It has been called
the greatest document
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in the history of humanity.
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Whenever and
wherever people have studied
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and accepted its teachings,
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they have discovered hope, life,
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peace, prosperity,
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and deliverance from tyranny.
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Welcome to Romans.
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We're delighted
today to see you here.
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We welcome our
wonderful studio audience
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right here in
beautiful Moorpark,
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in Southern California.
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Today's topic is wait for it.
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Here comes Romans.
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Some say, most important,
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most significant
book that was ever written
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in the history of the world.
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And we are going
to discover today
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if it were not
for the Book of Romans
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that virtually nobody
knows anything about today.
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There would be no America,
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no freedom, no democracies.
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Now I'm going
to start by talking
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about some objections
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that I get not
from my close friends
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but from lots of people.
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I say, "Don't you get it.
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Don't preach the Bible anymore.
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You preach too
much of the Bible."
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Tell me don't preach the Bible
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because it's so
dreadfully heavy,
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and it's so boring.
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We prefer our
ministers to be comedians.
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Lots of funny stories.
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Let me tell you why I believe
in the teaching of substance
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instead of trivia.
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Here it is.
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A, first point, you
can't live on bread alone.
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And if you try just
to live on bread alone
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and ordinary things,
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the Bible says you're
going to just shrivel up
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and you're going to die.
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You're going to die spiritually
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and you going to die
eventually physically.
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I want you to take your Bible,
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come over here to Matthew 4:4
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and we come to
the words of Christ.
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Matthew 4:4.
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But he answered and
said, "It is written,
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'Man shall not
live by bread alone,
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but by every word that
proceeds from the mouth of God."
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You can't live on bread.
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You can just live on
ordinary things alone.
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I can almost
rest my case and say,
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"Just look at the
world." Look at the world.
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Look at America,
is it getting better?
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Is it getting worse?
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What's happening to
the very soul of America?
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I would suggest to you,
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there's been a
widespread departure
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from the Word of God.
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Jesus said, "Man shall
not live by bread alone,
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but by every word
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that proceeds out
of the mouth of God."
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Have you ever asked
yourself the searching question,
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why are there so
many suicides in America.
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Every year 50,000 people
say, "It's not worth it."
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A million say,
"It's not worth it,
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but they fail even in suicide."
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You know about Robin
Williams, such a funny man,
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such a nice person,
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such I'm told
such a caring person
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was Robin Williams.
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But like so many
of the Hollywood stars
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that appear to be so full of joy
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and everything
else which is good.
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It's fine that life
is not worth living.
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Would you like to know why?
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We're born with a
great emptiness inside.
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You've got it, without
God, a great emptiness inside.
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We call it the God fill blank
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because God made us for Him.
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I think it was Saint Augustine
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who said, "Our
souls were made for God.
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They cannot rest
until they rest in Him."
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Every person is empty inside.
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We're told that
we are born again
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also by the word,
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not by funny stories
told by funny people.
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1 Peter 1:23 says,
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"Having been born again,
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not of corruptible seed,
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but incorruptible
through the Word of God
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which lives and abides forever."
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If you take some wheat seeds,
and you put them in the ground,
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those wheat
seeds will germinate,
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and bring forth a harvest
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because there is
life inside the seed.
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God says, "That the seed
of life is found in the words
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of Holy Scripture."
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And we are born again through
the reading of the Word of God.
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Now I preach from the
Bible for many reasons
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because firstly I believe
it is the right thing to do
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and I believe that people
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who have turned
away from the Word of God
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as far as
spirituality is concerned,
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they have become
great irrelevancies.
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I believe that
God has His people
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who will respond.
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I've had the privilege
of preaching to millions
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in the old former Soviet Union.
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I remember the leader
of the KGB General Vladimir
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who stayed behind and he
said to me, "Don't forget us,
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we too have souls. We too."
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He said, "Don't forget us.
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We too are empty inside."
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An American
Communist, is it possible?
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Well, a man watched our
program out in Sin City,
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Las Vegas,
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an American Communist brought up
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in an American Communist
home that was empty inside,
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He told us, "I was
completely empty inside
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until I got to know Christ."
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You know, what we try to do?
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We try to fill up the
emptiness with money, food, sex,
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and entertainment, thrills,
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"Give me more. Give
me more. Give me more."
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And the black hole
just gobbles it all up.
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Now the true gospel is
revealed through the Word.
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Galatians 1:12
is a difficult verse
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for people to comprehend.
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Paul says, "For I
neither received it from man,
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nor was I taught it,
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but it came through
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the revelation of Jesus Christ."
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This is very
hard for every person
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watching the telecast to
comprehend and understand.
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It was very hard
for me to understand.
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A man in Texas
came to my meetings.
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He came to a series of
lectures on the Book of Romans.
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He said, "I've been
brought up in our church
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keeping all the commandments."
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But he said, "I was
always beating my back
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because I was
never good enough."
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And he said, "I
was empty inside."
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So if the gospel is not revealed
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to you supernaturally
by the Holy Spirit,
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you won't get it.
You'll be super religious.
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And that's it.
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John Wesley went
along one evening in England
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and heard a layman
read Roman Martin's,
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Martin Luther's
preface to the Book of Romans.
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And as he heard the
preface of the Book of Romans,
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he got up, and he stopped,
he said, "Stop the meeting."
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He said, "As you read about
Romans and read from Romans,
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I felt my heart
strangely warmed."
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That's not just religion.
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Most religion is bad.
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Only the religion that
comes from God can lead to God.
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Don't forget it.
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I'm going to make you a promise.
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This is not going to be
easy for you to fulfill.
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If you read your
Bible for 30 minutes a day,
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a spiritual miracle
will happen in your life.
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Says, "It's too hard."
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Well, then the
miracles not for you.
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But if you will consistently
read your Bible for 30 minutes
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every day
prayerfully with an open mind,
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a miracle will
happen in your life,
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a miracle of grace.
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You got to open up to God.
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So as we go
through the Book of Romans
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and this is not
going to be an exegesis.
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But if we touch on
the highlights of Romans,
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we ought to be praying earnestly
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that God will
give us a revelation,
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not more religion.
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Most religion, almost all
man-made religion is junk.
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But we should pray
for a revelation from God.
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Now come to Romans1:1, 3 and 7
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as we start two part
series on the Book of Romans.
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I'm just going
to try to give you
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the heart of Romans
so that you can read it.
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Romans 1:1.
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Paul, a bondservant or
doulos a slave of Jesus Christ,
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called to be an apostle,
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separated to the gospel of God."
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And then if you notice verse 3,
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"Concerning His Son
Jesus Christ our Lord."
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The gospel is about Christ,
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"Who was born of
the seed of David
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according to the flesh."
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Verse 7, "To
all who are in Rome,
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beloved of God,
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called to be saints:
Grace to you and peace
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from God our Father
and the Lord Jesus Christ."
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There is a revelation
there for an observing mind.
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You ask people,
"What's the gospel?"
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"Oh, the gospel is,
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how I can do this
and how I can do that."
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That's not the gospel at all.
That's not the gospel at all.
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The gospel is not
about us, it concerns us.
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But the gospel is not about us,
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country to a million
sermons to the country.
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The gospel is not
what you ought to do.
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The gospel is about
what God has done for you.
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It says, "It is the gospel
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concerning His
Son Jesus Christ."
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So let it get down into
the molecules of your mind
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and tell yourself,
"The gospel is not about me,
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it's about God."
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And how good He is.
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This letter was
carried by Phoebe
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under her gown
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written by Paul
the Apostle to Rome,
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city that was
full of corruption,
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sexual depravity,
perversions, cruelty, slavery,
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ruled by despots and tyrants.
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Just like the world
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we are living in
today is trending.
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Written to the Romans,
the day the Frenchman said,
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"It is the greatest masterpiece
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the human mind
has ever conceived
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or realized."
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But it takes
effort to understand it,
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it is not easy.
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I'm not teaching
today an easy religion.
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I don't believe in it.
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If it costs you
nothing, it's worth the same.
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Tyndale who was
burned for his faith
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and who gave us our Bible,
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the English Bible, said,
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"It's good, glad
and merry tidings
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that makes a man's
heart to sing for joy
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and his feet to dance."
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And so if a miracle occurs
and you receive a supernatural
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revelation from God.
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If this happens,
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then you will know in your soul,
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good, glad, and merry tidings.
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It will make your heart to sing
for joy and your feet to dance.
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I ask this question, I
want you to think about it.
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If everything I've told
you so far is true, if Tyndale,
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the great British
reformer was true.
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If it's good,
glad, and merry tidings
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that makes a man
heart to sing for joy.
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Why are there so many
miserable churchgoers?
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I put it to you.
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You laugh about it.
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The reason is,
they've got religion,
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but they haven't got the gospel.
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They are deceived.
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The gospel is the
good news about God.
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Don't you know
that the inquisition,
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the bloody inquisition,
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the people who worked the rack
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and stretched people out
until they bust were clergymen.
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The whole system
was a religious crusade.
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They were religious, but
they were not Christians.
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Richard Dawkins
says, there you are,
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it proves that
Christianity is wrong.
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No, it doesn't.
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It proves that there is
a counterfeit Christianity.
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And most people seem to have it.
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That's why they soaks.
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If you meet a person in church
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who is sour, self
righteous, critical...
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then look past that person.
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Luther gave us the
Protestant Reformation,
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said, this is the chief
part of the New Testament
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and the purest gospel.
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And that is why I
don't apologize to you.
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I don't
apologize to the audience.
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I don't
apologize to the audience
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and say, "Oh,
look, I'm terribly sorry.
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I'm not a dancing,
laughing, clowning pastor."
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No, I'm not.
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I belong to the old
school of biblical scholarship
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where we believe
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that God speaks
through His Word.
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Now I meet some other people,
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they say, "Oh, but
you missed the point.
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I don't need to
read the scriptures.
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I'm filled with the Holy Ghost.
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Hallelujah."
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Listen.
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Okay, let me tell
you, folks, something.
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In the scriptures,
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to be filled
with the Holy Spirit
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is the same as being
filled with the Word.
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If you think you're
filled with the Holy Spirit
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and you're not
obeying the Word of God,
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then you are deluded.
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Because a person who is
filled with the Holy Spirit
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is also filled to the
top with the Word of God.
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So if you want to be filled
with the spirit, my friend,
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you better get back to
the reading of scripture,
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start with 30 minutes a day.
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And you say, "Look,
it's just too hard."
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My friend, ask God
to help you to overcome
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your spiritual laziness.
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They know but I
don't like being...
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I'm sorry.
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No, I'm not.
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But I'm sorry if I offend you.
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The price and
the prize are equal.
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Think about that.
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The price and
the prize are equal.
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To be filled with the spirit
is to be filled with the Word.
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I've got,
pastored for many years,
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people coming to me, they say,
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"I've got this
spiritual problem."
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How much time do
you spend reading?
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Well, I don't. How
much time you spent?
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Oh! That's all I do.
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No wonder you're such a mess.
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Jesus said, "It is written,
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'Man shall not
live by bread alone,
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but by every word
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that proceeds out
of the mouth of God.'"
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Let me tell you
how great this book is
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that was written by Paul,
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inspired by the Holy Spirit.
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The preaching of Romans.
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The preaching of Romans
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brought about the
Protestant Reformation.
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The Protestant
Reformation, is that a big deal?
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Well, people don't realize
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before the
Protestant Reformation,
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there was zero
freedom in the world.
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No freedom.
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There was an
apostate corrupt church
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and people who
are for their faith
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were being burnt alive.
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The Protestant
Reformation gave us freedom,
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brought about the
collapse of religious tyranny.
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Religious tyranny, what is that?
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It is where the church
told you what you had to do,
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what you had to think,
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and how you could be
saved by paying money.
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So we had freedom,
collapse of religious tyranny,
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the rise of democracy who
came over here to America,
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were they atheists I ask you,
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where they communist I ask you,
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where they are members
of the great state church
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I ask you.
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People say, "Well, I don't know,
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my American friends find out
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the people who came
over on that tiny little boat
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came over with the Bible
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and they had been born and bred
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in the understanding
of the Book of Romans.
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And this is why today
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we have the Bill of Rights,
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the Constitution.
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People I know,
I've had some people
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who were so ignorant
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tell me that America
was founded by atheists.
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I didn't say how
dumb can you get.
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What a perversion
of church history,
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what a changing
of church history.
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Protestant Reformation,
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freedom collapse
of religious tyranny,
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the rise of democracy,
you wouldn't be here today.
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You would not be celebrating
the rights of Americans,
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were it not for
the Book of Romans,
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but the devil has
deceived most of us.
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And now most of
us have a religion
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which is based on trivia.
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My appeal, is an
appeal to scripture.
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Romans when accepted
brings peace, health, power,
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prosperity,
freedom, and eternal life.
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And my purpose
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is not a verse
by verse exegesis,
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but a broad outline of
the great theme of Romans.
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So put your thinking caps on.
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Romans 1.
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The gospel of Christ
is the only solution.
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And the pagan secular
world without the gospel
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stands condemned
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under the wrath of Almighty God.
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Romans 1:1-3.
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Look at it, Romans 1:1-3,
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"Paul a
bondservant of Jesus Christ
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called to be an apostle,
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separated to the
gospel of God the good news
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which He promised before hand
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through His prophets
in the Holy Scriptures
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concerning His Son
Jesus Christ, our Lord,
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who was born of
the seed of David
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according to the flesh."
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So the gospel is not about us,
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it's about God.
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And what He's done.
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And there's only one
solution to the human dilemma.
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Romans 1:16,
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"For I'm not ashamed
of the gospel of Christ,
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the good news of Christ.
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For it is the
power of God to salvation
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for everyone who believes,
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for the Jew first
and also for the Greek."
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It means for white people,
and black people, and Jews,
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and Gentiles, Australians,
Americans, and everybody.
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There's only one solution.
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Now you don't get a lot
of good news in Romans 1.
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Romans 1 and Romans 2
prepares for good news
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by telling us the bad news.
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Verse 18 says,
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"For the wrath of God
is revealed from heaven
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against all ungodliness
and unrighteousness of men,
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who suppress the
truth in unrighteousness."
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The Bible here talks
about the wrath of God.
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Oh, what an old
fashioned hideous idea.
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Very few churches talk
about the wrath of God.
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I am here to tell you today
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that the God we
worship and the God we serve
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is not a cuddly teddy bear,
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He is the awesome
God of righteousness
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who loves us.
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But who cannot tolerate evil,
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the wrath of God.
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And then it talks
about the sins of the world.
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Romans 1:24 and 25.
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"Therefore God also
gave them up to uncleanness,
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in the lusts of their hearts,
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to dishonor their
bodies among themselves,
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who exchanged the
truth of God for the lie,
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and worshiped and
serve the creature
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rather than the creator
who was blessed forever."
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So people put the creature
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in the place of the creator.
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And verse 26 and 27 describes
the sins of the pagan world.
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For this reason
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God gave them up
to vile passions.
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For even their women
exchanged the natural use
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for what is against nature.
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Likewise also the men,
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leaving the
natural use of the woman,
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burned in their
lust for one another,
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men with men
committing what is shameful,
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and receiving in themselves
the penalty of their error
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which was due."
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As the ancient
world of the old Romans
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got away from God,
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the Bible says,
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"As they turn from the creator,
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they indulged in all
sorts of perversions."
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Now I want to say
very plainly here,
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I stand by scripture.
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But God loves the gay community
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just as He much as He
loves the straight community,
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society's straight community.
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And Christ died for
all people for gays,
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and lesbians,
bisexuals, heterosexuals.
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Christ died for everybody,
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but the wrath of God is
revealed in verse 29 and 30.
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These are terrible verses,
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"Being filled with
all unrighteousness,
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sexual immorality,"
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these are the sins
of heterosexuals too,
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"wickedness,
covetousness, maliciousness,
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full of envy, murder,
strife, deceit, evil-mindedness,
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they are whisperers,
backbiters, haters of God,
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violent, proud, boasters,
00:25:23.82\00:25:25.99
inventors of evil things,
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disobedient to parents.
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And Romans 1 starts
with this tremendous chapter
00:25:31.46\00:25:36.03
where it says, "The
wrath of God is revealed."
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So Romans 1 tells us
00:25:42.50\00:25:45.01
that the world
outside the church
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is lost and damned
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under the judgments of God,
00:25:51.41\00:25:54.98
and if the world
needs anything, my friend,
00:25:55.02\00:25:58.89
it is not good advice.
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It is good news.
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And the good news
follows in just a few moments.
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God has got a time and
a place for everything,
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nothing happens by chance.
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In spite of the
powers of darkness,
00:26:30.42\00:26:33.82
nothing can
destroy the church of God.
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And I'm not
ashamed of the Gospel
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of the Lord Jesus Christ.
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That the gospel is
not about you and me,
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it is the good news
about the Lord Jesus Christ.
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