Summary
For the Lord your God dried up the waters of the Jordan for you until you crossed over as the Lord your God did to the Red Sea, which he dried up for us until we crossed over, so that all the peoples of the earth may know the hand of the Lord is mighty, and so that you may fear the Lord your God forever. I say, no, if the Lord ever, ever blesses you with children, to set up these stones, because every time we went on Sunday, every time they didn't verbalize it, but what they were doing was they were pointing to the stones and saying, there's a reason why we're here, because God calls us and gathers us as His people, because He's got something to give us, word and sacrament. So if you go to Acts 16th chapter, Acts 16 verse 3, verse 3, it says Paul wanted Timothy to accompany him and he took him and had him circumcised because of the Jews who were in those places. So when Paul had gone up originally to Jerusalem and said, you know, nope, this is the gospel, this is the gospel, this is the gospel and we are not forcing people to be circumcised. The Holy Spirit was working through Paul, working through Barnabas, working through Titus, through Timothy, for the good of those that would be stirred by the Holy Spirit to know the truth and to know salvation. The modern church admits that the faith is the foundation of salvation, but oftentimes, and I say the modern church because this is found across all denominations of the Christian church, that added cause that faith can save only when it's furnished with good works.
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