Hello, friends,
welcome to A Sharper Focus
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Wednesday night Bible Study here
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at the 3ABN Worship Center.
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We'd like to welcome
you with a hearty amen,
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can we say amen?
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Amen.
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We have our
Bibles, and our lessons,
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and we'll let you
know in just a moment
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how to get a copy
of that to join us
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and follow along on
this exciting study,
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"The Anatomy of Righteousness."
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This is a new lesson,
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we are going to walk
through the Word of God,
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that's a very
important topic anatomy.
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I took anatomy and
physiology in class,
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I just want to make a
disclaimer at the beginning,
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I am not a physician.
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So we are going to
learn about anatomy
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from a non-doctor.
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But we're going to look at
the anatomy of righteousness
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which is revealed
in the Word of God.
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Before we go any
further to let you know
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where you can get
a copy of the lesson
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and before we
sing our theme song,
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let's begin with
the word of prayer.
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Loving Father in heaven,
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we thank You for
this opportunity,
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the privilege is
ours to open Your Word
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and study together,
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and we pray
that Your Holy Spirit
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will be our guide,
open our minds, and hearts.
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What we are
about to learn, Lord,
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is key to our walk
with You, send Your Spirit
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to be our teacher
and also to empower us.
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We pray in Jesus' name.
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Amen.
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Now if you want to
get a copy of the lesson,
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go to this following
website it is ASF.3ABN.org,
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and download lesson number 38,
The Anatomy of Righteousness.
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Now this is a long lesson,
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so I'm going to be
breaking it down into sections,
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I think thus far I
have about 30 questions,
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but we're not going to
cover 30 questions tonight,
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we're going to try
our best to cover 15.
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But if you've been a
part of this program before,
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you know, sometimes,
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we get to seven, we get
to five, we get to nine,
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and the good thing
about this program is
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whatever we don't cover now,
we cover in the next program.
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Amen? Amen.
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So tonight,
we're going to do that.
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And now it's our
time for our theme song,
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our theme song
is Victory in Jesus.
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If you want to join us to
sing along, you may do that.
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Let's sing our
theme song together.
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I heard an old, old story
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How a Savior came from glory
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How He gave His life on Calvary
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To save a wretch like me
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I heard about His groaning
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Of His precious blood's atoning
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Then I repented of my sins
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And won the victory
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O victory in Jesus
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My Savior, forever
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He sought me and bought me
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With His redeeming blood
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He loved me ere I knew Him
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And all my love is due Him
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He plunged me to victory
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Beneath the cleansing flood
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I heard about a mansion
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He has built for me in glory
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And I heard about
the streets of gold
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Beyond the crystal sea
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About the angels singing
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And the old redemption story
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And some sweet
day I'll sing up there
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The song of victory
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Key change.
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O victory in Jesus
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My Savior forever
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He sought me and bought me
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With His redeeming blood
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He loved me ere I knew Him
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And all my love is due Him
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He plunged me to victory
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Beneath the cleansing flood
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He plunged me to victory
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Beneath the cleansing flood
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Amen? Amen.
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That is the truth, and
this song, we have done,
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since I think the
beginning of our program,
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and we'd like to do it
again, but I don't think so.
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But it's such a fun song,
they want us to sing it again.
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We have sung this
song almost every program,
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and it's been now...
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I think maybe
four or five years,
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it seems like time
has gone by so quickly
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since we've been
doing A Sharper Focus.
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But I thought about
the title of the song,
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we've been
singing Victory in Jesus,
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and then I also thought
about the number of topics
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we've been
covering, and we've covered
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a number of topics on the
steps of how to be a Christian,
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number of those things.
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But just recently, I
entered into another study
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on the anatomy of righteousness
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because it came to
my mind as a pastor
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and studying the Word
of God, my wife, and I
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really got into
reading our Bibles more,
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praying more, studying more.
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We determined to
start the New Year
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on an empowered note
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rather than, you
know, Sabbath School Lesson,
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memory verse, come to church,
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we decided to fill our
tanks as often as we can.
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Amen? Amen.
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And that meant,
reading the Bible,
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letting God speak to us,
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then knowing that we can
speak to God through prayer.
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And what God has been
doing He's been opening up doors
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to help us to see
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this Christian walk on
a very, very clear way.
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And so what came to
our minds in the study is
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the Anatomy of Righteousness.
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We want to be
righteous, don't we?
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Yes.
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Because there is
nothing else that we can be
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to get into the kingdom of God,
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we can't be almost righteous,
we can't be somewhat righteous,
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we've got to be righteous.
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But there is a
nemesis, and we know his name,
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his name is Satan,
Lucifer, the dragon, the devil,
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the fallen angel.
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But there's another nemesis
that is involved in our DNA.
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And it's a three-letter word.
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It is spelled
S-I-N, and what is that?
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Sin.
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And it has been
the nemesis of humanity
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ever since the fall of man.
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Now if you think
about this, I've watched
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baseball games,
basketball games,
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I've seen the playoffs,
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I've seen the
championship basketball games,
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I've seen the
World Series in baseball,
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whatever
country you might be in,
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and it might be of
the soccer championship
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or the Super Bowl.
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And what I've learned is
the coaches on both teams,
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they spend hours
studying the strategies
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of the other team.
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And the number one
reason why is they want to win.
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And I thought, "Wow,
do we spend as many hours
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studying our Bible as a coach
spends studying the strategies
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of another team?"
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There is another
team up against us,
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it's Satan and
his fallen angels.
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And the key he uses,
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you know, when the coach learns
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the secret weapon
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or the secret
strategy of the other team
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or the secret strategy
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of a very good
basketball player,
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they may say,
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"He goes to his left
all the time or his right"
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what you remember.
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He's right all the time.
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He moves to his right, and
when he moves to his right,
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we're in trouble.
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Or he goes to his left,
and when he goes to his left,
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we're in trouble,
he's going to score.
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So they seek to cut off
the avenues that empower him.
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And in the very same
way, when we understand sin,
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what it does, how it
works, how it impacts us,
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the difference it makes in
our lives in our daily walk,
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how to get rid of it,
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and then we
understand the mission of Jesus
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and His relationship to sin.
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Then all of a
sudden, we become clear about
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not just being
Christians that have
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28 fundamental beliefs.
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You know, there
are certain beliefs
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you can't do anything about.
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The Sabbath is the Sabbath
whether you believe it or not.
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People die and
resting till Jesus comes
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whether we believe it or not.
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The fundamentals
of the Bible are there
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whether we believe them or not.
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But the most important thing
that affects everyone is S-I-N,
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and spells what?
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Sin. Sin.
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So we're going to begin...
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We're not going to
cover it all tonight,
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but we're going to
begin learning about
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the Anatomy of Righteousness.
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Now, you know,
anatomy when you'd learn this
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and if you're a medical student,
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you might be far more
advanced in this area than I am,
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but you start learning
terms you've never heard before.
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And we're going to talk
about some of those terms,
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justification,
glorification, sanctification,
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imputed righteousness,
imparted righteousness.
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We're going to
talk about those terms,
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but we're going to
talk about those later on.
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What I want to do
more than anything else
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is if I could use
another title, this will be...
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And I want to say
this in the right mindset.
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I don't want to be
little this topic at all.
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This would be
righteousness for dummies.
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All right?
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I'm including myself in that.
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I'm not calling anyone dumb.
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But I believe that
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the easier it is to understand,
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the quicker it is to grasp
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rather than using all
these polysyllabic words,
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these esoteric terminologies,
these theological...
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You know, as Pastor CA says
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ecclesiastical obiter dictums,
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all these words
that just sound great,
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but what did he say?
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So let's begin with the
most elementary question of all.
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Question number
one, it is simply said,
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"What is sin?"
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Let's go in our
Bibles to 1 John 3:4.
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What is sin?
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And depending on the
translation you have...
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And by the way, many of you know
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if you've studied
this lesson with us,
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we put the
answers on the screen,
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but we'd like to use our Bibles
because in using our Bibles
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we learn to use
our swords, right?
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What is sin?
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1 John 3:4, the King
James Version has one definition
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which is the same
as the New King James,
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they just use
different words, but here it is.
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And let's read
this first one together,
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it will appear on the screen.
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Here it is.
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The answer is,
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"Whoever commits
sin also commits," what,
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"lawlessness, and
sin is lawlessness."
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Or the King James Version says,
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"Sin is the
transgression of the law."
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I asked the question,
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how many of us have been
pulled over by a police before.
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Don't raise your hand.
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Put your hand down.
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I'm seeing those hands
pop up all over the world
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in my mind's eye.
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But we try our best
not to meet police officers
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unless we schedule a
friendly meeting with them,
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but we've been there.
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And when you
transgress or violate the law,
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a police officer shows
up, pulls alongside of you,
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and they try to be as cordial
as possible on most occasions.
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And depending on the
situation that they assess,
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they might be just really
nice to you and let you go
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or they might sense,
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"Wow, we've got more
here than just a speeder."
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Whatever the situation is
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and they're professionally
trained to assess that.
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But they ask for your
license and your registration,
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and then they
ask you this question
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that's really kind of weird,
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"Did you know that
you were speeding?"
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Now how many of us know
that question is coming?
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Did you know...
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And the other one,
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did you know how
fast you were going?
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Well, I had that
question asked to me once.
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Here I'm in the local,
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I got a ticket
at 72 miles an hour,
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and the speed limit was 70.
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And I felt that was not fair.
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So I went to court,
they gave me an option
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to either pay
right away or go to court
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and appeal to the judge.
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So I went to court,
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and I decided to
put on a very nice suit.
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I wanted to look legitimate,
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I want to look
like I am not a sinner,
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I am not an
intentional violator of the law,
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so I had all my externals on.
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I went to
court, and they waiting
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for the judge to come
out, and they said, "Okay."
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The court clerk came out,
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"How many of you
would like to plead guilty?
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Anybody not guilty?
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If you want to plead
guilty and pay the fine,
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just raise your hand."
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While the people that raised
their hand, they pled guilty,
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they went...
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She said, "Go to the
clerk and just pay the fine.
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Okay, I guess
those of you remaining
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are pleading not guilty.
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Okay, if you're
pleading not guilty,
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don't raise your hands.
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You'll have to...
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You wait here to
appear before the judge."
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So she came to each person
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and asked this
elementary question,
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"How fast were you going?"
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So she got to me, and
I said, "Seventy-two."
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But she said, "Sir,
what was the speed limit?"
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I said, "Seventy." She
said, "You were speeding."
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I said, "But it's about...
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"Sir, you broke the law."
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I said, "But I just..."
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"Sir, you broke the law.
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So you have a choice now,
you could appear to the judge,
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you could just go
ahead and pay the fine."
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I figured, "You know,
let's just go and pay the fine.
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It's not going to work
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because if she as
the clerk convicted me,
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the judge is not going to...
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He's not going to
change her assessment."
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"What was the speed
limit?" "Seventy-two."
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But then on
another note, there is,
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one, you know you're
guilty, what do you ask for?
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Do you ask for justice
or do you ask for mercy?
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What do you ask for? Mercy.
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And they said,
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"Throw yourself on
the mercy of the court."
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Well, I knew that day,
it wouldn't going to work,
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so went ahead and paid the fine.
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On another occasion...
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I don't have too many
speeding ticket stories to tell,
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but I'm telling you this
for the particular reason.
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So on another
occasion, I parked in California
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in a handicap zone,
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but my mom had just
come out of the hospital,
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and she needed medication
at one of the local pharmacies,
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and I had to get her as
close to the door as I can,
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soon as I got out of a
car, a female officer pulled up,
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put out a ticket,
writing me a ticket.
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I said, "Ma'am, I'm trying
to get to the pharmacy, it's...
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I know, I don't
have a handicap sticker."
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She said, "Tell
it to the judge."
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I went to court,
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I said, "Your Honor,
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here's the situation."
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He said, "What
did the officer say?"
00:14:45.98\00:14:48.58
"She said tell it to the judge.
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So I'm telling you."
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He said, "If you can prove
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that your mother was discharged
from the hospital on that day,
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I would dismiss the ticket."
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Man, I ran out of there so fast
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because I knew that
the records would indicate
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she was
discharged, went to the clerk,
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the ticket was forgiven.
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That day, I asked for justice
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because he gave me the
parameters for justice,
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on the other
occasion I asked for mercy.
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When you look at what
the Bible says about sin,
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sin is also lawlessness.
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In other words,
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when there is a
disregard for God's law,
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the end result is
S-I-N, what does that spell?
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Sin.
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So now sin is the only thing
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that we need to really be
concerned about on our planet
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because it's the only
thing that could condemn us
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to destruction at the very end.
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It's the only
thing that can prevent us
00:15:36.06\00:15:37.67
from being saved.
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Now the other question is...
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Question number two,
so write the answer down,
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what is sin?
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And the answer
put in your own words,
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the transgression of the law,
or the violation of the law,
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that means it happens
when God's law is violated...
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And I want to go a
little deeper tonight.
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Are you ready?
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If you look at
the Ten Commandments,
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even if you do not
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knowingly break
any one of those,
00:16:05.63\00:16:08.76
you are all ready in
violation of the law.
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That's why this study
is even deeper than just,
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"Well, which
commandment did I break?"
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If you became painfully
aware of the commandments,
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the first four, our
relationship to God,
00:16:20.64\00:16:23.88
the last six, our
relationship to our self.
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If you look at them and said,
00:16:25.81\00:16:27.15
"I haven't broken any of those."
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You are already in
violation of the law.
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This is how deep I'm
going to get tonight,
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are you ready for that?
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And you'll find out
that in just a few moments,
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you might say, "How is that?
00:16:36.66\00:16:39.73
How could I be in
violation of something
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that I didn't
knowingly violate?"
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You're going to see
how much deeper it is
00:16:45.17\00:16:46.50
than speeding.
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Now if you got pulled
over by a police officer,
00:16:47.94\00:16:50.34
and you were not
speeding, and he said,
00:16:50.37\00:16:51.77
you were, would you be upset?
00:16:51.81\00:16:54.58
Because you were not.
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We're going to see
that this issue about sin
00:16:56.01\00:16:57.91
is bigger than
just breaking the law,
00:16:57.95\00:17:01.52
but we are born
00:17:01.55\00:17:04.62
out of harmony with God's law.
00:17:04.69\00:17:07.52
That's how we're born.
00:17:07.56\00:17:08.92
So let's find out
how that happened.
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Go to question number two.
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So the answer is...
00:17:11.76\00:17:13.09
What is sin?
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The transgression of the
law or it is lawlessness?
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Question is...
00:17:15.83\00:17:17.17
Very simple questions,
where did sin come from?
00:17:17.20\00:17:20.27
Let's go to Ezekiel 28.
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Where did it come from?
00:17:23.41\00:17:26.88
Isn't that the question we asked
00:17:26.91\00:17:28.24
when the police
officer pulls us over,
00:17:28.28\00:17:29.61
"Where did he come from?"
00:17:29.64\00:17:31.41
Then we ask that
question, "I didn't see him."
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I got wise, and I
started to really looking out
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for police officers, and
when I couldn't find him,
00:17:36.12\00:17:39.02
I just knew that people says,
"This is the area, go slowly."
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I saw a police
officer once standing
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on the top of the
overpass in the far right corner
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with a speeding gun, I thought,
00:17:47.60\00:17:49.30
"Look, he's really trying hard."
00:17:49.33\00:17:52.30
They hide out there.
00:17:52.33\00:17:53.90
But the question is
where did he come from?
00:17:53.94\00:17:55.54
So the question,
where did sin come from?
00:17:55.57\00:17:57.11
Ezekiel, where we are?
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Ezekiel 28, let's
look at this together.
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And we're going to
look together at verse 15,
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but I'll lead up to that.
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I'm going to read verse...
00:18:06.35\00:18:07.68
When I get to verse 15,
I'll have the graphics persons
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bring that up.
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Let's see who is
being talked about here.
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First, verse 13,
00:18:15.89\00:18:18.29
"You were in
Eden, the garden of God.
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Every precious
stone was your covering."
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And all the
precious stones it mentioned,
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"The sardius,
topaz, and diamond,
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the beryl, onyx,
jasper, sapphire, turquoise,
00:18:29.74\00:18:33.04
and emerald with gold.
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The workmanship of your tumbrels
00:18:34.64\00:18:36.95
and pipes was
prepared for you on the day
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that you were created."
00:18:39.65\00:18:40.98
And then verse 14.
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"You were..."
00:18:42.38\00:18:43.72
And notice
this, I want you to...
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The reason I'm reading these
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are because you were,
meaning, you're no longer,
00:18:46.52\00:18:48.49
you were.
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"You were the
anointed cherub who covers.
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I established you.
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You were on the
holy mountain of God.
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You walked back and forth
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in the midst of
the fiery stones.
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You were..."
00:19:01.30\00:19:02.87
Bring that text up now.
00:19:02.90\00:19:04.34
Let's read it.
00:19:04.37\00:19:05.71
"You were," what,
00:19:05.74\00:19:07.24
"perfect in your ways
from the day you were," what,
00:19:07.28\00:19:11.15
"created, till
iniquity was found," where,
00:19:11.18\00:19:14.95
"in you."
00:19:14.98\00:19:16.32
So now if you think
about where did sin came from,
00:19:16.35\00:19:19.59
it started inside
of the heart and mind
00:19:19.62\00:19:23.29
of one who's talked about
here, his name is Lucifer,
00:19:23.32\00:19:26.33
who was that cherub
that angel that covers.
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You want to get
a picture of that,
00:19:29.43\00:19:30.77
he had the mercy
seat, he had two angels,
00:19:30.80\00:19:32.53
one on the left,
one on the right,
00:19:32.57\00:19:34.97
and they cover the mercy seat,
00:19:35.04\00:19:37.04
which is in the presence of God,
00:19:37.07\00:19:38.41
that was the angel
that walked back and forth
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in the midst of the
presence of God, he was there.
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But the reason why I
says, you were, you were,
00:19:43.98\00:19:45.91
you were, you were is because
00:19:45.95\00:19:47.45
when this desire
00:19:47.48\00:19:51.62
started within him
00:19:51.69\00:19:54.22
something occurred,
00:19:54.26\00:19:56.79
his position changed,
00:19:56.83\00:19:59.26
he was perfect
00:19:59.29\00:20:01.56
but because of this desire
00:20:01.60\00:20:04.53
that perfection was broken,
00:20:04.57\00:20:07.20
he was no longer
the way he was before.
00:20:07.24\00:20:09.54
But now let's put this down.
00:20:09.57\00:20:10.91
So what answer would you put?
00:20:10.94\00:20:12.34
Where did sin come from?
00:20:12.37\00:20:13.71
And your answer is
00:20:13.74\00:20:15.08
within the heart
and mind of Lucifer.
00:20:15.14\00:20:19.15
And the reason I say this,
00:20:19.18\00:20:20.52
and you'll see
this in a moment ago
00:20:20.55\00:20:22.08
because if you
think about people ask,
00:20:22.12\00:20:24.65
"Well, if God knew,
why did God create him?"
00:20:24.69\00:20:28.52
If you look at the
beginning of verse 15, it says,
00:20:28.56\00:20:30.29
"You were,"
what's the third word?
00:20:30.33\00:20:32.53
What's the third word?
00:20:32.56\00:20:34.30
Perfect.
00:20:34.36\00:20:35.66
The Lord didn't
create a defective being,
00:20:35.70\00:20:37.57
but He created a being
with freedom to do, what,
00:20:37.60\00:20:41.67
to choose, freedom to choose.
00:20:41.70\00:20:44.84
There are people
that don't speed,
00:20:44.87\00:20:46.34
there are people that
speed, what's the difference?
00:20:46.37\00:20:50.38
Choice.
00:20:50.41\00:20:51.78
One chooses to speed.
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Now I want to say
00:20:53.92\00:20:55.88
just for the record
in Southern Illinois,
00:20:55.92\00:20:57.25
there are some
people that go too slow.
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But they are still
abiding by the law,
00:21:01.66\00:21:04.59
they don't even want
to get near violating it,
00:21:04.63\00:21:07.30
and I commend them.
00:21:07.36\00:21:11.30
But now let's go to
question number three.
00:21:11.33\00:21:12.67
We're going to
unpack this very carefully.
00:21:12.70\00:21:15.47
Iniquity was found in him,
00:21:15.50\00:21:17.41
it wasn't found
in God's creation,
00:21:17.44\00:21:18.77
it was found inside of Lucifer.
00:21:18.84\00:21:21.24
Let's see how this was found.
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Question three,
00:21:22.81\00:21:24.61
how are the developmental
steps of sin described?
00:21:24.68\00:21:27.82
This is very interesting,
the developmental steps.
00:21:27.85\00:21:31.62
And we're going to
Isaiah 14:12-14, all right?
00:21:34.89\00:21:40.33
Let's look at that.
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Isaiah 14:12-14.
00:21:41.73\00:21:44.13
Here's the answer.
00:21:44.17\00:21:45.50
Starting in verse 12, it says,
00:21:45.53\00:21:47.40
"How you are fallen from heaven,
00:21:47.44\00:21:49.60
O Lucifer, son of the morning!
00:21:49.64\00:21:53.14
How you are cut
down to the ground,
00:21:53.17\00:21:56.14
you who weakened the nations!"
00:21:56.18\00:21:58.78
And look at verse 13,
"For you have said," where,
00:21:58.85\00:22:03.18
"in your heart."
00:22:03.22\00:22:04.55
Notice what he claimed.
00:22:04.59\00:22:05.95
"I will ascend into heaven,
00:22:05.99\00:22:10.49
I will exalt my throne
above the stars of God.
00:22:10.53\00:22:14.83
I will also sit on the
mount of the congregation
00:22:14.93\00:22:19.30
on the farthest
sides of the north.
00:22:19.33\00:22:22.67
I will ascend above the heights
of the clouds," together,
00:22:22.70\00:22:28.08
" I will be like,"
what, "the Most High."
00:22:28.11\00:22:30.71
And the answer is...
00:22:30.75\00:22:32.08
Or the question is, was he?
00:22:32.15\00:22:34.05
But was... That
was his aspiration.
00:22:34.08\00:22:36.92
Here's the second
step, here's the second step.
00:22:36.95\00:22:39.02
First of all,
iniquity is often...
00:22:39.05\00:22:40.86
Sin has started in the person,
not in their surroundings,
00:22:40.89\00:22:43.79
within the individual.
00:22:43.83\00:22:45.16
When Lucifer decided, he
wanted what God never gave him,
00:22:45.23\00:22:48.26
want to be what
God never placed him
00:22:48.30\00:22:49.86
because this is showing...
00:22:49.90\00:22:51.23
These steps here in
Isaiah are showing that
00:22:51.27\00:22:52.97
God never placed
him in these positions,
00:22:53.00\00:22:55.20
the place that God
occupied, he wanted that,
00:22:55.24\00:22:58.01
and he summarized all
his aspirations by saying,
00:22:58.07\00:23:00.41
"I will be like the Most High.
00:23:00.44\00:23:03.55
I'm not satisfied that
You're in that position.
00:23:03.58\00:23:05.65
I want to be in that position."
00:23:05.68\00:23:07.88
Right? So let's put this down.
00:23:07.92\00:23:09.88
How are the developmental
steps of sin described?
00:23:09.92\00:23:13.76
When I becomes the major focus.
00:23:13.79\00:23:19.26
When I, when self
becomes the major focus.
00:23:19.29\00:23:25.13
When self and what self
wants becomes the major focus,
00:23:25.17\00:23:30.81
and that's where
the crumbling begins.
00:23:30.84\00:23:35.44
That's where the
crumbling begins.
00:23:35.48\00:23:38.61
Well, I'd like to...
00:23:38.65\00:23:43.28
I want to...
00:23:43.32\00:23:44.65
Now we'll look at the situation.
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He said, "I will be
like the Most High."
00:23:47.22\00:23:52.13
But he was not going
to be like the Most High.
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I'm going to add one
more thing before we turn off.
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And I'm going to read
this verse in Isaiah14:15,
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the Lord said,
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"Yet you shall be
brought down to Sheol, "
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that's the Hebrew word for hell,
00:24:05.84\00:24:07.78
"to the lowest
depths of the pit."
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In other words,
you're not going to be high,
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you're going to be low.
00:24:13.88\00:24:15.32
And by the way, this
didn't happen instantaneously.
00:24:15.38\00:24:17.79
He gave Lucifer
opportunities to reverse,
00:24:17.82\00:24:21.06
but you're going to
see in just a moment.
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So he's now brought down...
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And I would have...
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If I would do this
little different...
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He's brought down,
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and this aspiration is something
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that he deeply set his mind on.
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So now he's brought
down, he's cast to the earth.
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Now I'm kind of going
a little reverse sense,
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but let's look at
question number four,
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very important, all right?
00:24:43.04\00:24:45.48
So he did not accomplish
what he aimed at accomplishing.
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But now he makes an offer.
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He makes an offer.
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Very simple questions,
but very profound impact.
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Question number
four, look at this,
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question number four.
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And we're in Genesis by the way.
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And the question is,
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"What offer did
Satan make to Eve?"
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What offer did he make?
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Look at Genesis 3.
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What offer?
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Okay, and we're
going to read verse 5,
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but I want to work my
way up to it, all right?
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So let's walk through the story.
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This is now...
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And by the way...
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And by the way,
this situation that
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Adam and Eve
find themselves in...
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I want to go to Genesis
2 just to set the stage.
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Look at Genesis 2
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and look at verse 15 to 17.
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All right?
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Look at this.
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It says...
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If you're
following, you'll have it?
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It says, "Then
the Lord took the man
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and put him in the
Garden of Eden to tend,"
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that is to
cultivate," and to keep it.
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And the Lord God
commanded the man saying,
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"Of every tree of the
garden you may," what,
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"freely eat,
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but of the tree of the knowledge
00:26:17.27\00:26:19.57
of good and evil,"
you shall not eat it
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or, "you shall not eat,
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for in the day that
you eat of it," what,
00:26:25.55\00:26:29.48
"you shall surely die."
00:26:29.52\00:26:31.05
Now I want you
to catch something.
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He didn't say in
the day you touch it,
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he said, "In the
day, you partake of it."
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Now let's go
now to the question.
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What offer did
Satan make to Eve?
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Let's go, starting
with verse 1 of Genesis 3.
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We're going to
walk through this.
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We're going to try to
get the whole picture formed.
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God created woman now,
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and now she finds
herself at the tree.
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Watch this.
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"Now the
serpent was more cunning
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than any beast of the field
which the Lord God had made.
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And he said to the
woman, 'Has God indeed said,
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'You shall not eat
of," how many trees,
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"every tree of the garden'?"
00:27:12.13\00:27:13.46
Did God say that she
couldn't eat of every tree?
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No, God said she could
eat of every tree except one.
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And verse 2,
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"And the woman
said to the serpent,
00:27:22.30\00:27:23.74
'We may eat of the fruit
of the trees of the garden,
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but of the fruit of the tree
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which is in the
midst of the garden,'
00:27:30.45\00:27:32.65
God has said,
'You shall not eat it,
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nor shall you
touch it, lest you die.'"
00:27:35.68\00:27:37.75
Did God say that?
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No, He said don't eat it,
He didn't say don't touch it,
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He said, "Don't eat it."
00:27:41.96\00:27:43.39
Let's keep going.
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"Then the serpent
said to the woman,"
00:27:44.89\00:27:46.23
the first lie
recorded in Genesis,
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what did he say?
00:27:48.96\00:27:50.30
Well, the second lie, the
first one was told by Eve,
00:27:50.33\00:27:53.74
but the first lie he told us,
together, "You will not," what,
00:27:53.77\00:27:58.44
"You will not surely die."
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Now here is the
answer to the question.
00:28:01.64\00:28:03.68
And by the way
that statement today
00:28:03.71\00:28:06.01
has been the
foundation of the idea
00:28:06.05\00:28:07.78
that people die, but
they really don't die.
00:28:07.82\00:28:10.69
That's the whole
idea of spiritualism.
00:28:10.72\00:28:12.45
They keep on living,
they're not really dead.
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But look at verse
5, here's the question.
00:28:15.82\00:28:17.46
What offer did
Satan make to Eve?
00:28:17.49\00:28:19.19
Here's what he said.
00:28:19.23\00:28:21.16
"For God knows," let
me bring that on screen,
00:28:21.20\00:28:23.73
"for God knows in
the day you eat of it,"
00:28:23.77\00:28:27.54
what will happen,
00:28:27.57\00:28:28.97
"your eyes will be opened
and you will be like," who,
00:28:29.00\00:28:32.34
"God, knowing,"
what, "good and evil."
00:28:32.37\00:28:34.64
In other words, he
says, "By disobeying God,
00:28:34.68\00:28:37.25
you're going to see
what you have never seen,
00:28:37.28\00:28:40.12
God is holding
out on you, God knows
00:28:40.15\00:28:43.25
that in the day you eat
of it, your eyes will be open
00:28:43.28\00:28:46.09
that's why God is
holding out on you,
00:28:46.12\00:28:48.36
there's something God
doesn't want you to know."
00:28:48.39\00:28:51.06
Well, let me ask you a question.
00:28:51.09\00:28:53.56
Are there things that
you know now that you wish
00:28:53.60\00:28:55.30
you never knew?
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Can I get an amen? Amen.
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So it's not
necessary to know it.
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But the devil said, "God
knows that if you partake,
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you gonna have better vision,
00:29:12.01\00:29:13.68
better insight
than you had before."
00:29:13.72\00:29:16.15
In fact, no.
00:29:16.18\00:29:18.45
And I know what you're thinking,
00:29:18.52\00:29:20.02
so we're going to go
there in just a moment.
00:29:20.06\00:29:21.46
So write the question down,
00:29:21.49\00:29:22.82
what offer did
Satan make to Eve?
00:29:22.86\00:29:25.26
"You will be like God."
00:29:25.29\00:29:28.26
In other words,
"You'll be elevated,
00:29:28.30\00:29:30.07
you'll be better than before
00:29:30.10\00:29:33.44
if you go ahead and
follow my suggestions."
00:29:33.47\00:29:36.27
And I tell you, if
you live long enough,
00:29:36.30\00:29:40.08
if you live for 15 minutes,
you know that's not true.
00:29:40.11\00:29:44.21
I'm talking about
00:29:44.25\00:29:45.58
in the conscious
mind of an adult.
00:29:45.65\00:29:47.98
So now let's see
00:29:48.02\00:29:49.35
because the next
question is really important,
00:29:49.42\00:29:52.02
we'll see that this
offer that he made...
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We're moving right at the pace,
I think is good for tonight.
00:29:55.59\00:29:59.23
In other words, if
you follow my suggestions,
00:29:59.26\00:30:02.36
you'll be
better off than you are
00:30:02.40\00:30:04.73
by being obedient to God.
00:30:04.77\00:30:06.10
And, you know, friends,
00:30:06.13\00:30:07.47
that's not the
case by any means.
00:30:07.50\00:30:10.57
Number five, here it is,
00:30:10.61\00:30:13.94
how do we know
00:30:13.98\00:30:16.28
that Satan could
not fulfill his offer?
00:30:16.31\00:30:20.48
How do we know
00:30:20.52\00:30:22.48
that Satan could
not fulfill his offer?
00:30:22.52\00:30:25.75
What offer did he make to Eve?
00:30:25.79\00:30:28.02
What offer did he make?
00:30:28.06\00:30:29.42
You'll be like God.
00:30:29.46\00:30:30.79
How do we know he
couldn't fulfill that?
00:30:30.83\00:30:33.93
Because if you're
following carefully
00:30:33.96\00:30:35.33
as we continue this
lesson, you're going to see...
00:30:35.36\00:30:39.10
I'm just going to kind
of give you a quick preview.
00:30:39.13\00:30:41.04
You're going to see
that where Adam, Eve failed,
00:30:41.07\00:30:45.84
Jesus succeeded.
00:30:45.87\00:30:50.08
And the same thing
he said to Adam and Eve
00:30:50.11\00:30:52.71
or to Eve is the same
thing he said to Jesus,
00:30:52.75\00:30:55.55
in a different way,
00:30:55.58\00:30:56.92
he appealed to
the very same things.
00:30:56.95\00:30:58.85
Let's look at this.
00:30:58.92\00:31:00.32
How do we know?
00:31:00.36\00:31:01.69
Revelation 12.
00:31:01.72\00:31:04.49
If you follow the Bible,
you have in the beginning,
00:31:04.53\00:31:08.10
you have the
controversy started, in the end
00:31:08.13\00:31:11.77
you have the
controversy finished.
00:31:11.80\00:31:14.24
But Revelation gives
us a snapshot of Genesis.
00:31:14.27\00:31:20.18
Look at Revelation 12:7-9.
00:31:20.21\00:31:22.91
How do we know that the devil
could not fulfill his offer?
00:31:22.94\00:31:25.88
How do we know?
00:31:25.91\00:31:27.25
Let's start.
00:31:27.28\00:31:28.65
"And war broke
out," where, "in heaven:
00:31:28.68\00:31:32.25
Michael and his angels
fought with the dragon,
00:31:32.32\00:31:35.39
and the dragon
and his angels fought,
00:31:35.42\00:31:37.93
but they did not
prevail," Amen someone?
00:31:37.96\00:31:41.60
"Nor was a place found for
them in heaven any longer."
00:31:41.63\00:31:46.07
And verse 9.
00:31:46.10\00:31:48.54
And by the way,
who's the dragon,
00:31:48.57\00:31:49.90
somebody tell me?
00:31:49.94\00:31:51.27
Satan is.
00:31:51.31\00:31:52.64
Revelation 12:7.
00:31:52.67\00:31:54.24
Well, we're going
to read it right now.
00:31:54.28\00:31:55.81
"So the dragon was cast
out, that serpent of old,
00:31:55.88\00:32:00.05
call the Devil and
Satan, who," does what,
00:32:00.08\00:32:03.62
deceives the whole
world, he was cast to the earth,
00:32:03.65\00:32:08.06
and his angels
were cast out with him."
00:32:08.09\00:32:12.26
Now the reason
why he couldn't offer
00:32:12.29\00:32:13.93
what he promised is because
00:32:13.96\00:32:15.30
he didn't get it himself.
00:32:15.33\00:32:17.37
How am I going to
give you something
00:32:17.40\00:32:19.00
that I was not even
able to accomplish myself?
00:32:19.07\00:32:21.77
I wanted to replace God
and in my fight to do it,
00:32:21.80\00:32:26.01
I got kicked out.
00:32:26.04\00:32:29.71
So now I'm telling you to
do what I know it doesn't work.
00:32:29.74\00:32:33.42
Let me just pause a
moment and say something.
00:32:33.45\00:32:35.35
I'm going to look at
the camera and tell you that
00:32:41.96\00:32:43.63
sin offers you what
Satan knows it doesn't work.
00:32:43.66\00:32:49.53
He'll make a suggestion to
follow the path of something
00:32:54.10\00:32:57.37
that he knows it doesn't
work, it did not work in heaven,
00:32:57.41\00:33:00.38
he lost the
battle to insist on it,
00:33:00.41\00:33:03.58
and he got put out,
00:33:03.61\00:33:04.95
and his angels
got cast out with him.
00:33:04.98\00:33:06.61
So in the context
of reversing this,
00:33:06.65\00:33:09.62
he's in the garden now
00:33:09.65\00:33:11.42
to continue this
temptation to say to Eve.
00:33:11.45\00:33:14.12
He didn't say to Eve, "I
didn't win," he says to her,
00:33:14.16\00:33:17.56
"You could be like God."
00:33:17.59\00:33:18.93
Well, he knew that
couldn't be the case.
00:33:18.96\00:33:20.46
So since he couldn't
be like God now he says,
00:33:20.50\00:33:22.93
"Since I didn't
win, here's the key,
00:33:22.96\00:33:25.00
I don't want you to win either."
00:33:25.03\00:33:27.90
So sin takes you down a
path, but it promises you,
00:33:31.21\00:33:34.18
you will be like
God, you'll be elevated,
00:33:34.21\00:33:35.98
you'll be better off
only to realize, you won't be.
00:33:36.04\00:33:40.18
Let's go on to see why.
00:33:40.22\00:33:42.92
Now if you read Genesis,
00:33:42.95\00:33:47.02
you know, the rest of the story,
00:33:47.06\00:33:48.46
not only did Eve eat the fruit,
00:33:48.49\00:33:50.26
but she gave it
to Adam, Adam ate it.
00:33:50.29\00:33:55.06
Eve was
deceived, but Adam wasn't.
00:33:55.10\00:33:58.03
Let's look at the next question.
00:33:58.07\00:34:00.37
And I'm just
laying some foundation.
00:34:00.40\00:34:02.07
We're going to get into
some things that are quite...
00:34:02.14\00:34:05.21
And the answer is how do we know
00:34:05.24\00:34:07.88
that Satan could
not fulfill his offer
00:34:07.91\00:34:10.75
because he lost,
he lost, he lost.
00:34:10.78\00:34:17.02
You can't make a
person victorious
00:34:17.05\00:34:18.65
if you don't know how to win.
00:34:18.69\00:34:20.92
You can't offer me a
victory that you don't have.
00:34:20.96\00:34:24.06
He lost, he could not offer her
something that he didn't have.
00:34:24.09\00:34:27.23
Okay, question number six.
00:34:27.23\00:34:28.73
Thank you for
bringing it on the screen.
00:34:28.76\00:34:30.10
Here it is.
00:34:30.13\00:34:31.47
How did sin enter the world?
00:34:31.50\00:34:34.14
How did sin enter the world?
00:34:34.17\00:34:37.17
Huge.
00:34:37.21\00:34:38.54
Romans 5:12.
00:34:38.57\00:34:40.98
Romans 5:12.
00:34:41.01\00:34:43.98
Sin is like mice, by the way.
00:34:51.52\00:34:55.39
I don't know if you
know what I'm talking about.
00:34:55.42\00:34:57.69
Any opening, a
mouse will get in.
00:34:57.73\00:35:03.40
Okay, here it is, Romans 5:12.
00:35:03.43\00:35:07.84
All right, here is the answer.
00:35:07.87\00:35:11.31
"Therefore, just as through,"
00:35:11.34\00:35:13.81
together what's
that next two words,
00:35:13.84\00:35:15.91
"one man sin entered the world,
00:35:15.94\00:35:19.68
and death through sin,
00:35:19.71\00:35:22.25
and thus death
spread to," how many of us,
00:35:22.28\00:35:25.82
"all because all sinned."
00:35:25.85\00:35:27.99
Now I want to go
back to my initial comment
00:35:28.02\00:35:30.16
that I made not too long ago.
00:35:30.19\00:35:32.46
Even if you never consciously
00:35:32.49\00:35:34.83
broke any of the
Ten Commandments,
00:35:34.86\00:35:37.57
because of this
statement we are all born
00:35:37.60\00:35:41.14
out of harmony with God's law.
00:35:41.17\00:35:42.77
A baby is born and, you know,
00:35:46.31\00:35:47.68
we say babies are so
innocent when they're born.
00:35:47.71\00:35:52.98
They look so cute, you know,
downy soft, velvet soft skin,
00:35:53.05\00:35:58.35
and there's a
reason why the Lord
00:35:58.39\00:35:59.79
lets babies be born small.
00:35:59.82\00:36:01.56
One doctor said
00:36:01.59\00:36:03.59
if a baby was
born at 150 pounds,
00:36:03.63\00:36:08.36
the mother's life
will be in danger.
00:36:08.40\00:36:11.60
Because you see
how hard a baby cries
00:36:11.63\00:36:13.07
when you missed
their feeding time,
00:36:13.10\00:36:15.04
just put that same pressure
00:36:15.07\00:36:18.47
and add about 140
more pounds to that.
00:36:18.51\00:36:23.91
The nature, the reason
why and here's the key,
00:36:23.95\00:36:25.78
the reason why the Lord allows
a child to be born as a baby
00:36:25.85\00:36:30.42
because it's something
that they have to learn.
00:36:30.45\00:36:32.49
You'll get it when
I start repeating it.
00:36:32.52\00:36:34.12
Train up a child in
the way they should, what,
00:36:34.16\00:36:37.09
go because they don't know,
00:36:37.13\00:36:38.79
they are born with this
00:36:38.83\00:36:40.20
discombobulated
direction of life.
00:36:40.23\00:36:42.96
They don't know, all
they want to do is eat
00:36:43.00\00:36:44.97
and be comfortable and sleep.
00:36:45.00\00:36:47.07
Eat, be
comfortable, sleep, right?
00:36:47.10\00:36:49.80
That's the number one
aim for baby, "Feed me now!"
00:36:49.84\00:36:53.74
That's the nature.
00:36:53.78\00:36:56.44
And they'll
scream, and they'll kick,
00:36:56.48\00:36:59.88
and they'll whine, and
you'll hold on patiently
00:36:59.91\00:37:03.35
until that baby is
weaned away from that.
00:37:03.39\00:37:07.39
But the reason why
00:37:07.42\00:37:08.89
we cannot blame our situation...
00:37:08.92\00:37:12.83
And I want to
say this carefully,
00:37:12.86\00:37:14.83
the reason why we
are in the situation
00:37:14.86\00:37:17.87
we're in is
Adam opened the door.
00:37:17.90\00:37:20.90
What did he do?
00:37:20.94\00:37:22.30
He opened the door.
00:37:22.34\00:37:23.67
Go with me to 1 Corinthians
15, I want you to see,
00:37:23.71\00:37:25.27
I'm gonna add
another text to it.
00:37:25.31\00:37:27.84
Oh, actually, we're gonna be
going there in just a moment,
00:37:27.88\00:37:30.51
we're going there right now.
00:37:30.55\00:37:31.88
So here's the answer, how
did sin entered the world,
00:37:31.91\00:37:34.88
put one name
down, what's his name?
00:37:34.92\00:37:37.42
Adam. Through Adam, one man.
00:37:37.45\00:37:40.32
This is very huge
through one man, all right?
00:37:40.36\00:37:43.99
And the Bible describes
in the very next question,
00:37:44.03\00:37:46.53
what happens as a
result, one man open the door,
00:37:46.59\00:37:50.27
one man open the door.
00:37:50.30\00:37:52.80
Now you might have heard
00:37:52.83\00:37:55.00
some of the
questions this far and say,
00:37:55.04\00:37:56.37
"Well, I've heard some
of these questions before."
00:37:56.40\00:37:57.81
What's going to be quite
different about this study is
00:37:57.84\00:38:00.44
we're going to get to...
00:38:00.48\00:38:02.04
We're laying the
foundation just to understand
00:38:02.08\00:38:03.85
how we got into circumstances,
the situation we're in.
00:38:03.88\00:38:08.75
But what we're going
to do is go into the DNA.
00:38:08.78\00:38:11.85
See, I'm using words,
00:38:11.89\00:38:15.52
I know our nurse
knows what that means,
00:38:15.56\00:38:17.46
our medical team here
knows what that means.
00:38:17.49\00:38:22.43
I know the word, but I
don't want to mess it by now
00:38:22.46\00:38:23.97
and sound really
dumb on air, but...
00:38:24.00\00:38:29.40
DNA is fine.
00:38:29.47\00:38:30.81
DNA is great for right now.
00:38:30.84\00:38:32.84
I know how...
00:38:32.87\00:38:34.54
It's in my mind, I'll
use it on the next program,
00:38:34.58\00:38:36.41
I write it down because...
00:38:36.44\00:38:38.35
Anyway, yes, we're
going to go into the DNA of it
00:38:38.38\00:38:41.48
to understand how it works.
00:38:41.52\00:38:43.62
But one man
opened the door, okay?
00:38:43.65\00:38:45.92
Now listen to the
question number seven.
00:38:45.95\00:38:48.92
How does the Bible describe
00:38:48.96\00:38:50.33
the impact of
the sin of one man?
00:38:50.36\00:38:54.56
How does it describe the
impact of the sin of one man?
00:38:54.60\00:38:59.20
Let's go to 1 Corinthians
00:38:59.27\00:39:02.30
15:22.
00:39:02.34\00:39:09.31
And what this
verse is going to do,
00:39:09.34\00:39:11.91
it's going to set
up the two categories
00:39:11.95\00:39:14.08
the only two
categories we have in humanity
00:39:14.12\00:39:17.45
is we've got to choose
00:39:17.49\00:39:18.82
whose child we
want to be, right?
00:39:18.85\00:39:22.59
Either the first
Adam or the last Adam.
00:39:22.62\00:39:26.66
But look at the
text. Here it is.
00:39:26.70\00:39:28.60
1 Corinthians 15:22.
00:39:28.63\00:39:31.20
And the Bible reads as follows.
00:39:31.23\00:39:32.77
"For as in Adam,"
how many of us, "all die,
00:39:32.80\00:39:36.94
even so in
Christ," how many of us,
00:39:36.97\00:39:40.64
"all shall be,"
what, "made alive."
00:39:40.68\00:39:43.58
Now the reason why I don't
want to run pass this, it says,
00:39:43.61\00:39:46.48
"All shall be made alive,"
which means until Christ,
00:39:46.55\00:39:50.49
we were not made alive, we
were dead, did you get that?
00:39:50.52\00:39:54.49
As in Adam all
die, that's the fact,
00:39:54.52\00:39:56.76
that's the
present circumstances.
00:39:56.79\00:39:58.89
"Even so in Christ
all shall be made alive."
00:39:58.93\00:40:03.40
Meaning, you don't have
it yet until you have Christ,
00:40:03.43\00:40:06.03
that's what the
Bible says in 1 John,
00:40:06.07\00:40:07.67
"He who has the Son has life."
00:40:07.70\00:40:11.44
So until we have
Christ, we're not made alive.
00:40:11.47\00:40:15.64
When we're in Adam,
we definitely have death.
00:40:15.68\00:40:18.25
So write that down.
00:40:18.28\00:40:20.42
The question is how
does the Bible describe
00:40:20.45\00:40:21.95
the impact of
the sin of one man?
00:40:21.98\00:40:24.32
What word, what
simple word can you put
00:40:24.35\00:40:26.99
or what simple phrase, all die?
00:40:27.02\00:40:29.82
How many of us?
00:40:29.86\00:40:31.19
All die.
00:40:31.23\00:40:32.79
So now how many is all?
00:40:32.83\00:40:34.83
Right now we
don't have any hope.
00:40:39.10\00:40:41.84
Whatever planet you're...
00:40:41.87\00:40:43.20
Sorry, whatever
country you're in...
00:40:43.27\00:40:45.51
I don't know
where that came from.
00:40:45.54\00:40:46.88
Whatever country you're in,
you're in the category of all.
00:40:46.91\00:40:52.58
How many of us in
the category of all?
00:40:52.61\00:40:55.75
Everybody raise your
hand, all, we're all, all.
00:40:55.78\00:40:59.25
All.
00:40:59.32\00:41:00.82
Every person you see
driving on the street,
00:41:00.86\00:41:02.96
every person you
meet in the store
00:41:02.99\00:41:04.69
is in one of these
categories or the other, all.
00:41:04.73\00:41:08.50
As in Adam all die.
00:41:08.53\00:41:09.93
Now, man so far
00:41:09.96\00:41:13.94
has only been able to...
00:41:13.97\00:41:19.07
Let me use a different phrase,
00:41:19.14\00:41:20.48
funeral parlors
deal with the dead,
00:41:20.51\00:41:24.55
but they don't deal with death.
00:41:24.58\00:41:27.92
You follow?
00:41:27.95\00:41:29.38
A funeral director says,
00:41:29.45\00:41:33.02
"How would you like us
to handle your loved one?"
00:41:33.05\00:41:38.93
They're dealing with the dead,
00:41:38.96\00:41:41.00
but they can't do
anything about death.
00:41:41.03\00:41:44.37
So that's not the answer
because they too are in Adam,
00:41:44.40\00:41:48.87
even the funeral
director is in Adam.
00:41:48.90\00:41:51.67
One day, the funeral director...
00:41:51.71\00:41:54.94
There'll be a funeral
for the funeral director.
00:41:54.98\00:41:57.15
And here is the
point I want to make,
00:41:57.18\00:41:58.51
and this is really important
because I want to really build
00:41:58.55\00:42:00.62
a very solid foundation on this
00:42:00.65\00:42:02.98
is that unless we
are in the new category,
00:42:03.02\00:42:05.72
all shall be made alive,
00:42:05.75\00:42:08.36
then we are
hopelessly condemned at birth
00:42:08.39\00:42:11.43
to the all that are in Adam.
00:42:11.46\00:42:14.73
So what do you have to do
to be lost, somebody tell me?
00:42:14.76\00:42:18.67
Nothing.
00:42:18.70\00:42:20.07
Say it again?
00:42:20.10\00:42:21.44
Nothing.
00:42:21.47\00:42:22.80
You just have to
not want to be saved,
00:42:22.84\00:42:25.27
you don't have to do anything,
00:42:25.31\00:42:26.88
you could stand
here, and do nothing,
00:42:26.91\00:42:30.68
and you've
accomplished your demise.
00:42:30.71\00:42:32.45
Satan made an offer to Eve,
00:42:36.02\00:42:39.39
he represents the church,
00:42:39.42\00:42:40.76
Jesus is going to
make an offer later,
00:42:40.79\00:42:43.16
I'm going to show
you that, all right?
00:42:43.19\00:42:45.16
Let's go to the next
question, number eight.
00:42:45.19\00:42:48.23
Now are you ready?
00:42:54.87\00:42:56.20
Put on your snorkel gear,
00:42:56.24\00:42:58.01
we're going to
go in the water now,
00:42:58.04\00:43:00.14
and later on we're
going to put on our tanks.
00:43:00.18\00:43:03.45
But right now, we're going
to just get our snorkel gear on.
00:43:03.51\00:43:05.95
Here is the next question.
00:43:05.98\00:43:07.32
Where does sin have
its greatest impact?
00:43:07.35\00:43:12.79
Where does sin have
its greatest impact?
00:43:12.82\00:43:17.16
Okay, let's go ahead
and look at Romans 7.
00:43:17.19\00:43:21.53
Romans 7, by the way,
if you ever get a chance
00:43:21.56\00:43:24.20
to read all of Romans 7,
00:43:24.23\00:43:26.03
Romans 7 is not a book written
before Paul was converted,
00:43:26.07\00:43:31.41
Romans 7 is written
after his conversion.
00:43:31.44\00:43:34.88
But when you read
it, it sounds like
00:43:39.41\00:43:41.05
he's not converted
yet because he knows
00:43:41.08\00:43:45.49
there's nothing
wrong with God's law,
00:43:45.52\00:43:49.46
and he pinpoints the problem.
00:43:49.52\00:43:51.46
Let's go to Romans 7,
00:43:51.49\00:43:53.50
and we're going
to look at verse 17,
00:43:53.53\00:43:55.96
but I want to go
ahead and kind of add
00:43:56.03\00:43:59.23
some other components
because I know of verses
00:43:59.30\00:44:01.87
that I have not
included in my study,
00:44:01.90\00:44:05.34
so I'm going to just
start with verse 14, all right?
00:44:05.37\00:44:07.88
Let's start with verse 14,
we'll make our way down to 17,
00:44:07.91\00:44:11.05
and then you'll see that
if you're watching on at home,
00:44:11.08\00:44:13.68
you're watching,
see this on the screen.
00:44:13.72\00:44:15.72
Let's look at this,
00:44:15.75\00:44:17.09
"For we know that
the law is," what,
00:44:17.12\00:44:20.46
"spiritual," but
now look at this,
00:44:20.49\00:44:22.92
"but I am," what, "carnal,"
00:44:22.96\00:44:25.09
and what's the next
word, "sold under sin."
00:44:25.13\00:44:28.46
The terminology of the word
there Paul is using a slavery
00:44:28.50\00:44:32.37
that when they sold
people, they were slaves, sold.
00:44:32.40\00:44:36.47
He said, "And this
is the evidence of that.
00:44:36.50\00:44:39.24
For what I am doing,"
together, "I do not understand.
00:44:39.27\00:44:44.95
For what I will to do,
that I do not practice,
00:44:44.98\00:44:50.65
but what I hate,"
what's the three words,
00:44:50.69\00:44:53.42
"that I do.
00:44:53.46\00:44:55.76
If, then, I do
what I will not to do,
00:44:55.79\00:44:59.46
I agree with the law
that," it is what, "it is good."
00:44:59.49\00:45:03.70
But now let's get the answer,
00:45:03.73\00:45:05.47
where does sin have
its greatest impact.
00:45:05.50\00:45:08.24
Let's look at the
verse together and read it.
00:45:08.27\00:45:10.67
"But it is no longer
I who do it," together,
00:45:10.71\00:45:14.08
"but sin that dwells," where,
00:45:14.11\00:45:18.08
"in me, in me."
00:45:18.11\00:45:22.52
I said a moment
ago sin is like mice
00:45:22.55\00:45:24.39
when they get into the house...
00:45:24.42\00:45:26.96
Sin is like
termites when they work...
00:45:27.02\00:45:31.06
They eats you
from the inside out.
00:45:31.09\00:45:33.80
And so what I
want you to put down
00:45:37.83\00:45:40.44
next to this answer,
00:45:40.47\00:45:43.24
question number
eight, write this down,
00:45:43.27\00:45:45.37
sin is an enslaving power,
00:45:45.41\00:45:49.81
sin is an enslaving power,
00:45:49.88\00:45:53.35
it enslaves you
because Paul says,
00:45:53.38\00:45:56.82
"It is no longer I who do it,
00:45:56.85\00:46:00.69
but sin that dwells in me."
00:46:00.72\00:46:04.56
He says, "I'm not
doing this, sin is doing it."
00:46:04.59\00:46:10.57
Because he says, "What
I want to do, I can't do,
00:46:10.60\00:46:12.43
what I don't
want to do, I do that.
00:46:12.47\00:46:14.97
Sin is at work, it's doing it,
00:46:15.00\00:46:17.37
it's no longer I who do it
but sin that dwells in me."
00:46:17.41\00:46:21.74
Now let's go to number nine.
00:46:21.78\00:46:25.11
We'll get a few more
before the program ends tonight.
00:46:25.15\00:46:27.85
All right.
00:46:27.88\00:46:29.72
Question number nine.
00:46:29.75\00:46:33.62
Why are we incapable
00:46:33.69\00:46:38.39
of producing righteousness?
00:46:38.43\00:46:40.86
Why are we incapable
00:46:40.90\00:46:43.70
of producing righteousness?
00:46:43.73\00:46:47.04
The word incapable
means, what, incapable.
00:46:47.07\00:46:51.17
You can't do it.
00:46:51.21\00:46:53.07
It's like given a
blind man a bat and say,
00:46:53.11\00:46:55.44
"Hit a home run,
we need a home run."
00:46:55.48\00:46:58.51
He can't do it. He can't do it.
00:46:58.55\00:47:01.52
Incapable.
00:47:01.55\00:47:02.88
Now let me make a
point as you go to the text,
00:47:02.95\00:47:04.39
the text by the
way, is Romans 3:23.
00:47:04.42\00:47:07.39
While you're going there...
00:47:07.42\00:47:08.76
And let me just tell you this,
00:47:08.79\00:47:10.16
this is why
00:47:10.19\00:47:14.13
you should never say
to people just do it.
00:47:14.20\00:47:16.06
That's the Nike
commercial, that's a Nike...
00:47:20.04\00:47:22.90
Just do it.
00:47:22.94\00:47:24.27
No, Paul wanted to
just do it, but he said,
00:47:24.31\00:47:27.84
"I can't because
it is not I who do it
00:47:27.88\00:47:31.41
but sin that dwells in me."
00:47:31.45\00:47:33.72
He said, "Just do it."
00:47:33.75\00:47:36.69
And then some people
are taught just try harder,
00:47:36.72\00:47:39.22
if you just try harder,
if you put your mind to it...
00:47:39.25\00:47:44.06
I'm telling you
according to the scriptures,
00:47:44.09\00:47:45.43
it doesn't work.
00:47:45.46\00:47:46.80
And here's the reason
why, why are we incapable
00:47:46.83\00:47:48.36
of producing righteousness?
00:47:48.40\00:47:49.76
Here's the first
answer Romans 3:23, together,
00:47:49.83\00:47:54.54
"For all have,"
what, "sinned and," what,
00:47:54.57\00:47:57.24
"fall short of
the glory of God."
00:47:57.27\00:48:00.21
You know what that
means, it doesn't mean
00:48:00.24\00:48:01.81
that you just fall
short of the glory of God,
00:48:01.84\00:48:04.68
it means you are
incapable naturally
00:48:04.71\00:48:06.92
to even reflect His glory.
00:48:06.95\00:48:08.95
So you know what it's like,
00:48:08.98\00:48:10.32
it's like
polishing a car that's rusty.
00:48:10.39\00:48:15.46
Why would you put
polish on a car that's rusting?
00:48:15.49\00:48:20.00
It's at the point
where it is incapable
00:48:20.03\00:48:22.53
to reflect any
more light, it's rusted.
00:48:22.56\00:48:25.87
Sin makes us rusty.
00:48:25.90\00:48:27.80
And so when he says,
00:48:27.84\00:48:29.17
"Fall short of
the glory of God,"
00:48:29.20\00:48:30.57
I look deeper into this because
00:48:30.61\00:48:32.24
what I used to think before
and what I thought before was
00:48:32.27\00:48:35.28
sin makes you take a big leap,
00:48:35.31\00:48:37.28
and you fall short
like by three inches
00:48:37.31\00:48:40.02
or five inches or maybe a foot.
00:48:40.08\00:48:42.08
That's not what it means.
00:48:42.12\00:48:43.55
It means you are incapable
00:48:43.59\00:48:45.32
of even
reflecting the glory of God.
00:48:45.35\00:48:47.76
Go with me to Isaiah 60.
00:48:47.79\00:48:49.26
Let me show you
the opposite of that.
00:48:49.29\00:48:52.16
Isaiah 60, we're not going
to look at the next text yet,
00:48:52.19\00:48:54.60
but let me show
you the difference.
00:48:54.63\00:48:57.73
Let me show you the converse
to that, the converse of that.
00:48:57.77\00:49:01.94
Okay, Isaiah 60.
00:49:01.97\00:49:03.47
Okay, now when you can't...
00:49:06.54\00:49:09.64
All sinned and fall
short of the glory of God.
00:49:09.71\00:49:12.31
And by the way, this
is where we're headed,
00:49:12.35\00:49:14.28
this is where we're headed,
00:49:14.32\00:49:15.88
this is where
our ultimate aim is,
00:49:15.92\00:49:18.09
this is where
God wants us to be.
00:49:18.12\00:49:19.92
Isaiah 60:1, it says, "Arise,"
what's the next word, "shine,
00:49:19.95\00:49:24.69
for your light has come.
00:49:24.73\00:49:27.60
And the glory of the
Lord is risen upon you.
00:49:27.60\00:49:32.33
For behold, the
darkness shall cover the earth,
00:49:32.37\00:49:35.04
and deep darkness the people.
00:49:35.07\00:49:37.24
But the Lord
will arise over you,
00:49:37.27\00:49:40.11
and His glory
will be seen upon you."
00:49:40.14\00:49:42.18
Can you say amen to that?
00:49:42.21\00:49:43.88
So when it says, we fall
short of the glory of God.
00:49:43.91\00:49:46.55
That's our present situation,
but God is giving us hope,
00:49:46.58\00:49:49.32
and this verse saying,
00:49:49.35\00:49:51.05
one day you're
going to be able to
00:49:51.09\00:49:52.42
"Arise, and shine,
for your light has come!
00:49:52.45\00:49:54.82
And the glory of the
Lord will be risen upon you.
00:49:54.86\00:49:57.26
And the glory of God
will be seen on you."
00:49:57.29\00:50:00.13
So how do you get from
falling short of the glory
00:50:00.16\00:50:02.43
to the glory of
God being seen on you?
00:50:02.46\00:50:04.70
That's what we're studying.
00:50:04.73\00:50:07.27
Because you know what,
00:50:07.30\00:50:08.70
we have all
sinned and fallen short
00:50:08.74\00:50:10.87
at various times in our lives,
00:50:10.91\00:50:12.84
but my desire is I
want the glory of God
00:50:12.87\00:50:17.15
to be seen in me.
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Help us, Jesus.
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Psalm 51:5 on question number 9.
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Psalm 51:5 is a
second reason why we know
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we are incapable of
producing righteousness, okay?
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So we know that
it's going to happen
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because the Lord says,
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"The glory of the
Lord has risen upon you,
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the glory of God
will be seen on you."
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But until that happens,
we meet Him as a rusty car,
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we all fall short of
the glory, all right?
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Here it is.
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Psalm 51:5, why we're incapable,
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here's what the screen says.
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"Behold, I was
brought forth in," what,
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"iniquity,
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and in sin my
mother," what, "conceived me."
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I looked into this passage more.
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It was not talking
about an illegitimate birth,
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it was talking about
illegitimate circumstances,
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it was talking about
an illegitimate world.
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You were born into a world
that's just laced in iniquity,
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you're born into a
world that's laced in sin,
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that's the
situation you were born into.
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Why? Because your dad is Adam.
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Sorry, our father is Adam.
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You were born
into that situation
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because that's the best
your mother could have done.
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Let me tell you, the reason
why it's using the word mother
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is because you need a man
and a woman to make a child.
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Adam seed transmits sin,
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so the best the mother
could do is bring out a baby
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to just like the
seed the father planted.
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Did you follow that?
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The reason why this
child comes out in iniquity
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and comes out in sin is because
that's the seed Adam put there.
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So when we say,
"Brother from another mother."
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Let me give you the good news,
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we all don't
have the same mother.
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Can we say amen?
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Also it would be brothers
and sisters legitimately,
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but we all have the same father.
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His name is Adam, until...
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We're going to talk
about the until, right?
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So this text is saying
when you come into the world,
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the seed of sin from Adam
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no matter what
mother you come out of
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that same nature is transmitted
from thousands of years ago,
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that's why the
first seed of Adam Abel,
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the second seed of Adam Cain.
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What did Cain do?
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Killed Abel.
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From the very
beginning that nature of Adam
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was being displayed
throughout humanity.
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It didn't eventually develop,
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murder was, didn't
just eventually develop
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that was in the seed
from the very beginning.
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So the answer is,
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why are we incapable of
producing righteousness,
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what answer did you put?
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Ha?
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Sin and iniquity is
in the very atmosphere
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in the world
that we were born in.
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Put that in your own terms,
put that in your own terms,
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or you could say simply this,
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"We all fall
short of God's glory."
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That's another way of...
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That's the whole
scripture of Romans 3:23.
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Okay, now let's
go to the next one.
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Romans 3:23.
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Now based on the clock,
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we might not get
to the next five,
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but we've got next
week if God gives us life,
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all right?
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Number 10, here it is.
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How does the Bible further
describe the effects of sin?
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How does the Bible further
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describe the effects of sin?
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We all know this one by heart,
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so I'll just go
ahead and give you this
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as extra credit, are you ready?
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"For the wages of
sin is," what, "death,
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but the gift of God
is," what, "eternal life,"
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and there it is,
again, the qualifier,
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"in Christ Jesus our Lord."
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The Lord doesn't
just give you a gift,
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He's got to get you
out of Adam into Christ.
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You don't just get the gift,
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the gift is not
given where you are,
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the gift is given to get
you out of Adam into Christ.
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As in Adam all
die, even so in Christ.
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You want to get
that theme together.
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Eternal life in
Christ, as in Adam all die,
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even so in Christ
all shall be made alive.
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This text is
showing the shall be.
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The shall be is a gift.
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Now when you come
to the realization
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that the Lord loves us so much
He wants to give us that gift,
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He didn't say, "I want
to sell you that gift."
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He says, "I want to
give you that gift."
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When I was doing this lesson,
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I had a chance to study
this lesson with someone,
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I had a chance to talk
about a lesson with my wife.
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When I want to
contemplate this lesson, again,
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I couldn't hardly talk about it,
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it fill my eyes with tears.
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We're eating dinner,
last night, Indian food.
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And the lady kept
coming over to the table,
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"Is everything okay?"
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And I kept saying, "You don't
want to come over here now,
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I'm having a moment?
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I'm wiping my eyes,
I'm thinking of this gift,
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and I'm saying, "I'm so glad,
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He's giving us this gift
because I can't afford it."
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And secondly, I
don't deserve it.
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Salvation is not
because we deserve it.
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Salvation is
because Jesus loves us.
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He sees us all...
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Can you imagine
the assembly line of...
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I don't know how many
people were born today,
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but every one of
them that were born today
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were born in Adam.
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There's only one way
out and that's in Christ.
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But the world
does such a good job
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to keep us distracted.
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Write this down very carefully.
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How does the Bible further
describe the effects of sin?
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Death.
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We're going to end on that note
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because we're going to
come back on the next study
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and show how do
we get out of death
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into the gift of eternal life.
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It's beautiful.
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So I'm saying to you,
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the gift that Jesus
has come to offer us,
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we can't afford
it, we can't buy it,
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we can't work
for it, it's a gift.
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We're going to talk about
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how He made that gift available.
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But let me ask you the question,
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aren't you glad
the gift is available?
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Can I get an amen?
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This gift is
available for every one of you
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watching this
program, including us.
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And so, friends, if
you stay in God's Word,
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and you stay in Christ,
keep on studying God's Word.
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And if it doesn't
make sense, let me promise,
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one day as you keep studying,
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it will come
into A Sharper Focus.
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God bless you.
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