How was anybody saved 𝙗𝙚𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙚 𝘾𝙝𝙧𝙞𝙨𝙩?

Part 3 in a 6 part special question & answer message from Pastor David Guzik, delivered at Calvary Chapel Santa Barbara on Friday evening, March 10th, 2023.

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Timestamps
0:00 Question 3 - Was anybody saved before Jesus? How were people in the Old Testament saved?
0:25 Genesis 15 verse 6
0:52 Romans 4 verses 1-5
1:55 Old Covenant - Law, Priesthood, & Sacrifices
3:30 Confessing to the sacrifice
5:29 Continuity before and after Christ
6:40 However
7:35 Break

Scriptures examined:
Genesis 15:6
Romans 4:1-5

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[elijahsande]

Thank you pastor. You have nailed it well.

[jessyjonas]

Righteousness was always by faith in Jesus Christ

[horseygirl]

Hi Pastor David,
I’m struggling to understand why the people continued doing sacrifices knowing that the sacrifices only covered their sins instead of taking away their sins?
Thank you,
Janet

[jessyjonas]

“It was not through the law that Abraham and his offspring received the promise that he would be heir of the world, but through the righteousness that comes by faith. 14 For if those who depend on the law are heirs, faith means nothing and the promise is worthless, 15 because the law brings wrath. And where there is no law there is no transgression.

16 Therefore, the promise comes by faith, so that it may be by grace and may be guaranteed to all Abraham’s offspring—not only to those who are of the law but also to those who have the faith of Abraham. He is the father of us all. 17 As it is written: “I have made you a father of many nations.”[a] He is our father in the sight of God, in whom he believed—the God who gives life to the dead and calls into being things that were not.

18 Against all hope, Abraham in hope believed and so became the father of many nations, just as it had been said to him, “So shall your offspring be.”
Romans 4

[jessyjonas]

The same way they were saved when Christ came

[jessyjonas]

“He (Abraham) received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised. The purpose was to make him the father of all who believe without being circumcised, so that righteousness would be counted to them as well, ” Romans 4:11

[jessyjonas]

“For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.
Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me:
In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure.
Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me, ) to do thy will, O God.
Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law;
Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.
By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.” Hebrews 10:4-10