Hello, hello and
welcome to our Wednesday night
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Bible study here at
the 3ABN Worship Centre.
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This is A Sharper Focus
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and we would like to welcome you
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with a hearty amen.
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Can we all say amen? Amen.
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Good to have you here.
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We are going to
continue our study on,
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"The Anatomy of Righteousness."
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And we thank you for
taking the time to tune in.
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In just a moment I'll tell you
how to get a copy of the lesson
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where you can download a copy,
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but what you
need for this program
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is a Bible and a pen
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and we'll let you
know in just a movement
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how to get a copy of the lesson.
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But before we go any further,
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we always like to
begin with a word of prayer.
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Let's pray.
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Loving Father in heaven,
thank You for the opportunity,
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the topic is important, Lord,
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we're talking about
the nemeses of humanity
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which is sin
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and we pray that
You will guide us
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and strengthen us
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as our eyes are
tuned to Your Word,
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as our ears are
tuned to Your voice,
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the Holy Spirit speaking to us.
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Give us the
strength we need Father
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to not only hear
but to live in harmony
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with what You
revealed to us we pray,
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in Jesus' name, amen.
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Now, we all have a theme song
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and by the way
if you like to know
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where to get a
copy of the lesson,
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go to this website asf.3abn.org
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that's asharperfocus.3abn.org.
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Download lesson
number 38, lesson number 38.
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And if you did it last week,
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we have some
additional questions
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which you will need to continue
to follow us with this lesson.
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Now after that, we'd
like to sing our theme song
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and our theme song
is, Victory in Jesus.
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Let's sing this
song together tonight.
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I heard an old, old story
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How the 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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Together.
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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.
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Amen? Amen.
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What we all need
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as that song has just
illustrated is victory.
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What is that word?
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Victory. Victory.
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You don't join a losing team
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and nobody
celebrates when the team loses
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and in the very same
way, we can all celebrate
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because we have
victory in Jesus.
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Now this topic particularly
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as I mentioned
caught my attention,
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as I was studying
and I thought, you know,
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what is our
greatest enemy in the world?
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And our greatest
enemy is not war,
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not rumors of war, not plagues,
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not the economy, not terrorism,
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our greatest enemy is
S-I-N and what is that?
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Sin.
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Because that's the only
thing, sin is the only thing
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that can prevent
us from being saved.
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Sin is the only
thing that can hinder us
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from making the kingdom.
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And so when you
think of something
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so vitally important
and you understand it
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as clearly as the
Bible communicates it,
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you've got to ask
yourself the question.
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How could something so
important be overlooked?
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How could it be a topic that
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happens to roll out somewhere
along the way when in fact,
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it is the one topic
that if clearly understood,
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it brings us to the place
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where we can
find victory in Jesus.
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Now, I want to
describe Jesus' mission
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before we go any further,
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before we dive
into our questions.
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Open your Bibles
with me to Matthew 1,
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to Matthew 1.
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Okay.
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Matthew 1.
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Now it is clearly obvious
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that when sin entered the world,
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we were all
caught in a quandary,
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a quandary that
means an unsolvable riddle,
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something that we did
not have the answer for,
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but Jesus had the answer for it.
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And although
2000 years had passed
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by the time Jesus came
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to begin His earthly
mission and ministry.
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He didn't lose the focus
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that was the key
element of his mission,
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and it was
described when Mary was told
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what name to give her child.
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Matthew 1:21,
let's look at that,
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Matthew 1:21 after
the genealogy, we read,
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"And she will bring forth a Son,
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and you shall call
His name, together, Jesus,
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for He will do" what?
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Give me some
energy, for he will do what?
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"Save His people
from their sins."
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He saves them from
the things they do,
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but sin is even
deeper than the things we do.
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It's deeper than
the things we do.
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If you had a dog that bit
you four days in the week,
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would you keep him?
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When you couldn't predict
when he's going to bite you,
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you really wouldn't.
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If you saw those
signs and I've seen them
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before dog on
duty five days a week,
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guess which five?
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Have you ever
seen that sign before?
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People put those up,
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you don't really
approach the fence
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because you don't know what day
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it's going to be on guard
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and they say
vicious dog or mean dog,
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and they put a sign
there never of a poodle
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but always some
mean looking dog.
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Sin is deeper than S-I-N-S,
those are the things we do.
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Now go with me
to John 1, John 1.
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Sin is the things we do.
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But sin is deeper than that.
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I think last week I
showed you a picture
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of a good tree and a bad tree,
good fruit and rotten fruit.
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And the fruit are
rotten if the roots are bad.
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The problem
always is at the root.
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In what we just
read in Matthew 1:21,
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those are the fruit.
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But John 1:29 is
the root, look at this.
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Call his name Jesus but
now, he had another name,
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he had another designation.
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"The next day John saw Jesus
coming toward him, and said,
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" let's read that
together with some oomph.
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What did he say?
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"Behold!
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The Lamb of God
who takes away" what?
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"The sin of the world!"
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He takes away the sin, singular.
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He doesn't say
sins, sins are plural.
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The sin is singular,
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so if you were to
narrow down one sin
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that could
condemn all of humanity,
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what sin would it be?
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Which one would you pick?
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And I'm going to describe to you
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exactly what that sin is.
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Which one would you pick?
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Let's go to
question number seven.
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Let's go to
question number seven.
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Which one would you pick?
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You'll probably rack your brains
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to figure out which one,
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which one sin could
condemn all of humanity,
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which one would you pick?
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Okay. Here's the question.
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How does the Bible
describe the impact?
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Question number
seven on the screen.
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How does the Bible describe
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the impact of
the sin of one man?
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Let's look at
this, 1 Corinthians 15:22
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and since it is on the screen
I'll read in your hearing,
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the Bible says,
"For as in Adam..."
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how many of us?
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"All die, even so in
Christ" how many of us?
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"All shall be made alive."
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Now I want you to get this,
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all on the left,
all on the right,
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if you are an in
Adam how many die?
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All.
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If you are in
Christ, how many live?
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All.
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But notice the
text there it says,
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"All shall be made alive."
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And what in
essence is being said here
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is until Christ
came as the Lamb of God,
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The Lamb is the one
that takes away the sin.
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What was a lamb used for?
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The lamb was used for
the sacrificial system,
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the ceremonial services in
order for sin to be forgiven
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the lamb's blood had to be shed
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where there is no
shedding or spilling of blood,
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there is no
remission or reversing of sin.
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So the lamb had to come in
that designation the who...
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What His mission is was
described in Matthew 1:21.
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How that mission is
going to be described
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or how that mission is
going to be accomplished
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was described in John 1:29.
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He's coming as the lamb.
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He's coming as the lamb.
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Now, it wouldn't
make any sense for him
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to be described as a lion
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because they never use a
lion in the temple services.
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But they did use the lamb.
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And they used what kind of lamb?
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What kind of lamb was it?
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Spotless lamb,
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without any
wrinkle, without any defect,
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so when they used the word lamb,
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when the Bible uses
the word lamb, it says,
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here is His mission
but here is His function.
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He's functioning as the lamb.
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He has to spill His blood,
and when His blood is spilled.
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When you think
about sin and I study this
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and when you
think about the lamb,
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you see the, the
offender was to bring the lamb
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to the temple.
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And he was given a bowl
and he was given a knife
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as the priest stood
there and held the lamb.
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And then he was
told to take that knife
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and slit the throat of the lamb,
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but not just to slit his throat,
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to hold the bowl
under the throat of the lamb
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as the blood
poured into the bowl,
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and he was told to keep his eyes
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fixed on the lamb.
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Look to me and be saved.
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Fix his eyes on the lamb
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until the blood
as it's shedding out,
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as it's pouring out,
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the lamb...
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flickers until
there's no more life in him
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and he falls dead to the ground.
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How do you think
that person felt?
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Can't even describe it?
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Spotless little
lamb didn't do anything.
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And he takes him
to his place of death.
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But even more ignominious
than the death of the Lamb
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was the continuation
of the existence of sin.
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And I want to put this
in the proper perspective,
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the lamb had to die,
but even more ignominious,
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more diabolical than
the death of the lamb
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was the
continued existence of sin,
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because the
wages of sin is death.
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Somebody had to die.
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And in the economy,
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in the transition
of this entire function
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there were only two
choices as in Adam all die,
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Jesus could have
said, you guys died
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because you're the
ones out of the sinners.
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Or I die to save my
people from their sin,
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Matthew 1:21
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so "For God so loved the world
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that He gave His
all only begotten Son."
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The only lamb is the Son of God.
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"That whosoever believeth
in Him should not perish,
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but have everlasting life."
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You know the rest but
I want to focus on the,
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should not perish.
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Jesus decided that He was
going to perish instead of us.
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And when I thought about
that, when I think about that,
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it really, it really
brings you to a broken place,
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meaning a sorrow for sin
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and then a determination
by his indwelling spirit
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not to live in
that kind of life.
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Not to live there
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because every
time, every time we sin,
00:14:45.68\00:14:49.05
we crucify the
Son of God afresh,
00:14:49.08\00:14:52.39
when we live a
life in determents.
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And I'm not
talking about stumbling
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but living a life
in intentional sin,
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and so Jesus came
and the text says,
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for as an Adam,
how many of us die?
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All die, so put that down,
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how does the Bible
describe the impact of sin,
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the sin of one
man, how many die?
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All die.
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Now we're going to come
back to this verse later on
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because the
impact of one man's sin
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and the impact of
one man's righteousness,
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there's no comparison.
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The impact of one man's sin
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can never supersede the impact
of one man's righteousness,
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that's the good
news but, but let's look,
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let's go further.
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Let's go to
question number eight.
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Go to question number eight.
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Where does sin have
its greatest impact?
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Where does sin have
its greatest impact?
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Look at that and
we're going to Romans 7:17.
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Romans 7 is a book
that was written in harmony
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with Paul's conversion.
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Romans 7 was not written
before Paul's conversion,
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it was written
after Paul's conversion,
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and the reason I mentioned that
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is because Paul
outlines his struggle
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when all of a sudden
he becomes fully aware
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that there's a speed limit.
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When he becomes fully
aware that there's a law
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that he's now
living in violation of.
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You know, when you live
in violation of the law,
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you don't walk around
with a clear conscience.
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When you know that
you're a bank robber,
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you don't hang
out at the coffee shop
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where police have lunch, right?
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When you know
you're a wanted man,
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you don't hang
out in visible places.
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When you know you've
done something wrong,
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you try your best to
do like your fore parents,
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Adam and Eve, you want to hide.
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But, when the analysis is taken,
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when the diagnosis comes
forth, how does this happen?
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Remember as in
Adam, how many die?
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Okay.
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When we come forth
with the spiritual diagnosis
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of how sin keeps
permeating itself,
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how it keeps
going, how it keeps alive,
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this text answers the
question very carefully.
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Where does sin have
its greatest impact?
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Romans 7:17. Let's
look at this together.
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Paul says, "But now it
is no longer I who do it"
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but what?
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Sin that dwells" where?
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"In me."
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Have you...
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I've met people
that have had diagnoses,
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they've said, "I
was just diagnosed
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with a brain tumor."
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"Well, I was diagnosed
with a small spot on my liver."
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Or I was diagnosed with...
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There's a shadow they
don't know what it is.
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You know, that's
the most fearful thing
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in all of us because
we know what it could be.
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We think of the big
C word and what's that?
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Cancer.
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Once we... Oh,
they found something.
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I remember being
under the care of doctors
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here in Southern
Illinois that we found a little,
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little tiny thing in your lung,
00:17:50.47\00:17:52.77
we're going to
watch it for two years,
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I just need to say
after October last year
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I have been
cleared because he said,
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it's just an artifact,
it's some kind of anomaly,
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it hasn't moved,
it hasn't changed,
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its shape hasn't moved,
00:18:06.25\00:18:07.58
it hasn't gotten
bigger or smaller,
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it's some anomaly
and those are not unusual
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for there to be some
kind of calcification
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in the human body, and
I said, thank you Jesus.
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Because when you have...
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When cancer shows up
anywhere, you know, you know,
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that you are no
longer in control,
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I'm using this illustration.
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You know, you are no longer
in control because Paul says,
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sin that dwells where, in me,
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and then all of a sudden
you go through all the...
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Well, I need to
change my regimen.
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I need to take this medication.
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I need to eat this
way, live this way.
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I need to avoid
that. I need to take that.
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We start meandering in
the maze of what do we do
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to remedy the situation.
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When heaven looked at us,
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I want to give you
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the beautiful good
news tonight on this text.
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When heaven looked at us,
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heaven saw that we were all born
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with a cancer
cell in every one of us
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and that cancer
cell is spelled S-I-N.
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What is it called?
00:19:05.51\00:19:06.84
Sin, it dwells in us.
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So Jesus, the master physician
comes with a diagnosis.
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The diagnosis is as in
Adam, you're all going to die.
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But I'm coming as
the master physician
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to give you the remedy
and the remedy is my blood.
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When the blood is
applied sin is reversed.
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But what I want
you to see carefully
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as we could do nothing about
the sin or the cancer in us,
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we can't emotionally do anything
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about the sin in us,
00:19:29.93\00:19:31.63
because it's no
longer I who do it but what?
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Sin that dwells in me.
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So where does sin
have its greatest impact?
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Put these two
words, in me, in me.
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Not in society, but in me.
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Not in society.
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Not in society.
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And as much as we
would like to say,
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well, it's the air we breathe,
it's the water we drink.
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I know people that live
completely healthy lives,
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and they still get
some kind of disease,
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that's the lot of
humanity, sin entered the world.
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Now, let's look at
question number where?
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Question number what?
00:20:06.74\00:20:08.14
Question number nine. Okay.
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Why are we incapable of
producing righteousness?
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Romans 3:23.
00:20:17.11\00:20:18.61
Romans is a
tremendous book to remain in.
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Romans 3:23.
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Look at it.
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Romans 3:23.
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Wow.
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And once again we're
going to see some words
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that seem to be
repetitious, okay.
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What is it?
00:20:36.93\00:20:38.27
For how many of us?
00:20:38.30\00:20:40.47
"All have sinned and do what?
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Falls short of
the glory of God."
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Now why do we...
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When you look at a baby,
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do you think of
a baby as a sinner?
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A baby hasn't committed S-I-N-S
00:20:51.41\00:20:54.78
but a baby is in S-I-N.
00:20:54.82\00:20:59.15
For Adam passed
on to you and to you
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and to me and all of
us this nature called sin.
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So when the Bible says,
that Jesus became sin for us,
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it didn't say
Jesus became sins for us,
00:21:12.77\00:21:16.24
because if Jesus
became sins for us,
00:21:16.27\00:21:19.37
He can never be our savior.
00:21:19.41\00:21:21.08
So what did He do?
00:21:21.11\00:21:22.71
Let's answer the question here.
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Romans 6:23, write that down,
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why are we incapable of
producing righteousness?
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The first answer is why?
00:21:30.75\00:21:32.55
All have sinned.
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If you can put it another
way, we all have Adam's nature,
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and then one more, one more.
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Psalm 51:5.
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Psalm 51:5, look
at the scripture.
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Look at the scripture.
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And the Bible says,
00:21:48.14\00:21:50.54
"Behold, I was
brought forth in" what?
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"Iniquity and in sin
my mother conceived me."
00:21:54.64\00:22:00.15
This passage is not
talking about an unwed mother.
00:22:00.22\00:22:04.85
This passage is
saying, when we are born,
00:22:04.89\00:22:07.69
we are born in a
world of iniquity,
00:22:07.72\00:22:10.63
we are born in a world of
sin, in sin she conceived me.
00:22:10.66\00:22:15.80
In other words,
that's the entrance,
00:22:15.83\00:22:17.17
when we came in,
00:22:17.23\00:22:18.57
the moment you
took your first breath,
00:22:18.60\00:22:21.10
we were all in S-I-N.
00:22:21.14\00:22:24.21
We're all in what? Sin.
00:22:24.27\00:22:26.44
A baby is
completely innocent of S-I-N-S,
00:22:26.47\00:22:29.01
you cannot prosecute a child
when all that child wants to do
00:22:29.04\00:22:32.05
is eat and sleep and have
his or her diapers change.
00:22:32.08\00:22:34.95
They have done nothing wrong.
00:22:34.98\00:22:36.58
But given time if you
don't train that child
00:22:36.65\00:22:39.69
in the way he or she should go,
00:22:39.72\00:22:41.09
when they get
older what happens?
00:22:41.12\00:22:43.43
Then you start seeing
the S-I-N turn into S-I-N-S,
00:22:43.49\00:22:49.30
then you start seeing
00:22:49.33\00:22:50.70
the nature begin
to act itself out
00:22:50.73\00:22:52.43
because the nature takes over.
00:22:52.47\00:22:54.60
Have you seen unruly
children in Wal-Mart?
00:22:54.64\00:22:57.97
Come on talk to me.
00:22:58.01\00:22:59.47
Have you seen them anywhere?
00:22:59.51\00:23:01.51
Man, I tell you when a child...
00:23:01.54\00:23:03.85
I've seen children that
stare their mothers down
00:23:03.88\00:23:06.21
and tell them what
they're not going to
00:23:06.25\00:23:07.98
and they yell, "I hate you."
00:23:08.02\00:23:10.62
You know, why they say that?
That is the nature of Adam.
00:23:10.69\00:23:15.72
I hate, they don't
say, I dislike you, mom.
00:23:15.76\00:23:20.00
They go to the word that
a little child you wonder
00:23:20.03\00:23:23.16
where did he or
she get that word from?
00:23:23.20\00:23:25.67
It's in the nature,
it's there, it comes out
00:23:25.70\00:23:28.34
when the child
doesn't get his or her way.
00:23:28.37\00:23:30.67
I hate.
00:23:30.71\00:23:34.28
So the answer to this
one is according to this,
00:23:34.31\00:23:37.31
did you all put
your answers down.
00:23:37.35\00:23:39.05
We were all born in an
atmosphere of iniquity.
00:23:39.08\00:23:41.78
We were all born
into a world of sin.
00:23:41.82\00:23:44.15
The moment you
took your first breath,
00:23:44.19\00:23:46.02
you were condemned,
00:23:46.05\00:23:47.52
you were born
into a circumstance,
00:23:47.56\00:23:50.69
in a situation that the only one
00:23:50.73\00:23:52.43
that can remedy that is who?
00:23:52.46\00:23:54.63
Jesus, only Christ.
00:23:54.66\00:23:56.70
Let's go even
further. Let's build our case.
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Question number
ten. Question number ten.
00:23:59.57\00:24:02.20
I think that's where we
ended on our last study,
00:24:02.24\00:24:04.34
but just for the
benefit of those of you
00:24:04.37\00:24:05.71
who were not here,
00:24:05.74\00:24:07.08
I drew back a little
bit to earlier questions.
00:24:07.11\00:24:09.14
Question number ten.
00:24:09.18\00:24:10.75
How does the
Bible further describe
00:24:10.78\00:24:13.45
the effects of sin?
00:24:13.52\00:24:15.52
Since you all
know this text so well,
00:24:15.55\00:24:16.99
I just not hold
out on you, Roman 6:23,
00:24:17.02\00:24:20.99
let's read this together,
"The wages of sin is" what?
00:24:21.02\00:24:24.79
"Death, but the
gift of God is" what?
00:24:24.83\00:24:27.60
"Eternal life in
Christ Jesus our Lord."
00:24:27.60\00:24:30.53
Now, what I like about a couple
of the text we read so far,
00:24:30.57\00:24:33.50
I like all the texts
but the illustrative point
00:24:33.54\00:24:35.80
I want to make is in,
00:24:35.84\00:24:37.37
in 1 Corinthians
15:22 the Bible says
00:24:37.41\00:24:40.34
as in Adam all die,
but it didn't end there,
00:24:40.38\00:24:42.64
it says even so in
Christ all shall be made alive."
00:24:42.68\00:24:45.45
Then Romans 6:23, "For
the wages of sin is death,
00:24:45.48\00:24:48.58
and then but the gift
of God is eternal life."
00:24:48.62\00:24:50.75
Wherever sin is
revealed, Christ is revealed.
00:24:50.79\00:24:55.82
And notice what it
didn't say, it didn't say,
00:24:55.86\00:24:58.63
it didn't say all
shall be made alive
00:24:58.66\00:25:01.46
but as in Adam all die.
00:25:01.50\00:25:04.17
It showed you the problem
and it showed you the remedy.
00:25:04.20\00:25:09.14
It didn't say the
gift of God is eternal life
00:25:09.17\00:25:11.07
but the wages of sin is death.
00:25:11.11\00:25:13.68
The Bible always
accentuates the positive.
00:25:13.71\00:25:15.98
Can you say amen to that?
00:25:16.01\00:25:17.35
It shows you your condition
then it shows you the remedy.
00:25:17.38\00:25:20.32
It doesn't say,
here's the remedy
00:25:20.35\00:25:22.15
but you're messed up.
00:25:22.18\00:25:25.35
Amen?
00:25:25.39\00:25:26.96
It says, I know
you're messed up,
00:25:26.99\00:25:28.86
but here's the remedy.
00:25:28.89\00:25:31.39
It's like one of those, I
have good news and bad news
00:25:31.43\00:25:33.90
and what do we often say?
00:25:33.93\00:25:35.23
What do we often say?
What do you want first?
00:25:35.26\00:25:36.73
The good news or
bad news, you want what?
00:25:36.77\00:25:40.40
Well, you ought to
switch that around,
00:25:40.44\00:25:42.67
get the bad news first,
00:25:42.70\00:25:44.44
you don't want the last thing
to be bad news, am I right?
00:25:44.47\00:25:48.11
Okay, what's the worst of it?
00:25:48.14\00:25:50.61
Okay, what's the best of it?
00:25:50.65\00:25:52.38
I feel better.
00:25:52.41\00:25:54.12
Don't ask for the bad news last.
00:25:54.18\00:25:56.02
Let the bad news go.
00:25:56.05\00:25:57.39
I wish the news
reporters would say
00:25:57.45\00:25:59.42
instead of there's
a 40% chance of rain,
00:25:59.45\00:26:01.29
I wish they would say,
00:26:01.32\00:26:02.66
there's a 60%
chance of sunshine, right.
00:26:02.69\00:26:07.40
Think positively.
00:26:07.46\00:26:08.80
You know, we
have a, coming up here
00:26:08.83\00:26:12.00
with a horrible season,
00:26:12.03\00:26:13.37
we don't know what
season it is anyway.
00:26:13.44\00:26:16.14
When there is spring,
00:26:16.17\00:26:17.51
the next day it's almost summer,
00:26:17.54\00:26:18.91
the flowers bud and
then they want to die,
00:26:18.94\00:26:20.61
then they want to hide and
then they want to come out.
00:26:20.68\00:26:22.61
It's like almost
summer, no jacket,
00:26:22.64\00:26:24.75
but then snow is
forecast in a few days,
00:26:24.78\00:26:27.88
I hope it doesn't happen.
00:26:27.92\00:26:30.19
Because, because
even nature itself
00:26:30.22\00:26:31.95
is going through
this discombobulated
00:26:31.99\00:26:35.16
almost
arrhythmia of what do we do?
00:26:35.19\00:26:38.23
We don't have any
control of our environment
00:26:38.26\00:26:40.70
and that's what sin does,
00:26:40.73\00:26:42.03
sin takes the
control of your environment
00:26:42.06\00:26:43.43
out of your hand.
00:26:43.47\00:26:44.80
So write that down, how
do we further describe...
00:26:44.83\00:26:46.30
How does the
Bible further describe
00:26:46.33\00:26:47.67
the effect of sin?
00:26:47.70\00:26:49.04
Simply with one word
death, one word death.
00:26:49.07\00:26:53.88
Now, let's go to number 11.
00:26:53.94\00:26:57.91
Let's go to number 11.
00:26:57.95\00:27:00.85
One was producing righteousness,
00:27:00.88\00:27:03.02
the other one is producing good.
00:27:03.05\00:27:06.65
All right.
00:27:06.69\00:27:08.29
Almost the same question,
00:27:08.32\00:27:10.29
but a little different
approach I'm going to take.
00:27:10.36\00:27:13.36
All right question number 11.
00:27:13.43\00:27:16.26
How do we know
00:27:16.30\00:27:17.90
that we are not
capable of producing good?
00:27:17.93\00:27:22.10
Now there's a reason I want
you to go to Matthew 7:17, 18.
00:27:22.14\00:27:25.54
This is the text
that says to you,
00:27:25.57\00:27:27.64
when you meet a person
that doesn't know Jesus,
00:27:27.68\00:27:30.25
don't insist
that they live right.
00:27:30.28\00:27:32.95
Look at me.
00:27:32.98\00:27:34.45
When you meet a person
that does not know Jesus
00:27:34.48\00:27:36.69
regardless of their age,
don't say, you know, better.
00:27:36.72\00:27:39.62
They might
intellectually know better,
00:27:44.43\00:27:45.96
but they can't do better.
00:27:45.99\00:27:48.96
Here's a reason why?
00:27:49.00\00:27:50.67
Matthew 7:17, 18
you all are there?
00:27:50.73\00:27:55.77
Here it is,
00:27:55.80\00:27:57.67
"Even so every,
together, good tree bears" what?
00:27:57.71\00:28:03.58
"Good fruit, but a
bad tree bears" what?
00:28:03.61\00:28:07.38
"Bad fruit."
Now here is the law.
00:28:07.45\00:28:10.02
Verse 18 is the law.
00:28:10.05\00:28:12.62
"A good tree,
together, cannot bear bad fruit,
00:28:12.65\00:28:17.56
nor can a bad tree bear" what?
00:28:17.59\00:28:20.03
"Good fruit."
00:28:20.06\00:28:21.36
So let me ask you the question.
Can a good tree bear bad fruit?
00:28:21.40\00:28:24.50
Can a bad tree bear good fruit?
00:28:24.53\00:28:26.84
Can a bad tree bear bad fruit?
00:28:26.87\00:28:28.67
Can a good tree bear bad fruit?
00:28:28.70\00:28:32.71
Can a good tree bear good fruit?
00:28:32.74\00:28:34.58
Can a bad tree
bear good fruit? No.
00:28:34.61\00:28:36.54
Good, you guys are sharp.
00:28:36.58\00:28:39.15
Okay.
00:28:39.18\00:28:40.52
Bad does not produce
good, good does not produce bad,
00:28:40.55\00:28:44.79
but bad produces bad
and good produces good,
00:28:44.82\00:28:47.39
so the question is.
00:28:47.46\00:28:50.33
What do we want to be a
part of the good or the bad?
00:28:50.36\00:28:54.30
But then how do you
do that when Paul says,
00:28:54.30\00:28:57.17
"There is none
that's good, no not one."
00:28:57.23\00:29:01.80
How... Okay,
we're getting there.
00:29:01.84\00:29:04.14
My brother
Yannick is ahead of me.
00:29:04.17\00:29:07.54
We're getting there.
00:29:07.61\00:29:09.34
The issue is
bigger than the S-I-N-S,
00:29:09.38\00:29:13.08
the issue is the
root, didn't I say that?
00:29:13.11\00:29:15.75
The issue is the what? The root.
00:29:15.78\00:29:17.52
What's happening with the tree?
00:29:17.55\00:29:18.89
When we go to the vineyards,
when you go to Napa Valley,
00:29:18.92\00:29:20.72
when you look at apple trees,
when you look at orange trees,
00:29:20.79\00:29:22.22
any kind of tree at all,
00:29:22.26\00:29:23.59
they're supposed
to produce good fruit.
00:29:23.66\00:29:25.16
When the farmer looks
at this tree and said,
00:29:25.19\00:29:27.46
it's not producing good fruit,
they don't look at the limbs,
00:29:27.50\00:29:30.17
they look at the what?
00:29:30.20\00:29:31.80
They look at the fruit.
00:29:31.83\00:29:33.17
And then they
go down to the root
00:29:33.20\00:29:34.54
and they say, "Ah, we
see what the problem is.
00:29:34.57\00:29:36.54
There are ants
eating at the roots
00:29:36.57\00:29:38.74
or there's some kind of
germ that is being pulled
00:29:38.77\00:29:40.98
into the tree through the roots.
00:29:41.01\00:29:42.64
The root is the issue,
00:29:42.68\00:29:44.05
that's why this
very next question
00:29:44.08\00:29:45.41
is vitally important.
00:29:45.45\00:29:46.78
So the answer is how do we know
00:29:46.82\00:29:48.15
that we are not
capable of producing good?
00:29:48.18\00:29:51.32
Because we're
connected to the wrong tree,
00:29:51.35\00:29:54.09
we're connected
to the wrong tree.
00:29:54.16\00:29:56.12
What's the name of the
tree, somebody tell me.
00:29:56.16\00:29:58.96
Sin?
00:29:58.99\00:30:00.33
But what's
the... What's his name?
00:30:00.40\00:30:02.40
Adam, right.
00:30:02.43\00:30:04.40
Adam, the Adam nature
produces the fruit of sin.
00:30:04.43\00:30:09.27
The Adam nature
produces the fruit of sin.
00:30:09.30\00:30:11.74
Question number 12.
00:30:11.77\00:30:13.11
This is significant as
you look at the cadence of it.
00:30:13.14\00:30:16.18
Question number 12.
00:30:16.21\00:30:18.95
What will the Lord
destroy to finally abolish sin?
00:30:18.98\00:30:25.22
What will the Lord?
00:30:25.25\00:30:26.96
What will the Lord
destroy to finally abolish sin?
00:30:27.02\00:30:32.33
Okay, that's right.
00:30:35.33\00:30:37.57
Malachi 4:1.
00:30:37.60\00:30:39.20
I forgot the name of the disease
00:30:46.37\00:30:47.98
but it affected
cow, or mad cow disease.
00:30:48.01\00:30:50.68
Yeah, as soon as
I mentioned cows,
00:30:50.71\00:30:52.45
I remember what it was.
00:30:52.48\00:30:53.85
Remember mad cow disease?
00:30:53.88\00:30:57.55
I read some of the
stories of the farmers
00:30:57.59\00:30:59.25
that when they discover
00:30:59.29\00:31:01.06
that their cattle
had mad cow disease,
00:31:01.09\00:31:03.32
mad cow disease
affected not just the cattle,
00:31:03.36\00:31:05.69
but effected goats,
it's affected other animals,
00:31:05.73\00:31:10.13
in the end it was terrible,
and then you had the bird flu.
00:31:10.17\00:31:14.74
Which started in ages
somewhere in a crowded market
00:31:14.77\00:31:19.24
where the keeping
of the birds were just,
00:31:19.27\00:31:21.64
it was horrible
00:31:21.68\00:31:23.01
and then it spread
all over the globe.
00:31:23.04\00:31:24.98
When these farmers noticed
that their cows were affected,
00:31:25.01\00:31:28.92
I read the story of
one farmer who he said,
00:31:28.95\00:31:31.62
"I didn't want
to kill my animals,
00:31:31.65\00:31:35.22
but that was the only
thing that I, I had to do it
00:31:35.26\00:31:38.83
to prevent the
spread of the disease,
00:31:38.86\00:31:41.96
to prevent the
spread of the disease."
00:31:42.00\00:31:44.57
So that's why Jesus had to die
00:31:44.60\00:31:47.57
to prevent the
spread of the disease.
00:31:47.60\00:31:52.04
So why is he going to do
what we're about to read.
00:31:52.07\00:31:54.64
How will the Lord finally...
00:31:54.68\00:31:57.01
What will the Lord do
to finally abolish sin?
00:31:57.08\00:31:59.38
Look at Malachi 4:1
00:31:59.41\00:32:02.02
"For behold..."
00:32:02.05\00:32:03.39
And this is
what the farmers did,
00:32:03.42\00:32:04.75
they set their cattle on
fire, it was a horrible sight,
00:32:04.79\00:32:08.36
"For behold, the day is
coming, burning like a" what?
00:32:08.39\00:32:11.56
"Like an oven,"
00:32:11.59\00:32:12.93
and here's that
word again and what?
00:32:12.96\00:32:15.13
"All the proud, yes,
00:32:15.16\00:32:17.43
all who do
wickedly will be" what?
00:32:17.47\00:32:21.44
"Stubble and the
day which is coming
00:32:21.47\00:32:24.21
shall burn them up."
00:32:24.27\00:32:27.04
Shall do what?
00:32:27.08\00:32:28.41
Burn them up and it
says, let me go forward...
00:32:28.44\00:32:31.51
I want to add the
other portion to that,
00:32:31.55\00:32:33.42
that will leave them
neither root nor what?
00:32:33.48\00:32:36.69
I should have added
the other portion to that,
00:32:36.75\00:32:39.29
so you want to add that,
00:32:39.32\00:32:40.66
what will Jesus do
to finally abolish sin?
00:32:40.72\00:32:44.09
He's going to destroy
the root and the branch.
00:32:44.13\00:32:48.03
He's going to
destroy the root and branch.
00:32:48.06\00:32:52.43
So if, so, if the
root is destroyed,
00:32:52.47\00:32:56.10
will there be branches?
00:32:56.14\00:32:58.51
Okay, so that's the
answer to the question
00:32:58.54\00:33:00.21
sin cannot exist in eternity.
00:33:00.28\00:33:03.24
Sin will not exist in heaven.
00:33:03.28\00:33:05.08
There'll be no chance
of sin in the new earth.
00:33:05.11\00:33:07.52
Can I get an amen somewhere?
00:33:07.55\00:33:08.88
Amen!
00:33:08.92\00:33:10.25
There'll be no chance
00:33:10.29\00:33:11.62
because the roots are
going to be burned up.
00:33:11.65\00:33:12.99
When you burn up a tree
and you stop at the root,
00:33:13.02\00:33:15.69
it's not going
to produce anything
00:33:15.72\00:33:17.06
because the roots is the origin
00:33:17.13\00:33:19.59
of what's
produced on the branches.
00:33:19.63\00:33:21.53
You cannot.
00:33:25.80\00:33:28.07
But now let's look
at the reverse of that.
00:33:28.10\00:33:32.44
Question number 13.
00:33:32.47\00:33:33.84
Question number 13.
00:33:37.31\00:33:39.55
How will the Lord
produce righteousness in us?
00:33:39.58\00:33:44.15
John 15, you theologians
know where I'm headed.
00:33:44.19\00:33:48.86
John 15.
00:33:48.89\00:33:51.13
John 15.
00:33:51.16\00:33:55.20
And we're going to
look together at verse 5,
00:33:55.23\00:33:59.90
John 15:5,
00:34:00.04\00:34:01.77
How will the Lord or
even more specifically,
00:34:01.80\00:34:04.97
how does the Lord
produce righteousness in us?
00:34:05.01\00:34:08.91
Here it is, John 15:5
and we read in His word,
00:34:08.94\00:34:13.31
"I am the vine,
you are the branches.
00:34:13.35\00:34:18.45
He who abides in Me,
and I in him, bears" what?
00:34:18.49\00:34:24.06
"Much fruit, for
without Me you can't do" what?
00:34:24.13\00:34:26.63
"Nothing."
00:34:26.70\00:34:28.00
So can we say,
00:34:28.03\00:34:32.67
okay, okay,
00:34:32.70\00:34:34.04
I'm not going out,
00:34:37.17\00:34:39.44
I'm not leaving my house,
00:34:39.47\00:34:41.38
I'm not turning the lights on,
00:34:41.41\00:34:43.08
I'm not turning the radio on,
00:34:43.11\00:34:45.01
I'm not turning
the television on,
00:34:45.05\00:34:46.98
I'm going to put in ear plugs.
00:34:47.02\00:34:50.25
I don't want my phone. I'm
going to turn my phone off.
00:34:50.29\00:34:53.46
I don't want to
hear from anybody.
00:34:53.52\00:34:55.26
I don't want to do anything.
00:34:55.29\00:34:56.99
I don't want to
listen to anything.
00:34:57.03\00:34:59.23
And maybe I
could be sinless today.
00:34:59.26\00:35:01.13
Right?
00:35:05.37\00:35:06.94
Oh, if I could just
not hear anybody talk,
00:35:06.97\00:35:09.57
I think I could make it
through a day without sin.
00:35:09.60\00:35:13.88
And the Lord says,
"Excuse me, it's in you."
00:35:13.91\00:35:18.91
It's where?
00:35:18.95\00:35:20.72
It's not in the phone calls,
00:35:20.75\00:35:22.18
it's not in the
television, it's in you.
00:35:22.22\00:35:26.25
Can you take it out of yourself?
00:35:26.29\00:35:29.02
So what do you have to...
00:35:29.06\00:35:30.43
If you look at these
two verses together here,
00:35:30.46\00:35:32.33
this is the beauty of
it, and I always say this,
00:35:32.36\00:35:34.30
there is no third category
00:35:34.30\00:35:35.86
when it comes to
sin and righteousness.
00:35:35.90\00:35:37.87
There is no yellow
line like on the highway.
00:35:37.90\00:35:40.30
There is no third
place that you can be
00:35:40.34\00:35:42.37
to determine that
I'll hang out here
00:35:42.40\00:35:44.27
until I decide to
do right or wrong.
00:35:44.31\00:35:46.41
We're either on the left side
of the highway, the bad side,
00:35:46.44\00:35:50.25
or the right side of
the highway, the good side.
00:35:50.31\00:35:53.38
We're either
connected to the wrong tree
00:35:53.42\00:35:55.75
that will be
destroyed root and branch,
00:35:55.78\00:35:57.75
or we are connected to
the vine, Christ Jesus.
00:35:57.79\00:35:59.85
And look at that again,
00:35:59.89\00:36:01.29
he says, for without
me, how much can we do?
00:36:01.32\00:36:04.06
We can't do anything.
00:36:04.09\00:36:05.43
So what I want to
point out really quickly here
00:36:05.46\00:36:07.83
is we have come
to a particular point
00:36:07.86\00:36:10.40
and we're going to
get a little deeper
00:36:10.47\00:36:11.80
in just a moment here,
but we've come to the point,
00:36:11.83\00:36:13.17
we've come to this conclusion.
00:36:13.20\00:36:14.57
Sin is not possible to
resolve by just trying hard.
00:36:14.60\00:36:21.44
So don't say to somebody,
you need to try harder.
00:36:21.48\00:36:23.48
If you just try
harder, you can do it.
00:36:23.55\00:36:26.38
That's the most
frustrating thing,
00:36:26.41\00:36:27.85
and most world religions
00:36:27.88\00:36:29.22
that kick Jesus
out are work oriented.
00:36:29.25\00:36:31.62
They beat themselves,
they flog themselves,
00:36:31.65\00:36:34.46
they cut
themselves, they do pilgrimages,
00:36:34.49\00:36:36.83
they walk around in circles...
00:36:36.86\00:36:40.53
They say things, they burn fire,
00:36:40.60\00:36:42.23
they run on coal,
they run on broken glass,
00:36:42.26\00:36:45.27
they do ridiculous things.
00:36:45.30\00:36:47.50
Thinking that if I could just,
00:36:47.54\00:36:48.87
if I could just
humiliate myself,
00:36:48.90\00:36:51.94
then maybe God will accept me.
00:36:51.97\00:36:54.74
But Christians do something
that's kind of similar.
00:36:54.78\00:36:58.28
We beat ourselves up.
00:36:58.31\00:37:01.52
We focus on what we have done
00:37:01.55\00:37:03.12
rather than
what Christ has done.
00:37:03.15\00:37:06.09
We pray and ask for
the Lord to forgive us
00:37:06.12\00:37:07.86
and we get up and say...
00:37:07.89\00:37:09.22
And we still try to fix it,
00:37:12.09\00:37:14.56
when Jesus is the one
00:37:14.56\00:37:16.00
and the only
one that can fix it.
00:37:16.03\00:37:18.43
And He's saying,
00:37:18.47\00:37:20.04
if you disconnect from that tree
00:37:20.07\00:37:22.00
and connect to this
tree, it's going to happen.
00:37:22.04\00:37:25.61
It's going to happen.
00:37:25.64\00:37:26.98
What's going to
happen? What's going to happen?
00:37:27.01\00:37:31.08
Say it again,
00:37:31.11\00:37:32.45
a little
louder, a little louder.
00:37:32.48\00:37:35.62
David, you're a
little louder than that.
00:37:35.65\00:37:37.85
Good fruit. What's
up, what kind of fruit?
00:37:37.89\00:37:39.65
Good fruit.
00:37:39.69\00:37:41.02
So it's really
what we're connected
00:37:41.06\00:37:42.39
to on a day by day
basis, and Paul makes it clear
00:37:42.42\00:37:44.93
that this is not a
once in a lifetime.
00:37:44.96\00:37:47.40
This decision is not just
made when you're baptized.
00:37:47.40\00:37:50.63
This is a day by day decision,
00:37:50.67\00:37:52.70
a day by day, a
moment by moment decision,
00:37:52.73\00:37:55.07
so let's look at that.
00:37:55.10\00:37:56.50
How will the Lord
produce righteousness in us?
00:37:56.54\00:37:59.54
Without Him how much can we do?
00:37:59.57\00:38:01.74
Nothing. We can do...
00:38:01.78\00:38:03.11
We have to be in Him
and He has to be in us.
00:38:03.14\00:38:07.05
That's what He does
through His Holy Spirit,
00:38:07.08\00:38:09.22
but now, we're going
to now go to some of the,
00:38:09.25\00:38:12.29
what I refer to the DNA.
00:38:12.32\00:38:13.89
We're going to go
now to the DNA of sin.
00:38:13.92\00:38:16.06
Let's go down to the DNA of sin.
00:38:16.09\00:38:17.46
We're going to go
to Romans, Romans 7.
00:38:17.49\00:38:21.56
Romans.
00:38:21.60\00:38:22.93
Romans 7.
00:38:26.17\00:38:28.54
And we're going to...
00:38:28.57\00:38:29.90
We're going to
consider question number 14,
00:38:29.94\00:38:31.87
and question number 14 is:
Why is human nature helpless
00:38:31.91\00:38:38.18
when it comes
to controlling sin?
00:38:38.21\00:38:42.28
Why is human nature helpless
00:38:42.32\00:38:46.39
when it comes
to controlling sin?
00:38:46.42\00:38:50.53
Romans 7, we're going
to start with verse 8,
00:38:50.56\00:38:53.60
and then we're
going to read verse 18,
00:38:53.63\00:38:56.10
and then we're going to
read verse 20, all right?
00:38:56.13\00:39:01.44
I'll start with the verse 8.
00:39:01.47\00:39:02.87
Let's bring it up on the screen.
00:39:02.90\00:39:04.87
It says,
00:39:04.91\00:39:07.01
"But sin, taking
opportunity by the commandment,
00:39:07.04\00:39:12.51
produced in me all" what?
00:39:12.55\00:39:16.28
"All manner of evil desire."
00:39:16.32\00:39:19.29
In other words,
there's no extent,
00:39:19.32\00:39:21.99
there's no
telling what you'll do
00:39:22.02\00:39:23.89
because sin is
producing all manner.
00:39:23.96\00:39:27.30
You name the
category, sin could produce it.
00:39:27.36\00:39:29.93
All manner of not
only evil but evil desire.
00:39:29.96\00:39:35.44
That passion,
that push to do wrong,
00:39:35.47\00:39:38.07
and then it says,
00:39:38.11\00:39:39.44
for apart from
the law what was dead.
00:39:39.47\00:39:42.91
What was dead?
00:39:42.94\00:39:44.28
It's on the screen,
00:39:44.31\00:39:45.65
apart from the
law what was dead?
00:39:45.68\00:39:47.02
Sin was dead.
00:39:47.05\00:39:48.38
Let me explain that carefully
because this is not something,
00:39:48.42\00:39:51.15
I don't want you to
come away with the idea
00:39:51.19\00:39:52.55
that the commandments are bad,
but here's what Paul is saying.
00:39:52.59\00:39:56.76
He was living a life
00:39:56.83\00:39:58.66
oblivious of the
commandments of God
00:39:58.69\00:40:01.23
but all of a sudden he saw it
and he realized, wait a minute.
00:40:01.26\00:40:06.57
Now, let me use an illustration.
00:40:06.60\00:40:11.31
Okay, rather than
my human illustration,
00:40:11.34\00:40:13.88
don't lose Romans 7.
00:40:13.94\00:40:15.71
Let's go to James 1.
00:40:15.74\00:40:19.78
Don't lose Romans 7.
00:40:19.81\00:40:21.15
We're going to come back there,
00:40:21.18\00:40:22.52
and you could not,
you could hold it off
00:40:22.55\00:40:24.15
and I'll call for
the text in a moment.
00:40:24.19\00:40:25.75
But let's go to James 1.
00:40:25.79\00:40:28.46
Okay.
00:40:28.49\00:40:29.82
Okay.
00:40:32.59\00:40:33.96
And I want to look
together at verse 25...
00:40:37.50\00:40:40.77
because Paul said until...
00:40:44.31\00:40:45.64
When I became aware
of the commandments.
00:40:45.67\00:40:49.91
Through the
commandments I realized
00:40:49.98\00:40:52.25
all kinds of evil
desire were present in me.
00:40:52.28\00:40:55.82
Because the
commandment showed me
00:40:55.85\00:40:57.22
what was going
wrong, was inside of me.
00:40:57.25\00:40:59.25
It diagnosed my condition.
00:40:59.29\00:41:01.49
When I saw it, I realized
where I was falling short,
00:41:01.52\00:41:04.86
he said, and without
that I didn't even know.
00:41:04.89\00:41:07.76
Without that sin was not even,
I was not even aware of sin
00:41:07.76\00:41:11.77
for apart from
the law sin was dead,
00:41:11.80\00:41:14.34
until I knew
that that was wrong,
00:41:14.37\00:41:16.34
it didn't even
make a difference to me.
00:41:16.37\00:41:19.01
But look at Romans 1:25,
00:41:19.04\00:41:22.01
because it's all
about the mirror,
00:41:22.04\00:41:23.41
it's all about the what?
00:41:23.45\00:41:25.71
How many of you have
mirrors in your house?
00:41:25.75\00:41:27.85
Please all of
you raise your hand.
00:41:27.88\00:41:30.35
I hope.
00:41:30.39\00:41:32.49
The mirror will
tell you your condition
00:41:32.52\00:41:36.06
but the mirror can't
change your condition.
00:41:36.09\00:41:40.36
It just says to
you, you're in trouble,
00:41:40.40\00:41:42.46
you ear is out of place.
00:41:42.50\00:41:45.03
There's something in your tooth.
00:41:45.07\00:41:46.97
You buttoned the wrong button.
00:41:47.00\00:41:49.04
It just tells you
what your condition is
00:41:49.07\00:41:50.67
but it can't do
anything for you,
00:41:50.74\00:41:52.64
so those of you who
are commandment keepers,
00:41:52.67\00:41:54.41
let me help you out,
00:41:54.44\00:41:55.78
it's good to be a
commandment keeper,
00:41:55.81\00:41:57.95
but the
commandments can't clean you up,
00:41:57.98\00:42:00.82
only Jesus can.
00:42:00.85\00:42:02.65
Look at this.
00:42:02.68\00:42:04.42
James makes it so clear.
00:42:04.45\00:42:05.79
James throws kind of a wrench
00:42:05.82\00:42:10.33
into the quandary of those
00:42:10.36\00:42:14.40
who want to get rid
of the commandments.
00:42:14.46\00:42:15.76
Start with verse 22.
00:42:15.80\00:42:19.30
Okay.
00:42:19.33\00:42:20.70
"But be doers of the word
00:42:24.07\00:42:25.84
and not hearers
only deceiving who?
00:42:25.87\00:42:30.01
Yourselves,
00:42:30.05\00:42:31.38
for if anyone is a hearer
of the word and not a doer,
00:42:31.41\00:42:36.22
he is like a man
observing his natural face.
00:42:36.25\00:42:39.82
What kind of face?
00:42:39.85\00:42:41.19
Natural face in a mirror,
00:42:41.22\00:42:44.13
for he observes
himself goes away
00:42:44.19\00:42:48.16
and immediately forgets
what kind of man he was.
00:42:48.20\00:42:51.90
How many of us do that?
00:42:55.40\00:42:56.74
Well, actually
00:42:59.71\00:43:03.28
no, I actually
appreciate my mirror.
00:43:03.35\00:43:04.88
Come on help me out somebody.
00:43:04.91\00:43:06.51
I actually appreciate my mirror
00:43:06.55\00:43:08.45
because I can't go on television
00:43:08.48\00:43:11.62
with my jacket button like this.
00:43:11.65\00:43:14.79
They'll say, man,
what kind of pastor is he?
00:43:14.82\00:43:17.03
His jacket is all messed up.
00:43:17.06\00:43:18.39
Can somebody help him?
00:43:18.43\00:43:20.63
I get all kinds of letters.
00:43:20.70\00:43:23.63
Am I telling the truth?
00:43:23.67\00:43:25.23
Because he'll
say, oh, I can't look.
00:43:25.27\00:43:28.14
Those OCD people, am I right?
00:43:28.17\00:43:31.11
They have a hard time...
00:43:31.14\00:43:32.47
Oh, did anybody tell him
00:43:32.51\00:43:34.51
that he has a
big ear out of place
00:43:34.54\00:43:37.31
and they'll say,
"He had a mirror,
00:43:37.35\00:43:39.28
he couldn't see what was wrong?'
00:43:39.31\00:43:41.18
You see the mirror
says to you what's wrong,
00:43:41.22\00:43:44.25
but look at the next verse.
00:43:44.29\00:43:48.32
Verse 25,
00:43:48.36\00:43:49.72
I like it that it
begins with the word but,
00:43:49.76\00:43:51.76
"But he who looks into the..."
00:43:51.79\00:43:53.56
Say it together,
"perfect law of liberty."
00:43:53.60\00:43:56.90
The commandments
is observed by those
00:43:56.93\00:43:58.93
who have been made free.
00:43:58.97\00:44:00.57
The commandments
don't make you free,
00:44:00.64\00:44:02.60
Jesus makes you free,
00:44:02.64\00:44:04.31
but the
commandments are observed
00:44:04.34\00:44:05.87
by those who
have been made free,
00:44:05.91\00:44:07.48
but he who looks
into the what kind of law?
00:44:07.51\00:44:10.25
Perfect law of
liberty and continues in it
00:44:10.28\00:44:14.02
and is not a forgetful
hearer but a doer of the work,
00:44:14.05\00:44:18.72
this one will be what?
00:44:18.75\00:44:21.32
Blessed in what he does.
00:44:21.36\00:44:23.63
So when you see the law of God
00:44:23.66\00:44:25.83
and you'd remember that
it pointed out your condition
00:44:25.86\00:44:28.40
and then you start
as 1 John 3:4 says,
00:44:28.43\00:44:33.80
you begin to
keep your life pure,
00:44:33.84\00:44:37.11
then you'll be
blessed in what you do.
00:44:37.17\00:44:39.87
But if you look in the mirror
and forget what the mirror said
00:44:39.91\00:44:42.91
and you walk away and
just immediately forget,
00:44:42.94\00:44:45.45
people will notice
it and they'll see you,
00:44:45.48\00:44:48.95
what's wrong with him?
00:44:48.98\00:44:50.89
What's wrong with her?
00:44:50.95\00:44:52.45
Can he see what he looks like?
00:44:52.49\00:44:54.22
Go back to Romans 7.
00:44:57.39\00:44:58.73
I want to clarify
00:44:58.76\00:45:00.16
that there's nothing
wrong with God's law,
00:45:00.20\00:45:02.23
nothing at all
wrong with God's laws.
00:45:02.26\00:45:05.47
It's the perfect law of liberty,
00:45:05.50\00:45:07.57
but we're going to go back
to question number, which one?
00:45:07.64\00:45:10.44
Number 14.
00:45:10.51\00:45:12.07
Why is human nature helpless
00:45:12.11\00:45:13.48
when it comes
to controlling sin?
00:45:13.51\00:45:15.84
Let's go to the very next verse,
00:45:15.88\00:45:17.48
verse 18, Romans 7:18.
00:45:17.55\00:45:20.95
Now we can bring
it up on the screen.
00:45:20.98\00:45:22.32
Thank you.
00:45:22.35\00:45:23.69
And the Bible says,
"For I know that in me,
00:45:23.72\00:45:26.96
for I know that in
me, that is in my flesh,"
00:45:26.99\00:45:30.03
together how much?
00:45:30.06\00:45:31.43
"Nothing good dwells, for
to will is present with me,
00:45:31.46\00:45:37.70
but how to perform what is good"
00:45:37.73\00:45:40.40
say it again, "I do not find."
00:45:40.44\00:45:42.50
In other words, I
know what I want to do.
00:45:42.54\00:45:44.91
It's like a basketball
player being handcuffed.
00:45:44.94\00:45:47.44
You don't put a
handcuffed basketball player
00:45:47.48\00:45:49.91
on the foul line
with two seconds left.
00:45:49.94\00:45:53.98
I know what I want to do
00:45:54.02\00:45:55.92
but I'm handcuffed.
00:45:55.95\00:45:57.75
You put somebody on
there that's been made free.
00:45:57.79\00:46:01.62
Paul is saying,
00:46:01.66\00:46:03.32
I've got this desire
to do but I'm handcuffed.
00:46:03.36\00:46:07.50
Let's find out what happened?
00:46:07.56\00:46:09.63
Let's verse 20, verse 20,
00:46:09.66\00:46:12.37
verse 20 and the question is:
00:46:12.40\00:46:13.94
Why is human nature helpless
00:46:13.97\00:46:15.30
when it comes
to controlling sin?
00:46:15.34\00:46:16.67
Look at verse 20, he says,
00:46:16.71\00:46:18.51
"Now if I do
what I will not to do,
00:46:18.54\00:46:22.21
it is no longer I
who do it," but what?
00:46:22.24\00:46:25.51
"Sin that, once
again, dwells in me."
00:46:25.55\00:46:28.52
So let's go ahead and
talk about this quandary
00:46:28.55\00:46:30.69
for a brief moment.
00:46:30.72\00:46:32.05
One of the reasons
why, one of the reasons why
00:46:32.09\00:46:34.16
we come up as
failures every time
00:46:34.19\00:46:36.39
is because we think
that in and of ourselves
00:46:36.42\00:46:39.16
that we can be victorious
by simply trying harder,
00:46:39.19\00:46:42.50
praying harder, reading harder,
00:46:42.53\00:46:45.87
just grit, and
good old elbow grease.
00:46:45.90\00:46:51.27
But the Bible
says, not of works,
00:46:51.31\00:46:53.94
lest anyone should boast.
00:46:53.98\00:46:56.48
For by grace are
you saved through faith,
00:46:56.51\00:46:58.58
that not of yourselves,
00:46:58.61\00:47:00.15
but we're going to go
even deeper than that.
00:47:00.18\00:47:02.38
How then...
00:47:02.42\00:47:05.29
do those who are
unable to control sin,
00:47:05.32\00:47:08.02
how then do they
come off victoriously?
00:47:08.06\00:47:12.46
So what answer did you put down?
00:47:12.49\00:47:13.83
Why is human nature helpless
00:47:13.86\00:47:15.16
when it comes
to controlling sin?
00:47:15.20\00:47:16.53
Put down what you
can best understand,
00:47:16.56\00:47:18.57
why is human nature helpless?
00:47:18.60\00:47:22.10
It's the same nature.
00:47:22.14\00:47:24.37
It's like when the Bible says,
00:47:24.41\00:47:25.74
can Beelzebub
cast out Beelzebub?
00:47:25.77\00:47:28.91
Can Satan cast out Satan?
00:47:28.94\00:47:30.55
No.
00:47:30.58\00:47:31.91
How then can we
00:47:31.95\00:47:33.28
who are accustomed
to doing evil do good.
00:47:33.31\00:47:35.92
Can't do it. Can't do it.
00:47:35.95\00:47:38.29
So don't feel bad that you fail.
00:47:38.32\00:47:41.66
Because you have that nature,
00:47:41.69\00:47:44.36
but we're not
going to leave you there.
00:47:44.39\00:47:46.16
Let's look at the
very next question,
00:47:46.19\00:47:47.50
question number 15.
00:47:47.60\00:47:49.16
Question number 15.
00:47:49.20\00:47:52.87
What is the only hope
that we have to be victorious
00:47:52.90\00:47:58.77
over the sin nature?
00:47:58.81\00:48:02.01
And the reason I'm
focusing on the nature
00:48:02.04\00:48:03.68
is because when you
take care of the root,
00:48:03.71\00:48:05.21
the fruit is going to
take care of themselves.
00:48:05.25\00:48:09.55
You guys are real
deep thinkers tonight.
00:48:09.58\00:48:12.22
I must say that one more time
00:48:12.25\00:48:13.59
because you
might have missed it.
00:48:13.62\00:48:14.99
When you take care of the root,
00:48:15.02\00:48:16.42
the fruit would
take care of themselves.
00:48:16.46\00:48:18.39
Amen. Amen?
00:48:18.43\00:48:20.13
Have you ever seen a tree?
00:48:20.16\00:48:21.46
Have you ever
walked past an orchard
00:48:21.50\00:48:22.83
and you see the tree going,
00:48:22.86\00:48:24.20
oh man, oh,
00:48:24.27\00:48:28.80
I need some really
good oranges this season.
00:48:28.84\00:48:31.61
It's just standing there like...
00:48:31.64\00:48:33.27
Let 'cause he's
connected, he's being nourished,
00:48:39.21\00:48:44.12
he's getting
the proper sunlight,
00:48:44.19\00:48:45.79
he's getting the clean air,
00:48:45.82\00:48:47.46
he's getting all
the nutrition he needs,
00:48:47.49\00:48:49.79
and that's why the
Bible says, "Let, let."
00:48:49.82\00:48:53.60
And we'll show you
what I mean by that let.
00:48:53.63\00:48:55.86
We're going to go ahead
and look at let in the...
00:48:55.90\00:48:58.10
We might get to today,
00:48:58.13\00:48:59.60
but there's a let
and there's a let not.
00:48:59.63\00:49:02.74
We're going to let
and let not, all right.
00:49:02.77\00:49:05.41
But let's look
at this one first,
00:49:05.44\00:49:06.81
1 Corinthians 15:57.
00:49:06.84\00:49:09.04
This is beautiful.
00:49:09.08\00:49:10.81
This is a Jesus centered lesson.
00:49:10.88\00:49:15.12
Yannick, say amen.
00:49:15.15\00:49:16.48
Amen. Okay.
00:49:16.52\00:49:18.39
This is a Jesus centered lesson.
00:49:18.42\00:49:20.59
This means, without
Jesus, we can't do anything.
00:49:20.62\00:49:23.79
And I wanted to read this one
00:49:26.83\00:49:28.16
because when
somebody does for us
00:49:28.20\00:49:30.27
what Jesus has done for
us, you got to say thank you.
00:49:30.30\00:49:32.37
Are you ready?
00:49:32.40\00:49:33.74
Here we go together,
"But thanks be to God,
00:49:33.77\00:49:37.51
who gives us the victory
through our Lord Jesus Christ."
00:49:37.54\00:49:43.95
Do you see now why
the devil tried his best
00:49:43.98\00:49:45.95
to defeat Christ?
00:49:45.98\00:49:47.65
And I say this again,
Jesus didn't become a sinner,
00:49:47.68\00:49:51.49
Jesus didn't become
sins, Jesus became sin.
00:49:51.52\00:49:56.32
He took on the,
00:49:56.36\00:49:57.69
He took on the Adam
nature after the fall.
00:49:57.73\00:50:00.83
The nature Adam
had after he fell.
00:50:00.90\00:50:03.33
Jesus didn't come
to take on the nature
00:50:03.37\00:50:06.43
Adam had before the fall,
00:50:06.47\00:50:08.04
He came and took the
nature Adam had after the fall.
00:50:08.07\00:50:11.81
So that He could
produce, He could defeat that,
00:50:11.84\00:50:14.61
kill that nature
when He died on the cross,
00:50:14.64\00:50:18.48
this is really a deep thing.
00:50:18.51\00:50:19.85
When He died on the cross,
00:50:19.88\00:50:22.42
it was the nature of
Adam that was killed.
00:50:22.45\00:50:26.86
And so when you
accept Christ in that way,
00:50:26.92\00:50:28.89
let me look at, let me
see if the text is here.
00:50:28.92\00:50:30.89
It's not here but I want to
go ahead and show it to you.
00:50:30.93\00:50:33.19
Go with me to Galatians.
00:50:33.23\00:50:34.76
Go with me to Galatians.
00:50:34.83\00:50:36.13
So write this down.
00:50:36.16\00:50:37.50
What is our only hope
00:50:37.53\00:50:38.87
that we can have
victory over sin?
00:50:38.90\00:50:40.97
Jesus.
00:50:41.00\00:50:42.34
And by the way I
want you to not miss
00:50:42.37\00:50:43.87
the rest of the text
00:50:43.94\00:50:45.27
because we say Jesus, but
notice what the text says,
00:50:45.31\00:50:48.24
it didn't, it didn't say,
00:50:48.28\00:50:49.61
but thanks be to
God who helps us when...
00:50:49.64\00:50:53.95
Did it say that?
00:50:53.98\00:50:55.38
It didn't say that, but
thanks be to God who what?
00:50:55.42\00:50:58.19
Gives.
00:50:58.22\00:51:01.06
Lorraine, how would you
feel if the Olympic Committee
00:51:01.09\00:51:03.83
decided to give
you a gold medal?
00:51:03.86\00:51:07.60
You might say, "For what?"
00:51:07.66\00:51:10.23
And they say,
"It doesn't matter,
00:51:10.27\00:51:11.60
we want you to be victorious."
00:51:11.63\00:51:13.30
It doesn't matter, we
just want to give you.
00:51:13.34\00:51:15.14
We want to make you a winner.
00:51:15.17\00:51:17.81
We just wanted to say, "You won"
00:51:17.84\00:51:19.44
and you say "Won what?"
00:51:19.47\00:51:21.71
Now Jesus, this is
where the crown comes in.
00:51:21.74\00:51:25.15
This is what's
amazing about salvation.
00:51:25.18\00:51:27.48
Jesus gives us a crown of
which we did nothing to get.
00:51:27.52\00:51:31.32
Is that, is that love?
00:51:34.59\00:51:36.89
He gives us a crown
00:51:36.93\00:51:38.26
and we didn't do
anything to get it.
00:51:38.29\00:51:40.66
He gives us the victory.
00:51:40.70\00:51:42.23
What happens when a
person gives you a gift?
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Come on now, what happens?
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When if I were given you a gift,
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what do you have to do?
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Accept that before you
open it she said, open it.
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She's in a
Christmas mode, wrong month.
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You have to
first accept the gift.
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So one of the
hardest thing for us to grab,
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for those of us who
are doers, you know,
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so many of us are doers,
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the hardest thing for us to grab
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is that somebody
would win a victory for us
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and then give it to
us, "But thanks be to God,
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who giveth us the victory
through our Lord Jesus Christ."
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It's a hard thing.
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You say, "What do
I have to do for it?"
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Just accept it, just accept it.
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It's imparted righteousness,
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and then you live every
day imputed righteousness.
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He imputes every
day to you his credit,
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so you're never
bankrupt righteously.
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But He impost you something
that you can never buy.
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He gives you a
medal, He gives you a crown
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that you couldn't even purchase.
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You couldn't even make it.
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You don't deserve,
we don't deserve it.
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Let me stop saying
you, we don't deserve it.
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But He does it
because He loves us.
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Praise God for that. Amen. Amen.
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Now let's go to the
next, we gonna dive back in
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because I don't want
to be oversimplified.
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I want us to get to
some of the nitty-gritty
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of this Roman 7
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because Romans 7
is a powerful book
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and we're going
to dive in Romans 7
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by going to question number 16.
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Let's look at that.
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What is the
experience of every sinner?
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What is the
experience of every sinner?
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Romans 7:15,
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this is amazing,
every sinners experience,
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no matter what
your denomination,
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everybody has this experience.
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Ain't that something else?
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You look at that and you
think, man, I think I was there.
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No, you were
there, we were there.
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What, "For what I am doing..."
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Come on, say it with me.
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"I do not" what?"
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"Understand."
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Have you ever done
something you don't understand
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why you did it.
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Why, what, what am I doing?
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What, why am I doing that?
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Let's keep going.
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"For what I will to do,
that means what I mentally
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I'm hoping to be able to do
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what I will to do
that I do not practice.
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Intellectually this is
what I'm supposed to do.
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Carnally this
is what I am doing.
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And then he says.
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But what I hate...
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that I do.
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How many of you hire this guy?
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We want you to guard our bank.
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How many would hire this guy?
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If that was the case,
none of us would have a job.
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Come on say, amen.
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None of us would have a job
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because that's the
truth about all of us.
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Before Jesus comes in,
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before we turn the
control of our awful lives
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over to Christ,
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we are in that predicament
every moment of every day.
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Let's write the answer
down. I want to get a few more.
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I want to get a few more.
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We're just getting warmed up.
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I wish it slowed the clock down.
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So question number 16 that was.
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So write down,
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what is the
experience of every sinner?
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Our lives don't make sense.
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Don't make sense,
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I couldn't think
of a singular word
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but it's confusing at best.
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"How you doing, Dave?"
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"Don't ask."
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"You're okay, Yannick?"
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"Let's talk
about something else."
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You gonna make a mark?"
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"Oh, well, ask
me that tomorrow."
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Have you all been there?
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We've all been there.
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But now let's look
at, let's go deeper,
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let's go deeper.
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Number 17, what is the power.
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What is the power
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that is in control
of our human nature?
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What is the power?
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Now you're going to dive
into an example in scripture
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that many of you
probably have overlooked.
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Let's go and do
this very quickly.
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And if we get
to number 18, fine,
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but if not we'll
get to that next week.
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Let's go to Romans 7:2,
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I'm going to bring the
subject in the interest of time.
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Now Paul uses an analogy here,
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he's not talking
about an actual wedding,
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he uses an analogy,
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and the woman represents us,
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the husband represents
that law that's messing with us.
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"For the woman who
has a husband is..."
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What's the next word?
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"Bound by the law
to her husband..."
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Sounds like slavery?
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That's what it is.
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"Bound by the law to her husband
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as long as who lives?
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He lives.
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But if the husband dies,
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she is released from
the law of her husband."
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So now let me
ask a quick question.
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If you don't want to do
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what your
husband wants you to do,
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what you have to do?
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I preached a sermon a
number of years ago about 2005,
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Mollie Steenson,
I presented to her
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a proposal on some sermons
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and Mollie said,
"Pastor Lomacang,
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you have to change that title,
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our listeners won't understand."
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I said, "Mollie, it's exactly
according to the scripture"
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My title was,
"Kill your husband."
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She said, "Could you
find another more mild title?"
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I said, "Okay,
till death do us part."
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Amen?
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Because what's happening here
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and I might leave
this as a cliffhanger.
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I might leave this as...
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Because you've got to
see what's happening here.
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What is being
said in this text is
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the man you were born
married to is messing with you,
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he's going to make you
do what you don't want to do
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because his law is
in control of your life.
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So you can't stop
it until he's dead.
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How you going to kill him?
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The question we're going
to answer in the next study
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in the next broadcast,
how are we going to kill him?
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Because we want to do
right, can you say, amen?
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Amen.
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Somebody's got to die
in order for this woman,
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us, to be set free.
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Does it make sense,
friends, keep studying,
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one day it'll come
into A Sharper Focus.
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God bless you.
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