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Robert Jeffress - The Most Important Verse In The Bible

August 29, 2025 | S25 E3506 | 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 | August 29, 2025
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  • 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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  • The most important question a person can ask in life
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  • Is this one, how can i have a right relationship with god?
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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
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  • We're going to look at today, romans 4:5.
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  • My message is titled "the most important verse in the bible"
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  • The most important verse in the bible.
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  • Now people have been guessing for weeks or months
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  • 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 about
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  • 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,
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  • 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 talked 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 that
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  • If you had to select the single
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  • 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
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  • Have 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 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 is
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  • 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
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  • In christ for his salvation.
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  • In fact, the theme verses are 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,
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  • 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
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  • Is in a right standing with god.
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  • There's not one righteous person among us. 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,
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  • The person who lives by a good moral code,
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  • Lives by the golden rule, he's exempt from hell.
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  • 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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  • And romans 3:23, for all have sinned
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  • And fallen short of the glory of god.
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  • 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,
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  • "who justifies the ungodly."
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  • That word justify 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.
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  • 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, 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, we mean they're not godlike.
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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
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  • And ideals 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 of sinned,
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  • All of us have sinned 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
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  • Is that god forgives those
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  • Who realize 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
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  • That any good thing that comes into our life
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  • 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, you earn what?
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  • A promotion or a bonus.
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  • We're taught as athletes, athletes are taught,
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  • If you train hard and compete hard,
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  • You end up winning the game 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 before verse five, paul says,
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  • "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, 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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  • Why? because what they receive is not a gift.
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  • It's not a favor.
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  • 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,
  • 00:12:29.038 --> 00:12:32.842
  • 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.
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  • 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 god doesn't allow us
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  • 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,
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  • To the one who does not work but believes in him
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  • Who justifies the ungodly,
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  • His faith is counted as righteousness.
  • 00:13:12.114 --> 00:13:16.418
  • 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?
  • 00:13:19.855 --> 00:13:21.891
  • First of all, those who admit that they are ungodly
  • 00:13:21.891 --> 00:13:24.827
  • And indeed god's forgiveness.
  • 00:13:24.827 --> 00:13:26.462
  • Secondly, those who realize they are incapable
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  • Of earning in any way their salvation.
  • 00:13:29.265 --> 00:13:31.967
  • And then finally, and this is key,
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  • God forgives those who trust in christ to save them.
  • 00:13:34.436 --> 00:13:39.074
  • Look again at verse five,
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  • But to the one who does not work but believes in him,
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  • Underline that, believes in him who justifies the ungodly,
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  • His faith is reckoned as righteousness.
  • 00:13:50.886 --> 00:13:53.956
  • Earlier in chapter four, paul has been explaining
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  • To this mainly jewish audience 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,
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  • He uses abraham as an example.
  • 00:14:06.335 --> 00:14:10.005
  • Now you have to understand, to a jewish audience,
  • 00:14:10.005 --> 00:14:12.107
  • Abraham was kind of like george washington is to americans.
  • 00:14:12.107 --> 00:14:15.344
  • 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
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  • In jewish history, 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.
  • 00:14:27.122 --> 00:14:29.291
  • 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
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  • He would show them, and he picked up and he went there.
  • 00:14:34.763 --> 00:14:37.833
  • When he got in a dispute with his nephew lot
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  • Over who could have the best land,
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  • He voluntarily gave the best land to his nephew lot.
  • 00:14:43.038 --> 00:14:46.508
  • When god asked abraham to sacrifice his son,
  • 00:14:46.508 --> 00:14:49.912
  • His beloved son, isaac, he was willing to do that.
  • 00:14:49.912 --> 00:14:53.515
  • There is one guy
  • 00:14:53.515 --> 00:14:54.683
  • Who certainly could inherit heaven
  • 00:14:54.683 --> 00:14:57.152
  • Based on his works, couldn't he?
  • 00:14:57.152 --> 00:14:59.388
  • Not according to what paul says.
  • 00:14:59.388 --> 00:15:00.789
  • Look in verse three of romans 4, he says,
  • 00:15:00.789 --> 00:15:02.691
  • "for what does the scripture say,
  • 00:15:02.691 --> 00:15:05.561
  • And abraham believed god."
  • 00:15:05.561 --> 00:15:09.698
  • And it, that belief, that faith,
  • 00:15:09.698 --> 00:15:12.735
  • Was reckoned to abraham as righteousness,
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  • A right standing with god.
  • 00:15:16.071 --> 00:15:18.507
  • The event that paul is referring to goes back
  • 00:15:18.507 --> 00:15:21.010
  • To genesis 15:6.
  • 00:15:21.010 --> 00:15:24.179
  • Remember before abraham had done anything good,
  • 00:15:24.179 --> 00:15:27.383
  • Before he had become circumcised,
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  • Which would be like us being baptized today,
  • 00:15:29.518 --> 00:15:32.087
  • Before any good thing abraham did, god said to abraham,
  • 00:15:32.087 --> 00:15:35.657
  • "abraham, i'm going to make you the father of a great nation."
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  • Me? i'm 75 years old.
  • 00:15:40.529 --> 00:15:43.032
  • I can't be the father of one, much less a multitude.
  • 00:15:43.032 --> 00:15:45.834
  • He said, "abraham, go outside.
  • 00:15:45.834 --> 00:15:48.170
  • Look into the heavens and count the number of stars.
  • 00:15:48.170 --> 00:15:50.906
  • Can you count them?"
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  • No, he said, "so shall your descendants be."
  • 00:15:52.274 --> 00:15:57.446
  • And then genesis 15:6 says,
  • 00:15:58.047 --> 00:16:01.450
  • "and abraham believed god."
  • 00:16:01.450 --> 00:16:05.487
  • And god took that belief of abraham.
  • 00:16:06.288 --> 00:16:08.757
  • And in the great accounting room of heaven,
  • 00:16:08.757 --> 00:16:11.560
  • That faith of abraham was exchanged for god's righteousness.
  • 00:16:11.560 --> 00:16:16.565
  • At that moment, abraham was declared not guilty.
  • 00:16:16.565 --> 00:16:21.170
  • He was in a right standing with god.
  • 00:16:21.170 --> 00:16:24.840
  • And paul uses that same word believe to describe
  • 00:16:24.840 --> 00:16:28.610
  • How we're in a right relationship with god.
  • 00:16:28.610 --> 00:16:31.613
  • The word believe doesn't just mean intellectual ascent
  • 00:16:31.613 --> 00:16:35.818
  • To a set of facts.
  • 00:16:35.818 --> 00:16:37.586
  • It is a belief that means to trust in, to cling to,
  • 00:16:37.586 --> 00:16:40.756
  • To put your full hope in.
  • 00:16:40.756 --> 00:16:43.559
  • It's the kind of faith that motivates you to do something.
  • 00:16:44.726 --> 00:16:48.831
  • Abraham, yes, he believed what god said,
  • 00:16:48.831 --> 00:16:51.467
  • But he believed it so much that he uprooted his family
  • 00:16:51.467 --> 00:16:54.736
  • And left everything familiar to that land
  • 00:16:54.736 --> 00:16:56.738
  • That god would show him without knowing where he was going.
  • 00:16:56.738 --> 00:17:00.142
  • It was the kind of faith noah exercised
  • 00:17:00.142 --> 00:17:02.444
  • When god said to noah,
  • 00:17:02.444 --> 00:17:03.745
  • "i'm going to destroy the world with a flood.
  • 00:17:03.745 --> 00:17:06.014
  • I want you to make an ark for you and your family."
  • 00:17:07.082 --> 00:17:09.885
  • He didn't just believe intellectually
  • 00:17:09.885 --> 00:17:11.320
  • The world was going to be destroyed.
  • 00:17:11.320 --> 00:17:12.821
  • He believed enough that he was willing to build an ark
  • 00:17:12.821 --> 00:17:15.591
  • And be called a fool for doing so
  • 00:17:15.591 --> 00:17:17.626
  • And putting his family into that boat.
  • 00:17:17.626 --> 00:17:20.629
  • And it's the same thing with us.
  • 00:17:20.629 --> 00:17:22.965
  • To believe in jesus christ for your salvation
  • 00:17:22.965 --> 00:17:27.002
  • Doesn't mean just to believe intellectual facts about jesus.
  • 00:17:27.002 --> 00:17:31.840
  • It means to believe, to cling to,
  • 00:17:31.840 --> 00:17:34.276
  • To trust in what jesus said about himself,
  • 00:17:34.276 --> 00:17:37.980
  • That he came and died on the cross
  • 00:17:37.980 --> 00:17:40.282
  • To forgive us of our sins.
  • 00:17:40.282 --> 00:17:41.884
  • It means to trust in that and that alone for our salvation.
  • 00:17:41.884 --> 00:17:45.687
  • Perhaps this illustration will help you even more understand
  • 00:17:45.687 --> 00:17:49.424
  • What biblical belief is.
  • 00:17:49.424 --> 00:17:51.226
  • Some of our folks have seen this before,
  • 00:17:51.226 --> 00:17:53.462
  • But it so well illustrates
  • 00:17:53.462 --> 00:17:54.830
  • What the bible means when it says believe.
  • 00:17:54.830 --> 00:17:58.100
  • Believe isn't just a set of intellectual facts.
  • 00:17:59.034 --> 00:18:02.104
  • You agree to.
  • 00:18:02.104 --> 00:18:03.639
  • You know, i could believe that this chair is sturdy,
  • 00:18:03.639 --> 00:18:07.543
  • That it is well-made,
  • 00:18:07.543 --> 00:18:09.178
  • That it is capable of supporting my weight.
  • 00:18:09.178 --> 00:18:12.481
  • I believe that intellectually. is this chair supporting me?
  • 00:18:12.481 --> 00:18:17.352
  • No, intellectual ascent is not enough.
  • 00:18:17.352 --> 00:18:20.956
  • I could say, "well, i kind of believe
  • 00:18:20.956 --> 00:18:24.359
  • That this chair can hold me, but i want to hedge my bets."
  • 00:18:24.359 --> 00:18:27.696
  • And so i sit down, but i also put some weight on my feet.
  • 00:18:27.696 --> 00:18:32.501
  • I don't want to put my whole weight on it
  • 00:18:32.501 --> 00:18:34.136
  • Because this thing could break.
  • 00:18:34.136 --> 00:18:36.038
  • Is it really holding me?
  • 00:18:36.538 --> 00:18:38.407
  • No, it's my feet as well as the chair.
  • 00:18:38.407 --> 00:18:41.777
  • To really believe in this chair means i put my full weight
  • 00:18:41.777 --> 00:18:46.415
  • In this chair, no weight in my feet,
  • 00:18:46.415 --> 00:18:49.918
  • I transfer the responsibility from my feet
  • 00:18:49.918 --> 00:18:53.989
  • Completely to the chair to support me.
  • 00:18:53.989 --> 00:18:57.492
  • Now ladies and gentlemen,
  • 00:18:58.060 --> 00:18:59.428
  • It is the same way with believing in jesus christ.
  • 00:18:59.428 --> 00:19:03.899
  • To believe in jesus christ doesn't mean
  • 00:19:03.899 --> 00:19:06.268
  • To believe certain historical facts about jesus.
  • 00:19:06.268 --> 00:19:10.138
  • You can believe that jesus is the son of god.
  • 00:19:10.138 --> 00:19:13.775
  • You can believe that he died for the sins of the world.
  • 00:19:13.775 --> 00:19:16.878
  • You can believe that he rose from the dead on the third day
  • 00:19:16.878 --> 00:19:19.982
  • And still split hell wide open when you die.
  • 00:19:19.982 --> 00:19:23.719
  • Did you know that? how do i know that?
  • 00:19:23.719 --> 00:19:26.788
  • Because you know the demons
  • 00:19:26.788 --> 00:19:28.257
  • And satan believe all of those things about jesus?
  • 00:19:28.257 --> 00:19:31.760
  • They believe that he was the son of god.
  • 00:19:31.760 --> 00:19:33.562
  • When the demons confronted jesus,
  • 00:19:33.562 --> 00:19:35.130
  • They said to him, "why are you here, oh son of god?"
  • 00:19:35.130 --> 00:19:39.034
  • They understood who jesus was.
  • 00:19:39.034 --> 00:19:41.169
  • They believe that he died for the sins of the world.
  • 00:19:41.169 --> 00:19:44.273
  • They believe that he rose again from the dead.
  • 00:19:44.273 --> 00:19:46.608
  • In fact, they believe those things more than you do,
  • 00:19:46.608 --> 00:19:50.479
  • More than i do because they were there.
  • 00:19:51.280 --> 00:19:54.383
  • They were eyewitnesses to those things.
  • 00:19:54.383 --> 00:19:56.852
  • But that kind of belief is not what saves you.
  • 00:19:56.852 --> 00:19:59.721
  • It is when you are willing to appropriate
  • 00:19:59.721 --> 00:20:01.957
  • That faith in your own life.
  • 00:20:01.957 --> 00:20:04.026
  • When you come to that point of desperation,
  • 00:20:04.026 --> 00:20:06.561
  • When you believe that jesus is your only hope of heaven,
  • 00:20:06.561 --> 00:20:09.965
  • When you kneel before a holy god and you say,
  • 00:20:09.965 --> 00:20:12.367
  • "god, i know i am ungodly.
  • 00:20:12.367 --> 00:20:16.138
  • I know i have sinned.
  • 00:20:16.138 --> 00:20:18.140
  • I know i deserve your eternal punishment,
  • 00:20:18.140 --> 00:20:21.443
  • But i believe that you sent your son jesus to die for me,
  • 00:20:21.443 --> 00:20:26.782
  • To take the punishment on the cross
  • 00:20:27.549 --> 00:20:28.483
  • That i deserve to take from you.
  • 00:20:28.483 --> 00:20:30.452
  • And right now, i'm trusting in jesus and jesus alone,
  • 00:20:30.452 --> 00:20:34.656
  • Not my good works,
  • 00:20:34.656 --> 00:20:36.191
  • But in jesus and jesus alone to save me from my sins."
  • 00:20:36.191 --> 00:20:40.929
  • And the bible says the moment,
  • 00:20:41.563 --> 00:20:42.964
  • The instant you say that to god, just like abraham,
  • 00:20:42.964 --> 00:20:46.735
  • God takes your faith, no matter how small it is.
  • 00:20:46.735 --> 00:20:50.572
  • And in the great accounting room of heaven,
  • 00:20:50.572 --> 00:20:53.942
  • God exchanges your little bit of faith
  • 00:20:53.942 --> 00:20:56.678
  • For his everlasting forgiveness and righteousness.
  • 00:20:56.678 --> 00:21:01.316
  • To the one who does not work
  • 00:21:01.316 --> 00:21:03.819
  • But believes in him who justifies the ungodly,
  • 00:21:03.819 --> 00:21:08.190
  • His faith is counted as righteousness.
  • 00:21:08.190 --> 00:21:12.961
  • As a young girl,
  • 00:21:13.328 --> 00:21:14.996
  • Charlotte elliot had heard that truth all of her life.
  • 00:21:14.996 --> 00:21:19.267
  • One day when she was nine years old,
  • 00:21:20.068 --> 00:21:22.204
  • Her village pastor came by to see her.
  • 00:21:22.204 --> 00:21:24.873
  • He said, "charlotte, are you ready to come to jesus today?"
  • 00:21:26.041 --> 00:21:29.745
  • She said, "pastor, i'd like to,
  • 00:21:29.745 --> 00:21:31.279
  • But i don't know how to come."
  • 00:21:31.279 --> 00:21:34.216
  • He said, "just come the way you are."
  • 00:21:34.216 --> 00:21:36.718
  • And that night, little charlotte elliot knelt
  • 00:21:37.652 --> 00:21:39.588
  • Beside her bed and she prayed this prayer.
  • 00:21:39.588 --> 00:21:43.091
  • "dear god, my pastor said i don't have
  • 00:21:43.091 --> 00:21:45.761
  • To wait any longer to come to you.
  • 00:21:45.761 --> 00:21:48.397
  • If you will take me just the way i am,
  • 00:21:48.397 --> 00:21:51.366
  • I'll come to you now."
  • 00:21:51.366 --> 00:21:53.902
  • Years later, as an adult,
  • 00:21:54.469 --> 00:21:56.671
  • Charlotte elliot used that experience to pen
  • 00:21:56.671 --> 00:22:00.475
  • One of the most loved hymns of all time,
  • 00:22:00.475 --> 00:22:04.279
  • Just as i am without one plea,
  • 00:22:04.913 --> 00:22:09.718
  • But that thy blood was shed for me.
  • 00:22:09.718 --> 00:22:13.388
  • And thou bidst me come to thee, oh lamb of god, i come.
  • 00:22:13.388 --> 00:22:20.996
  • As a little girl,
  • 00:22:21.430 --> 00:22:22.531
  • Charlotte elliot understood a truth
  • 00:22:22.531 --> 00:22:26.268
  • So simple that wise men have stumbled over it.
  • 00:22:26.268 --> 00:22:30.739
  • And that truth is this, to the man, the woman,
  • 00:22:30.739 --> 00:22:36.077
  • The boy, the girl who does not work
  • 00:22:36.878 --> 00:22:39.815
  • But believes in him who forgives, justifies the ungodly,
  • 00:22:39.815 --> 00:22:45.086
  • God takes his faith
  • 00:22:45.554 --> 00:22:46.955
  • And counts it as righteousness.
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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
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  • Has given you a clear biblical answer.
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  • Well, many people assume they're going to heaven
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  • Because they attend church or keep the 10 commandments
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  • Or live by the golden rule,
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  • But the bible teaches that we're saved by grace alone
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  • Through faith alone and not by our good works.
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  • Stay tuned for a preview
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  • Of my brand new study in the book of james,
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  • "how to know if you're really saved."
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  • Where there is genuine faith,
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  • There will always be visible fruit.
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  • If somebody lives their life
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  • And there is no spiritual fruit,
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  • It means there is no saving faith.
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  • And join us next time for the brand new series,
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  • "how to know if you're really saved,"
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  • A study in the book of james here on "pathway to victory."
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