NT Framework - Seeing Clearly

Start with the question few dare to ask: can any of us truly know our motives? We build from Paul’s sober insight to show how self-reliance keeps us from seeking what only grace can give. 

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This series included graphics to illustrate what is being taught, if you would like to watch the teachings you can do so on Rumble (https://rumble.com/user/SpokaneBibleChurch) or on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtV_KhFVZ_waBcnuywiRKIyEcDkiujRqP).

Jeremy Thomas is the pastor at Spokane Bible Church in Spokane, Washington and a professor at Chafer Theological Seminary. He has been teaching the Bible for over 20 years, always seeking to present its truths in a clear and understandable manner. 

Episode Transcript

SPEAKER_00 (00:00):
Welcome to Beyond the Walls with Jeremy Thomas and

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our series on the New Testamentframework.
Today, a smaller, bite-sizedpiece from the larger lesson.
We hope you enjoy it.

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Paul even says, I don't even know, I don't even
judge myself because I don'tknow all my motives.
Do you know all your motives?
Have you been able to search thedepths of your heart and know
everything, every good thing youever did, had a perfectly good
motive behind it?
No, you can't.
You can't, we we can't evenevaluate ourselves that well.
We could have mixed motives inourselves.

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We're sinners, that's theproblem.
We need someone to come pay ourdebt.
And Christ did it.
He paid it in full.
But they were still trying byworks, right?

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They rejected the word of God.
Acts 13, 46.
They didn't perceive theirsinful condition and their need
for eternal life.
Acts 13, 46.
I mean, if you think you're goodenough, if you really think
you're a good person, I mean thePharisees, they thought they
were good.

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If you really think you're agood person, right, then you're
not going to see your need foreternal life.
Because you're going to think,well, I'm good enough.
13, 46.
Paul and Barnabas spoke outboldly and said, It was
necessary the word of God bespoken to you, that's to the
Jews, first.
But you repudiate it and judgeyourselves unworthy of eternal

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life.
See, they judge themselvesunworthy of eternal life because
they thought, well, we were goodenough in and of ourselves.
So then he turned to theGentiles.
And they wanted it.
Boy, the Gentiles realized theywere sinners.
They were anxious for salvation.
Now, the nation of Israel todayis still in unbelief.

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Okay.
But whenever a Jew turns to theLord, guess what?
They're saved.
2 Corinthians 3 15 to 16.
And it says the veil is removed.
You know, it's like there's aveil over their eyes or over
their heart, and they can't see.
But it says, whenever theybelieve in the Lord, they
believe in the Lord JesusChrist, the veil is lifted.

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It's like they see.

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Like, wow.

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Okay.
And you know, there are Jewishbelievers today, of course.
There they're not a lot, but Imean, there's Jewish believers
in the land.
There's we're talking right nowin our deacons about supporting
Jewish believers in the land.
Um some of them are, as we'vebeen reading about different
ministries that are to Jewishbelievers in the land, they're

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members of the IDF and theyminister within their you know
their platoons and theirbattalions and all that.
Um and it's tough for thembecause for a Jew to believe in
Jesus today, if a Jew believesin Jesus, especially in the
land, that most other Jews,secular Jews, consider you
committing treason against theJewish people because they think

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you're becoming a non-Jew.
In other words, they think thatby becoming a Christian, you are
becoming, you're rejecting yourJewishness.
That's not true.
Paul was a Jewish believer, andhe didn't say, I'm no longer a
Jew.
He said in Romans 9:1, I am aJew.
He was a Jewish believer.

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Some people call him to namemessianic believers or messianic
Jews.
Um, they still maintain theirracial heritage as Jewish
people, as descendants ofAbraham, Isaac, and Jacob,
right?
Jesus was a Jew, right?
Salvation is of the Jews, John4.
So when a Jew believes in Jesus,they don't become a non-Jew,
they become what I call acompleted Jew.

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Because a completed Jew is onewho believes in their Messiah.
Jesus, who's a Jew.
Which was the true purpose thatGod had for the Jewish people,
that they believe in theirMessiah.
So we have those believerstoday, they're known as the
remnant, right?
And there will always be aremnant.
Okay, Romans 11.

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In fact, Romans 11, 1 through10, can make you could make the
argument that if there is a timeon earth when there is not one
single Jewish believer, Godwould destroy the Jews.
He would annihilate them.
Now that'll never happen becausehe made covenant promises.
This is why, by the way, if youwant to know one of the

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intricacies of my theology thatI've never told you, I believe
that after the rapture happens,the moment the rapture happens,
I believe that the 144,000basically come to salvation
almost at an instant in time.
But that's just my belief.
There's nothing hard behindthat, it's just some data points

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that try to put together.
Um, so for the most part, thenation of Israel letter G here
is partially hardened, and theywill be Romans 11, 26, until the
fullness of the Gentiles comein, and then all Israel will be
saved.
So after the church is gone, andthen you know the 144,000 and
the two witnesses and all that,um, by the end of all those

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events and what we call the 70thweek of Daniel, the nation of
Israel will be saved, theMessiah will return, and usher
in the glories to follow, right?
The kingdom to come.
But these are the two responsesof the Jews, okay, belief and
unbelief.
For the most part, unbelief.
But we can understand they'vebeen partially hardened, right?
Due to their uh generationalrejection that's continued every

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generation since the Messiah.
Um, but if a Jew turns to theLord, they're safe.
This is good.

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