792 - Les Feldick Bible Study - Lesson 3 Part 4 Book 66 - But God! (Faith Plus Nothing!) - Part 4

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 3 * PART 4 * BOOK 66 BUT GOD! (Faith Plus Nothing!) – Part 4 Acts 13:30, Rom. 3:21, Rom. 4:5, Rom. 5:8 For those of you out in television, again how we thank you for your letters, your prayer support, well, just for everything! We know that without you and the Lord’s help, we could never reach the audience that we’re reaching. For those of you here in the studio, we always appreciate your faithfulness in coming in every month and doing these four programs. Okay, we’re going to continue on with our "But Now’s" and "But God." In Romans chapter 5 verse 8, we have a "But God." But again, we’re going to look at the first few verses that lead up to it and then see why there is a sudden flip-side. So, Romans chapter 5, we’ll start at verse 1. Now remember, we just came out of chapter 4 where he lifted up Abraham as the example of a man of faith, whose salvation was based on his faith plus nothing, and then his works followed. But it is the same way with a believer. Just because we proclaim a salvation by faith alone, it doesn’t mean that you just make a verbal recognition and then go on in your same old lifestyle. That just isn’t it. But when we become a true believer, by faith in this Gospel, we’re going to be different. The world is going to recognize it in short order. Not because we’re oddballs, it’s just because we have different priorities. We have a completely different agenda from the world, but it has to make a difference. Otherwise, I have a lot of doubts about a lot of people’s profession of salvation. Romans 5:1a "Therefore being justified by faith,…" Plus repent and be baptized? Now you’re learning, aren’t you? You see, these are all verses that I can refer to when people say where does it say Faith plus Nothing? Because it doesn’t add anything. It says, "Therefore being justified by faith." Period. That’s it. Most of Christendom adds something, and it’s getting worse by the day. I just can’t comprehend it except that Satan knows his time is short, and the more he can befuddle the masses, the more he becomes the winner. Remember that the Gospel of Salvation has always been responded to by the few, not the many. Always. I’ve got to remind people, when you get to the flood, out of the four or five billion people that were on the earth, how many were faithful to God? Eight. Now, that’s the worst one in Scripture. Then Elijah had one out of 7000. That’s one tenth of one percent. Then you get to the Book of Isaiah chapter 1 verse 9, I think it is, where it says had it not been for the "very small remnant" of the righteous in Israel. Now, what’s a remnant? It’s just that little sample of what’s left. And what’s a very small remnant? A small piece of the sample. That’s all there were, again, in Israel. Then the Lord comes along with his own definition of "broad is the way that leadeth to destruction and many go in thereat. But narrow is the way and straight is the gate and few there be that find it." Now, I say that only as a shaking up of people when they’re so complacent and think, "Well, everybody else is going to make it. I think I will too." No, everybody else isn’t going to make it. Only the few. Romans 5:1 "Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:" Now, maybe this is a good time. I didn’t intend to do this, but I sometimes feel the Spirit does lead for whatever purposes. Galatians chapter 1, now, if we’ve seen anything in these previous three programs, it’s the fact that salvation is "without a work." It’s without anything that a person can do of their on volition. It’s by faith and faith alone in that finished work of the cross. That’s the Gospel of Salvation that Paul has been commissioned to preach. All right, now look what he says in Galatians 1. This is a repetition again, I know it is, starting at verse 6, and this is enough to scare the socks off of you. Galatians 1:6-7 "I marvel that you are so soon removed from him who called you into the grace of Christ (They’re falling for what?) unto another gospel: (Oh, not just totally different, but off the wall different, next verse) 7. Which is not another; but there be some that trouble (or disturb) you, and would pervert (Pollute, adulterate, make it something less than what God intended.) the gospel of Christ." Now, here it is where Paul again takes credit for being the Apostle of the Gentiles, and he alone has this Gospel, as he says in Galatians chapter 2 verse 2, "Which I preach to the Gentiles," and which he calls in Romans 16:25, "my Gospel." All right, here is the warning to those who preach any salvation message other then Paul’s. Galatians 1:8 "But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed." Anathema! Cast out! #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible