Dave Pogson – Atonement – Class 5

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Boy, brother Dave comes forward.
He gives us his words.

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We’ll read post in the scripture
and it’ll be taken from Romans

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chapter 3 from verses 19 through
to the end, verse 31.

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OK, Unfortunately, brothers and
sisters, we had to break right

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at a critical time in our study
the last occasion, and that

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makes it a bit hard for you, OK?
And you’ve got to pick up right

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in the middle of crucial verses.
You got to pick up at verse 25,

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which is the regarded by all the
brethren and even scholars out

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of the truth as the most
important statement on the

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reason for Christ’s death, OK?
It’s a bit of a bit of a

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problem.
OK, so just your eyes, brother.

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Nola obviously marked out the
looks there, did the reading

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there.
If you got your pencils, you

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might need them again, but we’ve
got the essential ones already

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done.
Now there are environments that

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remember there are two methods
of righteousness.

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One method was the Jewish method
method, which was called their

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own righteousness.
OK, here we’re dealing with

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another method called God’s
righteousness.

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OK, so here we have two methods
of righteousness.

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A language is the language of
the law.

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Courts as a judge and there’s
people in the witness box, OK,

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And the word righteous or just
Greek court words, OK, Dickey,

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Asini and so on and so on, OK.
And remember, as I think I’ve

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pointed out before, and this
language, we’re in court.

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In this language we’re in court
right up to Chapter 8.

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You’re in court.
The language is the language of

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the Greek courts, OK, So a
judge, as in our day, a judge,

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he can pronounce a person
innocent, OK, because he is

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innocent, or he may choose to
pronounce a person innocent

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who’s actually guilty.
And in our courts it’s called

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amnesty, but it is actually
forgiveness.

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It’s a legal forgiveness.
In other words, the judge may

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say, Oh, well, this is first
offence, he was highly provoked

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and etcetera, etcetera, and even
though he’s guilty, we’re going

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to let him go as long as he
doesn’t turn up in court again.

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So yeah, but that’s amnesty.
Now what we’re dealing with here

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is in Romans, right, we’re
dealing with an amnesty

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righteousness, a righteousness
of forgiveness.

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It’s not just forgiveness, it’s
a righteousness of repentance,

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forgiveness and divine help.
That’s the gospel in Acts

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chapter 2.
What shall we do?

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Repent the conversion,
repentance, right?

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Be baptized for remission of
sins and you’ll get divine help.

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You’ll get the Holy Spirit or
whatever is necessary.

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You’ll get divine help.
So they’re the, they’re the,

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that’s what’s involved in
amnesty, those three things.

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We’re not only being given
forgiveness, that says in Acts,

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we’re being given repentance.
That’s unusual, isn’t it?

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And you’ll find in the New
Testament that forgiveness and

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repentance are just linked
indivisibly.

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And sometimes you get a verse
which you think is going to say,

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oh, and you get forgiveness of
sins.

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And it doesn’t say that it it
says to turn you from dead works

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to serve the living God.
And then the next verse might

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talk about forgiveness.
In other words, one has never

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considered without the other.
If forgiveness is used as a

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heading that always involves
perpendence and divine help,

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right?
And so that at at baptism, when

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you reach baptism, you initiated
into that relationship, we’ve

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got a relationship of
repentance, forgiveness and

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divine help right you that
commences as a covenant

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relationship of baptism.
Then it becomes a daily thing

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through your death, up to your
resurrection, through the

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judgement seat until you’re
moral.

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Now we got that.
It’s very simple.

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They’re very fundamental.
They’re very different to the

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Jewish idea of God giving you a
set of rules, you trusting in

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yourself to keep that set of
rules and earn a pronouncement

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of righteousness and eternal
law.

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Very, very different.
I mean, but both systems

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required forgiveness.
Both systems required belief in

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God and but their base, their
bases were obviously.

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OK, one’s built on reliance of
the flesh to keep a set of

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rules, and long as your acts of
righteousness exceeded your

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sins, you’re in front.
You’re earning eternal, you’re

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earning a pronouncement of
righteousness.

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But as the other one says, yeah,
there’s got to be works and

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everything, but you can never
earn.

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The gifts of God, you need
forgiveness all the time.

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You, you need to convert to
happily.

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You’ve got to look at yourself
and turn around every day and

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you need to bind help every day.
It’s a daily thing.

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You know today, if you will hear
his voice.

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That’s one of the things that
we’re very LAX about.

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And that is that the method of
the truth is a daily thing.

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You can’t do it on Sunday.
You can’t do it three days a

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week.
You can’t do it six days a week.

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You got to do it seven days a
week, OK, Otherwise the system

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doesn’t work.
So that’s the background.

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All right.
See how good you can

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concentrate.
All right.

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I’ve got right out of my head
the fact that I had to cook the

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tea tonight with was Dory fish
and peas and, and, and what else

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was it?
And so I can’t even remember

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that.
And I I cooked.

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Her under very strict directions
however my life’s a little bit

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in dispose at the moment so I
put that right out of my head OK

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so let’s quickly take you
through from verse 19.

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We’ve got to quickly get to 25.
It’s the key one see how good

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you can concentrate and I’m
going to do a little bit of

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interpreting as I go along.
Are you ready Verse 19 Now we

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know or we perceive that
whatsoever things the law of

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Moses said said to them that are
under that law and that every

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mouth every mouth and what it’s
saying is you Jews as well as

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the Gentiles.
No one that the Gentiles were

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sinners.
So the Jews have thought they

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were pretty good, that every
mouth may be stopped and.

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All the world.
You Jews as well as the

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Gentiles, all the world may
become guilty before God.

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That was the work and purpose of
the law of Moses, to make you

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aware of just how sinful you
are.

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Verse 20.
Therefore, by deeds or works of

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law, right?
Law is strict, strict equity,

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right.
You get what you deserve on a

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principle of law.
Therefore, by deeds of law there

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shall no flesh.
It’d be justified in His sight.

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The phrase No flesh will be
pronounced righteous in His

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sight is taken from Psalm 143,
verse 2 in the margin there

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under X.
See, that’s Psalm 143 verse 2,

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is it?
Yep.

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So shall no flesh be justified
in his sights?

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Quoting from there.
OK.

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Which I think is the Psalm,
which says enter not into

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judgment with us, because if you
enter into judges, nobody’s

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going to be justified.
We’re all going to be guilty,

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OK?
So that’s his conclusion, verse

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20 about the law for by the law.
For by law is the epicnosis, the

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full experience of sin, and Paul
develops that in Chapter 7.

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I’d not know I’m sin, but by the
law I’d not known lust, except

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the Lord said thou shalt not
covet thy neighbour’s wife, thy

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neighbour’s, etcetera.
What it is, it’s a divine set of

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values, OK, applied to people
who are naturally.

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Sinners all right.
And the law.

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Is designed to make them aware
of just how natural a Sinner we

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are, because our natural sinning
actually limits our perception

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of our sin.
It blinds us all to some degree.

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You may sin a major sin, and you
may convert it from it, and you

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may be spiritually redeveloped
and rehabilitated and it always

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leaves a scar.
And even though you’re

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functional, it is to some extent
that leaves a limitation.

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Look at that scar.
Look at the size of this scar.

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Look at that.
It’s a beauty.

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You know, I had a fight with a
nine inch angle grinder.

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It won, OK, It cut that, cut
that across that hand, fell,

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cut, broke 2 fingers there and
then it hit the floor, broke

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into two bits and then bounced
off the floor.

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I can remember none of this,
can’t remember a thing about it.

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All I can remember is I was in
trouble, OK?

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Bounced off the floor, jumped up
and screwed the other half of

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the 9 inch angle grinder disc
inside my leg so he couldn’t

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even see it was there.
And the ambulance men didn’t

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even know what was wrong, you
know, that had disappeared

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inside the leg, missed the main
artery, slipped between the two

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bones.
Miraculously, Alan’s enjoying

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every bit of this and, and you
know, they refused to saw it all

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up because and because it was an
old army surgeon.

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He said, oh, we close the legs
up and in the end they get that

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infected, we have to take the
Lego.

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And he wouldn’t do that.
He let it drain for a fortnight

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or something.
Then they took skin off here and

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grafted it.
Hence this great big scar.

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Now the point is, look, I don’t
even limp, do I?

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You wouldn’t know I’d had a
major problem in my leg.

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But yeah, you should see me on a
roof, though.

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On a roof.
I’m hopeless.

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My wife stands down the bottom
of the ladder screaming at me

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because it’s just left
limitations.

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You get my point.
And even though you’re sin, and

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even though you’re forgiven, you
know, I’m talking about major

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sins, OK?
It leaves a scar.

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OK.
And that limits our perception

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of sin.
And sometimes when you’re

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confronted with an ecclesial
problem, that’s a major moral

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problem.
It may even distort your

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decision about what should be
done.

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So what I’m putting to you we.
All tend to be blinded to some

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extent by sin.
We missed those pages.

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That was an earlier session.
OK, but the Law of Moses gave

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you the knowledge out of
experience.

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You just couldn’t maintain
divine values.

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You inevitably felt OK.
Therefore the idea of earning

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salvation is ridiculous.
Not even Christ.

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It was perfect.
Even though it was worthy of

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what he got.
He never claimed to have heard

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us.
OK, he got it because of a

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perfect faith producing a
perfect obedience, because of

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the perfect dependence upon God,
and he glorified God for what he

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was, not himself who has had
absolutely no pride in it.

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Whereas the Jewish method, their
whole religion, was based on the

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pride of life, the pride of self
achievement, which we do.

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Every day at work, you’ve got to
have a bit of self-confidence,

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you know, you’ve got to use that
in natural things, OK?

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But even in the world, like, if
you start thinking you’re pretty

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good, everyone calls you a big
head and and all that and that

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you know, and pride gets there.
But when it comes to eternal

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things, you know the so that’s
the flesh, the lust they are.

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We all think it’s when we’re
young people, that’s the flesh

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is the big problem.
All right.

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But the real big problem is.
Really, the pride of life, it’s

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so deep in your psyche and so
hard to perceive.

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It’s a real problem, you know?
It’s a real big problem.

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I reckon confession is good for
the soul.

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I can remember half of my life
ago when I was around 35 or

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something, I, I, I spoke down at
Glenlock Camp.

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You’ve heard of that camp down
on the Murray River, OK.

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And I was doing Galatians, OK.
And the, yeah, 700 or 1000

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people there.
And I was giving this stuff on

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Galatians, OK?
And first up, first up, I’d

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dress up as the Jedi’s and put
their argument.

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Then I’d get up and explain it
from Galatians what the answers

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were, you know?
But you know, they were going

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all right.
And people thought it was

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traffic, but I wasn’t really
happy with it.

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I just didn’t feel I was
communicating what I wanted to

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communicate, OK?
And and that’s genuine.

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I wanted to communicate better.
I wanted this message to get

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across OK and anyway it came
Sunday morning of all time

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Sunday morning memorial.
Imagine this Sunday memorial

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meeting.
OK and I was dealing with Paul’s

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sickness.
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he he preached to the Gentiles
at the first he preached as a

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sick man.
And I was thumping this

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beautiful stuff on how God’s
strength made perfect in

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weakness.
Talk about that was the theme.

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God’s strength made perfect in
weakness.

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And how, how Paul, when he was,
when he was under tremendous

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stress, he had this inherent
problem, a thorn in the flesh, a

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problem that under stress, he
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Obviously I’ll all right.
Really obviously I’ll.

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And he said the Galatians, it
was possible you’d have given me

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your own eye.
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He said it was your trial in my
flesh.

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You know, the the the Jedi would
say you call him a an apostle,

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you call him somebody and look
at him.

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Look what God’s doing to him.
He’s obviously dead on his feet

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and he looked like he was cursed
of God.

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Get the idea.
So this was terrific exhortation

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and and.
And I was really getting across

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and I was really happy about it.
And then, you know, and then I

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got the last main phrase, the
exhortation, you know, just

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before they, they’re giving the
emblems and.

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And I looked around the crowd
of, you know, 700,000, whatever

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they are down there and, and,
and, and this scene only lasted

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A millisecond.
I recognized it straight away,

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but it happened.
I looked around the comic crowd

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that had gone across.
Fantastic.

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That’s the way I wished every
session had gone across.

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And you know what I’ve said in
my mind?

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Copped that, copped that in
other words, wasn’t that

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terrific.
And I I was standing there.

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And I thought went through my
head and I felt that wretched.

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I felt, I recognized it
immediately.

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What was it?
The pride of life.

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I’d started off with the right
motives because it went so well.

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I finished up with the wrong.
Now that’s how deceitful sin is.

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So that’s what we’re dealing
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So the law amplified that sin.
Verse 21.

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But now God’s method of
righteousness apart from law has

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been revealed, manifested.
I was witnessed by the Old

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Testament law and the prophets.
It’s even a a divine method of

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righteousness which is
conditional upon you having

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faith in what Jesus Christ was
all about.

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And it’s this pronouncement by
the judge that comes upon upon

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all or upon all them, that
faith, the people that really

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believe what Jesus work was all
about to the point where they

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are moved to repentance, to the
point where they get baptized,

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to the point where they have
turned their direction of life

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and they’re going to commit
themselves to letting God help

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them in that new direction of
life.

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That’s what faith is.
That’s what faith is.

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Faith is belief to the point.
Where it turns you around.

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OK, it’s not just believing.
I believe two and two and four

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doesn’t do much for me except
when I get my change at the

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shop.
It’s got no moral effect.

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OK, verse 23 he says the reason
why we’ve got to have this

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method and why it can’t be an
earning method is because all of

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sinned 2 things we’ve sinned.
We’ve done what God’s law says

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you shouldn’t do.
They should not cover the

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neighbour’s wife, the
neighborhood right, and we’ve

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failed to manifest God’s holy
characteristics.

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We’ve all come short of glory,
God.

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So we’re sinned in the positive
areas of God manifestation and

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we’ve sinned in the areas of the
manifestation of the flesh.

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OK, Therefore we’re fine and
there’s no way we can never go

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before the judge and.
Claim a right to be proclaimed

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righteous.
It’s just ridiculous.

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OK, so he says.
Well then.

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What are we going to believe
about Jesus Christ?

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What did he do?
Verse 24?

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We’re being pronounced righteous
freely.

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You never earned it.
It’s by God’s grace, unmerited

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favour, and it’s through the
redemption that is the saving

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method.
That is in Christ Jesus.

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Jesus Christ went through the
method himself perfectly.

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Now this is key, key concept.
He went through the method

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perfectly.
Perfect faith, perfect trust,

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perfect to be, perfect death,
perfect resurrection, perfect

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judgement, perfect immortality.
So much so is exhorted above

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even the ancients.
So what you have is a divine

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manifestation of the perfect
method of salvation.

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He was pronounced righteous.
OK, we act because he was

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righteous, but it was a
righteousness that came from

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faith.
His reliance on God it.

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Wasn’t a self righteousness, it
wasn’t of my own self.

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I can do nothing.
It was a derived righteousness.

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OK.
Therefore it was a faith

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righteousness.
Therefore, though He was so

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wonderful a person, the glory is
to His Father and not to

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Himself.
OK, so it’s a faith

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righteousness.
And here we have the method set

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forth in a perfect way, OK.
And really, that’s what the

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great sacrifice of God is.
What is a sacrifice It is this

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perfect example of a man
obtaining redemption from a

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human, mortal, sin prone,
temptable condition up to.

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Through death and then a change
to immortality.

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So he’s called the first fruits.
He’s the first one of that that

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would obtain through that
method.

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Eternal law have the idea.
OK, so it says.

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And The thing is that God gave
him this redemption and he says,

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OK, we’re a family and I’m going
to give.

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You brothers and sisters.
And I’m going to let you share

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your redemption and your
achievements with them.

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Oh yeah, it’ll involve
forgiveness, but they’ve got to

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at least.
Follow the direction you went

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and that’s it.
In simple terms, that’s the

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whole doctrine of the atonement.
If we will endeavour to follow

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Him and use the same methods
within the limits to our

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capacity and using the same
methods for Christ’s sake,

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because He did it perfectly and
because we’re His family, His

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brethren, sons of God by
adoption, behold on the children

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that is God’s children that have
given me, God lets us.

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God lets him share.
His redemption with us, and that

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was in our readings.
That was in our readings in John

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John 5.
As the Father hath life in

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himself, so if they’d given the
Son to have life in himself.

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He’s committed all judgment of
the Son because he’s a son of

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man.
He’s one of man and man had

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dishonored God, and this man and
honored men attain unto the

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salvation that I intended for
the human race and so on.

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OK, so let’s get on with verse
25, whom our concentrate very

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hard whom God has set forth.
We won’t change that it could be

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changed, but that’s OK means for
ordained.

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Some translated it publicly
shown, but as the margin says,

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it does actually mean ordained
beforehand.

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God ordained well beforehand was
in the predetermined counsel of

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God that he would get Jesus
Christ and make him what he says

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He makes him here.
So God sets him forth to be a

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propitiation in his blood, and
God has set forth to be a

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propitiation in his.
Blood and you’re going to

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believe it seems to be the flow
of thought, OK.

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And then the revised version,
they changed these commas.

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They put a comma there.
And there, instead of it being

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just faith in his blood, the
propitiation that was set forth

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is the propitiation in his
blood.

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In his death, the blood is
death, OK?

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It’s not literal blood.
Literal blood is only the Law of

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Moses type of giving up life.
When it says blood, it simply

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means his voluntary death.
That’s all it means, his

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voluntary death.
He’s a man who voluntarily die.

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That’s what blood means, OK?
Even though the law of Moses,

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the blood is put for the Life,
OK.

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In the when you come to the New
Testament, they use the Old

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Testament language as a
shorthand.

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And when they use blood, they
mean his death, his voluntary

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death.
That’s all it means.

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Let’s keep it simple.
OK, So what was he doing?

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It says he’s been a propitiatory
in the last occasion someone

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said a propitiation is a mercy
seat.

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Remember someone said that.
And that the word only occurs

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once more, and that’s in Hebrews
and it’s translated mercy seat.

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OK, but it does occur more than
once.

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It occurs quite a few times, but
not in that exact form.

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That’s sometimes.
It occurs in the First of John

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chapters.
First of John.

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Chapter 2.
It occurs there, Christ to us,

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our propitiation for our sins.
It’s a slightly different

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variation of the word, but it’s
the same basic word.

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OK.
And and and.

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Mercy seats.
OK, right.

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But it’s actually in the Greek
it means the place of favour.

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In the Hebrew it was Caporet and
it means the place of covering.

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OK.
It’s the place where the high

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priest went to sprinkle the
blood once a year in the Day of

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Atonement and obtained
forgiveness of sins.

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It’s the place of favour for
forgiveness, for acceptance.

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It’s the place.
So what is the real place?

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Is that the mercy said in the
Tabernacle?

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Now?
That’s not the real place.

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The real place is Jesus Christ.
Death here is the.

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Place right there, God says.
I’ll meet you there.

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I’ll meet you for the purposes
of covering, I’ll meet you for

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the persons of favour.
Purposes of favour.

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I will meet you nowhere else.
There’s none other name given

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under heaven whereby men might
be saved.

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God says I’ll only meet you at
Jesus Christ and him crucified.

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OK.
Why?

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Why only there and why at his
blood?

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OK, why?
Why?

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Has anyone got any problem with
that on you anyway?

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So far?
Let’s go into why through faith

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in his blood.
The next phrase is the great

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phrase to declare His
righteousness.

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Actually, if you got your
pencils in the Greek, it

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actually is.
To declare the righteousness of

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him.
It’s a the righteousness.

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It’s not a righteousness.
Boy, I’ve got ahead of it,

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haven’t I?
Let’s explain this chart before

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we deal with that.
Declare God’s righteousness.

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So here’s a man, He has faith.
He looks at this.

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And he believes in it so much so
that it turns him around.

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What does what does he believe
in?

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He believes in the whole work
and ministry of Jesus Christ.

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It’s called here the blood
because this is the main point

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of the whole process, but it
involves the lot involve Jesus

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Christ birth preparation.
Here’s Christ getting baptized.

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Here’s his ministry all the life
overcoming sin, exposing sin,

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manifesting God.
OK, and it all comes to a final

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moment of triumph over
temptation.

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The moral victory, the physical
victory over death, comes here

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when he gets raised and changed.
Immortality.

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That’s the physical victory, but
that’s the easy bit.

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This is the hard bit, and that’s
why so much stress is placed

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upon it.
It was.

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Here, Here was a moral victory.
Here was the victory of a man

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who’d taken on board the divine
mind, and that had proved more

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powerful than the mind of the
flesh.

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The first Adam and God created
had failed to do it.

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He was the second Son, Son of
God, and he did it.

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And that honored God, and it
took away the big question mark

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about the efficacy of the divine
Word in the life of people.

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It showed that given a man the
capacity to take it fully on

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board, it was all powerful, OK.
It was like, I mean, it’s a

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prodigious thing that a man
should live a completely sinless

435
00:30:10,160 –> 00:30:12,360
life.
It’s absolutely prodigious in

436
00:30:12,360 –> 00:30:15,080
this nature.
Tempted in all points like we

437
00:30:15,080 –> 00:30:19,360
are all right.
And he didn’t have scars like

438
00:30:19,360 –> 00:30:23,680
this in his head, OK?
He can perceive every sin, every

439
00:30:23,680 –> 00:30:25,120
moment.
Of pride of life.

440
00:30:26,120 –> 00:30:29,400
All right, every little thing
that we don’t even know are sins

441
00:30:29,400 –> 00:30:31,840
yet He would recognize and
suppress.

442
00:30:32,640 –> 00:30:37,400
He was taught directly by God.
All right, He was educated by.

443
00:30:37,400 –> 00:30:39,800
God.
He was conceived by God to give

444
00:30:39,800 –> 00:30:44,200
him the capacity to do it.
And then God directly educated

445
00:30:44,200 –> 00:30:45,880
him.
He opened his ear morning by

446
00:30:45,880 –> 00:30:48,280
morning and gave him the tongue
of the learn.

447
00:30:48,560 –> 00:30:50,680
That’s opened my ear.
My body is there.

448
00:30:50,680 –> 00:30:53,760
Prepared in all those places,
Psalm 119 is the.

449
00:30:54,360 –> 00:30:56,840
It’s all about the Word of God,
the Word of God, and that’s the

450
00:30:56,920 –> 00:30:59,040
Spirit of Christ.
Psalm 19 and all the other

451
00:30:59,040 –> 00:31:02,560
psalms as well.
OK, so it it vindicated the

452
00:31:02,560 –> 00:31:06,400
power of the divine.
Mind, you can’t go higher.

453
00:31:06,400 –> 00:31:10,360
Than the divine mind, it
vindicated that and showed that

454
00:31:10,360 –> 00:31:16,000
it is more powerful than the
great power of carnal thinking.

455
00:31:16,720 –> 00:31:19,080
OK.
That’s fundamental, the

456
00:31:19,080 –> 00:31:21,440
atonement.
God gets honoured first.

457
00:31:21,760 –> 00:31:25,120
Oh, we’re looking for salvation
and forgiveness, but what

458
00:31:25,120 –> 00:31:29,560
happens first is God’s got to be
on OK, That’s fundamentally

459
00:31:29,560 –> 00:31:32,800
you’ve got to God’s, you’ve got
to love.

460
00:31:32,800 –> 00:31:35,800
Him first, then your neighbor as
yourself, God first.

461
00:31:36,680 –> 00:31:38,680
You’re totally dependent on him
for everything.

462
00:31:38,720 –> 00:31:44,600
Shouldn’t it be so?
Shouldn’t it be so so when it

463
00:31:44,600 –> 00:31:48,720
says his blood?
It’s taking the pivotal point of

464
00:31:48,720 –> 00:31:53,480
the whole thing to represent the
whole process that there is sort

465
00:31:53,480 –> 00:31:55,840
of taken as a heading for the
whole process.

466
00:31:55,920 –> 00:32:00,080
His development, his baptism,
his ministry, his death, his

467
00:32:00,080 –> 00:32:03,480
resurrection, his elevation to
God, to sit on the right hand of

468
00:32:03,480 –> 00:32:07,560
God.
If you can believe that to the

469
00:32:07,560 –> 00:32:11,360
point believe all that to the
point where it turns you round

470
00:32:12,080 –> 00:32:17,760
and you’re prepared to identify
with it in baptism and start

471
00:32:17,760 –> 00:32:23,160
taking on board the help that
God gives us and and show the

472
00:32:23,160 –> 00:32:25,720
same spirit of dependence ABBA
father.

473
00:32:25,720 –> 00:32:31,040
In other words, help if you can
take that on board God says

474
00:32:31,120 –> 00:32:35,320
amnesty.
I forgive and I accept your

475
00:32:35,320 –> 00:32:40,640
repentance.
And mate, how well?

476
00:32:40,640 –> 00:32:44,960
Did you repent?
You know, I got baptized when I

477
00:32:44,960 –> 00:32:51,160
was 16 1/2.
Yeah, I repented and I changed

478
00:32:51,160 –> 00:32:53,320
direction.
And I wonder how well I’ve been.

479
00:32:53,880 –> 00:32:56,120
I’ve been changing it every day
ever since.

480
00:32:56,520 –> 00:32:58,840
In other words, there’s a
million since.

481
00:32:58,840 –> 00:33:00,360
I didn’t even know her since
then.

482
00:33:00,880 –> 00:33:04,120
But I changed the general
direction of life.

483
00:33:04,560 –> 00:33:07,680
OK, I I didn’t want to pursue
the life of sin.

484
00:33:07,680 –> 00:33:10,040
I didn’t want to race after the
world and everything that’s got

485
00:33:10,040 –> 00:33:12,760
me more.
I wanted to try and follow God’s

486
00:33:12,760 –> 00:33:18,640
ways, but what an imperfect,
what a very imperfect

487
00:33:18,640 –> 00:33:23,000
repentance.
So even even to.

488
00:33:24,320 –> 00:33:26,880
Say you were forgot to say I
accept your.

489
00:33:26,880 –> 00:33:29,280
Repentance.
Even that’s forgiveness.

490
00:33:30,440 –> 00:33:35,080
Even that’s forgiveness, OK?
So that’s a wonderful act of

491
00:33:35,080 –> 00:33:37,680
divine grace.
So we.

492
00:33:37,680 –> 00:33:38,840
Come on to the next.
Phrase.

493
00:33:38,840 –> 00:33:40,960
So what was God Christ doing
here?

494
00:33:42,480 –> 00:33:46,680
The next phrase in the verse is
he was declaring his

495
00:33:46,760 –> 00:33:50,560
righteousness.
That is the righteousness of

496
00:33:50,560 –> 00:33:54,080
God.
He was actually declaring that

497
00:33:54,080 –> 00:34:02,920
God was personally righteous.
He’s not talking about the

498
00:34:02,920 –> 00:34:07,400
method of righteousness.
He’s saying God when he died

499
00:34:07,400 –> 00:34:11,679
there he was saying God is
righteous.

500
00:34:12,800 –> 00:34:16,920
Earlier in chapter 3 in the
early verses it said says let

501
00:34:16,920 –> 00:34:19,920
God be true and every man a
liar, let him be righteous

502
00:34:20,400 –> 00:34:22,639
right.
Then it quotes from the Psalm

503
00:34:22,639 –> 00:34:27,000
with David, with the sin of
Bathsheba, and he and it says.

504
00:34:28,400 –> 00:34:31,840
And it says that there might
just be righteous fight in thy

505
00:34:31,840 –> 00:34:34,719
sayings, and they might overcome
when they are judged.

506
00:34:34,719 –> 00:34:38,159
David knew, and that Psalm 51,
that Psalm of repentance.

507
00:34:38,159 –> 00:34:41,120
So the first thing he had to do
was acknowledge that God was

508
00:34:41,120 –> 00:34:43,360
right and his judgement.
He knew he should have been put

509
00:34:43,360 –> 00:34:45,719
to death.
And he acknowledged that God was

510
00:34:45,719 –> 00:34:49,199
righteous and against thee only
have I sinned and done this

511
00:34:49,199 –> 00:34:52,840
great evil in my sight.
He had to acknowledge that God’s

512
00:34:52,840 –> 00:34:56,280
judgments on sin are correct.
And what he should have been

513
00:34:56,280 –> 00:35:00,920
doing, he wasn’t doing on that
occasion he wasn’t doing OK.

514
00:35:01,280 –> 00:35:05,160
So there has to be a vindication
that God’s position is correct

515
00:35:05,440 –> 00:35:07,920
and yours is not.
I mean, another man could have

516
00:35:07,920 –> 00:35:12,240
said, Oh yeah, I got mixed up
with Bathsheba, but I’ve been

517
00:35:12,240 –> 00:35:15,960
through a lot, saw that, been
chasing me for donkeys years.

518
00:35:15,960 –> 00:35:19,200
And now the whole I’ve got the
whole Kingdom and the pressure,

519
00:35:19,520 –> 00:35:22,840
it just got the better of me.
And in the end I went over the

520
00:35:22,840 –> 00:35:24,600
edge and I was a nervous
breakdown.

521
00:35:24,600 –> 00:35:28,480
And then that innovative state,
I saw this woman and so on and

522
00:35:28,480 –> 00:35:30,000
so.
They could have put all these

523
00:35:30,000 –> 00:35:34,160
excuses OK.
That’s not out.

524
00:35:34,160 –> 00:35:37,320
It’s OK.
God wants confession.

525
00:35:38,680 –> 00:35:41,120
God wants you to.
Face up to the facts.

526
00:35:41,920 –> 00:35:44,160
God wants confession.
I’ll keep quoting to you

527
00:35:45,080 –> 00:35:52,160
Proverbs 28, verse 13 or 14.
He that confesses and forsakeeth

528
00:35:52,160 –> 00:35:55,040
his sin shall find mercy with
God.

529
00:35:56,000 –> 00:36:00,800
He that confesses and forsakeeth
his sin shall find mercy with

530
00:36:00,800 –> 00:36:04,360
God.
But we’ve got a problem.

531
00:36:05,200 –> 00:36:07,000
And this is key to the
atonement.

532
00:36:08,920 –> 00:36:15,320
You can’t fully confess your
sin, nor can you fully confess

533
00:36:16,080 –> 00:36:20,640
God’s righteousness.
There’s a lot of righteous

534
00:36:20,920 –> 00:36:23,800
characteristics about God that
you haven’t even learned about

535
00:36:23,800 –> 00:36:28,560
yet, in all their subtleties.
There’s a lot of sins that you

536
00:36:28,560 –> 00:36:31,880
haven’t woken up to yet.
Are sins, they may be just the

537
00:36:31,880 –> 00:36:35,680
way you react to a conversation
each time or a given situation,

538
00:36:35,920 –> 00:36:38,560
which by habit you’d think’s OK.
And that’s right, you haven’t

539
00:36:38,560 –> 00:36:42,320
even learned that.
That’s really a quite selfish

540
00:36:42,320 –> 00:36:44,840
and unscriptural position.
You just haven’t learned it.

541
00:36:45,160 –> 00:36:46,440
That’s probably true to me
anyway.

542
00:36:46,760 –> 00:36:50,040
How much more so when you’re
young, 16 1/2?

543
00:36:50,280 –> 00:36:53,360
How much you know?
How well could I?

544
00:36:53,360 –> 00:36:58,760
Confess how righteous God was
and how sinful I was.

545
00:36:59,920 –> 00:37:03,760
I did it, but to a limited
degree.

546
00:37:04,960 –> 00:37:10,880
To a limited degree, there’s
only one man who could fully.

547
00:37:10,880 –> 00:37:19,200
Confess all sin and the enormity
of it, and full manifestation

548
00:37:19,480 –> 00:37:24,720
and appreciation and recognition
and copying of God’s values and

549
00:37:24,720 –> 00:37:26,880
God’s conduct.
There’s only one man.

550
00:37:27,280 –> 00:37:31,480
That could completely do that.
And who did do it?

551
00:37:33,480 –> 00:37:34,560
And that’s what it’s saying
here.

552
00:37:37,520 –> 00:37:42,560
He came to declare and the key
word and this is absolutely

553
00:37:42,560 –> 00:37:49,080
essential for you.
So this word declare means more

554
00:37:49,080 –> 00:37:52,160
than declared involves the idea
declare and the views declare

555
00:37:52,160 –> 00:37:54,640
because that’s how it occurs a
lot in the Old Testament.

556
00:37:55,160 –> 00:37:59,040
OK, but.
It’s a word.

557
00:37:59,120 –> 00:38:05,360
It’s not the usual word for
declare, OK, And this is a key

558
00:38:05,360 –> 00:38:17,380
idea.
It’s in dark SIS, whereas

559
00:38:17,380 –> 00:38:21,660
declare is a completely
different Greek word and it

560
00:38:21,660 –> 00:38:25,900
means to show forth that says
here in the Greek interlinear to

561
00:38:25,900 –> 00:38:30,940
show forth.
A lot of translations translated

562
00:38:31,740 –> 00:38:38,520
demonstrate it comes the most to
To study it in your

563
00:38:38,520 –> 00:38:42,560
concordances, you’ve got to look
up the word show because the

564
00:38:42,560 –> 00:38:48,120
main word is it’s a.
The basic word is actually DEI

565
00:38:48,120 –> 00:38:51,840
all.
Right, but there’s all these

566
00:38:51,840 –> 00:38:57,320
words with different startings.
This one’s N indexes OK, others

567
00:38:57,400 –> 00:39:01,320
at our, and then there’s.
Digna And then it goes on and

568
00:39:01,320 –> 00:39:03,800
on, All these different words,
but they all come from this

569
00:39:03,800 –> 00:39:08,920
basic idea of putting something
on exhibition to be seen.

570
00:39:10,720 –> 00:39:14,600
And in the blood of Christ,
Uncle Ron, doesn’t he always

571
00:39:14,600 –> 00:39:17,560
talk about an exhibition of the
righteousness of God?

572
00:39:17,560 –> 00:39:19,800
He loves Brother Roberts loves
this word exhibit.

573
00:39:20,080 –> 00:39:21,920
You wonder where he got it from?
That’s where he got it from.

574
00:39:22,360 –> 00:39:26,760
And says, Brother Carter, they
use this word exhibit or show or

575
00:39:27,160 –> 00:39:29,800
knowledge dinner, right?
They get it.

576
00:39:29,800 –> 00:39:31,800
They’ve looked all this up.
They know they’re Greek.

577
00:39:31,960 –> 00:39:35,320
They know they’re Hebrew, OK.
And they just, they don’t

578
00:39:35,320 –> 00:39:40,080
explain where they got it from,
but they say he exhibited the

579
00:39:40,080 –> 00:39:43,320
righteousness of God.
OK.

580
00:39:44,160 –> 00:39:48,800
So basically it comes from the
idea of putting something on

581
00:39:48,800 –> 00:39:50,680
exhibit, therefore putting it on
show.

582
00:39:51,920 –> 00:39:53,000
I know.
And.

583
00:39:53,720 –> 00:39:56,840
It’s very common in the word
show in the Bob which occurs a

584
00:39:56,840 –> 00:40:01,880
lot of times and most of the
words where the word show SHEW

585
00:40:01,880 –> 00:40:06,360
or SHOW which is the old.
Spelling comes from this idea of

586
00:40:06,360 –> 00:40:11,080
putting something on exhibit.
I don’t know, you know, coming

587
00:40:11,080 –> 00:40:14,400
from Keener Barabrand.
We used to go to what we call

588
00:40:14,400 –> 00:40:16,440
that quip.
It was a show.

589
00:40:16,920 –> 00:40:18,080
You went along there and what do
you?

590
00:40:18,080 –> 00:40:20,840
Expect to see you expect to see
the latest harvesters, the

591
00:40:20,840 –> 00:40:24,240
tractors and all the different
cattle.

592
00:40:24,400 –> 00:40:27,920
When you were hungry, you would,
you’d go to get a steak sandwich

593
00:40:27,920 –> 00:40:30,640
and you either would gather the
Murray Grace steak sandwich or

594
00:40:30,640 –> 00:40:34,520
the, or the, or the Hereford
steak sandwich.

595
00:40:34,720 –> 00:40:38,160
They’d always have a lovely
Hereford there and ideal and,

596
00:40:38,160 –> 00:40:41,040
and, and they would serve you
these steak sandwiches.

597
00:40:41,840 –> 00:40:45,080
And I mean, you put that much
jolly sauce on it.

598
00:40:45,080 –> 00:40:47,360
You couldn’t tell the difference
in the steaks anyway, but.

599
00:40:47,640 –> 00:40:50,840
The thing is, when you went
there, everything was on show.

600
00:40:51,680 –> 00:40:54,520
OK, Everything there was there
to show.

601
00:40:55,040 –> 00:40:57,800
That’s the idea of the word.
And you’d come up to a pump and

602
00:40:57,800 –> 00:40:59,400
they’d have a cut in half or
half.

603
00:40:59,400 –> 00:41:01,840
It’d be plastic.
So you can see actually how it

604
00:41:01,840 –> 00:41:04,400
worked.
They were showing, they were

605
00:41:04,400 –> 00:41:08,520
demonstrating, OK, and that’s.
The idea of the word.

606
00:41:09,960 –> 00:41:15,840
So Jesus Christ came to
demonstrate that the

607
00:41:16,000 –> 00:41:20,120
righteousness of God’s personal
righteousness how right his

608
00:41:20,120 –> 00:41:24,280
judgments are, particularly how
righteous his judgments are

609
00:41:24,560 –> 00:41:29,280
against sin, and how gracious
His sentence is.

610
00:41:29,840 –> 00:41:32,760
On on on.
Those he wants to show mercy on

611
00:41:34,600 –> 00:41:47,270
chapter 6 verse the last verse
in chapter 6, 6 verse 23 for the

612
00:41:47,510 –> 00:41:56,320
wages of sin is death.
If you serve your passions by

613
00:41:56,320 –> 00:42:01,520
transgressing God’s law that
brings you to a state where you

614
00:42:01,520 –> 00:42:05,600
deserve death.
But then there’s the other side

615
00:42:05,600 –> 00:42:11,680
of God’s goodness and mercy.
But the gift, no, earning the

616
00:42:11,680 –> 00:42:17,720
gift of God is eternal life
through Jesus Christ our Lord.

617
00:42:19,200 –> 00:42:23,520
Now you could say, declared the
righteousness of God, and you

618
00:42:23,520 –> 00:42:25,960
could say, well, of course it
was the word made.

619
00:42:25,960 –> 00:42:30,120
Flesh.
You know, John, chapter 14 was

620
00:42:31,560 –> 00:42:37,560
who said show us the Father.
Show us the father suffices.

621
00:42:38,880 –> 00:42:42,920
Who said that Brother pooch.
Yeah, His name?

622
00:42:42,920 –> 00:42:44,720
Philip.
You see, that’s how he

623
00:42:44,720 –> 00:42:46,840
remembered.
See that instant response?

624
00:42:47,840 –> 00:42:51,040
Philip said Show us the father.
And he says, oh, I’ve been so

625
00:42:51,040 –> 00:42:54,040
long with you, and you say, so
when you see me, you see the

626
00:42:54,080 –> 00:42:58,440
fire he manifested.
He manifested the complete

627
00:42:58,440 –> 00:43:01,680
character of God and God’s
attitudes towards sin.

628
00:43:01,960 –> 00:43:04,320
Look how.
He went around exposing the

629
00:43:04,320 –> 00:43:06,640
hypocrisy, the scribes and
Pharisees.

630
00:43:06,960 –> 00:43:11,680
Look how he went around exposing
the hypocrisy of certain cities.

631
00:43:12,040 –> 00:43:15,160
He absolutely stripped and took
off.

632
00:43:15,800 –> 00:43:19,160
All right, he took off.
Any covering that was there,

633
00:43:19,160 –> 00:43:23,160
they typically expose sin all
the time, and he recommended all

634
00:43:23,160 –> 00:43:26,200
the time.
The divine attitudes of favour

635
00:43:26,200 –> 00:43:30,120
and self-control and loving
kindness and compassion is

636
00:43:30,120 –> 00:43:34,080
always having compassion.
I mean, sure, it was a perfect

637
00:43:34,080 –> 00:43:36,560
manifestation of the full
righteousness of God.

638
00:43:37,200 –> 00:43:41,720
However, here there’s got to be
emphasis on certain aspects of

639
00:43:41,720 –> 00:43:48,560
that righteousness because we’re
dealing with sin, we’re dealing

640
00:43:48,560 –> 00:43:53,400
with a failure to manifest God,
and you’re dealing with pursuing

641
00:43:53,880 –> 00:43:57,760
self indulgence despite what the
law of God says.

642
00:43:58,960 –> 00:44:03,000
Therefore, you’ve got to look at
the whole righteousness of God

643
00:44:03,000 –> 00:44:08,360
that Christ manifested and see
particularly the aspect that

644
00:44:08,440 –> 00:44:11,400
would apply in this situation.
OK.

645
00:44:13,120 –> 00:44:16,200
And that’s what we’ve got to
look at.

646
00:44:17,560 –> 00:44:25,320
And that’s what we’ve got to
realize what’s going on, God

647
00:44:25,320 –> 00:44:29,400
says in Isaiah 45.
We’ve got.

648
00:44:29,400 –> 00:44:33,000
It here we’ll come to it in a
later chart, that he is a just

649
00:44:33,000 –> 00:44:38,120
God and a saviour.
Now to be just, he should kill

650
00:44:38,120 –> 00:44:41,080
us and we should stay dead.
Therefore, how can He save us?

651
00:44:42,400 –> 00:44:46,520
OK.
That’s the brother Carter.

652
00:44:46,520 –> 00:44:47,960
Cause the nerve of the
atonement.

653
00:44:47,960 –> 00:44:51,720
It’s the problem.
God is a judge and they’ll only

654
00:44:51,720 –> 00:44:53,880
do what’s right.
All right.

655
00:44:54,360 –> 00:44:57,440
Shall not the God of all the
earth do right?

656
00:44:57,880 –> 00:44:59,600
OK.
Shall not the judge of all the

657
00:44:59,600 –> 00:45:02,400
earth do right?
So that’s the essential problem.

658
00:45:02,800 –> 00:45:07,840
How does God get around?
Not how does he get around the

659
00:45:07,840 –> 00:45:11,040
fact that he’s already condemned
man to death, right?

660
00:45:11,040 –> 00:45:13,560
By inheritance and by personal
contact.

661
00:45:14,040 –> 00:45:18,640
We’re doubly condemned, OK,
we’re born sin prone and and

662
00:45:18,640 –> 00:45:21,400
then we exacerbate that with
their own transgressions.

663
00:45:21,760 –> 00:45:26,080
We all repeat Adam, and then we
live a life of.

664
00:45:26,080 –> 00:45:28,560
Habits and everything that
builds into us, I mean.

665
00:45:30,560 –> 00:45:32,400
To be true.
He’d have to abdicate his

666
00:45:32,400 –> 00:45:34,520
sovereignty not to condemn us
today.

667
00:45:34,840 –> 00:45:39,480
OK, How does he get around that,
uphold that and still save you?

668
00:45:40,080 –> 00:45:42,240
How can he forgive you rightly,
if you should?

669
00:45:42,240 –> 00:45:44,240
Die, haven’t.
How can he do it?

670
00:45:44,680 –> 00:45:52,520
OK, well the answer is, is this
word here by confession?

671
00:45:54,560 –> 00:45:58,920
God will accept confession.
He that confesseth and for the

672
00:45:58,920 –> 00:46:03,080
sake of his sin will find mercy
with God if a person

673
00:46:03,120 –> 00:46:07,960
acknowledges his position.
Not acknowledges that he’s

674
00:46:07,960 –> 00:46:11,280
worthy of death, acknowledges
this is wretched state,

675
00:46:11,880 –> 00:46:15,080
acknowledges that he needs
rehabilitation, etcetera,

676
00:46:15,080 –> 00:46:19,040
etcetera.
God says that’s right for him to

677
00:46:19,040 –> 00:46:23,320
forgive in that.
Situation, that’s the basic

678
00:46:23,320 –> 00:46:29,200
concept, but the problem is we
can’t fully confess.

679
00:46:29,760 –> 00:46:33,560
Now this is this is absolutely
fundamental, the atonement.

680
00:46:34,440 –> 00:46:37,520
I mean, if all God wants is
confession, well, let’s confess

681
00:46:37,600 –> 00:46:40,640
we don’t.
Need Jesus Christ we need this

682
00:46:40,640 –> 00:46:45,920
Christ because we can’t fully
confess and he wants us to

683
00:46:45,920 –> 00:46:51,720
confess, but at the.
Same time, acknowledge that our

684
00:46:51,720 –> 00:46:57,720
confession is incomplete.
That’s fundamentally attainment

685
00:46:57,760 –> 00:47:00,400
to acknowledge that our
confession is incomplete.

686
00:47:00,720 –> 00:47:05,880
A confession we make by
accepting that God will not

687
00:47:05,880 –> 00:47:10,760
accept us.
Unless we align ourself with the

688
00:47:10,800 –> 00:47:16,640
only one that fully confessed
human sin and divine homings.

689
00:47:18,480 –> 00:47:23,840
That’s why you know.
He’ll forgive you for Christ’s

690
00:47:23,840 –> 00:47:26,080
sake.
That’s why even all the good

691
00:47:26,080 –> 00:47:28,720
works you do.
Just being here tonight is a

692
00:47:29,000 –> 00:47:35,040
fulfilment of God’s will.
OK, but I’m sorry.

693
00:47:36,400 –> 00:47:38,640
Your performance tonight, it’s
very imperfect.

694
00:47:38,720 –> 00:47:43,320
So is mine, OK?
And it will only be acceptable

695
00:47:43,320 –> 00:47:47,240
to God if you make the offering
of being here tonight through

696
00:47:47,240 –> 00:47:51,720
Christ Jesus.
If only you’ve got to say, well,

697
00:47:51,720 –> 00:47:53,840
I’ve been here tonight and I’ve
given out 6000.

698
00:47:53,840 –> 00:47:56,320
If it’s not done that much.
No, they are sisters, Lorna.

699
00:47:56,760 –> 00:47:58,600
I don’t know.
I’ve been studied so much and

700
00:47:58,600 –> 00:48:03,720
marked up Romans and right, and
they’re all the right things.

701
00:48:03,720 –> 00:48:08,640
They’re the right direction, but
you will find that all our good

702
00:48:08,640 –> 00:48:13,720
works are imperfect, and
certainly all our sins are far

703
00:48:13,720 –> 00:48:19,720
from being right, therefore.
God will only accept anything we

704
00:48:19,720 –> 00:48:24,280
do, good or bad, or he doesn’t.
He’ll forgive the bad, and he’ll

705
00:48:24,280 –> 00:48:28,080
accept the good things we do
long as we recognize.

706
00:48:28,720 –> 00:48:33,520
That we are limited, and that’s
inherent in the word.

707
00:48:33,520 –> 00:48:36,560
Faith.
And hearing in the word faith

708
00:48:36,840 –> 00:48:39,160
amongst other things, but they
for the gospel and everything

709
00:48:39,200 –> 00:48:44,480
that goes with it is an
admission that we can never be

710
00:48:44,480 –> 00:48:48,760
worthy like the sun was.
That’s only because we get a

711
00:48:48,760 –> 00:48:53,320
family relationship with him
that God graciously let’s him

712
00:48:53,320 –> 00:48:59,400
share his eternal life with us.
That’s why we pray through Jesus

713
00:48:59,400 –> 00:49:01,200
Christ.
God doesn’t need a media.

714
00:49:01,880 –> 00:49:05,360
He can hear what you say, he can
understand you completely.

715
00:49:06,320 –> 00:49:09,880
He doesn’t need that and we can
talk to God directly.

716
00:49:09,880 –> 00:49:12,040
God said no.
Well, you can’t talk to me

717
00:49:12,040 –> 00:49:14,440
directly.
You can only talk to me through

718
00:49:14,440 –> 00:49:18,600
the one who fully understands
the position, understands you,

719
00:49:18,800 –> 00:49:22,840
understands me and he’ll accept.
I’ll accept prayers through him

720
00:49:22,840 –> 00:49:26,280
because you are acknowledging
that even your most earnest.

721
00:49:26,280 –> 00:49:30,920
Prayer is imperfect.
That’s the difference between

722
00:49:30,920 –> 00:49:34,840
Judaism, which says I earn it, I
thank thee God that I’m not like

723
00:49:34,880 –> 00:49:38,520
this Sinner.
I tired and I do this, I do

724
00:49:38,520 –> 00:49:40,840
that, I do this self
righteousness.

725
00:49:40,840 –> 00:49:42,800
It’s all just the pride of life,
OK?

726
00:49:43,200 –> 00:49:45,880
It’s just the wrong methods
built on wrong ideas.

727
00:49:47,200 –> 00:49:50,800
So when he declared the
righteousness of God, he was

728
00:49:50,800 –> 00:49:54,640
actually confession, confessing
the human condition.

729
00:49:55,440 –> 00:49:59,040
He was an expert.
And he was the only one that

730
00:49:59,040 –> 00:50:03,880
could really confess just how
much the wages of sinners death

731
00:50:03,880 –> 00:50:08,720
is, and just how much the gift
of God is eternal life.

732
00:50:09,200 –> 00:50:12,760
He was the only one that could
confess that we can only do it

733
00:50:12,760 –> 00:50:16,840
to a limited degree.
That’s the key of the

734
00:50:16,840 –> 00:50:19,560
tournament.
We can only do it to a limited

735
00:50:19,560 –> 00:50:23,840
degree.
Our life is one of being turned

736
00:50:23,840 –> 00:50:25,400
and following.
Christ.

737
00:50:26,520 –> 00:50:30,560
Well, as Paul says, befollows of
me as I am it’s direction.

738
00:50:30,880 –> 00:50:33,120
There’s one thing I do
forgetting those things that

739
00:50:33,120 –> 00:50:36,360
behind I, I I set toward the
high.

740
00:50:36,360 –> 00:50:38,360
Mark of A.
Calling in Christ.

741
00:50:38,360 –> 00:50:41,600
Jesus, it’s all their job just
to stay in the right.

742
00:50:41,600 –> 00:50:44,320
Direction, let alone give a
perfect service.

743
00:50:45,120 –> 00:50:48,800
That’s why everything has to be
done through Jesus Christ, and

744
00:50:48,800 –> 00:50:52,080
that’ll stand with you each day.
Right through your life.

745
00:50:52,160 –> 00:50:53,920
It’ll stand with you when you’re
dying.

746
00:50:54,600 –> 00:50:58,560
You’ll die recognizing that you
should die, but your recognition

747
00:50:58,560 –> 00:51:01,720
of your death, your your
appreciation of it’s not that

748
00:51:01,720 –> 00:51:03,720
great.
So you die with Christ quite

749
00:51:03,720 –> 00:51:06,040
literally in death, you’re
resurrected.

750
00:51:06,360 –> 00:51:08,400
You pass through the judgment
seat with.

751
00:51:08,400 –> 00:51:12,000
Christ, with those same
recognitions, OK, same

752
00:51:12,000 –> 00:51:15,680
acknowledgements, there’s no way
you’d be accepted as a judgment

753
00:51:15,680 –> 00:51:17,080
seat.
Even though you’d be judged

754
00:51:17,120 –> 00:51:20,040
according to your works, you’ll
be judged according whether you

755
00:51:20,240 –> 00:51:25,360
genuinely attempted all right to
maintain the right direction.

756
00:51:25,760 –> 00:51:30,280
You won’t be judged because you
you reckon your, your, your acts

757
00:51:30,280 –> 00:51:32,520
of righteousness exceeded your
sins or whatever.

758
00:51:32,680 –> 00:51:34,080
There’s no way it’ll be like
that.

759
00:51:34,280 –> 00:51:36,440
You’re going to need Christ
right up to the moment of

760
00:51:36,440 –> 00:51:39,320
immortality, otherwise you’ll
never make it.

761
00:51:41,680 –> 00:51:46,600
So here’s the confession.
The great confessor Jesus Christ

762
00:51:46,600 –> 00:51:53,080
was talks about his confession
in Timothy Timothy 6 verse 23.

763
00:51:53,560 –> 00:51:57,440
Let’s look at that Timothy 623.
What is it first?

764
00:51:58,080 –> 00:52:01,240
No, that’s Romans.
That’s not the one I want Romans

765
00:52:01,240 –> 00:52:04,080
623 you just quoted it’s not
there.

766
00:52:04,760 –> 00:52:06,480
We’ve come to it on a later
chart.

767
00:52:07,640 –> 00:52:09,440
We won’t press it here.
We’ll.

768
00:52:09,720 –> 00:52:18,960
Press on, I’ll bog down so.
But Jesus was baptized.

769
00:52:19,280 –> 00:52:25,080
He got baptized into the baptism
of John, and it was a baptism of

770
00:52:25,080 –> 00:52:28,720
confession.
Remember, they came to him as a

771
00:52:28,720 –> 00:52:30,960
baptism of confessing their
sins.

772
00:52:31,120 –> 00:52:34,400
OK, Now you just got to think
about that.

773
00:52:35,160 –> 00:52:38,480
If you’d been, if you’re 55
years old, you went down the

774
00:52:38,480 –> 00:52:42,160
water and you had to confess
your sins, you’d be standing

775
00:52:42,160 –> 00:52:43,920
there for two years reciting
them all.

776
00:52:44,800 –> 00:52:47,040
OK, so you didn’t actually do
that.

777
00:52:47,040 –> 00:52:49,480
You may have confessed some
major besetting sin.

778
00:52:49,760 –> 00:52:51,440
You would confess you were a
Sinner.

779
00:52:52,200 –> 00:52:54,560
What would you actually and how
would you confess it?

780
00:52:55,120 –> 00:52:59,120
You’d confess it by accepting
the teaching of John.

781
00:52:59,720 –> 00:53:03,960
And the teaching of John is
quite laid out for us right in

782
00:53:04,080 –> 00:53:08,040
the early chapters of Mark and
particularly Isaiah 40, which.

783
00:53:08,040 –> 00:53:12,560
We’re going to look at in detail
in later situations.

784
00:53:14,080 –> 00:53:20,800
And his gospel was All flesh is
grass, and the goodliness

785
00:53:20,800 –> 00:53:22,800
thereof is the flower of the
field.

786
00:53:23,640 –> 00:53:28,040
I can look good for a while, but
then the Spirit blows upon it

787
00:53:28,840 –> 00:53:31,160
and it fades.
And it’s finished.

788
00:53:33,760 –> 00:53:38,680
Man is mortal, rightly so.
He’s essentially a weak being.

789
00:53:39,280 –> 00:53:42,280
Men don’t believe that.
Men believe they’re immortal.

790
00:53:42,400 –> 00:53:43,840
They think there’s a lot of good
in them.

791
00:53:44,320 –> 00:53:47,000
That’s what they believe.
Even the humanists that don’t

792
00:53:47,000 –> 00:53:49,200
believe in God, they think
there’s a lot of good in men,

793
00:53:49,400 –> 00:53:52,840
OK?
And and they just don’t accept

794
00:53:52,840 –> 00:53:55,200
that.
And, and it’s one of the biggest

795
00:53:55,200 –> 00:54:01,120
humiliating things to accept
that you are holy and rightly

796
00:54:01,120 –> 00:54:05,120
immortal of being and apart from
God, you’re absolutely of no

797
00:54:05,120 –> 00:54:07,280
more value than the kangaroo in
the paddock.

798
00:54:09,880 –> 00:54:12,920
What?
Makes you valuable, is what?

799
00:54:12,920 –> 00:54:15,840
Because you’ve taken on board
what’s divine.

800
00:54:15,840 –> 00:54:20,400
Paul says we have this treasure
in an earthen vessel, which is

801
00:54:20,400 –> 00:54:22,760
the same as saying all flesh is
grass.

802
00:54:23,040 –> 00:54:26,480
We have this treasure, the
truth, in an earthen vessel

803
00:54:27,040 –> 00:54:29,880
that’s come forth, that shine
forth from the face of Jesus

804
00:54:29,880 –> 00:54:31,720
Christ.
In our hearts that the.

805
00:54:31,760 –> 00:54:34,600
Excellency of the power may be
of.

806
00:54:34,600 –> 00:54:36,720
God.
And not of ourselves.

807
00:54:37,600 –> 00:54:45,800
OK, so.
John the Baptist taught man is

808
00:54:45,800 –> 00:54:48,720
mortal and this is anti Judah.
Yesterday he got stuck into the

809
00:54:48,720 –> 00:54:50,480
Jews.
What are you coming for here?

810
00:54:50,480 –> 00:54:54,720
You said this is you generation
of Vipers who’s warned you in

811
00:54:54,720 –> 00:54:57,960
the judgement to come.
God’s able to raise up these

812
00:54:57,960 –> 00:55:01,160
stones, children to Abraham.
You’re saying you’ve got Abraham

813
00:55:01,160 –> 00:55:02,720
to your father.
You’re relying.

814
00:55:02,720 –> 00:55:05,880
On.
On on race, racist attitudes,

815
00:55:05,880 –> 00:55:08,200
the superiority of the Jewish
people.

816
00:55:08,600 –> 00:55:13,080
You’re relying on self and your
achievements to keep it a set of

817
00:55:13,080 –> 00:55:15,520
rules to earn eternal life.
What are you doing?

818
00:55:15,520 –> 00:55:18,240
Coming out here, I’m teaching
the exact opposite.

819
00:55:18,480 –> 00:55:21,480
You fellas believe in heaven,
you believe in hell, you believe

820
00:55:21,480 –> 00:55:24,160
in immortal soul.
They believe all those things.

821
00:55:24,160 –> 00:55:26,160
They are the Catholic Church of
their day, OK?

822
00:55:26,600 –> 00:55:30,680
They believed in all those
things and the devil being PLZ

823
00:55:30,680 –> 00:55:34,680
Bob instead of it being our own
human nation and temptability.

824
00:55:34,920 –> 00:55:37,080
They believe all those areas
that what are you coming out of

825
00:55:37,080 –> 00:55:39,280
here for?
I teach the very opposite about

826
00:55:39,280 –> 00:55:44,400
human nature to you guys and I
teach the word of God endures

827
00:55:44,400 –> 00:55:47,880
forever.
I teach it’s not enough to have

828
00:55:47,880 –> 00:55:51,280
a set of rules outside you.
You’re going to take on board

829
00:55:51,280 –> 00:55:54,200
the divine mind.
That’s the only way to eternal

830
00:55:54,200 –> 00:55:57,800
life.
So when people came to be

831
00:55:58,280 –> 00:56:00,440
confess their sins, they are
confessing.

832
00:56:00,440 –> 00:56:02,760
Their total and rightful
mortality.

833
00:56:03,680 –> 00:56:08,640
And any hope of life lies in
taking on board the.

834
00:56:08,640 –> 00:56:11,880
Word of God all.
Right, that’s created many

835
00:56:11,880 –> 00:56:14,000
places in the New Testament,
those words.

836
00:56:14,400 –> 00:56:16,960
And the words applied to the
gospel and so on.

837
00:56:17,120 –> 00:56:28,760
OK, many places it’s quoted so.
Don’t forget the clear means to

838
00:56:28,760 –> 00:56:33,920
demonstrate, to show, and many
translators actually translated

839
00:56:34,360 –> 00:56:39,520
demonstrate He came to
demonstrate and how wonderfully

840
00:56:39,840 –> 00:56:45,680
He demonstrated and exposed how
sinful man is and how right

841
00:56:45,680 –> 00:56:49,640
God’s judgement upon sin is.
The longer you stand there and

842
00:56:49,640 –> 00:56:53,240
look at Christ crucified, the
more you’ll understand that.

843
00:56:54,600 –> 00:57:08,200
OK, we could 5:00 to 9:00.
How many weeks left in a year?

844
00:57:12,280 –> 00:57:18,760
And that the recognition that
great confession becomes a basis

845
00:57:19,360 –> 00:57:22,040
for the remission of sins, your
faith in it.

846
00:57:22,400 –> 00:57:25,760
Faith in his butt.
When you see that man give that

847
00:57:25,760 –> 00:57:29,200
perfect confession about human
nature and about God

848
00:57:29,200 –> 00:57:33,320
manifestation, when you can see
that and up to the point where

849
00:57:33,320 –> 00:57:38,600
you say how terrible it is, you
know you you’re really part of

850
00:57:38,600 –> 00:57:43,280
the crowd that has actually
crucified the glory of God

851
00:57:43,280 –> 00:57:44,840
you’ve.
Crucified the sun, that’s what

852
00:57:44,840 –> 00:57:47,320
you sins do.
That’s how terrible it is.

853
00:57:48,040 –> 00:57:51,960
And, and, and he was numbered
with the transgressions we

854
00:57:51,960 –> 00:57:55,000
actually imposed upon him, all
the pain and the suffering

855
00:57:55,280 –> 00:57:57,920
that’s really due to us.
He’s not a substitute, but he

856
00:57:58,000 –> 00:58:00,280
represents that way our true
position.

857
00:58:00,920 –> 00:58:04,800
And yet at the same time, he’s
showing how our sins dishonor

858
00:58:04,800 –> 00:58:08,840
God and how God suffers.
He suffers as if when we did the

859
00:58:08,840 –> 00:58:11,800
wrong thing, as if a crown of
thorns was on his head and if he

860
00:58:11,800 –> 00:58:15,320
had been beaten with stripes and
if he’s been nailed a tree

861
00:58:15,400 –> 00:58:19,000
emotionally on that in all their
afflictions I was afflicted.

862
00:58:19,000 –> 00:58:22,880
Gods have got a feeling and he
he gets just like parents do

863
00:58:22,880 –> 00:58:24,920
when their kids play up in a
terrible way.

864
00:58:25,120 –> 00:58:27,240
They feel that.
Embarrassed and that in shame

865
00:58:27,240 –> 00:58:32,400
and dishonored, you know, it’s
that in a small way is an

866
00:58:32,400 –> 00:58:36,240
indication how sensitive
righteous being like God feels

867
00:58:36,400 –> 00:58:39,920
when it’s creation.
Treat him like that so.

868
00:58:40,880 –> 00:58:43,160
Talk about exposing how simple
we are.

869
00:58:43,160 –> 00:58:44,800
No matter how you look at that,
OK.

870
00:58:44,960 –> 00:58:48,600
And then when you look inside
the mind of that, that bleeding

871
00:58:48,600 –> 00:58:52,400
man, and you see the mentality
of someone that was still being

872
00:58:52,400 –> 00:58:55,520
obedient right under death,
still overcoming every

873
00:58:55,520 –> 00:58:59,800
temptation to retaliate, still
had focused on the fact that he

874
00:58:59,800 –> 00:59:01,840
was.
Confessing the human condition

875
00:59:02,080 –> 00:59:05,720
to lay a basis for our
forgiveness and conversion.

876
00:59:06,280 –> 00:59:09,840
You wonder at the great grace of
God and you wonder at that sort

877
00:59:09,840 –> 00:59:14,720
of quality, and if that can’t
turn you around to change the

878
00:59:14,720 –> 00:59:19,000
direction of life and you’re not
an honest heart and you’re not

879
00:59:19,000 –> 00:59:21,080
going to make it, you’re just
not good soil.

880
00:59:26,160 –> 00:59:28,280
That’s why it becomes a basis
for the.

881
00:59:28,280 –> 00:59:33,280
Remission of sins, right?
It’s the God’s condition for his

882
00:59:33,280 –> 00:59:41,280
grace and mercy.
So here’s God, he’s got

883
00:59:41,280 –> 00:59:44,720
remission or forgiveness.
It’s conditional.

884
00:59:44,720 –> 00:59:48,040
It’s conditional on Christ
declaring his righteousness.

885
00:59:48,880 –> 00:59:54,200
He’s raised from the dead.
And that and our belief in his

886
00:59:54,400 –> 00:59:57,480
declaring God’s righteousness,
which was vindicated by his

887
00:59:57,480 –> 01:00:02,320
resurrection, if we believe that
God’s forgiveness reaches the

888
01:00:02,320 –> 01:00:04,800
believer.
OK.

889
01:00:09,680 –> 01:00:12,560
Oh, we’ve finished the section.
That’s the last week we’re

890
01:00:12,560 –> 01:00:13,800
finished.
Thank you very much.

891
01:00:14,240 –> 01:00:18,360
That’s the last session coming
up, OK, where we’ll deal with

892
01:00:18,360 –> 01:00:23,960
this all flesh is grass and the
baptism of Christ and all those

893
01:00:23,960 –> 01:00:25,440
sort of things.
Thank you very much.