Radio Broadcast Wednesday 01/08/2025

Classic Christianity – Book of Romans P36 (01-08-25)

God Will Work Out All Things for Our Good To Those Who are In Christ

~ “In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know how we ought to pray, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groans too deep for words. And He who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.

And we know that God works all things together for the good of those who love Him, who are called according to His purpose.” Romans 8:26-28

Why do we need to keep studying the word of God? Because we are constantly bombarded with Satan’s lies. It’s incredible as to how much Satan has inverted everything of the word of God, and made a religion out of the lies he peddles to everyone. None of us are immune to Satan’s lies, for they are all around us, more so than people imagine. Everything shown on the programming channels (tell a vision), is meant to deceive us. And family and friends and coworkers and even well meaning Christians spread Satan’s lies too. They do it because they have been brainwashed into believing the lies. And that is why we cannot even trust ourselves to know what Truth really is. It must be revealed by the Spirit of God Himself.

So we need to go back to the source for Truth. Jesus is Truth, and we must worship Him in Spirit and in Truth. How do we find out about Truth? By reading the word of God. Focus our attention on Him, and He will direct All our paths. We are taught ALL TRUTH by the Holy Spirit, you are taught directly by Truth Himself. Don’t trust any man, but verify for yourself to see if things are true or not. We live in an age of total deception. Satan has deceived the nations (all people) and has placed the emphasis on self. He wants to have your focus on what you are doing for God, rather than what God has already done for you. So ask God for wisdom and understanding and He will give it with great abundance without finding fault. For God wants to give you Truth, but you must be willing to receive it directly from Him.

18 And a certain ruler asked Him, saying, “Good Teacher, having done what, will I inherit eternal life?”
19 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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~ Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For in Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set you free from the law of sin and death. For what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful man, as an offering for sin. He thus condemned sin in the flesh, so that the righteous standard of the law might be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

Those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh; but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit. The mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace, because the mind of the flesh is hostile to God: It does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so. Those controlled by the flesh cannot please God.

You, however, are controlled not by the flesh, but by the Spirit, if the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ. But if Christ is in you, your body is dead because of sin, yet your spirit is alive because of righteousness. And if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit, who lives in you.

Therefore, brothers, we have an obligation, but it is not to the flesh, to live according to it. For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.

For you did not receive a spirit of slavery that returns you to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption to sonship, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!” The Spirit Himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children. And if we are children, then we are heirs: heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ—if indeed we suffer with Him, so that we may also be glorified with Him.

I consider that our present sufferings are not comparable to the glory that will be revealed in us. The creation waits in eager expectation for the revelation of the sons of God. For the creation was subjected to futility, not by its own will, but because of the One who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God.

We know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until the present time. Not only that, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies. For in this hope we were saved; but hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what he can already see? But if we hope for what we do not yet see, we wait for it patiently.

In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know how we ought to pray, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groans too deep for words. And He who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.

And we know that God works all things together for the good of those who love Him, who are called according to His purpose. For those God foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brothers. And those He predestined, He also called; those He called, He also justified; those He justified, He also glorified.

What then shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare His own Son but gave Him up for us all, how will He not also, along with Him, freely give us all things? Who will bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. Who is there to condemn us? For Christ Jesus, who died, and more than that was raised to life, is at the right hand of God—and He is interceding for us.

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? As it is written:

“For Your sake we face death all day long;
we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”

No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor principalities, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 8:1-39

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, as we pick up on in verse 28 we know that all things work together for good, to those who love Him and have been called according to His purpose. Now people will get the wrong idea on this, and they think that all things are just going to work together for good. He cannot make good out of bad. What is bad is bad, and what is good is good, but he will cause all things to work together for your good. To those who love the Lord and are the called according to His purpose, that’s why you can go through many times terrible trials and tribulation, and go through periods of your life of despair. But if you’ll keep trusting Jesus, he promised something, I will cause that to work together for your good. Now, how does it cause it to work together for your good? Because we learn something when we’re going through trials and tribulations of life where there is nothing that you can count on except him, that’s where you need to be.” ~ Bob George

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Well, let’s all turn now to the book of Romans, chapter eight, coming to a very interesting place here in the book of Romans that also ties into the book of Ephesians, as it deals with choosing, predestination, election, and all of those things that have been, in my opinion, perverted in regard to the true meaning of the word of God. Again, as I want to just back up a moment. God only made three types of people from his vantage point, the Hebrew, the Gentile and the ecclesia, called the church, which is made up of both born again Hebrewss and born again Gentiles, the only three categories of people, Hebrew, Gentile, ecclesia, the church, and we need to keep that in mind, it’s not all these different races and this type of thing, from God’s vantage point, you’re either a Hebrew or you’re a Gentile, or you become a part of this marvelous church that he calls the ecclesia. Now that is not the Baptist or the Methodists, or the Catholics, that is born again people, that’s Jesus Church, are born again people. In this congregation, those who are born again are his church. Those who are not are barely we don’t have pews here, but if you did, you’d be a pew sitter.

I was a pew sitter for 36 years. I was not a part of the body of Christ. I did not become a part of the body of Christ until the day that I was indwelt by His Spirit and then placed into his body, baptized by the Spirit into his body. And the same is true with you until the day comes in your life when you accept the provision of God for you to recognize the fact that you were a sinner and that those sins had to be forgiven and those sins had to be taken away in order to give you and me eternal life. And this life is any son, and that’s why it says in Romans, while we were yet enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son. How much more having been reconciled shall you be saved by His life? That’s why Paul says, without the resurrection or the life, we are to be pitied of all people and are still in our sins, knowing full well that there was a cross, but that that cross has no meaning to it apart from the resurrection. The cross is what cleared the deck for the divine action of bringing life to the dead and to people on the face of this earth. It is not how bad you are, it’s how dead you are. And if you’re dead, you only need one thing, life and forgiveness does not bring life. Life brings life. Forgiveness cleared the deck so that you could have eternal life, because the only thing that could cause you to lose your life would be sin. And the reason that is an impossibility is because of the cross of Christ, where he took away forever, eternally, the cause of spiritual death. And that’s why you have life eternal. That’s why you and I know that he will never leave you nor forsake you. That’s the reason you know that you have eternal life that can never, ever, ever be lost. That’s all him, and it is absolutely none of us.

Now, as we pick up on in verse 28 we know that all things work together for good, to those who love Him and have been called according to His purpose. Now people will get the wrong idea on this, and they think that all things are just going to work together for good. He cannot make good out of bad. What is bad is bad, and what is good is good, but he will cause all things to work together for your good. To those who love the Lord and are the called according to His purpose, that’s why you can go through many times terrible trials and tribulation, and go through periods of your life of despair. But if you’ll keep trusting Jesus, he promised something, I will cause that to work together for your good. Now, how does it cause it to work together for your good? Because we learn something when we’re going through trials and tribulations of life where there is nothing that you can count on except him, that’s where you need to be. It’s like Dr Criswell said to me one time, whenever you find yourself flat on your face with no place to look, that’s the most blessed place you will ever find in your life. And many times, that is exactly true, because we only have one place to look, and that’s to Christ, Jesus, and that is exactly why Paul said, Rejoice in your weakness. Well, you know, you say, What do you mean? Rejoice in weakness. We want to be strong. You know, you hear that all the time, we’re going to be strong for Jesus. He said, No, rejoice in your weakness. No one’s strong for Jesus. We just think we are. He said, Rejoice in your weakness. Why would you rejoice in your weakness? Because it’s when you recognize how weak you are is what keeps you totally dependent on the strong one, and that’s why you rejoice in your weakness. Instead of thinking how strong we are, thinking how big faith we have, I don’t have big faith. I have a big God. If I had faith the size of a mustard seed, I’d move a mountain. Have you guys moved many of those recently? You can’t even move remove. I can’t even move an ant hill. So it shows us we don’t have big faith. We just have a big God. And people are walking around talking about how big faith they have, and how much faith we have, and how much faith we have, when Jesus said, If you had a faith the size of a mustard seed, you can move a mountain. Now, does that tell us something? We don’t have big faith. We have a very big God. So he said, I will cause all things to work together for good. Now, he may not do that overnight, and you know, we live in the day of instant tea and instant coffee and instant results. But he says, no, no, I in my timing, I will cause all things to work together for your good. I don’t care what you’ve done, I don’t care what you’ve been through. I’ll cause it to work together for good.

We get literally 1000s of letters a year from prisoners that have listened to the radio behind those bars. One nice thing about a radio program, it’s not stopped by bars, and the people will write, and Ed Heck answers those letters, and we get 1000s of those letters a year, of people who say, I came into this prison as a lost man, and I found Jesus, and now I’m more free behind those bars than most people are outside of the bars. I’ve found what it is to be free in Christ, Jesus, and so he will cause that experience to work together for your good, if you’ll let him and what’s your good? Getting close to Jesus, anything that draws us close to the heart of God, turns out to be the greatest experience that we will ever have, and so we he said, That’s a promise. I will cause all things to work together for good to those who love the Lord and are called according to His purpose.

Now who are called according to His purpose? as we’ve talked about before, the Hebrews called themselves God’s chosen people, and we’ll deal with this in later chapters. But Paul said, why were you chosen? Well, are you a chosen bloodline that the Messiah was going to come through David? You were chosen to receive the laws. The only people on the face of the earth that were presenting the one true God, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob were the Hebrews said you can go to Corinth today and down where it’s called the Bema Seat is still there. And now they’ve excavated and found a Star of David that meant that a temple, or something like that, was right there next to the Bema Seat as the only voice on the face of the earth that was proclaiming the one true God, the God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob to the Hebrew that was later on identified by Jesus as God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit. They didn’t know who God was that to them, who do you believe? I believe the God. I believe in the God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob. Jesus came to explain who that God is. He’s God the Father, God the Son and God, the Holy Spirit. And so we see that those chosen people were the Hebrews through whom the Messiah was going to come. And lot of times, people stopped there. Now those were the chosen people through whom the Messiah was going to come. But who are His chosen people? Because remember, Paul says, not all from Israel are Israel. So God’s chosen people are those who come to him by what? Faith. They’re the ones who have come to a point in their life of recognizing, I can’t, but he can, and they have turned to him for salvation through faith. Those are God’s chosen people, and to those that he chose, He predestined to become conformed into the image of Christ Jesus, which each and every one of us in this room who are in Christ Jesus will be conformed into the image of Christ, the final conformed, the final act of being conformed to the image. Of Christ will occur when you die. So don’t be too anxious for that to happen. When it happened, when it will happen is the day that we will see Him as He is and become like him. But that’s our destiny. That’s something we know is going to take place

Now in verse 29 for those God forekne, He also predestined to be conformed to the likeness of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brothers. Now what’s he talking about here? Folks, verse 30, and those He predestined call he also called. And those he called, he also justified. Those he justified, he also glorified. Now, folks, is this just an addition? You see, here’s where people have gone off. We look at that and say, well, he’s saying, Well, yeah, they were predestined to be conformed, then they were also pre justified, and then they were also, in other words, on top of that, that’s not as we’re talking about. If you go back to Romans five, you’ll see that it does not read at the beginning of Romans five. Therefore, since we’ve been justified through faith, we also have peace with God. And you don’t go down into verse nine, since we have now been justified by His blood, how much more shall we also be saved by His wrath? There’s no place in the scripture where Paul is using that kind of terminology that we’ve got this now we also have this. Now we also have this. Well, what’s he talking about? What’s this also here for? Again, guys, he’s talking about Hebrew and Gentile. He’s talking about to the Gentile that for those God foreknew, who did he foreknow the Gentile? He foreknew that the Hebrew was going to come to Christ by faith, and in his election, he also knew that the Gentiles were going to come to Christ by faith.

Now again, you have this huge doctrine that is out there in Reformed theology, that because they do not understand, and I have to say that, that they do not understand, that salvation is by His resurrection, not his cross. And they know that God was in Christ, reconciling the whole world unto Himself, not counting their sins against him. Now, there’s only two things you can do with that everyone’s going to be saved. And there’s some people who are into that now, came to understand grace. Now they’re into that deal where everyone’s going to be saved. Sodom is going to be saved, Hitler is going to all of them, everybody’s going to be saved. That is utter nonsense. And so the even the reformed said that can’t be and it also can’t be that all the people’s sins are going to be forgiven. Because if that’s the case, well then that’s universal salvation. There’s only two things you can come to. So they came up to say, well, he must have just died for the elect. And so that’s how that theology has come up. He chose you Penny, but he didn’t choose you. And so now we have a God who is condemned by his own choice people to hell, and he’s also therefore blessed somebody to heaven. And that’s the kind of God you have. Now, I don’t know about your God. I don’t want one like that, do you? And the issue is, why did they do that? Because of a misunderstanding as to what salvation is. If you look at salvation as the cross, you’re going to have to conclude that’s universal salvation, because he said he not only died for our sins, but the sins of who? The whole world. Now, how can you conclude if that’s what salvation is, how can you conclude anything except the fact that he died for the sins of the whole world, and therefore everyone’s saved?

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But that’s not salvation. That’s what I just quoted a moment ago, that while we were yet enemies that’s lost, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son that happened for the whole world, how much more having been reconciled. So you be saved by his what? His life, and that’s why it says in him, you have what redemption, the forgiveness of sins. Where is this forgiveness that was provided for the whole world, received? In HIM. If I, if somebody came to you and said, I put a million bucks in your bank account, and if you spend it, it’ll be replenished, you say you’re kidding me. No, I’m not kidding you. It’s there. Well, where do I go get it? In the bank. I don’t like the bank. I like 711 Well, I’m sorry, the money is not in 711 and there’s no ATMs. The money’s in the bank. Well, I don’t want to go to the bank, then you’re going to die a pauper, because what has been provided for you, you’re not going to where it is received, and you’re going to die a pauper. Is that right or wrong? If I don’t go to the bank, I’m going to die a pauper. Why? Because I’m too stupid to go to the bank. And he says, the money is in the bank. Salvation is in Jesus. It isn’t in Mohammed or Buddha. Salvation is in Jesus, and it’s in his resurrected life. He came that you might have what? LIFE. What do you need life for? Because you’re dead, I’m the resurrection and the life. What do you need life for? Because you’re dead. He who has the Son has life. He who does not have the Son of God does not have life. What does it mean when you don’t have life? It means you’re dead. Why don’t we understand this? We keep streaming people down aisles to get forgiveness. Get forgiveness. You’re already forgiven. You’re forgiven when you were born, but that forgiveness is only received in HIM. That’s why he says, Come unto me, all of you who are labor and are heavy laden, and I’ll give you forgiveness. Is that what it says? No, it says, I’ll give you what? Me, me Jesus. And we ignore that, and we’ve gotten to the point we’ve ignored it so long that we accept it as okay theology, come to Jesus get your sins forgiven. I want to tell you, folks, that is not salvation. You cannot get salvation by coming to Jesus only for forgiveness. You come to Jesus to get life, and in that life you have, what redemption, the forgiveness of sins. Where did you get redeemed? By coming to Jesus for redemption? No, you came to Jesus. And when you came to Jesus, what did you get? Redemption. What else did you get? Forgiveness of sins. How did you get it? By going to the bank, and we’re sending people to the 711 and saying, you can get Jesus over there.

So folks, this is not a minor issue, nor was it a minor issue to the Apostle Paul. For the Apostle Paul to make a statement like he did, that without the resurrection, we’re to be pitied, of all people and are still in our sins. That is a stringent statement, folks, and he’s telling you exactly where salvation is to be found, and that’s in Him, in His resurrected life, that life that raised Him from the dead came to raise me from the dead, and I was born dead, and when I came to Jesus, I came alive, and when I came alive, I received what he came to give me redemption and the forgiveness of sins. That’s the good news of the gospel. It’s not how bad you are, it’s how dead you are. And we’ve been pointing our bony fingers at people that go around curves and every other place, telling you, you keep on sinning you’re going to go to hell, and that’s a lie. You’re going to go to hell when you refuse life, when you refuse the life of Jesus, you’re going to remain dead. “I’m the resurrection, and I’m the life. And whosoever believes in me though he were dead, yet shall he live. And whosoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?”

And so he’s talking about the Hebrew and Gentile. Those he fore knew He also predestined. Who’s he talking about here? The gentile, the Hebrew, was predestined. We too have been predestined. Now, folks, this was an unthinkable thought. This book’s written to the Romans, basically Gentile Christians, who, many times were said you’re second rate because you’re Gentile. And then we got all cocky and said, Well, we got the gospel, and you’re ignoring him, so we’re better than you are. And he deals in that. We’ll deal that in the next chapters. He also predestined to be conformed the likeness of son, in order that he might be the first monk among many brothers, not just Jewish brothers, but Gentile brothers, many brothers, the whole group and those He predestined he also called. Who’s the also?The Gentiles and those he called, he also justified. Who did he also justify? The Gentiles. Are we together? Guys and those he justified, he also glorified. We’re not adding to what he did. We’re just saying the Hebrew was justified. You too also were justified. The Hebrew was called, you too are called. The Hebrew was been glorified. You too also are glorified. What shall we say in response to this?

Now, before we do that, let’s go back to the book of Ephesians. And I just want to prove this point to you. Go back to the book of Ephesians with me. Ephesians one, let’s start in chapter four, or chapter one, verse four, he chose us in him, before the creation of the world, to be holy and blameless in his sight. Who did he choose? Anyone who came to Him by faith has been chosen to be holy and blameless in his sight. Remember the verse by that one offering He made forever perfect in the sight of God. Those whom he made holy, you’ve been made holy by the blood of Christ that was in his mind predestined before the foundation of the world, that all to would come to him would be made holy and blameless in his sight. In love, He predestined us to be adopted as his sons in accordance the pleasure of His will to the praise of His glorious grace which He has freely given us in the one he loves. In him we and basically here he’s addressing the Hebrews have redemption through the blood, the forgiveness of sins in accordance with the riches of God’s grace that He lavished on us with all wisdom and understanding, and he made known to us. Now, here again, he had to make known to the Hebrew this mystery. It’s called a musterion, a mystery, and I talked about Perry Mason. You’re talking about a mystery that was held in the heart of God, unknown to man, and was revealed to man when God chose to reveal it. That’s the mystery. So he made known to us, the Hebrews, this mystery of his will according to His good pleasure, which he purposed in Christ to be put into effect when the times have reached their fulfillment. And the purpose of this is to bring all things in heaven and earth together under one head, and that is Christ. The Hebrew head is Christ. The Gentiles head is Christ. Now in Him, we were also chosen. Who’s the also guys? The Gentiles, in Him, we Gentiles were also chosen, having been predestined according to the plan of him who works out everything in conformity with the purpose of His will. He’s just talking about here that I’m bringing both of you together and in order that we, who were the first to hope in Christ, who was that? Who? Where’d the gospel go first? Guys, to the Hebrew, the first to hope in Christ, the Jew might be for the praise of glory, and you also, who’s this? The gentile were included in Christ when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, having believed you were marked in him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit, who is a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance until the redemption of those who are God’s possession to the praise of his glory. Now is that good news?

And so he goes ahead. Let’s go over to chapter two in verse 11, therefore John. It therefore, remember that formerly you who are Gentiles by birth and called the uncircumcised by those who call themselves the circumcision, remember at that time you were separate from Christ, excluded from citizenship in Israel, foreigners to the covenants of promise, without hope, without God in the world. But now, but now, Who’s he talking to here? Hebrew or Gentile, Gentile, But now in Christ, Jesus, You who were once far away, who’s that? The Gentile have been brought near through the blood of Christ? For he himself is our peace. Who has made the two one. Who’s the two, the Hebrew and the Gentile into one. What? The ecclesia I’ve made you into a new man. If any man be in Christ, he’s what a new creation. Old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new. He himself is our peace. Who has made the two one has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility. Now what’s the dividing wall of hostility? He’s going to tell us, by abolishing, in his flesh, the law with its commandments and regulations. What does he call the law with his commandments and regulations? a dividing wall of hostility, the Hebrews said, we got the law. Do you guys know that God never gave the Gentiles the law? We just went over and stole it. We just went over the Hebrew and said, Well, you didn’t do very well with it, Lord, but you just. To watch our smoke. You just watch us try to obey these laws because we’re lot better you are. He never gave it to us. He divided that wall of hostility. Now, why? How do you do that? By abolishing it. He nailed the law to the cross. He said, the law has been fulfilled. I fulfilled it. You can’t I did, and in so doing, his purpose. Why did he do that? His purpose was to create in himself, one new man out of the two, and making peace and in this one body, to reconcile both of them to God. See there guys, both of them, Hebrew and Gentile alike, reconcile. What’d it say? God was in Christ reconciling who? The whole world, both Hebrew and Gentile, unto Himself, not counting their sins against them, both of them to the cross, by which he put to death their hostility. He came and preached to you who are far away, who’s that? The Gentiles and peace to you who are near. Who’s that? The Hebrew, for through him, we both Now, both of us, Hebrew and Gentile alike, have access to the Father by one Spirit. Consequently, Gentiles, you are no longer foreigners and aliens, but fellow citizens with God’s people and members of God’s household built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets with Christ, Jesus Himself as the chief cornerstone. In him, the whole building is joined together and rises to become a holy temple in the Lord and in Him, you too are being built together to become a dwelling in which God lives by His Spirit. Is this good news, guys? Chapter four, basically go with me just for a minute up to chapter three, and just in verse six. Now here’s the mystery. You see this is the mystery is that through the Gospel, the Gentiles are heirs together with Israel, members together of one body and sharers together in the promise of Jesus Christ.

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