Let's go over to Galatians, and we just want to touch on a little bit tonight, just three verses, and that's it. We'll be done very quickly, all right? And we've been studying the book of Galatians, and we know it is the Magna Carta, amen? It's a document containing fundamental doctrines of the Christian faith, amen? It's like a follow-up to Romans, if you will. It may have been written before it, but Romans is the great epistle of theology covering about everything, and Galatians is a short six-chapter letter to the churches of Galatia, multiple, and they were converts to the Apostle Paul, and they were affected by these men called Judaizers, and they were convinced by some of these men that circumcision was required, what we're learning, to force salvation and to retain your salvation. As we looked at a verse last week, if you didn't perform certain acts of the law, they didn't believe you was any longer saved, amen. So the Judaizers, they were men that tried to enforce Jewish circumcision upon Gentile converts to the early church. And I believe we're talking about A.D. 50, A.D. 55, something like that, first century, amen, the very beginning of the church. So we went over the introduction. We went over Paul's explanation, which covered the first two full chapters. Now we're in the doctrinal section, chapters 3 and chapters 4. And here's what we said last week. We said the next two chapters are the doctrinal portion of the Pauline epistle, whereas the last two chapters are the duty section. The next 60 verses in these two chapters that make up chapters 3 and 4 are some of the strongest writings that Paul has ever penned. And it makes sense because we read it and we just feel like we're reading a book. Paul was in a battle for everything he knew was the truth. They had just had the Jerusalem Council. They had just decided it was by grace through faith. And Christianity is beginning to spread. Paul has been converted and he is preaching the gospel going on his missionary journeys. And everything he's preaching, the primate, you've got to bear to believe he didn't run around fighting about little cliques and crowds and all that junk. He was going around preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ, amen, by grace through faith. And here it is under attack by these Judaizers, which if he had let them get in and let them Spread. They were large in number. And they would have destroyed what the body of Christ was there in that first century. And he had to prove that salvation was by grace alone. That's what's happening in the middle of this book of Galatians. So over the next two chapters, Dr. Wiersbe said, Paul uses six different arguments to prove that God saved sinners through faith in Christ and not by the works, not words, the works of the law. Last week we covered the personal argument. This week we'll cover the scriptural argument, half of it. We're going verses 6, 7, 8, and 9, four verses tonight. But let's review very quickly what we looked at last week about that personal experience. Paul asked the Galatians to recall, you know, they got saved just like we did. There was a transaction that was made. There was a day they knelt at an altar. Amen. There was a day they sat at a kitchen table. There was a day the Apostle Paul talked to them and they called on the Lord just like you and I, man. So Paul asked these Galatian people to recall their personal experience with Christ when they were saved in order to convince them that they were saved by grace. Has the devil ever come to you telling you he's lost and you refer back to the day you got saved? Take him that knothole on that altar and say, no, Satan, you ain't going to do this to me today. I remember when I called on the Lord. I remember when the Holy Ghost of God came into my life, amen? That's kind of what Paul was doing here. Paul had been with many of them probably. When they had trusted Christ, he knew that they had that salvation experience. But Wiersbe said, of course, to argue from experience can be dangerous, because experiences can be counterfeited, they can be misunderstood, they can be inflamed, they can be changed, biased, if you will. Subjective experience must be balanced with objective evidence. Where's the evidence? The evidence is in the Word of God, that's what we're getting on tonight. It was evident that these folks had experienced something, but the Judaizers came along and convinced them, amen? Now, the word bewitched is pivotal in that verse, amen? It's key. Because they were tricked, they were bewitched, amen? They were convinced that their salvation wasn't complete and they needed something else. And that something else was obedience to the law of Moses, if it was coming from that Judaizer. And the false teachings had bewitched them and turned them into fools, the verse says, amen. Old fools who have bewitched you. Somebody did it, they tricked them and it turned them into fools, amen. They had seen the Son of God, amen. They saw it through the preaching of the Apostle Paul. You got a good preacher. The preacher ought to be able to paint you a picture, amen, that flashes you back in your mind where you can see, amen, what you're being taught. He showed them Christ crucified on the cross of Calvary, amen. Christ crucified and risen again. Verse 2 said, This only would I learn of you, receive ye the spirit of the works of the law or by the hearing of faith. So then he says, man, I preached the gospel to you and you got born again when you did that. Now how did that happen? Did you receive that? By the spirit of God? Were you born in the flesh and born in the spirit as it says over there in John? Or was it by living right or doing the works of the law? Because they know it wasn't. They know it wasn't. You got saved in a moment. You didn't get saved living a lifetime following the law. Because of their faith they received the Spirit of God. And you remember last week I erased it all for the review. Last week we went through all the things the Spirit of God does in us. And we talked about people that are fouled up on their soteriology and how they get saved are almost always fouled up on pneumatology and how the Holy Ghost of God works in their life. If they think they get lost again, they think the Spirit of God leaves them. But we read the Bible, and it says He'll never leave you. Nor does it say He indwells you. It says He seals you. It says He's the earnest deposit, and He's going to be in there until Christ comes back to get him. I mean, we see all that stuff. You can correct a lot of soteriological salvation doctrine by studying etymological or Holy Ghost doctrine, amen? So they received the Spirit by faith, amen? The only real evidence of a conversion is the presence of the Spirit of God in the life of a believer. People can live some real good stuff, amen? But then when the rubber hits the road, amen, and things really start to happen, and you're going to see them fruits of the Spirit come out in people. We all falter, we all mess up, amen? But every now and then you'll meet somebody that supposedly is a good Christian, yada, yada, yada. Then things get a little heavy and things start happening, and you won't see one, not one, speaking fruit of the Spirit in them. And you think, what in the world? What's going on? I've been bamboozled. I've been, what's that funny word y'all used to use? I've been boondoggled. This man ain't saved. You start looking at things in their life. The real evidence is the presence of the Spirit of God inside of them. You want to be filled with the Spirit? Guess what you need to do? You need to study the Word of God. You need to follow the Spirit of God. As you study the Word of God, the Spirit of God is going to speak to you through the Word of God. Then you've got to be obedient to that Spirit of God talking about the Lord talking to you. The best way to really do it, Dawson, is to get in the Word of God. As you're reading the Word of God, clean, amen, you get right and the Spirit of God begins to speak to you through the Word of God and then as He does, you follow what the Spirit of God is saying, obedience to the Word of God and the Spirit of God comes together and the man of God is filled with the Spirit of God. So the believers were saved by the Spirit and they agree with that so they pose another question by Paul. There's another question posed by Paul. Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit and now you're made perfect by the flesh? That's kind of common sense. If the law couldn't make you clean to get you right, you had to get right like a good old-fashioned Baptist does. You're telling me it took the Spirit of God to do that. Then why in the world do you think the law is what's going to keep you clean or keep you safe? If the Spirit of God... Now, that's kind of rough. I said it last week, and this is what I was referring to just a minute ago. Paul just called out every single Protestant that believes they can lose their salvation, every Bible or community church that says you can lose your salvation. He just called out everybody that says, oh, I get saved like you Baptists. I get under conviction when a man that God's preaching on Christ, amen. I call upon the Lord and get saved. I'm born again just like you. But then if I don't live right and I fall out of church later, I'm going to hell. That's who he's calling out. Are you so foolish? Having begun in the spirit, are you now made perfect by the flesh? That's what he's saying. Are you stupid? Now I used the illustration of a birth of a baby last time. Born complete. When you're born, you've got it all, amen? Born complete and ready to go. When you're born, it took two parents, the Word of God and the Spirit of God, amen? And you was born, all you needed was food, exercise, and cleansing, amen? You didn't need to go get an extra foot, you didn't need to go get a hand, amen? You was born complete. That's how we are in our salvation, amen? And we just need to grow in Christ. Have you suffered so many things in vain if it be yet in vain? It appears that they had suffered for the cause of Christ. Some say the Jews were trying to sway them, and some say it was by other folk. But you know that when we talked about Jerusalem Council, that Peter moved and messed up Barnabas and messed up them other boys by hanging out with the works doctrine crew because of fear, amen? But Paul's saying that if you jump over and believe the works of the law, is going to sanctify you or mature you, you've suffered this whole thing in vain. Hebrews, now the just shall live by faith, but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him. Then finally we see that one's work in miracles, he therefore that ministereth to you the spirit and worketh miracles among you, doeth he it by the works of the law or by the hearing of faith. When we did that I talked about some of the different views on that verse. But the Galatians had experienced miracles and Paul's asking them if those miracles were done in the flesh or by the spirit. And an apostle had been ministering in the spirit and doing miracles around him and he's saying, I mean how did he do that? was asking them if they had met Christ at some point in their life, and did they have the Spirit of God in them, and had they seen the miracles of God in their life? So now let's get to what today is, amen? And the spiritual argument, the scriptural argument. Paul turns from the subjective, a personal experience we just talked about, that could be lied about, or it could be, you know how many people say they're saved and they ain't and they know it, amen? In church houses. That's a subjective experience to the Word of God, amen? Pure truth. The Word of God. We never judge Scripture by our own experience. I know somebody that does that because the way they got saved, it has pushed them to a certain type of doctrine or a certain belief in salvation because the way it happened in their life and they're taking their personal experience and they're judging Scripture by their experience or at least having a biased lean on Scripture without coming at it completely open and letting the Word of God mold their theology, amen? But we test our experiences by the Word of God. So in that first section we just did, Paul asked six questions about that personal experience. Now Paul's gonna quote the Old Testament six times. He knew he was dealing with these Jews, amen? He knew he was dealing with this group of men that wanted to go back to the Old Testament, wanted to do it, so you know what he did? A little bit of a smart aleck, ain't he? He said, I'm gonna quote the law to them, and I'm gonna prove them But I'm right, it's by grace through faith. Amen. So that's what he did. He's going to prove that salvation is by faith in the Word of God and not in the works of the law. And Paul uses this man Abraham because of the magnified position that the Jews give to Abraham. Now, some of my studied fellows in the room may believe that I'm getting ready to discuss some controversial doctrines, amen? Which I am not. I'll touch on them, but just because I'm your pastor and I'm trying to teach you, there's different men that teach different things about salvation at different times. jump into all that, but these are some of the verses that they would use referring to Abraham and how he was saved, and they would compare that to you and I and how we're saved. And I'm not going to get into all that. They would call that dispensational salvation. I'm not going to get into all that. But I will say a couple things, amen, just about pure Bible that we see in the Word of God, all right? So I'm going to give you a couple truths. And amen, we'll see what we think in a minute. Let's read the verses. Verse number 6, Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness, know ye therefore that they which are of faith the same are the children of Abraham? And the scripture foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith preached before the gospel unto Abraham saying in thee shall all nations be blessed. So then they which be of faith are blessed with Faithful Abraham. Amen. So what's doing is taking what the Bible says about how Abraham was saved Comparing that to you and I and how we are saved and I'm 100% on board with that. Amen Firstly, we see that Abraham was saved by faith It said expressly even as Abraham believed God and it was accounted to him by the righteousness. Now notice I put saved in quotations. I just did that for a reason. Know ye therefore that they which are of faith the same are the children of Abraham. Because, and I'll just tell you why, sometimes I worry about calling people safe when they weren't safe until the blood was applied, amen? Sometimes I like to call them safe because they had to go to a place called paradise. Then when Christ died on the cross and applied the blood, that's when they were taken, amen, to heaven and salvation was taken place, if you want to put it that way. But I'm not preaching some different gospel in a different dispensation, all right? So don't get scared. But I will show you in a moment that you can't, listen guys, you cannot say our salvation is just like Adam's in the garden. Am I right? You can't say ours is just like Moses, am I right? I mean you can't, so when guys say that it's exactly the same, it bothers me a little bit, that's not a different plan of salvation every dispensation, but I'm just going to show you a couple things tonight, amen? Paul quoted this scripture because we know that righteousness was placed on, we call it in our theology, imputed righteousness on Abraham because he believed the promise of God. Chapter 15, verse five, and he brought him forth abroad and said, look now toward heaven and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them, and he said unto him, so shall thy seed be, amen. The part of Abraham, he's making him a promise of his seed going all throughout, amen, and the seed coming from his line, and he believed in the Lord and he counted it to him for righteousness. So there is faith in what God said and righteousness was counted unto Abraham. And he is comparing this to the fact that you and I or the Galatians would trust the Lord and receive imputed righteousness, just like Abraham did there. Romans 4 and 11 gives us more examples of that. It says this, And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith, which he had yet being uncircumcised, that he might be the father of all them that believe. Though they be not circumcised, that righteousness might be imputed unto them also. Okay, so I was talking about Abraham and then talking about them being the Gentiles, us. And the father of circumcision to them who are not of the circumcision, but who also walk in the steps of the faith of our father Abraham, which he had being yet uncircumcised. Here's a couple more. I got those twice. Verse 20, in the same chapter, Romans 4, he staggered not at the promises of God through unbelief, talking about Abraham, but was strong in the faith, giving glory to God, being fully persuaded that what he had promised he was able to perform. What's that mean? God promised him things, he believed God, and he was accounted righteous, amen? And therefore it was imputed to him for Righteousness, amen. And there's even some more verses back at the beginning of that chapter. What shall we say then that Abraham, our father, as pertaining to the flesh, hath found? For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory, but not before God. For what saith the scripture? We just read it. Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness. Now to him that worketh is the reward, not reckoned of grace, but of death. And there's more, more verses, but we ain't gonna read them all, amen? But verse number six says this, even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness. Now, that is a spiritual element of salvation, am I correct? Faith. You have to have faith, and when you have faith in Christ, you're saved, and the imputed righteousness of Christ is laid on you, if you want to put it that way, or you're given the righteousness of God. And I'm not comfortable talking about the fact that Abraham was saved by faith and converting that to he was saved just like you and I, because that's what folks do. Yes, it was by faith, not works plus faith, which some men say, that he obtained his righteousness, and we'll see later his justification, but it was at two separate times. But is every element the same of how he got right and we got right? No, it's not. Was their Holy Spirit even talked about anywhere? Was pneumatology different in Old Testament? Was He indwelt by the Spirit of God? Was He sealed by the Spirit of God? Was the earnest deposit made in Him? Or did Jesus have to go to give us that Spirit that seals us? Am I right? So was He sealed or not? See, the Spirit supplied in verse 6 when he was there, there was no spirit when he was counted as righteous. When you was counted as righteous, were you supplied with the Spirit of God? Shake your head. Yes, I was. John 3, 3, Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter the second time into his mother's womb and be born? Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of the water and of the spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. Secondly, Abraham was never referred to as a son of God, was he? Are you a son of God tonight? Yes, you are. As a matter of fact, God, search it out in your whole Old Testament. If my studies are right, God's never referred to his Father in Old Testament. And there's no adoption of the saints. Are you adopted in the family of Christ? Yes, you are. The only point, the only point we can find where Abraham's salvation matches the salvation of the Galatians was on the point of imputed righteousness being given by faith. Now, why can't that be a typology? I mean, we've been preaching on typology every Sunday morning. It's shown us a picture of things to come through Christ. By faith, we're accounted righteous in our lives. Look at all the differences. Abraham was physically circumcised. The Galatians were spiritually circumcised. Abraham was not in the body of Christ. The Galatians were. Abraham went to paradise in Abraham's bosom. He couldn't even go to heaven because the blood that I preached on this morning hadn't been applied to the mercy seat. He couldn't even go to heaven. He had to go to a place called paradise. Hey man, the dead Galatians, when they died, whoop, third heaven. There they was. Hallelujah. The blood's on the mercy seat. Abraham had no complete atonement for his sins. That's exactly what I just talked about. But the Galatians did. There's a lot of differences right there, Blake. The simple meaning of that verse, in my opinion, is that Abraham was counted righteous by his faith, and so is the Galatians. And there's a Bible lesson for you, amen? There's something looking forward. There's Christ in your Old Testament showing you what's going to happen for us. Not necessarily that he got everything that we got. Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the next verse, The same are the children of Abraham. Now what's that say? Those that are of faith, those that are saved, those that have faith, amen, and have the righteousness, they're the same, they're the children of Abraham. Now Jewish folks were very proud about their relationship to Abraham. But it was a physical relationship. They were in the bloodline. And the problem was, many of them, they thought that that earned their salvation. because they were related to Abraham, amen? That secured their salvation. Hence, they couldn't understand how some Gentiles could be the children of Abraham. What in the world is going on here? But John the Baptist warned them, I know that ye are Abraham's seed, but ye seek to kill me. Because my word hath no place in you. I speak that which I have seen with my father, and ye do that which ye have seen with your father. Amen. That's where he tells them they're sons of Satan. They answered and said unto him, Abraham is our father. Jesus saith unto them, if you were Abraham's children, You would do the works of Abraham. But now you seek to kill me, a man that hath told you the truth, which I have heard of God. This did not Abraham. He's saying, I don't care what you say. Jesus is basically saying, you ain't the spiritual children of Abraham. You might be related to him, amen, but that ain't doing nothing for your spirituality, amen. He said, yeah, what that verse in Galatians is talking about are the spiritual children of Abraham. What they do, contextually, right before it, they believe by faith, and righteousness was imputed onto them. That's the spiritual children of Abraham, but these Jews thought we're the children of Abraham because they were in the blood in the lineage, amen? They were the physical seed. You better be careful about thinking you inherit salvation, amen? Because mommy and daddy's right and you was raised up in church and you just kept going when you got married or something. You better be real careful about all that. God doesn't have any grandchildren. I don't know what people meant when they said that. That's what they mean. God ain't got no grandchildren. You ain't in because mom and dad was in. You got to get in yourself and become a son, amen? Become adopted into the family. If you receive the Spirit by faith, then you're the child of Abraham. And the scripture, I love this verse, y'all, I studied this for a long time today. And a scripture foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, heathen's just a word for Gentiles, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, in thee shall all nations be blessed. Now we know it's part of the Abrahamic covenant right there, and all nations being blessed through Abraham and all that. There was always a plan for justification for the heathen Gentiles, and Paul taught us all about it, amen, over in Romans. But the scripture preached before that, the gospel unto Abraham, and told him all nations that would follow him would be blessed. Well, he was counted for righteous by faith. You believe spiritually they're saying that? All those that believe by faith and have imputed righteousness, they'll be blessed? Well, I believe they're blessed, amen. But you notice how Paul in our King James, A.V. 1611, used the word scripture. There's three instances. I didn't put them on here. I should have. I got that one right there. But three times he used the scripture when it would seem that the word God should have been used. We're not correcting King James at all. I'm just saying Paul, they knew exactly what to put in there. Scripture in the place of God. Here, I'll give you an example for that. Scripture raises people up in Romans 9. Well, God does that. Scripture foresees future event. Well, God does that. Scripture preached to people before they are written. Listen to this. God preached to people before scriptures were written. Genesis 12 and 3, and I will bless them that bless thee and curse him that curse thee, and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed. Well, during that time, during the time, you know Genesis was written, all five books of the Pentateuch, you understand those were all written after all of them? Genesis wasn't even written. So how was that said to him? God spoke it, amen. And it was God speaking that is who spoke in the text in Galatians 3 and 8. And the scripture, God foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith preached before the gospel unto Abraham saying in thee shall all nations be blessed. Now this is one of the strongest possible descriptions of the authority of the word of God. I believe that authorized verse in 1611, the scripture foresees that God would justify the heathen through faith. But of course, as always, this verse has been hijacked and used for one of the most deceptive, hermeneutical, eschatological, if you will, it's an end times thing, but really it's a process of interpreting your Bible. What I'm talking about is post-millennialism. We're pre-millennialists, right? Now, that is an eschatological stance. That's an end-time stance, amen? Prophetic. But it's really how we interpret our Bible. So, therefore, it becomes a biblically interpretive thing. Well, that's exactly what post-millennialism is. And that verse right there, they take that verse and the early church fathers of the 4th century, Augustine and all the other ones following Origen's leave, Or lead have created what is called post-millennium and this is a proof text of what they say the scripture for seeing that God would justify the heathen Preach before the gospel unto Abraham saying in these shall all nations be blessed. Now. Here's what they do. Here's the process The gospel of Galatians 1 8 8 9 is the same exactly as preached to Abraham in Genesis 12 1 3 is what they say All right, so just like I was saying, we have righteousness imputed by faith, right? But you can't really say it's exactly the same. What they do say, well, it's exactly the same. So you know what that means? We can replace them, Tyler. That's what it means. And there's the gospel in Galatians, as we before said, now if any man preach any other gospel, where is it? But if we through an angel haven't preached any other gospel unto you, then which have been preached unto them, let him be accursed. I was supposed to put the verse there that just lays out our gospel. So therefore, listen to this. I don't want to get bogged down on this. I feel like I'm confusing you. But therefore, the literal and physical blessings which are promised to the children of Abraham back there in Genesis, Right? Which is Isaac, Jacob, then Israel, were transferred to the New Testament Christian and are now, not not, but are now the property of the church. That's what they say. Because of that verse right there, talking about the gospel that was preached before is the gospel now. So therefore, because our gospel was the gospel before, we get to replace Israel. Am I making sense, Tyler? Alright, they believe it. So they believe all the lit... Where's the letter on physical promises to Israel? Somebody tell me. Psalms, the prophetic books, all through them in the Old Testament where it's skipping the age of grace, and it's talking about the second advent of Christ, and it's talking about the millennial kingdom where they'll have the land. What did God promise them? Land, right? Much land, right? Blessings. What land did He promise them? Y'all ain't helping me. Palestine. Come on, y'all. Why is it a big deal that we fight over the Gaza Strip? Why is it insane what goes on over there? Palestine, I'll get kicked off Facebook. Palestine ain't even a real nation. They're over there fighting, the Arabs are fighting the Israelis for the land that God promised. God said you get this land here, here, and here, and Gaza Strip's part of it. So every time our government says, well, you know what, we run the UN and all this stuff, and what we're going to do is give this little bit of land over here to the Palestinians so they quit shooting missiles, amen, and we take land from Israel, you know what happens? You know what happens? Because these verses right in here, they remind me, you know what happens? Natural disasters. You know six days before Hurricane Katrina, Condoleezza Rice and George Bush signed a document taking part of the Gaza Strip and giving it to Palestine? You understand? I mean, it's spooky stuff, man. You can go read it and look at the population that was displaced by that because there was Jewish people living on that land. And when we signed something, it said, it gave their government authority to walk in there and say, hey, Jews, get out of here. Lose your home. Lose everything you got. Get out. And it displaced them. And the percentage of people that was displaced as compared to their population is exactly the percentage of people that was displaced in our population from Hurricane Katrina. Why ain't that something? Donald Trump, I love it, but he signed a document when in his office last time that gave desert land of the Gaza Strip to, and Netanyahu was happy about it because he didn't care it was desert land. Palestinians was happy about it. Trump thought he did something big, but that's the day the first COVID hit United States and we suffered worse than any other country because of that COVID. Coincidence? You better not mess with Israel and you better not mess with the land that God promised them over there in the prophetic books and in the Abrahamic covenant and all that stuff because every time we do we get all messed up. So these guys believe we replaced them. Alright, I got into all that for fun because I like that stuff. So, they were promised these certain blessings. Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Israel, and these replacement guys say they were transferred to the New Testament Christian and are not now the property of the church. And wherever these promises refer to a literal restoration of Israel in the physical land of Palestine, like right now, because they say we're living in it. So what they do is they allegorize it. They either say it's taken place in heaven, There's like three or four post-millennialist views, but they'll allegorize it, spiritualize it, just like Alexandria or Origen taught them, and it's applied to the Roman Catholic Church. Y'all know the Roman Catholic Church believes they replaced Israel, right? And they've got a king that wears this crown, and got a scepter, right, George? And he sits on a throne, amen? The vicar of Christ, amen? The reformers took the same view. That's coming out of the Protestant Reformation, 1600s, right? And that was the birth of the covenant children, amen? Covenant theology, which yields replacement theology. The Dutch reformed, the Christian reformed, other reformed churches still using baptizing in place of circumcision. That's what they did. The church, they said, all right, instead of circumcising like the Hebrews did, we're going to replace the Hebrews. What we're going to do, George, is we're going to take that little baby, and that baby ain't even going to know what's coming, son. I'm just going to grab that thing. You ever watch them on Facebook? Pow! Down in the water. Boom! Part of the body of Christ. Now eat this wafer. I'm going to do hocus pocus over this wafer and this grape juice, and it's going to turn it into the body of Christ. And you're just going to eat that every year, or every time we do it, I guess. And you're going to stay saved that way. That's wild stuff, man. All Calvinists, they're either amillennial, postmillennial, they've got that type of theology. all Catholics, most Protestants, because they came out of the Catholic body. You know what they're doing? They're bringing in the kingdom. That's why we don't sing a lot of the contemporary music where they're bringing in the kingdom, because that's post-millennial and all-millennial garbage. You ain't bringing in no kingdom, guys. It's going to get worse. Amen? Laodicea. And then he's coming back. Then there's going to be seven years of tribulation. Then we coming with the kingdom, man. It's going to be good. To confound the physical promises of physical blessings to the literal seed of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob with the promise to the spiritual seed of Abraham, which is us, Isaac typifying Christ is one of the greatest, deepest, most profound, intense, and far-reaching errors that any heretic ever espoused. Verse number eight in the scripture, if we're seeing this, what we're looking at, that God would justify the heeding through the faith preached before the gospel unto Abraham. Before the gospel, what in the world is it talking about? It's a reference to good news that was preached to Abraham. It was a New Testament gospel only in general typology and only then in reference to one part of the gospel, faith. Am I right? The Holy Spirit stuff wasn't the same? All right. Y'all mad at me yet? Y'all think I'm a heretic? You're going to have to learn to understand that Bible somehow. You're going to get real confused if you don't understand how to rightly divide the thing. Before the gospel, as a reference to those good news preachers, the Lord doesn't preach the death, burial, and resurrection of Abraham. You'd think that, but guess what he did? He typified it for us in the sacrifice of Isaac that I preached about two weeks ago, right? And also note that Abraham, now here's one major thing, different than us, Abraham was counted as righteous by faith in 15, chapter 15, am I right? Then in chapter 22, he's justified. His justification was accounted for in, when you got redeemed, when you got imputed righteousness, was you justified at the same time? Yeah, it all happens when you get saved, right? We've been preaching doctrine forever. Ours was all at the same time. So then, they which be of faith are blessed with faith for Abraham. This last part right here. If you want a spiritual blessing like Abraham got, that is, imputed righteousness and justification, you must exercise faith as he did. So has it always been the same? In a few words, it's always been by faith. in the Word of God, right? Have you put your faith in the Word of God? Well, right there in the book of Romans it's talking to you. But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth and in thy heart, that is the word of faith which we preach. Why would he say it like that? Because they didn't preach it like we preach it. The word of faith we preach that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead. That's how you're saved. Did anybody when Jesus was walking on this planet believe that Christ had been raised from the dead? Any of his disciples believe that? They did after. But did anybody in the Old Testament believe that? That Christ had been raised from the dead? Well, they kind of did, Jeff, because they were sitting over there in paradise. Because they trusted the promises of God and what God told them. And he counted them as righteous. And he justified them. And they went to a place called paradise, Abraham's bosom. And then when Christ died on that cross, took that eternal blood to heaven, amen, and put it on that mercy seat, went in that tomb, you know, he was in that tomb, and then he goes, I ain't going to get into all that, amen, but he goes over there to paradise. Preaches the gospel to them. Sends them on home. When he came to preach to them, they seen the resurrected Christ. So guess what? They didn't believe by faith. They seen him. Then they went to heaven. But the question is for you. Have you confessed with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believed in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead? Then thou shalt be saved. Are you saved tonight? Praise the Lord. Well, if you're saved tonight, cut that live stream off, Gabe. If you're saved tonight, help me pray. Miss Dede's husband, Jim.