Who Is a True Jew?

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🗓️ 21 February 1999

⏱️ 41 minutes

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John Piper | When we keep the requirements of the law, we won’t only realize we can’t obey them perfectly, but we will look to the one who has — Jesus Christ.

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0:00.0	Romans Chapter 2
0:02.6	2 versus 25 through 29
0:06.0	For indeed circumcision is of value if you practice the law, but if you are a transgressor of the law, your circumcision has become
0:16.4	uncircumcision. So if the uncircumcised man keeps the requirements of the law, will not his uncircumcision be regarded as circumcision?
0:27.0	And he who is physically uncircumcised, if he keeps the law, will he not judge you, though having the letter of the law and
0:36.6	circumcision, are a transgressor of the law?
0:40.9	For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor a circumcision that which is outward in the flesh.
0:48.0	But he is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is that which is of the heart by the spirit, not by the letter, and
0:57.2	his praise is not from men, but from God. So Lord, it's very plain now even from the reading that if this text is going to happen here. It will be by the spirit and not by the letter. It will not be
1:20.8	mere external expressions of words either carved in stone or spoken by a
1:29.2	preacher. It will be the new covenant fulfillment of the Holy Spirit taking out hearts of stone, putting in
1:40.9	hearts of flesh, writing the law on those new soft teachable hearts and mightily and
1:50.6	sovereignly causing us to walk in your statutes or nothing will happen.
2:01.0	Therefore I ask you according to the promise of Luke 11 to come Holy Spirit. If you being evil know how to give good gifts to your children, how much
2:20.0	more will your Heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?
2:27.0	Or may there be a hunger in this room right now for the spirit through the word.
2:40.0	Where it isn't, cause it to be. Let not your word go forth in vain. I pray. In' in Jesus' name,
2:54.0	Amen.
2:59.0	The main point that I want to draw out of these verses this morning and I will come back to them again next week is everybody in this room can be a Jew,
3:15.0	will be. can be a Jew if you a Jew if you keep the requirements of the law. Let's read verse 26 again.
3:31.0	So if... again. So, if the uncircumsized man keeps the requirements of the law,
3:42.0	will not his uncircumcision be regarded as circumcision?
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