1 00:00:00,400 --> 00:00:03,360 In the name of the glorious Trinity, Father and Son and Holy 2 00:00:03,360 --> 00:00:07,040 Spirit, forever Amen. Glory be to the everlasting 3 00:00:07,040 --> 00:00:10,960 mercies which sent you to us, O Christ, the light of the world 4 00:00:11,040 --> 00:00:14,720 and the life of all. Give us wisdom by Your law and 5 00:00:14,720 --> 00:00:16,720 enlighten our impulses by Your knowledge. 6 00:00:17,760 --> 00:00:20,800 Sanctify our souls by Your truth, and grant that we may be 7 00:00:20,800 --> 00:00:24,280 obedient to Your words and may fulfil Your commandments at 8 00:00:24,280 --> 00:00:27,600 every hour. O You who enlightens the 9 00:00:27,600 --> 00:00:30,080 rational with the knowledge of Your greatness. 10 00:00:30,840 --> 00:00:34,640 Do enlight, O my Lord, our thoughts, that we may meditate 11 00:00:34,640 --> 00:00:37,760 upon Your holy and divine Scriptures at all times, O Lord 12 00:00:37,760 --> 00:00:40,960 of all, Father and Son and Holy Spirit. 13 00:00:40,960 --> 00:01:01,200 Forever. With a disclaimer, and I will do 14 00:01:01,200 --> 00:01:04,800 this every now and then and my disclaimer is that the contents 15 00:01:05,040 --> 00:01:10,880 of this and all episodes of the Double Edged Sword podcast are 16 00:01:10,880 --> 00:01:15,160 all quotes according to the teachings of the Holy 17 00:01:15,160 --> 00:01:20,080 Scriptures, the Church Fathers and the life of the Assyrian 18 00:01:20,080 --> 00:01:23,080 Church of the East. I feel that I need to do that so 19 00:01:23,080 --> 00:01:30,400 that when you listen to the interpretations, the the the 20 00:01:30,400 --> 00:01:35,200 meanings of the the interpretations and and how the 21 00:01:35,200 --> 00:01:38,840 Scripture is perceived or the verses are perceived that you 22 00:01:38,840 --> 00:01:42,720 know that it is according according to the Church Fathers 23 00:01:42,720 --> 00:01:47,480 and the Church faith and dogma and the sacraments and liturgy 24 00:01:47,760 --> 00:01:49,960 of the Assyrian Church of the East. 25 00:01:51,120 --> 00:01:53,760 So we left off with Abraham's faith in God. 26 00:01:54,560 --> 00:02:01,680 Romans chapter 5 we we left off at verse 5 and we ascertained 27 00:02:01,680 --> 00:02:06,320 that Abraham's faith in God, which scored him lack of a 28 00:02:06,320 --> 00:02:10,080 better term, righteousness by God, not himself. 29 00:02:10,080 --> 00:02:14,520 God declared him righteousness was in the promise and the power 30 00:02:14,520 --> 00:02:19,760 of God fulfilling that promise. Promised him that he would give 31 00:02:19,760 --> 00:02:23,680 him a child. Promised him his his wife in old 32 00:02:23,720 --> 00:02:28,200 age would bear a child and conceive and and give birth to a 33 00:02:28,200 --> 00:02:31,000 child. Promised him that his seed would 34 00:02:31,000 --> 00:02:33,920 be as the number of the sand of the oceans. 35 00:02:33,920 --> 00:02:37,560 Promised his seed, promised him that he's one seed. 36 00:02:37,600 --> 00:02:41,400 That seed Jesus Christ would come from him. 37 00:02:41,600 --> 00:02:46,000 So God fulfilled the promise. Now he believed the promise and 38 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:50,560 then it was fulfilled. He believed in the power of the 39 00:02:50,720 --> 00:02:54,800 God, of the power of God, to fulfill that promise, though he 40 00:02:54,800 --> 00:02:56,880 didn't see it. That is faith. 41 00:02:57,120 --> 00:03:01,960 Faith is and hope is assurance of those things that have been 42 00:03:01,960 --> 00:03:04,120 promised. Let's say that they've already 43 00:03:04,120 --> 00:03:06,200 been done. Now, when God promises 44 00:03:06,200 --> 00:03:07,520 something, you know it's happened. 45 00:03:07,520 --> 00:03:12,280 That means it will happen. Question, question. 46 00:03:13,720 --> 00:03:20,680 Think about this. If God only promised but didn't 47 00:03:20,680 --> 00:03:26,200 fulfil, you know he. God tells us that the word that 48 00:03:26,200 --> 00:03:30,480 proceeds from his mouth will not come back empty, but it will 49 00:03:31,160 --> 00:03:33,960 accomplish what it's been, what the purpose is. 50 00:03:34,640 --> 00:03:39,760 That's another promise. If God only promised and didn't 51 00:03:39,760 --> 00:03:43,600 fulfil, would we say God is a faithful God? 52 00:03:45,960 --> 00:03:49,880 God be careful. Yes, I oh, you're going to tell 53 00:03:49,880 --> 00:03:52,680 me God's no faithful. Relax, relax. 54 00:03:53,120 --> 00:03:56,960 Think about it. If God only promised, there are 55 00:03:56,960 --> 00:03:59,720 only promises in the Scriptures. We didn't, we don't see any of 56 00:03:59,720 --> 00:04:02,280 the fulfilment for unto us a child will be born. 57 00:04:02,280 --> 00:04:05,680 But there was no child. His name shall be called 58 00:04:05,680 --> 00:04:08,480 wonderful council. There was no, there was no, no, 59 00:04:08,520 --> 00:04:13,440 no, no looks or or or beauty, let's say to have gazed at him. 60 00:04:13,440 --> 00:04:18,600 But this didn't happen if God had promised Abraham that your 61 00:04:18,600 --> 00:04:21,720 next year when I return your wife will give a birth to a son. 62 00:04:21,839 --> 00:04:26,360 But it didn't happen, right? If God only promised and didn't 63 00:04:26,360 --> 00:04:29,800 fulfill, would we say God is a faithful God? 64 00:04:32,240 --> 00:04:35,280 Don't be shy and reluctant to say no. 65 00:04:35,320 --> 00:04:37,960 But after that you say hastily cleanse the our Lord. 66 00:04:37,960 --> 00:04:41,080 Because this question is one of those questions that is not a 67 00:04:41,080 --> 00:04:45,120 realistic question. But there is a reason why I ask 68 00:04:45,120 --> 00:04:48,120 you that question. There is an intent behind asking 69 00:04:48,120 --> 00:04:50,800 you that question. There was a reason, an intent, a 70 00:04:50,800 --> 00:04:55,200 holy intent that Christ said I cannot take the bread of the 71 00:04:55,200 --> 00:04:57,240 children and give them to the dogs. 72 00:04:57,600 --> 00:05:00,240 When that Lady came, that Gentile lady, that Samaritan, it 73 00:05:00,240 --> 00:05:04,120 was that came to ask healing for her daughter. 74 00:05:04,760 --> 00:05:10,400 There is a reason I ask you. So if God only promised and 75 00:05:10,400 --> 00:05:13,680 didn't fulfill his promises, we could say God is not a faithful 76 00:05:13,680 --> 00:05:17,000 God. That's the same with faith in 77 00:05:17,000 --> 00:05:20,760 God without deeds. Yeah, think about it. 78 00:05:22,400 --> 00:05:26,880 Just as God's promises are confirmed by their fulfillment 79 00:05:26,880 --> 00:05:33,560 through His power, so our faith must likewise be confirmed by 80 00:05:33,560 --> 00:05:36,840 our deeds performed through His power. 81 00:05:36,840 --> 00:05:41,640 That is the power of God. If God didn't fulfill His 82 00:05:41,640 --> 00:05:44,560 promise, we couldn't say He's faithful. 83 00:05:45,080 --> 00:05:50,000 If we have faith in God but do not produce any deeds, we're not 84 00:05:50,000 --> 00:05:52,400 faithful. And Saint James says faith 85 00:05:52,400 --> 00:05:57,560 without deeds is a dead faith. Just a side note, let's pick it 86 00:05:57,560 --> 00:06:01,320 up from verse 6. But Christ at this time, I'm 87 00:06:01,720 --> 00:06:04,120 going to talk about that, what it means at this time, because 88 00:06:04,120 --> 00:06:07,680 of our weaknesses, died for the sake of the wicked. 89 00:06:08,280 --> 00:06:15,560 You see, human weakness caused the inability, the inactivity to 90 00:06:15,560 --> 00:06:20,800 free itself from sin and death because we were weak, because 91 00:06:20,800 --> 00:06:23,240 man was weak. How? 92 00:06:23,560 --> 00:06:28,360 How was man powerless and weak through Adam's transgression? 93 00:06:28,360 --> 00:06:31,000 When we say men, we're not talking about my father and 94 00:06:31,040 --> 00:06:34,000 Steven or myself. We're talking about the race of 95 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:39,040 men, the race of humanity. The human race became powerless 96 00:06:39,240 --> 00:06:44,480 through Adam's transgression and it basically could not restore 97 00:06:44,480 --> 00:06:49,640 itself to righteousness, couldn't reinstate itself to the 98 00:06:49,640 --> 00:06:54,640 right, You know, the perfect creation that God created, the 99 00:06:54,640 --> 00:07:00,240 right creation that God created. You see, he will expand on this. 100 00:07:00,520 --> 00:07:06,280 Saint Paul will expand on this in chapter 8 verse 3 where he 101 00:07:06,280 --> 00:07:12,960 writes Saint Paul Romans 8/3 For the law was weak through the 102 00:07:12,960 --> 00:07:17,200 weakness of the flesh. So God sent his own Son in the 103 00:07:17,200 --> 00:07:20,600 likeness of sinful flesh, likeness. 104 00:07:20,920 --> 00:07:24,240 Jesus didn't sin. Jesus became sin for us, 105 00:07:24,400 --> 00:07:28,840 likeness of sinful flesh on account of sin, in order to 106 00:07:29,040 --> 00:07:32,720 condemn sin by means of his flesh. 107 00:07:32,880 --> 00:07:38,880 So Christ's coming here was to do what Saint Paul writes 108 00:07:38,880 --> 00:07:42,960 because we were weak. He wasn't, He was strong, He was 109 00:07:42,960 --> 00:07:45,840 holy, He was powerful, He was sinless. 110 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:51,080 He took on our sin. Sin, death, corruption was all 111 00:07:51,080 --> 00:07:54,960 nailed on the cross. OK, so Christ's coming here 112 00:07:54,960 --> 00:08:02,880 demonstrates that salvation in history, salvation originated 113 00:08:02,880 --> 00:08:06,760 from God's mercy, not human merit. 114 00:08:06,920 --> 00:08:12,240 We were sinners, we were weak. This through Christ's death on 115 00:08:12,240 --> 00:08:14,960 the cross. Now salvation not meaning 116 00:08:14,960 --> 00:08:16,880 eternal life, immediate eternal life. 117 00:08:16,880 --> 00:08:19,600 No, no, no. Salvation from what? 118 00:08:19,760 --> 00:08:24,840 From the transgression, from the outcome, from the repercussion 119 00:08:24,840 --> 00:08:29,000 of the transgression of Adam, which made us powerless. 120 00:08:29,080 --> 00:08:32,679 We were saved by Christ's death on the cross. 121 00:08:33,159 --> 00:08:38,640 Also this that Saint Paul writes at this time, or let's say 122 00:08:38,720 --> 00:08:42,840 right, that means God's time. You know, he's referring to 123 00:08:42,840 --> 00:08:46,720 God's divine plan again in the history of salvation. 124 00:08:47,560 --> 00:08:54,160 He's referring to that that Christ's death in the in the is 125 00:08:54,160 --> 00:08:59,800 the it's so clear that Christ died to prove to us God's divine 126 00:08:59,800 --> 00:09:03,960 love because we were seen at that time man was corrupted and 127 00:09:03,960 --> 00:09:07,640 sin God sent his son. It's proving revealing the 128 00:09:07,640 --> 00:09:13,640 divine love, the true, genuine true love that God has for us 129 00:09:14,600 --> 00:09:20,280 because it occurred when when did Jesus Jesus come before 130 00:09:20,280 --> 00:09:24,840 humans repentance before humans worthy worthiness. 131 00:09:25,480 --> 00:09:28,640 Jesus didn't come and say go and repent and make yourselves 132 00:09:28,640 --> 00:09:31,720 worthy for me to die for you because then we would we would 133 00:09:31,720 --> 00:09:34,600 have replied oh Lord, praise and glory, meet your name. 134 00:09:34,680 --> 00:09:38,760 Why do you don't need to die for the righteous you you we're 135 00:09:38,760 --> 00:09:40,800 righteous now we're made right now. 136 00:09:40,960 --> 00:09:42,960 We were wrong. We were sinners, we were 137 00:09:42,960 --> 00:09:45,040 corrupted. You brought us back and made us 138 00:09:45,040 --> 00:09:46,080 right. We don't. 139 00:09:46,120 --> 00:09:48,240 Why do you need to die for us? No. 140 00:09:48,520 --> 00:09:53,040 So Christ died before man's repentance and with isn't this 141 00:09:53,040 --> 00:09:54,680 love? Isn't this love? 142 00:09:55,200 --> 00:09:57,400 Isn't this love? It's like forgiving someone 143 00:09:57,400 --> 00:09:59,440 before they ask for forgiveness. That's love. 144 00:10:00,240 --> 00:10:02,880 And sometimes what do we do until you know, we have this, 145 00:10:03,000 --> 00:10:06,880 this idiom in a Syrian, this allegory in a Syrian 146 00:10:06,880 --> 00:10:10,760 understanding tradition, until this person comes and kisses my 147 00:10:10,760 --> 00:10:14,680 feet, I will not forgive. Well, my dear, Christ didn't ask 148 00:10:14,680 --> 00:10:17,320 you to kiss his feet before he died for you. 149 00:10:18,160 --> 00:10:23,520 Wake up, wake up and smell the sweetness of the love of God for 150 00:10:23,520 --> 00:10:26,040 humanity. That while we were sinners, 151 00:10:26,200 --> 00:10:34,400 dreadful stenchful stench corrupted right oded A stenchful 152 00:10:34,400 --> 00:10:36,560 odour. Christ died for us. 153 00:10:36,720 --> 00:10:40,480 That was the time. Is this not the love of God? 154 00:10:40,840 --> 00:10:43,680 Is this not the life, the divine love of God? 155 00:10:43,680 --> 00:10:47,680 This is. This is the meaning of love, 156 00:10:47,680 --> 00:10:49,560 Beloved. We learn it from God and when we 157 00:10:49,560 --> 00:10:53,120 love, this is how we become a part of God. 158 00:10:53,280 --> 00:10:57,840 When we love like Jesus loved like God loved us, when we love 159 00:10:58,120 --> 00:11:03,400 before we receive what we have been taken away from, what has 160 00:11:03,400 --> 00:11:07,240 been taken away from us, what has been said to us, we love and 161 00:11:07,240 --> 00:11:10,800 we forgive. Galatians chapter 4 verses 4 and 162 00:11:10,800 --> 00:11:16,120 5 Saint Paul writes but when the end of time arrived, God's time 163 00:11:16,120 --> 00:11:19,560 to start work and this is it's the end of what he was doing. 164 00:11:19,560 --> 00:11:23,760 It's now come to fruition. God sent his son and he was from 165 00:11:23,760 --> 00:11:27,560 a woman and was under the written law, going back from the 166 00:11:27,560 --> 00:11:31,640 beginning under the written law that he would redeem those who 167 00:11:31,640 --> 00:11:35,960 were under the written law and that we would receive the 168 00:11:35,960 --> 00:11:43,080 position of children or the adoption of sonship, the 169 00:11:43,080 --> 00:11:47,520 adoption of sonship when the time came and this all through 170 00:11:47,520 --> 00:11:51,160 God's love that we were still sinners. 171 00:11:51,400 --> 00:11:54,640 It's like a doctor, it's like a physician telling you go and get 172 00:11:54,640 --> 00:11:57,400 yourself healed and then come on and I will examine you. 173 00:11:57,680 --> 00:12:00,280 Well, if I, if I'm healed, you won't see my face. 174 00:12:00,480 --> 00:12:02,200 You don't need to examine me. I'm healed. 175 00:12:02,640 --> 00:12:05,960 It's like telling a a drug addict, go and rehabilitate 176 00:12:05,960 --> 00:12:08,360 yourself and then I'll take you to rehabilitation. 177 00:12:08,920 --> 00:12:11,840 I'm done it I'm I'm cold Turkey. I did, I'm over it, right? 178 00:12:11,840 --> 00:12:14,960 There's no need for me to go to for rehabilitation. 179 00:12:15,320 --> 00:12:17,880 It's the same thing that Saint Paul is telling us that we were 180 00:12:17,880 --> 00:12:21,880 worthless. We were unworthy of the love 181 00:12:21,880 --> 00:12:27,280 that God showed and performed and wrought on the on the cross. 182 00:12:28,000 --> 00:12:30,640 We were unworthy, but God sent his Son. 183 00:12:30,720 --> 00:12:34,960 This is love again, Beloved. Verses 7 and 8. 184 00:12:35,320 --> 00:12:37,480 Hardly. Now there's a confusion here. 185 00:12:37,480 --> 00:12:39,200 Yeah, it doesn't make sense. Hardly. 186 00:12:39,200 --> 00:12:41,200 Would any man. OK, let me. 187 00:12:41,320 --> 00:12:47,200 I won't read this because this is the Lambsa translation and 188 00:12:47,200 --> 00:12:48,600 version. This is correct. 189 00:12:48,600 --> 00:12:52,840 It's from the Peshutta, the official version of or 190 00:12:52,840 --> 00:12:55,200 transcript or text of the same Church of the East. 191 00:12:56,320 --> 00:13:02,880 KG King James version, NKG new King James version, NIV new 192 00:13:02,880 --> 00:13:06,840 international version. Not too fond of that, I'm sorry. 193 00:13:07,080 --> 00:13:12,600 NASB, the new American standard Bible and the Orthodox Jewish 194 00:13:12,600 --> 00:13:15,400 Bible. There's an Orthodox Jewish 195 00:13:15,400 --> 00:13:17,240 Bible? Very interesting to read. 196 00:13:18,640 --> 00:13:25,560 The 7th is quoted like this. For scarcely, for scarcely for a 197 00:13:25,560 --> 00:13:30,600 righteous man will one die. Very scarcely for a righteous 198 00:13:30,600 --> 00:13:34,560 man will one die. Yet possibly for a good man, 199 00:13:35,400 --> 00:13:38,720 some would even there to die. Wait, wait, what? 200 00:13:39,880 --> 00:13:43,280 Righteous and good, Yeah, because righteousness only come 201 00:13:43,280 --> 00:13:47,200 from guns, from God. Goodness is our Let's not be 202 00:13:47,200 --> 00:13:49,920 apologetic because you know the answer to that. 203 00:13:50,680 --> 00:13:54,880 If we're saying righteous, Paul wants to wants to, you know, 204 00:13:55,040 --> 00:13:58,200 distinguish between righteousness, which only comes 205 00:13:58,200 --> 00:14:01,520 from God and the good from men. Well, let let me read to you 206 00:14:01,520 --> 00:14:05,800 verse 8. So hardly would any man die for 207 00:14:05,800 --> 00:14:10,000 the sake of this is the right translation for scarcely or 208 00:14:10,000 --> 00:14:13,400 hardly for a righteous man will one die. 209 00:14:13,600 --> 00:14:16,840 Yet possibly for a good man right. 210 00:14:17,440 --> 00:14:20,480 Some would even dare to die. Look at look it up in your 211 00:14:20,480 --> 00:14:24,960 version right verse 8. God has here ministered it. 212 00:14:24,960 --> 00:14:28,280 He manifested his love towards us. 213 00:14:28,280 --> 00:14:32,120 There it is love again in that listen to this while we were yet 214 00:14:32,160 --> 00:14:43,400 sinners, Christ died for us. I can hear some music in my Why 215 00:14:43,400 --> 00:14:47,720 will We were yet sinners, Christ died for us. 216 00:14:47,840 --> 00:14:52,120 Why doesn't Saint Paul say, Why will while we were yet good, 217 00:14:53,240 --> 00:14:58,640 Christ will die for us? No, beloved, the shuttle 218 00:14:58,640 --> 00:15:01,800 version, the true and the correct translation. 219 00:15:02,360 --> 00:15:05,760 For a man will hardly die for the sake of the wicked. 220 00:15:06,560 --> 00:15:12,400 However, a man perhaps may dare to die for the sake of good. 221 00:15:12,560 --> 00:15:15,040 For the good. What's the point here? 222 00:15:15,160 --> 00:15:17,840 What what is the message? What's the point St. 223 00:15:17,840 --> 00:15:23,080 Paul's trying to make Christ died for the wicked, not for the 224 00:15:23,080 --> 00:15:25,800 good for the wicked, for the evil. 225 00:15:26,520 --> 00:15:29,200 In any case, let's take heart, beloved. 226 00:15:29,280 --> 00:15:33,320 These are these are uplifting, encouraging and give you know, 227 00:15:33,320 --> 00:15:36,720 they give us courage and strength and the heart and the 228 00:15:36,720 --> 00:15:39,640 zeal. Take heart that if Christ gave 229 00:15:39,640 --> 00:15:45,240 himself up to death, not just whipping and lashing and and you 230 00:15:45,240 --> 00:15:50,960 know, two life terms in prison. No, he gave himself up to death 231 00:15:51,440 --> 00:15:54,680 at the right time, God's perfect time, which was when we were 232 00:15:54,680 --> 00:15:59,760 sinners for those who were unbelievers and enemies of God. 233 00:15:59,840 --> 00:16:02,360 Jesus died for his game gave himself up. 234 00:16:02,440 --> 00:16:06,920 You know that's why the Father say gave himself up, not Jesus 235 00:16:06,920 --> 00:16:09,960 died. Jesus gave himself up to death 236 00:16:10,080 --> 00:16:13,280 because that's what he says I will lay down my life and I will 237 00:16:13,280 --> 00:16:16,680 take it up myself. Death didn't take me. 238 00:16:16,960 --> 00:16:20,840 I gave myself up for that because of the love of God for 239 00:16:20,840 --> 00:16:24,480 us. So if Christ gave himself up to 240 00:16:24,520 --> 00:16:27,400 to death at the right time when we were sinners for those who 241 00:16:27,400 --> 00:16:32,800 were unbelievers and enemies of God, how much more will he 242 00:16:33,200 --> 00:16:38,480 protect, is prepared to forgive, to show grace, to show mercy, to 243 00:16:38,480 --> 00:16:44,680 show compassion to us with his help through him to the Father. 244 00:16:45,040 --> 00:16:51,920 If we who have believed in Him, how much more will we be 245 00:16:51,920 --> 00:16:54,000 reckoned who have reconciled with Him? 246 00:16:54,120 --> 00:16:56,360 We're not enemies of God anymore. 247 00:16:56,760 --> 00:16:58,520 Through Him we reconciled to God. 248 00:16:58,720 --> 00:17:04,079 How much more will God the Father have compassion, mercy 249 00:17:04,480 --> 00:17:11,319 and grace on us through his Son, God the Son, How much more you 250 00:17:11,319 --> 00:17:17,720 know he died for all in order to obtain life for all chapter 6 251 00:17:17,720 --> 00:17:22,960 verse 8 Paul writes and he's going to comment this now. 252 00:17:22,960 --> 00:17:27,520 If we are dead with Christ, let us believe that we shall also 253 00:17:27,599 --> 00:17:32,280 live with Christ. Where where do we live with 254 00:17:32,280 --> 00:17:37,400 Christ when we believe? Show me where it says that 255 00:17:37,920 --> 00:17:42,960 through faith you died and lived with Christ. 256 00:17:42,960 --> 00:17:46,960 I think I gave up the answer that think about it where faith 257 00:17:48,760 --> 00:17:55,200 only faith, No, no faith followed by baptism, the holy 258 00:17:55,200 --> 00:18:00,240 sacrament of baptism, which is not a symbol, it is a sacrament. 259 00:18:00,480 --> 00:18:05,600 There is a an inward divine act inwardly there is a divine work 260 00:18:05,600 --> 00:18:08,680 of God with an outward expression of the water and the 261 00:18:08,680 --> 00:18:13,160 oil and the and the immersion of the the candidate being 262 00:18:13,160 --> 00:18:17,560 baptized. Chapter 6 go up a few verses, 263 00:18:17,960 --> 00:18:22,080 verses 3 and 4. Do you not know that those of us 264 00:18:22,080 --> 00:18:27,600 who have been baptized not who have just believed, only 265 00:18:27,600 --> 00:18:30,280 believed? No, no, no, those who have been 266 00:18:30,280 --> 00:18:36,840 baptized into Jesus Christ have been baptized into his death. 267 00:18:38,280 --> 00:18:40,280 Verse 4. Therefore we are buried. 268 00:18:40,280 --> 00:18:44,760 That means we have died with him because he died by baptism into 269 00:18:44,800 --> 00:18:48,720 death. So that as Jesus Christ rose 270 00:18:48,720 --> 00:18:52,560 from the dead by the glory, now there's a glory here by the 271 00:18:52,560 --> 00:18:56,640 glory of his Father. Even so, we also shall walk in a 272 00:18:56,720 --> 00:19:02,600 new life once we die with Christ and we are born a new born in a 273 00:19:02,600 --> 00:19:06,040 in a new life with Christ. We continue to walk with Christ 274 00:19:06,360 --> 00:19:13,720 right Also he died for us, beloved, in order for us to the 275 00:19:13,720 --> 00:19:18,760 Scripture say to obtain glory, glory glorification. 276 00:19:19,240 --> 00:19:25,280 How how well the the answer to that question will be that how 277 00:19:25,480 --> 00:19:28,000 was Jesus glorified? At what time was Jesus 278 00:19:28,000 --> 00:19:31,880 glorified? When when in in John, in John 279 00:19:32,360 --> 00:19:38,920 chapter 2, 13, I believe when he says the time has come, Father, 280 00:19:39,080 --> 00:19:40,960 glorify your Saint. The time has come. 281 00:19:40,960 --> 00:19:44,040 What time has come? The time has come for him to 282 00:19:44,040 --> 00:19:49,440 suffer the passion, to die, to be buried, to be by the way, to 283 00:19:49,440 --> 00:19:54,120 be mocked, to be scorched, to be beaten, to be battered, to be 284 00:19:54,120 --> 00:19:56,120 spat at. Yes, suffering. 285 00:19:56,120 --> 00:19:59,560 Yeah, there you go suffering. So through his passion, through 286 00:19:59,560 --> 00:20:03,000 his death, his burial, his resurrection and. 287 00:20:03,240 --> 00:20:06,880 In dissension He is now sitting at the right hand of glory. 288 00:20:07,080 --> 00:20:11,680 So if Christ went through this and this for you and I, He 289 00:20:11,680 --> 00:20:14,320 didn't need to go through through this to be glorified His 290 00:20:14,320 --> 00:20:16,360 glory. No one can take from him, no 291 00:20:16,680 --> 00:20:23,840 praise be to His name. So do we as children of God, as 292 00:20:23,840 --> 00:20:29,600 friends of God, no more enemies. We, as the members of the 293 00:20:29,600 --> 00:20:36,760 household of God will and must suffer for our glorification. 294 00:20:37,120 --> 00:20:42,880 And that scripture passage that emphasizes this is Romans 295 00:20:42,880 --> 00:20:48,640 chapter 8 verse 17 again. And if we are children through 296 00:20:48,640 --> 00:20:56,960 baptism, remember Galatians 3/26/27 For we are all children 297 00:20:57,000 --> 00:21:01,680 of God through our faith in Jesus Christ. 298 00:21:01,680 --> 00:21:06,840 For as many of us as were baptized or who were baptized. 299 00:21:07,200 --> 00:21:11,400 So we being children, having faith and being baptized into 300 00:21:11,400 --> 00:21:17,800 Christ's death, we are then heirs, heirs of God and joined 301 00:21:17,840 --> 00:21:23,320 heirs with Jesus Christ so that if we suffer with him, think, 302 00:21:23,320 --> 00:21:29,560 listen, listen, stop, please stop, pull over, stop talking, 303 00:21:30,720 --> 00:21:33,280 stop typing on your on your keyboard. 304 00:21:33,280 --> 00:21:36,520 Even if you're at work, you won't get, you know, docked your 305 00:21:36,520 --> 00:21:39,560 pay won't get docked. Listen to this, listen to this. 306 00:21:39,680 --> 00:21:42,400 There's a reason why I'm saying this and emphasizing this. 307 00:21:43,120 --> 00:21:48,360 If we suffer with him, we shall also be glorified with him. 308 00:21:48,360 --> 00:21:54,360 Suffer So much for the heresy of rapture. 309 00:21:55,080 --> 00:22:00,240 Rapture, Rapture, pretribulation, pretribulation, 310 00:22:00,240 --> 00:22:03,200 rapture. And it's only a 200 year old 311 00:22:03,400 --> 00:22:09,000 blasphemy. 200 year old heresy. You know my post on Facebook? 312 00:22:09,240 --> 00:22:14,320 We are frowning upon a 2000 year old called tradition. 313 00:22:14,760 --> 00:22:18,800 You know, we, we frown upon the traditions of the apostles of 314 00:22:18,800 --> 00:22:23,640 2000 years, traditions of the apostles, we frown upon that. 315 00:22:23,840 --> 00:22:27,360 But a heresy of 200 years we called scripture. 316 00:22:27,480 --> 00:22:30,400 It's a heresy. It's money making. 317 00:22:30,600 --> 00:22:32,360 It's money making. What was that film that was 318 00:22:32,520 --> 00:22:35,640 produced left behind or something? 319 00:22:35,680 --> 00:22:38,760 Money making. It's only hitting your pockets. 320 00:22:38,760 --> 00:22:42,320 Wake up, wake up, wake up to this. 321 00:22:44,120 --> 00:22:48,960 What's this pre tribulation? Because those who are holy and 322 00:22:48,960 --> 00:22:50,880 pleasing to the Lord will not suffer. 323 00:22:50,960 --> 00:22:55,120 So the plane will be flying and the three, the the, the, the 324 00:22:55,120 --> 00:22:59,760 captain and the copilot, the pilot, the copilot and the one 325 00:22:59,760 --> 00:23:00,960 sitting behind. I don't know what he does. 326 00:23:01,120 --> 00:23:04,520 He looks at the screen. If they're all holy, they will 327 00:23:04,520 --> 00:23:06,840 be raptured. They will be taken up all of a 328 00:23:06,840 --> 00:23:09,680 sudden at the click of a finger. And then all those you'll be 329 00:23:09,680 --> 00:23:12,600 sitting around and half the half the plane will be empty. 330 00:23:12,760 --> 00:23:14,560 And then what's going to happen to the plane? 331 00:23:15,440 --> 00:23:18,760 Unless there's another pilot there who's not so holy and can 332 00:23:18,880 --> 00:23:20,840 land it safely. The pains are going to come 333 00:23:20,840 --> 00:23:23,240 down. You're in Uber and your Uber 334 00:23:23,240 --> 00:23:25,760 driver is holy and all of a sudden he's just disappears. 335 00:23:26,200 --> 00:23:31,000 You're going to crash, right? Heresy, Ridiculous, ridiculous 336 00:23:31,320 --> 00:23:36,080 pre tribulation because God doesn't, will not allow us to 337 00:23:36,080 --> 00:23:39,480 see this tribulation. You're telling me all those who 338 00:23:39,480 --> 00:23:43,600 would be headed who have been burning right now as we speak in 339 00:23:43,600 --> 00:23:47,960 South Africa, South Africa where they are burning and they are 340 00:23:47,960 --> 00:23:52,520 calling out for the torture of Christians burning them alive. 341 00:23:52,560 --> 00:23:56,600 That's not tribulation. You don't call that tribulation. 342 00:23:57,280 --> 00:24:00,960 You don't call that suffering. The the six, I think it was 343 00:24:00,960 --> 00:24:06,280 brothers in Christ in Egypt, in, in, in Syria, the Coptic from 344 00:24:06,280 --> 00:24:08,680 the Coptic Church. They would be headed at the 345 00:24:08,800 --> 00:24:12,480 beachside at the seashore. That's not tribulation. 346 00:24:14,040 --> 00:24:17,360 What else is? Yeah, I'm fired up because of 347 00:24:17,360 --> 00:24:20,880 this ridiculous heresy of rapture. 348 00:24:22,440 --> 00:24:25,280 Why would God? Well then Saint Paul is 349 00:24:25,320 --> 00:24:28,360 contradicting what God will will do for us. 350 00:24:28,520 --> 00:24:31,120 Listen to this. I'm going to read it again if we 351 00:24:31,120 --> 00:24:37,840 suffer with him. You want glory, oh praiser of 352 00:24:38,040 --> 00:24:43,120 Jesus. Oh, you, you deceiver of those 353 00:24:43,120 --> 00:24:47,120 who are humble in faith and simply faith, just so you can 354 00:24:47,120 --> 00:24:49,520 hit their pockets and make your millions. 355 00:24:49,960 --> 00:24:55,760 You want glory when he returns. Well, for now you need to give 356 00:24:55,760 --> 00:25:01,280 suffering because Christ suffered and we too must suffer. 357 00:25:02,480 --> 00:25:04,440 Yeah, I got a little bit, a little bit. 358 00:25:07,280 --> 00:25:11,120 What do I call it? G Ed upright versus 9 and 10 359 00:25:11,120 --> 00:25:12,880 because it's ridiculous. And there are people that 360 00:25:12,880 --> 00:25:15,920 believe in and they'll and this. I haven't even scratched the 361 00:25:15,920 --> 00:25:21,720 surface in the what is it refuting? 362 00:25:24,080 --> 00:25:27,600 Rapture. And the Bible is not just one 363 00:25:27,600 --> 00:25:31,240 Thessalonians chapter 4, by the way, read the whole Bible. 364 00:25:31,480 --> 00:25:37,000 In any case, verses 9 and 10 and 11, Where are we? 365 00:25:37,000 --> 00:25:40,800 Here we go much more than being justified by His blood. 366 00:25:40,800 --> 00:25:45,720 We shall be delivered from wrath through Him, For if when we were 367 00:25:45,760 --> 00:25:50,320 enemies we were reconciled to Him by the death of his Son, 368 00:25:50,440 --> 00:25:54,680 much more being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life. 369 00:25:54,960 --> 00:26:00,200 And not only so, but we also glory in God through our Lord 370 00:26:00,200 --> 00:26:03,960 Jesus Christ. God is through our Lord Jesus 371 00:26:03,960 --> 00:26:06,400 Christ. If you believe in a God without 372 00:26:06,400 --> 00:26:10,040 Jesus Christ, it's a false God, is a Pagan God, it's a deceiving 373 00:26:10,040 --> 00:26:14,080 God, right? So and we, and not only so, but 374 00:26:14,080 --> 00:26:18,440 we also glory in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we 375 00:26:18,440 --> 00:26:22,160 have now received the reconciliation only through 376 00:26:22,160 --> 00:26:23,760 Jesus Christ. If you don't know God through 377 00:26:23,760 --> 00:26:25,880 Jesus Christ, you haven't believed in Jesus Christ, you're 378 00:26:25,880 --> 00:26:29,000 not a reconciled God. You're still an enemy of God. 379 00:26:29,400 --> 00:26:34,720 Call me, message me, prank me, shoot me whatever message you 380 00:26:34,720 --> 00:26:37,080 want and and we can discuss further. 381 00:26:37,560 --> 00:26:40,480 We can discuss further and so that you can come out of this 382 00:26:40,480 --> 00:26:43,080 darkness, the pitch darkness by the way. 383 00:26:43,680 --> 00:26:46,360 So we are justified by his blood. 384 00:26:46,600 --> 00:26:50,480 How are we justified in Jesus Christ in what Jesus Christ in 385 00:26:50,480 --> 00:26:55,320 what in when he still the ocean when he resurrected Lazarus and 386 00:26:55,320 --> 00:26:59,160 when he resurrected Darius's Darius's daughter. 387 00:26:59,160 --> 00:27:02,880 No, no, we believe that justification is through his 388 00:27:02,880 --> 00:27:05,920 blood when his blood was shed on the cross. 389 00:27:06,200 --> 00:27:10,360 If Christ accomplish the greater work, let's say lack of a better 390 00:27:10,360 --> 00:27:14,560 term that is justifying sinners through his blood while they 391 00:27:14,560 --> 00:27:18,040 were still enemies of God, while enemies of God is what Paul is 392 00:27:18,040 --> 00:27:21,840 saying, then it is certain, it is assured, beloved, that he 393 00:27:21,840 --> 00:27:26,560 will accomplish something that is, let's say less work, lack of 394 00:27:26,560 --> 00:27:32,480 a better term, less work of, you know, persevering and and and a 395 00:27:32,480 --> 00:27:37,120 suffering for and saving those who have already been justified. 396 00:27:37,760 --> 00:27:42,040 That means saving them from their sins when asking for 397 00:27:42,040 --> 00:27:44,800 forgiveness. The Lord will forgive when the 398 00:27:44,800 --> 00:27:46,440 forgiveness, when the repentance. 399 00:27:46,440 --> 00:27:49,960 We need to come to Christ with a repentant heart to receive 400 00:27:49,960 --> 00:27:53,720 forgiveness. Beloved, listen to this again. 401 00:27:54,480 --> 00:27:58,720 I say this because I hear I go into arguments about this, not 402 00:27:58,720 --> 00:28:02,520 discussions discussions, not loving arguments. 403 00:28:03,680 --> 00:28:05,960 Those who came to Jesus that was sinners. 404 00:28:06,080 --> 00:28:08,680 They came with a repented and a remorse heart. 405 00:28:08,960 --> 00:28:13,480 They didn't come to Jesus to, you know, knowing and and 406 00:28:13,480 --> 00:28:16,920 wilfully wanting to continue their evil life, their 407 00:28:16,920 --> 00:28:18,960 lifestyle. They didn't just come to Jesus 408 00:28:18,960 --> 00:28:20,720 through that and receive forgiveness. 409 00:28:20,720 --> 00:28:23,560 No Christ read the heart, read the mind that there was there 410 00:28:23,560 --> 00:28:25,880 was remorse. There was a heart ready to 411 00:28:25,880 --> 00:28:30,840 repent. So when we come to Christ to 412 00:28:30,840 --> 00:28:36,640 deliver us from condemnation of death, to deliver us from the 413 00:28:36,640 --> 00:28:42,720 condemnation of sin, to deliver us from the repercussion of sin 414 00:28:42,720 --> 00:28:47,720 as well, when we sin, we are again separated from God just 415 00:28:47,720 --> 00:28:51,360 right, just like our race was. So again, when we are sin, we 416 00:28:51,360 --> 00:28:54,840 are again separated from Christ. But we don't need to offer any 417 00:28:54,840 --> 00:28:58,560 sacrifices. We don't need to go and pay, you 418 00:28:58,560 --> 00:29:02,040 know, indulgences. We don't need to do anything, 419 00:29:02,040 --> 00:29:05,280 beloved, Christ has done it. Yes, Christ has done this, but 420 00:29:05,280 --> 00:29:09,200 what we need to do, you know, I said we don't need to do. 421 00:29:09,320 --> 00:29:12,480 I could feel people's like, oh, see, so there is nothing we need 422 00:29:12,480 --> 00:29:14,480 to do. No, no, no, we don't need to do 423 00:29:14,480 --> 00:29:18,560 as anything pre what was done pre Jesus Christ. 424 00:29:18,680 --> 00:29:26,360 What we need to do, see what we need to do is believe that that 425 00:29:26,360 --> 00:29:30,560 blood of Jesus Christ that was shed on the Christ had the power 426 00:29:30,760 --> 00:29:35,360 to save and has the power to forgive, has the power to 427 00:29:35,360 --> 00:29:40,120 reconcile, has the power one more time to reinstate us with 428 00:29:40,120 --> 00:29:45,080 God and reconcile us with God and be confident that it has the 429 00:29:45,080 --> 00:29:48,720 power to deliver us from the coming judgement. 430 00:29:48,760 --> 00:29:53,520 Jesus said he who eats my body, drinks my blood, remains in me 431 00:29:53,520 --> 00:29:59,280 and I remain in him and he shall not come into judgement but be 432 00:29:59,280 --> 00:30:02,920 delivered. He shall be raised and not come 433 00:30:02,920 --> 00:30:06,760 into judgement. If we continue in a life of 434 00:30:06,760 --> 00:30:12,240 repentance, alive in partaking in the holy sacraments, most 435 00:30:12,240 --> 00:30:17,480 importantly, the body and blood of Jesus Christ, that cup that 436 00:30:17,480 --> 00:30:22,080 we break, that cup that we we, we offer and we bless every 437 00:30:22,080 --> 00:30:27,240 Sunday and we give Thanksgiving is in association. 438 00:30:27,480 --> 00:30:31,760 It is in participation. It is in communion with the 439 00:30:31,760 --> 00:30:36,040 blood of Jesus Christ on the cross, which had the power to 440 00:30:36,040 --> 00:30:42,160 wipe the punishment of sin and has the power to forgive sins as 441 00:30:42,160 --> 00:30:45,760 well. Beloved, and also Paul through 442 00:30:45,760 --> 00:30:50,840 this shows that neither our faith without Christ's blood nor 443 00:30:50,840 --> 00:30:55,520 Christ's blood without our faith can justify that Christ's blood 444 00:30:55,520 --> 00:31:00,040 is shedding on the cross. How do we receive justification? 445 00:31:00,080 --> 00:31:02,480 It's not just going to force justification. 446 00:31:02,600 --> 00:31:06,840 Enforce justification on us. Not a We need to believe and our 447 00:31:06,840 --> 00:31:11,280 faith without the blood of Jesus Christ will not gain 448 00:31:11,280 --> 00:31:15,120 sanctification. Yet of these two, beloved, 449 00:31:15,400 --> 00:31:19,280 Christ's blood justifies us much more than even our faith. 450 00:31:19,600 --> 00:31:22,360 You know, when you believe, it's not the power of your faith, 451 00:31:22,360 --> 00:31:25,640 it's the power of the blood of Christ that is justifying us and 452 00:31:25,640 --> 00:31:28,680 forgiving us. That is why he says that we are 453 00:31:28,680 --> 00:31:33,320 justified by faith and that we are justified by his blood much 454 00:31:33,320 --> 00:31:35,520 more than the faith in Colossians. 455 00:31:35,640 --> 00:31:40,160 To close off chapter 1, verses 19 to 20, For it was the 456 00:31:40,160 --> 00:31:44,640 Father's good pleasure for all the listen to this, Oh, 457 00:31:45,880 --> 00:31:50,080 Jehovah's Witness friends, Jehovah's Witnesses, Mormons, 458 00:31:50,360 --> 00:31:54,960 the the Islamic friends that we have out there for listen to 459 00:31:54,960 --> 00:32:00,440 this for it was the Father's good pleasure for all the 460 00:32:00,440 --> 00:32:04,440 fullness all, all the fullness that means he'll fullness to 461 00:32:04,440 --> 00:32:07,160 dwell in him. That's God, praise and glory be 462 00:32:07,160 --> 00:32:11,480 to His name and through Him, to reconcile all things to Himself, 463 00:32:11,720 --> 00:32:15,240 whether things on earth or things in heaven, having made 464 00:32:15,480 --> 00:32:22,000 peace through the blood of His Christ, His cross, whose cross, 465 00:32:22,440 --> 00:32:26,080 the cross of our Lord and our Savior Jesus Christ, praise and 466 00:32:26,080 --> 00:32:28,240 glory be to His name now and at all times and forever. 467 00:32:28,240 --> 00:32:58,690 Amen. We hope you enjoyed this week's 468 00:32:58,690 --> 00:33:01,010 message. 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