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\nworking through love.
\nIt’s fun to end up a study on <\/p>\n
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\nGod’s plan of redemption with
\nthis subject because this is <\/p>\n
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\nreally the aim of the whole
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\nThis is not a first principle
\nthat is supposed to be just an <\/p>\n
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\nacademic one where you study the
\nBible and Bible market and write<\/p>\n
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\nin all your notes and walk away
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\nsupposed to really, of all the
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\none that is supposed to really
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\nThis was the mechanism that God
\nchose when you go back and look <\/p>\n
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\nat it.
\nThis was His mechanism that He <\/p>\n
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\nchose and His wisdom to find the
\nbest way to take erring human <\/p>\n
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\npeople and turn their lives
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\nto do His will and not our own.
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\nmankind, the one who has been
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\nwhen He designs the plan this
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\ngood.
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\nlike the studies that we do in
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\nI found this to be one of the
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\nchanging the way that I live,
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\naction.
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\nfaith is so powerful, what
\nhappened with the law? <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s always good to look at that
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\nyou can contrast the difference
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\nversus living by faith in Jesus
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\nSo what went wrong with the law
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\nThe reason you want to look at
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\nyou can go back into your family
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\na Christadelphian and my grandpa
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\nOr anytime you can come to an
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\nmaybe in Victoria, I don’t know
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\nHow long have the
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\nVictoria?
\nAnybody know 1888? <\/p>\n
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\nSo you know, you’re looking at
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\nSo you know, people who the
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\necclesia, in an ecclesial area
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\ntruth for a long time, the
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\na long time.
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\nalso as a function of size, our
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\nexistence and also the bigger we
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\nI just watch this happen in
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\nYou travel around the world and
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\nAmos, where Amos would sort of
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\nThey had their law for years
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\nTake away from me the noise of
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\nDid you offer me sacrifices and <\/p>\n
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\nofferings in the wilderness?
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\nIt’s important that as that is, <\/p>\n
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\nOr we can take the bread and the<\/p>\n
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\nsisters, and we could come here <\/p>\n
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\nritualistic procedure, take the <\/p>\n
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\nbread and the wine like the Jews
\ndid in their sacrifices. <\/p>\n
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\nbetter now. <\/p>\n
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\nI took the bread and the wine.
\nI’m right with God and God’s <\/p>\n
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\nforgiven me all my sins and go
\naway. <\/p>\n
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\nSo what can happen then over <\/p>\n
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\nGod wants me to do these things.<\/p>\n
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\nHe wants me to get baptized.
\nHe wants me to take the bread <\/p>\n
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\nHe wants me to do the Bible <\/p>\n
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\nrings, Robert Roberts plan and
\nwe can check them all off. <\/p>\n
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\nHe wants me to attend Bible
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\nthe fact that, wait a minute <\/p>\n
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\nwants. <\/p>\n
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\nWhat He wants is for those
\nthings to then influence our <\/p>\n
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\nlife to where we learn to live
\nlike Him and do His will and not<\/p>\n
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\nThat’s the goal that we’re after<\/p>\n
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\nNot all the procedures. <\/p>\n
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\nactually headed. <\/p>\n
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\nYou see that a lot of times in
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\nWe can just set up thinking, <\/p>\n
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\nwell, I did my 3 Bible readings,
\nwe checked them off, I’m done <\/p>\n
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\nAnd we decide that’s it for me <\/p>\n
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\nbecause that’s all that’s really
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\nwhile now he’s picked Gentiles.
\nHe can pick who he wants to save<\/p>\n
339
\n00:17:27,599 –> 00:17:29,000
\nand out of the different
\ncommunities. <\/p>\n
340
\n00:17:29,000 –> 00:17:32,160
\nThat’s God’s right at his
\nprerogative because He is the <\/p>\n
341
\n00:17:32,160 –> 00:17:35,880
\nPotter and we are the clay.
\nBut he goes on to show them in <\/p>\n
342
\n00:17:35,880 –> 00:17:41,000
\nRomans 10 that the Jews and all
\nof their energy and all of their<\/p>\n
343
\n00:17:41,040 –> 00:17:44,760
\neffort and all of their
\nsincerity because they were <\/p>\n
344
\n00:17:44,760 –> 00:17:47,200
\nsincere, many of them.
\nAnd Paul knew this because <\/p>\n
345
\n00:17:47,200 –> 00:17:50,200
\nthat’s the way he had been.
\nBut in all of that they were <\/p>\n
346
\n00:17:50,200 –> 00:17:54,720
\nignorant, ignorant of the key
\nconcept of God’s righteousness. <\/p>\n
347
\n00:17:55,000 –> 00:17:57,960
\nSo he said in Romans 10 that
\nverse one, brethren, my heart’s <\/p>\n
348
\n00:17:57,960 –> 00:18:01,160
\ndesire and prayer to God for
\nIsrael is that they may be <\/p>\n
349
\n00:18:01,160 –> 00:18:03,200
\nsaved.
\nHe wants them saved. <\/p>\n
350
\n00:18:03,200 –> 00:18:06,120
\nHe doesn’t want them cut off and
\nbranches broken off at this <\/p>\n
351
\n00:18:06,160 –> 00:18:08,040
\npoint.
\nFor I bear them witness that <\/p>\n
352
\n00:18:08,040 –> 00:18:11,040
\nthey have a zeal for God.
\nThey’re really into their <\/p>\n
353
\n00:18:11,040 –> 00:18:13,960
\nreligion, but not according to
\nknowledge. <\/p>\n
354
\n00:18:14,560 –> 00:18:18,600
\nFor they, being ignorant of
\nGod’s righteousness and seeking <\/p>\n
355
\n00:18:18,600 –> 00:18:22,040
\nto establish their own
\nrighteousness, have not <\/p>\n
356
\n00:18:22,040 –> 00:18:24,320
\nsubmitted to the righteousness
\nof God. <\/p>\n
357
\n00:18:24,800 –> 00:18:28,360
\nThey didn’t understand a
\nrighteousness that is imputed by<\/p>\n
358
\n00:18:28,360 –> 00:18:29,960
\nfaith.
\nNever. <\/p>\n
359
\n00:18:30,080 –> 00:18:32,960
\nThat just never came into their
\nway of old thinking at all <\/p>\n
360
\n00:18:33,120 –> 00:18:35,640
\nbecause they were going through
\nall the procedures. <\/p>\n
361
\n00:18:36,120 –> 00:18:39,840
\nHe says in verse four that
\nChrist is the end of the law for<\/p>\n
362
\n00:18:39,840 –> 00:18:41,920
\nrighteousness to everyone who
\nbelieves. <\/p>\n
363
\n00:18:42,200 –> 00:18:44,200
\nSee that word end?
\nThere isn’t end. <\/p>\n
364
\n00:18:44,200 –> 00:18:47,160
\nIt’s not termination like, it’s
\nlike that’s the goal. <\/p>\n
365
\n00:18:47,520 –> 00:18:51,680
\nChrist was the aim of the law
\nfor everyone who believes. <\/p>\n
366
\n00:18:51,680 –> 00:18:53,520
\nThat’s what you should have been
\nseeing. <\/p>\n
367
\n00:18:53,520 –> 00:18:56,560
\nSo that when you offered your
\nanimal sacrifice or all the <\/p>\n
368
\n00:18:56,560 –> 00:18:59,920
\nprocedural things that you went
\nthrough, you would see in going <\/p>\n
369
\n00:18:59,920 –> 00:19:02,800
\nthrough those procedures.
\nThe idea that I’m, I can never <\/p>\n
370
\n00:19:02,800 –> 00:19:05,040
\nearn my way.
\nI can never keep all this. <\/p>\n
371
\n00:19:05,240 –> 00:19:08,840
\nI’m a Sinner, I need help.
\nI must depend on the Messiah <\/p>\n
372
\n00:19:08,840 –> 00:19:11,760
\nwho’s coming and I’ll have faith
\nin him and I’ll look up to him <\/p>\n
373
\n00:19:11,760 –> 00:19:15,200
\nin faith and really want his
\nlife and God will forgive me <\/p>\n
374
\n00:19:15,200 –> 00:19:17,360
\nbecause I will die to sin with
\nhim. <\/p>\n
375
\n00:19:17,680 –> 00:19:19,640
\nAnd that’s what the goal of the
\nlaw was. <\/p>\n
376
\n00:19:19,640 –> 00:19:22,920
\nThat’s what he was after.
\nFor in Hebrews 10, Paul says <\/p>\n
377
\n00:19:22,920 –> 00:19:26,120
\nthat the law was just a shadow
\nof the good things to come and <\/p>\n
378
\n00:19:26,120 –> 00:19:28,920
\nnot the very image.
\nIt wasn’t the image. <\/p>\n
379
\n00:19:28,960 –> 00:19:32,360
\nIt was just trying to show them
\nin two-dimensional shadows. <\/p>\n
380
\n00:19:32,760 –> 00:19:35,800
\nThey they could build a
\nthree-dimensional picture of <\/p>\n
381
\n00:19:35,800 –> 00:19:38,440
\nsalvation by faith in Jesus
\nChrist. <\/p>\n
382
\n00:19:38,680 –> 00:19:41,840
\nThat was the goal of the law.
\nThat was its aim and not the <\/p>\n
383
\n00:19:41,840 –> 00:19:45,000
\nvery image of those things.
\nAnd it can never, with these <\/p>\n
384
\n00:19:45,000 –> 00:19:50,000
\nsame sacrifices which they offer
\ncontinually, year by year, make <\/p>\n
385
\n00:19:50,000 –> 00:19:53,120
\nthose who approach perfect.
\nIt never could. <\/p>\n
386
\n00:19:53,240 –> 00:19:55,800
\nIt was never intended to make
\nthem perfect. <\/p>\n
387
\n00:19:56,120 –> 00:19:58,640
\nNever intended.
\nThat’s not what God had in mind <\/p>\n
388
\n00:19:58,920 –> 00:20:01,360
\nfor then would they not have
\nceased to be offered? <\/p>\n
389
\n00:20:01,360 –> 00:20:04,480
\nIf that were the case, if it
\nreally had worked that way, then<\/p>\n
390
\n00:20:04,480 –> 00:20:06,640
\nit would have been a point at
\nwhich you could cease offering <\/p>\n
391
\n00:20:06,640 –> 00:20:09,080
\nthose sacrifices.
\nFor the worshippers, once <\/p>\n
392
\n00:20:09,080 –> 00:20:13,320
\npurified, would have had no more
\nconsciousness of sins. <\/p>\n
393
\n00:20:13,480 –> 00:20:15,640
\nIf that’s really what was going
\non in the law. <\/p>\n
394
\n00:20:15,680 –> 00:20:18,800
\nYou offered your sacrifice and
\nnow there’s atonement made for <\/p>\n
395
\n00:20:18,800 –> 00:20:21,520
\nyou, and you’re clean and all of
\nthis, then you’d have no more <\/p>\n
396
\n00:20:21,520 –> 00:20:24,440
\nconsciousness of sins.
\nWhy, on the Day of Atonement <\/p>\n
397
\n00:20:24,440 –> 00:20:26,440
\nwere they all brought up again
\nEvery year? <\/p>\n
398
\n00:20:26,720 –> 00:20:28,840
\nAnd then the next year they were
\nall brought up again. <\/p>\n
399
\n00:20:28,840 –> 00:20:31,680
\nAnd year after year, under the
\nLaw, all the sins of the people <\/p>\n
400
\n00:20:31,680 –> 00:20:34,920
\nwere put on the goat, on the
\nlive goat in this case, and they<\/p>\n
401
\n00:20:34,960 –> 00:20:37,640
\nled away.
\nWhy did they keep reminding you <\/p>\n
402
\n00:20:37,640 –> 00:20:40,760
\nabout all these sins?
\nBecause there never was a <\/p>\n
403
\n00:20:40,760 –> 00:20:44,000
\nforgiveness and a cleansing of
\nthe conscience of those sins <\/p>\n
404
\n00:20:44,000 –> 00:20:48,120
\nunder the law.
\nBy law, it was only designed by <\/p>\n
405
\n00:20:48,120 –> 00:20:52,200
\nfaith, so that if people looked
\nthrough that law and saw Jesus <\/p>\n
406
\n00:20:52,200 –> 00:20:55,480
\nChrist and realize that through
\ntheir commitment of dying with <\/p>\n
407
\n00:20:55,480 –> 00:20:58,920
\nthe animal to sin, that you join
\nChrist and you’re found in him. <\/p>\n
408
\n00:20:59,240 –> 00:21:02,600
\nTo those people, they were
\nforgiven in the forbearance of <\/p>\n
409
\n00:21:02,600 –> 00:21:07,360
\nGod, but not by going through a
\nritualistic procedure of law as <\/p>\n
410
\n00:21:07,360 –> 00:21:09,760
\nin Paul.
\nHe got that really well in those<\/p>\n
411
\n00:21:09,760 –> 00:21:12,200
\nsacrifices.
\nHe says in verse 3, there’s a <\/p>\n
412
\n00:21:12,200 –> 00:21:16,720
\nreminder of sins every year
\nbecause on the Day of Atonement <\/p>\n
413
\n00:21:16,720 –> 00:21:20,160
\nthey were all brought up again.
\nSo he says it was not possible <\/p>\n
414
\n00:21:20,160 –> 00:21:22,760
\nthat the blood of bulls and
\ngoats could take away sins. <\/p>\n
415
\n00:21:23,040 –> 00:21:26,320
\nThey never were supposed to.
\nThey were supposed to be a <\/p>\n
416
\n00:21:26,320 –> 00:21:29,200
\nshadow to teach us about the
\nreality. <\/p>\n
417
\n00:21:29,800 –> 00:21:32,360
\nSo in Galatians 2, when he’s
\ndealing with this, and really <\/p>\n
418
\n00:21:32,360 –> 00:21:35,400
\nGalatians is fun to look at
\nbecause you get like a condensed<\/p>\n
419
\n00:21:35,400 –> 00:21:37,680
\nversion of Romans in a really
\nshort form. <\/p>\n
420
\n00:21:38,000 –> 00:21:40,440
\nSo if you don’t have time to go
\nthrough Romans someday, you just<\/p>\n
421
\n00:21:40,440 –> 00:21:43,840
\ngo to Galatians and you can get
\nit in six chapters instead of 12<\/p>\n
422
\n00:21:43,840 –> 00:21:46,520
\nor so.
\nSo he says in Galatians 2, that <\/p>\n
423
\n00:21:46,520 –> 00:21:50,960
\nwe who are Jews by nature and
\nnot sinners of the Gentiles in <\/p>\n
424
\n00:21:50,960 –> 00:21:55,760
\nverse 15, knowing that a man is
\nnot justified by works of the <\/p>\n
425
\n00:21:55,760 –> 00:21:58,960
\nlaw, but by faith in Jesus
\nChrist. <\/p>\n
426
\n00:21:59,280 –> 00:22:03,240
\nEven we have believed in Christ
\nJesus that we might be justified<\/p>\n
427
\n00:22:03,240 –> 00:22:06,800
\nby faith in Christ and not by
\nworks of the law. <\/p>\n
428
\n00:22:07,200 –> 00:22:12,200
\nFor by works of the law, no
\nflesh will be justified. <\/p>\n
429
\n00:22:12,280 –> 00:22:16,760
\nNobody, not even Jesus Christ.
\nAnd some of us here would think <\/p>\n
430
\n00:22:16,760 –> 00:22:19,080
\nthat we, we grew up thinking
\nthat, oh, Christ earned his <\/p>\n
431
\n00:22:19,080 –> 00:22:21,480
\nsalvation.
\nHe kept the law perfectly. <\/p>\n
432
\n00:22:21,480 –> 00:22:23,640
\nHe was perfectly obedient to his
\nGod. <\/p>\n
433
\n00:22:24,080 –> 00:22:25,720
\nAnd in the end, what did that
\nlaw do? <\/p>\n
434
\n00:22:25,880 –> 00:22:30,280
\nThey cursed him.
\nBecause by works of the law, no <\/p>\n
435
\n00:22:30,280 –> 00:22:32,680
\nflesh was ever designed to be
\njustified. <\/p>\n
436
\n00:22:32,680 –> 00:22:34,520
\nThat’s not what God had
\nintended. <\/p>\n
437
\n00:22:34,840 –> 00:22:38,360
\nThe, the plan all along was to
\nbe saved by faith. <\/p>\n
438
\n00:22:38,840 –> 00:22:41,360
\nSaved by faith.
\nThat was God’s plan and it was <\/p>\n
439
\n00:22:41,360 –> 00:22:42,880
\nthere from the beginning to the
\nend. <\/p>\n
440
\n00:22:43,360 –> 00:22:46,360
\nSo Paul would say it in verse 19
\nthat I, through the law, died to<\/p>\n
441
\n00:22:46,360 –> 00:22:47,880
\nthe law, that I might live to
\nGod. <\/p>\n
442
\n00:22:48,080 –> 00:22:51,520
\nI’ve been crucified with Christ.
\nIt’s no longer I who live, but <\/p>\n
443
\n00:22:51,520 –> 00:22:54,760
\nChrist who lives in me.
\nSee, this is how he understood <\/p>\n
444
\n00:22:54,760 –> 00:22:57,320
\nthe idea that you die with
\nChrist, with the animal. <\/p>\n
445
\n00:22:57,320 –> 00:23:00,080
\nPaul got it in the end, and he
\nsaw it in the animal, in the <\/p>\n
446
\n00:23:00,080 –> 00:23:02,280
\nsacrifice, in baptism in Romans
\n6. <\/p>\n
447
\n00:23:02,520 –> 00:23:05,640
\nAnd he sees it as the prospect
\nthat every day we pick up our <\/p>\n
448
\n00:23:05,640 –> 00:23:10,600
\ncross daily, and we follow him.
\nI’ve been crucified with Christ.<\/p>\n
449
\n00:23:10,720 –> 00:23:14,080
\nNo longer I who live, but Christ
\nwho lives in me and the life <\/p>\n
450
\n00:23:14,080 –> 00:23:17,600
\nwhich I now live in the flesh.
\nI live by faith in the Son of <\/p>\n
451
\n00:23:17,600 –> 00:23:20,480
\nGod who loved me and gave
\nhimself for me. <\/p>\n
452
\n00:23:21,000 –> 00:23:23,200
\nI do not set aside the grace of
\nGod. <\/p>\n
453
\n00:23:23,200 –> 00:23:25,720
\nNo way.
\nOr if righteousness comes <\/p>\n
454
\n00:23:25,720 –> 00:23:28,360
\nthrough the law, then Christ
\ndied in vain. <\/p>\n
455
\n00:23:28,720 –> 00:23:31,760
\nHe died so that we could be
\nsaved by faith. <\/p>\n
456
\n00:23:32,520 –> 00:23:35,160
\nOr as Paul goes on in chapter 3
\nwhen he’s talking about that <\/p>\n
457
\n00:23:35,160 –> 00:23:38,240
\nchapter of faith and what God
\nhad accomplished by faith that <\/p>\n
458
\n00:23:38,240 –> 00:23:41,360
\nthe law could never do.
\nHe mentions that as many in <\/p>\n
459
\n00:23:41,360 –> 00:23:45,040
\nverse 10, as many as are of the
\nworks of the law are under a <\/p>\n
460
\n00:23:45,040 –> 00:23:48,760
\ncurse, for it is written.
\nCursed is everyone who does not <\/p>\n
461
\n00:23:48,760 –> 00:23:51,680
\ncontinue in all things which are
\nwritten in the book of the law <\/p>\n
462
\n00:23:51,680 –> 00:23:54,240
\nto do them.
\nYou make one mistake under the <\/p>\n
463
\n00:23:54,240 –> 00:23:57,160
\nlaw.
\nThe law curses you and all the <\/p>\n
464
\n00:23:57,160 –> 00:24:00,040
\ncurses of the law come upon you
\nfor your one mistake. <\/p>\n
465
\n00:24:00,320 –> 00:24:02,840
\nSee how God set that up?
\nWe would look at that and say, <\/p>\n
466
\n00:24:02,840 –> 00:24:05,440
\nwell, that’s not fair.
\nHow can all that come on you for<\/p>\n
467
\n00:24:05,440 –> 00:24:08,200
\none thing?
\nBut he wanted people to realize <\/p>\n
468
\n00:24:08,200 –> 00:24:11,320
\nthat this isn’t what saves you.
\nAll this law is going to do is <\/p>\n
469
\n00:24:11,320 –> 00:24:15,000
\ncurse you, and you better look
\nat something beyond this law. <\/p>\n
470
\n00:24:15,040 –> 00:24:17,760
\nYou better see beyond the
\nshadows if you’re ever going to <\/p>\n
471
\n00:24:17,760 –> 00:24:22,400
\nbe saved so that in verse 11,
\nbut that no one is justified by <\/p>\n
472
\n00:24:22,400 –> 00:24:24,800
\nthe law.
\nNo one in the sight of God is <\/p>\n
473
\n00:24:24,800 –> 00:24:28,480
\nevident for the just shall live
\nby faith. <\/p>\n
474
\n00:24:28,760 –> 00:24:30,600
\nSee Paul quotes that three
\ntimes. <\/p>\n
475
\n00:24:30,600 –> 00:24:33,640
\nHe quotes it in Galatians.
\nHe quotes it in Romans and he <\/p>\n
476
\n00:24:33,640 –> 00:24:35,640
\nquotes it in Hebrews.
\nIf you’re ever wondering whether<\/p>\n
477
\n00:24:35,640 –> 00:24:38,160
\nPaul wrote Hebrews that’s that’s
\none of those little side issues <\/p>\n
478
\n00:24:38,160 –> 00:24:39,880
\nthat just shows you this is
\nPaul. <\/p>\n
479
\n00:24:39,880 –> 00:24:43,360
\nYou can see his writings all
\nover that book because he used <\/p>\n
480
\n00:24:43,360 –> 00:24:46,280
\nthat passage to show them that
\nthis is what God had intended <\/p>\n
481
\n00:24:46,360 –> 00:24:49,440
\nall along, that you get
\nout-of-the-box, you don’t go by <\/p>\n
482
\n00:24:49,440 –> 00:24:51,840
\nlaw, you don’t just think I’m
\ngoing to stay in Jerusalem. <\/p>\n
483
\n00:24:52,000 –> 00:24:55,240
\nYou leave, you give up, you
\nfollow what God says in faith, <\/p>\n
484
\n00:24:55,480 –> 00:24:58,680
\nand He will grant you life.
\nAnd they had witnessed that. <\/p>\n
485
\n00:24:58,680 –> 00:25:01,880
\nThe Jewish community all knew
\nthat in the days of Jeremiah and<\/p>\n
486
\n00:25:01,880 –> 00:25:04,720
\nHabakkuk.
\nAnd now Jesus Christ comes along<\/p>\n
487
\n00:25:04,720 –> 00:25:07,680
\nand he fulfills that.
\nAnd it’s it’s fullness that <\/p>\n
488
\n00:25:07,680 –> 00:25:11,280
\nGod’s just one, as he quotes it
\nin Hebrews 10, that his just one<\/p>\n
489
\n00:25:11,280 –> 00:25:14,760
\nwill live by faith.
\nSo that’s the point. <\/p>\n
490
\n00:25:15,040 –> 00:25:17,680
\nYet the law is not a faith.
\nHe says you, when you follow <\/p>\n
491
\n00:25:17,680 –> 00:25:20,360
\nlaws, you’re not following
\nfaith, you’re just doing them. <\/p>\n
492
\n00:25:20,360 –> 00:25:23,160
\nYou’re going through the motions
\nso many times you do them and I <\/p>\n
493
\n00:25:23,160 –> 00:25:25,800
\ndo them, but you’re really not
\nliving by faith. <\/p>\n
494
\n00:25:26,200 –> 00:25:29,600
\nSo the law cursed everyone and
\nthe law never could grant <\/p>\n
495
\n00:25:29,600 –> 00:25:33,560
\neternal life to anyone.
\nIt was not designed to do that. <\/p>\n
496
\n00:25:33,840 –> 00:25:37,080
\nThe law came after the promises.
\nIt came after the oath. <\/p>\n
497
\n00:25:37,360 –> 00:25:41,200
\nIt was never designed to, to,
\nfor anybody to earn their <\/p>\n
498
\n00:25:41,200 –> 00:25:43,680
\nsalvation.
\nSo the law itself was really <\/p>\n
499
\n00:25:43,680 –> 00:25:45,920
\nextremely limited.
\nIf you ever look into it, you’ll<\/p>\n
500
\n00:25:45,920 –> 00:25:48,560
\nsee that as you’re going through
\nthe procedures of the law, if <\/p>\n
501
\n00:25:48,560 –> 00:25:50,720
\nyou ever thought the law was
\ngoing to save you, we’re in real<\/p>\n
502
\n00:25:50,720 –> 00:25:53,000
\ntrouble.
\nBecause even in Leviticus and <\/p>\n
503
\n00:25:53,000 –> 00:25:55,960
\ndealing with the sin offering
\nand then the guilt offering, he <\/p>\n
504
\n00:25:55,960 –> 00:25:59,240
\ntalks in verse 1 of chapter 4 of
\nLeviticus, the Lord spoke to <\/p>\n
505
\n00:25:59,240 –> 00:26:02,760
\nMoses saying speak to the
\nchildren of Israel saying if a <\/p>\n
506
\n00:26:02,840 –> 00:26:08,400
\nperson sins unintentionally, Oh,
\nyou see that word there <\/p>\n
507
\n00:26:08,880 –> 00:26:11,840
\nunintentionally against any of
\nthe commandments of the Lord and<\/p>\n
508
\n00:26:11,840 –> 00:26:14,560
\nanything which ought not to be
\ndone and does one of them. <\/p>\n
509
\n00:26:14,920 –> 00:26:18,360
\nIf the anointed priest sins
\nbringing guilt on the people, <\/p>\n
510
\n00:26:18,360 –> 00:26:21,680
\nthen let him offer to the Lord
\nfor his sin which he has sinned <\/p>\n
511
\n00:26:21,920 –> 00:26:24,600
\na young bull without blemish as
\na sin offering. <\/p>\n
512
\n00:26:25,040 –> 00:26:30,040
\nSo under the law, the legalistic
\nsystem of law, this only covered<\/p>\n
513
\n00:26:30,040 –> 00:26:33,160
\nsins that you did by mistake
\nunintentionally. <\/p>\n
514
\n00:26:33,360 –> 00:26:36,480
\nWhat about adultery?
\nWhat about murder? <\/p>\n
515
\n00:26:36,600 –> 00:26:40,040
\nWhat about premeditated things
\nthat we thought about and then <\/p>\n
516
\n00:26:40,040 –> 00:26:42,440
\nthat that they were never even
\ncovered under the law? <\/p>\n
517
\n00:26:42,440 –> 00:26:44,560
\nYou know, on the Day of
\nAtonement, you could pile them <\/p>\n
518
\n00:26:44,560 –> 00:26:46,920
\nall up there, but none of these
\nanimals sacrifices. <\/p>\n
519
\n00:26:47,080 –> 00:26:48,720
\nThat’s why David realized right
\naway. <\/p>\n
520
\n00:26:48,720 –> 00:26:51,120
\nHe said, for what I’ve done, He
\nsaid, I realized there’s no <\/p>\n
521
\n00:26:51,120 –> 00:26:53,640
\nsacrifice he could offer for
\nthat under the law. <\/p>\n
522
\n00:26:53,880 –> 00:26:56,680
\nThere was no forgiveness for
\nthat by by law. <\/p>\n
523
\n00:26:56,960 –> 00:27:00,720
\nBut what God was trying to teach
\nthem is that something better is<\/p>\n
524
\n00:27:00,720 –> 00:27:02,320
\ncoming.
\nThere are going to be better <\/p>\n
525
\n00:27:02,320 –> 00:27:04,480
\nthings.
\nThis is why when Peter went out <\/p>\n
526
\n00:27:04,480 –> 00:27:07,080
\npreaching and Paul when they
\nwould talk to the Jews and they <\/p>\n
527
\n00:27:07,080 –> 00:27:09,520
\nwould explain to them like in
\nActs 13. <\/p>\n
528
\n00:27:09,520 –> 00:27:12,880
\nTherefore in verse 38, let it be
\nknown to you brethren, that <\/p>\n
529
\n00:27:12,880 –> 00:27:17,360
\nthrough this man is preached to
\nyou the forgiveness of sins and <\/p>\n
530
\n00:27:17,360 –> 00:27:22,960
\nby him everyone who believes is
\njustified from all things from <\/p>\n
531
\n00:27:22,960 –> 00:27:26,320
\nwhich you could not be justified
\nby the law of Moses. <\/p>\n
532
\n00:27:26,760 –> 00:27:28,760
\nThis is this is
\nall-encompassing. <\/p>\n
533
\n00:27:28,760 –> 00:27:33,640
\nHe forgives all our sins, and
\nthe law was never designed to do<\/p>\n
534
\n00:27:33,640 –> 00:27:37,360
\nthat because God inherently put
\nin the law all kinds of <\/p>\n
535
\n00:27:37,360 –> 00:27:41,400
\nweaknesses so that nobody should
\nhave walked away thinking that <\/p>\n
536
\n00:27:41,400 –> 00:27:44,880
\nthey would be saved by law.
\nSo instead you have the power of<\/p>\n
537
\n00:27:44,880 –> 00:27:47,200
\nfaith in Jesus Christ of what it
\ncan do for us. <\/p>\n
538
\n00:27:47,200 –> 00:27:51,040
\nIt can change your life and God
\ncan righteously forgive your <\/p>\n
539
\n00:27:51,040 –> 00:27:53,920
\nsins.
\nSo Paul says in Romans 3 after <\/p>\n
540
\n00:27:53,920 –> 00:27:57,480
\ngoing through all of those cases
\nof the the Gentiles in chapter 1<\/p>\n
541
\n00:27:57,480 –> 00:28:00,520
\nand their failure to attain to
\nthe righteousness of God and <\/p>\n
542
\n00:28:00,520 –> 00:28:03,880
\nthen the Jews and their failure
\nin chapter 2 to attain to the <\/p>\n
543
\n00:28:03,880 –> 00:28:07,200
\nrighteousness of God, He says
\nthere that that by none of them <\/p>\n
544
\n00:28:07,200 –> 00:28:09,280
\nwere able to make it.
\nNo, not one. <\/p>\n
545
\n00:28:09,880 –> 00:28:13,960
\nBut we know He says in verse 19
\nof chapter 3 that whatever the <\/p>\n
546
\n00:28:13,960 –> 00:28:17,960
\nlaw says, it says to those who
\nare under the law that every <\/p>\n
547
\n00:28:17,960 –> 00:28:20,840
\nmouth may be stopped.
\nThis is what the law was <\/p>\n
548
\n00:28:20,840 –> 00:28:24,680
\nsupposed to do.
\nEvery mouth may be stopped and <\/p>\n
549
\n00:28:24,720 –> 00:28:27,120
\nall the world may become guilty
\nbefore God. <\/p>\n
550
\n00:28:27,480 –> 00:28:31,400
\nThe law was never supposed to
\nhelp you become like a better <\/p>\n
551
\n00:28:31,400 –> 00:28:34,440
\nperson who can go to God and
\nsay, look at how good I am and <\/p>\n
552
\n00:28:34,440 –> 00:28:37,400
\nnow you can save me.
\nIt was never designed that way. <\/p>\n
553
\n00:28:37,640 –> 00:28:43,240
\nGod designed the law so that sin
\nwould become exceedingly sinful <\/p>\n
554
\n00:28:43,440 –> 00:28:46,760
\nand that everyone would
\nrecognize what a failure we are.<\/p>\n
555
\n00:28:47,040 –> 00:28:50,400
\nAnd we would all then turn to
\nGod and, and, and appeal to Him <\/p>\n
556
\n00:28:50,400 –> 00:28:54,280
\nand his kindness and His mercy
\nby the faith of Jesus Christ <\/p>\n
557
\n00:28:54,680 –> 00:28:56,920
\nthat he would turn us into a
\ndifferent person. <\/p>\n
558
\n00:28:57,040 –> 00:29:00,400
\nHe would help us overcome our
\nweaknesses and he would forgive <\/p>\n
559
\n00:29:00,400 –> 00:29:03,560
\nus of our mistakes.
\nSo Paul would say, therefore, by<\/p>\n
560
\n00:29:03,560 –> 00:29:05,360
\ndeeds of the law, here we go
\nagain. <\/p>\n
561
\n00:29:05,360 –> 00:29:08,680
\nNo flesh will be justified in
\nhis sight. <\/p>\n
562
\n00:29:08,960 –> 00:29:11,960
\nHe kept trying to get that
\nacross to those Judaizers. <\/p>\n
563
\n00:29:12,320 –> 00:29:14,840
\nFor by the law is the knowledge
\nof sin. <\/p>\n
564
\n00:29:14,840 –> 00:29:18,560
\nThat’s what it was supposed to
\ndo, make sin become exceedingly <\/p>\n
565
\n00:29:18,560 –> 00:29:21,200
\nsinful.
\nBut now he says the <\/p>\n
566
\n00:29:21,200 –> 00:29:25,040
\nrighteousness of God apart from
\nthe law is revealed. <\/p>\n
567
\n00:29:25,040 –> 00:29:28,400
\nOh, this is different.
\nThis is now a righteousness of <\/p>\n
568
\n00:29:28,400 –> 00:29:31,880
\nGod that isn’t by law.
\nOh no, This one is being <\/p>\n
569
\n00:29:31,880 –> 00:29:34,600
\nwitnessed by the law, so that
\nthe law was always telling you <\/p>\n
570
\n00:29:34,600 –> 00:29:36,800
\nabout it.
\nThe law witnessed to it and so <\/p>\n
571
\n00:29:36,800 –> 00:29:39,920
\ndid the prophets, even the
\nrighteousness of God through <\/p>\n
572
\n00:29:39,920 –> 00:29:44,320
\nfaith in Jesus Christ to all and
\non all who believe, for there is<\/p>\n
573
\n00:29:44,320 –> 00:29:46,600
\nno difference.
\nThis is now something that you <\/p>\n
574
\n00:29:46,600 –> 00:29:51,120
\ncan go broad right across the
\nspectrum of mankind to everyone <\/p>\n
575
\n00:29:51,120 –> 00:29:55,160
\nwho believes, everyone who
\nbelieves, not just the Jews, for<\/p>\n
576
\n00:29:55,160 –> 00:29:58,000
\nall have sinned and fall short
\nof the glory of God. <\/p>\n
577
\n00:29:58,440 –> 00:30:03,080
\nSo being justified then freely
\nby His grace through the <\/p>\n
578
\n00:30:03,080 –> 00:30:07,200
\nredemption that is in Christ
\nJesus, all recognize that you <\/p>\n
579
\n00:30:07,200 –> 00:30:10,400
\ncan’t ever do anything to earn
\nthis salvation. <\/p>\n
580
\n00:30:10,480 –> 00:30:13,880
\nThis is a gift, He calls it.
\nIt is the gift of God. <\/p>\n
581
\n00:30:14,200 –> 00:30:18,920
\nGod loves you as a Father.
\nHe’s chosen you and He offers <\/p>\n
582
\n00:30:18,920 –> 00:30:22,120
\nyou a gift.
\nThis is coming from him down, <\/p>\n
583
\n00:30:22,320 –> 00:30:24,520
\nnot something that we earn from
\nthe bottom up. <\/p>\n
584
\n00:30:24,880 –> 00:30:28,800
\nIt’s a gift that he gives us by
\nhis grace through the redemption<\/p>\n
585
\n00:30:28,800 –> 00:30:31,760
\nthat’s in Christ Jesus to whom
\nGod set forward as a <\/p>\n
586
\n00:30:31,760 –> 00:30:34,120
\npropitiation.
\nYou, you look up that word and I<\/p>\n
587
\n00:30:34,120 –> 00:30:36,720
\nknow it has connections to the
\nin the Old Testament in the <\/p>\n
588
\n00:30:36,720 –> 00:30:40,400
\nSeptuagint to the mercy seat,
\nbut to the to the Gentile <\/p>\n
589
\n00:30:40,400 –> 00:30:44,320
\ncommunity, what they used that
\nword for in their community was <\/p>\n
590
\n00:30:44,320 –> 00:30:47,000
\nthat it was a gift that
\ngenerates peace. <\/p>\n
591
\n00:30:47,320 –> 00:30:49,800
\nIt was an an offering you’d make
\nto somebody and you give them a <\/p>\n
592
\n00:30:49,800 –> 00:30:51,920
\ngift so we can have peace
\nbetween the two of us. <\/p>\n
593
\n00:30:52,160 –> 00:30:54,040
\nAnd this is coming from God
\ndown. <\/p>\n
594
\n00:30:54,040 –> 00:30:57,720
\nThis is what He did, He, and
\nit’s by His blood, through faith<\/p>\n
595
\n00:30:58,120 –> 00:31:01,040
\nto demonstrate His
\nrighteousness, because in His <\/p>\n
596
\n00:31:01,040 –> 00:31:04,040
\nforbearance God had passed over
\nthe sins that were previously <\/p>\n
597
\n00:31:04,040 –> 00:31:06,200
\ncommitted.
\nHe had passed over them, <\/p>\n
598
\n00:31:06,200 –> 00:31:09,840
\nrealizing that He could forgive
\nthem through the faith that they<\/p>\n
599
\n00:31:09,840 –> 00:31:14,280
\nhad in Jesus Christ, not by law,
\nbut through faith in Christ, and<\/p>\n
600
\n00:31:14,280 –> 00:31:18,000
\nto demonstrate at the present
\ntime His righteousness that He <\/p>\n
601
\n00:31:18,000 –> 00:31:23,120
\nmight be just and the justifier
\nof the one who has the faith of <\/p>\n
602
\n00:31:23,240 –> 00:31:25,440
\nJesus.
\nThis is what God can do. <\/p>\n
603
\n00:31:25,600 –> 00:31:29,200
\nWhen you have the faith of
\nJesus, trusting and believing in<\/p>\n
604
\n00:31:29,200 –> 00:31:33,080
\nGod and everything that He does
\nin our lives, everything that He<\/p>\n
605
\n00:31:33,080 –> 00:31:37,480
\ndoes in our lives, then God can
\nlook at us and He can forgive us<\/p>\n
606
\n00:31:37,480 –> 00:31:40,000
\nbecause we hate sin like He
\nhates it. <\/p>\n
607
\n00:31:40,360 –> 00:31:43,720
\nWe’ve joined his family and
\njoined his team, and so he <\/p>\n
608
\n00:31:43,720 –> 00:31:46,680
\nforgives us by his kindness and
\nHis grace. <\/p>\n
609
\n00:31:46,880 –> 00:31:49,160
\nWhat a gift.
\nSo where’s boasting them? <\/p>\n
610
\n00:31:49,160 –> 00:31:51,040
\nWho’s going to get up in front
\nof God and say, well, look at <\/p>\n
611
\n00:31:51,040 –> 00:31:53,360
\nwhat I’ve done, You know, look
\nat how good I am living now. <\/p>\n
612
\n00:31:53,840 –> 00:31:56,560
\nIt’s excluded.
\nAnd by what law of works? <\/p>\n
613
\n00:31:56,600 –> 00:32:00,600
\nNo, but by the law of faith.
\nPeople who live by faith realize<\/p>\n
614
\n00:32:00,600 –> 00:32:03,320
\nthat there’s no way they could
\never go to God and say, look at <\/p>\n
615
\n00:32:03,320 –> 00:32:06,480
\nhow good I am now.
\nAnd therefore we conclude, and <\/p>\n
616
\n00:32:06,480 –> 00:32:11,320
\nhe says it again, that a man is
\njustified by faith apart from <\/p>\n
617
\n00:32:11,320 –> 00:32:14,520
\nthe deeds of the law.
\nSo you could go back like in <\/p>\n
618
\n00:32:14,520 –> 00:32:16,800
\nRomans 4, he’ll go back and look
\nat Abraham, and that’s what he <\/p>\n
619
\n00:32:16,800 –> 00:32:18,160
\ndoes.
\nHe goes back and says, here’s <\/p>\n
620
\n00:32:18,160 –> 00:32:20,400
\nhow it started.
\nHere’s what God did with Abraham<\/p>\n
621
\n00:32:20,400 –> 00:32:22,760
\nwhen he chose a family.
\nHe chose one man and then use <\/p>\n
622
\n00:32:22,760 –> 00:32:25,720
\nthat man to develop a nation.
\nAll right, And what was God <\/p>\n
623
\n00:32:25,720 –> 00:32:28,520
\ndoing?
\nHe was trying to build on a man <\/p>\n
624
\n00:32:28,520 –> 00:32:30,840
\nwho had the faith of Jesus
\nChrist. <\/p>\n
625
\n00:32:31,200 –> 00:32:34,800
\nAnd so Abraham believed, he
\nbelieved he had the faith. <\/p>\n
626
\n00:32:34,800 –> 00:32:36,240
\nSo that’s all that word believed
\nis. <\/p>\n
627
\n00:32:36,240 –> 00:32:38,400
\nIt’s the, it’s like the verb of
\nfaith. <\/p>\n
628
\n00:32:38,800 –> 00:32:40,560
\nAnd it’s the same really in the
\nGreek. <\/p>\n
629
\n00:32:40,560 –> 00:32:41,960
\nIt’s just the verb version of
\nit. <\/p>\n
630
\n00:32:42,120 –> 00:32:45,840
\nSo Abraham had the faith.
\nHe believed in the Lord and God <\/p>\n
631
\n00:32:45,840 –> 00:32:48,160
\ntold him that one who will come
\nfrom your own body will be your <\/p>\n
632
\n00:32:48,160 –> 00:32:49,360
\nheir.
\nHe believed that. <\/p>\n
633
\n00:32:49,360 –> 00:32:54,040
\nHe believed God would do what
\nwas impossible for him to do. <\/p>\n
634
\n00:32:54,400 –> 00:32:57,520
\nThis is where faith leads US,
\nbrothers and sisters, to believe<\/p>\n
635
\n00:32:57,520 –> 00:33:00,480
\nin the impossible, that God’s
\ngoing to do something and change<\/p>\n
636
\n00:33:00,480 –> 00:33:02,360
\nour lives in a way that we could
\nnever do. <\/p>\n
637
\n00:33:02,600 –> 00:33:06,120
\nSo count the stars and so will
\nyour descendants be yes, yes, no<\/p>\n
638
\n00:33:06,200 –> 00:33:08,960
\ndescendant at this point, nobody
\nin this case. <\/p>\n
639
\n00:33:08,960 –> 00:33:12,240
\nAnd and he believed he said, oh
\nGod, you’re going to do this and<\/p>\n
640
\n00:33:12,240 –> 00:33:14,480
\nconstantly believe.
\nEven when he was going to <\/p>\n
641
\n00:33:14,480 –> 00:33:18,120
\nOfferUp Isaac, his son, he still
\nbelieved that God was going to <\/p>\n
642
\n00:33:18,120 –> 00:33:20,360
\nmake his descendants as the
\nstars of heaven. <\/p>\n
643
\n00:33:20,560 –> 00:33:23,560
\nHe was convinced.
\nPaul says in Romans, in Hebrews <\/p>\n
644
\n00:33:23,560 –> 00:33:26,960
\n11, In his own mind, over those
\nthree days of walking up there, <\/p>\n
645
\n00:33:26,960 –> 00:33:30,080
\nhe was convinced about
\nresurrection from the dead. <\/p>\n
646
\n00:33:30,360 –> 00:33:33,440
\nHe knew God would have to
\nresurrect Isaac if Abraham had <\/p>\n
647
\n00:33:33,440 –> 00:33:36,160
\nactually killed him.
\nAnd God’s teaching him about how<\/p>\n
648
\n00:33:36,160 –> 00:33:39,920
\nhe’s going to save the race.
\nGod is going to have his son die<\/p>\n
649
\n00:33:39,920 –> 00:33:41,960
\nand he is going to resurrect his
\nson. <\/p>\n
650
\n00:33:42,160 –> 00:33:44,480
\nAnd people learn that from the
\nexperience of Abraham. <\/p>\n
651
\n00:33:44,720 –> 00:33:48,160
\nAnd so Abraham believed the Lord
\nand he counted it to him for <\/p>\n
652
\n00:33:48,160 –> 00:33:50,240
\nrighteousness.
\nThis was the really the <\/p>\n
653
\n00:33:50,240 –> 00:33:52,480
\nbeginning of the Jewish story
\nhere. <\/p>\n
654
\n00:33:52,640 –> 00:33:55,880
\nAnd what does it start on a man
\nwho believes God and <\/p>\n
655
\n00:33:55,880 –> 00:34:00,320
\nrighteousness is imputed to him.
\nAnd Paul says, I remember, was <\/p>\n
656
\n00:34:00,320 –> 00:34:04,240
\nhe circumcised yet or wasn’t he?
\nOh no, he wasn’t circumcised. <\/p>\n
657
\n00:34:04,800 –> 00:34:06,640
\nDon’t ever think circumcision is
\nimportant. <\/p>\n
658
\n00:34:07,040 –> 00:34:10,639
\nAbraham was counted righteous
\nbefore God, before he was ever <\/p>\n
659
\n00:34:10,639 –> 00:34:13,800
\ncircumcised.
\nSo as Paul says in Romans 4 then<\/p>\n
660
\n00:34:13,800 –> 00:34:16,360
\nthat he believed in hope against
\nall hope. <\/p>\n
661
\n00:34:16,440 –> 00:34:18,960
\nAbraham believed in hope.
\nAnd that’s just what we’re being<\/p>\n
662
\n00:34:18,960 –> 00:34:20,280
\nasked to do.
\nNow. <\/p>\n
663
\n00:34:20,280 –> 00:34:22,440
\nWhen you look at somebody asked
\nme yesterday, how in the world <\/p>\n
664
\n00:34:22,440 –> 00:34:24,560
\ndid things go wrong?
\nHow come in our community we <\/p>\n
665
\n00:34:24,560 –> 00:34:27,000
\nhave so much trouble
\nunderstanding the truth of what <\/p>\n
666
\n00:34:27,000 –> 00:34:30,040
\nGod has done in his son?
\nAnd I really believe that if you<\/p>\n
667
\n00:34:30,040 –> 00:34:32,760
\ngo back and look at what happens
\nin our community is that it’s <\/p>\n
668
\n00:34:32,760 –> 00:34:35,440
\npretty simple.
\nIt’s not that we build the false<\/p>\n
669
\n00:34:35,440 –> 00:34:38,840
\nteachings from the Bible, we
\nbuild them from Christianity. <\/p>\n
670
\n00:34:39,280 –> 00:34:42,800
\nWhen you look at our problems we
\nhave in the atonement, they <\/p>\n
671
\n00:34:42,800 –> 00:34:46,360
\nalways come from the fact that
\nsomebody is taking their <\/p>\n
672
\n00:34:46,360 –> 00:34:50,040
\nreligion from what they have
\nheard in Christianity Today. <\/p>\n
673
\n00:34:50,040 –> 00:34:53,679
\nThis is generally what occurs.
\nSo when you look at and you go <\/p>\n
674
\n00:34:53,679 –> 00:34:55,960
\nto the churches today and you
\nlisten to like what they would <\/p>\n
675
\n00:34:55,960 –> 00:34:58,720
\nsay about Jesus on the cross.
\nSo you go back and look at the <\/p>\n
676
\n00:34:58,720 –> 00:35:00,600
\npeople who are alive at Christ
\ntime. <\/p>\n
677
\n00:35:01,200 –> 00:35:04,800
\nWhat the people did, what the
\nJews did is they thought he was <\/p>\n
678
\n00:35:04,800 –> 00:35:08,320
\na blasphemer.
\nThey thought he deserved death. <\/p>\n
679
\n00:35:08,640 –> 00:35:11,320
\nThey thought he should be
\npunished and have a violent <\/p>\n
680
\n00:35:11,320 –> 00:35:13,240
\ndeath.
\nAnd you hear all these kind of <\/p>\n
681
\n00:35:13,240 –> 00:35:16,120
\nconcepts coming up about how
\nthey felt he should be treated. <\/p>\n
682
\n00:35:16,440 –> 00:35:20,760
\nSo they judged Christ as a
\ncriminal who deserves to die a <\/p>\n
683
\n00:35:20,760 –> 00:35:23,800
\njudicial violent death.
\nThis is what they thought. <\/p>\n
684
\n00:35:23,800 –> 00:35:26,240
\nThis is the Jewish community at
\nthis time. <\/p>\n
685
\n00:35:26,560 –> 00:35:29,080
\nSo they punished Jesus with
\ncrucifixion. <\/p>\n
686
\n00:35:29,360 –> 00:35:31,960
\nThey thought that they were
\ntreating him as God would have <\/p>\n
687
\n00:35:31,960 –> 00:35:34,680
\npunished a terrible Sinner.
\nThey thought they were doing <\/p>\n
688
\n00:35:34,680 –> 00:35:37,400
\nGod’s work at this point.
\nAnd what happened then is that <\/p>\n
689
\n00:35:37,400 –> 00:35:41,960
\nChristianity has built their
\nwhole philosophy of substitution<\/p>\n
690
\n00:35:42,160 –> 00:35:46,360
\nfrom the viewpoint of the people
\nwho crucified Jesus Christ. <\/p>\n
691
\n00:35:46,760 –> 00:35:49,160
\nThat’s sad.
\nThat’s really sad. <\/p>\n
692
\n00:35:49,200 –> 00:35:52,080
\nYou’re going to take your
\nreligion from the people who <\/p>\n
693
\n00:35:52,080 –> 00:35:55,600
\nkilled Messiah and look at what
\nGod was doing and think that’s <\/p>\n
694
\n00:35:55,600 –> 00:35:58,440
\nwhat he intended.
\nOh no, that isn’t what God was <\/p>\n
695
\n00:35:58,440 –> 00:36:00,440
\ndoing at all.
\nSo they, they built their <\/p>\n
696
\n00:36:00,440 –> 00:36:03,280
\nviewpoint thinking that God put
\nJesus through the punishment <\/p>\n
697
\n00:36:03,280 –> 00:36:06,000
\nthat sinners deserve so that
\nsinners won’t have to be <\/p>\n
698
\n00:36:06,000 –> 00:36:08,320
\npunished.
\nThere’s our substitute right <\/p>\n
699
\n00:36:08,320 –> 00:36:10,280
\nthere.
\nAnd they present Jesus as an <\/p>\n
700
\n00:36:10,280 –> 00:36:14,360
\ninnocent victim who died only
\nfor us in obedience to God. <\/p>\n
701
\n00:36:14,360 –> 00:36:17,120
\nThat’s how they see it.
\nYou know, he should have never <\/p>\n
702
\n00:36:17,120 –> 00:36:19,960
\nhad to go through this and he
\nwas just doing it for us and he <\/p>\n
703
\n00:36:19,960 –> 00:36:23,240
\nwas totally innocent.
\nAnd this is how they see Christ <\/p>\n
704
\n00:36:23,240 –> 00:36:24,880
\ntoday.
\nYou know, and look at as of the <\/p>\n
705
\n00:36:24,880 –> 00:36:27,160
\npeople there were were
\ncrucifying him as a criminal. <\/p>\n
706
\n00:36:27,560 –> 00:36:30,360
\nBut when you look at it from the
\nperspective of Abraham and <\/p>\n
707
\n00:36:30,360 –> 00:36:34,320
\nIsaac, of God in Christ going up
\ntogether, and you see what God <\/p>\n
708
\n00:36:34,320 –> 00:36:38,040
\nwas really doing is that what
\nhappens is that, you know, God <\/p>\n
709
\n00:36:38,040 –> 00:36:40,960
\nin Christ, they look on the
\ncross as the complete <\/p>\n
710
\n00:36:41,200 –> 00:36:44,240
\ndestruction of sin that he put
\nto death. <\/p>\n
711
\n00:36:44,240 –> 00:36:47,680
\nHim who had the power of death,
\nthat is the devil, as Paul would<\/p>\n
712
\n00:36:47,680 –> 00:36:50,040
\nsay it.
\nGod and Christ were committed to<\/p>\n
713
\n00:36:50,040 –> 00:36:53,000
\nshowing the world that sin must
\ndie. <\/p>\n
714
\n00:36:53,320 –> 00:36:56,280
\nThis is what they were doing.
\nAnd they finished the moral <\/p>\n
715
\n00:36:56,280 –> 00:36:58,840
\nbattle of sin that Jesus was
\nfighting every day. <\/p>\n
716
\n00:36:58,840 –> 00:37:02,000
\nHe’d started at his baptism when
\nhe went down into the waters of <\/p>\n
717
\n00:37:02,000 –> 00:37:05,160
\nbaptism and told John that we’ve
\ngot to do this to fulfill all <\/p>\n
718
\n00:37:05,160 –> 00:37:08,040
\nrighteousness.
\nAnd so they did this by killing <\/p>\n
719
\n00:37:08,040 –> 00:37:11,360
\nthe cause of sin, the devil and
\nthe body of Jesus, and they <\/p>\n
720
\n00:37:11,360 –> 00:37:13,400
\njudge the devil and human
\nnature. <\/p>\n
721
\n00:37:13,400 –> 00:37:15,120
\nThat’s what God and Christ were
\ndoing. <\/p>\n
722
\n00:37:15,320 –> 00:37:17,240
\nThey condemned it to death and
\nkilled it. <\/p>\n
723
\n00:37:17,640 –> 00:37:21,000
\nThis was God’s declaration of
\nrighteousness and it showed us <\/p>\n
724
\n00:37:21,000 –> 00:37:23,400
\nhow to live.
\nThis is what God was after. <\/p>\n
725
\n00:37:23,400 –> 00:37:26,000
\nThis was the real meaning of the
\ncross. <\/p>\n
726
\n00:37:26,200 –> 00:37:29,120
\nThis is what animal sacrifice
\nwas supposed to do. <\/p>\n
727
\n00:37:29,240 –> 00:37:31,800
\nThis is what the serpent on the
\npole in the wilderness was <\/p>\n
728
\n00:37:31,800 –> 00:37:35,200
\nsupposed to teach people so that
\nChrist would say, and I, if I am<\/p>\n
729
\n00:37:35,200 –> 00:37:39,240
\nlifted up, will draw all men to
\nmyself if they had understood <\/p>\n
730
\n00:37:39,240 –> 00:37:42,360
\nwhere it was heading.
\nSo what’s happened then is that <\/p>\n
731
\n00:37:42,400 –> 00:37:45,800
\nthe Christadelphians have for
\nyears we have held on to this <\/p>\n
732
\n00:37:45,800 –> 00:37:49,160
\nidea and it’s a critical,
\nfundamental one, that Christ was<\/p>\n
733
\n00:37:49,160 –> 00:37:51,640
\nour representative.
\nHe is not our substitute. <\/p>\n
734
\n00:37:52,000 –> 00:37:54,160
\nAnd for the younger ones, if
\nyou’re wondering like, why do we<\/p>\n
735
\n00:37:54,160 –> 00:37:55,800
\ndo this?
\nWhy do we emphasize it? <\/p>\n
736
\n00:37:56,000 –> 00:37:58,080
\nThis is what makes the
\ndifference in your life. <\/p>\n
737
\n00:37:58,080 –> 00:38:01,120
\nThis is what changes how you
\nlive when you see Him as your <\/p>\n
738
\n00:38:01,120 –> 00:38:04,960
\nrepresentative, that He went
\nthrough this for us on our <\/p>\n
739
\n00:38:04,960 –> 00:38:08,560
\nbehalf as an example that we
\nwould follow in His steps. <\/p>\n
740
\n00:38:09,120 –> 00:38:11,240
\nThose who believe in
\nsubstitution, they see that <\/p>\n
741
\n00:38:11,280 –> 00:38:13,520
\nJesus died in my place is my
\nsubstitute. <\/p>\n
742
\n00:38:13,520 –> 00:38:16,600
\nThat’s what they would teach,
\nthat he took my place and He <\/p>\n
743
\n00:38:16,600 –> 00:38:18,080
\nsuffered the punishment I
\ndeserve. <\/p>\n
744
\n00:38:18,160 –> 00:38:19,800
\nI should have been up there on
\nthat cross. <\/p>\n
745
\n00:38:19,960 –> 00:38:21,960
\nThat should have been me up
\nthere, and I should have had <\/p>\n
746
\n00:38:21,960 –> 00:38:24,960
\nthat violent death.
\nAnd now because Christ has done <\/p>\n
747
\n00:38:24,960 –> 00:38:27,400
\nthat, they say what a wonderful
\nact of love. <\/p>\n
748
\n00:38:27,640 –> 00:38:30,880
\nNow I can escape the punishment
\nthat I deserve because all my <\/p>\n
749
\n00:38:30,880 –> 00:38:34,000
\nsins, the past, the present, and
\nthe future, they’ve all been <\/p>\n
750
\n00:38:34,000 –> 00:38:37,720
\nborn away by Jesus Christ.
\nThat’s our churches, brother and<\/p>\n
751
\n00:38:37,720 –> 00:38:38,840
\nsisters.
\nThat’s not us. <\/p>\n
752
\n00:38:39,520 –> 00:38:41,680
\nYou know, if that kind of stuff
\nis in the back of our head <\/p>\n
753
\n00:38:41,680 –> 00:38:44,480
\nsomewhere, thinking that this is
\npart of the truth, we’ve got to <\/p>\n
754
\n00:38:44,480 –> 00:38:47,440
\nsqueeze it out.
\nThis is what causes our problem <\/p>\n
755
\n00:38:47,440 –> 00:38:51,240
\nof understanding the atonement.
\nWe’ve got some of these ideas <\/p>\n
756
\n00:38:51,240 –> 00:38:54,440
\nstuck in the corners of our
\nbrains and we try to somehow fit<\/p>\n
757
\n00:38:54,440 –> 00:38:57,680
\nthem into our understanding of
\nthe atonement, and they’re not <\/p>\n
758
\n00:38:57,680 –> 00:39:00,040
\nright.
\nThey’re not biblical at all. <\/p>\n
759
\n00:39:00,040 –> 00:39:02,640
\nYou look at the words that are
\nused there, substitute <\/p>\n
760
\n00:39:02,640 –> 00:39:05,120
\npunishment.
\nYou deserve, you know, and you <\/p>\n
761
\n00:39:05,120 –> 00:39:07,680
\ncan escape punishment.
\nI mean, this is not biblical <\/p>\n
762
\n00:39:07,680 –> 00:39:11,040
\nterminology at all.
\nBut instead what you find then <\/p>\n
763
\n00:39:11,040 –> 00:39:15,720
\nthe truth is that Jesus Christ
\ndied to redeem himself first as <\/p>\n
764
\n00:39:15,720 –> 00:39:17,360
\nour representative, as one of
\nus. <\/p>\n
765
\n00:39:17,360 –> 00:39:21,440
\nHe was one of our race.
\nHe took on the nature of this, <\/p>\n
766
\n00:39:21,440 –> 00:39:25,520
\nthe children of Adam, and Jesus
\nwasn’t suffering anybody’s <\/p>\n
767
\n00:39:25,520 –> 00:39:26,640
\npunishment.
\nOh no. <\/p>\n
768
\n00:39:26,640 –> 00:39:28,520
\nWhere do you ever find that in
\nthe Bible? <\/p>\n
769
\n00:39:28,520 –> 00:39:31,240
\nWhere does it say that our
\npunishment was put on Him? <\/p>\n
770
\n00:39:31,840 –> 00:39:34,160
\nHe was.
\nWe willingly died to show us <\/p>\n
771
\n00:39:34,160 –> 00:39:38,600
\nthat sin must be conquered.
\nThis was a positive teaching <\/p>\n
772
\n00:39:38,800 –> 00:39:41,440
\nenforcement.
\nThis was not about punishment. <\/p>\n
773
\n00:39:41,640 –> 00:39:44,440
\nGod wasn’t trying to kick people
\nover the head all the time and <\/p>\n
774
\n00:39:44,440 –> 00:39:47,640
\nhow He wants to punish them.
\nHe was trying to teach us what <\/p>\n
775
\n00:39:47,640 –> 00:39:51,400
\nwe must do to be saved.
\nWhat do we do to be saved? <\/p>\n
776
\n00:39:51,560 –> 00:39:55,720
\nWe join with Christ and His
\ndeath to sin and we live a life <\/p>\n
777
\n00:39:55,720 –> 00:39:57,680
\nlike Him.
\nThis is what God’s been trying <\/p>\n
778
\n00:39:57,680 –> 00:40:02,160
\nto teach people for years, that
\nsin has to be fought, Amalek’s <\/p>\n
779
\n00:40:02,160 –> 00:40:05,120
\ngot to be destroyed.
\nGod will continue the war with <\/p>\n
780
\n00:40:05,120 –> 00:40:07,040
\nAmalek from generation to
\ngeneration. <\/p>\n
781
\n00:40:07,320 –> 00:40:09,960
\nAnd this is what he was trying
\nto illustrate all the way <\/p>\n
782
\n00:40:09,960 –> 00:40:12,760
\nthrough the Bible.
\nAnd when you see it that way, as<\/p>\n
783
\n00:40:12,760 –> 00:40:15,280
\nChrist was showing us, how do we
\nget back to the Father? <\/p>\n
784
\n00:40:15,360 –> 00:40:18,480
\nWe’ve all fallen from God, How
\ndo we get back? <\/p>\n
785
\n00:40:18,720 –> 00:40:21,600
\nAnd John 12, he says on my, I’m
\non my way back to the Father, <\/p>\n
786
\n00:40:21,600 –> 00:40:24,200
\nthat’s where I’m going.
\nAnd he knew that the cross was <\/p>\n
787
\n00:40:24,200 –> 00:40:27,160
\nthe only way to get there.
\nAnd so he says, look at that’s <\/p>\n
788
\n00:40:27,160 –> 00:40:29,920
\nhow I’m getting there and that’s
\nthe way all of you will get <\/p>\n
789
\n00:40:29,920 –> 00:40:32,400
\nthere too.
\nTake up your cross daily and <\/p>\n
790
\n00:40:32,400 –> 00:40:35,000
\nfollow me.
\nSo therefore, what ends up <\/p>\n
791
\n00:40:35,000 –> 00:40:37,640
\nhappening is we don’t escape
\npunishment. <\/p>\n
792
\n00:40:37,640 –> 00:40:40,560
\nThat isn’t what happens.
\nInstead, what we do now is we <\/p>\n
793
\n00:40:40,560 –> 00:40:44,520
\nfollow Christ’s example and we
\nput sin to death. <\/p>\n
794
\n00:40:44,520 –> 00:40:47,800
\nWe work on the devil and us our
\nevil desires and we live for <\/p>\n
795
\n00:40:47,800 –> 00:40:50,840
\nGod.
\nWe conform our will to God’s <\/p>\n
796
\n00:40:50,840 –> 00:40:54,600
\nwill because God will forgive
\nour sins, because we agree with <\/p>\n
797
\n00:40:54,600 –> 00:40:56,640
\nChrist’s life and we try to
\nfollow him. <\/p>\n
798
\n00:40:56,880 –> 00:41:00,920
\nThis now gives God a righteous
\nbasis to forgive us. <\/p>\n
799
\n00:41:01,200 –> 00:41:03,280
\nSubstitution, doesn’t you know
\nhow? <\/p>\n
800
\n00:41:03,360 –> 00:41:07,120
\nHow in the world can a righteous
\nGod forgive me of all my <\/p>\n
801
\n00:41:07,120 –> 00:41:09,880
\nmistakes because somebody else
\ngot punished for them? <\/p>\n
802
\n00:41:10,120 –> 00:41:12,440
\nWhere’s the righteousness of God
\nin that? <\/p>\n
803
\n00:41:13,000 –> 00:41:16,440
\nBut when God turns us into
\nsomeone who really hates sin, <\/p>\n
804
\n00:41:16,440 –> 00:41:19,800
\nlike he hates sin, and you’ve
\njoined him in the war against <\/p>\n
805
\n00:41:19,800 –> 00:41:23,040
\nAnalect and you’ve joined his
\nside and you want to fight it <\/p>\n
806
\n00:41:23,040 –> 00:41:25,880
\neven though we fail, that’s what
\nyou really want. <\/p>\n
807
\n00:41:26,160 –> 00:41:29,320
\nThen he can look at that person
\nand see in that person, wow, <\/p>\n
808
\n00:41:29,320 –> 00:41:30,560
\nthat’s that’s what I’m all
\nabout. <\/p>\n
809
\n00:41:30,760 –> 00:41:32,360
\nThis is how my family members
\nlive. <\/p>\n
810
\n00:41:32,360 –> 00:41:35,520
\nThis is how angels Live Today
\nand say, hey, come on into my <\/p>\n
811
\n00:41:35,520 –> 00:41:38,840
\nfamily and I’ll forgive you of
\nyour mistakes because He can <\/p>\n
812
\n00:41:38,840 –> 00:41:42,080
\nrighteously forgive us now for
\nwhat Christ has done. <\/p>\n
813
\n00:41:42,200 –> 00:41:46,200
\nWhen we identify with Jesus
\nChrist and are found in him. <\/p>\n
814
\n00:41:46,560 –> 00:41:49,280
\nSo faith sees Jesus Christ as
\nour representative. <\/p>\n
815
\n00:41:49,720 –> 00:41:53,440
\nSo what God’s redemptive plan
\ndealt with in Jesus Christ and <\/p>\n
816
\n00:41:53,440 –> 00:41:57,080
\nin us, when you look at the
\nwhole process is he dealt with <\/p>\n
817
\n00:41:57,080 –> 00:42:01,080
\nthe mistakes that we make our
\npersonal sins so that now he has<\/p>\n
818
\n00:42:01,160 –> 00:42:03,400
\na righteous way to forgive our
\nsins. <\/p>\n
819
\n00:42:03,680 –> 00:42:07,200
\nAnd he did it by taking us
\nthrough the life of Jesus Christ<\/p>\n
820
\n00:42:07,440 –> 00:42:11,200
\nof a man who fought this nature.
\nThey he fought the devil that <\/p>\n
821
\n00:42:11,200 –> 00:42:13,600
\nwas in him.
\nThose evil desires, what Paul <\/p>\n
822
\n00:42:13,600 –> 00:42:17,600
\ncalled those deceitful lusts, He
\nfought them and fought them and <\/p>\n
823
\n00:42:17,600 –> 00:42:20,360
\nhated them and, and it despise
\nthose things. <\/p>\n
824
\n00:42:20,480 –> 00:42:24,200
\nAnd when God motivates us to do
\nthat too, because we joined with<\/p>\n
825
\n00:42:24,200 –> 00:42:28,400
\nChrist in a death like his,
\nthat’s the basis upon which he <\/p>\n
826
\n00:42:28,400 –> 00:42:30,240
\nforgives our sins.
\nYou don’t want to ever leave <\/p>\n
827
\n00:42:30,240 –> 00:42:32,200
\nthat out.
\nSo you’ll find in the New <\/p>\n
828
\n00:42:32,200 –> 00:42:34,960
\nTestament, if you look at how
\nthe New Testament writers use <\/p>\n
829
\n00:42:34,960 –> 00:42:38,000
\nthe crucifixion of Christ or the
\ncircumcision, that they, they, <\/p>\n
830
\n00:42:38,080 –> 00:42:40,920
\nthey understood that all these
\nthings were pointing at the same<\/p>\n
831
\n00:42:40,920 –> 00:42:43,320
\ndirection.
\nFor example, when the apostle <\/p>\n
832
\n00:42:43,320 –> 00:42:46,000
\nPaul writes to the Romans in
\nchapter 8 and verses one to <\/p>\n
833
\n00:42:46,000 –> 00:42:50,080
\nfour, look at how he uses this
\npassage and this this concept <\/p>\n
834
\n00:42:50,080 –> 00:42:54,880
\nabout God killing sin in the
\nLord Jesus Christ in order to <\/p>\n
835
\n00:42:54,880 –> 00:42:57,120
\nmotivate us to change how we
\nlive. <\/p>\n
836
\n00:42:57,880 –> 00:43:02,480
\nHe says there is therefore now
\nno condemnation to those who are<\/p>\n
837
\n00:43:02,480 –> 00:43:05,800
\nin Christ Jesus.
\nThose who are in Christ Jesus, <\/p>\n
838
\n00:43:05,800 –> 00:43:08,640
\nhe explains, are those who do
\nnot walk according to the flesh,<\/p>\n
839
\n00:43:08,640 –> 00:43:12,400
\nbut according to the Spirit.
\nThis really isn’t just about our<\/p>\n
840
\n00:43:12,400 –> 00:43:15,040
\nbaptism.
\nThis is about actually walking <\/p>\n
841
\n00:43:15,080 –> 00:43:19,280
\nin Christ Jesus, for the law of
\nthe Spirit of life in Christ <\/p>\n
842
\n00:43:19,280 –> 00:43:22,400
\nJesus has made me free from the
\nlaw of sin and death. <\/p>\n
843
\n00:43:22,920 –> 00:43:25,880
\nFor what the law could not do,
\nand that it was weak through the<\/p>\n
844
\n00:43:25,880 –> 00:43:30,480
\nflesh, God did by sending His
\nown Son in the likeness of <\/p>\n
845
\n00:43:30,480 –> 00:43:35,920
\nsinful flesh, and on account of
\nsin, He condemned sin in the <\/p>\n
846
\n00:43:35,920 –> 00:43:38,760
\nflesh.
\nNow look at what Paul says here.<\/p>\n
847
\n00:43:38,760 –> 00:43:43,560
\nHe did it so that the righteous
\nrequirement of the law might be <\/p>\n
848
\n00:43:43,560 –> 00:43:48,280
\nfulfilled in US who do not walk
\naccording to the flesh, but <\/p>\n
849
\n00:43:48,280 –> 00:43:51,200
\naccording to the Spirit.
\nYou see how they link the <\/p>\n
850
\n00:43:51,200 –> 00:43:54,560
\ncrucifixion of Christ, the
\ncondemnation of sin, with the <\/p>\n
851
\n00:43:54,560 –> 00:43:57,040
\nfact that now we will change how
\nwe live. <\/p>\n
852
\n00:43:57,360 –> 00:44:01,640
\nThat the righteous requirement
\nof the law, the law had required<\/p>\n
853
\n00:44:01,640 –> 00:44:06,280
\nus to learn to love God and to
\nlove our neighbor as ourselves, <\/p>\n
854
\n00:44:06,640 –> 00:44:10,800
\nand now we can actually do that.
\nThat might be fulfilled in us <\/p>\n
855
\n00:44:11,080 –> 00:44:14,920
\nbecause we don’t walk according
\nto the flesh, but according to <\/p>\n
856
\n00:44:14,920 –> 00:44:17,680
\nthe Spirit.
\nOr as Paul would write to the <\/p>\n
857
\n00:44:17,680 –> 00:44:22,320
\nCorinthians in 2nd Corinthians 5
\nat verse 17 and explain that <\/p>\n
858
\n00:44:22,320 –> 00:44:26,560
\ntherefore, if anyone is in
\nChrist, he is a new creation. <\/p>\n
859
\n00:44:26,920 –> 00:44:30,120
\nWe’re a new creature.
\nGod is recreating us after the <\/p>\n
860
\n00:44:30,120 –> 00:44:33,120
\nimage of Christ.
\nThe old things have passed away <\/p>\n
861
\n00:44:33,120 –> 00:44:35,200
\nand behold, all things have
\nbecome new. <\/p>\n
862
\n00:44:35,800 –> 00:44:40,040
\nNow all things are of God, who
\nhas reconciled us to Himself <\/p>\n
863
\n00:44:40,040 –> 00:44:43,800
\nthrough Jesus Christ, and has
\ngiven us the ministry of <\/p>\n
864
\n00:44:43,800 –> 00:44:48,160
\nreconciliation.
\nThat is, God was in Christ <\/p>\n
865
\n00:44:48,240 –> 00:44:51,600
\nreconciling the world to
\nHimself, not imputing their <\/p>\n
866
\n00:44:51,600 –> 00:44:55,560
\ntrespasses to them, and has
\ncommitted to us the word of <\/p>\n
867
\n00:44:55,560 –> 00:44:59,200
\nreconciliation.
\nNow then, we are ambassadors for<\/p>\n
868
\n00:44:59,200 –> 00:45:01,880
\nChrist, as though God were
\npleading through us. <\/p>\n
869
\n00:45:02,120 –> 00:45:06,080
\nWe implore you on Christ’s
\nbehalf, be reconciled to God, <\/p>\n
870
\n00:45:06,680 –> 00:45:12,480
\nfor He made Him who knew no sin
\nto be sin for us, that we might <\/p>\n
871
\n00:45:12,480 –> 00:45:15,440
\nbecome the righteousness of God
\nin him. <\/p>\n
872
\n00:45:16,040 –> 00:45:18,280
\nAnd you can see how Paul uses
\nthis to show that. <\/p>\n
873
\n00:45:18,280 –> 00:45:22,560
\nLook at how God was in Christ
\nreconciling the world so that he<\/p>\n
874
\n00:45:22,560 –> 00:45:26,000
\nwouldn’t have to impute our
\ntrespasses to us and that the <\/p>\n
875
\n00:45:26,000 –> 00:45:29,640
\ngoal of this is that we would
\nchange how we live so that we <\/p>\n
876
\n00:45:29,640 –> 00:45:33,120
\nmight become the righteousness
\nof God in him. <\/p>\n
877
\n00:45:34,360 –> 00:45:36,120
\nHe’s find us in the Old
\nTestament as well. <\/p>\n
878
\n00:45:36,120 –> 00:45:39,440
\nWhen you look at how Isaiah uses
\nthis in it and a chapter that we<\/p>\n
879
\n00:45:39,480 –> 00:45:42,840
\nread a lot at the at the
\nmemorial service Speaking of the<\/p>\n
880
\n00:45:42,840 –> 00:45:47,040
\nLord Jesus Christ and Isaiah 53
\nat verse three that he is <\/p>\n
881
\n00:45:47,040 –> 00:45:51,080
\ndespised and rejected by men.
\nA man of sorrows and acquainted <\/p>\n
882
\n00:45:51,080 –> 00:45:54,360
\nwith grief and we hid as it were
\nour faces from him. <\/p>\n
883
\n00:45:54,760 –> 00:45:57,240
\nHe was despised and we did not
\nesteem him. <\/p>\n
884
\n00:45:57,800 –> 00:46:01,520
\nSurely He has borne our griefs
\nand carried our sorrows, that we<\/p>\n
885
\n00:46:01,520 –> 00:46:04,560
\nesteemed him stricken, smitten
\nby God, and afflicted. <\/p>\n
886
\n00:46:05,120 –> 00:46:08,720
\nBut he was wounded for our
\ntransgressions, He was bruised <\/p>\n
887
\n00:46:08,720 –> 00:46:12,600
\nfor our iniquities.
\nThe chastisement of our peace <\/p>\n
888
\n00:46:12,600 –> 00:46:16,280
\nwas upon him, and by His stripes
\nwe are healed. <\/p>\n
889
\n00:46:16,960 –> 00:46:18,920
\nAll we, like sheep, have gone
\nastray. <\/p>\n
890
\n00:46:18,920 –> 00:46:22,800
\nWe have turned everyone to his
\nown way, and the Lord has laid <\/p>\n
891
\n00:46:22,800 –> 00:46:27,560
\non him the iniquity of us all.
\nHe was oppressed and He was <\/p>\n
892
\n00:46:27,560 –> 00:46:29,840
\nafflicted, yet He opened not his
\nmouth. <\/p>\n
893
\n00:46:30,560 –> 00:46:33,400
\nHe was led as a lamb to the
\nslaughter and as a sheep before <\/p>\n
894
\n00:46:33,400 –> 00:46:35,840
\nit.
\nShearers is silent, so he opened<\/p>\n
895
\n00:46:35,840 –> 00:46:39,040
\nnot his mouth.
\nAnd he did all of that, brothers<\/p>\n
896
\n00:46:39,040 –> 00:46:43,800
\nand sisters, for us, for our
\ntransgressions bruised, for our <\/p>\n
897
\n00:46:43,800 –> 00:46:47,800
\niniquities, so that the
\nchastisement of our peace. <\/p>\n
898
\n00:46:48,200 –> 00:46:51,120
\nSee, this was the word that’s
\neven used there in the Hebrew. <\/p>\n
899
\n00:46:51,120 –> 00:46:54,080
\nFor chastisement is a word
\nthat’s used for instruction. <\/p>\n
900
\n00:46:54,440 –> 00:46:58,520
\nThis is a teaching mechanism to
\nteach us how to live so that we <\/p>\n
901
\n00:46:58,520 –> 00:47:02,960
\ncan have peace with God, and by
\nHis stripes we are healed. <\/p>\n
902
\n00:47:04,080 –> 00:47:07,760
\nOr the apostle Paul in referring
\nto this in Hebrews chapter 2 in <\/p>\n
903
\n00:47:07,760 –> 00:47:10,920
\nverses 14 to 18.
\nThis one’s out of the RSV. <\/p>\n
904
\n00:47:10,920 –> 00:47:13,680
\nHe said that since therefore the
\nchildren share in flesh and <\/p>\n
905
\n00:47:13,680 –> 00:47:18,880
\nblood, he himself likewise
\npartook of the same nature, that<\/p>\n
906
\n00:47:18,880 –> 00:47:21,800
\nthrough death he might destroy
\nhim who has the power of death, <\/p>\n
907
\n00:47:21,840 –> 00:47:26,000
\nthat is the devil.
\nSo he did that in himself, so <\/p>\n
908
\n00:47:26,000 –> 00:47:29,080
\nthat in verse 15 he could
\ndeliver all those who through <\/p>\n
909
\n00:47:29,080 –> 00:47:31,960
\nfear of death were subject to
\nlifelong bondage. <\/p>\n
910
\n00:47:32,720 –> 00:47:36,000
\nAnd for surely it is not with
\nangels that he’s concerned, but <\/p>\n
911
\n00:47:36,000 –> 00:47:39,720
\nwith the descendants of Abraham.
\nTherefore he had to be made like<\/p>\n
912
\n00:47:39,720 –> 00:47:43,120
\nhis brethren in every respect,
\nso that he might become a <\/p>\n
913
\n00:47:43,120 –> 00:47:47,160
\nmerciful and faithful high
\npriest in the service of God, to<\/p>\n
914
\n00:47:47,160 –> 00:47:49,720
\nmake expiation for the sins of
\nthe people. <\/p>\n
915
\n00:47:50,240 –> 00:47:53,960
\nFor because he himself has
\nsuffered and been tempted, he is<\/p>\n
916
\n00:47:53,960 –> 00:47:56,240
\nable to help those who are
\ntempted. <\/p>\n
917
\n00:47:57,520 –> 00:48:01,880
\nOr as Paul goes on to explain it
\nin Hebrew seven, that Jesus is <\/p>\n
918
\n00:48:01,880 –> 00:48:05,680
\nso much, He is such a better
\ncovenant, a surety of a better <\/p>\n
919
\n00:48:05,680 –> 00:48:09,160
\ncovenant for us, but he can do
\nso much more for us than the law<\/p>\n
920
\n00:48:09,160 –> 00:48:12,760
\ncould ever do.
\nSo he says in verse 22, by so <\/p>\n
921
\n00:48:12,760 –> 00:48:16,600
\nmuch more, Jesus has become a
\nsurety of a better covenant. <\/p>\n
922
\n00:48:17,120 –> 00:48:20,080
\nAlso, there were many priests
\nbecause they were prevented by <\/p>\n
923
\n00:48:20,080 –> 00:48:23,240
\ndeath from continuing.
\nBut he, because he continues <\/p>\n
924
\n00:48:23,240 –> 00:48:26,080
\nforever, has an unchangeable
\npriesthood. <\/p>\n
925
\n00:48:26,400 –> 00:48:30,800
\nTherefore, he is able to save
\nthose to the uttermost, to those<\/p>\n
926
\n00:48:30,800 –> 00:48:34,800
\nwho come to God through him.
\nSince he is always alive, he <\/p>\n
927
\n00:48:34,800 –> 00:48:38,040
\nlives always to make
\nintercession for them. <\/p>\n
928
\n00:48:38,560 –> 00:48:42,200
\nFor such a High Priest was
\nfitting for us, who is holy, <\/p>\n
929
\n00:48:42,400 –> 00:48:46,760
\nharmless, undefiled, separate
\nfrom sinners, and has become <\/p>\n
930
\n00:48:46,760 –> 00:48:50,960
\nhigher than the heavens, who
\ndoes not need daily as those <\/p>\n
931
\n00:48:50,960 –> 00:48:54,040
\nhigh priests to OfferUp
\nsacrifices, first for his own <\/p>\n
932
\n00:48:54,040 –> 00:48:58,400
\nsins and then for the peoples.
\nFor he did this once for all <\/p>\n
933
\n00:48:58,560 –> 00:49:02,600
\nwhen he offered up himself.
\nSee, as Paul points out, Christ <\/p>\n
934
\n00:49:02,600 –> 00:49:05,000
\ndoesn’t need to go back and do
\nthis again and again. <\/p>\n
935
\n00:49:05,320 –> 00:49:10,680
\nHe offered for himself and for
\nus in one sacrifice that was <\/p>\n
936
\n00:49:10,680 –> 00:49:14,240
\ngood for all.
\nThe real work of condemning sin.<\/p>\n
937
\n00:49:14,520 –> 00:49:19,000
\nAnd now his condemnation of sin
\nis available to all those who <\/p>\n
938
\n00:49:19,000 –> 00:49:22,600
\nare in Him.
\nSee, our world today, when you <\/p>\n
939
\n00:49:22,600 –> 00:49:25,760
\nlook at the the reason this is
\nso hard and difficult for us to <\/p>\n
940
\n00:49:25,760 –> 00:49:29,000
\nunderstand is that this world
\ntoday runs on the carrot and <\/p>\n
941
\n00:49:29,000 –> 00:49:32,440
\nstick motivation.
\nIt starts out in our educational<\/p>\n
942
\n00:49:32,440 –> 00:49:34,800
\nsystems.
\nA lot of times as parents, we do<\/p>\n
943
\n00:49:34,800 –> 00:49:38,120
\nthis in raising our children.
\nWe use this approach to motivate<\/p>\n
944
\n00:49:38,120 –> 00:49:41,840
\npeople and really it’s based on
\nworks and everybody is really <\/p>\n
945
\n00:49:41,840 –> 00:49:43,920
\ncomfortable with it because this
\nis what we’re used to. <\/p>\n
946
\n00:49:44,160 –> 00:49:47,400
\nWe start out telling people that
\nif you do good, we will give you<\/p>\n
947
\n00:49:47,400 –> 00:49:50,560
\nthis, and if you don’t do good,
\nwe will punish you. <\/p>\n
948
\n00:49:50,800 –> 00:49:53,320
\nAnd that’s basically what you’ve
\ngrown up with from a young <\/p>\n
949
\n00:49:53,320 –> 00:49:56,800
\nchild, both in your family and
\nalso in your educational system <\/p>\n
950
\n00:49:57,120 –> 00:49:59,960
\nand even in our world today and
\nin our careers, in our job <\/p>\n
951
\n00:49:59,960 –> 00:50:01,600
\nmarket.
\nThis is what they use to <\/p>\n
952
\n00:50:01,600 –> 00:50:05,000
\nmotivate people.
\nBut God really uses a different <\/p>\n
953
\n00:50:05,000 –> 00:50:07,960
\nstrategy.
\nWhat He does is he gives us <\/p>\n
954
\n00:50:07,960 –> 00:50:12,720
\ngrace as a gift of love, and
\nthen He asks us to respond to <\/p>\n
955
\n00:50:12,720 –> 00:50:15,720
\nHis kindness.
\nThat’s a different strategy than<\/p>\n
956
\n00:50:15,720 –> 00:50:18,720
\nthe people of this world.
\nGod’s doing this for a reason <\/p>\n
957
\n00:50:18,720 –> 00:50:22,600
\nbecause He’s going to give out
\neternal life to us and in the <\/p>\n
958
\n00:50:22,600 –> 00:50:24,440
\nend, He’s never going to take it
\nback. <\/p>\n
959
\n00:50:24,800 –> 00:50:28,920
\nSo he has to find out whether or
\nnot we really want to live as <\/p>\n
960
\n00:50:28,920 –> 00:50:32,680
\nmembers of His family.
\nSo he basically invites us in by<\/p>\n
961
\n00:50:32,680 –> 00:50:37,640
\ngrace, and then he waits to see
\nhow we will respond as far as <\/p>\n
962
\n00:50:37,680 –> 00:50:39,960
\nour life right now and living in
\nHis family. <\/p>\n
963
\n00:50:40,520 –> 00:50:43,240
\nSo Paul would say in Ephesians 2
\nat verse 4. <\/p>\n
964
\n00:50:43,640 –> 00:50:47,760
\nBut God who is rich in mercy,
\nbecause of his great love with <\/p>\n
965
\n00:50:47,760 –> 00:50:52,280
\nwhich He loved us even when we
\nwere dead in trespasses, made us<\/p>\n
966
\n00:50:52,320 –> 00:50:57,520
\nalive together with Christ.
\nBy grace you have been saved and<\/p>\n
967
\n00:50:57,520 –> 00:51:01,360
\nraised us up together and made
\nus sit together in the heavenly <\/p>\n
968
\n00:51:01,360 –> 00:51:06,520
\nplaces in Christ Jesus, that in
\nthe ages to come He might show <\/p>\n
969
\n00:51:06,520 –> 00:51:10,960
\nthe exceeding riches of his
\ngrace and His kindness towards <\/p>\n
970
\n00:51:10,960 –> 00:51:15,000
\nus in Christ Jesus.
\nSee, God has done this for us <\/p>\n
971
\n00:51:15,000 –> 00:51:17,800
\nnow.
\nHe has made us alive together <\/p>\n
972
\n00:51:17,800 –> 00:51:21,000
\nwith Christ.
\nBy grace we have been saved. <\/p>\n
973
\n00:51:21,240 –> 00:51:23,440
\nIt’s something which we
\ncurrently have now. <\/p>\n
974
\n00:51:23,800 –> 00:51:27,280
\nAnd He gives us this gift of
\ngrace just as an act of <\/p>\n
975
\n00:51:27,280 –> 00:51:31,120
\nkindness, and he’s waiting to
\nsee how are we going to respond.<\/p>\n
976
\n00:51:31,720 –> 00:51:35,760
\nSo that in Ephesians chapter 2
\nand verse 8, Paul would say, for<\/p>\n
977
\n00:51:35,760 –> 00:51:39,640
\ngrace, by grace you have been
\nsaved through faith and not of <\/p>\n
978
\n00:51:39,640 –> 00:51:43,040
\nyourselves.
\nIt is the gift of God and not of<\/p>\n
979
\n00:51:43,040 –> 00:51:47,680
\nworks, lest anyone should boast.
\nFor we are his workmanship, <\/p>\n
980
\n00:51:47,680 –> 00:51:52,120
\ncreated in Christ Jesus for good
\nworks, which God prepared <\/p>\n
981
\n00:51:52,120 –> 00:51:54,680
\nbeforehand that we should walk
\nin them. <\/p>\n
982
\n00:51:55,360 –> 00:51:57,680
\nSee, this is God’s mechanism of
\nsaving us. <\/p>\n
983
\n00:51:57,840 –> 00:52:01,080
\nHe wants to make sure that none
\nof us ever think we deserved it <\/p>\n
984
\n00:52:01,120 –> 00:52:05,040
\nor we earned it.
\nSo He gives us salvation and <\/p>\n
985
\n00:52:05,040 –> 00:52:09,960
\nredemption by his grace.
\nIt’s his gift lest anyone should<\/p>\n
986
\n00:52:09,960 –> 00:52:12,480
\nboast.
\nAnd what he’s hoping in verse 10<\/p>\n
987
\n00:52:12,480 –> 00:52:14,480
\nthere is that we are his
\nworkmanship. <\/p>\n
988
\n00:52:14,720 –> 00:52:18,760
\nWe’ve been created in Christ
\nJesus for good works, and he’s <\/p>\n
989
\n00:52:18,760 –> 00:52:22,520
\nhoping that we will respond to
\nhis love and His kindness by <\/p>\n
990
\n00:52:22,520 –> 00:52:26,480
\nwalking in them.
\nSo don’t ever turn back to being<\/p>\n
991
\n00:52:26,480 –> 00:52:29,440
\njustified by law.
\nDon’t ever go back to thinking <\/p>\n
992
\n00:52:29,440 –> 00:52:32,720
\nthat we’re somehow going to earn
\nour salvation in Christ Jesus. <\/p>\n
993
\n00:52:32,720 –> 00:52:35,480
\nIt isn’t going to happen.
\nBrothers and sisters, God never <\/p>\n
994
\n00:52:35,480 –> 00:52:39,640
\nintended us to weigh up the sins
\nthat we commit versus the good <\/p>\n
995
\n00:52:39,640 –> 00:52:42,720
\nthings that we do and see
\nwhether the good outweighs the <\/p>\n
996
\n00:52:42,720 –> 00:52:45,480
\nbad.
\nThat isn’t how God saves his <\/p>\n
997
\n00:52:45,480 –> 00:52:48,000
\nfamily members.
\nSo as Paul would write to the <\/p>\n
998
\n00:52:48,000 –> 00:52:52,520
\nGalatians in chapter 5 at verse
\none, stand fast therefore, and <\/p>\n
999
\n00:52:52,520 –> 00:52:55,800
\nthe liberty by which Christ has
\nmade us free, and do not be <\/p>\n
1000
\n00:52:55,800 –> 00:52:57,960
\nentangled again with a yoke of
\nbondage. <\/p>\n
1001
\n00:52:58,480 –> 00:53:02,160
\nIndeed, I, Paul, say to you that
\nif you become circumcised, <\/p>\n
1002
\n00:53:02,360 –> 00:53:06,240
\nChrist will profit you nothing.
\nAnd I testify again to every man<\/p>\n
1003
\n00:53:06,240 –> 00:53:09,440
\nwho becomes circumcised that he
\nhas a debtor to keep the whole <\/p>\n
1004
\n00:53:09,440 –> 00:53:12,000
\nlaw.
\nYou have become estranged from <\/p>\n
1005
\n00:53:12,000 –> 00:53:15,120
\nChrist, you who attempt to be
\njustified by law. <\/p>\n
1006
\n00:53:15,360 –> 00:53:19,280
\nYou have fallen from grace.
\nBecause as Paul’s made it very <\/p>\n
1007
\n00:53:19,280 –> 00:53:23,480
\nclear in chapter 3 that by works
\nof law no flesh will be <\/p>\n
1008
\n00:53:23,480 –> 00:53:26,360
\njustified.
\nWe will never be able to show <\/p>\n
1009
\n00:53:26,360 –> 00:53:30,280
\nGod how good we are or explain
\nto Him why we are worth saving. <\/p>\n
1010
\n00:53:30,520 –> 00:53:35,200
\nIt’s all on the basis of God’s
\ngift, His kindness, and His <\/p>\n
1011
\n00:53:35,200 –> 00:53:38,880
\nability to bring us into His
\nfamily because He has elected <\/p>\n
1012
\n00:53:38,880 –> 00:53:40,960
\nus.
\nWhat a wonderful privilege that <\/p>\n
1013
\n00:53:40,960 –> 00:53:43,520
\nwe have.
\nSo how do we know if we are <\/p>\n
1014
\n00:53:43,520 –> 00:53:46,880
\nliving by law or by faith?
\nWhich one do we live by? <\/p>\n
1015
\n00:53:47,400 –> 00:53:50,120
\nWell, you can look at your own
\nlife and figure out do you <\/p>\n
1016
\n00:53:50,120 –> 00:53:51,960
\ndepend on the rituals to save
\nyou? <\/p>\n
1017
\n00:53:52,320 –> 00:53:54,720
\nIs that what we’re doing?
\nAre we going through ritualistic<\/p>\n
1018
\n00:53:54,720 –> 00:53:57,720
\nprocedures and thinking that
\nsomehow if we get better and <\/p>\n
1019
\n00:53:57,720 –> 00:54:00,240
\nbetter at them that then we are
\nworth saving? <\/p>\n
1020
\n00:54:00,920 –> 00:54:02,800
\nDo we serve one another through
\nlove? <\/p>\n
1021
\n00:54:02,920 –> 00:54:06,040
\nIs love what motivates us?
\nIs that what our approach to our<\/p>\n
1022
\n00:54:06,040 –> 00:54:10,360
\nfamilies and our ecclesia?
\nIs the love of God really in our<\/p>\n
1023
\n00:54:10,360 –> 00:54:14,440
\nhearts and minds so that we want
\nto extend this to other people? <\/p>\n
1024
\n00:54:15,000 –> 00:54:17,960
\nDo we judge ourselves or do we
\njudge each other? <\/p>\n
1025
\n00:54:17,960 –> 00:54:21,480
\nWhere do we spend most of our
\ntime judging, looking at others <\/p>\n
1026
\n00:54:21,480 –> 00:54:25,240
\nand making judgments about them?
\nOr are we judging ourselves and <\/p>\n
1027
\n00:54:25,240 –> 00:54:28,880
\ntrying to work on ourselves to
\nlive more and more like Christ <\/p>\n
1028
\n00:54:28,880 –> 00:54:31,360
\nJesus?
\nAnd do we stress a ritual more <\/p>\n
1029
\n00:54:31,360 –> 00:54:33,280
\nthan the principles it’s
\nsupposed to teach? <\/p>\n
1030
\n00:54:33,720 –> 00:54:36,520
\nThat’s really easy to do.
\nYou can, we can go around and, <\/p>\n
1031
\n00:54:36,520 –> 00:54:39,080
\nand really we can elevate
\nrituals. <\/p>\n
1032
\n00:54:39,080 –> 00:54:42,240
\nWe can impress everyone with why
\nthey’re important and we can <\/p>\n
1033
\n00:54:42,240 –> 00:54:45,120
\nstress them and stress them to
\nthe point that we totally <\/p>\n
1034
\n00:54:45,120 –> 00:54:48,640
\nmisunderstand what that ritual
\nwas supposed to teach. <\/p>\n
1035
\n00:54:48,880 –> 00:54:51,840
\nWe don’t want to become like the
\nJews and do that today, brothers<\/p>\n
1036
\n00:54:51,840 –> 00:54:53,920
\nand sisters.
\nAnd when we do our Bible <\/p>\n
1037
\n00:54:53,920 –> 00:54:56,520
\nreadings at home, are we doing
\nour Bible readings just so we <\/p>\n
1038
\n00:54:56,520 –> 00:54:59,600
\ncan check them off a list?
\nYou know, are we reading them so<\/p>\n
1039
\n00:54:59,600 –> 00:55:02,640
\nthat we can look for principles,
\nlook for ideas that are there? <\/p>\n
1040
\n00:55:02,880 –> 00:55:07,080
\nWhat is God trying to say to us
\ntoday about how we can change, <\/p>\n
1041
\n00:55:07,360 –> 00:55:10,720
\nhow we can find answers to
\nquestions that we have about how<\/p>\n
1042
\n00:55:10,720 –> 00:55:13,960
\nto live in Christ Jesus?
\nThe Bible reading should be <\/p>\n
1043
\n00:55:13,960 –> 00:55:17,000
\nsomething which really change
\nour lives and give us the <\/p>\n
1044
\n00:55:17,000 –> 00:55:19,720
\nanswers that we need.
\nWhen we talk to God in prayer <\/p>\n
1045
\n00:55:20,320 –> 00:55:23,680
\nand when we go to meeting, do we
\ngo to meeting because we have to<\/p>\n
1046
\n00:55:23,680 –> 00:55:27,560
\ngo or because we want to go?
\nThese are just some of the <\/p>\n
1047
\n00:55:27,560 –> 00:55:30,040
\nthings that you can look through
\nin your own life, brothers and <\/p>\n
1048
\n00:55:30,040 –> 00:55:33,960
\nsisters, to try to figure out,
\nare you living by law or are we <\/p>\n
1049
\n00:55:33,960 –> 00:55:37,440
\nliving by faith?
\nWhen we live by faith, we want <\/p>\n
1050
\n00:55:37,440 –> 00:55:39,720
\nto go to meeting.
\nWe want to hear what God has to <\/p>\n
1051
\n00:55:39,720 –> 00:55:43,640
\nsay, and we want to have
\nopportunities to serve one <\/p>\n
1052
\n00:55:43,640 –> 00:55:46,000
\nanother in love.
\nThat’s where we do it. <\/p>\n
1053
\n00:55:46,400 –> 00:55:48,800
\nSee, faith has so much more
\nimportant. <\/p>\n
1054
\n00:55:49,080 –> 00:55:51,760
\nFaith has so much more power
\nthan law will ever have. <\/p>\n
1055
\n00:55:52,320 –> 00:55:54,800
\nIt has the power to change how
\nwe live. <\/p>\n
1056
\n00:55:55,440 –> 00:55:58,840
\nIn Hebrews 11 and verse one,
\nPaul said that faith is the <\/p>\n
1057
\n00:55:58,840 –> 00:56:02,000
\nsubstance of things hoped for.
\nIt’s the evidence or the <\/p>\n
1058
\n00:56:02,000 –> 00:56:06,320
\nconviction of things not seen.
\nFor by it the elders obtained a <\/p>\n
1059
\n00:56:06,320 –> 00:56:09,440
\ngood testimony.
\nBut then in verse 6, he goes on <\/p>\n
1060
\n00:56:09,440 –> 00:56:11,160
\nto it.
\nBut without faith it is <\/p>\n
1061
\n00:56:11,160 –> 00:56:15,400
\nimpossible to please him, for he
\nwho comes to God must believe <\/p>\n
1062
\n00:56:15,400 –> 00:56:19,440
\nthat He is, and that He is a
\nrewarder of those who diligently<\/p>\n
1063
\n00:56:19,440 –> 00:56:22,000
\nseek Him.
\nAnd so in Hebrews 11, what <\/p>\n
1064
\n00:56:22,000 –> 00:56:25,360
\nyou’ll see is a whole list of
\npeople the apostle Paul lines up<\/p>\n
1065
\n00:56:25,360 –> 00:56:28,840
\nfor us.
\nPeople who lived by faith and <\/p>\n
1066
\n00:56:28,840 –> 00:56:32,200
\nGod did in their lives by faith
\nwhat they would never have <\/p>\n
1067
\n00:56:32,200 –> 00:56:35,640
\naccomplished by works of law.
\nAnd then he goes on to show in <\/p>\n
1068
\n00:56:35,640 –> 00:56:39,440
\nHebrews 11 that these people,
\nthey didn’t just do some act of <\/p>\n
1069
\n00:56:39,440 –> 00:56:42,520
\nfaith and then they later on,
\nthey sort of like slacked off. <\/p>\n
1070
\n00:56:42,800 –> 00:56:46,760
\nThese people continued their
\nfaith until they died. <\/p>\n
1071
\n00:56:47,040 –> 00:56:50,840
\nIt was consistent to the end.
\nThis was the endurance that Paul<\/p>\n
1072
\n00:56:50,840 –> 00:56:53,600
\nwould talk about it in Hebrews
\n10 when he’s trying to stress to<\/p>\n
1073
\n00:56:53,600 –> 00:56:56,200
\nthese Jews that they had need of
\nendurance. <\/p>\n
1074
\n00:56:57,360 –> 00:56:59,120
\nThe apostle Paul and when he
\nwhen he writes to the <\/p>\n
1075
\n00:56:59,120 –> 00:57:02,480
\nPhilippians and just in in
\nclosing today, you know, he he <\/p>\n
1076
\n00:57:02,480 –> 00:57:06,680
\nreminds us about the the power
\nof the righteousness of God that<\/p>\n
1077
\n00:57:06,680 –> 00:57:09,880
\nis by faith as opposed to
\nfollowing things by law. <\/p>\n
1078
\n00:57:10,360 –> 00:57:13,680
\nAnd he he mentions like in his
\nown life how this changed the <\/p>\n
1079
\n00:57:13,680 –> 00:57:16,800
\nway he lives and all the things
\nthat he lists in Philippians <\/p>\n
1080
\n00:57:16,800 –> 00:57:19,360
\nchapter 3 at the beginning of
\nthe chapter, all things that <\/p>\n
1081
\n00:57:19,360 –> 00:57:22,960
\nPaul could have take pride in.
\nHe said all those things in <\/p>\n
1082
\n00:57:22,960 –> 00:57:26,240
\nverse 7 that were gain to me.
\nThese I’ve counted loss for <\/p>\n
1083
\n00:57:26,240 –> 00:57:29,400
\nChrist.
\nYet indeed I also count all <\/p>\n
1084
\n00:57:29,400 –> 00:57:33,280
\nthings loss for the excellence
\nof the knowledge of Christ Jesus<\/p>\n
1085
\n00:57:33,280 –> 00:57:36,960
\nmy Lord, for whom I have
\nsuffered the loss of all things,<\/p>\n
1086
\n00:57:36,960 –> 00:57:40,200
\nand count them as rubbish.
\nThat I may, that I may gain <\/p>\n
1087
\n00:57:40,200 –> 00:57:44,840
\nChrist and be found in him, not
\nhaving my own righteousness <\/p>\n
1088
\n00:57:44,840 –> 00:57:48,440
\nwhich is from the law, but that
\nwhich is through faith in <\/p>\n
1089
\n00:57:48,440 –> 00:57:52,280
\nChrist, the righteousness which
\nis from God by faith. <\/p>\n
1090
\n00:57:52,840 –> 00:57:56,680
\nSee, this is the righteousness
\nthat believes that God will do <\/p>\n
1091
\n00:57:56,680 –> 00:58:01,080
\nin us the impossible, and change
\nour lives into the image of <\/p>\n
1092
\n00:58:01,120 –> 00:58:05,000
\nJesus Christ.
\nSo Paul says that I may know him<\/p>\n
1093
\n00:58:05,320 –> 00:58:08,760
\nand the power of his
\nresurrection and the fellowship <\/p>\n
1094
\n00:58:08,800 –> 00:58:13,320
\nof his sufferings being
\nconformed to his death, that if <\/p>\n
1095
\n00:58:13,320 –> 00:58:16,560
\nby any means I may attain to the
\nresurrection from the dead. <\/p>\n
1096
\n00:58:16,560 –> 00:58:19,200
\nAnd the word he uses there in
\nthe Greek is a special word for <\/p>\n
1097
\n00:58:19,200 –> 00:58:21,880
\nout resurrection.
\nHe he intends to be resurrected <\/p>\n
1098
\n00:58:21,880 –> 00:58:25,240
\nfor to immortality, not just to
\nbe raised from the dead, but <\/p>\n
1099
\n00:58:25,240 –> 00:58:29,480
\nraised and given immortality.
\nBut see how he can form, how he <\/p>\n
1100
\n00:58:29,880 –> 00:58:35,200
\nlinks this new life that he has
\nto the idea that he knows Christ<\/p>\n
1101
\n00:58:35,200 –> 00:58:38,320
\nin verse 10, the power of his
\nresurrection. <\/p>\n
1102
\n00:58:38,320 –> 00:58:42,720
\nBecause we now walk after the
\nresurrected man and that God <\/p>\n
1103
\n00:58:42,720 –> 00:58:46,560
\nwill resurrect his children and
\nthe fellowship of his <\/p>\n
1104
\n00:58:46,560 –> 00:58:49,040
\nsufferings.
\nHe understands that we will also<\/p>\n
1105
\n00:58:49,040 –> 00:58:52,240
\nshare the sufferings of Christ.
\nThat God is putting us through <\/p>\n
1106
\n00:58:52,240 –> 00:58:55,280
\nthe same chastening and
\ndiscipline program that He did <\/p>\n
1107
\n00:58:55,280 –> 00:58:58,760
\nhis own Son, so that we will
\nlearn obedience by the things <\/p>\n
1108
\n00:58:58,760 –> 00:59:02,720
\nthat we suffer and being
\nconformed to his death, His <\/p>\n
1109
\n00:59:02,720 –> 00:59:06,600
\ndeath to sin.
\nThat’s Paul’s goal, to be with <\/p>\n
1110
\n00:59:06,600 –> 00:59:10,280
\nChrist and to share with him, to
\nbe crucified with Christ and <\/p>\n
1111
\n00:59:10,280 –> 00:59:14,640
\njoin him in his death to sin.
\nSee, Paul had experienced the <\/p>\n
1112
\n00:59:14,640 –> 00:59:17,360
\npower of faith.
\nAnd this is the faith that <\/p>\n
1113
\n00:59:17,360 –> 00:59:21,640
\nmotivated him to join Jesus
\nChrist and to give his life to <\/p>\n
1114
\n00:59:21,640 –> 00:59:24,800
\nChrist for the rest of his life.
\nSo as we leave leave this <\/p>\n
1115
\n00:59:24,800 –> 00:59:27,800
\nweekend, let’s give thanks to
\nGod for his kindness, his gift <\/p>\n
1116
\n00:59:27,800 –> 00:59:31,080
\nof kindness, that it was all
\nabout God, who as a loving <\/p>\n
1117
\n00:59:31,080 –> 00:59:33,840
\nFather wants us to join his
\nfamily. <\/p>\n
1118
\n00:59:34,080 –> 00:59:37,560
\nAnd he’s gone through all this
\neffort to change our lives and <\/p>\n
1119
\n00:59:37,560 –> 00:59:41,120
\nredeem us from sin.
\nSo let’s respond to God’s gift <\/p>\n
1120
\n00:59:41,120 –> 00:59:44,040
\nby walking with Him.
\nHe wants a response from us. <\/p>\n
1121
\n00:59:44,040 –> 00:59:46,680
\nThis is how he does it.
\nHe gives us his gift. <\/p>\n
1122
\n00:59:46,720 –> 00:59:48,760
\nAnd then he says, please
\nrespond. <\/p>\n
1123
\n00:59:48,760 –> 00:59:51,600
\nPlease do something different
\nand walk with me. <\/p>\n
1124
\n00:59:51,600 –> 00:59:54,840
\nThat’s what he’s after.
\nLet’s serve in the ecclesia, in <\/p>\n
1125
\n00:59:54,840 –> 00:59:56,880
\nour in our family, serve in
\nlove. <\/p>\n
1126
\n00:59:56,880 –> 01:00:01,440
\nThis is the aim of the law that
\nthe that the just requirement of<\/p>\n
1127
\n01:00:01,440 –> 01:00:05,120
\nthe law might be fulfilled in US
\nwho walk according to the <\/p>\n
1128
\n01:00:05,120 –> 01:00:07,960
\nSpirit.
\nAnd so we treat people with love<\/p>\n
1129
\n01:00:08,040 –> 01:00:11,760
\nand kindness and mercy.
\nAnd let’s read our Bibles daily <\/p>\n
1130
\n01:00:11,760 –> 01:00:14,400
\nso that we can join Christ in
\nhis victory over sin. <\/p>\n
1131
\n01:00:14,400 –> 01:00:15,720
\nThis is how we find out about
\nit. <\/p>\n
1132
\n01:00:15,720 –> 01:00:17,160
\nThis is how we get reminded
\nabout it. <\/p>\n
1133
\n01:00:17,360 –> 01:00:20,640
\nWe talk to God in prayer and we
\nlisten to Him in our Bible <\/p>\n
1134
\n01:00:20,640 –> 01:00:22,760
\nreadings.
\nAnd attend meetings so that we <\/p>\n
1135
\n01:00:22,760 –> 01:00:24,720
\ncan help each other.
\nYou can’t do this. <\/p>\n
1136
\n01:00:24,720 –> 01:00:28,120
\nYou can’t live this life when
\nyou stay away from everybody. <\/p>\n
1137
\n01:00:28,120 –> 01:00:31,960
\nIt’s not a life of isolation.
\nThis is a life where we serve <\/p>\n
1138
\n01:00:31,960 –> 01:00:35,760
\none another and love.
\nWe practice to join the angels <\/p>\n
1139
\n01:00:35,880 –> 01:00:39,200
\nwho serve in God’s family and
\nwork together every day. <\/p>\n
1140
\n01:00:39,400 –> 01:00:42,680
\nWe have to be coming here to in
\norder to fulfill this and be <\/p>\n
1141
\n01:00:42,680 –> 01:00:45,480
\ninvolved with people.
\nAnd let’s witness to our friends<\/p>\n
1142
\n01:00:45,480 –> 01:00:48,760
\nabout God’s power to change our
\nlives and what God has done for <\/p>\n
1143
\n01:00:48,760 –> 01:00:50,680
\nus.
\nWe’re, we’re not becoming better<\/p>\n
1144
\n01:00:50,680 –> 01:00:53,880
\npeople because of my efforts.
\nLet’s remind them when they talk<\/p>\n
1145
\n01:00:53,880 –> 01:00:56,360
\nto us about our kids and about
\nour family and about things that<\/p>\n
1146
\n01:00:56,360 –> 01:01:00,320
\nwe do, that it’s all about what
\nGod has done in our life because<\/p>\n
1147
\n01:01:00,320 –> 01:01:03,040
\nhe wants us to make a choice.
\nHe wants us to choose. <\/p>\n
1148
\n01:01:03,040 –> 01:01:05,200
\nAre we going to go after the
\nwill of the flesh and just <\/p>\n
1149
\n01:01:05,200 –> 01:01:07,600
\nsatisfy our desires and have
\nsome fun for a while? <\/p>\n
1150
\n01:01:07,840 –> 01:01:09,880
\nOr are we going to live as God’s
\nchildren? <\/p>\n
1151
\n01:01:09,880 –> 01:01:13,200
\nThat’s what he’s after.
\nAnd Christ has invited us to <\/p>\n
1152
\n01:01:13,200 –> 01:01:16,480
\njoin his family forever.
\nBrothers and sisters and young <\/p>\n
1153
\n01:01:16,480 –> 01:01:20,120
\npeople, don’t miss out and
\nthanks be to God for His <\/p>\n
1154
\n01:01:20,120 –> 01:01:21,400
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