WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:00.140 Amen. 00:01.340 --> 00:01.960 Amen. 00:02.460 --> 00:04.640 So here in Romans chapter number four, 00:04.780 --> 00:06.460 we have a really clear statement in verse five. 00:06.620 --> 00:06.800 It says, 00:06.980 --> 00:08.720 but to him that worketh not, 00:09.400 --> 00:12.380 but believeeth on him that justify the ungodly, 00:12.960 --> 00:14.880 his faith is counted for righteousness. 00:15.260 --> 00:17.620 And I believe that this is an important verse 00:17.620 --> 00:20.780 to help us understand that faith alone 00:21.370 --> 00:23.240 is enough to save someone. 00:25.000 --> 00:26.540 That's an important phrase. 00:26.720 --> 00:28.520 And that's what I'm preaching about tonight 00:28.520 --> 00:30.260 is faith alone enough. 00:30.980 --> 00:32.000 And the answer is yes. 00:32.560 --> 00:36.440 And it's really to combat what I hear often taught 00:36.440 --> 00:38.220 about saving faith. 00:38.480 --> 00:40.600 Some people will give this terminology 00:40.600 --> 00:44.580 of saving faith versus a non-saving faith. 00:45.000 --> 00:48.360 And they try to act like you can believe the gospel, 00:48.980 --> 00:50.860 but if you don't have enough works 00:50.860 --> 00:52.280 that you're still not saved. 00:52.900 --> 00:56.300 And I really wanna dispel that idea this evening 00:56.820 --> 00:58.540 and look at what scripture says, 00:58.740 --> 01:02.240 but notice very carefully a few things about verse five. 01:02.660 --> 01:04.420 It says someone that worketh not. 01:04.720 --> 01:08.400 So it's not saying that they're working, 01:08.820 --> 01:10.720 but they were justified by their faith. 01:11.020 --> 01:12.260 It's saying they're not working. 01:13.060 --> 01:15.140 So it's saying someone that's not doing any works. 01:15.680 --> 01:17.100 And then it says additionally, 01:17.740 --> 01:18.960 but believeeth on him that justify, 01:19.280 --> 01:21.120 notice this, the ungodly. 01:21.620 --> 01:25.720 It's not, the word justify in the Bible 01:26.020 --> 01:27.980 is meaning to declare just. 01:28.740 --> 01:30.740 Okay, we're declaring someone just. 01:31.300 --> 01:35.480 Declaring someone just is declaring someone morally right. 01:36.060 --> 01:40.960 How can we declare someone morally right that is ungodly? 01:41.020 --> 01:42.580 This is almost like a contradiction 01:42.580 --> 01:46.280 because ungodly means they're not morally right, 01:46.440 --> 01:48.820 but we're declaring them morally right. 01:48.960 --> 01:49.540 Why? 01:49.880 --> 01:50.440 Through faith. 01:51.060 --> 01:52.680 Now again, how can that make sense? 01:52.680 --> 01:55.760 It's because Jesus was morally right. 01:56.140 --> 01:57.680 Jesus was righteous. 01:58.440 --> 01:59.820 And so when we believe in Jesus, 02:00.120 --> 02:03.680 his righteousness is then applied to us. 02:04.440 --> 02:06.340 So what causes me to be just, 02:06.720 --> 02:08.360 what causes me to be justified, 02:09.000 --> 02:10.380 what causes me to be righteous 02:10.380 --> 02:13.980 is Christ's righteousness given to me 02:13.980 --> 02:16.500 by me believing in him. 02:17.040 --> 02:19.880 Now this is spelled out in the previous chapter. 02:20.200 --> 02:21.560 Let's look at a few times 02:21.560 --> 02:24.140 where it's mentioning this idea of justification. 02:24.700 --> 02:26.040 Look at verse 24. 02:27.540 --> 02:31.440 Being justified freely by his grace 02:31.780 --> 02:34.200 through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus. 02:34.620 --> 02:37.300 So I am justified freely. 02:37.880 --> 02:41.660 That means I am considered right with God, absolutely free. 02:41.820 --> 02:45.140 I didn't do anything through my works or good efforts 02:45.440 --> 02:47.140 to be considered right with God. 02:47.600 --> 02:49.300 I'm justified freely 02:49.300 --> 02:52.800 and I was redeemed by what specifically 02:53.300 --> 02:56.860 I was redeemed through Jesus Christ, his grace. 02:57.340 --> 02:58.200 It says in verse 24. 02:58.600 --> 03:02.140 Being justified freely by his grace, right? 03:02.300 --> 03:05.020 Verse 25, whom God has set forth 03:05.420 --> 03:08.140 to be a propitiation through faith in his blood 03:08.140 --> 03:10.880 to declare his righteousness 03:11.280 --> 03:12.840 for their mission of sins that are passed 03:12.840 --> 03:13.700 to the reverence of God. 03:14.220 --> 03:17.760 So God allowed the payment or the propitiation to be 03:18.460 --> 03:21.980 done through our faith in Jesus' blood. 03:22.640 --> 03:26.600 So the payment for my sin is my faith in Jesus' blood. 03:26.760 --> 03:29.500 He paid it and has applied to me through my faith. 03:29.840 --> 03:33.180 And we're really just declaring Jesus' righteousness 03:33.180 --> 03:35.240 for the forgiveness of my sins. 03:35.860 --> 03:38.600 Verse 26, to declare, I say at this time, 03:39.060 --> 03:40.400 his righteousness, who's righteousness? 03:40.680 --> 03:43.800 Jesus' righteousness that he might be just. 03:43.800 --> 03:47.420 So Jesus is just because he actually is just. 03:47.720 --> 03:49.500 He's the only one that was righteous. 03:49.940 --> 03:51.440 He was the only one that did good. 03:51.900 --> 03:53.420 Keep your finger right because we're coming right back. 03:53.520 --> 03:56.760 Look at chapter five again and look at verse number 18. 03:57.280 --> 04:01.940 It says, in the middle, even so by the righteousness 04:01.940 --> 04:05.160 of one, the free gift came upon all men 04:05.160 --> 04:06.080 in the justification of life. 04:06.560 --> 04:09.020 Who is the only one that was righteous? 04:09.420 --> 04:10.240 It was Jesus. 04:10.740 --> 04:11.800 And what does it mean to be righteous? 04:11.800 --> 04:13.380 It means that he always did right. 04:14.320 --> 04:16.540 The Bible says Jesus was tempted in all points 04:16.540 --> 04:19.220 like as we are yet without sin. 04:19.820 --> 04:21.920 So what the Bible teaches is that Jesus Christ 04:22.440 --> 04:26.200 never lied, he never disobeyed his parents, 04:26.900 --> 04:29.900 he never committed any sin in the Bible. 04:30.300 --> 04:32.280 He was righteous all the time. 04:32.580 --> 04:34.340 And so by the righteousness of one, 04:34.920 --> 04:36.400 the free gift is given to us. 04:36.860 --> 04:39.140 Go back to verse 26, to declare, I say at this time, 04:39.620 --> 04:40.960 his righteousness, who's righteousness? 04:40.960 --> 04:42.660 Are we declaring the righteousness of the one, 04:42.960 --> 04:45.680 Jesus Christ, that he might be just, 04:45.820 --> 04:47.960 and notice this, and the justifier 04:48.540 --> 04:50.240 of him which believeth in Jesus. 04:50.480 --> 04:51.720 Notice he's a justifier, 04:52.540 --> 04:54.920 meaning he's making other people just. 04:55.920 --> 04:57.340 Who does Jesus make just? 04:58.060 --> 04:59.380 Those who believe in him. 05:00.160 --> 05:01.520 Not those who were good enough, 05:01.920 --> 05:03.320 not those who had enough works, 05:03.620 --> 05:04.920 but those who believed in him. 05:05.420 --> 05:07.780 So then the question would be, where is boasting then? 05:07.780 --> 05:10.400 And the answer's clear, it is excluded. 05:11.200 --> 05:13.780 So you can't boast in anything you've ever done 05:14.340 --> 05:15.800 because that didn't get you saved. 05:17.060 --> 05:18.740 By what law of works, name it by the law of faith. 05:19.400 --> 05:22.220 Therefore we conclude that a man is justified 05:22.860 --> 05:25.700 by faith without the deeds of the law. 05:25.840 --> 05:28.800 So a man is declared morally right with God 05:29.540 --> 05:33.900 without any works, just his faith in Jesus Christ, okay? 05:34.560 --> 05:36.640 And then it's like verse one of chapter four, 05:36.640 --> 05:39.820 what shall we say then that Abraham our father 05:39.820 --> 05:42.620 as pertaining to the flesh hath found? 05:42.880 --> 05:45.720 For if Abraham were justified by works, 05:45.900 --> 05:49.240 he hath wear of the glory, but not before God. 05:49.580 --> 05:51.440 So it's saying, okay then what the heck 05:51.440 --> 05:52.920 is going on with Abraham? 05:53.180 --> 05:54.680 Like what's the whole story about Abraham? 05:54.880 --> 05:56.480 And like, how do we understand this? 05:57.080 --> 06:00.120 Well, Abraham was not justified by works, 06:00.160 --> 06:01.560 otherwise he could brag about it. 06:02.780 --> 06:06.040 If what got me saved was turning my life over 06:06.640 --> 06:09.760 turning over a new leaf, repenting of my sin, giving up, 06:10.060 --> 06:11.040 then I could brag about that. 06:11.500 --> 06:14.140 I could say, well I used to be a drug dealer, now I'm not. 06:14.820 --> 06:17.140 Or I used to smoke crack and now I don't. 06:17.980 --> 06:20.040 Or I used to be a gang banger, now I don't. 06:20.340 --> 06:23.040 Or I killed people in prison and I have all these 06:23.040 --> 06:25.080 teardrops, now I don't kill people or something. 06:25.320 --> 06:27.180 And look, you go to churches and it'll be like that. 06:28.220 --> 06:29.980 And it'll be like, that's why they're going to heaven. 06:30.680 --> 06:32.940 Oh, I repented of my sin, I gave my money, 06:33.060 --> 06:34.400 I gave up this, I did this. 06:34.400 --> 06:37.180 So they're boasting, they're bragging in what they did. 06:37.440 --> 06:40.720 But the Bible says there is no boasting, it's excluded. 06:41.880 --> 06:44.360 All we do when we preach the gospel is we declare 06:44.360 --> 06:47.280 his righteousness, we're declaring that Jesus was perfect 06:47.280 --> 06:49.480 and Jesus paid for all of our sins. 06:49.900 --> 06:50.960 That's what we're declaring. 06:51.780 --> 06:53.260 Abraham has nowhere to glory. 06:53.540 --> 06:54.760 He cannot glory in anything. 06:55.580 --> 06:57.420 So then verse three for what saved the scripture. 06:57.860 --> 07:00.740 Abraham believed God and it was counted 07:00.740 --> 07:02.200 under him for righteousness. 07:02.860 --> 07:05.020 So Abraham got saved the same way I did. 07:05.340 --> 07:07.960 He believed the gospel and he got saved 07:07.960 --> 07:08.820 by believing the gospel. 07:09.300 --> 07:10.820 Verse four, now to him that worketh 07:10.820 --> 07:12.340 is there were not reckoned of grace but of debt. 07:12.420 --> 07:14.260 Now this is just basically an explanation of saying 07:14.940 --> 07:18.180 that if salvation were of works, 07:18.560 --> 07:21.040 then God would basically owe us something. 07:22.320 --> 07:25.200 If salvation had anything to do with me doing something 07:25.200 --> 07:27.860 then God has a debt obligation to me, 07:27.960 --> 07:30.780 he owes me something, but that's the whole reason 07:30.780 --> 07:33.540 why salvation's not of works is God doesn't owe me salvation 07:33.540 --> 07:34.260 is by grace. 07:34.880 --> 07:36.020 It's not by debt. 07:36.620 --> 07:38.220 God is not indebted to me. 07:38.600 --> 07:40.540 God does not owe me heaven. 07:40.900 --> 07:43.000 God is not indebted to me to put me in heaven. 07:43.460 --> 07:44.920 I get to go to heaven by grace 07:45.500 --> 07:49.420 and that grace is given to us because God loves us. 07:49.680 --> 07:51.480 God loves us to give us the grace 07:51.480 --> 07:52.960 of the opportunity to go to heaven. 07:53.380 --> 07:55.100 What gets us to heaven is our faith 07:55.100 --> 07:58.120 and what Jesus Christ did and the Bible takes it 07:58.120 --> 08:01.080 to an extreme to say that someone 08:01.080 --> 08:02.220 that literally did nothing. 08:03.040 --> 08:03.940 I mean it says in verse five, 08:04.300 --> 08:06.520 but to him that worketh not, he did no works 08:07.040 --> 08:10.580 but believed on him that justified the ungodly 08:10.580 --> 08:12.140 his faith is kind of a righteousness. 08:12.700 --> 08:14.440 So that's why we can see someone like the thief 08:14.440 --> 08:18.480 on the cross who was ungodly, had no works, 08:18.880 --> 08:22.120 never did works but yet believed in Jesus Christ 08:22.120 --> 08:23.620 in the last moments of his life, 08:23.860 --> 08:27.440 still went to heaven because he was justified 08:27.440 --> 08:28.560 by his faith. 08:28.940 --> 08:31.460 He was justified by believing in Jesus Christ. 08:31.840 --> 08:34.360 Now some people believe that this thief 08:34.840 --> 08:37.400 that died on the cross would have magically 08:37.400 --> 08:39.680 got off that cross and been the greatest Christian 08:39.680 --> 08:41.900 to ever live if given the chance 08:41.900 --> 08:43.320 and he just didn't get the chance. 08:43.800 --> 08:45.120 But here's the thing, there's no evidence 08:45.120 --> 08:46.240 that he was gonna be that way. 08:48.080 --> 08:51.660 Lot, this guy according to the Bible considered just, 08:52.060 --> 08:54.300 just lot as the Bible describes him, 08:54.820 --> 08:56.360 show me his accolades. 08:57.080 --> 08:59.620 Show me the evidence in the fruit of this guy's life. 09:00.040 --> 09:03.500 Here's a guy who departed from the greatest man 09:03.500 --> 09:04.920 in the Bible at the time. 09:05.060 --> 09:07.040 I mean, he was living with one of the greatest Christians, 09:07.500 --> 09:09.460 leaves him, leaves him for money, 09:10.040 --> 09:11.820 decides to live in the most wicked city, 09:12.180 --> 09:14.940 chasing after money, chasing after covetousness, 09:15.340 --> 09:17.280 marries his daughters of sodomites, 09:17.700 --> 09:20.160 then he commits some weird 09:20.160 --> 09:22.200 Kentucky Backwoods country song 09:22.660 --> 09:25.120 and basically knocks up both of his own daughters 09:25.640 --> 09:26.780 after getting drunk. 09:26.940 --> 09:29.960 He gets so drunk that he knocks up both of his daughter 09:29.960 --> 09:31.140 and doesn't even know. 09:32.340 --> 09:34.500 I'm my own grandpa and don't even know. 09:34.740 --> 09:37.420 It's like, I mean, this is weirder 09:37.420 --> 09:40.240 than most country music songs you could ever dream up. 09:40.580 --> 09:42.240 And it's like, I'm supposed to believe 09:42.240 --> 09:46.640 that this guy, Lot, is a picture of someone 09:46.640 --> 09:49.660 that's just doing all the works or something. 09:49.940 --> 09:51.820 It's like, what work did Lot even do? 09:52.900 --> 09:54.940 He lives in the most wicked city. 09:55.380 --> 09:57.100 According to the sodomite testimony, 09:57.440 --> 09:59.480 they say this guy must need to be a judge. 09:59.580 --> 10:01.140 Like, he hasn't been a judge before. 10:01.860 --> 10:03.920 So he got no one saved in the town. 10:04.640 --> 10:06.260 Let's be honest, no one was saved there. 10:06.840 --> 10:07.780 No one got saved there. 10:08.180 --> 10:09.560 No one got judged there. 10:09.980 --> 10:11.980 Then he left and hid in a cave, 10:12.900 --> 10:14.560 knocked up his own two daughters. 10:15.320 --> 10:18.260 Okay, I don't even know how that works. 10:19.960 --> 10:23.520 The whole story is crazy and insane. 10:24.520 --> 10:26.040 And it's like, but you know what? 10:26.480 --> 10:28.060 It just goes to show you that some people 10:28.060 --> 10:29.120 are saved by faith alone. 10:30.700 --> 10:32.240 Hey, the guy, the thief on the cross 10:32.240 --> 10:33.400 was faith alone enough? 10:33.720 --> 10:34.100 Yes. 10:34.920 --> 10:36.440 Hey, is faith alone enough for Lot? 10:36.860 --> 10:37.220 Yes. 10:37.700 --> 10:38.620 How about the nine? 10:38.840 --> 10:39.500 Where are the nine? 10:40.960 --> 10:41.840 Was faith alone enough? 10:41.900 --> 10:43.820 They didn't even come back and just say thank you. 10:44.360 --> 10:45.960 It wasn't even a thank you. 10:46.600 --> 10:48.420 Yet, hey, they were cleansed. 10:48.560 --> 10:51.780 10 lepers are cleansed, where are the nine? 10:52.020 --> 10:53.600 It's not that they weren't cleansed, 10:53.920 --> 10:54.800 it's that they were cleansed 10:54.800 --> 10:56.540 and they didn't even come back to say thank you. 10:57.080 --> 10:59.780 Let alone actually then have this complete 10:59.780 --> 11:01.660 transformation of their life. 11:02.140 --> 11:05.340 Naaman is cleansed and then his first act. 11:05.720 --> 11:07.460 His first act is to say, 11:07.640 --> 11:09.920 hey, I'm gonna still worship a false God. 11:10.000 --> 11:10.440 Is that okay? 11:10.440 --> 11:15.640 I mean, how is that a picture of repentance? 11:16.520 --> 11:20.940 I mean, we can of course wish for and hope for 11:20.940 --> 11:22.880 people to change their lives radically. 11:23.420 --> 11:26.140 The apostle Paul pretty much changes his life radically 11:26.140 --> 11:26.800 after getting saved. 11:27.260 --> 11:29.000 I mean, the guy just goes out there 11:29.000 --> 11:30.760 and lives the most transformed life 11:30.760 --> 11:31.660 you could ever imagine. 11:32.100 --> 11:35.060 Many of the heathen drop their idolatry, 11:35.220 --> 11:36.380 they burn their books, 11:36.840 --> 11:39.080 they dedicate their lives to the Lord Jesus Christ, 11:39.340 --> 11:39.900 they get saved. 11:39.900 --> 11:42.480 So yeah, some people get, as they would call, 11:42.640 --> 11:43.620 radically saved. 11:44.180 --> 11:45.160 But let me tell you something, 11:45.280 --> 11:47.920 you don't have to be radically saved to be saved, 11:48.160 --> 11:49.080 you just have to be saved. 11:49.840 --> 11:51.800 And faith alone is enough. 11:52.840 --> 11:54.340 The Bible's crystal clear on this point. 11:54.920 --> 11:56.320 Let's just keep reading though. 11:56.820 --> 11:57.760 Look at chapter five. 11:58.260 --> 11:59.540 Well, let's keep reading here in verse four 11:59.540 --> 12:00.900 a little bit more and then we'll go to chapter five. 12:01.200 --> 12:01.680 Look at verse six. 12:09.900 --> 12:12.480 Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven 12:12.480 --> 12:14.140 and whose sins are covered. 12:14.460 --> 12:17.240 Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin. 12:17.380 --> 12:18.860 So let's just think about it this way. 12:20.040 --> 12:21.480 If all my sins were forgiven 12:21.480 --> 12:22.700 when I believed in Jesus Christ 12:23.360 --> 12:26.460 and then all my future sins will not be imputed, 12:27.400 --> 12:28.720 how could I not go to heaven? 12:30.080 --> 12:31.800 Like even if I do nothing good, 12:32.500 --> 12:34.300 well, all my sins have been forgiven 12:34.300 --> 12:35.920 and all my sins are not imputed. 12:36.100 --> 12:37.720 So then how could I not go to heaven? 12:38.980 --> 12:40.220 It's just, I will go to heaven. 12:40.540 --> 12:41.080 Now here's the thing. 12:41.180 --> 12:44.360 Will I get any rewards for doing nothing? 12:44.860 --> 12:46.580 No, God is not a communist, okay? 12:46.680 --> 12:49.120 God is not gonna just give you rewards just because. 12:49.600 --> 12:50.140 But guess what? 12:50.300 --> 12:51.400 You're not gonna go to hell. 12:52.560 --> 12:54.820 So if all my sins have been forgiven 12:54.820 --> 12:56.580 and all my sins are not gonna be imputed, 12:57.000 --> 12:58.520 well, then it sounds like I'm good. 13:00.080 --> 13:03.480 And of course, he saves both the Gentiles 13:03.480 --> 13:06.260 and the Jews by faith alone. 13:06.260 --> 13:07.780 And we could go to other verses on this, 13:07.880 --> 13:09.840 but look at chapter five, verse one, 13:09.980 --> 13:12.740 therefore being justified by faith. 13:13.080 --> 13:14.960 We have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. 13:15.080 --> 13:16.380 So what declares me morally right? 13:17.080 --> 13:17.480 My faith. 13:18.200 --> 13:19.540 Look at chapter five, verse nine, 13:19.740 --> 13:23.940 much more than being now justified by his blood. 13:24.700 --> 13:27.300 We shall be saved from wrath through him. 13:27.480 --> 13:29.020 So notice I'm declared righteous again 13:29.020 --> 13:31.420 because of his blood, which is illustrated in chapter three. 13:31.780 --> 13:33.120 Continue all the way to chapter five. 13:33.400 --> 13:35.700 Verses 16 through 18, we read a little bit of 18, 13:35.700 --> 13:36.680 but let's read verse 16. 13:37.240 --> 13:38.980 And not as it was by one that sinned, 13:39.000 --> 13:42.420 so as the gift for the judgment was by one decontamination, 13:42.560 --> 13:47.760 but the free gift is of many offenses under justification. 13:48.200 --> 13:50.420 So even though we have so many sins, 13:51.340 --> 13:52.660 we were still given the free gift 13:52.660 --> 13:54.240 and were considered justified, 13:54.720 --> 13:57.840 even though it's just one gift to many offenses. 13:58.440 --> 14:00.760 Says in verse 17, for by one man's offense, 14:01.320 --> 14:03.760 death reigned by one, much more they would receive 14:03.760 --> 14:06.100 abundance of grace and the gift of righteousness shall reign 14:06.100 --> 14:07.580 in life by one Jesus Christ. 14:08.060 --> 14:10.160 Therefore as by the offense of one judgment came upon 14:10.160 --> 14:11.160 all men and decontamination, 14:11.580 --> 14:13.540 even so by the righteousness of one, the free gift came 14:13.540 --> 14:14.900 upon all men and justification of life. 14:15.020 --> 14:18.920 So one guy sinned causes all to go down the same path 14:18.920 --> 14:21.800 that we all sinned, but then one guy was righteous 14:22.240 --> 14:25.120 and it causes all of us that believe in him 14:25.120 --> 14:26.140 to then be righteous. 14:26.660 --> 14:29.860 So it's just kind of just showing how one person 14:29.860 --> 14:32.760 kind of had the impact on both groups, right? 14:32.760 --> 14:35.640 The impact of one sinner caused us all to sin. 14:35.960 --> 14:37.820 The impact of the one being righteous 14:38.360 --> 14:41.400 causes those who believe in him to then be righteous. 14:42.160 --> 14:44.400 Not because I'm righteous by my own work, 14:44.900 --> 14:46.600 not because I'm righteous by my own accord, 14:47.020 --> 14:49.400 but I'm simply righteous because of my faith 14:49.400 --> 14:51.580 and belief in Jesus Christ and that's it. 14:52.060 --> 14:53.260 Go to Galatians chapter two now, 14:53.380 --> 14:54.400 go to Galatians chapter number two. 14:55.560 --> 14:56.960 So we're answering this question again. 14:57.220 --> 14:59.000 I'm gonna get into why this question's important 14:59.000 --> 15:00.040 a little bit more in this sermon, 15:00.080 --> 15:01.420 but I'm just trying to prove very clearly 15:01.920 --> 15:04.240 the Bible makes it clear salvation is a free gift. 15:04.640 --> 15:07.280 We receive it by faith alone in Jesus Christ 15:07.720 --> 15:10.660 and that faith alone can be alone 15:11.340 --> 15:12.360 and still gets you to heaven. 15:12.820 --> 15:15.540 Now we don't believe that faith should be alone. 15:15.960 --> 15:17.640 We just believe faith alone's enough. 15:19.020 --> 15:20.620 And this is an important doctrine. 15:20.780 --> 15:21.900 Of course, a lot of people will say, 15:22.100 --> 15:24.820 well it's faith alone, but that faith is never alone. 15:26.660 --> 15:28.860 What's the point of faith alone if faith's never alone? 15:28.860 --> 15:30.420 Yeah, exactly, yeah. 15:31.400 --> 15:32.580 Then it doesn't even matter. 15:33.300 --> 15:34.760 Then you would, here's the question. 15:35.600 --> 15:39.400 If faith alone saves, yet no one ever actually 15:39.400 --> 15:41.800 had faith alone, then it's a meaningless statement 15:42.500 --> 15:44.400 because you would have to say it's faith and works 15:44.400 --> 15:46.600 because if you didn't have the works, then you're not saved 15:46.600 --> 15:48.940 and that's what a lot of lying false teachers will say. 15:49.640 --> 15:51.320 And of course they say this 15:51.320 --> 15:54.140 because the vast majority of Christian teachers 15:54.140 --> 15:55.380 in this world are not saved 15:55.900 --> 15:58.160 and the vast majority of people throughout history 15:58.160 --> 15:58.880 have not been saved. 15:59.200 --> 16:01.620 And the Bible says that there's many false prophets 16:01.620 --> 16:02.620 that have gone out into the world. 16:02.900 --> 16:06.300 And the Roman Catholic Church is a church that's not of God 16:06.300 --> 16:09.020 that doesn't have the spirit of God that teaches lies 16:09.440 --> 16:11.340 and people say, well if you wanna go 16:11.340 --> 16:13.020 with the historic position, 16:13.300 --> 16:15.620 the historic position's always been faith and works. 16:16.180 --> 16:17.660 So then they have to figure out 16:17.660 --> 16:19.460 how to give either lip service to that 16:19.460 --> 16:21.940 or believe in that so they don't feel like 16:21.940 --> 16:23.800 they're part of the historic church. 16:24.320 --> 16:25.440 Well you know what, I don't care 16:25.440 --> 16:27.580 if I'm part of the quote historic church or not 16:27.580 --> 16:29.740 because the vast majority of people have been wrong. 16:31.020 --> 16:32.860 And you say, well how far back does that go? 16:33.020 --> 16:34.680 Well it goes all the way back to Cain and Abel. 16:35.500 --> 16:37.940 Your historic church goes back to the church of Cain 16:37.940 --> 16:39.520 which was by works and you know what? 16:39.600 --> 16:41.320 His offering was not respected. 16:42.460 --> 16:43.840 It's not that he didn't offer to the Lord. 16:45.100 --> 16:47.560 I mean can't you argue that Cain has some faith 16:47.560 --> 16:48.100 in the Lord? 16:48.760 --> 16:50.680 He's offering a sacrifice to him. 16:50.880 --> 16:52.600 It's not that he denies his existence. 16:53.080 --> 16:54.500 It's not that he doesn't realize 16:54.500 --> 16:56.180 he even needs to offer a sacrifice. 16:56.180 --> 16:58.220 It's that he's offering a sacrifice 16:58.220 --> 17:02.040 picturing his works and Abel is offering a sacrifice 17:02.040 --> 17:03.140 picturing his faith. 17:03.660 --> 17:06.820 And so Abel realizes he's saved by faith alone 17:06.820 --> 17:08.780 and that's enough and we have Cain 17:08.780 --> 17:10.540 who thinks his works need to be in there 17:10.540 --> 17:12.380 and he wants to glory and you know what? 17:12.740 --> 17:14.700 God did not have respect under Cain's offering. 17:15.000 --> 17:18.040 God does not respect the faith of the Catholic church 17:18.040 --> 17:19.460 or the faith of these other churches 17:19.460 --> 17:21.360 because they're believing in their works to save them. 17:21.700 --> 17:23.500 And if you think you have to be a good person 17:23.500 --> 17:25.120 to go to heaven, you won't make it. 17:27.080 --> 17:29.460 If you think you have to be a good swimmer 17:29.880 --> 17:32.680 to swim over to Europe, you're not gonna make it. 17:34.960 --> 17:37.060 Either you put all your faith in that pilot 17:37.060 --> 17:38.480 and he's gonna get you there 17:38.480 --> 17:40.300 and you're gonna do absolutely nothing 17:40.300 --> 17:42.200 contributing to your effort to getting there 17:42.200 --> 17:44.220 other than just simply getting on the plane. 17:45.360 --> 17:47.380 But it's like well you also have to be a good swimmer 17:47.380 --> 17:47.800 to get there. 17:48.800 --> 17:50.540 What does that mean I had to be a good swimmer? 17:51.200 --> 17:52.880 Like are you saying like halfway out 17:52.880 --> 17:54.020 they're gonna drop me off 17:54.020 --> 17:55.500 and I'm gonna have to swim the rest of the way 17:55.500 --> 17:56.400 across the ocean? 17:57.000 --> 17:59.200 Cause if that's true, you're not gonna make it. 17:59.900 --> 18:01.320 It's like well Jesus did his part. 18:01.400 --> 18:02.600 He flew the plane a little bit. 18:02.980 --> 18:05.140 Now you have to get out and swim the rest of the way. 18:06.140 --> 18:08.140 Well how far would it even have to get? 18:08.260 --> 18:09.500 Like how close would you have to get 18:09.500 --> 18:10.940 for you to actually make it? 18:13.400 --> 18:13.760 Right? 18:14.720 --> 18:16.560 It'd be like in theory it's like well 18:16.560 --> 18:18.760 you can't sin again after getting saved 18:18.760 --> 18:19.840 and then still make it to heaven. 18:20.200 --> 18:21.760 Well then I better hope I'm only gonna live 18:21.760 --> 18:23.200 for about five or 10 more seconds. 18:23.200 --> 18:24.540 You know? 18:25.160 --> 18:27.620 And it's like well if the flight is 18:27.620 --> 18:28.700 I have to swim part of the way. 18:28.940 --> 18:31.900 I better be dropped off about 20 meters 18:31.900 --> 18:33.300 from the shore or something. 18:33.700 --> 18:35.840 Because otherwise, and if I have to fall out 18:35.840 --> 18:37.620 of the plane at 20 meters depth 18:37.620 --> 18:39.900 I might just die from the impact, okay? 18:40.380 --> 18:41.600 It'd be too shallow or something. 18:41.900 --> 18:43.820 I mean this scenario's weird. 18:44.860 --> 18:46.660 You know why salvation is by faith alone? 18:46.780 --> 18:47.360 Because that's the only thing 18:47.360 --> 18:48.240 that was gonna get you there. 18:50.180 --> 18:52.600 But alone from that particular analogy 18:53.240 --> 18:55.680 if you put me in the cockpit of a plane 18:56.160 --> 18:58.500 I can't fly to Europe because I don't even know where to go. 18:59.340 --> 19:00.900 Like I don't know how to fly to Europe. 19:01.160 --> 19:02.240 If I got up in the clouds 19:02.240 --> 19:03.560 it just all looked like clouds to me. 19:03.960 --> 19:06.960 You know I wouldn't know without someone telling me 19:06.960 --> 19:08.600 or instructing me or guiding me or whatever. 19:08.860 --> 19:09.580 And here's the thing I don't know 19:09.580 --> 19:10.220 how to get to heaven either. 19:10.760 --> 19:13.120 But Jesus does and so that's why we believe in Jesus 19:13.120 --> 19:14.960 and he gets us to heaven and you know what? 19:15.020 --> 19:16.780 I can be a passenger that literally just 19:16.780 --> 19:19.000 puts on the blinders and the earbuds 19:19.000 --> 19:20.680 and falls asleep and I'm getting there. 19:21.500 --> 19:23.920 I can do absolutely nothing on that plane ride 19:23.920 --> 19:25.420 and I'm getting to heaven, okay? 19:25.840 --> 19:27.400 And so I use this analogy sometimes 19:27.400 --> 19:28.340 but it's just like look, 19:28.700 --> 19:30.000 that's what it means to believe in Jesus 19:30.000 --> 19:31.320 is they're getting on his plane 19:31.320 --> 19:32.600 and they're letting him take you to heaven. 19:33.620 --> 19:35.880 It's not by, I'm not gonna be swimming my way 19:35.880 --> 19:38.180 or working my way or riding a bike or anything else. 19:38.280 --> 19:39.840 And I'm definitely not taking over the plane. 19:40.380 --> 19:42.060 That ends up in a crash, okay? 19:42.360 --> 19:44.720 Into two towers and that's a train wreck, you know? 19:44.720 --> 19:46.240 It's like confusing, all right? 19:46.900 --> 19:48.800 It's really hot magically, you know? 19:48.860 --> 19:51.460 It's like 2,000 degrees lava pool at the bottom 19:51.860 --> 19:54.040 of that plane crash somehow magically. 19:54.320 --> 19:56.300 I mean, jet fuel can't even burn that hot 19:56.300 --> 19:57.680 but somehow it does, you know? 19:59.860 --> 20:00.720 Well, guess what? 20:00.840 --> 20:02.880 Hot's even, you know, hell's even hotter, okay? 20:03.120 --> 20:05.600 So, and you're not getting shipped to China 20:05.600 --> 20:06.800 or any of this weird stuff, you know? 20:06.860 --> 20:07.440 It's just gonna be, 20:07.880 --> 20:09.540 you're gonna burn in hell for all of eternity. 20:10.520 --> 20:11.260 So you know what you need? 20:11.340 --> 20:12.600 You just really believe in Jesus Christ 20:13.120 --> 20:14.160 and then you get to heaven. 20:14.160 --> 20:14.920 It's that simple. 20:15.280 --> 20:16.660 Acts 13, did I have you turn there? 20:16.740 --> 20:18.080 No, I had you do Galatians first, okay? 20:18.120 --> 20:19.780 Let's look at Galatians chapter two verse 16. 20:20.680 --> 20:24.180 Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law 20:24.180 --> 20:25.380 but by the faith of Jesus Christ, 20:25.520 --> 20:28.060 even we have believed in Jesus Christ. 20:28.280 --> 20:30.360 That we might be justified by the faith of Christ 20:30.360 --> 20:31.440 and not by the works of the law 20:31.440 --> 20:35.260 for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified. 20:35.520 --> 20:36.860 Again, and justified as meaning what? 20:37.040 --> 20:38.200 Declared morally right. 20:38.580 --> 20:40.840 We're not declared morally right with God 20:41.460 --> 20:42.740 by the works of the law 20:42.740 --> 20:45.460 but only by faith in Jesus Christ. 20:45.800 --> 20:50.040 How could anyone be one of these hyper dispensationalists 20:50.780 --> 20:52.900 that get up and say in the Old Testament 20:52.900 --> 20:54.300 they had to also have works? 20:55.440 --> 20:57.460 I mean think about what we read in Romans chapter four. 20:57.640 --> 20:59.960 We read about Abraham and David 21:00.620 --> 21:02.320 and then now we have Paul. 21:02.880 --> 21:05.140 So it's like which dispensation do you wanna talk about? 21:05.360 --> 21:09.220 Because David is definitely in the dispensation of the law. 21:09.760 --> 21:12.520 You know it's like before the law saved by grace. 21:12.860 --> 21:15.340 During the law saved by grace. 21:16.060 --> 21:18.460 After the law saved by grace. 21:19.320 --> 21:20.060 And you know what? 21:20.540 --> 21:21.120 No flesh. 21:21.440 --> 21:23.660 It's not like oh except for the millions of people 21:23.660 --> 21:24.720 that were saved in the Old Testament. 21:25.500 --> 21:27.360 No no, no flesh shall be justified 21:27.360 --> 21:28.380 by the works of the law. 21:28.880 --> 21:30.700 Look we are not even under the law. 21:31.000 --> 21:33.140 What would be the point of telling us this 21:33.140 --> 21:35.100 when we weren't even the ones under the law? 21:35.760 --> 21:37.520 How about the ones that were actually under the law? 21:38.120 --> 21:39.620 Hey the ones that were actually under the law 21:39.620 --> 21:42.060 they also weren't justified by the works of the law. 21:42.520 --> 21:44.980 No one's ever been justified by the works of the law 21:44.980 --> 21:47.180 or ever will be justified by the works of the law. 21:47.380 --> 21:49.640 And such as people that believe such nonsense 21:50.120 --> 21:51.360 I think are unsaved. 21:52.520 --> 21:54.360 If someone gets up and says 21:54.360 --> 21:56.860 salvation was by works in the Old Testament 21:57.480 --> 21:59.600 and salvation will be by works in the New Testament 21:59.600 --> 22:01.920 in the future, I don't believe that person's saved. 22:02.860 --> 22:04.400 You can argue with me and they're like 22:04.400 --> 22:05.580 let's by faith now. 22:05.920 --> 22:07.400 Okay well you're weird. 22:07.660 --> 22:08.980 There's something weird about you. 22:09.900 --> 22:12.060 Okay there's something really off about you 22:12.590 --> 22:14.180 and I just don't even think that you're saved. 22:14.600 --> 22:16.800 And I don't want a fellowship with anybody 22:16.800 --> 22:17.800 that believes this nonsense. 22:18.320 --> 22:20.420 I don't even want to be nice to that kind of a person. 22:20.800 --> 22:21.940 I don't want to subject myself 22:21.940 --> 22:24.100 to a two hour podcast of this nonsense. 22:24.520 --> 22:27.820 You know doesn't the apostle Paul say only one hour? 22:29.100 --> 22:31.300 I also don't want to try and word your things 22:31.300 --> 22:33.360 better for you to help you sound a little bit better. 22:33.360 --> 22:35.240 Like I don't want to clean up your heresy 22:35.240 --> 22:37.420 to make it sound a little cooler or something like that. 22:37.620 --> 22:39.520 Now I would just say hey you're a heretic. 22:40.960 --> 22:42.660 Look at chapter three verse eight. 22:43.520 --> 22:44.740 And the scripture for seeing that God 22:44.740 --> 22:46.560 would justify the heathen through faith 22:46.560 --> 22:48.640 preached before the gospel in Abraham saying 22:48.640 --> 22:52.340 in thee shall all nations be blessed. 22:52.540 --> 22:56.400 Verse 11 but that no man is justified 22:56.400 --> 22:57.880 by the law on the side of God. 22:58.060 --> 23:02.460 It is evident for the just shall live by faith. 23:02.460 --> 23:04.000 And the law is not a faith 23:04.000 --> 23:05.880 but the man that doeth them shall live in them. 23:06.000 --> 23:08.100 Christ that there deemed us from the curse of the law 23:08.100 --> 23:10.000 being made a curse for us. 23:10.040 --> 23:11.300 For it is written curse is everyone 23:11.300 --> 23:14.040 that hangeth on a tree that the blessing of Abraham 23:14.040 --> 23:16.280 might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ 23:16.900 --> 23:19.080 that we might receive the promise of the spirit 23:19.980 --> 23:20.860 through faith. 23:21.040 --> 23:21.840 So what does the Bible saying? 23:21.940 --> 23:24.520 The Bible is saying that when we believe 23:24.520 --> 23:28.900 in Jesus Christ we are saved from the curse of the law. 23:29.320 --> 23:31.140 What was the curse of the law? 23:31.140 --> 23:33.380 The curse of the law is that when you die 23:33.780 --> 23:34.660 you would go to hell. 23:35.440 --> 23:38.360 That you would die physically and go to hell. 23:38.800 --> 23:41.620 So what Jesus did is he became a curse for us 23:41.620 --> 23:44.360 by dying, taking our place in hell 23:44.360 --> 23:45.880 so that we wouldn't have to go. 23:45.960 --> 23:48.740 He tasted of death so that we would not 23:48.740 --> 23:49.640 have to taste death. 23:49.940 --> 23:52.380 The Bible says he tasted death for every man too. 23:53.340 --> 23:55.620 So he didn't just taste death for some people 23:55.620 --> 23:57.560 he tasted death for every man 23:57.560 --> 24:01.360 and we that believe shall never taste of death 24:01.360 --> 24:02.160 is what the Bible says. 24:02.520 --> 24:04.560 Meaning we'll never experience hell even for a moment 24:04.560 --> 24:08.080 let alone a thousand year cooking off period or something. 24:08.740 --> 24:10.420 You know the Catholics believe in this purgatory 24:10.960 --> 24:12.060 word not found in your Bible. 24:12.380 --> 24:14.720 They believe that many people will go to hell 24:14.720 --> 24:15.580 just for a little while. 24:16.300 --> 24:18.220 Like they just, you know you gotta get cleaned up 24:18.220 --> 24:20.140 or whatever, you gotta get punished a little bit 24:20.140 --> 24:22.500 and then eventually we'll let you back into heaven 24:22.500 --> 24:23.360 or something like that. 24:23.620 --> 24:26.100 And so they'll pray for people in purgatory. 24:26.560 --> 24:31.460 They used to sell indulgences and sell to the congregation. 24:31.720 --> 24:34.360 They say hey give us money and your grandma 24:35.320 --> 24:37.740 she'll get a few years off her sentence in purgatory. 24:38.660 --> 24:39.580 Which is crazy. 24:39.800 --> 24:41.440 I mean like if you actually believed this 24:41.440 --> 24:43.380 you're like well grandma was gonna be 24:43.380 --> 24:44.560 in purgatory for a while. 24:45.180 --> 24:46.540 You know and I love grandma. 24:46.680 --> 24:49.060 She was a really nice lady but she had some issues 24:49.600 --> 24:52.480 and it's like I don't want her to be in hell. 24:52.620 --> 24:54.820 I don't wanna be in purgatory for a really long time 24:54.820 --> 24:57.100 so I better give money to the church to try and get it. 24:57.320 --> 25:00.560 Look no money to a Catholic pedophile 25:00.560 --> 25:02.520 is gonna get grandma out of purgatory. 25:03.560 --> 25:03.820 Okay. 25:04.460 --> 25:06.720 God doesn't accept any ransom like that. 25:07.120 --> 25:08.740 You know what gets you out of hell? 25:09.300 --> 25:11.780 Never going ever because Jesus took your place. 25:13.140 --> 25:14.780 Once you go you're stuck. 25:16.000 --> 25:19.020 The only people that we really see in the Bible 25:19.020 --> 25:23.320 getting out are Jesus, the Antichrist and Satan. 25:23.880 --> 25:24.100 Okay. 25:24.800 --> 25:26.660 And unfortunately you're not Satan. 25:27.160 --> 25:28.180 You know or fortunately you know 25:28.180 --> 25:29.400 it depends on your look on that. 25:29.940 --> 25:31.660 And you're also not the Antichrist. 25:31.940 --> 25:32.180 Okay. 25:32.640 --> 25:35.220 So the Bible says that he descends out. 25:35.400 --> 25:36.840 You know he ascends out of the bottom of his pit 25:36.840 --> 25:38.380 somehow after three days of dying. 25:38.740 --> 25:40.840 The devil after being there for a thousand years 25:40.840 --> 25:41.700 he gets out. 25:41.980 --> 25:44.820 No one else to deceive the nations one last time. 25:45.180 --> 25:46.320 But everyone else. 25:46.640 --> 25:49.120 Hey you're stuck in hell and you're gonna be judged 25:49.120 --> 25:50.780 and go into the lake of fire for all of eternity. 25:51.180 --> 25:52.240 You know there's no. 25:52.760 --> 25:55.100 Hey I'm gonna get out of hell and go back to heaven. 25:55.660 --> 25:56.540 Never gonna happen. 25:57.620 --> 25:58.720 Once you're there you're there. 25:58.780 --> 25:59.920 That's why it's important to believe now. 26:00.600 --> 26:02.260 That's why we believe it's important 26:02.260 --> 26:03.520 to help people make the decision now. 26:04.020 --> 26:05.700 And you know that's why we say if you were to die there 26:05.700 --> 26:07.340 because no one's promised another second. 26:07.420 --> 26:08.600 No one knows when they're gonna die. 26:08.960 --> 26:11.200 And so that's why we have preaching with urgency 26:11.200 --> 26:13.520 the message of the gospel of Jesus Christ 26:13.520 --> 26:14.980 trying to get people saved now 26:14.980 --> 26:17.180 so that you know that you'll never go to hell. 26:17.480 --> 26:19.100 So you know you have eternal life. 26:20.300 --> 26:21.320 I wanna go to one more place. 26:21.320 --> 26:22.260 Let's go to Acts chapter 13 26:22.260 --> 26:23.660 and we'll see another verse here. 26:25.240 --> 26:27.600 Acts chapter 13, is faith alone enough? 26:28.120 --> 26:29.680 Absolutely. Yes it is. 26:29.880 --> 26:32.000 Because what Jesus did is he paid all of our sins. 26:32.400 --> 26:33.420 His blood is enough. 26:33.940 --> 26:35.260 His work is enough. 26:35.800 --> 26:36.960 His death is enough. 26:37.660 --> 26:38.900 To say that it's not enough 26:38.900 --> 26:40.560 is to say what Jesus did is not enough. 26:41.180 --> 26:42.340 To say it's not enough is to say 26:42.340 --> 26:43.900 Jesus didn't pay for all your sins. 26:44.240 --> 26:45.440 To say it's not enough says that 26:45.440 --> 26:47.440 Jesus did not impute his righteousness unto you. 26:47.600 --> 26:48.700 To say it's not enough is to say 26:48.700 --> 26:50.480 his righteousness isn't enough righteousness. 26:51.060 --> 26:51.680 But you know what? 26:52.100 --> 26:53.400 Those of us that believe in Jesus 26:53.400 --> 26:55.060 believe he paid all of our sins. 26:55.340 --> 26:57.740 That his blood was shed for all of our sins. 26:58.020 --> 27:00.500 That we get the forgiveness of sins through him. 27:00.820 --> 27:02.160 That he was righteous 27:02.160 --> 27:04.140 and that he declares us righteousness 27:04.140 --> 27:05.580 by putting our faith in him. 27:06.100 --> 27:06.820 We believe that. 27:07.260 --> 27:08.540 That's why the Catholic 27:08.540 --> 27:10.360 doesn't actually believe in Jesus. 27:10.760 --> 27:11.900 Cause he doesn't believe 27:11.900 --> 27:13.600 that Jesus paid for all of his sins. 27:13.840 --> 27:15.660 He may say that but he doesn't believe it. 27:16.200 --> 27:18.600 He may say that Jesus died on the cross 27:19.040 --> 27:19.800 and went to hell 27:19.800 --> 27:21.620 but they don't realize they did it in his place. 27:22.020 --> 27:23.300 They're not really believing in that. 27:23.440 --> 27:24.600 They think they have to be good enough. 27:24.900 --> 27:26.660 They don't believe that Jesus' righteousness 27:26.660 --> 27:27.900 has been imputed unto them. 27:28.220 --> 27:30.140 They think they have to be righteous enough 27:30.140 --> 27:30.780 to get to heaven. 27:31.120 --> 27:31.940 They don't believe 27:31.940 --> 27:33.780 when the Bible says the righteous is of one 27:33.780 --> 27:35.100 that there's only been one righteous. 27:35.300 --> 27:36.580 They think they're actually righteous 27:37.080 --> 27:38.020 by their works. 27:38.220 --> 27:39.060 And the Bible says 27:39.540 --> 27:40.680 there's no flesh 27:40.680 --> 27:42.380 that's gonna be justified by the deeds of law. 27:42.600 --> 27:43.820 No flesh is gonna be justified 27:43.820 --> 27:44.720 by the works of the law. 27:44.860 --> 27:46.480 No one can be justified that way. 27:46.940 --> 27:47.880 What justifies you? 27:47.880 --> 27:49.640 Well, Acts chapter 13, look at verse 38. 27:50.380 --> 27:52.080 Be it known on you therefore men and brethren 27:52.560 --> 27:54.520 that through this man talking of Jesus 27:54.960 --> 27:57.000 is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins. 27:57.640 --> 28:00.240 And by him all that believe 28:00.240 --> 28:03.360 are justified from all things 28:03.920 --> 28:06.860 from which you could not be justified 28:06.860 --> 28:08.100 by the law of Moses. 28:08.560 --> 28:09.140 So you know what? 28:09.260 --> 28:12.300 The law of Moses never justified a single person. 28:12.640 --> 28:15.100 It was only ever faith in Jesus Christ. 28:15.380 --> 28:16.660 That's how you get the forgiveness of sins 28:16.660 --> 28:18.200 and that's how you were declared right, 28:18.400 --> 28:20.560 morally right with God 28:20.560 --> 28:24.020 was your faith in Jesus Christ specifically. 28:25.840 --> 28:27.640 Now, bear with me for a moment. 28:27.900 --> 28:30.220 We're gonna get to James two here in a second. 28:30.600 --> 28:32.440 But I have with me a sermon 28:33.080 --> 28:34.960 and I'm just gonna read some excerpts for it. 28:35.180 --> 28:36.000 Okay, so try it. 28:36.020 --> 28:37.380 I know sometimes it'd be a little boring 28:37.380 --> 28:38.160 to hear some excerpts, 28:38.220 --> 28:40.820 but I'll try to read it as best I can. 28:41.100 --> 28:43.400 It's a sermon from the 1500s 28:43.400 --> 28:44.960 by a guy named Martin Luther. 28:45.520 --> 28:47.400 Who knows who Martin Luther is, all right? 28:47.900 --> 28:51.000 He's typically considered the person 28:51.000 --> 28:53.140 who started the Protestant Reformation. 28:54.420 --> 28:56.060 He had a sermon that he preached 28:56.060 --> 28:57.920 called Justification by Faith. 28:59.280 --> 29:02.180 And in his sermon, and I'm not gonna read the whole sermon, 29:03.200 --> 29:05.140 the sermon is arguing against Catholics 29:05.540 --> 29:09.860 who believe that you have to basically pray to the saints 29:09.860 --> 29:11.640 and do good to dead saints 29:12.100 --> 29:13.980 and hopes that they'll bring you 29:13.980 --> 29:16.460 into their everlasting habitations in heaven, okay? 29:16.500 --> 29:17.500 And he's preaching against that. 29:17.920 --> 29:19.140 I agree, that's stupid. 29:19.280 --> 29:21.680 It's nonsense, it's not true, it's not real. 29:22.280 --> 29:23.260 It's a bad idea. 29:23.960 --> 29:26.140 And he makes a lot of great statements 29:26.580 --> 29:28.040 in this sermon at the beginning. 29:28.440 --> 29:30.720 So I wanna clarify that I agree 29:30.720 --> 29:32.820 with virtually everything I'm about to read, okay? 29:32.860 --> 29:34.100 And then I'll tell you when I switch, all right? 29:34.700 --> 29:37.520 But this is what Martin Luther said in the 1500s. 29:37.580 --> 29:38.460 This is what he said. 29:38.960 --> 29:40.560 I have taught very extensively 29:41.080 --> 29:44.500 how faith alone without work justifies. 29:45.860 --> 29:47.880 I mean, how can you disagree with that? 29:48.540 --> 29:51.940 He said, good works are done first after we believe. 29:52.580 --> 29:55.000 He says, I perceive that the gospel abides 29:55.000 --> 29:57.260 and prospers only among the few. 29:58.220 --> 29:59.440 Yeah, I agree with that too. 30:00.020 --> 30:01.620 He's saying there's very few people teaching this, 30:01.760 --> 30:03.220 very few people that actually believe this. 30:04.080 --> 30:06.480 He says, about the Catholics, 30:06.890 --> 30:10.720 he says, quote, the friends may receive us 30:10.720 --> 30:13.780 in everlasting habitation just as though 30:13.780 --> 30:15.500 we should serve the saints and trust in them 30:15.500 --> 30:16.000 to get to heaven. 30:16.100 --> 30:17.560 So he's saying they're preaching 30:17.560 --> 30:20.940 that you have to serve dead saints 30:20.940 --> 30:23.260 and trust in them to get into heaven. 30:23.640 --> 30:25.840 False, there's only one way in heaven, 30:25.980 --> 30:27.920 it's Jesus Christ and it's not by works. 30:28.040 --> 30:29.100 So he's preaching against this. 30:29.520 --> 30:32.560 He says the foundation must be maintained without wavering. 30:32.560 --> 30:35.960 That faith without any works, without any merit, 30:36.540 --> 30:38.440 reconciles man to God and makes him good 30:38.440 --> 30:39.480 as Paul says to the Romans. 30:40.400 --> 30:41.780 But now the righteousness of God 30:41.780 --> 30:43.020 without the law is manifested, 30:43.300 --> 30:44.960 being witnessed by the law and the prophets, 30:45.120 --> 30:46.100 even the righteousness of God 30:46.100 --> 30:48.100 which is by faith of Jesus Christ, 30:48.480 --> 30:52.140 unto all them that believe, Romans 321 verses 22. 30:52.620 --> 30:54.020 Paul in another place says to Abraham, 30:54.120 --> 30:55.480 is faithless reckoned for righteousness? 30:56.000 --> 30:57.860 So also with us again, 30:58.400 --> 30:59.840 therefore being justified by faith, 30:59.980 --> 31:01.700 we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, 31:01.700 --> 31:02.680 Romans 5 1. 31:03.260 --> 31:05.680 Again, for with the heart man believeth under righteousness 31:05.680 --> 31:07.740 and with a mouth confession is made in the salvation. 31:07.900 --> 31:08.720 Romans 10 10. 31:09.560 --> 31:12.300 These and many similar passages we must firmly hold 31:12.300 --> 31:14.260 and trust in them immovably 31:14.260 --> 31:17.840 so that to faith alone without any assistance of works 31:17.840 --> 31:19.220 is a tribute to the forgiveness of sins 31:19.220 --> 31:19.780 and our justification. 31:20.640 --> 31:24.520 I mean, this guy sounds like us in this section, okay? 31:24.980 --> 31:26.720 All right, I'm just trying to make, 31:26.980 --> 31:28.340 I'm just trying to be honest with the text. 31:28.620 --> 31:30.020 He sounds exactly like us. 31:30.140 --> 31:31.020 He's saying the same verses. 31:31.020 --> 31:33.620 He's doing the same proof points. 31:34.900 --> 31:36.800 Take for an illustration the parable of Christ, 31:37.660 --> 31:39.240 even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit, 31:39.500 --> 31:42.860 but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit, Matthew 7 17. 31:43.640 --> 31:46.180 Here you see that the fruit does not make the tree good 31:46.720 --> 31:50.000 but without any fruit and before any fruit 31:50.000 --> 31:54.300 the tree must first be first good 31:54.300 --> 31:57.480 or made good before it can bear good fruit. 31:57.980 --> 31:59.940 As he also says, either make the tree good 31:59.940 --> 32:02.480 and its fruit good or else make the tree corrupt 32:02.480 --> 32:05.460 and its fruit corrupt for the tree is known by its fruit. 32:06.000 --> 32:07.560 Then he quotes Matthew 12 33. 32:08.580 --> 32:10.400 And he says it is clear how impossible it is 32:10.400 --> 32:12.240 that a man should become good by works 32:12.240 --> 32:15.780 when he is not good before he does the good works. 32:16.080 --> 32:17.860 For Christ stands firm when he says, 32:18.380 --> 32:20.040 how can ye being evil speak good things? 32:20.180 --> 32:23.220 And hence follows, how can ye being evil do good things? 32:23.880 --> 32:25.760 Again, how can I disagree with it? 32:26.000 --> 32:28.720 Pretty good logic, he's saying the tree has to be good 32:29.280 --> 32:30.340 before it does anything, 32:30.880 --> 32:32.620 before it can actually do something good. 32:32.920 --> 32:34.220 He's saying it has to be a good tree 32:34.220 --> 32:36.080 before it can ever even produce a good fruit. 32:36.340 --> 32:37.280 And I'm like, amen. 32:38.020 --> 32:40.020 You can't even do good things until you're a good tree. 32:40.420 --> 32:42.320 You can't even do good works until you're even saved. 32:43.260 --> 32:44.860 You know who couldn't do good works? 32:45.820 --> 32:47.400 Judas Iscariot, okay? 32:48.140 --> 32:51.260 He wasn't good so he could never produce a good fruit. 32:54.640 --> 32:58.400 He also says, this great and precious something 32:59.140 --> 33:00.620 is the noble word of God, 33:00.940 --> 33:02.460 which offers us in the gospel, 33:03.260 --> 33:05.680 excuse me, the grace of God in Christ. 33:06.400 --> 33:07.740 He who hears and believes this, 33:08.180 --> 33:09.580 thereby becomes good and righteous. 33:10.680 --> 33:11.720 So again, sounds good. 33:12.040 --> 33:13.500 He says, wherefore it is called in the word of life, 33:13.660 --> 33:14.840 a word of grace, a word of forgiveness, 33:15.000 --> 33:17.280 but he who neither hears nor believes it 33:17.280 --> 33:18.480 can in no way become good. 33:19.320 --> 33:21.260 Just re-emphasizing that entire point. 33:21.940 --> 33:25.640 Now, here is where the shift is made though. 33:26.240 --> 33:27.320 And I think this is important. 33:27.800 --> 33:29.380 And this is why I'm preaching the sermon a little bit, 33:30.160 --> 33:33.440 is because many people will give the right answer 33:33.440 --> 33:37.180 about salvation and say salvation is faith alone. 33:37.640 --> 33:38.440 Without works. 33:39.060 --> 33:42.140 But then they create this saving faith idea, okay? 33:42.220 --> 33:45.440 And this is where I wanna combat this idea. 33:45.440 --> 33:46.220 He says this. 33:48.580 --> 33:50.320 Therefore faith is something very powerful, 33:50.680 --> 33:51.880 active, restless, effective, 33:52.280 --> 33:55.160 which at once renews a person and again regenerates him 33:55.160 --> 33:57.040 and leads them all together into a new manner 33:57.040 --> 33:58.160 and character of life. 33:58.580 --> 34:03.400 So that is impossible not to do good without ceasing. 34:04.300 --> 34:07.660 So he went from salvation is faith alone 34:08.340 --> 34:10.900 to then saying if you do get saved though, 34:11.380 --> 34:14.940 it's impossible for you to never not do good 34:15.580 --> 34:16.980 without ceasing, meaning forever. 34:17.480 --> 34:19.940 So you're gonna only ever do good until you die 34:20.500 --> 34:21.460 because you've been saved. 34:22.100 --> 34:25.480 Now that starts to sound Calvinistic a little bit, okay? 34:26.920 --> 34:29.840 And it's like, well, why would the Bible bring up 34:29.840 --> 34:33.040 the guy that's not working, getting saved, 34:33.280 --> 34:35.900 if when you get saved it's impossible 34:35.900 --> 34:38.080 not to only do good but do it without ceasing? 34:39.020 --> 34:41.700 Why is the Bible constantly telling us to do good things? 34:41.940 --> 34:42.780 We wouldn't even need it. 34:43.400 --> 34:45.780 You don't even need church, you just need to get saved 34:45.780 --> 34:47.700 and then once you're saved, you're gonna do, 34:47.780 --> 34:50.520 listen to this, it is impossible not to do good 34:50.520 --> 34:51.080 without ceasing. 34:53.040 --> 34:53.380 What? 34:54.020 --> 34:55.540 Have you ever met someone that's like that? 34:55.660 --> 34:58.020 Have you ever met the person that it's impossible 34:58.020 --> 34:59.660 for them to do anything but good stuff 34:59.660 --> 35:01.240 and they never stop doing good stuff? 35:02.160 --> 35:04.700 I mean, it's crazy. 35:06.260 --> 35:09.000 He says for just as natural it is for the tree 35:09.000 --> 35:11.100 to produce fruit, so natural it is for faith 35:11.100 --> 35:14.060 to produce good works and just as it is quite unnecessary 35:14.060 --> 35:16.560 to command the tree to bear fruit, 35:17.080 --> 35:20.020 so there is no command given to the believer, 35:20.700 --> 35:24.260 as Paul says, nor urging necessary for him to do good. 35:25.040 --> 35:26.720 Now, who in here believes that the Bible 35:26.720 --> 35:29.400 has zero commandments to believers to do good? 35:30.840 --> 35:31.640 It's like, what do you mean? 35:31.720 --> 35:32.580 That's the whole New Testament. 35:32.580 --> 35:36.380 I mean, in fact, sometimes the Bible just says be good. 35:37.200 --> 35:38.420 Okay, to do good. 35:38.660 --> 35:40.140 The Bible says to him that knoweth to do good 35:40.140 --> 35:41.180 and doeth not to him it is a sin. 35:41.540 --> 35:42.920 Oh, just kidding, you can never do that 35:42.920 --> 35:44.020 because you're a saved believer? 35:44.840 --> 35:46.820 No, no, obviously the Bible is constantly telling us 35:46.820 --> 35:49.500 to do good because you can not do good. 35:49.760 --> 35:50.960 It's called Romans 7. 35:51.660 --> 35:53.880 Bro, need to just go a little bit further in Romans 7 35:53.880 --> 35:55.220 when the apostle Paul is saying, 35:55.320 --> 35:58.660 hey, you know, I find that which is to do good 35:58.660 --> 36:00.360 and I find myself not doing it. 36:00.620 --> 36:02.080 He's like saying, hey, I wanna do good 36:02.080 --> 36:04.260 and I'm not doing it and I'm carnal 36:04.260 --> 36:06.760 and I'm not doing what I preaching. 36:07.100 --> 36:11.420 It's just like, bro, it's silly to say that nowhere 36:11.420 --> 36:14.000 in the Bible are we told to do good. 36:15.300 --> 36:16.760 You just do it automatically. 36:16.980 --> 36:20.600 Just as you sleep, eat, drink, put on clothes, 36:20.820 --> 36:22.500 hear, speak and go and come. 36:23.540 --> 36:25.140 So just like you breathing, 36:25.260 --> 36:26.860 no one has to tell you to breathe, that's true, right? 36:27.000 --> 36:29.100 Isn't that called an involuntary response of the body? 36:29.600 --> 36:30.240 You're heart beating. 36:30.240 --> 36:32.120 No one's told like, make sure your heart's beating. 36:33.860 --> 36:34.720 Hey, is it beating? 36:35.300 --> 36:36.480 Beat your heart, okay? 36:37.360 --> 36:38.640 Don't stop beating your heart. 36:39.140 --> 36:40.200 We don't have to tell people that 36:40.200 --> 36:42.020 and we get this, it's called an involuntary response. 36:42.460 --> 36:42.900 You know what? 36:43.260 --> 36:44.880 We don't have to be like that with church 36:44.880 --> 36:45.740 and say like, oh, you know what? 36:45.780 --> 36:46.340 We don't need church anymore. 36:46.600 --> 36:48.020 We're all gonna just do all the things right. 36:49.240 --> 36:49.880 Let's just go. 36:50.800 --> 36:53.100 What would be the point of reading the Bible 36:53.100 --> 36:55.400 or studying or praying or going to church or that? 36:55.920 --> 36:57.500 Like, no one can even be church disciplined 36:57.500 --> 36:58.500 because if you're church disciplined 36:58.500 --> 36:59.520 you obviously weren't even saved 36:59.520 --> 37:00.540 because you did something wrong. 37:02.180 --> 37:03.540 I mean like, this is nonsense. 37:04.740 --> 37:05.720 And how far are you gonna take this? 37:05.820 --> 37:07.920 And of course this is what the saving faith type mentality 37:07.920 --> 37:11.180 top typically produces is they have to create a scenario 37:11.180 --> 37:13.140 where you are perfect and you're doing good. 37:13.260 --> 37:14.420 So they have to lower the standard 37:14.420 --> 37:15.700 of what good actually is 37:16.580 --> 37:18.060 because they have to say you're good all the time. 37:18.620 --> 37:20.260 And then this is where you get the practicing 37:20.260 --> 37:22.200 syn doctrine you'll hear from an non-enormant church. 37:22.480 --> 37:23.760 They're like, well, no one that makes a practice 37:23.760 --> 37:24.800 of sin is actually saved. 37:25.140 --> 37:26.640 And it's like, what's a practice of sin anyways? 37:27.740 --> 37:30.480 First of all, I don't know if I've ever actually practiced 37:30.480 --> 37:33.000 sin, but I have sinned a lot. 37:33.640 --> 37:36.220 You know, I wasn't like, hey, I'm gonna practice lying. 37:37.040 --> 37:37.840 It's just, you just lied. 37:38.360 --> 37:39.020 You know, you just like, just, 37:39.180 --> 37:41.160 I'm not practicing disobeying my parents. 37:41.500 --> 37:43.300 It's like, okay, I'm gonna practice sneaking in 37:43.300 --> 37:44.480 and getting a cookie when I can. 37:44.980 --> 37:46.240 So then when I'm told I'm not, 37:46.360 --> 37:47.100 then I'll know what to do. 37:47.560 --> 37:49.200 It's like, no, no, no, they're just, 37:49.240 --> 37:50.380 they just sneak in and get a cookie. 37:50.560 --> 37:51.520 It's like, you don't need to practice. 37:52.020 --> 37:52.880 You're already an expert. 37:53.600 --> 37:55.720 Two year olds are already experts at this, okay? 37:56.330 --> 37:57.160 You didn't need practice. 37:57.300 --> 37:58.240 You've been doing this your whole life. 37:59.000 --> 37:59.220 It's silly. 37:59.340 --> 38:01.080 The practicing sin doctrine is a lie. 38:02.960 --> 38:04.020 Here's more of his statements. 38:04.240 --> 38:06.620 He says, where works do not follow, 38:07.520 --> 38:10.060 a man cannot know whether his faith is right. 38:11.120 --> 38:13.120 So Zane, if you don't have any works, you can't know. 38:13.600 --> 38:15.680 He says, yay, he may be certain 38:15.680 --> 38:16.900 that his faith is a dream 38:17.660 --> 38:19.240 and not right as it should be. 38:20.400 --> 38:24.740 He says, externally and publicly before men and himself, 38:24.740 --> 38:27.700 he is justified by works that he is at heart 38:27.700 --> 38:28.920 and honest believer in pious. 38:29.100 --> 38:30.820 So let me read a little bit more of this comment. 38:30.920 --> 38:33.100 He said, we're justified by faith alone without works, 38:33.260 --> 38:36.480 but externally and publicly before men and himself, 38:36.600 --> 38:39.360 he is justified by works that he is at heart 38:39.360 --> 38:40.540 and honest believer in pious. 38:40.660 --> 38:42.740 Now, this is where you can tell he's kind of 38:42.740 --> 38:44.400 getting James two vibe. 38:44.560 --> 38:45.760 And that's where we're gonna go there. 38:46.200 --> 38:48.360 But then he spells out something else from James two. 38:48.420 --> 38:49.780 He says, this is what James means 38:49.780 --> 38:51.480 when he says in his epistle, 38:52.080 --> 38:53.660 faith without works is dead. 38:54.740 --> 38:57.520 That is as the works do not follow, 38:58.120 --> 39:01.660 it is a sure sign that there is no faith there, 39:02.080 --> 39:03.940 but only an empty thought and dream 39:03.940 --> 39:07.320 which they falsely call faith. 39:07.780 --> 39:11.400 So in his sermon, I'm not reading all the sections, 39:11.560 --> 39:13.860 but he says there's a true faith and a false faith. 39:14.620 --> 39:16.380 And he says, if you don't have works, 39:16.800 --> 39:18.440 then you have a false faith. 39:18.920 --> 39:21.860 And he's like, there's some people that claim this, 39:22.280 --> 39:24.100 but they're claiming a false faith. 39:24.100 --> 39:25.460 Well, let's read some James two 39:25.460 --> 39:27.440 and let's see what the text actually says. 39:27.520 --> 39:30.020 Now, he's quoting the last verse here 39:30.020 --> 39:31.360 in James chapter number two. 39:32.960 --> 39:36.260 And of course, James chapter one, 39:36.540 --> 39:37.700 I'm sorry, James chapter two verse one says, 39:37.840 --> 39:39.460 my brethren, we were talking about saying people here. 39:40.120 --> 39:40.660 It says in verse 26, 39:40.860 --> 39:42.040 for as the body without the spirit is dead, 39:42.200 --> 39:43.340 so faith without works is dead also. 39:44.080 --> 39:44.960 That's a true statement. 39:45.360 --> 39:46.800 The Bible says that it's recorded, 39:47.240 --> 39:49.160 but you know what he's not quoting is verse 17. 39:49.220 --> 39:50.620 Look at this, even so, 39:50.620 --> 39:53.660 if it hath not works, is dead being alone. 39:55.300 --> 39:57.920 So faith, if it doesn't have works, 39:58.500 --> 39:59.960 does the Bible say it's false faith? 40:01.080 --> 40:02.420 No, it never says false faith. 40:02.800 --> 40:04.180 Does it say it doesn't exist? 40:04.780 --> 40:06.120 No, it doesn't say it's a dream. 40:06.640 --> 40:07.640 It just says it's alone. 40:08.740 --> 40:09.620 So you know, a lot of people say, 40:09.720 --> 40:11.280 oh, faith that works doesn't exist. 40:11.460 --> 40:12.960 No, no, no, the Bible says it does exist. 40:13.080 --> 40:13.580 It's just alone. 40:15.140 --> 40:16.340 It's something that is real. 40:16.840 --> 40:17.640 The question is then, 40:18.060 --> 40:20.060 if I have a faith that doesn't have works, 40:20.060 --> 40:20.700 can I be safe? 40:20.960 --> 40:21.900 Well, we already answered that 40:21.900 --> 40:23.140 in Romans chapter four, verse five. 40:23.460 --> 40:25.020 If I work not, and I'm ungodly, 40:25.220 --> 40:27.140 I'm still justified by my faith in Jesus Christ. 40:27.800 --> 40:28.180 Yep, man. 40:28.580 --> 40:29.460 So yes, I am. 40:30.200 --> 40:30.880 I'm saved. 40:31.860 --> 40:35.780 So they say, oh, okay, then what is James two telling us? 40:35.920 --> 40:40.000 Well, in the first section of James chapter two, 40:40.220 --> 40:42.640 it's saying that we shouldn't have respect of persons. 40:42.760 --> 40:43.620 That's what it says in verse one. 40:44.160 --> 40:45.120 My brethren, I'm not the faith 40:45.120 --> 40:45.900 of our Lord Jesus Christ, 40:46.000 --> 40:48.380 the Lord of glory with respect of persons, okay? 40:48.380 --> 40:50.820 If there come under your assembly 40:50.820 --> 40:53.160 a man with a gold ring and gold, goodly apparel, 40:53.280 --> 40:55.620 and there come in also a poor man in vile raiment, 40:55.840 --> 40:58.020 and you have respect to him that wear at the gay clothing 40:58.020 --> 41:00.440 and say unto him, sit thou here in a good place 41:00.440 --> 41:02.020 and say to the poor, stand thou there, 41:02.440 --> 41:03.840 or sit here under my footstool. 41:04.440 --> 41:05.900 Are you not then partial in yourselves 41:05.900 --> 41:07.380 and are you become judges of evil thoughts? 41:08.040 --> 41:08.740 So what is he saying? 41:09.060 --> 41:12.620 We shouldn't treat rich people better than poor people. 41:13.900 --> 41:14.700 Clear statement. 41:15.380 --> 41:17.020 We don't want to have a faith in Jesus Christ 41:17.020 --> 41:19.580 where we prefer rich people over poor people 41:20.080 --> 41:22.120 and that we don't want to be around poor people. 41:22.460 --> 41:24.600 Look at verse six, but you have despised the poor. 41:25.640 --> 41:26.940 So he's saying, don't have our respect 41:26.940 --> 41:29.540 of persons who are the poor, don't despise the poor. 41:30.740 --> 41:32.340 Then in a little bit later, 41:32.920 --> 41:35.140 he says here in verse number 14, 41:35.900 --> 41:37.240 what doth it profit my brethren, 41:37.840 --> 41:40.280 though man sayeth faith, and have not worse, 41:40.400 --> 41:41.040 can faith save him? 41:41.220 --> 41:42.760 If a brother or sister be naked 41:43.340 --> 41:45.420 and deser to daily food, and one of you say unto them, 41:45.420 --> 41:47.900 the party and peace be warmed and filled, 41:48.020 --> 41:49.040 notwithstanding you give them, 41:49.160 --> 41:50.480 not those things which are need for the body, 41:50.980 --> 41:51.860 what doth it profit? 41:52.380 --> 41:55.340 Saying, okay, we shouldn't have a bad opinion 41:55.340 --> 41:55.900 of poor people. 41:55.960 --> 41:57.360 We shouldn't treat them differently 41:57.360 --> 41:58.780 than we would treat a rich person. 41:59.160 --> 42:00.780 We shouldn't despise poor people 42:01.200 --> 42:04.260 and we also shouldn't tell people that are poor, 42:04.780 --> 42:07.720 hey, I hope God helps you and not help them. 42:07.920 --> 42:09.580 Because then what does that actually do? 42:09.720 --> 42:10.740 What does that actually profit? 42:11.320 --> 42:11.980 Isn't that what it starts? 42:12.100 --> 42:13.700 Verse 14, what doth it profit? 42:13.700 --> 42:16.520 Then notice in verse 16, the last statement, 42:17.080 --> 42:17.760 what doth it profit? 42:18.380 --> 42:21.740 That means that verses 14 to 16 are the same thought, okay? 42:22.620 --> 42:25.380 A man says he has faith, but he doesn't have works. 42:25.740 --> 42:27.700 Then we have in this story, in the example, 42:28.100 --> 42:31.280 he says unto him, depart in peace be warmed and filled. 42:31.400 --> 42:33.120 So there's the, it sounds like faith, 42:33.800 --> 42:34.660 notwithstanding he gives them 42:34.660 --> 42:35.760 not those things which are needful, 42:35.860 --> 42:36.940 meaning he didn't have any works, 42:37.200 --> 42:39.200 then it's like, how doth it profit that guy, okay? 42:39.720 --> 42:43.480 Can a guy who is starving to death 42:44.000 --> 42:47.060 and has no clothes, is he gonna be profited 42:47.060 --> 42:50.760 by you just telling him, have a good day, right? 42:50.920 --> 42:52.060 Is that gonna help him in any way? 42:52.620 --> 42:53.820 No, it's not gonna help him. 42:53.900 --> 42:56.660 And in fact, while we live in America, 42:56.920 --> 42:58.580 so we don't necessarily fully understand 42:58.580 --> 43:01.000 some of these things, not having food 43:01.400 --> 43:02.840 and having insufficient clothing 43:03.280 --> 43:05.700 and harsh conditions outside, you will die. 43:06.880 --> 43:07.900 You would literally die. 43:07.900 --> 43:10.860 It's not, it's like a real death threat, okay? 43:11.400 --> 43:12.540 Especially, I mean, it's saying he's naked. 43:13.260 --> 43:15.400 And you know, in some parts of the world, especially, 43:15.900 --> 43:18.100 it can get very cold, it is very cold, 43:18.220 --> 43:19.840 it's rainy, you get pneumonia, whatever. 43:20.000 --> 43:21.560 I mean, the chances of you dying 43:21.560 --> 43:23.780 by being insufficiently fed 43:23.780 --> 43:26.760 and not having sufficient clothing is a real threat. 43:27.980 --> 43:30.480 So this guy is like on the verge of death 43:31.200 --> 43:33.960 and you just saying, I hope someone helps you, 43:34.920 --> 43:36.060 doesn't help him, does it? 43:36.780 --> 43:39.720 Giving him what he actually needs would help him. 43:40.860 --> 43:44.640 Now, this is where, I wanna be very clear 43:44.640 --> 43:45.960 about what I'm saying here, okay? 43:46.360 --> 43:48.660 And I wanna be clear about my interpretation 43:48.660 --> 43:49.900 of this passage, okay? 43:50.380 --> 43:52.900 I don't think that we have to worry about this phrase, 43:53.320 --> 43:55.320 but I'm just gonna tell you what I think about this phrase. 43:55.860 --> 43:57.160 But this is what people will say, 43:57.520 --> 43:58.720 look at this, can't they save him? 43:59.080 --> 44:01.620 They'll say, well, this is saying a guy 44:01.620 --> 44:02.820 that says he has faith and doesn't have works, 44:02.920 --> 44:04.240 isn't saved and isn't gonna go to heaven. 44:05.200 --> 44:07.960 At no point in James chapter two, 44:08.100 --> 44:10.060 have we been bringing up heaven, 44:10.680 --> 44:11.880 having eternal life, 44:12.160 --> 44:15.380 who's justified in the sight of God to go to heaven or not, 44:15.780 --> 44:17.100 whose sins have been forgiven. 44:17.640 --> 44:19.360 Like that's never been in view in this chapter 44:19.360 --> 44:20.880 at any point, okay? 44:21.440 --> 44:25.840 Poor people have been in view the entire time, okay? 44:25.920 --> 44:28.240 Including in verse six, we have despised the poor. 44:28.860 --> 44:31.600 So in an extreme minority reading 44:32.040 --> 44:35.320 and in extreme minority opinion, which I also hold, 44:35.980 --> 44:37.900 they would say that when it says can't they save him, 44:38.040 --> 44:41.160 we're not actually talking about the guy in verse 14. 44:42.560 --> 44:44.120 We're talking about a poor guy. 44:44.600 --> 44:46.340 We're talking about the poor guy 44:46.340 --> 44:47.400 that was brought up in the verse six 44:47.400 --> 44:49.660 and is then explained in verses 15 and 16. 44:50.040 --> 44:52.080 Now people will say grammatically that doesn't make sense 44:52.080 --> 44:53.500 because you're kinda bringing in a pronoun 44:54.000 --> 44:55.360 before you explain the guy. 44:55.560 --> 44:56.780 And I understand that argument 44:57.300 --> 45:00.020 and I'm not gonna say that this is grammatically 45:00.020 --> 45:02.180 the most coherent interpretation. 45:02.740 --> 45:04.760 And if you have a different interpretation, go for it. 45:05.500 --> 45:07.980 But I believe what it's saying is can't they save him? 45:08.060 --> 45:10.480 It's like, hey, can your faith without works 45:10.480 --> 45:13.680 save this poor guy, this destitute of daily food 45:13.680 --> 45:15.160 and destitute of clothing? 45:15.520 --> 45:16.760 Can you actually save that guy? 45:16.860 --> 45:18.560 And the answer is no, okay? 45:19.320 --> 45:21.000 But what it's definitely not saying, 45:21.200 --> 45:22.520 even if you disagree with what I just said, 45:22.620 --> 45:23.840 even if you said I think it's something else, 45:24.300 --> 45:25.140 you know what it's not saying? 45:25.760 --> 45:27.260 Hey, you have to have works to go to heaven. 45:27.880 --> 45:28.880 That's not in view. 45:29.340 --> 45:30.540 That's not brought up in the context. 45:30.840 --> 45:32.620 It disagrees with every other portion of scripture. 45:33.040 --> 45:35.500 But they'll say, oh, this proves that there's a saving faith 45:36.060 --> 45:37.120 and a non-saving faith. 45:37.460 --> 45:39.560 Saving faith is not a phrase used in your Bible ever. 45:40.160 --> 45:40.320 Yeah. 45:41.600 --> 45:43.940 But again, why would it bring up? 45:44.140 --> 45:45.820 Again, notice the sandwich again, verse 14. 45:45.960 --> 45:47.840 What did the prophet in verse 16, what did the prophet? 45:48.860 --> 45:50.700 It makes clear that we're kinda talking 45:50.700 --> 45:52.440 about saving somebody from what? 45:52.820 --> 45:55.500 Dying of not having food, not having clothing. 45:56.300 --> 46:00.880 Yeah, is it possible that in a strange rhetorical sense, 46:00.960 --> 46:02.160 he's kinda bringing up the guy 46:02.160 --> 46:03.180 before he answers the question? 46:03.400 --> 46:04.200 I think it's possible. 46:04.700 --> 46:05.680 Now, if you have a different interpretation, 46:05.860 --> 46:08.240 I haven't heard a good explanation of this 46:08.240 --> 46:10.360 from people that actually saved, 46:11.120 --> 46:12.480 especially not the unsaved crowd, 46:13.040 --> 46:15.860 but to take this question, can they save him 46:15.860 --> 46:17.580 and then flip all the clear statements 46:17.580 --> 46:18.460 in the Bible on their head, 46:18.660 --> 46:20.500 is a horrible way to reinterpret the Bible. 46:22.060 --> 46:24.900 You know, and even if we were to answer the question, 46:25.560 --> 46:29.660 if you believe in Jesus Christ, if you are saved 46:30.280 --> 46:32.420 and some poor person comes into our church 46:32.900 --> 46:34.260 and they're completely naked 46:34.260 --> 46:35.680 and they haven't eaten a meal in weeks 46:36.160 --> 46:38.860 and you just say, well, I hope someone helps you 46:38.860 --> 46:41.660 and they leave, are you still saved? 46:42.400 --> 46:43.060 The answer's yes. 46:44.260 --> 46:45.580 Even if that's what this was asking. 46:46.080 --> 46:48.780 Even if the question was, can that type of faith 46:48.780 --> 46:49.600 save this guy? 46:50.040 --> 46:50.580 Well, guess what? 46:50.700 --> 46:52.440 If he believed in Jesus, he's still saved. 46:52.620 --> 46:53.180 You know what I mean? 46:53.740 --> 46:55.340 But I just think that's kinda strange 46:55.340 --> 46:56.900 because that's not really been in the context. 46:57.080 --> 46:58.240 That's not what we're really talking about. 46:58.880 --> 47:01.020 We don't have to give money to poor people 47:01.020 --> 47:02.040 to prove that we're saved 47:02.040 --> 47:04.800 or to stay saved or become saved or get saved. 47:05.300 --> 47:07.660 We give money to the poor because we love them 47:08.320 --> 47:09.120 and you know what? 47:09.160 --> 47:10.380 Hey, that's the right thing to do. 47:10.800 --> 47:12.420 Not because we're gonna get to heaven 47:12.420 --> 47:13.260 because we give money to the poor. 47:14.520 --> 47:16.020 And people say, where's your soup kitchen? 47:16.200 --> 47:17.240 Well, I don't have a soup kitchen. 47:17.240 --> 47:17.840 Okay. 47:19.020 --> 47:20.840 But you know what we will do is we'll go into the highways 47:20.840 --> 47:22.140 and hedges and we'll give the gospel to people. 47:23.280 --> 47:25.700 And it's not that none of us have ever helped the poor person. 47:25.800 --> 47:27.180 We're just not gonna go around bragging about it 47:27.900 --> 47:29.160 because that's not the point. 47:30.320 --> 47:31.900 Now, again, he says in verse 17, 47:32.140 --> 47:34.040 even so faith, if it hath not works is dead. 47:34.540 --> 47:36.420 Being alone, yea, a man may say thou's faith 47:36.420 --> 47:38.120 and I have works, show me thy faith without thy works 47:38.120 --> 47:39.520 and I'll show thee my faith by my works. 47:40.000 --> 47:41.340 Thou believest that there is one God, 47:41.480 --> 47:42.020 thou doest well. 47:42.620 --> 47:43.940 The devil's also believe in tremble. 47:44.460 --> 47:45.760 But wilt thou know, vain man, 47:45.900 --> 47:47.020 that faith thou works is dead. 47:48.180 --> 47:48.820 Meaning what? 47:49.340 --> 47:50.080 That it's not helping. 47:50.360 --> 47:52.820 If your phone is dead, you can't use it. 47:53.320 --> 47:55.160 What if I said, hey, I'm gonna give you a phone 47:56.040 --> 47:58.180 and it has no battery and it's dead 47:58.180 --> 47:59.500 and you can never have another battery? 47:59.940 --> 48:00.840 What doth it profit? 48:01.640 --> 48:02.800 It's like it doesn't really profit anything. 48:03.400 --> 48:03.620 Okay. 48:04.360 --> 48:06.080 You know, the whole point of having a phone battery 48:06.080 --> 48:08.120 so you can call people, you can actually text people, 48:08.240 --> 48:09.240 you can do something with it, right? 48:09.820 --> 48:11.740 In the same way that if I know 48:12.200 --> 48:15.360 that you can go to heaven by believing in Jesus Christ 48:15.840 --> 48:18.440 and I never tell you, what is that gonna profit you? 48:19.320 --> 48:22.080 You're not gonna know how to call on God and get saved. 48:22.620 --> 48:23.800 I actually do something. 48:23.920 --> 48:25.160 I have to go out there and preach the gospel 48:25.160 --> 48:25.820 and I have to help you. 48:26.200 --> 48:27.980 And of course, if I believe in Jesus Christ 48:27.980 --> 48:29.560 and I've been saved and he's helped me, 48:29.960 --> 48:32.060 then if I never do anything to help anybody, 48:32.500 --> 48:35.780 what was the point of being saved before I die? 48:36.040 --> 48:37.960 Like, I might as well just died on my deathbed 48:37.960 --> 48:40.240 rather than getting saved way earlier in life 48:40.240 --> 48:42.220 if I'm never gonna do anything with that salvation 48:42.220 --> 48:44.640 I've never actually served God or have any good works. 48:45.200 --> 48:45.420 Okay. 48:45.780 --> 48:47.740 So the whole point is to get saved. 48:47.880 --> 48:50.080 This does not live for ourselves and be selfish anymore 48:50.080 --> 48:52.040 but rather to help other people, of course 48:52.540 --> 48:53.460 and to do good things. 48:55.360 --> 48:57.980 Verse 21 was not Abraham our father justified by works 48:58.480 --> 49:01.260 when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar. 49:01.820 --> 49:03.280 See as to how faith wrought with his works 49:03.280 --> 49:04.460 and by works his faith made perfect 49:04.460 --> 49:05.640 and the scripture was fulfilled with saved 49:05.640 --> 49:07.080 Abraham believed God and was imputed on him 49:07.080 --> 49:08.800 for righteousness and he was called the friend of God. 49:08.800 --> 49:09.860 You see then how that by works 49:09.860 --> 49:11.360 a man is justified and not by faith only. 49:11.940 --> 49:13.200 Now, here's the thing. 49:14.340 --> 49:17.600 We've read so many verses this evening on justification 49:17.600 --> 49:21.020 and justified meaning that you're declared morally right. 49:21.440 --> 49:21.880 Okay. 49:22.440 --> 49:27.300 You're declared morally right by believing in Jesus Christ 49:27.300 --> 49:28.400 you're right with God. 49:30.000 --> 49:32.840 So then how could this passage exist? 49:33.080 --> 49:35.260 And of course, Martin Luther didn't think James too 49:35.260 --> 49:37.340 was even the Bible, which is interesting. 49:37.340 --> 49:39.520 It's like, I've heard that he didn't even want 49:39.520 --> 49:40.340 James to be in the Bible 49:40.340 --> 49:41.860 and then he's quoting James too in his sermon. 49:42.420 --> 49:43.720 Okay, so I don't know how that works. 49:44.120 --> 49:45.660 I don't know how to reconcile those two things. 49:45.980 --> 49:51.820 Okay, but either way, when we're reading here 49:51.820 --> 49:55.740 in this particular passage, most people that are saved 49:55.740 --> 49:56.920 this is how they would interpret it. 49:56.960 --> 49:59.140 They say that this justification is not before God 49:59.140 --> 50:01.080 it's before man, okay. 50:01.640 --> 50:05.040 That it's just saying I'm declared to be morally right 50:05.440 --> 50:08.400 in the eyes of man by my works. 50:08.700 --> 50:09.520 Meaning what? 50:10.000 --> 50:13.460 If a poor person needs help and I help them, 50:13.600 --> 50:16.580 won't people look at me and think that I'm a good person 50:16.580 --> 50:17.460 because I did that? 50:18.040 --> 50:19.760 But you know, at the end of the day 50:19.760 --> 50:21.000 that's just not what gets me into heaven. 50:21.600 --> 50:23.660 And I'm not justified in the sight of God 50:23.660 --> 50:24.640 for anything that I did. 50:25.020 --> 50:26.660 It's just that people will see that 50:26.660 --> 50:30.520 and they will think this guy is a just person. 50:30.660 --> 50:32.560 This guy is a morally right person. 50:33.400 --> 50:36.400 Could I convince somebody that I am morally right 50:36.400 --> 50:38.560 if I literally do nothing good ever? 50:39.480 --> 50:42.480 Like could I convince you that Joe Biden is morally good? 50:44.760 --> 50:47.840 Or you know, some guy that, some Jew 50:47.840 --> 50:51.340 that owns all of the online smut industry or something 50:51.340 --> 50:52.880 like this guy is morally good. 50:53.680 --> 50:57.100 You know, can I prove, like no one's gonna believe that. 50:57.740 --> 51:00.340 Okay, so in a sense, you know, 51:00.340 --> 51:02.040 you're not gonna be considered just 51:02.580 --> 51:04.060 if you're never doing anything good. 51:04.540 --> 51:07.700 And so you could argue that works helps us 51:07.700 --> 51:10.240 to be justified in the sight of man, okay? 51:11.360 --> 51:12.740 Why would that be important? 51:12.940 --> 51:15.740 Well, I think it's only important in the context of 51:15.740 --> 51:20.320 the fact that we're saved to do good works 51:20.320 --> 51:22.620 and to give glory to God, okay? 51:23.040 --> 51:25.980 So if people being saved, let's just think about it 51:25.980 --> 51:29.080 this way, if everybody that got saved did nothing different 51:29.660 --> 51:31.820 well then that doesn't really give much glory to God 51:31.820 --> 51:33.240 as salvation being very special. 51:33.860 --> 51:36.760 But if everybody, if the vast majority of people 51:36.760 --> 51:38.620 getting saved, if the normal experience is people 51:38.620 --> 51:40.880 actually being different and doing good things, 51:41.380 --> 51:43.200 well then it gives glory to God to show like, 51:43.340 --> 51:46.960 oh see, salvation and the gospel is good. 51:47.060 --> 51:48.940 It's teaching us to deny ungodliness 51:49.420 --> 51:51.500 and to live soberly and to do right. 51:52.020 --> 51:54.580 So then you get passages like Matthew 25 and others 51:55.000 --> 51:57.000 that are showing a clear difference between the group 51:57.000 --> 51:58.740 of saved people versus the unsaved. 51:59.060 --> 52:00.660 Hey, the saved people are doing good things, 52:00.760 --> 52:02.820 the unsaved are kinda doing rotten things, okay? 52:03.120 --> 52:05.300 So there is a difference from categories 52:05.300 --> 52:07.840 but that doesn't mean that an individual 52:08.280 --> 52:11.880 who didn't contribute, who is just drug along on the team 52:12.400 --> 52:14.680 that he doesn't get the trophy, he still gets the trophy. 52:15.100 --> 52:17.460 The guy on the bench that never got in the game 52:17.980 --> 52:21.320 the whole season, a guy that got traded to our team 52:21.840 --> 52:24.420 at the end of the season and never played 52:24.420 --> 52:27.780 still gets the ring, still gets the trophy. 52:28.780 --> 52:32.480 He did no works, okay, but here's the thing, 52:33.040 --> 52:35.980 it's not like everybody on the team is that guy, okay? 52:36.360 --> 52:38.960 There was somebody on our team that was scoring, okay? 52:39.380 --> 52:41.640 There was somebody in the game passing the ball, 52:41.700 --> 52:43.180 otherwise we wouldn't have won, okay? 52:43.600 --> 52:45.620 So in a sense from a Christian perspective as a whole, 52:45.940 --> 52:48.880 yes, lots of Christians are living different lives, 52:49.000 --> 52:50.480 lots of Christians are doing good things, 52:50.580 --> 52:52.500 lots of Christians are serving the Lord 52:52.500 --> 52:56.220 and that's what we want to see, that's the good experience 52:56.720 --> 53:00.000 but we're not gonna sit here and demonize those 53:00.000 --> 53:02.500 that are not and say, well, you're not even on the team. 53:03.380 --> 53:05.780 Those that are not doing works, you're not even saved, 53:06.400 --> 53:09.160 that's the wrong attitude, that's the wrong belief, okay? 53:10.500 --> 53:12.320 And I think it's important for a couple reasons 53:12.320 --> 53:14.680 and I'm gonna go there, go to Luke chapter eight, 53:15.200 --> 53:16.120 go to Luke chapter eight. 53:16.400 --> 53:18.080 Now you say, well, so is Martin Luther saved 53:18.080 --> 53:18.660 or not saved? 53:20.300 --> 53:20.920 What's the thing? 53:21.760 --> 53:22.900 You know, when I try to figure out 53:22.900 --> 53:24.560 if someone saved or not, you know what I do? 53:25.820 --> 53:28.680 I ask them what they believe, right? 53:29.540 --> 53:31.220 And here's what I, based on what I've read, 53:31.340 --> 53:32.400 this is what I think would happen. 53:32.520 --> 53:34.320 If I asked Martin Luther, hey, 53:34.400 --> 53:35.640 what do you think it takes to go to heaven? 53:36.260 --> 53:37.220 You know, I think you would have said, 53:38.040 --> 53:39.560 well, it's faith alone, what Jesus Christ did. 53:40.620 --> 53:41.840 But here's the thing, when I go soul winning, 53:41.980 --> 53:43.540 you know that's not the only question I ask. 53:44.160 --> 53:45.340 I ask a second question. 53:45.860 --> 53:47.000 And you know what that second question I ask? 53:48.000 --> 53:49.380 Could you lose your salvation? 53:49.380 --> 53:50.840 All right? 53:51.760 --> 53:54.400 So I'm gonna read another thing that Martin Luther wrote, 53:54.600 --> 53:58.420 okay, or another sermon, excerpt or something. 53:58.580 --> 53:59.700 I don't know if it's a sermon specifically 53:59.700 --> 54:01.180 or it's just some letter he wrote. 54:01.700 --> 54:02.940 This is something that he wrote, though. 54:05.200 --> 54:08.080 He said, it is accordingly necessary to know 54:08.080 --> 54:10.540 and to teach that when holy men still having 54:10.540 --> 54:13.760 and feeling original sin, also daily repenting 54:13.760 --> 54:15.940 and striving with it, happened to fall 54:16.460 --> 54:19.800 into manifest sins, as David into adultery, 54:20.340 --> 54:23.300 murder and blasphemy, that then faith 54:23.300 --> 54:25.340 and the Holy Ghost has departed from them 54:25.880 --> 54:27.540 for they cast out faith and the Holy Ghost. 54:27.920 --> 54:30.340 For the Holy Ghost does not permit sin to have dominion 54:30.340 --> 54:32.620 to gain the upper hand so as to be accomplished 54:32.620 --> 54:34.280 but represses and restrains it 54:34.280 --> 54:36.480 so that it must not do what it wishes. 54:36.940 --> 54:38.280 But if it does what it wishes, 54:38.500 --> 54:41.560 the Holy Ghost and faith are certainly not present. 54:41.960 --> 54:43.100 For St. John says, 54:43.520 --> 54:45.760 who serves as born of God does not commit sin 54:45.760 --> 54:46.900 and he cannot sin. 54:47.520 --> 54:49.200 So, according to Martin Luther, 54:49.960 --> 54:52.300 he's saying if you ever commit murder or adultery 54:52.300 --> 54:53.740 or you're like David, you're not saved. 54:55.860 --> 54:57.840 Not only are you not saved, you've lost yourself, 54:58.020 --> 55:00.620 but you pushed the Holy Ghost out, okay. 55:01.240 --> 55:03.080 Now, if you heard that at the door, 55:03.820 --> 55:05.580 would you say this guy's saved or unsaved? 55:05.880 --> 55:06.780 Unsaved, yeah. 55:07.340 --> 55:08.700 Well, that's my opinion too, okay. 55:09.160 --> 55:14.420 Now, again, it's weird because he sounds really good 55:14.980 --> 55:16.120 on the faith alone part. 55:16.560 --> 55:17.740 But then you have to understand, 55:17.800 --> 55:20.280 a lot of these people have this weird saving faith idea 55:20.840 --> 55:23.220 and they say, well, saving faith is never alone, 55:23.220 --> 55:25.840 it has all these works and it's gonna endure under the end 55:25.840 --> 55:28.160 and it's never gonna commit these big sins 55:28.160 --> 55:29.960 and it's never gonna practice sin, whatever. 55:30.320 --> 55:32.200 And it just seems like most of the preachers 55:32.200 --> 55:34.320 and pastors teaching this stuff are just not saved. 55:34.940 --> 55:39.540 A lordship style salvation, a saving faith salvation, 55:40.040 --> 55:42.600 a lot of Calvinists kind of teach this stuff, okay. 55:44.120 --> 55:47.180 But I do wanna make something clearer to our group 55:47.180 --> 55:49.200 and to our congregation that if someone 55:49.800 --> 55:52.740 does adhere to this saving faith doctrine, okay, 55:53.240 --> 55:55.480 they believe that if someone gets saved, 55:55.580 --> 55:58.240 they will have some good works, they will have a change, 55:58.500 --> 56:01.700 that they are wrong, but I do not believe 56:01.700 --> 56:02.800 that means they're unsaved. 56:03.980 --> 56:06.560 If I asked Martin Luther, what do you have to do 56:06.560 --> 56:07.760 to be saved and he said faith alone in Christ 56:07.760 --> 56:08.700 and I said, can you lose it? 56:08.700 --> 56:10.180 And he said, no, I would say he's saved, 56:10.660 --> 56:13.980 even if he has this wrong saving faith doctrine. 56:14.380 --> 56:16.440 Because if we throw everybody in hell 56:16.440 --> 56:17.760 that has the saving faith doctrine, 56:18.120 --> 56:20.140 it's gonna be a really small group 56:20.820 --> 56:22.820 because the vast majority of Christians 56:22.820 --> 56:24.500 have this weird saving faith doctrine. 56:24.900 --> 56:27.260 Now again, a lot of people have an experience 56:27.260 --> 56:29.360 where they believe in Jesus Christ and they do change. 56:29.900 --> 56:32.580 So it is a pretty normal, common experience. 56:33.400 --> 56:35.160 The problem is we don't want to believe 56:35.160 --> 56:37.480 that those are the only ones going to heaven 56:37.960 --> 56:39.800 for a lot of reasons, okay. 56:40.380 --> 56:41.460 Why a lot of reasons? 56:41.600 --> 56:43.400 Well, look at Luke chapter eight, verse 12. 56:44.900 --> 56:46.360 Those by the wayside are they that hear, 56:46.440 --> 56:47.900 then come to the devil and take away the word 56:47.900 --> 56:49.440 out of their hearts, lest they should believe 56:49.440 --> 56:49.940 and be saved. 56:50.700 --> 56:53.200 They on the rock are they, which when they hear 56:53.200 --> 56:55.940 receive the word of joy and these have no root, 56:56.400 --> 56:57.980 which for a while believe and in time of temptation 56:57.980 --> 56:58.580 fall away. 56:59.320 --> 57:01.540 All these saving faith people would say that verse 12, 57:01.680 --> 57:02.540 all those people are not saved. 57:03.920 --> 57:08.380 Then they would say and verse 13, that next group, 57:08.500 --> 57:09.860 verse 13 and 14 are not saved. 57:10.280 --> 57:11.980 Look at this, they on the rock are they, 57:12.760 --> 57:14.220 which when they hear receive the word of joy 57:14.640 --> 57:16.660 and these have no root which for a while believe 57:16.660 --> 57:17.680 and in time of temptation fall away 57:17.680 --> 57:20.560 and that which fell among thorns are they 57:20.560 --> 57:22.020 which when they have heard go forth 57:22.020 --> 57:23.600 and are choked with cares and riches 57:23.600 --> 57:26.040 and pleasures of this life and bring no fruit to perfection. 57:26.400 --> 57:28.580 Does the group 14 have any fruit? 57:29.900 --> 57:32.460 They have no fruit, which according to Martin Luther 57:32.460 --> 57:36.540 it's impossible to not have good fruit without ceasing. 57:37.900 --> 57:41.540 So they would say only, only the group 15 is saved. 57:41.960 --> 57:44.800 And look, I hear this from non-the-non preachers, 57:45.160 --> 57:47.980 from Calvinist preachers, from Presbyterian teachers, 57:48.300 --> 57:50.540 just virtually everyone is saying this kind of stuff. 57:51.100 --> 57:53.920 And so either everyone's unsaved 57:54.620 --> 57:57.280 or just most everybody's wrong, okay? 57:57.800 --> 57:59.140 Again, most everybody is wrong. 58:00.320 --> 58:02.880 But how do I determine who's saved and who's not saved? 58:02.960 --> 58:04.740 Well, the ones that are saying it's fate alone 58:04.740 --> 58:06.140 and you can't lose it, I think are saved. 58:06.920 --> 58:09.700 Even though they mad to hear this saving faith doctrine. 58:10.160 --> 58:11.940 The ones that are like Martin Luther that says, 58:12.000 --> 58:14.240 well, yeah, you could lose it 58:14.240 --> 58:15.360 or if you don't have the works, 58:15.680 --> 58:16.820 you're not saved, whatever. 58:18.360 --> 58:20.020 I'm definitely afraid of someone 58:20.020 --> 58:21.100 that has any combination. 58:21.560 --> 58:23.320 If they say you can't lose it, I think they're just not saved. 58:24.200 --> 58:26.300 Anybody that's denying that you, 58:27.360 --> 58:29.740 or anybody that's saying you can push the Holy Ghost out, 58:29.920 --> 58:32.540 anybody that's saying that you can lose your salvation 58:32.540 --> 58:33.620 or walk away or whatever, 58:33.760 --> 58:34.760 I don't think they're saved at all. 58:35.600 --> 58:38.180 Okay, and I will continue to believe that. 58:38.800 --> 58:43.980 Now again, go to Matthew 13 as well. 58:44.760 --> 58:48.260 If somebody says, I think you can lose your salvation 58:48.260 --> 58:50.140 if you become an atheist or something. 58:50.360 --> 58:52.380 Or I think if you stop believing, 58:53.180 --> 58:54.680 I'm not gonna say that person's unsaved. 58:55.160 --> 58:56.660 I think that some people are confused 58:56.660 --> 58:58.080 about apostasy specifically. 58:58.600 --> 59:01.180 But I'm saying, if they're saying you commit murder 59:01.180 --> 59:03.620 or adultery or a sin or unrepentant sin 59:03.620 --> 59:04.340 and you're losing your salvation, 59:04.660 --> 59:05.780 I don't believe those people are saved ever. 59:07.240 --> 59:09.880 If you think sin is losing your salvation, not saved. 59:10.400 --> 59:12.020 If you're a little bit confused on apostasy, 59:12.360 --> 59:14.460 I think you could still probably be saved. 59:14.560 --> 59:15.800 I would still sure them up on that. 59:15.860 --> 59:16.940 I'd still correct them on that. 59:17.460 --> 59:18.820 But I wouldn't necessarily say they're unsaved. 59:19.460 --> 59:21.260 And the reason why I think this is important 59:21.260 --> 59:22.620 is because when we go soul winning, 59:23.100 --> 59:24.360 I'll see sometimes people, 59:25.200 --> 59:28.080 I feel like they're a little bit hyper on this issue. 59:28.760 --> 59:30.360 Because I'll see them, they'll talk to me and say, 59:30.440 --> 59:32.000 hey, what do you have to do to go to heaven? 59:32.380 --> 59:34.260 And the person will say, oh, it's believing in Jesus. 59:35.020 --> 59:35.600 And they're like, yeah, 59:35.740 --> 59:37.480 well, do you think someone can lose their salvation? 59:38.600 --> 59:38.960 No. 59:39.500 --> 59:42.200 And they're like, okay, well, what if someone believed 59:42.200 --> 59:44.960 but then they're like an ax murdering psycho killer? 59:44.960 --> 59:46.900 Do you still think that person's saved? 59:47.560 --> 59:48.940 And they're like, I'm not sure. 59:49.400 --> 59:51.540 Well, actually you don't believe right at all 59:51.540 --> 59:52.420 and you're not saved. 59:52.540 --> 59:54.340 Can I show you the Bible teaches something completely different? 59:55.200 --> 59:57.140 And I'm like, completely different. 59:57.640 --> 59:58.480 What do you mean? 59:59.200 --> 01:00:01.940 This person's just confused that a psycho serial killer 01:00:01.940 --> 01:00:02.940 actually believes the gospel. 01:00:03.060 --> 01:00:04.060 That's all he's confused about 01:00:04.060 --> 01:00:05.440 is your weird hypothetical. 01:00:05.800 --> 01:00:07.820 He's also getting a weird vibe from you. 01:00:08.520 --> 01:00:08.620 Okay. 01:00:10.540 --> 01:00:13.000 Like, you don't have to be so weird. 01:00:14.080 --> 01:00:16.260 If they think it's faith alone and you can't lose it, 01:00:16.460 --> 01:00:18.420 like go team, you know? 01:00:19.360 --> 01:00:20.200 It's like, we don't have to, 01:00:20.220 --> 01:00:22.260 we don't have to get super weird about this kind of stuff. 01:00:23.160 --> 01:00:23.400 All right? 01:00:23.860 --> 01:00:28.260 You know, to me, if I don't have something like really clear, 01:00:28.640 --> 01:00:29.480 you know, I'm not gonna sit here 01:00:29.480 --> 01:00:31.180 and jump all over these people or whatever. 01:00:31.500 --> 01:00:33.400 And if they have this saving faith doctrine, 01:00:33.640 --> 01:00:34.900 I'm not gonna declare them unsafe. 01:00:35.680 --> 01:00:37.100 I've seen it, I've heard it. 01:00:37.620 --> 01:00:38.780 You know, I think it's a waste of time. 01:00:38.840 --> 01:00:40.540 I'll correct them out so when I'll say, 01:00:40.540 --> 01:00:41.520 hey, can I show you a verse? 01:00:41.980 --> 01:00:44.020 I'll show them Romans four or five and say, 01:00:44.060 --> 01:00:47.960 hey, or if you feel like you've spent just a few minutes, 01:00:48.180 --> 01:00:49.840 like I don't wanna spend very long questioning people. 01:00:50.040 --> 01:00:51.620 I'm just saying, if you've gone like two or three 01:00:51.620 --> 01:00:53.560 questions deep and it's a little confusing, 01:00:54.160 --> 01:00:55.160 here's the best thing to do. 01:00:55.620 --> 01:00:57.020 Just tell them exactly what we believe 01:00:57.020 --> 01:00:58.300 and ask if they believe it or not. 01:00:58.800 --> 01:01:00.660 Just say, well, I believe salvation is a free gift 01:01:00.660 --> 01:01:03.120 by faith and you can never lose it for any reason. 01:01:03.300 --> 01:01:04.380 Is that what you believe? 01:01:05.640 --> 01:01:07.100 And if they're like, no, right? 01:01:07.500 --> 01:01:08.240 Well, can I show you that? 01:01:08.240 --> 01:01:10.480 And if they say yes, then be like, go team. 01:01:11.620 --> 01:01:13.520 We're not out there to trip people up. 01:01:13.760 --> 01:01:16.360 We're not out there to trap them or something like that. 01:01:17.480 --> 01:01:20.700 I get that we're trying to help them figure out 01:01:20.700 --> 01:01:23.020 where they're at in life, but you know what? 01:01:23.160 --> 01:01:24.020 We can be pretty clear. 01:01:24.420 --> 01:01:26.140 I used to think that you couldn't say this, 01:01:26.520 --> 01:01:27.440 and now I use it every time. 01:01:27.860 --> 01:01:29.320 It's like, do you think salvation is faith alone 01:01:29.320 --> 01:01:30.400 or faith works? 01:01:31.040 --> 01:01:32.140 Because I thought, well, we can't say that 01:01:32.140 --> 01:01:33.100 because it'll all just say faith. 01:01:33.780 --> 01:01:35.920 But virtually everybody just says it's faith and works. 01:01:38.280 --> 01:01:39.720 Because I'm not trying to trap anybody. 01:01:40.160 --> 01:01:41.960 I'm just trying to figure out what do you believe? 01:01:42.180 --> 01:01:42.920 This is what I believe. 01:01:43.060 --> 01:01:45.060 Do you want me to show you something different or not? 01:01:45.380 --> 01:01:46.760 Do you want me to show you it's a free gift by faith? 01:01:47.560 --> 01:01:50.620 And again, are people who think 01:01:51.580 --> 01:01:53.640 that someone who has no works is not saved, 01:01:53.740 --> 01:01:54.580 does that mean they're not saved? 01:01:54.800 --> 01:01:55.480 Not necessarily. 01:01:56.220 --> 01:01:58.140 We want to ask the questions that we stick to. 01:01:58.860 --> 01:02:00.800 We want to stick to the simple things. 01:02:01.440 --> 01:02:03.400 And again, Martin Luther would have failed the test 01:02:03.400 --> 01:02:04.020 so we're fine. 01:02:05.020 --> 01:02:05.880 The test works. 01:02:06.560 --> 01:02:10.140 Don't try and reinvent the test to some other idea. 01:02:10.700 --> 01:02:12.580 Look, if we were gonna see what other doctrines 01:02:12.580 --> 01:02:14.100 are you wrong on to see if you're saved or not, 01:02:14.620 --> 01:02:15.640 no one's saved, okay? 01:02:15.760 --> 01:02:16.960 Because people are screwed up on virtually 01:02:16.960 --> 01:02:18.200 anything and everything, all right? 01:02:18.900 --> 01:02:21.880 But in general, we're just trying to test to see, 01:02:21.960 --> 01:02:23.200 hey, do they believe in faith alone? 01:02:23.440 --> 01:02:24.560 Do they believe they can lose their salvation? 01:02:25.640 --> 01:02:27.080 And this is important because we want 01:02:27.080 --> 01:02:27.820 to protect these groups. 01:02:28.100 --> 01:02:30.080 We do believe that you can have no works and be saved. 01:02:30.740 --> 01:02:33.800 Look at Matthew chapter 13, verse 21. 01:02:35.640 --> 01:02:37.140 Yet, this is talking about the Parable of Sower. 01:02:37.420 --> 01:02:39.340 Yet hathy no-rude in himself but dureth for a while 01:02:39.340 --> 01:02:40.940 for when tribulation and persecution arrive 01:02:40.940 --> 01:02:43.080 because of the word, by and by he is offended. 01:02:43.640 --> 01:02:46.660 Look, if someone we get saved, out-so-winning, 01:02:47.000 --> 01:02:49.540 comes into church and they don't like the service 01:02:49.540 --> 01:02:50.500 and they immediately leave, 01:02:51.400 --> 01:02:52.460 I'm not gonna say they're unsaved. 01:02:53.780 --> 01:02:55.240 I've known somebody that was in my, 01:02:55.520 --> 01:02:58.680 that I got saved, I brought them to church, 01:02:59.140 --> 01:03:01.680 they got baptized, they were gonna end up 01:03:01.680 --> 01:03:02.340 getting married. 01:03:03.000 --> 01:03:05.720 But then they stumbled, they offended, okay? 01:03:06.120 --> 01:03:07.420 And then I never saw them again 01:03:07.420 --> 01:03:08.820 and they got out of church and whatever. 01:03:09.600 --> 01:03:12.700 But praise God, even my pastor, my old IP pastor 01:03:12.700 --> 01:03:13.340 who came up to me and said, 01:03:13.660 --> 01:03:15.480 well, at least we know he's going to heaven. 01:03:16.440 --> 01:03:17.300 And it's like, yeah. 01:03:18.640 --> 01:03:19.300 Hey, you know what? 01:03:19.620 --> 01:03:23.100 Even if he didn't get baptized, he's still saved. 01:03:24.440 --> 01:03:26.760 You know, some pastors, I guess, need that message again. 01:03:27.740 --> 01:03:28.820 You know, there was a podcast 01:03:28.820 --> 01:03:30.960 where pastor Jason Robinson was on 01:03:32.000 --> 01:03:33.620 where he was letting a Calvinist 01:03:33.620 --> 01:03:35.360 explain the saving faith doctrine 01:03:35.360 --> 01:03:38.980 and then he affirmed and agreed and amplified by saying this. 01:03:39.100 --> 01:03:42.600 He said, if a believer, if someone's really a believer 01:03:43.360 --> 01:03:45.520 and they completely reject baptism, 01:03:46.520 --> 01:03:47.940 are they really a believer? 01:03:49.360 --> 01:03:50.840 Well, let's just go with your statement. 01:03:51.000 --> 01:03:52.240 Because you said they're really a believer. 01:03:53.200 --> 01:03:53.980 Think about it. 01:03:54.160 --> 01:03:56.040 If someone's really a believer 01:03:56.560 --> 01:03:58.620 but they rejected baptism, are they really a believer? 01:03:59.280 --> 01:04:01.740 Yeah, because you said they were really a believer. 01:04:02.900 --> 01:04:03.840 This is weird. 01:04:04.620 --> 01:04:05.440 And think about it. 01:04:05.640 --> 01:04:06.220 You know what that does? 01:04:06.300 --> 01:04:07.800 That just puts a wet blanket on soul winning. 01:04:08.340 --> 01:04:11.200 If we're gonna say the only people that actually got saved 01:04:11.200 --> 01:04:13.560 were the people that showed up and got baptized later, 01:04:13.940 --> 01:04:16.060 we're gonna have, again, a really small list. 01:04:16.540 --> 01:04:16.980 And you know what? 01:04:17.060 --> 01:04:19.000 It's gonna make us not even wanna go soul winning anymore. 01:04:19.460 --> 01:04:20.640 And it's gonna make us wanna become 01:04:20.640 --> 01:04:23.020 some Greek theologian, 01:04:23.760 --> 01:04:26.060 some Calvinist again, studying church history 01:04:26.060 --> 01:04:28.000 because we have nothing else to do with our lives. 01:04:28.540 --> 01:04:30.860 Instead of becoming so smart 01:04:31.280 --> 01:04:32.500 and just learning all the church history, 01:04:32.680 --> 01:04:33.740 why don't you just go soul winning? 01:04:33.920 --> 01:04:34.140 You know what? 01:04:34.360 --> 01:04:36.400 Why don't you just go preach the gospel? 01:04:37.280 --> 01:04:37.640 And you know what? 01:04:37.700 --> 01:04:39.160 Some people will be a little bit wiser 01:04:39.160 --> 01:04:40.680 if they would just preach the gospel 01:04:40.680 --> 01:04:43.380 instead of preaching all these church fathers nonsense. 01:04:44.120 --> 01:04:44.880 Yeah, that's right. 01:04:45.100 --> 01:04:46.420 You start going down that road 01:04:46.420 --> 01:04:48.020 and you're gonna sound like an idiot. 01:04:48.240 --> 01:04:49.300 You're gonna sound like a fool. 01:04:49.620 --> 01:04:50.800 And you know what? 01:04:51.000 --> 01:04:52.480 It's tearing down soul winning. 01:04:52.920 --> 01:04:54.500 It's putting a wet blanket on soul winning. 01:04:54.700 --> 01:04:56.360 And I'm not saying these people don't go soul winning. 01:04:56.360 --> 01:04:58.500 I'm not saying they aren't gonna put some effort in. 01:04:58.640 --> 01:04:59.120 But you know what? 01:04:59.380 --> 01:05:00.820 It's gonna hinder the gospel 01:05:00.820 --> 01:05:01.920 and it's gonna hinder soul winning 01:05:01.920 --> 01:05:03.400 and it's caused some people to not wanna go. 01:05:05.500 --> 01:05:07.760 I don't, look, I'm a Baptist. 01:05:08.180 --> 01:05:09.260 I believe in baptism. 01:05:09.720 --> 01:05:12.100 I wanna baptize every person that gets saved. 01:05:12.400 --> 01:05:13.300 But let me tell you something. 01:05:13.640 --> 01:05:15.540 I am not wondering if they're saved or not 01:05:15.540 --> 01:05:16.320 if they get baptized. 01:05:17.280 --> 01:05:17.500 Yeah. 01:05:18.320 --> 01:05:19.740 When I go back out in the ghetto 01:05:19.740 --> 01:05:20.800 and I run back into them 01:05:20.800 --> 01:05:22.080 and they haven't got baptized yet, 01:05:22.420 --> 01:05:23.860 I'm saying, hey, what do you believe? 01:05:24.040 --> 01:05:25.600 And if they believe right, hey, you're saved. 01:05:26.260 --> 01:05:26.880 It's stuck. 01:05:27.720 --> 01:05:29.360 It's not like, did you get wet yet? 01:05:30.460 --> 01:05:32.460 Well, I don't know if you really believe them, brother. 01:05:33.700 --> 01:05:34.000 Yeah. 01:05:35.140 --> 01:05:36.380 Because then what else are you gonna add? 01:05:37.800 --> 01:05:40.020 And again, in the context of this conversation, 01:05:40.280 --> 01:05:42.960 then they say, oh, that's why all the Roman Catholics 01:05:42.960 --> 01:05:45.280 for history said you had to follow the sacraments too. 01:05:45.780 --> 01:05:47.260 Because, well, if you're a believer, 01:05:47.980 --> 01:05:50.140 then you're gonna, of course, follow the sacraments. 01:05:50.380 --> 01:05:51.640 And if you're a believer, 01:05:51.800 --> 01:05:54.100 then you're gonna keep doing good without ceasing, 01:05:54.100 --> 01:05:55.480 as Martin Luther clearly said. 01:05:55.760 --> 01:05:57.400 And then the guy that didn't keep believing 01:05:57.400 --> 01:05:59.880 or keep doing the works or whatever, 01:06:00.000 --> 01:06:01.460 they didn't really say to them, you know? 01:06:02.240 --> 01:06:04.440 It's like, because they use believe as just doing works. 01:06:05.180 --> 01:06:06.740 They just twist that word into like, 01:06:07.180 --> 01:06:08.280 well, you must not be believing 01:06:08.280 --> 01:06:09.340 because he's not doing the works anymore. 01:06:09.640 --> 01:06:11.560 And again, their works are never like actually going 01:06:11.560 --> 01:06:12.760 soul-winning and preaching the gospel. 01:06:13.940 --> 01:06:16.820 Their works are whatever they dream up in their mind. 01:06:17.020 --> 01:06:18.320 Selling indulgences or something. 01:06:19.960 --> 01:06:22.700 Go to first Corinthians three. 01:06:24.040 --> 01:06:26.860 Look, the thief on the cross, 01:06:27.400 --> 01:06:28.620 we're gonna put him in heaven 01:06:29.080 --> 01:06:30.480 because you don't have to have any works. 01:06:31.000 --> 01:06:31.960 The parable of the sower, 01:06:32.220 --> 01:06:34.240 we're putting those two groups in heaven. 01:06:35.920 --> 01:06:37.400 The nine, where are the nine? 01:06:37.760 --> 01:06:38.400 They're in heaven! 01:06:38.760 --> 01:06:39.480 That's where they are. 01:06:40.960 --> 01:06:42.360 How many works do they have? 01:06:42.460 --> 01:06:43.960 Or how many rewards do they have? 01:06:44.280 --> 01:06:45.280 I don't know if they had any. 01:06:46.320 --> 01:06:47.180 But you know what they're in heaven. 01:06:47.260 --> 01:06:48.280 You say, oh, how do you know they're in heaven? 01:06:48.460 --> 01:06:49.960 First Corinthians, chapter number three. 01:06:52.000 --> 01:06:52.680 And again, they're in heaven. 01:06:52.680 --> 01:06:54.240 How could this even apply? 01:06:54.460 --> 01:06:55.580 How could first Corinthians chapter number three 01:06:55.580 --> 01:06:57.620 even apply according to Martin Luther's doctrine? 01:06:57.780 --> 01:06:58.980 Because according to Martin Luther's doctrine, 01:06:59.340 --> 01:07:02.660 if you are saved, just as natural it is to breathe 01:07:03.540 --> 01:07:05.740 will be the good works that come out of you. 01:07:06.500 --> 01:07:08.160 So who wouldn't have good works? 01:07:09.060 --> 01:07:11.240 Everyone, I mean, who's not taking a breath 01:07:11.240 --> 01:07:12.180 since they've gotten saved? 01:07:13.980 --> 01:07:15.580 First Corinthians chapter three though, 01:07:15.780 --> 01:07:16.340 what does it say? 01:07:17.180 --> 01:07:20.180 Verse 13, every man's work shall be made manifest 01:07:20.540 --> 01:07:21.580 for the day shall declare it 01:07:21.580 --> 01:07:22.900 because it shall be revealed by fire. 01:07:23.440 --> 01:07:24.820 And the fire shall try every man's work 01:07:24.820 --> 01:07:25.580 of what sort it is. 01:07:25.900 --> 01:07:27.980 If any man's work abide what you have built thereon, 01:07:28.620 --> 01:07:29.860 thereupon he shall receive reward. 01:07:30.080 --> 01:07:31.300 If any man's work shall be burned, 01:07:31.740 --> 01:07:33.120 he shall suffer loss, 01:07:33.800 --> 01:07:36.180 but he himself shall be saved, yet so is by fire. 01:07:36.500 --> 01:07:37.360 So there could be a guy, 01:07:37.960 --> 01:07:39.980 hey, he doesn't have any works, they're all burned up. 01:07:40.440 --> 01:07:42.760 But yet he himself is still saved. 01:07:43.580 --> 01:07:47.180 Well, but the works show that his faith wasn't genuine. 01:07:47.280 --> 01:07:48.160 It wasn't a genuine faith. 01:07:48.220 --> 01:07:49.120 It wasn't a saving faith. 01:07:49.280 --> 01:07:50.100 It wasn't a good faith. 01:07:50.560 --> 01:07:55.320 Look, sorry, your works are not gonna have any impact 01:07:55.320 --> 01:07:56.280 than if you're in heaven or hell. 01:07:57.280 --> 01:08:00.560 If you believed, if you believed in Jesus Christ, 01:08:01.020 --> 01:08:02.100 is faith alone enough? 01:08:02.560 --> 01:08:02.840 Yes. 01:08:03.260 --> 01:08:04.060 What is saving faith? 01:08:04.480 --> 01:08:06.140 Saving faith is believing the right thing 01:08:06.140 --> 01:08:06.760 about the gospel. 01:08:08.160 --> 01:08:10.360 There is, I guess, a vain faith 01:08:10.360 --> 01:08:12.000 the Bible brings up in First Corinthians 15. 01:08:12.460 --> 01:08:14.520 If you deny the resurrection, you're not saved. 01:08:15.260 --> 01:08:16.680 If you don't believe what Jesus did 01:08:16.680 --> 01:08:18.420 fully paid all your sins, you're not saved. 01:08:18.860 --> 01:08:20.920 If you have a different Jesus, you're not saved. 01:08:21.320 --> 01:08:23.400 But here's the thing, if you really believe, you're saved. 01:08:23.740 --> 01:08:25.820 Case closed, I don't care if you got baptized or not. 01:08:26.040 --> 01:08:27.160 I don't care if you went to church or not. 01:08:27.380 --> 01:08:28.900 I don't care if you performed communion or not. 01:08:29.060 --> 01:08:30.500 I don't care if you've ever given the gospel 01:08:30.500 --> 01:08:32.260 to anybody else, you are saved. 01:08:33.120 --> 01:08:33.720 And you know what? 01:08:34.000 --> 01:08:36.140 It's important that we teach that and believe that 01:08:36.140 --> 01:08:38.480 so that we'll all go keep preaching the gospel. 01:08:38.900 --> 01:08:40.820 Because the vast majority of people 01:08:41.240 --> 01:08:44.060 are probably gonna do very little after getting saved. 01:08:44.900 --> 01:08:46.140 Did you notice it was where is the nine? 01:08:46.140 --> 01:08:49.480 10 people get cleansed, one only says thank you. 01:08:50.380 --> 01:08:51.380 So you know what that tells me? 01:08:51.480 --> 01:08:52.660 The vast majority of people 01:08:52.660 --> 01:08:53.760 aren't even gonna say thank you. 01:08:54.580 --> 01:08:56.500 The vast majority of people aren't gonna show up. 01:08:57.260 --> 01:08:59.160 You really expect me that Jesus Christ 01:08:59.160 --> 01:09:01.240 and all of his disciples for three plus years 01:09:01.800 --> 01:09:03.960 go out and they only got 120 people saved? 01:09:06.940 --> 01:09:09.360 Here's riddle me this, Pastor Jason Robinson. 01:09:09.780 --> 01:09:13.260 What about the Jews who the Bible says they believed 01:09:13.680 --> 01:09:16.220 but they were afraid to confess him openly 01:09:16.620 --> 01:09:17.480 for fear of the Jews? 01:09:17.680 --> 01:09:19.780 Did they get publicly baptized? 01:09:21.460 --> 01:09:22.980 Or were they afraid to get baptized? 01:09:23.160 --> 01:09:25.460 I mean, baptized is a pretty open public thing 01:09:25.460 --> 01:09:29.200 and they're afraid to even say they believe in Jesus Christ 01:09:29.200 --> 01:09:30.320 for fear of the Jews. 01:09:30.620 --> 01:09:32.240 Oh, I guess they didn't really believe them. 01:09:32.500 --> 01:09:34.020 We're just gonna throw them in hell too. 01:09:34.540 --> 01:09:36.520 We're just gonna throw everybody in hell 01:09:36.520 --> 01:09:39.100 that isn't a Calvinist and has all the works 01:09:39.100 --> 01:09:39.500 and whatever. 01:09:39.840 --> 01:09:40.080 You know what? 01:09:40.180 --> 01:09:41.620 Get out of this stupid junk. 01:09:41.620 --> 01:09:43.120 Calvinism is lies. 01:09:45.280 --> 01:09:46.420 Calvinism is false. 01:09:47.300 --> 01:09:49.420 You have a choice, reject Calvinism. 01:09:50.160 --> 01:09:51.220 Is it stupid? 01:09:52.100 --> 01:09:53.800 Reject Roman Catholicism. 01:09:53.900 --> 01:09:55.040 Reject the church father. 01:09:55.300 --> 01:09:57.100 I don't need to know what all these people believe. 01:09:57.420 --> 01:09:58.200 Oh, well Martin Luther. 01:09:58.400 --> 01:10:00.240 Martin Luther isn't saved. 01:10:01.760 --> 01:10:04.740 If you believe your gospel presentation is right, 01:10:04.960 --> 01:10:06.140 then Martin Luther is not saved 01:10:06.140 --> 01:10:07.800 because he's clearly saying that, 01:10:08.040 --> 01:10:09.840 hey, David's not even saved. 01:10:09.980 --> 01:10:10.720 He committed murder. 01:10:11.290 --> 01:10:13.820 You think that David lost his salvation in the Bible? 01:10:13.980 --> 01:10:14.860 Like, what's wrong with you? 01:10:16.080 --> 01:10:18.440 And if David's not saved, then who's saved, you know? 01:10:19.560 --> 01:10:20.520 I'm like, good night. 01:10:20.980 --> 01:10:21.960 Just Martin Luther, right? 01:10:22.460 --> 01:10:24.380 The drunkard, the guy that loves drinking. 01:10:25.460 --> 01:10:28.500 Guy that's drinking alcohol under a tree 01:10:28.500 --> 01:10:29.480 and figured out the Bible. 01:10:30.220 --> 01:10:31.940 That's a pretty common experience, isn't it? 01:10:33.360 --> 01:10:35.360 And look, he has all kinds of other weird beliefs. 01:10:35.740 --> 01:10:36.900 You know, that's why when you run into Luther 01:10:36.900 --> 01:10:39.120 and they're not saved, by and large, 01:10:39.600 --> 01:10:40.400 they don't believe. 01:10:40.600 --> 01:10:42.460 And they believe like, you have to do the works 01:10:42.460 --> 01:10:45.960 and you can, it's like the soul of Fide, just joking. 01:10:48.000 --> 01:10:49.800 Faith alone is meaningless 01:10:49.800 --> 01:10:51.960 if it's not actually something that could really save you. 01:10:52.760 --> 01:10:53.960 We actually believe it. 01:10:54.460 --> 01:10:55.300 Hey, I love faith alone. 01:10:55.480 --> 01:10:56.320 I love soul of Fide. 01:10:56.700 --> 01:10:58.260 Hey, faith alone is enough 01:10:58.260 --> 01:10:59.760 and we should continue to champion this. 01:11:00.000 --> 01:11:00.500 And you know what? 01:11:00.600 --> 01:11:02.740 It's gonna put a wet blanket on soul winning 01:11:02.740 --> 01:11:03.460 if we deny it. 01:11:04.420 --> 01:11:05.580 I'm not willing to do it. 01:11:05.780 --> 01:11:06.580 Isn't it interesting, 01:11:06.880 --> 01:11:08.540 the people that break with us, 01:11:09.300 --> 01:11:11.900 they're always somehow putting down soul winning, 01:11:12.540 --> 01:11:17.200 tacking soul winning, getting weird, changing doctrines, 01:11:17.740 --> 01:11:19.160 going to a Catholic trinity. 01:11:19.980 --> 01:11:22.700 I mean, why do we need to become more Catholic? 01:11:22.860 --> 01:11:24.460 Let's be less Catholic in 2026. 01:11:24.840 --> 01:11:26.000 Not more Catholic. 01:11:27.040 --> 01:11:28.500 I don't need Catholic theologians 01:11:28.500 --> 01:11:30.240 to tell me what the Bible really means. 01:11:30.600 --> 01:11:31.540 They're not saved. 01:11:31.780 --> 01:11:32.740 They've never been saved. 01:11:32.960 --> 01:11:34.020 They're not gonna get saved. 01:11:34.020 --> 01:11:35.740 They're not getting out of purgatory. 01:11:36.340 --> 01:11:37.260 It's called hell. 01:11:37.740 --> 01:11:39.020 They're not getting out. 01:11:39.640 --> 01:11:40.880 Mother Teresa's in hell. 01:11:41.340 --> 01:11:42.000 I'm sorry. 01:11:42.140 --> 01:11:43.820 She gave a bunch of food to the poor, 01:11:43.900 --> 01:11:44.940 but she's still not saved. 01:11:45.980 --> 01:11:47.420 Okay, I don't even think she did that. 01:11:47.500 --> 01:11:48.560 She did weird stuff or whatever. 01:11:49.860 --> 01:11:51.300 Look, this is important folks. 01:11:51.680 --> 01:11:52.340 And you know what? 01:11:53.180 --> 01:11:55.520 There's so many reasons to stop going soul winning 01:11:55.520 --> 01:11:56.860 and there's gonna be so many attacks 01:11:56.860 --> 01:11:58.360 and there's gonna be so many excuses 01:11:58.360 --> 01:12:00.020 because the flesh is lazy 01:12:00.840 --> 01:12:02.140 because we're prideful 01:12:02.580 --> 01:12:04.200 and people don't wanna go into the ghetto 01:12:04.680 --> 01:12:06.940 and people don't wanna waste their time 01:12:06.940 --> 01:12:08.360 and people don't wanna go out in the rain 01:12:08.360 --> 01:12:10.060 and they don't wanna go out in the cold 01:12:10.060 --> 01:12:11.560 and they don't wanna go in the dark 01:12:11.560 --> 01:12:13.360 and they don't wanna see all the drugs 01:12:13.360 --> 01:12:16.240 and the mud and the stains and the whatever. 01:12:16.960 --> 01:12:17.560 But you know what? 01:12:17.860 --> 01:12:20.160 Who's gonna save Brittany 01:12:20.900 --> 01:12:23.080 and who's gonna save Amari 01:12:23.080 --> 01:12:24.560 and who's gonna save the people 01:12:24.560 --> 01:12:25.660 that I went and knocked on the door? 01:12:25.860 --> 01:12:27.960 They're going to full gospel church right now 01:12:27.960 --> 01:12:28.840 is where they were going, 01:12:29.500 --> 01:12:31.060 which is a Pentecostal church 01:12:31.420 --> 01:12:33.800 where they bark like a dog and do whatever. 01:12:34.080 --> 01:12:35.560 Who's gonna go get that person saved? 01:12:36.840 --> 01:12:38.720 What Calvinist is gonna go down there 01:12:38.720 --> 01:12:40.800 and explain divine simplicity to her 01:12:41.320 --> 01:12:42.840 so that she can figure it out. 01:12:42.980 --> 01:12:44.600 I mean, look, these Calvinists, 01:12:44.720 --> 01:12:47.100 they can sit here and pretend like they're so smart, 01:12:47.260 --> 01:12:48.020 but at the end of the day, 01:12:48.160 --> 01:12:51.380 what's your practical solution for that person getting saved? 01:12:53.660 --> 01:12:54.700 She said she can't even, 01:12:54.820 --> 01:12:57.960 she's not capable of even leaving the house right now 01:12:57.960 --> 01:12:59.740 because of physical problems. 01:13:00.180 --> 01:13:01.280 How is she gonna get baptized? 01:13:02.400 --> 01:13:05.160 How are the elderly gonna sometimes get baptized? 01:13:05.460 --> 01:13:06.480 How is every one of these kids gonna, 01:13:06.640 --> 01:13:07.680 well, they didn't get baptized, 01:13:07.980 --> 01:13:09.020 they didn't really get saved. 01:13:09.760 --> 01:13:10.160 Lies. 01:13:11.340 --> 01:13:14.240 Hey, I'm for baptism. 01:13:14.540 --> 01:13:17.400 I wanna make it as available and easy as possible. 01:13:17.680 --> 01:13:18.320 But you know what? 01:13:18.420 --> 01:13:19.940 It's stupid to go down this road 01:13:20.360 --> 01:13:22.180 and why are people going down this road? 01:13:23.780 --> 01:13:24.760 I'll tell you why. 01:13:25.140 --> 01:13:26.200 It's because of pride. 01:13:26.400 --> 01:13:27.460 It's always pride. 01:13:28.080 --> 01:13:29.980 It's because they know that they're wrong 01:13:30.440 --> 01:13:32.500 and they know they've left the good thing 01:13:32.960 --> 01:13:34.780 and so they have to try and put it down 01:13:34.780 --> 01:13:37.140 to try and justify their wicked actions. 01:13:38.140 --> 01:13:38.420 You know what? 01:13:38.580 --> 01:13:39.200 Just be a soul. 01:13:39.320 --> 01:13:41.320 You know what, these people are afraid of saying 01:13:41.320 --> 01:13:43.000 like soul winning is the most important thing 01:13:43.000 --> 01:13:45.280 and soul winning is why we're here 01:13:45.280 --> 01:13:47.000 and soul winning is what we should be after 01:13:47.000 --> 01:13:47.900 because you know what? 01:13:48.220 --> 01:13:48.740 Then they'll be like, 01:13:48.800 --> 01:13:50.420 well, then why do we hate the new IVB again? 01:13:52.480 --> 01:13:52.980 And it'll be like, 01:13:53.020 --> 01:13:54.620 can I go on a soul winning trip with them 01:13:55.060 --> 01:13:56.640 and can I go on a missions trip with them 01:13:56.640 --> 01:13:59.040 and oh man, their sermons are always better 01:14:00.120 --> 01:14:02.000 and they're afraid of that. 01:14:02.060 --> 01:14:04.380 So they have to tear it down and make it seem bad 01:14:04.380 --> 01:14:07.600 and oh, they don't have the historic Catholic position. 01:14:08.420 --> 01:14:10.660 They don't understand the difference 01:14:10.660 --> 01:14:14.360 between divine simplicity and soteriology 01:14:14.920 --> 01:14:17.720 and they don't have all philosophical terminology. 01:14:18.620 --> 01:14:20.800 They don't understand these theological terms. 01:14:21.300 --> 01:14:23.240 They're not gonna get a degree in seminary. 01:14:23.660 --> 01:14:24.980 They don't speak Greek. 01:14:25.580 --> 01:14:29.620 They don't know the difference between theostus and theos. 01:14:31.300 --> 01:14:35.540 Or as some of these freaks say, like theos. 01:14:36.300 --> 01:14:39.680 You know, it's like, you don't speak Greek like I do. 01:14:40.180 --> 01:14:44.300 You know, it's theos and alpha and omega. 01:14:45.880 --> 01:14:47.640 It's like, bro, I don't think you speak Greek. 01:14:48.020 --> 01:14:49.600 You just have a feeling, okay? 01:14:50.200 --> 01:14:51.580 I think that you might be a fraud 01:14:52.400 --> 01:14:53.720 and these people are a fraud 01:14:53.720 --> 01:14:54.640 because you know what? 01:14:54.840 --> 01:14:57.080 If you spoke Greek, you know what you would read? 01:14:58.240 --> 01:14:59.600 That faith alone is enough to save you. 01:15:00.460 --> 01:15:02.160 If you could speak Greek, you know what you would believe? 01:15:02.460 --> 01:15:03.520 So when he's the thing that matters. 01:15:04.000 --> 01:15:06.180 If you could speak Greek, you know what you would believe? 01:15:06.480 --> 01:15:07.640 We just need the King James Bible 01:15:08.180 --> 01:15:09.480 because it says the same thing. 01:15:09.960 --> 01:15:11.520 These people that have to go back to the Greek 01:15:11.520 --> 01:15:13.320 don't speak Greek because if you spoke Greek 01:15:13.320 --> 01:15:15.460 you'd realize all you need is a King James Bible. 01:15:18.040 --> 01:15:20.840 Because I do know someone that speaks Greek really well 01:15:20.840 --> 01:15:22.660 and has read the Greek New Testament cover cover 01:15:22.660 --> 01:15:23.720 and he says you don't need it 01:15:24.520 --> 01:15:26.200 because it's the same thing right here. 01:15:27.200 --> 01:15:28.440 It's the same word of God. 01:15:28.560 --> 01:15:30.340 It's the same concepts, it's the same ideas. 01:15:31.040 --> 01:15:33.580 There's not a secret understanding in the Greek 01:15:34.110 --> 01:15:34.820 or in the Hebrew. 01:15:35.600 --> 01:15:37.340 And look, if you're learning Greek 01:15:37.340 --> 01:15:40.980 for any reason other than to make these fools look like fools 01:15:41.960 --> 01:15:42.680 it's in vain. 01:15:43.760 --> 01:15:44.980 If you're not learning Greek 01:15:44.980 --> 01:15:47.220 to get people saved in Greek, you should just stop 01:15:47.840 --> 01:15:50.260 because there's no other hidden secret meeting. 01:15:50.740 --> 01:15:52.620 We have the sufficiency in the King James Bible 01:15:52.620 --> 01:15:53.380 and you know what? 01:15:53.720 --> 01:15:56.420 We need to just die living our lives 01:15:56.420 --> 01:15:57.900 like faith alone justifies. 01:15:59.240 --> 01:16:00.620 Because then you'll be motivated 01:16:00.620 --> 01:16:02.800 to go into the highways and the hedges and the ghettos 01:16:02.800 --> 01:16:04.900 where people are never gonna say thank you. 01:16:05.720 --> 01:16:08.020 They're never gonna darken the door of our church. 01:16:08.580 --> 01:16:10.640 They're never gonna, some of them 01:16:10.640 --> 01:16:11.680 are never even get baptized 01:16:12.220 --> 01:16:12.760 but you know what? 01:16:12.820 --> 01:16:13.840 They're gonna go with us to heaven. 01:16:14.640 --> 01:16:16.140 We're gonna see them in heaven 01:16:16.140 --> 01:16:16.840 and that's what matters. 01:16:18.340 --> 01:16:19.860 You know baptism is a picture 01:16:19.860 --> 01:16:21.420 of someone that wants to be a disciple of Jesus. 01:16:21.820 --> 01:16:22.960 Not everybody's gonna be a disciple. 01:16:24.680 --> 01:16:25.560 We wanna be disciples. 01:16:26.220 --> 01:16:28.140 Our church is, hey, everybody here's baptized 01:16:28.660 --> 01:16:30.780 because we're disciples and we want to go out 01:16:30.780 --> 01:16:32.640 and do the work and we wanna be rewarded. 01:16:32.980 --> 01:16:34.040 Not every Christian wants that 01:16:34.040 --> 01:16:35.040 but they do like the free gift. 01:16:36.100 --> 01:16:37.960 And so we're gonna go out for the free gift to everybody 01:16:37.960 --> 01:16:39.520 and say, hey, come with us and be baptized 01:16:39.520 --> 01:16:41.260 but if they don't, hey, 01:16:41.800 --> 01:16:42.900 you're still coming with us to heaven. 01:16:43.700 --> 01:16:45.140 Let us never forget this. 01:16:45.660 --> 01:16:47.220 Never become a Calvinist, please. 01:16:47.220 --> 01:16:49.420 You have the choice, all right? 01:16:49.780 --> 01:16:51.020 It's not irresistible. 01:16:52.420 --> 01:16:53.060 It's stupid. 01:16:53.900 --> 01:16:54.140 Okay. 01:16:54.860 --> 01:16:56.120 Don't fall down this line. 01:16:56.420 --> 01:16:57.900 Don't, and again, it's just pride. 01:16:58.320 --> 01:16:59.340 Let us not be prideful 01:16:59.340 --> 01:17:00.620 and think that we're better than others. 01:17:00.980 --> 01:17:02.160 Think that we're smarter than others. 01:17:02.580 --> 01:17:04.920 Hey, we just go out and preach the simple gospel 01:17:04.920 --> 01:17:06.240 and we get people saved by faith. 01:17:06.620 --> 01:17:08.100 And that's how we should live our lives 01:17:08.100 --> 01:17:08.660 until we die. 01:17:08.780 --> 01:17:09.120 Let's close in prayer. 01:17:09.580 --> 01:17:10.900 Thank you Heavenly Father so much for your word. 01:17:11.040 --> 01:17:12.520 Thank you so much for the simple free gospel. 01:17:12.700 --> 01:17:15.060 Thank you for making it just so accessible to everyone. 01:17:16.280 --> 01:17:18.320 Thank you for giving us an opportunity to go out 01:17:18.320 --> 01:17:20.260 and share the good news with so many different people 01:17:20.260 --> 01:17:21.060 and get them saved. 01:17:21.640 --> 01:17:23.200 I pray that we wouldn't be discouraged 01:17:24.160 --> 01:17:26.300 by the limited number of disciples, 01:17:26.580 --> 01:17:28.520 the limited number of people that want to serve you, 01:17:28.540 --> 01:17:31.160 dedicated, that we would realize that salvation 01:17:31.160 --> 01:17:34.820 is such a free gift that no works are ever required 01:17:34.820 --> 01:17:35.940 and never will be required. 01:17:36.340 --> 01:17:37.120 I pray that it would help us 01:17:37.120 --> 01:17:38.380 to never get that doctrine wrong. 01:17:39.000 --> 01:17:40.760 I pray that it would help us to correct people 01:17:40.760 --> 01:17:42.040 that are wrong on this issue. 01:17:42.540 --> 01:17:45.040 I pray that it would help us to see as many 01:17:45.040 --> 01:17:47.700 people saved to be a bright and shining light. 01:17:48.420 --> 01:17:51.240 I pray that it would help us to never be so prideful 01:17:51.240 --> 01:17:53.680 to lift ourselves up and think that we're better 01:17:53.680 --> 01:17:55.040 than other people that got saved 01:17:55.480 --> 01:17:57.520 to realize that we're all just saved by grace. 01:17:57.980 --> 01:17:59.660 It was just a free gift to all of us. 01:18:00.140 --> 01:18:01.480 And that when we serve you, 01:18:01.540 --> 01:18:04.260 we serve you for reward, not for going to heaven. 01:18:04.760 --> 01:18:05.980 And I pray that you would just bless 01:18:05.980 --> 01:18:07.180 the soul winning of our church. 01:18:07.440 --> 01:18:08.420 You'd keep it red hot, 01:18:08.560 --> 01:18:09.420 in Jesus' name we pray amen.