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>>WELCOME TO SACRAMENTO CENTRAL
SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH.
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WE ARE THRILLED THAT YOU HAVE
JOINED US TO STUDY GOD'S WORD
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TOGETHER AS YOU DO EVERY WEEK.
AND WE KNOW BY OUR E-MAILS THAT
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YOU'RE JOINING US ALL AROUND THE
WORLD - PRACTICALLY FROM EVERY
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COUNTRY - TO STUDY GOD'S WORD
TOGETHER. AND WE LOOK FORWARD TO
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THE DAY SOON, WHEN WE ARE
GOING TO BE ABLE TO SEE JESUS
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FACE TO FACE AND ALL BE JOINED
TOGETHER AS ONE BIG FAMILY.
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SO WELCOME - AND AS YOU KNOW,
FROM JOINING US EVERY WEEK,
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WE LOVE TO SING TOGETHER
SO TODAY IS NO EXCEPTION.
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TODAY I'VE CHOSEN A COUPLE OF
MY FAVORITES SO WE ARE GOING TO
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BEGIN WITH HYMN #337 -
'REDEEMED, HOW I LOVE TO
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PROCLAIM IT' - AND WE ARE
GOING TO SING ALL THREE VERSES.
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>>YOU KNOW, YOU CAN JUST
PRACTICALLY HEAR THE SAINTS
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SHOUTING THAT, CAN'T YOU?
REDEEMED, REDEEMED, REDEEMED,
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AMEN. I CAN HARDLY WAIT.
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IF YOU HAVE A FAVORITE HYMN THAT
YOU'D LIKE TO SING WITH US ON A
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COMING STUDY TOGETHER, I INVITE
YOU TO GO TO OUR WEBSITE AT
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'SACCENTRAL.ORG'.
THERE YOU CAN CLICK ON THE
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'CONTACT US' LINK AND YOU CAN
SING ANY HYMN IN OUR HYMNAL WITH
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US THAT YOU PREFER. AND
WE WILL EVEN LEARN NEW ONES.
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WE'RE GOING TO TAKE A BREAK
TODAY FROM LEARNING OUR NEW
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SONGS, JUST BECAUSE I DIDN'T
QUITE GET TO IT THIS WEEK, SO
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HYMN #348 - 'THE
CHURCH HAS ONE FOUNDATION'.
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I THOUGHT THAT WAS APPROPRIATE
AS WE SING ALL ACROSS THIS WORLD
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TOGETHER THIS MORNING.
THE CHURCH DOES HAVE ONE
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FOUNDATION AND IT IS
JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD.
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SO WE'RE GOING TO SING
ALL FOUR VERSES OF HYMN #348.
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(MUSIC)
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>>LET'S PRAY.
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OUR FATHER IN HEAVEN, WE COME
HUMBLY BEFORE YOU TODAY TO STUDY
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YOUR WORD, TO LEARN MORE ABOUT
HOW MUCH YOU LOVE US, AND TO BE
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ASSURED THAT THE CHURCH
IS GOING TO BE VICTORIOUS.
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WHEN ALL SEEMS LIKE YOU'RE NOT
COMING AGAIN - WHEN ALL SEEMS
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THE DARKEST, WE LOOK FORWARD TO
THAT DAY WHEN YOU BREAK THROUGH
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THE CLOUDS AND WE ARE DONE AND
EVERYTHING IS COMPLETE AND YOU
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TAKE US TO HEAVEN AND
WE LIVE FOREVER WITH YOU.
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LORD, WE LONG FOR THAT DAY
AND WE JUST CRY OUT TO YOU, 'HOW
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LONG, LORD?' AND WE
JUST ASK YOU TO LIVE IN
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OUR HEARTS AND HELP US TO DO OUR
PARTS THAT WE CAN HASTEN YOUR
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COMING AND THAT WHEN YOU FINALLY
BREAK THROUGH THOSE CLOUDS THAT
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NOT ONE OF US ARE MISSING AND
THAT WE ALL CAN LIVE WITH YOU
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FOREVER. LORD, WE LOOK FORWARD
TO THAT DAY, BUT UNTIL YOU COME,
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KEEP US FAITHFUL BY YOUR MIGHTY
STRONG HAND. I PRAY THESE THINGS
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IN YOUR NAME, JESUS, AMEN.
OUR STUDY TODAY WILL BE BROUGHT
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TO US BY PASTOR MIKE THOMPSON.
HE IS THE HEALTH AND OUTREACH
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PASTOR HERE AT
SACRAMENTO CENTRAL.
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>>HAPPY SABBATH EVERYBODY.
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I'D LIKE TO WELCOME YOU TO
SABBATH SCHOOL AND I HAVE A
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LITTLE BOOK HERE - THERE'S A
FREE OFFER - IT'S CALLED 'THE
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HIGH COST OF THE
CROSS' AND IT'S OFFER #156.
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AND IF YOU CALL 1-866-STUDY-MORE
OR 1-866-788-3966 AMAZING FACTS
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WILL SEND THIS TO YOU ABSOLUTELY
FREE - 'THE HIGH COST OF THE
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CROSS'. IT'S WRITTEN BY JOE
CREWS, WHO WAS THE SPEAKER OF
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AMAZING FACTS BEFORE PASTOR
DOUG. WE OFTEN THINK, WELL,
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PROBABLY DON'T THINK OF THE
CROSS AS OFTEN AS WE SHOULD, BUT
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THE PRICE THAT WAS PAID THERE
WAS JUST INFINITE AND THIS GIVES
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US A LITTLE GLIMPSE OF WHAT
PRICE GOD PAID FOR OUR SAKES.
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THERE'S A MEMORY VERSE HERE -
IT'S IN ROMANS 7, VERSE 4 - IT
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SAYS, 'IN THE SAME WAY, MY
FRIENDS, YOU HAVE DIED TO THE
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LAW THROUGH THE BODY OF CHRIST,
SO YOU MAY BELONG TO ANOTHER.
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TO HIM WHO HAS BEEN RAISED FROM
THE DEAD IN ORDER THAT WE MAY
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BEAR FRUIT TO GOD.' THERE'S
ONE LITTLE SENTENCE RIGHT AT THE
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END OF THE INTRODUCTION PAGE
- IT SAYS, "THIS WEEK WE LOOK AT
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THE DEATH OF JESUS AND WHAT IT
MEANS IN RELATION TO THE LAW."
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AND IT'S VERY NECESSARY THAT WE
DO THAT BECAUSE YOU DON'T NEED
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ME TO TELL YOU THAT THIS VERSE,
FOR EXAMPLE, HAS BEEN GREATLY
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MISINTERPRETED AND MISAPPLIED
BY MANY CHRISTIANS WHO USE IT TO
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TEACH THE IDEA THAT JESUS
ABOLISHED THE LAW WHEN HE DIED
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UPON THE CROSS. LET ME
JUST READ IT AGAIN - ROMANS 7:4,
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"WHEREFORE, MY BRETHREN," -
THIS IS THE KING JAMES VERSION -
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"WHEREFORE, MY BRETHREN, YE ALSO
ARE BECOME DEAD TO THE LAW BY
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THE BODY OF CHRIST; THAT YE
SHOULD BE MARRIED TO ANOTHER,
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EVEN TO HIM WHO IS RAISED FROM
THE DEAD, THAT WE SHOULD BRING
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FORTH FRUIT UNTO GOD."
NOW THE APOSTLE PAUL IS NOT
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TEACHING HERE THAT THE LAW IS
DEAD, BUT THROUGH JESUS WE ARE
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DEAD FROM BEING UNDER THE
LAW'S POWER TO CONDEMN US.
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IN FACT, I'M GOING TO READ
ANOTHER VERSE IN ROMANS - ROMANS
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7:6, WHICH IS AN ALTERNATE
READING TO ROMANS 7:4 AND YOU
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SEE HERE, IT SPEAKS OF NOT BEING
DEAD TO THE LAW BUT ACTUALLY
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BEING DELIVERED FROM THE LAW -
DELIVERED FROM THE CONDEMNATION
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OF THE LAW. ROMANS 7,
VERSE 6, IT SAYS, "BUT
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NOW WE ARE DELIVERED FROM THE
LAW," - NOT FROM BEING UNDER ITS
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JURISDICTION BUT FROM BEING
UNDER ITS POWER TO CONDEMN US -
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SO THAT'S WHAT WE NEED TO KEEP
IN MIND HERE. AND WE'RE BROUGHT
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OUT FROM UNDER THIS CONDEMNATION
BECAUSE JESUS TOOK UPON HIMSELF
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OUR SINS. HE TOOK OUR
SINS UPON HIS BODY. IN FACT,
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IN CORINTHIANS IT SAYS HE
BECAME SIN FOR US - HE WHO WAS
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TOTALLY INNOCENT - HE'D NEVER
ABUSED AN ORGAN OF HIS BODY.
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HE WAS PURELY INNOCENT YET HIS
BODY BECAME CORRUPTED WITH THE
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SINS HE'D NEVER COMMITTED,
BUT IT BECAME CORRUPTED WITH OUR
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SINS AND HE BORE THOSE FOR US
UPON THE CROSS AND HE SUFFERED
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THE DEATH PENALTY IN OUR PLACE
SO THAT WE DON'T HAVE TO COME
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UNDER THE
CONDEMNATION OF THE LAW.
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AND, OF COURSE, YOU DON'T NEED
ME TO TELL YOU THAT SO SERIOUS
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IS THE CONSEQUENCE OF SIN, WHICH
IS VIOLATING THE LAW, THAT ONLY
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THROUGH DEATH CAN THE OFFENDER
APPEASE THE LAW THAT THEY HAVE
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VIOLATED. IT'S
THROUGH THE POWER OF THE
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LAW THAT SIN ACTUALLY
HAS ITS STING, IF YOU LIKE.
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IF THERE WAS NO LAW THERE'D
BE NO SIN - THERE'D BE NO DEATH
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PENALTY. SO IT
DOESN'T MEAN THE LAW IS
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BAD, THE LAW IS
GOOD - IT'S RIGHTEOUS.
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BUT IT'S BECAUSE THAT LAW EXISTS
THAT, THEREFORE, SIN HAS THE
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STING OF DEATH WHEN IT STRIKES
US. SO IT'S THROUGH THE POWER
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OF THE LAW THAT SUCH
CONDEMNATION UNTO DEATH FASTENS
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ITSELF UPON THE SINNER AS
AN UNBREAKABLE BOND WHEN THEY
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VIOLATE THE PRECEPTS OF
THE SACRED AND HOLY LAW OF GOD.
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AND AS WE LOOK IN ROMANS 7, PAUL
USES THE ANALOGY OF THE BINDING
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NATURE OF MARRIAGE TO ILLUSTRATE
THE BINDING AND DEADLY UNION
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THAT EXISTS BETWEEN
THE SINNER AND THEIR SIN.
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YOU KNOW, MARRIAGE IS
SUPPOSED TO BE FOR KEEPS.
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YOU KNOW THAT, DON'T YOU?
AND IN GOD'S EYES - YOU MAKE A
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VOW BEFORE GOD - IN THE
EYES OF GOD - IN THE EYES OF -
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SPECIFICALLY THE
SEVENTH COMMANDMENT.
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YOU ARE BOUND IN THAT UNION AND
YOU CAN'T JUST WALK AWAY FROM
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THAT. LET ME READ
ROMANS 7, VERSES 1
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AND 2 - HERE'S USING THE
ANALOGY OF MARRIAGE HERE.
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HE SAYS, "KNOW YE NOT BRETHREN,
(FOR I SPEAK TO THEM THAT KNOW
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THE LAW,) HOW THAT THE LAW HATH
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DOMINION OVER A MAN
AS LONG AS HE LIVETH?
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FOR THE WOMAN WHICH HATH AN
HUSBAND IS BOUND BY THE LAW TO
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HER HUSBAND SO LONG AS HE
LIVETH; BUT IF THE HUSBAND BE
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DEAD, SHE IS LOOSED
FROM THE LAW OF HER HUSBAND."
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SO HERE PAUL, THE APOSTLE,
DESCRIBES HOW, THROUGH THE POWER
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AND THE AUTHORITY OF THE LAW
THAT BINDS A MAN AND A WOMAN IN
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THE TIGHT BONDS OF MATRIMONY,
ONLY THROUGH DEATH OF ONE OR THE
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OTHER, CAN THE REMAINING SPOUSE
THEN BE FREE TO LAWFULLY MARRY
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AGAIN IN THE EYES OF THE
LAW AND NOT BE CONDEMNED AS AN
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ADULTERER. THAT'S
HOW BINDING THE LAW IS.
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ROMANS 7, VERSE 3 - I'M
GOING TO READ THAT RIGHT NOW.
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IT SAYS, "SO THEN IF, WHILE HER
HUSBAND LIVETH, SHE BE MARRIED
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TO ANOTHER MAN, SHE SHALL BE
CALLED AN ADULTERESS: BUT IF HER
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HUSBAND BE DEAD," - SEE, IT'S
ONLY THROUGH THE DEATH OF THE
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SPOUSE - "IF HER HUSBAND BE
DEAD, SHE IS FREE FROM THAT LAW;
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SO THAT SHE IS NO ADULTERESS,
THOUGH SHE BE MARRIED TO ANOTHER
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MAN." - THAT'S HOW
BINDING MARRIAGE IS
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UPON A MAN AND A WOMAN AND ONLY
THROUGH DEATH CAN THAT UNION BE
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DISSOLVED - OR IF ONE COMMITS
ADULTERY, THE OTHER ONE IS FREE,
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UNDER THE LAW,
TO GO AND REMARRY.
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THE OTHER ONE DOES NOT HAVE
BIBLICAL GROUNDS TO DO THAT.
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SO PAUL HERE, HAVING MADE
THIS POINT THAT ONLY THROUGH THE
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DEATH OF ONE SPOUSE CAN
THE SURVIVING SPOUSE INNOCENTLY
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MARRY BEFORE THE LAW.
NOW, PAUL USES THIS TO
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ILLUSTRATE THAT THE ONLY WAY
THE SINNER CAN ESCAPE FROM THE
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MATRIMONIAL BONDS THAT EXIST
BETWEEN THEM AND THE BODY OF
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THEIR SIN IS ONLY THROUGH
DEATH. IT'S ONLY THROUGH DEATH.
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BUT THINK ABOUT THAT.
IT DOESN'T WORK QUITE LIKE
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MARRIAGE. IF YOU DIE STILL
ATTACHED TO THE BODY OF YOUR
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SIN, RIGHT, THEN YOU DIE
IN YOUR SINS. YOU FOLLOW ME?
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AND YOU DIE AS A LOST SOUL,
SO THERE'S A PREDICAMENT HERE.
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IN REAL MARRIAGE, YEAH, YOUR
SPOUSE CAN DIE - I'M NOT MAKING
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LIGHT OF ANYBODY
WHO'S LOST A SPOUSE.
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IN REAL MARRIAGE YOUR SPOUSE
CAN DIE AND YOU CAN BE FREE.
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BUT IN THE BOND BETWEEN THE
SINNER AND THE BODY OF THEIR
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SIN, IT DOESN'T
QUITE HAPPEN LIKE THAT.
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YOU KNOW, IF YOU
DIE, YOU DIE IN YOUR SINS.
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AND THIS IS WHY PAUL,
IN 7:24, HE CRIES OUT.
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HE SAYS, "O
WRETCHED MAN THAT I AM!
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WHO SHALL DELIVER ME
FROM THE BODY OF THIS DEATH?"
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HE'S SAYING, 'HOW CAN I
GET OUT OF THIS MARRIAGE?
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HOW CAN I GET OUT
OF THIS RELATIONSHIP?
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HOW CAN I GET RID
OF THIS UGLY SPOUSE?
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THE BODY OF MY SIN THAT KEEPS ME
UNDER - THE CONDEMNATION OF THE
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LAW THAT KEEPS ME UNDER THE
CONDEMNATION OF ETERNAL DEATH.
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THIS SPOUSE IS GOING TO
DRAG ME DOWN TO THE GRAVE.
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HOW DO I GET OUT OF THIS BODY OF
SIN IN WHICH I'M JUST DOOMED?'
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BOY, IT'S QUITE A
HEART CRY, ISN'T IT?
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HE WAS CONCERNED - AND WE SHOULD
BE CONCERNED ABOUT WHO WE'RE
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MARRIED TO. YOU
KNOW, IT'S TOO EASY TO
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BECOME COMPLACENT IN SIN AND
THINK, YOU KNOW, 'YEAH, I NEED
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TO HAVE A
RELATIONSHIP WITH JESUS ONE DAY.
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I NEED TO BE YOKED UP WITH HIM
RIGHT NOW, YOU KNOW, I'M MARRIED
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TO THE OLD - TO THE UGLY SPOUSE
HERE - I'LL SPEAK FOR MYSELF -
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I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT MY WIFE,
BY THE WAY! I AM TALKING ABOUT,
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FIGURATIVELY, THE
BODY OF MY SIN, OKAY?
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WE HAD OUR ANNIVERSARY
JUST A FEW DAYS AGO - 42 YEARS.
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THE POOR, DEAR GIRL -
SHE'S DOING REMARKABLY WELL.
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YOU GET THE POINT, RIGHT?
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AND MAKE IT CLEAR WITH HELEN -
MAKE SURE THAT YOU EXPLAIN HOW I
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QUALIFIED THAT STATEMENT,
JUST IN CASE SHE HEARS RUMORS.
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SO TO REINFORCE, AGAIN,
THE ANSWER TO THE QUESTION,
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"WHEREFORE, MY BRETHREN, YE ALSO
ARE BECOME DEAD TO THE LAW BY
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THE BODY OF CHRIST"
- HERE'S HOW IT WORKS.
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HERE'S HOW IT WORKS:
THIS BODY OF SIN NEEDS TO DIE.
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I CAN'T BREAK THAT BOND - IT'S
GOING TO TAKE ME WITH IT TO THE
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GRAVE. BUT WHEN
JESUS HUNG UPON THE
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CROSS OF CALVARY, THERE WAS
JOINED TO HIM THE BODY OF YOUR
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SIN. HE WAS BOUND
- IF I CAN USE THE
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TERM MATRIMONIALLY -
TO THE BODY OF YOUR SIN.
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HE TOOK YOUR SINFUL BODY AWAY
FROM YOU AND HE EMBRACED IT -
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WELL, IT KIND OF MORE EMBRACED
HIM BUT HE TOOK IT AND THAT
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UGLY, NASTY, SPOUSE IS
JUST WAITING TO TAKE YOU DOWN TO
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ETERNAL DEATH. JESUS
TOOK THAT AND HE TOOK YOUR
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UGLY - AND HE DIED AND YOUR UGLY
SPOUSE DIED WITH HIM AND HE TOOK
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YOUR UGLY SPOUSE
DOWN TO THE GRAVE.
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AND WHEN HE ROSE, HE LEFT YOUR
UGLY SPOUSE THERE SO THAT WHEN
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HE ROSE, HE FOUND YOU FREE,
SINGLE AND ELIGIBLE TO MARRY
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AGAIN. AND THAT IS -
TO BE MARRIED TO WHO?
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TO BE MARRIED TO
JESUS. ISN'T THAT WONDERFUL?
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ROMANS 7:4 SAYS, "THAT YE SHOULD
BE MARRIED TO ANOTHER, EVEN TO
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HIM WHO IS RAISED FROM THE
DEAD," - THE ONLY WAY THAT BODY
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OF SIN CAN GO - YOU LET
JESUS TAKE HIM - OR HER -
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DOWN TO THE GRAVE.
AND THROUGH THE PREVIOUS
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MARRIAGE WITH THE BODY OF
YOUR SIN, WHAT DID YOU DO?
00:20:35.66\00:20:38.50
OH, MARRIAGES USUALLY BRING
FORTH OFFSPRING, DON'T THEY?
00:20:38.50\00:20:41.46
NOT ALWAYS, BUT MANY TIMES.
00:20:41.46\00:20:44.00
AND IT SAYS IN ROMANS 7:5 -
I WANT TO READ THAT - IT SAYS,
00:20:44.00\00:20:49.66
"FOR WHEN WE WERE IN THE FLESH"
- MARRIED TO THE BODY OF OUR SIN
00:20:49.66\00:20:52.83
- "THE MOTIONS OF SINS, WHICH
WERE BY THE LAW, DID WORK IN OUR
00:20:52.83\00:20:55.60
MEMBERS TO BRING
FORTH FRUIT UNTO DEATH."
00:20:55.60\00:20:59.90
SO YOU RAISED ALL THESE
OFFSPRING - YOU BRING OFFSPRING
00:20:59.90\00:21:02.83
INTO THE WORLD - ALL THESE
FRUITS OF SIN AND SOMETIMES THEY
00:21:02.83\00:21:07.93
FOLLOW YOU
THROUGH LIFE, YOU KNOW?
00:21:07.93\00:21:09.83
AND THEY MAY STILL CAUSE SOME
CONSEQUENCES, BUT YOU CAN STILL
00:21:09.83\00:21:13.26
BE FORGIVEN AND THEY CAN BECOME
NO LONGER YOUR CHILDREN, BUT YOU
00:21:13.26\00:21:18.83
CAN BE - YOU CAN BE
SEPARATED FROM THEM.
00:21:18.83\00:21:23.43
BUT IN THE NEW MARRIAGE TO
CHRIST, THE OPPOSITE HAPPENS.
00:21:23.43\00:21:28.46
IN YOUR NEW MARRIAGE TO CHRIST
YOU BRING FORTH THE BEAUTIFUL
00:21:28.46\00:21:31.13
OFFSPRING OF THE FRUIT UNTO GOD.
00:21:31.13\00:21:33.80
LET'S LOOK AGAIN - ROMANS 7:4
- "WHEREFORE, MY BRETHREN, YE
00:21:33.80\00:21:40.10
ALSO ARE BECOME DEAD TO THE
LAW BY THE BODY OF CHRIST;" - HE
00:21:40.10\00:21:43.30
TOOK YOUR OLD SPOUSE AWAY, YOU
SEE - "...BY THE BODY OF CHRIST;
00:21:43.30\00:21:47.80
THAT YE SHOULD BE MARRIED
TO ANOTHER, EVEN TO HIM WHO IS
00:21:47.80\00:21:51.43
RAISED FROM THE DEAD," -
LEFT YOUR OLD SPOUSE DOWN THERE,
00:21:51.43\00:21:55.63
AROSE, FOUND YOU SINGLE -
ELIGIBLE, MARRIED YOU - "THAT WE
00:21:55.63\00:22:00.06
SHOULD BRING
FORTH FRUIT UNTO GOD."
00:22:00.06\00:22:04.63
POWERFUL ANALOGY, ISN'T IT?
00:22:04.63\00:22:07.80
THEN IN VERSE 6 WE READ, "BUT
NOW WE ARE DELIVERED FROM THE
00:22:07.80\00:22:13.26
LAW," - NOT FROM BEING UNDER
ITS JURISDICTION - WE'RE ALWAYS
00:22:13.26\00:22:18.30
UNDER THE JURISDICTION OF THE
LAW, BUT WE'RE DELIVERED FROM
00:22:18.30\00:22:22.23
BEING UNDER ITS CONDEMNATION
BECAUSE JESUS HAS TAKEN AWAY OUR
00:22:22.23\00:22:27.23
BODY OF SIN AND ALONG
WITH THAT BODY OF SIN, TOOK THE
00:22:27.23\00:22:30.40
CONDEMNATION THAT WAS RIGHTLY
OURS. JESUS SAID, 'GIVE IT
00:22:30.40\00:22:33.56
TO ME.' HE TOOK OUR CONDEMNATION
- HE TOOK THE WRATH OF GOD.
00:22:33.56\00:22:37.00
HE PAID THE PRICE - WHEN JESUS
DIED ON THE CROSS TWO THINGS
00:22:37.00\00:22:40.13
WERE EXHAUSTED: THE WRATH
OF GOD AND THE SON OF GOD.
00:22:40.13\00:22:45.33
OUR SINS JUST WASTED HIM
AND THAT LAW, WHICH HAD BEEN
00:22:45.33\00:22:50.00
DEMANDING THE LIFE - THE LIFE
OF EVERY MAN AND WOMAN - 'YOU'VE
00:22:50.00\00:22:55.40
BROKEN ME. I DEMAND YOUR LIFE.'
00:22:55.40\00:22:57.53
THAT LAW WAS SILENT.
JESUS HAS PACIFIED IT.
00:22:57.53\00:23:03.76
I'M NOT TEACHING, HERE, THAT
HE DIED AND YOU JUST ACCEPT THE
00:23:03.76\00:23:07.73
GIFT AND YOU DON'T CHANGE
YOUR LIFE. I DON'T MEAN THAT.
00:23:07.73\00:23:10.73
I DON'T MEAN
THAT KIND OF A THING.
00:23:10.73\00:23:15.43
BUT HE DIED FOR EVERY SINGLE
HUMAN BEING AS THEY ACCEPT HIM -
00:23:15.43\00:23:22.06
TO BE FORGIVEN, TO BE WASHED, TO
BE CLEANSED, TO BE DELIVERED, TO
00:23:22.06\00:23:27.60
BECOME NEW
CREATURES IN JESUS CHRIST.
00:23:27.60\00:23:32.76
- "BUT NOW YE ARE DELIVERED FROM
THE LAW" - NOT FROM UNDER ITS
00:23:32.76\00:23:36.60
JURISDICTION BUT UNDER ITS
CONDEMNATION - "THAT BEING DEAD
00:23:36.60\00:23:40.36
WHEREIN WE WERE HELD; THAT
WE SHOULD SERVE IN NEWNESS OF
00:23:40.36\00:23:43.93
SPIRIT, AND NOT IN THE
OLDNESS OF THE LETTER."
00:23:43.93\00:23:49.30
SO AS CHRIST DWELLS IN US - WHO
WAS THE AUTHOR OF THE LAW, WE
00:23:49.30\00:23:56.53
THEN ARE ABLE TO WALK IN ITS
SPIRITUAL PRECEPTS OF THE LAW AS
00:23:56.53\00:24:02.10
SPIRITUAL BORN-AGAIN CHRISTIANS.
I THINK I SAID THIS BEFORE, I
00:24:02.10\00:24:05.90
SAY IT MANY TIMES, CONVERSION -
IT ALL BOILS DOWN TO CONVERSION.
00:24:05.90\00:24:12.93
IT'S JUST AS SIMPLE AS
THAT - BEING BORN AGAIN.
00:24:12.93\00:24:16.00
JESUS SAID, 'EXCEPT A MAN
(OR A WOMAN) IS BORN AGAIN, THEY
00:24:16.00\00:24:18.36
CANNOT SEE THE KINGDOM OF GOD.
UNLESS YOU'RE BORN AGAIN, YOU
00:24:18.36\00:24:21.13
DON'T UNDERSTAND THE CLAIMS
THAT GOD HAS UPON YOUR LIFE.
00:24:21.13\00:24:24.26
YOU'RE NUMB -
THE DEVIL BLINDS YOU.
00:24:24.26\00:24:25.96
JESUS SAID YOU'VE GOT TO BE BORN
AGAIN TO SEE - TO UNDERSTAND.
00:24:25.96\00:24:30.20
AND HE SAYS, 'UNLESS A MAN
IS BORN AGAIN OF WATER AND THE
00:24:30.20\00:24:32.70
SPIRIT HE WILL NOT ENTER
THE KINGDOM OF GOD.' SO IT COMES
00:24:32.70\00:24:35.76
DOWN TO CONVERSION. AND
IF YOU DON'T KNOW HOW TO
00:24:35.76\00:24:41.10
HAVE A CONVERSION EXPERIENCE,
GO TO JESUS AND ASK HIM.
00:24:41.10\00:24:46.70
GET DOWN ON YOUR KNEES AND SAY,
'LORD, YOU KNOW I HEAR PEOPLE
00:24:46.70\00:24:49.50
TALK ABOUT BEING CONVERTED AND
I REALLY DON'T - I DON'T KNOW -
00:24:49.50\00:24:54.76
YOU KNOW, SHOW ME - LEAD ME
INTO ONE. HERE'S YOUR WORD -
00:24:54.76\00:25:00.93
SHOW ME.' HE'LL DO THAT. IT'S
HIS DELIGHT - IT'S HIS DELIGHT.
00:25:00.93\00:25:06.16
WHAT GREATER INSTRUCTOR COULD
YOU HAVE AS TO HOW YOU CAN HAVE
00:25:06.16\00:25:09.13
A NEW BIRTH IN JESUS AND
HE'S WAITING JUST TO BE YOUR OWN
00:25:09.13\00:25:12.50
SPECIAL TUTOR AND INSTRUCTOR.
SO AS WE'RE CONVERTED, THEN
00:25:12.50\00:25:19.30
THERE'S A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE.
THE LAW IS NOT SOMETHING WE TRY
00:25:19.30\00:25:23.43
TO KEEP, YOU KNOW, TO BE SAVED.
NO - NO - NO - NEVER - NEVER -
00:25:23.43\00:25:27.86
NEVER - NEVER - NEVER.
THE - KEEPING THE LAW - JESUS
00:25:27.86\00:25:31.86
WRITES THAT LAW - THE TABLES OF
THE LAW - UPON THE TABLES OF OUR
00:25:31.86\00:25:34.86
HEARTS. THIS IS
THE PROMISE - THE NEW
00:25:34.86\00:25:36.83
TESTAMENT PROMISE FIRST GIVEN IN
JEREMIAH AND THEN IN HEBREWS 8
00:25:36.83\00:25:40.26
AND IN HEBREWS 10 HE SAYS
- GOD SAYS, 'THIS IS THE LAW.
00:25:40.26\00:25:42.96
THIS IS A COVENANT THAT I
WILL MAKE WITH THEM AFTER THOSE
00:25:42.96\00:25:45.13
DAYS.' SAYETH THE LORD - 'I
WRITE MY LAWS UPON THEIR MINDS
00:25:45.13\00:25:48.33
AND IN THEIR HEARTS WILL I WRITE
THEM. AND THAT MEANS JESUS COMES
00:25:48.33\00:25:52.26
IN AND THE LIFE THAT HE LIVED
UPON THIS EARTH AS HE WALKED
00:25:52.26\00:25:57.33
SPIRITUALLY, HE'LL
LIVE OUT THAT LIFE IN YOU.
00:25:57.33\00:26:00.90
YOU KNOW, THERE'S NO
SECRET TO BEING A CHRISTIAN.
00:26:00.90\00:26:03.76
IT JUST TAKES, THE EFFORT
TO MAKE A DECISION AND TO SPEND
00:26:03.76\00:26:08.03
TIME WITH HIM AND HE
WILL TAKE CARE OF THE REST.
00:26:08.03\00:26:14.40
I'M PREACHING TO THE
CONGREGATION - I KNOW - THIS
00:26:14.40\00:26:17.56
MORNING BUT, YOU KNOW, WE
DO NEED TO BE REMINDED OF THESE
00:26:17.56\00:26:21.13
THINGS. AND WHAT
JESUS ACCOMPLISHED FOR
00:26:21.13\00:26:23.83
US AT THE CROSS - TAKING THAT
BODY OF SIN - WE NEED TO TAKE
00:26:23.83\00:26:28.26
ADVANTAGE OF THAT EVERY DAY.
PAUL SAID, 'I DIE' - HOW OFTEN?
00:26:28.26\00:26:32.80
'DAILY.' EVERY DAY
YOU'VE GOT TO HAVE THAT DIVORCE.
00:26:32.80\00:26:36.20
EVERY DAY THAT UGLY SPOUSE HAS
GOT TO BE TAKEN, STRETCH THAT
00:26:36.20\00:26:41.53
NECK ON THE BLOCK, AND - POOF
- YOU'VE GOT TO BE MERCILESS.
00:26:41.53\00:26:45.20
EXCUSE THE GRAPHIC ILLUSTRATION
THERE, BUT WHO WANTS TO LIVE
00:26:45.20\00:26:47.96
WITH THAT UGLY SPOUSE EVERY DAY?
THAT UGLY SPOUSE - YOU'VE GOT TO
00:26:47.96\00:26:50.83
GET A DIVORCE AND BE
MARRIED AGAIN TO JESUS.
00:26:50.83\00:26:53.66
AND YOU BRING FORTH THOSE FRUITS
UNTO RIGHTEOUSNESS AND PEOPLE
00:26:53.66\00:26:57.06
LOOK AT YOU AND
SAY, 'YOU KNOW WHAT?'
00:26:57.06\00:26:58.93
- OR THEY TALK ABOUT YOU - 'YOU
KNOW, YOU KNOW THAT JEFF OVER
00:26:58.93\00:27:02.36
THERE? HE'S A
LITTLE DIFFERENT, ISN'T HE?
00:27:02.36\00:27:05.93
SOMETHING'S HAPPENED IN
HIS LIFE. HE USED TO CUSS -
00:27:05.93\00:27:07.83
HE DOESN'T CUSS ANYMORE.'
OR 'THERE'S JANE OVER THERE.
00:27:07.83\00:27:12.40
YOU KNOW, SHE WAS ALWAYS -
ALWAYS TALKING ABOUT THIS GUY
00:27:12.40\00:27:16.06
AND THAT GUY AND, YOU KNOW,
SHE HAD A POTTY MOUTH AND SHE'S
00:27:16.06\00:27:21.73
CHANGED.' JESUS CHANGES FALLEN
HUMAN BEINGS AND HE DELIVERS US
00:27:21.73\00:27:31.13
- HE TAKES THAT OLD
SPOUSE AND HE DOES AWAY WITH IT.
00:27:31.13\00:27:35.76
AND, PRAISE THE LORD, WE CAN
HAVE THAT EXPERIENCE EVERY DAY -
00:27:35.76\00:27:38.76
EVERY MOMENT. I'M
GOING TO MOVE ON TO MONDAY -
00:27:38.76\00:27:41.56
'THE LAW OF SIN AND DEATH'.
ROMANS 7 AND 8 SPEAK OF LAW IN
00:27:41.56\00:27:46.46
THREE WAYS - I'VE PRESENTED THIS
- I DON'T KNOW - IN MY ALMOST 16
00:27:46.46\00:27:52.90
YEARS HERE, I PRESENTED
THIS MANY TIMES, BUT IT'S IN THE
00:27:52.90\00:27:59.30
LESSON SO I'M GOING TO DO
IT AGAIN WITHOUT ANY APOLOGIES
00:27:59.30\00:28:01.90
HERE. ROMANS 7
AND 8 SPEAK OF LAW IN
00:28:01.90\00:28:05.53
THREE WAYS: IN ROMANS 7:7 - IF
YOU'D LIKE TO GO THERE WITH ME -
00:28:05.53\00:28:11.60
IT SPEAKS OF THE
MORAL LAW THAT DEFINES SIN.
00:28:11.60\00:28:17.63
THE LAW DOES TWO THINGS:
IT DEFINES SIN AND IT DEFINES
00:28:17.63\00:28:20.53
RIGHTEOUSNESS - OR, IF YOU LIKE
- IT DEFINES RIGHTEOUSNESS AND
00:28:20.53\00:28:23.00
IT DEFINES SIN - WHICHEVER
WAY AROUND YOU WANT TO PUT IT.
00:28:23.00\00:28:26.33
AND, BY THE WAY, THE LAW DEFINES
SIN, BUT IS POWERLESS TO FORGIVE
00:28:26.33\00:28:35.26
IT. THE LAW
DEFINES RIGHTEOUSNESS
00:28:35.26\00:28:39.10
BUT IS ALSO
POWERLESS TO BESTOW IT.
00:28:39.10\00:28:42.56
BUT IT'S GOD'S STANDARD OF
RIGHTEOUSNESS AND THAT IS A
00:28:42.56\00:28:46.33
STANDARD WE WILL BE JUDGED BY
IN THE JUDGMENT AND THE ONE WHO
00:28:46.33\00:28:51.36
WILL STAND WITH US IN
THE JUDGMENT WILL BE JESUS.
00:28:51.36\00:28:54.76
BUT THERE IS THE LAW. NOW,
NONETHELESS, LET'S READ ROMANS
00:28:54.76\00:28:58.10
7:7, "WHAT SHALL WE SAY THEN?
IS THE LAW SIN? GOD FORBID.
00:28:58.10\00:29:07.26
NAY, I HAD NOT KNOWN SIN" -
HE SAYS, 'I WOULDN'T HAVE KNOWN
00:29:07.26\00:29:10.76
WHAT SIN WAS BUT BY THE LAW - IF
THE LAW HADN'T TOLD ME.' THEN HE
00:29:10.76\00:29:14.70
GIVES AN EXAMPLE, HE SAID, "FOR
I HAD NOT KNOWN LUST, EXCEPT THE
00:29:14.70\00:29:18.36
LAW HAD SAID, 'THOU SHALT
NOT COVET." SO HERE'S THIS LAW
00:29:18.36\00:29:23.03
AND IT DEFINES RIGHTEOUSNESS
AND IT DEFINES SIN.
00:29:23.03\00:29:26.90
AND THEN, IN ROMANS 7:12 - THIS
IS - THIS IS HOW HE SUMMARIZES
00:29:26.90\00:29:31.16
IT, HE SAYS,
"WHEREFORE THE LAW IS HOLY,
00:29:31.16\00:29:34.43
AND THE COMMANDMENT
HOLY, AND JUST, AND GOOD."
00:29:34.43\00:29:38.53
HE SAID, 'I DIDN'T KNOW
SIN EXCEPT THE LAW TOLD ME IT'S
00:29:38.53\00:29:40.56
SIN.' AND HE SAID,
'THAT LAW'S A GOOD LAW.
00:29:40.56\00:29:43.16
IT'S HOLY, JUST, AND GOOD.'
THEN HE GOES ON TO DESCRIBE THE
00:29:43.16\00:29:46.96
EXPERIENCE OF A PERSON - AND YOU
COULD BE GOING TO ROMANS 7:19
00:29:46.96\00:29:52.10
WHILE I'M TALKING - AND HE GOES
ON TO DESCRIBE THE EXPERIENCE OF
00:29:52.10\00:29:55.40
A PERSON WHO IS CONVICTED OF SIN
BY THE LAW AND WANTS TO LIVE BY
00:29:55.40\00:30:01.40
THE PRINCIPLES AND THE PRECEPTS
OF THE LAW, BUT FINDS THEMSELVES
00:30:01.40\00:30:05.00
POWERLESS TO DO SO.
ROMANS 7, VERSE 19 - HE SAYS,
00:30:05.00\00:30:11.53
"FOR THE GOOD THAT I WOULD I DO
NOT:" - IN OTHER WORDS, 'I WANT
00:30:11.53\00:30:17.03
TO DO GOOD BUT I DON'T DO IT.' -
"BUT THE EVIL WHICH I WOULD NOT,
00:30:17.03\00:30:22.33
THAT I DO." - SO HE
SAYS, 'THIS IS THE LAW.
00:30:22.33\00:30:25.33
IT'S A GOOD LAW. IT
TELLS ME WHAT SIN IS.
00:30:25.33\00:30:26.76
IT'S HOLY, JUST, AND GOOD, BUT
I TRY TO DO IT BUT - I TRY TO DO
00:30:26.76\00:30:30.10
GOOD BUT, YOU KNOW,
I JUST CAN'T CUT IT.
00:30:30.10\00:30:33.66
IT DOESN'T WORK.' AND THEN HE
CITES THE PROBLEM - HERE'S THE
00:30:33.66\00:30:37.26
PROBLEM, YOU SEE: 7, VERSE 14
- HE SAYS, "FOR WE KNOW THAT THE
00:30:37.26\00:30:44.10
LAW IS SPIRITUAL: BUT I
AM CARNAL, SOLD UNDER SIN."
00:30:44.10\00:30:51.33
HERE'S THE
PROBLEM: IT'S A GOOD LAW.
00:30:51.33\00:30:54.23
IT'S A SPIRITUAL LAW, BUT
A CARNAL PERSON CANNOT KEEP A
00:30:54.23\00:30:59.56
SPIRITUAL LAW.
IT'S JUST IMPOSSIBLE.
00:30:59.56\00:31:03.03
IT'S AS IMPOSSIBLE AS TRYING TO
SEPARATE THE BONDS THAT SEPARATE
00:31:03.03\00:31:07.70
YOU FROM THAT UGLY
SPOUSE OF YOUR BODY OF SIN.
00:31:07.70\00:31:11.23
YOU'RE JUST - YOU'RE HELD TIGHT.
THERE'S NO WAY YOU CAN DO IT.
00:31:11.23\00:31:15.50
NOW HE EXPLAINS WHY - HE
EXPLAINS WHY A CARNAL PERSON
00:31:15.50\00:31:22.96
CANNOT OBEY A SPIRITUAL LAW
- WELL, WE JUST SAID BECAUSE
00:31:22.96\00:31:25.40
THEY'RE CARNAL, BUT
LET'S GET A BIT MORE DETAIL.
00:31:25.40\00:31:27.53
ROMANS 7:21 THROUGH 23.
AND HERE'S WHERE - REMEMBER AT
00:31:27.53\00:31:34.16
THE BEGINNING OF THIS SECTION I
SAID WE'RE GOING TO SPEAK IN THE
00:31:34.16\00:31:37.26
LAW - MAKE THREE
REFERENCES TO LAW HERE.
00:31:37.26\00:31:40.63
WE'VE LOOKED AT THE MORAL LAW -
ROMANS 7:7 - BUT NOW HERE COMES
00:31:40.63\00:31:45.00
A SECOND LAW AND THIS IS
- IT'S THIS SECOND LAW THAT
00:31:45.00\00:31:49.36
STOPS HIM FROM
KEEPING THAT FIRST LAW.
00:31:49.36\00:31:52.00
JUST FOLLOW ME HERE - VERSE 21
- HE SAYS, "I FIND THEN A LAW,
00:31:52.00\00:31:59.80
THAT, WHEN I WOULD DO
GOOD, EVIL IS PRESENT WITH ME.
00:31:59.80\00:32:06.26
FOR I DELIGHT IN THE LAW OF GOD"
- THAT'S THE MORAL LAW - "AFTER
00:32:06.26\00:32:09.80
THE INWARD MAN: BUT I SEE
ANOTHER LAW" - THIS SECOND LAW -
00:32:09.80\00:32:14.36
"IN MY MEMBERS, WARRING AGAINST
THE LAW OF MY MIND, AND BRINGING
00:32:14.36\00:32:17.63
ME INTO CAPTIVITY TO THE LAW
OF SIN WHICH IS IN MY MEMBERS."
00:32:17.63\00:32:22.36
SO WHAT IS THIS SECOND
LAW? WELL, IT DESCRIBES IT - IT
00:32:22.36\00:32:25.13
DESCRIBES IT AS - THAT IT'S LIKE
THE LAW OF HIS FALLEN NATURE.
00:32:25.13\00:32:29.10
IT IS THE LAW OF SIN AND
DEATH THAT WORKS INSIDE HIS UGLY
00:32:29.10\00:32:34.16
SPOUSE - HIS FALLEN NATURE.
00:32:34.16\00:32:37.03
IT'S JUST AS POWERFUL AS - LET'S
SEE HERE - WHAT HAVE I GOT?
00:32:37.03\00:32:41.06
OH, MY KEYS, OKAY
- OKAY, THOSE KEYS.
00:32:41.06\00:32:46.53
WHAT MAKES THEM
FALL TO THE GROUND?
00:32:46.53\00:32:49.06
GRAVITY, RIGHT? IT'S
THE FORCE OF GRAVITY.
00:32:49.06\00:32:54.33
WE SAY - THE LAW ACTUALLY
DESCRIBES THE FORCE, BUT IT'S A
00:32:54.33\00:32:57.30
LAW THAT WORKS,
RIGHT? THINGS JUST FALL DOWN.
00:32:57.30\00:33:01.70
AND YOUR FALLEN NATURE
IS SUCH - IT'S LIKE A LAW.
00:33:01.70\00:33:07.06
IT HAS A FORCE AND IT JUST
NATURALLY JUST PULLS YOU DOWN
00:33:07.06\00:33:11.23
EVERY TIME YOU WANT TO DO RIGHT.
POWERFUL - AND IT'S A MOTOR.
00:33:11.23\00:33:14.70
IT'S AN ENGINE AND IT
DRIVES YOUR SINFUL PASSIONS.
00:33:14.70\00:33:19.26
AND THAT MOTOR - IT'S LIKE PART
OF THAT UGLY SPOUSE THAT JUST
00:33:19.26\00:33:24.66
CLINGS TO YOU. SO
HERE'S WHERE - HERE'S WHERE
00:33:24.66\00:33:29.43
IT JUST KEEPS US TRYING
TO DO RIGHT - BUT WE CAN'T.
00:33:29.43\00:33:33.70
AND SO, AS WE'RE TRYING TO
DO RIGHT, WHAT ARE WE DOING?
00:33:33.70\00:33:35.63
WE'RE JUST BEING LEGALISTS.
00:33:35.63\00:33:37.33
'OH, I'VE GOT TO
KEEP THE LAW BETTER.
00:33:37.33\00:33:38.50
I'VE GOT TO DO THIS BETTER.
I'VE GOT TO DO THAT BETTER.
00:33:38.50\00:33:41.53
OH YEAH, YEAH, I'VE GOT
TO DO...' IT'S LEGALISM.
00:33:41.53\00:33:46.16
SAD THING IS, YOU KNOW, THERE
ARE PEOPLE WHO DON'T UNDERSTAND
00:33:46.16\00:33:52.23
RIGHTEOUSNESS BY FAITH AND THEY
LOOK AT SINCERE CHRISTIANS WHO
00:33:52.23\00:33:56.96
ARE STRIVING TO KEEP THE LAW
THROUGH THE POWER OF CHRIST AND
00:33:56.96\00:34:00.23
GROW IN GRACE AND THEY
SAY, 'YOU'RE LEGALISTS.'
00:34:00.23\00:34:02.33
THEY'VE GOT IT ALL WRONG.
THERE'S A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE
00:34:02.33\00:34:04.86
EXPERIENCE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS BY
FAITH AND GROWING IN GRACE WITH
00:34:04.86\00:34:08.16
CHRIST AND OVERCOMING.
THAT'S DIFFERENT THAN SOMEBODY
00:34:08.16\00:34:11.26
WHO REMAINS UNCONVERTED AND HE'S
TRYING DESPERATELY TO KEEP THE
00:34:11.26\00:34:15.46
LAW BETTER. THAT'S
LEGALISM AND, AS I'VE
00:34:15.46\00:34:18.76
SAID BEFORE, ELLEN WHITE
SAYS IT'S A TROUBLESOME GUEST.
00:34:18.76\00:34:22.43
EVERYWHERE YOU GO IT'S THERE.
THAT UGLY SPOUSE IS REALLY
00:34:22.43\00:34:25.43
SOMETHING ELSE, ISN'T IT? SO
WE'RE MOVING TO CHAPTER 8 AND
00:34:25.43\00:34:30.10
WE FIND RESOLUTION TO THE
PROBLEM WHERE A THIRD LAW NOW -
00:34:30.10\00:34:34.70
A THIRD LAW - IS
BROUGHT TO LIGHT.
00:34:34.70\00:34:38.53
I'M GOING TO READ FROM ROMANS
8, VERSES 1 AND 2: "THERE IS
00:34:38.53\00:34:44.10
THEREFORE NOW NO CONDEMNATION"
- CONDEMNATION, HUH - NO
00:34:44.10\00:34:50.90
CONDEMNATION - "THERE IS
THEREFORE NOW NO CONDEMNATION TO
00:34:50.90\00:34:55.00
THEM WHICH ARE IN CHRIST JESUS,
WHO" - BECAUSE WHAT DID HE DO?
00:34:55.00\00:34:59.96
HE TOOK YOUR UGLY SPOUSE DOWN TO
THE GRAVE, LEFT IT THERE, ROSE,
00:34:59.96\00:35:03.86
FOUND YOU FREE, SINGLE,
ELIGIBLE, AND MARRIED YOU.
00:35:03.86\00:35:06.90
YOU'RE BRINGING OFFSPRING -
FRUIT - UNTO GOD - "THERE IS
00:35:06.90\00:35:10.13
THEREFORE NOW NO CONDEMNATION TO
THEM WHICH ARE IN CHRIST JESUS
00:35:10.13\00:35:13.53
WHO WALK NOT AFTER THE
FLESH, BUT AFTER THE SPIRIT."
00:35:13.53\00:35:18.03
- AH, NOW, THIS IS - THIS
IS WHERE IT'S AT. VERSE 2 -
00:35:18.03\00:35:22.36
"FOR THE LAW" - HERE'S THIS
THIRD LAW: "FOR THE LAW OF THE
00:35:22.36\00:35:25.76
SPIRIT OF LIFE IN CHRIST JESUS
HATH MADE ME FREE FROM" - WHAT?
00:35:25.76\00:35:32.53
THAT SECOND LAW THAT STOPPED
ME KEEPING THE FIRST LAW - THE
00:35:32.53\00:35:35.66
MORAL LAW - THAT SECOND LAW
- "THE LAW OF SIN AND DEATH."
00:35:35.66\00:35:39.80
DO WE GET IT
HERE? AM I MAKING SENSE?
00:35:39.80\00:35:44.46
ALRIGHT, YOU'RE JUST ALL
JUST LOOKING AT ME HERE - I'M
00:35:44.46\00:35:46.63
THINKING, 'OKAY' -
"THE LAW OF SIN AND DEATH."
00:35:46.63\00:35:52.90
AND HERE IN ROMANS 8:1 AND
2 IS DESCRIBED THIS POWERFUL
00:35:52.90\00:35:56.13
TRANSFORMATION THAT TAKES
PLACE, AGAIN, THROUGH WHAT ELSE?
00:35:56.13\00:36:00.86
CONVERSION. THIS
THIRD LAW - THE LAW OF THE
00:36:00.86\00:36:04.03
SPIRIT OF LIFE IN JESUS
CHRIST, IS REFERRING NOW TO THE
00:36:04.03\00:36:07.76
GOVERNING POWER OF THE HOLY
SPIRIT THROUGH CHRIST WHEN HE
00:36:07.76\00:36:12.36
COMES INTO THE
HEART AT CONVERSION.
00:36:12.36\00:36:16.33
AND THIS THIRD LAW - THE LAW
OF THE SPIRIT OF LIFE IN JESUS
00:36:16.33\00:36:19.70
CHRIST, OVERRIDES THAT SECOND
LAW OF SIN AND DEATH THAT STOPS
00:36:19.70\00:36:26.03
YOU TRYING TO KEEP THAT FIRST
LAW - THE MORAL LAW, WHICH IS
00:36:26.03\00:36:30.03
HOLY, JUST, AND GOOD. AND
ROMANS 8:3 GOES FURTHER TO
00:36:30.03\00:36:35.06
DESCRIBE HOW WEAK, CARNAL
HUMAN BEINGS, SO PROGRAMMED TO
00:36:35.06\00:36:41.06
FUNCTION UNDER THE LAW OF SIN
AND DEATH, HAVING BEEN ASSURED
00:36:41.06\00:36:44.63
OF POWER AND DELIVERANCE AND
VICTORY THROUGH JESUS CHRIST SO
00:36:44.63\00:36:50.16
THAT THE RIGHTEOUS REQUIREMENTS
OF THE LAW CAN BE FULFILLED IN
00:36:50.16\00:36:53.96
THEM, NOT AS - NOT AS EXERTING
THEMSELVES TO LIVE A LEGALISTIC
00:36:53.96\00:36:58.93
LIFE, BUT AS PART OF THE
CONVERSION EXPERIENCE - AND IT
00:36:58.93\00:37:02.33
COMES THROUGH
JESUS. LET'S READ VERSE 3.
00:37:02.33\00:37:04.96
THIS IS WHAT
JESUS HAS DONE FOR US.
00:37:04.96\00:37:08.03
THIS IS THE GOSPEL - ROMANS 8:3,
"FOR WHAT THE LAW COULD NOT DO,
00:37:08.03\00:37:15.36
IN THAT IT WAS WEAK THROUGH
THE FLESH," - THE ENGLISH IS A
00:37:15.36\00:37:18.63
LITTLE BIT BACK TO
FRONT HERE IN THE KING JAMES.
00:37:18.63\00:37:21.56
WHAT IT MEANS IS, BECAUSE OF
THE WEAKNESSES OF OUR FLESH -
00:37:21.56\00:37:24.36
REMEMBER THE LAW
OF SIN AND DEATH?
00:37:24.36\00:37:26.16
- WE COULDN'T KEEP THE LAW, FOR
WHAT THE LAW COULD NOT DO - IT
00:37:26.16\00:37:28.63
COULDN'T BE FULFILLED BECAUSE
WE WERE WEAK THROUGH THE FLESH -
00:37:28.63\00:37:32.46
"GOD SENDING HIS OWN SON IN THE
LIKENESS OF SINFUL FLESH, AND
00:37:32.46\00:37:40.20
FOR SIN, CONDEMNED SIN IN THE
FLESH:" WE SHOULD ALL KNOW THIS.
00:37:40.20\00:37:48.36
WHAT DID JESUS DO? HE
CAME DOWN TO THIS WORLD.
00:37:48.36\00:37:51.96
DID HE COME LIKE ADAM BEFORE THE
FALL OR DID HE COME LIKE ADAM
00:37:51.96\00:37:56.83
AFTER THE FALL? HE
CAME LIKE ADAM - WITH THE
00:37:56.83\00:38:01.50
SAME NATURE THAT
ADAM HAD - AFTER THE FALL.
00:38:01.50\00:38:06.36
HE CAME WITH A
FALLEN, SINFUL, HUMAN NATURE.
00:38:06.36\00:38:11.13
IT DIDN'T MEAN HE
SINNED, IT DIDN'T MEAN HE FELL.
00:38:11.13\00:38:13.63
ALL IT MEANT WAS HE TOOK ON THE
SAME WEAKNESSES AND LIABILITIES
00:38:13.63\00:38:17.46
THAT WE POSSESS.
THAT'S ALL IT MEANS.
00:38:17.46\00:38:21.56
AND HE LIVED A
SINLESS AND A PERFECT LIFE.
00:38:21.56\00:38:26.30
BUT TO OVERCOME THE PROBLEM
OF OUR UGLY SPOUSE THAT KEEPS
00:38:26.30\00:38:34.36
BRINGING US DOWN - THE FALLEN
FLESH - JESUS ENTERED THE ARENA
00:38:34.36\00:38:39.83
AND HE DID BATTLE WITH OUR UGLY
SPOUSE - THE FALLEN FLESH - AND
00:38:39.83\00:38:45.53
THEY FACED OFF IN
THE ARENA OF LIFE.
00:38:45.53\00:38:48.63
OUR UGLY SPOUSE WAS TRYING
TO GET HIM AND PUT HIM DOWN.
00:38:48.63\00:38:51.53
EVERY TIME
JESUS GOT THE VICTORY.
00:38:51.53\00:38:54.43
HE GOT THE
VICTORY. HE GOT THE VICTORY.
00:38:54.43\00:38:56.73
UNTIL FINALLY, THROUGH 33
YEARS OF LIFE - CONSTANTLY BEING
00:38:56.73\00:39:00.50
DOGGED BY THE DEVIL - TEMPTED
- THE DEVIL WORKING THROUGH HIS
00:39:00.50\00:39:04.00
FALLEN NATURE - HEBREWS SAYS HE
WAS TEMPTED IN ALL POINTS LIKE
00:39:04.00\00:39:08.30
WE ARE. IN THAT
ARENA OF LIFE, BATTLING
00:39:08.30\00:39:11.23
WITH THE FALLEN
FLESH, JESUS GOT THE VICTORY.
00:39:11.23\00:39:14.16
AND THAT IS WHY
HE CONDEMNED SIN.
00:39:14.16\00:39:18.83
HE FACED OFF WITH SIN AND HE
FINALLY - HE PUT HIS FOOT ON ITS
00:39:18.83\00:39:22.46
NECK. YOU KNOW
HOW THE GLADIATORS GO?
00:39:22.46\00:39:27.83
HE CONDEMNED IT AND THAT VICTORY
THAT HE GOT IN HIS FALLEN FLESH,
00:39:27.83\00:39:37.33
HE GIVES TO YOU
AND HE GIVES TO ME.
00:39:37.33\00:39:41.16
HE SEPARATES US FROM THAT UGLY
SPOUSE THAT HE KILLED - TOOK
00:39:41.16\00:39:47.66
DOWN TO THE
GRAVE AND LEFT THERE.
00:39:47.66\00:39:51.43
EVERY MORNING THAT SPOUSE
IS GOING TO BE THERE WAITING BY
00:39:51.43\00:39:53.63
YOUR BEDSIDE TO, YOU KNOW, PLAY
THOSE SWEET LITTLE TUNES - 'YOU
00:39:53.63\00:39:56.30
REMEMBER ME, HONEY? OH,
COME ON NOW, LET'S GO ON A
00:39:56.30\00:39:59.30
DATE.' YOU GET OUT OF BED AND
YOU FALL ON YOUR KNEES AND YOU
00:39:59.30\00:40:03.23
SAY, 'LORD JESUS, THIS IS NOT
MY SPOUSE, YOU ARE MY SPOUSE.
00:40:03.23\00:40:07.56
I ASKED YOU AGAIN
TODAY TO COME INTO MY HEART.
00:40:07.56\00:40:10.63
I ASK YOU RIGHT NOW TO TAKE THAT
UGLY SPOUSE, PUT IT BACK DOWN IN
00:40:10.63\00:40:14.76
THE GRAVE, AND KEEP IT
THERE. I GIVE MY LIFE TO YOU.
00:40:14.76\00:40:18.00
COME INTO MY HEART.
LORD, I WANT TO BRING FORTH
00:40:18.00\00:40:20.06
FRUITS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS TO YOUR
GLORY.' NOT TO IMPRESS GOD, BUT
00:40:20.06\00:40:25.23
TO GLORIFY GOD - TO BRING
HONOR TO GOD BEFORE ALL THE -
00:40:25.23\00:40:29.43
ALL THE UNIVERSE.
BEFORE MEN AND BEFORE ANGELS.
00:40:29.43\00:40:33.83
IT'S A WONDERFUL THING THAT
JESUS DID AND HERE, IN - YEAH,
00:40:33.83\00:40:40.90
BECAUSE, YOU SEE, WHAT JESUS
DID, HE DIDN'T WALK ACCORDING TO
00:40:40.90\00:40:44.70
THE LAW OF SIN AND DEATH, HE
WALKED NOT AFTER THE FLESH, BUT
00:40:44.70\00:40:49.30
AFTER THE SPIRIT AS A
FULLY CONVERTED HUMAN BEING.
00:40:49.30\00:40:55.80
HE WAS BORN - BORN AGAIN. AND
JESUS HAD NO ADVANTAGE OVER US.
00:40:55.80\00:41:03.30
WHEN WE ARE BORN AGAIN, WE ARE
ON THE SAME VANTAGE GROUND AS
00:41:03.30\00:41:06.86
JESUS - HUMANLY. AND
IF HE COULD DO IT AS A
00:41:06.86\00:41:09.83
CONVERTED MAN, WE CAN DO
IT AS CONVERTED MEN AND WOMEN.
00:41:09.83\00:41:13.76
AND THIS IS WHAT
GOD IS WAITING TO SEE.
00:41:13.76\00:41:15.53
THIS IS THE WHOLE ISSUE
IN THE GREAT CONTROVERSY.
00:41:15.53\00:41:19.13
AND SO, IN HIS HUMANITY
THEREFORE, JESUS IS TO US BOTH
00:41:19.13\00:41:22.83
AN EXAMPLE AND A GUARANTEE.
IF YOU WANT A GUARANTEE, 'LORD'
00:41:22.83\00:41:29.16
- WELL, THERE'S TWO GUARANTEES
YOU CAN - GOD GIVES US: A
00:41:29.16\00:41:33.30
GUARANTEE THAT
YOU'VE FORGIVEN ME.
00:41:33.30\00:41:35.26
'LORD, DO I HAVE A GUARANTEE?
DO I HAVE SURETY THAT YOU'VE
00:41:35.26\00:41:37.40
FORGIVEN ME?' AND GOD
SAYS, 'YES, LOOK AT THE
00:41:37.40\00:41:39.50
CROSS.' WOW,
THERE'S A GUARANTEE.
00:41:39.50\00:41:44.53
THERE'S A GUARANTEE
THAT I CAN BE FORGIVEN.
00:41:44.53\00:41:47.46
'BUT LORD, YOU KNOW, IS THERE
A GUARANTEE THAT YOU CAN KEEP ME
00:41:47.46\00:41:52.76
FROM DOING THOSE THINGS
THAT NAILED JESUS TO THE CROSS?'
00:41:52.76\00:41:55.96
GOD SAYS, 'YES,
THERE IS ANOTHER GUARANTEE.
00:41:55.96\00:41:58.60
YOU LOOK BACK AT THE 33 YEARS
THAT MY SON WALKED UPON THIS
00:41:58.60\00:42:02.03
EARTH IN YOUR
SHOES AND YOUR FLESH.
00:42:02.03\00:42:04.36
THERE'S A GUARANTEE.' AND
YOU SAY, 'PRAISE THE LORD.
00:42:04.36\00:42:07.46
JESUS DID IT. THROUGH
THE GRACE OF GOD I CAN
00:42:07.46\00:42:10.36
DO IT TOO.' WE HAVE
TO HAVE FAITH, FRIENDS.
00:42:10.36\00:42:16.76
WE HAVE TO HAVE FAITH TO BELIEVE
THAT GOD CAN DO THESE THINGS FOR
00:42:16.76\00:42:21.70
US - AND HE WILL
BECAUSE HE'S PROMISED.
00:42:21.70\00:42:25.80
AND WE HAVE JESUS AS AN EXAMPLE
AND AS A GUARANTEE THAT THIS
00:42:25.80\00:42:31.43
WILL BE SO IF WE RECEIVE
HIM FULLY INTO OUR LIVES.
00:42:31.43\00:42:36.70
AND THEN WE GO TO ROMANS 8:4 AND
THIS IS WHY IT SAYS THIS IS WHAT
00:42:36.70\00:42:39.43
- THIS IS THE CULMINATION
- THIS IS THE RESULT.
00:42:39.43\00:42:41.90
IT SAYS, "THAT THE RIGHTEOUSNESS
OF THE LAW MIGHT BE FULFILLED IN
00:42:41.90\00:42:47.60
US," - IN US - "WHO WALK NOT
AFTER THE FLESH, BUT AFTER THE
00:42:47.60\00:42:55.06
SPIRIT." IF YOU
JUST PUT THE OLD SPOUSE
00:42:55.06\00:42:56.76
DOWN - 'MY
VICTORY I GIVE TO YOU.
00:42:56.76\00:43:00.80
YOU INVITE ME INTO YOUR HEART, I
WILL ENABLE YOU AND EMPOWER YOU
00:43:00.80\00:43:04.33
TO ALSO WALK THAT THE RIGHTEOUS
REQUIREMENTS OF THE LAW WILL BE
00:43:04.33\00:43:08.36
FULFILLED IN YOU.' NOT SOMETHING
HE JUST CREDITS TO YOU WHILE YOU
00:43:08.36\00:43:13.40
CONTINUE TO LIVE IN SIN - THAT'S
EVANGELICALISM - THAT IS NOT
00:43:13.40\00:43:17.56
SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST THEOLOGY
- IN YOU - CHANGED LIFE.
00:43:17.56\00:43:24.26
OKAY, THUS, THE WORD OF GOD
CLEARLY TEACHES THE GLORIOUS
00:43:24.26\00:43:29.53
TRUTH THAT FALLEN HUMAN BEINGS,
THROUGH THE POWER OF CHRIST CAN,
00:43:29.53\00:43:33.06
AS THEY TRUST HIM AND STRIVE
FOR VICTORY IN HIS STRENGTH -
00:43:33.06\00:43:36.76
PERFECTLY OBEY THE LAW OF GOD
AND DEVELOP PERFECTLY RIGHTEOUS
00:43:36.76\00:43:40.86
MORAL CHARACTER EQUAL TO THAT
WHICH JESUS POSSESSED IN HIS
00:43:40.86\00:43:44.96
HUMANITY. NOW, IN
CONNECTION WITH THIS, I
00:43:44.96\00:43:50.90
WISH TO MAKE A COMMENT ON A FEW
SENTENCES IN THE FIRST PARAGRAPH
00:43:50.90\00:43:54.43
OF THURSDAY'S LESSON.
I HATE TO KIND OF DO THIS
00:43:54.43\00:43:57.83
PUBLICLY, BUT I'M AFRAID I
HAVE TO TAKE EXCEPTION WITH THE
00:43:57.83\00:44:01.23
LESSON. I DISAGREE
WITH SOMETHING THAT
00:44:01.23\00:44:04.16
WE FIND HERE IN THURSDAY.
IN THURSDAY IT SAYS, "WITH THE
00:44:04.16\00:44:08.46
EXCEPTION OF CHRIST, ALL HUMAN
BEINGS HAVE A COMMON EXPERIENCE
00:44:08.46\00:44:13.86
IN THAT ALL HAVE BEEN
INFECTED BY ADAM'S SIN.
00:44:13.86\00:44:18.80
I DISAGREE WITH THAT.
WE'VE JUST READ HERE A MAJOR
00:44:18.80\00:44:23.26
TENET OF CALVINISTIC
EVANGELICAL THEOLOGY.
00:44:23.26\00:44:27.96
TO SAY THAT ALL HUMAN BEINGS
HAVE BEEN INFECTED BY ADAM'S SIN
00:44:27.96\00:44:32.23
IS TO PROPAGATE THE ERRONEOUS
DOCTRINE OF ORIGINAL SIN, WHICH
00:44:32.23\00:44:38.90
ACTUALLY PREDATES CALVIN AND
EVANGELICALISM - IT WAS RECEIVED
00:44:38.90\00:44:42.56
AS A LEGACY FROM CATHOLICISM
AND THAT'S RIGHT THERE IN THE
00:44:42.56\00:44:45.50
LESSON, FOLKS - IN THURSDAY.
WHEN ADAM SINNED, HE ALONE BORE
00:44:45.50\00:44:51.46
THE GUILT, NOT HIS
OFFSPRING - NOT US.
00:44:51.46\00:44:55.70
EZEKIEL 18:20 SAYS, "...THE SON
SHALL NOT BEAR THE INIQUITY OF
00:44:55.70\00:44:59.96
THE FATHER." COULD IT BE CLEARER
THAN THAT? NOW ALL HUMAN BEINGS
00:44:59.96\00:45:07.13
HAVE NOT, THEREFORE,
BEEN INFECTED BY ADAM'S SIN.
00:45:07.13\00:45:10.36
WHEN A BABY IS BORN, IT IS
NOT AUTOMATICALLY BROUGHT FORTH
00:45:10.36\00:45:13.33
BEARING THE GUILT OF
ADAM'S TRANSGRESSION.
00:45:13.33\00:45:16.23
HOWEVER, WHEN ADAM SINNED, HIS
SINLESS NATURE BECAME FALLEN AND
00:45:16.23\00:45:24.43
CORRUPTED AND IT IS THIS - IT'S
IN THIS - YEAH, WE CAN USE THE
00:45:24.43\00:45:27.63
TERM 'INFECTED' THEN IF YOU WANT
- OR TRANSMITTED TO US - BUT
00:45:27.63\00:45:31.23
IT'S THIS WHEREBY WE'VE BEEN
AFFECTED - THAT HE HAS PASSED ON
00:45:31.23\00:45:36.03
TO HIS POSTERITY
HIS FALLEN HUMAN NATURE.
00:45:36.03\00:45:41.26
BUT HAVING A FALLEN HUMAN NATURE
DOES NOT CONSTITUTE SIN BECAUSE
00:45:41.26\00:45:46.86
SIN IS A CHOICE. IT IS
NOT BEING BORN IN A WEAK
00:45:46.86\00:45:52.06
MORAL STATE. WE'RE
ALL BORN MORALLY WEAK - A
00:45:52.06\00:45:55.73
BABY'S BORN MORALLY WEEK - IT'S
WHAT THEY GET FROM THEIR PARENTS
00:45:55.73\00:45:58.10
AND THAT WAS - YOU
KNOW, WE'RE ALL THE SAME.
00:45:58.10\00:46:00.20
THAT IS NOT
SIN. SIN IS A CHOICE.
00:46:00.20\00:46:05.56
"WITH THE EXCEPTION OF CHRIST,
ALL HUMAN BEINGS HAVE A COMMON
00:46:05.56\00:46:10.50
EXPERIENCE IN THAT THEY HAVE
BEEN INFECTED BY ADAM'S SIN."
00:46:10.50\00:46:13.83
GOING HERE TO THIS PART OF THIS
SAYING, 'WITH THE EXCEPTION OF
00:46:13.83\00:46:16.50
CHRIST' - JESUS, WHEN HE WAS
BORN, WAS NOT AN EXCEPTION TO
00:46:16.50\00:46:21.60
US. HE WAS - HE TOOK ON THE
SAME FALLEN HUMAN FLESH THAT
00:46:21.60\00:46:26.96
WE HAVE - BUT DID HE SIN?
THAT'S THE THING THAT MATTERS -
00:46:26.96\00:46:31.76
HAVING A FALLEN
NATURE IS NOT A SIN.
00:46:31.76\00:46:34.80
HEBREWS CHAPTER 2, VERSE 14 -
FIRST PART - I'M GOING TO READ -
00:46:34.80\00:46:42.20
SPEAKING OF JESUS, "FORASMUCH
THEN AS THE CHILDREN ARE
00:46:42.20\00:46:45.13
PARTAKERS OF FLESH AND BLOOD," -
THIS IS JESUS - "HE ALSO HIMSELF
00:46:45.13\00:46:50.30
LIKEWISE TOOK PART OF THE
SAME;" WE'RE THE CHILDREN.
00:46:50.30\00:46:56.86
WE PARTAKE OF FLESH AND BLOOD
THAT WE GET FROM OUR ANCESTORS.
00:46:56.86\00:47:00.40
JESUS, LIKE US, ALSO
TOOK PART OF THE SAME.
00:47:00.40\00:47:05.10
THEN WE GO TO VERSES 16 AND 17 -
IT SAYS, "FOR VERILY HE TOOK NOT
00:47:05.10\00:47:09.93
ON HIM THE NATURE OF ANGELS;
BUT HE TOOK ON HIM THE SEED OF
00:47:09.93\00:47:14.03
ABRAHAM." - HE HAD
ABRAHAM'S DNA IN HIM -
00:47:14.03\00:47:17.73
AND ALL THE DESCENDENTS OF
ABRAHAM AND BEFORE ABRAHAM -
00:47:17.73\00:47:20.50
FROM ALL THE TIME OF ADAM
HE HAD HUMAN DNA WITH ALL ITS
00:47:20.50\00:47:24.16
SKEWEDNESS. HE
WAS BORN WITH THAT.
00:47:24.16\00:47:27.40
VERSE 17, "WHEREFORE IN ALL
THINGS IT BEHOOVED HIM TO BE
00:47:27.40\00:47:31.90
MADE LIKE UNTO HIS BRETHREN,"
- WHO ARE HIS BRETHREN?
00:47:31.90\00:47:37.53
WE ARE - AND HIS
SISTERS - JUST LIKE US.
00:47:37.53\00:47:42.26
AND, BY THE WAY, I'LL READ THE
REST BECAUSE IT SAYS, "THAT HE
00:47:42.26\00:47:46.46
MIGHT BE A MERCIFUL AND FAITHFUL
HIGH PRIEST IN THINGS PERTAINING
00:47:46.46\00:47:52.33
TO GOD, TO MAKE RECONCILIATION
FOR THE SINS OF THE PEOPLE.
00:47:52.33\00:47:56.00
FOR IN THAT HE HIMSELF HATH
SUFFERED BEING TEMPTED, HE IS
00:47:56.00\00:47:59.76
ABLE TO SUCCOUR
THEM THAT ARE TEMPTED."
00:47:59.76\00:48:04.23
YOU KNOW, WHATEVER YOU
STRUGGLE WITH JESUS UNDERSTANDS.
00:48:04.23\00:48:09.06
WHY DOES HE UNDERSTAND? BECAUSE
HE'S WALKED IN YOUR SHOES.
00:48:09.06\00:48:12.43
HE WALKED ENCUMBERED
WITH YOUR FLESH. AND TO ME,
00:48:12.43\00:48:16.53
THIS GIVES ME ENCOURAGEMENT
WHEN I'M STRUGGLING.
00:48:16.53\00:48:20.20
I SAY, 'LORD, LORD HELP ME.'
JESUS SAYS, 'HERE AM I.' 'LORD,
00:48:20.20\00:48:26.10
I'M STRUGGLING WITH THIS.' HE
SAYS, 'I KNOW. I'VE BEEN THERE.
00:48:26.10\00:48:29.16
I GOT THE VICTORY. TRUST
ME. TRUST ME. LET ME SHARE MY
00:48:29.16\00:48:33.83
VICTORY WITH YOU AND I
UNDERSTAND.' YOU HAVE A SAVIOR
00:48:33.83\00:48:38.13
WHO CAN COMFORT YOU AND
HELP YOU. BUT IF YOU HAVE A
00:48:38.13\00:48:43.36
SAVIOR THAT CAME WITH A
DIFFERENT NATURE - I DON'T KNOW,
00:48:43.36\00:48:47.53
IT'D BE LIKE BIG BROTHER THAT'S
THREE TIMES REMOVED, YOU KNOW?
00:48:47.53\00:48:49.73
BIG BROTHER THAT STAYS IN HIS
ROOM PLAYING WITH HIS X-BOX AND
00:48:49.73\00:48:52.93
YOU'RE THE LITTLE KID DOWNSTAIRS
AND YOU WANT YOUR BIG BROTHER.
00:48:52.93\00:48:55.06
'I'VE FALLEN DOWN AND BIG
BROTHER IS UP THERE SOMEWHERE
00:48:55.06\00:48:56.96
AND HE SAYS, 'AH, I FEEL SORRY
FOR YOU BUT I'M TOO BUSY.' HE'S
00:48:56.96\00:48:59.53
REMOVED FROM YOU, RIGHT?
JESUS IS NOT BIG BROTHER REMOVED
00:48:59.53\00:49:04.53
UPSTAIRS IN HIS
BEDROOM DOING HIS STUFF.
00:49:04.53\00:49:07.20
HE'S DOWN HERE
WITH YOU ON THE CARPET.
00:49:07.20\00:49:13.56
I WANT TO READ YOU
SOMETHING. YOU SEE THIS?
00:49:13.56\00:49:19.46
THIS - THIS WAS MY BIBLE BEFORE
I BOUGHT THIS NEWER ONE ABOUT
00:49:19.46\00:49:25.96
TEN YEARS AGO AND YOU
SEE IT FELL TO PIECES.
00:49:25.96\00:49:30.60
BUT I HAVE A FEW NOTES HERE IN
THE BEGINNING SO I JUST BROUGHT
00:49:30.60\00:49:33.93
THIS THIS MORNING. I
KNOW IT LOOKS LIKE THE DEAD
00:49:33.93\00:49:35.90
SEA SCROLLS BUT I
WANT TO READ YOU THIS.
00:49:35.90\00:49:42.50
IT'S ABOUT THE NATURE OF CHRIST
AND THIS IS FROM 'BIBLE READINGS
00:49:42.50\00:49:47.13
FOR THE HOME' - ADVENTIST
PUBLICATION - THE 1915 EDITION.
00:49:47.13\00:49:54.46
THEY DON'T REALLY PRINT
STUFF LIKE THIS ANYMORE.
00:49:54.46\00:49:59.36
IT'S A LITTLE
LENGTHY, BUT BEAR WITH ME.
00:49:59.36\00:50:02.60
AND IT'S RIGHT IN HARMONY WITH
WHAT WE READ IN HEBREWS, "IN HIS
00:50:02.60\00:50:07.16
HUMANITY, CHRIST PARTOOK
OF OUR SINFUL FALLEN NATURE.
00:50:07.16\00:50:13.80
IF NOT, THEN HE WAS NOT MADE
LIKE UNTO HIS BRETHREN, WAS NOT,
00:50:13.80\00:50:20.50
IN ALL POINTS, TEMPTED LIKE AS
WE ARE, DID NOT OVERCOME AS WE
00:50:20.50\00:50:24.63
HAVE TO OVERCOME, AND IS
NOT, THEREFORE, THE COMPLETE AND
00:50:24.63\00:50:28.13
PERFECT SAVIOR MAN NEEDS
AND MUST HAVE TO BE SAVED.
00:50:28.13\00:50:33.23
THE IDEA THAT CHRIST WAS BORN
OF AN IMMACULATE SINLESS MOTHER,
00:50:33.23\00:50:37.40
INHERITED NO TENDENCIES TO SIN,
REMOVES HIM FROM THE REALM OF A
00:50:37.40\00:50:42.13
FALLEN WORLD - FROM THE
VERY PLACE WHERE HELP IS NEEDED.
00:50:42.13\00:50:45.96
ON HIS HUMAN SIDE, CHRIST
INHERITED JUST WHAT EVERY CHILD
00:50:45.96\00:50:51.13
OF ADAM INHERITED
- A SINFUL NATURE."
00:50:51.13\00:50:55.60
IT'S LIKE A BREATH
OF FRESH AIR, ISN'T IT?
00:50:55.60\00:50:58.56
ON THE DIVINE SIDE, FROM HIS
VERY CONCEPTION, HE WAS BEGOTTEN
00:50:58.56\00:51:02.90
AND BORN OF THE SPIRIT AND ALL
THIS WAS DONE TO PLACE MANKIND
00:51:02.90\00:51:07.83
ON A VANTAGE GROUND AND TO
DEMONSTRATE THAT IN THE SAME WAY
00:51:07.83\00:51:11.80
EVERYONE THAT WAS BORN OF THE
SPIRIT - LIKE JESUS WAS - MAY
00:51:11.80\00:51:16.30
GAIN LIKE VICTORIES OVER
SIN IN HIS OWN SINFUL FLESH.
00:51:16.30\00:51:20.80
THUS, EACH ONE IS TO
OVERCOME AS CHRIST OVERCAME.
00:51:20.80\00:51:24.90
WITHOUT THIS BIRTH" - YOU SEE
IT'S CONVERSION - "WITHOUT THIS
00:51:24.90\00:51:28.33
BIRTH, THERE CAN BE NO VICTORY
OVER TEMPTATION AND NO SALVATION
00:51:28.33\00:51:34.40
FROM SIN." 'BIBLE
READINGS FOR THE HOME, 1915'.
00:51:34.40\00:51:39.20
I HAVE A WHOLE COPY IN MY OFFICE
AND, BELIEVE ME, IT'S A VERY
00:51:39.20\00:51:42.86
VALUABLE TREASURE. AND
I WANT TO READ SOMETHING
00:51:42.86\00:51:47.40
ELSE FROM HERE AS WELL - FROM
MY DEAD SEA SCROLLS VERSION -
00:51:47.40\00:51:51.93
'FIRST SELECTED MESSAGES,
408' - THIS IS THE WORD OF -
00:51:51.93\00:51:55.93
THIS IS THE WORD
OF ELLEN G. WHITE.
00:51:55.93\00:51:58.30
THIS IS A VERY DEFINITIVE
STATEMENT HERE BECAUSE, YOU
00:51:58.30\00:52:01.63
KNOW, THIS ISSUE OF 'DID
JESUS HAVE A FALLEN NATURE OR AN
00:52:01.63\00:52:04.76
UNFALLEN NATURE?' THE
TRUTH IS WHAT YOU'RE HEARING
00:52:04.76\00:52:09.93
THIS MORNING. BUT
THERE ARE OTHERS WHO GO
00:52:09.93\00:52:11.43
CONTRARY TO THAT. BUT
THIS IS WHAT ELLEN WHITE
00:52:11.43\00:52:14.16
SAID - IT SAYS, "LETTERS
HAVE BEEN COMING TO ME."
00:52:14.16\00:52:17.63
- OKAY, YOU'VE GOT "LETTERS HAVE
BEEN COMING TO ME AFFIRMING THAT
00:52:17.63\00:52:20.90
CHRIST COULD NOT HAVE TAKEN THE
SAME NATURE AS MAN FOR, IF HE
00:52:20.90\00:52:25.56
HAD, HE WOULD HAVE FALLEN
UNDER SIMILAR TEMPTATIONS."
00:52:25.56\00:52:29.06
AND SHE SAYS THIS: "IF HE DID
NOT HAVE MAN'S NATURE HE COULD
00:52:29.06\00:52:32.40
NOT BE OUR EXAMPLE. IF
HE WAS NOT A PARTAKER OF OUR
00:52:32.40\00:52:36.80
NATURE, HE COULD NOT HAVE
BEEN TEMPTED AS MAN HAS BEEN
00:52:36.80\00:52:40.26
TEMPTED." DOES THAT NEED TO
BE ANY CLEARER? PRETTY CLEAR,
00:52:40.26\00:52:43.73
ISN'T IT? AND THEN - MIKE,
YOU'VE GOT MY 'DESIRE OF AGES'?
00:52:43.73\00:52:47.13
THANK YOU VERY MUCH,
MIKE. 'DESIRE OF AGES' PAGE 24.
00:52:47.13\00:52:52.43
I HAVE THINGS I'D LIKE TO SAY
ABOUT ENOCH AND ELIJAH BECAUSE
00:52:52.43\00:52:56.93
THIS IS BROUGHT UP IN THE
LESSON, BUT I MIGHT NOT HAVE
00:52:56.93\00:52:59.26
TIME. BUT I WANT TO READ THIS
- THERE'S ANOTHER ONE LIKE IT ON
00:52:59.26\00:53:03.40
ANOTHER PAGE, BUT I WANT TO READ
YOU THIS BECAUSE THIS IS KIND OF
00:53:03.40\00:53:06.33
IN THE CONTEXT OF THE
GREAT CONTROVERSY AND HOW THE
00:53:06.33\00:53:08.83
IMPLICATIONS OF HOW CHRIST'S
FALLEN NATURE AFFECT US AND SO
00:53:08.83\00:53:12.26
ON. 24 - "SATAN REPRESENTS
GOD'S LAW OF LOVE AS A LAW OF
00:53:12.26\00:53:17.60
SELFISHNESS. HE DECLARES THAT IT
IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR US TO OBEY ITS
00:53:17.60\00:53:22.03
PRECEPTS. THE FALL OF OUR FIRST
PARENTS, WITH ALL THE WOE THAT
00:53:22.03\00:53:26.40
HAS RESULTED, HE
CHARGES UPON THE CREATOR
00:53:26.40\00:53:29.16
LEADING MEN TO LOOK
UPON GOD AS THE AUTHOR OF SIN
00:53:29.16\00:53:32.43
AND SUFFERING AND
DEATH. JESUS WAS TO UNVEIL THIS
00:53:32.43\00:53:37.40
DECEPTION. AS ONE OF
US HE GAVE AN EXAMPLE
00:53:37.40\00:53:42.30
OF OBEDIENCE. FOR
THIS HE TOOK UPON HIMSELF
00:53:42.30\00:53:46.30
OUR NATURE." - WHAT KIND
OF A NATURE? FALLEN NATURE -
00:53:46.30\00:53:51.40
"AND PASSED THROUGH OUR
EXPERIENCES." - AND IT QUOTES
00:53:51.40\00:53:54.26
FROM HEBREWS 2:17, WHICH WE JUST
READ. IT SAYS, "IN ALL THINGS IT
00:53:54.26\00:53:57.96
BEHOOVED HIM TO BE
MADE LIKE UNTO HIS BRETHREN.
00:53:57.96\00:54:01.30
IF HE HAD TO BEAR ANYTHING -
IF WE HAD TO BEAR ANYTHING WHICH
00:54:01.30\00:54:04.63
JESUS DID NOT ENDURE, THEN
UPON THIS POINT, SATAN WOULD
00:54:04.63\00:54:08.00
REPRESENT THE POWER OF
GOD AS INSUFFICIENT FOR US.
00:54:08.00\00:54:11.63
THEREFORE, JESUS WAS IN ALL
POINTS TEMPTED LIKE AS WE ARE.
00:54:11.63\00:54:16.00
HE ENDURED EVERY TRIAL TO WHICH
WE ARE SUBJECT AND HE EXERCISED,
00:54:16.00\00:54:20.63
IN HIS OWN BEHALF, NO POWER THAT
IS NOT FREELY OFFERED TO US.
00:54:20.63\00:54:25.70
AS MAN, HE MET TEMPTATION AND
OVERCAME IN THE STRENGTH GIVEN
00:54:25.70\00:54:29.80
HIM FROM GOD. HE SAYS, 'I
DELIGHT TO DO THY WILL O MY GOD.
00:54:29.80\00:54:36.06
THY LAW IS
WRITTEN WITHIN MY HEART.'
00:54:36.06\00:54:38.76
AS HE WENT ABOUT DOING GOOD AND
HEALING ALL WHO WERE AFFLICTED
00:54:38.76\00:54:41.70
BY SATAN, HE MADE PLAIN TO MEN
THE CHARACTER OF GOD'S LAW AND
00:54:41.70\00:54:45.76
THE NATURE OF HIS SERVICE.' AND
FINISHES WITH THIS: "HIS LIFE
00:54:45.76\00:54:49.80
TESTIFIES THAT IT IS POSSIBLE
FOR US, ALSO, TO OBEY THE LAW OF
00:54:49.80\00:54:56.06
GOD. BY HIS HUMANITY
CHRIST TOUCHED HUMANITY.
00:54:56.06\00:55:00.93
BY HIS DIVINITY HE LAYS
HOLD UPON THE THRONE OF GOD.
00:55:00.93\00:55:04.03
AS THE SON OF MAN, HE GIVES
US AN EXAMPLE OF OBEDIENCE.
00:55:04.03\00:55:07.86
AS THE SON OF GOD HE
GIVES US POWER TO OBEY."
00:55:07.86\00:55:12.06
I SAY, 'AMEN.
PRAISE THE LORD.' TO THAT.
00:55:12.06\00:55:19.06
>>DID YOU KNOW THAT NOAH WAS
PRESENT AT THE BIRTH OF ABRAHAM?
00:55:19.06\00:55:22.26
OKAY, MAYBE HE WASN'T IN
THE ROOM, BUT HE WAS ALIVE AND
00:55:22.26\00:55:26.00
PROBABLY TELLING
STORIES ABOUT HIS FLOATING ZOO.
00:55:26.00\00:55:29.43
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WORLD TO THE LAST DAY EVENTS OF
00:55:29.43\00:55:32.20
REVELATION, 'BIBLEHISTORY.COM'
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>>THROUGHOUT RECORDED HISTORY,
TALES OF GHOSTS AND SPIRITS CAN
00:56:01.50\00:56:05.46
BE FOUND IN FOLKLORE IN NEARLY
EVERY COUNTRY AND CULTURE.
00:56:05.46\00:56:11.23
EGYPTIANS BUILT PYRAMIDS TO
HELP GUIDE THE SPIRITS OF THEIR
00:56:11.23\00:56:15.13
LEADERS. ROME
SANCTIONED HOLIDAYS TO
00:56:15.13\00:56:17.53
HONOR AND APPEASE THE
SPIRITS OF THEIR DEAD.
00:56:17.53\00:56:20.93
EVEN THE BIBLE TELLS OF A KING
THAT USED A WITCH TO CONTACT THE
00:56:20.93\00:56:25.36
SPIRIT OF A DECEASED PROPHET.
TODAY, ANCIENT FOLKLORE OF
00:56:25.36\00:56:29.46
SPIRITS AND APPARITIONS HAVE
GONE FROM MERE SUPERSTITIONS TO
00:56:29.46\00:56:33.93
MAINSTREAM
ENTERTAINMENT AND REALITY.
00:56:33.93\00:56:37.83
SCIENTIFIC ORGANIZATIONS
INVESTIGATE STORIES OF HAUNTINGS
00:56:37.83\00:56:40.86
AND SIGHTINGS, TRYING TO PROVE,
ONCE AND FOR ALL, THE EXISTENCE
00:56:40.86\00:56:45.96
OF GHOSTS. EVEN
WITH ALL THE NEW-FOUND
00:56:45.96\00:56:51.43
TECHNOLOGY AND CENTURIES
OF STORIES ALL OVER THE WORLD,
00:56:51.43\00:56:55.86
THERE IS STILL
NO CLEAR-CUT ANSWER.
00:56:55.86\00:57:01.00
SO HOW DO WE KNOW WHAT'S TRUE?
WHY DO THESE STORIES PERSIST?
00:57:01.00\00:57:08.96
DOES IT EVEN MATTER? WE
INVITE YOU TO LOOK INSIDE AND
00:57:08.96\00:57:15.30
FIND OUT FOR YOURSELF.
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>>IN SIX DAYS GOD CREATED
THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH.
00:57:26.16\00:57:30.40
FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS MAN HAS
WORSHIPED GOD ON THE SEVENTH DAY
00:57:30.40\00:57:33.90
OF THE WEEK. NOW,
EACH WEEK MILLIONS OF
00:57:33.90\00:57:36.86
PEOPLE WORSHIP ON THE
FIRST DAY. WHAT HAPPENED?
00:57:36.86\00:57:40.46
WHY DID GOD
CREATE A DAY OF REST?
00:57:40.46\00:57:42.86
DOES IT REALLY
MATTER WHAT DAY WE WORSHIP?
00:57:42.86\00:57:45.83
WHO IS BEHIND THIS GREAT SHIFT?
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00:57:45.83\00:57:49.23
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