Ben Brinkerhoff – Class 2: Set Thy Mind on the Things of the Spirit (Romans 7)

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All right.
Well, welcome everyone, to the

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second session titled Understand
Your Flesh, the desires and

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passions that dwell inside you
To open.

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We’ll start by seeing him. 135
Breathe through the heats of our

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desire by coolness and La Bana.
Let sense be done.

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Let flesh retire, speak through
the earthquake, wind and fire.

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I still support Voice of Calm.
And if you remain standing after

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that, I’ll ask Brother John O.
McGrath to open with the widow.

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Pray this way to introduce the
talk.

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I’ll just ask brother Jared to
come up and read from Romans.

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Chip 7.
Thanks Joe.

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Ben, I should have come forward.
All right.

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Good morning.
So much better.

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All right.
Okay.

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So now we begin in earnest.
We’ve built up the argument the

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1st 5 chapters, kind of skipped
over chapter 6 for the moment,

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and now we’re ready to really
begin and dig into Chapter 7.

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Huh.
How’s that sound?

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But I think as as annoying as
this is, I’m going to have to

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construct for you an
understanding of the Atonement,

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because I really can’t get into
Chapter 7 until you understand

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the Atonement.
Now Paul begins.

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Really as we read.
And as we studied.

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And looked at in the last.
Class in the first. 3 chapters

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of Romans saying that Jews and
Gentiles.

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And you and me.
We’ve all failed.

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To be free from sin.
Right, I’m.

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Going to try to use my slides
this time.

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There you go.
No one is just in God’s sight

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through personal righteousness.
Now who’s taking notes?

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So I only put things on a screen
that are really important, so

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you might want to.
Those things are good to copy

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down, but I also have my notes.
If anyone wants to look at them

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after I’m happy for you to have
them.

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You can copy them whatever you
want to do.

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So he begins by saying that
everyone has sinned.

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But he explains.
God is actually willing.

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God is willing to count faith as
righteousness.

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That’s a big deal, right?
Just pause for a moment there.

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You’re all sinners, right?
But God is.

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Still willing to say that you’re
righteous by faith, if that

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faith.
Is genuine and it’s focused on

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God’s means for salvation.
That means that means for

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salvation is finally explained
in chapter 5, right?

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Outside of the introduction,
Jesus is not mentioned in the

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1st 4 chapters of of Romans, but
in finally in chapter five we we

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find out that that faith must be
in Jesus.

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Christ.
So the question then becomes, I

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guess this is the.
Question of the.

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Atonement How can Jesus save
you?

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Who here by show of hands feels
very confident.

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And being able to address this
question.

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You guys remember back to your.
Baptismal interviews, right?

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And you get to the questions on
the atonement.

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You just sort of keep on just
answering God and Jesus as your

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answers and the and the
moderators kind of pushes you

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through it, you know?
At least that’s how many

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baptismal interviews I’ve been
on sit.

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They sit through, you know, and
you keep on saying Jesus and

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eventually that’s the right
answer.

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Right.
How can Jesus save you, Jesus?

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You know.
So we’re going to, we’re going

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to, we’re just going to go over
this.

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Very.
Simply.

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But I really want you to if you
don’t feel comfortable with

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being able to.
Articulate the principles of the

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atonement.
Then pay attention because this

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will help you, I think.
Okay.

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How can Jesus save you?
Point number one is he did not

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sin, right?
Without that he would not be

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able to save you.
I think that’s the part we all

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kind of feel very.
Comfortable with, but there’s a

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second.
Aspect.

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Of this.
That I I I’ve.

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Actually not heard very well
articulated amongst our young

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people in which I didn’t really
come to a good understanding of

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until recently.
And there’s a second element

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that that that Jesus can save.
Us.

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And that’s because on the cross
he.

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Destroyed his body, and his body
was the thing inside of him that

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rebelled against doing God’s
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That’s a really big concept.
Jesus chose to die.

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And we’re going to get into this
concept a little bit more later,

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but that one’s, that one’s
absolutely essential.

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It’s not just that he didn’t
sin.

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They chose to put to death the
very thing inside of him that

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didn’t want to do God’s will.
And you have it inside of you.

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You have that rebellion inside
of you.

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The thing that that in your
mind, that carnal mind, whatever

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you want to call it, doesn’t
want to do God’s will.

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And Jesus put it to death.
OK.

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So the combination of those two
things is actually that God’s

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righteousness is declared.
It’s in those two things

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combined that.
God’s righteousness is declared,

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so he rules over.
Death, OK, we’re going to get

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into that a little bit more in a
little bit, but that’s the

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equation.
I could, if you could narrow it

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down to an equation, that would
be your equation.

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It’s all about God’s
righteousness.

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So when God’s righteousness was
demonstrated, God was willing to

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save those who have sinned.
Who here has sinned?

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Alyssa?
You’re raising your hand.

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We all we’ve all sinned.
We’ve all sinned so, but God is

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willing actually to save those
who have sinned but on a

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condition.
And the condition is that you

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consider God to be righteous the
same way Jesus did, and you

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actually demonstrate that God is
right just the same way Jesus

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did.
Now how?

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Do we declare that God is
righteous?

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How do we declare that God is
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The same way that Jesus did one
We have faith.

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Wait a minute.
That’s the wrong way.

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Okay, we we declare God
righteous the same way Jesus

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did.
Why first of all?

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Our old nature, our nature, Our
old man is crucified with him.

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Notice the word with right.
Obviously, I’ve emphasized it on

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the screen.
It’s kind of an important word

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here.
You’ll kind of see it come up

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again.
Secondly, we’re buried with him.

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We’re dead with Christ.
We choose to live.

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With him guys going to get the
the theme here, what’s the

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common word in all those four
things I just brought up with?

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What mean no?
You can say it.

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It’s okay.
Only this do you guys can’t do

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audience participation in New
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Is that the American thing?
Now what’s the common word that

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within all four of those things
that is put on the screen?

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Young people say it one 2-3 with
him right now why is that so

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important?
Why is this idea of being with

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Christ?
Well, obviously you’re you have

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to do what Christ.
Did you get it?

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Now there’s these two ideas, the
Atonement.

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One of them is a Christ did it
for you.

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The other is Christ shows you
how.

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You get these two ideas.
They’re very different.

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What is that?
Christ did everything for you.

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The other is that he shows you
how.

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One is called substitution, the
other called is representation.

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Now it’s very important because
if Christ did everything for

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you, then why do you have to do
it?

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But actually what scriptures
saying to us is that we have to

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participate in this idea of
Christ’s death and resurrection.

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So in baptism, then what are we
doing in baptism?

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In baptism, what we’re doing is
in symbol.

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We’re putting our bodies in the
grave.

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Now why would we do that?
You think about baptism, it’s

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you are in symbol.
Dying.

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When you go under those wires of
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That is a symbolic death.
Now why would you choose to die?

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You choose to die because you
are confessing.

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That that’s what your sin
deserves, and you’re choosing to

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say publicly that God and not
you.

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Is righteous.
That’s what baptism is.

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And you’re saying to everyone,
I’m willing to go underneath

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these waters because God is
right, and you’re declaring that

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he’s right because you’re saying
my sin and my sinfulness deserve

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to die and by showing.
That Christ represents.

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Us.
And we’re doing what Christ did

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and acting out, in a sense, what
Christ did, and declaring,

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primarily and first and foremost
perhaps, that God is just, that

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God is right God’s.
Willing for us to share in.

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Jesus resurrection as well.
And that, what do you think?

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What I mean, if it going under
the water is a symbolic death,

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then what is coming out of the
water, you think?

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Thank you, Sharon.
It’s very good participation.

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Yes.
It’s a symbolic resurrection

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now, aren’t you?
Are we glad that our?

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Baptismal brothers didn’t decide
to stand straight to the

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Kingdom.
You know I.

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Was going to keep you down
there, you know?

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You got a one way ticket.
No you you.

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You.
You got to come out of the

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waters, and that coming out of
the waters is a symbolic

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resurrection.
Do you see the word

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participating in the death and
the resurrection of Christ

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through baptism?
And if we’re participating the

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death and resurrection of
Christ, then once you put

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forward the idea as being a
pretty fundamental 1.

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That when you go through that
participation of the death and

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resurrection of Christ, that you
must also be declaring to God

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very similar things as Jesus
declared to God in his death and

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resurrection.
And what did Jesus declare to

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God in his death and
resurrection?

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He’s declaring that God was
right, that God is right.

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We’re going to get to that in a
little bit.

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That’s a very, very, very
important thing.

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We’ll get to that a little bit
more later.

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Well, some were saying.
Some are saying that.

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A life in Christ.
Is just a free license to sin.

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Why not?
Especially if the resolves

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grace, and grace is a good
thing.

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In other words, we ought to
deliberately choose a.

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Profane and sinful lifestyle.
Deliberately choose it.

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Because we get more forgiveness
that way.

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Now we think that that’s a
ridiculous argument, but I don’t

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think it’s very ridiculous
because we as baptized young

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people and as elders, we
sometimes deliberately choose a

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profane and simple lifestyle.
Why is that?

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That That’s an argument which
which has a lot of bearing

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today.
And so Paul really speaks to

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that, and Paul says that
actually.

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This would be impossible.
It would be totally.

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Inconsistent with a life in
Christ.

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See, the reason that we’re
baptized is we in symbol put to

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death our sinful.
Nature.

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The same way Jesus did.
We put it to death and in the.

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Process of putting to death.
Our sinful nature in symbol.

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We declare God as righteous Now
to sin deliberately is to

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declare to everyone.
That nature didn’t really,

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symbolically die.
In fact, the ceremony was kind

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of like a sham.
We didn’t really symbolically

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put our nature to death.
We would we didn’t symbolically

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participate in the death of
Christ in the cross because of

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sitting sitting.
Deliberately, and Paul says no,

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that couldn’t be.
Paul says that in Christ you’re

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resurrected to a new life, free
from sin.

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We should come out of baptism to
a new life and that in this new

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life.
We try to be like Christ as he

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now is now.
How is Christ now?

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Christ is in heaven, fulfilling
the perfect will of God.

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That is Christ’s resurrected
life.

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When Christ came out of the
waters of baptism, you tell me

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that he desires sin any longer.
No.

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Did he desire to do evil any
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Did he have rebellion in his
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And so we come out of those
waters of baptism.

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That is the life that we’re
taking on.

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Now, we don’t do it perfectly.
I understand it’s a symbol, and

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you understand that’s a symbol.
But that is the symbol.

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That is the life that we’re
taking on.

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And Paul says, if you take on
that life, how could you choose

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to sin deliberately?
It would be completely

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consistent with that choice.
This new life in Christ is based

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on the premise, based on the
premise that the rebellious,

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sinful nature with all this
willfulness.

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Was put to death.
That’s the premise this life is

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based on after baptism, and this
implies young people.

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We offer a full surrender of
self to the will of God.

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And that is more.
Encompassing than a surrender to

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the rule of law.
It’s a surrender of self.

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So it’s Romans 7 in a nutshell.
Paul shows in Romans 7 that a

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life lived under the law made
sin, if not deliberate,

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inevitable.
Because I want to make sure that

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makes sense for a moment.
Paul shows that a life lived

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under the law makes sin, if not
deliberate, inevitable.

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Why would you tell me?
If God gave us a series.

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Of commands and to show us.
Clearly what right and wrong was

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as God himself declared that
right and wrong.

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How?
Long would it take for everyone

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in this room eventually to break
one of those laws?

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Maybe a little.
While but eventually we’d all do

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it, wouldn’t we?
And so the law made sin

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inevitable.
Because the law showed us what

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right and wrong really was.
And by knowing right and wrong

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really was, it showed us.
Without any doubt at all that we

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were on the wrong side, at least
occasionally.

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So the question that had.
To be asked then.

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Is this one if the?
Law made sin inevitable.

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Is the law.
To be blamed?

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Or are we to be blamed?
That’s the question.

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That’s the question of Chapter
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This is chapter seven in a
nutshell.

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The big nutshell.
Still a nutshell.

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If the law made sin inevitable,
then is the law to be blamed or

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we to be blamed?
It’d be really nice to blame

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someone, by the way.
Wouldn’t that be great?

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Won’t be great to blame someone
for sin, but be fantastic, you

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know?
It’s his fault.

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It’s her fault.
It’s my wife’s fault, my kids

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fault.
It’s.

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Uncle Viv’s fault?
I don’t know.

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It’s someone’s fault, right?
But the law?

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Actually made it personal.
You can’t blame, You can’t

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blame.
And so to demonstrate the point

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politics of the question then
how do I how does Paul going to

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demonstrate that it’s it’s us
and not the law?

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That it’s at fault.
The law.

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Remember the law makes sin
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If God says this is what I
expect of you, it almost is

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inevitable that you break it and
it shows you to be a Sinner.

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So, so.
Well, if the law makes sin

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inevitable, Paul, maybe.
Maybe it’s the law’s.

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Fault.
Because it’s inevitable that I’m

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going to sin.
Maybe the problem was the law.

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I should never have gotten that
law.

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Maybe I was set up to fail by
this law.

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You can see the questions start
to arise.

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And so how does Paul then begin
to prove that it’s actually our

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fault and not the laws?
So to demonstrate the point,

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Paul takes up the question and
the question is this.

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What then was the purpose of the
law?

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We partially address this
question in our last class, That

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class I hope made clear.
That the purpose of the law was

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to show us our sin.
And I did a horrible job of

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showing my slides last class.
But I had this fantastic slide

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of this dark room with a
flashlight and the dark room was

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the law and the flashlight was
the law and it was shining sin.

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And that’s what the.
Law was really supposed to.

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Do is supposed to show us what
sin was and show us that we’re

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sinful, you know?
But what happens when we’re

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kids?
I have babies.

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Who here has had a baby?
Right.

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There’s some of us.
So we all kind of get this, I

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think a little.
Bit what is life like for

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babies?
Well, I’d say this is a good

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summary.
They want, plus they take.

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Plus, they’re happy equals.
They’re happy.

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Now that happiness is is by the
way, very momentary.

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But for the moment at least.
It is sheer.

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Happiness, especially if someone
else was having it first.

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But this is what it’s like to be
a kid.

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You don’t think about it.
You want something, you take it.

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There’s no conflict.
This is perfectly integrated.

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There’s a lot of integrity in
the statement.

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I want it, I take it.
I’m happy.

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But then what happens when God
says I don’t want you to take

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it, and you and and not only
that, but you become old enough

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where you understand why maybe
God doesn’t want you to take it.

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What happens then?
Well, you want it still.

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I mean, just like let’s just a
little baby wanted something.

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You still want it that hasn’t
changed, but now you have God’s

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law When God.
Says to you, you.

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Shouldn’t take it.
Now there’s conflict.

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Do you see?
Before there’s no conflict.

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For the child.
For the child.

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There’s no.
The only con for the child is

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me.
I can’t do this in this country,

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but I do.
You smack the hand, you know,

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and the conflict is not wanting
to spank.

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But there’s no conflict in
wanting what they want and

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wanting to take it.
But now for the adult, they

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understand God’s law, and so now
or before, there’s no conflict.

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For the child, now there’s this
conflict.

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For the adult, and the conflict
begins O.

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K.
So what do I mean by this

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conflict?
I.

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Want you to imagine a.
Society.

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In which envy and jealousy are
considered virtue.

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In this society, everyone wants
to have the toys and the jobs

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and the looks and the status of
somebody else.

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In fact, the more you want what
someone else has.

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The harder you work to get it.
And the more money you spend in

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the pursuit and the more the
commerce is enhanced.

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In fact, this society feels that
it was such a virtue to have to

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have.
Envy and jealousy were such

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virtues that whole industries
were created solely with the

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intention of helping you to want
someone else’s things.

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Attractive people were then
hired.

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Just to show off how nice their
things were so that you would

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feel insignificant and small
without their things.

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Imagine a society like that.
It’s probably real.

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Hard to imagine a society like.
And then a law was then

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introduced.
Into the society that reflects

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the mind of God and teaches that
covetousness is wrong.

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Because that’s not what God is
like.

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Now, prior to the law, people
coveted without remorse.

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In fact, they would voluntarily
subject themselves to magazines

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and ads to make to make them
feel covetousness.

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They like covetousness.
They go into into malls and

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markets that were designed by
experts in coveting who have pH

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D’s in coveting that without any
these these environments would

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make them covet.
And entice every sense of their

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bodies.
They would feel no remorse for

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for be coveting in that society.
Why would they feel any remorse

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and be as a virtue it makes
commerce go round.

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It makes people strive for more.
But now since.

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God’s law is introduced into the
society.

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It’s clear.
What God’s righteous requirement

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is?
And so now a conflict begins.

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And in this society’s desire to
have what belongs to other

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people, everyone in society
begins to understand this really

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fundamental, important thing,
and that’s this.

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That their body and their nature
does not care at all for God’s

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word, for following his command,
or for God’s righteousness.

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It simply wants other people’s
stuff where the God wants them

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to want it or not.
Do you understand this?

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Do you understand the conflict
now, young people, before there

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was no conflict.
It’s like being a child.

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I want something, I take
something, I’m happy, but now

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God’s.
Righteous.

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Requirement is now clear.
And and in it becoming clear,

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the thing that clarifies within
yourself is that your body does

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not care at all for God’s word.
Your nature does not care at all

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for God’s righteousness.
It still wants things.

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The want has not gone away.
It’s just now you know what God

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expects of you.
But the want.

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Is still there.
So what would God’s laws do to

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this society?
I think it would make men

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sinners because it would show
them what sin is.

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It would teach.
People, the contrast between

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their character and God’s
character without the law.

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Without God’s law, I think we
would naturally act contrary to

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almost all of its statutes.
So in addition to governing a

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nation, what the law really
shows us is it shows us what

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we’re like.
It’s like a mirror.

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And we look in that mirror, we
see the.

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Flame of sinful passion inside
no.

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Romans 7 verse five says for.
When we were in the flesh the

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motions of sin, which were by
the law.

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Did work on our members to bring
forth fruit unto death.

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You get that?
The motions that that red is not

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putting.
That really is a shame.

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You guys read that word Passions
there.

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Who here can’t read that word
passions on the third line in

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the back?
You can’t.

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That is that is just awful.
All right, well, I’ll have to do

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some editing tonight.
All right, so we read there

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though for.
When we are in the flesh.

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The motions of sin which were by
the law the word motions.

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There is passions.
Here in this translation.

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The passions of sin which were
by the law, didn’t.

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Work and our members bring
fruit.

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To death.
You see how close, how close sin

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is with the law.
The law brings out passions.

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They’re aroused by the law.
Because when I was a child, I

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just wanted things that I took
it.

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It was so clear I had no guilt
about it.

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But now the law brings out all
these passions.

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And now from the law I know that
I’m a Sinner.

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The law is convicted me of sin
because I know what God requires

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of me and I know I’m not doing
it.

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So the law just, it is, it sets
to work all this emotion, all

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this passion in me because I
have all this conflict now I

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didn’t have before.
So the law is very closely

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associated with sin.
So Paul needs to explain in

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verse 7.
Is the lost sin?

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Wasn’t that our question we
started with?

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What’s the first question I
asked?

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You in these studies.
I said is the lost sin.

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Now do we understand why Paul
asked that question?

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Now do we get why he asked that
question?

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Is the lost sin because of this?
No, Paul explains that the law

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is right.
It just shows us that we’re

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sinful.
But what’s important?

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Here is to recognize that people
don’t sin deliberately, that

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grace would abound.
OK, you don’t set off.

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On a intentional.
Course to covet, at least you

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ought not to.
You can do, by the way, but you

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ought not to, and I don’t think
that’s the way it works most the

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time.
I think you just covet

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naturally.
No one has to make you.

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Try.
They just do, and so here’s the

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00:27:55,780 –> 00:28:00,380
knife’s edge if you can’t
control.

444
00:28:01,160 –> 00:28:03,920
The desire to have what belongs
to someone else.

445
00:28:05,720 –> 00:28:10,200
What are you supposed to do?
Let me just repeat that.

446
00:28:10,400 –> 00:28:15,120
If you can’t control the desire
to have what belongs to someone

447
00:28:15,120 –> 00:28:17,200
else, what are you supposed to
do?

448
00:28:17,800 –> 00:28:21,640
I mean by show of hands.
Who here is really, really good

449
00:28:21,640 –> 00:28:23,160
at?
Controlling their covetousness.

450
00:28:24,640 –> 00:28:29,360
Not, not, not the this, not the
not taking of things.

451
00:28:29,770 –> 00:28:31,450
You know, if you don’t take
things, good for you.

452
00:28:31,730 –> 00:28:34,330
I’m talking about your desire.
To have it what belongs to

453
00:28:34,330 –> 00:28:37,690
someone else?
If you can’t control it.

454
00:28:41,530 –> 00:28:43,330
Your desire to have it among
someone else, what are you

455
00:28:43,330 –> 00:28:45,370
supposed to do?
And that’s that is really the

456
00:28:45,370 –> 00:28:50,090
sharp edge of the problem,
because under the law there’s

457
00:28:50,090 –> 00:28:52,570
nothing you can do.
And that’s the point.

458
00:28:53,490 –> 00:28:56,350
You get it.
Under the law there is nothing

459
00:28:56,350 –> 00:28:58,230
you can do.
This problem does not go away.

460
00:28:58,230 –> 00:29:01,030
Under the law, this problem is
enhanced by the law.

461
00:29:01,590 –> 00:29:03,790
The law makes this problem
furnace center.

462
00:29:03,790 –> 00:29:06,990
So have to stare at it and look
at it and recognize that there

463
00:29:06,990 –> 00:29:09,550
is no solution to this problem
under the law.

464
00:29:11,310 –> 00:29:14,190
That’s the point of the law.
Was to get us to this point and

465
00:29:14,190 –> 00:29:17,110
then it drops us.
There’s nothing else that can do

466
00:29:17,110 –> 00:29:23,590
for us.
So step one, then young people.

467
00:29:23,830 –> 00:29:30,110
Step one is understand the
source of the problem and Paul

468
00:29:30,110 –> 00:29:35,510
in this chapter he points a
spotlight on human nature, the

469
00:29:35,510 –> 00:29:37,470
motions of sin if.
You if you were the.

470
00:29:37,470 –> 00:29:42,990
Passions I put forward to you
that you must understand human.

471
00:29:42,990 –> 00:29:45,950
Nature if you want to do
something about it, so we’re

472
00:29:45,950 –> 00:29:48,190
going to really spend some time
then young people.

473
00:29:49,110 –> 00:29:53,300
Old people in between people.
Who considers themselves an in

474
00:29:53,300 –> 00:29:57,380
between person?
I would.

475
00:29:57,380 –> 00:30:04,220
Consider you all old.
So we’re really going to spend

476
00:30:04,220 –> 00:30:07,180
some time to really look at
human nature.

477
00:30:09,380 –> 00:30:14,860
So what is human nature?
That has a difficult question.

478
00:30:15,100 –> 00:30:19,020
What is human nature?
As Paul goes on to convey to us

479
00:30:19,020 –> 00:30:24,370
in Chapter 7, Human Nature.
Is feelings and desires and

480
00:30:24,370 –> 00:30:27,570
lusts and passions and
infatuation and rage and envy

481
00:30:27,930 –> 00:30:30,450
and has a lot of things,
actually young people, that are

482
00:30:30,450 –> 00:30:35,170
hard to define but easy to feel.
I mean, how do I define rage?

483
00:30:35,890 –> 00:30:40,090
It’s hard to define it, but I
know what it feels like, and I

484
00:30:40,130 –> 00:30:44,610
bet you know what it feels like.
How do you define envy?

485
00:30:45,410 –> 00:30:47,170
Well, it’s hard to.
Define, but I bet you know what.

486
00:30:47,170 –> 00:30:51,500
It feels like.
This class we really need to get

487
00:30:51,500 –> 00:30:54,540
a handle on human nature and see
how it draws out our basic

488
00:30:54,540 –> 00:30:57,740
sinfulness.
Now the fact that human nature

489
00:30:57,740 –> 00:31:00,820
is friends center in this
chapter is evident by three

490
00:31:00,820 –> 00:31:03,860
verses.
The one I just read about sinful

491
00:31:04,180 –> 00:31:06,260
passions which are aroused by
the law.

492
00:31:06,300 –> 00:31:10,220
That word aroused very feeling
type word and Roman 7 verse

493
00:31:10,220 –> 00:31:12,820
eight he says.
But sin taking opportunity by

494
00:31:12,820 –> 00:31:16,980
the commandment produced in me
all manner of evil desire.

495
00:31:18,220 –> 00:31:21,910
Roman 7, verse 15.
For what I will to do that I do

496
00:31:21,910 –> 00:31:24,430
not practice, but what I hate
that I do.

497
00:31:24,710 –> 00:31:28,630
So we have arousal, we have
evil, desire, we have hatred.

498
00:31:29,270 –> 00:31:32,070
With all these things in this
chapter and I I just put forward

499
00:31:32,070 –> 00:31:34,790
to you that unless you get your
head around this stuff, this

500
00:31:34,790 –> 00:31:36,390
chapter is not going to make any
sense to you.

501
00:31:37,310 –> 00:31:38,550
So I put.
Forward that the rest of this

502
00:31:38,550 –> 00:31:41,350
class, we have to spend some
time getting our head around

503
00:31:41,350 –> 00:31:44,950
this and see what Jesus did
about it and how what he did

504
00:31:44,950 –> 00:31:46,550
about declared the righteousness
of God.

505
00:31:47,470 –> 00:31:49,550
Is that OK course to chart for
the rest of this class?

506
00:31:49,950 –> 00:31:55,150
OK, anyone disagree?
All right.

507
00:31:58,310 –> 00:32:00,590
All right.
So first a practical.

508
00:32:00,590 –> 00:32:02,070
Example.
This.

509
00:32:02,270 –> 00:32:05,070
Example is going to require
audience participation.

510
00:32:06,270 –> 00:32:08,950
So I’m just giving you
forewarning, Steve, you’re

511
00:32:08,950 –> 00:32:10,310
smiling.
Maybe you can start your

512
00:32:10,310 –> 00:32:11,270
Australian.
Very bold.

513
00:32:12,750 –> 00:32:19,070
Give me a characteristic that.
You make characteristic that

514
00:32:19,070 –> 00:32:22,190
you’d like to have a personal
personality.

515
00:32:22,190 –> 00:32:36,510
Characteristic a character.
Go I can give me a personality.

516
00:32:36,510 –> 00:32:39,710
Characteristic that you’d like
to have.

517
00:32:42,870 –> 00:32:45,030
Boldness.
Interesting choice.

518
00:32:46,430 –> 00:32:50,300
OK.
Give me some other examples of

519
00:32:50,300 –> 00:32:52,100
personality characteristics we’d
like to have.

520
00:32:53,060 –> 00:32:54,860
Patience, Good one.
What’s another one?

521
00:32:55,860 –> 00:32:56,740
Love.
Good one.

522
00:32:57,300 –> 00:33:01,540
What’s another one?
Not tolerance.

523
00:33:02,100 –> 00:33:05,460
What’s another one?
long-suffering.

524
00:33:05,500 –> 00:33:06,740
That’s probably kind of what you
meant.

525
00:33:07,340 –> 00:33:08,500
Yep.
What’s another one?

526
00:33:10,700 –> 00:33:11,780
Humbleness.
Good.

527
00:33:13,860 –> 00:33:14,940
Understanding.
Good.

528
00:33:16,640 –> 00:33:17,760
Faithfulness.
Excellent.

529
00:33:18,560 –> 00:33:22,960
Anymore, we have love, we’ve had
patience, we’ve had

530
00:33:25,440 –> 00:33:27,480
faithfulness.
Joy.

531
00:33:27,600 –> 00:33:30,840
Good, Excellent.
What’s this?

532
00:33:32,800 –> 00:33:36,960
Kindness.
Good. self-control.

533
00:33:37,280 –> 00:33:38,800
We’re really getting some of the
fruits of the spirit.

534
00:33:38,800 –> 00:33:44,240
Here, aren’t we that was oops,
that was my bad list.

535
00:33:44,670 –> 00:33:48,350
So that the good list had had
love and joy and peace, I said.

536
00:33:48,350 –> 00:33:50,790
And patience, and kindness, and
goodness and faithfulness,

537
00:33:51,350 –> 00:33:54,110
Selfcontrol.
Now who here?

538
00:33:55,630 –> 00:33:58,590
Does not want to have those kind
of personality characteristics,

539
00:34:00,670 –> 00:34:05,190
Lovejoy, Peace, Gentleness,
kindness, selfcontrol patients.

540
00:34:05,430 –> 00:34:06,710
Who here doesn’t want those
things?

541
00:34:08,510 –> 00:34:12,989
So can I can I assume by the
complete lack of hands that we’d

542
00:34:12,989 –> 00:34:16,449
all like those things?
Can I assume that nod of heads?

543
00:34:17,090 –> 00:34:20,530
OK, all right, now what are some
of the characteristics?

544
00:34:20,530 –> 00:34:23,489
We don’t want to have some bad
characteristics now.

545
00:34:23,929 –> 00:34:25,570
Yep.
Hatred good.

546
00:34:25,570 –> 00:34:27,530
One.
Jealousy good.

547
00:34:27,530 –> 00:34:30,409
One.
Lust excellent.

548
00:34:33,010 –> 00:34:36,409
Envy good.
Anger good.

549
00:34:38,170 –> 00:34:41,969
Well, this is this is my list.
I think you got most of those

550
00:34:41,969 –> 00:34:45,380
actually.
Anger, jealousy, lust, envy,

551
00:34:45,380 –> 00:34:47,980
hatred, and bitterness.
Okay.

552
00:34:48,380 –> 00:34:51,860
So who by show of?
Hands would really like to have

553
00:34:51,860 –> 00:34:53,500
some of those personality
characteristics.

554
00:34:56,179 –> 00:34:58,300
Anybody.
Anyone.

555
00:35:00,220 –> 00:35:04,860
So we’ve all said we want this
list of Lovejoy, Peace,

556
00:35:04,860 –> 00:35:08,660
Patience, Kindness, goodness,
faithfulness, self-control.

557
00:35:09,090 –> 00:35:09,970
We’ve.
All agreed.

558
00:35:09,970 –> 00:35:12,450
We want those.
Now, just just by this.

559
00:35:12,450 –> 00:35:15,010
So I know this is just not a
lack of participation exercise.

560
00:35:15,530 –> 00:35:17,970
Raise your hand if you want the
good characteristics.

561
00:35:22,570 –> 00:35:24,130
Anyone not raising their hands,
good.

562
00:35:25,170 –> 00:35:27,530
All right, now raise your hand
if you do.

563
00:35:27,530 –> 00:35:29,290
Not.
Want to have the bad

564
00:35:29,290 –> 00:35:34,210
characteristics, Desmond?
Very good, Thank you.

565
00:35:36,330 –> 00:35:39,420
So.
We’ve all been agreed.

566
00:35:39,460 –> 00:35:42,100
I guess this is settled then.
I’m glad we’ve had this

567
00:35:42,100 –> 00:35:43,980
exercise.
You’ve all told me that you’re

568
00:35:43,980 –> 00:35:45,700
only going to have the good
elements of character.

569
00:35:45,940 –> 00:35:47,740
You’re not going to have the bad
amounts of character.

570
00:35:48,260 –> 00:35:50,100
So I guess we’re done.
Right.

571
00:35:50,100 –> 00:35:52,620
We’ve all decided, you know.
You’ve told me.

572
00:35:53,060 –> 00:35:54,340
You told me.
You want to have the good list.

573
00:35:54,340 –> 00:35:59,860
You don’t have the bad list.
It couldn’t be good.

574
00:36:00,100 –> 00:36:02,020
In the in the hands of someone
who’s righteous.

575
00:36:02,420 –> 00:36:05,340
But I would say that for the
most part, anger our anger,

576
00:36:05,460 –> 00:36:07,380
anger that comes from our
nature’s.

577
00:36:07,940 –> 00:36:10,220
Probably not good anger that
comes from the desire who God’s

578
00:36:10,220 –> 00:36:16,700
will might be.
So if we want to have the good.

579
00:36:16,700 –> 00:36:18,500
Elements of character.
We don’t want to have the bad

580
00:36:18,500 –> 00:36:20,260
elements of character.
You’ve all agreed as much and

581
00:36:20,260 –> 00:36:22,380
you’ve raised your hands, you’ve
volunteered and you’ve you’ve

582
00:36:22,380 –> 00:36:27,100
been accountable.
You think it’s going to work,

583
00:36:29,580 –> 00:36:31,100
think it’s going to work.
You’re just not going to do any

584
00:36:31,100 –> 00:36:32,860
of the bad stuff now.
You’re only going to do the good

585
00:36:32,860 –> 00:36:34,860
stuff.
Think it’s going to work.

586
00:36:37,570 –> 00:36:40,890
Why not?
Why isn’t it going to work?

587
00:36:40,890 –> 00:36:42,770
You just told me you want to
have the good characteristics.

588
00:36:42,770 –> 00:36:46,690
You want to ditch the bad.
So my question to you is what’s

589
00:36:46,690 –> 00:36:52,490
stopping you?
That’s it, isn’t it?

590
00:36:53,810 –> 00:36:57,370
What’s stopping you?
What’s stopping you from doing?

591
00:36:57,370 –> 00:36:58,450
Good.
All the time.

592
00:37:01,170 –> 00:37:03,130
You know we need to get a handle
on.

593
00:37:03,130 –> 00:37:04,410
That.
Do you see?

594
00:37:04,410 –> 00:37:07,090
That we can’t do the things we
want to do.

595
00:37:08,100 –> 00:37:10,380
The things that we don’t want to
do, we do.

596
00:37:11,420 –> 00:37:15,420
Now what’s a word?
The Bible has lots of words for

597
00:37:15,420 –> 00:37:20,300
this, for this idea, this
concept of of of not being able

598
00:37:20,300 –> 00:37:23,860
to do what we want to do and and
doing what we don’t want to do.

599
00:37:24,700 –> 00:37:27,620
The Bible calls it sinful
nature, and it calls it the

600
00:37:27,620 –> 00:37:29,540
flesh, and it calls it human
nature.

601
00:37:31,140 –> 00:37:34,660
It calls it just sin.
But there’s one word that’s

602
00:37:34,660 –> 00:37:38,800
really predominant.
Especially in the King New King

603
00:37:38,800 –> 00:37:45,760
James, the RSV, the N IV and the
ESV describe this this idea that

604
00:37:45,760 –> 00:37:48,960
you not doing what you want to
do, but you are doing what you

605
00:37:48,960 –> 00:37:57,880
don’t want to do and that word
you can’t really read, but that

606
00:37:57,880 –> 00:38:03,260
word is passions now.
We generally think of passions

607
00:38:03,260 –> 00:38:05,220
as being a good thing, doesn’t
doesn’t we?

608
00:38:05,260 –> 00:38:08,700
I mean, in society today, if you
just read about this word

609
00:38:08,700 –> 00:38:11,820
passion, it’s almost always used
in the positive sense.

610
00:38:12,140 –> 00:38:14,820
You should go for your passions
and strive for your passion.

611
00:38:15,740 –> 00:38:18,340
And passion is really this idea
of feeling something quite

612
00:38:18,340 –> 00:38:21,620
strongly, isn’t it?
Feeling something quite

613
00:38:21,620 –> 00:38:23,980
strongly.
And whatever you’re feeling

614
00:38:24,580 –> 00:38:26,980
trying to achieve.
Whatever it is you’re feeling

615
00:38:28,860 –> 00:38:30,820
now.
How do you think the Bible’s

616
00:38:30,820 –> 00:38:32,100
going to think about that kind
of word?

617
00:38:33,180 –> 00:38:38,020
The idea that I feel something
from my nature, whatever it is,

618
00:38:38,500 –> 00:38:42,860
of strong desire, and I’m going
to go and strive after achieving

619
00:38:42,860 –> 00:38:47,660
that thing, You know, there’s a
lot of.

620
00:38:47,660 –> 00:38:49,500
References in Scripture to
passions.

621
00:38:50,860 –> 00:38:55,980
Some of them are appearing.
Right now on the screen, those

622
00:38:55,980 –> 00:39:00,430
are all references to passions.
I’d like to read some of you

623
00:39:00,430 –> 00:39:03,270
these references.
Now, don’t look them up.

624
00:39:03,630 –> 00:39:05,790
Just pay attention to me.
And I’m not just going to reach

625
00:39:05,790 –> 00:39:08,710
you one, I’m going to read you.
Not all of them, but several,

626
00:39:09,350 –> 00:39:10,790
because I don’t.
I want you to get the sense that

627
00:39:10,790 –> 00:39:12,550
I’m not just cherry picking
versus here.

628
00:39:13,590 –> 00:39:15,390
All right, So pay attention to
me.

629
00:39:15,790 –> 00:39:19,030
Listen for the word passions.
For this reason, God gave them

630
00:39:19,030 –> 00:39:22,790
up to dishonorable passions
through women exchanged natural

631
00:39:22,790 –> 00:39:24,790
relations for unnatural.
Roman 612.

632
00:39:25,200 –> 00:39:27,560
But not sin.
Therefore reign in your mortal

633
00:39:27,560 –> 00:39:29,880
bodies to make you obey their
passions.

634
00:39:30,160 –> 00:39:32,800
Roman 7 verse 5.
For while we are living in the

635
00:39:32,800 –> 00:39:36,920
flesh, our sinful passions.
Aroused by the law we’re at.

636
00:39:36,920 –> 00:39:38,760
Work in our members to bear.
Fruit for death.

637
00:39:39,280 –> 00:39:44,520
Relations 524 Those who belong
to Christ Jesus have crucified

638
00:39:44,520 –> 00:39:47,720
the flesh with its passions and
its desires.

639
00:39:48,120 –> 00:39:52,000
Ephesians 2 Verse three Among
these who all once lived in the

640
00:39:52,000 –> 00:39:55,400
passions of our flesh.
Following the desires of body

641
00:39:55,400 –> 00:39:59,280
and mind, and so were by nature
children of wrath, like the rest

642
00:39:59,280 –> 00:40:02,840
of mankind.
Titus 3, verse 3.

643
00:40:04,000 –> 00:40:06,560
For we ourselves were once
foolish, disobedient, led

644
00:40:06,560 –> 00:40:10,240
astray, slaves to various
passions and pleasures, passing

645
00:40:10,240 –> 00:40:14,080
our days in the mouths and envy,
hated by men hating one another.

646
00:40:14,560 –> 00:40:17,240
James 4 verse one What?
Causes wars.

647
00:40:17,400 –> 00:40:19,240
What causes?
Fightings among you.

648
00:40:19,800 –> 00:40:22,640
Is it not your passions at war
and your members?

649
00:40:23,300 –> 00:40:26,260
First, Peter 2 verse 11.
But well, I beseech you as

650
00:40:26,260 –> 00:40:29,940
aliens in exiles to abstain from
the passions of the flesh that

651
00:40:29,940 –> 00:40:31,380
wage war.
Against your soul.

652
00:40:31,820 –> 00:40:35,420
Second Peter 3, verse 3.
For all you must understand that

653
00:40:35,420 –> 00:40:39,700
scoffers have come in the last
day scoffing and following their

654
00:40:39,700 –> 00:40:43,180
passions.
You get some idea of what

655
00:40:43,180 –> 00:40:45,580
passions are talking about.
Does cherry pick a reference

656
00:40:45,580 –> 00:40:50,220
with this idea of passions?
All of these verses talk about

657
00:40:50,220 –> 00:40:54,780
passions in the negative.
What’s society talking about?

658
00:40:54,780 –> 00:40:57,460
Passions.
It’s a really good way to make

659
00:40:57,460 –> 00:41:01,140
money off you.
By the way, follow your passion.

660
00:41:01,700 –> 00:41:03,020
Buy my product.
It will.

661
00:41:03,020 –> 00:41:07,980
Really help.
The source of happiness is

662
00:41:07,980 –> 00:41:10,820
following your passions.
But what are?

663
00:41:10,820 –> 00:41:16,340
Passions, according to
Scripture, they’re ungodly

664
00:41:16,340 –> 00:41:19,100
tendencies.
Their sexual desires, their

665
00:41:19,100 –> 00:41:21,100
desires for things.
They’re associated with

666
00:41:21,100 –> 00:41:24,500
drunkenness and lawlessness and
carousing, the things that cause

667
00:41:24,500 –> 00:41:27,060
fights and wars.
They’re closely associated with

668
00:41:27,060 –> 00:41:29,220
hate and.
Wrath associated with the

669
00:41:29,220 –> 00:41:32,940
desires of our body, especially
connected with youth, opposed to

670
00:41:32,940 –> 00:41:35,060
righteousness and faith and love
and peace.

671
00:41:38,180 –> 00:41:40,700
You know, if you look at some of
the adjectives that God adds

672
00:41:40,700 –> 00:41:42,260
immediately.
Before the word.

673
00:41:42,260 –> 00:41:44,020
Passions.
You’ll find a list that includes

674
00:41:44,020 –> 00:41:49,340
ungodly, vicentious, human,
dishonorable, sinful, worldly.

675
00:41:49,610 –> 00:41:54,250
Youthful Are we getting a sense
of what these passions are?

676
00:41:56,850 –> 00:41:59,010
If you feel it, does it make it
right?

677
00:42:01,610 –> 00:42:03,650
That’s the question.
That’s the question on the

678
00:42:03,650 –> 00:42:05,850
table.
If you feel it, does it make it

679
00:42:05,850 –> 00:42:08,970
right?
Does it make it right with God

680
00:42:10,490 –> 00:42:12,250
if I’ve seen people in the
truth?

681
00:42:12,330 –> 00:42:15,650
That have a passion for some
element of the truth right and

682
00:42:15,650 –> 00:42:17,130
have.
Steamrolled their brothers and

683
00:42:17,130 –> 00:42:20,290
sisters in the process.
Do that make that right?

684
00:42:21,890 –> 00:42:23,730
Even if it’s a passion for
something in the truth?

685
00:42:26,010 –> 00:42:28,010
Was that a careful consideration
of Scripture?

686
00:42:29,210 –> 00:42:32,930
James tells us that those who
are in the Spirit are easy to

687
00:42:32,930 –> 00:42:33,610
be.
Entreated.

688
00:42:41,170 –> 00:42:45,490
Let’s try to find some places or
times that our passions are

689
00:42:45,490 –> 00:42:48,330
inflamed.
I’ll include an example.

690
00:42:49,050 –> 00:42:53,050
I feel passion is the most.
During four different Things,

691
00:42:53,050 –> 00:42:54,490
when four different things are
happening to me.

692
00:42:55,010 –> 00:42:58,650
One I’m hungry.
I’m angry.

693
00:42:59,330 –> 00:43:01,810
I’m lonely.
Or I’m tired.

694
00:43:02,650 –> 00:43:04,730
I call that halt.
It’s right down the board.

695
00:43:16,610 –> 00:43:20,030
I’m hungry when I’m angry.
When I’m lonely and when I’m

696
00:43:20,030 –> 00:43:23,150
tired, I really feel my
passions.

697
00:43:23,150 –> 00:43:29,630
Then there’s other times we want
to do something we shouldn’t or

698
00:43:29,630 –> 00:43:34,630
take something that isn’t ours.
When others are hurting us, we

699
00:43:34,630 –> 00:43:37,670
want to get back at them.
We feel a lot of resentment.

700
00:43:40,110 –> 00:43:43,430
When we feel that we’re empty or
worthless, we feel a lot of

701
00:43:43,430 –> 00:43:47,230
passion.
We can’t handle life or stress.

702
00:43:48,730 –> 00:43:51,090
You know, passion isn’t in
itself wrong.

703
00:43:53,050 –> 00:43:56,290
It’s simply the body’s way of
asserting self and getting what

704
00:43:56,290 –> 00:43:59,490
it wants.
And how does the body get what

705
00:43:59,490 –> 00:44:02,850
it wants?
It makes you feel something and

706
00:44:02,850 –> 00:44:08,450
you feel compelled to do it.
It’s very simple process, isn’t

707
00:44:08,450 –> 00:44:10,290
it?
It’s the body’s way.

708
00:44:10,290 –> 00:44:12,450
Of getting what it wants.
And in and of itself that may

709
00:44:12,450 –> 00:44:14,050
not be wrong.
It can’t be wrong.

710
00:44:16,450 –> 00:44:19,730
But certainly the acting on it.
In contrast, the principles of

711
00:44:19,730 –> 00:44:24,570
God is wrong.
Do we all?

712
00:44:24,570 –> 00:44:27,290
Agree that maybe these passions
have something to do with

713
00:44:27,290 –> 00:44:30,090
willing to do right, but not
willing not being able to do it.

714
00:44:31,050 –> 00:44:33,130
Maybe passions have something to
do with that concept.

715
00:44:34,770 –> 00:44:37,450
Now picking up in Romans, we
read in Romans 7 versus 7:00 and

716
00:44:37,450 –> 00:44:40,330
8:00.
What shall we say then?

717
00:44:40,850 –> 00:44:43,090
Is the law sin?
Certainly not.

718
00:44:43,660 –> 00:44:46,420
On the contrary, I would not
have known sin except through

719
00:44:46,420 –> 00:44:48,100
the law.
We get that concept now, right?

720
00:44:48,220 –> 00:44:52,460
That’s all clear for us, right?
For I would not have known

721
00:44:52,460 –> 00:44:55,100
covetousness lest the law had
said.

722
00:44:55,540 –> 00:44:59,060
You shall not covet but sin,
taking opportunity by the

723
00:44:59,060 –> 00:45:03,260
commandment produced in me all
manner of covetousness or evil

724
00:45:03,260 –> 00:45:06,220
desire.
So Paul is still addressing this

725
00:45:06,220 –> 00:45:09,300
issue of shall we sin that grace
may have banned, you know, shall

726
00:45:09,300 –> 00:45:12,140
we sin?
Kind of interesting question.

727
00:45:13,980 –> 00:45:17,060
And almost implies you’re
sitting back and thinking, hey,

728
00:45:19,380 –> 00:45:23,340
what am I going to do today?
Yeah, maybe I’ll sin.

729
00:45:23,340 –> 00:45:26,140
Yeah, that’d be good.
Let’s see that that that way

730
00:45:26,140 –> 00:45:28,020
they’ll be lots of grace.
That’s even better.

731
00:45:28,740 –> 00:45:31,220
Now let’s see, how should I sin?
Joners, do you have any

732
00:45:31,220 –> 00:45:36,220
suggestions?
OK, that that would work good.

733
00:45:36,500 –> 00:45:37,780
You know, I think that’s we
should do.

734
00:45:37,780 –> 00:45:39,340
I think that’d be a good
activity for today.

735
00:45:39,340 –> 00:45:42,280
Let’s just sin.
You know the question implies

736
00:45:42,400 –> 00:45:45,240
shall we sin.
The grace may abound and implies

737
00:45:45,240 –> 00:45:47,320
that there’s like this conscious
decision to sin.

738
00:45:48,640 –> 00:45:52,960
Was that how it typically works?
I mean, perhaps your son, but

739
00:45:52,960 –> 00:45:56,560
what about for the believer?
And since Paul is a believer, he

740
00:45:56,560 –> 00:45:58,960
kind of draws in his personal
experience to show how sin

741
00:45:58,960 –> 00:46:01,640
really works.
And the best way to illustrate

742
00:46:01,640 –> 00:46:03,840
how sin really works is to use
Cove justness.

743
00:46:04,920 –> 00:46:06,640
Now, what makes covetousness so
special?

744
00:46:07,560 –> 00:46:11,200
Now think about it for a second.
What makes covetousness

745
00:46:11,200 –> 00:46:13,080
different than the rest of the
10 commandments?

746
00:46:15,240 –> 00:46:16,560
I mean names of those
commandments.

747
00:46:16,560 –> 00:46:21,480
Thou shalt not steal, Thou shall
not murder, Thou shalt not bear

748
00:46:21,480 –> 00:46:24,360
false witness.
Thou shalt not take the name of

749
00:46:24,360 –> 00:46:26,840
the Lord thy God in vain.
Do you see any?

750
00:46:26,840 –> 00:46:29,240
Differences between this list
and covetousness.

751
00:46:31,200 –> 00:46:33,640
What do you think is the most
obvious difference between the

752
00:46:33,640 –> 00:46:36,840
list of those other commandments
and covetousness?

753
00:46:40,710 –> 00:46:43,230
That’s exactly right.
Sharon Gold stars for you.

754
00:46:44,830 –> 00:46:46,670
You know, the other list is all
you can all.

755
00:46:46,670 –> 00:46:52,030
It’s all external physical acts,
right at stealing or adultery or

756
00:46:52,030 –> 00:46:54,990
murder or other or or bearing
false witness.

757
00:46:54,990 –> 00:46:57,270
They’re all these external
physical acts.

758
00:46:59,150 –> 00:47:04,710
You know, we most often think of
sin in terms of external

759
00:47:04,710 –> 00:47:06,550
physical acts.
The reason?

760
00:47:06,550 –> 00:47:09,270
Probably because we’re growing
up when we’re when we’re young,

761
00:47:09,270 –> 00:47:10,790
excuse me, that’s what we’re
punished for.

762
00:47:11,390 –> 00:47:15,590
We’re punished when we hit our
sister, I was we’re punished

763
00:47:15,590 –> 00:47:17,870
when we won’t share our toys,
We’re punished.

764
00:47:17,870 –> 00:47:21,070
When we talk back to our
parents, see rights and wrongs,

765
00:47:21,190 –> 00:47:24,750
they’re reinforced by these
external physical acts.

766
00:47:26,190 –> 00:47:28,190
But what’s flawed about?
That you mean, where does sin

767
00:47:28,190 –> 00:47:30,830
start?
Where does sin originate?

768
00:47:31,870 –> 00:47:34,550
And so Paul says that when the
law told him.

769
00:47:34,950 –> 00:47:39,870
You shall not covet.
It wasn’t about not doing

770
00:47:39,870 –> 00:47:43,630
something anymore.
It was all in here.

771
00:47:45,990 –> 00:47:51,870
And it killed him because he
realized that this rebelled

772
00:47:52,030 –> 00:47:55,550
against God.
This rebelled against God.

773
00:47:55,870 –> 00:47:58,470
And it wasn’t a matter of not
doing something anymore.

774
00:47:59,870 –> 00:48:02,190
It was a matter of wanting to be
like Camellia.

775
00:48:03,790 –> 00:48:07,550
Coveting what he had, and the
prestige of other rabbis, and

776
00:48:07,550 –> 00:48:10,910
the prestige of other important
people in this class and the

777
00:48:10,910 –> 00:48:20,550
esteem of others.
Romans 7, verse 15 through 17.

778
00:48:20,950 –> 00:48:24,950
For what I am doing I don’t
understand for what I.

779
00:48:24,950 –> 00:48:28,030
Will to do.
That I do not practice, but what

780
00:48:28,030 –> 00:48:32,590
I hate that I do, if then I do
what I will not to do, I agree.

781
00:48:32,950 –> 00:48:42,430
With the law that it’s good
catch that if I will not to do.

782
00:48:45,310 –> 00:48:48,110
If I excuse me, if I do what I
will not to do.

783
00:48:48,110 –> 00:48:49,870
I agree with the law is good so.
This Paul proves.

784
00:48:49,870 –> 00:48:51,230
The law is good.
Do you know how he proves the

785
00:48:51,230 –> 00:48:52,190
law is good?
He says.

786
00:48:52,190 –> 00:48:56,990
Because I wanted to follow it,
and it because I wanted to

787
00:48:56,990 –> 00:49:00,110
follow it, I then admit that
it’s good.

788
00:49:01,600 –> 00:49:05,480
And then if I don’t do it, even
though I wanted to do it, it

789
00:49:05,480 –> 00:49:08,000
must be me.
That’s the problem, not the law.

790
00:49:09,240 –> 00:49:12,360
And so he concludes.
That he’s the problem.

791
00:49:12,920 –> 00:49:15,360
The law is not the problem.
Why is he the problem?

792
00:49:15,440 –> 00:49:18,160
Because he wanted to follow the
law, so the law must have been

793
00:49:18,160 –> 00:49:20,720
good.
And because he didn’t follow the

794
00:49:20,720 –> 00:49:24,560
law, that makes him the Sinner,
not the law.

795
00:49:26,920 –> 00:49:29,200
So how could Paul of all people
say?

796
00:49:31,750 –> 00:49:37,190
How can you not be good?
Remember when I asked you what’s

797
00:49:37,190 –> 00:49:40,630
stopping you?
You all said that you.

798
00:49:40,630 –> 00:49:43,950
Wanted to do good.
But that something is getting in

799
00:49:43,950 –> 00:49:54,290
your way.
Here we go.

800
00:50:01,040 –> 00:50:04,440
Remember you said that you
wanted to do good but something

801
00:50:04,440 –> 00:50:08,320
was getting in your way.
And Paul seizes on that natural

802
00:50:08,320 –> 00:50:11,800
conflict in him and he he he
calls the part that wants to do

803
00:50:11,800 –> 00:50:15,200
good I and the part that doesn’t
want to do.

804
00:50:15,200 –> 00:50:18,480
Good sin and that sin dwells in
Paul.

805
00:50:19,920 –> 00:50:23,240
Properly understood by the way
these are these verses destroy

806
00:50:23,240 –> 00:50:26,920
this idea of a personal devil.
But I digress.

807
00:50:28,430 –> 00:50:30,670
But you might want to mark that
in your mind that your Bible for

808
00:50:30,670 –> 00:50:33,630
Bible market and he says in in
chapter 18.

809
00:50:33,950 –> 00:50:37,550
Excuse me verse 18 of Chapter 7.
For I know that in me that is in

810
00:50:37,550 –> 00:50:41,590
my flesh nothing good dwells for
to will is present with me.

811
00:50:41,590 –> 00:50:46,270
But how to perform what is good?
I don’t find for the good that I

812
00:50:46,270 –> 00:50:48,630
will.
To do I do not do, but the evil

813
00:50:48,630 –> 00:50:52,350
that I do, that I will not to
do, that I practice now.

814
00:50:52,350 –> 00:50:56,990
If I do what I will not to do,
it’s no longer I who do it sin.

815
00:50:56,990 –> 00:50:59,930
It dwells in me.
And these words can be a little

816
00:50:59,930 –> 00:51:01,050
bit difficult to.
Understand.

817
00:51:01,170 –> 00:51:02,450
Aren’t they?
You kind of read them and.

818
00:51:02,450 –> 00:51:05,770
They’re a little bit difficult
to understand, but if you ever

819
00:51:05,770 –> 00:51:08,850
get stuck in Romans, I think you
ought to remember this, that

820
00:51:09,410 –> 00:51:12,890
that Galatians is like an
abridged version of Romans.

821
00:51:12,890 –> 00:51:16,010
You guys ever read books in
school and you had to write a

822
00:51:16,010 –> 00:51:18,330
book report, but you never
really wanted to read the book,

823
00:51:18,330 –> 00:51:19,530
and so you read.
This this little.

824
00:51:19,530 –> 00:51:21,370
Summary of the book.
We used to call these in the in

825
00:51:21,370 –> 00:51:24,650
the states Cliff notes, right?
And you said read the summary of

826
00:51:24,650 –> 00:51:26,610
the book and then write your
book report off the summary.

827
00:51:27,190 –> 00:51:28,990
Right, because you’re too lazy
to read the book.

828
00:51:29,630 –> 00:51:32,910
Am I the only one who did that?
You guys are also honest.

829
00:51:33,750 –> 00:51:39,430
Wow, okay.
Well anyways, Galatians is like

830
00:51:39,430 –> 00:51:42,230
the Cliff Notes version of
Romans, and so actually can find

831
00:51:42,230 –> 00:51:44,230
a lot of the same concepts in
Galatians.

832
00:51:44,230 –> 00:51:46,590
As you can.
Find in Romans and vice versa.

833
00:51:47,630 –> 00:51:53,470
And so Galatians 516 through 18
takes up the exact same idea

834
00:51:53,470 –> 00:51:55,350
that we just.
Read in in Roman Chapter 7.

835
00:51:56,410 –> 00:52:01,810
Relations 5 says this.
So I say, live by the Spirit,

836
00:52:02,770 –> 00:52:05,730
and you will not gratify the
desires of the sinful nature.

837
00:52:07,130 –> 00:52:12,130
For the sinful nature desires
what is contrary to the Spirit,

838
00:52:13,170 –> 00:52:16,610
and the Spirit what is contrary
to the sinful nature.

839
00:52:16,890 –> 00:52:21,010
They are in conflict with each
other, so that you do not do

840
00:52:21,010 –> 00:52:25,450
what you want, but if you are
led by the Spirit.

841
00:52:25,930 –> 00:52:30,330
You are not under the law, so
you do not do what you want.

842
00:52:31,250 –> 00:52:40,530
That’s the idea, very profound.
You do not do what you want in

843
00:52:40,530 –> 00:52:44,930
this light, how wise you really
think it is to trust yourself

844
00:52:45,890 –> 00:52:48,810
when your passions are aroused
and get smart.

845
00:52:50,810 –> 00:52:55,180
Do you think that your desires?
Are really the answer to your

846
00:52:55,180 –> 00:52:57,620
problems that just follow your
desires more?

847
00:52:58,460 –> 00:53:01,660
That’s the answer.
Do you really think that your

848
00:53:01,660 –> 00:53:04,980
willpower is going to be what
helps you stop from sinning?

849
00:53:08,420 –> 00:53:10,620
You think it’s self will and
self-control are really going to

850
00:53:10,620 –> 00:53:12,980
stop you from sinning?
That you’re going to save

851
00:53:12,980 –> 00:53:17,580
yourself?
You know what’s the main

852
00:53:17,580 –> 00:53:19,460
problem.
This is really important, so if

853
00:53:19,460 –> 00:53:21,300
you lost me, come back to me
now.

854
00:53:22,520 –> 00:53:27,440
What is the main problem in
relying on willpower to stop

855
00:53:27,440 –> 00:53:33,680
from sinning?
I’ll tell you what the problem

856
00:53:33,680 –> 00:53:38,000
is for me is that I can’t be
both the problem and the

857
00:53:38,000 –> 00:53:44,360
solution at the same time,
because when I need me to be the

858
00:53:44,360 –> 00:53:49,280
solution the most is when I and
most the problem.

859
00:53:51,940 –> 00:53:56,700
I can’t be both the problem and
the solution at the same time.

860
00:53:57,740 –> 00:54:00,700
And you know what?
You can’t either.

861
00:54:03,100 –> 00:54:05,780
You think you’re the answer to
your problems.

862
00:54:06,700 –> 00:54:09,820
You think you’re the way that
you’re just going to try harder.

863
00:54:10,900 –> 00:54:13,980
That if you just try harder,
you’re going to overcome the sin

864
00:54:13,980 –> 00:54:17,900
thing.
I tell you what, it’s not going

865
00:54:17,900 –> 00:54:21,100
to work.
And it’s going to just lead to

866
00:54:21,100 –> 00:54:25,500
depression and to sadness if you
try to think that you’re the

867
00:54:25,500 –> 00:54:29,900
answer to your problem and maybe
God.

868
00:54:30,020 –> 00:54:34,100
Asking God to help you be the
answer to your problem, you will

869
00:54:34,100 –> 00:54:36,700
fail.
And you’ll ask.

870
00:54:36,700 –> 00:54:38,860
Again, and you’ll fail, and you
ask again, and you’ll fail and

871
00:54:38,860 –> 00:54:40,820
you ask again and you’ll fail.
And eventually you get so

872
00:54:40,820 –> 00:54:45,660
depressed with this failing that
you just stop trying, because

873
00:54:45,660 –> 00:54:48,020
you cannot be the.
Answer to your problem.

874
00:54:49,120 –> 00:54:54,400
When you are the problem.
It doesn’t not.

875
00:54:54,400 –> 00:54:58,760
Going to work.
What about the law?

876
00:55:00,640 –> 00:55:02,320
I think the same principle
applies.

877
00:55:03,880 –> 00:55:07,360
When you need a law.
To.

878
00:55:07,480 –> 00:55:12,520
Be when you need.
The law to be a law the most, it

879
00:55:12,520 –> 00:55:15,160
ceases to be a law.
That was confusing.

880
00:55:17,680 –> 00:55:22,360
Why?
Because our desire overrules it,

881
00:55:22,480 –> 00:55:24,440
and it fails in our weakness.
Do you get it?

882
00:55:24,520 –> 00:55:28,520
When I need the law to be a law,
when I need the law to be a law

883
00:55:28,600 –> 00:55:35,400
to me, When I really need to be
a law to rule me, it’s not a

884
00:55:35,400 –> 00:55:37,440
law.
It fails to be a law.

885
00:55:37,440 –> 00:55:39,360
When I need to be a law.
Why?

886
00:55:41,840 –> 00:55:45,560
Because our desire just simply
overrules it the law.

887
00:55:45,560 –> 00:55:48,840
Fails in our weakness.
Not because the law was to

888
00:55:48,840 –> 00:55:57,120
blame, but because we’re sinful.
So as we conclude.

889
00:55:58,440 –> 00:55:59,800
I know I left you there, by the
way.

890
00:56:00,160 –> 00:56:01,720
So if you’re not the answer to
your problem, what is?

891
00:56:01,720 –> 00:56:03,800
We’re going to have to wait till
tomorrow to get into that,

892
00:56:04,280 –> 00:56:05,240
right?
Probably.

893
00:56:05,240 –> 00:56:06,480
Want to know what the answer is,
don’t you?

894
00:56:10,000 –> 00:56:11,560
Well, that’s what chapter
eight’s for, by the way.

895
00:56:12,320 –> 00:56:14,280
And Paul doesn’t end his
argument Chapter 7 either.

896
00:56:16,160 –> 00:56:18,840
So as we conclude, let’s read
through the last three verses of

897
00:56:18,840 –> 00:56:20,520
Chapter 7 has gained a little
expectation.

898
00:56:21,080 –> 00:56:24,840
Romans Chapter 7, verses 21.
Last four verses 21 through 25.

899
00:56:25,240 –> 00:56:29,440
I find in a law that evil is
present with me, the one who.

900
00:56:29,440 –> 00:56:33,040
Wills to do good, for I delight
in the law.

901
00:56:33,040 –> 00:56:34,720
Of God, according to the inward
man.

902
00:56:34,920 –> 00:56:36,600
But I see another law in my
members.

903
00:56:36,600 –> 00:56:39,600
Worrying is the law of my mind
and bringing me into captivity

904
00:56:39,880 –> 00:56:42,760
to the law of sin, which is my
members a.

905
00:56:42,840 –> 00:56:44,560
Wretched.
Man, that I am.

906
00:56:45,350 –> 00:56:47,030
Who will?
Deliver me from this body of

907
00:56:47,030 –> 00:56:51,790
death.
I thank God through Jesus Christ

908
00:56:51,790 –> 00:56:55,750
our Lord.
So then with my mind I serve the

909
00:56:55,750 –> 00:56:58,030
law of God with my flesh, the
law of sin.

910
00:56:59,310 –> 00:57:03,870
Oh, wretched man that I am, Can
you read those words

911
00:57:03,870 –> 00:57:06,830
dramatically enough?
Can we read them with a sweat

912
00:57:06,830 –> 00:57:10,270
and the tears of the the years
of toil trying to overcome sin?

913
00:57:10,430 –> 00:57:13,430
I mean, how long have you really
tried to go without sinning?

914
00:57:14,100 –> 00:57:16,540
How long have you really tried?
Have you ever tried?

915
00:57:17,140 –> 00:57:23,220
Have you said I’m not going to
sin, I’m not going to covet, I’m

916
00:57:23,220 –> 00:57:25,660
going to love my neighbor, I’m
going to love God.

917
00:57:25,660 –> 00:57:29,500
I’m going to put in first.
How long have you really tried

918
00:57:29,500 –> 00:57:33,580
to go without sinning?
Because if you tried and you

919
00:57:33,580 –> 00:57:37,260
failed and you failed and you
failed and you failed like Paul

920
00:57:37,260 –> 00:57:39,900
has, then you say.
I’m a Wretch.

921
00:57:42,630 –> 00:57:45,950
You understand that chapter 8
doesn’t work until you realize

922
00:57:45,950 –> 00:57:49,270
you’re a Wretch.
Chapter 8 doesn’t work.

923
00:57:50,630 –> 00:57:53,630
Chapter 8 only works when you’ve
concluded with Paul that you’re

924
00:57:53,630 –> 00:57:57,590
in the same position Paul was,
and this is Paul the apostle who

925
00:57:57,590 –> 00:58:00,950
concludes this.
Imagine a man who who could who

926
00:58:00,950 –> 00:58:03,190
could boast and works.
It would be the apostle Paul,

927
00:58:04,350 –> 00:58:08,030
and Paul has concluded that he’s
a Wretch.

928
00:58:10,400 –> 00:58:12,640
And I wonder if the reason we
don’t think that is because we

929
00:58:12,640 –> 00:58:19,480
don’t really try not to sin.
We’re kind of okay with sin or a

930
00:58:19,480 –> 00:58:24,240
little bit okay with it.
You know, I really can’t stop

931
00:58:24,240 –> 00:58:30,600
this thing that I struggle with.
So rather than stop it, I’m just

932
00:58:30,600 –> 00:58:31,880
going to stop feeling guilty
about it.

933
00:58:35,080 –> 00:58:36,400
Maybe we’ve reached that
conclusion.

934
00:58:39,810 –> 00:58:51,140
Sad conclusion to reach.
Paul was ready to understand how

935
00:58:51,140 –> 00:58:54,540
desperately he needed Christ
because he understood that the

936
00:58:54,540 –> 00:58:57,940
very thing that made him a
Wretch is exactly what Christ

937
00:58:57,940 –> 00:59:03,060
overcame now.
This is why when Jesus

938
00:59:03,060 –> 00:59:14,310
sacrificed himself on the cross.
You didn’t just endure pain or

939
00:59:14,310 –> 00:59:31,270
hunger or exhaustion or thirst
or ridicule or humiliation, even

940
00:59:31,270 –> 00:59:36,670
rejection, you know, when you
look at Cross Christ on the

941
00:59:36,670 –> 00:59:39,630
cross.
We think of the cross as being

942
00:59:39,630 –> 00:59:41,390
this brutally painful thing,
don’t we?

943
00:59:41,430 –> 00:59:45,790
Just brutally painful, right.
And having our our nails, you

944
00:59:45,790 –> 00:59:48,910
know, pound it into the to that
palms of our hands, you know,

945
00:59:48,910 –> 00:59:51,870
and we just think about how
painful that would be.

946
00:59:52,590 –> 00:59:56,390
But tell me, tell me young
people how much text is the

947
00:59:56,390 –> 01:00:00,590
Bible actually give to the to
the to the fact of crucifying

948
01:00:00,670 –> 01:00:05,390
Jesus.
I’ll tell you Matthew 2735 then

949
01:00:05,390 –> 01:00:10,150
they crucified him.
It gives us exactly 4 words.

950
01:00:13,030 –> 01:00:17,190
I’m trying to say it wasn’t
painful, but how much?

951
01:00:17,190 –> 01:00:22,150
Text the gospel writers focused
on the insults, on the emotional

952
01:00:22,150 –> 01:00:27,230
abuse, on humiliation, on the
rejection, on the slander that

953
01:00:27,230 –> 01:00:34,230
he endured quite a bit more.
Matthew 27, verse 39 we read.

954
01:00:34,650 –> 01:00:37,610
And those who passed by
blasphemed him, wagging their

955
01:00:37,610 –> 01:00:41,690
heads and saying, You destroy
the temple and build in three

956
01:00:41,690 –> 01:00:45,130
days.
Save yourself, you’re the Son

957
01:00:45,130 –> 01:00:46,090
of.
God, come down.

958
01:00:46,090 –> 01:00:51,250
From the cross, likewise the
chief priest, also mocking with

959
01:00:51,250 –> 01:00:55,330
the scribes and the elders, said
he saved others himself.

960
01:00:55,330 –> 01:00:57,570
He cannot.
Save He’s the king of Israel.

961
01:00:57,570 –> 01:00:58,930
Let him come down from the
cross.

962
01:00:58,930 –> 01:01:02,690
Now we will believe him.
He trusted in God.

963
01:01:03,280 –> 01:01:07,240
What if God deliver?
Him now God will have him for he

964
01:01:07,240 –> 01:01:12,000
said, I’m the Son of God.
The thieves also, which are

965
01:01:12,000 –> 01:01:14,680
crucified with him, cast him in
his.

966
01:01:14,720 –> 01:01:29,210
Teeth what?
He had victory over Did he have

967
01:01:29,210 –> 01:01:33,130
victory over pain?
Victory over pain Alone.

968
01:01:35,410 –> 01:01:37,450
Did he not have victory over
humiliation?

969
01:01:38,570 –> 01:01:40,050
Did he not have?
Victory.

970
01:01:40,690 –> 01:01:46,850
Over thirst, Over hunger.
Did he not have victory over

971
01:01:46,850 –> 01:01:54,450
rejection and humiliation?
Did not he have complete victory

972
01:01:54,490 –> 01:02:04,090
over self, the ultimate victory
over self, Over the flesh,

973
01:02:05,290 –> 01:02:09,570
Everything that he accomplished,
Everything he accomplished?

974
01:02:10,890 –> 01:02:13,210
Was in complete opposition to
his nature.

975
01:02:14,770 –> 01:02:18,290
He overcame passions so
poignantly expressed in this

976
01:02:18,290 –> 01:02:26,570
verse.
For it became him for whom are

977
01:02:26,570 –> 01:02:33,130
all things and by whom are all
things, in bringing many sons to

978
01:02:33,130 –> 01:02:38,250
Gori, to make the captain of
their salvation perfect through

979
01:02:38,250 –> 01:02:43,750
suffering.
That says sufferings promise

980
01:02:43,750 –> 01:02:47,190
you.
But you know what?

981
01:02:47,510 –> 01:02:51,870
That word suffering is the exact
same word passion.

982
01:02:56,870 –> 01:02:59,390
It’s the exact same word passion
from Roman seven.

983
01:03:00,950 –> 01:03:06,750
He was made perfect through
passion by yielding to the

984
01:03:06,750 –> 01:03:17,690
passion.
No, by yielding it to God, we

985
01:03:17,690 –> 01:03:19,810
all have the same thing inside
us.

986
01:03:20,090 –> 01:03:22,250
You get it?
We all have the same thing

987
01:03:22,250 –> 01:03:26,410
inside us.
You know Jesus did not want to

988
01:03:26,410 –> 01:03:29,570
die.
He did not want to die.

989
01:03:30,450 –> 01:03:33,010
And that is what gave his death
meaning.

990
01:03:34,330 –> 01:03:37,890
He suffered.
He said, oh wretched man, that I

991
01:03:37,890 –> 01:03:43,250
am, who will deliver me from
this body of death?

992
01:03:48,590 –> 01:03:51,310
I.
Thank God through Jesus Christ

993
01:03:51,310 –> 01:03:56,470
our Lord, Paul says.
So the young people.

994
01:04:00,110 –> 01:04:03,510
That’s what Christ took to the
cross and that’s what he

995
01:04:03,510 –> 01:04:08,920
crucified, so.
What I’m asking you to do is a

996
01:04:08,920 –> 01:04:12,640
very difficult thing.
What I’m actually asking you to

997
01:04:12,640 –> 01:04:16,240
do is I’m actually asking you to
consider yourself a Wretch

998
01:04:17,800 –> 01:04:20,280
because that is where Paul
leaves us at the end of Chapter

999
01:04:20,280 –> 01:04:24,920
7.
If I’ve got not gotten that idea

1000
01:04:24,920 –> 01:04:27,360
across and these first two
classes and I have failed

1001
01:04:28,960 –> 01:04:31,840
because that is the point to
which Paul has led us before we

1002
01:04:31,840 –> 01:04:35,720
begin Chapter 8, before we begin
that word.

1003
01:04:36,920 –> 01:04:40,280
Thanks.
Before that word, thanks.

1004
01:04:41,360 –> 01:04:46,360
That’s where we’re left.
I know that’s a difficult thing

1005
01:04:46,360 –> 01:04:48,680
to get across.
I know that you’re young.

1006
01:04:49,360 –> 01:04:50,560
I know that.
Every year you.

1007
01:04:50,560 –> 01:04:53,920
Gain more strength and you gain
more energy and become older.

1008
01:04:54,200 –> 01:04:57,320
And you know your flesh doesn’t
seem like it’s weakening.

1009
01:04:57,320 –> 01:04:58,320
It doesn’t seem like it’s weak
at all.

1010
01:04:58,320 –> 01:05:01,120
It just seems like it’s
strengthening and maybe when you

1011
01:05:01,120 –> 01:05:02,840
get to be.
A little bit older.

1012
01:05:03,280 –> 01:05:05,000
I mean, I feel like I’m on the
other side of it.

1013
01:05:05,000 –> 01:05:06,120
I don’t.
I feel like every year I feel a

1014
01:05:06,120 –> 01:05:07,400
little bit older.
I don’t feel better.

1015
01:05:07,950 –> 01:05:09,590
So maybe it’s a little bit more
obvious for me.

1016
01:05:11,590 –> 01:05:15,790
I know it’s a very hard thing to
understand at this point if I

1017
01:05:15,790 –> 01:05:19,510
implore you to understand it.
Because if you understand it,

1018
01:05:19,510 –> 01:05:21,110
you can make incredible
decisions.

1019
01:05:22,910 –> 01:05:29,030
You can make incredible choices.
You can be thankful.

1020
01:05:30,150 –> 01:05:35,150
You can show true gratitude.
You can really say thanks be to

1021
01:05:35,150 –> 01:05:37,520
God.
Through Jesus Christ our Lord.

1022
01:05:42,920 –> 01:05:47,680
So we thank Christ for his
example.

1023
01:05:49,760 –> 01:06:01,160
For it’s in Christ’s likeness,
actually, that we’re saved.

1024
01:06:01,160 –> 01:06:09,080
Young people Galatians chapter
5, verse 24, and those who are

1025
01:06:09,080 –> 01:06:13,360
Christs have crucified the
flesh.

1026
01:06:14,360 –> 01:06:18,440
With its passion and with this
desires.

1027
01:06:22,440 –> 01:06:30,080
So tomorrow we’ll consider.
Then if we get to this point, we

1028
01:06:30,080 –> 01:06:34,040
get to the point where we’re
actually willing to do this, the

1029
01:06:34,040 –> 01:06:37,560
amazing blessings we have in
Jesus.