In episode 170 of the No Doubt, No Fear, Only Believe podcast, host Greg Ryan delivers a sermon‑style teaching that centers on justification by faith as presented in the book of Romans. He begins by urging listeners to adopt a biblical worldview, then defines justification as being treated as if one had never sinned. Ryan outlines core Christian doctrines: the Trinity (three persons in one God), original sin stemming from Adam’s bloodline, and the unique nature of Christ’s perfect, untainted flesh born of a virgin. He contrasts humanity’s irredeemable flesh with Jesus’ sin‑less body, explaining the necessity of a new resurrected body. Using Romans 5:1, 5:6‑11, he expounds on peace with God, grace as an unearned gift, reconciliation, and salvation through Christ’s death and life. He connects these doctrines to the practice of communion as a memorial of Christ’s sacrifice. Ryan also presents a brief anthropological view of humans as spirit, soul, and body, and concludes with a prayer invoking the Holy Spirit and thanking the Apostle Paul. The episode blends scriptural reading, theological exposition, personal analogies, and devotional encouragement.
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Welcome to episode 170, In the Beginning Was the Word.
And the Word was with God, and the Word was God, and the Word became flesh and dwelt among us. Spending time in the Word of God is the best way to spend time with God. Welcome to No Doubt, No Fear, Only Believe podcast, where we will encourage, inspire, and empower you to live your best life in Christ. Here's Greg.
Welcome to episode 170. Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Well, I know I went on a tangent yesterday, but I just needed to get that off my chest. I think there's too many times we react as Christians in this fallen world by reacting like everybody else reacts, and that's why I believe it's important our initial knee-jerk reaction is, yes, this is wrong. This is not— no one likes a quitter. And if you don't know what I'm talking about, go back and listen to episode 169. When we start looking at this with spiritual eyes and with spiritual ears, and we look and we see what's actually going on in this world from a biblical worldview, it changes everything. Talk about justification through faith, because I believe that is so important. And again, we go back to the mountain of God And point A is where we start, and we start at justification. Justification is, again, it's a fancy-pants word for— and I use the analogy— just as if I had never sinned. If you are justified in Christ as soon as you die to self— on, I want to read some scripture in Romans. And Romans is a book that is extremely informative, but it is spiritually discerned and sometimes difficult to get a handle on. And you gotta use Romans with other things that we have learned throughout this journey. And that's why, you know, when I say over and over again, you don't have to understand everything to just believe it. You just got to know that the word of God is true, that God is here as our heavenly Father to help us and put people and teachings and the Bible in our path so that we could pick it up and then we could meditate on it and we can kind of dig around in our mind and try to figure out what this thing is saying, because we are three parts. We are made in God's image. God is Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. He is three parts. He is one God. That is the Trinity. And I've said multiple times, I'm not here to explain exactly how that works. I just know these are three separate people and all one. They're all in unity. They all have different roles. They have different responsibilities. I think when we get to heaven, we will see three different people, but how they work together, they are all the same person. Now, don't think for a minute— I understand it, but I do believe it. I believe in the Trinity. I believe Father God is the head or the most powerful part of the Trinity, but then God takes all of that power, all of that authority, and he gives it to Jesus, who came and died on the cross. He lived a perfect life. He became a man. And when you see Jesus, you have got to see, and you got to understand, that this was God in the flesh. He had God's blood in him. We are, as you and I, as, as children of Adam, we have Adam's blood in us. And so when it says we are born in sin, it just means that the bloodline is from Adam. And since Adam bit the fruit, the forbidden fruit, the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, his blood was tainted. And the male brings the bloodline to the female, and the female has all of the kids. So the bloodline— anybody that is born through Adam's bloodline is born into sin. And we just have to understand that. And what I believe that means— and when— and I I just got to set the stage for when we go into Romans and we start talking. Your flesh is corrupted. Your flesh, there is no way, and that's why it says that it's enmity with God, because your flesh will never be redeemed. Your body will never be redeemed. You need a new body. When Jesus returns at his resurrection, or if you die and when he returns, your Your body will be resurrected. You will get a new body because this body that we have is irredeemable. It cannot be redeemed. So that is when you start reading about your body, your flesh, just understand that you're— there's no way your flesh can be redeemed. There's nothing that you can do to make your flesh behave.
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with that in mind, as you read Romans, understand that your flesh is never gonna behave. Now, on the opposite side of that, Jesus' flesh was not fallen. Jesus' flesh was not born into sin. Jesus was the perfect, without spot or wrinkle Lamb of God. And I need you to understand that Jesus had flesh, but his flesh was perfect. His flesh was not in the Adam bloodline. His flesh came from Father God. That is why it's so important that we embrace the fact that Jesus was born a virgin, because if Joseph was Jesus' true father, then he was in the Adam's bloodline. And it is not the case. The Holy Spirit came upon Mary. Mary was a virgin at Jesus' birth, and that fulfilled the scripture because now Father God's blood is in his Son. So this is extremely important that you understand this as you're working out, as you're mowing, as you're walking, as you're working or driving. Jesus was flesh and blood. It's so important when you see Jesus' flesh take those stripes. That is perfect flesh. And we talked about in the previous episode where Jesus said, eat me. I think it was episode 168. That you shall eat my flesh and drink my blood. Again, this is a spiritual truth, but this is— his body was sacrificed. He wanted to set up the Eucharist, the Lord's Supper, as so we would remember. It is a memorial to Jesus and what he did for us. And that's why we take communion. When he— we take the communion, we remember what he did. As sheep, as humans, as people in the fallen world, we tend to forget pretty easy. So that's why we constantly put these emblems in front of us, and we constantly have to be reminded, hey, Jesus died for— Jesus had a perfect body, he lived a perfect life, and he died for you and I. And let's go real quick to Romans 5:1. Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom also we have access by faith into this grace in which we stand. And rejoice in hope of the glory of God. And then I want to go to 5:6. For when we were still without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. For scarcely for a righteous man will one die, yet perhaps a good man someone would even dare to die. But God demonstrated his own love toward us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, having now been justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. For if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by his life. And not only that, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation. Oh, you love my superior reading skills, but I had to read a lot of scripture, and we gotta just ponder this. We are justifi— therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. We are saved by grace. The grace of God was the gift. Grace is a free, unmerited favor, unearned gift from God. God sent his Son to die for us, and that is the gift of God. That is the unmer— that is the grace of God, that Jesus Christ would come to this earth out of heaven and die for you and I. And that is incredible. But just as soon as he did, now we have the ability to then be reconciled, which means we go from the island of hell to the island of God. And I've just got to kind of picture this, and I've talked before that we are born in sin, which means as soon as we come to a ripe age of whatever, 18, 20, whenever we know the difference between good and evil— and I don't even know I'm not gonna get into that, but when we sin for the first time, we have earned our eternal destination, which is hell. For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. So all people, all men, all women will sin. And what that does, it is our flesh. You've gotta see yourself, God is three parts, Father, Son, Holy Spirit. You are three parts. You are spirit, soul, and body. And I don't know exactly how it all works, you know, what is the age of accountability, you know, we could all argue about that. When you sin the first time, this is a pass/fail deal. As soon as you sin, and whenever you know right from wrong and do wrong, and anybody to know to do right and to do it not, it is sin. I mean, we can sin in so many multiple different ways. I don't have all the intricacies figured out, but I do know this: when you sin for the, quote, first time, your spirit man is dead. Your flesh, your sinful flesh, comes alive. You're two parts now because your spirit man has either always been dead or is dead as soon as you sin, and you're now two parts. And you are physical body, your flesh, and you are soul— mind, will, and emotion. And so now you are a 50/50. That's why I believe that some people can go through life and try to do good because it's always a battle. You know, they're always constantly fighting their flesh, and maybe their soul, their mind, will, and emotion is okay, and then they think they're good, but they're really not. And I looked up at the clock, and this is going a lot longer than I want. That's why Romans is so difficult, because it takes a lot to get into this book, and it takes a lot to get a hold of this truth. And so we're going to have to go on a different episode. We're going to go the next episode, but let's pray real quick. God, I thank you for your Holy Spirit. Lord, I thank you for the Apostle Paul who wrote this book. And Holy Spirit, I pray in Jesus' name that you would help quicken in our spirit, in our soul, what it is you want us to learn. God, we thank you for sending your Son Jesus. Thank you for coming. Holy Spirit, thank you for being here and never leaving us nor forsaking us. And help lead us into all truth. God, we thank you, we love you, we ask it all in Jesus' name. Amen. Well, thank you for being a part of this, and I look forward to visiting with you in the next episode.
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