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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to my Bible study with doctor Baruch Gorman,
a ministry of Love Israel dot org. In this episode,
Baruk will teach the Bible verse by verse, translating directly
from the original languages and sharing the Jewish context of
scripture so you can grow deeper in your knowledge of
God's Word. After listening, please visit us at Love Israel

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doctor Baruch.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
Are you excited to be a servant of God to
carry out God's will not only in your life, but
to be an influence upon others to see them as well,
surrendering to the will of God for them. See, when
we are committed to the things that God commands us

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to do, We're going to experience greater intimacy with God.
God's pre is going to be mightier in our life.
We're going to be walking under the authority and the
anointing of the Holy Spirit. In other words, everything's going
to change, to change according to God's personal and private

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will for your life. And what I mean by that
is this that God has a purpose for you, and
it's for no one else, and God is going to
use you as an individual to bring about what God
has saved you to do. Now, this may be something
that many people don't think about, but God has saved

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you with a purpose and that purpose involves his will.
And one person who is very committed to this, who
rejoice in God's will, who want it desperately enthusiastically to
be used by God, was the Apostle Paul. And we

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saw that last week as we concluded our study. Because
Paul wanted to go to Rome. And this is not
something that he dreamed up on his own, but it
was God's will for him to do that. God put
that in his heart. Why, well, that's what we're going

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to talk about today. So with that said, take out
your Bible and look with me to the Book of
Romans and chapter one the Book of Romans and chapter one. Now,
last week, as we concluded, Paul said that he wanted
to go to Rome, and now he's continuing that same

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statement in our first verse, which is verse eleven the
Book of Romans, chapter one, verse eleven, where he says,
four I desired and this is a word of great
desire and enthusiasiastical desire. He was passionate about this, and

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will see why in a moment. But he says, for
I desired to see you in order that some spiritual
gift I could impart to you. Now what is he
saying here. He's saying that he wanted to have influenced
in this city, among this congregation, among those believers and

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others in Rome, in order that they could come to
faith new people believe in the Gospel, and those who
did that they could grow and mature in the faith
and experience the work of the Holy Spirit in their
life in a more powerful way, that they would see

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God's provision of spiritual gifts being manifested to them. And
the more we mature, the more that we understand our faith,
the more that we are committed to the things of God,
We're going to see that the Spirit will provide more
and more. We will be gifted to a greater extent

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so that we can accomplish God's will for our lives
and influence others to do that same thing. And this
brings glory to God. And this brought great pleasure joy
unto the Apostle Paul. And the question that you and
I need to answer is this is this something that

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causes us to rejoice being used by God in the
life of other people, to see them grow and surrender.
And here's something that's so important, and for them to
recognize God's authority over them in the decisions that they make,
the words that they speak, and of course the things

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that they do. So are you doing that? Are you
demonstrating daily consistently God's authority in your life? Look again
at verse eleven, For I desire to see you in
order that some spiritual gift that I might impart among you.

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Why notice how this verse ends for and then he
has the phrase for the strengthening of you. Now, it's
interesting because this phrase for being strengthened is very specific,
not just in any way, but as we see, it

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is an outcome of God's spirit moving in one's life.
And Paul wants to come there, and he has a
call from God to do that, and that's why he's
writing this epistle in order that they might become a
stronger and a more mature congregation, that they might have
greater influence among their city and the people that they

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come in contact with. Look on to verse twelve, and
this is and he's going to say what the outcome
of this is going to do. Paul's influencing, Paul growing them,
maturing them, strengthen them them through spiritual manifestations of giftedness
from the spirit. He says, for this is and then

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he uses a word for being mutually encouraged among you,
and he says among one another, your faith and also mine. Now,
what he's talking about is something that he's going to
mention later on as we begin to wrap up in

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a few minutes. And that's this that faith is not stagnant.
It ought not be. Faith should be a growing, a
changing faith, getting stronger, getting more mature, becoming more knowledgeable,
and becoming more useful to God. Paul simply understands the

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significance of being a vessel of God for impacting others
to grow mature, recognize God's authority, and do an ever
increasing amount of service to God. This is where the
joy is. And this is also where we find God's

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provision growing in our life, his power growing in our life.
Everything that God wants us to have, we find it
growing in our life when we submit by being used
by Him. So even though when we're used by God,
we're being a blessing to others that blessing is going

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to also come back unto us, growing us, maturing us,
strengthening us, just like we're growing, maturing and strengthening other people.
So that's why he speaks here about being mutually encouraged
by your faith and also by mine. And then he

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goes on, look now to verse thirteen. I do not
want you to be ignorant. That means unknowing brethren. So
he's talking to the believers in this congregation. He says,
I do not want that you be unaware, that you
be unknowing brethren that many times, and he uses a

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word that root is a desire, a want that's in
the verbal form and the prefix pro which means before.
So what he says here is that simply in English,
we would translate it that he had many times a
previous desire to come to you. But what was the problem,

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he says, But I was hindered until this present time. Now,
one of the things that I believe is a spiritual
law is this, when we are committed to God's will,
we will find hindrance from the enemy. Don't think that

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that I'm in God's will because everything's easy. I'm not
experiencing opposition. There's no problems. I'm not in the midst
of conflict. No, no, and no, it is exactly the opposite.
It is when you are serving God faithfully, walking in
His provision, understanding his perspective by revelation, the guidance, the

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illumination of the Biblical text through the Holy Spirit. When
we are experiencing those things and faithful to them, you're
going to have opposition. And that's why I said it
was go Odd's will for him to go there. But
we see something, We see that he says, being hindered
until this present time. And again, what was Paul's motivation?

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Why did he want to go there? Well, notice what
he says in order that Now, I believe many English
translations speak about harvest, but it's not the word harvests.
It's the root car post, which is fruit fruitfulness. Now
I guess that's related someone to a harvest, but literally
it's the word for fruit in order that that I

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have some fruit also among you, just as also among
the remaining And this can mean other nations, other gentiles.
So Paul says, I want to have influence over more
and more people. And this the terminology heverybody the word

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nation or gentile being in the plural nation or gentiles.
Paul understands that as a Jew, he has a call
in his life to be a light unto the nations,
a source of illumination to gentiles, and this is going
to be foundational for understanding God's plan. Paul understands it,

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and he's submitting to it. So let me ask you,
are you wise enough, humble enough, committed enough to understand
God's plan is the best? Don't be foolish saying God, please,
you do what I want. That's not spirituality, that's not growth.
That is not how one who has been strengthened in

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the faith speaks. Quite the contrary, as Paul is saying
here that he wants to be an instrument to help
others purdue fruit, and he wants to do it in Rome,
just as he has demonstrated in other places. Verse fourteen,
he says Greeks and also barbarians. Now, what this verse

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is doing is showing a contrast. And in most people's mind,
the Greeks were highly cultured. They were of course idle worshipers,
far removed from the truth of God. But he's saying
here it doesn't matter who the people are. I want
them to walk in truth. I want them to embrace

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the truth. I want them to get saved, to experience
and will come to this in a moment. Justification that
is being seen by God's grace as righteous in his sight,
by the sufficiency of the work of Messiah. That is
that gospel message. So he says to both the Greeks

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and the Barbarians, those who are wise and those who
are foolish. He says, I am obligated. We can understand this.
He says, I am a debtor. Now why would he
use these terms? Very simply, Paul said how he was
the chief of all sinners. Paul says, when he and

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he understood his life, He says, when I look at
a list of the greatest, the worst sinners, I believe
my life my name would be on the top of
that list. And God graciously, mercifully, lovingly saved me by
the blood and the death of his very begotten son.

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And Paul understands that act of grace. It's free, it's
a gift. But nevertheless, one who receives it should understand
that we're obligated, and that obligation we can't repay God.
We can't do anything to compensate him for that loss.

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What he provided freely. He doesn't ask for that. But
we should be people that want others to see and
experience and know that same forgiveness, that same new relationship,
a new covenantal relationship with God through the Gospel. So
that's why Paul says, and he knows that he's committed,

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he's obligator, he's a debt or two. And what he's
saying here all people, regardless whether they're wise or foolish,
whether they're cultured uncultured, it doesn't matter. The Gospels for
all humanity. Now look at verse fifteen, so that according
to and he speaks here according to me, and he

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uses word preparation or readiness. Now, this also reveals something
else that's important to us. Paul was someone who got
himself ready to serve God. Again, what about you? Are
you prepared? Are you ready? So many times people just
pick up God's word and think that they're ready to

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share it. This is not factual. We need to be trained,
we need to study, We need to learn the proper
principles of interpreting the Word of God. The rules and Therefore,
Paul says, and he says this emphatically, He says, so

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that we could translate it according to me. The preparation
also for you, He's saying, I have been prepared. Now
we can understand that God working in his life to
make him prepared. And Paul also doing what was his part,
his obligation in being ready, and he says, here for you.

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And what did he want to do, He says, to
the ones in Rome, and here it is to evangelize,
to perform the preaching, the revealing of that gospel message,
so to evangelize them. And now we get to the
last two verses. Now I wanted to rush through these

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first few verses to get too very important verses verses
sixteen and seventeen, very familiar scripture, where Paul says, look
at verse sixteen. He says, for I am not ashamed
of the Gospel of Messiah. Now, why would we be

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ashamed of this wonderful message of love, of God's grace,
his everlasting mercy that endures forever. We shouldn't be ashamed,
but we need to follow his boldness. Paul spoke, revealed,
taught the gospel boldly and without compromise, and he did

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not care the response of others, meaning if they arrested him,
if they beat him, if they put him into to
a prison for a long period of time. Paul says,
I'm not ashamed, and that can be understood. I am
not going to regress. I'm not going to back down.

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I am not going to move aside. But he is
going to be passionately sharing the gospel. So he says,
look again, i am not ashamed of the Gospel of Messiah.
And then he says, for the power of God, it
is now. If you want the power of God, it

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begins with the Gospel. There's no other way to understand
what he's saying here. The Gospel brings us into contact
with the power of God. And notice what it says,
the power of God for And if we read very carefully,
it says the power of God for salvation. Now salvation.

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Here we need to understand it in two ways. Salvation
and the common understanding being born again. One's not born again,
meaning they don't have that new life, that new and
eternal relationship with God, that fellowship with Him, that hope
of receiving the promises of God, being in his Kingdom.

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No one has that until they receive the Gospel, and
that gives them that salvation. But that's the normal thinking
of for salvation to be saved forgiven of sin. But
we need to see it for another implication, and that
is the term salvation. It can have everything to do

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with victory, overcoming the enemy, his schemes, his deceit, his
horrible desires that he has for people to bring adversity. Satan,
one of the names of Satan, speaks to that name,
Satan speaks to the adversary that he's the adversary, and

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what does he want to do to bring adversity into
someone's life. So we through the Gospel message, we begin
to live victoriously. What is living victoriously? It is living
in God's will and he gives us. Remember the context,
it is the power of God in order that we

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can live victoriously. That's part of salvation, living a victorious life.
And this is available to all everyone believing. And it's
true for the Jew to the Jew first, and also
the Greek, which means the non Jew, the gentile. Now,

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notice what it says here to the Jew first. The
Gospel biblically historically, according to the scripture. That gospel came
first to Israel, to the Jewish people. It went from Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria,
and then we all know the scripture to the outermost

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parts of the earth, but it came to the jew first.
It was God's plan. We see that God orchestrated this.
And let me share with you a very important implication,
and that is this that every congregation should understand that they,

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based upon this verse, should have a priority to reach
Jewish people and to minister unto into the nation of
Israel in some way. And it's a variety of way
that God can leave people to do that lead them
to help. Ministries that feed or clothe, provide things, ministries

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that teach. There's numerous very good ministries that you can
find in order to bless Israel. And I can promise
you this that when you follow God's plan the Gospel
to the jew verse also to the Greek, not excluding
what's going to happen. When you follow God's plan of

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putting a priority to Israel and the Jewish people. What's
going to happen. He is going to make your ministry
to the rest of the world, to other individuals, to
the gentiles to other nations. He will make it more fruitful.
You will find when you say I want to submit
to God's order, that he is going to bring order

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and also blessings to the work that you do, the
ministry of your life in perhaps the congregation that you
are part of. And then let's look at our last
verse verse seventeen. Now, in speaking about the Gospel, let
me ask you a question before we just just see
the answer in verse seventeen. But being saved by the Gospel,

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what is going to begin to be manifested in my life? Well,
we see biblically that there's a relationship between the Gospel
and righteousness, and we see it here in this text.
He says, I'm not ashamed of the Gospel. It's the
power of salvation. It's the power of God for salvation.

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And then he writes here he says, for the righteousness
of God. See, when we are saved, and the only
way to be saved is through that Gospel message. And
when we are it is going to bring righteousness to us.
We will be declared by God's grace to be righteous,
righteous in his sight. Another way that we can think

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of that is being justified justified from all of our guiltiness,
our sinfulness. All of that is forgiven through the work
of Messiah upon that tree that cross, that gospel message
that reveals what Messiah did, so that we can be justified.
And here's an important part to put with it, justified eternally.

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So he says, look again verse seventeen, for the righteousness
of God in it. Now in it most ones would
see in it meaning in that gospel. But we have
to understand that according to the Greek language. Now man

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put in the breathing marks, the accent marks. None of
that was in the original texts. And when we just
look at the letters and not paying attention to what
Man added, it could be equally understood as in him.
And the reason why I want to say that is
this because really the Gospel is not a message, but

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the Gospel focuses on a person. That's what we need
to realize. So this righteousness of God is found, I
would say, in him. And that is what it says,
It is revealed in him, but in him comes first.
Why to emphasize it. So the whole verse for the

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righteousness of God in Him being revealed. And then it
says out of faith or from faith to faith. Now
I translated it literally. We have two prepositions K and
the word ace, which means out of faith or from

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faith into faith. Now, I do not like the New
International Version, the NIV, because it's not a literal translation.
It is a poor interpretation of scripture, and it says
this that is by faith from first to last. You

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don't find any of from first to last, and you
don't find the word that is all that was added
by man, not in the original texts. And it's an
interpretation that's wrong. What does this mean when it says
out of faith or by faith into faith? This is
what the scripture is telling us. It goes along with

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everything that we've been talking about up to now, which
is this from faith. When you operate out of faith,
it is going to bring you into faith. What does
that mean? You're going to grow, You're going to mature.
As Paul says earlier that his motivation was to strengthen

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this congregation, and that's what he's saying here. And notice
that it's being strengthened. I have faith. I come out
of faith, meaning that faith works itself out in order
to bring me into a stronger a greater faith, and
the outcome of that is going to impact how I live.
How do I know that? Just keep reading just as

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it has been written. And now he quotes from Habakuk
and chapter two and verse four word says and the
righteous sum will say just. It's the same in Greek
one word for describing those who have been justified and
therefore those who are righteous in God's sight. So the

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just or the righteous, however you want to translate it,
it's just the same word in Greek for the just.
Out of faith doesn't mean you leave your faith. It
means it's the result of faith. Out of faith, it says,
he will live, meaning this you are going to live

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according to faith. It is going to bring you out
of where you were and bring you into a more powerful,
a more pleasing expression of that one faith in one God.
Through Massa Yashul.

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