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Real life presents the Jack Hibb's podcast with intention and boldness to proclaim

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truth, equip the saints and impact our culture. The Lord Jesus Christ who died on

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the cross and rose again from the dead so that all those who would put their

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faith in Him would not perish but have everlasting life and that reality is this

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it is the reality that's available to every person, Jew and Gentile alike and

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and that is great news because we serve a perfect gospel.

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You can get the outlines of this podcast by going to jackhibbs.com slash podcast.

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Today if this podcast lifts you up and encourages you to live a more fulfilled life in Christ,

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then make sure you leave us one of those five star ratings. To us that's like saying amen or yes,

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then that rating will encourage others to listen. Now open your hearts to what God's word has

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to say to you. Here is Jack Hibb's. You know the word gospel means of good news, good news,

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the perfect good news. What kind of good news can you receive that would be perfect? We all want to

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hear good news and maybe throughout the course of any given day we get good news of some type,

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some form but to get the perfect good news is to get the gospel, the perfect gospel and the

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Bible makes it clear that there's only one gospel. Did you know the Bible says that? There are

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other gospels and the Bible says there are other Jesus' that are out there but they are false

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Jesus' and they are false gospels and just where you have the truth you will always have that which

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comes alongside to steal into mimic or to somehow get it cloudy to where others are blinded to

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the truth. But regarding this good news the Bible reveals to us this great and glorious gospel in

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Romans 1 verse 16 the Apostle Paul says this regarding the gospel and listen to his boldness by

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the way let's take it from a man who was beaten for being a Christian but you're about to read is

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taken from a man who was stoned with rocks and left for dead. I would think back in those days when

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they stoned people they probably knew when somebody was dead and the Bible says that they stoned

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Paul and they left him for dead. I think God raised him up from the dead personally to continue on

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his ministry. But he says this for I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ for it is the power of

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God to salvation. Listen for everyone who believes for the Jew first and also for the Greek or the

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Gentile for us for in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith as it has written

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the just shall live by faith and I want to dial down on this in our introduction to the book I'm

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going to ask you to take notes regarding this introduction. Paul right there in Romans chapter 1 is

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quoting Habakkuk chapter 2 verse 4 now remember this is a church you are in a church that I as long

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as I'm the pastor here at this church you will always get the old and new testament together at

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all times because the old and new testament is God's revelation to man. Listen the early church

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did not have a new testament they studied the Old Testament that's how they found out that Jesus

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was the Messiah from the Old Testament and the New Testament oh my goodness the New Testament is

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just more firepower behind God's eternal truth and we're excited about that so how do we know we

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should always ask this how do we know what Paul was saying in Romans chapter 1 about the power of

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the gospel and that the just shall live by faith what if he was making it up that's always a good

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way to approach I think critical thinking is how do I know if this is true well nearly 800 years

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before Paul was ever born the Old Testament book of Habakkuk wrote in chapter 2 verse 4 behold the

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proud his soul is not upright in him but the just shall live by his faith Galatians chapter 3 verse 11

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no one is justified by the law in the sight of God is evident wow listen if you think you're

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going to get the heaven by keeping the law the first five books of the Moses if you think that

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you can keep that without breaking the law starting with the 10 commandments the Bible has an

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announcement and one of the greatest Jews that's ever lived is the one saying it no one is justified

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by the law in the sight of God is evident why because the law cannot justify the law only points

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out what is right and what is wrong for the just shall live by what church faith the just shall live

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by faith Hebrews chapter 10 verse 38 Hebrews chapter 10 verse 38 now the just shall live by faith but

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if anyone draws back that is your faith begins to shrivel you do not press on you're not moving

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forward he God says my soul has no pleasure in him faith faith is an active verb faith is what

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defines the Christian life actual living faith and the faith is uh is something that is is qualified

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in all of our lives as Christians it's easy to say that you're a Christian anybody can say it

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but what qualifies us as being Christians is our faith in action now it is true that you can give

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your heart to Christ and put faith in him and the next minute die and go to heaven that's absolutely

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legit praise God for that but if God allows you to live a day or two a month or a year or 50 or

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a hundred years after that how will we know if you are a true follower of Christ is by how you live

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your life out for him and it will be evidenced the just shall live by faith and so don't draw back

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as the scripture tells us in Romans chapter 10 verse 17 that by hearing right we hear faith comes

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by hearing the word of God our faith is strengthened faith comes by hearing hearing the word of God

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today you're going to get a lot of verses don't let them fly by you write them down

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invest in them because uh God's word does not return void and if you grab it so to speak out of

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the air as it flies by as you hear it write it down keep it uh meditate on it memorize it watch

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what happens to your life but don't draw back don't backslide don't fade away from it look at

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this Galatians chapter 1 this very powerful Galatians 1 beginning in verse 6 Paul is writing to them

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he says I marvel that you are turning away drawing back so soon from him who called you into the grace

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of Christ to a different gospel wow so listen don't answer but just verse 6 alone chapter 1 verse 6

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Galatians has anyone ever peddled up to your door or knocked on your door or approached you at the

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mall or at the airport with a different gospel you're going to want to keep Galatians 1 6 in your

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in your response to them verse 7 which is not another but there are some who trouble you and want to

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prevent the gospel of Christ verse 11 but I make known to you brethren that the gospel which was

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preached by me is not according to man for I neither received it from man nor was I taught it

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but it came through the revelation of Jesus Christ yeah you can say amen to that do we believe in

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the gospel and is the gospel that we believe in worthy of our lives all of us in some listen

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every single one of us even if we just simply die of old age you're going to meet you're going to

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you're going to come to that moment you're going to meet that moment of your last breath and what is

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the gospel would would it be able would you be able to say in that moment I I have known and I have

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I have followed that perfect gospel I hope so second Corinthians chapter 4 verse 3 tells us

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but even if our gospel is veiled it is veiled to those who are perishing whose minds the god notice

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little case G who is that Satan very good it's Satan you see what Satan's a god well little G

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yeah little G god he thinks he is he's a little he thinks he's a little deity actually he thinks

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he's the big deity but that's his problem he believes his own lives whose mind minds the god of

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this age has blinded Satan who do not believe less the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ

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who is the image of God should shine on them for we do not preach ourselves but Christ Jesus the

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Lord wonderful wonderful absolutely so now you can stand up you've been sitting long enough let's

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read this together here's our study today Romans chapter 15 I'll start in verse 7 if you'll pick it

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up in verse 8 therefore receive one another justice Christ also received us to the glory of God

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that Jesus Christ has become a servant to the circumcision for the truth of God to confirm the

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promises made to the fathers and that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy as it is written

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for this reason I will confess to you among the Gentiles and sing to your name and again he says

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rejoice O Gentiles with his people wow verse 11 and again praise the Lord O you Gentiles

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lot him O you peoples and again Isaiah says there shall be a root of Jesse and he who shall rise to

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reign over the Gentiles in him the Gentiles shall hope verse 13 now may the God of hope fill you with

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all joy and peace and believing that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit and

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all God's people said amen you may be seated church wow what a strong push chapter 15 from

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verse 7 on is the big big doctrinal push and it's almost as though he's taken all of these 15

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chapters to come to this incredible crescendo of announcement that it is the Lord Jesus Christ

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who died on the cross and rose again from the dead so that all those who would put their faith in

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him would not perish but have everlasting life and that reality is this it is the reality that's

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available to every person Jew and Gentile alike and that is great news because we serve a perfect

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gospel that God who loves us and created us and you and I have life even in this fallen world God

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knew all along is timing is perfect he knows exactly what he's doing and he knew that today for

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some of you would be the first time that you would ever hear the message of the gospel this way and

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that you might respond to it and so as we look to this verse 7 we're going to get it out of the

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way with respect let me show you the reason why it's a preamble verse 7 you can circle it in your

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Bible just circle all of verse 7 and you can write off onto the side Paul's preamble into his

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statement and this is it in verse 70 says therefore in light of everything I've just said

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receive one another just as Christ also received us to the glory of God what a verse you know what

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this does watch everybody you have to watch my hands because I'm not smart enough to say it

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on this hand memory he's been talking about the weak brother and the strong brother

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those who could eat meat and those who couldn't eat meat those that could drink and those who

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could not drink those who were not offended versus those who are offended that were to love them

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equally and be honorable to them because love triumphs overall and that he pulls to the middle

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where Christ is verse 7 okay now on this hand he reaches out and Paul this is Paul grabbing his

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entire Jewish lineage his brotherhood those of his DNAs speaking naturally and he announces to them

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and you'll see it more and more in the study and he grabs them and pulls them to this center where

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Christ is at he pulls the Gentile he pulls the Jew and he brings them together now remember when

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I say Gentile that's all people a Gentile is anyone who's not a Jew so you say well I don't

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know if I'm a Gentile or not I'm Peruvian you're a Gentile now you could be a Jew who's Peruvian

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that would make you a Jew but the Gentileness are you with me in other words there's nobody that's

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exempt from the gospel the gospel is available to anyone and everyone but there's a reason why the

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Bible mentions that the gospel must first be preached to the Jew and then the Gentile that's

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what the Bible says why God's got a purpose and God's got a reason and so as we look at this

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market down church it's our only point for today the perfect gospel communicates to us certain things

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and the first thing that we look at today is this that it communicates to us the incarnation of God

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to man that is to us the incarnation of God that God has announced in the Bible if you don't know

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know it now it is the God of the Bible who announced that he would become flesh and come into

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this world for us for mankind so we're talking about the doctrine of the incarnation if you do not

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believe in the doctrine of incarnation you are not a Christian it is a fundamental Christian

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requirement it is a requirement that God demands of all those who come to faith in him

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that Jesus Christ came as the son of God and he came in the flesh the Bible says in first

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John if you deny that you are not only not a Christian he says that you are the spirit of

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anti Christ that's how big of a deal this is can you have an opinion on Christ coming into

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this world in flesh or not the answer is you can have an opinion but you've got to have the right

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answer to experience salvation and this is a big one market down please if you would it's this

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that the incarnation of God to man was made flesh to come to us that God determined to come and

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speak to us by becoming a man when I say man I mean not only a man but mankind of course and so

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church marked this down in verse 8 it now says I say that Jesus Christ has become should market

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that way a servant to the circumcision for the truth of God this is an incredibly technical

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passage and it's announcing this regarding God becoming flesh into this world if you're Jewish today

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you're saying I don't believe that and you're saying that because you have not studied the scriptures

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and the Old Testament to tell you that he would you have been told not to study them just remember

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this the Apostle Paul who's speaking to the believers in Rome and he is announcing this in verse 8

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look at it in your Bibles now I say that Jesus Christ what's another word for Christ

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Messiah Jesus his name Yashua his name Hamashia Messiah so listen he is announcing Jesus is the

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Messiah he has come this is shocking as a servant notice this to the circumcision who's the

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circumcision the Jewish people the Bible over and over again tells us that the Jewish people are

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of the circumcision it was the sign given to Abraham and it was stressed again through Moses

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that every Jewish male would be circumcised and read the fine print folks that the circumcising

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of the skin did not save any Jew it marked them out to be different from the Gentiles because in

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the book of Isaiah and the book of Deuteronomy God says I want your hearts to be circumcised so for

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example you maybe a Gentile who gave your heart to Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior and you were

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baptized into water the water did not save you the blood of Christ saves you but because the blood of

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Christ saves you and you have accepted Christ you went into the waters of baptism to announce to

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the world that you are a follower of Jesus in the same way a Jew must come to believe in God but

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the circumcision is only real and effective if they have a personal relationship with God but

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listen to do that you have to have a circumcised heart in a way the Gentile going the Gentile going

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down into the water and getting wet is just equal to a Jewish boy being circumcised and getting sore

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without true faith both have no effect that shocks a lot of people it slaps us in the face because

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we're thinking I've never heard this before I got baptized when I was an infant aren't I going to

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heaven nope who told you you were going to heaven who told you that show me in the Bible show me in

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the Bible read the Bible and say when you're baptized you go to heaven so I was I was it's in there

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somewhere you good luck and this is always this guy this guy's amazing we love this guy this guy

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gets more mileage out of doing nothing and that was the thief on the cross the thief on the cross

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Jesus said today you'll be with me in paradise was he baptized that guy look at he wasn't baptized he

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wasn't even dressed for church the guy was hanging on the cross with nothing on the guy the guy started

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his his church day out cussing Jesus out then he has a change of mind he repents he winds up trusting

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in Christ he doesn't even do children's ministry he didn't have to do any detail he he was never

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given parking lot detail he didn't have to go through that he didn't he didn't tie he didn't do

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anything but believe and Jesus himself said today you'll be with me in paradise wow

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no listen all of the outward display of circumcision or water baptism is to announce I have a true

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living faith with God and notice how in verse eight Paul makes this profound announcement that

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Christ came into the world to save the circumcision the Jewish people yes he came to Israel he came

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to Jerusalem he came to the tribes and the Bible tells us that the gospel would first be presented

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to the Jewish people and then to the ends of the earth in order very important that you understand

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