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\nto this point in the end of
\nChapter 7 where he calls himself<\/p>\n
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\na Wretch.
\nAnd that’s a really powerful <\/p>\n
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\nword.
\nIt’s a really powerful word. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd so I think that we have
\ntrouble getting to that point. <\/p>\n
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\nOf appreciation of gratefulness.
\nBut Paul was at that point. <\/p>\n
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\nHe was at that point because he
\nhe understood the sin. <\/p>\n
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\nYou understand.
\nHe he he saw that he was a <\/p>\n
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\nSinner.
\nHe saw that that trying not to <\/p>\n
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\nsin and and following the law
\njust made him more of a Sinner <\/p>\n
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\nbecause he realized that that
\nGod’s ways were not his ways And<\/p>\n
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\nhe he saw that conflict inside
\nand so he was prepared to <\/p>\n
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\nappreciate Christ.
\nAnd sometimes I think that can <\/p>\n
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\nlose its.
\nPower for us? <\/p>\n
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\nWe’re we’re not prepared to
\nappreciate him. <\/p>\n
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\nBecause we’re not prepared to
\nreally be convicted, because <\/p>\n
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\nwe’re not really trying.
\nTo follow God’s ways and declare<\/p>\n
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\nhis righteousness.
\nBut Paul, see, he was at that <\/p>\n
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\npoint and and and and that’s a
\nreally important point to get <\/p>\n
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\nto, because now we get to
\nappreciate how grateful he is. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd you know, see Paul.
\nPaul appreciated that and Paul <\/p>\n
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\nrecognized that he was dying.
\nAnd I think it’s difficult for <\/p>\n
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\nus, at least for those who are
\nyoung, to appreciate that you’re<\/p>\n
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\ndying because every year you see
\nyou get a little bit older. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd when you’re young, as you
\nget older, it’s a kind of <\/p>\n
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\nenthusiastic thing because you
\nget a little bit stronger, you <\/p>\n
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\nget a little bit more
\nresponsibility. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd maybe a little bit more
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\nwhatever activities and and
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\ninterested in.
\nSo. <\/p>\n
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\nSo actually you don’t get this
\nsense that you’re dying because <\/p>\n
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\nevery year that comes on you get
\na little bit stronger, but but <\/p>\n
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\nthose of us that have.
\nI don’t know. <\/p>\n
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\nTurned the corner.
\nEvery year that goes by, we’re <\/p>\n
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\nnot getting any stronger.
\nAre we? <\/p>\n
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\nWe’re getting a little bit
\nweaker and we’re not getting any<\/p>\n
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\nmore ability.
\nWe’re losing some. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd we’re losing people that are
\nclose to us, people that we <\/p>\n
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\nlove.
\nI think that, you know, there <\/p>\n
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\ncould be, I’m not going to ask
\nfor participation for this, but <\/p>\n
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\nmany of us probably have lost.
\nA parent or grandparent or <\/p>\n
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\nfriend, aunt or uncle this year
\nand as we get older, we <\/p>\n
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\nappreciate the fact that that
\nwe’re dying and and. <\/p>\n
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\nProbably all of.
\nUs know someone who’s dealing <\/p>\n
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\nwith a life threatening illness
\nor disease. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd I remember as an
\nimpressionable college freshman <\/p>\n
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\nand that would have been an 18
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\nI don’t know if college means
\nthe same thing here as it does <\/p>\n
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\nin America, but.
\nAs 18 year old I went away to <\/p>\n
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\nuniversity, to a place.
\nCalled San Diego and grew up in <\/p>\n
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\nLos Angeles.
\nAnd in the San Diego meeting <\/p>\n
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\nthere was a young brother,
\naround 25 years old and he was <\/p>\n
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\nstruggling with cancer.
\nI’m 32 now, so he was been seven<\/p>\n
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\nyears younger than I am now.
\nAnd I remember he was just, he <\/p>\n
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\nwas courageous in the way he
\nfought, never complained. <\/p>\n
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\nYou know, in fact cancer
\npatients, one of the ways that <\/p>\n
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\nyou know the end is near is that
\nthey they stop eating. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd and this particular brother,
\nhe never stopped eating to the <\/p>\n
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\nvery end even though he threw up
\nevery oz. <\/p>\n
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\nHe would just continue to eat
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\nHe was before he got sick.
\nHe was really athletic. <\/p>\n
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\nIn fact, he was a volleyball
\nplayer and a champion volleyball<\/p>\n
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\nplayer because he could just
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\nhe was all county and you know, <\/p>\n
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\nhe he just had so much ability
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\nHe’s really nothing he would try
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\nbe?
\nSuccessful at and but he loved <\/p>\n
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\nthe truth.
\nThat was his main passion and. <\/p>\n
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\nI remember do you know how you
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\nin your Cy C’s you sing after
\nCYC but back in the San Diego <\/p>\n
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\nCYC we would sing after CYC we
\nhave the CYC Songbook and and he<\/p>\n
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\nsong every week And in in fact <\/p>\n
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\nwhen he shot his hand up he just
\nknew the song he’s going to <\/p>\n
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\nrequest and that song was Pray
\nfor the piece of Jerusalem and <\/p>\n
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\nhe loved that song and.
\nEvery week he’d. <\/p>\n
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\nRequest that that same song.
\nWell, the end. <\/p>\n
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\nand went to the hospital and <\/p>\n
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\nsince I was just his friend and
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\nrequesting to go into his room <\/p>\n
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\nrefusing to take strong
\nmedication because he really <\/p>\n
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\nwanted to to be aware.
\nTo the very end, you know, you <\/p>\n
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\ntake that strong medication, it
\ncan sort of dope you out. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd he didn’t want that.
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\nAnd I remember in the waiting
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\nasked Max.
\nWhat did you say? <\/p>\n
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\nAnd Max said, I said I love you
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\nand and the next morning Sunday
\nmorning I was I was getting <\/p>\n
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\nready for meeting the phone rang
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\nhe was telling me know that
\nletting me know that Alan that’s<\/p>\n
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\nold boss, how white and how I
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\npassed away now how my boss here
\non the right. <\/p>\n
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\ncircles.
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\nyou write in peer reviewed
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\njust a matter of publishing
\njournals, is it David? <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s that other people reference
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\nSo you kind of know how <\/p>\n
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\nWell, that’s that’s brainy talk
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\neconomics since 1970 and every
\nyear how was considered for a <\/p>\n
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\nNobel Prize and he probably
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\nwork he had done and and not
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\neconomist, but he set up a
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\nCompany and I worked for the
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\nmuch they charged my time out
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\ndeserve.
\nHe must have made a lot of money<\/p>\n
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\nin the consulting company.
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\nsuccessful.
\nAnd you know, and really not <\/p>\n
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\nonly that, but but how was a
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\nyou know, some people, when
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\narrogant about their
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\nSmart. <\/p>\n
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\nThey’re not arrogant at all.
\nBecause I don’t have anything to<\/p>\n
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\nThey’re just kind. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd how was really kind.
\nBut you know now he’s dead. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd you know what I mean.
\nThe the densest person on earth <\/p>\n
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\nis smarter than how?
\nAs as smart as how it was. <\/p>\n
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\nBecause how doesn’t have any
\nmore thoughts left. <\/p>\n
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\nYou know?
\nUnfortunately, how is perished. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd I wonder, I wonder, why does
\nit take losing someone? <\/p>\n
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\nFor us to realize that we’re
\nmortal, that we’re dying. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd you see we have that problem
\nbecause in the Garden of Eden a <\/p>\n
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\nsentence was passed on mankind
\nthat we’re mortal. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd from Adam Ford we all die.
\nAnd some die after many years <\/p>\n
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\nhopefully and and some of us
\nwill die in our youth. <\/p>\n
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\nBut we all seem, it all seems to
\nus like that’s very far away. <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s not it’s not something I
\nhave to think about. <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s not something that’s in my
\nimmediate immediate horizon. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd I hope that’s true, but our
\ndeath is just actually, and <\/p>\n
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\nthat’s one of the things I
\nwanted to get across in our last<\/p>\n
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\nsession, is that that death is
\nreally just that we’ve sinned. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd the sentence for sin as
\npronouncing as our Father and so<\/p>\n
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\npronounced against us is death.
\nNow what if I had said to Alan <\/p>\n
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\nin the?
\nHospital just days before his <\/p>\n
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\ndeath.
\nAnd I didn’t say this, be clear <\/p>\n
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\nabout that.
\nBut what if I had? <\/p>\n
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\nWhat if I had said?
\nTo him, you know, take comfort, <\/p>\n
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\nmy friend.
\nI look up to you. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd there’s no condemnation in
\nChrist Jesus. <\/p>\n
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\nI’ll see you in the Kingdom.
\nYou know those words have more <\/p>\n
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\nmeaning at that point, because
\nnow we’re prepared to realize <\/p>\n
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\nwe’re mortal and we’re sitting
\nacross the way from a 20. <\/p>\n
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\nFive year old.
\nGood good guy who’s about to <\/p>\n
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\ndie.
\nBut what makes us so different <\/p>\n
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\nfrom Alan?
\nSee Alan’s hidden in Christ. <\/p>\n
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\nThat’s I’m going to see him
\nagain. <\/p>\n
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\nI’m going to talk to him and say
\nthat I mentioned to him in this <\/p>\n
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\ntalk and he’s going to hate me
\nfor it, you know? <\/p>\n
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\nWhat does this word?
\nMean condemnation. <\/p>\n
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\nCondemnation.
\nWhat does that word mean? <\/p>\n
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\nYou know, it’s one of those
\nBible words. <\/p>\n
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\ndefinition of my words, at least
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\nmercy is not withheld, and I
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\nunderstand what it really means
\nto have mercy until mercy is we.<\/p>\n
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\nAll that is left between us and
\nperishing, it’s all that’s left <\/p>\n
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\ndeserve to be there thinking, <\/p>\n
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\nSee, I got in all my sinning and<\/p>\n
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\njust sort of, it’s like a it’s <\/p>\n
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\ngoing to die.
\nAnd Paul understood what mercy <\/p>\n
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\nAnd he says, thanks me to God, <\/p>\n
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\nevidence is read and you know <\/p>\n
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\ninnocence. <\/p>\n
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\nsays, well, here’s the <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s a sentence of punishment if<\/p>\n
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\nin fact guilty is the.
\nIs the verdict. <\/p>\n
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\nperfect translation for the word<\/p>\n
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\npunishment.
\nAnd I want you to know that that<\/p>\n
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\nThe sentence is different than <\/p>\n
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\nthe verdict is also different
\nthan the evidence. <\/p>\n
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\nThese are all three different
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\nAnd we can call the sentence the<\/p>\n
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\nsentence, after the offense and <\/p>\n
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\nRomans 518, he’s in the new Kim <\/p>\n
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\nJames.
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\nout this way.
\nYou see these three different <\/p>\n
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\ndifferent parts. <\/p>\n
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\nI’ll read for you from the new
\nKing James, which says therefore<\/p>\n
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\nas through one man’s offense.
\nJudgment came to all men, <\/p>\n
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\nSo it’s three different parts, <\/p>\n
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\nOffense, judgment and
\ncondemnation. <\/p>\n
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\nSo it’s no.
\nCondemnation in Christ Jesus. <\/p>\n
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\nit’s certainly judgment. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd the dread of that moment and<\/p>\n
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\nyou look up at the judge.
\nAnd your sentence is declared <\/p>\n
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\nand your mortality is destroyed
\nand your sinfulness is condemned<\/p>\n
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\nand you’re free.
\nWhy? <\/p>\n
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\nmoment and this courtroom drama
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\nIt’s not overplayed because the
\nonly other place we see the word<\/p>\n
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\ncondemn in, Romans say.
\nIn the context of this guy ID of<\/p>\n
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\nthis, of this courtroom or this
\njudgment in Romans 8, verse 33, <\/p>\n
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\nreading the RSV, who shall bring
\nany charge against God’s elect? <\/p>\n
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\nWell, that’s like a courtroom.
\nWho’s going to bring a charge? <\/p>\n
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\nWho’s going to charge you of
\nanything? <\/p>\n
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\nWho’s going to accuse you of
\nsinning? <\/p>\n
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\nWho’s going to accuse you of
\nbeing a Sinner? <\/p>\n
339
\n00:21:15,490 –> 00:21:17,610
\nWho’s going to bring a charge
\nagainst God’s elect? <\/p>\n
340
\n00:21:18,570 –> 00:21:22,090
\nAnd Paul goes on to say it’s God
\nwho justifies, Who’s to condemn?<\/p>\n
341
\n00:21:22,210 –> 00:21:23,890
\nWell, that’s what.
\nThat’s what the judge does. <\/p>\n
342
\n00:21:24,410 –> 00:21:26,840
\nHe passes a sentence.
\nWho’s the condemn? <\/p>\n
343
\n00:21:27,200 –> 00:21:30,920
\nIt’s Christ Jesus who died.
\nYes, it was raised from the <\/p>\n
344
\n00:21:30,920 –> 00:21:32,360
\ndead.
\nWho’s at the right hand of God <\/p>\n
345
\n00:21:32,600 –> 00:21:36,920
\nand and who intercedes for us.
\nAnd so who’s going to lay <\/p>\n
346
\n00:21:36,920 –> 00:21:38,840
\ncharges?
\nGod. <\/p>\n
347
\n00:21:39,840 –> 00:21:44,480
\nWell, he’s justifies you.
\nWho’s going to condemn Jesus? <\/p>\n
348
\n00:21:45,200 –> 00:21:47,560
\nHe intercedes for you.
\nAnd So what you find is when you<\/p>\n
349
\n00:21:47,560 –> 00:21:51,840
\nwalk into this courtroom, you
\nhave a defense attorney who’s <\/p>\n
350
\n00:21:51,840 –> 00:21:55,160
\nnext to you and he’s the one
\nwho’s who’s interceding. <\/p>\n
351
\n00:21:56,020 –> 00:21:58,940
\nWith the court on your behalf,
\nright, this defense attorney. <\/p>\n
352
\n00:21:58,940 –> 00:22:02,060
\nAnd then you look up when the
\njudgment is about to be read out<\/p>\n
353
\n00:22:02,060 –> 00:22:04,700
\nand you find your defense
\nattorney walks around and climbs<\/p>\n
354
\n00:22:04,700 –> 00:22:08,180
\nup the stairs and sits down in
\nthe place of the judge. <\/p>\n
355
\n00:22:10,180 –> 00:22:13,460
\nAnd you look up.
\nYou see the one who’s <\/p>\n
356
\n00:22:13,460 –> 00:22:18,180
\ninterceding for you the whole
\ntime is the one about to pass <\/p>\n
357
\n00:22:18,180 –> 00:22:23,180
\nthe judgment and that your
\naccuser. <\/p>\n
358
\n00:22:25,360 –> 00:22:31,840
\nGod in this case, has actually
\ncreated the conditions for your <\/p>\n
359
\n00:22:31,840 –> 00:22:35,040
\nrelease.
\nIt’s not a fair trial. <\/p>\n
360
\n00:22:37,000 –> 00:22:39,760
\nIt’s not meant to be a fair
\ntrial for those who are in <\/p>\n
361
\n00:22:39,760 –> 00:22:46,320
\nChrist Jesus, Thanks be to God
\nthrough Jesus Christ our Lord. <\/p>\n
362
\n00:22:48,080 –> 00:22:54,920
\nAnd so Roman St. begins.
\nThere is therefore now, now. <\/p>\n
363
\n00:22:55,440 –> 00:23:03,920
\nNo condemnation for those who
\nare in Christ Jesus and all <\/p>\n
364
\n00:23:03,920 –> 00:23:06,840
\nrecent translations drop the
\nnext sentence, which is who walk<\/p>\n
365
\n00:23:06,840 –> 00:23:08,480
\nnot after the flesh but after
\nthe spirit. <\/p>\n
366
\n00:23:08,480 –> 00:23:11,120
\nWhat’s interesting about
\ndropping that is it really just <\/p>\n
367
\n00:23:11,120 –> 00:23:14,320
\nemphasizes what does it mean to
\nbe in Christ Jesus and and it’s <\/p>\n
368
\n00:23:14,320 –> 00:23:15,720
\nnot really adding this
\ncondition. <\/p>\n
369
\n00:23:15,720 –> 00:23:18,960
\nIt’s as if to say if you’re in
\nChrist Jesus, I don’t need to <\/p>\n
370
\n00:23:18,960 –> 00:23:23,600
\ntell you what that means, that
\nit’s enough to say. <\/p>\n
371
\n00:23:24,330 –> 00:23:26,770
\nThat we’re in Christ Jesus.
\nAnd one of the things we’re <\/p>\n
372
\n00:23:26,770 –> 00:23:30,050
\ngoing to try establish in this
\nclass, well, especially in the <\/p>\n
373
\n00:23:30,050 –> 00:23:32,170
\nnext class too, is what it
\nreally wasn’t mean to be in <\/p>\n
374
\n00:23:32,170 –> 00:23:33,490
\nChrist Jesus.
\nWhat does that mean? <\/p>\n
375
\n00:23:36,690 –> 00:23:39,330
\nBecause it’s got to be more than
\nsimply baptism, you know. <\/p>\n
376
\n00:23:39,330 –> 00:23:41,730
\nWe all know that baptism is part
\nof being in Christ Jesus. <\/p>\n
377
\n00:23:41,730 –> 00:23:44,170
\nOf course it is.
\nHow could I be in Christ Jesus <\/p>\n
378
\n00:23:44,170 –> 00:23:48,290
\nabout declaring God to be just
\nand righteous the same way that <\/p>\n
379
\n00:23:48,290 –> 00:23:50,800
\nChrist did?
\nHe showed me how and I meant to <\/p>\n
380
\n00:23:50,800 –> 00:23:52,640
\ndo it as well.
\nI meant to go into that waters <\/p>\n
381
\n00:23:52,640 –> 00:23:56,320
\nand and and to put my nature to
\ndeath in symbol the way Christ <\/p>\n
382
\n00:23:56,320 –> 00:23:58,040
\ndid.
\nI meant to participate in that <\/p>\n
383
\n00:23:58,040 –> 00:23:59,480
\ndeath.
\nI meant to participate in that <\/p>\n
384
\n00:23:59,480 –> 00:24:01,920
\nresurrection.
\nOf course I have to be baptized,<\/p>\n
385
\n00:24:02,320 –> 00:24:04,960
\nbut it can’t merely be baptism
\nbecause it’s merely baptism we <\/p>\n
386
\n00:24:04,960 –> 00:24:07,360
\nfind ourselves and let’s sin the
\ngrace me abound territory. <\/p>\n
387
\n00:24:08,040 –> 00:24:10,280
\nSo there must be something about
\nbeing in Christ Jesus that’s <\/p>\n
388
\n00:24:10,280 –> 00:24:12,040
\nmore than merely just being
\nbaptized. <\/p>\n
389
\n00:24:14,380 –> 00:24:17,700
\nBut before we go into more
\ndetail in chapter eight, really <\/p>\n
390
\n00:24:17,700 –> 00:24:20,020
\nwhat I’d like to do for you, if
\nyou would be as patient as this,<\/p>\n
391
\n00:24:20,020 –> 00:24:22,620
\nis to let me outline for you the
\nargument of chapter 8. <\/p>\n
392
\n00:24:22,980 –> 00:24:26,260
\nBecause as much as it seems
\nsilly in three classes, I don’t <\/p>\n
393
\n00:24:26,260 –> 00:24:27,980
\nactually have time to cover all
\nthe material. <\/p>\n
394
\n00:24:27,980 –> 00:24:32,260
\nIn chapter 8, I don’t.
\nAnd So what I want to do now is <\/p>\n
395
\n00:24:32,260 –> 00:24:35,300
\njust I want to outline for you
\nwhat the argument is so that <\/p>\n
396
\n00:24:35,340 –> 00:24:37,940
\nit’s clear and as I’m saying
\nthings, you can maybe slot some <\/p>\n
397
\n00:24:37,940 –> 00:24:40,300
\nthings into place.
\nNow this might be a section <\/p>\n
398
\n00:24:40,300 –> 00:24:43,180
\nwhere you want to take some
\nnotes, if that would be what you<\/p>\n
399
\n00:24:43,180 –> 00:24:45,360
\nwant to do.
\nAnd you follow the advice of our<\/p>\n
400
\n00:24:45,360 –> 00:24:50,280
\nbrother Luke, who who suggested
\nthat you have a pencil ready. <\/p>\n
401
\n00:24:50,280 –> 00:24:53,040
\nThis might be a good time to
\npull such pencil out and put <\/p>\n
402
\n00:24:53,040 –> 00:24:57,440
\nsuch pencil on such paper to
\nmake such scribbles, but I’m <\/p>\n
403
\n00:24:57,440 –> 00:24:59,320
\ngoing to go fast enough where
\nI’m not going to think you’re <\/p>\n
404
\n00:24:59,320 –> 00:25:02,400
\ngoing to be able to to catch up.
\nSo if you’d like to see the <\/p>\n
405
\n00:25:02,400 –> 00:25:05,360
\nnotes afterwards, I’m going to
\ngive all my slides to this <\/p>\n
406
\n00:25:05,360 –> 00:25:09,880
\necclesia and they can distribute
\nhowever they like, Okay so <\/p>\n
407
\n00:25:10,720 –> 00:25:15,120
\nversus one through 4.
\nWhat Paul is doing here is he’s <\/p>\n
408
\n00:25:15,120 –> 00:25:18,800
\nsaying that in Christ, what’s
\nthe condition of those being in <\/p>\n
409
\n00:25:18,800 –> 00:25:21,240
\nChrist?
\nWhat’s the what’s the what does <\/p>\n
410
\n00:25:21,240 –> 00:25:22,320
\nit, what does it mean to be in
\nChrist? <\/p>\n
411
\n00:25:22,320 –> 00:25:25,920
\nAnd what being Christ really
\nmeans is that in the courtroom <\/p>\n
412
\n00:25:26,080 –> 00:25:31,440
\nthe sinfulness is condemned, but
\nthe Sinner is not. <\/p>\n
413
\n00:25:32,400 –> 00:25:36,960
\nThat that that what what God is
\ndoing is he condemns sin, but he<\/p>\n
414
\n00:25:36,960 –> 00:25:39,440
\ndoesn’t condemn the Sinner.
\nBut that’s really. <\/p>\n
415
\n00:25:39,950 –> 00:25:42,590
\nHe’s a really big open wide
\nquestion. <\/p>\n
416
\n00:25:42,590 –> 00:25:45,310
\nThat question paused to fill the
\nvoid in which wasn’t mean to be <\/p>\n
417
\n00:25:45,310 –> 00:25:48,150
\nin Christ.
\nWhat does it mean to be in <\/p>\n
418
\n00:25:48,150 –> 00:25:49,550
\nChrist?
\nAnd Paul will go on to say that <\/p>\n
419
\n00:25:49,550 –> 00:25:52,830
\nbeing in Christ really means
\nthat we’re influenced by Christ,<\/p>\n
420
\n00:25:53,350 –> 00:25:55,950
\nthat we’re actually trying to
\nwalk after the Spirit. <\/p>\n
421
\n00:25:56,150 –> 00:25:58,470
\nAnd walking after spirit means
\nwe kind of walk like Christ does<\/p>\n
422
\n00:25:58,470 –> 00:26:03,630
\nand we have his spirit in us and
\ninfluences us, and that and that<\/p>\n
423
\n00:26:03,630 –> 00:26:06,350
\nnot only do we are influenced by
\nthe Spirit, but we actually <\/p>\n
424
\n00:26:06,430 –> 00:26:08,110
\nchoose.
\nAnd this is an important word, <\/p>\n
425
\n00:26:08,110 –> 00:26:12,010
\ngetting on to it tomorrow.
\nMonday, we choose to set our <\/p>\n
426
\n00:26:12,010 –> 00:26:14,730
\nmind on the things of the
\nSpirit. <\/p>\n
427
\n00:26:15,130 –> 00:26:19,010
\nThat’s what means being Christ.
\nBut then the question comes up, <\/p>\n
428
\n00:26:19,090 –> 00:26:23,770
\nwell, great, I I choose to set
\nmy mind on things of Christ. <\/p>\n
429
\n00:26:24,250 –> 00:26:25,890
\nBut Paul says no, no, no, that’s
\nnot enough. <\/p>\n
430
\n00:26:25,970 –> 00:26:28,090
\nThere’s something else of this
\nbeing on Christ. <\/p>\n
431
\n00:26:28,290 –> 00:26:30,450
\nIt’s not just about choosing and
\nsetting your mind on him and <\/p>\n
432
\n00:26:30,450 –> 00:26:32,890
\nbeing influenced by the Spirit.
\nThere’s another big aspect to <\/p>\n
433
\n00:26:32,890 –> 00:26:36,730
\nbeing in Christ, and the other
\nbig aspect is that we suffer. <\/p>\n
434
\n00:26:38,190 –> 00:26:40,870
\nBut we don’t suffer slaves like
\nwe suffered on the wall. <\/p>\n
435
\n00:26:40,870 –> 00:26:43,270
\nWe suffer sons.
\nNow Paul will explain what that <\/p>\n
436
\n00:26:43,270 –> 00:26:45,750
\nmeans.
\nSo we have these obligations. <\/p>\n
437
\n00:26:46,350 –> 00:26:48,150
\nThere’s no combination.
\nGreat, But that means we’re in <\/p>\n
438
\n00:26:48,150 –> 00:26:50,110
\nChrist, which means we’re
\ninfluenced by Christ. <\/p>\n
439
\n00:26:50,110 –> 00:26:54,670
\nWe choose to set our mind on
\nhim, and we choose to suffer. <\/p>\n
440
\n00:26:55,950 –> 00:26:57,310
\nThat’s what it means to be in
\nChrist. <\/p>\n
441
\n00:26:59,350 –> 00:27:01,910
\nAnd then, but Paul goes
\nsuffering. <\/p>\n
442
\n00:27:01,910 –> 00:27:04,390
\nI’m I’m sure that people weren’t
\nreally happy about hearing that.<\/p>\n
443
\n00:27:04,390 –> 00:27:08,990
\nThey need to suffer.
\nBut Paul says, although you <\/p>\n
444
\n00:27:08,990 –> 00:27:13,790
\nsuffer because you have hope and
\nbecause you have the spirit, you<\/p>\n
445
\n00:27:13,790 –> 00:27:17,190
\ncan persevere in that suffering.
\nThat hope is actually the thing <\/p>\n
446
\n00:27:17,190 –> 00:27:19,070
\nthat allows you to persevere
\nthrough suffering. <\/p>\n
447
\n00:27:20,830 –> 00:27:23,950
\nBut Paul goes on to say that
\nhope, that hope you have is <\/p>\n
448
\n00:27:23,950 –> 00:27:27,910
\nreally, really sure.
\nIt’s a really confident, really <\/p>\n
449
\n00:27:27,910 –> 00:27:32,110
\nconfident hope.
\nAnd so because that hope is so <\/p>\n
450
\n00:27:32,110 –> 00:27:34,970
\nconfident.
\nAnd because we know that God has<\/p>\n
451
\n00:27:34,970 –> 00:27:37,930
\nreally purposed us to be in
\nChrist, that we can feel very <\/p>\n
452
\n00:27:37,930 –> 00:27:42,570
\nsure about our hope even in
\nsuffering. <\/p>\n
453
\n00:27:43,490 –> 00:27:46,650
\nBut then he goes on to say that
\nthere’s no suffering, no pain, <\/p>\n
454
\n00:27:47,210 –> 00:27:49,730
\nnothing outside of us can ever
\ntake that hope away from you. <\/p>\n
455
\n00:27:52,170 –> 00:27:54,010
\nAnd that hope is expressed then
\nas the. <\/p>\n
456
\n00:27:54,010 –> 00:27:57,610
\nEnduring love of Christ.
\nThat can never be taken away <\/p>\n
457
\n00:27:57,610 –> 00:28:00,370
\nfrom you, right?
\nSo that’s Chapter 8. <\/p>\n
458
\n00:28:00,800 –> 00:28:02,080
\nThat’s the argument of Chapter
\n8. <\/p>\n
459
\n00:28:02,080 –> 00:28:04,600
\nAs, as Paul flows through, it’s
\nreally beautiful argument. <\/p>\n
460
\n00:28:04,720 –> 00:28:07,040
\nWe can we can sometimes get
\nourselves lost in little words <\/p>\n
461
\n00:28:07,040 –> 00:28:11,240
\nand little phrases and and and
\nand sort of maybe lose the whole<\/p>\n
462
\n00:28:11,240 –> 00:28:14,280
\nthrust of what he’s saying and
\nreally is it really intends to <\/p>\n
463
\n00:28:14,280 –> 00:28:18,480
\nbe a very encouraging chapter.
\nSo the rest of this class we’re <\/p>\n
464
\n00:28:18,480 –> 00:28:23,160
\ngoing to focus on why there’s no
\ncondemnation for those in Christ<\/p>\n
465
\n00:28:23,160 –> 00:28:24,800
\nJesus.
\nPretty fair question, I think. <\/p>\n
466
\n00:28:24,960 –> 00:28:26,720
\nWhy?
\nWhy is there no condemnation for<\/p>\n
467
\n00:28:26,720 –> 00:28:30,270
\nthose in Christ Jesus?
\nThe next class, which will be in<\/p>\n
468
\n00:28:30,270 –> 00:28:33,750
\nextra tation tomorrow morning,
\nwe’re going to talk about what <\/p>\n
469
\n00:28:33,750 –> 00:28:36,790
\nit means to be in Christ.
\nWhat does it really mean to be <\/p>\n
470
\n00:28:36,790 –> 00:28:37,990
\nin Christ?
\nWhat does it mean to have the <\/p>\n
471
\n00:28:37,990 –> 00:28:39,670
\nspirit?
\nThat word spirit is kind of <\/p>\n
472
\n00:28:39,670 –> 00:28:41,350
\nmysterious.
\nWe’re going to demystify that <\/p>\n
473
\n00:28:41,350 –> 00:28:43,470
\nword in our extra tation
\ntomorrow. <\/p>\n
474
\n00:28:43,990 –> 00:28:48,270
\nAnd then on Monday morning, if
\nany of you are not so bored and <\/p>\n
475
\n00:28:48,710 –> 00:28:52,270
\nfrustrated that you don’t want
\nto attend, I understand. <\/p>\n
476
\n00:28:52,670 –> 00:28:55,710
\nWe’ll talk about our obligation
\nin Christ. <\/p>\n
477
\n00:28:57,770 –> 00:29:01,930
\nWe’re going to talk about our
\nhope in Christ, and then also <\/p>\n
478
\n00:29:01,930 –> 00:29:04,650
\nfor the young people tomorrow
\nafter the song and praise, we’re<\/p>\n
479
\n00:29:04,650 –> 00:29:07,130
\ngoing to talk about how you feel
\nabout yourself. <\/p>\n
480
\n00:29:08,090 –> 00:29:11,610
\nBecause I’ve really sort of hit
\nhard, haven’t I, on this issue <\/p>\n
481
\n00:29:11,610 –> 00:29:13,130
\nof understanding that we’re a
\nWretch. <\/p>\n
482
\n00:29:13,890 –> 00:29:15,530
\nAnd for the young people in
\nparticular, I don’t want to <\/p>\n
483
\n00:29:15,530 –> 00:29:18,970
\nleave you there and I don’t
\nintend to leave you there. <\/p>\n
484
\n00:29:19,450 –> 00:29:21,490
\nSo we’ll talk tomorrow about the
\nsong and praise, about how we <\/p>\n
485
\n00:29:21,490 –> 00:29:24,570
\nfeel about ourselves and how the
\nBible and God want us to feel <\/p>\n
486
\n00:29:24,570 –> 00:29:26,450
\nabout ourselves.
\nOK. <\/p>\n
487
\n00:29:26,870 –> 00:29:29,390
\nSo that’s for a young people
\nonly class after the song and <\/p>\n
488
\n00:29:29,390 –> 00:29:33,830
\npraise okay.
\nSo then the question then for <\/p>\n
489
\n00:29:33,830 –> 00:29:36,670
\nthis class for the remaining of
\nour time, why is there no <\/p>\n
490
\n00:29:36,670 –> 00:29:38,910
\ncondemnation for those in Christ
\nJesus? <\/p>\n
491
\n00:29:40,990 –> 00:29:45,950
\nSo to get started to answer this
\nquestion, we really have to go <\/p>\n
492
\n00:29:45,950 –> 00:29:51,630
\nto verse 2 for the law of the
\nspirit of life in Christ Jesus. <\/p>\n
493
\n00:29:53,360 –> 00:29:55,400
\nMade me free from the law of sin
\nand death. <\/p>\n
494
\n00:29:55,520 –> 00:29:57,960
\nWell, that sounds confusing, but
\nlet’s just make it not <\/p>\n
495
\n00:29:57,960 –> 00:30:01,440
\nconfusing.
\nHow is Paul made free now? <\/p>\n
496
\n00:30:01,440 –> 00:30:04,320
\nClearly he’s not made free from
\ndeath because he still died, <\/p>\n
497
\n00:30:05,360 –> 00:30:07,360
\nalthough you can maybe say
\nthat’s not a real death, it’s <\/p>\n
498
\n00:30:07,360 –> 00:30:09,000
\nasleep.
\nBut nevertheless, he still had <\/p>\n
499
\n00:30:09,000 –> 00:30:13,120
\nmortality, and he’s also not
\nfree from his desire to sin. <\/p>\n
500
\n00:30:13,120 –> 00:30:16,080
\nSo the freedom is not a freedom
\nfrom mortality, at least <\/p>\n
501
\n00:30:16,400 –> 00:30:18,920
\ncurrently, nor is it a freedom
\nfrom. <\/p>\n
502
\n00:30:19,660 –> 00:30:21,940
\nA desire to sin.
\nChapter 7 makes that very clear.<\/p>\n
503
\n00:30:21,940 –> 00:30:23,580
\nSo what is Paul exactly free
\nfrom? <\/p>\n
504
\n00:30:26,940 –> 00:30:30,180
\nSo if you turn into Genesis 3
\nand verse 19, there’s a death <\/p>\n
505
\n00:30:30,180 –> 00:30:31,780
\nsentence there passing as
\nmankind. <\/p>\n
506
\n00:30:31,780 –> 00:30:34,140
\nAnd this is, this is a verse you
\nknow from the earliest of <\/p>\n
507
\n00:30:34,140 –> 00:30:37,100
\nscience school days and you know
\nfor your baptismal studies. <\/p>\n
508
\n00:30:37,100 –> 00:30:39,940
\nAnd you know, because it gets
\nbrought up all the time on the <\/p>\n
509
\n00:30:39,940 –> 00:30:42,420
\npodium here, and it’s a very
\nimportant verse, and it really <\/p>\n
510
\n00:30:42,420 –> 00:30:45,620
\ntalks about what our death
\nsentence is and we want to know <\/p>\n
511
\n00:30:45,660 –> 00:30:47,940
\nthat what we’re what we’re free
\nfrom and for free from <\/p>\n
512
\n00:30:47,940 –> 00:30:50,200
\ncondemnation.
\nWe have to go back to the place <\/p>\n
513
\n00:30:50,200 –> 00:30:54,680
\nthat God condemned us, to find
\nout what freedom from this <\/p>\n
514
\n00:30:54,680 –> 00:30:58,360
\ncondemnation really means.
\nAnd God condemned us in Genesis <\/p>\n
515
\n00:30:58,360 –> 00:31:02,960
\nchapter 3 and verse 19, where he
\nsays then to Adam and the sweat <\/p>\n
516
\n00:31:02,960 –> 00:31:06,080
\nof your face you should eat
\nbread till you return to the <\/p>\n
517
\n00:31:06,080 –> 00:31:09,840
\nground, for out of it you were
\ntaken, for dust you are and to <\/p>\n
518
\n00:31:09,840 –> 00:31:13,680
\ndust you shall return.
\nNow if you think about this, <\/p>\n
519
\n00:31:13,680 –> 00:31:17,360
\ntell me exactly how following
\nthe law was supposed to change <\/p>\n
520
\n00:31:17,360 –> 00:31:19,780
\nthat punishment.
\nI mean, how does doing good <\/p>\n
521
\n00:31:19,780 –> 00:31:23,380
\nworks change that punishment,
\nYou know, that’s a kind of a big<\/p>\n
522
\n00:31:23,380 –> 00:31:25,740
\nproblem in Judaism.
\nYou see, like Judaism, I mean, <\/p>\n
523
\n00:31:25,740 –> 00:31:28,060
\nthere’s stacks and stacks and
\nstacks of books in Jewish <\/p>\n
524
\n00:31:28,060 –> 00:31:32,020
\nphilosophy, not just the Torah
\nand the Talmud and the Mishna, <\/p>\n
525
\n00:31:32,220 –> 00:31:35,540
\nbut books about the Talmud and
\nabout the Mishna and books about<\/p>\n
526
\n00:31:35,540 –> 00:31:37,460
\nthe books that are about the
\nTalmud and the Mishna. <\/p>\n
527
\n00:31:37,740 –> 00:31:40,660
\nI spent a year in Israel, you
\nknow, and I was just amazed by <\/p>\n
528
\n00:31:40,660 –> 00:31:42,220
\nthe libraries.
\nYou know, I guess Christy <\/p>\n
529
\n00:31:42,220 –> 00:31:43,500
\nelephants have quite a few books
\nas well. <\/p>\n
530
\n00:31:43,500 –> 00:31:46,220
\nAnd there’s just why stacks of
\nbooks on Judaism. <\/p>\n
531
\n00:31:47,000 –> 00:31:49,840
\nYou know, for all their study
\nand all for the academic rigor <\/p>\n
532
\n00:31:49,840 –> 00:31:52,000
\nthat they applied to their
\nstudy, they really just couldn’t<\/p>\n
533
\n00:31:52,000 –> 00:31:53,560
\nget past the third page of the
\nBible. <\/p>\n
534
\n00:31:56,720 –> 00:31:59,400
\nThere’s nothing in all those
\nbooks that says anything about <\/p>\n
535
\n00:31:59,400 –> 00:32:02,560
\npage three, right?
\nIt’s page three. <\/p>\n
536
\n00:32:02,560 –> 00:32:07,400
\nYeah, Let me just see 123.
\nSorry, Page four. <\/p>\n
537
\n00:32:09,800 –> 00:32:12,160
\nAnd, you know, the interesting
\npart is, is for Christianity’s <\/p>\n
538
\n00:32:12,160 –> 00:32:13,280
\npart, they don’t care about
\nthis. <\/p>\n
539
\n00:32:14,460 –> 00:32:17,140
\nThey don’t care about this
\npunishment because their hope is<\/p>\n
540
\n00:32:17,140 –> 00:32:20,340
\na bodyless hope.
\nSo what does it really matter if<\/p>\n
541
\n00:32:20,340 –> 00:32:23,460
\nyou’re if your if your body
\nreturns the dust because the <\/p>\n
542
\n00:32:23,460 –> 00:32:25,260
\nbody could do whatever.
\nIt’s long as the soul is free <\/p>\n
543
\n00:32:25,260 –> 00:32:28,300
\nand happy and good.
\nSo for Christianity this is not <\/p>\n
544
\n00:32:28,300 –> 00:32:30,580
\nreally condemnation at all,
\nbecause there is no really death<\/p>\n
545
\n00:32:31,260 –> 00:32:33,620
\nand their salvation is bodyless
\nand the Jews can’t do anything <\/p>\n
546
\n00:32:33,620 –> 00:32:35,660
\nabout it because the law doesn’t
\nchange any of this. <\/p>\n
547
\n00:32:36,500 –> 00:32:40,380
\nBut see, as much as the Jews
\ndon’t have an answer for this as<\/p>\n
548
\n00:32:40,380 –> 00:32:42,700
\nmuch as Christians don’t care
\nabout it, to Paul this is <\/p>\n
549
\n00:32:42,700 –> 00:32:45,870
\ntotally essential.
\nThis is, this is, this is the <\/p>\n
550
\n00:32:45,870 –> 00:32:52,190
\nthing he couldn’t get around.
\nAnd what? <\/p>\n
551
\n00:32:52,190 –> 00:32:55,710
\nThis is what Paul wants to be
\nfree from, from the law of sin <\/p>\n
552
\n00:32:55,710 –> 00:32:59,270
\nand death, the finality of dust.
\nAnd it’s here that man was <\/p>\n
553
\n00:32:59,270 –> 00:33:01,350
\ncondemned for dust.
\nYou are into dust. <\/p>\n
554
\n00:33:01,350 –> 00:33:03,630
\nYou shall return.
\nThis is the death sentence. <\/p>\n
555
\n00:33:04,350 –> 00:33:07,790
\nThis is condemnation.
\nAnd it was forced sin, and it <\/p>\n
556
\n00:33:07,790 –> 00:33:12,110
\nwas just.
\nAnd so Paul goes in Romans 8. <\/p>\n
557
\n00:33:12,490 –> 00:33:15,610
\n1st, 2:00 and 3:00 For the law,
\nFor the law of the Spirit of <\/p>\n
558
\n00:33:15,610 –> 00:33:18,290
\nlife in Christ Jesus has made me
\nfree from the law of sin and <\/p>\n
559
\n00:33:18,290 –> 00:33:21,130
\ndeath.
\nFor what the law could not do in<\/p>\n
560
\n00:33:21,130 –> 00:33:26,170
\nthat it was weak through the
\nflesh, God did by sending his <\/p>\n
561
\n00:33:26,210 –> 00:33:28,250
\nown Son in the likeness of
\nsinful flesh. <\/p>\n
562
\n00:33:28,410 –> 00:33:31,810
\nOn the count of sin.
\nHe condemned sin. <\/p>\n
563
\n00:33:32,090 –> 00:33:35,170
\nHe condemned sin in the flesh.
\nNow God condemned sin. <\/p>\n
564
\n00:33:35,170 –> 00:33:38,450
\nI thought sin condemned us.
\nI mean we’re the ones with the <\/p>\n
565
\n00:33:38,450 –> 00:33:40,650
\ndeath sentence.
\nI mean, how was sin condemned? <\/p>\n
566
\n00:33:40,890 –> 00:33:43,490
\nHow was sin condemned?
\nWell, the answer is really <\/p>\n
567
\n00:33:43,490 –> 00:33:44,690
\nsimple.
\nThe sins condemned and the <\/p>\n
568
\n00:33:44,690 –> 00:33:48,450
\nresurrection of Jesus Christ.
\nNow put that to a side for a <\/p>\n
569
\n00:33:48,450 –> 00:33:51,650
\nmoment.
\nThe first thing to get here is <\/p>\n
570
\n00:33:51,650 –> 00:33:53,930
\nthat God sent his Son the
\nlikeness of sinful flesh. <\/p>\n
571
\n00:33:53,930 –> 00:33:57,050
\nNow, Christadelphians from age
\nlong past have gotten all <\/p>\n
572
\n00:33:57,050 –> 00:33:59,810
\nweirded out by this word
\nlikeness, but we ought not to, <\/p>\n
573
\n00:34:00,730 –> 00:34:03,290
\nbecause what Paul is alluding to
\nhere is that God created Adam <\/p>\n
574
\n00:34:03,290 –> 00:34:05,570
\nand his likeness, and you know
\nthat, and you understand that. <\/p>\n
575
\n00:34:05,770 –> 00:34:08,810
\nAnd that was not just in a moral
\nsense, but that was also in the <\/p>\n
576
\n00:34:08,810 –> 00:34:11,639
\nfact that he wasn’t corrupting.
\nHe was prone to corruption. <\/p>\n
577
\n00:34:11,639 –> 00:34:13,800
\nOf course he was, but he wasn’t
\ncorrupting. <\/p>\n
578
\n00:34:15,679 –> 00:34:19,199
\nBut you see, when Adam had
\nchildren, Adam passed along, Not<\/p>\n
579
\n00:34:19,199 –> 00:34:21,840
\nGod’s likeness to those kids.
\nHe passed along his own <\/p>\n
580
\n00:34:21,840 –> 00:34:24,000
\nlikeness.
\nThere’s something, there’s like <\/p>\n
581
\n00:34:24,000 –> 00:34:26,199
\none step removed here.
\nIf you look at Genesis, chapter <\/p>\n
582
\n00:34:26,199 –> 00:34:29,440
\n5 and verse one and verse three,
\nand I’ll read it out of the RSV.<\/p>\n
583
\n00:34:30,120 –> 00:34:32,280
\nThis is the book of the
\ngenerations of Adam. <\/p>\n
584
\n00:34:32,960 –> 00:34:36,960
\nWhen God created man, he made
\nhim in the likeness of God. <\/p>\n
585
\n00:34:37,800 –> 00:34:40,360
\nSounds good, but verse three
\ngoes on to say. <\/p>\n
586
\n00:34:41,150 –> 00:34:45,429
\nAnd when Adam had lived 130
\nyears, he became the father of <\/p>\n
587
\n00:34:45,429 –> 00:34:51,750
\nhis son in his own likeness.
\nAfter his image, he needed him <\/p>\n
588
\n00:34:51,750 –> 00:34:53,909
\nSeth.
\nSo there’s a problem there. <\/p>\n
589
\n00:34:53,989 –> 00:34:56,190
\nSee, God created Adam in his own
\nimage and his likeness. <\/p>\n
590
\n00:34:56,190 –> 00:34:58,750
\nBut Adam actually created his
\nsons in his own image and in <\/p>\n
591
\n00:34:58,750 –> 00:35:00,390
\nAdam’s own likeness.
\nAnd we’re actually created in <\/p>\n
592
\n00:35:00,390 –> 00:35:02,430
\nthat same image and same
\nlikeness as Seth. <\/p>\n
593
\n00:35:03,070 –> 00:35:06,270
\nWe actually have that image and
\nlikeness that Adam had. <\/p>\n
594
\n00:35:06,570 –> 00:35:09,050
\nAnd that image and likeness was
\none that is prone to death and <\/p>\n
595
\n00:35:09,050 –> 00:35:11,090
\nprone to sin and will die, and
\nis mortal. <\/p>\n
596
\n00:35:13,090 –> 00:35:15,970
\nAnd from Adam forward, we’re all
\nborn in that likeness and image.<\/p>\n
597
\n00:35:17,450 –> 00:35:19,890
\nWe’re not in God’s likeness, at
\nleast not naturally. <\/p>\n
598
\n00:35:21,170 –> 00:35:23,370
\nWe have the ability to be
\nspiritually, but not naturally. <\/p>\n
599
\n00:35:24,410 –> 00:35:28,170
\nAnd our flesh is kind of a
\nsymbol of that likeness insofar <\/p>\n
600
\n00:35:28,250 –> 00:35:31,410
\nas it desires sin.
\nSo it’s called sinful flesh. <\/p>\n
601
\n00:35:31,530 –> 00:35:34,650
\nAnd that’s not because if I look
\nat my arm, which is a very fine <\/p>\n
602
\n00:35:34,650 –> 00:35:37,530
\narm, the.
\nIt’s not because the the the <\/p>\n
603
\n00:35:37,530 –> 00:35:41,010
\ncarbon and the hydrogen and the
\noxygen and the nitrogen atoms in<\/p>\n
604
\n00:35:41,010 –> 00:35:45,090
\nmy hand or in my chest or
\nwherever it is. <\/p>\n
605
\n00:35:45,290 –> 00:35:47,730
\nIt’s not because they themselves
\nare sinful. <\/p>\n
606
\n00:35:47,730 –> 00:35:51,290
\nOf course not.
\nIt’s because the combination of <\/p>\n
607
\n00:35:51,290 –> 00:35:54,530
\nthem all together that make me
\ndesires to sin. <\/p>\n
608
\n00:35:57,050 –> 00:35:59,690
\nAnd naturally we want to sin.
\nSo we call that sin. <\/p>\n
609
\n00:36:01,050 –> 00:36:05,730
\nSin in the flesh and for those.
\nIn Christ, this desire to sin, <\/p>\n
610
\n00:36:05,890 –> 00:36:08,290
\nthis sinful flesh, whatever it
\nis, whatever you want to call <\/p>\n
611
\n00:36:08,290 –> 00:36:11,890
\nit, it’s it’s been condemned.
\nHow? <\/p>\n
612
\n00:36:12,530 –> 00:36:15,090
\nWell that how part is actually
\nquite simple in Jesus <\/p>\n
613
\n00:36:15,090 –> 00:36:20,370
\nresurrection.
\nNow son, you tell me Jesus rose <\/p>\n
614
\n00:36:20,370 –> 00:36:23,050
\nfrom the dead.
\nDid he have sinful flesh when he<\/p>\n
615
\n00:36:23,050 –> 00:36:27,530
\nrise rose from the dead?
\nDid he desire to rebel against <\/p>\n
616
\n00:36:27,530 –> 00:36:28,730
\nhis Father when he rose from the
\ndead? <\/p>\n
617
\n00:36:28,730 –> 00:36:32,410
\nDid he desire to oppose his
\nFather’s will when he rose from <\/p>\n
618
\n00:36:32,410 –> 00:36:35,380
\nthe dead?
\nThey struggle with his nature <\/p>\n
619
\n00:36:35,380 –> 00:36:36,980
\nany longer.
\nAfter he rose from the dead. <\/p>\n
620
\n00:36:38,260 –> 00:36:44,660
\nHe didn’t correct.
\nYou can go back to UK and be <\/p>\n
621
\n00:36:44,660 –> 00:36:49,260
\nproud.
\nYet at the same time he was <\/p>\n
622
\n00:36:49,260 –> 00:36:51,740
\nalive, wasn’t he?
\nHe’s followed that. <\/p>\n
623
\n00:36:51,740 –> 00:36:55,140
\nHe didn’t rebel against his
\nfather’s will anymore. <\/p>\n
624
\n00:36:55,780 –> 00:36:57,700
\nBut he was alive and he was in a
\nbody. <\/p>\n
625
\n00:36:59,140 –> 00:37:06,130
\nNow you tell me.
\nYou tell me, was Jesus condemned<\/p>\n
626
\n00:37:07,010 –> 00:37:13,530
\nor was sin condemned?
\nWas Jesus destroyed or sin <\/p>\n
627
\n00:37:13,530 –> 00:37:17,250
\ndestroyed in Jesus resurrected
\nbody? <\/p>\n
628
\n00:37:18,730 –> 00:37:20,010
\nIt’s very simple.
\nIt’s not. <\/p>\n
629
\n00:37:20,010 –> 00:37:21,410
\nIt’s not hard to figure out at
\nall, is it? <\/p>\n
630
\n00:37:21,570 –> 00:37:25,690
\nSin was condemned in Jesus.
\nJesus, although he’s born in the<\/p>\n
631
\n00:37:25,690 –> 00:37:29,290
\nimage and whiteness of Adam and
\nthus into sinful flesh, was <\/p>\n
632
\n00:37:29,290 –> 00:37:32,280
\nresurrected into.
\nThe image and whiteness of God <\/p>\n
633
\n00:37:33,920 –> 00:37:37,520
\nin not only a moral sense which
\nhe had during his his life <\/p>\n
634
\n00:37:38,000 –> 00:37:40,600
\nbefore his death, but also now
\nin a physical sense. <\/p>\n
635
\n00:37:43,320 –> 00:37:45,720
\nSin died.
\nNow the Bible causes several <\/p>\n
636
\n00:37:45,720 –> 00:37:48,760
\ndifferent things in Romans 6.
\nFor six we’re told that the body<\/p>\n
637
\n00:37:48,760 –> 00:37:52,120
\nof sin was destroyed.
\nThat which has the power of <\/p>\n
638
\n00:37:52,120 –> 00:37:54,840
\ndeath, the devil was destroyed.
\nThat tells us in Hebrews chapter<\/p>\n
639
\n00:37:54,840 –> 00:37:57,880
\n2 and verse 14 the old man was
\nput off that the new man might <\/p>\n
640
\n00:37:57,880 –> 00:37:59,520
\nlive.
\nWe’re told that in Co Washington<\/p>\n
641
\n00:37:59,520 –> 00:38:02,240
\nchapter 3 and verse 910.
\nBut all these verses, the old <\/p>\n
642
\n00:38:02,240 –> 00:38:05,880
\nman being put off, the body of
\nsin being destroyed. <\/p>\n
643
\n00:38:06,520 –> 00:38:08,080
\nThat which has the power of
\ndeath, the devil being <\/p>\n
644
\n00:38:08,080 –> 00:38:09,880
\ndestroyed.
\nThese are all really verses <\/p>\n
645
\n00:38:09,880 –> 00:38:14,520
\ndescribed to us the same thing.
\nOK, but why was Jesus <\/p>\n
646
\n00:38:14,520 –> 00:38:17,320
\nresurrected now?
\nThe cheese resurrected? <\/p>\n
647
\n00:38:17,320 –> 00:38:23,060
\nFor two reasons first.
\nIt’s not there. <\/p>\n
648
\n00:38:23,300 –> 00:38:26,060
\nFirst, the grave couldn’t hold
\nhim. <\/p>\n
649
\n00:38:27,100 –> 00:38:30,100
\nWe’re told that in Acts 2 verse
\n24, the grave couldn’t hold him.<\/p>\n
650
\n00:38:30,100 –> 00:38:33,820
\nIt wasn’t just the grave
\ncouldn’t hold him because he <\/p>\n
651
\n00:38:33,820 –> 00:38:36,900
\ndidn’t sin.
\nThe other reason was that he <\/p>\n
652
\n00:38:36,900 –> 00:38:41,060
\ndeclared that God alone was
\nrighteous because he put to <\/p>\n
653
\n00:38:41,060 –> 00:38:46,420
\ndeath his body that asserted its
\nwill over. <\/p>\n
654
\n00:38:46,420 –> 00:38:48,660
\nGods, it’s.
\nGot to be a difficult point to <\/p>\n
655
\n00:38:48,660 –> 00:38:51,680
\nget to understand.
\nI want you to think for a moment<\/p>\n
656
\n00:38:52,480 –> 00:38:56,440
\nabout the first temptation, the
\nfirst sin, Right. <\/p>\n
657
\n00:38:57,080 –> 00:39:02,440
\nWe read about that first sin in
\nGenesis chapter 3, and we read <\/p>\n
658
\n00:39:02,440 –> 00:39:04,200
\nabout this yesterday.
\nBut we’ll go back to it again <\/p>\n
659
\n00:39:04,200 –> 00:39:06,040
\ntoday.
\nGenesis chapter 3, verses four <\/p>\n
660
\n00:39:06,040 –> 00:39:07,680
\nand five.
\nAnd the serpent sent to the <\/p>\n
661
\n00:39:07,680 –> 00:39:11,120
\nwoman.
\nYou shall not, You shall not <\/p>\n
662
\n00:39:11,120 –> 00:39:15,720
\nsurely die, for God doth know
\nthat in the day you eat thereof <\/p>\n
663
\n00:39:15,720 –> 00:39:18,320
\nyou’re in, your eyes shall be
\nopen, and you shall be as gods, <\/p>\n
664
\n00:39:18,320 –> 00:39:24,380
\nknowing good and evil.
\nYou see, sin isn’t simply just <\/p>\n
665
\n00:39:24,420 –> 00:39:28,900
\nacting against the will of God.
\nThat’s too simple. <\/p>\n
666
\n00:39:30,180 –> 00:39:36,140
\nSin is also the desire to be
\nyour own God. <\/p>\n
667
\n00:39:37,740 –> 00:39:40,500
\nAnd that desire to be your own
\nGod is really desire to know <\/p>\n
668
\n00:39:40,500 –> 00:39:44,740
\ngood and evil, and not just to
\nknow God’s version of good and <\/p>\n
669
\n00:39:44,740 –> 00:39:46,530
\nevil.
\nBut actually have our own <\/p>\n
670
\n00:39:46,530 –> 00:39:50,690
\nversion of good and evil, and my
\nversion of good and evil is <\/p>\n
671
\n00:39:50,690 –> 00:39:52,210
\nright for me and your version
\nfor good. <\/p>\n
672
\n00:39:52,210 –> 00:39:54,570
\nEvil is right for you and and
\nsuits you. <\/p>\n
673
\n00:39:54,570 –> 00:39:57,130
\nAnd by the way, according to the
\nserpent, there’s no real <\/p>\n
674
\n00:39:57,130 –> 00:39:59,290
\nconsequence for sin because sin
\ndoesn’t really bring death. <\/p>\n
675
\n00:39:59,290 –> 00:40:01,730
\nSo no matter what your version
\nof good and evil is, you’ll <\/p>\n
676
\n00:40:01,730 –> 00:40:04,850
\nstill live.
\nAnd no matter what my version of<\/p>\n
677
\n00:40:04,850 –> 00:40:12,490
\ngood and evil is, I’ll still
\nlive and we all become our own <\/p>\n
678
\n00:40:12,490 –> 00:40:17,820
\nGod.
\nAnd the judge of our own version<\/p>\n
679
\n00:40:17,820 –> 00:40:22,340
\nof righteousness.
\nAnd we think humanism was a new <\/p>\n
680
\n00:40:22,340 –> 00:40:25,620
\nthing.
\nIt’s a new thing, this idea of <\/p>\n
681
\n00:40:25,620 –> 00:40:28,500
\nhumanism.
\nAnd this goes back as long as <\/p>\n
682
\n00:40:28,500 –> 00:40:31,980
\nthere’s been humans, goes back
\nto the beginning. <\/p>\n
683
\n00:40:32,620 –> 00:40:34,500
\nAnd So what is God supposed to
\ndo with this exactly? <\/p>\n
684
\n00:40:34,900 –> 00:40:39,620
\nSo God says I have this
\nrighteousness, this right versus<\/p>\n
685
\n00:40:39,620 –> 00:40:42,860
\nwrong, according to my word and
\naccording to my will, I <\/p>\n
686
\n00:40:42,860 –> 00:40:45,670
\nestablished this righteousness.
\nAnd then we have humans. <\/p>\n
687
\n00:40:45,870 –> 00:40:48,270
\nWho said God?
\nI’m actually throwing off your <\/p>\n
688
\n00:40:48,270 –> 00:40:49,590
\nversion of righteousness for my
\nown. <\/p>\n
689
\n00:40:49,630 –> 00:40:52,110
\nI actually want to decide good
\nand evil on my own terms. <\/p>\n
690
\n00:40:53,550 –> 00:40:55,390
\nI want to decide good and evil
\nfor me. <\/p>\n
691
\n00:40:56,110 –> 00:40:58,230
\nI want to decide what’s good,
\nand I want to decide what’s <\/p>\n
692
\n00:40:58,230 –> 00:41:00,910
\nevil.
\nAnd I want to act according to <\/p>\n
693
\n00:41:00,910 –> 00:41:03,190
\nwhat I think is good and what I
\nthink is evil, not according to <\/p>\n
694
\n00:41:03,190 –> 00:41:06,750
\nwhat you think is good and evil.
\nAnd so now we have this problem,<\/p>\n
695
\n00:41:06,750 –> 00:41:08,110
\nthe guard.
\nThis is exactly what happened. <\/p>\n
696
\n00:41:09,030 –> 00:41:11,030
\nSo the question is, what’s
\ngossips to do with this? <\/p>\n
697
\n00:41:16,400 –> 00:41:19,600
\nAnd and you think about this
\nGod’s characteristics. <\/p>\n
698
\n00:41:19,600 –> 00:41:24,440
\nYou know, we’re told that God is
\n1 and and and this, this, this <\/p>\n
699
\n00:41:24,760 –> 00:41:28,360
\nversion of righteousness, which
\nis opposed to him, is actually <\/p>\n
700
\n00:41:28,360 –> 00:41:30,680
\nan affront, an affront to his,
\nto his oneness. <\/p>\n
701
\n00:41:31,240 –> 00:41:33,400
\nHe can’t be one with this
\nanymore because actually there’s<\/p>\n
702
\n00:41:33,400 –> 00:41:35,800
\nnow these two versions of
\nrighteousness, There’s two <\/p>\n
703
\n00:41:35,800 –> 00:41:39,480
\nversions of right and wrong.
\nAnd God can’t coexist as one <\/p>\n
704
\n00:41:39,480 –> 00:41:43,520
\nwith this any longer.
\nSo what’s probably God was to do<\/p>\n
705
\n00:41:43,520 –> 00:41:45,970
\nwith this, this.
\nVersion of good and evil, Well, <\/p>\n
706
\n00:41:45,970 –> 00:41:48,490
\nhe destroys it.
\nHe says, well, that’s that’s <\/p>\n
707
\n00:41:48,490 –> 00:41:50,250
\ngoing to cause death.
\nThat has to be destroyed. <\/p>\n
708
\n00:41:52,970 –> 00:41:56,890
\nAnd you actually know that
\ninside of us we actually have <\/p>\n
709
\n00:41:56,930 –> 00:42:00,530
\nour knowledge of good and evil
\nbecause we think we know right <\/p>\n
710
\n00:42:00,530 –> 00:42:05,730
\nand wrong and we rebel against
\nGod’s will as a result of it. <\/p>\n
711
\n00:42:08,410 –> 00:42:11,330
\nAnd I want just to think about
\nthat because it’s in that <\/p>\n
712
\n00:42:11,330 –> 00:42:15,610
\nrebellion.
\nAnd it’s in that willfulness to <\/p>\n
713
\n00:42:15,610 –> 00:42:19,250
\ndo what we want, what we think
\nis right, and what’s right is <\/p>\n
714
\n00:42:19,250 –> 00:42:23,010
\noften very selfish.
\nIt’s in that desire to do what <\/p>\n
715
\n00:42:23,010 –> 00:42:27,530
\nwe think is right that Jesus had
\nto take the cross and he had to <\/p>\n
716
\n00:42:27,530 –> 00:42:31,930
\ndestroy.
\nThat’s what he had to destroy. <\/p>\n
717
\n00:42:34,090 –> 00:42:44,750
\nHe.
\nHad a will, and that will was <\/p>\n
718
\n00:42:44,790 –> 00:42:46,870
\nnot to do his father’s will, but
\nwas his own. <\/p>\n
719
\n00:42:49,420 –> 00:42:50,260
\nAnd he.
\nDestroyed it. <\/p>\n
720
\n00:42:51,980 –> 00:42:54,740
\nHe took it to the cross and he
\ndestroyed it. <\/p>\n
721
\n00:42:56,980 –> 00:43:01,660
\nAnd by destroying that will,
\nthat rebellion inside what he <\/p>\n
722
\n00:43:01,660 –> 00:43:06,620
\ndid is he showed that God alone
\nis righteous. <\/p>\n
723
\n00:43:06,620 –> 00:43:09,220
\nDo you follow this?
\nThis is really, really important<\/p>\n
724
\n00:43:10,260 –> 00:43:14,580
\nby going to the cross and
\ndestroying his body. <\/p>\n
725
\n00:43:15,350 –> 00:43:21,350
\nA body which, like yours and
\nmine, no different, desired its <\/p>\n
726
\n00:43:21,350 –> 00:43:25,990
\nown will against the will of the
\nFather, and had its own version <\/p>\n
727
\n00:43:25,990 –> 00:43:28,350
\nof right and wrong, which was
\nnot the Father’s version of <\/p>\n
728
\n00:43:28,350 –> 00:43:32,990
\nright and wrong, which is so
\nplainly declared behind us, that<\/p>\n
729
\n00:43:32,990 –> 00:43:36,510
\nhe took that to the cross, and
\nhe destroyed it, so that God <\/p>\n
730
\n00:43:36,510 –> 00:43:40,430
\nalone would be righteous, that
\nGod would have no rival. <\/p>\n
731
\n00:43:41,750 –> 00:43:45,430
\nNot only did he not sin, but he
\ndestroyed that which was in him <\/p>\n
732
\n00:43:45,430 –> 00:43:51,750
\nthat desired to sin, and he
\ndeclared the righteousness of <\/p>\n
733
\n00:43:51,750 –> 00:43:56,150
\nGod by doing this, that God
\nwould be one, that God would <\/p>\n
734
\n00:43:56,150 –> 00:44:00,870
\nhave no rival, not in the body
\nor in the actions. <\/p>\n
735
\n00:44:02,270 –> 00:44:06,630
\nOf Jesus Christ.
\nNow consider. <\/p>\n
736
\n00:44:06,630 –> 00:44:09,010
\nThat.
\nAs I read from you Romans <\/p>\n
737
\n00:44:09,010 –> 00:44:12,170
\nchapter 3 verses 25 and 26 out
\nof the New English translation, <\/p>\n
738
\n00:44:13,810 –> 00:44:18,650
\nGod publicly displayed Jesus at
\nhis death as the mercy seat <\/p>\n
739
\n00:44:19,850 –> 00:44:25,650
\naccessible through faith.
\nWhy this was to demonstrate <\/p>\n
740
\n00:44:25,810 –> 00:44:30,370
\nGod’s righteousness.
\nBecause God in his forbearance <\/p>\n
741
\n00:44:30,370 –> 00:44:32,330
\nhad passed over sins previously
\ncommitted. <\/p>\n
742
\n00:44:33,650 –> 00:44:36,890
\nThis was also to demonstrate his
\nrighteousness in the present <\/p>\n
743
\n00:44:36,890 –> 00:44:42,620
\ntime.
\nSo that God would be just and <\/p>\n
744
\n00:44:42,620 –> 00:44:48,100
\nthe justifier of the one who
\nlives because of Jesus. <\/p>\n
745
\n00:44:48,100 –> 00:44:53,140
\nFaithfulness, brothers and
\nsisters, This is how we’re <\/p>\n
746
\n00:44:53,140 –> 00:44:55,420
\nsaved.
\nThis is how we’re saved. <\/p>\n
747
\n00:44:58,260 –> 00:44:59,620
\nIt’s really, really quite
\nimportant. <\/p>\n
748
\n00:45:01,300 –> 00:45:05,980
\nGod is first.
\nJust then. <\/p>\n
749
\n00:45:06,950 –> 00:45:09,550
\nHe’s a justifier.
\nYou get that. <\/p>\n
750
\n00:45:09,590 –> 00:45:14,270
\nThat order cannot be switched.
\nIt cannot be as a justifier that<\/p>\n
751
\n00:45:14,270 –> 00:45:16,630
\nhe’s just.
\nIt will not work that way. <\/p>\n
752
\n00:45:17,870 –> 00:45:24,190
\nGod is first, just then based on
\nhis righteousness being <\/p>\n
753
\n00:45:24,190 –> 00:45:28,790
\ndeclared, He’s then willing to
\njustify. <\/p>\n
754
\n00:45:30,510 –> 00:45:33,510
\nBut we withhold God from God,
\nhis justice. <\/p>\n
755
\n00:45:34,430 –> 00:45:41,900
\nHow do we do that?
\nWell, you say, well, God, please<\/p>\n
756
\n00:45:41,900 –> 00:45:44,500
\nforgive me, but I really think I
\nwas right. <\/p>\n
757
\n00:45:45,940 –> 00:45:48,900
\nOr, God, you know, I think that
\nyou’re right about this bit over<\/p>\n
758
\n00:45:48,900 –> 00:45:50,260
\nhere.
\nThat’s good. <\/p>\n
759
\n00:45:50,900 –> 00:45:53,940
\nBut you know what?
\nThis bit over here, I read a <\/p>\n
760
\n00:45:53,940 –> 00:45:58,420
\nreally good book and I don’t, I
\ndon’t think actually that bit’s <\/p>\n
761
\n00:45:58,420 –> 00:46:01,060
\nall that bad at all.
\nI don’t think I need to do that <\/p>\n
762
\n00:46:01,060 –> 00:46:05,540
\nbit.
\nTell me. <\/p>\n
763
\n00:46:06,670 –> 00:46:08,390
\nHow exactly is God supposed to
\nforgive you? <\/p>\n
764
\n00:46:11,230 –> 00:46:13,830
\nCan Can God forgive you based on
\nyour righteousness? <\/p>\n
765
\n00:46:15,910 –> 00:46:20,070
\nCan God forgive you if you’re
\nholding back from him the <\/p>\n
766
\n00:46:20,070 –> 00:46:25,350
\nability to be right?
\nIf you’ve withheld from God the <\/p>\n
767
\n00:46:25,350 –> 00:46:30,030
\nability to be right, he actually
\ncan’t forgive you for that which<\/p>\n
768
\n00:46:30,030 –> 00:46:34,430
\nyou withhold from him, and isn’t
\nuntil you declare his <\/p>\n
769
\n00:46:34,430 –> 00:46:37,950
\nrighteousness.
\nThat he’s willing to forgive <\/p>\n
770
\n00:46:37,950 –> 00:46:43,230
\nyou, and that’s what baptism is.
\nBaptism is the decoration of <\/p>\n
771
\n00:46:43,230 –> 00:46:45,790
\nGod’s righteousness.
\nIt’s a symbolic death. <\/p>\n
772
\n00:46:46,390 –> 00:46:49,430
\nYou say You know God.
\nWhat you said in Janis is 3 <\/p>\n
773
\n00:46:49,430 –> 00:46:53,230
\nverse 19 that sin was really
\nhorrible and deserved to die. <\/p>\n
774
\n00:46:53,510 –> 00:46:55,790
\nThat God you were right, it is
\nhorrible. <\/p>\n
775
\n00:46:58,190 –> 00:47:02,390
\nIt does deserve to die, and I’m
\ngoing to symbolically put it to <\/p>\n
776
\n00:47:02,390 –> 00:47:07,480
\ndeath.
\nSo this is how we’re saved, <\/p>\n
777
\n00:47:07,880 –> 00:47:09,240
\nbrothers and sisters, young
\npeople. <\/p>\n
778
\n00:47:09,240 –> 00:47:13,720
\nThis is how we’re saved by
\ndeclaring the righteousness of <\/p>\n
779
\n00:47:13,720 –> 00:47:14,760
\nGod.
\nThis is what Jesus did in the <\/p>\n
780
\n00:47:14,760 –> 00:47:18,560
\ncross.
\nYou see, he he’d only didn’t not<\/p>\n
781
\n00:47:18,560 –> 00:47:21,480
\nsin.
\nHe put to death that which <\/p>\n
782
\n00:47:21,480 –> 00:47:32,040
\ndesired sin within him, that God
\nalone would be righteous, so he <\/p>\n
783
\n00:47:32,040 –> 00:47:34,320
\nwas resurrected.
\nAs a result. <\/p>\n
784
\n00:47:36,210 –> 00:47:38,850
\nAccording to Paul, in Romans 8,
\nverse 3, Jesus fulfilled the <\/p>\n
785
\n00:47:38,850 –> 00:47:40,250
\nrighteous requirement of the
\nlaw. <\/p>\n
786
\n00:47:40,730 –> 00:47:42,330
\nNow what’s the righteous
\nrequirement of the law? <\/p>\n
787
\n00:47:42,330 –> 00:47:46,250
\nWell, we get a hint from from
\nRoman chapter 5 and verse 19 <\/p>\n
788
\n00:47:46,250 –> 00:47:49,210
\nwhere it says through one man’s
\nobedience many will be made <\/p>\n
789
\n00:47:49,210 –> 00:47:52,410
\nrighteous.
\nSo the righteous requirement of <\/p>\n
790
\n00:47:52,410 –> 00:47:55,810
\nthe law really was obedience.
\nNow I want you to think about <\/p>\n
791
\n00:47:55,810 –> 00:47:58,140
\nthis carefully.
\nSeeing that obedience is the <\/p>\n
792
\n00:47:58,140 –> 00:48:00,380
\nrighteous requirement of the
\nlaw, how Paul pulls all these <\/p>\n
793
\n00:48:00,380 –> 00:48:03,060
\nthings together, How he pulls
\ntogether the record of Genesis, <\/p>\n
794
\n00:48:03,220 –> 00:48:04,900
\nHe pulls together the righteous
\nof God. <\/p>\n
795
\n00:48:05,060 –> 00:48:08,460
\nHe pulls together what Jesus was
\nreally doing and his obedience. <\/p>\n
796
\n00:48:09,020 –> 00:48:12,340
\nAnd all in one in one really
\nsmall compact little verse. <\/p>\n
797
\n00:48:12,580 –> 00:48:17,900
\nAnd that’s found in Flippians
\nchapter 2, verses 6 through 8 we<\/p>\n
798
\n00:48:17,900 –> 00:48:22,940
\nread there at the RSV.
\nWho though he, Who’s he? <\/p>\n
799
\n00:48:23,180 –> 00:48:26,280
\nHe is Jesus.
\nWho, though Jesus was in the <\/p>\n
800
\n00:48:26,280 –> 00:48:30,880
\nform of God, did not, did not
\ncount equality with God a thing <\/p>\n
801
\n00:48:30,880 –> 00:48:33,080
\nto be grasped.
\nNow I asked you a question. <\/p>\n
802
\n00:48:33,760 –> 00:48:36,280
\nWho thought equality with God
\nwas a thing to be grasped? <\/p>\n
803
\n00:48:38,640 –> 00:48:41,600
\nAny ideas?
\nYes. <\/p>\n
804
\n00:48:43,840 –> 00:48:50,440
\nSo the garden, the first humans
\ndid think that equality with God<\/p>\n
805
\n00:48:50,440 –> 00:48:51,960
\nwas a thing.
\nYou think I’ve been bringing up <\/p>\n
806
\n00:48:51,960 –> 00:48:53,320
\nthis?
\nWe want to make ourselves God <\/p>\n
807
\n00:48:53,320 –> 00:48:58,790
\nthing for no reason.
\nSee the garden, they thought a <\/p>\n
808
\n00:48:58,790 –> 00:49:03,390
\nquality with God is a thing to
\nbe grasped was to be taken the <\/p>\n
809
\n00:49:03,390 –> 00:49:09,750
\nfruit.
\nBut instead Jesus emptied <\/p>\n
810
\n00:49:09,750 –> 00:49:11,270
\nhimself, taking the form of a
\nservant. <\/p>\n
811
\n00:49:11,270 –> 00:49:15,510
\nBeing born in the whiteness of
\nmen, and being found in human <\/p>\n
812
\n00:49:15,510 –> 00:49:19,990
\nform, he humbled himself.
\nAnd became obedient unto death, <\/p>\n
813
\n00:49:22,150 –> 00:49:28,060
\neven death on a cross.
\nYou know, Jesus summarizes what <\/p>\n
814
\n00:49:28,060 –> 00:49:30,500
\nthe righteous requirement of the
\nlaw really was because in March <\/p>\n
815
\n00:49:30,500 –> 00:49:32,820
\nchapter 12, what he does, he
\nsays what are the most important<\/p>\n
816
\n00:49:32,820 –> 00:49:35,380
\ncommandments of the law?
\nWhat does the law really require<\/p>\n
817
\n00:49:35,380 –> 00:49:36,660
\nof us?
\nAnd you know, what the most <\/p>\n
818
\n00:49:36,660 –> 00:49:40,140
\nimportant commandment of the law
\nis, I’m sure you do, is that God<\/p>\n
819
\n00:49:40,140 –> 00:49:44,660
\nis one, that there’s no other.
\nAnd what’s so important about <\/p>\n
820
\n00:49:44,660 –> 00:49:47,700
\nthat?
\nWhat’s so important about God <\/p>\n
821
\n00:49:47,700 –> 00:49:52,770
\nbeing one?
\nThat means you do not challenge <\/p>\n
822
\n00:49:52,770 –> 00:49:56,330
\nGod’s oneness.
\nYou don’t try to do what they <\/p>\n
823
\n00:49:56,330 –> 00:49:58,850
\ndid in the garden.
\nYou don’t try to make yourself <\/p>\n
824
\n00:49:58,850 –> 00:50:05,450
\nGod.
\nThat God is 1 and we want to <\/p>\n
825
\n00:50:05,450 –> 00:50:07,650
\nmanifest his name.
\nWe want his name to be on our <\/p>\n
826
\n00:50:07,650 –> 00:50:09,610
\nforeheads.
\nWe want to reflect his glory. <\/p>\n
827
\n00:50:09,610 –> 00:50:11,410
\nWell, God’s not going to be many
\ngods. <\/p>\n
828
\n00:50:12,490 –> 00:50:16,050
\nAnd if you think equality with
\nGod is a thing to be grasped, if<\/p>\n
829
\n00:50:16,050 –> 00:50:18,050
\nyou want to have your own
\nrighteousness, then God actually<\/p>\n
830
\n00:50:18,050 –> 00:50:20,570
\ncannot manifest himself in you,
\nbecause he cannot. <\/p>\n
831
\n00:50:21,500 –> 00:50:27,420
\nForgive that which you do not
\nallow him to be, Justin, because<\/p>\n
832
\n00:50:27,420 –> 00:50:29,060
\nGod is 1.
\nI’m not. <\/p>\n
833
\n00:50:29,060 –> 00:50:32,060
\nThat’s not the only requirement
\nof the law to be obedient, but <\/p>\n
834
\n00:50:32,060 –> 00:50:34,540
\nthat we love him more than
\nanything else, with our hearts, <\/p>\n
835
\n00:50:34,540 –> 00:50:37,940
\nwith our souls, with our minds,
\nwith our strength more than <\/p>\n
836
\n00:50:37,940 –> 00:50:42,900
\nanything else, and that we love
\neach other as ourselves and only<\/p>\n
837
\n00:50:42,900 –> 00:50:45,620
\nChrist at all three of these in
\nperfect obedience. <\/p>\n
838
\n00:50:46,220 –> 00:50:49,100
\nSo Christ alone fulfilled What
\nis the righteous requirement? <\/p>\n
839
\n00:50:49,100 –> 00:50:51,680
\nOf the law.
\nOkay and okay, you say. <\/p>\n
840
\n00:50:51,680 –> 00:50:54,400
\nThis is technical speak.
\nHow does this affect us? <\/p>\n
841
\n00:50:54,600 –> 00:50:56,600
\nWell, it really affects you.
\nIf you, if you make the decision<\/p>\n
842
\n00:50:56,600 –> 00:51:00,120
\nyou want to be joined with
\nChrist, now it’s really your <\/p>\n
843
\n00:51:00,120 –> 00:51:02,480
\nchoice.
\nYou can be in Christ or you <\/p>\n
844
\n00:51:02,480 –> 00:51:04,160
\ncould perish.
\nBecause really those are our two<\/p>\n
845
\n00:51:04,160 –> 00:51:05,880
\noptions.
\nI don’t know of any third <\/p>\n
846
\n00:51:05,880 –> 00:51:07,040
\noption.
\nIs there a third option? <\/p>\n
847
\n00:51:08,200 –> 00:51:09,800
\nI think those are the only two
\noptions I’m aware. <\/p>\n
848
\n00:51:09,800 –> 00:51:11,240
\nOf.
\nYou can be in Christ or you <\/p>\n
849
\n00:51:11,240 –> 00:51:12,360
\ncould perish.
\nThose are really. <\/p>\n
850
\n00:51:12,400 –> 00:51:14,240
\nThat’s it.
\nYou got to pick one. <\/p>\n
851
\n00:51:15,560 –> 00:51:17,600
\nAnd this being in Christ, while
\nit almost sounds easy, well, <\/p>\n
852
\n00:51:17,600 –> 00:51:21,320
\nhey, you know, sure, given that
\nthe opposite, the opposite <\/p>\n
853
\n00:51:21,360 –> 00:51:22,760
\nchoice is perishing.
\nYou know, I’ll. <\/p>\n
854
\n00:51:22,760 –> 00:51:23,840
\nI’ll choose to be in Christ.
\nYeah. <\/p>\n
855
\n00:51:23,840 –> 00:51:24,640
\nSign me up.
\nGreat. <\/p>\n
856
\n00:51:24,640 –> 00:51:26,520
\nWhere do I sign?
\nI want to be in Christ. <\/p>\n
857
\n00:51:26,520 –> 00:51:27,480
\nGreat.
\nChrist died for me. <\/p>\n
858
\n00:51:27,480 –> 00:51:28,600
\nGreat.
\nOnce Once saved. <\/p>\n
859
\n00:51:28,600 –> 00:51:29,240
\nAlways saved.
\nRight. <\/p>\n
860
\n00:51:29,240 –> 00:51:29,960
\nGreat.
\nHallelujah. <\/p>\n
861
\n00:51:29,960 –> 00:51:32,160
\nWonderful.
\nLet’s do it. <\/p>\n
862
\n00:51:35,160 –> 00:51:37,240
\nAnd here’s the principle and the
\nprinciples then and the <\/p>\n
863
\n00:51:37,240 –> 00:51:41,760
\nprinciples now.
\nYou see, Christ did put us into.<\/p>\n
864
\n00:51:41,760 –> 00:51:45,440
\nDeath in his death.
\nBut that act, as courageous as <\/p>\n
865
\n00:51:45,440 –> 00:51:48,960
\nit was, it kind of didn’t mean
\nanything unless Jesus rose from <\/p>\n
866
\n00:51:48,960 –> 00:51:50,320
\nthe dead.
\nYou get it. <\/p>\n
867
\n00:51:50,800 –> 00:51:52,880
\nIt’s really a courageous.
\nThing to put sin to death, it’s.<\/p>\n
868
\n00:51:53,720 –> 00:51:55,960
\nReally a craziest thing, to die,
\nto be crucified. <\/p>\n
869
\n00:51:56,720 –> 00:51:59,400
\nBut see that death had no
\nmeaning unless he rose from the <\/p>\n
870
\n00:51:59,400 –> 00:52:01,840
\ndead.
\nAnd I put forward to you that <\/p>\n
871
\n00:52:01,840 –> 00:52:06,680
\nyour baptism also only has
\nmeaning insofar as you live a <\/p>\n
872
\n00:52:06,680 –> 00:52:09,560
\nresurrected life, That you go
\nand you enter those waters of <\/p>\n
873
\n00:52:09,560 –> 00:52:11,960
\npatches.
\nAnd that’s great and. <\/p>\n
874
\n00:52:12,480 –> 00:52:14,600
\nAnd so far as you’re sitting
\nhere amongst us, that means the <\/p>\n
875
\n00:52:14,600 –> 00:52:17,280
\nbaptismal brother didn’t drowned
\nyou in the waters of baptism. <\/p>\n
876
\n00:52:18,360 –> 00:52:22,880
\nYou know, he pulled you out.
\nAnd as he pulled you out, you <\/p>\n
877
\n00:52:22,880 –> 00:52:26,800
\nwere resurrected and you’re
\nresurrected to this new life. <\/p>\n
878
\n00:52:27,200 –> 00:52:29,160
\nThat doesn’t mean you don’t sin.
\nOf course you sin. <\/p>\n
879
\n00:52:29,520 –> 00:52:32,000
\nI mean that’s that.
\nIt goes without saying, but <\/p>\n
880
\n00:52:32,000 –> 00:52:34,920
\nmaybe it needs to be said, of
\ncourse you sin, but that means <\/p>\n
881
\n00:52:34,920 –> 00:52:38,040
\nthat you actually now live and
\nembrace this new life. <\/p>\n
882
\n00:52:39,680 –> 00:52:42,040
\nAnd this is exactly Paul’s point
\nin Roman 6. <\/p>\n
883
\n00:52:42,430 –> 00:52:44,870
\nIs that you actually can’t go
\ninto these waters of baptism and<\/p>\n
884
\n00:52:44,870 –> 00:52:47,910
\ndie symbolically unless you’re
\nprepared to now live <\/p>\n
885
\n00:52:47,910 –> 00:52:53,310
\nsymbolically and as living.
\nHe calls wrecking ourselves, <\/p>\n
886
\n00:52:53,350 –> 00:52:55,670
\nreckoning ourselves dead to sin
\nbut alive to God. <\/p>\n
887
\n00:52:55,670 –> 00:52:58,030
\nIn fact, the whole reference is
\nin Romans 6 versus 10th and <\/p>\n
888
\n00:52:58,030 –> 00:53:02,870
\n11\/10\/11 where we read for the
\ndeath that he died, he died to <\/p>\n
889
\n00:53:02,870 –> 00:53:06,510
\nsin once for all, but the life
\nthat he lives, he lives to God. <\/p>\n
890
\n00:53:07,110 –> 00:53:10,830
\nYou get that he died to sin once
\nfor all. <\/p>\n
891
\n00:53:11,450 –> 00:53:13,370
\nThe life that he lives, he lives
\nto God. <\/p>\n
892
\n00:53:15,250 –> 00:53:20,890
\nLikewise you also, you see, we
\ngot to follow the same path. <\/p>\n
893
\n00:53:21,770 –> 00:53:25,450
\nHe doesn’t do it for us.
\nJesus shows us how he clears the<\/p>\n
894
\n00:53:25,450 –> 00:53:27,490
\nway, but he says we have to fall
\nbehind him. <\/p>\n
895
\n00:53:28,050 –> 00:53:32,650
\nAnd so Paul says likewise.
\nYou also reckon yourselves to be<\/p>\n
896
\n00:53:32,650 –> 00:53:38,410
\ndead indeed to sin, but alive to
\nGod in Christ Jesus our Lord. <\/p>\n
897
\n00:53:39,970 –> 00:53:44,250
\nSo if we take on his death, we
\nalso have to be prepared in <\/p>\n
898
\n00:53:44,250 –> 00:53:45,850
\nbrother sisters to take on his
\nlife. <\/p>\n
899
\n00:53:46,250 –> 00:53:48,690
\nBecause the Old Testament is
\nfull of examples of taking on <\/p>\n
900
\n00:53:48,690 –> 00:53:51,170
\ndeath out taking on life.
\nI’ll give you an example. <\/p>\n
901
\n00:53:51,210 –> 00:53:55,170
\nYou simply bring sacrifices to
\nto to God and you have no <\/p>\n
902
\n00:53:55,170 –> 00:53:58,570
\nmeaning.
\nYou just sacrifice and sacrifice<\/p>\n
903
\n00:53:58,570 –> 00:54:01,490
\nand sacrifice.
\nBut not once are you prepared to<\/p>\n
904
\n00:54:01,490 –> 00:54:05,210
\nchange who you are as a person
\nto reflect the glory of your <\/p>\n
905
\n00:54:05,210 –> 00:54:07,610
\ncreator.
\nNow what does God think about <\/p>\n
906
\n00:54:07,610 –> 00:54:09,980
\nsuch sacrifices?
\nDo they bring him glory? <\/p>\n
907
\n00:54:13,100 –> 00:54:17,380
\nThey bring him joy?
\nDoes it do us any good to just <\/p>\n
908
\n00:54:17,380 –> 00:54:21,220
\ntake on death if we’re not
\nprepared to take on life? <\/p>\n
909
\n00:54:21,420 –> 00:54:24,100
\nNow what?
\nReflect on on David’s comments <\/p>\n
910
\n00:54:24,140 –> 00:54:26,180
\nand Psalm chapter 14, verse 6
\nand 8. <\/p>\n
911
\n00:54:27,420 –> 00:54:29,860
\nBurnt offering is sin offering
\nyou did not require. <\/p>\n
912
\n00:54:30,220 –> 00:54:34,060
\nThen I said, behold I come and
\nthe scroll of the book it’s <\/p>\n
913
\n00:54:34,060 –> 00:54:36,340
\nwritten of me.
\nWell, what’s written of me? <\/p>\n
914
\n00:54:38,950 –> 00:54:41,230
\nI’d like to do your will, Oh my
\nGod. <\/p>\n
915
\n00:54:43,230 –> 00:54:50,230
\nAnd your law is within my heart.
\nSo death by animal sacrifice, <\/p>\n
916
\n00:54:50,630 –> 00:54:54,470
\neven a perfect, perfect,
\nunblemished animal, it just <\/p>\n
917
\n00:54:54,470 –> 00:54:58,350
\ndoesn’t have meaning without the
\nlife of delighting in God’s <\/p>\n
918
\n00:54:58,350 –> 00:55:00,150
\nwill.
\nAnd so that’s actually what I’m <\/p>\n
919
\n00:55:00,150 –> 00:55:04,190
\ntalking about here with you.
\nIt takes 1 to get the other. <\/p>\n
920
\n00:55:04,350 –> 00:55:07,230
\nYou can’t take on the death
\nsymbolically of Christ. <\/p>\n
921
\n00:55:08,060 –> 00:55:10,580
\nBut unless you’re also prepared
\nto take on the wife of Christ, <\/p>\n
922
\n00:55:10,900 –> 00:55:14,820
\nyou can’t simply destroy death
\nunless you embrace the life. <\/p>\n
923
\n00:55:15,340 –> 00:55:19,220
\nOr else what’s the point of
\ndestroying death just to stay <\/p>\n
924
\n00:55:19,220 –> 00:55:23,740
\ndead?
\nIf you destroy death just to <\/p>\n
925
\n00:55:23,740 –> 00:55:27,780
\nstay dead, what’s the point?
\nThere’s no point. <\/p>\n
926
\n00:55:28,140 –> 00:55:32,940
\nYou actually must embrace life.
\nBut how do you embrace life? <\/p>\n
927
\n00:55:32,940 –> 00:55:35,140
\nHow do you live a I call it a
\nresurrected life. <\/p>\n
928
\n00:55:35,140 –> 00:55:36,900
\nHow do I live a resurrected
\nlife? <\/p>\n
929
\n00:55:38,350 –> 00:55:40,870
\nIt’d be great to have freedom
\nbut not responsibility, but <\/p>\n
930
\n00:55:40,870 –> 00:55:42,550
\nthat’s just not a life in
\nChrist. <\/p>\n
931
\n00:55:43,550 –> 00:55:45,470
\nAnd see, that’s the confusion of
\nmany that they want to see. <\/p>\n
932
\n00:55:45,470 –> 00:55:49,790
\nThe grace cures all, and grace
\nis a wonderful thing, and grace <\/p>\n
933
\n00:55:49,790 –> 00:55:53,070
\nis available to each one here
\nwho’s been baptized and <\/p>\n
934
\n00:55:53,070 –> 00:55:55,070
\nconfessed Christ.
\nWe all we have access to this <\/p>\n
935
\n00:55:55,070 –> 00:56:01,790
\ngrace, but it’s not freedom
\nwithout responsibility, because <\/p>\n
936
\n00:56:01,790 –> 00:56:04,830
\nGod does not just want a horde
\nof unrepentant sinners because <\/p>\n
937
\n00:56:04,830 –> 00:56:08,320
\nhe can’t be one with them.
\nHe can’t be one with them. <\/p>\n
938
\n00:56:09,400 –> 00:56:12,680
\nThey can’t manifest his name
\nbecause they haven’t declared <\/p>\n
939
\n00:56:12,680 –> 00:56:17,680
\nhis justice, his righteousness.
\nSo Paul says this in Romans 8, <\/p>\n
940
\n00:56:17,680 –> 00:56:19,560
\nverse four.
\nAnd I want Who’s got a pencil? <\/p>\n
941
\n00:56:19,560 –> 00:56:21,400
\nTake out your pencils.
\nShow me your pencils. <\/p>\n
942
\n00:56:21,400 –> 00:56:23,200
\nRaise them in the air.
\nWave them. <\/p>\n
943
\n00:56:23,800 –> 00:56:25,720
\nYes, we all have our pencils.
\nGreat. <\/p>\n
944
\n00:56:25,920 –> 00:56:27,960
\nWell, I want you to underline
\nsomething again in Romans 8, <\/p>\n
945
\n00:56:27,960 –> 00:56:29,800
\nverse 4, because it’s a really
\nimportant word. <\/p>\n
946
\n00:56:31,880 –> 00:56:36,120
\nAnd it’s this.
\nThat the righteous requirement <\/p>\n
947
\n00:56:36,120 –> 00:56:40,480
\nof the law might be filled
\nfulfilled in us Who? <\/p>\n
948
\n00:56:40,480 –> 00:56:44,520
\nI want you to underline that
\nword Who because it’s a big word<\/p>\n
949
\n00:56:45,920 –> 00:56:49,000
\nthat the righteous requirement
\nof the law might be fulfilled in<\/p>\n
950
\n00:56:49,000 –> 00:56:54,720
\nus who do not walk according to
\nthe flesh, but according to the <\/p>\n
951
\n00:56:54,720 –> 00:56:59,920
\nSpirit.
\nSo actually this is a big deal, <\/p>\n
952
\n00:57:00,040 –> 00:57:04,220
\nbecause what it means is that.
\nYou and I and my friend Alan, <\/p>\n
953
\n00:57:04,300 –> 00:57:08,580
\nBrother Alan are saved by being
\nin Christ, of course. <\/p>\n
954
\n00:57:10,020 –> 00:57:12,300
\nBut there’s also an element in
\nwhich we’re saved being like <\/p>\n
955
\n00:57:12,300 –> 00:57:18,300
\nChrist, that we walk according
\nto the Spirit, not according to <\/p>\n
956
\n00:57:18,300 –> 00:57:20,860
\nthe flesh.
\nAnd actually, it’s in the <\/p>\n
957
\n00:57:20,860 –> 00:57:24,100
\ncombination of these two things.
\nIt’s in that confidence that we <\/p>\n
958
\n00:57:24,100 –> 00:57:26,540
\ncan say there’s no condemnation
\nfor those who are in Christ <\/p>\n
959
\n00:57:26,540 –> 00:57:29,380
\nJesus, because now, hopefully,
\nwe understand and believe. <\/p>\n
960
\n00:57:29,930 –> 00:57:32,850
\nAnd what it means to be in
\nChrist Jesus and to walk <\/p>\n
961
\n00:57:32,850 –> 00:57:35,010
\naccording to the Spirit.
\nAnd we understand why it is that<\/p>\n
962
\n00:57:35,010 –> 00:57:38,770
\nJesus can save us, That why it
\nis there’s no condemnation in <\/p>\n
963
\n00:57:38,770 –> 00:57:41,290
\nChrist Jesus.
\nThat’s clear now, because Jesus <\/p>\n
964
\n00:57:41,290 –> 00:57:43,410
\nhas been resurrected.
\nAnd my challenge to you is <\/p>\n
965
\n00:57:43,410 –> 00:57:47,330
\nsimply this.
\nLive now, as if you’re <\/p>\n
966
\n00:57:47,330 –> 00:57:54,090
\nresurrected.
\nLive now as if you already are <\/p>\n
967
\n00:57:54,090 –> 00:57:55,010
\nembracing.
\nLife. <\/p>\n
968
\n00:57:58,750 –> 00:58:02,630
\nAnd what that means is that we
\ncrucify our flesh and our <\/p>\n
969
\n00:58:02,630 –> 00:58:07,990
\ndesires, and like Christ, we
\ndeclare the righteous of God. <\/p>\n
970
\n00:58:07,990 –> 00:58:10,470
\nAnd we never try to take away
\nfrom God’s righteousness. <\/p>\n
971
\n00:58:12,110 –> 00:58:14,590
\nWe don’t.
\nWhat we do is we we take our <\/p>\n
972
\n00:58:14,590 –> 00:58:17,790
\npride, right?
\nWe take the bits in us that are <\/p>\n
973
\n00:58:17,790 –> 00:58:22,710
\nbeing resentful, the bits of us
\nthat are scared, the bits in us <\/p>\n
974
\n00:58:22,710 –> 00:58:24,870
\nthat are holding back something
\nfrom God. <\/p>\n
975
\n00:58:26,780 –> 00:58:28,700
\nAnd we we put it at the feet of
\nGod. <\/p>\n
976
\n00:58:29,020 –> 00:58:31,020
\nWe say God.
\nI know that I’m scared and I’m <\/p>\n
977
\n00:58:31,020 –> 00:58:32,780
\nresentful and I can’t get rid of
\nthese things. <\/p>\n
978
\n00:58:32,780 –> 00:58:36,740
\nThese things are in me.
\nBut God, I put them all in front<\/p>\n
979
\n00:58:36,740 –> 00:58:40,100
\nof you.
\nBut your will be done in me. <\/p>\n
980
\n00:58:41,260 –> 00:58:42,860
\nThat’s what it is.
\nThat’s that prayer. <\/p>\n
981
\n00:58:43,100 –> 00:58:46,980
\nIt’s the prayer that God’s will
\nis done in you and not holding <\/p>\n
982
\n00:58:46,980 –> 00:58:49,300
\nback from something, from God,
\nsomething that’s that’s <\/p>\n
983
\n00:58:49,300 –> 00:58:54,620
\nrightfully his, so that actually
\nemptying then of yourself, God <\/p>\n
984
\n00:58:54,620 –> 00:58:56,380
\ncan fill you and fill all of
\nyou. <\/p>\n
985
\n00:58:56,710 –> 00:59:02,030
\nAnd he can be one with you,
\nbecause you haven’t asked him to<\/p>\n
986
\n00:59:02,030 –> 00:59:04,670
\nbe one with this other
\ndefinition of right and wrong, <\/p>\n
987
\n00:59:04,670 –> 00:59:08,190
\nthis other definition,
\ndefinition of of good and evil, <\/p>\n
988
\n00:59:08,430 –> 00:59:12,830
\nwhich rivals him, which he
\ncannot be one with which Jesus <\/p>\n
989
\n00:59:12,830 –> 00:59:21,230
\ndestroyed on the cross.
\nAnd I know that we all have <\/p>\n
990
\n00:59:21,230 –> 00:59:25,110
\nweaknesses and failings and
\nstrugglings, but I’m telling you<\/p>\n
991
\n00:59:25,110 –> 00:59:27,340
\nright now.
\nThat if you declare that gods <\/p>\n
992
\n00:59:27,340 –> 00:59:31,100
\nwill be done in you, despite
\nyour weaknesses and your <\/p>\n
993
\n00:59:31,100 –> 00:59:33,140
\nfailings and your struggles, and
\nwe all have them, each one of us<\/p>\n
994
\n00:59:33,140 –> 00:59:34,660
\nhas them.
\nI’m a Sinner. <\/p>\n
995
\n00:59:34,820 –> 00:59:38,620
\nI know you are too.
\nThat it God. <\/p>\n
996
\n00:59:38,740 –> 00:59:42,100
\nGod can forgive those things and
\nis willing and abundantly to <\/p>\n
997
\n00:59:42,100 –> 00:59:44,660
\nforgive those things.
\nHe’s so willing to forgive those<\/p>\n
998
\n00:59:44,660 –> 00:59:50,740
\nthings if we declare his
\nrighteousness, because sin has <\/p>\n
999
\n00:59:50,740 –> 00:59:54,580
\nbeen destroyed in Christ’s
\nflesh, and it will actually be <\/p>\n
1000
\n00:59:54,580 –> 00:59:57,270
\ndestroyed in you.
\nAnd death will be no more. <\/p>\n
1001
\n01:00:00,470 –> 01:00:03,550
\nBut how do we do that?
\nHow do we walk according to the <\/p>\n
1002
\n01:00:03,550 –> 01:00:05,710
\nSpirit?
\nWell, that is. <\/p>\n
1003
\n01:00:05,710 –> 01:00:08,670
\nExactly the question that Paul
\npicks up in the next section of <\/p>\n
1004
\n01:00:08,670 –> 01:00:12,990
\nRomans Now that I’m in Christ,
\nhow do I live like him? <\/p>\n
1005
\n01:00:13,150 –> 01:00:14,630
\nHow do I walk according to the
\nSpirit? <\/p>\n
1006
\n01:00:18,070 –> 01:00:18,870
\nCome back tomorrow?\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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