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Pastor Curt Crist, www.welcometograce.com As you listen to this is goes to no sound....what really is happening the upload is only 10 minutes long then youtube has it uploaded again back to back with no sound. This is the third upload youtube has done this too. I tried redoing it going back to the old way of uploading and it did the same thing. So you aren't missing any of the upload. Romans 3:1: "What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision?" Seems pretty logical at this point, does it not? If these things didn't really help us, the Jews were saying, then what advantage is there in being a Jew in the first place? "What advantage is there in being a Jew?" How did Paul answer the question? Romans 3:2: "Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them (unto the Jews) were committed the oracles of God." What are the oracles of God? Well, the word oracle in the Hebrew simply means: to speak. In the Greek, it means: an utterance. In fact, the Greek word used here for oracles is used four times in the New Testament scriptures. So it has to do with some kind of God's divine utterances or speaking. Now, let's look at this word oracles a little further. We find it used again in Acts, chapter 7 and verse 38. This may give us a little better insight of what the Jews had in mind when they heard the phrase: "the oracles of God." Acts 7:38: "This is he, that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sina (see-nah <b>...</b> |
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Pastor Curt Crist www.welcometograce.com Romans 3:3 For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect? For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?" You see, the first question was: If the Jews are wrath-worthy that would destroy God's plan. Paul said: "You have the truth of God and that truth is set. You have it in the Oracles!" The Jews are wrath-worthy because of their own unbelief. Naturally, their next effort will be to use that same twisted logic in the area of unbelief. You can see it there in verse 3? "You point to Jewish faithlessness, Paul, how about God's faithfulness?" Do you see the attempt to turn the tables on God with question number 2? The words "without effect" there in verse 3 mean powerless. So the question behind the question, is this: "Will not Jewish unbelief render God powerless?" If some do not believe, will not that make the faithfulness of God (in other words, His faithfulness) to carry out His plan and purpose for Israel have no power whatsoever behind it? Do you see the twisted logic? God has made some promises, but what good are those promises if the people didn't believe them? If Jewish wrath-worthiness would not destroy God's plan for Israel, would not Jewish unbelief render God powerless to carry out that plan? Anything to escape being called wrath-worthy! The twisted logic of Jewish unbelief was saying: "Jewish faithlessness would render inoperative <b>...</b> |
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Pastor Curt Crist www.welcometograce.com Romans 3:5 "But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man.)" Now look at this. "...if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God" "If we're unfaithful, unbelieving Jews, but God's going to be faithful and carry out His promises nonetheless, then our unfaithfulness is commending the righteousness of God." Do you see their argument? How does Paul answer it? "God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?" (that includes the Gentiles as well) This is where the twisted logic of unbelief really manifests itself and where the skill of the man called Paul comes into play as the prosecuting attorney. The key here in understanding the perverted logic behind this question is to understand the word: commend. Commend literally means to "place together" or "set beside." So what the logic of unbelief is saying in this instance is this: "If you take our unrighteousness and set our unrighteousness beside God's righteousness, what will that do for God's righteousness?" This was perverted logic, if ever there was such as thing. In other words, our unrighteousness is so bad that it makes God's righteousness look even better! The argument here being is: "How can God take vengeance on us Jews when it's our badness, our very unrighteousness that makes God's righteousness look so very good?" Do you see the twisted logic? "Why the worse I am the <b>...</b> |
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Pastor Curt Crist, www.welcometograce.com Romans 3:7: "For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?" This is just a variation of the same theme. If my lie or if my unfaithfulness has made God's faithfulness look even better; in other words, if my faithlessness holds up and demonstrates God's faithfulness, how can God also claim that I am a sinner? because it looks like I've done a pretty good thing by making God's faithfulness appear so bright. The perverted logic of unbelief was saying: "My faithlessness highlights God's faithfulness! Take away my unrighteousness and you take away some of the shine from God's perfection! What twisted logic Paul was having to deal with here. The gist of this next verse is: "Why don't you unbelieving Jews come right out and say what you folks are actually thinking? Why are you beating around the bush? Your unbelief is evident in the very depths to which your illogical arguments have taken you. You know what you're thinking, so I'll say it for you." Romans 3:8: "And not rather, (as we are slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say,) Let us do evil, that good may come? whose damnation is just." You see, Paul is showing the attitude of unbelief for what it really is here in this verse and we'll be looking at it again in our next message. Paul is showing the attitude of unbelief for what it really is in this final desperate attempt to prove self-worthy and therefore <b>...</b> |
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Pastor Curt Crist, www.welcometograce.com Handbook on Faith. Romans answers some very basic questions ....such issues as why we need to have faith... what we're to place our faith in...what has been accomplished for us through the cross-work of Christ at Calvary...and what happened to God's program with Israel in light of the fact that there's a new dispensation and that Paul has been given instructions to bring to the Gentiles. Paul states the purpose of his apostleship in the book of Colossians chapter 2, where he talks about his desire to present every man perfect, that word perfect meaning mature in Christ Jesus (grown-up.) Paul went on then to explain that purpose in Colossians 2:2-3 where he said: "That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all (the) riches..." (and here it is) "...all (the) riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgment of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ; In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge." If we want to be grown-up in our faith, mature believers, properly prepared for the Judgment Seat of Christ, we must come to a full assurance of understanding in our acknowledgement of the mystery of God. And the book designed to begin that growth process is the book of Romans. This is where the edification (or, the building-up process) begins to take root in the heart of the one who desires to be that mature believer that Paul just talked about. #1 Cornerstone <b>...</b> |
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Curt Crist, www.welcometograce.com The word sin singular appears 44 times in the book of Romans. If we add to the variations such as sinners and sinful, the word appears approximately 60 times in this epistle. How often do we talk about hell? Well, when you think about it, how often do you talk about sin? If there is any way to avoid the thought of it, we avoid it. Why do you suppose that is? Could it be that we don't like to think about sin or talk about sin because we don't want to relate sin to ourselves? Four objectives of Satan. #1: To deify man and elevate ourselves. #2: To humanize God (bring Him down to a level of a man.) #3: To minimize sin #4: To eliminate judgment. Did you catch the third one? To minimize sin! Satan loves it when we minimize sin in the self-righteousness of our own human pride. We don't want to relate sin to ourselves, that word is reserved for someone else. That's part of our self-justification - self-defense mechanism and we all have it. In order to minimize sin, we'll talk about mistakes. "Well, we made a mistake." We talk about an error in judgment! "We just slipped up!" We talk about stumbling once in a while. Why, we'll even admit to occasional short-comings. We are anxious to say: "I know I'm not perfect, but after all, who is?" Who of us wants to call sin what it really is? And, who of us wants to relate that horrible word to ourselves? The answer is that the pride nature resists with everything it's got to relate that to ourselves. Who <b>...</b> |
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Curt Crist, www.welcometograce.com Romans 3: 10-12 contain six statements made by the detective concerning mankind. #1 Verse 10 "As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one." What a blow! The Gentiles thought they had relative righteousness, and the Jews thought they had the righteousness of position, righteousness attained by law-keeping and the righteousness of being religious. And yet, quoting from Psalm 14:1, our apostle detective uses the Jew's very own scripture in a report against them. The very scriptures the Jews were trusting in served only to condemn the Jews. #2: "There is none that understandeth..." Why is it that none understand? 1 Corinthians 2:14 "But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned." The word natural here means soul-ish. The thought here is that a man living only on the level of his soul receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him. The natural man (the soul-ish man...the sensual man) is the person who can only perceive things that fit in with his own human reasoning. In other words, we could say that the natural man (or unregenerate man) has his mind tuned in only to the channel of his own human perspective; satisfying the lust of his flesh; the lust of his eyes; and the pride of life. He isn't interested in listening to. If something is not logical to the natural man's way of <b>...</b> |
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Curt Crist, www.welcometograce.com Romans 3:13-17 #1 "Their throat is an open sepulcher." He's not talking about bad breath here. What is a sepulcher? It's a grave...a tomb! That doesn't sound too inviting, does it? You see, the doctor isn't any softer on mankind than had been the detective. The doctor's report states, "...they are all together...like a rotting corpse; a corpse that's been in the grave longer than three days." What does scripture say about a corpse that's been in the grave longer than three days? "It stinketh!" If you want to see the story, look at John chapter 11 and the account of the death of the Lord's friend, Lazarus who had been in the grave for four days. Those are the very words..."he stinketh!" Now why would the doctor be so unkind as to say the throat of mankind stinketh? #2 "...with their tongues they have used deceit." The Hebrew word the apostle is quoting here means that they have smoothed their tongue. Have you ever known anyone that was a smooth talker? Don't be too quick to point the finger; the doctor makes this statement about mankind altogether, every single one of us. This is true of all according to Paul. #3 "...the poison of asps is under their lips." The Holy Spirit chose a very specific kind of snake here. Commentators say this is most likely a reference to the Egyptian cobra. You see, the Egyptian cobra had a little bag of poison right under its lips. The doctor is saying here that the human race has become quite adept at mixing <b>...</b> |
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Pastor Curt Crist, www.welcometograce.com Romans 3:18 There is no fear of God before their eyes. One of Satan's goals accomplished through the heart of sinful man is to humanize God. There's no fear of God when we humanize God. That's precisely what mankind has done. God is our great big buddy in the sky. Jesus has simply become our best friend. Many think that salvation comes to those who can maintain a sufficient camaraderie with Jesus, their friend. The Savior has become a peer. Why, he's there at our beckon call. And he loves everyone so much, he couldn't possibly bring judgment on those who profess to love best friend, Jesus. The Greek word fear here is the word...phobos. That's right, we get phobia from the Greek phobos. The apostle is letting us know here that man has a lack of proper alarm when it comes to the judgment of Almighty God. We look at the Old Testament scripture, and we see God's judgment being rained on those who walked contrary to His law, and it's hard for us to understand God's love in light of those passages. We tend to think that a God who is love is totally incapable of being a God who will judge. There is no more condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, but even the saved should never lose sight of a proper respect and regard for that which is to be the just and sure reward of those who lack righteous-ification. Not only that, but we should never be without a proper respect and appreciation of our own appearance at the Judgment Seat of <b>...</b> |
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Pastor Curt Crist, www.welcometograce.com Verse 19: "Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, (and here it is, the jury foreman is rendering the jury's verdict and he's including the entire world)....and all the world may become (pause... the verdict in just a moment)...and all the world may become guilty before God." The judge brings down his gavel and pronounces the human race guilty. Verse 20: "Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in God's sight..." We might be justified in our own sight. We might even be justified in the sight of others. But the measure of God's perfect justice is perfect performance, and in the eyes of a perfect God, no flesh shall be justified on the basis of performance, any performance. "...for by the law is the knowledge of sin." The law was never given as a standard by which man could live his life and achieve righteousness. It was given to be a mirror, so that those who were placed under that law might gain a better glimpse of themselves. That's what the law program did. It allowed mankind to stand back when looking at that law and see himself in a proper light. It was given in order to reflect a perfectly clear picture of how sinful mankind really is. We need to see ourselves properly apart from faith in the One who is faithful on our behalf. In seeing ourselves properly, gives us a step up on the ladder, so to speak, when it comes <b>...</b> |
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Pastor Curt Crist, www.welcometograce.com This message is 55 minutes when the sound stops that is the end of the message. Youtube keeps doubling the upload. The truth of this first cornerstone is the one that's called Justification. I like to think of that term in the sense of righteous-ification or our need to be righteous-ified. We need to be justified, or as I said righteous-ified because our own performance and our own production even when accompanied by our most sincere promises and pledges to God is insufficient to accomplish for us a just standing in the eyes of a perfectly just God. The word sin singular appears 44 times in the book of Romans. If we add to the variations such as sinners and sinful, the word appears approximately 60 times in this epistle. Four objectives of Satan. #1: To deify man and elevate ourselves. #2: To humanize God (bring Him down to a level of a man.) #3: To minimize sin #4: To eliminate judgment. The word sin is the Greek word hamartia. It literally means: to miss the mark. #1: "As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one." What a blow! The Gentiles thought they had relative righteousness, and the Jews thought they had the righteousness of position, righteousness attained by law-keeping and the righteousness of being religious. #2: "There is none that understandeth..." None of us, even after we've accepted the gift of salvation through belief in the sin resolving accomplishment of the cross of Christ have a full understanding <b>...</b> |
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Pastor Curt Crist This worked making the upload the right amount of time, but the quality is very poor. |
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Pastor Curt Crist, www.welcometograce.com Once again youtube doubled the minutes on this upload. When the sound ends the upload is over. |
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Pastor Curt Crist www.welcometograce.com There are 2 issues we should have firmly established in our minds. Issue #1. From a practical stand point, we're all worthy of the wrath of Almighty God. I know some are better than others, but if measuring up to who God is and his righteousness was being able to touch the moon, while some could jump much higher no body can touch the moon no human-being other than the Godman Jesus Christ. We don't like to admit that fact. In fact our human nature being what they are, we automatically rise up and rebel against that truth. But Paul's gone to great length here in the early part of Romans to prove beyond any shadow of a doubt that everyone of us are continually coming short of the standard of God's perfect righteousness. This is a summation statement summing up every thing we've learned from chapter 1 and 2 and the first half of chapter 3. So from a practical stand point we're all worthy of the wrath of Almighty God. Romans 3:23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; All have sinned - that's time past. We can agree with God we've all come short of rightness that what the word sin "hamartēma" means, coming short of the right thing to do even when there's no law in place. Judges 20:16 Among all this people there were seven hundred chosen men lefthanded; every one could sling stones at an hair breadth, and not miss. So when Paul mentions sin he does so for the purpose of having every individual realize and admit that <b>...</b> |
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Pastor Curt Crist, www.welcometograce.com Someone has said Romans chapter 3: 21-28, this is the most complete exclamation of the gospel to be found in the text of this epistle. Why would you suppose that to be the case? It's because Romans 3: 21-28 contain the mechanics of the gospel of Christ. We could say the method or the form of the gospel can be found in 2nd Corinthians chapter 5. 2nd Corinthian chapter five would be the message of the gospel. Method of the gospel Message of the Gospel and there are Mechanics of the gospel The Method Of The Gospel 1 Corinthians 15:3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; 1 Corinthians 15:4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures: We learn here he had to die taking our sins upon himself. A lot of folks read this and don't understand what it means but he died for our sins, he was buried, he rose again the third day according to scripture. Paul explain the message and explain more fully what it means by the words "for my sins" when he comes to 2 Corinthians 5:18-21. Here's what that death, burial and resurrection accomplished. 2 Corinthians 5:19 To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, NOT imputing their (the world's) trespasses unto them; and hath (he's) committed unto us the (that) word of reconciliation (to take to the world). They think their sins do stand between them <b>...</b> |
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Past Curt Crist, www.welcometograce.com Even before the law contract was ever handed down to the nation Israel, God responded to sin in ways that people could readily observe. Prior to Adam's rebellion, the ground was not cursed, the animal creation was not cursed, and man did not have to toil and sweat to reap his sustenance. Thorns and thistles were an unknown entity at that time. Death and aging was an unknown thing. Of course, the tree of life was in the garden. God did indeed judge sin in an obvious manner to those looking on. They could tell that God was unhappy with what was going on. God's judgments against sin are seen from the outset of human history even though the law contract would not be established with a nation called Israel for some 2500 years or so of human history. You didn't need a law contract to see God judge sin openly. God made His attitude, His indignation toward sin, obvious before the law was ever handed down to the nation Israel. God made Cain a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth for the coming short of rightness that Cain committed concerning his brother Abel. The great flood of Noah's day was an obvious judgment of God for mankind's coming short of rightness in the days of Noah. It was obvious enough to the folks who were trying to swim for their lives or climb in an attempt to escape the advancing waters. God's grace was also shown in an obvious way all through that time. Both judgment against sin and grace were obvious at that time in <b>...</b> |
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Pastor Curt Crist www.welcometograce.com We come to what the apostle of grace, the apostle Paul, called the dispensation (or dispensing) of the grace of God. You see, God doesn't bring armies of insects on people today, whether they be believers or sinners of the world. God doesn't bring climate catastrophe on the world today. He's not bringing tornadoes on certain places today in order to teach certain people, in certain places a lesson. He isn't opening the earth for the purpose of swallowing men alive. He isn't sending calamity of any kind on men today, whether it be by climate disaster, financial upheaval, or whatever else might be attributed to God's hand of judgment on a Christ rejecting world. Why? Why is He not doing that in this age of grace? 2 Corinthians 5:18-19: "And all things are of God, who hath (already) reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation; (what is it, Paul?) "To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation." You see, the things that are happening today, however catastrophic they may be are not special judgments brought upon the world by a God who is imputing the sins of sinners to those sinners, and judging certain regions of the world on account of the fact that they're sinning. The 2nd Corinthians 5 passage tells us that God is NOT imputing men's sins unto them today—why?—because He <b>...</b> |
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Pastor Curt Crist www.welcometograce.com The method of the gospel -1Corinthians 15. That text includes the truth of Christ's death...his burial...and his resurrection from the dead. The message of the gospel is in 2 Corinthians 5:18 - 21. It's there that Paul explains to us what happened to the sins that were placed upon our Savior, and the wonderful news that God is no longer imputing those sins unto the sinners. The mechanics of the Gospel Romans 3: 20 - 28 How is it that Christ's death, burial, and resurrection can accomplish justification for a wrath-worthy individual, a righteousifying of that individual? We find that the model that produces righteous-ifying is divided into three different sections all working together. Romans 3: 21 -24 justified by grace. Romans 3: 25 -26 are justified by blood. Romans 3: 27- 31 justified by faith. Let me ask you a question. Are you justified by your grace? Are you justified by your blood? Don't think he's changing course in mid-stream. You're not justified by your faith. That comes as a surprise to many folks. You're justified by the faith of God. The component we'll examine today is the justification by grace part we find in verses 21 through 24. Having dispelled all of man's self-defense pleas, Paul makes this startling statement in verse 20: "Therefore by the deeds of the law (or according to your law-keeping) there shall no flesh be justified (or declared righteous) in his (God's) sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin <b>...</b> |
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Pastor Curt Crist, www.welcometograce.com Romans 4:5 "But to him that worketh not (for his right standing before God) but believeth on him that justifieth (or, righteous-ifieth who?)....the ungodly, (why...that's you and me, is it not? Sure, it is. The ungodly... that person's faith is counted for righteousness)... his faith is counted for righteousness." Because the word "his" is referring back to the man who is working not! Working to maintain a standard...any standard whatsoever while tying that standard in your mind to the acquisition of or the maintenance of your right standing before God is an exercise in futility! It won't work! Works are absolutely excluded as a basis by which God gives the righteous standing Paul has in mind for mankind. If you're a believer at the Judgment Seat of Christ, (the Bema of Christ) anything that you've done that was tied in your mind to earning more favor with God, or earning your right position with Him, the delete button is hit, gone! It's never to go into Heaven as a testimony of "Look what I brought you." "This should really please you." "Open it up, God and see what I've got." If you think your justification is related in any degree to your law-keeping, your rule-keeping, you've missed the principle of faith. I am saying that if we think our living up to any standard is what God uses to justify, or righteous-ify us, we've missed the gospel of the grace of God. God is providing perfect right-ness apart from law-keeping, rule <b>...</b> |
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Pastor Curt Crist, www.welcometograce.com In order to be acceptable in the eyes of a perfectly righteous God, in order to be able to dwell with him, man needs to be perfectly righteous. The problem we found up to this point in our studies is that man is not perfectly righteous. It is easy for us to think we are righteous, especially when we compare ourselves with what we would consider to be the righteousness or lack of righteousness in others. In fact, we have something that helps us to do that very thing. It's called: our pride nature, scripture refers to it as the pride of life! We can look around us, and we can always find someone who is less righteous, relatively speaking, than are we, if we look hard enough and we look far enough. But we don't have to look very far, we don't have to look very hard, do we, to find those folks? That gives our pride nature, the pride of life, a feeling of a bit of superiority. We're a rung up on the ladder, spiritually, in our own minds. Man tends to measure his own goodness in relation to the goodness of others, so we see ourselves as being relatively righteous. Therefore, how could God judge us? It only seems right to our way of thinking that God take our relative righteousness into consideration and give us a few points here and there. You hear people say, "Well, I'm doing the best I can" as though "the best I can" will work. Well, "the best I can" will not work according to the apostle Paul. Paul has made it abundantly clear that <b>...</b> |
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Curt Crist, www.welcometograce.com Luke 22:42. This is Christ speaking to the God the Father here: "Saying, Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done." We have some passages where Christ is not seeking to have His will done and He's saying, "If possible, this is what I'd like to have done, or this what I'd like you to do. But, your will be done and not my will be done." What a prayer lesson right there in itself. No doubt about it, folks, Christ had faith in the Father. Christ believed the Father. Now, couple what you've just read with Galatians 1:4, where Paul, speaking of Jesus Christ, said: "Who gave himself for our sins that he might..." (purpose clause) "...that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to (here it is again) the will of God and our Father." When Christ gave himself for our sins at Calvary, Christ's faith was in the will of the Father. We might say it this way: Christ KNEW that dying for the sins of the world was what God the Father wanted Him to do and he did it! Now that Christ's cross-work has been completed, do you suppose that Christ believes that the Father's justice has been satisfied where the sins he came to die for are concerned? If Christ's faith was (and remains) in God the Father, then we can assume, and rightly so, that Christ believes the Father's justice has been satisfied, if the Father's purpose was to send Him to satisfy that justice, then we can believe that <b>...</b> |
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Pastor Curt Crist, www.welcometograce.com God is not giving out His righteousness as a reward to those who are sorry for the past, and who promise to do their best in the future. He credits God the Son's righteousness to the account of those who trust in the one who purchased the gift in the first place Romans 3:22: "...UNTO all (meaning it's available to everyone) and UPON all (credited to the account of all) them that believe: for there is no difference." Unto all...is total provision. Upon all...is specific application qualified by the words "them that believe." God's righteousness is available unto all without limit according to the apostle Paul, but God credits righteousness only to the account of those who believe what Christ accomplished at Calvary when He died for their sins. Bible scholars call this "The Doctrine of Imputation." It may sound complicated on the surface, but it's really not difficult to understand. The dictionary defines the word "impute" this way: "To regard a quality such as righteousness that applies to somebody as also applying to another person associated with him or her." At the point of our belief in what Christ accomplished where our sins are concerned at Calvary, we are as closely associated with Christ as anyone could be. We're joined to Him. Whether you happen to be of Jewish descent, (as Paul is saying) or non-Jewish descent (it doesn't matter today. We've already found that out)...whether you are relatively righteous...or relatively <b>...</b> |
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Pastor Curt Crist, www.welcometograce.com Satan wants to blind men's eyes to the truth of Paul's gospel. He's very clever in using ministers of righteousness in accomplishing that blinding. Satan is offering men a way to become righteous; to achieve a righteous standing before God and he always attaches man's performance; man's fingerprints are found on Satan's method of becoming righteous. Satan's way is directly opposite God's way. How can a Holy God declare men to be righteous when in practical experience they are obviously not righteous? Satan would say, "Why, that cannot be right!" (So do a lot of men, by the way) "God can not be just and call a person righteous when it's obvious that person falls short of the standard God Himself set when He gave Israel the law contract." Do you know the really sad thing about that is that Satan is not the only one who would raise such an objection! Those steeped in religianity, and it's not confined to those in religianity, but those steeped in religianity raise the same objection every Sunday, if not every day! Romans 3:24: "Being justified (and let's make sure to highlight a very important word here)...FREELY...by his grace..." (stop here for just a minute.) We all know what the word "freely" means. That should be obvious to us here. The Greek word is the word is dorean. Dorean is translated elsewhere in scripture, by the phrase "without a cause." When the Lord said, "they hated him without a cause"...those three words: with out <b>...</b> |
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Pastor Curt Crist, www.welcometograce.com Redemption is a marvelous cross-work accomplishment of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. In fact, this entire passage in Romans is filled with magnificent doctrinal terms. Just look down through this section: Justification... Redemption...Propitiation...Remission...and Forbearance...all terms the Holy Spirit wants us to acknowledge to become familiar with and to come to fully appreciate. Never make the mistake of thinking that these doctrinal terms all mean the same thing. They do not. They are not synonyms that Paul is using here. Each one has a distinct meaning all its own. Oftentimes, we'll look at these terms and sort of lump them all together under a heading called forgiveness. But think about this: Is forgiveness the same thing as being justified or having someone else's righteousness freely attributed to your account? They are not one and the same! Our sins have all been forgiven, we now know that from the apostle Paul, but forgiveness alone does not mean the person having forgiveness is as perfectly and totally righteous as the one who is doing the forgiving! I may forgive another a debt that he owes me, but does that mean that the one that I've forgiven is now the primary on my bank account? I think you get the point here. Justification is far more than the negative imputation of the sins of the world to the world. It's the positive imputation of Christ's righteousness to those who believe what Calvary accomplished on <b>...</b> |
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Pastor Curt Crist, www.welcometograce.com Hebrews 9:22: "...almost all things are by the law purged with blood..." There were some things that no animal sacrifice, no blood sacrifice would atone for. Thank God, Paul would later say, "Be it now known therefore unto you, men and brethren, that through this man you have forgiveness for all things which could not be forgiven under the Law of Moses." "...almost all things are by the law purged with blood and without shedding of blood is no remission (no sending away.)" Repulsive or not, we need to understand that the shedding of Christ's blood was the very center of God's plan of redemption. Genesis, chapter 9. You may recall there was a time when men were vegetarians. Everybody was vegan; everybody was meatless in their diet back then when animals were not given for food. But then God changed man's diet in Genesis, chapter 9. For the very first time, God would allow the use of animals for food. Notice with me, Genesis 9:3: "Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things." Meat was now on the menu, but notice the stipulation God gave for eating the meat. Genesis 9:4-6: "But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, (flesh that has blood within it) shall ye not eat." (The animals had to be bled and bled properly.) "And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every <b>...</b> |
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