according to your word oh lord teach me
knowledge
good judgment for i believe in your
commands before i was afflicted
i went to strive but now i obey your
word
you are good and what you do is good
teach me your decrees
though the arrogant have smeared me with
lies
i keep your precepts with all my heart
there are
your hearts are callous and unfeeling
but i delight in your law
it was good for me to be afflicted so
that i might learn
the law from your mouth is more precious
to me than thousands of pieces of silver
and gold yeah silver and gold doesn't go
very far when
when the world's falling apart let's see
here we got uh any prayer requests i
didn't write many down it's been just a
tough week mark and becky and colorado
are having some problems uh
various issues and so we want to keep
them in prayer
and let's see here kathleen i understand
she's doing well she they said she would
have been here sunday but she had to go
somewhere
but i'm very happy about that and uh
we'll pray
that the air conditioner guy will come
out tomorrow we've been
for the past 30 minutes working on an
air conditioner problem at the church
and uh it's getting hotter and hotter
and i'm wondering what's the matter and
the pump for pumping the water out of
the sump
is broken and because of that when it
fills up with water
the air conditioner won't work so we
hopefully that'll get squared away
tomorrow
and um okay um i there was a
conversation
on facebook some people that watch
online and they said that when people
are talking during the bible class they
can't hear what they're saying
so if you're going to ask a question ask
it really loud and keep it short
because they still may not be able to
hear you there's only one microphone
over us so
if you ask a question ask it very loud
and then just keep
your comments short because they just
can't hear
what's going on um otherwise so there
you go with that
and uh we'll go ahead and pray and then
we'll read
christian history heavenly father we
thank you for getting us started today
we're not sure if we're going to be able
to do that five minutes ago
but uh the air conditioner is working
and uh
things seem to be working so we're
grateful about that and we just uh
ask that you you bless this time here
you ask that you uh
watch over this class and that anything
that is
not correct which we would pray wouldn't
be the case but if there's something
that's not correct that you would uh
alert either me or the people that watch
to it and so we could get it resolved
because we
never want to mishandle your word and we
never want to
add to your gospel in any way shape or
form but to keep the purity of it
and uh the doctrine which is in your
word keep it in its proper context and
then the right dispensation and
just help us to do these things so that
your word will be properly handled
we pray this that you will be glorified
and we pray in jesus name
amen amen all right we have um
let's see today is i put a marker in
here and it's not i
see i've cut my hand too i'm bleeding
all over myself um let's see your sixth
september would be three september
is uh the current day of six september
sunday
september third just one thing was
missing one of the most famous mothers
of all time was susannah
wesley among her 19 children were john
and charles wesley
founders of the methodist church susana
was born in 1669 or 1670
the 25th and youngest child of dr samuel
ansley a magazine editor and pastor in
london who was a leader of the
dissenters
those who refused to conform to the
anglican church
so she was born the 25th and youngest
child that's a lot of children in a
family
yeah young susanna was very bright and
educated herself reading
the many books in her father's house she
listened to many debates in her home on
the differences between the church of
england and dissenting churches like her
father's
always of her own opinion suzanna became
convinced that dissent was
wrong and to her family's great surprise
she left her father's church
at the age of 13 and joined the church
of england it was also at the age of 13
that susanna met her future husband
samuel wesley
like susannah samuel had grown up in a
dissenting family but it disagreed with
them and joined the church of
england samuel married susana a few
months after he graduated from oxford he
was 26 and susana was 19.
samuel was ordained in the anglican
church and eventually became
pastor in the parish of epworth susanna
gave birth to a baby boy
a baby a year later but by early 1702
the wesleys had but one surviving son
and five daughters
eight children had died both samuel and
susanna were dogmatic stubborn and
strong-willed
with deeply held political allegiances
both were tories but samuel was an
enthusiastic supporter of king william
iii
while susannah sympathies were with
james ii who was in exile in france
when samuel interceded for our sovereign
lord king william in
evening prayers susanna apparently
silently substitute james for
william when word came that james ii had
died in france susannah stopped saying
amen at the end of the prayer when
samuel will learn the reason why he told
her you and i must part
for if we have two kings we must have
two beds
he moved into another room of the house
and finally went to london saying he
would never return
that could have been the end of their
family except for another change in
royalty
king william died in march and was
succeeded by queen anne who had the
loyalty of
both wesley's samuel then returned from
london but they continued to sleep in
separate rooms it took a fire in july
1702 that
burned three quarters of their home to
bring samuel back to his senses and to
his wife
they began sharing the same bed in
august and on 17
june 1703 john wesley their 15th
child was born he owed his very
existence to a fire and to the crowning
of queen anne
charles wesley was born four years later
the 18th son
susannah wesley's sons john and charles
both
personally trusted christ in 1738 and
went on to found what became the
methodist church
susanna however was critical of their
conversions
then on september 3rd 1739
john wesley had a conversation with his
mother that both surprised and thrilled
him
she told him that until recently she had
never understood that a person
could experience the forgiveness of sins
in this life
or that god's spirit could witness with
our spirit that we are children of god
then she said two or three weeks ago
while my son hall
was pronouncing those words and
delivering the cup to me the blood of
our lord jesus christ which was given
for thee
the word sunk through my heart and i
knew god for
christ's sake had forgiven me all my
sins three years later
susannah wesley died sharing the same
assurance of since forgiven as her sons
all of susannah wesley's family and
friends assumed that she was a christian
but in fact
until near the end of her life she had
been very religious but had
never experienced the personal
forgiveness of sins
have you personally committed your life
to jesus christ or are you just being
religious
susanna was for so many years and romans
8 16 says his holy spirit speaks to us
deep in our hearts and tells us that we
are god's
children so there you go with that
that's uh
one of those ironic things but john
wesley himself
uh they talk about these conversions and
how
you know they knew the lord and this and
that but john wesley uh
went as a missionary to um
georgia georgia and on the way there or
on the way back he saw the moravians
praying during a storm and they were
very quiet and calm and they weren't
worried about the the ship sinking at
all and
john wesley came back and he said i went
to georgia to convert the heathens but
who will convert me so apparently
they may have thought they were saved
until a certain point and then finally
they got that
fixed and i don't know if it was before
or after the mother so i don't know if
the
story there is correct or not but uh and
then
charles wesley is the most uh published
hymn writer in history i believe and yet
he said of uh
isaac watts uh the wonderful cross he
said i would trade every hymn i've ever
written
for that one so there you go with that
okay we're in the book of uh
galatians chapter 3
and verse 11 is where we are 3
11. so you can go back if you need to go
back to the
beginning of the paragraph all who rely
on observing the law are under a curse
it is written cursed is everyone who
does not
continue to do everything written in the
book of the law
clearly no one is justified before god
by the law because the righteous
will live by faith okay little different
that's not much but
but that no one is justified by the law
and the sight of god is evident for the
just
shall live by faith all right let's see
here
paul has this is 3 11. paul has
shown that the law brings a curse
meaning in order for the galatians to
understand this he says
but that no one is justified in the law
and the sight of god is evident
the words in the sight of god are given
as we are already standing before god in
judgment
in our trial our life is being evaluated
what deeds of the law
can justify us the answer is none i mean
it's obvious if you just
paul says it but if you think it through
it's just obvious but how can this be
the law was given by god so how can it
be that we cannot stand justified before
him by observing the law
the answer comes from the words of
habakkuk
who lived under the law and wrote his
words under divine
inspiration in his words he said the
just shall live by faith within the law
itself was a requirement which
necessitated faith in order to have
one's sins
atoned for what is that had to have
faith in order to have your sins atoned
under the law it was
on the day of atonement okay they had to
they didn't go down to jerusalem like
they did during the pilgrim feast
they had to stay home and the bible says
that you'll not work on that day and if
anybody
does anything doesn't uh base himself or
whatever i'm
trying to think of the exact word it
uses that man shall be cut off well
who's gonna know
who's gonna know it's just you and you
know you might have your family around
you but
it comes down to faith are you going to
exercise faith in what's happening down
in jerusalem while the high priest is
atoning for the sins of the people
throughout the year the day of atonement
is
holy of faith and without the day of
atonement the law
has no bearing because it says everybody
must observe the day of atonement so
that means everybody's violated this law
this year that's what the lord is
telling them at the outset of the giving
of the law
if faith was required for this to occur
meaning the day of atonement
then it showed that the observance of
the law had failed
to justify anyone over the previous year
much less their whole life even just
over the previous year and we know that
because what does it say in hebrews
10 7 is it anyway it says um
uh the blood of bulls and goats can
never take away sin
and but they were offered year by year
showing them that they had a
consciousness of sin throughout the let
me see if i can figure out where this
is really quickly if i can that's great
and um
i think it was hebrews 10. yeah hang on
a sec here
um yeah and every priest this is 10
11 it says every priest stands
ministering daily and offering
repeatedly the same sacrifices which can
never take away sins
but this man after he had offered one
sacrifice for sins forever
sat down at the right hand of god from
that time
waiting till his enemies are made his
footstool for by
one offering he has perfected forever
those who are being sanctified
the law couldn't do it even for a year
for any person in all of israel and yet
jesus can do it for everybody for all of
eternity
one time he offered himself one time for
the sins of the people
so where was i um year by year okay
went on year by year for the entire time
of the law what habakkuk
and later paul explains is that it is
impossible
for the law to justify anyone because
there was already a way of being
justified before god which is
faith there you go it's faith that goes
back to abraham genesis 15 6.
it took him outside he said i don't have
any children he said look up at the
stars
if you can count them that's how many
stars how many uh
offspring you'll have and it says
abraham believed the lord
and he credited to him for righteousness
it might have said
he credit god instead of the lord even
though the lord is god he's mentioned in
the same passage i don't want to get
that wrong so let's just read it
so i don't have you with the wrong
information in your head genesis
15 6 says uh we'll go back to four and
behold the word of the lord came to him
saying this one shall not be your
heir but one who will come from your own
body shall be your heir
then he brought him outside and said
look now toward heaven and count the
stars if you were able to number them
and he said
to him so shall your descendants be and
it was lord and he believed in the lord
and he accounted it to him for
righteousness so there you go you
already have the precedent of
believing god and being counted
righteous so the law
can't change that the law comes 430
years later that cannot
override the precedent that had already
been set
in abraham so there you go with that
it's through faith this was seen in
abraham and it was seen each year on the
day of atonement
as there cannot be two means of
obtaining justification
and the law is not that means then it
must be
by faith alone which justifies
everybody got that there can't be two
means of justification
it's not the law okay so it must be
faith alone
that justifies no other means can come
in and replace what has been
established by precedent the precedent
is given it was given 430 years earlier
and so we don't need to go any further
with that and as i said if you're going
to witness to a jew you can ask them
you know i'd like to tell you about
jesus and i'll just give me one time and
they'll
uh what subject do you want to talk
about and they may say well i want to
talk about atonement or i want to talk
about righteousness
it doesn't matter which one they ask you
can always weave it back to abraham and
genesis 15
6 and say the precedent is set before
the time
of the law and therefore whatever
happens in the time of the law is not
something that can replace that
it is showing us a lesson about our need
for faith in god's presence that's what
the purpose of the law is it's to lead
us to
understanding our need for jesus in this
verse
stress is placed on the word faith the
just shall live by his
faith because of this it needs to be
determined if this is active
or passive faith if passive then it is
speaking of trusting god
taking him at his word if it is active
faith then it would mean
living faithfully what paul is speaking
of
is the passive faith of trust
this is what abraham was credited for
this is what atoned
for the sins of the people on the day of
atonement and it is what justifies
us now we believe god's word and he
imputes to
us his righteousness after this we can
then demonstrate
active faith through living faithfully
so first we trust in god in all of his
promises and then afterward we can
actively
live out our faith but our failure to do
so our failure to living
faithfully this is an important point to
understand because we have people that
are
out there saying if you don't do this or
do this then you're not a born-again
saved believer
okay and i could pick a thousand
different points that people do that
with i talked about one in the prophecy
update for the past two weeks
which is you have to support israel
you're not a true believer or you have
to read the king james only or you're
not a true believer or
whatever it is we talked about this last
week after
god has imputed to us his righteousness
we can live our lives
faithfully but our failure to do so will
not negate his imputation of
righteousness to us
that's something that everybody gets
wrong and i don't mean everybody in the
total sense i'm talking about everybody
in the general sense
is that somebody comes to jesus christ
and they exercise faith and they are
saved
that means they are saved salvation is
eternal
you cannot lose your salvation if you
can because let me take you here i know
i've said this
four thousand times in the past couple
years or however long we've had this
bible study but
i'll read it to you and then you have to
ask yourself
don't throw in any other verse that's
out of context just ask yourself
about this one particular verse we're
going to go to ephesians
okay we're saved the gospel is one
corinthians 15 3 and 4.
we appropriate it through romans 10 9
and 10.
and then we go to the book of ephesians
hang on let me turn this page here
and we're going to go to ephesians 1
and then we're gonna trying not to bleed
on my bible is why i'm
taking my time here uh verse 13 113
in him you also trusted
after you heard the word of truth the
gospel of your salvation so paul says
you heard the word of truth the gospel
of your salvation that's 1 corinthians
15 3 and 4.
everybody knows it i said it three times
last week christ died for your sins
he was buried he rose again that's the
gospel of your salvation
okay so in him you also trusted after
you heard the word of truth
the gospel of your salvation in whom
also having
believed that's it faith after
i in having believed you were sealed
with the holy spirit of promise so you
believed and you were sealed there's
nothing else that
is added in there god sealed you the
moment that you believed okay
you were sealed with the holy spirit of
promise and then he goes on to say
what that means for the believer who is
the guarantee the hour of own
of our inheritance until the redemption
of the purchased possession
you believed i don't care what you do
after your salvation if god truly saved
you he has sealed you with his holy
spirit and he has
guaranteed that you are saved if you can
lose your salvation after that that
means that god's guarantee
is worth nothing that means anybody can
lose their salvation for
any reason at all okay that guarantee
is worthless and god's guarantee is not
worthless
secondly it means that god
he made a mistake because he the
all-knowing god knows the end from the
beginning sealed you
guaranteed that you would be saved and
then he
took that away so god made a mistake
which is not the god of the bible
i don't care what other theology you
throw at me it will be out of context
if it doesn't correspond to that right
there because one plus one
in theology always equals to if it's
proper theology
okay in him you also trusted after you
heard the word of truth the gospel of
your salvation
in whom also having believed you were
sealed with the holy spirit of promise
it was the guarantee of our
inheritance until the redemption of the
purchased possession to the praise of
his glory
and then we can go from there back to 2
corinthians
chapter 5 and verse 19. why
is it eternal how do we know that that
salvation is eternal it says that god
is in christ that god is that god was
in christ reconciling the world to
himself
not imputing their trespasses to them
and he has committed to us the word of
reconciliation
god has forgiven you your sins when you
believed in jesus he has sealed you with
his holy spirit
that is a guarantee and then from there
you are no
longer imputed sin if you're not imputed
sin
then you cannot lose your salvation
because the wages of sin
is death and that's talking about the
spiritual connecting connection to god
the death that you receive when you uh
sin for the first time which everybody's
born with sin and so you're
automatically spiritually disconnected
from god the moment that you
you're conceived okay that goes from
adam all the way down
but christ is the one that brings us
back to that spiritual life that
spiritual connection to god
but if you are not being imputed sin
because you're not under law
then you cannot have that connection cut
ever again
okay everybody see the logic if you
don't we can explain it a different way
so you grab that i want you to
understand
that salvation is eternal the bible
teaches that there are a few hard verses
that
you may not understand i guarantee you
i've done a commentary on them already
just go to the superior word website
go to the pdf of that particular book
and then scroll down to that verse and
read it and you'll see
where you were wrong in that particular
particular analysis sometimes people use
like hebrews
um uh i think it's four
six or six four anyway um uh
it talks about uh you know people uh
believing and then um let me read it to
you just so that
you know what i'm talking about and the
context is what you have to remember
with that that was a long commentary i
did but i can sum it up in just a very
short point uh let me take you to
hebrews i think it's 6'4 but
yeah for it is impossible for those who
were once enlightened
and have tasted the heavenly gift and
have been partakers of the holy spirit
and have tasted the good word of god and
the powers of the age to come
if they fall away to renew them again to
repentance since they crucify
them again for themselves the son of god
and put him to an
open shame so if you want to know what
that means just go and read the
commentary but in short it's
speaking of the people of israel it's
written to the people of israel and it's
in the plural so it's speaking of them
as a people okay but uh that's just
one point out of about four thousand
points i make on those three verses
but um it's something that people need
to understand because
um somebody and i don't need to give his
name but he emailed me and i said
he said in his email he said i really
think i'm not saved he said
uh i get angry i get very angry and etc
and i said
he wrote this email out and i took a
part of the paragraph and i
cut and paste or copy and pasted it back
to him and i put it in quotes and i said
that could be describing me
i said and the only difference is he
says i don't think i can be saved and
live this way and my
the only difference between him and me
is i said i'm so thankful that i'm saved
despite
this you know i get angry i i just but i
know that god has saved me
and i'm going to cling to that forever
because that's what the bible teaches
and so i was thankful that he sent that
because it helps me process my own
shortcomings and it helps me to realize
i'm not alone in the world when i get
angry at the
political situation at the things that
are going on in the world and
you know and a lot of people here are
stewing right now i can see faces just
going up
we were talking about that before class
i mean it's
almost it's very hard to live in this
world at this time and pay attention to
what's going on and not be angry
so um if you don't watch the news and if
you're not paying attention you may
actually be better off than the rest of
us you know because
it's just a really difficult time to
live right now
daily dose of anger there's another
person so we can see it's
we all realize what's going on and uh
you should never
if you believe that gospel 1 corinthians
3 and 4 that christ died for your sins
that he
was buried and he was rose again if you
believe that then you're saved and you
should not
question your salvation you should be
thankful for your salvation despite
yourself
but i do when i do something really
stupid or think something really
terrible
i will say lord i don't understand how
you can love me
but i know that you love me so i'm not
questioning my salvation but i am
questioning how
he could have such great love and mercy
i do think that making people
fall for the fact that they could
despair
salvation i'm not sure what is loud i
don't know just
yeah just nice and loud i'm gonna ask a
question for everybody who's watching
this
it's like can you hear me yeah let let
us know if you can hear jim now
because then i'm gonna have to sit on
charlie's lap or something
but uh the uh the question i was gonna
say is it like if you if you feel that
you could
that somebody could say oh you're gonna
lose your salvation for that you're
suddenly subservient
that's right that's right or that
doctrine or that particular denomination
and that's that is what we call control
and you see that in churches all the
time the churches want to control their
people and if they threaten you
good example of uh you know uh you can't
be saved if
which like i said i talked about that
last sunday and the sunday before that
that is control that is a way that you
get your hooks into somebody and that
person now
is literally scared to not listen to you
okay
king james only people do that all the
time they scare you into believing that
if you're not reading their bible
and you're not uh participating in their
fellowship that you could be
lost or that you're not pursuing christ
properly and there's a reason why people
do that is because they now have control
over you
christ did not come to give us eternal
insecurity
he came to give us eternal security and
the joy of our salvation so i i just i
don't understand
why people feel it necessary to hold
other people's salvation like it's it's
something that they have control of they
have no control over
the only person on this planet that has
any control over your salvation is you
in relation to jesus christ that is it
nobody else if you have
believed the gospel you are saved but
anyway let's go on um
i said that uh uh i'll start again with
that paragraph and this first stress is
placed on the word faith
and because of this it needs to be
determined oh i've read that whole
paragraph okay so uh
um let's see here david found this out
several times about
the point uh after this we can we first
believe
passively and then we can live out our
faith actively david found this out
several times his failure to live
faithfully
did not negate his standing before god
because of his simple trust in god's
mercy
and grace okay david was faithful he was
the lord's anointed and yet he did some
things that were
probably worse than anybody here has
ever done you know i don't think any of
us have ever had anybody
killed all right some of us may have
done the other thing that david did
but he he did some very bad things and
one of the things he did
towards the end of his life which it's
not really counted against him in the
the final uh
thing of his life but it cost 70 000
people their lives is that he
had a census and that was against the
will of god because god is the one that
determines it's time to have a census of
the people
okay and why would david have a census
what would be the reason for that pride
how many people do i have under me
how great of a king i am so it wasn't
about god at all it was about him
and it was such an offense that he did
that that his own
general joab who wasn't the greatest guy
in the world
actually said i'm not going to go
through with this he never counted the
people i think of the tribe of benjamin
so uh david did something very very
wrong there and yet he understood that
god was gracious and merciful
despite his failing to live
faithfully so when you're doing
something that you know you shouldn't be
doing it's best
you stop doing it but at the same time
don't feel that that has somehow
separated you from god's love if you
believed in christ it will never
separate you from that
but it will cost you rewards we're all
going to go and stand before the lord
every one of us we're going to be judged
based on our
uh lives lived after coming to christ
and that includes
doctrine all right so you want to pursue
doctrine all the days of your life you
want to
read the word you want to contemplate
the word if you don't understand a
particular point you want to
read different commentaries don't just
trust any one commentary
and you know get good advice and if it
doesn't sound right to you
get some more advice but don't doctrine
shop that's one thing that
people love to do i know that i believe
this
and so i'm going to go to website after
website until i find a website that
agrees with me and then i'll feel better
about myself that's doctrine shopping
don't do that
okay the best thing to do is to take god
in his word and the
analysis that is reasonable and that is
properly aligned with god's word is the
one that's probably correct
but guess what unless you know god's
word you're not going to know if it's
properly aligned with god's word
so please read your bible read it
constantly meditate on it all the days
of your life
okay life application all things come
from god
the only thing that we can give him
which can be credited to our account for
righteousness is to believe
when we do this simple thing taking him
at his word
we stand justified before him from that
point on we can then add in praise we
can worship
and faithful conduct as a means of
pleasing him but we must
first demonstrate that we believe his
word
before those other things can find their
proper place god's word says this is the
gospel
yeah we don't have jesus here
proclaiming the gospel right i mean
but we've got the word that tells of
what jesus did okay
and this is where we take god's word in
faith and from that point on god saves
us and then we live our lives
out as the best we can honoring him and
bringing glory to him
so all right 3 12. the law is not based
on faith
on the contrary the man who does these
things will live
by them okay i didn't get to the verse
but it sounds close enough to this one
so i'm
not going to reread it paul's last words
were that
no one is justified by the law in the
sight of god
no one the obvious question then would
be how can one be justified in god's
sight
the answer is that the just shall live
by faith
in order to show that this is true he
reaches into the writings
under the law itself and he cited
habakkuk 2 4.
now building on that which was the
previous verse he begins with
yet this is a contrast to what is proper
then
and that contrast is that the law
is not of faith in order to demonstrate
that this is also true
he returns again to the law and he cites
leviticus 18 verse 5. it's a
verse that i cite almost in every sermon
since we've been in the law i said it
again and again and again
if a person needs to do something
under the law in order to live by that
law then faith is excluded the man who
does
the things of the law will let me
it's what leviticus 18 18 5.
go ahead breathe okay well started for
you shall observe my judgments and keep
my ordinances to walk
in them right i am the lord your god
five but you shall therefore keep my
statutes and my judgments which
if a man does he shall live by them i am
the lord there you go that's what we
want there if a man
does the things of the law he will live
by them and
you may not remember but right at the
beginning of deuteronomy we were
getting into the main section of the law
he did all the reiteration of what was
going on
how they got to where they are and why
they're sitting on this side of the
jordan
and he basically said this law is your
life
if this is it this is your life and then
i noted that at the very end of the law
just before he gives the song of moses
in the final closing passage where he
goes up a mountain ebo to die
it again says this law is your life and
what he's doing is he's saying that you
have to do this law in order to live
he's building on
leviticus 18 verse 5. the man who does
these things will live
and then we're shown all the way through
all of the rest of the old testament
that nobody can do the things of the law
nobody
because every single person that was
born from the time of moses
all the way up until the coming of
christ did what
he died they died if they did the things
of the law and the
the man who does the things of the law
shall live by it it's not speaking about
living prosperously it's not speaking
about living
you know a healthy life or anything like
that it is speaking about
living the man who does the things of
the law will
live that's a guarantee from god and
nobody does the things of the law
they all died but christ came and he did
the things of the law
he was crucified for our sins and he
came out of the grave so the man who
does the things of the law
will live and he did live and now if we
put our trust in christ
we have fulfilled the law in christ not
on our own but in christ and therefore
we will
live that's john 3 16 everlasting life
that is what that is speaking of
now it's obvious that we still continue
to die
and that's because god has arranged it
that way
it's another step of faith when you are
a person and you see christians dying
and yet the bible says
that you're given eternal life in christ
then you obviously have to process
that and say i understand that this is
not speaking about this carnal physical
life this is speaking about something
that god is going to do for me
it's the spiritual reconnection to him
first and that is a guarantee
a deposit ephesians 1 13 and 14 that we
will be raised and we will live forever
everything comes back to faith
everything in our walk but
this is what paul is saying right here
concerning the law is that if you have
to do the things of the law
then obviously the law is not of faith
okay
this is a contrast to what is proper
then
and i've already read this but i'm going
to read it again and that contrast is
that the law is not of faith
he went back to leviticus 18 verse 5. if
person needs to do something under the
law in order to live
by that law then faith is excluded doing
a deed demonstrates an attempt to be
justified by that deed that's why we do
something
i do something and i am justified by it
in one way
or another it may be uh make my mom
happy it may be that i get a bigger
paycheck whatever it is we're doing it
deep for
maybe for self-satisfaction but the fact
is we are justifying
something or somebody in the doing of a
deed thus
faith is excluded faith implies that one
is not
trusting in one's own deeds further
in order to be justified by the law then
as long as the man lives he would need
to continue to do the things of the law
it's not just a one-time deal i do the
things of the law today and i'm going to
live forever
you have to continue to do the things of
the law always
at no time could a person stop doing
those things and be considered
just never there's no point where you
can say i can let this precept of the
law fall
never you have to have the law perfectly
executed not just today not just
tomorrow but forever
when you stop doing that the man who
does the things of the law will live
will live then obviously you will not
live as albert barnes notes the law
requires unwavering and per
perpetual obedience faith is entirely
excluded
from this type of life there's no time
that you can exercise faith under the
law because you're always
looking to be pleasing through deeds of
the law
that's why the day of atonement comes
along even though it is a precept of
faith
it is something that is apart from the
rest of law it's saying that
i understand that i did not meet god's
standards and i need something else
and that becomes an act of faith and
that's what christ if you
watch the leviticus 16 sermons i think
there's three there might be only two of
them
and then you watch the day of atonement
sermon from leviticus 23
that'll give you a full broad picture of
what the day of atonement is
what how does that point to jesus christ
and i assure you every single word of
those sermons points to christ
it's just typology that israel lived out
until the time the fullness of the times
when christ would come
okay once again there's another heresy
is that
the feasts of the lord are all fulfilled
in their entirety and we are not looking
for any future fulfillment of any feast
of the lord
to say otherwise is to say that christ
is not the fulfillment of those feasts
and thus
he's not the messiah so make sure that
you you know there's a person in the
church and i won't say who it is
but uh they heard me say that he or she
i say they
i know that's not proper grammar but i'm
trying to stay away from it but
he or she uh heard me say that
and instead of just saying oh i agree
with charlie or i agree with the other
position that the fall feasts are yet to
be fulfilled
this person did his or her due diligence
went through him and said i'm convinced
the feasts are fulfilled
so you don't just take somebody's word
at it go out and check it out
and you will find if you go to those
sermons and you just study them
and you compare it with what you find in
the new testament you will see that yes
in fact
everything under the law everything is
fulfilled in jesus christ
okay um in the previous verse the stress
was upon the word
faith now it rests upon the word does
he's making a contrast between faith and
doing the two
are mutually exclusive one can either
have faith in christ's work
in order to please god or one can do
deeds of the law in order to please him
paul's words are a petition for the
galatians
to think through the avenue that they
have taken
we don't want to take these verses and
analyze yourself right out of the book
of galatians he's speaking to real
people
that have fallen away from god's grace
that he presented to them
they were saved and now they are trying
to go back and be pleasing to god
through works of the law
and that's the point of what he's saying
all of this analysis is bringing us back
to the point where paul is trying to
tell the galatians
you have made a fundamental error in
thinking you started by faith
and now you're trying to earn it through
deeds and it doesn't work that way
will they now introduce the law of moses
when they have already exercised faith
if so then christ's work and fulfillment
of the law is set aside
in doing this they would then have to
fulfill the law perfectly
with that unwavering and perpetual
obedience
mentioned by albert barnes it is a
self-condemning
act paul's words are a petition for the
galatians to think through the avenue
that they have taken
he's actually begging them if you look
at his words he's begging them to get
reason and understand where they have
gone wrong
life application ephesians 1 13 and 14
which i
brought up a little while ago says that
you receive the holy spirit when you
believe in the gospel message of christ
paul has now shown that continuing in
that faith is how the just
person shall live he is also now shown
that pursuing the law
is not of faith once again the galatians
are presented the gospel they believe it
and they're supposed to continue in
faith they're not supposed to
fall back on the law once they've been
given the grace of god in christ
so stand fast on the grace of christ and
do not be suckered in
to believing that you must observe some
or
all of the tenets of the law in order to
be pleasing to god
in so doing you actually become
displeasing to him
you have forsaken the work of his son
and are have gone about seeking your own
righteousness that's the point of the
book of galatians is to tell us that we
are not looking to please
god through our deeds we're looking to
please god daily
by understanding what jesus christ did
for us he did all of this work
every bit of it he fulfilled every
precept and every line of the law of
moses
and so when he hung on the cross and we
go back and we do those things saying i
need to observe the feasts of the lord
we're saying that what he did was
insufficient jesus i know you did a good
job but i can do a better job that's
exactly what you're doing
i got a call from my friend uh it
doesn't matter i won't give his name but
he called me a couple days ago was going
to see his family and on the way he said
are you seeing the hebrew roots
everywhere he says every time i look at
anything all i'm seeing is these people
proclaiming we need to do this and we
need to do that we need to do this
and all that is is bondage that's all it
is is just bondage we'll take you really
quickly
just came to mind and might as well
really because it kind of goes along
with this is
colossians
and we want to go to colossians chapter
one
and maybe it's two i want colossians
chapter two philippians
i'm gonna get used to these pages here
colossians chapter two
and then we're going to go to 15 why
don't i go back i'm just going to read
you from 11 on in colossians 2.
in him you were also circumcised with
the circumcision made without hands
by putting off the body of sins of the
flesh
by the circumcision of christ okay so
you are circumcised not like the jews
were as a picture of the coming christ
we are circumcised by god in
our uh without hands okay by
putting off of the body of sins we have
put off the body of sins because we are
in christ
the body of sins is the law because by
the law is the knowledge of sin if you
don't have
law then you can't sin that takes us
back to where it says you're not being
imputed sins in 2 corinthians 5
19. it's because you're not under law
but if you're under law
then you're being imputed sin okay so
buried with him in baptism
in which you were you also were raised
with him through faith
in the working of god who raised him
from the dead
and you being dead in your trespasses
and the uncircumcision of your flesh
that means before you came to christ he
has made
alive that's the spiritual rebirth that
we were talking about a minute ago
together with him having forgiven you
all
trespasses all trespasses are forgiven
in christ and you are no longer being
imputed trespasses and therefore you
cannot
lose your salvation having wiped out the
handwriting of the requirements meaning
the law of moses that was
against us which was contrary to us and
he is taken
out of the way having nailed it to the
cross christ's body is what was nailed
to the cross he is the embodiment of the
law
he's saying that the law was nailed to
the cross through christ's body
having disarmed principalities and
powers he made a public spectacle
of them triumphing over them in it here
it is verse 16.
so let no one judge you in food
or in drink or regarding a festival or a
new
moon or sabbath food dietary laws of
leviticus drink okay dietary laws of
leviticus regarding a festival that's
the feasts of the lord the
uh leviticus 23 feasts of the lord or a
new moon that's one of the precepts
under the law every
new moon they had a celebration or
sabbaths their 52 sabbaths in the year
plus the special sabbath of the day of
atonement and
one other anyway the sabbath you're not
required to do those things anymore you
are not and if you are
what are you doing in church on sunday
why aren't you in church on saturday and
from friday night at uh uh whenever the
sun goes down i'm trying to think right
now it's probably about seven o'clock
until saturday night at seven o'clock
you're not to do anything you're not to
start a fire nothing nobody does that
why because it's fulfilled in christ
but we love to pick and choose our
little pet peeves that we want to
reinsert and say
i need to do this because jesus didn't
really do a great job let's not do that
let's hold fast to what christ has done
let's so let no one judge you in food or
a drink or regarding a festival or a new
moon or sabbath which are a shadow
of the things to come but the substance
is of christ
if you hold on to christ you get the
shadow too if you grab the shadow
you get nothing hold on to christ
all right let's see here where were we
we were um uh
yeah you've forsaken the work of uh his
son and gone about seeking your own
righteousness okay we're in 313.
christ redeemed us from the curse of the
law by becoming a curse for us
where it is written cursed is any
everyone who is hung
on a tree okay very close christ has
redeemed us from the curse of the law
having become a curse for us excuse me
before it is written cursed is everyone
who hangs on a tree
at the beginning of the book of
deuteronomy we had a
introduction i do an introduction to the
books as we're doing
at the book beginning of the book of
deuteronomy i gave all of the points and
all the anticipations of the coming book
and what's
really cool about it and some
interesting points but i said the
key prophetic verse in all of the book
of deuteronomy
is what paul just cited right here
cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree
if you get this theology right
then you'll understand how wonderful
what jesus christ did for us
okay let me see here 3 13. in verse 10
paul said let me read that first where
is it give me the reference to that it's
deuteronomy deuteronomy
uh 21 okay
21.
okay 21. i want to read that first just
so we have it it says here
um oh okay whatever i got it here now um
then
oh 21 you said 20 oh i got it yeah if a
man is committed to sin
sir uh deserving of death and he is put
to death and you hang him on a tree
his body shall not remain on the tree
but you shall surely bury him
that day so that you do not defile the
land which the lord your god is giving
you as an inheritance
for he who is who is hanged
is accursed of god okay that's the
central point
of the prophetic work of the book of
deuteronomy
as fulfilled in christ that verse right
there i mean there's all kinds of
prophecies that
are in deuteronomy that are fulfilled in
christ but this one here really is the
clincher now this is such an important
precept
to the people of israel that they even
applied it to their enemies
if they killed a uh king like in the
book of joshua they killed the kings
five kings of whatever or this king here
and they hang them on a tree guess what
they would do
they would make sure they took them down
off the tree and bury them because
you will defile the land otherwise curse
it as anyone who hangs on a tree
that shows you the severity of what
christ went through for us
in verse 10 paul had said that as many
as are
of the works of the law are under the
curse
he then went on to explain to us that if
the precepts of the law
are not met by anyone under the law
and which no one can meet then they are
under
a curse everybody got that you don't
meet the precepts of the law even one of
them 613 precepts you don't meet one of
them
you are under a curse that is explicit
as a matter of fact
it goes on and uh it explains that we'll
see it more and more as we go through
deuteronomy
but there's a point where it goes into
um
when you enter into the land you're to
have these tribes stand
on mount ebal and these tried to stand
on mount gerizim
and they're these people are to say
cursed is every man who
uh doesn't do this so be it cursed is
every man who doesn't do this so be it
and i think the final thing it says and
i could be wrong on this but it's cursed
who doesn't
uphold every word of this law okay
and then what do they do they fulfill
that when they go into the
promised land they go and they build the
altar just as they were told to they
actually
found that altar in israel it's giant
anyway
um from there it's recorded that they
actually did that these
tribes stood on this mountain and these
tribes stood on this map and they called
back and forth to each other exactly as
moses told them to
curse it as anyone who does not fulfill
all the things of this law and i know
that's a misquote but
just so you understand this is the
weight of the law you
don't do the law you are under a curse
okay everybody here admit that you've
broken some precept of the law
you're under a curse okay now here's
what it says
uh if they're anyone under the law in
which no one can meet
that they are under a curse now to show
the marvel
of jesus christ he says christ has
redeemed
us from the curse of the law
if the law brought a curse and if christ
has redeemed us from the curse of the
law then it must mean
that the law is annulled through
christ's work
as it is explicitly said to be done
in numerous passages of the old of the
new testament
uh what is it hebrews 7 18 hebrews
8 13 hebrews 10 verse 9 and colossians 2
verse 14 which i just read you uh the
law is nailed to the cross
but those verses from hebrews and
colossians and other places paul says it
as well in romans several times
it is explicitly said that the law is
done
the law is completed okay paul is
obviously speaking of the jews who are
under the law
but his words are given to include the
gentiles and
in galatia and to us as well because
galatians is placed into the book of the
bible all right
who would stupidly stupidly presume to
insert the law
into our own lives when it is fulfilled
in christ that's the point of what paul
is doing
we are not under the law we are we are
gentiles that believed in jesus atoning
sacrifice for all sins of the world
and we are freed from the law even
though we were never under the law
but what happens is we say well i want
to go back under the law
you see what you're doing you're
bringing a curse upon yourself by doing
that
okay that's exactly what paul is trying
to relate to us
ellicott charles ellicott notes that the
opening of this
verse without any connecting particle
lends
sharpness and emphasis to the contrast
the law brought a curse there it stopped
short
that was all it could do the first thing
that christianity does is
undo this result of the law
by deliverance from the curse he's
saying that
the law automatically brings a curse on
everybody
and that's all that it can do the law
cannot bring anybody
anything but a curse because we all
violate precepts of the law and i'm
talking about people under the law
and the very first thing that christ
does for anybody that comes to christ
is to an all to abrogate to do away with
the law why would we go back under that
where the law failed christ prevailed
over it
and redeemed us from the curse the law
is a curse i'm going to tell you
something i'm going to give away a
little bit of the
sermon not this week's because this
week's is part four
we're doing david and goliath if you
haven't been watching it you should go
back and watch the first
three david goliath sermons and then
we've got part four this week
and then we are going to see in part
five
all of the typology that is fulfilled
and i'm going to tell you right now if
you can figure out where
it is is that that is exactly what we're
saying right here
okay exactly go back and read the the
sermons again and just keep peering into
them and in two weeks if you haven't
figured it out
i'll give it to you okay exactly what
we're seeing right here
okay paul is saying that it is through
the work of christ that we have oh let
me go back a little bit
uh yes we're delivered from the curse
where the law failed christ
prevailed over it and redeemed us from
the curse meaning the law
the word redeemed here means to purchase
or to buy
up from that it gives the sense of to
purchase anyone to redeem
to set free paul is saying that it is
through the work of jesus christ that we
have been purchased we have been bought
out of
and thus set free from the law
which brings a curse so why would anyone
attempt to reinsert or to
insert into the case in the case of the
gentiles
that from which a purchase of redemption
has been made
and which could only bring a curse why
would you do that
that's what paul is trying to beat into
their heads is that we have been
purchased from
the law we never need to go under the
law in order to be pleasing to god and
yet
gentiles are going in and saying okay
i've been purchased from the law and now
i'm going to go back under the law and
i'm going to bring a curse on me
or jews have been purchased from the the
law that they lived under and now
they're saying we have to go back under
that law either way it doesn't matter if
you're jew or a gentile if you go under
the law
you're bringing a curse on yourself why
would you do that
next to show us how christ did this
thing on our behalf
he says that it is through christ having
become a curse for us christ
became a curse for us where is that also
recorded
it's in two anybody two
begins with the c ends with orinthians
anybody
two let me get there hang on give me a
second and then it's in chapter
comes after four and before
six anybody okay
five and then it's uh verse 21 the last
verse of chapter 5 of 2 corinthians 4 he
made him
jesus christ god made him who knew no
sin
to be sent for us so that we might
become the righteousness of god
in him jesus christ became sin
so that we could be redeemed from the
curse of the law that's what paul is now
repeating
in a different way in the book of
galatians and we would
be so arrogant as to say i need to go
back under the law
i need to observe a sabbath i need to
stop eating pork all we're doing is
bringing condemnation on ourselves and
we're
flippantly saying that christ did not do
a good job okay
i don't know if that's tripped out again
or not if it has if it gets hot in here
i'm sorry the air conditioner has been
having problems because we've got a
thing that isn't working
so if it gets hot i'm sorry if it's
working that's fine i can't tell because
i always get hot when i'm doing a
bible study so here we go um everyone
yes let me read that again next to show
us how christ did this thing on our
behalf
that it is through christ having become
a curse for us that was explained in
galatians 2 verse 20
christ became a curse under the law by
becoming
legally impure because as paul now cites
from deuteronomy 21 23
cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree
he became
legally impure for our sakes
imagine that god
the holiest being that could be
did this for us here paul cites the
substance of the greek translation of
the old testament passage
but he notably leaves off the words by
god
after cursed paul knew that christ was
not cursed
by god when he was crucified the law
deemed christ as it were as accursed by
having subjected him
to the type of death that a scoundrel
would die
he died in fulfillment of the law and he
died and in his death
the law then cast him out of its legal
constraints
by the type of death he died everybody
got that the legal constraints of the
law
cast christ out because he became a
curse for
us thus when we join to him we are also
cast out of the legal constraints of the
law
the law has no power over us because of
this if the law is what brings
sin and if sin is the wages of death
then that means we can no longer
be separated from god we can no longer
be imputed we are no longer imputed sins
and therefore we cannot
lose our salvation if you just think it
think it through very clearly
salvation by default must be eternal
because if not there's no hope for
anybody
nobody absolutely nobody all right the
law has no power of
power over us because of this the word
for tree here
zulon means anything made of wood a
piece of wood
a club a staff the trunk of a tree
something used to support the crossbar
of a cross and crucifixion and so on
if a tree is that which gives life and
this is certainly what was on paul's
mind
then as ignatius quotes christ was
nailed up for our sakes
of which fruit are we that is the cross
is regarded as a
tree and christians are its fruit
you think of the symbolism christ died
on the cross he was cast out of the
law because of it and we are there being
fruit
to god because of christ the symbolism
is ex
extremely rich and it points back to the
very fall of man
where this was written in genesis
chapter 3.
hang on just a sec genesis chapter 3.
give me a moment to i'm gonna have to
get used to all these pages it's gonna
take a while but
eventually we'll have it genesis chapter
three and then
in verse one more page 24.
it says so he drew the drove the man
drove out the man and he placed cherubim
at the east of the garden of eden and a
flaming sword which turned
every way to guard the way
to the tree of life the tree of life
it is christ who is the life and it is
christ who restores us to access
to eternal life through his cross it is
the most amazing thing for us to
consider
that hope in life which was lost is now
again available through the death
of christ if you think of it the tree of
life was
taken away from man in genesis 3 it's
given back to man in its fulfillment in
revelation chapter i think it's 21
i think it might be 20 anyway not 20 or
21
but right there in the middle of the
bible christ is in a garden
and he's suffering for us so from a
garden to a garden
and it happens in a garden it's
wonderful the symbolism of the bible is
simply amazing it is christ i'll read
that again who is the
life and it is christ who restores us to
access to
eternal life through his cross
life application all who attempt to be
justified by works of the law
are under a curse those who claim to be
in christ and yet mandate works of the
law are both
heretics and under a curse keep
far away from such depraved people you
know we've got
our dear friend charlie on facebook is
always posting something to
get people riled up and she doesn't do
it in a spiteful way she does it in a
very almost sly way she'll post
something and like i'm gonna go have
bacon today or something and what do you
think about that
and people start of course condemning
her you can't be eating because that's
part of the law and you're not supposed
to be eating it and
these people right there on facebook are
condemning themselves in their posts
they're showing that christ's death
meant nothing to them
meant absolutely nothing to them because
they have not taken the time to
understand the theology
and simply accept that christ is the end
of the law for all who believe
and then of course the post starts dying
down and so
the next day or two days later she'll
make another jab in there and everybody
gets excited again
she's marvelous marvelous at it okay
what yeah pot stir
big one okay let me get to the page
before you read 3 14
and go ahead 3 14. he redeemed us in
order that the blessing
given to abraham might come to the
gentiles through christ
jesus so that by faith we might receive
the promise
of the spirit okay they've completely
rewritten this one
that the blessing of abraham might come
upon the gentiles
in christ jesus that we might receive
the promise of the spirit
through faith see little words make a
big difference in
how it's being presented in this verse
paul uses the word
that or inna in the greek twice the
first speaks in response to verse
13. christ has redeemed us from the
curse of the law
having been become a curse for us as
this is so
then the law is fulfilled and annulled
through him
he has done away with all the precepts
which it held
and he has broken down its limitations
meaning
its exclusive nature is belonging to the
nation of israel alone
in doing so the blessing of abraham
might come upon the gentiles
in christ jesus the exclusivity
of israel's inheritance is gone
the door has been opened for the
promises to abraham to be lavished upon
all nations through mere faith in the
finished work of jesus christ
now when i say this i read you read here
the exclusivity of
israel's inheritance is gone that
doesn't mean that israel doesn't have an
inheritance people don't want to make
that mistake
what that means is that gentiles are now
sharers in the
boston or massachusetts is known as one
of the what states
commonwealth thank you okay commonwealth
we now share in the commonwealth of
israel
when i say i'll read it again the
exclusivity of israel's inheritance is
gone
exclusivity means that they are not the
only inheritors
what that means is that we participate
now in their inheritance
okay we have not replaced israel we are
included in the commonwealth of israel
got to be careful with that because
somebody is going to misinterpret that
and they're going to say oh
well then the israel the jews are out
israel is out or
the gentiles have replaced israel or
whatever thing people start thinking and
that is completely untrue
israel still has its inheritance as a
matter of fact it hasn't even come to
them yet
but in the meantime we are partakers
in the commonwealth of israel okay
the door's been opened for the promises
to abraham to be lavished upon
all nations through mere faith in the
finished work of christ
however there is still an exclusive
nature to this blessing
it is not granted automatically to all
people rather it is only for those who
are in
christ jesus one must demonstrate faith
in what god has done through christ in
order to be included in
the blessings of abraham read it again
it is not granted automatically doesn't
come that way
it is only for those who are as this
says his says through christ jesus it's
in
christ jesus for those in christ jesus
one must demonstrate faith
in what god has done through christ in
order to be included in the blessings of
abraham
after stating this paul then uses the
word
that or ena in the greek again this is
used
next in sequence after the first
instance
not only has there been a redemption
from the curse of the law through christ
but because of that there is also the
allowance
that we might receive the promise of the
spirit
through faith note the pronoun we paul
is a jew
but he is writing to the gentiles about
a matter which concerns
them in his words he shows that the same
promise is given to both jew
and gentile in exactly
the same way there's one gospel there's
not two gospels hyper dispensationalism
completely blows it and once again they
step into the
realm of heresy okay i'll read it again
paul is a jew
but he's writing to the gentiles about a
matter which concerns them
in his words he shows that the same
promise is given to both
jew and gentile in exactly the same way
released from the mandates of the law
and the granting of the spirit
both come through christ's work further
they come upon all who simply believe
go back and read it again um
one corinthians 15 3 and 4 ephesians 1
13 and 14
romans 10 9 and 10 and think on those
things
we are we believe we receive
and it is done by simply calling out to
christ
that is it the promise of the spirit was
prophesied
in the old testament in passages such as
joel
22 28-29 in fact that passage was cited
by peter in acts
2 16-31 to show that the outpouring of
the spirit at pentecost
was a fulfillment of that passage now i
know i got somebody upset about this a
couple weeks ago
but who is peter speaking to
in his address in acts chapter 2. he's
speaking to the jews
okay now we could lump ourselves into
that and say oh he's speaking to us too
but we can't
and there's a reason for that but i
won't get into it right now the reason
why we do not take the book of acts as a
prescriptive book is because acts is not
a prescriptive book acts is a historical
account of what occurred in the
establishment of the church
there is almost no prescription in the
book of acts
there are some things that are
prescriptive or there are some things
that are truths
somebody emailed me a question this week
about uh
the jailer that was in the prison and
he came out and he said sirs what must i
do to be saved
and paul says believe on the lord jesus
and you will be saved that's a truth
it's neither descriptive nor nor
prescriptive so much as it's just a
truth that
is found elsewhere in the bible okay it
does describe what happened to him
it doesn't prescribe anything per se
it's just saying that that's what
happened it's a historical account
but it goes on to say you and your
family
and the question is does that mean the
family is saved at the same time as the
person
or does that mean that the person is
saved if they believe like that person
did
the second is the correct answer nobody
is saved apart from belief in jesus
christ
okay so believe on the lord jesus and
you will be saved you and your household
means that they must also believe on the
lord jesus and they will be saved
they went home he took them and bandaged
up their wounds
and wounds he believed he they baptized
him and the family also believed and
they baptized them as well
okay so that's one thing to understand
is that the book of acts
must be treated extremely carefully i
wish that we had done it
and been able to record it when we went
through it but it will be after the book
of revelation we're in chapter 2 right
now so we've only got another 20 uh
chapter 21 chapters to go and we'll be
done with revelation in a little more
than a year
and then i will do a commentary on the
book of acts if you can wait and if the
lord doesn't come
you will want to read that commentary
and you'll understand
why we do not use the book of acts in a
prescriptive manner and particularly
things that are said in the book of acts
are said to certain groups of people
for certain reasons joel
that is talking about the pouring out of
the holy spirit was brought up by peter
specifically to israel for the
fulfillment of the promises to
israel and that will be fulfilled once
again at the end of the age
when israel is again calling on jesus
but
for right now just trust me on that if
you don't trust me that's fine
i go out and check it and uh you may
come up with some other doctrine which
is incorrect and that's fine with me
as long as we love each other i'll let
you go on it okay
um let's see here peter acts 2 16
through 31 to show that uh
the outpouring of the spirit at
pentecost was a fulfillment of that
passage it should be noted
that with the promise being fulfilled
now in both jew and gentile
in a demonstrable way and which is then
recorded in the bible
an outward demonstration of the spirit
is no longer necessary paul shows in
ephesians 1
13 and 14 that when a person believes in
christ they are
sealed with the spirit as a guarantee of
their salvation
instead of an outward demonstration
site we now believe that the spirit has
been given
faith it comes back to faith for us it
does not come back to sight
if you believe that your faith must be
demonstrated in outward signs
then you are wrong it is faith that paul
is speaking about here it's what paul is
speaking about all the way through
all of his writings the things that
happened
in the book um i'll tell you what
happened somebody was either last week
or two weeks ago emailed me and was
upset with me because i said that um uh
we no longer need
these outward demonstrations of the
spirit i'm glad he watches the bible
class made me happy and you know
but um uh he said i want you to show me
one verse in the bible that says that
gifts have ceased the apostolic gifts
had ceased and i gave him all kinds of
proofs
and i said now i want you to give me one
verse from the bible that says they
haven't ceased
because there is not a verse that says
that the apostolic gifts have ceased and
there's also not one that says that they
are
going to continue on all the way through
the church age so that's a fallacy in
thinking that you have to tell me
something
that i don't have to justify everybody
got that you have to be able to justify
yourself and therefore
as i told him not everything in the
bible is laid out
okay does everybody here in this church
right now
do you all believe in the trinity
everybody yes
where is the trinity stated in the bible
it's not how about original sin do you
believe that in original sin that
we don't have to teach our children to
do wrong that they already know how to
do that
okay i see all people's heads shaking
where is original sin
explicitly stated in the bible it's not
but you can implicitly
come up with a doctrine which supports
that okay
we have a doctrine which supports the
trinity it's all the way through the
bible i did a sermon on it and if you
want to see go look i mean you'll
understand that trinity is a real
doctrine but it's not stated anywhere
explicitly
well neither is either cessation or
non-cessation of apostolic yes
you have to take things in context and
this verse here is showing us
that the context is faith we are sealed
with the holy spirit paul doesn't say
that we're going to be given outward
manifestations of the spirit
those were given at a certain time and
for a certain reason especially
because uh jews require a
greek see greek seek after wisdom jews
require a sign but i
preach christ crucified it's by faith
okay
that's where our walk is if you need an
outward sign for your faith
it ain't faith okay so there you go with
that um
paul shows in ephesians 1 13-14 that
when a person believes in christ they
are sealed with the spirit as a
guarantee of their salvation
instead of an outward demonstration
sight we are now to believe that the
spirit has given
faith the modern charismatic movement
which claims one must have an outward
demonstration of tongues is not only
nonsense
it is also contrary to the idea of
living by faith
hedoko i want you to remind me obviously
that air conditioner is not working it
went out today the pump is bad and we
gotta get that fixed
tomorrow so i may not be able to go out
with you we'll see if i can i can but
i've got to get that fixed because we
got church coming sunday morning
so i'm sorry it's hot we got all kinds
of fans everybody got a hand fan so use
it
all right life application the law has
ended
the time of the giving of the spirit has
come and this is offered to any
and all who will receive the work of
christ by mere
faith verse 3 15. we'll get that and
then we'll be done because it's
it's getting hot in here we'll do one
more brothers let me take an example
from
everyday life just as no one can set
aside or add
to a human covenant that has been duly
established
so it is in this case
so it is in this case yes sorry okay
that's all right
yeah you read it again and i'll get it
while you're reading it read it for
others
let me take an example from everyday
life just says
no one can set aside or add to a human
covenant
that has been duly established so it is
in this case
okay this is completely different than
that brethren i speak in the manner of
men
though it is only a man's covenant yet
if it is confirmed
no one announce or adds to it actually i
should wait till next week to do this
we'll do it now and then i'll have to
remind you
because it's all one big thought that's
coming but 3 15. paul now wisely
proclaims a truth
which was understood among humanity in
general when a covenant was made
it became a binding agreement between
parties one party could not
arbitrarily add to it to detract
portions of it or call it
void once it was in effect it stood as a
permanent and unchangeable agreement
concerning what it transpired
ron i want to make an agreement with you
i'll hire you to
um you know um fix the air conditioner
every week you come in and you do this
bubble bun i'll pay you this much
and blah blah and then you agree and i
can't just arbitrarily say okay well i'm
not going to pay you for the next three
weeks right we've made an agreement we
have to stick by it
and he also can't say well i've decided
to do it only once every four weeks
instead of every two weeks
okay because we've made an agreement
that's a covenant between you and me
it's not actually because we didn't cut
animals and all that but
we've made an agreement and that is what
paul is speaking about here
okay once it was in effect it stood as a
permanent and
unchangeable agreement concerning what
it transpired if you fail to meet your
part of it the covenant is an old it's
done
in the case of the covenant that was
made with abraham the lord's words
implied that they were speaking of the
coming messiah
in your seed all nations shall be
blessed the terminology could mean
nothing else 430 years later the law of
moses was brought into the picture as
israel agreed to its terms
at the foot of mount sinai however what
came about in that law
could in no way be added to or annulled
what transpired between the lord and
abraham stood
everybody see that it stood the law
cannot come in and abrogate what's
already come between
abraham and the lord works i'm sorry
where was i yes
um yeah in fact the law was where was i
um that the portions of yeah okay um
yeah okay there you go in fact the law
was based on
works whereas the promise granted
righteousness
by faith works and faith are mutually
exclusive principles
therefore both in the fact that the
covenant with abraham preceded the law
it came before the law
and the fact that these agreements were
based on conflicting
tenets one is faith and one as works the
law could in no way be an avenue to a
declaration of righteousness there's
only
one way to be declared righteous it's by
faith understanding this he says
brethren the word is given to highlight
the fact that they
gentiles in the flesh were brethren to
him
a jew who was born and raised under the
law
i speak in the manner of men he says
that's given in
accordance with the example mentioned
above which was the universally
understood
nature of covenants concerning such a
covenant he says
though it is only a man's covenant
yet if it is confirmed no one adds
or annuls it no one adds to it and no
one knows it
if this is true with a covenant between
men
how much more certain is such a covenant
when it is made
by the lord further after declaring
abraham righteous by
faith alone the covenant which was made
with him
was one-sided only the lord
passed through the divided animals both
sides did not
the entire passage shows that what was
promised
and the covenant that was cut was based
solely on the faith
of abraham and the unchangeable nature
of god who
cannot lie everybody see that that's a
really important point to understand
before we close today
god made the covenant abraham had no
pardon except to simply believe god
and abraham said this is going to happen
as i live
he put himself through that if he failed
to do that this universe would cease to
exist
that quick because he is the one that
sustains the entire universe he will
never
annul the covenant of faith life
application
the law cannot nullify what was already
in effect concerning the promise to
abraham
therefore the law was given for a
different purpose when it had served its
usefulness it was set aside
in the giving of the new covenant a
covenant based on grace
if you are under grace then you cannot
be
under law the two are mutually exclusive
good stuff all right sorry we're gonna
close a couple minutes early but it is
hot in here heavenly father
thank you for air conditioners that work
and we uh just praise you for your
wonderful word we thank you that uh
uh it is such a treasure it is such a
gift
to participate in your word and to share
in it and to
learn more about it every day and also
to remember because
it's so easy to forget so many points of
theology are in your word
that it's good to go back and to brush
up and to continue to contemplate your
word at all times
then lord we certainly pray for our
president we know he's going through so
many trials and difficulties with
the people on the left just abusing him
day to day and
please give him strength give him wisdom
give him endurance through this trial
and we pray that he will
come out victorious once again in the
election on november 3rd
and lord we pray for those that are
afflicted for those that are
having difficulties and trials and we
certainly ask that you lift them up and
bless them in their hearts and in their
souls
and we pray these things that you will
be glorified and we pray them that they
will be built up in you
and we pray it in jesus name amen amen
amen
all right we'll hope that we can get the
air conditioner guy out here early
tomorrow morning we'll see what happens
we'll go to the break
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