Welcome to Truth Time, where you'll get a shot of the truth with no chaser.
And now, your Truth Time host, Trey Searcy.
Okay, welcome in to another Truth Time transmission.
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That's right, it's a hybrid Gospel, you're so correct, and, you know, even when, what they have to do is they have to, in order to not see the distinction of the Pauline ministry, you have to change what the Bible actually says.
I love what Paul says in 2 Timothy chapter 2 verse 7, he says, consider what I say, and the Lord give the understanding in all things.
2 Timothy 2 verse 7.
And that one, you know, that pretty much closes the door on religion, you consider what Paul says, because we're in this dispensation of grace that was given to him, so consider what he says, and the Lord give the understanding in all things, and of course the all things
there, has nothing to do with how to go out and take apart and put back together an engine, but it certainly does have something to do with all spiritual things in this book.
You and I spent years probably looking and scaling right over that verse, not really understanding what we were reading.
Paul tells us in 2 Corinthians 5, verse 21, For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
So you see, it's to our benefit to really think on this verse.
Let it sink in today.
How about this?
Start waking up in the morning with each new day, telling yourself that you are the righteousness
of God in Christ.
Do you agree with God or not?
If you'll begin to agree with God, confessing that you are the righteousness of God in Christ, your wrong thinking will begin to change.
You'll stop relying on your performance to make you righteous.
You'll stop trying to be the righteousness of God and begin to be the righteousness of God in Christ.
Don't change the verse and try to make it what religion wants it to say.
Don't change it and try to make it line up with your feelings.
Just let the verse say what it says.
If you've trusted in the finished cross-work of Christ, you are the righteousness of God in Christ, not out of Christ and in your flesh, but in Christ and in the Spirit.
As Paul declared in Romans 5:19, For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one, that's Jesus, shall many be, and what's the next word, made, made righteous.
You cannot do anything to earn it.
It's unmerited.
You were made righteous by the Maker.
You're not the Maker of your righteousness, Christ is.
I mean, seriously, someone would have to have an ego, as inflated as a Macy's Thanksgiving Day balloon, to think that they have a part in their salvation.
That ego makes it hard for them to believe that someone can actually save them without their help.
We're saved by faith in what Christ did.
He doesn't need your help, and by the way, you have nothing to offer.
And after you're saved, you're placed in Christ, and Paul tells us in Romans 8:39 that neither height nor depth nor any other creature shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ.
And in Romans 12:5, Paul tells us, We are one body in Christ.
You see, when it comes to your salvation, it's not about you.
Everything revolves and centers around being in Christ.
It's not about being in religion, in your denomination.
It's not about in your flesh.
It's not in water baptism, asking for forgiveness, or turning from sin.
No, sir, righteousness is found in Christ, and the only way to get in Christ is by faith alone in Christ alone, without any works of any kind at any time.
Our works in service come after, and not before, salvation.
You know, there's a popular false doctrine that says, To be saved, you must turn from sin and then trust Christ for your salvation.
That's not the gospel.
That's not the gospel that saves today.
Turning from sin is a work, and mixing your works with God's grace no longer saves anyone.
Romans 11:6, read the evidence for yourself.
It once did, and it's why the apostle James told the twelve tribes of Israel that faith without works cannot save them, James 2:14, because under the covenant God made with Israel, not you, faith without works was dead, James chapter 2 verse 20, and he told them that by their works they were justified, and not by faith only.
But our apostle Paul tells us the body of Christ, the complete opposite.
Paul tells us that we're justified by faith only and have peace with God, Romans chapter 5 verse 1.
And while we're in Romans, look in chapter 1 verse 16.
In Romans 1:16 is where Paul says, I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God unto salvation, to everyone that believeth.
Notice it's not to everyone that worketh, but to everyone that believeth.
You know, if you go to a motivational seminar, you're likely to hear the speaker say, If you'll just follow these three steps, or they may say seven or ten steps, whatever, but they'll tell you that you're on your way to financial success.
But on the flip side, flip that coin and here's what they'll say, if you do not succeed, it's because you did not follow the steps correctly.
Well, while that's good, this is not a seminar, and there's no steps to follow.
This is a Bible study radio program, and let me spell it out for you with great plainness of speech.
The gospel does not work that way.
The good news that saves today is not 1 Peter 1:13.
We're not hoping to the end to get grace.
The good news today is not Acts chapter 3 verse 19 that says to wait for the return of the Lord so that our sins may be blotted out.
No, the good news today is that Christ died for all your sins, past, present, and future.
He was buried and took those sins to the grave.
He come up out of that grave on the third day to justify you before the Father, making you, Colossians 2:10, complete in Christ, because you're free from sin and have been forgiven of all trespasses, Colossians 2:13.
Now you're 2 Corinthians 5:21, the righteousness of God in Christ.
You've been sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, Ephesians 1:13, unto the day of redemption, Ephesians 4:30.
Your salvation is untouchable.
As we close today, listen to how plain and simple Paul says salvation is today.
Ephesians chapter 1 verse 13, In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, in whom also, after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that Holy Spirit of promise.
So, you hear the gospel, you believe the gospel, and the Holy Spirit promises to seal you.
Now that's good news.
I'm Trey Searcy, and now you know the truth.
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