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Grace for Today with Lawson Perdue

Lawson Perdue - Romans (Part 1)

July 28, 2025 | S E | 29:55

Lawson Perdue - Romans (Part 1)
Pastor Lawson Perdue from the Charis Christian Center outreach speaks to viewers across the globe about the practical message of Jesus Christ
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Grace for Today with Lawson Perdue | Lawson Perdue - Romans (Part 1) | July 28, 2025
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  • Praise the lord, everyone.
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  • I am so glad that you're watching today.
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  • We're beginning a brand new series.
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  • It's actually on my favorite book, the book of romans.
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  • We're talking about the revelation of righteousness,
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  • And you don't want to miss this teaching.
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  • So stay tuned and tell your friends about the broadcast.
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  • Thanks so much, god bless you.
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  • You're gonna be blessed by this word today.
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  • Friend, it's so good to have you with us today.
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  • And we are sharing on romans,
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  • The revelation of righteousness.
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  • Actually, you know, i love the book of romans,
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  • And i've been teaching the book of romans
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  • For over 10 years at charis bible college.
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  • Years ago, another instructor taught it
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  • And he was leaving and i asked andrew wommack
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  • If i could teach it, and he said, "sure."
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  • And so he's let me teach it.
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  • I've taught it for years,
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  • Wrote a book on it and have a syllabus.
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  • And it's amazing.
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  • And paul was actually writing romans about 56 ad,
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  • So about 25 years after jesus' ministry,
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  • Paul was teaching the same things,
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  • Jesus taught righteousness.
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  • And jesus really showed in the gospels
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  • That we couldn't live righteous enough by keeping the law,
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  • But we had to believe, and that's what paul teaches us.
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  • - yeah, and this is just a great book.
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  • It really explains the gospel.
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  • You know, a lot of people claim to be christians
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  • But don't really understand the gospel.
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  • - [lawson] that's right. - and you can just tell
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  • By just their legalistic attitude towards other people,
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  • Like no grace towards other people,
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  • They think they're really righteous on their own,
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  • Based upon their own performance and their own thinking.
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  • But you can tell just
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  • That they don't really quite
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  • Have a revelation of righteousness, a revelation of grace,
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  • A revelation of the gospel and the gospel,
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  • It is a revelation of grace.
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  • - amen, aaron, when i was 30 years old,
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  • I'd been pastoring actually for a little bit over six years,
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  • And god gave me a revelation of grace.
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  • And when i got a revelation of grace,
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  • It revolutionized my life.
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  • And so i've been teaching with a revelation of grace
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  • For 30 years now, and it has changed my ministry,
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  • It's changed our family.
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  • Your mother says, i'm not even like living
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  • With the same person,
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  • But when you get a revelation of righteousness,
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  • It'll revolutionize your life.
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  • - and when you believe the gospel,
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  • It's full of power, you know? - [lawson] yeah.
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  • - man, the power of god is so important.
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  • The gospel is full of power, god's power is present today.
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  • - [lawson] amen. - you know, that power of god,
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  • It's just contained in the gospel.
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  • You know, god's power, it's present to heal people,
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  • To forgive people, but not only that,
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  • Actually god's resurrection power.
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  • - amen. - and the greatest event,
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  • The greatest miracle in the history of the universe
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  • Was when jesus got up outta that grave.
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  • And that's the power that's on the inside of us.
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  • So, you know, if that resurrection power
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  • Is on the inside of a believer,
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  • It says that in romans. - [lawson] yes.
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  • - you know, do you think the power of god
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  • Is available to heal people? - [lawson] amen, yes.
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  • - you know, people debate
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  • And say that, "well, that power isn't present."
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  • Well, if you have resurrection power on the inside of you,
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  • Man, why not healing power, why not saving power, why not?
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  • - delivering power? - why not?
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  • - freedom powering, blessing power.
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  • Yeah, you know, and really,
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  • When you begin to understand the gospel,
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  • And that's what we're gonna be talking about,
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  • You begin to understand number one,
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  • That there's only one way that you can be right with god.
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  • There's only one way you can receive righteousness.
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  • And that is by faith in jesus.
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  • Righteousness, as far as receiving it from god,
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  • Is not about what you do.
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  • Righteousness is about who you believe.
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  • But when you believe jesus
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  • And are made the righteousness of god, then secondly,
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  • Righteousness becomes the foundation
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  • For all of the good things of god in our life.
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  • And we're gonna begin really in romans chapter one,
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  • Verse 16 and verse 17, where paul really lays the foundation
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  • For what he's teaching here in the book of romans.
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  • He says, "i'm not ashamed of the gospel of christ,
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  • For it is the power of god to salvation,
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  • To everyone who believes it,
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  • To the jew first and also to the greek or the gentile."
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  • He says in verse 17, "for therein, in the gospel,
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  • The righteousness of god is revealed.
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  • From faith to faith, according as it is written,
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  • The just shall live by faith."
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  • So the gospel is really the revelation of righteousness.
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  • And if you have no revelation of the righteousness of god,
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  • Which is by faith in jesus,
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  • Then you have no revelation of the gospel.
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  • So number one, you receive right standing with god
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  • Or righteousness by faith in jesus.
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  • But when you get a revelation of righteousness,
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  • Then righteousness becomes a foundation for faith
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  • To be released in all of the different areas
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  • That the gospel makes available, for healing, for peace,
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  • For provision, for all of the promises.
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  • And so he says, "i'm not ashamed of the gospel,
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  • The gospel of christ."
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  • The good news, it's the news of what jesus already did
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  • In his death, burial and resurrection.
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  • - and note that he said, "i'm not ashamed of it," you know?
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  • - [lawson] amen. - there's too many believers,
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  • Too many preachers that they shy away from the gospel,
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  • They shy away from the full gospel.
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  • And the only part of the gospel that will work for you
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  • Are the parts that you're not ashamed of.
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  • - amen, praise god. - so you need
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  • To be connected with and receiving from people
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  • That preach the full gospel. - [lawson] yeah.
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  • - you know, i wouldn't really receive too much from people
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  • That are ashamed of certain aspects of the gospel.
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  • - amen, so the gospel here, it says, "is the power of god,"
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  • Or i like to say the gospel releases the power of god.
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  • You're talking about that, to salvation,
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  • And this word power is dunamis.
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  • So, you know, if you wanna see the power of god
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  • Released in your life, you gotta believe the gospel.
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  • You gotta believe the good news of what jesus did.
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  • - and i like that right off the bat,
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  • Paul says, "it works for the jews, it works for the greeks,
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  • To everyone who believes."
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  • In the spirit realm, the only thing that god sees is faith.
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  • He doesn't see if you're jewish, if you're greek,
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  • If you're rich, if you're poor,
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  • If you're educated or uneducated,
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  • Or if you're a man or a woman.
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  • In the spirit realm, the only thing god sees is faith.
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  • - amen. - and i even see it
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  • At the local church.
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  • Sometimes i see people who you think they'd really get it,
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  • And be excited about the gospel,
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  • Excited about a church that preaches the gospel.
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  • You know, people who seem to be very spiritual,
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  • But they don't really get it. - [lawson] yeah.
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  • - but then some other people come in
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  • And just, they get it, they're excited about it.
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  • You see the power of god released in their life.
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  • You know, i was just thinking about about this,
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  • This past sunday.
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  • We celebrated easter.
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  • I know this will be released months later,
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  • But you know, easter kind of brings a lot
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  • Of people to church.
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  • But i saw some families that barely come
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  • And they should come often.
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  • But then this other family, i just see they're coming,
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  • They're here all the time.
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  • This man actually brought his son,
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  • His son lives an hour away, teenage son.
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  • And i told him, "hey,"
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  • 'cause his son is opening up to the gospel,
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  • I said, "hey, you need to get him here on a wednesday night
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  • When we have youth."
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  • And he drove all the way up to denver,
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  • Picked him up, brought him here.
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  • And another kid won this big prize, $100 gift card,
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  • But this kid actually gave it to his son
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  • And said, "god told me to give it to you."
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  • And then that kid about started crying but-
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  • - about brought tears to my eyes when you told me
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  • That a teenager gave away a $100 gift.
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  • - which is amazing to see the gospel
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  • Just coming alive to these families
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  • And to young people. - amen.
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  • - but some people just don't get it.
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  • - yeah, the gospel is the power of god to salvation.
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  • Now, when we talk about salvation,
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  • A lot of people just think about heaven.
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  • But when you study the greek word here
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  • In romans 1:16 for salvation,
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  • It's actually the word soteria.
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  • And in strongs, when he defines it, he defines it
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  • As forgiveness, healing, peace, provision, protection,
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  • All of those things are part of the gospel.
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  • Amen, forgiveness is part of the gospel,
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  • Healing is part of the gospel, peace is part of the gospel,
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  • Freedom is part of the gospel,
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  • Provision is part of the gospel.
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  • So he says, it's the power of god to forgiveness,
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  • To healing, to deliverance, or freedom,
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  • To peace and provision, to everyone who believes it.
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  • You gotta believe it.
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  • The only part of the gospel, like you said,
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  • That's gonna work for you, is what you believe.
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  • "it'll work for the jew and also for the gentile."
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  • He says, "for therein, in the gospel,
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  • The righteousness of god has been revealed."
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  • You know, when we teach the gospel,
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  • It's gonna reveal the righteousness of god.
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  • The gospel is not the good news about what we've done,
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  • The gospel is the good news
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  • About what jesus has already done.
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  • And when you believe that,
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  • You can begin to receive the power of god in every aspect
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  • And area of your wellbeing, spiritual life.
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  • - if someone's ashamed about something,
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  • They're not gonna talk about it.
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  • And if you're not ashamed, you're gonna be talking about it,
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  • You're gonna be excited about it.
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  • I love it when you preach on healing
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  • Or on god's provision for you,
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  • Or just how god wants to give you peace,
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  • Like you're excited about it.
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  • - [lawson] amen, aaron. - you're not just,
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  • I'm going to try to not ruffle any feathers.
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  • You get excited about preaching about healing
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  • Because it's part of the gospel,
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  • It's provided for in the atonement.
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  • - aaron, you know, i was on our website
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  • Looking to see what i had to offer for romans.
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  • And i have a digital download,
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  • Free audios, you know, series.
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  • I have a syllabus that's completely free of charge,
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  • You can download also, you can get my romans book.
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  • Now the book is a little different.
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  • We have to administrate that through another group
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  • Because of tax law, so on and so forth.
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  • So, but you can get the book, all of these things,
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  • But we've got hundreds of hours of teaching on provision,
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  • Of god released in their life.
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  • God has good things for those people who will believe it.
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  • Now, he goes on to say, he says, "it's to the jew,
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  • But also to the gentile,
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  • For therein is the righteousness of god revealed
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  • From faith to faith, from the faith of the jew
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  • To the faith of the gentile.
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  • As it is written, the just shall live by faith."
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  • See, faith is not a movement, faith is a lifestyle.
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  • A lot of years ago, people thought,
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  • Well, faith is just a movement.
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  • Well, faith is a lifestyle.
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  • And faith worked when jesus was here on the earth,
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  • Faith worked when abraham was here on the earth,
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  • Faith worked when david was alive on the earth,
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  • Faith worked when paul was on the, and faith works now.
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  • It's not a movement, faith is a lifestyle.
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  • He says, "the just shall live by faith."
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  • Now, after he begins to talk about living by faith,
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  • If you're gonna be justified,
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  • If you're gonna stand before god
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  • And be in right standing with god,
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  • It's gonna be because you believed god.
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  • Abraham believed god and it was imputed to him,
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  • The scripture says, for righteousness.
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  • And david preached about the righteousness
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  • That jesus would make a available to us.
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  • We'll talk about that as we get through the book of romans.
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  • But it goes on and tells us some basic things here.
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  • And it says in verse 20, he says,
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  • "the invisible things of god
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  • From the creation of the world are clearly seen,
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  • Or the end invisible attributes of god
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  • From the creation of the world
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  • Are clearly seen being understood
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  • By the things that are made."
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  • Did you know what?
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  • Everyone understands there's a god.
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  • There are no people that are true atheists.
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  • You know, they say there are no atheists in the foxholes
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  • Because of somebody shooting on you,
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  • You're calling on jesus.
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  • But he goes on to say this.
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  • He says, "they are clearly seen being understood
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  • By the things that are made,
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  • Even his eternal power in godhead,
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  • So that they are without excuse."
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  • And he goes on in the next few verses,
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  • And he talks about in verse 22 on down through here,
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  • The gentile need for righteousness
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  • And why people who are not jewish
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  • Or not church people still need righteousness.
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  • - and he says, number one,
  • 00:13:51.873 --> 00:13:53.375
  • "professing themselves to be wise, they became fools."
  • 00:13:53.375 --> 00:13:56.578
  • And you know, we've seen a lot of this
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  • In, you know, our days.
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  • We've seen people try to teach evolution, for instance.
  • 00:13:59.948 --> 00:14:02.617
  • When i was in high school, they tried to teach evolution.
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  • I remember sitting in class as a freshman in high school,
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  • And we had this teacher
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  • And he was trying to teach evolution.
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  • And just, i sat in the front of class,
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  • There's about 25 kids in my class,
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  • And i said, "where'd that come from?
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  • Where'd that come from?
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  • Where'd that come from?"
  • 00:14:19.901 --> 00:14:20.869
  • And then finally, he got down
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  • To it all came from a seed on a rock.
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  • And i said, "so where'd the seed come from?"
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  • And this teacher just turned beet red.
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  • You know, he is in the hippie area, the big old afro.
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  • He said, "but i believe in jesus too."
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  • And it just proved to that class
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  • That jesus christ is the creator of the universe.
  • 00:14:35.650 --> 00:14:38.753
  • - yeah, i just love it it says,
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  • "professing to be wise, they became fools."
  • 00:14:40.188 --> 00:14:42.791
  • You know, the roman culture in that empire back then,
  • 00:14:42.791 --> 00:14:46.728
  • You know, that these people that paul ministered to,
  • 00:14:46.728 --> 00:14:48.596
  • The culture is very similar to how it is today.
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  • - [lawson] yeah. - you know, like,
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  • Fairly advanced scientifically,
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  • You know, fairly well connected to other parts of the world.
  • 00:14:56.338 --> 00:14:58.239
  • You know, there's a big road system, you know, rome,
  • 00:14:58.239 --> 00:15:00.608
  • The empire is stretched, clear up to england.
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  • - [lawson] yeah. - you know,
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  • And there's even still, you know,
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  • Remnants of these roads and bridges, aqueducts even today.
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  • So very advanced, but even though they were very advanced
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  • In some ways, they're very foolish in other ways.
  • 00:15:12.721 --> 00:15:15.357
  • - yeah, he goes on and says,
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  • "not only did they profess that,
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  • So philosophy, professing themselves to be wise,
  • 00:15:17.993 --> 00:15:20.595
  • They became fool, they changed the glory
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  • Of the incorruptible god into an image made
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  • Like corruptible man, birds and beasts and creepy things."
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  • So what he's saying is they had philosophy,
  • 00:15:30.271 --> 00:15:32.340
  • They had idolatry, and then he says,
  • 00:15:32.340 --> 00:15:35.777
  • "and they burned in their lust toward one another."
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  • This is the problem in the gentile world,
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  • I'm talking about the non-church world,
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  • People who don't know god or have not been taught,
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  • Or the non-religious world is philosophy,
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  • Idolatry, lust in all kinds of ungodliness.
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  • And the answer is faith in jesus,
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  • Righteousness by faith in jesus.
  • 00:15:57.432 --> 00:15:59.467
  • But paul doesn't only address that, in romans chapter two,
  • 00:15:59.467 --> 00:16:03.538
  • He begins to talk about the jewish need
  • 00:16:03.538 --> 00:16:07.609
  • Or the religious person's need for righteousness.
  • 00:16:07.609 --> 00:16:10.812
  • - so everyone needs true righteousness,
  • 00:16:10.812 --> 00:16:13.348
  • Which comes from faith in jesus.
  • 00:16:13.348 --> 00:16:14.549
  • So even complete heathens,
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  • People who just claim there's no god
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  • Or like paul, you know, ministered at the mars hill,
  • 00:16:20.989 --> 00:16:24.125
  • You know, and said, "hey, this god
  • 00:16:24.125 --> 00:16:25.593
  • That you say it's an unknown god,"
  • 00:16:25.593 --> 00:16:27.595
  • You know, they were agnostic. - [lawson] right.
  • 00:16:27.595 --> 00:16:28.863
  • - said there's a god, but he's unknown.
  • 00:16:28.863 --> 00:16:31.199
  • So very similar, there's atheists, there's agnostics,
  • 00:16:31.199 --> 00:16:33.802
  • There's just people who just live for themselves,
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  • Live for the created thing, live for pleasure.
  • 00:16:37.505 --> 00:16:40.175
  • - [lawson] just teasing. - just whatever
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  • You feels right is right.
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  • Just absolutely no moral compass whatsoever.
  • 00:16:43.311 --> 00:16:45.613
  • But he said, even people with a strong, you know,
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  • Who claim to have a strong ethical compass
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  • Like jewish people. - right.
  • 00:16:53.922 --> 00:16:54.856
  • - you know, paul grew up jewish.
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  • This isn't anything about paul.
  • 00:16:56.758 --> 00:16:58.093
  • He said, "i was a pharisee of the pharisee."
  • 00:16:58.093 --> 00:17:00.095
  • So he said, "i kept the law perfectly."
  • 00:17:00.095 --> 00:17:03.064
  • - [lawson] and yet he needed righteousness.
  • 00:17:03.064 --> 00:17:04.466
  • - but he said his righteousness was his filthy rag.
  • 00:17:04.466 --> 00:17:07.969
  • So he said, "i need jesus just
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  • As much as these complete heathens."
  • 00:17:10.238 --> 00:17:13.074
  • - right, so he addresses that here in romans 2:17.
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  • He says, "you were called a jew and rest in the law
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  • And make your boast in god.
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  • You know his will
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  • And approve the things that are more excellent.
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  • You're instructed out of god's law.
  • 00:17:24.486 --> 00:17:26.754
  • You're confident that you yourself are a guide to the blind,
  • 00:17:26.754 --> 00:17:29.958
  • A light to those in darkness.
  • 00:17:29.958 --> 00:17:31.559
  • You're an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes,
  • 00:17:31.559 --> 00:17:34.562
  • And you have a form of knowledge
  • 00:17:34.562 --> 00:17:37.632
  • About the truth of the law."
  • 00:17:37.632 --> 00:17:39.200
  • - no, no, it's knowing about god
  • 00:17:39.200 --> 00:17:41.536
  • But not knowing god yourself. - knowing god.
  • 00:17:41.536 --> 00:17:43.872
  • That's religion, and there's a lot of people
  • 00:17:43.872 --> 00:17:45.607
  • That are caught in religion.
  • 00:17:45.607 --> 00:17:47.041
  • And he says, "you, therefore, who teach that another,
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  • Do you teach yourself?
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  • You that preach a man should not steal, do you steal?
  • 00:17:52.780 --> 00:17:55.150
  • You that say, a man should not commit adultery,
  • 00:17:55.150 --> 00:17:57.919
  • Do you not commit adultery?
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  • You that hate idols, do you commit sacrilege?
  • 00:17:59.721 --> 00:18:03.091
  • You make your boast in the law,"
  • 00:18:03.091 --> 00:18:04.792
  • Now, this is really, this is really focused on religion
  • 00:18:04.792 --> 00:18:08.429
  • And the religious or the church worlds,
  • 00:18:08.429 --> 00:18:11.432
  • I was raised in religion, so i understand this.
  • 00:18:11.432 --> 00:18:14.169
  • But he says, "even though you make your boast in the law
  • 00:18:14.169 --> 00:18:16.638
  • Through breaking the law," this is romans 2:23,
  • 00:18:16.638 --> 00:18:21.409
  • "you dishonor god," and everybody has broken god's law.
  • 00:18:21.409 --> 00:18:25.446
  • And so what he says, he goes on in romans chapter three,
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  • And he says, "do the jews have any advantage?"
  • 00:18:28.917 --> 00:18:30.718
  • Well, they have the word of god.
  • 00:18:30.718 --> 00:18:33.655
  • You know, not only that, they have the fathers,
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  • All these different things
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  • That he talks about in different places.
  • 00:18:38.459 --> 00:18:39.894
  • But he goes on and says in verse 10,
  • 00:18:39.894 --> 00:18:42.630
  • "there is none righteous."
  • 00:18:42.630 --> 00:18:44.599
  • So what he's saying,
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  • The gospel is the revelation of righteousness,
  • 00:18:46.034 --> 00:18:48.803
  • Which you receive by faith in jesus.
  • 00:18:48.803 --> 00:18:51.072
  • The gentiles need it
  • 00:18:51.072 --> 00:18:52.607
  • Because they're caught up in philosophy, idolatry, lust,
  • 00:18:52.607 --> 00:18:55.109
  • All kinds of ungodliness.
  • 00:18:55.109 --> 00:18:56.811
  • They're unthankful, they're unholy.
  • 00:18:56.811 --> 00:18:59.247
  • I mean, just, he nails it down.
  • 00:18:59.247 --> 00:19:01.049
  • But he says the jews, they're making their boast in the law.
  • 00:19:01.049 --> 00:19:04.085
  • Religious people are boasting in their performance,
  • 00:19:04.085 --> 00:19:06.921
  • And yet in their performance, they still break god's law.
  • 00:19:06.921 --> 00:19:09.891
  • He said, "there's none righteous, no, not one."
  • 00:19:09.891 --> 00:19:13.094
  • So there's only one way to be made righteous,
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  • And that's faith in jesus.
  • 00:19:15.163 --> 00:19:16.764
  • And so he goes on to say this,
  • 00:19:16.764 --> 00:19:19.434
  • That jesus essentially is the only one who was righteous.
  • 00:19:19.434 --> 00:19:24.005
  • And he begins here in romans 3:21 saying,
  • 00:19:24.005 --> 00:19:26.808
  • "the righteousness of god, apart from the law,
  • 00:19:26.808 --> 00:19:29.711
  • Is revealed being witnessed by the law and the prophets,
  • 00:19:29.711 --> 00:19:34.148
  • Even the righteousness of god,
  • 00:19:34.148 --> 00:19:35.950
  • Which is by the faith of jesus."
  • 00:19:35.950 --> 00:19:38.386
  • There's only one way to receive right standing with god,
  • 00:19:38.386 --> 00:19:41.422
  • By putting your faith in jesus,
  • 00:19:41.422 --> 00:19:44.225
  • "which is unto all, the righteousness of god is unto all
  • 00:19:44.225 --> 00:19:48.429
  • And upon all those that believe, for there is no difference
  • 00:19:48.429 --> 00:19:52.166
  • For all of sin, everyone has sinned."
  • 00:19:52.166 --> 00:19:54.435
  • What is sin?
  • 00:19:54.435 --> 00:19:56.137
  • Well, sin is to transgress god's law
  • 00:19:56.137 --> 00:19:58.873
  • Or sin is to miss the mark.
  • 00:19:58.873 --> 00:20:00.508
  • Sin, the bible defines it that way in 1 john 3:4.
  • 00:20:00.508 --> 00:20:04.279
  • But james 4:17 or 18 says,
  • 00:20:04.279 --> 00:20:07.048
  • "to the man that knows to do good
  • 00:20:07.048 --> 00:20:08.783
  • And does it not, to that man, it's sin."
  • 00:20:08.783 --> 00:20:11.286
  • It's to miss the mark, right?
  • 00:20:11.286 --> 00:20:14.322
  • So we've all sinned, everybody's sinned.
  • 00:20:14.322 --> 00:20:18.059
  • Whether you've sinned by transgressing the law
  • 00:20:18.059 --> 00:20:21.629
  • Or whether you've sinned by just missing the mark,
  • 00:20:21.629 --> 00:20:24.832
  • You know, we've all sinned.
  • 00:20:24.832 --> 00:20:26.000
  • And he goes on and says this,
  • 00:20:26.000 --> 00:20:27.969
  • "being justified freely by his grace,
  • 00:20:27.969 --> 00:20:30.538
  • Through the redemption that is in christ jesus."
  • 00:20:30.538 --> 00:20:33.041
  • In other what words, god had an answer for sin,
  • 00:20:33.041 --> 00:20:36.744
  • And that is jesus christ and faith in jesus.
  • 00:20:36.744 --> 00:20:39.981
  • - paul then says, "you have to be justified freely."
  • 00:20:39.981 --> 00:20:42.617
  • Justified means to be made right with god,
  • 00:20:42.617 --> 00:20:44.786
  • To be able to just come to him holy and blameless and just,
  • 00:20:44.786 --> 00:20:48.856
  • And in right standing, to be righteous.
  • 00:20:48.856 --> 00:20:52.026
  • And the only way you can be justified is as a free gift.
  • 00:20:52.026 --> 00:20:55.029
  • It's such a costly thing, such a valuable thing.
  • 00:20:55.029 --> 00:20:58.599
  • You can't earn it, there's nothing you can do to earn it.
  • 00:20:58.599 --> 00:21:00.902
  • It has to be given as a gift. - you know?
  • 00:21:00.902 --> 00:21:03.104
  • - and you receive that gift through jesus.
  • 00:21:03.104 --> 00:21:05.406
  • - paul says this in 2 corinthians 5
  • 00:21:05.406 --> 00:21:07.608
  • When he's talking about the new birth, but in verse 21,
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  • He says, for god made him, jesus, to be sin for us,
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  • Or a sin offering for us,
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  • That we might be made the righteousness of god in him.
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  • So jesus purchased our salvation in his death.
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  • Jesus became a sin offering
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  • So that we might be made righteous
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  • When we believe what he did.
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  • And god raised jesus from the dead and made him lord.
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  • Now go on, let's read verse 25 to verse 27.
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  • He said, "whom god, speaking of jesus,
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  • Set forth to be a propitiation
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  • Or a payment through faith in his blood."
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  • God sent jesus to die on the cross for our sin
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  • To be a payment through faith in his blood,
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  • To declare his righteousness.
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  • God sent jesus to declare righteousness."
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  • Romans is the revelation of righteousness,
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  • And there's only one way to get it,
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  • And that's by faith in jesus.
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  • That he says, "for the remission of sins that are passed."
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  • And if you understand this,
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  • This is actually talking about the past tense of the cross.
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  • Because jesus paid for every person's sin from adam,
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  • The first man created, to armageddon, the end of time,
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  • Jesus paid for everybody's sin with one offering
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  • On the cross when he died taking our sins.
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  • He says, "through the forbearance of god."
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  • In other words, god knew you would do it
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  • And paid for it anyway, forgave us anyway.
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  • He says in verse 26, romans 3:26,
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  • "to declare, i say it this time,
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  • His righteousness that he might be just,
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  • And the justifier of him who believes in jesus,"
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  • The only way god could play fair and not play favorites
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  • Is base everything on the person of jesus.
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  • And if you believe on jesus, you are justified before god.
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  • And if you don't believe on jesus, you're lost.
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  • You're a sinner and you're in need of salvation.
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  • He says in verse 27, "where is boasting then?
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  • It is excluded.
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  • By what law?"
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  • He says, "by the law of works?
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  • No, but by the law of faith."
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  • Faith is a law, it will work for anybody, anywhere.
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  • - [aaron] i love that. - amen?
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  • And you know what?
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  • It's not about what you do,
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  • It's about what jesus has already done.
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  • - he's talking about the law of works,
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  • He's talking about the law of moses, right?
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  • But really, i've kind of realized something, you know,
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  • I went to, you know, university, secular universities.
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  • I have a doctorate in music,
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  • But everyone has some type of belief system.
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  • Everyone has some type of religion.
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  • It might be to, you know, like,
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  • To make everything green, to recycle everything,
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  • It becomes religion to people.
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  • You know, i even saw during the covid pandemic,
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  • Some people made a religion out of wearing a mask
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  • And getting shots, and if you don't abide by their religion,
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  • You're a terrible.
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  • People make religions out of things.
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  • Wokeism is a religion. - [lawson] yeah.
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  • - and you know, they make people try to bow down to it.
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  • I know tom hanks, people went after him
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  • Because he played woody in "toy story,"
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  • And they said, "that's against native americans."
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  • And he actually bowed down
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  • And gave millions of dollars to native americans
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  • Because he played woody.
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  • And people make religions out of things, you know?
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  • And i actually saw this statistic
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  • That there are 10,000 religions in the world,
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  • But there is one empty tomb.
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  • - yes, jesus is the only one who was god,
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  • Who was born of a virgin, who became a man,
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  • Who lived sinless, holy, perfect, and pure,
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  • And died on the cross taking our sins.
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  • And god raised him from the dead and made him lord.
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  • In jesus, faith in jesus, believing on jesus
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  • Is the only way to receive salvation.
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  • - yeah, you can't recycle enough to-
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  • - to receive the good things of god, amen.
  • 00:24:48.930 --> 00:24:50.698
  • - you can't vote a certain way to receive righteousness,
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  • You can't recycle enough, you can't pray to a million,
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  • You know, gods. - amen.
  • 00:24:56.170 --> 00:24:57.738
  • - there is only one way to be made right with god,
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  • And that's through jesus.
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  • - amen, you know what?
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