Faith Alone Renders One Useless - Exposing the Doctrine of Demons Part 2 - Daniel Willis

Good morning, everybody. It's an honor to be here with you, and grace and peace, and we're going to dive right in. Exposing the Doctrines of Demons, Part 2. So, as we heard last time, now the Spirit expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons, speaking lies and hypocrisy, having their own conscience seared with a hot iron.

Like I said before, this isn't something I think people know is happening to them, and they don't know they're in hypocrisy, and they don't know that their conscience has been seared. They profess to know God, but in works they deny Him, being abominable, disobedient, and disqualified for every good work.

And then we know if we deny Him with our words or our actions, Jesus will deny us in front of His Father in heaven. So faith is one with obedience. I said last time that it's like the two sides of the same coin. Faith without works is dead, like a head without the body, if you—the head will die. Same with faith without works. They're one. Disobedience and unbelief are one. And I showed you this in these three scriptures last time, and plus John, chapter—I mean, James chapter 2.

But when I went home, I found a bunch more, so I wanted to share those before we start the part two. But they have not all obeyed the gospel. So the gospel is something to be obeyed. For Isaiah says, "Lord, who has believed, I report." So it's assumed that if you believe, you obey.

Therefore, to you who believe, He is precious. But to those who are disobedient, the stone which the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone. And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense, they stumble, being disobedient to the word to which they were also appointed. So these people were appointed to the word, and they stumbled and rejected God in their disobedience. Let me read the top part again. Therefore, to you who believe, so if you believe, He's precious. So it's saying that if you're disobedient, you don't believe in a sense. But to those who are disobedient, the stone who the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone.

Through Him, we have received grace and apostleship for obedience. I'm just showing that obedience to the faith here, apostleship, they became apostles for the obedience to the faith. And another one similar. Now to Him who is able to establish you according to the gospel for obedience to the faith. Faith is something that we are to be obedient to. For the time has come for judgment to begin at the house of God. Pay attention to that. And if it begins with us first, what will be the end of those who do not obey the gospel of God? So the gospel of God is to be obeyed, and this implies that the house of God is obeying, because it says, "For the time has come for the judgment to begin at the house of God."

And if it begins with us first, what will happen to those who don't obey? So if you obey, you're part of the house of God, and if not, you're not. The evidence of righteous judgment of God, that you may be considered worthy of the kingdom of God for what you are also suffering, since indeed God considers it just to repay with affliction those who afflict you. This is the same passage continuing. And to grant relief to you who are afflicted as well as to us, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with His mighty angels and flaming fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and on those who do not obey the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ.

It's something to be obeyed. They will suffer the punishment of eternal destruction away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His might. So people who don't know God are paired with people who are not obeying the gospel.

I hope it's becoming clearer and clearer. And the word of God continued to increase, and the number of the disciples multiplied greatly in Jerusalem, and a great many of the priests became obedient to the faith. So becoming a disciple of Christ means you become obedient to the faith.

For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them. This is a really good one. What then shall we send because we are not under the law, but under grace? Certainly not. Do you not know that when you are present, sorry, when you present yourselves to someone as slaves for obedience, you are slaves of the one you obey, whether of sin resulting in death or obedience resulting in righteousness? So our obedience does result in righteousness. It's not just some arbitrary thing that's bestowed on us. But thanks be to God, this is the same passage, that though you were once slaves to sin, you have wholeheartedly obeyed the pattern of the teaching to which you were entrusted.

So they were entrusted a teaching. They wholeheartedly, they were in sin, they were entrusted a teaching, they wholeheartedly obeyed. Having been freed from sin, you became slaves of righteousness. Here's more that I'm not going to read all of them. Galatians 5:6, faith is working through love.

Thessalonians, works of faith. Corinthians, the righteous and the lawless are contrasted with the believer and the unbeliever. So if you're lawless, you're an unbeliever. How we know we are, we keep His, and it's not like it's something that God is forcing you because you believe that He's making it all work. It's just that you actually, when you believe, you actually need to follow Jesus. So you can read the rest of these. We'll just move on.

You might be asking, what verses suggest faith alone? Millions of these passages advocate worthless faith, and what are the key passages twisted by demons to separate works from faith, creating this worthless faith? So this is one of them. Last week, I went over Romans 4:1-2. Oops. And this week, I'm going to go over actually the whole chapter starting from here, from Romans 3 through Romans 4. I'm not going to hit every aspect of it.

But one thing I need to put in this guy in the background, his name is Jeff Durbin. He's just one of millions of people who teach it this way. And I want to show you what they do to the scriptures to make it say faith alone, because it doesn't say it, and they just insert it wherever they want it to or wherever it's convenient for them. This guy is probably a brother. He might be right with the Lord. He might have a lot more jewels and crowns than all of us. I have no idea. I'm not picking on him. It's just I'm just using this little bit as an example to show what people do to it.

And you can believe in faith alone and live an obedient life. But often, people who believe in faith alone start to go off. And so I'm not saying that all people who believe faith alone are not right with God. But I actually think they actually, in a sense, in their actions, don't believe that they actually believe that, if that makes sense. I mean, they don't actually believe what they say they believe. So first, we're going to hit a major problem in the New Testament church. There's a really big problem, maybe the biggest problem in the whole New Testament. It might not be. It's a subject I never really wanted to talk about, and it's a problem that we don't have today.

And I've never planned on preaching about it, but it's circumcision. And we just got to get over the blush factor and put ourselves so in Acts 2, the church starts. We have 3,000 new believers in Pentecost, presumably all Jews. We know that. And then two chapters later, you have 5,000 more people coming to the Lord, Jews again. And we don't know how long it was between there and chapter 10, but then you have Gentiles coming in. And you have these people. So circumcision is mentioned 75 times in the Greek. And the reason I say in the Greek is because in the English, sometimes they take out some of the times because of syntax, but because of the flow of the sentence.

So growing up and reading the Bible, it's always been confusing. Like, why is Paul constantly talking about circumcision? Nobody's talking about that today. And unfortunately, it's these passages that get taken out of context that create faith alone. And so let's look through some of it. So let's put ourselves in the context first. So you're a Christian, you just believed, you go to a church, and then some guy says, "So have you been circumcised?" Or maybe they do some kind of circumcision, please, I don't know. And they say, "Can I see what's going on?" And they're like, "Well, you're not saved." And he's like, "What do you mean? I've heard the gospel, I believe the gospel, I'm walking the gospel.

Why do you say I'm not saved?" And imagine just going to church after church, and you have some people saying, "You need to be circumcised." Some people saying, "You don't." Like, what do you do with this? It's a really embarrassing thing. It's messing up with the church. And we're going to go through the passages here.

So starting in Acts, some men come down from Judea and were teaching the brothers, "Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved." Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and debate with them. Some believers who belonged to the party of the Pharisees rose up and said, "It is necessary to circumcise them and to order them to keep the law of Moses." So pay attention here, the yellow on the bottom.

There's Christians telling people they have to get circumcised. They have to keep the law of Moses according to the custom of Moses.

And unless you're circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved. Okay, so now moving to Corinthians. "Only let each person lead the life that the Lord has assigned to him and to which God has called him. This is my rule in all the churches.

Was anyone at the time of his call already circumcised? Let him not seek to remove the marks of circumcision. Was anyone at the time of his call uncircumcised? Let him not seek circumcision, for neither circumcision counts for anything nor uncircumcision, but keeping the commandments of God." So it's clear that Paul here, when he wrote this, he did not, when he was talking about circumcision, and he was talking about the law that we'll read later, he wasn't saying that we're not to keep the commandments of God, that we are to keep the commandments of God. "Each one should remain in the condition in which he was called." We're going to skip on to the next one.

This is Galatians 2. I forgot to put it on there. If you look at all the times circumcised and uncircumcision is on there, uncircumcised. "But then even Titus, who was with me, was not forced to be circumcised." Though he was a Greek, it seems like people were being forced or convinced in maybe not a great way. And we know that because a little bit later on, they were fearing, oops, fearing the circumcision party.

And we see that Gentile and Jew, not Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you force the Gentiles to live like the Jews? So people were being forced to follow the laws, these ceremonial laws, these very difficult laws to follow. And you can see that he's fighting this all throughout this passage. And he continues a few chapters later in chapter 5 of Galatians. "If you accept circumcision, Christ will be of no advantage to you. If you accept circumcision, Christ will be of no advantage to you. I testify again to every man who accepts circumcision that he is obligated to keep the whole law.

You are severed from Christ. You who would be justified by the law, you have fallen from grace. For through the Spirit, by faith, we ourselves eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness. For in Christ Jesus, neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything, but only faith working through love." We see faith is not alone here. It's a faith that is working through love.

Paul says to you that only the only thing that counts for anything in Christ is faith working through love. So we can see here in this passage that he talks about standing firm and not submitting to the yoke of slavery again, running well, obeying, taking no other view. "You shall love your neighbor as yourself. Serve one another in love." It's obvious he's not saying that when you have faith that you don't do these things. He's totally for all of these things, these good works.

But only faith working through love. Sorry. "Look out for the dogs, Philippians. Look out for the evildoers. Look out for those who mutilate the flesh. For we are the circumcision who worship by the Spirit of God and glory in Christ Jesus and put no confidence in the flesh." There are people who are putting the confidence in their flesh and their circumcision. The Jews were holding themselves above the Gentiles. They were considering these Gentiles as being second-class citizens or not citizens at all. They're not even saved.

And they are putting their hope in the flesh of something that happened in the law. And they're expecting these new believers to do that. And so I'm trying to put these two chapters in context a little bit. And we'll look at Romans 3. So you see Jews and Jew and circumcision.

And then you go all the way. So if we go back to the top, circumcision starts it. Circumcision ends chapter 3. And then if the chapter divisions aren't there, and then circumcision is all through chapter 4 and the works of the law.

So if you notice here, we have works of the law, works of the law, law, law, circumcision. And then we have that justified by works right there. And if you read it without the Romans 4 there and without the headings that they normally put, you would see that he's probably talking about works of the law in this passage. And I'll show you why I believe that more later. All works of the law are works, but not all works are works of the law. Demons don't want you to distinguish between works of the law and works in general.

There's works of the law, works of God, works of the flesh, and good works. Here's the categories that I can think of: works of God, creation, salvation, grace, love, mercy, resurrection, incarnation. Works of good, love would be under there too. Obedience, love, feeding the hungry, clothing those in need, believing in God, works of the law, circumcision, certain eating rituals, Sabbath. So these are more of the ceremonial works. A lot of those do fit in the works of the law, which is interesting. I think it's Deuteronomy 6:5 and Leviticus 19 somewhere. It talks about, "Love the Lord your God with all your heart, mind, soul, and strength, and your neighbor as yourself." And that's a law that we're to keep today.

And those fit under the moral law. All works of the law are works, but not all works are works of the law. Works of the flesh are not equal to all human works. So we saw back here, oops, sorry.

Works of the flesh, all these different sins.

And I'm saying that not all works of the flesh are not all human works. We have good works and all kinds of other things. Likewise, works of the law are not equal to all human works. Jeff advocates, Jeff and advocates of faith alone, say that works of the law include all human works.

They would take these categories and they would get rid of the good works, and they would shove them under here with works of the law. And it makes it very confusing. And I've been in Bible studies where I would just read a passage that sounded like you need to obey, and they would say, "You're treading on thin ice. You're about to be works of the law, works-based salvation." And that's the one thing that's going to send you how you think you can please God. You can't please God. This is real stuff. I'm not saying that's what he does. I don't actually follow him, so I don't know what all he says.

But this is what he does say. "Then what becomes of our boasting? It is excluded by what kind of law? By a law of works? No, but by the law of faith. For we hold," and here it is, "that one is justified by faith apart from works of the law." Did you hear that? The inspired apostle couldn't be clear. Everyone's under sin. The law can justify nobody. It is through faith in Christ. It is a gracious gift of God through the redemption that's in Jesus. And then he says, "For we hold, we maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law."

What is faith apart from the works of the law? It is faith over here by itself. It is faith alone. Faith alone taught by the apostle Paul in Romans 3:28. It's very important to recognize that the apostle Paul says, "We hold." So it is the teaching of the apostles. It's the inspired revelation of God. It is the teaching of the early Christians. We maintain, we hold that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law. So he does not say faith in tandem with the works of the law. It is faith apart from the works of the law. It is faith by itself.

Okay. So almost everything he said was true, except that he throws a few words in there that makes it not true. Then what becomes? Okay. This is what the Bible says. "For we hold that one is," can you turn me down a little maybe? I don't know if it, "For we hold that one is justified by faith apart from the works of the law." That is absolutely true. What Jeff Durbin and other people like that would say, "We're justified by faith alone apart from the works of the law." It is faith by itself. And you might think, "Well, that's the same thing." I'm going to explain why that's not if you think that. And why is that a big deal?

Okay, so we're justified by faith. Faith alone taught by the apostle Paul in Romans 3:28 is very important to recognize that the apostle Paul says, "We hold." So it is the teaching of the apostles. It's the inspired revelation of God. It is the teaching of the early Christians. We maintain, we hold that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law. So he does not say faith in tandem with the works of the law. It is faith apart from the works of the law. It is faith by itself.

Okay. So we believe all the things he said except you take away those two phrases. And then, so does apart from the works of the law mean alone? For example, we have Jalil is sitting apart from Josiah. So his logic would say that since Jalil is apart from Josiah, Jalil is alone. Is that true? No, Jalil has a bunch of people around her. Just because it's apart from the works of the law doesn't mean that it's alone.

What are we justified by? Is it by faith? Is it faith alone? So this is what he read. "Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith apart from the deeds of the law." Just a few verses before that, it says, "Being justified freely by his grace through redemption that is in Christ Jesus." So we're justified by grace through Jesus. And that's different. It's not just faith alone. If it's faith alone, there wouldn't be grace in Jesus. Why are we taking away that? We're also justified by our words. We're justified, God justifies.

We're justified by the Spirit of God and Jesus' name. We're justified by his blood. We're justified by Christ. We're justified by works. So if you're justified by works, I mean, justified by faith apart from works of the law, you still are not alone. You still have all these other things. But if you put the word alone in there, you have to get rid of all of these things. And so we want to keep all of these things. And plus, there's more. So now faith, hope, and love abide. These three, but the greatest of these is love. So what's greater than faith according to this? Love. If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I'm a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

And if I have prophetic powers and understand all the mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have faith, so to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have and I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. I am nothing. I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal, even if I have all faith. So faith must be paired with love. We don't need to try to separate faith from anything. It is not faith alone.

So for in Christ Jesus, neither the circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything, but only faith working through love.

So the difference between James and Romans, we're going to take an overview of it. So first of all, in James, the only time that faith alone is in the Bible, there is only faith. The only faith is only faith working through love.

But the only time faith alone is in there is in James 2. And it says, "A person is justified by works and not by faith alone." And when we look at what these works are, it's he offered up his son Isaac on the altar. And Rahab, she received the messenger and sent them out by another way. These are just good works. They're not the works of the law. Not everybody was told they need to kill their son.

And not everybody did this. Also, he's talking about, in context, lacking daily food, people giving food to the poor and clothing the poor. These are works, good works. He's not talking about works of the law, where in Romans 3, he's talking about the Gentiles and circumcision, uncircumcision, and works of the law.

So trying to put Romans 4 into context, there are Jews in the church boasting in the flesh and circumcision, and the Gentiles are being considered second-class citizens. Paul is trying to bring them to equality because they are equal. And he's saying that Jews and Gentiles equally need Jesus.

Jews are not superior to the Gentiles. All have sinned and fallen short. No one is righteous. The law justifies no one. We need faith in Jesus to be justified and a faith apart from circumcision. And you can see in all of these letters, people are getting mutilated, and people are trying to convince people, and people are fearing this party of the circumcision. So we're going to read chapter. I'm just going to let you see this again before I take it all away. So we're going to take away the verse divisions and the chapter divisions and everything that I added. And we're going to read through, knowing that context, we're going to read through Romans 4, and then we're going to listen to what Jeff Durbin has to say about it, a really short clip of his.

Then what becomes of our boasting? It is excluded. But by what kind of law? By the law of works? No, but by the law of faith. For we hold that one is justified by faith apart from works of the law. Or is God the God of the Jews only? Is he not the God of the Gentiles also? Yes, of the Gentiles also. Since God is one, who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith? Do we then overthrow the law of faith? By no means. On the contrary, we hold up the law. What then shall we say was gained by Abraham, our forefather according to the flesh? For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about because they were boasting about this circumcision, but not before God.

For what does the scripture say? Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him as righteous. Now to the one who works, his wages are not counted as a gift, but as his due. And to the one who does not work, but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted as righteousness, just as David also speaks of the blessing of the one to whom God counts righteous apart from works.

Sorry. Blessed are those whose lawless deeds are forgiven. Amen. And whose sins are covered. Blessed is the man against whom the Lord will not count his sin. Is this blessing then only for the circumcised or for the uncircumcised? For we say that faith was counted to Abraham as righteousness. How then was it counted to him? Was it before or after he had been circumcised? It was not after, but before he was circumcised. He received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised. The purpose was to make him the father of all who believe without being circumcised, so that righteousness would be counted to them as well.

And to make him the father of the circumcised who are not merely circumcised, but who also walk in the footsteps of faith, of the faith that our father Abraham had before he was circumcised. For the promise to Abraham and his offspring that he would be heir of the world did not come through the law, but through the righteousness of faith. For if it is the adherence of the law who are to be the heirs, faith is null and the promise is void. For the law brings wrath, but where there is no law, there is no transgression.

If you're going over 35 and there's no speed limit sign that says that, or if it says 55, you're not breaking the law. Or if there's no speed limit at all, like on the Audubon or whatever, you're not breaking the law. If you take away the law of needing to be circumcised, you're not breaking the transgression.

That is why it depends on faith, in order that the promise may result on grace and be granted to all of his offspring, not only to the adherent of the law, but also to the one who shares the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all. As it is written, "I have made you the father of many nations in the presence of the God in whom he believed, who gave life to the dead and calls into existence the things that do not exist." And hope, he believed against heart that he should become the father of many nations. As he had been told, so shall your offspring be. He did not weaken in the faith when he considered his own body, which was as good as dead since he was about 100 years old, or when he considered the barrenness of Sarah's womb.

No unbelief made him waver concerning the promise of God, but he grew strong in his faith as he gave glory to God, fully convinced that God was able to do what he had promised. That is why his faith was counted to him as righteousness. But the words it was counted to him were not written for his sake alone, but for ours also. It will be counted to us who believe in him, who raised from the dead Jesus our Lord, who was delivered up for our trespasses and raised for our justification.

So hopefully this will work again. Don't turn it up. You need to be justified the same way Abraham was. And Paul's argument in Romans 4 is very clear. It was he believed God. It was credited to him for righteousness. And he goes on to argue it was before circumcision. It was before clearly Isaac on the altar, and it was hundreds of years before the law of God was given. How was Father Abraham justified with empty hands? What did he bring? Nothing. What was it before? Everything. Circumcision, Isaac on the altar, and the law of God. It was through faith and faith apart from works. It was faith alone. That's Paul's entire argument on the justification by faith that we have that's connected to Father Abraham.

Yeah, Paul is making an argument that we're not saved by faith through works of the law. He's fighting these people, party of the circumcision. For we say that our faith was counted to Abraham as righteous. This is true. This is what Jeff Durbin and other people say. For we say that faith alone was counted to Abraham as righteousness. And this happened with Abraham having empty hands, and this all occurred with Abraham bringing nothing.

If you add the word alone, even if that's true, let's say that what he said is completely true. If you add the word alone to any true statement, it could make that statement false. It doesn't always, but it can. For example, David Berceau has read the Anti-Nicene Fathers set. Is that true? True.

David Berceau alone has read the Anti-Nicene Fathers set. Is that true? It's not true. There's others who've read it. So in his mathematical equation, and he does his fingers, this event, Abraham's circumcision, Isaac offered on the altar, and the law equals everything.

And mine, and what I think is 1 plus 1 plus 1 is three different events. It's not everything. And he says that nothing happened before faith was counted to him as righteousness. That those three things happened and because those three things happened, which is true, but that's not two of those are not even in Paul's letter there. He just adds them into Romans 4, but it doesn't mean that nothing happened.

So we're going to read that again. So this is the key passage. That is why faith was counted to him as righteousness. So that just makes me very curious. What is that talking about? It's talking about these things.

And they're not works of the law. And hope, he believed against hope that he should become the father of many nations, as he had been told. So shall your offspring be. He did not weaken in the faith when he considered his own body, which was good as dead, since he was about 100 years old, or when he considered the barrenness of Sarah's womb. No unbelief made him waver concerning the promise of God, but he grew strong in his faith, and he gave glory to God, fully convinced that God was able to do what he promised. And so these things, this so hold on, I thought I had a different slide there that's coming.

So I'm not saying that those things aren't faith. They are all faith, but it's not a dead faith. It almost sounds like that his faith is active and alive, that there's something to his faith, that it's a working faith. It's in line, I believe, Romans 4 and 3 and James are completely in line with one another.

And yeah, that's what I said there. Okay, so this is the timeline I have. It's a little bit different than his. I'm not going to stay on it long. These are the things that happened before faith was after faith was already counted to him as righteousness. But these are the things that was mentioned in the passage that he neglected to read that said that there's actually other stuff going on. He didn't just have a mere belief, left his homeland and all kinds of other stuff.

So why does it matter if someone believes in faith alone?

I have seen people's conscience be seared, including my own, over time. And when sin creeps in because you don't believe that there's anything you can do to even please God. So if you haven't listened to the last message, go listen to the last one. You get stuck in this thing like you can't please God. And because you can't please God, why even try to please God? And then you end up in its faith alone. There's nothing that we need to do. And if we try to do anything, we're going to hell.

You just start to live in sin. I mean, it's almost like, why not? It matters because it's a dead faith and not a saving faith. I do believe that a lot of people that believe in faith alone have a saving faith. I'm not saying that if you have that, you don't have a saving faith, but I believe it's a dangerous doctrine that will probably lead a lot of people to damnation. Even the demons believe in tremble. And I know that this message didn't have a whole lot of practicality in the sense of, I hope this message helps you when you read all of the books of the New Testament, when it talks about circumcision, to be able to read it without the confusion that I had as a child and as an adult, where I'm like, why is it constantly talking about this?

There are these people who are Christians, and these other people are wanting to do things to them that they don't want to do. And then you have this big fight that they had to call a council in Acts 15 that he has a good sermon on and clear up everything, saying that this is not going to happen. We are not going to force Gentile believers to be circumcised. And so because we talked about love a lot, I'm going to next time, I'm going to have a more applicable, can't say that word, sermon on love and talking about our faith working through love and not so much of this kind of message.

And so if you have any thoughts or comments or corrections, you're welcome to spit them out at me. Sorry. One thing that just sticks out for me is this is a thing there for, well, like so the most tortured person throughout history, at least in modern history, is this poor guy made out of straw. Like he's not flesh. And it's the idea that just because we believe that our works have something to do with our overall salvation, that we espouse a view that that's how we become saved in the first place. There's no recognition of the different stages of salvation, but they automatically build that straw man up and just attack the living day like that.

And as if he's saying all these things are how we get on the body in the first place. And they totally miss that. So they're wasting their time.

Yeah, that's exactly something I need to add. Don't get me wrong. We cannot earn our salvation whatsoever. When we first enter in, we are coming from a sinful state. We are completely needing the washing and renewal and the regeneration of our sins in the Holy Spirit. We need to be baptized. There needs to be repentance. We don't believe whatsoever that we're earning our salvation because first of all, salvation is eternal life is something that's worth more than trillions and trillions of dollars. And why would just a mere belief think we earn it? But once we're on the vine, we're expected to produce fruits. And if we don't produce fruits, we get lopped off the vine.

And so most of what I was saying was talking about people in the faith already, not talking about when we first were grafted in on the vine.

Did you have some? Yeah, I would say one thing that where our church is very different from teachers like that guy, and he's just teaching what Luther says, nothing original whatsoever, is we look at what the totality of Scripture says.

I mean, you could get up there and do what he did and prove that we're saved by works alone. I mean, you could quote James, you could quote Paul from Romans 2, and all throughout the New Testament, there's a lot of passages about our works. You've got to look at the entire New Testament. I mean, it is so dishonest to get up there and read Romans 4 as if that's the whole message of Romans to start with, let alone the whole message of the New Testament. It'd be like taking a will and taking one paragraph of it, you know, that says, okay, the rest of the residue of my estate, I'm going to leave to Dale Martins.

And then you leave out all this other part that said, well, so much money was going to go to Captain and so much, you know, whatever. I mean, you'd never get away with that in the real world. But we do this with the most important thing, with God's word, just grabbing a chapter and pretending like that's everything the New Testament says about salvation. When if, you know, you don't need to be teaching if you don't know what the rest of the New Testament says. I mean, it's just total dishonest.