The Gospel

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Shalom, Grace and Peace.

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In the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

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My name is Daniel Miller, and this is the Notes I Leave Podcast.

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Well, I hope that you are well, and I sincerely thank you for

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joining me for today's episode titled the Gospel.

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It is titled the Gospel in honor of one of my dear friends that

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I meet with on a weekly basis for fellowship, and we often do

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so early in the morning before the sun rises.

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I value his friendship dearly.

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And where he is at behind this message is that he is continually

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emphasizing that we must share the message of the Gospel in everything

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that we do, whether it's from a pulpit, from a laboratory setting,

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or between two people over a cup of coffee, it doesn't matter.

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And what I'm going to share with you today is a lot of bad news.

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And I think that most of us understand bad news, but we may not

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understand the bad news news and why it's so critical.

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And a lot of people share good news or the good news, but if we

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don't understand the bad news, we won't understand the good news

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or at least where it applies in our life.

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And even in saying those words and knowing in my brain what I'm

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about to share with you, I feel so hypocritical because what I'm

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going to vulnerably share with you today and in more depth, the

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second segment, but what I'm going to share with you is how my

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life was a lot of bad news and it just wore me down and continues

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to wear me down when I find myself surrounded with people who

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are very negative, who are pessimistic.

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And so I do not want this episode to be that for anyone.

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And so I want to keep that on my heart as well so that I cast

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the good news as much to the forefront is possible.

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In fact, let me lead with this in the beginning of this episode

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to sort of encapsulate this as best as possible before I start

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sharing portions of my testimony.

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The bad news and the bad news that matters is this.

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We are all sinners.

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And one single sin separates us from the deity of God.

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It separates us from his perfect nature.

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Okay, if we are to follow the law that the Old Testament lays

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out for us, in order to achieve what we need to in that law, we

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must be perfect.

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Now, to be clear, only one perfect person ever walked the planet,

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and that was Jesus Christ when he took on human form, which makes

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his sacrifice for us so perfect.

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You see, in the Old Testament, sacrifice of an animal was a very common thing.

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And in that common nature place, we as humans would sin, whether

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intentionally or unintentionally, by our nature, and we would

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prepare a sacrifice to the Lord to atone for that sin. We.

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Well, Jesus Christ is the perfect human being that ever existed,

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was the only one who could atone for that price of sin.

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And unlike an animal that atoned for that price in sort of a figurative

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way, in that moment in time, Jesus Christ and his death on the

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cross pays for sin of all time, past, present and future.

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In fact, what a lot of us as Christians don't realize is that

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Jesus Christ didn't pay for our sins up until the point we become Christians.

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He paid for the sins that we make on a daily basis, and he paid

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for the sins that we'll make in the future as well.

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Now, through our faith in his grace, we strive to become better

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individuals, and we strive to not sin as much.

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Otherwise, we would just say a prayer and then we would go on

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sinning and we'd be perfectly fine.

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And that's where the criticisms from once saved, always saved come from.

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But if you're truly saved, if you've given your life to Christ,

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you have a repentant heart.

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Your heart is being changed actively by the Holy Spirit indwelling

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within you, and you want to sin less and less.

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You'll find yourself not wanting to listen to the same music that

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you used to listen to.

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You'll find yourself not wanting to watch the movies that you

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used to listen to.

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You'll find yourself not wanting to hang around the same people

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that have a bad influence on you the way that you used to.

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And that leads us into the good news.

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Through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ, we can not be separated

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from him, which is what we deserve.

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Again, due to the consequences of one single sin.

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And we're all responsible for a lot more than that.

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We have elected to continue sinning in our nature, and we deserve

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death and eternity in hell.

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Again, that's the bad news, right?

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But Jesus Christ didn't want that for us.

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So he came here, was persecuted by his own people, hung on the

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cross by his own people through the Roman Empire, and He was paying

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for every sin that every one of us could ever commit, which only

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makes sense if he lived a perfect life.

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And he did.

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Now, the Gospel continues as we magnify Jesus perfect life, his

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death, and his resurrection.

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Because we could argue that others have lived really good lives.

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We couldn't argue that anyone's lived a perfect life.

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But we could argue that people have lived pretty good lives.

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And we could verify that a lot of people have died and verify

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that a lot of people have died under persecution in which they

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shouldn't have died.

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But we couldn't verify, unlike how we can with historical evidence

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to verify, that Jesus Christ rose from the dead.

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So he defeated death in that instance.

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And that's the whole basis of the Christian faith.

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The Jewish people persecuted Jesus and they were proven wrong

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when he rose from the dead.

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He was trying to show them that they were being proven wrong in

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his midst continually, but it wasn't to be.

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But he proved them wrong by rising from the dead.

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In fact, you see that with the events that take place after his

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death on the cross, where the Roman soldier says, truly this,

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this was the Son of God.

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And that's likely a completely unreligious relational person at

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that point in time who was convinced in that moment in time that

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what have we just done?

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And so our bad news becomes good news when we recognize that Jesus's

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perfect life, his death, that was not just, and his resurrection,

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that showed that he defeated death.

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And so our peace is through him and by someone who gives their

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life to him, we are indebted to him.

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Now because we live on faith, we don't have to continually pay that debt.

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That debt's already been paid.

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We couldn't have paid it anyways.

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But a lot of times we will feel naturally so that we need to contribute

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more to justify the payment that's been paid on our behalf.

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And that is a really hairy gray area where you get caught up in

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works versus faith.

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Some religions will teach that you have to continually provide

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good works and that will give you a better seat in heaven, which

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is completely unbiblical.

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And then relationship, not religion, relationship with Christ

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is like, is a terrible example, but like a relationship with just

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a really, really good friend where you don't want to let them down.

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If they recommend somebody to you, you want to hold up their name

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and you want to continue doing a good job because they recommended

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someone to you.

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You want to continually arrive at the table prepared to be a quality

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friend each and time you, you meet, they tell you to read a book,

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you want to read that book, you want to continually instill trust

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in them, that you are reciprocating your end of the friendship.

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And Jesus Christ is our Lord and Savior is so much more than that.

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And so some people will see Christians who do good works, and

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they will say, oh, that must be part of that religion that associates

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works with what seat that they get in heaven.

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But when you have true faith.

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You can't help but want to do good works because so much has been

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given to you that you can't help but want to give back.

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You'll never be able to give back to equal what has been given to you.

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But in your new heart, as the Holy Spirit dwells within you, you

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only want to give back.

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And we're not perfect people.

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No, no person is apart from Jesus Christ's time on earth.

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And we sin, of course, but that debt was paid for.

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Even our future sin, the debt was paid for.

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But with a new repentant heart, you recognize the sin, you mourn

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for the sin, and you continually strive to operate in a better capacity.

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I'm going to read, I am going to share some of my past and that

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may end up being exclusively in the second half of this episode,

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depending on time.

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And that's completely okay.

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But before we get to that, I want to make sure that I'm sharing

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a set of verses out of Romans chapter three with you.

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Now, when I share a set of verses with you, I'm sharing them almost

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always out of the New American Standard Bible.

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I also have my hard copy Amplified Bible.

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I'm going to share it here as well to give you what I like about

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the Amplified Bible and hopefully things click more and they make more sense.

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But Paul is talking to the Romans in his letter to the Romans,

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and this essentially wraps up what the Gospel all is, what the

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bad news, good news, and what that means for us in terms of salvation.

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So in verse 21 it reads, but now apart from the law, the righteousness

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of God has been manifested, being witnessed by the law and the

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prophets, even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus

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Christ for all those who believe, for there is no distinction,

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for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, being

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justified as a gift by his grace through the redemption which

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is in Christ Jesus, whom God displayed publicly as a propitiation

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in his blood through faith.

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This was to demonstrate his righteousness, because in his forbearance

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God he passed over the sins previously committed.

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For this demonstration I say of his righteousness at the present

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time, so that he would be just as the justifier of the one who

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has faith in Jesus.

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Where then is boasting?

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Is it excluded?

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By what kind of law of works?

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No, but by a law of faith.

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For we maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from works

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of the law.

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Or is God the God of the Jews only?

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Is he not the God of the Gentiles also?

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Yes, of Gentiles also, since indeed God, who will justify the

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circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith will

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is one, do we then nullify the law through faith?

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May it never be.

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On the contrary, we establish the law.

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And so here it's placed in words by Paul, through empowering of

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God the Holy Spirit, in words that must be read, because I can

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never state it better than that.

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And so again, as I've said many times in this podcast, my hope

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is that when I read something out of scripture or we talk about

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something and I quote specific passages in Scripture, my first

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hope is that you open God's Word and you read it for yourself.

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And like the Bereans, we find in act, you compare what I'm saying

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with what Scripture says to verify it.

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Because I'm not the authority.

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God's the authority.

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And he gave us a gift in his holy Word so that we would have what we have.

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There's a couple things that come up in here too before I read

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the amplified version going back to my dear friend who is motivation

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for me to record this episode.

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The word justified.

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There's a really nice way to think of the word justified, and

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it's if we slow it down and we split it apart, just if I had never sinned.

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So the justification of what Jesus paid on the cross for us makes

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it as though we're justified or just as if we had never sinned.

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That's a profound thing when you think it's not just past tense.

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It's current, present, and it's all future.

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It's every sin that we've ever committed.

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I'm aware of the sins that I've committed and I can't imagine

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there being a proper payment for those sins.

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But there is.

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There's just one.

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But there is

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the circumcised, the uncircumcised.

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That was something specific of that time and makes a lot of sense

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when you realize he's speaking to Jews as well as Gentiles and

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making a comparison between the two.

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Obviously we're talking a lot about works, faith, and he's creating distinctions there.

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But I really like how in verse 29 he says, is he not the God of

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the Gentiles also?

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And he follows it up with yes, of Gentiles also.

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I like to start the Bible at the beginning.

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It's just how my brain works and I did it a number of times in

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my life and I would oftentimes not make it through the rest of

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Genesis or I'D quit in Leviticus or Deuteronomy or Numbers, or

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maybe make it to Joshua rarely.

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So many times I did that before I finally read through God's Word

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all the time.

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And I was.

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I had a healthy fear of the Lord.

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Not a healthy respect to the Lord because I hadn't accept his

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Son, Jesus Christ as Savior yet, but a healthy fear of the Lord.

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Because if you've read the Old Testament, you know what I'm talking about.

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He sounds like, if I make one wrong move, I am done.

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Like, the wrath of the Lord is severe, and this law I must follow

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to an absolute T.

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And that fear of the Lord has based a lot of religions.

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And if you never get to the New Testament and you never realize

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what His Son did for us, you can really be stuck in that bad news,

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that continual bad news.

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And so a lot of times I've heard in the past people say, well,

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I'm not chosen.

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I'm not an Israelite.

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I'm not a Jewish person.

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I'm not chosen.

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And that is completely true, untrue.

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If we go, well, let me pause for a minute as I stumble in error there.

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The truth in that is that you're not an Israelite, you're not a Jew.

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But the untruth, the lie in that is that you're not chosen.

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You are chosen.

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If we go all the way back to Adam and Eve, God's creation, we're

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all descendants of them, and we can specifically narrow that heritage

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through Noah because of the Flood, but we're all descendants of

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the same DNA, of the same people we have through the division

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of land and those sorts of things.

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Tower of Babel, all those sorts of things.

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Many nuances of where people scatter and go in different, different places.

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And sometimes we define our heritage there, but eventually you

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follow that path back far enough, and it goes to Adam and Eve.

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And who created Adam and Eve? God.

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He breathed dust into man. He breathed.

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He took from the dust of the ground and he breathed life into

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man, and he made woman from man.

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We all come from that.

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I'm not talking the nonsense of an extra set of ribs or any of that.

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A lot of people think that we as Christians believe that stuff.

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Does it say he took from his rib to make woman?

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It does, but that was Adam's rib.

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Or some translations just say side, not rib.

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And I'm not trying to get off on a tangent here, but I suppose

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that I am getting off on a tangent, although I'm not trying.

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But that didn't mean that his Sons Cain and Abel and Seth had

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one less rib.

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It's like, if I lost a finger, that doesn't mean my son is going

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to have one less finger when he's born.

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So anyways, there's no, there's no logic in that criticism of

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Christians and what we believe.

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But we all come from God's original people, and we all come from his creation.

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We're a part of his creation.

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We are chosen.

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And he is beyond saddened that we spend any amount of time apart from Him.

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And so he sent his Son, Jesus Christ to pay that price so that

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we would be able to have a path, a just path back to Him.

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He didn't come and say, you guys have messed up since I created you.

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I'm just going to call it clean, we'll call it good.

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No, the price had to be paid.

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And the price was paid.

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And through that price, we are able to gain proximity to the Creator

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of all things.

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It is a lie to think that that is only Israel, that that is only

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a specific people.

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I can talk in the future about Israel's role in all of this as

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his chosen people to conduct the stories of the Old Testament.

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But his chosen people is.

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Is for the story of the Bible.

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And his chosen people failed over and over and went away from him.

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And through that.

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Look further in Romans when it talks about grafting into the tree

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through their disobedience, we as Gentiles of all different nations

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were shown the Gospel through Jesus Christ.

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And then he chose Paul to share that message to all the whole New Testament. Perhaps.

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Perhaps the whole New Testament is about that being available

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to all, not a specific, specific few.

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Even if the word chosen is mentioned in the Old Testament, it's, it's.

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I'll take you back to when Jesus was baptized.

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What happened after his baptism?

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He was tested for 40 days in the wilderness.

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And Satan tested him and Satan used scripture against him.

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Now, Satan never stood a chance against Jesus Christ, but Satan

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will use scripture against us, too.

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So sometimes we can be reading things and hear a trigger word

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like us for chosen, and all of a sudden a lie creeps in that says,

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well, you're not a Jew, you're not a descendant of Israel, so

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this book doesn't really matter because you're not chosen anyways.

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I've heard that before.

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I've heard that recently.

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And I'd like to perhaps honor Phil Robinson, who recently passed

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away in something that he used to say.

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He summed it up real simple with people who didn't believe.

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He said, okay, let's take on one hand let's look at an atheist,

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and another hand, let's look at a Christian on the atheist side.

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What's the best case scenario?

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End of life, right?

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You die, you're put in a coffin, your corpse rots in the earth.

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That's your best case scenario.

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Your worst case scenario is that God is who he said he was and

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is and you spend eternity in hell.

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Let's look at the Christian side of things.

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What's the worst thing that can happen?

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You're wrong about who God said he was and who God is, which I

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don't believe is a possibility.

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But for sake of argument, for sake of discussion, let's go with that.

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What's the worst case scenario?

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You're put in a coffin, you rot in the ground for all of eternity.

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What's the best case scenario?

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God is who he is, which he is, and you spend eternity with him

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because you've dedicated your life to his son, Jesus Christ.

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So if I'm reading the Bible and I read, oh, I'm not chosen, so

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I need to just not do this or deal with this, what's the best possible scenario?

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If I reject God's word, best case scenario, you rot in the earth.

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Worst case scenario, you damn yourself to eternity in hell.

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So it might just be, and I say this with extreme sarcasm, it might

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just be worthwhile to accept God's word for what it is, not let

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those devilish attacks come in.

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Read all the way through, get to the New Testament, get to the

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good news and realize the depth of what Jesus paid.

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Can you accomplish all that in one reading?

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Yeah, I believe you can.

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And I think you can accomplish it in even one book like John or

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Luke or Mark or Matthew.

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If you're like me and you gotta start at the beginning of the

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Bible, it's a testament to your strength, your discipline and

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your capacity to continue going through some stuff that is very difficult.

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And I pray that you make it to the New Testament so that you can

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see the good news.

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And when you complete the entire Bible and you begin to understand

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the Bible three dimensionally and read in depth, this is as much

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as width, you'll understand the wisdom when somebody says you

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should probably start in the New Testament or you should probably

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start in John specifically.

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There is extreme wisdom in that from people that have been down that path.

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But all of us have to take our own path.

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Read in Proverbs 16, 9 that a man takes a path and the in the

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God outlines the steps.

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Essentially I'm totally butchering that but please look up Proverbs

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16:9 in your translation that you're reading to get exactly what

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it says there.

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So we're going to take a path.

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God is going to provide the steps.

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We need to be willing to surrender and let him provide the steps.

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And if that looks a little weird, like you hop around from book

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to book, that's fine.

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It's funny how we will take advice in other arenas of our life,

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but when it comes to stuff like this, we're listening more to

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the lies on nope, you got to do it this specific way.

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And oh, there's that word chosen, so you might as well just stop

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and all that.

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We have to continually, vigorously defend against that.

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I have not read out of the Amplified yet and I apologize.

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Let me read that then we'll sort of wrap up this first segment.

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And then in the second segment, the members only segment, I want

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to get a little bit more raw and vulnerable with you and explain

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kind of my path and a little bit about my testimony.

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So again, this is the Amplified version and a lot of Bibles will

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have this section titled Justification by faith, verse 21:31 Romans 3.

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But now the righteousness of God has been clearly revealed independently

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and completely apart from the law, though it is actually confirmed

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by the law and the words and writings of the prophets.

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This righteousness of God comes through faith in Jesus Christ

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for all those Jew or Gentile who believe and trust in him and

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acknowledge him as God's Son.

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There is no distinction, since all have sinned and continually

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fall short of the glory of God, and are being justified, declared

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free of the guilt of sin, made acceptable to God, and granted

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eternal life as a gift by his precious undeserved grace through

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the redemption, the payment for our sin, which is provided in

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Christ Jesus, whom God displayed publicly before the eyes of the

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world as a life giving sacrifice of atonement and reconciliation,

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propitiation by his blood to be received through faith.

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This was to demonstrate his righteousness which demands punishment

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for sin, because in his forbearance, his deliberate restraint,

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he passed over the sins previously committed before Jesus crucifixion.

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It was to demonstrate his righteousness at the present time so

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that he would be just and the one who justifies those who have

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faith in Jesus and rely confidently on him as Savior.

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Then what becomes of our boasting?

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Is it excluded entirely? Ruled out? Banished?

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On what principle?

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On the principle of good works, no, but on the principle of faith.

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For we maintain that an individual is justified by faith distinctly

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apart from works of the law.

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The observance of which has nothing to do with the justification

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that is being declared free of the guilt of sin and made acceptable to God.

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Or is God the God of the Jews only?

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Is he not also the God of the Gentiles who were not given the law?

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Yes, the Gentiles also, since indeed it is one and the same God

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who will justify the circumcised by faith, which began with Abraham

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and the Uncircumcised through their newly acquired faith.

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Do we then nullify the law by this faith, making the law of no

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effect, overthrowing it? Certainly not.

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On the contrary, we confirm and establish and uphold the law,

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since it convicts us all of sin, Pointing to the need for salvation

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I think you can likely see why I enjoy the Amplified Bible.

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I've said before that I use the New American Standard Bible is

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sort of my daily driver.

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And then I utilize the Amplified Bible to almost as a commentary.

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It's not a true commentary, but to to help me more with the things

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that I'm struggling with and not understanding.

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As we conclude with this first segment, I want to kind of provide

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an application or takeaway on what the Lord has placed on my heart.

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And it is the good news that Jesus Christ brings to us.

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I'm asking us, and this perhaps will make more sense as I dive

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into the segment here to follow, but I'm asking us not to dwell

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on negativity and not be a conductor for negativity.

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It truly has impacts that we can't fully wrap our minds around.

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And truly, if we think about it, if we're if we're saved, how

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could there be any bad news?

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Truly, nothing is bad news when we have received the salvation

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from the King of Kings, Christ Jesus.

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I'll leave you with a quote, and it leads into a story that I'm

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also going to share here in the second segment.

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I actually considered making this episode two different podcasts,

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and you can see why.

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But I'll leave it as this and just split it up into 2 and A and

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a B if you'd like.

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But I'm going to leave you with a quote by Jeff Foxworthy.

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This was from a conference called Be Bold for Jesus, and it was

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in Spokane, Washington, I think four years ago, maybe five years ago.

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And I'll expand upon where this comes from in the story that he

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shares, which is a beautiful story, and I'll explain that story

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along with some other things next.

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Here's this quote, one of my early questions.

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I said to them, I said, what is the Bible?

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And one of the guys said it's just a book of rules.

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And I'm thinking, no, it's the greatest love story that's ever been written.

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And I couldn't agree more.

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And again, this is from his Be Bold for Jesus conference.

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I shouldn't say his, he was the keynote speaker that year.

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But if you search Jeff Foxworthy, Be Bold for Jesus, you're gonna

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find clips of this and then the whole, I think hour to hour and

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a half long deal of which he spoke.

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And I highly recommend that you watch that because the story is

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incredible and I want to provide that for you so the story is

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not lost in just the membership section that you can find that for yourself.

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And then a question for you today before we wrap up.

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How do you view God's word?

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Do you view it as just a book of rules?

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Do you view it specifically just for those who are chosen?

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And you believe the lie that you aren't chosen, that you don't

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matter, that you believe there is no point to life, that there

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you're not sure why you exist, but you're not a part of the benefits

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of heaven, you're not a part of God's kingdom.

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That's a lie.

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It's a complete lie.

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But hopefully if you answer how you view God's Word in any capacity

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similar to that, you are able to then get past it and realize

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truly what God's word is.

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It's living, breathing and it is his inerrant word to us, a gift

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to us so that we can know who he is as father, who he is a son,

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and who he is as Holy Spirit.

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Not going to get into the call in action.

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You can go to biblicalanatomyacademy.com click on podcast Support the Pocket.

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You can figure out real easily how to support us and how to gain

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access to the second segment.

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So way over time, I apologize.

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Love you dearly and I'll be praying for you guys.

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Please email us, email me danielearbaa.com if you have any prayer requests.

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My family and I'd love to pray for you and I love you. God bless.

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Until next time.

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May the peace of Christ dwell richly in you.

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And may I also express Maranantha, which is an Aramaic word translating

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to come Lord Jesus.