384: Dave Pogson – The Atonement

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this week’s talk.
Hello, all, and welcome back.

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This is brother Benji.
This week’s talk will be a class

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given by brother Dave Pogson.
This talk is the final in a

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series of 6, which you’ll be
able to find over on our

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extended podcast.
We’re not exactly sure where

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this series was given, but it
seems it could have been given

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at the Coorparoo Ecclesia in
Queensland as a Bible class

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series.
This series is on the atonement.

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Brother Dave’s understanding and
exposition of the atonement is

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exciting.
Simply put, he makes it simple

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such that it often caused me
great joy in finally grasping a

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concept that was otherwise
incomprehensible.

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I love Brother Dave’s analogies.
They’re relevant, engaging, and

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deeply aid your comprehension.
This series will fill you with

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happiness, joy, relief, and
understanding.

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With that said, I’ll give you
over to our Brother Dave for his

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sixth Atonement study.
If we’d like to open at Romans

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3, where we were and where we
finished last time, that’s a

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little bit of unfinished work
there to be done.

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Apparently I turned over a
couple of charts and we missed a

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bit.
And of course, in Romans 3, we

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are dealing with what all
scholars in and out of the

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truth, regardless of the most
important subject, important, a

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verse on the atonement.
OK, So if we just open up Romans

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3, see where we are, can you
still say, OK, so let’s just

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capture the flow of thought.
I mightn’t finish everything

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tonight, but it’s very important
that we finish these verses in

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Romans chapter 3.
OK?

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So I just grinded into you a
little bit.

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We’ll just go over it a little
bit, OK?

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If we just pick up verses 18 and
19 and Roman 19 and 20 of Romans

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3 says you can never be
pronounced righteous by deeds of

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law.
Remember the background deeds of

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law meant earning, OK?
That was a Jewish wrong doctrine

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that you could earn acceptance
in God’s sight, right?

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You could earn it.
That’s a completely wrong

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concept.
It can’t be earned whether it’s

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by grace or their concept of
earning.

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Yes, it involves obedience.
Yes, they both agree it involves

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forgiveness.
They both agree, but their bases

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are completely different.
The Jewish view was man was

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created with the ability to
perform well enough to earn

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eternal life.
The argument of the apostle Paul

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is that that’s absolute
nonsense.

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OK, The Law of Moses condemned
everybody.

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You had to keep it wholly and
perfectly and continuously

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before you could ever have said
to earner, and no one was ever

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capable of doing that.
So the idea of earning his

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argument right through Romans is
is out.

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So, but the argument in Romans
is all about the Jews or man’s

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method of in becoming righteous
before the judge.

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And Paul’s argument Now God’s
got a method that he’s given you

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and you’re going to take on
board that method.

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And that method is based on
faith in Jesus Christ, in God’s

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sent, and he sent that Jesus
Christ as a perfect example of

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the method, a perfect example of
the method.

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And it was a method of
dependence upon God.

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And in Christ it produced a
perfect result in US using the

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same method.
We don’t produce a perfect

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result, but we acknowledge that.
But because we could see in

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Christ a perfect example of the
power of God’s Word right and

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dependence upon that right, He
forgives that.

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What?
Christ’s perfect demonstration

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of the divine method of
salvation becomes a basis for

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which God will accept lesser men
and women that endeavour to walk

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and follow in the steps of Jesus
Christ.

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So that’s it in simple terms.
So he says, so he says in verse

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21, but now that is with the
coming of Christ, there is a

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righteousness of God.
This God’s method for you to be

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righteous, that’s a path without
the law has been manifested, all

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right.
Christ has lived it out and

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established it.
I was witnessed by the law and

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the prophets.
The whole Old Testament from

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beginning to end spoke about it
all the time.

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Verse 22, It’s a righteousness
of God.

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It’s a divine method for you to
be pronounced righteous, but

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it’s conditional.
You never earn it, but it is

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conditional, highly conditional.
You must never confuse

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conditions with earning.
You find the churches out there

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and everything’s got to be love
and grace.

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They say any sort of conditions
at all constitutes works, and

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it’s the opposite of grace.
They got it all wrong.

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It’s completely inconsistent
with the Bible.

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Sure, salvation can never be
heard, but it is conditional.

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And here’s the condition.
You’ve got to have faith in

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Jesus Christ and what he stands
for and what he’s done and what

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God has done with him, which he
goes on to describe what God has

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done with him.
And this righteousness comes

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under all those 22 and upon all
them, that faith, Jew as well as

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Gentile.
It’s for everybody.

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For there’s no difference
between Jew and Gentile.

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What?
Well, they’ve all Jew and

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Gentile, they’ve seen, and
they’ve all come short of the

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glory of God.
They disobey God and they’ve

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failed the manifest God for
which they’ve been created.

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For therefore you can’t earn it.
It can’t be earned because

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there’s always the element of
failure and cursed is everyone

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that continueth not in all
things which are written in the

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book of the law to do them.
And so verse 24 says this method

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of God we are, we have been
pronounced righteous freely.

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That’s opposite to earning,
isn’t it, right.

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We have been pronounced
righteous freely by God’s grace,

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sure, but it’s conditional.
It’s through the redemption or

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salvation that is in Christ
Jesus.

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God has established a method and
it all centres around Christ

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living it out perfectly.
And because He’s lived it out

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purpose purposely, perfectly, He
calls upon all men to identify

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with that perfect manifestation
of God’s method and he’ll accept

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them.
Then we we got the verse 25 and

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we’d miss verse 26 and verse 26
as a repeat of verse 25.

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But let’s just go through 25 is
the most important verse we have

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on the subject.
It’s talking about Jesus Christ

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and what God had done with him.
Verse 25 whom God has set forth,

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so God has set him forth, The
Martian says for a dying, but it

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makes no difference.
God has set him forth.

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Some translator, he’s been
publicly set forth, so God sets

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him forth and he sets him forth
to be a propitiation.

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And the word propitiation is
actually a Greek word used in

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Greek religions whereby they
placated the wrath of the gods

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by their particular sacrifices.
In other words, they went

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through a protocol by which they
were able to placate the wrath

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of Zeus or or whatever the Greek
gods were at the time.

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OK, but the word hillisterion
propitiation is hillisterion and

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it means the place of favour.
And it’s used in the Septuagint

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to translate the Hebrew
Kapoorith, the place of

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covering.
And of course the Kapoorath was

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the mercy seat on top of the IT
was the lid on top of the ark,

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right?
And Gods was in between the

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Caribbean, represented by his
glory in between the Caribbean.

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And that’s where the high priest
had to come each year with the

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blood, all right, and sprinkle
it before and on the mercy seat

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on the Day of Atonement to make
atonement, to seek to procure

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the forgiveness of all Israel’s
sins.

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So it’s the place of
forgiveness, if you like.

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OK.
And in Hebrews it’s actually

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called the throne of grace.
Hence the the English

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translators have called them
called the hillisteria on the

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covering.
They’ve translated it mercy seat

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and they’ve taken that from
Hebrews, the end of Hebrews

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chapter 4, the throne of grace.
So Christ, God has set forth

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Jesus Christ as the place of
meeting.

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I’ll meet you here.
It says he, here is the

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propitiation.
Actually it’s the whole thing.

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But this is the hard point.
Here was where there was a moral

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victory of the power of God’s
thinking, of the power of

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natural thinking.
At last another Adam had come

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and had gained a victory over
sin by taking on board because

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he had the capacity to do it,
taking on board the divine

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morality.
And it proved with all its

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temptations and all its trials,
it proved triumphant, a unique

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accomplishment.
How wrought by God.

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And God says, I’ll meet you
there.

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That’s the place of mercy.
That’s the place of covering,

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and that’s what precious
remains.

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It’s used in first John chapter,
the early verses of first John

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chapter 2.
It’s also used in Hebrews 9 to

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translate the mercy seat of the
the Tabernacle of the Lord of

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Moses.
So it’s the place.

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So Jesus Christ crucified is the
place.

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I’ll meet you there.
Why does God meet you there?

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Well, he says, and he says, I’ll
meet you there through faith.

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You can only come there by
faith.

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You’ve got to believe what this
is all about, OK?

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You’re going to believe this.
I’ll meet you there.

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If you believe what’s going on,
I’ll meet you there.

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Why does he meet him there?
Well, it goes on to say

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appreciation through faith in
his blood or his death.

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His blood simply means that
death.

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OK, what did this death do?
It says here it was to declare

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his that is, God’s
righteousness.

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It was to declare God’s personal
righteousness, to declare that

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God is right and just and holy
and fair and equitable in all

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that He does, particularly in
his judgement on sin and

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particularly in his mercy toward
those who confess their

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position.
So in both those areas, plus

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every other area, God’s
righteous and that declares that

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God’s righteous.
I want you to pick up something

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I never mentioned about that
word declare.

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We said that word to declare,
and that’s the big picture

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really.
That’s where we’re going and

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that’s where we finish up really
on that particular thing.

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The individual has to have faith
in the heart, in Christ, His

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development, His baptism, His
ministry, His death, His

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resurrection, His elevation to
the right hand of the Father as

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our mediator.
Here is our propitiatory, he

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does a propitiatory work.
He declares that God’s righteous

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and if you believe that, if you
believe it, God sends

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forgiveness upon you, called
righteousness upon all, upon all

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them they believe.
OK, now that word declare.

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You got your pencils.
Say the word declare to declare

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in my Bible.
If you’ve got the same Bible

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right next to it, there is a
quote and my eyes can’t read it,

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but I think it’s Psalm 98, verse
2.

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Now I pointed out that the word
declare is a very important word

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in this phrase to declare, pick
up the word declare, OK?

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It doesn’t mean to speak
something out to declare it by

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that.
It doesn’t mean that at all.

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OK, it might involve that, but
that’s not its basic meaning.

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The basic meaning is to exhibit
the word declare and daxis means

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to exhibit or to show.
To exhibit or put on show and

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one translation translated
demonstrate and I’ll be talked

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about going to to AG grip.
And you, I think you go to a

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place called Echo.
What a funny name.

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You Queenslanders have got funny
names up here, I can tell you.

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Anyway, in other words, the word
means to demonstrate something.

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OK, that’s when you go to a show
and you look at certain

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machinery being working.
Get the idea?

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So what Christ is doing when
he’s He lived his life and was

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perfectly obedient under the
death of the cross.

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He demonstrating God’s personal
righteousness as in respect to

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sin and in respect to obedience
and mercy.

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He was proud.
He would be righteous in his

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judgement on sin.
You know, and I think we quoted

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Roman sex.
The wages of sin is death.

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That’s righteous.
And he was and Christ was

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demonstrating that, OK.
And the gift of God is eternal

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life through Jesus Christ our
Lord.

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That’s done righteously.
We can forgive our kids,

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sometimes quite wrongly.
You mightn’t extract from them

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proper recognition of what
they’ve done wrong.

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You might just say, oh, that’s
them and let them get away with

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it.
And you’re only doing the kids

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harm if you forgive them on a
wrong basis.

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They’re going to be forgiven on
a right basis.

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And God only forgives us when we
confess the facts involved and

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see our position.
Then he’ll forgive.

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Otherwise, it’s unrighteous
forgiveness.

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And He will not.
When he forgives, he won’t

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lightly pass by the judgement on
sin.

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If he’s going to give, if he’s
going to give you forgiveness,

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he’ll make sure you recognise
what you really deserve.

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That’s fair, right and just.
And it’s beneficial for you.

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It’s beneficial for you to
realize that.

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OK, so in Christ it’s been set
forth just the the terrible

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enormity of human sin on the one
hand, all right, and the

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wonderfulness of divine grace
and the brightness of demanding

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faith before he’ll forgive.
That’s as simple as that.

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Now this word declare, put a
circle around that Psalm 98

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verse 2, because it expressed
perfectly what the word declare

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means.
And maybe this declare His

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righteousness is actually
quoting from Psalm 98 verse 2,

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although I can’t prove it
because the words aren’t exactly

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the same in the Greek septuagan.
But just turn you keep your hand

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in there and just look at Psalm
98 verse 2 to go on the circle,

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because if you forget what this
declares all about this Psalm

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tells you and the Psalm’s all
about righteousness and victory

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and God the judge of all the
earth.

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That’s what the whole Psalm’s
about atonement and and and he’s

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probably quoting verse 2 and
Yahweh hath made known his

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salvation and notice this, his
righteousness hath he what

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declared openly showed.
That’s exactly what the meaning

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of declared is in the Greek back
up here in Romans 3 openly

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showed OK, if you looked up that
Hebrew word for openly showed it

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would it’s it’s pronounced
something like gall law.

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I’m not very good at pronouncing
Hebrew and it actually means

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strip naked.
In other words, fully exposed.

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So, so, so Christ is fully
exposed God’s righteousness both

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in respect to sin and in respect
to mercy, based in respect to

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His Verity and in respect to His
goodness.

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You can take the whole character
of God which Jesus Christ

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manifested.
When you see me, you see the

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Father.
And let’s not kid ourselves.

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He manifested while the emphasis
was on mercy, All right.

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He wouldn’t let the disciples
call fire down on a city.

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He says, you know what manner of
spirit, spirit you’re of.

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We’ve come to save life, not to
destroy.

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However, He spent his life
recommending right attitudes and

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divine like attitudes and
condemning wrong attitudes,

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right from his disciples, right
from the scribes and Pharisees,

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and condemning old cities,
didn’t it?

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It was a balance of severity and
a balance of mercy and the

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righteous direction should lead
us all right and expose the

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hypocrisy of the earning
salvation with all its wrong

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doctrines that the Jews had.
They had every wrong doctrine.

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The churches have got to die.
I’ve mentioned that before.

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They believed that that the
devil wasn’t yourself.

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It was Beelzebub.
OK, the the God of flies of the

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Philistines, of the Philistines.
Wasn’t it something like that?

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And they believed in purgatory.
They believed in in souls and

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mortal souls and going to hell
and going to hell.

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They believed all that stuff.
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And like the churches today,
they believed in this concept of

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earning, even though the
churches would deny that today

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they do.
We won’t go into that.

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That’s a complex argument.
So Jesus Christ came to

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demonstrate God’s personal
righteousness.

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And as to if you can believe
that he demonstrate God’s

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personal righteousness, God’s
prepared to pronounce you

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righteous even though you don’t
deserve it.

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You pronounce him righteous
because he is righteous.

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He’ll pronounce you righteous
because you’ve turned around you

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want to copy a follower of God
instead of a follower of

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yourself and your world.
It’s as simple as that.

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If you can see that God writers
has manifested in the work of

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Christ OK and you’re prepared to
turn away from the the life of

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sin and try and pursue God’s
values.

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He will forgive.
He will pronounce you righteous.

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OK, But what God wants in faith
is a confession that He is

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righteous.
There it is.

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It says God’s righteous that
says he wants you to confess

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that.
All right, And the confession

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was first, and we’ve got a
problem in confessing that.

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And the last time we pointed out
there’s a lot of sins.

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We haven’t learned of sins yet.
All right, there’s two things

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that separated primary from God
at certain Ephesians, and that’s

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ignorance and wicked works.
That’s what’s OK, ignorance and

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wicked works.
And so there’s a lot of things

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we don’t even know are sins yet.
And yet you’re saying confess

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your sin.
We can only do it partially.

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Also, I also want you to
confess, but holiness be holy,

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for I am holy.
We know a lot of God’s righteous

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values don’t know them all, and
we don’t know how to apply them

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all in 1,000,001 situations in
life.

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It’s a lifetime’s job.
OK, so we can only confess sin

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and holiness to a limited
degree.

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Except this unique man here, he
could was tempted in all points.

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He could recognise every sin,
therefore he would recognise

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every temptation, right?
And he could recognise every

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right attitude and every action.
That’s right.

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He was taught of God from right
from his early age.

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God opened his ear morning by
morning, developed his

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spirituality, OK?
I mean, he was a second Adam.

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There’s only three people
begotten by God, and that’s

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Adam, right?
He was another son of God and he

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had these capacities.
OK, Yeah, yeah.

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You might call him a, a moral
freak relative to us, but that

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didn’t make him not a man.
I mean, Einstein was a bit of a

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freak.
And there’s some people that are

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are freaks in mathematics and
they don’t know how they can do

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it, but they can just work this
mathematics out in seconds like

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a computer.
They don’t even understand how

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they can do it.
OK, but that doesn’t make him

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not a man.
They’re of like passions as we

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are and have the same sin
problems that we have.

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So this was declaration was
actually a confession in action

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in action, right?
He was demonstrating it.

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He not only did it in words, he
did it and he lived it out.

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He’s called truth, as it is in
Christ Jesus.

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It should be truth, which is
Christ Jesus.

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So he was confessing.
He was an expert.

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He was a you’d say he’d never
sinned.

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He wouldn’t be an expert.
Sin.

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That’s completely wrong.
The more you sin, the less you

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can recognize sin.
The less you sin, the more you

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can recognize sin.
If you’ve been tempted with

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every sin but never yielded to
it, you’d understand sin and

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sinners better than any Sinner
around.

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Plus the fact you had the Holy
Spirit to be able to read

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people’s minds, you’d be able to
read and analyse what effect

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their transgressions were having
on their personality and

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character.
So is the only man really

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qualified to confess the sin of
mankind?

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Every sin, it’s the same as he
was the only man qualified to

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take on board the full divine
morality and recognise every

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righteous attitude, every
righteous act.

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I mean, he’s a unique man
specially prepared to

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demonstrate human sin and divine
righteousness and therefore a

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perfect example for us to follow
a perfect example.

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It’s interesting.
I I shouldn’t do this, but this

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word declare is a very
interesting word occurs all that

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place we want to follow it.
Pick up the word show in the

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Bible and occurs a lot All
right, and the key letters in it

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are DEI, which means to exhibit.
There’s all sorts of words that

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are made-up different words.
OK, and one of the most quite a

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common use it’s translated
example.

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I mean, someone says, Oh yeah,
you know, how do you hit that

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ball with how do you play this
golf?

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He says.
He says, well, I’ll show you.

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And he shows you.
Yeah.

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In other words, you’ve given him
an example of how to do it.

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So the idea of example now just
bear that in mind.

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We preach the truth about Christ
crucified.

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We’ve got to get, when we speak
to interested friends, we’ve got

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to get down to a very simple
language.

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You could actually say he
exemplified God’s righteousness.

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He was an example, right of
declaring if you like, he was an

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example.
He showed how sinful man was and

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and he showed how righteous God.
He was a perfect example of

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this, a perfect example of
rejecting sin, the perfect

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example of taking on board the
divine mind so that he could be

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obedient, So you could actually
preach the gospel in the

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simplest possible way.
You could say, well, what’s

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Jesus Christ death all about?
Well, it’s a perfect example of

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the life that God wants, the
perfect method of salvation.

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And if you’re prepared to accept
that perfect method and copy it

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and use the same methods, all
right, take on board the divine

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mind as best you can and, and
reject the sins you can

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recognise God’s prepared to
forgive you.

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It’s as simple as that.
That’s how the simple truth we

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should be preaching.
Paul went through the Greek

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around the world beaching Christ
crucified.

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I’ll know no other thing amongst
you but Jesus Christ and him, a

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crucified one.
That’s what he went doing.

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So, so the righteousness of God
revolves around those two

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things.
You know, wages of sin is death,

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the gift of God’s eternal life.
It says in Isaiah 40 the same

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thing in different words.
All flesh is grass.

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Wages of sin is death.
The Word of God endures forever

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the gift of God’s eternal life.
You’ll find this expressed in

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dozens of different ways
throughout the Bible.

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You can trace it through in your
daily readings, you know, in a

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dozen different ways.
I’ve just got to resist tempting

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taking you through it.
OK, now this is this declaration

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of God’s righteousness is the
basis for the remission of sins

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that are passed.
The word remission, there’s not

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the usual word usually in the
New Testament word remission

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means to send away.
It means to forgive and often

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translate a forgiveness.
OK, it’s it’s a word taken the

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scapegoat, where the
symbolically all the sins were

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placed on the scapegoat’s back
and they sent him in the

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wilderness.
He was remitted like a letter.

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He was remitted into the
wilderness, that guy.

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But this is a different word.
It actually means to relax, to

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let it pass by.
In other words, because you

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believe and confess your
position and you confess the

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ideal, and thereby by comparing
yourself with it, you confess

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your position.
God relaxes and he relaxes the

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sins of the past.
In other words, he forgives.

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OK, He forgives them and
forgives quite remissions.

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Quite a good translation,
really, even though technically

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it’s not.
Let’s go back to Romans 3, We’re

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in Sam.
Let’s go back to our industry.

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So it’s a basis.
It’s the condition upon which

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God’s grace comes.
It says for the mission of sins

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of the past.
And Brother Carter suggests that

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means not our past sins.
That means, he suggests it means

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the basis for remission of all
sins done from Adam to Christ.

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And that’s why we’ve got the
next verse which the the the

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verse is virtually repeated in a
shorter form and says and for

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this time, in other words, verse
25’s dealing with the sacrifice

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of Christ as the basis for the
forgiveness of sins, right for

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Madam to Christ.
And the next verse deals with

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that sacrifice is the base of
all sins, forgiveness of all

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sins from Christ onward, from
Christ onward in this time.

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You know what I mean?
Turned the two over again, made

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the same mistake, didn’t we?
Now we go to verse 26.

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So we haven’t looked at verse
26.

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Let’s look at verse 26 to
declare and it’s not up there,

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OK, to declares that same word
again to demonstrate I say at

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this time or for this time.
In other words, verse 25 says

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that was the basis of God
forgiving from Adam right up to

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Christ.
Then he says verse 26.

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It’s also the basis from Christ
onward to declare.

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I say at this time, that is in
the sense of from this time

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forward to demonstrate that at
this time he is, that is God’s

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as personally righteous to
declare his righteousness that

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he might be righteous and a
righteous fire of him which has

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faith in that work of Jesus
described in verse 25, that he

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might be just and a justifier
that he might be righteous and a

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righteous fire.
He’s actually quoting from

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Isaiah 45, which is a chapter
which deals the God that saves.

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And we’re going to pick this up
because it talks about burying

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the knee and confessing your
position.

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Burying the knee and confessing
your position.

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There’s a bloke burying his
knee.

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OK.
And the quote was put by where

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God says I am a just God and a
saviour and a justifier.

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No practical difference.
OK.

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And when you go to Isaiah 45,
it’s interesting to go there and

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just have a look at that.
OK, just for a moment.

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In other words, the main verse
in the atonement in the Bible is

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built on Isaiah 45.
That’s interesting.

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You know, we’ve got we ought to
look at it just for a second.

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Of course it’s the servant
prophecies and Isaiah 40 right

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through to the end of the rest
of Isaiah’s full of the

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atonement full of it.
It’s all about God being a

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saviour of verse 11 that saith
Yahweh the holy one of Israel

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than his maker ask of things to
come concerning my sons and

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concerning the work of my hands
command you and you asked me

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about that.
OK now verse 13.

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I raised him up in
righteousness, and he the type

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is Cyrus, but the language is
too powerful for Cyrus.

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I’ve raised him up in
righteousness.

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I will direct his ways, and he
will build my city, and so on

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and so on.
He’ll let my captives go free

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for without reward or prize.
Verse 15 Verily thou, Adele, and

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thou hide us thyself, O God of
Israel, the Saviour.

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They shall be ashamed.
Verse 16 And also confounded all

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them that go to confusion
together, that are makers of

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idols.
Verse 17 But Israel shall be

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saved in Yahweh with an
everlasting salvation.

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You should not be shamed nor
confounded.

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Well without our end, which is
the alarm we add for the for the

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Millennium and beyond and
forever and ever.

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OK, He’s talking about
everlasting salvation.

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OK.
And he says we often quote verse

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18 in our lectures.
For thus saith Yahweh that

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created the heavens, Elohim
himself that formed the earth

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and made it.
He has established it.

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He created it not in vain.
He formed it to be inhabited.

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I am Yahweh, and there’s none
else.

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I have not spoken in secret in
the dark place of the earth.

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00:36:18,520 –> 00:36:24,680
I said not under the seat of
Jacob seek ye Me and faiths are

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00:36:24,680 –> 00:36:27,760
those that seek God, who
diligently seek him.

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Seek him in vain.
I, Yahweh, speak righteousness.

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00:36:35,400 –> 00:36:38,000
I haven’t asked you to seek me
out in vain.

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00:36:38,360 –> 00:36:43,080
If I’ve asked you to seek you
out, it’s it’s a righteous thing

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that I’ve asked you to do and
I’ll be faithful.

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00:36:45,840 –> 00:36:49,960
If you seek me out and find me,
you’ll get what I promise

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because I’m righteous.
Verse 20 Assemble yourselves and

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come draw near you that are
escaped to the nations that have

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00:36:59,640 –> 00:37:05,560
no knowledge that set up wood of
their graven image and pray unto

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a God that cannot save.
The Jews had one of those.

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It wasn’t actually an an idol
God.

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It was an idol concept.
We can earn salvation.

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We’ve got Abraham to our father.
We are a superior people.

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The weak, the flesh has got
weaknesses, but it’s got a lot

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of strength.
And that just so long as we

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00:37:28,240 –> 00:37:32,800
apply that strength and practice
ourselves in keeping a divine

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00:37:32,800 –> 00:37:35,600
law outside of us, we earn
salvation.

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00:37:35,840 –> 00:37:38,600
Well, that was an image.
It was the wrong concept and

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they’re trying to be saved by a
human method that was wrong.

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00:37:44,160 –> 00:37:46,640
Verse 21 tell you and bring them
near you.

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Let them take counsel together.
Who had declared this from

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00:37:50,120 –> 00:37:52,440
ancient time.
We were told that from that time

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00:37:52,720 –> 00:37:58,120
have not I Yahweh.
There is no Elohim apart from

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00:37:58,120 –> 00:38:00,880
me.
There’ll be no angels, except

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they come by me.
Then we have the expression

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00:38:04,400 –> 00:38:10,400
here, Here we have it, a just,
I’ll and a Saviour.

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There is none, only me, a just
and a so.

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So he says, look under me.
Verse 22 pick up that word,

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Look, look unto me, behold me if
you like, behold me OK, and and

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being ye saved, you’ve just got
to behold me, see me for what I

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am, and be saved all ends of the
earth.

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I am ale, and there’s none else.
And then he makes an oath.

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I’ve sworn by myself.
The word has gone out of my

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mouth in righteousness, and
shall not return.

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And this is the oath that under
me every knee will bow, and

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every tongue shall swear, or as
Paul translates it, confess.

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And this is quoted in a few
places in the New Testament.

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This oath under me every knee
shall bow.

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There he is, and every tongue
will confess.

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Confession.
Remember our famous quote from

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00:39:29,560 –> 00:39:37,760
Hebrews, David, Proverbs 2813.
He that confesseth and forsaketh

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00:39:37,760 –> 00:39:40,840
his sin will find mercy with
God.

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00:39:42,000 –> 00:39:47,200
So God says you’ve got to look
at me and you’ve got to bow the

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00:39:47,200 –> 00:39:50,440
knee and you’ve got to confess
your position.

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00:39:54,200 –> 00:40:05,320
OK, acknowledge your position
and that involves, you know, the

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weight of sin is death.
You confess your position.

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And you confess to the point
where it it converts you.

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You look at Christ and you see
the terribleness of sin and what

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00:40:20,200 –> 00:40:23,600
sin did to him and what it’s
doing to the glory of God.

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And yet when you look inside
that man, you see a wonderful

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00:40:27,080 –> 00:40:30,120
mind that was able to be
perfectly obedient even under

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00:40:30,120 –> 00:40:34,280
the death of the cross.
When you see that and it turns

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00:40:34,280 –> 00:40:39,200
you around to stop pursuing the
life of sin and to pursue life

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00:40:39,200 –> 00:40:41,760
of God, you know what you’ve
done.

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You know what you’ve you’ve
given up your own life.

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You’ve given up living to
yourself.

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It’s a death, a very real death.
He that loses his life will find

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00:41:01,600 –> 00:41:04,960
it, right?
But he that saves his life,

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00:41:05,080 –> 00:41:08,720
he’ll lose it.
It’s a very real death.

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It’s a moral death.
It’s a bit like a man who should

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hang for murder.
And the judge says, well, we can

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00:41:15,880 –> 00:41:21,280
hang you and that’ll all be over
in a second or else for the rest

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00:41:21,280 –> 00:41:24,400
of your days, right?
You’ve got to work in the

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00:41:24,400 –> 00:41:28,560
hospital without money, without
pay, with any days off.

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You’ve got to totally commit
yourself to the benefit of other

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00:41:33,280 –> 00:41:36,000
people.
In other words, your personal

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00:41:36,000 –> 00:41:40,680
life’s finished, right?
You can choose which death you

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00:41:40,680 –> 00:41:46,480
like, but they’re both death to
your own will and to to your own

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00:41:46,480 –> 00:41:48,280
direction.
Selfish existence.

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00:41:48,400 –> 00:41:54,200
It’s a death, and God regards
that as satisfying his judgement

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00:41:54,200 –> 00:41:59,520
on us for sin instead of killing
us and leaving us in the grave

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00:41:59,520 –> 00:42:03,400
forever.
It’s a moral death and it

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00:42:03,400 –> 00:42:06,880
vindicates God better than if he
kills you.

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That’s a quite a key concept
there.

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Quite a key concept.
That’s why you wonder why Christ

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talks like that way.
You know, you can’t reserve

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00:42:19,680 –> 00:42:23,480
yourself a sin.
You go, you got to you got to

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00:42:23,480 –> 00:42:26,400
forsake your life.
You say, well, these are pretty

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00:42:26,400 –> 00:42:29,720
high standards, OK, But
remember, it is direction.

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00:42:30,240 –> 00:42:33,880
Sure, sometimes we turn around,
do something selfish and we see

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00:42:33,880 –> 00:42:36,720
it, but that’s our committed
direction in life.

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00:42:37,040 –> 00:42:41,320
Instead of us chasing the life
of selfishness, we’re chasing

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00:42:41,320 –> 00:42:43,760
the life of God.
And now and again interrupt

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00:42:44,160 –> 00:42:46,360
gives us a flying tackle.
We fall in our face.

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00:42:46,600 –> 00:42:49,520
God understands that and He
forgives for Christ’s sake.

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00:42:49,600 –> 00:42:52,640
So long as you get up and keep
heading in the right direction.

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00:42:52,760 –> 00:42:57,440
That’s practical, simple and
functional and very merciful.

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00:42:57,760 –> 00:43:03,640
And it works.
So where’s this first quoted was

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00:43:03,640 –> 00:43:07,360
quoted a member in Philippians.
Now that this might be new,

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00:43:07,360 –> 00:43:11,320
which was in Christ Jesus who
those in the form of God thought

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00:43:11,320 –> 00:43:15,680
it not robbery to be like God.
They’ve been found in fashion a

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00:43:15,680 –> 00:43:19,760
man he emptied himself and
became obedient.

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00:43:20,840 –> 00:43:25,760
I’m not quoting a perfect He
became obedient even under the

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00:43:25,800 –> 00:43:29,880
he humiliated himself, he
humiliated self and became

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00:43:29,880 –> 00:43:31,920
obedient even to the death of
the cross.

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00:43:32,080 –> 00:43:36,400
Wherefore God hath highly
exalted him and given him a name

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00:43:36,400 –> 00:43:40,480
which is above every name, that
at the name of Jesus, and he’s

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00:43:40,520 –> 00:43:44,520
praying this, the name of Jesus
every knee should bear and every

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00:43:44,520 –> 00:43:50,520
tongue confessed that Jesus is
Lord to the glory of God the

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00:43:50,520 –> 00:43:55,840
Father.
God exalted him to be his vice

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00:43:55,840 –> 00:43:59,800
Regent, his representative for
the people that are going to be

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00:43:59,800 –> 00:44:02,800
saved and bow the knee to God
and look at God.

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00:44:03,640 –> 00:44:07,200
They’ve got to do it in front of
Jesus Christ.

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00:44:07,440 –> 00:44:10,880
They’ve got to see Jesus Christ
as God manifests.

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00:44:11,720 –> 00:44:13,480
They’ve got to confess
themselves.

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00:44:13,760 –> 00:44:15,920
They’ve got to confess their
position here.

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00:44:16,280 –> 00:44:19,560
They’ve got to look at Jesus
Christ, his life, his death, his

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00:44:19,560 –> 00:44:23,680
burial, but particularly this
great moral victory here, his

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00:44:23,680 –> 00:44:27,960
vindication of God’s judgement
and his vindication of the power

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00:44:27,960 –> 00:44:30,160
of His Holiness.
They’ve got to look at that and

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00:44:30,160 –> 00:44:32,960
bare the knee and confess their
own position.

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00:44:35,320 –> 00:44:38,880
Confessions the key.
And in that very confession,

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00:44:39,160 –> 00:44:42,920
realise that this one here is
only the only one making a

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00:44:42,920 –> 00:44:46,400
perfect confession that
vindicates God completely.

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00:44:46,920 –> 00:44:50,480
You’re doing the best you can,
at least you’re identifying with

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00:44:50,480 –> 00:44:55,240
it, and you’re getting the
benefit of that brotherly family

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00:44:55,240 –> 00:44:58,360
identity that God lets you have
through baptism.

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00:44:59,960 –> 00:45:03,320
Spread in other places in Romans
chapter 10.

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00:45:03,800 –> 00:45:07,160
Yeah, with a heart, man
believeth the righteousness of

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the mouth.
Confession is made under

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00:45:09,000 –> 00:45:12,280
salvation.
Scratted in Romans 14, but it

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00:45:12,280 –> 00:45:15,240
must all appear before the
judgement seat of Christ that

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00:45:15,240 –> 00:45:18,640
quotes this very verse under me.
Every knee shall bow and every

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00:45:18,640 –> 00:45:23,960
tongue shall confess.
All right, So right from baptism

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00:45:24,880 –> 00:45:27,200
we’re barring the knee and
confessing our position.

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00:45:27,200 –> 00:45:29,800
We should do it every day.
We do it particularly on

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00:45:29,800 –> 00:45:31,760
Sundays.
We should be doing it all our

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00:45:31,760 –> 00:45:33,520
life.
And when we get the judgement

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00:45:33,520 –> 00:45:36,560
seat, we’ll be doing it then
we’ll be giving account of

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00:45:36,560 –> 00:45:39,720
ourselves to God.
We’ll bow the knee and confess.

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00:45:40,240 –> 00:45:44,320
And what will be the final
outcome of all that when we’re

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00:45:44,320 –> 00:45:50,000
being we’ve looked been God
confessed and got the benefit of

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00:45:50,160 –> 00:45:53,600
identifying the one who
confessed it perfectly right.

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00:45:53,720 –> 00:45:58,520
What will be our position?
Hey, what will we finally say?

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00:45:58,560 –> 00:46:00,760
Well, it tells us here what
we’ll finally say.

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00:46:00,960 –> 00:46:05,880
Verse 24.
Surely shall one say in the

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00:46:05,880 –> 00:46:10,880
Lord, in Yahweh, in the Lord,
shall I have I righteousness and

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00:46:10,880 –> 00:46:16,760
strength in the Lord?
It’s because of my identity.

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00:46:17,360 –> 00:46:20,480
By course I look at God and the
person of Jesus Christ and

641
00:46:20,480 –> 00:46:23,880
identify with that and I become
his brother and walk in the same

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00:46:23,880 –> 00:46:27,800
direction and get the benefits
of the forgiveness and grace of

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00:46:27,800 –> 00:46:30,120
God.
Just because you had you confess

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00:46:30,120 –> 00:46:35,120
your position as and identify
with that perfect confession by

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00:46:35,200 –> 00:46:40,280
Jesus Christ and you bow the
knee before that one, what will

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00:46:40,280 –> 00:46:43,560
be the outcome in Yahweh?
You know, one of those common

647
00:46:43,560 –> 00:46:48,120
expressions we say, we say we’re
in the truth, but in the the 1st

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00:46:48,120 –> 00:46:50,280
century, they didn’t say we’re
in the truth.

649
00:46:50,280 –> 00:46:54,240
They said we’re in the Lord.
They’re referring to this very

650
00:46:54,240 –> 00:46:56,720
phrase in the Lord.
They’re in the family.

651
00:46:56,920 –> 00:47:00,960
They’re in the Lord’s family,
OK, They had a brother of Christ

652
00:47:00,960 –> 00:47:02,680
who?
Baptist in Galatians chapter 3,

653
00:47:02,680 –> 00:47:06,000
etcetera, basic stuff.
Son of God, brother of Jesus

654
00:47:06,000 –> 00:47:07,280
Christ.
They’re in the Lord.

655
00:47:07,280 –> 00:47:09,880
They’re in the Lord’s family
because in the Lord’s family

656
00:47:10,080 –> 00:47:13,160
they’re getting these benefits.
They’re sharing Christ’s

657
00:47:13,160 –> 00:47:14,960
perfection.
They’re sharing his full

658
00:47:14,960 –> 00:47:17,320
confession.
All right, they’re doing the

659
00:47:17,320 –> 00:47:22,800
best they can, but they share
the benefit of his fullness in

660
00:47:22,800 –> 00:47:26,120
the Lord have our righteousness
and strength and to him shall

661
00:47:26,120 –> 00:47:29,360
men come and all that are
incensed against him.

662
00:47:29,800 –> 00:47:32,880
Everyone that disagree with that
method of God, they’re going to

663
00:47:32,880 –> 00:47:37,200
be ashamed.
Verse 25 in the Lord in Yahweh

664
00:47:37,400 –> 00:47:41,840
shall all the true seed of
Israel be pronounced righteous

665
00:47:42,040 –> 00:47:48,240
and shall glory.
Now Romans chapter 3 built on

666
00:47:48,240 –> 00:47:52,320
those verses.
OK, and you’ll have to work on

667
00:47:52,320 –> 00:47:55,760
that yourself to really make it
chill.

668
00:48:00,040 –> 00:48:05,280
Our reading tonight was Matthew
3 and we our go to, we’re

669
00:48:05,280 –> 00:48:11,600
picking up, declaring God’s
righteousness, all right, and

670
00:48:11,600 –> 00:48:16,280
we’re relating it to something
very similar to that which was

671
00:48:16,280 –> 00:48:18,320
Christ’s words to John the
Baptist.

672
00:48:18,320 –> 00:48:23,440
This is John the Baptist, this
is Jordan, this is Jesus Christ

673
00:48:23,440 –> 00:48:26,320
here in yellow.
And these are all those that

674
00:48:26,320 –> 00:48:31,480
follow Jesus Christ.
He’s the captain, all right.

675
00:48:31,480 –> 00:48:34,280
Remember our earlier studies?
He’s the chief leader.

676
00:48:34,280 –> 00:48:38,520
The word captain means chief
leader, as in our dreams tonight

677
00:48:38,520 –> 00:48:43,320
in Acts and in last night it
occurred again, all right.

678
00:48:43,760 –> 00:48:49,360
And it’s whom God has made a
Prince and a savour.

679
00:48:49,360 –> 00:48:51,400
The word Prince is chief
captain.

680
00:48:51,760 –> 00:48:54,920
He’s a captain, a chief leader.
It means he’s a leader.

681
00:48:54,920 –> 00:48:57,280
He’s leading.
The word shepherd means the

682
00:48:57,280 –> 00:49:00,720
leader of the sheep.
All right, the idea of

683
00:49:00,840 –> 00:49:04,680
leaderships in many a king, a
king is the captain of my

684
00:49:04,680 –> 00:49:06,960
people.
A king is the chief leader of

685
00:49:06,960 –> 00:49:08,400
his people.
He’s a leader.

686
00:49:09,040 –> 00:49:12,240
I mean, he had to be an example.
A king supposed to, when he came

687
00:49:12,240 –> 00:49:15,120
to rule in Israel, supposed to
sit down and personally wrote

688
00:49:15,120 –> 00:49:20,400
out the whole Old Testament as
it was then, and he had to write

689
00:49:20,400 –> 00:49:23,360
it out personally in his own
hand, and he had to read it

690
00:49:23,400 –> 00:49:26,680
every day.
In other words, a king had to be

691
00:49:26,680 –> 00:49:30,560
a leader both in moral things
and in battle and in ministry.

692
00:49:30,720 –> 00:49:32,960
He had to be the chief leader,
OK?

693
00:49:33,320 –> 00:49:36,120
And that’s what Jesus Christ
was, a chief leader.

694
00:49:36,480 –> 00:49:40,120
And he was a leader when he got
baptized, OK?

695
00:49:40,120 –> 00:49:43,960
He was a leader.
He was beginning a public

696
00:49:43,960 –> 00:49:49,400
manifestation of God’s method,
something that starts with

697
00:49:49,400 –> 00:49:55,200
baptism, runs the life of
repudiating sin and taking on

698
00:49:55,200 –> 00:50:00,880
board divine values, overcoming
weakness by divine, developing

699
00:50:00,880 –> 00:50:04,960
the divine mind, and finally in
death itself.

700
00:50:05,640 –> 00:50:11,160
Dying.
It is, it’s acceptable with God

701
00:50:11,160 –> 00:50:13,000
that even your death can be
acceptable.

702
00:50:14,600 –> 00:50:18,120
You know, I only hope that when
I die, well, you’ve got to think

703
00:50:18,120 –> 00:50:21,200
of it beforehand because
sometimes you just been able to

704
00:50:21,200 –> 00:50:22,680
do up your shoelace and that’s
it.

705
00:50:22,680 –> 00:50:25,160
But so you’ve got to think of it
on a daily basis.

706
00:50:25,160 –> 00:50:26,920
But I’m getting pretty close to
it, OK.

707
00:50:27,400 –> 00:50:30,760
And I’ve got a truck ticker and
everything and it’s I’m

708
00:50:30,760 –> 00:50:34,760
encumbered not only through my
life, but right now you come to

709
00:50:34,760 –> 00:50:38,360
the end and physical death
itself to say God is righteous.

710
00:50:38,400 –> 00:50:41,240
I should be mortal.
The wage is as sin is death.

711
00:50:41,520 –> 00:50:45,200
I can survive this, but allow me
by because I’ve taken on board

712
00:50:45,200 –> 00:50:49,480
the word which endures forever.
And I’m sharing the benefit of

713
00:50:49,480 –> 00:50:53,880
Christ’s perfect victory.
I’m sharing his victory, OK,

714
00:50:53,880 –> 00:50:57,720
which is really forgiveness.
And it’s just forgiveness put in

715
00:50:57,720 –> 00:51:00,600
all different sort of ways.
It’s conversion, forgiveness

716
00:51:00,920 –> 00:51:03,440
and, and, and I should die with
that faith.

717
00:51:03,600 –> 00:51:08,400
And dying with that faith will
ensure that I’ll be with him in

718
00:51:08,400 –> 00:51:15,040
paradise.
So just let’s look at Matthew 3

719
00:51:15,040 –> 00:51:23,520
and Isaiah 40.
Keep your hand in Isaiah 40 and

720
00:51:23,520 –> 00:51:26,360
turn up Matthew 3.
You’ve got to turn from one to

721
00:51:26,360 –> 00:51:31,640
the other.
It says in in Matthew chapter 3.

722
00:51:31,640 –> 00:51:34,600
In those days, first one came
John the Baptist preaching in

723
00:51:34,600 –> 00:51:39,360
the wilderness of Judea saying
repent for the Kingdom of heaven

724
00:51:39,360 –> 00:51:45,200
is at hand.
And this is he that was spoken

725
00:51:45,200 –> 00:51:51,920
of by the prophet saying quote
Isaiah 40 verses 3 to 8, the

726
00:51:51,920 –> 00:51:55,560
voice of one crying in the
wilderness.

727
00:51:55,960 –> 00:52:01,240
Prepare ye the way of the Lord,
make his paths straight.

728
00:52:04,560 –> 00:52:09,520
Now when you go back to notice
what he’s preached, repent for

729
00:52:09,520 –> 00:52:11,320
the Kingdom of heaven is at
hand.

730
00:52:11,720 –> 00:52:14,840
But when you go back to Isaiah
40, now put your hand in Matthew

731
00:52:14,840 –> 00:52:18,680
3 and go back to Isaiah 40.
It’s told what he should have

732
00:52:18,680 –> 00:52:23,400
preached, OK.
The chapters dealing with

733
00:52:23,400 –> 00:52:26,880
forgiveness, the verse 2,
speaking comfortably to

734
00:52:26,880 –> 00:52:30,640
Jerusalem, crying unto her that
her warfare is accomplished and

735
00:52:30,640 –> 00:52:37,280
her iniquity is pardoned.
Her iniquity is pardoned.

736
00:52:37,280 –> 00:52:41,560
So it’s about the pardon of
iniquity, OK.

737
00:52:41,560 –> 00:52:45,000
And and from Isaiah 40 writes at
the end of Isaiah, that’s what

738
00:52:45,000 –> 00:52:53,160
the subject’s all about, OK.
And it says verse 3 is the verse

739
00:52:53,160 –> 00:52:57,480
that’s quoted in Matthew 3, the
voice of him that crieth in the

740
00:52:57,480 –> 00:53:01,120
wilderness, prepare you the way
of Yahweh makes straight in the

741
00:53:01,120 –> 00:53:04,120
desert, a highway for our God,
our Elohim.

742
00:53:04,880 –> 00:53:08,000
That’s the one that’s quoted.
So it’s John the Baptist.

743
00:53:08,200 –> 00:53:10,880
Verse three is talking about
John the Baptist.

744
00:53:11,400 –> 00:53:14,320
Verse 4 says he’s going to be a
bit of a bulldozer.

745
00:53:14,760 –> 00:53:17,440
Every valley should be exalted,
and every mountain and hill

746
00:53:17,440 –> 00:53:19,320
should be made low.
And the crooked place is

747
00:53:19,320 –> 00:53:21,640
straight and the rough ways is
plain.

748
00:53:22,240 –> 00:53:25,360
In other words, his job was to
build a highway.

749
00:53:26,400 –> 00:53:28,640
You push over the tops of
mountains, you fill in the

750
00:53:28,640 –> 00:53:31,640
valleys, you make it, you
straighten the road up.

751
00:53:32,120 –> 00:53:36,200
He was building a highway.
So he was doing it with a a

752
00:53:36,200 –> 00:53:39,520
gospel.
He’s building a highway with a

753
00:53:39,520 –> 00:53:41,360
gospel.
He’s building a highway in

754
00:53:41,360 –> 00:53:44,040
people’s minds.
Why?

755
00:53:44,040 –> 00:53:49,440
Because verse 5, the glory of
Yahweh shall be revealed and all

756
00:53:49,440 –> 00:53:56,440
flesh shall see it together.
Look under me, behold me.

757
00:53:56,440 –> 00:53:59,400
If you’re going to get
forgiveness, if you’re going to

758
00:53:59,400 –> 00:54:01,440
get iniquity, you’ve got to be
able to see God.

759
00:54:02,520 –> 00:54:05,680
God’s got to be demonstrated in
front of your very eyes.

760
00:54:05,960 –> 00:54:09,200
Well John, you’re going to
prepare a highway because the

761
00:54:09,200 –> 00:54:11,600
glory of Yahweh is going to
appear.

762
00:54:12,680 –> 00:54:15,960
He said, OK, verse 6, what will
I preach?

763
00:54:19,120 –> 00:54:21,280
The voice said cry.
And he said, well, what do I

764
00:54:21,280 –> 00:54:23,800
cry?
He says, this is what you’ll

765
00:54:23,800 –> 00:54:29,400
cry.
All flesh is grass, and all the

766
00:54:29,400 –> 00:54:32,680
goodliness thereof as the flower
of the field.

767
00:54:33,560 –> 00:54:40,000
The grass withereth, the flower
fadeth because the Spirit of

768
00:54:40,040 –> 00:54:45,240
Yahweh bloweth upon it.
Surely the people, the whole lot

769
00:54:45,240 –> 00:54:49,880
of them is grass.
And he repeated, The grass

770
00:54:49,880 –> 00:54:54,080
withereth, the flower fadeth.
But there is something that’s

771
00:54:54,080 –> 00:55:00,360
eternal, and it’s not the grass.
The word of our Elohim, our God

772
00:55:00,520 –> 00:55:06,680
shall stand forever.
And that last phrase was quoted

773
00:55:06,680 –> 00:55:10,800
many places in the New Testament
and says the Word is the gospel,

774
00:55:11,920 –> 00:55:17,920
the gospel of salvation, the
gospel of God, God’s method, OK,

775
00:55:18,040 –> 00:55:22,520
it stands forever.
Anything that comes from God and

776
00:55:22,520 –> 00:55:26,640
it’s divine is eternal.
God.

777
00:55:26,760 –> 00:55:30,960
Christ was able to offer himself
because without spot, because He

778
00:55:30,960 –> 00:55:37,840
had an eternal spirit about him.
He derived this eternal attitude

779
00:55:38,120 –> 00:55:42,200
from the divine mind being
communicated in the divine Word.

780
00:55:42,320 –> 00:55:46,600
But what was he by nature?
Just grass like every one of us.

781
00:55:47,960 –> 00:55:52,000
Just grass like every one of us.
But what got him through to

782
00:55:52,000 –> 00:55:55,080
eternal life?
The Word that stands forever.

783
00:55:57,800 –> 00:56:01,400
How did John preach that He
didn’t actually use those words,

784
00:56:01,400 –> 00:56:04,080
even though they’re used many
times by the apostles?

785
00:56:04,480 –> 00:56:08,880
He says repent ye for the
Kingdom of heaven is at hand.

786
00:56:11,280 –> 00:56:14,360
Repent ye for the Kingdom of
heaven is at hand.

787
00:56:15,960 –> 00:56:21,000
That’s what he preached and he
preached a a baptism whereby

788
00:56:21,000 –> 00:56:25,720
they had they confessed their
sins, verse 6 and verse 5 and

789
00:56:25,720 –> 00:56:29,440
then went out to him Jerusalem
and all Judea and all the region

790
00:56:29,440 –> 00:56:36,040
roundabout and were baptized of
Jordan confessing their sins.

791
00:56:37,920 –> 00:56:42,720
Now eventually Jesus Christ
comes along to be baptized.

792
00:56:42,720 –> 00:56:45,280
OK, they’re confessing their
sins.

793
00:56:45,280 –> 00:56:48,040
Now how do you confess your
sins?

794
00:56:48,960 –> 00:56:51,040
We’ve got to relate this to
Isaiah 40.

795
00:56:51,200 –> 00:56:54,720
Well, to start with, he should
have been preaching all fleshes

796
00:56:54,720 –> 00:56:58,240
grasp and the word induced
revenue can be sure he did that.

797
00:56:58,800 –> 00:57:03,040
It’s tied up in the expression
Repent ye, for the Kingdom of

798
00:57:03,040 –> 00:57:09,240
heaven is at hand.
In other words, your grass turn

799
00:57:09,240 –> 00:57:12,080
around.
The Kingdom of heaven is about

800
00:57:12,080 –> 00:57:14,800
to appear.
The glory of God’s about to

801
00:57:14,800 –> 00:57:16,720
appear.
The royal majesty, the kingdom’s

802
00:57:16,720 –> 00:57:19,520
about to appear.
OK, turn around.

803
00:57:19,520 –> 00:57:23,000
Repent.
All right, Recognise your sin

804
00:57:23,160 –> 00:57:26,200
because you’re about to be able
to behold God.

805
00:57:26,680 –> 00:57:31,400
You’ll be held about to behold
and there’s no, there’s no

806
00:57:31,400 –> 00:57:37,360
salvation unless you behold God,
OK, unless you recognise God and

807
00:57:37,360 –> 00:57:47,880
and and and and so we find when
you pick up this idea of grass

808
00:57:47,920 –> 00:57:50,400
in Isaiah 40, go back to Isaiah
40.

809
00:57:50,960 –> 00:57:54,080
Pick up the end the word grass
at the end of verse 7.

810
00:57:54,080 –> 00:57:59,960
Say run a line to verse 17.
All nations before him are as

811
00:57:59,960 –> 00:58:03,600
nothing, and they are counted to
him less than nothing.

812
00:58:03,880 –> 00:58:07,080
Nothing in vanity.
That’s how grassy man is.

813
00:58:07,120 –> 00:58:10,400
All nations, that’s how grassy
they are.

814
00:58:11,480 –> 00:58:14,560
Verse eight, Run a line from
grass to verse 18.

815
00:58:15,080 –> 00:58:17,440
To whom then will you like an
ale?

816
00:58:18,080 –> 00:58:22,160
To what likeness will you
compare him You’re going to

817
00:58:22,160 –> 00:58:24,880
build an idol you’re going to
you’re going to make your own

818
00:58:24,880 –> 00:58:28,000
concept of what God is.
Forget it.

819
00:58:29,400 –> 00:58:35,880
He’s about to appear at the end
of verse 9 of of Isaiah 40 verse

820
00:58:35,920 –> 00:58:39,320
read verse I know Zion that
bring us good tidings.

821
00:58:39,320 –> 00:58:42,840
The margin says oh that tell us
good tidings to Zion.

822
00:58:43,400 –> 00:58:47,240
They are that tell us good
tidings to Zion and good tidings

823
00:58:47,240 –> 00:58:49,480
the gospel.
They are that tell us the

824
00:58:49,480 –> 00:58:50,800
gospel.
What’s the gospel?

825
00:58:51,000 –> 00:58:54,440
All flesh is grasp.
The Word endures forever.

826
00:58:55,200 –> 00:58:59,400
And you know all truth is bound
up in those two truths.

827
00:58:59,760 –> 00:59:03,160
The whole system of truth that
you and I believe are bound up

828
00:59:03,200 –> 00:59:07,400
in those two truths.
All flesh is grasp.

829
00:59:07,400 –> 00:59:12,760
Man is weak, mortal, sinfully
inclined, and will die.

830
00:59:14,040 –> 00:59:18,560
People don’t believe that, but
the Word of God endures forever.

831
00:59:18,560 –> 00:59:23,400
The only hope of eternity is to
take on board the Word of God.

832
00:59:23,600 –> 00:59:26,200
And you can be related to
resurrection, change and

833
00:59:26,200 –> 00:59:28,240
immortality without taking that
on.

834
00:59:28,240 –> 00:59:30,920
On board.
There’s not, but people don’t

835
00:59:30,920 –> 00:59:32,960
believe that.
Every religion in the world

836
00:59:32,960 –> 00:59:34,280
believes they’re already
immortal.

837
00:59:35,200 –> 00:59:38,800
That’s ever been so.
It’s ever been so.

838
00:59:39,480 –> 00:59:45,400
Men refused to humiliate
themselves to this fundamental

839
00:59:45,400 –> 00:59:50,160
fact that man’s just grasp.
Oh, no, he’s got weakness, but

840
00:59:50,160 –> 00:59:53,480
he’s got a lot of goodness too.
Oh, he’s got a moral spark in

841
00:59:53,480 –> 00:59:54,120
him.
Yep.

842
00:59:54,400 –> 00:59:57,040
And they make man more precious
than he really is.

843
00:59:57,360 –> 01:00:01,480
Look how God’s view, God’s view,
all nations are nothing.

844
01:00:02,240 –> 01:00:05,880
And to whom you’re going to
compare it to an idol.

845
01:00:06,320 –> 01:00:08,880
Can you produce?
Can you produce something that’s

846
01:00:08,880 –> 01:00:10,040
like me?
No, you can’t.

847
01:00:10,040 –> 01:00:15,680
But I can.
Behold your God at the end of

848
01:00:15,680 –> 01:00:18,320
verse 9.
I read verse 9 again.

849
01:00:19,000 –> 01:00:22,400
Oh, thou that bring us the
gospel designed.

850
01:00:22,400 –> 01:00:24,640
Get the app into the high
mountain.

851
01:00:25,680 –> 01:00:30,200
Oh thou that tell us good
tidings to Jerusalem.

852
01:00:32,000 –> 01:00:34,840
Lift up thy voice with strength
lifted up.

853
01:00:34,840 –> 01:00:39,120
Be not afraid, say under the
cities of Judah, and this is

854
01:00:39,120 –> 01:00:43,480
what you’ve got to say under to
the cities of Judah, John,

855
01:00:43,840 –> 01:00:49,480
behold your God.
And that’s exactly what John

856
01:00:49,480 –> 01:00:51,800
did, and he changed the words a
little bit.

857
01:00:52,320 –> 01:00:59,040
The Gospel of John chapter 1, he
was he, he was told that when

858
01:00:59,040 –> 01:01:02,280
Jesus Christ came to be baptized
that he’d seen the Spirit

859
01:01:02,280 –> 01:01:06,400
descend upon him and he would,
he would, that would reveal to

860
01:01:06,400 –> 01:01:08,720
him that that was the Son of
God.

861
01:01:09,480 –> 01:01:13,400
And so when that happened, he
immediately thereafter, whenever

862
01:01:13,400 –> 01:01:15,880
Jesus appeared and on the scene,
what did he say?

863
01:01:16,920 –> 01:01:22,640
Behold the Lamb of God, Behold
your God.

864
01:01:22,960 –> 01:01:26,000
He said it twice in the Gospel
of John chapter 1.

865
01:01:26,200 –> 01:01:29,240
Behold the Lamb of God that
taketh away the sin of the

866
01:01:29,240 –> 01:01:30,920
world.
He’s talking about this.

867
01:01:31,040 –> 01:01:35,160
Behold your God, the taking away
of iniquity, her iniquities

868
01:01:35,160 –> 01:01:39,040
pardon in it.
So here we have the Gospel of

869
01:01:39,040 –> 01:01:43,400
John and Isaiah 40, and it’s
simply the gospel.

870
01:01:44,800 –> 01:01:50,040
The gospel he preached, Christ
lived out perfectly.

871
01:01:50,800 –> 01:01:52,880
John lived it out as best he
could.

872
01:01:52,920 –> 01:01:55,240
Wonderful man, the greatest
prophet ever lived.

873
01:01:55,640 –> 01:02:00,240
He never lived it out perfectly.
Behold, the Lamb of God that

874
01:02:00,240 –> 01:02:04,360
taketh away the sin of the world
would come and would perfectly

875
01:02:04,360 –> 01:02:09,200
manifest the grassiness of man
and the everlasting hour of the

876
01:02:09,200 –> 01:02:12,920
word of God.
And he demonstrated, declared,

877
01:02:12,920 –> 01:02:16,880
it demonstrated.
And hence you have when we turn

878
01:02:16,880 –> 01:02:21,280
back to Matthew chapter 3 time’s
gone.

879
01:02:21,280 –> 01:02:25,480
Hence you have when John when
Christ comes to be baptized

880
01:02:25,840 –> 01:02:29,160
because he gets stuck into the
scribes and Pharisees.

881
01:02:29,560 –> 01:02:31,960
You know, you say you’ve got
Abraham to your father.

882
01:02:32,200 –> 01:02:36,120
You know, earning righteousness.
We’re superior flesh.

883
01:02:36,120 –> 01:02:39,040
They trusted in the flesh.
They trusted in the fact that

884
01:02:39,040 –> 01:02:42,760
our sons of of Abraham.
God’s over these stones to rise

885
01:02:42,760 –> 01:02:44,440
up.
You’re only subject to

886
01:02:44,440 –> 01:02:47,440
judgement.
God’s about to appear.

887
01:02:48,000 –> 01:02:49,840
All right.
The royal majesty, the Kingdom,

888
01:02:49,840 –> 01:02:52,000
the royal majesty, the kingdom’s
about to appear.

889
01:02:52,160 –> 01:02:54,280
He’s what he’s going to do, you
blokes.

890
01:02:54,520 –> 01:02:57,080
He’s going to use an axe and cut
you down because you’re not

891
01:02:57,080 –> 01:03:02,760
producing any fruit.
And, and and he’s going to

892
01:03:02,760 –> 01:03:05,000
baptize with the Holy Spirit,
verse 11.

893
01:03:05,720 –> 01:03:08,600
And he’s going to separate the
wheat from the the chaff.

894
01:03:08,600 –> 01:03:14,760
And you blokes of the chaff,
you’re dried up grass, all

895
01:03:14,760 –> 01:03:17,880
right.
Yeah, That’s all you are now

896
01:03:17,880 –> 01:03:20,040
they’ve got to be burnt, and
you’ll be burnt.

897
01:03:21,800 –> 01:03:25,640
Verse 13 Then cometh Jesus from
Galilee to Jordan unto John, to

898
01:03:25,640 –> 01:03:29,000
be baptized with him.
But John forbade him, saying,

899
01:03:29,600 –> 01:03:32,320
I’ve need to be baptized to
thee, and cometh out of me.

900
01:03:32,320 –> 01:03:38,880
And Jesus answered and said unto
him, Look, and you’ve got to

901
01:03:38,880 –> 01:03:43,360
appreciate when people came to
be baptized by John, they go out

902
01:03:43,360 –> 01:03:47,880
there confessing their sin.
If you’re 50 years old and

903
01:03:47,880 –> 01:03:50,880
you’re confessing your sins,
you’d be standing in the water

904
01:03:50,880 –> 01:03:52,840
for about two days.
You wouldn’t remember them

905
01:03:52,840 –> 01:03:54,680
anyway.
And half of them, these sins you

906
01:03:54,680 –> 01:03:57,640
wouldn’t even know.
So, so you didn’t actually

907
01:03:57,640 –> 01:04:01,160
confess each sin you’d ever
done, maybe some major besetting

908
01:04:01,160 –> 01:04:04,520
sin, but what would you do?
What would you say?

909
01:04:06,120 –> 01:04:11,160
All flesh is grass.
And the goodness that I was the

910
01:04:11,160 –> 01:04:14,480
flower of the field.
I’m right immortal.

911
01:04:15,200 –> 01:04:20,000
I’m a Sinner, I’m rightly
related to death by this death.

912
01:04:20,720 –> 01:04:25,320
I know the answer lies in
turning to God’s word and I know

913
01:04:25,320 –> 01:04:27,440
I’ve got to change the direction
of life.

914
01:04:28,200 –> 01:04:31,600
That was confessing his sins for
the remission of sin.

915
01:04:32,160 –> 01:04:38,560
That’s what it was Jesus Christ
and he walks down and and the

916
01:04:38,600 –> 01:04:43,520
brother can’t suggest that he
would say, well, I’ve lived in

917
01:04:43,520 –> 01:04:47,080
all good conscience before God
or something like this until

918
01:04:47,080 –> 01:04:50,880
this day.
However, I want you to baptize

919
01:04:50,880 –> 01:04:56,120
with John probably knew his his
cousin anyway and he said, look,

920
01:04:56,880 –> 01:05:00,760
no, I would I should be baptized
by you.

921
01:05:01,400 –> 01:05:06,200
I shouldn’t be baptized you.
He says no John, think about it

922
01:05:06,200 –> 01:05:09,320
John, think about it.
Suffer it to be so now.

923
01:05:10,160 –> 01:05:15,760
Well, thus it becometh us, you
and everyone that’s following

924
01:05:15,760 –> 01:05:21,320
me, all the believers that we’re
going to say thus have become of

925
01:05:21,400 –> 01:05:28,360
us to fulfill means to fill up
all righteousness.

926
01:05:28,480 –> 01:05:30,600
We’ve got to do everything
that’s right.

927
01:05:31,080 –> 01:05:35,720
I’m commencing a public ministry
and you know I am all right.

928
01:05:35,760 –> 01:05:37,240
You know, that’s what it’s
about.

929
01:05:37,240 –> 01:05:39,160
You already were suspecting
here.

930
01:05:39,520 –> 01:05:43,440
I suspected he was the Messiah
and he’s got to fulfil.

931
01:05:43,440 –> 01:05:46,640
He’s got to walk the way that
others have got to follow.

932
01:05:46,960 –> 01:05:49,240
He has to be the perfect
example.

933
01:05:49,800 –> 01:05:53,600
He’s the only one that could
make a full confession at

934
01:05:53,600 –> 01:05:58,760
baptism.
He’s the only one that could

935
01:05:58,760 –> 01:06:03,280
confess the sin of the human
rights, will confess all of

936
01:06:03,280 –> 01:06:06,400
those who are going to be
avengedly saved, because all

937
01:06:06,400 –> 01:06:10,920
those who are going to be saved,
their baptism won’t be able to

938
01:06:10,920 –> 01:06:12,800
recognise every sin.
They haven’t learnt them all

939
01:06:12,800 –> 01:06:15,040
yet, but they do it in
principle.

940
01:06:15,640 –> 01:06:20,240
So He comes along.
Thus it becometh us to fulfil

941
01:06:20,240 –> 01:06:24,920
all righteousness, right?
God’s got a righteous method,

942
01:06:25,920 –> 01:06:30,360
and the method commences when
you bow the knee and acknowledge

943
01:06:30,360 –> 01:06:35,240
a position.
Then you from there on live out

944
01:06:35,240 –> 01:06:42,400
that baptised life every day,
and you die in that baptized

945
01:06:42,400 –> 01:06:45,120
way.
And I can prove from the Bible

946
01:06:45,120 –> 01:06:49,040
in many places that every day is
a day of baptism.

947
01:06:49,360 –> 01:06:53,440
All right, Paul talks in Second
Corinthians chapter 4 about

948
01:06:53,440 –> 01:06:57,400
dying and living right all the
time, right?

949
01:06:57,400 –> 01:07:02,360
He talks about in in 1st
Corinthians 15 about being

950
01:07:02,360 –> 01:07:04,800
baptized for the dead, and he
goes on to explain what it

951
01:07:04,800 –> 01:07:07,280
means.
It means suffering adversity of

952
01:07:07,600 –> 01:07:10,960
the beasts of Ephesus for the
sake of preaching the truth.

953
01:07:11,480 –> 01:07:14,640
He constantly was living the
baptized life.

954
01:07:15,080 –> 01:07:18,640
Every day is a day of baptism.
Every day is a commitment.

955
01:07:18,640 –> 01:07:21,080
Every time you wake up, it’s a
commitment.

956
01:07:21,080 –> 01:07:25,800
I am flesh, I am grass
naturally, and every day it’s a

957
01:07:25,800 –> 01:07:28,640
daily thing.
Make up your cross.

958
01:07:28,640 –> 01:07:38,320
What daily and follow me.
OK, so it was necessary to

959
01:07:39,560 –> 01:07:45,400
complete a example of the
righteous way that he submit to

960
01:07:45,400 –> 01:07:48,720
baptism.
He just a confession of the

961
01:07:48,720 –> 01:07:51,320
facts.
Later on he died and

962
01:07:51,320 –> 01:07:56,800
demonstrated the facts.
All right, So what he did here

963
01:07:57,000 –> 01:08:02,760
by word and by ritual, He did.
In fact, later as he was

964
01:08:02,760 –> 01:08:09,600
crucified on the tree, you’re
going to have a late night.

965
01:08:14,200 –> 01:08:20,080
So sacrifice is virtue of
confession.

966
01:08:20,439 –> 01:08:24,560
Christ is demonstrating and in
the demonstration He’s

967
01:08:24,560 –> 01:08:27,319
confessing the facts.
All flesh is grasp.

968
01:08:27,560 –> 01:08:30,399
The word endures forever.
He’s doing it perfectly.

969
01:08:30,880 –> 01:08:35,359
You’ve got to take up your cross
daily, all right?

970
01:08:35,720 –> 01:08:39,920
It says so in Luke 923.
You’ve got to take it up daily.

971
01:08:39,920 –> 01:08:43,000
Deny yourself, take up your
cross and follow me.

972
01:08:43,640 –> 01:08:47,359
OK, so we’re going to follow the
same direction but recognise

973
01:08:47,359 –> 01:08:50,000
their limitations.
Is He the only one that’s doing

974
01:08:50,000 –> 01:08:52,560
it perfect?
And while ever you identify with

975
01:08:52,560 –> 01:08:54,840
him, you get the benefit of that
perfection.

976
01:08:55,800 –> 01:08:59,680
All right.
And we’ve looked at Isaiah 45.

977
01:09:00,200 –> 01:09:04,640
So when he walked away and it
was confronted with temptation

978
01:09:04,640 –> 01:09:09,560
and death, his actual death and
victory over sin built a bridge,

979
01:09:10,120 –> 01:09:13,479
a bridge which he went over
first and which we will follow

980
01:09:13,479 –> 01:09:15,640
at resurrection.
We’ll go over this bridge to

981
01:09:15,640 –> 01:09:19,000
judgement, survive judgement,
enter into immortality.

982
01:09:20,120 –> 01:09:23,880
It talks about Christ’s been
giving a good confession before

983
01:09:23,880 –> 01:09:26,120
Pontius, in the days of Pontius
Pilate.

984
01:09:26,720 –> 01:09:29,319
You know you’re a king then.
Yeah.

985
01:09:29,319 –> 01:09:33,600
For this end was I born that I
might be a witness to the truth?

986
01:09:34,399 –> 01:09:37,279
And that’s what I’ve been doing.
That’s what I’m doing now.

987
01:09:37,279 –> 01:09:40,000
That’s what I’m about to do.
And Pilot Scratch, he hadn’t

988
01:09:40,000 –> 01:09:42,160
said what is truth.
He didn’t know what he was

989
01:09:42,160 –> 01:09:45,840
talking about.
And here he was testifying the

990
01:09:45,840 –> 01:09:47,359
truth.
What is truth?

991
01:09:47,880 –> 01:09:51,760
All flesh is grass.
The word endures forever.

992
01:09:51,920 –> 01:09:57,200
OK, simple gospels that we
preach continually.

993
01:10:03,000 –> 01:10:06,520
What’s that?
Sorry, that sets times up.

994
01:10:07,320 –> 01:10:11,200
So from the first Adam we
receive a natural body.

995
01:10:11,960 –> 01:10:16,800
God operated through Mary and he
produced a second atom which

996
01:10:16,960 –> 01:10:21,120
coming from this state became a
life giving spirit.

997
01:10:21,800 –> 01:10:24,400
He became this one gives us a
natural body.

998
01:10:24,840 –> 01:10:28,200
Jesus Christ obtained to
immortality and he was given the

999
01:10:28,200 –> 01:10:32,080
power to share it, to actually
immortalise other people.

1000
01:10:32,480 –> 01:10:36,600
OK, and and so we have these two
atoms.

1001
01:10:36,600 –> 01:10:38,200
We haven’t got time to go into
that.

1002
01:10:39,200 –> 01:10:42,680
And in Romans chapter 6 it talks
about moral turning.

1003
01:10:43,080 –> 01:10:46,960
Here we were living the selfish
life off lifted grass and we

1004
01:10:46,960 –> 01:10:50,960
were loving it, right?
Oh, but we change our direction.

1005
01:10:50,960 –> 01:10:53,560
That’s what repentance and
conversion means.

1006
01:10:53,560 –> 01:10:57,920
Change your direction of life
and you submit the baptism.

1007
01:10:57,920 –> 01:11:01,040
When you go under, you identify
with Christ crucified.

1008
01:11:01,360 –> 01:11:04,040
When you come out of the water,
you identify with the

1009
01:11:04,040 –> 01:11:06,960
resurrection of Christ.
That shows another significance

1010
01:11:06,960 –> 01:11:10,240
of Christ from the tree and his
resurrection.

1011
01:11:10,880 –> 01:11:15,400
It shows it represents this
physical thing, actually

1012
01:11:15,400 –> 01:11:18,800
represents the moral change
that’s got to govern the person.

1013
01:11:19,600 –> 01:11:23,120
There’s many things represented
in the death of Christ, and

1014
01:11:23,120 –> 01:11:27,480
instead of relying on motivating
forces like the Jews who relied

1015
01:11:27,480 –> 01:11:32,520
on the pride of life to earn
salvation, we rely on these very

1016
01:11:32,520 –> 01:11:35,040
things which say dependence upon
God.

1017
01:11:35,360 –> 01:11:39,800
Faith is trusting God, believing
the truth of God, believing what

1018
01:11:39,800 –> 01:11:42,240
God said.
Adam and Eve didn’t believe what

1019
01:11:42,240 –> 01:11:45,520
God said.
God has said to us, we grasp,

1020
01:11:45,520 –> 01:11:49,040
but the word endures forever
this but believe it make that a

1021
01:11:49,040 –> 01:11:52,600
motivating force.
It provides hope, it provides

1022
01:11:52,600 –> 01:11:54,360
love.
When you consider this method,

1023
01:11:54,680 –> 01:11:57,600
it stimulates a sense of
gratitude that they’re

1024
01:11:57,600 –> 01:12:02,240
completely different motivating
forces than self determination.

1025
01:12:02,240 –> 01:12:06,120
And I’m great and I can do this.
And I must say to Abraham and so

1026
01:12:06,120 –> 01:12:11,040
on, OK, their motivations that
are begotten by the gospel of

1027
01:12:11,040 –> 01:12:18,080
truth brings us to the last
thing which races us forward to.

1028
01:12:18,080 –> 01:12:21,160
Romans 7 and 8 sort of
summarizes everything.

1029
01:12:22,480 –> 01:12:26,640
OK, Now the boys at the school
of prophets reckon for them it

1030
01:12:26,640 –> 01:12:28,320
said everything.
I didn’t think it was that big

1031
01:12:28,320 –> 01:12:30,280
time for them.
It said everything.

1032
01:12:31,040 –> 01:12:35,280
Romans 7 talks about the law of
sin, talks about this duality.

1033
01:12:35,840 –> 01:12:38,440
It’s all figures of speech and
personification.

1034
01:12:38,960 –> 01:12:43,440
He divides himself up into two.
He talks about the law of sin

1035
01:12:43,440 –> 01:12:46,800
and his members.
It’s called the emotions of

1036
01:12:46,800 –> 01:12:49,080
sins.
It’s called sin.

1037
01:12:49,480 –> 01:12:53,280
It’s called a law of sin.
It’s called sin in the flesh.

1038
01:12:53,680 –> 01:13:00,520
That’s but then he sees that as
the natural functions, they’re

1039
01:13:00,520 –> 01:13:03,800
simply the lust, the bless the
eye and the pride of life who

1040
01:13:03,800 –> 01:13:05,760
don’t like the restriction of
law.

1041
01:13:06,000 –> 01:13:08,760
We need them to live.
But that doesn’t like the

1042
01:13:08,760 –> 01:13:12,480
restriction of law.
It’s selfish and it wants and

1043
01:13:12,480 –> 01:13:15,720
it’s self indulgence.
And he found his body always

1044
01:13:15,720 –> 01:13:20,160
geared for that.
You know he might have you might

1045
01:13:20,160 –> 01:13:23,120
have a job to doing the truth,
but you’re that jolly hungry.

1046
01:13:23,440 –> 01:13:25,840
It’s and it’s no good saying
I’ve got a job to doing the

1047
01:13:25,840 –> 01:13:27,800
truth doesn’t stop you being
hungry.

1048
01:13:28,000 –> 01:13:31,360
You might ignore it, but the
flesh keeps saying have

1049
01:13:31,360 –> 01:13:34,200
something to eat, mate.
You know, especially 40 days in

1050
01:13:34,200 –> 01:13:37,080
the wilderness and you’re
hungry, You know have something

1051
01:13:37,080 –> 01:13:40,800
the flesh.
You know it was no good saying

1052
01:13:41,040 –> 01:13:43,640
man does not live by bread
alone, but by every word that

1053
01:13:43,640 –> 01:13:46,320
could proceeded out of the mouth
of the Lord.

1054
01:13:46,320 –> 01:13:48,040
Shall man live?
I mean it did.

1055
01:13:48,440 –> 01:13:51,120
It was the whole answer, but
didn’t stop him being hungry.

1056
01:13:51,280 –> 01:13:55,520
OK, it persists.
So he found this persistent law

1057
01:13:55,600 –> 01:13:57,760
and his nature trying to be
selfish.

1058
01:13:58,080 –> 01:14:01,280
On that hand, he’d learnt God’s
ways 1st through the law of

1059
01:14:01,280 –> 01:14:02,640
Moses.
And even there there was a

1060
01:14:02,640 –> 01:14:04,760
conflict in which he found he
felt.

1061
01:14:04,960 –> 01:14:08,040
But when he got the full
knowledge of the Gospel, when he

1062
01:14:08,040 –> 01:14:12,760
was the lights in God’s law, he
said, but he found this law that

1063
01:14:12,760 –> 01:14:18,520
they were constantly at war.
The the mind, the grass is

1064
01:14:18,520 –> 01:14:22,440
fighting the word of the law.
There’s a constant battle.

1065
01:14:23,920 –> 01:14:27,040
It’s war.
Wars made-up of battles.

1066
01:14:27,840 –> 01:14:30,200
Now, some battles go for
hundreds of years.

1067
01:14:30,200 –> 01:14:33,040
Wars, sorry, wars go for
hundreds of years.

1068
01:14:33,480 –> 01:14:37,320
A set, a set of the Romans in
the decline and fall of the

1069
01:14:37,320 –> 01:14:45,000
Roman Empire, often vanquished
in battle, but always victorious

1070
01:14:45,080 –> 01:14:47,960
in war.
Which means they lost a few

1071
01:14:47,960 –> 01:14:51,440
battles, but they went back and
had a go, and they eventually

1072
01:14:51,440 –> 01:14:54,480
won the war.
OK, and that’s what our life’s

1073
01:14:54,480 –> 01:14:56,520
all about.
It’s a moral battle.

1074
01:14:56,560 –> 01:15:00,720
Who with our self and our world.
It’s a moral battle.

1075
01:15:01,040 –> 01:15:03,720
It’s a daily thing.
We’re going to use the daily

1076
01:15:03,720 –> 01:15:07,000
method.
We’re going to use the intake of

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01:15:07,000 –> 01:15:11,560
the divine mind, the light in
God’s law, learn the delight in

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it.
And while ever we do that and

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identify with the work of the
perfect example, there is a

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basis for God to forgive and
that forgiveness and that

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direction of life is victorious
over that.

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Simple, it works, but it’s got
to be done on a daily basis.

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That means resist the influence
of selfishness that the world

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imposes upon you.
Daily resistant, daily take on

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board the word of God.
Daily pray daily trust, not

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every second day, daily
continually war those, fight

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those battles.
Some you’ll lose, but thus

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forgiveness.
And because there’s forgiveness,

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there’s victory.
There’s victory in Christ Jesus.

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Let me finish with one verse.
I won’t explain it, I’ll just

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read it.
Let’s you know it backwards.

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First Corinthians 15 See our
last verse.

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I know it’s the final victory of
the Word, which endure forever

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over grass.
Verse 50 Now this I say,

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brethren, that flesh and blood
grass cannot inherit the Kingdom

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of God.
Neither does corruption inherit

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incorruption.
Behold, I show you a mystery.

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We shall not all sleep, but we
shall all be changed.

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We’ve been talking about moral
victory, and the moral is the

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heartbeat.
And it will ensure this physical

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victory in a moment, in the
twinkling of an eye at the past

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Trump.
Well, the trumpets shall sound,

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and the dead should be raised
incorruptible.

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And we shall be changed.
For this corruptible must put on

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incorruption, and this mortal
shall be brought put on

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immortality.
Now note this.

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So when and if you’ve got a
pencil circle, when so when this

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corruptible shall have put on in
corruption, and when this mortal

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shall have put on immortality,
then and circle then then shall

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be brought to pass the saying
that is written death

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grassiness, death is swallowed
up in victory.

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A death.
Where is thy sting, O grave,

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where is thy victory?
The sting of death is sin, but

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the and the strength of sin is
law earning.

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You know you try earning, but
thanks be to God, which it’s not

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earning.
He gives us the victory because

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Christ gained the victory let’s
us share it giveth us the

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victory through our Lord Jesus
Christ.

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That’s what that’s all about
final words.

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Therefore, my beloved brethren,
be steadfast, unmovable, always

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abounding in the work of the
Lord, for as much as you know

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that your labour is not in vain
in the Lord.

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