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CRISPR/Cas9, a revolução nas ciências biológicas | Dispersciência #6 - Duration: 6:31.
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NEW PUPPY - BABY JACK RUSSELL🐶 Meets New Family! 😍 - Duration: 5:21.
Hello?
I think the new puppy is here!
Yes, we haven't decided on a name for her yet.
She's so little!
She is just brand new weaned I got to get over there!
Here, do you want to give her a pet?
Yes!
She was giving me kisses in the car Does he like this one?
Does he like this one?
Oops, be careful!
You liked this one before now stuck No he needs to get stuck
Be careful Get the white one
He was actually biting it - he was playing with it
look look look at what she's doing laughter
you're scaring her!
she's starting to shake you got to be soft and gentle
Are you getting puppy kisses?
Oh!
Oh!
Be careful where you walk laughter - it's a little puppy
what are you doing? do you like to get rubbed?
tickle, tickle gentle! be gentle
Can I tickle him?
very gentle I don't think she should be tickled at this
time she hasn't even been here half an hour
Mommy!
Mommy!
Is that her water?
Oops, don't nibble on my finger no nibbler
He gave me a kiss!
Let's get her trapped! stop stop
Can't you put him down? in here in here
in here put him down, put him down
put him down calm down
he doesn't like him he doesn't like him
let's go i don't want to
i want to take care of the doggy kisses
oh look at me
look at me lick me
lick me what is he doing?
he's licking me if you put your face up, she will give you
a kiss oow, she got your head
i am wiping this kiss off! you have to be gentle
no he doesn't like it he doesn't like it
he doesn't like that she doesn't care about the camera
she likes the attention he doesn't like it
why do you think that? because he doesn't like the camera
in his face laughter (music)
don't be afraid there's a stiffing in the meadow and a noise in the shade
I will defend you and keep you from harm should you find yourself in peril i will guide you
in my arms you and i will both get by just promise you
won't stray all that i need is some dirt and a seed and
i will feed you till the summer blows away i see people come and depart with everyone
there's a start and there's an end I'm sick and tired of desire
what I really need is just a friend
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Christ Died for God (Romans 3:25–31) - Duration: 55:58.
Tonight we're going to look at Romans chapter 3 again and I'm always blessed to have the
privilege of doing this.
I'm grateful for the new life that we know about in our church, the people who are being
baptized every Sunday, the people who are coming into our church constantly.
And I realize how foundational and important this particular section of Romans is so that
everybody understands the reality of the doctrine of salvation in its fullness and in its richness.
The text I want you to look at is Romans chapter 3 and verse 25...Romans chapter 3 and verse
25, and we'll read down to verse 31.
This is speaking of Christ Jesus and His redemption as indicated in verse 24, "Christ Jesus whom
God displayed publicly as a propitiation in His blood through faith.
This was to demonstrate His righteousness because in the forbearance of God He passed
over the sins previously committed for the demonstration, I say, for His righteousness
at the present time, so that He would be just and the justifier of the one who has faith
in Jesus.
Where then is boasting?
It is excluded.
By what kind of law?
Or works?
No, but by a law of faith.
For we maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from works of the Law.
Or is God the God of the Jews only?
Is He not the God of Gentiles also?
Yes, of Gentiles also, since indeed God who will justify the circumcised by faith and
the uncircumcised through faith is one.
Do we then nullify the Law through faith?
May it never be.
On the contrary, we establish the Law."
Now in the mind of the Apostle Paul, there is a rather compelling issue that he faces
in unfolding the doctrine of the cross, the doctrine of salvation and the work of Christ.
He has to explain something.
He has to explain something that is massive in its significance and has been an issue
throughout all of redemptive history.
And it is this, how is it that in the past God has forgiven sin?
How is it that in the past God has overlooked sin?
How is it that if He has done that He is righteous?
If you notice verse 25, the issue here is, at the end of the verse, "In the forbearance
of God, in the tolerance of God, in the patience of God, He passed over the sins previously
committed."
How can He do that and still be righteous?
The pagans had their gods.
The pagans had their deities.
They were capricious, they were utterly inconsistent on the one hand, demanding compliance with
their rules and ceremonies and laws.
And on the other hand, doing what was seemingly unrighteous in their own realms.
Clearly in the Greek and Roman world, God's reviewed as a mixture of good and evil.
And so it was easy to throw the God of Israel, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and even
the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, at least at first anyway in to the same box
with the rest of the deities, seemingly very inconsistent, laying demands on people by
virtue of their divine laws, expecting righteous behavior and yet for themselves being inconsistent
and capricious.
Now why would such an accusation be thrown at the God of Scripture?
Because God had tolerated sin all through man's history.
And many unrighteous people seemed to prosper.
And many unrighteous people were actually blessed by God, they entered into a relationship
with God, they enjoyed the salvation of God and the promise of being a part of His eternal
Kingdom.
And the only way that that could happen would be if God overlooked their sin.
Now the Old Testament says God is merciful and that God is gracious and He demonstrates
loving kindness, as we heard read, Old Testament word chesed which means loving kindness which
is a synonym for grace and mercy.
We understand that.
And that is the meaning of the phrase at the end of verse 25, the forbearance of God by
which He passed over sins previously committed.
The word anache(???) is tolerance, passed sins meaning before Christ, before the cross,
God subjected Himself in all of that redemptive history before Christ to certain accusations...accusations
that had to do with His righteousness.
They're all of man's sinful history since the Fall, wherever people believed on the
true God, He passed over their sin.
He even did it in Egypt and that's where the word Passover comes from.
He withheld judgment in tolerant patience.
Similar language is given in the seventeenth chapter of Acts and verse 30 where it says,
"In time past, God overlooked sin."
It means He did not actively interfere by special judgment as should have been required.
Judgment, divine judgment as such, defined as such, revealed as such was only occasional.
And so there is an absence throughout redemptive history of a one-to-one act of divine judgment
on sinners and for those who believe, there is a passing over their sin seemingly all
together.
The question is then , how can God so long overlook sin?
How can God so long let it go unpunished?
How can He actually forgive it and bring blessing and the promise of salvation and heaven and
still be just?
That is the question.
The Jews of Malachi's day actually accused God of injustice.
They cried, "Everyone that does evil is good in Your sight and the Lord delights in them.
Where is the God of justice? they cried.
Where is the God of justice?"
In the seventy-eighth Psalm and verse 38, we read this, "But He being compassionate,
forgave their iniquity and did not destroy them and often He restrained His anger and
did not arouse all His wrath."
And so at this point, someone asks, "How can God simply pass over sin and still be righteous,
and still be just, and still be holy?"
Someone else will hasten to answer the question with this answer, "Well, the sacrifices of
the Old Covenant, the animal sacrifices which were ubiquitous in the Old Covenant, they
took the judgment of God."
The animals bore the judgment of God.
The animals died in the place of sinners.
That has all too frequently been suggested, however, that's really a bad answer.
Animals could not take the judgment of God for men since Hebrews 10:14 says it in terms
that are unmistakable, it says regarding Jesus, "By one offering, He has perfected for all
time those who are sanctified."
That in contrast of verse 4, "It is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away
sin."
There never was a sacrifice that could take away sin.
There never was a sacrifice, an animal sacrifice that could satisfy the judgment of God.
So if you look at the Old Testament and think that the Old Testament sacrificial system
actually took the judgment for sin on the part of all who believe, then you misunderstand
that system.
All it did was picture the sacrifice, that is of Christ as I read in 10:14 of Hebrews,
that would be the one offering that will take away all sin for all who believe for all time.
Now when you go back to Romans 3 and verse 25, it says, "God displayed Christ Jesus publicly
as a propitiation."
That is a satisfaction.
He is the only satisfactory sacrifice.
He is the Mercy Seat.
He is the covering.
He is the one who placates God, that's what the verb propitiate means, to satisfy, to
placate.
He is the one who propitiates God, satisfies God in His blood.
In that sense, and this is what I want to talk about tonight, Christ died for God.
Christ died for God.
Most people think of salvation as Christ dying for us, and there is, of course, a sense in
which that is absolutely true and completely true and not at all untrue, but it is not
the full picture.
The only way that Christ could die for us would be to die satisfactorily for God Christ
then died, first of all, to satisfy God and once God was satisfied, then His death could
be applied to us.
So God displayed Christ publicly as a sacrifice, a propitiation, a satisfaction for Himself
because He had to demonstrate His heretofore undemonstrated righteousness.
There isn't really anything in the Old Testament that demonstrates the righteousness of God
the way the cross does.
You say, "Well what about the Law?"
Well the Law demonstrates God's righteous standard, but it doesn't tell us exactly how
righteous He was.
That is why in Romans 10 it says that the Jews, not understanding the righteousness
of God, went about to establish their own righteousness.
Well the Law is a perfect reflection of the morality of God and the righteousness of God
and the justice of God.
The one thing the Law doesn't do is show you how absolutely righteous He is by demonstrating
that the only way He can forgive anybody is when there is a satisfactory sacrifice because
in the Old Testament there is no satisfactory sacrifice.
That's why sacrifices were made every morning, every day for millennia.
The priests were just butchers, slaughtering animal after animal day after day after day,
and month after month and year after year, century after century.
God says, "Now it's time to put My justice and My righteousness on display."
And so it's repeated in verse 26.
Christ is displayed publicly as a propitiation, a satisfaction to God in His blood, in His
death to demonstrate, verse 25, His righteousness.
And again He says it in verse 26, "For the demonstration I say of His righteousness at
the present time, as over against the past time when there was no such demonstration.
Frankly, if you were, let's say, living among the Israelites in Egypt and you sprinkled
blood on the doorposts and the lentil and the angel of death passed by, and you were
delivered from death, you would experience the deliverance of God, the salvation of God,
God passing over and yet the question in your mind would be...How can a righteous and just
God pass by this house which is just as sinful as the next house, or any other house, and
still be just?
And that comes in to direct connection with verse 26, "For the demonstration I say of
His righteousness as at the present time...here it is...so that He would be just and at the
same time the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.
How can God declare righteous an unrighteous sinner?
How can He forgive sin and still be just?
That is the question behind this passage.
It's at the very heart of the Christian gospel.
The death of Christ then was for God.
And the first point I want to make is that it was to demonstrate the righteousness of
God...to demonstrate the righteousness of God.
And as I said, up until the death of Christ, there was no satisfactory final demonstration
of the righteousness of God.
You could see how righteous God was by His Law.
You could see how righteous God was by occasional acts of divine judgment.
But the question was still in the minds of people, how can God justify sinners saying,
as He did to Abraham and to Noah, that by grace, by faith they are declared righteous...how
can He do that and remain just if their sin has not been paid for?
Christ's death then is the act by which God demonstrates His righteousness.
He shows that He is very different from the capricious gods of the pagan world...very
different.
He has overlooked sin in the past.
He has forgiven sin through all of redemptive history.
He has set people on a course to heaven and invited them to come, and they are there.
The heaven is occupied before Christ even comes.
God is just and the justifier of sinners.
How can He be both?
Because Christ becomes a satisfactory substitute.
Now we've said this many times through the years...a judge is unjust if he allows a criminal
to be pronounced righteous just because he wants to without justice being served by a
proper penalty and the proper penalty is the only thing that is the hilastrion, the satisfaction,
the propitiation.
And then that sacrifice of Christ becomes that satisfaction.
So in the Old Testament, a thick veil is over the justice of God.
In fact, actually in the Old Testament, there is not a veil over the grace of God, there
is not a veil over the mercy of God.
In fact, at the end of Micah chapter 7 and verse 18, the prophet clearly says, "Who is
a God like You who pardons iniquity and passes over the rebellious act of the remnant of
his possession?"
A God who delights in unchanging love, a God who will have compassion, who will cast all
our sins into the depths of the sea...who is a God like You?
A God of grace, a God of mercy, a God of forgiveness, a God of compassion.
God even introduces Himself as that, doesn't He, in Exodus when Moses sees Him on the mount
and says, "I'll let all My mercy and all My compassion pass before you."
One of my favorite commentators is the French commentator of generation past by the name
of Gooday(??).
He says this, "For thousands of years, the spectacle presented by mankind to the whole
moral universe was, so to speak, a continual scandal.
Divine righteousness seemed to sleep.
One might even have asked if it existed, men sinned here below and yet they lived.
They sinned on and yet reached in safety an old age.
Where were the wages of sin?
It was this relative impunity which rendered a solemn manifestation of righteousness necessary.
Jesus died for men but in a much more striking way, He died for God."
Well the death of Christ solves the problem.
Look at Galatians chapter 3 for a moment...Galatians chapter 3 and verse 13, "Christ redeemed us
from the curse of the Law, having become a curse for us."
He became a curse for us.
That is, He bore the curse in our place.
Or in the language of 1 Peter 1:18, "You were not redeemed with perishable things like silver
or gold from your empty way of life, inherited from your forefathers, but with precious blood,
the blood of a lamb unblemished and spotless, the blood of Christ."
And how did John the Baptist introduce Jesus in John 1:29?
"Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world."
That's why the writer of Hebrews says, 10:14 as I read earlier, "By one offering He perfected
forever them that are sanctified.
And after the sacrifice of Christ, the priesthood came to an end.
All sacrifices came to an end because there was nothing left to point toward because the
final sacrifice had been made.
The veil of the temple ripped from top to bottom and God was satisfied.
So Paul sets the record straight.
Christ died for God in the sense that He died to make public, to make open, to demonstrate...he
uses that word a couple of times...His righteousness at the present time and to show that He can
be righteous, same word as just, dikaios, and He can be the justifier of sinners who
put their faith in Jesus Christ.
Zechariah said this about God, Zechariah 9:9 said of God, "He is righteous and endowed
with salvation.
He is both righteous and the forgiver of sins."
So the cross is a work of God that reaches back in its application.
It is the work of Jesus Christ on the cross that is the satisfaction that God required
for the sins of everybody who believed in Him from Adam on.
And in Hebrews it says, "He made a purification for sins, it was all the sins of the past
as well as all the sins of the future, those that have been committed, those that are being
committed and those that will be committed by all who will believe in Christ."
He is therefore the Lamb, Scripture says slain from before t he foundation of the world.
And so justice and mercy meet at the cross, as Psalm 85:10 says, "Mercy and truth are
met together, righteousness and peace have kissed each other."
And this takes us, of course, to that verse that we quote so often, 2 Corinthians 5:21,
"God made Christ to be sin for us who knew no sin that we might become the righteousness
of God in Him."
God is saved from condemnation by His own standard of justice by exacting the just requirement
for sin on a substitute, namely Christ.
I love the way 1 Peter 2:24 says it, "He Himself bore His sins in His body on the cross so
that we might die to sin and live to righteousness, and then...as it wee, borrowing from Isaiah
53...by His wounds, you were healed."
Now to whom is tis applied?
Go back to the text of Romans 3, end of verse 26, "The one who has faith in Jesus."
From the time of Jesus on, you must put your faith in Him.
In past time, God overlooked that.
But now since Christ has come and died and risen from the dead, Acts 17 says, "God commands
all men everywhere to repent and put their trust in Christ."
The cross then demonstrates the justice of God, that all the sins of all past believers
will be and were paid for on the cross by Christ.
God could not just pass over sin, God could not just forgive it and not punish it, it
would have its fit punishment and that punishment came on Christ.
In that sense then, Christ died to satisfy the righteous requirement of God and only
when God was satisfied could we reap the benefits of His death.
There was never any spiritual benefit from any death of any animal.
In fact, I think it was the relentlessness of that, the frustration of that, that caused
people to have such a strong desire for a final sacrifice that came only in Christ.
So the cross then is for God, is to the glory of God because it reveals God's righteousness.
Secondly, the cross also exalts God's grace...it exalts God's grace.
If salvation is a free gift from God by grace, if it is given to the one who has faith, and
if it is given from God who has been satisfied by the sacrifice of Christ, verse 27 then
asks, "Where then is boasting?
It is excluded.
By what kind of Law, or what kind of method, or what kind of means of works?
No, but by a method or means or principle or law of faith, for we maintain that a man
is justified, declared righteous by faith apart from works of the Law."
Paul is simply adding to the fact that the cross is a work of Christ for God that brings
God glory by demonstrating the righteousness of God and also making it clear that salvation
is purely by grace, it is a work that God has done in Christ that we can not earn but
only receive.
There's no place therefore for self-congratulation.
Only God can make such a provision, only God can determine the terms.
He's the one offended.
He's the one slighted.
He's the righteous and holy one who has been assaulted by our sins, only He can determine
the satisfaction that He requires.
And it goes all the way back to the Old Testament, that the only thing that's going to satisfy
God is blood and the blood of a perfect sacrifice, namely Christ.
It is a gift of His grace, it is given to those who do nothing but receive it by faith.
And so, Paul asks then in verse 27, "Where then is boasting?
It is nowhere."
It is excluded.
There's nothing for us to boast about for by grace are you saved through faith, Ephesians
2:8 and 9, that not of yourselves, it is a gift of God, not of works lest any man should
boast.
Nothing to boast about because it operates on a principle.
What kind of principle?
What kind of means?
What kind of method does salvation operate on?
Works?
No, but a principle, a method, a means of faith.
Would works/salvation eliminate boasting?
No.
If you did anything to earn your salvation, if you did anything to achieve your salvation,
then you would have a right to boast.
This is a sweeping concept.
Since salvation is designed to glorify God, since salvation is designed to bring honor
to God, praise to God, worship to God, God has therefore designed it in such a way as
to exclude boasting.
In 1 Corinthians chapter 1, we read about the preaching of the foolishness of the cross,
to the Jews it is a stumbling block, verse 23, and to the Gentiles it is foolishness.
On that basis neither the Jews or the Gentiles would believe.
The Gentiles would see t he whole story of the cross as folly.
The Jews see the story of the cross as scandalous, blasphemous.
So it is really beyond their ability to accept, therefore the only way people could be saved
wold be if God intervened by His sovereign grace.
And so God has chosen the foolish things of the world, God has chosen the weak things
of the world, God has chosen the base things of the world, God has chosen the things that
are not so that...verse 29...no man may boast before God.
"But by His doing, you are in Christ Jesus who became to us wisdom from God and righteousness
and sanctification and redemption."
It all comes from God.
Wisdom from God, righteousness from God, sanctification from God, redemption from God so that no man
may boast before God so that just as it is written, verse 31, but him who boasts, boast
in the Lord.
Again, this is simply another reflection on the sovereignty of salvation and the reason
that God has designed it this way is so that He gets all the glory.
Psalm 115:1, "Not unto us, O Lord, not unto us but to Thy name give glory because of Thy
lovingkindness and Thy truth."
Everything resolves in the glory of God.
Romans 1:5 says that we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience
of faith among all Gentiles for His namesake...that is, for His glory.
Romans 11 ends with this, "For from Him and through Him and to Him are all things, to
Him be the glory forever, amen."
And that's after eleven chapters of the presentation of the glories of salvation.
It is the doxology that responds to the whole section on salvation.
It was David Brainnard(?) great missionary to the American Indians who died in his late
twenties, who said, "I do not go to heaven to be advanced, but to give glory to God.
It is no matter where I'll be stationed in heaven, whether I have a high or low seat
there, but to live and please and glorify God.
My heaven is to please God.
My heaven is to glorify Him and to be wholly devoted to His glory."
The eternal purpose of salvation then is to make us capable of glorifying God forever.
And we can readily do that when we understand that the salvation we have received is not
by any means of works, any method of works, any principle of works, any law of works,
but rather simply by an act of faith.
Verse 28, "We maintain that a man is justified, declared right with God by faith apart from
works of the Law."
So the Apostle Paul says, "Christ died for God in, first of all, the sense that He displays
the righteousness of God in and through His death, and secondly, He displays the grace
of God in and through His death."
Paul is showing us that God is on display in the death of Christ and God is satisfied
with that sacrifice.
"My hope is built, says the song, on nothing less than Jesus' blood, and righteousness.
I dare not trust the sweetest frame, the best of humans, but wholly lean on Jesus' name."
What kind of faith does it take?
What kind of faith is saving faith?
That's been an important aspect of ministry through the centuries, really, to sort out
saving faith from non-saving faith.
Still a massive issue today.
I've preached on it.
I've written on it.
And I'm not alone, it's been a topic of all faithful ministers through all the centuries.
It is essential to examine ourselves, 2 Corinthians 13:5, to see if we have the faith that is
truly the faith in Jesus, referred to at the end of verse 26.
What is saving faith?
How do you know if you have the real deal?
Well let me give you some things that neither prove it or disprove it.
Number one, visible morality.
Visible morality doesn't necessarily prove it.
Many from the Pharisees had visible morality.
On the outside, they looked very moral.
Jesus even said that.
"You're painted white, you're whitewashed on the outside."
Visible morality may be the manifestation of a believer, but then again there is superficial
morality, we know that as well as anyone would know it.
There are hypocrites all over the place.
There is the sowing of tares among the wheat.
There is no necessary true holiness in outward morality.
Secondly, intellectual knowledge.
That doesn't prove true faith either.
The devils have an absolutely accurate theology.
They get it right.
And they even have the sense to shake because of the fiercesomeness of divine judgment.
While knowledge of the truth is necessary for salvation, knowledge of the truth doesn't
equal salvation.
Many will say, "Lord, Lord, we did this in Your name and that in Your name," and they
are affirming some kind of knowledge of Christ and they are rejected.
Many who know the scriptures very well are headed for hell.
Thirdly, religious involvement.
Religious involvement isn't necessarily an indication of true faith.
Second Timothy 3 talks about those who have a form of godliness but no power.
Active ministry...active ministry...Judas was a public preacher and an apostate.
And again, Matthew chapter 7, we've done this and done that in Your name.
Even conviction of sin.
Felix trembled under the preaching of Paul, but never left his idols.
The Holy Spirit convicts men of sin and righteousness and judgment and convicts many who never repent.
Some will even superficially confess their sins as those who came down to be baptized
by John the Baptist, openly repenting and confessing their sins, and accepting that
baptism.
And by the time you come to the upper room on the day of Pentecost, all that could be
gathered from Judea in the name of Jesus Christ totals 120 people.
They must have felt some conviction of sin under the preaching of John the Baptist, and
perhaps even under the convicting work of the Holy Spirit, but it never blossomed into
real saving faith.
Another false measure is assurance...assurance.
Many people feel they're saved.
They may feel that way because they've been baptized.
They may feel that way because they have sympathetic feelings toward Jesus.
They may feel that way because they think they're quote/unquote spiritual.
And the whole world of legalists must believe they are saved or they wouldn't go through
the compunctions of their legalism.
All the narrow minded Pharisees and fastidious orthodox Jews and all the people who go to
their religious occasions and events and subscribe their lives to these performances of ritual
and morality must believe that they're being saved by these things and have some measure
of assurance.
But to be strongly persuaded that you're a Christian does not mean you are a Christian.
There are people, I suppose, more convinced by their supposed goodness that they're Christians
than anything else.
Another false evidence would be time of decision because you can identify a moment when you
quote/unquote made a decision, prayed a prayer doesn't make the decision valid.
Many people have come forward, prayed a prayer, we've heard it, haven't we?, Sunday night
after Sunday night we hear about people...I was baptized in the past...I thought I was
a Christian, and they're not possessors of a genuine saving faith.
Now these things mark saving faith.
I think there is a moment, a crisis moment of genuine salvation.
I believe that if you're a true Christian, you have an assurance of it.
I believe you've gone through the conviction of sin.
All these things are part of the experience of a true believer, but in and of themselves
are not sufficient evidence.
These things will mark saving faith but they can't stand alone.
If you want to do a little inventory on whether your's is a faith that saves and therefore
enjoys the gift of grace, here are some true tests.
One, love for God...love for God.
Romans 8:7 says, "The carnal mind is enmity against God.
The regenerate mind is liberated from hostility toward God and seeks to love the Lord with
all heart, soul, mind and strength.
The believer finds his delight in the excellencies of God who is the first and highest affection
of his renewed and regenerated soul.
God is his chief happiness.
Christ is his chief joy.
There's a great difference between such love and the selfish attitude that focuses on one's
happiness being given by Christ.
To put it another way.
In Matthew 10:37 Jesus said this, "If you love father, mother more than Me, you're not
worthy of Me."
Do you love God?
Do you love His nature?
Do you love His person?
Do you love His glory?
Do you love His Kingdom?
Do you love His holiness?
Do you long to do His will?
The supreme love for God is the decisive evidence of transforming genuine saving faith.
The psalmist put it this way, "Like the deer pants after the water brook, so pants my soul
after You, O God."
Second evidence of saving faith is repentance, an ongoing constant brokenness over one's
sinfulness.
A proper love for God involves a consequential and opposing hatred of sin.
So how do you know when you're a true believer?
Because all your affections and desires and longings go toward God and away from sin.
Sure sin is present, sin is there, it is powerful in us, but we hate it.
We resist it.
We resent it.
This is the backside of loving God.
That's what makes David cry out in Psalm 51, "Against Thee only have I sinned."
And the agony of his repentance is that he has offended the one he loves.
True repentance involves a constant confession and turning from sin.
It is a constant state of brokenness.
I was telling the young people at the Master's College on Friday, I did a week-long series
in chapel there last week and we talked about one of the great realities is that we are
righteous and sinful at the same time.
But that a true believer has such holy aspirations and holy longings that lives in Romans 7,
and he delights in the Law of God and he longs to do the things that honor God and he finds
a principle operated in his humanness, in his flesh that drags him down and debilitates
him and he hates the sin that is in him and he sees it as wretchedness and says, "O wretched
man that I am, who will deliver me from this corpse that's attached to me?"
We say that if a true faith exists, it will be driven by love for God and constant grief
over sin.
True penitence are true believers.
Do I possess a settled conviction of the evil of sin?
Does sin appear to me to be an evil thing, a bitter thing?
Does conviction of evil increase in my life consistently?
Do I have an increasingly greater love for the love and a greater hatred of sin?
Do you hate it merely because of its effects?
Or do you hate it because it offends the God you love?
What grieves you more, your sins or your misfortunes?
What exercises you more, your sins or the things that don't go the way you want them
to go in your life?
What sacrifices are you willing to make to be delivered from your sins?
Do your sins appear as many and aggravated?
Do you discover sin in a thousand forms?
Do you mourn over the sins of your heart?
Do you battle against the ignorance that is in you, the self-justifying tendencies of
your flesh?
The rejection of the fact that sin is so deceitful that if you don't look deeply and honestly
into your heart, you will think yourself to be better than you are.
Do you mourn over your vain thoughts and carnal affections?
Does it grieve you in your heart that you have sinned against God?
Because when God touches a heart, He breaks that heart.
He pours in it the Spirit of grace.
There are not just a few transient sighs against sin.
There's a heart-rendering pang of sorrow against sin that never goes away and only grows stronger
and stronger.
So how do you know your faith is real?
Your love for God, your hatred of sin and thirdly, genuine humility...genuine humility.
Where there is true saving faith, there is a beatitude attitude.
Along with brokenness and mourning over your sin, there is meekness...meekness.
Jesus said, "If anybody will come after Me, let him deny himself, take up his cross and
follow Me."
The Lord receives the one with the broken and contrite spirit.
He rejects the proud, James says, and gives grace to the humble.
We all need to be like the prodigal in Luke 15 verse 21 who came back and said, "I'm not
worthy to be your son."
There's a real humility.
There's a real brokenness.
It's the kind of humility that disdains to ever offend the Lord, ever bring any reproach
on His name.
Fourthly, the kind of faith that saves, the kind that is God-given saving faith is devoted
to the glory of God.
It seeks the glory of God in everything.
True saving faith reflects itself in a life that is set toward bringing honor to God every
way possible, living for His glory.
And we can say that benediction at the end of Romans 11, "We give all glory to Him."
We can say it the way it's repeated again and again in the New Testament, Philippians
chapter 1...Philippians chapter 3...Ephesians chapter 3, "All glory to Him...All glory to
Him."
This is the other side of humility.
The hatred of sin is the other side of loving God and devotion to God's glory is the other
side of being humble.
Selfless love would be another thing to say, if you're putting a list together.
People who have a saving faith manifests that saving faith in love for others, separation
of the world, that would be another evidence.
First Corinthians 2:12, "We have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which
is of God."
Or in the language of 1 John 2, "If any man love the world, the love of the Father is
not in Him."
Conversely, if the love of the Father is in you, you will not love the world.
Another evidence, a true evidence is spiritual progress, spiritual growth, spiritual maturing.
If you don't have a concern to be more like Christ, there's a real question about whether
your's is a saving faith.
And then maybe lastly, just summing it all up, obedience...obedience.
"If you continue in My Word then you're My real disciple."
And the implication is if you continue to hear and obey My Word.
These are the marks of the real Christian.
And the real Christian is the one who has faith in Jesus.
It's not something you can earn, it's only a gift you can receive by grace through faith.
So back to Romans 3.
That was just a little digression, but an important one.
Christ died for God, to put God's righteousness on display.
Christ died for God to put His grace on display.
It's a gift to be received only by faith and never earned.
Christ died for God to put God's consistency on display.
Verses 29 and 30, "Is God the God of the Jews only?
Is He not the God of Gentiles also?
Yes, of Gentiles also, since indeed God who will justify the circumcised by faith and
the uncircumcised through faith is one."
Literally, God is one and then therefore He will justify the circumcised by faith and
the uncircumcised through faith.
There aren't two standards, there aren't two ways of salvation.
If God is a merciful saving God, if God is a gracious God and there are no works, then
you don't have to become a Jew and keep the Law to be saved.
That's the point.
There are not two ways to be saved.
Jews aren't saved by keeping the Law and Gentiles saved some other way.
God is the God of all men, Jew and Gentile.
Isaiah 54:5 says, "The God of the whole earth shall He be called."
Jeremiah 16:19, "The nations shall come to You from the ends of the earth."
Zechariah 2:11, "Many nations shall be joined to the Lord and shall be My people."
God is the God of all people because God is one.
I'm not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, Romans 1:16, for it is the power of God and salvation
to everyone who believes, to the Jew and also to the Gentile.
One God must mean that there is one way of salvation.
If God is the one God, He is then the God of all men, Jew and Gentile.
Therefore you cannot be saved by keeping the Law.
The Jews thought that they were the only ones who could be saved because they had the Law.
But God rather will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith
because God is one and therefore has one way of salvation.
There are people today in the quote/unquote evangelical world who believe that we need
to be saved by faith in Jesus Christ but Jews are saved by keeping the Law.
There's only one God, there's only one way of salvation.
Noah was saved because he found grace in the eyes of the Lord.
Moses was saved because he found grace.
Abraham was saved by faith.
It was a gift of grace to those who believed in God, who repented of their sin and believed
that God was a forgiving God and cried out to Him to forgive their sin, even though they
didn't know who would be the sacrifice long in the future who would satisfy the justice
of God.
Read the heroes of faith in Hebrews 11, "By faith...by faith...by faith...by faith...by
faith."
What is that, a nebulas faith?
No, faith in the true and living God and His revelation.
Never been any other way to be saved than by faith.
So, the cross is the one sacrifice that saves Jew and Gentile, demonstrating God's consistency.
The death of Christ which provides salvation for all who simply believe demonstrates His
grace, and of course the sacrifice of Christ in behalf of sinners, past, present and future,
demonstrates His righteousness.
And finally, the cross, the death of Christ confirms or demonstrates God's Law.
Verse 31 asks the question, "Do we then nullify the Law through faith?
May it never be."
Me Genitos(???), the strongest negative in the Greek language...no, no, no, no.
We're just saying you're not to be saved by Law.
We're not saying the Law is bad.
We're not saying pay no attention to the Law, the Law is holy, just and good, the Law is
as pure and righteous as God's nature because it's a reflection of His will.
It doesn't nullify the Law.
Rather we establish the Law.
How does salvation by grace establish the Law?
How does the death of Christ establish the Law?
It establishes it in this way, and you're back to where we started...the Law is so pure
and so holy that it requires punishment on every single violation.
Say it another way, Every sin ever committed by every person who has ever lived in the
history of the world will be punished.
That's how inviolable the Law is...every sin ever committed will be punished, either the
sinner himself will be punished or the substitute Christ was punished in behalf of the sinner,
but every sin will be punished.
Because salvation doesn't come by Law doesn't nullify the Law, the Law has held up a righteous
standard demanding every sin to be punished, the Law is established and therefore every
sinner impenitent, unbelieving sinner will be punished for his sin, but among those who
believe, every sin was punished in Christ who in a few hours when the darkness came
at Calvary, as we saw in our study of Luke, absorbed infinite punishment because He is
an infinite person.
Nothing is more reflective of God's glory than His holy Law.
So when you look at the death of Jesus Christ, you see that it was for God, to give Him glory
as righteous.
To give Him glory as gracious.
To give Him glory as consistent and to give Him glory as holy, as holy is His Law is holy.
Christ then satisfied God and because He died a satisfactory death for God, God gives us
salvation.
Lord, we thank You again tonight for Your truth, for Your precious Word.
It is unendingly a joy, a privilege to open its truths and let it capture our hearts afresh
and anew.
Thank You for these precious, precious people.
What a privilege it is to be among those who love You, love Your truth.
Lord, it is certainly true, however, that there are some here tonight who may be have
a false faith that doesn't save and are counting on superficial things, are feeling secure
when they should not.
Lord, we just pray that the things that were said, the things that are true might capture
their hearts and they might be awakened from the tragic and dangerous slumber of a false
faith to come to a true faith in Christ.
We thank You, O God, that You are satisfied with Christ and thus You are satisfied with
those who are by faith in Christ.
We thank You for our fellowship today.
What a wonderful day it's been.
We thank You that You have met us and You have disclosed Yourself to us through Your
Word.
Minister to us through Your people.
Now use us as we part, we pray in Your Son's name.
Amen.
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Trump Endorses Jeanine Pirro's Call For Paul Ryan To Step Down - Duration: 3:35.
Trump Endorses Jeanine Pirro's Call For Paul Ryan To Step Down
by Tyler Durden
Fox News host Judge Jeanine Pirro, whose show President Trump urged his followers on Twitter
to watch earlier in the day, opened her program at 9pm on Saturday by calling for Speaker
Paul Ryan's resignation.
"Ryan needs to step down as Speaker of the House.
The reason, he failed to deliver the votes on his healthcare bill, the one trumpeted
to repeal and replace ObamaCare, the one that he had 7 years to work on; the one he hid
under lock and key in the basement of Congress; the one that had to be pulled to prevent the
embarrassment of not having enough votes to pass."
Pirro said in her opening statement.
"Speaker Ryan, you come in with all your swagger and experience and sell them a bill of goods
which ends up a complete and total failure and you allow our president, in his first
100 days, to come out of the box like that, based on what?"
Pirro said.
What made Pirro's fiery comments about Ryan especially notable is that they came hours
after Trump tweeted to encourage his followers to watch "Justice with Judge Jeanine."
While Trump has urged people to watch TV shows in the past, typically it was when the president
himself was appearing on them.
However in a twist, Pirro suggested that she had not coordinated her statement with Trump
in advance.
"I have not spoken with the president about any of this," Pirro said of her call for Ryan
to step down on her show, where president's counter-terrorism adviser Sebastian Gorka
also appeared on Saturday evening.
On Friday Trump told Ryan to pull the Republican healthcare bill, upon learning there were
not enough votes in support among House Republicans.
The move marked Trump's first legislative defeat as president and followed seven years
of rhetoric from Republicans who campaigned on a pledge to repeal and replace former President
Barack Obama's signature healthcare law.
In the initial round of fingerpointing, Trump blamed Democrats for not backing the GOP healthcare
bill, warning that Obamacare would "explode" on its own, and signaled that he would move
on to other priorities such as tax reform.
On Saturday, the NYT reported that the blame among Trump's closest circles had fallen on
Reince Priebus and Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price, while Ryan was spared
Trump's anger.
Trump and White House press secretary Sean Spicer also indicated that they appreciated
Ryan's effort to get the bill passed, amid criticism from some Trump allies over the
failed effort.
Following the Pirro statement, the blame now appears to have shifted back to Ryan, as Bloomberg
originally reported on Friday.
Pirro insisted in her first segment that the failure was on Ryan and not on Trump.
"Folks, I want to be clear.
This is not on President Trump," she said.
"No one expected a businessman to completely understand the nuances, the complicated ins
and outs of Washington and its legislative process.
How would he know on what individuals he could rely?"
"Ryan has hurt you going forward, and he's got to go," Pirro said.
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God's Gift of Righteousness (Romans 3:21–25) - Duration: 57:09.
We are, as you know, looking at the book of Romans and tonight we come in to chapter 3
at verse 21...Romans chapter 3 verse 21.
Let me read verses 21 through the first part of verse 25...Romans 3:21 to 25, at least
the first part of verse 25.
"But now, apart from the Law, the righteousness of God has been manifested, being witnessed
by the Law and the prophets.
Even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all those who believe,
for there is no distinction, for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.
Being justified as a gift by His grace through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus, whom
God displayed publicly as a propitiation in His blood through faith."
Now as we approach this, a little bit of an introduction.
Job, that very early book, no doubt describing a man who lived in the patriarchal period,
the period of the Pentateuch, Job that righteous man, that man who was commended by God for
his faith, asked the most important question that any person could ever ask.
It is posed in chapter 9 of Job and verse 2.
And this is the question that Job asked, "How can a man be right with God?"
That is the most compelling question.
How can a man be right, or be in the right before God?
And then he goes on to show why this is such a dilemma.
Verse 3, "If one wished to dispute with him, he could not answer him once in a thousand
times...wise in heart and mighty in strength, who has defied Him without harm?
It is God who removes the mountains, they know not how.
When He overturns them in His anger, who shakes the earth out of its place and its pillars
tremble, who commands the sun not to shine and sets a seal on the stars, who alone stretches
out the heavens and tramples down the waves of the sea; who makes the bear, Orion and
the Pleiades, and the chambers of the south ; who does great things, unfathomable, and
wondrous works without number.
Were He to pass by me, I wouldn't see Him.
Were He to move past me, I wouldn't perceive Him.
Were He to snatch away, who could restrain Him?
Who could say to Him, 'What are You doing?'
God will not turn back His anger.
Beneath Him crouch the helpers of Rahab.
How then can I answer Him and choose my words before Him?
For though I were right, I could not answer.
I would have to employ the mercy of my judge.
If I called and He answered me, I could not believe that He was listening to my voice,
for He bruises me with a tempest, and multiplies my wounds without cause.
He will not allow me to get my breath, but saturates me with bitterness.
If it is a matter of power, behold, He is the strong one!
If it is a matter of justice, who can summon Him?
Though I am righteous, my mouth will condemn me; though I am guiltless, He will declare
me guilty."
This is like Paul saying, even when I know nothing against myself, herein am I not justified?
I can't bring my case before God.
Here is a man, namely Job, with a sense of his lostness, with a sense of his smallness,
with a sense of his guilt, his emptiness, his meaninglessness, fearing death, dreading
punishment at the hands of a holy God who cannot successfully make his case, even when
he says I've searched out my life and I can't see anything of continuing sin, I know that
I am not by my own perception thereby justified because my own perception is so limited.
How should a man be in the right with God?
How do you become right with God?
God is holy and God is a judge and God punishes sinners and God punishes the guilty who are
sinners.
How can that change?
How can a man be right with God and particularly a God like this?
A God who is so vastly beyond me?
And, of course, as you heard, Job goes through the litany of all the things that are true
about the massiveness of God.
How can I, this frail, meek, unimportant individual establish righteousness before such a great
and glorious and holy God?
How can I therefore escape His judgment?
That, by the way, is the basic question that every religion tries to answer.
That is the basic question that every religion tries to answer.
Every religion is trying to answer the question...How do I escape the judgment of God and get into
the place of favor from God, whatever God is the God of that religion, and end up in
the right place when I die?
That is the universal question which religion universally attempts to answer.
And so many suggestions are made.
But all religions of all types and all kinds basically give the same answer.
You achieve that rightness.
You get it by your attention to being a good person and performing the necessary religious
rituals and rites and practices and ceremonies.
In every case you get in the right with God by something you do.
Now they will all admit that God is kind to some degree.
At least He will allow you the opportunity to try to do that.
And in varying religions, the kindness of God is more or less a large part of our efforts
and in the end, all human religions come up with the same thing, you work your way in.
But the Bible clearly demonstrates and confirms that nobody will ever be made right with God
like that...no one.
No one is going to escape judgment and enter into blessing.
No one is going to go from being under the disfavor of God into the favor of God by their
own efforts, by his own effort or her own effort.
So if we are to find a way to be right with God, it isn't going to be found in us.
It isn't going to be found in the religions that we invent.
If there is a way to be right with God, then God's going to have to determine that way
as He's the one who has been offended.
And therein lies the dilemma which all religion attempts to answer.
Paul has clearly shown, starting in chapter 1 all the way through chapter 3 verse 20,
where we ended last time, that no one can be right with God on the basis of human effort.
That's how verse 20 ends that whole section by saying, "By the works of the Law no flesh
will be justified in His sight."
Nobody will be right with God by means of the deeds of the flesh.
That is keeping of God's moral law, or any kind of ceremonies.
In fact, all the human race fall short, they are all under sin.
Chapter 3 verse 9, Jews and Greeks are all under sin.
And Romans 1:18, "The wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all unrighteousness."
So all are unrighteous, all are under sin and therefore all are under judgment and no
one has the capacity in himself to change that situation, no matter how moral he may
attempt to be or how religious.
That's the condemnation of the opening chapters.
So there is no way then for a man to achieve righteousness on his own.
Now this is particularly devastating to religious people and the Jews were the most religious
of the religious and they believed that they could attain a right place with God, a right
standing with God, acceptance with God, favor from God including eternal life in heaven
by meticulously keeping t he Law.
Well that's exactly what Paul wants to dispel.
Well you ask, "What use is the Law then if you cannot by the Law be made righteous?"
Well Paul has already answered that, hasn't he?
We're not made righteous by the Law, back to chapter 3 verse 20, rather through the
Law comes the knowledge of sin.
You wouldn't fully know what sin was unless the details were spelled out.
So the purpose of the Law is not to save anybody, it is to condemn everybody.
The purpose of the Law is not to show you how good you are but show you how evil you
are.
And, of course, the Law makes maximum demands, "Be ye holy for I am holy.
Be ye perfect as your Father in heaven is perfect."
The standard of the Law is never lessened, it is never lowered, it is always the same,
it demands perfection.
Galatians 3 says if you break one part of the Law, you're guilty of it all.
So Micah asks the penetrating question in the sixth chapter of his prophecy, verses
6 and 7, "With what shall I come to the Lord and bow myself before the God on high?
Shall I come to Him with burnt offerings?
With yearling calves?
Does the Lord take delight in thousands of rams in ten thousand rivers of oil?
Shall I present my firstborn for my rebellious acts, the fruit of my body for the sin of
my soul?
Does God want animals?
Should I give up my baby, will that satisfy God?
Will that earn a relationship with Him?"
The way to God is not by the most extreme human religious sacrifice, animal sacrifice
all the way to human sacrifice, offering the fruit of your body, your own child as if somehow
that would pacify God as was claimed, you'll remember, by those who worshiped Molech.
So all sinners, and that means all humans, are under judgment.
All sinners are equally unable by their own efforts, morally and religiously, to earn
favor with God, the standards of true religion are divine perfection.
That's the only thing God accepts and we can't attain that.
That is why we have been learning that the opening of chapter 3 is intended to silence
the whole world.
Go back to verse 19, whatever the Law says, it says to those who are under the Law, "So
that every mouth may be closed, every mouth stopped, there is no defense, you have nothing
to say.
And all the world may become accountable or guilty before God."
Earlier in that chapter, Paul according to the Old Testament said there is none righteous,
no not one.
So the plight of men is dark, it is dismal, it is despairing.
In himself he has no hope.
In his religion he has no real answer.
He is bound for divine judgment and there is no remedy.
The Law will only condemn him.
The Law will not help him.
The Law will curse him.
The Law will pronounce death sentence upon him.
What hope does he have?
Then you come to verse 21 and the first two words are a welcomed and hopeful transition.
"But now...but now."
We've had enough of the ugliness of the opening three chapters.
Now we need some hope.
"But now..."
literally at this very time, a very crucial moment in redemptive history.
This is the fullness of time.
"And in this time, apart from the Law, the righteousness of God has been manifested."
Just when man needed righteousness, it appeared in the fullness of time, at this present time,
now.
Speaking of New Testament era and the arrival, of course, of the Lord Jesus Christ, a righteousness...the
righteousness literally of God has been manifested.
The righteousness of man is inadequate.
If we're going to be made right with God, we need another righteousness other than our
own since we can't be righteous by anything done on the human side.
The only way we can be righteous is by something given to us from the divine side.
We need a righteousness equal to the righteousness of God.
The only righteousness equal to the righteousness of God is the righteousness of God.
Good news, apart from the Law which can only condemn you, the righteousness of God has
been manifested.
This is the only solution.
A righteousness has to come down to us, a righteousness that is alien to us.
God has to come Himself to our rescue.
God has to give us a righteousness that is outside of us, above us and beyond us.
The very one who gave the Law to condemn us must also give the righteousness to save us.
This is the light of the glorious gospel of Jesus Christ shining to us.
The righteousness that you need and that I need to be saved, Paul says, "Comes from God,
it is the righteousness of God Himself."
I'm reminded of Isaiah 45:8 that says, "Drop down you heavens from above, let the skies
pour down righteousness."
The verse goes on, "Let the earth open, let them bring forth salvation, let righteousness
spring up together."
And then it closes, "I the Lord have created it."
This is righteousness from God that comes down to us.
It is, as I said, an alien righteousness.
Remember the testimony of the Apostle Paul in Philippians 3 which, of course, is very
much like this.
In verse 8, "I count all things to be loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing
Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, count them but rubbish
that I might win Christ and be found in Him...listen to this...not having a righteousness of my
own derived from the Law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness
which comes from God on the basis of faith."
This is the simple, clear, New Testament teaching on the necessary righteousness for salvation
that was lost for literally a millennia or more in history and recovered by the Reformation.
It didn't completely disappear, there were faithful believing people who understood this
all through that era, but the dominant Roman church was built and still operates on the
basis that men have in them enough goodness along with the grace of God to achieve a satisfactory
righteousness with God that saves them.
This, however, is not that.
This is the righteousness that belongs to God that comes down from God and is given
to us.
It is further described in Daniel 9:24 and Psalm 119:142 as an everlasting righteousness.
It is Isaiah 61 that says, "My righteousness shall be forever."
It is an eternal, ever-lasting righteousness that transcends anything in the world of human
experience.
It is the kind of righteousness that fulfills the Law.
And in the life of Jesus it is manifest.
Jesus being God was perfectly righteous.
He manifested that perfect righteousness in His active obedience, in His active obedience
He was perfectly obedient to the Law.
He never violated the Law.
He was without sin.
So He was the living model of righteous perfection in His active obedience.
He also perfectly fulfilled the penalty of the Law on the cross in His passive obedience
where He could pay the infinite price, suffer death and suffer the experience of hell and
rise from the dead.
So Jesus is the perfect model of righteousness in the sense that He lived a perfectly righteous
life, and He even models righteousness as it exacts a penalty and He fulfilled that
penalty by dying on the cross.
The kind of righteousness then that is exhibited in the active righteousness of Christ in His
perfection is the kind of righteousness that is required and since we cannot achieve it,
it has to come down from heaven.
That is why it is so staggering to think of Hebrews 10:14 which says that when you put
your life in the hands of God through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, when you are regenerated,
born again, you are perfected forever, you are perfected forever.
Sanctification is...we think of it only its progressive sense, but sanctification is a
bigger word than that.
The verse says, "Be perfected...we are perfected forever who are being sanctified."
So sanctification is a word that does have a progressive aspect, but it also means something
beyond that, taking us all the way to perfection.
So when we think about a righteousness, we're thinking about a perfect righteousness, divine
righteousness, that which is true of God and that which was manifest in Jesus Christ, a
kind of righteousness which is perfection itself, a kind of righteousness that is eternal.
We are told in the New Testament that in the new heaven and the new earth dwells righteousness.
It is that very righteousness that belongs to God that is eternal.
This is what is required.
This is what we have to have.
We cannot obtain it, it has to be given to us and it has to be given to us by grace,
right?
You can't earn it, it is a grace gift.
And that's the glory of the gospel.
That is why it was so thrilling in chapter 1 verse 16 for Paul...oh in verse 15 to say,
"I'm eager to preach the gospel.
I'm not ashamed of the gospel.
It is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also the
Greek, for in it the righteousness of God is revealed."
It is the gospel that brings the righteousness of God to us.
Now, we've been talking in this chapter last week about the fact that there's a courtroom
scene.
A man is on trial, there is no defense.
On trial before God we are declared guilty.
Yet God is loving and gracious and desires to justify the sinner, the declare the guilty
sinner righteous.
Paul even says, and we'll get to it later, chapter 4 verse 5, that God justifies the
ungodly.
How can He do it?
How can He do it?
How can He justify the ungodly, or make the ungodly right with Him?
How can He do that?
That's a shock to the legalists.
That would be a shock to the Jew because Proverbs 17:15 says, "He that justifies the wicked
is an abomination to the Lord."
Exodus 23:7, God says, quoting God, "I will not justify the wicked."
Paul turning the table and saying, "God does justify the wicked, He justifies the ungodly.
He manifests His righteousness apart from the Law."
That is to say, to be right with God depends not on you, but on God.
Not on what you earn, but on what God gives.
This is the majesty of the gospel.
Everything depends on God.
Everything depends on God.
Now, as we look at the righteousness of God, I just want to kind of break it up a little
bit and give you some ways to work through the passage because this is at the heart of
our Christian gospel.
You need to know this for the richness that it brings to your own heart as a believer,
you need to know it so you can declare it to others with clarity and accuracy.
So let's just break it down a little bit.
Several elements appear.
The righteousness of God, first of all, is apart from legalism, okay?
Number one, it's apart from legalism.
That's the very beginning of verse 21, "Now apart from the Law....apart from the Law."
This is in the emphatic position, whatever comes first in the Greek sentence order is
emphatic, "But now, apart from the Law the righteousness of God has been manifested."
While the main subject is the righteousness of God, the emphatic position is apart from
the Law.
This needs to be in the emphatic position because it is characteristic of all false
religions, whether Judaism or any other religion, that you are made right with God by keeping
some law.
This righteousness has nothing to do with keeping the Law.
As we read back in chapter 3 verse 20, "By the Law only comes the knowledge of sin, not
righteousness."
Over in chapter 5 verse 20, "The Law came in so that the transgression would increase...would
increase.
It doesn't help, it inflames sin, it insights sin, it brings a curse.
The Law gives you no help.
So this righteousness is apart from the Law without the cooperation of any legalistic
effort.
Chapter 4 verse 15, "The Law brings about wrath."
All it does is produce wrath.
In chapter 2 he said, "As long as men live, they keep piling up wrath against the day
of wrath."
It just gets worse and worse and worse the longer they live and God keeps a record of
every single sin.
So if anybody is going to be right with God, it is going to be all together independent
from anything any man can do.
It can't happen.
Robert Haldain wrote, "To that righteousness is the eye of the believer ever to be directed,
that righteousness which is the righteousness of God."
The righteousness on that righteousness must be rest, on that righteousness must be life,
on that righteousness must we die.
In that righteousness must we appear before the judgment seat.
In that righteousness must we stand forever in the presence of a righteous God.
We have to turn ourselves completely away from anything of human righteousness.
The greatest error on the planet is made by religious people in following after salvation
in heaven based on their own righteousness.
This righteousness which is required is apart from the Law.
Secondly, it is built on revelation.
It is not something that's heretofore unknown, verse 21, "Being witnessed by the Law and
the prophets."
The Law and the prophets is a euphemism for the Old Testament.
The Law and the prophets simply means the Old Testament.
The Old Testament never promised that salvation would come by law keeping.
That was not the message of the Old Testament.
Drop down to chapter 4 verse 3 for a moment.
"For if Abraham was justified by works," verse 1, "He has something to boast about but not
before God."
Verse 3, "For what does the Scripture say?
What does it say?"
This is quoting Genesis 15:6, "Abraham believed God and it was credited to him as righteousness."
He was given a righteousness by God on the basis of faith.
Verse 7...verse 6, rather, David speaks of the blessing on the man to whom the Lord credits
righteousness apart from works.
"Blessed are those whose lawless deeds have been forgiven, whose sins have been covered.
Blessed is the man whose sin the Lord will not take into account."
So this is not a New Testament deviation from what the Old Testament taught, as if the Old
Testament taught salvation by Law keeping.
You know, if you do enough of the moral requirements of the Law and if you do enough of the ceremonies
enough times, you're going to earn favor with God.
That is never what the Old Testament taught.
The ceremonies and the practices of the Old Testament could not give life.
Second Corinthians 3 says, "The letter of the Law does...what?...kills, but the spirit
gives life."
So the witness of the Old Testament was to a righteousness that comes by faith and not
by works.
And that leads us to the third point.
The righteousness of God is apart from legalism, built on revelation and acquired by faith...acquired
by faith, verse 22.
"Even the righteousness of God...he says it again repeating from verse 21...through faith
in Jesus Christ for all those who believe for there is no distinction."
Again the righteousness is not the righteousness of man, but is the righteousness that belongs
to God.
It cannot be attained through works because no man has the capability of performing the
righteousness of God.
It can't come through works.
If it is God's righteousness, it cannot come by anything we do and this is reaffirmed here,
it comes through faith...through faith.
Go down to chapter 4 verse 5.
"To the one who does not work but believes in Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith
is credited as righteousness."
Chapter 5 verse 1, "Therefore, having been justified by faith.."
Ephesians 2:8 and 9, "For by grace you have seen saved through faith, that not of yourselves."
Faith is the instrument by which we receive the gift of God's righteousness.
It is simply by believing...by believing.
Speaking of Abraham, in chapter 4 verse 20 it says, "He didn't waver in unbelief but
grew strong in faith, giving glory to God and being fully assured that what God had
promised He was able to perform, that was credited to him as righteousness."
That defines faith for us.
What is faith?
It's not unbelief but it's a strong belief that gives glory to God.
And how do you do that?
By believing that what God promises He does.
What God promises revealed in Scripture, revealed in the gospel.
When you believe the gospel, you're believing the promise of God.
How do you receive the righteousness of God?
By believing in the promise of the gospel that He will give you His righteousness if
you put your trust in Christ.
Simply believing.
That was true of Abraham, that was true of David, it's true of everyone.
That is why salvation is called the gift of God, not of works, Ephesians 2:9.
Having believed we received as a gift the righteousness of God given to us.
Believed what?
Believed God's promise, God's promise in the gospel is a promise in Christ.
That's why Romans 10 says faith that saves comes by hearing the message concerning Christ.
And then Romans 10 says that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord and believe
in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you shall be saved.
This is why we as Protestants always say salvation is by grace alone through faith alone in Christ
alone, Sola fide, sola Christus, sola gratia, those are the solas of the Reformation.
Sola Scriptura, the Bible being the only source of gospel truth.
And we also know there's such a thing as false faith, don't we?
We heard it repeated in the baptism tonight.
People have a false faith.
It's exhibited in the New Testament by people who have a superficial interest in Jesus and
eventually walk away.
Disciples, for example, in John 6 who walked no more with Him.
Or His words in John 8, "If you continue in My Word then you're My real disciple."
Or 1 John 2:19, "They went out from us because they were not of us.
If they had been of us they would have continued with us.
But they went out from us that it might be made manifest they were not of us."
Or the parable of the soils.
The parable of the soils, so familiar to us in the thirteenth chapter of Matthew where
there is seed thrown into the ground and it goes into the ground and starts to germinate
a little bit and it pops up out of the soil and then it dies.
There is false faith.
That is not true in saving faith.
True in saving faith remains.
True in saving faith grows and flourishes and manifests itself in evidences of a transformed
life.
I think saving faith is probably most clearly defined in its pure sense over in chapter
6 of Romans and verse 17.
"Thanks be to God.
Though you were slaves to sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching
to which you were committed.
And having been freed from sin you became slaves of righteousness."
There's the evidence of real salvation.
That's the real thing.
You...you were slaves of sin, verse 16 says that.
Si resulting in death.
But thanks be to God that you were formerly slaves of sin, now you became obedient from
the heart.
So here you have obedience rising from a transformed heart, demonstrated and not only knowing the
teaching but in being committed to that teaching and obedient to it.
Now go back to Romans 3 for a moment, and remember that this is not faith in anything
nebulas but the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ, faith directed at Him,
who He is.
That's why we said faith comes by hearing the truth about Christ.
You can't put your faith in the one about whom you do not know.
How shall they hear without a preacher?
How shall they preach unless they're sent?
Now each builds on the other.
It is essential then that we proclaim that righteousness is available to those who believe
God's promises in Christ and therefore believing God's promises in Christ put their trust in
Christ.
And for all those who believe, there is no difference, Jew, Gentile, religious, irreligious,
whatever background, male, female, bond, free, there's no difference.
Paul makes that clear repeatedly, certainly in Romans and also in the wonderful book of
Galatians.
So the righteousness of God then is apart form legalism, apart from personal achievement
in law-keeping.
It is built on revelation.
It's not something new, it's the same old message all the way back to Genesis 15:6.
It is acquired by faith.
And then we saw here it is provided for all, for all who believe.
There is no distinction because all are in the same situation, verse 23, "For all have
sinned and fall short of the glory of God."
It is for all who believe because all are in the same tragic situation.
Not everybody is as bad as everybody else.
But everybody's in the same situation of utter inability.
I used to illustrate it many years ago when I was talking to young people by saying, we
don't all jump equally well, either high or far.
I used to do the broad jump and the high jump when I was in high school and college, and
I could jump further than some people and not as far as other people.
That's why it wasn't a very long career for me.
I could jump higher than some people and not as high as other people.
But if we all sort of lined up at the shore of the Pacific Ocean and jumped, none of us
would end up in Japan.
None of us would get to Hawaii.
Nobody would even get to Catalina.
That's just way beyond our capability.
Or if, perhaps, even more dramatically we decided to stand on the edge of the Grand
Canyon and the objective was to jump to the other side, we would all be in different spots
on the bottom...all equally dead.
Or if you wanted to make the same analogy from the standpoint of height, not all of
us is the same height, some of us are shorter and taller than others.
But in relationship to the nearest star, we are relatively an infinite distance apart.
Not all have sinned to the same degree but all have no capability of getting anywhere
near the standard that God has established.
And that has already been clearly delineated in this book already.
Verse 23, "All people have sinned and fallen short."
We all fall at different levels, at different heights, but all fall short.
We come short of the glory of God.
The glory of God is simply a way to define the righteousness of God, the perfection of
God, the absolute holiness of God.
We don't get anywhere close, not even close, not even close.
So all being in the same predicament, we have a provision that all need.
So being right with God is apart from legalism, built on revelation, acquired by faith, provided
for all.
And then fifthly, given freely through grace...given freely by grace, verse 24, "Being justified...that
is the same as the word righteous, righteousness from dikaios, or dikaioo, the verb, being
justified or declared righteous as a gift by His grace."
That, folks, is the heart of the gospel, right there.
There's no way around this.
Any religion that says you make any contribution to your salvation is a false gospel.
And anybody who preaches it, Galatians 1 says, should be damned, let him be anathema.
What Paul means by using the verb dikaioo here is simply to have someone righteous before
God.
And the only way it can possibly happen is as a gift and a gift is used...the word is
used to distinguish from something you earn, it's not a wage, it's a gift.
To establish us as righteous before God is purely a gift.
It is a gift of grace and what is grace?
Undeserved favor, unearned kindness.
It means that though we don't deserve it, though we haven't earned it, God treats us
as if we are righteous.
How does He do that?
By granting to us His own righteousness.
This is a stunning reality, this is THE distinctiveness of the Christian gospel.
Any equivocation on this and you have cut the heart out of Christianity.
And it is done as a gift by His grace.
Some of the older translations say freely by His grace.
It actually, literally is a gift..no payment, no human merit.
And again if you want a witness from the Old Testament, remember Isaiah 55:1, "Come by
salvation," in the metaphor of food and drink, without money and without price...it's a gift,
not of works, Ephesians 2:9, lest any man should boast...freely as a gift.
This same word, gift, is used in John's gospel, talking about Christ without being punished
without a cause.
It's used in Galatians 2:21 to refer to Christ dying without a reason.
That's exactly what it means.
We are given righteousness without a cause in ourselves, without a reason in ourselves,
purely by His grace.
Paul uses the term charis a hundred...over a hundred times in his epistles.
It's by grace.
But it wasn't cheap.
While this salvation, this righteousness with God is apart from the Law, built on revelation,
acquired by faith, provided by all, given freely through grace, it required a great
price.
That's the sixth point...required a great, great price.
Look at verse 24, "Through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus whom God displayed
publicly as a propitiation in His blood through faith."
Redemption means to ransom by the payment of a price.
We don't pay, it's a gift.
But somebody pays, somebody buys the gift.
When you receive a gift, you don't pay.
You know, I may be one of the most gifted people, not in the sense that I am speaking
of myself as being gifted, but in the sense that I'm speaking of other people gifting
me.
I get so many gifts.
I mean, I get all kinds of gift.
Just this morning I was given a handful of gifts, which is a typical Sunday for me.
I received a beautiful badge that I could iron on clothes, a jacket or something, that
is the insignia of the military forces that operate Guantanamo Bay.
As one of the men was in our services this morning and listens all the time to me preach
through his computer, whatever, and he wanted to thank me by giving me this badge.
Somebody else came up to me this morning and said, "Take a look at this.
This is...he said...a 70 million year old vertebrae."
And then he laughed and said, "At least that's what they told me and I'd like you to have
it."
It clearly looked like vertebrae...70 million years old...no, and so I added it to my tusk
collection, I have tusks from mastodons dug up at the north part of Russia in the Tundra
against the Arctic Circle.
And when they dig up the mastodons there, they open them up and in their stomach are
tropical plants.
Why?
Because that was a tropical paradise, like the rest of the world, before the Flood.
And they drowned in the Flood and the frozen tundra up by the Arctic Circle, what was in
their stomach is still there.
That's kind of neat.
I've got a tusk from an animal that was around at Noah's time.
By the way, a man up there wanted me to have it and he carved the tusk into the form of
a mastodon.
So it's a mastodon carved from a mastodon tusk from before the Flood.
Pretty cool gift.
I get a lot of really cool gifts.
I get a lot of really useless gifts as well.
But...I get beautiful art work and all kinds of things that people give me and they're
all expressions of love.
Somebody pays for these.
The friend who gave me the tusk got it from a guy in a hut by the Arctic Circle.
I know somebody pays a price for the gifts.
We can understand that, right?
It's free to me but the story of how it got to me sometimes is far more interesting than
the gift itself, far more intriguing.
Sometimes the price is very high.
I received a gift during the Shepherds' Conference that was a bit long box.
And I opened it up and it was a stick, I mean a really big stick and a really heavy one.
Just as thick and heavy as a big baseball bat about eight feet tall and it was carved
all the way down, all the way around, everywhere all kinds of carved Bible verses and my name
and carving, carving, carving.
Unbelievable amount of work as an expression of love.
Now the compelling question is, what do I do with this big stick?
I could walk softly and carry it.
But I decided that if I took a hike and carried it around I'd be...I'd be worn out in about
five minutes just by carrying the thing.
But you understand.
We're all graced with many, many gifts, but somebody pays a profound price for the gifts.
And here we find what that price is.
There had to be a redemption.
We had to be ransomed.
We had to be bought because, in effect, we receive a gift and become a gift from the
Father to the Son.
Redemption is such a beautiful word, apolutrosis, appears about ten times in the New Testament,
always carries the idea of deliverance by payment of a ransom.
In this case, we're delivered from God.
It's an interesting concept.
God literally pays a price to redeem us from Himself in the sense that He redeems us from
His wrath to His mercy.
It was Boaz, the kinsman redeemer, you remember, who paid the price to redeem Ruth.
Who would pay for us?
Who would pay the price for us?
Well he tells us.
The redemption which is in Christ Jesus, the Greek can even allow which is by Christ Jesus.
So it was the price that was paid by Christ on the cross that redeemed us.
How could it do that?
Verse 25, "Whom God displayed publicly as a propitiation in His blood."
What does that mean?
What does propitiation mean?
To propitiate someone means to satisfy them.
When we say God is propitiated, we mean God is satisfied, His justice is satisfied.
It's a beautiful word, hilasterion.
It really is the idea that sin can be blotted out because justice is satisfied.
Its common use was to refer to the kapora(?) which was the Mercy Seat which covered the
Ark of the Covenant in the Holy of Holies where the blood was splattered on the day
of atonement.
And so, God chose a price.
The price?
Sacrificial blood.
The blood would be the blood of His own Son, the Lord Jesus.
That is what He would require.
And so Jesus goes to the cross, according to 2 Corinthians 5:21, He became sin for us.
That is God treated Him as if He committed our sins and punished Him fully with all His
wrath.
We talked about that, didn't we, in the gospel of Luke that in a matter of hours, Jesus because
He's an infinite being can take an infinite amount of punishment and He bore all the wrath
of God for the sins of all who would ever believe in a few hours on the cross.
And God was propitiated...God was satisfied.
God displayed publicly Christ as His propitiation and we receive the gift, he says it again,
through faith.
This is the Christian gospel.
This is what launched the Reformation.
This is the truth that saves.
You receive the gift by faith, you can't earn it.
We don't have to wait until we die to know whether we're going to get to heaven.
Roman Catholics think it's presumptuous to think you're going to go to heaven.
We won't know until we die.
And, you know, 90 percent of us aren't going to go right to heaven anywhere, we're going
to Purgatory and then everything in Purgatory depends on how well we do there and how well
people do here, praying for us to get us out, and how much treasury of merit can be shifted
over to our account.
That's not what Scripture teaches, that you have to earn your way to heaven in this life
and then maybe earn your way to heaven in the next life.
You don't earn your way to heaven at all.
Put your faith in Jesus Christ and God is satisfied with the sacrifice of Christ on
your behalf and on my behalf.
Horatious Bonner(???), Scottish preacher, wrote, "Not what my hands have done can save
my guilty soul, not what my toiling flesh has borne can make my spirit whole, not what
I feel or do can give me peace with God, not all my prayers in size and tears can bear
my awful load.
Thy grace alone, O God, to me can pardon speak.
Thy power alone, O Son of God, can this sore bondage break.
No other work saved Thine, no other blood will do.
No strength saved that which is divine can bear me safely through."
This is the good news that follows the bad news in the opening chapters.
There's so much more to be said about the glory of this gospel and it will unfold for
us as we continue next time.
Lord, again we thank You for Your Word.
It's just so encouraging to us.
We understand these things, many of us do.
There are some who don't for many tonight is the first time they really understand this
and we're so grateful for that.
The clarity of the Scripture which speaks to us with such magnificent purity, thank
You for the understanding built into the Scripture and the double understanding that comes by
the teaching ministry of the Holy Spirit.
Thank You for the glory of the gospel, this gospel in which we stand by which we are saved,
to which we cling with an everlasting hope.
Save...save sinners tonight, Lord, who have thought perhaps to themselves that their goodness
can earn them a place in Your Kingdom.
They shall only find that all their goodness got them was an everlasting hell because they
fell so far short.
Bring them to grace and salvation by faith, we pray in Christ's name.
Amen.
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Moving From 3D Body To 5D Light Body - Duration: 8:44.
Moving From 3D Body To 5D Light Body.
by Jelelle Awen,
I am connecting with THE BODY, my ascending body and the collective �body� of those
of us who have chosen ascension as our path and process.
I am connecting with this universal experience of body, this human body vessel and temple,
this fleshy form, that we�ve all agreed is the vehicle of our walking around life.
Yet, this body is changing.
It is growing.
It is calibrating higher, vibrating higher.
It is shifting from carbon to crystalline.
It is transforming from being anchored in 3D to transitional and awakening 4D (integration
of the astral body) and into 5D.
This is a HUGE process, a big deal as a marker in the evolutionary cycles of our species.
Our souls can fly with our astral self (as I am now calling our dream self, or self beyond
the body in one aspect or layer of fourth dimensional consciousness), yet our bodies
have not been able to come along.
Our souls can soar into 5D consciousness, especially during Near Death Experiences (NDEs)
and taking of peyote, ayahuasca, etc.
Yet, again, the body is �left behind� because its frequency has been too dense,
too connected to Mother Gaia in a primordial way to �come along� with the soul�s
vibration.
Yet now��NOW the body is ascending TOO.
It is coming along, doesn�t want to get left behind.
This is what THE BODY is telling me in the moment, �Don�t leave me behind!
I want to come with you!� Dimensional shifts are about shifts in consciousness yet, also,
there IS a shift in what you experience as your outer reality as well�..as what is
inside is what you experience then outside.
Experiencing 4D conscious states and higher INSIDE of the body is a new experience and
seems to mostly be bridged through meditation and going on multidimensional journeys for
which the body comes along and �holds� the awakening experiences.
In our 3D relationships with our bodies, we BECOME our bodies.
Our 3D selves �fuse� to our bodies and so every symptom, every experience, every
emotion, every thought, seems to become trapped INSIDE of them.
All of this trapping and fixation on the physical level creates dis-ease, illness, injury, unhealthy,
toxicity, being overweight, sexuality issues, addictions.
All this trapping of consciousness inside of the body doesn�t allow any breathing,
any release, any energetic movement to happen, any cleansing, any POSSIBILITIES beyond the
body.
THE BODY says, �I�m exhausted of this approach.
I can BE SO MUCH more.
I want to soar with your soul too.
I want to be as crystalline as your chakras are becoming.
I want to be as healthy, vibrant, and non-toxic as your healing heart is becoming.
I want to experience the multi-dimensions.
I want to travel to the stars.
I want to flow in sexual and creative energies that come from Divine Source and spiritual
inspiration.�
Yes, this ascending body WANTS a lot.
If we can feel this wanting and desire of the body to ascend WITH us, then we can respond
to bodies from this higher frequency with self love and self care.
This means that our ascending bodies will cycle through sleep differently than we are
�used to� and sleep �patterns� will be interrupted.
Sometimes our bodies will be needing A LOT of it for the calibration and crystallizing
process.
Sometimes they will be needing VERY LITTLE for so much new energy is moving through,
becoming light, feeling like a caffeine buzz moving through our veins and through our bones.
Sometimes our bodies will need �crash naps� to reboot the consciousness, turn the conscious
mind off, and implement a new frequency.
The more flexibility we have in our days and in our nights to allow these fluxes and changes;
the more we can flow and move with them letting our mind relax and surrender into them.
The ascending body is shifting around food needs too.
The 3D body sought out comfort because so much was trapped INSIDE of it that it was
looking for any kind of relief.
Comfort often meant foods that weren�t good for it, that weren�t healthy, that actually
made digestion harder and the body feeling not as vital.
The 3D body, run by our 3D selves, then made �choices� that caused dis-ease and illness
and that were out of alignment with our soul frequencies.
Because the 3D body was cut off from the soul (not completely but enough), it was �alone�
in a 3D conditioned world that pushes toxic food, that keeps our body vibrational energetic
frequency low.
The 4D body is awakening as the 4D self is transitioning and learning, educating itself
about what is healthy and what is not, about what is conscious eating and what is not.
It is usually the 4D self that chooses not to eat sentient beings/animals anymore as
the soul can�t reconcile the killing frequencies of it anymore.
Food as necessary fuel is the 3D body�s mantra.
And the 3D self �uses� food as a numbing drug.
The 4D and 5D body will probably need less food as it will run more and more on energy
of higher vibrational love frequencies.
THE BODY doesn�t want to numb or be drugged anymore.
�NO more chemicals please.
NO more processed foods.
No more drugs and things produced in a laboratory please,� I can hear it pleading to us.
It seems to understand if we are in transition around this and it is patient.
Yet, also, it is eager to feel vital fuel running through all of its systems that run
so brilliantly on their own day after day and year after year.
THE BODY especially wants us to awaken to our soul�s ability to use gifts from Mother
Gaia and from our accesses to energy in order to heal it.
We can help our bodies, especially in 4D transition and conscious integration of some astral frequencies
into the body, by remembering our energy gifts and connecting with our chakras, cleaning
them, making them as real as our physical body, caring intensely about their health
and well being.
And, of course, seeking out resources for health that are provided by Mother Gaia through
herbals and supplements.
Oh, none of what is offered by THE BODY is an absolute.
There are not �rules� that you need to follow.
The main thing the ascending body seems to want is communication and connection WITH
you, to not be ignored, to not be resisted, to not be battled.
Unhealed unworthiness in the 3D pain body creates a self punishing frequency related
to the body.
Healing this core unworthiness through inner work (such as what we offer in SoulFullHeart
space holding sessions) frees up frequencies of worth to CHOOSE better things for the body
and to create a relationship with it that is based in self love.
Also, connecting with and healing the aspect of you that holds self punishment and self
critical frequencies can hugely shift this process into worthiness-based grounds as well.
Connecting with your ascending body puts you in emotional resonance with it and so what
�happens� to it (all the symptoms of ascension that everyone talks about) are felt and negotiated
and navigated with deep self love, care, and awareness AND with trust in the overall process
as a gift from the Universe.
THE BODY wants to be held with love and to come along into the frequencies of Infinite
Love for which your soul knows and IS.
And it seems as if we get to experiment with this process.
We get to have all the gifts that can come along with it as offered by our newly glowing,
shining, and loved up bodies as the vessel for experiencing it.
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Teleconverter Pros and Cons - Duration: 5:45.
So what do you get when you add a 150-600mm lens with a teleconverter?
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Hi, this is Jay P. Morgan.
Today on The Slanted Lens, we're here at a great swamp in Houston, and we're checking out alligators.
We're taking pictures of alligators with a 150-600mm Tamron lens, and we're gonna check
out and use some teleconverters.
So when I had that 150-600mm Tamron lens in Alaska, I got some great shots, but I always
felt like, I wish I was a little bit closer.
And of course, always, when you're shooting wildlife, you always wish you were a little
closer.
Of course, when we're shooting the grizzly bears, we weren't that excited about being
any closer.
But you want something to get you out there and to bring things in, so we're gonna talk
a little bit about teleconverters.
I've got a 2x here by Tamron, I've got a 1.4 on the camera right now, with that 150-600mm
lens.
Let's talk about the pros and cons of teleconverters.
Let's start off with the pros.
Why do people buy these things?
They buy them because it just simply makes your lens longer.
Two x is gonna give you twice the focal length, 1.4 is gonna give you 40% more focal length.
A second wide reason that people use these things is because of cost.
If I bought an 800mm 5.6 lens, it's gonna be 12, almost $13,000.
It's a huge investment to get into that kind of a lens.
This gives you that millimeter at a much cheaper cost.
One of the last great reasons to use a teleconverter is it doesn't change your minimum focus distance
on your lens.
You'll still be able to focus just as close, whereas a longer lens is gonna have a much
shorter minimum focus distance.
With this 150-600mm, Tamron did a rework on their teleconverter, the 1.4.
It works fabulously on that lens.
It's made for that lens.
They're great on other lenses other than the 150-600mm lens.
They're great on that 70-200.
You put a 1.4 on that 70-200, the 2x will focus on that new second generation 70-200
that Tamron has out.
That gives you a 400mm lens.
So now, let's talk about the downside, the reason that people don't like teleconverters.
And there's several reasons that make these things very difficult to use.
The first and foremost is you do gain in millimeters, you do get closer to your subject, but you
lose a stop for the 1.4 and you lose two stops of exposure for the 2x.
The other is focusing ability or focusing speed.
They autofocus a little slower than your camera will function...your lens will function without
them.
For me, I love looking through the camera, through the lens, and I just love to go in
a still mode, and go to manual.
The 1.4 will autofocus with this second generation 150-600mm lens.
The 2x will not.
This 2x will autofocus with the 70-200 G2 that's coming out by Tamron.
So both of these, the 1.4 and the 2x, you can use with that 70-200mm lens.
Next, you lose image quality.
Now, is it better than cropping?
Yes, absolutely.
Cropping into an image, you're gonna lose a lot of image quality, too, because you're
blowing it up.
And a teleconverter is going to look better than just simply cropping in.
There's absolutely no doubt about that.
But, it does lose some image quality.
It's kind of worth mentioning, I guess, but it's just kind of no-brainer, that because
you're on a longer lens, there's more camera shake.
I can't handhold this thing at 830mms with that 1.4 on there.
I just can't hand hold it.
I can hand hold it at 600.
I feel pretty comfortable doing that, but I gotta really concentrate.
So there's the pros and the cons of teleconverters.
Kind of my summation in shooting these now, for the time that I've had them out here today-I
do like getting the extra millimeters.
I would always have a 1.4 with this 150-600mm lens.
It's absolutely worth carrying.
It's gonna give you a little better reach out there, a little nicer image, and so I'll
have that always in my bag and I will use it.
With that 70-200mm lens, this 2x is a great teleconverter.
It's one that I'd use for sports applications in that time when you wanna get just a little
closer, when you're on courtside.
You know for under $500, to jump from a 200 to a 400mm lens in a sports application will
give you great shots at a really great value.
So let's take a look at some of the images we shot today, first, at the normal 600mms.
Now, here's some with that 1.4 converter at 800 and about 40.
And last of all, we're gonna take a look at 1,200 with the 2x.
So now, I'm gonna blow up the 600mm to be the same size as with that 1.4.
There's those two, side by side.
For me, I think they're absolutely worth the money and something that's worth having in
your kit.
So post some of your images on our Facebook group that you've shot with teleconverters.
I wanna see the work you're doing.
We can talk about it.
We can discuss them, and just kind of learn a bit as a community there.
So go to our Facebook group.
Join that group if you haven't done that.
So this is our little thought on teleconverters, the pros, and cons.
So keep those cameras rolling, and keep on clicking.
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Dragon Ball Super Episode 85 Spoilers "Majin Buu Slim" - Duration: 5:06.
Guys as we wait for Goku and Gohan to test Krillin's strength on Episode 84 we got
some Episode 85 spoilers also some extra bit of information about Episode 84 and 86.
This will just give you a basic idea regarding things that are going to happen in the upcoming
few episodes
Dragon Ball Super Episode 85: "The Universes Get Into Gear: Each One's Thoughts"April
9th While Heading over to The Guardian of Earth
(Dende's) temple to look for android 17, Goku spots Majin Buu.
He ends up sparring with Buu, who's slimmed down after training nonstop for the tournament!
We all know that Android 17 is going to be in the Universe 7 team for the Tournament
of Power.
He became an auto-choice after they decided to include 18, but even though 17 was alive
all these time unlike 18 he was not in touch with the Z fighters.
We did see him in Dragon Ball Z as a park ranger, and you could tell he is a good guy
as we also see him giving his energy for the Spirit Bomb.
So to find out his location they are heading over to Dende's place, and I think alongside
finding 17, they are going to have a small team meeting, and also might seek for some
consultancy from Dende.
Another interesting thing is, Goku and Gohan didn't yet tell anyone about what's at
stake in the tournament, but I think Dende knows it by now as he also holds a godly position.
I wonder if he's going to be the one who will suggest Tien, because they have mentioned
everyone except for Tien till now.
Goku will also spar with Buu, wow this is going to be fun to watch.
You could say a rematch after a long, long time.
However, the last time they fought they were very close in terms of power, and now Goku
is stronger by many folds, but it's interesting to know that Majin Buu has been training hardcore.
I didn't even imagine he would train at all; I wonder what is motivating him to train.
He is the type of guy who enjoys fighting, but he was never established to be the one
to train hard.
I wonder if Mr. Satan is pushing me since everyone's existence is on line.
I like how Majin Buu is like a Pokemon of Satan, and I bet Satan will be there even
during the tournament of power guiding Buu.
What's really shocking is that Buu trained so hard that he even slimmed down, some might
think this could be hinting that he got his Super Buu form, but no that's most likely
not the case.
Lots of logical problems, even if you put that apart that would totally change the character;
so, I j think he is in just a better fighting shape than he was before.
So yeah, Be Hyped to see Majin Buu slim.
Anyways, about Android 17 even though they will be searching for him on Episode 85, it
has been confirmed that Episode 86 will be centered on him.
He might make a last minute appearance in Episode 85 to be continued in the next Episode.
We already know, what's going to happen in 84, thanks to the preview, but we have
something new here.
Dragon Ball Super Episode 84- "Son Goku The Talent Scout: Inviting Krillin and Android
18" April 2nd In order to gather team members for the "tournament
of Power", Goku and Gohan first visit Krillin.
While Krillin agrees to participate, Android 18 refuses, so Goku lies and says there's
a 10 million zenny prize if they win.
All Translation Courtesy- Herms98
What annoys me is that they are hiding that their existence is at stake.
It's 100% illogical; they are going to find out anyway when they go into the tournament
right?
Plus, we need the sense of urgency.
These fighters need to know what they are going to fight for, the responsibility on
their shoulders.
If we know one thing about Dragon Ball, these characters bring the best out of them when
they are in pressure.
What's gonna happen if they tell him now?
Hurt their feelings, make them feel sad?
Well, they can't afford it now, also they are not sensitive 2k17 Snowflakes, they have
been through the toughest of situations.
If they told it already, these type of lies would not be necessary.
Vegeta would agree even if Bulla weren't born.
Most importantly, we have only around 38 hours in hand now, time is money.
If they want to give 100% on their preparation, they should know it right away.
Anyway, I do think everyone will get to know it before the tournament, it could be Mr.
Satan just breaking it in front of everybody, or maybe Goku and Gohan will be bound to tell
to bring the seriousness in him.
I think from a plot point of view; they want to do it after having gathered all the fighters
that is the entire team.
Well, that's about all for now.
What do you think?
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