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Classic Christianity – Book of Romans P04 (10-07-24)

Jesus Died For ALL Your Sins! He Took Them Away at The Cross!

“And He is the propitiation for our sins, and not only for ours, but also for those of the whole world.” 1 John 2:2 “I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, first to the Judaean [Ἰουδαίῳ (Ioudaiō)], then to the Greek. For the gospel reveals the righteousness of God that comes by faith from start to finish, just as it is written: “The righteous will live by faith.” Romans 1:16,17

Believe in the good News of the gospel today. Only Jesus saves. Place faith in the Faithful one of God today. God was in Christ Jesus, reconciling the world to Himself, and is no longer counting your sins against you. That goes for everyone! If you are not in Christ Jesus whoever is reading this, then receive that forgiveness today in Jesus. Place faith in Him today. Your Catholic or Protestant church won’t save you, your priest or pastor can’t save you, your “good” works can’t save you, your following the rules and regulations of your church can’t save you, your asking for forgiveness can’t save you. Only by placing trust in Jesus to have taken ALL your sins away at the cross, and to receive Him for life is who saves you. When you do that, the Holy Spirit comes to live in you immediately and gives you HIS LIFE for ALL eternity. Jesus is LIFE. Jesus is TRUTH. Jesus is the WAY. No one comes to the Father except through Jesus.

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~ Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called an apostle, and set apart for the gospel of God— the gospel He promised beforehand through His prophets in the Holy Scriptures, regarding His Son, who was a descendant of David according to the flesh, and who through the Spirit of holiness was declared with power to be the Son of God by His resurrection from the dead: Jesus Christ our Lord.

Through Him and on behalf of His name, we received grace and apostleship to call all those among the Gentiles to the obedience that comes from faith. And you also are among those who are called to belong to Jesus Christ.

To all in Rome who are loved by God and called saints:

Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is being proclaimed all over the world. God, whom I serve with my spirit in preaching the gospel of His Son, is my witness how constantly I remember you in my prayers at all times, asking that now at last by God’s will I may succeed in coming to you. For I long to see you so that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to strengthen you, that is, that you and I may be mutually encouraged by each other’s faith.

I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, how often I planned to come to you (but have been prevented from visiting until now), in order that I might have a harvest among you, just as I have had among the other Gentiles. I am obligated both to Greeks and non-Greeks, both to the wise and the foolish. That is why I am so eager to preach the gospel also to you who are in Rome.

I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, first to the Judaean [Ἰουδαίῳ (Ioudaiō)], then to the Greek. For the gospel reveals the righteousness of God that comes by faith from start to finish, just as it is written: “The righteous will live by faith.” Romans 1:1-17

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.”

~ “Now it tells us in the scriptures that the gospel is what saves us, that we’re saved by the good news. That’s what gospel means, good news. What was the good news of the gospel? The good news of the gospel has to start with bad news. In order to have good news, you’ve got to have bad news. You have to have something to compare it with do you not? What is the bad news as far as we were concerned? Our hearts are wicked above all things. Who can know them? There is none righteous. No, not one. All have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. No man will ever be declared righteous in the sight of God through obedience to the law. That without the Son, you don’t have life. What’s the good news? With the Son, you do have life. Now the bad news is for us. It’s to show us our condition, because if I don’t see my condition, how am I ever going to live in appreciation for his provision? If I did not see myself as a sinner the cross means nothing, does it? Jesus died for your sins. Well, good. I hope somebody sins sometime, because don’t look at me. And that’s the way people sometimes do it. Don’t look at me. I’m not a sinner. I’m okay. You know, we’ve got the I’m okay, you’re okay. I said I’m going to write a book called I’m not okay and you’re not okay. But that’s okay because Jesus has a solution for us to make us okay in him, which is what righteousness is. It means I’ve made you okay, but that’s from God. It’s not from here. And so I have to see my condition of spiritual death to see where I am before I’m ever going to have an appreciation for this Gospel that Paul says I’m not ashamed of. He could say Romans, people in Washington, people in Dallas, with all of our money and pomp and our cars and and everything else. You know, Amy and I are driving the other day, and I saw this, you know, this little fish on the back of this car with the initials, WWJD, what would Jesus do? And it was in a big Lexus. And I said, What would Jesus do? He’d be driving a Lexis? What would Jesus do? He’d be on a donkey walking. So if you’re going to do what Jesus do, you need to get rid of your car and walk. What Jesus did was what his Father told him to do, but we’ve got all of those kind of things going around. It’s a nice thought, but when you put it down into reality, it doesn’t wash, does it?” ~ Bob George

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Well, if we’ll turn to the book of Romans. Last week, we introduced the book of Romans, a phenomenal book. We were talking about the fact of how the apostle Paul identified himself as an apostle, which basically has the connotation to it as an ambassador. It’s an assignment given by God to a man for our benefit, the gift of apostleship, the gift of a prophet. Back in those days of Pastor teachers and the evangelist, is a gift from God, and that person is the gift. If you have a pastor, teacher that was sent by God, he is a gift, or she is a gift to the body of Christ. It’s not a gift of evangelism. The evangelist himself is a gift. The same thing was true as to the apostles. In order to be an apostle, you had to be a person who had been with Christ at His or at least observed His baptism, His death, burial and resurrection. And unless you are one that was named by God as the Apostle Paul set apart from the others, but uniquely met with as he was converted on the road to Damascus. We have to understand the truth of that. We have to understand how the apostle Paul was called out, spatially by God, especially by God. And we have to understand the truth of this, that Paul was a called out man by God for a specific purpose, and that is to spread the gospel to the Gentile world. Now in so doing, the apostle Paul certainly did not ignore the Hebrews. He said that the gospel was first for the Hebrew, and then for the Gentile. And folks, we need to get a very, very clear picture in our mind that from God’s category, there are only three categories of people from God’s vantage point. There’s not all of the different races that we talk about. There’s only three categories of people, Hebrew, Gentile, and then what is called the ecclesia, or the church, made up of both saved Hebrews and Gentiles. So from God’s category, he divided the world up to the Hebrews, and then everyone else are Gentiles. It doesn’t make any difference what color you are, what background you are, you’re a Gentile. I’m a Gentile. Some of you are Hebrew by natural birth. Now, when you come to Christ, you’re a new creature. In Christ, and the early gospel went only to Hebrews, first to the Hebrew, then to the Gentile. And Cornelius was, as far as we know, the first Gentile convert. And so, from God’s vantage point, he divides the world up Hebrew, Gentile and Ecclesia called The Church of Jesus Christ, made up of both Hebrew and Gentile. So unlike a Hebrew person would think, if I become the opposite of a Hebrew is a Christian, no, the opposite of a Hebrew is a Gentile. And you got lost Gentiles and you got lost Hebrews, and then you have saved Gentiles and saved Hebrews. That’s called the church, the ecclesia. So one of the things that is vitally important for Hebrew people to get into their minds is that the opposite of a Hebrew is not a Christian. The opposite of a Hebrew is a Gentile, both of whom are lost and need salvation through Christ Jesus.

Now the apostle Paul wrote to the church of Rome, the gospel had spread into Rome, as all of us know, Rome was the center of culture. In Rome, you had all of the pomp of Rome. It was the Mistress of the world. It’s where everyone came to see what is going on. It was the center point of humanity. You had your emperors in Rome who were worshiped many times as deity. You had all of the luxuries of Rome, all of the abundance of Rome, all of the war victories that was Rome. Rome was the most powerful nation on the face of the earth. So you had all of these things that were taking place in Rome, it would be like Washington, DC, only even more so. If any of you have ever been to Rome, you see one of the most magnificent cities that you will ever encounter in your life, some of the most magnificent buildings, the Colosseum, the beauty of Rome, the artists of Rome, the musicians of Rome. It was the center of culture. It was a phenomenal, phenomenal, advanced society. Now, in that society and in that pomp and in that culture, and we are the Romans pride galore, Paul stands up and says, I’m not ashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ. And the reason that I’m not ashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ, it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone. And he says that this is the power of God. So when you’re looking at the gospel, it’s called the power of God.

Now it tells us in the scriptures that the gospel is what saves us, that we’re saved by the good news. That’s what gospel means, good news. What was the good news of the gospel? The good news of the gospel has to start with bad news. In order to have good news, you’ve got to have bad news. You have to have something to compare it with do you not? What is the bad news as far as we were concerned? Our hearts are wicked above all things. Who can know them? There is none righteous. No, not one. All have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. No man will ever be declared righteous in the sight of God through obedience to the law. That without the Son, you don’t have life. What’s the good news? With the Son, you do have life. Now the bad news is for us. It’s to show us our condition, because if I don’t see my condition, how am I ever going to live in appreciation for his provision? If I did not see myself as a sinner the cross means nothing, does it? Jesus died for your sins. Well, good. I hope somebody sins sometime, because don’t look at me. And that’s the way people sometimes do it. Don’t look at me. I’m not a sinner. I’m okay. You know, we’ve got the I’m okay, you’re okay. I said I’m going to write a book called I’m not okay and you’re not okay. But that’s okay because Jesus has a solution for us to make us okay in him, which is what righteousness is. It means I’ve made you okay, but that’s from God. It’s not from here. And so I have to see my condition of spiritual death to see where I am before I’m ever going to have an appreciation for this Gospel that Paul says I’m not ashamed of. He could say Romans, people in Washington, people in Dallas, with all of our money and pomp and our cars and and everything else. You know, Amy and I are driving the other day, and I saw this, you know, this little fish on the back of this car with, with the with the initials, WWJD, what would Jesus do? And it was in a big Lexus. And I said, What would Jesus do? He’d be driving a Lexis? What would Jesus do? He’d be on a donkey walking. So if you’re going to do what Jesus do, you need to get rid of your car and walk. What Jesus did was what his Father told him to do, but we’ve got all of those kind of things going around. It’s a nice thought, but when you put it down into reality, it doesn’t wash, does it?

And so he’s saying, I’m coming into this society, the most advanced society in the world. And I want to tell you something, guys, I’m not ashamed of this gospel I’m preaching to you because you may have all of the riches of the world, and you may have victories, and you may have defeated every enemy that you ever came in contact with, and you got powerful armies, and you are powerful people, and you have culture, and you have pomp and you have religion, but you don’t have life, and Jesus came to give you life. I’m not ashamed of this. You may have all of the riches that the world has to offer, but you’re dead as a hammer inside. And I came to deal with what’s going on on the inside, not the outside. The world can take care of the outside. I came to take care of the inside, what’s going on down under the skin, where you really live, where people can’t see, but you know what’s going on, and so does. God, that’s what I came to deal with. And I got the news for you guys. I’m not ashamed of this. I’m not ashamed of what I’ve come to talk to you about. I’m not ashamed of this gospel of Jesus Christ.

And so he says, This is the power of God. Why is it powerful? Because it can do something that no one else can do. What did it do? First of all, he said, I came to take away your sins. I came to walk on this earth for some 33 years and show you, in my walk on this earth, what pure righteousness is in me, in Christ, Jesus, I’m not here telling people how righteous I am. I’m not out bragging about how good I am and what good deeds that I’m doing. I’m just going through life. But when you see me, you’re going to see what God’s righteousness is all about, and when you look at it, you’re going to see how unrighteous you are. I came to do two things. I came to be who I am, righteous, and to show you who you are, unrighteous. Now we’re ready for salvation. And the whole purpose, folks that you will see in the teaching of the Gospels, which is not new covenant. I’ve talked to you before about the fact that the New Covenant did not go into effect until the day that Jesus died. So the Gospels is not new covenant. The book of Acts is New Covenant. Everything from the book of Acts forward is the new covenant. Jesus was still alive in the gospels. So it’s a recordation of the life of Christ, Jesus here on this earth, prior to going to the cross, and in so doing, ushering in the new covenant in which we live today. And so when you’re studying the Bible, you must keep that in mind that Jesus taught under the Old Covenant. He taught under the law. He showed us what the law was. He showed you what the wages of sin under the law is, which is death. And now I’m ready for the cross. He had to prepare the religious world for the cross. I’m going to a cross to die for the sins of the world. And if you don’t recognize you’re a sinner, you’re not going to come to me for forgiveness. I’m going to be raised from the dead in order to give you life. You can’t get life through religion. The Pope can’t give you life. Calvin can’t give you life. Luther can’t give you life. I can’t give you life. Billy Graham can’t, nobody can give you life except the living one, and that’s Christ, Jesus, the only one raised from the dead for the purpose of giving you life. You’re dead.

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Now we’ve had a half salvation, in my opinion, preached long enough, and we continually, continually are hearing on radio and television, and continually come to Jesus and get your sins forgiven. I got news for you folks, your sins were forgiven before you ever came to Jesus. God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself when? When you were enemies, while you were yet enemies, God reconciled you to the death of his Son. What does it mean when you’re enemy? It means when you’re lost. You were born into this world a forgiven person, born that way, born under the consequence of the Cross, which is taking away the sins of the world. No one will ever be condemned by God for his sins. I’ve taken those away. The only sin attributable to man is the rejection of the Son who took away the sins of the world and was raised from the dead to give you life. That’s only sin that you will ever be asked by God, what did you do with my Son? Did you ignore him? Did you say I don’t need him? Or did you recognize what I told you about yourself? The reason I told you about yourself is so that you’ll be prepared for what I’m going to tell you about my Son. Did you come to him for life? And what we have done is to put the cross as the focal point of our ministry instead of the resurrection. Paul said, without the resurrection, we’re to be pitied of all people and are still in our sins. I thought the cross took care of the sins, that’s true, but it’s only received in the resurrected life of Christ Jesus. What was provided for you then is received in him now. So you come to Christ for life. You come to Christ for him, not just what he did for you, but for him, and when you’re in Christ, you have possession, redemption, the forgiveness of sins. Are you in Christ? Then what do you have? Redemption. What else do you have? Forgiveness of sins. You don’t get forgiven. You are forgiven. If that’s a truth. You spend the rest of your life thanking him for what he did instead of asking him for to do something that he’s already accomplished.

You’re not walking by faith by asking God to do what he’s already done. I’d be like Christmas your dad gives you a bicycle. And then the kid said, Hey, can I have a bicycle? He said, What do you think’s over the corner. Well, it’s a bicycle. Could I have one? I think this kid needs a mental problem, needs some Prozac. Do you understand that, folks, when you have something, you don’t ask for something. Well, what have we done? Well, we have whole religious systems. One of them came out of Rome. You got confession booths. What do you do there? Go confess your sins. Then what do you do? Have some penance. Is that scriptural? No, if you’re in Christ, God was in Christ taking away the sins of the world. Well, then the Protestants come along say, oh, that ain’t good. You don’t have to go to the priest to get forgiveness. You can go direct. So we’re all down here going direct, and we just are so proud of ourselves because we go direct, but they have to go through a priest, and God’s up in heaven saying it’s finished. When are you what’s going to get in your head? It’s finished, it’s over. It’s done. I am not going to hang on a cross again. When I died on that cross, I died for all, once and for all period, and I even cried out from the cross. It’s finished! What do you suppose that means? It’s finished. What’s that mean in the Greek? It’s finished, it’s over. It’s done. Put that aside. It’s what’s called entering into the Sabbath. Rest. Go rest from your works, as he did from his there’s no more you can do to get forgiveness, you’re a forgiven person. And now that having been accomplished, I went into a grave, but I was raised from the dead. And the reason I was raised from the dead is so that that life that raised me from the dead can raise you from the dead, because you’re dead, and if you don’t recognize you’re dead spiritually, then what would his life mean to you? Except just an example. What would Jesus do? He said, I came to give you what? LIFE. Now, folks, that’s the power of God. That’s the power of God that Paul says, I’m not ashamed of this gospel. It’s the power to raise you from the dead. It’s the power of God to bring salvation. What is salvation, being saved from what? The consequence of sin? There’s sin and a consequence isn’t there? What’s the consequence of sin? Death. What’s the solution to that, forgiveness? Life.

Now, in order to give you eternal life, what did he have to do with the cause of spiritual death? Take it away. Had he not taken away every sin that you and I have ever committed, if he would have forgotten one and gave you life and you did that one, what would happen to you? Are y’all with me? What would happen to you? You’d die. Is that eternal life? No How was he able to give you eternal life? By eternally taking away the cause of death, which is what he did at the cross, I took the entire sins of the whole world upon myself. Not one did I forget. And there I died. I paid the price for you. I paid a debt that I didn’t know for you who owed a debt that you couldn’t pay. And I did it volitionally. I did it joyfully, although I wasn’t real excited about taking the sins of the world upon myself, and that’s why I cried out, Father, it’s not my will, but yours be done. If there’s any way to take this away from me, do it, I’m not real interested in becoming a junk heap. But it’s not my will, it’s yours. And there Jesus took upon himself every sloppy thing that you and I have ever said and done in our entire lives and every day that we were drunk, and every curse word that we’ve ever said and every bad thought that we’ve ever had, he took upon himself, and there he who knew no sin became sin for you and me, so that in that resurrected life of Jesus, we could become the righteousness of God. Where? In him, in him. That’s the power of God, folks, that’s the power of God for salvation.

I’ve told people before, always interested miracles and miracles and miracles and miracles. I would tell you something, if someone cut my leg off and God grew it back the next day, it wouldn’t even come that close to even match up with the miracle of the day I was saved back in 1969 going in one direction as fast as you could, and coming to Jesus and going the other direction as fast as you could. There’s no miracle that you will ever see. That’s why Jesus said you’re an adulterous generation always looking for a sign. And you’ve got denominations today. That’s all they’re doing, looking for a sign, looking for a sign, looking for a sign. He said, I’ll show you a sign. Take a look at the resurrection. You want to see a sign? Take a look at the resurrection. And if you’re not willing to come to me with that sign, you’re not going to be willing to say you’re not going to be willing to come to me, because I made somebody walk that couldn’t. And yet today we have people. That’s all they talk about. You’d think there weren’t any well Christians. That’s all we’re talking about. Is healing, healing, healing, healing, healing. What do us they were well, do? Sit around wait to get sick?

Folks, the power of God for salvation is that internal new birth that comes when you and I come to life in Jesus, where I got somebody to talk to, where I don’t bounce prayers off the ceiling, where I’ve got a best friend that’s closer to me than my own breath, someone I can talk to and love and loves me. It’s a relationship with Christ. It’s not religion. It’s one of the reasons we got these tables in here to keep it looking like religion. I hate religion, but I love Jesus. The word religion is a return to bondage. I don’t know where we ever got around to where we are today. I mean, it’s amazing to me how we acknowledge these things, of people walking around in funny looking hats and robes, collars on backwards, which shows you’re walking in the wrong direction, all of those type of pretenses. What do those things do? Does that make you look kind of funny? Why do they always dress in black? Maybe it’s darker than we think. And all that’s religion, folks, all of it’s religious stuff. Jesus is talking about having a relationship with me, that if you were the only person on the face of the earth, you could just rejoice in your love with each other. If that table over there was the only born again people in the world that could sit there and enjoy Christ and one another. They didn’t come to build big buildings. Constantine did that like to ruin the whole concept that Jesus put into effect, making a state religion out of Christianity ruined it.

And so Paul is going into that type of environment and saying, Guys, I’m not ashamed of this gospel. It’s the power of God for salvation, first of all, to everyone who believes. Is, and now he’s going to define humanity. First it’s going to the Hebrew, and then it’s going to the Gentile. So that included everyone didn’t it. There’s no one missed in that Hebrew and a Gentile. For in the gospel, he says a righteousness from God. And guys, if you mark your Bible, mark that term a righteousness from God, because this is what we’re talking about. Is a righteousness from God. Now, what other kind of righteousness is there? Self righteousness. How does self righteousness manifest itself? Pride. And what do you have to have to be self righteous? What would you have to be grabbing a hold of to be self righteous? Well, you gotta have some laws, don’t you, and some rules and regulations, right? And then I do all of those things. You don’t. Am I right or wrong? You see guys, when you get down to a point where you’ve got a bunch of things that you have to do, and you’re going to do them, there’s only two things that can occur. I’m going to compare myself, and when you compare yourself with somebody else, there’s only two things can happen. One, I’m better than they are, that’s pride, and the other, I’m worse than they are, that’s self condemnation, and both of those things are right out of the pit of hell. So I’ve got to have some rules and regulations. And so the Hebrews grabbed hold of the law. And the law was given for civil obedience. The reason God gave the law to the Hebrew, never to the Gentile. The gentile never did have it. We just went over and stole it. He gave it to the Hebrew after they had left Egypt and were going to be roaming in the desert, and there were millions of them, and they were strong, they had been slaves. So in order for them not to just murder each other and to have any kind of civil obedience and not to have total anarchy, he gave them laws to live by the 10 Commandments.

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