Romans 5_10-20 (#19.2025.04.27)
Scott continues the study of Romans, focusing on the biblical teaching of original sin and its effects on humanity. He compares major theological views, particularly those of the Catholic tradition and John Calvin, explaining differences in how original sin and human nature are understood within Christianity. The episode clarifies how through Adam’s disobedience, sin and death entered the world for all, and how through Jesus Christ—the "second Adam"—righteousness and eternal life are made available to believers.
Scott uses practical examples to unpack complex doctrines and connects the discussion to personal faith and everyday struggles. He addresses common questions and doubts about fairness and personal responsibility in original sin, highlighting how Christ’s victory not only addresses humanity’s loss through Adam but also offers much more in return: hope, assurance, and the promise that God continues to fight our battles.
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Key Topics Discussed:
• Romans 5 and the principle of original sin
• Adam’s role and its impact on all humanity
• Catholic and Calvinist perspectives on original sin and baptism
• Sin, guilt, and human nature from theological traditions
• Jesus Christ as the "second Adam" and what that means for believers
• Practical implications for faith, prayer, and facing life’s challenges
• Assurance that God fights for His people and offers more than was lost through Adam
• Biblical examples of typology (e.g., David and Goliath)
• Final encouragement and prayer for hope, peace, and confidence
Transcript
Hi. If you're looking for greater hope, assurance, and confidence through the shifting sands of life, then join me on today's episode as we dig deep into the bible to discover rock solid truth for life and living from the God of the bible. I'm your host, Scott Keffer. Hi, and welcome to today's episode. As always, for a deeper experience, you can go to the show notes and download the blank insight sheet. Fill in the blanks along with the group. Depending on how you're listening to this, there'll be a link to the episode website at beholdingbibletruth.com, and a sheet with the answers is included as well. Enjoy today's episode.
Scott Keffer [:Be grateful when you don't know how to pray. Spirit is there for our weakness, and the the lord hears through his mercy and grace. I'm just grateful for that. And there's nothing too big, too small that you can't bring to him. Well, as we go through the book of Romans, you either feel like it's a slog or something too high or too deep. Right? Challenging stuff. So scripture says we're digging deep over the depths of the riches, both in the wisdom and knowledge of God. How unsearchable are his judgments, unfathomable his ways.
Scott Keffer [:So we're digging deep. We go deeper deeper into doctrine. Right? It's still sometimes feel like it's darker. At the same time so the other picture for me is that we are climbing, if you will. Right? We are we are we are looking at the height of God. So we're climbing through literally through the the cosmos. Right? And, we're we're seeing who God is. Doctrine gives us the ability to stand near him, if you will, and see him.
Scott Keffer [:So as you do that, right, have patience through here and just watch and see as God reveals who he is through print. Right? We have the sense of who he is. So I appreciate you walking through together with me. So let's stay in the read if we're good. We're in Romans five. We're gonna read 10 through 20. For while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his son much
Speaker B [:more than
Scott Keffer [:been reconciled, you shall be saved by decline. And not only this, but we also exalt in God through our lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation. Therefore, just as through one man, sin entered into the world and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because they're all sinned. For until the law, sin was in the world, but sin is not imputed when there is no law. Nevertheless, Seth prayed from Adam until Moses, even though Moses were not sinned in the likeness of the events of Adam, who is the type of of him who was to come. But the free gift is not like the transgression. For by the transgression of the one, the man he died, much more did the grace of God, the gift by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abound to many. And the gift is not like that which came through the one who sinned.
Scott Keffer [:From the one hand, the judgment arose as one transgression resulting in condemnation. But on the other hand, the three gift rose from many transgression resulting in justification Where by the transgression of the one that reigned through the one, much more those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the one, Jesus Christ. So then as through one transgression that resulted condemnation to all men, even so, through one act of righteousness, there resulted in justification of life to all men.
Speaker B [:For
Scott Keffer [:us through the one man's disobedience, the many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the one, the many will be made righteous. Word of the Lord. Thanks be to God. So you read through that and say, oh my. Let's take a breath and see if we can unpack this. So at the heart of this, right, what this is speaking to, if we if we kinda look at the center, the core of what this is about, this is about the term, which you've heard before, original sin. This is about original sin. This idea that through one man through one man sin entered the world, and all are guilty.
Scott Keffer [:Through one man, sin entered the world, and all are guilty. And who's the one man? Adam. Adam. Adam. Through Adam. Right? One man. Sin entered the world, and all are guilty. So if you start with that, how many would say, I have some questions about that? Like, that doesn't seem right.
Scott Keffer [:That doesn't seem fair. What is up with that? I mean, Adam sinned, and we're guilty because Adam sinned. Be like, a friend of mine breaks the law, and I'm guilty because he breaks the law. Wait a minute. What's up? So let's look at that. Adam committed the original sin. In Hebrew, his word his name literally means humanity. Adam means humanity.
Scott Keffer [:And first Timothy reminds us that, Eve was deceived. Right? The woman being quite deceived fell into transgression, but it says underline not Adam. Adam wasn't deceived. When the Lord said, do not you can eat of any tree in the garden. Do not eat the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Otherwise, you will God. You will die. Right? You will die.
Scott Keffer [:Right? The result of sin is death, the consequence. The wages of sin is death. Right? When Adam sinned, right, he and he died and all humanity died. Original sin. All are guilty. Through one, all are guilty. Well, if you haven't struggled with that at some time or you've thought through it, you gotta get a sense of where's my camera? There we go. Hello.
Scott Keffer [:Come on. Come on, Harry. Let's go back over here. Can you do it? There we go. Alright. So first, if we look at this, the Catholic view. The Catholic view of original sin is there is an inherited sinful nature and guilt and guilt. In other words, what is it that original sin does? You inherit a a a nature, a simple nature, and you're guilty.
Scott Keffer [:You inherit the guilt of sin. All people inherit both a sinful nature and the guilt of Adam sinned. Adam sinned, and it is accounted to all people. Everyone, we are we are in Adam, if you will. We are the seed of Adam. Adam Adam is the first, and every every person that comes from Adam, every human being has that seed, the consequence. A Catholic would believe, that, baptism, particularly infant baptism, washes away the guilt of original sin, which is why when a baby's born, you wanna get them baptized ASAP ASAP. Right? And they believe that baptism, inter baptism, would wash away that original sin.
Scott Keffer [:Though their nature is still wounded. Right? In other words, they still struggle with sin. It doesn't make them perfect. Human nature, human beings are still have free will. They're weakened, and they need divine grace in order to obey. That make sense? Which is why they baptized quickly, very quickly, because of that. That would be my understanding of how a Catholic would view that. Inherited nature and guilt, all people inherit both sinful the sinful nature and the guilt of that of sin.
Scott Keffer [:All are guilty. They'll set the sinful nature. Baptism washes away the, the guilt of original sin, though we're they're still wounded and they need divine grace to obey. Calvin's view, John Calvin, came along and changed that somewhat in the reformation. So sin's effect is hereditary corruption. Hereditary corruption, which means I inherited. Some diseases are hereditary. This is hereditary.
Scott Keffer [:Right? We we're we're born with it, and he called it depravity of our nature extending to all the parts of the soul. Right? Depravity to all the parts of the soul, which renders humanity subject to god's wrath and what he would say is incapable incapable of pleasing god Incapable of pleasing God. So Adam is the covenantal and the spiritual head of all humanity. He passed the corruption down to each of us. Thus, we're all born with original sin, not just by, imitation, but by propagation. Right? Not in other words, we would say you're born. You are a sinner. You're born a sinner.
Scott Keffer [:Soon after you're born, you will demonstrate the fact that you were sinner by sinning. Mhmm. By sinning. Right? So we're overeating dinner and little, little John, our grandson is one year old, and he's over there by the stuff you shouldn't touch. And he's looking at me, and I'm looking at him. And I'm saying, nope. And he's looking at me. How old is he? One? Yeah.
Scott Keffer [:He's one. He's one year old. Just look at me. And I'm saying, no. And he's looking at me like, yep.
Speaker C [:Of
Scott Keffer [:course, parents today don't use the word no. Gentle. Gentle. Whatever that is. Let's have a discussion with the one year old. No. No. No.
Scott Keffer [:And you know what? They know what that means. You know? Yeah. They do. You know? Jack, who's two, we were at dinner last night. You know? And I'll say to him, nope. And he'll give me this.
Speaker B [:Yeah.
Scott Keffer [:Like, I don't like that. It gives me the eye. You know? And Suresh, who's three does something cuter, but it's still it's masking cuteness, but I'm doing what I wanna do. You know? So we would say that they are they are born in sin, but they're sinners by birth, and they're the sin shows up in their life, and it validates god's judgment. God says you you have inherited. You are a sinner by birth. And when sin shows up, it just validates god's judgment. Right? You're not a sinner because you sin.
Scott Keffer [:You sin because you're a sinner. What does that mean? Means you're born a sinner and then you sin as a result of that. How soon after that? I don't know. But at some point in time, at least by one, you start to sin and you start start to show your nature as a sinner by sinning, doing what you wanna do. So he would say there's two aspects, original guilt, which means we have the legal guilt. We're guilty of Adam's sin. We're guilty. Same way.
Scott Keffer [:Share is the same with the Catholic view. We're guilty of Adam's sin, and we have an inherited corruption. So we're guilty, and we have a corruption. So there's a, there's a a guilty, but we also have a corruption
Speaker B [:That's true.
Scott Keffer [:Of our soul. Right? We're corrupted. We're we're dead in the spirit. We're corrupted. And Calvin would say it's he they called it total depravity. Well, what do you mean? That I can't do anything good? No. What he meant was it it there isn't an there isn't a part of your nature that hasn't been corrupted. Body.
Scott Keffer [:Right? Soul. Right? Total depravity. The idea that this corruption affects every part of human nature so that no one can choose or do true good without God's intervention. Then what about the image of God? Right? We've all been made in the image of God. The image of God. Sin. Imputed legal guilt
Speaker C [:Of guilt.
Scott Keffer [:Of Adam's sin. Yes. Is that what you're asking, Linda? Yeah.
Speaker B [:I see.
Scott Keffer [:Imputed legal guilt to that. I'm gonna say what you get. You're guilty. Right? Because Adam sinned, you said. And I always said the difference between right? So in the in essence, Adam sinned and every human being is the seed of Adam is guilty. Always said the difference between if I was in the garden, when Adam was in the garden, I just would have fell sooner. Not sure how long he was there, but I would have fallen sooner. And God, essentially, with the judgment said, every human being would have fallen in the garden.
Scott Keffer [:Every human being would have fallen in the garden. Not Adam and Eve, the kids would have. Well, when they had kids, they would've made them sitter. Right? And and concupiscence, which is the tendency or desire to sin. That's what that fancy word means. Covenant identified original sin with concupiscence, meaning not just the tendency, but an active disposition to sin. An active disposition. What's that mean? Not just the tendency to sin, not just the magnetic draw to sin, but I'm gonna seek out sin.
Scott Keffer [:There's an active part to that sin. So just stop the fact that I'm guilty, but I'm gonna search for it. Proverbs where it says, the young man walking down the street, he shouldn't go. We've all done that. Turning on the thing we shouldn't turn on. Looking at the thing we shouldn't look at. Talking about the stuff we shouldn't talk about. Right? We're all there.
Scott Keffer [:So Augustine said concupiscence is the penalty of sin and it's the cause of sin. It's both. It's the desire for sin. Paul would say in Romans seven, right, the things that I should do, I don't do. The things I shouldn't do, I do. The apostle Paul, you and me, and all. Right? We're all in that same category. And then it's grace alone.
Scott Keffer [:That it's grace alone. Salvation is by grace alone through faith alone initiated entirely by god. Likely, you have a problem with that or some problem with that or some version of a problem. Hang on. We'll get to that. Not today, but we'll get to that. Right? We'll dive in deeper. But this was the essence of Calvin.
Scott Keffer [:So Luther in the, reformation, Luther was not standing against theology. Luther was standing against corruption inside of the in inside of the church. So he was not a theological reformation. His was about, right, corruption that was occurring. When Calvin came along, he he came up with different theology. And when Luther broke away, then there was all sorts of theological everybody had open reign. This is what I believe. This is what I believe.
Scott Keffer [:This is what I believe. Right? Which is why we now have 21,000 denominations. Right? Protestant denominations and all variations on it. Right? So grace alone. Grace alone, do faith alone. So the Catholics would baptize at birth, believing it washed away the guilt of original sin. A reformed Presbyterian and other reforms would also baptize at birth, not believing it wiped away original sin, but it would it was much like the cove you write the covenant when they would circumcise. Right? The idea was set apart.
Scott Keffer [:Right? And and then our version would be baptism is for believers only. When when you come to Christ, you you make a verbal, right, a verbal proclamation, and baptism is doesn't save you. Baptism is a sign, the fact that you're already saved. So they, reformed would be, let's baptize at birth into the family of God, trusting that God would bring them through his grace to a knowledge of him. We would baptize here once you have a testimony. Right? That there's a saving testimony. Right? So that would be a kind of reformed view, whereas the chat will be more a dispensational view. Right? And then there's many nuances of all those views.
Scott Keffer [:But, essentially, right, all would agree to original sin. That make sense? Any questions on that? Probably a zillion. Or let me think about it, or I'll have more later. Any particular questions on original SIN? So he said one man, right, desperate to all men, it says because all sin in Adam. Well, if you haven't thought about it, there there's a part that says, woah. Wait a minute. What's up with that? What's up with that? But that's the the idea, and you're gonna see this is really good news. You might say, well, that's not fair.
Scott Keffer [:Adam's sin and right, I I bear the consequence, but you can see there's really good news in that. So he's saying if you were if you were, set apart at birth as being a sinner, right, is that really is there is that because you sinned? He's saying no. It's because Adam sinned. And so he would say, let me give you, right, the idea that between Adam and Moses, there was no law of God, was there? Between Adam and Moses. Right? The law didn't show up until Moses. Right? And commandments and then the law and Deuteronomy. So if the law reveals sin, we're guilty because we broke the law. Adam had how many commandments? One.
Scott Keffer [:He had one command. How did he do?
Speaker B [:Not good. Right?
Scott Keffer [:How did he do? Here, we had 10 commandments. And then more that came right. In between here, there are no commandments. So if if it was the fact that you sinned, then what about in here where there is no law? Why were people still dying? He's saying death reigned because it's not the fact that you have sinned like Adam. Right? He sinned. Adam sinned. He disobeyed. Right? Adam sinned.
Scott Keffer [:Here, right, Israel individually Israelis. Right? Jews, let's just say right? Individuals being people, God's people sinned, and they broke the commandments. Right? Here, there is no law, but people still die. Forget that? Because because of Adam's sin. Because all are guilty because Adam sinned. So he says, what about before law Moses received the law for until the law, sin was in the world, but sin is not imputed where there is no law. In other words, how was that? Because all in Adam, all all sinned. Death reigned, yet death reigned.
Scott Keffer [:Death still reigned when there was no law to break because we all die in Adam. We're all judged in Adam.
Speaker B [:Cescov, does that mean I'm I'm having a hard time with ex that payments because they didn't know they were sinning? Obviously, they were gonna die because we all died, but they didn't know about sin?
Scott Keffer [:Well, There was no God's law during that time. So why were they judged? Why would they die? The way he's just seen his death.
Speaker B [:No. I see. They couldn't go afraid of the one command. So the wages of sin is that
Scott Keffer [:The way that that's his point. He's saying, look. They're not they're not, yes, they were breaking God's law with whether they knew it or not, but Okay. There was no God's law to break. So why were they still judged? Because in Adam, all die. That's what he's saying. There is no law during that period, but in Adam, all die. Yes, sir.
Speaker C [:But, he during that period, there was no law in death reign. That meant every other result of the sin like pain and childbirth and everything else is going on at that time.
Scott Keffer [:Yeah. All the consequences, of course. Yes. Yeah. All the same consequences were happening. Same thing in Adam toil, wet you know, sweat and yes. Yes. Pain and childbirth.
Scott Keffer [:So all the consequences of sin were going on, but there wasn't directly God revealing his law. So people weren't directly breaking the law of God, but they still died. Because in in Adam, Paul died. Yes? Okay. You got that? Yes. So the the the scripture would say there were two two two ways god communicated his law. One was their conscience. Everyone's still at a conscience.
Scott Keffer [:Number two, the heavens declare his glory. Right? Nature is revealing. So yes. Yes. Those attributes are in there. However, he's saying they didn't die because they knew it and they broke it. They died because Adam sinned. They ever get that? They died because they're in Adam and Adam sinned.
Scott Keffer [:So, yes, they still knew that. But he's saying there is no direct law from God. Adam had one commandment. Right? Moses, God shows up. In between there, there wasn't any direct commandment of God to break. In other words, that's not why they died. That's his point here. They didn't die because during that period, they were literally breaking God's law.
Scott Keffer [:Yes. Conscience was there. Their eyes were opened. Nature, right, communicates, but they die because Adam sinned, and they were in Adam. That make sense? Sort of. Sort of. But hang hang on. Did you see god Adam? That's all also a great purpose and all that.
Scott Keffer [:Alright. So flip over. Because it says Adam is a type. Adam is a type. What does a type mean? A foreshadow of one to come. A foreshadow of one to come. Just like King David was a tiger. Just like Moses was a tiger of the Messiah to come.
Scott Keffer [:Adam is a type, it says in here. He's a type. Right? So the first Adam is earthly, created from dust. He's of a living soul, and he was innocent but able to sin. He was innocent but able to sin. And he was the first head of humanity. He's the head of humanity. He disobeyed.
Scott Keffer [:The result was sin, death, and condemnation for all. He broke the covenant, and he lost the relationship. Right? He lost his relationship with god. Humanity inherits sin and death. We bear the earthly perishable image. Our bodies are sewn in dishonor. They're breaking down. Right? I know that one.
Scott Keffer [:And his sacrifice was animal skin, and it was temporary. It led to a curse fall in creation, judgment, and eternal separation from God. Eternal separation from God. He's the first Adam. And if that was it, we'd be sunk. Yeah. But there is a second Adam, the last Adam, Jesus Christ. He's heavenly.
Scott Keffer [:He's the eternal son of God. He's not a living soul. He's a life giving spirit. He's perfect, divine. He's sinless, and he's the new head of a redeemed humanity. Adam was the head of humanity. Jesus Christ is the head of he's the firstborn from the dead. He's the firstborn of many brethren.
Scott Keffer [:Perfect obedience. What's the result? Righteousness, life, and justification for many believers. Many believers. Myriads of myriads, thousands upon thousands worshiping the land. Myriad of believers. Believers inherit righteousness and eternal life. They bear a heavenly imperishable image, and we will be raised in glory
Speaker B [:immortal immortal.
Scott Keffer [:His sacrifice permanently covers sin and guilt permanently once for all. Is that good news? Yeah. That's great news. He brings a new creation of restoration, a redirection, and eternal communion with God. Eternal communion with God. I'll let that one day. New covenant and we go up there, new relationship. Yeah.
Scott Keffer [:Sonship. We have sonship. You have sonship.
Speaker B [:I could speak to many believers, not all believers.
Scott Keffer [:Alright. That's all believers. But I in order to separate, when Adam sinned, all sinned. When Adam sinned, all sinned. So if I would say all believers, then it would seem like all. I just wanted to make sure it's clear. All humanity sinned. Jesus, right, has many believers.
Scott Keffer [:Right? Not as in not as in some believers and not other believers. As in there will be many believers. There will be myriad of myriads.
Speaker B [:There will be many unbelievers.
Scott Keffer [:And there will be yes. There'll be more unbelievers than there are believers. Right? But there will be many, and then also because that's the word he uses right here in the scriptures of many. Right? Many. So that that doesn't mean some believers as opposed to others. Okay. There we get that. He's the first head of humanity.
Scott Keffer [:Yeah. Right? He's the head of humanity. He's the federal head. He represents right? He represents so if you look down the list, I may say the right is better than the left. Yeah. Good. Because that's the understanding that it's in some ways, it's better. It's not only some better, it's much better.
Scott Keffer [:It's eternally better. Mhmm. To be it's anything to be a a creature versus a sun and all the things that go with that. Right? All the things that go with it. So the scripture has a three word phrase for this. It's much more than. Much more than. Much more than.
Scott Keffer [:That's those three blanks. That's the the that's the result. That's the difference between the first and the second, the first and the last. Adam and Christ, much more than. He's saying much more than. Right? He said, just stop and take this in. Just stop and take this in. In Adam's off in Adam's offense, all was lost.
Scott Keffer [:All was lost. What did he lose? He lost. Right? So he he lost gold. How much more so here's the question. In Adam's offense, all was lost. How much more did the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ gain? Much more than was lost. Well, hang with me, if you will. Right? Because he's saying, okay.
Scott Keffer [:Here's here's what was lost. Right? Here's what Adam lost. Here's what Adam lost. And here's what Christ gained. So he's saying, let's compare the two. So Adam lost it all. The first Adam lost identity and identity. He had an identity as a as a creed and a god.
Scott Keffer [:Right? That's his identity. Right? His relationship. He had a life and he had a destiny. And he lost it all for mankind. How? Through disobedience. Right? Through disobedience. He lost it all. The second Adam, Jesus Christ gained a new and eternally greater.
Scott Keffer [:Eternally greater. Do you say in Adam, he lost it all. He lost it all for humankind. But in Christ, he gained an eternally greater identity, relationship, future, life, destiny, everything. Eternally great. Not even comparable to what was lost. In Adam, he lost what a the creature benefits of being a creator of God. Jesus Christ gained for us, right, eternal benefits that aren't even comparable.
Scott Keffer [:He gained sonship for us. The second Adam gained a new life and an internally greater life. Right? Identity life and destiny for redeem mankind through his obedience. What was lost, right, if you put it on a scale, wouldn't even wouldn't even move because the the eternal benefits that Christ bore for us. And so in in a similar way, right, like Adam, he was a type. Jesus Christ also. Right? There were types all through the Old Testament pointing to the one pointing to the one pointing to the one. So as we think about this, god the father sent his son to do what you wouldn't, couldn't, and didn't.
Scott Keffer [:Sent his son to do what you would you couldn't do, you wouldn't do, and you didn't do. And he did that when you were his enemy, Which begs the question, if God if that's true, if God sent his son to do what you wouldn't do, couldn't do, and didn't do, is there anything he'll withhold from you? That's the first question. If god if god sent his son, right, he who did not spare his own son, but delivered him up for us all. He asked the question, how will he not also with him freely give you how many things? All things. All things. So is there something right now that you feel like you need and got us with holding? Healing, help, favor, answer, guidance. So we go to life and go like, Lord alright, Lord. Where is it? Where is it? Where is it? Where is it? Right? How come so he's saying, if I send my son to do what you wouldn't do, couldn't do, and didn't do, is there anything I'll withhold from you? So if it hasn't shown up, it's not the right time.
Scott Keffer [:Or if it never shows up, it's not the right thing. Does that make sense?
Speaker B [:Yes.
Scott Keffer [:So he's saying, just being commanded. So what do you need? That you're believing god is not giving you saying just the application of this, I sent my son to do what you wouldn't, couldn't, and didn't do. So that's the first question. The second is there was another type, many types in the Old Testament. Moses was the type, so was David a type. And David was a type when all of Israel, all the the the mighty men of Israel were peeing their pants because there was a really big, tall, right, Goliath. Nobody was gonna fight Goliath. And they said, hey.
Scott Keffer [:Philistine said, hey. We're sending our best. You send your best. Whoever wins gets the whole prize. We'll we'll all follow. Where did that concept come from? One champion fights for all the people. That was eternally revealed because there was an eternal plan that the son of god would be the eternal champion for mankind who would fight the battle. We wouldn't, couldn't, and didn't fight.
Scott Keffer [:So Jesus Christ fought the battle. He fought the battle. That you wouldn't, couldn't, and didn't fight when you were his enemy, When you were his enemy, he stood up and he fought the battle. So same question. If that's true, how much more will Jesus fight the battles that you have in your life that you can't, won't, and don't fight? How much more?
Speaker B [:All.
Scott Keffer [:All of them. I just have to say like David said, soul, why are you in despair then? Because our just our soul goes to despair. Right? So David says And then like, hello, soul. Why are you in despair? Remind yourself. So I put what battle? Do you need a champion? What battle are you fighting that you need a champion? I'm fighting your behalf. Life is full of battles. So he's saying, hello. If I fought the ultimate battle and won on your behalf, is there any smaller battle that will occur after that that I'm not willing to fight for you? I fought the ultimate even when you're an enemy.
Scott Keffer [:Now that you're a son and a brother, one of many, is there any battle I'm not willing to fight for you? So I pulled up a couple of scriptures that helped me. The lord does not say by sword or by spear. Who said this? David. But the battle is is Yahweh's. He's saying the battle is Yahweh's, But I don't have a sword or a spear. I don't have what it takes to fight this battle. I don't have what it takes to overcome the cancer. I don't have what it takes because I'm out of out of a job.
Scott Keffer [:I don't have what it takes because I don't have enough money. I don't have a sword or a spear to fix this thing for me or for my family or for my friend. Right? He said it's not your battle. It's the lord's. But the lord Yahweh is oh, he's what? And he's with me. Not just with me. He's with me like a dread champion. Like a dread champion.
Scott Keffer [:You ever see those dual wrestling matches where the tag team and the guy's losing and he just makes it to tag off and saying, he's with me like a grand champion. We're saying, why are you fighting there? I'm here. He's with me. You're going with me. Where are you, Lord? You're looking at the wrong thing. You should look at your circumstance. You're not looking at me. Then he said, okay.
Scott Keffer [:I get it. You will be afraid. So what's he
Speaker B [:say? Yeah.
Scott Keffer [:And this is not like a do not. This is a don't be afraid. Don't be afraid. Why not? What's he say?
Speaker B [:I'm fighting for you.
Scott Keffer [:I'm fighting for you. I'm fighting for you. And, like, right, you're not being afraid. Will you be afraid?
Speaker B [:Yes. Tell
Scott Keffer [:me. But that's why he says it. He's it's a calming. Don't be afraid. It's not a don't be afraid. I'm with you. Right? You ever seen your kids? It's okay. It's good.
Scott Keffer [:We'll be good. We'll be good. And then I say that when I have no idea how it will be good, but you calm them down. Right? You say, it's gonna be good. You look at I have no idea what's gonna be good. And the lord's saying to me, hey. It's gonna be good. And he knows.
Scott Keffer [:He knows. Right? He's saying do not be afraid. I love this. The lord is a warrior. He's a warrior. And we need a warrior in life's battles. Don't be confused. Beak and mild does not mean he is not a warrior.
Scott Keffer [:Does not mean he is not a warrior. So what do I wanna pray? Contend, Lord. Contend with those who contend with me. Fighting against those who fight against me. Is that a good prayer? And I love this. He says, lift up your head, oh, gates, and be lifted up, oh, ancient doors, that the king of glory may come in. So side d is you're at the gate. The leaders are at the gate.
Scott Keffer [:Lift up. Right? Lift up your heads, oh, gates, and be lifted up, oh, ancient doors, that the king of glory make you in. He says, who is the king of glory? The lord, strong and mighty, and the lord, mighty in battle. He says it again. Lift up your heads, oh, gates, and be lifted up, oh, ancient doors, so the king of glory might come in. Then he asked, who is the king of glory? He's Yahweh of host. He's the lord of the armies of heaven. The lord of host.
Scott Keffer [:The lord of host. Who is the king of glory? The lord of the armies of heaven. So is there a battle that you're fighting? Is there an enemy that you're, right, engaged with? Right? Is there an issue that you have that the lord and the armies of heaven is too big for this? So he reminds us, Jesus Christ fought the battle. Right? So will he not fight it for you? That's what he's saying. His life is as greater. It's much more than his death. Right? His death on the cross, right, purchased you and purchased for you, but his life at the right hand of the father is for you today, for you each minute of every day for the battles that you fight. He is the lord strong and mighty, the lord mighty in battle.
Scott Keffer [:If you have a battle with money, if you have a battle with health, if you have a battle with whatever, right, he is sufficient. Is he not? So you're saying, let me be your champion. Let me fight your battles. Let me stand for you against injustice, against whatever that is. The lord, strong and mighty, he is the king of glory. Yeah. I always say I set up a God consulting, business, and he never called. Right.
Scott Keffer [:He never called. But that doesn't mean I don't continue to email with plans like setting my, you know
Speaker B [:Here's my two year plan.
Scott Keffer [:Yeah. Here's my here's my blueprint, Lord. Just in case you need a little thought, you know, here's what it is. We've
Speaker C [:got an insight that he doesn't care. Yeah. Really? Yeah.
Scott Keffer [:Well, then, you know, in Isaiah 40, he says, lord, where where is the justice do me? And the lord said, right, that my wisdom right? My understanding is inscrutable. Here, it's a howling your soul. Right? If I gave my son, is there anything I'm gonna withhold for you? Jesus is saying, I I fought the battle. I gained the victory for you. I'm here to continue to fight the battle. I mean, he's he's still our champion. He's still our champion, and that's really good news. That's a good thing.
Scott Keffer [:Because the first is based on an unbelief that he won't do it for me because then I question, he's not gonna do it for me. The second is he's gonna do for me everything and all things that are good. So if it doesn't happen, then it's not good. Abundantly, beyond all we ask or think according to the power that works within us. To him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus, both now and to all ages forever and ever. Amen. May he bless you. May he keep you.
Scott Keffer [:May he cause his face to shine upon you. May he lift up his countenance and grant you his shalom. That peace that passes all comprehension into your body, into your soul, into your mind, into your life. Oh, he bless you and keep you. May he walk in the power of his spirit, both now until when he calls you home. Amen. Amen. Amen.
Scott Keffer [:And amen. Thanks for listening. I hope you have greater hope, assurance, and confidence in your life and a deeper trust in the God of the Bible and his son, Jesus Christ. Until next time, may the Lord bless you and keep you. May the Lord make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you. And may the Lord lift up his countenance on you and give you his peace, his shalom in your soul and in your life. Until next time, may God bless you and keep you.
