1 Thessalonians 5 verses 21 and 22, Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. Abstain from all appearance of evil. What's evil? Religion.Abstain from it.What's good?Grace.Hold fast to it.God laid it out pretty simple here, guys.In Ephesians 3:2 Paul said, If ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me to you-ward:No, Paul, they haven't. Most still haven't heard about it. Your gospel remains 2 Corinthians 4:3, hid.In this day of grace, hey, you want to know God?If you do, if you want to know him, and in you're presently involved with religion, put on your best pair of Nike's and run.I'm just, I'm just keepin' it real. You may think you know God, but you don't. You know religion's version of him.And it matters not what some call themselves. You can say grace this, grace that, and still not have a handle on what really went down at the cross.Blind to the truth of reconciliation and still religious, they don't believe God stopped imputing the world's sins.To the religious mind, that sounds crazy, because they see themselves as good people, and the world as bad people.Just proof, just more proof that they never fully left religion, hanging on to their goodness as if it means something.Some, some look at the goodness of others, and they're impressed. They, they allow it to convince them that the words they speak, they must be true.But hey, that's not Bible. That's human nature.It's why the Mormon boys put on a clean white shirt and tie before coming to your door. It's why pastors hang their credentials on the wall of their office, so you can see them.As if a piece of paper from a theological seminary means anything, as if it means they speak the truth, it does not.You either understand the Bible mid-acts dispensationally or you don't.And be careful, watch, because even the grace message is being hijacked by fakers, pretending to understand Paul's unique apostleship.Oh, they got a little. They understand a little, just enough to be dangerous. But, it's being hijacked by those who never truly left their denomination.Paul talks about them in Acts chapter 20.In Acts 20 he says, he called them wolves. He said, Some wolves coming in from the outside, and some are already among us. Speaking perverse things to draw away disciples, only causing you to digress backwards.Hey, we're seeing that now, some are saying that Romans 3:25 is the gospel of your salvation.Even though the verse only speaks of sins that are past.Newsflash, you having faith that you've only been forgiven of your past sins will leave you lost and on your way to hell.That's phony baloney. That's a phony gospel that's making false converts.All and past are different.Colossians chapter 1 verse 14, In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins.And just flip the page and watch.Here we'll see which sins Paul was speaking of, Forgiving you all trespasses, Chapter 2 verse 13.All trespasses, not remission for sins that are past.Religion's greatest tool has been to cause confusion concerning forgiveness.Satan would love nothing more than for you to believe that Romans 3:25 is the gospel of your salvation.Some, they conflate past and all, just as some conflate forgiveness and justification.Which leads them to believe that forgiveness of sins is conditional.It flies in the face of grace by putting you under the law of, "do."When you tell someone they have to do something for forgiveness, you've just made, "do," a law.And it doesn't matter what the, "do," is, you don't have to teach the law of Moses to teach law.Any, "do," any, "do," you place on forgiveness runs contrary to what God said through Paul for this grace dispensation.His forgiveness was for all sins, not past sins.And was unconditional, not conditional.It happened at the cross, not at your turn from sin.It happened at the cross, not when you said a prayer.It happened at the cross, not when you were baptized.At the cross, not when you believed and got saved.Saying you got to do something to be forgiven only poisons God's pure, undefiled, unconditional forgiveness.We didn't have to do anything for it, it was freely given, and if we allow Ephesians 4:32 to be our pattern, we forgive others the way God forgave us, unconditionally.Have you ever noticed, have you ever noticed how some they, they'll go to great lengths to avoid someone who hasn't forgiven them?Avoiding them, thinking they're still angry, and perhaps they are.And that's how they see God.Religion has taught the unbeliever that they need to go to an angry God to get forgiveness.So out of fear, they most often don't.Satan loves this teaching.But God's way is so much better, right? It's so much better than man's.He says that after the sacrifice of my Son, I stopped being angry and stopped imputing sins to the world.God's not angry with anyone today, and it's a message that few preach.Few preach it and it's why most don't know it. They've never heard it.As ambassadors, it's our job to publish this good news so the world will have one less reason to avoid God.He's not angry with you about your sins, and the only thing separating you from him is unbelief.Salvation isn't getting your sins forgiven, it's believing they already are.Believing he forgave every last one of your sins, was buried, and rose to give you new life.But some, they think their belief is the birthmark of their forgiveness.They've chose to give no regard to Colossians chapter 2 where we learned that at the cross, the handwriting of ordinances that were against and contrary to us were all blotted out, every one of them.Taking out of the way and nailed to the cross, limited forgivers don't believe this.They don't believe this verse and they don't believe 2 Corinthians 5:19 where God said he stopped counting the world's trespasses.Neither verse is hard. I mean, both are simple. Acts 26:18 is another simple verse, and it's another one that limited forgivers don't believe.Here, the Lord said to open their eyes, now watch this, To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins,...They don't believe it so they try to twist it to make you think you have to do something for forgiveness.They say you have to believe first. No, you don't.Listen, you would never ask someone, Hey if you will first receive my forgiveness, then I will forgive you. How illogical is that?Forgiveness is at the heart of our faith, so it's important that we get this right.It's what allows us to embrace our new identity and successfully live out the grace life confident in Christ.It's what leads to a life of peace and purpose.So thankful you've chosen to be here with us today. You've downloaded the app and you're enjoying this grace life with us.It's just awesome to be a saved by grace through faith member of the body of Christ. Praise the Lord.United, unity bound by peace.United by faith in Paul's one doctrine, the faith of Christ, the Ephesians 4:1 body, one faith, one Spirit, one baptism and one calling.What's sad is often it's those who claim to know the most about grace that are the ones that have the most difficulty showing it.Grace is unearned, unmerited, but they hold on tightly to the position that one must do something for it.We're to forgive others as God forgave us, instead of holding grudges and harboring bitterness, we freely forgive.Forgiveness doesn't automatically mean reunion, reunification, okay? Don't get it twisted.Forgiving someone doesn't always mean there will be reconciliation.They may never be a part of your life, just as most of the world will not reconcile to God and be a part of his.But as he did so do we, we freely forgive without requiring anything from those we forgive.And the ones who can't do this, they're the ones teaching limited forgiveness.To be frank, they're stuck, reliving, rehashing things in their past and holding grudges, which only breeds anguish.Anguish that can lead to emotional distress.Some have a problem giving grace to others because they've never understood the grace God gave to them.But be that as it may, we are to freely forgive. Forgiveness is free.We freely forgive without the person who wronged us having to ask for it.They don't have to beg for it. They don't have to acknowledge it.They don't have to show remorse. They don't even have to know about it.Because we're to Ephesians 4:32, forgive as Christ forgave us.Oh, this, my friend, this is the beauty of forgiveness. We can free ourselves from the energy it takes to hold on and harbor unforgiveness.And we don't need anyone's permission to do it.Which is what God did, forgave us without our permission or belief.By forgiving unconditionally, we display that God kind of forgiveness that was shown to us.This is how we release ourselves from the offender's offense against us.Forgiveness belongs to the offended, not to the offender. Go read Daniel 9:9.God forgave us on the basis of what his Son did, not on the basis of what we did.And we forgive the same way.An argument used by the limited forgivers is that if God forgave the world, then the world is automatically going to heaven.As if they can use forgiveness as their ticket. This is just more toxic stew they're serving. There's no truth to it.What they've done is confuse forgiveness with justification.They're separate words with separate meanings and separate calendar dates.No one goes to heaven for simply being forgiven. Forgiveness only took one. God.But justification, it requires the individual to respond in faith.Same goes for reconciliation. God reconciled you unto himself, now you need to reconcile him to yourself.His parts deal when he done, and he didn't need you to do it.Your part is undone until you believe what he did.Complete reconciliation can never be achieved without two agreeing parties.So when the unbeliever places faith in what Christ completed, as Paul said in 2 Corinthians 5:20, they are reconciled to God.It's important we have this correct, this correct understanding of these terms will help you navigate your way through the Bible.Forgiveness and justification are not synonymous, not by grammar, definition, or context.Some things are up for debate, this is not. God's word is the independent arbiter of truth.Justification is a legal judiciary act whereby God removes guilt so that he can then declare the guilty party righteous.But he had to forgive first.Forgiveness doesn't mean you're justified, because it doesn't clear you from guilt.Now if you can grab on, if you can grasp this, you can get out from behind the eight ball.Okay?The key is to educate ourselves by letting God's word, not man's, but letting God's word be our final authority.Exodus chapter 34. For those having trouble with this, allow God to help you here.Exodus chapter 34.You've heard what the grace school had to say about it. Now try God on for size.Exodus 34 verse 7. Moses, speaking of the Lord here, said, Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty;...You see it? It's a big flashing light, it's a big billboard right here in front of you.No longer hidden in plain sight, we're bringing it out here for you. That's forgiveness without clearing guilt, plain and simple.God forgave the world without their belief, but his forgiveness did not clear one person in the world of their guilt.His forgiveness didn't clear the guilty for what they were forgiven of.We just read it and we can do it again. Here's more, Numbers chapter 14 verse 18.Same thing, watch, The LORD is longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty,...Uh-huh, again, made ever so clear.Don't kick against the pricks. Receive this truth. Are you beginning to see this? Limited forgivers have no argument. They never have.They've been playing with you for some time now, but it's time you arm yourself with God's word and stand up to their nonsense.Just connect the dots. It's pretty simple. When God stopped imputing sins to the world, he did not clear anyone of guilt.So, being forgiven by itself will not get you into heaven.Make no mistake. No guilty person goes to heaven. They go to hell.They go there because of guilt and not because of sins that are not being imputed. That makes no sense.How can you go to hell for sins that are not being imputed? How can you go to hell for sins that were put on Christ?Take them off Christ and re-impute them to you, each person, and then send them to hell?Can't do it, but you can send them to hell because they're still guilty of those sins because they were never placed in Christ and justified, meaning that God not only sees them as forgiven, but sees them as innocent, not guilty, as if they've never ever sinned in the first place.Because you're in Christ and Christ never sinned.So, if you're in Christ and he never sinned, then you're seen as he's seen.Having never sinned, completely innocent, not guilty.See, being in Christ does not mean forgiven, because Christ was never forgiven.You get that, right?This is so simple, most miss it.Just because God stopped charging sins didn't make anyone not guilty and is the same with us.Just because we choose to forgive someone doesn't mean that person isn't guilty of what we forgave them for.It just means we chose to forgive them and let it go.If you haven't already gotten this, at some point you got to catch up, catch up and catch on, and you can better articulate the gospel.Not one person listening today had their guilt taken away when Jesus hung, bled, and died on the cross, not one.You probably, you know, most of us know someone who likes to hold something from your past over your head to sort of keep you in check, right?That's not love at all.But they didn't come up with that on their own.Knowingly or unknowingly, they got that from religion.The world is set up on the religious system and affects even those who claim no religion.Religious people like to hold sins against others.But you were born with no sins in your account because of the blood of Jesus.He took care of it before you were a twinkle in your daddy's eye.And conflatin' forgiveness with justification distorts both.Say you're, say you're in a courtroom and a man's on trial.He's being tried for murder.The victim's father, he stands up, looks over at the defendant and says, I forgive you.What happens after that?Well, to hear the limited forgivers tell it, the murderer is set free and everyone goes home.Because they claim that forgiveness and justification mean the same thing.So, once the father stood up and said, I forgive you, that meant the man's not guilty.But to us, we who are sober thinkers and we who believe what we just read earlier in Exodus 34:7 and over there in Numbers 14:18, we know that's not how the judiciary system functions.We know that while forgiveness only takes one, the one who was offended,that forgiveness doesn't clear the offender of his guilt.So he can't walk out of the courtroom just because the father said, I forgive you.Because forgiveness is not synonymous with justification.Religion has messed up the masses.And this has caused a competitive mindset.Which is responsible for a lot of unnecessary struggle, pain, anxiety, and discouragement.It's responsible for creating a competitive atmosphere that will not only have you competing against others, but competing against yourself.Listen, there's no one more competitive than me.Ask anyone who knows me.But leave it on the field, in the ring, on the court.Leave it there because it has no place in grace.We were forgiven on the merit of what Christ did and not what we do.The way was made clear by the death, burial, and resurrection for every sin you'll ever commit, and salvation is a free gift for all who will simply believe that the work is finished.No need to compete for something unearned.No amount of stopping, starting, doing more, doing less, doing it longer, harder, none of that.We're complete in him, complete in Christ, and that can't be improved on.And the body of Christ, we're loved unconditionally, but most never hear this in any of these Fortune 500-style churches.And if they do, it's always followed with a, "but," and then they add a condition.It's a counterfeit gospel that only appears to be good news.But as ambassadors with a greater news, the best news, we need to be faithful to the assignment.Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ.2 Corinthians 5:20, ...as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God.So many wonderful verses overlooked.Another verse that flies under the radar is found over there in the 5th chapter of Romans.It's rarely preached, verse 13, (For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law...)Now that's a good verse.It should settle it.When limited forgivers come here, they have a hard time with this one.Has the law been in effect during your lifetime?Well, if the answer is no, and it is, then the Truth Time position here, the one we hold to, is correct.And the entire limited forgiver platform callapses.That argument faceplants.For Christ's sake, God stopped imputing the world's sins, and this offends the grace Pharisees.I don't know why.It's good news.But, hey, Satan has to be celebrating.Millions out here needing to hear this, but religion with its man-made cohorts remain blind to this truth.And we forgive others, listen, we forgive others the same way God forgave us.He forgave us and stopped imputing our sins without us doing anything.We didn't have to be there, we didn't have to acknowledge it, we didn't have to know about it, ask for it, believe it.He just did it.He demonstrated his immeasurable love by 2 Corinthians 5:19, removing the sin barrier that had stood between him and man, making a way for us to, verse 20, be ye reconciled by simple faith.Which we do by believing the gospel, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures, was buried and rose again the third day according to the scriptures.When the unbeliever repents, changes their mind, changes it from what they were trusting for salvation, and decides to trust Christ alone, they are cleared of guilt, justified, made righteous.We're not saved by asking, inviting, turning, making, forsaking, praying, or joining, but through simple faith in what Christ done for us, on our behalf, in our behalf.It's amazing news, guys.Be faithful to the assignment, go tell someone about this today.And remember, you only get two educations.The one you're given, and the one you give yourself.Grace and peace.

Truth Time Radio. We will continue to deliver sound, biblical teaching to help you grow in grace.Rightly dividing the word of truth, and keeping it real.Hey guys, glad you chose to spend your day with us here on the Truth Time app.Having some wonderful discussions with some of you.Those here at Truth Time are committed to bringing you mid-acts grace studies and even throwing some grace music along the way.So glad you're here.Let's address a listener comment right now.This one says, Thankful to have found you.Growing up in a strict Catholic family, we attended Mass every Sunday.I attended parochial school.I prayed the sign of the cross, the Hail Mary, and more Our fathers that I care to remember.I'm so thankful to hear about the ministry of Paul.Out of all the apostles, I was taught that it was the words of Peter that I should follow.I now recognize my error and, and saddened by how many still think this.Please never stop teaching us how to rightly divide. It has changed my life.What you were taught is called Petrine primacy.Catholics say Peter is the foundational rock of the church, and in their mind, they're, they're the only true church.But as shocking as it may sound, the apostle Peter never said a word to us.Sometimes the truth is stranger than fiction.Peter preached the Mark 1:15 gospel of the kingdom, but Paul, he preached the Acts 20:24 gospel of the grace of God.Very different.Peter's gospel, it was restricted to the circumcision.The circumcised Jews there in Israel.Paul's gospel was unrestricted and able to come to the rest of the world, us.And both of those statements can be verified in one verse, Galatians 2:7.In Acts 2, Peter preached the cross, but not for forgiveness.He said, Repent and be baptized for the remission of sins.Furthermore, he wasn't even talking about all sins.The remission of sins only concerns past sins. Romans 3:25.Peter was never given the revelation of the mystery that Paul received and is why his teachings remain in line with what he was taught by Jesusduring their three-and-a-half years together.Peter never said a word to you.His sermons were Acts 2:36 restricted to the house of Israel.The law of Moses was still operating.Are you law-minded or grace-minded?You see, the twelve apostles, they never stopped keeping the law.They never stopped law-keeping.Acts 10, well into the Book of Acts, and past the death, burial, and resurrection, and watch what Peter says.Verse 28, ...Ye know how that it is an unlawful thing for a man that is a Jew to keep company, or come unto one of another nation; but God hath shewed me that I should not call any man common or unclean.See that?Peter said it's unlawful.Yet today's denominational preachers want us to unsee what we can plainly see and play the pretend game, pretend that Paul taught the same doctrine as the twelve.But instead of pretending, let's be Bible students and just flip through some pages.Look over in chapter 11, in chapter 11 there you'll notice in verse 2 that the other apostles, verses 2 and 3 actually, the other apostles here, they were not happy, and they even contended with Peter.An argument ensued.They were upset with him for breaching the law, and in verse 9 he explained what happened.He told the others that what God had told him, What God hath cleansed, call not thou common.And we turn a few more pages and see that Peter, James, John, and the boys, they were all observing the law way over in Acts chapter 15.Look at verse 1, watch, And certain men which came down from Judaea taught the brethren, and said, Except ye be circumcised after the manner of Moses, ye cannot be saved.There's the law for salvation hidden right here in plain sight.But some lazy Bible students to this day, some 2000 years later, are still trying to convince us that Peter and the apostles before Paul, oh, they taught salvation by grace just like he did.Some try to convince us that what we just saw with our own eyes isn't really what we just saw with our own eyes.Okay, let's continue. Flip to chapter 21, and you'll see there in verse 20, you'll see this, And when they heard it, they glorified the Lord, and said unto him, Thou seest, brother, how many thousands of Jews there are which believe; and they are all zealous of the law:Now here we go again, all the way over in chapter 21, and they're still keeping the law.And did it zealously all the way to the end of their lives.That's why we have verses that say, He that endures unto the end shall be saved.Law keeping wasn't a part-time job for them, yet the religious system says the twelve apostles taught the same thing Paul did.It's incredible how far some will go to lord over you.Peter, under law, was following the instructions Jesus gave him back there in Matthew chapter 10, These twelve, Jesus sent forth and commanded them, saying, Go not into the way of the Gentiles.He said, Only go to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. And that's what Peter did.In Acts chapter 3 verse 24 from the mouth of Peter, he said, Yea, and all the prophets from Samuel and those that follow after, as many as have spoken, have likewise foretold of these days.See that?What Peter preached was spoken while what Paul preached was things kept secret, Roman 16:25.When Peter spoke these words, prophecy was being fulfilled.And clear over here toward the end of your Bible in 2 Peter chapter 1, look at verse 19.I want you to notice what he wrote, We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed,...Saying Peter and Paul preached the same thing is a dumpster fire.It isn't until we see the Apostle Paul come on the scene that we notice a change.And that's why in Romans 11:25 he said, For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery,...There it is, that's what most miss....that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.It was their blindness that caused their fall.God gave them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear.And the time of prophecies being fulfilled came to a halt.Israel's program was postponed due to their unbelief.God hung up a closed sign right there on Israel's prophecy door.Religious folk, they'll hang their hat on Acts 2:38 even though it's not their mail.But this is what happens, this is what replacement theology has caused.It causes text theft, stealing scriptures addressed to Israel and claiming them for yourselves.Acts 2:38 is Peter addressing Israel about repenting and being baptized for the remission of their sins that are passed.Something many are blindly overlooking, remission of past sins, which is what Paul addressed in Romans 3:25.But in Colossians 2:13 he said that we, we who don't steal Israel's mail, we are forgiven all sins.Not just sins that are passed, but all sins.Which doesn't match 2 Peter 1:9.Peter to the little flock there, he told them that they were purged from their old sins.Old sins, all sins, pretty simple to see the difference.Now, there's a preacher out here, old preacher Breaker, better known as Faker Breaker.He won't address this.He started a blood cult and claims that Romans 3:25 is the gospel that saves.But he doesn't address the fact that the verse plainly says sins that are past.He denies the very words right here in the King James Bible.And it gives very little attention to context.You know, lack of context is the mother of all misunderstanding.Peter said he was purged of his old sins and old sins are past sins.But in Colossians 2:13 Paul says we're forgiven of all sins.Things that are different just aren't the same, but Faker Breaker there, he won't tell you this because it may hurt his book sales.The one with all the fake quotes in it.Now, in 2 Corinthians 5:19, if you've yet to see that verse, go look at it.There you'll see that Paul said God stopped charging sins to the world.Amazing news that many still don't know nothing of.Partly because of preachers like Breaker who are still attached to their religion.He's half in and half out, a fence straggler.A part-time gracer who knows just enough about grace to be dangerous.He won't tell you that we're living in God's dispensation of grace and how he forgave sins and stopped imputing them to the world.He won't tell you that Acts 26:18 says that all we need to do to be saved is receive that.Receive, believe forgiveness of sins was accomplished.He's a career-religionist.They're detached from reality and can't see the difference between these things.But a good minister is careful to rightly divide and make a straight cut to help connect the dots so you can see the distinctions that are in your Bible.Even distinctions concerning forgiveness.Many Bible divisions get overlooked.Distinctions between the Luke 12:32 little flock and the Colossians 1:18 church which is the body of Christ.Between the Matthew chapter 6 verses 9 and 10, earthly kingdom, and the 2 Corinthians 5:1, and Philippians 3:20, heavenly kingdom.Between water baptism, Matthew 3:16, and spirit baptism, 1 Corinthians 12:13, between selling all your possessions, layin' the money there at the Apostle's feet, Acts 4:35, and what Paul tells us which is to take care of our home and work so we can feed our family, 2 Thessalonians 3:10.These are different instructions and you don't have to major in economics to see the two different economies here.We see verses where Paul, he greeted believers who hosted the church in their home.But the little flock, hey, in early Acts they didn't even own a home.What need would they have for a home if the kingdom was at hand?Luke 12:22, And he said unto his disciples, Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat; neither for the body, what ye shall put on.Now, follow closely, Jesus tells the little flock, don't think about your life, don't think about food, don't think about your wardrobe.But religion, they come along and change this to, well, you know, what Jesus really meant was, don't think too much about it.As they stand there behind the pulpit of misinformation and literally add to the word of God, and the congregation just, oh yeah, they nod and say, amen.Well, this instruction was so important that you'll notice in verse 29, he repeated himself, Jesus said again, And seek not ye, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink, neither be ye of a doubtful mind.And in verse 31 he said, But rather seek ye the kingdom of God, and all these things shall be added unto you.Starting to get this, again, what need would they have to give thought for their life?Why would anyone need to think about their next meal or what clothes they wear if the kingdom's at hand?When the kingdom comes, they'll be in the presence of the king, and the king will take care of those people in the kingdom.As he said, all these things shall be added unto you.But you see, the kingdom didn't come because all of Israel didn't accept the king, they rejected him.That's why it's been postponed, and we're living in the parenthetical, the dispensation of the grace of God.Things are different. The economy is different. We're under a different administration.That's why you have to rightly divide the word of truth.Now, watch right here in verse 32, he tells them, he says to the little flock, Fear not, for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.And he goes on to say, sell everything they have because where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.Those who refuse to see these differences and how they differ with Paul's teachings, they come along and try to whitewash these things that Jesus is saying.Some say the Bible doesn't make selling your possessions mandatory for salvation.They don't believe their Bible because in Matthew chapter 19, the disciples, hey, they were astonished at what Jesus was teaching, and they responded by saying, who then, who then can be saved?And in verse (Matthew) 26, he answered, ...With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.So, what about you? Is this your doctrine? Sell everything and wait on the kingdom. That's what's going on here.Let's keep reading. Then Peter answered and said unto him, Behold, we have forsaken all, and followed thee; what shall we have therefore? Now stay with me. Think about the question, who then can be saved? Verse 29 gives us the answer.Jesus said, And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life.Now tell me this wasn't mandatory for salvation. As plain as the nose on your face right here it is, there's more than one gospel in this book.I don't care what anybody says. And the gospel of the kingdom was works based. The salvation gospel in Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, it was different.It was different than Paul's Romans through Philemon gospel. And the slight of hand preachers, they can't stand men like me who will come along and point this out.Like Paul, I say, Have I therefore become your enemy because I tell you the truth?They don't like men that are capable of opening God's word and layin' it out in a manner whereby the cookies get placed on the bottom shelf.No, they want to run everything through the spin zone so it comes out in their favor on the other side.Paul never tells us to abandon personal property, to forsake our home, to forsake our family, to sell everything we own in order to inherit eternal life.And if you fail to rightly divide these gospels, you'll find yourself facing a great paradox.There's a striking contrast between the gospel of the kingdom and Paul's gospel of grace.We're told to be good stewards over what we own. Well, being good stewards over what we have and abandon it altogether, that's just different. It's not the same.Read carefully here, 1 Corinthians chapter 16. Look at verse 2 and you decide.Did Paul give the church at Corinth the same instructions as Peter gave the Pentecostal church?Let's see. He wrote, Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store,...Now mark that, "in store."...lay by him in store, as God hath prospered him,...See what this is? This is giving based on income right here.See it? And Paul tells them to store up. See that?Even though Jesus said to lay not up, Matthew 6:19, Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal.If you miss it, you'll have to do it on purpose. And this giving based on income is opposite to the words of Jesus, opposite to the words of Peter.It's not selling your possessions and laying the proceeds down at the apostles' feet. It's not quitting your job, leaving your home and land, to wait on Jesus to set the kingdom up for you.So, you can reign as kings and priests with him. No, it's different. And they sang a new song, saying thou art worthy to take the book and to open the seals thereof, for thou what's slain, and has redeemed us to God by the blood out of every kindred and tongue, and people, and nation.And has made us unto our God kings and priests, and we, who's the we, not you, not me, and we shall reign on the earth.We're not going to reign on earth, 2 Corinthians 5:1, For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.When we follow 2 Timothy 2:15, the confusion disappears. It goes away when we divide prophecy that which was spoken and mystery that which was kept secret.It comes down to simple division. Jesus called out Peter along with eleven other men, but called out Paul all by himself. The twelve, they were sent to one nation, but Paul was sent to all nations.Paul was the apostle of the Gentiles, Acts 9:15, Romans 11:13, Romans 15:16, Ephesians 3:1, Galatians 1:2, 1 Timothy 2:7, 2 Timothy 1:11, but not Peter, he was the apostle of the Jews, Galatians 2:7.He only spoke to one Gentile in his entire ministry, and when he did, he told that Gentile to do righteous works, or God wouldn't accept him.Acts 10:35. See, there was salvation for the Gentiles during the gospel of the kingdom, but they had to go through Israel to get it, John 4:22.But Paul, he was a preacher to idol worshiping Gentiles, pagans, those who worshiped pagan idols like Apollo, Zeus, Diana, Athena, Mercury.The uneducated, they'll tell you that Peter is your apostle, even though he opened 1 Peter chapter 1 verse 1, with the words, Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers scattered throughout Pontus, Galicia, Capadosia, Asia, and Bethenia.Strangers scattered, now who might that be?Peter's little flock, the little flock of exiles of the dispersion, exiled from their homeland, the little flock of believing Israel, they're the ones called the strangers because they're in foreign lands there when they received Peter's letter.Acts chapter 8 verse 1, And Saul was consenting unto his death, this is the death of Stephen, and at that time there was a great persecution against the church, which was at Jerusalem, that's Peter's church, and they were all, what?Scattered abroad.The scattering occurred at a time when there was a distinction being made between Jew and Gentile, and salvation was of the Jews, so it's pretty obvious to a Bible student who Peter's written words were to.He wrote to the same audience James did, James opened up the letter with the same nomenclature as Peter did, he said, James a servant of God, and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the 12 tribes, which are scattered abroad.Acts 11:19 gives us more of the same, Now they which were scattered abroad... here it is again, they which were scattered abroad upon the persecution that arose about Stephen travelled as far as Phenice, and Cyprus, and Antioch, preaching the word to... and notice the next six words, none but unto the Jews only.You want to be on the side of truth or religious tradition?Here's your chance to get off the religious hamster wheel and believe God's word.Here's where the argument should end.What's there to argue about?Only someone who enjoys being rebellious would want to proceed by belaboring an argument about this.Now watch what Peter wrote in his second epistle, 2 Peter 3:1, This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance:Now think about what he said, what he wrote was to stir up their pure minds by way of remembrance.Remembering what Peter, verse 2, That ye may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets,...What Peter wrote couldn't possibly be for us, because it was for those who might remember the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets.And Peter continues in 2 Peter 3:4 by saying, ...Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.The fathers, what fathers?Not Gentile fathers, the fathers of Israel.The fathers of the set aside nation, in Peter 2:12, he tells his audience to have their conversation honest among the Gentiles.Obviously his writings were not to the Gentiles.This is confusing if you don't rightly divide, but when you adjust your focus to the gospel that Christ gave Paul, then you're positioned to grow in knowledge and grace.Peter's audience are as lively stones, a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, a chosen generation, a holy nation, 1 Peter chapter 2.But Paul describes us as 1 Corinthians 12:20, many members in one body, a body, a body of ambassadors for Christ, not a royal priesthood or holy nation.And these priests will one day reign on earth in the millennial kingdom.Peter's not going to heavenly places.Neither is James, neither is John. John said, Revelation 5:10, he said, And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth.But Paul teaches us about the kingdom in the heavenlies.What Peter wrote will equip the little flock of believing in Israel to persevere, to make it through their tribulation of Daniel's 70th week,but as most of you already know, we're not going to be there, we're not going to go through that.We'll be called up in the catching away.We're not appointed to wrath, 1 Thessalonians 5:9, we'll be delivered and saved from the wrath to come, 1 Thessalonians 1:10 and Romans 5:9.We're not a part of Peter's Acts 2, Ye men of Israel, who God's going to show wonders in heaven above and signs in the earth beneath.Blood and fire and vapor of smoke.The sun's going to turn to darkness and the moon into blood.That all happens before that great and notable day of the Lord to come.So many differences, so many differences between Peter and Paul, like prayer, for example, that's another one.We'll cover that more thoroughly in a podcast to come, but hey, when it comes to prayer, Peter was, he was taught that if he prayed, he'd receive whatever he asked for.Remember that Matthew 18:19, ...if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven.But you can read 2 Corinthians 12 and find out that didn't work out too well for the apostle Paul.He prayed not once, not twice, but three times for something and the Lord denied him and said, my grace is sufficient.Paul got a quick lesson on how to pray according to what God is doing today.A dispensational prayer life is quite different from that of time past.See, we're a part of something new, something new that God is doing today.It started in the 9th chapter of the book of Acts with the apostle Paul, and a good minister, he'll be able to skillfully make a straight cut with precision and rightly divide the word of truth for you.This is Truth Time Radio and, like Paul, we're here to deliver information that should comfort and give you full assurance.Colossians 2:2, That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God,...If you're not certain about your salvation, know this.Christ died for all your sins.2 Corinthians 5:19, Colossians 2:13.He was buried but rose the third day to give you eternal life in him.So believe on him right now. Go ahead and do it.Before it's too late.

Today on Truth Time.Forgiveness of sins isn't tangible. You can't see or handle it. You can only believe that it happened or you can reject it through disbelief or indifference. So, as we see, shot at and missed by the limited forgivers.Maybe they should reload and try again. They need some new material. If this verse, if it were telling anyone how to get their unforgiven sins forgiven, it would have read that their sins may be forgiven. If someone refuses to believe the good news that God has forgiven them for the sake of his Son, rather than for the sake of themselves and on the merit of their own personal belief, then they are doing the opposite of receiving forgiveness of sins. There's no scripture anywhere in Paul's epistles that says God is offering forgiveness in exchange for belief. What Paul's gospel does say is it's a declaration of what is already done to be either received or rejected. This is Truth Time Radio. Truth Time Radio often marked but rarely avoided.Funny how those who claim to have marked and avoided you are the very ones who know the most about you. Alright, last time in our study of chapter 3 here in the book of Romans,we showed the result of everything Paul had written so far and how that it was both Jews and Gentiles that are now on the same level, the same level in the sight of God because of Israel's fall. So, today we're going to look at the terms, "by faith," and, "through faith,"here in verse 30. Is there a difference? Yes, no, maybe? If there's a difference, what is it? Since the sentence that verse 30 is a part of starts in verse 29, let's start there. Let's just back up and start in verse 29 here, Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also: verse 30, Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith.By faith and through faith, although related terms, have different meanings, two different terms for two different groups of people. The common denominator for the means of justification for both the circumcision and uncircumcision is faith. But the application, the application and the result of that faith for salvation is different for each group. We need to grab hold of that. Generally speaking, throughout scripture, by faith is applied to somethingthat can be expressed outwardly, you know, things that can be seen of others, while through faith is expressed toward what is inward, such as believing, trusting, thinking.We often see accounts of good works and deeds being done by faith and the reception of information done through faith. There's a difference. We see many examples of this in God's word. Hebrews 11, Hebrews 11, there you'll find several verses of works doneoutwardly by faith. Yet, we see the words through faith used to describe how Sarah receivedstrength to conceive seed. This was not an outward work that Sarah did, it was an inward reception of strength given to her by God. It was something unseen. The word "by" almost always indicates source or motivation for an outward work when associated with a believer exercising their faith. When something is done by faith, we can usually see it performed. The term, "by faith," answers the questions, why or how? The circumcision shall be justified by faith.And that's faith proven by works. That's what declares them righteous, just as we find in Deuteronomy chapter 6 verse 25."Through" is a directional word. When we think of going through something, we understand that we cannot go through something without being in it, right?So, through faith will always answer the questions, when or where? We receive something through faith by receiving it in faith. The uncircumcision is justified through faith by receiving the gospelin faith. These two methods for justification, which means to be declared righteous, are not the same. One includes works by faith, and the other discludes works through faith. Any outward obedience to God is performed by faith, while inward reception of his word as truth is through faith.Let's look at some examples in Paul's epistles of God's word being received as truth for examples of what is done through faith. In 1 Corinthians 15:1 here, Paul, he's outlining our gospel, and he recalls that both he and the recipients of this letter had already received the gospel he had preached to them. It was brought to them in the form of spoken words, not something tangibleto be seen or touched, but information to be heard and believed. Paul delivered words to them, and their reception of those words as it is in truth, the word of God was through faith.Paul demonstrates this pattern of receiving the word of God through faith here in 1 Thessalonians chapter 2 verse 13 as well. He says, For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.You see, we received God's word through faith by counting it as truth and believing it.Some more examples of how information is received as the word of God in truth through faith, look at Romans 5. Romans chapter 5, and let's get verse 11, verse 11, Romans chapter 5 verse 11, And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement. Christ's atonement was presented to God the Father with a sprinkling of hisblood on the mercy seat in heaven. Hebrews is an excellent book, one that explains how the, the foreshadowing of sin sacrifices was fulfilled in Christ's atonement. No one can come away from an honest reading of this here believing that Christ's atonement was presented to man for his acceptance instead of God. No way, we hear some teach that. That's, that's error. When Paul wrote, We have now received the atonement, he means we who have believed have accepted the news as the word of God in truth through faith. Proof of this is found in the verses prior and following.The reception of the atonement here in Romans 5:11. Christ's death for sins of all the world, his burial and resurrection, as well as the salvific benefits of the believer in the gospel of Christ.Paul describes what happened for the lost world as a result of the atonement, and goes on to describe salvation for those who have now received the atonement.So, it's through faith that we receive the atonement by believing the good news Paul brought us concerning what it achieved, the gospel that was received by those at Corinth, the gospel that he praised the Thessalonians for receiving as the word of God as it is in truth.We can only receive two types of items, those that are tangible and those that are intangible.Anything that can be experienced with physical human senses, well, that's tangible.But intangible things can only be received inwardly. Reception of information as truth is receiving it through faith. Here's an example. Let's get an example of reception of information through faith that the limited forgivers they really struggle with. Acts 26 verse 18, Acts 26:18, they struggle with this and they call it a gotcha' verse, but it don't get anybody.Okay, Acts 26:18, To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God,... Now here comes the information that Paul, he hopes they will receive not as the word of men, but as it is in truth the word of God, just like 1 Thessalonians 2:13 said.Now watch, ...that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me. Hopefully you get this, forgiveness of sins isn't tangible. You can't see or handle it. You can only believe that it happened or you can reject it through disbelief or indifference. So, as we see, shot at and missed by the limited forgivers.Maybe they should reload and try again. They need some new material. If this verse, if it were telling anyone how to get their unforgiven sins forgiven, it would have read that their sins may be forgiven. Pretty simple.What is the opposite of receive? Reject. If someone refuses to believe the good news that God has forgiven them for the sake of his son, rather than for the sake of themselves, and on the merit of their own personal belief, then they are doing the opposite of receiving forgiveness of sins. There's no scripture anywhere in Paul's epistles that says God is offeringforgiveness in exchange for belief. What Paul's gospel does say is it's a declaration of what is already done to be either received or rejected. Limited forgivers reject God's forgiveness, Christ's atonement, and the very gospel that tells us the sin debt was paid in full at the cross.It's one thing to be ignorant of truth, but it's, to openly reject it is far worse.To reject God's completed forgiveness and instead credit your own belief as being the incentive that moves God to do something he's already done, just so that you can reject it and claim that you got yourself forgiven instead, well, that's shameful. Consider Paul's warning, that warning that he gave the Corinthians concerning their tendency to glory as if they were the source and the cause of what they had received. You'll find it in 1 Corinthians chapter 4.Over there in verse 7, For who maketh thee to differ from another? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? now if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it?Those who believe you're able to get God to forgive you by believing he's waiting on you to activate him, to move him to do it, those who think that he cannot forgive your sins unless he gets something in return from you first. Those who think that the atonement is somehow given or applied to you upon your belief instead of being presented to the Father on your behalf nearly 2,000 years ago, Paul wants you to know why you are glorying as if you are the source and the reason of your own forgiveness from God. Instead of it being freely given to you, like he praised the Thessalonians for. When he said to them, When ye received the word of God, which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe. When Paul went to the Thessalonians with the good news about the atonement of Christ, for the forgiveness of their sins to be completed, the burial and the resurrection unto eternal life, they basically just said, God said it through Paul, and that settles it for us. They received it. They didn't earn it through something they did.They received it through faith, but the Corinthians, they wanted to boast in what they had received.As though they had generated it themselves, kind of like the limited forgivers of today, as if they were the source of what they had and what they had learned. As though they had earned it instead of receiving it.Paul rebuked them for this attitude.Anyone who doesn't believe sins were forgiven at the cross, hey, they'd do well to take this into consideration. If our belief activated God's forgiveness, then we could glory. We could glory as though we didn't receive it from him. We could act like we generated his forgiveness toward us on our own, which is contrary to the truth that was revealed to Paul. It's exactly what all limited forgivers across denominations do. But if we just received that which is declared as truth, that God has forgiven us on account of his son's atonement for our sins, then through faith, we receive it instead of heretically claiming to originate it.Ironically, this deception of how through faith affects the reception of the atonement in Acts 26:18, it also contains a reference to, by faith. Let's see if we can relate this "by faith" in Acts 26:18 to the "by faith" of Romans 3:30. Verse 30 here says that the circumcision shall be justified by faith. Acts 26:18 is actually Christ speaking, instructing Paul about what to tell the Gentiles concerning what happened to their sins, and about an inheritance for them that is among other believers who were already sanctified before Jesus sent Paul to the Gentiles.Now watch, That they might receive forgiveness of sins, an inheritance among them, that are sanctified by faith that is in me. Them that are sanctified here can only describe one group, the alreadycircumcised little flock. Most missed this. So, when Paul is describing for King Agrippa what Jesus said to him on the road of Damascus, he's sayin' that Jesus wanted him to take this gospel of the grace of God, the good news about how Christ's atonement forgave their sins, his burial, and resurrection to the Gentiles, so that they would receive that good news as the truth of God through faith in order to partake in the body of Christ inheritance as adopted children of God.Adopted children among those the little flock, who were already sanctified by, not through, faith that they had in Jesus Christ. Read Hebrews 11, go do that sometime and you'll see that Israel was required to exercise their faith in the form of outward works to maintain their salvation.They had to endure until the end to be saved. They believed God's promises as truth through faith, but they obeyed his instructions to do outward works by faith.When we take this information and apply it to Romans 3:30, it becomes clear.There is now no difference between the circumcision, Israel, and the uncircumcision, Gentiles, and that faith is the vehicle by which justification is achieved for both groups.This is good, how this unfolds. I hope you're all seeing this.In time past, Gentiles, they had to go through Israel in order to receive God's word through faith. But now, no more.Acts 15 also describes this, and it's why a letter was sent out to the Gentile churches to let them know that they were not required, to keep the law as the Judaizers over there were trying to convince them by corrupting them from the simplicity that is in Christ. For the believing circumcision, the little flock, their justification required outward works being done by faith. In James's letter to them, he asked, James 2:14, he said, What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him? When you read the next two verses, the obviously implied answer is a resounding, No! James says that faith alone does not save anyone.He further says point a couple of verses later, verse 17, Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead being alone. And verse 18, watch this, Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works.James says faith without works is dead, plain and simple. People try to spin this. We've heard, but no, it's plain. You can get that. It's straight up, straight truth there for you. He says that faith without works can't save. Fortunately, he's not talking to us. He's talking to the little flock.We can't overlook the fact that he's telling them that their reception of God's word as truth through faith is not enough to save them. They also have to do works, and those works have to be done by faith. And then we find it very interesting that we've got a complete, a completely different take on Abraham being counted as righteous than what we'll get from Paul in Romans chapter 4.Paul says Abraham's faith alone is counted as righteousness. But James 2, he states, But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar?(Verse 22) Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect?(Verse 23) And the scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was called the Friend of God. (Verse 24) Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only. So, who's right, Paul or James?When we get further into this study in the next chapter, Romans 4, we'll see that they are both right. Just talking to different audiences with different gospels, Galatians chapter 2 verse 7.Different audience, different gospels, different purposes, and different hopes.James 2 just clearly explained what Paul meant by the circumcision being justified by faith in Romans 3.A clear truth for the little flock, no works to prove their faith equals no justification for them.But for the body of Christ, if we try to work to earn our justification, that's the opposite.That's the opposite of our gospel. And as Paul told us, it's another that isn't another.Which won't save anyone. Not today. Since Israel has fallen from their elevated status, that means every lost person alive today qualifies as the uncircumcision in the but now dispensation of grace. For the uncircumcision only the receiving of the gospel, which is through faith, is required for justification. No works added. There's no maintenance program for us. How does one receive the gospel?By believing the salvation doctrine that Paul preaches, believing that it is the first Thessalonians 2:13 word of God in truth. Here where we are in Romans 3, Paul is, he's still explaining why and how Israel fell, and how they are now no longer favored above any Gentile. These Jews here in Paul's Roman audience, they need to hear, they need to hear this in order to be saved according to Paul's gospel of the grace of God. By faith is outward, through faith is inward.By faith, something is performed, through faith, something is received.That's a pretty simple breakdown of this. The circumcision had to perform works by faith to be justified. The uncircumcision had to receive the gospel through faith by believing it is the word of God given to them, and not the word of man. Now we've come to verse 31. This verse ends the chapter, but this topic will carry over to chapter 4. But let's end it here. Let's end it with the "through faith" of verse 31, Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law. See that? This is a valid concern for those in Paul's audience who were born under the law.The question here is, does this faith alone with no works, does this gospel make God's perfect law to be meaningless? Paul answers with yet another, God forbid. To think that God's law is of no good and is useless or without holiness, that's forbidden. That is a forbidden mindset. Instead, Paul confirms that the law is established through faith. Why? Because nothing has ever been done by faith without coming from that which is received as the word of God in truth through faith.Without someone, namely Moses, receiving the law as the word of God in truth through faith, it would have not been established as a way to be justified by faith as a means of salvation for Israel. That is how the law was established through faith. Okay, we'll close here. Just remember, all information received from God as truth during all dispensations has been received through faith. Get that. And all good works that have ever been done throughout all dispensations on account of faith have been done by faith. Don't miss this difference. Anyone who believes God through faith is counted righteous. We'll go over more of this in chapter 4, but Israel has always been required to perform works by faith in order to be declared righteous, which is the definition of justification. The body of Christ is only required to receive our gospel through faith,because we're declared righteous, justified on the account of Christ by the faith of Christ that Paul preached, and not on the merit of our own works. We're still called to do good works by faith. As we were created in Christ unto them, Ephesians 2:10, but works aren't our justification.Christ is.Galatians 2:16. The question is how are the circumcision and the uncircumcision justified, and hopefully this podcast has answered that question for you.You only get two educations. The one you're given, and the one you give yourself.

This is Truth Time Radio. Go download the app today, go to the website truthtimeradio.com,download the free app and go enjoy back-to-back grace teachings 24 hours a day.Okay, we're asking the question, Can someone be saved by changing their lifestyle?Possibly the most deceiving false gospel out there is the change of lifestyle gospel.Claiming that a changed life is what saves you. They also say it's your changed life that proves you're saved. They've sort of set themselves up as judge and jury, and if you don't show them evidence of a changed life, then they pronounce you guilty of never being saved in the first place.To that I say, oh foolish Galatians, who have bewitched you, bewitched you into believing this damnable heresy. Teaching a lifestyle change for salvation, teaching that a believer cansuffer loss of salvation, teaching that if you were really saved, you wouldn't be doing that, are all damnable heresies contrary to Paul's gospel of the grace of God.Anything other than salvation by grace through faith in the finished crosswork and resurrection of Christ is a fictitious gospel. If you want to argue with that, you can argue with the rightly divided word of truth found in your Bible.In Galatians 1, Paul wrote, Grace be to you and peace from God the Father and from our Lord Jesus Christ.Now listen, listen, if you're not walking in this grace and peace that Paul spoke of here, peace in knowing that your salvation is permanent and secure in Christ, then my friend, you've allowed yourself to be taken in by another gospel other than Paul's.Okay, verse 4, Who gave himself for our sins.Now, think a moment. Come on, how foolish it is for someone who can read and understand 5thgrade King James English, how foolish it would be to walk away from this verse and teach people that they need to do something to get their sins forgiven. Jesus literally gave himself for the sins that the work-trusters say you need to do something about for your justification.And what does that do? That only places you under bondage.Saying we can be saved by changing our lifestyle is nothing short of corrupt communication.Some, they live the sort of lifestyle that quite frankly it would be a good thing if they did change, but changing won't save them. Life style change is not a qualification for salvation.What must I do to be saved there in Acts chapter 16? What must I do to be saved?Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved.Nothing there about a lifestyle change. There's nothing we can do to earn God's favor because we received it through Christ. Ephesians 1:13 tells us that if you want to be saved, you trust Christby believing the gospel after you've heard the gospel. And at that very moment, you're sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise unto the day of redemption. Where's the lifestyle change? Oh, it can happen, but it don't save you. It won't save anyone. Our morality is incapable of saving us.Coming to understand this, that our lifestyle doesn't determine our eternal destiny, you know what that does? That removes a tremendous weight from our shoulders. Understanding that those things you're struggling with, things you haven't been able to change, understanding that they cannot keep you from a relationship with God. That's freeing. That's liberating. Christ defeated every last one of those things on your behalf when he shed his blood and died for them. He was then buried and rose on the third day, defeating death, hell, and the grave. And it's this sort of teaching that is so offensive to the work-trusters. Those who are not only trusting in self-effort for salvation, but pushing that devilish belief onto others. It's hard to imagine, and this thought crosses my mind frequently, but it's hard to imagine how anyone can claim that they can be saved any other way than relying totally on God's grace. People say, you know, they give lip service to, "Jesus died on the cross," but yet they make those who struggle with certain sins feel uncomfortable and even unloved when around them. Whether in a church setting or at a family gathering, it's hypocritical is what it is. Imagine telling someone that Jesus died for their sins, but then treating them like he didn't. Those doing this are the embodiment of hypocrisy, displaying outward piety while lacking inner compassion for others. Work-trusting status-seekers who outwardly try to appear righteous, but inwardly they're full of dead men's bones. Judging certain sins above others is what they do. Oh, Uncle Joe sits there full of anger, and there's dad, hateful and bitter.Grandma, she murders more people with her gossiping tongue than Jeffrey Dahmer.Oh, but they get a pass. But let someone whose had a divorce or two, served time in prison, struggleswith addiction, or is a transgender, let them show up at the family function and watch what happens.The self-righteous narcissists lose their mind. The whole temperature of the room changes.Oh, now wait a minute, Jesus didn't die for that now.2 Corinthians 5:19, the word disagrees with you. God stopped imputing the world's trespasses.That's plain. They don't get that. They don't get it, but it's plain. They don't get it. And if they do, they don't like it. It's offensive to the grace frustrating work-trusters. Colossians 2:13, here's one for you, Hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you (How many?) all trespasses.Nope, they don't believe that. They don't believe it. They don't care what the Bible says.The gospel of grace declares that Christ was punished for all sins.Therefore, no one today is being punished for the sins that he was already punished for.That makes no sense. And everyone, no one excluded, struggles with something. Whether they're able to admit it or not. And as soon as you think you've arrived, you've conquered all of yours.You're now beyond and above everyone. Well, watch out, pride cometh before the fall.You'd be wise to stay humble, stay compassionate toward others, and what they may be going through.And 2 Corinthians chapter 10, what does Paul say? It's not wise to compare ourselves among ourselves. Stop looking at others. Stop looking at them from a place of judgment.And humble, humble yourself. Thinking you're better because you don't struggle with the same sins they do, that makes me, that makes me think of, well, let's just go there. Luke 18, this self-righteous lifestyle change another gospel makes me think of a passage over there.Let's just read it and believe it. Something hard for many to do today, but let's try it without man's spin zone, without man's private interpretation. Can we do that? Luke 18 and verse 10, let's start here, 10 Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the other a publican. Verse 11 The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican. A publican was a tax collector. They'd often extort money for personal gain. They weren't very popular. They were sinners no doubt, but that didn't stop Jesus from associating with them. Zacchaeus, for example, a man of great wealth. He was Jericho's chief publican. If Jesus, if he'd acted like those we have today, these self-righteous grace frustrating work-trusters, he would have never hung out with a Zacchaeus, which means he would have never been able to convert him. See how that works? Come down off your high horse. Get real, be real, be real with others. Okay, back to the prayer here for this self-righteous Pharisee, verse 12, I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess. Verse 13 And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner.And watch what Jesus says here: Verse 14 I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other, (The publican) for every one that exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.Whether it's the gospel of the kingdom or the gospel of the grace of God, the self-righteous hypocrites are dung out of luck. The gospel of our salvation is that even in our most wretched state, Christ demonstrated his magnificent love toward us by dying. He died for the things we struggle with, sins. The cross was the ultimate display of his great love for humanity.But see, some, some, they get a little taste of grace, and then like the Galatians, they do a U-turn and start living according to the flesh again. What did Paul, what did he have to say about them?Galatians 3:3. He asked a question. He said, Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh? Hmm, watch out for the work-trusters, wearing grace disguises. They look down on others and pass out harsh judgments. And this is to distract from their own faults and failures. When it comes down to it, that's what's going on. Outwardly, they pretend to have it all together. But inwardly, their insecurities have made them sad and miserable.True brotherly love is expressed by us supporting one another, not afraid to reach out and offer support to those newer and perhaps weaker in the faith. But we have grace pharisees out here, so beware. Sounds oxymoronic, I know, but it's true. They say grace this, grace that, but when certain people with certain sins are being discussed or come around them, you'll see the ugly Pharisee come out and show his face. Listen, grace is either unmerited or it's merited.There's no gray in grace, no middle ground. If it's unmerited, it's free to all people everywhere and not just who you and your little sect deems worthy. Mixing grace with your personal standard of good enoughism isn't grace. Telling someone they need to change their lifestyle to be good enough for God, that's not grace. Saying that a turn from sin is what merits grace is just another lie. Romans 11:6 will clear that up, And if by grace, then it is no more of works: otherwise, grace is no more grace. Get it? For justification, grace and works don't mix. Any other message, any other one than the one of grace is toxic. Stay away. Religion fears grace, you see. Some avoid teaching it all together. Others, well, they only teach it in a watered down form, their version,saying, oh yeah, it's grace, but that's where the trouble, that's where it generally goes off the rails. Justification is by grace through faith minus the "but." Leave that out. This isn't billygoat Christianity. No room for "but this," "but that." The gospel of the grace of God is pure, unadulterated, 100% grace, which means unearned, unmerited favor. The gospel of self-effort only leads to exhaustion.It's a counterfeit. It's a counterfeit and it only feeds and fuels pride. And what does it do?It'll have you relentlessly working to gain favor during the dispensation of grace when favor is unearned. Working for something free only leads to burnout, spinning your wheels, getting nowhere.Our transformation is only achieved through faith in the finished crosswork and the resurrection of our dear Savior Jesus Christ. That's where, listen, that's where your identity, that's where your hope, and, and rest is found. If you'll remember the very first book of the Bible, we see the just how important rest is. In Hebrew, the name Noah, the name Noah meant rest. His father named him that, knowing that he would finally bring about rest from the curse that God had put on the ground.And in the sixth chapter over there in the sixth chapter of Genesis, we see Noah rest. We see that rest found grace in the eyes of the Lord. He told him how to build the ark and he obeyed. He constructed the ark, which was the mode of salvation for all who would just enter by faith, enter in and rest. They couldn't save themselves. They only needed to obey their gospel by entering in before the flood came and take rest. Just like today, you and I can't save ourselves. We simply need to obey our gospel. Our rest comes through Jesus Christ in his work, his work on our behalf. And this bothers, this offends the work-trusters, the lifestyle changers, and those of us willing to, to truth stand on this grace like Paul. Well, we're said to be the 1 Corinthians 4:13 filth and offscouring of the world. How dare we preach the grace of God instead of his wrath and punishment? How dare we?Just who do we think we are? Followers of Paul, that's who, 1 Corinthians 11:1. Once we truly come to know the love of God, come to know his unmatched grace, our outlook on life takes a complete turn for the better. We not only rest, but we rejoice in the cross of Christ and his resurrection. We rest in our new identity found in him. The reason so many never experience, never experience a deep relationship with God is they never get past worrying about their sins and their salvation. They never do.They're on the hamster wheel of religion, never entering into that settled state of rest.And not knowing that you're saved, oh, that's a horrifying place to be.It's when you finally come to that place of total security in Christ when it's no longer a hope so salvation, but a no so salvation, that's when things start to get really good. It's important to know that we cannot make ourselves right, but through faith in him, we were made right. We didn't do it. But the counterfeit gospel of self-righteousness is more appealing to somebecause it allows them to feel better than others. To place themselves above others. They claim to believe the red letters of Jesus, yet, when he said, There is none good but one that is God, they don't believe it. They don't believe it. They actually think they're good. Religion warped their thinking.That's why religion never worked for me. I knew I could never be good enough for God. That was no mystery to me. Like Paul, I felt like the chief of sinners. But self-righteous people can't admit this. Somehow they miss the fact that when you submit to trusting in self for salvation with all the rule keeping, you've placed yourself under a yoke of bondage that requires perfection.The word of God confirms this. In Galatians chapter 3 verse 10, For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.See, the quote, "good folks" down at the corner church, they failed to tell you this. How that once you signed up for the do-gooder program, you cursed yourself into trying to measure up. You signed up, but you can't keep up.And no one else there can either. They're just good at faking it. But in reality, dealing with the lack of assurance that comes with the performance gospel, it's like living in a constant storm of uncertainty. A life of striving to be better than other people is, that's no life at all.But the grace life, now that's different. God has an abundance of undeserved unearned love for his children and transforming our mind by embracing his free favor instead of working to try to get it and keep it, that's at the heart of the grace message. Salvation is instant and permanent upon our trusting him, and it doesn't come with a maintenance plan. The maintenance plan is what legalism teaches, but it places you under a curse of trying to be better than the others, which only fuels all sorts of anxieties and leads to one disappointment after another.The ones that are most judgmental of others are the very ones that are in the most pain.And their judgmental attitude toward people is actually their way of coping with their own struggles, their own shortcomings. They use projection to deflect from themselves.Work-trusters claim that if one is truly saved, their lifestyle will exhibit it.But this saved by your lifestyle gospel, it's very attractive to the self-righteous fruit inspectors. It gives them a measuring stick, a way to gauge, a way to gauge others to see if they pass or not.It gives them a sense of authority over other people. There's multiple problems with this sort of belief. One being, if salvation, if it's measured on lifestyle change, then how much of a lifestyle change is required? 10%, does that work? 25, 50 perhaps? Or do we need to exhibit a 100% lifestyle change? Just when is the change deemed good enough?This idea of taking the moral high ground to heaven won't end well.Do you not realize how many, quote, "good people" are going to be in hell?It'll be jam-packed with good people, seen as morally good, respected in their community.Smiley-faced, church going, water baptized sin confessors who never, not once in their life, got self out of the way long enough to trust Christ alone. Trust him apart from all their goodness.A lifestyle change can most definitely follow conversion, but the work-trustors aren't aware that change is not proof of conversion. They backload human works into the gospel, causing the believer to measure their salvation by their own human effort, by personal performance.Here at Truth Time, we try not to prejudge, but rather go where the evidence leads us.And I can tell you this, we've found no evidence, no evidence whatsoever suggesting that a lifestyle change is a ticket for entering heaven. So, if you've taken the focus off self and trusted Christ alone, praise God, you're saved. Stop worrying about it. Let it go.Now, developing some lifestyle changes can be a good thing, no doubt, but a lifestyle change cannot save anyone. Okay, go download the free app, study along with us. This is TTR, the word of reconciliation, and songs of grace.

Today, on Truth Time, Paul isn't teaching the kingdom gospel, he's simply explaining how the same sacrifice of Christ on the cross also was a propitiation for Israel's past sins, which is exactly, it is precisely what their sacrificial system pointed them to.Fortunately for us, who are part of the world, which now in this current dispensation includes Israel, fortunately, God stopped imputing those sins at the cross, 2 Corinthians 5:19, a truth that is subsequent to the remission of sins that are past.That's where our focus as ambassadors lies.This faith in his blood, it's not our gospel, and it's not a reference to God having faith.And it's not a supporting verse for the false claim that belief is required for forgiveness.This is Truth Time Radio.Part 12 of the Romans verse by verse study today, we address chapter 3 verses 22 to 31, finishing out the chapter.Back in chapter 1 verse 17, we saw the words, For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith.Now when we take the full context of Romans 1, 2, and 3 into account, we can read Romans 1:16 and 17, and there we'll see that the righteousness of God is revealed within the gospel of Christ from the faith of God, that's the law that was given to Moses, to the faith of Christ, which is our gospel, the gospel of the grace of God, given to Paul.See, the faith being preached before Paul to the nation Israel is what Paul called the faith of God, not what he calls the faith of Christ.Two different faiths.Now that brings us up to speed, contextually.So, let's begin here in verse 23, For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;This tells us what, why there's no difference between Jew and Gentile in verse 22, because all, both Jew and Gentile, sinned and come short of the glory of God.We'll learn more about this when we get to Romans 11, which is where Paul will further detail the fall of Israel for us.But here in chapter 3, he's already referring to the falling out of favored status with God.They sinned, they come short of the glory of God, making them no better than the Gentile nations who had no hope and were without God in the world.Over and over, since the beginning of the letter, Paul echoes how Israel and the world are now on a level playing field.Since they fell as a nation, they're no longer better than Gentile nations.The righteousness of God imputed to those of the faith of Christ is freely available unto all nations and is upon all that believe, not just Israel.Okay, verses 24 and 25, 24 Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: 25 Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;Let's stop here.Let's stop right here and respond to a few different interpretations we've heard for verse 25.Many stumble right here, but they don't have to.When we stick with the context, instead of isolating it to try and prove a singular point, it becomes pretty clear.The common thread throughout the confusion mostly lies in the phrase, "faith in his blood." "Faith in his blood."View number one, the Sonship view.Sonship theology says that this verse is all the lost person needs to believe for salvation.Somehow they've decided that anyone who has some sort of vague faith in the blood is saved.And this over-simplification removes every point that 1 Corinthians 15:1 to 4 outlines as the gospel.Number one, Christ's death for sins.Number two, his burial.Number three, his resurrection.Not needed they say.All removed from the gospel of our salvation according to the Sonshippers.This shouldn't surprise anyone, and you're probably not.Those of you who have done any research, who have researched their theology, because hey, they've openly admitted that they don't believe 1 Corinthians 15:1 to 4 is the gospel that a lost soul must believe for salvation.Instead, they make the claim that it's, quote, "A different gospel for a," quote, "different kind of salvation."One that doesn't even pertain to the soul during this life on earth.They see 1 Corinthians 15:1 to 4 only as a part of their merit, their reward system.It's so they can obtain higher and more important heavenly positions, and not what someone needs to believe to be saved from hell.Sonship theology, it comes and goes, and sometimes it's repackaged under different names to make it seem more palatable, to make it seem not so selfish and more appealing.Back in 2013, after multiple conversations with some Sonshippers, and after figuring out that nailing them down to a clear, articulable gospel of salvation pretty much proved impossible, we were told that a person is not required to believe in Christ's resurrection in order to be saved from hell.Instead, they put everyone everywhere who has ever expressed any type of ambiguous belief in Christ's blood, they put them into the saved category.The reason they do this is obvious.See, without saved people who do not see Paul's epistles as their curriculum to learn in order to obtain higher status in heaven, they wouldn't have anyone to elevate themselves above.You can't accuse them of not being ambitious, that's for sure, but their ambition is falsely labeled as "walking worthy," and "becoming sanctified," as they say.So, the idea is a vague belief in Christ's blood is what saves, but it's only those who rightly divide that will have an elevated status in heaven.This sort of belief, this sort of theology, is attractive to some.Look at me, look at me.But even then, they take it a bit further.They've created different levels of elevation among right dividers.Yeah.So, needless to say, being an ambassador with a ministry of reconciliation is pretty much completely useless to the Sonshippers.Just a few months ago, we had one tell us that our ministry is holding back the body of Christ from its full potential.Sonshipped theology has always been opposed to the ministry of reconciliation.The two are incompatible.And that fact is exactly what motivated the attack on true ambassadors of Christ from some of the Sonshippers about 13 years ago.A few chapters further into this study, we'll get further into the self-centered, self-glorifying, self-righteous doctrines of this theology.We'll talk about some of the lingo they use, which will help you better identify it.This theology uses misinterpreted scriptures in Romans based on their own confirmation biases as justification for their false doctrine.There's more to say about this, but for now just remember this.Just remember, we're saved by believing what Paul preached concerning Christ's death for all sins, his burial, and his resurrection, and not some indeterminate faith in his blood.No.For all Sonship errors, this one's the most dangerous due to the false sense of security it allows for those who neither believe nor even know the gospel of our salvation.A part of their teaching, by the way, that they can't give up without the whole doctrine falling apart.Okay, view number two.The "God has faith" view.Or we might call it ultra-hyper-canosis view.This idea is based on a misunderstanding of Romans 3:3, For what if some did not believe, shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?Now, we covered this thoroughly in Part 8.You'll find plenty of Biblical evidence that absolutely proves God doesn't qualify as one with the need to exercise faith.And to suggest such only lessens his glory by not only removing his divine all-knowing, but also his divine all-power.God's word is clear as to why the very object of man's faith, God himself, is not required to have faith.A God who needs faith is no God at all.But we see here again this phrase, "Faith in his blood," as misinterpreted by a completely different group.The same way that only a Christ who has emptied himself or set aside his deity would be required to have faith, so would the Father have to empty himself of and lay aside his deity.It's a pretty extreme view, and not one supported by scripture in context.So, the idea that God the Father had faith in God the Son's blood is utterly ridiculous and without merit.The faith of God in Romans 3:3 is clearly a term used to identify the faith that was preached prior to Paul.The one which included the law of Moses, prophecies, oracles of God all given directly to Israel.That phrase is not a declaration that God, the I AM, was required to exercise faith.The faith that Christ is the author and finisher of, and the faith that was the method set forth by the eternal power and Godhead, by which sinful man can establish a relationship with God.So no, another swing and a miss, uh, God didn't need to exercise faith in Christ's blood in order for the sins mentioned in verse 25 to be paid for.Besides, Acts 20:28, some forget this one, but over there it says that God purchased the church with his own blood.Not only does that verse prove that Jesus Christ is God because it was his blood which was shed, but it also proves that Romans 3:25 is not speaking of God's faith in his own blood, as the ultra-hyper-canosis gang would have us believe.Alright, now view number 3, the limited-forgiver view.Just like the other two, limited-forgivers also get hung up right here on the phrase, "faith in his blood."But their motive for doing so is different.It's to try and prove that the propitiation in the verse only exists when a person believes in the blood.For that reason, Romans 3:25 has become one of their new gotcha verses which they carelessly throw around, trying to prove no one was forgiven solely on the basis of Christ's atonement, but rather forgiven through their own belief.And there's several problems with this interpretation.Chiefly among them is the fact that this verse is only talking about the sins that are past.And it doesn't address the state of mankind beyond the propitiation made by Christ at the cross.So, if we're to believe this teaching, then our faith in his blood would only take care of the past sins.Which would leave it up to us to keep ourselves clean after that.I think they neglected to look around the corner at the consequence of this idea before throwing it out there as being a sound teaching.It's not.Ironically, their argument regarding faith in his blood is what most of mainstream Christianity already teaches.Denominations teach a limited forgiveness as well.Saying that forgiveness only applies to sins that are past, which were committed before salvation.That's why they promote verse 1 John 1:9 as a common practice.Even many who claim to believe in eternal security teach that future sins after salvation will take you out of fellowship with God.So, to remedy that, they teach that you must do something to get sins forgiven over and over.They got you on a shoestring, thinking that you have to keep short sin accounts with God to stay in his favor and maintain salvation.Enduring unto the end, there on that hamster wheel of religion.The holiness denomination even believed that after sins are forgiven at salvation, if you sin again, you lose it, you lose salvation, and it can't be regained.And it sounds extreme compared to the rest, but it's actually more scripturally accurate.Instead of mixing Peter with Paul, like the others, they're trying to harmonize Peter there in Acts chapters 2 through 5, and Hebrews together, which is earthly kingdom doctrine.And while it's completely wrong for our current dispensation, at least they're closer to doing a wrong thing right than most of the rest.It's highly indicative that limited forgivers, who call themselves right dividers, use the same interpretation of faith in his blood as those in denominationalism.But when you have a motive, when you have a motive to try and prove only those who believe are forgiven, well, you tend to overlook context and common sense.And when your agenda is impure, the point you're trying to make often clouds the implications of your statements, such as the case with these different misinterpretations of Romans 3:25.This verse is nowhere near as hard as some have tried to make it, and the true context reveals why all three views are wrong.Let's look at what Paul clearly expressed here, not according to preconceived notions, prejudices, hidden agendas, and confirmation bias,but according to context and supporting cross references.Let's do that.This verse has an absolute contextual subject that is often overlooked, sins that are past.So, let's read it again with that in mind, Whom God had set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past through the forbearance of God.When Paul wrote this, whose sins was he talking about, being past?From the very beginning, the start of this letter, he's been talking about Israel.And if you need to be caught up to speed, go back and check out each prior installment before this.We prove, we let out and prove that that's who he's talking about.He's talking about Israel and how and why they fell away.Everything he has spoken so far, and for the next few chapters, is going to have everything to do with how Israel became Hosea 1:9, lo-ammi.So, we need to set a specific time frame for these sins that are past, okay?In time past, you see, the sacrifices performed by Israel is what got their sins remitted through the blood.It was a foreshadowing, a foreshadowing of the final sacrifice for sins.What Paul said here, Whom God set forth through the forbearance of God is described clearly in Hebrews 10:1, For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.And just three verses later, For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.Israel's faith in his blood was regarding what they were promised would become of their national sin.When the once and for all payment, the one-time payment took place.Hebrews chapter 10, you'll see that in verses 19 and 20 and also in Isaiah 53:11.You see, God set Christ forth to be the propitiation.The propitiation for those past sins.The ones that the blood of bulls and goats could not take away through God's own forbearance.Romans 3:25 speaks directly to God's provision for the sins of Israel to be taken away.And their faith in the blood sacrifice, the blood sacrifices, I should say, was Christ's word.A shadow of good things to come.The word propitiation is only used by Paul one time and it's right here in verse 25.The only other two times it's found is 1 John 2:2 and 4:10, verses written to the little flock.Propitiation is not our word.It's not our word to describe forgiveness at the cross and the non-imputation of subsequent sins that should follow for the world during the dispensation of grace.Propitiation is an appeasement, specifically the blood that was sprinkled on the mercy seat was what was considered to be the propitiation, temporary appeasement for sin.The mercy seat was the cover, the lid of the ark of the covenant.When the priests communed, when they communed with God, he would appear to them in the cloud of the incense above the mercy seat, Leviticus 6:13.Below the mercy seat, inside the ark, that's where you could find the law of commandments which acknowledged the sins of man.This is all covenant lingo that covenant keepers would understand.They knew exactly what Paul was talking about, but Gentiles were outside the covenants and knew that this didn't apply to them.The mercy seat on the ark, there are on the ark of the covenant, was a foreshadowing of Christ as the mediator between God and man.There had to be an appeasement for sin, a propitiation, in order for God to have fellowship with sinful man.Also notice that the word remission, which is closely related to sins being covered, as in Romans 4:7 when Paul quotes David, compare transgressions of the law being covered for Israel, with a body of Christ, Colossians 2:14, law that was taken completely out of the way, out of the way and nailed to the cross.Out of the way is not the same as covered.Romans 3:25 is the only time Paul uses the word remission, but Peter mentioned it in Acts 2.Remission of sins for the nation Israel, upon their faith being demonstrated by water baptism in the name of the Messiah.Peter also talks about being quote unquote, "purged from his old sins."Most have never heard this.You'll find it in 2 Peter 1:9.Not having seen this verse for themselves is why most missed that it was only for past sins of Israel, it was only for their past sins that were remitted.Which means they won't be completely taken out of the way until they're Acts 3:19 blotted out at their future times of refreshing.Beginning with Romans 1, on into chapter 11, Paul takes his audience from their former faith, faith of God, Israel under the Mosaic law, to the current faith, faith of Christ, everyone's justification without the law.We're hearing from listeners who are stunned to learn this, news that is helping them understand and get a better handle on the book of Romans.Paul does this, transitions his audience from faith to faith by using the scriptures of the prophets, Romans 16:26.Romans 3:25 here doesn't speak at all of the sins which happened after the cross.Which is why it's grave error, grave error to use this verse as our gospel. Propitiation for sins that are past and subsequent maintenance of that salvation in the form of service is earthly kingdom doctrine.Not ours.Knowing that blasphemy and departing from the faith would both be damnation is the gospel of the kingdom and not the gospel of the grace of God.Paul isn't teaching the kingdom gospel, he's simply explaining how the same sacrifice of Christ on the cross also was a propitiation for Israel's past sins.Which is exactly, it is precisely what their sacrificial system pointed them to.Fortunately for us, who are part of the world, which now in this current dispensation includes Israel, fortunately, God stopped imputing those sins at the cross, 2 Corinthians 5:19, a truth that is subsequent to the remission of sins that are past.That's where our focus as ambassadors lies.This faith in his blood, it's not our gospel, and it's not a reference to God having faith.And it's not a supporting verse for the false claim that belief is required for forgiveness.Instead, it reveals the faith which Israel was directed to exercise towards God's foreshadowing of their redemption plan in that sacrificial system under the law.Romans 3:25 is not even reference to our dispensation.The first hint should be that both the words propitiation and blood point to a specific place and time at the cross, along with the absolute fact that it only deals with the propitiation for past sins before the cross.Now, before going on, let's set in place the time periods for chapter 3 so far.Romans 3 verse 1, verse 1 to 20 here, is time past progressing to present.Verse 21 to 24, present to but now.See that?Then verse 25 goes back to time past.And verses 26 to 31 switch back to present.Paul's speaking of past and present consistently in order to make comparisons.What an outstanding teacher.He's also referencing the foundation which Romans 16:26 describes.Alright.This is a great study, guys.The book of Romans is meaty, full of spiritual iron and plenty of protein.Let's get back to the but now in Romans 3:26, OK, To declare, I say, at this time (That's time present but now), his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.This verse, okay, what it does is solidify the timeline we're looking at for verse 25.Time past equals Israel sacrifices, which were a shadow of the blood of Christ, the sacrifice for sins that are past before the cross.Verse 26, "at this time," declares his righteousness, justification of God's promises, which validates his righteous act of justifying those who believe in Christ for the world to see.Remember, justification is a declaration of righteousness.Verse 27, Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.Why is boasting excluded?Because we cannot say that we obtain salvation by works, for if we could, we might boast in ourselves before men.We probably would.Ephesians 2:9, Not of works, lest any should boast.Romans 11:6, If by grace, then it's no more of works, otherwise grace is no more grace.We'll learn more about it when we get to chapter 4, where Paul says, If Abraham was justified by works, he'd have whereof to glory, but not before God.People glory in their works before men.That's why Galatians 6 calls it a fair show in the flesh.Works are done in the flesh, and flesh cannot inherit salvation, but the flesh sure can brag about its own performance.There's a strange teaching going around that says, we can't have faith because if we could, we'd boast in it.That comes straight out of Calvinism.It's from the doctrine of total depravity.Anyone who says, If we could have faith, we'd boast in it, coupled with their teaching that Christ had faith for us, is teaching universalism, whether they know it or not.This false teaching is supported by the universalist who follow AE Knoch.It comes from his perverted Bible, the Concordant Literal Version, I think it's called.He taught it for years, along with some Kenosis and modelistic views, Oneness Jesus and his own father heresy.AE Knoch was a heretic.And some who fancy themselves right dividers are teaching the same universalist, kenosis, oneness doctrine he taught.And some are even stealing material from his followers and trying to pass it off as their own.Okay, verse 28, Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.Here Paul, he poured a little more cement around and to establish the fact of us being justified by faith in Christ's finished crosswork and not by any outward performed deeds of the flesh.Okay, verse 29, Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also: Verse 30 Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith. Verse 31 Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.This chapter is rounded out here by Paul, concluding everything he has said thus far.Reiterating, restating the fact that both Jews and Gentiles are on the same level in the sight of God, all because of the result of Israel's fall.Now, next time we'll take a closer look at verse 30 here, we'll hammer down and explain the difference between "by faith" and "through faith."Then we'll move on to chapter 4, which is a continuation of the context of Romans 3.Alright, hey, here at Truth Time Radio, we often hear from those who, after hearing a clear presentation of the gospel, they repent, change their mind, change their mind from what they formerly believed to Paul's gospel of the grace of God.They come to saving faith by resting in Christ alone.So, if you're here today and you don't know where you'll spend eternity, maybe you've been trusting in your keeping short sin accounts with God or turning from your sins.But to be saved, to be saved right now, right now in this moment, my friend, believe the gospel of your salvation.1 Corinthians chapter 15, Moreover brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, by which also ye are saved.What is the gospel, Paul?How that Christ died for your sins according to the scriptures was buried and rose on the third day according to the scriptures.When Paul wrote these words, when Paul wrote the words, "Christ died for our sins," that's all sins.Not one was left out, Colossians 2:13.If religion, if they've prevented you from being able to rest in your salvation by getting you to think that there's something you need to do to get your sins forgiven, which is only prevented you from experiencing the true peace of God, well, you've now heard the good news.On the cross is where God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself.And it was there, it was there, my friend, that he stopped charging your trespasses.There's none in your account.Now, you need his justification in your account.You don't want an empty account, just because it has no sins in it.You need to put life, eternal life into your account, justification, righteousness.So, now, right this minute is the day of salvation, not tomorrow, next week, next month, or next year.Today.So, believe on him right now and rest concerning where you're going to spend eternity.Grace and peace.

TTR, this is Truth Time Radio, finally a radio station that understands dispensational truths and is committed, we're committed to sharing those truths with you.I'm Trey Searcy, mic side and grace ready, set in defense of the gospel of grace, this profound life-altering truth that can help us kill off the weeds of doubt and hopelessness and start replacing them by growing grace, love, joy, freedom, and victory.And we owe it all to our beloved Christ who, Colossians 2:14, slew the law on Calvary's cross.Praise God, he blotted out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, he removed it by nailing it to his cross.This morning, let's begin with Paul's second epistle to the church at Corinth.Look with me.Look with me here, if you will, in chapter 11, 2 Corinthians chapter 11.Let's do, let's begin here at verse 13, For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.(Verse 14) And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.(Verse 15) Therefore, it's no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.Hey, if you believe the words on the page, you'll no doubt understand what we're faced with today.Same thing Paul was, dealing with ministers of righteousness who actively engage in perverting the gospel.Earlier in the chapter here, verse 3, Paul wrote, But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.(Verse 4) For if he that cometh preacheth another (gospel) Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him.Listen, if you're not hearing about Christ, his shed blood, and his finished work, his finished cross work and resurrection, if you're not hearing about how to live by grace through faith, in your secured identity with Christ, and about God's unconditional, unmerited love towards you.If not, then you're hearing another gospel.The adversary is sneaky, he's no dummy, his communication skills are not slack, and neither are his workers.The ministers of righteousness, they have special tailor-made sermons, Facebook and blog posts, all geared to appeal to your flesh, to give your flesh something to do.He that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached.Our defense against this deception, what is it?It's to install sound Pauline doctrine.Repetition is our best teacher, and by studying to show ourself approved, we're able to put these things to memory.Turn to 1 Timothy chapter 4, Paul, you know, he's constantly warning his reader, constantly warning.He's very persistent to warn the saints of dishonest and crafty men.As the serpent beguiled Eve, right?God counts the wisdom of this world as foolishness, and takes the wise in their own craftiness.Okay, here it is, 1 Timothy chapter 4 verse 6, go to verse 6, If thou put the brethren in remembrance (there we go, put it to memory), if we put our brothers and sisters in remembrance of these things, guys, we'll be good ministers of Jesus Christ, nourished up in the words of faith and of good doctrine.But watch verse 7, But refuse profane and old wives' fables, and exercise thyself rather unto Godliness.The servants of Satan use craftiness and old wives' fables, profane and vain babble, anything they can do to sway the simple.They distort the truth to gain followers, and they're full of greed and empty chatter.They use faith for profit and subvert entire households.As ambassadors, we preach and teach in an effort to get others to embrace the spiritual wealth found right here in Paul's unsearchable riches.And what do we do?We warn.We warn of he that cometh and preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached.Satan began his crusade back there to corrupt God's word back there in Genesis 3, and he hasn't stopped since.Most so-called gospels we hear today are not something made up from thin air.Now some are.But most contain an element of truth.For example, you might hear someone today present the gospel, but muddy it up by adding commandment keeping.You might hear it with the addition of water baptism.You may hear a presentation of the gospel mixed with sin confessing, turning from or stopping sins altogether, living a faithful life and so forth. These additions render the gospel of none effect.None whatsoever.And on the flip side, now flip that over, some never get to the point of giving the gospel at all, saying things like, "To be saved, just believe in Jesus."No one can be saved by only believing in Jesus.Just what does that mean?Needs a context.Even believing on Jesus needs context.Which is what Paul and Silas gave the jailer there in Acts chapter 16.Or you may hear this one, "Just accept him as Lord and Savior."Heard that before?That's not the gospel.We need to be accepted, not Jesus.Accepted in the blood of Ephesians 1:6.What about, "Just believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God?"Well, that's good.But this was meant for time past Israel, not for us in this dispensation.We can't stop with just believing Jesus is the Son of God.There's more to our gospel.Perverting the gospel is done one of two ways, either misapplying time past doctrine with ours for today, or by men who have formulated their own man-made ways to be saved.But without Jesus dying for every last one of your sins, having been buried and risen to give us new and eternal life in him, without that, hey, all you have is a perversion of Paul's gospel of Christ.For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached,or if ye have received another spirit, which we have not received, or another gospel, there it is, Paul's clear warning of another gospel.There were men back there, just like we see today, masquerading as ministers of Christ, but preaching another gospel.Another gospel, another spirit.Lowercase s.Not one ounce of salvific power found in these other gospels being preached.Leaving people, and some sincerely seeking salvation no doubt, but leaving them with a false sense of security.We notice this same issue being problematic there in Galatia.Paul wasted no time in addressing it.Straight out the gate, straight out the chute, he gets right into it in chapter 1.You'll notice it there in verse 6 he says, I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel:(Verse 7) Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert (There it is), they pervert the gospel of Christ.Here we see the same thing.The same thing going on, guys.The same thing that was taking place with the Corinthians.Deception.Deception among the saints.Paul had already, he had previously been there with these saints, but shortly after he left, the work-trusting selphians, hey, they snuck in,got past the guards at the gate, come right in behind him, preaching another gospel.And what did the Galatian church do?Oh, they stood up strong against it and said, "No, no way, we're with Paul.Get out of here with that mess, man."Right?Wrong.They fell for it hook, line, and sinker.Just like some are doing today.Satan's plan worked like a charm.That's his endgame.His goal as the god of this world is to keep believers off-balanced and unstable and to keep the unbelieving minds blinded so the light of the glorious gospel of Christ will not shine unto them.How has he been so successful at doing this?By keeping the preachers dishing out perverted messages to keep their congregations focused on the flesh.The masses are so easily fooled.Why?Because it's just too difficult to believe that salvation is free.A free gift.No strings attached free gift.In this but-now time that we're currently in, this but-now time that God is dispensing his grace, he made justification, now, here's some good news for you, he made justification purely by grace alone through faith alone without any works of any kind at any time.And that's a hard sell.That's a hard sell for a society who is used to hearing nothing but the opposite.Catch phrases, you know, you know we see them all the time.Nothing in life is free.There's always a catch.There's always a price to pay.You've seen these, haven't you?You always pay in the end, they'll say.But Paul's gospel says something very different about our eternal life.And Romans 3 tells us that we're justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.Freely. Freely.See that word?A beautiful word to someone who's not afraid to be truthful with themselves.In Romans 6, someone who admits that they can't do it without him, that their only hope is in Christ Jesus and not in anything they can do in their flesh, their performance, the bar's too high for us to reach.Religion lowers the standard.In Romans 6, he says The wages of sin is death, but the gift, the gift of God, is eternal life through Christ.Amen.We're justified freely by his grace.Freely by his grace in Romans 3, and here in chapter 6 we have the gift of God.Justified freely, free gift.Justified freely, free gift.Not a hard concept for those who are not self-serving.Not a hard concept for those who are not afraid to face reality.Admit their shortcomings.And Philippians 3:3, who put no confidence in their flesh. If there's one thing, if there's one thing Paul is clear on is that there's simplicity in Christ.That's the reason Satan's out to corrupt the Acts 20:24 gospel of the grace of God. We hear some today saying that the book of Acts doesn't have doctrine for the body of Christ. Hogwash.Our very gospel is found in the book of Acts.In chapter 20, Paul calls it, "The gospel of the grace of God."Where is this gospel of the grace of God that he mentions?Acts chapter 13.Let's read it.Give me a second here.Glad you chose us today.Glad that you chose Truth Time Radio.Here with an open King James Bible as we connect some dots.Okay, so some say the book of Acts doesn't have our doctrine.But you should never blindly take someone's word.Test everything.Chapter 13 beginning with verse 37, let's look at this, But he, whom God raised again (This is Jesus), saw no corruption.Verse 38, Be it known unto you therefore, men and brethren, that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins:Verse 39, And by him all that believe (What?) all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.Ladies and gentlemen, here's Christ dying for our sins, the resurrection, and the justification from all things in three consecutive verses.No wonder Paul said to prove all things and hold fast to that which is good.Guys, you don't have to wait until 1 Corinthians chapter 15 to read Paul's gospel.Here it is.Clear back here in Acts chapter 13, yet some teach that our doctrine is not in the book of Acts.It's this sort of sloppy, fast, and loose teaching that has listeners contacting us, asking questions, like, What gospel is Paul preaching here in Acts 16 to the jailer?Well, if he preached his "my gospel" clear back there in chapter 13,by the time you get to 16, where he encounters the jailer here, what gospel do you think he's preaching?The same one he preached three chapters earlier.His gospel was the gospel of the grace of God from the beginning.Acts 16 verse 31, And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.Verse 32, And they spake unto him the word of the Lord, and to all that were in (the) his house.Now, what could the word of the Lord possibly be?What's your guess?Three chapters after 13 where he had already preached the death, burial,and resurrection for sins, so the clear answer is, the word of the Lord is Paul's "my gospel," as it is in chapter 13, as it is in 1 Corinthians 15:1 to 4.Believe on Christ.Simple faith.Faith alone in Christ alone was and still is Paul's gospel today.His first ever recorded sermon, Acts chapter 13, and he, right out the gate,comes out preaching the gospel of Christ, which is the gospel of the grace of God.He only received one.That's why he wrote, "gospel," singular, not, "my gospels," plural.Be careful who you listen to.Check your sources carefully.Many say they're like those of Berea, but are they?Are they really giving a thorough examination of what they're being told?Or allowing themselves to be swept up by someone's credentials?By a personality perhaps, and not bothering to check behind the person?Some are unbalanced in their presentation and refuse correction.2 Corinthians chapter 11:(15) Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.Do note, now think about this, notice that Satan's ministers are not ministers of evil.Paul doesn't call them that.They're not ministers of worldly ungodliness.Paul called them ministers of righteousness.What did they minister that made Paul call them ministers of righteousness?Well, they, they ministered human effort is the way to righteousness necessary for salvation.Just like some today they say trust in Christ and his finished cross work,hey, that's not enough.Their message will have you under a curse because the strength of sin is the law, 1 Corinthians 15, which is why the law works wrath.Romans 4, adding righteous works to the acts Acts 20:24 gospel of the grace of God only pollutes and perverts it.Galatians 1:7, Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you,and would (Do what?) pervert the gospel of Christ.And in verse 3, Paul opens the chapter here with the words, Grace be to you and peace from God the Father, and from our Lord Jesus Christ,Notice he said, "Grace and peace."This grace and peace he mentions is what the ministers of righteousnesspervert.And watch verse 4, Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world,...What's he referring to when he says, "deliver us from this present evil world?"Is it being delivered from the bar rooms and the pool halls?Maybe the casinos perhaps?No, he's talking about being delivered from the perverted gospel being taught by the ministers of righteousness who come along and destroy the gospel of grace with their preaching of human righteousness, human effort.They're selfianity selfians who preach another Jesus whom we've not preached.There's no Romans 1:16, "power of God unto salvation" in their preaching.It's powerless.Ministers of righteousness are those who, Colossians 2:(18), "beguile you with enticing words."Ministers of righteousness are those who teach others how to be righteous.Having missed the fact that we were made righteous.It's a gift.Titus 3:7, we're justified by his grace.We can't be childish and continue to get tossed to and fro by the winds of doctrine.There's only one doctrine, and it's Paul's.There's only one faith, Ephesians 4.In 2 Timothy he said, "I've kept the faith."What faith?The faith of Christ.In Colossians 2:6 he said, As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him:(Verse 7) Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith,...What faith?The faith of Christ.That's the only faith capable of stabilizing anyone today.Paul tells me to only let my conversation, Philippians 1:27, only let my conversation be as it becometh of the gospel of Christ:...And to, "stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together..."for the what?"...the faith of the gospel;"The faith of Christ.We've got to continue in the things we've learned, 2 Timothy 3:14.In Galatians 1:15, our apostle, the apostle Paul, he said, But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace,And over there in Titus chapter 2:(1) it says, (Only) "...speak thou the things which become sound doctrine:"He said, (Titus 2:10) we're to adorn the doctrine.How do we do that?Adorn the doctrine?We put it in order.We make it presentable.Give it a straight cut by rightly dividing the word of truth.Okay.Time has slipped away.I've enjoyed going over some things with you guys.If you want more of this, go download our app at truthtimeradio.com.But if you're here today and you're trying to escape the yoke of bondagethat's been placed there by the religious system, the one they have you under, think with me.Just think.Christ, Galatians 3:13, redeemed you from the curse of the law.Mmm, that's good.And now, there's no condemnation left to condemn you, Romans 8:1.So, who is it?Just ask yourself, who is it that could dare to bring any charge against you?Verse 33.No one.No one.Now, hopefully, I'm not becoming your Galatians 4:16 enemy because I'm heretelling you the truth.But if it be, it be, right?Wasn't that what Gamaliel said there in the book of Acts?When he was there advising the Jewish council, he said, "But if it be,if it be of God, you can't overthrow it."So, we'll just keep pressing on and preaching the word of truth rightly divided and letting the chips fall where they fall.If your soul is weary from your uncertainty of your salvation, listen,the Word left heaven and become flesh.Jesus died on the cross for the sins of the world.He was buried but rose to defeat death on the third day.You can end all that uncertainty right now by resting your faith in the good news.And you'll Romans 3:24 be justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.And after you're placed in him, you're granted irreversible identity and your life is hid with Christ in God.So, stop wrestling, stop wrestling with your salvation by right now, this very moment, going ahead and placing your trust in the finished cross workand resurrection of Christ.Do it before it's too late.Grace and peace.

If you're here and you haven't already, slide on over to truthtimeradio.com and download the free mobile app, where you can find back-to-back Acts 9 dispensational grace teachings to help you better understand the Bible.Great verse right here, for us Galatians 2:21, I do not frustrate the grace of God:So much of that going on today, right? You can't make it through a teaching without someone frustrating God's grace.There's certainly no shortage of grace-frustrating work-trusters. They're everywhere.Paul said, I do not frustrate the grace of God, for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.Love this verse from our apostle.Truth Time Radio, here unashamedly preaching Paul's gospel.What does the word gospel mean?The Greek word for gospel is euangelion, euangelion, which means good news.In times past, this word, hey, it was used as a military term.Many are surprised to learn this.Generals of ancient times, ancient armies, they used the word, gospel, to announce a victory in battle.After winning, they'd send a messenger.They'd send him to the nearest city to proclaim the gospel, the good news from the battle that they won.Victory is ours.But it was never used as an invite for someone to come and join the fight and help win the battle.No, these generals published the gospel to let everyone know that the good news is the battle is already won.Which fits perfectly.Think about it.It's perfect.It fits right in with our gospel, Paul's gospel of Christ.That through the cross of Jesus, how he was victorious on behalf of the world.The gospel is not about him sending out invites for anyone to come and help him fight anything.No, the fight's already been won.He died for our sins and defeated death by his resurrection.Now, we simply, we simply compel others to believe that.We go to them and proclaim the euangelion, the gospel, the good news.This grace truth, hey, it's largely rejected.The preaching of the cross is, it's offensive because it takes our eyes off self and puts them on Christ.Most have been seduced by the grace-frustrating work-truster gospel.Can't get their eyes off self and their performance.And this opposes, flat-out opposes the simplicity of the gospel of Christ.The one that we're not ashamed of.They go around preaching Jesus needs our help.No, he does not.He doesn't need a co-savior.When you read through the book of Galatians, this is kind of the Galatianism that you'll find in most church gatherings today, in some form or another.The Protestant world has been Galatianized, big time, and some claim obedience to the law is necessary for salvation, others that are under the Galatianism umbrella, they'll claim that law-keeping is required to maintain salvation.Unaware that both views are wrong.In 2 Corinthians chapter 3 verse 17, Paul said, Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.But today's Galatianizers, they're like the children of Israel.Yes, that's what they're like, they're like the children of Israel, and it's as if their minds are blinded with a veil as they read the Bible.So, they creep around Galatians 2:4, they creep around like stalkers spying out the liberty that we have in Christ, trying to slip a yoke of bondage around our neck.Misery loves company, don't you know?But stand firm, stand firm in this grace, for through the Spirit, Galatians chapter 5 verse 5, through the Spirit, we wait for the hope of righteousness by faith.Love this book, the book of Galatians.But religion, as their custom, they've come along like pirates, they've hijacked this book, hijacked some of Paul's best work.They took these wonderful grace principles and distorted them.Many of Paul's letters were written to cities, the city of Rome, the city of Corinth, the city of Thessalonica.But Galatia is an entire region, very large, very large, and located in Turkey.Well, Turkey's the modern name.In Paul's time, it was called the region of Antolia, where the children of God, by faith in Christ, Galatians 3:26, and by your faith alone, you possess eternal life.We have it now.Eternal life began at the nanosecond we heard and believed the gospel, and not like at some future date, as the work-trusters would have us believe.We have to stand up against religion and stand up against them that are bringing in all this leaven.They only bear rotten fruit.But as ambassadors of Paul's grace message, we're a problem.That's a fact.We preach Christ crucified, 1 Corinthians 1:23 stumbling block for twistianity.We preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord, and ourselves, you're servants for Jesus' sake, 2 Corinthians 4:5.Preachin' pure grace will get you in trouble.But it's that good trouble.It's good trouble.Amen?Preaching salvation as a free gift without human effort opposes selfianity.To him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly,his faith is counted for righteousness.Oh, that's fingernails scraping the chalkboard for most of the world.Galatians 3:1, listen, O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you that ye should not obey the truth?Romans 3:22, Even the righteousness of God, which is by faith of Jesus Christ, unto all and upon all, them that believe.Them that what?Righteousness unto all and upon all that believe.Believe what?The faith of Christ, Paul's gospel of your salvation.Who taught Paul his gospel?Jesus, Galatians 1:11.What's Paul's gospel called?The faith of Christ.But the work-trusters out there, they don't see the distinction between Paul's faith of Christ and the gospel of the kingdom.This is why they Galatianize the scriptures by mixing law and grace.They're grace-frustrating work-trusters is what they are.Paul has strong warning for those that do this.Galatians 5 verse 4, Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law, ye are fallen from grace.And in verse 7, he said, Ye did run well; who did hinder you that ye should not obey the truth?Like we see today, some come to an understanding of grace, at least enough to get saved, but then draw back and return to a work-trusters program,allowing someone to persuade them that God's grace, his grace alone, just can't be enough.You know that, come on.Here in verse 8, Paul said, This persuasion cometh not of him that calleth you.So what happened?Well, a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.And this is why we have so many denominational divisions today.They allow leaven to come in.Leaven to come in and persuade them.The Methodists, Catholics, Baptists, Eastern Orthodoxy, Church of Christ, Lutherans, Nazarenes, Anglicans, they all take the work-trusting road,going down the road of work-trusting and lordshiping salvation.Hey, we can take all the work-trusters and lordshiping salvationists out there, take them to the courtroom and present Paul's faith of Christ, and watch what happens.Their head explodes.Their case falls apart.His 13 grace epistles destroy the entire platform whereby the work-trusting road to salvation was built.Yes, it does.They're out there trying to get you to join their cult of good-enoughism.Good-enoughism doesn't do anything but trap you in the endless cycle of wash, rinse, repeat.Wash, rinse, repeat.It's foolish.Just like Paul called the Galatians, O foolish Galatians.This foolish teaching, guys.Paul says, pay no mind.Just pay it no mind.That's right.Were to Galatians 5:1, Stand firm, stand fast in the liberty, whereby Christ hath made us free.And don't get entangled again, do not allow that to happen, don't go back, don't draw back, don't return and get entangled with that yoke of bondage.That's of the world.That's of the flesh, not of the spirit.Today, the bondage is in the mind.Mind bondage is what it is, and it's got people locked up in a spiritual prison, causing unbelievers to miss heaven and believers to doubt where they stand with God.The law was fulfilled.Our freedom was purchased by the blood of Christ.The religious machine, it'll turn on anyone when they choose to stop serving it.Like a video clip we received the other day from a listener, where we witnessed the legalistic mindset firsthand, while watching.It made a man lose control and get all caught up in his feelings, allowing his jealousy to rear its ugly head and cause him to make a stark raving fool of himself, ranting and raving about people who watch him but then leave and go watch other teachers.It's cultish, is what it is, using cult-like man-made control tactics to shame and guilt his viewers.He got upset and told them they gotta choose a side.Choose a side?This is child's play.Sounds like when you're back in elementary school on the playground picking sides for the kickball teams.Choose a side.Unreal.That's what happens when you get under the groupthink mentality.You're just another member of the herd.Listen, the body of Christ is worldwide.It's not in little groups that's set up by men.They preach against going to church buildings, yet they make their own little social media church buildings, and want you to be a member.And if you leave and go to another social meeting, they get mad and they get jealous.This is religion, this is flesh rearing its ugly head, among some who claim to teach grace.There are no sides, but this is what the religious mindset will have you doing, placing people under your bondage.And then you go act a fool because you got caught up in your flesh, and you put your foolishness on full display for everyone to see, demanding loyalty from your viewers.That's not grace.This is a result of trying to build a social club.A social club disguised as a ministry.See, grace gives freedom.Grace says, I love you now, I'll love you tomorrow.I love you when you're here, I love you when you're not here.Come and go as you please.See you when you get back.Grace is anti-controlling, anti-force.Be careful who you're watching and listening to.Some of these guys have abuser tendencies.Open your eyes and be discerning.Look for the signs.Educate yourself so you know what to be looking for.Let's get Galatians chapter 4.So thankful today, aren't you, aren't you thankful for this grace, this grace that's not frustrated, you see, it's not of the world, it's not of flesh, it's the spirit that brings this freedom.Grace is unearned.We don't have to perform for the circus ring master.We're secure and have total salvation assurance in Christ.This is the dispensation of grace, not law, spirit, not flesh.See, the law says keep trying, you'll get there eventually.Grace says, what you talking about, Willis?You're already there.The law condemns the best of men, grace saves the worst.The law was temporary, grace is permanent.The law dealt with the external, grace deals with the internal.The law brought wrath, grace brings peace.The law is weak, grace is strong.As Paul said in Galatians 4, let me find it here real quick.We need to read it.I want you to get this.See it for yourself.Love this book.The book of Galatians from our apostle Paul.Many priceless grace truth principles right here in this letter.Here we are.Galatians 4 verse 9.Galatians 4 verse 9.See, the law is weak, grace is strong.Watch this, But now, but now after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elementswhereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?Paul's freaking out here.What?How are you, why would you want to return after learning this mystery of God's grace?Guys, beware.These men are making up rules to put you in bondage.Why would anyone, after getting a taste of this sweet, juicy grace, want to return to the sour, dry, weak, and beggarly elements of the law?For attention.There's your answer.Some desire attention.They need attention.And you can't get it when you put it all on the cross of Christ and all on grace.You've got to bring in your filthy flesh.They have a desire to be seen so people can look at them.A fair show of the flesh.A desire to get credit for something.They're full of ego and pride.The law said, strive, grace says, rest.The law says, do, grace says, done.The law said, observe days.Remember that?Grace says, don't observe days.The law curses, grace blesses.Galatians 3:13, Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us.Don't frustrate the grace of God.Salvation is a completed work of Jesus Christ, who as the word, willingly left the heavenly realm, put on flesh to be cursed on the cross, so that we could be justified by our faith, without human effort.Grace abides forever.Under grace, we're free not to obey.How about that?Some don't like that, but they don't like the way it sounds, but it's a grace truth nonetheless.Under grace, we are free not to obey.And it's almost impossible to obey, until we first realize this.Take a moment, let that sink in, think about it.We're free not to obey.And it's hard to obey, until we realize that we're free not to.Paul spells it out for us, how to live, how to live a successful grace life.Living the grace life is about a mindset, a transformation, an attitude.It's about focus.We're redeemed from the curse, yet the satanic system of this religious world, it's designed to steal our focus, to rob us from the positional identity we possess in Christ Jesus.Moving our focus away from the cross and to ourselves.Satan's biggest scam has been his ability to redirect the focus from the cross of Jesus to the flesh of man.But Paul has the solution.Get Romans 8.The solution to all this is in his written word.Like the Lord told Ezekiel in chapter 2, he said, Open your mouth, so that he could eat the words the Lord was about to give him.Then he wanted him to go relay that message to the children of Israel.He told Ezekiel that they may not hear and they may not forbear it because of their rebellion, but tell them anyway.That's the solution, this word.We need not rebel against God's word.Just open it up and eat it.Romans chapter 8.Here in Romans 8 verse 8, Paul says this, So then they that are in the fleshcannot please God, but ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.Verse 9, But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you.And it does.The Spirit dwells in all believers.So, as saved believers, we find our identity, our justification, position,and walk in Christ, and not in anything we perform in our flesh.Galatians 5:2, watch, Behold, I, Paul, say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing.Now look closely.You might be here today and you say, well, I know circumcision isn't for today.I know we're not under the law.Yeah, but do you realize how many things that religious institutionssubstitute for circumcision?See, circumcision represents things you can do in the flesh.And there's a wide array of things you can do in the flesh.Don't just focus on circumcision only.Anything outward, anything you can see someone do in their flesh that has made a requirement to gain favor with God to be saved is law.Maybe not the law of Moses, but the law of man.Why do men love their man-made laws?Paul, he's got our answer for us.Galatians chapter 6 verse 12, As many as desire to make a fair show in the flesh, they constrain you to be circumcised.The clear answer here is, men love their man-made laws because they desire to make a show, a fair show, of their flesh.They do that in order to feed their ego, to feed their fleshly appetites.It's the very reason Charles Finney came up with the altar call.Then came all the Billy Grammers out there who followed suit.Nothing biblical about it.People don't need the Bible to tell them that.That's the problem.They call themselves teachers and preachers, but all they have to do is see something they like in their flesh, see another man that they respect and who's highly favored among people, and they'll follow suit.They'll follow his footsteps, and start doing whatever he's doing.Doesn't matter that it's not in the Bible.Bible smible, who really cares, right?Nothing biblical about an altar call, never has been, it's a man-made invention to make a fair show of the human flesh.Finney was a Presbyterian evangelist, and this was his way, this was his means to gauge how successful his revivals were.But even earlier, before Finney, Methodist preachers, they were already using a similar tactic.It was something they called the Mourner's Bench.Some of you might be familiar with this.It's where they invite you to come forward, you know, every head bowed,every eye closed, no one looking around.Three biggest lies in church is what that is.If you feel the Lord tugging at your heartstrings, why, bless God, you come down here, and you give it all to him.Give your life to the Lord.Thank you, Jesus.See, these men, they themselves don't even do some of the things they require you to do.We got modern-day Pharisees, guys, right in front of you.Wake up, pay attention.Paul said, Galatians 6:13, For neither they themselves, who are circumcised,keep the law, but desire to have you circumcised, that they may gloryin your flesh.Don't allow no man to put you under a yoke of bondage, to put a yoke under,between, I should say, between you and God.Don't allow that.There's no such thing today.Everything needed has been done for you.Any preacher, any teacher, that says you must submit to doing something in the flesh to gain favor with God is a liar.Don't frustrate the grace of God.Our apostle, watch, watch what he says about this, Galatians 5:3, For I testify again to every man that is circumcised that he is a debtor to do the whole law.So this right here should tell us something.That anyone, anyone who submits to doing one fleshly thing that the preacher says to do is a debtor to all the fleshly things the preacher says to do.Despicable is what that is.This is dirty doctrine.Full of MUD.You need a spiritual shower after this.These grace epistles, they'll give you one.And watch what Paul says.Watch what Paul says happens when someone submits to the call of the flesh.Galatians 5:4, Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law, ye are fallen from grace.Oh, that's pretty strong language right there.Christ becoming of no effect.Yeah.Is it loss of salvation?No, there is no such thing.But good luck with living out the rest of your life here trying to justify yourself by keeping not one item of the law, but the whole law.That's some serious debt, let me tell you.You've placed yourself in bondage under the law and now it requires performance.And to perform perfectly, by the way.You had it made, but you blew it.You came to grace realizing that Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone that believeth, Romans 10:4, but then, like a dog returning to its vomit, went backwards to try and establish your own righteousness.You can't find support, none of us can, in the law of Moses.We can't find support in the law of man.Trying to do so only takes our focus off the crosswork of Christ.And once we do that, everything falls apart.We're to place no confidence in ourselves, Philippians 3:3.We worship God in the spirit and rejoice in Christ Jesus.We have no confidence in the flesh.You didn't make Jesus Lord of your life for your salvation.That's a Lord-shipping lie.A false teaching that can only offer a false sense of salvation security.You didn't cry out all night long for the Lord to save you as Paul Washer told a woman to do for her salvation.And these who say, I called upon the Lord and he saved me.You didn't do it.That's so vague, and it's not the gospel.Don't be bedazzled by the grace-frustrating work-trusters.They'll have you caught up in your flesh and functioning from your feelings,guilting you to stay in their cult as if you can't make it without them.Just stick with Paul on the matter.Break free from the herd and be your own independent thinker.His gospel of Christ isn't vague.There's no crying out, calling on, asking him to save you, repenting of sins, making him Lord, accepting him as your personal savior, inviting him into your heart, making a decision to accept Jesus, responding to the altar call, stay right here with this group or leave and go to hell.None of that.These are inventions of mind-manipulating men who have successfully popularized these buzzwords and catchphrases.Bumper sticker and church sign slogans that won't save anyone.Christ died for every sin you'll ever commit, was buried but defeated death and rose on the third day.In him is eternal life.How do you get in him?Through faith.Stop trusting self and trust Christ.Believe on him and thou shalt be saved.Hello.I'm grateful to be able to lend my voice to thank you in person, so to speak, with a personal message.When my friend and brother here in Plano sent me this link and I tuned into the YouTube channel, I was immediately impressed that God was adding towhat he's been doing in my life over the last three months and also just a dismantling of bad theology and a restructuring of a firm foundation built on faith and the knowledge that God loves me.And that's something that I did not know.And could not trust was that God loves me.So I'm so grateful.And I look forward to following these teachings and diving in deep and allowing it to work and create in me a new dialectic that I can share and challenge others to be free in Christ, free to do the work of the ministry as he has purposed us to do and to be ambassadors for Christ and ministers of reconciliation.To the lost and needy.And so thank you, brother.I am so grateful to have discovered you.I know it was God who led me to you.And I look forward to the future and to our Lord's soon return.Thank you, brother.God bless.

Teaching our listeners to rightly divide the word of truth, making the Bible easier to understand.This is Truth Time Radio with Trey Searcy.If you haven't already done so, go ahead and download that TTR app today.It's a free mobile app.You can take us with you wherever you go as we will help you along in discussing these distinctions that you'll find in scripture.Okay, question, question here for you.Have you searched Paul's unsearchable riches?Have you?Oh, how I wish. We could get all the religious, denominational system to just take a break from their rituals, take a break from their man-made superstitions, rules, and regulations, just if they could find it within themselves to take a break and look outside their narrow framework and consider Paul's unsearchable riches.What a difference.What a change we would see nationwide, worldwide.It would be spectacular.Let's take a quick look at Ephesians chapter 3.One here we're all familiar with Ephesians chapter 3 verse 8, Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, (This is Paul our apostle here), is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ;So, what are these unsearchable riches we now possess?When it comes to grace, we're certainly not in poverty.We're extremely wealthy.In John chapter 5 verse 39, Jesus told Israel, he said, Search the scriptures.But Paul, on the other hand, he says, what he was given to give to us, is unsearchable, quite the difference, quite the opposite.Unsearchable meaning it cannot be found outside his writings.Israel, oh, they could go to their prophetic scriptures and find out all about their promises.But if you would have come along and handed them the thirteen epistles of Paul, they'd be lost.Their hope's not there.It's not found there.But these unsearchable riches Paul wrote of is our central message.It's at the heart of what we're to be about today, helping others to see what is the fellowship of the mystery.Look at the next verse, verse (Ephesians) 9, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God,...The denominational religious system overlooks this mystery, guys, Paul said (Ephesians 3:4), Whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ)So, when you overlook this, you miss the mystery of Christ, which is guaranteed to leave you in quite the awkward position, behind the eight-ball.That's a rough position to try and function from, causing you to struggle in your understanding.Paul said he would not have us to be ignorant, and the things that he tells us not to be ignorant of are the very things most are ignorant of today, things like spiritual gifts, for example.1 Corinthians 12:1, Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I would not have you ignorant.Yet what do we see today?Millions are ignorant concerning spiritual gifts.A result of them having missed the unsearchable riches the Lord gave Paul to give to the body of Christ.They didn't get the memo.They didn't see the breaking news of how God is forming a new creature today, the church which is his body.A new creature that you can take your Bible, go ahead and do it, I'll give you Duke the hound dog and a three-day head start, and you can search, search, and then search again.But I'll go ahead and let you in on something.You're not going to find any description having to do with this new creature anywhere in Israel's prophetic scriptures.The new creature isn't found outside Paul's epistles.And this alone should give pause to the know-it-all denominational preacher who refuses correction.It's the problem of pride, rebellion, ego.This body of Christ new creature that you and me are a part of has a heavenly destination.That's where we're going.They're not.Heavenly places was never created for Israel.These are land people.Their earthly kingdom is what they await.Our destination and their destination is mutually incompatible.God's new covenant Israel has an earthly destination awaiting them.1 Corinthians chapter 6, let's go there, come with me real quick.If you got a second, come with me.I want you to see this.1 Corinthians chapter 6.A great distinction found here that most overlook.Verse 19, Paul wrote, What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?Do you see it?Find me, I challenge you to find me one place throughout the whole of scripture, where Israel, as a nation, were ever described as being the temple of the Holy Ghost.Oh, they had a temple, but they were not the temple.We are.This is a great mystery right here, huh?Only revealed to Paul and only concerns the body of Christ new creature of this current dispensation.Incredible news.The Holy Ghost indwelling the body is not something you'll find under Israel's law program.This is strictly a grace principle, an exclusive Pauline truth, and Ephesians 1 says, After we believed Paul's gospel, we were sealed with that Holy Spirit of promise.Guess what?That's another.Here we have another principle exclusive to this current time of God dispensing his grace.Israel was never Holy Spirit sealed.Never kept by any such promise.If you want to get in step with Israel, you've got to be a track star.It's a marathon race.They were under the endurance program.Required to endure to the end to receive salvation, but for you and I, no, not so.At the moment we put our faith in Christ for salvation, we underwent a supernatural spiritual water-free baptism whereby we're placed into the body of Christ.We underwent a supernatural spiritual sealing that sealed us up and gave us eternal security.Circumcised with a circumcision made without hands and immediately justified.Now that's good news.Hey, the Holy Spirit himself now functions as the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession.That's you and I.We've been bought.Bought with a price, sealed, and the only thing we're awaiting is his return to get what he purchased.A hard truth for some.Beautiful news for us who understand the mystery, but a hard truth for many to comprehend.Having been raised in the bondage system, most find this hard to swallow.But for us who are Titus 2:13 looking for that blessed hope and the glorious appearing of the great God and Savior Jesus Christ, hey, we find great comfort in these unsearchable riches.So, back to our question today.Have you searched Paul's unsearchable riches?I so want you to, if you're here today and you're new, hey, I so want you to get this.I find great comfort in knowing the grace of our Lord and how it was exceeding abundant toward me with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus, 1 Timothy 1:14.And I want to share that with you because where sin abounded grace did much more abound.We are not poverty-stricken.As full-on grace believers, we know better.We're under the spout where grace comes out.God's running the 24-hour grace dispensary.Where the radio is blasting, it's blasting grace, it's set on the grace loop.And you should not allow anyone to change your inner radio station.Let it keep playing grace.Keep it set right there, allow it to shape your inner dialogue.No more legalism.That inner dialogue that plays in your head is vitally important to you living a successful and productive grace life.Your inner dialogue must be properly fed, so watch what you feed it.You know, today we see fat-free, sugar-free, gluten-free.But most ministries are grace-free.Leaving folks unstable in their thinking and their mindset, which leads to insecurity concerning their salvation and their walk.Not having a proper understanding of their identity, their position in Christ.True grace teaches that it's not our job to try and secure our heavenly position because it's already been secured for us.Ephesians 2:6, And hath raised us up together, (Oh this is good), and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:It's a done deal.Philippians 3:20 agrees, For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:Are you seeing this?Justified people, we're not waiting for a salvation verdict to come in.The verdict is already in, it's been read, it's been announced, our conversation is already in heaven, for by one spirit we've already been baptized into one body, 1 Corinthians chapter 12.It's over, you can't be baptized out of the body, that's absurd.See, this is all this incredible mystery news, and my friend, it's only found in Paul's epistles.Even though in the physical, we're still on earth, our spiritual identity, our position, hey, we're already there, we're seated with Christ, we're seated with Christ in the heavenly realm.So, if your grace radio is working properly, you should be at rest about your salvation.You should be at peace.You know, there's great treasure, great reward found right here in God's word.Psalm 119:162 said, I rejoice at thy word, as one that findeth great spoil.These unsearchable riches we possess are not fleeting, the things of the world are.The only guarantee the world can give us is, there are no guarantees.But in Christ we have great assurance.Our riches are not temporal, but eternal, and Christ is the sole source of our redemption.In him is where we find endless love and immeasurable joy.Paul penned Colossians chapter 2 verse 3, and here it says, In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.In 1 Timothy chapter 1, Paul spoke of a faithful saying worthy of all acceptation, how that Christ came into the world to save sinners, of whom Paul called himself chief.The good news is Christ died for the vialest of sinners, which explains what we see in Romans chapter 5 verse 10, there we read, For if, when we were enemies, (Notice Paul included himself), when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son,...Sadly most don't believe this.We were reconciled to God by the death of his son when we were enemies.Where?Where is this talking about, where did it happen? At the cross.When we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son.Hey, the Son doesn't die when someone repents and gets baptized.The Son doesn't die when someone kneels at an altar and asks Jesus into their heart.The Son doesn't die when someone says the sinner's prayer.The Son doesn't die when someone makes the decision to believe the gospel.The Son died at the cross, when we were enemies.This is simple, a simple truth that some find hard to believe.But there's great simplicity in the gospel of Christ.We believe that while we were still enemies of God, his Son died for our sins at the cross, was buried, and resurrected.That's where we find our eternal assurance.And now, for the "in Christ," all the promises of God and him are yay and in him a man.2 Corinthians 1:20. And though Christ, he was rich for our sake, you and I, now get this, don't miss it.Though he was rich for our sake, he became poor that we through his poverty might be rich.Go read that in 2 Corinthians chapter 8 verse 9.That's amazing right there, amazing.And it's why we charge them that are rich in this world that they be not high-minded nor trust in uncertain riches.But put their trust in the living God who giveth us richly all things to enjoy.This is Truth Time Radio, rightly dividing the word of truth, hey, it ain't no joke.It's the real deal, like a fine-tuned machine.It'll have your Bible study firing on all cylinders, performing at peak performance.Have you, have you searched Paul's unsearchable riches?I'm here to tell you that doing so will help clear the confusion.Some confuse, most actually, confuse, confuse us with Israel thinking that we're a part of the new covenant.We're not, we're not old covenant, we're not new covenant, we're the new creature, new creature, not new covenant.The one new man, the fellowship of the mystery, no covenants, no law, no Israel acting as our mediator.Under Israel's old covenant, the Lord was the law giver.Under their new covenant, he was the law keeper.As members of the body of Christ, we don't have the law, we don't have priests, we don't have a promised earthly kingdom.Israel's old covenant, it had its focus on man's ability to perform.Their new covenant is about God's ability to perform what they failed to do.Why aren't more aware of this?Why is it that even though the Pauline mystery was revealed close to two thousand years ago, almost no one knows of it today?Why is that?Why is it that I can find the word dispensation in the Bible more than the words new covenant?Yet all of Christendom knows about the new covenant, but almost no one knows about a dispensation.That's incredible.But without recognizing this distinction, you'll be hard pressed to walk in your true identity.Galatians 3:27, where Paul penned this, For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.Hey, it's hard to put him on if you're ignorant to the mystery.Recently, on a past podcast, we were discussing Acts 7 where we saw Jesus standing.We found out that according to Israel's prophets, the Lord standing represented the time of his righteous judgment and outpouring of wrath.It was getting ready to take place there in Acts 7 at the stoning of Stephen, but it was postponed, and the Lord ushered in a brand new apostle and gave him a brand new administration, the dispensation of grace.And it's only through Paul's epistles that we can learn of the unsearchable riches that we possess. And for that, we Colossians 1:12, oh, we give thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light: Out of gratitude, out of great gratitude, we who are partakers of this incredible inheritance, we should respond with good works.Titus 3:8, This is a faithful saying, and these things I will that thou affirm constantly, that they which have believed in God might be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable unto men.Are we, are we as saved by grace through faith people, are we supposed to be doing good works?Is doing good works important?Absolutely.Sadly, we're hearing of some in these little circles that are now saying,your works don't matter. We're saved by grace, your works don't matter. Hey, that's incorrect.Don't listen to that nonsense.Here in verse 14 of the same chapter here in Titus, Paul said, Learn to maintain good works for necessary uses that they be not unfruitful. Sounds like our works are important, does it not?Also, notice the key word here, learn, learn. That's key. That's essential. Learn to maintain good works, meaning it doesn't come natural. Good works are something the believer must learn.How do we learn to maintain good works? Study, study, study, that's how.In order to know what the good works are, that's going to require study, which will lead to our learning what those good works are. In Ephesians chapter 2 verse 10, you know, everybody likes to read 8 and 9, but verse 10 says, For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.Allowing God's perfectly preserved words to go to work in and through us, that's how we're able to maintain good works. We have in our possession all the unsearchable riches, so we have no excuse. We lack for nothing. We're rich beyond measure, guys. Learning this about ourselves should greatly motivate us. 2 Corinthians chapter 5 there in verse 9, Wherefore we labour, (work) that whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him. We're complete in him, Colossians 2:10. 2 Corinthians 5:21, For he (God the Father) hath made him (God the Son) to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we (Those of us in Christ) might be made the righteousness of God in him. Oh, that's good. Acts 13:38, watch this, Be it known unto you therefore, men and brethren, that through this man (That's Jesus, God in the flesh) is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins:See that?This speaks to what was accomplished for us at the cross, the gospel.At the cross is where God stopped imputing sins, verse 39, And by him (Jesus) all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.Now that, that speaks to the moment you believe, the moment of belief, not what took place at the cross.Forgiveness of sins isn't included in the justified from all things here, no. Sins are never justified. Sins have to be forgiven, but at the moment we believe the gospel we're granted total and complete justification. When you look in the mirror, what do you see?Yeah, me too. I know what you mean. But as a child of the most high, ambassador, a representative of him, we must learn to see ourselves through spiritual eyes, and realize who we really are. Our true identity, break through the physical chaos and confusion and see ourselves in our true identity. We are his righteousness. We are justified from all things.News that should bring us peace, Romans 5:1, Therefore being justified by faith, How? How are we justified? Justified by faith? Whose faith? That's your faith.Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:We have full assurance of salvation. We have full assurance of being justified from all things that the law of Moses couldn't. As his children, we possess all the riches, including his life.We possess eternal life, something only found in him. This world can't offer a moment of peace, yet God offers eternal peace. Extraordinary, simply extraordinary. What the world needs, what they need that you and I possess is harmony, harmony with God, but they're still seen as guilty, because forgiveness doesn't clear them from the guilt. Go read Exodus chapter 34 verse 7.See, without faith, it's impossible to please God. They must hear the gospel and then believe what they heard. By Jesus Christ our Lord, Romans 5:2, we have access by faith unto this grace wherein we stand. See, we stand there. We're not waiting to stand in it. We're already there.We're not waiting to be evaluated to see if we made the cut. No, we made it. We not only made it, but we're on the starting team. Jesus isn't sitting the bench and neither are we.None of this, "Put me in, coach," nonsense. Oh no, we never leave the game. No need for a water boy because we never thirst. We possess all spiritual blessings. As Paul finishes out the verse here by saying, look what he says, We rejoice in hope of the glory of God.Romans 8:(17), And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ;... Can you think of a better position than that? This is your true identity. Christ died you died. Christ was buried, you were buried. Christ has risen so have you. Risen to your new life. That's what you now possess.A new vehicle? Yeah, great. A new boat? Fantastic. A new life? Oh, you can't beat that.That's something only God can give.Romans 5:5, And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us. This good news for the believer can never be revoked.We rejoice in the fact that we can never be separated from the love of God. That's outstanding.See, this is our permanent position. Romans 5 verse 8, But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.(Verse 9) Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. (Verse 10) 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. Check the news, check all your sources. You're not going to find anything better than this today, I can tell you that for sure. This is the best news ever, the good news of Paul's gospel.This is all a part of his unsearchable riches that he took the time to write down for you and I.Jesus gave him personally, gave him revelations and visions and had meetings to give him this news, and the world is overlooking it. If you're here and uncertain of where you're going to spend eternity, listen up. You can believe on the risen Christ right now at this very moment.How do you do that?By resting your faith in the fact that what he completed at the cross was sufficient for your salvation. Don't add anything. Don't take anything away. Just leave it right there. Let it rest. Let your, commit your salvation to the Lord Jesus Christ. Take your hands off of it. Ephesians chapter 2 verse 8, For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Grace and Peace. From all of us to all of you. Thank you.Thanks for your support of the TTR mobile app. Be sure to share the app with someone today.Who knows? It just may change where they spend eternity. I've been a right divider for some time.I recently come across your radio message and I've listened to it almost non-stop.I just enjoy your messages and the truth of finally getting some of your rightly divided.And I appreciate it. Thank you for your diligence and your good work and God's grace continue to be with you.Thank you.

Today, on Truth Time, what about something from Paul?Okay, glad you asked.Romans chapter 3 verse 18, There is no fear of God before their eyes.Fear of God, same exact syntax as faith of God and faith of Christ.If fear of God doesn't mean that God exercises fear, why would we ever assume that faith of God and faith of Christ means God the Father or God the Son exercised faith?Because you heard someone say it.And you've been blindly repeating it ever since.That's how it works.When Paul wrote the words, "faith of Christ," he wasn't saying Jesus needed faith and something that had never seen.The faith of Christ simply means the body of doctrine, the faith, Paul wrote down for you and I.This is Truth Time Radio.Okay, we've made it to the final installment of the faith of Christ series.Did Jesus need faith?What is faith?No need to guess, God defined it for us in Hebrews 11:1, and there should be no question that Jesus is not a candidate for needing it.God said faith is the substance of things hoped for the evidence of things not seen yet Jesus foreseen it all.He foretold events, he foretold signs of the end times, and even his own sufferings, death, and resurrection.He foretold it all, hey, if you know all things, you don't need faith.In John 2:25, chapter 13 verse 3, 16:30, 18:4, and 21:17, they all say he knows all things.Case closed, argument over, right?If it were only that simple, but so many rely on their own presuppositionsinstead of taking God at his word.The Bible definition for faith destroys the Jesus needing it theory.And the definition doesn't change according to dispensational changesbecause faith never changed.One reason some say Jesus needed faith is because he was fully man and fully God.So what they do, they lean on the man side here when they want to support their argument.Because most understand that it's man who's required to have faith, not God.Christ, the Hebrews 12:2 author and finisher of our faith, doesn't need faith, he created it.Faith was created as a means for man to overcome his shortcomings, but Jesus don't have shortcomings.The man Christ Jesus doesn't cancel out the full deity of God in any way.It doesn't cancel out the full deity of God that dwelt in the man.Habakkuk 2:4 says, The just shall live by his faith.Paul and James both agree, they say the same thing.A just man lives by his faith because faith is the vehicle for justificationand it always has been.Take Job, for example, chapter 1 verse 1.Here we read, There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.Now, we gotta ask, how did Job acquire the perfect and upright status?He lived by his faith.Without faith, Job wouldn't have feared God or known how to turn from evil.For man, faith is required to do these things because we're sinful, our flesh is sinful, it's rotten to the core and has an appointment with death.Without faith, it's impossible to please God, but what if God becomes a man?Does that mean he's required to exercise faith?Let's take a look at some verses used to describe the man Jesus Christ from our Apostle Paul and let's see if they take us to the conclusion that because God became a man, he was required to have faith like a man.Philippians 2, come with me here, come with me.Philippians 2, Philippians chapter 2 verse 5.Beginning at verse 5, let's start there,(Verse 5) Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: (Verse 6) Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:(Verse 7) But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of man.(Verse 8) And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.Now, in verse 5, Paul wants us to adapt to the mind of Christ.And when we read it in proper context, we see the entire passage is about exercising humility with the hope of future glory, future glory in sight.These verses are the component of the greater context of the whole chapter.In verse six, here we began to see the explanation of how the word became flesh and dwelt among us just as John also said in his account of Christ's earthly ministry.In verse 8, verse 8 ends with death, which is the only thing that can happento this already condemned flesh.Christ, being in the form of God, well, that's just talking about the nature here.Then Paul said Jesus thought it not robbery to be equal with God.The only way to be equal with God is if you are God.And that's obvious.This is his deity defined while in the flesh, not before he came from heaven and put on flesh, but after, afterwards.Being in the form, the nature of God and equal with God, wasn't even anything to question before the word became flesh and dwelt among us.Verses 5 and 6, they express Christ's deity after he became a human man, a truth that obliterates the idea of Christ emptying himself.You've probably heard that taught.Some teach he emptied himself of the deity to become a man.Paul clearly articulated that Christ did not lay his deity aside to become a man, never.His full deity was still intact and we see Colossians 2:9 as absolute proof of this.Christ was the fullness of the Godhead bodily, all the deity attributes of God in a body of flesh.Now notice, now notice, the next part of the passage here that describes Christ as a man.Watch.He made himself of no reputation.He took upon himself the form of a servant.He was made in the likeness of men.So as a man, now think, he didn't make himself famous to gain followers.This is simply Paul pointing out the humility that Christ had in coming down from heaven to walk among us.Paul wanted the Philippians to have that same humble mindset in their dealings with others.If Jesus had made himself of reputation, he would not have said what he saidover there in Matthew chapter 13 verse 57.I've got it right here for us.It says, And they were offended in him. But Jesus said unto them, A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country, and in his own house.Ah, see, he took upon himself the form, the nature of a servant.Think about that, a man who was in the form of God possessing all deity attributes, took upon himself something unnatural for the fullness of the Godhead.He took on the nature of a servant.This is why we call the time of Christ's service on earth, ministry.Ministry is a service, and a minister is a servant, or should be.So, Christ's earthly ministry is such because he took upon the form of a servant and service to the Father as the mediator between heaven and earth.Christ being made in the likeness of man as a phrase that should give pauseto anyone believing that all mankind is still considered to be made in the image of God.People say that a lot.You've heard that taught many times, but that's not true.If that were the case, then Christ being God would not have had to be madein the likeness of man in order to become a man.We all know babies are adorable, but I don't care how cute that little baby is, no one ever born has been created in the image and likeness of God.That status was lost way back there in the garden with Adam's sin.And this passage, this passage stating that Jesus had to be made in the likeness of a man confirms that.The form of God had to be made in the likeness of man.If man were still in God's image and likeness, then no change in likeness would have to be made when the Word became flesh.Just connect the dots.Christ's nature of having all deity attributes didn't change just because he made himself of no reputation, or took upon himself the nature of a servant made in the likeness of man.Now, now verse 8, here's one that some trip over.But when read, when read with the understanding of the immediate context along with the knowledge of the extended context, Paul's admonition of humility, it should make sense.Verse 8, And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.So, being found in fashion as a man, because he put on the servanthood nature in the likeness of man, well, he humbled himself.The Word whom all glory and honor goes to made himself of no reputation.God the Son, Hebrews 1:8, who sits on the right hand of the Fatherand who'll be exalted when every knee bows and every tongue confesses, took on the nature of a servant.Jesus Christ the blessed and only potentate King of kings and Lord of lords was made in the likeness of man.Now that's incredible.This is how he humbled himself in verse 8.Why did he do so?Because it was the only way he could be obedient.Servants do what?Obey.Christ humbled himself as a servant so he could become obedient to the Father unto death, even the death of the cross.Had he not lowered himself to the likeness of man, he could neither die or have been obedient.Now, a question, a question we need to answer, does obedience require faith?We've heard that taught, but before you answer that, remember, faith is the substance of things hoped for the evidence of things not seen.So, in order to apply faith to obedience, there has to be something unknown and unseen concerning what that obedience is applied to.The narrative that it's often taught is Christ needed faith in the Father to raise him from the dead, therefore his obedience unto death required him to have faith.But is that true?Well, how could it be?When Jesus repeated exactly what was going to happen to him, now think, he repeated it what was going to happen to him concerning his death, burial, and resurrection at least nine times in Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.So, how could it be?During his earthly ministry we're told what he had already seen and already known.John 6:46 says that no man had seen the Father except Christ.Matthew 11:27 says all things were delivered to Christ of the Father and that no man knew the Father except the Son.John 13:3 says that Jesus knew that the Father had given all things into his hands and he knew he came from God and that he would go to God.Folks, Jesus Christ didn't lay aside the knowledge of his deity, no.John 17:45, Jesus said that the world has not known the Father but Jesus who was in the world did know the Father.John 16:30 Christ knoweth all things.John 21:17 again, Christ knoweth all things.Now, what's the definition of faith?If faith is the evidence of things not seen but Christ knows all things, then guess what, ladies and gentlemen, it's impossible for the Christ of the Bible to have faith.Impossible.John 2:24 & 25, Jesus knew all men and knew what was in man.Matthew chapter 9 verse 4, Jesus knew the thoughts of men.John 16:7, Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that believed not and who should betray him.In John chapter 4 verses 25 and 26, the woman at the well tells Christ, not knowing who he is at first, that when the Messiah comes, he will tell them all things.What was Jesus' response to her?I am he.Mic drop, end of argument, full stop.How can he tell them all things if he doesn't already know all things?And if he already knows all things, then that goes directly against the definition of faith in Hebrews chapter 11.Obedience doesn't require faith, never has.Obedience doesn't require faith, but faith does require obedience.Christ was obedient, but he wasn't blindly obedient.He was obedient unto death even the death of the cross, but he already knew about the cross.So no faith needed.He knew the wages of sin was death.He knew who he was.He knew the very reason he came was to put on flesh that could die.He knew his atonement, his atonement for the sins of the world would be accepted by the Father.He already knew that.He knew he would arise on the third day declaring his righteousness for sinsthat were past, through the forbearance of God.He knew this mystery of God, ceasing to impute the subsequent sins to the lost world, that would later be revealed by Paul when he took the news to the Gentile world.He knew that if Satan's host, the princes of the world, were to have knownwhat was happening, he would not have been crucified.He didn't hope for these things, he knew them, because he was, he is, and always will be the all-knowing God.Jesus is God.Jesus, both the author and finisher of our faith.He authored a vehicle by which man could be saved from his disobedient, sinful nature.That vehicle being faith.Without it, there's no salvation.And for the believer, he will finish our faith when our hope is no longer hope, when it's no longer unseen.Our faith will be finished when at last we're face to face with Christ.Our faith will then have become sight.Our hope will no longer be hope because hope that is seen is not hope.Now, let's look at some verses outside of Paul's epistles that describe attributes of Christ's humanity.Whether or not Christ was fully man and fully God is not in question, at least not for us.The question is, does his humanity require him to have faith?Let's answer this.Philippians says he was obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.Hebrews 5:8 says Christ learned obedience.Well, if he already knew everything, why would he need to learn anything?Because this speaks of an experiential learning.Before the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, he didn't have to obey anyone.Remember, he's God just like the Father and the Holy Ghost.All equal, no obedience required from one to the other.They're one in unity, 1 John 5:7, before the Word became flesh,he knew what was going to happen to him.But while he was flesh, he took on the form of a servant.He wasn't a servant by nature, but put on the nature of one.Servants serve through obedience.This was a new experience.God the Son was experiencing something he had never experienced before.He had never walked the earth while wearing the flesh of sinful man before being born of a woman.So, there were things he had to learn through experience.But that doesn't mean he didn't already know those things, he hadn't already seen those things from eternity.He had, of course he had, even the very next part of Hebrews 5:8 says so.It explains how he learned obedience.It says here, by the things which he suffered, he experienced suffering.God the Son who had the power to end the suffering at any moment, kept suffering in order to learn obedience.His obedience was unto the death of the cross.Hebrews 5:9 tells why he did that, And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all men that obey him.So, Christ is the author of faith, and here we have verse 9 saying, he's the author of eternal salvation.Sinful humans need eternal salvation, and faith is the only vehicle for that.Did Christ, did he need to be eternally saved?No.Then why would he need faith?We heard a pastor say that exercising faith is what, quote unquote, "Made Jesus perfect."He based that on the phrase, "being made perfect," here in Hebrews.But that's incorrect.Christ, who was the word, was already perfect.He was made perfect when he became flesh.The Word was already perfect in heaven.When the Word became flesh, he was made perfect in the flesh.The made perfect here is in reference to his birth.Paul agrees, in Galatians chapter 4, being made of a woman doesn't mean a created being like some religions teach.Galatians 4:4, listen, But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,And in John 1:14, John says, The Word was made flesh and dwelt among us.When the Word was made flesh, he was made perfect, made of a woman, made under the law, made of no reputation, made in the likeness of men, made of the seed of David according to the flesh, made to be sin for us, made a curse for us, made a little lower than the angels, made like unto his brethren.This made was at his birth.It isn't speaking of a making in progress over a period of time.These are all human attributes that Christ was made to be and he was made to be these things perfectly and completely.The word made doesn't mean created.It means to be conformed to.God the Word was made, God the Son, when the Word was made flesh.The Word had to be made flesh because the Word was not flesh by nature.The Word was God by nature in the form of God.So, no he didn't need faith to learn obedience through sufferings, which in turn would make him perfect, because he was made perfect in the womb of Marybefore he breathed his first breath as a man.The faith of Christ is what we practice.It's a discipline.The faith of Christ is what we believe, not what Jesus had.Hebrews 5:7, Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared;Now, here we have a reference to the prayer of Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane, and this word, feared, is another one, another one of those words that has caused some to stumble, thinking that since Jesus, since he feared, he needed faith.But this isn't the case at all.This is not what it's talking about.It's not talking about him being scared of anything, fearing something that he didn't know would happen.No, this speaks to his dread.Concerning what he already knew was going to happen.Like the excruciating pain to be inflicted upon his flesh and even more so on his spirit.He didn't want to do it, but he knew he had to in order to finish what he was made to accomplish.His prayer to the Father in the Garden is heartbreaking, but feelings don't equal faith.They're a response to something else.He didn't need faith to have feelings because he already knew he'd have feelings.Remember, John 16:30, Christ knoweth all things.Okay, another one, another one that is used is from Hebrews chapter 4 and verse 15.Here it talks about Christ being tempted at all points.He was tempted to sin, but could he?No.If he could, then he's disqualified himself from being God.And if Christ could sin, then he would need faith.But he doesn't because he can't sin and still be God.Saying that he needed faith makes it sound like you're still on the fence about him being God.Now to Luke chapter 2, in Luke chapter 2, we see how Jesus grew, was filled with wisdom, and increased in wisdom and stature.God was a baby, then a boy, then a man.That's a lot of experiential wisdom to gain, right?And since he came into the world as a baby and not as a full-grown man, he had to grow.But none of these things require faith.Remember, you only need faith for things you don't know and things you've not seen.But Jesus knows all and has seen all, so he's not a candidate for needing faith.On the contrary, in this very passage, we see Jesus responding to his mother's fear over not being able to find him.He said, I'm about my father's business.And verse 50, Mary and Joseph, you can see there, they didn't have a clue what he meant by that.So, while Jesus grew physically, he always knew exactly who he was.Not because his earthly parents told him, but because he was God in the flesh.All right, we've come to our final verse, Mark chapter 13 verse 32, But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father.In this six-part series, we've put forth a surplus of verses that slam the door shut, leaving no question whether or not Jesus knew all things.But with that said, it is understandable how this verse here on the surfacemay appear contradictive.But if it is, our Bible's messed up and we know that's not true.So, we won't ignore the multiple verses that say the opposite in favor of just one.When we use a little wisdom, we understand that a single verse, which implies that there is one aspect that has not been earmarked for the Son of God to reveal, would not mean that we throw out all of the other versesthat say he knows all things.So, let's examine this further.There's another instance of this same event we're reading here in Mark 13:32and it's found in Matthew chapter 24.There, Christ tells his followers to be ready like Noah was ready for the flood.Those ready, they were safely sealed up in the ark.Those not were unable to get on board and be saved.Noah didn't know the exact day and hour the rain would start.Just like these here in Matthew 24, wouldn't know the exact day and hour of Christ's return.God had a reason for not revealing the day and hour to man.He wanted them to watch and be ready, but if he had given them an exact dayand an exact hour, they'd have no need to stay ready.Both Matthew chapters 24 and 25 provide information with great detailconcerning the return of Christ for Israel.The only part missing is the exact day and hour and the parables and examples given by Jesus to his followers reveal exactly why that information was withheld.So, after looking at the other accounts and understanding the context and why one specific aspect is not included for the audience, would it be wise to assume that God the Son didn't have access to a specific detail of information, or is it just that the Father desired the day and hour of Christ's return to be kept from his disciples?Don't forget, when we read this account here in Mark 13:32, when we see this same account given in Matthew and in Luke, there's nothing said about the Son not knowing the day or hour.That statement is only in Mark.To have said so much about the signs to be watching for, we know that Jesus knew all the details of his return.So, why wouldn't the Son know the day and hour?Verse 32 says, But of that day and that hour, knoweth no man.Now look in verse 34 and see exactly how the Son is referred to in the immediate context, For the Son of man is as a man taking a far journey, who left his house, and gave authority to his servants, and to every man his work, and commanded the porter to watch.Now, here it's important to notice that Jesus says the Son of man, not Son of God.And a few verses earlier, same context, Mark 13:26 watch, And then shall they see the Son of man coming in the clouds with great power and glory.Who is the Son of man, the fully man part of Jesus Christ.So, the reference to the Son not knowing of the day or the hour is obviously inclusive of the Son of man because no man know it.But it doesn't say that the Son of God, God the Son didn't know.It doesn't say that.Jesus had abilities that our human mind and spirits can't comprehend.He was in a unique position, one that required him to take on flesh that was cursed to die while maintaining the full deity of God.It took all of God's glory for him to make that first flesh acceptable, acceptable enough to become a sacrifice without spot or blemish.Something that the Son of man could never accomplish unless he was also the Son of God.Why does no man know the day and the hour?Simple, because the day and the hour is not prophesied.And the Son of man came to fulfill prophecy that had everything to do with the Son of man, Son of David.The second coming of Christ is according to prophecy.The day and hour of his return is not included in that prophecy.We cannot leave out the Son of man aspect of Jesus Christ.This was how he was able to fulfill all prophecies concerning him being the Seed of David, the Son of David.While at the same time, David called his Son the Son of man, Lord, Son of God.This is why Jesus cried out on the cross, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?Christ as the son of man marked the fulfillment of the prophecy of his father, David, in Psalm 22, while he was dying on the cross.And this had nothing to do with Jesus needing to have faith.As a matter of fact, to ask the Father why he had forsaken him signifies a lack of, or a loss of faith, rather than perfect faith, like some claim.But we know it has nothing to do with Jesus having faith or a lack thereof.He was making it known that he was fulfilling prophecy, and as both the Son of man, David, and the Son of God, he was the only one who qualified as Israel's Messiah and the nations who honored them.This is why Paul, the apostle of the Gentiles, never once, never once used the title, Son of Man, when describing Christ.But he did use Son of God multiple times.Son of Man is Jesus Christ after the flesh, but we don't follow him.We don't know him after the flesh as the son of man, son of David.We know him as the savior of all men, especially them that believe.God the Son who was justified, declared as the righteous Son of God by his resurrection, Romans chapter 1 verse 4.It's different.It's different.The Son of man was the Son of God.The Son of God is God and God doesn't need faith.Faith is not faith unless it has an object and a hope.Hope that is seen is not hope.Faith and sight are opposite, contradictory attributes.Throughout this series, not one time, not one time have we found any evidence whatsoever of God hoping for something to happen as if he didn't already know it would.And not one instance do we find Jesus having a lack of understanding.But to the contrary, those who listened to him didn't understand what he said at times, and they, they were the ones in need of faith.They exercised faith and followed him even though their understanding was not open until after the resurrection.The traits that Jesus possessed as a man do not cancel out any of his deity attributes as God.Growth of the human body, the experiences of God in an earthly vesselobedience to his own instruction and the consequences of sin that he set forth himself, having emotions and feelings, including the anxiety regarding the pain that he knew he must experience.None of these things, not a one, required him to exercise faith.These were things he already knew, and the choice and ability to keep the exact day and hour from his own humanity.That proves even more that the Son of God is able to do all things and know all things.For some, the problem seems to be with preposition.It's the word, "of," that's given many problems.Faith of Christ is automatically assumed to be faith in Christ for those who hold to newer Bible versions.But for those who believe the words in the King James, some assume that faith of Christ is talking about Jesus needing to have an exercised faith towards someone or something.As we've said multiple times, the King James is right.It's most definitely faith of Christ, not faith in Christ.But you can't have faith in Christ if you don't possess the faith of Christ.But we do.We hold it in our hands.The faith of Christ is the body of doctrine Paul wrote down in his 13 epistles.We study it and we apply it.The faith of Christ is a discipline.It's the faith we practice.The faith of Christ is what we believe, not what Christ had.So if the word, "of," always denotes an attribute belonging to the object of the phrase, then we wouldn't sit differently when presented with phrases that are identical in syntax to faith of Christ.Let's do a quick example.Genesis chapter 20 verse 11, And Abraham said, Because I thought, Surely the fear of God is not in this place;Now look at that.Look at this verse and ask yourself, does the phrase, "fear of God," mean God had fear?Take a moment if you need to.No.And neither does the phrase, "faith of Christ," mean Christ had faith.A Bible student knows there's a multiplicity of verses in scripture that have the phrase, "fear of God," and, "fear of the Lord."Yet, no one has such a misunderstanding of these verses that they, that it would cause them to walk away claiming God has fear.No one.Let's try again.Genesis chapter 35 verse 5, And they journeyed: and the terror of God was upon the cities that were round about them,Terror of God.Is God terrified in this verse?Or is the terror because of God?I think you get the picture.Ezra 6:18, And they set the priests in their divisions, and the Levites in their courses, for the service of God,Service of God.Is God doing the service, or are the Levite priests?Psalm 50 verse 23, Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth his conversation aright will I shew the salvation of God.Salvation of God.Does God need saving?Are you seeing the absurdity yet?Luke chapter 3 verse 6, And all flesh shall see the salvation of God.Same phrase, "salvation of God."God doesn't need to be saved which goes without sayin'.What about something from Paul?Okay, glad you asked.Romans chapter 3 verse 18, There is no fear of God before their eyes.Fear of God.Same exact syntax as faith of God and faith of Christ.If fear of God doesn't mean that God exercises fear, why would we ever assume that faith of God and faith of Christ means God the Father or God the Son exercised faith?Because you heard someone say it.And you've been blindly repeating it ever since.That's how it works.When Paul wrote the words, faith of Christ, he wasn't saying Jesus needed faith and something that had never seen.The faith of Christ simply means the body of doctrine, the faith, Paul wrote down for you and I.It's what we believe, not what he had.Guys, the writing is on the wall, the verdict is in, Christ hasn't needed faith a day of his life.Okay, that concludes our faith of Christ series.Here and not certain of where you're gonna spend eternity, you need to believe the gospel of your salvation.How that God stopped imputing sins to your account because Christ died for them all.He was buried, but after three days, he arose.All righteousness is in him.Eternal life is in him.So believe on him and you too will have his righteousness and life for all eternity.We love you.We love you all.Grace and peace.

This is Jake Cohen from Keatsville, Missouri. I just wanted to tell you thank you for all that you're doing and truly, like Paul, the scales have fallen from my eyes. Praise God and I thank you for your ministry. God bless.Praising him today with a heart of thanksgiving, and so thankful that he stopped imputing sins to the world.Some will say, How can that be? Because Christ shed his blood and died for them all.In 1 Corinthians 15 verse 1, Paul wrote, Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand;So, it's evident that Paul had already preached the gospel to them. And they were standing in that. What were they standing in?Verse 3, For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, What did you receive, Paul?How that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:Amazing. They were standing firm, they were stable in this good news, the gospel.Now, let's go to Paul's second letter. His second letter to those there at Corinth. The city of Corinth is located in Greece.It was a wealthy seaport city in Paul's day. May still be. Some referred to it as a great communication hub.A great place to trade as well. Okay. 2 Corinthians 5 verse 15, verse 15, And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.Verse 16, Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now *timeline* henceforth know we him no more.Right here, now pay close, right here is a vital piece of information that is generally overlooked by most.In the Bible, you'll see, a Bible student will notice that Christ is taught according to prophecy, and he is also taught according to mystery.When we come to our Bible, we got to choose between the past teachings of Christ, and the present teachings of Christ, but never forget that it's all the teachings of Christ. It's not Christ versus Paul. It's Christ versus Christ. Get this.Think of Paul's words here. We "have." We "have" known Christ after the flesh, yet now, henceforth know we him no more.We see here a distinction. Yes, we do. We see Christ during his earthly ministry, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, and we see Christ as he appeared to Paul in Acts 9 from heaven, not earth.That's a diametrically opposing position. Some say we make too much of Paul. We make no more of him than God does. It was God who called Paul the apostle of the Gentiles, not us.It is God that gave him the apostolic commission, commissioned by the risen Christ to spread the gospel of the grace of God, not us.It was God that shut down the twelves' commission to take the gospel of the kingdom to all the world. Yeah, he shut it down, and did so in Galatians chapter 2.The teachings Paul wrote down, the teachings he penned, hey, they're just the teachings of Christ, not Paul. In Galatians chapter 1, Paul wrote,Verse 10 For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ. (Verse 11) But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man. (Verse 12) For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.There's our risen Savior right there, not Jesus in his earthly ministry, Jesus from his heavenly position as he appeared to Paul.Paul was a new apostle who was called out and separated from the kingdom 12.Romans chapter 1, Romans chapter 1.Romans chapter 1 verse 1, Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ called to be an apostle, separated, *there it is* separated unto the gospel of God.See, his ministry was distinct, he was separated and given the dispensation of the grace of God.Ephesians chapter 3, Ephesians chapter 3 verse 1, For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles,(Verse 2) If ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me to you-ward:(Verse 3) How that by revelation,...Ah there it is, there's Acts 9 and all the subsequent meetings Paul had with Christ.Keep reading, He made known unto me the mystery; (as I wrote afore in few words,(Verse 4) Whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ)See that? My knowledge.Paul said what about what, three times?He said, My gospel.My gospel.Paul's, My gospel, contained Paul's, My knowledge, his knowledge in the mystery of Christ.Oh, that's a difference-maker right there is it not?The mystery knowledge that is, that is only found in the writings of our apostle, our personal apostle.He's the only apostle commissioned to us, he's the only apostle commissioned to testify the gospel of the grace of God, Acts 20:24.Now, here in Acts 20, we mentioned 24, but let's look at 21.Here he wrote, Testifying both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks, repentance *that's a change of mind* toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.Change your mind from the idol worshipping, and place your faith, rest your faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.They were to repent, change their mind concerning God, and put their faith in him in Christ, a new apostle was on the scene and he had a new gospel.His gospel wasn't about law keeping, but rather about verse 24, The ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus, *What ministry Paul?*To testify the gospel of the grace of God.The gospel of the grace of God is not the law of Moses.The gospel of the grace of God is not the red letters of Jesus.There to the man in Matthew chapter 19, you remember that, who came to him and said, Good master, what good thing shall I do?What good thing do I need to do that I may have eternal life?That's not the gospel of the grace of God.That's according to the dispensing of law that was going on back there.Well, how do you know that Trey, because of how he answered this man.He said, Jesus said, If thou will enter into life, keep the commandments.The commandments concern the law and not the gospel of the grace of God that Paul said he testified of.Think about it, think about this.Jesus said two different things about the same thing.Yes, he did. The question was asked, Good Master, what do I need to do to have eternal life?And Jesus said, Keep the commandments.Then, in Acts chapter 16, the same question came up.Over there, it's asked by the keeper of the jail.He came up to Paul and Silas and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved?But the answer has now changed.He said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved.Same question, two different answers.Different things about the same thing.And remember, Jesus taught Paul, Galatians 1:11.So, Jesus taught two opposing things about the same thing.Had he gone mad or something?Of course not.If two opposing things about the same thing were being taught at the same time, Jesus would have been breaking the law of non-contradiction, but they were not being taught at the same time.Are you seeing this? Are you seeing why we must, it's an absolute necessity that we rightly divide the word of truth?Don't let yourself be bamboozled by those who wrongly divide.When seeking out a teacher, just make sure they're following the instruction to rightly divide.When you find one, you should Philippians 3:17, Mark them for an ensample.But for those who wrongly divide, mark and avoid them, Romans chapter 16.Speaking of Romans, Paul was sent to testify the gospel of the grace of God, right?Not the law, the gospel of the grace of God.He will tell us over there, Sin shall not have dominion over you, for you're not under the law, but under grace.And in case we missed it, he repeats it again in the next chapter by saying, Romans chapter 70 says, Were delivered from the law.So the law that Jesus taught the disciples and said he himself came to fulfill is the very law, the same law that Paul later says we're not under and we've been delivered from.Rightly dividing the word of truth is amazing.Clears away all those spiritual cobwebs, right?Guys, this isn't rocket surgery, it just takes you believing your Bible.You can do it without going to cemetery school, you can do it without having a degree on your wall.Listen, when we're ready to face the scriptures head on, we quickly come to realize that the previous gospel, the gospel of the kingdom, was different than the present gospel of the grace of God.If you're an ambassador for Christ out here spreading the word of reconciliation, you're going to encounter those who refuse to see these differences.But a truth seeker, hey, a truth seeker will be open to what saith the scripture?Someone sincerely seeking truth will have their understanding open when you present them with these verses, verses like this:1 Corinthians 9:16, For though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of: for necessity is laid upon me; yea, woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel!(Verse 17) For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if against my will, *and here it is* a dispensation of the gospel is committed unto me.This is the words of your apostle.A dispensation of the gospel was committed unto Paul.See, this dispensation of the gospel is what's unfolding today inside this parenthetical, this parentheses, during a parenthetical, but now time period when the gospel is no longer about a King coming to his own and them receiving him not.This present day parenthetical, but now gospel is not about Jesus going about healing all manner of diseases.Our present day good news is not about Peter standing up and saying, Ye men of Israel hear these words.We're not the, Ye men of Israel.Before being placed in the body of Christ we were called Gentiles.And in this present day it's all about the gospel of the grace of God, the gospel of the grace of God, amen?The gospel of the kingdom was getting your sins forgiven, keeping short accounts with God by confessing sins and asking for forgiveness, by water baptism, circumcision, law keeping, all these types of things were necessary as a part of Israel's faith plus performance program.To do, to do, to do they had a big old to do list all being done and having to keep up with while enduring unto the end to be saved.That was the good news of the Kingdom, but as you can see, that's not good news as far as we're concerned.Having to do, do, do is simply not the salvation gospel Paul preached.As you've heard us say many times, There's some doing involved for us today, but we don't do to be saved, we do because we are saved.Not true in time past under the kingdom economy.Paul was a new apostle given a new gospel and this Acts 20:24 gospel of the grace of God is works free, performance free, law free, physical circumcision free, obtaining favor free.No more striving, it's striving for forgiveness free.Tithing free, speaking with other tongues free.This gospel given to Paul is free from all these things that were operating during the previous time period, operating under the gospel of the kingdom.Jesus came unto his own, but his own received him not. They rejected him, so he opened the door so that all nations, and not just Israel, and not all nations having to come through Israel, but he opened it up to all nation and laid out some new instructions, gave us a new apostle with a new gospel.And the only way to be saved today is by trusting Christ for your eternal salvation, and by believing what Paul wrote down concerning him.How that God stopped imputing sins to the world because of the death, burial, and resurrection.Is there something we must do to be saved?Absolutely.We must believe on the Lord Jesus Christ.There's something we do, but it doesn't involve our flesh.Is baptism involved in our salvation?You better know it, but it's Spirit baptism, not water.No flesh, 1 Corinthians 12:13.Is circumcision involved in our salvation?Amen, amen.But again, it's Spirit circumcision, not fleshly.Colossians 2:11 and 12.This is great news. I mean, when you think about your salvation today, just think faith.Faith not flesh.If you allow your flesh to be involved, to them that do works is the reward not reckoned of grace but of debt.But Paul goes on to give you the solution next verse, he says, (Romans 4:5) But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith *his faith* is counted for righteousness.(Ephesians 2:8-9) For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast.This and this alone is our present day avenue to eternal salvation, which opposes the previous way of inheriting eternal life.If any one of us would have walked up to any of those 12 back there and told them what Paul tells us, how that we're quickened together with him and he's forgiven us all trespasses, they would have thought we were nuts.Hey, Peter, haven't you heard? He blotted out the handwriting of ordinances that were against us and contrary to us and he took it out of the way and nailed it to the cross.Oh, Peter might have gone postal right there in downtown Galilee.He wouldn't be having that, no way. Today, it's like this: You first hear the gospel, the gospel of your salvation, and next you believe the gospel of your salvation, and then allow the Holy Spirit to do the rest.Ephesians 1:13, 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,That was never the sequence of events, according to the gospel of the kingdom. They would tell them that.Go back there and tell them that. They would look at you like you are crazy.But it's certainly outstanding news for those of us under grace.In verse 14, I love it, it says, Which is the earnest of our inheritance unto the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.My, my, today, faith, guys, faith, not works.And I'm talking about for salvation. We do work.If we'll get ourselves out of the way and rest in this finished work of Jesus on the cross and him resurrecting to give us new life, get ourselves out of the way.We actually don't do the work. He's working through us.The, the word of God goes to work effectually in and through us that believe.Don't be like those foolish Galatians and fall back into a works program.Just keep it trucking. Keep it moving.Moving ahead, pressing toward the mark and preaching this gospel of Christ that Paul was not ashamed of, and neither should we be.Anyone saying that you need to be a water baptized as part of your salvation doesn't understand the dispensation of the gospel that was committed to Paul.Anyone saying you must keep short sin accounts with God, they don't understand the dispensation of the gospel that was committed to Paul.Anyone saying you've got to keep the law, they don't understand the dispensation of the gospel committed to Paul.Anyone telling you that sins are still being imputed today, they don't understand the dispensation of the gospel committed to Paul.Paul unequivocally declares that sins are not what stands between us and our eternal destiny.What determines that is that we by grace through faith receive his righteousness.Have you done that? Have you by grace through faith received his justification?Your eternal destiny depends on you having believed that he has risen and by doing so, you too will be raised to new life in him.The Bible cannot be any more clear. Paul's gospel was different.We read it earlier, Galatians 1:11, But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man. (Verse 12) For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.On the subject of forgiveness there in Matthew chapter 6, Jesus said, If you don't forgive others, neither will my father forgive you.But Paul tells us over here on this side of the cross under this present economy that the reason we forgive is not to be forgiven, but because we already are.These two statements diametrically oppose one another, and that's okay.Why? Because they're not instructive data for the same audience.But both are instructions from Christ.One under the law of dispensation, one under the dispensation of grace.When a man who is honestly mistaken hears the truth, he will either quit being mistaken, or cease to be honest.

Some teach that God won't forgive you until you turn from all your sins.Some teach that he only forgives you after you become a believer.Some teach that you must be water-baptized first.While others teach that saying a prayer will earn your forgiveness.These are all false ways to get your sins forgiven.You can't get your sins forgiven because they already are.The world's sins were forgiven on Calvary's cross.Trying to make forgiveness depend on something you do only renders the gospel of non-affect.Christ died for your every sin, he was buried, and he arose on the third day to give eternal life to all who will believe on him alone.A reminder from WTTR, Truth Time Radio.2 Timothy 2:15, Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.Oh, what an awesome verse.We all know the verse.We love it.We hold to it dearly.You know, after learning to rightly divide, isn't, isn't it nice to know that we now live by the faith of the Son of God?That's our life's road map.The guideline for the one new man in Christ.I'm crucified with Christ, nevertheless I live, not me, but the Christ that liveth in me, and the life I live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me.Oh, that's good news.If you're in Christ, you won't hear any greater news than that today.Not going to happen I can guarantee you.By Paul penning the faith of Christ in 13 letters, we now have a blueprint, a blueprint to follow laid out.It's a great pattern.All we have to do is stay the course.To live your life by the faith of Christ is to follow Paul's instructions.And one such instruction is this.God is not the author of confusion, but of peace.As in all churches of the saints, that's 1 Corinthians over there in chapter 14.So, you see, we should all, we should all be working in unity to stave off, to hold back the confusion that is bound to come in if we allow it.It's at the door knocking, always, and sadly, some who call themselves saints, they're there to open the door, hey, it's their daily duty, it's their favorite chore to wake up and stir up confusion among the body of Christ.How unhappy do you have to be to have that mindset?How unfulfilling does your life have to be for you to wake up each morning and give that much energy to cause confusion?If you do that, don't be surprised when others stop taking you seriously.Blessed are the peacemakers, right?Not noise makers.There's no room in the body of Christ for sounding brass and tinkling symbols, to bring clarity and peace we need to hear from those who speak words with distinction.That's what brings peace.My wife, my wife, she'll read some Facebook posts that she's seen, and one of the first emotions for me is I feel sadness.Sad for those who seem to have such a difficult time understanding the grace that Jesus showed the entire world when he took our place and sacrificed his life to be made 2 Corinthians 5:21 sin for us.Understanding this makes it nearly impossible to want to wake up each morning and make a conscious decision to dedicate your day to make others feel miserable.Understanding the gospel and what reconciliation accomplished should replace your desire to sew discord in the life of others.It's truly freeing once you get it, it'll help you to care and love others more.Having that understanding brings such comfort, such joy, such peace.Colossians 3:15, what are we told there? Let the peace of God rule in your heart.2 Corinthians, there in chapter 13, verse 11, I think, Be of one mind and live in peace.And in Romans 14, Paul says, follow after the things which make for peace and edify one another.As ambassadors for Christ, we have responsibilities guys, and one of the top responsibilities for an ambassador is to make peace, to bring resolution, to be a bridge builder, to be an intermediary between two or more parties.That's what Christ was and that's what we're to be.He was that for us and we're to be that for others.This is Truth Time Radio, you're home for Mid-Acts Bible Study, coffee zone, we're ready to go.I'm going to speak a little bit about the difference between at the cross and by the cross.Here to speak truth and speak it in love, Ephesians 4, we're not to be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, gotta watch out for the slight of men and the cunning craftiness of those out here who are lying in wait to deceive.We're to defend the gospel and speak the truth in love.Now speaking the truth in love doesn't mean we're always speaking niceties, speaking the truth in love doesn't always mean that you never raise your voice.I'm fairly certain Jesus wasn't whispering when he went in and overthrew the tables of the money changers.Speaking the truth in love doesn't mean we tailor our words to flatter someone.We're not men pleasers, like the preaching of Christ according to the revelation of the mystery, which in time past was hidden wisdom.They don't like to hear that.The death, burial, and resurrection was never a mystery.Most all denominations, they go along with 1 Corinthians 15:1 to 4, but the result, when you explain the true result of that, they got a problem.The death, burial, and resurrection was never a mystery, but the result of it was.It resulting in God stopping the imputation of sins to the world was a secret.Peter, James, and John all knew of the death, burial, and resurrection before Paul did, but for them the blood of Jesus was only for the remission of sins, sins that are passed.For them it was about the purging of their old sins, 2 Peter 1:9.The remission of sins is not the all sins that Paul revealed in our gospel, Colossians 2:13 and 2 Corinthians 5:19.In a society, when many live in almost an almost constant state of docileness, awareness is practically non-existent, so awareness is an outstanding thing to possess.I think it was, I think, seems like around 2012, around then when we started expressing here at Truth Time, we started to express the need for the body of Christ to be awake, aware, alive, and active.Because when you're in a state of docileity, oh, mister manipulation, hey, he's hunkered down.Yes, he is.He's hunkered down, lying in wait over there in the corner, waiting to strike, waiting for his next victim to be obedient and compliant to the manipulated words coming from his mouth, toxicities all around us.This is why it's so vital that we edify one another in truth and love, edify one another with a faith of Christ, Pauline doctrine, so we can build each other up and so we can build up a resistance to the toxic teaching going around.We have to keep our sense of clarity and conviction about us.We got people teaching the Bible who aren't aware of what took place at the cross.Now make that make sense.That should be the first thing they learned before having the bright idea to go be a teacher.These who limit what was accomplished at the cross, and yes, I said, at, where else do you think it happened?Out here talking about forgiveness didn't happen at the cross, but by the cross.What?If you're hung up on the words at and by, stick around.With an open Bible, I'll clear that up for you here in just a moment.But that's the problem.You see, most Bibles are not open.Oh, they've got YouTube pulled up.They've got TikTok.They've got Facebook, but the Bible, it's closed.And in this present evil world, full of automated AI responses and fake online interactions, no wonder they don't understand what happened at the cross.If AI didn't tell them, they don't know it.The mystery that was revealed is still a mystery to most today.But the Word of God stands alone all by itself as the only remaining source of absolute truth.Here's an absolute truth for you, by the way.The cross of Christ, you know, the place where Christ shed his blood at the cross, where the perfect sacrifice was made and accepted at the cross, where forgiveness was accomplished, worldwide at the cross.You know, I think Kool and the Gang, they may have been talking about limited forgivers when they said, Celebrate good times, come on.Wake up and celebrate, not much celebrating going on amongst the limited forgivers.No time to celebrate the gospel when you're obsessed with sin.Constantly talking about how people can't be in hell with their sins forgiven, while we're over here preaching the gospel so they don't have to go there.Hey, come in, come in real close, come in close and listen.If they go to hell, it won't matter if their sins are forgiven or not, because they'll still be in hell.Get it?Some are scared of Paul's gospel, they're scared of his pure, unperverted gospel of grace.Why is that, you think?Well, you fear what you don't understand, and his gospel is so far removed from the norm of religion, most fear it, even some who claim to follow it.It's Paul's gospel that made known how God doesn't forgive and forget, because he forgave and forgot.Those two are different.It's not what can wash away my sins, it's what did wash away my sins.Nothing but the blood of Jesus.Not sin confessing, not walking an aisle, not water baptism, not whether or not I believe something.No, what washed away my sins, nothing but the blood of Jesus, guess what that means?Forgiveness is not conditional and future, it's unconditional and past.This is the mystery of Paul's gospel.But if you preach this, if you dare put on your big boy britches and go preach, Paul's finished cross-work gospel just as he faced false accusers, so will you.And the poorly educated, they call Paul's gospel, universalism.Stop embarrassing yourself.Stop working on your next incoherent Facebook meme that others look at, and go, huh?Stop with all that, do a bit of homework, universalists, they believe, in the end everyone will be saved.Somehow, there's a few who can't get this.They can't see the difference.2 Corinthians chapter 5, Romans chapter 5, the reconciliation message is not hard to get, but it will require a little effort on your part.No one preaching it correctly is saying, everyone will be saved in the end.For you not to get that, well, it's telling, there's something going on.Paul's gospel is not complex, hey at the cross, God stopped imputing sins, now that's pretty simple.He stopped imputing sins, he did not provide worldwide salvation.Universalists have no clue.They simply do not believe their Bible.On one side limited forgivers, on the other side, universalists, clowns on the left, jokers on the right, here we are stuck in the middle again.Both groups think forgiveness gives life, it does not.Forgiveness has never given life to anyone, not in any dispensation.Only the justified have life, forgiveness has never cleared the guilty.Only the justified are guilt-free.Paul's gospel is so simple, God imputed your sins onto his son so that your justification could take place when you believe.So did forgiveness occur at the cross or by the cross?Let's answer that question, at or by, well at equals when, where, by equals how, because of, forgiveness happened when the atonement was made by the Son, and because the atonement was accepted by the Father.This follows a pattern here, just like every other time in scripture, that a sacrificial atonement was fulfilled.We're constantly hearing from folks who are getting this, and if you're here today and you're still struggling with these questions, questions like these, you'll want to go over and dive into our terminology playlist, find that folder and educate yourself.You'll be glad you did.There are Pauline truths in scripture that we can, with certainty, understand, either took place at the cross, by the cross, or both.For example, the phrase, by the cross, it only appears one time in our Bible.And it has everything to do with making both twain, so making peace between Jew and Gentile to form the one new man, the body of Christ.By the cross is not talking about when forgiveness happened.Just pay attention to the context.The context actually reveals that what happened by the cross is a result of what happened at the cross.Grab Ephesians chapter 2, Ephesians chapter 2, let's go there, let's go there, and run a simple test to see if the limited forgivers, if they're being forthcoming.Okay, let's begin with verse 14, and we'll run through to verse 16,For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us;Now watch, Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, did you hear that?Now that happened at the cross.Even the law of commandments contained in ordinances, for to make, ah, that's future from the cross, beginning with Acts 9, for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace, and that he, watch, might reconcile both, again, future from the cross, unto God in one body, by the cross.That's the means, that's the how he will do it.Having slain, past tense, happened at the cross, the enmity thereby.See that?So clear, so clear, saints.Why do they muddy this?It's easy, this is easy, peasy fifth grade stuff when you just read it and believe it.See, grammatically, the having abolished and having slain are both actions which precede what happened by the cross.The context is speaking to the formation of the one new man, the body of Christ, that Paul was the first member of.It was after the cross, and it began in Acts 9.This is why we see by and not at.The subject for what Paul is expressing here is, it's not what happened at, but what happened by.However, the at must precede the by in order for there to even be a by to speak of.The usage of the word having, as the participle modifier here, the participle modifier of the verbs abolished and slain, it forms two perfect participle phrases within this passage.Just look at it.These are supporting dependent clauses which describe a completed action before the main action happens.The purpose of the perfect participle phrase is to modify the main action or idea, and it does this by defining the sequence of events.Oh, this is, this is lined up in perfect order.Therefore see, the information revealed in the perfect participle phrase must precede the main action in order for the main action to take place.The having verbs, slain and abolished, happened at the cross before the main action.The main action, the formation of the body of Christ, well, it happened by, because of, as a result of, what happened at the cross.The fact that nowhere in this passage does Paul claim that forgiveness comes by the cross should tell us everything we need to know about the integrity of those pushing the by not at claim.Oh yeah, says a lot.It's merely smoke and mirrors is what it is.Those who oppose 2 Corinthians 5:19, hey, regardless of how many times they want to claim it's by the cross and not at the cross.What happened by the cross, in Ephesians 2:16, simply isn't what the gospel declares.No, what happened at the cross is, and according to all the verses we've discussed so far, as well as, there's others, you know, Colossians 1:20, chapter 2 verses 13 and 14, 2 Corinthians chapter 5 verses 14 through 21, Romans chapter 5 verses 1 through 11, and there's more, something happened at the cross, and that something was the atonement.It's a, it's a very odd thing, very odd indeed, how the Ministry of Reconciliation opposers try to avoid talking about what was accomplished at the cross, that offends them.It's like a phobia or something, especially when we consider what Paul says over there in Galatians chapter 6.In verse 14 he says, But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. What is it?What is it about what happened at the cross that's so offensive?, and we're not just talking about limited forgivers who say you have to believe first, but the problem is worldwide and all through religion.It's everything that Paul counted as dung.Limited forgivers covers all the first John 1:9ers, all the going into the booth and telling the priest about your sins so you can get them absolved.It covers the Church of Christ who says you have to repent and be baptized for the remission of sins.It covers the Jesus only apostolics.It covers the carismania crowd who puts obstacles between you and forgiveness.It covers the Baptist, the Methodist, who have plenty of methods for you to get your sins forgiven.It covers those who will tell you you got to forgive others first before God will forgive you.And they base that off the red letters of the book of Matthew.Not having the knowledge that we are somewhere else in this Bible.We are in the parenthetical dispensation of the grace of God.Where none of these things, including the limited forgivers who say you have to believe first, none of these things are relevant for today.They are not something you must do to get your sins forgiven.There is nothing to do.Your sins were forgiven at the cross.Just like no priest back in the Old Testament after having made the blood sacrifice for sins, went around traveling around house to house asking if someone believed it or not.They didn't have to believe it.He did his job.He made the sacrifice.God accepted that.It was temporary, of course.But over here on the other side of the cross and in the dispensation of grace, it's not temporary.When Jesus did his job, that was it.Done deal.Put it in the rear view mirror and move on.Now we need to get some people saved.How do you do that?Tell them the gospel.What is the gospel?That God's not imputing sins no more.His son died on the cross for all sins of the world.He was buried, but the grave couldn't contain him.He has risen, and now you can be justified unto eternal life by believing this good news.First Corinthians 1:23, But we preach Christ crucified unto the Jews a stumbling block and unto the Greeks foolishness.To some, what happened at the cross is still a stumbling block.It's still foolishness.Don't replace what happened at the cross with what happened by the cross, Paul didn't.First Corinthians 2:2, For I determined not to know anything among you.Listen to that now.Wait a minute.Back up.For I determined not to know anything among you, save Jesus Christ and him crucified.Wait a minute, Paul.It seems as if you all you want to do is talk about what happened at the cross.Maybe we need to get one of the limited forgivers to make you a meme and set you straight.Galatians 2:20, I am crucified with Christ.First Corinthians 1:18, For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness, but unto us which are saved, it is the power of God.We're going to keep on talking about what happened at the cross, just like our apostle, our pattern did.That seems to be a great, a magnificent idea.Just keep doing what he did.You can't pretend to be all about Acts 9 if you're not all about what happened at the cross, because Acts 9 is a result of what happened at the cross.But like parrots, they'll say, Paul's my apostle, dispensation of grace, one new man, we're not Israel.Polly wanna' cracker.Yeah, but what happened at the cross? Hmmm?See, when we take the focus off what happened at the cross and instead place it on what happened by the cross, we're doing the opposite of what our pattern Paul did.The very opposite.When we replace what happened at the cross, which is where sins of the world were dealt with, with the dispensational change that happened by the cross in Ephesians 2, we are glorying in the one new man, rather than glorying in the one who created him.A direct violation of Galatians 6:14 where Paul wrote, But God forbid that I should glory save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ.That's at the cross.That's not Acts 9.2 Corinthians 4:6, For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the faith of Jesus Christ.God is gloried, worshiped, and served by us through Jesus Christ.And we glorify God when we glory in what happened at the cross.Scripture says the preaching of the cross is the power of God.It does not say the preaching of the middle wall of partition and being broken down between Jew and Gentile by the cross is the power of God.No, the gospel of your salvation is what happened at the cross.Not what Ephesians 2:16 says happened by it.Some are so dishonest that if you preach reconciliation the way Paul did, they'll label you a universalist.Here's a quick news flash.No universalist believes that God has a lake of fire for everlasting punishment.But we do, that's what we believe.Because that's what the Bible teaches.And here's another one I'll throw in for free.Many universalists do not even believe that all sins were taken care of at the cross.Didn't know that did you?How about that?This is why you need to educate yourself.They don't believe all sins were taken care of at the cross just like the limited forgivers.And that's the reason they teach a form of Catholic purgatory.Yes, universalists teach that.A place the unbeliever has to go to receive purification from their sins.The universalists call this the refiner's fire.So yeah, the limited forgivers and the universalists, hey, they got something in common.Neither one of them understand what took place at Calvary.There are eleven cans short of a twelve pack, and it's foolish beliefs like this, like limited forgiveness, that causes me to close many of my podcasts with the words, You only get two educations, the one you're given, and the one you give yourself.Hey, go grab our folder, the terminology folder, you'll find it on our YouTube, there at our YouTube channel, there'll be a complete playlist.You can learn more about reconciliation, forgiveness, all these terms, justification, they're all there for you to take.You can go at your own pace, study this out and it doesn't take long for this to start to start clicking.Pray about it.You'll get it.You will.And until next time, we love you, grace and peace.Some teach that God won't forgive you until you turn from all your sins.Some teach that he only forgives you after you become a believer.Some teach that you must be water baptized first.While others teach that saying a prayer will earn your forgiveness.These are all false ways to get your sins forgiven.You can't get your sins forgiven because they already are.The world's sins were forgiven on Calvary's cross.Trying to make forgiveness depend on something you do only renders the gospel of non-effect.Christ died for your every sin, he was buried, and he arose on the third day to give eternal life to all who will believe on him alone.A reminder from WTTR Truth Time Radio.

If religion has left you with more questions than answers, Truth Time Radio is for you.Visit us today at truthtimeradio.comYou either explain it, or you explain it away.I recently heard a radio program where a gentleman proceeded to tell his audience that there is no difference between the gospel of Peter, John, James, and Paul.He saw absolutely no difference.So, in turn, what I did is send him an email asking him to show me in the book of James, I said, Hey, I'll make it easy for you, we're just going to start with the book of James, we'll get to Peter and John later, but right now, since you made your claim that in all of the Bible, there is only one gospel, then here's your chance to prove it.And I even copied and pasted the entire book of James, and I suggested to him that all he had to do was to copy and paste the verse or verses that he has found in the book of James that line up with Paul's gospel.You know, since they're the same and all.Well, what do you think happened?Did I get an email back showing where James preached the same gospel as Paul?Of course not.Why not?Well, because James did not preach Paul's gospel.And this guy is wrong on so many levels, it's hard to know where to start.I simply asked him to show me just one place where James preached Paul's gospel, and he failed to do so.What he did decide to do is to take up 30 minutes of his program, claiming that during the 30 minutes, he would address this listener question and show us all where James preached the same gospel that Paul did, but instead of using a direct approach by just going to the book of James and telling us what chapter and what verse can we all get our Bible out and turn to, to find Paul's gospel, instead of that, he decided to do a little circular reasoning and just talk it away.You see, you either explain it, or you explain it away.This guy should be concerned.He should be concerned that he cannot pick up his Bible, go to the book of James, and find Paul's gospel.And if he's going to make claims such as, James preaches of the same gospel Paul did, he should be able to back it up with God's word.You see, what he's used to is people just nodding their head and shouting hallelujah and amen at him, but I wanted him to back his claim with Bible evidence.Paul's gospel is that Christ died for and rose for everyone's every sin.1 Corinthians 15 verses 3 and 4.And where might I find that in the book of James?Paul's gospel proclaims that Christ satisfied God by being made sin for us, 2 Corinthians 5:21, and where is that in the book of James?Paul's gospel says God has reconciled the world unto himself and is no longer counting our sins against us, 2 Corinthians 5:19.And yes, you guessed it, that's absent from the book of James.What he doesn't seem to get is Paul preached what I just read, not James.Paul preached the gospel that saves today, not James.And now that we see what James did not preach, let's see what he did preach.First of all, James preached law doctrine, not grace.He preached the law that we're not even under today.He said, For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.And listen to James in James chapter 2, starting with verse 21, Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered Isaac his son upon the altar? Seest thou, how faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect?And the scripture was fulfilled, which said, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness, and he was called the friend of God.You see then how that by works, a man is justified and not by faith only.Now just how hard is it to get these easy to understand words penned here by the Apostle James?James was a great writer.This is real clear.His audience is not justified by faith only, just believe what you read without coloring it with your tradition.Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered Isaac his son upon the altar?James is clearly telling that James 1:1 audience, which is by the way, the twelve tribes of Israel, faith only would not save you, faith only would not save, and that's made clear by the Apostle James.Now this radio preacher also said, James is not talking about being saved, he's talking about what you do after you're saved.Where do you see that?James is clearly talking about salvation.Listen, no one is saved if they're not justified, that's what James plainly said here, justified by works when he offered Isaac his son upon the altar.He was not justified by faith alone.It was faith alright for a man to go and offer his son, but it was not faith alone.Don't try to change the context, be honest with your audience.And in stark contrast, if you believe the words on the page of your Bible, listen to this, Romans 4:5, Paul says, To him that worketh not but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.To him that worketh not.Worketh not but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.Meanwhile, you can do a survey at your church asking how to be saved, and you'll get a bucket full of contradictory answers.And if you think you'll get the same answer from everyone, you're sadly mistaken.Do a survey, ask them how to be saved, do it one on one, don't let them hear what each other is saying, and see how many answers you get, see how many ways they'll give you to salvation.But hey, there's only one way.There's only one way to salvation, and it's through faith in the finished crosswork of Christ.Salvation is not found in a physical action on your part.Salvation is found only by your faith in the finished crosswork.And salvation is no longer found through believing in his name.In the name of Christ. You can say, I love the Lord with all my heart.You can say, I gave my heart to the Lord.You can say, I was water baptized, walked the aisle for Jesus, confessed my sins daily to be forgiven, and you can say, I believe Christ is the Son of God, the Messiah of Israel, and trust in his name all you want to, but until you acknowledge the finished crosswork of Christ, and that he accomplished everything needed for your soul salvation, you're lost.You're lost in unbelief, unbelief that that was enough.You see, most in church today don't believe that was enough.They believe in it, they believe in the cross, but they don't believe it was enough.They believe in the cross plus an action.The cross plus opening up their mouth and saying some words, confessing their sins, asking for forgiveness, turning from their sins, church membership, water baptism, and they believe you can lose your salvation, which would mean that you would have to do something to get it back.Well then, that makes salvation part you, part God.Now consider this, if Peter, James, and John preach the same gospel as Paul, what book chapter and verse might I go to, to find the quote, "Rapture?"Where can I go in their books to find the rapture?Point me to it so I can turn in my Bible and find the 1 Thessalonians 4:17 catching away.You see, last week I issued a challenge, and listen, this challenge is for anyone.This challenge could be for you.I issued a challenge last week for those who claim that John preaches the same gospel as Paul, to send me one verse, just one, showing where Paul tells the body of Christ to confess your sins to get 'em forgiven.And no one has yet to find that verse, and while I understand it's only been a week, hey, I'll give it two weeks, I'll give it a month, I'll give it two years, but guess what, I will have still yet to receive that email or phone call because it's not there.So, let me see if I've got this right.It's in John's gospel, not Paul's, but you say they preach the same thing.Incredible.Oh, but Paul's preaching the same gospel.No he's not.And hear me well, the days are over for you convincing others of your error.Oh, there'll always be a few blind sheeple that'll tag along behind you, no matter what comes out of your mouth.But as Bob Dylan once said, The times they are a changing.People are longing for truth like never before and they're going to find it with or without you.Now, while we continue to wait for someone to answer my challenge from last week, let's move on to this week's challenge.This week's challenge is, what book, chapter, and verse can you point me to, where I can turn in my Bible, and find the 1 Thessalonians 4:17 catching away.Apart from Paul's letters, please show me where I can go and find the quote, "Rapture."Is it not the gospel that God hath not appointed us to wrath but to obtain salvation of our Lord Jesus Christ?1 Thessalonians 5:9?Is it not the gospel that we're awaiting for Jesus to deliver us from the wrath to come 1 Thessalonians 1:10?Yes, everything we just mentioned is the gospel, the good news, and everything we just mentioned is from the pen of Paul. This is what Christ told him to write to us, and you claim that there's no difference between Paul's gospel and the gospel of Peter, James, or John.Okay, then surely you're going to accept my challenge, email, write, or phone me, and correct me by showing me where they, like Paul, tell us of this outstanding, this fantastic wonderful news of our departure and escape from the wrath to come.You see, the reason these challenges I put forth go unanswered is, they're not there.You can't find them outside of Paul's gospel with a dozen boy scouts, a Sherlock Holmes magnifying glass, and a seven day head start.If you'll only study without prejudice, you'll quickly see that the twelve apostles knew nothing of the catching away.Jesus taught them, and Jesus later taught Paul, however he did not teach them of any such thing.They weren't taught about the rapture.There were Ephesians 3:8, many unsearchable riches that he only later revealed to Paul.One day you're going to decide to believe the Bible and stop parroting what you've heard.Some don't like to hear this, but facts are facts nonetheless.The twelve were always without exception looking for Christ to return to earth.Not once will you find where they were ever looking to go anywhere.They were looking for Christ to come back and set up his kingdom, the one they had been promised.You know, the twelve apostles sitting on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.There was no need for them to be caught up in the air, their kingdom's going to be on earth.It's just this simple.If neither Peter, James, or John preached it, they didn't preach the same gospel as Paul.How about that?This is Truth Time Radio, I'm Trey Searcy.We're going to look at a few pieces of mail real quick here.And if you want to write us, hey, go to the website TruthTimeRadio.com and you can contact us there.There's more than one way to contact us from the website.We have a toll free phone number.You can contact us via email.Oh, and we've even got a new feature there on the homepage where listeners can ask questions and make comments by recording their voice.That feature was just added three or four weeks ago and we appreciate all of the listeners we've already heard from.You guys hear my voice and now it's kind of nice to hear yours.Okay, a listener, Charlie Fausch writes, God bless your ministry.I love the on-demand feature.Keep it coming.Will do Charlie, and thanks for your comments and glad you're enjoying the programs.Kevin writes, I had a question.I myself believe in eternal salvation but my brother does not.What would be your recommended rebuttal towards the situation?Can someone who is saved lose their salvation if they blaspheme the Holy Spirit, since that is the only sin that is not forgivable?Also, my brother who believes people can lose their salvation, loves to bring up the fact of people's names being blotted out of the book of life.What would your response to that be?And what is your response to someone who claims that a person can lose their salvation based on the New Testament verse, You should work out your salvation with fear and trembling.I would sincerely appreciate your response to these questions, and I am an adamant believer seeking the truth.Well, Paul says, Consider what I say and the Lord give thee understanding in all things.So let's put that to the test.Let's see if we, through the pen of Paul, can find some information here, some information that will help you to fend your faith, Titus 1:9, and convince the gainsayers.I've been involved in Christian ministry in one way or the other for about 26 years now, in television and radio.And loss of salvation has been a very troublesome question for many.The problem is, loss of salvation and eternal security are both in the same Bible.This is why it's an absolute necessity that we rightly divide the word of truth.You see, the word of truth is not the Bible.The Bible is words of truth, but that's not what Paul refers to when he says the word of truth in 2 Timothy 2:15.When we simply allow the Bible to be its own dictionary, we quickly see that the quote, "word of truth," is quote, "the gospel of your salvation."There's our answer.The word of truth is not the entire Bible as some would have us to believe.How do we know this?By letting the Bible be its own dictionary, Ephesians 1:13, and it's there that we find what God says, what God says the word of truth means.What a concept.Listening to God instead of man for a change.Now here's your definition of the word of truth, Ephesians 1:13, In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation.So, when we connect the dots and put it all together, we understand that to rightly divide the word of truth means to rightly divide the gospel of your salvation, meaning, there has to be more than one gospel of salvation found in scripture.The god of this world, through man's vain tradition and his religious establishments, denominational divisions and so on, they've muddied the waters claiming there is only one gospel in the Bible.Not so as we just proved.So, now that we have a proper premise, a firm foundation to build from, here is some ironclad scriptural evidence for you to present to your brother, and the only way he'll miss it is if he does it on purpose.Now, one of your questions was, Can someone who has saved, lose their salvation, if they blaspheme the Holy Spirit, since that is the only sin that is not forgivable?Okay, prior to Paul, yes, but now, no.Listen to Paul's words carefully, 1 Timothy 1:12, And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who hath enabled me for that he counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry, who was before a blasphemer, a persecutor, but I obtained mercy because I did it ignorantly in unbelief, and the grace of our Lord was exceeding abundant with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus. This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into this world to save sinners of whom I am chief. Howbeit for this cause, I obtained mercy that in me first, Jesus Christ might show forth all long suffering for a pattern to them which should hereafter, believe on him to life everlasting.Did you catch that?In verse 13, Paul confesses that he was a blasphemer, and in verse 16 he says that he was the first to be forgiven for blasphemy, which before was not forgivable as you correctly said.And it's also noteworthy to see that a new pattern began with Paul, and that's why he wrote, For a pattern to them which should hereafter, believe on him to life everlasting.We are the quote, "them," and the quote, "hereafter," is now.I remember when a caller once told me that, while Paul says he was a blasphemer, he does not say he was a blasphemer of the Holy Ghost.But what the caller missed is what Paul does say.Paul said in verse 15, He was chief of sinners.You wouldn't call yourself chief of sinners unless you were guilty of the most egregious sin known to mankind.In a group of natives, they have a chief, meaning highest rank.So, Paul says that when it comes to sinners, he was the highest ranking sinner of them all.Those who commit the unforgivable sin, blasphemy against the Holy Spirit.No one at that time had done more damage to the Jewish church than the notorious Saul of Tarsus.Consider this, 2 Corinthians 5:21, 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.It's important to note that Paul did not say that Christ was made to be sin for us, except for the sin of blasphemy.No, Christ was made to be all sin, and that's why he told us we've been forgiven of all sin, Colossians 2:13.All means all, and there's simply no denying that.Unto your next question you say, My brother who believes people can lose their salvation, loves to bring up the fact of people's names being blotted out of the book of life.Well, the book of life is for those who will be judged here on earth, and has nothing to do with the members of the body of Christ.And you ask, What is your response to someone who claims that a person can lose their salvation, based on the New Testament verse, you should work out your salvation with fear and trembling.My response would be, we're not saved by works of any kind at any time, Romans 3:27, 4:5, 11:6, Galatians 2:16, Ephesians 2:10, 2 Timothy 1:9, and Titus 3:5.And in fact, the Bible is clear in that anyone who thinks their works play a part in their salvation are, quote, "under a curse," Galatians 3:10.Philippians 2:12, you see, that's the verse your brother refers to.And he does so because, well, more than likely he's only parroting what he's heard.Here Paul writes, Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.Question: What is the opposite of out?That's right, in. You can't work it out if it's not already in.Paul is speaking to people who are already saved, and he's simply telling these saved Philippians to demonstrate it by doing good works, by working it out. The main focus, the main work would be for saved people to go out and proclaim Paul's gospel to the lost, and we know that it's God's will that all are saved and come unto the knowledge of the truth, 1 Timothy 2:4.And what work would they need to do first before doing this, before going out and speaking forth the gospel? Study to show themselves approved unto God, a workman that rightly divides Paul's gospel, the gospel that saves today from the previous gospel. The reason Paul says to do it with, quote, "Fear and trembling," is because they could suffer loss, not loss of salvation, but loss of reward.Let's support what I said with Scripture. 1 Corinthians 3:15, If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss. Loss of salvation, Paul? No, keep reading, But he himself shall be saved.So, why did Paul write for us to work out our salvation with fear and trembling?So that at the judgment seat of Christ, we don't suffer loss of reward, verse 14. It has nothing whatsoever to do with losing your salvation.This is Truth Time Radio. The spiritual, mental, and emotional components need to be addressed.That's why we're here. By doing so will help you to develop a grace state of mind.And once you start to operate from a grace state of mind, man, things really begin to change.New doors begin to open that were before, shut. Don't be deceived. Satan is alive and well and working through ministers of righteousness. The other day, my wife, well, she just informed me that, after doing a recent count of contacts, Truth Time Radio has now heard from listeners in all the states and 104 countries. We are ever so grateful and humbled by these numbers. And we desire your prayers as we keep pressing toward the mark, Philippians 3:14, for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. But hear this, after reading through all the cards, letters, and emails, and after talking with many of you by telephone, I am certain of this one thing. People locally and from around the globe are starving for truth. Hey, they're hungry. They're spiritually malnourished and they're hungry for truth. They're no longer satisfied being force-fed tradition.Okay, we're out of time. For your questions and comments, we're toll-free at 1-888-988-9562.I love Truth Time Radio.The way that you communicate everything in such an easy to understand, easy to learn way to make my day. My husband listens to you now. Our teenage son listens.I've got my sister and her husband listening and I give you a shout out on Facebook as often as I can, and we made some bumper stickers to put on our vehicles, and that's all I wanted to say.You have a great day.

A listener screenshot a card and sent it to us.It was left on their table at a local restaurant where they were dining.It had a big smiley face and said, Jesus loves you.Okay, so far, so good.But under that, it said, Pray this simple prayer.Lord, I know I'm a sinner and ask that you please forgive me of my sins.I now invite Jesus to come into my heart and life.Not one person has or ever will be saved by seein' that card and prayin' that prayer.No prayer can save you.Scripture's clear that you cannot be saved by works, and prayer is work.Colossians 4:12, Paul writes, Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, saluteth you, always laboring (what's that Paul? Always laboring, working) fervently for you in prayers, that ye may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.Prayer is a work.Prayer is a work, but the Bible says, Not by works of righteousness, which we have done, but according to his mercy, he saved us, Titus 3:5.Prayer can't save.Prayer won't save an unsaved person, but is something a saved person should do.It's something we should devote ourselves to, Colossians chapter 4 verse 2,we're instructed to pray that God would open a door of utterance so that we may speak the mystery of Christ.That's prayer, that's a work.It's a prayer work with hopes that God would open up a door of utterance for us to speak to people about Christ.Not a prayer that we should pray to get saved, we already are.Praying is for saved people, but can't save people.Get that.Praying is for saved people, but can't save people.Ephesians 1:13 makes it clear as to how a person is saved.They hear the gospel, then they believe the gospel.At that time, the Holy Spirit seals them unto the day of redemption.No chance of losing their salvation.God stopped imputing sins because Jesus died for them all.They buried him, but he rose on the third day to give anyone who will believe it, eternal life in him.My friend, if you've yet to do so, trust him today.

These are three signs that someone is emotionally insecure.Number one, they struggle with jealousy.So, instead of feeling happy for others, they compare themselves and feel threatened by other people's success.So, they judge other people and try to bring them down to make themselves feel better.Number two, they take everything personally.Somehow, even when you're not talking about them, they find a way to turn it back onto them, make themselves look like the victim, and make you seem like the bad guy.And number three, they can't handle constructive criticism.Even the smallest piece of advice or feedback feels like a personal attack to them because they're so insecure in their own skin that they can't handle being told that they need to improve.This is WTTR.Another outstanding day for an open Bible and a fresh cup of coffee.So blessed.So blessed, blessed to be gifted with the very words of the Creator himself.The words of the Lord are pure words, right?Psalm chapter 12, pure as silver, tried in a furnace purified seven times.And through all these years, praise God, these pure words have been kept, have been preserved.They provide us with, with a means to be saved, but not only that, they admonish, they encourage.In Joshua 1:9, the Lord said, Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the LORD thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.And we know, Paul said, Whatsoever things were written aforetime, were written for our learning.Well, here is some great aforetime learning for us from the book of Joshua,that through patience and comfort of the scriptures, we might have hope.So, we not only learn from Israel's mailbox, we can actually find comfort as well.The Lord told Joshua to be strong and of good courage, to be not afraid, not dismayed, dismayed, which is feeling consternation and anxiety, and so many are experiencing that today.So, there's such a need for this powerful word of God to, to be conveyed to others.He told ol' Josh, The Lord thy God is with thee withersoever thou goest.And hey, for us, it's even greater.It's even greater, guys.He's not just with us, he's in us.Christ in you, the hope of glory.This word can transform us from the old man with his old mind to the new man with his new mind, the mind of Christ.We accomplish this by taking God at his word.It's just that simple.Take him at his word and we decide, we make a conscience decision to start thinking of ourselves the same way that God thinks of us.Start to value ourselves as he values us, in his Son.So, if he says, I'm accepted in the blood, then guess what?I mean, who am I to disagree with that?God's word has throughly furnished us, enabling us to replace uncertainty with certainty, insecurity with security.Discouragement with encouragement, darkness with light.It's our nourishment to help us avoid spiritual oppression.His word is where we find spiritual and emotional healing.This is where our joy, our peace, our comfort is found.Right here in this phenomenal, I started to say book, but actually in this phenomenal library of books, 66 to be exact, close to 1200 chapters and almost 800,000 words.Hey, this, this bad boy is power packed with information that can transform you, transform me, transform us all, fuel and equip us to be awake, aware, alive, and active, so we're able to carry out the duties of an ambassador.The word of God brings clarity, which helps with decision making.It separates truth from lies, replaces the impractical with the practical.His word helps us with our critical thinking.It equips us with discernment, provides us with actionable wisdom.This word is alive.The word of God is living, active, and sharper than any two-edged sword.Well, while I would love to sit here and describe all of, all of its vast benefits, that would take many many hours no doubt.If I could even do it, probably not, to be frank, I don't think I can.I don't know all the benefits of God's word.My guess is the benefits are immeasurable, at least for my finite brain.But this is what I do know: When we actively engage ourselves with God's word, his word will actively engage with us.Paul said that he thanked God without ceasing for the fact that when the Thessalonians, when they received the word of God as he presented it,they received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth.And that word of God they received effectually worked in those that believed.See, if you can get a hold of God's word of truth, the word of truth can get ahold of you.When we study to show ourself approved, that's how it gets ahold of us.When we study, when we become workmen, that transforms us from ashamed to not ashamed.That's how we're strengthened, guys, strengthened by his Spirit in the inner man.We renew and reeducate our thinking.Paul laid the foundation so that we can come along and lay on the right foundation.The foundation, of course, being Jesus Christ, but not Jesus Christ after the circumcision, that's the wrong foundation to build on.Our building project is to build on the foundation of Jesus Christ as he presented himself to the Apostle Paul.Peter preached Jesus after the flesh, which lines up with Israel's prophetic program that had gone on since the world began.Acts chapter 3 verse 21, but Paul, hey, he presents Jesus Christaccording to the revelation of the mystery, Romans 16:25, which had been kept secret since the world began.This couldn't be any more different.This is why you rightly divide the word of truth.You rightly divide prophecy from mystery.Israel's law program to the many nations grace program.Israel, his chosen nation, the body of Christ, his chosen church, compiled of all nations, believers from every nation around the world.Ephesians 1:3, Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ, according as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world.So, even though the church which is his body was a secret, it was chosen to be a secret before the foundation of the world.And right here is where the Calvinists run the train plumb off the tracks, watch.Let's continue to read, That we should be holy and without blame before him in love, verse 5, having predestined, having predestined us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will.But what the poor Calvinists miss is that the church was chosen, not the individuals in the church.Individuals in the church are the whosoevers.1 Timothy 2:4, it's God's will that his chosen be saved?Is that how that reads?No, that's how the Calvinists read it, but that's not what it says.God's will is that all men be saved and come unto the knowledge of the truth, 1 Timothy 2:4.They don't believe their Bible.If the Calvinists had a peg-leg to stand on, Paul could not have made such a statement.Nor this one, next chapter, verse 5, For there is one God and one mediator between God and man, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself a ransom forJohn MacArthur, Paul Washer, John Piper, R.C. Sproul?No.Christ Jesus, who gave himself a ransom for all.Not just a few select favorites.There goes the whole Calvinist apple cart turned over right there on the street, apples bouncing around everywhere, what a mess.They misused the word chosen and predestined.And on top of that, they totally mess up one of the key essential verses,Ephesians 2:8.A verse so simple, I mean, you really gotta go out of your way to mess this one up, For by grace are you saved through faith and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God.They take this and twist it like a pretzel, making faith the gift.No, faith's not the gift.Faith is not the gift in the verse, salvation by grace is.Salvation is by grace through faith, but faith is not the gift.Just let grammar be your friend.They got God showing up passing out the gift of faith like Oprah passes out cars.You get faith, you get faith, you get faith.No, not you, but hey, you back there, yeah, you get it.What a cruel, devilish doctrine to teach that God preselected a chosen few to give faith to.Only a narcissist would think such a thing.Ephesians 2:8, let's take a look at the grammatical structure here and break it down, For by grace are you saved through faith and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God.The, "by grace are you saved?"That's the gift.The, "through faith," that's how the gift is received.This is clear.There's no vaguery here.The vagueness is in the mind.In the mind of those who want to make faith a gift.See, the key here is grammar.It's grammar.Grammar is not to be haphazardly thrown around, God is the author of grammar and grammar has principles.Principles to be followed.Principles and parameters that if ignored will cause havoc.That's like the Jesus is his own father, oneness crowd.Some of them have infiltrated themselves into grace circles.They don't pay attention to grammar.Think about it, God's word, his word, that means it has words in this book.Words they do not pay attention to.God through his perfect grammar in this perfect library of 66 books included personal pronouns.He assigned personal pronouns for the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.The very word person is in the word personal.This is what happens when you just pretend to be a Bible believer.You believe some, but not all.Not the parts that don't line up with what you already believe, that don't line up with your group.Because you're group thinkers, group thinkers with the herd mentality.But when you come to the Bible, when you come to God's word as an independent thinker, you're primed and ready to receive his unadulterated,unperverted truth.So, they don't think God can be a person.Now, and don't get this twisted, God is not three people, three human beings.No, God is three divine persons, just as the Bible says in 1 John 5:7.Three divine persons is not equivalent to three human people.If John says our one God is three in one, then guess what?He's three in one.He's three in one, doesn't matter how you feel about it.Just stick with the word and let God be true and every man a liar.Think about it.One of the very things that make him who he is, that sets him apart from all other gods, all the little g's, is the very thing the oneness Godhead gang is attacking.Unlike all the others, the one true and living God is three divine persons in one.That's awesome, an awesome trait that sets him apart.Listen, all scripture's given by inspiration of God and God wouldn't dare use personal pronouns when describing the Father, the Son, and the Spiritif they were not three divine persons, no way.Not three gods, only one God, but our one God includes three divine persons.This sets our God apart and makes him unique from all other imposters.This is something we should be celebrating.Okay, back to Ephesians 2:8.Now, there's a law here that we cannot overlook.The law of grammatical agreement, grammatical agreement.And we see two key words here, two key words that we must not miss.The word, "that," and the word, "it." These two words are neutral.Neuter pronouns, I think they're called.Anyway, they have no gender.According to how the Holy Spirit inspired this verse to be written, the grammatical structure, the "that" and the "it" here are referring to the salvation we see in the previous clause.See, the New Testament was written in Greek.So, the gift cannot be referring to faith, because in the Greek, faith is gender feminine, a feminine noun.See the problem?Faith is feminine, but "that" and "it" are neuter.Therefore, the only thing we can assign the gift to is salvation.The gift is not faith.Salvation is the gift, but faith is something you have to exercise after you hear the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation.Bible believers know that our having faith isn't a gift, but something that comes by hearing.There's nothing vague about Romans 10:17, So then faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God.Faith comes by the way of a gift?No.No, you need ears for faith.You got to hear something.Unless, of course, you're hearing impaired.In that case, your faith would come by you actually seeing the gospel.Sign language maybe.Or like several we've heard from over the years who watch our videos, faith can come via closed caption.But faith has to come by you hearing or seeing something because it's not a gift.God did not hand pick a certain few to give this gift to.Next verse, verse 18, But I say, have they not heard?Yes, barely.Their sound went into all the earth and their words unto the ends of the world.See this?It's clear.Anyone with a grain of discernment understands that the Ephesians 2:8 faith is not the gift.Ephesians 1:13, what are you going to do with that one?Some quote it, but they don't really believe it.In whom, ye also trusted after... After what Paul?After God gives me the gift of faith, or after he had faith for me?We got those who say Christ had to have faith and it's his faith that saves us.No, it's not.Just read and believe it, After that ye,... not Christ,... after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation in whom also after that ye believed.Oops, there goes the universalist nonsense down the drain.Our faith is absolutely essential for salvation and is not a free gift from God.Our faith can only come after something occurs.After that ye heard the word of truth, Ephesians 1:13, faith cometh by us hearing Romans 10:17.It's at that nanosecond of exercising our faith that we get baptized into Christ and placed into the church which is his body.The only church in your Bible that was commissioned with a ministry of reconciliation, praise God.2 Corinthians 5:18, And all things are of God who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given us the ministry of reconciliation.Now whatch you gonna do with yours?Whatch you gonna do with your commission?Well, you're gonna go tell everyone that it was at the cross where Christ won the victory.But the full magnitude of this victory wasn't made manifest until later.It remained a secret.Hidden wisdom until being revealed to our Apostle Paul, how that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself on the cross.He stopped imputing the world's trespasses, and now, all of us in Christ, all of us in Christ believers, we've been commissioned, we've been commissioned to go tell the world about this, about the greatest news ever.Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law. Galatians 3:13, Being made a curse for us, he took our place, he took our death, he suffered our beating, he took our punishment, what we deserved, and did it willingly, laid down his life.He did all that so that we at this very moment could be right here, right here together.And now, if you haven't settled your salvation by accepting it as a free gift, you can do that right now.Today is the day of your salvation.You can settle this thing and rest.You can settle it right now and be at peace about where you're going to spend eternity.If you've been trying to do something about your sins, if you've been striving for forgiveness, stop.You need to repent.Change your mind and realize you can't do anything to get your sins forgiven.You don't have that power.The doing was done at Calvary.It was there on Calvary's cruel cross that the son appeased the Father.And he did so on your behalf.He died for the sins of the world.He was buried, but conquered sin and death by rising on the third day.And because of this, God stopped imputing your sins, 2 Corinthians 5:19.Now, if you'll rest in that and in that alone, God will right now call you justified.This is how you're justified and not by anything you can do.Salvation's a free gift, but it must be accepted.Trust in the risen Christ.The Father stopped imputing your sins because the Son died for them all.He was buried, but he rose the third day to give you new life, life eternal.To all who would believe on him.Make today the day of your salvation.And to all my fellow ambassadors, remember, not everyone wakes up at the same time.So it's our job to just keep being the alarm clock.

Launch authorization received. Countdown sequence initiated.3, 2, 1, Welcome to Truth Time, where you'll get a shot of the truth with no chaser.And now your Truth Time host, Trey Searcy.Well, welcome to another Truth Time transmission.I'm Trey Searcy. You can check out our website at truthtimeradio.com and a toll-free line that's open 24 hours a day at 1-888-988-9562.Call there and leave your questions or comments.Speaking of the telephone line, today, we decided to take a, well, a live call or two.Call in and let me know what's on your mind.We certainly appreciate our listener response we've had thus far.We're hearing from folks all around the globe and we thank you so much for your input here on Truth Time.If you're a little shy and don't want to call in and talk to me live, you can email us from the website, truthtimeradio.com.We want to help you live a happy, healthy, vibrant life, and it all begins in the mind.Wrong thinking will oppress. Truth Time wants to assist you in developing right thinking.Right thinking will go hand in hand and, and be contemporaneous with learning to rightly divide the word of truth.Truth Time Radio, you're on the air.Yeah, uh, well, the thing that is on my mind is how people may spiritualize politics based on the information they have.You have to have all the information.And to me, you know, they're basing the information on candidates' decisions in life, and they don't have all the information.And you can't make a truthful judgment or a right judgment or a right decision without all the information.It's going to be a one-sided thing.And, like in your program, you know, teaching to dispensational teachings, you start to look at how people are basing their decisions.Using Old Testament teachings, things that don't even apply now, to today, which, if they think they're gaining favor with God, or they're getting somewhere with a creator, I don't think they're going to be the Creator's fan by playing that.So, I'm just, I'm just curious about the fact that a question to be asked.I mean, somebody could rise to themselves.If they're basing their vote on values, they say vote values now.What are your values?You know, do we want to live in a country that is based on religious law, or do we want to live in a country that's based on our constitution, and in the preamble of the constitution works as every man kind of does what he wants to do guided by his own light as long as he's not hurting somebody else.So, that's a scary thought to me.Well, you're raising some good points and back to what you're speaking about, about religion and being under the law.I don't know how often you listen to the program, but we, we here at Truth Time will bring up the fact that we are not living in the days of Israel's rise.When Gentile nations came to God through them, we're living in the time of Israel's fall.And you can compare those verses by going to Isaiah chapter 60, reading the first three verses, right there, you'll see at the time of Israel's rise, how the Gentiles come to thy light through Israel's rise, and you can compare that with Romans chapter 11 verse 11, and you can see where Israel fell.And it's through their fall that salvation has come unto the Gentiles.So, we've got two different programs, and if you remember back in Deuteronomy chapter 28, I'm looking it up here, along about verse 10, okay, here we go, verse 13, it says, And the LORD shall make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; if that thou hearken unto the commandments of the LORD thy God, which I command thee this day, to observe and to do them:So, this is obviously Israel and their program with God under law where he was making them the head and not the tail.And I think people today are mixing this program up and claiming that America is this Israel that God is speaking to here in this covenant relationship that he had with them, and thinking that we're the head and not the tail because of our good deeds under the law.Right, right. I think that's a dangerous way to think about things.If we, if we, I think if we travel that route, and if all the people of this country followed that mindset and believing man applied to us now, we'd be no different than the Muslims over there.Where's your error with that with their extreme laws? I mean, this would be a nation headed by a religious doctrine and belief system.I mean, that we would have no more freedom.So, I think to keep the two separate plus and my own personal belief and the way you read the Book is you keep it in context.You look at who it's written to, when it was written, uh, all these things Christ fulfilled the law, and that we're in a new program right now that we're in the age of grace.And it's, it's none of these things apply now, and they never applied to us to start with, and they'll never start applying to us.So, I just kind of, it just amazes me again to hear how people are manipulated politically into thinking that we have this favor, and we really don't.I mean, I mean, if people can pray hurricanes in another direction and all this kind of stuff, I say more power to them, I want to see them do it.Yeah, don't hold your breath. Right.Living in the dispensation of grace, you're going to have to do some rightly dividing when it comes to looking at God's word of truth, and that's what we as a nation have failed to do.Most of our religious teachers and preachers on television and radio preach a blended program.There is no division. That's what causes people to divide, is the fact that they don't rightly divide the word of truth.Exactly, and I mean, I don't know, you know, it's just people bottled themselves up into all kinds of bondage.The apostle Paul warned us about that.As far as the consequences for doing that, he talked about that anybody who does mix this stuff, the law with the grace, and he says let him be a accursed, he mentioned it twice.And if you bring the law into the grace program, and you start believing that, and our salvation is based on believing the finished work of Christ, he says we've fallen from grace.That we put ourselves there.So, that's, that's, that's dangerous territory to be walking around.And I think that if they want to tread that way, then I'm saying the people that are doing that don't believe the Bible to start with because if they did believe the Bible, they would be scared to death to do it.Well, Paul says in Galatians over there in chapter 5 to stand fast in that liberty. And that liberty has been supplied to us by Christ. He's the one that made us free.Yes, I don't want to see us go back and live in days like when things were going on in Salem, you know, when they were burning witches at the stake.Personally, you know, I look down, I think about God, I think about the Creator, and it's such a big thing, I can't comprehend it.But I just don't, I believe he's left us up to our own little devices down here.We can spiritualize all these bad things that are going on and the good things are going on, and it's nothing but, he's given us a mind and a choice.He said celebrate your liberty, your freedom. And then he, another powerful thing said Paul said all things are lawful for me, but not all things are expedient.So, he's free.Being under the law does, does nothing but stir up sin.Oh, yeah. I just can't see anybody wanting to, to move into a doctrine of bondage. And I think it's a good thing what you're doing.Well, it makes more sense to the flesh. That's the thing, you see.The flesh wants to do something in front of others.Flesh will always point you back to yourself. And it's only when you find the gospel of the grace of God and you can actually put your, your 100% faith in someone else.I mean, you think about that. People have trust issues. People have grown up and had terrible things happen to them in relationships with their father, their mother, maybe in their love life, in a relationship.And they have trust issues. So, now here comes you along, and you're going to tell them, Hey, trust in the Lord Jesus Christ for your eternal salvation.It has nothing to do with what you do, just trust in him. So, now someone with a trust issue may have a problem with that.Yeah.So, that's what we're faced with when we as ambassadors for Christ, try to convey this message of grace.Well, you know, freedom itself.Paul says that, We're free. We're free, we're free, we're free.Well, the slaves were told they were free and some of them walked out to about the end of the driveway and turned around and came back.Exactly, because freedom, with freedom comes some personal responsibility. You're going to have to make some choices of what you're going to do with the time that is given to you.And then it's easier to let somebody else make the decision. So, I mean, I think that really and truly, you know, it's like you say, it's kind of a cop out when you want to go the other way, and that way you don't have to take any responsibility yourself, and Paul does put the responsibility on you. So, with that comes that choice.And the only thing I know about that choice, I mean to me personally, the only thing I know I can do, I believe and I trust.I don't have to, I'm for years and years, I ran around here feeling like, you know, telling people I was a prayer warrior.This, that, and the other you know. My gosh, I don't know how to pray, and I'm not a prayer warrior, I mean, that was an ego thing.Aren't you thankful that the spirit makes intercession for us because we know not what to pray for?No, we don't know what to do. And the thing about it is that all goes back to this ego thing.And it goes back to wanting to be in control.While we're here, we have a Book of God's word. And it's true from one end of the Book to the other.We can take great comfort in that to know that we have, you know, someone asked me not long ago, do I believe that God intervenes?Does God still intervene? And I said, well, you have this Book right here.If that's not the greatest intervention, then we have his word written down in the holy scriptures and preserved throughout all these years for you and I to come and have something that we can look at and use as a basis of truth.Exactly. And another wonderful thing. I've lived through my life I've been involved in different doctrines of belief, and I've stepped in different areas, but today, and I can say thanks to you, to the truth being revealed, to being able to take a look at the information from another angle that you present, well, I read the Bible today and now I don't find myself condemned. If I start reading the mail which was written back in the Old Testament and start thinking it's my mail and it's written to me, I'm feeling bad all the time, every time I pick that Book up. But I can read the Book today and I find it refreshing.I find it, that I know that I'm free. I know that Christ died for my sins. My life now is not, it's not a sin problem that I have, it's just a living problem. We're not going to be judged by the law.Well, and you said too, you were referring back to the Old Testament, but we can come to the New Testament where Peter in Acts chapter 10 says, In every nation, he that feareth him and worketh righteousness is accepted with him.So, it's not just the Old Testament, it's this mystery information that was revealed to and through our Apostle Paul that actually gives us the full liberty and sets us completely free.Exactly.It says God hath reconciled all things unto himself.Both in heaven, on earth, under the earth things visible and invisible, and made peace through the cross.Ye who were alienated in your mind by wicked works he hath now reconciled. That's where this liberty, that's where this freedom, that's where it all begins is in the mind.It's the mind.You know, the sad part of this, and unfortunately, and I lived there, that I was living in a, a life of, of fear and guilt and worry and anxiety and believing some of the teachings that some of these preachers will come across with well, that hurricane hit down there in Louisiana on the count of the gay parade, you know, and that's just not true.Right. That hurricane hit down there because the laws of nature, but what God set up is always going to work, and it's going to keep working. He's already set it up, and we got to live here.That hurricane hit because of a result of a sin cursed earth. Well, yeah.Period. It's nothing that we did. It happened a long time ago. We're just here.Well, you see one thing tradition does not teach is that, once you stop trying to save yourself by completely placing your faith in Christ to save you, at that very moment, God no longer sees you from that time forward, he sees you as he sees his Son. You're made complete in Christ, Colossians 2:10.Exactly.Christ went to the cross of Calvary, died for all, not part some or most, but all of your sins, was buried and rose again to justify you, and it's Christ alone for my salvation.Yeah, we were warned by Paul to stay away from the traditions of men old wives tales, (right, right), superstitions. You know, a lot of people live there. I lived there for a long time, and my analogy of my own situation is just like, uh, I feel like I've been down the yellow brick road. You know, I believed it. And, and when you believe something, it's real to you. But when you get to the end of the yellow brick road, and you get the word rightly divided, then, you're not afraid anymore. That's a good place to be, huh? I think so. You can rest. Absolutely. You can be at, you can be at peace, you can rest. And that's, that was the intention, God to take away the fear of death. People were afraid. We don't have to be afraid.It's only then when you realize that the focus is then at that time, taken off of yourself and your own personal salvation and your own personal needs, and now, you can begin to let him live in and through you and minister to others by giving them this gospel of the grace of God.Exactly. When you think about the Wizard of Oz, Dorothy was picked up in a, in a tornado and a whirlwind and it was a dream. It wasn't real. But she believed it.And the characters in the play believed it.And belief was the magic that brought in all the torment, the fear, all the anxiety, but once they got to the end of the yellow brick road, and everything was rightly divided and discerned, she woke up and realized, hey, all this stuff that I've been worrying about, it's just not real. That's a good analogy. And that's the way I look at my past religious experiences and beliefs, that it just wasn't real.It's real to those that believe it, guaranteed. So, how do you deal with it? You have to go down the yellow brick road to get there. The only way you're going to get to the end of a yellow brick road when you rightly divide the word of truth, study to show thyself approved, then, you can rest.This gospel of the grace of God says no matter how many good deeds you do, they will not help your salvation. This gospel of the grace of God says your salvation is by works, but it's just not your works.Yeah, exactly. Another thing, Trey, when you get to that point of rightly dividing and understanding, you can rest on this issue of salvation of God and what's going on with God concerning mankind, and you look at the world, nothing's going to, that subjects, you can find peace there, but that doesn't mean you're not going to have trouble. I mean, if you're born, if you're on planet earth, you're going to go through what happens on planet earth until you're off of planet earth.So, and you can't, I mean, I blamed God for troubles. You know, I used to get mad at God about it.That's through that conditioning of religion.Yeah, but see, you know, that's, it's gone. It just went away. It's like waking up from a dream.So, I just think what you're doing is great, and I hope you continue it. I'm getting this to across to people in a way, present it, to where they can understand.Yes, sir, and we must remember that you cannot buy a gift.Yeah. Salvation is a gift. We all know what gifts are. We have birthdays that roll around every year.And you would offend someone if you tried to pay for a gift. That gift is given out of love. God gave salvation to us, out of love, and you cannot buy a gift. You can only believe that it was purchased for you. People are attempting to co-purchase their salvation.They treat salvation as if Jesus said, Hey, I'll put some money down if you'll make the monthly payments. That's not salvation, that's probation.Exactly.Be thankful for the freedom and the liberty that we have and go, and go and serve and do and be awake, aware, alive, and active.Yeah, and you were talking about ego earlier. You know, once you, once you get this, some for some reason, some magical way, I don't understand it, but that ego starts to kind of diminish. It doesn't, it doesn't, it's not all about, (oh yeah), it's not all about us anymore.Right. We start thinking about the other person.That narcissistic personality starts to diminish.Right.Folks that suffer from that have an excessive interest in themselves and crave admiration.And, so they desire to have their ego fed and is why salvation by faith plus something they can do, something they can offer, actually sounds much more appealing than this gospel of the grace of God that you and I are discussing.Exactly.Exactly.The gratitude you have towards the Creator who gave you a free gift of your soul's salvation, then, if you can latch on to that, you're going to do the right thing.Well, you know, one of the obstacles to get over is to show people with their Bible that Paul is saying something different.That the Lord Jesus Christ did indeed reveal mystery information, unsearchable riches.And you know, if you think about a cloud, a watermelon, and a starfish.Now all three of those consist of about 98% water, but they're clearly not the same.So, so, when you have like the Galatians 2 verse 7, gospel of the uncircumcision, and then you have the gospel of the circumcision, well, they're different.Oh, exactly.They're not the same.Now, is certain aspects of what Peter said the same as Paul?Absolutely.They're in harmony with some of what Paul said.It's not the similarities.What do we do with the differences?That is where rightly dividing the word of truth comes in.Well, God did the same thing that we've done down here.We've had laws on the books that we've changed.And we don't, the other, those laws were true at the time they were written.But those laws were enforced back years and years ago, but those laws are not enforced today.It's different.Thanks for your call, sir.I certainly enjoyed talking to you, Trey. Well, that's going to do it for this edition of Truth Time Radio.Don't forget the website, truthtimeradio.com, there you can check out all of the archived programs and email or call in your Bible questions and comments.Also at truthtimeradio.com you'll find a wonderful tool that will help you to rightly divide the word of truth, understand your Bible better,and communicate the gospel to others in a more effective way.The old man turned off the radio and said, Where did all of the old songs go? Kids sure play funny music these days, they play it in the strangest ways. Said it looks to me like they've all gone wild. It was peaceful back when I was a child. Well, man could it be that the girls and boys are trying to be heard above your noise? And the lonely voice of youth cries, what is truth?This has been Truth Time with Trey Searcy.Visit our website at truthtimeradio.com.Until next time, remember, when a man who is honestly mistaken hears the truth, he will either quit being mistaken or cease to be honest.

Your home for Mid-Acts Bible study, this is WTTR, and what a joy and privilege it is to be alive and able to serve our Lord.Here sipping coffee when a question came to mind, God reconciled you, but have you reconciled him?Something we as ambassadors for Christ's sake should be asking those we come in contact with.Colossians 1:21, let's get it started, let's start there.Here we see where Paul says, very plainly, And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled...Hath he what?Reconciled.Now, what does this match?Ask yourself, what does this match?It matches 2 Corinthians 5:19, God reconciling the world unto himself matches, "hath he reconciled," here in Colossians 1:21.But, now watch this, but it does not match the verse 20, "be ye reconciled."See, God reconciled you, but have you reconciled him?When did God stop imputing my sins?He stopped imputing my sins before I was born.That's how God reconciled me through Christ, through Christ and what he did.Now, how do I, be ye reconciled to him?And of course, that's by grace through faith.But how many do you think know this truth?Not many.That's the sad state we're in.2 Corinthians 5:19, To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; (the world) and hath committed unto us (the believers) the word of reconciliation.Now think hard.If this is what Paul wrote to our Gentile ancestors, if he wrote that to them back there in the 1st century, long before we were born, don't you think this applies to us now?It applied to them, so it applies to us, and since we just read how God stopped imputing sins unto the world, just how is it that you can go on social media today and see full-grown adults with a functioning mind, we presume, saying that God is still imputing sins?It's almost as if they've been brainwashed and conditioned to look right past the truth.If understanding what God accomplished on the cross was a complex issue, this might make sense, but it's not.According to some of the Facebook geniuses out there, the Bible has mistakes, and where Paul wrote, "world," he really meant believers.Or, maybe it was the King James committee, maybe they got it wrong.What were they thinking?Even though God, when Jesus was there on the cross, he stopped imputing the world's sins, most don't dare mention this, keeping them there under the, you need to get your sins forgiven bondage.This false teaching, it's responsible for the severe psychological effects that it's had on so many.When did God stop imputing my sins?The jury is not still out on this one.They quickly returned with a verdict that said, before you were born.Just shy of two thousand years ago, and took place on a hill called, Mount Calvary.Happened there.The word of God says he stopped imputing sins to the world, and not just the believers.During your ambassadorship for you who are serving the Lord today, being faithful ambassadors, one thing I'm going to assure you, you're going to find this out.The world is not short of those who are willing to change the words right here on the page.To manipulate the word of God.No one has the authority to change the word of God, and the ones who do, should be marked and avoided, at all cost.No one has that authority.No Facebooker, no podcaster, no YouTuber, no Tik Toker, no church pastor, has that kind of authority.So, stop claiming to be a Bible believer when in fact you're a Bible corrector.Bible believers, when asked the question, When did God stop imputing my sins?We know the answer, Romans 5:6, For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.Wait a minute.We were classified as ungodly?When was that?Oh, that was before we believed.So, how do they ignore these truths?Verse 8, verse 8, let's continue, But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.There it is again, this, this is repetitive, it keeps appearing.You see, this isn't talking about after we joined the believer's club.No, God stopped imputing sins when we were, quote, "Ungodly," and, quote, "Sinners."Romans 5:10, For if when we were enemies..., whoa, whoa now, stop right there.The religious minded, they come here and they'll say, I don't like it, I don't like that where how Paul says, "When we were enemies." I think it should say, "believers."Yeah, that's much better.This is what they do.You better watch out.You better watch who you call friend.Not all Facebook friends are really your friends.Friends in name only, they don't all have your best interest in mind.Some are envious, jealous, sneaky, and underhanded.I mean, it doesn't say, "believers," does it?For if when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son.That's plain, and that's good news, is it not?I hear some, they'll, they'll acknowledge that God stopped imputing the world's sins, but then they turn and say, But no one receives the benefit of that until they believe.What?Well, that's false.Around 8 billion people in the world, and the Holy Ghost isn't killing anyone for sins.So, tell me again, how they didn't get the benefit of Christ dying for their sins.They certainly did.Oh, they're not saved, but they're alive.And they have grace to thank for that.The dispensation of grace.God's not pouring out his wrath, he's not striking anyone dead for blasphemy.None of us had to become a believer to get the benefit of the cross.The crosswork of Christ, his crosswork affects even the very enemies of God.The benefit is, their sins aren't being imputed, so you don't need to believe to get the benefit.2 Corinthians 5:18, 2 Corinthians 5:18, God reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation.And in verse 20, we see, Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God.Here's God making an appeal.See that?If you're an ambassador for Christ's sake, God's making an appeal through you.To do what?To go tell the world he's not taking inventory of their sins.And all that's left, the only thing left to be done, is to be reconciled to God by believing this incredible news.You see, when, when you're dealing with people who have been told all their lives, I mean, almost all they've ever heard is what a low down rotten sinner they are.And how they're never going to amount to much of anything, and, and the preachers, all they've done is told them about, Hey, you're on your way to hell for those sins.Listen, once they hear this good news, once they hear this good news you and I have for them, their ears perk up, their ears perk up and they, they're primed, they're then primed for salvation.The foundation has been laid.They're not saved, but they're savable.See, hearing this good news doesn't make them want to sin more.They're already doing that, but it does tend to make them stop, stop and reflect on how deep God's love for humanity must be.For him to do such a thing.Grace or no grace, God has always and still does forbid us from taking sin lightly.God hates sin.May it not be.The word of reconciliation doesn't promote sin, it simply tells the unbeliever that there is no sin standing between them and God.There is no sin that Jesus failed to take care of at Calvary.He thoroughly satisfied the Father, and the Father stopped imputing sins.Put a period right there, put a period on it because there is no continuation.Oh, sin's still a problem, sin still exists, but there's no sin standing in, listen, if you're out there, and you consider yourself not saved today, you listen to me, there's no sin standing between, there's nothing you need to go do about any sin to come to the Father.You just need to believe this good news.God stopped imputing sins.He placed them on Jesus, therefore, they're not placed on you.And it was Jesus, it was he who died for all your sins, who was buried with all your sins, the stone was rolled back, and he didn't bring any of your sins out with him.So, there's no sins he brought out to impute to your account, and all you need to do now, is believe the good news that he died for your sins, he was buried, and he's risen to give you eternal life.Believe that and get your salvation settled today.We can then go further into God's word.Hey, just call us, email us, we'll go further with you and show you now how you should live as a saved person.But how you live can't save you.What you do about your sins can't save you because your sins are not being imputed.That's totally illogical.Okay, let's go back here, back to Romans 5:10, For if, when we were enemies..., ...much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life. Saved by what?Getting my sins forgiven?That's what they're telling me.No, that's a lie, it's a lie that's been disseminated by the religious system, but we're saved by his life, and his life must be received through faith.If I'm saved by his life and his life's eternal, then I'm eternal.Because I'm now in Christ, and my life is Colossians 3:3, hid in God.God the Son lived a perfect life in obedience to God the Father.His perfect life is what enables the believer to, by grace through faith, have his righteousness, have his righteous life show up in my account.This is the best news ever.You're not going to hear anything better.God deciding to stop charging your sins to your account, that happened before you were born.But, it's while you're alive here on earth that you can receive this life, this eternal life.No one needs to be bothered by searching around and trying to figure out how to get God to stop imputing your sins, because he did that 20 centuries ago.It's taken care of.Let's move on to more important things like salvation, and then how a saved person lives, and then how a saved person can show others how to be saved.You don't need your sins forgiven, you need a life status update, a status change.Not from unforgiven to forgiven, but from forgiven to justified.Forgiven doesn't equate to justified.Forgiven doesn't equate to not guilty.Forgiven people who have yet to believe the gospel, they're still guilty.Those forgiven people are still guilty of what God forgave them for.Being forgiven and being justified are different.And justified people, they have believed Paul's gospel, and they're the ones with the new status that declares them to be not guilty in Christ.Romans 5:13, watch this, (For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law.Is the law in effect today?Then sins aren't being imputed?Why is that hard for some?Maybe it's their addiction to religion that keeps them from seeing this.Hey, you stick around long enough and what you're going to find is, there are some in grace circles who, even though their claim is they left religion behind, you're going to notice that they're still plagued by some of its trappings.Mark my word, if it hasn't already, it will happen.You'll notice this.You'll also find that most people love categories more than they do people.Now, saying that God doesn't stop imputing my sins until I do something, well that's moving the non-imputation away from the cross and toward myself.Be careful who you listen to.Be careful who you depend on for your truth.There's a lady on Facebook, and here lately she's decided that she's well versed enough to explain the mystery of reconciliation to everyone, even though she doesn't understand what the word, "was," means.And while there's only a few that follow her, that's to me, that's a few too many.And none of them seem to understand what, "was," means either.Incredible.In 2 Corinthians 5:19, where Paul said, God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself, she apparently having missed the word, "was," claims that God IS reconciling the world unto himself as if it's taking place today.No, the Father already completed his part by offering the perfect sacrifice of his Son right there on the cross.It's over, and that's why Paul wrote, "was," not, "is." Was reconciling, not is reconciling.As much as it pains the limited forgivers, the 2 Corinthians 5:19, God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses into them, it's past tense.There's no way around it.He's not imputing trespasses to anyone in the world, and while they should be celebrating this good news, they're on Facebook trying to diminish from it.Acting as if God is presently today on a daily basis reconciling the world unto himself.That's incorrect.Paul wrote, "was," for a reason, God was in Christ doing something, but not anymore.He stopped the imputation of sins, that was finished on the cross of Christ.Now, if you want to know what is happening today, what's happening today on a daily basis, you need to keep reading.Just read the next verse, verse 20.That's where you'll get your answer.2 Corinthians 5:20, Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead..., and here's your answer, ...be ye reconciled to God. THIS is what's happening today.People all around the world, who God's not charging sins to, they're being reconciled to him on a daily basis by grace through faith.But verse 19 was when God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, and that's not happening.Him doing his part was finished.He reconciled the world unto himself, but the world reconciling themselves to him, that's different.Two different things that transpire at two different times.The limited forgivers get this wrong.They're all fouled up and can't seem to string a couple of verses together.This is what happens when you, when you place a man on a pedestal.When you allow yourself to be impressed by someone because they have an online Bible school.You let your guard down and stop testing the words that leave their mouth.You allow his word to become your standard of truth.So, it's no wonder that some tend to miss what seems to be so simple for others to get.Over time, ignorance, it accumulates.It accumulates and it can cause you to catch one of the oldest diseases known to mankind, one that affects the mind and, and causes the herd mentality.It affects those who have a desire to belong, so bad, that they're willing to compromise, to conform and fit in.It's when you adopt a belief without critically thinking it through, because that's what the rest of the pack believes.Paul don't teach you to do that.Hey, if we fit in, great, outstanding, it's certainly not a bad thing to be among like-minded believers, but, conformity is not the answer, compromise is not the answer, never compromise truth for numbers, never compromise truth for fellowship.Paul doesn't teach us to conform, but to transform.To conform is to blend in, to comply, to imitate, to adopt a belief because others believe it.For some, that's their currency.Their currency is the acceptance and approval of others.Insomuch that they'll turn a deaf ear to reason and logic to get it.But now to transform, that's totally different.That's different altogether.A transformation of the mind requires you to walk away from the previous patterns you once followed.It's a discipline, and it's a continuous process, one that hopefully leads the believer to spiritual maturity.Take a look here at 2 Corinthians 5:18, as we close, 2 Corinthians 5 verse 18, and notice this, notice the language.Paul wrote, And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;You see that?Notice the language here.God, who has reconciled us to himself.Sounds like verse 19, God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself.Sounds just like it, but it doesn't sound like verse 20, Be ye reconciled to God.That's so different.But people conflate these.See, the problem we keep noticing is how many there are who like to discuss scriptures no doubt, but aren't really paying attention to what they're reading, to what they're discussing.Here, it's quite obvious that they're missing the language change.In verse 18, it starts with, God reconciled us to himself.Then gets repeated again in verse 19, God reconciling the world unto himself.But, it changes.In verse 20, it changes with, ...be ye reconciled to God.That's the other side of the coin.The first two are what he did, but the last one, that's what we do.Don't miss it.Grace and peace.

Jesus was here on his Father's business.What are you here for?You won't find your answer in the Jewish book of Matthew, that's for certain.The book of Matthew doesn't contain our hands-on, day-to-day, applicable doctrine.No, we know this, too, because we can read, and, and we can comprehend what we're reading.This KJB, thank the Lord, it was written on a 5th to 6th grade reading level, and, and your mail was not delivered to Matthew's mailbox.We can see that when we just have a little discernment, and slowly walk through the scriptures.That's not your mailbox regardless of what manology has told us.Today, as we go through a few verses, that's what we're going to do here,we're going to just read and believe them, okay?Just read and we'll believe what we read.We will agree with God.Can we do that?Let them say what they say to whom they say it.While the last song was playing back there, I flipped over to the, ah, 6th chapter of Matthew, and found one, one here that we can begin with.Matthew 6, drop down to verse 30, Matthew 6:30, here the Lord said,Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?(Verse 31), Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?Yet, your wife, she's planned out the children's school lunches for all week, and probably your family's dinner, too.So, something just doesn't square here, does it?When you read through Matthew, something's a little off.It's not really relatable to the but now time, which we live.Something doesn't square here, does it?But, just like a letter in the mailbox, when we see who it is addressed to, things make sense.When Jesus sent out his 12 men, he instructed them, Matthew chapter 10 verses, ah, ah, 5 and 6, he said, he commanded them, saying, Go not into the way of the Gentiles, and into any city of the Samaritans enter ye not: But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.Ah, no wonder it sounded strange.This isn't our mail.And the next verse, back here in Matthew 6 verse 32, the one that followed the "take no thought" verse.Here the Lord says, (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:)Making more sense by the minute.The word of truth is amazing once it's properly divided.For after all these things do the Gentiles seek.So, Jesus isn't addressing us, that's who we would have been.He's not addressing the Gentiles here, but rather talking about the Gentiles.So, this is not our mail.Because at this time in our Bible, we were Ephesians 2:11 Gentiles without Christ, strangers without hope.Listen closely to Paul's words, Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh,So, remember now, when, when he was writing to these Ephesians, they were no longer Gentiles.At this time, at the time of him writing, they were already saved and members of the church the body of Christ, but he's reminding them of their time past.Okay?Then he says, Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands; and that would have been the citizens of Israel then.OK, verse 12, That at that time..., that's time past, ...ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:Wow, this truth, it just excludes us of anything going on back here in the book of Matthew.Listen this just this simple, when you're over there reading the books of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, always remember that your identity would have been at that time, you would have been 1, without Christ, 2, aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, 3, strangers from the covenants of promise, 4, you had no hope, and 5, without God in the world.So, it's no wonder why Jesus said, (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) (Matthew 6:32a), it wasn't speaking to us back there because he was Matthew 15:24, quote-unquote, "Not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel," and even Paul himself backs up this truth in Romans chapter 15, when he said there in ah, verse 8, Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God to confirm the promises made unto the fathers.Jesus was here on his father's business, what are you here for?See, his father's business, much like a business today, it comes with a handbook on how things function, a staff manual, so to speak.For us, it's the Bible, and more specifically, it's Paul's 13 books, that's our manual.That's our faith of Christ.It's where we find policies to be upheld and followed like, like a business with company policies, and, and they have procedures, just like that, our staff manual functions as a guide.Our guide is Paul's books, and is why he wrote, Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ. 1 Corinthians 11:1.The reason we follow Paul as he followed Christ, and not Peter, James, or John, is because we're under a different administration with different economic policies, and we have different instructions.So, let's flip a few pages here and, and go take a look at chapter 10, Matthew 10 verse 30.The Lord here is addressing Israel, remember, not us.This was under the previous administration.OK, he says, But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.Now, as much as we hate to bust the religious bubble, today, Jesus isn't concerned with how many hairs we have.We're not Israel.We're not God's chosen generation.We're not in covenant with him.This isn't about our hairs, sorry.OK, let's put it in reverse and back up.If we're going to be unashamed workmen, then let's work these scriptures.If Jesus was here on his Father's business, we should be too.So, flip back to Matthew chapter 8, and, ah, I'll give you a second to get there.Let's drop in, um, Matthew, Matthew 8, drop down to verse 21, And another of his disciples said unto him, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father.Verse 22, But Jesus said unto him, Follow me; and let the dead bury their dead.Let the dead bury their dead.What does that mean?Well, the dead here are those who didn't believe that Jesus was the son of God, their Messiah.They didn't accept him as their King, and would have had no part in the kingdom.So, let the dead, let the unbelieving dead go bury their unbelieving relatives is what this is.But for the believers, the believers there in the presence of the King that knew that, getting ready to go into the kingdom, they need not be concerned with burying their relatives.There's something much more important going on concerning them, just like when Jesus over there in, well, let's go read it.Let's go read it.Um, let's go, let's go to Matthew 12.Let's go read it and believe it.Let's allow scripture to speak for itself.That's a problem today.That's a problem.These out here that, uh, they're all about interjecting their own opinions, poisoning and perverting God's word with personal conjecture.Okay, here we are, Matthew chapter 12.Watch this, watch this, verse 46, While he yet talked to the people, behold, his mother and his brethren stood without, desiring to speak with him.Verse 47, Then one said unto him, Behold, thy mother and thy brethren stand without, desiring to speak with thee. Verse 48, but watch this, watch how Jesus handled this, But he answered and said unto him that told him, Who is my mother? and who are my brethren? Verse 49, And he stretched forth his hand toward his disciples, and said, Behold my mother and my brethren!(Verse 50), For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother.Here, we see Jesus giving a new definition to family, right?A much broader view.He said his family now is the whosoevers.Whosoever was in the little flock was considered family.For whosoever shall do the will of my father, which is in heaven, the same as my brother, and sister, and mother.Hey, these folk were in the midst of their long awaited Messiah, their King, the Son of God.And, and here he's teaching them about what's about to go down.And someone distracted him just to tell him that his family wanted to speak to him.Not a chance.He wasn't having it.Remember what he said over there?It's in Luke (2:48-49).Uh, Jesus was a child at the time, and he wandered off.He wandered off from Joseph and Mary.And when they found him, Mary, being curious to, to where her son had been, she says, Why did you do this this way?Your father and I have been searching for you.And what did he say?Why?Don't you know I must be about my father's business? The eternal word that was made manifest in the flesh didn't come to earth to play games.He was born to be about his father's business.This was his life.He was here on business.What are you here for?We can have a clear bird's eye view of why we're here, but it's not found in the book of Matthew.It's not found in Luke, John, or Mark.The answer to the question, Why am I here, is found in the 13 books of Paul.It's called the Faith of Christ.So, the verse we cited earlier, let the dead bury their dead, has no application for anyone today.We are to be concerned with burying our dead.Paul says both us and our saved loved ones will be exiting the grave in the resurrection.Different instructions for different dispensations.This is how the Bible's laid out.So, when you're in the presence of someone scoffing at you because you see God's word through your dispensational lenses, just know that you're dealing with someone who you're not going to be able to have an intelligent Biblical conversation with.It's a shame is what it is.More evidence of our doctrine not being over there in the book of Matthew as found in the very first chapter.In chapter 1, there's about 16 or 17 verses on genealogy.Talks about all the generations from Abraham to David, from David to the carrying away into Babylon, and from there until Christ.42 generations, I think it is, but in this current dispensation, the study of genealogy isn't going to help us, spiritually speaking, that is.Some have good reason, some have good reason to go research their family tree, but the point being, it does nothing for us on a spiritual level.Here's what our Apostle Paul said about it.1 Timothy 1:3, As I besought thee to abide still at Ephesus, when I went into Macedonia, that thou mightest charge some that they teach no other doctrine, (Verse 4a), Neither give heed to fables..., and here it is, ...endless genealogies.See that?Which do what?which minister questions, rather than godly edifying which is in faith: so do.The words Paul wrote, 1 Corinthians 14:37, says were the commandments of the Lord, so we're commanded to not be overly concerned with endless genealogies.Genealogy was, it was important to the children of Israel.They used it to try and prove their righteousness, but as former Gentiles, our faith isn't based on pedigree.And some didn't get the memo, so they take it and use it to try to improve their image among men, to show some sort of privilege.The black Hebrew Israelites are guilty of this very thing, unaware that tracing your genealogy back to a certain group has no spiritual value.We're in a different administration.But, you won't know this if you don't rightly divide the word of truth.Before you and I were saved, we were called, Gentiles.Those genealogies aren't about us.We're children of God by faith, not by genealogy.Our righteousness is found in Christ alone.Who your parents, grandparents, or great-grandparents are, cannot benefit you spiritually.Every person under the current administration is going to be judged by Paul's gospel.In time past under the law program, there was an advantage to being born into the Jews' religion.There was even an advantage to being born a male.Luke chapter 2 verse 23, (As it is written in the law of the Lord, Every male that openeth the womb shall be called holy to the Lord;)See that?Every male, not female.Every male that opened the womb shall be called holy unto the Lord.But now, watch, ever since the dispensational change, being born male no longer carries any weight.Galatians 3:28, There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female:..., there it is, ...for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.Praise God.Only a fool would deny all these vast differences we're uncovering here today.What Paul wrote, his gospel is antithetical, to that found in this Jewish book of Matthew.And that's okay.That's why we're given the 2 Timothy 2:15 instruction to rightly divide the word of truth.It's okay, it's all right, it's all good.These who we read about throughout the book of Matthew, they were set apart for a specific reason.Matthew 5:15, Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house.The question most don't ask is, who is the, "all that are in the house?"Having zoomed right past the answer, which is in verse 14, Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.Paul never referred to us as a city.No, this is a reminder to Israel of what they were chosen to do.It explains what function that light will have to bring home the lost sheep of the house of Israel, Matthew 10:5 and 15:24.Jesus was here to be about his Father's business, and there was a divine order to be followed.That's why we must, we must rightly divide the word of truth.Matthew 5:5, watch this, Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.What does this match?Luke chapter 12 verse 32, Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.It also matches Acts 1:6, When they therefore were come together, they asked of him, saying, Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel?See, we're waiting to go to heavenly places, but the little flock, they're waiting for their earthly kingdom.So, while Matthew 5:5 matches Luke 12:32 and Acts 1:6, it has to be divided from Colossians 1:5.It has to be divided from chapter 3 verse 2.It has to be divided from Ephesians 1:3 and 2 Corinthians 5:1.Go do your homework and read these, but let's do 2 Corinthians real quick.2 Corinthians 5:1, For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands..., here it is, ...eternal in the heavens.Where's the earthly kingdom?It's not for us.That's in another mailbox.Doesn't even sound remotely like an earthly kingdom, it's in the heavens, eternal in the heavens is what Paul penned, and that's what you should believe.Just believe the Bible.Just read it and believe it.I know we grew up hearing this in church, hearing that this all was about us and everything, streets of gold, and mansions, but the evidence simply doesn't support that idea.That's something that's going to take place right here where we're at on earth, this is an earthly kingdom, Jesus will be King of Israel.It's good news for the little flock, but does absolutely nothing for any one of us today.Not a thing.We're looking to either be caught up, or die and resurrect and go to heaven.Not one Jew in time past desired to do that.They were looking to inherit their earthly kingdom.Two different programs going on in your Bible.In Matthew 6:11, Jesus teaching them to pray says, Give us this day our daily bread.This was literal, not spiritual, as most teach.It has no application for us.They were praying for daily bread, but there you are with a loaf in the cabinet and two in the freezer.They were praying for bread on a daily basis.This prayer, it matches up precisely, real nicely, to Exodus chapter 16.Exodus 16, look at verse 14, And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face of the wilderness there lay a small round thing, as small as the hoar frost on the ground.Hoar frost, that, it's something that looks like white crystals.Verse 15, And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, It is manna: for they wist not what it was. And Moses said unto them, This is the bread which the LORD hath given you to eat.Aha, here's the children of Israel's daily bread.Verse 16, This is the thing which the LORD hath commanded, Gather of it every man according to his eating, an omer for every man, according to the number of your persons;An omer, that's, uh, it's one tenth, that's what that means.This is how they measured the bread.Fascinating how rightly dividing Israel's time past prophetic program from our but now mystery program helps to connect all the dots, to pull back the drapes, and let the light in.Here, we have the children of Israel over there getting supernatural Door Dash from God, while conversely, Paul, he has us over here following the instruction that if a man doesn't work, neither should he eat.2 Thessalonians 3:10.You see, without rightly dividing things, they can get real messy real quick.Okay, drop down, eight verses, and take a look at verse 19, Matthew 6:19, Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:Under this gospel of the kingdom being preached here, Jesus is instructing them to not lay up treasures upon earth for themselves, yet you and I have a savings account.This isn't our mail, never has been.This instruction matches Acts 2:44 and 45, and chapter 3 verse 6.It matches chapter 5 verses 32 through 35, but it must be divided from 2 Corinthians 12:14.Our mail, our mail for today, watch, Paul wrote, Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burdensome to you: for I seek not yours, but you: for the children ought not..., now watch this next part, ...for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.Do what?But Paul, hey, Paul, don't you know what Jesus said to the children of Israel about laying up treasures here on earth?Yes, I do, but this is what Jesus told me to tell you.The church which is his body.Here, Paul says that parents are, they are to lay aside and make sure they provide for their children.Something Jesus would have never said during his Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John earthly ministry.No way, because they wasn't concerned with clothes, they wasn't concerned with money and food, and a place to lay their head, houses and land, and on and on it goes.Because why?Because, before the postponement of the dispensation of grace, they were looking to go into the kingdom with their King, and in a kingdom with a King, he will provide.He would have provided for all that was within his domain, but all of Israel did not believe.They rejected him.Only a little flock accepted him as the Messiah.And that's why we see the program change.It changed to the dispensation of grace, and that's where we are right now.Jesus was here on his father's business, and if you want to be about the father's business, you're going to need to be a workman who rightly divides, so you won't be ashamed.Grace and Peace.

Today, on Truth Time, He's already Isaiah 46:9 and 10 declared the end from the beginning.His understanding is infinite, Psalm 147:5, and there are no secret places hidden from him, Jeremiah 23:23-24.He knows the names of the stars, and how many there are, Psalm 147:4.He, Psalm 139:4, knows the words before anyone can even speak them.John said, He knows all things, 1 John 3:20, All things are naked and open unto his eyes, Hebrews 4:13, and there is no searching of his understanding, Isaiah 40:28.His foreknowledge is the foundation of the world, Acts 2:23 and 1 Peter 1:2.And, if your God needs faith, he must be the little "g," and you're going to want to go find the real one.The one who is the object of faith, and not the one who needs an object, an object to put his faith in.This is Truth Time Radio.The faith of Christ, the misunderstood term among some, they, they'll use it to say Christ had to have faith during his earthly ministry.When in fact, this little three word term simply stands for Paul's doctrine.It's what he taught, he taught the faith of Christ.You know, when you, you think of the term, faith of Christ, think of it as a, a title.What if we had Paul's epistles, all by themselves in book form.You walk into the bookstore, you look up there on the shelf, and there it is.On the cover it says, "The Faith of Christ." Underneath that in parentheses, "(Romans through Philemon)"Inside the book is all the information needed for your salvation, for your blessed hope, you're catching away, for your worthy walk, everything describing your position in Christ, your, your eternal destiny.Inside Paul's faith of Christ book is where we find the, the faith that we're stablished in, Colossians 2:7, Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith.That's why Paul said, From faith to faith, in Romans 1:17.Think about it.You walked into the bookstore, and over there in Paul's, "Faith of Christ" book, Romans is positioned first.And just 17 verses into the very first chapter, he wrote the four words, "From faith to faith."That should tell us something.Right off the bat, he begins to take us from time past faith to but now faith.From the faith required under the law of Moses to the faith required under the dispensation of grace.That's the faith of Christ, and it has nothing to do with this imaginary faith some say Christ had to have.In Galatians chapter 1, Paul certified the brethren that the gospel which he preached was not after man.He said he didn't receive it of man and no man taught it to him.Christ revealed it.Who?Christ.The doctrine Christ gave Paul, it has a name, and it's called, The faith of Christ.Christ revealed it to Paul.What?The faith of Christ.So, if you're here today and you want to understand the faith of Christ, you'll find it.You can learn all about it in Paul's 13 faith of Christ epistles, Romans through Philemon.The faith of Christ is what we believe, not what Christ had to have.Now, first up here, let's, let's address the claim that Christ needed faith to raise from the dead.That's what they say.Let's start with this one.God's definition of faith, which the faith of Christ extremists they avoid, it's found in Hebrews chapter 11 verse 1.Here it is.It says, Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.Now, as a Bible student, if I thought the term, faith of Christ, if I thought that meant Jesus had to have faith in order to resurrect, but then I come upon this verse here where God gives me the, the definition of what faith is, and the definition of faith is hoping for something I have never seen, you know what I would do?Change my mind.I would simply admit that I was wrong, something I've had to do plenty of times.I would do it again right here.God's definition plainly tells me that Christ isn't a candidate for faith.He has divine knowledge and he knows the end from the beginning, Isaiah 46:10.So, he already knew, he already knew that he was going to raise from the dead.No faith needed, no faith needed, case closed, put a period on it.I would understand that real easy when I was shown God's definition of faith.If he needed faith to raise from the dead, Mark 8:31 makes no sense.Listen real close, And he began to teach them, the Son of man must suffer many things and be rejected of the elders and the chief priest and scribes and be killed, and after three days, rise again.The, "Christ needed faith to raise from the dead," fairy tale just took a hard faceplant.This is why we shouldn't put what someone we admire and what they taught us ahead of God's word.You only get two educations, the one you're given, and the one you give yourself.And education should be based on objective facts, not subjective opinions.There comes a time in the believer's life where he has to choose between mansplain or Godsplain.Okay, is the faith of Christ what keeps you saved?Yet another false claim out there.The faith of Christ extremists, they say, quote, "The faith of Christ gets imputed to you after you believe, and then it is his faith that keeps you saved," end quote.Something else I, I guess they heard and decided to parrot without investigating.They act as if he has to have faith for us in case we're having a bad faith day.That's a straight up contradiction is what it is.It contradicts the fact that, at the split second moment you believed the gospel, the Holy Spirit baptized you into Christ and sealed you.Now, why would a sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise Saint of the Most High God also need Christ in his earthly ministry to have faith for them while he was under Israel's prophetic program?Hmm, talk about a muddy mess.That mixed up doctrine mixes prophecy with mystery, which is what we as right dividers say not to do.And here's something else.If it's his faith that keeps you saved, if that were the case, then, then what happens to the ones who depart the faith?In 1 Timothy 4, Paul warns of those.He warns of those who heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils, causing them to depart from the faith.So, if the faith of Christ gang, if they're right, and it's his faith that keeps you saved, but you can depart from it, that means his faith can fail.His faith might not keep you saved.That logical fallacy, my friend, has you losing your salvation.So, just chalk it up to another one of their many contradictions.Anyone saying it's not your faith, but his faith that saves you, sure don't sound Acts 9 dispensational to me.But what should we expect from those who are now using AI to write their podcast and Facebook posts?And studying from one of the fathers of universalism, A.E. Knox Bible.They need AI and a man's Bible, because God's word apparently isn't good enough by itself.And so, this misguided faith of Christ's belief, hey, it belongs in universalism, but not in mid-acts.So, let's further test this quote-unquote, "It's not your faith that saves, but the faith of Christ."Let's test it against scripture.Some say that Paul taught this, so, so let's go see if he did.Acts chapter 16, hmm, let's start here at verse 29, Then he called for a light, and sprang in... now this is the jailer, ...he called for a light and sprang in, and come trembling, and fell down before Paul and Silas.Verse 30, And brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved?Verse 31, and they said, this is Paul and Silas, they said, It's not your faith that saves, it's the faith of Christ.Is that what they said?Well, according to some it is, but listen, how about we just stick with the Word of God, okay?That's not what they said.They answered the jailer and said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved.Let's move on.I mean, hey, we're simply taking all their claims, layin' them out on the table, and with an open King James Bible, testing each one.No gymnastics needed.No hoops to jump through.Okay, next, let's address their, "obedient unto death," claim.Take a look with me here in Philippians chapter 2, chapter 2 verse 8, And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.Now somehow, somehow in their minds, obedient doesn't really mean obedient, it means, faith.But hey, a slave can be obedient.A slave can be obedient without having an ounce of faith in his master.If a slave obeys his master, does that mean he's on board with his master's plan?No, it means he obeyed, just what it said.He obeyed what he was told.So, where do they get this?Not from the King James Bible, that I can tell you.What does obedient unto death have to do with Hebrews 11:1?Somebody tell me, that's God's definition of faith, remember?Properly defining words, it's of the utmost importance, is it not?God with a pen of the Hebrew writer said, Faith is having hope in things you've not seen.So, explain how Christ, being obedient, translates to not knowing what he's being obedient to.How does it translate to there being things Jesus hasn't seen?Listen, I can have faith, you can have faith, but Jesus Christ can't.Because faith is needed for things you're hoping for, but haven't seen.Jesus has seen it all.He knows all things, John 18:4, quote unquote, "Jesus, therefore, knowing all things that should come upon him."Is that hard to understand?No, it's not.Was his death not one of the, "all things," that should come upon him?Was his resurrection not one of the, "all things," that should come upon him?Then he wouldn't have needed faith, would he?See how simple this is?It's almost as if those teaching this don't really understand what faith is.Or just decided to not believe how God defines it.Because you can't believe the Hebrews 11:1 definition of faith, and also believe Jesus had to have it.That's absurd.Okay, let's dispel one more they use concerning obedience.Hebrews chapter 5, Hebrews chapter 5, let's go there, Hebrews 5 verse 8, Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered.Now, they'll misuse this to claim that the, "learned," here means that he didn't know all things, even though we just read he does.In the verse we read, not the only one, there's plenty of other ones.Here's another one, John chapter 16 verse 30.His disciples said, quote unquote, "Now are we sure that thou knowest all things..."And in John 21:17, Peter said, Lord, thou knowest all things.This is repetitive.So, a Bible believer, one that's done the research, when they see the phrase, "Learned he obedience," they're going to understand that it's speaking of his experiential knowledge.Had he ever before come to earth in the flesh and dwelt among men?Of course not.This is about how for the first time he suffered in the flesh.Let's keep reading, verse 9, And being made perfect.This is where they'll say, the suffering made him perfect.But, nothing could make Jesus perfect.He can't be made something he already is.He's eternally perfect.So, the, "being made," here is referring to when he was born.When the word became flesh, he was made perfect, which had nothing to do with his suffering.It's the John 1:14, Word that was made flesh and dwelt among us.It's the Galatians 4:4, When God sent forth his son, made, there it is, made of a woman.It's simply speaking about his birth.This is what happens when you compare scripture with scripture instead of preacher to preacher.The truth reveals itself right before our eyes.Okay, next.The faith of Christ is synonymous with the faithfulness of Christ, so they say.Is it?Let's test this claim.Having faith and demonstrating one's faithfulness is not the same.I suspect I could walk into an elementary school and find some students that know this, but sadly, we have full grown adults who don't.If a believer somewhere along the way, if, if they stop believing, lose their faith, they do not lose their salvation.Why not?Is it because Christ had faith and, and when their faith got weak he stepped in and took over, as they say?Or, is it because he is faithful?Sadly, some haven't put in the work it takes to figure out that having faith and being faithful are different.They haven't connected the dots yet.Being faithful is not having faith.Two different words spelled two different ways, two different meanings.Christ being faithful is about his loyalty.It concerns his faithfulness.The word faithful can be used when speaking of a, a faithful friend, or, or someone loyal to, to follow through and do what they said they would do, as in Philippians 1:6, Being confident of this very thing, that he which has begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ.Now, that's a beautiful picture of being faithful, but has nothing to do with Christ having hope in things he's not yet seen.See how they mix this up?Let's face it and call it as it is, these made up philosophies of man aren't cohesive with the Hebrews 11:1, definition of faith.Get out your scales and you decide, weigh the evidence, man's definition or God's definition?As it stands, God's definition of faith doesn't square with the, the one that extremists made up.Faith is hoping for things you haven't seen, faithful is being trustworthy to do something.Both the Father and the Son are loyal to do what they say.Those teaching this are the same ones spreading the false teaching that Jesus is his own father, poisoning grace with their apostolic oneness doctrine.Next, they'll be speaking in tongues and claiming Geno Jennings rightly divides.Welcome to Walmart, clean up on aisle 5, all right. Romans 4:5.Now, how they mess this one up is quite the mystery.Let's take a look, Romans 4:5, But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.Their outrageous claim here is that, where it says, "his faith," that's talking about the faith of Christ.But truth seekers, hey, we know that context is our friend.One thing all the false teachers have in common, they're allergic to context.They avoid it like the plague.Here's what context tells us.When Paul penned these words here, "his faith," he was referring to the faith of Abraham.I thought everyone knew this.The faith of Abraham, not the faith of Christ.So, instead of ripping verse 5 out and, and misusing it, trying to get a cult following, let's start at verse 1, and let's see if we can get some context.Verse 1, What shall we say then that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, hath found?Verse 2, For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory; but not before God.(Verse 3), For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness.So, we've read three verses leading up to verse 5, the verse in question.And whose faith are we talking about?Verse 1, Abraham.Verse 2, Abraham.Verse 3, Abraham.And by the time we get here to verse 5, guess whose faith we're still talking about, yep.So, in verse 5, when it says, "his faith is counted for righteousness," that's the faith of Abraham.No mention of the faith of Christ.The extremists have taken just about every place where Paul uses the word faith, and turned it into the faith of Christ.One problem is, they think faith is a gift from God.And who does that remind you of?Who does that sound like?That's right, the Calvinists.They say the same thing.This is a fallacy that comes from the twisted understanding of Ephesians chapter 2 verse 8.Both the faith of Christ extremists we're dealing with, and the Calvinists, mess up Ephesians 2:8.How do they mess this up?Who knows?They deserve a first place trophy for this one, I can tell you that, because we've never heard of anyone in Mid-Acts having a problem with Ephesians 2:8, until now.Watch how they twist it.Here, where Paul says, For by grace are ye saved through faith..., they say, the faith here is a gift.Can someone say heresy?This is Calvinism.But they call themselves right dividers.Not exactly our best and brightest.Listen, if faith is a gift and not everyone has it, that means God has favorites.Yep, it means he's only selected certain ones to give the gift to.Which means he, he went against his very word, where that he says he would have all men to be saved, 1 Timothy 2:4.Man, they're creating a lot of problems.And to be clear, this interpretation makes a mockery of the gospel.Because there is no, "Christ having to have faith during his earthly ministry," anywhere in Paul's gospel.And they might figure this out if they didn't blatantly refuse to follow his 2 Corinthians 5:16 instruction to not know Christ after the flesh.They say, they'll quote that, they'll say, "Know we no man after the flesh," but a couple minutes later they'll say, "Christ had to have faith during his earthly ministry."That's mixing prophecy with mystery.They rightly divide till they don't.There's not one single verse in scripture that says Christ having faith during his earthly ministry is a gift to the uncircumcision.Not one.The Holy Spirit has perfect grammar, and according to Ephesians 2:8, the gift here is salvation by grace, not faith.Salvation is the gift of God for all who have faith, not to all who are given faith.The, "not of yourselves," doesn't mean you don't need to exercise faith.It means that you're exercising it is not a work.Because a work is something that's done in the flesh.What Paul is saying is, no one can boast in themselves regarding their salvation, just as he said in Philippians 3:9, Not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, the flesh.See, this is indisputable, and only those wise in their own conceits would say that faith is the gift in Ephesians 2.Christ being required to have faith during his earthly ministry is not the gift of God, salvation by grace through faith is.Now then, let's get Colossians chapter 2.And that thing that, that thing that sits up there between your shoulders, let's use it.Let's use our thinker.Verse 3 here, Paul speaking of Christ says, In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.Whoa, that's powerful is it not?Now ask yourself, if Christ had all wisdom and knowledge, I mean, that's what it says here, right?If he had all wisdom and knowledge, what would he need with faith?We're using our thinker, remember, by God's own definition, faith is hoping for things not seen.So some, they're teaching a Christ that has all wisdom and knowledge, but still has to hope for things he hasn't seen.Rubbish.Paul said, In Christ are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.And John agrees.John agrees with Paul, even if you don't.John 16:30, here John records what the disciples said to Christ, I mentioned it earlier, it's worthy of repeating, Now are we sure that thou knowest all things, and needest not that any man should ask thee..., John 16:30.So, if the definition of faith is hoping for things not seen, and John and Paul both say Christ knew all things, no Bible believer would say Christ needed faith.There's nothing Christ hasn't seen, argument over.He's already Isaiah 46:9 and 10, declared the end from the beginning.His understanding is infinite, Psalm 147:5.And there are no secret places hidden from him, Jeremiah 23:23 and 24.He knows the names of the stars and, and how many they are, Psalm 147:4.He Psalm 139:4 knows the words before anyone can even speak them.John said he knows all things, 1 John 3:20.All things are naked and open unto his eyes, Hebrews 4:13, and there is no searching of his understanding, Isaiah 40:28.His foreknowledge is the foundation of the world, Acts 2:23 and 1 Peter 1:2.And if your God needs faith, he must be the little, "g."And you're going to want to go find the real one.The one who is the object of faith, and not the one who needs an object, an object to put his faith in.That's silly.Okay, we've got more to come.We'll eventually get over there to the Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.There's some statements over there that some get confused by. We'll address those.But keep in mind, keep in mind saints that the faith of Christ, the faith of Christ is what allows us to follow Paul as he followed Christ.It's the information he penned.That's what enables us to evaluate a, a praise and 1 Corinthians chapter 2, Judge all things.It gives us the ability to make righteous judgments.When you see the term, "faith of Christ," it's speaking of a faith where you and I, we say, "the faith of Christ," some in the world, hey, they claim their faith to be in Islam.There's even a song called the faith of Islam, where you and I, we have the faith of Christ written in 13 books, some have the faith of Buddhism written in a collection of what they call, sacred text.Several, several years ago, while on vacation, I was, I was in a store shopping around, and when we were checking out, I noticed on the table near the cash register, a stack of pamphlets titled, "The faith of Buddhism."It described the faith of those who call themselves Buddhist.Christian believers, we have the faith of Christ, but Muslims have a different faith.Buddhists have a different faith.This pamphlet described the Buddhist, believing in karma, in reincarnation, and so forth.Buddhism is a faith that millions of people follow by the way.Hinduism, now that's another faith, and they have about a billion followers.Sometime back while researching them, I found where Britannica.com calls the faith of Hinduism, quote, unquote, "One of the principal faiths."The faith of Hinduism is their belief system just as the faith of Christ is ours.Anyone willing to leave their predilections and, and grow their knowledge will quickly see that the faith of Christ is a collection of writings, and not something Christ had to have.Grace and Peace.

Oh, it's amazing, it's amazing. I, I found something I never found in my life. Thank you so much. Thank you for showing me the truth. I'm so free. So free.So free. Just, I cannot explain. Is that... Your heart cannot explain the love and the joy. I never had this joy in my life. I never had the joy. It's amazing, amazing truth.Yeah.My life has shifted. I say, God, I see different things. I say, when the way I read the Bible, is not the way I used to read. I can't explain the peace assurance for your eternal life.We are so hungry. We are so hungry for the Word of God.Every morning, 7:30, we have fellowship. We discuss your radio and discuss this word of truth.Thank you for helping millions of people now to understand this truth, what Christ has done for us.We'll continue to support your ministry.Thank you so much, dear. Okay, God bless you.WTTR, your home for mid-Acts Bible study and songs of grace.What a joy, what a joy and what a privilege, such a privilege it is to serve our Lord.1 Samuel 2:2, There is none holy as the Lord, for there is none beside thee. Neither is there any rock like our God.Was listening closely to a song we played earlier. I think it's... I think it was last hour, Joseph Haberdanks, Religion Isn't Working Anymore. What a song.What a song.Religion will have you doing, doing, and then doing some more. And most are simply unaware of the psychological effects and damage caused by religion and the, the false teaching of you having to keep short accounts with God to get your sins forgiven.If they only knew that when Christ was crucified, God stopped imputing sins, problem solved, right?But there's, there's always someone trying to stick a do between you and forgiveness, a do between you and the finished work of Christ.It's one of Satan's oldest tricks.Many place a, a physical act between you and forgiveness, and others, even some grace teachers, they know better than that, but they, they place a mental act between you and forgiveness.Various groups, they have different roads, different avenues, different trails and bunnyholes for you to walk, hop, and skip through, so that you can try to get your sins forgiven, which is something that's already finished.But you know what, prayer still works. Prayer still works no doubt, so we continue to pray for their spiritual eyes to... for their spiritual eyes of understanding to be open.Paul said he'd never cease to give thanks for those over there in Ephesus, the Ephesians, making mention when he prayed that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of Glory, would give them the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him.So, like our pattern Paul did, we pray for eyes to be open to this magnificent mystery truth.Truth only found in Paul's epistles, a mystery, a Bible mystery, it's not something hokey, it's not something spooky, it's simply a secret, hidden wisdom.Secret wisdom made manifest.As opposed to the twelve men Jesus trained to carry out his earthly plan, see, they only spoke things that were known.They had no knowledge of the secret hidden wisdom he later revealed to Paul, and God's Word is perfectly divided.In your Bible there's a prophetic program that has prophetic information, and there's a mystery program with mystery information.And if you blur the lines, you'll, you'll have an awful time trying to understand it, trying to understand God's Word.There's a teaching going around that says the Lord only revealed seven mysteries to Paul.Well, if, if it's money you're after, that, that may sell a few books, it sounds pretty good, but it's false.There were more than seven mysteries revealed to Paul.But this is the problem with word searchers who avoid actual Bible study, study to show thyself approved, approval requires more than word searching.Listen, once you learn what a mystery is, you don't have to see the word mystery to know when you're reading about one.Give that some thought.2 Corinthians 5 verse 19, that was a mystery, and unfortunately, still is to some.There, Paul tells us that God stopped imputing sins to the world.Was that known before the Lord revealed it to Paul? No, it was not.Then why didn't they include that one on the seven mysteries revealed to Paul list?In 2 Corinthians 5:19, God had Paul to tell us that he stopped charging sins to the world, yet it didn't make the list.We knew the list was made by a limited forgiver first time we laid eyes on it.Some genius, you know, they'll go make a Facebook post and here comes Pavlov's dog, salivating and lapping it up without giving it an ounce of scrutiny.The keyboard warriors, they remind us of the Acts 17 Athenians who, Luke said, spent their time in nothing else but either to tell or hear some new thing.Listen, forgiveness is in the rear view mirror, done deal. That's an old thing. That, that was written in the first century by your Apostle, the Apostle Paul.Don't need to add anything new to it, something already achieved through the finished work of Christ, and not something dependent upon an individual's action to secure.You don't have to do anything for forgiveness.For those of us who understand the finality of the crosswork, and what it means for us, from our perspective, forgiveness cannot be earned, because it's unconditional.Such glorious freedom when you can escape living beneath the shadow of the do system.And that'll happen, it'll happen when you come to terms that your salvation is not about getting your sins forgiven, but believing they already are.Believing what's already accomplished and embracing that reality.Paul's gospel declares that there's no prerequisite to forgiveness.You often hear someone talking about grieving the Holy Spirit in the sense of committing some sort of worldly sin, but what about the grief we bring on him by trying to get forgiven from the sins we've already been forgiven for?Talk about grieving the Holy Spirit.Now, what pleases the Holy Spirit is when we agree with God that the sin issue, the sin that once stood in the way of relationship, is no longer being imputed.And that's for the world. The path is clear for salvation.If you've never tasted, if you've never had a taste of this transformative truth, you need to get on a new information diet.Check your sources. It's important, it's important what you put in your brain.The denominational preacher, he'd rather us lay in bed 1 John 1:9'ing ourselves to death.The Lordshipping legalists wants us on the dance floor doing the turn and burn.And even some grace teachers, they've got you having to get saved before you can get forgiven, as if your sins that were put on Christ, the ones he took with him to the tomb and didn't bring out, God is going to somehow retrieve those from some undisclosed location, by the way, and, and put them back on the unbeliever one day so he can be punished.That's seven flavors of nuts is what it is. Got you chasing what you already have.This hamster wheel theology has led to spiritual, emotional, and even physical damage. For some, it turns into OCD.Just look up our podcast on religious scrupulosity. The Bible is not hard to understand, it's just hard for some to believe.Take Acts 16, for example.Starting here with verse 27, And the keeper of the prison awakened out of his sleep.And seeing the prison doors open, he drew out his sword, and would have killed himself, supposing that the prisoners had been fled.But Paul cried with a loud voice saying, Do thyself no harm, for we are all here. Then he called for a light.This is the keeper of the prison. He called for a light and sprang in and came trembling and fell down before Paul and Silas.And brought them out and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved? And they said, Get your sins forgiven.Of course not. That's not what they said. They looked at that man dead in the eye and said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved.But see, some think Paul and Silas made a mistake here and should have told the man how to get his sins forgiven.God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them, not hard to understand, just hard for some to believe.God stopped imputing sins because Jesus paid the debt in full, making the only condition of salvation, being belief in the gospel just as Paul and Silas said.And at the split-second moment of the person's belief, they received the 2 Corinthians 5:20 promise to, Be ye reconciled to God.They received the Titus 3:5, regeneration. They're Romans 5:1 justified, they're Romans 5:19 made righteous. So, don't be fooled.There's no lack of assurance. Just receive the gift and be sealed.2 Corinthians 1:21, Now he which stablished us with you in Christ, and hath anointed us is God, verse 22, Who hath also sealed us and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.Extraordinary news, is it not? You mustn't allow yourself to be placed under the law of Moses or any law of men.The modern-day Pharisees are out there. They're running amuck. We talk to folk all the time who say they believe they're under grace and not the law of Moses, which they're correct, but after a couple of minutes of dialogue, it becomes apparent that they're, they're under a law of modern men.Law of Moses, law of men, doesn't matter. Neither one is a good place to be.The modern-day man has convinced them to do this for forgiveness, to do that for forgiveness, to do the other thing.They've allowed themselves to be put in bondage. Galatians 4:9, But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, where unto, ye desire again to be in bondage?It's crazy, is what it is. People who want to be in bondage.Okay, that's bad enough. But, there's some who, after they're free, the, the, the door is open.The no more bars to conceal them. They're free. Go free. Be free. And they return to bondage.Don't do it. Instead, just keep reading, next chapter, verse 1, Stand fast in the liberty, and be not entangled again with a yoke of bondage.It's a disgrace. A disgrace and a disservice of Paul's gospel for anyone to peddle the lie that says, Under this current administration, one must do something before God can forgive you.They say all of this without being able to produce even one verse from Paul that says that.There is no condition for forgiveness today, forgiveness is unconditional, salvation is not. Salvation is based on a condition.What condition? You must believe. Believe the gospel of Christ. Christ died for your sins. How many?All.He was buried with those sins, and how many did he come out of the grave with? None.The stone was rolled back, He made his exit, and no one's sins came with him.And now, there he is, awaiting you to believe that good news, and to be saved.Not forgiven, saved. Salvation is not getting your sins forgiven, it's believing they already are. That's the reason Paul doesn't provide you with a how to verse.Hey, if it's a how to verse you're looking for, a how to get my sins forgiven verse, you ain't going to find it.Not in Paul's epistles, can't do it. He don't provide us with a how to verse, because there's no sins being imputed, just as he wrote.Hard to understand? No. Hard for some to believe. Hard for some to digest.I remember putting out a challenge about 14 years ago for someone to show us a verse, just one, where Paul explains how to get your sins forgiven.A challenge that I might add, hasn't been met yet. 14 years later, and no one can do it, because salvation isn't getting your sins forgiven, it's believing they already are.And anyone who's read through his 13 epistles should not have to be told that.His books aren't about how to get forgiveness from God.They're about salvation and your worthy walk, bearing fruit, how to present the gospel to the lost, and on and on it goes, packed full of great detailed information on how the believer is to live, but not how they're to get forgiveness.It's how to be saved and how to live after you are. That's Paul's focus.Years back, did a podcast and taught on there being no forgivable sin, no forgivable sin.Some about lost their mind, contacted my wife on Facebook saying, I think y'all made a mistake with the title.They thought, they thought we meant to say there is no unforgivable sin.No mistake. We said what we meant. This is the Pauline dispensation of grace and there's no forgivable sin. It's impossible for God to forgive a sin he's not imputing.That's not difficult. That's not difficult to understand, or shouldn't be. The truth is liberating. Not mama said, daddy said, preacher said, but God said.Through Paul, God said there's no forgivable sin. Through Paul, God said he doesn't forgive and forget, because he forgave and forgot. Very different.A new dispensation requires a new mindset. Some still think justification and forgiveness are the same. They teach they, that they mean the same thing and occur at the same time. They're wrong twice.Being wrong once wasn't good enough.Justification always requires faith, without exception, and it doesn't spontaneously happen at the same time as forgiveness.Forgiveness and justification, two words, two spellings, two meanings. The calendar date for forgiveness goes back almost 2000 years. God required a perfect blood sacrifice, and the requirement was met. It doesn't include you.The calendar date for justification is at the moment you believe the gospel that does include you.We do not get forgiveness when we're, quote unquote, "Saved by faith in the gospel."That may be something you heard taught by a man you admire, but it's not biblical.They throw around these bumper sticker slogans, but they can't back them up with scripture evidence. And that's a problem. For some it's difficult to understand that justification requires belief, but, forgiveness doesn't.And reconciliation requires two, but forgiveness only requires one.A limited forgiver listener recently told me, he said, God reconciled the world, but that's not the same as forgave the world. And my response was, correct. You're right.God had to forgive the world first, otherwise, he would have been reconciling himself to sin.Which would be what? Well, that would be blasphemy. How blasphemous to say that God reconciled the world unto himself, but he didn't stop imputing their sins. Yet, that's what they're teaching. They say, God reconciled himself to the world, but doesn't forgive them until they believe.Well, that means he reconciled himself to sin, that's blasphemous, and that's a lie. I don't think they realize what they're saying.That teaching has a holy God reconciling himself to sin.Again, they fail to realize that forgiveness takes one, reconciliation takes two. That's why 2 Corinthians 5:19 says, God reconciled the world into himself, and verse 20 says, Now ye reconcile yourself to God.Reconciliation doesn't mean forgiveness. Justification doesn't mean forgiveness. Righteousness doesn't mean forgiveness. Salvation doesn't mean forgiveness.This should go without saying.Hey, to help with these terms, go find our terminology folder on YouTube. We took a deep dive into several biblical words, and used scripture to define their meanings.Guys, we should always be willing to examine ourselves. Examine and challenge our beliefs with scripture. Are you saved or just playin' the part?Have you completely trusted that what Jesus did was enough, or are you holding on, claiming a, a tiny bit of credit for yourself? Where's your focus?On what Christ finished, or on what we can help him finish?This is the dispensation of grace where the do's are done.Salvation isn't getting your sins forgiven, it's believing they already are. You can't be forgiven by how you believe any more than you can be saved by how you live. Separate issues.Your forgiveness, your salvation, how you live. Separate issues.Your forgiveness happened on the cross, your salvation happens when you believe, and how you live, follows.God is a God of order. In his word, he places divisions, and we must not conflate them.Forgiven on the cross, saved when you believed, now it's time to live.To walk in newness of life. Christ died for every sin, was buried, rose for your justification, rest in that.Something to consider from all of us here at Truth Time Radio.Grace and Peace.

Hi, Trey and Faith, this is Betty Henry from Strattonville, Pennsylvania.I just wanted to give you guys an encouragement.Carol Clinger and I were talking about how great your teaching is with you and Faith.You really bring out the passion for the truth of the gospel, the grace of God.And, it is so enjoyable.I love you guys and keep standing for the truth.Thanks.Religion just wasn't going to cut it for me.And I've been in it for so long and many of you here are like I was.And we have acquaintances and family and people we love who are still caught up in religion, trying to drag us back, the bondage that we escaped and there they are, thinking they're doing it out of love wanting to pull us, to draw us back in to that web of deceit, of having you think you are Israel, thinking you can lose your salvation, not understanding that we're not under the tithing program, earthly minded instead of heavenly minded.We're in the dispensation of the grace of God and we try to convey that to all those we love, it's hard sometimes, oh, yeah, it's, it's difficult.Been doing this for a couple of decades, it's hard.You think, Hey, I've discovered this, this great outstanding news that it's so liberating.It'll set you free, and you go to people that you care about.And they look at you like you're an alien from another planet with a couple of antennas growing out of your head.1 Corinthians 9:17, For if I do this thing willingly, Paul says, I have a reward.But if against my will, a dispensation of the gospel is committed unto me.Now, you and I, we look at that and see power.Other people, other folks, they look at that and go, What's a dispensation?But once you tap into this knowledge that we're under this dispensation of grace, a new administration, our apostle is the apostle Paul, things just, they become so clear and everything looks so relevant, the scriptures start looking practical to you.You have greater understanding, greater knowledge.You start to kind of vibrate on a different level, and that's hard for some to now deal with.And so you're a little off putting when you come into the conversation when it has something to do with quote unquote, "religion," but it's still the truth nonetheless.So that's 1 Corinthians 9:17.What about Ephesians 1:10, That in the dispensation of the fullness of times, he might gather together in one all things, all things in Christ, both which are in heaven and which are on earth, even in him.Ephesians 3:2, If ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God, which is given me to you-ward.The me there is Paul, the you-ward is the Ephesians, and we might as well say we're the Ephesians, were the Floridians, were the Georgians, the Georgians, but we are the Gentiles that were aliens outside the promises.Yeah.Yeah.Well, it's funny.I saw someone make a comment earlier today, I think it was on Facebook, that said, Dispensation is not biblical.And I immediately thought to myself, if it sounds like you're not biblical because we're (they're definitely not) dispensation is, and if you're saying it's not, then you must not be in your Bible, or you may be in a wrong Bible, but still, nonetheless, the word dispensation doesn't need to be there for you to know that there have been changes in administrations throughout the history of mankind.For example, Hebrews 1:1, God who at sundry times and in divers manners, spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds. And it keeps going speaking about his Son.The point is, is that in Hebrews right here in the very first verse of the very first chapter, we have the writer, speaking to sundry times, there's your time past, (but now) the word time past is even in this verse.And so different times, various times in divers manners and different manners in different ways.So, this is not just a concept that's only known.Oh, come on.This is something new you thought, you had a dream last night.Well, it's, it's funny how people in time past knew how things would change.I mean, obviously Abraham knew not to build an ark, Moses knew not to take his son and offer him up as a sacrifice.That's right.They knew these things (they didn't need the word, dispensation) they didn't need the word, dispensation.You have an idea that there's some things different from that which is now, there's some things different that were in operation and functioning prior to me, right.There were some things different then that are not happening today.Exactly.Exactly.And the diet changed, the manner of giving changed, tithing changed, and it's, it continues to change.So, you obviously anytime you have a change in an administration and instructions on what it is to, you must do to follow God and be pleasing to him, there is a change in gospels because the gospel is the good news.It's how you will be saved.And, anyone who denies that people in time past were saved in a different manner with different instructions, obviously, no, you're not reading the Bible, or you're not comprehending what you read.And, and I think that it's been maybe been blended together for so many years for so many people, that they don't really just, they really just don't want to recognize the distinctions because everybody knows they don't get up every morning to go hunt for some gopher wood.That's right.You know, obviously you're not doing that.Well, it is comprehension, because I will say that in the fact that I was in my Bible, I was in it.But I wasn't in it to win it.I was just in it and I was listening.That's why I'm so hard today on others for parroting what others say.I'm hard on people for looking at a man and lifting him up upon a pedestal.I'm hard on people, not because I'm some amazing intellectual who has always known since my mother's womb that you're not to do that.No, I discovered that because why?Because I used to do that.Right, right.I used to look, matter of fact, and I've told you this story, but people like Joel Osteen?Oh, man, I mean, look at the nice suit the guy wears, look at the parking lot.They're full.Look at the chairs.There's no room.That would have impressed the old man, Trey Searcy.But once I discovered the truth, I realized, hey, you know who has the truth?Remnants, all in your Bible from cover to cover.It's never been about the most popular.It's always been about a remnant of folks here and there scattered that understood the truth.Always.It has never been about a big, Hey, look at the crowd, they must be telling the truth.No, look at the crowd, they're probably not.Yeah.Well, and sometimes we look at things in a more encapsulated, myopic manner when we look at numbers.I mean, one man's remnant is another man's mass amount of people.So, but if you look at it in the big picture of everything, and in all of what we will refer to as Christendom, mainstream Christianity, those who understand who their apostle is and who know and believe the gospel of their salvation for today, are most definitely a remnant.That's right.So, you know...How many believed Noah's gospel?Less than 10 out of all those people in all those years preaching that message, which is something else to, we hear a lot of, there's only one gospel in the Bible.You hear that from all the denominations.And let me go outside.Let me step beyond that.You hear from even dispensationalists, well, there's two gospels in the Bible.And then of late, we've heard there's three gospels in the Bible.Well, Truth Time Radio's here to tell you, all of the above are wrong.There's several gospels in the Bible, and if you don't know, then maybe you have not comprehended what the word gospel means.The word gospel means good news, Noah, back to Noah, Noah's good news was not the gospel of the kingdom.Noah's good news was not the gospel of the grace of God.No, it was not.Noah's good news was not Adam and Eve's good news.No, it wasn't.Noah's gospel was not the same gospel of the everlasting gospel that the angel will be flying around and preaching.No, it's not.How many did I just name?That's four or five already.We could go on because gospel means good news, so no, there's not one, there's not two, and there's not even three.So, if you're saying that, you need to check who you've been listening to, quit parroting what they say and get in this book.Right, and there's so many different examples of different people throughout Old Testament scripture, what we consider to be Old Testament scripture, that have been instructed to do certain things.And, in order to be saved, they first had to have faith, and then they had to be obedient to that faith.And to be obedient to that faith, they had to follow the instructions that came along with faith.Whatever they may be.So whatever those instructions are.So, when you have multiple different examples of people in scripture in time past, who have had different instructions from the next person even, (That's right), that's a different gospel.That's a different way of their salvation.Now, what remains the same, is that they had to have faith, and they had to be obedient to that faith.And whatever the instructions are is what they are to obey.That's right.Now, when the instructions are different, then it's a different gospel.Different dispensation.Different dispensation (Different instructions) for different gospel.If you were not obedient to the faith, then you were not considered to be righteous.That's right.And if you were not declared righteous, then you were not justified.And without justification, you cannot be saved.And although their salvation in time past and in ages to come is going to result in a different destination than ours, they still have the same principles.Right.This is why God does not change.He's the same yesterday, today, and forever.And the reason why he doesn't change is because his requirements are the same.You need to have faith.And it just so happens that our instructions for today to obey our faith that we have is to believe on Christ alone, and what he accomplished for us.His death for sins on the cross, his burial, and his resurrection unto eternal life for us.Because all of that, what you just mentioned, is physical.Right.People's problem with the word, obedient, is they think every time you say obedient, you're talking about a physical action.Exactly.Exactly.Exactly.And so, when you look at it this way and you understand that Jesus did everything and fulfilled everything that needed to be accomplished in order for anyone to be declared righteous, then, our instructions are to not try and do those things that he's already done to be righteous.That's right.So, our, our obedience is, don't obey the law.Don't do the... don't work for righteousness.Whatchu talking about?I know James would never say that.Peter would never say that.But our apostle tells us, this is what you do.That's right.Jesus Christ himself and his earthly ministry would never say that.He told the rich young ruler, when the rich young ruler said, Well, I've obeyed everything from my youth.Now what must I do?Now what do I do?Sell everything you have and give it to the poor and come and follow me.If you'll be perfect, this is what you have to do.And he walked away sorrowful because he had a lot of stuff.So, even he couldn't do that then, but that was the instruction.That was his obedience.That was the obedience of his faith.If he had done that, then he would be preserved unto eternal life at the times of refreshing.And how many sermons have you heard as a good old retired Baptist on Matthew chapter 19, which is what you're speaking of, and that rich young ruler?So many, and they didn't touch on these points, they overlooked this, why, because they didn't understand the dispensation of the grace of God.They did not adhere to the change that came through the apostle Paul, the fellowship of the mystery, this dispensation of grace, that's what it's all about.What you need to do is hop on the grace train.That's how you find out about this mystery.And for those who've just joined us, hey, go to truthtimeradio.com, read and listen to the material, read our blogs, find us on YouTube.If after all that, you still have questions, call us.We've got a toll free number, toll free set up for you to call.1-888-988-9562. Woke up this morning, Faith, and I had the book of Psalms in my spirit, man.Psalms is an outstanding book of wisdom, outstanding guys, outstanding, Psalm 34:1, I will bless the Lord at all times.His praise shall continually be in my mouth.Let's praise him, saints, let's praise him.Psalm 34:8, Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good.Blessed is the man that trusteth in him.Where is your trust today?In man, in tradition, philosophy, social media, what are you trusting in?The Lord is good and blessed is the man that trusteth in him.That's where we find our truth.That's where we find grace, mercy, peace, love, joy, and abundance of good news is all found in trusting him and that, that doesn't matter what dispensation you're in.Psalm 34:14, depart from evil and do what?Do good.Seek what?Seek peace and pursue it.Peace guys, peace, pursue it and watch everything just kind of like a puzzle fall in place.Happy to be with you today here, looking ahead to the day when we will all, the entire body of Christ will be changed, flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God and neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.And it's mandatory, guys, mandatory, no exceptions for this corruptible to put on incorruption and this mortal to put on immortality.It's at that glorious moment, Faith, that death is going to be swallowed up.What?Death is going to be swallowed up in what?Victory! Victory!We have victory.Where's our victory?In Christ.Yes.In understanding the fellowship of the mystery, the gospel of the grace of God, the Romans 1:16 gospel of Christ, the Galatians chapter 2 gospel of the uncircumcision, the top priority of this ministry here at Truth Time is to see souls saved and saints edified.We're so thankful today, thankful to the Almighty Father God for sacrificing his Son in order to settle the score.We talked about that last time when we were on, Faith.The score's settled, guys, the score is settled.The blood, that did it, nothing, nothing can beat it.The score is settled, and he did it so you and I wouldn't have to.That's right.That's the reason TTR's always making reference to the finished cross...Hey, y'all talk about the cross work too much.Well, just stay tuned.That's all we're going to... nothing is going to change on that.The cross work, the finished cross work, the burial and the resurrection.We preach Christ and him crucified.That's a joke to most today.We're mocked.I get it.We're the laughing stock among the world, but we make no apology.We stand firm like a tree planted by the water.The cross is where God settled the score.The moment we accept, by grace through faith, the free gift of salvation, we're transferred positionally by imputation, by the gospel of the grace of God into the last Adam, into Christ.This transfer, you ever think about that, this great transfer.This happens through faith in Christ Jesus and what he has done.He did everything necessary to save your sorry no good soul.

A listener writes, I've sat in church now for more than 30 years, and have never understood 2 Timothy 2:15.By listening to your station, I've since learned that to rightly divide the word of truth means to separate the books that were written to Israel, from the books that were written to the church, the body of Christ.Now I realize that there are no contradictions in my Bible.It's just God speaking different things to different people.I could never thank you enough for the difference you've made in my Bible studying.Signed, a faithful listener, Paradise Valley, Arizona.It's letters like this that make it all worthwhile.This is such exciting news.Grace and peace to all.And thank you for supporting WTTR, your home for mid-Acts Bible study, and songs of grace.WTTR Truth Time Radio.Hey, this is where you'll get a shot of truth with no chaser.Today's brick and mortars, you can't miss them, they're on every corner, they'll eat you up, they've got law dogs everywhere, corner to corner go in and you'll find law dogs standing there, just trying to put a yoke of bondage around your neck for you to carry around during your lifetime.It's nuts, is what it is.And it's not so much of the law of Moses, but their own laws, they made them up, something to do to do to do to do.Hey, if you had a salvation spinning wheel, and on it, there were two places on the wheel, two places to land, land on Jesus or land on man, you step up, you spin the wheel and land on Jesus.Hey, you win, crowd goes nuts, spin it and land on man, you are a big loser.Landing on man represents the law of performance, things you do in your flesh.You lose, landing on Jesus represents grace, things he done for you, you win.Under this current administration, anything other than faith alone in Christ alone is one for the L column, just put that right there in the losers column because you lose to put it in Olympic terms, you don't win silver, you lose gold.When a man who's honestly mistaken here's the truth, he'll either quit being mistaken, or cease to be honest.But in this dispensation, you've got no reason to even gamble, none at all.No need to spin the wheel and take a chance, just trust the one whom died for all your sins, was buried, rose the third day to give you justification, justification of life.That's news to rejoice in, rejoice in the Lord always and again, I say, rejoice.We've armoured up, we're engaging in spiritual warfare, it's a battle ground.2 Corinthians 10, For though we walk in the flesh, we don't war after the flesh.For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal.Hey saints, they're mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds.We cast down imaginations in every high thing that, that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God.That's where the power comes from, the knowledge of God.And we bring into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ.We don't look on the outward appearance.Don't fall into that trap, impressed by a man who, who can quote scriptures better than you.That's vanity, get your eyes off man, off the flesh.Not long ago I was preaching, and afterwards had a gentleman, he said, Man, your ability to recall and quote scripture is something else.My wife, she tells me that sometimes, but you know, there's nothing impressive about that.It doesn't matter, hey, you can stand up before a crowd and quote the Bible from cover to cover.But unless you know what to do with it, unless you know how to rightly divide it, to teach it dispensationally, you're wasting your time and everyone that's impressed by your recallability.Won't do you a bit of good.Watched the video, watched the video a listener sent in to us earlier today, and it's a perfect example of this, the pastor of this brick and mortar standing there, quoting one scripture after another.Yet, he teaches limited forgiveness, doesn't have a clue of what happened at the cross.Oh, he's a workman, all right, an ashamed workman, that's what he is, quoting scriptures from memory, but what good is it?What good is that doing?No salvific gospel coming from the man's mouth.Salvation is not getting your sins forgiven.Salvation is not getting your sins forgiven, it's believing they already are.Oh, that's victorious news, that's where the victory is, friends.And if you don't know that, you should exit the pulpit and let somebody up there who does.You can increase in knowledge all day every day and not do a bit of good for anybody, if you aren't preaching the undiluted, unperverted gospel of Christ.If you don't have forgiveness right, stop wasting your time, and you do well to go turn your Bible in and find something that you are good at.Because preaching ain't it.Colossians 1:9, For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, we don't cease to pray for you.And our desire is that you might be filled with knowledge, the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding.No limited forgiver has spiritual understanding.That you might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing.Being fruitful, Paul says, being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God.So that man standing there that you're so impressed with, hey, he's increasing in knowledge all right, quoting scripture from memory, wowing his audience, but his message, it won't save a single soul.Because he places a do in front of forgiveness.You've proven yourself to be a shameful workman, getting pats on the back and a wheelbarrow full of at-a-boys.Hey, all you're doing is making false converts, and you're not going to be at the judgment seat, neither will they.Your audience is believing in vain because they're believing a lie.You're religious and lost in teaching others how to be also.Limited forgiveness is a joke started by a denominationalist, and even being parroted by those who claim that they have no ties to denominations.They need to remove their Jim Carrey mask and reveal who they really are.This is the dispensation of grace.We're not under law.Romans 6:14, sin doesn't have dominion over us.We're not under the law, we're under grace.Romans 2:12, For as many as have sinned without the law also perish without the law, and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law.Think about that.Think about what Paul is saying here.For as many as have sinned without the law shall also perish without law.This is current news.We're not under the law.But as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law.That is time past.Time past news for those who are under the law in another dispensation.So, understand this, when, when we perish, we do so without the law.And that's why no one from this dispensation will be judged for their sins.We sinned without the law, and those who perish in this dispensation will be judged by Paul's gospel.Being judged by Paul's gospel has no connection with the law, with the earthly kingdom, with the holy nation of priest.If anyone in the world today was under the law, they'd be receiving God's punishment for breaking it.It's as simple as that.Contrary wise though, think about it, contrary wise, God is dispensing grace right now.There is currently no enmity standing between God and man, making salvation available to everyone.This gospel of peace, it's so amazing!Are you here today searching for peace?I invite you to believe on Christ, believe on Christ Jesus and receive the free gift of salvation, then you can rest in him.You can then say that you're dead and your life is hid with Christ in God.Colossians chapter 3.Now that's peace.When Christ who is our life shall appear, then shall we also appear with him in glory.You want peace?This is it.Get in it.Get in Christ while the gittin's good.Believe the gospel.Trust Christ.Allow your life to be hid with him in God.The wages of sin is death, and all have sinned against a holy God.And we've all come short of his glory.We all deserve a smoking hot place in hell.As it is written, there is none righteous, no not one.And on our best day, on your best day, think about it.You can't measure up.I can't measure up.All we can do, all the work that we can do is equivalent to a filthy rag.In Philippians chapter 3, Paul warned of many there who caused him to weep because they were enemies of the cross, which describes most of twistianity today.The law first, grace later crowd.You know them.The law first, grace later, guys.They frustrate the grace of God when they open their mouth and don't understand the truth of the cross.Don't expect that to change anytime soon.And listen, here's something you need not get twisted.Don't be fooled.Watch for those, these out here who say, Oh, we're not under the law, we're under grace.But then they turn around and slide a do right in there, right under your nose.If we're under grace, there's nothing to do because grace and do don't go together.And they may not preach or teach the law of Moses.That's not what we're talking about.But if you listen closely, you'll catch them.You'll catch them.I promise you'll catch them replacing it with their own laws.They've got them.They've got a stack of them.Their own do's, their own performance.The church lexicon is often more important than their Bible.But enough with the bad news, enough with that.The good news is this, before you were born, Christ died for all your sins.God the Father made Jesus to be sin for us.He did so that we might be made the righteousness of God in him, in Christ.God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing trespasses unto anyone.This happened when, when did this happen?When we were enemies, that's when it happened.It didn't happen when we did something.It didn't happen when we confessed our sins.It didn't happen when we were water-baptized, turned from our sins, when we believed the gospel.No, it happened when we were enemies.He was buried but rose the third day to be the just and justifier of all who will believe on him, believe on him for eternal life.Today is the day of salvation.Grace and peace.From morning.Great to wake up to in the morning.To evening.Working late at the office.Thanks for making us your number one.This, is Truth Time Radio.

Ephesians 4:22, is that what you said? Yeah, let's look at verse 22 here. Okay. That you put off concerning the former conversation, the old man. There's that old man I'm talking about, and go ahead and read on through 24.Okay. Which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts, and be renewed in the spirit of your mind. Amen. And that you put on the new man, which after God, is created in righteousness and true holiness.Righteousness and what? True holiness. See that old man, he knew nothing of true holiness. That old man has you doing all the obstacles, jumping through the hoops, spinning down the aisle, jumping the pews, seeking for a second feeling, yeah, trying to get the holy ghost that you got when you believed on Christ Jesus, that, that old man knew nothing of the fellowship of the mystery. No, no, no, he did not. So we're to what?Put him off.Put off the former conversation, the old man, and renew the spirit of our mind, put on the new man. The new man will have you living in a new life of thankfulness.I believe I see the answer why they don't get it, right there in verse 23. It says to, Be renewed in the spirit of your mind. That's right. If you're not renewed according to Pauline epistles, who Paul is the one who gave us the mind of Christ in Romans through Philemon.And, if you're not renewed in that spirit of your mind, then you are going to miss all of this.That's right. Because, you're going to have all of the daily obstacles in your way, and, it's going to take away from that thankfulness. And this is even for people who may have, you know, heard and believed the real gospel. You know, it's, it's a problem whenever they don't understand and walk in their identity.Identity is crucial. Well, yeah. And there's two reasons why one would not walk in their identity.One is because they don't really know who they are. The other is because they're not saved.If you're not saved, you don't have that identity. So, you can't walk in something you don't have.And then you got saved people and they don't know their identity. Right, yes, yes.So, only difference is, I mean, there is no difference really in this present time in which we live. It's just there's an eternal difference (right) because the saved people go to heaven.Right. But they don't know who they are now, so they're living a miserable life. Exactly. I know there's so many vast complexities that you could get into with all the scriptures that will tell you who you are in Christ. But it's really easy. It's not you. It's Christ. So, I mean, that's just as simple as you can make it. It's Christ. It's Christ in you the hope of glory. It's you in Christ. So, that is your identity once you are saved. Therefore, whenever anything comes along, you're in Christ and Christ in you. If you know that, then you can be thankful in all things, just as our Apostle instructs us to do to be thankful in all things. That's right. Yeah. You keep shining that light though. That's, that's what we have to do, body of Christ, we have to keep shining our light.Why? Because as ambassadors, that's our job.That's a part of our job description. And everyone will wake up at different times. So, it's just our job to keep being that alarm clock. Right. It's, it's telling too that, you know, I know we stopped at verse 24, but just looking at the next few verses. I think Paul is listing here some of the most difficult things it is to do as putting on the new man, especially, you know, the put away lying and speak every man truth with his neighbor, for we're members one another, one of another.But the next one, Be ye angry and sin not, let not the sun go down upon your wrath. Neither give place to the devil. So, I mean, we, we have some things that it may be a little bit more difficult. We go on down and we see, Let him that stole steal no more, and let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth. But only that which is good to the use of edifying that you might minister grace to the hearers, grieve not the Holy Spirit. Well, all these things that we're talking about is going to grieve the Holy Spirit. Why? Because you're sealed unto the day of redemption with that Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit has no choice but to go around with you everywhere you go. That's right.And if we keep in mind that when we do these things that Paul lists and says don't do these things, if we keep in mind that we're grieving that Holy Spirit that has no choice, but to be there when we do those things, maybe that'll help us not do those things as much. That's right. He keeps going, Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and evil speaking and be put away with you from you with all malice, and be ye kind to one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake has forgiven you. Now that verse, it'll hit you differently when you understand how God for Christ's sake forgave you. That's right. He forgave you without your permission. He forgave you before you were born. The forgiveness was given for you on the cross, and it had nothing to do with your mental ascent of it.So, that tells me that I need to forgive others the same way that I was forgiven. Well, I was, I was forgiven. I didn't, I didn't have to wait for somebody to ask me to forgive them.Neither did you have to reconcile with that person because reconciliation and forgiveness do not mean the same thing. No, they do not. No, they do not. So, forgiveness, yes, if you're going to reconcile, forgiveness is the first step that has to take place, but you don't have to go past forgiveness. No, you do not. Sometimes it's best not to. Sometimes it's, that's exactly right. That's exactly right. Sometimes going past that and trying to reconcile would do more damage than it will do good. But, we are to forgive in our heart as soon as possible. What does Paul say, you know, as much as possible, he wants to live peaceably among all men. Right. Right.Right. And, and there's some people out there that make that really hard, too. Oh, yeah. And you know, you have to forgive and love from afar.You have to. Doesn't mean they have to be a part of my daily order. Right. Right. It's, it's, it's like, um, this is a part of putting on the new man, and walking in that new man. Um, now, not doing these things doesn't make you lose your salvation. Right. But.And it's totally opposite than what Jesus was telling the, those there in Matthew chapter 6. Right. Right. That was conditional forgiveness.That's exactly right. Yes. We don't have that. That's right. That's right. So, yeah, because if you didn't forgive according to Jesus, you would not be forgiven. Plain and simple. So, that's completely different.Those two verses alone make you scratch your head and wonder, how can someone of average intelligence not look at their Bible, compare these two verses, and know Paul has something different going on over here. Exactly. Exactly. Yeah. And, and it's difficult to do these things. But, as his ambassadors, as his representatives, we want to as much as possible try to do these things.Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth. But, that which is good to the use of edifying that it may minister grace unto the hearers. Now, I've heard so many different explanations and ideas of what corrupt communication is. Some people say, well, it's cursing, or it's wrong doctrine, or it's this or it's that, I'm going to tell you one thing, it's all the above, because Paul tells you what it is. It's anything that is not good to the use of edifying that ministers grace unto the hearers. If I got up and preached out of Matthew chapter 6, and acted as if that's applicable to us. If I preached out of Matthew 19, as we were discussing earlier with a rich young ruler, that's corrupt communication. That's right. Not at the time of Jesus walked the earth. It was fine. It was perfect. Right now, it's corrupt. Right. Right. And, I mean, there's, there's so many things that fall under the umbrella of corrupt communication. But again, Paul makes it simple. If it's not good to the use of edifying, if it doesn't minister grace to the hearers, when you are communicating, then it's corrupt. We're too shun that profane babbling.Profane babbling, yes. Yes. Yes. This is again, comes with discernment, it comes with knowing how to meet people where they are, um, knowing how to communicate with other people. And to be able to be effective at that, you have to just go do it. That's right. You have to learn to walk in these things and do these things, and the discernment will come. The more you interact with people, the more you talk to people, the more you try to put into practice, these things that Paul tells you to put into practice.And it's practice. It's, you put it into practice. It's called practice for a reason. The more you practice it, the better you become at it. And that goes with anything that you practice. So, I mean, that's just common sense. I know. It's like when we were, (real profound isn't it) when we were coaching our girls, when we were coaching high school basketball, you and I used to always give them those talks about how practice is supposed to go. And it's supposed to go, it's like you're in the game. Right. Right. And anything less is not acceptable. Right. Now, that's the way I was coached and we continue to do that. Right. Right. And the old saying was, practice makes perfect. But, the real saying is perfect practice makes perfect. That's absolutely right. Yeah. As much as possible, watch your practice and do it correctly. Be careful. Be observant, and try to be precise and correct. There's nothing wrong. I mean, yeah, some people are going to call you picky. They're going to say, Oh, you're just nitpicking. You want to say things as correct as possible. I am picky. Glad to be, because I wasn't.The old man Trey was not picky. Yeah. Well, I think our apostle was picky. Absolutely. I mean, I don't see (Jesus Christ was picky) any change that he was sloppy. Jesus Christ, Galatians 1, told Paul what to write down. And he was picky, precise. There's a way to do it, there's a way not to do it. One's acceptable, one's not acceptable. It's, it's pretty black and white. Right. And, and we know, we already know, or we should anyways, we should be well aware that we are fallible. That we're imperfect. That, and that's outside of Christ, of course.We are prone to make mistakes. We're prone to let our feelings take the lead sometimes when they shouldn't.And, we're prone to not be as thorough as we should be sometimes. It doesn't matter the intention on that. What we should strive to do, what the intention should be, is to, as much as possible, clean that up, tighten it up, be more correct. And if you mess up, try to fix it. Do what you can to fix it. Myself, it is one of the reasons why I've never really wanted to, to speak very much.It's because I, I catch myself misspeaking some. And I know what I meant to say doesn't always come out right. But, again, practice. Well, it's that installed doctrine, and the more we install it, the more it comes out correctly. Right. As we work out our salvation. So, regardless of what the religious system continues to this day to deny, Paul was given, he was given something different, very unique, a dispensation, a set of rules, a set of operational instructions. Like, if you come to our house, things operate differently than at your house. A dispensation is a, a system of order.It's how things are organized so that they can operate at optimal level. And that's the problem.That's the problem in religion today. They don't see this blinded from the truth. They're not operating at an optimal level. They're, they're just barely functioning. Yeah.It's unreal. You'll hear, hear some tell you that a, a dispensation is a time, but it is not a dispensation happens within a time, but it's not a time. Guys, we got to take our role as ambassadors. It's a serious thing. And we've been made stewards.Now, we're entrusted with something. We've been entrusted with the mystery, mystery dispensational information to pass on to others. So, we need to handle that carefully stewards of God, or we're not self-willed. We can't be or we don't qualify. We need to be fired. We're not easily provoked. But as ambassadors, our job is to hold peace talks. As ministers of reconciliation, we're to bring folks together over this fellowship of the mystery, and not stir up drama, discord, and chaos. Right.Paul tells us over there in, what, 1 Timothy chapter 4, Put the brethren in remembrance of what who taught of what he, Paul, taught. You know, when we talk about tradition, guys, there is some good traditions, but the problem is with the philosophies of men, the traditions of men, those are no longer to be followed. Now, we follow Paul as he followed Christ. So, over there, he was telling young Timothy in chapter 4, Put the brethren in remembrance of what I taught. And therefore, you'd be what? Nourished up in the words of faith and good, sound doctrine. Oh, Paul, in this knowledge, this knowledge that we are just so fortunate, so fortunate to be able to come together and share. What does he say over there, Whereby when you read, you can understand who? My knowledge in the mystery of Christ. Who's knowledge, Peter, James, and John? Nope. Who's knowledge? The red letters perhaps? Nope. Oh, come on, Trey you're no fun. Well, we're being picky because that's not our doctrine, which in other ages, this was not made known unto the sons of man. No, it's now revealed unto the holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit, what Paul tells us, and that we, the Gentiles, could be fellow heirs and of the same body and partakers of his promise in Christ by the gospel. That's powerful. And that's not the gospel of the kingdom. That's the gospel of Christ. That's the gospel of the grace of God. That's the gospel of the uncircumcision. It's not repent and be baptized. Keep the law. Sell everything you own and endure unto the end. No. When Paul says, By the gospel, he's specifically talking about my gospel, his gospel, the Acts 20:24 gospel of the grace of God. That's right. What did he tell us?He says, I was made a minister according to the gift of the grace of God that was given to me by the effectual working of his power. That's right.There's where we find our power. The power is not in seeking a second feeling of the Holy Ghost. It's not an, "Oh brother so and so, he's anointed." Hey, if you're saved, you're anointed. There's no special anointing other than Christ is the anointed one.Right.And we're in him. Paul says, Unto me who am least of all, he was the least of all those saints.That's right.But, the grace was given to him that he should preach among you and I. What?Always one of my favorite verses over there in Ephesians chapter 3, The unsearchable riches of Christ.Unsearchable. You can't find those unsearchable riches in Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.Can you find them in Hebrews through Revelation? Hm mm.Then that's why Paul called them unsearchable.That's right.Plot out this truth. Does this make you mad? Then put on a cape and be super mad. You're just allergic to the truth. That's your problem.Yep. Confused by the facts. But the facts are what we're delivering to you here (right) today on Truth Time. Yeah. Paul is our apostle. Who's yours?

Mystery is hidden wisdom. It's not something that we still have to figure out.Deep dark and mysterious.No. And, and let me, let me add to that, it's not something we're waiting on the Lord to reveal to us. No.There's heretical doctrine going around. These folks that are telling you, as they teach their heresy, that, oh, the reason you don't know it yet, is it hasn't been revealed to you. Oh no, no. Oh, give me a break!It's all revealed. Just read it and believe it. We're not waiting on a special revelation from the Lord. It's already happened. You're behind.Right. You need to get up here and catch up, that's what you need to do. Right, right, right.Just because I don't agree with your heresy, doesn't mean God hasn't revealed it to me. Maybe another spirit revealed heresy to you. How about that?Let's deal with that for a moment. That's true. That's true. Well, and that's the thing about bad doctrine, about heresies. They don't ever just remain as an error. The problem is, is when someone takes those errors, and they create a doctrine from the error. And what do they do? They take it down the road and they dump it off on babes in Christ. Right. Right. Who don't know any better.And when you take the error and turn it into a doctrine, then it becomes heresy. Mm hmm.So, there's a difference between just, you know, saying some things wrong here and there, because we all are going to make mistakes. The trick is to try to correct those mistakes. That's right. And when you're shown, this is incorrect, this is an error, it's real easy to see if that person pulls back and goes, oh, okay, let me go steady on that. Right. Or if they, oh, no, no, no, no, you're wrong, you're wrong, this is right because God revealed it to me. God just hasn't revealed it to you yet.Yeah.Grammar?God hasn't revealed how to understand grammar to me?Yeah, mm hmm. I mean, it's really, that's all it is.That's right.It's right there in front of your face. You know, you hear some of the craziest excuses about why you disagree with this person.Mm hmm.And the fact is, we're looking at the same Bible, the same God, the same Holy Spirit inspired every single word. The same Jesus is in those pages that died on the cross for our sins.The same Jesus came down from heaven and visited Paul and told him what to say. In both our Bibles, why are we getting, why are we getting something different? Well, it's not hard to hop on the internet. And I know it's been a while for some of us who've been in school and learned fifth grade English. But it's not hard to hop on the internet and give yourself a little refresher.Mm hmm.It's really not. I've had to do it multiple times.Mm hmm. But you can't deny, you know what a comment, a semicolon means. And, and when you understand how context works to help define certain words, I mean, we took these on the standardized tests. I know some people listen and may not be from the United States, but the United States, we have standardized testing in elementary school all the way through high school.Mm hmm. And it was where you had these paragraphs that you read. And then there's a word in the paragraph and you have to give the best definition for that word, according to the context of that paragraph.Right. And you know, it's multiple choice. You get to choose which one it is. That's, that used to be part of our learning. That used to be part of our reading comprehension. That used to be how they would check and make sure that we were learning what we were supposed to do in school. Yeah, it's been a long time since I've been to school, and I hope they still do that, I'm not sure if they do. But, it seems like that's a lost skill these days.Mm hmm. That now you can just take and find a word in a verse, and you match it with the same word in another verse.Yeah. We see that all the time. Then we see the, the law of first mention thing.Mm hmm. And that's just, it, that just doesn't read, it's not a law. Hm hmm. Laws are consistent. No, if you're here today and you think there's a law of first mention, go back and rethink that. Yeah.It doesn't hold up.A law is consistent, and the law of first mention is not consistent. No.We're going to teach you on that in the future too. Right. There's plenty of words that the first time you see 'em, they mean one thing and the next time you see 'em, they mean something else. Mm-hmm. It's context. It is. It is. Context will not allow there to be a law of first mention. It won't work.Context is always...We've already tried it.Right. And context always should be the, the decider of everything.Mm hmm.Because the context is going to tell you what the thought is about, what the idea is.We read context... What goeth before, and what cometh after. That's right. But, I mean, this is the reason why we can look at Romans chapter 1, just for example, and go to the end of Romans chapter 1 and pick up on Romans chapter 2 and see that the thought continued, it didn't change. That chapter wasn't put there to be a thought by itself and then have a separate thought to come after it. That's right.That's not what that, it continues. You could take chapter 2, the words chapter 2 out of there, and keep on reading, and you would still be within the same context as you were in chapter 1.So, the last verse of chapter 1, and the first verse of chapter 2, you have several places that you, you can look at that and see. So, you can't allow the helpful things that those who put our Bible together. It's helpful to have those numbers for verses. It's helpful to have the chapter ending and beginnings and numbers and all that kind of stuff because then we can all look up the same place and be on the same page when we read it together, and when we're searching for things. But you can't allow those numbers that have been inserted to interrupt the thought (right) from one verse to the next, or you'll lose the context.

Take the word eternal, and the word everlasting.They're different.Today with scripture, we'll demonstrate that.Not understanding the differences will cause you problems in various places in your Bible.It's what's got some confused about Isaiah 9:6.See, Isaiah 9:6 is only a half-filled prophecy.Why was it only half-filled?Because a postponement in Israel's prophetic program occurred.And this isn't the only half-fulfilled prophecy we have in our Bible.Matter of fact, there's another one right here in the very same book, the book of Isaiah.In order to demonstrate this, let's look in the fourth chapter of the book of Luke.Verse 14.And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee, and there went out a fame of him through all the region round about.And he taught in their synagogues, being glorified of all.And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up.And as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day and stood up for it to read.And there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Isaiah.And when he had opened the book, he found the place where it was written,The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor.He hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering the sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord.And he closed the book, and he gave it again to the minister, and sat down.And the eyes of all them that were in the synagogue were fastened on him.And he began to say unto them, This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears.What scripture did Jesus fulfill that day?Well, it's found in Isaiah 61, beginning at verse 1.And notice, this sounds almost identical to the words of Jesus in Luke 4.Watch.Starting with verse 1,The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek.He hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound, to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.Okay, now, now, here's where we see the postponement of Israel's prophetic program.If we look back to what Jesus said there in Luke 4, there at verse 19, we see that he said, To preach the acceptable year of the Lord, which lines up with Isaiah, but makes an abrupt stop right here on the comma.He doesn't finish the prophecy.But Isaiah, he does.He continues with, listen, And the day of vengeance, of our God, to comfort all that mourn.Jesus, having full knowledge of the revelation that would be later revealed to Paul, having full knowledge that no one in attendance there at the synagogue would witness that day of vengeance, he closed the book, closed it on the comma, and sat back down.That's amazing, huh?It's these sorts of things that you wish you could get across to those that are caught up in the trappings of religion.We who rightly divide the word of truth, we have some valuable information to show them this change in the program.That there's indeed a difference between God's prophetic program for Israel and his mystery program for us.So now when we come upon a verse like Isaiah 9:6, we don't get lost in the weeds thinking Jesus is his own father, because we recognize the ever so clear prophetic postponement.Watch closely,For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given.Now that prophecy, was it fulfilled?Yes, it was.Read, And the government shall be upon his shoulder.Was this fulfilled?No, it was not.Just like when Jesus closed the book on the comma, sat back down, here's another half-fulfilled prophecy from the prophet, Isaiah.The first part of this, For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given.Yes, fulfilled.But the government shall be upon his shoulder?Absolutely not.Never happened.Read, And his name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace.Same question.Was that ever fulfilled?No, it was not.The mighty God?Are you kidding me?Jesus was rejected as God.Okay, let's continue with verse 7,Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end.What?What peace?Our present-day government?Read, Upon the throne of David and upon his kingdom, to order it and establish it with judgment, and with justice from henceforth even forever.The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this.Folks, none of this happened.Jesus has never taken his place upon the throne of David and upon his kingdom to order it and establish it with judgment.Nor has he ever assumed the title Everlasting Father to Israel.Didn't happen.Totally outside of the but-now parenthetical, dispensation of the grace of God.The prophet Isaiah in chapter 9 verse 6 prophesied that the day will come when Jesus shall be the Everlasting Father to Israel.That's here on earth.Not their eternal father.Their everlasting Father.Big difference.Jesus will at no time replace the eternal Father.So if you think Jesus is currently operating as Israel's earthly father, you most likely haven't fully understood the differences between prophecy and mystery.The words eternal and everlasting.Everlasting has a beginning but no end.Eternal has neither.No beginning, no end.We've encountered some today who are fervently pushing this heresy that Jesus is the Father.They're out there saying that everlasting and eternal are the same.They bring up verses where God is called everlasting and say, See, God doesn't have a beginning, so everlasting and eternal must mean the same thing.This foolish thinking has led them to knee-jerk and ignore the surrounding context.So with that in mind, let's travel over to the book of Psalms.Here, let's get chapter 90, chapter 90 and verse number 2.Let's see if we can get some clarity here.Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.See that?What sticks out to you about this?Duly note that before, another time word, before the mountains were brought forth, this shows the everlasting beginning of something.Just as the earth had a beginning, David's relationship with God had a beginning also.It's not eternal.Just one proof after the other.Let's get Daniel, chapter 12, and let's watch this begin to take shape.Everlasting and eternal are spelled different for a reason.Look at verse 2,And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.The prophecy here concerns everlasting life, not eternal life.Meaning, life with a beginning.Okay, Psalm 93, verse 2.Speaking of the Lord here, David writes,Thy throne is established of old, thou art from everlasting.Notice that the establishment of this throne David speaks of is not eternal.It has a beginning.Okay, go with me to the 106th chapter here, verse 48 of the book of Psalms.Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting.See it?What we see here is, he has always been the Lord God from eternity past, but he has not always been the God of Israel.Which is why it says, Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting.The relationship with the Lord began with the establishment of this throne.It had a beginning which made it everlasting.Genesis 21:33, And Abraham planted a grove in Beersheba, and called there on the name of the Lord the everlasting God.Who's everlasting God?Abraham's.I thought God was eternal.He is, but not to Abraham.Abraham's relationship with God was not eternal, it was everlasting.Their relationship had a beginning.Eternal and everlasting have different meanings, which means they are not the same.This distorted Godhead doctrine, Jesus is his own Father.The folly of fools is deceit, right?Now let's check in with our apostle Paul.Let's check in and see if it's consistent, if he's consistent and cohesive with this pattern that we're following, with how the word everlasting is used throughout scripture.2 Thessalonians chapter 1 verse 9, Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his power;Why is this punishment everlasting, not eternal?Because if it were eternal, that would mean punishment has always been.See how cray-cray the Bible starts to sound if we don't define our terms correctly?We have a series on Bible terminology you might want to check out.Listen, everlasting destruction has a beginning.No one has ever been eternally punished.Punishment has to start somewhere.In your Bible, everlasting and eternal are never the same thing.Hopefully, after today, some light bulbs will come on and some will start to see this.Let's look at how Paul states it in Romans chapter 16 verse 26.Watch this,But now is made manifest, and by the scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the everlasting God, made known to all nations for the obedience of faith.Now think.Ask yourself.Why would Paul call God everlasting when he's eternal?The answer is found in one word.Context.Some study their Bible in context, others study in man-text.What about you?Are you easily swayed by a personality?See, in context here, Paul is spot on.The context is not about God's existence, which is eternal, of course, but rather when he was made known to all nations.Don't you love God's infallible word?It's never hit and miss, it's always hit.That's why we don't recommend eating the meat and spitting out the bones.Let's just get straight to the meat.This group likes to run around telling everyone that the word eternal and everlasting are the same thing.And many are gullible, and they don't study for themselves.Many are babes in Christ, and so they believe what they're being spoon-fed.The problem is they're word-searchers.But for us who actually enjoy reading God's word in its entirety, well, different story.We know that the two words are spelled different and they carry different meanings.Using the rule of context and consistency, let's put this to rest with the apostle John.Revelation chapter 4 verse 6.Here, John said,And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the...What?What will the angel have?The everlasting gospel.See, now they've got a real dilemma on their hands.If the word everlasting is the same as eternal, then why do we need Paul?Why do we need his gospel?Following their own logic, his gospel would be no different from the gospel this angel will have in the future.If the angel's gospel is everlasting, and everlasting is the same as eternal, then that angel's gospel has been around since eternity past.Meaning that there was never a break in time when Paul's gospel could replace it.But of course we know better.The everlasting gospel John wrote of has not always been in existence.It had a beginning.A beginning that hasn't begun.It begins during the future dispensation of judgment.Notice in verse 7 he says, Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him, for the hour of judgment is come.But folks, we're in a period of grace, not judgment.Some, they have made a mess of this.Clean up on aisle 7.Welcome to Walmart.And there's more.There's more.2 Peter chapter 1.Watch how he lines up with the prophet Isaiah.Why do these two line up with each other but not Paul?Because Isaiah and Peter spoke prophetic language.Paul, however, he spoke in mystery language.The Ephesians 3:8 unsearchable riches mystery language.2 Peter 1:11,For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting, the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.Here is that same everlasting kingdom that Isaiah spoke of.Hmm.The time when Jesus will serve as the everlasting Father to Israel.This doesn't belong in the but now timeline.So beware of these light dividers who are bringing in this heresy.They're doing the very thing Paul warned of in 1 Corinthians chapter 11.You remember, he told those at Corinth that he had heard that when they all got together in church there was divisions among them.He said there must be heresies among you so that they which are approved can be made manifest among you.This is happening as we speak.It's time future.It's time future when Jesus will be the everlasting Father and will hold the government on his shoulder.Jesus the Son will never replace the eternal Father.Never.But during Israel's millennial kingdom, during that 1,000 year reign here on earth, Jesus will serve as Israel's everlasting Father.Not replacing the eternal Father, but being the everlasting Father, the Father with a beginning to Israel in that kingdom.Be careful not to belly flop in the mud by using a text without a context.That's what many do.A text without a context is just a pretext.Which is what dishonest teachers use to weave their opinions into the scriptures.So study to show yourself approved and stop being gullible.Stop being a simpleton.Proverbs 14:15,The simple believeth every word.But the prudent man looketh well to his going.Here's another one for you.Romans 8:16,The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit that we are the children of God, and if children, then heirs, heirs of God.Heirs of God, that's the Father, and joint heirs with Christ, that's the Son.If we're children, then heirs, heirs of the Father, and joint heirs with the Son.Now if Jesus is the Father and the inheritance comes from, from the Father, then they've got Jesus giving himself an inheritance.You do realize that, right?Here's when the old timers, like my grandfather, would step in and say, total hogwash.But to some, their pet doctrines means more to them than Paul's one doctrine.In the kingdom, Jesus shall be Israel's everlasting Father.But nowhere, nowhere are we told that he is the eternal Father.That's simply not scriptural.Well, unless you want to talk modern Bibles, you want to talk modern perversions, then that's a different story.Maybe that's where they found this strange Godhead.In the NASB, over there in that perversion, they changed Jesus from being the everlasting Father to being the eternal Father.Now that's a deformed Godhead for sure.This Jesus is his own Father theory has no teeth, therefore they're trying to gum us to death.Meanwhile, we just keep marching forward, doing all things to the glory of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, sticking with the infallible word of God in this King James Bible.Hey, God's word is not just interesting.His word is spirit and life.His word dwells in our hearts.It's like a fire shut up in our bones, Jeremiah chapter 20.The word of the Lord is right, Psalm 33.It's like honey, Ezekiel chapter 3.Solomon said, How sweet are thy words unto my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth.The truth is becoming less and less popular, friends.It's only going to wax worse as time progresses.People today want their ears tickled with man's philosophies.Galatians 4:16,Am I therefore become your enemy because I tell you the truth?We've been at this for many years now, and I can assure you that it's better to be hated for who you are than loved for who you are not.It's better to be hated for standing on truth than loved for falling for compromise.Eternal and everlasting are different.Maybe not according to man, but different according to this word.On my way out, let me remind you of the greatest news, the greatest news known to mankind.Christ died for how many of your sins?If you said all, you got it right.He was buried with how many of your sins?Right again. All.And he rose up with how many of your sins?Correct. None. Not one sin.So it would be unjust for God to declare that he made his Son, who knew no sin, to be sin for us.It would be totally unjust of him to still hold us accountable for those sins.But our God is a just God.And that's why his word says to wit that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them.When he declared that he made his Son, who knew no sin, to be sin for us, he meant what he said.I invite you today to take God at his word and reckon it so.If you'll do that, if you'll exercise your faith by believing this good news, at the moment you believe, God will positionally place you in his Son where you'll be hid with him in God.You only get two educations. The one you're given, and the one you give yourself.Grace and peace.

Welcome to Truth Time Radio. Glad you decided to download the mobile app and come here and enjoy another Mid-Acts Bible study. Okay, let's open the Word of God and dive in. Today, I thought we would explore some verses that 2 Corinthians 5:19 cancels out. Many overlook the power of just how powerful this verse is. I mean, it literally cancels out a sundry of verses. And our hope is that this study will help someone step away from religianity and come to terms with the fact that in this current dispensation, there is no such thing as conditional forgiveness. There's no such thing going on with God today. His forgiveness is not conditional, nor is it future. His forgiveness was without condition and is past tense. On the authority of 2nd Corinthians 5:19, we can confidently say that.No one's sins stand between them and God because he stopped charging them to the world at Christ's expense. God's Riches At Christ's Expense. That's GRACE. God the Father charged our sins to the account of His Son, but the reason some still remain religious is no one ever told them about this good news. Sure, they may reject it anyway, but they can't reject what they've never heard. 2 Corinthians 5:19, now watch this, 2 Corinthians 5:19 totally cancels out 1 John 1:9. Watch here how what Paul wrote counteracts what John wrote. 1 John 1:9, If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. The implication here is that confession is needed first before God forgives. Conditional forgiveness is what this is. Forgiveness based upon the condition of confessing.That's not grace. Grace comes without a condition and gives us nothing to do to merit forgiveness.And this is something we find extremely sad that those with a religianity mindset just can't seem to grasp this. No one told them that 2nd Corinthians 5:19 also cancels out Acts 2:38, one of the most popular verses among Christianity today. Addressing the Acts 2:14, Ye men of Judaea, and all the that dwelleth at Jerusalem, Peter, he said, Repent and be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Why, Peter? For the remission of sins. If Peter popped up preaching this today, he'd be out of order. He'd be a part of the some that trouble you that Paul mentioned in Galatians 1:7. Those who pervert the gospel of Christ. That's what Peter would be doing. Now he's not because he didn't preach.He's not here preaching this today.This is not a but now, time-present message. Peter wasn't out of order because he preached this in time past when it was relevant. The apostle Peter preached the perfect gospel for his audience. His audience was not Paul's audience. You and I are not the ye men of Judea and all that dwell at Jerusalem. And Brother Paul tells us that those sins Peter wanted to put in remission aren't even being imputed anymore.It's amazing what rightly dividing will do for us.No one bothered to tell modern-day religianity that 2 Corinthians 5:19 cancels out Psalm 32:5.Here we read, I acknowledge my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the Lord, and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin.Once again, conditional forgiveness. David doing something, followed by him receiving forgiveness. Conditional forgiveness based on his doing. Not our mail.No one told modern-day religianity that 2 Corinthians 5:19 cancels out Mark 1:4. In Mark 1:4, John did baptize in the wilderness, and he preached the baptism of repentance for what?Same thing Peter did in Acts 2, for the remission of sins.See, in time past, water baptism wasn't conditional, but mandatory for forgiveness.2 Corinthians 5:19 cancels out Matthew 6:12 and verses 14 and 15.Matthew 6:12, And forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors. Now the we here is not you. It's not me.This was an earthly kingdom principle. To receive forgiveness, they had to first give it.That's conditional.2 Corinthians 5:19 cancels out Acts 3:19 and Acts 10:43. Acts 10:43, check this out, To him give all the prophets witness, that through his name, whosoever believeth in him shall receive remission of sins.When we just pay attention to grammar, we notice that this is straight-up conditional forgiveness, clearly based on the condition of having to believe first.Another one of the many verses that 2 Corinthians 5:19 cancels out.This is extraordinary. 2 Corinthians 5:19 tells us that God stopped imputing sins unconditionally and doesn't require our belief.No need to dodge these verses. Just open the book and face them head-on.How do you do that?You learn to rightly divide the word of truth.What about the ever-so-popular, 2 Chronicles 7:14?A very popular verse used every year at the annual National Day of Prayer.It's an event that happens all across the country.2 Chronicles 7:14, If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.Now, why would we have to pray, Seek his face and turn from our sins for future forgiveness?When Paul says our sins are not being charged, not being imputed.Just what non-charged, non-imputed sins, can God forgive?I submit that the answer is none.Not one non-imputed sin can God forgive.That makes zero sense.The psalmist David wrote in Psalm 86:5, For thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive.On this side of the cross, my friend, on this side of the cross, and in line with what was revealed to our Apostle Paul, concerning forgiveness, the Lord is not ready to forgive anything.I can promise you that.It's impossible to forgive what he's not imputing.Please get that established in your thinking.This non-imputing the world's sins mystery, wasn't known by the psalmist David, nor was it known by the prophet Isaiah.And that's why in Isaiah chapter 55, he wrote, Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts, and let him return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.How do we know this isn't for us today?It's impossible for the Lord to pardon a sin he's not charging.We can't emphasize this enough.Either our Bible makes sense, or it contradicts itself.Grab James, grab James chapter 5.James chapter 5.Here we are today, putting forth an abundance of verses, all proving that forgiveness of sins is no longer conditional and future, but rather unconditional and past.James 5:15, And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up.Now watch, And if he have committed sins, shall be forgiven him.Starting to get this?Find that in Paul's epistles.You can't.Paul has zero verses explaining how to get sins forgiven.Zero.For those who claim that James wrote doctrine to the church, the body of Christ, riddle me this.How can God forgive non-imputed sins?Just what does that look like?Draw me a picture please.2 Corinthians 5:19, now that's our mail.That's in our mailbox.That's addressed to us.It cancels out the need for the Catholic sacrament of reconciliation.Yes, it does.No need to visit a priest in that dark confessional booth.Right?If God stopped imputing sins, then that also cancels out another verse.It cancels out the Lord's prayer, the so-called Lord's prayer.In Matthew chapter 6, Jesus said, After this manner, therefore pray ye, Our Father which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us, (this is future), forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.Future forgiveness because he hasn't died for the sins of the world.No, he's standing there before them.He's very much alive.He hasn't shed his blood on the cross, and this mystery hasn't been revealed to our apostle, the apostle Paul.Therefore, their forgiveness is conditional and it is future.Yours is neither.This cannot be, if you're thinking with a sound mind, this cannot bewhat your forgiveness hinges on.On how well you do at forgiving your debtors.Jesus wasn't talking to us and he doesn't address us until he does so through Paul.God, having stopped imputing sins to the world, cancels out Luke 6:37, Judge not, and ye shall not be judged. Condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned. Forgive, and ye shall be forgiven.Future.Conditional.Conditional on you forgiving.Forgive and ye shall be forgiven is not written to you.Can't be.Shall be forgiven should not be in the vocabulary of anyone daring to call themselves a mid-acts grace teacher.Shall be forgiven, can be forgiven, may be forgiven.None of these belong in your mailbox.God's not forgiving sins during the current dispensation of his grace, and I can't believe.Sometimes it's just really, it just really baffles me of how hard this is for some to get.2 Corinthians 5:19 totally cancels out Mark 11:25, And when you stand praying, forgive, if you have ought against any, that your Father also, which is in heaven, may forgive you your trespasses.Hebrews.Let's go there.Let's go there and get chapter 8.Chapter 8, the book of Hebrews.Look at verse 12, For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.See the future lingo here.The future tenses.This is not your Pauline mid-acts dispensational good news.This is God making Israel a promise to forgive their sins in time future when he establishes a new covenant with them.Has nothing to do with you.And it's why the next verse says, A new covenant.He hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away.Shall be forgiven, can be forgiven, may be forgiven, I will forgive.None apply to you and I.Future grace, future new covenant, future born again, future forgiveness, enduring unto the end.These all belong to the little flock of Israel, and the quicker you submit to this truth, the quicker you can start enjoying your grace life.As you've heard me say before, it's not what can wash away my sins, it's what has washed away my sins.It's not he forgives and forgets, it's he forgave and he forgot.We cannot continue to look through the limited lenses of men.We have to see ourselves, we have to see our condition as God sees us.Regardless of what limited forgivers teach, forgiveness doesn't occur when we do something.No, Romans 5:10 clears this up for us.Watch, For if when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his son.Is that hard?When did God reconcile us?When we were enemies.God doesn't wait until we become part of the family of God to forgive us.He stopped imputing our sins when we were yet his enemies.Now that's an awesome God.Future conditional forgiveness is common protocol for religianity.Making it future keeps you in that circular reasoning bubble, keeps you there on the treadmill seeking something you already have.That's what keeps folks living in a constant state of instability.Religianity never offers assurance or certainty about your forgiveness.It's the old dangling the carrot routine, where they offer a way to obtain the unattainable.A method to keep you coming back to them.But the dangling carrot is always just a little out of your reach.You never know if you've done enough.Did I ask enough?Did I confess enough?Did I ask the right way?Did I say the right words?Do I believe enough?Here's a passage, here's another passage in Romans chapter 5 that should make it easy for us all.Listen, verse 12, Wherefore, as by one man, sin entered into the world, and so death passed upon all men, for all have sinned.Verse 13, watch, For until the law, sin was in the world, but sin is not imputed.Catch that.Sin is not imputed when there is no law.Is there law today?There's your answer.Have you ever heard anything more wonderful?Sin is not imputed when there is no law.And Paul says there is no law.Romans 6:14.Which means, sin is not imputed.Pretty simple, huh?So if you die and wind up in hell, you can't blame God for being there.He took away the law, which took away the sin that would have sent you to hell.Given you every advantage he possibly can to spend all eternity with him.He reconciled himself to the world, but because of unbelief, some have failed to reconcile themselves to him.If you haven't already, this may be a great time to step away from religianity and come to terms with, there is no such thing as conditional future forgiveness in this dispensation.Rest your faith in him by believing the gospel.At this very moment, you can make a conscious, intentional decision to believe that God made Christ to be sin for you.He died for your sins, he was buried, and he resurrected.Believe this, and God will give you the righteousness that will justify you.Grace and peace.

Truth Time Radio. Hey, if you're new and you've recently landed here at your home for Mid-Acts Bible Study, welcome! A big hearty welcome to you. Our mobile app continues to grow and we owe so much to all the saints out there who are telling others about us. We can't begin to count how many have told us that they found us through recommendation. So we're extremely grateful to all of you who've been faithful to the cause of spreading the word with hopes of seeing others come to the saving knowledge of salvation by grace through faith alone. To understand the dispensational change that occurred there in Acts chapter 9 when the risen Christ saved the Apostle Paul. How wonderful is that? How wonderful it is when saints can gather together and celebrate the fellowship of the mystery. In 1 Timothy 1, Paul said, According to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust, and I thank Christ our Lord who hath enabled me, for he counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry.Today we're going to open the perfectly preserved word of God as found here in our King James Bible.We'll open it up. Hey, when it comes to the word of God, Satan's biggest nightmare, I mean his biggest fear is for us to decide to get serious about this. His fear is that we might actually mess around and start understanding what we're reading. He wants us to stay confused. His first words, at least his first recorded words were, "Yeah, hath God said?" You see, his goal was to confuse Eve about her garden diet. Yeah, hath God said? Attempting to create doubt, you see. His top priority is to have us question the word of God, to have us confused about what God said and the consequences. He doesn't want us to know that the Bible is understandable. Psalm 119:130, The entrance of thy words giveth light. It giveth understanding unto the simple. See that? The word of God brings light, not darkness. Understanding, not perplexity, not puzzlement. It brings confidence, not uncertainty. And don't miss the next verse here. Verse 131, the psalmist wrote, I opened my mouth and panted, for I longed for thy commandments. The psalmist David had commandments and so do we. Ours were penned in the 13 epistles of Romans through Philemon. And one of those commands is Paul telling us to consider what he said, and the Lord will give us understanding in all things. That's beautiful. Now, back to Genesis 3. And do note that before Satan even spoke his first words, God through Moses introduces him as being a serpent who was more subtle than any beast of the field. Isn't that something? The glaring warning here is the word, "subtle."The first thing God wants us to know, to hone in on, to take notice of, is how subtle Satan is. The serpent here, maybe with a soft whisper, that we don't know, but we can only imagine that he sort of leaned into Eve and said, Are you sure that's what God said? See, all he needed was to create a smidgen of doubt in her mind, and he was successful. Satan wasn't like some of the beasts of the field. The ones who come in full force with an all-out attack. No, he was subtle. Paul says we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities and powers. You see, many today are allowing Satan to play them like his favorite instrument. It's highly important that we study to show ourselves approved. Why? Because when we hear something that's not the pure words of God, but rather words that have been altered, even in the slightest, we recognize it.We need to be like the bank tellers. They're trained to study and focus on identifying genuine currency rather than trying to memorize what the counterfeit bills look like. We want to understand the words of God, and if we do, we must first have the words of God. We can't rightly divide the word of truth if we don't possess it. That's where the King James Bible comes in. These are the pure words of God Almighty, and spending time in thesewords will equip us to face whatever, to face what Eve wasn't prepared for. She wasn't ready for her serpent encounter, but we can be. In 1 John 4:6, we find an outstanding verse. John says, We are of God. He that knoweth God heareth us. He that is not of God heareth not us. Now, watch this next part. Hereby know we the spirit of truth and the spirit of error. See that? There's the spirit of truth, and there is the spirit of error. And this is true for every dispensation. You and I can be ready for it. How? By studying to show ourself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. Hebrews 4:12 states that the word of God is quick and powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.So that means what? That we have nothing to fear. Nothing to fear if we use the word of God wisely. Ephesians 6:17, And take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the spirit, which is the word of God. 2 Timothy 3:16, All scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works. Jeremiah 23:29, Is not my word like as a fire, saith the Lord, and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces? Hey, we possess the very words of God. Words that are sharper than any two-edged sword. Words that provide us with a helmet of salvation.Words that are like fire and like a hammer. I'd say we're pretty equipped and ready to go. Having a correct understanding of it is a serious issue. These words of God that I hold in my hand is what I'm built by. As a new man in Christ Jesus, God's word is what I'm made of. My very faith is built by it. Religion runs on what they call, blind faith, which is nothing more than a superstitious blind leap in the dark. But that's not faith at all. Hebrews 11:1, Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Yes, I have faith in things not seen, but I have evidence of those things not seen. And that's not a blind leap in the dark. Having evidence brings light. My faith is based on empirical, well-found evidence. Make no mistake, after thousands of years, some things just haven't changed one iota. Yeah, hath God said, is still in full effect. Creating doubt in the minds of humans is still at the top of Satan's to-do list.Hath God said, Repent and be baptized for the remission of sins? Yes, he did. But that was to the, quote-unquote, "Ye men of Judea and all ye that dwell at Jerusalem." Acts chapter 2 verse 14.Hath God said, You see then how that by works a man is justified and not by faith only?Yes, but that was to the, quote-unquote, "The twelve tribes which are scattered abroad." James 1:1.Not to you.We're commanded to rightly divide the word of truth, but to take Israel's instructions upon ourselves is a misdirection of truth. It's not rightly divided at all.This is how Satan, who's more subtle than any beast of the field, twists God's word.Hath God said, if thou will enter into life, keep the commandments? That's what he said, all right.But that was to the, quote-unquote, "Lost sheep of the house of Israel." Matthew 15:24.See how this works? God gave us a way to navigate through his holy word so that it'll Psalm 119 verse 30, give us light and understanding, not darkness and confusion. Religion makes God's word appear to be a deep, dark, mysterious book that no one but the pastor understands.But the word of God is designed to be understood on a personal, on an individual level.So it's always been our desire here at TTR to help the listener work smarter, not harder, by comparing Scripture with Scripture and rightly dividing the word of truth. Compare Scripture with Scripture, not preacher to preacher.Hath God said, The day of the Lord is a day of judgment, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge himself of his adversaries?You better believe it. Jeremiah 46:10. But if you'd kept reading, you'd notice that the recipient of this mail is identified. Jeremiah 46:27, But fear not thou, O my servant Jacob, and be not dismayed, O Israel. For behold, I will save thee from afar off, and thy seed from the land of their captivity.That's not to you. This is Israel's mail, not yours.To retrieve your mail, go to Paul. And there he'll tell you about the day of Christ, not the day of the Lord. These are two separate events. The day of Christ is a day when we're called up to meet him in the air. 1 Thessalonians 4:17. But see, that's how Satan, who is more subtle than any beast of the field, has perverted God's word. Yeah, hath God said? He certainly did.But when the word of truth is rightly divided, we as Bible believers realize that not everything he said were instructions to us.We discern from what God is presently doing, from what he was doing in time past.Let's do an exercise, I like to call compare the verses. Get Acts 15 and Galatians 5.Acts 15, Galatians 5. Here in Acts, look at verse 5.And let's ask the question, hath God said, There rose up certain of the sect of Pharisees which believed, saying that it was needful to circumcise them, and to command them to keep the law of Moses? Hath God said that? He most certainly did. But he also said, now watch, he also said, quote unquote, "That if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing." Galatians 5:2. So which is it?How about both? Both are true. But not both are true and to you. That's paramount to your biblical understanding. Trying to obey both at the same time defies the law of non-contradiction.Mandatory circumcision was an instruction that began way back there in the book of Genesis.But Paul has new news, and we're told to stand fast, therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with a yoke of bondage.No bondage to law keeping. Whether it be circumcision, feast days, new moons, tithing, baptism, you name it, we're not in bondage to it.We're not in bondage to having to stay home on the Sabbath, or not allowed to work on the Sabbath.We're not required to put fringes on the corners of our clothing, to remove all the leaven from our home on Passover Eve, to appear in the sanctuary on festival days. We don't kill false prophets. We don't stone rebellious teenagers. Hath God said these things? Sure did, but he didn't say it to you. And once you learn to rightly divide the word of truth, you'll stay out of other folks' mailbox. Hath God said, Thou shalt not wear a garment of wool and linen together?He sure did. Deuteronomy 22:11. But you're wearing mixed fabrics right now.Did he say stone a woman to death for not being a virgin? Verse 21.Yes, again. You and I can plant two different kinds of seeds in the same field, can't we?We can trim our beards and cut our hair off at the temple. And if while you're grieving, you choose to tear your clothing, guess what? You can. Because we're not under Israel's time-passed law, which pronounced death to those who tore their clothing while they were grieving. Leviticus 10:6.All things that were forbidden.Things forbidden under Israel's law program in time past, but not forbidden for anyone today living in the "but now" dispensation of God's grace. You see, the word of God can be the most liberating thing you hold in your hand, or the deadliest weapon.How you use it? Hey, that's up to you. The choice is yours. But Paul tells us that we are Galatians 5:1, we're to stand fast in our liberty. But if you place yourself under even one, even one of these laws, you're a debtor to the whole law, which makes Christ of none effect unto you because you, my friend, have fallen from grace. Those who choose to operate under a works-based performance program during this time of grace, you're in full-blown disobedience to the word of God. How do I know this? Because I can read. For you're not under the law, but under grace, Romans 6:14.Religianity fails to acknowledge the clear distinctions God has placed in his word. And when they do decide to look into the distinctions, they only cherry-pick a few of their favorites.That's disingenuous and intellectually dishonest.Hath God said, Since the beginning of the world, men have not heard nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee, what he prepared for him that waiteth for him?Yes, he did.He most certainly said that. But now, there's those two words, but now, through Paul and to us, thankfully, we have another, hath God said. One that's far greater. Watch this. 1 Corinthians chapter 2 verse 9. Watch. But as it is written, eye hath not seen nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. Verse 10. Don't miss it.But God hath revealed them unto us by his spirit. See that? They've been revealed. We're no longer in the dark as were some in time past. Oh, what glorious news, right? Paul is the only apostle in your Bible who claims to have been given the revelation of the mystery. And God appointed him to be the due time testifier to witness this outstanding news to you and I.And we have right here, right here, right in front of us, in our possession, the Ephesians 3:8, unsearchable riches. They're not searchable. Unsearchable riches of Christ. Never before revealed until Paul was given the dispensation of grace. Let me ask you this. Hath God said, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath, to come? Sure did. You'll find it in Matthew chapter 3. But conversely, Paul says, what wrath?In our mailbox, we find out that we have no such appointment with God's wrath.1 Thessalonians 5:9, For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ. See, in Matthew chapter 3, John the Baptist preaching the gospel of the kingdom was warning of the wrath to come. But in 1 Thessalonians, Paul's preaching the gospel of grace, and he says that we're not appointed to wrath. Totally opposite from John.If you're ready to rightly divide the word of truth, some light bulbs are coming on right now as I take you through these comparisons. Listen, during this current dispensation, even unbelievers are not under God's wrath. Religianity won't teach this, but I will.If they were under God's wrath, now let's just use a little common sense. If they were under God's wrath, they'd be Ananias and Sapphira dead, right now.There'd be dead bodies everywhere. If disobedience brought on God's wrath today, we'd all be dead.Hath God said righteousness comes by law keeping? Deuteronomy 6:25. Or hath God said that those who go about to establish their own righteousness have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God? Romans chapter 10 verse 3. Both. He said both.But one is meant for you, and the other is not.Hath God said that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem? Absolutely. It's in Israel's mailbox. The address is Luke 24:47.But when you travel on up the road a bit, you'll find our mail, where we find another, hath God said, that came through Paul. Through him, he said, Neither went I up to Jerusalem, to them which were apostles before me, but I went into Arabia and returned again unto Damascus.Don't miss the glaring obvious here. The earthly kingdom apostles, their commission is in stark contrast to that of Paul's. They were commanded to go to Jerusalem first. No exceptions. But Paul was commanded not to go there first. No, he went to Arabia and then Damascus. That's complete opposite. Not the same commission.Hath God said, Whosoever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them?Yep, sure enough did. He said it, but contrary-wise, our apostle, he was instructed to tell us that God has reconciled the world unto himself and is no longer imputing trespasses to anyone.What? You mean I don't need to go find a man who's able to remit my sins?Well, tear down all the confessional booths, right? If God stopped imputing sins, the obvious question is, what sins can be remitted?Oh, the liberty of knowing how to rightly divide the word of truth.In Ephesians chapter 3, the word of God is used to present demonstrable evidence of what we as Mid-Acts Grace believers base our faith in. When speaking of the mystery the Lord revealed to Paul, Paul said, Whereby when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ.Here, Paul, Paul identifies one of the biggest problems we're faced with today. Folks don't read.He said, Whereby when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ.Well, we can't expect the unversed to understand this knowledge when they've never even read it.And by the way, by the way, concerning the word mystery, some grace circles make the claim that the letters of Paul reveal seven mysteries.Seven mysteries, they say. There's no truth in that. No, that's just something birthed by those who want to come up with something new, a new thing to put out there. When you run across this bogus seven mystery list, God not imputing sins to the world is not even listed. Think about that.One of the most important mysteries of all, yet it didn't even make the cut, didn't even make the list. I would say unbelievable, but at this point, after dealing with limited forgivers for so long, it's actually expected.Paul said, Unto me is this grace given that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ. It doesn't take Sherlock Holmes or Inspector Gadget with Penny and her dog Brain to figure this out. All unsearchable riches Paul penned would be a mystery, would they not? So where do they get the seven?That's a man-made list. That's not Bible. There's more than seven. Mystery means hidden.Paul's unsearchable riches were hidden, right? Hidden until he penned them.There were more than seven mysteries found in Paul's 13 epistles. So don't go off as we see so many do, hear something from someone that gives them the goosebumps, then run off parroting what they heard, and next thing you know, you've got another false doctrine, another false teaching to add to those we already have floating around in grace circles.Instead, go do your homework. Avoid confusion by doing your own homework, and stop copying off someone else.Justified freely by his grace. The world has a hard time with this one. That's a big problem.Paul said, To him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness. Someone has to believe that this justified by faith alone stuff we teach, makes God angry, claims that it goes against his truth. But what goes against his truth is the teaching that you must work for it. After the Father's Son gave his all, they want you to go around spitting on the cross trying to earn it. That's the false teaching of those that are ignorant of God's righteousness, and so they're going about to establish their own righteousness. Why? Because they've not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God. Their pride won't let them.But you and I, hey, we know that Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone that simply believeth on what Christ accomplished. There it counts. He took care of the world's sins. They buried him, but he rose on the third day to justify all that would put their faith in what he finished. Outside the 13 epistles of Paul, the general theme is faith plus do. Inside the writings of Paul, the theme is faith plus nothing, because it's done.Outside Paul's epistles there was a difference. Such an extreme difference that those Jews would have looked at youand I and said, ye worship, ye know not what. We know what we worship, for salvation is of the Jews. John 4:22. But inside Paul's epistles, there is no difference. That's why he wrote Galatians 3:28, there's neither Jew nor Greek, bond nor free, male nor female.Why? We're all one in Christ Jesus.That's complete contrary to John 4:22. That's why you must rightly divide the word of truth.Saying that there's no difference would have been foreign lingo to the apostles in that earthly kingdom. Foreign language prior to Paul having received the revelation of themystery.Okay, if you haven't already, go download the free mobile app. Download it and take this 24-hour Mid-Acts grace teaching wherever you go.You can listen at home, on your phone, or through Alexa. And as many are doing, take us along with you in your car.Listen, in this walk of life, you only get two educations.The one you're given and the one you give yourself.Grace and peace.

Welcome to Truth Time, where you'll get a shot of the truth with no chaser.And now, your Truth Time host, Trey Searcy.Hey, we often hear of the faith alone objectors, giving us all sorts of misapplied scriptures and made-up scenarios of why faith alone for salvation just can't be correct.Like one I heard earlier today, it's one that's old, tired, and just plumb wore out,but they still use it anyway.They say, you can't be justified through faith alone, because even the devils believe, Trey.James chapter 2, verse 19, that's where they go, that's where they get this.There where James said, Thou believest that there is one God, thou doest well,the devils also believe and tremble.Using this to object faith alone couldn't be weaker.When Paul wrote, For by grace are you saved through faith, and that not of yourself,he wasn't referring to mere belief in God's existence, in Christ being the Messiah, the Son of God.No, Paul was referring to hearing and believing the gospel.1 Corinthians 15:1-4, The gospel of your salvation, how that Christ died for your sins, He was buried, He rose the third day, and that your belief in that alone is what saves you.That was the focus of the, For by grace are you saved through faith.Not the James 2, hey, James 2, that means there's a James 1.And if you look in James 1, verse 1, you'll see James wasn't even writing to you.All the instructions in that little bitty book over there are to the 12 tribes which had been scattered abroad.That James 2, thou believest that there is one God, that's news the devils believed, and they trembled at that news.But there's no salvation in believing it.That's just man-made.That's a man-made problem that is constructed, it's a social construct to steer you away from true salvation, which comes only by grace through faith alone.But the objectors of this, of this good news, they don't respect context.And the Ephesians 2:8, For by grace are you saved through faith, that has a context.If we back up to Ephesians chapter 1, there at verse 13, there we see, In whom ye also trusted, that's Christ, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, that's 1 Corinthians 15, verses 1 to 4, in whom also, after that ye believed, that's faith alone, ye were sealed with that Holy Spirit of promise.And there you have it.The faith alone objectors, what they do is they abandon context.That's how they come to this faulty conclusion.So when someone comes back at you with that old, tired, washed up, even the devils believe, you can easily refute them by just sticking with God's word, pointing them to scripture, pointing out that not one devil has ever believed the gospel.Not one.They only believed in the quote unquote, there is one God.Yeah, they believe that, but they don't trust in God and what he provided on the cross to take away all sin and that he was buried and that he rose the third day to give you eternal life.Hey, you can be in a room full of a million people who all believe there's only one God and you can be in a room with a million people who are unsaved, because believing there's one God won't save anyone.That's not the gospel of your salvation.When we come to our Bible, it's important to distinguish the differences betweenwhat was written to Israel and what's written to us.The church, which is his body.Israel constantly, they constantly operated under the sin management program.Wash, rinse, repeat.You've heard us talk about it before.Wash, rinse, repeat.Their wash, rinse, repeat cycle, it began with the law of Moses, and that's how things operated under Israel's time past economy.That's not your economy.When salvation back there was John 4:22, salvation at that time was only of the Jews.Through the Jews.They were the mediator.It was a different program.The gospel of the kingdom.When they were John 7:19, under the law.When the kingdom apostles, when they went about preaching to none but unto the Jews only, Acts chapter 11, verse 19, yet we've got denominations worldwide telling you they were talking to you.Well, how can it be for you when they went about preaching to none but unto the Jews only?If you believe your Bible, then you know they were not talking to you.Couldn't be.Those guys went about preaching to none but unto the Jews only.But hey, things changed.Salvation is no longer of the Jews.We're under a new administration.We're not under the law.Paul's our apostle and no sin stands between you and God.2 Corinthians 5:19, he stopped imputing sins.You know what that means in the Greek?He stopped imputing sins.That's the good news that some want to suppress.Romans 4:15, The law worketh wrath for where no law is, there is no transgression.And if you turn the page, Romans 5:13, For until the law, sin was in the world,but sin is not imputed when there is no law.That ought to put you on shouting ground, my friend.And if you drop down and keep reading there, verse 20, you'll find where it says,Moreover, the law entered that the offense might abound, but where sin abounded,grace did much more abound.Jesus died one time for all sins.So God stopped imputing them because Jesus, 2 Corinthians 5:21, he took them upon himself.And he's perfect, which made him the perfect sacrifice.Meaning you were perfectly forgiven.Perfectly forgiven means you are completely forgiven.Not partially, but completely.It's not a 50-50 deal.You do your part.Jesus does his.No, you're 100% forgiven.Every sin you've done or will do, Jesus paid for.Now that's good news.And the only ones who says that teaching this makes you want to go sin more are the ones who's never believed it.If they'd believe it, they'd know better.They're outsiders looking in, trying to explain to you what this thing's all about.No, you're inside this thing.Don't let them steer you in a wrong direction to rob you of your joy.See, those of us who understand grace, we know better.We know that it has the opposite effect.Knowing this good news doesn't make you want to sin more.It makes you want to sin less.Paul delivered the greatest news ever known to mankind.Thank you, Lord.And he wrote that good news down in 13 epistles for us.He said that the God of all creation stopped imputing our trespasses.But we have all these twistianity scripture twisters.They come in behind Paul.They come in behind us.And they try to backload human effort into the finished crosswork of Christ.And that little leaven destroys the grace of God.They try and drag us backwards, back there to Matthew, Mark, Luke, and Johnfor our salvation instructions, but they're not there.Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John is primarily before the death, burial, and resurrection, before Calvary, Jesus said in Matthew 6, he said, If you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father, He'll forgive you.But after Calvary and through Paul, He said, Be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.Past tense.Past tense.Past tense and without the condition of you doing anything.If you could do something, then you could take the credit.And God's not going to have that.We don't forgive to get forgiven.We forgive because we are forgiven.Different administrations, different economy, different forgiveness plan.Jesus died once.He forgave once.Not going to do it again.But the faith alone objectors, they want to keep us in the wash, rinse, repeat cycle,trying to wash away the sins Jesus, already washed away.God's not keeping score and tallying up your sins.So why are you?Most try to get themselves clean over there with that 1 John 1:9 bar of soap.It won't work.Unaware that there are no sins on the ledger.If there's no sins on the ledger, what sins are you trying to wash away?What sins are you confessing to get forgiven?What non-imputed sins do you think is still in your account?What non-imputed sins did Jesus miss?Did he miss one?Hey, if the sins were put to the account of Jesus Christ, then you can relaxbecause they can't also be on your account.That don't make sense.You know this.The old song, what can wash away my sins?No, what has washed away my sins?Baptist minister Robert Lowry was on to something, no doubt, but he got it wrong.Don't get carried away by your feelings, by the lyrics of these songs, stick with the word of truth.Stop walking in what can happen and start walking in what has happened.Learn to see yourself how God sees you.Learning that is the key to your victorious thinking, which leads to victorious living.God hates sin.You should hate sin.And Paul tells us to flee from it.But we'll never be successful at fleeing from it if we don't understand what God did with it.Don't put the cart before the horse or you'll have the tail wagging the dog.Failing to understand what the cross of Christ achieved for us, it keeps us in bondage.Chasing forgiveness instead of standing still in Christ.Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth.Remember that.Paul penned those words.Having on the breastplate of righteousness and your feet shod with the preparationof the gospel of peace.You'll find those encouraging words over there in Ephesians chapter 6.This instability, hey, that's what keeps most Christians, on the sidelines.As long as Satan can keep you chasing your own forgiveness, you're not out there telling others about theirs.If Jesus died once for your forgiveness, why are you asking for it?Do you think there's more?If Jesus died once for your forgiveness, why do you pray the sinner's prayer?If he died once for your sins, why do you confess them to your priest?What sense does that make?If he died once for your sins, why would you repent and be baptized for the same sins he already died for?The math don't math.Your forgiveness isn't a daily ritual.But if that's what you've turned it into, you're making Satan happy.That I can tell you.When it comes to forgiveness, you shouldn't be waiting on it.You should be resting in it.Once you learn that your forgiveness started with the cross and ended with the cross,you can begin to get your thought life in order.That's when you'll start pleasing God.Walking out this grace life, the grace life he's designed for you as a member of his body, as someone in Christ.Satan wants you thinking that instead of being blameless, you're still to be blamed.Instead of being forgiven, you're still unforgiven.Instead of being bought with a price, you're still on the auction block.Instead of being thoroughly washed and sanctified, your sins have made you filthy and defiled.That's what he'd have you to believe.Instead of Christ in you, he'd have you thinking that he can come and go according to how good you are.Even though God said he sealed you unto the day of redemption.Who are you going to believe?Satan's ministers or the word of God?The cross of Christ wasn't the undercard.It was the main event, the showstopper.So when the accuser throws up your sins, you counter with the cross of Christ.Having knowledge of complete forgiveness, it's liberating.Not liberty to sin, liberty to serve.Serve the one who loved us enough to sacrifice his only begotten Son.What an amazing gift we have.And teachers who corrupt this free gift should be avoided.Avoid them at all costs.Ephesians 4:29, Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister...What? Watch this.That it may minister grace.Unto the hearers.You do you, but let me tell you this, you better understand that if you add one thing, just one thing to the gospel, you're not ministering grace unto your hearers.And you're what?You're guilty.You're guilty of corrupt communication.Salvation is a free gift, we don't do good works to get the gift, we do good works because we have it.We don't work to the gift, we work from the gift.And when someone mixes a work with grace, they destroy grace.1 Corinthians 1:17, For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel, not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect.Of what?Of none effect.Now let that sink in.You ever heard someone preach the cross of Christ while making it of none effect?Oh yeah.Hear it all the time.More often than not.Today we have those who, they add all sorts of things to the gospel.Some add Jesus is the Father.Hey, that destroys the Godhead and ultimately destroys the gospel.Making it of none effect.Tampering with the Godhead is indeed a salvation issue.Not one person is going to be in heaven who believes the Father died for their sins.Not one person is saved who believed the Father was buried.Not one person is saved and going to be in heaven who believed the Father rose from the dead.Not one.That's not the gospel.That's not the gospel.And those who say it is are 11 cans short of a 12 pack.Don't fall for their corrupt communication.The Son died for your sins.The Son was buried and the Son rose from the dead.That's the gospel of our Apostle Paul.That's why, in Romans 1:16, he said, For I'm not ashamed of the gospel of Christ.Christ is the Son, not the Father.Then Paul said, For it is the power of God unto salvation.What is the power of God unto salvation?Christ the Son, dying for your sins.Christ the Son, being buried.Christ the Son, having risen from the dead.Don't tamper with this gospel.Oh no.God magnifies His Word above His own name.And His Word says, Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, how that Christ the Son, Christ, He died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that He, that's Christ the Son, was buried and rose again the third day according to the Scriptures.Not the Father.Oh no.And where Paul's words are ignored, false doctrine will always find a home.2 Corinthians 11, But I fear lest by any means as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtlety, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.That's Christ the Son, not the Father.For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached?If you fell for the Jesus is the Father heresy, as the serpent beguiled Eve, you've allowed your mind to be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.Just as Paul warned.You've received another spirit and another gospel.There is but one God.Not two, three, four, or more.Only one.And this one God is made up of Father, Son, and Spirit.That's Bible.This is truth and it doesn't matter if you like it or not.It doesn't matter if you can explain it or not.That's the way it is.So get over yourself.And those who deny this have created a God to fit within their own reasoning.They're idolaters.The Jesus they've invented can't save anyone.They might as well be Mormons.Mormons believe Jesus is the brother of Lucifer.The same way they believe Jesus is his own father.Welcome to Wackadoodaville.That's another Jesus.As an angel of light, Satan's ministers, they come in the name of Jesus, but they offer you a counterfeit.As one person put it, quote, he said, It's gotten to the point where I can't make itthrough a teaching without them trying to convince me that Jesus the Son is really Jesus the Father.Yeah, we've wondered if those bent on making the Son the Father, they don't havesome sort of daddy issues or something.It's crazy is what it is.They corrupt Paul's gospel of Christ, the Son, by making it Paul's gospel of Christ,the Father.This imaginary Father Jesus is nothing short of poison to Paul's gospel.They get away with teaching it because most of their followers are babes in Christ.Seasoned vets, though, they don't waste their time hanging around because they know better.So they prey on babes.That's who they're harming.Some are babes, and some are not even in Christ because, if a lost person believes that the Father is the one who died for their sins, they're still lost.They're a false convert.As one old preacher, Preacher McLean, used to say, The only thing worse than going to hell is going there and being surprised.We'll dive deeper into this corrupt teaching, Christ the Son is actually Christ the Father, we'll address it another time.But listen, if you add anything to Paul's gospel, it doesn't matter what it is, you make the cross of Christ of none effect.And Satan has so many different ways of doing this.Tell someone that Christ died for your sins.Now you need to go and be baptized for the remission of your sins.Well, you just corrupted the cross of Christ.You made it of none effect.For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness.But unto us which are saved, it is the power of God.Underneath one of our videos, a listener, Rick, he commented saying, Law requires everything and gives nothing.The gospel requires nothing and gives everything.Then Ted, he comes along and chimes in and says, Jesus plus nothing equals everything.But Jesus plus anything equals nothing.Both comments are spot on.When we obey God and the word of truth is rightly divided, we get a bird's eye viewof salvation through faith alone.Moreover, we see that faith alone, it should not only dictate how we're saved, but also how we live our life.Your walk with God, your relationship with Him, it should stay centered, stay focusedon living your grace life through faith alone.By grace through faith alone is not only how we're justified, but it's how our relationship with God should be nurtured and sustained.You're a totally forgiven person.Get used to it.Go take a look in the mirror and tell yourself, I'll never be any more forgiven than I am right now.I'll never be any more accepted than I am right now.Stop working for it and start enjoying it.Forgiveness doesn't come in parts.You weren't forgiven in parts.You were forgiven in full.Forgiveness is not being distributed in piecemeal.A little here, a little there.No.And sadly, we have individuals who occupy a church each week yet never heard this good news.Faithful tithers, prayer warriors, yet couldn't tell you the gospel of their salvation if their life depended on it.Which it does, by the way.Bible-toting people in church their entire life and don't know how to be saved.Week after week, going to that building, and don't have clarity of what the gospel of their salvation is.Most know about the cross.Most know about the resurrection.But they don't know how that applies to them personally.Not realizing that on the cross is where the Father made the Son to be sin for them.We speak to those who have never heard this good news.And there they are thinking they need to do something about their sins before God can accept them.As if He's the sky police looking to write them a ticket each time they sin.Having never heard the good news of how God's grace has done it all through the work of Jesus Christ.God the Father made God the Son to be sin for you.And it was a one-time event.Forgiveness was never set up on the installment plan.There's no account anywhere where God can go and find your sins.No account, no record, no ledger.When it comes to sin, Jesus has no more blood to shed.That's how finished this thing is, my friend.Your sins were dealt with at Calvary and God is offering you the free gift of salvation by grace through faith alone.Alone.Alone without anything added from you.No amount of starting or stopping something can add to that.If you're doing anything in your attempt to be forgiven, you have yet to adhereto Paul's gospel.Paul wrote 13 epistles and in not one does he explain how to get your sins forgiven.If you're wanting a how-to, a how-to-get-my-sins-forgiven handbook, Paul's epistles,that's not where you need to go because you can't find that.If you want to know about how Christ was crucified to put away those sins that separated God from you, if you want to know about the eternal life that you can have in Christ, about how your life can be hid with Christ in God, if you want to know about Christ in you, the hope of glory, if you want to know how to put away all the worries that religion has thrown your way and finally have peace and rest in Christ,then, hey, Paul's epistles, now, he can help you with that.But don't come to Paul looking for how to go backwards to get your sins forgiven.Paul's message is about progressing, not digressing.We're over here on this side of the finished crosswork and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ with power-packed, valuable information for the lost and how they can be saved.That's the mission of a minister of reconciliation.The gospel is so amazing that your next sin has already been dealt with.Oh, but if you tell them that, they'll just go sin it up.What?They do that anyway.You don't have to tell them anything.They don't need your permission to sin.The truth is, the more you scream and spit, spouting off your message about how you better stop sinning, you better stop sinning, that just makes the common man want to sin more.That's psychology 101, man.As a minister of reconciliation, it's not my job to speak words that will only have you focusing and concentrating more on your sin.No, my job is to get your mind off sin and on to Christ.To help you rearrange your thinking so that you're all-time concentrating now on the finished crosswork of Jesus.To build you up so that when the accuser, when he pays your mind to visit, you'll be well-versed and built up and edified enough to haul off and let him have it.When he brings up your sin, you bring up God's Son.When he brings up your flesh, you bring up Christ's blood.When he brings up your past, you remind him of his future.When he brings up your failures, you bring up your victory.Do like Jesus did.Use the scriptures against him.1 Corinthians 15:57, But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.I'm a winner.Not a loser.Satan's the loser.His ministers of righteousness, they're the losers.Their look at me, look at me message, that's the one that belongs in the loser column.My full and complete dependency on Christ makes me a winner.My future's so bright, I gotta wear shades.Listen, my God gave me his Spirit.He washed and sanctified me at the moment I rested my trust in him.He sealed me with the Holy Spirit.I'm kept by his grace and nothing I can do.I've been made righteous and justified.What shall we then say to these things?If God be for us, who can be against us, right?I couldn't begin to tell you how many preachers I've heard say, bless God, my sins are under the blood.Hey, listen, my sins aren't under the blood.My sins were totally washed away by the blood.Covered by the blood, under the blood, both imply that they're still there, but only hidden.But washed away, hey, that paints the real picture of them being completely gone.Believe on him today.And remember, you only get two educations, the one you're given and the one you go give yourself.Now get in this word.Got a Bible question?Call toll-free 1-888-988-9562.Email us at truthtimeradio.com.Until next time, remember, when a man who is honestly mistaken hears the truth, he will either quit being mistaken or cease to be honest.

For all that's downloaded the mobile app we say thanks and for all of you guys we'rehearing from that are sharing our app with others.Thank you.Thank you so much.We hope you're enjoying here and all of the back-to-back mid-acts teachings along with all the songs of grace.We'll continue to do our best to bring you quality grace teachings and grace songs.Hey, while the last song was playing there, I was looking at a couple of verses here.Proverbs chapter 12, Proverbs chapter 12 verse 22, Lying lips are an abomination to the Lord, but they that deal truly are his delight.And while looking at that verse, another verse came to mind.Matthew chapter 15, Matthew chapter 15 came to mind here where Jesus quotes the prophet Isaiah in verse 8 and says, This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth and honor with me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.Both verses concerning things going on in time past prophecy, but we're seeing the same thing here today in the but now mystery.Same thing.Those who honor Jesus with their lips, but their heart is far from him.Hey, if you honor Jesus, you'd honor Paul.We get emails from time to time where they say, I choose the words of Jesus over Paul.But in Galatians chapter 1 verse 11, we find out that the words of Paul are the words of Jesus.Jesus gave Paul the revelation of the mystery to write down for you and I.And Jesus, remember now, he said, He that received whomesoever I send, receiveeth me.And he that receiveth me, receiveth him that sent me referring to the Father.But the works salvationists who don't like Paul's grace message, the evidence inspectors will call them.They avoid Paul's gospel altogether or twist his words like a pretzel of the knowledge, the grace that's found in Paul's writing scares the legalist to death.Things like where, where Paul said more over the law entered that the offense might abound. But where sin abound, grace did much more abound.What?Shhh... Keep it down.That's dangerous speech right there.Don't tell 'em that grace abounds over sin.Paul didn't, he didn't really mean that.Come with me to Romans chapter 3.Romans chapter 3.Let's look there in verse 21, But now, two very important words right there. But now, the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets. Even the righteousness of God, which is by faith of Jesus Christ, unto all and upon all them that believe.Upon all of them that watched their p's and q's?No.Upon all of them that believe.Upon all of them that straightened up and fly right?No.Upon all of them that believe.Them that keep the golden rule?No.Upon them that believe.Those who don't drink smoke or chew or hang around those who do?No.The righteousness of God, which is by faith of Jesus Christ, unto all and upon all of them that believe.It's pretty simple.The problem with the evidence inspectors is they refuse to believe their Bible.The book right there in front of them, while they're preaching, they don't really believe it.You see, but God made it easy to understand.The righteousness of God is unto all and upon all them that believe.Them that believe on and trust in Christ alone.The salvation is by grace alone through faith alone and Christ alone without any works of any kind at any time.How many recognize the liberty here?It's outstanding.If after reading this verse here in Romans, you still don't see how things have changed for us who are hearing this but now dispensation of grace, please call us and let us help you.Romans 3:22 clarifies that the righteousness of God is without performance.Ephesians 2:8, not of yourselves, three vital words, not of yourselves.See, your salvation doesn't hinge on you towing the line.But that hasn't stopped the judging your salvation movement from spreading their corruption.The evidence inspectors are growing larger in numbers by the day.Television, radio, social media, they're all polluted with evidence seekers, a bunch of Inspector Gadgets.And here comes Penny and her dog brain looking for evidence to prove your salvation.So they can go report back to chief Quimby.Y'all remember Inspector Gadget, don't you?It came out in the 80s, so it's been a minute.The evidence inspectors, hey, they put you under the microscope to see if you exhibit a changed life.Evaluating lifestyles to see if they can sniff out any evidence of your salvation.Well, that's not the gospel. That's fear gripped legalism is what it is.And it comes from those that don't understand that God chose Paul to be their apostle.And they'll have you trapped in an endless forgiveness cycle.They'll even throw in a bar of that legalism soap for you to wash with.Wash rinse repeat.Wash rinse repeat.Why did they do that?Because that was the cycle Israel was in, and most today go to their Bible thinking they're Israel.Confused and unable to see the distinction between a nation of royal priests,1 Peter chapter 2, and the church, which is his body, Ephesians chapter 1.A natural result, a consequence of not rightly dividing the word of truth.Having never realized the change that occurred in their Bible called the revelation of the mystery, Romans 16:25.Having never heard that we're under a new economy where today the righteousness of God is without the law, which means grace has taken over.Grace is now the greater motivator.Titus 2:11, For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men,(12) Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;So what teaches us today? The grace of God, we just read it.The grace of God, verse 12,Teaching us to deny ungodliness and worldly lust, to live soberly, righteously and Godly in this present world.Grace is our teacher.We are under this dispensation of the grace of God, hallelujah.Grace teaches us not the law.1 Corinthians 9:17, Paul says that a dispensation of the gospel was committed to him.And in Acts 9 verse 15, the Lord talking to Ananias about Paul said, Paul is a chosen vessel unto him to bear his name before the Gentiles, the kings and the children of Israel.But in Acts 11, now stay with me.In Acts 11 verse 19, Luke speaking of the kingdom apostles wrote, Now they, which were scattered abroad upon the persecution that arose about Stephen, travelled as far as Phinus and Cyprus and Antioch, preaching the word to none but unto the Jews only.Did you hear that?Preaching the word to none but unto the Jews only.What denomination is teaching about that today?No, you got to go to Truth Time.You got to go to other grace teachers and their websites and their podcasts to find out this news, because this is hid to all those who believe not.Don't miss it.If those men of Israel that modern day churches try to teach us that, that's where you find your doctrine, if they had ran into you on the streets there at Jerusalem, they would have passed you by like Earnhardt pass Elliott, because they were preaching the word to none but unto the Jews only.They had nothing for you because their job was not Paul's Acts 9 commission.No, it wasn't to go to the Gentiles.And Peter only had one brief encounter with the Gentile, Cornelius.After that, his ministry continued to be restricted to Jews only, just like the verse said, to the circumcision only.Just like they agreed there in Galatians chapter 2, verse 7.So regardless of popular belief, James, Peter, and John and the boys were preaching the gospel of the kingdom to none but unto the Jews own.And until someone can come show us with an open Bible, where that ever changed, changed to where the apostles fulfilled their Matthew 24 commission to take the gospel of the kingdom to all the Gentile world, until they can come over here and do that, you might as well admit that the dispensational position that's taken by us here at Truth Time Radio, hey, it's correct.Because as it stands, you got a problem.But the good news is your problem is curable.God's word of truth rightly divided has the answer, and his name is Paul.Here's the thing, the apostles preaching the gospel of the kingdom to none but unto the Jews only, continued and never changed.They kept right on doing that all the way up to Acts chapter 15.But then, now watch, but then everything shifted to Paul's ministry for the rest of the book.Peter's gone.He pulled a David Copperfield and disappeared.No more Jews only.Now it's about the entire world.No more gospel of the kingdom.Now it's about the Acts 20:24 gospel of the grace of God.No more bound by the law.Now it's about the Ephesians 3:2 grace dispensation.No more John, Peter, and James.Now it's Paul, Silas, Timothy, Priscilla and Aquila, and so forth.And it's about church planting.The 12 weren't planting churches.No, they were just adding to the Jewish church that already existed.And to be a member of that church, you had to sell everything you owned.And they did that, sold it all.And were there awaiting the Lord's return to usher in their earthly kingdom.They couldn't make any plans to start churches.They were instructed to take no thought of tomorrow.And by the way, here's a question we get a lot.When did the 12 apostles stop preaching their gospel of the kingdom?Try never.They kept preaching it right on up till their death.They never changed from their gospel to Paul's gospel because his gospel wasn't theirs to preach.That's why he called it, My gospel.It was his, not theirs.They were only concerned with kingdom principles which included selling all they had,being faithful and enduring until the end of their life to be resurrectedso they could fulfill their priesthood and sit upon 12 thrones in their earthly kingdom.A Bible truth that most today refuse to see.Not recognizing how things function in time past, but now, and ages to come, is why there's so much confusion in the denominational system.Be careful who you follow.Find those who rightly divide the word of truth.Then go Philippians 3:17, Mark, mark them for an ensample.Those who are steadfast to rightly divide the word of truth will not fold.They won't waver.A man worth his salt will never teach a performance based gospel during this time of grace.He just won't do it.Be mindful, guys, and be discerning.Be on the lookout for the evidence inspectors.They're out there.In other podcasts, you may have heard us refer to them as fruit inspectors.Fruit inspectors are, they're fairly easy to spot.They operate from fear and guilt.They'll have you questioning whether or not you have enough evidence in your life to prove you're saved.Be careful of those who try to shoehorn human effort into grace, saying that salvation comes through you killing sin and pursuing holiness.Paul's gospel diametrically opposes that, evidence-based gospel is spiritual strict nine.Guaranteed to keep the unsaved, unsaved, and the saved live in a miserable life,trying to function from a performance based mindset.Let me demonstrate what I mean.I'll share something here.Let me get it.I'll share something here from Paul Washer.For those who've been with us for a while, you know he's no stranger to us.We've covered his teachings before.You pray for those guys, you pray for these men hoping that they'll get better, to only be disappointed when you find out they're not only getting better, they're getting worse.Satan truly is the God of this world.Okay.Okay, here we go.If you call yourself a Christian and there is very little desire, you don't get excited about the statement, do all for the glory of God.You don't desire becoming more and more like Christ, and more and more useful to him.Your love for God's people doesn't grow.You need to be afraid.You need to be worried.If you can, and some of you can, live in secret, deadly sin.You need to be afraid.Because it's very possible that your profession of faith in Jesus Christ is false.It's false.Listen, the Bible, not Washer, but the Bible says that at the moment we hear the gospel and trust Christ having believed what we heard, we're saved and sealed unto the day of redemption.Right there on the spot.But Washer, with his white washed watered down gospel, he disagrees with Scripture, see.His message offers no assurance to the believer.You'll hear this sort of Scripture twistin' a lot from these guys, who instead of preaching Jesus Christ and him crucified for salvation, instead of that, they preach how a believer should live for salvation.At this point, I don't know if they've ever understood or if they're just doing this on purpose, but a lost person being saved isn't entirely different from how they live.But these guys, they come at you wide open with their sick shooter, slingin' mud, mixed up doctrine, and most walk away, after hearing them, a confused false convert.Only your faith can justify you, and not how well you avoid sin.You're also hurting there, trying to talk you into evaluating your justificationby how well you're doing at loving others, false.Your love for others can't justify you.Ephesians 2:8, For by grace are you saved through faith, and that not of yourselves.What?Not of yourselves?For a long time now, we've wondered how, I mean, what is it about not of yourselves that most just don't get?Here's a real simple question, sort of elementary, really.If your justification is evidenced by how well you love others, wouldn't that mean you could justify yourself?1 plus 1 equals 2, just saying. The modern day Paul, Mr. Washer, he says you can justify yourself by how well you love others, but the Apostle Paul, he says it's not of yourselves.I guess it comes down to who you believe.Romans 4:5, But to him that worketh not, but believeeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.See that?It is God that justifieth, not ridding yourself of secret sin, as Washer said.He also mentioned there, changing the desires of your heart.But again, it is God that justifieth, not changing the desires of your heart.That would be yourself doing something, but salvation is not of yourselves.Justification doesn't come from us loving others, from us stopping secret sin, or from us changing the desires of our hearts.All three good things to do, all three false gospels.They won't save.It is only our faith that is counted for righteousness.Washer just, he has a tough time believing his Bible.Romans 8:33, who shall lay any charge to the charge of God's elect?Paul Washer, that's who.Mr. Washer violates scripture by laying things to the charge of God's elect.It is God that justifieth.Acts 13:39, And by him, all that believe are justified from all things.What?All things?From which you cannot be justified by the law of Moses.Someone forgot to tell Washer this good news.Send him an email.The law of Moses couldn't justify them then, and these laws from the modern day Pharisees that they're trying to put on us can't justify us today.Who does he think he is telling anyone to be very afraid?Because you might not be saved if you have sin in your life, when he has sin in his own life.He doesn't rightly divide the word of truth, which is a sin, a sin to be ashamed of.Having sin in your life is not good for anyone, but we don't base our salvation on it.I'll tell you who should be very afraid.Those who are trusting in how well they're doing at getting sin out of their life.That's who should be afraid.If you're out there trying to get sin out of your life as a means of you being saved,be afraid, be very afraid.Those waiting for that day when they have finally changed all the desires of their heart, you better be afraid.You're someone depending on yourself for salvation.And the Apostle Paul said not of yourself.So yeah, I'd be afraid.They say you can't be saved through faith alone during a time when that's the only way you can be saved.Talk about a satanic twist, Romans 8:34, Who is he that condemneth?Paul Washer.Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?Preachers like Washer, if they could.If you call yourself a Christian and there is very little desire, you don't get excited about the statement, do all for the glory of God.You don't desire becoming more and more like Christ and more and more useful to him.Your love for God's people doesn't grow.You need to be afraid. You need to be worried.Washer would have us based our salvation on whether or not we get excited about the statement, do all for the glory of God.Great statement, of course it is, but I'm not, I'm not basing my salvation on it.Just forget 2 Corinthians, chapter 5, verse 19, forget 1 Corinthians 15, verses 1 to 4, where the Apostle Paul literally declares it to be the gospel that saves us.Just forget all that.And instead, let's take fear-based salvationist Paul Washer's advice, and evaluate our salvation with a microscope with a magnifying glass, and base our salvation on whether or not we get excited about the statement, do all for the glory of God.The evidence of a changed life gospel is your road map to hell as what it is.Paul dealt with legalism in his time just as we are today.In Galatians 1:6 he wrote, I marvel that you are so soon removed from him that called you, called you into the grace of Christ into another gospel, which is not another, but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ.Couple of thousand years and nothing's changed.Perverts are still preaching and persuading others to turn their backs on the grace of God and pursue their own righteousness.Paul said to Timothy, having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereoffrom such turn away.Denying the power.What's the power they deny?The gospel.For I'm not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it, the gospel, is the power of God into salvation to everyone that believeth. Romans 1:16. It's plain, it's simple, it's clear.But Paul Washer and the likes of his ilk, they just can't get it.Satan's no fool now.He understands the power of the gospel more than most preachers do, and it's why he works so hard to pervert it.When it's tampered with and the slightest, it gets destroyed.Don't let one drop of this self-effort performance strychnine to enter into your irrigate and corrupt your spirit, it's just not true, that's not the way you're saved, salvation is not of yourselves, it's just that simple.The power is not in a turn from sin.How well you love others, changing the desires of your heart.The power is in the gospel of grace, it's grace, grace, and more grace.Different day, same theme song.Your inner radio, that inner radio station of yours, it should always be set on plain grace, grace, grace, and more grace.Don't allow anyone to change the station.It's been grace since Paul, which means it's been grace before you were born.Different day, same theme song.You can't out sin God's grace, Romans 5:20.When you and your own self-effort try to get sin out of your life, you know what you do, you destroy grace.You frustrate the grace of God is what you do, and you set yourself up for great disappointment, because the more you try to quit sinning, the more you sin.But once you get this grace message, and it's just saturated in your psyche, things start to change.You see, once you understand that you can't out sin God's grace, and understand that God's not imputing any sins anyway, any of these sins that the evidence inspectors are after whining about, 2 Corinthians 5:19, once you get this, things start to change.Mark my word, or better yet, Mark God's word.Go study this out for yourself.You'll find the grace message all throughout Romans through Philemon.You've got to shift that thinking, shifted away from the prior faith to the present faith.That's what Paul wrote about in Romans 1, verse 17, from faith to faith, from that time past faith to this current faith, the faith of Christ, which is a body of doctrine written down especially for you.Go zero in on that and let it just uplift, give you joy, show you grace, and show you how to walk out this life here on earth.How do you do that?Once you learn that your conversation's already in heaven.Once you learn that you're blessed with all spiritual blessings already, you're not waiting on it, you already have it.You already possess it.Listen, Paul sure tells saved people that they should flee from sin and pursue holiness.That's a fact.First Thessalonians, chapter 4, verse 7, For God hath not called us unto uncleanness,but unto holiness.We get that, but we also get that how we get saved and how we live out our lives are different.The evidence inspectors, hey, they're allergic to context.Paul's Thessalonian audience here are already saved.But Satan's minions aren't equipped to make that distinction.So what do they do?They swoop in and corrupt the text.And instead of preaching how salvation comes, by grace through faith alone, so someone can get saved first, and then pursue holiness.No, they got unsaved people trying to perform for salvation.That's exactly what Satan wants.They have fallen right into his trap.His minions say to perform for salvation, but a true minister of reconciliationwill teach you to perform from salvation.Big difference.The legalists have the cart before horse, and that won't move.It only makes false converts.Paul told Timothy, he said, Thou hast fully known my doctrine.And he also told Timothy to charge some that they teach no other doctrine than what he taught.Paul did not teach legalism for salvation.No, he taught that the only way to salvation is by you resting your faith in Christ crucified and his resurrection.And there's the problem we have today.Just like the, uh, who was the Nicolatians over there in Revelation chapter two,we have those today that they throw stumbling blocks in the way of others needing salvation, teaching them to make idols out of, out of the things that they, they can do in their flesh to win or to merit God's approval.They began to worship those things they can do in the flesh.Hey, nothing done in your flesh will play a role, will play a part any part whatsoever with you being saved.It's not going to happen.And the work salvationist will say, they agree with that.They'll say that out of one side of their mouth, but then preach a works based roadto salvation out of the other.It's deceitful is what it is.Well, again, thanks for all of you who's downloading the app.We're hearing from so many of you.It's, it's a wonderful day.It really is.So I'll close here and put you back into some more songs of grace and mid-acts teaching, but I pray that if anyone has been bewitched by some of these works salvationists, these evidence inspectors, I pray you come to understand that Christ died for all your sins, was buried with all your sins, but rose without any.Isn't that good nesws?So stop trusting in what the evidence inspector preaches tells you about how you're saved.And start trusting in what God's word of truth rightly divided says about it.Big difference.

See, the biggest problem with those who don't rightly divide the word of truth is,for salvation, they conflate works, things done to merit, with grace, which is unmerited.And what happens when works are mixed with grace?It ruins both.That's right.Both are fine in their respective places, but are destroyed when mixed.I was looking at a verse earlier that I like a lot back there in Deuteronomy chapter 29.Chapter 29, verse 29 says, The secret things belong unto the Lord.Now, we all know someone, whether it be a family member or friend, that there's just some folk you just don't dare tell the secret to.In our family, it's my mother.That's sort of the running joke among us.She loves people and she loves to talk.And sometimes, I think she just tells a secret by accident.Just sort of slips out.But the Lord, you see, now, the Lord, he was a perfect secret keeper.Before revealing the mystery to Paul, he kept a secret from Satan about what happened there at the cross.And since finding out, he's been at war.He's been on the war path.Madder than a disturbed hornet's nest for almost 2,000 years now.And he's been on a course to corrupt what the cross accomplished.And one of his greatest tactics has been to have his deceitful workers transform themselves into ministers of righteousness.He does that to confuse how someone is saved with what a saved person should do after being saved.That's the greatest deception going on today.Legalism.Mixing that legalism, that lordship salvation, in with grace.Grace saves.You have to be saved first.Take care of that first. Then we read through our apostle's letters, and we learn how to walk in our new position.Learn how to walk out our new life in Christ. We're saved by grace, Ephesians 2:8, but saved unto good works.Works are important, verse 10 will tell you that.There's and order to this, but most have blurred the lines. They're like those that were among the Corinthians.2 Corinthians 11:13 says, For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostle of Christ. And no marvel, for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. Therefore, it's no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness.So we're not taken by surprise.We've got this information written right here for us.Deceitful workers were alive and well then, just as they are today.They were in Corinth.They came behind Paul in multiple churches that he established throughout the citieswithin the Galatian region.And Paul dealt with deceitful workers also over there in Philippi.The Philippians, they had their share as well.Chapter 3, verse 18, Paul said, For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ.Hey, you can go hopscotch around all over social media and find deceitful workers, enemies of the cross at every hop.Manipulating experts who conflate salvation with behavior.They don't preach Paul's gospel of the grace of God.They don't even know it.They're not capable of separating how someone is saved from how they live their life.But Paul's epistles make a clear dividing line between these two, making it easy tosee that the believer's eternal salvation doesn't hinge on how well they live out their life.Reminds me of a podcast we did long ago called, If Living Right Saves You, Then No One's Saved, where we discussed the differences between eternal salvation and our day-to-day living.Those are different.Salvation doesn't depend on living right.It depends on believing right.Believing right on someone who lived right.Of course, the goal is to live right, but it doesn't have the power to save you.Hence the cross of Christ, and hence his bloodshed, hence the burial and resurrection.Hey, here at Truth Time, over a span of a couple of decades, we've been blessed to talk to a lot of people.And one of the biggest obstacles to overcome is getting their mind off what some preacher told them about how they have to stop sinning n order to go to heaven.That's a false gospel.That's the false gospel of Ray Comfort, of Paul Washer.Many popular preachers of our day, they're all preaching this gospel of moralism.A teaching that says people can achieve righteousness by their behavior.Whereby, if that was true, why the need for a bloody cross?So, with the help of Almighty God, through his word of truth rightly divided,when talking to others over the years, we try to help them unlearn some things.Unlearn the lies. Unlearn the lies about how they need to first do something about their sins before they can be saved.Help them unlearn that and transform their thinking to where their focus is on the cross of Christ.The place where he won the victory over sins.The sins the religious world majors on are the very sins that were defeated at Calvary.So, right up front, we try to help them rearrange their thinking and begin to see the dichotomy between how to be saved and how to live.Two different subjects.It's crucial to understand which one comes first.The cart before horse religion has the masses trying to live God-honoring lives to be saved.And you know who gets the glory?Satan.Satan's getting all the glory for that.Trying to give people truth to change their thinking, man, it's extremely hard to break through that devilish barrier that stands in the way.To break through the blockade that old man religion has created in their psyche.People who had good intentions, but because they ascribe to a theological system instead of Paul's rightly divided gospel of Christ, they're in danger of dying while thinking that their going to heaven depends on how well they keep their flesh in submission and under subjection.It's a travesty.The religious system, having not understood the differences between time past economy, but now economy, and ages to come economy, are not capable of teaching grace without mixing it with works.They just can't.A result of not rightly dividing the word of truth.Now, Paul dealt with this same issue, and matter of fact, you won't find a better verse describing how there can be no mutuality between grace and works than, than,than what he wrote there to the church at Rome in chapter 11.Chapter 11, verse 6, And if by grace, then is it no more of works. Otherwise, grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then is it no more grace. Otherwise, work is no more work.Ah, that's a good one.The false teachers of our day, they don't get this.They teach that justification is an ongoing process that doesn't get completed until the believer dies.What's more, they'll tell you that the believer must die in a state of faithfulness.Count anyone teaching this nonsense as an enemy of the cross.Go ahead and mark them.Justification happens at the moment you repent, which means to change your mind.Yeah, now I hear some say, well, you don't have to repent.Just believe the gospel.If you don't repent, there's nobody going to be saved without repentance.Your problem is, you are going on the wrong definition of repentance.No, repentance is our word.Nothing wrong with it.Just you have to believe what it actually is, which is a change of mind.And there's no one going to be saved without changing their mind.It's impossible.You see, previously, you were trusting in something you've done in your flesh for salvation.But what did you do?You repented, changed your mind, stopped that stinking thinking, and started trusting, and resting your faith in Christ Jesus alone.For having done all the work necessary for your sorry soul's salvation.And upon believing Paul's gospel, you're justified, and the imputation of righteousness is immediate.There's not a waiting period.There's not an evaluation of how good you live your life.That's a lie from the pits of hell.The Bible is not some obscure book, as we just heard one lying preacher on TikTok claim.Romans 4:5 is clear, But to him that worketh not, but to him that worketh not, but believeth. What? But believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.So God justifies who?The ungodly.Are they justified for their pursuit of a holy life till the day they die?No.God justifies him that worketh not, but believeth on him.Doesn't their walking right, talking right, living right, making all the right decisions, doesn't that make them righteous?Doesn't that have something to do with?Surely it does.No.Their faith is counted for righteousness, and you just need to believe the words on the page.Some say they believe God, but they really don't.This here, you can achieve it "if" message that's so popular today, is a lie from Satan.It comes directly from his deceitful workers who have transformed themselves into ministers of righteousness.Romans 5:8, God commendeth his love toward us in that while we were yet sinners.Pause. Christ died for us.You get that?You want a big helping of grace without works?There it is.You want a second helping?Here we go.Verse 13, For until the law, sin was in the world. But sin is not imputed when there is no law.Lord shippers, are you listening?Huh?Catholics, are you listening?What about the Methodists?Any Methodists in the house?The good little boys and girls are not candidates for grace.Grace is for the ungodly if you believe your Bible.And by the way, by the way, when it comes to pleasing God in the flesh, there are no good little boys and girls.And you'd know that if you knew who to compare yourself with.Compare yourself to Jesus and then tell me how good you are.You see, from a child, you've been lied to.As it is written, Romans 3:10, There is none righteous, no, not one. For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. Verse 23. Who's still with me? Did I lose anyone yet? Oh, Mr. Pride, got you by the toe and won't let go?Got you all up in your ego?Maybe you ain't ready.Maybe you're not ready to digest this truth today because you're blinded by your self-righteousness.Romans 10:3, ignorant of God's righteousness, so you can just go on and continue to be tossed around to and fro, every wind of doctrine, foolishly attempting to establish your own righteousness.Meanwhile, refusing to submit yourselves unto the righteousness of God.Still on the milk, unable to digest the truth that Christ was the end of the law for righteousness to everyone that believeth.Praise God.See, to an old fool like me, who understands how sorry low down he is, that's good news.Paul says if we consider what he says, the Lord will give us understanding in all things.So, you know, there is great perplexity in how anyone can consider what he wroteand come away thinking that both grace and works are needed for their justification.Don't make sense.Listen, they can't be any different.Grace is unearned.Works is a way of earning something.Complete opposites.Grace is undeserved.Work is what you do to deserve something.Grace can only be received through faith.Works is done through human effort and determines what you receive.Works is a legal performance that some use as a way to be accepted by God.Problem with that is, that's not how we're accepted.Ephesians 1:5, Having predestined us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christto himself according to the good pleasure of his will, to the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted.Listen closely.Made us accepted.He did that, not you.Being made accepted by grace through faith is polar opposite than what the performance-based religious system will teach you.Men, driven by their pride and ego, has caused this great mass confusion.Salvation happens in a split second at the moment of belief.It is not a continual process that takes a lifetime of faithfulness.And aren't you glad it's not?Again, Ephesians 2:8, For by grace are ye saved, not are ye being saved.Words mean something, folks.Salvation is not by works, but by grace.Not earned, but a free gift.That's why Paul wrote through faith and that not of yourselves.It is the gift of God.And he also said, I'm crucified with Christ, nevertheless I live, yet not I, but Christ liveth in me. And the life which I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. I do not frustrate the grace of God, for if righteousness, now listen, if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.And we read in Galatians 5:4, For Christ is become of no effect unto you,whosoever are justified by the law, ye are fallen from grace.Most all churchgoers that name the name of Christ will say they believe saved by grace through faith, but that number drops drastically when they're asked if they believe we are saved by grace through faith alone.Alone.That word is a big divider.The word, alone.That'll do it every time.That's where the sparks fly.Most all, most all denominationalists will nod their head if you say saved by grace,including Catholics.But attach alone to it and watch them squirm.Watch them squirm.Speaking of Catholics, I ran upon something the other day.Shouldn't be too hard to find here.Let me get it quickly.Let's see.Should be here somewhere.We see this sort of thing all the time.Always someone somewhere fighting against, Paul's Galatians 2:7, gospel of the uncircumcision.Fighting against his Acts 20:24, gospel of the Grace of God.Fighting against the Romans chapter 1, gospel of God or gospel of Christ.Which by the way, while I'm looking, while I'm tracking this down here, don't let anyone convince you that these are different gospels.Gospel of the uncircumcision, gospel of the grace of God, gospel of God.No, don't let anyone fool you with that mess.They're not different.They're just different terms that he used for his one, my gospel.Only one.Only one.Paul didn't preach two.He didn't preach three or four or more.He preached one Gospel and he calls it my gospel.So he can say of the uncircumcision, he can say the gospel of the grace of God.He can say the gospel of Christ, the gospel of God.It's one gospel.It's Paul's gospel.Don't be fooled by that.Okay, here's what I'm looking for.Catholic.comOh yeah!The big guys.Catholic.comThey put it this way.Watch this.I want to show you how confusion creeps in.Corruption creeps in.Catholic.comQuote, Let me make clear the official teachings of the Catholic Church.It teaches that we can do nothing to merit the grace that comes to us in baptismwhich is the normal beginning of the Christian life.Unquote.You caught that right.You didn't miss the deception, did you?We can do nothing to merit the grace that comes to us in baptism.Now that's sneaky.They say saved by grace which is unearned and opposite to a work, but then claim that grace comes to us in water baptism, which is a work.That's Deception 101 right there.This deception is right under our nose and should be recognized right off, but guess what?Most miss it.Listen, water baptism is a work of the flesh which opposes what Paul wrote in Galatians 2.Galatians 2:16, Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but by the faith of Jesus. Even we have believed in Jesus Christ that we might be justified by the faith of Christ and not by the works of the law for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.It cannot be clearer.It can't.2 Timothy 1:9 says that God who hath saved us and called us with a holy callingnot according to our works but according to his own purpose and grace which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began.Okay, back to Catholic.com for a moment.Here they go on to say, quote, Following Paul, the Catholic Church teaches that justification comes by faith only it says that it doesn't come through faith alone.If you look carefully at Paul's writings you will notice that he never says that our righteousness comes from faith alone only that it comes from faith apart from works.End quote.What?Amazing how Satan blinds the minds, is it not?Blinds the minds of them that believe not, right?First we have to address I mean, would be remiss not to address the giant elephantin the room.They begin here by saying, quote, Following Paul, the Catholic Church teaches,excuse me, about fell out my chair the first time I read this, the Catholic Churchhas never followed Paul.Who are they trying to fool?Everyone.The Catholic Church has never followed Paul a day in their existence.Paul says, follow me as I follow Christ.Paul calls the revelation Jesus gave him my gospel.The Catholic Church has always put Peter's gospel over Paul's every day of the week.So stop playing with us.Stop with the lies about how the Catholic Church follows Paul.You do not.The reason they're making such outrageous claims is because of ministries like ours and many others that are out here making waves and rocking the work salvationist boat which is causing some to question their belief system.They falsely claim that the Bible doesn't say salvation comes through faith aloneyet Romans 3:28 says, Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.So they directly go against Scripture.They make that false claim yet Romans 4:4 says, Now to him that worketh is the rewardnot reckoned of grace but of debt. (5) But to him that worketh not that's faith alone but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly his faith is counted for righteousness.That's faith alone all day every day and even on Sundays.And you don't have to be a neuroscientist to figure this out.Just a workman not ashamed.Even Paul says here in verse 2 here it is, For if Abraham were justified by works he hath whereof to glory but not before God.That is to say if justification was not alone Abraham could brag about it.He could brag about how he earned it which matches Ephesians 2:9 not of works lest any man could boast.Catholic.com is flat out wrong.If they were right we could all boast.We'd all brag about ourselves but we know that at the moment we heard the gospelof our salvation and trusted Christ alone for making the sufficient paymentfor the penalty of our sins we were baptized by the Spirit not a preacher into Christnot a baptistry set apart washed and sanctified having our lives hid with Christ and God and sealed up unto the day of redemption.The religious system will say that they believe in salvation by grace through faith.Their true belief is grace through faith plus a lifetime of ongoing works and faithfulness.Understanding faith alone doesn't downplay good works in the believer's life.Hey, it actually does the opposite.Once you're able to set your mind free from the worry and all the uncertainty that comes with that performance-based road to salvation you're then able to allow the fruit of the Spirit to go to work in and through you.You'll be surprised what someone can do when they're no longer worried abouttheir own salvation.When they're no longer fretting about where they're going to spend eternity.And Satan knows this.He knows this.He knows how dangerous someone can be when they finally get this faith alone message.It's hard to understand this if you don't know about the dispensations in the Bible.Paul mentions the word dispensation four times in the King James Bible and three of the four he's speaking of something given to him.He's the only one in your Bible that was given a grace dispensary.Catholic.com goes on to say something that I think leaves no question on their viewof justification.Quote, We Catholics insist that James 2:14-26 shows that works are more than mere evidence of faith.Works actually justify.End quote.Need I say more?Then here they close by saying, quote, The church teaches that salvation is a processof becoming holier and holier through time.All of this is a work of grace that God performs in our hearts through faith.Works done in faith are the natural completion of believing in Christ.As we trust and do God's work, He instills within us more grace so that we may become holier and so be ready to meet Him at the end of our life.Did you catch all the buzzwords?Salvation is a process, they say.Works done in faith are the natural completion of believing in Christ, they say.As with most of twistianity today, the Catholic Church offer no rest.They offer no assurance of salvation.Salvation is always somewhere off in the distance just out of reach.It's a process that hasn't been completed and won't be until you get to the end of your life where your works will be evaluated to see if you pass the test and to see if you're good enough for heaven.What a sad religion.I invite you to rest in His magnificent grace.2 Timothy 1:9, God who hath saved us and called us with an holy calling not accordingto our works but according to His own purpose and grace which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began.Christ died for your every sin.He was buried with your every sin.He rose without your sins.And today could be your day of salvation.Only one requirement from you, that you rest in this good news.Take your hands off of your salvation and trust Christ with it.Leave it with Him.He's got you.Until next time, grace be unto you and peace from God the Father and from our Lord Jesus Christ.

Paul was chosen to be our 1 Timothy 2:6 due time testifier, praise God, to bring us what?The Acts 20:24 gospel of the grace of God.And you know what, Faith?He confirmed that over there in 1 Corinthians 15 verse 8.He was the last person on earth, Paul was, to see the risen Christ.You mean it wasn't John?I was getting ready to say, a lot of people tell us it's John.I don't know where they get that from.I'm just getting this from scripture.They get it from carbon dating.Historians.Historians, carbon dating, all this kind of, you know.Revisionist historians, because I'm going on scripture.He was the last one.So anyway.Yep.And he was the only apostle chosen for the body of Christ, not 12 tribes.Yeah.He was not the 13th apostle.You hear people say that.He was the in me first apostle of the body of Christ.First is not 13.Paul was the perfect representation if you think about it, he represented both Jew and Gentile.Yes.So he's the perfect one for the body of Christ who's made up of what?Both Jew and Gentile.He's the perfect candidate to be the apostle of the one new man church, the body of Christ, which is comprised of both Jew and Gentile, because on one hand, he was a Hebrew brought up at the feet of a, I can never say that.Gamaliel.Gamaliel.Oh, I think that's Galileo.Yeah.Yeah.Yeah.Yeah.Yeah.Okay.But I like it.I'm going to think Gamaliel every time I hear that song.Gamaliel maybe?It could be.Anyway, he was, I know what he was.He was a Pharisee law doctor.Yeah.He sure was.Paul was also a citizen of Rome.Yes.A Gentile city.So he perfectly exemplified the Jew and the Gentile in one body.That's so cool that God chose him.Right.Well, and he was also the first one to receive that forgiveness at the cross.It wasn't revealed before him and he blasphemed the Holy Ghost at the stoning of Stephen.There's no other way he could be saved.And that's the same people that he went and spoke to.Now when you see Paul going to an audience that includes Jews, it's always a mixed audience anyways.And I know he went to the synagogue first as was his custom.So when you see him going to Jews though, he's not building on another man's foundation, so he's not going over here and speaking to Peter and John's audience and James.He's not building on another foundation.He has no reason to go to the kingdom saints.He's going to those who have either never heard of Christ, or they have rejected Christ.If Paul didn't have a different message and for this purpose, there would be no Paul.No need for him.There's no need for him.You can just rip out the parentheses.Right.And let the book go right on in to the book of Hebrews and let it play right out intoeternity.That's right.Acts 9 wouldn't even be in there.No.So you have many reasons why there is a Paul.That's right.And the reason why there is a Paul for today is so that Gentiles can be saved without having to go through Israel.Now here's another misconception.Gentiles have always been able to be saved.I've heard it preached.Gentiles can be saved.Before Paul.That's wrong.Yes, they could.Sloppy Bible study.Now what had to happen was they had to bless Israel.Right.Whenever Peter went to Cornelius, he that feareth God and worketh righteousness is accepted in all nations.So that-John 4:22, salvation-Is of the Jews.Was.It says is.Right.But we're looking at it from here.This was.So it's past tense.We're here in the parenthetical.Right.And it was, but it's not now in this but now dispensation of grace.Exactly.Exactly.So Gentiles have always been able to find salvation, but they had to go through Israel.This was God's point for Israel.I mean, it was supposed to be through Israel's rise.And guess what?In ages to come, Israel is still going to rise.Yes.And there are still going to be other nations to come through them to be saved because God doesn't break his promises.And you're going to need to find a Jew if you're out there and grab onto his skirt.Right.Chances are, according to history, you know, most of us are going to see death before we see ourselves being caught up.You know what?That doesn't prevent us for hoping that it happens and we never see that death.That's our blessed hope.And if you really look at it correctly, we would much rather that catching away takeplace before we see death, because the people that are alive and remain that we love today that may not believe this gospel that we're preaching, that's their only hope.Mm hmm.And if they get out in a car wreck tomorrow and we haven't moved into the tribulation, they haven't moved into the tribulation to where they can endure to the end to be saved.They're not going to be able to be saved.That's right.So we really hope that's another reason why we hope that our blessed hope takes placewithout us tasting death.Amen.Like one old preacher used to say, I leave the church building, Trey, and I go outside to the parking lot and I stand up on my tippy toes.I remember that.And he says, I go up and down, and up and down.He said, the folks out there will get to laughing at him.He said, I'm just ready to go.I'm ready.Maybe.Maybe today will be the day.Maybe this will be the day.Yeah.Oh, we're so thankful.Thankful that we're in this grace dispensation, that we have a grace apostle.We have our own specific chosen apostle.Nobody else can say that.And it's something that the church continues to fail to see, thinking that everything in the Bible applies to me at all times and all situations.And that's nonsensical.It's a nonsensical approach to Bible study.And those who take this approach, they have a commonality among them.You'll notice they're never at true peace.You ever notice that?Never.They never really have true joy.It's a fake put on type of peace and joy.Why not?Because their focus is on fleshly activities in the pursuit of their pleasing God.You can't please God with fleshly activities, but they don't know that.You just have to ask, how can we, with a straight face, how can anyone say that we belong back there in the books of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John?That makes no sense when I can read.We were doing it.We were talking about this just what, earlier or yesterday.We can read there in Matthew 23, then spake Jesus to the who?The multitude and his disciples.What did he say?Saying, the scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat.Pay attention.Verse 3, All therefore, whatsoever they, who's the they, the scribes and Pharisees that sit in Moses' seat. Yep. Whatsoever they bid you, what are you to do, Faith?Observe and do.Observe and do.Yes.Now, how does that make sense for me to say, I'm a Christian, and my doctrine's in the red letters, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.Oh, really now?So just where would you suggest that we go to find that one who sits in Moses' seat?And what might I ask?Do you think?He's going to tell us to do.This is a seat of law.Yes, it is.This is a seat of judgment.This is a seat that belongs in a synagogue, not a supposed Christian church building.Right, right.We did a study on that years ago, remember, about the judgment seat?Because that is the judgment seat that was given to Israel.That's right.Because we talked about the judgment seat of Christ and the different judgments.You did an excellent study on that and shared it with me.That was great.Well.That is the judgment seat that belongs to Israel.Because there was a strange dude years ago trying to say that the judgment seat of Christ is only for Israel.Oh, yeah.The same guy who says that Paul was preaching to the little flock, and that only the church of God, when it says church of God, that only meant to the little flock.No.That's a term that transcends dispensations.You're going to tell me that the church that Paul wrote to was not of God?I mean, come on.No.That's a...That's a...Any church that is after God, that is in Christ, is a church of God.It's really not that hard.Rightly dividing is an excellent tool, but as any man knows, and women who fix things, if you don't use that tool properly, it's going to come out bad for you.Yeah.You got to use the right tool at the right time for what specifically you're lookingto repair.And so sometimes we overdo it.Salvation has always been by grace through faith.Yes.You have to obey the faith in order to be saved.Now that's always been the same.This is why God is the same yesterday, today, and forever, is because there's certain aspects about God that are always the same.They're unchanging.Everything that he does and everything he wills and everything he speaks is unchanging.Nobody can change that.But, the fact is, is he deals with different people in different ways throughout time.And it's according to his will.Yeah.It's according to the doctrine that he prescribes for them to follow.It's according to that faith.That's why it's obedience to the faith throughout every dispensation.

Today on Truth Time.At that exact moment of you believing the gospel, you were saved, marked and set apart to spend all eternity in heavenly places.You had a change of position.You were baptized into Christ, transformed from darkness to light, washed, sanctified, made righteous and justified.Your life was hid with Christ in God and you were sealed with the Spirit unto the day of redemption.No need to back up to the books of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John and look to Jesus having faith.No, not one place does the Bible tell us that Jesus had to have faith for us.Remember, faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.Name one thing Jesus hasn't seen.He's eternal.He knows the end from the beginning, so He's seen it all.This is the circle they've painted themselves in.This is the circle they can't square.This is Truth Time Radio.Here we are back to further study the term, the faith of Christ.This is part four and by the end of the series we will have left no stone unturned and shut every door on this often misunderstood term.The faith of Christ is a title, not something Christ had to have in case your faith don't hold up.At the split second moment we believe the gospel, the Holy Spirit sealed us, yet somedon't trust that.Some don't trust that the Holy Spirit is capable of doing his job. What part of the day of redemption don't they understand? We're either sealed with the Holy Spirit or we're relying on Jesus having to have faith during his earthly ministry. Which wasn't to us, by the way, but to Israel. That's when he was in the flesh, the flesh that Paul told us not to pay any attention to, 2 Corinthians 5:16. Paul said, for therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith. From faith to faith. What does that mean?From the faith we read before Paul's epistles to the faith we read in Paul's epistles. That's what from faith to faith means. The King James Committee, you know, those gentlemen from Oxford, Cambridge, and Westminster who put this Bible together, hey, they knew exactly what they were doing when they placed the book of Romans at the beginning of Paul's famous 13.And straight out the gate in chapter 1 verse 17, it's no accident that we're immediately told what Paul's getting ready to do. To move the reader from the time past faith contained in the law of Moses, to the but now faith contained in the grace gospel of Paul.Law of Moses compared to the gospel of grace. Don't miss the comparative. Man, it's good. It's so good when you once get this, you get a hold of this. It's nice to know the why of things, you know, the mechanics of how things work. From Romans all the way through the little book of Philemon, what you and I are reading is the faith of Christ. Remember that. It's nothing to do with Jesus having to have faith. It's a body of data where we find the doctrine, position, walk, and destiny of the church. The faith of Christ is what we believe, not what Christ had.As you've often heard me say, the Bible is axiomatic, self-evident. It answers itself.But even though Paul gave us a clear definition of the faith of Christ right here in scripture, some, they ignore it. The definitions in Philippians chapter 3 verse 9, watch, And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, the law of Moses. Now compare that to, But that which is through the faith of Christ, that's Paul'sgospel. The righteousness which is of God by faith. The comparative is obvious.Righteousness of the law of Moses compared to Paul's gospel where our righteousness is found.That's where our righteousness is, and it's not in Deuteronomy 6:25 where Moses said that their righteousness came by doing all the commandments God commanded them. Go read it yourself. Check it out. This is actually pretty simple stuff if we get a hold of it before men twist it.God's word, the word he puts above his own name, says the faith of Christ is the righteousness which is of God by faith. And nothing, nothing about Jesus having to have faith in anything.Imagine that. Imagine Jesus, who the Father himself called God in Hebrews chapter 1 verse 8.Jesus, who is all-knowing. John 16:30. Imagine Jesus, who's the John 8:58 before Abraham was I am, needing to have faith in something. What? Hmm. That math don't math. That's not biblical.In time past, there was a faith which was of the law, the books before Paul, but now there's a faith apart from the law, that which is through the faith of Christ found in Paul's epistles. Simple.Now back to our definition. And let's look at something. Let's look at something here. Paul not only gave us the definition of the faith of Christ in Philippians chapter 3 verse 9, bt watch, watch this, watch how Romans 3:22 agrees. Guys, knowing the truth shall set you free. Watch, Even the righteousness of God, which is by faith of Jesus, unto all and upon all them that believe, for there is no difference. See that? The righteousness of God, which is by faith of Jesus Christ, that matches the Philippians 3:9 quote unquote, "faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith."The righteousness of God unto all and upon all that believe. Believe what? Believe the gospel of our salvation contained within the faith of Christ, the body of doctrine found in Romans through Philemon. Again, this is the from faith to faith in Romans 1:17. Here Paul's saying from faith, mine own righteousness that was of the law, to faith, the righteousness which is of God by faith to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly.His faith, the one who believes on Christ, is counted for righteousness.If you missed this clear definition, I'm sorry, but you did it on purpose.And that's what some do. They decide they've got too much invested in their error to change now.I've made too many posts on what I thought it was. I taught a lesson on it. I reposted someone's teaching. I'm in too deep to change now.The faith of Christ is Paul's doctrine. It's what we believe for salvation and the faith whereby we live our lives. And if you want to argue, you want to argue with that, I'll tell you what you do. Prove it while staying within context. Go do that. But if you can't, it's because it's not provable. If you can't do it with context, you can't do it. No context of the term faith of Christ anywhere in scripture states that Jesus needed to have faith in anything. It's just not there. See, the problem is some care less about context. It's shameful.But we're grateful for those who do. Thankful for all you guys, all the Bible believers that have been following us through this series and have contacted us to let us know that they changed their mind on this. They decided to take a fresh look at the verses that say faith of Christ, faith of Jesus Christ.Faith of the son of God, faith of him, the faith. They took each of those and tried replacing it with the words Jesus was required to have faith during his earthly ministry. And you know what?They quickly noticed it don't work. This is what happens when you decide that the word of God in context is more important than what a teacher or a group taught you. When you escape from the herd mentality and start to think for yourself.Again, the Bible is self-evident. It answers itself. So let's try to rely on it to dictate what the term faith of Christ means. Okay? When you take it upon yourself, you do that and you take a three-word term, faith of Christ, and add Jesus was required to have faith during his earthly ministry to make it line up with your personal theology. For some of us, that's a problem. Here at TTR, hey, if we can't find it in the context, we don't take it upon ourselves to make blind leap assumptions. If it's not there, don't teach it. That's a real simple rule to follow. The Bible defines faith in Hebrews 11. Watch, Hebrews chapter 11. You want a definition of what faith is? Of course you do. If you're going to teach that Jesus had to have faith, then it would be a good idea to know what the definition of faith is. Hebrews 11 chapter 1 verse 1. Here we go, Now, faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Let that marinate a moment. You see, some today, hey, they got a Jesus that's hoping for things. They got a Jesus that has to hope for things he hasn't seen.But that's not our Jesus. My Jesus is the before Abraham was, I am. I know the end from the beginning Jesus who's seen it all. Are you listening? He's seen it all. He's not hoping for nothing. They have a Jesus that died for their sins, but isn't God. That's a Jesus with limits.John 1:1, In the beginning. Wait, when? What's that, John? In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was God. Verse 2, The same was in the beginning with God. Your Jesus may need faith, but it's not the one John wrote about here.No, it's not the one John says knew all things. Watch this, John 18:4, Jesus, therefore, knowing all things that should come upon him. What? Jesus, knowing all things that should come upon him, but he needs faith? For what?Was his death on the cross part of the all things that should come upon him?Huh? Was the resurrection part of the all things that should come upon him?Of course. Yet some insist on teaching that he needed faith to raise from the dead.He wouldn't need faith for something he already knew.This is sort of a duh moment here, is it not?If faith is the evidence of things not seen, yet Jesus knew all things, the Jesus required to have faith folk got a problem.Listen, the Jesus of the Bible, not the one some men have reduced him to, the Jesus of the Bible knew who would betray him before they even did it.John 6:64. Watch this, But there are some of you that believe not, for Jesus knew from the beginning, who they were that believed not, and who should betray him.Oops, this doesn't fit the Jesus needs faith narrative.It just don't.The Jesus of the Bible was a heart reader.He read hearts. Mark 2 verse 6, There were certain of the scribes sitting there reasoning in their hearts.Verse 7, Why doth this man thus speak blasphemies? Who can forgive sins but God only?Verse 8, And immediately, when Jesus perceived in his spirit that they so reasoned within themselves, he said unto them, Why reason ye these things in your hearts?Jesus knew what they were thinking before they said a word.And the faith of Christ's extremists, with a straight face, they want us to believe that Jesus, the Jesus who could read hearts, he Jesus who knew what people were thinking before they even opened their mouth, he needed faith.When the definition of faith is the evidence of things not seen, math ain't mathing.Unless it's some sort of new math you're talking about.And by the way, by the way, Jesus being faithful, hey, that's not the same as him having faith.Yes, Jesus is faithful.That's not...Go look at the...Listen, the Bible definition won't match faith.Faithful and faith are not only spelled different, they are different.Two separate words, two separate meanings.Does anyone honestly question that?Surely not.But if so, let us know and we'll see if we can help you with that.But hopefully, hopefully you're like these others that we've been hearing fromthat are now seeing that this idea of Jesus having to have faith during his earthly ministry just doesn't fit in any of the faith of Christ verses.Especially if you respect the words of your apostle, Apostle Paul, who very plainly said that you're not to know Christ after the flesh, which is exactly what his earthly ministry was.God manifest in the flesh.So by now, hopefully you too, you too are having a light bulb moment.Listen, you'll have a big light bulb moment when you realize that the faith of Christ is what we believe, not what Christ had to have.The lights will come on, and when you learn that every time that you come across the words, faith of Christ, it's a term, and not what he needed during his earthly ministry.How could he who knows everything need faith in anything?When faith is the evidence of things not seen.See how it just don't work.Now, as we explained when we first began the series, there's a group that has taken this teaching to an extreme level.They use just about any and every verse from Paul's epistles that mention the word faith, and they take it and twist it to make it say Jesus had to exercise faithduring his earthly ministry.They're scripture twisters is what they are.You see, when you take an idea, turn it into a doctrine, and begin to teach it,you have to be ready, you have to be prepared, and able to address the logical conclusion that results from your idea.If you can't, then don't teach it.Oh, it's easy to get behind your phone and spout off to babes in Christ about something, but it's another thing when someone is able to talk back and make you face up to what you're saying.Someone who's not a baby in Christ.Someone who can press you.Someone who knows the right verses to go to and the right questions to ask.Interactive dialogue, instead of that one-way monologue.That's a lot different.So I challenge anyone from this group to step forth and give us a call.We'll pay for it, toll free.Here's your chance to come up and back your claim concerning the faith of Christ.These out here that's using Paul's epistles to say Jesus had faith during his earthly ministry must find a formula that helps to identify when our faith is being spoken ofand when Christ's faith is being spoken of.Otherwise, the logical conclusion will be that the believer is not required to exercise faith for salvation at all.And you know what that is?That's universalism.So what happens?The teacher of this harebrained idea must formulate stipulations in an attempt to,to deflect from the potential errors.For example, the faith of Christ extremists, they will say, when you see the wordsthrough faith, now this is how bad it's gotten, folks.They're teaching, that when you see the words, through faith, in Paul's epistles,it's talking about Jesus having faith during his earthly ministry.Straight up deception is what that is.They've now created a quote-unquote solution which they believe will avoid the faulty conclusion of universalism based on this idea of Jesus needing to have faith.But what they fail to recognize is in doing so, they've only created more problems.Which is what happens when a teacher of false doctrine refuses correction.False doctrine breeds more false doctrine.Ideas have consequences.We're not called to teach ideas, but to preach sound doctrine.So let's look a little closer and see the problems that develop when this idea of the through faith verses are referencing Jesus exercising faith.Whom God had set forth to be a propitiation, through faith, in his blood, to declare the righteousness of the remission of sins that are passed through the forbearance of God.Some are so devoid of the ability to acknowledge the majesty of God that they have taught themselves and others into believing that this means that God had faith in Christ's blood.Listen, if the object of your faith is required to have faith in something or someone else, then you need a new object.Because your current one isn't worth a dime.Where do you find a requirement to exercise faith for the one who is called I am?If you think I am needs faith, then allow me to be blunt and forthright by suggesting that you don't know who the I am is.Full stop, straight up, no question.See, people say they believe the Bible, but if they really did, they'd believe the Hebrews 11:1 definition of faith.And after believing it, maybe they'd take the time to study out who needs it and who don't.Anyone who's studied why faith is needed in the Bible should immediately discern that neither God the Father or God the Son is a candidate for needing it.Okay, we're about to wind things up, but they're also saying, we heard this, they'll tell you that first you have to have faith, and then somehow your faith gets transferred to his faith.As if it's a relay race.Just pass the faith baton.Yeah, it can get seven flavors of nuts faster than a knife fight in a phone booth.Heard one talking about, sometimes my faith just ain't all that good, so I need Jesus to have faith for me.What are you talking about?When you're saved, it's done. Over.Your salvation is not a continual process.What Bible are you reading?Sounds like something I'd find in the New King James.Being saved.No, you are saved.You're saved, you're sealed, the Holy Spirit has done its job.This isn't conditional on you continuing to have faith or Jesus continuing to have faith for you.No.You're in the land of make-believe.At that exact moment of you believing the gospel, you were saved, marked and set apart to spend all eternity in heavenly places.You had a change of position.You were baptized into Christ, transformed from darkness to light, washed, sanctified, made righteous and justified. Your life was hid with Christ and God, and you were sealed with the Spirit unto the day of redemption.No need to back up to the books of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John and look to Jesus having faith.No.Not one place does the Bible tell us that Jesus had to have faith for us.Remember, faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.Name one thing Jesus hasn't seen.He's eternal.He knows the end from the beginning, so he's seen it all.This is the circle they've painted themselves in.This is the circle they can't square.They're trapped in the circular reasoning bubble that keeps them on a merry-go-round.Get off of it.Get off and come into the knowledge of te truth.When you finally come to terms with the fact that, just like there isn't a single verse in Paul's epistles that tell us how to get our sins forgiven, neither is there a single verse that tells us Jesus exercised his faith during his earthly ministry.And there sure isn't a single verse in Paul's epistles that tell us to teach this to anyone.Him dying for your sins, being buried with your sins, raising the third day without your sins, nw that's the gospel.That's something you can rely on.That's consistent.Believe that and be saved and sealed into the day of redemption without Jesus having to have faith.That's not even the gospel.

You can have great knowledge, but without charity, forget it.Just pack it up, go home, find you something else to do that maybe you're better at.Maybe teaching the Bible is not for you.Without charity, we're no better than all the other voices out in this world.We just mix right in, sound just like them, walk in step with them, not walking in line in Paul line, not walking in line with the spirit, but just sounding like the world with vitriol and anger and lack of temperance.You can have knowledge and you might be zealous, but without charity, you're really nothing.No, no. And that's what Paul says.I mean, that's the very first verse of this chapter.That's where he says, though I speak with the tongues of men and angels and have not charity, I am become as a sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal.According to the verse that you just read in the next chapter over in chapter 14, that's no good.There's no benefit.I mean, the very next verse after that says that how will one going into battle understand what to do if they don't know?Paul over there in Ephesians 3 says, And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fullness of God.Now, you'll never be filled with the fullness of God until you get your pride and ego out of the way and get into this charity.Yeah.This love, this joy, this peace, that peace of God that you've allowed to rule in your heart.That's when you can demonstrate charity to others.That's right.Who's our pattern? Paul.He wrote this.All we have to do is follow it.We don't have to figure it out.We don't have to wait for a special revelation of the Lord.The Lord Jesus Christ revealed this to him.He wrote it down in 13 epistles and all we have to do is look at it and go, okay, let me practice following this.Right, right.People have a strange idea sometimes of what love is and what charity is.And Paul wasn't a pushover, but it is quite possible to be firm and stand in the word of God and have a backbone about what you're doing without taking cheap shots at other people.Like a bully on the playground.Taking people's lunch money.Yeah.Yeah.A bully's on the playground.No, we don't want to do that.We can walk above that.Right.You can't be filled with the fullness of God.You just can't until you get that kind of stuff out of the way.And it takes practice.It takes renewing the mind and installing Pauline doctrine.That's right.Colossians 3:14, And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of what?Yep.Perfectness.Perfectness.Why is it that we?I always want to say it.I always, instead of saying per'fectness, I always want to say perfect'ness.It's funny.That's why I stumbled at that.And what does he say next?What happens if we do that?The peace of God rules in our hearts.That's right.Wow.So there's a condition, but look at the result.That's amazing.That's right.There it is, guys.And then he goes on to say to the which also you are called in one body and be you thankful.Verse 16, Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs.That's what we do on our mobile app.Yes.Singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord, man, don't you just love Paul's words?If your mind isn't right, Paul will fix that stinking thinking for you real quick.That's right.Such beautiful words that minister to the heart of the believer, right?I mean, this is, this is amazing.And Colossians.Colossians is great for that, too.Sometimes I get lost, especially in chapter one, I get lost in Colossians and just you can read over and over the magnitude of what Paul is describing that that has been done for us who are fortunate enough to be alive during this dispensation of grace.In chapter 1, I can just read this chapter over and over and over again.And I see something a little different every time.It's not, it's more information is it's more elaboration is it's something else will pop out at you and you'll be like, I never noticed that before.That's right.I never know.And this is, this is what growth is whenever, you know, and I hope to never get to a point to where I feel like I can't do that anymore.This is the reason why I want to read the scriptures, the reason why his word is living because you, you, you get a new living revelation so to speak, it's not a secret.It's just something you didn't know before because you're you and if you open that word and read it with that open mind that way and see these things, but see, your, your premise has to be right for you for that to happen.That's right.There's no edifice there.Right, right.So keep talking to us, Paul.I'm looking here.Romans 12:9, man, he's good, Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil. Cleave to that which is good.Yes.Hear that?I mean, Abhor that which is evil.That means to hate something, to detest the way someone behaves.Verse 10, be kindly affectionate one to another with brotherly love and honor, preferring one another.Literally the definition of ministry.Romans 12:10, ministry.Ministers are not people who Lord over you.Ministers are servants.That's right.If you are a minister, you are serving others.The ministry is to serve others.It's not.Yeah, I know the context whereby you're, you're speaking.Yeah, it's not to, to, to be something to be revered or built up or anything like that.It's not a stage.Look at me, look at me.A ministry is never a stage and it's never something to grab followers for, to.To latch on to you.And ministry is what you do for others.It's not what others do for you unless it's their ministry.You see, some look at, they look at preachers and they say, Oh, well, he's not after money.So you know what?He must, he's a good, he's a good preacher.Well, you better inspect that.Okay.You better turn up your discernment because maybe there's something else he's after.That's self serving.Right.Like power.Right.There's other things besides money that people lust after.There you go.The lust of power.Oh, I don't want your money.I just want you to revere me.I want you to, to, to stay in line with what I say to copy me.No, we're Paul's our pattern.We're not, we're to finish his sentences.We're not to copy you.That's right.That's right.That's exactly Galatians 5:22, I love it. I did a study on the fruit of the spirit sometime back and I never got to part two. I, I've got more in me on this subject and a promise to come back with a part two. We got off on something else. I'm going to go back and recap and do that eventually, but 5:22, But the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, long suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith.In verse 23, meekness, temperance against such there is no law.Verse 24, and they that are of Christ have crucified the flesh with the affections and lust.Verse 25, If we live in this, the spirit, let us also walk in the spirit.Verse 26, Let us not be desirous of vain. What? Vain, say that again, Paul, vain glory. What's that next word? Provoking.Oh my goodness.I see a lot of that.Provoking one another, envying one another, vain glory, vain glory, vain glory.Whoa.Now that's a big problem we see today.Yeah, that's it.That's exactly right.

Today, I'm asking the question, when did you stop believing your Bible?God said he would successfully preserve his word.He did.He did exactly what he said, yet somewhere along the way, you jumped ship and stoppedbelieving him.What hindered you from obeying the truth?We have our Bible correctors out there.Oh, they know more than God, so they're going to write an article about it and correct some things for you in your King James Bible.Such a marvelous thing when we consider that God has given us his perfectly inspired and preserved words.In Ezekiel, chapter 1, verse 3, we find this, the word of the Lord came expressly unto Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzai.So here we see that God accomplished exactly what he set out to do, which was to haveEzekiel write down his words.No need for today's modern man and his extra thoughts or creative concepts.Nope, God's word is above his name, that's what he said, and the last time I checked,his words were just fine.The great prophet Jeremiah, let's talk about him for a moment.He wrote of something God told him, take the a role of a book, and write therein all the words that I have spoken unto thee, words, God's words, not man's, God's.God never tells Jeremiah that, hey, I'm going to give you some words.I want you to then go write a commentary.God gave him words, pure, perfect, and preserved words.The power is not in man in his Mickey Mouse scholarship.Even like many men of our day, Jeremiah understood this.He knew this, he knew it wasn't about him, speaking with a fellow about the word of reconciliation when he expressed to me how much he loved to study God's word, and to only later find out that what he really meant was he'd been studying man's commentary.That was his definition, and a lot of people, that's their definition of studying God's word.Commentaries are just comments about the Bible.They're not Bible.Every commentary you'll ever read comes to you from man's vantage point.It's only the Bible, listen, only the Bible comes to you from God's perspective, fromhis point of view.Meaning, it's only fitting only proper to study the Bible to understand commentaries,not study commentaries to try and understand the Bible.So again, the question, when did you stop believing your Bible and began to believe man?Get out your scales of discernment.I'll never forget a couple from Florida.Some of them died in 2020, the other in 21.But I'll never forget a phone call, George made, and I may even play it here in a moment if I can locate it.But George said, after finding us, he started to understand and take God at his word.So he no longer had the need for Bibles with man's commentaries.He also said he stopped buying preacher books.Hey, here it is.Let me, let me run this for you.Let me, let's see.Let's hear this real quick, and I'll come right back.I was 60 years old before I finally heard about rightly dividing, and I learned a lot.I'm 71 now.I have that freedom you talk about.The righteous of God in Christ and knowing.Finish crossword of Christ, as you say.I was raised Baptist, and I'll tell you.We thought we had it right over everybody else, but we were totally wrong.Thank God, for I met death, I've heard the truth.The true gospel of Paul, Jesus gave to him, and I'm free.I have a freedom I've never had before.It's amazing.We're learning a lot from your programs, I mean, and we're parent scripture with scripture.I write it in my, I got a journal by where I can write verses out to the side.I know I have the references later to go from verse to verse.I've thrown away the Bibles and how much reference is all.I don't even want one with their notes in it.I've thrown away parallel Bibles, and you American standards, and then I have these.I have anything around with the King James, and I try to get one that doesn't have anybody's comments in.The wisdom of man always gets in the way of the Word of God.I was one of them for that 40 years.I read a lot of preacher books, and things on manuscripts and garbage like that, youknow, and they just tortured me all those years, making me wonder like you said, I never knew where I was saved or not.Never did until I finally heard the gospel of grace.George is gone, his wife Judy is gone, but their labor lives on.Even to this day, we're hearing from people who are finding our ministry of reconciliation because of them.We had to send them several shipments of truth time cards.They passed them out every day, everywhere, all over Florida.We even have another couple, Susan and John.I can't remember exactly, but I think they met George and Judy in a grocery store.But anyway, that's how they found this.George and Judy handed them a card, and now they're saved in ministering reconciliation themselves doing the Aquila and Priscilla thing.They're passing out TTR material all over the University of Florida.I think they're both employed there.All because of this little elderly couple, they met in a grocery store.Amazing how the love of God goes to work in people when they get self out of the way and allow him to reign in their hearts.This is how it works, folks.Tell others about WTTR, that's great.But more importantly, tell them the word of reconciliation before it's too late.The gospel, the good news, the best news ever.God wrote it through the hand of Paul, and it's not a hard concept.You can open the Bible and read it out loud, and most can understand it.Accept it?Well, that's a different story.Perhaps, but at least you can say you planted the seed.Most haven't heard the word of reconciliation.Their so-called preachers of the day aren't even preaching it.God's not imputing your sins.He rose on day three to give you justified eternal life, and you don't need to graduate cemetery to go tell others about this.You don't need a man's school.You need God's Word.You need God's plain, not man's plain.These cemetery graduates won't do you a bit of good.Most all surveys show that around 40%.I think it's 40 could be less.Come out believing that we actually have God's preserved Word.And this was several years ago that's probably, that number's probably dropped.After graduation, most become Bible correcters.And don't kid yourself.This is beginning to happen to those who graduate from grace schools as well.And it'll only wax worse.They graduate, leave, and become dictionary dependent, textual critics, Bible correcters, and hey, be sure and buy my book.Stop kneeling at the altar of today's so-called scholars and get back to the basics, study the show thy own self approved.Most of these men only teach you to question God and lean on them for your understanding.Paul never questioned God's Word.But rather said, the things I write are the commandments of the Lord.And he also said that which man's wisdom teaches, not so good.The spirit wrote this book, compare scripture with scripture, not preacher to preacher, commentary to commentary.It don't work that way.Peter never questioned or corrected God's Word either.But rather said the words he spoke were the same words God gave the Holy Prophets.These men had no need for the XYZ Jerusalem bookstore.Now did they.No commentaries needed.To all you frauds out there, always want to talk about the original this and the original that.In the temple when Jesus stood up to read from the prophet Isaiah, I don't recall himcomplaining about the translation.He didn't ask anyone for the originals.No he read from the copies.Are Bible correct in professors out there?You need to believe that God gave you his perfectly preserved words, black words on white pages.The Bible can then begin to open itself to you and allow you to see the truth.The truth you've been missing all these years while hanging on man's coat tell, calling yourself studying the Bible when you're reading commentaries.If you'll open this book and study it from within the purview of the dispensation ofgrace on God's calendar, that's where we are.The time period is but now and the dispensation of the instructions been administered and dispensed at this time.They're in Paul's 13 letters.Clear's can be.

Good to see all you guys here, too.Wow, good to see you.But as we were talking earlier, guys, we need to be kind and affectionate, one to another with brotherly love.And here's a verse, one that we've learned to put into practice after a couple of decades of ministry, and it's found, 2 Timothy 2.2 Timothy 2, this is a good verse.It's verse 24. And the servant of the Lord must not strive, but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient, Paul says.That's a meaty verse.Think about that, guys.If you're a servant of the Lord, don't strive.That's not the lane for you.Be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, be patient.You see, some use their liberty, as we mentioned earlier, as an occasion to the flesh, as Paul warned, and he did so in Galatians 5:13.For brethren, over there he says, have you all been called unto liberty? Then use not the liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but to love and to serve one another.See, some blame the devil for everything.Ever notice that, Faith?Yes.Somehow, that's supposed to justify their poor behavior.They blame all their ministry woes on everyone else.And it's the devil's fault, always.It's never them.And, hey, I tell you where you go if you want to see who's responsible for most of your woes.Go to the mirror.Yeah.You know, the saying, everything happens for a reason.The flip side of that is sometimes the reason is because you're stupid and you make bad decisions.That's right.So.I mean, that's basically what I was just saying.That's what made you, what you made me think of whenever you said it's the mirror.Look in the mirror.I mean, that is absolutely right.There's circumstances in life that we have no control over.But what comes from us, we have control over.I mean, that's what temperance is about.It's self-control.It's being able to control ourselves.I think that's something that it doesn't seem to be highlighted enough.But the fact is, again, going back to our ambassadorship.That's right.Ambassadors should have self-control.To be able to bear all things, as Paul says in verse 7, to bear all things, believe all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.Now, here comes the key to all this.Verse 8, charity never faileth.Hear that?I don't think we're really listening to what Paul is trying to tell us.Charity never faileth.Hey, charity is batting 1,000.In baseball, that's an excellent batting average.I wish I had that when I played.Charity doesn't work half of the time and then fail the other half of the time.No, charity never faileth.Listen to Paul.Charity never faileth.Pow!That's so powerful.And if you drop down to, let's see, drop down to verse 13.See that?Yeah.And now abideth faith, hope, what?Charity.These three, but the greatest of these is charity.Yep.Charity is to what Muhammad Ali claimed to be to the boxing world.The greatest.If we follow after charity, just watch all the puzzle pieces that used to not fit.Watch how they start to fall in line.Right, right.Amen?You know, beware of those who claim that they are taking over.They're taking over this.They're taking over that.Well, the Lord is the only one qualified to take over.And once we allow his word to work effectually and go through us and let that, as we work out our own salvation, once we allow that to have preeminence, then everything else in the puzzle piece just flows.It fits.But see, some lack in that charity department because they are full of themselves.Yeah.Yeah.You got to get pride and ego out of the way.Guess what?What charity can rule and reign in your heart if you do that.Now, I'm not here saying I've got this thing down perfectly.I'm a work in progress.But this is what Paul's telling us.Well, if we're honest, we're all a work in progress.I mean, nobody has arrived.Paul even said, not that I have attained.I mean, if Paul hadn't attained when he wrote Philippians 3, then surely we haven't.You know, I would never act like I'm more than him.Amen.But something that came to me while you're reading 1 Corinthians 13:8.Hey, charity never faileth.Well, if you ever begin to think that you're a failure, looks like you could probably just begin to try more to walk in charity.The thing is, is that if we're walking in that charity, and that charity never fails,then we're not going to fail as long as we're walking in that charity.And allowing the word to effectually go to work in and through you, I might add.Right, right.Johnny says, me too.No one has arrived.No one has it a thousand percent right.That's right.Dan, always striving towards the high calling.Amen.Right, right.1 Corinthians chapter 14 verse 7.Faith.There's where our apostle says, Things without life giving sound, whether piped or harped, except they give a distinction in the sounds, how shall it be known what is piped or harped?There's where charity comes in.And without charity, you're going to sound like a tinkling cymbal.You're going to sound like a sounding brass.There you go.Out of harmony, out of step.One of the worst things is when you're listening to a song and they're out of harmony.We've got to always keep our eyes peeled, peeled back and stay on high alert.Keep that discernment turned up.That way we'll recognize that man when he's opening up his Bible and preaching from the scriptures, but seems to be allergic to charity.You'll recognize him by his fruit.Anybody that associates themselves with that ministry, you'll notice it's kind of spilling over on them.And you know what will happen?Sooner or later, family members, close acquaintances, they'll start to see that too.This change in this person.Not love, not somebody who's bearing all your burdens and helping you along and doing as Paul do, they'll see you start to change and be hateful, and your words, your, your nomenclature, the things that come out of your mouth will be different.Right.Right.Well, you'll have a different attitude and it all spills over from that man who you supposedly are studying under, and he should be studying alongside you.Right.Not you're not under him.No, he's not above you.No.Well, and, and, and just, I noticed too here in, in chapter 13 of 1 Corinthians in this chapter that everyone refers to as the charity chapter Paul says, When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child, but when I became a man, I put away childish things.That's maturity matured in the word, right?And, and charity is what a mature person shows.An immature person is not going to be walking in charity.Right.So it's, it's, it's fitting that that verse is there actually, because we're seeing a lot of times when you see a lack of charity or when I do, I'm looking at, I wish, you know, first thing that comes to my mind is grow up, please grow up.Um, and, and so that's why this caught my eye whenever I saw it.We're over here in the charity chapter.And Paul is saying, grow up.

Second Timothy chapter 2 guys, second Timothy chapter 2, hope everyone is well. Want to thank you for the overwhelming support of our mobile app.It's been a little over two years now and we just recently received quite the bump innumbers.The downloads have tripled in the past few months and we're excited about that.So keep this ministry in your prayers.In 2 Timothy 2:15, Paul commands us to rightly divide the word of truth, and in Ephesians 1:13, he defines what the word of truth is.Sadly, most have missed the definition.Here, Paul wrote The word of truth, comma, then he defines it, the gospel of your salvation.So, if the Bible, if it contains the gospel of your salvation and Paul tells us to rightly divide it, what do we rightly divided it from?We rightly divide the gospel of our salvation from the gospel not of our salvation.That's how it works.Not everyone can digest this because let's be honest, not everyone who identifies as Christians actually believe their Bible.They just don't.But when an actual Bible believer is shown this comparison here, their eyes of understanding are open to the fact that there is more than one gospel in this Bible.There has to be.If there wasn't, there's nothing to divide, and Paul just wasted ink.So, if we're supposed to rightly divide the gospel of our salvation from the gospel not of our salvation, then it would greatly benefit us to know where both of these gospels are, right?The one of and the one not of our salvation.In today's study, let's start with the one not of, okay?The books of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, contrary to popular belief, those books are not where we go to find the gospel of our salvation.Those books primarily deal with prophecy, prophecy concerning the first coming of Christ.When he was sent to the Matthew 15:24, lost sheep of the house of Israel.At that time, Jesus was the Romans 15:8, minister of the circumcision.And since the lost sheep of the house of Israel is not us, we can be assured that this is where we go to find the gospel not of our salvation.During the earthly ministry of Jesus, he preached what is called the gospel of the kingdom.Matthew 4:23, And Jesus went about all Galilee teaching in their synagogues and preaching the gospel of the kingdom.That's pretty simple.That's pretty plain, is it not?And when it says, Their synagogues, who might that be?That's a reasonable question.Something's seriously off folks, when entire denominations, they, they choose to go to the section of their Bible that tells them about a ministry to a group of people called the lost sheep of the house of Israel.They go there, I mean, that's extremely odd, that they go there looking for instructions on how they should be saved.When they're not the lost sheep of the house of Israel.So, should it be any wonder that things written in that section of Scripture just don't line up with current day events?It wasn't written to or about us.And that is why the rest of the verse says, And healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people.That's not happening today for good reason.We're not under that administration where the supernatural healings were actively taking place.Today, you get hurt, you wind up in the ER, you get sick, you make a doctor's appointment, you get your prescription filled, you go for checkups.It's interesting to me how religion makes some people suddenly lose all sense of rational thinking.Logic goes out the door.When Jesus walked the earth, there were no long waits in the doctor's office, no once-a-week dialysis appointments, because he went about healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people.Just like we read here, so just take it at face value.Regardless of popular preaching, you won't find your healing program back there in those books Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.Not going to happen.The gospel of the earthly kingdom is not our hope.We're heavenly minded, not earthly minded.Back there, you'll find Jesus telling his audience that the meek is going to inheritthe earth.Paul tells us, Set your affections on things above, not on things on the earth.And the same gospel of the kingdom that Jesus preached, hey, he committed to the twelve.Those disciples, he commanded them, saying, go not into the way of people like you and I today.We're Gentiles.They were restricted to go to the lost sheep of the house of Israel only, Matthew chapter 10 verse 5.Go read it and just believe it, just connect those dots.Hey, he sent them to the same people he went to and he told them the same thing.Watch, verse 7, As you go, preach, saying, the kingdom of heaven is at hand.And in verse 8, he told them to do the same thing he did.Verse 8, Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead. Man, this thing lines up perfectly with the gospel of the kingdom, but it don't jive with what's going on today.It don't jive with what Jesus later told Paul to tell you and I.Today we may attend a service somewhere and see someone stand up and claim their backwas healed.Arthritis went away.Shoulder stopped hurting when the preacher laid his hands on me, but where's the raising of the dead?The cleansing of the lepers?And there's no laying hands on the blind and blind eyes being opened.See, when you read through the scriptures and decide not to cherry pick, things startto open up to you.If that healing program was in operation today, these things would be occurring left and right.But they're not.They took place at a time when salvation was of the Jews, John 4:22.Our good news program hadn't been revealed yet.It came later, later through our Apostle, the Apostle Paul, he revealed this information to us in 13 epistles, Romans through Philemon.There's where we find the gospel of the grace of God.That's the gospel given to the church, the body of Christ for this dispensation of grace.And after, after Paul's epistles, just flip over there toward the back of your Bible, you'll find Hebrews through Revelation.Instructions for Hebrews.Hebrews in time future.Nine books containing doctrine that is, it's a continuation of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, basically, instructions primarily for the 70th week of Daniel, the 1,000 year reign of Christ, and things that will pertain to the New Heaven and the New Earth.See, most aren't aware that what's written in Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John and over there in the back of the book, Hebrews through Revelation, is a fulfillment of old testament prophecy.It's not the one new man body of Christ information.No, that's what you find in Paul's epistles.There we find the opposite to prophecy.We find mystery.Prophecy is that which was spoken since the world began, Luke 1:70 and Acts 3:21, but mystery is Roman 16:25, that which was kept secret since the world began.Quite the dichotomy.So, the Bible contains the gospel of your salvation, Romans through Philemon, and the gospel not of your salvation.The Old Testament scriptures through mid-acts and in the books, Hebrews through Revelation.One was a mystery not spoken until Paul, the other was prophecy spoken since the world began.Now, in Galatians chapter 2, that's interesting over there because Paul confirmed that the Lord revealed the gospel of the uncircumcision, he revealed that to him, but he revealed the gospel of the circumcision to Peter, James, and John.I go there all the time showing people trying to demonstrate that there's two distinct gospels.That's a good place to go because it's made clear there.In Galatians 1:11, Paul confirms that, he says, I certify you brethren that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man.See Peter, James, and John knew nothing of Paul's gospel.He said, For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.So what's the gospel of the uncircumcision?Our gospel.It's found in 1 Corinthians 15 and it's easy to understand.Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel by which ye are saved, how that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that he was buried and that he rose the third day according to the Scriptures.That's a simple message until religion gets ahold of it.Then they distort it.So watch, watch, Paul knew this.In 2 Corinthians chapter 11, he wrote, verse 3, But I fear, lest by any means as theserpent beguiled Eve through his subtlety, so your minds should be corrupted from thesimplicity that is in Christ.Ah, it's interesting who Paul used here for an example.Eve.Paul's gospel for us, it's simple, and so was the command from God to Adam.He said of every tree of the garden, you can freely eat, but hey, I've got this onetree right over there.It's off limits.Don't eat from it.Because if you do, you'll die.About as simple of an instruction as you can get, right?But when the serpent came along, just like religion, he came along and bewitched Eve.He appealed to her lust.By offering a little something extra.With just a few words, he corrupted God's simple instruction.Corrupting that which is simple, that's what religion does best.That's their expertise.In 2 Corinthians 11:4, Paul explains how this corruption takes place.For if he that cometh, preaches another Jesus whom we have not preached, or if he receive another spirit which you have not received, or another gospel which you have not accepted, you might well bear with him.This goes along with Galatians 1:7.When Paul wrote to them and warned them of those that would trouble you and would pervert the gospel of Christ, Judaizers, that's what they were.Coming in behind him then, and if you're preaching the grace gospel today, guess what?They're coming in behind you also.The focus then was a work of the flesh called, circumcision.Today it may be a work of the flesh called baptism.A work of the flesh called repeat this prayer after me.Maybe it's getting up out of your seat and walking the aisle so the preacher can makea big fair show of your flesh right in front of everyone.Or, if you're Catholic, go find a priest and a booth.Make a fair show of your flesh in front of him.Confess your sins and ask for forgiveness.Man's got to have his fingerprints on this somehow.Almost 2000 years and not much has changed.The pure grace message is still being perverted with fleshly activities.Why?Because activities satisfies the ego.It's something you can boast in.You can glory in.But in Galatians chapter 6, what did Paul tell us?He said, God forbid that I should glory in anything other than the cross of our LordJesus Christ.Look at the gospel.Go do it.Go look at the gospel in 1 Corinthians 15 verses 1-4.Do that sometime and see if you can spot repeating a prayer, walking the aisle, water baptism, turning from sins, and asking for forgiveness.You won't.You can't find it there.You can't find anything that even resembles it.Why?Because Paul had a different message.It was different than Peter's, be baptized for the remission of sins.Paul's gospel is flat out different than Peter's.Jesus revealed to Paul that he was made to be sin for us and is why God stoppedimputing them to us.Now after, okay, after someone is saved, naturally they should want to turn from sin.Paul tells us over there in Romans 6 to not allow sin to rain in our mortal bodies.To not obey the lust of the flesh.To not obey the lust thereof.Don't yield our members as instruments of ungodliness unto sin, but unto God.Now he's pretty plain.It's a commandment, not a suggestion.But we should never do that thinking it earns forgiveness.That's what the cross did.Turning from sin as a work and Paul tells us to him that worketh not.But believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.Notice the warning from Paul over there in the 2nd Corinthians chapter 11.Drop in there at verse 13 and you'll read, For such are false apostles, deceitful workers who do, what? Transform themselves into the apostles of Christ.You ever know one of those?Any preacher that preaches the gospel of do something in your flesh for salvation isa deceitful worker.But as Paul says, no marvel, for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.Any preacher claiming to be a light bearer is a deceitful worker who's transformedhimself into an angel of light.The term, light bearer, is a term for Lucifer.You can't give an honest read of any of this here in 2 Corinthians that Paul is talking about and not go away believing that Satan has ministers working for him today.As we speak, most are working for him and don't even know it.On one side we have deceitful workers who have slithered into the grace circles and they have large egos claiming to have more knowledge than anybody this side of the Mississippi.And they're out there making the cross of Christ of none effect with some sort of hybrid universalism that says the world was quickened at the cross.Wrong.Quickened means, made alive. So that's a lie from Satan.No one is made alive without belief in Paul's gospel.And then we have deceitful workers on the other side making the cross of Christ of none effect by saying things that appeal to the flesh, adding a work of the flesh to the gospel.Clowns on the left of me, jokers on the right, here I am stuck in the middle again.They know how to recite the gospel of 1 Corinthians 15, but they say you have to do something in your flesh to receive the benefit of that.Undergo catechism, join the church, answer a set of formal questions, welcome to the gospel buffet, just step up and choose your poison.A Catholic website I ran across the other day had an article there titled, What does the Catholic Church teach about how a person gets to heaven?And at the very top, straight out the gate, they wasted no time perverting Paul's gospel.It read, quote, Faith alone will not save a person, to attain salvation, a person must in response to God's grace, fulfill the following, believe in God, put his faith in Jesus, repent of his sins, be baptized, remain within the fold of the church, hope in God, persevere in charity, and finally die in a state of grace. End quote.A clear falsification of Paul's gospel of Christ, is it not?The Catholic Church, like the Protestant denominations, hey, they'll mention the gospel found in 1 Corinthians 15, but turn around and corrupt it by adding to it.Just like the serpent did in the garden.This truth isn't hidden, it's right here, but the Bible is the only book that insteadof reading it, people read books about it.So, it's no wonder why they allow the gospel to be perverted.The perversions come in many forms, and the pursuit of these religious activities place a veil over the minds of the hearer.They set up roadblocks that hinder the understanding of God's undiluted grace.Paul tells us to stop allowing those who frustrate the gospel of the grace of God, stop allowing them to poison our mind.He said, I don't frustrate the grace of God for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.Hey, beware of those who neutralize and basically nullify God's grace.It's impossible to receive the grace of God when you don't see the need for it.That's a huge problem.Man's ego.Man's ego is what leads him to believe that he's capable of doing this all on his own.He can merit salvation.Let's just face it, guys, the majority of mankind doesn't think he needs God's graceto save him.They think his grace needs their help because apparently his grace wasn't sufficientby itself.And as ludicrous as this sounds, it's the mindset of most.It's ego-driven.No reasonable thinker would dare to present to God his vile rottenness if he truly understood the righteousness that God required.A standard of righteousness that only Christ could meet.Only the righteousness of God the Son could please God the Father.And it's the Son's righteousness that has applied to us at the moment we trust thatwhat he did on our behalf is sufficient to give us eternal life.Our justification is by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone, without any works of any kind at any time.Most are ignorant to the gospel of grace.But the good thing about ignorance is it's curable.Like something I once heard, stupid is a condition, ignorance is a choice.The Bible is not some deep, dark, mysterious book that you can't understand.If you're saved, there come a day when you concluded that in your flesh there was noaction, nothing in your performance that can merit God's favor.That's when you're ready to be saved.You realize that you're no good, a sorry low-down scoundrel in need of a savior.If you're saved, you came to a place where you understood that your church membershipwasn't going to get you in.Born of Christian parents, that won't do it either.You finally realize that you couldn't ask for forgiveness enough.Hey, a parrot can repeat words and a dog can walk an aisle, but you, hey, you bettertrust Christ after hearing and believing the gospel.You tried all the church gimmicks, we all have.You jumped through all the hoops, so many that you lost count.You got so good at spinning your wheels that you're now a gold medalist in spiritual gymnastics.But after all that twistianity, you still had no peace.If you're saved, there come a day when you pass from death to life, from darkness tolight, by believing Paul's gospel.A failure to rightly divide the word of truth has resulted in mass confusion, which is actually produced enemies of the cross.They're enemies and don't know it, Philippians 3:18, For many walk of whom I've told you often and now tell you even weeping that they are enemies of the cross.Paul is not an enemy of the cross, and neither should we be.In his first epistle to the church at Corinth, he wrote, But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumbling block, and unto the Greeks, foolishness.No wonder we see such a resistance to the cross of Christ today.It's simply history repeating itself.The cross was a stumbling block then and continues to be to this dayMost are under the illusion that Israel's prophecy instructions were written to them.Replacement Israel is what some call it, but we haven't replaced Israel physically or spiritually.We are not receptors of the old covenant, we're not receptors of the new covenant.Hey, in Matthew 5:20, Jesus said, Except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and the Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.See that?So here's what's going to happen.Here's how it all plays out.When the house of Israel and the house of Judah, when they receive their new covenant, the Lord promises to Hebrews 8:10, write his laws in their hearts, and put his spirit within them that will, Ezekiel 36:27, cause them, cause them to do right.This is why John, over there in 1 John 3:7, can say, Let no man deceive you. He that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.And he also said, Whosoever is born of God, does not commit sin, 1 John 3:9, for his seed remaineth in him, and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.No wonder some today teach sinless perfection.They didn't make it up out of thin air.It's right here in Scripture, but for who?For the born again, little flock of Israel.Those that the Lord promised to write his laws in their hearts and put his spirit within them, that will cause them to do, to do them all correctly and not sin.We are not the born again bride, we're the one new man, the church which is his body.Listen guys, I'm about out of time here, but let me, let me close with this, understanding some of these, these fundamental differences, Scripture will open up like never before.Hey, Paul's gospel is the only gospel in your Bible to declare that a person's righteousness hinges solely on the finished work and resurrection of Christ. Did you know that?Paul's gospel is the only gospel in your Bible to declare that by faith alone in Christ alone, the believer is adopted and made a co-heir with Christ to receive a heavenly inheritance.Paul's gospel is the only one to declare that the believer is not only saved by grace, but kept by grace as well. That's amazing. Our salvation doesn't come with a maintenance plan.That's good news. That's how we're freed up to do good works. We're not always maintaining our salvation. We've got some free time on our hands. Religion just don't know what to do with Paul's gospel. They don't know what to do with his limitless and matchless gospel of the grace ofGod. The average church-goer has never heard of this magnificent love of the Father that was revealed in the Son. Paul's gospel is the only one to declare that the believer is sealed unto the day of redemption. Hallelujah. Only Paul's gospel assures the believer that he or she is blessed with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places. The religious world can continue to deny these distinctions of Paul's gospel if they want to, but you don't have to remain ignorant.When a preacher fails to see how that God placed more than one gospel in the Bible, his words become as an uncertain sound that only leads to confusion.Paul's gospel is the only gospel in your Bible to declare that not one sin is being charged to the world. Second Corinthians 5:19. Paul's gospel is, Moreover brethren, I declare unto you the gospel by which also you are saved, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures, and that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures.Religion says do stuff for salvation. Grace says, The stuff's done.Now, I just need you to believe it.

Today on Truth Time.There's this idea that was put out in the greater grace space about 23 years agothat changed it just a bit.They changed it and said, well, he didn't actually empty himself, but he laid aside his deity.Folks, that's just semantics.Something that was put out there to avoid the kenosis label.Laid aside, emptied, either way, you still got a Jesus that ceased being God.If you believe Jesus was 100% man, 100% God, but at some point he laid aside one of those, what's left?So if Jesus laid aside his 100% God, then you've got a Jesus ceasing to be God.And in that case, God didn't die for your sins.And if God didn't die for your sins, then a man did.And buddy, you're dung out of luck.Count it all as dung, because if you don't have a Jesus that is God, you better trade him in for one who is.Because no man's blood could have satisfied God, Acts 20:28.That verse destroys kenosis and that Jesus is his own father in one fell swoop.This is Truth Time Radio.Last time with you, we addressed some verses in Galatians concerning the phrase, Faith of Christ.Today, we're moving on to Philippians 3:9.No time to waste.Let's just get into it.And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ,the righteousness which is of God by faith.See the contrast?I want to bring your attention to the contrast here, the opposites.On one side, we have mine own righteousness, which is of the law.On the other side, we have, the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith.A clear contrast.Faith plus law versus faith alone.Look at the verse very closely.This is the Apostle Paul's Romans 1:17, from faith to faith.Etch that in your mind and watch how the verses about the faith of Christ start to make sense.Mine own righteousness, that's the law, versus the righteousness which is of God.That's by faith.That's the faith of Christ.So, mine own righteousness in the law was written information, just as the righteousness which is of God by the faith of Christ is also written information.Just think of it this way.Just think law to faith.Think prophecy to mystery.Think from faith plus works to faith alone.Think from the faith of God to the faith of Christ.That's what faith to faith means.The law of Moses versus Paul's faith of Christ.Look at the last part of the verse and watch how God defines his own terminology right here for us.It's right under our nose.The faith of Christ, comma, the righteousness which is of God by faith.He did not say anything about Christ needing to place his faith in the Father to raise him from the dead.That's man-speak, not God-speak.That's man-text, not context.Now, can you think of any other verses that use a comma separation to further clarify terms?Here's one.Ephesians 1:13.A popular one amongst most of us.Here we see Paul saying, In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth-comma-the gospel of your salvation: You see that?Paul defines the word of truth as being the gospel of your salvation.That's what the word of truth is.And notice, please notice, don't miss this.He did so in the exact same manner that we just saw faith of Christ defined.As being the righteousness which is of God by faith, not faith that Christ needed to have.Just take God at his word and it's impossible to go wrong.You can leave this study today and keep pushing the same false faith of Christ narrative but, you'll do so without the support of context.You'll be on your own.Because neither Philippians 3:9 nor any of the other faith of Christ verses say anything of Christ having to have faith.Not one.According to context, that theory is just make-believe.The three words, faith of Christ, is, it's like a title.And nowhere, nowhere that it's used suggests anything else.A title for Paul's written doctrine.The faith of Christ is what we believe, not what he had.The law of Moses is written information.And so is the faith of Christ.From faith to faith is two faiths.I think we can all agree on that.Now, Paul had to begin with the first faith in order to move his readers to the second faith.From the law of Moses' righteousness to the Romans 3 but now righteousness.It's different.From faith to faith.But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested.Being witnessed by the law and the prophets.Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ.There it is.That's the faith of Christ.It goes from faith to faith.From what is written in the law of Moses to what is written in the grace books of Paul.When you think of the terminology from faith to faith, in your mind, try to imagine a whiteboard.Make it a split screen by, by seeing a line straight down the middle.On one side of the line at the top for your heading, see the words, Law of Moses.Got it?Now, on the other side, see the words, Faith of Christ.Law of Moses.Faith of Christ.Now, underneath your heading on the left, see the words, Prophecy, forward slash, Written law books of MosesOkay?Now, on the right side, underneath your heading, see the words, Mystery, forward slash, Grace books of Paul.Okay?For your next line, on the left side, see the words of Matthew 19:16, What good thing shall I do to have eternal life? Keep the commandments.Now, move to the right side of the board on the same line and see the words from Acts 16, What must I do to be saved? Believe on him.See the contrast?Keep the commandments versus believe on him.These are two different faiths.From faith to faith.One falls under the law of Moses, which we find written in prophecy, the other falls under the faith of Christ, which we find written in mystery.Now, let's continue with our chart.Drop down to your next line, the one on the left, on the left of the split screen, and place John 4:22, Salvation is of the Jews.But over on the right side, place Titus 2:11, Salvation has now appeared to all men.By now, you should start to see a pattern here.Two different faiths.From faith to faith.In 2012, I wrote a book called, Compare the Verses.So, we could do this all day, but I think you get the picture.On the left side are all the verses that fall under the law of Moses.On the other side, on the right side, are the verses that fall under the faith of Christ.Because that's what the faith of Christ is.It's written information that Christ gave Paul to give to us.Written grace that is opposite to written law.Written mystery that is opposite to written prophecy.Hopefully, the puzzle has taken shape.The faith of Christ is what we believe, it's not what he had.The words, faith of Christ, is like a title, like my gospel, and like my doctrine.It once was salvation is of the Jews' faith, but now it's neither bond nor free faith.Neither male or female faith.Because we've moved.We've moved on.We've moved from faith to faith.From the former to the latter.From the former faith to the faith of Christ.Paul's gospel.Paul's doctrine.Something he's been trying to get across since the first chapter of the book of Romans.To take us into the but now.Where there is only...Ephesians 4.One body.One spirit.One hope.One Lord.And there it is.One faith.The faith of Christ.Paul's doctrine written in the books of Romans through Philemon.Okay.Let's look at another one here.Another one that will demonstrate how God defines his own terminology for us.Ephesians 1:17. Here's a good one. That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ-comma-the Father of glory.See, here Paul tells us that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ is the Father of glory.It does not say that Jesus is the Father.Don't fall for the Jesus is his own father garbage being taught by some who claim to be Pauline.They're not right dividers, but slight dividers.Who have built a disfigured Frankenstein godhead.It's heresy being taught by those who need to go brush up on their grammar and some of the punctuation rules before running around acting as if they're chosen to go point out the holes in other people's ministry.Meanwhile, their bucket can't even hold water.The verse here plainly says, The God of our Lord Jesus Christ.How do they miss it?We don't know.That's the Father of Glory.Not Jesus the Son.Just like the word of truth is the gospel of your salvation.Just like the faith of Christ is the righteousness which is of God by faith.And not Jesus needing to have faith that the Father will raise him from the dead.That's nowhere in the context anywhere you see the term faith of Christ.Think about that.Some want you to believe that God who was manifest in the flesh, the, before Abraham was, I am, the, I know the end from the beginning Jesus needed faith in his Father to raise him.Guys, if you know the end from the beginning, guess what you don't need?If you already know what's going to happen, there's no faith required.You see, some follow Paul until they don't.In Philippians 3:9 he defined the faith of Christ for us.What more could he have done?If you look closely, it's clearly defined here.The righteousness which is of God by faith.The righteousness which is of God by faith.Is it about Jesus needing faith to be raised from the dead?No.Let me say it again.I'll quote it for you.The righteousness which is of God by faith.Paul couldn't have made it any clearer.It's simple.The righteousness which is of God by faith is a clear contrast to the Deuteronomy 6:25, Righteousness which is of God by law.If we replace faith of Christ with Jesus having faith, watch what happens to Philippians 3:9. Watch this, And be found in him not having mine own righteousness which is of the law, but that which is through Jesus needing to have faith during his earthly ministry.The righteousness which is of God by faith.That destroys the verse.It renders the verse nonsensical.It makes no sense.No sense whatsoever.If Jesus needing to have faith during his earthly ministry is the same as the righteousness of God which is by faith, then we have serious problems.We've got a serious problem concerning who Jesus actually is.We now have a Jesus who had to have faith in order for him to be righteous.Oh, no.That's a big no-no.Hey, if the faith of Christ is the righteousness of God by faith, then you're saying that his faith is what made him righteous.Only those who believe that Jesus is not God would say such a thing.Only they would teach that he needed to be righteous the same way we do.That's cray-cray.He was already righteous based on the simple fact that God is righteous.And Jesus is God.God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit.Oh, wait a minute, Trey.God the Son is not in the Bible.When some screwball goes off flapping his gum saying that, grab old Mr. King James and smack him with a shot of truth.You're dealing with a biblical bankrupt person.That's what you're doing.God the Son is not only in Scripture, but multiple times.Here's one.You go do your homework to find the rest.But here's one.Hebrews 1:8, But unto the Son he saith, Thy throne, O God, is forever and ever.Plain and simple.Unto the Son, O God.What?Unto the Son, O God.God the Son.Say it again.Unto the Son, O God.Checkmate.There's God the Son right there.Unto the Son, O God.That is God the Son.You see, those who say, God the Son is nowhere in your Bible, all braggadocious as if they know everything, they don't actually read their Bible.Instead, they do lazy word and phrase searches, and when the three words, God the Son, doesn't come up in succession in their search, they run off thinking they've found a gotcha.Now, to say that Jesus needed faith in order to be righteous is downright blasphemy.It's blasphemy and it's a denial of his deity.It destroys the Godhead.It removes Christ's ability to save anyone.It removes the Godhood of the literal Son of God.If you say Jesus needed faith and scripture says over and over that faith is required for righteousness, if you follow that to its logical conclusion, you got Jesus needing faith before he can be made righteous.That won't work.You're stuck up a gum tree, a cart with no horse, a boat with no paddle.For those who say, it's not our faith that saves us, it's his.Or, it's not our faith that makes us righteous, it's his.Well, you can't have his faith making you righteous unless it made him righteous too.You see, you got a problem.Otherwise, he wouldn't have needed to have faith in the first place.How can we read Romans 4 without understanding that righteousness can't be imputed without faith while at the same time claiming that Jesus needed to have faith?Did Jesus need righteousness imputed to him?If the answer is no, and it is, then he had no need for faith.That argument's cooked.It's over.Now, we know of some that maintain that Jesus, what he did, he laid aside his deity,they'll say.He laid aside his deity attributes during his earthly ministry.But, listen, number one, there's simply no scriptural evidence for that.Okay? That should be enough.But, okay, number two, that's just plain old what they call kenosis.Kenosis teaches that Christ emptied himself of his deity attributes during his earthly ministry.He did no such thing.There's this idea that was put out in the greater grace space about 23 years agothat changed it just a bit.They changed it and said, well, he didn't actually empty himself, but he laid aside his deity.Folks, that's just semantics.Something that was put out there to avoid the kenosis label.Laid aside, emptied, either way, you still got a Jesus that ceased being God.You still have the before Abraham was, I am Jesus, walking around in Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John as a man with no deity.They'll say Jesus was 100% God, 100% man, but then, have us to believe that at certain times he wasn't 100% God.If you believe Jesus was 100% man, 100% God, but at some point he laid aside one of those, what's left?100% of the other.So if Jesus laid aside his 100% God, then you've got a Jesus ceasing to be God.And in that case, God didn't die for your sins.And if God didn't die for your sins, then a man did.And buddy, you're dung out of luck.Count it all as dung, because if you don't have a Jesus that is God, you better trade him in for one who is.Because no man's blood could have satisfied God.Acts 20:28. You done messed up, A.A.Ron.That verse destroys kenosis and the Jesus is his own father in one fell swoop.Our position here is that, Jesus was 100% God and 100% man at all times, from his birth to his resurrection.Just because you may run into a verse that seems a little veiled at first, that's no reason to change the fact that before Abraham was, I am.Christ is and always has been God.Kenosis is a problem and something we may get more into later on down the road.Some of you might be pretty surprised where the notion of mid-acts kenosis actually originated from, and how much it connects to other doctrines such as sonship theologyand Jesus-only teachings.According to the definition included in this one single verse, Philippians 3:9, the faith of Christ is literally the righteousness which is of God by faith.And if you'll do your homework and look at the surrounding context, you'll find,just as we did, that the Jesus needing faith in something just doesn't work.The definition doesn't maintain integrity.Instead of just reading Philippians 3:9 and making a doctrine out of it, how about try reading the surrounding verses and see what you get.Even if you only read verses 7 through 11.If you only read those verses, you'll see there's no connection with the popular faith of Christ narrative.It's M.I.A.Verses 7 to 11 are five verses together and make up only two sentences.Go check them out and see what you think.I submit that this Jesus that needs faith is absent from the context.Once you read past verse 9, you should notice Paul elaborating a little furtheron the results of the righteousness which is of God by faith.Go check out James chapter 2 verse 23, see what you got there.Brother James says, And the scripture was fulfilled which saith Abraham believed Godand it was imputed to him for righteousness and he was called a friend of God.And Paul in Galatians verse 6 says, Even as Abraham believed God and it was counted to him for righteousness.If that's not enough for you, Paul really drives it home for us in Romans 4:3, For what saith scripture? Abraham believed God and it was counted him for righteousness.Verse 4, Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace but of debt.Verse 5, But to him that worketh not but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.Whose faith?In the context, it's Abraham's faith.And to apply it as our doctrine for today, our faith of Christ.Our faith in the finished work of Christ is counted for righteousness.See, there's this thing called grammar.And in grammar, there's a thing called a clause.Romans 4:5 has a clause right in the middle of the sentence that can be removedwithout changing the context.Let's try it.But to him that worketh not, his faith is counted for righteousness.The part of the verse we removed for the sake of this example, quote, believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, didn't change a thing, didn't change the meaning of the sentence by removing it.And it only further explains the sentence when it's added.That's how grammar works.The quote, "him," that worketh not is the same quote, "his," who had faith at the end of the verse.Soon, coming up in this Roman series, we'll be moving into the fourth chapter.And as we do so, we'll see how Paul uses Abraham as a wonderful example of how righteousness is imputed to everyone in every dispensation.And it's not through Jesus needing to have faith.Never is.It's through the faith of the individual.This is a timeless, trans-dispensational truth about faith.The individual believes God.Meaning, they have faith in what God specifically told them.And that faith is counted for their righteousness.That is true for every single dispensation, no exceptions.We've heard some make an outrageous claim about 2 Timothy 2:15, I'm sorry, 2:13,but they can't provide even one verse to substantiate it.They say that, here where Paul says, quote, If we believe not, yet he abideth faithful, he cannot deny himself.They say that means Jesus had faith.Yet, now think, what that really does, it demonstrates their failure to understand that faith and faithful are different words with different meanings.For Christ to put his faith in someone, hey, that's not the same as being faithful to someone.Go study that out for yourself.Christ's faith would be his dependence on someone doing something for him.Christ being faithful is his commitment to doing something for us.Okay, we've got to end it here.We'll end it here today.Next time we'll talk about verses, quite a few, in Paul's epistles that some in this newer extremist group, claim to be about Jesus needing to have faith.And when we show you these verses that are being used, most of you will be shaking your heads, just as we did, and you'll be doing so because of some of the wild interpretations that they're coming up with.We'll also take a look at a few times where the faith of Christ is spoken of outsideof Paul's epistles.And that'll be interesting.We'll dive into the Gospels and talk about some of the verses they use over there.And we'll end with talking about the teaching that started all this among the Mid-Acts camps.It all goes back to a sermon called, When Did Jesus Learn the Mystery?We believe you'll see how three false doctrines ended up crossing paths and feeding off one another.Alright, okay.At the moment Christ died for your every sin, God stopped imputing them.He was buried, but rose the third day to offer you new life in Him by believing this good news.New life is a free gift and a free gift that the religious system has always tried to suppress.But you heard it here.You heard it here today.Receive it.Receive the free gift through faith, by grace, through faith.Until next time, grace and peace.

Kyle wrote, I was brought up in a church where it was taught that living right was what saved you, and living right was also what kept you saved.When you sin, you're lost, and when you ask for forgiveness, you're saved all overagain.This led me to believe that when I was good God loved me, but when I was bad I was merely a stench in his nostrils.This sort of teaching was commonly taught and practically crammed down my throat fromage 5 until the age of 18.It wasn't until then that I was allowed to choose whether or not I wanted to go to church.I chose to stop going, and I've not attended a church service in the last 26 years.Still not comfortable with the thought of organized church, but I'm hoping that will change.Thanks for your program and website that has exposed me to the truth.None of my friends would believe that I'm in my room constantly listening to a BibleRadio program.I get more out of just one of your programs than I remember ever getting from being in church.Kyle, Chattanooga, Tennessee.I bet there were a few hundred others that were nodding their head as I read this.My friend, you're not alone.Many of us were taught that.Well, if living right is what saves us, and living right is what keeps us saved, then no one is saved.Only one man has ever lived a righteous life, and he was a God-man.Salvation doesn't come by your right living.Salvation comes by your right believing.Your right believing in someone who lived right, and they did it on your behalf.While we members of the Body of Christ Church can peel away some things and continue to grow in Christ, there is not even one of us who can honestly make the claim that we have mastered quote, Right living.Righteous living would require perfection, and not just living better than we used to.Living better than we used to, or living a little better each day, is not what righteous living means.I can try my best to live righteously with the help of the spirit man that lives inside me, but I don't care who you think you are, there'll be times when you will fail.There'll be times when your will is going to overpower his will, period.The Holy Spirit doesn't force himself on no one.That would be spiritual rape.But many today do have this belief.Their stuck, living there on the corner of condemnation avenue.And when they fail, they're condemned and consumed with all sort of guilt.Because they've been taught that salvation is based on their right living.No, salvation is based on your right standing.And if you choose to stand with God in agreement that his son, not only performed for you, but he did it perfectly, you're in perfect righteous standing with God.Our state of living can vary from day to day, but our righteous standing with God depends on Christ and what He did.You put your faith in what He did for you, and that equals right standing with God.Now, right believing will help you move toward right living, but make no mistake about it.All the right living in the world won't save anyone.If you'll submit to the Holy Spirit, He'll help you to work through some things on your way to better living.But hey, don't put the cart before the horse.Many have yet to hear that salvation happens instantaneously.They think it's a process.Salvation is not a process.It's not a process that happens over a period of weeks, months, or even years.Salvation happens at the moment of belief.And the Bible has the evidence.If you're a Bible believer and not a Bible corrector, you shouldn't have any trouble believing this.Ephesians chapter 1 verses 12 and 13, That we should be the praise of His glory who first trusted in Christ, in whom you also trusted after that you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, in whom also after that you believed, ye were sealed with that Holy Spirit of promise.Did you get that?Verse 13 clearly states the simplicity that's in salvation.Not how you live your life, but how you're saved.After you're saved, Paul has a lot of teaching on how you should live.Right living is the hard part, but being saved is simple.Look at the words carefully in verses 12 and 13.You number one, here the gospel, number two, believe the gospel, and what happens next?You're sealed with that Holy Spirit of promise.God does not break promises.At the moment of belief you receive a seal that secures your salvation.Now that's good news.This is what Satan has been working so hard to hide from you for all these years.Now that you've come out from the blind religious world who just can't seem to get this, take hold of this truth today.Today is the day of salvation.Those in religion are governed by the God of this world, and in 2 Corinthians 4:4 were told that Satan, the God of this world, hath blinded the minds of them that don't believe Paul's gospel.In Romans 2:16, Paul's speaking, he says, A day is coming when God is going to judge the secrets of men according to my gospel.Two very important words here.Don't miss it.Paul said, My gospel.So what is your my gospel, Paul?Romans 4:25, Paul's speaking of Jesus, writes, Who was delivered for our offenses and was raised again for our justification.Do you believe that?In 1 Corinthians 15:3 and 4, Paul assures us that Christ died for our sins, was buried, left your sins there, but the grave had no power.It couldn't hold him.Your salvation is complete.He rose up to justify us if we'll only believe.It's your belief in the gospel that saves.You know, I've heard some, they'll quote James and say, Even the devil's believe.They don't believe the gospel.You need to look at that verse again.They believe in God.They know him well, but they never put their faith in the gospel.They never put their faith in Christ and what he did.Don't believe that nonsense.It's your belief in the gospel that saves.Your belief on the finished crosswork of Christ and demonstrating his power over the grave.You don't merit being righteous, but rather you're made righteous.It's impossible to lose something you didn't earn to begin with.You cannot lose your righteousness through your disobedience, because you didn't getit by your obedience in the first place.Your righteousness comes from Jesus and his obedience, so your focus should be on him.If you're righteous, you've been freed from the guilt of sin and you've been made justified.Who frees you from the guilt of sin?Who justifies you?You sure can't justify yourself.I pray that you'll come to rest in this glorious gospel.One of our truth-time listeners, Tippi Johnson, said it this way, Lies are fast and furious, but truth is slow and sure, and will eventually catch up.Very well said, Tippi, and reminds me of something else I once heard.Mark Twain said, A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes.From all of us to all of you, thank you.Thanks for your support of the WTTR mobile app.Be sure to share the app with someone today. Who knows.It just may change where they spend eternity.

Those who see no distinction with what Paul wrote, they've had their minds blinded by the God, little g, of this world.Blind to the fact that we who are members of the church, which is his body, have no relationship with God through a covenant.None whatsoever.Not old, not new.And those who simply believe the Bible already know this.Under covenant, Jesus made it clear to Israel that he would give them wisdom to defeat gainsayers, no studying required.Watch Luke 21:15, Check it out for yourself. Luke chapter 21 and verse 15, For I will give, notice, I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay, nor resist.Who's been spoken of here in Luke chapter 21?The house of Israel.Even in the next chapter, Luke chapter 22 and verse 30, we find where it says that ye may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom and sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.This has nothing to do with the church, the body of Christ.It's opposite to what the apostle Paul tells us.We're told to hold fast to what we've been taught.And that's how we will convince the gainsayers.Look at Titus 1:9, Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers.We're not supernaturally given the wisdom without study, without teachers.See the difference?Israel, God's covenant people and their covenant with him during their rise, Jesus commanded them not to study.Over and over he did this.Watch closely.Mark chapter 13 verse 11, But when they shall lead you and deliver you up, take no thought beforehand what ye shall speak, neither do ye premeditate. But whatsoever shall be given you in that hour, that speak ye. For it is not ye that speak, but the Holy Ghost.Don't miss it.Don't miss it.Why would they need study if the Holy Ghost was going to give them the words to say?Now watch.Under grace, which is during Israel's fall, Jesus commands us to study.He told them, take no thought, don't premeditate.But he told Paul to tell us something entirely different.2 Timothy 2:15, Study. What? Study.Now, through Paul, he's telling us to study.Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed,rightly dividing the word of truth.Another question.I mean, questions are good things, folks.These are good questions we must ask.Another question we've got to ask concerns teachers.Do we need them or not?Under covenant, you'll notice that the book of 1 John and Hebrews, they both,speak exclusively to Israel.It's about them and their new covenant.1 John 2:27, Pay close attention. But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you.Don't go to church this Sunday and let a man stand up there and convince you thatthis is talking about you.If this is talking about you, then Paul's writings can't be.And if Paul's writings are talking about you, then 1 John can't be.Look at Hebrews 8 verse 11, And they shall not teach every man his neighbor and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord, for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.Did you see that?They shall not teach.Now watch Jeremiah 31:34, Here we go again. And they shall teach no more every man his neighbor and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord, for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the Lord. For I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.Are you seeing this?No wonder we have those today that, that don't understand that the entire world's sins are no longer being imputed.No longer being counted or charged.Why the confusion?Because they're reading someone else's mail.Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, then turn over to the back of your book, Hebrews,through the book of Revelation.That's not your mail.It doesn't match the epistles of Paul, no matter how hard you try and wrest the scriptures.It's someone else's mail.The Lord said, For they shall, that's future.Then he says, I will forgive their iniquity. I will remember their sin no more.We got people today that don't understand that their sins were put on Christ.He was judged, so we don't have to be.It's verses like this that cause the confusion.This speaks of a time when God will forgive someone of sins.He will count their sins against them no more.It's at a future time.And it matches Acts chapter 3 verse 19. There's when Peter said, They're looking forward to the times of refreshing when they're back in the presence of the Lord.They're looking forward to that time because Peter says that's when they're going to get their sins blotted out.That's not our doctrine.That's not our thinking.And if it is, it shouldn't be.You can't walk in complete grace while thinking like that.And then, hey, here comes information.And now this is in the same Bible, by the way.Here comes verses saying that there is a need for teachers.There is a need to study.Don't miss it.And this falls under grace.It comes from the books of Paul.And Paul speaks of the new man,both Jew and Gentile.Not so in Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, where we read in John 4:22, Salvation at that time was of the Jew.Any Gentile being saved had to come up and under the Jew because their program had not failed.It was still in its risen state.Israel still had preeminence over everyone on earth.Not so today.In this, the dispensation of the grace of God, there's no distinction between Jew and Greek, bond, free, male, female.But here's information from Paul concerning the here and now body of Christ.Body of Christ.Three words found nowhere else outside of Paul's letters.Why not?Because no one else was commissioned to write to us.And Paul again reiterates the same thing about teachers.It shows up again in 1 Corinthians 4:17, For this cause have I sent unto you Timotheus, who is my beloved son, and faithful in the Lord, who shall bring you into remembrance of my ways, which be in Christ, as I teach everywhere in every church.And he's not done.Here it comes again.1 Timothy 4 verses 10 and 11, (10)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.(11)These things command and teach.Now we just read where there's some in this book that are not to be taught.In time future, Israel's going to receive a Holy Ghost unction.That's why they won't need teachers, and no need to study.Look at 1 John 2:20. 1 John 2:20. Again, this is under covenant. We're under no such covenant. But here, Israel is going to get supernatural abilities from the Holy Ghostto know all things with no need for studying. Oh, that would be nice, but that's not you. That's not me. 1 John 2:20, But ye have an unction from the Holy One. And what's the next four words? Ye know all things. Well, that's not our mail. We don't know all things. That's why we must study and become workmen.Philippians 4:9, Those things which ye have learned.There's studying, teaching, learning.2 Timothy 3:14, Continue thou in the things which thou hast learned.I hate to be unkind, but listen.Only a fool would miss this after reading all these clear verses for themselves.There are some in this book who are told to, Mark 13:11, Take no thought. Don't premeditate.God will supernaturally fill their mouth with wisdom. Luke 21:15.They need not that any man teach them anything. 1 John 2:27.Because they have an anointing that will teach them of all, A-double-L, all things.And at that time, God says, Their iniquity and their sin I will remember no more.We have something so much greater.So much greater than their covenant.We have grace.Paul was given the dispensation of the grace of God to give to us.And he tells us, if we want understanding, we must study and consider what he says.2 Timothy 2:7. No member of the body of Christ is under a covenant.In your Bible, the covenants are between God and Israel.Not you.You can't be both under a covenant and under grace at the same time.That defies the natural law of non-contradiction.No, no.A covenant comes with an if condition attached to it.Grace comes without the if condition.There's nothing for us to do in our flesh in order to gain or stay in favor with God.That's what grace is.It's unearned.If we could earn it by something we did, it wouldn't be grace.Israel, however, God is going to put His laws in their hearts so that Ezekiel 11:20,They may walk in His statutes, keep His ordinances and do them.And at that time, not now, oh no, right now, they're Hosea 1:9, Loammi.Not God's people.But at that time, this is time future, after the church the body of Christ has been called away, then they will be His people and He will be their God.This book is a perfect puzzle.Once you work out your timelines, the pieces, oh, they fit so nicely with one another.All the dots you've been collecting are now connecting.You no longer sit in church like a deer in headlights.You stop staring at your cell phone passing time away while the preacher's preaching.Your understanding starts to open and you get hungry.You can't get enough.2 Timothy 2:15, Study, and rightly divide the word of truth.Makes all the difference.

Today on Truth Time.Which, which by the way, this brings up a question.I've heard some say, even if we stop having faith, we are saved by the faith of Christ.My question is, did you forget about the Holy Spirit?What about him?Guys, at the moment of belief, Paul tells us that we're sealed with the Holy Spirit.But you need Jesus to have faith?For some, that Holy Spirit just wasn't quite good enough.The lack of power, the lack of power that some have placed on the Holy Spirit and his capability.It's sad.To say that we're sealed with the Holy Spirit until the day of redemption, but still need Jesus to have faith for us, is flat out error.And it's why we know assuredly, that the faith of Christ is what we believe.Not what he had.This is Truth Time Radio.Welcome back to this Romans verse-by-verse study.Today is going to be the second of a several-part series concerning the faith of Christ.Some, they teach it as a reference to Jesus needing to have faith during his earthly ministry.Others that say that the faith of Christ means he was faithful.And faithful he is.But that's not our cue to go and tamper with the King James Bible by changing the words, "faith of Christ," to, "faithfulness of Christ."When we claim that, "faith of," really means, "faithfulness of," we create a problem because it doesn't fit the context whereby it is used.If you remember, last time we learned that the words, "from faith to faith," in chapter 1 verse 17 is how the righteousness of God was revealed.Meaning that in your King James Bible, you can find a time-past faith and a but now faith.Time-past faith was the faith of God found in Israel's written oracles.Our but now faith is the body of doctrine called the faith of Christ found in the epistles of Paul.And folks, that's the clearest explanation you're going to ever hear to describe what, "from faith to faith," means.And how perfect is this?How perfect is it that the King James committee, they place the book of Romans first in the order of Paul's epistles.You know what this did?It gave us an advantage and it helps us to identify a change in the program.The first book we come to as we go through Paul's epistles, the book of Romans.From the very start, it gave us this advantage.In time past, the just lived by faith.Their faith compelled them to keep the law.And in the but now, the just also live by faith.Our faith compels us to believe the faith of Christ.That which is faith apart from the law.Keep that in mind and you can't go wrong when you come across the words, faith of Christ.The faith of Christ is what we believe, not what he had.Okay, chapter 3 verse 22, let's pick up here.We see that this is the first time Paul uses the phrase, "faith of Christ."Contrary to popular belief, this verse has nothing to do with Christ having faith and everything to do with our current instructions for the dispensation of grace.It's something that's hard to miss once you see the contrast that Paul points out here.Romans 3:20, watch, (20) Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight. For by the law is the knowledge of sin. (21) But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested. Being witnessed by the law and the prophets, (22) Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe. For there is no difference.In verse 20, Paul mentioned the deeds of the law.In verse 21, he makes a difference from the law to grace.Saying, but now without the law.And in verse 22, he says the righteousness of God is by faith of Jesus Christ.Now stay with me.Think.In time past, righteousness came by the law, did it not?Deuteronomy 6:25, It shall be our righteousness if we observe to do all these commandments before the Lord our God as he hath commanded us.However, here comes the contrast.Paul takes us from that faith, the faith that it shall be our righteousness if we observe to do all these commandments, and he says, but now, here he's going to move us somewhere, righteousness is manifested by the faith of Jesus Christ, not by the law.Now that's as clear as the noonday sun.That's clear cut.Once we take God at his word, the meaning of faith of Christ starts to become extremely obvious.Now, with the understanding that Paul's talking about from law to grace in this passage, let's read verse 22.And let's insert the common definitions of faith that you've heard from people, the common definitions of faith of Christ that most use.Let's do that and see if it works.Let's see if we can, we can Frank Sinatra this thing and read it their way.And do so while still staying true to the context.Okay, Romans 3:22, Even the righteousness of God, which is by, here it comes, Jesus having faith during his earthly ministry, unto all and upon all that believe, for there is no difference.Uh-oh.Now we have a problem.Stuck between that proverbial rock and a hard place.Since Paul shows us a contrast from law to grace in verses 20 to 22, then how does Jesus having faith during his earthly ministry contrast from keeping the law?It doesn't.Because Jesus kept the law.So there goes Paul's contrast out the window.Hey, if we're piecing together a Jesus had to have faith during his earthly ministry puzzle, this would be the time when we'd start trying to force in pieces that just don't fit.You can never complete the Jesus had to have faith puzzle if you respect the context.You just can't do it.Speaking of things that don't fit and things that quite frankly make no sense, hey, we're still looking for a verse that says that Jesus believed God and it was counted unto him for righteousness.Where is that one?If we're talking about Jesus in his earthly ministry needing to have faith, then we need the text that says, for what saith the scripture, Jesus believed God and it was counted unto him for righteousness.Oh, but we don't.No, because that was for a man named Abraham, not God in the flesh.Not the, "before Abraham was, I am."The illogicality of this all disappears when we come to understand that the faith of Christ is a body of truth.A body of truth given to the body of Christ.Okay, let's continue.While we're here, let's make another popular insertion right here in this verse and see how it goes.Let's see if it fits in the Jesus needed to have faith puzzle.Here we go.Even the righteousness of God, which is by, here it is, here's the insert, faithfulness of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe, for there is no difference.So how's that puzzle look?Once again, the context Paul gave us, from law to grace, gets ignored.Flushed down the drain.In time past, Jesus in his earthly ministry was faithful in fulfilling the law.But how does that contrast contextually from the righteousness that Moses told the children of Israel they would earn if they obeyed the law?It doesn't.To show a contrast, we need contradictory terms.We need opposites.Law and grace are opposites.Made known prophecy and kept secret mystery are opposites.The gospel of Christ, which Paul said he was not ashamed of, reveals the righteousness of God from faith to faith.From the Romans 3:1, by faith of God, the oracles of God, that which was written, made known, righteousness which was of the law, to the Romans 3:20-22, faith of Jesus Christ.Righteousness without the law, unwritten, kept secret.It's really that simple.Faith to faith equals faith plus works to faith alone.You gotta' get this.Faith to faith does not mean me, transferring my faith to his faith.Faith to faith equals faith plus works to faith alone.From faith to faith.From the time past faith to the but now faith, which is the faith of Christ.The faith of Christ is what we believe, not what he had.If you've landed here and are searching for something to help you escape the chaos found in the denominational system, your search is over.Here to help you sort it all out, this is WTTR, Truth Time Radio.Now later in this Faith of Christ series, we're gonna come back to right here, Romans 3, and finish the chapter out.By the time we do so, we should be able to clearly see exactly how the correct meaning of faith of Christ fits into those passages.But for now, we're gonna go through the rest of the popular verses, as we promised.We're gonna go through the rest of those, the ones here in Paul's epistles, that some use to teach that the, "before Abraham was I am," Jesus needed to have faith.We'll go through as many as we can, and if we leave one or two out, we'll catch them the next time.But let's see what we can do here.As we do this, though, let's not forget that proper Bible study requires both context and consistency.Okay, Galatians 2:16, here's a popular one, Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.Now surely, for those of you paying attention, by now, some light bulbs are coming on.Did you catch it?Did you catch what Paul just did?Justified by the works of the law, contrasted with the faith of Jesus Christ, and then he said, justified by the faith of Christ, contrasted with, not by the works of the law.It's right there for you.From faith to faith.From the faith of Christ, in contrast with the works of the law.Now, since our next faith of Christ verse is just about four verses down, down here in verse 20, let's do this.Let's read the entire context.That's the mistake that we hear many doing today.They just type it in, faith of Christ, and they run to a few verses, and think they've figured this all out.But here, if we'll follow the text very carefully, we'll see that the context of this term, "faith of Christ," isn't going to just suddenly change four verses later.So let's pick back up for context sake and begin in verse 14, But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter before them all, If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?Now the first thing that should have jumped off the page here is Paul is rehearsing a conversation that he and Peter already had.Peter, a member of the little flock.Now verse 15, We who are Jews by nature and not sinners of the Gentiles, now stop there.Be careful.Be careful not to miss the "we."Meaning you and I, Peter.Verse 16, Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law,...Uh oh.Watch again.Watch Paul.He is contrasting.Let's read that again.Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not, see here's the contrast again.Let's back up.By the faith of Christ.There you go.And contrast that with, not by the works of the law.You can't miss this.For by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.Here Paul is saying, hey Peter, you and I both know that a man is not justified by the works of the law,but instead he is justified by the faith of Jesus Christ.So you know what?See, Peter knew this already.If we're talking about the popular, Jesus had to have faith in his earthly ministry, if we're talking about that being how a man is justified, and if this is mystery information only for the body of Christ, then why is Paul having a conversation with Peter about it?What does Peter, not walking uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, have to do with Jesus having faith during his earthly ministry?Well, we'll find out in just a bit when we show what the faith of Christ is in this passage.Let's also keep in mind the theme of this letter.It was a letter of correction to the foolish Galatians that were turning back to the weak and beggarly elements of the law.And that would be a fall from grace.So what does any of this have to do with the need of Jesus having faith during his earthly ministry?Let's read on.Verse 17, (17) But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves are also found sinners, is therefore Christ the minister of sin? God forbid. (18) For if I build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor. (19) For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God. Here we have Paul speaking of the error of turning from grace back to the law.Verse 20, I am crucified with Christ, nevertheless I live, yet not I, but Christ liveth in me.And the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me.Here we have another one of those, faith of Christ, verses.Paul says that the life he was presently living in the flesh he lived by the faith of the Son of God.Now surely you don't think that Paul is saying that he is living his life in the flesh by Jesus having faith during his earthly ministry, do you?No.Let's see what this puzzle looks like.I am crucified with Christ, nevertheless I live, yet not I, but Christ liveth in me.And the life which I now live in the flesh I live, here it is, watch, I live by the body of doctrine found in Romans through Philemon.That's the faith of Christ.Not him having faith during his earthly ministry.Paul is clearly talking about our walk, not about needing faith for salvation.That's not quote, "The life that we live in the flesh."What is in the flesh can be seen, but our salvation is invisible, hid with Christ in God.Ok, so let's really think about where we are at.Let's think about this.If Jesus had to have faith to perform miracles, to be resurrected, and if you're living the life in the flesh by the same faith you claim he needed to perform these things, then why can't you perform them?Why can't you keep the law perfectly?Why can't you cast out devils, heal the sick, raise the dead, feed 5,000, and walk on water?This should not be a problem.The answer is in verse 21, I do not frustrate the grace of God, for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain. Galatians 2:16, Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ.Even we have believed in Jesus Christ that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the lawUh oh!Somebody say, "contrast." There it is, again. This is a repetitive, consistent contrast that our brother Paul, our apostle, is making for us. This is clear folks.That we might be justified by the faith of Christ, Paul's saying, by the doctrine I've given you, and not by the works of the law. The doctrine from time past.Because, for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.You can only be justified by the faith of Christ which is my doctrine, this body of truth I am delivering to you in the books of Romans through Philemon. From faith to faith. You can't make it any clearer.Again and again he shows us the contrast between law and grace.And he's talking to Peter, who already knew this information.It's the exact reason why Paul withstood him to the face. He was to be blamed.He was being a hypocrite.After Paul had already demonstrated to these guys and Mr. Peter in Acts chapter 15, Peter should have known better than to dissimulate with those Judaizers when they showed up. But he didn't.He was there eating with the Gentiles, the ones he said this about, Acts 15:7, (7) And when there had been much disputing, Peter rose up, and said unto them, Men and brethren, ye know how that a good while ago God made choice among us, that the Gentiles by my mouth should hear the word of the gospel, and believe.(8) And God, which knoweth the hearts, bare them witness, giving them the Holy Ghost, even as he did unto us;(9) And put no difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith.(10) Now therefore why tempt ye God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?(11) But we believe that through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved, even as they.Peter was very aware that righteousness did not come by the law for the Gentiles.That was a time past faith. He knew the law wouldn't justify them.He knew that they were justified by the faith of Christ. That body of truth given to Paul for the uncircumcision.That body of truth that you can go to Galatians chapter 2 and read all about, Peter and James and John there, they stood there and shook Paul's hand, gave him their blessing, that he would go and preach that faith of Christ to the uncircumcision, while they would take their body of doctrine to the circumcision. He knew they were justified by the faith of Christ, that body of truth given to Paul for the uncircumcision, instead of the works of the law. I am crucified with Christ, nevertheless I live, yet not I, but Christ liveth in me. And the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me.Now, for all the proof-texters who, instead of studying the Bible, they'd rather do word and phrase searches to try to prove something, FYI, the term, "the faith of the Son of God," is the faith of Christ. It's the same thing. The faith of the Son of God, the faith of Christ. The faith of the Son of God, the faith of Christ.Who loved me and gave himself for me.We're talking about the gospel here.Christ giving himself for you is not Christ having faith.No, it's the death for your sins, his burial, and his resurrection for you.Galatians 1:4, Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father:Ephesians 5:2, And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.You don't have to Google these things to figure them out, the Holy Spirit did it for you.1 Corinthians 2:12, (12) Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.(13) Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.The church lexicon won't reveal this to you.These things were freely given to us of God.Now, in Acts chapter 15 verse 9 when Peter, concerning the Gentiles said, ...purifying their hearts by faith.He was talking about the faith of Christ. That body of truth that Paul was commissioned to preach to the Gentiles, which contained the gospel of grace that he preached for their salvation.Peter knew this, and Paul says as much earlier in the chapter.You'll see that because Peter would have been included as one of those who were, quote, "of reputation," there in Galatians 2:2.Now on to the next faith of Christ proof text, Galatians chapter 3 verse 22, But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise of the faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.Okay, we're back to playing the insert game.Let's again use the insertion here and see how it goes.Let's see if it helps to complete the Jesus needed to have faith puzzle, or does it look deformed because the pieces don't fit?Some read it like this.But scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by Jesus having faith during his earthly ministry might be given to them that believe.Can you make heads or tails of that?No, you can't.But let's read the context and see if it helps.And just a reminder, here Paul is correcting these Galatians because they were trying to turn back, back to the law of Moses, the prior faith, to obtain righteousness, through that prior faith of God.Trying to turn back to the faith of God, a time-passed doctrine, instead of the faith of Christ, the but now doctrine, the one Paul preached and instructed them in.They were trying to return to the very faith that Paul's gospel had delivered them from, from faith to faith.Man, this makes clear sense.Here before verse 21 we see Paul explaining to the Galatians, the fact that the promise was given to Abraham before the law, and he explains the reason why the law was given.Verse 19 says the law was added because of transgressions, until the seed, singular, should come to those who the promise was made.And according to verse 16, that seed is Jesus Christ.Verse 20 tells us that the law was ordained by angels and that Moses was the mediator between the children of Israel and God.Now watch, watch.Verse 21 and 22, (21) Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law.(22) But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.Now stay in context.Let's keep it in context here concerning this promise.Galatians 3:14, That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.Verse 23, But before that came, is Paul talking about a time when no one believed anything?No, he isn't talking about the individual faith of the believer here.The word faith is being used as a body of doctrine to be believed for salvation.If you've got seven minutes and haven't already, you need to check out our teaching titled Doctrines, plural, versus Doctrine, singular.Doctrine, singular, is what Paul taught.Paul's singular doctrine is the faith of Christ.The doctrine found in the books Romans through Philemon.And here in Galatians 3, the word faith is being used specifically as a body of doctrine, a body of doctrine to be believed for salvation.Keep reading.Before faith came, the faith of Christ, our instructions for today, we were kept under the law, time past, righteousness by faith plus works, shut up unto the faith, mystery information, body of doctrine, which is the faith of Christ, which should afterwards be revealed, mystery revealed, see what happened here?Read on.Verse 24, Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.No Gentile was ever under the law.So Paul is obviously talking about the experience of Israel here.But this is a generalization of what the law accomplished, with Paul himself included in the equation.So in our last installment, we talked about Romans 3:21 and how the righteousness of the law was manifested being witnessed by the law and the prophets.That's what Paul's talking about here when he calls the law a schoolmaster.Notice the law, faith of God, was a schoolmaster to Israel to bring them unto Christ, that they might be justified by faith.Now we'll get into this further, into the differences between, "by faith," and, "through faith."We'll do that later on because there is a difference.But for now, we'll stay on topic.Suffice to say, the word, "by," denotes source or origin.Okay?Israel was always supposed to be justified by faith because that was the only way their works would ever be counted for justification if they were done by faith.Their works, they had to originate from their faith.For they didn't count for their righteousness.That's why in time past, you'll see that some were justified by works and others were not.This same faith that was exercised in the good works they performed would be the same faith that would bring them unto Christ.That is why the just shall live by faith.And that is a trans dispensational verse.In time past, those who lived by faith had works to show their justification.But now, we're justified by virtue of our standing in Christ because he is just.Verse 25, But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.What faith?The quote, "that faith," is the same faith that Paul said would afterwards be revealed in verse 23.It is the faith that Paul is preaching.This body of doctrine, this body of truth, and the gospel is not separate from the doctrine, by the way.The gospel is contained within the doctrine.It's the instruction in righteousness for this dispensation of grace.Paul is telling these foolish Galatians who wanted to return to the law to obtain righteousness, that those days are over.There is no more need for a schoolmaster, those ordinances against the world, the world that had been concluded under sin in verse 22, were nailed to the cross according to Colossians 2:14.Verse 26, For ye are all children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.This faith that has come, the one that Paul preaches, makes all who believe children of God.All who are in Christ are children of God.That obviously includes the kingdom saints as well.We're all of the same household.We just have different inheritances.And because we do, we have different instructions.Verse 27, For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.There is neither Jew nor Greek.There is neither bond nor free.There is neither male nor female.For ye are all one in Christ Jesus.And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed and heirs according to the promise.Those of us who are saved by grace through faith are Christ's and therefore are Abraham's seed and heirs according to the promise.That promise is the Holy Spirit sealed unto the day of redemption.Christ in you.The hope of glory.The mystery.Which, by the way, this brings up a question.I've heard some say, even if we stop having faith, we are saved by the faith of Christ.My question is, did you forget about the Holy Spirit?What about him?Guys, at the moment of belief, Paul tells us that we're sealed with the Holy Spirit.But you need Jesus to have faith?For some, that Holy Spirit just wasn't quite good enough.The lack of power.The lack of power that some have placed on the Holy Spirit and his capability.It's sad.To say that we're sealed with the Holy Spirit unto the day of redemption but still need Jesus to have faith for us is flat-out error.Not to mention contradictory.And it's why we know assuredly, that the faith of Christ is what we believe, not what he had.Okay, that'll do it.We'll cover some other verses next time as we continue to demonstrate the inconsistency one must keep with in order to say that the phrase, "faith of Christ," means Jesus had to have faith.Stay tuned.We've got a lot to cover.We'll also go to the actual verses from Jesus' earthly ministry and we'll cover those one by one and we'll even delve into the ones over there in ages to come.We'll take care of those as well.Remember, you only get two educations, the one you're given, and the one you give yourself.Grace and peace.From all of us to all of you, thank you.Thanks for your support of the WTTR mobile app.Be sure to share the app with someone today.Who knows?It just may change where they spend eternity.

Is Jesus the Father? Let's find out.A group of Jesus-only-ists who rightly divide, sometimes, they say he is.We've heard from several of their listeners who are no longer falling for it, thank God, but they're asking a lot of great questions, so we're here today to help whomever we can to untangle the confusion, because God is not the author of that.We want to help you work smarter, not harder.Okay, instead of speaking and shouting like a charismatic Pentecostal, trying to manipulate the verses, let's get started here.We're just going to unpack the straight-up facts.Straight-up scripture that destroys, obliterates, puts the death knell in the coffin of the Jesus-is-His-Own-Father business.So let's get down to it.Belly up for a shot of truth minus the sensationalism.Truth minus fluff. Here we go.Get your Bible and look at Isaiah 9:6. We have no clue why, but this is their banner verse, For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given, and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace.Okay, let's unpack this.We began with a question, okay?When will the government be on the shoulder of Jesus?Look at the verse.Pay special attention to those two words, "shall be."You can't claim to rightly divide but not know this.You just can't.Isaiah said the government shall be, shall be upon his shoulder.You claim to understand timelines, well, here's your chance to make full proof of that.Shall be deals with time.So when does this refer to?This verse that tells us when Jesus shall be the Father.Here's an elementary-type question for you.Is our government, now listen, think.Is our government on the shoulder of Jesus today?Elementary questions can be answered by elementary students, but oddly enough, sometimes they fly right over the head of full-grown adults.If today the government is on the shoulder of Jesus, then Jesus, you're fired for doing a horrible job.The government is not on the shoulder of Jesus, which means there is no honest believer, no honest believer of God's infallible word that's going to be able to walk away from this lesson today and still insist that he's currently operating as the Father.Because when he is the Father, he will have the government on his shoulder.When a man who is honestly mistaken hears the truth, he'll either quit being mistaken or cease to be honest.See, you only get two educations, the one you're given and the one you give yourself.So as we just learned, here's an education, as we just learned, from the mighty prophet Isaiah, saying Jesus is currently the Father, is nothing short of running over to Israel's mailbox and stealing their mail.Now, I understand I'm under grace and stealing won't affect my salvation, but I still choose not to do so because it's not a good thing.It's not pleasing to my Lord.The prophet here is prophesying that a day will come, shall be, he says, a day will come when Jesus will be the Father.So he gives us the answer.It's during the millennial reign on earth, a time that is outside the parenthetical, but now dispensation of grace.That's where we live.Every Jesus only-est, every one I've ever met, and I've met hundreds, there hasn't been one who knows how to rightly divide the word of truth.Not one.Not one makes the distinction between Paul's current administration and Israel's future administration.And now we have some that say they do rightly divide, acting just like them.Jesus operating as Father to Israel, my friend, that's future.Not time present, but time future.This is prophecy for Israel here in her earthly kingdom, and it has nothing to do with the church, the body of Christ, you and I.It concerns Israel's prophetic timeline, and there's simply no mystery here.Isaiah 9:6 debunks the entire argument.Out the window it goes.Game over.Hey, the game is over, but some didn't hear the buzzer.The prophet Isaiah is the prophet to Israel, and their prophetic clock has had its batteries removed.It's not running.God took out the batteries, and honey, it ain't going to restart until this current time of mystery concludes.Until the fullness of the Gentiles, until that last person gets saved, and the body of Christ has reached full capacity.It won't happen till then, I promise.How do I know?Because God's word is true.Now back to the verse.Isaiah says, his name shall be called the Everlasting Father.So the Jesus-only gang, they grab this, run, Forrest, run.Hey, it would behoove some to stop and study the words that you're going to use.A little etymology never hurt anyone.It's wise to know the meanings of the words before throwing them around.Take the word, "everlasting."Compare it with the word, "eternal."These two words don't mean the same thing, okay?Everlasting has a beginning, but no end.Eternal has neither.No beginning, no end.Isaiah speaks of Jesus being the Everlasting Father.Everlasting has a beginning, but no end.Isaiah is prophesying about the future when Jesus will have his everlasting beginning as their father.And as the prophet says, that beginning shall be when Jesus is sitting on his throne, ruling with the born-again 12 tribes of Israel.Now that's when he'll hold the government on his shoulder.The earthly government will finally be in a proper condition, in its perfect condition, by the way.The Jesus-only-est should have seen this.They talk about correcting others, but can they be corrected?Well, we all make mistakes.But after, what we do after that, after coming to the knowledge of the truth, that's where the rubber meets the road.That's where the men are separated from the boys.Now, you want to leave here today after being shown the truth and continue to say that Jesus is currently operating as the Father?Go right ahead.But be a man worthy of his salt and stop saying, you rightly divide the word of truth.I might also add that whomever decides to study this out on their own, now listen, listen to me, whomever you are, if you will do your own personal research minus the group think, minus the team think, minus the camp think, minus the herd, you'll study yourself right out of Jesus-only-ism.Yes, you will.Only those who elevate and follow personalities will miss this and continue to be fooled with these strange doctrines.And they'll keep coming.They always do.When dealing with the Word of God, never compromise truth.Compromise for no one.This isn't about friendships, valued relationships, and don't allow anyone to heap a bunch of man-made books on you either.That's just more confusion.More confusion from men who are not even equally yoked themselves.One book from this guy, one book from that guy, another from here.They don't even agree with each other.Hey, what do I need with a man-made book when I've got a God-made one?Forget a book.Get into THE book.Forget a commentary.Get into THE commentary.Instead of spending some time alone with their creator God, it's like my wife said, they pull some from this guy, some from that guy, morph it all together until it looks like something from Dr. Frankenstein.A part of this, a part of that.Stick it together and look what you got.You've created your own monster doctrine.It's disfigured is what it is.I know I can be a hard pill to swallow at times, but some need a shot of truth with no chaser.Spent their entire lives walking through the mud.M-U-D, mixed up doctrine.And have gotten so used to it that it's become their comfort zone.Mud, don't fail me now.Kind of like a hoarder who gets offended when you try to help him clean up.Let me challenge you.Let me challenge you to keep it clean.Keep it simple.Get yourself a Bible with no notes, no man-made commentaries, and get in there and consider what Paul says. 2 Timothy 2:7.And watch and see if the Lord won't keep his promise and give you understanding.Oh, it won't happen all at once, but he'll do it.And if you come across something that you don't understand, don't fret.It's not going anywhere.Move on and revisit it later.Don't hesitate to call us on our toll-free number and we'll be happy to help.This is Truth Time Radio.We have no desire to have dominion over your faith.We're simply here to be helpers of your joy.2 Corinthians 1:24.If you're here today and you're unsure of your salvation, go find the video titled, "Today is the day of your salvation."It's only 3 minutes and 28 seconds.Change your eternal destiny in 3 1⁄2 minutes.Go find it now.Until next time, grace and peace.

If you tried religion but were left with more questions than answers, glad you're here.Paul wrote about those who had allowed themselves to be blinded by the God of this world, blinded from the simplicity that is in Christ.The gospel is not as difficult as man has made it.If you've yet to be saved, that can happen right now.Just know that your forgiveness was given when he shed his blood on the cross and died for you.His resurrection was the receipt that God accepted the sacrifice.Your salvation will be given when you believe that.When you trust him by agreeing with God that what he did in your behalf was enough for your salvation.His death gave the world forgiveness.His resurrection gives the believer eternal life.The gospel of your salvation has nothing to do with how you live your life.We're not talking about how you live your life following your salvation. That's not so easy, and requires work.We're talking about the gospel of your salvation, how you're initially saved.Religion mixes the two by front-loading how we live with how we're saved.These are two separate things.If you're listening today and you're not saved, know this: Today is not the day to straighten out your life and live right.Today is not the day to get your sins forgiven.They already are.The Bible plainly says that today is the day of salvation.So take care of that first.By deciding to stop trying to do something that is already done.And rest your faith in the one who did it for you.On the cross of Christ, God stopped charging our sins to us.2 Corinthians 5:19.How could he do that?He charged them to Jesus.He died for our sins.Was buried, but three days later arose to give us eternal life in him.Your forgiveness is not up to you.Your salvation is.Trust Christ today and be saved.If you decide to give up on self, rest your faith in him, we'd like to know.Send us a message or call 888-988-9562, and welcome to your new eternal life.

Okay, welcome back.Today we're going to address objection number five.This one says, Unbelievers go to hell to pay for their sins.Yeah, people actually teach this.You give them 2 Corinthians 5:19 where Paul wrote that God stopped imputing sins to the world, but hey, you know what they do?They take that.They don't like that.So they take it.They change the word world, and they make it believer.They make it repenter.They make it he who was baptized.They change the word world to he that walked the aisle and gave his heart to Jesus.God stopped imputing sins to the world.Oh, no, we don't like that.He only stopped imputing sins to the one who was water baptized, said the sinner's prayer.God stopped imputing sins to the world.Oh, no, let's change that to he stopped imputing sins to those who came forward,filled out the card, and shook the preacher's hand.Those who are faithful tithers.Those who tarried long and received the gift of the Holy Ghost with evidence of speaking in tongues.That's who he stopped imputing sins to.No, no.The world, the world.Let me say it again.The world.God stopped imputing sins to many who never stepped foot in a church.Matter of fact, most of the world has never stepped foot in the church.And the sooner you can get this in your brain,the sooner you can start to communicate.To articulate this correctly and be of some good.Actually be a minister of the gospel of Christ.The world, not the believer.The believer is included, but this applies to the world.Now, for me and the average thinking person, this genders several questions.Like, if you can go to hell and pay for your sins, then how much does your sins cost?We can just tell people how much each sin costs and they can go there and pay each one of them off.And if someone can pay for their sins, then why did Jesus have to come and die?As we've seen with every objection, again, it appears that the limited forgiversdidn't think this through very well.But as long as they keep supplying us with the material, we'll continue to do like I was thinking about a poster I used to have on my wall as a child.We'll continue to do like ol' Hammerin' Hank did back in the 70s.Step up to the plate and drive one deep left center.They're basically fastballs, waist high, straight down the middle.Listen, the wages of sin is death, so that's what we earned.We all earned death.What happened?Jesus stepped in, stepped up to the plate and cleared the way, cleared the basis so we could all have life.He didn't give the world life, but he cleared the path.He freely gave himself a ransom for all because it's not humanly possible for any of us, for any one of us to pay for their sins.Only someone without spot or blemish could do that.Telling others that they might go to hell and pay for their sins is man-made.And as Satan would have it, it's just like every other false doctrine out there, folks.It takes the focus off Jesus and his finished crosswork.This is the ultimate policy of evil.Satan himself has designed this.And no, Satan isn't out here doing this, doing that, running here, running there.No, he's designed it and the entire religious system under the control of man is doing it for him.He's sitting back with a brandy and a cigar watching this nonsense.And to us here at Truth Time, it's like fingernails down a chalkboard when someone can't understand the simplicity that is in Christ and what he did on the cross.It's so simple.It amazes us how Christ gave his very life's blood for the sins of the entire world,I know you want to change it to believer, but it actually says world, he did that and yet we have ministers of Satan running around here teaching people that they can go to hell to pay for their sins.As if the blood didn't work.Preposterous.No one under this grace administration is going to hell for their sins.You go there because you don't have life.Dead people go to hell.False teachers conflate forgiveness with salvation.They'll do it every Sunday morning and midweek if you'll let them.They'll hold a revival and conflate it every night.We've dealt with them conflating forgiveness and justification.Being forgiven with being not guilty.No, wrong.Study your Bible.These are all wrong teachings.Just like it's wrong that if someone was forgiven at the cross, then that means they're heaven bound.No, that's incorrect.That's not our parenthetical news.Our parenthetical dispensation good news goes against that teaching.Forgiveness is not a get out of jail and enter heaven card.Heaven is for those who have been justified.Justification only applies to believers.Those who have heard the gospel, put their trust in the Lord Jesus Christ by believing the gospel and being sealed with that Holy Spirit of promise. Ephesians 1:13.So stop parroting what others say and actually crack open the scriptures and study this for yourself.It's just that simple.Think for a moment.Just think.Since God cannot both dispense grace and impute sin at the same time, you should seriously ask yourself, did the dispensation of grace, did it begin when I believed?Did it begin when I went to the altar?Did it begin when I got water baptized?Did it begin when I said the sinner's prayer?Did it begin when I repented of my sins?No, the dispensation of grace, that began before you were born.Before you were a smile on your mother's lips and a twinkle in your daddy's eye.God has never, not a day, now listen, never, not a day in your life has he been waiting on you to do something so that he can at that time stop imputing your sins.You were born into the dispensation of grace.The non-imputation of sins was in existence before you arrived.I know, some out there, you're real special and the non-imputation of sins just couldn't have been in existence before you arrived.I can assure you that the cross work was accomplished without you.Without me.Didn't need us.And as a truth that none of the princes of the world knew, for had they known it,they wouldn't have crucified Christ Jesus. 1 Corinthians chapter 2, verse 8.Sadly, most can't digest this.Just can't do it.Can't digest the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom which God ordained before the world unto our glory.For many, all they've done is learn enough about grace to sound a little smarterthan the average Baptist, but have still yet to grasp the Ephesians 3:10 manifold wisdom of God.Saints, in Christ, we have boldness to preach these unsearchable riches.We're different than the worldwide religious system.We've leveled up and we've got the knowledge to go out and make this known.The mystery of the gospel.Go make it known.The assurance that we have in Christ is what allows us to step out of our comfort zone and go take this word of reconciliation as ambassadors.Go take it to the world.The religious system's not going to do it, so don't wait on them.Understanding Paul's gospel, hey, it'll equip you to Acts 28:31, preach the kingdom of God and teach those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ with all confidence.No man forbidding us.No man.We become multidimensional, which allows us to exercise our discernment and go meet others right there where they are.The work Jesus did for the world's reconciliation did not save one living soul.Salvation requires a faith response.Reconciliation is making two compatible with one another.It's the process of making peace between two parties.Peace between two parties who were previously alienated from one another.The enmity that once separated the two has been removed.Thank you, Lord.This doesn't mean there's an automatic relationship.It just means that what once stood in the way of a relationship has now been removed.The enmity is gone and the situation has been made amicable.The parties are no longer at variance.This is a wonderful thing.It's a one-time event that took place on Calvary's cross.And it's not a recurring event that takes place over and over and over at each individual moment that someone hears and believes the gospel.That's salvation.It was there on the cross where Jesus completed, he did everything necessary in order to remove the hostility that previously separated God from the entire world.The death of Christ was the only conciliatory action needed to make it possible for God to conciliate himself with the world.Now listen.Listen closely here, though.There is a teaching out there saying that at the cross everyone was made alive.Quickened.No, that's incorrect.If you're quickened and made alive, then you got life.That's universalism.There's some out there that don't claim universalism yet teach universalism.No one was quickened and made alive at the cross.No one.God in Christ reconciling himself to the world is not the same as be ye reconciledto God.Can you not hear the difference?Perhaps you may just want to say that out loud a couple of times.It's different.God did exactly what Paul said he did in 2 Corinthians chapter 5.But clearly, to anyone with walking around sense, you can see there's a response needed.We'll go deeper into the quicken and made a live study later on.But right now, hey, if you're here today and like many are telling us, you're hearing this good news and you're having a light bulb moment, praise God.Well, today, you're coming to the realization that you've been trusting in your belief for forgiveness.You're coming to the realization that you've been trusting in an altar call for your forgiveness.You're coming to the realization that you trusted in water baptism, that you trusted in saying some words, confessing, sinner's prayer, asking for forgiveness, repenting of your sins. Thank God you're coming to that realization and thank God for the letters, emails, and phone calls.Keep them coming because you can change all that by simply believing the words on the page.The words on the page that came straight from God instead of the words behind the pulpit that come straight from man.In this current dispensation, there is no such thing as limited forgiveness.Put a big X mark through it.It's a social construct.It's made by man.The perfect, sinless blood of Christ doesn't need your belief, doesn't need your aisle walking, your dipping yourself in a tub of water, opening up your mouth and saying some words, nothing like that.It doesn't need you to activate what was accomplished almost 2,000 years ago.That makes no sense and you should know that.Just as both his burial and his resurrection.Hey, they're so without your belief.Both of them.No difference.You're believing it doesn't make it so.You're believing it makes you saved.Think about that.You come to 1 Corinthians 15.People go, oh, here's the gospel and I know the gospel and let me go preach the gospel.Well, you ought to understand what you're reading before you can go preach it correctly because let me tell you, it's a package deal.If you have to believe for 1 Corinthians 15:3, then you got to believe for 1 Corinthians 15:4.If you're believing it makes him dying for your sins so, then you need to believe itbefore he can resurrect himself.It all happened and it happened without your belief.It's a matter of fact.Don't believe the gospel thinking that that forgives your sins.That don't forgive your sins.Your sins were forgiven but you know what?As said by the Philippian jailer there, what must I do to be saved?Not what must I do to be forgiven?Believe.Grace and peace.

Today on Truth Time.But of late, the adamancy over preaching this doctrine has changed.A new batch of adherents have come along and taken it to the extreme.So extreme, in fact, that virtually every verse, every verse from Paul that uses the word, "faith," they contort it. They contort it to be about Jesus having to have faith.And it's turning into a systematic effort to almost completely erase the responsibility of the individual to believe much of anything.We recently heard one say that it means you transfer your faith to his faith.In your head, maybe.Nowhere where you see the term, "faith of Christ," can you make it say that.And in Ephesians 2:8, we've seen the, "through faith," get turned into, "through the faith of Christ," meaning through Jesus having faith.And tagged with the comment, "See, it's not even your faith that saves you. It's his."This is Truth Time Radio.I'll start today by saying the faith of Christ is what we believe, not what he had.In our last installment, we ended with Romans 3:20.Verse 19 says all the world is guilty before God according to the law.Verse 20 starts with, therefore.So all the world is guilty before God according to the law.And because of this, therefore by the deeds of the law, there shall no flesh be justified in his sight.By the law is the knowledge of sin.Some come here and they use this verse to say the law is the knowledge of sin.But that's not what it says.Skipping a word here and there, it can completely mess up the context.And when we mess up the context, our understanding is tarnished.The law isn't the knowledge of sin.The knowledge of sin came by the law.This means the law reveals what sin is.If the law were just the knowledge of sin, then the law could not also be the righteousness of those who kept it.Okay, let's pick back up here with verse 21.Here we see Paul directly making reference to a dispensational change.A dispensational change from what he has previously been speaking about regarding Israel.And he does so by using the words, "But now."He just finished telling his audience that all the world is guilty before God according to the law.And verse 20, by the deeds of the law shall no flesh be justified in his sight.Which is not the best news for someone who...Romans 2:17, rest in the law.But thankfully, he turns the page and says, "but now."Oh, I love it.Romans 3:21, But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;A verse that's similar to Romans 1:17, where we read, For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.Both verses here, you'll notice, both verses talk about the righteousness of God being manifested, revealed, and Romans 1:17 says the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith.Revealed from faith to faith within the gospel of Christ.In part three of this verse-by-verse series, we talked about the phrase, "faith to faith."And how it's a direct reference to the faith of Israel.Which is based on the law and the prophets, and is carried forward to the present faith that Paul is preaching for the dispensation of grace that we're currently in.And we'll talk a little more about that phrase, faith to faith, in relation to Romans 3:21 in just a minute.But let's focus, let's focus more on the second part of this verse here.Being witnessed by the law and the prophets.You see, the righteousness of God without the law is literally manifested through the grace of God, which was brought to us through the finished crosswork of Jesus Christ.But we've got to remember, we've got to remember, let's remember that Paul is still talking about, talking to, I should say, a mixed audience of those who knew the law and those who knew of it.I told you early on in this study, never forget that.Keep that in mind as you're reading through the book of Romans.It's important.So when our dear brother Paul says being witnessed by the law and the prophets, he's talking about the fact that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, the Messiah, and his coming was both prophesied and witnessed by the law and by the prophets.Here's Moses, Deuteronomy 18 verse 15, (15) The LORD thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken; (16) According to all that thou desiredst of the LORD thy God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again the voice of the LORD my God, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I die not. (17) And the LORD said unto me, They have well spoken that which they have spoken. (18) I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him. (19) And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him.Prophet Jeremiah, chapter 23 verse 5, Watch,(5) Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth. (6) In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely: and this is his name whereby he shall be called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.See that?And we've done the homework for you, so you can go find more examples of this in Luke 24:44, John 1:45, John 5:46 and 47, Romans 1:2, Romans 16:26, Acts 3:22-25, chapter 10 verse 43, and chapter 28 verse 23.When this is studied out, oh, it's good, when this is studied out, what you're going to find, you'll find that Romans 1:17 and chapter 3 verse 21, fit perfectly together contextually.Which, you know, that's not going to surprise anyone that's familiar with Paul's writings, because as you well know, he doesn't tend to subject hop from one sentence to the next.Which makes it easy to spot a verse from Paul that's been cherry-picked from its context.Also makes it easy to see when terms or phrases that he uses are being mis-defined.We exposed some of that.We exposed how some teachers do this in our five-part Defining the Terms series.Now, if we take into account all we've gone over since the beginning of Romans chapter 1 up until now, it should be clear, that the phrase, "from faith to faith," is directly referring to the faith of God and the faith of Christ.The faith of God and the faith of Christ.And that's something we'll address soon.Faith to faith has everything to do with how a person was justified in time past and ages to come, versus how a person is justified during this dispensation.Justification is a result of the faith of Christ, not by Jesus needing to have faith, but because of what the actual definition of faith of Christ is.My friend, the faith of Christ is what we believe, not what he had.He didn't have to have faith.The faith of Christ is data.Data that's been written down, a body of doctrine.And if you stay with us, you're gonna find this out.A couple of episodes back in part eight, we went over exactly what the faith of God is and is not.God doesn't have faith.He doesn't have faith in anything or anyone.Why should he?He doesn't need it.He's the object of faith.He's the object of our faith.We already proved this previously by explaining what faith is according to Hebrews 11:1.We proved it and how it directly connects to hope.In his first letter, his first letter to Rome, Paul states that hope which is seen is not hope.So for you, Jesus had to have faith folks, you're at a crossroads here.Look both ways and ask yourself, has God seen everything or can he be surprised?Hopefully you'll agree that nothing can surprise him.He knows all, he knows everything.He sees everything.He has no need of hope.If he doesn't need hope, he doesn't need faith.Even our good brother, Peter, who's a part of this same household, by the way, Peter talks about the believer's faith being made sight one day.Paul tells us that we walk by faith, not by sight.Faith and sight are opposites.God has all sight of everything and is not constrained by time.He sees the past.He sees the present.He sees the future.He knows the end from the beginning.He does not have faith.And if the God you serve is required to have faith, then you're not serving the only one true and living God.We come here today and we can confidently read Romans 1:16 and 17, and we can see that the righteousness of God is revealed within the Gospel of Christ from the faith of God, which was the law given to Moses according to Romans chapter 3 verses 1 to 3, to the faith of Christ which is the gospel of the grace of God given to our Apostle Paul.Romans 3:21 confirms all this by saying that the righteousness of God that is revealed from faith witnessed by the law and the prophets, to faith the faith that Paul is presently preaching for salvation.You've got to get this.Okay, now that we have a clear contextual understanding let's read Romans 3:21, But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;Much better.See, the faith that Paul is presently preaching for salvation, which is also called the faith of Christ, it reveals the righteousness of God without the law.This is the contrast.This is where the term, "faith of Christ," comes from.The faith of Christ which, was preached by Paul, versus the law preached by Moses.The faith that was preached before Paul is the faith of God.Romans 3 verses 2 and 3, the written oracles of God.The law.Paul's literally telling the readers of this letter to the Romans that he's taken them from faith, the faith of God, that which is written, righteousness through the law of Moses, to a different faith.The faith of Christ, righteousness of God, without the law, not written, kept secret.Hence, from faith to faith.The faith of Christ, which was preached by Paul, versus the law preached by Moses.Oh, this is good.The faith of Christ is what we believe, not what he had.Verse 22, Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:Paul gets straight to the point here.The righteousness of God is by faith of Jesus Christ, and that righteousness is unto all and upon all that believe.There is no difference.No difference between who?The same one that Paul has been saying that there's no difference in since chapter 1.Jew and Gentile.The Jew and Gentile who had two different bodies of information.A body of information contained in the law, the oracles of God.The previous body of information versus the faith of Christ.The body of information given to Paul.This should be super clear for all who have stuck with us thus far.We're going verse by verse and staying right there in line with the contextual parameter.Because once we begin to ignore the context, we end up with all sorts of mixed up doctrine.And unfortunately, MUD isn't just something you'll find in the brick and mortars of denominationalism.Okay, now.Let's define this often mis-defined doctrine that has found its way in the greater grace space.It's been around for at least three decades as far as we know in some form or another.Initially, it was likely introduced as a rather benign opinion which began to turn into a full-blown doctrine and today some have taken it to the extreme, an extreme that its early proponents probably never imagined.Something we've always taught and you may get tired of hearing it but there are two things we're going to keep pounding on.Context and consistency.Context and consistency.Something I never had when I was in religion.And get ready.This faith of Christ study is going to take a few episodes to bear it all out correctly.And one thing you're going to notice is, there's no consistency in using the term, "faith of Christ," to support Jesus having to have faith.You can't do it.You can't take all the verses and run them and see consistency.It won't work.And if you'll stick around you'll see what we mean by that.Over the years we've heard the faith of Christ defined in various ways.There are different levels of adherence.The most clear-cut usage is to say that Jesus had to have faith during his earthly ministry.But you also have some that say no, the faith of Christ is just another way of saying faithfulness of Christ.And then you have the group that will vacillate between both of these and they'll do it so quickly it's hard to nail them down for the purpose of a profitable discussion.Even among those that have been around for quite some time and are adamant in teaching that the faith of Christ means Jesus had faith, there are just some verses that they know better than to use as a proof text for that belief.So we're well aware of those who do not claim Jesus had faith in Romans 3:22, but still believe that other verses claim that he did.There are ministers of reconciliation whom we've known and appreciated for many, many years and still do, but believe they wrongly teach that Jesus had to have faith.See, we believe Jesus is God and as we demonstrated with Scripture a couple of episodes back, we don't serve a God who is required to have faith.As for us, we could end the discussion here and be satisfied and it's basically what we've done for going on 20 years now.Until now, we've never taught on this subject.Not because it's not important, but because from our observation, those whom we know and respect that also believe this, have not put it out in such a way that would overthrow anyone's faith.So we've left it alone.But of late, the adamancy over preaching this doctrine has changed.A new batch of adherents have come along and taken it to the extreme.So extreme, in fact, that virtually every verse, every verse from Paul that uses the word, "faith," they contort it.They contort it to be about Jesus having to have faith.It's turning into a systematic effort to almost completely erase the responsibility of the individual to believe much of anything.We recently heard one say that it means, you transfer your faith to his faith.In your head, maybe.But it means no such thing according to context.You can't make it say that anywhere.Nowhere where you see the term, "faith of Christ," can you make it say that.And we've even heard the faith of Christ in Galatians 2:16 being so strongly promoted as a supposition of Jesus having faith, that it could easily confuse a person into accepting universalism.And in Ephesians 2:8, we've seen the, "through faith," get turned into, "through the faith of Christ," meaning through Jesus having faith.And tagged with the comment, "See? It's not even your faith that saves you. It's his."We know and love some pastors and teachers who believe that Jesus had faith during his earthly ministry, which we disagree.But even they don't use Ephesians 2:8 to do so.They know better.They use other passages and those are the ones we're going to dig into during this study.We know they've believed this for decades.However, we cannot go against our own conscience concerning what we believe an honest, contextual reading of Scripture make clear about this topic.As far as we're concerned, the fact that these faithful ministers of reconciliation have this belief that we disagree with, it does not tarnish the fact that they are still brothers, they are still sisters in Christ, and we're very grateful for them.And we believe their initial intention behind doing so was to give Christ all the credit and take none for themselves.And to that, we most definitely agree.The good intentions behind them teaching this, we question not.Now, there are some who, what they'll do, they'll cross over, they'll cross over and teach, instead of Jesus had to have faith, they'll say, "Jesus was faithful," which is at least a true statement.I will say that.Jesus is faithful.But when you see, when you're reading your Bible, and it says, "faith of Christ," that's not what it's talking about.It's not speaking of his faithfulness.That won't work.There's no consistency.It isn't speaking of the fidelity or the trustworthiness of Christ.We have plenty of scriptures that demonstrate that.But they don't contain the phrase, "faith of Christ," anywhere near them.Plus, our King James Bible already uses the words, "faithful," and, "faithfulness," when speaking of those things.So if faith of Christ meant faithfulness of Christ, then why didn't God use the word faithfulness like he did elsewhere in scripture?See, there's a problem.We do know of a group of what we'll call mid-Acts Baptists who seem to think faithfulness means Jesus was full of faith.We touched on this.We demonstrated the absurdity of that idea in part 8, if I'm not mistaken, part 8 of this Roman series.And hear this.Modern day perversions, they're wrong.They make the error of changing, "the faith of Christ," to, "the faith in Christ."Hey, don't touch God's word.There's a huge difference between the individual having faith in Christ, and the body of doctrine whereby the body of Christ operates, which is what faith of Christ is.The faith of Christ, preached by Paul, versus the law, preached by Moses.Faith of Christ is what we believe, it's not what he had.The modern versions got it wrong, King James got it right.Now, pertaining to the incorrect idea that faith really means faithfulness, hey, faithfulness does not require faith.Let me say that again.Faithfulness doesn't require faith.Now, that may come as a shock to some, but as we already demonstrated in part 8, faith does not exist without hope.It just don't.And in order to have hope, one must have faith.The writer of Hebrews 11:1 lays it out plainly, and Paul says, hope that is seen is not hope.Hope is unseen, and faith is the opposite of sight.So what does God see?Everything.Therefore, he doesn't need hope.Because that which is seen is not hope.You've got to understand that.He does not have faith because he has sight of everything.And he's already declared the end from the beginning. Isaiah 46:10.Now, after we've laid out all the reasons why God is not required to have faith, I've got a question.And we're closing out here.We're closing out for now.I'm running out of time, but, we're going to come back.Hey, this is, we're going to continue to pound on this, and we will establish it according to context of the Scripture.We're not going to take anything out of context.You can do that.You can take it out of context and make faith of Christ something it is not, but you, stick around, you cannot stay in context and make the faith of Christ anything other than what we're going to show you.Now, question.Is God faithful?Of course he is.You know that.I know that.It's not a mystery.And there's a plethora of Scriptures that say this.They prove it.They say he is and why he is.But God doesn't have faith.He's faithful.They're not the same.Faithfulness is not a virtue that requires faith.And for good measure, let me throw this one at you.For good measure, think about this now.You've read it.You've seen it.We also see in Scripture where Paul uses the term, "faithful saying.""Faithful saying."He uses it, I think, four different times.I know twice in 1 Timothy.There's one in 2 Timothy.And you'll find one over there in Titus.So I ask, is a saying, is a saying capable of having faith?Does a saying believe anything?Of course not.But can a saying be trustworthy and reliable?Oh, yes it can.And that's what Paul's talking about when he says, "faithful saying."His faithful sayings were part of the doctrine he preached.So we see that faithfulness does not require faith in order to be faithful.Get it?But instead, listen, faithfulness is an attribute that makes one worthy of being trusted, depended upon, reliable, true.And that's, that's why God is faithful.It's not because he had faith.Claiming that, "faith of," really just means, "faithfulness of," doesn't fit the context where the phrase is used.You see, the reason why the context doesn't fit is the same reason why the assertion that Jesus had to have faith doesn't fit in context either.We're going to dive right in next time using all the verses in Paul's epistles, all of them.Get ready.Using all the verses in his epistles that speak of, "the faith of Christ."And we're going to even look outside his epistles where the faith of Christ is referred to.We've still got a lot of information to share and we're going to take as long as needed to cover it.This topic is multifaceted and it reaches into more areas than most might have considered.Grace and peace, guys.Grace and peace.

This is WTTR, your mobile app place to be, your home for the word of reconciliation and songs of grace.What a wonderful day. What a wonderful day. Got a fresh pot of coffee on and we're ready to go.We're here 24 hours a day spreading this wonderful word of reconciliation.Okay, one good sip of coffee here.Take a few moments to share something titled, Hypocrisy, Blasphemers, Liars, and their Feigned Charity.Here we go.Be watchful and discerning so that you do not miss those who display feigned humility.Be alert and listen for their virtue-signaling.A double-minded man is an unstable man.Today, hypocrisy is operating at an excessive level, perhaps at its highest.Hypocrisy is the opposite of charity.We can make an appeal to scripture to see the damaging consequences of hypocrisy.Proverbs 11:9, An hypocrite with his mouth destroyeth his neighbour: but through knowledge shall the just be delivered.Hypocrisy breeds iniquity.Matthew 23:15, Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.Man, does this sound familiar.Hypocrisy nurtures an accusatory attitude toward others.Luke chapter 6 verse 42, Either how canst thou say to thy brother, Brother, let me pull out the mote that is in thine eye, when thou thyself beholdest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of thine own eye, and then shalt thou see clearly to pull out the mote that is in thy brother's eye.Hypocrites condemn themselves each time they open their mouth to condemn others.Romans 2:1, Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things.Blasphemy is born of hypocrisy.Romans 2:21-24, Thou therefore which teachest another, teachest thou not thyself? thou that preachest a man should not steal, dost thou steal? Thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege? Thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the law dishonourest thou God? For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you, as it is written.Scripture teaches us about liars and hypocrites regarding the righteous judgment of God.Romans 3:4, God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.Charity and hypocrisy are opposites, contradictions.Charity cannot dwell in the hypocritical heart.1 Corinthians 13:4-7, Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.Some of the most puffed up, envious, self-seeking, hot-headed, false accusers, evil-assuming stirrers of discord will virtue signal with the charity chapter.Swelling speeches regarding others who are perceived to be less than charitable based on carnal judgments and outward appearances.Just as integrity is measured by what we do when no one is watching, charity is evidenced by how we treat others and what we say about them when they're not around and when they're not listening.Okay, guys.Hope you enjoyed that.I know I did.It was written by my wife, Faith Searcy.Thanks for joining me and get ready for some more grace music coming up.And don't forget to share the app with someone today.Grace and peace.

The word is powerful.Use it wisely.God's word in the hands of those who lack spiritual maturity is dangerous.The power of God's word.Oh, let me tell you, this word is eternally life-changing.I love what our Apostle Paul has to say about it.It supplies us with a look into the things which are not seen, 2 Corinthians 4:18.For the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal.So it's those things we fix our eyes on, the eternal unseen.God's precious word encourages us to not be slothful.But rather fervent in spirit, serving the Lord, rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation, continuing, instant in prayer. Romans chapter 12.And as the Psalmist David said, Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoices.Hallelujah.God's word is powerful.Nothing like it.It opposes men who get in their own way, held hostage in their traditions in vainimaginations.Men speculate, God speaks straight up truth, truth that cuts straight to the point.His word is the standard whereby we find all our solutions.It gives us a first-hand detailed account of everything we need in order to be stablished.In Luke chapter 8, many of you will remember and recall this.In Luke chapter 8, the word of God is likened to a seed.God's word is light and has reproductive power.But there are some who choose to pollute it with their own ideology, having allowed the God of this world to blind them from the truth.But like we read here in Luke 8, no man, when he has lighted a candle, should coverit up or distort it, but be an unashamed workman who knows how to rightly divide it, so that it is clearly understood.The truth is not covered with a vessel or kept under a bed, but has been revealed andshould sit out in the open by a candlestick, so that they which enter the room may see the light.We have the knowledge of theologians and scholars and world religions, and they're happy to give us their knowledge, professors and scientists.They want to give us their knowledge, men write books to give us their knowledge, butGod's knowledge, it's matchless.The writer of Hebrews, I like what he has to say, he gives us a trans-dispensational timeless truth when he wrote that God is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him, amen?And the only way to seek him today is through his word.When we allow his word to freely flow through our spiritual veins, the spiritual reward is truly outstanding.God's word can change everything.The world seeks power, but they're looking in the wrong place.The power is in the word, in God's word.You know, with a mere command, just one word, one word, folks, Jesus changed the course of devils.You realize that?I was reading earlier in Matthew 8 and saw where the devils besought him saying, If thou cast us out, suffer us to go away into the herd of swine.And Jesus said, he said, Go, that's all he said.Wouldn't you have loved to have seen that?Jesus just shouted, Go.One word and those devils came out and went into the herd of swine and ran violently down the hill and off into the sea.The word of God is quick and powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit and of the joints and marrow and is a discerner of the thoughts and the intents of the heart.And when used in its proper context, it has the power to raise your knowledge and elevate your thinking.God, who at sundry times and in diverse manners, spake.He spake to Israel in time past.He'll speak to them again in ages to come, but brothers and sisters right now, he'sspeaking to us.Let the word of God have reign in your life.Let his word be good to you.You know, it's popular to downplay his word for other things, but I'm here today proclaiming that his word is the most powerful thing you have in your life.Some downplay the study of his word and even others downplay the singing of his word.Have the audacity to downplay singing when our own apostle commands us to speak to ourselves in Psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, to sing and make melody in our heart to the Lord, Ephesians 5:19.He commands us to let the word of Christ dwell in us richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in Psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in our hearts to the Lord. Colossians 3:16.These are commands, not suggestions.This is all a part of our dispensational package, folks.It's good.Don't avoid it.Christ Jesus our Lord, in whom we have redemption through his blood.We have the forgiveness of sins according to the riches of his grace wherein he hathabounded toward us in what? All wisdom and prudence, having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself, Ephesians chapter 1.Oh, praise God, we have all the power we need to fully operate in line with the Spirit.As members of his body, we lack nothing.We have the full package and have been furnished unto all good works.Being knitted together in love and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding as ambassadors for Christ, we comfort hearts with this word of reconciliation.Teaching everyone in all wisdom that we may present them perfect in Christ Jesus.God the Father took on flesh as God the Son and died for your every sin before you were even born.He took your sins.He took your sins to the tomb and left them there.And in three days he resurrected and made his exit so that you could have a resurrected life in him.He wants to give you his righteousness and justify you today, not tomorrow, but today.Tomorrow may be too late.Place your faith in him right now at this moment and rest forever more.Okay, glad to be with you today.Don't go anywhere.We have more of the word of reconciliation and songs of grace coming up on WTTR Truth Time Radio.

Okay, we welcome all the mobile appers tuned in with us today as we preach the gospel of Christ and fellowship around the revelation of the mystery.And what a wonderful fellowship this is.Fellowship that's not found in the world of religiosity.Most are void. Void of the but-now truth of the gospel of our salvation.And here we are in a time when buildings are nothing short of a social gathering place.And it's increasingly getting harder to find a place to worship and to fellowship with like-minded believers.And it's why most are staying home these days.What fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness, right?What communion hath light with the darkness of infidels?In this dispensation, infidels are those who deny the authority of Paul's My Gospel.The other day, my wife sends me a text that said, take a look at what some quote-right divider is teaching now.It was a Facebook post from a fellow who posted a passage from Ephesians 4.There where it speaks of how some were given to be apostles, evangelists, pastors, prophets, and teachers, and so forth, to perfect the saints for the work of the ministry and to edify the body of Christ.Underneath it, this fellow says, Preachers are to edify the body of Christ and not preach to the lost.It's the Holy Spirit's job to save people.And then he said, Unfortunately, most did not get the memo.After seeing her text, I thought to myself, how arrogant and foolish for a so-called grace-believing preacher to publicly say such a thing.To take a beautiful Pauline passage completely out of its context.But this is not an isolated event.This sort of foolishness we deal with daily.In the last couple of years, it's gotten worse.And we're being flooded with listener emails and voicemails asking us to address these things.He says most didn't get the memo.Hey, there is no such memo.Buildings everywhere, worldwide, full of needy people, spiritually bankrupt, packed to the gills with the religious and lost, and this joker's telling us, Don't go to them with the gospel because you're only supposed to edify the body of Christ.Your job's not to preach to the lost.Wrong, wrong, and wrong again.Yes, it's true, it's very true that we're to edify and build one another up, but as ambassadors, our ministry extends beyond the four walls.Our ministry is never to, well, at least our Truth Time ministry, I'll speak for ourselves, we're without borders and we make no apology for that.Our ministry extends beyond social status, it extends beyond skin color, political party, straight or gay, as ambassadors for Christ, we have a message for you.Come on in.Stay a while.I've got the best news you're ever going to hear.That on the cross, God was in Christ where he stopped imputing trespasses and reconciled you, reconciled me, he reconciled the entire world unto himself.And this news should be evident.I mean, any Bible, any person that says they've read the Bible should know that this is why no one receives his wrath for their sins today.If this was not true, if the Truth Time message of reconciliation was not true, the whole world would be under God's wrath.But during this time of grace, God has issued a worldwide invitation for all to be saved, he's holding back the day of wrath, and it's a crying shame that we have people proclaiming to understand the difference between prophecy and mystery who are not only not willing to reach out to others, but from the looks of it, most are not even equipped to.They don't have the right message.This preacher here, he could care less about the lost and goes on social media to brag about it, putting his ignorance on full display.He could care less because he's careless.Careless with his words.I think it's he who didn't get the memo, the grace memo from the Apostle Paul.Grace and religion don't mix.These religious denominational preachers and even some of the religious grace preachers, while claiming to teach from Paul's epistles, have their followers under a form of bondage.Teaching things they ought not.Teaching them to in-reach, but never how to out-reach.Here we are, ministers of reconciliation, equipped with the only gospel that saves today, and we got jokers like this telling us to avoid the worldwide denominational system.There they are, kept under Israel's time-passed instructions, religious and lost,but hey, just avoid them.Avoid them at all costs, because this fellow says we're supposed to edify the body of Christ only, and not preach to the lost.Because it's the Holy Spirit's job, he said, to save people.Yes, yes it is.But how does that happen?The Holy Spirit saves people through His Word.And the unsaved won't hear His Word, if we avoid them.Unless folks like you and I, if we don't take them the good news, nobody will.The good news of their salvation, if we don't deliver it to them, they'll die religious and lost, right there in those buildings.Where they're being taught to grudgingly tithe, instead of cheerfully give.Taught to set their minds on earthly things, not heavenly things.To ask for forgiveness they already have.To mix works with faith for salvation.To mix prophecy with mystery.It's a cryin' shame, is what it is.I was reading through Isaiah earlier, when a verse stuck out and caught my eye.Chapter 59 verse 2, here the prophet says, But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.Now, this is likely to be taught this Sunday morning somewhere.But does it sound like your mail?If you answer, yes, it's likely you're not saved.If you've been getting your mail from the right mailbox, you know, you know that your iniquities do not separate you from God.Because God's not imputing them.This is good news you're not going to hear from a limited forgiver, because they don't know how to handle their Bible.They suffer from a severe case of myopia.And when they open the Word, the Word of God, they miss it.They miss this.Reconciliation has become sort of a byword to them.But you can't be saved without it.Some people have the gospel over here and reconciliation over here.Hey, reconciliation is the gospel.The gospel is reconciliation.It tells you what Christ did on the cross on your behalf so that God could reconcile Himself to you.And He resurrected on the third day to assure you that payment was made and accepted.As we've been saying for so many years, if religion has left you with more questions than answers, we're glad you're here.I'm here to call out and charge all the religious spin doctors.Call them out and charge that they teach no other doctrine than that of Paul's.I'm here to warn you of the 1 John 1:9 limited forgivers.Confess your sins to get them forgiven.Nope.I'm warning you against the Acts 2:38 limited forgivers.Repent and be baptized for forgiveness.Nope.The 2 Chronicles 7:14, yeah, how about those guys? Limited forgivers is what they are. If my people, which are called by my name, will humble themselves, pray, and turn from their wicked ways, then, then they can get forgiven.Nope, nope, and nope again.That's the wrong mailbox.Instructions that aren't for you.Yet multitudes attend an event every year called the National Day of Prayer.And you know what they do?They use 2 Chronicles 7:14 as their banner verse.An event that I think happens every year around September.But can you believe that?Can you believe that the religious system has blinded millions upon millions from seeing that no amount of calling on the name, or no amount of humbling yourself,no amount of prayer and turning from your wicked ways can get sins forgiven that are not being imputed.This is nonsense.I'm here to charge you today to keep a close eye, keep a close eye out for the Mark 3:29 limited forgivers.You know them good old boys, don't you?He that blaspheme against the Holy Ghost.He that blaspheme hath never forgiveness.Wrong.That one's not being imputed either.2 Corinthians 5:21, God made Jesus to be sin for us.That includes the sin of blasphemy.How's that difficult?I charge you to beware of the Matthew 6:14, If you have not first forgive others,then God can't forgive you, limited forgivers.They're out there too.Everywhere, on every corner.Watch for the Matthew 24, endure until the end guys.Yeah, those limited forgivers.The say the sinner's prayer limited forgivers.The enter the confessional booth limited forgivers.It was just yesterday, heard a prominent pastor of a very large church.He placed the John chapter 1 verse 12 stumbling block right there in front of his audience.And there were hundreds in attendance.And no doubt thousands watching by television.And what do you think his false teaching is doing?Causing them to stumble all over themselves.And those who believe that John 1:12, I don't care how good they are, come to church every Sunday, do good, charitable people, pay their tithes, vote for all the right candidates, so they think, I don't care.Hey, if they believe John 1:12 is in their salvation mailbox, they're going to miss heaven.John said, But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that what? Believe on his name.That's not the gospel today.Is that a false gospel?Is this a false gospel Truth Time's uncovered here in the Bible?Nope.But it's a misplaced gospel is what it is, which ultimately makes it a false gospel if it's used today.Time passed, but now, ages to come.Time passed, but now, ages to come.Timelines in the Bible that so many ignore, and then we have some that know of these timelines and still don't understand what happened on the cross in time past.It happened on the cross in time past and revealed to Paul in the but now.Some's going to get it, some can't.But we're doing our best to get you over here in the but now dispensation of grace.Over here in the Flip Wilson's church of what's happening now.Paul's epistles is where you'll find the but now gospel for today.It's where you'll find your daily marching orders.It's where you'll find your identity.Do you realize this?Hopefully so, but most don't.We're faced with a real identity crisis, and people don't know who they are or where to go read about themselves in the Bible.And this Sunday morning, oh, you can watch your neighbor pull out of their driveway,go to a building, and they'll fellowship there with a group, a group of others who don't know who they are either.Now, later in this dude's message that I saw, he said, quote, If you simply will be honest with God, confess and forsake all your sins, admit that you're a sinner, and promise to stop your sinning, God will forgive you.Oh, my.A convoluted lie making itself manifest right from this preacher's mouth.Coming from someone who has allowed the God of this world through the religious system to blind him from the light of the glorious gospel, the but now gospel of his salvation.He's ignorant of the cross.For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness, but unto us which are saved, it is what? The power of God.Any man that would tell others that they have to confess and forsake all their sins before God will forgive them, is a man who's fallen into divers deceptions.He hasn't forsaken all his sins, yet he's up there telling others to do so.You've got to be kidding.And using his large ministerial platform to deceive.Hurt people hurt people.And deceived people deceive people.Pews filled with warm bodies who are destroyed for lack of knowledge.Hey, listen, doing what we do here at Truth Time Radio as ministers of reconciliation, not a day goes by that we don't receive some wrong-headed attemptfrom someone offering to service up a big bite of their religious cake.So you know what we did?Years ago, we decided to, to fast from man's vain imaginations and misplaced teachings, and instead, feast.Yeah, we traded the fast for the feast.Feast off the unperverted word of God.And we encourage you to do the same.Grace and peace.

We take this moment to remind you that the gospel is not he forgives and forgets, it's, he forgave and forgot.Place your trust in the risen Christ Jesus and receive the free gift of salvation today.We're thankful you're here.Truth Time Radio.Celebrating the word of reconciliation and songs of grace.Here today to review the ministry of Franklin Graham.There's a study group in Zambia who found us through the mobile app.These precious saints have been listening diligently, studying along with us, be sure to keep them in your prayers. They asked if we would cover Franklin's gospel presentation, so without further ado, here we go. Hello, I'm Franklin Graham.The world is changing so quickly.Inflation, gas prices, food prices, the war in Europe.What used to be considered wrong is now celebrated as good, and what used to be good is now condemned as wrong.So far, so good.But I can tell you what doesn't change, God and his word.He's the same yesterday, today, and forever.Amen.In God's word, he tells us that he loves us.He sent his son, Jesus Christ, from heaven to this earth to take our sins by dying and shedding his blood on a cross.And on the third day, God raised him to life.What? Looks like we're getting ready to hear a clear presentation of how to be saved.If you're willing to repent, turn from your sins.And off the road and into a ditch we go.Okay, so let's unpack and deconstruct what we have so far.He said, quote, unquote, "If you're willing to repent, turn from sins."So, right off, right off the bat, he mis-defines the word repent.Here we have a man raised by the late Billy Graham, who was given the title, America's Evangelist.Yet he doesn't know the definition of this six-letter Bible word, repent.Amazing.Franklin, repent cannot mean turn from sin, and we know this for a number of reasons.One being that God repented more than anyone else in Scripture.So, if God needed to repent of his sins, we have a sinful God, and we're in a heap of trouble.What does the word repent mean?Well, in Matthew, chapter 21, verse 28, look with me. Matthew 21:28, A certain man had two sons, and he came to the first and said, son, go to work today in my vineyard.Verse 29, He answered and said, I will not.But afterward, he repented and went.What does repent mean?To change your mind.The father told the son to go to work in the vineyard, but he refused.To only later repent, change his mind, and go.Simple for most of us.Now, ask yourself, why is there any confusion over the definition of repent?I gave this some thought.And my thoughts led me to two words.Two words.Bible and man.Some allow the Bible to be their final authority.Others allow man to be.Many think repent means to turn from sin because that's what the preacher said.That's what Webster said.Hey, the number one definition from Webster is, to turn from sin and dedicate oneself to the amendment of one's life.Mmm, mmm, mmm.If you're willing to repent, turn from your sins, and believe by faith on the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, you will be saved.Here, Franklin does as most do, he reached into Israel's mailbox, pulled out their mail, and he attempts to apply it to us.It doesn't fit.Before the cross, and for national Israel, the gospel was that they needed to believe that Jesus was the prophesied Messiah.That's why in John chapter 20, verse 30, Jesus had been performing miraculous signs there in front of the disciples.And John said the reason he did so, it's in the next verse, the reason he did so, that they might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God.And by doing so, they might have life through his name.Life through the finished crosswork and resurrection?No.But on this side of the cross, praise God, Paul tells us, Galatians 2:20, that we're crucified with Christ, and he lives in us. And the life we now live in the flesh, we live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved us and gave himself for us.John was under the law.John was teaching kingdom principles, and life was found through his name, followed by their obedience.However, we're not under the law, nor kingdom principles.And Paul said that if there had been a law given, which could have given life, verily, righteousness should have been by the law, Galatians 3:21.We don't find life through his name.On this side of the cross, our life is found in the resurrection.The gospel that we are to believe is that which Paul preached.Belief in how Christ died for our sins, he was buried and resurrected on the third day for our justification.And today, you won't find life outside of that, outside of belief in, "He has risen."If you have never asked Jesus Christ to forgive you for your sins and come into your heart, you can do that right now.Sorry, Franklin, but forgiveness is not found in asking.At Calvary, God required a final one-time blood sacrifice for the forgiveness of the world's sins.It was the blood of Christ that satisfied God.Not anyone's words.And asking him to come into our heart is just another tired, old religious tired cliche that has been parroted by the millions, even though we can't find it in scripture.But that's hard to believe, right?How many man-made designed sermons, church signs, books we have that make the claim that to be saved, you need to ask Jesus to come into your heart?It's a countless number, I can tell you that.How many, just how many will be in hell for believing that that saved them?What a shame.Now, we've made it here to Franklin's, well, what's likely the most popular prayer in the world, and it's called the sinner's prayer.But it should be called, I want to go to hell prayer.Let's think seriously about this.Christ, 1 Corinthians 15:3, he went to the cross, where he shed his blood for sins.In 2 Corinthians 5:19, God said that because of his son's sacrifice, he stopped charging sins to the world.But we're told that we need a man-made prayer because that wasn't good enough.So man had to string along and construct some magic words, some words for us to say, and then, poof, our sins magically disappear.So let's hear the magic words.Just pray this prayer with me. Just say, God, I'm a sinner, I'm sorry, forgive me, I believe Jesus is your son. I want to trust him as my Savior and follow him as my Lord. If you prayed that prayer, call that number right now that's on the screen. God bless you.The most popular salvation prayer known to the American people, and perhaps the world.What verse does this make us think of?I bet most of you know.It's 2 Corinthians chapter 11, verse 3, where Paul says, I fear less by any means as the serpent, he beguiled Eve through his subtlety. So your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.If we allow Scripture to be the final authority, we see that there is simplicity in understanding what the word repent is.There is simplicity in understanding that there are no words that you can utter, that could ever replace the blood for forgiveness.And we also see the simplicity in the gospel that saves today, and it has nothing to do with a prayer.For by grace are you saved through faith, and that not of yourselves. It is the gift of God, not of works, lest any man should boast.Think about that.For by grace are you saved through faith, not the sinner's prayer.Paul said not of works, but prayer is a work.He said, Not of yourselves, but when you pray, that's yourself doing the praying.Can you possibly go against God's word any more than this?Men made up a prayer that you can do to replace believing what Christ already did.Prayer is on the works list.Many are not aware of this.Now that's how subtle Satan is.If we could pray our way in, we'd spend all eternity boasting about it.I said this once to a caller and he thought I was crazy.And I might be, but not because I tell the truth about prayer.When I say prayer is a work, I'm just agreeing with God.Colossians 4:12, Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, saluteth you, always laboring fervently for you in prayers.Did you get it?See that?Fervently laboring.There's not a person listening that doesn't know that labor is work.Prayer is a work, and no one will be in heaven because they prayed the sinner's prayer.If Franklin Graham is a man of integrity, he'll go pull all the television ads immediately.He's leading millions to hell with a prayer.Think about that for a moment.Just think.There's a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.This so-called sinner's prayer won't save a single soul.The only thing that can save is trusting Christ by believing the gospel.Hey, salvation is a gift, not a reward.And you can't do anything in your flesh to earn it.Many of you, like myself, have also heard Franklin's dad invite people to be saved by reciting this sinner's prayer.So it appears that the apple didn't fall far from the tree.If you're here today and not certain of your salvation, I beg you, do not pray this prayer hoping it'll save you.It won't.Be saved as the Bible says to be.Faith alone in Christ alone.Having died for all your sins, every last one of them, and resurrecting on the third day.We are to become a believer first.Then, then there are things we can pray about.A believer's prayer life is important.But we don't do it to be a believer.We do it because we are a believer.Words are important.Getting the cart before the horse will leave you religious and lost with a one-way ticket to hell.So don't pray a prayer for salvation.That's not biblical.That would be something done in your flesh.And salvation is not of yourself.Don't change anything about yourself for salvation.You want to change some things?That's great. Go ahead.We all should.But nothing you change can save you.Don't change for salvation.Change from salvation.Don't change to be saved, change because you are.On the cross, God stopped imputing your sins because of Christ and his shed blood.Not because of a prayer.Today, by faith in the finished crosswork and resurrection, you can be justified by his blood. Romans 5:9.Not by saying a prayer.And look at the next verse. Verse 10, 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.Saved by his life.Not a prayer.Thanks to all of you who are joining us on this mobile app.And thanks to the study group.Hopefully this answer to your question is helpful.We want to be helpers of your joy.Hey, remember, you only get two educations. The one you're given, and the one you give yourself.