Let me add my welcome to Winston's. Good to see you all out here
today. May the Lord bless us all through the preaching of
his gospel. As you can see, my title today
is There Is No Difference. We'll be looking at Romans chapter
3, verses 21 through 28. And we'll just go ahead and start
right here in these verses, and you'll see where my title came
from, and I'll set the background. Look at Romans 3 and verse 21
and 22. But now the righteousness of
God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and
the prophets, even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus
Christ unto all and upon all them that believe, for there
is no difference. Now let me set that background
here for you a little bit. The Apostle Paul had just drawn
a conclusion here in Romans in verses 19 and 20. He had made
it abundantly clear that no sinner would be declared righteous by
God based on that sinner's obedience. In other words, by deeds of law
shall no flesh be justified, for by law is the knowledge of
sin. And having drawn that conclusion,
I'm just going to move right on, as he did, to better news. He said, but now. but now the
righteousness of God without the law. without a sinner's efforts
and obedience to the law. The righteousness worked out
by Christ, the righteousness of God without the law, is manifested. And that means it's set in a
clear light. In this gospel age, we have the
gospel to declare the righteousness of God. It said being witnessed
by the law and the prophets. The law and the prophets had
the gospel, but they had it in shadows and pictures and types,
not in the clear declaration that you're hearing today. And
then he describes that righteousness a little bit. Even the righteousness
of God which is by faith or by the faithfulness of Jesus Christ. This is what Christ has done
to satisfy the law and justice of God. To put away the sin of
his people and bring in that everlasting righteousness by
which sinners can stand just in God's sight. And that righteousness
is preached. It's unto all. Preached unto
all who hear the gospel. And it's upon all, charged to
all, imputed to all, who believe the gospel, who rest their hope
in Christ, in Christ alone, for there is no difference. Now,
as you well know, if we just took the men and women right
here in this room, there are many a multitude of differences
between us. I mean, we come in all shapes
and sizes. We come from all different backgrounds.
We have moral values that are different. We have ideals that
are different. And you could take that, those
differences, and you could multiply them by the men and women of
this town, this city we live in, this state, this country,
this world, and they'd be multiplied many, many times over. So there
are numerous differences between us. But it might surprise you to
learn that in some areas, in several areas, I've narrowed
it down to seven. I'm sure it could reach more
than seven, but I've narrowed it down to seven areas. And these
seven areas There's no difference. There are no differences among
men. Among all the souls who've ever been born into this world,
or whoever will be, we're all alike in these seven ways. And
that's what we're going to look at this morning. These seven
ways in which there is no difference. The first of those ways, we're
all the sons and daughters of Adam. Adam was the federal head
and representative of all men. Adam was created. All come from
Adam. All are born of Adam. Look at
Romans chapter 9 and verse 21. Hath not the potter power over
the clay of the same lump to make one vessel unto honor and
another unto dishonor? Now of course the context of
Romans 9 is just saying that God, doesn't He have the right
to make of His creation? One vessel into honor and another
to dishonor. But it's of the same lump. That's
what I want you to see. That same lump of clay. That
lump is Adam. There's a lot of interest in
genealogy these days. You know, people want to know
who their ancient ancestors are. Trace your roots, your lineage,
your heritage, your family tree. Trace them back as far as you
want to go. We're all of the same lump. We all come from our
father, our federal head, our representative, Adam. So that's
the first way there's no difference. Among all those that are ever
born, all are the sons and daughters of Adam. The second way, because
all are the sons and daughters of Adam, all are sinners. In
the context of Romans 3 here, we can see two ways in which
all are sinners. First, we're sinners by representation. We sinned in our federal head,
our representative Adam. Look at Romans chapter 3 and
verse 23. It says, for all have sinned
and come short of the glory of God. Now, I'll underline that
first part because there are two ways here. And this first
way is as we sinned in Adam. Adam is not just the physical
father of all, he's also the federal head and representative
of the whole human race, which means what he did, all in him
did. Adam sinned against God and his
sin was imputed or charged to all of his posterity. In Adam,
all have sinned, or literally that says all did sin. When he
sinned, we sinned. It might surprise some to learn
that we didn't become sinners by what we did, because of what
we did personally. None of Adam's sons and daughters
were born when Adam sinned, which means our sinnerhood didn't begin
with our personal disobedience. Our personal disobedience is
rather the product, it's the result of our sinnerhood. We're sinners in Adam. We were
made sinners when Adam, our federal head and representative sinned.
Look at Romans chapter 5 and verse 19. Now this passage right
here is talking about two representatives and what those represented by
each one, what it means to be represented by them. It says,
for as by one man's disobedience, that one man is Adam, many were
made sinners. And by the obedience of one,
that's Christ, shall many be made righteous. But what I'm
showing you here is we were made legally accounted sinners by
the imputation of Adam's sin. And the result of that sin, which
is death, passed on to all because of Adam's sin. Look at Romans
5 and verse 12. Wherefore, as by one man, that's
Adam again, sin entered into the world, and death by sin,
and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned. And that last phrase is the same
one we looked at. All did sin in Adam. Because
of Adam's sin imputed to us, every one of us are born spiritually
dead. Every soul that's ever born into
the world is born spiritually dead. And we're all born facing
physical death. And we're all born worthy, deserving
of eternal death. And we're all facing that eternal
death except for God's mercy and grace in Christ. And we're
talking about the sons and daughters of Adam, all being sinners. First,
we're sinners by representation. Second, we're sinners by practice. Look back at Romans 3 and verse
23 again. For all have sinned and come
short of the glory of God. That second phrase you see, come
short of the glory of God. Being the sons and daughters
of Adam, we all inherit Adam's fallen sinful nature. We inherit
his sinnerhood and we're born sinning. Come forth from the
womb speaking lies. according to the scriptures,
all shapen in iniquity, all conceived in sin. And we never rise above
that based on anything we do, based on our obedience, our efforts
at the law. We all come short of the glory
of God. What does that mean in language
we can understand? It means we as sinners, never
obey the law in such a way. We don't measure up to that standard.
That standard is perfection. And we never measure up in such
a way that God would be honored to declare us righteous based
on our obedience. That's what that means. We come
short of the glory of God. Well, what about our good works
after conversion? Doesn't it change when we're
converted? What about our faith, our repentance, our perseverance?
What about those things? Even though these things are
the gifts of God, even these do not measure up to God's standard
of perfection. I never have an unsinful thought
or motive. I never do an unsinful deed,
and you don't either. There is no difference. Second
way, all are sinners by nature, all are sinners by practice.
That brings us to the third way in which there is no difference.
Because all are the sons and daughters of Adam, and because
all are sinners by nature and by practice, all are worthy of,
all are deserving of the eternal wrath of God. We are all in ourselves
worthy of eternal death. Now, have you ever faced that
fact? I mean, that's hard to imagine. I mean, I've been a
pretty good fellow all my life. But, because I'm a sinner, And
because I can't rise above that sinnerhood, I can't do anything
that's not tainted with sin, if God were to judge me, even
based on this message I'm preaching right now, if he judged Winston
based on the prayer he just prayed, he'd have to send him to eternal
misery because that's what we're worthy of based on our best efforts. Look at Romans 6.23. For the wages of sin is death,
but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our
Lord. The wages, that's what you earn
for doing something. Eternal death is all that sin
has earned any of us. It's all that even our best efforts
to obey God can ever earn us. The scripture says the soul that
sins shall die. God will by no means clear the
guilty. A just God must punish the guilty. He can't clear them. And worse
than all this, worse than being sinners, worse than being worthy
of God's eternal wrath, none, not one of us, can do anything
in ourselves to change our worthiness. We can't rise above our worthiness
of eternal death based on our best efforts. We can't even diminish
our worthiness, our deservedness of God's eternal wrath one iota
based on our best efforts at obedience and reformation. We're
helpless to free ourselves, to help ourselves in any way in
this dilemma. Look at a couple of verses that
will declare this, that we can't rise above our sinnerhood. Look
at Isaiah 64 and verse six. But we are all as an unclean
thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags, and we all
do fade as a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us
away." Our righteousnesses here are, that's our best. See, that's
not what we are at our worst, that's what we are at our best.
What he's talking about here is righteous actions aimed at
gaining or maintaining the acceptance of God. Now, some might admit
that our worst actions are worthy of eternal death, but this verse
and others in scripture make it clear it's not just our worst
actions, it's our best actions. Look at Galatians 3 and verse
22 for another verse that says something similar. But the scripture
has concluded all under sin that the promise by faith of Jesus
Christ might be given to them that believe. The scripture has
concluded all under sin. The all here, it is persons,
but it's not just persons. What he's talking about here,
that all in the original is all things, everything, everything
we've ever done, every thought, every motive, every deed. everything
we've done at our best moments. They don't ever, we don't ever
do anything that does not leave us deserving of the eternal wrath
of God. Now, that's why we need a Savior,
friends. That's why we need someone to
take our place. That's why we need a substitute.
That's why we need to be saved by Christ alone. Not based on
our efforts, but based on His effort alone. If you and I are
not sinners, whose best efforts leave us deserving of God's eternal
wrath. If that's not what we can say
about ourselves, then this Word says God has provided a far better
Savior than any of us need. But that's not the case. We know
we need the Savior He's provided. Christ said, I came not to call
the righteous, but sinners to repentance. Christ came to call
sinners, sinners by nature, sinners by practice, sinners worthy of
the eternal wrath of God, and he came to call them to repentance,
that is, to change our thinking that we can be anything less
than sinners by nature, by practice, and worthy of God's wrath based
on anything found in us. There is no difference. We're
all sinners. We're all sons of Adam. We're
all sinners. We're all worthy of and deserving of the eternal
wrath of God. Now, that's a pretty bleak picture
there, isn't it? If that's all the information
I had to give you, You'd go out of here and wonder where the
hope is. But thankfully, there's more
information to be had. That brings us to the fourth
way in which there is no difference. Since all are sons and daughters
of Adam, and all sinners by nature and by practice, and since all
are worthy of and deserving the eternal wrath of God, then there's
no difference. All stand in need of a Savior. We don't need a potential Savior.
We don't want one who might save us if we'll do something. We
don't need a Savior who made a way for sinners if they'll
just get on that way. We need a Savior whose obedience
unto death has brought redemption to every sinner he died for.
Look at Romans 3 in verse 24. There is no difference. That
was the last line of the other. Being justified freely by His
grace through the redemption that's in Christ Jesus. Justified
means declared righteous. It means God declares us righteous
in His sight. Freely is unconditionally. It means there are no conditions
to be met by the sinner because it's by His grace. Grace is salvation
conditioned on Christ alone. In other words, He met all the
conditions. We don't meet any conditions. And redemption means
a ransom has been paid in full, nothing left owing, nothing to
be met in order for that redemption to already be complete in the
finished work of Christ alone. When Christ had finished His
work, there was redemption. He had paid the twofold debt
of every sinner he died for. He had paid the debt of punishment
to God's justice. He had paid the debt of obedience
to God's law. He had paid the ransom that a
just God requires. And he paid it for every sinner
he died for. That's why Psalm 130 says, let
Israel, and he's talking about spiritual Israel here, I mean,
he could have been talking about physical Israel. They should
have hope in the Lord, too. But he's talking about spiritual
Israel. Let Israel hope in the Lord, for with the Lord there
is mercy, and with him is plenteous redemption, and he shall redeem
Israel from all his iniquities. There is no difference here.
All need the Savior that God himself has provided for those
of his choosing. Look on with me in our context
to Romans chapter 3 and verse 25. As Christ Jesus, whom God has
set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to
declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are
past, through the forbearance of God, to declare, I say at
this time, his righteousness, that he might be just and the
justifier of him that believeth in Jesus. Whom God set forth
a propitiation. You remember when Abraham took
his only son, the scripture says, Isaac, up on the mount and had
every plans to sacrifice him there on that mountain. You remember
what Isaac asked Abraham? He said, Behold the fire and
the wood, but where is the lamb for the burnt offering? Abraham
said God will provide Himself a sacrifice. That's what God
has done. God has provided Himself a sacrifice. He has provided His people a
Savior. He has provided Himself a satisfaction. God set Christ forth a propitiation. That's a penalty-bearing, justice-satisfying
sacrifice. That's what propitiation means.
We get the same word as translated mercy seat. That's where God's
mercy is found by sinners, in Christ, that propitiation. God
provided the Savior that His law and justice demanded. We
don't need a Savior who's made a way of salvation. We need a
Savior who's accomplished salvation in full. Fallen humanity, one
and all, needs a Savior who reveals the justice of God. We need a
Savior who reveals how God must and how God will do right. We
need a Savior who's demonstrated God's punishment of the guilty.
One who reveals the love of God, but not at the expense of the
justice of God, because He has to be both. He has to be able
to show love and mercy and grace, but He also has to be just. And
to leave out one, as Bill said in his message, is to deny God. It's to deny His Christ. Now,
how can we know that the God we worship is just? Where has
God manifested His justice so plainly, there's no question
that He's just. There's no question that He's
going to do right, always. There's only one place we can
see that, and that place is the cross, if you know what took
place on the cross. if you know that God had charged
to Christ the sins of his people. And when it came time for the
God-appointed surety, the substitute, the sin-bearer to suffer the
punishment that his chosen people deserved, God spared him not. This just God who must do right
spared him not. God punished Christ with all
the punishment his people deserved, and Christ satisfied that demand. so completely that there's no
more demand for punishment for those represented by Christ.
Therefore, God is just. He's doing right to not punish
the sinners Christ died for with the punishment We can't rise
above deserving. We still deserve it, but we're
not going to get it because Christ bore it in our place. God is
just to not give those sinners the eternal death their sin has
earned. The demand for their punishment
and death was ended forever in the death of Christ, the substitute.
What I'm saying here is if Christ died for you, It's impossible
for you to perish. It's impossible for you to suffer
the eternal wrath you deserve if Christ died for you. God has
already poured out on Christ, your substitute, all the wrath
that you deserve and all the wrath that God's justice demands. You can't be punished. You cannot
perish. Christ drained the cup of God's
wrath for every sinner he died for. And these sinners represented
by Christ, they must and shall go free. And Christ has not just
satisfied the justice of God and revealed that justice at
the cross. He also fulfills the law's requirement for perfect,
continual obedience. By his obedience unto death,
Christ has provided the righteousness God requires. He's fulfilled
the prophecy of Daniel. He brought in everlasting righteousness. That's what Daniel said he would
do. And Christ is the end of the law for righteousness. He doesn't end the law, but he
ends the law for righteousness. Look at Romans 10 and verse 4.
For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone
that believe it. He fulfilled the law and established
the one righteousness by which God justifies ungodly sinners.
And in time, under the gospel, by the Spirit of God, He ends
our going about to establish a righteousness of our own because
we find all the righteousness we need in Him. God is doing
right to freely give the sinners Christ represented all things. Justification, sanctification,
pardon of sin, reconciliation, all things because of Christ. Look at Romans 8 in verse 32. He that spared not his own son,
but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also
freely give us all things? They are qualified. They're always
qualified by the context. There's no difference between
those Christ was delivered up for and those who must and who
will be freely given all things. No difference. Same sinners.
Same names and same number. Having punished their sins fully
in Christ's death and Christ having brought in the righteousness
sinners need to stand justified before God, I shall not, God,
give those same sinners all that Christ has merited for them.
He shall. He must. He can't do less than
give them all that Christ merited for them. He's a just God. His
justice demands it. If God delivered up Christ for
you, my friend, if Christ died on the cross for your sins, you
cannot perish. You cannot end up under the eternal
wrath of God. You must and shall be given salvation
and all that goes with it, up to and including final glory.
And you will be given salvation not because you've done anything,
not because you met some condition, not even because you believed,
but because Christ met every condition. He accomplished your
salvation in full. This is the Savior and the salvation
that all stand in need of. There's no difference. All stand
in need of this Savior. Not a Savior who enables us to
meet a condition, but one who's met every condition. Not a salvation
we gain or maintain by our efforts at obedience. Not a salvation
we appropriate or make effectual by our faith, but a salvation
that's been gained for us and is maintained for us by the doing
and dying of Christ alone. There's no difference. We need
a salvation. We don't have to do anything
to get and anything to keep. We need a salvation that is free,
one that's unconditional to us. We need a Savior that has met
all conditions and a salvation that's complete and completely
through His doing and dying alone. There is no difference. All stand
in need of a Savior. This Savior, the one I set before
you here. But we have a problem. By nature,
we don't know what shape we're in. We think we've just fallen
down like the commercial. We just need a little help to
get up. That's our thinking by nature. We think we've stumbled
and we just need someone to help us get our balance back. We don't
know how desperate and how depraved we really are. You see, we're
all born dead in trespasses and sins. We're all born totally
ignorant of Christ, His person, His work, and His righteousness.
All are born going about to establish a righteousness of our own. We're
all on a way that seems right, but that way is the broad way
that's leading to destruction. We need a Savior, a true Savior,
Not a Savior who can help us do something to help ourselves,
but a Savior who's done everything that a holy and just God requires
for sinners like us to stand justified, to stand righteous
in His sight. And that brings us to the fifth
way in which there's no difference. All are in need of hearing the
gospel wherein the righteousness of God is revealed. We all need
to hear the gospel. The gospel alone declares the
Savior we all need. The gospel alone declares the
Savior and salvation God has provided. Like I said, without
the gospel, we're all on the way. And that way looks right
to us. It seems right. And all of this
world's religion tells us that way is right. But that way we're
on by nature is leading to destruction. And if God doesn't deliver us
off that way, that's where we'll end up. Look at Romans 3 in verse
27 and 28. We need the gospel alone to bring
the boasting, our boasting, the boasting of sinners to an end. Romans 3, 27. Where is boasting
then? It's excluded. By what law? Of works? No, but by the law
of faith. Therefore, we conclude that a
man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law. You see
that phrase, the law of faith? That's not talking about the
gift of the spirit that he gives in regeneration. It's not talking
about subjective faith, our believing. It's not talking about that. The law of faith is the body
of faith. It's the declaration of faith.
It's the gospel. Where is boasting then? Boasting
is excluded. Well, by what law is boasting
excluded? Is it excluded by the law of
works? No, it's excluded by the law
of faith. It's excluded by the gospel.
It's excluded by the declaration of Christ and the righteousness
he worked out. Therefore, we conclude that a
man is justified by faith, by Christ, that object of faith
that is revealed in God's gospel without the deeds of the law.
And it's not the gospel itself here. It's not just the words
heard and understood that delivers a sinner or excludes boasting
in a sinner. It's the Savior declared in the
gospel that delivers. Christ is the one by which sinners
are justified. Christ is the one that stops
sinners from boasting in themselves. Regenerate centers stop boasting
in self. We stop boasting in our efforts
and boast in Christ alone. Now, why is the hearing of the
gospel so necessary, so vital? Because without the gospel, before
you or I heard the gospel, the only Christ we heard of, the
only one we heard about, was not the Savior God sent, but
a counterfeit. Before the gospel, the only God
you and I heard about was an idol of men's imaginations. Before
the gospel, without the gospel, the only salvation you and I
knew of was one of dead works and evil deeds. Christ sent his
disciples into all the world to preach the gospel, a specific
message. He sent them to declare the true
Christ. to declare sin put away, to declare
righteousness brought in, to declare God just, to justify
ungodly sinners based on Christ's imputed righteousness alone.
Now this is the same message we're attempting to deliver to
the world in our generation. And we do so because without
the gospel, sinners neither know God or the Christ through whom
a just God and Savior is revealed. Without the gospel, sinners born
dead in trespasses and sins, remain dead in trespasses and
sins. Without the gospel, sinners born going about to establish
a righteousness of their own remain going about to establish
a righteousness of their own. The Spirit of God does not work
He doesn't regenerate apart from the gospel. He does not convince
of sin or righteousness or judgment apart from the gospel. The gospel
must be heard and understood. The gospel must be acted upon.
Christ told his disciples, you go preach the gospel and whoever
believes the gospel shall be saved. Whoever believes it not
shall be damned. There is no difference. All need
to hear and understand the gospel. That brings us to the sixth way
in which there is no difference. All stand in need of the regenerating
work of the Holy Spirit. Without this work, the gospel
are just words, it's just doctrine, just another system of religion.
It's the Spirit of God that takes the things of Christ, those things
revealed in the gospel, and shows them unto sinners. Look at John
16 and verse 13. Howbeit, when he, the Spirit
of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth, for he shall
not speak of himself, but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he
speak, and he will show you things to come. He shall glorify me,
for he shall receive of mine, and shall show it unto you. All
things that the Father hath are mine, therefore said I, that
he shall take of mine, and shall show it unto you. It's the Spirit
that shows the things of God, the things that God has freely,
unconditionally given to the objects of His everlasting love. The Spirit does that under the
Gospel. That's where He works. Look at
1 Corinthians 2 and verse 11. For what man knoweth the things
of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? Even so
the things of God knoweth no man but the spirit of God. Now
we have received not the spirit of the world, but the spirit
which is of God, that we might know the things that are freely
given to us of God. A salvation that's free, one
that's unconditional, is foreign to the natural mind. We don't
conceive of such a thing in our minds by nature. Without the
Spirit of God giving us life and faith and rest in Christ,
we are but natural men and women. Without the Spirit's work in
the heart, we will not receive those things that are freely
given to us of God. Look at 1 Corinthians 2.14. The
natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God,
for they are foolishness unto him, neither can he know them,
because they are spiritually discerned. The natural man is
who we all are before God brings us to the gospel, before the
Spirit regenerates us. It's how we're all born into
this world. The natural man is who we all
are without the Spirit's work. But the scripture says, thy people
shall be willing in the day of thy power. What do all, all of
us, every center in this world, what do all need to be made willing
to do? All need to be made willing to
bow to God's sovereignty and salvation. God chose a people.
He conditioned their salvation on Christ. Christ came and met
the conditions. And sinners are justified by
the righteousness Christ worked out. We need to be willing to
bow to our need of that salvation that's free and unconditional.
Willing to see our need of the Savior and the salvation God
has provided. Willing to bow to the doing and
dying of Christ alone. His righteousness imputed. for
all of salvation. There is no difference. All stand
in need of the regenerating work of the Holy Spirit. In light of who we are, and in
light of who God is, and in light of what God requires, what are
sinners to do? What should we do? Are we to
just throw up our hands and just let God do what He will? Are
we to just sit back and wait for God to move us? The Bible
never steers us, anyone, that way. All are commanded to seek
the God who is rich in mercy. And that brings us to the seventh
and final way in which there is no difference. All are responsible,
all are accountable to God to look to and to rest in the Savior
God has provided. Look at Romans 10 verse 12. Here's
that phrase again, for there is no difference between the
Jew and the Greek. And when Paul wrote that, It's
like Bill was saying in his message. We don't have any idea. We don't
stop and think about what... He's talking about the whole
world here. See, there were the Jews, and then there was everybody
else. The Greeks is everybody else.
There's no difference between the Jew and the Greek, for the
same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon Him. For whosoever
shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. It's not
nearly as important for a sinner to believe that they're one of
God's elect as it is for them to see their need for the mercy
and grace of God that's found in Christ alone. We believe in
election. We preach election. It's a God-honoring
doctrine. But we need to see as sinners
that we need the mercy and grace of God. God is rich in mercy. He is rich in grace to all who
see they need to be found in Christ, not having a righteousness
of their own making. He is rich in mercy to those
who need to be found in the righteousness Christ worked out by His obedience
unto death. He is rich toward all who see
their desperate need of that righteousness that God has imputed
to all who find their hope in Christ alone. Look at Matthew
chapter 7 and verse 7. This is Christ's Sermon on the
Mount. He says, Ask, and it shall be given you. Seek, and you shall
find. Knock, and it shall be opened
unto you. Now, these promises are to any who will ask, who
will seek, who will knock. How do you know these promises
are to any and to all who will seek or ask or knock? Well, look
at verse 8. For everyone not some of you,
everyone that asketh receiveth, and he that seeketh findeth,
and to him that knocketh it shall be opened. There is no difference. All are responsible, accountable
to seek the God of mercy through the Savior that he's provided.
Seek the God of mercy through the Savior that's made known
in the gospel. Despite the many differences
between us, We are all the sons and daughters of Adam. We're
all sinners by nature and by practice. We're all worthy of
and deserving the eternal wrath of God. We're all in need of
a Savior. We all need to hear and understand
God's gospel. We all need the regenerating
work of the Holy Spirit. and we're all accountable to
God to seek his mercy in the doing and dying of Christ alone. There are many differences, but
in these ways, these seven ways, there is no difference.