795 - Les Feldick Bible Study - Lesson 1 Part 3 Book 67 - But God! (Where Sin Abounded) - Part 3

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 1 * PART 3 * BOOK 67 BUT GOD! (Where Sin Abounded) – Part 3 Rom. 5:20, Rom. 6:22, I Cor. 1:23, I Cor. 1:27 Again, we want to remind our television audience that we are just a simple Bible teaching program. We don’t try to attack anybody. I don’t try to move people from one thing to another, but we’re so thrilled that folks are writing and responding that they are learning to study their Bible. I had one young man, maybe I shared it on a previous program, I hope I didn’t, but anyhow, he called and he said, “Les, I’ve been in church all my life,” he wasn’t very old – 26. But he said “I always sit there with my arms crossed.” Now, I could just picture these things, I hope you can. He said, “I sit there with my arms crossed and whatever came across that pulpit that was God’s truth.” “But,” he said, “I started listening to you on the radio going back and forth to work,” in one of the Eastern states, and he said, “I was hearing things that I had never heard before. So,” he said, “I decided to check it out and read my own Bible.” He said, “I suddenly realized that what was coming off the pulpit wasn’t in the Bible at all.” He said, “I’m now thinking about leaving that particular thing, because,” he said, “They’re not teaching what the Bible says. They’re teaching what some man thinks.” Well, this is what we love to hear. Not that we want to take people out of their particular church, that’s not the idea, but to be able to know that this is what the Book says and not what some denomination says. You know, I got away from that, thank God, when they asked me to come out of my own umbrella denomination and teach in home Bible studies where I had all these different denominations bombarding me with questions that in a denominational setting I’d never heard. Nobody ever asked. So, I’ve learned. My goodness, don’t just sit there smug and think well, this is what my church says. Get into the Book. Don’t go by what I say. Get into the Book! We’re back in Romans chapter 6, and we’re still on “But Now’s” or “But God” or “But…” whatever, to show how you can take the Scripture and read up to a point where all of a sudden everything is different. That reminds me of another verse. Go to Philippians before we even start Romans. This is a good one, I just can’t help it. This is my way of teaching. Philippians chapter 1 and look at verse 10. Here Paul is writing this letter of commendation. Not condemnation. I can’t find a single word in the Philippian letter where he is admonishing them or condemning them, but it is all commendation. Now, look what he says in verse 10. Well, let’s start at verse 8. Philippians 1:8-10a “For God is my record, (the Apostle writes) how greatly I long after you all in the bowels (or in the very most inner most being) of Jesus Christ. 9. And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment; (or discernment. Now, verse 10) That ye may approve things that are excellent;…” But you know how that Greek word translated here ‘excellent’ is translated in many other places? ‘Different.’ Now stop and think about what Paul says, “That you may approve things that are different.” How different? My, it is the difference between Law and Grace. And even for church people today, if they could just get into the Book and see things that are not just according to their denominational dogma, but things that are different. I wasn’t going to mention it, but sometimes I can’t help it. I get ahead of myself. A guy called last night all excited that he was reading a book, I think it was by Martin Luther, it was one of the Reformers, and it was right in the middle of a football game, so he probably didn’t have my full attention. But anyway he said, “Les, I’m just reading something,” he said, “It is as if you wrote it yourself. But you know what’s so unique about it? It was quoted by an anonymous writer who was writing in 1069 BC. Now, that’s 400 years before the reformation started.” And I’m waiting. He’s going to mail me a copy of it. And he said, “Les, you could have written it yourself.” Now, I’m waiting to see what it is. If it is, I just may bring it along to the next taping and share it at least with the studio audience, if not with the television. But see, this is nothing new – what I’m teaching – but it’s different. It’s not according to the denominational dogma of Christ’s earthly ministry and under the Law and all the legalism associated. This is totally different. You’re not under Law, you’re under grace. That’s one of the verses that we’re going to read. All right, are you in Romans chapter 6? #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible