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\nWhatever this is, is it?
\nIs it evening this side of the <\/p>\n
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\nworld, How are you all Now that
\nwasn’t, you know, I guess it’s <\/p>\n
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\nmaybe just an American thing,
\nbut when we say good evening, <\/p>\n
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\npeople often say good evening in
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\nSo maybe we should practice this
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\nSo I’m going to say good
\nevening, then I’m going to pause<\/p>\n
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\nand that’s your cue than to say
\ngood evening back. <\/p>\n
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\nAre you ready to try this?
\nAll right. <\/p>\n
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\nGood evening.
\nWow. <\/p>\n
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\nHey, audience participation.
\nWho knew in a Chris Adelphian <\/p>\n
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\nhall, even?
\nWell, it’s really a pleasure to <\/p>\n
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\nto be with you all this weekend
\nand to share with you in <\/p>\n
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\nfellowship.
\nYou know, I, I, I come from <\/p>\n
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\nChristchurch.
\nThat’s in New Zealand. <\/p>\n
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\nI guess I was told that I was
\nsupposed to comment on your <\/p>\n
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\naccents and on your sports.
\nNeither of which I think are a <\/p>\n
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\nproblem.
\nYou know, I just hope that my <\/p>\n
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\nAmerican accent and my American
\nsports we wear pads is not a <\/p>\n
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\nproblem for you.
\nWe can we. <\/p>\n
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\nCan we can move past the New
\nZealand Australian connections <\/p>\n
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\nis actually quite a quite a
\npleasure to be with you all and <\/p>\n
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\nto and to visit with family and
\nand friends of family as well. <\/p>\n
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\nSo thank you for having me and
\nmy wife Alyssa and our daughter <\/p>\n
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\nPetra this this weekend, so
\nRomans 7:00 and 8:00. <\/p>\n
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\nHopefully you kind of think that
\nthat’s a little bit odd. <\/p>\n
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\nI mean 2 chapters in the in the
\nmiddle of a book. <\/p>\n
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\nThis book has has multiple
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\nactually right in the middle of
\nof this book. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd maybe you’re thinking to
\nyourself, well, well why would <\/p>\n
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\nwhy would we study two chapters
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\nyou know, why not?
\nWhy not the whole book? <\/p>\n
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\nWhy not start at the beginning
\nof the argument, you know, and <\/p>\n
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\nwe.
\nFollow through there or <\/p>\n
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\nsomething on those lines.
\nWhy these two chapters in the <\/p>\n
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\nmiddle of the book And the
\nanswer that we’re going to study<\/p>\n
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\nthese two chapters this weekend.
\nThe reason why is because for me<\/p>\n
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\npersonally, and that’s this is a
\npersonal thing I guess is that <\/p>\n
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\nthese two chapters really
\nchanged my life. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd I want to describe that a
\nlittle bit to you. <\/p>\n
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\nNot so long ago I find found
\nmyself doing mission work in the<\/p>\n
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\nMiddle East.
\nIn fact I met many of you back <\/p>\n
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\nin 2006 when Daniel and Joey.
\nWere married. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd actually that stop in
\nAustralia was the first stop on <\/p>\n
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\nour my wife and I, our trip to
\nthe Middle East do mission work <\/p>\n
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\nin United Arab Emirates, Dubai,
\nAbu Dhabi and in Doha, Qatar. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd as we worked in the Middle
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\nthings began to go a little bit
\ndifficult. <\/p>\n
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\nThe work was hard.
\nI guess that’s not unusual for <\/p>\n
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\nmission work.
\nThe brethren in Dubai especially<\/p>\n
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\nwere not very cooperative to our
\nwork. <\/p>\n
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\nI think they felt quite
\nthreatened by the preaching as <\/p>\n
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\nmaybe is is is a valid thing to
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\nBut we thought they were
\nprogressive countries but <\/p>\n
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\nnevertheless they they were felt
\nthreatened by that and expenses <\/p>\n
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\nstarted to add up and then some
\nsome local people in Qatar. <\/p>\n
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\nI borrowed money from my
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\nof money and and they had stolen
\nthat from us. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd we didn’t know if we’re
\ngoing to get that money back. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd then Alyssa got pregnant and
\nwe lived in this apartment. <\/p>\n
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\nWe didn’t have any working stove
\nor any hot water and have any <\/p>\n
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\nway to cook hot food.
\nAnd I began to lose weight and <\/p>\n
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\nthe work was was really
\nchallenging and I I felt within <\/p>\n
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\nmy my heart this rebellion start
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\nYou guys familiar with that
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\nMaybe you can call it
\nresentment, perhaps felt like, I<\/p>\n
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\ndon’t, I didn’t know if I want
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\nAnd in every hour, you know, you
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\nor giving classes or working,
\nyou know, there’s no, there’s <\/p>\n
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\nnot a lot of this free time to
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\nYou know, people have these
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\nWell, that wasn’t this trip.
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\nreally pure work the whole time
\nwe were there. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd I felt tired and I was
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\nAnd I was kind of angry.
\nI I felt like things had really <\/p>\n
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\ntrying to understand and <\/p>\n
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\nAnd so at that time that I was, <\/p>\n
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\nI felt spiritually vulnerable.
\nI guess I I picked up, picked up<\/p>\n
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\nthe Bible, and I was really
\nattracted to Romans 7, where <\/p>\n
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\nthese this internal struggle he
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\nAnd then for Romans 7, I would
\nmove on to Romans chapter 8. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd in reading Romans chapter 8
\nmy eyes were open to A to a few <\/p>\n
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\nthose words originally out of <\/p>\n
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\nthe RSV and so I want to read
\nthem out of the RSV now and then<\/p>\n
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\nfriend of Romans 8IN verse five
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\naccording to the flesh, set
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\nflesh, but those who live
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\nMaybe at this point, those words
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\nMy goal is that by the end of
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\nThat’s what I’m going to try to <\/p>\n
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\naccomplish.
\nAnd perhaps, as God wills, I’ll <\/p>\n
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\nthat God brought forth to me.
\nBut I really doubt it. <\/p>\n
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\nI think I’m going to have
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\na reason I’m very pessimistic.
\nExperience. <\/p>\n
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\nNo, it’s that it’s that I
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\nsort of a spiritual vice when
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\nme and I was spiritually in
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\nMy life wasn’t working.
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\nsomething.
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\nthen you might be open to let
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\nteach you.
\nBut if you’re not at that place,<\/p>\n
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\nI just want to remind you that
\nwhen you get there, that you <\/p>\n
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\nturn here to Romans 7:00 and
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\nmy words, but you’ll remember to
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\nIn Romans 7 and eight, and
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\ninevitably find at some point, <\/p>\n
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\nyou’ll find some help.
\nSo my goals for this weekend are<\/p>\n
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\na little bit humbler.
\nI just want to introduce you to <\/p>\n
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\nthese chapters so that when you
\ngo through whatever it is, <\/p>\n
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\nhardship or pain or anxiety or
\nstruggle, you’ll kind of know <\/p>\n
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\nthat you weren’t the only one.
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\nand God has written down for you
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\nyou.
\nAnd if you’re even willing at <\/p>\n
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\nthat time, they can change you.
\nSo even though in the course of <\/p>\n
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\nour studies we want to
\nconcentrate on Roman 7:00 and <\/p>\n
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\n8:00, I sort of think that
\nstarting in Romans 7 and eight <\/p>\n
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\nis like me introducing
\narithmetic to my 5 year old, <\/p>\n
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\nstarting with algebra.
\nI just can’t start there. <\/p>\n
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\nI can’t, as much as I as I had
\noriginally intended to dive <\/p>\n
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\nright into Roman Seven.
\nI find that the first question <\/p>\n
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\nout for us to consider is found <\/p>\n
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\nin Roman 7 verse seven.
\nAnd that question is this. <\/p>\n
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\nWhat shall we say then is the
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\nNow that’s the first question I
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\nor or or be supposed to explain
\nto you. <\/p>\n
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\nWhat is what should we say then?
\nIs the law sin? <\/p>\n
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\nBut I, as I begin to even think
\nabout trying to explain that <\/p>\n
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\nquestion, I can’t even start to
\nexplain that question unless you<\/p>\n
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\nknow what’s going on in Romans
\n1234 and five. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd if you don’t have that in
\nyour mind, I can’t. <\/p>\n
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\nI can’t address that question.
\nAnd so I find, as I want to <\/p>\n
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\nstart in Romans 7, that actually
\nwe have to start at Romans 1. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd so in this class what we’re
\ngoing to do is you’re going to <\/p>\n
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\nretrace Paul’s argument.
\nRomans 1234 and five a little <\/p>\n
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\nbit in chapter 6, and then we’re
\ngoing to dive into Romans 7. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd then with all that
\ninformation in your mind, this <\/p>\n
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\nRomans 7 material is going to
\nmake a lot more sense. <\/p>\n
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\nI think You know Romans is an
\ninteresting book because Paul <\/p>\n
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\nwrote the book before he went to
\nRome. <\/p>\n
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\nNow he wrote Corinthians after
\nvisiting Corn, the wrote <\/p>\n
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\nGalatians after visiting
\nGalatia. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd so on and so forth.
\nBut he writes, rewrites Rome, <\/p>\n
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\nRomans in prospect of visiting
\nRome. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd the reason he does that is
\nbecause in Rome there were these<\/p>\n
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\npeople that as Chris, elephants,
\nwe call Judaizers. <\/p>\n
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\nYou can call them what you want,
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\nthey were.
\nBut they’re they’re trying to <\/p>\n
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\ndefeat Paul’s gospel, the gospel
\nof Jesus Christ. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd they’re trying to say that
\nthere was this really important <\/p>\n
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\ndifference between Jews and
\nGentiles. <\/p>\n
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\nNow, who here is a Jew naturally
\nby birth. <\/p>\n
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\nSo here here is a gentile
\nnaturally by birth. <\/p>\n
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\nWho here hasn’t isn’t raising
\ntheir hands. <\/p>\n
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\nThere’s someone in the middle
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\nI know you didn’t raise your
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\nI’ll take it that you’re a
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\nSo now that Paul is in chapter <\/p>\n
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\n00:20:27,920 –> 00:20:30,360
\none, he’s so the Gentiles are
\nnot just. <\/p>\n
338
\n00:20:30,360 –> 00:20:34,200
\nIn chapter two he shows the Jews
\nare not just and chapter 3 sort <\/p>\n
339
\n00:20:34,200 –> 00:20:38,680
\nof brings it together.
\nSo in chapter 3 which has many <\/p>\n
340
\n00:20:38,680 –> 00:20:42,440
\nverses worth underlying, maybe
\nwhat you want to underline is in<\/p>\n
341
\n00:20:42,440 –> 00:20:48,800
\nchapter 3 and verse 23 for all
\nof sinned and fallen short of <\/p>\n
342
\n00:20:48,800 –> 00:20:51,680
\nthe glory of God.
\nAll, and that’s an important <\/p>\n
343
\n00:20:51,680 –> 00:20:54,320
\nword.
\nThey’re all all have sinned, all<\/p>\n
344
\n00:20:54,320 –> 00:20:57,480
\nmeaning Jew and Gentile.
\nHe’s shown chapter one, the <\/p>\n
345
\n00:20:57,480 –> 00:20:59,520
\nGentiles, chapter 2, the Jews
\nand chapter three. <\/p>\n
346
\n00:20:59,520 –> 00:21:04,120
\nHe concludes this.
\nHe says, I’ve shown you all have<\/p>\n
347
\n00:21:04,120 –> 00:21:08,080
\nsinned and by sinning have
\nfallen short of the glory of <\/p>\n
348
\n00:21:08,080 –> 00:21:11,480
\nGod.
\nSo really our next point from <\/p>\n
349
\n00:21:11,480 –> 00:21:15,720
\nRomans chapter one, verse 21,
\nthrough chapter 3, verse 20, or <\/p>\n
350
\n00:21:15,720 –> 00:21:21,420
\neven through three verse 23.
\nWhat Paul is really doing is <\/p>\n
351
\n00:21:21,420 –> 00:21:23,580
\nhe’s showing that God alone is
\nrighteous. <\/p>\n
352
\n00:21:24,740 –> 00:21:26,100
\nThat’s what he’s establishing
\nnow. <\/p>\n
353
\n00:21:26,100 –> 00:21:29,140
\nHe’s not just establishing the
\nfact that God’s righteous, He’s <\/p>\n
354
\n00:21:29,140 –> 00:21:30,580
\nestablishing the fact that we’re
\nnot. <\/p>\n
355
\n00:21:30,620 –> 00:21:35,900
\nHe hasn’t really spoken to God’s
\nrighteousness until that section<\/p>\n
356
\n00:21:35,900 –> 00:21:40,460
\nof readings that we had read for
\nus this morning in which God’s <\/p>\n
357
\n00:21:40,460 –> 00:21:42,220
\nrighteous has mentioned three or
\nfour times. <\/p>\n
358
\n00:21:42,580 –> 00:21:44,500
\nBut he hasn’t mentioned God’s
\nrighteousness up into that <\/p>\n
359
\n00:21:44,500 –> 00:21:48,680
\npoint, has he?
\nUp until that point, he’s really<\/p>\n
360
\n00:21:48,680 –> 00:21:50,920
\nkind of described the fact that
\nwe’re not righteous and we <\/p>\n
361
\n00:21:50,920 –> 00:21:53,520
\ncan’t, we can’t rest on our
\nrighteousness. <\/p>\n
362
\n00:21:58,560 –> 00:22:02,480
\nYou see, what does the law do?
\nThe law does something very <\/p>\n
363
\n00:22:02,480 –> 00:22:04,880
\nimportant.
\nIt does it today in our society <\/p>\n
364
\n00:22:04,880 –> 00:22:09,080
\nas well, is it defines from a
\nsocietal point of view, what’s <\/p>\n
365
\n00:22:09,080 –> 00:22:10,720
\nright.
\nAnd what’s wrong? <\/p>\n
366
\n00:22:10,960 –> 00:22:13,880
\nAnd it kind of draws this line
\nin the sand which lawyers job is<\/p>\n
367
\n00:22:13,880 –> 00:22:16,240
\nto to mess up that line.
\nBut the law’s intention is to <\/p>\n
368
\n00:22:16,240 –> 00:22:21,400
\ndraw a line and say that listen,
\non one side of the law you’re <\/p>\n
369
\n00:22:21,400 –> 00:22:23,080
\nyou’re right.
\nOn the other side of the law <\/p>\n
370
\n00:22:23,080 –> 00:22:28,160
\nyou’re wrong and you can be you
\ncan be condemned in a Court of <\/p>\n
371
\n00:22:28,160 –> 00:22:30,280
\nJustice.
\nThe judge uses the law to <\/p>\n
372
\n00:22:30,280 –> 00:22:31,800
\ndetermine guilt versus
\ninnocence. <\/p>\n
373
\n00:22:33,320 –> 00:22:36,040
\nNow according to the law we’re
\nguilty. <\/p>\n
374
\n00:22:37,360 –> 00:22:40,840
\nWe’re not just and in fact.
\nThis word guilty is kind of a <\/p>\n
375
\n00:22:40,920 –> 00:22:43,920
\nit’s a it’s a it’s a big word.
\nIt’s one of those words that’s <\/p>\n
376
\n00:22:43,920 –> 00:22:45,560
\nkind of difficult to to throw
\nout there. <\/p>\n
377
\n00:22:45,560 –> 00:22:49,400
\nYou know because you know I
\ndon’t I don’t really want to <\/p>\n
378
\n00:22:49,400 –> 00:22:52,240
\nmake you feel guilty.
\nBut I I don’t. <\/p>\n
379
\n00:22:52,240 –> 00:22:55,560
\nI had no other I I can’t.
\nI can’t but use the word because<\/p>\n
380
\n00:22:55,560 –> 00:22:57,880
\nthe words right here in front of
\nthe scripture I can’t deny is <\/p>\n
381
\n00:22:57,880 –> 00:22:59,560
\nI’m I’m saying that we’re
\nstaring at it. <\/p>\n
382
\n00:22:59,560 –> 00:23:03,440
\nLook at chapter 3 in verse 19
\nand 20 you find it for yourself <\/p>\n
383
\n00:23:03,600 –> 00:23:08,080
\nhere in the new King James.
\nIt says this in verse 19 for we <\/p>\n
384
\n00:23:08,080 –> 00:23:10,740
\nknow.
\nThat whatever the law says, it <\/p>\n
385
\n00:23:10,740 –> 00:23:13,820
\nsays to those who are under the
\nlaw, that every mouth may be <\/p>\n
386
\n00:23:13,820 –> 00:23:18,940
\nstopped, that all the world may
\nbecome guilty before God. <\/p>\n
387
\n00:23:20,300 –> 00:23:27,180
\nTherefore by the deeds of the
\nLaw no flesh we justified in His<\/p>\n
388
\n00:23:27,180 –> 00:23:30,300
\nsight.
\nFor by the law is the knowledge <\/p>\n
389
\n00:23:30,300 –> 00:23:37,580
\nof sin.
\nSo we’re in just now can the law<\/p>\n
390
\n00:23:37,580 –> 00:23:40,120
\nsave us?
\nNo. <\/p>\n
391
\n00:23:41,440 –> 00:23:45,880
\nDo you know why?
\nNow imagine someone committed <\/p>\n
392
\n00:23:45,880 –> 00:23:47,400
\nmurder.
\nJack Lawson. <\/p>\n
393
\n00:23:47,400 –> 00:23:49,640
\nI’ll pick on you.
\nImagine Jack Lawson committed <\/p>\n
394
\n00:23:49,640 –> 00:23:54,280
\nmurder.
\nWhat if he never ran a red <\/p>\n
395
\n00:23:54,280 –> 00:23:56,280
\nwhite?
\nWhat if he was the best driver <\/p>\n
396
\n00:23:56,280 –> 00:23:59,520
\nin the world?
\nWhat if Jack’s driving is <\/p>\n
397
\n00:23:59,560 –> 00:24:05,240
\nabsolutely and completely
\nexemplary so that if you want to<\/p>\n
398
\n00:24:05,240 –> 00:24:07,250
\nknow how to drive.
\nYou would. <\/p>\n
399
\n00:24:07,250 –> 00:24:10,410
\nBut look at how Jack does things
\nand emulate his every action <\/p>\n
400
\n00:24:10,490 –> 00:24:11,970
\nbecause his driving was so
\nperfect. <\/p>\n
401
\n00:24:13,210 –> 00:24:17,450
\nNow would that change the fact
\nthat Jack has killed someone? <\/p>\n
402
\n00:24:18,650 –> 00:24:20,850
\nWith the judge saying since
\nyou’re such a good driver, we’ll<\/p>\n
403
\n00:24:20,850 –> 00:24:23,410
\njust brush that killing thing
\nright underneath the carpet? <\/p>\n
404
\n00:24:24,610 –> 00:24:27,210
\nNo, this is exactly the dilemma
\nDavid finds himself in. <\/p>\n
405
\n00:24:27,570 –> 00:24:31,250
\nBecause David kills Uriah the
\nwife, the husband of Bathshava. <\/p>\n
406
\n00:24:31,750 –> 00:24:35,950
\nAnd he says in Psalm 51 and
\nverse 16, for thou desires not <\/p>\n
407
\n00:24:35,950 –> 00:24:39,430
\nsacrifice, or else I would give
\nit that a lie is not important <\/p>\n
408
\n00:24:39,430 –> 00:24:40,910
\noffering.
\nAnd David could have offered <\/p>\n
409
\n00:24:40,910 –> 00:24:44,350
\nsacrifice at a sacrifice after
\nsacrifice after sacrifice. <\/p>\n
410
\n00:24:46,590 –> 00:24:54,230
\nBut he killed still killed Uriah
\ndidn’t change a thing and so the<\/p>\n
411
\n00:24:54,230 –> 00:24:58,530
\nlaw could not justify David.
\nAnd the law cannot justify any <\/p>\n
412
\n00:24:58,530 –> 00:25:00,770
\nof you.
\nAnd the law cannot justify me. <\/p>\n
413
\n00:25:00,970 –> 00:25:03,730
\nIf I break one part of it,
\nfollowing other parts of it, <\/p>\n
414
\n00:25:03,930 –> 00:25:10,210
\ndon’t make what I broke right.
\nYou know, when I reflect back on<\/p>\n
415
\n00:25:10,210 –> 00:25:14,490
\nmy own situation when I was in
\nthe Middle East, I was asking <\/p>\n
416
\n00:25:15,770 –> 00:25:22,730
\nGod to reward me a bit for my
\nrighteousness, whatever that <\/p>\n
417
\n00:25:22,730 –> 00:25:25,770
\nwas.
\nI thought maybe. <\/p>\n
418
\n00:25:26,700 –> 00:25:31,740
\nGod owed me something because I
\nwas making sacrifices, and I <\/p>\n
419
\n00:25:31,740 –> 00:25:35,620
\nthink I was angry that in the
\nmidst of making those sacrifices<\/p>\n
420
\n00:25:36,700 –> 00:25:42,300
\nthat it was difficult, that I
\nfound life difficult, like a <\/p>\n
421
\n00:25:42,300 –> 00:25:46,060
\nchallenge.
\nI remember looking at this verse<\/p>\n
422
\n00:25:46,060 –> 00:25:48,940
\nin Isaac 64, verse six, which
\nI’m sure you’re familiar with, <\/p>\n
423
\n00:25:49,820 –> 00:25:54,660
\nand the verse says, but we are
\nall as an unclean thing. <\/p>\n
424
\n00:25:57,200 –> 00:26:02,840
\nAnd all our righteousnesses are
\nfilthy rags. <\/p>\n
425
\n00:26:04,600 –> 00:26:08,960
\nBut you know, that wasn’t my
\nattitude, because my attitude is<\/p>\n
426
\n00:26:08,960 –> 00:26:12,880
\nmore like, you know, God, look
\nat the lamb I brought you <\/p>\n
427
\n00:26:12,880 –> 00:26:16,120
\nyesterday, and the and the and
\nthe ox I slaughtered last week <\/p>\n
428
\n00:26:16,120 –> 00:26:17,760
\nand the turtle doves the week
\nbefore that. <\/p>\n
429
\n00:26:18,200 –> 00:26:21,320
\nYou know, look at all the
\nsacrifices I brought you, and <\/p>\n
430
\n00:26:21,320 –> 00:26:23,320
\nit’s almost as if.
\nYou know when the high priest <\/p>\n
431
\n00:26:23,320 –> 00:26:26,400
\nwould have brought these
\nsacrifices, you know, and he <\/p>\n
432
\n00:26:26,400 –> 00:26:27,640
\nwould have weighed them on the
\naltar? <\/p>\n
433
\n00:26:27,640 –> 00:26:28,960
\nYou think this wasn’t messy
\nwork? <\/p>\n
434
\n00:26:30,800 –> 00:26:35,920
\nImagine those, those Immaculate,
\nclean clothes after slaughtering<\/p>\n
435
\n00:26:35,920 –> 00:26:40,960
\na few animals, day after day
\nslaughtering those animals. <\/p>\n
436
\n00:26:41,080 –> 00:26:48,800
\nHow long till your clothes were
\njust covered in animal blood and<\/p>\n
437
\n00:26:48,800 –> 00:26:52,710
\nyour righteousness is?
\nThey just become filthy rags <\/p>\n
438
\n00:26:52,710 –> 00:26:56,430
\nbecause it’s not your
\nrighteousness. <\/p>\n
439
\n00:26:56,710 –> 00:27:05,230
\nAt all.
\nNow if it’s not works through <\/p>\n
440
\n00:27:05,230 –> 00:27:08,990
\nthe law that make us right, what
\nis it? <\/p>\n
441
\n00:27:09,710 –> 00:27:13,950
\nWhat does God surely want?
\nWhat is the basis of this <\/p>\n
442
\n00:27:13,950 –> 00:27:18,590
\nblessing on Israel and making
\nAbraham and his seed the air of <\/p>\n
443
\n00:27:18,590 –> 00:27:23,340
\na special inheritance?
\nSo chapter 4 then picks up from <\/p>\n
444
\n00:27:23,340 –> 00:27:30,660
\nthis and says if we’re all truly
\nunrighteous, on what basis this <\/p>\n
445
\n00:27:30,780 –> 00:27:34,820
\nGod, then count righteousness to
\nthose who are guilty. <\/p>\n
446
\n00:27:35,540 –> 00:27:37,100
\nBecause it’s undeniable that
\nwe’re guilty. <\/p>\n
447
\n00:27:37,140 –> 00:27:39,740
\nWe’ve sinned.
\nCan I have anyone who wants to <\/p>\n
448
\n00:27:39,740 –> 00:27:41,980
\nvolunteer and stand up and talk
\nto me about the fact that they <\/p>\n
449
\n00:27:41,980 –> 00:27:46,700
\nhaven’t sinned?
\nSo can I can I reasonably assume<\/p>\n
450
\n00:27:46,700 –> 00:27:48,820
\nthat everyone in this room has
\nsinned? <\/p>\n
451
\n00:27:49,930 –> 00:27:51,970
\nIs that a safe assumption?
\nOkay. <\/p>\n
452
\n00:27:52,570 –> 00:27:54,210
\nSo we’re all on the same basis
\nthen? <\/p>\n
453
\n00:27:55,290 –> 00:27:58,610
\nWe’re not just we’re not
\nrighteous. <\/p>\n
454
\n00:27:59,810 –> 00:28:05,010
\nSo why?
\nAnd on what basis Is God going <\/p>\n
455
\n00:28:05,010 –> 00:28:11,170
\nto count righteousness for you?
\nWhy is God going to look at you <\/p>\n
456
\n00:28:11,770 –> 00:28:16,730
\nand find righteousness when it’s
\nnot from your moral perfection, <\/p>\n
457
\n00:28:16,810 –> 00:28:20,370
\nPerfection?
\nAnd Paul explains that it’s <\/p>\n
458
\n00:28:20,370 –> 00:28:27,330
\nfaith and faith was the basis on
\nwhich God counts righteousness <\/p>\n
459
\n00:28:27,330 –> 00:28:30,610
\nfor those who aren’t righteous.
\nNow the verse we want to <\/p>\n
460
\n00:28:30,610 –> 00:28:34,850
\nunderline is found in Roman
\nShepherd 4 verse 16, again <\/p>\n
461
\n00:28:34,850 –> 00:28:41,050
\nreading on the new King James.
\nTherefore it is a faith that it <\/p>\n
462
\n00:28:41,050 –> 00:28:44,810
\nmight be according to grace, so
\nthat the promise might be sure <\/p>\n
463
\n00:28:45,130 –> 00:28:48,710
\nto all the seed.
\nNot only to those who are of the<\/p>\n
464
\n00:28:48,710 –> 00:28:52,870
\nlaw, but also to those who are
\nof the faith of Abraham, who is <\/p>\n
465
\n00:28:52,870 –> 00:28:55,550
\nthe father of us all.
\nSo you might want to underline, <\/p>\n
466
\n00:28:55,710 –> 00:28:58,790
\ntherefore it is a faith that
\nmight be according to grace. <\/p>\n
467
\n00:29:00,470 –> 00:29:03,190
\nSo that is the basis on which
\nGod is going to count <\/p>\n
468
\n00:29:03,190 –> 00:29:07,870
\nrighteousness to those who
\naren’t of themselves righteous. <\/p>\n
469
\n00:29:09,030 –> 00:29:11,790
\nSo then chapter 5, then Paul
\naddresses this important <\/p>\n
470
\n00:29:11,790 –> 00:29:13,910
\nquestion.
\nIf we’re guilty and the law <\/p>\n
471
\n00:29:13,910 –> 00:29:15,910
\ncan’t say this, but the law
\ncondemns us. <\/p>\n
472
\n00:29:16,420 –> 00:29:18,860
\nAnd truly, God counts
\nrighteousness based on faith. <\/p>\n
473
\n00:29:19,060 –> 00:29:20,380
\nWhat do you have to have faith
\nin? <\/p>\n
474
\n00:29:23,140 –> 00:29:26,260
\nAnd the answer is God’s
\nwillingness to forgive through <\/p>\n
475
\n00:29:26,300 –> 00:29:29,220
\nJesus Christ.
\nThat’s what you have to faith <\/p>\n
476
\n00:29:29,220 –> 00:29:31,620
\nin.
\nThat he’s willing to forgive <\/p>\n
477
\n00:29:32,740 –> 00:29:36,500
\nthrough Jesus Christ, that he’s
\nwilling to forgive. <\/p>\n
478
\n00:29:36,740 –> 00:29:38,220
\nThat’s what you have to have
\nfaith. <\/p>\n
479
\n00:29:38,220 –> 00:29:40,400
\nIn.
\nAnd he goes on to this <\/p>\n
480
\n00:29:40,400 –> 00:29:42,000
\nexplanation.
\nI’m not going to spend much time<\/p>\n
481
\n00:29:42,000 –> 00:29:44,760
\non it all, really.
\nBut he says, listen, if if death<\/p>\n
482
\n00:29:45,000 –> 00:29:48,760
\nand mortality and sinfulness and
\nwillfulness can all come through<\/p>\n
483
\n00:29:48,760 –> 00:29:53,000
\none man, which is Adam, then
\nsurely they can all be reversed <\/p>\n
484
\n00:29:53,000 –> 00:29:56,880
\nthrough one man, which is Jesus.
\nIf all those things can enter <\/p>\n
485
\n00:29:56,880 –> 00:29:59,840
\nthe world through one man, and
\nthat you’ve inherited all those <\/p>\n
486
\n00:29:59,840 –> 00:30:04,480
\nthings through one man, surely
\nthrough another man, they can <\/p>\n
487
\n00:30:04,480 –> 00:30:08,560
\nall be taken away.
\nAnd that man is Jesus Christ. <\/p>\n
488
\n00:30:09,520 –> 00:30:14,080
\nSo in chapter 5 then our Verses,
\nchapter 5, verse 19, Chapter 5 <\/p>\n
489
\n00:30:14,080 –> 00:30:16,760
\nis kind of hard to find a single
\nverse, but this would be the <\/p>\n
490
\n00:30:16,760 –> 00:30:19,120
\nbest one.
\nChapter 5, verse 19. <\/p>\n
491
\n00:30:19,120 –> 00:30:32,380
\nBy 1 man’s obedience many will
\nbe made righteous so God saves <\/p>\n
492
\n00:30:32,380 –> 00:30:34,260
\nthrough his righteousness.
\nWe’re actually going to get into<\/p>\n
493
\n00:30:34,260 –> 00:30:38,020
\nthat subject in much more detail
\nin a later study because I <\/p>\n
494
\n00:30:38,020 –> 00:30:41,660
\nrealized by the way, I haven’t
\nreally covered the why God saves<\/p>\n
495
\n00:30:41,660 –> 00:30:42,980
\nthrough his righteousness bit
\nyet. <\/p>\n
496
\n00:30:43,790 –> 00:30:46,510
\nBut that’s so important.
\nI just need to give it more time<\/p>\n
497
\n00:30:46,510 –> 00:30:51,070
\nand in a later study.
\nSo then chapter 6 begins, Well, <\/p>\n
498
\n00:30:51,070 –> 00:30:55,550
\ngreat God.
\nGod is going to save through his<\/p>\n
499
\n00:30:55,550 –> 00:30:58,550
\nrighteousness gets great.
\nYou know, God is going to impute<\/p>\n
500
\n00:30:58,550 –> 00:31:01,150
\nrighteousness by faith.
\nWell then I guess I don’t have <\/p>\n
501
\n00:31:01,150 –> 00:31:03,470
\nto worry too much about sinning.
\nI can just sort of sin that <\/p>\n
502
\n00:31:03,470 –> 00:31:06,190
\ngrace may have bound.
\nNow that is a very relevant <\/p>\n
503
\n00:31:06,190 –> 00:31:10,750
\nquestion for our day and age.
\nTaking sin lightly doesn’t <\/p>\n
504
\n00:31:10,750 –> 00:31:12,190
\nreally matter.
\nJust have faith. <\/p>\n
505
\n00:31:12,680 –> 00:31:15,600
\nIn fact, not trying to sin is
\njust too hard. <\/p>\n
506
\n00:31:15,600 –> 00:31:20,040
\nSo I’m just going to basically,
\nI’m just going to not try and <\/p>\n
507
\n00:31:20,040 –> 00:31:23,760
\njust kind of count on the fact
\nthat I can be forgiven anyway. <\/p>\n
508
\n00:31:23,760 –> 00:31:25,920
\nSo repentance really is not that
\nimportant. <\/p>\n
509
\n00:31:28,000 –> 00:31:29,600
\nThat attitude is not going to
\nget you very far. <\/p>\n
510
\n00:31:29,600 –> 00:31:32,640
\nNot going to get me very far
\neither, but we’ll take that up <\/p>\n
511
\n00:31:32,640 –> 00:31:35,080
\nanother class too.
\nSo Chapter 6, actually, I’m <\/p>\n
512
\n00:31:35,080 –> 00:31:36,840
\ngoing to kind of skip over for
\nthe moment just because we’re <\/p>\n
513
\n00:31:36,840 –> 00:31:40,480
\ngoing to take up Chapter 6 and
\nmaybe our next two studies going<\/p>\n
514
\n00:31:40,480 –> 00:31:41,920
\nto spread across those two
\nstudies. <\/p>\n
515
\n00:31:42,900 –> 00:31:47,580
\nIn explaining Chapter 7.
\nSo, so now we find ourselves <\/p>\n
516
\n00:31:47,580 –> 00:31:50,940
\nback in Chapter 7 and Paul is
\nstill in the midst of really in <\/p>\n
517
\n00:31:50,940 –> 00:31:53,780
\nChapter 7, defending the gospel
\nagainst this clever attack. <\/p>\n
518
\n00:31:54,220 –> 00:32:00,100
\nOh by the way, I should do my
\nlast slide, chapter 6, because <\/p>\n
519
\n00:32:00,100 –> 00:32:06,100
\nhe saves be righteous.
\nSo now we find ourselves in <\/p>\n
520
\n00:32:06,100 –> 00:32:08,580
\nChapter 7 and Paul, I think in
\nChapter 7 is still really <\/p>\n
521
\n00:32:08,580 –> 00:32:10,500
\naddressing this issue.
\nShall we? <\/p>\n
522
\n00:32:11,160 –> 00:32:13,800
\nSin that grace may have been.
\nIt’s very clever attack. <\/p>\n
523
\n00:32:13,800 –> 00:32:17,600
\nIt’s a it’s a it’s a question
\nwhich is still very relevant to <\/p>\n
524
\n00:32:17,600 –> 00:32:24,400
\nour own attitudes.
\nAnd in the midst of this we find<\/p>\n
525
\n00:32:24,400 –> 00:32:26,800
\nourselves in Romans Chapter 7,
\nverse 7, which is where we <\/p>\n
526
\n00:32:26,800 –> 00:32:30,680
\nstarted.
\nWhat shall we say then is the <\/p>\n
527
\n00:32:30,680 –> 00:32:36,040
\nlost sin?
\nNow why is this such an <\/p>\n
528
\n00:32:36,040 –> 00:32:40,460
\nimportant argument for us today?
\nYou know, Paul’s made very clear<\/p>\n
529
\n00:32:40,460 –> 00:32:44,140
\nthat no flesh, not Jews or
\nGentiles, is just before God in <\/p>\n
530
\n00:32:44,140 –> 00:32:46,540
\nalmost every context.
\nPaul’s even mentioned the law. <\/p>\n
531
\n00:32:47,380 –> 00:32:51,980
\nIt’s been to say what that a law
\nreally defines right from wrong,<\/p>\n
532
\n00:32:51,980 –> 00:32:54,940
\nand by doing just that, by
\ndefining right from wrong, it <\/p>\n
533
\n00:32:54,940 –> 00:32:58,820
\ncondemns us.
\nBut now the arguments being made<\/p>\n
534
\n00:32:58,860 –> 00:33:02,820
\nIs the law sinful?
\nIs the law sinful? <\/p>\n
535
\n00:33:02,820 –> 00:33:05,860
\nWhy?
\nBecause every time that God <\/p>\n
536
\n00:33:05,860 –> 00:33:08,460
\nmakes the law.
\nEvery time. <\/p>\n
537
\n00:33:09,360 –> 00:33:14,240
\nGod makes a law.
\nSin is the inevitable <\/p>\n
538
\n00:33:14,240 –> 00:33:21,200
\nconsequence for man, at least
\nfor yes, you and I see the law <\/p>\n
539
\n00:33:21,200 –> 00:33:26,120
\nreally shows that man is sinful.
\nThat’s the purpose of the law. <\/p>\n
540
\n00:33:27,400 –> 00:33:30,320
\nThe law is there, like a
\nflashlight in a dark place, <\/p>\n
541
\n00:33:31,120 –> 00:33:38,270
\nshining light on what is sin.
\nSo every time that God makes a <\/p>\n
542
\n00:33:38,270 –> 00:33:40,830
\nlaw, it really what does that
\nlaw do? <\/p>\n
543
\n00:33:41,150 –> 00:33:47,150
\nIt shines this light on us.
\nAnd so now, through the light of<\/p>\n
544
\n00:33:47,150 –> 00:33:50,830
\nwhat God has shined on us, we
\nunderstand what sin is because <\/p>\n
545
\n00:33:50,830 –> 00:33:53,550
\nas in God’s law, we really be
\nconfused about it. <\/p>\n
546
\n00:33:54,630 –> 00:34:00,870
\nWe wouldn’t think sin is sin,
\nI’m sure of it, but let’s step <\/p>\n
547
\n00:34:00,870 –> 00:34:04,310
\nback for a moment.
\nWhy does that matter to you? <\/p>\n
548
\n00:34:06,180 –> 00:34:07,420
\nAnd you follow along with the
\ntext. <\/p>\n
549
\n00:34:07,420 –> 00:34:09,940
\nWe see the argument.
\nHopefully now you have some <\/p>\n
550
\n00:34:09,940 –> 00:34:12,380
\nthings underlined.
\nYou know, if you didn’t bring a <\/p>\n
551
\n00:34:12,380 –> 00:34:15,540
\npencil to this class tomorrow,
\nbring a pencil. <\/p>\n
552
\n00:34:16,139 –> 00:34:19,219
\nYou know, make some notes so
\nthat you don’t get confused. <\/p>\n
553
\n00:34:19,219 –> 00:34:24,900
\nBy this, I mean when I ask young
\npeople if they understand <\/p>\n
554
\n00:34:24,900 –> 00:34:28,659
\nRomans, which is the best
\nexhibition of the gospel and all<\/p>\n
555
\n00:34:28,659 –> 00:34:30,620
\nthe Bible, inevitably the answer
\nis no. <\/p>\n
556
\n00:34:32,500 –> 00:34:35,300
\nAnd I think it’s sadly the case
\nthat that that it’s true also of<\/p>\n
557
\n00:34:35,300 –> 00:34:36,699
\nsome of us older
\nChristadelphians. <\/p>\n
558
\n00:34:39,139 –> 00:34:41,420
\nBut this is this is, this is
\nimportant. <\/p>\n
559
\n00:34:42,020 –> 00:34:45,139
\nBut why is it important?
\nWhat is behind this argument <\/p>\n
560
\n00:34:46,020 –> 00:34:52,860
\nthat’s important for us?
\nPaul responds to this question <\/p>\n
561
\n00:34:52,860 –> 00:34:56,380
\nof is the law sin by saying On
\nthe contrary, I would not have <\/p>\n
562
\n00:34:56,380 –> 00:34:59,100
\nknown sin except through the
\nlaw. <\/p>\n
563
\n00:35:01,220 –> 00:35:03,640
\nSo I ask you.
\nEspecially for young people. <\/p>\n
564
\n00:35:03,640 –> 00:35:05,400
\nBut I guess it’s relevant for
\nall of us. <\/p>\n
565
\n00:35:07,720 –> 00:35:14,280
\nDo you know sin?
\nDo you understand your sin? <\/p>\n
566
\n00:35:17,080 –> 00:35:22,360
\nYou know it’s hard enough when
\nyou’re young, but I think that <\/p>\n
567
\n00:35:22,360 –> 00:35:27,640
\nsociety today makes this almost
\nimpossible. <\/p>\n
568
\n00:35:29,600 –> 00:35:31,720
\nBut unless you learn the lesson
\nof the law. <\/p>\n
569
\n00:35:32,950 –> 00:35:36,590
\nHow can you ever appreciate the
\ngrace of Christ? <\/p>\n
570
\n00:35:37,110 –> 00:35:38,710
\nAnd I really want to say this
\nemphatically. <\/p>\n
571
\n00:35:40,790 –> 00:35:42,710
\nWhat I want to say is the fact
\nthat you’re guilty. <\/p>\n
572
\n00:35:42,710 –> 00:35:47,350
\nI don’t want to say it because I
\nget anything out of it. <\/p>\n
573
\n00:35:47,750 –> 00:35:50,030
\nI want to say because I have to
\nbe true to what Paul’s written <\/p>\n
574
\n00:35:50,030 –> 00:35:51,350
\ndown here.
\nI had no choice. <\/p>\n
575
\n00:35:51,350 –> 00:35:54,110
\nIt’s in the text.
\nYou’re guilty. <\/p>\n
576
\n00:35:54,390 –> 00:36:00,510
\nYou know, I can’t even talk to
\nyou about grace in Christ. <\/p>\n
577
\n00:36:01,150 –> 00:36:04,550
\nAbout the righteousness of faith
\nuntil you appreciate that point.<\/p>\n
578
\n00:36:04,550 –> 00:36:08,510
\nIn fact, if you’re not at the
\npoint where you ready to <\/p>\n
579
\n00:36:08,510 –> 00:36:12,630
\nunderstand that when Paul says
\nin Romans chapter 3 and verse 23<\/p>\n
580
\n00:36:12,790 –> 00:36:22,590
\nthat all are under sin, that all
\nare unjust, that none is <\/p>\n
581
\n00:36:22,590 –> 00:36:25,390
\nrighteous, you’re not ready to
\nacknowledge that, then why <\/p>\n
582
\n00:36:25,390 –> 00:36:26,790
\nbother with chapter four and
\nfive? <\/p>\n
583
\n00:36:26,790 –> 00:36:29,430
\nIn fact, just close your Bible
\nand go home. <\/p>\n
584
\n00:36:31,470 –> 00:36:34,830
\nBecause the rest of this weekend
\nis not going to do you any good.<\/p>\n
585
\n00:36:36,750 –> 00:36:40,230
\nBecause the rest of this weekend
\nrests on the premise that you <\/p>\n
586
\n00:36:40,230 –> 00:36:44,670
\nbelieve Paul what he said in
\nchapters 1-2 and three. <\/p>\n
587
\n00:36:45,510 –> 00:36:49,670
\nBecause until you’re ready to
\nunderstand that you’re not ready<\/p>\n
588
\n00:36:49,670 –> 00:36:52,750
\nto need Jesus.
\nWhy would you need Jesus? <\/p>\n
589
\n00:36:53,470 –> 00:36:54,870
\nIf you’re righteous without
\nJesus? <\/p>\n
590
\n00:36:54,870 –> 00:36:57,590
\nGo ahead and be righteous.
\nGood for you. <\/p>\n
591
\n00:37:04,060 –> 00:37:08,620
\nBut if you’re not righteous,
\nthen maybe you do need him. <\/p>\n
592
\n00:37:10,780 –> 00:37:12,900
\nYou know, outside the
\nintroduction to Romans. <\/p>\n
593
\n00:37:14,620 –> 00:37:16,260
\nOops.
\nThat’s a shame. <\/p>\n
594
\n00:37:17,260 –> 00:37:22,740
\nOutside of the introduction for
\nRomans chapter, Paul doesn’t <\/p>\n
595
\n00:37:22,740 –> 00:37:25,860
\neven mention Jesus.
\nAgain, until chapter 5. <\/p>\n
596
\n00:37:26,980 –> 00:37:32,060
\nHere we have this this brilliant
\nexposition of the Gospel. <\/p>\n
597
\n00:37:32,960 –> 00:37:36,880
\nAnd outside of introducing the
\nsubject and Romans one those <\/p>\n
598
\n00:37:36,880 –> 00:37:39,960
\nearly verses, he doesn’t even
\nmention Jesus again until <\/p>\n
599
\n00:37:39,960 –> 00:37:44,440
\nchapter 5.
\nBecause you know what, unless <\/p>\n
600
\n00:37:44,440 –> 00:37:47,960
\nchapter 2-3 and four makes sense
\nto you, especially chapters 2 <\/p>\n
601
\n00:37:47,960 –> 00:37:50,680
\nand three, why do you need
\nJesus? <\/p>\n
602
\n00:37:51,040 –> 00:37:53,280
\nHe’s not even relevant until
\nchapter 5. <\/p>\n
603
\n00:37:56,640 –> 00:38:00,760
\nBut I believe this message is
\nslowly losing force a day. <\/p>\n
604
\n00:38:01,810 –> 00:38:08,810
\nBecause the day we’re bombarded
\nby messages about a God that has<\/p>\n
605
\n00:38:08,810 –> 00:38:14,210
\nno right and wrong, a God that
\ndoesn’t have a truth, but he has<\/p>\n
606
\n00:38:14,210 –> 00:38:19,010
\ntruths, doesn’t have wrong, but
\nhe has tolerance. <\/p>\n
607
\n00:38:20,290 –> 00:38:25,490
\nThere’s no path but paths.
\nAnd according to the wise of our<\/p>\n
608
\n00:38:25,490 –> 00:38:30,250
\nage, they all lead to the same
\nplace, but we know where that <\/p>\n
609
\n00:38:30,250 –> 00:38:33,330
\nplace leads.
\nIt does all lead to the same <\/p>\n
610
\n00:38:33,330 –> 00:38:36,050
\nplace.
\nFortunately, that place is <\/p>\n
611
\n00:38:36,050 –> 00:38:41,250
\ndeath, you know.
\nBut today’s spiritual thinking, <\/p>\n
612
\n00:38:41,490 –> 00:38:45,090
\nyou know, spiritual practice,
\nit’s just it’s a matter of <\/p>\n
613
\n00:38:45,090 –> 00:38:47,890
\nchoice.
\nYou see, no one can decide for <\/p>\n
614
\n00:38:47,890 –> 00:38:52,130
\nsomeone else what their path
\nshould be, or or or judge that <\/p>\n
615
\n00:38:52,130 –> 00:38:53,890
\none path is superior to another
\npath. <\/p>\n
616
\n00:38:54,050 –> 00:38:59,890
\nWe can’t even judge morals.
\nI mean, is getting drunk okay? <\/p>\n
617
\n00:39:01,050 –> 00:39:02,970
\nI don’t know.
\nDid I hurt anyone? <\/p>\n
618
\n00:39:03,490 –> 00:39:06,050
\nOur same sex unions?
\nOK, I don’t know. <\/p>\n
619
\n00:39:06,050 –> 00:39:08,850
\nAre they in love?
\nIs mouthing off your parents and<\/p>\n
620
\n00:39:08,850 –> 00:39:10,290
\nelders OK?
\nI don’t know. <\/p>\n
621
\n00:39:10,290 –> 00:39:11,930
\nDid they say something that they
\ndeserved it? <\/p>\n
622
\n00:39:12,330 –> 00:39:14,690
\nIs it OK to listen to music with
\nshoddy lyrics? <\/p>\n
623
\n00:39:15,010 –> 00:39:19,250
\nI don’t know.
\nThat’s just what they think you <\/p>\n
624
\n00:39:19,250 –> 00:39:20,370
\nknow.
\nThe answer to each and every <\/p>\n
625
\n00:39:20,370 –> 00:39:24,530
\nquestion today is based off this
\nidea of personal righteousness. <\/p>\n
626
\n00:39:25,900 –> 00:39:28,580
\nAnd every answer is, is I don’t
\nknow, It depends. <\/p>\n
627
\n00:39:28,780 –> 00:39:30,540
\nMaybe.
\nOr maybe not, or some wishy <\/p>\n
628
\n00:39:30,540 –> 00:39:34,940
\nwashy answer that turns anything
\nGod has said into some sickly <\/p>\n
629
\n00:39:34,940 –> 00:39:38,260
\nGray soup.
\nWe all exercise our own personal<\/p>\n
630
\n00:39:38,260 –> 00:39:41,180
\nwisdom and our own personal
\nrighteousness, and my decision <\/p>\n
631
\n00:39:41,180 –> 00:39:43,540
\nis right for me, and your
\ndecision is right for you, and <\/p>\n
632
\n00:39:43,740 –> 00:39:50,540
\nno one can tell you otherwise.
\nBut what says the Lord with <\/p>\n
633
\n00:39:50,540 –> 00:39:53,900
\ncertain some level of ambiguity
\nunder the law? <\/p>\n
634
\n00:39:55,420 –> 00:39:57,260
\nSo the law is so desperately
\nconfused. <\/p>\n
635
\n00:39:57,260 –> 00:40:00,580
\nRight from wrong or good from
\nbad or holy from profane. <\/p>\n
636
\n00:40:02,700 –> 00:40:05,700
\nI’ll tell you who confused,
\nright from wrong, good from bad.<\/p>\n
637
\n00:40:06,660 –> 00:40:11,540
\nAnd that’s a serpent.
\nAnd that serpents in you and <\/p>\n
638
\n00:40:11,540 –> 00:40:13,380
\nserpents in me.
\nAnd it must be crushed. <\/p>\n
639
\n00:40:14,540 –> 00:40:21,700
\nAnd it will not be crushed based
\non your version of righteousness<\/p>\n
640
\n00:40:22,860 –> 00:40:28,080
\nand not based on my version.
\nBecause the serpent is our own <\/p>\n
641
\n00:40:28,080 –> 00:40:34,000
\nversion of righteousness.
\nThe serpent is our own version <\/p>\n
642
\n00:40:34,000 –> 00:40:39,880
\nof righteousness.
\nSo that version will never take <\/p>\n
643
\n00:40:39,880 –> 00:40:43,040
\nit away.
\nIt only strengthens it. <\/p>\n
644
\n00:40:45,040 –> 00:40:48,400
\nAnd the Law stood there as an
\nannouncement of God’s decision <\/p>\n
645
\n00:40:48,400 –> 00:40:50,820
\non a matter.
\nAnd through it you’re guilty, <\/p>\n
646
\n00:40:50,940 –> 00:40:53,900
\ndeserving of death, and actually
\nwith no prospect of relief in <\/p>\n
647
\n00:40:53,900 –> 00:40:57,540
\nits pages.
\nSo are you guilty? <\/p>\n
648
\n00:41:00,340 –> 00:41:03,940
\nYes.
\nBut you don’t believe that, do <\/p>\n
649
\n00:41:03,940 –> 00:41:05,620
\nyou?
\nYou see, you think you still <\/p>\n
650
\n00:41:05,620 –> 00:41:08,460
\nhave some choice.
\nYou think you still have some <\/p>\n
651
\n00:41:08,460 –> 00:41:11,450
\nwiggle room here.
\nYou. <\/p>\n
652
\n00:41:15,350 –> 00:41:20,790
\nStill sort of think that you’re
\nright, but where do you find <\/p>\n
653
\n00:41:20,790 –> 00:41:25,230
\nwiggle room in the law?
\nThere’s none. <\/p>\n
654
\n00:41:27,310 –> 00:41:32,190
\nThat’s the point.
\nHow many sacrifices can you <\/p>\n
655
\n00:41:32,190 –> 00:41:39,350
\nbring, God, once you murdered
\nUriah to make that better, How <\/p>\n
656
\n00:41:39,350 –> 00:41:43,550
\nmany good deeds are you going to
\ndo to make it better that you’ve<\/p>\n
657
\n00:41:43,550 –> 00:41:49,190
\nsinned?
\nThere’s no wiggle room. <\/p>\n
658
\n00:41:51,860 –> 00:41:54,140
\nAnd I guess if we don’t accept
\nyoung people that there is right<\/p>\n
659
\n00:41:54,140 –> 00:42:00,860
\nand wrong and that God has laid
\nit down and through it each of <\/p>\n
660
\n00:42:00,860 –> 00:42:03,180
\nus, both believer and
\nunbeliever, has fallen short, <\/p>\n
661
\n00:42:03,180 –> 00:42:05,580
\nthen we have no basis on which
\nto continue these studies. <\/p>\n
662
\n00:42:06,900 –> 00:42:09,380
\nBecause in that world, you don’t
\nneed Christ, you don’t need <\/p>\n
663
\n00:42:09,380 –> 00:42:12,020
\nbaptism, you don’t need truth,
\ncertainly someone else’s version<\/p>\n
664
\n00:42:12,020 –> 00:42:14,820
\nof truth.
\nAnd you don’t need each other <\/p>\n
665
\n00:42:14,820 –> 00:42:16,620
\neither, because why would you
\nneed one another? <\/p>\n
666
\n00:42:16,940 –> 00:42:18,420
\nTheir version of truth is right
\nfor them. <\/p>\n
667
\n00:42:18,420 –> 00:42:19,540
\nIt’s different than your
\nversion. <\/p>\n
668
\n00:42:19,740 –> 00:42:21,100
\nWhy do you need to hear about
\ntheirs? <\/p>\n
669
\n00:42:24,780 –> 00:42:26,380
\nWhat is the source of
\nrighteousness? <\/p>\n
670
\n00:42:26,500 –> 00:42:28,380
\nWhat is the gauge of right and
\nwrong? <\/p>\n
671
\n00:42:28,620 –> 00:42:32,140
\nIs it our Heavenly Father, or is
\nit your feelings? <\/p>\n
672
\n00:42:34,420 –> 00:42:36,620
\nWhat if God’s truth gets in the
\nway of your feelings? <\/p>\n
673
\n00:42:38,260 –> 00:42:46,190
\nWhat then?
\nAnd if it’s our Heavenly Father <\/p>\n
674
\n00:42:46,190 –> 00:42:52,470
\nwho’s right, then we need
\nChrist, because we’re not just, <\/p>\n
675
\n00:42:53,550 –> 00:42:58,130
\nbut he is.
\nAnd So what Paul really does is <\/p>\n
676
\n00:42:58,130 –> 00:43:01,050
\nhe proves the point in chapter
\nseven with his own experience. <\/p>\n
677
\n00:43:03,010 –> 00:43:08,010
\nHe proves the point of whether
\nthe law is sin, whether he <\/p>\n
678
\n00:43:08,010 –> 00:43:11,450
\nhimself is sinful with his own
\nexperience. <\/p>\n
679
\n00:43:12,010 –> 00:43:15,370
\nAnd so we read in Chapter 7
\nabout Paul discussing this <\/p>\n
680
\n00:43:15,370 –> 00:43:18,210
\nexperience, Chapter 7, verses 7
\nthrough 9. <\/p>\n
681
\n00:43:18,490 –> 00:43:20,130
\nWhat should we say then?
\nIs the law sin? <\/p>\n
682
\n00:43:20,130 –> 00:43:23,430
\nCertainly not.
\nOn the contrary, I wouldn’t have<\/p>\n
683
\n00:43:23,430 –> 00:43:27,350
\nnot known sin except through the
\nlaw, for I would not have known <\/p>\n
684
\n00:43:27,350 –> 00:43:32,430
\ncovetousness, unless the law had
\nsaid You shall not covet but <\/p>\n
685
\n00:43:32,430 –> 00:43:36,190
\nsin, taking opportunity by the
\ncommandment produced in me all <\/p>\n
686
\n00:43:36,190 –> 00:43:41,870
\nmanner of evil desire.
\nFor apart from the law, sin was <\/p>\n
687
\n00:43:41,870 –> 00:43:45,430
\ndead.
\nI was alive once without the <\/p>\n
688
\n00:43:45,430 –> 00:43:48,430
\nlaw, But when the commandment
\ncame, sin revived, and I died, <\/p>\n
689
\n00:43:49,190 –> 00:43:51,310
\nand the commandment which was to
\nbring life. <\/p>\n
690
\n00:43:51,850 –> 00:43:55,810
\nI found to bring death for sin,
\ntaking occasion by the <\/p>\n
691
\n00:43:55,810 –> 00:43:58,410
\ncommandment, deceived me and by
\nit killed me. <\/p>\n
692
\n00:43:59,370 –> 00:44:02,130
\nTherefore the law is holy and
\nthe commandment is holy and <\/p>\n
693
\n00:44:02,130 –> 00:44:03,010
\njust.
\nAnd good. <\/p>\n
694
\n00:44:05,690 –> 00:44:07,570
\nSo we.
\nSee in Chapter 7 that Paul <\/p>\n
695
\n00:44:07,570 –> 00:44:11,250
\nproves us the law is good, it’s
\nholy and just, but it’s that we <\/p>\n
696
\n00:44:11,250 –> 00:44:13,490
\naren’t.
\nThat’s my only point for this <\/p>\n
697
\n00:44:13,490 –> 00:44:15,610
\nclass.
\nWe’ll get into the rest of. <\/p>\n
698
\n00:44:15,610 –> 00:44:18,210
\nThere’s a lot of details there.
\nThey’re important my my point <\/p>\n
699
\n00:44:18,210 –> 00:44:22,340
\nfor this class.
\nIs the basis on which we can <\/p>\n
700
\n00:44:22,340 –> 00:44:27,460
\ndiscuss Chapter 7, and that
\nbasis is our need of Christ. <\/p>\n
701
\n00:44:29,940 –> 00:44:33,220
\nSo we live in this world which
\ncontinually challenges God’s <\/p>\n
702
\n00:44:33,220 –> 00:44:37,700
\ndefinition of right and wrong.
\nThe God of our times has no <\/p>\n
703
\n00:44:37,740 –> 00:44:41,460
\nright and wrong, no path, no
\ntruth, but shades of Gray. <\/p>\n
704
\n00:44:42,140 –> 00:44:46,780
\nSufficient that you can actually
\nlive your life on your terms <\/p>\n
705
\n00:44:47,780 –> 00:44:51,910
\nwithout any guilt at all.
\nI don’t want to make you feel <\/p>\n
706
\n00:44:51,910 –> 00:44:54,150
\nguilty, by the way.
\nThat’s not the point of this <\/p>\n
707
\n00:44:54,150 –> 00:44:56,510
\nclass.
\nIt’s really kind of a struggle <\/p>\n
708
\n00:44:56,630 –> 00:44:58,150
\nthat we have this class.
\nBut you have to wait till <\/p>\n
709
\n00:44:58,150 –> 00:45:00,990
\ntomorrow for the rest because
\nI’m not going to leave you <\/p>\n
710
\n00:45:00,990 –> 00:45:03,070
\nthere.
\nBut I have no other choice but <\/p>\n
711
\n00:45:03,070 –> 00:45:05,590
\nto take you there because that’s
\nwhat Paul does. <\/p>\n
712
\n00:45:10,110 –> 00:45:12,870
\nThe danger.
\nWe have young people and <\/p>\n
713
\n00:45:13,870 –> 00:45:15,830
\neveryone else.
\nWho’s everyone else. <\/p>\n
714
\n00:45:15,830 –> 00:45:18,070
\nRaise your hand if you’re not
\nyoung, but you’re everyone else.<\/p>\n
715
\n00:45:18,710 –> 00:45:20,670
\nNot enough hands.
\nYou’re definitely more. <\/p>\n
716
\n00:45:20,670 –> 00:45:26,390
\nEveryone else is out there.
\nBut the the trouble everyone <\/p>\n
717
\n00:45:26,390 –> 00:45:32,590
\nelse and young people is that we
\nwant to believe in that God that<\/p>\n
718
\n00:45:32,590 –> 00:45:37,430
\nhas truths and paths because it
\nsatisfies our own desires. <\/p>\n
719
\n00:45:38,350 –> 00:45:41,590
\nWe want to believe in a God that
\nwe can challenge because of our <\/p>\n
720
\n00:45:41,590 –> 00:45:43,950
\nrighteousness.
\nA God that maybe owes us <\/p>\n
721
\n00:45:43,950 –> 00:45:46,470
\nsomething.
\nBut you know what? <\/p>\n
722
\n00:45:47,910 –> 00:45:54,950
\nThat is not Yahweh, and that is
\nnot what he’s going to become. <\/p>\n
723
\n00:45:57,990 –> 00:46:02,390
\nHe’s not going to become.
\nThat he’s not going to put his <\/p>\n
724
\n00:46:02,390 –> 00:46:07,110
\nname on that.
\nAnd we look back to the original<\/p>\n
725
\n00:46:07,110 –> 00:46:10,310
\ntemptation in the Garden and
\nGenesis Chapter 3 and verse 5, <\/p>\n
726
\n00:46:10,310 –> 00:46:14,430
\nand we find that original
\ntemptation, that the first part <\/p>\n
727
\n00:46:14,430 –> 00:46:19,910
\nof the temptation was doubt.
\nDid God really say this? <\/p>\n
728
\n00:46:21,630 –> 00:46:23,710
\nYou know, and that’s how
\ntemptation works with us. <\/p>\n
729
\n00:46:24,550 –> 00:46:28,510
\nSo it’s not that someone is
\ngoing to tell you that your <\/p>\n
730
\n00:46:28,510 –> 00:46:32,110
\nversion of God is wrong because
\nit’s right for you. <\/p>\n
731
\n00:46:34,070 –> 00:46:37,550
\nThey’re just going to cast doubt
\non Did God really say this? <\/p>\n
732
\n00:46:39,110 –> 00:46:41,550
\nDoes God really want to be this
\nmean bully that just judges <\/p>\n
733
\n00:46:41,550 –> 00:46:44,510
\neveryone?
\nIs God just this this judge? <\/p>\n
734
\n00:46:46,560 –> 00:46:50,520
\nAnd so they make God out to not
\nwant what’s in your best <\/p>\n
735
\n00:46:50,520 –> 00:46:54,440
\ninterest.
\nThey make God out to not want <\/p>\n
736
\n00:46:54,440 –> 00:47:01,040
\nyour salvation.
\nThey make God out to not want <\/p>\n
737
\n00:47:01,040 –> 00:47:05,240
\nyou to be everything that he has
\nfor you to be. <\/p>\n
738
\n00:47:07,720 –> 00:47:09,840
\nThey make out God to be less
\nthan what he is. <\/p>\n
739
\n00:47:10,840 –> 00:47:13,840
\nAnd that’s what the serpent did.
\nGod doesn’t really want what’s <\/p>\n
740
\n00:47:13,840 –> 00:47:16,820
\nbest for you.
\nHe’s trying to hold you back. <\/p>\n
741
\n00:47:18,140 –> 00:47:24,140
\nSo he knows that when you eat of
\nthe fruit, you’re going to be <\/p>\n
742
\n00:47:24,140 –> 00:47:25,820
\nlike gods and So what?
\nYou know what? <\/p>\n
743
\n00:47:25,820 –> 00:47:28,820
\nGod is trying to keep something
\nof himself back from you. <\/p>\n
744
\n00:47:29,820 –> 00:47:31,620
\nHe doesn’t really want what’s in
\nyour best interest. <\/p>\n
745
\n00:47:31,620 –> 00:47:35,980
\nAnd So what what the temptation
\nis, is it’s it’s first a casting<\/p>\n
746
\n00:47:35,980 –> 00:47:42,420
\nof doubt isn’t how the world
\nworks within you isn’t the first<\/p>\n
747
\n00:47:42,420 –> 00:47:45,400
\nthing the world does.
\nTo weaken your faith is to cast.<\/p>\n
748
\n00:47:45,400 –> 00:47:52,360
\nDoubt and then it.
\nLies to you see, first it cast <\/p>\n
749
\n00:47:52,360 –> 00:47:55,200
\ndoubt.
\nAnd then it lies. <\/p>\n
750
\n00:47:57,880 –> 00:48:08,650
\nAnd the lie was found in Genesis
\nchapter 3, verse 5. <\/p>\n
751
\n00:48:08,650 –> 00:48:11,010
\nFor God knows that a day of it
\nyou you eat of it, your eyes <\/p>\n
752
\n00:48:11,010 –> 00:48:12,730
\nwill be open and you will.
\nBe like God. <\/p>\n
753
\n00:48:13,170 –> 00:48:15,770
\nKnowing good and evil.
\nActually, that’s not the lie. <\/p>\n
754
\n00:48:15,770 –> 00:48:19,980
\nThe lie comes before that.
\nIn Genesis chapter 3. <\/p>\n
755
\n00:48:21,140 –> 00:48:26,020
\nAnd the serpent said unto the
\nwoman, he shall not surely die. <\/p>\n
756
\n00:48:27,900 –> 00:48:30,620
\nSo first it cast doubt, then it
\nlies. <\/p>\n
757
\n00:48:30,620 –> 00:48:36,820
\nAnd what would you call the
\ntemptation? <\/p>\n
758
\n00:48:37,780 –> 00:48:41,060
\nThat your eyes will be opened
\nand that you will be like God, <\/p>\n
759
\n00:48:41,060 –> 00:48:42,420
\nknowing good and evil?
\nWhat would you call that <\/p>\n
760
\n00:48:42,420 –> 00:48:46,580
\ntemptation?
\nYou might you might call that <\/p>\n
761
\n00:48:46,580 –> 00:48:50,850
\ncovetousness.
\nSo the first sin was <\/p>\n
762
\n00:48:50,850 –> 00:48:57,570
\ncovetousness.
\nKnowing good and evil is any <\/p>\n
763
\n00:48:57,570 –> 00:49:03,290
\ndifferent today.
\nOr doesn’t man want to step into<\/p>\n
764
\n00:49:03,290 –> 00:49:08,050
\nthe position of God to say,
\nwell, this is good and evil for <\/p>\n
765
\n00:49:08,050 –> 00:49:09,250
\nme?
\nThis is. <\/p>\n
766
\n00:49:09,250 –> 00:49:13,400
\nMy definition of good and evil.
\nThis is what I think good and <\/p>\n
767
\n00:49:13,400 –> 00:49:15,720
\nevil are.
\nGod, this is good and you for <\/p>\n
768
\n00:49:15,720 –> 00:49:17,360
\nyou.
\nThat’s fine for the people that <\/p>\n
769
\n00:49:17,360 –> 00:49:21,120
\nwant to follow you.
\nBut this is what I think good <\/p>\n
770
\n00:49:21,120 –> 00:49:26,880
\nand evil really is.
\nAnd they want to step into the <\/p>\n
771
\n00:49:26,880 –> 00:49:29,840
\nplace of God, and they want to
\nchallenge God’s place and his <\/p>\n
772
\n00:49:29,840 –> 00:49:33,320
\nauthority.
\nAnd Paul says that any thought <\/p>\n
773
\n00:49:33,320 –> 00:49:36,880
\nof this is completely
\ninconsistent with the gospel. <\/p>\n
774
\n00:49:38,560 –> 00:49:40,560
\nAnd I ask you the question, It’s
\nvery simple. <\/p>\n
775
\n00:49:42,220 –> 00:49:52,610
\nOr Adam and Eve, just through
\nAdam all die, and through Christ<\/p>\n
776
\n00:49:52,730 –> 00:49:56,210
\nall shall be made alive.
\nAnd really, that’s the focus of <\/p>\n
777
\n00:49:56,210 –> 00:49:58,410
\nour studies in a sense, this
\nweekend together. <\/p>\n
778
\n00:49:58,610 –> 00:50:02,650
\nHow is it that in Christ all
\nwill be made alive? <\/p>\n
779
\n00:50:03,730 –> 00:50:07,250
\nWhy in Christ are all made
\nalive? <\/p>\n
780
\n00:50:07,970 –> 00:50:10,610
\nWhat does it even mean to be in
\nChrist? <\/p>\n
781
\n00:50:12,370 –> 00:50:17,080
\nWhat is that life?
\nThose are big questions and I <\/p>\n
782
\n00:50:17,080 –> 00:50:19,360
\nbelieve that our studies as we
\ncan try to address those <\/p>\n
783
\n00:50:19,360 –> 00:50:23,120
\nquestions together.
\nSo I believe that Paul in Roman <\/p>\n
784
\n00:50:23,120 –> 00:50:25,320
\n7 uses covetousness for a
\nreason. <\/p>\n
785
\n00:50:25,320 –> 00:50:29,440
\nCovetousness is a very
\nappropriate choice to illustrate<\/p>\n
786
\n00:50:29,440 –> 00:50:32,880
\nsin because it was covetousness
\nin the Garden of Eden and it’s <\/p>\n
787
\n00:50:32,880 –> 00:50:36,280
\ncovetous Now.
\nI believe that can keep us from <\/p>\n
788
\n00:50:36,280 –> 00:50:40,920
\nthe mercies of Christ, but it’s
\na humble decoration through <\/p>\n
789
\n00:50:40,920 –> 00:50:44,910
\nbaptism that God is righteous.
\nAnd that we need Christ that <\/p>\n
790
\n00:50:44,910 –> 00:50:50,550
\nreally set you and I apart as
\nbeing chosen not for our sake, <\/p>\n
791
\n00:50:50,550 –> 00:50:53,190
\nbut for God’s.
\nThat God would have all the <\/p>\n
792
\n00:50:53,190 –> 00:50:57,350
\nglory.
\nBut now that you’ve been set <\/p>\n
793
\n00:50:57,350 –> 00:51:01,750
\napart and chosen, what do you do
\nafter that? <\/p>\n
794
\n00:51:04,110 –> 00:51:05,430
\nWe’ll take that up in our next
\nstudy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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