're messing up 40:21.660 --> 40:25.620 And people are like, well, you know, we shouldn't be like that. We shouldn't get in front of people 40:25.620 --> 40:28.060 I mean he starts out with saying oh foolish Galatians 40:30.500 --> 40:33.780 Problem is everybody's got soft skin, not thick skin. 40:36.300 --> 40:38.300 Problem is nobody wants to hear the truth 40:41.600 --> 40:48.240 And the problem is that people like, it's the age old nature, people like power, fame, 40:48.240 --> 40:55.360 and fortune. And so whenever they're seeking these things, you know, here's a red flag for 40:55.360 --> 41:01.440 someone who is either a wolf in sheep's clothing or they're off on heresy. They might be saved, 41:01.440 --> 41:05.040 but they're off on heresy is if they're seeking... 41:05.500 --> 41:08.540 fame, fortune, or power. 41:08.540 --> 41:10.260 And how do you know? 41:10.260 --> 41:12.700 Because you can give them clear scripture, 41:12.700 --> 41:18.660 and instead of cleaning it up, they'll just explain it away. 41:18.660 --> 41:21.020 I mean, I'm constantly learning. 41:21.020 --> 41:22.340 I'm constantly looking at stuff. 41:22.340 --> 41:24.740 It's interesting. 41:24.740 --> 41:29.460 Pastor Shelley did this short clip of a 41:30.800 --> 41:38.400 Pastor Bergen is preaching that railing wasn't you know false accusations or that it was in slander and 41:38.880 --> 41:42.680 And then he like he I mean by basically I go listen to it 41:43.560 --> 41:46.780 it's a really horrible explanation of the word railing and 41:49.120 --> 41:53.560 I mean he did a really good job of just explaining what railing is right in this little clip and I was like 41:53.560 --> 41:55.900 Oh, that's good. You know what instead of like 41:56.800 --> 41:57.700 just 41:57.900 --> 42:04.140 getting annoyed, I went back and I downloaded the transcript of the sermon I preached on transcript. 42:04.400 --> 42:09.400 And I said, you know what, let me review this thing and just make sure that it's also clear. 42:09.400 --> 42:13.360 And if it isn't, then I'll just bring a sermon where I can clear stuff up. 42:13.360 --> 42:18.400 Because Raelin is a difficult thing to understand because it's not like there's a lot of scripture. 42:18.400 --> 42:20.160 You know, they're obviously... 42:20.160 --> 42:21.160 Let me back up. 42:21.160 --> 42:22.880 It's difficult at first to understand. 42:22.880 --> 42:26.160 If you were to read the Bible clearly, it's not that difficult. 42:26.160 --> 42:28.600 But it's definitely not what people want to make it be. 42:28.600 --> 42:32.360 The reason I bring this up is because for me, what I want to do... 42:32.400 --> 42:36.560 is I want to present it from the word of God as clear as possible. 42:36.560 --> 42:40.000 And so I went back and I looked at my points and I was like, okay, I took it a different route. 42:40.480 --> 42:44.720 I'm not, I don't disagree with anything I said, but one of the things I would like to clear up 42:44.720 --> 42:48.960 is more of spending time on the actual definition versus the attitude of people 42:48.960 --> 42:54.720 that have a railing because that's where I did. That's what God's word should do. It should like 42:56.080 --> 42:59.920 move you to always want to look back and be like, am I clear on this? 43:01.000 --> 43:05.920 Are you, pastor, you say you didn't explain Rayleigh correctly and you're, no, I'm saying 43:05.920 --> 43:09.420 that I can always improve and make it even more clear. 43:09.420 --> 43:14.080 You know what, I used to have the Romans road and I used to just preach Romans 10 and Romans 43:14.080 --> 43:21.600 323 and Romans 3, you know, you know, 623, you know, Romans 5-8 and all the Romans, you 43:21.600 --> 43:23.560 know, Romans 10-9, Romans 10- 43:25.400 --> 43:29.640 That's not a bad gospel. I'm not against the Romans road. But you know what? When you add 43:29.640 --> 43:35.240 eternal security and you go to Revelation 20 14 and you go to Revelation 21 8 and you can take 43:35.240 --> 43:45.080 them to Ephesians 2 verses 8 and 9 and you can take them to John 14 6. Why not? Are they both 43:45.080 --> 43:49.880 ineffective? No, I think they're both very effective, but once just more clear there. 43:50.440 --> 43:52.920 Which one are you going to pick? I would just pick the one that's more clear. 43:53.900 --> 43:57.380 So if I can make something more clear, I'm going to do it. 43:57.380 --> 43:59.020 As a matter of fact, God's given us... 43:59.020 --> 44:02.340 It's interesting that he would ask us to preach. 44:02.340 --> 44:05.640 As a preacher, one of the hardest things to do is feel like you... 44:05.640 --> 44:09.580 Sometimes I feel like I don't have enough topics or I don't know what to preach. 44:09.580 --> 44:15.060 But if God said, hey, preach, and he's given us this long life in which to preach, that 44:15.060 --> 44:17.340 means that there's plenty of topics to preach on. 44:17.700 --> 44:20.900 So then, so if I feel like I ran out of ideas, you know what? 44:20.900 --> 44:24.700 I can always come back and preach the same thing. 44:24.700 --> 44:28.900 And if you've not read your Bible, then you know that, 44:28.900 --> 44:31.900 and you disagree with that statement, then you just not read your Bible. 44:31.900 --> 44:35.500 Because Jesus, in the Old Testament and New Testament, 44:35.500 --> 44:39.300 just basically preaches the same thing over and over. 44:39.300 --> 44:43.700 I mean, Galatians, I feel like Paul is just repeating himself in just different ways. 44:43.700 --> 44:44.500 Right? 44:45.600 --> 44:50.320 Romans 9 verses you don't have to turn there for the sake of time but Romans 9 verse 6 the Bible says not as though 44:50.320 --> 44:52.320 The Word of God has taken none effect 44:52.680 --> 44:56.920 For they are not all Israel which are of Israel neither because they are 44:57.520 --> 45:04.800 The seed of Abraham are they the children but in Isaac's shall I see be that is they which are the children of the flesh? 45:05.200 --> 45:07.620 These are not the children of God 45:08.520 --> 45:11.240 But the children of the promise are counted 45:12.300 --> 45:17.340 for the seed. So who are the children? The ones that have the promise, the ones that believe, 45:17.340 --> 45:22.780 the ones that are chosen, the ones that are called the sons of God. Point number two, 45:22.780 --> 45:31.500 so point number one is that the Christian life begins and continues by faith. Now, I always kind 45:31.500 --> 45:36.060 kind of caveat that second part because 45:37.300 --> 45:41.600 I think, I mean obviously everybody who's saved has some form of faith they're going to continue in 45:41.980 --> 45:48.300 But they might not be growing in that faith. They might not be exercising it, strengthening it, building that faith muscle 45:48.300 --> 45:53.100 And so that's a challenge. But point number two is that the law brings a curse 45:53.820 --> 46:00.340 But Christ brings redemption. I mean, like I said, these are pretty simple points. Go to Galatians 3 right there in verse 10 46:00.340 --> 46:03.600 the Bible says for as many, I mean 46:04.200 --> 46:08.200 My children have learned basic grammar by now. 46:08.200 --> 46:12.200 My daughter is 10, or will be 10, my son is 8. 46:12.200 --> 46:15.200 This is not high school grammar. 46:15.200 --> 46:18.200 This is not AP, college credit grammar. 46:18.200 --> 46:20.200 This is basic English. 46:20.200 --> 46:25.200 It says, for as many as are the works of the law or under the curse, 46:25.200 --> 46:28.200 for it is written, cursed is everyone that continueth not, 46:28.200 --> 46:31.200 and all the things which are written in the book of the law to do them. 46:31.700 --> 46:36.820 but that no man is justified by the law and the sight of God, it is evident. 46:36.820 --> 46:43.940 So it says no man is justified by the law in the sight of God. 46:43.940 --> 46:50.180 No man. And then it says, in case you didn't get it, it's evident. 46:50.180 --> 46:53.860 It's pretty, it's clear. 46:54.180 --> 46:56.660 For the just shall live by faith. 46:58.800 --> 47:03.200 And the law is not of faith, but the man that doeth them shall live in them. 47:03.920 --> 47:07.840 Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us. 47:07.840 --> 47:12.720 For his written curse is every one that hangeth on a tree, that the blessing of Abraham might come 47:12.720 --> 47:18.320 unto the Gentiles through Jesus Christ, that we might receive, pay attention here, the promise 47:19.120 --> 47:24.400 of the Spirit through works? No, through faith. 47:26.600 --> 47:27.600 It's all by faith. 47:31.500 --> 47:33.800 And this is just the biggest argument people give you. 47:33.800 --> 47:35.800 They're like, oh, so you're just saying I have to believe? 47:40.100 --> 47:44.740 I mean, I haven't listened to the whole sermon, but I know Pastor Oz is a servant on Nick Fuentes. 47:45.540 --> 47:52.180 If you don't know who Nick Fuentes is, don't worry. He's a Catholic young influencer idiot who is 47:53.220 --> 47:56.180 going to burn in hell for sure. I mean, I... 47:56.400 --> 47:59.240 He sounds reprobate, he acts reprobate. 47:59.240 --> 48:00.920 And somebody asked him a question 48:00.920 --> 48:02.940 and he's like a staunch Catholic. 48:02.940 --> 48:06.020 And you know, he was making fun of the fact that he's like, 48:06.020 --> 48:07.900 oh, you just think you just have to have this belief 48:07.900 --> 48:11.220 in this magical thing and it's all good. 48:11.220 --> 48:13.520 Well, no, I have faith in Christ. 48:13.520 --> 48:15.420 He's not magical, he's real. 48:15.420 --> 48:16.820 He created the world. 48:16.820 --> 48:19.260 There's no magic, there's power there. 48:19.260 --> 48:21.600 He is from everlasting to everlasting. 48:21.700 --> 48:25.140 And when you come in the presence of your creator, the Bible says every knee 48:25.940 --> 48:29.940 Will bow I mean will kneel and every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord 48:31.300 --> 48:36.340 You know the the the rich man who's in hell right now if you've ever noticed i've brought that up 48:36.580 --> 48:38.740 He has yet to confess Jesus Christ the Lord 48:39.780 --> 48:41.380 He said send 48:41.380 --> 48:42.580 Send him 48:42.580 --> 48:45.640 Somebody send abraham and the property like just talk to him 48:45.900 --> 48:51.900 I mean not, I'm sorry, send somebody from the grave to preach to him and he says they have Abraham and the prophets. 48:51.900 --> 48:55.900 They don't believe, you know, but he never confessed Christ as Lord. 48:55.900 --> 49:00.900 One day, the Bible says every knee and every tongue will confess. 49:00.900 --> 49:05.900 And when the dead, when the sea gives up the dead, you know, and they come to the final judgment, 49:05.900 --> 49:07.900 the rich man is going to confess. 49:08.500 --> 49:14.740 So will Nick Fuentes, and so will all the people who hated God, who hated Jesus, 49:14.740 --> 49:18.500 and thought that it was just some, you know, mythical being. 49:21.100 --> 49:25.820 James 2 verse 8, if you have time you can turn over there with me, but I'll just start 49:25.820 --> 49:29.820 James 2 verse 8. The Bible says, if you fulfill the royal law according to the scripture, 49:29.820 --> 49:34.620 thou shall love thy neighbor as thyself, ye do well. But if you have respect to persons, 49:34.620 --> 49:39.100 ye commit sin and are convinced of the law as transgressors, for whosoever shall keep the whole 49:39.100 --> 49:39.800 law. 49:40.400 --> 49:46.680 And yet offend in one point it's interesting the wording right because obviously if you offend in one point you're not keeping the whole law 49:46.880 --> 49:50.620 He says like hey if you if you think it's like the rich ruler, right? 49:50.620 --> 49:56.380 He's like, oh, I've done all this since I was a child if you keep the whole law and yet offend in one point 49:56.960 --> 49:58.960 He is guilty of all 49:59.200 --> 50:03.540 Go to first Peter to go to first Peter 2 but in 2nd Corinthians 5 verse 21 the Bible says 50:03.800 --> 50:06.000 For he hath made him to be sin for us 50:06.800 --> 50:12.000 who knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. 50:14.400 --> 50:17.600 None of us can atone for the things that we've done. 50:17.600 --> 50:19.200 Only Christ can atone for us. 50:22.900 --> 50:24.900 In 1 Peter 2 verse 18 the Bible says, 50:24.900 --> 50:28.660 Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear. 50:28.660 --> 50:31.300 Not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward. 50:31.300 --> 50:33.300 By the way, this is one of my favorite verses, 50:33.300 --> 50:35.700 especially with all this drama that's happened over the last two years. 50:35.700 --> 50:37.540 People get all up in arms and they're like, 50:37.540 --> 50:40.260 oh, you know, what a horrible person this person is. 50:41.220 --> 50:44.020 Oftentimes it's Pastor Anderson, but even Pastor Shelley, I mean, 50:45.380 --> 50:46.500 his sermons. 50:47.200 --> 50:48.960 And he's told me this, Pastor Shelley's like, 50:48.960 --> 50:51.720 hey, after I preach, you need to just take my sermons down 50:51.720 --> 50:53.440 and delete them from YouTube, because it 50:53.440 --> 50:54.520 could affect your channel. 50:54.520 --> 50:56.040 He's like, if you want to keep the channel 50:56.040 --> 50:58.680 for as long as possible, I'm pretty sure one day they'll 50:58.680 --> 50:59.560 knock our channel down too. 50:59.560 --> 51:02.600 But it hasn't even been like a whole week, 51:02.600 --> 51:05.240 and they've already removed both his sermons. 51:05.240 --> 51:08.360 Now let me ask you, and I know, Pastor Shelley, those of you 51:08.360 --> 51:11.240 who have ever heard Pastor Shelley, 51:11.240 --> 51:14.960 the sermons he preached were probably some of the most 51:14.960 --> 51:15.000 you 51:15.200 --> 51:20.200 like, light sermons as far as like how he is. 51:20.200 --> 51:22.200 I know how he can be from the pulpit. 51:22.200 --> 51:26.200 He did not insult, he hardly, I don't know if he even used the word fag. 51:26.200 --> 51:28.200 I don't know if he said queer. 51:28.200 --> 51:30.200 I don't know if he kicked anybody out. 51:30.200 --> 51:32.200 I don't know if he marked anybody. 51:32.200 --> 51:33.700 I mean there were good sermons, don't get me wrong, but... 51:33.900 --> 51:39.500 You know, I've heard some bad, like, I mean that like the way that the world would look at it. 51:39.500 --> 51:43.580 I've heard some bad sermons from the world's view, right? I love his sermons. I think, you know, 51:44.220 --> 51:50.780 he's one of the, he speaks boldly. But you know, I would think that would be the stuff, 51:50.780 --> 51:56.380 the language that would get him kicked off of YouTube. And he just preached, I mean, 51:56.380 --> 52:00.300 he preached an entire sermon on love, on charity. 52:01.200 --> 52:05.040 And that whole sermon, that's one of my favorite sermons he's ever preached, was just like, 52:05.040 --> 52:09.360 oh we just need to improve our love. There's like the love of when you have a child and then there's 52:09.360 --> 52:13.040 a love of like the person you don't like and you still need to love them because they're brother 52:13.040 --> 52:21.680 in Christ. Right? The big difference. Immediately taken down. Just jumped on and why is that? 52:22.240 --> 52:24.880 Because people don't like the gospel. Because the Galatians... 52:25.400 --> 52:28.280 are off, you know, circumcising people 52:28.280 --> 52:31.080 and thinking that that justifies them instead of faith. 52:31.080 --> 52:33.280 And they get mad at anybody who preaches faith. 52:37.800 --> 52:40.920 And people get all angry because you know why they they don't like that stuff 52:41.000 --> 52:43.000 You know, this is where i'm coming back to this is because 52:43.480 --> 52:47.480 He will say and i'll say and anybody will say the bible is very clear. It says hey 52:48.040 --> 52:50.440 Not only are the good and gentle but also to the frower 52:52.680 --> 52:56.520 I had someone call me one time and they're like, oh my husband's this and my husband's that 52:57.080 --> 53:02.460 And I think he's cheating on me and blah blah blah and I want to divorce him. I say you can't get divorced 53:03.800 --> 53:07.520 They're like, well, do you think God wants me to suffer like that? 53:07.520 --> 53:09.480 I said, I don't know. 53:09.480 --> 53:10.520 I'm not God. 53:10.520 --> 53:11.840 But I do know that we all suffer. 53:11.840 --> 53:13.640 We've all sinned and come short of the glory of God. 53:13.640 --> 53:16.920 And the Bible is clear, divorce is not an option. 53:16.920 --> 53:22.000 So then it's OK for him to just have another lover and be like that. 53:22.000 --> 53:23.720 And I have to listen to whatever he says. 53:23.720 --> 53:26.840 I said, yeah, you're the boss. 53:26.840 --> 53:29.120 Oh, so then you're just justifying his sin, 53:29.120 --> 53:30.880 and you're just on his side because you're a man? 53:30.880 --> 53:31.480 I said, no. 53:31.800 --> 53:36.360 I said, I also believe that this individual is in the wrong if what you're saying is true, 53:36.360 --> 53:39.080 which I don't think it was true, but if what you're saying is true, 53:39.080 --> 53:41.960 and it's not your job to take vengeance, it's the Lord's. 53:43.800 --> 53:47.880 And if a husband is not doing the job of a husband, you know who's going to handle that? 53:47.880 --> 53:50.280 The Lord. Very quickly. 53:52.600 --> 53:57.600 But, I took them to this verse and then they never talked to me about the issue ever again. 53:57.600 --> 54:01.800 Hey, the foward means the one that's not so nice to you all the time. 54:01.800 --> 54:07.600 You know, I understand this both from serving someone who was really tough on me in my life. 54:07.600 --> 54:12.300 I had a business mentor who was a complete and utter jerk to me for ten years of my life 54:12.300 --> 54:13.480 and I just served. 54:13.480 --> 54:14.480 I learned a lot. 54:14.480 --> 54:16.280 I have a lot to be thankful for, but he was. 54:16.280 --> 54:16.800 He was just... 54:17.000 --> 54:18.500 But you know, you just do the things. 54:18.500 --> 54:21.300 And I also understand from the point of view that now in leadership, 54:21.300 --> 54:24.400 sometimes when you're the leader, you just have to put your foot down 54:24.400 --> 54:25.600 and you can't miss words. 54:25.600 --> 54:29.000 And it just, sometimes you're just going to not lead people 54:29.000 --> 54:30.500 the way they think they need to be led. 54:30.500 --> 54:33.300 Sometimes you've got to put, you know, oftentimes my kids will come to me 54:33.300 --> 54:36.000 and maybe we have a discussion and other times I'm just like, 54:36.000 --> 54:38.100 we're doing things because I said so. 54:38.100 --> 54:41.300 But, but nothing. I don't even want to hear it. 54:41.300 --> 54:44.300 And of course in their mind, they might think daddy's foward. 54:45.000 --> 54:47.080 In my mind, I know what I'm doing is right. 54:47.080 --> 54:48.520 But let's keep going there. 54:48.520 --> 54:52.440 It says in verse 19, it says, for this, what is? 54:53.640 --> 54:58.520 Serving the master with all fear, even if they're froward, it says, for this is thank worthy. 54:58.520 --> 55:03.320 If a man for conscious toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully, for what glory is it 55:03.960 --> 55:07.160 when you be buffeted for your fault, you shall take it patiently. 55:07.800 --> 55:12.120 But if when you do well and suffer for it, you take it patiently, that is acceptable with God. 55:12.800 --> 55:17.920 For even hereunto were ye called, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving as an example, 55:17.920 --> 55:22.640 that ye should follow his footsteps, who did no sin, neither was God found in his mouth, 55:22.640 --> 55:25.920 who when he was reviled, reviled not again, when he suffered, he threatened not, 55:25.920 --> 55:32.960 but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously, who his own self bear our sins 55:32.960 --> 55:39.760 in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness, by whose stripes. 55:40.100 --> 55:45.620 ye were healed for ye were as sheep going astray but are now returned unto the shepherd and bishop 55:45.620 --> 55:53.540 of your souls." You know if we want to go by the law we're going to fail because the law requires 55:53.540 --> 55:56.580 perfect obedience. Like it requires perfection. 55:59.200 --> 56:04.560 I mean, I already showed you, if we break just one commandment, it's over. 56:04.560 --> 56:06.400 That's why Jesus had to die for us. 56:06.400 --> 56:10.880 And it's true, I love this thing, now that I have children, it comes to light even better. 56:10.880 --> 56:14.280 It says for, if you take it patiently, like, where's your reward? 56:14.280 --> 56:15.840 It is true, you know. 56:15.840 --> 56:21.000 I remember when my son was like three years old, you know, I started, between three and 56:21.000 --> 56:24.320 four I really started like getting the spanking stick and spanking him. 56:24.700 --> 56:28.720 I remember one time I got really mad at him. I don't remember what he did and I'm like, hey son, you know 56:30.240 --> 56:35.340 Do you want to spank in he's like, yes, sir. I remember being like I turned to my wife 56:35.340 --> 56:39.000 I was like, well, I don't know what to do with this. Like I've never had anybody say yes, sir 56:39.000 --> 56:41.420 Like it threw me off. There was no like 56:42.020 --> 56:47.400 Cuz the whole idea of the punishment is to remind him not to do anything wrong. Like if he's taking it now, I'm like 56:48.000 --> 56:52.320 What does he think it's okay? Like I don't I didn't I walked away and I was like, maybe I'll catch him another time 56:52.320 --> 56:56.720 Because he's threw me off. I was like, yes, sir. What do you mean? Yes, sir 56:56.880 --> 56:58.560 Like how does that work? 56:58.560 --> 57:03.680 Right because honestly nine times out of ten for the most part. He's a normal human being right? That was the one 57:04.400 --> 57:05.920 Nobody wants to get punished 57:05.920 --> 57:09.920 But the bible says you take it when you don't want to get punished when you think it's unfair 57:10.080 --> 57:13.140 And guess what 99 percent of the time when you're getting punished 57:13.700 --> 57:18.260 Unless you're a grown adult and even then when you're going through it, it's not fun the Bible says 57:18.900 --> 57:22.300 You come out better on the other end, but nobody enjoys punishment 57:22.300 --> 57:27.540 Nobody ever really thinks it's fair in the emotional stance of like in the emotional moment of it. Nobody thinks 57:27.540 --> 57:29.100 Oh, yeah, this was a fair punishment 57:29.100 --> 57:34.100 But when you the emotion is gone and you've had time to reflect you realize man 57:34.100 --> 57:38.940 Thank God my dad threw me down the hall when I you know when I lifted my hand at my mom 57:38.940 --> 57:42.700 And thank God and my dad slapped me out of delirium when I thought you know 57:42.700 --> 57:46.780 I was going crazy at 15 right thank God that he spanked me with a leather belt 57:46.900 --> 57:51.220 every time I misbehaved. Thank God that he woke me up after going to bed early 57:51.220 --> 57:55.300 trying to avoid punishment and he whooped on me because I deserved it. It 57:55.300 --> 57:58.140 didn't make sense at the time and I believe me there was many times where I 57:58.140 --> 58:02.140 thought my dad was unfair and he was not the right... he didn't know what he was 58:02.140 --> 58:06.600 doing and how dare he and all this stuff but I look back I'm like thank God. 58:07.300 --> 58:10.420 You know, I don't have, I'm not saying if you have them, 58:10.420 --> 58:12.580 but you, and you've corrected course, good for you. 58:12.580 --> 58:15.860 Cause there's other things I've corrected on, but I don't have any tattoos. 58:15.860 --> 58:17.620 I don't have a drug addiction. 58:17.620 --> 58:20.100 You know, I'm not thinking murderous thoughts. 58:20.100 --> 58:21.700 I'm faithful to my wife. 58:21.700 --> 58:25.220 Even before the Bible told me to be faithful, my dad taught me faithfulness. 58:25.900 --> 58:32.200 I love my children, I'm responsible, I try not to put the blame on people if it's my fault. 58:32.200 --> 58:36.900 And even if it's not my fault if I'm in a position of leadership, I still try to put the blame on me. 58:36.900 --> 58:40.500 Because Adam is the one who sinned, not Eve. 58:40.500 --> 58:44.000 So the Bible is clear that if you're in a position of leadership, especially if you're a man, 58:44.000 --> 58:46.300 it's on you anyway, so just deal with it. 58:46.300 --> 58:50.300 I try not to have this pity party or this poor little me mentality. 58:50.300 --> 58:52.500 Now am I perfect? I'm not. You can ask my wife. 58:52.900 --> 58:56.320 She might not even tell you because I love my wife for many things 58:56.320 --> 58:59.220 But one of the things I love her for is that she just never badmouth me 58:59.280 --> 59:02.320 You probably won't ever hear about I mean she'll joke with me 59:02.320 --> 59:04.680 Especially she knows I'm in the room and we can joke back and forth 59:04.720 --> 59:08.140 But for the most part, you know, she's just not gonna throw me under the bus 59:09.120 --> 59:11.720 Although that's how I fell in love with her because she threw me under the bus 59:11.720 --> 59:16.540 But that's a whole other conversation for another day. Yeah, so let's let's keep going point number three 59:16.540 --> 59:20.360 I've got two more will end point number three. So point number one the Christian life 59:21.300 --> 59:28.280 Begins with faith, but it continues in faith like we still have to grow our faith point number two is that the law brings the curse 59:28.620 --> 59:34.560 But Christ brings reduction redemption point number three the promise is greater than the law 59:36.240 --> 59:38.240 See the law it 59:38.820 --> 59:42.880 Jesus Christ came to fulfill what the law and the prophets the only reason 59:44.020 --> 59:46.020 Nothing is greater than Christ 59:46.300 --> 59:48.300 He is the lawgiver. He is 59:49.000 --> 59:56.840 He's the ultimate. There's no comparison. Right? That's why as I've gotten more into the word of 59:56.840 --> 01:00:02.040 God, the better I get at understanding the Bible, the less impressed I am with people when they 01:00:02.040 --> 01:00:07.480 bring up stupid analogies. Like I used to not have an answer for what people would say, Oh, well, 01:00:07.480 --> 01:00:12.200 you know, there's other civilizations that, you know, they have an ultimate being and it had a son. 01:00:12.840 --> 01:00:15.400 There's flood accounts and all that stuff. And it's, it's. 01:00:16.000 --> 01:00:21.520 What they're trying to say is that we copy the rest of civilizations. We're not that creative. 01:00:22.080 --> 01:00:29.360 Civilization copied Christ, right? The creation story is the creation. There's only one creation 01:00:29.360 --> 01:00:35.200 story. It's the one that we've been given. Anything else is just an imitation, right? 01:00:35.200 --> 01:00:38.160 There's only one God and it's a triune God. 01:00:38.600 --> 01:00:45.320 It's not a pluralistic God, it's not a plural theism, it's monotheistic, that's what the Bible tells us. 01:00:45.320 --> 01:00:46.840 That's how it teaches it. 01:00:46.840 --> 01:00:51.520 But people would be like, well, but what about other religions? What about this? What about... 01:00:51.520 --> 01:00:53.120 It doesn't matter. 01:00:53.120 --> 01:00:56.560 It doesn't matter. 01:00:56.560 --> 01:00:58.000 There's no comparison. 01:00:58.400 --> 01:01:04.720 God's constantly in Jeremiah and in Isaiah saying, hey, you went out and you carved this tree 01:01:04.720 --> 01:01:12.320 and you got this, you beat this metal and it's got eyes but it can't see and it's got ears but it 01:01:12.320 --> 01:01:21.920 can't hear. It's not me. You're barking up the wrong tree. You're wasting your time. So point 01:01:21.920 --> 01:01:24.520 Point number three is that the promise is greater than the law. 01:01:24.520 --> 01:01:25.960 Galatians 3 verse 15. 01:01:26.700 --> 01:01:32.220 We see there says, brethren, I speak after the manner of men, though it be but a man's covenant, 01:01:32.220 --> 01:01:37.500 yet if it be confirmed, no man disannulleth or addeth thereto. He comes down to the level, he's 01:01:37.500 --> 01:01:43.020 like, even the world understands law, right? Says now to Abraham in a seed where the promise is made, 01:01:43.020 --> 01:01:51.020 he saith not, and to seeds as of many, but as of one, and to thy seed, which is what? Christ. 01:01:52.300 --> 01:01:57.580 You know, I got this, my kids were like, because I read this morning, so oftentimes, especially 01:01:57.580 --> 01:02:04.060 with smaller chapters like this, I'll try to read all the book every week before I preach it. 01:02:04.060 --> 01:02:08.220 Because I wish I could memorize the whole book before I preach it, or the chapter, 01:02:08.220 --> 01:02:11.420 but I just don't have that time. But I do have the time to oftentimes read it, 01:02:11.420 --> 01:02:13.580 especially Galatians is a small book. 01:02:14.100 --> 01:02:17.660 And so this morning I read it with the kids and my son was like, 01:02:17.660 --> 01:02:21.060 oh is that why you have this bracelet that says Abraham's seed? 01:02:21.060 --> 01:02:25.740 I said yeah, absolutely. You know because you put it together, it's there, it's clear. 01:02:25.740 --> 01:02:29.700 Verse 17 says, in this I say that the covenant that was confirmed before God 01:02:29.700 --> 01:02:30.420 in Christ, 01:02:30.420 --> 01:02:35.180 the law which was 430 years after, cannot disanul that it should make the 01:02:35.180 --> 01:02:36.300 promise of non-effect. 01:02:36.300 --> 01:02:40.620 For the inheritance be of the law, it is no more of promise, but God gave it to 01:02:40.620 --> 01:02:41.800 Abraham by what? 01:02:41.800 --> 01:02:49.000 by promise. Wherefore, then serveth the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed 01:02:49.000 --> 01:02:54.200 should come, doomed the promise was made, and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator. 01:02:54.200 --> 01:03:00.360 Now a mediator is not a mediator of one, but God is one. Is the law then against the promises of 01:03:00.360 --> 01:03:05.160 God? God forbid. For if there had been a law given which could have given life, 01:03:05.160 --> 01:03:08.800 barely righteousness should have been by the law. 01:03:09.200 --> 01:03:17.520 The scripture hath concluded all are under sin that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe 01:03:17.840 --> 01:03:19.840 He's like hey the law 01:03:20.480 --> 01:03:23.280 If it was that good then we would be saved by the law 01:03:24.720 --> 01:03:26.720 How many more ways does paul have to say this 01:03:27.520 --> 01:03:33.520 You know, it's like but it's 2026. How many more ways do we have to say it all the ways? 01:03:35.440 --> 01:03:36.400 All the ways 01:03:37.100 --> 01:03:43.900 because people still get off on on weird tangent, you know, and even our Baptist brethren 01:03:44.460 --> 01:03:50.060 they could be right on like salvation but then they they add all these weird traditions or works 01:03:50.060 --> 01:03:53.420 and they make it seem like it's by works and it's not until you press them you know it's like 01:03:53.420 --> 01:04:01.180 Paul had to press Peter and be like hey Peter even Barnabas has gone off and 01:04:02.000 --> 01:04:05.760 thinks it's like circumcision is going to take care of this whole thing. It's not. 01:04:06.960 --> 01:04:10.640 You know, you go to a Baptist church now and people, I mean, I've literally heard preaching 01:04:10.640 --> 01:04:15.040 and I know I've said this before, but I've heard preaching on pastors, oh, you know, when I had my 01:04:15.040 --> 01:04:21.200 first son, you know, it was one of the greatest things. I thank the Lord. And then on the eighth 01:04:21.200 --> 01:04:26.080 day, we went to the hospital and we circumcised the kid, you know, and obviously they're making 01:04:26.080 --> 01:04:27.520 a reference to the Old Testament. 01:04:29.500 --> 01:04:35.500 Well, it confuses people. It's like, why do I need to circumcise my kids? Do I need to circumcise myself? 01:04:35.500 --> 01:04:45.420 And, you know, or be uncertain. It confuses the things, right? Or they'll do like very old school 01:04:45.420 --> 01:04:52.940 like ceremonial laws that don't have anything to do with the, you know, modern day moral laws. 01:04:53.500 --> 01:04:55.900 And then what's funny is they won't even keep all of them. 01:04:55.900 --> 01:04:57.580 They only do what's convenient to them. 01:04:57.580 --> 01:05:00.100 Because I mean, if we were living under the old law, 01:05:00.100 --> 01:05:01.300 it would be a lot of work. 01:05:01.300 --> 01:05:06.700 First of all, the priest would have to be like at sacrificing 01:05:06.700 --> 01:05:07.260 every day. 01:05:07.260 --> 01:05:10.100 Y'all would have to show up and bring your sacrifices. 01:05:10.100 --> 01:05:13.100 And if I was the priest, I wouldn't want that job. 01:05:13.100 --> 01:05:14.140 I'd have to be there early. 01:05:14.800 --> 01:05:20.960 I have to first cleanse myself, purge myself, I have to sacrifice for me and my family, 01:05:20.960 --> 01:05:26.080 and then I have to clean up and I have to come out, and then you gotta bring the cow or the goat 01:05:26.080 --> 01:05:30.560 or the calf or the pigeon or whatever. I've got to make sure that you know what you're doing. 01:05:30.560 --> 01:05:35.280 Then I gotta take this thing, do it, and then come back, and then there's lines and then... 01:05:35.280 --> 01:05:38.640 That's a lot of work. Thank God it's by faith. 01:05:40.200 --> 01:05:42.000 I don't have a lot to spend on this point. 01:05:42.000 --> 01:05:43.160 I'm just going to give you some verses. 01:05:43.160 --> 01:05:46.000 You guys know these, but Romans 4.13, we saw that. 01:05:46.000 --> 01:05:48.240 It says, for the promise that he should be the heir of the world 01:05:48.240 --> 01:05:50.600 was not to Abraham or to a seed through the law, 01:05:50.600 --> 01:05:52.160 but through the righteousness of faith. 01:05:52.160 --> 01:05:55.800 In Romans 11.6, it says, if it be by grace, 01:05:55.800 --> 01:05:56.920 then it's no more of works. 01:05:56.920 --> 01:05:58.680 Otherwise, grace is no more grace. 01:05:58.680 --> 01:06:00.720 But if it be works, then it's no more grace. 01:06:00.720 --> 01:06:03.000 Otherwise, work is no more work. 01:06:04.800 --> 01:06:10.880 Ephesians 2 9 for grace are you safe through faith and that not of yourselves it is the gift of God not of works 01:06:11.320 --> 01:06:12.900 plus any mention most 01:06:15.700 --> 01:06:18.460 You know what, I mean, these are the most popular ones. 01:06:18.460 --> 01:06:20.700 It's kind of reinforcing, I'm being a little, 01:06:20.700 --> 01:06:22.900 not facetious to the point of I'm trying to be a jerk, 01:06:22.900 --> 01:06:24.460 but I'm just being like Paul, I'm like, 01:06:24.460 --> 01:06:27.500 oh, foolish Galatians, oh, foolish Baptists. 01:06:29.700 --> 01:06:33.620 You out there preaching all kinds of weird stuff, just preach the Bible. 01:06:36.200 --> 01:06:40.100 Somebody like left a Facebook comment. I mean a YouTube comment. It was funny 01:06:41.640 --> 01:06:43.520 You know, they were saying something stupid at the end 01:06:43.520 --> 01:06:49.800 They're like, I'm just gonna focus on Jesus the author and the perfecter of my faith and I responded 01:06:49.800 --> 01:06:55.720 You know, of course that one was a jerk response, but I'm like, no, I'm gonna focus on Jesus the author and finisher of my faith 01:06:55.720 --> 01:06:58.740 I was like, how about you get a King James and get it, right? 01:07:00.320 --> 01:07:03.760 Because you know what he's saying or they're saying I don't know if it's she or he or whatever 01:07:04.400 --> 01:07:06.400 They're saying that it's their works. 01:07:06.400 --> 01:07:14.400 No, I'm not going to be, I'm complete in Christ, but I'm not perfect, like, you know, where I commit no sin. 01:07:14.400 --> 01:07:17.400 Let's go to the last point. I'll close this thing out. 01:07:19.700 --> 01:07:23.860 The law was our schoolmaster, right? It was there to teach us the things that we do wrong. 01:07:23.860 --> 01:07:30.340 But now, now we are the sons of God and the daughters of God. In Galatians 23, right there, 01:07:30.340 --> 01:07:35.220 Galatians 3 verse 23, the Bible says, but before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up 01:07:35.220 --> 01:07:40.020 to the faith, which should afterwards be revealed. Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us 01:07:40.020 --> 01:07:45.220 unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. But after that faith has come, we are no longer 01:07:45.800 --> 01:07:50.800 under a schoolmaster, for you're all children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. 01:07:50.800 --> 01:07:54.800 For as many of you as have been baptized in Christ have put on Christ. 01:07:54.800 --> 01:07:58.800 There's neither Jew nor Greek, there's neither bond nor free, there's neither male nor female. 01:07:58.800 --> 01:08:01.800 For you're all one in Christ Jesus. 01:08:01.800 --> 01:08:08.800 And if you be Christ's, then you're Abraham's seed and heirs according to the promise. 01:08:08.800 --> 01:08:12.600 So actually, who's the only group that can claim Abraham as our father? 01:08:15.800 --> 01:08:20.800 Us, the faith, saved by faith. 01:08:20.800 --> 01:08:23.800 And the law is just there to guide us. 01:08:23.800 --> 01:08:28.800 Because honestly, you know, what's one of the first steps? 01:08:28.800 --> 01:08:32.800 I've taught my kids to, because they're trying to learn the gospel, 01:08:32.800 --> 01:08:35.800 and I'm like, just break it into boxes, the little compartments. 01:08:35.800 --> 01:08:36.800 What's the first box? 01:08:36.800 --> 01:08:39.500 When you open it up, for all have sinned. 01:08:40.300 --> 01:08:45.580 You know, it is important to understand, you know, I often tell people that are arguing with me about faith, 01:08:45.580 --> 01:08:51.420 that sin has nothing to do with salvation in the sense that it's not whether we stop sinning or not, 01:08:51.420 --> 01:08:53.180 it's whether we believe or not. 01:08:53.180 --> 01:08:56.540 But sin has everything to do with the fact that you realize, 01:08:56.540 --> 01:09:00.460 oh, there's nothing I can do to get to heaven. 01:09:00.460 --> 01:09:05.660 So what sin has to do with salvation in that sense is that you realize, 01:09:05.660 --> 01:09:07.340 oh, I'm not as good as I think I am. 01:09:08.000 --> 01:09:12.400 You know, it's always a good reminder, especially the people that tell us at the door. They're good people. They've never hurt anybody 01:09:13.120 --> 01:09:16.960 Then you just get to the point where you're like, hey, you know, but you would agree. We're all sinners 01:09:17.040 --> 01:09:18.160 They're like, yeah 01:09:18.160 --> 01:09:23.280 And then we we'll take them to revelation 218 and deal in that long list and they're like you're not doing sorcery 01:09:23.360 --> 01:09:29.040 You're not committing murder. You're not doing any of these things. They're like, ah, not really says but then it says all liars 01:09:30.400 --> 01:09:35.120 And nine times out of ten, I would say even higher than that. I would say 99.9 percent of time 01:09:35.800 --> 01:09:39.000 people kind of give you the smirk because they know that they're liars. 01:09:39.960 --> 01:09:46.120 Right? It's that that's all of a sudden they realize, oh even that sin separates me from God. 01:09:46.120 --> 01:09:50.360 Well, I thought it was just not being a murder. I thought it was just not being a jerk. 01:09:50.900 --> 01:09:54.660 I thought it was because I love my wife and I'm faithful and I don't do drugs, you know, 01:09:54.660 --> 01:09:58.380 and I don't drink caffeine, you know, and I wear a white shirt and a black tie and I'm 01:09:58.380 --> 01:10:00.220 running around in a, you know, bicycle. 01:10:00.220 --> 01:10:04.880 I thought it was all that, but I didn't realize, I do lie quite a bit, that that would get 01:10:04.880 --> 01:10:05.880 me to hell. 01:10:05.880 --> 01:10:07.320 And I was like, yeah. 01:10:07.320 --> 01:10:12.620 And then, then you can bring them to the knowledge of Jesus Christ. 01:10:12.620 --> 01:10:13.140 Turn over to... 01:10:14.200 --> 01:10:17.320 Turn over to first John. I'll just read these other verses for you and I'll close this thing out. 01:10:17.320 --> 01:10:20.040 John 1 12, we know this right? But as many as received him, 01:10:20.760 --> 01:10:24.920 to them gave you power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe in his name, on his name, 01:10:24.920 --> 01:10:29.400 which were born. And I love this because it re-emphasizes what Paul's already said in Galatians 01:10:29.400 --> 01:10:34.280 1 2 and 3. It says, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. 01:10:34.840 --> 01:10:38.200 And the word was made flesh and dwelt among us and we beheld his glory, the glory. 01:10:38.800 --> 01:10:43.880 as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. 01:10:43.880 --> 01:10:46.480 Romans 8, the Bible says there, in verse 12, says, 01:10:46.480 --> 01:10:49.880 Therefore, brethren, we are debtors not to the flesh to live after the flesh. 01:10:49.880 --> 01:10:52.480 For if we live after the flesh, we shall die. 01:10:52.480 --> 01:10:54.920 But if we through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, 01:10:54.920 --> 01:10:57.960 ye shall live for as many as are led by the Spirit of God. 01:10:57.960 --> 01:11:00.160 They are the sons of God. 01:11:01.300 --> 01:11:07.300 For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again, fear, but ye have received the spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father, 01:11:07.300 --> 01:11:11.540 the Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit that we are the children of God. 01:11:11.540 --> 01:11:19.540 And if the children then heirs, heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ, if so be that we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified together. 01:11:19.540 --> 01:11:25.700 For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us." 01:11:25.700 --> 01:11:28.100 I love these verses because we need... 01:11:28.600 --> 01:11:36.440 motivation and we need someone to like gives it remind us that you know even though life is tough it's it's it's worth it 01:11:37.960 --> 01:11:42.600 Because whatever we suffer here, it's gonna be so much better in heaven, right? 01:11:46.400 --> 01:11:53.920 You know what I liken it to? People came over to America for the World Cup and they were like really impressed with like ranch and you know, 01:11:54.560 --> 01:11:58.960 the big rib. I don't know if you saw the Japanese guy with the big rib and all that stuff, but 01:12:00.240 --> 01:12:01.600 you know 01:12:01.600 --> 01:12:05.680 they suffered all their life and they might only end up coming to the US that one time 01:12:06.160 --> 01:12:11.600 and it was worth all that suffering just to be able to experience that one thing, right? Like maybe they sacrificed money and time and everything 01:12:11.680 --> 01:12:12.400 like that. 01:12:12.800 --> 01:12:18.160 But for us to think about it when we get to heaven, we'll just have that big rib like perpetually 01:12:18.560 --> 01:12:24.400 Or we could just carry around a 10 gallon bucket of ranch and we'll never tire of it. Whatever. I'm just being 01:12:24.880 --> 01:12:28.880 Well, i'm not being facetious. I don't know what it's going to be like in heaven. God says it's better than all that 01:12:29.520 --> 01:12:33.140 Like we're just going to be able to enjoy all of that for all of eternity 01:12:33.700 --> 01:12:41.240 forever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and I think we won't even worry about like oh I haven't tasted that 01:12:41.820 --> 01:12:45.120 Unique heavenly steak that I haven't been able to go to that steakhouse 01:12:45.600 --> 01:12:51.720 Because you're there forever eventually you're just gonna get there. You're just gonna be so happy that at some point in your future life 01:12:52.400 --> 01:12:56.000 in your eternal heaven, you're going to be able to go to the coolest steakhouse 01:12:56.000 --> 01:13:01.120 or the coolest whatever is in heaven. And I'm using only the knowledge that I have here on this earth. 01:13:01.120 --> 01:13:03.600 I don't know what that'll look like. I'm not saying there's steakhouse in heaven. 01:13:04.400 --> 01:13:07.680 I don't know what it's going to look like or what it's going to be, but whatever it is, 01:13:07.680 --> 01:13:13.040 it's going to be awesome, right? Because we're sons of God. In verse John 3, 1, and I'll close this out, 01:13:13.040 --> 01:13:17.840 it says, behold, what manner of love the Father had bestowed upon us, that we should be called the 01:13:17.840 --> 01:13:18.720 the sons of God. 01:13:19.200 --> 01:13:23.360 Therefore the world knoweth us, not because it knew him not. 01:13:27.400 --> 01:13:32.040 So, and I love these verses because it debunks a couple of things. 01:13:32.040 --> 01:13:37.800 Number one, there's a belief out there that people go around telling you that we're all God's children. 01:13:37.800 --> 01:13:39.640 And that's just not the fact. 01:13:39.640 --> 01:13:46.920 So when we're out soul winning, it's really important to clear up that, hey, you are not a child of God until you believe. 01:13:46.920 --> 01:13:51.320 Because that can give you a false sense of security, false sense of salvation. 01:13:51.320 --> 01:13:52.600 That's number one. 01:13:52.600 --> 01:13:54.100 Number two is that... 01:13:54.600 --> 01:14:00.320 It debunks these like conspiracy theories. You know, I used to think that you know 01:14:01.200 --> 01:14:04.520 the angels and the women in Genesis 6 01:14:04.880 --> 01:14:07.520 Got together and had like these demigods 01:14:07.520 --> 01:14:13.000 but that's not true because the Bible tells us that the sons of God are those that believe on Jesus Christ and 01:14:14.160 --> 01:14:18.440 Also, you only get that kind of dumb thinking if you're not reading your Bible 01:14:19.280 --> 01:14:21.280 And you just believe in what other people are doing 01:14:21.700 --> 01:14:26.040 Probably one of my biggest frustrations is I am not against conspiracy theories in the sense that 01:14:26.860 --> 01:14:32.100 They're theories, but some of those actually facts right and a conspiracy is a real thing 01:14:32.100 --> 01:14:36.100 I've actually preached on it on the word conspiracy conspiracy is when people conspire 01:14:36.780 --> 01:14:39.860 To do something to someone and so it's called the conspiracy 01:14:40.300 --> 01:14:43.820 You know, there was a conspiracy to murder Jesus Christ. 01:14:43.820 --> 01:14:44.620 That was not a theory. 01:14:44.620 --> 01:14:50.300 That was the religious leaders of that time conspired. 01:14:50.300 --> 01:14:52.300 We see that in the scripture over and over again, 01:14:52.300 --> 01:14:53.660 where they got together. 01:14:53.660 --> 01:14:54.540 That's what it's called. 01:14:54.540 --> 01:14:56.140 They're conspiring. 01:14:56.140 --> 01:14:58.460 They're putting together a plan and saying, 01:14:58.460 --> 01:15:02.140 we will do X, Y, Z in order to murder this person. 01:15:02.940 --> 01:15:06.700 Well, that's no longer, you know, like a fallacy. 01:15:06.700 --> 01:15:07.260 It's a truth. 01:15:08.200 --> 01:15:12.760 But what I don't like about conspiracy theories is that we should back them up with the Bible 01:15:12.760 --> 01:15:16.200 because then you get off on these weird tangents that have nothing to do with God's Word. 01:15:18.200 --> 01:15:22.440 So anyways, I guess the point I'm trying to make is just read your Bible more and more 01:15:22.440 --> 01:15:25.240 and then compare everything with the lens of the Bible. 01:15:26.040 --> 01:15:35.080 So, in closing, you know, we could go to so many verses but Galatians 3 just gives us, it's clear. 01:15:35.500 --> 01:15:37.500 Faith trumps the law. 01:15:37.500 --> 01:15:38.500 Alright? 01:15:38.500 --> 01:15:40.500 Abraham saved by faith. 01:15:40.500 --> 01:15:43.500 The law, what it does is it reveals the sin. 01:15:43.500 --> 01:15:46.500 Christ became the curse for us. 01:15:46.500 --> 01:15:49.500 The promise remains, sure, in us. 01:15:49.500 --> 01:15:52.500 We are the spiritual seed of Abraham. 01:15:52.500 --> 01:15:57.500 And because we're that, we just, we have, you know, we live in the faith. 01:15:57.500 --> 01:16:00.500 We live our life through the faith of Jesus Christ. 01:16:01.000 --> 01:16:05.000 We believe it, we know it exists, we know it's true. 01:16:05.000 --> 01:16:10.000 And we need reinforcement because the devil does do a good job. 01:16:10.000 --> 01:16:13.000 Pastor Shelley made a good point. 01:16:13.000 --> 01:16:17.000 He said, you know, there's one thing you can't take away from the devil, he's a hard worker. 01:16:17.000 --> 01:16:22.000 And the devil does do a really good job of planting seeds of doubt. 01:16:22.000 --> 01:16:26.000 And unless you're anchored in the Word of God and you're constantly reading it, 01:16:26.000 --> 01:16:27.800 You could have moments where you just... 01:16:28.300 --> 01:16:33.820 flounder you could you could fall into heresy you could fall into false traps so it's just better 01:16:33.820 --> 01:16:38.300 to just focus on the word of god constantly be you know meditate therein day and night 01:16:38.300 --> 01:16:41.980 that thou mayst observe to do according to all that is written therein so let's close in a word 01:16:41.980 --> 01:16:46.460 of prayer heavenly father lord thank you so much for galatians 3 lord thank you that it's all by 01:16:46.460 --> 01:16:51.100 And honestly, thank you for just, you know, like the microphone drop of 01:16:51.400 --> 01:16:56.600 so many verses in the Bible that just clearly state that it's by faith. 01:16:56.600 --> 01:17:04.000 And that it's the people that deserve your special attention, 01:17:04.000 --> 01:17:06.600 the peculiar people, those that believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. 01:17:06.600 --> 01:17:11.500 It's not a race, it's not a special religion, it's not a special book. 01:17:11.500 --> 01:17:12.800 It's the Bible. 01:17:12.800 --> 01:17:15.100 The King James Bible for the English-speaking people. 01:17:15.100 --> 01:17:16.000 Thank you, Lord. 01:17:16.300 --> 01:17:21.180 for all your many blessings on us, be with all those that are traveling this week, including myself. 01:17:21.180 --> 01:17:26.700 Thank you that we got to celebrate one of our church members' birthdays earlier today. 01:17:26.700 --> 01:17:32.140 Thank you that we had that opportunity, that we live in a country where we can do that freely. 01:17:32.140 --> 01:17:35.500 Thank you for all the soul winners, Lord, and all the hard workers. 01:17:35.500 --> 01:17:37.980 And just continue to put your blessing on our church. 01:17:38.200 --> 01:17:41.320 and remind us that it's not by anything we've done, 01:17:41.320 --> 01:17:44.520 that we have anything here, but it's all because of you, Lord. 01:17:44.520 --> 01:17:49.000 It's Jesus name we pray, amen. Let's turn our hymnals over to page 413. 01:17:49.000 --> 01:17:50.900 413. 01:17:56.100 --> 01:17:58.340 Stand up for Jesus. 01:18:02.900 --> 01:18:09.460 Man, it is hot today. I can feel it. I normally don't feel it up here, but I'm feeling it. 01:18:12.000 --> 01:18:12.500 All right. 01:18:23.400 --> 01:18:33.000 Stand up, stand up for Jesus, Ye soldiers of the cross, 01:18:33.000 --> 01:18:35.400 Lift high his royal- 01:18:42.500 --> 01:18:44.500 Victory unto- 01:18:48.100 --> 01:18:48.600 Ciao! 01:19:30.900 --> 01:19:31.700 strength 01:19:37.600 --> 01:19:41.600 Jesus stand in his strength. 01:19:44.200 --> 01:19:51.700 The arm of flesh will fail you, he dare not trust your own. 01:19:51.700 --> 01:19:53.200 But all... 01:20:11.500 --> 01:20:12.000 Viola!