62 - Les Feldick Bible Study Lesson 1 - Part 2 - Book 6 - Calling Out a People for His Name

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com LESSON 1 * PART 2 * BOOK 6 CALLING OUT A PEOPLE FOR HIS NAME Turn to Romans Chapter 6. God's calling out a people for His name, the Body of Christ. God will pick up where He left off with the Nation of Israel. It is an act of God. Verse 14: Romans 6:14 "For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace." The word 'sin' in Romans, unless the text clearly says otherwise, speaks of the old Adamic nature. That old sin nature that we're born with. In verse 14: "For sin (that old Adamic nature) shall not have dominion (control or reigning rule) over you: for ye are not under the law,..." Grace!). Few comprehend the Grace of God. Most people understand the definition to be unmerited favor. By Grace! Alright, read it again: "...ye are not under the law, but under grace." Now, go back to Romans Chapter 3. It was Jew only, His Covenant people. In other words, what did God do with the Jew? Romans 3:9 Now Paul is speaking of the Jew. Are we Jews better than they (Gentiles)? As all under sin. Romans 3:1,2 Much every way: chiefly (or primarily), because that unto them (the Jewish people; the Nation of Israel) were committed the oracles (Word)of God." God gave them the priesthood, the worship, the civil law, the whole system of law. There's no difference. Romans 3:11 Now, what did Jesus say back in John's Gospel, Chapter 3, verse 19? Now verses 19 and 20 - here are some choice verses: Romans 3:19 Jew and who?... It wasn't just the Jew who was condemned because he used God's name in vain, or gossiped or anything that the Law forbade. guilty...." If I could just get more people to understand! The Law can do nothing but condemn. That's all the Law can do. It can't save anybody! Romans 3:20 "Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin." Romans 3:21 "But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;...." The flip side is now the righteousness of God without the Law. We have to put the Law aside. Paul, himself, says that all Scripture is inspired of God and is profitable. Unique to Paul's writings, however, are these doctrines of Grace. That shocks people! Just analyze the Scripture. You can't find one word of what we would call the Gospel. Paul's Gospel! You take Paul's Gospel - that Christ died for our sins, was buried and rose again - and bring that into John 3:16. How much would anybody get of the Gospel out of Isaiah 53 if we didn't have the knowledge of Paul's Gospel? Nothing! Romans 3:22 "Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:" This 'righteousness' that he makes reference to in verse 21; this "...righteousness of God which is by faith (not faith plus ... not faith and.... - then, The Bible says, God moves in and makes that person a child of His and puts them into the Body of Christ. That's how we get into the Body of Christ, by our Salvation. Jew and Gentile. Romans 3:23,24 "For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God:" I call this the very first step of faith in our Salvation process. "...all have sinned, and come short...." God says none of us can be, or will be. Then verse 24: "Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:" "Being justified...." Justification is that judicial act of God. Justification is when God, The Judge, judicially declares the sinner (that person who recognizes that they are undone and are under the control of old Adam) to be just as if he had never sinned. Even after we've been justified, we still are prone to fall and sin, yet what does God tell us? Never! Our sins are forgiven. Our sins are buried in the deepest sea and God has put up a sign which says, "No Fishing!" Let's continue in verse 24: "...freely (without a cause...and how did God do it?) When did God lose the human race? When Adam sinned. We're all in Adam, remember? It was there God lost us. The word redemption here, especially in Romans, goes back to the Roman slave market in particular, for a beautiful illustration. The Greek word is Agorazo. We're not going to be concerned with that word so much, but we're talking about a slave market. Just like in today's stock market, there were certain terms back then that applied only to the slave market. Well, the Romans could actually do that with slaves. This young man has never lived so sumptuously, although he is a slave. You are a Roman citizen." You bought me out of that awful slave market. #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible