Dale Partridge - God's Unique Way To Strengthen Our Faith - Dale Partridge

00:00:00.000 In this episode of Real Christianity, I discuss how God has given us a unique way to have stronger

00:00:04.560 faith. If you're struggling with assurance, if you're struggling with doubt,

00:00:08.400 this will be an encouraging episode for you. So get ready, all that and more coming up right now.

00:00:30.880 Welcome to Real Christianity. My name is Dale Partridge. Now, as you know, this show is an

00:00:34.640 audio and video ministry of relearn.org, where our mission is to bring the church

00:00:38.920 back to the Bible. Thank you guys for joining me today. I wanted to give you a quick update

00:00:43.320 on a book that I am writing that'll be available for pre-order shortly. It's called A Cover for

00:00:48.740 Glory, A Biblical Defense for the Doctrine of Head Coverings. And this is a expositional

00:00:54.140 commentary verse by verse for the average Christian to work through 1 Corinthians chapter

00:00:59.580 11 verses 2 through 16 on the topic of head coverings. This has been an important discussion

00:01:05.180 among many churches, especially of the Reformed tradition, that are wondering,

00:01:09.840 is that practice something that is for today? Or was it just a custom of the Corinthian era?

00:01:16.900 I answer all those questions and more and make it a very accessible argument

00:01:20.200 for the average Christian to just walk through the text verse by verse. I will let you guys know

00:01:25.720 when that is available for pre-order, but I wanted to just talk about it now, let you know

00:01:29.860 that that's coming. And if you follow along on social media, you will see when we make that

00:01:34.660 available for you guys to get yourselves a copy. All right, let's go ahead and dive into this

00:01:38.780 episode. Over the past several weeks, we've been discussing the Great Reformation doctrine of

00:01:47.820 justification by faith alone. We've also seen Paul defend that doctrine from a variety of

00:01:53.240 different angles. We've learned that Paul spends the first quarter of this book to the Romans

00:02:00.040 proclaiming and explaining this very truth. Now, we're currently in the fourth chapter,

00:02:05.560 but we're really in the third section as it pertains to theological concepts. Section one

00:02:11.260 was the prologue of the book where Paul establishes his apostolic authority and his desire to be with

00:02:16.820 the church in Rome. The section two was the declaration of the universal condemnation and

00:02:22.860 jurisdiction of the law over all men, Jew and Gentile, and that we are justified by faith

00:02:29.460 alone in Christ alone. Section three, which we are in now, is a defense of the claims in section two

00:02:36.100 about justification by faith alone and the leveraging of the testimony of the Old Testament.

00:02:43.240 As we saw, Paul used both Abraham and David to demonstrate that law-keeping was not a path to justification.

00:02:53.040 He also discussed the sacramental rites of circumcision were never to be the means of bringing about justification or salvation for a person.

00:03:03.620 But salvation has always been by faith alone.

00:03:07.260 Then Paul answered the anticipated question

00:03:09.520 regarding the purpose of circumcision

00:03:11.200 by explaining how this sacrament was a sign

00:03:14.260 and a seal of the promise that was made to him

00:03:18.000 in the covenant of Abraham.

00:03:20.460 But he made it clear that the true children of Abraham

00:03:22.400 were not merely those that were physically born of Abraham,

00:03:25.520 but those who were spiritually born of faith.

00:03:29.560 So it's not just about those

00:03:31.220 who shared that covenant sign with Abraham,

00:03:33.080 but it was really those who had the same faith as Abraham.

00:03:38.040 In my last sermon or the last episode,

00:03:40.020 we talked about how the substance of the promises promised to Abraham

00:03:45.760 would be inherited by the children of Abraham

00:03:49.840 and that those would be realized through faith.

00:03:54.460 And Paul clarified that these children would not inherit the content of the promise

00:03:58.400 by means of the law,

00:03:59.800 but that you would inherit the contents of those promises

00:04:02.640 through the workless means of faith.

00:04:05.940 In other words, there was these two roads

00:04:08.560 that diametrically opposed one another.

00:04:10.600 There is a path of works and law,

00:04:13.480 and there is a path of faith and grace,

00:04:16.260 and the two cannot be mixed.

00:04:18.820 And Paul is trying to draw a distinction there

00:04:21.200 that one path is not the path to go down,

00:04:23.780 but this path of faith and grace.

00:04:26.640 You don't just need, you don't need works and faith.

00:04:30.920 You don't need faith and works.

00:04:32.640 you need just faith to inherit the promises.

00:04:36.700 Yes, we do believe that when you have genuine faith

00:04:40.480 that you will produce works,

00:04:42.200 but those works are not the means

00:04:44.400 by which you are inheriting the promises

00:04:47.060 of the covenant with Abraham.

00:04:49.320 Ultimately in 4.13, Paul clarifies that the promise

00:04:52.860 that Abraham's children would inherit the earth

00:04:56.400 would be secured not by works of the law,

00:04:59.720 but by faith.

00:05:01.020 In Ephesians 1.3, Paul is writing to those he calls faithful in Christ Jesus.

00:05:06.480 And he says, quote,

00:05:07.760 In other words, the lavishing on of our inheritance,

00:05:19.940 of these spiritual blessings that Paul is talking about in Ephesians,

00:05:23.480 are receiving the substance of the promises of God,

00:05:27.140 and they are grasped by faith.

00:05:29.740 They are not something that we earn.

00:05:31.420 They're not something that we deserve.

00:05:32.960 They're not something that we can buy.

00:05:34.880 They're not something that we can work for.

00:05:36.680 They are a gift received through faith.

00:05:42.040 Today's text, what Paul's going to do is he goes on to explain why this must be true.

00:05:48.180 Why it must be by faith and not by the law.

00:05:53.440 Essentially, he's answering the question,

00:05:54.740 why are the covenant promises realized strictly by faith alone? He says in chapter four, verses

00:06:02.660 16, and I'll go all the way through verse 21. It says, for this reason, it is by faith in order

00:06:09.320 that it may be in accordance with grace so that the promises will be guaranteed to all the

00:06:15.100 descendants, not only those who are of the law, but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham,

00:06:21.200 who is the father of us all. Verse 17, as it is written, a father of many nations, I have made you

00:06:27.580 in the presence of him whom he believed, even God, who gives life to the dead and calls into being

00:06:33.880 that which does not exist, in hope against hope he believed, so that he might become the father

00:06:39.840 of many nations according to that which had been spoken, so shall your descendants be. Without

00:06:46.620 becoming weak in faith, he contemplated his own body, now as good as dead since he was about 100 0.52

00:06:52.280 years old and the deadness of Sarah's womb. Yet with respect to the promise of God, he did not

00:06:57.700 waver in unbelief, but grew strong in faith, giving glory to God and being fully assured that

00:07:04.480 what God had promised, he was able to perform. Amen. What a powerful passage of scripture. We're

00:07:10.720 going to dive in verse by verse here. So this first section, verse 16, it says, for this reason,

00:07:17.080 it is by faith in order that it may be in accordance with grace so that the promises

00:07:22.360 will be guaranteed to all descendants, not only to those who are of the law, but also to those

00:07:26.540 who are of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all. Okay. As you guys know, I'm

00:07:31.260 a proponent of grammar. I block diagram the biblical text every single week. I diagram pretty

00:07:36.780 often in Greek. I like to look at the grammar to understand what the author meant by the words that

00:07:44.100 he used. And leveraging grammar properly allows us to interpret scripture well. And whenever we

00:07:50.200 see the words in order that, or so that, or even just that, we're witnessing what's often called

00:07:57.540 a purpose clause. And we have both instances in just this verse. A purpose clause really offers

00:08:04.500 the reason for the action that was expressed. So I'm going to read it again, just verse 16.

00:08:11.060 For this reason, it is by faith in order that purpose, right? That's the purpose. In order that

00:08:17.720 it may be in accordance with grace so that the promise will be guaranteed to all the descendants.

00:08:25.200 So we'll stop right there and just kind of work through that. I want you to just keep that in

00:08:28.680 your brain. When you start to see the word, so that, or in order that, you want to underline

00:08:33.380 that because that's telling you that that's the purpose of the action that was previously

00:08:38.420 expressed. So in our case, the reason the promises are received by faith, which is the action,

00:08:45.360 is that it would be in accordance with grace, which is the purpose. And Paul is trying to

00:08:51.440 communicate an important point with two different dimensions here. And I want to talk about both of

00:08:54.760 them. The first is that the covenant promise, we're not resting on our ability to keep the law.

00:09:02.180 Paul has already communicated to us that we are unable to keep the law, that we are sinful. 0.97

00:09:08.860 He says in Romans 3, 9 through 10, quote, for we have already charged that all, both Jews and

00:09:15.340 Greeks, are under sin. As it is written, none is righteous. No, not one. End quote. Galatians 3,

00:09:23.500 10 through 11 says, for all who rely on works of the law are under a curse. For it is written,

00:09:30.180 cursed be everyone who does not abide by all things written in the book of the law and do them.

00:09:36.220 Now it is evident that no one is justified before God by the law, for the righteous shall live

00:09:43.160 by faith, end quote. So as we discussed, maybe last week, maybe the week before, there are

00:09:49.260 two paths, right? We talked about this idea of two paths to receive the substance of the promise,

00:09:54.700 which are utterly opposed to one another

00:09:57.680 in the path of the law and works

00:09:59.960 in the path of faith and grace.

00:10:01.740 Paul is showing us again

00:10:03.540 how these cannot be mixed together.

00:10:06.420 He's demonstrating, he's saying that the covenant

00:10:08.200 cannot be realized by works because of our sin.

00:10:12.280 So we could never rest

00:10:14.300 in the potential guaranteed promise

00:10:17.160 if it was resting in works

00:10:19.140 because we know that we're sinful

00:10:21.080 and we have already broken the covenant

00:10:23.220 and there would be no hope

00:10:25.540 to have a guaranteed promise delivered to us.

00:10:30.580 But instead it's realized by faith.

00:10:34.160 And then he makes the point

00:10:35.220 when the promise is realized by the workless means of faith,

00:10:38.440 it must be by grace.

00:10:40.860 And it must be by grace because it's not by works.

00:10:43.160 In Romans 11, six,

00:10:45.700 Paul touches on this exact same concept when he says,

00:10:49.000 but if it is by grace,

00:10:49.920 it is no longer on the basis of works.

00:10:52.440 Otherwise, grace would no longer be grace.

00:10:55.620 This is basic logic that he's saying here.

00:10:57.420 It's like, if you wanted to use an example,

00:10:59.860 you know, the floor is wet because it's not dry.

00:11:03.420 And if it was dry, it would not be wet.

00:11:05.540 I mean, it's really basic reality.

00:11:07.440 It's that if it's not by works,

00:11:09.040 then it's certainly by grace,

00:11:10.200 because if it was by works, we're sinners.

00:11:12.220 And we know that we failed there.

00:11:14.360 And therefore that path is an impossible way

00:11:18.480 to receive the substance of the promises

00:11:20.980 of the covenant to Abraham. Therefore, it must be by grace. So the apostles really demonstrated

00:11:29.840 that it can't be earned. That's basically the point that's being put forward here. It can only

00:11:34.780 be received as a gift of grace through the workless means of faith. The second point

00:11:39.280 is that we don't want the promises resting on our ability to keep the law by good works,

00:11:47.680 including our salvation. We don't want that. The Jews continue to fight for their involvement in

00:11:55.140 their own redemption foolishly. They wanted to contribute to their righteous standing or 1.00

00:11:59.720 justification before God. It's only because they overestimated their ability to keep the law

00:12:05.560 and they underestimated the requirement of the law. And so they didn't understand that the law

00:12:13.520 was impossible for them to keep.

00:12:15.960 And they overestimated their ability to keep it.

00:12:19.280 And so they wanted to constantly be involved

00:12:21.620 and bring some sort of justification

00:12:22.940 or contribution to their salvation, 0.93

00:12:25.720 which is a foolish way to think.

00:12:27.920 Any person who wants their salvation

00:12:30.000 to rest in full or in part 1.00

00:12:34.000 on their own actions is an absolute fool. 0.99

00:12:38.520 That's vital. 1.00

00:12:39.860 Pay attention to that.

00:12:40.680 If you're listening here,

00:12:42.100 I want you to just,

00:12:43.520 let this sink into your brain. Any person who wants their salvation to be resting fully or in

00:12:52.260 part of their own actions is an absolute fool. Because unlike the legalist, the Christian says, 0.99

00:13:01.160 my salvation and my heavenly inheritance does not rest upon my actions, but on God's faithfulness

00:13:07.480 to me in Christ. It rests on the obedience and actions of Christ, not on my fickle and sinful

00:13:16.000 and back and forth backsliding and falling. And this is, I think it was John MacArthur who said,

00:13:24.560 if you could lose your salvation, you would. And that's the truth. And so we need to understand

00:13:32.400 that we don't want our salvation to be resting in our own hands by our good works or maintaining

00:13:38.420 obedience. Let me give you a trite illustration. Holding onto your salvation is kind of like

00:13:44.980 holding onto a bird that's going to fly away the second that you make a mistake.

00:13:50.600 But putting your salvation in the hands of God is kind of like putting that bird into a secure

00:13:55.740 and sturdy cage where it cannot be lost. Essentially, we need to trust in our salvation

00:14:04.580 to be in the hands of Christ and the perfect work and law keeping of Christ, not our own

00:14:10.100 obedience. So Christianity teaches us that if we hold on by our own strength, we're going to perish.

00:14:16.440 But if we let go and rest in the strength of God by faith in Christ, we will live. John 10,

00:14:25.400 27 to 29 says, this is Jesus talking. He says, quote, my sheep hear my voice and I know them

00:14:31.100 and they follow me and I give them or I give eternal life to them and they will never perish

00:14:37.620 and no one will snatch them out of my hand. My father who has given them to me is greater than

00:14:44.500 all and no one is able to snatch them out of the father's hand. Romans 8, 38 to 39 says,

00:14:50.500 For I am sure that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present,

00:14:55.500 nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation

00:15:00.500 will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord. Ultimately, it's a

00:15:08.140 foolish illusion to believe that our souls and spiritual inheritance are more secure in our own

00:15:15.560 hands down that path of works. It's a foolish reality. It's that path of works for many people 1.00

00:15:23.900 is like a mirage. It appears to be a source of refreshment and fulfillment, but upon closer

00:15:30.420 inspection, it really reveals itself as being an empty and dead path that leads to eternal

00:15:37.040 separation from God. Paul goes on to offer a second purpose for why the substance of the

00:15:43.760 promises are dependent upon and received by faith. He says, so that the promise will be guaranteed

00:15:51.840 to all descendants, not only those who are of the law, but also those who are of the faith of

00:16:00.260 Abraham, who is the father of us all. R.C. Sproul comments on this verse by saying, quote,

00:16:05.340 if it were on the basis of works, the promise would fail. However, because it is by faith and

00:16:11.240 therefore by grace, it is guaranteed to come to Abraham's true spiritual offspring, all believers,

00:16:17.920 whether Jew or Gentile. In other words, unlike human works, God's grace guarantees the substance 0.88

00:16:25.960 of the promise to be realized to the descendants of Abraham by faith. So again, it's like the path

00:16:34.180 of works, we're putting it in our own hands, the path of grace, we're putting it in God's hands.

00:16:37.520 It's like that bird in that secure and sturdy cage. It's going to be safe there.

00:16:41.240 but then Paul goes on in verse 17 to appeal to the Old Testament as a way to defend what he just

00:16:48.100 said at the very end of that last verse in 16. And he declares that Abraham is the father of us

00:16:55.660 all. So there's a bit of a transition here. He says in verse 17, as it is written,

00:17:01.240 a father of many nations, I have made you in the presence of him whom he believed, even God,

00:17:06.480 who gives life to the dead and calls into being that which does not exist. So we can't forget

00:17:14.080 that the Jews had cemented in their minds and their experience and culture that they were God's

00:17:22.820 sole chosen people and that they were the sole heirs, the circumcised. They were the ones that 0.76

00:17:31.600 we're going to receive the promises. And so Paul is continuing to correct their understanding

00:17:37.080 regarding the true lineage of Abraham, that it's not by blood, but it's actually by faith.

00:17:45.240 And he uses the testimony of their very own scriptures. He cites Genesis 17, 5, that says,

00:17:51.240 no longer shall your name be called Abram, but your name shall be called Abraham, for I will

00:17:56.840 make you the father of a multitude of nations. Now, again, we know that there are Jews that do

00:18:03.800 have faith, but there also is the bringing in of the Gentiles where you're going to have people

00:18:09.660 who are children of Abraham from every tribe, nation, and tongue. So the substance of the 0.96

00:18:14.800 promise was realized in two ways. It was realized physically and spiritually. And so it was realized

00:18:23.100 physically, because one of the promises that Abraham would be the father of many nations,

00:18:27.440 one, he needs to have a kid, right? He needs to have a child. He needs to have a son.

00:18:32.900 And it was realized physically in the birth of Isaac and the development of a physical nation.

00:18:40.320 And it was realized spiritually in the birth and resurrection of Christ in the development of a

00:18:45.860 spiritual church. So you got to see this, is that there was a promise that there was going to be

00:18:50.660 a physical child and a physical nation, the nation of Israel. And there would be a spiritual

00:18:58.260 reality in the fact that that physical child would result in the serpent crusher, the promised

00:19:06.900 seed that would inaugurate the church. And that was Jesus. And Jesus's death and resurrection

00:19:16.720 was the true seed that by faith

00:19:21.880 would be spread across the entire world

00:19:24.840 and many nations would be children of Abraham by faith.

00:19:29.860 And so the second realization through Christ,

00:19:32.920 essentially God's people are expanded

00:19:35.300 from one nation to many nations,

00:19:38.620 fulfilling God's promise regarding Abraham's descendants

00:19:41.300 to be as numerous as the stars all around the world.

00:19:44.420 In other words, through Christ, God's people are no longer limited by national boundaries.

00:19:50.780 This is something that would be very difficult for the Jew to understand, but instead they become a global and united family in faith in Christ.

00:19:58.920 And so Ephesians 3, 4 through 6 talks about this.

00:20:03.320 Paul says, quote,

00:20:04.760 You can perceive my insight into the mystery of Christ,

00:20:07.360 which was not made known to the sons of men in other generations

00:20:10.480 as it has been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit.

00:20:15.620 This mystery is that the Gentiles are fellow heirs,

00:20:20.580 members of the same body,

00:20:22.020 and partakers of the promise in Jesus Christ through the gospel.

00:20:27.340 This was also prophesied in the Old Testament. 0.63

00:20:31.020 So the Jews really had no excuse to be shocked by this reality.

00:20:36.380 Hosea 1.10 says, 0.84

00:20:37.680 Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be like the sand of the sea,

00:20:42.200 which cannot be measured or numbered.

00:20:45.080 And in the place where it is said to them,

00:20:48.040 quote, you are not my people.

00:20:49.940 It will be said to them, you are the sons of the living God.

00:20:53.960 end quote. Zechariah 2.11 continues this line of thinking. It says, quote, and many nations

00:21:01.560 shall join themselves to the Lord in that day and shall be my people, end quote. So Paul goes on

00:21:09.420 in verse 18 to give you a little bit more concept or context about what's going on. Let's go back

00:21:13.760 to chapter four, verse 18. He says, in hope against hope, he believed, talking about Abraham,

00:21:20.240 so that he might become a father of many nations

00:21:24.100 according to that which had been spoken,

00:21:26.540 so shall your descendants be.

00:21:28.340 Verse 19, without becoming weak in faith,

00:21:31.240 he contemplated his own body,

00:21:32.960 now as good as dead since he was about 100 years old

00:21:35.360 and the deadness of Sarah's womb.

00:21:37.580 Yet with respect to the promise of God,

00:21:40.100 he did not waver in unbelief,

00:21:42.140 but grew strong in faith, giving glory to God

00:21:45.100 and being fully assured that what God had promised,

00:21:48.420 he was able to perform. So Paul goes on to point out that this promise to Abraham regarding

00:21:56.680 his immeasurable progeny, as many as the stars, was received by faith before Abraham even had

00:22:07.620 one biological child. Do you understand this? You have to see that Abraham is receiving

00:22:15.420 by faith, this immense and massive promise. He's got an old body, a wife with a dead womb, 0.82

00:22:25.300 and no children. And yet he has been given this promise to be the father of many nations. 0.97

00:22:34.280 And he doesn't even have one biological son. In other words, this kind of faith that we're

00:22:40.120 looking at here is not natural faith. This is supernatural faith that Abraham has. It was

00:22:45.260 faith in the one, as Paul says, who gives life to the dead and calls into being that which does not

00:22:50.920 exist. So Abraham believed God because God is the one who can call light and matter into existence

00:22:59.500 from nothing. This is the type of foundation that Abraham has for the faith that is being

00:23:08.660 demonstrated. This faith, again, is a gift of God given to Abraham. He gives life to Sarah's

00:23:14.000 barrenness and makes nations emerge from her dead womb. I mean, this is miraculous stuff here. 1.00

00:23:22.760 This is just as miraculous as raising Lazarus from the dead. He gives, we know God does,

00:23:30.660 God gives life to dead souls and he makes a living church emerge from dry bones all around

00:23:38.020 the world. And he's the God who speaks of things as if they exist when they don't exist. And so he

00:23:47.020 spoke to Abraham as a father before he even had a child. He speaks of nations before these nations

00:23:54.660 were even formed. And to be honest, there are more nations that will be formed that will have

00:24:01.660 people in those nations that'll be children of Abraham by faith. And so the central point that

00:24:08.500 Paul is emphasizing is Abraham's willingness to take God at his word. I want you to grasp that

00:24:14.860 here. The central point is that Abraham's willingness to take God at his word. We see this

00:24:20.140 at the end of verse 21. It says, and being fully assured that what God had promised, he was able

00:24:26.280 to perform. And the question you need to be asking is how does this apply to my life? How does this

00:24:34.420 Old Testament discussion about Abraham and the promise to him, how does that translate to my

00:24:40.680 world? Obviously through the inheritance of the substance of those promises, you are an heir to

00:24:45.980 those promises through faith. So that's one thing, but it applies in many other ways. Abraham is our

00:24:52.500 father in the faith. And as children, we have the same faith as our father Abraham. And so we can

00:25:00.220 look to Abraham's example as our father. He's a forefather to us in the faith. And we can look

00:25:06.900 to his example as we would look to our own father's example. We can learn from his response

00:25:13.260 to the promise of God. In other words, in the same way that Abraham trusted God regarding the

00:25:19.620 promises given to him, we can trust God regarding the promises that are given to us. This is a

00:25:25.960 beautiful correlation that you need to pay attention to. When God's word promises us

00:25:30.160 justification and sanctification and peace and hope and eternal life, we get to be just like

00:25:37.460 our forefather, Abraham, and trust that God can accomplish what seems absolutely impossible to us.

00:25:46.140 John Calvin observes this exact point in his commentary when he says,

00:25:50.860 quote, all things around us are in opposition to the promises of God.

00:25:55.380 He promises immortality, yet we are surrounded with death and corruption.

00:26:00.300 He declares that he counts us just, yet we are covered with sins and transgressions.

00:26:05.640 He testifies that he is propitiating and kind to us, yet outward judgments threaten his wrath.

00:26:13.360 What then is to be done?

00:26:14.480 We must with closed eyes pass by ourselves

00:26:18.240 and all things connected with us

00:26:20.360 that nothing may hinder or prevent us

00:26:22.900 from believing what God said is true.

00:26:27.540 It's a beautiful, beautiful commentary.

00:26:30.860 We can trust in the promises given to us

00:26:33.960 because we saw Abraham trust in the promises given to him.

00:26:39.420 Ultimately, Abraham's faith

00:26:40.820 is to be an encouragement to us.

00:26:43.600 It's an example that we can look at.

00:26:46.000 When you doubt that God can forgive you,

00:26:48.760 remember Abraham's faith.

00:26:50.640 When you doubt that you can be saved

00:26:53.460 with all of the sin in your life,

00:26:55.880 you get to look at Abraham's faith.

00:26:59.560 When you doubt that God's going to resurrect

00:27:02.320 your dead body at his return,

00:27:04.800 you can, again, look at Abraham's faith.

00:27:09.820 His faith is the same faith that dwells in you.

00:27:13.880 He is the father of the faith

00:27:15.440 and he has passed down that faith.

00:27:19.100 That faith comes from God.

00:27:20.520 It's a gift to Abraham and it is a gift to us.

00:27:23.060 We share in that faith.

00:27:24.600 And therefore we have the same ability

00:27:26.640 to believe in the impossible as Abraham did

00:27:31.260 when we trust in God by faith.

00:27:35.920 So hopefully that was helpful for you guys.

00:27:38.320 on this episode discussing this beautiful chapter of Romans chapter four. We have one more message

00:27:46.680 in chapter four and we move on to chapter five and six and seven and eight. There is just a growing

00:27:53.840 beauty in Romans that we're going to get into some incredible doctrines. So please

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00:28:24.420 On that note, thank you for joining me

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00:28:28.220 My name is Dale Partridge.

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Dale Partridge - March 21, 2023

God's Unique Way To Strengthen Our Faith - Dale Partridge

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