Classic Christianity – Book of Romans P61 (03-10-25)
If You Are in Christ Jesus, He Has Given You Eternal Life Right This Very Moment
~ “I have written these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, so that you may know that you have eternal life. And this is the confidence that we have before Him: If we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. And if we know that He hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we already possess what we have asked of Him.” 1 John 5:13-15
Today, we are to share the good news of the gospel. The good news is Eternal Life in Him. You have eternal life at this very moment in time if you are in Christ Jesus. But it is amazing how many twist this scripture to make it say that eternal life is sometime in the future, as though you don’t really have it right now, but only if you “endure to the end.” And they take that statement out of context too, and pretend that if you obey the law of God, then after you die, you will have eternal life. People will come up with all types of arguments as to what a person must continue to do, even after a person is saved. Some will say you have to belong to their church, or get water baptized in their church, or be observant of the Sabbath day (as though they think they are observant of the Sabbath day themselves), or observant of the 40 days of Lent as though that is biblical (it is NOT), or going to the confession booth, or asking God for more forgiveness (a lie from Satan), or any number of things in order to sustain one’s salvation. All of it are lies from Satan, and people place faith in the teaching of Man instead of the word of God.
Heck, most don’t even read the word of God. Most would rather watch their soap operas, or daily news broadcasts, or watching their favorite tell-a-vision shows for brainwashing and programming our minds with his lies, all of which teach and reinforce the lies of Satan and the world, instead of getting to know what God wants to teach us today, TRUTH and His Word. Everything written in the scriptures is for our benefit, and for us to know TRUTH. Pay attention to TRUTH if He lives in you. And that is easy to correct if He doesn’t live in you at this moment in time, simply by placing faith in Jesus, God in the flesh, who took away ALL your sins at the cross, and was raised from the dead so that that same life that raised Him from the dead, could also raise you from the dead.
“Sanctify them by the truth; Your word is truth.” John 17:17
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And a certain ruler asked Him, saying, “Good Teacher, having done what, will I inherit eternal life?”
And Jesus said to him, “Why do you call Me good? No one is good, except God alone.
~ “Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life.” 1 John 5:12
~ Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life; the one believing in Me, even if he should die, he will live. And everyone living and believing in Me shall never die, to the age. Do you believe this?” John 11:25,26
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We who are strong ought to bear with the shortcomings of the weak and not to please ourselves. Each of us should please his neighbor for his good, to build him up. For even Christ did not please Himself, but as it is written: “The insults of those who insult You have fallen on Me.” For everything that was written in the past was written for our instruction, so that through endurance and the encouragement of the Scriptures, we might have hope.
Now may the God who gives endurance and encouragement grant you harmony with one another in Christ Jesus, so that with one mind and one voice you may glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Accept one another, then, just as Christ accepted you, in order to bring glory to God. For I tell you that Christ has become a servant of the circumcised on behalf of God’s truth, to confirm the promises made to the patriarchs, so that the Gentiles may glorify God for His mercy. As it is written:
“Therefore I will praise You among the Gentiles;
I will sing hymns to Your name.”
Again, it says:
“Rejoice, O Gentiles, with His people.”
And again:
“Praise the Lord, all you Gentiles,
and extol Him, all you peoples.”
And once more, Isaiah says:
“The Root of Jesse will appear,
One who will arise to rule over the Gentiles;
in Him the Gentiles will put their hope.”
Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you believe in Him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
I myself am convinced, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, brimming with knowledge, and able to instruct one another. However, I have written you a bold reminder on some points, because of the grace God has given me to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles in the priestly service of the gospel of God, so that the Gentiles might become an offering acceptable to God, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.
Therefore I exult in Christ Jesus in my service to God. I will not presume to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me in leading the Gentiles to obedience by word and deed, by the power of signs and wonders, and by the power of the Spirit of God. So from Jerusalem all the way around to Illyricum, I have fully proclaimed the gospel of Christ.
In this way I have aspired to preach the gospel where Christ was not known, so that I would not be building on someone else’s foundation. Rather, as it is written:
“Those who were not told about Him will see,
and those who have not heard will understand.”
That is why I have often been hindered from coming to you.
But now that there are no further opportunities for me in these regions, and since I have longed for many years to visit you, I hope to see you on my way to Spain. And after I have enjoyed your company for a while, you can equip me for my journey.
Now, however, I am on my way to Jerusalem to serve the saints there. For Macedonia and Achaia were pleased to make a contribution for the poor among the saints in Jerusalem. They were pleased to do it, and indeed they owe it to them. For if the Gentiles have shared in their spiritual blessings, they are obligated to minister to them with material blessings.
So after I have completed this service and have safely delivered this bounty to them, I will set off to Spain by way of you. I know that when I come to you, I will come in the fullness of the blessing of Christ.
Now I urge you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, to join me in my struggle by praying to God for me. Pray that I may be delivered from the unbelievers in Judea, and that my service in Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints there, so that by God’s will I may come to you with joy and together with you be refreshed.
The God of peace be with all of you. Amen. Romans 15:1-33
Pray to God:
Do you really want to know the WHOLE Truth of what is going on today?
“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you.” Matthew 7:7
Lord Jesus, teach me the truth of the world today and give me the wisdom to know the truth and identify the lies of the devil. Thank you God.”
~ “As we have been in the book of Romans, as we came down to the point in the book of Romans where Paul, at the end of the 15th chapter had said that he was going to Jerusalem. And most of you were here and understand what we had said there, that even though that he had had a prophetess that had prophesied not to go there, he had two other warnings in regard to not going there, that Paul said, I’m going anyway. When you see the tenacity of this man, and you see the dedication of this man to get the gospel, not only into the world, but especially into the Gentile world, where most of us are part of that, you see a human being that was almost supernatural in strength and in desire to get this message out. And again, it intensifies and it amplifies the importance of this message. And many times, I think that as Christians, we have a tendency to take these things for granted and kind of a ho hum attitude whether this salvation is nice, but I don’t think many times we understand the intensity of what salvation really is, and to understand what God did for you and me, and that if, if Christ, Jesus, did not come to this earth to take away the sins of the world, which in so doing, taking away the cause of spiritual death, so that he could offer a spiritual life. That you and I would be dead as a hammer. We would die in our sins and the uncircumcision of our sinful nature, not to fall into a grave and perish, because if that’s the case, that would be kind of easy. Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow you may die if you die anyway, so may as well live it up. But you’re going to live eternally someplace, and you’re either going to live eternally separated from God in a place called hell, or we’re going to live eternally in the presence of God in a place called heaven. And brother, that is stringent stuff.” ~ Bob George
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As we have been in the book of Romans, as we came down to the point in the book of Romans where Paul, at the end of the 15th chapter had said that he was going to Jerusalem. And most of you were here and understand what we had said there, that even though that he had had a prophetess that had prophesied not to go there, he had two other warnings in regard to not going there, that Paul said, I’m going anyway. When you see the tenacity of this man, and you see the dedication of this man to get the gospel, not only into the world, but especially into the Gentile world, where most of us are part of that, you see a human being that was almost supernatural in strength and in desire to get this message out. And again, it intensifies and it amplifies the importance of this message. And many times, I think that as Christians, we have a tendency to take these things for granted and kind of a ho hum attitude whether this salvation is nice, but I don’t think many times we understand the intensity of what salvation really is, and to understand what God did for you and me, and that if, if Christ, Jesus, did not come to this earth to take away the sins of the world, which in so doing, taking away the cause of spiritual death, so that he could offer a spiritual life. That you and I would be dead as a hammer. We would die in our sins and the uncircumcision of our sinful nature, not to fall into a grave and perish, because if that’s the case, that would be kind of easy. Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow you may die if you die anyway, so may as well live it up. But you’re going to live eternally someplace, and you’re either going to live eternally separated from God in a place called hell, or we’re going to live eternally in the presence of God in a place called heaven. And brother, that is stringent stuff.
This life down here is temporary, isn’t it? And the older you get, the more temporary it is. It goes by in a minute. Life does does it not? It seems like yesterday when I was a teenager. Now that’s a memory. Okay, but that’s just the way life is. The more, the longer you live, the quicker you see how quickly life has gone by. You remember your grandkids, your first grandchild, when he was just a little baby and running around, and now they’re teenagers. You say, where did the time go? But folks, in light of eternity, this is nothing, and you and I are going to live eternally. Some place, not in a grave, dead, dead, but you’re going to be alive. Your spirit will never die, and it’s going to be alive some place, it’s either going to be, as I said, in a place called hell, totally separated from the life of God, or it’s going to be lived in the presence of Christ, Jesus. And the only way that we can know where we’re going to live has been revealed to us by God Himself, who sent His Son to this world so that we can have some sense. Otherwise, you’re into New Age stuff. You’re into anything that you think I believe God because I believe it. You have no substance for your belief system at all. We have no plumb line, we have no compass. We have nothing except our imagination. And there’s many people who live a so called religious experience based on imagination, one that God is love. How do you know? How do you know God is love, unless the God of Love came to this earth, and Greater love has no man than he laid down his life for his sheep. How are you going to know God’s love? I can tell he’s artistic. I can look at the world and tell that, but does he love me? What kind of love does that? You don’t know that from a flip, except in your imagination, if it were not for Christ, Jesus. Jesus and the revelation that took place in the Old Testament and the New Where are you going to find out about that?
And so Jesus came, and God came to this earth to do something phenomenal for us, and that is to give life to us, not just a temporal life, but eternal life. Now we get the whipping cream down here, but I want to tell you, folks, this whipping cream is pretty good, and if there was not such a thing as eternal life after death, I would still be doing what I’m doing, just for the effect that it has on our lives while we’re here on this earth. But on top of that, we know when we’re absent from the body, we’re present with the Lord. We know that, and we know that when this body dies, we’re going to be living eternally in the presence of God. Guys, do you realize how important that is to know where you’re going to be spending eternity? And you’re not going to be spending eternity because we’re nice people, because God said none of us are good. Now I know that’s hard for some of you to grasp, but the fact of the matter is you better grasp it, because God said no one’s good except God alone, and that leaves me out of the equation. So we’re not going to go to heaven because we’re good. We’re not going to go to heaven because of this, or because of this. We’re going to go to heaven because of him. No one’s going to go to heaven because of you. We’re going to go to heaven because of Him. And it is because Christ, Jesus came to offer us life, eternal life, that I can enter into that eternal life by faith and to know that I really don’t die, I just wake up into the hands of Christ, Jesus, and that is the good news of what God came to do for you and me.
This was the driving force of the Apostle Paul. It was the driving force that enabled him to go back to Jerusalem, knowing full well that he was going to be captured and probably come close to death there. Warn three times, don’t go and yet he knew that it was his mission to go back to Jerusalem, and so we studied in that last chapters, or the next, the last chapter in the book of Romans, where Paul was was saying to the people that he was leaving that you’re weeping for me. Said You’re breaking my heart, but, but you’ll never see my face again, because I know what’s going to happen to me. And then he said, I’m heading toward Jerusalem. Now, Paul had taken an offering of the Gentile churches. And remember last week, we talked about how the Gentiles actually felt there was a certain obligation for us to do that. After all, the Gospel came through the Hebrews, and so they took this offering for the believers in Jerusalem, who were obviously having financial difficulties. And that offering was taken in order to present to the church in Jerusalem, to James, who was the pastor of the church in Jerusalem. And so that was His mission, to get back there and deliver this, this offering that had been taken in order to help the Hebrew brothers in Christ, we pick up in 17 when Paul arrived at Jerusalem, he said the brothers there warmly received us. And the next day, it said Paul and the rest of us went to see James, so they went back to Jerusalem to get an audience with James. Now, guys, James, again, was the brother of Jesus, or the half brother of Christ. Jesus, now, contrary to the Da Vinci Code and some of the other nonsense that people are reading like gobbling up look like cats after milk. That is a novel. There ain’t anything accurate about those kind of books. It’s a novel, and in it you’ve got all kinds of nonsensical things that Jesus was married to Mary Magdalene, and the Bible was all messed up, and all kinds of nonsense that people just read, ooh, but you can’t get them to read the Bible. And if they did, they’d say, Oh, it’s not right. You know why, folks? Because people are bent to believe anything except the truth. You give somebody a slug of error, and they just gobble it down and just eat it up. But you try to tell people truth, not so interested in that, and that’s why you got books like that selling 12, 15 million copies of people are going to have their theology messed up over a dumb book that talks about the things that it talks about. Jesus had brothers Sisters and Jesus had sisters. He did not have wives, nor did he have children, except spiritual children. And we’re all spiritual children, but he didn’t have any physical children. But Jesus had brothers. James was one of them. It names them in the Scripture, his brothers and sisters, it’s not up for grabs. He tells them by name. And James was the pastor of the church of Jerusalem.
And as I’ve said before, if there was any job that I would not have wanted to have that would have been it to try to teach the goodness of the grace of God in the midst of people who were steeped in Hebrew tradition and in many times, unfortunately, Hebrew teaching before the true revelation of God was made through Christ, Jesus. And so when Paul arrived at Jerusalem, he said they received everybody warmly. Now Paul was called the apostle to the Gentiles, and so they had already heard about the ministry that Paul had to the Gentile world and how successful that ministry had been. So they made an audience with James, and all of the elders were present. So you had James, and then the elders of the church of Jerusalem, all of the leadership was there, and Paul greeted them and reported in detail what God had done among the Gentiles through his ministry. And I can imagine the detail knowing Paul, so he reported, it says, in detail what God had done. Now, when they heard this, the Hebrew believers, which were the believers there in Jerusalem, they said to Paul, they heard this. They praised God, you know, they said, Praise Jesus. Thank You Jesus, for the good work that you did, Paul. And then said to Paul, you see, Brother, how many 1000s of Hebrews have believed now you can see immediately what is taking place there.
It’s kind of like people that cannot get their conversation off of themselves. It doesn’t make a difference what you talk about. They’re going to bring it back to themselves. We’ve had people who asked to do testimonies about how the ministries affected their lives. They say about three words and then go back to tell how successful their business is. That’s all they talk about. We all love to rock our own babies, don’t we? We just love to talk about ourselves and our success. There’s just something about us. We just love to rock our own babies. But the issue is, and here’s what you’re going to see here, you’re going to see the Apostle Paul talking about that he’s gone to all of these areas. He’s had to fight animals, gone through all kinds of trials and tribulation. But Gentiles were coming to Christ by the 1000s, and the response from the Hebrew believer was Praise God. Now let me tell you what we’ve been doing. And so that’s all it was. Said they praised God, and they said, You see, Brother, how many 1000s of Hebrews have believed, and all of them are zealous for the law. Now you’re out there saving these heathenistic Gentiles, and you’re talking to them about salvation by grace and all this stuff. But don’t you see, how many of these of our Hebrew, Hebrew brothers, have come to Christ, and all of them are zealous for the law? Do you think Paul was zealous for the law? Sounds to be that a person that says that you’re no longer under the law would hardly be zealous for the law unless he’s using the law for the intent of the law, and that is to show you you’re a sinner, so that you’ll come to Christ for salvation that He was zealous for.
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They’ve been informed. Now here’s just some guy that’s told about this great thing that God has done to the Gentile world, and all they can talk about is, do you see how many Hebrews are also saved, and they’re all zealous for the law, and they’ve been told that you teach the Hebrews who live among the Gentiles to turn away from Moses, so they got after him immediately. About all they got out of their mouth was Praise God. Now let me tell you something, Paul, isn’t that just like people who don’t give a flip about what’s going on. It’s kind of like when you healed the blind man. All I can tell you, you spit on the Sabbath. Praise God, the blind man got to see, but you spit. You made mud on the Sabbath. And for that, I’m going to stone you. That’s all they can think about, is you broke my law, the law, the law, the law. Law, tradition, tradition, tradition. This is the way we do things. And so he said, they’ve been informed, Paul, that you teach all the Hebrews who live among the Gentiles to turn away from Moses. So you’re not only telling the Gentiles, but you’re telling the Hebrews who live among them turn away from Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children or live according to our what? Customs. Do you see, folks? How deep customs get into your soul? Customs.
We were talking to a little girl from France, it’s in a little deli that we eat in on Sunday and lot of other days and but she was talking about wanting to find a church, and she came out of a Catholic background, said she went to church there, didn’t like it, and then she went to another church. She said it just wasn’t like church. It didn’t have a pulpit. I was thinking to myself, Well, you wouldn’t like ours either way, do you came in saw this, but you know, people come into here and they say, this a church? Why? Because you know what a church is? A church is a place with a pulpit, a choir loft, pews, and that’s why they call them pews, or so many dead people are sitting in them, and so they’re Pew, pew. You don’t get to get that guys now, but that’s the church and stained glass. We do have a little of that got a high ceiling. That’s helpful. But people come in here and look at this and they say, this is weird. This is just plain weird. Tables, chairs, people sitting there with a is that a Dairy Queen thing? Yeah? Dairy Queen? Yeah, on a table in church. And that’s how people perceive church. Is this a place where you got to come be holy? And you know, you walk into places like that in European churches and places, man, it’s like a tomb. But that’s what church is. Those are customs, folks. And these are the very thing that they were saying, Paul, you’re teaching against those things. Well, I don’t think Paul was teaching against them at all. I just think they’re just irrelevant. They don’t make a difference. If a Hebrew, as an example, wants to celebrate a Day of Atonement, if they want to celebrate the day that that the Hebrews were freed from Egypt today as a Christian, nothing wrong with that. That’s celebrating my people, if I was a Hebrew, and that was the day that, years and years ago, my people got freed out of Egypt and sent into the desert, where they remained for 40 years before they ever went into the promised land. And I’m going to celebrate that. Nothing wrong with that, but it doesn’t mean anything. It’s just a celebration. If I wanted to celebrate the day that my dad got his law degree, I could do that. Didn’t have anything to do with God, but I could celebrate it if we wanted to. We can celebrate Christmas if we don’t. No big deal. It’s just celebrating the day Christ was born, 25th have a significance to it? Probably not just a day. Anything wrong with celebrating it? Nothing at all, but it, it’s it ain’t going to make you closer to God. And that’s all Paul was saying. Is these traditions, they’re fine, but they’re not going to save you.
And so here he is going in to give a great report on all the Gentiles who’ve come to Christ, and immediately they’re in his face. Well, he said, that’s what they’re saying about you, Paul. So he said, Now what are we going to do? Because they’re going to hear you’re here and you’re going to be in some big trouble, so they will certainly hear that you’ve come. So do what we tell you to do now. Here’s the church telling Paul we’re now, here’s you’re going to do what we tell you to do. Well, they probably had a better idea as what was going on there in Jerusalem that Paul did, who just came back to Jerusalem after a long journey. And so he said, there are four men with us who have made a vow. Take these men. So he said these, there’s some guys here that have made a vow. I want you to take them, join in their purification rights and pay their expenses so that they can have their heads shaved. So whatever a haircut was back in those days, they wanted Paul to pay for it.
Now, if you turn back to the 18th Chapter of the book of Acts, you’ll see in the 18th Chapter, where Paul had also made a vow, and it talks about the fact that he made a vow, and it talks about the fact that he had his head shaved at that time, or a haircut. It, and it talks about that in that 18th Chapter of the book of Acts. So he had already been through a so called purification right. Now, he said, What is this vow? And the answer that is, nobody knows, and there isn’t anybody that can tell you what those vows were. But people would sometimes make a vow. They would shave their head, and then they couldn’t do a sacrifice for 30 days. So there was a there was a tradition to these vows that seemed to show that you were a devout Hebrew. And so he paid for these people. I don’t think he had his head cut necessarily at that time, because he had already made a vow back in chapter 18. But he said, If you go with these men, you’re going to show that you acknowledge what they’re going to do and pay for their haircuts, so to speak, then everybody will know that there’s no truth in these reports about you, that you’re against the traditions and the traditions of man and against the teaching of Moses, but that you yourself are living in obedience to the law. Now that’s what they said that will show.
Now, Paul was thinking to himself, I don’t care whether that shows that or not, if that does and that can give me a little bit more time to proclaim the gospel to these poor, lost souls. Why I don’t mind doing this at all. I don’t mind going through a tradition in order to get the gospel out. Remember when Paul said, when you’re in Rome, do as the Romans do. So to speak, he said to the people who were under the law, I became like one under the law, although I’m not under it. And to the Gentiles who do not have the law, I became like one not under the law. He said, I will become all things to all people in order to get the gospel out. So doing some of these tradition things didn’t bother him at all. It would be like if I wanted to save somebody in a Catholic church, or I wanted this, and I went in and crossed myself a deal. No big deal. No big deal. Do that. If you want to, want to go down, light a candle. Go light a candle. No big deal. Doesn’t mean anything, does it? Got a little light in the place, so on these kind of things. It means nothing. But so if you can do that, and in so do it saying, Hey, I’m not against that. Why? Because I want to tell you what’s real. I want to be able to get with you without a stumbling block and tell you the truth of the gospel about Christ, Jesus. So a lot of times, we get all hung up on these peripheral issues that have no meaning to them at all, and we just act as if it would just be terrible if we ever did in heaven. He’s saying, it’ll make endurance, whether you do it or not. It’s like sacrificed idols. And I know there aren’t any idols. He said, no big deal. We know better than that. But if you if somebody really believes that there are idols and there’s been a sacrifice made to him, don’t eat in front of them. It’ll be a stumbling block. You see the law of love that he’s talking about here? And so they said, everybody will know the truth in these reports about you, but that you yourself are living in obedience to the law. As for the Gentile believers is for them. He said, we’ve written to them our decision that they should abstain from food sacrifice to idols, even though Paul said, we know there’s not idols, from blood from the meat of strangled animals. In other words, don’t drink the blood of strangled animals and from sexual immorality. That’s the only thing we’ve asked the Gentile Christians to do. And you know that those are pretty easy for some people to abstain from food, sacrificed to idols, from drinking of blood and from sexual immorality.
Now, does that mean that they can’t do those things or to we’ve written a decision that they should abstain. Was that good information not to be drinking blood. Yeah, that’s good. Nothing wrong with that sexual immorality. Is that functioning in love? No, that didn’t function in love. You’re involved in sexual immorality. So all he’s doing here is say is follow the law of love. Now the next day, Paul took the men, these four men that he was talking about, and purified himself along with them, went through probably baptismal waters of purification, and then went to the temple to give notice of the date when the days of purification would end, as I said, and then the offering would be made for each and every one of them. So there was about a 30 day span between the day a vow was made and where you could not offer a sacrifice. So they would announce the day that the day of purification began, knowing that 30 days later they’d be free to make a sacrifice. When the seven days were nearly over, some Hebrews from the province of Asia, they saw Paul at the temple. Now, you can imagine, all of a sudden, Paul was a well known man by now. He was a man who had was a Pharisee of the Pharisees. He was a man who, all of a sudden, said he had a experience on the road to Damascus and saw Jesus. And his whole life was changed. A man who was a persecutor of the church now became an advocate of people to come to Christ, Jesus, and in so doing, they thought was teaching against Moses and against the traditions of the Hebrews. And he was an enemy. He was a hated enemy, just like Stephen was a hated enemy. Why? Because he loved people. Isn’t that something they hate. Somebody over they hate they love people. Talked about Jesus, talked about being free. People in bondage hate that kind of a message. They don’t like freedom. We like bondage. And so they stirred up the whole crowd, and they seized him, shouting, Men of Israel, help us. This is the man who teaches all men everywhere against our people. Now, this is a Hebrew. If he was teaching against our people, he would be teaching against himself. He wasn’t teaching against the people. He was teaching against their stupid religious system that they were hung up on without ever seeing the meaning behind it. Jesus had been in front of these people calling them white voice sepulchers, explaining to them that you know what the law says, but you do not know what it means. And he explained the meaning of the word of God to in order to show people that God’s looking on the heart. Man’s looking on the outside. That’s where you’re looking, but God’s looking on your heart. He’s looking to see what’s going on down underneath the skin where you live. And so Jesus had already been in this crowd for three years teaching these people, and Paul was back doing the same thing, and they said that he’s teaching against our people. This man teaches all men everywhere, against our people and against our law, our law as if it belonged to them.
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Stand on the firmness of truth. Don’t keep going back and forth. Thank Him that the forgiveness issue is settled.
Let’s pray together:
- Lord Jesus,
- I thank you for taking away my sins on the cross,
- never ever to see them again.
- Having done that, I now thank you for giving me eternal life,
- through your resurrection.
- I now receive that life.
- And I am going stand in the fact that I am a child of the living God.
- In Jesus Holy name I pray.
- Amen
All believers are now brothers and sisters in Christ.
John 3:3
3 Jesus replied, “Very truly I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God unless they are born again.”
