We want to say shalom and welcome dear friends and dear brothers and sisters to the Bible classes of the Holy Scriptures in Israel where we are studying together the Word of God from a first century Hebrew messianic perspective and we are presenting in sincerity the Word of God and the personal our Lord Yeshua HaMashiach, Jesus the Messiah. Hopefully you have your Bibles with you, if you don't just take a moment make sure that you put it before you and we are going to turn right now to the book of Romans. Amazing letter, epistle that Shaul Paul wrote to the Roman believers which helps us to understand the righteousness of God.

So let's pray together, let's ask the Lord's blessing and then. And we will begin with some reading from Romans chapter 3, verse 25 to verse 31. Let's pray together. Abba, Father, thank you for your love for us. For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him shall not perish, but have everlasting life. Thank you for Yeshua, Jesus, our Lord and our Messiah. Bless your word. Name Amen Amen so beloved brothers and sisters and dear friend turn with me to Roman chapter 3 and we're going to read the final verses of the third chapter where the apostle Shaul Paul is emphasizing in these verses that he's explaining justification and so we read in verse 25 Romans chapter 3 and verse 25, whom, namely Yeshua HaMashiach, Jesus Christ, Jesus the Messiah, whom God has set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are passed through the forbearance of God, Where is the busting then?

It is excluded. By what law? Of works? Nay, but by the law of faith. That a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law. Is he the God of the Jews only? Is he not also the God of the Gentiles? Yeah, of the Gentiles also. Seeing it is one God which shall justify the circumcision by faith and the uncircumcision through faith. And I'm going to stop here with the end of the third chapter. To remind you, we have now entered, of course, beloved brothers and sisters, into the section here in the book of Romans, 21 and this section beloved friends and dear brothers and sisters really deals with the theme of salvation in Hebrew Yeshua and to remind you of the five ss that we remind you all every time we have our study together that the book of Roman is divided into these five sanctification, sovereignty, and service.

We have concluded with the theme of sin that the Apostle Paul presented in chapter 1 from verse 1 all the way to chapter 3 and verse 20 that the conclusion was the universality that all are sinners, the universal guilt that is declared upon the whole human race Jews and Gentiles male and female bound and free rich and poor all of us circumcised and uncircumcised the conclusion was that all of us are guilty before God that's how we concluded chapter 3 in verse 19 in the first section that deal with the question of sin. Into the second section of the book of Romans which began in chapter 3 verse 21 and we conclude with chapter 5 and verse 21 and this this portion of Scripture we have the theme that the apostle Shaul Paul is conveying to the Roman believers of the fact that we are saved or salvation have been provided for us through the person of our Lord Yeshua HaMashiach Jesus the Messiah who came from heaven the one who loved us even unto death the promised Mashiach of Israel and the Savior of this world he came down to this world to provide salvation and Paul is emphasizing the fact that everyone that believeth on him is declared to be righteous or in other words he is justified He is declared to be positionally just before a holy and a righteous God because he or she believe on God's provision, believe in the person and the work of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord Yeshua HaMashiach.

And so the word justification is mentioned here throughout the whole. Verse 21, the thought is justification. Being saved means to be justified, to be declared just. Justification is explained in the portion in which we are now finding ourselves. Later on, justification in relation to Abraham's life. And then later on, justification, the blessing that accompanies justification. And finally, the basis upon which every believer is being justified. Section we have already covered from verse 21 to verse 25 and partially even verse 26 but I read verse 25 again for our sake today that as Paul is explaining justification here beloved brothers and sisters he's explaining it and as we have already mentioned in verse 21 Paul said justification is a part of the law not on the basis of the law we read this already but now the righteousness of God without the law without law is manifested being witnessed by the law and the prophets then secondly in verse 22 the first part justification is through faith in the Messiah in Christ and we read but but even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ of Yeshua HaMashiach Then in verse 22b and verse 23 we have covered justification is for all, all people.

And we did read in verse 22b, it is unto all and upon all them that believe, for there is no different. For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. Then fourthly, justification is provided at a great cost. And that's where we concluded our meeting in our previous meeting in verse 24 and then 25, where we read justification is provided at a great cost, but it was first of all by grace. And you remember we read verse 24, the first part where it said being justified freely by his grace. Cost, verse 24, and then verse 25, where we read, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God had set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood.

Watch, what was the cost? The cost was the precious, precious blood of our Lord Yeshua, the Messiah. And we have learned, beloved brothers and sisters, that it is always, and it was always, on the basis of a bloodshed of an animal that the animal became a type and a picture of the coming Mashiach and when the Mashiach the Messiah came the sins and iniquities of those who believe on the Lord Jesus the Messiah were completely removed as we have already read in John chapter 1 and verse 29. Away the sin of this world but i just now want to just for a moment as we are moving along towards the end of the chapter to just emphasize these these verses here verse 25 and verse 26 a little bit more just to emphasize that to help us in verse 25 it says whom this is Jesus Yeshua whom God has sent forth to be a propitiation the word there is mercy seat in the in the Greek language and the mercy seat in the Hebrew it comes from the Hebrew kaporet that's where you get the word atonement covering in Hebrew it means to cover to atone so so God have sent the Lord Jesus the Messiah to be a propitiation to be a mercy seat and we mentioned as well that the word propitiation.

Mean that he satisfied God. The Lord Jesus satisfied God as the blood in the days of old, in the tabernacle, in the holy of holies, in the midst above the ark of the covenant, upon the kapot, the mercy seat, Aaron placed the blood of atonement and God was satisfied because God's holy requirements were met. When the blood was shed but of course the blood of the goats that were placed upon the mercy seat in days of all only pointed to the coming Redeemer now when the Messiah came he satisfied God just as he was satisfied in days of all when the blood was placed on the mercy seat now God is to the fullest when the blood of the Messiah Yeshua was shed for the sin of this world.

He died. He shed his blood. He paid the price so sinners who deserve to be punished because of their sins can receive forgiveness. And so God was propitiated. He was satisfied. And you know, this is important. If a holy and a righteous God will be satisfied his holy requirement must be met so when Yeshua died when the Lord Jesus the Messiah died God was propitiated it is faith in his blood gave provided for us or for the believer justification now you continue in verse 25b into verse 26 he said to declare his righteousness for the forgiveness of sins that are passed through the forbearance of God then verse 26 to declare I say at this time his righteousness that he might be just and a justifier of him which believers in Jesus in other words Paul is saying listen what he's saying to the believers at Rome that they will understand and you and I need to understand this as well.

God throughout the whole history until the time of the coming of Christ, the coming of the Messiah, blood had to be shed. God forbear with sin. In other words, he didn't say, well, never mind, you can carry on and sin, but he forbear with the sinners by atoning, by covering sin through the blood of the. Animals, the lamb, the ram, the goat, the calf, that were type of the Messiah, that atoned for the sin of those who came to offer sacrifices. But you see, beloved brothers and sisters, the work of the Lord Jesus, the Messiah, when he came and paid for the sin of this world some 2,000 years ago, dealt with both the sins of the past and the sins of the present.

In fact, he dealt with the sin question. Behold the Lamb of God, which takes away the sin singular, the sin, the root problem, the sin of this world. And when he, the Lord Yeshua, Jesus the Messiah, died on the cross and shed his precious blood, the value of his precious blood dealt and atoned and removed the sins of those who have sinned in the past. And we're forgiven on the basis of the sacrifices but also those who have sinned today since the time that he came until today and all the way on until the time will come and God will have to judge this world at the second coming of the Messiah so what we read here notice this you notice these two words that's why I reread it again for us all beloved brothers and sisters Notice the two words, the word past and the word this time.

Again, let me reread these two verses together before we are going to move on. Of God then verse 26 to declare I say at this time his righteousness that he might be just and justify of him that believers in Yeshua now that is very important you know sometimes people ask the question what about these men and women of old what about Adam and Eve what about Noah what about what about Abraham, Yitzhak, Yaakov, Yisrael and all the nation of Israel what about them did their sins were forgiven well their sins were atoned covered that's where you get the Hebrew word they were not removed as yet though they were covered but they were removed once and for all once the Lord Jesus the Messiah came and removed took away.

John 1:29 the sin of this world and by coming into this world in the fullness of the time because God planned it in the fullness of the time God sent us first his Son made of a woman made under the law in order that he might redeem them which were under the law Galatians 4:4 so once Christ Mashiach anointed Messiah came he dealt with all sin past present and future. When he, when Yeshua the Messiah died some 2,000 years ago, you and I were not alive. And your sins and mine today are being removed on the basis of the work that the Lord Jesus the Messiah have done some 2,000 years ago.

Just as the sins of the men and women of all in the history of Israel and beyond were forgiven. On the basis of the very same work of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah, which has happened historically some 2,000 years ago at about 30 AD, when God in His wisdom has sent the person of the Lord Jesus the Messiah to come to this world and to become the final complete sacrifice, to deal, to remove once and for all, the sin of this world so the sinners in days of old who came to God on the basis of God's way through the sacrifices their sins were forgiven their sins were covered they were covered but they were completely removed once the Messiah came and finished with the work of redemption some 2,000 years ago.

In our case today, our sins have been already removed. Why? Because we live on the other side of the history of the promise of the coming of the Redeemer. He came some 2,000 years ago. And remember, it was in the plan of God. It was in the plan of God. In fact, if you turn with me for a moment to 1 Peter. I just want to read this very interesting verse in 1st Peter chapter 1 listen to what Peter is saying to those to whom he wrote 1st Peter chapter 1 we do read beloved brothers and sisters in verse 18 19 and 20 for as much as you know that you are not redeemed with corruptible things as silver and gold gold from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers but with the precious blood of the Messiah, of Christos, Mashiach in Hebrew, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot.

And listen to this. Listen, beloved brothers and sisters. Verse 20, who verily was foreordained when? Before the foundation of the world. Even before sin came into this world, God in his wisdom knew. That sin will enter into this world, and the lamb will shed his precious blood in due time, and that lamb will be none else but our Lord Yeshua, Jesus the Messiah, who was verily foreordained before the foundation of the world, verse 20, but was manifest in these times for you, who by him do believe in God that raised him up from the dead him glory that your faith and hope might be in God so it is not a coincidence beloved brothers and sisters God in his wisdom have foreordained the coming of the Mashiach in the fullness of the time and he foreordained it long before the foundation of the world was laid And when he came, he dealt with all the sin of this world.

He forgave the sins of the past and also the sins that are committed at this time. And the sinners who trusted in him, who trusted in God, their sins were not only atoned now, but completely removed. I was kind of a little bit it was kind of interesting because it does say to declare God's righteousness his righteousness for the forgiveness the remission of the sins that are passed listen through the forbearance of God you know sometimes somebody might read that word the forbearance of God what does it mean did God forbear with sin and he says listen go ahead and sin as much as you can i forbear with that well if God is holy cannot look upon sin he will have to judge every sin and every sinner so when we read the forbearance of God it doesn't mean that God says carry on live in sin as you please until the Messiah will come no what it says here that God forbear by atoning for sin not removing them as yet because those that came to him came.

The basis of his requirement they believe God they believe his word they have accepted his instruction they came on the basis of the blood sacrifice and God forbear with it cover that waiting for the day that he as he planned will send the Messiah who was foreordained before the foundation of the world by the way that that word forbearance It's not mentioned too many times in the Scriptures. In fact, if you go back to chapter 2 of Romans, Romans chapter 2 and verse 4, we read, Do you despise the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering? In other words, do you despise the longsuffering, the forbearance of God?

He bear with you? Do you despise it? By the way, if I'm correct, only twice that word is mentioned in the Brita Hadashah, in the New Covenant. The word forbearance, tolerance. In the Hebrew word, the Hebrew it says la'avor, to pass over. When I see the blood, I will pass over, pasach over you. In other words, it speaks of the fact that yes, sins were covered, sins were forgiven, they were not yet removed. And they will only be removed when once and for all the Mashiach of Israel and the Savior of the world will come and do away once and for all when he the sinless one the man Christ Jesus the man Yeshua HaMashiach will pay for the sin of this world this is fascinating let me show you another verse how Paul presented this in in the book of Acts in chapter 17 when he spoke to the people at Athens Paul said in Acts chapter 17 and verse 30, he says to the people in Athens who were worshiping idols, he said to them in verse 24 all the way to verse 30 that God made a world.

He's a creator. Then he told them that he giveth life to all. He's a ruler. The provider he provides all things for all people so God is the creator he is the ruler he is the provider but notice he continued to say that the same God is also a Savior a saving God a moshia notice what it says in verse 28 for in him we move and and we live and move and have our being as certain also of your own poets have said. And then he said in verse 29, for much then as we are the offspring of God, we are not the thing that the Godhead is like unto gold or silver or stones graven by art and men's device.

He says, God is not this kind of a God. And then he says in verse 30, ignorant, God winked it. Notice that expression, winked it. At the time of this ignorant, in other words, man's ignorant, God winked it. That expression, winked it, it means he's overlooked to death. In other words, he overlooked, but how did he overlook? He didn't overlook sin because he's holy, he cannot look upon sin. So he overlooked by atoning for sin. Covering sin temporarily until the Messiah Jesus would come and he will take away sin so he's overlooked but now he commandes all men everywhere to repent because he has appointed a day in the which he will judge the world by in righteousness by that man whom he ordained and that man is the man and winked it or overlooked does not mean that God overlooks sin and he allows sin to come in and everybody can sin and God will just cover it and send everyone to heaven no because God is holy and he cannot look upon sin he made provision for the whole world through even the nation of Israel to show the way whereby a person can come to draw nigh God on the basis of the sacrificial system and to remind you the first one that have instituted sacrifices was God himself in Genesis chapter 3 when he covered the sin of Adam and Eve by killing an animal and atoning for their souls and and the skin of the animals in Genesis 3 verse 20 21 he have covered the nakedness of.

Adam and Eve so beloved brothers and sisters this is such an amazing and important verses to understand verses 25 and verses 26 justification is provided in a perfect justice in a perfect justice a holy God cannot look upon sin and therefore it was necessary for the Mashiach to come Son of God to take union human nature with His divine nature and as a man to be punished on behalf of the sin of this world. There is a verse in 1 John 1:5 which says: "This then is the message which we have heard of Him, and declare unto you that God is light God is light and in Him is no darkness at all.

If we say that we have fellowship with Him and walk in darkness, we lie and the truth is not in us. But if we walk in the light as He is in the light and we have fellowship with one another in the blood of Yeshua HaMashiach, Jesus Christ, His Son cleanses us from all sin. And so when we read that God forbear and God winked it, it does not mean that God did not deal with the question of sin. Sin was covered to those who believed God and came to him on his term in days of old. But sin was removed when a Messiah came, whose name is Yeshua Jesus.

Who took away the sin of this world amazing this is amazing it is fascinating and you know that's why in the history of Israel the Jewish people are always waiting when the Mashiach will come when the Mashiach will come when the Messiah will come and of course Isaiah who knew that at his first coming Israel will not accept him and then the door will be open to all the nations of the world Israel as a nation forfeited the promised kingdom that will come in a future day and it will only come when the nation will accept the Messiah at his second coming after the church age will come to an end.

This is so fascinating. Although God is light and in him there is no darkness at all as we read in 1st John chapter 1 and verse 5 at the same time beloved brothers and sisters. John says in 1 John 4, verse 8, Ye are of God, as he says in verse 8, He that loveth not knoweth not God, because God is love. The very same God who is light, beloved brothers and sisters, who is holy, is the same God who is also love. For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, on him shall not perish but have everlasting life for Christ the Mashiach loved the assembly the ecclesia and gave himself for the assembly for the church for the ecclesia with respect to Israel God says i have loved you with an everlasting love speaking to the nation of Israel and with respect to each one of us individually Paul said the son of God who loved me.

And gave himself for me, for you, beloved friends. And dear brothers and sisters, amazing love. And all this, God provided this love for us on the basis of the shed blood of our Lord Yeshua, Jesus, the Messiah. So now please turn with me back to our chapter. And so now that we finish verses 25 and 26, at the end of this, a third chapter of the book of Romans, Shaul, Paul, after he said that justification is apart from the law justification is through faith in the Messiah in Christ in Yeshua justification is for all men all people justification is by grace and by grace alone justification is provided at a great cost the blood of Yeshua Jesus the Messiah and justification is provided on a basis of a.

Perfect justice. Sin had to be paid, and it was paid when the Messiah, Yeshua, Jesus, died on the shameful Roman cross. He said it is finished. He said, if you remember, beloved brothers and sisters, my God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? And the answer was, if you remember from Psalm 22, for thou art holy, thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel a holy God had to judge sin and therefore the Mashiach died for our sin and therefore justification to be declared by God just to be declared by God righteous it was provided for us on a perfect and in perfect justice You and I had to judge sin, and he judged it in the person of his son, who became a man, whose name is Yeshua, Jesus.

Now finally, in verse 27 to verse 31, justification is establishing the law, the Torah. How it established the law? And why it is establishing the law? Is what the apostle Shaul Paul is answering here in these last verses. Now you see, people immediately may ask, well, if God planned all along to save individuals on the basis of his son who would become a man and will die and pay for the sin of this world, then why did God give the law, the Torah? Why did God gave the Torah to his people Israel and that's a logical question well again to remind you beloved brothers and sisters that the law was never given to the people of Israel in order to save the people of Israel let me just read you just a few thoughts here as we are moving to these verses God would give us at least fourfold reasons as to why God gave the Mosaic law to his people Israel.

The first one is for Israel's own good. According to Exodus 20 and Leviticus 19, this way when God gave to his people Israel the Torah, the law, this way the people of Israel will enjoy proper living. Still, Exodus 20:15, "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself," Leviticus 19:18. That the people of Israel, for their own good, the law was given, the Torah was given to the people of Israel. Secondly, the law was given to Israel in order to reveal God to his own people. We just read that in Leviticus, we read in chapter 19, holy for i am holy we just read in first John 1 verse 5 God is light and in him there is no darkness at all and therefore the law was given to his own people in order to reveal who God is to his own people now that does not mean that you and i because we live today we are living in the day that we can be lawless we are living under the law of Mashiach the law.

Christ so God revealed himself to his people thirdly the third reason why as to why God has given the law to the people of Israel is in order that to set Israel apart in order that they will reveal God himself to all the nations of the world these people have I chosen for myself that they may show forth my glory God said Witnesses, God said to the people of Israel. In other words, Israel as a nation received the law from God in order to be a testimony to the whole world that there is a living God who is the one that is the creator God, the sustainer God, and that many, many would come to faith in the God of Israel, in the creator God through his people, his earthly people, Israel.

And while Israel haven't been successful to come to that point which in their history in the future day the restored nation of Israel will be a light to the nations of the world and the nation will say in the future they come let us go up to the mountain of the Lord to the house of the God of Jacob and he will teach us of his ways. Isaiah tells us this in chapter 2. That is yet in the future. And fourthly, and this is really the most important reason as to why God gave to Israel the law, is in order to reveal to Israel and to all humanity the need of a Savior, the need of the Redeemer.

And that's why the law was given to show us that we are all sinners, that we are all a failing people, need forgiveness and that the only way that we can receive forgiveness from a holy God sin has to be paid for and therefore you remember that's why Paul said in Galatians you remember this very interesting verse beloved brothers and sisters let's turn for a moment to Galatians chapter 3 where we do read beloved brothers and sisters in verse. Serve the law why did God give the law to his people Israel well it was added notice that the law was not given until Israel came as a nation out of the land of Egypt though God's laws and principle were taught in his holiness to all people at all time prior to the coming of Israel out of the land of Egypt and so why was it given Paul gives us an answer in Galatians to help us in Galatians chapter 3 and verse 19 as he will give us here in Romans chapter 3 and verse 27 to 31.

Well, why? Because it was added. Why? Because of transgression. And it was given until. Until when? Until the seed should come. That is the Mashiach, the Messiah. To come to whom the promise was made and it was ordained by angels. In the hand of a mediator. So what we learn here that the law was given as a schoolmaster, as an instructor, as a teacher, a teacher to teach Israel how to live, a teacher to reveal God to Israel, a teacher that Israel will enjoy proper living in comparison to all the world know the true and living God, a teacher to set apart a nation that God wanted to be a testimony for himself, but also a schoolmaster to lead Israel and all who will learn from the law that was given to lead them to the Messiah.

So let me now read with you Romans 3:27-28. Then immediately in verse 27-28 we read: "Where is the boasting?" And then Paul says it is excluded because after all we have already learned in the previous three chapters that no one can boast. Not the pagan, not the moralist, and not the religious person. No one can boast. And so Paul continues and he says where is the boasting? He says it is excluded and no one can boast. Because we all have sinned. We all came short of the glory of God. We failed to submit to our conscience. We failed to submit to the fact that there is a creator of God.

And we failed to submit to the law of God. Because the law is a mirror revealed to us that there is something wrong in me. When the Lord said, thou shalt not, we did it. Law said thou shalt we didn't do it whether Israel didn't or did in days of all when the law was given to them and for all people at all times whatever God demanded from his people for mankind God demand perfection We can boast. It is excluded. We can boast. It's very sad when people might say, you know what, I've done this and I've done that and I'm a pretty good person.

You notice that many times when we share the gospel and we say, my dear friend, you know that we all have sinned, and he says, no, no, I'm pretty good. I have been a pretty decent parent. I've been a pretty decent worker. Church group or a certain congregation I even read my Bible here and there and I've done this that and the other but not understanding that the standard is not a comparison between men and men or people with people the comparison it is between a sinful man and a holy and a righteous God and so there is no one that can be boasting he says not only says well where's the boasting it is excluded then he said by what law notice that because somebody says well i've kept i kept the 10 commandments have you just think about it there's one commandment there that is a commander that deal with the heart not so much with doing but even with thinking and desiring thou shalt not covet.

The apostle Paul said, if I did not know that, if the Lord did not say, thou shalt not covet. I will not know how sinful really I am, desiring things that are not mine. Without even anybody knows, the living God knows that. And therefore we do see that the apostle here is telling them, where is the boasting? Excluded or by what law and here the word is not so much by what law in a sense of the ten commandments or the law that God gave to Israel in other words here it is by what principle of law any law that man make any rule that man made for himself or for others no one have fulfilled any laws that even they made for themselves By what principle of law can one be right with God and boast?

And then he continued, he said, of works? Notice he asked the question, is it by law of works? In other words, you might set yourself a standard and you say, you know what, I will do some good deeds, some works. And if I will do some good works, then God will accept me and I will be justified with God. Scriptures throughout the word of God we do read that there is no one that can be justified by his or her work you remember Isaiah said to Israel about in chapter 64 we read listen to this I just want to read you this this verse Isaiah chapter notice what he says in Isaiah chapter 64 and verse 6 but we are all as unclean things and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags we all do fade as a leaf and our iniquities like the wind have taken us away in fact this is the confession of the people of Israel the second coming of the Messiah when Israel as a nation will come individually but as a nation will come to a point that they will realize that even all our righteousnesses are as filthy ragged before God.

So Paul is saying by what law? Is it by works? Are you going to be justified with God on the basis of the works that you have accomplished? Well Paul said later on to the. He said to them, he reminded them, in chapter 2, by grace are you saved, verse 8, through faith, and that is not of yourself, it is a gift of God, listen, not of works, lest any man should boast. Again, because of the nature that we have, we are inclined to even boast in the achievement that we have achieved by works that we have done. But Paul, in verses 27 and 28, is dealing with justification that is establishing the law.

It shows exactly that the law is 100% holy and pure, and we have a problem, we have a sin nature. So when we think of the justification explained here, actually by grace through faith in the person of the Lord Jesus the Messiah is not against the law but it is establishing the law it's showing to us the reason as to why God gave the Torah to his people Israel he continued I'm reading verse 27b nay he said but by the law of faith in other words faith without any rules man or without any self-righteousness is the ground upon which one can be declared righteous. Without rules of any man, without self-righteousness, and not on the basis of the law that God had gave to Mount Sinai to Israel because the law was not given to.

But to turn Israel to realize that Israel have sinned and they need the Messiah, the sacrifice, to pay for their sins. There is a verse, very interesting verse in Titus. If you turn to Titus chapter 3, and Paul said, reminded Titus in chapter 3 and verse 5. We read verse 4. But after the kindness and the love of God our Savior toward men appeared listen the kindness of God the love of God appeared to mankind then Paul continued to say to Titus not of works of righteousness which we have done but according notice that but which we have done but according to his mercy he saved us by the washing of regeneration, giving us new life of the renewing of the Holy Spirit.

The Spirit of God has produced in us a new life, a new nature that we received after we became believers in Yeshua, Jesus the Messiah. As the Lord said to Nicodemus, to the kingdom of God unless one will receive forgiveness of God. How can a man be born again? No one can be born again except that he is born by the Holy Spirit of God. Notice verse 28, as we are drawing to the end now, beloved brothers and sisters. Verse 28, therefore, he says, therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without, listen to this. Of the law why because the deeds of the law would lead us to see the need of a Savior a Mashiach because as we as one sought to to obey God and he should or he she should all should but we fail because God's standard is holy So we try, and we try again, and we continue to try, and yet we find out, God, I sought to do so, but there's something within me that caused me to stumble, and I just can't make it.

That's why we need sin offering. By the way, the first sin offering in Hebrew is called It means to miss the Mark. It's like taking an arrow, a bow and arrow, and shooting it and trying to get us close to the Mark and shoot the Mark all the way in the center and we discover that we just missed the Mark. And God knows that. And He gave us the Torah, the law to show us. I love you. And I know you missed the Mark. But I love you so much that I have provided for you an answer for one that missed the Mark. Here's the way.

I provided for you the Mashiach. God the Son, who became a man, who was born to the Virgin Miriam, in the city of Bethlehem, who lived a perfect life, and then he died a substitutionary death for your sin and mine. Will you take him? Here's the provision. So, verse 27 and 28, we do read concerning the fact that no, no one can boast, and it is without the deeds of the law. Where God can justify a believer in Yeshua the Messiah and then finally beloved brothers and sisters in verses 29 and 30 and 31 we read that God is the God not only the God of our Jewish people is the God of all nations and we do read in verse 29 is he the God of the Jews only of course not he is not of the God the God of the Jews only but he He chose the Jewish people through whom he will bring the Mashiach, the Messiah.

He chose Abraham, Yitzhak, Yaakov, Yehuda, David, and ultimately through Yehuda, the Jew, Yehuda was the first man that is called Yehudi, Yehuda, through the tribe of Yehuda, who was a son of Israel. The Messiah to this world. So the question is, is God the God of Yehuda and Yehudim, the Jewish people only? Of course not. The Jewish people were chosen by God as a nation to be a vehicle through whom the Mashiach will come to this world. That really ought to cause us to be thankful for the Jewish people and to pray for the Jewish people. And to realize that God used the Jewish people to bring the Mashiach at his first coming, and God will use the Jewish people to be a blessing to the world when a Mashiach will come at his second coming, and he will be accepted by the Jewish people, and the Jewish people will be a light to the nation of the world in a future day.

But you see, Satan hates God's ways, and that's why he hates God's chosen people, the Jewish people. But God is not the God of the Jews only. It says in verse 29, is he the God of the Jews only? Is he not the God of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also. In other words, God is the God of all creation. He has chosen a nation to be a nation, an instrument of blessing to the world. In thee Abraham and in thy seed all the nations of the earth will be blessed that's the way God planned it and how wonderful it is to accept God's ways and to recognize this and and to seek to have the mind of God and so he concludes here and I'm going to conclude here in chapter 3 verse 30 and 31 seeing it is one God just like we have in Deuteronomy chapter 6 and verse 4 he or Israel the Lord our God the Lord is one that one God the God of Israel we have one God which shall justify the circumcision namely the Jewish people the descendants of Abraham Isaac and Jacob by faith And the uncircumcision, the people from among the nations of the world, it is also through faith.

He concludes in verse 31, do we then make void the law through faith? In other words, what he's saying here, do we make void? In other words, the law now has no importance anymore and void and have no authority anymore? And it is not profitable anymore? Do we make void the law, the Torah? Of course not. He continued and he concluded here in chapter 3 and he says, God forbid. May it never be. God forbid. Yeah, we establish the law. We establish the law. In other words, by believing that Yeshua is the Messiah, We establish the fact that in the Torah, in the law, God had made these promises that a Mashiach will come.

And when we say the law, many times some believe that it is the Ten Commandments, that's the law. Others believe that the Ten Commandments is only the law that God gave to Moshe on Mount Sinai on behalf of the nation of Israel. But beloved brothers and sisters, the law is much more than just... Means God's Word the Torah means God's instruction and God's instruction had been given from Genesis really to Revelation from Bereshit to the HitGalut the whole canon of Scripture is the law of God is the Word of God and therefore when we believe in Yeshua and Jesus the Messiah what Paul is saying, we establish the law.

It only shows us why God gave what he gave in days of all, which pointed to the coming Messiah. How wonderful to know that. And so, beloved brothers and sisters, I'm closing with these words. Justification is apart from the law. Justification is through faith in the Messiah. Justification is for all people, but only unto them that believe. Justification is by grace and by grace alone. Chesed. Justification has been provided at a great cost. The blood of Yeshua the Messiah. Justification is provided in perfect justice. And justification is establishing the law. When we come to faith in Yeshua the Messiah and receive the justification, the righteousness of God, it is establishing God's promise in His precious Word.

Well, my dear brothers and sisters and dear friends, we concluded now with Romans chapter 3, and in the will of the Lord, we will move to the next portion in Romans chapter 4, and there we will learn concerning Abraham, our father, in chapter 4 and later on in chapter 5. The theme will be, of course, that God is declaring righteousness. And we will learn more about it in our next section, our next study together in Romans chapter 4 and chapter 5. Well, God bless you, my dear friend. Let's just give thanks and we'll end with the meeting for this time. So our God and our Father, thank you for your word.

Bless your word. Encourage our hearts. Teach us. It's so wonderful to learn from your word. We pray, Abba Father, for we ask it in the name of Yeshua HaMashiach. Amen and Amen. God bless you, my friend. Until the next time, we say to you, Shalom, Shalom. God bless you. Bye-bye.