Classic Christianity – Peace With God – 7-29-26
Although Ἰουδαῖοι (Hebrew Judeans) were granted a significant privilege by being entrusted with the divine oracles of God, human unfaithfulness does not diminish God’s absolute truth and righteousness. Ultimately, both Ἰουδαῖοι (Hebrew Judeans) and Gentiles stand on equal footing before God, as Scripture confirms that all people are under the power of sin and incapable of achieving righteousness on their own. The law itself cannot justify anyone through works; rather, its primary function is to expose human sinfulness and leave the entire world accountable under God’s judgment.
To address this universal need, God revealed a righteousness apart from the law—one testified to by the Law and the Prophets—which is granted freely by His grace to all who believe in Jesus Christ. Through Christ’s redemption and sacrificial propition (taking away the sins of the world), God demonstrates His justice while justifying anyone who lives by faith. Because there is only one God over both Ἰουδαῖοι (Hebrew Judeans) and Gentiles, salvation is offered universally through this shared principle of faith, which ultimately fulfills and upholds the true intent of the law rather than nullifying it.
Romans 3
~ What then is the superiority of the Hebrew Judean? Or what is the profit of the circumcision? Much in every way. For first indeed, that they were entrusted with the oracles of God.
For what If some disbelieved? Will their unbelief nullify the faithfulness of God? Never may it be! But let God be true and every man a liar, as it has been written: “So that You may be justified in Your words, and you will be victorious in Your judging.”
But if our unrighteousness proves God’s righteousness, what will we say? God, inflicting the wrath, is unrighteous? I speak according to man. Never may it be! Otherwise, how will God judge the world? But if the truth of God in my falsehood abounded to His glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner? And is it not, as we are slandered and as some affirm us to say, “Let us do evil so that the good may come”? Their judgment is just.
What then? Are we better? Not at all. For we charged before both Hebrews Judeans and Greeks with being all under sin. As it has been written: “There is no one righteous, not even one; there is no one understanding; there is no one seeking out God. All turned away; together they became worthless; there is none who is doing kindness, there is not even one.” “Their throat is a grave having been opened; they keep practicing deceit with their tongues;” “the poison of vipers is under their lips,” “of whom the mouth is full of cursing and of bitterness;” “their feet are swift to shed blood; ruin and misery are in their paths; and a way of peace they did not know.” “There is no fear of God before their eyes.”
Now we know that as much as the law says, it speaks to those in the law, so that every mouth may be shut, and all the world may be under judgment to God. Therefore by works of the law, not any flesh will be justified before Him; for through the law is knowledge of sin.
But now, apart from the law, the righteousness of God has been revealed, being testified to by the Law and the Prophets. And the righteousness of God is through faith from Jesus Christ toward all those believing. For there is no distinction, for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God set forth as a propitiation through faith in His blood, for a demonstration of His righteousness, because of the passing over of the sins having taken place beforehand in the forbearance of God, for the demonstration of His righteousness in the present time, for Him to be just and justifying the one of the faith from Jesus.
Where then is the boasting? It was excluded. By what kind of law? That of works? No, but by the law of faith. For we reckon a man to be justified by faith apart from works of law.
Or is He the God of Hebrews Judeans only, not also of Gentiles? Yes, also of Gentiles, since indeed God is one, who will justify the circumcision by faith and the uncircumcision through the same faith.
Do we, then, nullify the law through faith? Never may it be! Rather, we uphold the law.not been raised, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins. Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished. If our hope in Christ is for this life alone, we are to be pitied more than all men.
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. Luke 18:18,19
Jesus is God in flesh: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” John 1:1
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Pray to God:
Do you really want to know the WHOLE Truth of what is going on today?
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.”
~ Bob George discusses the concept of spiritual death and the role of the law in revealing sin. He emphasizes that salvation comes through faith in Jesus Christ, who died for our sins and rose to give us life. Bob argues that the law serves as a mirror to show our sinfulness, but true righteousness comes through faith in Jesus, not through adherence to the law. He refutes the idea of atonement which was a continual sacrifice of bulls and goats, instead asserting that Jesus took away the sins of the world. Bob also addresses the misconceptions of predestination and the necessity of baptizing babies, stressing that salvation is a gift from God to all who believe, and is not getting dunked in or sprinkled with water.
This message is an exposition of Romans 3 that centers on the difference between living under the law and living under the New Covenant of grace in Christ. Bob George explains that the primary purpose of God’s law was never to make people righteous, but to expose their sin and their spiritual condition. The law functions like a mirror: it can show you that your face is dirty, but it cannot wash you. In the same way, the law reveals that all people are sinners and that the consequence of sin is death—specifically spiritual death. From birth, people are “dead to God” and do not come to life spiritually through religion, church membership, or moral effort, but only through receiving the life of Christ.
Flowing from this, Bob emphasizes that spiritual death is actually a more fundamental problem than individual sinful acts. Sin leads to death, but death—separation from God’s life—is the core issue. Christ’s mission, therefore, was not merely to help people clean up their behavior, but to give them life. His death and resurrection addressed both aspects of the human problem: as the Lamb of God, He took away the sins of the world, and through His resurrection He offers His own resurrected life to spiritually dead people. Believers are not made righteous by obeying the law, but are declared righteous (“justified”) by faith in Jesus Christ, receiving a righteousness that comes from God apart from the law.
Bob contrasts the Old Covenant of law with the New Covenant of grace. Under the Old Covenant, sacrificial systems and teachings about forgiveness operated like an ongoing covering (atonement) for sin, never truly taking sins away. In the New Covenant, however, Christ’s once-for-all sacrifice has permanently dealt with sin: God remembers sins no more, and there is no longer any sacrifice needed. Redemption is presented as an “exchange of life”—like turning in worthless green stamps and receiving something of real value. In Christ, believers have redemption and forgiveness as a settled possession, not as something they must repeatedly seek through ritual, confession, or continual pleas for forgiveness.
A major theme running through the message is the finality and completeness of Christ’s work and the inclusivity of the offer of salvation. Righteousness and justification by faith are available to all who believe—Hebrew Judean or Gentile, slave or free—without distinction. Bob rejects the idea that God only loved or forgave a select few, insisting instead that God loved the whole world and that Christ died for the sins of the whole world. At the same time, he stresses that salvation is not automatic or merely religious; what ultimately matters is how each person responds to God’s Son. God is both just and the justifier of those who place their faith in Christ, and in light of what Christ has done, believers should be the most grateful people on earth—living not in fear, guilt, or self-effort, but in thankful dependence on Jesus’ finished work and the new life they have in Him.
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Now let’s turn to the third chapter of the book of Romans, beginning in verse 19. We know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law. How come? so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God. Therefore, no one will be declared righteous in the sight of God by observing the law. Rather, it’s through the law that we become conscious of sin.
Now, guys, this passage and what Paul is trying to teach us is this: that the law can do nothing for you except to kill you. That is the purpose of the law-to show you you are a sinner and to show you that there’s a consequence to sin called death. That is spiritual death. We don’t see spiritual death. We see the ramifications of spiritual death, the actions of lost people, and we see that. But you can’t see death. You can see physical death. All you have to do is to look at a corpse, and you’ll see physical death. Well, just when you look at that dead corpse, imagine spiritually that is what spiritual death is. There’s no life connected with it. You can go up and tickle the foot of a corpse; it ain’t going to respond to you. And the issue is, when you are born into this world, you’re born dead to God. You’re not alive to God, and you don’t come alive by joining the church. God doesn’t save Baptists and Presbyterians and Catholics and Methodists. He only saves people who have come to a point in their lives to believe what God said about them-that you’re a sinner, and there’s a consequence to sin called death. And then said, “Here’s what I did to correct that for you. I came to this earth in order to correct your problem. I love you. I love you so much that even while we were yet sinners, Christ did what? Died for us. Why did He die for us? So that He could be raised to give life to us. Now, if Christ came to give us life, that means that we’re dead spiritually. I came that you might have life. Why do you need life? Because you’re dead, not physically, spiritually. Death is the absence of life. So you’re not born into this world with God’s life living in you. That is something that has to come at a point in time in history where you and I have come to realize that we can’t, but He did. When we get sick and tired of being sick and tired, how many of you ever just been sick and tired of being sick and tired? You’re tired of trying. You’re tired of of trying to do good for God because ultimately you find out you can’t, don’t you? And so we go through all of these different religious things in this world, teaching people: if you do this, then God’s going to bless you, and you do this, God’s going to bless you, and if you tithe, God’s going to bless you. And the fact is, you’ve already been blessed. You don’t tithe to get blessed; you give because you are blessed, and so the whole issue of salvation is that God looked down on the fallen condition of His creation and said, “We have got to give a solution to this. Period. We’ve got to do something to save these people, to save my creation that had been fallen under the control of satan. Two problems: you’re a sinner, and you’re dead. Now, in case you haven’t figured it out, death is worse than sinning. But how much do we get taught in our churches about death? Oh, we get taught a lot about sinning, and we put people on guilt trip every Sunday about how bad of a sinner you are and how you’ve blown it and your sin, sin, sin. Who ever talks about the fact that you’re dead? Because if you’re dead, you got a bigger problem than sin. Sin caused death, but death’s your problem. That’s precisely why Jesus said, “I came that you might have what? Life, life. I’m the way and the truth and what? The life. Who has a Son has what? Life. The whole issue is if you’re dead, you need life.
There’s only one source of spiritual life to you and me, and that is the life of Christ, the resurrected life of Christ. That’s the meaning of his resurrection. He was raised from the dead then, so that that life that raised him from the dead can raise you from the dead, because you’re born dead spiritually. Everybody, so you don’t have to feel on a guilt trip over it. There’s no one that came into this world alive spiritually, and therefore we need life.
So we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law. How come? To shut your mouth. Because we were using the law as an act of righteousness. God gave the law to show you you’re a sinner, and to show you there’s a consequence to sin called death. We took the law and used it as a means of righteousness to show how righteous I am. I don’t do this. I don’t do that. I don’t do this, and I hope you don’t realize that. I-I mean, I hope you don’t catch me when I do. But the law was given as a mirror. It’s a mirror that you look into to see what? That your face is dirty, but you don’t wash your face in a mirror. If the law has done its work, it showed you your face is dirty. Now you’re ready to turn to Christ for His salvation. The mirror has to do its work so that Christ can do His. So what did He give us the law for? And when He says the law, you’re talking about all of it, we say, “Well, no, no, hold on a minute. You’re not talking about the Big 10, are you? Absolutely, I’m talking about the Big 10. I’m talking about all of it. You don’t go to Mount Sinai. Period. You go to the empty tomb.
Now, look what it says in verse 21. But now a righteousness from God apart from the law has been known to which the law and the prophets testify about. So, what are we talking about now? A Righteousness has been known apart from the law. Forget the law. A righteousness now has been known apart from the law. Why? Because no man will ever be declared righteous in the sight of God through obedience to the law, so you may as well just use it for what it what it was there for. You showed me as a sinner. Now, is there any way for me, God, to be declared righteous in your sight? Because I’m not righteous. Says, “No, you’re not, but I’ll make you that way. Everything that God commanded, He had to make us.
We walk around thinking we’re holy. Have you ever been around people who think they’re holy? I mean, have you have you really have you seen you know? And and we walk around with our book under, and we kind of walk like this, and kind of don’t don’t want to smile too much, just a little grin, and acting holy. You got people like that. They’re sickening. God meant us to just be ourselves, to just be real. But what makes you different from the world is Jesus lives in you, and so He says now a righteousness apart from the law. Forget it. There’s a new way of righteousness, and it’s through Him, not through the law. And now a righteousness from God, apart from the law, has been known to which the law and the prophets testified. Already testified about this. This righteousness from God.
Guys, if you mark your Bibles, this isn’t something to sit around and worship. You know, you mark it. You get your pencil out and mark it. You know, we used to have those Bibles that sat there, no one could touch, kind of like guest towels. They’re not there. They’re not there to wipe your hands on or there to look at. So, but mark your Bible. I mark my Bible till you can’t even see one page from another. There’s a righteousness from God. I mark those things from God. It’s not from you. It’s from God. You never could make yourself righteous, so it’s all from God. Comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe.
Now, folks, the whole inference here is again as to how God came to both the HEBREW world and to the Gentile world. That’s what predestination is. That’s what election is. It is not you’s and me’s. It’s the fact that He chose the Gentiles for salvation the same way that He chose the HEBREWS for salvation. And if you’ll read the book of Revelation, you’ll realize the nonsensical teaching of this deal that God chose just you, but He didn’t like Bud, and that’s the kind of teaching that you have in hyper-Calvinistic teaching: is that God didn’t love the world; He just loved the elect. Well, I’m sorry, but there’s a misinterpretation there, a terrible misinterpretation, because God loved the world, and He loved the world so much that He died for the sins of the whole world. And what happened was that Calvin or whoever else it was said, “Well, that can’t be. That’d be universal salvation.” If he took away the sins of the world and forgiveness is getting your sins forgiven, that’s universal. We can’t have that. Said, “Yeah, you’re right, but that’s not what salvation is. What is salvation, guys? Getting your sins forgiven, or coming to life through the resurrection? How could Paul say, ‘Without the resurrection, we’re to be pitied of all people and are still in our sins, knowing full well that a cross had occurred where He took away the sins of the world, but also knowing that apart from the resurrection, you’re never going to be saved. When you have an idea that salvation is getting your sins forgiven, and you ignore the resurrection, then you had to do something. You had to spin that God so loved the world, you got to spin that, and that’s exactly what they did. So it can’t mean that He just loved the world. It didn’t mean that He took away the sins of the entire world. He just must have taken away the sins of the elect, and so now He chose you, but He didn’t choose you. And so you got a God of hate that dooms people to hell for eternity because I just didn’t choose you. Can you think of anything more nonsensical than that, guys? In that people follow that kind of teaching by the millions. Okay, let’s go on. Get off that subject.
This righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ. To how many who believe? To all or some? To all. What do you think “all” means? What y’all mean? What y’all means all of us to all who believe? You’re going to be declared righteous in the sight of God, HEBREW, Gentile, slave, free, makes no difference to all who put their faith in Christ. You’re going to be saved. You’re going to be declared what? Righteous in the sight of God. This righteousness from God, apart from the law, has nothing to do with the law. It has to do with God. This righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There’s no different, for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. The HEBREWS have sinned. The Gentiles have sinned. We’ve all sinned. We’ve all fallen short of the glory of God, and are justified freely by His grace through the redemption that came through Christ Jesus.
Now, what does redemption mean? Means you bought. He were bought back. How many remember the old redemption stores? How many remember when green stamps? How many remember green stamps? Now you’re telling your age, aren’t you? And what’d you do with green stamps? They were worthless. But if you collected enough of them, what’d you do? You took them to a redemption store, and what did the redemption store do? They took the old worthless green stamps and gave you a toaster. Redemption, redeemed, bought back. That’s what happened to us. We turned in ourselves a bunch of green stamps, worthless, and what’d he do? Give us himself. Is that a good deal? You turn yourself in, Bob, and I’ll give you Me. It’s the exchange of life. If any man now be in Christ, he’s a brand new creation. The old things have passed away, and behold, all things have become new. What’s new? I’m under a New Covenant. What’s new? I was under the Old Covenant. What’s the Old Covenant? The law. I’m now under a New Covenant of grace.
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Under the law, forgiveness was if you don’t forgive your brother, your Father in heaven will not forgive you. Is that right or wrong? We all know it in the Lord’s prayer. We just don’t read it. We just stop, put the period where it doesn’t belong. But we all memorized the Lord’s prayer, didn’t we? Or just part of it. We just memorized what they wanted you to memorize. Go back and read the whole thing, because it says, “For if you do not forgive your brother here on earth. Your father in heaven will not forgive you. Now I want to ask you a question: How do you pull that together with after the cross, where Jesus took away the sins of the world? Is that double talk or isn’t it? Either the Bible contradicts itself, or there’s something new that happened at the end of Jesus. Life, where he ushered in a New Covenant, a covenant of grace, where it says, “Their sins and lawless acts I will remember no more, and where these not will be have been forgiven. There is no longer any sacrifice for sins. To the HEBREW, you can put aside your sacrificial system, your Day of Atonement. To the Catholic, put away your confession booth. To the Evangelical, quit First John one nine and yourself to death. That isn’t what the verse means. It means it’s finished. It means it’s over, and you don’t keep asking for what in Him you already have. If you want to walk by faith in Him, are you in Him? What do you have? Redemption. What else do you have? The forgiveness of sin. You notice it doesn’t say in Him you get redemption, the forgiveness of sin. It says, “In Him you have something. It’s a part of your possession. You own it. What do you own? Redeemed. I’m redeemed. Went to the redemption store. What else do I have? Forgiveness. Do you ask God to redeem you every day? You ask God to justify you every day? How many of you, as born-again believers, ask God to give you eternal life? If you do, you’re not saved because you already have eternal life. If you’re saved, is that right or wrong? And why do we keep begging God to ask you to forgive you when in Him you already are forgiven? Why don’t we teach people to thank God for forgiving forgiveness? Isn’t that what you do if you’re going to walk by faith? You say thank you. You know, people say, “Well, what do you do when you sin? What do you do when you sin? Well, I’m talking to you. I know, and I’m talking to you. If you’re going to walk by faith, folks, we’re going to have to walk by faith, not in what we’re doing, but faith in what He did. Did Jesus Christ take away the sins of the world, or didn’t He? How many of them? All of them. How many is left for you and me? None. Now, what can you do with that? Say thank you. Do ever think of just being thankful people, just to say thank you, Lord, for doing that for me. I blew it, but you took it away. If that doesn’t cause your heart to stir, there’s something wrong with your heart. But you see, when we put the emphasis back, well, if that happens, this is what you have to do. Then our emphasis is on how faithful He is in doing it, and we congratulate each other on how faithful we are in doing it. I’m talking about asking for forgiveness now. Okay.
There’s no different. All have sinned, all have fallen short of the glory of God, and are justified freely by His grace through the redemption that came by Jesus. God presented Him, and again, if you have a New International Version, it says a sacrifice of atonement. That is a terrible translation, because the word atonement is never used in the Greek language, in the New Covenant. Why? Did Jesus come to atone for sin? You see, who atoned for sin? The blood of bulls and goats. The blood of bulls and goats can never what? Take away the sins of the world. But did the blood of bulls and goats cover sins? That’s why it’s called a covering. Atonement is called a covering.
Did Jesus cover your sins, or did He take them away from the eyes of God? Which is it, guys? Behold the Lamb of God who did what? Took away the sins of the world, identified by John the Baptist. And so atonement is Old Testament. That’s what the blood of a bull and goat did. And again, we bring that into Christian circles and call it atonement, and say it’s we use that because of continual theological usage. Well, isn’t that a biggie? Now, I mean, that’s enough to justify anything as continual theological usage. And then, what it says, what the Bible says, “Is he took away your sin. Do you believe that, guys? He took away every sin that you and I will have ever committed, ever will commit, or ever will even think of committing. He took it away from the eyes of God, never to see it again. Well, what’s God dealing with people on the basis of what? New life. The only question that God will ever ask you, or anyone else on the face of this earth, is, “What did you do with my Son? I sent my Son to take away your sins. I sent my Son to. Die for you. I sent my Son to die so that I could raise him from the dead, so that that life that raised him from the dead can raise you from the dead. What did you do with him? Did you ignore him or just play church? Because playing church doesn’t impress Me. What impresses me is my Son, and what impresses Me with you is what you did with my Son. That’s what impresses me. What did you do with my son? Did you ignore his sacrifice on the cross, and did you ignore his resurrection? Did you ignore the fact that God said that I came that you had life, and you ignored the fact that you didn’t have life. Did you ignore that fact, or just walk around fat, dumb, and happy, thinking everything’s okay? I’m a Baptist. Everything’s okay. I’m a Methodist. Everything’s okay. I’m a people-to-peopler. No, it didn’t. Nothing is okay until God makes you okay, so I say my next book is going to be called “I’m Not Okay, You’re Not Okay, But That’s Okay. God’s solution to man’s problem.
God presented him not as a sacrifice of atonement. If you’ve got your footnotes, look down and see what it says. As the one who turns aside his wrath, taking away sin. Do you see that in your footnotes? That ought to be up in the foot. That should, as a sacrifice of atonement, ought to be in a footnote. But this is a literal Greek interpretation of what that means is he is the one who turned aside the wrath of God and took away my sins. Guys, is that good news? I mean, is this something to just you know? What else you got to say, brother? If you don’t realize what he did for me to enable me and you to someday go in His presence, and in the meantime to live in His presence right now, Christ lives in you, and to do that for you and me in the midst of what we do to this day, even as Christians. How many of you have been a Christian for over a year, how many of you sinned? Is that true or not? So I want to tell you something, guys. We should be the most grateful people on the face of the earth because you’re not going to live a perfect life. Christ lived the perfect life. That’s why people said, “Well, you know, I got to make myself worthy. I remember a minister one time that was going to leave the ministry temporarily because his brother had committed a big sin. He said he didn’t feel worthy to be a minister, and I wrote him, said, “Bill, you never were worthy. Only Jesus is worthy. You never have been worthy. You just think you’re worthy. You think you’re worthy because you obey all these laws and you do all these things, but you never have been worthy. Worthy is the lamb, not the sheep. You and I have never been worthy. We’re just blessed. Is that right or wrong?
We ought to be the most grateful, thankful people on the face of the earth to realize what God has done, to enable us to walk with Jesus every day, and to someday leave these bodies and go into His presence, calling Him Daddy, Father, and receiving mercy in our time of need. Now he said, “Why did you do that? Verse 25: God presented him through faith in His blood. He presented him to take away our sin, and He did this to demonstrate His justice because in His forbearance He had left sins committed beforehand unpunished. And what happened to that before the law? If there’s no law, there’s no there’s no punishment. So the people that were there before the law, he had left them unpunished because there was no law, and he also did it to demonstrate his justice at the present time, so as to be just and the one who justifies. He is the just and the justifier. This God that we know and love is the justifier, and he’s just. That’s why I’ve said to people sometimes, you know, we don’t believe God and we don’t trust God, and that’s why we come up with all this stuff like baptizing babies. How many have been in church where you baptized babies, and why did you baptize them so that they’ll be saved someday. Well, I got news for you. There’s anything in the Bible about baptizing babies? We say, well, what happens then to a baby that comes into this world and and he dies before he gets a chance to hear? How many have ever had that question asked? Well, what’s the answer to that? That baby goes into the hands of a perfectly just and a perfectly loving God, and I think He’s capable of making that decision. So we don’t have to be dunking kids and splashing kids in order for God to do something. God is the one who makes that decision. That is not up for me to decide. Well, what about the person over in Africa that never hears? That man, if he’s never heard, goes into the hands of a loving, just God. That’s not my problem. I’m now talking to you, and that’s what happens. People say, “Well, I’m talking to him about Jesus. What about the person in Africa? That’s God’s business. I’m talking to you because you don’t have an excuse now. You’ve already heard. Those are smoke screens that people throw up because they don’t want to believe. And you say, “Why don’t you want to believe? I said, “I’d want to believe this if it was a lie. Wouldn’t you? It’s good news. That’s why it’s called the good news. It’s great news if we come to understand what God said about us that we’re dead. It’s great news that God gave me life.
Now, where He says, “Then where’s all the boasting? It’s excluded. We don’t have anything to boast about. I’m not better than anybody. I’m better off than a lost person, but I’m not better than them. We understand that. We don’t want to walk around acting like you’re better than somebody. You’re just better off. Why? Because you came to understand your wretchedness and accepted Jesus as your Lord and Savior. Where it’s excluded, on what principle is it excluded? Well, on that of observing the law. No, but that on faith. For we maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from observing the law. Is God then a God of the HEBREWS only? Who had the law, guys? The HEBREWS of the Gentile. The HEBREWS. Do you realize that God never gave the Gentile or the law to the Gentiles? We just stole it. We just went over and grabbed it. It’s the arrogance of man and the arrogance of us Gentiles of saying, “Well, I know the HEBREWS couldn’t do it, but you watch my smoke, Lord.
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