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there's a story in the New Testament in
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Acts chapter 16 where Paul and Silas are
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in prison and
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there's a violent
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earthquake and prisoners are escaping
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and there's a jailer there and a jailer
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wakes up and he's absolutely dismayed
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that everyone is running off and he
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finds Paul and he's about to kill
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himself the jailer is and Paul stops him
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and then the jailer asked this very
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famous question to sirs what must I do
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to be saved and Paul gives him the short
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sweet biblical absolutely beautiful
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answer believe in the Lord Jesus Christ
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and you will be saved you in your
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household to believe in the Lord Jesus
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Christ that question what must I do to
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be saved there's no more important
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question in this life or for the next
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life than that question and what we find
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here is a wonderful summary of what it
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means to have faith in Christ a sort of
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faith that saves and how God saves
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through faith there are really two key
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words here the first is that it's very
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first word only only faith in Jesus
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Christ see it wouldn't be terribly
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controversial to talk about faith people
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are into faith and believing something
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but when you say only faith is not faith
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plus something else is not faith in
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addition to your background faith plus
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your family of origin faith plus how
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many good things you can do for social
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justice or faith how many time plus how
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many times you can pray it's only faith
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and it's faith in Jesus Christ that
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there is an object to it many people
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will wax on and on about faith and
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belief and I'm a person of faith and
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you've got to have faith but faith by
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itself doesn't mean anything it is the
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object of faith which saves us it's not
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just being a person who has strong
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beliefs a person who's sincere a person
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who has a mystical belief in spiritual
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things what's faith in Jesus Christ he's
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the object it's the object of our faith
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which saves us faith
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is only an instrument it's not the one
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good deed that God says well you don't
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have much going for you but you have
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faith and I really like that no faith is
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what joins us to Christ and then he
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saves us it's the object that matters so
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if you think about you know I grew up in
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a cold a part of the country and so we
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would go ice skating and we try to play
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and we play hockey and you tiptoe out
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onto that first freeze of the year and
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you're sort of wondering is this ice
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thick enough and you may be on the ice
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and somebody may be zipping around
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skating with great freedom and they have
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a lot of faith in the ice and someone
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else is tiptoeing very gingerly and they
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have just enough faith to get out on the
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ice but what makes both people secure
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it's not the level of faith though you
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would like to have the strong faith that
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zipping around there but it's it's the
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thickness of the ice it's the object on
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which you're standing that that saves
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you and that's that's Jesus Christ so
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it's only faith in him and in the other
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word which is so crucial here is the
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word imputes now that's a maybe a new
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word but that is absolutely essential to
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the gospel into the Christian faith that
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the righteous life that Christ lived is
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imputed to us that means it's reckoned
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to us it's counted to us it's sort of a
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wire transfer of funds and there's a
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difference between a righteousness that
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is inherent in us infused in us a kind
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of righteousness that well look at me
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I'm righteous I do righteous things that
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that's not what this is talking about
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this is talking about the righteousness
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of Christ outside of us but because
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we're joined to Jesus by faith that gets
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counted as our righteousness so that God
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can be both the just and the justifier
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of the wicked that's the problem in
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Romans 3 and that's the good news of the
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gospel that though we are still sinners
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God justifies us and he is just to do so
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not because he waves a magic wand or
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says you know sins not a big deal wink
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wink but because we belong to Christ and
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His righteousness is our righteousness
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God can
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just and we can be justified
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