Latest / Life For Toledo / Galatians 5 Waiting for His Righteousness 12 23 2022
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- this is Pastor Daniel Stevenson our 0:02 pastor was a nice Fellowship Baptist 0:03 Church of East Toledo and director of 0:04 the South Side light station and you're 0:06 receiving this message because you opted 0:08 in to be encouraged sitting here waiting 0:10 and waiting for the storm to subside I'm 0:13 waiting for tomorrow evening I'm waiting 0:15 for the celebration of Jesus's birth 0:17 waiting to give gifts to my kids and 0:19 receive gifts from other people in my 0:20 family I'm waiting waiting waiting what 0:23 am I really waiting for what is everyone 0:24 really waiting for well Jesus is going 0:26 to return and he's going to sort all 0:28 things out this Earth as we know it will 0:30 end Galatians 5 5 it says this for we 0:32 through the Spirit by faith are waiting 0:35 for the hope of righteousness because 0:37 being a Christian always included 0:39 trusting God we're trusting him to 0:41 deliver us into his fully provided 0:43 righteousness if we'd rather begin to 0:45 walk a path that uses good works to earn 0:47 salvation or a path that uses bad Works 0:49 to appease our fleshly desires then we 0:52 will never earn that salvation because 0:54 indeed it is not a thing that can be 0:56 earned and it is a thing that has 0:58 already been paid for the only work 1:00 eligible would be the work that God 1:01 wants from us which is believing in the 1:03 one he has sent which is Jesus Christ 1:05 his son the good works that come after 1:07 believing that are not for salvation but 1:09 are part of the waiting won't you wait 1:11 with me do the good works of worshiping 1:14 God together with a body serving giving 1:16 sometimes Blood Sweat tears we're 1:18 waiting for nothing less than Jesus 1:20 return and it's going to be glorious but 1:23 some folks will try to do an end run a 1:25 living their own way rather than living 1:27 for their lord Jesus Christ let's live 1:29 for Jesus today dealing with whatever 1:31 comes our way while we're waiting new 1:34 lights will have a Christmas Eve service 1:36 December 24th at 7 pm and will end with 1:39 Candlelight and then we'll have a 1:42 Christmas day service at 11 30 a.m and 1:45 you'd be welcome to join us to worship 1:46 the holy God his son Jesus Christ 1:48 through whom and by whom we are saved 1:50 God bless you in Jesus name 1:52 [Music] 1:55 foreign 1:57 [Music]