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,
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life, peace,
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prosperity, and
deliverance from tyranny.
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Welcome to Romans.
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We give you a
great welcome today.
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We welcome you
here in our studio
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in Southern California.
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And also our terrific audience
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across the United
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and right around the world.
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Now, we have been
studying the Book of Romans.
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And Romans has been
called the greatest masterpiece
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that the human mind has
ever conceived or realized.
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The greatest book ever written
in the history of the world.
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Today, this is Romans, part 2.
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Now, I want you to
put yourself in my shoes.
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Number of years ago,
quite a few years ago...
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A young man in the
great city of Melbourne,
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earnest young man,
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came under the influence
of some religious teachers.
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This is young man in the
prime of his life in university,
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a very sensitive
young man and he's told,
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unless you become
totally and absolutely sinless,
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you can't be saved.
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And this is drummed into him.
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You've got to be perfect
and you've got to be saved
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through coming to God
and becoming so surrendered
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that you are absolutely sinless
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as Christ was sinless.
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And this young man
went into his garage,
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in the family house,
and got in the family car,
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and turned on the car,
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closed up the
garage and killed himself.
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Now I was the pastor of
a great church in Sydney.
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It was called
the Wahroonga Church.
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Wahroonga is
northern suburbs, Sydney.
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Beautiful place.
Just gorgeous place.
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And I had
hundreds, and hundreds,
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and hundreds of young
people in that church,
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most of them from the
Sydney Adventist Hospital,
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a great institution.
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And they had come
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under the influence of
strong religious teachers
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who were telling them,
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they had to be sinless
before they could be saved.
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Now I put it to
you, what would you do?
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What on earth would you do?
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Would you give in to
pressure and go with the crowd?
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What would you do?
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I will tell you, my
friends, what I did.
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I preached the Gospel of Christ,
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because the Gospel of Christ
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is good news.
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I want you to know this
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because most folks don't get it.
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But you're going to get it.
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The gospel is good news
and it's not good advice.
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Advice is what you ought to do.
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Advice is doo, doo,
doo, cock a doodle doo.
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And there's a million preachers
who are preaching good advice.
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The gospel is not good
advice, it is good news.
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Now news is about
something that someone has done.
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And the gospel is the good news
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about what God in
Christ has done for us.
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Now this is the
great difference.
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It's not about me.
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Look at Romans 1:1 and 3.
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And if you and I
can get this today,
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it's going to be a great relief.
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And some are you
sitting here today,
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all of a sudden you're
going to get a revelation,
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and you're going to say,
I've never seen that before,
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I've been terribly burdened,
I've been terribly worried.
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Romans 1:1 and 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."
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The good news of God.
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And verse 3 says,
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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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Therefore, let this get
down into our minds that gospel
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is not about me, it is
not about my performance.
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Now people go,
"That's what I heard."
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No, the gospel is not about me,
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the gospel is about God.
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And it's good news.
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Now last time I spoke,
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I dealt with
Romans chapter 1, 2 and 3.
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If you missed that,
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you can see it on
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Today, Romans, this
is going to be hard.
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Romans 3, 4, 5, 6,
7 and 8 so help me.
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Romans chapter 3 says
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that we are
justified by the grace of God.
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Look at Romans 3:23,
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dear hearts and gentle people.
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The Bible says,
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"For all have
sinned and fall short
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of the glory of God."
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This is a text most
people don't understand.
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It says all have sinned.
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The Greek say
and the English says.
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This is continuous.
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This is perfect continuous,
not past tense, all have sin,
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that's past.
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But this fall short
is what is happening now.
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The Bible teaches
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that every person except Christ,
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every person is falling
short of the glory of God.
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Now you said, no, no, that's,
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not if I've been a
Christian for 50 years,
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I've finally attained...
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No, that's not true.
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You can argue with me,
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but don't argue
with the scriptures.
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The Bible says,
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we continue to fall
short of the glory of God.
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Now the Bible tells us this,
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that in Adam we have all fallen.
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This goes against the
pride of the human heart,
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especially the people
who are super religious,
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some of the
most dangerous people
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on the face of the earth,
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the super
religious, the Pharisees.
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The Bible says,
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"We are falling
short of the glory of God."
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This graph tells you,
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here we are humanity is
falling into the flames of hell.
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And there is only one person
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who's gone
across this great chasm
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and that is Jesus Christ.
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And so the first truth is this,
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there are no people in the world
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who are good enough.
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Look at verse 24.
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And if I can get no
other truth preach today,
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I'll be glad.
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Verse 24,
"Being justified freely
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by His grace
through the redemption
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that is in Christ Jesus."
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Now you got to see this.
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The word justify here
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is very much akin to
the word righteousness
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in the Hebrew and in the Greek.
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But when the
Bible says, justify,
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it means not to make righteous,
but to declare righteous.
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People say, "Oh,
there's no difference."
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There's difference
between heaven and hell.
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I want you to see this.
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The word justify
does not mean in spite
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of a thousand
sermons to the country.
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It doesn't mean
to make me righteous.
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It means that God declares
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that John Carter
a penitent sinner
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because of Christ is righteous.
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Now you've all heard
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of Mother Teresa
whom we all love.
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This great Roman Catholic nun
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loved around the world.
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After she died, they
discovered her letters.
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Mother Teresa was
taught by the Jesuits.
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You say, "So what?
They're great people."
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Mother Teresa was taught
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that justification
means to make righteous.
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And Mother Teresa was
continually depressed,
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and in despair, and suicidal.
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And she said, "She
never saw once in her life
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the loving face of God."
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Have you heard of
the Council of Trent?
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After the Reformation,
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the Jesuits were in
charge of the Council of Trent
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and they taught
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that
justification, listen carefully,
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because maybe you believe this.
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I've met many, many
so called Protestants
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who believe Jesuit theology.
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The Jesuits
taught that justification
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was the work of the
Holy Spirit in the soul
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to make me sinless, so I
could see the face of God.
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But the awful thing is this.
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When does a
person in this lifetime
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ever come to the
state of sinless perfection?
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Because you never know
when you're good enough.
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That's why so many people
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I've met are
depressed and unhappy
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because they never know
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they've been fed a
lot of bad theology.
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Now people get mad at me
when I preach this sermon.
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I say, "Don't get mad
at me, get mad with Paul,
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get mad with Christ."
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Romans 3:25.
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If you want to get angry,
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get angry with
your own thinking.
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"Whom God set
forth as a propitiation
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and atoning sacrifice
by His blood through faith,
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to demonstrate
His righteousness,
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because in His forbearance
God had passed over the sins
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that were previously committed."
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Now I don't have
time to go into this.
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It says that, "God
might be righteous."
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This is not a
shrewdy. This is not a con job.
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God cannot just forgive sin.
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God cannot say,
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"Well, look, you've all sinned."
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Hey, forget about it.
God's got to be righteous.
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You know how God is righteous?
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On the cross
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He tastes His own wrath
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against sin.
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He pays the price.
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He's a propitiation.
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This word should not
be translated expiation
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as it is in some translation.
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Propitiation.
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So that He can be righteous
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and I can be declared righteous.
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It's almost too hard to believe.
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That's why many
people won't believe it.
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Romans 4 says, "This is
true. But it is not new."
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Back in his day
the Jewish people said,
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"This is a big heresy.
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This is the new
theology. This is a new idea."
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Remember, if it's
new, it's seldom true.
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And if it's
true, it's seldom new.
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And so now Paul says,
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"Okay, I'm going
to prove it to you
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from the Old Testament."
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Romans 4:2 and 3.
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The first example, Abraham.
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"If Abraham was
justified by works,
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he has something to boast about,
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but not before God.
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For what does
the scriptures say,
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'Abraham believed God,
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and it was accounted to
him for righteousness.'"
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So this is not a poor
lame doctrine in itself.
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This is the very
basis of the Old Testament
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that we cannot be saved by law.
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Romans 4:5,
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the most radical
text in the Bible.
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I've had people get
almost filled with rage
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when I've quoted this text.
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"But to him who does not work,"
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as far as
salvation is concerned,
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"but believes on
Him who justifies..."
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What does it say?
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Tell me what it says?
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It says,
"Justifies the ungodly."
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People who said,
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"God cannot justify the
ungodly if He justifies you."
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That's what He's
doing, because we are ungodly.
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Unlike God, He
justifies the ungodly,
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his faith is
accounted, accounted, accounted.
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It's like God puts
it to your account.
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You're a pauper, got no money,
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and God puts a billion
dollars in your account.
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You don't deserve it.
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Ellen White said this,
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"The prayers of
true believers ascend,
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go off the heaven, but passing
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through the corrupt
channels of humanity,
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they are so defiled."
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The prayers of true
believers so defiled.
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Then unless covered
by the blood of Christ,
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they worth nothing.
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So the first truth that ought
to sink down into our minds
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is that we are ungodly,
needing the grace of God.
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Unlike God, then
it brings us to David.
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It's another case.
Romans 4:6, 7 and 8.
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Romans, "For just
as David also describes
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the blessedness of the man
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to whom God
imputes righteousness
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apart from works.
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Blessed are those
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whose lawless
deeds are forgiven,
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and whose sins are covered.
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Blessed is the
man to whom the Lord
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shall not impute sin."
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We're talking
here about a murderer
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and a adulterer.
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You say it, "It's not right."
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It is the righteousness of God
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because God took
upon Himself in Christ,
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the adulteries and
the murders of King David.
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What is it called? Grace.
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This tells me,
there's hope for the sinner.
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If you feel
that you're a sinner,
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there's hope for you.
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If you feel that you're better
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than other people at
this time in your life,
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there's no hope for you
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unless you become enlightened.
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Jesus is the friend of sinners.
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Glory, glory.
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That's why Tyndale
called the Book of Romans good,
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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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Let me tell you,
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there are two great mountains
in the Bible, Mount Sinai.
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You'll never get
to heaven climbing up
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the quaking
sides of Mount Sinai.
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You can't do it.
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There's another
mountain on which Christ hangs?
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That's grace.
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The Romans 5 is a
controversial chapter
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because it says we are
lost in Adam and people say,
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"It isn't fair."
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You think Christ
dying for you is fair?
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We're not
talking about fairness.
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Romans 5, "We're lost in Adam,
but we're saved in Christ."
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Now I've done a whole series,
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verse by verse
exposition on this.
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But today,
we're doing a summary.
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We're trying to compress
the ocean into a thimble.
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So look at Romans 5:12,
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"Therefore, just
as through one man
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sin entered the
world, and death through sin,
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and thus death
spread to all men,
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because all sinned."
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I have people in
the church in Sydney,
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they would come
to me and they'd say,
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"No, we don't believe this.
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Don't believe
what you're teaching."
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But will you believe?
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I don't want to
believe that either.
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Through one man
sin entered the world.
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Adam was driving the
vehicle. He was driving.
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We were in the back seat.
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And when the car went off
the road with Adam driving,
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we went off the road with him.
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You say to me as
some people have said,
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but I wasn't in the back seat.
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I was not in Adam, I am me.
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I am me, here.
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If you weren't in
Adam, let me ask you this.
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Did you come
from another planet?
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Where did you come from?
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Now the Bible tells us
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that our Lord
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was in the loins of King David.
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Wasn't He? King
David was his father.
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When Adam sinned,
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we spiritually and
generically were in Adam.
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Adam was the head
of the human race.
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He was the spiritual head.
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He was the genetic
head of the human race.
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When Adam sinned, we
were in the back seat.
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I was there.
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And when he went off the road,
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the human race
went off with Him.
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The Bible says,
"For all sinned."
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If you wish to go and
read a good commentary
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like our own SDA commentary,
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it says, this is not
talking about individual sins.
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Oh, not?
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No, it's talking about the
fact that when Adam sinned,
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we sinned in him.
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People say, "Well,
no, no, I'm not a sinner
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until I do this and that
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and do something
bad like King David."
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No, we are born
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with the black
blood of Adam coursing
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in our veins.
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We are born in need of a Savior.
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That is why we ought to
train our little children
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when they're tiny
to say their prayers.
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I ask the
mothers and the fathers,
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"Do you see a little
children propensities
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or tendencies to sin?"
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"Oh no, I've never seen."
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You ever see a baby
show signs of bad temper?
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Where does it come from mothers?
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The fathers, yes.
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No, we know where it comes from.
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It is born in them.
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That's why
Spurgeon referred to it
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as the black blood of
Adam coursing in our veins,
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that's why Jesus said,
"You must be born again."
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What does this mean?
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Well, we're born
with this fallen nature
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and we need to be born again.
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That's what Jesus said.
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Read those verses in Romans 5.
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"Don't disregard
them, but think about it."
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What I'm telling
you is solid theology.
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Verse 19.
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This is what the
greatest scholars
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have ever taught, and
our greatest scholars,
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"For as by one
man's disobedience,"
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what does it say?
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"Many were made sinner."
Who is it talking about?
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Adam.
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"For by one man's disobedience,
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by Adam's disobedience
many were made sinners...
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So also by one man's obedience
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many will be made righteous."
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Listen carefully.
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We are born in a
state of sin and rebellion.
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You don't need to go to
the theological seminary
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to learn how to be a Pharisee.
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We are born rebels.
00:22:37.22\00:22:39.72
We are born
Pharisees. That's what we are.
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And the greatest
sin of all is a failure
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to recognize
Christ and who we are.
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And it's the
greatest of all sins.
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We're born in the
state of sin and rebellion,
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but Jesus has
redeemed Adam's failure.
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Therefore, believe in Jesus now,
00:23:08.25\00:23:12.19
and become complete,
and saved in Him now.
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A person can pass
from death to life now.
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People say, "No,
no, it's a process."
00:23:22.30\00:23:25.43
Thank you for the
Jesuit contribution.
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We're not talking
here about a process.
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We are talking about believing
00:23:32.51\00:23:35.94
with all our hearts
as penitents in Christ.
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Romans 5:20, dear
hearts and gentle people.
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"Moreover the law entered
that the offence might abound.
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But where sin abounded,
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grace abounded much more."
00:23:58.37\00:24:03.10
You see. So in
Adam, all is lost.
00:24:03.14\00:24:09.44
In Christ, all is saved.
00:24:09.48\00:24:13.38
The law came in...
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You think the law came
in and made us look good.
00:24:14.78\00:24:18.55
You think when God
gave the commandments,
00:24:18.59\00:24:20.52
it made us look good.
00:24:20.56\00:24:22.19
Where sin did abound,
00:24:22.22\00:24:24.89
we see ourselves lepers.
00:24:24.93\00:24:29.63
Now if you haven't
had that experience,
00:24:29.66\00:24:32.17
you haven't
become yet a Christian.
00:24:32.20\00:24:35.90
You may be super
religious and super pious.
00:24:35.94\00:24:39.71
The people you've got to be
suspicious of are the people
00:24:39.74\00:24:43.31
who are over religious
00:24:43.35\00:24:45.65
because they're
probably using religion
00:24:45.68\00:24:48.72
as a cloak to cover their sins.
00:24:48.75\00:24:52.85
So sin comes in
like a mighty plague,
00:24:52.89\00:24:55.79
like a mighty flood.
00:24:55.82\00:24:58.56
But when sin
comes in like a flood,
00:24:58.59\00:25:04.00
God sends the
creator of the universe.
00:25:04.03\00:25:09.94
Almost too hard to believe this.
00:25:09.97\00:25:11.51
The Creator of the cosmos comes
00:25:11.54\00:25:16.58
and He becomes the propitiation
00:25:16.61\00:25:19.21
for my guilt, and my sins,
and all of my infidelities,
00:25:19.25\00:25:24.55
and everything else.
00:25:24.59\00:25:26.19
And therefore,
what can I do? Amazing.
00:25:26.22\00:25:32.06
Nothing in my hand I bring,
00:25:32.09\00:25:35.26
simply to your cross, I cling.
00:25:35.30\00:25:39.33
And we will continue
this in just a moment.
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More amazing truths to come
00:25:43.57\00:25:46.64
about the
Redeemer just moments away.
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The antichrist is
in the temple of God.
00:26:08.16\00:26:14.00
I will read you the actual words
00:26:14.04\00:26:16.40
of the great
Roman Catholic Church.
00:26:16.44\00:26:20.94
More than a billion
people pray to the dead.
00:26:20.98\00:26:26.51
But the Bible talks very plainly
00:26:26.55\00:26:27.95
about good
angels and bad angels.
00:26:27.98\00:26:31.02
Why on earth were you
00:26:34.32\00:26:37.76
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