September 6, 2025 • 31 mins
Today's episode of Sunday Service by Pray.com features Dr. Baruch Korman
Dr. Baruch explores Romans 5:1–11, unpacking justification by faith, reconciliation with God through Messiah Yeshua, the empowering grace that leads to obedience, and a hope that endures tribulation—saving us from wrath through His blood and resurrection life. Stay tuned for ways to continue learning with LoveIsrael.org and weekly teachings from Israel.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God
through our Lord Jesus Christ Romans five. One, Father, how
can I express how much I love you? Words are
inadequate and fail to express all that's in my heart.
For what You've done for me, You've made me just
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as if I never sinned. That's the beauty of justification.
When I accepted your son Jesus into my heart, I
was covered in the blood he shed on the cross
for my sins. His blood washed my sins into the
sea of forgetfulness. The price he paid for me with
his very life is more than I can fathom. But
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his sacrificial love made me justified in your eyes. By
my faith in Jesus, I became clean and knew just
as if I never sinned. What a powerful revelation. I've
been legally transferred from Satan's kingdom into God's kingdom of
love through the blood of Jesus. I am now under
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his protection from the enemy's assaults against me. Father God,
you are the sovereign lord of the universe, and the
enemy can only go so far and no further. You
have given me authority in the name of Jesus, to
pull down Satan's strongholds against me. Knowing I am forgiven
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brings me peace to stand in the midst of any battle.
Then declare your victory over my life. Praise you Lord
for how much you love me in Jesus' name. Amen.
Thank you for listening to today's daily prayer for more
inspiration and an incredible message from our feature pastor. Stay
(01:51):
tuned to pray dot COM's Sunday service, Chellom.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
And welcome to via hafta Ysrael, a Hebrew phrase which
means you shall love Israel. We hope you'll stay with
us for the next thirty minutes as our teacher, Doctor
Baruk shares his expository teaching from the Bible. Doctor Baruk
is the senior lecturer at the Zira Avraham Institute based
in Israel. Although all courses are taught in Hebrew at
the institute, Doctor Baruk is pleased to share this weekly
(02:29):
address in English. To find out more about our work
in Israel, please visit us on the web at Loveisrael
dot org. That's one word, Love Israel dot org. Now
here's Baruke with today's lesson.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Have you been reconciled to God? And if so, how
would you know that. Well, that's exactly what the apostle
Paul is going to teach us into seve new study.
So with that said, take out your Bible and look
with me to the Book of Romans and chapter five
the Book of Romans and chapter five. Now, in these
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first eleven verses that we're going to study, we're going
to see foundational truth. That is truth that every believer,
if he has a hope of being brought into the
Kingdom of God and experiencing God's presence for eternity and
knowing the promises and the blessings of God, such a
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person must affirm and agree with what Paul is sharing
in this passage. So we're going to be looking at
basic truth in regard to justification, reconciliation, salvation, and experiencing
God's glory. So look with me to verse one Romans,
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Chapter five and verse one he says, therefore, having been justified,
and the term is from faith or out of faith,
when we walk in faith, and that means when we
receive the Gospel. The consequence of that is that God
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justifies us. What does that mean that God deals with
the problem of sin from a kingdom standpoint, God deals
with sin perfectly, that our sin is forgiven. We'll talk
a moment about what is the element that brings it
about from God. But he deals with our sinfulness, so
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that God does not see sin in our life, but
he sees the very righteousness of his son, and that
gives us assurance. So once more, therefore, having been justified
by faith, peace, and this is emphatic here peace, that
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is that intimacy, that relationship, an eternal covenantal relationship with
God has been established by faith, faith in the work
of Messiah. So he says, having been justified, therefore by faith,
peace we have with God. And we didn't do it ourselves. Now,
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at the beginning of this verse where it says therefore
having been justified, it's in the passive meaning we didn't
justify ourselves. But we receive that justification through a different source.
And there's only one source of justification, and that is Messiah.
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He is the redeemer, the justifier, the Savior. Without him,
there is no hope. There is only one way that
justification came about, and that's through the Cross. So we
read we have peace with God through our Lord Massiah
Yeshuah verse two, through whom also the access we have. Now,
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this is access to God. And what is this access?
Good for every godly thing, every righteous thing, everything that
is connected to the will of God. Now, what Paul
is revealing is this one who has been justified. He
wants to see sin removed from his life, not just
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the eternal consequence of the sin, that punishment, but he
also doesn't want to live in sin, and he wants
to serve God doing the will of God. And therefore
he realizes this in the same way that we were
unable to justify ourselves, we had to be justified in
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order to be able to carry out God's will. Likewise,
we need assistance from him, We need access to his provision.
And it's only, and don't miss this, it is only
when we have been justified by faith that we have
access to God's provision in order that we can serve
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him faithfully, carrying out his purposes, his desires, his will
in our life. So he says, we have access by
faith into and what is this source of provision, Well,
it's the grace of God. Now again, I've shared many
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times that if one only thinks of God's grace in
regard to salvation, that is a too narrow understanding of
the grace of God. God's grace does save us. Through
God's grace, we find that forgiveness. We find what we
talked about earlier, that reconciliation with God. But God's grace
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ought not be limited only to salvation, only to establishing
that relationship. God's grace, as it works in our life,
will move us, compel us to do God's will. So
there's a very easy test that you can take. If
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a person has been saved, doesn't matter who he is.
If a person has been saved, that person is going
to be interested in God's will, doing God's will, performing
it not for salvation, but because he has been saved,
because he knows the goodness of God. He knows that
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God's will is the best plan for one's life. So
he's going to be committed, and that's what the grace
of God is going to bring about and enable him
to do. So. He says, we have access by faith
into disgrace in which we stand now. Again, grammar is important.
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This word for standing is in the perfect, which means
the moment one believes now. For me, I came to
faith back in nineteen eighty two. At that moment, the
moment that I believed I stood before God in a
manner that God would receive me. And that's true now,
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many many years later, and it will continue to be
true forever and ever. So that grace is sufficient for
all of eternity. By this grace, he says, we stand.
And also because of this confidence, and because we know
the outcome of God's will, it says also we boast
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in the hope. Now there's an important word, in fact,
in this fifth chapter what we're studying. In these first
eleven verses, we see so many rich theological terms justification, grace,
We're going to see reconciliation, and now we see that
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wonderful word hope. Again, we need to remember something. Hope
is never based upon desires that originate with a human
being meaning this, I desire this, I want this, and
now I'm going to bring this before God to see
if he will grant it to me. That is futile,
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That is not the action the behavior of one of faith.
We see that hope is connected to the promises of God.
So what can I have hope in? What should I
have a sure expectation that God as I move along
his purposes, his plan as I walk in His will. Therefore,
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based upon being in the will of God, I can
have the expectations of God's promises, what God has said
that He is going to do in the life of
a believer. So this hope and notice word brings us
look again at our texts. He says that we have
this access by faith to the grace of God by
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which we stand and we boast in the hope. And
here's the hope, the hope of the glory of God. Now,
when we talk about the glory of God, what should
come into your mind? One thing that should come into
your mind is this his kingdom. If you look, for example,
to the Book of Zachariah, chapter fourteen, it speaks about
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the kingdom of God and it mentions how there's going
to be a light. Now, many English Bibles don't even
translate the adjective that describes this type of light. It's
a unique light, and that light is the glory of God.
So there's an inherent relationship, a strong, strong connection between
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the kingdom of God and the manifestation of his glory.
God's glory is seen in his presence, and we know something.
It says in that passage in zachari Are fourteen that
God is going to be one. His name is going
to be one. And here's the key, You and I
those who will be part of his kingdom, we will
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recognize God. That means this, We will experience him. We
will be in his presence, and his presence is a
glorious place to inhabit. This is what Paul is referring
to move on now to verse three. He says, but
not only in the implication. Is not only the things
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that we've studied, this wonderful reconciliation, having been justified by faith,
in the grace of God, having access to the very
provision of God, his power, knowing the perspective of God,
all of these things he's promising, he says once more,
and verse three, But not only in the implication, is this,
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but also we boast And this is something that promptly
you and I don't boast in And what is that?
He says, Not only this, but also or we could
translate that word rather rather also in the tribulations, and
that phrase in the tribulations is plural. We know something.
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One who has been reconciled to God becomes a friend
of God. And when we are in friendship with God.
Here's what John teaches us in First John. We will
become an enemy of the world. And therefore, because the
world does not want the Kingdom of God, the world
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does not want the changes that God says are good change.
Because of that, there is going to be conflict and
we will experience tribulation. A very important verse, Matthew, excuse me.
The Book of Acts, Acts, chapter fourteen and verse twenty two.
It's talking about believers and it says, you know, we
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are going to enter into the Kingdom of God. And
it says, and it is necessary through much tribulation that
we enter into the Kingdom of God. Now that tribulation
going through it does not earn us merit, It is
not part of earning our salvation. That would be absolute heresy.
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But he's simply saying that before the Kingdom of God
is established, there is going to be great persecution for
believers and that we're going to experience tribulation. Realize something
we will never promised not to suffer persecution and tribulation.
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What we have been promised is this, and we'll see
it in a moment towards the end of our study.
We have been promised not to experience the wrath of God.
So look at the scripture, he says, but also we
boast in the tribulations. Why knowing and this is an
experiential word, knowing that tribulation endurance produces. Here again, we
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would probably say maybe most Bibles do produces endurance, that endurance,
that perseverance to maintain walking in the will of God
despite what we're suffering. But the order is different in
the Greek texts, where it puts endurance before this producing.
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So we know that tribulation. He says, endurance produces, and
endurance is good. Why because it's a process that we're
talking about. He writes that not only this, but look
now verse four. But endurance, and the implication is from
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the earlier verse, it also produces. It also has an outcome,
a result. And what is that. Well, many Bibles will
say the word character. But here's the problem. Literally, this
is the word where we get the English word document.
It is related to the Greek concept of proof. And
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what he's saying is this, as we endure in the
midst of what's the contexts, tribulations, as we endure faithfully
consistently walking in God's will despite of what we're experiencing.
Because of that, that documents are faith to God. No,
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it does to others. In other words, he's talking about
how this perseverance gives us a testimony, and then it says,
but this perseverance and this proof, this evidence of our faith.
It also is an implication. It produces what well the
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word here is and we mentioned a few minutes ago,
it produces hope. Now hope that is seen and testified too.
What do I mean by that? This is it when
someone sees you and it's all this testimony that's so
foundational in this. When someone sees that you are persevering,
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enduring persecution, suffering tribulation, walking faithfully with God, They're going
to think, why is that? And the reason is this.
When someone perseveres on a course, it's because they want
to get to the objective, that destination. They want to arrive.
Why they have a desire. They're willing to endure, suffer,
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do whatever is necessary to arrive at that place. And
that testifies to other how wonderful God's plans in the future,
his kingdom plans are for his people. It is a testimony.
And then keep reading. He says here verse five. And
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hope is not something that is going to cause us
to be ashamed. Why because we have this hope, we
know the character of God, the promises of God, the
blessings of God. Therefore, we're not going to be ashamed,
because what are we experiencing. We are experiencing the love
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of God, this love of God which has been poured
out into our hearts through whom it says, through the
Holy Spirit, whom has been given to us. Now we
see the Holy Spirit. And whenever there's a reference to
the Holy Spirit. We learn from from Isaiah chapter fifty nine,
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beginning in verse twenty and twenty one, a very well
known and by the way, that passage is read every
day in the Synagogue in the liturgical service, and that
passage is that Messiah is a redeemer, the redeemer. He
is going to redeem us. The outcome of this redemption
is going to be an eternal covenantal relationship with God.
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And the evidence of this eternal covenant is, and this
is found in Isaiah, is the Spirit of God. And
the spirit of God he is going to move in
our life, and he is going to be the foundation
of everything that is good, everything that is godly, everything
that is righteous, everything that pleases God in our life
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is the outcome of the work of the Holy Spirit
in the life of the believer. Verse verse six. For
still Messiah, us being weak. So Massiah, despite the fact
that we were weak, meaning we were were not strong
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in the faith, We weren't being examples of individuals that
God was what were well, God was well pleased with.
It says, for yet Messiah, us being weak. But what
happens according to the time, the season, And this was
of course a season that God has determined in behalf
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of the ungodly, that's you and me. So us being
weak spiritually being unacceptable is another way to think of this,
us still being in that condition. Nothing praiseworthy in our life,
nothing of righteousness, but rather ungodliness. And it says, yet,
still being in that condition, what happens at God's timing?
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He did something, and that timing is seen and revealed
by the prophets. Messiah came at the right time, at
a discernible time, according to prophecy, when he did something,
and it says for the ungodly he died. Verse seven.
He says, for rare. Now that's something, This word beings
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something that is very uh rare, infrequent, not common at all.
He says, for rare, in behalf of a righteous one,
someone would die. But then he says, for behalf in
behalf of a good one, perhaps someone also would dare
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to die, meaning this, if someone is really good, perhaps
there would be someone who would be be willing to
lay down his life for that person, live sacrificially. But
he says, this is rare. But this is exactly what
we're going to see. Messiah did for you and me.
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He says verse verse eight. But God, God demonstrated his
love for us. Now let me just go off on
a tangent and say this, we as believers are called
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to follow that example, and that is to demonstrate our
love for others. This is what many Christians don't know this,
But this is what the Torah teaches. The Torah teaches
us all those commandments six hundred and thirteen commandments in
the first five books of the Bible. Those commandments teach
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us how to love, how to demonstrate love. And that's
why we read verse eight. But God demonstrated his love
because us, still being sinners, Messiah in behalf of us died.
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Now I translated that most literally. Why because these words
spell out exactly the Gospel. What it is that good
news that God has has placed into this world, and Messiah,
his only begotten son, that he fulfilled for us. So
look again, because God, and it's the God, the only God,
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he demonstrated his love for us that while still being sinners,
and that's you and me us, we still being sinners,
Messiah in behalf of us he died verse nine. Therefore
much more. Now this is where it gets just glorious
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for us to understand this. He says, therefore much more
rather having justified, and that could be understand making righteous
now how having been justified now in his blood. So
you and I he has made righteous us being justified
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how in his blood. And whenever that term blood appears
in the scripture, we should be thinking about what we
mentioned earlier. That term blood has to do with redemption.
So it is through death that one experiences redemption, and
that death was the holy son of God who died
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for a most holy people. And who's that you and me,
all those of humanity that are humble enough and wise
enough to confess we have sin, that we have fallen
short of the glory of God, that we are in
need and absolute dependence upon God's mercy, that we need
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to receive God's grace. And as we learned in chapter
four based upon to our truth found in the Book
of Genesis, the only way that you can receive and
have access to the grace of God, which justifies, which reconciles,
which saves, which redeems, the only way is through faith.
That's what we learned in chapter four from the life
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of Abraham. So look again, he says, now having been
justified by his blood, and it says also being saved,
meaning all these things we're not doing, we are receiving.
It's in the past, we simply by faith. Faith is
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the cause. And when we have faith in what Messiah
has done, that work by which he shed his blood,
that shedding the blood redeems and it brings about justification,
that same word can be understood in an inaccurate sense
of being made righteous in God's sight. And it says
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having been saved through him through his work. From what
here it is from the wrath, and the implication is
the wrath of God. So this scripture makes it very
clear we are not saved from tribulation we are not
saved from earthly suffering from persecution from the enemies. Quite
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the contrary. Based upon what we've learned, we're supposed to
be people that boast, that praise God, that exult in
our suffering, in being persecuted for our faith, as the
scripture says, counted all for joy. When when you suffer
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for righteousness, so we are called it says earlier in
another portion of scripture that Paul wrote to Timothy, he says,
you know, this suffering is why God gave us grace,
not just the grace that says, but the grace that
propels us in the will of God that causes us,
as we talked about, to endure. So we are only
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the promises we have is that we have been saved
through Him his work on that cross, that we have
been saved from the wrath. Verse ten, he says, for
if being enemies, we have been reconciled to God through
his death the death of his son, much more, now
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he's going to tell us a wonderful truth, he says,
since being enemies of God, we were reconciled to him
through his death, the death of his son. Much more.
Being reconciled, he says, Yes, we've been reconciled. That is
that relationship. He'll but he says, also being saved in
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his life. Now, what's it'speakinning about. Well, you look at
most of the commentators, they will tell you this being
saved by his life refers to his resurrection. So his
death brought about reconciliation, but his life, his resurrection, that
evidence brings about salvation. In this sense, the salvation he's
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talking about is the victory, the victory to live in obedience.
That's why we're still here to demonstrate our salvation. And
that word salvation we can understand it in certain contexts
as victory. So we have been saved by by God
through his grace. It was the death of his son
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that reconciled us to God the Father. But it's that
resurrection that testifies to victory. The resurrection always points to victory.
And now look at our last verse, verse eleven. But
not only meaning not only these wonderful things, but also
we boast in God through our Lord Messiah is Yushua
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that through him now we have received and this is
something that he wants us to be left with, that
we have received reconciliation over and over and this is
that foundational truth that we have been reconciled to God.
We are His people. He has promised never to leave
us nor forsake us. That is the good news of
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the Gospel. Praise Him Shalom from Israel.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
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you will find articles in numerous other lectures by Baruch.
These teachings are in video form. May download them or
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watch them in streaming video until next week. May the
Lord bless you in our Messiah.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
Yeshua, that is Jesus.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
As you walk with it, Shalom from Israel, you will
be like.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
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God's promise remain true.
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Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God
through our Lord Jesus Christ Romans five. One, Father, how
can I express how much I love you? Words are
inadequate and fail to express all that's in my heart.
For what You've done for me, You've made me just
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as if I never sinned. That's the beauty of justification.
When I accepted your son Jesus into my heart, I
was covered in the blood he shed on the cross
for my sins. His blood washed my sins into the
sea of forgetfulness. The price he paid for me with
his very life is more than I can fathom. But
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his sacrificial love made me justified in your eyes. By
my faith in Jesus, I became clean and knew just
as if I never sinned. What a powerful revelation. I've
been legally transferred from Satan's kingdom into God's kingdom of
love through the blood of Jesus. I am now under
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his protection from the enemy's assaults against me. Father God,
you are the sovereign lord of the universe, and the
enemy can only go so far and no further. You
have given me authority in the name of Jesus, to
pull down Satan's strongholds against me. Knowing I am forgiven
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brings me peace to stand in the midst of any battle.
Then declare your victory over my life. Praise you Lord
for how much you love me in Jesus' name. Amen.
Thank you for listening to today's daily prayer for more
inspiration and an incredible message from our feature pastor. Stay
(01:51):
tuned to pray dot COM's Sunday service, Chellom.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
And welcome to via hafta Ysrael, a Hebrew phrase which
means you shall love Israel. We hope you'll stay with
us for the next thirty minutes as our teacher, Doctor
Baruk shares his expository teaching from the Bible. Doctor Baruk
is the senior lecturer at the Zira Avraham Institute based
in Israel. Although all courses are taught in Hebrew at
the institute, Doctor Baruk is pleased to share this weekly
(02:29):
address in English. To find out more about our work
in Israel, please visit us on the web at Loveisrael
dot org. That's one word, Love Israel dot org. Now
here's Baruke with today's lesson.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Have you been reconciled to God? And if so, how
would you know that. Well, that's exactly what the apostle
Paul is going to teach us into seve new study.
So with that said, take out your Bible and look
with me to the Book of Romans and chapter five
the Book of Romans and chapter five. Now, in these
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first eleven verses that we're going to study, we're going
to see foundational truth. That is truth that every believer,
if he has a hope of being brought into the
Kingdom of God and experiencing God's presence for eternity and
knowing the promises and the blessings of God, such a
(03:26):
person must affirm and agree with what Paul is sharing
in this passage. So we're going to be looking at
basic truth in regard to justification, reconciliation, salvation, and experiencing
God's glory. So look with me to verse one Romans,
(03:47):
Chapter five and verse one he says, therefore, having been justified,
and the term is from faith or out of faith,
when we walk in faith, and that means when we
receive the Gospel. The consequence of that is that God
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justifies us. What does that mean that God deals with
the problem of sin from a kingdom standpoint, God deals
with sin perfectly, that our sin is forgiven. We'll talk
a moment about what is the element that brings it
about from God. But he deals with our sinfulness, so
(04:29):
that God does not see sin in our life, but
he sees the very righteousness of his son, and that
gives us assurance. So once more, therefore, having been justified
by faith, peace, and this is emphatic here peace, that
(04:50):
is that intimacy, that relationship, an eternal covenantal relationship with
God has been established by faith, faith in the work
of Messiah. So he says, having been justified, therefore by faith,
peace we have with God. And we didn't do it ourselves. Now,
(05:12):
at the beginning of this verse where it says therefore
having been justified, it's in the passive meaning we didn't
justify ourselves. But we receive that justification through a different source.
And there's only one source of justification, and that is Messiah.
(05:33):
He is the redeemer, the justifier, the Savior. Without him,
there is no hope. There is only one way that
justification came about, and that's through the Cross. So we
read we have peace with God through our Lord Massiah
Yeshuah verse two, through whom also the access we have. Now,
(06:02):
this is access to God. And what is this access?
Good for every godly thing, every righteous thing, everything that
is connected to the will of God. Now, what Paul
is revealing is this one who has been justified. He
wants to see sin removed from his life, not just
(06:24):
the eternal consequence of the sin, that punishment, but he
also doesn't want to live in sin, and he wants
to serve God doing the will of God. And therefore
he realizes this in the same way that we were
unable to justify ourselves, we had to be justified in
(06:45):
order to be able to carry out God's will. Likewise,
we need assistance from him, We need access to his provision.
And it's only, and don't miss this, it is only
when we have been justified by faith that we have
access to God's provision in order that we can serve
(07:06):
him faithfully, carrying out his purposes, his desires, his will
in our life. So he says, we have access by
faith into and what is this source of provision, Well,
it's the grace of God. Now again, I've shared many
(07:27):
times that if one only thinks of God's grace in
regard to salvation, that is a too narrow understanding of
the grace of God. God's grace does save us. Through
God's grace, we find that forgiveness. We find what we
talked about earlier, that reconciliation with God. But God's grace
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ought not be limited only to salvation, only to establishing
that relationship. God's grace, as it works in our life,
will move us, compel us to do God's will. So
there's a very easy test that you can take. If
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a person has been saved, doesn't matter who he is.
If a person has been saved, that person is going
to be interested in God's will, doing God's will, performing
it not for salvation, but because he has been saved,
because he knows the goodness of God. He knows that
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God's will is the best plan for one's life. So
he's going to be committed, and that's what the grace
of God is going to bring about and enable him
to do. So. He says, we have access by faith
into disgrace in which we stand now. Again, grammar is important.
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This word for standing is in the perfect, which means
the moment one believes now. For me, I came to
faith back in nineteen eighty two. At that moment, the
moment that I believed I stood before God in a
manner that God would receive me. And that's true now,
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many many years later, and it will continue to be
true forever and ever. So that grace is sufficient for
all of eternity. By this grace, he says, we stand.
And also because of this confidence, and because we know
the outcome of God's will, it says also we boast
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in the hope. Now there's an important word, in fact,
in this fifth chapter what we're studying. In these first
eleven verses, we see so many rich theological terms justification, grace,
We're going to see reconciliation, and now we see that
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wonderful word hope. Again, we need to remember something. Hope
is never based upon desires that originate with a human
being meaning this, I desire this, I want this, and
now I'm going to bring this before God to see
if he will grant it to me. That is futile,
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That is not the action the behavior of one of faith.
We see that hope is connected to the promises of God.
So what can I have hope in? What should I
have a sure expectation that God as I move along
his purposes, his plan as I walk in His will. Therefore,
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based upon being in the will of God, I can
have the expectations of God's promises, what God has said
that He is going to do in the life of
a believer. So this hope and notice word brings us
look again at our texts. He says that we have
this access by faith to the grace of God by
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which we stand and we boast in the hope. And
here's the hope, the hope of the glory of God. Now,
when we talk about the glory of God, what should
come into your mind? One thing that should come into
your mind is this his kingdom. If you look, for example,
to the Book of Zachariah, chapter fourteen, it speaks about
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the kingdom of God and it mentions how there's going
to be a light. Now, many English Bibles don't even
translate the adjective that describes this type of light. It's
a unique light, and that light is the glory of God.
So there's an inherent relationship, a strong, strong connection between
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the kingdom of God and the manifestation of his glory.
God's glory is seen in his presence, and we know something.
It says in that passage in zachari Are fourteen that
God is going to be one. His name is going
to be one. And here's the key, You and I
those who will be part of his kingdom, we will
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recognize God. That means this, We will experience him. We
will be in his presence, and his presence is a
glorious place to inhabit. This is what Paul is referring
to move on now to verse three. He says, but
not only in the implication. Is not only the things
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that we've studied, this wonderful reconciliation, having been justified by faith,
in the grace of God, having access to the very
provision of God, his power, knowing the perspective of God,
all of these things he's promising, he says once more,
and verse three, But not only in the implication, is this,
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but also we boast And this is something that promptly
you and I don't boast in And what is that?
He says, Not only this, but also or we could
translate that word rather rather also in the tribulations, and
that phrase in the tribulations is plural. We know something.
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One who has been reconciled to God becomes a friend
of God. And when we are in friendship with God.
Here's what John teaches us in First John. We will
become an enemy of the world. And therefore, because the
world does not want the Kingdom of God, the world
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does not want the changes that God says are good change.
Because of that, there is going to be conflict and
we will experience tribulation. A very important verse, Matthew, excuse me.
The Book of Acts, Acts, chapter fourteen and verse twenty two.
It's talking about believers and it says, you know, we
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are going to enter into the Kingdom of God. And
it says, and it is necessary through much tribulation that
we enter into the Kingdom of God. Now that tribulation
going through it does not earn us merit, It is
not part of earning our salvation. That would be absolute heresy.
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But he's simply saying that before the Kingdom of God
is established, there is going to be great persecution for
believers and that we're going to experience tribulation. Realize something
we will never promised not to suffer persecution and tribulation.
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What we have been promised is this, and we'll see
it in a moment towards the end of our study.
We have been promised not to experience the wrath of God.
So look at the scripture, he says, but also we
boast in the tribulations. Why knowing and this is an
experiential word, knowing that tribulation endurance produces. Here again, we
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would probably say maybe most Bibles do produces endurance, that endurance,
that perseverance to maintain walking in the will of God
despite what we're suffering. But the order is different in
the Greek texts, where it puts endurance before this producing.
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So we know that tribulation. He says, endurance produces, and
endurance is good. Why because it's a process that we're
talking about. He writes that not only this, but look
now verse four. But endurance, and the implication is from
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the earlier verse, it also produces. It also has an outcome,
a result. And what is that. Well, many Bibles will
say the word character. But here's the problem. Literally, this
is the word where we get the English word document.
It is related to the Greek concept of proof. And
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what he's saying is this, as we endure in the
midst of what's the contexts, tribulations, as we endure faithfully
consistently walking in God's will despite of what we're experiencing.
Because of that, that documents are faith to God. No,
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it does to others. In other words, he's talking about
how this perseverance gives us a testimony, and then it says,
but this perseverance and this proof, this evidence of our faith.
It also is an implication. It produces what well the
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word here is and we mentioned a few minutes ago,
it produces hope. Now hope that is seen and testified too.
What do I mean by that? This is it when
someone sees you and it's all this testimony that's so
foundational in this. When someone sees that you are persevering,
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enduring persecution, suffering tribulation, walking faithfully with God, They're going
to think, why is that? And the reason is this.
When someone perseveres on a course, it's because they want
to get to the objective, that destination. They want to arrive.
Why they have a desire. They're willing to endure, suffer,
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do whatever is necessary to arrive at that place. And
that testifies to other how wonderful God's plans in the future,
his kingdom plans are for his people. It is a testimony.
And then keep reading. He says here verse five. And
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hope is not something that is going to cause us
to be ashamed. Why because we have this hope, we
know the character of God, the promises of God, the
blessings of God. Therefore, we're not going to be ashamed,
because what are we experiencing. We are experiencing the love
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of God, this love of God which has been poured
out into our hearts through whom it says, through the
Holy Spirit, whom has been given to us. Now we
see the Holy Spirit. And whenever there's a reference to
the Holy Spirit. We learn from from Isaiah chapter fifty nine,
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beginning in verse twenty and twenty one, a very well
known and by the way, that passage is read every
day in the Synagogue in the liturgical service, and that
passage is that Messiah is a redeemer, the redeemer. He
is going to redeem us. The outcome of this redemption
is going to be an eternal covenantal relationship with God.
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And the evidence of this eternal covenant is, and this
is found in Isaiah, is the Spirit of God. And
the spirit of God he is going to move in
our life, and he is going to be the foundation
of everything that is good, everything that is godly, everything
that is righteous, everything that pleases God in our life
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is the outcome of the work of the Holy Spirit
in the life of the believer. Verse verse six. For
still Messiah, us being weak. So Massiah, despite the fact
that we were weak, meaning we were were not strong
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in the faith, We weren't being examples of individuals that
God was what were well, God was well pleased with.
It says, for yet Messiah, us being weak. But what
happens according to the time, the season, And this was
of course a season that God has determined in behalf
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of the ungodly, that's you and me. So us being
weak spiritually being unacceptable is another way to think of this,
us still being in that condition. Nothing praiseworthy in our life,
nothing of righteousness, but rather ungodliness. And it says, yet,
still being in that condition, what happens at God's timing?
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He did something, and that timing is seen and revealed
by the prophets. Messiah came at the right time, at
a discernible time, according to prophecy, when he did something,
and it says for the ungodly he died. Verse seven.
He says, for rare. Now that's something, This word beings
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something that is very uh rare, infrequent, not common at all.
He says, for rare, in behalf of a righteous one,
someone would die. But then he says, for behalf in
behalf of a good one, perhaps someone also would dare
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to die, meaning this, if someone is really good, perhaps
there would be someone who would be be willing to
lay down his life for that person, live sacrificially. But
he says, this is rare. But this is exactly what
we're going to see. Messiah did for you and me.
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He says verse verse eight. But God, God demonstrated his
love for us. Now let me just go off on
a tangent and say this, we as believers are called
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to follow that example, and that is to demonstrate our
love for others. This is what many Christians don't know this,
But this is what the Torah teaches. The Torah teaches
us all those commandments six hundred and thirteen commandments in
the first five books of the Bible. Those commandments teach
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us how to love, how to demonstrate love. And that's
why we read verse eight. But God demonstrated his love
because us, still being sinners, Messiah in behalf of us died.
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Now I translated that most literally. Why because these words
spell out exactly the Gospel. What it is that good
news that God has has placed into this world, and Messiah,
his only begotten son, that he fulfilled for us. So
look again, because God, and it's the God, the only God,
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he demonstrated his love for us that while still being sinners,
and that's you and me us, we still being sinners,
Messiah in behalf of us he died verse nine. Therefore
much more. Now this is where it gets just glorious
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for us to understand this. He says, therefore much more
rather having justified, and that could be understand making righteous
now how having been justified now in his blood. So
you and I he has made righteous us being justified
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how in his blood. And whenever that term blood appears
in the scripture, we should be thinking about what we
mentioned earlier. That term blood has to do with redemption.
So it is through death that one experiences redemption, and
that death was the holy son of God who died
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for a most holy people. And who's that you and me,
all those of humanity that are humble enough and wise
enough to confess we have sin, that we have fallen
short of the glory of God, that we are in
need and absolute dependence upon God's mercy, that we need
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to receive God's grace. And as we learned in chapter
four based upon to our truth found in the Book
of Genesis, the only way that you can receive and
have access to the grace of God, which justifies, which reconciles,
which saves, which redeems, the only way is through faith.
That's what we learned in chapter four from the life
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of Abraham. So look again, he says, now having been
justified by his blood, and it says also being saved,
meaning all these things we're not doing, we are receiving.
It's in the past, we simply by faith. Faith is
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the cause. And when we have faith in what Messiah
has done, that work by which he shed his blood,
that shedding the blood redeems and it brings about justification,
that same word can be understood in an inaccurate sense
of being made righteous in God's sight. And it says
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having been saved through him through his work. From what
here it is from the wrath, and the implication is
the wrath of God. So this scripture makes it very
clear we are not saved from tribulation we are not
saved from earthly suffering from persecution from the enemies. Quite
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the contrary. Based upon what we've learned, we're supposed to
be people that boast, that praise God, that exult in
our suffering, in being persecuted for our faith, as the
scripture says, counted all for joy. When when you suffer
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for righteousness, so we are called it says earlier in
another portion of scripture that Paul wrote to Timothy, he says,
you know, this suffering is why God gave us grace,
not just the grace that says, but the grace that
propels us in the will of God that causes us,
as we talked about, to endure. So we are only
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the promises we have is that we have been saved
through Him his work on that cross, that we have
been saved from the wrath. Verse ten, he says, for
if being enemies, we have been reconciled to God through
his death the death of his son, much more, now
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he's going to tell us a wonderful truth, he says,
since being enemies of God, we were reconciled to him
through his death, the death of his son. Much more.
Being reconciled, he says, Yes, we've been reconciled. That is
that relationship. He'll but he says, also being saved in
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his life. Now, what's it'speakinning about. Well, you look at
most of the commentators, they will tell you this being
saved by his life refers to his resurrection. So his
death brought about reconciliation, but his life, his resurrection, that
evidence brings about salvation. In this sense, the salvation he's
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talking about is the victory, the victory to live in obedience.
That's why we're still here to demonstrate our salvation. And
that word salvation we can understand it in certain contexts
as victory. So we have been saved by by God
through his grace. It was the death of his son
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that reconciled us to God the Father. But it's that
resurrection that testifies to victory. The resurrection always points to victory.
And now look at our last verse, verse eleven. But
not only meaning not only these wonderful things, but also
we boast in God through our Lord Messiah is Yushua
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that through him now we have received and this is
something that he wants us to be left with, that
we have received reconciliation over and over and this is
that foundational truth that we have been reconciled to God.
We are His people. He has promised never to leave
us nor forsake us. That is the good news of
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the Gospel. Praise Him Shalom from Israel.
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Yeshua, that is Jesus.
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As you walk with it, Shalom from Israel, you will
be like.
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God's promise remain true.
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