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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Today we're
studying the Book of Romans,
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the greatest masterpiece
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that the human mind has
ever conceived or realized.
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Let me say this.
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It's impossible to
understand this book
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without an enlightenment
by the Holy Spirit.
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Now that's sort of a
throwaway phrase and you say,
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"Well, you know,
is that really true?"
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More than a
thousand million people
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in the greatest
church in the world
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have got it wrong.
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The greatest brains
in the religious world,
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some of the greatest brains
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from the Council of
Trent, they got it wrong.
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And millions and
millions of people
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get it wrong.
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Now this is
pretty, pretty scary stuff
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because you've got to,
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you've got to have
a revelation from God.
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People say well,
"Hasn't happened to me."
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Well, it can happen to
you, it can happen to you,
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it happened to me.
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I've seen it happen to
large numbers of people
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and I've seen lots
and lots of people,
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super religious people sit there
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as hardened as they
could be, they don't get it.
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But the gospel is
not about my performance.
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It's not about my attainment,
it's not about my works,
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it is about God,
what God has done for me.
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Now in the first
section we discovered that
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it's all by grace.
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And the
justification is a declaration
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that I'm a sinner,
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I'm declared righteous, I come
into a new standing with God.
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Not because of my
personal piety on my works
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but because of the grace of God.
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Now we pick up with Romans 6.
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And this answers the question
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because I'm saved
by the grace of God
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purely through faith
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shall we continue the rebellion.
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Roman 6:1, 2,
"What shall we say then?"
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Because we are
saved without our works,
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because we are saved by grace.
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"Shall we continue in
sin that grace may abound?
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Certainly not!
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How shall we who died to sin
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live any longer in it?"
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Paul now deals with this
great theological problem.
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I'm saved without my works,
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I'm saved
without any human merit.
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Then can I just go on
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and continue to
break the law of God
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and who
fornicates and adulterate.
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That's the question.
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This book is put
together like a lawyer's brief.
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The greatest masterpiece.
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Now this is an amazing truth
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and not one in
my humble opinion,
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in my experience,
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not one in a
thousand understands.
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Here it is.
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Legally when
Christ died, I died.
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Now look at Romans 6:5, 6,
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"For if we have
been united together
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in the likeness of His death,
certainly we also shall be
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in the likeness
of His resurrection,
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knowing this, that our old
man was crucified with Him,
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that the body of sin
might be done away with,
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that we should no
longer be slaves of sin."
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It says, I was
crucified with Christ.
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What does it mean?
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Many of us don't get this.
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2 Corinthians 5:14
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helps us to understand it.
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"For the love of
Christ compels us,
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because we judge thus,
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that if One died for
all," what does it say?
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"All died."
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Hey.
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Have you thought about this?
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If one died for all,
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then all died in Christ.
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In Christ, I hung on the cross.
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I paid in Christ
the penalty for my sin.
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And people say no, no, no,
that's, you can't say that.
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Well, that's exactly
what the Bible is saying.
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If one died for
all, then all died.
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In Christ, my old
self is legally dead.
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Romans 6:11,
12, Romans 6:11, 12.
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"Likewise you also,
reckon," look at this word,
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"reckon yourselves to
be dead indeed to sin,
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but alive to God in
Christ Jesus our Lord.
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Therefore do not let sin
reign in your mortal body,
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that you should
obey it in its lusts."
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Because legally you
died with Christ on the cross
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because this
happened to you legally.
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Now experience it.
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Reckon yourself
to be dead under sin,
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what Christ,
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what happened to
you on Christ's cross
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now translate that
into your experience.
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What happens
when I accept Christ
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and the true gospel?
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The Holy Spirit
comes into my life.
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At the same
time as justification
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regeneration occurs,
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I become dead to
the old way of sin.
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I become dead to hate, envy,
lying, stealing, fornicating,
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selfish ambition, pride
which is the worst of sins,
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the sin of the
church, the sin of Christians,
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pride, greed, lust,
anger, drunkardness.
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And if a person
comes fully to Christ,
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he comes as a penitent
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and the Spirit of
God comes into his life.
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And there comes a death to sin.
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And so sour people become sweet.
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Pharisees, this is the
greatest of all miracles.
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Pharisees become nice.
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Sergi came to my
meetings in Russia,
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he was a mafia man,
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one of the leaders of the mafia,
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he came to me,
he heard the gospel.
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He discovered that
Christ had died for him
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and legally he
died on the cross.
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Listen, the law cannot
judge and condemn a dead man.
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Go away and think about that.
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The law cannot
condemn me if I'm dead,
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through Christ I'm
a dead man, you see.
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They threatened his life.
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Sergi said you can take my
life but you can't take Christ.
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This Ilder,
close friend of mine,
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he was the head
of the Russian mafia,
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this guy, we
blocked out his face,
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can't let it be
seen on television.
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Had an army of
400 mafia soldiers
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armed to the teeth with
machine gun, everything.
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People tell me, oh,
you're just an old guy now
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and you really
haven't kept up with them,
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what do you...
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Well, listen, I've seen a
lot of things, I still do.
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That's why I
believe in evangelism.
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The reason we
don't do evangelism
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is because we're
not keeping the faith,
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that's the reason.
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Why don't you do public?
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Oh, public
evangelism doesn't work
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'cause it doesn't
work, if you don't do it,
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of course it doesn't work.
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Of course, it doesn't.
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God has never blessed
an evangelistic campaign
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that was never run.
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And I hear these people
say, "Oh, but it doesn't work."
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"Oh, don't cry on
my shoulder, grow up.
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Get the Spirit
of God inside you."
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Become a soldier, not a wimp.
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So this man came,
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every time I go to
Russia he comes to see me,
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I wouldn't mess with him.
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But he is now a
born again Christian.
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We become new,
listen to this word,
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we become new and nice.
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Gone is the bitter
fault finding tongue.
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You go to churches
where people are full of gore.
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Have you been to
churches like that,
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full of gore, they're bitter,
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carrying grudges,
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a poison of asp is
under their tongues,
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the Bible says.
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They fill up with religion
but they are not Christians.
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It's a bit hard,
don't get me stirred up.
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When I come to
Christ is a big change.
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Gone is a self
righteous attitude.
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Gone is the will for
breaking of God's law.
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In our first
year in the ministry,
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Beverley and I, many years ago
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were sent to the
outback of Australia
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to a town by the
name of Broken Hill.
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We all ran with
the senior pastor,
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Pastor Todnuf, we ran
an evangelistic campaign.
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Oh, Mr. Pride
came to the meetings,
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pride by name, pride by nature,
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hated
Christianity, hated the church.
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He was 83 and
planning to get a divorce.
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I told him, brother, forget it.
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When he heard this truth,
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he became the most loving
and the most lovable Christian.
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Transformed by grace, divine.
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Then you come to Romans 7.
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And Romans 7 could be
summed up in these words,
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perfect and imperfect.
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Pray that God will
help you to understand this.
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I know people
will listen to this
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and they will say,
"I can't believe this."
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This is because
you're not reading the Bible.
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That's because you're
so blinded by churchliness
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and tradition, read the texts.
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Romans 7, perfect and imperfect.
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Romans 7:4.
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Romans 7,
"Therefore, my brethren,
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you also have
become dead to the law."
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The law doesn't die.
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"Through the body of Christ,
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that you may be
married to one another,
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to Him who was
raised from the dead,
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then we should
bear fruit to God."
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The law doesn't die.
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The sinner dies in
Christ, on the cross,
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and the law cannot
condemn a dead man.
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I'm no longer
married to sin but to Christ.
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And this is going
to tell you something
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that many folks don't get
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because their religion is
just a lot of hype and emotion,
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not based on good Bible study.
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There is a
conflict between two natures
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in the born again
believer who's justified.
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Romans 7:12, 13.
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Romans 7,
"Therefore the law is holy..."
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This is a Christian talking,
this is not a nonbeliever.
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"And the commandment:
holy and just and good."
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People say, "No, this
person got to be a bad person."
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"Has then what is
good become death to me?
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Certainly not!
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But sin, that it
might appear sin,
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was producing death in
me through what is good,
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so that sins
through the commandment
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might become
exceedingly sinful."
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Here is a man who gets
very, very close to God
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and he says,
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"We know that the law is
holy but I'm not a good person.
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I'm slipping, I'm falling.
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And those of you who
still read your Bibles
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and still think,
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let me give you
a little insight.
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This chapter is in the
context of sanctification.
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Number one, little
bit of Bible scholarship
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doesn't hurt.
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It's in the
context to sanctification.
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It's not talking about
Paul before he was born again
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but Paul after he's born again.
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Who disagrees with me?
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The Jesuits.
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Because the Jesuit said,
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"This could not
be a born again man"
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because we've
got to become sinless
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before which we're saved.
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And most people
don't know this stuff
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that you're hearing today.
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And that's why they're
struggling and falling,
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and they're bitter
and they're critical,
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and not very nice.
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But the closer
Paul comes to Christ,
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the more sinful he
appears in his own eyes,
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and I say to the
Adventists watching,
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go on and read
Acts of the Apostles,
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that's what Ellen White taught.
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She said this was
the experience of Paul
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who was born again,
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who was coming closer to Christ.
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When you get closer to Christ,
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you won't start to
think you're better,
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you'll start to
think you're worse.
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Now I'm going to
give you a statement
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from Martin Luther.
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Luther said, "A
Christian is always a sinner,
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always a penitent,
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always right with God."
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There are many of my friends
who say I can't believe that,
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this is another
terrible heresy Luther,
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"A Christian is always a sinner,
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always a penitent,
always right with the God."
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No. Don't believe that.
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This is condoning evil.
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Now this is confronting reality.
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Because every sinner,
every Christian I know
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is a sinner,
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you don't know
that, ask your spouse,
00:15:13.01\00:15:16.85
ask your
children, ask your friends.
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We are continually,
it says in Romans 3,
00:15:21.88\00:15:25.05
we continue to fall
short of the glory of God.
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Now Luther and
Paul are not talking
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about people going out
and committing adultery,
00:15:34.03\00:15:36.56
and fornicating, and
lying, and Sabbath breaking.
00:15:36.60\00:15:42.44
But what Luther is
talking about is this.
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As we come closer to God,
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we know that
we're wretched sinners.
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I'm not, you say, well that's
because you don't see yourself
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as God does.
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A Christian is always a
sinner, always a penitent.
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What's a penitent?
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Lord, I'm sorry, I did this,
I shouldn't have done this.
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I was critical of so and
so. What a big mouth I am.
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Lord, save me from my mouth.
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He's a penitent.
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He's always sorry
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and he's always right with God.
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Listen to this.
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Happy the home
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where the parents are penitents,
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happy the church
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where the church
members are penitents.
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I would not want
to belong to a church
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where the people
think they are perfect,
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and they're sinless.
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Oh, what a
miserable bunch of Pharisees.
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But where people are saying,
brother, I'm not doing so good,
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please forgive me.
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That's getting
close to paradise.
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You know who
disagreed with this?
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The Council of Trent
that was run by the Jesuits.
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Luther was greatly
opposed by the Jesuits
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and the Council of
Trent who were perfectionists.
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And that is why our
Roman Catholic friends
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have purgatory.
00:17:26.31\00:17:30.91
It's not just a
tool to collect money,
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it is a redemptive
act of God, you know why?
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No one is perfect
when he dies in himself.
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Therefore the Catholic Church
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came up with this
theological necessity
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that you've got
to go to purgatory
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for millions of
years, you know why?
00:17:51.57\00:17:54.07
So the sin is burned out of you
00:17:54.10\00:17:56.71
because
justification is a process
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and in purgatory
justification continues
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until the person is good
enough to see the face of God.
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That's why Mother
Teresa was suicidal.
00:18:09.48\00:18:13.66
And that's why that
young man took his life
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'cause he's been
taught this garbage.
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This is the sword
that slays the dragon
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of self righteousness.
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People become new
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and nice.
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Oh.
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Easy to live with.
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Good to belong to such a church.
00:18:37.18\00:18:40.15
There's no greater vice
than self righteousness,
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the Pharisees murdered Christ.
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You want to be like them?
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Romans 7 says,
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"We are imperfect in ourselves
but we are perfect in Christ,
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and the law cannot
condemn a dead man."
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Hallelujah. You see.
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So read it and think
about it, don't be lazy.
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I've had so many people
say to me, oh, I believe...
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Look, I really don't
care what you believe.
00:19:11.48\00:19:13.45
People say, but I think,
I don't care what you think.
00:19:13.48\00:19:16.89
I don't. I want
to go by the Bible.
00:19:16.92\00:19:21.09
I don't want
people coming in and say,
00:19:21.12\00:19:22.46
"But I have a feeling."
00:19:22.49\00:19:23.83
No, I don't go by my
feelings, I go by it is written.
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Amen. You see.
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And so should you.
00:19:32.87\00:19:34.37
We're not saved by our feelings,
00:19:34.40\00:19:36.60
then you come to Romans 8.
00:19:36.64\00:19:39.27
And Romans 8 says,
in spite of everything,
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we are not condemned.
00:19:42.81\00:19:44.68
Goodness me, talk about grace.
00:19:44.71\00:19:46.28
There is therefore
now no condemnation
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to those who
are in Christ Jesus.
00:19:51.99\00:19:55.69
Then it describes them.
00:19:55.72\00:19:57.06
"Who do not walk
according to the flesh
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but according to the spirit.
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Even though I am
imperfect in Christ,
00:20:01.30\00:20:04.87
I'm not condemned."
00:20:04.90\00:20:06.27
You can condemn
me but God doesn't.
00:20:06.30\00:20:09.30
Then Romans 8:7-9.
00:20:09.34\00:20:12.87
These are tremendous chapters
00:20:12.91\00:20:15.64
"Because the carnal
mind is enmity against God,
00:20:15.68\00:20:19.11
for it is not
subject to the law of God."
00:20:19.15\00:20:21.18
So the law of God is
not abolished, is it?
00:20:21.22\00:20:23.65
"Nor indeed can be.
00:20:23.69\00:20:25.02
So then, those are in
the flesh cannot please God."
00:20:25.05\00:20:30.16
But you are not in the
flesh but in the Spirit,
00:20:30.19\00:20:32.89
if indeed the Spirit
of God dwells in you.
00:20:32.93\00:20:37.03
"Now if anyone," oh,
this is a terrible text,
00:20:37.07\00:20:39.50
"if anyone does not
have the Spirit of Christ,
00:20:39.53\00:20:43.10
he is none of His."
00:20:43.14\00:20:45.44
You can talk religion
until the cows come home.
00:20:45.47\00:20:49.41
But if you don't
have the Spirit of Christ,
00:20:49.44\00:20:52.51
you don't belong to Him.
00:20:52.55\00:20:55.28
This talks about
the carnal nature
00:20:55.32\00:21:02.22
that must be put to death.
00:21:02.26\00:21:05.86
We should ask the
question, what do we feed on.
00:21:05.89\00:21:09.76
What sort of television,
the movies, the video games,
00:21:09.80\00:21:12.63
the porn that
feeds the carnal nature.
00:21:12.67\00:21:17.54
This is why America
that was raised up by God
00:21:17.57\00:21:19.94
is going down
00:21:19.97\00:21:23.21
because America
today and the churches
00:21:23.24\00:21:25.31
are feeding on filth and
they can't think straight,
00:21:25.35\00:21:30.39
can't think straight.
00:21:30.42\00:21:31.75
You think they're
reading their Bibles?
00:21:31.79\00:21:33.49
No. Don't think so.
00:21:33.52\00:21:34.89
Remember whatever gets
your attention gets you.
00:21:34.92\00:21:39.26
If porn gets your
attention, it will get you.
00:21:39.29\00:21:42.43
If Christ gets your
attention, Christ will get you.
00:21:42.46\00:21:46.00
Whatever gets your
attention gets you.
00:21:46.03\00:21:49.30
But here is the consummation,
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I think the high
point of all scripture.
00:21:52.61\00:21:56.14
"In spite of persecution,
sufferings, inner conflicts,
00:21:56.18\00:22:00.18
down days," which I
have "up days," which I have
00:22:00.22\00:22:04.62
"and every distress,
nothing can defeat us."
00:22:04.65\00:22:10.03
This is the high
point of scripture.
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Romans 8:3.
00:22:11.46\00:22:15.33
"What then shall we
say to these things?
00:22:15.36\00:22:18.93
If God is for us,
who can be against us?"
00:22:18.97\00:22:23.10
Thirty five.
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Verse 35, "Who shall separate us
00:22:25.14\00:22:27.91
from the love of Christ?
00:22:27.94\00:22:30.45
Shall tribulation, or distress,
or persecution, or famine,
00:22:30.48\00:22:34.42
or nakedness, or
peril, or sword?"
00:22:34.45\00:22:37.29
Nothing. Because
Christ died for me.
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Then the next
verse, I think it's 37.
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"Yet in all these things,"
00:22:44.99\00:22:48.70
the good things
and the bad things,
00:22:48.73\00:22:51.53
the ups and the downs,
00:22:51.57\00:22:55.04
the vicissitudes of life
that disloyalty of friends.
00:22:55.07\00:23:01.38
"Yet in all these things
we are more than conquerors
00:23:01.41\00:23:04.85
through Him who loved us."
00:23:04.88\00:23:07.45
Can't get beaten.
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Verse 38, and then 39.
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This is the high
point of all scripture now.
00:23:12.02\00:23:14.99
"For I am persuaded
00:23:15.02\00:23:18.39
that neither death nor life,
00:23:18.43\00:23:23.37
nor angels, nor principalities
00:23:23.40\00:23:27.94
nor powers, nor things present
00:23:27.97\00:23:32.44
nor things to come,
nor height nor depth,
00:23:32.47\00:23:38.25
nor any other created thing,
shall be able to separate us
00:23:38.28\00:23:43.02
from the love of God
00:23:43.05\00:23:44.82
which is in
Christ Jesus our Lord."
00:23:44.85\00:23:48.36
Hallelujah.
00:23:48.39\00:23:49.72
And so these
chapters some would say
00:23:53.76\00:24:00.04
are the greatest writings
in the history of humanity,
00:24:00.07\00:24:04.01
that's why most people
00:24:04.04\00:24:05.37
because they're
so brain destroyed,
00:24:05.41\00:24:10.88
no longer read them.
00:24:10.91\00:24:12.75
They are good at
telling you what to do...
00:24:12.78\00:24:14.92
But this book shows
the sinful state of man.
00:24:18.32\00:24:25.26
Romans 1, the Gentiles lost.
00:24:25.29\00:24:29.16
Romans 2, the
religious world lost.
00:24:29.20\00:24:31.83
Romans 3, all lost.
00:24:31.87\00:24:34.87
No hope, except God
in Christ becomes the...
00:24:34.90\00:24:41.78
Not just the
expiation, the propitiation.
00:24:41.81\00:24:44.88
The wrath of God that
is described in Romans 1.
00:24:44.91\00:24:49.95
And in Romans 2,
it's laid upon Him
00:24:49.98\00:24:51.85
as He hangs on the cross.
00:24:51.89\00:24:55.32
It's almost too hard to believe.
00:24:55.36\00:24:56.76
And what must I do?
00:25:00.50\00:25:02.53
Come as a
penitent, nothing in my hand
00:25:02.56\00:25:06.23
I bring simply to
Thy cross I cling.
00:25:06.27\00:25:11.47
You've got to have a revelation
00:25:11.51\00:25:14.11
going to church
for a million years
00:25:14.14\00:25:15.74
for most people will not
give them the revelation,
00:25:15.78\00:25:19.21
you can get here today.
00:25:19.25\00:25:20.85
People watching
this on television,
00:25:20.88\00:25:22.25
by the grace of
God you can get it,
00:25:22.28\00:25:24.42
but it's going to take
00:25:24.45\00:25:25.82
a supernatural
endowment of grace.
00:25:25.85\00:25:29.82
And we see it,
and we see ourselves.
00:25:29.86\00:25:32.69
I'm a stinking sinner.
00:25:32.73\00:25:34.06
I'm a great sinner.
00:25:36.67\00:25:38.50
As John Newton
said two great truths,
00:25:38.53\00:25:40.34
he said, said I'm an old man,
I remembered only two truths.
00:25:40.37\00:25:45.64
I am a great sinner, but
Christ is a great savior.
00:25:45.67\00:25:52.28
Amen.
00:25:52.31\00:25:53.65
Therefore
nothing in all creation
00:25:53.68\00:25:58.35
can separate us
from the love of God.
00:25:58.39\00:26:02.09
In the name of the
Father and of the Son
00:26:02.12\00:26:05.66
and of the Holy Spirit.
00:26:05.69\00:26:08.93
Amen.
00:26:08.96\00:26:10.50
Amen. And amen.
00:26:10.53\00:26:12.37
Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
00:26:12.40\00:26:15.10
Jesus said, "All
authority has been given to Me
00:26:20.61\00:26:23.65
in heaven and on earth.
00:26:23.68\00:26:26.11
Go therefore and make
disciples of all the nations,
00:26:26.15\00:26:30.49
baptizing them in
the name of the Father
00:26:30.52\00:26:32.95
and of the Son and
of the Holy Spirit."
00:26:32.99\00:26:35.69
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