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Robert Jeffress - The Most Important Verse In The Bible

July 2, 2025 | 29:0

Robert Jeffress - The Most Important Verse In The Bible
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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - The Most Important Verse In The Bible | July 2, 2025
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  • [announcer] from the pulpit
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  • Of the first baptist church of dallas, texas,
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  • This is "pathway to victory," with dr. robert jeffress.
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  • Hi, i'm robert jeffress,
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  • And welcome again to "pathway to victory."
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  • It's literally a matter of life and death.
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  • And the best bible verse to answer that question,
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  • In my opinion, is the one we're going to look at today,
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  • Romans 4:5.
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  • My message is titled "the most important verse in the bible"
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  • On today's edition of "pathway to victory."
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  • The most important verse in the bible.
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  • Now, people have been guessing for weeks
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  • Or months what that verse is.
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  • I've heard a rumor that some sunday school classes
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  • Actually have betting pools, surely not for money, not here,
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  • But they are trying to guess what the verse is.
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  • Now, admittedly, a pastor's setting himself up for trouble
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  • When he announces he's going to talk
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  • About the most important verse in the bible,
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  • Because everybody has a different idea
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  • Of what that verse should be.
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  • Maybe for you, the most important verse in the bible
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  • Is one you memorized as a child.
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  • Maybe it's one that your mom or dad taught to you.
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  • For others of you, it may be a verse that helped you
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  • Through a particularly difficult time in your life.
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  • But i think you would agree with me
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  • That if you had to select
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  • The single most important verse in the bible,
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  • It ought to be one that answers
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  • The most important question in life.
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  • And that is, how can a person have
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  • A right relationship with god?
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  • That's the question, by the way,
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  • Job asked thousands of years ago in job 9:2.
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  • How can a man be right with god?
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  • The answer to that question not only affects your life now,
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  • But if there really is a god,
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  • The answer to that question affects your eternity.
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  • So where do we go to find the answer to that question?
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  • "how can a person have a right relationship with god?"
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  • How can he know for sure his sins are forgiven
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  • And that he will be welcomed
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  • Rather than turned away from heaven?
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  • Today, we're going to look at the verse of scripture.
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  • It's actually one sentence
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  • That i think most clearly answers that question,
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  • And it's found in the book of romans 4:5.
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  • Turn there, if you would,
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  • As we discover the most important verse in the bible.
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  • Now, for those of you who may not know
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  • About the letter to the romans,
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  • The apostle paul wrote it to a group
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  • Of jewish and gentile believers,
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  • And the theme of the book of romans
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  • Is that the righteousness of god,
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  • That word righteousness simply means
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  • A right standing with god,
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  • Is available to anyone who trusts in christ
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  • For his salvation.
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  • In fact, the thing verses of chapter one verses 16 and 17,
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  • Paul says, "for i am not ashamed of the gospel,
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  • For it is the power of god
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  • And to salvation to everyone who believes,
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  • The jew first and also the greek for in it the gospel,
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  • The righteousness of god is revealed from faith to faith
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  • For as it says, 'the just shall live by faith.'"
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  • In the first three chapters of the book of romans,
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  • Paul explains how nobody is in a right standing with god.
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  • There's not one righteous person among us.
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  • No, not even one.
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  • You say, "why? now, wait a minute.
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  • I'm not sure i believe that.
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  • I mean, what about the pagan
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  • Who has never heard the name of jesus christ?
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  • Surely he gets a pass and is allowed into heaven."
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  • "no," paul says, "not the pagan, he is condemned by god."
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  • "well then surely the moralist, the person who lives
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  • By a good moral code, lives by the golden rule.
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  • He's exempt from hell. he gets into heaven, doesn't he?"
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  • He says, "no, the moralist is condemned."
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  • "well, what about the sincere follower of religion?
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  • What about a religious person?
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  • He's allowed into heaven, isn't he?"
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  • Paul says, "no, not the religious person.
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  • There is none righteous among us."
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  • In romans 3:23.
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  • For all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of god.
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  • Well, if religion won't do it,
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  • If morality won't get you into heaven,
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  • If ignorance is not an excuse,
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  • Then how do we have a right relationship with god?
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  • And that brings us to romans 4:5.
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  • Paul says, "but to the one who does not work,
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  • But believes in him who justifies the ungodly,
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  • His faith is reckoned.
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  • It is counted as righteousness."
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  • And what i want you to notice in this simple sentence
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  • Are three characteristics of the person
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  • Who is in a right standing with god.
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  • And what's interesting is these three characteristics
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  • Are completely contrary to our human reasoning.
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  • They turn our expectations upside down
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  • Because they're god's wisdom and not man's wisdom.
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  • Will you notice what those three characteristics are?
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  • First of all, whom does god forgive?
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  • Who is assured of heaven?
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  • First of all, god forgives those
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  • Who admit they are ungodly.
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  • Look at verse five again.
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  • But to the one who does not work but believes in him,
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  • And underline this, who justifies the ungodly.
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  • That word "justifies" simply means it's a legal term
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  • That means to declare not guilty.
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  • Imagine a judge in his robe taking that gavel
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  • And pounding it and declaring not guilty.
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  • The bible says the people whom god declares not guilty
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  • Are the who?
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  • The ungodly.
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  • Now, if you ask the average person on the street,
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  • "who do you think is going to be in heaven?"
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  • They say, "well, people you know who go to church,
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  • People who read the bible,
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  • People who do nice things for little old women,
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  • You know, that's who gets to go to heaven, right?"
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  • No. he says it's not the godly, it is the ungodly.
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  • The king james version says, "the wicked."
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  • The wicked. those are the ones god forgives.
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  • What does that mean, ungodly?
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  • You know that little prefix "un", u-n.
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  • It can mean not-whatever.
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  • We say somebody is unfriendly,
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  • It means they're not friendly.
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  • We say somebody is unloving, they're not loving.
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  • We say somebody is ungodly.
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  • We mean they're not god-like.
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  • And we all don't have a problem accepting that.
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  • We know we're not like god.
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  • God is infinite, we're finite.
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  • God is all powerful. we're weak.
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  • God is all wise. we're not all wise.
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  • We understand that we are not like god.
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  • But that prefix "un" also means something else.
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  • It means opposed to.
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  • When we say somebody is un-american,
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  • We don't mean they're not like an american.
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  • We mean they are opposed to the values and ideals
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  • That our country was founded on.
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  • Remember decades ago,
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  • The house had a house subcommittee on what?
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  • Un-american activities.
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  • They were trying to ferret out people in our country
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  • Who were opposed to the basic principles of our country.
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  • When paul says, "the ungodly,"
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  • He's talking about people who are opposed to god.
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  • And guess who that is?
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  • Every one of us.
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  • We are born with an inclination to oppose god.
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  • We are born with this inclination.
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  • When god says yes, our first inclination is to say no.
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  • When god says no to something,
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  • Our first inclination is to say yes.
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  • And we've all inherited that sin tendency.
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  • Romans 3:23 says, for all have sinned.
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  • Not just some have sinned, all of us have sinned
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  • And fallen short of the glory of god.
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  • Now, you know, we don't understand that.
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  • We like to point to people who are worse than we are
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  • To measure our morality by them.
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  • We compare ourselves to other people,
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  • But god sees no difference in humanity.
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  • We are all on the same plane.
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  • There is no difference in god's eyes
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  • Between the pastor and the prostitute,
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  • Between the governor and the gunman,
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  • Between the lawyer and the lawless,
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  • Between the sophisticated and the savage.
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  • We are all sinners who need a savior.
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  • And the first step to being forgiven is to recognize,
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  • To admit that we are ungodly.
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  • But to the one who does not work,
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  • But who justifies the ungodly.
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  • The second characteristic i want you to notice here is
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  • That god forgives those who realize
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  • They are incapable of earning salvation.
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  • Notice in verse five again,
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  • To the one who does not work.
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  • God forgives those who refuse to work for their salvation.
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  • Now again, that turns our expectations topsy-turvy.
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  • We think just the opposite.
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  • In fact, we're taught from early in life that any good thing
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  • That comes into our life is because of our hard work.
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  • I mean we're taught as children.
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  • If you study hard, you earn a good grade.
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  • We're taught that if you work hard,
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  • You earn, what?
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  • A promotion or a bonus.
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  • We're taught as athletes.
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  • Athletes are taught, if you train hard
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  • And compete hard, you end up winning the game
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  • Or you win the trophy.
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  • You say, "well pastor, why is it that god doesn't allow us
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  • To work to earn his forgiveness?"
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  • Well, paul explains that in verse four,
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  • The verse four, verse five.
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  • Paul says, "now to the one who works,
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  • His wage is not reckoned as a favor,
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  • But as what is due."
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  • When he uses that word "wage,"
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  • You understand what he's talking about.
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  • Let me ask you a question.
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  • How many of you,
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  • When you get your check on the 15th
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  • And/or 30th of every month,
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  • How many of you go into your employer and say,
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  • "thank you so much for this.
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  • I can't believe you would do such a thing.
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  • I wasn't expecting this. thank you so much.
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  • What can i ever do to repay you?"
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  • Anybody ever do that?
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  • Sometimes i wish the staff did come in and do that,
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  • But they don't.
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  • (congregation laughing)
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  • Why? because what they receive is not a gift.
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  • It's not a favor. it is an obligation.
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  • You have an obligation.
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  • Your employer has an obligation with you.
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  • You've made a deal with him.
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  • You work and he pays you for what you do.
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  • It's not a gift from him. it is a wage.
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  • It is what you are owed.
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  • And ladies and gentlemen, if we work for our salvation,
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  • Then salvation is not a gift from god.
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  • It is what god owes us.
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  • And god refuses to owe any man or woman salvation.
  • 00:12:37.813 --> 00:12:43.252
  • But some people say,
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  • Well, i can accept that most of the way,
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  • But surely we play a little bit of a part in it.
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  • Maybe our salvation is 90%
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  • What jesus did for us on the cross and dying for our sins,
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  • But it's 10% my effort.
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  • Maybe it's faith in christ
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  • Plus getting baptized that gets me into heaven.
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  • Or maybe it's trusting in jesus and giving to the church,
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  • Or maybe it's trusting in christ
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  • And keeping the 10 commandments, it's god and me together.
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  • No, because even if salvation is 10% or 1%, what we do,
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  • It changes the whole nature of a gift
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  • And makes it an obligation.
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  • And that's why the bible says
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  • God doesn't allow us to do anything to earn our salvation.
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  • It is those who do not work,
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  • Who earn eternal life.
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  • That is what the bible says to the one who does not work
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  • But believes in him who justifies the ungodly.
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  • His faith is counted as righteousness.
  • 00:13:47.516 --> 00:13:51.887
  • Whom does god forgive?
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  • Who can be assured
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  • That they're going to be welcomed into heaven one day?
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  • First of all, those who admit that they are ungodly
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  • And need god's forgiveness.
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  • Secondly, those who realize they are incapable
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  • Of earning in any way their salvation.
  • 00:14:04.733 --> 00:14:07.436
  • And then finally, and this is key,
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  • God forgives those who trust in christ to save them.
  • 00:14:09.872 --> 00:14:14.543
  • Look again at verse five, "but to the one who does not work
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  • But believes in him."
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  • Underline that.
  • 00:14:21.717 --> 00:14:23.018
  • "believes in him who justifies the ungodly,
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  • His faith is reckoned as righteousness."
  • 00:14:26.355 --> 00:14:29.425
  • Earlier in paul, chapter four,
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  • Paul has been explaining to this mainly jewish audience
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  • How salvation is god's gift.
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  • It's not of works lest any man should boast.
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  • And as exhibit a of that truth, he uses abraham
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  • As an example.
  • 00:14:45.341 --> 00:14:46.742
  • Now you have to understand to our jewish audience,
  • 00:14:46.742 --> 00:14:48.911
  • Abraham was kind of like george washington is to americans.
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  • He was the father of the country,
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  • The father of the jewish people.
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  • He was the most revered character in jewish history,
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  • Abraham.
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  • And the jews thought if any man could be in heaven
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  • Because of his good works, it was abraham.
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  • I mean, just think about what he did.
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  • God told him to go to a country,
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  • Leave everything familiar to the country he would show them
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  • And he picked up and he went there.
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  • When he got in a dispute with his nephew, lot,
  • 00:15:15.504 --> 00:15:18.340
  • Over who could have the best land,
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  • He voluntarily gave the best land to his nephew, lot.
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  • When god asked his abraham to sacrifice his son,
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  • His beloved son, isaac, he was willing to do that.
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  • There is one guy
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  • Who certainly could inherit heaven
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  • Based on his works, couldn't he?
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  • Not according to what paul says.
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  • Look in verse three of romans four, he says,
  • 00:15:37.559 --> 00:15:39.461
  • "for what does the scripture say?"
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  • And abraham believed god.
  • 00:15:42.297 --> 00:15:46.435
  • And it, that belief, that faith was reckoned to abraham
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  • As righteousness, a right standing with god.
  • 00:15:52.641 --> 00:15:55.277
  • The event that paul is referring to goes back
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  • To genesis 15:6.
  • 00:15:57.746 --> 00:16:00.949
  • Remember before abraham had done anything good,
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  • Before he had become circumcised,
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  • Which would be like us being baptized today,
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  • Before any good thing abraham did, god said to abraham,
  • 00:16:08.824 --> 00:16:12.428
  • "abraham, i'm going to make you the father of a great nation."
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  • "me, i'm 75 years old, i can't be the father of one.
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  • Much less a multitude."
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  • He said, "abraham, go outside.
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  • Look into the stars at the heavens
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  • And count the number of stars.
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  • Can you count them?"
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  • "no."
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  • He said, "so shall your descendants be."
  • 00:16:31.213 --> 00:16:35.150
  • And then genesis 15:6 says,
  • 00:16:35.751 --> 00:16:39.188
  • "and abraham believed god."
  • 00:16:39.188 --> 00:16:43.258
  • And god took that belief of abraham.
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  • And in the great accounting room of heaven,
  • 00:16:46.528 --> 00:16:49.298
  • That faith of abraham was exchanged for god's righteousness.
  • 00:16:49.298 --> 00:16:54.570
  • At that moment, abraham was declared not guilty.
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  • He was in a right standing with god.
  • 00:16:58.874 --> 00:17:02.611
  • And paul uses that same word "belief" to describe
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  • How we're in a right relationship with god.
  • 00:17:06.415 --> 00:17:09.351
  • The word "belief" doesn't just mean intellectual ascent
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  • To a set of facts.
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  • It is a belief that means to trust in, to clinging,
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  • To put your full hope in.
  • 00:17:18.527 --> 00:17:22.064
  • It's the kind of faith that motivates you to do something.
  • 00:17:22.064 --> 00:17:26.602
  • Abraham, yes, he believed what god said,
  • 00:17:26.602 --> 00:17:29.238
  • But he believed it so much that he uprooted his family
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  • And left everything familiar to that land
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  • That god would show him without knowing where he was going.
  • 00:17:34.443 --> 00:17:37.880
  • It was the kind of faith noah exercised when god said
  • 00:17:37.880 --> 00:17:40.749
  • To noah, "i'm going to destroy the world with a flood.
  • 00:17:40.749 --> 00:17:43.785
  • I want you to make an arc for you and your family."
  • 00:17:44.853 --> 00:17:47.623
  • He didn't just believe intellectually
  • 00:17:47.623 --> 00:17:49.091
  • The world was going to be destroyed.
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  • He believed enough that he was willing to build an arc
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  • And be called a fool for doing so
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  • And putting his family into that boat.
  • 00:17:55.397 --> 00:17:58.367
  • And it's the same thing with us.
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  • To believe in jesus christ for your salvation
  • 00:18:00.702 --> 00:18:04.740
  • Doesn't mean just to believe intellectual facts about jesus.
  • 00:18:04.740 --> 00:18:09.578
  • It means to believe, to cling to, to trust in
  • 00:18:09.578 --> 00:18:13.048
  • What jesus said about himself,
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  • That he came and died on the cross
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  • To forgive us of our sins.
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  • It means to trust in that and that alone for our salvation.
  • 00:18:19.621 --> 00:18:23.392
  • Perhaps this illustration will help you even more understand
  • 00:18:23.392 --> 00:18:27.196
  • What biblical belief is.
  • 00:18:27.196 --> 00:18:28.997
  • Some of our folks have seen this before,
  • 00:18:28.997 --> 00:18:31.233
  • But it so well illustrates
  • 00:18:31.233 --> 00:18:32.568
  • What the bible means when it says believe.
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  • Believe isn't just a set of intellectual effects
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  • You agree to.
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  • I could believe that this chair is sturdy,
  • 00:18:41.777 --> 00:18:45.380
  • That it is well made,
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  • That it is capable of supporting my weight.
  • 00:18:46.982 --> 00:18:50.285
  • I believe that intellectually.
  • 00:18:50.285 --> 00:18:52.554
  • Is this chair supporting me?
  • 00:18:52.554 --> 00:18:55.157
  • No. intellectual ascent is not enough.
  • 00:18:55.157 --> 00:18:58.760
  • I could say, "well, i kind of believe
  • 00:18:58.760 --> 00:19:02.197
  • That this chair can hold me, but i want to hedge my bets."
  • 00:19:02.197 --> 00:19:05.634
  • And so i sit down, but i also put some weight on my feet.
  • 00:19:05.634 --> 00:19:10.439
  • I don't want to put my whole weight on it
  • 00:19:10.439 --> 00:19:12.074
  • 'cause this thing could break.
  • 00:19:12.074 --> 00:19:13.976
  • Is it really holding me?
  • 00:19:14.476 --> 00:19:16.311
  • No, it's my feet as well as the chair.
  • 00:19:16.311 --> 00:19:19.715
  • To really believe in this chair means i put my full weight
  • 00:19:19.715 --> 00:19:24.319
  • In this chair, no weight in my feet.
  • 00:19:24.319 --> 00:19:27.889
  • I transfer the responsibility from my feet
  • 00:19:27.889 --> 00:19:31.727
  • Completely to the chair to support me.
  • 00:19:31.727 --> 00:19:35.264
  • Now, ladies and gentlemen, it is the same way
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  • With believing in jesus christ.
  • 00:19:38.834 --> 00:19:41.703
  • To believe in jesus christ doesn't mean
  • 00:19:41.703 --> 00:19:44.106
  • To believe certain historical facts about jesus.
  • 00:19:44.106 --> 00:19:47.943
  • You can believe that jesus is the son of god.
  • 00:19:47.943 --> 00:19:51.613
  • You can believe that he died for the sins of the world.
  • 00:19:51.613 --> 00:19:54.716
  • You can believe that he rose from the dead on the third day
  • 00:19:54.716 --> 00:19:57.786
  • And still split hell wide open when you die.
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  • Did you know that? how do i know that?
  • 00:20:01.556 --> 00:20:04.626
  • Because you know the demons
  • 00:20:04.626 --> 00:20:06.061
  • And satan believe all of those things about jesus.
  • 00:20:06.061 --> 00:20:09.564
  • They believed that he was the son of god.
  • 00:20:09.564 --> 00:20:11.466
  • When the demons confronted jesus,
  • 00:20:11.466 --> 00:20:13.035
  • They said to him, "why are you here o, son of god?"
  • 00:20:13.035 --> 00:20:16.972
  • They understood who jesus was.
  • 00:20:16.972 --> 00:20:19.074
  • They believed that he died for the sins of the world.
  • 00:20:19.074 --> 00:20:22.177
  • They believed that he rose again from the dead.
  • 00:20:22.177 --> 00:20:24.579
  • In fact, they believed those things more than you do,
  • 00:20:24.579 --> 00:20:28.350
  • More than i do, because they were there.
  • 00:20:29.184 --> 00:20:32.120
  • They were eyewitnesses to those things.
  • 00:20:32.120 --> 00:20:34.623
  • But that kind of belief is not what saves you.
  • 00:20:34.623 --> 00:20:37.492
  • It is when you are willing to appropriate
  • 00:20:37.492 --> 00:20:39.728
  • That faith in your own life.
  • 00:20:39.728 --> 00:20:41.830
  • When you come to that point of desperation, when you believe
  • 00:20:41.830 --> 00:20:45.133
  • That jesus is your only hope of heaven,
  • 00:20:45.133 --> 00:20:47.736
  • When you kneel before a holy god and you say,
  • 00:20:47.736 --> 00:20:50.138
  • "god, i know i am ungodly.
  • 00:20:50.138 --> 00:20:53.909
  • I know i have sinned.
  • 00:20:53.909 --> 00:20:55.877
  • I know i deserve your eternal punishment,
  • 00:20:55.877 --> 00:20:59.214
  • But i believe that you sent your son jesus to die for me
  • 00:20:59.214 --> 00:21:04.553
  • To take the punishment on the cross
  • 00:21:05.320 --> 00:21:06.254
  • That i deserve to take from you.
  • 00:21:06.254 --> 00:21:08.256
  • And right now i'm trusting in jesus and jesus alone.
  • 00:21:08.256 --> 00:21:12.294
  • Not my good works, but in jesus and jesus alone
  • 00:21:12.294 --> 00:21:15.697
  • To save me from my sins."
  • 00:21:15.697 --> 00:21:18.433
  • And the bible says, the moment,
  • 00:21:18.433 --> 00:21:20.068
  • The instant you say that to god, just like abraham,
  • 00:21:20.068 --> 00:21:24.506
  • God takes your faith no matter how small it is.
  • 00:21:24.506 --> 00:21:28.477
  • And in the great accounting room of heaven,
  • 00:21:28.477 --> 00:21:31.513
  • God exchanges your little bit of faith
  • 00:21:31.513 --> 00:21:34.282
  • For his everlasting forgiveness and righteousness.
  • 00:21:34.282 --> 00:21:39.054
  • To the one who does not work
  • 00:21:39.054 --> 00:21:41.590
  • But believes in him who justifies the ungodly,
  • 00:21:41.590 --> 00:21:45.961
  • His faith is counted as righteousness.
  • 00:21:45.961 --> 00:21:50.198
  • As a young girl, charlotte elliot had heard
  • 00:21:51.066 --> 00:21:54.369
  • That truth all of her life.
  • 00:21:54.369 --> 00:21:57.572
  • One day when she was nine years old,
  • 00:21:57.572 --> 00:21:59.975
  • Her village pastor came by to see her.
  • 00:21:59.975 --> 00:22:02.577
  • He said, "charlotte, are you ready to come to jesus today?"
  • 00:22:03.745 --> 00:22:07.482
  • She said, "pastor, i'd like to,
  • 00:22:07.482 --> 00:22:09.050
  • But i don't know how to come."
  • 00:22:09.050 --> 00:22:11.987
  • He said, "just come the way you are."
  • 00:22:11.987 --> 00:22:14.423
  • And that night, little charlotte elliot knelt beside her bed
  • 00:22:15.590 --> 00:22:18.760
  • And she prayed this prayer.
  • 00:22:18.760 --> 00:22:20.762
  • "dear god, my pastor said,
  • 00:22:20.762 --> 00:22:22.497
  • I don't have to wait any longer to come to you.
  • 00:22:22.497 --> 00:22:26.168
  • If you will take me just the way i am,
  • 00:22:26.168 --> 00:22:29.137
  • I'll come to you now."
  • 00:22:29.137 --> 00:22:31.206
  • Years later, as an adult, charlotte elliot
  • 00:22:32.073 --> 00:22:35.477
  • Used that experience to pin one of the most loved hymns
  • 00:22:35.477 --> 00:22:40.749
  • Of all time.
  • 00:22:41.082 --> 00:22:41.950
  • "just as i am without one plea,
  • 00:22:42.584 --> 00:22:47.489
  • But that thy blood was shed for me.
  • 00:22:47.489 --> 00:22:51.159
  • And that thou bits me come to thee.
  • 00:22:51.159 --> 00:22:54.463
  • O lamb of god, i come."
  • 00:22:54.463 --> 00:22:58.533
  • As a little girl charlotte elliot
  • 00:22:59.201 --> 00:23:01.870
  • Understood a truth so simple
  • 00:23:01.870 --> 00:23:05.540
  • That wise men have stumbled over it.
  • 00:23:05.540 --> 00:23:08.477
  • And that truth is this.
  • 00:23:08.477 --> 00:23:10.946
  • To the man, the woman, the boy, the girl who does not work
  • 00:23:10.946 --> 00:23:16.518
  • But believes in him who forgives, justifies the ungodly,
  • 00:23:17.586 --> 00:23:22.891
  • God takes his faith and counts it as righteousness.
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  • ♪ music ♪
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  • Aren't you glad to know that jesus has paid the price
  • 00:23:33.235 --> 00:23:36.705
  • For your sin?
  • 00:23:36.705 --> 00:23:38.206
  • All we need to do is put our trust
  • 00:23:38.206 --> 00:23:40.308
  • In him and him alone for our salvation.
  • 00:23:40.308 --> 00:23:44.379
  • Now in closing, i need to remind you
  • 00:23:44.379 --> 00:23:46.147
  • That we're coming up on a significant deadline.
  • 00:23:46.147 --> 00:23:49.317
  • This sunday, july 6th, pathway to victory will conclude
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  • The salt and light matching challenge.
  • 00:23:53.355 --> 00:23:55.991
  • There's still time for you to double the impact
  • 00:23:55.991 --> 00:23:58.426
  • Of your gift, but you need to respond today.
  • 00:23:58.426 --> 00:24:01.897
  • We're asking god to use men and women just like you
  • 00:24:01.897 --> 00:24:04.900
  • To help us reach and even exceed the $1 million goal.
  • 00:24:04.900 --> 00:24:09.304
  • Jesus declared, you are the salt of the earth
  • 00:24:09.304 --> 00:24:13.108
  • And you are the light of the world.
  • 00:24:13.108 --> 00:24:16.278
  • God will use your generous gifts to help push back
  • 00:24:16.278 --> 00:24:19.614
  • Against the moral and spiritual decline in our nation
  • 00:24:19.614 --> 00:24:22.951
  • As we serve as the salt and light
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  • Our world desperately needs.
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  • Thank you so much for your faithful support.
  • 00:24:27.455 --> 00:24:30.392
  • And stay right there.
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  • I'll be back with more "pathway to victory"
  • 00:24:31.693 --> 00:24:34.329
  • In just a moment.
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  • [announcer] is fear holding you back
  • 00:24:36.631 --> 00:24:38.033
  • From sharing your faith?
  • 00:24:38.033 --> 00:24:39.434
  • Millions of christians have the desire,
  • 00:24:39.434 --> 00:24:41.403
  • But lack the courage to speak up.
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  • With god's holy spirit, you can become unstoppable.
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  • Our enemy hates for the church to grow,
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  • Not just in numbers, but in its influence for the gospel.
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  • And he will do everything he can to stop it.
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  • So we must do everything we can to stop him.
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  • To be your confidence in any situation.
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  • [announcer] in his bestselling book, unstoppable power,
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  • We faced the same kind of growing opposition
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  • In the 21st century
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  • As those first century christians experience
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  • That opposition was no match for the power of jesus christ.
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  • As we boldly proclaim the gospel in a world
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  • That has lost its way.
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  • How can i have a right relationship with god?
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  • The answer to that question not only affects our life now,
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  • But determines our eternal destiny.
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  • And i hope today's message has given you
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  • A clear biblical answer.
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  • Well, many people believe that america was founded
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  • By leaders who wanted to create a secular nation
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  • Free from any religious influence.
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  • And next time i'll share with you why that version
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  • Of american history is a complete myth.
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  • Stay tuned for a preview
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  • Of what's coming up next on "pathway to victory."
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  • Though it is completely politically incorrect to say,
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  • The truth is this,
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  • America was founded as a christian nation
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  • And our success as a nation
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  • Depends upon our fidelity to god's word
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  • Now today we are going to look at the historical evidence
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  • By which we can say that america was truly founded
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  • As a christian nation.
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