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But anyway, what we’re gonna talk about tonight is an interesting little subject. Remember, we’re doing some studies in the book of Galatians, and as we study the book of Galatians, it talks about there being one gospel. There is not another gospel of a different kind, not another gospel of the same kind. There is not another gospel. And then Paul proceeds to explain that the gospel that he preached, he got it from Christ, that the gospel that Abraham preached in Galatians chapter 3, he got it from God.

God preached before the gospel and to Abraham, sending these shalom families of the earth be blessed. So God preached the gospel to Abraham and Christ preached the gospel to Paul. And so I believe that the Father and the Son probably had the same gospel. But there’s people who try to say there’s a different gospel. There was no different gospel because when you talk about the gospel of grace. The only way you can have another gospel is it can’t be grace, because grace means grace, and grace means without works.

And so if it is by grace, it cannot be by any works at all. So it has to be free and offered to be grace, and it has to last forever in order for big grace. So grace is the test of the gospel. If it’s not of grace, it’s not the the gospel and there is only one gospel by which a man can be saved. So we’ve covered a little bit about the gospel of Abraham and now we’re going to talk about the gospel.

Well what did David preach? What was his message? And was his gospel message because Abraham said he lived before the law and 430 years before the law was ever given. So Abraham could not have kept the law in order to be saved. Well what about David who lived under the law? he had to keep the law in order to be saved. Well, it’s good to hear what David has to say about this because if you believe that there’s a possibility that in the Old Testament where they had to believe in some form of work, you know, the kingdom, but they always had works to it.

That’s the only way you can have something that’s different than grace is you got to add works to it. And I disagree, I do not believe that any form of work of any kind God has ever required of any man in order to go to heaven. Remember the main thing about us on earth is God saves us but he leaves us here and we’re just getting somebody else to go to heaven. We’re just getting fruit to go to heaven and so we have a job to get done.

So look there at your notes in the defense of the glorious everlasting gospel message, because I believe it was only one gospel from all time and eternity that saves a man. And man cannot be saved any other way. And that’s why the apostle Paul says, I marvel that you’re so soon removed from him, they called you into the grace of Christ into another gospel, which is not another, but there be some that would alter and change that message and pervert the gospel.

And by doing so, they trouble you. Because anytime you add works to the gospel, it causes mental anguish because now you don’t know for sure if you’re gonna make it. It removes all security. Anytime you add works to the gospel, it removes security. And so you cannot have peace. You can have real joy because you cannot really know that you’re going to heaven if it depends on you or I. Now, it is dangerous to believe that man could have been saved any other way than grace.

You can only change grays by adding works to it. Regardless of what type of works it may be called, works is still works and is an accursed message. The book of Galatian establishes the Gospel of Grace. And so that’s why you’ll find him going all the way back to Abraham and when he says Abraham believed God and to him God put his righteousness to his account. Abraham believed God. And that goes back to Genesis in chapter 15 and verse 6.

Now once you take your Bible and turn to the book of Romans in chapter 4, there’s a few verses here that we’ll look at in the book of Romans. because it deals with Abraham and also it deals with King David. So as you go through the book of Romans you’ll find out that God takes many of the quotes in the Old Testament and puts them in the New Testament because the principle is the same. Just for example you see there in Romans in chapter 3 when it says in in verse 10, as it is written, it means that’s written in the Old Testament.

And then he talks about their in verse 13, their throat is an open sephrica where their tongues, they have used their seat, the poison of ass was under their lips. All these are quotes from the book of Psalms chapter five and verse nine. So these are Old Testament scriptures. And so you use the Old Testament and things that were written and the law to show a man that he’s a sinner. So that’s what the purpose of the law does.

And you’ll see that when you look there in verse 20, therefore by the deeds of the law, there should no flesh be justified. So in the Old Testament, it was totally impossible for a man to be justified by the law, for by the law is the knowledge of sin. That’s how we know we are sinners because the law demands perfection and we are not pervy. There in verse 2080 says, therefore we conclude that a man is justified by what?

faith without the deeds of the law. Now, if they were saved a different way, then that means some people have been saved by the law. But it says there’s nobody’s ever been saved by the law. And the reason that we know that, and we declare that is because you see right there in verse 25, when he talks about, we’ll see the verse right before, about the propitiation means the payment that was made by Christ in order to redeem us.

So in verse 25, whom God has said for it to be the propitiation, the payment for our sin, through faith in his blood to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are passed. See, before the cross, that’s what they had to believe. After the cross, look what he says, for the remission of sins that are passed through the forbearance of God. To declare, I say, at this time, this side of the cross, his righteousness. And he might be just in the justifier of him which believe in Jesus.

So God said, all sin has been paid and people were justified by faith in the Old Testament. They’re justified by faith in the New Testament. They look forward to the cross. We look back to the cross and therefore a man is saved by faith and faith alone. Not looking chapter four. Chapter four, we’ve already mentioned about Abraham and him being justified by faith because it says, what hath Abraham our Father has pertained to the flesh hath found? He found something.

And that is you justified by faith, not by your works. And so that’s why he says in verse 4, now to him that worketh is a reward not reckoned of grace but of death. In the words of a man could earn his salvation, God would be in debt to the man. He would owe him salvation because he earned it. But God says it’s not of works. They’re for God’s not in debt and he doesn’t owe us. That’s why it’s called mercy.

Now look in chapter 4 and verse 5, but do him that work if not not, but believe it on him that justified the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness. Quoting the very same thing by which Abraham before the law back into about Genesis and how he was saved and we’re saved the same way. Now look what he says in verse 6. Verse 6 is also mentioned there in your notes but I can let you read it right here out of the scripture looking verse 6.

Even as David, now David lived about a thousand years before Christ, how was David saved? Well he had to keep the law. No he didn’t. Even as David also described it, the blessedness of the man. Now the blessing of the man means the salvation of the man. And when you read Galatians in chapter 3 it says that the blessing of Abraham might come on those that believe, talking about even the Gentiles. The Gentiles saved the same way that the Jewish person is saved.

So here in verse 6 even as David also described it a blessedness of the man under whom God get this imputed righteousness without what? Without works. That’s salvation by grace. You can’t cut it no other way. And imputed righteousness, that means it’s put to your account because of the payment Christ made. When you put your faith in Christ, his righteousness is put to your account. Now, this is what David says, and it’s recorded in the Old Testament, even in the book of Psalms in chapter 32.

Now, notice verse 7. And this is what he said, and what he said here is what this meant in verse 6. Now, you sometimes, you’ll read a verse, you don’t know what the Bible says. that meant was sometimes God’s word will explain what it means. The Bible teaches itself. He says, say it, blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven and whose sins are covered. Now, the sacrifices that they made only covered their sin, but it didn’t take them away.

But they were forgiven because God looked at their faith in what payment was going to be made by Christ when he came. And I’ll show you that in just a minute. Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin. In other words, you mean I did something wrong? Well then I should have to pay for that. Yeah, but Christ paid for mine. You say, what if I sin tomorrow or the next day or the next day and you will?

Those sins are imputed to Christ, not to me. Because see, I’ve already died. When I died, the law can’t touch a dead man. So that’s why the law can never condemn you again. Once you’ve trusted Christ, you can never be condemned to hell to pay for sin. The penalty of our sins have been paid. Now in our life, we have many consequences of sin. And so the Bible starts off in the book of Galatians in chapter one talking about to deliver us from the sins of this present world.

So I have been saved from the penalty of sin, but I am in the process of being saved from the sins in the present because of the power that my sinful nature can have over me. So as you study the word of God, the Holy Spirit that lives within you can give you the power that you need to live the way God wants you to live. And one day we all know that we’ll be saved and delivered from the very presence of sin.

Now look there in your notes. Right in the middle, right in the middle, in Psalms 32, 1 and 2, we might never have known that these verses would mean that you are justified by faith or that righteousness without worthless was put to your account. And that sins would not be put to our account. If it was not explained to us in Romans, but they definitely understood its meaning. Isn’t this exactly what we believe about our salvation today? So were they saved the same way that we’re saved?

By faith and faith alone? And it was in faith about the Messiah, which I wanna show you that too. But look into next notes here, where we have about Jude in verse 14. Now many times we have advanced, or I should say, progressive revelation. God doesn’t reveal everything all at one time. But as time goes on, progressive revelation means He reveals more and more and more. Well, when it comes to a guy like Enoch, all we know in the Old Testament was, you know there in chapter five, well that Enoch walked with God and he was not because God took him.

Well, Enoch did more than that. Enoch was a preacher and a preacher of righteousness. So when you go to the book of Jude, Jude will tell us that he already knew about Jesus Christ, coming in power and great glory, coming with his angels and armies and all of this, he knew all of that. Look at the scripture. And Enoch also the seventh from Adam prophesied of these saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with 10,000 of his saints to execute judgment upon all and to convince all that are ungodly among them of their ungodly deeds, which they have ungodly committed and of all their hard speeches, which ungodly sinners have spoken again.

He was preaching about death. So, evidently, he knew all about the Lord and he knew about the Lord coming with 10,000 of a cent. He knew that. But that just because it doesn’t mention that back there, doesn’t mean they didn’t know and didn’t understand. I’ve had people say, well, You can’t hardly find anything about some of this. It doesn’t mean that they didn’t know it. It’s just certain things are not revealed or wrote down. But I believe that they knew a lot more than we give them credit for it.

But now look at the next statement. Remember this very important point. If Jude had not told us about the content of Enoch’s message that he preached before the flood, we would not have known that he knew about Christ’s second coming or that he was coming with 10,000 of his saints. Yet there’s nothing in the whole Old Testament that has revealed this. Nor is it mentioned in the New Testament world tells about Moses knowing Christ. But it tells us that in Hebrews in chapter 11, because look at the very next verse, in Hebrews in chapter 11, did Moses know about Jesus Christ?

Well evidently, it says, esteem the reproach of Christ, greater riches than the treasures in Egypt, for he had respect unto the recompense of the reward. So he knew about Jesus Christ. And he knew about the offering that had to be made. There’s a lot of things that they knew, but it doesn’t make it, sometimes it seems like it’s not as clear. And I don’t know what in the world the world would have done if the students from Florida Bible college had figured out all this stuff and enlightened the world.

No, they’ve known it. We’re not the only ones that know the truth. We’re not the only ones that knew the gospel. We’re not the only ones that believe in salvation by grace. Notice the next verse. A Psalm of David, Psalms 32, 1 and 2 says, blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. Blessed is the man under whom the Lord imputed not iniquity but in whose spirit there is no guile. So we have these two verses written by David in the Old Testament and they’re quoted in the book of Romans in chapter 4, telling us what those verses mean.

So the Holy Spirit that gave it to then, the Holy Spirit gave it to Paul and explains in more clarity. Because see, they were looking forward, but they had difficulty understanding the sufferings of Christ and the glory that should follow. Was there two messiahs going to come? No, it’s going to be one messiah, but he came the first time, and he suffered the next time he was coming back as the Lion of the tribe of Judah. Now, Look there in the little quote that I have or the little box.

David knew that to have one’s sins covered by animal sacrifices did not pay for sin, but only covered them until the sacrifice of Christ had fully paid for them. So whenever John the Baptist comes on the scene, he sees Jesus Christ and what does he say? Behold, this is at the beginning of Christ’s ministry. So from the very beginning of Christ’s ministry, they knew that he was the lamb to take away the sin of the world. this lamb Jesus Christ, he didn’t preach works for salvation.

Many people say, well now in you studied the book of Matthew, Jesus is preaching works for salvation. He did not. You see the gospel of John is very clear, it’s like God’s whole heaven track. And you got the book of Matthew and these events happen at the same time. You see Christ is only here three and a half years. But there’s four different books and they all record at the same time about the things that happen. And so this one covers certain things that he said because of the king and of the nation of Israel and building this constitution and setting up his cabinet and how he’s going to rule and so forth.

All that’s done, yes. But that doesn’t eliminate that Luke teaches about Jesus Christ also, but he teaches about the perfect man. And you got the book of Mark. Mark is about the servant. And then you got Jesus Christ, who’s the son of God, high and lifted up. So you have Matthew showing him as the line of the tribe of Judah and mark as the ox and Luke as the man. That’s why you have the genealogies of Jesus Christ as a man coming from the book of Luke.

But in the book of John you have any temptations ever because God cannot be tempted. So there’s none of those things mentioned in the book of John. But you need every one of these because they make a composite picture of Jesus Christ. You can’t just take one, you’ve got to take all four, put them together. And so this message is not a different message than this message when it comes to the gospel. There’s just certain things that are explained and we’ll go to that another time.

Now look down to the bottom of the page. Turn in your Bible to this scripture. I want you to see this in the book of Acts and chapter 2. Acts chapter 2. And the reason these verses are important because well they talk about King David and they’re talking about what has just happened and Peter is preaching and he’s telling them that the things that they have seen, the things that they’ve heard was by the determinant counsel of God himself.

So you see there in the book of Acts in chapter 2, look in verse 22, in verse 22 where he says, ye men of Israel, here are these words, Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you all as you self-know. Him being delivered by the determinate council and foreknowledge of God, you have taken and by wicked hands of crucified and slain, whom God hath raised up.

Now, so you have the death, barrel and the resurrection right here. And then he says, let me tell you something else. You look down in verse 25 for David. So now he’s going back to the Old Testament and reminded them of what David said in the 16th Psalm. Because in the 16th Psalm you think it’s, was this talking about David or is this talking about the Messiah? And there’s a lot of similarities here, but in verse 25 for David’s speaking concerning him.

I foresaw the Lord. He knew it was the Lord always before my face for. He is on my right hand that I should not be moved. Therefore did my heart rejoice and my tongue was glad more over. Also my flesh shouldn’t rest in hope because that will not leave my soul in hell. Neither will thou suffer thine holy one, the holy one. That’s the Messiah, the sea corruption. That’s the resurrection because Christ rose again on the third day. Then He talks about, not only that, but in verse 28 thou hath made known to me the ways of life.

He knew the way to have eternal life. David knew that. That’s in the Old Testament. In verse 29, men and brother, let me freely speak unto you, Peter, talking of the patriarch David, that he’s both dead, buried, hisseprica is with us unto this day. Therefore, been a prophet and knowing, get that knowing, talk about David, knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him that of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, he would raise up the Messiah Christ who said on his throne, did David know that God was going to raise up a Messiah through his loins that’s going to settle on the throne?

That God told him that. That’s what God said. In verse 31, he’s seen this before, spake of the resurrection of Christ. This is so did David know about the death, Berlin resurrection of the Messiah. Yes or no? Evidently if you go by the book, you’ve got to go by the book. Now people will deny that and say no they didn’t have to believe in death, Berlin resurrection, the Old Testament. Yes they did. Every man’s always been saved the same way.

They’re saved looking forward to the Messiah. We’re saved by looking back to the Messiah. We’re both saved by faith and faith alone. So now in your notes there, just look in Psalms 22 in your notes here, it’s about the middle of the page, where David used also, and he wrote the 22nd Psalm, 23rd Psalm, 24th Psalm, now let me tell you this, when you look at the 22nd Psalm and it talks about the crucifixion, so there you have Mount Calvary, That’s Christ on the cross, Mount Calvary.

In chapter 24, it talks about the Messiah coming in power in great glory and going to rule and reign. That’s in chapter 24. So that’s Mount Zion. Now what lies between two mountain peaks is the valley. So when you read Psalms 23, yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death. You see, there was chapter 22, Mount Calvary, and chapter 24, you got Mount Zion. But in this valley is where we are. And ye though I walk to the valley of the shadow, I will fear no evil, for a vow art with me.

See, he’s on both sides of me. And it’s a wonderful 23rd song because it talks about the good shepherd who gives his life for the sheep. And it talks about the great shepherd. And it talks about the chief shepherd. And all three of those psalms talks about three different titles of a name of a shepherd. And the other one is in the book of Hebrews in chapter 13. And I remember when Dr. Kembern would always pray, he always closed his prayer out with that scripture found in the book of Hebrews in chapter 13.

But now look at Psalms 22, my God, my God, why has thou forsaken me? You ever heard those words before? I wonder who said that. Jesus Christ said that. This has written a thousand years in advance. But it is a shame to write all these wonderful things, and they had no clue what it was talking about. David did, because the scripture says he knew. Then he says here in verse 7, 7. All the that see me laugh me to scorn.

Did they mock him while he was on the cross? Make fun of him? Yes, they did. In verse 14, I am poured out like what and all my bones are out of joint, but none of them were broken. In verse 15, my tongue cleaveth to my jaws. He says, I thirst in what they give them to drink. Gatorade. They came from Gatorade, right? They came what? Then they go, don’t they taste good. Have you ever had a good old smileful vinegar?

And looking for 16, they pierce by hands and my feet. This whole Psalm is about Jesus Christ, but it’s about what happens to Him, how He thinks, how He feels, what He’s going through in the cross. He says in verse 18, they part my garments. They gamble for His clothes. And then you’ll find out in verse 26, the meat shall eat and be satisfied. They shall praise the Lord and seek Him. Get to your heart shall live forever. That’s eternal life.

When you partake of what Jesus Christ did for us and He said, I am the bread to come of down from heaven and He did this bread shall never hunger. In other words, it lasts forever and ever and ever. When I got saved 58 and a half years ago, guess what? I’ve never had to do it again. Why? Because it’s satisfied. I don’t need to get saved anymore. I’m not looking to be saved. I’m not trying to be redeemed.

I already am. I’m not trying to be justified. I already am. And the next thing here in verse 31, they shall come and shall declare his righteousness unto a people that shall be born. It’s not only for the people that were born, but when it happens, and that was in 2000 years ago, when it happened, and it’s gonna be for people who shall be born, and if it’s talking about 2000 years, I think it covers me too. I’m covered.

This is the best insurance policy you could ever get. I am covered. He said, well, what if it is covered? Somebody asked me just recently, but what if you go out here and you do this? Yeah, but it’s covered. What if you do that? And that’s really bad. That’s covered. All sin is what? It’s all covered. And when we talk about covered, we’re not talking about like the payment in the Old Testament. It means it’s been washed away. Our sins have been paid for and dealt with.

Look at this hand and represent you and me. The wallet represents sin. We all have sin on us. Now God says He loves us, but He hates our sin. But He does love us. But for us to pay for sin is eternal separation from God. But God says he loves us wants to go to heaven. It doesn’t want us going to hell. He wants us to go to heaven. He loves us. But to go to heaven, I have to be perfect and nobody’s perfect.

So how can I get to heaven because of my sins? I can’t get in. So the Bible says, you cannot earn eternal. I can’t work your way to heaven. That’s why we needed the Savior. Because if Jesus Christ hadn’t done what he did, there’s no option be. There was no hope. So Jesus Christ got in the flesh who had no sin, didn’t have to die. He didn’t ever do anything wrong. But because he loved us and he hates our sin, he said our sin separates us from him.

So Jesus Christ took the sin, paid for it on the cross, came back from the dead. And God says the only thing He wanted us to do to go to heaven was believe that Christ did that for us, paid for our sins. Why am I going to heaven? Because Christ paid for my sins and I believe it. That’s the only reason I’m going to heaven. I’m not going to heaven because, well, I’m a preacher of the church. I’ve been preaching the Bible for 50 something years.

That’s not going to heaven. I’m going to heaven because 58 and a half years ago, I trusted Christ as my Savior. And that very moment, I was good to go. He gave me his robe of righteousness. All my sins have been paid and put to my account. And that’s why he says in the book of Romans in chapter 4 that it was put to Abraham’s account because he believed. not do Him only, but undo us also to whom it shall be imputed if we believe.

So when we believe, then the payments put to your account. Stop putting the account unless you believe it. It’s not automatic what everybody’s saved because He paid for all the sins of the world. He is the Savior of the world because there’s only one, but not everybody trusts Him as their Savior. Let’s pray, show it. Father, we thank You so much for all You’ve done for us. Thank You for this time together. We thank You for those that are able to be here.

But Father, we’ve got some people that are still sick and not doing well, and we commit them to you. So we commit this thing to you and have to rest upon His first and dear in Christ’s name. Amen. Are you ready to learn how to live your life as a strong Christian, lead others to Christ, or excel as a church worker or ministry leader? Then look no further, then Florida Bible College of Tampa, with traditional and online classes taught by instructors with years of experience.

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Friend, one day it will happen. The trumpet will sound. And we will be changed. Caught up to meet the Lord in the air. So live today and every day. Believing that the Lord is coming soon, just keep looking up.