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LESSON 1 * PART 2 * BOOK 21
OLD ADAM CRUCIFIED - ROMANS 3:19-22 - Part 2
Remember in the last lesson we were saying the Law does nothing but condemn a person. The Law can do nothing that helps us get to heaven. Those two absolutes are in the Book of Hebrews.
Hebrews 11:6
"But without faith it is impossible to please him (God):..." Without faith you cannot please God, and you can get nowhere with God without the shedding of Blood, which of course now goes back to the Cross. Now quickly review Romans 3 verse 20 in order to go into verse 21:
Romans 3:20,21
Turn to the Book of Ephesians. I'm so thankful so many of you are writing and calling and telling me that for the first time you are understanding your Bible, and that finally you are understanding the difference between Law and Grace, and the difference between Peter and Paul. God dealing with Israel through Peter (Gal. 2:7-9) and God dealing with the Gentiles through Paul. You have to get that straight if you're going to understand what God is trying to say. Remember, the same Apostle that wrote the Book of Romans, writes now to the Ephesians.
Ephesians 2:11,12
"Wherefore remember (and understand), that ye being in time past Gentiles (not Jews) in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision (Jews) in the flesh made by hands." "That at that time..." What time? While God was dealing with the Jew under Law. Those 2000 years from Abraham until the Apostle Paul, the Apostle to the Gentiles (Rom. 11:13), comes on the scene. This is what Paul is looking back at and he says, "That at that time 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:"
Remember everything that God was doing for the Jew didn't apply to the Gentiles because we weren't a citizen of Israel (Matthew 10:5). The Book says it, I'm not! Gentiles have never had any part of the Covenant promises, nor did they have God in the world as verse 12 says. Then beginning with Abraham, God made the promise, "You are going to have a nation of people that are going to be the only people on earth who have a knowledge of the one true God." All we saw in those ancient cities were temples to the gods and goddesses. The ancient world was steeped in that kind of idolatry and paganism, with no knowledge of the one true God, and that is what the Apostle Paul is reminding us. Ephesians 3:13
God isn't saying he's only dealing with the Jew, but now he's saying based on the finished work of the Cross that God is now dealing with us Gentiles)in Christ Jesus ye (Gentiles) who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ." I've told you without faith you can't please God, and without the shedding of Blood there can be no remission of sin.We see that in this verse.
Faith and the shed Blood; you can't escape them. Romans 3:21a
This side of the Cross. Many pastors refuse to get into Paul's doctrines where the meat is. All of Paul's writings are Holy Spirit breathed, and you have to get into these writings of Paul because in the Four Gospels the Cross hasn't been accomplished yet. Why can't people realize that? Christ wasn't preaching death, burial, and Resurrection during His earthly ministry. Luke 18:31-34
See, they don't want to fool with Paul's writings. Romans 3:21
"But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;"
That's the Old Testament, absolutely. When I stress the Apostle Paul, you will never hear me say to ignore the Four Gospels, or the Old Testament. Take the whole Book from cover to cover. "For we are labourers together with God: ye are God's husbandry, ye are God's building. According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation,..."
If Paul didn't lay the foundation, then Paul's a liar, and if Paul is a liar then his writings have no business in this Book. Paul comes in and starts with a brand new foundation which is Jesus Christ crucified, buried and risen again! See the difference?
"For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ."
I guess that's not right! Prophecy has secured it's accuracy.
"According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation,..." Jesus Christ is the only Foundation for what we believe.
"Even the righteousness of God (man's righteousness is never brought in here. That because Christ died, shed His Blood, and was able to scream in His final words from that horrible cross, "It is finished!" "I've also got to do this or that," they say, but remember that's not what The Book says, The Book says it's finished. Thank you Lord I believe it!
Until we let God get rid of old Adam we are going to be law-breakers, because it's our nature.

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