words baptist church grab their hymnals and turn in their song books to 162 to god be the glory
162 to god be the glory 162 singing let's open up the service with the word father we thank you so
much we pray that you please bless every aspect of this service you help us all to pay close
attention to your word preach this evening and help us to sing out and worship you in our hearts
Lord Jesus name we pray amen all right for our next song go to 379 bringing in the sheaves 379
ringing in the sheaves 379 ringing in the sheet so enjoy sing bringing in the sheet come rejoicing
bringing in the sheaves sewing in the sunshine sewing in the sheath shall come rejoicing bringing in the sheet rejoicing bringing in the sheath going shall come rejoicing bringing in the sheaves bringing in bringing in song there you will open up your estimates at this time won't go and raise your hand and brother james will bring you one we have there on the front our verse of the week psalms 47 2 for the lord most
high is terrible he is a great king over all the earth there's a verse that a lot of churches
won't touch with the 10-foot pole right there you know god is good god is love but he also is
terrible meaning he's terrified he's able to inflict terror so that's a great verse right there
we have our service times on the left sunday morning 10 30 a.m sunday evening 5 30 p.m and
of course tonight you're here for the thursday evening bible study this evening we'll be going
through roman's chapter number five also we have our church-wide soul winning times there and i
believe just recently the saturday time was changed to two o'clock so make note of that if
you're a saturday soul winner and then if you have any questions about those soul winning times of
course you can get in touch with the prospective leaders on that uh we also have below that uh
pure words baptist church stats has anyone had any salvations to report since sunday for pure
words baptist church okay all right hey sometimes you're soul winning sometimes you're soul warning
so that's our duty is to warn people and preach them the gospel it's up to them to believe it of
course we have make sure you're continuing in prayer for rent are now expecting in june so that's
coming up pretty quick congratulations on that we have our upcoming guest preaching schedule may 1st
brother david keifer may 15th brother ben the baptist from port worth you all know him july 7th
very special guest pastor steven anderson that's going to be awesome i hope you guys pack out the
house for this break the attendance make sure you guys have lots of ice cream on hand because
that's going to be a that's going to be a big day it's going to be awesome upcoming event may 7th
there's a mother's day tea from five to six thirty at four friends tea room in i believe it's perland
i don't know if it's pearland or perlin pearland sounds more texas so i guess we'll go with that
pearland there is a sign-up sheet i believe as well on the back over there if you want to
sign up or you can get in contact with pastor shelly's wife mr shelly also may 21st there is
a soul winning marathon in austin texas that's kind of like a little bit in between foreworth and
here so i'm sure there's gonna be lots of soul winners from both churches showing up to that
recently we just uh me and brother james and some other people from said fast attended a
soul winning marathon in detroit and that was fantastic if you ever have the itch to go up
north for some reason you want to go to a soul winning marathon that place was awesome we had
80 salvations i think day one we had 42 soul winners 52 soul winners okay yeah 52 salvations
40 soul winners and then the next day i think we had close to 50 on sunday but in a total of 80
salvations just in a couple of days it was incredible soul winning it was a really great
time so thank you for all those that were praying for us and you know we weren't in danger of being
shot or stabbed or anything like the youtube videos i want to make it seem like it was every
single person was so nice i didn't run into one single rude person in like the worst ghetto
possible in detroit so that was a really great time our prayer request there we have uh set a
fast baptist church of course pastor shelley and our congregation uh the things would work out for
a new building for us goodwin family pray for their continued healing and comfort also their
daughter brother edwards health missus liberty's daughter-in-law's mother katherine has breast
cancer be praying for her so joel has an unspoken and we're asking prayer requests for faith word
baptist church just for blessings for them so at this time we'll have a word of prayer and then
we'll go to our next song go ahead and praise the church lord thank you so much for the opportunity
to be gathered together as a church family here pray that you just incline your ear to our requests
i pray that you bless steadfast baptist church and pastor shelly and that you'd help with all the
things that we need from you in order to secure building i pray that it would go well if it be
according to your will get a building very quickly and be able to be secure in that building lord
pray for the goodwin family that you just continue to put your hand upon their lives help them to
help them to grieve but help them to eventually find comfort pray that there's any needs that
they have that you just make that obvious to us lord church pray for brother edward's health
also for miss katherine that should be healed for breast cancer lord help with the treatment
pray for brother joel and his unspoken you know the lord you know the need lord i pray that you
would just interview intervene according to your will lord and also we pray for faithward baptist
church which we bless pastor anderson and all the staff and all the people there to help them just
to continue to be a great example and a bright and shining light in the phoenix area pray to keep
them safe and we love you so much lord Jesus and we pray amen all right so for our third song we'll
go to 131 christ is all i need song 131 christ is all i need 131 christ is all i need therefore
being justified by faith with god through our lord jesus by whom also we have access by faith
into this grace wherein we stand and rejoice in hope of glory of god and not only so but we glory in
tribulations also knowing that tribulation work with patience and patience experience and experience
hope and hope make us not ashamed because the love of god is shed abroad in our hearts by the
holy ghost given unto us for when we were yet without strength in due time christ died for the
ungodly for scarcely for a righteous man will one die yet fair adventure for a good man some would
even dare to die but god commended his love for us in that while we were yet sinners christ died
for us much more than being now justified by his blood we shall be saved from wrath through him
for if when we were enemies we were reconciled to god by the death of his son much more being
reconciled we shall be saved by his life and not only so but we also joy in god through our lord
jesus christ by whom we have now received the atonement wherefore as by one man sin entered
in the world and death by sin and so death passed on all men for that all have sinned for until the
law sin was in the world but sin is not computed when there is no law nevertheless death reigns
from adam to moses even more than that had not sinned after this multitude of adam's transgression
who is the figure of him that was to come but not as the fence offense so also is the free gift
for it through the offense of one many be dead much more the grace of god and the gift by grace
which is by one man jesus christ hath abounded unto many and not as it was by one that sinned so is
the gift for the judgment was by one to condemnation but the free gift is of many offenses into
justification for if by one man's offense death reigned by one much more they which receive
abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in the life by one jesus christ
therefore by as the offense of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation even so by the
righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life for as by one man's
disobedience many were made sinners so by the obedience of one shall many be righteous moreover
the law entered that the fence might be abound but where in sin abound grace did much more abound
that as in the sin that as sin hath reigned unto death even so might grace reign through the
righteousness unto eternal life by jesus christ our lord let's have a quick word of prayer
amen well great to see everyone thank you all so much for coming and of course as always i'd like
to first thank pastor jelly for the opportunity to preach i really do appreciate it and of course
we are here in roman's chapter five i'd like this evening to do a bible study on this chapter
and this is a really great chapter roman's is probably my favorite book the whole bible it just
hammers so many great doctrines just about any new testament doctrine you can pretty much find
hammered really hard in the book of romans and so we're going to take a look at this chapter this
evening we'll start reading in verse number one it says this therefore and of course paul he's
been building the context and in roman's chapter four we talked a lot about salvation talked a
lot about being justified by faith and not by works he says therefore being justified by faith
we have peace with god through our lord jesus christ now notice in the book of roman's paul is
not afraid to continue hammering the same doctrines over and over and over we're only
into the fifth chapter of the book of roman's yet how many times has paul told us that salvation is
by faith you know that tells me we should never get tired about hearing about how salvation is by
faith look of course we don't believe in this type of church model where every single service
is geared toward getting the audience saved and we're gonna have an altar call and have people
come to the front and accept you know salvation by some worker that's not what i'm talking about
but look we should be constantly hammering the fundamentals of the bible regardless of the
doctrine and one of those is salvation by faith you should never get tired of hearing sermons
about salvation by faith and if you ever get the opportunity to preach you should always be
mindful that this is a doctrine that has to be reinforced over and over and over and we saw that
even the churches that the apostle paul started the apostle paul was saved he was preaching the
right doctrine but even some of the churches that he started started getting dragged away by this
false gospel by this perverting of the gospel and so if the churches that paul started could get
mixed up with this are we so prideful to say that oh pure words could never get mixed up with false
doctrine steadfast could never all of our friends churches no they could never get mixed up with
false doctrine no that's not true we can we're human beings and people if these things are not
reinforced all the time they can fall back into false doctrine i mean heresy is a work of the
flesh the bible says so we have to constantly be reinforcing the truth with the sword of the spirit
the word of god now notice he says therefore being justified by faith he's like let me just
remind you of this doctrine again and he says this we have peace with god through our lord
jesus christ you know preachers like to talk a lot about what changes when you get saved and you guys
you got guys like paul washer that preach well oh you got all these people in church and they think
they're going to heaven because they're trusting that one time they asked jesus to save them but
they live like devils right and he's insinuating that there has to be some sort of change and a
lot of preachers will outright say hey there's definitely going to be a change in your life
outwardly physically or you didn't get saved but let me tell you what changed when you got saved
is before you had no peace with god and now after he says therefore being justified by faith we have
peace with god through our lord jesus christ one thing that changed after you and i got saved
is we finally have peace that's what changed because you and i know there is thousands and
thousands of people i mean even you're just your personal testimony going out soul winning how
many people out there are worried that they're going to go to hell they're worried about it they
have no peace i have several friends that i know that told me their testimony before they got saved
is every single night before they went to bed they would pray that they would not go to hell
because they were so scared and guess what when you're not saved when you don't realize that
salvation is by faith alone trusting in christ and that once you're saved you're always saved
you have no peace there is no peace in a works-based salvation and so one of the
greatest blessings that we have as a christian is this word peace go to john chapter number three
john chapter number three it's something that you and i may take for granted especially if you've
been saved for a long time you may take for granted the fact that you your soul has peace
and we may forget that the rest of this world they don't have that when they go to bed there's
thousands of people tonight that will pray that they don't go to hell when they don't realize
that all they have to do is just stop trusting in themselves stop trusting in the catholic church
stop trusting in all the wonderful works that they do put all their faith on christ and they
don't have to worry anymore they can have peace the bible says that salvation is rest they can
relax and have peace john chapter 3 look at verse 36 he that believeth on the sun hath everlasting
life and he that believeth not the sun shall not see right life but the wrath of god abideth on
him see the unsaved they have no peace every single day whether they realize it or not
the wrath of god is abiding on every single unsafe person and whether unsafe people realize it or
not if they got into a car accident not believing on christ they would wake up in hell and they'd be
permanently experiencing the wrath of god for all of eternity and them being unsaved they're in such
a dangerous position and they have no peace and they should have no peace because god's wrath is
abiding on them and at any moment they could wake up and lift up their eyes in hell go to first
thessalonians chapter number five first thessalonians chapter number five look at uh
first thessalonians five verse nine it says this for god hath not appointed us to wrath but to
obtain salvation by our lord jesus christ now we know of course after the tribulation god's saints
will be raptured up and that's before god's wrath god has not appointed us to the wrath that he's
going to be pouring out on this world after the saved are taken up in the rapture but if you think
about the spiritually with salvation once we're saved hey we're not appointed to wrath we're not
going to experience the wrath of hell we're not going to experience the wrath of the lake of fire
we get to obtain salvation by our lord jesus christ but you know what that that truth should
cause you to also realize hey not everyone else out there has peace the rest of this world they
are appointed to wrath they don't have the peace of god and that should motivate you to want to
love them and care about them enough to share the gospel with them to look them in the eye and ask
them if you were to die today are you 100 sure you're going to heaven because whether they realize
it or not god's wrath is abiding on them until they decide to trust in christ and we have such
a great privilege as a christian and such a great blessing as a christian that we have this simple
thing called peace that no matter what we do you could be the lot christian and you still will
go to heaven that is a blessing that we should never forget and never take for granted go back
to romans chapter 5 and please keep your place there throughout the whole sermon acts chapter
number five look at verse number two this is by whom talking of jesus christ also we have access
by faith into this grace wherein we stand and rejoice in hope of the glory of god you know
like i said preachers like to talk about what changes when you get saved well number one
you know peace changes you get peace when you get saved here's another thing that changes
is access access to what grace the unsaved do not have any access to grace until they believe in
jesus christ because look what this says this is by whom also we have access by faith into this
grace wherein we stand and rejoice in hope of the glory of god so notice what is the determining
factor on whether or not we get access to grace it's faith that's the determining factor now
calvinists want to tell you that it's god just randomly choosing god just randomly chooses who's
going to have grace and who's going to have damnation but wait the bible says right here by whom
also we have access by faith into this grace go to ephesians chapter number two ephesians chapter
number two and of course these are all verses that you should be very familiar with but hey
go back to the first point of the sermon it's it's good to hear the same things it's good to hear
the good old fundamental doctrines reinforced because that's what paul's doing in the word of
god right here these in chapter 2 look at verse 8 for by grace are you saved how do we get that
grace again oh yeah through faith and that not of yourselves it is the gift of god what is that
gift grace that's the gift not of works lest any man should boast so that's what changes after you
get saved you get peace and you get access and realize that if you are a saved born-again believer
sitting in this room tonight you are a privileged person because you have access to the grace of
God and not everyone has that access if you do not believe in Jesus Christ you know how much
grace you're going to get from God zero zero there is no grace on judgment day you are judged
according to your works so you could either believe on Jesus Christ and have his imputed
righteousness accounted to your soul to your heart or you can be judged by your own works
and guess what you're going to fail and God's not going to show any grace to the unsaved when he
casts them into hell again what does this make me think of it makes me think of how much we need to
preach the gospel because the unsaved doesn't have peace they don't have peace and they don't have
access to the grace of God we have to show them hey you can have access but it's by believing in
Jesus Christ it's by putting your faith in him go back to Romans chapter number five Romans chapter
number five so so far he's he's glorying about how we have peace and we have access to grace
and he's saying because of this I'm rejoicing in the hope of the glory of God and amen if you're
saved that should make you rejoice this evening we ought never forget what a joyous thing it is
to be saved what just lucky privileged people we are to be saved from hell it's an amazing thing
but look at verse three he says this and not only so but we glory in tribulations also knowing that
tribulation worketh patience so he's saying not only am I going to glory and rejoice in these good
things having peace having access to the grace of God he's like I actually as a Christian and we
actually as Christians we get to take it a step further because we also get to glory in tribulations
in hardships in afflictions in persecution and that's kind of a not a very intuitive thing to
believe it doesn't really if you didn't have the word of God telling you that you would be thinking
why would I be rejoicing at tribulation why would I be rejoicing at hardships and affliction I mean
the world does not rejoice about that kind of stuff when something bad happens in someone's life
what's the natural reaction to be sad to be moping along to feel bad for yourself but Paul here he
says that he glories in his tribulation now if you know the story of the apostle Paul he was no
stranger to tribulation I mean this guy was beaten with rods he was stoned he was shipwrecked he was
lied about he had false you know trials against him he was on the run he had a lot of crazy stuff
happened to him but he says he gets to glory in this and why is it that Paul glories in this he
says because tribulation worketh patience now go to James chapter number one keep your place there
and go to James chapter number one you got the book of hebrews and you got james james chapter
number one start reading in verse one it says james a servant of god and of the lord jesus christ
to the 12 tribes which are scattered abroad greeting my brethren count it all joy when
you fall into diverse temptations so notice he's got the same attitude that the apostle paul has
so far right just counted all joy knowing this that the trying of your faith worketh patients
that sounds familiar right he says but let patients have her perfect work that you may be
perfect and entire wanting nothing notice why is it that we rejoice when we go through hardships
afflictions tribulations because it's going to bring us patience and what does that patience do
it says that it makes us perfect and entire wanting nothing this verse defines really well what the
word perfect means in your king james bible it doesn't mean sinless it means complete not lacking
anything well-rounded and so the bible's saying here that when you go through something really
hard and you develop patience that helps you become a more well-rounded complete and perfect
christian and sometimes god will allow us to go through things really hard to show us that we
have a weak point in our life that we didn't even know that we had and when we go through that hard
thing when we have patience and we come out the other side we're actually better people because
we've gone through that tribulation because we went through that hardship so as a christian
it's a great blessing that even when bad stuff happens to us it's an opportunity for good to
come of it the world is not necessarily like that not everything that happens to the unsaved is just
good on good on good but it is that way with god's people but what do a lot of people do even
christians what do they do when hardship comes they complain they murmur they blame god they
blame other people rather than realizing that god is allowing you to have this tribulation to have
this affliction so that you can become a more perfect and complete person i'll give you a great
example about this how about everything that steadfast baptist church has gone through last
year being protested for 10 months straight going through a really horrible lawsuit taking up a ton
of time and energy and money getting evicted from our church that we poured tons of money tons of
man hours into into that building having to meet in all these temporary spaces for months on end
looking for a building taking away time from the ministry wouldn't it be really easy for everyone
to steadfast just to complain and murmur and just throw up their hands and want to quit but what if
God is having us do that so we can become more of a complete church because look at the next verse
in chapter number five it says if any of you lack wisdom let him ask of God that giveth to all men
liberally and abradeth not and it shall be given him what is that in context of well it's in context
of diverse temptations and maybe sometimes God allows us to go through different temptations
struggles hardships in our life so that we can get wisdom to show us that we were lacking
knowledge in an area we were lacking wisdom in an area that we didn't even know and we never
would have known unless we went through that hardship i feel like steadfast baptist church
now has a lot more wisdom and experience having gone through this so that way in the future if
another church goes through this we can help them some days i feel like me and pastor shelly were
like playing detective and like gathering evidence for a lawsuit all day and then i
feel like another day we were paralegals like coming up with documents for our lawyers and
then other days were construction workers on a building and other days like it's just sometimes
crazy how many different hats we had to throw on during all of this you know security guards
during protests right but here's the thing that was able to give our entire church more wisdom
because we went through those tribulations and so the right attitude to have as a christian when
you go through something hard is not to murmur or complain because when you murmur and complain
you're at risk of losing the blessing that god actually had in store for you for that
tribulation and you can think of it in multiple ways in child rearing you know that's a tribulation
right there that's something that's very very hard but look god can actually make you a better
person by you having patience in that trial and you'll learn more things about yourself by having
kids or any hardship in life it helps you have patience and that makes you a more complete
person let's see where are we here i'll read for you in psalm 119 verse 71 it says this it is good
for me that i have been afflicted that i might learn thy statues now let's just be honest that's
not always the attitude that you and i have when we go through affliction is to say oh it's good
for me that i'm getting afflicted is that how most people think is that how you and i probably
usually think no absolutely not but we need to realize that that is how we should think and
every single time you go through any hardship whatsoever you need to look at it as an opportunity
to grow as a person that there's something god wants to teach you that there's some skill that
god wants you to have that there's some lesson that god wants you to learn to make you more
perfect and whole and entire as a christian to help you and to help other people so that when
they're going through that same situation you can impart that wisdom to them you know people who
grew up having financial problems you know i'm i'm really glad that my parents never gave me
a cent when i left out of the house now of course they've blessed me my mom's like bought me gifts
and stuff like that but when i started my family when i got married to my wife there was no here's
your monthly handout of cash right it was i'm providing for my family and it was hard it was
definitely hard the first couple years when i've got a wife and a daughter and i'm making fifteen
dollars and 50 cents an hour at a rebar fabrication shop in washington that's really hard but guess what
it taught me some really important lessons it taught me that budgeting is essential that i need
to watch my spending and if i don't budget the money is just going to disappear right and i'm
sure that you've been through very similar things when you go through hardships and finances it
makes you better makes you more wise when you go through hardship in your health you know some
people treat their bodies like trash and they seem to never pay the price for it but they will
eventually but some people who have had health issues it's like they learn how to take care of
their bodies they learn proper nutrition they learn how to exercise properly all of these
problems that we go through in life it's there to make us better and paul said that he glories at
tribulation and of course the main application of actual tribulation of actual persecution even
that also is something we should rejoice in i'll read for you matthew 512 you can turn to psalm
34 psalm 34 i'll read for you matthew 512 jesus said rejoice and be exceeding glad for great is
your reward in heaven for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you when we are
persecuted when we're despitefully used when we're hated by the world we're supposed to rejoice
and he added something and be exceeding glad for great is your reward in heaven it's nothing but
good for us when we have afflictions it's nothing but good it's going to give you wisdom on this
earth it's going to help you be a more complete person on this earth and jesus said great is your
reward in heaven but let me tell you when you're not going to have that reward in heaven when you
complain the whole time when you're going through it and you're just murmuring and complaining no
that's when you lose the reward of the promised land and god says okay you're not going to the
promised land because you guys are a bunch of complainers right no rather we want to make sure
we have the right attitude when these things come our way in life psalm 34 look at verse 19 it says
many are the afflictions of the righteous but the lord delivereth him out of them all and it's just
we need to remember that if you are a righteous person if this is a righteous church we are going
to all go through pain and affliction and persecution it's not like what Joel Osteen says
it's not just oh if you're a good christian you're going to have perfect health you're going to have
tons of wealth everything's going to go good for you it's like that's not the bible that's fake
american christianity that's not real christianity that's not what the bible says no rather it's
affliction tribulation persecution that's actually what the bible promises you if you're living a
godly life go back to roman's chapter number five roman's chapter number five look at verse
three again it says not only so but we go in tribulations also knowing that tribulation work
at patience and patience experience and experience hope so when you go through those hard times when
you've had the patience now you get the reward of that which is something called experience and that
experience gives you hope meaning that if you've gone through something really hard before you
could have the earnest expectation that you're able to go through something hard again and that
experience and hope can inspire other people to also go through something hard and realize
they can come out on the other side too hey you know you too can get evicted and still be a
thriving church all right i'm sure that's what churches really want to hear today right but it
is true it is true trust in the lord with all thine heart and lean not unto thine own understanding
in all thy ways acknowledge him and he shall direct thy paths bible says if we trust in the
lord he's going to direct our paths and so it's not always walking by sight it's walking by faith
that's what pleases god and that is what gets us rewards romans or i'm sorry uh go to john chapter
number 15 john chapter 15 affliction is actually so good for us in fact that sometimes even god
himself will give it to us like god will literally be the one giving us the affliction sometimes
it's the world sometimes it's the devil right persecuting us but sometimes it's literally
god giving us the affliction okay john chapter 15 look at verse number one it says i am the true
vine and my father is the husbandman every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away and
every branch that beareth fruit notice this he purgeth it that it may bring forth more fruit
that doesn't sound fun being purged the bible says whom the lord loveth he chasteneth and scourgeth
every son whom he receive it sometimes the affliction that you're receiving in your life
is straight from god almighty that's pretty crazy to think about but what is he why does he do that
well why do we spank our kids on this earth because we love them because we want them to
become more perfect and whole and entire and to get that wisdom that they're lacking right
the rod and reproof brings wisdom the bible says well it's the same thing for you and i
sometimes god has to bring us the rod to give us some wisdom to show us something that we're lacking
in our life and sometimes he purges us but guess what it makes us better it makes us better and so
we shouldn't get weary of god's correction we shouldn't get tired of being corrected by god
rather we should have a positive attitude and thankful that any tribulation any persecution
any hardship we have in our life we should look at it as an opportunity to grow because that's
the only way that you get better go back to romans roman's chapter number five says this in verse
five and hope maketh not a shame because the love of god is shed abroad in our hearts by the holy
ghost which is given unto us so i just want to make note of this word ashamed because the word
ashamed in your king james bible doesn't always mean embarrassed that's what a lot of people read
that word and think that automatically means embarrassed but sometimes the word ashamed is
talking about being forsaken and so in this context when it says in hope maketh not a shame
because we have that earnest expectation and it's not like a well i kind of hope it'll happen
hope sometimes is i am having an expectation that this will happen the hope of salvation right
we're not just kind of wondering if we're going to heaven no we know we're going to heaven
it's our hope it's our earnest expectation and because of that that hope it makes not ashamed
meaning we're not going to be forsaken and i'll prove that to you i'll read for you psalms 25
says this unto thee oh lord do i lift up my soul oh my god i trust in thee let me not be ashamed
let not my enemies triumph over me he's in conflict with his enemies and he doesn't want
god to forsake him because he wants to win okay he's not saying don't let me be embarrassed he's
saying don't forsake me roman's chapter five let's read verse five again it says and hope
makeeth not ashamed because the love of god is shed abroad in our hearts by the holy ghost
which is given unto us how do we know that we're never going to be forsaken how do we know that
well of course the bible says i will never leave thee nor forsake thee right and the bible says
that the holy ghost has shed abroad the love of god in our hearts you know the holy spirit bears
witness with our spirit that we are the children of god the bible says that the holy spirit is
going to lead us and guide us into all truth so we know that we'll never be forsaken okay this is
why i don't believe that anyone can ever stop believing in christ if you're saved you may have
doubts about your salvation you may have issues where you're just having a little bit of a faith
problem but no one who ever truly believed on jesus christ just wakes up one day and decides
they're going to be a jehovah's witness that person was never saved that person never believed in
jesus christ but if you have believed in jesus christ the bible says that the holy ghost has
shed abroad in your heart the love of god so how much love of god does the holy ghost shed abroad
in our heart a lot i mean it's shedding it abroad right and he's bearing witness of the truth and
the holy spirit's constantly bringing into remembrance the words that jesus christ speak so
i don't believe that it's ever possible for a person to just stop believing because are you
just saying that the holy spirit is weak are you just saying that the holy spirit can't do his job
because the holy spirit promised to bear witness of the truth so that's a that's a situation people
often bring up out soul winning well what if a person stops believing look it's just not
possible it's a question it is absolutely not possible go to aphesians keep your place in
romans 5 and in aphesians we'll go back back and forth between these a few times aphesians chapter
1 i'll read for you romans 10 11 it says this for the scripture saith whosoever believeth on him
shall not be ashamed now if you're going to take the interpretation that ashamed means embarrassed
aren't there people that are saved that get embarrassed of the bible that get embarrassed
of the word of god they are embarrassed of their church absolutely if someone's walking in the
flesh or their peer pressured and people are making fun of them couldn't they be tempted to
be embarrassed of god's word of course but the bible says whosoever believeth on him shall not
be ashamed this is a promise if you're going to take that interpretation this verse would
make no sense but rather if you take the interpretation that this is saying you'll
never be forsaken then that makes perfect sense whoever believes in jesus christ will never be
forsaken aphesians 1 look at verse 13 it says in whom ye also trusted after that ye heard the word
of truth the gospel of your salvation in whom also after that ye believe notice how the bible
uses the word belief and trust by the way interchangeably this is why it's really
important to make sure out soul winning you're explaining that belief means to trust and have
confidence in christ not just believe that he exists not just believe that he did the things
he said he did but that you're trusting in what he did for you for salvation he says after you
did that after you believed in him after you trusted in him look what the bible says happen it says you
were sealed with that holy spirit of promise which is the earnest of our inheritance until the
redemption of the purchased possession unto the praise of his glory the bible says once we believe
in jesus christ we are sealed with the holy spirit of god and that is something that's permanent
right back in ancient times the king would seal their mail with a wax seal to prove that it was
not tampered with i have one for my great great grandfather it's pretty cool but that seal shows
hey this is not tampered with this is completely sealed it hasn't been broken well it's a permanent
thing same thing with salvation we're sealed by the holy spirit of promise this is this which is
the earnest of our inheritance i know you've probably heard this explained many times when
you go to buy a property they usually ask for an earnest money to show that you're serious property
could be two hundred thousand dollars they might want you to pay two thousand just to show them
that you're very serious about making this purchase well god he's completely saved our
spirit he's completely saved our soul if i were to drop dead right now my spirit and soul are
already saved but my body will be buried in the ground until the day of the lord until the
resurrection and that is when we're completely saved because we're saved spiritually right now
completely saved our souls 100 but our bodies right now are not safe our bodies are decaying
are getting worse and worse and but someday god is going to fully redeem us he will fully purchase
that possession we're going to get our glorified bodies our mansions in heaven that's the full
purchase but right now he's shown us that he's serious by giving us that earnest which is the
holy spirit sealing us with the holy spirit of god and what does that holy spirit do well he
sheds the abroad the love of god in our heart and he teaches us all the things that jesus said and
he brings into remembrance the bible and he leads us to all truth so if you have if you're saved if
you have that you'll never just completely stop believing in christ it doesn't make any sense
it's like it's like once you know santa claus is fake you can never go back and re-believe in
santa claus once you know the truth you know the truth you can't go back once you know that jesus
christ died for your sins once you know that he rose again from the dead once you've placed your
faith in him you're not going to change on that once you're saved you're always saved and these
are some great verses to prove that roman chapter five go back there roman chapter five let's read
verse uh number six it says for when we were yet without strength in due time christ died for the
ungodly for scarcely for a righteous man will one die yet per adventure for a good man some would
even dare to die but god commended his love toward us in that while we were yet sinners christ died
for us now these are some very powerful and very well-known verses you probably use romans five
eight in your gospel presentation i know that i do and you know what these verses teach us a very
powerful lesson on love on love because when did jesus christ when did god love us was it when we
had strength or when we were without strength when we were without strength right the bible's saying
you know for a really righteous person there would be very very few people that would actually be
willing to die for that person most people even for a righteous person would not be willing to die
for them right but jesus christ he commends his love he shows his love toward us in that while
we were yet sinners while we were yet breaking god's commandments while we were not deserving
whatsoever of his love he showed us his love anyways and this is what true love is is not
doing good to someone because they deserve it but rather doing good to someone even when they don't
deserve it because that's what god did for us i think a great example of this is in marriage i
told you to keep your place in ephesians look at chapter number five of ephesians chapter number
five this is the ultimate way to show love is through sacrifice look what it says in verse 25
husbands love your wives even as christ also loved the church and notice he gave himself for it that
he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word that he might present it to
himself a glorious church not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing but that it might but
that it should be holy and without blemish so ought men to love their wives as their own bodies
he that loveth his wife loveth himself for no man ever yet hated his own flesh but nourisheth
and cherisheth it even as the lord the church so notice look again at verse 25 as his husbands
love your wives even as christ also loved the church this is how god commands husbands to love
their wives is in the same way that christ loved us and how do we know how christ loved us in
romans chapter 5 he gave himself for us he sacrificed himself for us when we deserved it
when we did not deserve it and so a husband should have an unconditional sacrificial life
love for his wife regardless of not whether or not she's fulfilling her role regardless of whether
or not the husband thinks that she deserves it look if you want to be pleasing to god if you want
to be honoring to the lord a man should always sacrificially love his wife regardless of how
she is acting of course when you do that for someone a lot of times that's going to make them
also want to reciprocate i mean i'm pretty sure if every single person in here is in church on a
thursday night it's because they love jesus is because they're appreciative of the sacrifice
that he made right so of course chances are if you're having that sacrificial love towards your
wife chances are she's going to want to love you back she's going to want to reciprocate that love
to you back and this goes in every single relationship in your life when you first show
love when you first show sacrificial love you're likely to have that responded back to you and
that's how we should make sure we are with jesus christ is that we're appreciative of his love but
this is not just for husbands and wife this is how every single brother in christ should treat
each other i'll read for you first john 3 16 it says hereby perceive we the love of god because
he laid down his life for us so how do we know that god loves us because of john 3 16 because of
jesus dying for us that's how we know and it says this and we ought to lay down our lives for the
brethren so notice it's not just husbands love your wives as christ loved the church it's hey
god showed us that he loves us by sacrificing himself for us and we ought to do the exact
same for our brothers and sisters in christ this is how we should treat every person says but who
so hath this world's good and seeth his brother have need and shutteth up his bowels of compassion
from him how dwelleth the love of god in him how can you say that you love your brother in christ
when you see that he has a need you're able to fulfill that need and you just shut up your bowels
of compassion you shut up your love you shut up your mercy that you should have for them then how
does the love of god dwell in you because if the love of god dwells in you you should realize hey
christ sacrificed himself for me i should sacrifice myself for my brethren with my time with many
other different ways roman's chapter 5 go back to roman's chapter number 5 look what it says in
verse number 9 roman's 5 9 much more than being now justified by his blood we shall be saved from
wrath through him so in roman's chapter 5 there's a lot of salvation terminology and i want to talk
about some of these words just because they're used a lot in preaching people talk about these
words a lot and i want you to at least be familiar with these words one of those words is
justification this is a word you hear all the time regarding salvation and it's used right here in
roman's chapter 5 verse 9 it's used all throughout roman's chapter 4 it's a very common word that's
used but what does it mean this is what it says on a dictionary the dictionary says that to justify
means to declare innocence or guiltless now that's great news that's great news says much more than
being now justified by his blood the bible teaches that when someone gets saved they are declared
innocent they are declared guiltless by god you know the bible says that god is not going to
remember our sins you know our sins are separated as far as the east is from the west god looks at
us and he sees us as completely innocent completely guiltless the new man inside of us
the new man doesn't sin the new man wants to do that which is right all the time the new man is
completely innocent and completely guiltless it's the old man it's the flesh that wants to sin
it's the old man that condemned you to hell before you got saved but notice we're justified by the
blood of jesus christ meaning by jesus's sacrifice by his spilling of his blood we are declared
innocent and guiltless and notice also it says justified by his blood his blood is an important
saving factor when it comes to salvation and people like to argue about what part of the
sacrifice of christ saved us was it the virgin birth was it his perfect life was it his dying
on the cross was it the spilling of his blood was it his death was it going to hell was it rising
again from the dead it was all of it it was all of it every single thing that jesus christ did
is part of the redemptive work of salvation he had to fulfill all of it he had to be the perfect
spotless lamb of blood of god but the bible does have an emphasis on the saving factor of the blood
of jesus christ now there's a false prophet named john mccarthur and he has been around for a really
long time there's even footage of jack heils preaching against this guy so this guy he needs
to drop into hell soon and he's going to be in one of the lowest pits of hell for the false
doctrine that he teaches but this is something that he wrote in an article in 1976 called
not his bleeding but his dying he said it was his death that was efficacious don't you love how
these idiots talk efficacious i mean the bible says to make it plain give me a break it was his
death that was efficacious not his blood christ did not bleed to death the shedding of blood
had nothing to do with bleeding what it simply means death nothing in his human blood saves
it is not his blood that i love it is him it is not his bleeding that saved me but is dying
these are some blasphemous words to come out of a preacher's mouth to say that you don't love the
blood of christ to say that there was nothing special about his blood he had to bring his
blood and sprinkle it on the mercy seat of heaven the bible says we're justified by his blood what
do you want the bible to say what more does it need to say for you i'll read for you revelation
one five it says this and from jesus christ who is the faithful witness and the first begotten of
the dead and the prince of the kings of the earth unto him that loved us and washed us from our
sins in his own blood what more do you need the bible to say we are washed from our sins by the
blood of christ we are justified by his blood the bible says now in his uh commentary this is what
he says on Revelation 1-5, he says, "I may add a note on Revelation 1-5, a passage which is
confusing in the King James Version." I don't know about you, that wasn't very confusing when I read
it. We're washed by his blood. He says, "The word washed is not correct. The Greek work is delivered."
Well, sorry, John MacArthur, you don't get to write the Bible. You don't get to change God's
words. You're not the one that's the author of life. You're not the one that's the author of
eternal salvation. That was Jesus. He is the Word of God. I'll stick with what Jesus said,
not listening to you trying to twist and corrupt the Word of God. It's wicked as hell.
And guess what? Revelation 21 talks about people like you that would add to or take away from God's
Word to look at the Bible where it just says, "Washed us from our sins," and just say, "Oh,
I don't like that." It should say something else. Go to hell, John MacArthur. False prophet,
wicked as hell. The Bible says that we are justified by His blood. Go back to Romans,
chapter number 5, verse 10. If you know who Pastor Aaron Thompson is, of Sure Foundation Baptist
Church in Vancouver, he has this sermon series. I love it. It's called, "Why? Insert false prophet
name here is burning in hell." And he always preaches it after they die. He did one on Billy
Graham. I think he has like 280,000 views on YouTube or something like that. But let me say,
he's going to be real happy when John MacArthur dies because that is going to be a hot sermon.
I cannot wait for that sermon. Why John MacArthur is roasting in hell. That's going to be great.
So Romans 5 10, it says this, "For if when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the
death of his son, much more being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life." Notice there how it
says when we were enemies. If you ever need a good reason to go ahead and just love your enemies,
it's Romans chapter 5 verse 10. Because do you realize that you were once the enemy of God?
Now, I'm not talking about the enemies of God, the haters of God, like the reprobates, those type of
enemies. I'm not talking about that. But look at the text in front of your face. What does the Bible
say? "For if when we were enemies, we were the enemies of God in a sense before we were saved."
That is what the Bible says. But, you know, that's a great reason when God tells us to love our
enemies, that's what Jesus Christ did. I mean, it was our sin that put Jesus Christ on the cross.
We were His enemies. We were at enmity with God. We had no peace with God. Jesus Christ had to do
something for us, for us to no longer be the enemy of God. And what is that called? It's called
reconciliation. This is another important salvation term. We talked about justification. Here's
another one. Reconciliation. We just saw that in Romans 5-10. It says, "For if when we were enemies,
we were reconciled to God by the death of His Son." What's the definition of reconcile? It says,
"to bring into agreement or harmony, make compatible or consistent." So you have to
remember that before you got saved, you and God the Father were at odds with each other.
You had no peace with each other. You guys were enemies, but there had to be a mediator to come
in to reconcile us together. The Bible says that there's one mediator between God and man,
the man, Christ Jesus, which is why Romans 5 says that we were reconciled to God by the death
of his son. Jesus Christ is what reconciles us to God, not the Catholic priest. The Catholic priest
wants to tell you that you need to come to the Catholic priest. He'll go ahead and mediate
between God and you, and he'll get you guys reconciled. That's not what the Bible teaches.
The Bible says there's one person that can reconcile you to God, and it's Jesus Christ.
There's one way to heaven. There's only one truth. There's one way. There's one life. It's
Jesus Christ. You're not going to find salvation in the Mormon church. There's no salvation in the
Catholic church. There's no salvation in Hinduism. There's no salvation in any other religion than
in Jesus Christ. People will call you prideful for believing that, but I don't care what you call it.
It's the truth. It's the truth, and that simple truth offends people. Isn't it funny how people,
you preach them the gospel and they get mad? Not everyone. Obviously, there's lots of people that
embrace it, that love it, but there's some people that get mad because you know what you're telling
them? You're telling them there's one way to be reconciled to God, and it's by putting your faith
on Jesus Christ. It's not by you going to church. It's not by you serving ham sandwiches downtown at
the homeless center. It's not by you helping old ladies cross the street. It's not by you shining
the shoes of the Black Lives Matter protesters. It's not of your work's resume that you want to
present. It's by putting your faith in Christ. That is the only way that you can be reconciled
to God, and you know we got to be thankful that we've been reconciled to God. These are things
that if you've been safe for a while sometimes you can forget about, but hey rejoice tonight that
you've been reconciled to God by Jesus Christ. That there's peace between us now. Now we have
fellowship with God because of the sacrifice of Christ. Go to 2 Corinthians chapter number five.
2 Corinthians chapter number five. Remember we're talking about reconciliation and how God
reconciled us by Jesus Christ. 2 Corinthians chapter number five. Let's start reading in
verse number 18. It says this, "And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus
Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation." So since we have been reconciled
to God, the Bible says He has a job for us now, He has a task for us now, and it's doing the same
thing. It's reconciling other people to God. Now it's not in the way that the Catholic priest
wants to do it by confessing your sins to Him. It's by soul winning. It's not about anything
special about us. It's not about our testimony. It's not about our power. It's about the power
of the gospel and bringing the good news of Jesus Christ. Look at verse 19. "To wit, that God was
in Christ, reconciling the world unto Himself, not impugning their trespasses unto them,
and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation." Now then, we are ambassadors
for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us. So notice, first, God was beseeching the world.
God was reconciling the world unto Himself through who? Through Jesus Christ. But now,
the Bible says, He's using us. We're the representatives of God. We're the representatives
of Christ. We're the ambassadors, as though God is beseeching the world, saying what? "We pray you,
and Christ said, Be ye reconciled to God." How is God today pleading and begging with the world
to be reconciled unto him? It's through those that have been given the ministry of reconciliation.
It is through you and it is through me that God is pleading with this world to be saved,
and it's not through anyone else. There is no one else besides saved Christians that have been given
the task to get the gospel out to the world, and there's no one else that's going to do it but us.
And if you decide not to preach the gospel, the Bible says that if our gospel is hid, it is hid
to those that are lost. There are people that would be saved if you would just decide to have
enough love in your heart. If you would just decide to have enough compassion in your heart
to learn how to preach the gospel and to go out and share that good news, they would be saved.
But let me tell you this also, there will be people that will be in eternity in hell because
you and I failed to preach them the gospel. There will be. There will be. Unless you are like the
apostle Paul where he says, "My hands are free from the blood of all men." The majority of Christians,
the vast majority of Christians, have the souls of men's blood on their hands. That is a sick and
sad thought. The great white throne judgment, when you are going to watch every single unsaved family
member cast into lake of fire before your eyes and every single co-worker you ever had that
never got the gospel cast into the lake of fire before your eyes, that is going to be a sad and
horrible time which is why God says that in heaven he has to wipe away the tears from our eyes.
Now I don't know about you, I want to do the best I can possibly do in my life to have the least
amount of sorrow possible on that day, to at least say that hey I warned that person and even if I do
see a loved one cast into lake of fire that's of course going to be sad but it won't be as sad as
if I never gave them the chance, if I never told them, if I never opened my mouth and the bible
says and you just need to realize that there's more things important in your life than your job
there's more things important in your life than your house and your yard work and your hobbies
God is begging the world through you be reconciled to God he's doing it through you but most
Christians today don't care most churches today don't even have a soul winning program I mean
there's been one time in my life that I've ran into another soul winner out soul winning that
wasn't a part of a new independent fundamental baptist church now I know they're out there
but it's only happened to me one time how many safe people are there in this world millions and
millions if every safe person was doing their job we'd have a lot more people reconciled to God
there would be a lot more people that have access to the grace of God there would be a lot more
people that have peace in their hearts in this world if we would just do our job but regardless
of whether or not this whole world does their job you do your job you do your duty as an ambassador
of Christ I need to do my duty as an ambassador of Christ Romans chapter five go back to Romans
chapter five it says this for if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death
of his son much more being reconciled we shall be saved notice this by his life so notice salvation
is not by your life salvation is by the life of Jesus Christ yet how many people when you ask them
what they're trusting in to get to heaven they just give you the works resume of all the things
that they do how they preach in this ministry and like I said they give ham sandwiches to the
homeless and all this stuff oh maybe in Portland I give heroin needles to the drug addicts and it was
like oh you're so you're so righteous right in Seattle and Portland I'm sure that's gonna happen
soon if it's not already look you're not saved by your life you're saved by the life of Christ
and you know the question is if you could be saved by your life if you could be saved by your works
why in the world did God have to sacrifice his only begotten son the sinless perfect lamb of God
why would God have to do that if you could be saved by your life yes so many people will say
well why did Jesus have to die if we could just do whatever we want it's like you you don't
understand you don't understand the sacrifice at all you don't understand you need to go back to
Romans chapter three and learn about what a sinner you are and realize that you're not righteous
okay and that Christ had to be sacrificed for us Romans chapter five verse 11 says this get there
myself Romans 5 11 it says and not only so but we also join God through our Lord Jesus Christ
by whom we have now received the atonement here's another salvation word that's often used
atonement atonement the definition of this word is satisfaction or reparation for a wrong or injury
amends so this is making things right this is bringing peace making things right between two
parties making an atonement if you were to atone for something bad that you did it's you're saying
i'm going to do something good in the future right well we get our atonement through the sacrifice
of not our works not our life but of jesus christ turn to isaiah 53 i'm going to read for you a few
verses well you turn to isaiah 53 the bible says this in exodus 29 36 and thou shalt offer every
day a bullock for a sin offering for atonement exodus 30 16 says this and thou shalt take the
atonement money of the children of israel and shalt appoint it for the service of the
tabernacle of the congregation that it may be a memorial unto the children of israel before the
lord to make an atonement for your souls so in the old testament an atonement was some sort of
offering to the lord whether that be a sacrifice of an animal or a money offering or something
like that that's what an atonement offering was to the lord and of course all of this was a picture
of the true offering of jesus christ isaiah chapter 53 look what it says and let's start reading in
verse uh number nine it says and he made his grave with the wicked and with the rich in his death
because he had done no violence neither was any deceit in his mouth in verse 10 is the important
verse yet it pleased the lord to bruise him he hath put him to grief when thou shalt make his
soul an offering for sin he shall see his seed he shall prolong his days and the pleasure of the
lord shall prosper in his hand the bible says that it literally pleased god the father to bruise
jesus christ because he became sin for us he became that atonement that sacrifice that atoned
for our sin when god bruised him his soul the bible says was an offering his soul was that
atonement offering for us and the bible says that his soul was not left in hell right so jesus
christ he took the punishment that you and i deserve and he went to hell for us for three
days and three nights that way we don't have to go there he atoned for our sins by paying the
punishment that you and i deserve we talked about justification atonement these are all important
words regarding salvation roman chapter 5 let's go to verse 12 romans 512 and the second part of
this chapter won't take as long as the first but romans 512 says this wherefore is by one man sin
entered into the world and death by sin and so death passed upon all men for that all have sin
notice what the bible says how sin entered into this world was through the man was through adam
if you read the story of adam and eve who was the first person to sin eve but who does god hold
accountable the man and what we need to understand from that is that if you are in a position of
authority if you are a father if you are a boss if you are any position of authority god holds you
accountable for that even though it was eve that sin the bible says that sin came through one man
and that man was adam and so we need to make sure that we take our jobs as fathers as husbands
very seriously and realize that we are going to be held responsible for our family and so many men
today seem like they don't care about the things of god but look if there's if there's one reason
to care about the things of god it's your own children it's your own wife even if you don't
want to be spiritual for yourself can you please be spiritual for your family because god will hold
you accountable how you take care of your family ecclesiastes chapter 9 i'll read for you can say
there in romans 5 ecclesiastes chapter 9 verse 12 says this wisdom is better than weapons of war
but one sinner destroyeth much good you know how much how much how many people it took to destroy
this whole world one one sinner one man brought death upon all men and you got to realize the
gravity of sin people like to make light of sin people like to joke around about sin but sin has
such a devastating uh consequence that one sin by one man damned this entire world to hell we
shouldn't play around with sin we shouldn't think it's cute or funny or think that it's something
you should toe the line to no it's a very destructive thing in one sinner the bible says
can destroy much good a little leaven leaven it the whole lump that's why you have first
Corinthians chapter number five because one person that's allowed to be in the church
that's an idol idolater or a drunkard or fornicator that can spread and it could
infect and ruin an entire church one person one person can destroy much good roman chapter five
look at verse 13 it says this for until the law sin was in the world but sin is not imputed
when there is no law so even without the law there can be sin in the world because it says that
until the law sin was in the world but it's not imputed when there is no law now this verse kind
of makes me think of why i believe that babies go to heaven when they die why babies go to heaven
when they die i'll read for you roman chapter seven just flip the page roman seven look at
verse nine paul said for i was alive without the law once but when the commandment came sin revived
and i died so paul was alive at one point but when the commandment came he died this can't be
talking about the giving of the law for moses because paul was born way after moses right
so to me and i can't fully explain it if you have your own thoughts i'd love to hear it after
service but there has to be some level of understanding of the law that you have in
order to be condemned by the law because at one point paul was alive even though the law was on
this earth even though law was already given by moses it wasn't imputed to him until the law was
delivered now what does that mean well you know i'd like to hear thoughts on it but i i do believe
that you have to understand sin in order to be condemned to hell you have to understand it i
don't believe that one-year-olds two-year-olds three-year-old babies when they die i don't
believe for one second that they're going to hell i don't think that their sin even if they have sin
it's at least even if babies do have sin it's not imputed under them i don't believe for one
second it's imputed under them i believe that babies go to heaven when they die i believe that's
supported by david's situation where david said he's not going to return to me but i'm going to
return to him now you got calvinists out there that teach that even some babies will go to hell
that god chooses before they're even born and believe that some babies are literally in hell
that's the most wicked thing i could think of anyone that anything that would believe that a
baby is in hell i don't even think you're safe for one second if you believe something that wicked
you don't know god at all go to romans chapter number five verse 14 says this nevertheless death
reigned from adam to moses even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of adam's
transgression so even though people were still sinning in different ways other than the way that
adam sinned they still had death reigning over them because the wages of sin is death the bible
says he says this about adam who is the figure of him that was to come so the bible very explicitly
says that adam is a picture of jesus christ it's one of the easiest pictures to see because the
bible just says he is the figure of him that is to come well how is that well they're both the son
of god right adam is literally the first man he is the son of god and of course jesus christ is the
son of god here's another way that they both have similarities is that both became cursed both became
cursed adam became cursed by sin the bible says about jesus christ that he have made him to be
sin for us who knew no sin that we might be made the righteousness of god in him the bible also
says cursed it is everyone that hangs on a tree and of course how did jesus christ die on a tree
on a cross and so you can see the similarities between those two there roman's chapter five
we're almost done here let's read verse 15 this is this but not as the offense so also is the
free gift for through the offense of one many be dead much more the grace of god and the gift by
grace which is by one man jesus christ hath abounded unto many and not as it was by one
that sinned so was the gift for the judgment was by one to condemnation but the free gift
is of many offenses unto justification for if by one man's offense death reigned by one much more
they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one
jesus christ therefore as by the offense of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation even
so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life now that
passage is quite a mouthful right there and so that's some hard language that the bible uses
right there is like rewording things several different ways but one thing that jumps out at
me at this group of verses is the bible here mentions the word gift four times now if something
is repeated that many times in the bible god wants us to get get this through our heads that
salvation is a gift and you can prove this many different ways in the bible ephesians chapter two
romans chapter five god is just hammering into people that it is a free gift and yet how many
preachers would stand up and say that is not enough alone to believe you have to do more than
that you have to work your way to heaven you have to give god your heart by obeying him and making
him the lord of your life when over and over and over again the bible is saying it's a free gift
it is a free gift and notice in verse 17 how it says towards the end of the verse it says
and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one jesus christ it's funny these work
salvation preachers they're always preaching about your righteousness that you have to have
to get to heaven but the bible literally says that righteousness is a gift because the only one that
was truly righteous was jesus christ and that is a gift that's imputed to us when we believe
because when you are judged god is not going to see you for your works and your righteousness
he sees the blood that justified you the sinless spotless blood of jesus christ that's what gives
you righteousness and notice it's a gift that's great news this is why we went to detroit to the
most poor and ghetto area and everyone wanted this free gift and this is why you go to the rich areas
and they think they're too good for it they're too prideful oh you're telling me that all my
righteous works that i do are just for not and it's like no that's not what i'm telling you
i'm telling you that all of those have nothing to do with salvation you should do good works
it's amazing how we're out soul winning in the heat of texas on a saturday and they're they're
like oh you just don't believe in doing any work it's like hello we're right here but not for
salvation we're trying to give you this free gift right now we're trying to give you the free gift
of righteousness the free gift of eternal life you need to humble yourself and take the gift
but how many people are going to go to hell because of pride i believe that's the main reason why
people will go to hell is pride not wanting to accept the free gift but you know what they're
doing they're taking away the credit from Jesus Christ how many times in these passage as it said
one man one man one man it's giving all the glory to Jesus Christ that one man gave us
the gift of righteousness that one man gave us eternal life that one man lived a righteous
perfect sinless life he gets the credit he gets the glory not you not me i'll read for you first
simothy 4 10 it says this for therefore we both labor and suffer reproach because we trust in the
living god who is the savior of all men especially of those that believe i love how in romans 5
how it says that the gift abounded unto many right jesus christ truly is the savior of all men
and that gift is available unto many whosoever will let him take the water of life freely
whosoever believeth in him can be saved the bible teaches and so it's one man that did all the work
it's one man that gave all the credit and it's through one man that many can be saved through one
man roman chapter 5 let's keep reading verse 19 it says for as by one man's disobedience many were
made sinners but by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous moreover the law entered
that the offense might abound where sin abounded grace did much more bound that as sin hath reigned
unto death even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by jesus christ
our lord romans are i'll read for you john 14 6 as jesus saith unto him i am the way the truth and
the life and no man cometh unto the father but by me notice the theme of romans chapter 5 it's all
pointing to one man jesus christ and we learn that the devastating effect that one man can have one
sinner destroyeth much good the bible says one man can destroy a lot you know one man can do great
things one man can live a perfect life and pay for our sins and it only took one man to purchase
our redemption and here's the application that makes me think of it only it only takes one man
to do something great for god it only takes one man to preach someone the gospel every single
person that you've ever gotten saved in your life and ever will get saved you know all it took for
them one man one soul winner to show up and make a huge difference in someone's eternity it took
one man and the devil is constantly trying to get people to devalue their importance
to devalue their worth to devalue their job in the ministry but one man could do a lot and that's
what romans 5 is showing us you know it takes one man to lead his family even if the wife doesn't
want to serve god even if the children doesn't doesn't want to serve god it just takes one man
to be spiritual to actually read your bible to actually drag your family to church it just takes
one man and that can have a huge difference that can have an eternal difference on your family
and the things that they do for god hey it just takes one woman when you're homeschooling your
kid it just takes one woman to teach your children the word of god to raise them up in the nurture and
admonition of the lord who cares what the public school is doing who cares what every other parent's
doing who cares if the other moms are surfing facebook all day who cares if they're not doing
their job if they're lazy sitting around watching tv it just takes one woman for your kids it just
takes one man to lead your family it just takes one man to go to a city and plant a church do
something great for god you know steadfast baptist church was almost destroyed by one man one sinner
almost destroyed entire church you know what all it takes is one man one godly man to stand in the gap
to make up the hedge and to actually be a godly leader it just takes one man and so do not ever
devalue yourself and your importance in the ministry people get this really stupid idea
and it is a stupid idea that only the pastor only the evangelist only the deacon only the staff
they're the only people that are doing things for god they're the only people that are full-time
servants of god that is stupid the bible says that jesus christ has given us the ministry of
reconciliation and let me tell you what your job as a soul winner is more real of a job than the
job you have in the secular world that's way more real of a job yeah you have a real job for god
it's called being a soul winner and that's for every man woman boy and girl i'm sick of this
attitude that i hear that just exalts people that are full-time paid employees in the ministry
as if they are more special when it comes to the work of god it is a lie one man is all it takes
to change someone's life and to do a great thing for god so don't ever devalue yourself as a
christian go ahead and end with a word of prayer heavenly father thank you so much for roman's
chapter number five thank you so much for sending us that one man to live the perfect life for us
to justify us to be our atonement pay for our sins lord i pray that we would just realize the
blessings that we have as saved people that we have peace that we have access but that we wouldn't
just take the blessings and cruise our way to heaven but we would actually try to get as many
other people saved as possible i pray that you help every person in here to truly love people
in order to preach them the gospel i pray every single person in here would realize their
importance to this mission and to this church and we love you so much in jesus name we pray amen
all right so for our last song we'll go to song number 23 there's power in the blood song number
23 there's power in the blood song 23 there's power in the blood would you be free from your
burden of sin there's power in the blood power in the blood would you or evil love victory when
there's wonderful power in the blood there is power power under working power in the blood
of the land there is power power under working power in the precious blood of the land would
you be free from your passion and pride there's power in the blood power in the blood there's
wonderful power in the blood power in the blood singing god bless thank you for coming