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Hello everybody, it's me, MrTold23, back in our video, just going to do a quick sound check to make sure the sound is working. Alright, so the sound is working, and in this video, I want to talk about a certain false profit out there who's on YouTube, who's probably one of the biggest liars on YouTube, not in terms of how many subscribers he has, but just because of the false gospel that he preaches. And for those of you who were watching yesterday, I'm redoing this stream, because the stream I did yesterday, it cut out a lot, and I hope it doesn't do that again, but apparently 18 minutes of the stream was removed, so there are a lot of points in the video where it was freezing, or it was skipping time, so I just unlisted that video, I'm going to try it again today, this is still part one that we're doing here, not part two. Part two will be moved to tomorrow. So in the end, whatever video has the least amount of skippings, because I don't know if it's going to do that again today, but whatever video ends up being the best quality will be the one that I upload, because I don't want to do this a third time. So without further ado, just going into, again, who I'm talking about, this Colin Michael guy. When I first came across this person, I couldn't believe what I was hearing, because he preaches a lot of false doctrine, and it's so laughable that so many people are deceived by this guy, because his doctrines are demonstrably false, he lies about scripture all the time, and his name is Colin Michael, he calls his ministry One Reality Ministries, his YouTube channel is called, or was called One Reality, now it's just called Colin Michael, and it has nearly 17,000 subscribers, and if you look at the comments on his videos, it's just constant praise of him saying, you're right, you know, I can't believe people are so deceived by these doctrines or whatever, but when you actually look into what he says, and compare it to what the Bible says, it's demonstrably false. The frightening thing about this false prophet also is that he's not even subtle about what he believes, because many are subtle about it, many people are double-tongued, on one side of the mouth they'll say, faith alone, but on the other side, they'll say, you have to repent of your sins, you have to do good work, et cetera, they just don't come out straight and say that, but the thing is that this guy without apology claims that we're saved by works, that you need to repent of all your sins to be saved, and that people who sin after being saved will lose their salvation, and so he's one of these sinless perfection or holiness teachers who teaches this false doctrine that you need to obey all the commandments in order to be a true follower of Jesus, but as I'll show in this video, the things which he teaches are easily proven wrong, I say easily, I mean easily, it's very easy to see what the Bible says and compare with the scriptures that he uses and see that he's taking them out of context, or he's not comparing spiritual with spiritual, and one thing that I don't understand is how many people can be deceived by this when most of his videos are very shallow, he doesn't go into the verses in depth or anything, it's kind of just he gives a verse, he talks about it for five seconds, he doesn't compare it with other scripture, he kind of reads things into the text, he says this verse says this when it doesn't say that anywhere in the verse, so we'll see multiple examples of that through this video, so I'm going to analyze what he says, I'm going to prove that his doctrine of works salvation or continual or conditional security is wrong, so by his clear ability to understand the Bible, thousands of people listen to him, and if you're one of those, if you come across this video and you're a fan or a follower of Colin Michael, please don't just blindly believe everything he says, because I'm going to show you from the Bible that this guy's a liar and a heretic. So before I get into the claims that's made, I want to talk about his, one of his deceptive tactics, which we won't really see much of in this video, but you will see it in other videos if you go and check out his channel, is that he uses a multitude of Bible translations. In one video he'll use the King James, and he uses the King James Version in pretty much every video that I'm going to go through here, I'm going to go through three videos, I'll get into that in a little bit, but in some videos he'll use the King James Version, but then in other videos where what the Bible says in that version does not fit what he wants it to say or what his doctrine is, he'll use the NLT or some other false Bible version. I've seen multiple videos of him using the NLT or New Living Translation, and if you didn't know, the NLT is not a translation of the Bible, it's a paraphrase. It's produced by men of corrupt minds, and not only is it not even a translation, but it's also based on the corrupt Alexandrian manuscripts and not on the received texts that make up a vast majority of Greek manuscripts. So he'll use these different versions when what it says in the King James Version doesn't agree with what he wants it to say. So he conveniently just doesn't quote from the King James Bible, he'll quote from these Catholic-inspired versions in order to twist the Word of God. This video I'm going to go into three of his videos and play clips from those videos. One of them is one of his most popular videos called The Five Great Deceptions in the Church. Apparently he believes in a universal church. I don't believe in a universal church, but the next two videos are more recent, they're within the last two or three months that he's uploaded them, and one of them is called Top Ten Verses on Losing Your Salvation, and the other verse is called Jesus Taught a Work Salvation Gospel. And I'm going to split this video that I'm doing into two parts, that's why it says Part 1, because there's a lot to talk about. I actually looked at the amount of notes that I have for this video and compared it with what I usually have and estimated that this total video will probably be between three to four hours long if you compare both parts. So I have a lot to talk about. So I don't want to spend much more time in the introduction, but just to kind of illustrate or talk about the format of this video, first I'm going to start off by addressing the biblical truth by telling you what the scriptures say about each subject that Colin brings up, and then I'll go into why his interpretations of the verses that he used to propagate his lies are wrong. The first video, titled Five Great Deceptions of the Church, lists five doctrines that he claims are false. At the beginning of the video he says, Examine the arguments and the verses I'm going to present and see if what I'm saying is the truth. Well that's what I'm about to do in this video, and the conclusion is no, it's not the truth. The five so-called deceptions that he lists here are that we are born sinners with a sin nature, that we can't stop sinning and will sin till the day we die, that Jesus' blood or righteousness covers our past, present, and future sins, that all you have to do is accept or simply believe what Jesus did, and five, once you are saved you are always saved even if you sin. He says that these five things are all false doctrines and he teaches something contrary to each of these five things. Now if you know anything about the Bible, especially if you've been watching my channel for a while and you're a subscriber, you'll know that his attacks on these are utter hogwash and heresy to say that it's false, because that's what the Bible teaches. So the first doctrine that he delves into, he kind of gives a mixed message about, and you'll see what I mean as I get into the video. He seems to kind of mix in the Catholic perception on original sin with the idea of a sin nature. I don't think he understands what those terms mean, so he'll attack both doctrines and act like they're the same thing. I agree with him in saying that we are not born sinners in the sense that an infant is not a sinner because of Adam's transgression, but even then he argues something that even the Catholics don't believe, and you will see that in a moment, but the Bible makes it clear that every man is responsible for his own sin, but the issue here is that Colin Michael believes and teaches that we are not by nature sinners. So basically it's Pelagianism. It's that you can do righteousness without God. He claims that nobody has this inclination to sin naturally, but what does the Bible say? It says in Jeremiah chapter 17 verse 9, the heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked. Who can know it? So the issue of what some would call original sin or sin nature is that we as fallen men have deceitful and desperately wicked hearts. There's nothing in the Bible that says we can get through life without sin, but rather that there is a heart problem. That is what we are born with. It says in Ephesians chapter 2 verse 1 to 3, and you have the quickened who were dead in trespasses and sins, wherein time past you walked according the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience, among whom also we all had our conversation and times past in the lessons of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others. So this guy claims that we don't have a nature of sin, but here it clearly says that men are by nature the children of wrath. So that's the nature of our flesh, that we walked according to the course of this world. That's why he writes that we all had our conversation and time past in the flesh. It's not some, it's all. That's something that Colin Michael doesn't seem to understand, and I'll get into this throughout the video, that he does not distinguish between the spirit and the flesh. Sin is called in the Bible the lust of the flesh, or the works of the flesh. We are all born in the flesh, and it says in the Bible, that which is born of the flesh is flesh. And that's why when it speaks of Jesus coming into this world, when he's born of the Virgin Mary, it says that he was made in the likeness of sinful flesh. That adjective is added onto flesh to describe it, that it is sinful flesh that we have. Flesh is by nature sinful, by nature we are the children of wrath, and that is why before crisis says that we all, not some, fulfilled the desires of the lust of the flesh. And since our flesh is by nature wicked, because we have the desperately wicked heart of man, it says in Genesis 6, 5, then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. Again, this is because of the nature of the flesh, that every man had only evil thoughts in their hearts continually. And because of this the Bible says the following, in Romans chapter 5 verse 12 to 14 it says, Wherefore is by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin, and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned. For until the law of sin was in the world, but sin is not imputed where there is no law. Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's true aggression, who is the figure of him that was to come. Okay, so who is the one man that's being referred to here in verse 12? That one man is Adam, according to the context, as it says, by one man sin entered into the world. And as we'll see a bit later, Colin Michael mocks the doctrine that Adam brought sin to the world. Yet it says here that one man brought sin into the world, and death by sin, for that all have sinned. How can you say that we don't have an inclination to sin, when according to the Bible all have sinned because one man brought sin into the world? How can you say that this is false when it says all have sinned, death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them who sinned not according to the similitude of Adam's transgression? Meaning that although it is not Adam's sin itself which is passed down to his descendants, the wickedness of the flesh was passed down, that he brought sin into the world, he brought disobedience into the world, he was the one who brought that in, so that all have transgressed God's law in some way or another. And this is because of what the Bible calls our sinful flesh, in that same chapter that it says that he was made in the likeness of sinful flesh, it says a few verses later in Romans chapter 8 verse 6 to 8, for to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace, because the carnal mind is enmity against God, for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be, so then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. According to the word of God, the carnal mind, which would be the flexually mind, that's what carnal means, which is the flesh, it itself is enmity or opposition against God. So notice what it says here in verse 7, that it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be, meaning it's impossible. All us human beings who are born of the flesh, we all having this carnal flesh, this sinful flesh, this carnal mind, we cannot be subject to the law of God. It's not like mankind has just the option to fall after God and listen to what he says. No, it's impossible to be subject to the law of God, which means that all will sin, as we've already seen that in Romans 5, that all have sinned. Verse 8 of Romans 8 says that they are in the flesh, cannot please God, which we are born with because we were born of the flesh, we cannot please God. Jesus said in John 6, 63, it is a spirit that quickeneth, the flesh profiteth nothing. There's nothing we as natural human beings can do without God. We cannot obey the commandments. We cannot do good. That's why the Bible says in Ecclesiastes 7, 20, there is not a just man upon earth that doeth good and sinneth not. It says in Romans 3, 23, all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. So if you take Romans 3 in context from verse 10 to verse 18, they again established that there is none righteous, no, not one. It says there is none that do with good, no, not one. None means none. So the biblical teaching is that we by nature have this inclination to sin because of our sinful flesh and as a result of that, everybody is a sinner. Nobody has ever been able to obey the law of God because we are fallen. There is not a just man upon the earth at all. There is not a just man that doeth good and sinneth not. It doesn't say there are some people who can abstain from sin, who can be good by their own righteousness, et cetera. And what's funny is that Colin Michael, this heretic guy that we're talking about in this video, he claims the opposite. He claims that there are just men upon earth. He claims that it is possible even now in the flesh to be subject to the law of God. He claims that he does not sin, which is false. And I guarantee you if somebody was to follow him around for a week or so or whatever, that they would see that he fell into sin. And even then, even if outwardly he was righteous, the Pharisees were outwardly righteous, but Jesus said that inwardly they were full of dead men's bones, inwardly they were full of hypocrisy and iniquity. Just because they're righteous on the outside doesn't mean they're righteous on the inside. And obviously, we can't read people's minds. We don't know what he's thinking, what he's lusting after. So there's no way to prove that he's without sin, except through the Bible, which says that we are not without sin, that all have sin. So now that we've cleared up the biblical teaching, which repeats over and over again the impossibility of obeying God's law, let's see what Colin Michael says. Why does he claim that this is a deception, even though it's clearly taught in the Bible? So I'm going to pull up the video and play a little section of it right now, get through the ad first, probably should have already clicked on the video. Okay, so three times when he starts talking about this deception. So it's commonly taught in churches that when Adam and Eve sinned, it brought a curse upon all of humanity, that each and every one would be born as a sinner with a sin nature. And that because of this, now we will remain sinners till the day we die, until we get to heaven. No matter what we do, we are going to sin because of this. But when we take a look at Genesis chapter 3, this is not what we see. When we look at what happened when Adam and Eve ate the fruit, the curses were that the snake has got the crawl on its belly, that the woman is going to have pain in childbirth, that Adam's going to have to work really hard for his food. From dust he will come, to dust he will return, meaning there will be death, and then they are also kicked out of the Garden of Eden. But nowhere in Genesis chapter 3 did God curse humanity with a sin nature or original sin or being born as a sinner. It's not in Genesis 3, God never does that, it is made up. I'm sorry if you had to listen to that stupidity, I noticed what he said at the beginning, he said it's commonly taught in churches. And then he goes on to explain something that no Christian believes. I've never heard anybody teach this in any church or even outside of church. Nobody believes that. Nobody claims that sin is a curse from God. What he's attacking here is a position that's not even held by Christians, he's right. God never curses mankind with a sin nature but nobody even believes that, it's a straw man argument. If you look at Genesis chapter 3, yeah he's right, God never curses man with a sin nature man gets a sin nature from eating of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. First in Genesis 2, God warned Adam that if he eats of the tree he would die. It does in Genesis 2 17, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil thou shall not eat of it, for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. And that makes sense since the Bible teaches that the wages of sin is death. So this is of course speaking of spiritual death and not physical death. As it says in Ephesians chapter 2 verse 1, which we read earlier, Paul writes ye were dead in trespasses and sins. Obviously they were not physically dead, okay they were spiritually dead. Ezekiel 18 verse 20 says the soul that sinneth it shall die. In Romans 7 when Paul writes about sin he says that when the commandment came sin revived and I died. In verse 9 and then he says in verse 11 sin deceived him and by it slew him. Obviously he was not physically dead, he was still alive at that point. It was his soul that died at the moment that he had sinned. That's what happened to Adam and Eve, they didn't physically die but their soul did die. In the beginning when God created the man and the woman it says that they were good. It says in Genesis 2 25 that the man and the woman they were not ashamed even though that they were naked. They did not have the concept of good and evil because they had not yet eaten of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. But if you read in Genesis 3 verse 1 to 7 it says now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden, but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die, for God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. And when the woman thought that the tree was good for food and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her, and he did eat. And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked, and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons. According to this passage, Eve was deceived by the serpent, which we know to be Satan, and then she took of the fruit of the tree, and gave it also to Adam, and in verse 7 it says their eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked. So the thing about our sin nature is that before Adam had sinned the garden, he had not known sin, but now that he had eaten of the tree, they did know sin, they knew good and evil. It says in Genesis 3.22, God says, Behold, the man has become as one of us to know good and evil. It says become as one of us. That means they didn't know good and evil, but now they do know good and evil, their eyes were opened. So that's how man was given a sin nature, not by a curse from God, which nobody even claims anyway. This is what Paul is speaking about in Romans. That's why it says that by one man's sin entered the world, because they had transgressed the law of God, because they had eaten of the tree of the garden. Sin was not in the world before Adam brought it in, before he sinned, before he did this. That's why it says in 1 Corinthians 15.22, for an Adam all die. We are all children of Adam, and therefore we all die because all have sinned. Now why have all sinned? Because according to Romans 5 verse 12, which we already read, because by the transgression of that one man of Adam, sin entered into the world, because that's how man started to know the difference between good and evil. So Colin Michael's argument is ignorant both of the Bible, and on what Christians teach. So let's see what else he has to say. The only proof that people have that there is a sin nature, or you're born a sinner, is by cherry picking verses out of the Bible, picking one verse from Psalms, and another verse maybe from Romans chapter 3. Okay, and as you'll see throughout this video, Scripture then tries to just drive that in without using a large portion of the Bible. He kind of just ignores a lot of the verses that say things contrary to what he teaches. And there are numerous examples we're going to talk about today in this video about how he takes things out of context. But notice that he says we're taking or cherry picking verses out of Romans 3. Now how could anybody read Romans 3 and conclude that we don't have a sin nature? The whole point of the chapter is that we cannot be justified by the law because we cannot obey the law because we are all sinners. I've already talked about Romans 3.23 that says all have sinned and come short of the glory of God, which means everybody, all means all, unless you're a Calvinist. And I know this guy's not a Calvinist, and we'll get to that later. But Romans chapter 3 verse 9 to 23 says, What then? Are we better than they? No and no wise. For we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles that they are all under sin. As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one. There is none that understandeth. There is none that seeketh after God. They're all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable. There is none that doeth good, no, not one. Their throat is an open sepulcher, with their tongues they have used to seat, the poison of ashes under their lips, whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness. Their feet are swift to shed blood, destruction and misery are in their ways, and the way of peace have they not known. There is no fear of God before their eyes. Now we know that what thinks soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God. Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight, for by the law is the knowledge of sin. But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets, even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe. For there is no difference, for all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God. It's not that difficult of a chapter to understand. We see in verse 9 it says all have sinned, both Jews and Gentiles, it doesn't matter where you're from, it doesn't matter who you are, all are sinners. Isn't that what it says in Ecclesiastes 7.20, there is not a just man upon the earth that doeth good and sinneth not, or Romans 5.12 or 1 John 1.8 which says if we say we have no sin we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us, which he says he has sinned so he has no sin, so he deceives himself and the truth is not in him, he's a false prophet. Now every verse in Romans 3 from verse 10 to verse 18 is a quote from the Old Testament establishing that everybody is a sinner, it says there's none righteous, none means none, not difficult to understand, there's none that doeth good, no not one, all was established. As we'll see throughout this video, Colin Michael is under the impression that we need to do righteousness ourselves, that we need to obey God, that we need to obey his commandments ourselves, yet the Bible says that anything the law says, it says to them that are under the law that every mouth may be stopped and all the world may become guilty before God. That's exactly what it teaches in Romans 5.21, that the law entered, that the offense might abound and that grace might abound. Or in Galatians 3.24 it says the law is a schoolmaster to bring a son to Christ, or in Romans 10.4 it says the end of the law is Christ. So the goal of the law, the reason why the law was established is to bring us to Christ in faith because it teaches us that we're sinners. It's not for our own justification, it's to teach us that we're sinners and we cannot make ourselves righteous. We're not made right by obeying the commandments of God, it says we're made right by faith of Jesus Christ in Romans 3, and again I'll get into that a little bit later when we go into some of his other doctrines. So there's no doubt in the Bible that we have a sin nature, that everybody is a sinner, especially in Romans 3, which he says is taken out of context. But if you read the whole passage, it doesn't say what he thinks it says anywhere, it says what he claims is false. So continuing on with what Paul and Michael says. The fact is, Genesis 3, the ground zero of sin nature and being born sinners, God never curses Adam and Eve. It says in 1 John 3 verse 4, whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law, for sin is the transgression of the law. So we see from the Bible that you can't be a sinner unless you transgress the law. Sin is transgression of the law, therefore in order to be a sinner, you must break God's law. But here's the problem, science shows us that life begins at conception. At the moment of conception, that is when human life begins, that is a human being at conception. So here's the problem, how can that human being commit sin at the moment of conception when he doesn't even have brain waves? Once again, we see that he's making a straw man fallacy, he's arguing about something that nobody even believes. Nobody has ever said that an unborn baby is a sinner. Not even Roman Catholics believe that. When they say that a baby is born as a sinner, they believe their concept of original sin is that they're guilty of the sin of Adam, not they're guilty of their own sin, that the sin of Adam is passed down unto them, which is still wrong, I don't agree with that. The Bible teaches that we're all guilty for our own sins and not for our father's sins, but the concept of sin nature has nothing to do with whether or not we commit sin as soon as life begins. And we'll see this throughout the video, he seems to have this idea that our doctrine that we are sinners or have a sin nature means that we're constantly in a state of breaking God's laws, which is not what it means at all. Because Paul said, I was alive without the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived and I died, meaning that he was still alive at one point. As an infant, he had never sinned, yet as soon as the commandment came, meaning he distinguished between good and evil, sin revived in him. And as he says later in that same chapter in verse 18, I know that in me that is in my flesh dwells no good thing. So the doctrine of a sin nature is that we are born with an inclination or a disposition to sin. Obviously if we don't have the mental capacity to understand or comprehend sin or the difference between good and evil, we've not committed sin. But the point is that it's inescapable due to the nature of our sinful flesh or the desperately wicked heart to commit sin once we do have that mental capacity. Now the stupidity of Colin Michael's argument is like saying that we don't have a natural inclination or desire to drink water in order to survive. Because a fetus or newborn infant does not have the ability to comprehend thirst. They don't have the ability to comprehend that they need water in order to survive. Therefore they're provided with water and nutrition in order to survive so that they don't die. If you don't give a baby water, it's going to die. It doesn't know that it needs to get up and get a glass of water or drink water in order to survive. You need to provide for it. But that doesn't mean that once their brain does grow that they don't have an understanding of thirst and have the natural inherited desire to drink water. So if you compare those arguments, it's a stupid thing to say that we don't have a sin nature just because a newborn fetus hasn't or a newly conceived fetus doesn't sin or hasn't committed a transgression of God's law. That's not what the doctrine of sin nature even is. So again, it shows his ignorance of the Bible. So let's continue on with what he says. You can't, and if sin is transgression of God's law, you can't be born a sinner. Without breaking God's law, you cannot be considered a sinner, therefore you can't be born as a sinner unless you have broken God's law, which there is no command of God that you can break at the moment of conception. We constantly see through the Bible that babies, that youth, are born innocent, they are born not having knowledge of good and evil. The Bible makes it clear that man is made upright, but he has sought out many schemes. He has sought out sin. It says we like sheep have gone astray. We were innocent, but we went astray from God. Yeah, that's the point. So he changes what he's arguing against throughout the video, and it's not just this doctrine, it's the other doctrine that he teaches throughout this video. At first, he's trying to argue against the idea that we have a sin nature and we're not born as sinners, that we don't have the nature to sin. Now he's arguing against something entirely different. First it was the idea that man is under a curse that will cause them to sin in their life if you replace the word curse with something else because it's not a curse from God, it's a result from man's transgression which he brought upon himself. And now for some reason he thinks that sin nature is the same thing as saying a fetus the moment of conception has broken God's laws. It's not the same thing. So yeah, we've gone astray, but we've gone astray because of our sin nature, because we have this inclination to sin. So continuing on again. And then through Jesus Christ, we are reconciled, we return to favor with God. We are born innocent, not having done any good or evil, and through the temptations of the devil, all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. But it's not that you're born a sinner because of Adam and that it's Adam's fault. It is your fault for your sin. You went for the temptation, you decided to sin, and that is why you will be held accountable for your actions. Okay, again, I agree with most of what he says here, but the issue is once again that he changes what he's attacking. It is Adam's fault in the sense that he brought sin into the world. Remember, 1 Corinthians 15, 22, in Adam all die, or in Romans 5, 12, by one man sin entered into the world. So sin is in the world because of one man, and that is Adam. Yes, we're not responsible for his particular transgression, as it says in Romans 5, 14, even those who do not sin after the similitude of Adam's transgression, yet we still have that inclination or the disposition or the inherited desire to sin because we are descended from Adam and we inherit the sinful flesh, the flesh that cannot be subject to the law of God, that cannot please God. Those are absolutes. It says cannot. You might be able to. No, we have that nature which is inherited from Adam because we are physically descended from Adam. So the next claimed deception of the church is that we cannot stop sinning until the day we die, and his belief is that it is possible to attain sinless perfection. It is possible to never sin again, which ties in with his denial of sin nature of mankind. This is another thing where he kind of changes throughout this video what he's actually trying to say, because first he says that the deception is that we cannot stop sinning and that we'll sin until the day we die. Then he says, well, yeah, you can fall into sin, and then he starts attacking a doctrine which doesn't exist that says that you will just continually be in a state of sin, which again is not what sin nature is. The fact that we can fall into sin means that, or the fact that we have a sin nature and that we will not be able to attain perfection is that we will still fall into sin throughout our lives. It's not saying that we're just constantly every second of every day sinning. So the Bible says in 1 John 1, verse 8 to 10, if we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar and his word is not in us. Keep in mind that this is being written by John to a church in Christ. He refers to them as brethren several times in this epistle. So these people are Christians and yet even John is writing to the Christians saying, if we, meaning you and I, say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. Then he says in verse 10, if we, again meaning you and I, say that we have no sin, we make him a liar and his word is not in us. So basically it's saying that if you claim to be sinless, if you say that you have no sin, if you claim to be perfect, then you're not saved. You don't have the word dwelling within you. You don't have the truth within you. Colin Michael thus is not saved because he teaches that it is possible for somebody to be sinless. He teaches that he is sinless. He's saying that he is repentant of all sin and that's why he is a real Christian because you need to obey all the commandments in order to be a real Christian. Yet the Bible says that's a deception. It says it's a lie and if you say such, you're both deceiving yourself and you're making God a liar. The fact that we are sinners even after being saved, meaning that not that God sees us as sinners or that God imputes to us sin because the Bible teaches that God does not impute sin to us, but it's that sin remains in the sinful flesh. That's taught several places in the Bible and that's where I get into the doctrine of two natures, which evidently Colin Michael does not understand. The Bible teaches that when we're saved, we are born again. The Bible says as many as received him to them gave me power to become the sons of God, even of them which believe on his name, which are born not of blood nor the will of flesh nor of the will of man, but of God. Jesus said that which is born of the spirit is spirit. So when we're begotten of God, who is a spirit according to John four, then that which is born is spirit. And this makes sense because in Genesis one, it teaches that everything brings forth after its own kind. So that which is born of the flesh is flesh according to John three, six, when we are born into this world with the physical body that we have, we inherit the sinful flesh of our father, which is passed down from Adam. That's why Jesus said he must be born again. When we are born again, we are born of the spirit and that product is a new creature. According to the Bible, it says in second Corinthians five 17, if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature or as the Bible constantly calls it in several places, a new man. So once we're born again by faith, there is this new man, but there's also the old man, which is our sinful flesh that still remains. There's no change to our physical bodies, to the flesh. However, when the flesh dies, because the Bible says in second Corinthians 15 50, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, then that means that it's not our flesh, which goes to heaven. It's our spirit. Our flesh is still here, but that's not what's going to heaven. It's our spirit. That's why it says in James chapter two, verse 26, the body without the spirit is dead. And it says in second Corinthians five eight, that when we are absent from the body, we are present from the Lord or present with the Lord. So when our spirit departs, the body, our spirit is with God in heaven, not our body. Our body has not been changed. The reason why I'm explaining this is because there are certain passages, uh, that he uses and there's a passage I'm about to read, which is important for understanding, uh, what change has been made upon receiving the spirit of God, which again, according to the Bible is something that comes upon all who believe or trust in Christ. It says in John seven 38 to 39, Jesus said, uh, that those who believe in him would receive the spirit and Ephesians one verse 12 to 14 says that we are sealed with the Holy spirit of promise. Carmichael does not understand the difference between the spirit and the flesh. And thus he twists certain verses such as first John three over and over again to teach work salvation. And we'll see that first later. We'll talk about that. It's brought up several times in his video, but for now consider the following passage Romans chapter seven verse 14 to 25 says, for we know that the law is spiritual, but I am carnal sold under sin for that which I do, I allow not for what I would that do I not, but what I hate that do I, if then I do that, which I would not, I can send him to the law that is good. Now then there's no more I that do it, but sin that dwells within me. For I know that in me that is in my flesh dwells, no good thing for to will is present with me, but how to perform that, which is good. I find not for the good that I would, I do not, but the evil, which I would not that I do. Now, if I do that, I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwells within me. I find then a law that when I would do good, evil was present with me. I delight in the law of God after a wait after the inward man. For I see another law in my members, Warren gets the law of my mind and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin, which is in my members, all wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me from the body of this death. I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God, but with the flesh, the law of sin. I don't want to go into a detailed analysis of the scripture. I recommend watching episode five of my law and grace series on the subject of the law of liberty, which I made a few weeks ago, in which I talk about these passages and ones that are similar to it in detail. But just looking at this from a basic standpoint, Paul gives us several important truths. In verse 14, he says that I am carnal. Remember, carnal means fleshly. In the next chapter, it says that the carnal mind or the flesh cannot be subject to the law of God. That is unprofitable, that it cannot please God. And then Paul writes about this war that we as Christians have between the flesh and the spirit. One of the key verses here is verse 17. Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. What he's saying is that when he does these wicked things, when he falls into sin, when he does the things of the flesh, the things that he allows not, the things that he hates, the things that he would not, that it continuously says in Romans 7, he's saying that it's not him, meaning it's not the new creature which does it, rather sin that dwells in him. And he defines what he means in this very next verse. In verse 18, he says, I know in me that is in my flesh dwells no good thing. So when Paul says that sin dwells in him, he means it dwells in his flesh, which shows us that there's no change to the flesh, the same flesh which cannot please God, which cannot be subject to the law of God, which is sinful, which cannot inherit the kingdom of God, that remains with us even when the spirit, the inward man is born again. And he repeats that in verse 20. Another key verse in this chapter is verses 22 and 23, where he explains that he delights in the law of God after the inward man, but he says, I see another law in my members warring against the law of my mind. So according to Paul, there are two natures and two laws. Remember, the flesh is not subject to the law of God, but Paul says that his inward man is subject to the law of God. So this is talking about the spirit. In the Old Testament, when God promised to establish the new covenant, when there's a prophecy of the new covenant in Jeremiah 31, he said in verse 33 of the same chapter that he will put his law in our inward parts and write it in our hearts. A parallel passage to that in Ezekiel 36, verse 26 to 27 says basically the same thing. It equates causing us to walk in his commandments with putting his spirit within us. So it's an inward change. It's a revival of the spirit, a change of the heart and the mind, not in the body of flesh. Now, concluding the chapter, Romans 7, in verse 25, it says, with the mind, I myself serve the law of God. And then we have but, that's a conjunction, it's comparing these two things, but with the flesh, the law of sin. So with the flesh, we still serve the law of sin. That's why it's called the works of the flesh or the lusts of the flesh, because it's not inwardly, it's outwardly. Our flesh is still in captivity to the law of sin because there's no change to the flesh. So the Bible teaches that our bodies are still corrupt and that we don't receive an incorruptible body until the day of the rapture in 1 Corinthians 15. Until then, our bodies are the same as they were before we got saved, and therefore sin remains in them. It's not just Romans 7 either. There's also Galatians 5, it says in verse 16 to 17, this I say then, walk in the spirit and you shall not fulfill the lusts of the flesh, for the flesh lusts against the spirit and the spirit against the flesh, and these are contrary, the one to the other, so that you cannot do the things that you would. So again, it's written here that there is the flesh and the spirit, and these lust against one another, that they're contrary one to another. That's like the description in Romans 7 23 that talks about how our flesh wars against the inward man. In verse 17 here, it says that this causes us to not do the things that we would, meaning the things that we want to. Inwardly we want to obey the law of God, our mind and our spirit is subject to the law of God, but the flesh is contrary to the spirit. So the flesh wants to do one thing and the spirit wants to do another thing. That's exactly what Romans 7 is teaching. Only if we walk in the spirit, according to verse 16, will we not fulfill the lusts of the flesh. That's a conviction. The Bible also uses that description of walking in the spirit as putting to death or mortifying the deeds of the old man in Colossians 3 or in Romans 6 where it commands us to reckon ourselves as dead to sin. It doesn't say that it just happens, but we're commanded to reckon ourselves as dead to sin. Now that imagery of putting to death the flesh so that we can walk in the spirit is a daily walk because Paul said, I die daily in 1 Corinthians 15 verse 31. It's a daily struggle against sin. We daily have to walk in the spirit. We daily have to put off the flesh and to say that you can achieve perfection is ridiculous. There's no change to the flesh. So the flesh can always fall into sin because sin still dwells in it. The following verse in James 2 verse 10 to 11 for whosoever shall keep the whole law yet yet yet offended one point he is guilty of all for he that said do not commit adultery said also do not kill now if thou commit no adultery yet if thou kill thou art become a transgressor of the law. So what this teaches that if we sin at any point if we disobey any commandment even just once we're still a transgressor. So in order to achieve sinless perfection you would have to from the day that you get saved the day that you become Christian never falter from any of God's commandments ever. Now I'd understand for people who die shortly after they get saved like the thief on the cross. Yeah, he probably did have sinless perfection because he died a few hours after he got saved. But if you're talking about somebody who's just going to grow as a Christian who's going to live out their life their whole life as a Christian. No the Bible teaches that we will fall into sin. You have to literally be perfect and never make mistakes. But the Bible says that we're still carnal and therefore the flesh wars against the spirit so that we cannot do the things that we would. It says if we say we have no sin we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. People who are walking according to the will of God who are Christians who are seeking to walk after God who are seeking to be disciples they will make mistakes. They will fall into sin. That's what the Bible teaches. So let's see what Michael says. He says in this second deception. But God is faithful who will not suffer to be tempted above that you're able but will with the temptation also make a way to escape that you may be able to bear it. That verse promised us that we will never be tempted so strong than what we can handle. We can always handle the temptation that comes our way. We are never forced into sin. And with each temptation God has provided a way to escape it so that way you can bear it. Because when it comes to sin you have a free choice. You have a free choice to sin and a free choice not to sin. You can take God's way of escape or you can go after sin and after your worldly pleasure. Okay the way which God provides us which is spoken of in 1 Corinthians 10.13 which allows us to bear the temptation is what we've already discussed and that is the power of the spirit and the weapons of our warfare which is spoken of in 2 Corinthians 10 which allows us to bring every thorn of the captivity into the obedience of Christ. Now I agree that it is silly to claim that people sin every day or that people will sin every single day of their lives. I believe that it is possible for one to put off the flesh for a period of time to remain in the spirit. That's why it's a daily walk. Every day you have to make sure to walk in the spirit and to put off the lust of the flesh. And it is indeed possible to resist the lust of the flesh to walk in the spirit however just because we're able to escape the temptation doesn't mean that we always will or that we will once we become a Christian once we are justified. Because the Bible says if we say we have no sin and that's present tense we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. And the flesh remains which cannot be subject to the law of God. Even though we have the power to resist temptation it's clear that we because we are not perfect will still fall. And you might say well where does the Bible say that 1 John 1 8 or Romans 7 that which I hate I do. He's still saying that he's doing it even though he is a Christian he's not saying he's losing his salvation which is what Colin Michaels teaches. Proverbs 29 and that's chapter 20 verse 9 says who can say I have made my heart clean and I am pure for my sin. And as we'll continue to see as we watch his videos he's inconsistent with his claims. The deception is he says that in the church is that we can't stop sinning and we'll sin until the day we die. Now I don't think he understands what stop sinning means. Again it's a straw man argument to claim that Christians believe that we just are in continual sin that every day every second of every day we're just constantly sinning. Because the point he makes in this section of the video I'll show examples of people who because he gives examples of people in the Bible who were walking the commandments of God and he's saying see this is evidence that you can live a perfectly sinless life. But the thing is that these are just examples of people who are walking at a certain point in their life in the commandments of God but who fell into sin later. Nobody disagrees with that. No Christian will say that you can't for at least a period of time obey the commandments of God. When I say it's not possible to stop sinning I don't mean that we will just constantly sin that right now I'm sinning just because I'm sitting here and I just exist. That's not what we mean. It doesn't mean that we'll always be in sin. I mean that it's impossible to attain a state of perfection in which we get to a point where we'll just always be righteous and just never sin again for the rest of our lives. Part of the misunderstanding of Colin Michael in this doctrine is that he seemingly doesn't know anything about the biblical concept of sanctification or secret or ignorant sins. He talks about making a free choice about whether or not we're going to give in to temptation because that's what 1 Corinthians 10 is about, about choosing or not whether you're going to give in to that temptation because it's possible to escape from those temptations. But here's the problem, you can only choose to sin if you know that what you're doing is wrong, if it's willful, if it's a presumptuous rebellion against God. But to say that all sin can be rooted out of our lives is ignorant of several verses. For example, Psalm chapter 19 verse 12 to 13 says, who can understand his errors, cleanse thou me from secret faults, keep back thou thy servant also from presumptuous sins, let them not have dominion over me, then shall I be upright and I shall be innocent from the great transgression. There's two types of sins listed here. There's the secret faults, the things that he says, I scroll down a bit, he says who can understand his errors. There's some things that we just don't know that we're doing wrong. These are the secret faults, they're hidden from us. That's opposed to presumptuous sin, meaning that you know what you're doing is wrong, that you know God doesn't want you to do it and you do it anyway. That's a presumptuous sin or as Hebrews 10 calls it, willful sin. Again, the Bible says in Proverbs 29, who can say I've made my heart clean, I'm pure for my sin. You may be able to willfully obey God, but there are some things that you're going to fall into because not everybody knows the Bible. Not everybody is fully grown, they still might be babes in Christ, they may not have a full understanding of what we are to do and what we are not to do. According to Colin Michael, a lot of people, even though this is a rhetorical question in Proverbs 29, it says who can say I've made my heart clean, I'm pure from sin. According to him, a lot of people can say that. The fact of the matter is we can never get all the sin out of our lives because there are secret faults. There are things that we do in ignorance, which God constantly talked about throughout the law. For example, in Numbers chapter 15, it was ordained a sacrifice for those who have sinned in ignorance and then a punishment for those who willfully sinned or who sinned presumptuously. Now, if you're tempted and God has given you a way to escape it, that means that you know what you're doing. It's not an ignorant or secret fault. So not every Christian has the knowledge of every single commandment in the Bible. And remember, if you break just one, you're still a transgressor. And sinless perfection also denies what the Bible says about how we grow, which is a process. The Bible constantly uses imagery to describe our new life in Christ. Once we were born again, it says that we are babes in Christ. And these babes in Christ are called carnal in first Corinthians three one. It also says in first Peter chapter two, verse two, as newborn babes desire the sincere milk of the word that you may grow there by. So according to the Bible, a babe in Christ grows by the milk of the word. It's just like a physical babe. One who is born after the flesh, they still need nutrients to grow. It's not just you get saved and you just have all the power to resist the flesh. You could just be perfect. You can just live your life without sin. No, you need to grow according to the word. So we're commanded to put to death the flesh daily. Even then, the Bible still teaches that we make mistakes, that nobody's perfect. It's a process of becoming holy, a process of putting on the spirit and walking in the spirit and growing in the word. Just like in the physical body, one grows if they have nutrients. Just because we get all the nutrients we need doesn't mean that we'll always be healthy or fit. There's still going to be mistakes that take place. So no, the Bible does not teach that we will never sin. So let's see what else in this video that Colin Michael says. What it comes down to is your choice. Do you love God or do you love sin? Because if you love God, the Bible says, if you love me, you will keep my commandments. If you love him, you're going to obey him. But if you love sin and you love the devil, you will obey him. That's a common thing that Colin Michael does. By the way, he puts John 14, 15 on the screen, which says, if you love me, keep my commandments. That's what Jesus said. No more, no less. Colin Michael's adding on to what he says. Colin says, if you don't keep the commandments, you love sin and the devil. But the verse doesn't say that. It just says, if you'd love me, keep my commandments. And then he says, if you love him, you will keep his commandments. Again, that's not what Jesus said. He's not just making a statement. He's not saying, if you love me, then this is something that you will do. It's just automatic. He's commanding the disciples. He's not saying it's automatic. He's telling them to do it. So it kind of adds on to what the verse actually teaches. And we can actually see in the Bible that there were many people who lived holy, perfect, righteous lives. In Genesis 6, verse 9, Noah is called perfect. And if you actually look at that word perfect, it is translated as sound, wholesome, unimpaired, innocent, having integrity of God's way. I don't think he knows what the word translated means because he pulls up a Bible hub. If you know what Bible hub is, this website, he pulls up some definition of some lexicon to kind of define what it means in case you didn't know what words mean already. So this comment about Moses illustrates his ignorance of the imputed righteousness of Christ, which he denies, and we'll see that in his third deception of the church. But the Bible says that God has made him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might be made the righteousness of Christ and second Corinthians, or righteousness of God in him in second Corinthians 521, or in other words, we're justified through his blood as it says in Romans 5, 9. Justify means to make righteous. It's defined in Romans 3 as declaring the one who believes in Jesus as just or righteous. And thus once somebody has believed, the Bible teaches that we are forgiven of our sins, that they're not imputed unto us. Ephesians 1, 7, Colossians 1, 14, both say in whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins. In Acts 10, 43, it says to him, give all the prophets witness, that whosoever believeth in him shall receive remission of sins. In Romans 4, it says, but to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness, even as David also described with the blessedness of the man unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works, saying, blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven and whose sins are covered, blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin. And we'll talk a little bit more about Romans 4 later when we get into the third so-called deception that he brings up. But right now, just briefly, the text clearly says that a man who does not have works but does have faith, his faith is counted for righteousness. It describes this further as having righteousness imputed onto the man and that those who have the righteousness imputed unto them, it says in verse 7, blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven and whose sins are covered. So that's past tense. Our sins have been forgiven and covered, or as the scriptures say elsewhere, remitted or forgiven. In verse 8, blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin. So that's future tense. Those who are justified, the Bible says that the Lord will not impute sin unto them. So therefore, in the eyes of God, one who is justified or declared righteous, they are no longer sinners in the eyes of God. Apparently, Colin Michael forgot to read the verse right before Genesis 6, 9, which he quotes. Verse 8 says, but Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord. Now according to the New Testament, we are saved by grace through faith. In Titus 2 11, it says that the grace of God which bringeth salvation have appeared to all men. So we're saved by grace. So the fact that the Bible declares that Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord shows us that Noah was saved. And that's why he was perfect. It wasn't that he just obeyed all the commandments of God perfectly in all points throughout his life, and there's several reasons why I say that. Firstly, this Colin Michael guy apparently doesn't know what the word translated means as I pointed out, that he just pulls up some Hebrew lexicon on BibleHub and says, this is what the word means. I can guarantee you he doesn't speak Hebrew. He doesn't know anything about Hebrew. He's just trusting that what this says is true, or his understanding of the word is true. And by the way, he scrolls down to the fourth definition, so he had to ignore three of them in order to get to this point. But I bet you can ask him anything in Hebrew or in Greek or anything like that. He doesn't know how to respond because he doesn't know these languages. He's just trusting that what these lexicons say are true. The word translated does not mean what a lexicon says. The word translated is what the Bible actually says. So it's not translated as sound, wholesome, unimpairant, innocent, having integrity of God's way. No, it's translated as Noah was a just man, meaning he was righteous because he found grace in the eyes of the Lord, and he was perfect because he had been washed from his sins. So to say that Noah is sinless is, again, a contradiction of multitudes of scriptures which say that all have sinned. Noah lived on this earth, so that would include him. It says there's not a just man upon earth to do with good and sin thought. Again, that includes Noah. So if we're talking about the flesh, it's impossible to say that one can follow the law of God perfectly. The Bible teaches that the flesh cannot be subject to the law of God. It's only the spirit which serves the law of God. Again, that's what Paul says. Not only that, but the point that Colin is trying to make here is that it's possible to remain sinless until the day you die, that it's false to say that you can never sin. The thing is that Noah did sin. Even at this point that it says he was righteous, even if assuming that his interpretation of this is correct, that it's saying that Noah was being obedient to the commandments of the Lord at this time, that does not mean that he never sinned. Because in Genesis 9 it says, And Noah began to be a husbandman, and he planted a vineyard, and he drank of the wine, and was drunken, and he was uncovered within his tent. Now, according to the Bible, drunkenness is a sin. Galatians 5, which is a chapter that he uses and twists to teach that you can lose your salvation, it says in verse 21, it lists as a work of the flesh that drunkenness is a work of the flesh. So according to Michael's theology, it's possible to be perfect, and you need to be perfect in order to be saved and obey God's commandments. Again, we'll see that later. But he claims that Noah is an example of somebody who has never sinned and who is just because of his own righteousness. He says it's possible that somebody can go the rest of their life without sinning because of Noah. Yet Noah didn't. He did fall into sin. He did fall into the works of the flesh. So continuing on. In Job 1.8, God tells Satan that Job is perfect and upright. So if we look at that word, perfect, again, it is translated as complete, morally innocent, having integrity. Now, this is not to say that people will never fall into sin. But it is saying at those moments in time, those people were living sinless, perfect lives. Otherwise, no one would be destroyed with the rest of the world because the rest of the world was sinning. Okay, so again, Colin Michael changes what he's talking about like he did. This is what I was talking about earlier because his point was at the beginning that it's false to say that we can't live a sinless life, we can't achieve perfection. Now he's saying that, or he keeps saying that we're able to resist temptation. It's a choice of whether or not you will resist temptations and whether you'll fall into sin. But now he's saying that it is possible to fall into sin, which is exactly what happened to Noah. He did sin later in Genesis 9 and that same thing happened with Job. He ended up sinning. He was being self-righteous. He was being prideful. And that's why in Genesis 42, he said, I repent in dust and ashes because he had sinned. So his position is inconsistent. The reason why Noah and Job are called just and upright is because they were believers, because their faith had been counted for righteousness. It's simple. God and Satan wouldn't have made that deal because if Job was just like everyone else, then there's nothing for God to tell Satan. Satan doesn't need to try and make someone fall who's already fallen. But we also see in Luke 1 verses 5 through 6 that Zacharias and Elizabeth were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless. In Luke 2350, we see Joseph, the man who buried Jesus, was a good man and a just. Concerning the description of Elizabeth and Zachariah, again, this does not mean that they have never sinned and will never sin. It seems like what Paul and Michael are saying here is that at a certain period of time, if you're without sin, that means it's false to say that you will sin every day of your life. Again, his argument's not clear. At one point, he's trying to argue that it's entirely possible to be without sin to not sin. But then he goes on to say, well, you can fall into sin. And that is what happened to Noah and Job and also Zachariah. We'll see that in a moment here. But before I talk about that, I want to talk about what it means that walking in the commandments and ordinances of the Lord, that they were blameless, meaning simply that they were without blame. They were innocent. Again, this is referring to salvation because the Bible says there is none righteous. No, not one. The Bible says that they are righteous. According to the Bible and multiple scriptures we've already seen, one is made righteous by faith. And their faith is counted for righteousness. So when it says that they're righteous before God, it means they were justified. They were saved. It's the same thing with Joseph of Arimathea, who, according to John 19, was a disciple of Christ. So he was a believer. Of course, he was just. Yet to say that he was a good man because of his own obedience is twisted because the Bible teaches that there is none that doeth good, no, not one. And Jesus said, why callest thou me good? There is none good but God. The only reason why Joseph was a good and just man was because of the righteousness of Christ being imputed unto him because he believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly. So moving back to Zachariah and Elizabeth, it's just reading into the text to say that the fact that they walked blamelessly meant that they will never sin. Again, it's unclear how long you need to go without sin in order for him to consider it being without sin. Because if they stop sinning for a week, is that never sinning or is that obeying the commandments or being without sin? It's kind of unclear what he's trying to say here. So the text doesn't indicate how long this was for. We know it can't be their whole lives because, again, the Bible teaches if we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. Not only that, but this is still in the Old Testament, meaning that the Sinai covenant is still in place. Jesus had not died. The New Testament in his blood had not begun. So they were still animal sacrifices. As I mentioned earlier, God instituted a way for those who sin ignorantly to atone for their sins so that they are cleansed outwardly from their secret faults. It's possible that they still had secret sins, that they still had ignorant sins and they were sacrificing animals to atone for their sins. It's not saying that they were just blameless because they had obeyed all the commandments. Blameless doesn't mean that. Blameless just means blame isn't imputed onto them, that God has nothing to blame them for. Meaning that they have atoned for their sins through animal sacrifices. Now we see later in Luke chapter 1 in verses 19 and 20 that Zacharias had unbelief, which is a sin according to the Bible, and he was even punished for that unbelief by being mute until the day that John the Baptist was born. So yes, there was a time when Zacharias and his wife walked in the commandments of the Lord, but to say that this just means that they never sin, that's reading into the text and it contradicts a multitude of other scriptures. So continue on with what he says. In Acts 23 1, Paul says he has lived in all good conscience before God, and before you go ahead and start saying Romans 7, be sure to watch our video explaining the context of Romans 7 down in the description. Well I didn't watch the video and I know the context of Romans 7, I've read it multiple times and it doesn't take a genius to figure out, especially when you compare spiritual to spiritual, that what he's saying, or Romans 7 doesn't prove me wrong, but if you look at the context of Romans 7, it doesn't fit with what he's saying or it doesn't contradict what we're saying, because I've used Romans 7 in this video, not just talking about Paul and how he was carnal, but how the nature of Christians, that we have the Spirit of God and that's the inward man, but we also have the flesh. Now there's nothing in the text to indicate otherwise. The preceding chapter, Romans 6, is about how we are to reckon our bodies as dead to sin and live unto righteousness because we are freed from sin. Romans 8 is about the fact that the flesh cannot be subject to the law of God, that the flesh is unprofitable and therefore we have the Spirit which we live in and this indwells in us if we are Christ. That's the same thing that Romans 7 tells us. Paul still says it's no more I that do it, but sin that dwelt in me, and that when he says in me, he says in my flesh in verse 18 and then he summarizes in the end, he says I serve the law of God in the mind with the flesh the law of sin. Colin Michael just wants to push off and ignore those scriptures because he doesn't understand the basic biblical concept of being born again. So moving on. 1 John 3 verse 22, John says that he keeps God's commandments and does what is pleasing in God's sight. Okay, so in the context of 1 John 3, 22 is 1 John 3, 9 which says that whosoever is born of God does not commit sin. Again, according to Jesus Christ, that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. It's the inward man, the spirit that obeys the law of God. John is not saying that he is perfect in the sense that his flesh is not sinning. He's saying that he's keeping the commandments and does the things pleasing in the sight of God because he is born of God. He is born again, which is equated with being a son of God in John 1, 12 to 13, in which according to Romans 8, 14 to 17, being a son of God means that we have the Spirit dwelling within us. As many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. That's what the scripture says. So again, he fails to understand what being born again is and does not distinguish between the flesh and the Spirit. These are just a few examples of people who are living holy, righteous, perfect lives living sin-free, obeying Christ. Again, it's ambiguous what he means by living perfect lives and sin-free because how long do you need to go without sin in order to be considered sin-free? As I've showed the examples he gives of people who were supposedly righteous, they all ended up sinning. Noah, Job, Zacharias, they all end up in sin even though it says that they were righteous, even though it says they were walking in the commandments of God or just or whatever. So if I go a day without sinning, I'm walking in the commandments of God at that time. Now if I sin the next day but I repent and I continue to observe the commandments of God for the next few days after that, I'm still just. My sins have still been forgiven. I'm still walking in the commandments of the Lord. So how long do you need to go in order for him to consider you sin-free? Again, I've said it's difficult to understand the point that's being made here. He's just trying to confuse the people that are watching his video because he did say it at one point that we could fall into sin, which these people did, and of course that makes sense. That lines up with what the scripture says. If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. But then at the other point, he tries to make it seem like it's possible to obey God and obey his commandments for all of your life, and that's not true. He even says in other videos, and we'll see that, that if you sin, if you disobey any commandment, then you'll go to hell and you'll lose your salvation. So I don't know why he would say you can still fall into sin if he's teaching also that you can be sinlessly perfect or that you should be sinlessly perfect in order to be saved. Next so-called deception that he talks about is that Jesus' blood covers the sins of the past, present, and future. And that's one of the most wicked and heretical anti-biblical teachings of what this guy says. He claims that the doctrine that Christ's righteousness is impudent unto us is false. He says that we need to abstain from sin in order for Christ's blood to cover us, and that doesn't make any sense for multiple reasons. Let's just see what the Bible says. Firstly, let's even know what the word justification means. That's a term used throughout the Bible, because apparently he doesn't. As we've already seen, he thinks that being just and righteous in the eyes of God just means that we've perfectly obeyed the commandments. But the Bible teaches that we're all sinners in need of a Savior, for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead and vain, it says in Galatians 2.21. Christ died for a reason. He came to save us from our sin. That's what the Bible says in 1 Timothy 1.15 and multiple other scriptures. What is it? 1 John 4.14, it says we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Savior of the world. If we could just obey the commandments of God on our own, we wouldn't need a Savior to save us from that sin. One of the most important passages which teaches this is Romans chapter 3. It says in verse 20 to 28, therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight, for by the law is the knowledge of sin. But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets, even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe. For there is no difference, for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God, being justified freely by his grace for the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God hath set forth into the propitiation through faith in his blood to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God, to declare, I say at this time, his righteousness, that he might be just and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus. Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? Of works? Nay, but by the law of faith. Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law. The doctrine of Colin Michael is that you need to obey the commandments of God in order to be righteous. Remember, he thinks that because Noah and all these other are called righteous, that means that they never sinned themselves. But the Bible says that we cannot be justified or declared right by the deeds of the law. Then it says in verse 21 that the righteousness of God without the law, so the law does not play a role in our justification, is manifested. In verse 22 it clearly defines what the righteousness of God is. It says, which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe. So when it says unto all, that's a very key phrase. We're talking here about the righteousness of God. It says that the righteousness of God is unto all them and upon all them that believe. That's what justification is. We are made just. We are made righteous. And there are some other verses that say that we'll get into a bit later through this video, but it says that the righteousness of God is upon all them that believe. So if we have faith, if we believe in Jesus Christ according to the Bible, the righteousness of God is upon us. Why? It says for, which means because. There is no difference for, because all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. It doesn't matter who you are, what nation you're from, whether you have the oracles of God or not, which is the law, which is the Old Testament. It doesn't matter whether you know that you should be obeying the commandments of God or not. Everybody is a sinner. Paul just got through explaining and hammering it in over and over again, verses 10 to 18 quotations from the Old Testament to show us that there's none righteous, no, not one. And then it says in verse 24, that because we're all sinners, we are justified freely. Freely means that you don't pay for it. It means that you don't have to do anything for it. So we're made righteousness. We're made righteous without our own payment. How? By his grace, because grace means unmerited or undeserved kindness. That's free grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus. So according to these verses, the righteousness of God is bestowed upon us by our faith freely through Jesus Christ. Verse 26 again, declares the meaning of justification that he might be just and the justifier of him which believe within Jesus. So who is justified, who is made just according to what the Bible says, the one who believes in Jesus. So if I have faith in Christ, which I do, because I cannot be righteous through adherence to the law because all are sinners, and even if you offended one point, you're still guilty of all according to James 2 10. But if I have faith in Christ, it says that we are justified. Now Michael attacks that doctrine, he attacks the doctrine of faith alone, and we'll get into that later. But here's your faith alone. A man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law. There's only two ways that you can be justified by faith or by the law, by what Christ has done or by what you have done. The only thing mentioned here is faith, and it specifically tells us that it's without the deeds of the law. And I'll get into that a bit later again with the fourth point, but I want to continue to focus on the fact that we are justified because he claims that that's false. He claims that Christ's righteousness is not imputed unto us, that has to be our own righteousness. He claims that Christ's righteousness does not cover our past, present, and future sins. And I already talked about briefly in verse 22 that it says the righteousness of God is upon all those that believe, but it's not just covering our past sins. Because if we look in the next chapter, it defines more clearly what justification is. In Romans 4, verse 1 to 8, it says, For what shall we say that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, hath found? For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory, but not before God. For what sayeth the scripture, Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him for righteousness. Now to him that worketh is there a word not reckoned of grace, but of debt. But to him that worketh not, but believeth on that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness, even as David also described with the blessedness of the man unto whom God impudeth righteousness without works, saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered. Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin. That's a pretty clear chapter explaining what justification is. It teaches us that we are not justified by works, first of all, because it says, To him that worketh not, and it speaks of the man to whom God impudeth righteousness without works. It even says that Abraham could glory about being justified by works, but not before God. Man looks on the outward parents, but the Lord looketh on the heart. And that's why it says, For Abraham his faith was counted for righteousness. Isn't that what we just saw in the last chapter, that we're justified by faith without the deeds of the law? So that means that if we have faith, if we believe on him that justified the ungodly, it says in that verse that our faith is counted for righteousness. So I'm righteous simply because I have faith. I am just not because of the just things or the righteous things which I have personally done. The Bible says not by works of righteousness which we have done, but by his mercy he saved us. It says our righteousnesses are as filthy rags in Isaiah 64. So it's not our own righteousness that it's talking about, rather it says in verse six that God imputes righteousness to us when we have faith. Impute means to put on. If we put on the righteousness of God through God, again Romans 3.22 says that the righteousness of God is unto all and upon all them that believe, but not only does it say that righteousness is imputed unto us, it specifies in verse seven and verse eight also that sin is not imputed unto us. So it's an exchange. God puts righteousness onto us, but he does not put sin onto our count. Our sin is taken away, righteousness is put on us. In verse seven it says our iniquities are forgiven and our sins are covered. That's past tense. There we have Christ's righteousness imputed for past sins. He says that that is correct. He says that our sins can be covered by righteousness, although he believes it's a justification by works. But it also says in verse eight, blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin. That's future tense. There's the doctrine right there that Colin claims is a deception. According to the Bible, our sins are not imputed unto us if we have faith, if we are justified. The Bible says again that the blood of Jesus Christ cleanses us from all sins in 1 John. He says, Colin here says it's just some sin. It's just some sin that are covered. No, the Bible says all sin. It's not just past sin. We're forgiven and washed of all sins according to the Bible. Sin will not be imputed unto us. Christ came to save sinners according to 1 Timothy 1.15. He saves us from our sins. We cannot save ourselves if salvation is in none other than Jesus Christ. Then how can you say that our sin is still imputed unto us even after we convert and if we continue in sin? Sin is a transgression of the law. If you break the commandments, you are sinning. Therefore, if you obey the commandments, if you obey the law, you are not sinning. But the Bible says in Galatians 2.21, I do not frustrate the grace of God for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain. There would be no purpose for Christ to come into this world and die on the cross, be buried and rise again if we could be righteous on our own or be justified by obeying the commandments by the law, by obeying the commandments that God gave unto us. Christ came to save us because we are sinners, because we have not obeyed the law. It says in 1 Peter 2 that he bare our own sins in his body on the tree. When he died on the cross, our sins were imputed onto him. They're not imputed unto us. They're taken from us and imputed onto him. If we believe on him, according to the scriptures that we've already seen and also in Romans 5.19, it says by the obedience of one, talking about Jesus who knew no sin, many shall be made righteous. We are made righteous. We are not righteous. We have all disobeyed the law and therefore our own works, our own obedience has nothing to do with whether or not we are right. It's all about Jesus and his obedience to the law, his fulfillment of the law, and his righteousness is imputed unto us. It says in Galatians chapter 3 verse 21 to 22, is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid, for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law, but the scripture has concluded all under sin that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe. So the fact that it says if there had been a law which could have given life, it implies that the law cannot bring life. It says verily righteousness should have been, which means again that it's not by the law because Galatians 2 21 says that if righteousness is by the law, then Christ is dead in vain. So the law cannot make us right with God. Again, it has nothing to do with our own obedience to the commandments of God. Verse 22 of Galatians 3, it says all are under sin that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe. So we're all under sin, and that's why Jesus Christ came in the world to save his people from their sins. If we believe on him, our faith is counted for righteousness. We are justified, meaning we are made righteous. Romans 5 19, again, that God's righteousness is put onto us that we are made righteousness by the obedience of Christ. And if that's still not clear, consider Philippians chapter 3 verse 8 to 9. Yea, doubtless, and I count all things but lost for the excellency of the knowledge of Jesus Christ my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ and be found in him, not having my own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith. So when we're talking about our own righteousness, according to verse 9, that is of the law. We do not have our own righteousness, it's the righteousness which is of God, it says. It's God's righteousness which is given to us by faith. Now notice that this verse is in present tense. He's not righteous because after he became a Christian he turned from sin and started to obey the commandments. No, it has nothing to do with our own righteousness, his own obedience to the law. He is righteous at the present time because of faith, not because of his own obedience to the law. We're not righteous whatsoever by obeying the law. It's a very simple concept, that we're not righteous, we're sinners, we're transgressors of the law, but Christ is righteous, if we believe on him we are made righteous, which means that the righteousness of God, the righteousness of him, is given unto us. We are made right through Christ, we are not right. So here's another verse which explains this clearly. 2 Corinthians 5 verse 21 says, For he hath made unto me sin for us, who knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. Jesus Christ is the one who knew no sin, according to the Bible. It says in Hebrews 4.15 that he was tempted as all points alike as we are, yet without sin. It says in 1 Peter 2 that he did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth. So even though he did no sin, it says that he hath been made sin for us. Now what does that mean? It's the same thing that 1 Peter 2 says that he bare in himself our sins and his own body on the tree. Our sins were imputed unto him, he bare our sins, as it describes in Isaiah 53, he bare the sins of many. So even though he was sinless, our sin, the sins of the whole world, was imputed unto him. Now why did that happen? For our justification. Because the Bible says in Romans chapter 8 verse 9 that Christ died for us and that we are justified by his blood. And then back in 2 Corinthians 5 21 it says that the purpose of this, the purpose of him being made sin, who knew no sin, was that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. Again, what do we see? We are made righteous, we are given righteousness, we are made righteousness. This is what justification means. We are not righteous, it is not by works of righteousness which we have done, it is his righteousness. So our own obedience has nothing to do with our salvation. As I've said before, it's all about Christ. Ephesians 1 7 says in whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins. Colossians 1 14, we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins. First John 1 9, if we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. Again, when we are saved, our unrighteousness is cleansed. Our sins are forgiven, or as it says in Acts 10 43, to him give all the prophets witness that through his name whosoever shall believe in him shall receive remission of sins. Remission means of removal, of pardoning. We are sinners, but now we are not because of Christ. Through him we have forgiveness of sins, through his blood which he shed on the cross. And remember, it's all unrighteousness that it says we're cleansed from. We don't have sin imputed to us in Romans 4, it isn't just you're forgiven of all your sins of the past and that's it. No, the verse in Romans 4 teaches us that God will not impute sin unto us. And not only that, but later in Romans chapter 4 it says in verse 22 to 25, and therefore is imputed to him for righteousness. Now it was not written for his sake alone that it was imputed to him, but for us also to whom it shall be imputed if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead. It was delivered for our offenses and was raised again for our justification. Again we're reading about imputed righteousness which is imputed unto us if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord. Just like it says in verse 5, believing on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness. So the fact that I believed on Christ, that I put all my trust in him as many others have done and am not relying on my own works, on my own righteousness which are as filthy rags before God, means that I am just in the eyes of God because God's righteousness has been imputed onto me. It means that I have been made the righteousness of God. I am made righteous. The righteousness of God is upon me because I have had faith. That's what the scriptures teach for those who have faith. But Colin Michael doesn't agree with that. Let's see what Colin Michael says. Deception number three, Jesus' blood covers our past, present, and future sins. Basically put, people believe that when Jesus died, his righteousness was transferred to us and that it covers us like a blanket. So that way, God sees us as righteous even though we are sinning every single day. The problem is, this belief goes contrary to God's word. It says in 1 John 3 verses 7 through 8, little children, let no man deceive you. He that doeth righteousness is righteous even as he is righteous. He that comitteth sin is of the devil, for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose, the Son of God was manifested that he might destroy the works of the devil. So we... Apparently, Colin Michael didn't read the next verse, which he has a habit of doing. He only quoted verse 7 and 8. But 1 John 3, 9 says, Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin, for a seed remaineth in him, and he cannot sin because he is born of God. So according to the scriptures, those who follow after righteousness, who abstain from sin, those who do not commit sin are those who are born of God. Notice that it says, whosoever, in 1 John 3, 9, that means anybody, all who are born of God. So recall the several clear verses earlier that say that we are justified by our faith, that when we believeth on it that justifieth the ungodly, our faith is counted for righteousness. And when we believe, it says in Romans 4 that God does not impute sin unto us. Now the question is, why? Why doesn't God impute sin unto us? Well, one of the reasons is that we're born again. Being born again, as it speaks of in 1 John 3, or born of God, has only one requirement, and that is, again, faith. Says in John chapter 1, verse 12 to 13, But as many as received him, to them gave me power to become the sons of God, even of them that believe on his name, which were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. So according to John 1, those who receive him are those who believe on his name, which it says were born of God. If you remove the things where it says that they're not born of, that they're not born of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, it says that we are born of God again. That's being born again, as the scriptures also call it. Jesus made it abundantly clear what it means to be born again. He said that which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. The fleshly birth has already taken place. That's the first birth. That's when we're brought into this world with our physical bodies, when we are born, but we're not born again. Because the word again, that shows us that something takes place which has already taken place. We've already been born physically. We need to be born again, which is being born according to the Spirit. So we are born of the flesh with a physical flesh and blood body, and therefore we are of the flesh, which again, according to Romans 8, cannot be subject to the law of God, cannot please God. According to 1 Corinthians 15, will not inherit the kingdom of God. The fleshly birth has already taken place, but we are born a second time according to Jesus. This is being born of the Spirit. God says, or Jesus says, God is a spirit. You must worship him in spirit and truth. So when we are born of the Spirit or born again, born of God, that is being born of the Spirit. The Bible also says it is a spirit that quickeneth. So it's the spirit that gives us life. It's a spirit that gives us this new birth or gives us eternal life. So there's no change to our flesh when we were born again. When we believe on the name of Jesus Christ, it's an inward or spiritual change. That's why the Bible says that the Holy Ghost indwells us and we become the temple of God in 1 Corinthians 6, for example. We have the mind of Christ, it says in 1 Corinthians 2. The Spirit has been given to us. We are sealed by the Holy Spirit of promise, as it says in Ephesians 1 and Ephesians 4.30. So these are all terms that are used to describe people who are believers. They have the Spirit of God inside of them. And therefore, Paul said in Romans 7 that I delight in the law of God with the inward man. And then he says, with the mind I myself serve the law of God, with the flesh the law of sin. So in 1 John 3.9, when it speaks of one who is born of God that does not commit sin, it's talking about what the Bible calls the new man or the new creature in 2 Corinthians 5.17. Previously we were dead in our trespasses and sins, according to Ephesians 2.1. But the same verse says, you hath he quickened, meaning made alive. We were dead inwardly because obviously when we sin, our body is not physically dead because the Bible says in Ezekiel 18.20 that the soul that sinneth it shall die. Our souls are... Oh man, I just went down in my notes. Where was I? Ezekiel 18. There we go. So the Bible teaches that the soul that sinneth it shall die in Ezekiel 18.20. Our souls are dead as a result of our disobedience to God, and therefore as soon as the body has passed away, as soon as our physical body dies, the soul descends into hell. But if somebody is saved, if somebody has been born again, the soul goes to live with God in heaven, but somebody who is not saved, somebody who is dead in trespasses and sins, they don't have eternal life, so therefore their soul would have descended immediately into hell once their physical bodies die. However, God has made alive, he's quickened our dead soul, he's given us the spirit to indwell our hearts. Once we believe, we are born of God and therefore we do not commit sin after the inward man. This is with the mind, as Paul says in Romans 7.25. This is not talking about the flesh. No verse in the Bible ever says that our flesh will stop sinning. He makes it clear in the same chapter that when he does sin, it's not him that does it, meaning it's not the new man that does it. It's sin that dwells in him, which he defines as in his flesh in the next verse. The flesh does not matter when it comes to salvation because the flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God in the first place. It's not our flesh and blood which goes to heaven, it's our born-again spirit. That's why Jesus said, except a man be born of water and of the spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God in John 3.5. So in 1 John 3.9, when it says, Whosoever is born of God, it's talking about the inward man, the spirit, which no longer sins. And that's again, what it speaks of in verse seven or eight, which he quotes in the video. We as Christians, even if we sin, it's not us because the new man, which is born again, which is not able to sin, you're not sinning, or the new man is not sinning, but the flesh is sinning, the flesh, which cannot please God. So Colin Michael, again, he doesn't understand the doctrine of being born again. He doesn't understand the doctrine of the flesh and the spirit. So let's see what else he says. See, it's not he who is covered in Christ's righteousness that is righteous, but he who does what is right is righteous. And if you commit sin, it says, he that sins is of the devil. You can't be committing sin and be righteous because he that sins is of the devil. And he who does what is right is righteous. You are either one, a sinner, or you're the other, you're righteous. Again, he's not distinguishing between the flesh and the spirit. Since verse nine tells us that those who are born of God do not sin, that means no matter what, the inward man is perfect, that I delight in the law of God after the inward man. Therefore, somebody is truly born again in the eyes of man and they fall into sin, or they can still fall into sin, but if they do, it's not the inward man which does it, it's the flesh which dwells in the, it's the sin that dwells in the flesh. So if the inward man does fall into sin, if you do not delight in the law of God after man, or delight in the law of God after the inward man, if you still have a desire in your heart to disobey God, if you don't feel anything, if you don't feel any chastisement or grieving upon doing wicked things, that shows that you're not born again. It's a very simple concept. Now to illustrate that further, you just read another verse ahead. First John 3, 10, it says, in this the children of God are manifest and the children of the devil, whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother. Of course, when it says of God and of the devil, it means children of God and children of the devil. If we are the children of God, we do righteousness, is basically what it's saying here. Recall that in John 1, becoming a son of God is equated with being born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. We are the sons of God if we are born again. It's pretty simple. It's like one is the son of their physical flesh and blood father because he's the one who begat them. Abraham was the father of Isaac because Abraham begat Isaac. We're the sons of God because we are begotten of God, begotten again into a lively hope as the Bible says, and I think it's in 1 Peter. So Jesus makes it clear in John chapter 3 verse 6 that this second birth, this adoption of the family of God is of the Spirit. Everything brings forth after its own kind. Since we are begotten of the Spirit, that which is born again is the Spirit. As Romans 8 says, for as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. For you have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you have received the spirit of adoption whereby we cry Abba Father. The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit that we are the children of God. Notice that it's all about the Spirit, that those who are led by the Spirit are the sons of God, that our nature as the sons of God is by the reception of spirit of adoption, that the Spirit bears witness with our spirit that we are the sons of God. Now this makes sense when you consider that the Bible teaches that our bodies have not yet been redeemed, but we have been redeemed, meaning the inward man. That's why it says later in Romans 8 that we are waiting for the redemption of the body. But it says in Ephesians 1 that the Spirit is the earnest until the redemption of the purchased possession. According to 1 Corinthians 15, which talks about the resurrection and the rapture, we are sown in corruption, but we are raised in incorruption. That is the redemption of our body. So it teaches in verse 50 of 1 Corinthians 15 that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God. And right after that, it says that at the last trump, we are changed in the moment in a twinkle of an eye and the corruptible puts on incorruption. So our bodies are still corrupted. They cannot go to heaven. They cannot go to the kingdom of heaven. It's our spirit that goes to heaven when we die, that departs into heaven. And when the resurrection happens, the body that we now have, the natural body, it's raised a spiritual body according to 1 Corinthians 15, 44. So the point I'm trying to make is that the fact that we are the children of God has nothing to do with our physical bodies, with our flesh. Jesus says in Luke chapter 20 verse 36, when he's answering the Sadducees questions about marriage in the kingdom of heaven, he awaits the children of God with the children of the resurrection. Because when the resurrection takes place, that's when our bodies are changed to become spiritual bodies. But before then, when we live our earthly lives, only the spirit is born again and becomes a child of God. And therefore, it is a spirit which does all righteousness without fail. So continuing on with what Colin Michael says. When it says he who does what is right is righteous, it's not saying with your own self-righteousness you don't need God and Jesus' death was pointless. That is not what it's saying. Jesus is still the way, the truth, and the life, and no man cometh under the Father except through him. But we must understand how we receive that blood of Christ. It says in 1 John 1 verse 7, but if we walk in the light as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his son cleanses us from all sin. So if we walk in the light or walk in righteousness as he is in the light, as he is righteous, that is when the blood of Jesus Christ his son cleanseth us from all the sins we've committed. So when you turn from that sin and you obey Christ, the blood of Jesus is applied, it washes away your sins. What kind of weird doctrine is that? Notice that he does this little trick again where he'll add on to what the verse actually says in 1 John 1.7. He says, oh, it says walk in the light, and then it'll say that means to obey Christ and to do righteousness. He doesn't give any verses to support that. He doesn't compare spiritual to spiritual. He doesn't show where the verse actually says that. He just adds on to what it says. That's not what walk in the light means. The Bible teaches elsewhere that walking in the light is just when we believe, when we're saved. Since Jesus is the light of the world, when you come to him by faith, we're no longer in darkness. He said in John chapter 12 verse 35 to 36, yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while you have the light, let darkness come upon you, for he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he goeth. While you have light, believe in the light that you may be the children of light. In John chapter 12 verse 46, he said, I am coming light into the world that whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness. This in this passage clearly defined what it means to walk in the light. In verse 35, he tells the people who are with him to walk in the light and then defines what he means in the next verse by saying that they need to believe in the light. So who is the light? In John 8 12, Jesus said, I am the light of the world. And then we saw here in John 12 46, I am coming light into the world. So if we believe on him, we become the children of light, which is by the way, exactly what I've been showing you in other verses that those who believe on Christ become the sons of God. But it says that those who believe in the light in John 12 46 do not abide in darkness. So in 1 John 1 6, the verse before the one that he quotes here, it says, walk in darkness. When it says walk in darkness, it's talking about those who do not believe, because if you believe in Jesus Christ, you're no longer in darkness. You walk in light, you're a child of the light. So in 1 John 1 7 says, walk in the light, it's not saying that we need to obey the commandments in order to have our sins washed away. It's saying that we need to believe on Jesus Christ to have our sins washed away, that we need to be saved. And that's what the scriptures teach. Acts 10 43. Again, it says whosoever believeth in him shall receive remission of sins. Our sins are not imputed unto us because we because we believe according to Romans 4 8, which you already saw. So Colin Michael wants his followers to believe that Jesus Christ blood only removes your sins if you obey him, if you do all the commandments that he commands, there's no clear verse that says that. No, it says to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth in Godly, his faith is counted for righteousness. And when we are counted as righteous, according to a multitude of scriptures that we already looked at, like Romans 5 19 and second Corinthians 5 21, it's because of Christ's righteousness, which is imputed unto us, we are made the righteousness of God. That's what the Bible teaches. So Colin Michael is false on that as well. I think I'll actually continue on with the next deception. So I'll do this one, this last point, and it's not all five deceptions. I'm going to do the fourth one. Now this video, part two, we'll go into the fifth one and then the other two videos. So the next supposed deception that he talks about is that we are saved by our faith, that all we have to do is believe on Jesus in order to be saved. He claims that's false. We've already looked at a lot of verses that show that we're saved by faith without works or in other words that you just have to trust in Christ. So let's see what the Bible says. The first and only time the question is asked, what must I do to be saved? Paul and Silas reply in Acts chapter 16 verse 31, believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shall be saved. That's a very clear verse. It doesn't say how might be saved. It doesn't say believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and do good works or believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and obey the commandments or believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and get baptized or anything else. It just believe on him and thou shall be saved. And here's another clear verse, Romans chapter 10 verse nine to 10 that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in thine heart that God hath raised the dead, thou shalt be saved for with the heart man believeth unto righteousness with a mouth confession is made unto salvation. Now usually I'll just quote verse nine, but first, and it's important for understanding what is being taught here. In order to be saved, we need to have faith in our heart and that's why it says in verse 10 with the heart. So is it an outward thing that we're doing? No, it's with the heart on the inside man believeth unto righteousness and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. And that's an important verse to keep in mind later when we'll get into what Colin Michael says. But we've already talked about the subject of righteousness or justification, but just to recap, as with the multiple scriptures that we've already read, sisters, Galatians two and Romans four, it teaches that when you believe you are righteous again, the righteousness of God without the laws manifested being witnessed by the law and the prophets, even the righteousness of God, which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all of them that believe or whosoever that believe whosoever believeth in me, I'll never die, Jesus said. So we have the righteousness of God. If we have faith in Jesus Christ, we believe in our heart on him. Then we are righteous, just like Abraham believed God in his faith was counted for righteousness. Now consider this other clear verse Ephesians chapter two, verse eight to nine for by grace, are you saved through faith? And then not of yourselves. It is a gift of God, not of works of city, mansion, boats. So not only does it tell us that we are saved by grace through faith, but it also clarifies as not of works. Eternal life is a gift from God, according to Romans six 23. So when it says here, the gift of God, it's referring to eternal life. Therefore if we have faith, we have eternal life. It's not of works according to the scripture, lest any man should boast. That's why it says in Romans two for if Abraham or Romans four, rather verse two for if Abraham were justified by works, he has where of the glory, but not before God, he had something to glory about or boast about, but not in the eyes of God. We're not justified by our works in the eyes of God. We're justified and saved by grace through faith. Now this is also evident in the fact that the scriptures teach that grace and works are opposites. Some people will say you're saved by grace and works, that they work together, that you need both, even though this verse says it's not by grace or it is by grace and it's not of works in Ephesians two, lest any man should boast, they'll still say, yeah, you have to have both. So according to Ephesians two, yes, grace says for by grace are you saved, works, no, not of works. It's very clear Romans 11 six says, and if by grace that is no more of works, otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, that is no more grace. Otherwise work is no more works. So if it's saying what it's saying is that if it's by grace, then it's not of works. Nobody would deny that we're saved by grace. I don't even know if he, I haven't heard him say grace. I think I watched all his videos. I don't think I ever heard him say grace at all. But if you read the Bible, it'd be impossible to deny that we're saved by grace. But it says that if it's of grace, then it's not of works. It says in the verse that is of works, that is no more of grace. They cancel each other out. It's an oxymoron to say that we're saved by both grace and works because it shows that people who believe this crap don't even know what those two words mean. Now they'll just throw out words like grace and works and not even look into what these words actually mean. They're not hard words. Grace means kindness, unmerited favor. It's something that's given out of love and not because we deserve it. On the opposite, works is the other. Works is effort. Works is doing something. Works is something that we do in order to deserve it. If our salvation were by works, it means it's by our own effort. It means we deserve it. Romans 4 says to him that worketh is the reward of grace, or is the reward reckoned not of grace but of debt. So God is not a communist. He's going to give you compensation if you work for him. If you do things that God has commanded you, he's going to give you a reward out of debt but not of grace. Just like any other human boss or master would pay you for the job that you do, God gives us rewards for the jobs that we do. But that's not grace, and that's not a gift either. Remember, Ephesians 2 and Romans 6 23 says that salvation is a gift from God. It's contradictory in idiocy to say that salvation can be a gift and say that it's by grace while simultaneously saying that it also works. Those two things are opposites. It's impossible. That's why Romans 11 6 is in the Bible, because people are saying that and it makes no sense. Here's another verse which shows that we are saved by faith alone. Ephesians chapter 1 verse 12 to 14 says that we should be to the praise of his glory who first trusted in Christ, in whom you also trusted, after that you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, in whom also after that you believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, until the praise of his glory. Notice here that the word is used, trust. That's not a difficult word to understand either. Trust is when you fully rely on something. When you believe on Christ, that is trusting in him, meaning that your faith is in him to get you to heaven and nothing else. In verse 13 it makes it clear that what the word of our salvation is, that we heard the word of truth, which is the gospel, that we believe they're trusted in Christ, then we were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise. It doesn't say anything about doing works in order to receive the Holy Ghost. In Ephesians 4 30 it says we are sealed unto the day of redemption, which is the redemption of the purchased possession mentioned here in verse 14. That would be our bodies, which have been purchased since the Bible says that we are God's possessive. Our body is the temple of the Holy Ghost in 1 Corinthians 6 verse 9 to 20. That detail is important for the faith deception that he says that you can lose your salvation. We'll talk about that later, but keep Ephesians 1 in mind. But here's another verse, which I've already quoted from several times, and that's Romans 4 5. It says, but to him that worketh not, but believeth on that justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness. It uses pretty crystal clear language there. It says to him that worketh not. So let's say I don't do any works whatsoever. That means I work not. But if I believe on him that justifies the ungodly, even though I don't have the works, I do have faith in Jesus, and it says my faith is counted for righteousness. At the end of Romans 4 it says that righteousness is imputed unto him, or imputed unto us if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead. That is justification when we are made just or righteous because of our faith and not because of our own works. It reiterates this fact in the very next verse, in verse 6, it talks about people who have righteousness imputed unto them, even if they do not have works. So it is possible to believe, to have faith, but to not have works, according to these verses. And he'll say, well, no, you have to have both, or sometimes he kind of mixes them up and he says that faith is works, and he kind of contradicts himself. In this video he'll say that faith is works, which doesn't make any sense, and then in another video he'll say you need to have faith and works. So these people will preach a false gospel, they don't even know what they're talking about, they keep contradicting themselves. So if you go to Titus chapter 3 verse 5 to 7, it says, not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us by the washing of regeneration or renewing of the Holy Ghost, which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior that being justified by his grace we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life. So again, in case it wasn't clear enough already that we're not saved by our own works, by our works of righteousness, it says here, again, that we're not saved by works of righteousness which we have done. Our works have nothing to do with our salvation. It says in verse 7, we are justified by grace, remember Romans 11 6, if it's by grace it's not of works, if it were of works then it's not of grace, they're opposites. The Bible says in Galatians chapter 3 verse 11, but that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God as is evident for the just shall live by faith. Just as Romans 3 teach us, we're not justified by the law, it says, in the sight of God in verse 20. We live by faith instead, we're given eternal life when we believe, Jesus said he that believeth on me hath everlasting life, in John 6 47. So if we have faith, it doesn't matter what works we have, we have eternal life. There's no other requirement. Here's another clear scripture from the same exact chapter, Galatians 3 verse 21 to 24. It says, is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid. For if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law. But the scripture hath concluded all under sin that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe. But before faith came, we are kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed. Wherefore, the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, though he might be justified by faith. I've already talked in part about verses 21 and 22 here in Galatians 3, but just recapping and breaking this down a bit. If there had been a law given which could have given life, righteousness should have been by the law. Now the Bible just got done telling us that righteousness is not by the law in verse 11 and at the end of Galatians 2 and verse 21 where it says, if righteousness has come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain. That's why also Colin Michael said at the end of the last so-called deception, that's why what he said was so stupid because he says that, I'm not denying Christ's atonement. He says that Christ's atonement is only for people who repent of their sins, but that contradicts these scriptures in Galatians 2 and Galatians 3. Here's the thing, and he might say, well, I'm not saying that you have to obey the law, you're not justified by the law, but here's the thing, sin is defined in the Bible as a transgression of the law. Even he knows that he already quoted the verse 1 John 3, 4 in the video that he made. So if you're transgressing the law, then you're sinning. Colin says that we need to turn from our sin and start doing righteousness, start obeying the commandments of God. So what is he saying? If we turn from our sin, we're no longer sinning, then we're obeying the law instead of transgressing the law. So he's saying that Christ's death is only for those who obey the law, which of course flies in the face of Galatians 2.21, which says, if righteousness is by the law, then Christ is dead in vain. If we could just turn from our sins and obey God, we would have no need for a Savior, we'd have no need for Christ to die for us. So that's why it says in Galatians 3.22, but the scripture hath concluded all under sin. If the truth was that we weren't all under sin, it would have been the case that righteousness should have been by the law. The point is that because all have sinned, because there is not a just man upon earth that doeth good and sineth not, we cannot achieve righteousness by the law because we've all broken the law, because we are all susceptible to fall into sin, because we have that fleshly nature, the sinful flesh, which cannot be subject to the law of God. Therefore that's why it says it is by faith that the promise is given to them that believe in Jesus Christ. Notice also in verse 24, it hammers in this doctrine even further. It says the purpose of the law in the first place, the reason why the Israelites were given the commandments of God was to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. That's what it says in Romans 3.19, that what thinks over the law sayeth it saith to them that are unto the law, that every mouth may be stopped and all the world may become guilty before God. The purpose of the law is to help us to understand that we are guilty so that the offense might abound so that we come to Christ in faith. The gospel is simple, false prophets like this guy, Colin Michael, want to just make it confusing. The fact is that we're all sinners, we're all on our way to hell, but Christ died for our sins so that we can be saved from our sins. He was buried, he rose again. If we believe on him, we are saved and we're given eternal life. It makes no sense to say that we can be saved by obedience to the law because if that's true then what was the purpose of Christ dying for our sins? There is no purpose. He can't explain that. Over and over again, the Bible teaches that all we have to do in order to be saved is believe on Jesus. He said, I am the resurrection of life. He that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live, and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die, John 11, verse 25 to 26. The Bible says, he that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life. He that believeth not the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abideth on him. There's only two types of people, those who have everlasting life, those who are saved from their sins, those are they which believe. And then there's also those who don't believe. They have the wrath of God abiding on them. The scriptures do not say anywhere that we are saved by anything else but our faith. In fact, it's made clear on multiple occasions that we're not saved by our works. Ephesians 2, 8 to 9 says not of works. It says not by works of righteousness, which we have done, that we are not made just by the law. We're not made just by the works of the law, et cetera. It keeps saying that over and over again. So let's see what Colin Michael says because that's what the biblical teaching is. What does he teach? Deception number four, all you have to do is just accept Jesus or simply believe in order to be saved. Nowhere in the Bible did Jesus or the apostles say accept Jesus. That is not the salvation message. And even though we do have verses like John 3 16 where it talks about believing and be saved, you need to understand what belief and what faith itself is because it's not just this mental accepting of Jesus Christ. That is not what true faith is. So basically what he's saying is the word believe does not mean believe. Faith does not actually mean faith. That's what heretics will often do like Calvinists. They'll take a simple word in the Bible and say it doesn't mean what it actually says. It means what I tell you it means. Any person who knows what believe and faith means, it's not difficult to figure out that he's lying here because belief and faith are very simple words. Everybody knows what those words mean. In case you're having any doubts about what those words mean, he says, I haven't played it yet, but he will say, I will go on to say that real faith is when you do the works, which doesn't make any sense. But in case you have any doubts about whether or not believe actually means believe and whether or not faith actually means faith, how about the word trust? That's also used to describe our salvation in Ephesians 1 verse 12 to 13, it says in whom he also trusted after that you heard the word of truth, the gospel of our salvation. Surely you're not going to say that the word trust does not actually mean trust. Again, it's the same tactics that the Calvinists use where they'll see dozens of verses in the Bible that say that all or every, or the whole world, and they'll try to diminish that. They'll say that Jesus' atonement was only for a few people or for the elect, even though the Bible says he tasted death for every man. Colin Michael's doing the same thing. He's saying that the words that are written in the Bible don't mean what they actually mean. Trust, belief, faith, they're not hard words. They're like words that every three or four year old knows. Psalm chapter 86 verse 2 says, thou my God, save thy servant that trusteth in thee. So we're saved by trust, we're saved by faith. Those words are synonymous. You know that if you had a dictionary or if you knew your vocabulary or if you're just not a flat out liar like this guy is. Trust is relying on someone, a full belief that they are reliable. When the Bible says believe, it means trust in Christ. Rest upon him as the only way to heaven. And it's also again unclear what Colin Michael is even arguing against because the so-called deception that he says is that you simply believe in Christ for salvation. But now he's saying, well, yeah, you do have to believe because that's what John 3 16 is saying. But believe doesn't actually be belief. Real faith is worse. Real faith is having more than just faith, which is stupid. So let's see what evidences he uses to explain that. Instead of just looking at John 3 16, we need to look at what all of scripture says. Jesus said in Luke 10, verse 25 through 28, and behold, a certain lawyer... Actually before I go on, I just want to say we are looking at what all scripture says. What Colin Michael says does not agree with what the Bible says. I've already showed you that. It's funny how he uses barely any verses and he never addresses verses like Ephesians 1 12 to 14, John 11 25, Galatians 2 16, Ephesians 2 8 to 9, Titus 3 5, places like that. He never talks about those. He just wanted to take these few verses out of context and say, I'm looking at all of scripture, but he's not. So now he's quoting from Luke chapter 10, verse 25 to 28. Stood up and tempted him, saying, Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life? He said unto him, What is written in the law? How readest thou? And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, with all thy soul, with all thy strength, and with all thy mind and thy neighbor as thyself. And he said unto him, Thou has answered right, this do and thou shalt live. Now Luke chapter 10, verse 25 to 28 does not in any way show that we are saved by works. Jesus is responding to the question which is given by the certain lawyer that comes to him. And the question is, what shall I do to inherit internal life? So in a similar passage in the Matthew record of the story, Jesus has asked, what good thing shall I do that I may inherit eternal life? In Matthew chapter 19, verse 16, and Jesus tells the man to obey the commandments because the person is self-righteous. And we see that in this chapter in verse 29, in Luke 10, it says to the man, but he willing to justify himself said unto Jesus, and who is my neighbor? So the Bible says it is God that justifies in Romans 833. If we were to truly be saved, it is through the justification that God gives up to us that he declares us as righteous. This guy was seeking to justify himself, but the only way that we can be saved is through the justification of God, that God makes us righteous. Now the difference is evident because we are justified by faith, it has nothing to do with our own righteousness. It says, not by works of righteousness, which we have done in Titus 3.5, and it says in verse 7 that being justified by grace, we should be made agorous according to the hope of eternal life. This lawyer, on the other hand, is not looking to be justified by grace, he's looking to justify himself by his own righteousness, by his own good deeds, and his own obedience. He thinks that that will get him to heaven. But obedience to the commandments of God, they can't give life if you obey them all. The problem is that everybody is a sinner, because Galatians 3, 21 to 22, remember it says, for if there had been a law which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law. But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to all those that believe. So if we could be made righteous by the law, it should be so. But all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. The same chapter, Galatians 3, verse 11, it says, curses everyone that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them. We're expected to be perfect. If we never break the law of God, then we would never be sinners, and therefore we would never die. It says in Romans, chapter 7, verse 10 to 11, and the commandment which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death. For sin, taken occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me. Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy and just and good. So there's nothing wrong with the commandments themselves. The law is holy and just and good, according to the Bible. The problem is our flesh, as I said before, it cannot be subject to the law of God, and it says, in it dwells no good thing. So the commandment is unto death because we have not all obeyed the commandments, because we've all disobeyed the commandments, and that's why we cannot be justified by keeping the law, because nobody has kept it. That's the whole point of Romans 3, that everybody's a sinner, that there's nobody justified by the law in his sight, but we are justified by Jesus Christ, by faith in Jesus Christ, because all have sinned, so we are saved freely through the grace which is in Jesus Christ. Salute 10 does not teach that the real meaning of faith is to do works as well as he says. No, the point is that if you're willing to justify yourself, you need to keep all the commandments. You need to not break a single one, which nobody can. So what else does he say? Acts 10 verses 34 through 35, then Peter opened his mouth and said of a truth, I perceive that God is no respecter of persons, but in every nation he that heareth him, he who worketh in righteousness, is accepted with him. Now that verse says nothing about salvation, and you'll find a lot of the people who teach a false gospel, they'll take a verse that doesn't even mention things like being saved, having eternal life, being justified, being forgiven of sins, etc. They'll just see a verse like this that says nothing of that and say, see you need to do works in order to be saved. Or they'll just take a verse that says that you should work for God and say, see you need to work in order to be saved, which is silly because for some reason they have this attitude that just because we say we're saved by faith, that means that we think that we shouldn't obey the commandments at all, which is not true. We believe that we should still obey God and live a good life, not for our salvation, but because we love God. So it shows their spiritual blindness that they don't know what they're talking about. The context of Acts chapter 10 is that Peter initially has this attitude that there's a difference between the Jews and the Gentiles, even though the Bible says that there is no difference. And he says in verse 28, that is an unlawful thing for Jews to keep company with one of another nation. At the beginning of the chapter, God shows a vision to Peter in which a sheet carrying all kinds of unclean animals descends from heaven. And God says to Peter, what God has cleansed, thou shall not call uncommon. Now Peter understands the vision later in this chapter in verses 34 and 35, which Colin Michael quotes. But the fact that God says what God has cleansed shows us that he's talking about people that are already saved, even of the Gentiles, which included Cornelius, who was already a believer, if you read earlier parts of the chapter. So the purpose of the statement in verse 34 and 35, especially in verse 35, is that Jewish Christians should not be forbidden fellowship with Gentiles because God is not a respecter of persons. However, the Bible does say in 1 Corinthians 5 to not have fellowship with those who are fornicators and drunkards and extortioners, et cetera. The point is that we should not exclude fellowship based on or that we should exclude fellowship based on righteous things and not based on ethnicity or nations or things like that. Not only that, but Colin Michael seems to ignore a few verses later in verse 43, where it says to him, give all the prophets witness that through his name whosoever believeth them shall receive remission of sins, which is said by the same person that says these verses, which are not talking about salvation. That verse is talking about remission of sins. So again, if we just believe what the Bible says, instead of twisting it to what we want it to say, the words that are written by God, what it means is what it means. What it means is what it says. We understand that faith or trust is the only requirement for the remission of sins. That's what it says in the passage. That's an actual salvation verse. Acts chapter 10, verse 35 is not. So it doesn't teach that you need to have works in order to be saved or that faith is really doing works. It doesn't even say anything about faith in the verse. So here's another scripture that he gives Romans 2 13 for not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified. You know what? I say, amen to that because we've already pointed that out that I've already made that point with Luke chapter 10. However, if you stop reading in Romans 2 13, if you don't read the entirety of the book of Romans, or at least the first few chapters of the book of Romans, the point that Paul is making, particularly to the Jews who boast in the law is that just because you have the law, just because you have committed the oracles of God, that doesn't mean anything. The Jews were self-righteous. They believed that the fact that they were physical descendants of Abraham was enough to save them. But Paul points out that they are still sinners and therefore have not been doers of the law. Remember what James chapter two, verse 10 to 11 says, for whosoever shall keep the whole law and yet offended one point, he is guilty of all for he that said, do not commit adultery said also do not kill. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art becoming transgressive of the law. So what it's saying is that it doesn't matter if you've committed one sin, but you have to commit another. If you commit any sin, if you transgress in one point, you're still a transgressor. You're still a sinner because sin is transgression of the law. If we read in Romans three, it says there is none righteous, no, not one. It says all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. And therefore it says in Romans three, 20 therefore by the deeds of the law, there shall no flesh be justified in his sight for by the law is the knowledge of sin, but the righteousness of God without the laws manifested being witnessed by the law and the prophets, even the righteousness of God, which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all than the belief. So in Romans two, he indeed does say that the doers of the law shall be justified. But if you stop reading there, you're going to come into his false doctrine. But if you continue to read into the next chapter, he talks of justification through Jesus Christ. It specifically says in verse 21 that this is the righteousness, which is without the law. Yes, if you're a doer of the law, you will be justified. But the problem is nobody is a doer of the law. That's why it says that no flesh shall be justified in his sight or as it says in Galatians three, 11, no man is justified by the law in the sight of God. No man means no man, not you, Colin Michael, not anybody. That's a clear contrast between justification by the law and justification by faith. He wants to say that obedience to the law is included in faith, which doesn't make any sense because then how can it say in Romans three 28, we are justified by faith without the deeds of the law. If they're the same thing, if, if you, if you have real faith and you're going to obey the law, then how can it say faith without the deeds of the law? That makes no sense. Or if you read the next chapter where it says him that worketh not, but believeth, that makes no sense. That shows you his false understanding of the gospel. Next verse. Galatians five verse six, for Jesus Christ neither circumcision of anything nor uncircumcision, but faith which worketh by love. Again, it's another verse that doesn't say anything about salvation. The word avail just means to benefit or to have positive use to profit us. You're saying that there's no point of being circumcised or uncircumcised. It makes no difference. Notice that he says in the verse Galatians five six for in Jesus Christ, he's talking about people who are already Christians. The whole point of the book of Galatians is to write to a church which have been given orders, Judaizing Hebrew roots, like doctrine, where false brethren unaware is brought in, have brought in this false teaching that you need to be circumcised and obey the commandments of God and et cetera, in order to be safe. Now some are being led to a false gospel entirely while Paul still addresses some of them as brethren, such as in verse 11. He knows that there are some people in the church who are saved, but who are getting circumcised because they have this weird false doctrine that's creeping in that it profits them something, that getting circumcised means something. But he says in verse two that if you be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing. Now he's not saying if you're circumcised, you can't be saved. Obviously there are Jews who got saved. What he's saying that it doesn't do anything for you. If you're a Christian, you get circumcised, nothing changes. It's literally useless. Notice what Paul says in the next chapter. He uses very similar language in Galatians six, verse 15. For in Christ Jesus, neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature. We've already talked about what the new creature is in second Corinthians five 17. It says that if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature. In verse 15, it does not say in Christ Jesus, or here in verse six, it says in Jesus Christ. So the subjects of these verses, the one who Paul is speaking about are those who are born again. These people are in Christ. They have a new creature. They are a new man. He says that circumcision, nor uncircumcision doesn't do anything for them. It's not profitable. It doesn't avail anything. It's useless because it's not about the circumcision of the flesh, it's about the circumcision of the heart. But that faith that worketh in love does do something for us. Now does it say that it gets us saved? No, because these people were already born again. They're already in Jesus Christ according to these verses. We're not talking about unsaved people. We're talking about those who are in Christ Jesus. That's what the verse says. It doesn't say you get saved by having faith that worketh by love. So let's move on to the next verse. James 2 24, ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only. I've talked about James 2 a lot of times on this channel, so I don't want to spend a lot of time on it in this particular video and going into the context of the verse. But I have made videos on it in the past. I would suggest watching the video Law and Grace, Episode 2, The Lordship Salvation Heresy, which was about three or four months ago, and about the 43-minute mark is when I start talking about James Chapter 2. So if you want a more in-depth explanation of the context and the whole passage from verse 14 to verse 24, I suggest watching that video. But just focusing on this verse right here, notice the phrase how that. How that means in what way. He's basically saying you understand in what way we are justified by works. Now if you look at the context, this way in which we are justified by works is in the sight of man. Take verse 18, it says, Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works. Show me thy faith without thy works, and I will show thee my faith by my works. Now does it say God may say? No, it says a man may say. The difference between God and man is that man can't see your faith. Nobody can see your heart. The Bible says that Jesus knew all men and knew what was in man in John 2. The Bible says in 1 Samuel Chapter 16, verse 7, that man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart. And what does the Bible say in Romans 10, 10? With the heart man believeth unto righteousness, though contrary to Colin Michael's bizarre idea that believe does not actually mean believe, that it involves obedience, the Bible tells us that belief is an inward thing. It is the heart that believeth, it is the heart that has faith unto righteousness. And since the Lord looketh on the heart, God does not need us to prove our faith by doing outward works. Man is different though. Nobody can read each other's minds. I can't see anybody's faith and nobody can see my faith because we don't know what's in the heart. All we can see is what's outward. The only way that we can be declared righteous in the eyes of man is by our works. That's why if you go back to James 2 18, hypothetical man says, I will show thee my faith by my works. We could demonstrate to each other the faith that we have by our works, by the works that we do. But the Lord does not care about our works. That's why the Bible says not by works of righteousness, which we have done. If you'll look also at James Chapter 2, verse 21 to 22, it says, would not Abraham, our father justified by works when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar, theist thou how faith wrought with his works and by works was faith made perfect. Now, first of all, I'd like to point out that in verse 22, it says, faith wrought with his works. As if the Bible doesn't clearly distinguish between faith and works already in Ephesians two, eight to nine, it's obvious that faith and works are not the same thing because it's with the works. It's not part of the works. So it doesn't make any sense to say that real faith means that you're working. Like this guy is claiming, but let's just examine the statement that's being made here about Abraham. Abraham is said to have been justified by works when he offered up Isaac his son upon the altar. That was in Genesis 22, but it was all the way back in Genesis 15 verse six, where it says, and he believed in the Lord and it was counted to him for righteousness. That was long before Isaac was even born, a few decades before Isaac was even born. And yet it still says he was already justified. He was already made righteous in the eyes of God. Why? Because he believed in the Lord. Now let's compare what James two says with what Romans four says. Romans four verse one to three says, what shall we say then that Abraham, our father is pertaining to the flesh has found for if Abraham were justified by works, he hath where of the glory, but not before God. For what say the scripture Abraham believed God, it was counted onto him for righteousness. Now I want to particularly focus on verse two here. It says, if Abraham were justified by works, let's stop there. Was Abraham justified by works? Yes. According to Roman or James chapter two, verse 21, Abraham was justified by works when he offered Isaac his son upon the altar. So Abraham was justified by works. Then it says he has where of the glory, but not before God. Now I don't know how that could get any clearer. Abraham was justified. So therefore he had something in glory about meaning he had something to boast about, but not before God. Remember in James chapter two, it's a man that requires us to show our faith by works, not God. God does not care about our works. Abraham was not justified in the sight of God by his works. He was just finding the sight of man by his works. That's why it says in verse three, it clearly tells us he was justified by his faith. His faith was counted for righteousness. Righteousness. Now if you keep reading Romans four, it says in verse five, but to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justified the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness, even as David also described it, the blessedness of the man unto whom God imputed righteousness without works. So according to his twisted interpretation of James two, real faith is when you also have works. Now, if that's so, then why does it say in verse five of Romans four to him that worketh not, but believeth his faith is counted for righteousness. So if there's a person who believes on him, his faith is counted for righteousness, even if he doesn't have any works. If he believes on him to justify the ungodly, it is possible for him that to work not according to this verse, otherwise it would be meaningless. Same thing with verse six. It says the man unto whom God imputed righteousness without works. If you need works in order to be justified, if you need that works with your faith, then why is it talking about people who believe, who are justified, but do not have the works? These verses would be meaningless in this interpretation. So James two 24 has nothing to do with being justified in the sight of God. Righteousness is given to those who believe. There's plenty of clear verses on that, but Colin just wants to ignore multitudes of scripture and not compare spiritual with spiritual. So here's his next verse. In Hebrews five verse nine, and being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him. Obeying him here is not the obedience to the law or the commandments of God. It's the obedience to the gospel, which is a term that is used in the Bible in several places. For example, when it talks about Jesus's return on the white horse of Armageddon, it says in second Thessalonians chapter one, verse seven to eight, and to you who are troubled rest with us when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming fire, taking vengeance on them that know not God and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. What does it mean when it says obey not the gospel? Well, first of all, you can just look at verses which talk about the wrath of God, which is described here. And John said he that believeth not the son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abideth on him. It's about those who do not believe. We've already seen from places like Ephesians one, verse 12 to 14, Ephesians two, verse eight to nine, Romans four, that faith and works are separate. So to say believe, it means trust. It's very simple. Another place we find this term to obey the gospel is in Romans 10, verse 16, but they have not all obey the gospel for Isaiah saith, Lord, who has believed a report that defines obey the gospel as believing the report, which is the death, burial and resurrection. When you put your trust in Christ in his death, burial and resurrection for your salvation, you've obeyed the gospel. So when Hebrews 10 or Hebrews chapter five, verse nine, when it says to all of them that obey him, it's referring to what it says in Acts chapter 17, verse 30, that God commandeth all men everywhere to repent. Or as it says in first John three 23, and this is, this is his commandment that we should believe on the name of his son, Jesus Christ. The call to repent and to believe the gospel is a commandment from God. It's not an option. Either you believe or you're damned because there's no other way to be saved except through faith of Jesus Christ. So that's obeying the gospel. That's the obeying him that's mentioned here in Hebrews chapter five, verse nine. And we know that because there's literally hundreds of verses in the Bible that tell us that we are saved by faith, that if we believe on him, we have everlasting life, et cetera. So let's see what he says. Just a few verses from the New Testament. There's plenty more in the Old Testament. It is obedience to God. Faith is faithfulness to God and his commandments. Again, that's wrong. Faith is trust. Remember Ephesians one 12 to 14. If faith were obedience to God's commandment, why would it say in Galatians three 11 that no man is justified by the law and the sight of God is evident for the just to live by faith. Faith is contrasted with obedience to the law. They're different. They're two opposites. Now I'm not talking about keeping Moses' law. I'm not talking about what Romans chapter three and four and what Galatians is talking about where it says by the works of the law, we are not justified. I'm not talking about circumcision. If you look at the context, that's what those passages are talking about. It's not talking about God's moral law. It's talking about circumcision. You're not justified by circumcision. Again, he's lying. It's a habit of saying the context, the context, but he never actually talked about the context or gives actual verses because he knows that most people are goable and don't even read their Bibles. So they're not going to see that if what he's saying is true or not, and we'll see more examples of that as we continue. But he says that Romans three and four, it's only talking about circumcision, which he says is the works of the law, which is stupid for several reasons. First of all, Romans three does not use, uh, does not just use the term deeds of the law. It also says the law, if we're going to use or apply that same logic, uh, and then why is Romans two 13, which he quotes not talking about circumcision, but the actual commandments, but Romans three 21, when it says the righteousness of God without the law, why is that only talking about circumcision? Why is Romans two 13 a verse that he's used where it says the law, but Romans three 21 is not talking about the actual commandments. He's picking and choosing where law actually means law and where law doesn't mean law. It just means circumcision. Just looking at the context that he tells us to look at. It's obvious to anybody who knows how to read that we're not talking just about circumcision. We already know that sin is a transgression of the law. He uses that verse first John three, four earlier in the video to teach the doctrine that we have a choice to obey God's commandments. So if a transgression of the law of sin is a transgression of the law, then why does it say all have sinned and come show the glory of God? It's saying all have transgressed the law. If it's just talking about circumcision, why does it say that in the chapter, even Colin Michael will admit that when we're talking about sin, it's talking about more than just being circumcised or uncircumcised, but it includes adultery and fornication and murder and theft and idolatry and covetousness, et cetera. That's sin. You're disobeying the law. You're sinning. So if we look at the context of the Romans three passage, we go from verse 10 to verse 22, it says we're justified by faith without the deeds of the law. But it also says this, as it is written, there is none righteous, no, not one. There's none that understand it. There's none that seeketh after God. They're all gone out of the way. They're together become unprofitable. There's none to do with good. No, not one. Their throat is an open sepulcher with their tongues. They have used a seat. The poison of asks is under their lips, whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness. Their feet are swift to shed blood and destruction and misery are in their ways and the way of peace. Have they not known? There is no fear of God before their eyes. Now we know what things over the law sayeth. It's safe for them. We're under the law that every mouth may be stopped and all the world may become guilty before God. Therefore, by the deeds of the law, there shall no flesh be justified in his sight for by the laws and knowledge of sin. But now the righteousness of God without the laws manifested being witnessed by the law and the prophets, even the righteousness of God, which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe for there is no difference. So look at the sins that are mentioned from verse 10 and verse 18. Does it say anything about being circumcised? No. It talks about lies in verse 13, it talks about cursing in verse 14, murder in verse 15, destruction and misery in verse 16, violence in verse 17, not fearing God in verse 18, not circumcision. That's never mentioned in the chapter. So Paul writes this quoting from multiple passages in the Old Testament to show that everybody's a sinner. Why would he say none is righteous, no, not one? What is the purpose of quoting this if his point has nothing to do with obeying the commandments? If everything he's talking about here is just ritual observance and not the moral commandments. I'm pretty sure when he says the feet are swift to shed blood, it has nothing to do with ritual law, it has everything to do with the commandment thou shall not kill. The moral law as he calls it. And once we read all this in verse 19, it says, now we know that what thinks over the law saith, it saith to them that are under the law, that every mouth may be stopped and all the world may become tilted before caught. So are we just talking about the ritual law? No, because it says what thinks so ever the law saith. Does the law say thou shall not commit adultery? Yes. Does the law say thou shall not kill? Yes. Does the law say thou shall not steal? Yes. So we're not just talking about circumcision. We're talking about the law in general, the whole law, the purpose of the law, the things that the law says is to stop every mouth and to bring all the world guilty before God. As it says in Galatians 3 24, the law is our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ so we might be justified by faith. The whole reason that the commandments of God were given were to teach us that we cannot justify ourselves so that we put our faith in God and are saved by him and not by our own works of righteousness. Romans 7 12 tells us that the law is holy and just and good, but it says in the next verse, but sin that it might appear sin working death in me by that which is good, that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful. Or as it said just a few chapters earlier, that the offense might abound. God never expected us to be declared righteous by doing good things. He expected us to have the knowledge of sin so we know that we're sinners in need of a savior and therefore turn to Christ in faith so we can be justified by our faith. For Romans 3 20 it says, therefore, by the deeds of the law, there shall no flesh be justified in this sight for by the law is the knowledge of sin. The word therefore means for this reason. When a verse starts with the word therefore, it's helpful to read what it says beforehand and the verses leading up to that to understand what it's talking about. Colin Michael lies and says the deeds of the law refers to circumcision. But if you read the preceding verses, it's about the fact that everybody has morally disobeyed God, that everybody is a breaker of God's law and therefore will not be justified by the law. Verse 21 says the righteousness of God without the law. Again, it's talking about the actual law, that which sinners transgress. When you sin, you're transgressing the law. That's what it's speaking about here. What about Galatians? Because he says the same thing. He says Galatians is talking about circumcision. But again, even in Galatians 2 16 where it says we're justified by faith and not by the works of the law, this is defined as also just the law in Galatians 2 21, it says if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain. So it shortens the works of the law to just the law. You probably say, well, it's still just talking about circumcision, still just talking about the rituals in verse 21. First of all, it doesn't even say that. It just says the law. You're just reading that in the text. And again, if this is only talking about the ritual law, then why does it say in Romans 2 13, which says just the law and 1 John 3 4, which says the same as the transgression of the law. So he's basically just picking and choosing where law actually means law, what law means. In this verse where it says law, it means the whole law. In this verse where it says law, it means circumcision. Why? Because I said so, not because anything in the context says anything about that. Now in this verse, it means this and that verse, it means something else. That's the kind of the thing that he's doing. But when we're looking at verses that talk about righteousness and justification, verses that say something about salvation, they're both talking about righteousness and justification. One verse will say the law, one other verse will say the law. They're both talking about salvation, but you'll say this one doesn't mean the law. This one does mean the law, but that's not good enough for you. If that argument doesn't make any sense to you, I kind of said a little bit weird, but how about this Galatians chapter 3 verse 10 says, for it, many years are of the works of the law are under a curse for it is written, cursed is everyone that continue with not in all things that are written the book of the law to do them. So in the first part of the verse, it says works of the law, and then it quotes from Deuteronomy 27, where it says all things, which are written the book of the law that includes the 10 commandments that includes the moral law as he calls it. So if you look at Deuteronomy 27 and 28, which give the curses Deuteronomy 28, 15, for example, when God begins to list off a multitude of curses, he specifically says that these curses will come upon those who do not observe to do all his commandments and his statutes, which I command thee this day. So it's not limited to just the ceremonial or carnal commandments as the New Testament calls them. The curse is upon those who do not observe all the commandments and statutes of God. It's talking about all things that are written in the book of the law and therefore based on the statement, the next verse, verse 11 in Galatians 3 says, no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, exactly what Romans 3 is teaching and what it says back in Galatians 2. So the law is all things written in the book of the law, all commandments, all statutes of God, not just circumcision. So no commandment can get us saved. So don't listen to his lies about, it's not in context because if you look at the context, it's the exact opposite of what he's teaching. So moving on with what he says. As Galatians 5 verse 6 put it, it's not circumcision available if anything, nor uncircumcision. It is faith which works by love, which points us right back to Jesus in Luke 10 where he says, if you will love God and you will love your neighbor, if you do this, you will live. Faith works by love and it works and it obeys Christ to love God and to love your neighbor. You must submit yourself. You must bow the knee to the king of kings and follow what he commands. You're not going to enter the kingdom of God. Again, these verses that he keeps repeating over and over again, they have nothing to do with our spiritual salvation and I've already covered them, so I'm just going to move on right now. If you cannot obey the king's command, Revelation 22 verse 14, blessed are they that do his commandments that they may have the right to the tree of life and may enter in through the gates into the city. That's something that we went over as well earlier, that flesh and blood does not inherit the kingdom of God. Jesus said in John chapter 3 verse 3 that except the man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God and he defines that in verse 6 that being born again is being born in the spirit. First John chapter 3 verse 9 says that whosoever is born of God does not commit sin. Romans chapter 7 verse 25 says with the mind I myself serve the law of God but with the flesh the law of sin. There's a difference between the spirit and the flesh. The spirit has changed that which is quickened when we give in our eternal life and when that happens, God puts his spirit within us and causes us to walk in his law according to Ezekiel 36. That can clearly be seen in 1 Corinthians 6. It's written verse 9 to 11, know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived, neither fornicators nor idolaters nor adulterers nor effeminate nor abusers of themselves with mankind nor thieves nor covetous nor drunkards nor revilers nor extortioners shall inherit the kingdom of God. Now I've heard of people who will teach the same false doctrines that Colin Michael is teaching here and they'll use this verse, 1 Corinthians 6 verse 9 to 10 and they'll say that if you don't obey the commandments we will not inherit the kingdom of God which first of all doesn't even say enter into the kingdom of God, it says inherit which means receiving the rewards of the kingdom of God, ruling over the kingdom of God not just entering into it, inheritance is not the same thing as entrance but even then they'll say that none of these people, no fornicator, no thief, no drunkard or whatever will inherit the kingdom of God and I say amen to that, that's true, that's what the Bible says, that's what it clearly says there but if you stop reading in verse 10 you're going to get the wrong idea about what that is saying because it says in verse 11 and such were some of you but you are watched, you are sanctified but you are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the spirit of our God, notice the word used in verse 9, it says the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God but in verse 11 it says these people were justified, that they were washed, the Bible says that he has washed us from our sins in his own blood in Revelation chapter 5 so these people were unrighteous according to verse 9 or verse 11 it says that they were these people but they are, notice how it's present tense, justified, sanctified and they are washed so in the eyes of God even though these people were all these sinners they are right now, they are justified as we've already seen in a multitude of scriptures justification is by faith so they believe on Christ, they were saved from their sins, they were justified, born again so that the inward man delights after the law of God and therefore when they die and their soul departs into heaven their soul having been born of God is sinless then when their bodies are raised again they're changed in a moment in the twinkling of an eye at the last trump according to 1st Corinthians 15 and given an incorruptible body therefore anybody who is in the kingdom of heaven when Jesus Christ comes back and establishes the kingdom of heaven those who were in the kingdom of heaven anybody in New Jerusalem as he quotes here in Revelation 22 about New Jerusalem they have kept the commandments because sin is not imputed unto them because they are born of God because whosoever is born of God does not commit sin but that's not talking about our flesh that exists right now on this earth has nothing to do with whether or not we've outwardly observed the commandments so that's it for this video I've been talking for two and a half hours and I did not think it would be this long wow that's this is I think this is actually one of the longest videos I've ever done on this channel but he still has one more deception as you can see there's only about 15 minutes into this video so there's still some of the video left I'm gonna do the last point he makes which is about eternal security or once they've always saved in part two which I hope to do tomorrow maybe a little bit shorter maybe a little bit longer I don't know hopefully it's not longer I'm kind of losing my voice here now but uh then after that there's two more videos called Jesus taught a work salvation gospel which is wrong and then a video called top 10 Bible verses on losing your salvation once saved always saved eternal security refuted so he'll we'll look at those two videos and the last part of this video in the next part but for now I think you get the point that this guy's a false prophet but I just want to remove any doubt by going into these other things in the next video because one of the big things that he focuses on is eternal security so we're gonna talk about that in the next video this guy says you misleading people you need to repent and truly seek God and the truth I mean you do need to repent truly seek God and the truth but your definition of that is false so thank you buddy for watching that's it for this video stay tuned for part two which will be tomorrow I don't know when it'll be around noon Mountain Time I guess which is I'm in Arizona so about the same time that I did today so thank you really for watching and goodbye god bless you