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Robert Jeffress - Without A Doubt (Part 1)

April 7, 2025 | S25:E165

Robert Jeffress - Without A Doubt (Part 1)
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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - Without A Doubt (Part 1) | April 7, 2025
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Male announcer: from the pulpit of the first baptist church of
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  • Dallas, texas, this is "pathway to victory" with dr.
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  • Robert jeffress.
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  • Dr. robert jeffress: hi, i'm robert jeffress, and welcome
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  • Again to "pathway to victory."
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  • When adam and eve disobeyed god in the garden by eating the
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  • Forbidden fruit, they brought sin into the world, and their
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  • Sinful choice put us at odds with our creator as well.
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  • But when jesus died on the cross, he provided a way for men
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  • And women everywhere to be restored.
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  • So, how can you and i be absolutely certain that we're in
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  • A right standing with god?
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  • Is it even something we can be certain of?
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  • My message is titled "without a doubt" on today's edition of
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  • "pathway to victory."
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Announcer: paul was the most significant missionary in
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  • Christian history and wrote almost half the books of the
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  • New testament.
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  • And you're invited to walk in his footsteps with
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  • "the illustrated guide to the apostle paul."
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  • In this fully illustrated resource, you'll explore the
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  • Social, cultural, political, and religious background of the
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  • First-century roman world in which paul lived and ministered,
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  • And you'll understand god's grace in new ways.
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  • Contact "pathway to victory" today with a generous gift and
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  • The apostle paul."
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  • Jeffress: the great novelist h.g. wells
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  • Very honestly described his own inability to find any
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  • Peace in his life.
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  • He wrote, "i cannot adjust my life to secure any
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  • Fruitful peace.
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  • Here i am at 64, still seeking peace.
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  • It is a hopeless dream."
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  • H.g. wells is not unique.
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  • Many people go through life without any peace.
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  • They feel like they are helpless victims of adverse
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  • Circumstances, hateful people, or simply bad luck, and it's
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  • That lack of control most people feel over their lives that makes
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  • Them resentful of their past, discontent with their present,
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  • And fearful of their future.
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  • H.g. wells was right.
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  • Peace is an elusive dream for most people.
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  • The fact is, you will never find lasting peace in your life
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  • Until, first of all, you are at peace with god.
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  • And that's the theme of the passage we're going to look at
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  • This morning.
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  • I want you to take your bibles, and i want you to turn to romans
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  • Chapter 5 as we look at four very practical benefits of being
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  • Justified, being righteous with god without any doubt.
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  • Romans chapter 5.
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  • We're in the heart of the study of the book of romans.
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  • And remember, paul's theme in this book is that
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  • Righteousness--that's simply a word that means a right
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  • Relationship with god.
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  • Righteousness is available only to those who trust in the
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  • Redemptive work of jesus christ.
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  • We saw in chapter 3, verse 28 that we are justified, made
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  • Right with god, apart from our works.
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  • It is by faith in the grace of god, and that's what makes
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  • Christianity unique from all other religions.
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  • All other religions say that it is works or works plus grace.
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  • No, the bible says it is grace alone received through faith.
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  • So, paul says in romans 3:28, "for we maintain that a man is
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  • Justified by his faith apart from the works of the law."
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  • And to illustrate that in chapter 4, he uses the story
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  • Of abraham.
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  • Everybody agreed abraham was a good man, a righteous man, but
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  • What was it that made him right before god?
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  • We saw last time abraham was declared righteous apart from
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  • His works, apart from religious ritual, and apart from keeping
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  • The law.
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  • Now, you may be saying, "so what?
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  • What difference does that make to me?"
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  • Well, when we come to chapter 5, we find the
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  • Practical application.
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  • Paul is going to share four benefits, four very tangible
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  • Benefits that come from the assurance that you are in a
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  • Right relationship with god.
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  • First of all, he says righteousness, a right
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  • Relationship with god gives us peace with a holy god.
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  • Look at chapter 5, verse 1,
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  • "therefore, having been
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  • Justified by faith, we have peace with god through our lord
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  • Jesus christ."
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  • Now, you need to understand there is a difference between
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  • The peace of god and peace with god.
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  • The bible often speaks of the peace of god or the peace
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  • Of jesus.
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  • For example, in colossians 3:13, paul writes, "let the peace of
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  • Christ rule in your heart."
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  • We've seen before that word rule is an athletic term in greek.
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  • It means to umpire.
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  • You know what an umpire does in a baseball game.
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  • He sits behind the batter and when the balls come over the
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  • Plate, his job is to call those balls.
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  • What kind of balls are they?
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  • Is it a strike or is it a legitimate pitch?
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  • Now, the umpire doesn't control the pitches that come across
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  • The plate.
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  • His job is simply to render a judgment about them.
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  • Well, that's the word that is used here.
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  • Paul says, "you need to allow the peace of jesus to have the
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  • Final say over circumstances in your life."
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  • You and i can't control the curveballs that life throws us
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  • At sometimes, but we can choose whether or not to allow christ
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  • To have the final say.
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  • Instead of panicking, we say, "because god is in control of my
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  • Life, there is a purpose for that."
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  • That's what the peace of christ means.
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  • How do you experience the peace of christ?
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  • Paul says in philippians 4, verse 6 to 7,
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  • "don't worry about anything.
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  • Instead, pray about everything.
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  • Let your request be made known to god and don't forget to thank
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  • Him for his answers.
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  • Then you will experience god's peace, which exceeds anything
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  • We can understand.
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  • His peace will guard your hearts and minds as you live in
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  • Christ jesus."
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  • The greatest antidote to worry is prayer, and when you pray,
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  • You can have the same peace that characterized the life of
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  • Jesus christ.
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  • That's what the peace of god is.
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  • But that's not what paul is talking about in romans
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  • Chapter 5.
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  • He's not talking about the peace of god, he is talking
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  • About peace with god.
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  • We need to know we are at peace with god.
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  • And when you're in a right standing with god, you have that
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  • Assurance, you're at peace with god.
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  • You say, "well why do i need that?"
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  • You may be like henry david thoreau who said, "i'm not at
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  • War with god."
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  • Why do i need god's peace to be at peace with god?
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  • I'm not at war with god.
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  • That may be true.
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  • You may not think you're at war with god, but did you know,
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  • Apart from jesus christ, god is at war with you?
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  • Now, you don't hear that talked about much today, that god is a
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  • War--at war.
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  • He is against non-christians.
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  • But that's what the bible says.
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  • In romans chapter 1, verse 18, paul says, "for the wrath of god
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  • Is being revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and
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  • Wickedness of people, who suppress the truth of god by
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  • Their wickedness."
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  • Folks, today, our culture has created a god in its own image.
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  • We have created this idea of god who approves of everything and
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  • Judges nothing.
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  • That is not the god of the bible.
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  • God is at war against those who commit wickedness.
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  • I saw just a great illustration this week after my address at
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  • The washington man of prayer this week in washington.
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  • The liberal blogs lit up like a christmas tree, saying, "i dare
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  • This pastor say that we are deserving of the wrath of god if
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  • We disobey the commands of god."
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  • What was interesting to me was the number of christians who
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  • Objected to that idea as well.
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  • They said, "god is not a god of judgment.
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  • He is a god of love.
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  • He loves everybody.
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  • He judges nobody."
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  • And that's the idea we've created of god.
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  • A god who sits in heaven, and if we happen to mess up, well
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  • That's okay.
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  • If we keep on messing up, that's okay.
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  • It doesn't matter who you are, what faith you are, god doesn't
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  • Judge you.
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  • His job is simply to forgive you no matter what you do and how
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  • Long you keep doing it.
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  • That is not the god of the bible.
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  • Romans 1:18 says, "the wrath of god is being revealed from
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  • Heaven against all godlessness and the wickedness of people,
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  • Who suppress the truth of god by their wickedness."
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  • When you are born into this world, when i'm born into this
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  • World, we are not born as children of god.
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  • We're not even born spiritually neutral.
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  • The bible says when we come into this world, we come as children
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  • Of satan.
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  • We come as enemies of god, and we'll discover why that is
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  • Next week.
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  • The bible says all mankind is, by nature, ungodly against god.
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  • But the good news of the cross that the choir sing about is
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  • When you trust in christ to remove your sins, your status
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  • Changes from enemy of god to friend of god.
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  • You change from being a child of satan to being a child of the
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  • Creator, and it's that change in status that paul wrote about in
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  • Colossians 1, verses 21 and 22, "and although you were formerly
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  • Alienated and hostile in mind, engaged in evil deeds, yet
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  • Christ has now reconciled you in his fleshly body through death,
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  • In order to present you before himself holy and blameless and
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  • Beyond reproach."
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  • When you're in a right relationship with god that comes
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  • By grace through faith, you know that you are at peace with a
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  • Holy god.
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  • Your status has changed from enemy to friend.
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  • What's the result of that change in status?
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  • Notice paul lists two very practical results for us of our
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  • Change in status.
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  • First of all, because we have changed from an enemy to a
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  • Friend, it means we have access to god.
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  • Look at chapter 5, verse 2 and talking about christ, it says,
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  • "through whom also we have obtained our introduction
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  • By faith."
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  • That greek word introduction, prosagógé, means access.
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  • Because we're in a right standing with god, we have
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  • Access to god the father.
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  • It's the same word used in ephesians 2:18 that says, "for
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  • Through christ we have access to the father by one spirit."
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  • Now, again, to the world, this is nonsensical.
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  • What do you mean we have access?
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  • Well, everybody has access to god.
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  • Anybody can come to god who wants to.
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  • It doesn't matter whether you're a jew, a gentile, a baptist,
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  • A catholic.
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  • Doesn't matter whether you're a hindu, a buddhist, a mormon,
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  • Everybody is free just to talk to god any time they want to,
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  • And know god's there listening to meet their every need.
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  • That idea is foreign to the bible.
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  • There is only one way any of us has access to god, and it is
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  • Through jesus christ the son.
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  • He is the only way we have access to god.
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  • He is the one who provides an introduction to the father.
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  • He's the one who escorts us into the presence of the father.
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  • I experienced a great illustration of that a couple of
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  • Weeks ago.
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  • Couple of weeks ago when i was in new york at fox news, i
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  • Walked into the lobby of fox, and it's a huge lobby there on
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  • The avenue of america.
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  • It's a huge building, and there is this massive wooden desk,
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  • Security desk, and over to the left is a little gate you go
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  • Through to get into the rest of the building.
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  • And you have to stop at the security desk and you show your
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  • Id and they look at your id and they look at the computer to see
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  • If your name is in the computer and if you have a legitimate
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  • Business there.
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  • And if it's there, then they call somebody to come down and
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  • Escort you through those gates into the rest of the building.
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  • Now, what was interesting was i was standing there in line with
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  • My id, and in front of me was the publisher, the
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  • Multi-millionaire steve forbes, and he had out his wallet to
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  • Show his id.
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  • And then over to the side was donald trump, and he had his
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  • Wallet out showing his id, and the fact is, you know, here we
  • 00:13:17.253 --> 00:13:21.557
  • All three stood there.
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  • It didn't matter whether you are a multi-millionaire or whether
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  • You're a billionaire celebrity or if you're a holy man of
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  • Righteousness like myself.
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  • It didn't matter.
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  • They didn't care who you were.
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  • Unless you had access, somebody
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  • To escort you in, you weren't getting into that building.
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  • Ladies and gentlemen, it's the same way with the presence
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  • Of god.
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  • It doesn't matter how much money you have, it doesn't matter what
  • 00:13:47.650 --> 00:13:49.919
  • Religion you are, it doesn't matter how moral you are.
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  • There is only one way that god the father, and it is through
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  • His son, the lord jesus christ.
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  • Through him, we have access.
  • 00:13:58.594 --> 00:14:03.098
  • Now, this idea of access to god, that was a foreign concept to
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  • The jews.
  • 00:14:07.870 --> 00:14:09.204
  • You know their temple and earlier the tabernacle were a
  • 00:14:09.204 --> 00:14:13.776
  • Really a picture of how inaccessible god was.
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  • Remember how the temple was laid out?
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  • I mean, you had all of these walls, these barriers in
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  • The temple.
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  • First of all, there is a wall that separated the jews from
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  • The gentiles.
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  • Only jews could be beyond the first wall.
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  • And once you were a jew and got into that first wall, then
  • 00:14:31.627 --> 00:14:34.129
  • There's another dividing wall between the men and the women.
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  • And if you were a man, then you got to go further, but there was
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  • Another wall that separated you from the priest.
  • 00:14:40.970 --> 00:14:43.372
  • And beyond that wall, only the priest could go.
  • 00:14:43.372 --> 00:14:46.141
  • But even being a priest wasn't enough because there was another
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  • Wall that separated the priest from the holy of holies, and
  • 00:14:48.811 --> 00:14:52.781
  • Through that veil, only the high priest could go once a year.
  • 00:14:52.781 --> 00:14:57.920
  • But when jesus christ came and offered his blood as a sacrifice
  • 00:14:57.920 --> 00:15:01.623
  • For our sins, the bible says that dividing wall was torn from
  • 00:15:01.623 --> 00:15:05.728
  • Top to bottom, and because that veil has been torn in two, you
  • 00:15:05.728 --> 00:15:09.732
  • And i have confident access to god the father through his son,
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  • The lord jesus christ.
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  • The writer of hebrews said it this way in hebrews 4:16, "let
  • 00:15:15.637 --> 00:15:19.541
  • Us therefore draw near with confidence to the throne of
  • 00:15:19.541 --> 00:15:23.946
  • Grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time
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  • Of need."
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  • When you approach god with your needs, with the difficulties
  • 00:15:30.886 --> 00:15:35.624
  • You're facing, you can have the confidence that you're not
  • 00:15:35.624 --> 00:15:39.361
  • Facing somebody who is at war with you, but somebody who loves
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  • You, somebody who has forgiven you, somebody who wants the very
  • 00:15:43.065 --> 00:15:46.869
  • Best for you.
  • 00:15:46.869 --> 00:15:48.237
  • That is the access we have that comes from being in a right
  • 00:15:48.237 --> 00:15:52.241
  • Relationship with god.
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  • The fact that we're at peace with a holy god gives us
  • 00:15:53.976 --> 00:15:57.212
  • Access to god.
  • 00:15:57.212 --> 00:15:58.580
  • Secondly, it gives us confidence with god.
  • 00:15:58.580 --> 00:16:01.183
  • Look at verse 2, "for into this grace in which we stand."
  • 00:16:01.183 --> 00:16:08.924
  • When you are in a right relationship with god, you can
  • 00:16:08.924 --> 00:16:12.961
  • Stand firm in your relationship with him, no matter what's
  • 00:16:12.961 --> 00:16:16.265
  • Happening in your life.
  • 00:16:16.265 --> 00:16:18.233
  • Do you remember the roman soldiers?
  • 00:16:18.233 --> 00:16:19.635
  • One of the pieces of clothing he had on were the boots.
  • 00:16:19.635 --> 00:16:24.773
  • Those boots had spikes in the bottom of them.
  • 00:16:24.773 --> 00:16:27.009
  • And the reason they had spikes was it helped ground him so that
  • 00:16:27.009 --> 00:16:30.813
  • No matter what was coming at him, he never wavered, he was
  • 00:16:30.813 --> 00:16:33.816
  • Able to stand in the heat of battle.
  • 00:16:33.816 --> 00:16:38.053
  • When adversity starts assaulting your life, nothing will cause
  • 00:16:38.053 --> 00:16:43.325
  • You to waver or to fall anymore than wondering about your
  • 00:16:43.325 --> 00:16:47.696
  • Relationship with god.
  • 00:16:47.696 --> 00:16:49.731
  • You see, if you're not sure that you're in a right standing with
  • 00:16:49.731 --> 00:16:52.668
  • God, you don't know if those problems that come into your
  • 00:16:52.668 --> 00:16:56.105
  • Life are a result of god's love or his revenge against you.
  • 00:16:56.105 --> 00:17:01.276
  • But when you know your status is no longer enemy but friend of
  • 00:17:01.276 --> 00:17:05.514
  • God, you can know that what comes into your life, whatever
  • 00:17:05.514 --> 00:17:08.217
  • Comes into your life is a result of god's love for you.
  • 00:17:08.217 --> 00:17:13.288
  • Paul says, "righteousness, a right standing with god provides
  • 00:17:13.288 --> 00:17:17.893
  • Us first of all, peace with a holy god."
  • 00:17:17.893 --> 00:17:20.129
  • Secondly, it gives us hope in a future glory.
  • 00:17:20.129 --> 00:17:23.866
  • Hope in a future glory.
  • 00:17:23.866 --> 00:17:25.234
  • Look again at verse 2, "into this grace in which we stand; we
  • 00:17:25.234 --> 00:17:28.770
  • Exult in the hope of the glory of god."
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  • The hope of the glory of god.
  • 00:17:33.942 --> 00:17:35.911
  • Paul uses that same phrase in colossians 1:27, which he says,
  • 00:17:35.911 --> 00:17:40.582
  • "christ in you, the hope of glory."
  • 00:17:40.582 --> 00:17:45.220
  • Now let's unpack that for a moment.
  • 00:17:45.220 --> 00:17:46.788
  • What does that mean, the hope of glory?
  • 00:17:46.788 --> 00:17:49.224
  • What benefit is the hope of glory to us?
  • 00:17:49.224 --> 00:17:52.561
  • Let's look at that first word, hope.
  • 00:17:52.561 --> 00:17:55.164
  • You've heard me say before that in our language, the english
  • 00:17:55.164 --> 00:17:58.267
  • Language, we use the word hope to mean something we hope will
  • 00:17:58.267 --> 00:18:03.438
  • Come true, something that may or may not come true.
  • 00:18:03.438 --> 00:18:06.175
  • A hope is a desire that may or not--may not be realized.
  • 00:18:06.175 --> 00:18:09.711
  • For example, we say, you know, "i hope it doesn't rain during
  • 00:18:09.711 --> 00:18:12.814
  • Our mother's day lunch today," or, "i hope i don't get sick
  • 00:18:12.814 --> 00:18:17.986
  • Next week."
  • 00:18:17.986 --> 00:18:19.321
  • A hope is a desire that may or may not be realized.
  • 00:18:19.321 --> 00:18:22.424
  • But in the bible, hope is an assurance of something that has
  • 00:18:22.424 --> 00:18:27.563
  • Not yet been experienced.
  • 00:18:27.563 --> 00:18:29.765
  • That's what hebrews 11 says.
  • 00:18:29.765 --> 00:18:31.133
  • It is a confidence.
  • 00:18:31.133 --> 00:18:32.501
  • It is assurance.
  • 00:18:32.501 --> 00:18:33.835
  • That's what hope is.
  • 00:18:33.835 --> 00:18:35.170
  • It is the assurance of something that has not yet been realized.
  • 00:18:35.170 --> 00:18:38.473
  • So, when paul says, "christ in you, the hope of glory," the
  • 00:18:38.473 --> 00:18:43.912
  • Hope of the glory of god, he's talking about when you know
  • 00:18:43.912 --> 00:18:46.848
  • You're in a right relationship with god, you have the assurance
  • 00:18:46.848 --> 00:18:50.485
  • Of the glory of god.
  • 00:18:50.485 --> 00:18:52.487
  • Now, what does that mean? the glory of god?
  • 00:18:52.487 --> 00:18:55.624
  • You know, glory is one of those christian words we toss around
  • 00:18:55.624 --> 00:18:58.594
  • All the time without really knowing what it means, glory
  • 00:18:58.594 --> 00:19:01.263
  • This, glory that, glory, glory, glory.
  • 00:19:01.263 --> 00:19:03.165
  • Hallelujah, glory, hallelujah.
  • 00:19:03.165 --> 00:19:06.368
  • But i think most of us, if we took a little pop quiz--we're
  • 00:19:06.368 --> 00:19:08.904
  • Not going to--
  • 00:19:08.904 --> 00:19:10.272
  • I ask you, "what does glory mean?"
  • 00:19:10.272 --> 00:19:11.607
  • You probably don't have a real clear understanding.
  • 00:19:11.607 --> 00:19:13.442
  • Can i admit to you before this week and i started studying the
  • 00:19:13.442 --> 00:19:16.445
  • Word, i didn't have a clear understanding of it either.
  • 00:19:16.445 --> 00:19:20.015
  • The word glory in hebrew is the word "kavod", and it literally
  • 00:19:20.015 --> 00:19:25.354
  • Means something that is heavy, something that is weighty as
  • 00:19:25.354 --> 00:19:29.758
  • Opposed to light and immeasurable.
  • 00:19:29.758 --> 00:19:32.661
  • Something heavy, substantive.
  • 00:19:32.661 --> 00:19:35.864
  • And so, when we talk about the glory of god, we're talking
  • 00:19:35.864 --> 00:19:38.500
  • About the heaviness of god, the weightiness of god, the
  • 00:19:38.500 --> 00:19:42.504
  • Substantiveness of god.
  • 00:19:42.504 --> 00:19:45.807
  • The new testament greek word is "doxa."
  • 00:19:45.807 --> 00:19:49.077
  • And we talk about the doxology in which we praise the glory
  • 00:19:49.077 --> 00:19:52.748
  • Of god.
  • 00:19:52.748 --> 00:19:54.116
  • The word "doxa" originally meant to have a high opinion of, and
  • 00:19:54.116 --> 00:19:58.587
  • It was a word that was actually reserved for kings.
  • 00:19:58.587 --> 00:20:01.023
  • You only spoke of "doxa" in terms of kings, to have a high
  • 00:20:01.023 --> 00:20:04.660
  • Opinion of a king.
  • 00:20:04.660 --> 00:20:06.194
  • And so, when we say, "christ, the king of glory," we're saying
  • 00:20:06.194 --> 00:20:09.998
  • Christ is the one of whom we should have the highest opinion.
  • 00:20:09.998 --> 00:20:14.936
  • So, what do we mean when we say the glory of god?
  • 00:20:14.936 --> 00:20:18.106
  • The glory of god is the full manifestation of who god
  • 00:20:18.106 --> 00:20:23.145
  • Really is.
  • 00:20:23.145 --> 00:20:24.713
  • You know, right now none of us has seen the glory of god.
  • 00:20:24.713 --> 00:20:28.483
  • We have our hope in god, we pray to god, but god is invisible
  • 00:20:28.483 --> 00:20:33.322
  • To us.
  • 00:20:33.322 --> 00:20:34.656
  • But one day, the bible says we will actually see the
  • 00:20:34.656 --> 00:20:38.960
  • Weightiness, the heaviness, the substantiveness of god himself,
  • 00:20:38.960 --> 00:20:45.267
  • And that is the assurance every believer has.
  • 00:20:45.267 --> 00:20:48.236
  • By the way, it's the assurance that every believer should
  • 00:20:48.236 --> 00:20:50.472
  • Long for.
  • 00:20:50.472 --> 00:20:51.807
  • Do you remember the story of moses?
  • 00:20:51.807 --> 00:20:53.442
  • Remember when moses was getting all depressed about the fact
  • 00:20:53.442 --> 00:20:56.044
  • That he didn't feel like he could lead the people of israel,
  • 00:20:56.044 --> 00:20:58.380
  • And finally, when he was totally dejected, he said, "lord, look,
  • 00:20:58.380 --> 00:21:02.084
  • Just show me your glory.
  • 00:21:02.084 --> 00:21:03.852
  • I just wanna see your glory.
  • 00:21:03.852 --> 00:21:05.721
  • I wanna know that everything i'm believing in is real."
  • 00:21:05.721 --> 00:21:09.324
  • Do you remember the story of what happened?
  • 00:21:09.324 --> 00:21:10.792
  • It's recorded in exodus 33, beginning with verse 19.
  • 00:21:10.792 --> 00:21:14.963
  • God said, "i myself will make all my goodness pass before you,
  • 00:21:14.963 --> 00:21:19.201
  • And will proclaim the name of the lord before you, and i will
  • 00:21:19.201 --> 00:21:22.404
  • Be gracious to whom i will be gracious."
  • 00:21:22.404 --> 00:21:25.240
  • Verse 20, "but god said, 'you cannot see my face, for nobody
  • 00:21:25.240 --> 00:21:28.477
  • Can see my face and and live.'"
  • 00:21:28.477 --> 00:21:31.613
  • Verse 21, "then the lord said to moses, 'behold, there is a place
  • 00:21:31.613 --> 00:21:35.384
  • By me, and you shall stand there on the rock; and it will come
  • 00:21:35.384 --> 00:21:39.621
  • About, while my glory is passing by, that i will put you in the
  • 00:21:39.621 --> 00:21:43.759
  • Cleft of the rock and cover you with my hand until i have
  • 00:21:43.759 --> 00:21:47.329
  • Passed by.
  • 00:21:47.329 --> 00:21:48.663
  • And then i will take my hand away and you shall see my back,
  • 00:21:48.663 --> 00:21:51.900
  • But my face shall not be seen.'"
  • 00:21:51.900 --> 00:21:55.103
  • And so, god takes moses and puts him up there in that cave, so
  • 00:21:55.103 --> 00:21:59.875
  • To speak.
  • 00:21:59.875 --> 00:22:01.209
  • He covers his face and the glory of god passes by, and god just
  • 00:22:01.209 --> 00:22:06.214
  • Allows moses to see the trailing edge, the backside of his glory.
  • 00:22:06.214 --> 00:22:11.653
  • But from that point on, moses was a marked man.
  • 00:22:11.653 --> 00:22:15.824
  • His life was never the same after he saw just that glimpse
  • 00:22:15.824 --> 00:22:21.129
  • Of the glory, the fullness of god.
  • 00:22:21.129 --> 00:22:24.533
  • The bible says, "the assurance we have is that one day, if
  • 00:22:24.533 --> 00:22:29.571
  • We're in a right relationship with god, we will see the full
  • 00:22:29.571 --> 00:22:33.909
  • Glory of the god in whom we have trusted."
  • 00:22:33.909 --> 00:22:37.679
  • But you know what?
  • 00:22:37.679 --> 00:22:39.014
  • Not only are we going to see the glory of god, we're actually
  • 00:22:39.014 --> 00:22:43.118
  • Going to share in the glory of god.
  • 00:22:43.118 --> 00:22:45.854
  • 1 john 3, verse 2 says, "brethren, it has not yet
  • 00:22:45.854 --> 00:22:49.057
  • Appeared what we shall be like, but we know that when christ
  • 00:22:49.057 --> 00:22:53.061
  • Appears, we shall be like him because we shall see
  • 00:22:53.061 --> 00:22:56.965
  • Him just as he is."
  • 00:22:56.965 --> 00:22:59.334
  • I don't understand this, but what i do understand is that one
  • 00:22:59.334 --> 00:23:03.738
  • Day, because of our right relationship with god, the bible
  • 00:23:03.738 --> 00:23:07.309
  • Says we're going to see the fullness of god and we're
  • 00:23:07.309 --> 00:23:10.612
  • Actually going to share in the fullness, the glory, the
  • 00:23:10.612 --> 00:23:13.815
  • Weightiness of god himself.
  • 00:23:13.815 --> 00:23:16.084
  • That is the hope, that is the assurance of every believer.
  • 00:23:16.084 --> 00:23:21.523
  • The bible says one of the benefits of being in a right
  • 00:23:21.523 --> 00:23:25.827
  • Relationship with god is the assurance we have that one day
  • 00:23:25.827 --> 00:23:29.931
  • We will see and share in the glory of god.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Jeffress: there's so much more to learn from this passage in
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  • Romans chapter 5.
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  • Ministry of "pathway to victory."
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  • Plus you'll also receive the "journeys of paul" map.
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  • It's a helpful outline of paul's three missionary journeys and
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  • Their significance to your faith today.
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  • And when you give an especially generous gift of $75 or more,
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  • We'll also send you the dvd video and audio discs for the
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  • "grace-powered living" teaching series covering romans chapters
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  • 1 through 8.
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  • Jeffress: paul wrote to a culture that was much more
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  • Interested in sports and sex, but that did not keep the
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  • Apostle paul from proclaiming the answer to life's most
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  • Important question: how can a man be right before god?
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  • Announcer: thank you for giving generously to "pathway to
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  • Victory" as we proclaim the truth of scripture and offer
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  • Practical, personal application of the gospel to your
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  • Life today.
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  • Together, we are seeing many come to saving faith
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  • In jesus christ.
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  • Jeffress: when we entered this world, our position with god is
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  • Discouraging, to say the least.
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  • But grateful it doesn't have to remain that way.
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  • When you enter into a right relationship with god, your
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  • Status instantly changes.
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  • You go from being an enemy of god to becoming a friend of god,
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  • From having no hope to having hope in a future glory.
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  • And next time, we'll look at two more benefits of being in a
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  • Right relationship with god that you can enjoy right now.
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  • Stay tuned for a preview of what's coming up next on
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  • "pathway to victory."
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  • Jeffress: god alone has the power to save you.
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  • Isn't it true that god alone has the power to keep you saved?
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  • That's what paul is saying here.
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  • The reason we have assurance of our relationship, of our eternal
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  • Salvation, is because we're in a right relationship with god.
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  • Look at what god did for you when he was your enemy.
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  • How much more is he going to do for you now that you are
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  • His friend?
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  • Male announcer: set your dvr and join us next time for part two
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  • Of the message "without a doubt" here on "pathway to victory."
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