Galatians chapter 3 Bible Study

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you for the chance and thank you for the opportunity and thank you for the many blessings that you have bestowed upon us now we thank you for your mercy and we thank you for your loving kindness Lord I am reminded there was a time that we read about in the scriptures when there was no word where they wanted to hear a word from the Lord but they couldn't they in order to find out about your word they would find your word buried amongst rubble in the temple but God we thank you you have made you a word readily available Lord we can read it we can get on YouTube Lord and listen to it we can order mp3s and tapes Lord we thank you you even bless Lord where we can watch your word in movie form you have made your word available in every way possible which takes away every excuse from us and we thank you God and Lord even if we did not have these resources your word tells us that you would inscribe it on our insides that you would write it on our hearts and that nobody would have to teach us about you because everybody would know because that's how you created us and we thank you we thank you God we thank you lord bless your Holy Name king of saints ruler in the kingdom of men god we thank you for keeping us everybody under the sound of my voice we thank you for keeping us god there's so many things lord as you already know because you are all-knowing there's so many things going on in the world but no matter what's going on we are thankful we are grateful and we take confidence and comfort in the fact and you are in control you know our end and our beginning there is not a life that is lost that you don't know about and there is not a life that's gonna be taken without your permission bless your name bless your name bless your name we thank you god we thank you lord father God we pray that your will be done regardless of what school my own father because you are in control we pray that your will be done and that your kingdom come and take over all the earth as it is in heaven we pray that your will be done in all of our lives father God I pray for those who are watching the Bible study be it they watching today or they watch years from now Lord I ask if you would bless them to understand your word bless them to shut out the distractions and to actually focus on you focus on your beloved son Jesus and to understand your word and Lord I ask if you would bless them to know how to take your word and apply it to their lives when the situation arises god we thank you and we bless you father we bless you Lord I ask your blessings and your strength on the on not just my husband teaching work but all who go forth to teach your word today the worship leaders the pastors the teachers the Evangelist up and and even those in positions of help father God I ask if you would bless them to do things the way you want it done to say what you want to be said and to just know how to be the people that you would have for us to be that we will glorify you and that we would glorify your son and how we conduct ourselves how we speak and how we treat and love one another father God we thank you we thank you for this day that you have blessed us with we thank you for strength we thank you for life we thank you for peace we thank you God for blessing us to be your children through Jesus Christ Lord we thank you for your beloved son they Shepherd the bishop the Prince of Peace and the Prince of life the one who is in charge over the Kings over the earth he's the only man that you've given all power to in heaven and earth and we thank you to be a part of his body we thank you that he is our head and we thank you for blessing us to be washed in his blood father God we thank you for your sweet and gentle Holy Spirit thank you Lord we thank you God we thank you for blessing us to be your children it is a blessing it is a blessing and it is to be able to call you father it is a humbling experience to be able to say that we are your sons and daughters but we thank you God though we are you often hear me say lower there people hear me say God that we thank you for grafting us Gentiles in cuz Lord when we look at it you could have left us out but we thank you for grafting us and we thank you for blessing us to hear the gospel we thank you for blessing us to believe it bless your name we thank you for blessing that your son would be savior to us - he's a light to us because truly God when we stop and we look at our past and our history and our ancestry we walked in darkness we walked in darkness and in foolishness and in superstition but we thank you hallelujah bless your name we thank you for shining the light in a dark place and for blessing us Gentiles to be grafted into your family thank you Lord father God we pray for all the children of Israel and we ask you God if you would those that don't believe we ask if you would open eight years and sulfonate hearts and open the eyes and bless them to see your only begotten Son the Messiah of the world father God we pray your blessings on this Bible study lesson and we ask that your will be done and we thank you for the opportunity we bless you God we ask all these things in the name of your precious son Jesus in his name we pray in Jesus name we pray amen okay my brothers and sisters in Christ as I've said before I will step off the set and pastor harden will come on and he will open us up with today's Bible study lesson starting with Galatians chapter three thank you for studying with us god bless you well god bless you Saints citizens and soldiers of the Most High God my name is Clarence I'm pastor of United body of Christ Church which is our online ministry and B and on behalf of my family on behalf of my wife and myself we'd like to take this opportunity to welcome you and to welcome you back to another broadcast and another Bible study today we are coming at you with Galatians chapter 3 and 1/2 a desire to get to Galatians to cover Galatians chapter 4 as well but it hasn't been going as to plan we like to give the Holy Spirit submission and an authority to to go forth as far as as the Spirit will allow so we'll try to get through to chapter 4 and and and beyond that as far as our recording but today but we'll see what happens um I'd like to bless God for my wife my help who opened us up with prayer this morning and not just really bless God for the for the help that she is and and the wife that she is to be a bless God for her she is truly loved by me and favored of the Lord amen um as always we give honor to the Father the Son and the Holy Ghost goddess to chef the bread that he has prepared for all of us to break and receive that's that's that bread of life it's the Lord Jesus Christ who was also the Word of God we give honor to the Holy Ghost it is through the Holy Spirit that he has invited you and your family my family and myself to come together and fellowship and worship to commune to sup so we bless God we best the Father the Son and the Holy Ghost again we're looking to go for it in Galatians chapter 3 and 4 will begin at Galatians chapter 3 without any further ado we'll begin Galatians chapter 3 verse 1 all foolish Galatians who has bewitched you who has cursed you that you should not obey the truth before whose eyes Jesus Christ has been Evelynn evidently set forth crucified among you so Paul is saying the Galatians somebody must have cursed you because that's the only way that I can perceive how you've taken down off the truth that you've received concerning Jesus Christ and what a sacrifice meant to you I mean the pump on duritz of evidence you didn't see him on a cross but after the preaching you were persuaded and you were convinced that no one could take you down and so for you to come down off your faith enough for your belief someone had to have cursed you who did this to you who did this to you you know and and Paul is and and I can understand where he's coming from and it's always a concern when you have new members you come into the body of Christ new believers new converts and you you walk with them you you you know you show them what God has showed you and and you preach with them the messages that you've heard that that that transformed your life and that changed your life and God uses you to minister to them but people have a responsibility of their own to stay saved to to to guard their faith and when you are new in the body of Christ and when you are new to the kingdom of God you you're when you're new babes you can be persuaded easily by anyone when you think about how children our children are innocent and if you put the wrong people around them they begin to transform the innocence of that child they begin to pervert it to craft it to manipulate it to you know to their dark views well that's how it is in in the body of Christ when you have new people that come in out of the out of the world now they come in damaged goods don't get me wrong you're the whole reason that you're coming into the body of Christ is because you're trying to be fixed understanding you've been broken but then as the Lord begins to work on you and fix you and heal you all of these things come because you start listening you start hearing you start believing and that leads to your transformation and all it take is the wrong person or persons to come and start telling you the wrong things amen and before you know it they have corrupted you now speaking of hearing I want to turn your attention to to Romans chapter 10 and let's look at verses 3 through 17 Romans chapter 10 let's take a look at verses 3 through so verses 13 I should say verses 13 through 17 in Romans chapter 10 and this will also be part of our theme for today our theme faith comes by hearing and hearing comes by the Word of God so let's take a look again on Romans chapter 10 verses 13 through 17 for whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved how they until they call on him in whom they have not believed and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard and how shall they hear without a preacher and how shall they preach except they be sent as it is written how beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace and bring glad tidings of good things but they have not all obeyed the gospel for Isaiah said Lord who has believed our report so then faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the Word of God how can somebody how can somebody confess Jesus is Lord if they were never preached to who would they believe in and how will they know to believe in him if they were never told of him so it comes by way of someone preaching God's sending a god-fearing person a believer to come and minister the word and then all of a sudden based on what you've heard you begin to believe you begin to receive you believe it you know and you're persuaded by it faith comes by hearing and hearing comes by a word of God Amen now so when we we start to listen to that we start to listen and we start to hear what the man and God says and now here's what we always say concerning this ministry you have to be careful what you subject your faith to you have to be careful with what's what you subject your ears to because not everybody that looks to be of God is from God do you understand what I'm saying and people will come and they'll wear the sheep's clothing and they'll be wolves inside and they're there to prey on you to manipulate you and that's what's happening with the Church of Galatia you have people that have come in and the work that God had used that God used Paul to perform on those that the new converts someone else has came in and started speaking galatians started hearing and it started to pervert and take down their faith if you will and that's why we always have to guard our faith you know I may not be perfect in my teaching I always believe that I'm coming the right way according to the way that God would have me to come but you know I get correspondence of people that don't necessarily buy into the way that I teach or or or how I taught something and there may be some error in my teaching but one of the things that we take pride in if you will one of the things that we always a stand on it's telling you to have your own relationship meaning that you searched the Scriptures for yourself to make sure that you get the the right context of what's being taught with you what's being taught to you you don't want to have as I call spiritual food poisoning you know you don't want to have somebody serving you something that's going to contaminate your faith so you won't and guard your faith and it's okay to listen to people there are certain people that I listen to and and they're not going to say everything that I agree with I would say amen to a lot of stuff but then there are some things I'd be like yeah I can't get down what you brought you know I'm that kind of person well dilations was in all the way on the wrong thing they gave complete they gave complete attention to a complete attention to - - faithless utterances if you will and and and it's calls to them and Paul has heard of this and and then they came and then to make sure the work that they started to perform those that came in to secretly search out the liberty of the Galatians when they when they were able to get the Galatians to side with him which means turn them over to the law of Moses something that they themselves would never be able to to to adhere to then you're gonna add some Gentiles to do the same when you yourself couldn't even adhere to it and then if that wasn't bad enough then you began to tell them you begin to make sure that Paul can't do anything to them again so you begin to make mention about how Paul is not real how he is fake so he doesn't come and counter what you're telling them so you begin to not only break them down off their faith but the one that built them up in their faith you begin to speak bad against him saying there's a lot that still goes on in the body of Christ so in it this in summary to all of this faith comes by hearing and hearing comes about a Word of God Word of God you have to stay grounded in God's Word amen and you have to subject yourself to his work not people's philosophies not people's opinion you know but his words stay grounded in that that builds up your faith and when someone else comes at you and begin to spew nonsense at you you can interrupt them your low low low before you before you go on I'm not gonna be able to assist you or be accompany you in that conversation so I'd rather change the conversation and just get back with you at another sometimes you have to be rude with you guard your fate and you're going to talk with people especially those of you that are in ministry you will talk to people that that they they want to they claim they want to hear from God but when they get a chance to speak with you in person instead of them hear from God they want you to hear from them rather than them hearing from God what he has to say about their situation and they will go off on a tangent you know so you have to guard your faith at all times and you got to know if things are going outside of your belief system you have to put the brakes on that conversation you may come at the expense of hurting somebody's feelings you're not trying to hurt their feelings you're trying to keep your faith aligned with what has got you saved in the first place and this is where the Galatians has fallen off course amen so this is a pretty powerful word today faith comes by hearing and hearing comes by the Word of God and sometime when you minister to people and and you subject your faith to something you got to get back in a word as soon as you can so that you could get sanctified you could be purified you can be cleansed you can be re-energized of the word because it's we could tell when you've been around the wrong thing it begins to draw that the integrity of holiness out of you you begin to to take that up out of you and before you know it you're finding yourself being a carnal rather than spiritual you're finding yourself being carnal questioning everything and not having a faith that you need to withstand a particular situation amen so I digress let me get out of the way of description and we'll go on here so he says o foolish Galatians who have cursed you because it must have been occurs for you to take down he says this only I will learn of you receive you to spirit by the works of the law or by the hearing of faith have you ever Oh BAE the law and then received the spirit and and then the wonders of the Spirit did not come by you doing your works or did it come by you obeying and hearing the Word of God and believing which which came the wonders of the Spirit indwelling of the Spirit and the works of the Spirit of the the manifestations of the Spirit if you will did it come by the you obeying the law or your faith in Christ Jesus which one did it come by because you can't get the spirit by just you know following the law of Moses if that was the case Jesus would have never said it Jesus wouldn't have needed to come if we can get the spirit by following the law of Moses it didn't work that way we got the spirit because of what Christ did for us and our faith in Him allowed us to be able to take in our father's spirit amen it's a process our faith in Christ our faith our confession in him and then he sends us his father's spirit to dwell inside the only way you can get that is through the father through the son and therefore you have the Holy Spirit amen so he asked him this what I learned of you this I want you to address receive either spirit by the works of the law that bought it slaughtering of goats and of lambs or by the hearing of faith which one did you do it with which gave you yo observance of the new moon well you or you making Jesus Lord of your life and in operating and walking according to the faith that you have in him are you foolish are you so foolish having begun in the spirit are you now made perfect by the flesh you started out well you started out pure and holy but all of a sudden you ventured off course and I want to know of you foolish because you're headed back to to the point before you were delivered and that's when it's meant to do you ever think about it the enemies the the devil his cohorts they all know that they got a reservation with the lake a fire they got their placed they got their place reserved in the fire and they're not going to change they know that their name they got a place marker right there the lake of fire they're not changing to avoid that if anything they want to bring others with them particularly us as many as they can get to fall from grace to come with to come with them and keep them company in this lake of fire well when people come in and try to persuade you they're not looking to be persuaded they already made up their minds that they are not trying to follow Jesus they are not trying to abide in the faith that we are they want to change you because they are not going to change and they want to take as many with them as possible fuss for whatever reason they're just like their dad's which is that the kingdom of Hell the Satan his cohorts that's who that's who father they are and and at the end of the day they're just like their dad they want to take as many people as they can to this lake regardless of your creed your your your your race you know whatever they just that's just how it is your job is to stand strong in your faith and sometimes you may have sometimes people may throw some stuff at you that sounds convincing I don't care how persuasive or convincing if you are not sure and if you if you know it's not lining up with the word cut that cut that conversation off cut it off completely you know let them know be abrupt about it and if they find you to be rude they will get over it but this is a matter of you garden your faith there are certain things certain videos of people that I used to watch back in the day on YouTube and in certain things that they would say that I was I was loving it but then all of a sudden they would say something that began to bother me and my spirit and when I knew it bothered me so much I had to just cut that stuff that shut it down and move on you know and then get back in a word so I can get built back up amen and that's how that works so are you so foolish having begun in the spirit you started off strong and now you are you made perfect by the flesh have you suffered so many things in vain if it be yet in vain is that what about all that you went through in regards to your faith now are you throwing it are don't you throwing it all the way it have you gone through those things in vain why would you throw it all the way you know why would you go and convert to something that benefits you not when you started off strong your transformation came in this why do you desire that without you having to see any miracles God has has strengthened you he has placed you in position to draw near to him he has to bless you he's helped you to understand scripture he's given you a sense of self-worth all of a sudden somebody come whispering in your ear and you think that you need more have you forgot about the transformation that have already taken place in you have you thought about the distance that you have already traveled with God to the point that you think that you mean this also because that's not enough you have to have this with it before someone talked to you that was enough now all of a sudden all those distances that you've covered have you covered those knowledge in vain that you feel like you have to do this this is when the wrong people will come and tell you the wrong thing and move you off of your trajectory and then and so again faith comes by hearing and if someone else comes to you and and hearing comes by the Word of God if someone comes to you and try to give you something other than the word of God and call it faith kill the conversation there is a reason my wife even mentioned this today we don't have in it when you own our youtube channel page or channel we keep the comment section off and I've taken a great deal of flack for that over the over the years there have been people that I wrote some some just some terrible things you know because I because we've chosen not to leave our comment section on the way we've looked at it is if people got something to say say it to us and and and if it's noteworthy we'll review it and and if any changes are necessary we'll change whatever needs to be changed change according to the leading and guidance of the Holy Spirit not according to the leading guidance of men but according to the leading and guidance of the Holy Spirit well over the course of time because we've taken that approach people have five scorned us because you know that you know I can remember one word it was like I was going to subscribe to you and you know but now I see your your comment sections it's turned off I'm not wasting my time you know you have some people say things like that but the reason why we've done that is because you will give ground to the enemy to be able to come in there and bring forth debate based on what you've taught or what you said in the Bible study they'll comment on it in public and the people that are really trying the people that have come out of the world the new converts and and now our kingdom bound spirit filled you know and just got that way you know start at the transformation process all of a sudden they begin to read because they're trying to take everything in so that they can be the best for God that they can be and then all of a sudden there start reading somebody who hasn't changed who wears their Liberty as a cloak of maliciousness and prey on new converts to make themselves sound better that then then the person that God has chosen to instruct right so they'll make themselves seem like they're more they want more of a calling and then all of a sudden their start to mislead misguide through debate through persuasive opinions and all of a sudden you have people that that stood strong in their faith begin to crumble and begin to be tossed to and fro so we keep our comment section of because of that to make sure it has nothing to do with us it has nothing to do with us if we're afraid to hear negative criticism na na na that's far from it it hasn't it has everything to do with making sure that we preserve the integrity of a new converts walk Amen that's what it comes down to and this is what Paul is trying to do try to preserve what's left of the integrity of the of their of the new converts of the Galatians trying to preserve the integrity of their comfort of the conversion and he's having a hard time I must say but I digress let's continue here he therefore that minister to you the spirit and worketh miracles among you do it he by the works of the law or by the hearing of faith and that's that's that's key that's something that I just said people will come with debate and know painted and they were trying to put to shame the truth and the works whereby you were transformed with some people can listen to our YouTube channel or go to our website and listen to our videos or God will use you to God will use somebody else to lead and guide you and settle it in yourself that it's enough to have gotten you started and gotten you transformed but then all of a sudden you'll listen to somebody else come along and they make you think that you need more and they put to shame the transformation that I've already taken place in you because you feel like that's what you need and and you forfeit that which you've already had and it shouldn't it just shouldn't be that way and there's people that will prey on you because of that but let me let me shut up because I'm harking too much on that but I think maybe some people need it verse six even as abraham believed even as abraham believed God it was accounted to him for righteousness and let's go review that real quick well go with me to Genesis chapter 15 let's take a look at verses 1 through 6 Genesis chapter 15 verses 1 through 6 again what Paul has to contend with here is people that have come in to the body and starting to tell the Gentiles that in order for you to be a part of our faith you have to be circumcised and you have to start obeying the law of Moses and and and that's not that's not what it is and they're trying to sir plant the faith that we have in Christ Jesus Paul calls it our Liberty because we're free from having to be in the bondage of the law of Moses and so look Paul gives us an example here about how righteousness came through faith look at what he says here this is Genesis chapter 15 taking a look at verses 1 through 6 he says after these things the word of the Lord came unto Abraham in a vision saying fear not Abraham I am thy shield and by exceeding great reward and Abraham said lo God what will thou give me seeing that I go childless and the steward that the caretaker of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus Abraham said Behold to me thou has given no seed which means I don't have a child however the one born in my house it says and lo one born in my house is my heir he said the closest thing that I have to have an a descendant or an heir is the caretaker of my house my steward he has a child and that's the closest thing I have to an heir or to a descendant that I can leave things to write and behold the word of the Lord came unto him saying this shall not be thine heir but he that shall come forth out of thine own bow she'll be dying air so he says Abraham I know what it looks like I know that you and your wife have have been childless and you have grown in elderly age and all the blessings that I want to bestow upon you and when I you know speak about your airs your thinking your it's hard for you to believe that it's going to come from your own loins so from your own bowels you're kind of kind of minimizing the the miraculous wonders of God which is probably an oxymoron an ox an oxymoron you know you have the miracles and wonders of God which are all the same and God is saying to Abram don't minimize what I made were to do you're looking at this air and thinking that I have to work through that the child of some other person I'm telling you that I'm going to bless you according to what I'm going to do through your own loins through your own bowels no matter what your present condition is God is saying that I'm good and powerful enough to make it work let me do what I do right this is what God is saying to him he brought him he brought him forth abroad and said look now toward heaven and tell the stars if thou be able to number them and he said unto him so shall thy seed be so God took him and God said here let me show you something he said look at all the stars up in heaven he said look at the stars all in heaven he says are you able to number them are you able to number the stars he says all of that which you see that you are not even able to number he said that's your descendant that's your seed that's the seed now notice that he didn't use the word seeds he used the word seed that's your seed because it was all going to be one body and there's some powerful things because this is a scripture franciene the Gentiles as well as the Jews you'll see you'll see and watch this this is the verse we wanted to look at verse six and he believed in the Lord and he counted it to him for righteousness there was no law that was there that was present God gave him the word and because he believed God's Word God counted it to him for righteousness it took no law to allow him to be righteous it took no works to allow righteousness to be attributed to him it was that he heard the word of the Lord being spoken to them and because he believed it he received it and he was charged with being righteous this is what Paul is trying to say it has nothing to do with if somebody tried to come to you and tell you you need to do this you need to do that you need to do that in this you've you stand on your faith you heard the word of the Lord and the works that has already been performed in you had nothing to do with what at whatever somebody is trying to add to it look at what God has already done for you regardless of what you what they're trying to introduce you to you didn't need that stuff for God to do what he has already done for you you know you start listening to other people tell you that you need to do this and and you need to practice this and practice that look at what God has already done for you and how is progress to God that's because there's the righteousness of Christ working inside of you because you believe you confess that Jesus is Lord and you live by that and you believe it and you hold on to it that's your ticket to the kingdom that's your authority that you have through Christ Jesus amen and now for someone to like what's happening with the Galatians for someone to try to speak to them otherwise they're trying to take it away from them amen to talk him out of it so look at that verse Abram heard the word of the Lord and what God told him if you believe how you will be blessed and he believed God and God called it righteousness because he believed we believe and we confess that Jesus is Lord and the righteousness of Christ descends upon us it abides with us that's our salvation right there it's God's promise and we believe God in his promises that he makes to us so whenever you find yourself being weak or someone trying to tell you you need more than what you got look at what God has already been able to do with a little bit of attention from Amen so he gives us the example in verse six of Abram then he goes on in verse 7 know ye therefore that they which are of the faith the same are the children of Abraham this is why he said one seed because all the nations of the earth will be blessed if all believe that Jesus is Lord and the only begotten of the Father that's the faith that we have and God calls it righteousness because we believe him to know that it is enough amen and the scripture foreseeing that God would justify and this is what I was saying how the scripture that scripture was bringing into Gentiles look at what he says here and the scripture foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith preached before the gospel unto Abraham saying in thee shall all nations be blessed well let's take a look at that - the exact words Genesis let's take a look at Genesis chapter 12 and verse 3 is what we want to look at Genesis chapter chapter 12 verse 3 I will bless them that bless thee I will curse them that curse thee and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed it has nothing to do with would it it's not to say that all Jews will be blessed it says all families of the earth those that chose to believe God counted you as he counted Abraham righteous if you believed as Abraham believed the righteousness of Abraham through Jesus Christ was bestowed upon you and God called you righteous this is why we come in through Jesus Christ because Jesus come through the bloodline of Abraham and we're part of that seed that seed being Jesus Christ and it is through the faith of Abraham by the seed of Christ that all the families of the earth are blessed if we believe a man if we believe it has nothing to do with the works it has everything to do with your faith faith comes by hearing hearing comes about a word of God amen now there is this thing about losing what you have and that's what we're talking about making sure that you don't have kleptomaniacs coming at you trying to rip you off you know by getting you to lower your guard down and putting you in shackles after you've been freed amen you don't want to forfeit that you don't want some money to talk you out of the righteousness of Christ Jesus you don't want that to happen and then going on with this so reread in verse 8 and the scripture foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith preached before the gospel unto Abraham saying in thee shall all the nations of the earth or shall all the families of the earth be blessed shall all the nations so then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham again so they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham for as many are as the works of the law for as many are as are of the works of the law are under the curse for it is written cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them so if you decide that you're going to step away from faith and move into the realm of works and you begin to begin to observe moons you begin to observe days and times and festivals and feast days you begin to to do the slaughtering of sheets and bulls of lamb because you're moving from faith and moving to works yes and it's impossible for you to keep up with all that once you break one you broke them all now you're cursed because the word said curses the one that don't keep the whole law and that's what the scripture is saying cursed is the person that keeps not the whole law to do them that means if you break if you omit one you just broke them all and now you're under the curse because you set out to observe the law but you didn't observe the whole law and you got caught up in it and in and you're cursed we're free from that we have liberty in Christ Jesus to where we don't have to be caught up in that if you walk away from your faith to go into that then you're part you're walking curse amen because it's impossible to keep all the law right verse 11 but no man is justified by the law in the sight of God it is evident for the just shall live by faith again no man can be justified by the law it's not possible the and God himself says to just shall live by faith let's look at that go with me to her Baku a chapter 2 verses 1 through 4 Habakkuk chapter 2 verses 1 through 4 yeah verses 1 through 4 I will stand up upon my watch and I will set me upon the tower and we'll watch to see what he will do say what he will say unto me rather I will stand upon my watching and set upon me and set me upon the tower and we'll watch to see what he will do unto me and what I'll show answer when I am reproved and the Lord answered me and said write the vision and make it plain upon tables that he may that he may run that readeth it for the vision is yet for an appointed time but at the end it shall speak and not lie though eteri wait for it because it will surely come it will not tarry or not belong behold his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him but the just shall live by faith God said it even then the just shall live the person that hears the word receives the word and obey it they will if they believe God and what he is going to do and they live according to to what you believe God is saying and what he is doing it said that you are blessed the the justice says that you are just that righteousness is about you because you believe God you believe his word and what he has to say that's it right there and we don't bow should not kill thou should not steal thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife thou should not put anybody you know put anything or anybody beat before the Lord thy God God is a jealous God you know if you began to go through the whole law not just the Ten Commandments but if you begin to go through the whole law and you try to walk into that you're walking according to works but if you just believe what Christ has done and how much he loves you that's why he went through it and what God how much God loves us that's why he allowed his son to go through it then once you understand that love and devotion you that has been put upon yourself that Nazis are valuing you so much so that he'll put the life of the son on the line for your life so that you can be redeemed when you understand that it does something inside of you it does something to you and inside of you it makes you want to live white according to the righteousness of Christ according to your understanding we don't understand the death of the love that God has the deepness of this love but we do know that He loves us and because of that because of what he has already shown us it makes us want to get our houses in order because we want to love him back and we want to love him back in the way that he has created us to love him back and then the way that he's did it for us to do unto him and then and it has nothing to do with you looking at the law it has everything to do with you observing what Christ has done and that you haven't seen it but you've been preached to about it and you've believed it you received it so much that you visualized it out of your own eyes and with your own heart and you are persuaded by it therefore you've conformed your life to it because you believe what you heard God attributes the righteousness of Abraham unto you because you believe what Christ has done amen don't take down off that when you find yourself getting weak in the faith begin to get into the Word of God so that you can be built back up amen it has nothing to do about your works it has everything to do about your faith amen so he goes on to say the just shall live by faith and the law was not a faith but the man that doeth them shall live in them Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law being made a curse for us for it is written cursed is every one that hangeth of a tree that hangeth on a tree that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Christ Jesus God was grafted us in a long time ago when he told Abraham that ask if you can count the stars in heaven so shall be the number of your seed be so shall your seed be and what God was saying this through Christ your seed as Christ Jesus and all of them that would come up the faith will be poor be attributed to your righteousness it's amazing God was making a room for must God was making room for us even then amen so that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith brethren I speak after the manner of men though would be but a man's covenant yet if it be confirmed no man disa knoweth or add it there to what what Paul is saying is I know that I'm a mere man and I know I have a whole lot to say according to the matters of man but the promises that God has made no law later can this annul the promise that God has made God told Abraham that all the nations of the earth will be blessed you know because of him right because he is going to be the one that the seed will come through which is the Lord Jesus Christ is going to come through his loins okay and God is saying that all the nations of the earth will be blessed then law the law of Moses wasn't there at the time and now with the law of Moses having come the law of Moses cannot supersede the promise that God had made to Abraham concerning his seed the law of Moses can't it can't listen know that it can't void out the promise that God has made amen that's just the bottom line brother he says a brother I speak of I speak in the manner of a man verse 16 now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made he said not to see and to seeds as of many but as of one and to thy seed which is Christ so God was telling Abraham that your seed and he was speaking about the Lord as the Lord Jesus Christ will come through his bloodline through his seed that there will all will be part of one body of Christ through Jesus because Jesus is coming through the bloodline of Abraham and the way that abraham believed God for the things that he promised as God has promised him that all the nations will be blessed everyone that believes what God told Abraham you're a part of the faith everyone that believes that Christ is the only begotten of the Father you are part of the faith that if you believe that Jesus was that Jesus is the only begotten of the Father and that God raised him from the dead if you believe you're part of the faith you're part of the righteousness because that's all it takes and afterwards the law came the law of Moses came but the law of Moses can't supersede what God had already promised before the law was even placed on tablets it's impossible okay now Abraham and the sea would the promises made he saith not and to seeds as of many but as of one and to thy seed which is Christ and this I say that the Covenant that was confirmed before of God in Christ the law which was four hundred and thirty years after cannot dissin ul' that it should it should make the promise of none effect and that's what I'm that's what I was saying the law came 404 hundred and thirty years after God made the promise to a to Abraham and to his seed okay the the law after the long came it didn't take the place of faith it didn't do that it didn't void out God's promise either it's it's just didn't do that it's not possible okay it's not possible for if the inheritance be of the law it is no more of a promise the guy gave it to Abraham by promise so if we get our righteousness through the observance of the law then God never needed to make the promise to Abraham he never needed to tell Libra ham your faith is is it's counted as righteousness because you believed if God had another way for us to be righteous other than the the groundwork that he laid with Abraham did he never need to delay that groundwork with a with Abraham if it was all about us being under the law okay and God never needed to make a promise to Abraham about faith if we were going to have our righteousness in the law that's not but that's not the case that's not how it went down wherefore then serveth the law was it at it because of transgressions till the seed wherefore then serveth the law it was added because of transgressions till the seed should come to whom the promise was made and it was ordained by angels in the hand of the mediator so the question that Paul begins to ask is all of these things that you're saying about the law in contrast to the righteousness of Abraham if the law is not the same then why was the law added the law was added as a placeholder you see if something needed to be there to keep men from destruction to keep to keep the sins of men from calling upon the wrath of God to punish them for their sins there needed to be something there to buy us some time until Jesus came in because in the path that man was headed down life probably wouldn't be there until Christ came so God had to put somewhat of a placeholder there that placeholder is the law that's what God put there because of the transgressions of men it was meant to show you the law was meant to show you where you were broken how sinful you were so that you can do something about it that's what the law was there just to help slow your roll if you think about a new town then establishing a brand new place on a map being established and you start bringing in people from all communities to be a part of the new community and you don't have any law cuz law brings order so you don't have any law everybody just do what they want to do well it won't be long before that what you imagined that the Utopia that you were trying to present to everybody in this community it wouldn't be long before there was disorder because there was no order it wouldn't be loan that after you start bringing people in and you create your banks and your gas stations and your restaurants in and your housing complexes without no laws without no rules you put in streets and various things without any kind of law that's going to bring order people will be driving on the streets as far as fast as their cars can can get them people will go into restaurants and eat and never pay the bill people will rob people will rob come in and take money out of the bank that's not theirs there has to be order so therefore laws become established in the community to keep to keep the community thrive in and to help it grow until things get better you know the law was there to establish some order and and and to to let you know that you can be for disorder that's why and that's that's the purpose of the law and when you think about God bringing in the law without the law there was disorder and he wanted to bring Christ in but there was an appointed time for Christ to make us to make his showing to come in on the scene there was an appointed time until Christ can come God needed to place some kind of order there then there in is the law it was there because of the community being lawless there needed to be some laws there to allow there to be order in peace until Christ came that's the purpose of the law and then that was and was interesting as we're learning that it was given from the Angels the angels became like this mediator if you will from God to the angels from the Angels to Abram or if I'm sorry from I'm sorry not Abram to Moses so when you concerning the law of Moses God gave it to the angels to give to Moses now we find us out through Steven hold your place there and go with me to Acts chapter 7 verses 51 to 53 Acts chapter 7 verses 51 through 53 so Dave arrested Stephen one of the one of the disciples and they lied on them and got him arrested and as he's standing trial and he gets a chance to speak out his trial the Holy Spirit begins to rise up in him and he begins to cause some things out and according to the the moving of the Holy Spirit the Holy Spirit led him to say this and let's look at verses 51 through 53 you stiff Nick uncircumcised in your heart and ears you do always resist the Holy Ghost as your father's did so do you which of the Apostles which of the Apostles have not your father's persecuted and they have slain them which shown which showed before of the coming of the just one of whom you have now been betrayers and murderers of a murderers who have received the law by the disposition of angels and have not kept it so what at what Peter or not Peter what stick was Stephen is saying here is y'all as you put me on trial this what you're doing is common as your forefathers have done it every time the prophets will come and speak to them you would persecute them cast stones at them and take them out because you didn't want to hear the what the word that God had to say and they were given the words to speak based on the Angels the Angels gave the law for them to be able to speak and translate and give it to you the disposition of angels is whom we've gotten the law from and every time that someone would come and proclaim the law and the judgments of God you would take them out and so that's what Paul is saying here Paul is saying that it was given it was ordained by the angels in the hand of the mediator so the angels had it and then they gave it to Moses amen now a mediator is not a mediator of one but God is one is the law then against the promises of God god forbid for if if there had been a law given which could have given life verily righteousness should have been by the law so going back to the whole mediator thing it was God gave it to the angels to give to two of Moses and others but God Himself gave the law announcer I'm sorry God Himself gave promises to Abraham see God chose God had a middleman if you will to give the law to the you know two men he chose the angels to do so with the gift of faith and having this righteousness through faith God had no angels before him to do that what he did is he himself gave it to Abraham so there was no mediator between God and Abraham God personally gave this promise to Abraham when it came to his law God gave it to the angels to give to Moses and the other the the other or taters if you will Amen so is the law then against the promises of God god forbid for if there had been a law given which could have given life verily righteousness should have been by the law but the Scriptures has concluded all under sin that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believed but before faith came we were kept under the law shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ that we might be justified by faith so let me get you let me help you to understand kind of what a schoolmaster is and this is my dev layman terms back in the day I used to be a school bus monitor if you will like you would have as is something there were certain students back in when I was going to school there were certain students that the bus driver would have that you can kind of watch over people kind of a snitch if you will but you would kind of watch over some of the other students on the bus and make sure that there was nothing going zones if you will right and I was selected as part of that you know to help bring order or the help maintain order on the bus and so on and so forth I was a poor person as act it was nice to wear the title but I didn't do such a great job at that one day there was a in altercation on the bus that even led outside the bus and I remember multiple girls jumped on this one girl and now if I remember right it started on the bus and then it ended I'll saw off of the bus and it was pretty bad they all jumped on this one girl and I remember I feel bad about it because again it started on a bus and I kind of I was poor at my job I didn't mean I didn't care about the job it's been this kind of like this makeshift bus monitor an appointed person by the bus driver to watch over the bus you know they're trying to help maintain order I didn't do a good job at that but I felt bad knowing that this transpired on the bus okay so I remember the next day I remember walking the little girl home from school I walked her home when she got off the bus because I felt bad and I went in and I walked her home when her dad came to the door and I introduced myself and told him about what happened on the bus and and he asks what was my place and I told him and he was he was he was not he was not happy with me but he said I appreciate you walking my daughter home though and there was nothing funny there you know it was real platonic real innocent so I began to get off earlier instead of getting off that my stop daily would get off at her stop and just walk her home to make sure that you know she got home safe after a while I didn't need to do so because things started moving in the right direction with her she there was she no longer was a threat or had received threats from anybody that was going to do anything toward you know things had blown over had nothing to do with me it was just over the course of time things began to work out for her and after I seen that I've kind of relieved myself from that obligation of walking her home if you think about a schoolmaster the schoolmaster is the person that oversees you it's the thing that oversees you to to gear you to get you together to to help you get things in order so that you can one day be turned loose to to do as you've been taught to do what the law did for us as the law being our schoolmaster was show us where we're broken at and do what it can to walk us through our brokenness into our deliverance comes in Christ Jesus that's the schoolmaster the law was the schoolmaster is to what is to show you what your transgressions are and it's you can't get righteousness through the law but it is to try to help you to maintain that you don't get any worse and that you get a chance to heal and to grow until your deliverance come and that's what the Scoob now that may have been a bad example but that was the example that came to mind the schoolmaster walks you daily you know until you try until you don't need walking no more because you're now in the hands of your Liberator which is Christ Jesus it kind of begins to craft you and mold you as it's walking with you until you grow up enough and and be handed over to the Lord Jesus Christ that's the that's the schoolmaster it needed to be there for us which is the law of God it needed to be there as a placeholder to transition us into the Lord Jesus Christ to where we would be able to receive him through faith amen so that's the only example I thought it was appropriate maybe some people get it maybe maybe some people don't but that's the example that I have for you this day well for the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ that we might be justified by faith but after that faith has come we are no longer under a schoolmaster men because you've been released you're no longer under the schoolmaster once you've come on out of that walking home from school with transition you to where you you've been walked enough now you're on your own within the liberty of Christ Jesus for you are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus okay like I said that schoolmaster is like a tutor if you will for as many of you have been baptized into Jesus Christ so if many has been baptized into Christ have put on Christ there is neither Jew nor Greek there is neither bond nor free there is neither male nor female for ye are all one in Christ Jesus and if you be Christ's then you are the you are Abraham's seed and heirs according to the promise so yeah I believe that's going to do it for us as far as remaining in the book of Galatians going forth in another chapter my eternal God we take this opportunity to thank you for giving us your word for helping us to understand that you thought you thought of us even back in the day of Abraham that you would even be mindful of us even then that you would graft us in and allow us to be heirs sons and daughters that have yet to walk the earth but you knew one day we would be brought forth and be made of the children of Abraham of the heirs of God Lord we thank you for being so mindful of us and even to this day you are mindful of us we thank you for allowing your word to be spoken to us we thank you for allowing your spirit to dwell inside of us that we can be transformed that we can receive Jesus as Lord and be accounted though the faith of Abraham the righteousness through Jesus Christ Lord we thank you thank you for justifying us now father help us to continue along this path help us to to guard our faith to not take down to not let someone persuade us or tell or talk us out of our liberty and put us in the chains of unrighteousness lord help us to maintain our Liberty and Christ Jesus help us to please you with our faith I thank you for being God all by yourself and allowing us to call you Father allowing us to say Abba unto you Lord God I thank you for so many things that you do so often in Jesus name we pray amen go with me if you will to Luke Luke 15 Luke chapter 15 Luke chapter 15 let's begin at verse 1 then drew near unto him all the publicans and sinners for to hear him why are they trying to hear him because Jesus is the word he is the way he is the life no one can come to the Father except they go through the son so in order to have change in your life you need to be able to hear you need some instruction you need some encouragement and they went to him they didn't wait for Jesus to come to them they went to where he was at and then then drew near unto him all the publicans people that are broken people that are broken and whose lines whose lives have not gone in the way that they felt they should go people that have some issues they came to the Lord Jesus amen and here's what I find interesting as we read this passage of Scripture sinners have no problem going to Jesus they don't have the shame going to Jesus because they're looking for a way out of their shame they're looking to get rid of what's brought them the shame when we as Christians mess up it's it it becomes hard to go to Jesus because we kind of feel like we walk in condemnation but you got to remember when you didn't know any better you knew enough to know that Jesus would welcome you you're not going to be perfect every day all the time but if you should happen to fall god forbid that you do but if you should happen to follow Jesus is there to help pick you up to strengthen you so that you don't fall like that again don't stay away from him go to him amen go to him so then drew near unto him all the publicans and sinners for to hear him and the Pharisees and the scribes they murmured saying this man receiveth sinners and eat it with them now again you have to realize that you're broken and if I see somebody going to get help and I know I need some help I need to be going in that same direction but in station instead of them seeing this the Pharisees and the publicans instead of them seeing what's broken about themselves they're looking at Jesus and calling him broken because he's hanging out with other people that are broke not knowing that they're being fixed because the doctor is making house calls the doctor is there being personal personal with them taking time out and instead of them going for the healing they're downing him because because they've he's hanging out with others whom they've downed as well amen so Jesus understand what's going on here he understand what they're murmuring what they're trying to say in secret Jesus actually hears it publicly ok so then he begins to address it and he says in verse four what man of you having a hundred sheep if he lose one of them doeth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness and go after that which is lost until he find it and when he have found it he lay it that on his shoulder rejoicing and when he cometh home he call it together his friends and his neighbors saying unto them rejoice with me for I found my sheep which was lost I say unto you that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth then over ninety and nine just persons which needs no repentance now some powerful statement that he is saying and he is saying that on behalf of the ones that are condemning him he's trying to get them to understand that all of these people whom y'all look at has been the downtrodden and the broken they're coming back to the Lord God whom they've walked away from and God sees because God made a place for them long time ago the fact that they're coming back to the Lord God that he is going to save them it causes heaven to rejoice and God cares for them just like just like those that that are high-minded or those that seem to have it together God cares for those that don't have it together and when they have a desire to get it together God makes a way for it to happen for them and when they and when they let God help them get it together heaven rejoices because God had takes no pleasure in in in the death of the righteous in the depth of the unrighteous I'm it I should say I forgive me God takes no pleasure in the death of the unrighteous a man he doesn't he doesn't a desire to see sinners perish that's not how he operates and so if if one sinner can come unto repentance heaven celebrates over that that's why Jesus takes time to to minister to people in the areas in which they're broken and they're trying to deliver them from the very thing that that got them broke right and tried to heal them and deliver them so that they are they have repented of their sins verse 8 heed either what woman having ten pieces of silver if she lose one piece do not light at the candle and sweep the house and seek diligently till she finds it and when she found it she called it her friends and her neighbors together saying rejoice with before I found the peace which I lost likewise I say unto you there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth so Jesus was telling him why he's hanging around sinners and publicans and it's a message to us to understand don't be ashamed if you're walking by faith and something happened that you fall get up and go back to Christ repent and confess your faults so that he can heal you those of you that have been in the world and and you're tired and you're broken and you're weary and you you want to be rescued Christ is there to rescue you you have to be minton you have to be willing to meet him where he is and he'll deliver you because God cares for you you're a part of the ones that are supposed to be saved whose names are written in the Lamb's Book of Life you just got to come and get the salvation that's being offered to you amen let's continue to read on verse 11 a certain man had two sons the younger of them said to the father father give me the portion of goods that fallen to me and he divided unto them his living so though he had two sons one son says look I know you don't put up some a trust fund for me I need to get that trust fund it said a wait until I'm 25 I wear the habit now and you know what father was like so be it he got out of the way got to trust for him and let him have it okay now many days after the younger son gathered all together and took his journey into a far country and there wasted his substance with riotous living he gambled his money away frivolous and living probably you know well no matter whatever is don't partying with the money what have you he wasted the money he never saved it he never put it up and when he has spent all there arose a mighty famine in the land and he began to be in want because he didn't say and he went and he joined himself to a citizen of that country and he and he sent him into the fields to feed the swine the pigs so he was smart enough to know that I need a job and I need some money too to help put me up so I can survive and so as he was hungry and starving the as he went and found work the his bosses seemed to care more about the feeding of the pigs than the feeding of the person so he got a job having to feed the pigs and he would have feigned meaning that he would have loved to fill his belly with the very thing that he was feeding the pigs with the husk that he that despised did he and no man gave unto him and when he when he came to himself he said how many hired servants of my father's have bread enough to spare and not perish with hunger so when he came to his senses he began to look at his situation and how he got himself into it meaning that he started to take some responsibility he looked at what he did what he did wrong and he realized that his father's house wasn't that wasn't bad he said his father and his father's house things were so well off that even the servants had enough bread to last and he looked at his own situation I'm the son and I left I left my father and I don't even have enough food to feed myself but yet the pigs eat I will arise and go to my father and I will say unto him father I have sinned against heaven and before thee and I'm no more worthy to be called thy son make me as one of the hired servants taking responsibility repentance turning away from your sin taking responsibility and then confessing your faults that's what taking responsibility is turning away from your sin taking responsibility confess and letting them know that letting who no I've done wrong I take responsibility this is I did this on my own volition you know I made the choice to do it and I went through with it I was wrong no one made me do it I chose to do it that's taking responsibility for it and then so this person this son looked at the fact that he messed up he appropriate father's house with his money kicked it hard lost his money found found himself in a state of desperation feet and pigs and considering eating the food shortchanging a pig so that he can eat and he thought about his father's house and he made the decision he had to humble himself he made a decision to say I'm going to go back and I'm going to see if my father will let me come back and I'ma let him know that because of the way that I left I don't want to come back expecting the same the same treatment that I had before I left if you would just let me come back and stay in the servants quarter and serve as a servant I will be happy just as long as you let me back in okay so he humbled himself he arose he came to his father but when he was a wave when he was yet a great way off his father saw him and had compassion and ran fell on his neck and kissed him so as his father was probably sitting on a porch rocking back and forth all of a sudden past yonder he see a son coming and he looks it was like is that my boy he sees them coming and he was like that's my son he gets up at here run out there and he meets his son sees them fall on him kiss them on the back of his neck the one said to the father I have sinned against heaven and in designing them and no more worthy to be called thy son he didn't let the the motion of the moment take away his responsibility to confess his sin he didn't let that moment pass by he made sure that he took responsibility regardless of how emotional the moment was but the father said to the servant bring forth the best robe and put it on him put a rein on his hand and shoes on his feet and bring hitter bring hither the fatted calf and kill it and let us be let us eat and be merry for this my son was dead and is alive again he was lost and is found and they began to be married no matter what you've done you're going to make some mistakes but no matter what you've done go back from which he came the one that loved you and have delivered you in the first place go back and if you've never accepted him before go to him regardless of what you've done where you been what you've been doing go to him and he will receive you and he will cleanse you of all unrighteousness he put a new robe put a ring on a finger to let him know that he belongs to me put a new robe and new sandals on the feet that's what God will do to us if we humble ourselves if we repent if we confess our faults take responsibility God will take care of us amen go with me to Matthew chapter 11 verses 28 through 30 verses 28 through 30 come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden and I will give you rest Jesus is inviting all from every walk of life to come unto Him and he's and he's calling out what he sees wrong you're burdened down and you're tired I see it and I want to deliver you from the very thing that's been wearing you out and wearing you down he says take my yoke upon you and learn of me for I am meek and I'm lowly in heart and not you and you shall find rest for your souls he says learn of me it's important that when we come into the kingdom of God we're not trying to get God to learn us to learn our ways we're positioning ourselves and surrendering ourselves so that we can learn Christ's ways because if we begin to understand how the King operates his kingdom will begin to prosper in the kingdom if you come in to the land and the first thing you want to do is learn the laws and the language of the land having done so you begin to put yourself in position in position to prosper in that land once you learn the way things are and that's what Christ is saying to us if we come in and let him and allow Him to rule over us if we come into his kingdom as a citizen and allow him to rule and reign over us if we learn of him we will begin to prosper in the kingdom amen he says for my he says for my yoke is easy and my burden is light I'm not going to put the restraints the burdens on you that you had outside of the kingdom that the very things that chased you out of the world and brought you into my kingdom I'm not going to do the same thing to push you out of the kingdom and send you into the world he's just not like that he says if anything you'll be going out out of the kingdom to find other people and testify about how good our kingdom is and you'll do what you can to persuade them to follow you back into the kingdom but he's not going to be the kind of king told to rule over you to wear you down and wear you out to where you end up being ran out of the kingdom it don't work like that now he's letting you know what he's willing to do for you the decision is still yours if you will allow him to reign and rule over you he is inviting you to be a citizen of his kingdom but it's up to you if you will accept his invitation and if you accept his invitation he expects you to conform to him and not you expecting him to conform to you and man so you chose to accept his king his offer Romans 10 beginning at verse 9 that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus and shalt believe in thine heart that God has raised him from the dead thou shalt be saved for with the heart man believeth unto righteousness and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation so you believe in your heart and confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus but saying that Jesus is Lord the only begotten of the father you believe in your heart and confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord the only begotten of the father a man and you're making him when you call him Lord you're making him lord over your life you're saying that I'm going to commit to serving the king he can set a throne up in my heart and rule over my life when your call when you call him Lord you're making him lord over your life and so believe because you believe that God raised him from the dead if you call upon him you shall be saved whoo so it says for with the heart man believeth unto righteousness with the mouth confession is made unto salvation for the scripture saith whosoever Chthon him shall not be ashamed meaning that he's not going to let you down if you take a chance on believing in him for there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek for the same Lord is rich over all that calleth upon him we already read that according to Abraham off all the nations of the earth will be blessed because of the faith of Abraham and then for who others shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved so we see that God has is requiring us to do our part so that he can do his part his part is to save us all part is to call on him so that we can be saved if I were you I will call on him right now and let the Lord let God know I believe in the Lord Jesus Christ that he is your only begotten Son I make him lord over my life I'll repent of my sins I confess my sins unto you to let you know what they are so that you can forgive me for them and this day going forward I commit to serving the Lord Jesus Christ I once was a sinner but through Christ I am now saved even by the righteousness attributed to the faith of Abraham Lord God cleanse me up and clean me out I now serve Jesus who was now my Lord and my Savior thank you lord go with me to 1st John chapter 1 verses 8 through 10 first John chapter 1 verses 8 through 10 if we say that we have no sin we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us if we confess our sin he is faithful and just to forgive us of our sins and to cleanse us of all unrighteousness I say again if we take responsibility if we confess our sins he is faithful and just to forgive us of our sins and to cleanse us of all unrighteousness we repent and confess that's taken responsibility repent and confess God forgives and cleanse we repent and confess God forgives and cleanse if we don't do our part he doesn't do his part if we say that we have not sinned we make him alive and his word is not in US so if we don't confess he don't forgive if if we don't repent he can't cleanse us from the sin we have to if we say that ain't nothing wrong then he don't waste his time if we do our part he does his part okay go with me to Psalm 32 verse 5 psalm 32 verse 5 I acknowledged my sin unto thee and my iniquity have I not hid I will confess my transgressions unto the Lord and thou forgave us the iniquity of my sin Selah amen so again I acknowledge my sin unto thee and my iniquity have I not hid I said I will confess my transgressions unto the Lord and thou forgave us the iniquity of my sin so again even David understood that if you want to be healed you have to repent and you have to confess don't try to hide it let the Lord know what you've done so that he can help you that he can forgive you and that he can heal you that he can cleanse you of it Amen you don't want to just do it and just don't let him know what you've done you know you want to not do it and if it so happened that you did whatever it is that you've sinned repent of it confess it let him know what you've done and that you've repented of it and he will cleanse you of it and forgive you of it amen go with me to Acts chapter 2 let's take a look at verses 36 all the way through verses 36 through 47 this is this particular event references a day of Pentecost when this particular day of Pentecost the Holy Ghost fell down upon the disciples and not only did the holy ghost fall on the disciples but it actually came inside them amen and began to use their tongues to speak in the native language of all the different foreigners or those that were there to observe this day of pentacles from all over the Holy Ghost spoke in their native language so if you have people that were there from Asia Cappadocia people that were there from Greece people that were there from Africa the the Holy Spirit operating inside of the disciples begin to speak in the language of the different worshipers that were there and and it did that to get their intention and once the Holy Ghost had their intention Peter began to minister the gospel to him remember faith comes by hearing and hearing comes by the Word of God so Peter begins to preach the gospel to them and we'll pick this up at verse 36 of Acts chapter 2 therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly that God had made that same Jesus whom you've crucified both Lord and Christ so Paul I'm sorry Peter is saying that you've may not have been the one to drive the nails through the hands of Jesus to crucify him on that cross but your lifestyle makes you just as complicit as those that had done that to him and that goes for us too we've may not have been a one to pierce him on the sign to put lashes on his back we've made that may not have been a ones to physically put nails in his hands in the feet and hung them on a cross crucifying him we've may not not have been a ones to have physically done that but our lifestyles our rejection of Jesus make us just as complicit and chargeable as those that had done that to him now when they heard this they were pricked they were convicted in their heart and said unto Peter and to the rest of the Apostles men and brethren what shall we do so they heard they heard the truth they heard and received the truth that Jesus is Lord and when they heard that sermon faith comes comes by hearing and hearing comes about a Word of God when they heard the Word of God it began to convict him which to start of their transformation and so they said look we believe what you're saying where do we go from here how do we correct this and here's what Peter says in verse 30 38 repent turn away from your sins once and for all then he goes on to say be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus for the remission of sins so let's talk a little bit about baptism through the ceremony of baptism we are when we go down into the water we are being buried in Christ Jesus our old man goes down into the water this is why we don't take some water and just sprinkle you know because that doesn't represent you being buried in Christ Jesus you have to be totally submerged in the water that represents you being buried in Christ Jesus Christ wasn't partially died partially dead on a cross he fully laid his life down on that cross meaning that he was fully dead amen he was taken down off the cross and he was laid to rest in the tomb okay so when you are being buried when you are going through the ceremony of baptism you are being buried in Christ Jesus you're being laid laid to rest in the waters of Baptism and as you are totally submerged in the water your old man is going down in the water when you are being brought up out of the water you are being resurrected in the in Christ Jesus we are buried in Christ Jesus as we are resurrected in Christ Jesus our old man goes down into the water our new man comes up out of the water your new man comes up out of the water all things are made new your sins have been washed away it's important that you get baptized and I know now that we are in a constant state of lockdown a social distancing and all this other thing all these other things which makes it difficult for you to fulfill your obligation of baptism but you still have to strive to get it done and let God know that you've accepted Jesus as Lord and Savior that you believe Jesus is the only begotten son of the Father and that you believe and you are committed to serving Jesus Christ and you want to be baptized and again your old man is going to go down into water because you are buried in Christ Jesus your new man comes up out of the water it can be done in the comfort of your home right there in your bathtub it's not about where you have it done it's about your getting it done just as long as you're fully submerged in that water you'll go down in the water and you'll immediately be brought up out of the water all your sins have been washed away all things are made new so you definitely want to get that done amen and go with me to Romans chapter 6 verses 3 through 6 Romans chapter 6 verses 3 through 6 know ye not that so many of us were baptized in Jesus Christ were baptized into his death therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father even so we also should walk in the newness of life for if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death we shall also be in the likeness of his resurrection knowing this that our old man is crucified with him that the body of sin might be destroyed that henceforth we shall not serve sin so you definitely want to let God know that you want to be baptized and acts God to help you facilitate the ceremony of baptism amen so then Peter tells them be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit of the Holy Ghost and we've talked about that God gives you the indwelling of the Holy Spirit and that's what Paul mentioned did you get the gift of the Spirit bod the works or about the faith which one is and how the despair come you know because if if you got this the Spirit of God based on your works you never needed to hear the word of God you never needed the faith if that's what it took but that's not that's not what it took everybody would have always had the Spirit of God abiding in them but it didn't work like that by the faith that we have in Jesus Christ makes us candidates to receive the Spirit of God dwelling inside of us and then it's by our faith in Christ Jesus for the promise is unto you and to your children to all there are far off even as many as the Lord God shall call this is that promise that he made to Abraham that whosoever shall believe just as Abraham believed that all will be being be saved that you will be Canoe be counted as justified the righteousness of Christ through because you're the seed of Abraham you're part of that seed amen and that promise not only goes towards you but to your children and to your children's children so when we look at our family members and when we look at how God how far away we were from from God and how he was able to save us it gives us hope for our family members that they'll be saved to our children and our family members amen and with many of the words did he testify and exhort saying save yourselves from this godless generation put yourselves in position God will save you if you do your part and Peter is telling them to do their part to get saved he says when many it says what many other words did he testify and exhort saying save yourselves from this this godless generation then they that gladly received the word were baptized then the same day there were added unto them about 3,000 souls so when when when you receive the word of God by faith it moves you towards action amen and you want to follow in the footsteps of the action that you move to take amen and they continued steadfastly in the Apostles doctrine and in fellowship and in the breaking of bread and in prayers whatever God has done to transform you to get you to this point for you to be a candidate of salvation and now having see the gift that God has offered you don't stop doing those things you don't stop reading a word you don't stop praying you don't stop fasting you don't stop fellowshipping you continue in those things that got you to where you are in the first place you don't take your foot off the gas if anything you've you push it full speed ahead and then because if you become stagnant there's a danger that you begin to go back and fall away from the faith and then and fear came upon every soul with many wonders and signs and and I'm sorry and many wonders and signs were done by the apostles all that believed were together and had all things common and sold their possessions and goods and depart and they parted them to all men as to every man had need so whatever purse whatever a person needed they were able to get out of the church because everybody put in everybody helped to make sure that people were taken care of and they continued daily with one Accord in the temple and breaking bread from house to house did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart praising God and having favor with all people and the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved eternal God we thank you for long-suffering thank you for calling us out of bondage into the liberty of Christ Jesus thank you for allowing our names to be written in the Lamb's Book of Life thank you for giving us signs and wonders and creating us with callings Oh God to help us believe and to help us worship you and edify our brothers and sisters in the body of Christ father those who have heard the word being preached to them and have declared Jesus as Lord of their lives having received this word of faith have declared Jesus as Lord by faith even by the faith of Abraham father we pray for them this that she would equip them that you would strengthen them that you would cleanse them of all unrighteousness and father that they'd be welcomed into the kingdom with all gifts and callings father I bless you and I thank you for them for you have blessed them O God now father we pray in the name of Jesus that you allow your spirit to dwell in them as well O God that you would fill them with your Holy Ghost and father transform them on the inside out and then father let the light of Christ Jesus which abides in them let it help lead and guide others to the gift of salvation that's being offered father thank you for adding to the signs of our family those that I've accepted Jesus as Lord and Savior father strengthen them so that they fall not back into the world but that they become instrumental in the workings of the kingdom father it said in thy word the harvest is plenteous but the laborers are few therefore we pray that even they who just transitioned from the world to the kingdom that you would send them back and send send them into the world that they should reap father that they should produce that they should declare you truth when the time is right that you would send them as you would need and that you would be glorified by the workings of their gifts and callings god I thank you thank you for being such a gracious merciful kind-hearted loving compassionate powerful mindful God thank you for being God the God of Abraham of Isaac and of Jacob and allowing this allowing us to be heirs I thank you father in Jesus name we pray folks I thank you for a loan you VC thank you for allowing us I thank you for allowing you BC to be a part of your Bible study you're not a body of Christ thank you for allowing us to pray with you to pray for you to minister the word to you thank you for your support of this ministry checking in on my family praying for us praying for those on a prayer list thank you for all that you do and God is mindful of everything that you do concerning the kingdom if even if you're doing it through this ministry God is mindful I just wanted to take this opportunity to acknowledge your works amen to acknowledge your faith amen our benediction as usual comes from Numbers chapter 6 verses 24 through 26 and now loose this on you by faith that you would receive it by faith amen the Lord bless thee and keep thee the Lord the Lord make his face to shine upon thee and be gracious unto me the Lord lift up his countenance upon thee and give thee peace and I pray that you receive it for it's being loosed unto you that you would receive it the peace of Jesus Christ the blessings of Abraham and God lifting up his countenance upon D I pray that you would receive it in Jesus name and Buffy god bless you god bless you my brothers and sisters I faith in God through Jesus Christ regardless of what's going on around you regardless of what's going on in your finances God let's have faith in God through Jesus Christ amen we look forward to our next broadcast thank you we love you this has been a united body of Christchurch video production you can visit our website at WWDC church or [Music]

Channel: Clarence Hardin

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Keywords: GOD, CREATOR, LORD JESUS CHRIST, bible study

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Length: 114min 22sec (6862 seconds)

Published: Sun May 10 2020