1 00:00:00,400 --> 00:00:03,320 In the name of the glorious Trinity, Father and Son and Holy 2 00:00:03,320 --> 00:00:07,040 Spirit, forever Amen. Glory be to the everlasting 3 00:00:07,040 --> 00:00:10,920 mercies which sent you to us, O Christ, the Light of the world 4 00:00:11,000 --> 00:00:14,680 and the life of all. Give us wisdom by your law and 5 00:00:14,680 --> 00:00:16,720 enlighten our impulses by Your knowledge. 6 00:00:17,720 --> 00:00:20,760 Sanctify our souls by Your truth and grant that we may be 7 00:00:20,760 --> 00:00:24,240 obedient to Your words and may fulfil Your commandments at 8 00:00:24,240 --> 00:00:27,560 every hour. O You who enlightens the 9 00:00:27,560 --> 00:00:31,720 rational with the knowledge of Your greatness, do enlight, O my 10 00:00:31,720 --> 00:00:35,560 Lord, our thoughts, that we may meditate upon Your holy and 11 00:00:35,560 --> 00:00:39,920 divine Scriptures at all times. O Lord of all, Father and Son 12 00:00:40,080 --> 00:00:42,600 and Holy Spirit, forever. Amen. 13 00:01:00,680 --> 00:01:04,120 Two weeks remaining for the celebration of the birth of the 14 00:01:04,120 --> 00:01:09,280 Savior of the world, the Son of God, Jesus Christ our Lord God, 15 00:01:09,280 --> 00:01:14,120 praise and glory be to His name. Two weeks to go to receive, to 16 00:01:14,120 --> 00:01:19,800 accept the Savior. Salvation will be wrought when 17 00:01:19,840 --> 00:01:25,640 Jesus has fulfilled all that He was sent to fulfill, His 18 00:01:25,640 --> 00:01:30,720 mission, and on the cross, when he proclaims that it has been 19 00:01:30,720 --> 00:01:35,080 fulfilled, that's when salvation will be wrought. 20 00:01:36,280 --> 00:01:40,920 But for the birth of the Nativity, we celebrate that the 21 00:01:40,920 --> 00:01:45,360 Saviour has come to the world, God Incarnate. 22 00:01:45,360 --> 00:01:51,520 God has taken flesh to dwell among us to fulfil what the law 23 00:01:51,520 --> 00:01:56,120 could not fulfill because of the weakness of the flesh. 24 00:01:56,600 --> 00:01:58,000 And this is what we're going to talk about. 25 00:01:58,240 --> 00:02:00,160 We're going to go back to Romans chapter 3. 26 00:02:01,480 --> 00:02:05,960 And last last episode last week, we spoke about Thanksgiving. 27 00:02:05,960 --> 00:02:08,880 And thank you to all those who reach out and, you know, 28 00:02:08,880 --> 00:02:14,920 continue to tell me that they listen to the podcast and you 29 00:02:14,920 --> 00:02:17,840 know, they, they are inspired by the words of God. 30 00:02:17,840 --> 00:02:20,880 They are inspired by the contents, not by the voice of 31 00:02:20,880 --> 00:02:24,600 Kasha Jinnah, No, by the words of God, not the voice of Jinnah. 32 00:02:25,480 --> 00:02:28,560 Thank you, God bless you. I ask that you all continue to 33 00:02:28,560 --> 00:02:32,520 keep this ministry in your prayer and feel free to share. 34 00:02:32,520 --> 00:02:36,320 Feel free to use whatever you want to do for the glory of God 35 00:02:36,320 --> 00:02:40,640 and the salvation of the souls. On behalf of Stephen the the 36 00:02:40,640 --> 00:02:42,960 producer, I grant that permission. 37 00:02:43,240 --> 00:02:46,120 You can do that. You can do whatever you feel 38 00:02:46,120 --> 00:02:48,840 with these programs because they are not our programs. 39 00:02:48,840 --> 00:02:51,320 This is the word of God. These are spoken by Jesus 40 00:02:51,320 --> 00:02:53,240 Christ. That's why we cannot boast. 41 00:02:54,240 --> 00:02:56,320 So last week we spoke about Thanksgiving. 42 00:02:56,320 --> 00:02:59,520 It was a post Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving message. 43 00:02:59,520 --> 00:03:03,040 We're going to go back to Romans chapter 3 and our last episode 44 00:03:03,040 --> 00:03:05,920 when we did study the book of Romans chapter 3, Saint Paul's 45 00:03:05,920 --> 00:03:08,160 letter to the Romans to the church in Rome. 46 00:03:08,840 --> 00:03:13,400 We we read up to or we studied or discussed up to verse 18, 47 00:03:13,400 --> 00:03:16,840 verses 9 to 18. Just a recap and I'm not going 48 00:03:16,840 --> 00:03:18,200 to read it. You you need to read them 49 00:03:18,200 --> 00:03:21,880 yourself. In verses 9 to 18, Paul mentions 50 00:03:21,880 --> 00:03:27,720 the repercussions of being under sin, being in the state of being 51 00:03:27,760 --> 00:03:32,640 under sin, under the power of sin, the state of sin, as were 52 00:03:32,640 --> 00:03:38,160 the Jews and the Gentiles birth and this is what they were saved 53 00:03:38,200 --> 00:03:40,680 from. When Paul talks about saved, 54 00:03:40,880 --> 00:03:49,760 saved from being under sin, they being under sin, they obviously 55 00:03:49,760 --> 00:03:51,600 sinned. Excuse me? 56 00:03:51,600 --> 00:03:56,440 And he mentions what happened when they were under sin, under 57 00:03:56,440 --> 00:03:59,240 the power of sin, and how did they sin? 58 00:03:59,280 --> 00:04:04,480 Paul mentions by not understanding, by not seeking 59 00:04:04,480 --> 00:04:10,320 God, by turning away, by rejecting God, being rejected. 60 00:04:10,880 --> 00:04:15,960 Their throats open like tombs, dreadful stench with every word, 61 00:04:16,519 --> 00:04:21,800 deceitful tongues, venomous lips, cursing and bitter mouths, 62 00:04:22,040 --> 00:04:26,720 blood shedding, feet hasting to bloodshed, feet that haste to 63 00:04:26,960 --> 00:04:30,000 cause bloodshed, hardship and wretchedness. 64 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:33,920 Ways that they were living ignorant to the way of the peace 65 00:04:34,520 --> 00:04:39,800 that God called them to. Their eyes were closed to the 66 00:04:39,880 --> 00:04:43,840 awesomeness, the majesty and the holiness of God. 67 00:04:45,080 --> 00:04:50,400 And now He's going to continue with the solution to all of 68 00:04:50,400 --> 00:04:53,680 this. He presents the facts, the 69 00:04:53,680 --> 00:04:56,840 issues, the problems, but does not stop there. 70 00:04:57,840 --> 00:05:04,560 He will give them the key to being freed, the key to liberty 71 00:05:04,560 --> 00:05:07,280 from being under the power of sin. 72 00:05:07,600 --> 00:05:12,680 And to us today, beloved, having believed in Jesus Christ, having 73 00:05:12,720 --> 00:05:18,200 also been saved, because we, excuse me, being of the race of 74 00:05:18,200 --> 00:05:23,680 Adam, we're under that. We're also under the 75 00:05:23,840 --> 00:05:27,800 repercussion of sin. We were there, but we believed. 76 00:05:27,800 --> 00:05:32,280 We were baptized and to us today, this is how we can become 77 00:05:32,280 --> 00:05:39,160 freed from the power and slavery of sin, be it any addiction, any 78 00:05:39,160 --> 00:05:44,480 weakness, any foolishness, any evil that is present in our 79 00:05:44,480 --> 00:05:46,480 lives. And you know you know very well 80 00:05:46,880 --> 00:05:51,240 you and God, we say in a Syrian, you and your God, no. 81 00:05:52,000 --> 00:05:55,560 If you're struggling with any addiction which is causing you 82 00:05:55,560 --> 00:06:04,240 to sin, drugs, alcohol, gambling, immorality, whatever 83 00:06:04,240 --> 00:06:08,120 it is that you are you are struggling with, you're under 84 00:06:08,120 --> 00:06:10,920 the power of sin. Any weakness, any foolishness, 85 00:06:10,960 --> 00:06:13,560 any evil. What we need to do, what you 86 00:06:13,560 --> 00:06:17,560 need to do to be saved from this is to repent. 87 00:06:18,760 --> 00:06:20,560 Repent from them. Walk away. 88 00:06:20,600 --> 00:06:21,960 By the way, I'm sorry. Let's go back. 89 00:06:22,320 --> 00:06:27,960 Confess, admit, admit. Hence my my post on Facebook 90 00:06:28,080 --> 00:06:34,880 today. If your conscience is burning 91 00:06:34,880 --> 00:06:39,520 you, if there is guilt in your conscience and you have a guilty 92 00:06:39,520 --> 00:06:42,200 conscience, know that God hasn't given up on you. 93 00:06:42,800 --> 00:06:45,960 God wants you. But when you freely, when you 94 00:06:45,960 --> 00:06:50,560 love your sin and there is no remorse, there is no guilt in 95 00:06:50,560 --> 00:06:54,000 the conscience. That's a dangerous place you're 96 00:06:54,000 --> 00:06:56,560 at. It could be that God has given 97 00:06:56,560 --> 00:07:01,080 you away to your lust, to your desires, as we read in Romans 98 00:07:01,080 --> 00:07:05,040 chapter 1. But we can come back, repent, 99 00:07:05,760 --> 00:07:10,960 walk away from the old life, live a new life in Jesus Christ 100 00:07:11,240 --> 00:07:16,840 being, being cleansed, forgiven, cleansed in the church through 101 00:07:16,840 --> 00:07:20,440 the body and blood of Jesus Christ, the sacraments we spoke 102 00:07:20,440 --> 00:07:23,720 about last episode. And you continue this until the 103 00:07:23,720 --> 00:07:28,200 return of Christ or your calling to eternal life. 104 00:07:29,600 --> 00:07:35,280 Because again, if we are freely willfully sinning, we willfully 105 00:07:35,360 --> 00:07:43,240 remain in sin, knowing what is sin, enjoying our sin, enjoying 106 00:07:43,240 --> 00:07:48,760 and busking under the power of sin, and the fault is sin, then 107 00:07:48,760 --> 00:07:53,000 we are under condemnation. Beloved, we are on the 108 00:07:53,000 --> 00:07:55,800 condemnation. Now Saint Paul will tell us in 109 00:07:55,800 --> 00:08:00,600 Romans chapter 8, there is no condemnation for those who do 110 00:08:00,600 --> 00:08:04,280 not walk in the flesh. I'm sorry for those who are in 111 00:08:04,280 --> 00:08:10,240 Christ, but do not walk in the flesh just because you believe 112 00:08:10,240 --> 00:08:16,480 in Christ and your fleshly life is according to the desires of 113 00:08:16,480 --> 00:08:19,000 your flesh. There is condemnation, there 114 00:08:19,000 --> 00:08:21,080 will be punishment. We need to repent. 115 00:08:21,960 --> 00:08:26,040 But if we're living in Christ and we are trying our best, we 116 00:08:26,040 --> 00:08:28,760 may not get there. Beloved, Please remember this. 117 00:08:28,760 --> 00:08:32,200 Please remember this. The commandments of Jesus Christ 118 00:08:32,200 --> 00:08:36,280 are at times very difficult. Very difficult that someone who 119 00:08:36,280 --> 00:08:40,559 has hurt you so much, someone who has broken your heart to 120 00:08:40,559 --> 00:08:44,120 pieces, shattered it, and Jesus asked that we must forgive. 121 00:08:44,440 --> 00:08:46,560 These are all difficult. These are not easy. 122 00:08:46,560 --> 00:08:51,960 They're difficult. We may not accomplish that, but 123 00:08:51,960 --> 00:08:56,080 if we're trying, if we are attempting through prayer, 124 00:08:56,520 --> 00:09:00,240 through fasting, through consultation with our brothers, 125 00:09:00,240 --> 00:09:04,000 Christian brothers and sisters, through consultation and 126 00:09:04,000 --> 00:09:07,360 counselling of your spiritual father, the priest, and we try 127 00:09:07,360 --> 00:09:08,840 our best. You will get there. 128 00:09:09,360 --> 00:09:11,360 You will get there. And if you don't get there and 129 00:09:11,360 --> 00:09:15,200 the Lord calls you, well then at least you're in that in that 130 00:09:15,200 --> 00:09:17,240 period or in that process of getting there. 131 00:09:17,400 --> 00:09:19,120 And there will be no condemnation. 132 00:09:20,760 --> 00:09:25,120 But if we will fully enjoy and reject totally reject Christ's 133 00:09:25,120 --> 00:09:28,280 commandments to pray for our enemies, for example, see these 134 00:09:28,280 --> 00:09:29,960 are the these are what we frown upon. 135 00:09:31,320 --> 00:09:34,000 You know, come to me all you who weary and are heavy laden. 136 00:09:34,000 --> 00:09:38,040 Oh yes, Jesus is love. That's all I love Lord, Oh Lord 137 00:09:38,080 --> 00:09:41,000 Jesus, I love you. Come in my heart, I worship you, 138 00:09:41,200 --> 00:09:45,760 I adore you, I honor you and then when he says great, go and 139 00:09:45,760 --> 00:09:50,520 pray for your enemies. Sorry if we willfully want to 140 00:09:50,520 --> 00:09:53,200 remain in that well, there will be condemnation. 141 00:09:53,200 --> 00:09:56,360 This is what Saint Paul is talking to, these Jews and 142 00:09:56,360 --> 00:10:00,160 Gentiles that already converted to Christianity, They were 143 00:10:00,160 --> 00:10:02,680 Christians, but he doesn't want them to go back again and we'll 144 00:10:02,680 --> 00:10:05,640 continue again. If there is no conviction, 145 00:10:07,360 --> 00:10:11,160 you're in a dangerous place and heading for condemnation. 146 00:10:11,440 --> 00:10:15,880 But when we repent, repent from our sins, we are saved from the 147 00:10:15,880 --> 00:10:23,040 state of condemnation. We are saved not meaning we have 148 00:10:23,040 --> 00:10:28,240 gained the Kingdom of heaven. Our beloved brothers and sisters 149 00:10:28,240 --> 00:10:30,560 from the Protestant churches, are you saved? 150 00:10:30,840 --> 00:10:32,320 And you say to them, what do you mean? 151 00:10:32,440 --> 00:10:34,040 Are you going to the Kingdom of heaven? 152 00:10:34,120 --> 00:10:36,200 Have you inherited the Kingdom of heaven? 153 00:10:36,400 --> 00:10:38,960 Where you say, well, Saint Paul doesn't claim that, does he? 154 00:10:40,120 --> 00:10:44,520 So no, yes, I have been saved from my evil, from the power and 155 00:10:44,520 --> 00:10:47,360 the and the slavery of sin. And I live a life. 156 00:10:48,160 --> 00:10:51,360 I try my best. You know, I think our reply 157 00:10:51,360 --> 00:10:56,040 should be, do you not sin? Do you not sin every day of your 158 00:10:56,040 --> 00:10:58,120 life? You claim being saved. 159 00:10:58,280 --> 00:11:00,800 That means you don't sin. Of course we all sin. 160 00:11:00,960 --> 00:11:03,280 Well, you're open for condemnation if there's no 161 00:11:03,280 --> 00:11:06,720 repentance. So hey, let's not claim the 162 00:11:06,720 --> 00:11:09,160 Kingdom of heaven. It is there. 163 00:11:09,480 --> 00:11:12,360 Christ opened the gates of the Kingdom of heaven. 164 00:11:13,640 --> 00:11:18,000 Christ took our humanity and said it at the right hand of the 165 00:11:18,000 --> 00:11:22,080 Father. But let's continue and focus on 166 00:11:22,480 --> 00:11:26,440 our process of repentance because we are still weak. 167 00:11:26,680 --> 00:11:31,680 We continue to sin and Saint James writes he who claims is 168 00:11:31,680 --> 00:11:34,480 not a Sinner is a liar. So there is a sin there. 169 00:11:36,240 --> 00:11:39,520 This is 19 to 20. We'll continue now when we Saint 170 00:11:39,520 --> 00:11:44,920 Paul writes now we know that whatever it the law says, it is 171 00:11:44,920 --> 00:11:50,000 said to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be 172 00:11:50,000 --> 00:11:54,440 shut and all the world may become guilty before God. 173 00:11:55,040 --> 00:11:58,880 For by the deeds of the law no flesh shall be justified. 174 00:11:58,880 --> 00:12:02,920 We're going to have to talk about what the law is, by the 175 00:12:02,920 --> 00:12:07,280 way, because some people use this out of context incorrectly. 176 00:12:07,640 --> 00:12:13,040 For by the deeds of the law, the written law, or the law of the 177 00:12:13,040 --> 00:12:17,520 Spirit, no flesh shall be justified before his presence. 178 00:12:18,240 --> 00:12:21,960 For by means of the law, sin is known. 179 00:12:23,760 --> 00:12:31,440 Now just face face value off the bat, 19 and 20 are talking to us 180 00:12:31,440 --> 00:12:35,760 about how the law discloses sin. That's all that law was there 181 00:12:35,760 --> 00:12:40,120 for, the law, the purpose of the Lord, beloved, the Old Testament 182 00:12:40,120 --> 00:12:45,280 law, the Mosaic law, not what we do in the new covenant of our 183 00:12:45,280 --> 00:12:47,840 Lord Jesus Christ. That's not what Paul is talking 184 00:12:47,840 --> 00:12:49,680 about. So you can't tell me that the 185 00:12:49,680 --> 00:12:53,560 Holy Eucharist, again, the sacraments have no effect on 186 00:12:53,560 --> 00:12:55,400 salvation. No, no, no, no. 187 00:12:55,720 --> 00:12:59,520 Paul is talking about the Old law, the Old Testament law, the 188 00:12:59,520 --> 00:13:03,160 Mosaic Law, the thousands of laws that were there for man to 189 00:13:03,160 --> 00:13:07,240 live by, and the purpose of the law and the commandment, as 190 00:13:07,240 --> 00:13:10,680 we've always said, was what? To identify sin. 191 00:13:10,880 --> 00:13:13,880 This is what Paul is saying, so that they knew what sin is. 192 00:13:14,000 --> 00:13:17,080 Again, I'm going to give you the same example that I always give, 193 00:13:17,560 --> 00:13:19,960 and I will until the Lord returns or I'm called home. 194 00:13:20,400 --> 00:13:24,160 When you're driving on a road, there's no speed signs 195 00:13:24,160 --> 00:13:28,920 whatsoever and there is no other laws whatsoever, and you're 196 00:13:28,920 --> 00:13:32,080 driving 100 miles or 100 kilometers or whatever you want 197 00:13:32,080 --> 00:13:35,480 to do 8100 and the police officer pulls you over. 198 00:13:35,560 --> 00:13:38,440 He can't give you a ticket. All he will do, he will talk to 199 00:13:38,440 --> 00:13:42,560 you according to signs and what's it called, physics. 200 00:13:43,400 --> 00:13:46,800 He'll say slow down because if you lose control, it could be 201 00:13:46,800 --> 00:13:47,720 really bad. That's all. 202 00:13:48,560 --> 00:13:52,560 He can't book you. You haven't broken any law, but 203 00:13:52,560 --> 00:13:55,720 as soon as the sign goes up there, the police officer will 204 00:13:55,720 --> 00:13:59,560 stop you, handcuff you, and take you into prison because you're 205 00:13:59,560 --> 00:14:03,240 doing 6070 over the speed limit. This is a felony. 206 00:14:03,400 --> 00:14:05,200 I'm going to have to take you to jail. 207 00:14:05,360 --> 00:14:10,160 So it identified sin. The law was there to identify 208 00:14:10,160 --> 00:14:14,560 sin, to bring a knowledge of sin which was caused by 209 00:14:14,560 --> 00:14:18,400 disobedience. Genesis 217, do not eat. 210 00:14:18,400 --> 00:14:20,680 God said there is a law, there is a command. 211 00:14:21,920 --> 00:14:25,680 Not, not because if you eat I'm going to lose 1 fruit. 212 00:14:25,840 --> 00:14:29,840 No, if you eat now, you're going to be in the category of a 213 00:14:29,840 --> 00:14:35,080 disobedient human being. And then being disobedient to me 214 00:14:35,200 --> 00:14:37,480 has ramifications. And there you go. 215 00:14:37,480 --> 00:14:40,440 This is what happened. Man fell, was corrupted because 216 00:14:40,640 --> 00:14:44,480 of breaking the law. So the Law was there to identify 217 00:14:44,480 --> 00:14:51,040 sin, to manage sin, what you need to do when you sinned, the 218 00:14:51,040 --> 00:14:54,880 offerings and the sacrifices that you had to offer just to 219 00:14:54,880 --> 00:14:59,440 manage to take care of the law. The Law, both written and 220 00:14:59,440 --> 00:15:04,200 natural, Written for the Jews, natural for the Gentiles and 221 00:15:04,200 --> 00:15:07,680 some of the Jews who received the Law, the written Law, those 222 00:15:07,680 --> 00:15:15,320 who didn't of the nature rebuked the entire mankind, put them in 223 00:15:15,320 --> 00:15:20,400 check so that they may not sin in, in ignorance, not ignorance, 224 00:15:20,400 --> 00:15:21,840 not knowing that they're sinning. 225 00:15:22,240 --> 00:15:25,680 It quashed the pleading of ignorance. 226 00:15:26,080 --> 00:15:27,600 You couldn't plead ignorance anymore. 227 00:15:27,880 --> 00:15:31,520 It abolished the I didn't know excuse. 228 00:15:31,640 --> 00:15:33,920 That's why Paul says to shut their mouth. 229 00:15:34,360 --> 00:15:37,640 That claim that you can't, you can't claim that there was a 230 00:15:37,640 --> 00:15:40,240 law. Oh, I didn't know that I 231 00:15:40,240 --> 00:15:44,720 couldn't walk an extra 2 miles on a Sabbath. 232 00:15:44,880 --> 00:15:47,720 No, there was a law. You can't say I didn't know you 233 00:15:47,720 --> 00:15:52,920 broke the law. And so through this, there was 234 00:15:52,920 --> 00:15:58,600 still unrighteousness and there was unjust because all sinned, 235 00:16:00,960 --> 00:16:05,640 though they obeyed the law as far as managing it, you know, 236 00:16:05,640 --> 00:16:09,600 they sinned. They had to do what they needed 237 00:16:09,600 --> 00:16:13,120 to do, what the law stated to do, to manage their sins, to 238 00:16:13,120 --> 00:16:17,080 take care of their sins, forgiveness offerings and 239 00:16:17,080 --> 00:16:19,360 atonement. They were still unjust because 240 00:16:19,360 --> 00:16:22,320 they were under the slavery of sin. 241 00:16:22,360 --> 00:16:25,520 Saint Paul is selling them. He's reminding them, by the way, 242 00:16:27,360 --> 00:16:31,760 your BC this is what you were because obviously it sounds like 243 00:16:31,840 --> 00:16:34,360 there were people who crept into the churches at Saint Paul 244 00:16:34,360 --> 00:16:36,840 writes and they started telling them that no, you need to 245 00:16:36,840 --> 00:16:39,640 circumcise, you need to do kosher, you need to offer the 246 00:16:39,640 --> 00:16:41,240 blood offerings. No, no, no, you don't need to do 247 00:16:41,240 --> 00:16:42,360 that. He's just reminding them, 248 00:16:42,480 --> 00:16:45,440 listen, this is what you were. This is what the law did. 249 00:16:45,440 --> 00:16:47,760 That's why the law was there to take care of you. 250 00:16:47,880 --> 00:16:49,440 But now you don't need to do that anymore. 251 00:16:49,800 --> 00:16:55,840 And being unrighteous and unholy people, by the way, God dwelled 252 00:16:55,840 --> 00:17:01,080 among them in the Tabernacle, a holy God dwelling amongst an 253 00:17:01,440 --> 00:17:05,240 unholy people, something had to be done. 254 00:17:05,839 --> 00:17:10,240 There had to be atonement. There had to be redemption for 255 00:17:10,240 --> 00:17:13,560 sin or from sin. There had to be an atonement, a 256 00:17:13,560 --> 00:17:18,160 redemption to take people, to take mankind out of the slavery 257 00:17:18,200 --> 00:17:21,119 of sin. And in Leviticus chapter 16 we 258 00:17:21,119 --> 00:17:25,800 read that on the Day of Atonement this would happen 2 259 00:17:25,800 --> 00:17:29,520 goats, not lamb or sheep. They were for Passover. 260 00:17:29,520 --> 00:17:33,840 The lambs for the for the were for the Passover. 2 goats. 261 00:17:34,000 --> 00:17:37,200 One was a sin offering and the other one was for the cleansing 262 00:17:37,200 --> 00:17:39,720 with the blood. The one that was for the sin 263 00:17:39,720 --> 00:17:43,120 offering, the priest would lay his hand on and all the sins of 264 00:17:43,120 --> 00:17:46,360 the congregation will be placed upon them and the goat would be 265 00:17:46,360 --> 00:17:49,480 let free into the wilderness because they couldn't offer 266 00:17:49,480 --> 00:17:51,160 that. They didn't sacrifice that 267 00:17:51,280 --> 00:17:54,240 because it was being defiled wilderness. 268 00:17:54,920 --> 00:17:58,560 The goat took the sin and he was let out of the camp. 269 00:17:59,360 --> 00:18:02,680 Jesus Christ took the sin of man and was taken out of the city, 270 00:18:02,960 --> 00:18:04,880 out of Jerusalem, and was crucified. 271 00:18:05,040 --> 00:18:08,240 Praise and glory with His name for our sin, for the atonement 272 00:18:08,240 --> 00:18:12,280 of our sin. And the other goat was then 273 00:18:12,440 --> 00:18:15,320 offered as a sacrifice, and blood was sprinkled and 274 00:18:15,320 --> 00:18:17,240 everything was cleansed through the blood. 275 00:18:17,240 --> 00:18:24,960 This is once a year. The the the sinful, I think they 276 00:18:24,960 --> 00:18:29,680 called scapegoat the sinful goat was would escape into the 277 00:18:29,680 --> 00:18:32,960 wilderness. He escaped being saccharized, 278 00:18:32,960 --> 00:18:35,160 but in the wilderness he would have died, probably not being 279 00:18:35,160 --> 00:18:38,600 taken care of. This was all beloved. 280 00:18:38,600 --> 00:18:43,040 It was just a, a a process of taking care of sin, managing 281 00:18:43,040 --> 00:18:46,440 sin, but it didn't get rid of sin. 282 00:18:47,640 --> 00:18:52,160 This happened until God. This happened until two weeks 283 00:18:52,160 --> 00:18:55,800 from now we're going to celebrate this God Incarnate. 284 00:18:56,080 --> 00:19:02,080 God comes down to dwell among us one more time in the person and 285 00:19:02,080 --> 00:19:07,040 the flesh of Jesus Christ. Praise and glory be to his name, 286 00:19:07,040 --> 00:19:12,480 God Incarnate. Yes, Stephen, I'm in verse 21. 287 00:19:12,640 --> 00:19:17,400 But now the righteousness, this is how things going to be made 288 00:19:17,400 --> 00:19:21,800 right because there was still sin there under the the power 289 00:19:21,800 --> 00:19:24,320 and the and the slavery I've seen. 290 00:19:24,640 --> 00:19:28,520 But now the righteousness. This is how God's righteousness, 291 00:19:28,720 --> 00:19:33,040 how God made everything right. But now the righteousness of God 292 00:19:33,080 --> 00:19:39,360 without the law is manifested at every law and the very law and 293 00:19:39,360 --> 00:19:41,680 prophets testify to it. Let me read it again. 294 00:19:41,880 --> 00:19:45,320 But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested 295 00:19:45,920 --> 00:19:51,440 and the very law and prophets, prophets testify to it revealed 296 00:19:52,120 --> 00:19:55,640 not was made. God's always just, righteous and 297 00:19:55,640 --> 00:19:57,520 just and holy praise be to his name. 298 00:19:59,000 --> 00:20:03,560 So the grace of God, meaning what God did, this is what God 299 00:20:03,560 --> 00:20:04,760 did. This was the righteousness. 300 00:20:04,800 --> 00:20:06,160 It wasn't the righteousness of men. 301 00:20:06,160 --> 00:20:08,600 They weren't righteous, but God's righteousness through the 302 00:20:08,600 --> 00:20:11,440 righteousness of God. This is what we received, the 303 00:20:11,440 --> 00:20:14,720 grace of God through His Son the Christ. 304 00:20:15,800 --> 00:20:18,400 Was foretold by the prophets that he would come. 305 00:20:19,480 --> 00:20:24,600 Now it may not have been a part of the Law, yet it was all 306 00:20:24,600 --> 00:20:29,280 fulfilled as the prophets were prophesized. 307 00:20:29,360 --> 00:20:33,680 Prophesying it was the fulfillment of the prophecies 308 00:20:34,560 --> 00:20:38,560 and what the law could not fulfill because of the weakness 309 00:20:38,560 --> 00:20:42,360 of the flesh. Christ fulfilled in his flesh. 310 00:20:42,760 --> 00:20:47,800 Sinful, sinless flesh has the he fulfilled it and he also 311 00:20:47,800 --> 00:20:53,480 fulfilled the prophets so that mankind would be directed to 312 00:20:54,240 --> 00:20:56,000 eternal life, the Kingdom of heaven. 313 00:20:57,880 --> 00:21:01,760 So when we talk about the law, beloved, now some people will 314 00:21:02,000 --> 00:21:09,840 again one more time misuse this this verse for by the deeds of 315 00:21:09,840 --> 00:21:13,520 the law, no flesh shall be justified before the before his 316 00:21:13,520 --> 00:21:16,360 presence. And they will say, well, you 317 00:21:16,360 --> 00:21:18,600 don't need to fast. Our brothers and sisters from 318 00:21:18,600 --> 00:21:20,960 the Protestant churches will say you don't need to fast. 319 00:21:20,960 --> 00:21:22,800 There's no need to fast. Not not all of them. 320 00:21:22,800 --> 00:21:27,720 Some do fast, some fast, but some rebuke and some argue with 321 00:21:27,720 --> 00:21:29,960 us, why you fasting? You don't need to fast. 322 00:21:31,520 --> 00:21:34,960 I don't know what Bible you're reading, but Jesus said when you 323 00:21:34,960 --> 00:21:37,120 fast, this is how you shall fast. 324 00:21:38,840 --> 00:21:41,680 When they came to him and said your disciples are not fasting, 325 00:21:41,680 --> 00:21:44,800 he said when the bridegroom is taken away, they will fast. 326 00:21:45,880 --> 00:21:48,880 Saint Paul writes in Corinthians about a husband and wife during 327 00:21:48,880 --> 00:21:55,480 fasting and when he's talking about fulfilling each other's 328 00:21:55,480 --> 00:21:58,880 desires. That's what marriage is for, to 329 00:21:58,880 --> 00:22:01,920 fulfill each other's desires, but only at one period of time 330 00:22:01,920 --> 00:22:06,480 during fasting. You know, some, some versions 331 00:22:06,480 --> 00:22:09,720 have taken that out. A woe to you, whoever you are, 332 00:22:09,960 --> 00:22:13,840 you're a Zionist. You're whoever you are, woe to 333 00:22:13,840 --> 00:22:21,160 you, You evil man, you evil man for altering the word of God. 334 00:22:22,320 --> 00:22:26,600 Or when Jesus is asked by his disciples, why did we not, why 335 00:22:26,600 --> 00:22:32,000 weren't we able to heal this demon possessed person or boy? 336 00:22:32,400 --> 00:22:36,160 He said, but this type is through fasting and prayer. 337 00:22:36,360 --> 00:22:38,800 Some versions have taken out the word fasting. 338 00:22:38,800 --> 00:22:45,800 You evil hypocrite, you hypocrite, you Jesus hating 339 00:22:45,800 --> 00:22:47,920 hypocrite, I don't care who you are. 340 00:22:48,040 --> 00:22:52,000 I don't care how much you Babble and dance and jump up and down 341 00:22:52,040 --> 00:22:58,320 and claim, claim miracles. You are evil, the son of evil, 342 00:22:58,400 --> 00:22:59,920 because you have altered the word of God. 343 00:23:01,960 --> 00:23:05,440 So read the the truth by by the way, find the find the find the 344 00:23:05,440 --> 00:23:09,000 correct text. This doesn't the the the law is 345 00:23:09,400 --> 00:23:11,680 Saint Paul's talking about. It's not about fasting. 346 00:23:12,440 --> 00:23:16,920 It's not about charity. He's not talking about partaking 347 00:23:16,920 --> 00:23:19,000 in the Holy Eucharist, the sacraments. 348 00:23:20,040 --> 00:23:22,200 He's not talking about Sacramento life. 349 00:23:22,400 --> 00:23:25,440 These are the new covenants. He's talking about the law 350 00:23:26,040 --> 00:23:28,920 again. No more kosher food. 351 00:23:28,920 --> 00:23:29,840 It's done. It's finished. 352 00:23:29,840 --> 00:23:31,720 It's useless. I don't care who does it. 353 00:23:31,720 --> 00:23:32,760 It's useless. It's done. 354 00:23:32,880 --> 00:23:36,440 Does nothing. No more offering of doves and 355 00:23:36,640 --> 00:23:41,920 and and and turtle doves and lams and sheep and goats and 356 00:23:41,920 --> 00:23:43,200 cows. It's nothing. 357 00:23:43,200 --> 00:23:46,920 It's yucky, it's disgusting. You see the videos where where 358 00:23:46,920 --> 00:23:49,480 there is the goat, it's the poor goat standing there and then 359 00:23:49,480 --> 00:23:53,360 someone comes with a with a sore whatever and and just chops the 360 00:23:53,360 --> 00:23:54,200 head off. Why? 361 00:23:54,200 --> 00:23:58,240 Why do you do this for OK, you want to eat, just do it 362 00:23:58,520 --> 00:24:01,280 humanely. I know it's an animal, but you 363 00:24:01,280 --> 00:24:04,720 do it in a humane way. But no, it's all a religious, 364 00:24:04,840 --> 00:24:06,720 religious act, which means nothing. 365 00:24:06,720 --> 00:24:08,120 It's dead. It's nothing. 366 00:24:08,280 --> 00:24:10,520 Now, don't tell me. Well, you know, maybe these 367 00:24:10,520 --> 00:24:13,080 people believe. No, no, those people need to be 368 00:24:13,080 --> 00:24:15,720 taught that. Listen, my dear, honey, Linda, 369 00:24:15,840 --> 00:24:17,400 you don't need to do that anymore. 370 00:24:17,920 --> 00:24:20,920 You're still connected to the old law. 371 00:24:21,080 --> 00:24:23,120 And if you are, you're under condemnation. 372 00:24:23,120 --> 00:24:24,480 But that's done. That's finished, my dear. 373 00:24:24,680 --> 00:24:27,280 Except Jesus Christ. Believe in him, have faith in 374 00:24:27,280 --> 00:24:31,040 Him, accept his sacrifice, be a part of him within his church, 375 00:24:31,360 --> 00:24:35,360 and you're saved from that. So let's not make a mistake. 376 00:24:35,360 --> 00:24:38,720 Let's not jump into conclusions and take things out of context, 377 00:24:38,920 --> 00:24:42,840 Beloved, just to show that this person is wrong or that you're 378 00:24:42,840 --> 00:24:44,760 doing what you're doing is not biblical. 379 00:24:44,760 --> 00:24:48,080 Not everything is in the Bible. Not everything is written in the 380 00:24:48,080 --> 00:24:51,000 Bible. The church has lived the Bible. 381 00:24:51,240 --> 00:24:55,240 Yes, show me in the Bible as I always say, and I've been saying 382 00:24:55,240 --> 00:24:58,400 it for years and you know, people send me and thank God for 383 00:24:58,400 --> 00:24:59,920 that. It's a it's it's for the glory 384 00:24:59,920 --> 00:25:02,000 of God. People send me messages and 385 00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:03,600 videos. Robbie, listen to this amazing. 386 00:25:03,680 --> 00:25:07,480 I've been saying this for 15 years or more. 387 00:25:08,040 --> 00:25:10,720 Nothing is in the not everything is in the Bible. 388 00:25:11,200 --> 00:25:15,400 Find me in the Bible where Jesus says I am God. 389 00:25:15,800 --> 00:25:19,760 You won't don't even go to about don't Google it and AI it don't 390 00:25:19,760 --> 00:25:21,760 do that. I'm telling you I'll I'll spare 391 00:25:21,760 --> 00:25:25,520 you the the 15 seconds of your keystrokes. 392 00:25:25,920 --> 00:25:28,760 Not everything is in the Bible, but Jesus is God praise and 393 00:25:28,760 --> 00:25:33,520 glory be to his name because we know of other texts proof 394 00:25:33,560 --> 00:25:36,840 history. So not everything is written in 395 00:25:36,840 --> 00:25:39,880 the scriptures, but we know that the church that preaches the 396 00:25:39,880 --> 00:25:44,160 scriptures and teaches the scriptures and explains the 397 00:25:44,160 --> 00:25:47,360 scriptures and interprets the Scriptures knows that this is 398 00:25:47,360 --> 00:25:49,000 what Saint Paul is talking about. 399 00:25:49,120 --> 00:25:51,960 This is what he's referring to. So now from this point onwards, 400 00:25:51,960 --> 00:25:56,240 he's going to now talk about how God through Jesus Christ has 401 00:25:56,240 --> 00:26:01,440 fulfilled all until now. He's talking about the old law. 402 00:26:02,920 --> 00:26:06,320 He wants to remind them one more time as he does to the Ephesians 403 00:26:06,320 --> 00:26:10,160 chapter 2 and he says this is where we were, we were evil, we 404 00:26:10,160 --> 00:26:12,560 were disobedient. And you go and read it again. 405 00:26:12,560 --> 00:26:16,760 I'll tell you Ephesians chapter 2 is not just one verse 8, it's 406 00:26:16,760 --> 00:26:18,360 22 verses. Go and read it. 407 00:26:18,600 --> 00:26:20,840 He's talking about that. He says, but we've been saved. 408 00:26:21,080 --> 00:26:23,360 Why is he writing to these Christians? 409 00:26:23,560 --> 00:26:27,760 Why, you know, this is just an understanding learning in the 410 00:26:27,760 --> 00:26:30,080 Holy Scripture so that we don't fall in the same predicament. 411 00:26:30,200 --> 00:26:32,000 Why? Because the early Christians 412 00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:36,800 continue to live and hold on to the old. 413 00:26:36,920 --> 00:26:41,160 That's why Jesus says he who, he who puts the hands on a plow 414 00:26:41,160 --> 00:26:44,040 can't turn around, turn back and look back again. 415 00:26:44,040 --> 00:26:46,320 No, no. So now you're Christian, St. 416 00:26:46,320 --> 00:26:48,840 Paul saying don't be fooled by those who come and say to you 417 00:26:48,840 --> 00:26:50,840 that no, you need to be circumcised. 418 00:26:50,840 --> 00:26:54,600 Still, as in Acts chapter 15, no, you don't need to do that 419 00:26:54,600 --> 00:26:55,680 anymore. It's done. 420 00:26:55,720 --> 00:26:59,200 You're baptized, you become baptized, you die with Christ in 421 00:26:59,200 --> 00:27:01,880 his, in his, in his death, and you're being bored. 422 00:27:02,280 --> 00:27:06,920 Born from above. Bury a Menelisha in the Aramaic 423 00:27:06,920 --> 00:27:11,360 omen, Allah from above, holy from the born from the Holy 424 00:27:11,360 --> 00:27:15,480 Spirit or born anew. And we're going to read about 425 00:27:15,480 --> 00:27:21,840 what Christ has done for us so that we being under the 426 00:27:22,920 --> 00:27:28,520 authorship, the leadership, the the auspices, you know, being 427 00:27:28,520 --> 00:27:33,000 our Lord, our God as our Savior, how we must appreciate what God 428 00:27:33,160 --> 00:27:36,880 has done through his Son so that we too will be obedient to his 429 00:27:36,880 --> 00:27:41,160 Son. And if we fall and sin, we come 430 00:27:41,160 --> 00:27:46,760 back again one more time because Christ has redeemed us, has paid 431 00:27:46,760 --> 00:27:52,160 the the redemption of the slavery of sin, has freed us, 432 00:27:52,680 --> 00:27:54,760 but he hasn't taken away our free will. 433 00:27:54,760 --> 00:27:59,720 And sometimes we use it to grieve the Holy Spirit of God. 434 00:27:59,720 --> 00:28:00,960 But that's not the end of the world. 435 00:28:01,120 --> 00:28:04,560 We can come back and repent and be received one more time. 436 00:28:04,560 --> 00:28:06,680 Praise and glory be to his name now and that all times and 437 00:28:06,680 --> 00:28:07,840 forever. Amen. 438 00:28:35,770 --> 00:28:37,770 We hope you enjoyed this week's message. 439 00:28:37,850 --> 00:28:41,010 Please don't forget to rate and review this podcast and share 440 00:28:41,010 --> 00:28:44,370 with your friends and family. 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