WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:01.720 Hey, guys, welcome to the Bible Guys. And I don't if 2 00:00:01.720 --> 00:00:04.280 you know this, you guys probably don't mean Jeff know this. Yeah, 3 00:00:04.400 --> 00:00:08.240 we're turning one hundred today. By that would be in 4 00:00:08.240 --> 00:00:11.560 one hundred episodes, one hundred episodes of the Bible Guys. 5 00:00:11.759 --> 00:00:13.800 So we started off a year ago. I mean, we're 6 00:00:13.880 --> 00:00:15.880 right at the one year mark now too. We started 7 00:00:15.919 --> 00:00:18.079 off a year ago HC Daily, We did like one 8 00:00:18.120 --> 00:00:20.960 hundred and fifty episodes, started off with Peter. Yeah, yeah, 9 00:00:21.039 --> 00:00:23.000 and we did like one hundred and fifty episodes with that, 10 00:00:23.399 --> 00:00:26.039 and then now here we are. We switched to eight 11 00:00:26.359 --> 00:00:30.440 to the Bible Guys, and we've done a hundred episodes. 12 00:00:30.519 --> 00:00:32.520 It's just amazing that people keep listening. That's right. I 13 00:00:32.560 --> 00:00:35.280 don't know why. We initially only intended to do just 14 00:00:35.359 --> 00:00:37.520 like how many weeks was that six weeks? Yeah, that's 15 00:00:37.520 --> 00:00:39.880 what that's what it was. And they just won't let 16 00:00:40.000 --> 00:00:42.960 us stop, and they they I think it's Chris. I 17 00:00:42.960 --> 00:00:46.759 think it's Chris Starball. People love a daily dose to Christarball. 18 00:00:46.799 --> 00:00:48.759 That's right. Yeah, yeah, but you've been taking his place 19 00:00:48.759 --> 00:00:52.560 today this week. This week is pretty great. We're great. 20 00:00:52.560 --> 00:00:56.719 It's the voice of Chris, but I'll try my best. Yeah. Well, 21 00:00:56.719 --> 00:00:58.479 he'll be back with us next week, so that's right. 22 00:00:58.600 --> 00:01:01.799 But he decided to blow off the hundredth anniversary. That's right, 23 00:01:01.840 --> 00:01:03.000 one hundredth episode. Yep. 24 00:01:03.119 --> 00:01:05.319 But this is Jeff and I'm Kyle and we're the 25 00:01:05.319 --> 00:01:19.480 Bible guys. Okay, so you did say obviously we're one 26 00:01:19.519 --> 00:01:21.519 hundredth episode. Really excited about that. But I want to 27 00:01:21.920 --> 00:01:23.680 ask for quick so can you just tell I mean, Chris, 28 00:01:23.719 --> 00:01:25.599 he's watching flag football, is what you just told me. 29 00:01:25.719 --> 00:01:28.959 Right, Well, so he had an opportunity, it'll have already 30 00:01:29.000 --> 00:01:31.719 been done by the time. Okay, Yeah, had an opportunity 31 00:01:31.840 --> 00:01:36.200 to go to the NFL Pro Bowl. Yeah, and this 32 00:01:36.280 --> 00:01:39.239 year the Pro Bowl is flag football. They're not playing 33 00:01:39.239 --> 00:01:41.760 full contact. Yes, so too many people get hurt in 34 00:01:41.760 --> 00:01:43.280 the Pro Bowl and all that kind of stuff. 35 00:01:43.280 --> 00:01:45.040 So, you know, because it's easy to make fun of 36 00:01:45.159 --> 00:01:46.640 because he's not here, actually, just take a moment. 37 00:01:46.680 --> 00:01:48.480 I mean, what do we like about Chris? What do 38 00:01:48.519 --> 00:01:49.599 you enjoy about Chris? 39 00:01:54.599 --> 00:01:56.359 That's gonna be like, hey, and after we'll just put 40 00:01:56.400 --> 00:01:57.920 ten minutes later and then he'll. 41 00:01:57.799 --> 00:02:00.760 Be like whatever comes down. Chris like a brother to me. 42 00:02:00.840 --> 00:02:03.159 He really is we have so many things in common. 43 00:02:03.840 --> 00:02:07.519 I love his passion. He's passionate about everything. Yeah, everything whatever, 44 00:02:08.080 --> 00:02:09.000 are the worst man? 45 00:02:09.080 --> 00:02:10.560 Well, we knew when we started to come up with the 46 00:02:10.560 --> 00:02:12.439 idea of this podcast, especially the Bible guys. 47 00:02:12.479 --> 00:02:14.560 We have this bit what is what is Chris? What 48 00:02:14.599 --> 00:02:14.960 make Chris? 49 00:02:15.759 --> 00:02:18.199 And we're talking about ideas for brainstorming. It took me 50 00:02:18.199 --> 00:02:20.039 two seconds come up with that idea. I was like, Oh, 51 00:02:20.199 --> 00:02:22.039 I just know because when you're around Chris, we didn't 52 00:02:22.039 --> 00:02:23.919 realize he has very strong opinions about. 53 00:02:23.719 --> 00:02:25.759 A lot of things. Yeah, and so, and it's his passion. 54 00:02:25.879 --> 00:02:29.360 His enthusiasms are great. I think he has a great perspective. 55 00:02:29.479 --> 00:02:32.080 And personally, Chris is one of my favorite Bible teachers. 56 00:02:32.599 --> 00:02:34.439 I love when he speaks on the weekends and all 57 00:02:34.479 --> 00:02:35.039 that kind of stuff. 58 00:02:35.039 --> 00:02:36.240 So yeah, and it's one of those things too, I 59 00:02:36.280 --> 00:02:38.360 would say, sometimes when you get around people who teach 60 00:02:38.400 --> 00:02:41.120 a Bible so often, you know it's it's just one 61 00:02:41.120 --> 00:02:42.479 of those things you wonder how much of it's just 62 00:02:42.560 --> 00:02:44.840 rehearsed or whatever. And you and I both know Chris 63 00:02:45.240 --> 00:02:47.560 loves Jesus, and I think that's a great compliment to 64 00:02:47.639 --> 00:02:50.080 somebody who's out there doing misery. He loves Jesus, you. 65 00:02:50.120 --> 00:02:52.240 Know, and we on purpose in this podcast, we don't 66 00:02:52.280 --> 00:02:55.639 rehearse these it's conversational, right. We we wanted to be 67 00:02:55.879 --> 00:02:59.560 a couple of guys talking about the Bible and fun 68 00:02:59.639 --> 00:03:02.120 and practical ways, right, and honestly, you all to do 69 00:03:02.199 --> 00:03:03.560 a great job because I think you can. 70 00:03:03.719 --> 00:03:05.560 You you you know, this is this is now. You 71 00:03:05.639 --> 00:03:07.680 are somebody who owns it. You love it, you have 72 00:03:07.759 --> 00:03:09.639 so much insight. And then he also he can take 73 00:03:09.719 --> 00:03:12.000 anything you say. And oh I got a story about that. 74 00:03:12.080 --> 00:03:14.039 Yeah, so it was nineteen eighty eight. You're like, how 75 00:03:14.120 --> 00:03:15.639 do you man? That's crazy? 76 00:03:15.719 --> 00:03:17.639 Okay, So anyways, getting back to it, Okay, I want 77 00:03:17.639 --> 00:03:20.000 to just share a couple of social media shoutouts because 78 00:03:20.240 --> 00:03:22.439 one hundredth episode I want to share. Yeah, you know, 79 00:03:22.479 --> 00:03:23.919 a couple of things people had to say. So there's 80 00:03:23.919 --> 00:03:26.520 somebody named kim B. Whoever she is, kim B. She 81 00:03:26.680 --> 00:03:29.520 said one g Oh my gosh, I love you guys 82 00:03:29.599 --> 00:03:32.000 so much. I haven't missed an episode. 83 00:03:31.599 --> 00:03:33.840 Yet and you're the highlight of my day. Oh wow, 84 00:03:34.719 --> 00:03:37.840 one hundred episodes. So kim kim B, kim B, let's 85 00:03:37.840 --> 00:03:40.800 help je out. Yeah, that's great. And then Deborah said's 86 00:03:40.840 --> 00:03:44.439 incredible love today's podcast. It was very enlightening. You put 87 00:03:44.479 --> 00:03:48.319 me in check and I needed it, thank you. Yeah, okay, well, 88 00:03:48.360 --> 00:03:50.479 we don't want to hurt people, but we want to 89 00:03:50.520 --> 00:03:54.120 help people. Sometimes friends have to call each other out, 90 00:03:54.159 --> 00:03:54.520 that's right. 91 00:03:54.560 --> 00:03:56.879 And then somebody recently, I think it was last week, said, uh, 92 00:03:57.360 --> 00:03:59.400 today was it was all caps, by the way, so 93 00:03:59.479 --> 00:04:02.840 you know that they meant it today was really really great. 94 00:04:03.039 --> 00:04:05.560 I needed this. Oh good, Yes, that that was awesome. 95 00:04:05.639 --> 00:04:08.000 Well good. So those are the three compliments that we've 96 00:04:08.039 --> 00:04:11.479 had in these first hundred episode. We hope we get 97 00:04:11.520 --> 00:04:13.680 three more compliments in the next time. Says three of 98 00:04:13.840 --> 00:04:18.439 I'm sure many don't recall any of them. No, that's great, 99 00:04:18.480 --> 00:04:21.720 all right. Hey, we wouldn't do this if people weren't listening. 100 00:04:21.839 --> 00:04:22.000 Huh. 101 00:04:23.000 --> 00:04:25.600 So both Chris and I are plenty busy. We're not 102 00:04:25.680 --> 00:04:27.839 looking for something to fill our time, but we do 103 00:04:27.920 --> 00:04:31.160 it because people are listening. And you know, it's really 104 00:04:31.240 --> 00:04:33.160 cool that we get to do this with you. It's 105 00:04:33.199 --> 00:04:34.639 really cool that we could to spend you know, twenty 106 00:04:34.720 --> 00:04:37.439 minutes a day or so and just look at what 107 00:04:37.519 --> 00:04:40.399 the Bible has to say, and it's just amazing how 108 00:04:40.519 --> 00:04:43.600 many people say things like that. It's funny to me. 109 00:04:44.439 --> 00:04:47.519 We went out to dinner a while back, walk into 110 00:04:47.519 --> 00:04:49.560 a restaurant and this nine year old girl come up 111 00:04:49.560 --> 00:04:53.319 and told me, Hey, you're Jeff. You're from the Bible Guys. 112 00:04:53.399 --> 00:04:55.279 You've been watching it slimes you doesn't go to Heredi's church, 113 00:04:55.360 --> 00:04:57.720 but recognize this. Her and her mom been attention to 114 00:04:57.759 --> 00:05:00.360 Bible guys. So it's just fun. It's fun that we 115 00:05:00.439 --> 00:05:03.519 get to do it together. And it's incredibly incredibly humbling 116 00:05:03.600 --> 00:05:03.800 to me. 117 00:05:03.879 --> 00:05:06.639 That people listen and keep It's funny because we're one 118 00:05:06.639 --> 00:05:07.920 of the things we're doing with our church that we're 119 00:05:08.000 --> 00:05:10.000 part of. We're doing an event anyways. We're giving away 120 00:05:10.120 --> 00:05:17.040 a couple of bobbleheads, the bobble Guys, the bobble Guys, Bibbleheads. 121 00:05:17.079 --> 00:05:18.920 We got some shirts stuff and that maybe something we 122 00:05:19.000 --> 00:05:20.439 ended up having to start a store. If we get this, 123 00:05:20.600 --> 00:05:22.120 if we get people like this who are saying today 124 00:05:22.279 --> 00:05:24.560 was really really great. I needed this, maybe they'd want. 125 00:05:24.439 --> 00:05:28.519 To buy a shirt. Maybe, so talk about that. That's 126 00:05:28.600 --> 00:05:30.639 that's that's in a connect night. It's actually happening when 127 00:05:30.680 --> 00:05:33.120 this is being filmed. It'd be the night of so if. 128 00:05:32.959 --> 00:05:35.639 You haven't gotten tickets yet, I can't guarantee that there 129 00:05:35.639 --> 00:05:37.800 are spots available, but here too church dot com. And 130 00:05:37.839 --> 00:05:40.120 it's a whole event that is designed to really highlight 131 00:05:40.199 --> 00:05:42.240 some of the really cool ways that tonight, Yes, tonight 132 00:05:42.839 --> 00:05:44.680 in Sterling Heights and won in MLA City as well. 133 00:05:45.000 --> 00:05:46.879 So if people want to tend, they still can, it's 134 00:05:47.160 --> 00:05:48.720 depending on whether tickets are available. 135 00:05:48.959 --> 00:05:49.839 Seven to eight thirty. 136 00:05:49.959 --> 00:05:51.480 And just in one of the really cool things we're doing, 137 00:05:51.519 --> 00:05:54.800 we're doing a live u uh you know, airing of 138 00:05:54.879 --> 00:05:57.199 this show right in front of people, guys live. 139 00:05:57.160 --> 00:05:59.959 The Bibble Guys Live featuring the Bobble Guys. There's a game, 140 00:06:00.519 --> 00:06:02.079 there's and you know, there's a lot to it to 141 00:06:02.240 --> 00:06:02.480 be great. 142 00:06:02.759 --> 00:06:06.959 Give me about it, all right, So going to chapter ten, 143 00:06:07.040 --> 00:06:08.680 and if you could just give a little context to 144 00:06:08.879 --> 00:06:10.759 you know, for anybody's maybe just coming. 145 00:06:10.600 --> 00:06:13.079 In on this Friday listening. Y. Yeah, So Romans Chapter 146 00:06:13.160 --> 00:06:16.279 ten is kind of now he you know, he pushes 147 00:06:16.360 --> 00:06:18.439 with an idea and then he kind of summarizes the 148 00:06:18.519 --> 00:06:21.079 idea and it culminates in a big statement. Then he 149 00:06:21.160 --> 00:06:23.199 pushes for a while and then comes with another big statement. 150 00:06:23.480 --> 00:06:26.240 Chapter ten is the big statement for the last couple 151 00:06:26.279 --> 00:06:28.879 of chapters. So nothing will ever separate us from the 152 00:06:28.920 --> 00:06:30.920 love of God. Even though you know, I feel like 153 00:06:30.959 --> 00:06:32.160 I can't do what I want to do, and I 154 00:06:32.240 --> 00:06:34.759 do the things I don't want to do, Nothing's gonna 155 00:06:35.040 --> 00:06:37.480 separate me from God's love. Then he goes into God's 156 00:06:37.839 --> 00:06:40.839 election and God's choice and that God is fair and 157 00:06:40.920 --> 00:06:43.079 that we shouldn't judge God on how he does things. 158 00:06:43.319 --> 00:06:45.879 And then finally he comes to this point where he 159 00:06:46.000 --> 00:06:48.759 has said in the previous chapter, I'm willing to go 160 00:06:48.839 --> 00:06:51.399 to hell in order for my countrymen to come to 161 00:06:51.480 --> 00:06:54.040 faith in Christ. And he picks back up with that idea, 162 00:06:54.439 --> 00:06:57.639 and now he really drives how does the gospel work. 163 00:06:58.040 --> 00:07:01.560 He's kind of clarifying for people how the gospel actually works, 164 00:07:01.639 --> 00:07:05.079 because in chapter nine, the whole purpose of chapter nine 165 00:07:05.399 --> 00:07:07.240 was to say a lot of people think they're on 166 00:07:07.319 --> 00:07:09.079 their way to heaven just because they come from a 167 00:07:09.160 --> 00:07:11.720 certain family group. It's that's not true. Let me tell 168 00:07:11.720 --> 00:07:13.560 you how the gospel really works. And that's what chapter 169 00:07:13.639 --> 00:07:13.839 ten is. 170 00:07:14.199 --> 00:07:17.279 I'm excited, all right, your brothers and sisters, the long 171 00:07:17.279 --> 00:07:19.279 give in my heart and my prayer to God is 172 00:07:19.360 --> 00:07:20.639 for the people of Israel. 173 00:07:20.759 --> 00:07:21.360 To be saved. 174 00:07:22.000 --> 00:07:25.439 I know what enthusiasm they have for God, but it 175 00:07:25.560 --> 00:07:29.120 is misdirected zeal. They don't understand God's way of making 176 00:07:29.160 --> 00:07:32.800 people write with himself. Refusing to accept God's way, they 177 00:07:32.879 --> 00:07:35.040 cling to their own way of getting right with God 178 00:07:35.160 --> 00:07:37.800 by trying to keep the law. For Christ has already 179 00:07:37.800 --> 00:07:40.759 accomplished the purpose for which the law was given. As 180 00:07:40.800 --> 00:07:43.040 a result, all who believe in him are made right 181 00:07:43.160 --> 00:07:46.279 with God. For Moses writes that the law's way of 182 00:07:46.360 --> 00:07:48.879 making a person right with God requires obedience to all 183 00:07:48.959 --> 00:07:52.000 of its commands. But faith's way of getting right with 184 00:07:52.079 --> 00:07:55.560 God says, don't say in your heart who will go 185 00:07:55.680 --> 00:07:58.720 up to heaven to bring Christ down to earth? And 186 00:07:58.879 --> 00:08:00.519 don't say who will go down to the place of 187 00:08:00.560 --> 00:08:02.759 the dead to bring Christ back to life again. In fact, 188 00:08:02.800 --> 00:08:05.920 it says, the message is very close at hand. It 189 00:08:06.040 --> 00:08:08.680 is on your lips and in your heart. And that 190 00:08:08.839 --> 00:08:11.319 message is the very message about faith that we preach, 191 00:08:12.000 --> 00:08:14.600 which is simply this. If you openly declare that Jesus Lord, 192 00:08:14.680 --> 00:08:16.680 and believe in your heart that God raise him from 193 00:08:16.680 --> 00:08:19.639 the dead, you will be saved. Or it is by 194 00:08:19.720 --> 00:08:21.920 believing your heart that you are made right with God. 195 00:08:22.160 --> 00:08:24.720 And it is by openly declaring your faith that you 196 00:08:24.800 --> 00:08:28.279 are saved. As the scriptures tell us, anyone who trusts 197 00:08:28.279 --> 00:08:31.000 in him will never be disgraced. You and gentile are 198 00:08:31.040 --> 00:08:34.000 the same in that respect. They have the same Lord 199 00:08:34.200 --> 00:08:37.120 who gives generously to all who call on him, or 200 00:08:37.639 --> 00:08:39.879 everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will 201 00:08:39.960 --> 00:08:42.000 be saved. But how can they call on him to 202 00:08:42.240 --> 00:08:45.039 save them unless they believe in him? And how can 203 00:08:45.120 --> 00:08:47.399 they believe in him if they have never heard about him? 204 00:08:47.720 --> 00:08:50.159 And how can they hear about him unless someone tells them? 205 00:08:50.799 --> 00:08:53.559 And how will anyone go and tell them without being sent? 206 00:08:54.000 --> 00:08:56.679 That is why the scriptures say, how beautiful are the 207 00:08:56.720 --> 00:08:58.960 feet of messengers who bring good news? 208 00:09:00.000 --> 00:09:01.159 Everyone welcomes the good news. 209 00:09:01.200 --> 00:09:04.799 For Isaiah, the prophet said, Lord, who has believed our message? 210 00:09:05.159 --> 00:09:07.679 So faith comes from hearing, that is, hearing the good 211 00:09:07.799 --> 00:09:11.039 news about Christ. That's the final partneryeah, yeah, yeah, that section. 212 00:09:11.159 --> 00:09:12.440 So then he goes on. He has a few more 213 00:09:12.519 --> 00:09:15.600 verses about talking about how God exposed the people of 214 00:09:15.679 --> 00:09:18.000 Israel to the Gospel, But that's the big summary there. 215 00:09:18.720 --> 00:09:21.960 So what a powerful passage, Because have you ever had 216 00:09:22.039 --> 00:09:25.000 somebody ask you, so, Kyle, how do I go to heaven, 217 00:09:25.200 --> 00:09:27.120 how do I become a Christian all the time. Maybe 218 00:09:27.600 --> 00:09:29.720 one of the best passages in the Bible is right here, 219 00:09:30.519 --> 00:09:33.720 you know, verse eight. It says, the message is very 220 00:09:33.759 --> 00:09:35.480 close at hand, it's on your lips and in your heart. 221 00:09:36.000 --> 00:09:39.080 And he said, that message is very message about faith 222 00:09:39.120 --> 00:09:41.879 that we preach. If you openly declare that Jesus is 223 00:09:41.919 --> 00:09:43.919 the Lord and believe in your heart that God raised 224 00:09:44.000 --> 00:09:46.840 him from the dead, you will be saved. And then 225 00:09:46.840 --> 00:09:50.240 he goes into he unpacks why that is. Believing in 226 00:09:50.360 --> 00:09:52.919 your heart is how you're made right with God. And 227 00:09:53.039 --> 00:09:57.480 by declaring your faith, you're saved. And then he says, 228 00:09:57.519 --> 00:09:59.639 there's no difference between Jewish and Gentile in this respect. 229 00:10:00.120 --> 00:10:03.320 So remember the previous chapter was all about how the 230 00:10:03.399 --> 00:10:04.679 Jews said, oh no, we get to have it in 231 00:10:04.720 --> 00:10:07.440 a different way, and the Gentiles can't even go to heaven. 232 00:10:07.519 --> 00:10:09.799 He goes, no, that's not one way, right. There's all 233 00:10:09.919 --> 00:10:11.919 kinds of sons of Abraham and only a few when 234 00:10:12.360 --> 00:10:14.759 you know, we're made right with God or were chosen. 235 00:10:14.840 --> 00:10:17.639 So in this aspect now, he said, even in the 236 00:10:17.919 --> 00:10:20.000 and we didn't really highlight this yesterday. To be honest 237 00:10:20.000 --> 00:10:23.240 with you, but in verse thirty in chapter nine Yesterday, 238 00:10:23.600 --> 00:10:25.279 he says, what does this all mean? And then he said, 239 00:10:25.279 --> 00:10:27.559 even though the gentiles were not trying to follow God's standards, 240 00:10:27.759 --> 00:10:31.480 they're made right with God by faith right. So whether 241 00:10:31.600 --> 00:10:34.200 you're a Jew or a Gentile, you're both made right. 242 00:10:34.399 --> 00:10:36.600 Not based on what family you came from or the 243 00:10:36.679 --> 00:10:39.799 background you have. You're made right with God by faith alone. 244 00:10:40.039 --> 00:10:43.120 Faith alone. So you declare with your mouth, and you 245 00:10:43.279 --> 00:10:46.320 believe in your heart that Christ is raised from the dead. 246 00:10:46.559 --> 00:10:48.840 When you declare with your mouth that Jesus's Lord, what 247 00:10:48.919 --> 00:10:51.480 you're saying is Jesus, you're the king. I'm not the king. 248 00:10:51.840 --> 00:10:55.879 You're surrendering. You're surrendering your sin, You're surrendering your own agenda, 249 00:10:56.200 --> 00:10:59.240 You're surrendering your own identity to Christ. And say, now, 250 00:10:59.399 --> 00:11:01.399 I'm not the king in my life. You're the king. 251 00:11:01.559 --> 00:11:02.919 Yes. And one of things I would say too, is 252 00:11:03.000 --> 00:11:04.879 and that's a faith element we do talk often, even 253 00:11:04.879 --> 00:11:06.559 about like the Romans Road, which is kind of like 254 00:11:06.639 --> 00:11:08.720 the Gospel. It's the good news. It's the fact that 255 00:11:08.799 --> 00:11:11.080 we're sinners, we're saved by grace. But this is one 256 00:11:11.120 --> 00:11:12.480 part of it. This is this verse nine here and 257 00:11:12.519 --> 00:11:14.639 I think I would just encourage people to this could 258 00:11:14.639 --> 00:11:16.879 be a verse to even like memorize. Right right now, 259 00:11:17.639 --> 00:11:19.480 you openly declared that Jesus Lord, believe in your heart 260 00:11:19.759 --> 00:11:21.639 that God raised from the dead, you'll be saved. That's 261 00:11:21.679 --> 00:11:23.840 something that like when it comes to that question you said, 262 00:11:23.840 --> 00:11:26.200 how many people ask that question? We should be ready 263 00:11:26.279 --> 00:11:27.639 to give an account for the hope that we have, 264 00:11:28.159 --> 00:11:30.159 really be ready to share. And it's in these types 265 00:11:30.200 --> 00:11:31.840 of when you when you know this, when this is 266 00:11:31.840 --> 00:11:34.080 written on your heart, and you give an account of 267 00:11:34.519 --> 00:11:36.440 why you're saved and what salvation looks like. We should 268 00:11:36.440 --> 00:11:38.159 be able to share this with people because we live 269 00:11:38.200 --> 00:11:41.279 in a day and age where we're kind of post 270 00:11:41.399 --> 00:11:44.159 biblical truth, right, and so people they just don't understand 271 00:11:44.200 --> 00:11:45.919 these things. So we have to remember that this is 272 00:11:46.000 --> 00:11:48.159 kind of a foundational statement for those of us who 273 00:11:48.200 --> 00:11:51.120 call ourselves Christians to the Gospel to declare He's Lord 274 00:11:51.480 --> 00:11:53.039 and that he was raised from the dead. 275 00:11:53.120 --> 00:11:55.799 That's how you're saved. So yeah, and then verse thirteen 276 00:11:55.879 --> 00:11:58.399 says everyone who calls them the name of Lord will 277 00:11:58.399 --> 00:12:01.159 be saved. Right, So he's talking whether Jew or gentile, 278 00:12:01.360 --> 00:12:03.879 no matter what your background is, no matter what you've done, 279 00:12:04.279 --> 00:12:06.320 no matter how far from God you feel like you are. 280 00:12:06.840 --> 00:12:09.960 Everyone who says Jesus, I want you to be the King, 281 00:12:10.039 --> 00:12:12.240 the Lord of my life. And I believe that you 282 00:12:12.320 --> 00:12:14.240 paid the price on the cross and you rose again 283 00:12:15.039 --> 00:12:18.360 to be able to forgive my sin. That's enough. And 284 00:12:18.600 --> 00:12:20.559 everyone who calls them the name of the Lord in 285 00:12:20.600 --> 00:12:24.559 that way will be saved. But isn't that too simple? Well, 286 00:12:24.639 --> 00:12:27.200 it's simple for us, it's not simple for God. It's 287 00:12:27.240 --> 00:12:29.840 incredibly complex. It's so complex that for those that have 288 00:12:29.919 --> 00:12:31.799 been following with us all the way through the Book 289 00:12:31.840 --> 00:12:35.080 of Romans, you go, this book's really complex. The whole 290 00:12:35.120 --> 00:12:37.240 book was to get us to this point right here, right, 291 00:12:37.679 --> 00:12:39.679 and then from this point on he pivots. He talks 292 00:12:39.679 --> 00:12:41.840 a little bit about Israel, and then from chapter twelve 293 00:12:41.879 --> 00:12:43.200 on he just talks about what it means to live 294 00:12:43.200 --> 00:12:43.799 as a Christian. 295 00:12:43.919 --> 00:12:44.120 Yeah. 296 00:12:44.279 --> 00:12:49.120 Right, So this is the culmination of this very complex 297 00:12:49.200 --> 00:12:54.000 Book of Romans. And so, yeah, salvation is very complex. 298 00:12:54.080 --> 00:12:58.039 For God. He had to overcome the fact that he said, 299 00:12:58.120 --> 00:13:01.879 if you sin, you die, and so he's just God's 300 00:13:01.919 --> 00:13:04.399 a just God. We do sin. We did die. We 301 00:13:04.519 --> 00:13:08.120 died spiritually, we die physically, this world is broken. And 302 00:13:08.320 --> 00:13:11.480 then God began this narrative. He began this storyline through 303 00:13:11.639 --> 00:13:15.399 Abraham's family, promising to send the Messiah to solve this 304 00:13:15.679 --> 00:13:19.480 sin problem. And over thousands of years he taught us 305 00:13:19.559 --> 00:13:23.320 the idea sacrifice, the innocent dies for the guilty, all 306 00:13:23.360 --> 00:13:27.360 these things, and finally he gets to Jesus and orchestrates 307 00:13:27.480 --> 00:13:31.879 all the extraordinary details where God himself winds up becoming 308 00:13:31.919 --> 00:13:35.120 the solution for our sin. It's incredibly complex, fam It's not. 309 00:13:35.240 --> 00:13:37.799 It's easy for us. It's Jesus, I do want you 310 00:13:37.879 --> 00:13:40.600 to be my king, and Jesus, I do believe that 311 00:13:40.720 --> 00:13:42.279 you died and rose again for my to pay the 312 00:13:42.320 --> 00:13:44.200 price for my sins. That's easy for me, it is, 313 00:13:44.559 --> 00:13:47.360 but it's hard for God. Absolutely incredibly complex. 314 00:13:47.399 --> 00:13:48.799 But that's the hard part is I think so many 315 00:13:48.840 --> 00:13:51.240 people they want to know because everything else in life 316 00:13:51.320 --> 00:13:53.480 to become a member of something, to become you know, 317 00:13:53.759 --> 00:13:56.240 a a an elite club or a status. So we 318 00:13:56.279 --> 00:13:58.759 talked earlier about delta, Right, you have to do this 319 00:13:58.919 --> 00:14:00.399 and get the great points, and it's like it's all 320 00:14:00.440 --> 00:14:02.360 about all the things right, and you can you can 321 00:14:02.440 --> 00:14:04.039 kind of say, look what I've done. Look what I've done. 322 00:14:04.039 --> 00:14:05.559 I've gotten to the status because of all the things 323 00:14:05.559 --> 00:14:07.600 I've done, And here he's like, no, no, just everyone 324 00:14:07.639 --> 00:14:09.480 who believes in the name of the Lord will be 325 00:14:09.559 --> 00:14:12.039 saying like it's like it's certain, Like wait, that's is 326 00:14:12.080 --> 00:14:13.440 there more to it? Is? There? 327 00:14:13.600 --> 00:14:15.639 Is there like a there a loopholes or an asterisk? 328 00:14:15.639 --> 00:14:16.480 Are they going to charge me a? 329 00:14:17.159 --> 00:14:18.639 Am I going to get charge a late fee? Like 330 00:14:18.679 --> 00:14:20.080 there's all those things you want to know about. And 331 00:14:20.120 --> 00:14:21.879 I just find it really cool and I agree with you. 332 00:14:21.960 --> 00:14:23.799 I love that he's kind of bringing things to kind 333 00:14:23.840 --> 00:14:26.559 of a conclusion. Others there's so much more that he's 334 00:14:26.559 --> 00:14:27.960 still going to talk about, but I like that this 335 00:14:28.080 --> 00:14:29.480 is kind of where it's going to and what he's 336 00:14:29.480 --> 00:14:30.000 been talking about. 337 00:14:30.240 --> 00:14:35.639 Yeah, these these first eleven chapters are are so intense 338 00:14:36.279 --> 00:14:41.600 because he's unpacking the Jewish side of Christianity, the Jewish 339 00:14:41.679 --> 00:14:44.440 side of the promise of the Messiah, is unpacking that, 340 00:14:44.759 --> 00:14:48.240 unraveling it from a gentile perspective. This is written to 341 00:14:48.440 --> 00:14:51.559 Jews in Rome that he hadn't met yet, and so 342 00:14:51.759 --> 00:14:56.000 this is a pretty pretty complex book, but it all 343 00:14:56.080 --> 00:14:59.600 boils down to this passage here that essentially salvation is 344 00:14:59.639 --> 00:15:03.200 by fai right, it's by faith. It's not your lineage, 345 00:15:03.559 --> 00:15:05.840 it's not your behavior. Those are the two big things 346 00:15:05.879 --> 00:15:08.200 he's fighting because they believe, well, we behave in a 347 00:15:08.279 --> 00:15:10.159 certain way. I keep all the rules. So if I 348 00:15:10.279 --> 00:15:12.440 keep the law, I get to go to heaven. Or well, 349 00:15:12.480 --> 00:15:14.120 I get to go to heaven because I was born 350 00:15:14.159 --> 00:15:16.440 into the right family, and he goes. Neither of those 351 00:15:16.480 --> 00:15:19.279 are true. And by the way, the Gospels available for everybody, 352 00:15:19.360 --> 00:15:24.200 for Jews and gentiles, and it's the same way anybody 353 00:15:24.240 --> 00:15:27.720 who makes it to heaven, that we all will only 354 00:15:27.879 --> 00:15:31.799 make it the same way, and that is through Jesus Christ. 355 00:15:31.960 --> 00:15:33.639 You know, you ever hear the phrase the ground is 356 00:15:33.720 --> 00:15:37.519 level at the cross, right, and meaning there's none of 357 00:15:37.600 --> 00:15:39.639 us coming in higher, none of us coming in lower. 358 00:15:40.039 --> 00:15:41.519 We all come in at the foot of the cross 359 00:15:41.600 --> 00:15:44.919 the same way, and that Jesus. So really, what Paul 360 00:15:45.279 --> 00:15:49.279 shows us here is that our response to what Jesus 361 00:15:49.399 --> 00:15:53.639 did in faith saves us. But Jesus is the hero 362 00:15:53.799 --> 00:15:57.399 of the whole story. Right, Jesus did it all. Jesus 363 00:15:57.440 --> 00:15:59.200 made it all happen. And then we know the Holy 364 00:15:59.240 --> 00:16:03.000 Spirit draws us to him. Even that is not of ourselves. 365 00:16:03.360 --> 00:16:06.759 It's God's spirit drawing us to him that makes that possible, 366 00:16:07.159 --> 00:16:10.879 and so it makes him the hero and we only 367 00:16:11.080 --> 00:16:11.960 have to respond to this. 368 00:16:12.360 --> 00:16:14.240 So let me ask you this real quick. Because we 369 00:16:14.279 --> 00:16:15.840 read this and we see this good news, you know, 370 00:16:15.879 --> 00:16:18.080 we can kind of read this. This is but when 371 00:16:18.120 --> 00:16:22.639 he's writing this, this is extremely controversial, extremely. 372 00:16:22.200 --> 00:16:25.559 So why is it they wanted to kill him over it? Exactly? Exactly? 373 00:16:25.679 --> 00:16:28.639 So what about this this message you think is the 374 00:16:28.679 --> 00:16:31.279 part that really just I mean to the Jews, the 375 00:16:31.600 --> 00:16:32.519 what was the part about this that. 376 00:16:32.519 --> 00:16:35.039 Were so controversial? We all tend to get very rooted 377 00:16:35.080 --> 00:16:37.799 in the things that our culture tells us is true 378 00:16:37.840 --> 00:16:41.279 and right. We've decided that this is the right way, 379 00:16:41.679 --> 00:16:44.559 and we can't tolerate somebody to tell us something different. 380 00:16:44.879 --> 00:16:48.039 So they had become so convinced that their opinions about 381 00:16:48.080 --> 00:16:52.320 God and their belief system around their laws was the 382 00:16:52.480 --> 00:16:55.919 only way that they could not see that all of 383 00:16:56.039 --> 00:17:00.559 those things were only pointing to God's solution. So the 384 00:17:00.639 --> 00:17:02.919 law was to show you you can't be perfect, and 385 00:17:03.080 --> 00:17:06.119 quite honestly, every Jew would know secretly in the heart 386 00:17:06.119 --> 00:17:09.200 they're not person. So then they'd find all these mental 387 00:17:09.839 --> 00:17:11.839 hurdles to jump through or hoops to jump through to 388 00:17:11.920 --> 00:17:14.359 kind of justify why they did what they did or 389 00:17:14.359 --> 00:17:16.839 whatever to forgive themselves. But they all knew that they 390 00:17:16.880 --> 00:17:19.799 were guilty of sin. So that's what he's pointing out. 391 00:17:19.839 --> 00:17:23.119 He's really he's kind of touching that nerve, picking that nerve, right, 392 00:17:23.480 --> 00:17:25.400 and then he says, but the good news is Jesus 393 00:17:25.440 --> 00:17:28.880 paid the price. The problem was they had killed Jesus, 394 00:17:29.480 --> 00:17:32.400 and so there's this issue of what do we do 395 00:17:32.519 --> 00:17:36.880 with that, how do we justify putting our faith in 396 00:17:37.000 --> 00:17:40.319 the guy that we killed? So the extent you have 397 00:17:40.400 --> 00:17:43.039 to basically admit that it was all. Yeah, he's writing 398 00:17:43.119 --> 00:17:46.039 to Romans, yep, so the Romans are guilty. He's writing 399 00:17:46.079 --> 00:17:49.759 to the Jews in Rome, and so basically all of humanity. 400 00:17:50.079 --> 00:17:53.079 He's representing the Jews and the Gentiles. You're both standing 401 00:17:53.119 --> 00:17:55.599