Jim Styles – God’s Wonderful Plan Of Redemption – Class 1 – Redemption is all of God.mp3

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Good afternoon everyone.
We don’t waste any time getting

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started here at all.
That’s sort of nice to see.

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Good on you mate.
As they say over there, we just

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had a great time with some of
the folks in your old local area

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here up at the VIBC over the
last week or so and that was a

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lot of fun getting to know some
of you.

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So now at least when we come up
here, we can look across the

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audience and at least see some
familiar faces.

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That’s always fun.
Actually, up at VIBC, they

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picked the subject of the
angels, which is one of my

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favorite subjects to talk on.
And then here you picked the

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subject of God’s plan of
redemption, which is my other

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favorite subject to talk about.
So up here, you guys must know

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what I’m thinking.
These are great subjects and

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really they’re fun to talk about
because I’ve actually found

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going back over my life and
looking at different studies

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I’ve done in the Bible, that if
I were to rank all the different

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Bible studies we’ve done over
the years in terms of which ones

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had the greatest impact in
changing my life, then certainly

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God’s redemptive plan would be
on the top of the list.

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And the angels would be second
next to that.

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Those are two studies that I
found personally that had a

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greater impact in my life than
any other Bible subject I’ve

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looked at.
And hopefully today we’ll get a

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chance to share, share some of
that with you and finish that

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off tomorrow in the Sunday
school class and then finally in

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the excitation tomorrow.
But I can still remember one

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time where we had a, a Bible, We
had a Bible series at the

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Hanover Bible School one year
and we had Brother Mansfield

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there and Brother Tennant and I
think Brother Victoria Stone was

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there from California.
And all three of them spoke in

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the evening program on the
atonement, atonement.

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We were going to have a
presentation.

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And Brother Harry Tennant was
the last to go on the Wednesday

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night.
And it was interesting, he got

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up and he talked about the
atonement.

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And I can still remember the
very first thing he said after

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two good talks on the atonement.
He told us, he said, you know,

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brothers and sisters, he said
any, any talk on the atonement

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that doesn’t begin and end with
the love of God has missed a

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huge part of the atonement.
And we had really missed that

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for two nights.
And it was a very interesting

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observation.
And I’ve remembered that all

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these years that it’s very easy
to leave the love of God out of

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this subject.
And in our community today,

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sometimes when you hear about
the atonement or God’s

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redemptive plan, some of us sort
of cringe and think, oh, no,

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this is going to be trouble in
the community and we’re going to

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hear something that’s
controversial and all that.

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And, and really the subject was
never supposed to be that way.

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This is supposed to be the most
motivating subject of anything

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God could talk to us about that
is supposed to change our life.

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This is supposed to be the most
powerful thing we look at in our

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first principles.
This is the first principle

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really of that all the others
hang on is God’s reductive plan.

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And he designed it in such a way
that this would motivate us to

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join his son in living a life
that would be so pleasing to God

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that he can invite us into his
family forever.

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That’s what this subject is
supposed to do.

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So hopefully we’ll look at that
in the first class about the

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love of God and what he has
designed for us.

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And when you go back, a lot of
this is basic first principles

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that we’ve grown up with.
But it never hurts to be

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reminded about some of the
things that we as

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Christadelphians hold and
understand that not everybody on

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in, in terms of Christian
churches really do understand

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today.
When you go back and look at the

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mistake that Adam and Eve made
when they sin, really God didn’t

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have to do what he did with
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He didn’t have to go through the
plan that that he had designed.

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There are other things he could
have done.

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He could have killed Adam and
Eve and started over.

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When you go back and look at it,
he really had a number of

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choices that he could have done,
but he didn’t.

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That isn’t what he chose to do.
And really, when you look at it

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from God’s perspective, this was
his creation, His creatures, and

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He loved them.
He never really wanted to wipe

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them out and start over.
He loved his creatures and he’s

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always wanted to save some of
this creation.

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And it’s not because it just
brings him glory, which

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sometimes we emphasize as
Christadelphians that God

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manifestation, not human
salvation, is the grand purpose

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of the eternal Spirit, which
which is true.

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But really, what when you, when
you’re reading through your

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scriptures, you’ll notice that
what comes across so clearly in

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our Bibles is the love that God
has for us and how he designed

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our families with moms and dads
as as a husband and a wife.

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That you could learn and
experience the love that he has

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for us.
And that you could have children

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and experience through your
children and your grandchildren,

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the love and the compassion and
the kindness and the mercy that

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God has for us all.
That was by design because he

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wanted us to experience that
first hand.

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So when you look at his
redemptive plan, he set out to

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say Adam and Eve after their
mistakes.

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And he didn’t really have to do
that, but his plan had to be

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holy.
It had to uphold his

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righteousness.
He’s a just God and it had to

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take take that into account and
it had to uphold his

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righteousness and at the same
time express his love for his

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children.
And so he came up with a plan

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that would really do both.
You find some common Bible

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passages that you’ll know and
you can probably a lot of you

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can rattle them off the top of
your head in first John four and

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verse 7, you can see how right
away this is given as motivation

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for us, that beloved, let us
love one another.

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And why do we love one another
and our families and our

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cliches?
What is the reason?

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Well, the reason is or love is
of God.

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It all starts from God and works
its way down to us.

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That’s the difference between
our understanding of the Bible

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and a humanistic approach.
Humanism would start for like

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what’s good for humans and work
the way up to try to understand

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God.
We don’t.

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We start from the top and
realize it’s all about God.

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He loved us and therefore we
love one another.

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And everyone who loves is born
of God and knows God.

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This was a key central theme for
being part of his family.

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You want to be born into His
family.

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You have to understand His love
and then learn to show that love

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to other people who does not
love, does not know God, for God

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is love.
And in this the love of God was

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manifested toward us, that God
sent His only begotten Son into

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the world, that we might live
through Him.

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And then this is love.
Not that we love God.

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Oh no, it’s not about us from
the bottom up.

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It’s all about the fact that He
loved us and He sent His Son to

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be the propitiation for our
sins.

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And beloved, if God so loved us,
we ought to love one another.

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Now that, in a nutshell, is
really what God is all about.

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He has revealed His character
out of His love, His kindness,

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His compassion to us.
And He’s hoping that when He

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shows us how He lives, that we
in turn will, will show His

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character to one another and how
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And so when you start looking
around is to, well, how do you

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raise your children?
How do you treat your spouse?

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How do you treat brothers and
sisters in a collegial life?

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All we got to do is look into
our Bibles and find out, well,

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how does God treat us?
How does he treat other

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characters, other Bible
characters?

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And then our goal is to model
our life after him.

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That’s what we should do.
The amazing part about our God,

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brothers and sisters, is that He
loved us when we weren’t worth

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loving.
It’s one thing to love somebody

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who loves us back or already
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And you, if you find like as a
young person over there, you

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find some other young person who
you find out really loves you

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and they’re willing to do things
for you.

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And you think, wow, that’s
really nice to me.

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And then we learn to love them.
Imagine learning to love people

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who don’t love you.
People who by the Bible calls

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ungodly, they’re sinners,
they’re unjust.

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Well, that’s what God did you
find in Romans 5 after giving

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his exposition on the atonement
and showing how nobody was

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really worth saving.
All had sinned and fallen short

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of the glory of God.
That what God did at that point

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when we were still without
strength in Romans 5 at verse 6,

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in due time Christ died for the
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That’s us, or scarcely.
Well, for a righteous man, will

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one die?
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Maybe for somebody who’s really
just or righteous, or somebody

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who we think is good, we might
do that for somebody who’s

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really good.
Now for a righteous man, and yet

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perhaps for a good man, if
there’s somebody who is really

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good, you, you might even dare
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You might like take a deep
breath and I’ll do it for them

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and I’ll dare to die.
But God, that’s not what he did.

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He demonstrates his own love
towards us and that while we

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were still sinners, Christ died
for us and God didn’t do it as a

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dare.
God calculated this for 6000

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years.
I mean, I imagine Abraham

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walking up to Mount Moriah with
his son Isaac, and he’s got to

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sit there for three days and in
his mind he’s got to go through

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what it’s going to be like to
kill his son.

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God calculated for 6000 years
what he was going to put his son

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through to save us.
That’s the love that God has for

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us and the cooperation that
Jesus Christ has.

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That’s the model that when you
start looking at God’s

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redemptive plan and when you
start to appreciate the

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atonement, it all comes from
this perspective that God didn’t

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have to do this.
He loves us like our parents

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loved us.
He genuinely loves us and wants

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what’s best for us, and He’s
willing to take the time to

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train us to become part of His
family when we don’t deserve it.

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We can never possibly earn it.
It’s out of His kindness, His

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compassion, and His love.
And if we understand that,

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brothers and sisters, and really
come to realize that that it

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inevitably affects the way you
treat each other because we

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realize none of us deserve it.
And when other people make

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mistakes, we start realizing,
well, wait a minute, so do I.

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And yet look at God was still
willing and His kindness to work

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with me through all of my
mistakes.

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And this is what’s supposed to
pass on to how we treat one

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another and how we learn to live
in peace.

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This is the model that God sent
his Son to die for the ungodly.

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It’s fun to watch how the
Apostle Paul really is probably

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one of our best expositors on
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When you start going through the
New Testament without Pauls

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letters, I think I would be in
the dark on a lot of things.

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But what a wonderful thing that
God let him write so much on

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this subject.
And it’s fun to watch that when

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he went to 1st, when he went to
the Corinthians, when he was

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going up through that area of
Greece and he came down through

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Corinth and he and he got down
to Corinth at that point and he

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writes to the Corinthians later
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He says, look at that.
Then this letter was written

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probably not too long after he
had been there.

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But he reminds them in First
Corinthians chapter 2, he

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reminded them, brethren, that
when I came to you and what he

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had done is he’d been in Athens.
He’d actually been up in Bria

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and Thessalonia before that.
And remember, he took the boat

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ride down to Athens and he said,
when I came to you, I didn’t

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come with excellence of speech
or wisdom declaring to you the

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testimony of God.
Oh no, I didn’t come in like

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some great order and giving you
some awesome human wisdom and

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talking to you about God.
Oh, no, I determined not to know

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anything among you except Jesus
Christ in him crucified.

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Paul had had it with all that
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And if you recall, like back
what Paul was doing, he had been

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up in the area where he had been
up here in Thessalonica, and

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he’d been up up there, and then
he’d go down to Bria.

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Remember how the Jews chased him
out of Thessalonica and they

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took the ransom from Jason and
you know, they were just

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following him along up there,
causing him all kinds of

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trouble.
So then he hops on a boat and he

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figures, all right, he’s going
to get away from them.

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He jumps on the boat over here
at Bria, and he comes all the

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way down and he stops in here at
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Remember when he’s in Athens,
that’s when he ran into the

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Epicurean and the Stoic
philosophers, all their human

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reasoning.
And Oh yeah, Paul, what good new

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thing have you got to tell us
about?

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And he’s dealing with all these
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They just want to talk about
philosophy and human wisdom and,

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and all this kind of stuff.
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comes over to Corinth and he
said, I’ve had it with that kind

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of stuff.
That isn’t what the gospel is

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all about.
The gospel is all about God,

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Jesus Christ and him crucified.
This is what changes your life.

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And you could see that that’s
what was in Paul’s mind when he

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got there.
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atonement really is the first
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This is what it’s all based on.
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Everything else comes back to
this subject of God’s redemptive

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plan.
And yes, we do need to have an

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academic knowledge about it.
Brothers and sisters, it is

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it’s, it’s important to get out
our Bibles to study the subject,

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come to an understanding of, of
what God has done.

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But the atonement is not just an
academic study, but that’s all

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we’ve done, and we got all the
Bible passages lined up and we

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can give a good talk on it, and
it’s all this academic

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knowledge.
We’ve missed the point of the

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atonement.
It was supposed to have a moral

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impact in our lives.
That’s why Paul would say when

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he got to the Corinthians, he
didn’t want to know anything but

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Jesus Christ and him crucified,
because that’s what changes your

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life.
This is not just academics.

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This is moral.
This effects how you live.

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It effects how you treat your
spouse, your kids, your parents.

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It affects how you treat your
brothers and sisters, your

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friends and your neighbors in
your neighborhood, the people at

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your work.
This effects all the parts of

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your life and how you live.
The the atonement.

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That’s what it was supposed to
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And when we understand it and
appreciate it, that’s what it

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will do to your life.
Just to give you an example of

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how that comes across in our New
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And I love the New Testament
because when we study the

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atonement in the Old Testament,
there’s always that fear that I

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have at least.
And I’ve seen with others that

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when you’re reading things in
the Old Testament, you’re never

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really sure for sure when you’re
looking at the shadows of the

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law.
Did we really get what God had

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intended, or did we
misunderstand the shadow?

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But when you read New Testament
exposition, when you go to our

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writers like James or Peter or
Paul, and they tell us what it

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meant, then it’s not a debate
anymore.

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It’s not like, well, I think
it’s this and I think it’s that.

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We don’t get that.
And it’s safest to stay in our

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New Testament expositors and
then work our way back to the

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Old Testament and have a look at
where it came from.

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It’s just, it’s a safer way to
study the subject.

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And what a privilege we have of
having these New Testament

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expositions so that you can read
them today and then look back.

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So Peter, when he’s talking to
the his Jews of, of the

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suffering that they’re going to
go through, how they’re going to

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be challenged, how they’re going
to be put in situations where

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people are going to revile you.
They’re going to say things

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about you that are nasty and not
true.

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And how are you going to
respond?

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What are you going to do when
that happens?

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What are you going to do when
your neighbors treat you like

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that?
Peter goes right back to Jesus

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Christ and him crucified just
like Paul and he says for to

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this you were called in first
Peter 2 at verse 21, because

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Christ also suffered for us,
leaving us an example that you

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should follow in his steps.
Who committed no sin, never made

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a mistake, right, committed no
sin, nor was deceit found in his

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mouth.
Who when he was reviled, Oh

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yeah, on the cross and all
through his life when people

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reviled him and they picked on
him when he was reviled, He

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didn’t revile in return.
No, never, not once.

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And when he suffered, he didn’t
threaten.

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He didn’t come back and say, oh,
I’m going to get you and there’s

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no vengeance.
I’m going to take vengeance on

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you and I’m going to get you for
that.

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And he didn’t do those kind of
things, but he committed himself

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to him who judges righteously.
He put it in God’s hands.

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He believed completely that God
was in control of his life and

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all the circumstances of his
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This is where you get the peace
of God that passes all

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understanding.
And Peter goes on and says in

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verse 24, who himself bore our
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that this is the moral impact of
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Why did He do it?
He did it for us.

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Not that you can just be
forgiven of your sins, but that

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it will change the way you live.
That we, having died to sins,

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there’s Romans 6 might live for
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We have a new life.
We come out of the waters and we

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live after the pattern of Jesus
Christ resurrected from the

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dead.
By his stripes you were healed.

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That’s what this was all about.
He went through all of that to

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change the way we live so that
God can righteously forgive our

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sins.
So the the moral impact of the

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atonement, when you start
looking at it, is all about

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changing our life.
It’s not some academic study

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that Christadelphian studies so
that we can have all the right

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answers and we can do all these
things.

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It’s supposed to change how we
live and treat people.

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And it’s very sad in our
community that over the years

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sometimes this has become a real
disruptive subject.

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And people have argued about it
and they’ve written articles and

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letters and ecclesias at times
have divided over this subject

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when it was designed to change
how we live and how we treat

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other people.
That’s what it was supposed to

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do.
And you can see how our New

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Testament writers used it, you
see in Second Corinthians

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chapter 5 and Paul’s second
letter to them when he talks

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about the love of Christ
compelling us that this is not

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academics, this is meaningful,
this is life changing, that the

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love of Christ compels us
because we judge thus that if

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one died for all, then all died.
He didn’t die as our substitute.

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And and we’ve got that right,
brothers and sisters, and we’re

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right to to argue that case and
fight that with the churches of

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this world.
Oh no, that if one died, he died

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as an example that all of us
would follow in his steps.

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If one died, then all died.
We have all died to sin.

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We’re going to put it behind us.
We’re no longer slaves of sin,

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but we become slaves of God and
he died for all in verse 15 that

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those who live see, see how they
take this subject and they

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immediately go from just an
academic understanding to where

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this is meaningful to how you
live.

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They died for us so that those
who live should no longer live

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for themselves.
You can’t live for yourself

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anymore.
You, you’ve died.

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The old man is dead.
He’s buried in baptism.

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We walked out thankful to God
that we now can live a different

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life, no longer enslaved to sin.
So they no longer live for

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themselves, but for him who died
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We live for Christ.
We’re not slaves of Christ.

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We’re no longer slaves of sin.
So this subject, what it’s

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supposed to do is change how we
treat our spouse, change how we

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treat our children, change how
we treat our parents, how we

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treat our brethren and sisters
in a collegial life and their

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families and their children and
our neighbors at home and our

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employers and everybody the the
governing authorities.

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It’s, it’s all about how you
change your perspective based on

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what God has done for us.
And he’s hoping that it will

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change the way we live.
You see, this is not just a New

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Testament subject.
It really starts way back in the

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old, not just with Adam and Eve,
but it comes up through the

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prophets as well.
You can see, for example, when

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he was talking when in Isaiah
43, when when God was trying to

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compel the Jews and help them
understand that there was no

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other God.
There wasn’t some God of good

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and some God of evil.
There wasn’t some God who brings

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good things to your life so that
when something good happens to

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your life, you get a job
promotion.

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Or some of you young people, you
finally decide that the girl

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you’ve been waiting for, she
finally says yes.

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And you get to get married.
Or somebody who’s looking for a

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job and you’re out there
searching in an area.

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You just moved here to this area
and looking for a job and all of

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a sudden an employer calls you
and offers you a job and you

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think, yes, God help me on that
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But it’s not just for the good,
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God’s in them both.
As Solomon said in Ecclesiastes

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9, don’t just say good things
about God when good things

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happen, but remember he’s there
in the good and he’s there in

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the bad because he’s in control
of it all and he’s using those

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things.
So in Isaiah 43, this is what

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God was dealing with with the
Jews, is that this whole idea of

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a God of good, the God of evil
had come into their community at

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that time back in the history.
And he says to them, You are my

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witnesses, says the Lord.
And my servant whom I have

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chosen, that you may know and
believe me and understand that I

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am he.
And before me there was no God

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formed, nor shall there be after
me.

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I even I am the Lord.
And beside me there is no

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Savior.
There is no other God, there’s

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no Savior, there’s nothing.
I have declared and saved, I

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have proclaimed.
And there was no foreign God

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among you.
Therefore, you are my witnesses,

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says the Lord, that I am God.
And you know, this is an

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interesting case because the
these Jews at this point, they

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failed a lot of times in the
Isaiah’s day and afterward in

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the moment Hezekiah rallied the
troops and he got them to

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support Yahweh, their God.
But then in years that came

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after that, there were some
disasters and yet God still used

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them as His witnesses.
They were the witnesses that He

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had picked this community.
He had chosen Abraham and worked

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with him over all those years.
And even though they failed, and

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even though they made mistake
after mistake, and then king

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after king would arise who was
terrible and leading the

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community astray, God still was
willing to work with the remnant

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of this community because He had
promised Abraham.

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He loved Abraham and He loved
his children and He promised

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that He would work with that
remnant and He would help them

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understand and bring them into
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So any study that we do,
brothers and sisters of the

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atonement really does need to
start and end with the love of

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God that that is.
It’s sort of like the whole

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framework is all built around
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He loved us and that’s what
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You’ll find again in first
Corinthians in chapter 1 this

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time that I think it’s fun to
look at the concept when Paul

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would would illustrate this idea
and say, I, I was going to know

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nothing among you but Jesus
Christ and him crucified.

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He illustrated to the Chris to
the the Corinthians in chapter 1

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when he pointed out to them
about an ecclesial life, why you

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shouldn’t have factions, because
remember, this was an ecclesia

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that was split up.
You know, I love Paul, I’m of

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Apollo, so I follow Cephas over
here and and they they were

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splitting up into little
segmented groups.

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And so Paul would remind them
that the way you overcome, that

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the way you get rid of these
factions and this kind of

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00:22:30,960 –> 00:22:34,480
self-interest is to remember the
atonement.

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Go back and look at your roots.
What did God do for you?

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00:22:38,520 –> 00:22:43,760
And he reminds them in verse 27
that God has chosen the foolish

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things of the world to shame the
wise, that God has chosen the

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00:22:48,720 –> 00:22:51,640
weak things of the world to
shame the things which are

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00:22:51,640 –> 00:22:55,000
mighty and the base things of
the world and the things which

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are despised.
God has chosen and the things

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which are not to bring to
nothing the things that are.

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And why does he do that?
Why does he pick the lowest

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things of this world?
Why does he pick us?

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00:23:08,200 –> 00:23:10,920
We’re not the best academic
people out there in this world.

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00:23:11,000 –> 00:23:13,360
We’re not the greatest usually
at anything.

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We’re not the richest.
We’re not the wisest.

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We’re not the smartest.
We’re not the best Craftsman.

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We’re not the best of anything.
There’s all kinds of better

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people in this world today who
are better than us at all those

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things.
So why does he pick us?

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Well, because by his election he
chose the low things of the

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world that no flesh should glory
in his presence.

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And if that’s the case, we don’t
ever want to get on our high

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00:23:41,000 –> 00:23:44,400
horse and ex leisure life or in
our families and put ourselves

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up there higher than we really
should be.

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Because God works with the low
and the weak and the base, the

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ungodly, the sinners, those are
the people he works with to

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bring into his family.
Not the wise, not the mighty,

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00:23:59,400 –> 00:24:01,960
not the great.
Oh no, they’ve got their own

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00:24:01,960 –> 00:24:05,040
game plan.
But God can use the low and the

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base and the weak because they
will give him the glory.

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And that’s what he’s looking
for.

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He wants people that love Him
and who respond to his plan.

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That’s what the atonement is
really all about, That there’s

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no, no possibility of any human
ever boasting that look at what

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I did in my family or my
ecclesia, or look what I

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accomplished.
It’s not about me, it’s all

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about God.
And so in Second Corinthians

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chapter 5, when Paul again is
reflecting back on this and

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writing to them, he reminds them
about the one who has prepared

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us for eternity.
This is all by design what God

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is doing.
He has a family.

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He’s getting ready and he’s
getting ready to join his family

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00:24:46,080 –> 00:24:48,040
forever.
That’s what he’s doing.

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And so he who has prepared us
for this very thing Paul says is

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God who has given us the Spirit
as a guarantee.

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And in verse 18, now all things
are of God who has reconciled us

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to himself through Jesus Christ
and has given us the ministry of

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reconciliation.
That is, that God was in Christ

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00:25:09,640 –> 00:25:13,720
reconciling the world to Himself
and not imputing their

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trespasses to them, and has
committed to us the word of

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reconciliation which the apostle
Paul was committed to take

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around the Roman world and to
preach to all those Gentiles.

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But you see how he understood
probably more than any of us,

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that it was all about what God
had done in his life.

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And I think Paul probably got it
so well because in his own

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efforts, he had studied at the
feet of Gamaliel.

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He had done what he thought was
right, and he was researching

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00:25:40,520 –> 00:25:42,880
the Bible.
He searched the Scriptures, like

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00:25:42,960 –> 00:25:45,840
Jesus said, because in them you
think you have eternal life.

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And Paul went through that whole
process of thinking he was going

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00:25:49,240 –> 00:25:52,360
to look good in God’s eyes.
I’m going to build myself into

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somebody that God will look at
and say, wow, you’re really

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wonderful.
I want to save you.

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And Paul went through this
process, and if Christ hadn’t

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stopped them on the road to
Damascus, he’d be dead with no

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00:26:03,960 –> 00:26:06,560
hope of resurrection.
That’s where he was headed.

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00:26:06,920 –> 00:26:10,320
And he realized that for all his
human efforts, they were a

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00:26:10,320 –> 00:26:12,600
waste.
They hadn’t gotten them anywhere

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00:26:12,840 –> 00:26:16,360
because he had failed to realize
that it was really all about

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00:26:16,360 –> 00:26:19,840
what God was doing and that none
of us would ever be good in

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00:26:19,840 –> 00:26:23,240
God’s eyes, but only
righteousness could be imputed

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00:26:23,240 –> 00:26:25,600
to us from our heavenly Father
who loves us.

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00:26:25,920 –> 00:26:29,360
And he came to understand that
probably better than any of our

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00:26:29,360 –> 00:26:32,920
New Testament writers because of
the low position he had come

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00:26:32,920 –> 00:26:35,600
from in his own efforts.
And he realized what God had

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done in his life.
I, I look back at Paul, he’s

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amazed at the things that Christ
had taught him.

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And he did he, he specifically
taught him when he was out in

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00:26:42,240 –> 00:26:44,440
Arabia.
Jesus Christ taught him the

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00:26:44,440 –> 00:26:47,600
truth and he’s that’s why it’s
such an awesome exposition when

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00:26:47,600 –> 00:26:50,440
you look at Paul’s letters.
Now, when you go back and look

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00:26:50,440 –> 00:26:52,600
at where we’ve all come from
there and sisters, and you go

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00:26:52,600 –> 00:26:55,440
back to study this subject and
looking at it’s always good to

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00:26:55,440 –> 00:26:57,320
note like, where did it all
start?

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00:26:57,560 –> 00:27:00,840
And so we do, we start back in
Genesis and look at what God did

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00:27:01,360 –> 00:27:04,680
in the beginning when Genesis,
in Genesis chapter 1, when God

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00:27:04,680 –> 00:27:08,760
did the creation, when he made
our world, he saw everything.

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00:27:08,760 –> 00:27:11,880
At the end of chapter chapter
one at verse 31, he looked over

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00:27:11,880 –> 00:27:15,080
everything that he had made and
indeed it was very good.

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And so the evening and the
morning were the 6th day.

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So the the whole creation, all
the things that he had created

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at that point were very good.
But then we know that what

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happens is Adam and Eve’s sin.
Things take place.

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And now you look at this
creation and you find in Genesis

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chapter 6, after thousands of
years have gone by, this case

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00:27:35,640 –> 00:27:38,200
you have Noah in the flood.
And now we’re looking at in

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Genesis 6, verse five, that this
time the Lord saw that the

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wickedness of man was great in
the earth and that every intent

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of the thoughts of his heart was
only evil continually.

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Something’s changed.
This isn’t what God saw when he

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first looked and saw that it was
all good.

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Now he looks across the world at
all the thousands of people,

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millions maybe that were alive
at the time of the flood.

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And he realizes that now he sees
a lot of wickedness, evil, it’s

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00:28:09,760 –> 00:28:13,680
not so good anymore.
And that the, the imagination of

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their their thoughts of his
heart, the intent of the

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thoughts of the heart of man is
only evil continually.

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That’s different than it was
before.

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When Solomon talks about that in
Ecclesiastes 7 at verse 29, he

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00:28:26,280 –> 00:28:30,760
mentions the fact that truly
this only have I found that God

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made man upright.
His brother Harry Tennett drew

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00:28:33,680 –> 00:28:34,960
him on time with his stick
drawings.

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00:28:34,960 –> 00:28:37,720
He said this is the way God made
Adam and Eve originally.

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And then what happened is they
became like that, but as Solomon

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00:28:41,560 –> 00:28:44,240
says here, that God made man
upright.

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But they have sought out many
schemes and something changed

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from Genesis 1 until Genesis
chapter 6.

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And that’s what we want to look
at for a moment.

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So in Genesis chapter 3, when
the serpent came to the woman,

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he said to the woman things that
we know we’ve looked at before,

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that you will not surely die.
So he says a lie.

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He was the originator of the
lies.

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For God knows it in the day that
you eat of it, your eyes will be

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open and you will be like God
knowing good and evil.

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And it was to him was like,
you’ll be like the angels.

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The angels know good and evil.
You’ll be like them.

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You’ll be like the Elohim that
were walking around in the

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garden at the time.
And so when the woman saw that

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the tree was good for food and
was pleasant to the eyes, and

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00:29:24,200 –> 00:29:27,120
the tree desirable to make one
wise, she took of its fruit and

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00:29:27,120 –> 00:29:29,960
ate, and she gave to her husband
with her, and he ate also.

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And then the eyes of both of
them were open.

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So Serpent was right about that.
Their eyes would be open.

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They had eaten of the tree of
the knowledge of Good and Evil,

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and they knew that they were
naked, and they sewed fig leaves

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00:29:40,520 –> 00:29:42,800
together and made themselves
coverings.

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Now we all know back in this
case that we don’t know how long

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Adam and Eve lived, how long
they survived before they

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sinned, but it took at this
point in their life, an outside

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00:29:53,480 –> 00:29:56,640
tempter to make the suggestion.
There’s something about the way

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they were created when God
looked across and saw that all

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00:29:59,640 –> 00:30:03,520
was good, that Adam and Eve
didn’t have those natural

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00:30:03,520 –> 00:30:08,000
tendencies to the extent that we
do of wanting to choose evil.

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They were more a case.
It was, you know, a day could go

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00:30:10,880 –> 00:30:12,320
by.
Maybe they want a whole day with

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no sin.
Maybe they went a week with no

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sin.
Maybe they want a month or a

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00:30:16,760 –> 00:30:18,600
year.
We really don’t know exactly how

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00:30:18,600 –> 00:30:22,920
long that was, but it took an
outside tempter to bring about

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the idea and suggest that they
would give in and and commit

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sin.
And so the apostle Paul looks

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00:30:29,080 –> 00:30:30,800
back at this.
So here we go again with New

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00:30:30,800 –> 00:30:33,600
Testament commentary on Old
Testament stories.

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It’s always good to look at what
he says in Second Corinthians

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Chapter 11 and verse three.
He points out to the Corinthians

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00:30:40,480 –> 00:30:45,480
that I fear lest somehow as the
serpent deceived Eve by his

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00:30:45,480 –> 00:30:49,720
craftiness, so your minds may be
corrupted from the simplicity

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00:30:49,720 –> 00:30:52,480
that is in Christ.
So here’s a case now where Paul

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is worried that what Eve went
through, Eve was fooled, she was

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deceived.
And Paul is concerned that the

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00:30:58,880 –> 00:31:02,680
whole ecclesia at this point is
going to be deceived and fooled

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00:31:02,680 –> 00:31:05,760
by things that were happening in
their ecclesial world and that

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00:31:05,760 –> 00:31:08,880
they would be be fooled like the
serpent had to see Eve in this

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case.
But when he writes about this to

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00:31:11,720 –> 00:31:15,600
Timothy and talking about again
this same incident in First

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00:31:15,600 –> 00:31:19,160
Timothy chapter 2, his argument
about having sisters in

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00:31:19,160 –> 00:31:23,040
ecclesial life learn in silence
with all submission comes from

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00:31:23,040 –> 00:31:27,800
the fact in verse 13 that Adam
was formed 1st and then Eve.

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00:31:28,000 –> 00:31:31,200
It’s not about cultural things.
It’s about the creation and the

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00:31:31,200 –> 00:31:33,720
way the angels made the
creation.

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And he goes on and says that
Adam was not deceived.

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00:31:37,360 –> 00:31:40,320
See, we wouldn’t necessarily
know that back in Genesis.

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00:31:40,320 –> 00:31:42,840
We could have a debate about it
and we could talk about whether

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00:31:42,840 –> 00:31:46,200
it was true or not.
But we now know that Paul says

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00:31:46,200 –> 00:31:50,000
that Adam wasn’t fooled.
Adam’s sin was different than

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00:31:50,000 –> 00:31:52,040
Eve.
He knew what he was doing.

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00:31:52,360 –> 00:31:54,760
And we could have a great
discussion this afternoon about

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00:31:54,760 –> 00:31:57,560
whose sin was worse.
And that really isn’t our goal

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00:31:57,560 –> 00:31:59,840
right now because they both
committed sins.

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00:31:59,840 –> 00:32:03,640
But the thing it was different.
Eve was deceived and Adam was

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00:32:03,640 –> 00:32:05,920
not deceived.
And they both fell into the

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00:32:05,920 –> 00:32:08,680
transgression in the end.
And Paul goes on to say that

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nevertheless she will be saved
and bearing children and child

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00:32:11,640 –> 00:32:14,720
bearing if they continue in
faith and love and holiness with

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self-control.
So Adam made a conscious choice

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00:32:18,600 –> 00:32:23,360
to join his wife in her life
that she had chosen now and all

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00:32:23,360 –> 00:32:27,120
the consequences of sin, whereas
Eve had been deceived in that

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00:32:27,120 –> 00:32:28,400
case.
And that’s part of Paul’s

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00:32:28,400 –> 00:32:31,320
reasoning as to why in a
collegial life that the woman

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00:32:31,320 –> 00:32:34,160
should keep silence.
So when you go back and look at

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00:32:34,160 –> 00:32:37,240
them in terms of the changes
that took place at that time, is

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00:32:37,240 –> 00:32:40,200
that Adam and Eve’s desires were
different before they had

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00:32:40,200 –> 00:32:42,280
sinned.
Not just different between

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00:32:42,280 –> 00:32:44,920
themselves, but they’re
different than they were after

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00:32:44,920 –> 00:32:48,040
they had sinned because back in
the beginning the woman saw that

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00:32:48,040 –> 00:32:51,280
the tree was good for food.
Well, that sure looks like what

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we would find in John.
You know whether you have the

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00:32:54,160 –> 00:32:57,280
the idea of things that are
desirable and then you have

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00:32:57,280 –> 00:33:00,280
pleasant to the eyes.
You know the lust of the flesh,

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00:33:00,440 –> 00:33:04,480
the lust of the eyes and then
desired to make one wise the

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00:33:04,480 –> 00:33:07,640
pride of life.
But these were just desires back

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00:33:07,640 –> 00:33:09,040
then.
These were like there were

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00:33:09,040 –> 00:33:12,480
feelings that were there, but he
doesn’t call them the lust of

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00:33:12,480 –> 00:33:15,360
the flesh, the lust of the eyes
and the pride of life at this

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00:33:15,360 –> 00:33:19,080
point in this is 3, but I think
John does later on.

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00:33:19,400 –> 00:33:22,200
So there was something different
about this to where they were

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00:33:22,200 –> 00:33:25,520
able to go on for quite a while
sometime at least before they

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00:33:25,520 –> 00:33:29,240
gave in to the outside tempter.
Whereas when John brings this up

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00:33:29,240 –> 00:33:32,840
and in first John chapter 2 at
verse 15, he says do not love

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00:33:32,840 –> 00:33:34,160
the world of the things of the
world.

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00:33:34,160 –> 00:33:36,840
For if anyone loves the world,
the love of the Father is not in

646
00:33:36,840 –> 00:33:38,960
him.
For all that is in the world,

647
00:33:38,960 –> 00:33:42,240
the lust of the flesh, the lust
of the eyes, the pride of life,

648
00:33:42,600 –> 00:33:45,200
these things, they’re not of the
Father, but they are of the

649
00:33:45,200 –> 00:33:46,800
world.
And so he says, look at God

650
00:33:46,800 –> 00:33:49,120
didn’t make this.
This isn’t what God had

651
00:33:49,120 –> 00:33:51,920
intended.
This is now a choice that Adam

652
00:33:51,920 –> 00:33:54,520
and Eve had made.
And now they had these lusts.

653
00:33:54,840 –> 00:33:58,720
But as Paul calls them, these
deceitful lusts are now in them

654
00:33:58,720 –> 00:34:01,640
as part of them.
So before the before this had

655
00:34:01,640 –> 00:34:03,760
happened.
Originally this temptation came

656
00:34:03,760 –> 00:34:07,320
from the outside for Adam and
Eve, and it took an outside

657
00:34:07,320 –> 00:34:11,199
tempter to change them because
God had made them very good.

658
00:34:11,840 –> 00:34:15,440
But now things have changed.
Paul says now that what we are

659
00:34:15,440 –> 00:34:18,280
dealing with today, we are not
like Adam and Eve before they

660
00:34:18,280 –> 00:34:19,679
sinned.
We’re not like that.

661
00:34:19,960 –> 00:34:22,520
We don’t grow up with that.
You know, when we’re born, we

662
00:34:22,520 –> 00:34:26,400
are now born already with a
nature that is prone to sin.

663
00:34:26,880 –> 00:34:30,440
So Paul would say in Ephesians 4
that what God is trying to do

664
00:34:30,440 –> 00:34:35,080
with us today is to convince us
to change how we live so that we

665
00:34:35,080 –> 00:34:39,679
put off concerning your former
conduct, the old man which grows

666
00:34:39,679 –> 00:34:42,719
corrupt according to the
deceitful lusts.

667
00:34:43,199 –> 00:34:46,560
So now this isn’t just desire to
make one wise.

668
00:34:46,560 –> 00:34:50,199
This isn’t just a desire.
These are now deceitful lusts

669
00:34:50,199 –> 00:34:52,360
that we have in US.
They’re deceitful.

670
00:34:52,360 –> 00:34:55,719
They fool us like the serpent
fooled Eve, and it’s in us as

671
00:34:55,719 –> 00:34:58,120
part of our nature.
This is what the Bible would

672
00:34:58,120 –> 00:35:01,680
refer to as the devil.
This is the devil that’s in us,

673
00:35:01,680 –> 00:35:04,560
that we’re fighting these
deceitful lusts and that you be

674
00:35:04,560 –> 00:35:07,560
renewed in the spirit of your
mind that God will help you

675
00:35:07,560 –> 00:35:11,480
overcome this because his
morality is going to change how

676
00:35:11,480 –> 00:35:13,480
you live.
And you put on a new man which

677
00:35:13,480 –> 00:35:17,320
was created after God, according
to God and true righteousness

678
00:35:17,320 –> 00:35:21,280
and holiness.
So we now are born into a race

679
00:35:21,280 –> 00:35:24,840
that has deceitful lusts.
And that’s how Paul would refer

680
00:35:24,840 –> 00:35:26,080
to that.
That’s a little different than

681
00:35:26,080 –> 00:35:29,240
Adam and Eve, the way they were
created or what the Bible would

682
00:35:29,240 –> 00:35:32,160
call.
We now have a law of sin, as

683
00:35:32,160 –> 00:35:35,600
Paul refers to it in Romans, a
law of sin that’s in our body.

684
00:35:35,960 –> 00:35:40,040
So that even in Genesis 8 at
verse 21, even when there’s only

685
00:35:40,040 –> 00:35:44,000
Noah and his family alive after
the flood and all those evil

686
00:35:44,000 –> 00:35:47,000
people had been wiped out.
And God starts over with Noah’s

687
00:35:47,000 –> 00:35:49,240
family.
He still looks at them in

688
00:35:49,240 –> 00:35:52,920
Genesis 8 and says, you know,
the imagination of man’s heart

689
00:35:53,040 –> 00:35:56,760
is evil from his youth.
And this is now the righteous

690
00:35:56,760 –> 00:35:59,400
people.
The imagination of a man’s heart

691
00:35:59,600 –> 00:36:02,600
is evil from his youth.
Or as Jeremiah would say in

692
00:36:02,600 –> 00:36:05,280
Jeremiah 17, the heart’s
deceitful above all things and

693
00:36:05,280 –> 00:36:07,960
desperately wicked.
Or what James would cover in

694
00:36:07,960 –> 00:36:10,800
James chapter one that don’t
blame God for your problems.

695
00:36:10,800 –> 00:36:12,480
Oh, no, don’t get sucked into
that.

696
00:36:12,640 –> 00:36:15,240
When bad things happen in your
life and you have a tendency to

697
00:36:15,240 –> 00:36:18,000
think, God, this shouldn’t
happen to me, this isn’t fair.

698
00:36:18,320 –> 00:36:21,800
Don’t fall into that.
That’s the seat of our lust.

699
00:36:21,800 –> 00:36:24,840
That’s our mind that’s trying to
take us down a track, which is

700
00:36:24,840 –> 00:36:27,080
no good.
And James would say, Oh no, that

701
00:36:27,080 –> 00:36:30,400
we’re not tempted by God.
No, everyone is tempted when we

702
00:36:30,400 –> 00:36:35,000
are drawn away by our own
desires and enticed doesn’t even

703
00:36:35,000 –> 00:36:36,640
take an external tempter
anymore.

704
00:36:36,640 –> 00:36:39,680
We just think about it in our
head, or what Paul would call in

705
00:36:39,680 –> 00:36:43,560
Romans 7 at verse 20, CI see
another law in my members

706
00:36:43,760 –> 00:36:45,600
warring against the law of my
mind.

707
00:36:45,760 –> 00:36:48,520
With my mind now in Christ, I
want to do the right thing.

708
00:36:48,720 –> 00:36:51,520
But Paul says I’ve got this
other mind, this other law

709
00:36:51,520 –> 00:36:54,640
that’s up in here, and it’s
always fighting with the mind of

710
00:36:54,640 –> 00:36:56,880
the Spirit.
It’s this nasty mind of the

711
00:36:56,880 –> 00:37:00,080
flesh that’s there, and it’s
bringing me into captivity to

712
00:37:00,080 –> 00:37:02,080
the law of sin, which is in my
members.

713
00:37:02,560 –> 00:37:05,760
Or John’s reference in first
John 2 and 16 about the lust of

714
00:37:05,760 –> 00:37:07,680
the flesh of the eyes and the
pride of life.

715
00:37:08,200 –> 00:37:11,200
Or what Paul calls in Galatians
5 when he writes to them after

716
00:37:11,200 –> 00:37:14,440
dealing with the fruit of the
Spirit, he reminds them that the

717
00:37:14,440 –> 00:37:17,800
flesh is lusting against the
Spirit and the spirit against

718
00:37:17,800 –> 00:37:20,240
the flesh.
They’re contrary to one another

719
00:37:20,400 –> 00:37:22,880
so that you do not do the things
that you wish.

720
00:37:23,280 –> 00:37:26,160
And this is the battle, this is
the war that goes on in each one

721
00:37:26,160 –> 00:37:29,760
of us now today, because of the
results of the sins of Adam and

722
00:37:29,760 –> 00:37:32,040
Eve.
So what happened with Adam and

723
00:37:32,040 –> 00:37:35,320
Eve then when they sin, We all
know that as a result of sin,

724
00:37:35,320 –> 00:37:37,960
that in the day that you eat of
it dying, you will die.

725
00:37:37,960 –> 00:37:40,920
They became mortal, and to dust
they shall return.

726
00:37:41,240 –> 00:37:45,240
But they also inherit with that
mortality now this tendency to

727
00:37:45,240 –> 00:37:47,560
sin.
So we find out that Paul would

728
00:37:47,560 –> 00:37:50,880
say in Romans chapter 5 and
verse 12 that not not only did

729
00:37:50,880 –> 00:37:55,400
Adam and Eve become mortal, but
they passed on mortality to all

730
00:37:55,400 –> 00:37:58,480
of their children, just as
through one man centered and

731
00:37:58,480 –> 00:38:00,760
send entered into the world and
death through sin.

732
00:38:01,000 –> 00:38:04,480
Thus death spread to all men
because all sin.

733
00:38:04,480 –> 00:38:07,320
And so they passed on a mortal
nature.

734
00:38:07,720 –> 00:38:11,800
But they didn’t just pass on
mortality, they passed on their

735
00:38:11,800 –> 00:38:16,040
bias now to sin, that God had
changed them as a result of that

736
00:38:16,040 –> 00:38:18,040
sin.
And now you could again debate

737
00:38:18,040 –> 00:38:20,560
whether it was the eating of the
fruit, which some people in our

738
00:38:20,560 –> 00:38:23,360
community think, or whether it
was the angels specifically

739
00:38:23,360 –> 00:38:26,600
changed them at that point.
But something happened now to

740
00:38:26,600 –> 00:38:28,480
where they don’t need an
external tempter.

741
00:38:28,760 –> 00:38:32,120
Now they have deceitful lusts in
their bodies.

742
00:38:32,600 –> 00:38:35,240
And I don’t really think God did
this with evil intent at all.

743
00:38:35,240 –> 00:38:38,000
It’s not like he, I mean, Harry
10, at one point said it was

744
00:38:38,000 –> 00:38:41,120
like God.
God froze into their bodies what

745
00:38:41,120 –> 00:38:43,200
they had chosen this this way of
life.

746
00:38:43,480 –> 00:38:46,040
And many of our brethren had
picked up on the fact and

747
00:38:46,040 –> 00:38:48,640
understood that this was how God
was going to save them.

748
00:38:49,080 –> 00:38:51,600
If, if you had Adam and Eve’s
nature before they sinned,

749
00:38:51,600 –> 00:38:54,440
imagine if you had that today
and you woke up this morning,

750
00:38:54,440 –> 00:38:56,920
didn’t commit any sins before
you came here, went through the

751
00:38:56,920 –> 00:38:59,480
whole day, never sinned.
Tomorrow you don’t sin either.

752
00:38:59,520 –> 00:39:01,080
The next day you don’t sin
either.

753
00:39:01,200 –> 00:39:03,440
And you’ve got this very good
nature of Adam and Eve.

754
00:39:03,520 –> 00:39:05,640
Would you think you needed a
Redeemer?

755
00:39:06,960 –> 00:39:09,440
See what would happen?
We’d end up thinking I’m pretty

756
00:39:09,440 –> 00:39:11,280
good.
I mean, the Jews thought they

757
00:39:11,280 –> 00:39:14,200
were pretty good even though
they had a law and the law was

758
00:39:14,200 –> 00:39:17,320
supposed to show them that they
were exceeding sinners, and they

759
00:39:17,320 –> 00:39:19,320
still turned it into something
where they thought they were

760
00:39:19,320 –> 00:39:21,520
pretty good.
We’d be thinking we were really

761
00:39:21,520 –> 00:39:24,920
good if that’s how we were.
And So what God has done in his

762
00:39:24,920 –> 00:39:28,600
kindness is given us a nature
now, which is prone to sin, has

763
00:39:28,600 –> 00:39:31,720
a bias to sin.
He’s he’s given us this devil

764
00:39:31,720 –> 00:39:35,040
within us so that we realize we
need him.

765
00:39:35,040 –> 00:39:38,560
We we need the work in his work
in our life or we will never

766
00:39:38,560 –> 00:39:40,680
make it.
That’s his kindness, really.

767
00:39:40,840 –> 00:39:44,480
So he saw in Genesis 6 at verse
5 that the imagination of man’s

768
00:39:44,480 –> 00:39:47,200
heart was only evil continually.
And it was true of Noah.

769
00:39:47,720 –> 00:39:50,240
Jesus said in Mark 7 that it’s
from within.

770
00:39:50,320 –> 00:39:52,040
It’s it’s not about the foods
that we eat.

771
00:39:52,280 –> 00:39:54,720
It’s from in here, not what we
put in our mouth.

772
00:39:55,000 –> 00:39:58,960
Out of the heart of man come all
these nasty things and he lists

773
00:39:58,960 –> 00:40:01,560
them all off or Paul says in
Romans 7 that when the

774
00:40:01,560 –> 00:40:05,400
commandment cave sin revived and
I died, you know, and he refers

775
00:40:05,400 –> 00:40:09,000
to our bodies as being this body
of sin or the sinful body, the

776
00:40:09,000 –> 00:40:11,160
body of death.
Who will deliver me from this

777
00:40:11,160 –> 00:40:13,920
body of death?
He says thanks be to God through

778
00:40:14,000 –> 00:40:16,720
Jesus Christ our Lord.
So we don’t need an outside

779
00:40:16,720 –> 00:40:19,480
tempter anymore.
We’ve now got it inside or what

780
00:40:19,480 –> 00:40:22,680
the Bible refers to as the devil
or what we’ve got this mind in

781
00:40:22,680 –> 00:40:25,160
us this this mind that has
deceitful lust.

782
00:40:25,160 –> 00:40:27,840
We’re thinking about and and
dwelling on things that we could

783
00:40:27,840 –> 00:40:29,880
do which are not really what
God.

784
00:40:30,000 –> 00:40:34,960
Wants us to do, and he’s made
that very aware in us so that we

785
00:40:34,960 –> 00:40:39,040
realize our need for redemption.
It’s all part of his kindness

786
00:40:39,040 –> 00:40:41,800
really, that he’s done this.
Sometimes Olympic athletes or

787
00:40:41,800 –> 00:40:43,720
athletes, when they’re training
in school, if you want to run

788
00:40:43,720 –> 00:40:46,360
really fast, a lot of times what
they teach athletes to do is

789
00:40:46,360 –> 00:40:48,240
wear weights.
They put 8 weights around their

790
00:40:48,240 –> 00:40:50,400
ankles and they walk around all
the time wearing weights.

791
00:40:50,680 –> 00:40:54,080
And then when they get into the
final race, they lay aside every

792
00:40:54,080 –> 00:40:58,480
weight and they run that race,
as Paul says, as fast as they

793
00:40:58,480 –> 00:41:00,800
can.
And in a sense, God’s done that

794
00:41:00,800 –> 00:41:02,680
in us.
He’s given us something to weigh

795
00:41:02,680 –> 00:41:05,680
us down so that we realize where
we’re at.

796
00:41:05,720 –> 00:41:08,880
And then hopefully the day will
come when he can take those

797
00:41:08,880 –> 00:41:12,400
things away and he will give us
a body which is free from this.

798
00:41:12,760 –> 00:41:15,920
So you see that there are two
aspects of sin in the Bible.

799
00:41:15,920 –> 00:41:18,880
There are personal
transgressions that are sins

800
00:41:19,040 –> 00:41:22,040
that when we sin against God.
And then there’s these other

801
00:41:22,040 –> 00:41:23,960
things.
That’s this human nature, this

802
00:41:23,960 –> 00:41:27,680
bias that we have towards sin.
And there really are two

803
00:41:27,680 –> 00:41:30,960
aspects, as Brother Thomas had
picked up about the use of sin

804
00:41:30,960 –> 00:41:32,760
in the Bible.
There are personal

805
00:41:32,760 –> 00:41:35,800
transgressions that we make
where we make mistakes, we we

806
00:41:35,800 –> 00:41:38,200
commit error and we sin against
God.

807
00:41:38,520 –> 00:41:41,160
And those are some of the ways
that sin is used.

808
00:41:41,520 –> 00:41:45,320
But our nature itself, because
it now has these deceitful

809
00:41:45,320 –> 00:41:48,160
lusts, is included in part of
the problem.

810
00:41:48,560 –> 00:41:52,400
The nature that we bear it, it
wants to it, it tempts us that

811
00:41:52,720 –> 00:41:55,840
it has desires that are
deceitful, and it fools us.

812
00:41:55,840 –> 00:41:59,360
Sometimes you go in there to see
all those snacks and you just

813
00:41:59,360 –> 00:42:02,000
think, oh, boy.
And we start thinking about what

814
00:42:02,000 –> 00:42:04,880
we could have, and we start
piling up our little plates and

815
00:42:04,880 –> 00:42:06,560
piling them on.
And we think, I want some of

816
00:42:06,560 –> 00:42:09,320
this and I want some of this.
And before we know it, we have

817
00:42:09,320 –> 00:42:11,080
so much you almost can’t eat it
all.

818
00:42:11,080 –> 00:42:13,120
But this is what happens in our
brain.

819
00:42:13,120 –> 00:42:16,240
Everybody knows it.
We have these deceitful lusts

820
00:42:16,240 –> 00:42:17,680
and we think, Oh yeah, I can
handle that.

821
00:42:18,200 –> 00:42:19,720
And then we find out what you
can.

822
00:42:19,720 –> 00:42:21,280
Well, it does that with all
kinds of sin.

823
00:42:21,280 –> 00:42:25,040
This is the nature that we bear.
One of them really is like in

824
00:42:25,040 –> 00:42:28,000
Bible terminology, one of them
is the root and the other one

825
00:42:28,000 –> 00:42:30,560
are the fruits.
So you have a nature now that’s

826
00:42:30,560 –> 00:42:34,760
prone to sin that God had to put
in us so that we would see our

827
00:42:34,760 –> 00:42:37,760
need for redemption.
But then at the same time, we

828
00:42:37,760 –> 00:42:42,160
have the personal transgressions
that this nature actually causes

829
00:42:42,160 –> 00:42:45,880
us to commit, that flow from
this nature in the end, and that

830
00:42:45,880 –> 00:42:47,760
then we end up with God dealing
with both.

831
00:42:47,760 –> 00:42:50,160
That’s the good thing.
When you go back and look at our

832
00:42:50,160 –> 00:42:53,960
community as So what we’ve done
as a group, sometimes some folks

833
00:42:53,960 –> 00:42:56,840
in our community, when you watch
how the pendulum can swing about

834
00:42:56,840 –> 00:43:00,840
human nature, some people see
human nature as basically good.

835
00:43:01,400 –> 00:43:03,920
You’ll see that a lot in in the
Christian community today.

836
00:43:03,920 –> 00:43:06,400
You’ll see it a lot in the
humanistic approaches and rebel

837
00:43:06,400 –> 00:43:10,560
and, and religion that we
basically have a good nature.

838
00:43:10,560 –> 00:43:12,280
And the problem is the
environment.

839
00:43:12,480 –> 00:43:15,960
If you just all grew up in good
families and if we all had good

840
00:43:15,960 –> 00:43:19,360
governments and if we all had
all this good stuff and then

841
00:43:19,360 –> 00:43:22,480
people sometimes think, well,
then we would just our good

842
00:43:22,480 –> 00:43:25,800
nature would just then have a
wonderful place to flourish.

843
00:43:26,320 –> 00:43:28,760
And for people who believe that,
I mean, just to remind them that

844
00:43:28,760 –> 00:43:31,400
look at the Kingdom aged in the
thousand year Kingdom that

845
00:43:31,400 –> 00:43:34,160
Christ sets on earth.
And Jesus Christ will be the

846
00:43:34,160 –> 00:43:37,720
ruler and all this world, all
the corruption that you see in

847
00:43:37,720 –> 00:43:40,560
this world will be replaced.
And we finally had this

848
00:43:40,560 –> 00:43:42,920
experiment about what are humans
going to do?

849
00:43:42,920 –> 00:43:45,080
And they’re given this wonderful
opportunity.

850
00:43:45,440 –> 00:43:48,320
You find a rebellion at the end
of the thousand year Kingdom and

851
00:43:48,320 –> 00:43:52,200
that’s what it will produce.
So the problem really is in the

852
00:43:52,200 –> 00:43:54,200
nature.
We by nature have something

853
00:43:54,200 –> 00:43:57,520
which is prone to sin that
really isn’t basically good

854
00:43:57,520 –> 00:44:00,080
because it’s been changed from
where Adam and Eve had

855
00:44:00,080 –> 00:44:02,880
originally started.
We then find that sometimes in

856
00:44:02,880 –> 00:44:05,560
our community people swing to
the other side and they say,

857
00:44:05,560 –> 00:44:08,480
well, human nature is terribly
wicked and bad.

858
00:44:08,760 –> 00:44:11,160
It’s so bad that you’re guilty
for it.

859
00:44:11,440 –> 00:44:13,440
God holds you guilty for your
nature.

860
00:44:13,480 –> 00:44:15,560
You’ll find like, you know, the
Catholics came up with the

861
00:44:15,560 –> 00:44:18,680
inherited sin concept and you
have to have an atonement for

862
00:44:18,680 –> 00:44:21,280
that sin.
Or you’ll sometimes find within

863
00:44:21,280 –> 00:44:23,840
our community that people won’t
go that far, but they’ll say

864
00:44:23,840 –> 00:44:27,080
that our nature is so bad, you
need an atonement for the

865
00:44:27,080 –> 00:44:29,640
nature.
And so now we’re like starting

866
00:44:29,640 –> 00:44:33,080
to like talk about terminology
that you just don’t find in the

867
00:44:33,080 –> 00:44:36,640
Bible that human nature is so
bad that we’re going to require

868
00:44:36,640 –> 00:44:40,040
an offering for the nature.
And it’s, it’s an interesting

869
00:44:40,040 –> 00:44:42,600
concept that they have somehow
that I want to know what people

870
00:44:42,600 –> 00:44:45,000
are thinking there, that like
somehow God is going to save our

871
00:44:45,000 –> 00:44:47,480
nature, that he’s going to make
an atonement for it and redeem

872
00:44:47,480 –> 00:44:49,360
it.
When the nature itself, the way

873
00:44:49,360 –> 00:44:52,760
it’s being used in the Bible, in
Bible terminology, it’s really,

874
00:44:52,760 –> 00:44:56,160
it’s the devil and you don’t
redeem the devil.

875
00:44:56,440 –> 00:44:59,160
This is something that we are
being taught to fight.

876
00:44:59,160 –> 00:45:02,400
This is King’s sin.
And our goal in the end is to

877
00:45:02,440 –> 00:45:06,160
put sin to death.
And so it’s just fun to look at

878
00:45:06,160 –> 00:45:09,320
in our community this idea of
watching the pendulum swing back

879
00:45:09,320 –> 00:45:11,800
and forth and you have to find
where the truth is.

880
00:45:11,800 –> 00:45:13,920
And I, I really believe it’s
somewhere in the middle there

881
00:45:13,920 –> 00:45:17,880
that human nature is bad.
It, it has bad desires in it.

882
00:45:17,880 –> 00:45:21,640
It is prone to sin, but God
doesn’t hold you guilty for it

883
00:45:21,640 –> 00:45:23,760
and he doesn’t intend to redeem
it.

884
00:45:24,120 –> 00:45:25,600
You’re not going to redeem the
devil.

885
00:45:25,600 –> 00:45:28,160
That’s in our nature.
And instead he’s going to kick

886
00:45:28,160 –> 00:45:30,200
the devil out.
He’s going to remove the devil

887
00:45:30,200 –> 00:45:33,720
from us and turn us into beings
that are going to be like the

888
00:45:33,720 –> 00:45:35,640
angels.
That’s the goal of God.

889
00:45:36,480 –> 00:45:38,960
So when John Thomas was
referring to this in Elpis

890
00:45:38,960 –> 00:45:42,040
Israel, and he makes mention of
it, a lot of people, you look at

891
00:45:42,040 –> 00:45:45,200
his, his section in Elpis Israel
about the, the use of the word

892
00:45:45,200 –> 00:45:48,840
sin in the Bible.
And he says that the word sin is

893
00:45:48,840 –> 00:45:51,720
used in two principal
acceptations in the Scripture.

894
00:45:51,720 –> 00:45:55,200
It signifies in the 1st place,
the transgressions of the law.

895
00:45:55,200 –> 00:45:58,640
Those are our personal sins.
And then the next it represents

896
00:45:58,640 –> 00:46:01,880
that physical principle of the
animal nature.

897
00:46:02,000 –> 00:46:04,640
See, this is something that’s
physically in us.

898
00:46:04,720 –> 00:46:07,720
It’s this devil that we’re
fighting, this principle in the

899
00:46:07,760 –> 00:46:12,000
animal nature which is the cause
of all its diseases and its

900
00:46:12,000 –> 00:46:15,280
death and its resolution in the
dust, and it is that in the

901
00:46:15,280 –> 00:46:17,400
flesh which has the power of
death.

902
00:46:17,400 –> 00:46:19,560
There’s that phrase right out of
Hebrews 2.

903
00:46:19,560 –> 00:46:23,680
That is, the devil has the power
of death, and it is called sin

904
00:46:23,960 –> 00:46:27,200
because the development or
fixation of this evil in the

905
00:46:27,200 –> 00:46:29,840
flesh was the result of
transgression.

906
00:46:29,840 –> 00:46:33,760
This was a change that took
place as the result of Adam and

907
00:46:33,760 –> 00:46:36,000
Eve’s sin.
And as much as the evil

908
00:46:36,000 –> 00:46:40,560
principle pervades every part of
the flesh, the animal nature is

909
00:46:40,560 –> 00:46:45,400
styled sinful flesh by Paul, or
that is flesh full of sin.

910
00:46:45,760 –> 00:46:49,840
So that sin in the Bible in the
sacred style came to stand for

911
00:46:49,840 –> 00:46:53,440
the substance called man.
And a lot of people have looked

912
00:46:53,440 –> 00:46:55,800
at that section and Alpha is
Israel and been amazed at how

913
00:46:55,800 –> 00:46:58,200
John Thomas had picked that out
and understood.

914
00:46:58,440 –> 00:47:00,720
And that is one of the areas
that in our Christadelphian

915
00:47:00,720 –> 00:47:03,880
community, we we’ve inherited,
which is a, a wonderful concept

916
00:47:03,880 –> 00:47:06,920
about the, the total use of the
word sin in the Bible.

917
00:47:07,480 –> 00:47:12,040
So you can see that when God
condemned sin in the body of

918
00:47:12,120 –> 00:47:14,440
Jesus Christ, he condemned it
all.

919
00:47:14,640 –> 00:47:17,640
He didn’t just condemn personal
transgressions.

920
00:47:17,640 –> 00:47:21,200
He condemned the devil that bore
those things in nature that,

921
00:47:21,200 –> 00:47:24,040
that, that, that was the root of
those problems.

922
00:47:24,400 –> 00:47:27,040
So in Romans 8, you’ll, you’ll
see that when Paul’s dealing

923
00:47:27,040 –> 00:47:30,400
with this and he’s really not
talking about legalistic stuff

924
00:47:30,400 –> 00:47:33,120
here in Romans 8 at all.
He’s talking about real

925
00:47:33,440 –> 00:47:36,640
conquering of sin.
This was a real work that God

926
00:47:36,640 –> 00:47:40,600
accomplished in Jesus Christ for
what the law could not do in

927
00:47:40,600 –> 00:47:42,280
that it was weak through the
flesh.

928
00:47:42,600 –> 00:47:48,120
God did by sending his own Son
in the likeness of sinful flesh.

929
00:47:48,280 –> 00:47:52,400
You know, He had our nature, He
never gave in to sin, but He had

930
00:47:52,400 –> 00:47:55,200
our nature.
And on account of sin, it’s

931
00:47:55,200 –> 00:48:00,280
because of sin that He did this.
He condemned sin in the flesh.

932
00:48:00,600 –> 00:48:03,080
He condemned it all.
He condemned the root in the

933
00:48:03,080 –> 00:48:06,520
nature, and He condemned the
personal transgressions because

934
00:48:06,520 –> 00:48:10,520
Jesus Christ nailed the body of
sin to the tree like the serpent

935
00:48:10,520 –> 00:48:13,160
in the wilderness, and He never
gave in.

936
00:48:13,160 –> 00:48:16,160
When He was reviled, He didn’t
revile in return.

937
00:48:16,320 –> 00:48:19,640
When He suffered, He didn’t
threaten that, he committed

938
00:48:19,640 –> 00:48:23,560
himself to his father.
And for those who live, sorry,

939
00:48:23,840 –> 00:48:26,840
as Paul goes on there in verse
4, then that the righteous

940
00:48:26,840 –> 00:48:31,120
requirement of the law might be
fulfilled in US.

941
00:48:31,480 –> 00:48:35,960
Isn’t that interesting that God
did that in Jesus Christ?

942
00:48:36,360 –> 00:48:39,360
And here we go again.
So that something is going to

943
00:48:39,360 –> 00:48:43,520
change your life, the righteous
requirement of the law.

944
00:48:43,840 –> 00:48:47,520
What was the aim of the law?
What was the law really aiming

945
00:48:47,520 –> 00:48:51,400
at all along but to love the
Lord your God with all your

946
00:48:51,400 –> 00:48:54,520
heart and all your soul and all
your strength and all your mind,

947
00:48:54,520 –> 00:48:57,920
and to love your neighbor as
yourself?

948
00:48:58,320 –> 00:49:02,160
Paul says over and over again on
those two things hang all the

949
00:49:02,160 –> 00:49:05,560
law and the prophets.
Paul says that was the aim of

950
00:49:05,560 –> 00:49:08,960
the law or some of our versions
had the end of the law ending.

951
00:49:08,960 –> 00:49:12,080
The end in the sense of this is
the end of the law, he says this

952
00:49:12,080 –> 00:49:14,520
was the end result.
This is what the law was aiming

953
00:49:14,520 –> 00:49:18,360
at all along, that we would
learn to love God and love our

954
00:49:18,360 –> 00:49:22,320
neighbor as ourselves.
That was a righteous requirement

955
00:49:22,400 –> 00:49:25,680
of the law.
And God did this in His Son so

956
00:49:25,680 –> 00:49:29,960
that this would now take place
in us, that now we will love Him

957
00:49:29,960 –> 00:49:32,240
and we will love our neighbor as
ourselves.

958
00:49:32,520 –> 00:49:35,080
So Paul would go on there and
say that it’s the righteous

959
00:49:35,080 –> 00:49:36,960
requirement of the law will be
filled in US.

960
00:49:36,960 –> 00:49:38,160
Who?
What?

961
00:49:38,400 –> 00:49:41,600
This is not just legalistic,
this is not academic.

962
00:49:41,760 –> 00:49:44,360
This is way of life that he’s
talking about.

963
00:49:44,600 –> 00:49:48,280
Who walk, who do not walk
according to the flesh, but

964
00:49:48,280 –> 00:49:51,160
according to the Spirit.
For those who live according to

965
00:49:51,160 –> 00:49:54,400
the flesh have set their minds
on the things of the flesh, but

966
00:49:54,400 –> 00:49:58,520
those who live according to the
Spirit, the things of the Spirit

967
00:49:59,440 –> 00:50:02,520
say, again, this is not a
chapter that’s about legal

968
00:50:02,520 –> 00:50:05,000
standing.
This is not about legal stuff

969
00:50:05,000 –> 00:50:08,200
that Paul’s talking.
He’s talking about how you live.

970
00:50:08,680 –> 00:50:11,680
This is a way of life.
That’s why they call it the way

971
00:50:12,080 –> 00:50:15,640
that this is how we live, that
God is after he’s out to change

972
00:50:15,640 –> 00:50:19,240
our life and the life of Christ
was designed to do that.

973
00:50:20,640 –> 00:50:22,440
The in our clause in our
statement of faith.

974
00:50:22,440 –> 00:50:25,120
You’ll notice that when we wrote
our statement of faith and they

975
00:50:25,120 –> 00:50:27,760
put out the Birmingham amended
statement of faith or even in

976
00:50:27,760 –> 00:50:28,920
the Birmingham statement of
faith.

977
00:50:28,920 –> 00:50:30,760
That referred to that in clause
5.

978
00:50:31,080 –> 00:50:34,800
When he referred to the idea
that Adam broke the law that God

979
00:50:34,800 –> 00:50:39,000
had established and was a judge
unworthy of immortality and

980
00:50:39,000 –> 00:50:41,760
sentenced to return to the
ground from whence he was taken,

981
00:50:42,280 –> 00:50:46,720
a sentence which defiled and
became a physical law of his

982
00:50:46,720 –> 00:50:49,080
being.
So it defiled him.

983
00:50:49,080 –> 00:50:54,000
So now he is morally defiled and
it’s also a physical law of his

984
00:50:54,000 –> 00:50:56,600
being.
And this is this part now that

985
00:50:56,600 –> 00:51:01,360
we have built into US mortality
and this proneness to sin, and

986
00:51:01,360 –> 00:51:03,840
it was transmitted to all his
posterity.

987
00:51:04,160 –> 00:51:07,120
So in a very simple clause right
there, it actually covered a lot

988
00:51:07,120 –> 00:51:09,560
of those things that we just
looked at before about what

989
00:51:09,560 –> 00:51:11,880
happened as a result of Adam and
Eve’s sin.

990
00:51:12,200 –> 00:51:14,760
And that’s right there in clause
five of our statement of faith,

991
00:51:14,760 –> 00:51:17,720
which is good.
So Paul would go on to say in

992
00:51:17,720 –> 00:51:21,480
Romans 8 then that to be
carnally minded is death.

993
00:51:21,640 –> 00:51:23,840
So, you know, if that’s what we
do, if we set our mind on the

994
00:51:23,840 –> 00:51:27,120
flesh and the things of the
flesh, we end up serving sin.

995
00:51:27,120 –> 00:51:30,000
We serve the devil and all.
And if you do that, if we’re

996
00:51:30,000 –> 00:51:33,320
carnally minded, it’s death.
But to be spiritually minded is

997
00:51:33,320 –> 00:51:37,760
life and peace because the
carnal mind is enmity with God,

998
00:51:38,280 –> 00:51:41,520
for it is not subject to the law
of God, nor indeed can be.

999
00:51:42,000 –> 00:51:45,080
So then those who are in the
flesh cannot please God.

1000
00:51:45,080 –> 00:51:47,800
And, and you can see how Paul
uses that phrase in the flesh.

1001
00:51:47,800 –> 00:51:50,000
In the flesh doesn’t mean that
you’re just mortal and you’re

1002
00:51:50,000 –> 00:51:52,000
alive today and you’re living
life right now.

1003
00:51:52,360 –> 00:51:56,160
In the flesh to him means that
you’re living a way of life in

1004
00:51:56,160 –> 00:51:58,640
which you satisfy the will of
the flesh.

1005
00:51:58,960 –> 00:52:02,560
This is your will versus God’s
will, and his goal is to win

1006
00:52:02,600 –> 00:52:07,840
your will over to his.
So God condemned sin in the body

1007
00:52:07,840 –> 00:52:10,360
of Jesus Christ.
Put him up on the pole like the

1008
00:52:10,360 –> 00:52:14,280
serpent in the wilderness to
have a moral impact on our life.

1009
00:52:14,760 –> 00:52:16,640
It’s supposed to change how we
live.

1010
00:52:16,960 –> 00:52:19,800
It’s, it’s sort of sad in our
community that because of the,

1011
00:52:19,800 –> 00:52:22,520
the use of the cross by the
Catholic Church, so often we’re

1012
00:52:22,520 –> 00:52:25,560
afraid to even look at pictures
of the cross or Jesus on the

1013
00:52:25,560 –> 00:52:29,240
cross.
When God intended that to be a

1014
00:52:29,240 –> 00:52:33,480
motivating factor in your life,
the most powerful motivating

1015
00:52:33,480 –> 00:52:37,360
factor to change how you live,
that we really should be looking

1016
00:52:37,360 –> 00:52:40,840
at Christ on the cross.
We should have that as an icon

1017
00:52:40,840 –> 00:52:44,160
in in our minds to realize every
day we’ve been asked to pick up

1018
00:52:44,160 –> 00:52:47,840
our cross and follow him as we
are baptized.

1019
00:52:47,840 –> 00:52:52,000
We put the old man to death.
We commit ourselves to put sin,

1020
00:52:52,400 –> 00:52:56,680
sin, not just personal sins, but
the whole thing to death so that

1021
00:52:56,680 –> 00:52:59,400
we might live for God and do the
will of our Father.

1022
00:52:59,400 –> 00:53:01,720
This is what He had intended.
This is what the

1023
00:53:01,720 –> 00:53:05,240
Christadelphians understand that
the other churches don’t.

1024
00:53:05,520 –> 00:53:08,520
This is the part of our
community that is the core of

1025
00:53:08,520 –> 00:53:12,320
our belief system as to why our
doctrines matter in what we

1026
00:53:12,320 –> 00:53:14,360
believe.
This is what God will use to

1027
00:53:14,360 –> 00:53:17,760
motivate you to develop the
faith of Hebrews 11 to change

1028
00:53:17,760 –> 00:53:20,840
the way you live, and yet you’ll
keep this faith unto the end.

1029
00:53:21,320 –> 00:53:22,800
This is really what it’s all
about.

1030
00:53:23,400 –> 00:53:25,720
So when Adam and Eve left the
garden, in the end, when they

1031
00:53:25,720 –> 00:53:28,440
walk out of the garden, they’ve
now got 2 problems.

1032
00:53:28,440 –> 00:53:31,520
They walk out of the garden now
as mortals and they walk out of

1033
00:53:31,520 –> 00:53:34,760
the garden now with a nature
that’s biased to sin.

1034
00:53:34,800 –> 00:53:37,520
It’s prone to sin.
Or his brother Harry Tennant,

1035
00:53:37,520 –> 00:53:40,160
when he grew, when he drew the
pictures of what they were like

1036
00:53:40,160 –> 00:53:42,920
before and then he drew them.
Now he just said they’re sort of

1037
00:53:42,920 –> 00:53:45,560
leaning over now.
They’re now of the earth and now

1038
00:53:45,560 –> 00:53:47,880
they’re leaning towards
satisfying the flesh.

1039
00:53:48,320 –> 00:53:52,000
And so God’s redempt, the plan
dealt with both.

1040
00:53:52,440 –> 00:53:55,600
And I, I say that because
sometimes all we do is emphasize

1041
00:53:55,600 –> 00:53:59,120
1 and we miss the other.
And really what God intended to

1042
00:53:59,120 –> 00:54:04,200
do was go after sin, all of it
in its root and in its cause.

1043
00:54:04,400 –> 00:54:06,960
And that’s what you’ll see in
the life of Jesus Christ.

1044
00:54:07,240 –> 00:54:09,760
And what we’ll do in the second
class is have a look, hopefully,

1045
00:54:09,760 –> 00:54:14,000
God willing, at the at how God
deals with both of those in US

1046
00:54:14,000 –> 00:54:16,400
and specifically in the Lord
Jesus Christ.

1047
00:54:16,840 –> 00:54:20,160
And we’ll have a look at how God
set out to redeem us from this

1048
00:54:20,160 –> 00:54:24,200
and his plan of atonement.
And his plan doesn’t just deal

1049
00:54:24,200 –> 00:54:27,080
with our personal
transgressions, it deals with

1050
00:54:27,080 –> 00:54:30,000
those and it deals with our
nature.

1051
00:54:30,240 –> 00:54:34,240
God set out to work on our
nature and help us to find ways

1052
00:54:34,240 –> 00:54:36,520
to fight it.
And that’s what his redemptive

1053
00:54:36,520 –> 00:54:38,400
plan will do.
And we’ll have a look at that in

1054
00:54:38,400 –> 00:54:40,880
class to God willing.
Thanks.