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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2009

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Purified by Faith

Sovereign Grace Baptist Church, NJ

Clay Curtis

Acts 15: 9: And [God] put no difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith.
The legalist is looking for something he can do to put a difference between him and everyone else before God. These Judaizers wanted to use the law to put a difference between the Jews and the Gentiles, between the believer and unbelievers, even between believers (that is what legalism always results in.)

But Peter drops a bombshell on the legalist: God gave to the Gentiles, who were never under the law of Moses, to whom the old covenant did not pertain, the same graces and privileges as he gave to the converted Jews. (Gal 4: 8, 9; 25: 26; Eph 2: 11, 12.)

God makes the believer to differ by pure, sovereign, free grace and not because of something done in the believer. This was a blow to the pride of their race--it mattered not that the Jews were natural sons of Abraham and the Gentiles were not. It mattered not that they had the law, and the Gentiles did not, salvation is not through the law it is through Christ.

Grace is something Peter was thankful for because God's favor and grace is not in respect of our successes or our failures. Peter denied the Lord 3 times but Christ came to him in love and brought him back. Sinner's have to be taught by Christ in the heart in spirit that the believer is not to be taken back to the carnal once this Spirit has come, not back to Mt. Sinai once he has been taken by Christ to Mt. Zion, not to the flesh once he begins in the spirit. Without the spirit of grace men will always use that which the eye can see to make a diffference between men. But thanks be to God he puts no difference between us and them, but saves, and continues to save all, by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone.

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