Hello, friends, and welcome
to another a Sharper Focus,
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Wednesday night Bible
study, time for prayer
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and time for getting
into it with the Lord
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and with the Holy Spirit.
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And our local audience
would like to welcome you.
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Let's all say, welcome. Welcome.
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You have been welcomed by
the people in Thompsonville,
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the biggest little city,
we believe in the mid west.
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Some may argue
differently, but we believe
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that the Lord is changing
lives and transforming lives
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all around the world
by what's taking place
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in this little town and if
you are in driving distance,
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we'd like to invite
you to come and join us
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for our Wednesday night
Bible study and prayer time.
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And we are continuing
tonight on the topic of,
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"How to Live a Spiritual
Life in a Natural Body."
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to continue with us as we study,
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"How to Live a Spiritual
Life in a Natural Body."
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Let's all pray together.
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Our gracious Father in heaven,
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we thank you once
again for the opportunity.
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Sometimes they are
few and far between,
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but the pause in
the middle of our week,
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it defines spiritual
strength and direction
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is such a
vitally important thing
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as it relates to
our spiritual growth.
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We have recognized that
we are not able of ourselves
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to be righteous
in any particular.
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And so far that we
thank you for Jesus Christ
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and we thank you
for His righteousness.
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But tonight, guide us
through the study of your word
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and help us to
understand more clearly,
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how truly we can look
at Christ our righteousness
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and rejoiced that each one of us
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can be made complete in Him.
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In Jesus name we
pray. Amen. Amen.
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Now we're gonna to do something
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a little differently tonight
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because people
have requested that
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and I think it
would be a good thing.
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We're gonna begin
tonight with a song,
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the words may not
appear on your screen,
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but our local
audience is gonna sing a song,
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"Seek ye first
the kingdom of God
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and His righteousness
and all these things
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will be added to you."
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If it's familiar with you,
you can sing along with us.
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Let's sing that
song together tonight.
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Seek ye first the kingdom of God
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And His righteousness
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And all these things
shall be added unto you
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And we say, Hallelu, Hallelujah
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Ask and it shall
be given unto you
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Seek and ye shall find
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Knock and the door
shall be opened unto you
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We sing, Hallelu, Hallelujah
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Seek ye first the kingdom of God
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And His righteousness
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And all these things
shall be added unto you
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Hallelu, Hallelujah
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Hallelu, Hallelujah.
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Ain't that
wonderful? Amen. Amen.
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You know that's actually
Mathew Chapter 6 and verse 33,
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which in fact says,
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"Seek ye first
the kingdom of God
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and His righteousness
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and all these things
shall be added unto you."
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And so often people,
even sometimes Christians,
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they seek all the things first.
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But the whole focus of
our study from week to week
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is to seek first the kingdom
of God and His righteousness
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and whatever you
need will be added to you.
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Tonight, we're gonna be talking
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about the topic
of justification,
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the power of justification.
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Now for those of you
who are following along,
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somebody may ask the question,
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"Hey, but what
about question number 24
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in lesson number one?
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What about
question 24 in the lesson
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about Victorious Living?"
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And that question I'll
just mention it to you,
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if you want to fill
that in, the question was,
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how can we define
the act of justification?
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How can we define
the act of justification?
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And if you have the syllabus,
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you'll notice that the
three words or the four words,
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"We are saved by" and then
there are two blank spaces.
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"We are saved by" and
let me give you the answer,
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we are saved by Christ's work.
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We are saved by
Christ's work. Amen.
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Not by our work.
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Because the Bible says,
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"We are saved by
grace through faith,
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and that not of
ourselves is the gift of God,
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not of works lest
anyone should boast."
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We are saved by Christ's work.
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And tonight, we're
gonna be talking about
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what that work is and
how that work can be applied
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to our lives in a wonderful way?
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So if you have lesson
number two, which is entitled,
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"The Process of Justification,"
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and you should
have that in your hand.
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We'll follow along tonight.
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How many of you
have heard the phrase,
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a fight to the death?
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Have you heard that before?
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You know when
you hear that phrase,
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sometimes you think
about two gladiators
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or two sword fighters
or two people in a ring.
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In modern times, you
know, we don't watch things
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that people fight to the death.
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In most cases,
those are fictional shows
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where they show gladiators,
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but you can envision how
must've been in Roman times
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where the gladiator
would enter the ring
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and they would
fight and the only one
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that came out is
the one that lived.
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But when you think
about the Christian life,
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there is a fight to the death.
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You see everyone wants
to-- let me use the phrase,
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everyone loosely, those
who wanted to be baptized
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often think of baptism
as entering into fellowship,
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joining a church, having their
membership added to the role.
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But I'm gonna begin
tonight with a scripture
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that's not on our syllabus
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and I want you to
see how important it is
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to understand that to first
and into this righteous life,
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there is a fight to the death.
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There are two people
that are battling each other,
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but I want to thank
the Lord tonight that
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Jesus has already won.
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Can you say amen to that? Amen.
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So this, but this battle--
this fight that takes place
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is not just the battle
that Jesus won on the cross,
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but this is a battle in us.
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And this battle is
not a one time battle.
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This battle happens how
often? How do you think?
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Everyday, all day
long. Everyday, all day long.
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Those of us who
know how difficult it is,
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they say everyday,
all day long battle.
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But I'm gonna
show you in the Bible.
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Go with me to Romans Chapter 6.
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Romans Chapter 6,
we're gonna see this,
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"Fight to the death."
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And by the way when you think
about the fight to the death,
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you don't think
about it this way,
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the man that lives
in the gladiator's fight
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is the man that leaves the ring.
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Ain't that right?
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But in the Christian
life, the man that dies
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is the man that walks away free.
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You follow this very carefully.
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It's an amazing
dichotomy, how it's different,
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because the spiritual
world and the natural world
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are really
opposite to each other.
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Romans Chapter 6.
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Look with me to
verse 1 and 2 to start.
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Romans 6, verse 1 and verse 2.
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And Paul, as he often does--
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you know what I like
about Paul's writings,
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sometimes he asks
questions as though the people
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he is talking to should
already know the answer.
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He says, "what?"
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And if you read that in Greek,
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he's like, he's
surprised, "what."
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He is looking at
Christians who should be going
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in a different direction,
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so he begins with
the phrase or the word,
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"what" and that's
what he says, "what?"
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What shall we say then?
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Shall we continue in
sin that what may abound?
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That grace may
abound and he answers
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emphatically
"together" certainly not.
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How shall we who died to
sin live any longer in it?
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How shall we who died to
sin live any longer in it?"
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Now when you think about dying,
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you don't think
about living after that.
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At least the gladiator
who died does not walk home.
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The one who won is
the one that walks home.
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There's a battle
that Paul outlines
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here in Romans Chapter 6.
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And he talks about this
old man that wants to fight.
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But the fight does
not begin until the person
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who is captured by this old man
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desires to be set free.
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Until there is a
desire to be set free,
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until there is a desire to
be released from the bondage
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or the chain that holds
you, there is really no battle.
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Let me make it even clearer.
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There is no battle for people
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that are living
just for the world.
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There is no battle.
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They get up, they
live for the world.
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They have "fun" as they say it.
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There's no struggle.
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They drink like the world,
they speak like the world,
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they entertain like the
world, they do everything.
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And one of the reasons why
Christians are so often shock
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and we say, how
can they do that?
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How could anybody do that?
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They are completely not
even desiring to be set free.
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They are completely under
control by that old nature,
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that nature that
they got from Adam.
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And Paul talks about that nature
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in Romans Chapter
6 as the "old man."
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But now let's go to verse
7, because Paul introduces,
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"How could we leave
that way if we've died
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to what was formally behind us?"
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He says in Romans Chapter 7--
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Romans Chapter 6
and verse 7, all right?
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For he who has,
what's the next word? Died.
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"For He who has died
has been freed from sin."
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You know another way
to say that and sometimes
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you don't get this, but
I want to give you a word
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to really give you
something to rejoice about,
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"He who has died has
been cleared from sin."
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So in other words, if
you look at your record,
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let's just say you
gave your life to the Lord
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when you're 25 years old.
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Those 25 years
behind you are years
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filled with sin
and transgression
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and temptation and all
the things you've done wrong.
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And so when you
come to the point
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where you enter into
that relationship with Christ,
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you accept Him as
your Lord and savior.
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Then you go down to the
watery grave of baptism,
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that's the burial,
that signifying the death.
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When you come up, you come
up cleared of all the things
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you've done before. Amen. Amen.
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You come up completely cleared.
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And I don't know of anybody
who has ever been in debt
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would like to
be cleared of debt.
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Everybody who has
something that they owe
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would like to be cleared
of that thing that they owe.
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But when you look at 25
years of sin or 30 years
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or 40 years or 15 years
or however long it's been,
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there is no possible way for you
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to be able to
clear your own record.
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Let me use this illustration,
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there is no way to clean
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a dirty window with a dirty rag.
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Because our righteousness
is as, what? Filthy rags.
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There's no way to
wipe oil off the car
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if the rag has
nothing but oil on it.
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So we're stained by sin.
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So when you come to
Christ and He accepts you
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and He starts clearing your life
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that will give you
a reason to rejoice
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because you are not only
freed from the power of sin,
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but you're cleared from
all of the stains of sin, amen.
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But let's go on because
verse 11 contributes to this
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and I'm jumping around because
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that's not the
main focus tonight.
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But you know what, I
need to just go ahead
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and add a few more
verses before verse 11.
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Go to verse 8, Roman 6, verse 8,
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because this is added
also to the topic of death.
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Now if we died,
how? With Christ.
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We believe that we shall
also, how? Lived with Him.
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That living with
Him is not just talking
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about the kingdom to come.
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That living with Him
is talking about, when?
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Now, right now.
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And then verse 9,
Knowing that Christ
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having been raised
from the dead dies no more,
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death no longer
has dominion, over who?
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Over Him, for the
death that He died,
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He died to sin once,
for how many of us? For all.
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But the life that He
lives, He lives to God.
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In the very same
way when we die to sin,
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the life we live is
the life we live to God.
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And we can live a
righteous life to God
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on our own because we still
have something that's mortal.
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We still have a dirty
rag to deal with everyday.
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But let's go on to
verse 11, here is the one.
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And this is by faith,
this is strictly by faith,
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but also by
accepting what Christ has done.
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Likewise you also,
what is the very next word?
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Reckon or consider
yourselves to be what?
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Dead indeed to sin,
but alive to God, how?
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In or through
Christ, Jesus our Lord.
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We cannot live
through anybody else.
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As a matter of fact let me
just emphasize this further.
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If you go to a funeral
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and I think each one of us has.
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If you go to a funeral,
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does not follow you home, right?
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Aren't you glad?
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But when we go to the cross,
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who you are prior to that
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doesn't follow
you home either, why?
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Galatians 2:20.
Let me repeat it.
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I have been
crucified with Christ
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nevertheless I live, but who?
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Yet it is no longer
I who live, but what?
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Christ who lives in me
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in the life I now
live in the flesh,
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I live by faith
in the son of God
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who loved me and did what?
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Gave himself for
me. So here's the point.
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We need a spiritual respirator
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after we give
our lives to Christ
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because that body of
sin has been done away with
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that man of sin has been killed.
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He is not out of existence yet.
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We're gonna talk about that
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under the topic
of sanctification.
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He's not out of existence yet.
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So we have to
maintain a day by day
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relationship to keep him dead.
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So let's go ahead and go
to question number one now,
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very vitally important
to lay that foundation.
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When we're in Christ, all
the old things have passed away,
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behold all
things are become new.
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That is second
Corinthians 5 and verse 17.
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But now let's look
at question number one.
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Question number one. Here it is.
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"What does the Bible
reveal that informs us
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that we need deliverance?"
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"What does the Bible reveal
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that informs us that
we need deliverance?"
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Romans 3 verse 23.
If you are theological,
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you know the answer already.
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All right, are
you ready? Here we go.
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"For all have sinned and fall
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short of the glory of God."
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I used to have
fun with the long jump
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when I was in track
and field in high school.
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Do you know what
the long jump is?
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It's a sandbox,
at least soft dirt.
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Sometimes when we
used to do the long jump
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on cold days that was hard dirt.
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But it's a sandbox,
a very, very soft dirt
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and what you try to
do is you try to jump
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as far as you could
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to compete against the
jump of the other person.
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And if you're able to
clear that sandbox altogether
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not even put a
footprint in that sand,
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you're really good, but
I have never met anybody.
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I have not met
anybody who ever cleared
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that sandbox completely.
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Every one of them fall short.
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In the very same way,
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we can try with all the effort.
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I mean you can run as
hard as you can as a Christian.
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You can be running
in the Christian life
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with all the energy.
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You can be trying
as hard as you could,
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but the bottom line is
when you leave your feet
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and try to clear what we
call sin, you never clear it.
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You always fall
short of the glory of God.
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That's why Jesus,
He makes up the gap.
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He closes the gap between a
sinner and the savior. Amen.
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How does He do it?
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There's one
mediator between God and man
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and that's the
man, who? Christ Jesus.
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With this hand, he
connects humanity to divinity.
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And with this hand,
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he connects
divinity to humanity.
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There's only one mediator.
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There's no other
name given among men
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whereby we must be
saved than the name of Jesus.
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So he's the one that
makes up the difference
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between us falling
short or more specifically,
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let me make it
very clear because
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I don't want you to think
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that I'm
talking about our effort
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plus His little
input makes salvation.
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I'm making the point that
we have no effort on our part
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that can ever
contribute to His righteousness.
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In other words, we
could never clear that again.
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We'll always fall
short, so, you know,
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there's no need to go out
with a measuring stick and say,
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"Uh, I just missed His
righteousness by four inches."
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There is no sense to do that
because we can never get it.
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You know the gap
between earth and heaven.
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I think I like the way
that Jesus says to disciples,
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He said, "Where I'm
going, you cannot come."
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That's the gap. But he'll
come back to get us there.
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So tonight we
simply see the reason
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why everyone of
us needs deliverance
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is because we
have all fallen, how?
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Short of the glory of God.
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But let's go to
question number two.
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And we're gonna
spend a lot of time
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tonight in Romans Chapter
3 because Romans Chapter 3
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is the chapter that
really wonderfully defines
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who we are and who
we can be in Christ?
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Romans Chapter 3, let's
go to the question first.
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"How does the Bible describe
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the transaction to
the pardon sinners?"
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There's a transaction.
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A transaction often
includes some kind of monitory--
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some kind of monitory fund.
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There's always something
included in transaction
00:20:18.91\00:20:21.28
that pays for something.
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But here is the
answer, Romans 3 and verse 24.
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Look at the transaction.
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"Being justified," let's
say the next word together.
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"Freely by His grace
through the redemption
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that is in Christ Jesus."
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How are we justified? Freely.
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Now what I want
to get this is it.
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Here it is. Just
look at that hand again.
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The hand that
reaches down from God to man,
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there is no charge for that,
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because the hand that reaches
from man to God is expensive.
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We're not redeemed
by corruptible things
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like silver and gold,
00:20:59.55\00:21:00.79
but the precious blood of Christ
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as that of a spotless lamb.
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So this arm is
the expensive arm,
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but when it reaches down the man
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there's no charge. Amen? Amen.
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He doesn't charge
us to connect us to God
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because as the song writer say,
00:21:12.30\00:21:13.97
"Jesus paid it
all. All to him I owe."
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So you begin to
see the Bible describes
00:21:18.77\00:21:21.04
the transaction
to pardon sinners
00:21:21.04\00:21:22.51
as we're justified freely.
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Salvation is free to us.
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The hand that reaches
down to connect to man,
00:21:27.18\00:21:29.42
but on this hand that reaches up
00:21:29.42\00:21:30.72
to connect the
God it's expensive
00:21:30.72\00:21:32.39
because Jesus gave
up everything in heaven.
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How many of us will do that
00:21:35.99\00:21:37.33
for just somebody
that we didn't know,
00:21:37.33\00:21:40.46
somebody that
wouldn't appreciate it.
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And when you think about how
Jesus did that the Bible says,
00:21:42.36\00:21:44.43
in that while we're yet, what?
00:21:44.43\00:21:47.17
Sinners. Christ died for us.
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So he didn't say, well,
Mike, when you get it together,
00:21:48.67\00:21:54.64
I'll come down and die for you.
00:21:54.64\00:21:56.81
And then if that was
the case, you say, Mike,
00:21:56.81\00:21:59.38
you know, it's not my fault,
00:21:59.38\00:22:00.62
you just never got it together.
00:22:00.62\00:22:02.78
But God's love for
us is so great, friends.
00:22:02.78\00:22:04.89
I want to emphasize this.
God's love for us is so great.
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He saw us under
the bondage of an enemy
00:22:08.49\00:22:13.29
that hated him
and that hated us.
00:22:13.29\00:22:16.13
And wanted to do
nothing more than torment
00:22:16.13\00:22:18.17
and torture his children and
hold them in bondage and fear.
00:22:18.17\00:22:21.50
But I like it when
Jesus sets us free,
00:22:21.50\00:22:23.57
The Bible says
when He sets us free
00:22:23.57\00:22:25.51
He doesn't even allow
00:22:25.51\00:22:27.41
the spirit of fear to continue.
00:22:27.41\00:22:30.48
For God has not given us
00:22:30.48\00:22:31.68
the spirit of fear but of what?
00:22:31.68\00:22:34.25
Power. What else? Love
and what else? A sound mind.
00:22:34.25\00:22:38.42
He takes away
not just our record,
00:22:38.42\00:22:40.69
but He clears us, I'm excited.
00:22:40.69\00:22:44.13
He clears us of all the things
that held us fearful. Amen.
00:22:44.13\00:22:48.36
Praise be His name.
Question number three.
00:22:50.70\00:22:53.97
So if you put the
answer for number two,
00:22:53.97\00:22:56.20
the transaction to pardon
the sinner justified freely.
00:22:56.20\00:23:00.81
That is to us. Question number--
00:23:00.81\00:23:03.48
let me read this
quotation by the way.
00:23:03.48\00:23:05.61
This is between
question two and question three,
00:23:05.61\00:23:09.12
very, very powerful.
00:23:09.12\00:23:10.32
This is from the
book, Christ Triumphant.
00:23:10.32\00:23:12.89
Page 150, paragraph 3.
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Follow me carefully,
"As penitent sinners,
00:23:15.66\00:23:20.20
contrite before God,
00:23:20.20\00:23:22.20
discern Christ's
atonement in their behalf."
00:23:22.20\00:23:25.73
In other words, as
they come to grips with it
00:23:25.73\00:23:28.00
and accept this
atonement as their only hope
00:23:28.00\00:23:31.71
in this life
and the future life,
00:23:31.71\00:23:34.88
their sins are, what? Pardoned.
00:23:34.88\00:23:38.18
This is justification by faith.
00:23:38.18\00:23:42.42
Pardon and justification are one
00:23:42.42\00:23:45.92
and the same thing, amen.
00:23:45.92\00:23:47.99
Pardon and justification
are one and the same thing.
00:23:47.99\00:23:52.26
Now I don't-- what
I'm going to do tonight
00:23:52.26\00:23:54.86
is I'm going to add
some greater context to that
00:23:54.86\00:23:57.90
because you know,
sometimes you think
00:23:57.90\00:24:00.04
when we say to somebody,
Uh, it's okay, I'm sorry.
00:24:00.04\00:24:02.20
I'm sorry. Okay,
you are pardoned.
00:24:02.20\00:24:05.54
It's not the same
thing. It's not that simple.
00:24:05.54\00:24:09.08
Because there's an
obligation that comes along,
00:24:09.08\00:24:11.51
there's an
obligation that comes along
00:24:11.51\00:24:13.15
with our connection to Christ.
00:24:13.15\00:24:14.52
There's a great obligation
that comes into that gap
00:24:14.52\00:24:17.39
and allows us to see
00:24:17.39\00:24:18.95
where we are in
relationship to where Christ is.
00:24:18.95\00:24:23.09
So pardon is not as simple as,
00:24:23.09\00:24:25.39
"Uh, Hannah, that's
okay, don't worry about it."
00:24:25.39\00:24:28.56
It's a great transaction,
00:24:28.56\00:24:30.47
but what this quotation
says that excites me is,
00:24:30.47\00:24:34.47
when you sit down
and you contemplate
00:24:34.47\00:24:36.24
what Jesus has done for you,
00:24:36.24\00:24:37.87
when you think carefully
00:24:37.87\00:24:39.77
that you could never
have done it for yourself,
00:24:39.77\00:24:43.21
when you think about all
the glories that revealed,
00:24:43.21\00:24:45.21
all the hope that's revealed,
00:24:45.21\00:24:46.98
all of the heaven
that's being prepared for us
00:24:46.98\00:24:49.52
and you think what
could I do to get there
00:24:49.52\00:24:51.79
and you come up
with a conclusion,
00:24:51.79\00:24:52.79
there is nothing I can
do and then someone says,
00:24:52.79\00:24:55.56
"John Dinzey, I'm not
only paying for your past,
00:24:55.56\00:24:58.96
I'm giving you
power for the present,
00:24:58.96\00:25:00.93
assurance for the future,
00:25:00.93\00:25:02.70
and the promise
of eternal life."
00:25:02.70\00:25:04.00
That gives you reason
to say hallelujah. Amen.
00:25:04.00\00:25:06.53
He says this world
is bad as it is getting.
00:25:07.54\00:25:09.77
It's not your final frontier.
00:25:09.77\00:25:12.17
As they used to say
on Star Trek years ago.
00:25:12.17\00:25:14.44
It's not your final home.
00:25:14.44\00:25:15.74
Even Abraham who
is a friend of God
00:25:15.74\00:25:17.85
and his works brought
him into relationship,
00:25:17.85\00:25:21.08
his works
verified that he accepted
00:25:21.08\00:25:23.79
the justification of Christ,
00:25:23.79\00:25:25.82
and because of that
he said, wait a minute,
00:25:25.82\00:25:27.69
I'm looking for a
city which had foundations
00:25:27.69\00:25:29.92
whose builder and maker is God.
00:25:29.92\00:25:31.26
He realized that what
Jesus had done for him.
00:25:31.26\00:25:34.10
What Jesus would do for him
00:25:34.10\00:25:36.00
going and looking to the cross,
00:25:36.00\00:25:37.93
would give him the glory
of leaving this world one day.
00:25:37.93\00:25:40.20
But there's another quotation
from the very same book,
00:25:40.20\00:25:43.14
I wanna continue to
talk about justification.
00:25:43.14\00:25:45.54
Look at the screen.
00:25:45.54\00:25:47.21
Christ Triumphant, page
150, but now paragraph 4.
00:25:47.21\00:25:50.85
It reads as follows.
00:25:50.85\00:25:52.58
"Justification is
the opposite of," what?
00:25:52.58\00:25:56.15
Condemnation, if
you ever felt condemned,
00:25:56.15\00:25:58.42
you know what that means.
00:25:58.42\00:25:59.55
"God's boundless mercy
is exercised toward those
00:25:59.55\00:26:03.83
who are wholly undeserving."
00:26:03.83\00:26:06.03
You don't deserve it.
00:26:07.03\00:26:08.86
"He forgives transgressions
00:26:08.86\00:26:11.10
and sins for the sake of Jesus
00:26:11.10\00:26:15.10
who has become the
propitiation for our sins,
00:26:15.10\00:26:20.08
the payment, the substitute.
00:26:20.08\00:26:22.88
Through faith in Christ,
00:26:22.88\00:26:24.68
the guilty transgressor
is bought into, what?
00:26:24.68\00:26:28.95
Favor with God and into the
strong hope of life eternal."
00:26:28.95\00:26:35.02
Wow. I want to say
thank God for that.
00:26:35.02\00:26:38.43
But I want to
emphasize something,
00:26:38.43\00:26:40.03
he has brought into the
strong hope of life eternal.
00:26:40.03\00:26:43.73
Let me
emphasize what that means?
00:26:43.73\00:26:45.83
When God led the
children of Israel out of Egypt,
00:26:45.83\00:26:49.50
they were not
immediately in the promise land.
00:26:49.50\00:26:51.81
As a matter of fact,
you read the Bible you see
00:26:51.81\00:26:53.24
that many of
them did not make it.
00:26:53.24\00:26:55.88
He did not require
them to do anything
00:26:55.88\00:26:57.88
except his freedom to
get them out of Egypt, right?
00:26:57.88\00:27:01.98
Come on out. Matter of fact,
even some Egyptians came out.
00:27:01.98\00:27:06.86
So the coming out
process was extended to everyone
00:27:06.86\00:27:10.46
who accepted God's deliverance.
00:27:10.46\00:27:13.50
And they had the
hope of going in.
00:27:13.50\00:27:16.77
This is very important.
00:27:16.77\00:27:18.30
Because this
thought I'm communicating
00:27:18.30\00:27:20.97
debunks the attitude
00:27:20.97\00:27:22.50
or the teaching of
once saved, always saved.
00:27:22.50\00:27:24.77
How you live
between the exit of Egypt
00:27:26.31\00:27:29.14
and the border of the
promise land determined
00:27:29.14\00:27:31.88
whether or not the
hope of eternal life
00:27:31.88\00:27:34.12
became the
reality of eternal life.
00:27:34.12\00:27:36.92
That's very vitally important
00:27:36.92\00:27:38.42
because a lot of
people get baptized.
00:27:38.42\00:27:40.12
And you know what happens?
00:27:40.12\00:27:41.19
After they get baptized,
00:27:41.19\00:27:42.16
they go back to living
the way they did before.
00:27:42.16\00:27:44.49
They go back to their old
life and doesn't really matter
00:27:44.49\00:27:46.39
because some how
maybe they don't believe
00:27:46.39\00:27:48.80
in once saved always saved,
00:27:48.80\00:27:49.90
but somehow they dismissed
00:27:49.90\00:27:51.00
the idea that I just left Egypt.
00:27:51.00\00:27:54.44
There is a journey ahead of me.
00:27:54.44\00:27:55.94
Unfortunately in the
case of the Israelites,
00:27:55.94\00:27:57.91
it was much
longer than God intended,
00:27:57.91\00:27:59.74
but in our lives, whether
it's 15 years or 10 years
00:27:59.74\00:28:02.58
or some people
have been Christians
00:28:02.58\00:28:03.75
60 years or 70 or more,
00:28:03.75\00:28:05.81
however long it is,
it's a day by day journey.
00:28:05.81\00:28:09.18
It's a humbling
reality to know that
00:28:09.18\00:28:10.85
when you wake up everyday,
00:28:10.85\00:28:12.05
you got to take one
more step in this journey
00:28:12.05\00:28:14.29
advancing toward
the promise land.
00:28:14.29\00:28:16.86
And as the song writers says,
00:28:16.86\00:28:17.93
"We see the gleams
of the golden morning."
00:28:17.93\00:28:19.46
We know that one day
00:28:19.46\00:28:20.46
we will enter the promise land.
00:28:20.46\00:28:21.86
But how you lived down
here says whether or not
00:28:21.86\00:28:24.87
you accept the great
pardoning process and value
00:28:24.87\00:28:31.87
and salvation that
comes through being justified.
00:28:31.87\00:28:35.94
You know, for somebody--Larry--
00:28:35.94\00:28:37.98
I may use Larry as an example.
00:28:37.98\00:28:39.71
Larry is one of the
nicest guys we have around here.
00:28:39.71\00:28:43.25
You don't have to ask
Larry to do whole lot.
00:28:43.25\00:28:44.69
Larry just gives and
gives and gives of himself.
00:28:44.69\00:28:47.26
But one thing Larry
can't do is buy salvation.
00:28:49.32\00:28:52.69
So the Lord says to Larry.
00:28:52.69\00:28:54.36
You could look Larry nowadays
00:28:54.36\00:28:55.36
and you'll never think that
00:28:55.36\00:28:56.36
Larry used to be a motorcyclist,
00:28:56.36\00:29:00.07
a wild person, who lived
a completely different life
00:29:00.07\00:29:03.71
to what he lives now and
you look at his life and say,
00:29:03.71\00:29:05.84
how on earth did you
get from where you are
00:29:05.84\00:29:08.08
or where you are today.
00:29:08.08\00:29:09.51
We got to say he went
00:29:09.51\00:29:10.51
to the curtain of
God's justification.
00:29:10.51\00:29:13.48
God could not always save
you, but he changes you also.
00:29:13.48\00:29:16.48
But if Larry sat
down and said, okay, Lord,
00:29:16.48\00:29:18.22
I'm changed the whole.
00:29:18.22\00:29:19.32
Lord, I think I got it
from here then all that debt.
00:29:19.32\00:29:23.89
All that debt is
piled back on him.
00:29:23.89\00:29:27.03
Then he realizes, wait a minute.
00:29:29.26\00:29:30.77
Why are you
giving that back to me?
00:29:30.77\00:29:31.97
He said, because you have said
you have it from hereon now.
00:29:31.97\00:29:35.00
Remember the story of
the man who owed so much,
00:29:35.00\00:29:38.21
he couldn't pay it.
00:29:38.21\00:29:40.61
And I can't remember
all the amounts he owed,
00:29:40.61\00:29:42.61
but if you think
about how much he owed.
00:29:42.61\00:29:44.18
He said to the
person that he owed,
00:29:44.18\00:29:46.05
he said, just
give me some more time
00:29:46.05\00:29:49.42
and I will pay for it.
00:29:49.42\00:29:50.75
But when you go
home and do a Bible study
00:29:50.75\00:29:52.72
on that particular sermon,
00:29:52.72\00:29:53.79
I believe this is
in the book of Matthew.
00:29:53.79\00:29:55.56
He owed a many, many,
many, many thousands of talents.
00:29:55.56\00:29:59.36
Give me some time
and I will pay for it.
00:29:59.36\00:30:01.50
I did some
research into the story.
00:30:01.50\00:30:03.90
And based on the
cost of a talent,
00:30:03.90\00:30:06.27
it would have
taken that man 340 years
00:30:06.27\00:30:09.37
to work off that debt.
00:30:09.37\00:30:11.87
Well, you know what? He
couldn't live 340 years.
00:30:11.87\00:30:14.38
But that's 340
years if he did nothing
00:30:14.38\00:30:16.68
but just work to pay the debt,
00:30:16.68\00:30:19.18
24 hours a day, 7 days
a week, 365 days a year.
00:30:19.18\00:30:23.32
He could not
afford to pay that debt.
00:30:23.32\00:30:25.55
But what happened
in the transaction,
00:30:25.55\00:30:27.42
he was forgiven that debt, amen.
00:30:27.42\00:30:29.39
Amen. That represents us.
00:30:29.39\00:30:31.23
But on the flip side of that
00:30:31.23\00:30:32.33
and the reason I
mentioned is here
00:30:32.33\00:30:33.53
because we have to understand
00:30:33.53\00:30:34.93
what God has done
for us through Christ,
00:30:34.93\00:30:37.07
we have to be
willing to do for others.
00:30:37.07\00:30:40.20
Very important point here.
00:30:40.20\00:30:41.30
So he goes now to a
friend who owes him very little
00:30:41.30\00:30:44.37
and he demands a payment.
00:30:45.64\00:30:48.44
Matter of fact, he
wants to torment this man
00:30:48.44\00:30:51.18
for what he owes him
and the person, the king,
00:30:51.18\00:30:54.45
that just pardoned him
hears about it and says,
00:30:54.45\00:30:57.75
Uh, you unworthy,
you--what's that word,
00:30:57.75\00:31:02.19
come on give it to me?
00:31:02.19\00:31:04.49
You unthankful
person and he gets him
00:31:04.49\00:31:07.30
and he throws him in jail.
00:31:07.30\00:31:09.60
Well, you know what that means?
00:31:09.60\00:31:10.70
If the lord is
willing enough to forgive us
00:31:10.70\00:31:13.30
for all that we have
done, all that we have done,
00:31:13.30\00:31:15.64
we have to be
willing to forgive people
00:31:15.64\00:31:17.61
for the little
they have done to us.
00:31:17.61\00:31:19.41
Because we cannot
buy our own salvation.
00:31:21.08\00:31:22.98
Look at the next question.
00:31:22.98\00:31:24.08
Question number
three. Very important.
00:31:24.08\00:31:27.38
Very important. Question three.
00:31:27.38\00:31:28.95
"How did David
the patriarch express
00:31:28.95\00:31:32.35
the joy of justification?"
00:31:32.35\00:31:34.59
I left this for
the heels of that story
00:31:34.59\00:31:36.73
because it's very powerful.
00:31:36.73\00:31:38.03
How did he express
the joy of justification?
00:31:38.03\00:31:41.20
Psalms 32, verse 1
or Psalm 32 verse 1.
00:31:41.20\00:31:45.33
You know when it's one
verse, people say Psalm.
00:31:45.33\00:31:47.17
And when it's many
verses, they say Psalms.
00:31:47.17\00:31:49.94
You could settle that argument.
00:31:49.94\00:31:51.57
I kind of go Psalm
or Psalms depending.
00:31:51.57\00:31:54.18
But here it is.
00:31:54.18\00:31:55.64
Psalm 32, verse 1
and it reads as follows.
00:31:55.64\00:31:58.58
Let's read this together
because this is beautiful.
00:31:58.58\00:32:00.32
Are you ready? Here we go.
00:32:00.32\00:32:01.85
"Blessed is he whose
transgression is forgiven,
00:32:01.85\00:32:06.59
whose sin is covered."
00:32:06.59\00:32:10.26
Ain't that wonderful?
00:32:10.26\00:32:12.19
The word blessed is a
powerful word that says--
00:32:12.19\00:32:14.83
The word, "blessed"
not only means happy,
00:32:14.83\00:32:16.67
but it means exuberantly happy,
00:32:16.67\00:32:19.20
that's why I asked the question,
00:32:19.20\00:32:20.34
how did David expressed the joy?
00:32:20.34\00:32:22.74
When you look at
the life of David,
00:32:25.14\00:32:27.61
you are amazed
and if we were today,
00:32:27.61\00:32:30.55
if we had somebody
in our congregation
00:32:30.55\00:32:32.18
that did what David did.
00:32:32.18\00:32:34.05
Men alive the general
conference will hear about it.
00:32:35.58\00:32:39.59
Am I telling the truth? Yes.
00:32:39.59\00:32:40.96
That would be on Facebook,
on Twitter, on Youtube.
00:32:40.96\00:32:46.49
We would try to dig
up all of his records
00:32:46.49\00:32:49.06
and when he
steps up to the pulpit
00:32:49.06\00:32:50.43
to sing a song, that's him.
00:32:50.43\00:32:52.67
Am I telling the truth?
That's how condemning we are.
00:32:52.67\00:32:55.17
That's how sure
we are on forgetting
00:32:55.17\00:32:57.07
what people have done.
00:32:57.07\00:32:59.51
But after Lord cleaned
00:32:59.51\00:33:00.71
David heart out, his heart out,
00:33:00.71\00:33:02.08
after he faithfully repented off
00:33:02.08\00:33:04.81
his sins, search me.
00:33:04.81\00:33:06.65
Oh, God, see if there
be any wicked way in me.
00:33:06.65\00:33:10.19
He prayed take
not your Holy Spirit,
00:33:10.19\00:33:12.49
restore to me the
joy of your salvation.
00:33:12.49\00:33:15.49
He repented, he
fervently repented
00:33:15.49\00:33:18.96
and that was a
sincere repentance.
00:33:18.96\00:33:20.53
Even though he still had to grow
00:33:20.53\00:33:21.80
on the human aspects after that,
00:33:21.80\00:33:23.53
he so sincerely repented
that he wrote this text,
00:33:23.53\00:33:27.57
"Blessed is he whose
transgression is forgiven,
00:33:27.57\00:33:31.91
whose sin is coered."
00:33:31.91\00:33:33.71
Mind you, people still
knew that he had killed Uriah.
00:33:33.71\00:33:37.88
Mind you, he was
still with the woman
00:33:37.88\00:33:41.35
whose man he stoled--
00:33:41.35\00:33:45.75
whose woman he stole her from--
00:33:45.75\00:33:47.16
how you put that.
00:33:47.16\00:33:48.19
He stoled her from a
man and killed the husband.
00:33:48.19\00:33:50.83
He was still with her.
00:33:50.83\00:33:52.13
They had a child that
died, but God was forgiving
00:33:52.13\00:33:54.93
and He blessed
them with another child.
00:33:54.93\00:33:56.73
The result of our
sin continues some times,
00:33:56.73\00:34:00.64
but thank the Lord
that the stain of it
00:34:00.64\00:34:06.07
in the side of
God does not continue.
00:34:06.07\00:34:08.41
Somebody asked me,
well, what if God--
00:34:08.41\00:34:10.88
is there anything I can do
that God cannot forgive me of?
00:34:10.88\00:34:12.91
And I said, "Yes, there
is something you can do."
00:34:12.91\00:34:14.95
And that's to resist
00:34:14.95\00:34:15.98
the work of the
Holy Spirit in your life.
00:34:15.98\00:34:18.25
Outside of that
there's no category
00:34:18.25\00:34:19.62
that God can't forgive.
00:34:19.62\00:34:21.39
So David was happy, he rejoiced.
00:34:21.39\00:34:24.03
But here's question number four.
00:34:24.03\00:34:26.66
"How effective
does Isaiah reveal
00:34:26.66\00:34:29.30
the righteousness of
Christ to be?" How effective?
00:34:29.30\00:34:33.17
We are gonna go to
Isaiah 1 and verse 18,
00:34:33.17\00:34:35.64
"How effective
does Isaiah reveal
00:34:35.64\00:34:37.97
the
righteousness of Christ to be?"
00:34:37.97\00:34:40.14
Before I get into the
intricacies of breaking down
00:34:40.14\00:34:42.24
what justification really is.
00:34:42.24\00:34:43.55
I wanna help you
see how completely,
00:34:43.55\00:34:45.61
how wonderful God does a job.
00:34:45.61\00:34:48.22
About three or four years ago,
00:34:48.22\00:34:49.62
my wife and I,
we'd bought a Honda,
00:34:49.62\00:34:52.32
a nice new Honda for
our 25th anniversary,
00:34:52.32\00:34:55.92
silver and we were
going to someone's house
00:34:55.92\00:34:58.36
during the Christmas season.
00:34:58.36\00:34:59.76
And it was on the Saturday night
00:34:59.76\00:35:00.90
and the roads were dark
00:35:00.90\00:35:01.93
and we were
riding on one of those--
00:35:01.93\00:35:03.60
driving on one of
those two lane roads
00:35:03.60\00:35:04.87
in the backwoods
of Thompsonville.
00:35:04.87\00:35:06.50
And we saw a large deer
on the side of the road,
00:35:06.50\00:35:09.20
but he had paws
and big old antlers,
00:35:09.20\00:35:13.78
and so we continued our
speed as we were going along.
00:35:13.78\00:35:16.88
Just then as we
got close to him,
00:35:18.08\00:35:19.78
he lowered his head,
darted across a single lane
00:35:19.78\00:35:23.18
and rammed right
into our vehicle.
00:35:23.18\00:35:25.72
All the airbags
deployed. Axle got broken.
00:35:25.72\00:35:30.66
Thank the Lord, the
angels kept the car straight.
00:35:30.66\00:35:32.39
Praise God for that.
00:35:32.39\00:35:33.73
$10,500 in damage,
not too many months
00:35:34.46\00:35:38.80
after we got the car.
00:35:38.80\00:35:40.17
Awful, uh, and we had to
leave that vehicle right there.
00:35:40.17\00:35:44.57
They came with a tow
truck and picked it up
00:35:45.77\00:35:47.94
and we went to the site and saw
00:35:47.94\00:35:50.41
all the terrible damage
in the light of the daylight,
00:35:50.41\00:35:52.95
went to the body shop and
saw how horrible things were.
00:35:52.95\00:35:55.75
And you know, when we
looked at the car our--
00:35:55.75\00:35:58.59
my appeal then was this.
00:35:58.59\00:36:01.46
Could you just
give us a new one?
00:36:01.46\00:36:03.29
Because it just--
I mean I don't know
00:36:04.63\00:36:05.99
how you gonna fix that
from front, left, center,
00:36:05.99\00:36:09.56
all way to the
back that deer trembled
00:36:09.56\00:36:11.40
all along the side of our
car, banging up, everything.
00:36:11.40\00:36:13.90
All the airbags from the left,
00:36:13.90\00:36:16.17
all the way to the back,
everyone of them deployed.
00:36:16.17\00:36:18.94
Even the seat airbag,
everything was messed up.
00:36:18.94\00:36:21.51
And I said,
there's no way I could be--
00:36:21.51\00:36:24.08
I know there're people
that could do this stuff,
00:36:24.08\00:36:26.18
but not this.
00:36:26.18\00:36:28.82
And they said,
"We could fix it."
00:36:28.82\00:36:32.02
Now I drive that car,
my wife drives that car
00:36:32.02\00:36:34.59
and we look at
that thing and we say,
00:36:34.59\00:36:35.82
"Where was the damage?"
00:36:35.82\00:36:38.23
I don't remember
where the damage was.
00:36:38.23\00:36:39.53
I mean, intellectually I do,
00:36:39.53\00:36:41.56
but you can't see any
traces of how it was before.
00:36:41.56\00:36:44.63
And I thought and I
said to the body shop,
00:36:44.63\00:36:46.47
"Man, you guys did a good job.
00:36:46.47\00:36:48.44
You did really good job.
00:36:48.44\00:36:50.04
Now here's my point, if
man can do that for a car,
00:36:50.04\00:36:53.91
how completely can
Jesus do it for us?
00:36:53.91\00:36:57.25
Look at Isaiah.
Isaiah 1, verse 18.
00:36:57.25\00:37:00.85
Notice what he
says, I like this.
00:37:00.85\00:37:02.45
He invites us, He says, what?
00:37:02.45\00:37:04.25
Come now and let us reason
how together, saith the lord.
00:37:04.25\00:37:08.89
That's a great invitation.
00:37:08.89\00:37:10.49
Though your sins
be as, what? Scarlet.
00:37:10.49\00:37:14.66
They shall be as white as snow,
00:37:14.66\00:37:18.50
though they be red
like what, crimson,
00:37:18.50\00:37:22.10
they shall be how, as wool.
00:37:22.10\00:37:24.37
Ain't that wonderful?
00:37:24.37\00:37:25.77
He is saying, you
had a terrible accident,
00:37:25.77\00:37:27.41
it's called the Adam crash.
00:37:27.41\00:37:29.54
Adam crashed in
the Garden of Eden,
00:37:29.54\00:37:31.58
passed on a messed
up vehicle to everybody
00:37:31.58\00:37:33.58
that was born into this world
00:37:33.58\00:37:35.22
and he went
driving around wondering
00:37:35.22\00:37:36.99
how to get our vehicles fixed.
00:37:36.99\00:37:39.15
Because the Lord
say, you are not taken
00:37:39.15\00:37:40.26
that messed up
vehicle to heaven.
00:37:40.26\00:37:42.19
So Jesus comes down
and he opens a body shop.
00:37:42.19\00:37:46.59
And he gets rid
of our mortal body
00:37:46.59\00:37:49.00
and gives us a hope
of his immortal body.
00:37:49.00\00:37:50.90
Can you say, amen? Amen.
00:37:50.90\00:37:52.23
He says those
who bore the earthly
00:37:52.23\00:37:54.37
will one day bear the heavenly
00:37:54.37\00:37:55.94
and we look at
ourselves and we say,
00:37:55.94\00:37:57.51
how is that gonna happen?
00:37:57.51\00:37:59.64
And then he says to us,
00:37:59.64\00:38:01.04
"Janice, it does not yet
appear what you shall be."
00:38:01.04\00:38:05.01
Praise the Lord.
00:38:05.01\00:38:06.35
"But we do know when
I'm done you'll see me
00:38:06.35\00:38:11.25
as I am because
you be just like me."
00:38:11.25\00:38:14.16
Ain't that wonderful news?
00:38:14.16\00:38:15.49
That's what Jesus wants
to do for every one of us.
00:38:15.49\00:38:17.43
He wants to clean us
up so wonderfully that
00:38:17.43\00:38:20.40
so when you see your
brother and sister stumbling,
00:38:20.40\00:38:23.06
don't write 'em off because
God hasn't written you off.
00:38:23.06\00:38:26.60
He is working on us to fit
us into his righteous kingdom
00:38:26.60\00:38:29.64
and he is saying to us,
you can't do it without me.
00:38:29.64\00:38:33.61
What also amazed me is
when I went to the body shop,
00:38:33.61\00:38:36.91
I looked in the
back of that body shop
00:38:36.91\00:38:38.58
and I saw cars everywhere.
00:38:38.58\00:38:41.45
I mean, wind shields,
roofs crushed in and I said,
00:38:41.45\00:38:46.72
now are those
cars gonna be junk?
00:38:46.72\00:38:48.52
No, they're all
in line to be fixed.
00:38:48.52\00:38:50.99
And I am thinking,
man these guys are good.
00:38:50.99\00:38:53.33
And I looked at
my Lord and said,
00:38:53.33\00:38:54.56
he is a lot better
than they are, amen.
00:38:54.56\00:38:56.70
Because no matter how we were
00:38:56.70\00:38:58.67
through his diligent labor,
00:38:58.67\00:39:01.04
the cross, the
body shop of humanity,
00:39:01.04\00:39:03.94
the cross, the blood shed
00:39:03.94\00:39:06.21
to cover our
filthy righteousness.
00:39:06.21\00:39:08.58
Praise the Lord for that.
00:39:08.58\00:39:09.88
But it continues because
here is the next question.
00:39:09.88\00:39:12.75
I am gonna
drive this point home.
00:39:12.75\00:39:15.05
Question number five.
00:39:15.05\00:39:16.48
"How completely does
the righteousness of Jesus
00:39:16.48\00:39:22.42
cover our sin?" How completely?
00:39:22.42\00:39:24.93
And I want you to
notice I used the word,
00:39:24.93\00:39:26.43
S-I-N because I am
not talking about S-I-N-S.
00:39:26.43\00:39:30.43
This is very
important to understand.
00:39:30.43\00:39:32.27
For those who think
I'm talking about marijuana
00:39:32.27\00:39:34.77
and drug abuse and
stealing and pornography
00:39:34.77\00:39:37.04
and sexuality
and all these things,
00:39:37.04\00:39:39.04
I'm not talking
about that, those are sins,
00:39:39.04\00:39:41.34
those are itemized things that
the fallen nature falls into.
00:39:41.34\00:39:45.11
But how completely does
the righteousness of Christ,
00:39:45.11\00:39:48.02
Jesus cover our sin.
00:39:48.02\00:39:50.25
Here is how completely
and the sin I'm talking about
00:39:50.25\00:39:52.19
is the broken nature
that we got from Adam.
00:39:52.19\00:39:55.39
First John 1:9, here it is.
00:39:55.39\00:39:59.89
If--what's the first
word? "If we confess our sins,
00:39:59.89\00:40:04.77
He is faithful and
just to forgive us our sins
00:40:04.77\00:40:09.77
and to cleanse us
from all unrighteousness."
00:40:09.77\00:40:15.11
Praise the Lord for that.
00:40:15.11\00:40:16.78
Not a partial cleansing, I've
had my teeth cleaned before.
00:40:16.78\00:40:19.58
Anybody over here had your
teeth cleaned at a dentist?
00:40:19.58\00:40:23.18
I read a story
of a guy who said,
00:40:23.18\00:40:24.85
he really likes
his dental hygienist,
00:40:24.85\00:40:27.49
so when he went to the--
before he went to the dentist
00:40:27.49\00:40:29.99
he will sit and eat a
whole bag of Oreo cookies.
00:40:29.99\00:40:33.16
I mean Oreo cookies
will really mess you up.
00:40:33.16\00:40:35.46
I mean really, if you've
done that before it just,
00:40:35.46\00:40:38.53
it just stains everywhere.
00:40:38.53\00:40:40.77
But none of those stains existed
00:40:40.77\00:40:42.67
after he got a
thorough cleaning.
00:40:42.67\00:40:44.54
In the very same way,
00:40:44.54\00:40:45.71
if we take our broken
stained lives to Christ,
00:40:45.71\00:40:48.21
He so completely covers us.
00:40:48.21\00:40:50.11
The Bible says, He
cleanses us from, how much?
00:40:50.11\00:40:53.05
All, A-L-L, all,
all unrighteousness.
00:40:53.05\00:40:57.59
And that's the
reality of this world.
00:40:57.59\00:40:59.42
You know we look at all
the conditions of the world
00:40:59.42\00:41:01.49
politically and religiously
and every other dichotomy
00:41:01.49\00:41:05.39
that exists in our
world, but the only real issue,
00:41:05.39\00:41:07.76
let me just pause for a moment.
00:41:07.76\00:41:09.70
The only real
issue, look up real quick,
00:41:09.70\00:41:12.00
the only real issue
is not the gas prices,
00:41:12.00\00:41:17.17
not who's gonna be
the next president,
00:41:17.17\00:41:19.11
not whether or not real
estate is gonna go back up.
00:41:19.11\00:41:21.68
The only real
issue in this life is,
00:41:21.68\00:41:24.55
are we going to
accept the salvation
00:41:24.55\00:41:27.62
that Jesus offers to us?
00:41:27.62\00:41:31.12
Because He didn't
come to save houses
00:41:31.12\00:41:32.82
and lower oil prices
and get the right president.
00:41:32.82\00:41:37.13
He came to save sinners.
What's the mission of Jesus?
00:41:37.13\00:41:41.26
For the son of
man has come to seek
00:41:41.26\00:41:43.00
and to save that which was lost.
00:41:43.00\00:41:45.93
That's the mission of Jesus.
00:41:45.93\00:41:47.34
That's the only
real issue in his life.
00:41:47.34\00:41:49.00
Everything else
will be handled in time.
00:41:49.00\00:41:50.87
Everything that's an issue now
00:41:50.87\00:41:52.54
may not be an
issue in four years.
00:41:52.54\00:41:54.98
But the real issue
that will continue on
00:41:54.98\00:41:56.61
until sin is
eradicated is whether or not
00:41:56.61\00:41:58.95
we'll accept the
righteousness of Christ.
00:41:58.95\00:42:01.75
Question number
six, Question number six,
00:42:01.75\00:42:05.05
and I like the way I put this.
00:42:05.05\00:42:06.49
You know I must--
some creatives here,
00:42:06.49\00:42:08.39
when I'm studying this lesson,
00:42:08.39\00:42:09.96
you know it's nice about this
00:42:09.96\00:42:10.96
I get the
blessing of this lesson,
00:42:10.96\00:42:12.83
when I study it and then
when I present it to you,
00:42:12.83\00:42:15.93
I get a double blessing.
00:42:15.93\00:42:17.43
I cut the tree down and I
get the warmth of the firewood.
00:42:17.43\00:42:20.37
What makes the
gospel "Good News?"
00:42:22.20\00:42:24.91
What makes it good news?
00:42:24.91\00:42:27.01
Romans 1 verse 16 and verse 17.
00:42:27.01\00:42:30.75
What makes it
good news? I like this.
00:42:30.75\00:42:34.45
When Paul writes
he begins the story
00:42:34.45\00:42:37.45
or the book to the
Romans, he writes this way.
00:42:37.45\00:42:40.69
Romans 1 verse 16 and verse 17.
00:42:40.69\00:42:43.49
And he says,
For I am not ashamed
00:42:43.49\00:42:48.63
of the gospel of
Christ, but now get this,
00:42:48.63\00:42:52.73
for it is the,
what's the next word?
00:42:52.73\00:42:55.44
Power of God to salvation
for everyone who believes,
00:42:55.44\00:43:00.91
for the Jew first,
and also for the Greek,
00:43:00.91\00:43:05.55
For in it, the righteousness
of God is revealed, from what?
00:43:05.55\00:43:10.89
Faith to faith, as
it is written together,
00:43:10.89\00:43:14.62
"The just shall live by faith."
00:43:14.62\00:43:18.03
Just shall live
by-- so Paul says,
00:43:18.03\00:43:20.40
"I'm not ashamed of
the gospel of Jesus Christ
00:43:20.40\00:43:22.60
because I know
what it did for me."
00:43:22.60\00:43:24.07
Now what was
Paul's name before Paul?
00:43:24.07\00:43:28.17
Saul. Right, okay.
00:43:28.17\00:43:30.37
This is something
that's gonna happen
00:43:30.37\00:43:31.54
when we get to heaven.
00:43:31.54\00:43:32.67
Each of us is
gonna have a new name.
00:43:32.67\00:43:34.98
The Lord
illustrated that through
00:43:34.98\00:43:36.24
changing Saul's name to Paul.
00:43:36.24\00:43:38.65
He didn't want
even the former things.
00:43:38.65\00:43:41.82
You know what's nice about that,
00:43:41.82\00:43:43.95
the Lord not only saves us,
00:43:43.95\00:43:46.35
but He enters us into a
witness protection program.
00:43:46.35\00:43:51.39
Who is that? That's Paul.
00:43:51.39\00:43:53.70
Oh, he looked like
Saul. Oh, so it's not Saul.
00:43:53.70\00:43:57.33
No, that's Paul.
00:43:57.33\00:43:58.70
Oh, okay because he
sure does look like Saul.
00:43:58.70\00:44:01.57
That's not Saul, that's Paul.
00:44:01.57\00:44:03.41
Ain't that
wonderful, did you get that?
00:44:03.41\00:44:05.44
That's not Greg--
that's not Mike, that's Greg.
00:44:05.44\00:44:08.31
He surely looks like
Mike, no his new name is Greg.
00:44:08.31\00:44:11.75
He is the one married to Jill.
00:44:11.75\00:44:13.15
You mean to Julie. No,
that was her former name.
00:44:13.15\00:44:17.45
She's now Jill. That's
our local church joke here.
00:44:17.45\00:44:22.12
God not only changes your life,
00:44:22.12\00:44:24.69
but He gives us a new
name, hallelujah to that, amen.
00:44:24.69\00:44:27.30
We're all gonna have a new name,
00:44:27.30\00:44:29.36
his name will be
written on our foreheads.
00:44:29.36\00:44:31.87
He's gonna have a new name,
we're gonna sing a new song.
00:44:31.87\00:44:34.30
He's come to
make all things new,
00:44:34.30\00:44:35.87
a new Heaven and a
new Earth, a new life.
00:44:35.87\00:44:37.84
But that new life is
not just when we get there,
00:44:37.84\00:44:40.14
that new life is, N-O-W.
00:44:40.14\00:44:43.08
That's why the next question
is so vitally important,
00:44:43.08\00:44:46.68
so vitally important.
00:44:46.68\00:44:48.68
"What role do we play in
the act of Justification?"
00:44:48.68\00:44:51.89
Question number seven.
00:44:51.89\00:44:52.92
"What role do we play in
the act of Justification?"
00:44:52.92\00:44:57.73
You know a lot of people
say, well, what can I do?
00:44:57.73\00:44:59.76
You know when somebody
gives you a gift you say,
00:44:59.76\00:45:01.10
well, what can I do? Accept it.
00:45:01.10\00:45:03.77
Well, is there
anything I can do for you?
00:45:03.77\00:45:05.77
And you know
sometime the greater the gift
00:45:05.77\00:45:07.24
the more expensive it is we say,
00:45:07.24\00:45:08.60
"Oh, I'm forever
indebted to you." Am I right?
00:45:08.60\00:45:12.67
And I'll tell you, if
the Lord explains to us,
00:45:12.67\00:45:14.71
how much He paid for
us when we get to heaven.
00:45:14.71\00:45:17.01
We're gonna need
eternity to pay Him back.
00:45:17.01\00:45:19.25
And still we'll
never be able to do that.
00:45:19.25\00:45:21.52
But what role do we play
in the act of justification?
00:45:21.52\00:45:24.35
Here it is,
Romans 5, verse 6 to 8,
00:45:24.35\00:45:27.92
Romans 5 verse 6 to 8.
00:45:27.92\00:45:30.59
Okay.
00:45:33.56\00:45:34.93
Okay, that's okay.
00:45:37.57\00:45:40.37
Let's just go to
Romans 5 verse 6 to 8.
00:45:40.37\00:45:42.97
Okay, that's humanity.
00:45:42.97\00:45:46.47
Thank the Lord
for divinity, amen.
00:45:46.47\00:45:49.41
Romans 5 verse 6 to 8.
00:45:49.41\00:45:51.31
So good that
those of you're watching
00:45:51.31\00:45:52.75
have the right syllabus.
00:45:52.75\00:45:54.45
Here we go, how
completely does--
00:45:54.45\00:46:01.89
what role do we play in
the act of justification?
00:46:05.73\00:46:09.26
Okay Romans 5 verse 6 to
8. Are you ready? Here it is.
00:46:09.26\00:46:12.57
This is, for when we were, what?
00:46:12.57\00:46:15.40
Still without strength,
in due time Christ did, what?
00:46:15.40\00:46:21.44
Died for the ungodly.
00:46:21.44\00:46:23.98
For scarcely for a
righteous man will one die,
00:46:23.98\00:46:29.12
yet perhaps for a, what?
00:46:29.12\00:46:31.45
Good man someone
would even dare to die.
00:46:31.45\00:46:35.56
But get this, this
is the part we play.
00:46:35.56\00:46:38.93
But God demonstrates
His love towards us,
00:46:38.93\00:46:42.73
in that while we were, what?
00:46:42.73\00:46:45.03
Still or yet sinners,
Christ did what? Died for us.
00:46:45.03\00:46:49.37
What part do we
play? What part do we play?
00:46:49.37\00:46:53.14
Absolutely none,
because who did the dying?
00:46:53.14\00:46:55.88
Jesus. Who did
the sinning? We did.
00:46:55.88\00:46:59.35
So notice this,
while we were yet,
00:46:59.35\00:47:02.92
while we were still in
sin, Christ died for us.
00:47:02.92\00:47:07.36
Now that's amazing
because you know sometimes
00:47:07.36\00:47:09.69
if you think about this
in the context of a family--
00:47:09.69\00:47:12.29
have you heard of a will,
a will? You've heard that?
00:47:12.29\00:47:15.36
You know last
will and testament?
00:47:15.36\00:47:17.30
Well, the last will
and testament of Jesus
00:47:17.30\00:47:19.90
was ratified at the
cross by His shed blood.
00:47:19.90\00:47:23.97
And it was also passed on
from generation to generation
00:47:23.97\00:47:26.74
that will come after Him.
00:47:26.74\00:47:29.28
So let's say somebody
is born into your family
00:47:29.28\00:47:31.08
and this is the
case in many families.
00:47:31.08\00:47:33.15
Sometimes a person may say,
00:47:33.15\00:47:35.35
"I come from a second
generation Christian family,"
00:47:35.35\00:47:38.35
second generation Baptist,
third generation Adventist,
00:47:38.35\00:47:40.99
second generation Pentecostal.
00:47:40.99\00:47:42.82
It's almost like
they're saying that
00:47:42.82\00:47:45.03
righteousness and
spirituality can go
00:47:45.03\00:47:46.93
from generations to
generations, but it can't.
00:47:46.93\00:47:50.27
As the Bible says I
believe is in Ezekiel.
00:47:50.27\00:47:52.40
It says though Daniel,
Job and Noah were in it,
00:47:52.40\00:47:55.00
they shall need to
save son or daughter
00:47:55.00\00:47:57.51
by their righteousness.
00:47:57.51\00:47:59.27
Everybody has to
find that righteousness.
00:47:59.27\00:48:01.61
But here is my point,
somebody is born in the family
00:48:01.61\00:48:04.68
and when they
get to the age of 18,
00:48:04.68\00:48:07.08
you say to them, did you know
00:48:07.08\00:48:08.62
that you're great grandfather
00:48:08.62\00:48:11.19
put you in his will
before you were born?
00:48:11.19\00:48:15.42
He said when my
great grandson is born
00:48:15.42\00:48:18.86
and that was before the woman
00:48:18.86\00:48:20.96
who gave him
birth even was married,
00:48:20.96\00:48:25.00
that got married by
God's grace, had a son,
00:48:25.00\00:48:28.27
and then the will
now was in effect.
00:48:28.27\00:48:30.54
"When my great grandson is born,
00:48:30.54\00:48:32.54
when he hits 18, I've laid aside
00:48:32.54\00:48:34.61
ten million
dollars for his education."
00:48:34.61\00:48:37.85
So here is this guy
born into the family,
00:48:37.85\00:48:40.25
doesn't even know
his great grandfather,
00:48:40.25\00:48:42.35
great grandfather died
before he was even born.
00:48:42.35\00:48:45.05
But you sit him down and say,
00:48:45.05\00:48:46.69
today is your 18th birthday,
00:48:46.69\00:48:47.82
I've been waiting for
this day to tell you something.
00:48:47.82\00:48:50.39
And he says, mom, I
need $50 to go to mall.
00:48:50.39\00:48:52.13
She says, just relax I
need to tell you something.
00:48:52.13\00:48:55.53
But mom the
mall is gonna closed.
00:48:55.53\00:48:56.97
Relax, I need to
tell you something.
00:48:56.97\00:49:01.04
But I need $50. Relax, I
need to tell you something.
00:49:01.04\00:49:06.44
Your great
grandfather whatever name is,
00:49:06.44\00:49:10.68
the first had
your name in his will
00:49:10.68\00:49:13.92
under simply the title grandson.
00:49:13.92\00:49:16.95
And he put aside
some money for you
00:49:16.95\00:49:18.89
that when and if you're born,
00:49:18.89\00:49:22.36
this money will be
yours when you hit 18.
00:49:22.36\00:49:24.89
Mom, is it $50? No,
son, it's 10 million.
00:49:24.89\00:49:31.67
Do you think he
is concerned about
00:49:31.67\00:49:32.97
whether or not the
mall is gonna close?
00:49:32.97\00:49:35.54
Absolutely not. He
says, mall is gonna close,
00:49:35.54\00:49:37.77
I'll buy me a mall,
I'll build me a mall.
00:49:37.77\00:49:42.34
Mom, are you
serious? Mom, are you serious?
00:49:42.34\00:49:44.65
Let me show you the will.
00:49:46.78\00:49:48.85
Brothers and sisters,
here's the will of God.
00:49:48.85\00:49:51.95
It's ratified,
it's written down,
00:49:51.95\00:49:54.72
and if you don't believe
it, for God's soul of the world,
00:49:54.72\00:49:58.06
here's the will
that He gave his, what?
00:49:58.06\00:49:59.86
Only begotten son that whosoever
00:49:59.86\00:50:02.73
believeth in Him, what?
00:50:02.73\00:50:04.37
Should not perish, but
have what? Everlasting life.
00:50:04.37\00:50:07.74
Ten million dollars is nothing
00:50:07.74\00:50:10.17
when you compare
that to eternity.
00:50:10.17\00:50:11.91
I'm discovering
nowadays you can spend
00:50:11.91\00:50:13.54
10 million dollars, but
with all that money you have,
00:50:13.54\00:50:16.58
you cannot buy eternity
because it's not for sale.
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It's a free gift. But
look at the next question.
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Question number
eight, Question number eight.
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"Speaking of Jesus,
how does Paul describe
00:50:27.06\00:50:31.19
the provisions
of Justification?"
00:50:31.19\00:50:34.56
How does Paul describe
00:50:34.56\00:50:36.36
the provisions of Justification?
00:50:36.36\00:50:39.33
Romans Chapter
3, verse 25 and 26.
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Romans Chapter
3, verse 25 and 26.
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How does he describe the
provisions of Justification?
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Here's what the Bible says,
00:50:51.58\00:50:55.02
whom God set forth as a
propitiation by His blood,
00:50:55.02\00:51:01.66
through faith, to do what?
00:51:01.66\00:51:04.59
To demonstrate
His righteousness,
00:51:04.59\00:51:07.03
because in His forbearance
00:51:07.03\00:51:10.63
God had passed over the sins
00:51:10.63\00:51:13.03
that were and get
this previously committed.
00:51:13.03\00:51:17.91
To demonstrate at the
present time, His what?
00:51:17.91\00:51:21.28
His righteousness
that He might be just
00:51:21.28\00:51:25.25
and the justifier of the
one who has faith in Jesus.
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That's a whole lot, isn't it?
00:51:30.32\00:51:32.55
But I want to break this
down by simply saying this.
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Reading the question
again, "Speaking of Jesus,
00:51:35.99\00:51:38.39
how does Paul describe the
provisions of Justification?
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Jesus provides for
sins that were previously,
00:51:43.26\00:51:47.64
come on let's say this together.
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What's the word?
Previously committed.
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He not only makes
provision for that,
00:51:52.34\00:51:55.31
but He's also the justifier,
00:51:55.31\00:51:57.41
He's just and he's
also the justifier.
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What I want you to write down
00:52:00.05\00:52:01.98
and this is what I
want you to write down.
00:52:01.98\00:52:03.42
Write down, He is just
and He is the justifier.
00:52:03.42\00:52:08.12
This is gonna open
up really wonderful
00:52:08.12\00:52:10.39
like an artichoke right here.
00:52:10.39\00:52:12.59
We may not get
all of it tonight,
00:52:12.59\00:52:13.90
but this is gonna
open up amazingly.
00:52:13.90\00:52:15.73
Because when you think about,
00:52:15.73\00:52:17.07
let me put the context together.
00:52:17.07\00:52:19.30
When a person is in court
and they have been accused
00:52:19.30\00:52:23.37
of committing a
crime, until they admit
00:52:23.37\00:52:27.04
that they are guilty,
they don't need mercy.
00:52:27.04\00:52:33.45
Do you follow me?
00:52:33.45\00:52:35.85
If they are not proven guilty,
they don't think about mercy.
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So lot of people today
00:52:41.99\00:52:44.06
although they are caught in
the crime, how do you plead?
00:52:44.06\00:52:47.10
What do they
often say? Not guilty.
00:52:47.10\00:52:50.07
When they plead not guilty,
00:52:50.07\00:52:51.87
you know what they
want, they want justice.
00:52:51.87\00:52:54.07
If they are not
guilty, justice demands
00:52:54.07\00:52:55.80
that they are what? Set free.
00:52:55.80\00:52:58.37
But when they are proven guilty,
00:52:58.37\00:53:00.41
has the jury
reached the verdict,
00:53:00.41\00:53:04.51
all the angels that
haven't look down on our record
00:53:04.51\00:53:06.45
and they say, as to the crime
00:53:06.45\00:53:09.85
and the first entitlement
in the books of Heaven.
00:53:09.85\00:53:13.86
Sorry, Yannick.
Yannick is declared guilty.
00:53:13.86\00:53:16.49
As to account
number two in the provision
00:53:18.83\00:53:21.13
of the heavenly record,
Yannick is declared guilty.
00:53:21.13\00:53:26.84
And he stands there
completely flabbergasted
00:53:26.84\00:53:29.67
as to what I'm gonna do.
00:53:29.67\00:53:31.94
How am I gonna make
my way through this.
00:53:31.94\00:53:33.81
I'm ending this
program with a cliffhanger
00:53:33.81\00:53:35.41
because you have to
comeback to find out
00:53:35.41\00:53:37.91
how Yannick is
gonna be set free?
00:53:37.91\00:53:39.88
Until next week he's
gonna be in the sad mode
00:53:39.88\00:53:42.75
because he knows, by
the way everyone of us knows
00:53:42.75\00:53:46.09
that when the records are read
00:53:46.09\00:53:47.32
and when our records are read,
00:53:47.32\00:53:48.89
we're all
guilty, what do you say?
00:53:48.89\00:53:50.49
Amen. Every one of us is.
00:53:50.49\00:53:51.49
But how does God remain just
00:53:51.49\00:53:54.50
a person who upholds his law
00:53:54.50\00:53:56.46
and sets the guilty
free at the same time.
00:53:56.46\00:53:58.73
That's powerful
thing to do. Amen.
00:53:58.73\00:54:01.07
Look at Romans
Chapter 3, verse 21.
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Question number nine.
00:54:02.97\00:54:04.07
I think this may be our
last question for the night
00:54:04.07\00:54:06.31
because the other one
goes to specific phases.
00:54:06.31\00:54:09.34
"How can Jesus be 'Just'
00:54:09.34\00:54:13.25
and the
'Justifier' at the same time?"
00:54:13.25\00:54:17.92
Because what's that
doing is that puts Jesus
00:54:17.92\00:54:21.09
in the seat of the judge
which He is, also in the seat
00:54:21.09\00:54:24.33
at the defense attorney,
00:54:24.33\00:54:27.03
because the defense
attorney wants to do what?
00:54:27.03\00:54:28.86
Set you free. The
judge wants to what?
00:54:28.86\00:54:31.50
The judge wants to do what?
00:54:31.50\00:54:33.57
Come on, tell me, the
judge wants to do what?
00:54:33.57\00:54:36.67
The only role of the
judge is to follow the law.
00:54:36.67\00:54:41.98
Because sometimes you
can say the judge wants
00:54:41.98\00:54:43.45
to condemn you, the
reason I ask that question
00:54:43.45\00:54:44.95
is because sometimes when
you say, "Oh, great judge."
00:54:44.95\00:54:48.98
We think of him as
wanting to condemn us.
00:54:48.98\00:54:50.75
His only role is to
make sure and do everything
00:54:50.75\00:54:53.82
in harmony with the law.
00:54:53.82\00:54:55.76
That's why when people say
00:54:55.76\00:54:57.39
that the law of
God is done away with.
00:54:57.39\00:54:59.39
You cannot have mercy,
you cannot have justification,
00:54:59.39\00:55:03.26
you can't even be
saved if there is no law.
00:55:03.26\00:55:07.24
Because if there is
no law, there is no sin,
00:55:07.24\00:55:09.90
from what do you need salvation?
00:55:09.90\00:55:12.17
So when a church
teaches that God's law has been
00:55:12.17\00:55:14.34
nailed to the cross, you
need to leave that church
00:55:14.34\00:55:16.21
because you are lost.
00:55:16.21\00:55:18.48
Because they're preaching
00:55:18.48\00:55:19.95
a message that
has nothing behind it.
00:55:19.95\00:55:23.22
It's not even a
balloon with air in it.
00:55:25.25\00:55:28.69
But how can Jesus be just
and justifier at the same time.
00:55:28.69\00:55:31.73
Romans 3, verse 21 to 22.
00:55:31.73\00:55:35.50
But now the
righteousness of God,
00:55:35.50\00:55:39.57
what's the next word?
00:55:39.57\00:55:41.00
Apart from the law is revealed,
00:55:41.00\00:55:44.07
being witnessed by
the Law and the Prophets,
00:55:44.07\00:55:48.48
even the righteousness of God
through faith in Jesus Christ
00:55:48.48\00:55:55.08
together to all and
on all, who do what?
00:55:55.08\00:55:59.82
Believe. For there
is what? No difference.
00:55:59.82\00:56:03.63
Now let me break that
down because some people say,
00:56:03.63\00:56:05.46
"Uh, what did that mean?"
00:56:05.46\00:56:07.93
What did that in fact mean?
00:56:07.93\00:56:10.57
He is not only, you
see the righteousness
00:56:10.57\00:56:13.17
that He is talking about
that's apart from the law.
00:56:13.17\00:56:17.27
When the
ceremonial law was carried out
00:56:17.27\00:56:20.24
throughout the ages
before Christ came in
00:56:20.24\00:56:22.08
and became the Lamb of God.
00:56:22.08\00:56:24.28
You read the Book
of Hebrew's Chapter 8,
00:56:24.28\00:56:26.85
Hebrew's Chapter 9,
Hebrew's Chapter 10.
00:56:26.85\00:56:28.68
And the Bible says,
00:56:28.68\00:56:30.55
"Sacrifice and
offering, I would not."
00:56:30.55\00:56:35.16
The blood of bulls and
goats can never take away sin."
00:56:35.16\00:56:38.66
But that is what
was witnessed by the law
00:56:38.66\00:56:41.93
and the prophets, they saw that.
00:56:41.93\00:56:44.77
But now Jesus says
00:56:44.77\00:56:47.07
my righteousness
is apart from that.
00:56:47.07\00:56:50.24
Meaning that does not
dictate my righteousness.
00:56:50.24\00:56:54.24
We are dictated by the
faith that is in Christ Jesus.
00:56:54.24\00:56:57.75
So continue to tune
in because we'll go back
00:56:57.75\00:57:00.38
and show you a
Sharper Focus in the future.
00:57:00.38\00:57:02.55
God bless you.
00:57:02.55\00:57:03.89
Oh, I have a minute
left, we'll praise the Lord.
00:57:08.72\00:57:11.56
I thought I had no time left.
00:57:11.56\00:57:13.33
I have justification.
00:57:13.33\00:57:16.77
Let me make
myself very, very clear.
00:57:16.77\00:57:19.87
Jesus saves us apart
from the commandments,
00:57:19.87\00:57:25.57
He saves us apart
from the ceremonial law,
00:57:25.57\00:57:29.91
He justifies us, and He remains
00:57:29.91\00:57:33.88
just at the same time.
00:57:33.88\00:57:35.98
I want you to
think about next week,
00:57:35.98\00:57:38.05
think about that
because somebody may be saying.
00:57:38.05\00:57:40.42
Wait a minute.
00:57:40.42\00:57:41.69
Are you saying, Pastor
John, that we don't need
00:57:41.69\00:57:45.73
to keep the
commandments to be saved?
00:57:45.73\00:57:47.30
That's not what I'm saying.
00:57:47.30\00:57:49.06
The commandments remain firm,
00:57:49.06\00:57:51.47
the righteousness
of Christ remains firm.
00:57:51.47\00:57:54.47
He is the justifier
and He is also just.
00:57:54.47\00:57:56.81
May God bless you,
until we see you next week.
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