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Welcome to Gospel Truth with Andrew Wommack celebrating the good news of Jesus Christ, Emmanuel, God with us.

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There is no discord between us and God. The war, God's wrath against mankind is over.

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We here at Andrew Wommack Ministries want to wish you a very merry Christmas and a blessed new year.

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Welcome to our Tuesday's broadcast of the Gospel Truth. I'm teaching from a series that I've entitled the War is Over. I've got a book on this. This is a 200 plus page book. I've got a little booklet that's entitled Good Will towards Man and it's the introduction to this teaching. We are asking for a donation of any amount for this larger 200 plus page book. But if you could not or would not send anything, I'll send you this little booklet free and postpaid. We also have cds, DVDs, a USB and even a study guide. And this study guide is primarily so you can disciple other people. It's the same material that's in the book, but it's just formatted in a way that like, it takes a radical statement about do you believe that God was ever at war with man over sin? And you just ask a question and then you let them say whatever they want to and then you look up scriptures and the scriptures will answer. And so I call it Discipleship for Dummies. You can't miss, you just read the things, look up the verses and go through and it's a way to disciple other people. It's also a good way for you to study. So we'll give out the information about those materials at the end of our program. So I've based this whole teaching. I started it over a week ago talking about Luke chapter 2, verse 14, where it says glory to God in the highest and on earth peace, good will towards men. That's not talking about peace among men. That hasn't happened. It's not going to happen until we get to where we are, are living in the new Jerusalem or on the, you know, in heaven, in this earth, there is not going to be peace among men. It's not going to eradicate all problems. This, this was talking about peace from God towards men. And the reason is because Jesus paid the debt that we couldn't pay and he paid for us. And all he asks for us to do is just receive it by faith. For those who receive it, the war is over. God's anger, his wrath on our sin is over for any person who will receive it. Now if you have not made Jesus, Lord there's more to just receiving this, this gift of salvation than just acknowledging that Jesus exists. It says In James, chapter two, verse 19, if you believe that there's one God, you do well, the devils also believe and tremble. That's a tremendously sarcastic statement about you believe that there's one God. You hadn't done anything the devil hasn't done. But the next verse goes on to say, faith without works is dead. You got to do something. Not just acknowledge that Jesus existed, not just acknowledge that God exists. You've commit yourself to Jesus as your savior. Romans chapter 10, verse 9 says that if you will confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, that's more than just mouthing that word. But if you will make Jesus your Lord, if you will submit to his authority and his lordship and look to him for salvation instead of you trying to save yourself. So if you will confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you shall be saved. So it's more than just acknowledging that he exists. The devil has done that. You've got to commit yourself and make him the Lord of your life. And if you do that, then you've already received the atonement. It's not like your salvation is going to start when you go to heaven. You are now born again. Your spirit is completely changed. I've already said some of these things in previous broadcasts. I'm not going to take time to go back over it, but I would encourage you to go back to our web site, look up these programs that we've already had in case you missed some of this. But your spirit is completely changed. In John 4:24 says, God is a spirit, and in order for you to worship him, you have to worship him in spirit and in truth. So when you get born again, you get a new spirit, and you have to worship him in the spirit, not based on your actions and, and not based on your emotions. And so that's what it says right here In Romans chapter 5 and verse 11, it says, not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement. It's not something that's going to start in heaven. It may be completed in heaven, but you have already received the atonement. The moment you get born again, you become a brand new person, you in your spirit. In verse 12 it says, Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin, and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned for until the law, sin was in the. But sin is not imputed when there is no law, man. There is a lot in this. I've actually got a six part series based on that one verse entitled the True Nature of God. And that is just phenomenal. I hadn't got time to say all of this, but let me just say that it says by one man, sin entered into the world. There's a lot of people that don't understand this and they think that sin is what we do. It's our actions of sin that is sin. You know, out of the book of Romans, if you were to get my living commentary, I've actually got the exact number. I may miss it right now because I don't have those facts in front of me, but there's something like 48 times that the word sin is used in the book of Romans alone. Out of those 48 times, there's only one time that a verb is used to describe sin. The significance of this, you know, a noun describes a person, place or thing. A verb describes the action of a person, place or thing. So the fact that out of all of these times that the word sin is used in the book of Romans, only two of them are referring to the action of sin. The rest of those times, it's all a noun. What this means is it's not your actions of sin that are the problem, it's the sin nature that is the real problem. And when this says by one man, sin entered into the world, that's that word for sin, the Greek word that is a noun. This is saying that you, your sin nature came through Adam. It is not your individual sins that make you a sinner. It's your sin nature that made you commit those individual sins. And did you know if you were raised with a fear of God? I quoted this verse earlier in this series, but In Psalms chapter 36, verse 1, it says the transgression of the wicked says within my heart that there is no fear of God before his eyes. A fear of God will cause you to depart from evil. It will restrain evil. So if you were raised like me, in a Christian home, that had a lot of condemnation in it. Well, I had a fear of punishment, a fear of God. And because of it, I, I didn't act out my sin nature the way that some people did who were raised without any knowledge of God. Some people just go out and do whatever they want to. I wasn't like that because I had a total fear of punishment. And that's not the best because the scripture says over in 1 John, chapter 4, verse 18, that perfect love casts out fear. Whoever fears is not made perfect in love. We aren't supposed to be serving God out of fear. We're supposed to be serving him out of love. And once you get born again, that should be the way that a Christian relates to God is out of love. But I was raised with a fear. Now, it kept me from acting out some of my sin, but I still had a sin nature. And there may be people watching this that you're sitting there and you're thinking, well, I'm a relatively good person. I don't dip or cuss or chew or go with those that do. I don't go do what this person does. You know, that's the same thing that the Pharisees said in one of Jesus parables, where they Pharisee went up to pray in the temple. And there was also a publican there, a person who was a traitor to the Jews, a tax collector for the Romans. He was hated by the Jews. And so the Pharisee and the publican were there. But the Pharisee said, father, I thank you that I'm not like other men. I fast twice in the week. I pay tithes of mint and anise and cumin. I do all of these things. I thank you. I am not like this publican. See, that person was thinking that they weren't really a bad sinner because they were just looking at the actions of sin. And because they didn't have as many as some other people, they thought somehow or another they were better. But what they missed is it's not your actions that are the problem. It's that sin nature that separates us from God. And so Jesus said that the publican, this man who the Pharisee was looking down on the publican, just said, God, I'm not worthy to even come before you. He didn't even lift his eyes. He bowed his head and said, oh, God, be merciful to me, a sinner. And God said it was the publican who received forgiveness, not the Pharisee. Not because the Pharisee's actions were better than the publican. No, it was because the Pharisee was trusting in himself. And even though you might be better than I am or better than somebody else who wants to be the best sinner that ever went to hell, we all need salvation. Whether you act out your sin nature a lot or if you act it out a little bit, you know, I'm now 76 years old. I've never said A word of profanity. I've never taken a drink of liquor. I've never gone out and done a lot of things that other people have done. I have lived a holy life, but I have sinned. It says in Romans 3:23, all have sinned, and there isn't a hell number two or hell number three. If I miss heaven by an inch, I miss it by a mile. If I can't get there because I've sinned and come short of the glory of God, it doesn't matter if I lived a relatively holy life and you lived a terrible life, or if I lived a terrible life and you lived a holy life. Nobody's getting into heaven. Nobody's having a relationship with God based on your goodness. You got to base it on Jesus. So again, I get all of that from this verse saying that sin is entered the world through Adam. Some people act out their sin nature, other people restrain it through religion, maybe through a fear of punishment. You know, it could be a fear of your family rejecting you. If you go out and do this, it doesn't matter what you do to restrain the actions of sin. It doesn't change your sin nature. We were all born sinners and we were separate from God. Let me turn over and read a verse to you out of Ephesians 2:1 and you hath he quickened. That means made alive. Who were dead in trespasses and sins. Somebody might think, well, I wasn't dead in trespass, trespasses and sins. I might have sinned, but I was really a good person. No, if you've sinned one sin, if you've done anything wrong, you were dead, separated from God. It goes on to say, wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, and according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience, among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others. You had a sin nature in you when you were born. Did you know, when a little baby is born, people look at that baby and say, isn't they. Aren't they so innocent and pure? Well, they may not have been corrupted from the outside, yet they may not have learned the ways of some other people. But in their spirit, they were born with a sin nature. Now, I will explain this more when I get into Romans chapter six and chapter seven. But that sin nature isn't held against us until we willfully go against God. So a little baby, even though they are born with a sin nature, if they were to die as an infant or as a child before what people call the age of accountability, that child wouldn't go to hell. Even though they were born a sinner, they were born with a sin nature. That sin nature isn't imputed unto them until they willfully embrace it and start living out that sin. If they were to die before they reach this age where they are held accountable for their sins, they would go into the presence of God. And I've got a lot of things that will explain that. I'll do that later when we get into Romans 6 and 7. But this verse is saying that we were by nature the children of wrath. And you put that together with Romans chapter 5 and it says, by one man sin entered into the world. It's not your individual sins that made you had a sin nature, you got a sin nature, you inherited it. When you were born, you were born as a descendant of Adam and you were born with a sin nature, a nature that was separated from God. That's amazing to me how people do not understand this. And they look and they see somebody who's just lived a terrible life of sin and they think, boy, it's hard to get them saved. And, and they see somebody who's lived a relatively holy life and they say, oh, you were so close to salvation. No, the truth is there's no difference now. Sin will harden your heart and it'll make you dull and non perceptive. And so it may be harder for a person who's lived a a terrible life of sin for the truth to penetrate them. But if a person that has lived a gross life of sin, I don't care what they've done, murder, anything, all of those things are forgiv, are forgivable. And it doesn't take more grace to save them. A person that's gone out and murdered and raped and plundered, it doesn't take more grace to save them than it does a religious person like me that's lived a relatively holy life. If you miss heaven by an inch, you miss it by a mile. It's the sin nature that's the problem. And some people give vent to that sin nature and live out a terrible life. Other people restrain it to a degree, but both of them need to be saved. And I tell you, this is something that is not understood. There are a lot of people today in our western culture that they believe that you know, God is going to somehow or another have one of these scales where you have these things on each side and a fulcrum in the middle. And if you're good over here outweighs your bad, then you'll be accepted. That's not true. That's not the way it works. None of us are good. It says in Romans, chapter three, and it's quoting Old Testament scripture. There are none righteous. No, not one. There are none that are good. We've all sinned and come short of the glory of God. No, it's not your good outweighing your bad. If you have one sin, the s. SLI slightest little speck of sin, you that is a result of that sin nature, that sin nature will send you to hell unless you receive salvation. This is so simple. You got to have somebody to help you and misunderstand it, but we've had a lot of help, and there are people that are thinking that they're relatively good people. That's not the way that it works. You know, I actually got to pray for President Trump, and I was with a group of preachers, and he's used this little clip of me praying for him in some of his commercials that he's put on. And anyway, I was kneeling and I laid hands on him, and he turned around and looked at me, and he says, now if that doesn't get me into heaven, nothing will. And, you know, I'm not critical of President Trump. I praise God for the things that God's using him for, but that is not true. You don't get into heaven because you've had somebody pray for you because you're doing something good. The only way to get into heaven is to get this sin nature atoned for, taken out of the way, and you get a brand new nature given to you by the grace of God. It's a gift of God, not of works. Lest any man should boast, that's what you got to do to receive salvation. And that's what this verse is referring to. Sin entered into the world through one man, Adam, and death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned. For until the law, sin was in the. But sin is not imputed when there is no law. Again, I've got a series on this. It's about six hours worth of teaching. Again, this is not understood. The word impute is a word that we don't use much today, but it's actually an accounting term, and it means to record, to put on the books is what it's talking about. One of the best illustrations I've got is like when you use a credit card that's got a little magnetic strip on there. And that magnetic strip has information about you how that they can bill you for the sale. But when you give your credit card, all you're doing is having that sale imputed unto you. You haven't paid for it yet. And some people think, oh yeah, I paid for it. I used my credit card and I paid for it. No, when you give a credit card, they just take your information and then they send a bill to your credit card company and your credit card company bills you. If you don't think that that's true, then don't pay that credit card bill when it comes and see if you can just tell them, oh, I paid for it when I gave my credit card to them. No, you, you gave information and now the credit card company is demanding payment. That's what imputing is. When you give a credit card, you are having a sale that amounts of money imputed unto you. And this is what it says that sin was in the world. All of us have sinned, all of us have come short of the glory of God. But until the time that the law came, talking about when the ten Commandments were given through Moses, until that time, God was not imputing sin unto them. It didn't mean that they weren't sinning. They were sinning, but God wasn't holding sin against them. He was operating in mercy towards people until the time that the law was given. That's what this is saying now, that might lead some to say, well then that means that nobody was suffering because of sin prior to that time. No, they were still suffering. That's what the next verse says. It says, nevertheless, death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come. In other words, if God wasn't imputing man's sins unto them, why were people dying that du? Wouldn't that mean that they shouldn't die? Because Romans 6:23 says, the wages of sin is death. It's because there is a twofold effect to sin. Sin is not only a transgression against God, what I'm calling a vertical transgression, but sin also had a horizontal effect. And that's where Satan came in and took advantage of it. So before the law, God wasn't releasing his wrath and his punishment upon sin. So the vertical effect was not being vented on people. But death still reigned because sin not only was a transgression against God, it's an open invitation to the devil to come into your life again. I used that verse out of Romans 6:16. Know ye not that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey his servants? Ye are to whom ye obey, whether of sin unto death or of obedience unto righteousness. So even if God wasn't placing his judgment on sin, if you go live in sin, Satan takes advantage of that sin. He will come in and eat your lunch and pop the bag. That's what this verse is talking about. And then in the rest of this chapter, I think that there's five different times in the remainder of Romans chapter five that he just keeps making this same comparison. In the same way that you became a sinner not because of what you did, you were a sinner by nature, and what you did was a result of that sin nature. So in the same way that you inherited a sin nature, when you make Jesus your Lord, you inherit a righteous nature. You didn't do anything to become a sinner. All you did was be born. You don't do anything to become righteous. All you do is receive it as a gift. If you're going to accept that you became a sinner through being born a human, a. A son of Adam, then you have to also accept the opposite. It's like a coin. It's a flip side of the coin. If one side's right, the other one's right. If you became a sinner by just being born, well, then when you get born again, you. You became righteous. The war is over. God is a spirit and he's now relating to you based on who you are in the spirit. And the wrath of God is not being poured out on you anymore. The war is over. Jesus paid your debt and there is nothing but love and acceptance towards you. If you have received salvation, if you haven't received that salvation, I encourage you to call the number on the screen and we've got people standing by. They will pray with you and you could be born again. You could receive this salvation and you could find out that all of your sins have been wiped out. You are now justified, just as if you had never sinned. That's what this whole book is about. The war is over. It's a 200 plus page book. I would encourage you to please get it. Please send something. We'll put out tens of thousands of these. And if nobody gave, I couldn't but praise the Lord. The majority of people give what they can. So just do what you can. If you can't give the suggested donation, I'll send it to you for a gift of any amount. If you could not or would not give anything, I'll send you this little booklet entitled Good Will Towards Men. It's an introduction to the War is over and I'll send this to you free and postpaid. We also have cds, DVDs, a USB and a study guide. So listen as our announcer and gives you all the information about this and then please call or write today. I want you to know that we want to pray with you and help you any way we can and we've had people call in praying for others who had died and we've seen multiple people raised from the dead. We see miracles all of the time. We see people receive salvation, baptism of the Holy Spirit and just anything that you need. The Bible says if you have a needle, call for the elders of the church and we will pray with you and we will help you. So it's available to you 24 hours a day, seven days a week.