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Beth Jones is a Bible teacher and founder of The Basics With Beth, a non-profit Christian teaching ministry dedicated to helping people learn the Bible basics.
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0:00 Hey, guys. This is Beth Jones, I am so glad you have tuned into the basics with Beth podcast. And I'm so pumped up about helping you get the basics of the Bible, or as we like0:12 to say around here, get the basics, live the life and do the stuff. I know you are going to be so encouraged by today's podcast, and I really pray you enjoy0:23 every minute. If you'd like to know more about the basics and what we're doing, just head on over to the basics with beth dot com to get all the deets. And in the meantime, enjoy today's0:35 podcast. We are starting a new series called exclamation point, and we're gonna talk about how good God is. We're gonna talk about this whole idea that God has put an exclamation point on the0:46 gospel. And what exactly that means to us and what does God wanna do through us. And so if you guys had your Bibles, go ahead and pull them out. And if you need a Bible, raise your hands. The ushers will get you 1. And0:58 while you're doing that, let me go ahead and pray. Father, thank you so much. Lord, thank you so much for your goodness. Thank you so much for your word. Lord, thank you so much for the price that1:09 Jesus paid on that cross. In the finished work, by the shedding of his blood, he purchased our redemption. He purchased our salvation.1:22 The gospel, the good news that you're not mad at us. You poured out all of your wrath for sin on your son and he was our substitute and Lord it's such good news.1:34 It's such an exclamation point of your goodness and I pray in this series, Lord that you'll help us to get it. I ask you for divine impartations by your spirit. Lord in1:46 the heart and the spirit of each and every person here that you will deposit things like time released capsules that'll go off in them and the revelation of your goodness and the1:57 revelation of who you have made them to be in Christ becomes a reality. We thank you Holy Spirit for revealing things to us,2:09 imparting things to us and absolutely changing our lives. I believe this will be a pivot point for us individually and as a church. I believe this would be a trajectory2:20 change for us as we listen to the spirit as we get the revelation of your goodness. The revelation of righteousness and all that you want us to see in2:32 your exclamation point. We thank you for it Lord in Jesus mighty name and everybody that agreed said. Amen. Praise the Lord. I wanna give you a definition of the2:43 exclamation point and you know why we we're calling this series that title exclamation point is a punctuation mark indicating an exclamation. You probably knew that. What is an exclamation? It is something2:55 that expresses surprise, anger, or pain from the Latin exclamere means to shout out. And that's what I am believing God for and y'all hook up your faith and come expecting3:07 that God will shout out to you his goodness. That God will shout out through you his goodness. That things that that maybe we thought we knew but we didn't3:19 really. Or maybe we just only knew such a little teeny bit and God just wants to explode it. He just wants the exclamation point of his goodness and of the gospel and of everything he purchased for us3:31 on that cross. In the finished work, I mean you're hearing that phrase a lot because God wants to emphasize to us what happened in the finished. It's done. It's finished. Like there's no more to do. In the3:42 finished work of the cross and that God will shout it out to us in such a way, like we said in our prayer, in such a way that this would be a pivot point. You know, for for all of us individually but as together even as3:54 a church. And so let me give you a couple of couple of thoughts in terms of who this is for and and you know, where to put your expectation. Alright? If you're the kind of person that you feel4:07 never quite at rest. Never quite like, I know God's good and I think he exists and I know he loves me, but I just never feel quite like right. I mean technically I know I'm right,4:19 but I don't always feel it. Or maybe technically you don't know that you're right. And you just always feel guilty and you always feel unworthy and you always feel defeated. And you just never have that sense of like4:30 God's pleased with me. Like I can never really rest in that because I'm sure there's something I'm supposed to be doing that I'm not doing or there's something I'm doing that I'm not supposed to be doing and we never4:39 find that place of rest in him. If that's you, this is the series for you. Or or maybe, you know, that's that's 1 side of the coin. Maybe the other side is4:51 this. If you're like, oh, I got that. I know that. I already know all that. This is like so basic. I know these things. All of us, myself included, you know, I've been walking with the Lord for about 3 decades now, and5:02 there's some things I think I know. And then I get into the word and I start studying what I would am calling getting a grip on the basics on steroids. And I'm like, I didn't even know this. I mean, I knew it, but I5:12 didn't know it to the degree. God's goodness and God's word, how many of you know it is so rich, it is so layered, it is so multifaceted that we could read 1 verse every5:24 day for our whole life and never plumb the depths of it. And all the people said, Amen. So whether you're on the extreme, if I already kind of know this and I'm just going to sit back and kind5:36 of coast, or you're on the other side where I just always feel unworthy and I just never feel like I measure up and I just always feel like I don't deserve God's goodness. Either side of that coin, just want to encourage5:45 you to throw that away, to take off those glasses and just come to this series with a great expectation. To be like God impart to me. Give me divine revelation on things I don't know. I'm5:57 gonna pretend I don't know anything. And I'm gonna try to listen to the Holy Spirit speaking to me as if I don't know any of this. And allow him, truly allow him to shout out to you, to6:08 exclamation point to you, his goodness. Amen? Amen. So I wanna give that little, kind of that little preview and that little heads up. Let me tell you where we're gonna go in our next few weeks6:20 together. Where we're gonna go is today we're gonna talk about a gospel revolution. And man, oh man, do we ever need 1. We need a gospel revolution. We get too familiar with things, you know? And I was6:32 gonna call it a gospel riot. I mean we really need like a riot in our spirit, in our heart from the Lord on what the gospel really is. And so we're gonna talk about that today. Then next week we're gonna talk about take6:43 it. Take it. It's like a proactive concept. It's not passive. It's it's assertive in who you are in Christ. There's so many things God wants you to take it. He's already purchased6:55 it. Take it. And we'll get into a whole bunch of that next week, but just this idea that that the, you know, the buffet table's loaded. It's been loaded up. It's been sitting on the table. You know, God's keeping it7:07 warmed up for you, so take it. Don't miss out. Take it. His exclamation point is take his goodness. Week number 2. Week number 3, you don't deserve it. How many of you would7:18 say I already know that? Yeah, we don't deserve it. We already we already know that we don't but but here's the thing, when we get into week 3, we're gonna find out what God has bestowed upon us and we so don't deserve7:29 it. It is so unmerited. So unearned. But He is just that good. I mean just when you think you're like, okay, I get God's goodness. Okay, yeah. Wow, that's good. Oh, good, got7:41 it. Just when you think you have it, He like explodes a whole other concept to you about what you don't deserve, what he just wants to give you anyways. Don't miss week number 3. Week 4, we're gonna talk about a great7:52 sozo. Hebrews talks about tells us how shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation? He calls it a great8:04 salvation. It is so great. And again it's 1 of those things, well I think I know what salvation is. I mean I'm saved and so like when I die I'm gonna go to heaven, alright. That's it, right? No, that's not it. That is8:14 just a little teeny weeny part of it. That's the quantitative salvation someday into into eternity but there is this qualitative in the present tense now dimension of our8:26 great salvation. And he says, look, if you neglect it, if you're passive about it, if you're careless about it, if you're uninformed about it, you're not gonna benefit by it. Don't8:38 miss that week. 4. Week number 5, peace out. Gonna talk about peace. And, again, it's 1 of those things, you know, like, I know peace, you know, be calm. Just, you know, chill. Be calm. But there is so much more to8:50 peace. When Jesus spoke the word peace, it's likely that he spoke the Hebrew word, not the Arabic not the Arabic. The Hebrew word is Shalom and it's a whole lot more than just chill9:01 out. Just be calm. It's a whole lot more than that. We're going dive into it. Again, the riches and the layers of what God wants us to experience on a daily basis as it relates to peace. And last but not least crazy9:14 crazy love. First John says that we know and have believed the love that God has for us. The thing is there's a lot of people that know God loves them, they don't believe it.9:27 They know it in their head, they know the scriptures, for God so loved the world, know, la dee da. They know it, but they don't believe it. And so if you don't believe it, you don't experience it. And for9:39 a lot of people, you know, they don't have a great relationship with their father, their earthly father and it it it creates some issues. In other words, if you don't hear God calling you beloved,9:51 beloved, his beloved. If that seems awkward to you like, that's uncomfortable. Then you need to come week number 6.10:03 Because you are his beloved. You're not just his child and you're just not his servant. In fact Jesus said I don't call you servants anymore, I call you my friends. And God the Father calls us his10:15 children, his beloved, his beloved. And so you know we're gonna do a bunch of stuff week number 6, but boy if you need to experience God's love like never before, I mean practically for yourself.10:27 Experience. Just like what we sang, God's love. Don't miss week number 6. Alright? And all the people said, amen. Okay. So go ahead in your Bibles, pull them out to10:39 Romans chapter 1. What we're gonna do today is we're really just gonna camp out in 1 passage. Romans 1 verse 16 and 17. We're just gonna really camp out in 1 verse talking about a gospel revolution.10:51 And we're gonna kind of tear it apart and dig deep and and look at lots of different things and see what is it the Lord's trying? What exclamation point is he trying to shout out to us as it relates to this verse? And11:03 this is so foundational and it's so so huge and so big and, so it starts in Romans 1 verse 16. The Apostle Paul said, for I am not ashamed of the gospel of11:15 Christ for it is the power of God unto salvation for everyone who believes. For the Jew first and also for the Greek. For in it in11:26 the gospel, for in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith as it is written the just shall live by faith. Alright. So11:38 we're gonna talk about it because again it's 1 of those verses maybe you've heard, some teaching on it and and usually what you hear is the emphasis on that first part like I am not ashamed of the gospel. You know I'm11:48 gonna preach the gospel with boldness, and I'm not ashamed. And that's good, but sometimes we're missing what the gospel actually is. Like what is this gospel that we're supposed to not be ashamed of? What is this thing11:59 that we're supposed to preach and and proclaim and live and experience? Alright? So we're gonna take each 1 of those words. It'll kind of be our glossary today. We're gonna take each word and talk about a12:10 gospel revolution. Alright? This first part then, it says, for I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ. What is the gospel? On the12:22 screen, I'm gonna give you a definition. Gonna give you a definition of a lot of words. And these definitions are really kind of a combination of what leading bible scholars, Greek scholars, know, theologians, people12:32 that are very well respected and and everybody is pretty much in concurrence. They all pretty much agree, these are the definitions of words that we read in our bible every day. But how many of you know, sometimes you12:42 know, you're reading your bible and you're reading words and and you're like, what does that mean? And then we just keep reading and so we don't always get the total benefit that God wants us to get, the exclamation12:51 point he really wants us to get because we didn't really understand what the word even meant. So that's why we're gonna take our time a little bit today just dig through this scripture and look at different definitions.13:02 So the gospel, by definition it means good or glad tidings. Good news, a good message, the joyful tidings of God's kindness.13:14 The gospel just by definition is good news. The good news of the gospel for you and I is the good news of the gospel is things like this. It's good news. Jesus has won the victory. Jesus13:26 defeated sin and hell and death and the grave and the devil. Jesus in the finished work got the victory for you and for me,13:38 for all of eternity. The gospel, the good news of the gospel is because of Jesus' finished work on the cross, God's not mad at you. He's not mad at you.13:51 Because of the finished work on the cross, your sins are forgiven. Because of the finished work on the cross, all the goodness of God belongs to you. Not going to belong to you, belongs.14:03 Present tense, really past tense. 2000 years ago, it belonged to you. The gospel is good news. It's like glad tidings. In in ancient Greek, it it would be a messenger who came from battle and14:15 they would come from battle with Gospel, the Greek word for the Gospel and they would hold up their right hand and people would look at them and they'd see the right hand up and then they would see the glow on their face14:24 and they would know they're coming to bring the victorious news. It's news. It's like, you know, you watch the news. 1 of our, producers was talking about this at the break. You know? The gospel is good14:35 news. It's like you watch the news. You watch Fox News to find out what happened. This is the good what happened. What happened 2000 years ago? And see, you have to you have to kind of step back and go,14:47 okay. So so like when the good news came on the scene, when Jesus came preaching and teaching the gospel, when Jesus said the spirit of the Lord is upon me, he's anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor, deliverance14:59 to the captives, opening of the eyes to the blind, to declare the jubilee. When Jesus said these kind of things, this was radical. Because up until this point,15:11 under the old covenant, the old testament, the old rules, you know, you could say. Though everything was based on works. Everything was based on you had to do good works. You had to keep the law. You had to keep the15:23 10 commandments. Everything was based on that. Everything was earned or deserved based on you keeping the law. And as it turns out, the law only proved that we couldn't keep15:35 it and we needed a savior. But for that old testament period of time, that's all they knew until Jesus came on the on the planet. All they knew is keep the law. And so the religious people, the15:46 Pharisees, man, they were just like letter of the law. I mean they would tithe but they would tithe like their spices. You know, and and they were just letter of the law, very legalistic,15:58 very, regimented. So they about blew a gasket when Jesus came on the scene preaching the gospel, the good news. Like Jesus says to a woman16:10 caught in adultery, she's not doing good works. She's not keeping the law. So Jesus says to her, where are your accusers? Go and sin no16:22 more. And then Jesus said, neither do I condemn you. Like they couldn't handle it. The religious people and religious people today also cannot handle this. They couldn't handle it. Who does he think16:34 he is? She didn't keep the law. She's not earned it. She doesn't deserve that. She deserves to be stoned. Jesus on the Sabbath on the day that you're not supposed to do any work, Jesus heals the guy with a shriveled16:46 arm. In the temple he heals the guy and they got hotter than hornets about that. There's 6 days to do work. You don't heal on the Sabbath? I mean Jesus didn't even qualify people for the blessings. Did you16:58 notice that? Did you notice who he called? He called like a tax collector. Like that would be like an embezzler. That'd be like a crook. Somebody that's stealing your money. Jesus called this17:09 guy. Jesus called a harlot. Jesus called people that didn't have the greatest reputation to follow him, to be a part of his troop. Like he didn't even make them take get a grip on the basics17:21 before they could serve. And this just like freaked out the people of his day because this is such good news. It was great news to the sinner.17:34 It was great news to people that weren't religious. It really upset the religious, legalistic, self righteous, law abiding, 1017:45 commandment keeping people. The apostle Paul said, I'm not ashamed of the gospel. Are you kidding me? I was 1 of those law abiding Pharisees of the17:57 Pharisees, of the tribe of Benjamin. I mean, somebody could keep the law, if somebody deserved God's blessings, it was me. I mean, I was keeping everything. I was just like in the upper18:09 echelon of the religious good deeders. He goes, but when the gospel was when this good news was revealed to me, here's what the apostle Paul said. He said, everything that was18:20 gained to me, everything that was so amazing about me, he said, you know what? I consider it rubbish. It is garbage. It is nothing. It means nothing to me because I got a hold of the good news. And then the apostle18:32 Paul said, here's my aim now. Here's my desire now that I would be found in him, in Christ, not having my own righteousness. But that I would be established in his18:44 righteousness. It has nothing to do with the apostle Paul. Has nothing to do with us. Like the good news of the gospel is that God's giving you forgiveness, mercy, grace,18:56 righteousness, justification, healing, health, prosperity, every need met. I mean, read the gospels. Jesus always provided, always healed,19:08 always forgave, and never once in the gospels did Jesus ever say to anyone, well, you know, it's not God's will for you. He never did once. This was amazing radical gospel19:19 news. This was an exclamation point that it hit the planet. So the apostle Paul says, I am not ashamed of the gospel. Let me give you another example. Because sometimes you know it's19:31 like, yeah, think I'm getting it kind of sort of. The good news. Listen, the bible says in James that if we fail in keeping 1 law of the 10 commandments,19:44 if we fail in keeping 1 commandment, then in God's eyes, we've failed in keeping all of them. In other words, in God's way of justice, you either get 10019:56 percent on the test, you don't miss any questions, or you fail. If you blow it 1 because people look around they're like, well I'm not as bad, know, mean I know I'm a sinner, I'm not as bad as him. But in20:08 God's eyes, we're all bad in a sense of sin. We've all sinned and come short of his glory. We've all flunked the test because if you have broken 1 of his laws, if you've used the Lord's name in vain, you will stand20:18 before him guilty. If you've had, if you've committed adultery, you will stand before him guilty. So we didn't get 100 on the test, we flunked the test.20:30 So unless a substitute comes along, unless a redeemer, unless a savior comes along and is willing to get 100 on the test and then credit us20:42 with his score, we're kinda sunk. It's kind of bad news. The good news was it doesn't matter what you got on the test. Jesus20:54 passed it with flying colors. And for God so loved the world, He gave His only begotten son that whoever would believe on Him would receive His a plus and not perish21:06 but have everlasting life. So here's an illustration. Some of you remember this years ago. Do you remember the gal from Australia? She was a surfer and she had a boogie board. She was taking to Indonesia to Bali and21:18 she got into Indonesia, landed in Indonesia and as they were going through customs and stuff they searched her boogie board bag. Say that about 4 times. And in the boogie board bag, they found 9 pounds of21:29 marijuana. Well in Indonesia, if you have drugs of any sort, I mean it's a prison sentence. There's not any mercy for drugs. So she was tried and went before the21:41 court and all and and was, convicted. Was found guilty and was sentenced. She was 27 years old when this happened. She was sentenced to 20 years in jail in Indonesia in another country.21:53 She went on appeal and on appeal the supreme court of Indonesia upheld the verdict and said nope absolutely you are guilty and you will serve the 20 years and now there's no chance for any more appeal, no more maneuvers22:05 can happen, this is it, this is the final verdict. I remember watching that story and just thinking, wow, how sad. I mean, she's a cute little gal. Cute little 27 year old gal. She won't get out now until the year 20 24.22:18 So I've thought, you know, thought about what what good news would be to somebody that's been condemned, somebody that's been convicted, somebody that's been found guilty. And the thought, you know, occurred, what would22:29 have happened if if like after this final judgment, you know, the the chief judge stood up, took off his rope, and said, listen, what you guys don't know is we're long lost relatives. We're blood. And I can't let her pay22:40 this price, so I'm going to take her place. I'll serve the 20 years. I'll step off the bench and I'll serve the 20 years she can go free. Well, how many of know for her that would be good news? That'd be22:52 really good news. But can you just put yourself in her shoes if something like that were ever to happen? Of obviously, this is just a story, but you know, the the reaction would be, are are you sure? I mean, no, you23:02 can't do it. You weren't even guilty. I mean, I'm I'm the 1 that got the sentence and thank you, but don't do it. But really do you wanna do it? I mean, if you that'd be so awesome. Oh, that's such good news. But but23:12 you're not guilty. I mean, you didn't even do anything. You're just upholding justice, and I'm the 1 that deserves it. But really, you'll do this for me? This is such good news. We know our debt was a lot bigger.23:24 Our our the verdict came in on us. The wages of sin is death. I mean the verdict had already come down. I think sometimes we forget that. The verdict had come down on everyone that was guilty, which was all of us,23:36 and the wage, the sentence was death. And death, bible when the bible talks about death it's not talking about ceasing to live. Death is a an23:47 eternal spiritual separation from God in a place called hell. I know sometimes people make light of these things but listen, there was a verdict that came down because we were law breakers.24:00 And somebody would have to satisfy justice and pay the wage. We didn't get 100 on the test. Somebody would have to pay that wage and so God24:12 the father steps up at the bench, takes off his robe and says, you're my beloved. For God so loved the world he said, I'm gonna take off my robe and because we're blood, I'm gonna send my only begotten son.24:24 And Jesus said, father, you have prepared a body for me, I will go. I'll go pay the price. I'll go take the wage of sin which is death. I will go die.24:36 I will go shed my blood. I will satisfy your justice. I will take the wrath. And I will exchange what is poured upon24:48 me. I will exchange it so that they can be made righteous. So that they can be forgiven. So they can be declared not guilty. Well, how many know that's good news?25:00 Amen. And all of a sudden, all of our good works and all of our efforts and all of our religious stuff and all of our legalism and all of our stuff just goes out the window. And we're like, God, I just wanna be found in25:12 Christ not having my own righteousness, not all my stuff, just found in Christ in your righteousness. Paul said, I'm not ashamed of this gospel of this good news25:24 for it is the power. Okay. Now who knows? We could just stop right here. I'm not ashamed of the gospel of Christ exclamation point. We could be done. That's pretty we've already talked about some pretty good news. But25:35 this verse keeps going. He says, it is the power of God. Hey. I hope you are enjoying today's message, and I wanted to interrupt this program to bring you25:47 a special announcement. I wanted to offer you a free book that will help you grow in your relationship with the Lord. Just click the free book button25:59 on the Pray dot com app or go to the basics with beth dot com to get your free copy of the 7 basics. These 7 truths will26:11 definitely set you up for an intimate and successful relationship with the Lord. Now, let's head back into our regularly scheduled26:23 program. Alright. So let's talk about power. For just a minute, what is power? Here's the definition of power. Strength, ability,26:34 inherent power, power for performing miracles, moral power, excellence of soul, the power and influence which belongs to riches and wealth, power and resources arising from26:46 numbers. The power, the gospel is the power of God. The power and the gospel has within itself inherent power to perform26:57 miracles. Well the miracle of the new birth. Your sins can be forgiven, you can be born again, you can get a brand new start in life. It has the power to heal you. The gospel has the power to give you influence,27:09 prosperity, and wealth according to the actual definition of the verse. It has the power to give you influence by virtue of numbers that has to do with growth and increase and27:21 success in whatever venture you're involved in. Paul says I'm not ashamed of the gospel for it has this inherent power27:33 unto salvation. Alright. So again we could put an exclamation point after power and be pretty happy. It's like holy moly. I didn't even know this it was this good. But it keeps on going. This gospel has the27:45 power to do some pretty amazing things in our lives. Spirit, soul, and body, every dimension of our lives unto salvation. The experience for the experience27:56 of salvation. So let's look at salvation for just a minute. Salvation. Okay. This is the all encompassing word of the gospel. This is the most comprehensive word in the New28:08 Testament. The word salvation. Some places it's salvation, saved, save, and are you saved? That's that word for salvation. This is the most comprehensive word in the Bible28:20 for the finished work of Jesus on the cross. Sometimes, you know, this is a word like we're like, well, I think you know what that means. I mean, I'm saved. You know, I got my fire insurance. I invited Jesus to be the28:31 Lord of my life and I got my fire insurance policy, mean, I don't have to go to hell. And for some people, it's that shallow. Like, salvation is that shallow. That's like after you die, yeah, there's a28:43 whole whole another vista of salvation we'll experience. But there is this qualitative vista of salvation that God wants us to experience in the here now.28:55 This word is huge. I want you to look at it. And I want it just to just holy spirit will just will just saturate our hearts with it and help us get this because this is what the good news of the gospel has provided29:06 for you. Not going to has already. This already belongs to you. Salvation, all the blessings bestowed by God on men in Christ. The29:18 spiritual and eternal salvation granted to those who believe on the Lord Jesus Christ to be rescued from the penalty of sin, to make well, heal, restore to29:30 health. Listen, healing and health is part of salvation. When Jesus would say to people that he laid hands on that he healed, he would say, your faith has saved you. It was their faith that healed29:41 them. Healing is a part of salvation. It's in the package. Keep safe and sound to rescue from danger or destruction to save 1 suffering from29:53 disease, healing, welfare, prosperity, victory, preservation, material and temporal deliverance from danger and suffering. I mean is there anything that he forgot?30:06 Like what did he forget? What possibly else could be included in salvation? I mean it's the all encompassing word of the gospel. Jesus is our savior. He saved us.30:18 He gave us salvation. This is the exclamation point because again we're like, oh I think you know, it's kind of hard to be a Christian. Yeah, but have do you know what salvation is? Are we30:29 experiencing the exclamation point of salvation? People sometimes say, well you know, is your church 1 of those churches that believes in the prosperity gospel? Are you 1 of those healing gospel churches? Listen,30:41 there's no such thing as the prosperity gospel. And there's no such thing as the healing gospel. There's just the gospel. There's just the gospel and30:52 it's all included in the package. And really, how many of you know in some ways, it's like an insult to the Lord. How little we partake of what he paid such a mighty high price to31:04 provide. You know, when our church celebrated our tenth year anniversary, back a number of years ago, the church gave our family a gift and it was a, cruise for our whole family for31:16 7 days. 7 day cruise. The first day we were on the boat, our son Eric found the ice cream machine. He had 13 ice cream cones in 1 day.31:28 We counted. He was partaking of salvation that day. We told him to chill out, know, like don't overload on sugar dude. But, no it's in the ticket. Now listen, Jesus31:40 through his death, burial and resurrection, the finish, it's finished y'all. The finished work, he has purchased salvation. It's the s s salvation. But way too many Christians are in their stateroom with31:52 their box of crackers on the s s dinghy. And then they're mad. Now here's the here's the funny part. Then they're mad at the Christians who are enjoying the s s salvation. Well, you don't call yourself32:04 a Christian. You know, there's people starving in other nations. I know. And thankfully, I've got some extra food to pass out. Amen. Hopefully, you've been around long enough to know, whenever we talk about32:15 God's goodness and God's blessings and God's exclamation points, it's always, always, always, always to you and through you. It's not just to you. You gotta be blessed.32:27 If anything's gonna go through you, if you're gonna minister joy or peace or healing or health or prosperity or material goods or anything to anybody, it's got to get to32:39 you. Amen. And then through you. So we need to know what's what's on the SS salvation? He tells us all that every blessing bestowed by32:51 God, material and temporal deliverance, health, welfare, prosperity. I mean, there's nothing else to add to it. Salvation. We've been saved from some33:02 things and this is what a lot of us know. We've been saved from sin and eternal death. Yay. Praise the Lord. We've been saved from sickness and disease.33:14 We've been saved from poverty and lack. But we've been saved unto. Let's not forget the unto. Let's not forget what we've been saved unto. We've been saved33:26 unto eternal life. We've been saved unto health and wholeness. He forgives all my sins. He heals all my diseases. We've been saved33:37 unto abundance and increase and success and prosperity. Beloved, I wish above all things that you would prosper and be in health even as your soul prospers.33:50 This stuff's in the bible. And all the people said, amen. This is the exclamation point. And there's a point to all of this. God needs you. God wants you to experience it a because he34:02 loves you. He gives you richly all things to enjoy. He loves you. B, he loves the world. And you cannot34:14 give what you do not have. And if we're all living in the spiritual poverty line, we have nothing to give. Because I need you to pray for me today because I'm about ready to go under. I'm so34:26 depressed and broke and sick and messed up and hate my spouse and I just need counseling and prayer and deliverance. Are you kidding me? I don't have anything left to give to anybody else. We need34:37 a whole church full of people that get the gospel. Yeah. Yeah. Amen? I can tell you 3 things the bible tells you that you are not saved34:49 from. 3 things you are not saved from. You are not saved from persecution. Jesus said if they persecute me, they're gonna persecute you. So you are gonna face persecution, just mark it down.35:01 Number 2, you are not saved from temptation. You will be tempted to sin. You will be tempted to quit. You will be tempted to be offended. You will be tempted. You will be tempted. You will be35:13 tempted. And you have the power of the gospel to resist. But you're not saved from temptation. You're also not saved from tribulation, which literally35:24 means pressure. In modern terms, stress. But thank God, come back week 5, you're gonna find out how to tap into peace out. Jesus said in this world, you35:36 will have tribulation. But in me, you'll have great peace. So 3 things you're not saved from, but everything I mean, what else could he have included in the package? Is there anything he35:47 missed? All the blessings. Alright. Let's talk about it further. Go over to this next phrase in Romans 1 16 and 17. It says, who's all this for?35:59 I'm not ashamed of the gospel. It's the power of God unto salvation for everyone who believes. Notice it's everyone who believes not achieves.36:11 Everyone who believes not does. Everyone who believes not works. Everyone who believes not earned. The whole deal isn't in what we36:23 do, it is in what Jesus has done. Belief, faith. This is for those who believe. Let's talk about belief then. Okay? Because the bible36:35 says even the devil believes and he trembles. So what kind of belief? What kind of belief is he talking about? This is for who? What? No. Hang on. I certainly I have to do something. I mean God cannot be that36:47 good. I mean I know there's got to be things I'm not doing that I'm supposed to be doing. There's got to be things I'm doing that I'm supposed to stop doing. I guarantee you for all of us that's probably true, but that36:56 has nothing to do with the gospel. That has nothing to do with salvation. Has a lot to do with sanctification, the process of growing into the image of Christ, but it37:08 has nothing to do with what we're talking about. God's goodness towards you has nothing to do with what you do. It's who believes what you believe. So let's talk about belief.37:21 Belief by definition is this, the conviction of a truth of anything, a firm persuasion, a conviction based upon hearing, a firm conviction producing a full acknowledgement37:34 of God's revelation or truth. It is used in the New Testament always of faith in God or Christ or things spiritual. To have faith or to believe is to have a firm conviction, to be persuaded and then37:46 to acknowledge. In Romans 10 it talks about what you believe in your heart and what you say or acknowledge with your mouth. Faith is always revealed by what you37:58 say because the bible says out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. So it's always evident what you believe. We might say we believe something, but what we really believe is38:09 revealed by the words we say. For example, I might say, oh God meets all of my needs and I just am at rest and I trust the Lord. His favor surrounds me like a shield and but in the next breath, we might say,38:21 but I'm so scared it's not gonna work out. I'm just, you know, I'm in fear about whether or not I'm gonna get the job. So where's our faith? Out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks. So really our faith is in38:32 our fear. Even though we said our faith was in unbelieving God. Y'all out there? Faith is what you believe and are firmly persuaded about in your heart and it is what you38:44 acknowledge or say with your mouth. It's practiced, it's evidenced by what you put your trust in. Like I mean you're all in. When it comes to faith, you're all in.Show more
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