Hello friends,
and welcome to another
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Wednesday Night
here in Thompsonville,
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more specifically
at 3ABN Worship Center.
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My name is,
Pastor John Lomacang,
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and welcome to
another program of
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"A Sharper Focus."
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If you're tuning in it
for the very first time,
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let me explain the
reason why we chose the title
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A Sharper Focus
and exactly what is it?
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First of all, this is the year
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of revival and reformation.
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At least our,
President Elder Wilson,
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has mentioned how
important it is to get back
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to revival and also reformation.
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For that reason,
many churches don't have
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Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting.
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So we decided to do something
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proactive here at 3ABN.
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To fill a gap in
some of the churches,
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maybe many churches that
may for whatever reason not
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be able to cover
Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting.
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So we're gonna have prayer.
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We're gonna
pray, we're gonna study
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and we're going to
trust the word of God
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to give us the
information that we do need
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to strengthen
our spiritual life.
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And that's why the topic is
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"How to Live a Spiritual
Life in a Natural Body."
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Now we have a lesson we
cover from week to week.
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You can get a copy of
that lesson if you go to our
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church website
tvsdac.org and download lesson
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001Victorious Christian Living.
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That's tvsdac.org
and download the lesson,
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so you can follow along
fill your blanks in and know
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what we're talking
about the questions
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and the answers will
also appear on the screen.
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You could also go
to our facebook page,
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that's A Sharper
Focus 3ABN on facebook
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to post your
prerequisite, your questions
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and your comments and
also on our twitter page,
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that's a
sharperfocus@twitter.com.
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And so we're
gonna use the technology
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for the glory of God and
for the spread of His message.
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Can you all say
amen to that? Amen.
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Lot of technology, lets
use it for the right reason.
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And we've a local audience here.
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I like you to
welcome our viewing audience
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and our listening
audience to simply say welcome.
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Welcome, and we're here
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in Thompsonville to
study the word of God.
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So get your friends together
get your Bibles together.
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If you're at church invite
people to sit down right now
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because we're gonna
go into a lesson study
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that is really important,
because every one of us
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wants to know how
to live victoriously.
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Not just when we get to
heaven by and by, but how to
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experience victory
right here and right now.
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Before we go any
further, lets begin with
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the word of prayer, let's pray.
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Our heavenly Father, we
thank you for Your word,
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we thank You for
guidance and direction
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that every one of
us is in need off.
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Lord one of the
greatest challenges of being
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a Christian is
living the Christian life.
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So often we remember
that we were born again
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and we were washed and redeemed
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by the blood of the Lamb.
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We were saved by grace,
but often times after that
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we experience one
defeat after the other,
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one failure after the
other, and so many times
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we try in our own
strength and yet we fail.
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But Lord tonight,
we'll discover once again
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that all things
are possible, if we put
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our hands in the hands of Jesus.
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We can do all
things through Christ,
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who strengthens us
from the inside out.
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So guide our
minds and our hearts,
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we pray this
evening that Your name maybe
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glorified in
Jesus name I pray, amen.
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Now just to let you
know that people have been
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following and going
to our website to post
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questions and also prerequisite.
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I'd like to encourage
those of you who listen
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to these requests
to remember the names
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that have been mentioned here.
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We want you not only
to send your request,
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but to make your
home a place of prayer.
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You maybe living
faraway from a church
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and you can't make
it because of distance.
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We're gonna
mention some of these names
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and even as you post
your own prerequisite,
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remember that its
important to pray and to trust
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the Lord for the answers
that will come in His time
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and according to His plan.
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Now we'd a question here
or a prerequisite at least,
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a person by the name of
Parnell seeks healing and
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recovery from a cold that
he has been suffering with.
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This is cold
season, isn't not? Yes.
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Everybody is
getting cold, but here
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in Southern Illinois
for some reason it's warm.
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I would its like
65 degrees today.
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And it's amazing to
know that even though
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its supposed to be
very, very cold is been very,
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very warm and we
thank the Lord for that.
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Suzie also seeks
prayer for her daughter Elis
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who has been
straying farther from the Lord
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and choices that
she has been making.
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She needs healing in
her life and a complete
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surrender to Christ,
also Jasmine asks that
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we pray for two specific
problems that she is facing
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with, that she is
faced with and that God
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will give her the
victory over both.
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We're talking about
victory and God will give her
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the victory that
she's in need of.
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And finally Elisha
struggles with praying
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consistently,
anybody else in here.
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You know, I read a
quotation where Satan
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has prayed four times a day.
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Now if Satan has
prayed four times a day,
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how many times a
day should we pray?
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At least four to
counteract the counterfeit
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as 3ABN is dedicated to doing.
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She prays, she's
asking for a prayer
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because she's struggling
with praying consistently.
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She knows how
important prayer is, and once
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got to draw her into a
more consistent prayer life.
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You know, what prayer
is? Prayer is talking to God.
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How many of us own
cell phones? Everybody.
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How many of us make phone calls?
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We make phone
calls, we send emails,
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we want to
communicate, its, yeah--
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it's as important
to talk to God as it is
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to wait for God to talk to us.
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So when you pray also
wait for the answers to come.
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They may come that
day, but they'll surely come
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and God knows
we're in need of them.
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Now tonight just to
recap some of the things
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we've learned, we've
learned lot of things
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in our last study and we
only covered 11 questions.
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So tonight we're beginning
with question number 12.
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What number did I say? Twelve.
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Question number 12,
what we covered last week
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and found out is that
we were born to reflect,
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we were created to
reflect the What of God.
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The image, or the glory of
God and as a result of sin,
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the Bible says for
all they have sinned
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and fall short
of the What? Glory.
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Of the glory of
God, so everybody,
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every one of us
being born in this world,
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every one of us
falls short of reflecting
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the glory of God, the next thing
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we learned is that
Satan is determined to keep
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any of us from
reflecting the glory of God.
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He doesn't want us
to and one of the things
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that gives him
advantage is we were created
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with a nature that
is in opposition to God.
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We've the nature of
our father and somebody
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tell me your
father's name, are you ready
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one, two,
three, what's His name.
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Let's try that
again. What's your father -
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it's a four letter word
it starts with the letter A.
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What's his name
together? Adam. Adam.
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Somebody once said we've
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the same father
different mothers.
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Everyone of us has our
father's nature and the best
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that he can pass down to
us is a defect of nature,
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a faulty character and
so with our best efforts
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we've also learned that
our righteousness is as what.
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Filthy rags. Filthy
rags, none of us is righteous.
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We also learned that
when it comes to a check up
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from the neck up
and from the neck down,
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let's discover some of the
things that's wrong with us.
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First of all, the Bible says,
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the heart is deceitful
above all things and how wicked.
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Desperately. Desperately,
we can't even trust our hearts.
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Our hearts can
guide us reliably.
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Matter of fact I call
that our decision making
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and our reasoning
center, not only that,
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our heart transfers
information to our tongues.
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And the Bible says the tongue
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how many of us
could tame our tongue.
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None. None of us, so
what's in the heart Jesus said,
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out of the abundance of
the heart the mouth what.
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Speaks. Speaks,
so sometimes we say
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praise the Lord and
sometimes we're locked into
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cursing and saying
things that we should not say,
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because the heart and
the mouth are inseparable,
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isn't that right, not only that
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how many of us
are able to do good?
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None. How many
of us, none. None.
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So tonight we're gonna
kind of begin on a down note
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to build up to an up note to see
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what God is able to do in us.
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What gives me
courage tonight is this,
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that when we submit
ourselves to the Lord,
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He can do
anything with anything.
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Matter of fact I wanna begin
with an illustration tonight
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and our title tonight is
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"How to Live a Spiritual
Life in a Natural Body."
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But I want to show
you a couple of pictures.
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Amazing pictures and I want you
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to pay attention
to the screen tonight.
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These pictures show
us our condition before
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we find Christ, the first
one is a picture of a house.
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And notice this
house very, very carefully.
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This house is what I
may refer to as dilapidated.
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I hope you see that
picture on your screen.
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It's a very - is
that house dilapidated.
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That's an
understatement, isn't not?
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It's a messed up house.
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Matter of fact if
somebody tries to sell you
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that house, unless
you've vision, would you buy it.
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No, you wouldn't buy it at all.
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It's a dilapidated
house, but what I'm gonna
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show you is there are people.
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Have you heard of the
phrase "extreme makeover?" Yes.
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My wife and I've watched
that many times, you know,
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there are some people
are for whatever reason
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cannot afford a home, or
their home is in disrepair
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and to see how the
home was before and how
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it became after
whenever they say move that bus.
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All the sudden the
people that used to live there
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are blown away by what
they see in the same location
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where that dilapidated
broken down, mold infested,
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wooden, rotten
wooden infested house was.
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Now that's the
picture before, but look
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at the picture after
that, the very same house,
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the very same location.
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Look at that house
isn't that amazing.
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That's amazing
that shows you what
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the Christian life is
like before and after.
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This is us before
Christ, you remember that text.
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The text fits right here.
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It does not yet
appear what we shall be.
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This thus how we're
when Christ finds us,
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we're broken
down, we're dilapidated,
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we're in disrepair, but
we also continue the text.
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It does not yet appear
what we shall be but we do know
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that when we see Him
we'll be like Him for we'll
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see Him as He is, perfect
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and beautiful in
all of His glory.
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Can you say amen to that? Amen.
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So I showed you
those two pictures to know
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that you maybe, if
you've accepted Christ,
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you're somewhere
between the first picture
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and the last picture,
but look at the inside
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of that same house,
here's another picture
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again of the
stairway of that house.
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If you walks in that
house and somebody says
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I'd like to sell you that
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you'll say,
you're out of your mind.
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But you know it
takes vision and God looks
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at us messed up,
broken down corrupt.
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Completely separated
from Him, filled with dust,
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that is dust of
anger, dust of rebellion,
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dust of you name it, that's how
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we are when Christ finds us.
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But He looks at us and He
says, if you let Me come in,
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this is how you can
look out on the same house.
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Look at the
picture on the inside now.
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Isn't that amazing? Now
if they showed you that,
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would you wanna
buy the house. Yes.
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Of course but if
they showed you that
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you'll say honey
let's go somewhere else.
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See the good news is
God looks at us like that
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and realizes that in
our lives, He can more than
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reproduce beauty in
the life as the Bible says,
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He'll give us beauty for what.
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Ashes. Ashes. So
tonight we're gonna
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praise the Lord
that we're somewhere
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between that and that.
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Can you say amen to that? Amen.
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So this is the
encouraging thing.
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I don't want you to
feel discourage that you may.
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Some days you may feel
more like the former house.
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Some days you may feel
like there's a whole lot of dust
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coming back in, whole lot of
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broken down things showing up.
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Somebody told me when
they moved in the house,
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they brought a big
old dumpster and put it
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outside their
house, have you seen
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those big dumpsters,
those massive green cans
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that people pull up
in front of their houses
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and the neighbor always wonders
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how long its gonna be there.
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Well, I want to,
you'd get a picture here God
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when He saw your
life, He pulled up
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the big old green
can, and it began going
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in your house one room
at a time dumping stuff
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that He was going to throw away.
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As the Bible says He
throws our sins into the depths
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of the sea and He
puts out a no fishing sign.
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Bible doesn't say,
there is no fishing sign.
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But He throws our
sins into depths of the sea
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and does not
remember them anymore,
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what would we say. Amen.
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But now what I want to
remind you of is between
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that first picture we
saw and the last picture
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that is really
glorious and amazing.
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There's a struggle that goes
on because we're not houses,
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we're not inanimate objects.
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We've decisions
that we can make, right.
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We've choices we make
on a day by day basis.
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So in order for us to
look like the last house
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or this one on the
screen now, the last staircase,
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the beautiful
hallway, the laminated floors,
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the wonderful paint
job, in order for us
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to look like that
we've to make a decision
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to let the Lord
work on the inside, amen.
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How often did Paul say,
he had to make the decision
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for Christ to work on
the inside, how often.
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Daily. He said, I die daily.
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Now I don't know
if you know this,
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but it's tough if
the house could speak.
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There are people in that
house with hammers and saws
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and
sledgehammers, breaking stuff
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and tearing things down.
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The Lord goes into our
lives with the sledgehammers
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of the Holy Spirit,
with the saws of divine work
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and He sees what
needs to be cutout,
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what needs to be fixed,
what needs to be refurbished.
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But what I want to begin
with tonight is number 12,
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because a conflict
starts when we realize
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our condition, now let
me make this statement.
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Those who're in the world
look like the house before
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and they don't care,
because the house as it is
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all broken down fits
into their lifestyle,
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because the
world is broken down.
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Isaiah 24 says, "The
world is defiled under
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the inhabitants thereof,
for they have transgressed
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the laws, changed the ordinance,
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and broken the
everlasting covenant.
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So the world is already in sin,
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it doesn't
really want to be fixed.
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But for those of
us who come to Christ
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and realize, how we
are when we find Him.
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And how He can make us
all of a sudden, we say
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okay Lord, and He says,
Jason this is gonna hurt.
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But if you stick
with me, boy, how you look
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when I'm done with
you will truly reflect
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the glory of God,
what do we say? Amen.
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So we've to make a
decision everyday to say Lord,
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okay here I'm
again, and sometimes we're,
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you know, some of
our rooms are refurbished
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and fixed and
new, but in other parts
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of our lives that we protect.
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There're certain
things that we like.
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You know, everybody has a
certain room in their house
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that they like more
than others, am I right?
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There're certain
things in your human nature,
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in your mortal flesh
that you want to hold on to,
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longer than you want to hold on
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to the other
things that bound you.
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So sometimes people say,
I used to be a drug addict,
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I used to smoke, I used
to be this and that and we,
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and we rehearse all
the things we used to do.
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And we're saying God
delivered from this massive
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load of sin and
everybody says what.
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But then they go home in defeat,
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because they're
fighting in private
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struggling with certain sins.
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They just, they just
seems to be so deeply
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ingrained that
you've to breakout the wall
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and go to the wiring.
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You got to go behind
the walls like mold because
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certain sins are not
visible on the surface.
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Those things we see
on the surface, we always
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give God the
glory for removing them.
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But what I'm
gonna talk about tonight
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is the mold and
the wiring, all right.
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The mold and the
wiring is behind the wall,
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every now and then
people senses there
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and sometimes
the wire is shorten,
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certain things
come out of our mouth.
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And people know we need
a wiring job, am I right.
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Yes. So here is the
first question tonight,
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question number
12, from what does
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the conflict of
righteousness come?
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When we see Jesus, we
know that He's righteous.
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Am I not, am I telling
the truth, He's righteous.
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But when Paul found
Christ, when the Lord
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knocked Paul
down, converted Him from
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Saul to Paul,
then the battle began.
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The battle begins
after we become aware
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of the righteousness of Christ.
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Look at Paul, here is
the answer to the question.
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Here is what
Paul the apostle said.
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And by the way the
question from what does
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the conflict of
righteousness come?
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Is what He says, "For
what I do is not the good
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I want to do, no, the
evil I do not want to do -
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this I keep on
doing." He goes on.
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"Now if I do what
I do not want to do,
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it is no longer I
who do it, but what?
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It is sin living
in me that does it."
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I don't often use
the NIV, but it fits
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so classically on
this, it made it so clear.
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He goes on further and
tells why He's bound as He is.
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"So I find this law at work.
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When I want to do
good, what is their with him.
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Evil is right there with me."
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Is their anybody here
tonight that's willing
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to confess, they
know what Paul is like.
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They know where Paul was.
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Matter of fact they
didn't know where Paul is.
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Sometimes you're
at the same place.
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Sometimes the day
shows up, where you say
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I'd somebody wants to
come to church and say,
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I'm upset don't
try to change my mind
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I'm gonna enjoy being angry.
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No really, I'm
telling the truth.
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I had people come to
church and they announced to me
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they ready to beat up
another church member.
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That nature comes to
church sometimes, we know that.
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So that battle is
there, but He continues
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because you notice
we go down the verse 23.
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Look what He says. "For
in my inner being I delight"
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in what? "In God's
law" in other words
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it's nothing
wrong with God's law.
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"But I see another
law at work in the members
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of my body waging war
against the law of my mind
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and making me a
prisoner of the law of sin
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at work within my members."
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Paul says, and by
the way when he talks
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about this law this
another law that he sees.
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Sometimes people
translate that and say,
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well what kind of law
is Paul talking about.
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Paul is talking about a
law that resides in all of us.
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Let me mention some laws
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that we can do nothing about.
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We can't do a thing
about the law of gravity.
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The law of gravity
works, does it not.
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See it works, it works.
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The law of
gravity works very well.
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People that jump off of
a 50 storey building they
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think the law of
gravity is being suspended
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for 49 stories, but
the 50th storey reminds him
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the law of
gravity is still at work.
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The question is what
law is Paul talking about?
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He is talking about a law
that controls every action.
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And by the way let
me put this together.
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When you accept
Jesus, you're a partaker
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of a divine nature, what
kind of nature did I say?
00:20:17.35\00:20:20.08
A divine nature and
all of a sudden the life
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you once had is
not the same life.
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You're the same person
maybe your DNA is the same,
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but now you're
seen at the presence
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of God as the son
or daughter of God.
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So, now He covers you
with His righteousness.
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Similar to you may go
to a job site and the whole
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house is covered
while they're fumigating it,
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you can't tell what's going on.
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Well one day, sometimes you go,
00:20:41.83\00:20:43.39
some job sites the
fences are up, the walls are up,
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you can't see what's
going on behind that,
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and one day they remove
it and you say, amazing.
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But what happens
is, there is a battle
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that takes place
in our lives, because
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there is a law
that's at works here.
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Go with me to Mathew Chapter 7.
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What book did I
say, Mathew Chapter 7.
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I want to show
you this, by the way
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this is a Law of Reciprocation.
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What's that word
reciprocation simply means
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a revolving door,
simply means a revolving door.
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Mathew Chapter 7, okay,
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and we're going to look
at verse 17 and verse 18.
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We often times forget,
there are laws at work.
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We're going to have and one
of the reasons why the title
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is "How to Live a Spiritual
Life in a Natural Body."
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Is this law is
going to be at work until
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we're completely
made, completely remade
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in the image in
the likeness of Christ.
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Look what it says,
Mathew 7 did I say and beginning
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with verse 17, "Even
so every good tree bears."
00:21:45.30\00:21:51.33
What? "Good fruit,
but a bad tree bears."
00:21:51.34\00:21:55.68
What? "Bad fruit."
Now this is the law.
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right here verse
18, "A good tree."
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What is the next word?
"Cannot bear bad fruits
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nor can a bad tree
bear." What? "Good fruit."
00:22:05.97\00:22:09.53
And you know I'll go all
the way down to verse 20,
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"Therefore by their
fruits you'll know them."
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Okay, let me ask
you the question?
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Can a bad tree bear
good fruit. Yes or no.
00:22:15.16\00:22:17.56
Can a good tree
bear a bad fruit? No.
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So then if bad fruit show
up in the life of a person
00:22:22.16\00:22:26.46
declaring to be
good, what do we conclude?
00:22:26.47\00:22:29.93
That is a
different tree, am I right.
00:22:29.94\00:22:33.01
So to say that I'm in
Christ and I'm living completely
00:22:33.02\00:22:38.80
contrary to the way
that a Christian should live.
00:22:38.81\00:22:41.63
It's saying that wait a minute
00:22:41.64\00:22:42.96
the bad tree is
producing bad fruit.
00:22:42.97\00:22:45.44
The good tree produces
good fruit, but the bad tree
00:22:45.45\00:22:49.16
cannot produce good
fruit and the good tree
00:22:49.17\00:22:51.54
cannot produce bad fruit.
00:22:51.55\00:22:54.31
So Paul says, the
conflict comes when He realizes
00:22:54.32\00:22:57.46
that he has this
spiritual inheritance,
00:22:57.47\00:23:02.31
the character and the
righteousness of Christ,
00:23:02.32\00:23:04.89
but he has this mortal
flesh that's holding him
00:23:04.90\00:23:07.24
bound day by day,
look at the next question,
00:23:07.25\00:23:09.53
question number 13, so
if you ask the question.
00:23:09.54\00:23:11.65
If you answer
question number 12.
00:23:11.66\00:23:13.57
From what does the
conflict of righteousness come?
00:23:13.58\00:23:16.64
It comes from that
law that resides inside
00:23:16.65\00:23:20.63
of us, in other
words the old nature.
00:23:20.64\00:23:23.21
That's the good way to
respond to that answer.
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Look at question number 13.
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How did this
conflict get started?
00:23:28.79\00:23:32.56
What's sad about
this conflict is that
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we'd nothing to do with it.
00:23:35.37\00:23:36.79
You've heard of
the phrase, you look
00:23:40.07\00:23:41.27
just like your father,
look just like your mother,
00:23:41.28\00:23:44.30
you are a
spitting image of your dad.
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Well, you know,
you look at the word,
00:23:47.66\00:23:49.29
and Jesus when He
looked at the Pharisees,
00:23:49.30\00:23:51.10
when He looked at those
who claim to be religious.
00:23:51.11\00:23:53.52
He said, because
their fruits did not match
00:23:53.53\00:23:56.25
their profession,
He said to them you're
00:23:56.26\00:23:58.80
of your father the
devil and his works you'll do.
00:23:58.81\00:24:04.01
Notice what the Bible says
00:24:04.02\00:24:06.72
is involved in this conflict.
00:24:06.73\00:24:09.64
Now I got started
Romans 5 and verse 12,
00:24:09.65\00:24:12.13
"Therefore, just as
through." How many men?
00:24:15.03\00:24:18.14
"One man sin entered the
world and death through sin,
00:24:18.15\00:24:23.41
and thus death
spread to." How many of us?
00:24:23.42\00:24:26.71
"All men because
all." What? "Sinned."
00:24:26.72\00:24:29.97
Now may I ask you,
a baby one day older,
00:24:29.98\00:24:32.63
that baby sinned? Yes or no. No.
00:24:32.64\00:24:37.48
The reason I asked
you questions because some
00:24:40.13\00:24:41.71
of you don't
know how to answer it.
00:24:41.72\00:24:43.02
Because you just read
all have sinned and I ask you
00:24:43.03\00:24:46.03
the question has that baby
sinned and what did you say.
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No. Let me help
you understand there's
00:24:48.15\00:24:50.53
a difference between sins,
00:24:50.54\00:24:52.69
"the actions
and sin the nature."
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What Paul is talking
about he's talking about
00:24:55.71\00:24:58.78
the nature of
sin, in other words,
00:24:58.79\00:25:01.37
when you're born you've
the same nature as your father.
00:25:01.38\00:25:04.56
You come into the world
with the very same nature.
00:25:04.57\00:25:06.83
In other words as
one doctor once said,
00:25:06.84\00:25:09.22
it's good that babies
are not born at a 150 pounds.
00:25:09.23\00:25:11.78
Can you imagine the
baby pinning his mother
00:25:11.79\00:25:13.59
to the wall
saying give me my milk.
00:25:13.60\00:25:16.34
Now, that's an amazing picture,
00:25:16.35\00:25:17.76
but one doctor
said in a book written
00:25:17.77\00:25:20.00
by Dr. Haden W. Robertson
he said, that's the reason
00:25:20.01\00:25:22.84
why God allows
children to be born young,
00:25:22.85\00:25:25.18
because their
natures are so unregenerated.
00:25:25.19\00:25:28.65
That is going to take
time to mold that nature.
00:25:28.66\00:25:32.10
Had they come out at 150 pounds,
00:25:32.11\00:25:34.76
you've a murder in
a house, I'm serious.
00:25:34.77\00:25:39.29
Because look what
happened to the first
00:25:39.30\00:25:41.81
two children of Adam and Eve.
00:25:41.82\00:25:42.99
They weren't that
faraway from perfection.
00:25:43.00\00:25:44.86
But Cain killed Abel,
00:25:44.87\00:25:47.74
right away
because he had jealousy.
00:25:47.75\00:25:49.57
He was jealous
about his brother and his
00:25:49.58\00:25:51.52
relationship with the Lord.
00:25:51.53\00:25:52.89
He didn't like the
offering that his brother
00:25:52.90\00:25:54.78
brought to the Lord,
all the reasons he coveted
00:25:54.79\00:25:58.21
was so much that
was involved in him
00:25:58.22\00:26:00.46
carrying out the act of murder
00:26:00.47\00:26:02.90
from the very beginning.
00:26:02.91\00:26:04.54
So it shows you that this
didn't just happened in 2000
00:26:04.55\00:26:08.05
or just as sin is
getting worse this is exactly
00:26:08.06\00:26:10.42
what happened after Adam sinned.
00:26:10.43\00:26:12.34
What happened is one
man through that one man
00:26:12.35\00:26:15.64
a door was
opened and sin came in.
00:26:15.65\00:26:18.07
So even though Eve was deceived,
00:26:18.08\00:26:20.13
Adam made the decision
with his eyes wide opened.
00:26:20.14\00:26:22.87
Look at this
quotation from Desire of Ages,
00:26:22.88\00:26:25.51
one of my favorite books.
00:26:25.52\00:26:27.23
It says, in our own
strength it is what?
00:26:27.24\00:26:31.87
Impossible for us
to deny the clamors
00:26:31.88\00:26:37.32
of our fallen
nature, you know that means,
00:26:37.33\00:26:39.42
you know the clamors mean.
00:26:39.43\00:26:40.71
It's like
somebody knocking on door.
00:26:40.72\00:26:42.19
And you say would
you stop that noise.
00:26:44.10\00:26:46.00
You know that means,
sometimes your nature
00:26:46.01\00:26:47.74
saying to you, do
it, do it, say it,
00:26:47.75\00:26:50.65
go ahead, you want to go, go.
00:26:50.66\00:26:52.44
You know, you want that, do it.
00:26:52.45\00:26:54.68
That's the clamors
of the fallen nature.
00:26:54.69\00:26:55.98
Have you heard that before? Yes.
00:26:55.99\00:26:58.01
Tell of course and
tell what you think.
00:26:58.02\00:26:59.86
Have you heard it before? Yes.
00:26:59.87\00:27:01.78
That's the clamors
of the fallen nature.
00:27:01.79\00:27:03.51
Its there, it is impossible
for us to deny the clamors
00:27:03.52\00:27:06.34
of the fallen nature
of our fallen nature.
00:27:06.35\00:27:08.13
Though or through
this channel Satan
00:27:08.14\00:27:11.47
will bring temptation upon us.
00:27:11.48\00:27:13.48
Through what
channel? The fallen nature.
00:27:13.49\00:27:16.17
That's why for some of
you the same temptation.
00:27:17.95\00:27:19.93
What tempts you
may not tempt you.
00:27:19.94\00:27:22.39
Satan says ah, you
have a problem with that
00:27:22.40\00:27:26.01
and so he brings
that temptation to you.
00:27:26.02\00:27:28.71
If food is not a
temptation, he is not going
00:27:28.72\00:27:30.81
to try to give
you Hostess Twinkie.
00:27:30.82\00:27:32.35
If drugs is your
temptation, he is not gonna
00:27:32.36\00:27:35.20
try to give you a cake.
00:27:35.21\00:27:37.36
Whatever your temptation
is, he is going to design it.
00:27:37.37\00:27:39.76
And by the way let me
tell you, let me tell you,
00:27:39.77\00:27:42.09
just in case you
haven't discovered,
00:27:42.10\00:27:43.66
temptations are
tempting, you know why,
00:27:43.67\00:27:47.60
because it's
designed to fit your nature.
00:27:47.61\00:27:49.59
It's designed to fit everything
00:27:49.60\00:27:50.96
that is a true about you.
00:27:50.97\00:27:52.37
So he studies us and
it's through this channel
00:27:52.38\00:27:56.45
of fallen nature that he
brings temptations upon us.
00:27:56.46\00:28:00.33
But look at the
quotation as it continues.
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"Christ knew that
the enemy would come
00:28:02.81\00:28:06.53
to how many human beings?"
00:28:06.54\00:28:07.94
"Every human
being to take advantage
00:28:07.95\00:28:10.89
of hereditary
weakness," that means
00:28:10.90\00:28:13.76
we inherited
this from your father,
00:28:13.77\00:28:15.90
father of mother of
father all the way down
00:28:15.91\00:28:17.87
you'll finally get to Adam,
00:28:17.88\00:28:19.27
regardless of your skin color.
00:28:19.28\00:28:21.00
"Hereditary weakness,
and by his false insinuations
00:28:21.01\00:28:25.24
to ensnare all whose
trust is not in God."
00:28:25.25\00:28:31.05
When you say I can
handle this, you're in trouble.
00:28:31.06\00:28:35.01
Am I right? I can handle that.
00:28:35.02\00:28:38.94
You can't handle anything.
00:28:38.95\00:28:40.66
Because you're
hereditary tendencies
00:28:40.67\00:28:42.72
are going to
take advantage of you.
00:28:42.73\00:28:45.70
Because you know why,
even though you've partaken
00:28:45.71\00:28:47.95
of the divine
nature, you're still living
00:28:47.96\00:28:49.64
in a mortal body and in
the very same Chapter Roman 7.
00:28:49.65\00:28:52.41
Paul says, don't let sin
reign in your mortal body.
00:28:52.42\00:28:56.28
So you got a make a decision
when that clamoring comes.
00:28:56.29\00:29:00.43
There's
something that you must do
00:29:00.44\00:29:02.42
to be delivered
from that clamoring.
00:29:02.43\00:29:04.37
Now the good news is
the Lord saw that Satan
00:29:04.38\00:29:08.43
would take advantage of us.
00:29:08.44\00:29:09.93
And he saw what was
happening in the earth
00:29:09.94\00:29:12.31
and the Lord
didn't say, well you know,
00:29:12.32\00:29:14.62
that's just one
planet, we've got
00:29:14.63\00:29:17.59
billions of galaxies,
this is, this is kind of,
00:29:17.60\00:29:20.13
just kind of
turn the lights off.
00:29:20.14\00:29:22.54
Aren't you glad
that He loves us so much,
00:29:22.55\00:29:24.73
He came down to save us? Amen.
00:29:24.74\00:29:27.12
So when we talk about
the mission of Christ.
00:29:27.13\00:29:28.62
The mission of
Christ is beautiful.
00:29:28.63\00:29:30.29
How does the Bible
describe the mission of Jesus?
00:29:30.30\00:29:32.99
The mission of
Christ is beautiful,
00:29:33.00\00:29:34.85
I'm one that like astronomy.
00:29:34.86\00:29:36.89
I like to look at stars
and planets and solar systems.
00:29:36.90\00:29:40.04
I mean that is pictures of
it, don't have a telescope.
00:29:40.05\00:29:43.54
And I'm often
enamored by these, you know,
00:29:43.55\00:29:45.56
when I look at a particular
constellation, they say
00:29:45.57\00:29:48.40
from this tip to that
tip is four light years.
00:29:48.41\00:29:51.72
At 186,200 miles a
second and they say
00:29:51.73\00:29:55.13
that's nothing and then
scientists or astronomers
00:29:55.14\00:29:57.31
say there are
billions of galaxies.
00:29:57.32\00:29:58.80
And I think to myself
-- this planet is so tiny
00:29:58.81\00:30:01.86
if I were God,
I'd just simply say.
00:30:01.87\00:30:03.80
Let me get my divine
eraser and just erase that.
00:30:03.81\00:30:07.47
But because if you
remember in our last study,
00:30:07.48\00:30:10.43
because we're made
in the image of God.
00:30:10.44\00:30:13.57
Getting rid of
us would be removing
00:30:13.58\00:30:17.54
from the earth His image.
00:30:17.55\00:30:20.31
So instead of getting rid
00:30:20.32\00:30:22.15
of that
dilapidated house that was made
00:30:22.16\00:30:25.69
so by the entrance of sin.
00:30:25.70\00:30:28.38
He said I'm gonna
refurbished that house.
00:30:28.39\00:30:30.52
Look at the mission of Jesus,
00:30:30.53\00:30:31.98
and I love this text.
00:30:31.99\00:30:33.52
We always read
this around Christmas.
00:30:33.53\00:30:34.97
This is a good text everyday.
00:30:34.98\00:30:37.51
"And she will bring forth a Son
00:30:37.52\00:30:39.50
and you shall
call His name Jesus,
00:30:39.51\00:30:42.55
for He will save His people."
00:30:42.56\00:30:44.34
What's the next word?
00:30:44.35\00:30:45.40
"From their sins."
We're gonna talk about
00:30:45.41\00:30:47.98
how often you need to be saved.
00:30:47.99\00:30:50.41
He will save us from, He
will save us from our sins.
00:30:50.42\00:30:56.17
It goes on so if
you put Mathew 1:21.
00:30:56.18\00:30:59.66
What does the Bible describe?
00:30:59.67\00:31:01.58
How does the Bible
describe the mission of Jesus?
00:31:01.62\00:31:04.18
He is a Savior. He is a Savior.
00:31:04.19\00:31:10.45
He's a Savior, He saves.
00:31:10.46\00:31:13.87
This is a good place
for seeing 340 Jesus says,
00:31:13.88\00:31:16.44
I just heard in my mind.
00:31:16.45\00:31:18.18
First look at John 1 verse 21.
00:31:18.21\00:31:19.84
John 1 verse 21,
"The next day John saw
00:31:19.85\00:31:24.10
Jesus coming
toward Him and said"
00:31:24.11\00:31:28.72
What did He say? "Behold!
00:31:28.73\00:31:30.98
The Lamb of God
who takes away the."
00:31:30.99\00:31:34.29
What? "Sin of the world!"
00:31:34.30\00:31:37.61
Now I want you to
notice, he didn't say s.i.n.s.
00:31:37.62\00:31:39.94
Sometimes we get mixed up
00:31:39.95\00:31:41.47
between the
actions and the nature.
00:31:41.48\00:31:44.15
Jesus came to
takeaway the nature.
00:31:44.16\00:31:47.03
If you
takeaway-- if you had a dog
00:31:47.04\00:31:49.96
that like to bite
every fourth person
00:31:50.00\00:31:52.49
that come to your house.
00:31:52.50\00:31:56.05
And your friends
got used to that dog
00:31:56.06\00:31:57.66
and the dog sat there at
the door and you'd counted
00:31:57.67\00:31:59.85
one two three hhrrrr.
00:31:59.86\00:32:04.02
And what would your friends say,
00:32:04.03\00:32:06.05
would you get rid of your dog.
00:32:06.06\00:32:07.06
Or they'll try to be the first
second third or fifth person.
00:32:07.07\00:32:11.15
Here's my point.
00:32:11.16\00:32:12.49
When Jesus came to
takeaway the sin of the world,
00:32:12.50\00:32:15.18
He came to remove
the very thing that waits
00:32:15.19\00:32:18.30
at the door to
bite us every morning.
00:32:18.31\00:32:20.88
He came to take away the nature,
00:32:20.89\00:32:22.71
the thing that binds you, the
things that you struggle with.
00:32:22.72\00:32:25.15
And the reason
why this is entitled
00:32:25.16\00:32:26.66
"How to Live a Spiritual
Life in a Natural Body."
00:32:26.67\00:32:28.98
Is we're gonna break
down what justification means,
00:32:28.99\00:32:32.15
what sanctification
mean, and what glorification.
00:32:32.16\00:32:34.50
We're gonna spend a week at
a time on each of those topics.
00:32:34.51\00:32:37.11
Because sometimes we
join the church we become
00:32:37.12\00:32:40.01
members and that's it.
00:32:40.02\00:32:44.72
We become struggling members.
00:32:44.73\00:32:47.54
Trying our best to find victory.
00:32:47.55\00:32:50.69
But notice what the Bible
says, here in John 1 verse 21.
00:32:50.70\00:32:54.13
We just read that didn't we.
00:32:54.14\00:32:55.22
Lets look Desire
of Ages, page 38,
00:32:55.26\00:32:57.82
another wonderful
quotation, wonderful quotation.
00:32:57.83\00:33:01.44
"Satan was exulting
that he has succeeded
00:33:01.45\00:33:04.10
in debasing. " What?
00:33:04.11\00:33:05.77
"The image of God in humanity."
00:33:05.80\00:33:07.16
If you look at the world today
00:33:07.20\00:33:08.29
there're debasing
things and one who is behind
00:33:08.32\00:33:10.83
that is Satan himself.
00:33:10.84\00:33:12.29
He succeeded in debasing.
00:33:12.30\00:33:14.89
So you wonder how
bad is it going to get,
00:33:14.90\00:33:16.74
its going to get even worse.
00:33:16.75\00:33:18.23
Because Satan is as roaring lion
00:33:18.24\00:33:20.13
seeking whom he may devour.
00:33:20.14\00:33:21.19
But I like it next sentence.
00:33:21.20\00:33:23.39
"Then Jesus came to do."
00:33:23.40\00:33:25.22
What? "Restore in man
the image of his Maker.
00:33:25.23\00:33:31.02
None but Christ can
fashion anew the character
00:33:31.05\00:33:35.56
that has been ruined by sin.
00:33:35.57\00:33:37.81
He came to expel the demons
00:33:37.82\00:33:41.07
that had controlled the will."
00:33:41.08\00:33:43.76
Isn't that a powerful statement?
00:33:43.77\00:33:45.09
You know often
times you say, well,
00:33:45.10\00:33:46.49
that person has
two personalities,
00:33:46.50\00:33:47.88
when really in fact
they've more than one demon.
00:33:47.89\00:33:50.98
That's the reality of it.
00:33:50.99\00:33:52.76
When you look at the Bible Jesus
00:33:52.77\00:33:54.61
didn't go to the
demoniac and said,
00:33:54.62\00:33:55.93
you need psychiatric help.
00:33:55.94\00:33:58.42
Did he do that?
00:33:58.43\00:33:59.65
He didn't say you
need the psychologist.
00:33:59.66\00:34:01.07
He didn't say
you need counseling.
00:34:01.08\00:34:03.21
He cast the
demons out of that man.
00:34:03.22\00:34:05.33
Now I'm not trying to do away
00:34:05.34\00:34:06.85
with the psychological
impacts of some person's past.
00:34:06.86\00:34:10.35
But what Jesus
talks about is the reason
00:34:10.36\00:34:12.60
why many of us are
bound where we're is behind
00:34:12.61\00:34:15.74
that thing that cripples you
is a spirit that is crippling.
00:34:15.75\00:34:20.25
Sin is always connected to
some kind of demonic force.
00:34:20.26\00:34:23.20
So if a person's mind
is unbalanced somewhere
00:34:23.21\00:34:26.51
along the way, the
devil had worked in their past
00:34:26.52\00:34:28.82
to bring imbalance in.
00:34:28.83\00:34:31.77
And Jesus has come to
fashion anew the character
00:34:31.78\00:34:35.00
that has been ruined by sin.
00:34:35.01\00:34:36.13
He came to expel the demons
that had controlled the will.
00:34:36.14\00:34:41.11
By the way when you
read Romans Chapter 6,
00:34:41.15\00:34:43.37
we talk about baptism.
00:34:43.40\00:34:45.26
The Bible talks about
that old man. Go there with me.
00:34:45.30\00:34:47.88
Let me you see, show
you this very quickly.
00:34:47.89\00:34:49.62
This is extra credit by
the-- way, not in our lesson,
00:34:49.63\00:34:52.61
but very important at
this particular juncture.
00:34:52.62\00:34:56.06
I want to show
you Romans Chapter 6.
00:34:56.07\00:34:58.76
And by the way this
is not a one week study.
00:34:58.77\00:35:00.81
And I want to just
let you know, this is plug
00:35:00.82\00:35:02.65
and I will make
this plug again, but--
00:35:02.66\00:35:05.01
what we need to everyday is
have a very active prayer life,
00:35:05.02\00:35:07.53
a very active what kind of life.
00:35:07.54\00:35:08.99
Prayer life. You
got to talk to God
00:35:09.00\00:35:11.25
when you're being tempted.
00:35:11.26\00:35:12.39
You got to call on God in
the middle of that temptation.
00:35:12.40\00:35:15.09
He sends angels
that excel in strength.
00:35:15.10\00:35:17.76
Even if you have
a Daniel experience,
00:35:17.77\00:35:20.35
as Daniel prayed in for
21 days, Satan resisted Him
00:35:20.36\00:35:24.65
but the Lord came
who is more powerful
00:35:24.66\00:35:28.45
than the devil himself.
00:35:28.46\00:35:29.74
So God will send
whatever angels you need,
00:35:29.75\00:35:32.79
whatever angels
you need to extricate
00:35:32.80\00:35:36.29
you from your situation.
00:35:36.30\00:35:37.52
But look at this
in Roman Chapter 6.
00:35:37.53\00:35:39.15
I want you to see something.
00:35:39.16\00:35:41.20
Romans 6. And I'm gonna
look at verse 5 and verse 6,
00:35:41.21\00:35:48.31
because we're talking
about that sin nature,
00:35:48.32\00:35:50.39
that thing that controlled our
will, we wanna give it a name,
00:35:50.40\00:35:52.84
or give it a classification.
00:35:52.85\00:35:54.44
Verse 5 speaking about baptism.
00:35:54.45\00:35:56.99
"For if we've been
united together in the likeness
00:35:57.00\00:36:00.40
of His death,
certainly, we also shall be
00:36:00.41\00:36:05.03
in the likeness of His." What.
00:36:05.04\00:36:06.79
"Resurrection." In
other words, if we go,
00:36:06.80\00:36:09.12
if we go to the
grave with Christ.
00:36:09.13\00:36:12.18
We're gonna come out
of that grave with Christ.
00:36:12.19\00:36:15.61
If we go in the
grave like He went in.
00:36:15.62\00:36:17.89
we'll come up like He came out.
00:36:17.90\00:36:19.95
He came out victoriously.
00:36:19.96\00:36:21.89
But notice what happens?
00:36:21.90\00:36:23.74
What actually happens?
00:36:23.75\00:36:25.47
"Knowing this that our old
man was crucified with Him,
00:36:25.48\00:36:31.71
that the body of sin
might be done away with,
00:36:31.72\00:36:35.63
that we should
no longer be" what?
00:36:35.64\00:36:38.53
"Slaves to sin.
For He who has died
00:36:38.54\00:36:42.34
has been freed from sin."
00:36:42.35\00:36:45.56
You look at verse 9 it says,
00:36:45.57\00:36:47.09
"Death no longer
has dominion over you."
00:36:47.10\00:36:49.32
And so I'm gonna go
over this in greater detail,
00:36:49.33\00:36:51.20
but what happens when
Christ comes in renews us.
00:36:51.21\00:36:53.63
You know what he does.
He takes us of a death row.
00:36:53.64\00:36:56.94
He takes us of what row?
00:36:56.95\00:36:58.67
Death row. So
you don't walk around
00:36:58.68\00:37:00.61
with the death
sentence hanging over your head.
00:37:00.62\00:37:03.26
You've been set, set
for you've been justified.
00:37:03.27\00:37:06.17
However when people
often are set free from prison,
00:37:06.18\00:37:09.78
they say that what's
the word that you use
00:37:09.79\00:37:12.14
the recidivism
rate, spell that word,
00:37:12.15\00:37:16.40
the recidivism rate is
high, because sometimes people
00:37:16.41\00:37:19.55
are set free, but they
don't know how to stay free.
00:37:19.56\00:37:25.60
Because they've a
mind as somebody once said,
00:37:25.61\00:37:28.68
man I was in there for so long,
00:37:28.69\00:37:30.12
I can't think of any other life.
00:37:30.13\00:37:32.91
Some people have
been in sin for so long.
00:37:32.95\00:37:34.34
It's hard for them to
think of any other life.
00:37:34.35\00:37:36.48
So they go into to the
grave, the watery grave,
00:37:36.49\00:37:39.27
they come out rejoicing
in the glory that Christ
00:37:39.28\00:37:41.96
has given to them.
00:37:41.97\00:37:43.92
But because they've not allowed
00:37:43.93\00:37:45.16
their minds to
continually be renewed.
00:37:45.17\00:37:47.12
Go with me to Romans Chapter 12.
00:37:47.13\00:37:49.43
Couple of other
extra verses you need.
00:37:49.44\00:37:51.67
These are basic things
that we're gonna cover under
00:37:51.68\00:37:54.31
the topic of sanctification,
but it fits right here.
00:37:54.32\00:37:57.39
Because I wanna give you before
00:37:57.40\00:37:58.42
we get to the complete topics.
00:37:58.43\00:37:59.94
I wanna give you some,
some keys on how you could begin
00:37:59.95\00:38:02.75
to find the victory, right.
00:38:02.79\00:38:05.50
How you could begin to win.
00:38:05.51\00:38:07.02
It's a mind game. It
really is, it really is.
00:38:07.03\00:38:11.50
Verse 2, "And do
not be confirmed."
00:38:11.51\00:38:15.90
Romans 12 verse 2 "And
do not be confirmed to.
00:38:15.91\00:38:18.83
"What world? "This
world but be transformed."
00:38:18.84\00:38:22.08
By what? "The
renewing of your mind
00:38:22.09\00:38:25.71
that you may prove what
is that good and acceptable
00:38:25.72\00:38:30.52
and perfect will of God."
00:38:30.53\00:38:32.94
You know the
word that prove means.
00:38:32.98\00:38:34.06
And another word
for prove is display.
00:38:34.09\00:38:36.24
Somebody said, how
you're able to do that.
00:38:36.25\00:38:39.44
You're on a call,
are you able to that.
00:38:39.45\00:38:40.84
I used to know
you way back when.
00:38:40.85\00:38:43.31
And you know what it
says, you know what I'm renewing
00:38:43.32\00:38:45.43
my mind everyday.
00:38:45.44\00:38:46.72
You cannot live a
Christian life without filling
00:38:46.73\00:38:49.24
your mind with the ammunition
that Satan is afraid of.
00:38:49.25\00:38:53.53
What is the
ammunition that Satan is afraid
00:38:53.54\00:38:55.43
that we can fill our minds with?
00:38:55.44\00:38:57.33
The word of God, Jesus used it.
00:38:57.34\00:39:00.02
It is written. If it works
for Jesus it will work us, amen.
00:39:00.03\00:39:04.87
Amen. So that
battle that happens
00:39:04.88\00:39:06.35
is not a battle that we
can't find victory over.
00:39:06.36\00:39:09.21
But if we're not
getting the ammunition
00:39:09.25\00:39:11.56
and I can guarantee you,
00:39:11.57\00:39:12.90
here's is the
point I want to make.
00:39:12.91\00:39:14.14
The reason why it's
hard to live a spiritual life
00:39:14.15\00:39:16.27
in the natural
bodies, because we often times
00:39:16.28\00:39:18.22
don't make constant
study of the word of God
00:39:18.25\00:39:21.67
a practice in our lives.
00:39:21.68\00:39:24.81
We fill our lives with good
things and necessary things,
00:39:24.82\00:39:27.62
but we don't get
the right ammunition.
00:39:27.63\00:39:29.03
The devil is not
afraid of large bank accounts.
00:39:29.04\00:39:33.64
He's not afraid of nice homes.
00:39:33.65\00:39:35.71
He's not afraid
of great education.
00:39:35.72\00:39:38.11
He's not afraid of
anything outside of those things
00:39:38.12\00:39:42.41
that are resident with the power
00:39:42.42\00:39:45.80
that causes him to tremble.
00:39:45.81\00:39:47.43
The word of God, the
reason why the word of God
00:39:47.44\00:39:49.78
is frightening to the
devil, because the word of God
00:39:49.79\00:39:51.45
is like a two edge sword.
00:39:51.46\00:39:52.96
He comes and he cuts him
up going and coming, right.
00:39:52.97\00:39:58.73
But we've this nature
that we've to deal with.
00:39:58.74\00:40:00.71
Look at the next
question, number 15.
00:40:00.72\00:40:02.49
We're going fast now.
00:40:02.50\00:40:04.16
Are you ready here we go?
00:40:04.17\00:40:05.34
How does the Bible describe
the power of the sin nature?
00:40:05.35\00:40:10.31
How does it describe
it? John 8 and verse 34.
00:40:10.32\00:40:17.46
How does the Bible, I
like if your page is turned
00:40:17.47\00:40:19.82
even though it's going to be
on the screen I appreciate that.
00:40:19.83\00:40:22.69
If you're listening on
radio those page is turning.
00:40:22.70\00:40:25.86
Here we are, John 18 verse 34.
00:40:25.87\00:40:28.81
"Jesus answers them."
00:40:28.82\00:40:30.14
And by the way this
conversation that Jesus
00:40:30.15\00:40:31.85
had was with Jews
that had been many years
00:40:31.88\00:40:34.88
removed from the
Exodus, from the land of Egypt.
00:40:34.89\00:40:38.05
And Jesus talked about slavery.
00:40:38.06\00:40:39.81
And they said our
father is Abraham.
00:40:39.84\00:40:41.78
We've never been slaves.
00:40:41.79\00:40:43.67
But notice what Jesus said.
00:40:43.68\00:40:45.50
"Most assuredly I say
to you, whoever commits."
00:40:45.54\00:40:49.60
What, sin is a
what? "Slave to sin."
00:40:49.61\00:40:53.17
Now this is not
talking about sin
00:40:53.18\00:40:55.32
in the sense of stumbling.
00:40:55.33\00:40:56.80
But this is talking about
sin in the sense of practice.
00:40:56.81\00:40:59.78
Have you heard the phrase?
00:40:59.79\00:41:01.37
Practice makes
what, that's not true.
00:41:01.38\00:41:04.61
Practice does not make perfect.
00:41:04.62\00:41:06.30
There's no perfection in
this life outside of Christ.
00:41:06.31\00:41:08.53
But practice makes you
stronger than you were before.
00:41:08.54\00:41:11.04
So here's the key.
00:41:11.07\00:41:12.17
If you practice doing wrong,
00:41:12.18\00:41:15.46
you're going to be
stronger in the wrong
00:41:15.47\00:41:17.22
that you practice.
00:41:17.23\00:41:20.88
Remember Danny
Shelton, told me the story
00:41:20.89\00:41:23.00
because he shoots
with his left hand
00:41:23.01\00:41:24.74
and with the right
hand. He writes left handed,
00:41:24.75\00:41:27.03
he shoots
basketball right handed.
00:41:27.06\00:41:28.66
He shoots left
and right and he say
00:41:28.69\00:41:29.94
when he was young.
00:41:29.97\00:41:31.09
I think one of
his brothers was dead.
00:41:31.13\00:41:33.35
They tied his right hand.
00:41:33.39\00:41:35.18
They tied his left
hand for whatever reason
00:41:35.22\00:41:37.65
he'd learn how to shoot
baskets with his right hand.
00:41:37.66\00:41:40.66
And whenever we
play basketball he shoots
00:41:40.67\00:41:42.54
with his right hand
but he is left-handed.
00:41:42.55\00:41:46.11
It's seems, ah
that you've one nature,
00:41:46.12\00:41:49.10
you've one ability but
all of a sudden another
00:41:49.11\00:41:52.10
ability is in place.
00:41:52.11\00:41:54.87
My point is this, the
more he used his right hand,
00:41:54.88\00:41:57.45
that easier it came
for him to shoot a basket
00:41:57.49\00:42:01.42
with his righ, he's natural.
00:42:01.43\00:42:02.94
But when we play baseball
he throws with his left hand,
00:42:02.95\00:42:06.69
I think. My point
is He's ambidextrous
00:42:06.70\00:42:13.26
in some things, but
he's stronger in one area
00:42:13.27\00:42:15.64
with other things than he is.
00:42:15.65\00:42:17.36
The point of the matter is
whatever we practice the most,
00:42:17.37\00:42:20.27
is going to be
the master over us.
00:42:20.28\00:42:23.15
You cannot feed the--
carnal nature and expect
00:42:23.16\00:42:27.98
the spiritual
nature to be the strongest,
00:42:27.99\00:42:30.39
the slave to sin.
00:42:30.40\00:42:31.77
Look at Romans 6 and verse 16.
00:42:31.78\00:42:37.12
Romans 6 and verse 16 continuing
00:42:37.13\00:42:39.06
under question number 15.
00:42:39.07\00:42:42.22
How does the
Bible describe the power
00:42:42.23\00:42:43.87
of the sin nature?
00:42:43.88\00:42:46.14
"Do you not know
that whom you present
00:42:46.18\00:42:48.48
yourselves slaves to
obey, you are that one's salves
00:42:48.49\00:42:54.48
whom you obey, whether
of sin leading to death,
00:42:54.49\00:42:59.49
or of obedience
leading to." What?
00:42:59.50\00:43:02.02
"Righteousness."
There are two rows before
00:43:02.03\00:43:03.97
your Deuteronomy
talks about that,
00:43:03.98\00:43:05.72
life and
blessings death and cursing.
00:43:05.73\00:43:09.78
And Moses says, chose life.
00:43:09.79\00:43:13.33
Every morning you wake up,
00:43:13.36\00:43:14.37
you've to choose life
or death, isn't that sad.
00:43:14.38\00:43:17.00
But now let me
encourage you also,
00:43:17.01\00:43:18.43
because sometimes a
person may say well today
00:43:18.47\00:43:20.78
I chose death, does
that mean I'm lost today
00:43:20.82\00:43:23.87
and saved tomorrow
and saved the next day
00:43:23.88\00:43:27.41
and lost the next day,
that's not what it means.
00:43:27.42\00:43:30.42
As long as you're continuing
to grow is the difference
00:43:30.43\00:43:33.66
between stumbling and iniquity.
00:43:33.67\00:43:36.85
Iniquity continues to
lead you further -- farther
00:43:36.86\00:43:40.81
and farther away
from Christ until the hold
00:43:40.82\00:43:42.60
is on you is broken.
00:43:42.68\00:43:44.15
I'm speaking about iniquity.
00:43:44.16\00:43:45.58
But I'm simply talking
about as you yield yourself
00:43:45.59\00:43:48.59
on a day by day basis,
you either find the path
00:43:48.60\00:43:51.31
of righteousness
or the path of sin.
00:43:51.32\00:43:54.92
There's no third path.
There's no neutral path.
00:43:54.93\00:43:57.04
There's no yellow line
in the life of Christianity.
00:43:57.05\00:44:00.16
So here's the question?
00:44:00.17\00:44:02.04
What has Jesus come
to accomplish in us?
00:44:02.05\00:44:04.59
What has Jesus come
to accomplish in us?
00:44:05.09\00:44:08.28
This is a wonderful text
continuing the very story
00:44:08.29\00:44:12.44
that we read in
John 8 and verse 34.
00:44:12.47\00:44:14.83
What has Jesus come
to accomplish in us?
00:44:14.87\00:44:18.16
And if you've ever
been in the situation
00:44:18.19\00:44:21.83
that you couldn't
wait to get out of,
00:44:21.87\00:44:23.35
you'll like this text.
00:44:23.36\00:44:26.14
If you've ever had
food in front of you
00:44:26.15\00:44:28.67
that you just didn't
like, you'll like this text.
00:44:28.68\00:44:32.87
If you've ever been in
a home where the people
00:44:32.88\00:44:35.45
have driven you
nuts, you like this text.
00:44:35.46\00:44:39.43
Here it is.
Speaking to the Jews,
00:44:39.44\00:44:44.37
he says, "And a
slave does not abide
00:44:44.38\00:44:47.88
in the house forever, but
a-- son abides how long forever.
00:44:47.89\00:44:53.59
Therefore", lets
read this together,
00:44:53.60\00:44:56.08
"If the Son makes you free,
00:44:56.09\00:44:59.39
you shall be."
What? "Free indeed."
00:44:59.40\00:45:02.54
Often times we say
if the son set you free.
00:45:02.55\00:45:05.39
Whenever we say set, we
miss the process of make.
00:45:05.40\00:45:08.43
Do you set houses,
or do you make houses?
00:45:08.44\00:45:11.79
You make houses. Do
you set beds or make beds?
00:45:11.80\00:45:15.74
Do you set
breakfast or make breakfast?
00:45:15.75\00:45:18.39
You make it,
there's a process involved.
00:45:18.40\00:45:20.34
Salvation is in fact a process.
00:45:20.35\00:45:24.00
Salvation is what?
00:45:24.01\00:45:25.79
Its not once saved,
always saves, you know that--
00:45:25.80\00:45:28.69
even those who believe
it, even those who espouse
00:45:28.70\00:45:31.34
to one saved always saved. No,
00:45:31.35\00:45:32.60
that there is no
such thing as once saved,
00:45:32.61\00:45:34.05
always saved.
00:45:34.06\00:45:35.54
Salvation is not a
conveyor belt that God staples
00:45:35.55\00:45:37.81
you to and said,
you're going no matter what.
00:45:37.82\00:45:41.32
You are not up here
salvation ski is sliding down
00:45:41.33\00:45:43.37
the mountain to heaven.
00:45:43.38\00:45:46.38
It's a process, it's a process
00:45:46.39\00:45:49.22
that you've to
yield yourself to.
00:45:49.23\00:45:50.89
And I'm gonna try to cover them,
00:45:50.90\00:45:52.16
I'm gonna try to
cover those three processes
00:45:52.17\00:45:53.77
briefly tonight.
00:45:53.78\00:45:54.98
But then cover
them in detail beginning
00:45:54.99\00:45:57.00
in lesson that's upcoming.
00:45:57.01\00:45:59.69
So Jesus has come to set us free
00:45:59.70\00:46:01.68
and if we allow the
Lord to set us free.
00:46:01.69\00:46:03.20
Daily we shall be
what. Free indeed.
00:46:03.21\00:46:07.10
That's the making
prayer, if he makes us free.
00:46:07.11\00:46:09.45
And by the way
you know something,
00:46:09.46\00:46:10.98
there may be those
of you who say, okay,
00:46:10.99\00:46:13.23
man I've prayed today and
I got through eleven hours
00:46:13.24\00:46:17.06
before I gave
into that cigarette.
00:46:17.07\00:46:19.45
Because I met
somebody who just blew smoke
00:46:19.46\00:46:21.51
on my face and you know
it wasn't too many weeks
00:46:21.52\00:46:27.00
before I joined the
church and that smoke smelled
00:46:27.01\00:46:28.89
really good and they end
up smoking the cigarette.
00:46:28.90\00:46:33.71
I remember
praying for somebody right
00:46:33.72\00:46:35.46
in our church
office, some of our elders
00:46:35.47\00:46:36.78
joined together
praying for somebody
00:46:36.79\00:46:38.01
to be set free from smoking.
00:46:38.02\00:46:40.81
Right after we
anointed that man,
00:46:40.82\00:46:42.84
and prayed for him to be set
free I asked him the question.
00:46:42.85\00:46:44.96
Do you have any cigarettes?
00:46:44.97\00:46:46.12
He said I've one pack in
my truck and I said go get it.
00:46:46.13\00:46:48.31
He said, but
that's my last pack.
00:46:48.32\00:46:51.44
And I'm asking the
question wait a minute
00:46:51.45\00:46:52.71
you want to be set
free, but you want to hold
00:46:52.72\00:46:53.91
on to that last pack.
00:46:53.92\00:46:55.28
Here my point.
00:46:55.29\00:46:56.41
Some people want to be set free,
00:46:56.42\00:46:57.42
he said wait a minute not now.
00:46:57.43\00:46:59.38
Wait, I want to be set free
00:46:59.39\00:47:00.72
after my last pack
and that's how sin is.
00:47:00.73\00:47:03.81
It's so deceptive, you know
why, because the nature says
00:47:03.82\00:47:06.63
you be set free but not today.
00:47:06.64\00:47:09.72
Jesus will save you, but
don't worry about it today,
00:47:09.73\00:47:11.82
you got more time.
00:47:11.83\00:47:13.18
Deceptive, the nature, the--
flesh, the clamor of the flesh
00:47:13.19\00:47:17.56
says don't worry
about it, you got time.
00:47:17.57\00:47:20.82
You will eventually be a--
great Christian, but don't--
00:47:20.83\00:47:22.91
right now as somebody
once told me also I got
00:47:22.92\00:47:25.59
a letter from somebody
who was once in the church.
00:47:25.60\00:47:28.36
After many years of going
through Adventist schools,
00:47:28.37\00:47:30.67
going to college,
getting wonderful career.
00:47:30.68\00:47:33.31
One day announced to his family,
00:47:33.32\00:47:36.03
I'm gone because
he said I've lived
00:47:36.04\00:47:39.71
in the Adventist
Christian world all my life.
00:47:39.72\00:47:41.86
I hadn't had a chance
to experience the world.
00:47:41.87\00:47:44.91
And I spoke to the
people just maybe earlier
00:47:44.92\00:47:46.99
last year and said.
Has he comeback yet?
00:47:47.00\00:47:49.08
No he hasn't comeback.
00:47:49.09\00:47:51.58
Because what happened,
00:47:51.59\00:47:52.81
you could live in a Christian
environment all your life
00:47:52.82\00:47:54.78
if the flesh is not
crucified, its going to clamor
00:47:54.79\00:47:57.75
and you gonna one day
without the strength of Christ,
00:47:57.76\00:47:59.89
you're gonna yield to
the clamoring of the flesh.
00:47:59.90\00:48:02.40
You got to find out a
way to kill that old man
00:48:02.41\00:48:04.41
and leave him outside the house.
00:48:04.42\00:48:06.03
No, you're not coming in, amen.
00:48:06.04\00:48:09.21
Amen. Because look at
this, look at the next question.
00:48:09.22\00:48:11.69
How does the Bible describe
the impact of the two natures?
00:48:11.70\00:48:16.34
How does the Bible
describe the impact
00:48:16.35\00:48:20.21
of the-- two natures?
00:48:20.22\00:48:21.23
There are-- how many natures?
00:48:21.24\00:48:22.92
Two. In a very
simple way bad and good.
00:48:22.93\00:48:27.87
In a very profound
way, wicked and righteous.
00:48:27.88\00:48:32.27
How does the Bible
describe the two natures?
00:48:32.28\00:48:34.75
Let's begin with Romans 18.
00:48:34.76\00:48:38.57
Let's begin with Romans 18.
00:48:38.58\00:48:41.90
Romans 5:18.
Thank you very much,
00:48:41.91\00:48:44.35
you're Bible students.
00:48:44.36\00:48:46.03
Romans 5:18, there was
a 18 in there somewhere -
00:48:46.04\00:48:53.15
Therefore, as through one
man's offense judgment came to."
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How many? "All
resulting." In what?
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"In condemnation."
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So in other words through Adam
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what came through Adam.
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Judgment and what
else, condemnation.
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So let me ask you the
question before Christ
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how many of us are condemned?
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Everyone, everyone, the
spirit of God, there's no need.
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What's the phrase,
how's the Bible say it here.
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Let me continue to go on,
not to break the talk right now.
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But the condemnation of sin
is in the world, its rampant.
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But for those
who've come into Christ
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look at the second
part of this verse.
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"Even so through
one man's." What?
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"Righteous act the
free gift came to."
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How many men?
00:49:43.40\00:49:44.47
"All men resulting in." What?
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"Justification of life."
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Notice, through one
man condemnation through
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another man what, justification.
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Condemnation, justification,
so the question is what nation
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do you want to be in?
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Condemnation, no.
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Condemn nation, no, you
want to be in justification.
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If I could change that
call it just of a nation.
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Because I asked what
nation do you want to be in?
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Just of a nation,
which is justification.
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So look at this,
let's look at this again.
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This is where the
battle comes in because
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I talked about the battle.
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We're partakers
of the divine nature
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just to recap, are we not.
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If you're Christian
you're son and daughter of God,
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are you not. But what do
you still have from your father?
00:50:28.85\00:50:32.80
The flesh. How to
Live a Spiritual Life
00:50:32.81\00:50:36.40
in a Natural Body, is
the topic of the matter?
00:50:36.41\00:50:40.20
Because when you
wake up in the morning
00:50:40.21\00:50:41.48
your Bible is right there,
but you know, what's closer
00:50:41.49\00:50:43.20
to you and your
Bible? Your flesh.
00:50:43.21\00:50:48.11
And the next
thing you do determines
00:50:48.12\00:50:50.17
who's gonna have
preeminence that day.
00:50:50.18\00:50:52.79
If you roll out of your bed.
00:50:52.80\00:50:55.46
This is an
emergency move by the way.
00:50:55.47\00:50:57.41
If you rollout to your
bed on to your knees before
00:50:57.42\00:51:00.61
you do anything
else and say lord Jesus
00:51:00.62\00:51:02.18
I'm about to begin my day.
00:51:02.19\00:51:03.45
I'm in trouble without you.
But you've seen what happens.
00:51:03.46\00:51:08.93
If you get up of your
knees and you go to the kitchen
00:51:08.94\00:51:12.10
or you go someplace else you
all said no just wait a minute.
00:51:12.11\00:51:14.81
I'll pray and all said in
the phone rings and something
00:51:14.82\00:51:17.18
else happens before you
know you got to get dress room
00:51:17.19\00:51:19.50
with one of the house.
00:51:19.51\00:51:20.57
You run out of
the house and while
00:51:20.58\00:51:21.69
you're in traffic you realize.
00:51:21.70\00:51:24.13
And do you know what happens.
00:51:24.14\00:51:25.13
There's a bond
there's something that's very
00:51:25.14\00:51:28.13
I call it
scientific spirituality.
00:51:28.14\00:51:30.93
Don't get in and
don't get caught up in that,
00:51:30.94\00:51:32.70
this is nothing and
look upon the dictionary.
00:51:32.71\00:51:34.53
Go in the dictionary
nothing on the in that you need
00:51:34.54\00:51:35.96
scientific spirituality.
But here's what I said.
00:51:35.97\00:51:39.25
There's a science
about living your house.
00:51:39.26\00:51:41.93
If you leave your
house before you pray.
00:51:41.94\00:51:46.40
The way you left your
house tends to follow you.
00:51:46.41\00:51:50.62
If you leave your house
singing a song of the world.
00:51:50.63\00:51:53.85
Have you noticed you
hmm that all day long.
00:51:53.86\00:51:55.94
But if you leave your
singing to God be the glory.
00:51:55.95\00:51:59.59
You got to work in
still in your mind am I right.
00:51:59.60\00:52:02.06
There's something about breaking
00:52:02.07\00:52:03.85
by walking out of the
house I'm prepared for battle
00:52:03.86\00:52:06.89
and you can't find any battle
army men outside to your house.
00:52:06.90\00:52:10.28
Even though still
they're available.
00:52:10.29\00:52:12.45
But it's always better to put on
00:52:12.46\00:52:14.16
how much armor of the God.
00:52:14.17\00:52:16.24
The whole armor and when Paul
talked about the whole armor.
00:52:16.25\00:52:18.66
Even after you
put on the whole armor
00:52:18.67\00:52:20.54
what did you say you got to do.
00:52:20.55\00:52:21.90
Pray. You got to pray.
00:52:21.91\00:52:25.25
You have to pray. Lets look
at the next part of it this.
00:52:25.26\00:52:28.37
How does the Bible describe
the impact of the 2 natures?
00:52:28.38\00:52:30.80
Very short one, "For
as in Adam how many die."
00:52:30.81\00:52:34.86
All die. "Even so
Christ." How many?
00:52:34.87\00:52:39.44
"All shall be made alive."
So if you put Romans 5, 18.
00:52:39.45\00:52:46.20
One is condemnation the
other one is what justification.
00:52:46.21\00:52:51.50
1st Corinthians 5,
22, Adam equals death,
00:52:51.51\00:52:55.00
Christ equals life. It's
like two cars waiting outside.
00:52:55.01\00:53:00.35
You ask yourself
which one to get in.
00:53:00.36\00:53:02.42
Get in the car with Jesus.
00:53:02.43\00:53:04.31
Here's another one
very familiar passage.
00:53:04.32\00:53:06.74
Very familiar passage
here it is Roman 6 verse 23
00:53:06.75\00:53:10.25
we're showing the 2
natures and all of these
00:53:10.26\00:53:12.34
they where covering right now.
00:53:12.35\00:53:13.60
The 2 natures
here's the other one.
00:53:13.61\00:53:15.56
"For the wages of
sin is what, death."
00:53:15.57\00:53:19.98
But, "The gift of God is." What?
00:53:19.99\00:53:23.42
"Eternal life in
Christ Jesus our Lord."
00:53:23.43\00:53:26.90
You cannot get
eternal life in sin.
00:53:26.91\00:53:31.73
And when you're living in
Christ there's no wages of sin.
00:53:31.74\00:53:35.66
Notice wages, gift
one is free but every gift
00:53:35.67\00:53:41.44
that you receive
freely somebody pay it for.
00:53:41.45\00:53:44.67
The other one is what
you is what you deserve.
00:53:44.68\00:53:47.84
So if somebody says I need
my check you ask the question
00:53:47.85\00:53:51.42
well have you worked
for and the answer is what.
00:53:51.43\00:53:53.43
Yes. That is every one
of us we've one to the desk
00:53:53.44\00:53:56.97
to get paid.
What will our payment
00:53:56.98\00:53:59.25
be what would our payment be.
00:53:59.26\00:54:01.35
Come one tell me
what will our check
00:54:01.36\00:54:03.67
what will be
written on our check.
00:54:03.68\00:54:05.98
Death. Because
that's what we deserve
00:54:05.99\00:54:10.01
the wages of sin is death.
00:54:10.02\00:54:12.18
But through Jesus Christ we
go to the desk and we say --
00:54:12.19\00:54:15.40
do you have a gift to me.
00:54:15.41\00:54:17.27
And they bring the
gift out from the behind
00:54:17.28\00:54:18.61
the count and--
they say here it is.
00:54:18.62\00:54:20.38
Jesus left His gift for you.
00:54:20.39\00:54:21.70
The gift of God is what?
00:54:21.71\00:54:23.11
Eternal life in
Christ Jesus our lord.
00:54:23.12\00:54:25.73
Now he's this is the
very important point.
00:54:25.74\00:54:27.98
Don't ever think that
the gift of God is free.
00:54:27.99\00:54:32.60
It's free to you. But
it costs Jesus everything.
00:54:32.61\00:54:36.41
When you think about
how much you cost him.
00:54:36.42\00:54:38.47
Peter says, we'll not
redeem with corruptible
00:54:38.48\00:54:41.44
things like gold and silver
now I can add wood and stone
00:54:41.45\00:54:44.52
and brick but what the
precious blood of Christ
00:54:44.53\00:54:48.29
as of a spotless lamb.
00:54:48.30\00:54:51.21
So it cost him everything.
00:54:51.22\00:54:53.66
Now how many of
you have thought before
00:54:53.67\00:54:56.37
we go to the next one.
00:54:56.38\00:54:57.39
How many of you living
in a place like heaven?
00:54:57.40\00:55:02.27
Which will be given to
before but just imagine --
00:55:02.28\00:55:04.71
leave heaven and come down here
00:55:04.72\00:55:06.09
and knowing before you get here.
00:55:06.10\00:55:07.81
They gonna spit on you.
00:55:07.82\00:55:09.33
They gonna lie about you.
00:55:09.34\00:55:11.58
They gonna do all
manner of evil against you.
00:55:11.59\00:55:14.04
Mail you to the cross.
00:55:14.05\00:55:16.03
For something you
didn't you didn't do.
00:55:16.04\00:55:17.37
Have you ever felt
nailed to the cross?
00:55:17.38\00:55:21.43
No, follow me yeah
it sometimes people nail
00:55:21.44\00:55:23.99
you to the cross for
something you didn't do it.
00:55:24.00\00:55:26.21
And see the--
Bible I didn't do it.
00:55:26.22\00:55:28.17
And you're fighting
your case when Jesus
00:55:28.18\00:55:30.50
was taken to the cross
he didn't plead his case.
00:55:30.51\00:55:33.75
Because it wasn't
his case it was our case.
00:55:33.76\00:55:37.63
he took our case to the cross.
00:55:37.64\00:55:39.72
Here's the next one
for tonight and next week
00:55:39.73\00:55:42.17
we're gonna began breaking down
00:55:42.18\00:55:43.69
the 3 stage
process of salvation.
00:55:43.70\00:55:46.19
It is going to be powerful.
00:55:46.20\00:55:48.55
The 3 stage process of
salvation you cannot miss
00:55:48.56\00:55:53.07
that one it's
gonna be next week.
00:55:53.08\00:55:54.38
But tonight lets
end with this one.
00:55:54.39\00:55:56.02
Ephesians 2 verse 89,
and answer to the question.
00:55:56.03\00:56:00.29
How does the Bible describe
the impact of 2 natures?
00:56:00.30\00:56:03.10
Here it is together,
00:56:03.11\00:56:04.82
"For by grace you
have been saved through."
00:56:04.83\00:56:08.33
What? "Faith, and
that not of yourselves;
00:56:08.34\00:56:12.09
it is the gift of
God, not of works,
00:56:12.10\00:56:16.37
lest anyone any
man should boast."
00:56:16.38\00:56:21.07
The gift of God not of works.
00:56:21.08\00:56:23.60
Lest any man should boast.
00:56:23.61\00:56:26.74
After pasturing 25
years now I go to my library
00:56:26.75\00:56:30.00
every now and then and I look
at the dates of my old sermon.
00:56:30.01\00:56:33.02
Some of them are
in typewriter ink
00:56:33.05\00:56:36.45
some of them
are in computer ink.
00:56:36.46\00:56:39.03
Some of them are fully
color coated some are coated
00:56:39.04\00:56:41.39
by different color monitors.
00:56:41.40\00:56:44.04
And I think lord I preach
the whole lots of sermons.
00:56:44.05\00:56:47.78
And not a one of them
can get me the heaven.
00:56:47.79\00:56:50.70
I think of all
the evangelistic years
00:56:50.71\00:56:53.73
I've held all the baptisms
I've held then I say Lord
00:56:53.74\00:56:56.29
my statistics are pretty good.
00:56:56.30\00:56:58.65
And hear the words
and not of one them
00:56:58.66\00:56:59.85
could get to the heaven.
00:56:59.86\00:57:02.08
Not of works that
anybody should boast.
00:57:02.09\00:57:04.85
For by grace be
your safe through faith
00:57:04.86\00:57:06.77
am I telling the truth.
00:57:06.78\00:57:07.89
That's why on--
February 15th Shelly Quinn
00:57:07.90\00:57:10.99
is going to present
00:57:11.00\00:57:12.11
the topic called
praying outside the box.
00:57:12.12\00:57:16.20
You don't to miss that one,
00:57:16.21\00:57:17.46
"Praying Outside the Box."
00:57:17.47\00:57:19.44
That could be outside your home.
00:57:19.45\00:57:21.32
That can be outside of the--
box of the your comfort zone.
00:57:21.33\00:57:23.69
You don't want to
miss that if you miss
00:57:23.70\00:57:25.84
the lesson for
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00:57:51.17\00:57:53.72
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