Dave Pogson – Atonement – Class 6

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Just before I start building
sisters at the 1st at the first

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evening that we gave a handout
called through Death and I think

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brother Peter gave them out.
OK, if you haven’t got a copy of

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that, I think he may have given
them all out.

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I don’t know if there’s any over
all right.

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So if you need a copy of that,
which firstly summarizes the

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direction of which we’ve been
addressing in these series, OK,

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very condensed.
All right.

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And if you need a copy of that,
I’m sure Brother Peter would

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arrange a photocopy for you of
that particular article.

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OK.
If we’d like to open at round of

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

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little bit of unfinished work
there to be done.

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

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bit.
And of course, in Romans 3, we

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are dealing with what all
scholars in and out of the

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truth, regardless of the most
important subject, important

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

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3.
See where we are?

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Can you still say, OK, so let’s
just capture the flow of

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thought.
I mightn’t finish everything

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

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Romans chapter 3.
OK, so I just grinded into you a

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little bit.
We’ll just go over it a little

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bit.
OK, If we just pick up verses 18

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and 19 and Roman 19 and 20 of
Romans 3 says you can never be

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pronounced righteous by deeds of
law.

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Remember the background deeds of
law meant earning.

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OK, that was a Jewish wrong
doctrine that you could earn

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acceptance in God’s sight,
right?

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You could earn it.
That’s completely wrong concept.

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It can’t be earned, whether it’s
by grace or their concept of

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earning.
Yes, it involves obedience.

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Yes, they both agree.
It involves forgiveness.

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They both agree.
But their bases are completely

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different.
The Jewish view was man was

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created with the ability to
perform well enough to earn

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eternal life.
The argument of the Apostle Paul

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is that that’s absolute
nonsense.

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OK, the law of Moses condemned
everybody.

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You had to keep it wholly and
perfectly and continuously

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before you could ever have said
to earn it.

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And no one was ever capable of
doing that.

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So the idea of earning his
argument right through Romans is

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is out.
So the argument in Romans is all

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about the Jews or man’s method
of in becoming righteous before

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the judge.
And Paul’s argument now God’s

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got a method that he’s given you
and you’re going to take on

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board that method.
And that method is based on

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faith in Jesus Christ, in God’s
sent, and he sent that Jesus

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Christ as a perfect example of
the method, a perfect example of

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the method.
It was a method of dependence

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upon God, and in Christ it
produced a perfect result in US

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using the same method, we don’t
produce a perfect result, but we

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acknowledge that.
But because we could see in

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Christ the perfect example of
the power of God’s word right

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and dependence upon that right,
He forgives that.

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What?
Christ’s perfect demonstration

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of the divine method of
salvation becomes a basis for

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

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and follow in the steps of Jesus
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So that’s it in simple terms.
So he says, so he says in verse

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21.
But now that is with the coming

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of Christ, there is a
righteousness of God.

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This God’s method for you to be
righteous, and it’s a path

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without the law has been
manifested all right.

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Christ has lived it out and
established it.

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I was witnessed by the law and
the prophets.

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The whole Old Testament from
beginning to end spoke about it

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all the time.
Verse 22, It’s a righteousness

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of God.
It’s a divine method for you to

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be pronounced righteous, but
it’s conditional.

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You never earn it, but it is
conditional, highly conditional.

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You must never confuse
conditions with earning.

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You find the churches out there
and everything’s got to be love

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and grace.
They say any sort of conditions

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at all constitutes works, and
it’s the opposite of grace.

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They got it all wrong.
It’s completely inconsistent

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with the Bible.
Sure, salvation can never be

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earned, but it is conditional.
And here’s the condition, you’ve

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got to have faith in Jesus
Christ and what he stands for

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and what he’s done and what God
has done with him, which he goes

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on to describe what God has done
with him.

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And this righteousness comes
under all those 22 and upon all

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them, that faith, Jew as well as
Gentile.

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It’s for everybody.
For there’s no difference

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between Jew and Dadawa.
Well, they’ve all Jew and

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General.
They’ve seen and they’ve all

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come short of the glory of God.
It disobeyed God and they’ve

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

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For therefore you can’t, it
can’t be earned, because there’s

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always the element of failure.
And cursed is everyone that

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continueth not in all things
which are written in the book of

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the Law to do them.
And so verse 24 says this method

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

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That’s opposite to earning,
isn’t it?

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Right.
We have been pronounced

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righteous freely by God’s grace,
sure, but it’s conditional

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through the redemption or
salvation that is in Christ

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Jesus.
God has established a method and

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it all centres around Christ
living it out perfectly and

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because he’s lived it out
purpose purposely, perfectly, He

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calls upon all men to identify
with that perfect manifestation

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of God’s method and he’ll accept
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Then we we got the verse 25 and
we’d miss verse 26 and verse 26.

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There’s a repeat of verse 25 but
let’s just go through 25 is the

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most important verse we have on
the subject.

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It’s talking about Jesus Christ
and what God had done with him.

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Verse 25 whom God has set forth.
So God has set him forth.

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The Martin says for a dying, but
it makes no difference.

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God has set him forth some
translator, he’s been publicly

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set forth.
So God sets him forth and he

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sets him forth to be a
propitiation.

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And the word propitiation is
actually a Greek word used in

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Greek religions whereby they
placated the wrath of the gods

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by their particular sacrifices
and other words, they went

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

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

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OK, but the word hillisterion,
propitiation is hillisterion and

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

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to translate the Hebrew capore,
the place of covering.

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And of course, the Caporeth was
the mercy seat on top of the, IT

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was the lid on top of the ark,
all right.

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And God’s was in between the
Caribbean, represented by his

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glory in between the Caribbean.
And that’s where the high priest

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had to come each year with the
blood, all right, and sprinkle

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it before and on the mercy seat
on the Day of Atonement to make

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atonement, to seek to procure
the forgiveness of all Israel’s

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sins.
So it’s the place of

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forgiveness, if you like.
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And in Hebrews it’s actually
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Hence the the English
translators have called them

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called the hillisteria on the
covering.

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They’ve translated it mercy seat
and they’ve taken that from

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Hebrews, the end of Hebrews,
chapter 4, the throne of grace.

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So Christ, God has set forth
Jesus Christ as the place of

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meeting.
I’ll meet you here.

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It says he.
Here is the propitiation.

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Actually it’s the whole thing.
But this is the hard point.

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Here was where there was a moral
victory of the power of God’s

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thinking, of the power of
natural thinking.

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At last another Adam had come
and had gained a victory over

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sin by taking on board because
he had the capacity to do it,

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taking on board the divine
morality.

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And it proved with all its
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it proved triumphant, a unique
accomplishment.

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How wrought by God.
And God says, I’ll meet you

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there.
That’s the place of mercy.

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That’s the place of covering.
And that’s what should remains.

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

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

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Moses.
So it’s the place.

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So Jesus Christ crucified is the
place.

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

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This says you’re and he said
I’ll meet you there through

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faith.
You can only come there by

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faith.
You’re going to believe what

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this is all about, OK.
You’re going to believe this.

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

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I’ll meet you there.
Why does he meet him there?

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Well, it goes on to say
appreciation through faith in

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his blood or his death.
His blood simply means that

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death.
OK, what did this death do?

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It says here, it was to declare
his, that is, God’s

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righteousness.
It was to declare God’s personal

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righteousness, to declare that
God is right and just and holy

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and fair and equitable in all
that he does, particularly in

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his judgement on sin and
particularly in his mercy toward

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those who confess their
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So in both those areas, plus
every other area, God’s

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righteous, and that declares
that God’s righteous.

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I want you to pick up something
I never mentioned about that

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word declare.
We said that word to declare.

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And that’s the big picture,
really.

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That’s where we’re going and
that’s where we finish up really

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on that particular thing.
The individual has to have faith

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in the heart, in Christ, His
development, his baptism, his

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ministry, his death, his
resurrection, his elevation to

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the right hand of the Father as
our mediator.

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Here is our propitiatory.
He does a propitiatory work.

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He declares that God’s righteous
and if you believe that, if you

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believe it, God sends
forgiveness upon you, called

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righteousness upon all, upon all
them they believe.

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OK, now that word declare.
You got your pencils say the

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word declare to declare in my
Bible.

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If you’ve got the same Bible
right next to it.

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There is a quote in my eyes,
can’t read it, but I think it’s

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Psalm 98 verse 2.
Now I pointed out that the word

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declare is a very important word
in this phrase to declare, pick

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up the word declare.
OK, it doesn’t mean to speak

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something out to declare it by
that.

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It doesn’t mean that at all.
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that’s not its basic meaning.
The basic meaning is to exhibit

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the word declare and daxis means
to exhibit or to shower.

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You know, to exhibit or put on
shower and one translation

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translated demonstrate.
And we talked about going to to

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AG quip and you I think you go
to a place called Echo.

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What a funny name.
You Queenslanders have got funny

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names up here, I can tell you.
Anyway, in other words, the word

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means to demonstrate something.
OK, that’s when you go to a show

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and you look at certain
machinery being working.

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Get the idea?
So what Christ is doing when

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he’s He lived his life and was
perfectly obedient under the

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death of the cross, He
demonstrating God’s personal

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righteousness as in respect to
sin and in respect to obedience

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and mercy, He was right.
He would be righteous in his

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

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Roman 6.
The wages of sin is death.

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That’s righteous, and he was,
and Christ was demonstrating

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that, OK.
And the gift of God is eternal

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life through Jesus Christ our
Lord.

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

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sometimes quite wrongly.
You mightn’t extract from them

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proper recognition of what
they’ve done wrong.

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

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it and you’re only doing the
kids harm if you forgive them on

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

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a right basis.
And God only forgives us when we

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confess the facts involved and
see our position.

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Then he’ll forgive.
Otherwise it’s unrighteous

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forgiveness and he will not when
he forgives.

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He won’t lightly pass by the
judgement on sin.

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

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

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

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It’s beneficial for you to
realise that.

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

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

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wonderfulness of divine grace
and the brightness of demanding

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

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

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verse 2, because it expressed
perfectly what the word declare

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means.
And maybe this declare his

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righteousness is actually
quoting from Psalm 98 verse 2,

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

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the same in the Greek
Septuagint, but just turn you

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keep your hand in there and just
look at Psalm 98 verse 2.

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It’s a good one to circle
because if you forget what this

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declares all about this Psalm
tells you and the Psalm is all

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about righteousness and victory
and God the judge of all the

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earth.
That’s what the whole Psalm is

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about atonement and I and and
he’s probably quoting verse 2

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and Yahweh hath made known his
salvation and notice this, his

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righteousness hath he what
declared openly showed.

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That’s exactly what the meaning
of declared is in the Greek back

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up here in Romans 3 openly
showed, OK, if you looked up

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that Hebrew word for openly
showed it would it’s it’s

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playing something like goal law.
I’m not very good at pronouncing

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Hebrew and it actually means the
strip naked.

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In other words, fully exposed.
So, so, so Christ is fully

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exposed God’s righteousness both
in respect to sin and in respect

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to mercy, both in respect to His
Verity and in respect to His

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goodness.
You can take the whole character

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of God which Jesus Christ
manifested.

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When you see me, you see the
Father.

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And let’s not kid ourselves.
He manifested while the emphasis

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was on mercy.
All right, He wouldn’t let the

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disciples call fire down on a
city.

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

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

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However, he spent his life
recommending right attitudes and

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divine like attitudes and
condemning wrong attitudes right

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from his disciples, right
through the scribes and

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Pharisees, and condemning old
cities, didn’t it?

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

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righteous direction should lead
us all right and expose the

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hypocrisy of the earning
salvation with all its wrong

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

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

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They believed that the the devil
wasn’t yourself.

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

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Philist, the Philistines, wasn’t
it something like that?

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And they believed in purgatory.
They believed in.

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In souls and mortal souls and
going to hell and going to hell.

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

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burning, even though the
churches would deny that today

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they do.
We won’t go into that.

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

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demonstrate God’s personal
righteousness, and that’s to if

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you can believe that he
demonstrate God’s personal

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righteousness.
God’s prepared to pronounce you

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righteous even though you don’t
deserve it.

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You pronounce him righteous
because he is righteous.

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

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

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

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If you can see that God’s
righteous has manifested in the

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

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the life of sin and try and
pursue God’s values, He will

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forgive.
He will pronounce you righteous.

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OK.
But what God wants in faith is a

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confession that He is righteous.
There it is.

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

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that.
All right, And the confession

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

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

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

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that separated primary from God
at certain Ephesians.

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That’s ignorance and wicked
works.

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

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And so there’s a lot of things
we don’t even know are sins yet.

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And yet you’re saying confess
your sin.

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We can only do it partially.
Also, I also want you to

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confess.
But holiness be holy, for I am

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holy.
We know a lot of God’s righteous

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

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all in 1,000,001 situations in
life.

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

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and holiness to a limited
degree, except this unique man

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here, he was tempted in all
points.

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He could recognize every sin.
Therefore he would recognize

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every temptation, right?
And he could recognize every

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right attitude and every action.
That’s right.

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

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God opened his ear morning by
morning, developed his

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spirituality.
OK.

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I mean, he was a second Adam.
There’s only three people

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begotten by God, and that’s
Adam.

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He was another son of God, and
he had these capacities.

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OK, Yeah, you might call him a
moral freak relative to us, but

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

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freak.
And there’s some people that are

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

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but they can just work this
mathematics out in seconds like

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a computer.
They don’t even understand how

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

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

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and have the same same problems
that we have.

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So this was declaration was
actually a confession in action,

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in action, all right, He was
demonstrating it.

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

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

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It should be truth, which is
Christ Jesus.

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So he was confessing, he was an
expert.

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He was a you’d say he’d never
sinned.

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He wouldn’t be an expert.
That’s completely wrong.

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The more you sin, the less you
can recognize sin, but less just

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sin, the more you can recognise
sin.

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If you’d been tempted with every
sin but never yielded to it,

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you’d understand sin and sinners
better than any Sinner around.

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

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

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their transgressions were having
on their personality and

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character.
So is the only man really

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qualified to confess the sin of
mankind?

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Every sin?
That’s the same as he was the

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only man qualified to take on
board the full divine morality

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and recognise every righteous
attitude, every righteous act?

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

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demonstrate human sin and divine
righteousness and therefore a

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perfect example for us to follow
a perfect example.

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

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word declare is a very
interesting word occurs all that

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

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

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

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are made-up different words.
OK.

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And one of the most quite a
common use, it’s translated

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example.
Someone says, Oh yeah, you know,

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how do you hit that ball with
how do you play this girl?

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

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And he shows you, Yeah.
In other words, you’ve given him

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an example of how to do it.
So the idea of example.

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Now just bear that in mind.
We preach the truth about Christ

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crucified.
We’ve got to get, when we speak

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to interested friends, we’ve got
to get down to a very simple

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language.
You could actually say he

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exemplified God’s righteousness.
He was an example, right, of

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declaring, if you like, he was
an example, He showed how sinful

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man was and and he showed our
righteous God.

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He was a perfect example of
this, a perfect example of

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rejecting sin, the perfect
example of taking on board the

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divine mind so that it could be
obedient, so you could actually

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preach the gospel in the
simplest possible way.

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You could say, well, what’s
Jesus Christ death all about?

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Well, it’s a perfect example of
the life that God wants, the

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perfect method of salvation.
And if you’re prepared to accept

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that perfect method and copy it
and use the same methods, all

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right, take on board the divine
mind as best you can and, and

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reject the sins you can
recognize God’s prepared to

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forgive you.
It’s as simple as that.

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That’s how the simple truth we
should be preaching.

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Paul went through the Greek
around the world beaching Christ

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crucified, although no other
thing amongst you but Jesus

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Christ and him, a crucified one.
That’s what he went doing.

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So, so the righteousness of God
revolves around those two

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things.
You know, wages of sin is death,

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

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thing in different words.
All flesh is grass.

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

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

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dozens of different ways
throughout the Bible.

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

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

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

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

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that are passed.
The word remission.

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There’s not the usual word
usually in the New Testament

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word remission means to send
away.

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It means to forgive an often
translator forgiveness, OK, it’s

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it’s a word taken the scapegoat,
where the symbolically all the

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sins were placed on the
scapegoat’s back and they sent

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him in the wilderness.
He was remitted like a letter.

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He was remitted into the
wilderness, that guy.

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

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let it pass by.
In other words, because you

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believe and confess your
position and you confess the

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

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your position.
God relaxes and he relaxes the

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

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OK, He forgives them and
forgives quite remissions.

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Quite a good translation,
really, even though technically

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it’s not.
Let’s go back to Romans 3.

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We’re inside.
Let’s go back to our industry.

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

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

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of the past.
And Brother Carter suggests that

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

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

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

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verse is virtually repeated in
the shorter form and says and

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for this time.
In other words, verse 20 fives

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dealing with the sacrifice for
Christ as a basis for the

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forgiveness of sins, right for
Madam to Christ.

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And the next verse deals with
that sacrifice is the base of

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all sins, forgiveness of all
sins from Christ onward from

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Christ onward in this time turn
the two over again made the same

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

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So we haven’t looked at verse
26.

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

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

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

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that was the basis of God
forgiving for Madam right up to

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Christ.
Then he says verse 26.

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

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

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

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as personally righteous to
declare his righteousness that

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

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

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

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righteous fire.
He’s actually quoting from

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

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

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the knee and confessing your
position.

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Burying the knee and confessing
your position.

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There’s a bloke burying his
knee, OK.

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And the quote was put by where
God says I am a just God and a

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savior and a justifier.
No practical difference.

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OK.
And when you go to Isaiah 45,

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it’s interesting to go there and
just have a look at that.

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OK, just for a moment.
In other words, the main verse

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in the atonement in the Bible is
built on Isaiah 45.

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That’s interesting.
You know, we’ve got we ought to

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look at it just for a second.
Of course it’s the servant

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prophecies and Isaiah 40 right
through to the end of the rest

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of Isaiah’s full of the
atonement full of it.

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It’s all about God being a
saviour of verse 11 that saith

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Yahweh the holy one of Israel
than his maker ask of things to

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come concerning my sons and
concerning the work of my hands

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command you and you asked me
about that.

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OK now verse 13 I raised him up
in righteousness and he the type

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

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I’ve raised him up in
righteousness.

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

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

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Well, for without reward or
prize.

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Verse 15.
Verily thou Adele, and their

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height of thyself, O God of
Israel the Saviour, they shall

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be ashamed.
Verse 16 And also confounded all

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them that go to confusion
together that are makers of

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idols.
Verse 17 but Israel shall be

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saved in Yahweh with an
everlasting salvation.

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You should not be shamed nor
confounded well without our end,

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00:34:39,199 –> 00:34:43,000
which is the alarm we add for
the for the Millennium and

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beyond and forever and ever.
OK, he’s talking about

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everlasting salvation.
OK.

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And he says we often vote verse
18 in our lectures.

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For thus saith Yahweh that
created the heavens, Elohim

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himself that formed the earth
and made it.

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He has established it.
He created it not in vain.

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He formed it to be inhabited.
I am Yahweh and there’s none

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else.
I have not spoken in secret in

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the dark place of the earth.
I said not under the seat of

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Jacob, seek ye me and faith, as
are those that seek God, who

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diligently seek him.
Seek him in vain.

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I, Yahweh, speak righteousness.
I haven’t asked you to seek me

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out in vain.
If I’ve asked you to seek you

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00:35:32,560 –> 00:35:37,200
out, it’s it’s a righteous thing
that I’ve asked you to do and

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I’ll be faithful.
If you seek me out and find me,

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you’ll get what I promise
because I’m righteous.

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Verse 20 Assemble yourselves and
come draw near you that are

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escaped to the nations that have
no knowledge to set up wood of

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their graven image and pray unto
a God that cannot save.

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The Jews had one of those.
It wasn’t actually an idol God,

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it was an idol concept.
We can earn salvation.

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

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

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of strength.
And that just so long as we

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apply that strength and practice
ourselves in keeping a divine

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00:36:25,400 –> 00:36:28,200
law outside of us, we earn
salvation.

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Well, that was an image.
It was the wrong concept and

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

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Verse 21 tell you and bring them
near you.

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Let them take counsel together
who had declared this from

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ancient time.
We were told that from that time

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have not I Yahweh.
There is no Elohim apart from

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me.
There’ll be no angels, except

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they come by Me.
Then we have the expression

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here, Here we have it, a just
Isle and a Saviour.

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

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

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

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

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am and be saved all ends of the
earth.

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I am male, and there is none
else.

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And then he makes an oath.
I’ve sworn by myself.

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The word has gone out of my
mouth in righteousness, and

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shall not return.
And this is the oath that under

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me every knee will bear, and
every tongue shall swear, or as

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Paul translates it, confess.
Now this is quoted in a few

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places in the New Testament.
This oath under me every knee

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shall bear.
There he is, every tongue will

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confess.
Confession.

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Remember our famous quote from
Hebrews, David, Proverbs 2813.

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He that confesseth and
forsakeeth his sin will find

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mercy with God.
So God says you’ve got to look

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at me and you’ve got to bow the
knee and you’ve got to confess

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your position.
OK, acknowledge your position

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and that involves, you know the
way the sin is death.

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You confess your position and
you confess to the point where

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it it converts you.
You look at Christ and you see

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the terribleness of sin and what
sin did to him and what it’s

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00:39:14,560 –> 00:39:17,880
doing to the glory of God.
And yet when you’re looking

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inside that man, you see a
wonderful mind that was able to

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be perfectly obedient even under
the death of the cross.

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When you see that and it turns
you around to stop pursuing the

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00:39:29,360 –> 00:39:33,840
life of sin and the pursuit life
of God, you know what you’ve

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done.
You know what you you’ve given

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00:39:39,160 –> 00:39:45,640
up your own life.
You’ve given up living to

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yourself.
It’s a death, a very real death.

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He that loses his life will find
it, right?

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But he that saves his life,
he’ll lose it.

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It’s a very real death.
It’s a moral death.

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It’s a bit like a man who should
hang for murder, and the judge

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says, well, we can hang you and
that’ll all be over in a second.

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Or else for the rest of your
days, you’ve got to work in the

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hospital without money, without
pay, with any days off, you’re

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going to totally commit yourself
to the benefit of other people.

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In other words, your personal
life’s finished, right?

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You can choose which death you
like, but they’re both death to

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your own will and to to your own
directions.

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Selfish existence.
It’s a death, and God regards

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that as satisfying his judgement
on us for seed instead of

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killing us and leaving us in the
grave forever.

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It’s a moral death and it
vindicates God better than if he

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killed you.
That’s a quite a clear concept

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there.
Quite a clear concept.

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That’s why you wonder why Christ
talks like that way.

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You know, you can’t reserve
yourself a sin.

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You go, you got to you got to
forsake your life.

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You say, well, these are pretty
high standards, OK, But

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00:41:20,760 –> 00:41:24,960
remember, it is direction.
Sure, sometimes we turn around,

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do something selfish and we see
it, but that’s our committed

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00:41:28,280 –> 00:41:31,960
direction in life.
Instead of us chasing the life

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00:41:31,960 –> 00:41:34,920
of selfishness, we’re chasing
the life of God.

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And now and again it gives us a
flying tackle.

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We fall in our face.
God understands that and He

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forgives for Christ’s sake.
So long as you get up and keep

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heading in the right direction.
That’s practical, simple and

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functional and very merciful.
And it works.

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So where’s this first quoted?
Well, it’s quite a remember in

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Philippians now that this pombe
I knew which was in Christ

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Jesus, who those in the form of
God thought it not robbery to be

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like God, but being found in
fashion of man, He emptied

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himself and became obedient.
I’m not quoting a perfect He

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became obedient even under that
he humiliated himself, he

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humiliated self and became
obedient even to the death of

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the cross.
Wherefore God hath highly

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exalted him and given him a name
which is above every name, that

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at the name of Jesus.
And explain this, the name of

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Jesus every knee should bear and
every tongue confessed all

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right, that Jesus is Lord, the
glory of God the Father.

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God exalted him to be his vice
Regent, his representative for

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the people that are going to be
saved and bow the knee to God

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00:42:54,480 –> 00:42:58,720
and look at God.
They’ve got to do it in front of

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Jesus Christ.
They’ve got to see Jesus Christ

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00:43:02,160 –> 00:43:05,400
as God manifests.
They’ve got to confess

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00:43:05,400 –> 00:43:07,560
themselves.
They’ve got to confess their

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00:43:07,560 –> 00:43:10,320
position here.
They’ve got to look at Jesus

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00:43:10,320 –> 00:43:14,160
Christ, his life, his death, his
burial, but particularly this

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00:43:14,160 –> 00:43:18,520
great moral victory here, his
vindication of God’s judgement

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00:43:18,840 –> 00:43:21,400
and his vindication of the power
of His Holiness.

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They’ve got to look at that and
bare the knee and confess their

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00:43:24,680 –> 00:43:29,200
own position.
Confessions, the key.

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00:43:29,880 –> 00:43:34,000
And in that very confession,
realize that this one here is

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only the only one making a
perfect confession that

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00:43:37,120 –> 00:43:41,280
vindicates God completely.
You’re doing the best you can.

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00:43:41,520 –> 00:43:43,280
At least you’re identifying with
it.

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00:43:44,160 –> 00:43:47,920
And you’re getting the benefit
of that brotherly family

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00:43:47,920 –> 00:43:53,320
identity that God lets you have
through baptism, spread in other

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00:43:53,320 –> 00:43:55,960
places.
Quite in Romans chapter 10.

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Yeah, with a heart man believeth
the righteousness of the mouth.

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Confession is made under
salvation.

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Scratted in Romans 14.
It must all appear before the

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judgement seat of Christ that
quotes this very verse.

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Under me every knee shall be,
and every tongue shall confess.

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00:44:13,840 –> 00:44:18,440
All right, so right from
baptism, we’re bearing the knee

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00:44:18,440 –> 00:44:21,040
and confessing our position.
We should do it every day.

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We do it particularly on
Sundays.

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00:44:23,280 –> 00:44:24,720
We should be doing it all our
life.

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00:44:24,880 –> 00:44:27,560
And when we get the judgement
seat, we’ll be doing it then

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00:44:27,880 –> 00:44:30,160
we’ll be giving account of
ourselves to God.

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We’ll bow the knee and confess.
And what will be the final

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00:44:34,480 –> 00:44:38,560
outcome of all that?
When we’re being we’ve looked in

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00:44:38,560 –> 00:44:43,800
God, confess and got the benefit
of identifying the one who

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00:44:43,800 –> 00:44:49,080
confessed it perfectly right.
What will be our position right?

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00:44:49,520 –> 00:44:52,960
What will we finally say that
tells us here what we’ll finally

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00:44:52,960 –> 00:44:59,880
say verse 24 Surely shall one
say in the Lord, in Yahweh, in

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00:44:59,880 –> 00:45:07,160
the Lord, shall I have I
righteousness and strength in

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00:45:07,160 –> 00:45:09,400
the Lord?
It’s because of my identity.

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00:45:10,000 –> 00:45:13,080
By course I look at God and the
person of Jesus Christ and

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00:45:13,080 –> 00:45:16,480
identify with that and I become
his brother and walk in the same

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00:45:16,480 –> 00:45:20,440
direction and get the benefits
of the forgiveness and grace of

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00:45:20,440 –> 00:45:22,720
God.
Just because you had you confess

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00:45:22,720 –> 00:45:27,720
your position as an identifier
with that perfect confession by

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00:45:27,760 –> 00:45:32,920
Jesus Christ and you bow the
knee before that one, what will

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00:45:32,920 –> 00:45:36,200
be the outcome in Yahweh, You
know one of the most common

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00:45:36,200 –> 00:45:40,200
expressions we say we say we’re
in the truth, but in the in the

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00:45:40,480 –> 00:45:42,920
1st century, they didn’t say
we’re in the truth.

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They said we’re in the Lord.
They’re referring to this very

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00:45:46,840 –> 00:45:49,720
phrase in the Lord.
They’re in the family, they’re

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00:45:49,720 –> 00:45:53,560
in the Lord’s family.
OK, they had a brother of Christ

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who Baptist in Galatians chapter
3, etcetera.

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00:45:55,720 –> 00:45:58,640
Basic stuff.
Son of God, brother of Jesus

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00:45:58,640 –> 00:46:01,000
Christ, they’re in the Lord.
They’re in the Lord’s family

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00:46:01,240 –> 00:46:04,000
because in the Lord’s family
they’re getting these benefits.

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00:46:04,000 –> 00:46:07,360
They’re sharing Christ’s
perfection, They’re sharing his

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00:46:07,360 –> 00:46:09,960
full confession.
All right, they’re doing the

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00:46:09,960 –> 00:46:15,440
best they can, but they share
the benefit of his fullness in

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00:46:15,440 –> 00:46:18,760
the Lord have our righteousness
and strength, and to him shall

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00:46:18,760 –> 00:46:21,960
men come and all that are
incensed against him.

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00:46:22,480 –> 00:46:25,520
Everyone that disagree with that
method of God, they’re going to

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00:46:25,520 –> 00:46:29,800
be ashamed.
Verse 25 in the Lord in Yahweh

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shall all the true seed of
Israel be pronounced righteous

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00:46:34,640 –> 00:46:40,880
and shall glory.
Now Romans chapter 3 built on

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00:46:40,880 –> 00:46:44,960
those verses.
OK, and you’ll have to work on

650
00:46:44,960 –> 00:46:48,360
that yourself to really make it
chill.

651
00:46:52,720 –> 00:46:57,920
Our reading tonight was Matthew
3, and we now go to we’re

652
00:46:57,920 –> 00:47:04,200
picking up, declaring God’s
righteousness, all right, and

653
00:47:04,200 –> 00:47:08,920
we’re relating it to something
very similar to that which was

654
00:47:08,920 –> 00:47:10,920
Christ’s words to John the
Baptist.

655
00:47:10,920 –> 00:47:16,040
This is John the Baptist, this
is Jordan, this is Jesus Christ

656
00:47:16,040 –> 00:47:18,960
here in yellow.
And these are all those that

657
00:47:18,960 –> 00:47:24,120
follow Jesus Christ.
He’s the captain, all right.

658
00:47:24,120 –> 00:47:26,920
Remember our earlier studies?
He’s the chief leader.

659
00:47:26,920 –> 00:47:31,160
The word captain means chief
leader, as in our instant night

660
00:47:31,160 –> 00:47:34,280
in Acts.
And then last night it occurred

661
00:47:34,280 –> 00:47:35,920
again.
All right.

662
00:47:36,360 –> 00:47:42,000
And whom God has made a Prince
and a saviour.

663
00:47:42,000 –> 00:47:44,040
The word Prince is chief
captain.

664
00:47:44,400 –> 00:47:47,560
He’s a captain, a chief leader.
It means he’s a leader.

665
00:47:47,560 –> 00:47:50,320
He’s lady.
The word shepherd means a leader

666
00:47:50,320 –> 00:47:53,320
of the sheep.
All right, the idea of

667
00:47:53,440 –> 00:47:57,080
leaderships in many interests, a
king, a king is the captain of

668
00:47:57,080 –> 00:47:59,560
my people.
A king is the chief leader of

669
00:47:59,560 –> 00:48:01,000
his people.
He’s a leader.

670
00:48:01,640 –> 00:48:04,840
I mean, he had to be an example.
A king supposed to, when he came

671
00:48:04,840 –> 00:48:07,720
to rule in Israel, supposed to
sit down and personally wrote

672
00:48:07,720 –> 00:48:13,040
out the whole Old Testament as
it was then, and he had to write

673
00:48:13,040 –> 00:48:17,160
it out person in his own hand,
and he had to read it every day.

674
00:48:17,520 –> 00:48:21,680
In other words, the king had to
be a leader both in moral things

675
00:48:21,680 –> 00:48:24,880
and in battle and administer.
He had to be the chief leader,

676
00:48:25,320 –> 00:48:27,440
OK?
And that’s what Jesus Christ

677
00:48:27,440 –> 00:48:30,480
was, a chief leader.
And he was a leader when he got

678
00:48:30,480 –> 00:48:33,720
baptized, OK?
He was a leader.

679
00:48:34,000 –> 00:48:39,080
He was beginning a public
manifestation of God’s method,

680
00:48:40,240 –> 00:48:45,280
something that starts with
baptism, runs the life of

681
00:48:45,280 –> 00:48:50,880
repudiating sin and taking on
board divine values, overcoming

682
00:48:51,160 –> 00:48:56,400
weakness by divine, developing
the divine mind, and finally in

683
00:48:56,400 –> 00:49:02,480
death itself.
Dying it is.

684
00:49:02,480 –> 00:49:04,960
It’s acceptable with God that
even your death can be

685
00:49:04,960 –> 00:49:07,440
acceptable.
Yeah.

686
00:49:07,800 –> 00:49:10,960
I only hope that when I die,
well, you’ve got to think of it

687
00:49:10,960 –> 00:49:14,280
beforehand because sometimes you
just been able to do up your

688
00:49:14,280 –> 00:49:16,760
shoelace and that’s it.
But so you’ve got to think of it

689
00:49:16,760 –> 00:49:19,000
on a daily basis.
But I’m getting pretty close to

690
00:49:19,000 –> 00:49:21,760
it, OK.
And I’ve got a crook ticker and

691
00:49:21,760 –> 00:49:24,800
everything and it’s I’m
encumbered not only through my

692
00:49:24,800 –> 00:49:28,800
life, but right now you come to
the end and physical death

693
00:49:28,800 –> 00:49:32,080
itself to say God is righteous,
I should be mortal.

694
00:49:32,360 –> 00:49:35,960
The wage is as sin is death.
I can survive this, but a lonely

695
00:49:35,960 –> 00:49:39,600
vibe because I’ve taken on board
the word which endures forever.

696
00:49:39,840 –> 00:49:43,920
And I’m sharing the benefit of
Christ’s perfect victory.

697
00:49:44,240 –> 00:49:48,160
I’m sharing his victory, OK,
which is really forgiveness.

698
00:49:48,480 –> 00:49:51,200
You know, it’s just forgiveness
put in all different sort of

699
00:49:51,200 –> 00:49:53,240
ways.
It’s conversion, forgiveness,

700
00:49:53,560 –> 00:49:56,000
and, and, and I should die with
that faith.

701
00:49:56,200 –> 00:50:01,000
And dying with that faith will
ensure that I’ll be with him in

702
00:50:01,000 –> 00:50:07,680
paradise.
So just let’s look at Matthew 3

703
00:50:07,680 –> 00:50:16,120
and Isaiah 40.
Keep your hand in Isaiah 40 and

704
00:50:16,120 –> 00:50:18,960
turn up Matthew 3.
You’ve got to turn from one to

705
00:50:18,960 –> 00:50:23,520
the other.
It says in our in Matthew

706
00:50:23,520 –> 00:50:26,720
chapter 3 in those days, first
one came John the Baptist

707
00:50:26,720 –> 00:50:30,600
preaching in the wilderness of
Judea saying repent for the

708
00:50:30,600 –> 00:50:37,840
Kingdom of heaven is at hand.
And this is he that was spoken

709
00:50:37,840 –> 00:50:44,560
of by the prophet saying quote
Isaiah 40 verses 3 to 8, the

710
00:50:44,560 –> 00:50:48,200
voice of one crying in the
wilderness.

711
00:50:48,600 –> 00:50:53,840
Prepare ye the way of the Lord,
make his paths straight.

712
00:50:57,160 –> 00:51:02,160
Now when you go back to notice
what he’s preached, repent for

713
00:51:02,160 –> 00:51:03,960
the Kingdom of heaven is at
hand.

714
00:51:04,320 –> 00:51:07,440
But when you go back to Isaiah
40, now put your hand in Matthew

715
00:51:07,440 –> 00:51:11,280
3 and go back to Isaiah 40.
It’s told what he should have

716
00:51:11,280 –> 00:51:16,040
preached, OK.
The chapters dealing with

717
00:51:16,040 –> 00:51:20,560
forgiveness, verse 2, speaking
comfortably to Jerusalem, crying

718
00:51:20,560 –> 00:51:24,560
to her that her warfare is
accomplished and her iniquity is

719
00:51:24,560 –> 00:51:29,920
pardoned.
Her iniquity is pardoned.

720
00:51:29,920 –> 00:51:34,200
So it’s about the pardon of
iniquity, OK?

721
00:51:34,200 –> 00:51:37,240
And, and from Isaiah 40 right
through the end of Isaiah,

722
00:51:37,240 –> 00:51:39,640
that’s what the subjects all
about, OK.

723
00:51:43,360 –> 00:51:48,560
And it says verse 3 is the verse
that’s quoted in Matthew 3, the

724
00:51:48,560 –> 00:51:51,600
voice of him that crieth in the
wilderness, prepare you the way

725
00:51:51,600 –> 00:51:55,880
of Yahweh makes straight in the
desert, a highway for our God,

726
00:51:55,880 –> 00:51:58,760
our Elohim.
That’s the one that’s quoted.

727
00:51:59,000 –> 00:52:02,760
So it’s John the Baptist, verse
3, it’s talking about John the

728
00:52:02,760 –> 00:52:05,760
Baptist.
Verse 4 says he’s going to be a

729
00:52:05,760 –> 00:52:09,000
bit of a bulldozer.
Every valley should be exalted,

730
00:52:09,000 –> 00:52:10,840
and every mountain and hills
should be made low.

731
00:52:10,840 –> 00:52:13,640
And the crooked place is
straight and the rough ways is

732
00:52:13,640 –> 00:52:16,840
plain.
In other words, his job was to

733
00:52:16,840 –> 00:52:20,240
build a highway.
You push over the tops of

734
00:52:20,240 –> 00:52:23,080
mountains, you fill in the
valleys, you make it, you

735
00:52:23,080 –> 00:52:26,080
straighten the road up.
He was building a highway.

736
00:52:27,040 –> 00:52:29,560
So he was doing it with a
gospel.

737
00:52:30,080 –> 00:52:32,800
He’s building a highway with a
gospel.

738
00:52:32,800 –> 00:52:35,200
He’s building a highway in
people’s minds.

739
00:52:36,280 –> 00:52:39,640
Why?
Because verse 5, the glory of

740
00:52:39,640 –> 00:52:45,600
Yahweh shall be revealed and all
flesh shall see it together.

741
00:52:46,760 –> 00:52:50,640
Look under me, behold me.
If you’re going to get

742
00:52:50,840 –> 00:52:53,080
forgiveness, if you’re going to
get iniquity, you’ve got to be

743
00:52:53,080 –> 00:52:57,040
able to see God.
God’s got to be demonstrated in

744
00:52:57,040 –> 00:52:59,720
front of your very eyes.
Well John, you’re going to

745
00:52:59,720 –> 00:53:03,600
appear a highway because the
glory of Yahweh is going to

746
00:53:03,600 –> 00:53:07,600
appear.
He said, OK, verse 6, what will

747
00:53:07,600 –> 00:53:12,840
I preach?
The voice said cry.

748
00:53:12,840 –> 00:53:14,600
And he said, well, what do I
cry?

749
00:53:15,320 –> 00:53:16,960
He says, this is what you’ll
cry.

750
00:53:18,760 –> 00:53:24,360
All flesh is grass, and all the
goodliness thereof as the flower

751
00:53:24,360 –> 00:53:29,120
of the field.
The grass withereth, the flower

752
00:53:29,120 –> 00:53:34,600
fadeth, because the Spirit of
Yahweh bloweth upon it.

753
00:53:35,200 –> 00:53:39,680
Surely the people, the whole lot
of them is grass.

754
00:53:40,880 –> 00:53:45,000
And he repeated, The grass
withereth, the flower fighteth.

755
00:53:45,480 –> 00:53:49,120
But there is something that’s
eternal, and it’s not the grass.

756
00:53:49,680 –> 00:53:55,840
The word of our Elohim, our God
shall stand forever.

757
00:53:57,560 –> 00:54:01,080
And that last phrase was quoted
many places in the New Testament

758
00:54:01,320 –> 00:54:06,960
and says the Word is the gospel,
the gospel of salvation, the

759
00:54:06,960 –> 00:54:12,200
gospel of God, God’s method, OK,
it stands forever.

760
00:54:13,160 –> 00:54:17,000
Anything that comes from God and
it’s divine is eternal.

761
00:54:18,960 –> 00:54:21,200
God.
Christ was able to offer himself

762
00:54:21,440 –> 00:54:26,440
because without spot, because He
had an eternal spirit about him.

763
00:54:27,320 –> 00:54:32,920
He derived this eternal attitude
from the divine mind being

764
00:54:32,920 –> 00:54:36,600
communicated in the divine Word.
But what was he by nature?

765
00:54:36,840 –> 00:54:42,600
Just grass like every one of us.
Just grass like every one of us.

766
00:54:43,320 –> 00:54:45,480
But what got him through to
eternal life?

767
00:54:45,680 –> 00:54:52,440
The Word that stands forever.
How did John preach that He

768
00:54:52,440 –> 00:54:55,320
didn’t actually use those words,
even though they’re used many

769
00:54:55,320 –> 00:54:59,680
times by the apostles?
He says repent ye for the

770
00:54:59,680 –> 00:55:05,960
Kingdom of heaven is at hand.
Repent ye for the Kingdom of

771
00:55:05,960 –> 00:55:09,720
heaven is at hand.
That’s what he preached.

772
00:55:10,040 –> 00:55:14,680
And he preached a a baptism
whereby they had to confess

773
00:55:14,680 –> 00:55:18,840
their sins.
Verse 6, verse 5 and then went

774
00:55:18,840 –> 00:55:22,080
out to him Jerusalem and all
Judea and all the region

775
00:55:22,080 –> 00:55:28,600
roundabout and were baptized of
Jordan confessing their sins.

776
00:55:30,520 –> 00:55:35,280
Now eventually Jesus Christ
comes along to be baptized.

777
00:55:35,320 –> 00:55:37,880
OK, they’re confessing their
sins.

778
00:55:37,880 –> 00:55:40,640
Now how do you confess your
sins?

779
00:55:41,520 –> 00:55:43,600
We’ve got to relate this to
Isaiah 40.

780
00:55:43,800 –> 00:55:47,320
Well to start with, he should
have been preaching all fleshes

781
00:55:47,320 –> 00:55:50,840
grasp and the word induced
revenue can be sure he did that.

782
00:55:51,400 –> 00:55:55,680
It’s tied up in the expression
repent ye, for the Kingdom of

783
00:55:55,680 –> 00:56:00,880
heaven is at hand.
In other words, your grass.

784
00:56:01,600 –> 00:56:04,680
Turn around.
The Kingdom of heaven is about

785
00:56:04,680 –> 00:56:07,400
to appear.
The glory of God’s about to

786
00:56:07,400 –> 00:56:09,360
appear.
The royal majesty the kingdom’s

787
00:56:09,360 –> 00:56:12,160
about to appear.
OK, turn around.

788
00:56:12,160 –> 00:56:13,840
Repent.
All right.

789
00:56:14,160 –> 00:56:17,480
Recognize your sin because
you’re about to be able to

790
00:56:17,480 –> 00:56:20,400
behold God.
You’ll be able to be about to

791
00:56:20,400 –> 00:56:25,720
behold and there’s no, there’s
no salvation unless you behold

792
00:56:25,720 –> 00:56:36,400
God, OK, unless you recognise
God and and and and and so we

793
00:56:36,400 –> 00:56:42,080
find when you pick up this idea
of grass in Isaiah 40, go back

794
00:56:42,080 –> 00:56:45,600
to Isaiah 40.
Pick up the end the word grass

795
00:56:45,600 –> 00:56:50,080
at the end of verse 7, say run a
line to verse 17.

796
00:56:50,480 –> 00:56:54,920
All nations before him are as
nothing, and they accounted to

797
00:56:54,920 –> 00:56:57,680
him less than nothing, Nothing
in vanity.

798
00:56:58,160 –> 00:57:02,400
That’s how grassy man is.
All nations, that’s how grassy

799
00:57:02,400 –> 00:57:05,680
they are.
Verse eight, run a line from

800
00:57:05,680 –> 00:57:09,560
grass to verse 18.
To whom then will you like an

801
00:57:09,560 –> 00:57:12,240
owl?
To what likeness will you

802
00:57:12,240 –> 00:57:15,680
compare him?
You’re going to build an idol.

803
00:57:15,800 –> 00:57:18,320
You’re going to, you’re going to
make your own concept of what

804
00:57:18,320 –> 00:57:20,600
God is.
Forget it.

805
00:57:22,040 –> 00:57:28,440
He’s about to appear at the end
of verse 9 of of Isaiah 40 verse

806
00:57:28,520 –> 00:57:31,920
read verse I know Zion that
bring us good tidings.

807
00:57:31,920 –> 00:57:36,400
The margin says oh that tell us
good tidings desire they are

808
00:57:36,400 –> 00:57:41,280
that tell us good tidings design
and good tidings the gospel they

809
00:57:41,280 –> 00:57:44,440
are that tell us the gospel
what’s the gospel All flesh is

810
00:57:44,440 –> 00:57:47,960
grass.
The Word endures forever, and

811
00:57:47,960 –> 00:57:52,000
you know all truth is bound up
in those two truths.

812
00:57:52,400 –> 00:57:55,800
The whole system of truth that
you and I believe are bound up

813
00:57:55,840 –> 00:58:00,040
in those two truths.
All flesh is grasp.

814
00:58:00,040 –> 00:58:05,400
Man is weak, mortal, sinfully
inclined, and will die.

815
00:58:06,680 –> 00:58:11,240
People don’t believe that, but
the Word of God endures forever,

816
00:58:11,240 –> 00:58:15,440
the only hope of eternity.
It’s to take on board the Word

817
00:58:15,440 –> 00:58:17,560
of God.
And you can be related to

818
00:58:17,560 –> 00:58:20,720
resurrection, change and
immortality without taking that

819
00:58:20,720 –> 00:58:21,360
on.
On board.

820
00:58:21,720 –> 00:58:24,160
There’s not, But people don’t
believe that.

821
00:58:24,560 –> 00:58:26,400
Every religion in the world
believes they’re already

822
00:58:26,400 –> 00:58:29,440
immortal.
That’s ever been so.

823
00:58:30,160 –> 00:58:35,160
It’s ever been so.
Men refuse to humiliate

824
00:58:35,160 –> 00:58:41,000
themselves to this fundamental
fact that man’s just grasp.

825
00:58:41,480 –> 00:58:44,000
Oh no, he’s got weakness, but
he’s got a lot of goodness too.

826
00:58:44,240 –> 00:58:46,200
Oh, he’s got a moral spark in
him.

827
00:58:46,480 –> 00:58:48,640
Yep.
And they make man more precious

828
00:58:48,640 –> 00:58:52,960
than he really is.
Look how God’s view, God’s view,

829
00:58:52,960 –> 00:58:56,440
all nations are nothing and to
whom you’re going to compare it

830
00:58:57,720 –> 00:58:59,960
to an idol.
Can you produce?

831
00:59:00,080 –> 00:59:01,880
Can you produce something that’s
like me?

832
00:59:01,960 –> 00:59:07,120
No, you can’t, but I can behold
your God.

833
00:59:07,240 –> 00:59:10,960
At the end of verse 9.
I read verse 9 again.

834
00:59:11,920 –> 00:59:15,000
They are that bring us the
gospel designed.

835
00:59:15,000 –> 00:59:17,240
Get the app into the high
mountain.

836
00:59:18,760 –> 00:59:22,800
They are that tell us good
tidings to Jerusalem.

837
00:59:24,640 –> 00:59:27,480
Lift up thy voice with strength
lifted up.

838
00:59:27,480 –> 00:59:30,520
Be not afraid.
Say under the cities of Judah.

839
00:59:31,360 –> 00:59:35,240
And this is what you’ve got to
say under to the cities of

840
00:59:35,240 –> 00:59:38,920
Judah.
John, behold your God.

841
00:59:40,760 –> 00:59:43,880
That’s exactly what John did,
how he changed the words a

842
00:59:43,880 –> 00:59:46,760
little bit.
The Gospel of John chapter 1.

843
00:59:47,480 –> 00:59:52,680
All right, he was he, he was
told that when Jesus Christ came

844
00:59:52,680 –> 00:59:56,040
to be baptized that he’d seen
the Spirit descend upon him and

845
00:59:56,040 –> 01:00:00,400
he would not he would that would
reveal to him that that was the

846
01:00:00,400 –> 01:00:03,920
Son of God.
And so when that happened, he

847
01:00:03,920 –> 01:00:07,560
immediately thereafter, whenever
Jesus appeared and on the scene,

848
01:00:07,560 –> 01:00:14,640
what did he say?
Behold the Lamb of God, Behold

849
01:00:14,640 –> 01:00:17,600
your God.
He said it twice in the Gospel

850
01:00:17,600 –> 01:00:20,560
of John chapter 1.
Behold the Lamb of God that

851
01:00:20,560 –> 01:00:22,240
taketh away the sin of the
world.

852
01:00:22,280 –> 01:00:26,280
He’s talking about this.
Behold your God, the taking away

853
01:00:26,280 –> 01:00:28,920
of iniquity, her iniquities
pardon in it.

854
01:00:29,640 –> 01:00:34,320
So here we have the Gospel of
John and Isaiah 40, and it’s

855
01:00:34,320 –> 01:00:39,200
simply the gospel, the gospel he
preached.

856
01:00:40,000 –> 01:00:45,080
Christ lived out perfectly.
John lived it out as best he

857
01:00:45,080 –> 01:00:46,920
could.
Wonderful man, the greatest

858
01:00:46,920 –> 01:00:50,080
prophet ever lived.
He never lived it out perfectly.

859
01:00:51,080 –> 01:00:54,760
Behold, the Lamb of God that
taketh away the sin of the world

860
01:00:54,880 –> 01:00:59,480
would come and would perfectly
manifest the grassiness of man

861
01:01:00,040 –> 01:01:02,560
and the everlasting of the word
of God.

862
01:01:03,320 –> 01:01:08,840
And he demonstrated, declared it
demonstrated and hence you have

863
01:01:08,840 –> 01:01:13,920
when we turn back to Matthew
chapter 3 times gone.

864
01:01:13,920 –> 01:01:18,120
Hence you have when John, when
Christ comes to be baptized

865
01:01:18,480 –> 01:01:21,800
because he gets stuck into the
scribes and Pharisees.

866
01:01:22,200 –> 01:01:24,600
You know, you say you’ve got
Abraham to your father.

867
01:01:24,840 –> 01:01:28,760
You know, earning righteousness.
We’re superior flesh.

868
01:01:28,760 –> 01:01:31,680
They trusted in the flesh.
They trusted in the fact they

869
01:01:31,680 –> 01:01:35,400
are sons of of Abraham.
God’s over these stones to raise

870
01:01:35,400 –> 01:01:37,080
up.
You’re only subject to

871
01:01:37,080 –> 01:01:40,920
judgement.
God’s about to appear, right?

872
01:01:40,920 –> 01:01:43,840
The royal majesty, the Kingdom,
the royal majesty, the kingdom’s

873
01:01:43,840 –> 01:01:46,920
about to appear and he’s what
he’s going to do, you blokes.

874
01:01:47,160 –> 01:01:49,720
He’s going to use an axe and cut
you down because you’re not

875
01:01:49,720 –> 01:01:56,160
producing any fruit and, and and
he’s going to baptize with the

876
01:01:56,160 –> 01:01:58,960
Holy Spirit.
Verse 11 And he’s going to

877
01:01:58,960 –> 01:02:02,080
separate the wheat from the the
chaff and you blocks of the

878
01:02:02,080 –> 01:02:07,720
chaff, you’re dried up grass,
right?

879
01:02:07,960 –> 01:02:11,160
Yeah, that’s all.
You are now only good to be

880
01:02:11,160 –> 01:02:16,440
burnt and you’ll be burnt.
Verse 13 Then cometh Jesus from

881
01:02:16,440 –> 01:02:19,400
Galilee to Jordan unto John to
be baptized with him.

882
01:02:19,800 –> 01:02:23,920
But John forbade him, saying,
I’ve need to be baptized today

883
01:02:23,920 –> 01:02:26,440
and cometh out of me.
And Jesus answered and said unto

884
01:02:26,440 –> 01:02:34,240
him, look, and you’ve got to
appreciate when people came to

885
01:02:34,240 –> 01:02:37,840
be baptized by John, they’d go
out there confessing their sin.

886
01:02:38,160 –> 01:02:41,880
If you’re 50 years old and
you’re confessing your sins,

887
01:02:42,240 –> 01:02:44,600
you’d be standing in the water
for about two days.

888
01:02:44,600 –> 01:02:46,000
You wouldn’t remember them
anyway.

889
01:02:46,160 –> 01:02:48,080
And half of them, these things
you wouldn’t even know.

890
01:02:49,000 –> 01:02:50,840
So.
So you didn’t actually confess

891
01:02:51,200 –> 01:02:54,040
each sin you’d ever done.
Maybe some major besetting sin,

892
01:02:54,040 –> 01:02:57,120
but what would you do?
What would you say?

893
01:02:58,720 –> 01:03:04,200
All flesh is grass, and the
goodliness thereof is the flower

894
01:03:04,200 –> 01:03:07,120
of the field.
I’m rightly mortal.

895
01:03:07,800 –> 01:03:11,640
I’m a Sinner.
I’m rightly related to death by

896
01:03:11,640 –> 01:03:15,280
this death.
I know the answer lies in

897
01:03:15,280 –> 01:03:18,920
turning to God’s Word, and I
know I’ve got to change the

898
01:03:18,920 –> 01:03:23,120
direction of life.
That was confessing his sins for

899
01:03:23,120 –> 01:03:28,560
the remission of sin.
That’s what it was Jesus Christ.

900
01:03:29,160 –> 01:03:33,240
And he walks down and and the
brother Carl suggests that he

901
01:03:33,240 –> 01:03:37,720
would say, well, I’ve lived in
all good conscience before God

902
01:03:37,720 –> 01:03:42,720
or something like this.
And to this day, however, I want

903
01:03:42,720 –> 01:03:45,680
you to baptize with John
probably knew him.

904
01:03:45,680 –> 01:03:50,360
He’s his cousin anyway.
And he said, look, no, I would,

905
01:03:51,680 –> 01:03:55,880
I should be baptized by you.
I shouldn’t be baptized you.

906
01:03:56,680 –> 01:04:00,000
He says no, John, think about
it, John, think about it.

907
01:04:00,440 –> 01:04:06,120
Suffer it to be so now.
Well, thus it become a us, you

908
01:04:07,120 –> 01:04:11,160
and everyone that’s following
me, all the believers that we’re

909
01:04:11,160 –> 01:04:16,920
going to say.
Thus it become a us to fulfill

910
01:04:18,080 –> 01:04:21,000
means to fill up all
righteousness.

911
01:04:21,080 –> 01:04:23,200
We’ve got to do everything.
That’s right.

912
01:04:23,680 –> 01:04:28,320
I’m commencing a public ministry
and you know, I am all right.

913
01:04:28,360 –> 01:04:29,840
You know, that’s what it’s
about.

914
01:04:29,840 –> 01:04:33,400
He already was suspecting.
He, I suspected he was the

915
01:04:33,400 –> 01:04:36,000
Messiah.
And he’s got to fulfil.

916
01:04:36,040 –> 01:04:39,240
He’s got to walk the way that
others have got to follow.

917
01:04:39,560 –> 01:04:41,840
He has to be the perfect
example.

918
01:04:42,440 –> 01:04:46,200
He’s the only one that could
make a full confession at

919
01:04:46,200 –> 01:04:51,400
baptism.
He’s the only one that could

920
01:04:51,400 –> 01:04:55,240
confess the sin of the human
rights will confess.

921
01:04:55,240 –> 01:04:58,040
All of those are going to be
eventually saved.

922
01:04:58,560 –> 01:05:00,600
Because all those are eventually
going to be saved.

923
01:05:01,920 –> 01:05:04,600
Their baptism won’t be able to
recognize every sin.

924
01:05:04,600 –> 01:05:07,080
They haven’t learned them all
yet, but they do it in

925
01:05:07,080 –> 01:05:09,440
principle.
So He comes along.

926
01:05:09,720 –> 01:05:15,120
Thus it becometh us to fulfil
all righteousness, right?

927
01:05:15,400 –> 01:05:20,800
God’s got a righteous method,
and the method commences when

928
01:05:20,800 –> 01:05:23,680
you bow the knee and acknowledge
your position.

929
01:05:24,680 –> 01:05:30,880
Then you from there on live out
that baptized life every day,

930
01:05:31,680 –> 01:05:35,480
and you die in that baptized
way.

931
01:05:36,600 –> 01:05:40,560
And I can prove from the Bible
in many places that every day is

932
01:05:40,560 –> 01:05:44,320
a day of baptism.
Paul talks in Second Corinthians

933
01:05:44,320 –> 01:05:50,000
chapter 4 about dying and living
right all the time, right?

934
01:05:50,000 –> 01:05:55,000
And he talks about in in first
Corinthians 15 about being

935
01:05:55,000 –> 01:05:57,320
baptized for the dead.
And he goes on to explain what

936
01:05:57,320 –> 01:05:59,920
it means.
I mean, suffering adversity of

937
01:06:00,200 –> 01:06:03,600
the beasts of Ephesus for the
sake of preaching the truth.

938
01:06:04,120 –> 01:06:07,280
He constantly was living the
baptized life.

939
01:06:07,680 –> 01:06:11,240
Every day is a day of baptism.
Every day is a commitment.

940
01:06:11,240 –> 01:06:13,680
Every time you wake up, it’s a
commitment.

941
01:06:13,680 –> 01:06:19,240
I am flesh, I’m grass naturally
and every day it’s a daily

942
01:06:19,240 –> 01:06:21,280
thing.
Make up your cross.

943
01:06:21,280 –> 01:06:30,920
What daily and follow me.
OK, so it was necessary to

944
01:06:32,160 –> 01:06:38,040
complete a example of the
righteous way that he submit to

945
01:06:38,040 –> 01:06:41,320
baptism.
He just a confession of the

946
01:06:41,320 –> 01:06:43,960
facts.
Later on he died and

947
01:06:43,960 –> 01:06:49,400
demonstrated the facts.
All right, So what he did here

948
01:06:49,640 –> 01:06:55,400
by word and by a ritual He did
in fact, later as He was

949
01:06:55,400 –> 01:07:02,240
crucified on the tree, you’re
going to have a late night.

950
01:07:06,840 –> 01:07:12,680
So sacrifice is virtue of
confession.

951
01:07:13,080 –> 01:07:17,160
Christ is demonstrating and in
the demonstration He’s

952
01:07:17,160 –> 01:07:20,760
confessing the facts.
All flesh is grasp the word in

953
01:07:20,760 –> 01:07:23,000
Jews forever.
He’s doing it perfectly.

954
01:07:23,480 –> 01:07:26,880
You’ve got to take up your cross
daily.

955
01:07:27,480 –> 01:07:30,760
All right, that says so in Luke
923.

956
01:07:31,080 –> 01:07:34,320
You’ve got to take it up daily.
Deny yourself, take up your

957
01:07:34,320 –> 01:07:37,960
cross and follow me.
OK, so we’re going to follow the

958
01:07:37,960 –> 01:07:41,040
same direction, but recognize
their limitations.

959
01:07:41,320 –> 01:07:43,280
He’s the only one that’s doing
it perfect.

960
01:07:43,680 –> 01:07:46,760
And while ever you identify with
him, you get the benefit of that

961
01:07:46,760 –> 01:07:48,880
perfection.
All right.

962
01:07:50,320 –> 01:07:55,520
And we’ve looked at Isaiah 45.
So when he walked away and it

963
01:07:55,520 –> 01:07:59,640
was confronted with temptation
and death, his actual death and

964
01:07:59,640 –> 01:08:04,080
victory over sin built a bridge.
A bridge which he went over

965
01:08:04,080 –> 01:08:06,960
first and which we will follow
at resurrection.

966
01:08:06,960 –> 01:08:09,880
We’ll go over this bridge to
judgement, survive judgement,

967
01:08:10,240 –> 01:08:14,560
enter into immortality.
The talks about Christ being

968
01:08:14,840 –> 01:08:18,240
giving a good confession before
Pontius in the days of Pontius

969
01:08:18,240 –> 01:08:21,479
Pilate.
You know your king then?

970
01:08:21,640 –> 01:08:23,920
Yeah.
For this thing was I born that I

971
01:08:23,920 –> 01:08:28,560
might be a witness to the truth.
And that’s what I’ve been doing.

972
01:08:28,560 –> 01:08:31,359
That’s what I’m doing now.
That’s what I’m about to do.

973
01:08:31,359 –> 01:08:33,720
And Pilot scratched his head and
said, what is truth?

974
01:08:33,720 –> 01:08:35,479
He didn’t know what he was
talking about.

975
01:08:36,080 –> 01:08:39,000
And here he was testifying the
truth.

976
01:08:39,000 –> 01:08:42,120
What is truth?
All flesh is grass.

977
01:08:42,680 –> 01:08:47,479
The Word endures forever.
OK, simple gospels that we

978
01:08:47,479 –> 01:08:59,140
preach continually.
What’s that that sets times up?

979
01:08:59,979 –> 01:09:03,819
So from the first Adam we
receive a natural body.

980
01:09:04,580 –> 01:09:09,399
God operated through Mary and he
produced a second atom which

981
01:09:09,560 –> 01:09:13,640
coming from this state became a
life giving spirit.

982
01:09:14,399 –> 01:09:17,000
He became this one gives us a
natural body.

983
01:09:17,439 –> 01:09:20,800
Jesus Christ obtained
immortality and he was given the

984
01:09:20,800 –> 01:09:24,680
power to share it, to actually
immortalize other people.

985
01:09:25,120 –> 01:09:29,200
OK, and and so we have these two
atoms.

986
01:09:29,200 –> 01:09:30,800
We haven’t got time to go into
that.

987
01:09:31,800 –> 01:09:35,319
And in Romans chapter 6 it talks
about moral turning.

988
01:09:35,720 –> 01:09:39,560
Here we were living the selfish
life, all fleetish grass, and we

989
01:09:39,560 –> 01:09:43,560
were loving it, right?
But we change our direction.

990
01:09:43,560 –> 01:09:46,160
That’s what repentance and
conversion means.

991
01:09:46,160 –> 01:09:50,560
Change the direction of life and
you submit the baptism.

992
01:09:50,560 –> 01:09:53,640
When you go under, you identify
with Christ crucified.

993
01:09:54,000 –> 01:09:56,680
When you come out of the water,
you identify with the

994
01:09:56,680 –> 01:09:59,560
resurrection of Christ.
That shows another significance

995
01:09:59,560 –> 01:10:02,840
of Christ on the tree and his
resurrection.

996
01:10:03,480 –> 01:10:08,000
It shows it represents this
physical thing, actually

997
01:10:08,000 –> 01:10:11,360
represents the moral change
that’s got to govern the person.

998
01:10:12,200 –> 01:10:15,720
There’s many things represented
in the death of Christ, and

999
01:10:15,720 –> 01:10:20,080
instead of relying on motivating
forces like the Jews who relied

1000
01:10:20,080 –> 01:10:25,120
on the pride of life to earn
salvation, we rely on these very

1001
01:10:25,120 –> 01:10:27,600
things which say dependence upon
God.

1002
01:10:27,960 –> 01:10:32,400
Faith is trusting God, believing
the truth of God, believing what

1003
01:10:32,400 –> 01:10:34,840
God said.
Adam and Eve didn’t believe what

1004
01:10:34,840 –> 01:10:38,120
God said.
God has said to us, we grasp,

1005
01:10:38,120 –> 01:10:41,600
but the word endures forever.
This book, believe it make that

1006
01:10:41,600 –> 01:10:45,160
a motivating force.
It provides hope, it provides

1007
01:10:45,160 –> 01:10:46,960
love.
When you consider this method,

1008
01:10:47,280 –> 01:10:50,200
it stimulates a sense of
gratitude that they’re

1009
01:10:50,200 –> 01:10:54,840
completely different motivating
forces than self determination.

1010
01:10:54,840 –> 01:10:58,720
And I’m great and I can do this
and I’m a seed of Abraham and so

1011
01:10:58,720 –> 01:10:59,280
on.
OK.

1012
01:11:00,000 –> 01:11:04,120
They’re motivations that are
begotten by the gospel of truth.

1013
01:11:04,920 –> 01:11:10,680
It brings us to the last thing
which races us forward to.

1014
01:11:10,680 –> 01:11:13,800
Romans 7 and 8 sort of
summarizes everything.

1015
01:11:15,120 –> 01:11:19,240
OK, now the boys at the school
of prophets reckon for them it

1016
01:11:19,240 –> 01:11:20,960
said everything.
I didn’t think it was that big

1017
01:11:20,960 –> 01:11:22,880
time for them.
It said everything.

1018
01:11:23,680 –> 01:11:27,880
Romans 7 talks about the law of
sin, talks about this duality.

1019
01:11:28,440 –> 01:11:31,040
It’s all figures of speech and
personification.

1020
01:11:31,560 –> 01:11:36,040
He divides himself up into two.
He talks about the law of sin

1021
01:11:36,040 –> 01:11:39,400
and his members.
It’s called the emotions of

1022
01:11:39,400 –> 01:11:41,680
sins.
It’s called sin.

1023
01:11:42,120 –> 01:11:45,880
It’s called a law of sin.
It’s called sin in the flesh.

1024
01:11:46,320 –> 01:11:53,000
That’s But then he sees that as
the natural functions.

1025
01:11:53,000 –> 01:11:55,480
They’re simply the lust, the
flesh, the eye and the pride of

1026
01:11:55,480 –> 01:11:58,400
life who don’t like the
restriction of law.

1027
01:11:58,640 –> 01:12:02,160
We need them to live, but that
doesn’t like the restriction of

1028
01:12:02,160 –> 01:12:05,560
law.
It’s selfish and it wants self

1029
01:12:05,560 –> 01:12:09,400
indulgence and he found his body
always geared for that.

1030
01:12:10,280 –> 01:12:13,760
You know, you might have you
might have a job to doing the

1031
01:12:13,760 –> 01:12:17,440
truth, but you’re that jolly
hungry and it’s not a good sign.

1032
01:12:17,440 –> 01:12:18,800
I’ve got a job to doing the
truth.

1033
01:12:19,000 –> 01:12:22,480
Doesn’t stop you being hungry.
You might ignore it, but the

1034
01:12:22,480 –> 01:12:25,240
flesh keeps saying have
something to eat mate.

1035
01:12:25,360 –> 01:12:28,040
You know, especially 40 days in
the wilderness and you’re

1036
01:12:28,040 –> 01:12:30,160
hungry, you know, have some of
the flesh.

1037
01:12:31,120 –> 01:12:33,440
You know, it was not a good
saying.

1038
01:12:33,680 –> 01:12:36,320
Man does not live by bread
alone, but by every word that

1039
01:12:36,320 –> 01:12:38,960
could proceeded out of the mouth
of the Lord.

1040
01:12:38,960 –> 01:12:41,800
Shall man live?
I mean, it did was the whole

1041
01:12:41,800 –> 01:12:43,720
answer, but didn’t stop him
being hungry.

1042
01:12:43,920 –> 01:12:48,360
OK, it persists though.
He found this persistent law in

1043
01:12:48,360 –> 01:12:50,400
his nature, trying to be
selfish.

1044
01:12:50,720 –> 01:12:53,920
On that hand, he’d learned God’s
ways 1st through the law of

1045
01:12:53,920 –> 01:12:55,280
Moses.
And even there there was a

1046
01:12:55,280 –> 01:12:57,400
conflict in which he found he
felt.

1047
01:12:57,600 –> 01:13:00,680
But when he got the full
knowledge of the Gospel, when he

1048
01:13:00,680 –> 01:13:05,400
was the lights in God’s law, he
said, but he found this law that

1049
01:13:05,400 –> 01:13:11,160
they were constantly at war.
But the mind, the grass is

1050
01:13:11,160 –> 01:13:14,920
fighting the word of the law as
a constant battle.

1051
01:13:16,560 –> 01:13:19,560
It’s war.
Wars made-up of battles.

1052
01:13:20,480 –> 01:13:22,800
Now some battles go for hundreds
of years.

1053
01:13:22,800 –> 01:13:25,640
Wars, sorry, wars, go for
hundreds of years.

1054
01:13:26,040 –> 01:13:29,920
It’s said, a set of the Romans
in the decline and fall of the

1055
01:13:29,920 –> 01:13:37,600
Roman Empire, often vanquished
in battle but always victorious

1056
01:13:37,680 –> 01:13:40,560
in war.
Which means they lost a few

1057
01:13:40,560 –> 01:13:44,280
battles, but they went back and
had a go and they eventually won

1058
01:13:44,280 –> 01:13:45,480
the war.
OK.

1059
01:13:46,000 –> 01:13:47,720
And that’s what our life’s all
about.

1060
01:13:48,120 –> 01:13:49,440
It’s a moral battle.
Who?

1061
01:13:49,440 –> 01:13:53,400
With ourself and our world, it’s
a moral battle.

1062
01:13:53,680 –> 01:13:56,360
It’s a daily thing.
We’re going to use a daily

1063
01:13:56,360 –> 01:13:59,680
method.
We’re going to use the intake of

1064
01:13:59,680 –> 01:14:04,200
the divine mind, the light in
God’s law, learn the delight in

1065
01:14:04,200 –> 01:14:06,280
it.
And while ever we do that and

1066
01:14:06,280 –> 01:14:12,400
identify with the work of the
perfect example, there is a

1067
01:14:12,400 –> 01:14:19,600
basis for God to forgive and
that forgiveness and that

1068
01:14:19,600 –> 01:14:26,440
direction of life.
He’s victorious over that simple

1069
01:14:27,560 –> 01:14:31,880
it works, but it’s got to be
done on a daily basis.

1070
01:14:32,800 –> 01:14:39,200
It means resist the influence of
selfishness that the world

1071
01:14:39,200 –> 01:14:45,280
imposes upon you daily resistant
daily take on board the word of

1072
01:14:45,280 –> 01:14:51,080
God daily pray daily trust not
every second I daily continually

1073
01:14:51,480 –> 01:14:56,520
war those fight those battles.
Some you’ll lose, but that’s

1074
01:14:56,520 –> 01:14:59,520
forgiveness.
And because there’s forgiveness,

1075
01:14:59,840 –> 01:15:03,840
there’s victory.
There’s victory in Christ Jesus.

1076
01:15:04,280 –> 01:15:07,120
Let me finish with one verse.
I won’t explain it.

1077
01:15:07,320 –> 01:15:09,400
I’ll just read it.
Let’s you know it backwards.

1078
01:15:09,400 –> 01:15:13,200
First Corinthians 15.
See our last verse.

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I know it’s the final victory of
the Word which endure forever

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over grass.
Verse 50.

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Now this I say, brethren, the
flesh and blood grass cannot

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inherit the Kingdom of God,
Neither does corruption inherit

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incorruption.
Behold, I show you a mystery.

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We shall not all sleep, but we
shall all be changed.

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We’ve been talking about moral
victory, and the moral is the

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hard bit, and it will ensure
this physical victory in a

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moment in the twin thing of an
eye at the US Trump.

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But the trumpets will sound, and
the dead should be raised

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incorruptible.
And we should be changed, for

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this corruptible must put on
incorruption, and this mortal

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should be brought put on
immortality.

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Now note this.
So when and if you’ve got a

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pencil circle when so when this
corruptible shall have put on in

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corruption and when this mortal
shall have put on immortality

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then and circle then then shall
be brought to pass the sign that

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is written death grassiness,
death is swallowed up in victory

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at death.
Where is thy sting thou grave?

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Where is thy victory?
The sting of death is sin, but

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the and the strength of sin is
law earning.

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You know, you try earning, but
thanks be to God, which it’s not

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earning.
He gives us the victory because

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Christ gained the victory lets
us share it giveth us the

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victory through our Lord Jesus
Christ.

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That’s what that’s all about.
Final words.

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Therefore, my beloved brethren,
be steadfast, unmovable, always

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abounding in the work of the
Lord, for as much as you know

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that your labour is not in vain
in the Lord.

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Thank you.