god who is the word of god given to originally the jews the old testament is given to them is there an advantage today yes they were trusted to proclaim the word of god the jewish nation was trust means a leg god be true that everyone else be an eye or liar so a people tell me they come to him well his christians are hypocrites i say you're right every human being is a hypocrite at times every human being doesn't live exactly how they say they're going to live the issues and if they're hypocrites is that is god a hypocrite is god a liar has got a lustful man has got a woman that turns around and turns written that you may be justified in your words and prevail when you are judged they do this and god is going to be justified by his words and he's going to prevail when people judge who god is and the end of the age every atheist every agnostic every other religion that will they be judged in the end will god be justified in the end absolutely you know what this is powerful deployed to yourself if you're living according to scripture you live in a court of god then guess what day you may be justified in your words because you speak nothing but truth if you speak truth will you be justified in your words absolutely prevail when you are judged i want to live my life so that my words make me justify the words i speak to life i live when those who judge me they judge me by what they have to judge but my acts my words i will live in such a way that yes joe still find some stuff for me anybody know that ask my wife where is my wife where my wife goal she ran away good you can ask her again find out what does it in and the secret closet someplace but the key is is just as god will not be judged because he's a man of his where the jews the question the jews are asking so you know what if we're going to make god look just by us continuing in rebellion and sin and him show mercy because because he's a merciful god that proves when he says he's merciful we get giving him a chance to show as merciful by our sin think about that does that sound stupid does this sound crazy do you know people live that way you know what grace now we don't normally say that and do that but how many of us in our head when we're going to do the sin we try to figure out a way that we can justify this then that's what paul is talking about here he's addressing us not just the jews and what d own because there's something that you have and as the disease in this occurs and it's called the curse of sin you are born with a simple nature and you cannot get away from that the reality is all of us are born with the sinful nature and that's what he's talking about so that's why we're all the same so if we realize that all of us fall short that maybe we should live our lives to keep from falling short maybe we should put some boundaries in our life and some things in our lives so that if we know we're going to fall short there's less chance of falling short holding here is we all fall short can't judge one another by fall on the shore because well paul sure but there are consequences for the behavior we have and today i can control my behavior i can't change what i did eight hundred nine hundred twenty twenty one years old i can change what i do today this here we should be living this principle i fall short i deserve judgment just like anybody else what do i need to do to get my life in order first nineteen now we know that whatever the law says a speaks to those who are under the law so that every mouth may be stopped and the whole world may be held accountable to god for by the works of the law no human being will be justified in god's sight since to the law comes the knowledge of sin he's saying what was the purpose of the law the purpose the law is the point what sin is the purpose the lazcano about here i believe that law is the ten commandments the law is the moral law not to lie about what day you worship on not the law what food you eat what clothes you wear but the moral law the moral law was given for one purpose the moral law was given to show us what before moses gave the ten commandments  there was a ten commandments but did they know not to kill before then absolutely not to still before then yeah you knew what not to do with the law was there given for a purpose it was the show the jews look here is what god is commanding and his command you to live up to it as a people as a nation to reflect the character of god you are to follow our air read bit of this law and it was given to them to show them that there is no way they could do it and what should they have done with it was given the law they should have said i can't do it and they should be that they said we couldn't do it what would have happened somebody had to come in to give the bill to do it who's that jesus they said would do it would do it would do it how many of us do christian is a christian that's trying to change your life on their own try to kid quit a bad habit on your own your own strength and everybody could tell you to quit that habit but do you have god's grace to do it you can't do it in a policy in here what he's looking at saying is that listen the law was given to give us the knowledge of sin why so that we had no we need a savior when the jews had along they found out they need something more than the law so what would they do at that time if they said what they have to do they had to make sacrifices they understood that if you broke that law if you violated the moral law of god that there was a consequence and the only way to have forgiveness was the big sacrifice is no different than us as believers in jesus christ when we sin we make a sacrifice you know what that sacrifice is i confess my sins here i am god i give you my life not an animal's life it's easy  given animals life especially still the neighbor's animal to use as your sacrifice ok but when you give your life as a sacrifice you give your all here i am i give you myself verse twenty one but now the rushes god has been manifested apart from the law although the law of the prophets bear witness to it the righteous of god through faith in jesus christ christ for all who believe if you believe in jesus christ as your lord and savior believe that's the way you have forgiveness do you have salvation whether jew or gentile nationality skin color language doesn't matter so here's the money buy me a gift and then she gives it to me is that a gift no she was just a vessel to buy what i gave the money to buy for me katie the gift is when somebody gives it to you that you couldn't purchase yourself and it says are there just by by by his grace as a gift or that we demean those in christ jesus first twenty five whom god put forward as a pro pitchy ation by his blood to be received by that actually that word coming from the word mercy seat the propitiation for our sins is that he paid the price he was the mercy seat for sense if anybody knows in the old testament there was the mercy seat and what he's saying is that jesus by his mercy has given us salvation has his mercy that he gives a salvation because we don't deserve it we do judgment instead of judgement he gives us mercy listen you get you're not going to tell me read it and then when i explain it this was a show god's righteousness because in his divine for barents he passed over former sins listen if god's a righteous god he must judge then what this is saying is god is righteous so there had to be a judgement percent the judgment was paid by jesus christ in his blood god did not change the law all erase the law god fulfilled the law did you hear me god did not do away with the laws so that we may be saved god fulfilled the law through jesus christ so that we may be say that's critical because otherwise you don't think the law was done away with it was to show his righteous at the present time so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in jesus christ so that in the future when god judges he is right is by judging based if you receive jesus or not verse twenty seven then what becomes our boasting is excluded but a lot of works no by the law of faith we cannot boast of keeping the law because in a way we can even keep the law is through jesus christ what he's addressing there is legalism anybody ever met christians that i called egoless to christians you know what they're like what you wear you know women should not wear jeans certainly in church if you wear because you tell you can't go to those sinful movies so appall saying here is that we are not to be judging our relationship with god or other people a ship by god by how much they follow the law keep in the law about all those things he's talking about that we're justified by faith apart from the works of the law when we are saved and we're serving god we don't live according to the law embodied to the law what i mean by that is that you can accept jesus by faith and the live by works afterwords it's bondi beach because if you accept jesus by faith live by works that i will tell you all the days you need to do to be a good christian and then you will live by works try to do those things without the power of god you'll be a miserable christian because you're trying to live according to works and by the law but does that mean we get rid of the law absolutely not and we're going to see this in just a moment freehold that one is justified by faith apart from works of the law verse twenty nine or is god the god of the jews only is he not the god of gentiles also yes of gentles also since god is one who will justify the circumcised by faith and uncircumcised uncircumcised through faith do we didn't overthrow the like that the moral law all the laws been done away with because you know what is our schoolmaster we don't need it anymore how many know that we still need the law this think about it now we're all born again and so you know what this throughout all the police officers is to all the judges do you honestly believe that people don't like people say we're a christian nation we're not a christian nation we're nation founded on christian principles there's a big difference we're found a christian principle or not a say that we are right here but i no mean listen do we didn't overthrow the law by this fate by no means the contrary of all the law does the bible say we're not supposed to get rid of the law ok now again we're not talking about the ceremonial law we're not  them but the moral law pretty much the ten commandments jesus spoke about the ten commandments he brought up the ten commandments ok and what is saying here is that we don't get rid of the law just because we were saved we need the law you know why we need the law to contain remind us that we are sinners saved by faith because eva no i'm born again every time i look at that law what is a reminder of i need jesus doesn't it and just to make sure that jesus did they should get rid of the law jesus turns around and says if you even look at it when with lust you committed a sin you committed adultery so jesus then lessened the law would he do he increased the law he made as strict or not lesser wise and important because the law is always there to point to us where we fall short but the law is also there was to show us what we can strive  for we can head towards lean towards have as a goal towards what we have to remember something on the way we can do it and then we can uphold the laws by what by his grace so i want you to think about something as i if we are saved by faith should we not live by faith or do i get saved by faith and then i live by works or do i get saved by faith and then i just live with the haphazard life of whatever you know what i'm saved by faith and so it isn't by works so you know what i'm going to turn around and i'm a live wherever i live because you know i'll be in heaven and you know what it don't matter here on earth that's a cop out and that does not glorify god whatsoever i can tell you as an atheist didn't believe in a god if there were christians that all said we just get rid of the law and the law doesn't matter we live how we want to live i would have never been a christian by my be a christian if you can live the same way as me why be a christian you guys are obligated go to church i don't have to go to church live the way i live so out of it there comes a place that we acknowledge i am a sinner i need a savior i'll need a savior to the day i die the law points to the fact i need a savior and that's why it continues the strive to work a life that  out the life i live so that i can become forms of that law so i can glorify god but in the end me keeping the law will not get me saved and it doesn't make me a better christian he meant those people if you just to walk in hall in this recall to live according to the standard that god has given us and the only way to do is by his faith by his grace and he's give me enough faith in grace to be able to do it and when i don't have enough faith to do it what do i do i prayed ask him to give me the faith to do it i got i got this and that's how this controlling me right now is controlling is manipulating me and it says here i am saved by faith that they could got i got the sin that controls me but i'm still save i'm still going to heaven but when i got the said that's controlling me and i want to have the faith to believe that you can set me free and if we had that kind of mindset we'd get free a lot more but out of it i've been a christian longer than jeff i'm a been a pastor for years i've been a bible scholar in the else jeff has learned how to walk this life i probably walk in more righteousness than jab but the washes i walk more than jeff  by faith in christ jesus is by something that god's done and me that's something that i worked up after so many years as a christian and the rices i walk in jeff has the same people go to walk in if you accepted jesus yesterday is that true can a person except jesus at this pulpit right now can that person tomorrow walk in the same right as that i walk in absolutely can by the grace of god who is going to take praying studying the word crying out to god confession repentance is going to take a whole lot of days that no we don't happen in twenty four hours so it's a process but there's the capability of walking that out so is this chapter all about you know in the law and not law all that stuff what i want you to take away were saved by faith and that we can walk in the righteous god through christ jesus and we can be a testimony to the rest of the ruled by christ jesus living within our life that should be the desire of all of us is there something that you're holding onto that you need to let go is there something controlling you that you need to let go this close in prayer lord every time i do a sermon there's a problem and the problem is it speaks to me in a points out  shortcomings my own sin and today as in the midst of worship i was thinking of i have some identities i have i'm a i'm a board person i'm a person who has no problem speaking truth i'm a person who is not ashamed of the gospel i'm a person that will stand for truth even if it offends at times and lot of times i take on a belief that most make their politics or their sin or something else more important than jesus and then you spoke to me and says i take pride in the rushes that i walk in and as much i don't want to think of me as a self righteous man because i really don't believe i'm doing the body else my behavior and actions could come across so different it's a lot i want to make sure that in my identity made in a tease in you in who i am because reality without christ i am nothing lord i pray for anybody in this room or they're struggling with something the sum area of their life lower they haven't given it all i pray they'll give it all to you they give everything to you lord they say here i am mold me shape me change me make me truly a new creation in christ jesus make me a wholly devoted follower of jesus christ may i be a reflection of christ in the life that i live may i be a person i pray this is the spoken the truth about my life may that be who we are lord god so that we can be a powerful testimony for christ jesus and i pray this in jesus name amen but this master ridge you need to know jesus christ your lord our website to learn how to accept jesus christ as your lord and savior you can go to there is hope t v god or there's there is hope t v dot org and we have information on frequently asked questions about christianity we let you know step by step  you have been listening to me very so with pastor richard over through jesus christ we can live a victorious life seattle open door church located in during committed to loving god loving people and loving an open door church once you know that regardless of where you've been or what you've done god 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