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00:01 I want to spend my life
00:07 Mending broken people 00:12 I want to spend my life 00:18 Removing pain 00:23 Lord, let my words 00:30 Heal a heart that hurts 00:34 I want to spend my life 00:40 Mending broken people 00:45 I want to spend my life 00:51 Mending broken people 01:10 Hello, I'm Shelley Quinn. 01:11 And we're so glad that you're joining us 01:13 for 3ABN Today. 01:15 This hour will be a Bible forum, 01:18 we will be talking on the topic of Righteousness by Faith 01:22 and we invite you to get your Bible, 01:25 get a pen, and paper. 01:26 And if you're not sure what Righteousness by Faith is, 01:30 we hope you'll be certain by the end of the hour. 01:33 Let me read to you a scripture from Galatians 3:6-7. 01:37 Actually, I think I'm going to begin in verse 5. 01:40 And Paul writes and says, 01:42 "Therefore He who supplies the Spirit to you, 01:45 and works miracles among you, 01:48 does He do it by the works of the law, 01:51 or by the hearing of faith?" 01:54 Then he says, "Just as Abraham 'believed God, 01:59 and it was accounted to him for righteousness.' 02:03 Therefore know that only those who are of faith 02:09 are sons of Abraham.'" 02:10 What is he saying? 02:12 Righteousness by Faith 02:13 is the only kind of righteousness there is. 02:16 Let me introduce our two special guests today 02:19 and you are special guests, but you're no stranger, 02:23 so I have my pastor here. 02:24 Amen. 02:26 Pastor John Lomacang, thank you so much for coming. 02:27 Excited about this topic. Oh. 02:29 It's a tremendous one that people need to know. 02:31 Amen. 02:32 Especially, those that live in harmony 02:35 with the Commandments of God 02:36 and we'll find out how that's happening. 02:37 Absolutely. 02:39 And then we have 02:40 Pastor John Dinzey with us as well. 02:42 And you are the General Manager El Hefe 02:46 of the 3ABN Latino Network. 02:48 So glad you're both here. It's a blessing to be here. 02:50 And I'm looking forward to the discussion 02:52 that we will be having on this wonderful topic. 02:54 You know, when they asked me to do this, 02:57 right before the weekend, 02:58 it was like what we do and that's the first topic 03:01 that came to my mind is Righteousness by Faith. 03:04 And it was a busy weekend, we really haven't had time. 03:07 You know, actually, many people think 03:09 that we plan everything we do up here, 03:12 never told that's ever really ever happens, 03:16 but we haven't had a chance to discuss this. 03:18 We just trust that the Lord's leading 03:20 in the same way. 03:21 And, Johnny, would you have an opening prayer for us? 03:24 Sure. Let's go to the Lord in prayer. 03:27 Our loving heavenly Father, 03:29 we are grateful and thankful 03:32 that You have blessed us with this opportunity 03:35 to share of this wonderful topic, 03:37 Righteousness by Faith. 03:39 Yes, Lord. 03:40 We pray that Your Holy Spirit will be upon us 03:42 that we will share those things 03:44 which will bring You honor and glory 03:46 and will be a blessing to Your children 03:48 all over the world. 03:50 We pray that as we discuss this, 03:52 we will be drawn close to You. 03:54 And we pray for a blessing upon all. 03:56 We asked You for these things 03:57 in Jesus' holy and blessed name. 04:00 Amen. Amen. 04:01 Thank you, Father. 04:02 All right, before we really jump 04:04 into defining Righteousness by Faith, 04:06 let's kind of break it apart. 04:08 What does the word righteousness mean 04:11 when God's Word talks about righteousness? 04:14 How do you define righteousness? 04:17 I think righteousness could be defined very simply, 04:20 it is the complete character of God. 04:23 That's good. 04:24 It's the complete character of God, 04:26 the unfaltering, the inerrant, 04:30 the flawless character of God 04:34 is righteousness, 04:38 which means it doesn't belong to any of us. 04:42 Amen. 04:43 So righteousness, 04:45 if you look at a definition, this is perfect. 04:48 I love your definition 04:49 'cause we're gonna tie into that. 04:51 Righteousness is a state of right being, right doing, 04:57 right standing with God. 05:01 So as you said, 05:03 there's only one who makes that qualification. 05:09 Who's ever walked on the earth and who would that be? 05:12 Jesus. Jesus Christ. 05:14 So righteousness is the character of Christ. 05:17 We could say righteousness is a person, really. 05:20 Now what about faith? 05:22 How would you define faith? 05:24 I would like to go 05:26 a little more into righteousness. 05:28 Sure. 05:29 You know, I looked it up on the regular dictionary, 05:31 and it says being morally correct. 05:33 Yes. 05:35 And really righteousness is right doing, doing right. 05:40 And I have a scripture that I like to share 05:42 from Psalm 119:172. 05:45 Psalm 119:172. 05:48 And these are the words I find there. 05:50 "My tongue shall speak of Your word, 05:53 for all Your commandments are righteousness." 05:57 So we have here the scriptures tell us 05:59 that the Commandments of God are righteousness, 06:03 and really, this is the way you can say. 06:06 What verse you said, Psalm 119? 06:07 Psalm 119:172. 06:09 172. I'm in 72, that's why. 06:12 This is the way that righteousness is defined, 06:14 doing right, 06:16 and the law of God helps us to understand 06:17 what righteousness is. 06:19 That's good. That's good. 06:22 Okay, so there's only one 06:23 who's ever perfectly kept the Commandments of God. 06:28 And that was the Last Adam, Jesus Christ 06:31 who was born to us here on earth. 06:35 And we kind of have an idea of now what righteousness is, 06:40 let's just establish something for faith. 06:44 How would we define faith? 06:50 Well, outside of the Hebrews 11:1 definition 06:52 which, you know, it even responds with saying, 06:55 faith is, and so it doesn't even give any room 07:00 for speculation says faith is, you know, 07:05 the substance of things hoped 07:06 for the evidence of things not seen. 07:09 But also I'd like to add to that, 07:10 faith is the only walk that we can have 07:14 in order to know 07:15 by Christ's righteousness that we are walking 07:18 in His righteousness is by faith, 07:21 it's a transaction of faith 07:23 'cause we can't see the transaction taking place. 07:25 But when we accept His righteousness, 07:30 then all of a sudden, the just shall live by faith. 07:35 And you can't be just except 07:37 He imputes His righteousness to us, justification, 07:42 then imparts His righteousness to us, sanctification, 07:47 so our whole walk is a walk of faith 07:49 because we haven't seen it happen. 07:51 So can we bring this down to a fifth grade level? 07:57 Can we say that 07:59 faith in essence is trusting God? 08:02 Oh, yeah. 08:03 Trust is the foundation for faith, isn't it? 08:06 I believe that's, perhaps these, like you said, 08:08 for someone to easily understand 08:11 faith is trust and perfect confidence 08:17 in something or someone. 08:20 Okay, so we understand what righteousness is, 08:24 and where we're just gonna say righteousness is a person, 08:27 faith is trusting in God. 08:29 So when the Bible talks about righteousness by faith, 08:33 you've already introduced those two terms. 08:35 Let's talk about what is righteousness by faith? 08:40 When we say imputed righteousness 08:43 and I believe the word imputed 08:45 is I know is used in the scriptures. 08:48 I don't think we find the word imparted is implied. 08:52 But when we talk about 08:55 the justification by faith that's imputed. 08:59 What is that word imputed mean? 09:01 That means I had a debt I couldn't pay. 09:04 And somebody paid it. 09:05 Fifth grade. Fifth grade. 09:07 Exactly. 09:09 I had a debt I could never pay. 09:11 And Jesus paid it. 09:12 And is, you know, I like to think of, 09:15 if you're a visual person, think of your bank account. 09:18 Here, I've got a bank account that's overdrawn. 09:21 So far, like you said, I could never pay this debt. 09:24 And actually what happened in an accounting sense, 09:28 imputed means that Christ's righteousness 09:33 is taken from His account and deposited into mine, 09:38 to bring me to that point, 09:40 that I mean, He reconciled my account, 09:43 if you will reconciled me to God. 09:47 And when He imputed His righteousness, 09:50 He deposited His righteousness into my account. 09:54 It's really an accounting term, isn't it, imputed? 09:56 Right. 09:57 And the text that emphasizes this whole, 09:59 the debt that we could never pay 10:01 is Ephesians 2:8-9, 10:03 and it's a very familiar passage. 10:05 It brings in another component of righteousness 10:07 which is God's grace, 10:08 "For by grace you are saved through faith, 10:12 and that not of yourselves, 10:14 it is the gift of God, not of works, 10:16 lest anyone should boast." 10:18 To expand a little further here, 10:20 one of the reasons 10:22 why I think this topic is so really important 10:23 is because as a people 10:26 that honor the Commandments of God, 10:28 The Ten Commandments of God and, you know, 10:29 you're one of the authors of the book, 10:31 Ten Commandments Twice Removed. 10:33 As a people Seventh-day Adventist Movement 10:36 that honors and recognizes the validity of the law of God, 10:39 The Ten Commandments. Amen. 10:41 We're not talking about the ceremonial laws, 10:42 and we're not talking about feasts, 10:44 but we honor the validity and we recognize 10:47 how important The Ten Commandments of God is. 10:49 It's a transcript of His character. 10:51 One of the challenges we face is that 10:53 there are people that might say, 10:55 you can't keep the law, 10:57 and in fact, they are correct 10:59 because how can in it, 11:00 how can a corrupt person live in harmony 11:02 with an incorruptible law? 11:05 Paul made it clear in Romans Chapter 7, 11:06 he says, "The law is holy." 11:09 The law is holy, 11:10 the commandment holy, just and good. 11:11 He says, "But I am carnal, sold unto sin." 11:15 And so he says, 11:17 "I know what that is, but I know what I am." 11:20 And so he looks at this perfect law 11:22 from the vantage point of an imperfect man. 11:26 And then he concludes, "O wretched man that I am! 11:29 Who'll deliver me from the body of this death?" 11:31 So Paul looks at the inability of man 11:34 to live in harmony with the law of God. 11:36 But then he introduces where the power comes from, 11:39 in Romans Chapter 8. 11:41 And so here we are. 11:42 One of the challenges 11:44 and there's the term that I was, 11:45 I mean, I like to read and there's a... 11:47 Recently I was reading in Oswald Chambers' Devotion 11:49 that talked about gracious uncertainty, 11:53 gracious uncertainty. 11:55 Now the Jews, 11:57 and I'm talking about the Jewish leaders 11:58 had an arrogant certainty. 12:02 They had an arrogant certainty. 12:03 That's why they locked everybody else out. 12:05 They thought that they kept the law, 12:07 the law was for them. 12:08 They kept the law, even the rich young ruler 12:10 came to Christ and said, 12:11 "I've kept that since I was a young man. 12:12 So what's the problem?" 12:14 And he challenged him where he was lacking, 12:18 and that is compassion for others. 12:20 So for those of us who honor the Commandments of God, 12:22 in particularly highlight the Sabbath, 12:25 there's a tendency and this has happened 12:27 in our denomination. 12:29 There's a tendency by some 12:31 who when a person comes in from the outside, 12:34 we often deal with them as a commandment breaker 12:37 because we see ourselves as commandment keeper, 12:39 when that's arrogance certainty. 12:41 Yes, good. 12:44 We should have gracious certainty, 12:48 not gracious uncertainty, 12:50 which is a different topic altogether. 12:51 I'm working on the sermon for that, 12:52 you'll hear about that later on. 12:54 But we should have a gracious certainty, 12:56 which is this. 12:57 The certainty is in Christ's righteousness. 13:00 Amen. 13:01 Not in our own because if it was in our own 13:03 we could boast and say, 13:04 I've done that since I was a young man, 13:06 what's the problem? 13:08 Yeah. What do I need to do? 13:09 What else do I need to do to be saved? 13:10 So a lot of times people look at Seventh-day Adventist, says, 13:12 those who keep the law 13:15 or make other people feel like they are surely lost 13:18 because they don't keep the law. 13:20 Well, there is a happy medium, 13:21 there's a difference between arrogant certainty 13:27 and complete neglect. 13:29 And so you could neglect the law of God and be lost. 13:32 But on the other side, 13:34 you could be so sure you're keeping it 13:35 and still be lost. 13:36 Amen. 13:38 So that's where the righteousness of Christ 13:39 comes in. 13:40 So we know that the Bible tells us 13:42 that we are saved by grace alone, 13:46 not of works that any man should boast. 13:48 And, you know what, we have to be careful. 13:50 I have to be careful, we all do. 13:53 Is that because we do believe 13:55 and we're gonna get into that in a moment 13:57 on what purpose does the law serve? 14:00 What purpose do works serve? 14:03 If we are saved by grace alone, by righteousness, by faith, 14:08 then how does the law work in here, 14:11 but we have to be so cautious that you can say, 14:15 yes, I understand righteousness by faith, 14:17 I understand that it's Christ's righteousness 14:20 credited to my account. 14:23 But if I've got to keep these Commandments too 14:27 'cause I got to save myself. 14:28 So some people end up making it grace plus works. 14:33 The Bible's clear, it is grace alone. 14:36 That's right. Grace through faith. 14:38 Grace through faith, through trusting in God. 14:40 Johnny, you look like you're bursting. 14:42 Well, you know, you have people approaching the Lord, 14:46 when they have a need, a petition, a request. 14:50 And sometimes they go back and they're like, 14:53 well, I'm doing A, B, C, and D, and E, F, and G. 14:56 Yes. 14:57 The Lord is gonna bless me because I am doing this, 14:59 this, and this, and this. 15:01 But Jesus didn't say, you're gonna get these things 15:04 because you're doing A, B, C, D, E, F, G, 15:07 whatever these things are in your mind that you say, 15:10 I've done these things. So the Lord is gonna bless me. 15:12 Because Jesus says, 15:14 "Ask, believing, ask and believe, 15:17 believe in the Lord." 15:19 We're talking about faith, trust, 15:20 believe in the Lord, confidence in the Lord. 15:24 But when we look, 15:27 if we ever come to the point of thinking 15:30 that the way we are living is going to earn us, 15:35 or that we have a title, or a right to salvation, 15:41 we are, we have entered into the description 15:44 given in Revelation 3. 15:45 Yes. 15:46 Of the people that say, you know, I am rich, 15:51 and increased with goods, I have need of nothing. 15:55 When in reality we are blind, 15:57 miserable, poor, and wretched, and naked, 16:00 the Bible says when it talks about naked 16:01 it's not talking about just regular clothing, 16:03 it's talking about the justice and righteousness of Christ. 16:07 Amen. 16:08 We are destitute of righteousness. 16:10 And that's why I like to read this, 16:12 Isaiah 64:6, which I know, 16:15 you both having notes I'm sure. 16:16 Absolutely. Of our conditions. 16:18 He says in Isaiah 64:6, "But we are all," 16:23 that's including everybody, I don't know, 16:26 if anyone listening is thinking, 16:27 "Oh, I'm not part of it." 16:29 I'm not part of all. 16:30 "But we are all like an unclean thing, 16:33 and all our righteousness are as filthy rags. 16:37 We are all fade as a leaf, and our iniquities 16:41 are, like the wind, have taken us away." 16:43 So our righteousness, the very best that we can do, 16:49 is like filthy rags before the Lord. 16:51 Because nothing that we can do 16:54 is will be of sufficient to say, 16:56 oh, while you have done all these marvelous things, 16:59 you have a right to be saved. 17:01 No, it is all the grace, the righteousness of Christ, 17:05 by grace are we saved through faith, 17:07 not of ourselves. 17:09 It is the gift of God. 17:10 And we're talking again, Ephesians Chapter 3. 17:14 And so we were gonna emphasize this over and over, 17:17 it says, it is Christ. 17:19 It is His righteousness that allows us, blesses us 17:22 with the opportunities for salvation. 17:24 You know what I think? 17:25 I think it is hard for mankind, 17:30 for our pride to submit to the idea 17:35 that there's nothing that we can do 17:36 to save ourself. 17:38 I think that, you know, 17:39 that's why so many people have problems 17:41 with righteousness by faith, 17:43 is they think, well, you know, 17:46 I'm so much better than so and so 17:48 because I do this, I tithe, then I go, you know, 17:51 I eat a vegan diet, I do that. 17:54 But what you just read Isaiah 64:6, 17:58 shows us that nothing, 18:01 nothing we can do can save ourselves. 18:07 It is a gift of God 18:09 not of works that any should boast. 18:12 Christ is our righteousness. 18:15 And the only thing you can do, 18:17 I'm not gonna say there's nothing you can do. 18:19 You know what God requires of you 18:21 that day by day 18:23 you really can't even surrender by yourself. 18:26 But day by day, 18:27 you go before the Lord and say, Lord, I need You. 18:31 And I invite You into my life. 18:34 Please work Your will in my life today. 18:38 And then the righteousness we have to trust God 18:41 and believe the righteousness of faith is ours. 18:46 And we're gonna get, don't, if you're at home saying, 18:49 wait a minute, wait a minute, the Bible talks of works, 18:51 we're gonna get to that in just a moment. 18:53 But before we do, 18:55 John, did you have something you wanted to add right there? 18:57 Yeah, I do. 18:58 And I'm so glad you brought that up 19:00 because what I was gonna do is show us our condition. 19:02 You know, we're not only is our righteousness 19:05 like filthy rags, 19:06 there's none who does good. 19:08 That's right. 19:09 All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. 19:10 You know, we are all in this hopeless condition. 19:13 Even when we think we're right, 19:15 we are wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked. 19:17 We are unaware of our condition. 19:19 And then finally, 19:20 even our heart is deceitful and desperately wicked. 19:23 Amen. 19:25 That's our hopeless condition we find ourselves in. 19:27 But here's one of the major reasons 19:29 why we can never boast about our righteousness 19:31 even as Christians because, you know, Paul in Romans 7:17, 19:34 he talked about the futility of his condition. 19:37 He says, when he looked at his sinful condition, 19:40 and when he looked at being grabbed, 19:41 and embraced, and handcuffed by sin, 19:44 he said, it is no longer I who do it 19:46 but sin that dwells in me. 19:47 Amen. 19:49 He recognized, I'm captured by sin, 19:50 I don't even have the right to say no 19:51 because sin is now controlling me 19:53 and doing whatever it wants to do. 19:54 But he went from it is no longer I who do it, 19:58 but sin that dwells in me, 20:00 to submitting to Christ, dying to self, and saying, 20:04 it is no longer I who live but Christ who lives in me. 20:06 Absolutely. Amen. 20:07 So here's the point, if you don't live, 20:09 this is a powerful here, this is a powerful concept. 20:14 Death to self is a prerequisite, 20:18 is an imperative prerequisite, 20:22 to accepting the righteousness of Jesus. 20:25 Amen. 20:26 Death to self is an imperative prerequisite. 20:30 You've got to admit your condition 20:32 before you can even hope to find 20:35 aid outside of yourself. 20:37 Because if we look at ourselves and say, 20:39 as the New Age says, as Buddhism, 20:42 as many of these Eastern religions say, 20:46 Oh, look within yourself, and you'll find peace. 20:48 You know, if I look within myself, 20:50 I find. 20:51 Anything but. 20:53 What do you find? 20:54 We know that we can't look in ourselves and find anything. 20:56 The only hope for us is to get rid of a mirror. 21:00 Yeah. And the law of God. 21:01 That's why many people want to get rid of God's law. 21:04 It's a mirror, Shelley. Yes. Absolutely. 21:06 That shows us our condition. 21:07 So let's establish one thing, one, we are wretched, 21:09 we can't save ourselves, we are unrighteous, we're not. 21:12 But there's nothing good about us. 21:13 We can on our best day earn his righteousness. 21:18 Secondly, to expand it. 21:22 There's nothing wrong with God's law. 21:24 Okay, there's nothing wrong with The Ten Commandments. 21:27 The problem is us. 21:28 But then thirdly, 21:30 since the Commandments of God are perfect, 21:33 ready for bulletin, they can't even save us. 21:35 That's right. 21:37 The commandments, 21:38 there's nothing wrong with them, 21:39 but they can't save us. 21:41 Can I read this quick text? 21:42 Sure. Look at this. 21:44 And Paul in Galatians makes this very clear, 21:45 Galatians 2:21. 21:50 Because, you know, 21:51 "For by grace are we saved through faith." 21:52 Ephesians 2:8-9. 21:54 But Paul says in Galatians 2:21, 21:56 "I do not set aside the grace of God," I can't, 22:00 for if righteousness comes through the law, 22:03 then Christ died in vain." 22:05 Absolutely. 22:06 So while we're saying we're having a, 22:08 you know, we talked about The Ten Commandments 22:09 book you wrote Ten Commandments Twice Removed, 22:11 we've had a couple of Ten Commandments Weekends. 22:13 And where we've talked about, 22:15 you know, 14 sermons on The Ten Commandments. 22:17 Whenever I hear Ten Commandments Weekend, 22:19 I wanna jump up and say, 22:21 "Wait, wait, wait, 22:22 as we're going through The Ten Commandments, 22:24 can we say we can't keep them?" 22:26 Yeah. 22:27 Can somebody say 22:29 we can't keep them apart from Christ? 22:32 So, John, the requisite you talked about a moment ago. 22:35 Here it is, real quickly. 22:36 You said, there's nothing we could do 22:38 to earn the grace of God or His blessings. 22:40 That's correct. 22:41 But here's a quandary in that. 22:42 1 John 3:22, 22:45 "Whatever we ask we receive from Him, 22:48 because we keep His commandments 22:49 and do those things 22:51 that are pleasing in His sight." 22:52 Now you have to ask yourself the question, 22:54 didn't you just say 22:55 you can't keep the Commandments of God? 22:56 Well, now, Shelley, this is a bridge 22:58 between human ability and God's enabling's. 23:01 Amen. 23:02 When He comes in, 23:04 I can do all things through Christ 23:05 who strengthens me. 23:07 So when I'm void of, 23:08 when I'm empty of Christ, I am lost. 23:10 But when I'm filled with Christ, 23:12 that's where His enabling's come in, 23:14 and this text now has validity 23:20 when I asked the Lord for His blessings. 23:22 Yeah. 23:24 I wanted to add Romans 3:20. Yes. 23:27 That goes right with what you're saying. 23:28 When Paul says, 23:29 "Therefore by the deeds of the law 23:31 no flesh will be justified in His sight, 23:36 for by the law knowledge of sin is known, 23:42 by the law is the knowledge of sin." 23:44 So the law can't change us. 23:48 The law shows us our need to change. 23:52 The law can't save us. 23:55 It shows us our need for a savior. 23:59 And if you could just get this in your mind that, 24:06 you know, you were talking about, 24:08 let's look at Romans 8 24:09 because you said death to self is a prerequisite. 24:13 Guess what? 24:14 I can't even die to myself without the grace of God. 24:18 All I can do in... 24:21 Trust me, anytime I get off of this path. 24:24 If I know that when I get up in the morning, 24:27 and I'll just say, Lord, "Here am I, I need you. 24:31 I wanna rely on You today, guide me, 24:34 let Your will be done in my life. 24:36 Take my heart for I can't give it." 24:38 Romans 8:13 says this, 24:43 "If you live according to the flesh," 24:48 what's gonna happen? You'll die. 24:49 Die. "You will die." 24:51 And He's talking about the second death here. 24:54 "But if by the Spirit you put to death 25:01 the misdeeds of the body, you will live." 25:04 Now look at that scripture, "If by the Spirit," 25:08 what is the force? 25:10 What is the power? 25:11 What is the motivating energy? 25:15 It's the Holy Spirit. 25:17 So "If by the Spirit 25:20 you put to death the deeds of the body." 25:23 It is only as I trust God to work in me. 25:29 You know, 25:30 when He says Luke 9:23 pick up your cross daily 25:33 and we're supposed to be dying to self-day by day. 25:37 You know, what I used to drive myself crazy 25:39 trying to die to self. 25:40 I used to think, oh, Lord, what's wrong with me, 25:42 I can't do. 25:43 I can't do it by myself though. 25:45 It has to be me cooperating with the Spirit to saying. 25:50 lead me by Your good spirit, teach me Your ways. 25:54 And as we surrender that control 25:57 to the Holy Spirit, 25:59 I can't crucify, 26:00 I can't nail my own hands on there. 26:03 So... I like that. 26:04 You can't nail yourself to the cross. 26:05 No! 26:07 So even death to self, yes, it's a prerequisite, 26:10 but it's a gift from God. 26:12 That's right. Everything's a gift from God. 26:13 It is goodness of God that leads us to repent. 26:15 Amen. That's right. That's right. 26:17 So we as individuals 26:19 must all come to the point of choosing 26:23 'cause you're talking about choice. 26:24 Yes. Yes. 26:26 Choosing to die to self because that's what Paul says, 26:29 I have been crucified with Christ, 26:31 he made a choice, a decision. 26:34 And like you said, we can't do it on our own. 26:38 God is so good. 26:40 It is through His Holy Spirit that awakens in us, 26:44 we see ourselves and we say, 26:47 wait a minute, 26:48 I am a wicked person, a sinful person. 26:51 And the condition that we find ourselves in, 26:54 has no other solution, but to say, 26:57 Lord, save me 26:58 like Peter when he was drowning in the water, 27:00 Lord, save me, 27:01 when we understand that Jesus is the only way. 27:05 And like the Bible says in Acts 4:12, it says, 27:09 "There's salvation in no other name," 27:13 including your name. 27:15 "There's salvation in no other name, 27:17 the only name under heaven 27:18 whereby we can be saved is Jesus Christ." 27:21 So we come to the place where we understand, 27:24 I cannot save myself, 27:26 then we understand we need the Savior, 27:28 that is Jesus Christ. 27:30 So surrender comes as we say, we cast our helpless self, 27:35 on the hands of the Lord, 27:36 in the hands of the Lord, take me. 27:39 And I cannot even give myself. 27:40 That's a day by day choice, isn't it? 27:42 Day by day choice. 27:43 Right, that's what Paul said, I die daily. 27:44 Daily, daily. 27:46 But before he dies daily, he has to be set free from sin. 27:51 You know, a slave, Romans 6:16, a slave. 27:54 I've learned as I'm studying this 27:56 and this is my favorite. 27:58 This... I love Romans 6. 27:59 This topic keeps me humble. 28:01 This topic reminds me 28:03 that no matter what I sing, I preach, 28:04 no matter Bible studies, 28:06 no matter the visibility or not. 28:07 This topic reminds me how much I need Christ. 28:10 Because, you know, when I when I first became, 28:13 I'm still becoming clear 28:15 because this is such a theme of eternity. 28:16 Yes, sir. But I came to this conclusion. 28:18 A slave cannot free himself. 28:21 That's right. 28:22 So we are either slaves to sin or slaves to righteousness. 28:26 So Paul says, when we were slaves to sin, 28:31 we were free in relationship to righteousness. 28:35 Now watch this. 28:36 When we were slaves to sin, 28:38 we didn't even think about righteousness 28:40 because that's where we were bound, 28:42 we were slaves to sin. 28:43 But when we were made free 28:45 and became slaves to righteousness, 28:48 this is where the dying daily comes in. 28:50 I wanna read a couple of passages here. 28:52 One of them. 28:53 So you're working of Romans 6:16, 28:55 you wanna read them? 28:56 Okay. Yeah, Romans 6:16. 28:57 Look at what it says here. 28:59 This is a very powerful passage because... 29:00 I love this passage. 29:01 You know, 29:03 "Do you not know 29:04 that to whom you present yourselves 29:06 slaves to obey, 29:07 you are that one's slave whom you obey, 29:10 whether of sin leading to death 29:12 or of obedience leading to righteousness? 29:15 Okay, so let me stop you right there, 29:17 what he is saying, you're gonna be a slave, 29:19 you have a choice of masters. 29:21 That's right. Right? 29:22 It all comes down to that morning, early decision, 29:25 the choice of masters. 29:26 And watch this. 29:28 And so before we go past this, this is the thing I was saying, 29:31 you cannot, can I read the quote? 29:35 We cannot, Temperance, page 112. 29:37 I like to say it, 29:38 but I'm gonna just give the context, 29:39 the book, Temperance, page 112, paragraph 3, 29:41 "We cannot change our hearts, 29:43 we cannot control our thoughts, our impulses, our affections. 29:46 We cannot make ourselves pure, fit for God's service. 29:49 But we can choose to serve God, 29:52 and we can give Him our will, then He will work in us to will 29:55 and to do according to His good pleasure. 29:57 Thus our whole nature will be brought 29:59 under the control of Christ." 30:00 A slave can only choose who he wants his master to be. 30:05 Joshua 24:15 is a powerful passage, 30:08 we often leave that one out in reference to this, 30:10 the righteous life. 30:12 Choose you this day whom you'll serve. 30:15 When you choose who to serve, they will choose what you do. 30:19 Amen. Did you get that? 30:20 Yes. Amen. 30:22 When you choose who does... 30:23 When you pick a master, they say, 30:24 this is what you're gonna do. 30:26 So if you choose today, if you choose sin today, 30:30 Satan is gonna control you and you have no options. 30:33 It is no longer you who do it. 30:35 But when you die to self, 30:37 it is no longer I who live but Christ who lives in me, 30:39 and get this, 30:40 in the life I now live in the flesh. 30:42 That's his present condition, 30:43 I live by faith in the Son of God 30:44 who loved me and gave Himself for me. 30:46 So what's happening now 30:47 is he's working out in me, His perfect will 30:51 because I simply said this in the morning, 30:52 and I love what you said a moment ago, 30:54 I can't even die to myself. 30:56 I could just simply say like, Peter, 30:58 what did he say, Lord, save me. 31:01 That's the shortest prayer 31:03 that we must pray every morning, 31:04 Lord, save me. 31:05 And when we submit to His will, 31:08 then we find freedom only in His righteousness. 31:11 Yeah. 31:12 So it's a whole lot connected to it. 31:14 You know, I like to say this because I guess to some people 31:18 it may sound terrifying, a slave to God. 31:23 But when you look at this, Christian says, 31:25 "Behold, what manner of love God has bestowed upon us 31:27 that we should be called children of God." 31:30 And the sense that it is speaking of here 31:31 is who is controlling your life. 31:35 But when you are under the control of the devil, 31:40 you lose your choice, you lose your will 31:42 because you give yourself to him, 31:44 and he wants to control you. 31:46 But when you give yourself to the Lord, 31:49 He always gives you liberty. 31:50 That's why it says, 31:52 "The truth shall make you free." 31:54 And it talks about the Ten Commandments 31:55 as the law of liberty. 31:58 It's the law of liberty, you choose the Lord, 32:01 and you are free. 32:03 You are free. 32:05 You can always say no, 32:06 I don't want to be with You anymore, 32:07 Lord, but the devil wants to control you 32:09 to the point of that you don't have a choice. 32:11 And that's why... Ask any addict. 32:14 That's why some people 32:15 they give themselves so much to sin 32:17 that they are demon possessed, 32:20 they lose the control. 32:21 But still, there's hope. 32:23 If that person is like that, like the... 32:26 Demoniac. Demoniac. 32:28 Jesus heard that cry within the heart that only, 32:32 you know, save me, he heard that cry. 32:34 And so God gives us freedom in being His children. 32:40 Amen. Amen. 32:42 I want to just put a pause here for just a second 32:46 'cause I want us to talk about imputed imparted 32:49 that you brought up. 32:51 And I'm gonna say this. 32:54 You know, you, what did they say 32:56 that confession is good for the soul 32:58 and hard on the reputation. 33:00 This past week or past few weeks, 33:04 I have been so busy. 33:07 I've been putting in 12 to 14 hours a day 33:09 on my computer working on big project 33:12 for here at 3ABN. 33:14 And I've worked remotely some. 33:17 Well, what happens when I work remotely, 33:19 I'm up at four or five, I'm on my computer, 33:22 I've been forgetting to eat breakfast, 33:24 forgot to have some devotionals, 33:26 you know, I mean, pray and say, oh, Lord, guide me. 33:28 But here's what happened. 33:30 And it just comes from a background of I grew up 33:36 in a New Testament Church, but it was very legalistic. 33:40 Legalism simply means you're trying to save yourself. 33:45 You can be, or think that there's salvation 33:48 in anything else other than Jesus Christ. 33:53 If you think keeping The Ten Commandments 33:57 is gonna save you, you're a legalist. 34:00 That's the bottom line. 34:02 But what happens was, I began to feel guilty. 34:09 And I felt like, what's wrong with me, 34:11 Lord, you know, why am I spending so much time 34:14 and every time I get separation anxiety 34:18 when I become the least bit separated from the Lord, 34:21 but all of a sudden, I'm beating myself up. 34:24 And it occurred to me, 34:26 this is what everybody does. 34:31 In some sense, it's like, 34:34 I've got to do something to please God, 34:37 when all God and as soon as I, you know, 34:40 it was like Friday, it was like, 34:42 "Yes, Lord, all I've got to do is come before you and say, 34:45 'Take my heart, I can't give it.'" 34:47 As soon as I release that burden of work mentality, 34:53 behaviorist, you know, some of us are behaviorist. 34:58 As soon as I let go of that, and say, Lord, just, you know, 35:03 lead me by Your good Spirit, work out Your way in me today. 35:07 Guess what happens? 35:09 All of that guilt rolls off 35:11 and I just fall right back into perfect line, 35:14 that communion opens up, 35:17 you know, between me and the Lord, 35:19 my prayer life just... 35:21 Flourishes. 35:22 Flourishes and it's that simple. 35:25 We make, I think sometimes we make the Christian life 35:28 sound so difficult that you got to do this, this, 35:31 and this when God is just saying 35:32 is, give me permission. 35:34 Just submit to me. Yeah. 35:35 So imputed righteousness. 35:38 There's, like we've already said, 35:41 there is nothing you could do. 35:43 There's nothing Shelley Quinn can do to save herself. 35:47 There's nothing you can do to save yourself. 35:50 All of our righteousness, Isaiah 64:6, 35:53 is like filthy rags before the Lord. 35:56 But when we come and surrender, 36:00 God's plan has been 36:04 from the very beginning, 36:07 righteousness by faith, 36:08 even in the Garden of Eden. 36:11 I mean, when God had to slay 36:13 and add an animal as a substitute, 36:16 if we're not gonna take time 36:17 'cause we're running out of time already, 36:19 but it has always been righteousness by faith, 36:23 always been righteousness by faith, 36:26 and Jeremiah said, Christ, our righteousness. 36:29 So everything about the sanctuary, 36:34 pointed to Jesus. 36:36 It was telling them the story 36:38 that all these sacrifices they knew 36:41 would be fulfilled in Christ. 36:43 All right, that's imputed righteousness justification, 36:46 which means that you have been 36:50 declared pardoned. 36:53 You may be guilty, 36:54 but it's the judge saying you're pardoned. 36:58 So that's justification. 37:00 But now there's this sanctification, 37:04 how does the righteousness of Christ 37:06 bring about sanctification? 37:08 Okay, so let me add to segue into this, 37:10 let me just give a simplified picture of slavery. 37:13 It's the most amazing picture that many of us often ignore. 37:16 You know, modern day slavery could be simply defined 37:18 as getting on an airplane, once that door closes. 37:22 You have no choice as to where you're going. 37:24 Once that plane takes off, 37:26 you are in the mercy of the pilot. 37:28 Yeah. 37:29 So Christianity is submitting, getting on board with Jesus. 37:33 And enjoying first class righteousness. 37:35 Amen. 37:37 Enjoying the amenities 37:38 of all the blessings that come along 37:40 with getting on board with Jesus, 37:42 that's beautiful slavery, 37:43 as compared to getting on a plane, 37:45 like somebody I testified once the door's closed 37:48 and while they're in mid-flight. 37:51 I wanna get off. 37:52 They realize, somebody said, "So do you live in Phoenix?" 37:56 What do you mean, do I live in Phoenix? 37:57 I'm going to Chicago. 37:58 This plane is going to Phoenix. 38:01 Oh, no! 38:03 How did that happen? 38:04 And now flight attendance because of that one example. 38:07 It was a funny story, 38:09 it happened a number of years ago. 38:10 Now flight attendants often say, 38:13 if your final destination is not Phoenix, 38:16 this is a good time to get off the plane. 38:17 Yeah. 38:19 And so if your final destination 38:20 is not heaven, 38:21 this is a good time to push aside 38:23 the righteousness of Christ. 38:24 But if your destination is heaven, 38:26 you simply submit so watch this. 38:28 Here's where the submission comes in. 38:30 There's a transaction that takes place 38:32 that brings about the sanctification, 38:33 the imputed part, 38:35 we're gonna go from imputed to imparted 38:36 right away in one text. 38:38 Okay, explain what sanctification... 38:39 We know what justification is being pardoned 38:41 or declared... 38:43 So here it is. Here it is. Okay, sanctification. 38:44 The sanctification is right here. 38:45 Now Romans 6:18-20. 38:47 Let's look at that. 38:49 Okay, because now sanctification, 38:51 the imputing takes part in verse 18. 38:54 And the imparting takes part as we go further down. 38:59 It says having, verse 18. 39:04 Matter of fact, let me just go and read in my Bible, 39:06 Romans 6:18, 39:08 "And having been set free from sin." 39:11 That's free from sin. 39:13 That is imputed. 39:16 "You became slaves of righteousness," 39:20 that is imparted. 39:22 Let's go on and see how it happens. 39:25 "I speak in human terms 39:26 because of the weakness of your flesh. 39:29 For just as you presented your members 39:31 as slaves of uncleanness, 39:35 and of lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, 39:38 now present your members 39:41 as slaves of righteousness for holiness." 39:44 And then verse 20 is the capstone. 39:46 "For when you were slaves of sin, 39:48 you were free in regard to righteousness." 39:52 And so you have here, verse 22, 39:54 I'm gonna jump past 21 for time sake. 39:57 "Now having been set free from sin, 40:00 and having become slaves of God, 40:03 you have your fruit to holiness, 40:05 and the end, everlasting life." 40:07 There could be no fruit to holiness, 40:09 there's no sanctifying fruit to holiness. 40:11 We can't get that far not read the next verse. 40:13 Oh, we know verse, yeah, go ahead read it, Shelley. 40:15 I know that I just have to read it for those at home 40:17 that may not know Romans 6:23. 40:21 It says, "The wages of sin is death." 40:25 So see, you have to work your way to hell. 40:28 That's right. 40:29 "The wages of sin is death," your work and your way to hell, 40:33 but the gift of God is eternal life 40:38 in Christ Jesus our Lord." 40:40 We believe our way to heaven. 40:42 Okay. So finishing the thought. 40:44 So Paul now says, and until you're free from sin, 40:48 you can't even decide to submit to righteousness. 40:51 Until you're free from sin, you can't even decide 40:54 that now I'm going to submit to righteousness 40:56 because you have no enabling. 40:57 There's no power, you have no power at all. 41:00 So here's where the power comes from. 41:01 2 Corinthians 5:21. Look at this. 41:03 And I asked the question earlier, 41:05 how can we become what we are not? 41:07 2 Corinthians 5:21, 41:10 "For He made Him who knew no sin 41:12 to be sin for us," 41:14 transaction, 41:16 "that we might become 41:18 the righteousness of God in Him." 41:21 Hallelujah. Amen. 41:22 Righteousness by that we might become, 41:24 he became what he didn't have to, 41:27 so we could become what we couldn't. 41:31 And he did it because of love. 41:32 John 3:16 is all in this passage. 41:34 He became what he didn't have to, 41:37 so that we could become what we could never. 41:40 Amen. That's right. 41:42 So that's why I say there's no righteousness of our own. 41:44 Was Jesus sinful? 41:46 No, what they do? 41:48 Shelley, Pastor Dinzey, 41:50 who do you know would want to be sin for us? 41:55 And that word for us mean in place of us. 41:58 It's not, okay, I'll just be sin 42:00 and I'll hang around with, 42:01 you know, he took our place. 42:03 So that one day, we could be Him. 42:05 And that's why 1 John 3:2, is my most beautiful passage. 42:09 I'll share that later on in the program. 42:11 Because, you know, this is a whole, 42:13 shall I do it now... 42:15 Go ahead. Or Later on. 42:16 The whole beauty of salvation is this. 42:19 And I wanna encourage you today 42:20 because some people might say, well, it's so hard. 42:22 Nothing discourages me more 42:24 than people that have been Christians all their lives 42:26 that are uncertain of their salvation. 42:28 But it's a gracious certainty. Yes. 42:31 Here's the gracious certainty. 42:32 1 John Chapter 3, praise the Lord, verse 1 and 2. 42:37 "Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, 42:41 that we should be called the children of God! 42:44 Therefore the world does not know him, 42:46 because he did not know us." 42:48 And here's the here's the passage. 42:49 "Beloved, now we are children of God," when? 42:52 Now. Now. 42:54 Hallelujah. 42:55 "And it has not yet been revealed, 42:57 what we shall be. 42:59 But we know that when he is revealed, 43:01 we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is." 43:05 Thus I introduce a third term. 43:07 Remember I said, arrogant certainty, 43:10 and gracious certainty. 43:12 Now, 43:14 this is gracious uncertainty. 43:18 Which means this is gracious uncertainty, 43:21 which means I don't have to worry 43:23 about what happens tomorrow, the next day, 43:25 the next day, the next day, the next day, the next day 43:27 because I know He's working on me. 43:28 Amen. Amen. 43:30 Gracious uncertainty, people say, 43:31 but am I gonna sin tomorrow? 43:35 Relax, he who has begun a good work in you 43:37 will complete it. 43:39 All we got to do is daily submit ourselves to Christ 43:41 that just becomes so beautiful. 43:43 So don't walk around with this 10 list. 43:46 It will be fulfilled in you, if Christ is in you 43:48 because He cannot deny His own righteousness. 43:50 That's right. 43:52 He cannot deny, if Christ is in you, 43:54 He will fulfill the requirements of His law. 43:56 He said that, that we might become 43:58 the righteousness of God in Him. 44:00 You know, Shelley, 44:01 I'm in your Bible student you both are. 44:03 But we love Romans. Yes. Amen. 44:05 And Jesus fulfills the righteous requirements 44:09 of the law in us through His strength. 44:11 Amen. Not through our own. 44:13 Amen. Let me jump in and say. 44:14 I know it's suicidal, we need another hour. 44:16 We need to be, we need more than, 44:17 I can't believe our times. 44:19 We need several hours for this topic 44:20 'cause we could all 44:22 but here's the beauty, 44:24 okay, justification. 44:26 It's the judge standing up and saying you're pardoned. 44:29 I mean, you were guilty. 44:31 But he said, "You're pardoned." 44:32 I mean, he's giving you a pardon. 44:34 That's all your past sins. 44:36 Sanctification simply means to be made holy. 44:42 Holiness and sanctification mean the same thing. 44:46 But they both mean to be separated from sin. 44:49 That's right. 44:50 So when, in Ephesians, let's read this real quick, 44:53 Ephesians 3:16 44:56 'cause we're talking about the imputed word 44:59 that we used over here for justification 45:02 means Christ's record was credited to us 45:07 His perfect obedience, everything. 45:09 But now, how do we get righteousness 45:13 that's gonna take us 45:15 and separate us from sin, day by day? 45:19 It's imparted and here's how. That's right. 45:22 Verse 16, Paul's writing to the Ephesians 3:16, 45:28 "O that He would grant you, he being Jesus Christ, 45:32 according to the riches of His glory, 45:36 to be strengthened with my where through or how, 45:42 through His Spirit in the inner man." 45:45 That's right. 45:47 So it's the dunamis power of God, 45:50 that dynamite power 45:51 is when the Holy Spirit comes into you. 45:55 That's how he does it. Why? 45:57 He says, "That Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith." 46:02 Yes. That's right. 46:03 "That you, being rooted and grounded in love, 46:05 may be able to comprehend with all the saints 46:07 what is the width and height and length and depth, 46:09 to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge 46:14 that you may be filled with all the fullness of God." 46:17 And don't run past verse 20. 46:19 Like, you cannot go that far and not do verse 20. 46:23 This is what Shelley's talking about. 46:24 This is what we're talking about. 46:26 When you are in Christ, look at this beautiful passage, 46:29 "Now to Him..." 46:30 That is able. 46:31 "Who is able to do exceedingly, 46:34 abundantly above all that we ask or think," how? 46:41 "According to the power that works in us." 46:44 Amen. 46:45 Dunamis. Amen. 46:47 It ain't, it ain't for us. 46:49 We don't get it. It comes in. 46:50 It's Philippians 2:13, 46:52 God through the Holy Spirit is working in us 46:54 to will and to do His good purpose. 46:56 Go ahead, I'm gonna cut you loose 46:58 for a couple minutes and I need... 46:59 Guys are taking all the good stuff. 47:01 You know, in Romans Chapter 7, 47:04 it says, "For to be carnally minded is death." 47:07 Yeah. 47:08 And it says that the carnal mind 47:10 is that enemy is an enemy. 47:11 It says enmity against God 47:13 is like being an enemy against God 47:15 is now subject to the law of God, 47:16 neither indeed can be. 47:18 God wants to take us from loving sin, 47:22 to loving the Lord so much 47:23 that we will love to do His will. 47:26 That's why you read of Jesus says, 47:28 I delight to do thy will of God, 47:30 thy law is within my heart. 47:32 And those that understand 47:34 their salvation is only through Jesus Christ, 47:39 and submit to Him completely, 47:41 they will delight to do His will. 47:45 They will delight, you know, you read of David, he says, 47:48 "I love thy law," it is my meditation all day, 47:52 why? Because it is God. 47:56 The law of God is a transcript of His character. 48:00 And so when we submit to the Lord, 48:04 serving Him obey in the law, 48:06 it will be a delight, it will be a joy. 48:08 Amen. Amen. 48:09 And we will have that wonderful peace. 48:12 You know, the Bible says, 48:14 there is no peace for the wicked, 48:16 we're gonna pass from being slaves 48:18 and having no peace to having joy, and peace, 48:24 that passes all understanding. 48:25 And we will delight to do the Lord's will. 48:28 Okay. 48:30 So let me say this then, 'cause we are running down. 48:31 That's what we're talking about. 48:33 That's word it is, it's the joy, 48:34 the sanctification, we're running out of time. 48:37 So let me put it, we've got to get to this point. 48:41 We are saying, 48:43 we cannot become righteous through our behavior. 48:46 Now wait a minute, we just read 48:48 that if you're a slave to right... 48:51 Through obedience leads to righteousness 48:54 in Romans 6:16. 48:56 But we know you cannot become righteous 48:59 through your behavior. 49:01 Look at that Pharisees. 49:03 They kept they were sticklers, 49:05 and they never became righteous, our job. 49:08 And please hear what I'm saying. 49:10 Our job is to seek a relationship with Jesus. 49:16 That's all you've got to do every day, 49:19 and everything else will fall into place. 49:21 So how does behavior fit into righteousness? 49:24 Easy, we become new creations in Christ Jesus. 49:27 That's right. Jesus... 49:29 The old is gone, the new is come, 49:30 He does what you're saying, 49:31 He puts that delight, 49:33 it will begin to desire what He wants to do. 49:36 And we know that He works in us 49:38 to will and to do His good pleasure. 49:40 So what Romans 6:16 is saying, you know, 49:44 you're either a slave to sin, 49:47 which leads to death or slave to be righteous, 49:52 which leads to righteousness. 49:54 What that is saying, 49:56 is that our behavior acts of obedience, 50:00 makeup, habits of obedience. 50:03 That's what changes our character, 50:05 is it not? 50:07 And I know 1 John 3:7 says, 50:12 "Do not be deceived. 50:15 Only He who does what is righteous is righteous." 50:20 So when the righteousness of Christ is working in you, 50:24 when God is working in you through His Holy Spirit. 50:27 Jesus said in Matthew 5:16, I think it is that He said, 50:33 "Let your light so shine 50:35 that men will see your good works, 50:38 and glorify your Father." 50:41 What we do, 50:43 we seek a relationship with God, 50:45 we trust in Him. 50:47 And as we come before Him, 50:48 then God works in us 50:50 to will and to do His good pleasure, 50:52 fruits of righteousness, that's the fruit of the Spirit. 50:57 We don't get any credit for it, 50:58 but it's to glorify God. 51:00 One last quick text, Romans 8:10, summarizing, 51:03 "And if Christ is in you, 51:04 the body is dead because of sin, 51:06 but the Spirit is life because of righteousness." 51:08 Amen. Johnny. 51:10 You have Christ on the inside. Amen. 51:11 So how do we go from here to here 51:14 where the Lord wants us to be? 51:16 By daily submitting to Him. 51:19 And we have 2 Corinthians 3:18, 51:22 "By beholding we become change." 51:24 We must spend time with the Lord daily, 51:27 look at the life of Christ. 51:29 I recommend one of my favorite books, 51:30 Desire of Ages. Yes. 51:32 And, you know what? 51:33 That's what was getting me 51:34 is that I wasn't spending time with God daily. 51:36 But I wanna tell you something, 51:38 if you just come before the Lord, and remember, 51:42 your only part is to seek a relationship with Him, 51:46 to submit to Him, 51:47 and you come before the Lord and just say, 51:50 Here I am Lord, work in me today, guess what? 51:53 You're gonna want to spend time, 51:55 you're gonna enjoy your time in the Bible, 51:56 you're gonna find yourself praying, 51:58 like you can't believe. 52:01 It's all about relationships 52:04 because we can't save ourselves. 52:06 It's like that song says, "Have your own way Lord," 52:08 you love that, have your own way Lord in me. 52:09 That's it. 52:11 Oh, guys, I know, 52:12 we could spend hours on this topic. 52:14 And it'd be fun. 52:16 We don't plan anything. God just brings it together. 52:19 But our hope and our prayer for you at home 52:21 is that the grace of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, 52:25 the love of the Father, 52:26 and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit 52:28 will be with you always. 52:30 Just seek a relationship with Him, 52:32 He'll do the rest. 52:34 Amen. Amen. |
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