Participants: Pr. Doug Batchelor
Series Code: CSH
Program Code: CSH021420
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00:45 >>WELCOME TO SACRAMENTO CENTRAL SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH. 00:48 WE ARE SO GLAD THAT YOU HAVE JOINED US, AS YOU ALWAYS DO 00:52 EVERY WEEK, TO STUDY GOD'S WORD TOGETHER. 00:55 WHETHER YOU'RE RIGHT HERE IN OUR AUDIENCE - WE HAVE MANY VISITORS 00:59 HERE WITH US TODAY - OR AROUND THE COUNTRY, ACROSS THE WORLD - 01:04 WE STUDY TOGETHER, WE SING TOGETHER, WE PRAY TOGETHER, AND 01:07 SOON AND VERY SOON WE WILL BE SEEING JESUS TOGETHER AND LIVING 01:12 FOREVER IN HEAVEN. I CAN HARDLY WAIT FOR THAT DAY. 01:15 BUT UNTIL THEN WE WILL SING. WE'RE GOING TO BEGIN TODAY WITH 01:21 'IMMORTAL, INVISIBLE, GOD ONLY WISE' - HYMN #21. 01:26 THIS COMES AS A REQUEST FROM AGNES IN THE UK, MARK IN CHINA, 01:30 IRBAN IN TRINIDAD AND TOBEGO, LYDIA IN GEORGIA - OF THE UNITED 01:34 STATES - AND DAVE FROM INDIANA. HYMN #21 - 'IMMORTAL, INVISIBLE, 01:41 GOD ONLY WISE'. WE'LL SING ALL FOUR VERSES. 01:44 (MUSIC) 03:50 >>IF YOU HAVE A SPECIAL HYMN - A FAVORITE HYMN THAT YOU 03:53 WOULD LIKE TO SING WITH US ON A COMING STUDY TOGETHER. 03:55 IT'S VERY SIMPLE. JUST GO TO OUR WEBSITE AT 03:58 'SACCENTRAL.ORG', CLICK ON THE 'CONTACT US' LINK AND THERE YOU 04:02 CAN REQUEST ANY HYMN IN OUR HYMNAL AND WE WILL SING THAT 04:06 WITH YOU ON A COMING PRESENTATION. 04:09 TODAY'S NEW HYMN IS - FOR THOSE OF YOU THAT ARE USUALLY JOINING 04:12 US, WE ARE GOING THROUGH THE HYMNAL AND LEARNING THE HYMNS 04:15 THAT ARE LOST TO MOST PEOPLE. HYMN #102 IS A REQUEST FROM NO 04:22 ONE THIS WEEK SO IT IS A BRAND-NEW HYMN TO EVERYBODY. 04:25 IT'S A LITTLE TRICKY BUT IT'S SO BEAUTIFUL - THE WORDS AND THE 04:30 MUSIC THAT GO TOGETHER ARE BEAUTIFUL. 04:33 HYMN #102 - 'UNTO THE HILLS' AND WE'RE GOING TO SING ALL FOUR 04:36 VERSES TO GIVE YOU A CHANCE TO LEARN IT THIS MORNING. 04:40 (MUSIC) 07:27 >>AMEN. LET'S PRAY. OUR FATHER IN HEAVEN, WE DO 07:31 ADORE YOU AND THAT IS WHY WE'RE HERE IS BECAUSE WE'VE COME TO 07:34 WORSHIP YOU, TO SIT AT YOUR FEET, TO LISTEN TO THE WORDS 07:38 THAT YOU HAVE TO PRESENT TO US THROUGH PASTOR DOUG AND THAT WE 07:42 CAN BECOME MORE LIKE YOU AND THAT WE CAN BE SHINING LIGHTS. 07:45 SO LORD, PLEASE FILL US WITH YOUR SPIRIT. 07:48 HELP US TO DO OUR PART TO HASTEN YOUR COMING. 07:52 PLEASE BE WITH PASTOR DOUG TODAY AS HE BRINGS US WORDS OF LIFE. 07:56 AND, LORD, MAY WE EACH OF US LEAVE THIS PLACE MORE EQUIPPED 08:00 AND MORE IN LOVE WITH YOU - TO SERVE YOU AND TO HELP BRING THIS 08:06 EARTH'S HISTORY TO A CLOSE THAT WE CAN LIVE WITH YOU FOREVER. 08:10 WE PRAY THESE THINGS IN YOUR NAME, JESUS, AMEN. 08:14 OUR STUDY TODAY WILL BE BROUGHT TO US BY PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR. 08:23 >>THANK YOU VERY MUCH JOLYNE AND OUR SINGERS AND MUSICIANS. 08:27 THAT WAS BEAUTIFUL. I'D NEVER HEARD THOSE SONGS 08:30 EITHER, BUT THEY'RE VERY PRETTY AND WE SHOULD SING SOME OF THOSE 08:36 MORE. GREETINGS. HAPPY SABBATH, FRIENDS. 08:39 AND I WANT TO WELCOME THOSE WHO ARE WATCHING ONLINE AND OUR 08:43 EXTENDED CLASS - SOME ARE WATCHING VIA SATELLITE 08:45 AROUND THE WORLD. 08:46 NOW, YOU KNOW, I'D LIKE TO DO SOMETHING HERE - WE LIKE TO 08:50 SOMETIMES ASSUME PEOPLE WHO ARE WATCHING ALL MAY KNOW EVERYTHING 08:53 GOING ON AND I KNOW THAT THE CHURCH FAMILY HERE IS AWARE, BUT 08:57 SOME WHO ARE WATCHING ARE WONDERING, YOU KNOW, THE 09:00 SCHEDULE SEEMS TO HAVE CHANGED A LITTLE BIT. BACK IN JANUARY - 09:05 THE END OF JANUARY - I, TECHNICALLY, CEASED TO BE THE 09:07 SENIOR PASTOR OF SACRAMENTO CENTRAL. THIS CHURCH PLANTED A 09:11 CHURCH IN GRANITE BAY - OH, ABOUT SIX YEARS AGO. 09:15 AND THE LORD HAS BLESSED AND WE HAVE ALWAYS KNOWN THAT AS THE 09:17 TIME CAME THAT I'D EVENTUALLY SHIFT - TRANSFER OVER THERE AND 09:23 - WHICH HAPPENED THE END OF JANUARY. CHALLENGE IS WE STILL 09:27 DON'T HAVE A CHURCH. WE'RE RENTING FACILITIES FROM 09:29 ANOTHER CHURCH AND I JUST WANT TO SAY 'THANK YOU'. 09:32 SACRAMENTO CENTRAL HAS BEEN NICE ENOUGH TO LET ME BE AT LEAST A 09:35 GUEST TEACHER SOMETIMES HERE AT SACRAMENTO CENTRAL AND I'M VERY 09:39 THANKFUL FOR THAT, BUT SOMETHING HAPPENED WHILE I WAS IN GERMANY 09:43 AND I'M JUST VERY EXCITED TO SHARE WITH OUR EXTENDED MEMBERS 09:47 THAT ARE ONLINE AND OUR VIEWING AUDIENCE - 09:50 I'D LIKE TO INVITE PASTOR CHRIS BUTTERY TO COME UP AND - 09:54 NOW YOU'VE SEEN PASTOR CHRIS TEACH A NUMBER OF TIMES 09:57 BECAUSE HE'S PART OF OUR STAFF HERE. 09:59 SO HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN HERE WITH CENTRAL CHURCH? 10:02 >>I'VE BEEN HERE FOR JUST UNDER A YEAR AND A HALF. 10:05 >>YEAH, AND IT WAS ABOUT A YEAR AND A HALF AGO OR A COUPLE 10:09 MONTHS BEFORE THAT, I CALLED PASTOR CHRIS AND HIS WIFE 10:12 JENNIFER AND SAID WE WOULD LOVE TO HAVE THEM BE PART OF OUR TEAM 10:15 HERE AT SACRAMENTO CENTRAL AND IN THE BACK OF MY MIND I KNEW 10:20 THE DAY MIGHT COME WHERE I WOULD BE GOING SOMEWHERE ELSE AND I 10:24 WAS JUST PRAYERFUL THAT THE CONGREGATION AND THE CONFERENCE 10:28 WOULD SEE WISDOM IN HIS STAYING ON IN THAT CAPACITY AND THEY'VE 10:32 SEEN THE LIGHT. SO, IT SOMETIMES IS A LONG PROCESS IN 10:39 SEARCHING FOR A NEW SENIOR PASTOR BUT - YOU KNOW, THERE'S 10:42 MEETINGS WITH THE BOARD AND MEETINGS WITH THE SEARCH 10:43 COMMITTEE WITH THE CONFERENCE, BUT I THINK IT WAS LAST SABBATH 10:47 YOU WERE OFFICIALLY INTRODUCED AS THE SENIOR PASTOR. 10:49 >>YES, THAT'S RIGHT. 10:51 >>AND SO I WAS JUST VERY EXCITED - I WANTED TO INTRODUCE YOU 10:53 FORMALLY AS THE SENIOR TO OUR ONLINE MEMBERS. 10:57 THERE ARE MEMBERS OF SACRAMENTO CENTRAL AROUND THE WORLD. 10:59 SOME I MET THAT WERE IN EUROPE LAST WEEK AND YOU'RE GOING TO 11:04 CONTINUE. I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE GREAT TO 11:06 MAYBE SAY A WORD ABOUT - DO YOU HAVE ANY PLANS? 11:11 >>WE HAVE PLANS. PROBABLY NOT AS GREAT AS YOUR 11:13 PLANS BUT WE HAVE SOME PLANS, YES. 11:15 AND, AGAIN, PASTOR DOUG, JUST - IT'S BEEN A PRIVILEGE TO SERVE 11:19 WITH YOU AND WORK WITH YOU THIS LAST YEAR AND A HALF OR SOME AND 11:26 SO I RECOGNIZE - AND I TOLD THE CONGREGATION AND OUR ONLINE 11:29 VIEWERS LAST WEEK THAT I CERTAINLY HAVE BIG SHOES TO FILL 11:32 AND IT'S CERTAINLY A HUMBLING TASK THAT'S BEFORE US. 11:38 BUT WE'RE EXCITED ABOUT A NEW PAGE - A NEW CHAPTER - 11:41 IN SACRAMENTO CENTRAL'S FUTURE. SOME FOLK DO ASK US WHETHER 11:45 CENTRAL STUDY HOUR MIGHT BE CONTINUING AND WE HOPE TO SEE 11:49 IT CONTINUE IN SOME CAPACITY SO FOLK CAN CONTINUE TO VIEW AND 11:53 TUNE IN AS WELL. BUT WE'RE EXCITED ABOUT WHAT THE 11:56 LORD MIGHT HAVE IN STORE FOR US HERE. YES. 11:59 >>AMEN. WELL, YOU KNOW, I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE APPROPRIATE 12:02 FOR US TO JUST HAVE PRAYER TOGETHER FOR PASTOR CHRIS. 12:04 I THINK I SEE JENNIFER NOT TOO FAR AWAY. 12:07 WOULD YOU MIND COMING UP? 12:08 NOW, AGAIN, YOU'VE SEEN JENNIFER SINGING MANY TIMES - THOSE WHO 12:11 WATCH SABBATH SCHOOL - BUT I DON'T KNOW THAT IT'S EVER SAID A 12:14 LOWER THIRD, 'JENNIFER BUTTERY, THE PASTOR'S WIFE' AND SO SOME 12:18 PEOPLE MAY NOT HAVE MADE THAT CONNECTION. 12:20 IT MAY HAVE HAPPENED BUT I WOULD JUST LIKE TO HAVE THEM HERE 12:23 BEFORE YOU. BEING A PASTOR OF THE CENTRAL CHURCH IN THE 12:28 CAPITAL OF CALIFORNIA IS A BIG RESPONSIBILITY AND IT'S ONLY BY 12:32 PRAYER, I THINK, WE NEED TO PRAY FOR GOD'S SPIRIT TO BE ON THIS 12:37 COUPLE AND THAT THE LORD WILL GIVE THEM WISDOM AND JUST BLESS 12:40 THIS CHURCH - THAT IT WILL CONTINUE TO BE A LIGHT BOTH IN 12:43 THE COMMUNITY AND BEYOND, AMEN? SO WHY DON'T YOU BOW YOUR HEADS 12:46 WITH ME AS WE PRAY AND THOSE WHO ARE VIEWING. 12:50 FATHER IN HEAVEN, WE JUST ARE SO THANKFUL FOR THE ASSURANCE THAT 12:53 YOU ARE ON THE THRONE AND AS WE SURRENDER OUR LIVES TO YOU THAT 12:57 YOU WILL BLESS AND YOU WILL GUIDE AND AS WE'RE WILLING TO DO 13:00 YOUR WILL YOU'LL GIVE US STRENGTH AND WISDOM TO DO THE 13:03 TASKS AND TO FULFILL THE MINISTRY YOU HAVE FOR US. 13:06 LORD, RIGHT NOW, IN A SPECIAL SENSE, WE PRAY THAT YOU'LL 13:09 CONTINUE TO BLESS PASTOR CHRIS AND JENNIFER BUTTERY. 13:12 BE WITH THEIR FAMILY AND THEIR CHILDREN. 13:15 WE PRAY, ALSO, YOU'LL BE WITH THE THOMPSONS - PASTOR MIKE AND 13:17 HELEN - AND AS THEY SEARCH, ALSO, TO REPLACE SOME VACANCIES 13:21 FOR THE PASTORAL STAFF HERE, JUST GUIDE IN THAT WHOLE 13:24 PROCESS. LORD, YOU'VE BLESSED THIS CHURCH IN MANY WAYS. 13:27 WE PRAY YOU'LL CONTINUE TO BLESS IN EVEN GREATER, MORE ABUNDANT 13:31 WAYS. AND SO WE JUST COMMIT THEM TO YOUR CARE, PRAY THAT YOU'LL 13:34 FILL THEM WITH YOUR SPIRIT, AND WE THANK YOU BECAUSE WE BELIEVE 13:37 YOU WILL BECAUSE WE'RE ASKING IN JESUS' NAME. AMEN. 13:41 AMEN. THANK YOU AND GOD BLESS YOU. 13:45 AND I, AGAIN, WANT TO THANK CENTRAL CHURCH FOR LETTING ME 13:49 CONTINUE TO - AT LEAST FOR A LITTLE WHILE - BE A GUEST 13:52 TEACHER HERE. I LOVE TEACHING AND THIS LESSON, 13:54 IN PARTICULAR, TODAY IS A VERY IMPORTANT LESSON. 13:57 FIRST I SHOULD SAY WE HAVE A SPECIAL GIFT OFFER - IT'S GOT A 14:02 STRANGE TITLE AND IT'S CALLED 'SQUARE CIRCLES AND CARNAL 14:06 CHRISTIANS'. NOW A SQUARE CIRCLE SOUNDS LIKE 14:09 AN OXYMORON, RIGHT? AND SO IS A CARNAL CHRISTIAN. 14:13 WE'RE GOING TO BE STUDYING, IN A LITTLE BIT, ROMANS CHAPTER 7, 14:17 WHICH IS A VERY IMPORTANT CHAPTER TO UNDERSTAND - 14:21 SOMETIMES MISUNDERSTOOD. IF IT IS MISUNDERSTOOD, THE 14:25 RESULTS CAN BE CATASTROPHIC IN YOUR THEOLOGY. 14:28 AND SO, THIS BOOK HELPS EXPLAIN THAT IN A WAY THAT EVERYBODY CAN 14:32 UNDERSTAND. I WAS EVEN READING IT THIS MORNING. 14:35 SO WE'LL SEND IT TO YOU FOR FREE. 14:37 JUST CALL 866-STUDY-MORE - THAT'S 866-788-3966 - I THINK 14:43 WE'VE REPRINTED IT EVEN, WITH A NEW COVER - AND ASK FOR THE 14:46 OFFER NUMBER THAT APPEARS ON YOUR SCREEN. IT'S FREE. 14:49 READ IT AND THEN SHARE IT WITH SOMEBODY AND YOU'LL FIND THAT A 14:52 BLESSING. AND THAT'S EVERYBODY. 14:53 IF YOU HAVEN'T READ THIS BOOK IT REALLY HELPS YOU UNDERSTAND 14:55 ROMANS 7. AND OUR LESSON TODAY IS ON 15:00 CHRIST AND HIS LAW. WE'RE GOING THROUGH OUR 15:02 QUARTERLY DEALING WITH CHRIST AND HIS LAW. 15:04 IT'S LESSON #7, IN PARTICULAR, 'CHRIST, THE END OF THE LAW'. 15:11 NOW WHY IS IT THAT JUST THE TITLE ITSELF CAN SOMETIMES THROW 15:15 PEOPLE - 'CHRIST, THE END OF THE LAW'? WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? 15:18 DOES THAT MEAN WHEN JESUS CAME THERE'S NO MORE LAW? 15:23 DIDN'T JESUS SAY SOMETHING IN MATTHEW CHAPTER 5 - I THINK IT'S 15:25 VERSE 17 - 'THINK NOT THAT I'VE COME TO 15:29 DESTROY THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS. 15:31 I'VE NOT COME TO DESTROY BUT TO FILL FULL - FULFILL' - THAT'S 15:34 WHAT THAT MEANS - 'FOR WHOSOEVER SHALL TELL MEN TO BREAK THE 15:38 LEAST OF THESE COMMANDMENTS' - OR - 'WHOEVER SHALL BREAK THE 15:42 LEAST OF THESE COMMANDMENTS AND TEACH OTHERS TO DO SO WILL BE 15:44 CALLED LEAST IN THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN. 15:46 BUT WHOEVER WILL DO AND TEACH THEM WILL BE CALLED GREAT IN THE 15:49 KINGDOM OF HEAVEN.' AND THE RICH YOUNG RULER CAME TO JESUS AND 15:52 SAID, 'WHAT GOOD THING SHOULD I DO THAT I MIGHT HAVE ETERNAL 15:54 LIFE?'AND JESUS SAID, 'KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS.' 15:59 HE SAID, 'WHICH ONES?' AND JESUS BEGAN TO QUOTE THE 16:02 TEN COMMANDMENTS. SO WHEN IT SAYS 'CHRIST, THE END 16:04 OF THE LAW', THIS LESSON IS ACTUALLY QUOTING A VERSE FROM 16:08 ROMANS BUT IT IS A VERSE THAT IS OFTEN MISUNDERSTOOD AND 16:12 THAT'S VWHY WE'VE GOT A LESSON ON THIS SUBJECT. 16:13 OUR MEMORY VERSE IS FROM ROMANS 10, VERSE 4 AND THIS IS THE 16:19 SOURCE OF THE TITLE FOR THE LESSON - ROMANS 10:4 - AND IT 16:22 COMES FROM THE NEW REVISED STANDARD VERSION. 16:24 IF YOU COULD SAY IT WITH ME - ARE YOU READY? 16:25 ROMANS 10:4, "FOR CHRIST IS THE END OF THE LAW SO THAT THERE MAY 16:32 BE RIGHTEOUSNESS FOR EVERYONE WHO BELIEVES." 16:36 WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? 16:37 OKAY, WELL WE'RE GOING TO GET TO THAT IN JUST A SECOND, BUT TO 16:39 START WITH WE'RE GOING TO GO ON TO 'WHERE SIN ABOUNDED' - THE 16:43 FIRST PART OF THIS LESSON - AND I WANT TO INVITE YOU TO TURN IN 16:46 YOUR BIBLES TO ROMANS 5. WE'RE GOING TO GET TO ROMANS 7 16:49 IN JUST A MINUTE BUT FIRST WE'VE GOT TO BUILD A FOUNDATION. 16:53 ROMANS IS A BOOK THAT IF YOU READ IT - JUST ONE VERSE BY 16:57 ITSELF OR ONE LITTLE SECTION BY ITSELF, YOU CAN MISS THE THOUGHT 17:01 BECAUSE ROMANS - THE BOOK OF ROMANS IS LIKE 17:04 MOUNT EVEREST IN THE WRITINGS OF PAUL. 17:06 IT GIVES YOU A PANORAMA OF THE WHOLE PLAN OF SALVATION. 17:11 IT'S JUST AN INCREDIBLE BOOK, BUT YOU NEED TO KNOW AS HE'S 17:14 LEADING PEOPLE IN THEIR THINKING SO THAT WHEN YOU GET TO A 17:19 CERTAIN POINT YOU SAY, 'AH, THIS MAKES SENSE BECAUSE OF WHAT HE 17:22 SAID BEFORE AND WHAT HE SAYS AFTER.' SO JOIN ME IN ROMANS 17:26 CHAPTER 5 AND WE'RE TALKING ABOUT WHERE SIN ABOUNDS. 17:31 AND START WITH VERSE 12, "THEREFORE, JUST AS THROUGH ONE 17:37 MAN SIN ENTERED THE WORLD," - THAT ONE MAN BEING ADAM - "AND 17:41 DEATH THROUGH SIN, AND THUS DEATH SPREAD TO ALL MEN, BECAUSE 17:44 ALL SINNED - (FOR UNTIL THE LAW SIN WAS IN THE WORLD, BUT SIN IS 17:51 NOT IMPUTED WHERE THERE IS NO LAW." 17:55 - HE SAYS, 'UNTIL THE LAW SIN WAS IN THE WORLD.' IN OTHER 17:58 WORDS, UNTIL THE LAW WAS GIVEN BY MOSES ON MOUNT SINAI - OR BY 18:01 THE LORD ON MOUNT SINAI - WAS THERE SIN IN THE WORLD STILL? 18:06 WAS IT A SIN TO COMMIT ADULTERY BEFORE THE TEN COMMANDMENTS WERE 18:08 WRITTEN DOWN? WAS MURDER A SIN? WAS LYING A SIN? 18:12 DID GOD TELL CAIN THAT MURDER WAS A SIN? 18:15 DID JOSEPH SAY TO POTIPHAR'S WIFE ADULTERY WAS A SIN? 18:19 THAT WAS BEFORE THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. 18:20 SO PAUL IS MAKING AN ARGUMENT EVEN BEFORE THE LAW WAS SPOKEN 18:24 THERE WAS LAW BECAUSE THERE WAS SIN AND WHERE THERE IS NO LAW 18:30 THERE IS NO SIN. YOU KNOW, I WAS IN GERMANY ON 18:33 THE AUTOBAHN AND PEOPLE WERE DRIVING BY AT A HUNDRED MILES AN 18:36 HOUR - LITERALLY - OR FASTER! WE WERE DRIVING A HUNDRED AT ONE 18:40 POINT - NOT KILOMETERS, MILES PER HOUR - AND IT WAS PERFECTLY 18:46 LEGAL BECAUSE IT WAS A SECTION OF THE ROAD WHERE THERE IS NO 18:50 SPEED LIMIT AND IT'S PRETTY AMAZING. ANY OF YOU EVER BEEN 18:53 TO THE AUTOBAHN? IT'S PRETTY AMAZING. 18:57 SO HE'S JUST MAKING THAT ARGUMENT HERE. 18:59 AND THEN YOU GO ON TO VERSE 14, "NEVERTHELESS DEATH REIGNED FROM 19:03 ADAM TO MOSES, EVEN OVER THOSE WHO HAD NOT SINNED ACCORDING TO 19:06 THE LIKENESS OF THE TRANSGRESSION OF ADAM, WHO IS A 19:09 TYPE OF HIM WHO WAS TO COME." - ADAM IS A TYPE OF CHRIST - 19:12 "BUT THE FREE GIFT IS NOT LIKE THE OFFENSE. 19:15 FOR IF BY THE ONE MAN'S OFFENSE" - ADAM - "MANY DIED, MUCH MORE 19:20 THE GRACE OF GOD AND THE GIFT BY THE GRACE OF THE ONE MAN, 19:23 JESUS CHRIST, ABOUNDED TO MANY." - THROUGH ADAM'S SIN 19:27 DEATH PASSED ON ALL MEN, BUT THROUGH CHRIST'S VICTORY, 19:30 THAT ETERNAL LIFE CAN GO TO ALL MEN. 19:33 HOW MANY OF YOU BELIEVE THAT ADAM FELL AND WE ALL SUFFERED AS 19:36 A RESULT? IT'S VERY REAL EVERY DAY, RIGHT? 19:40 DO YOU BELIEVE JUST AS MUCH THAT JESUS SUCCEEDED AND THROUGH THE 19:43 SECOND ADAM WE CAN HAVE VICTORY? WE CAN HAVE RIGHTEOUSNESS? 19:46 WE CAN HAVE HEAVEN? ADAM FELL IN A GARDEN. 19:50 JESUS OVERCAME IN A WILDERNESS. 19:52 ON THE SIXTH DAY OF THE WEEK ADAM WENT TO SLEEP AND HIS SIDE 19:57 WAS OPENED UP AND OUT CAME A WIFE. 20:00 ON THE SIXTH DAY OF THE WEEK JESUS WENT TO SLEEP ON THE 20:02 CROSS. HE SAID, 'IT IS FINISHED.' HIS 20:04 SIDE WAS OPENED BY A SPEAR AND IN THE BLOOD AND WATER THAT CAME 20:07 OUT HIS BRIDE WAS BORN - THE CHURCH. 20:10 SO THAT'S WHY IT SAYS JESUS IS LIKE THE SECOND ADAM. 20:14 ALRIGHT, I WANT TO JUMP AHEAD HERE. 20:16 GO TO VERSE 20, "MOREOVER" - I'M IN ROMANS VERSE 5:20 - "MOREOVER 20:20 THE LAW ENTERED THAT THE OFFENSE MIGHT ABOUND. 20:23 BUT WHERE SIN ABOUNDED, GRACE ABOUNDED MUCH MORE, SO THAT AS 20:28 SIN REIGNED IN DEATH, EVEN SO GRACE MIGHT REIGN THROUGH 20:32 RIGHTEOUSNESS TO ETERNAL LIFE THROUGH JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD." 20:36 YOU KNOW, I LIVED SORT OF UNAWARE OF THE LAW OF GOD - I 20:39 KNEW THINGS WERE RIGHT AND WRONG, BUT ONCE I STARTED 20:41 READING THE BIBLE AND - I THOUGHT I WAS OKAY COMPARED TO 20:44 OTHER PEOPLE, BUT I READ THE TEN COMMANDMENTS AND ONCE I READ THE 20:48 LAW, SIN ABOUNDED. I REALIZED, 'WOW' - BECAUSE I 20:52 BECAME AWARE HOW FAST I HAD BEEN DRIVING. 20:55 I HAD NO IDEA WHAT THE SPEED LIMIT WAS - I'M USING THIS 20:57 METAPHORICALLY - YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING? 21:00 ALRIGHT, I WANT SOMEONE TO LOOK SOMETHING UP FOR ME. 21:04 SOMEBODY HAS PROVERBS 6:23 - WHO HAS THAT VERSE? 21:06 HOLD YOUR HAND UP. OVER HERE? LET'S GET YOU A MICROPHONE. 21:08 HOLD YOUR HAND UP SO THEY CAN SEE WHERE YOU ARE. 21:11 AND THEN IN A MINUTE I'M GOING TO GET TO JOHN 15:22 - YOU GOT 21:15 THAT OVER HERE? DO WE HAVE A MICROPHONE ON THIS SIDE? 21:17 OKAY, HE'LL BRING YOU - HOLD YOUR HAND UP - 21:19 HE'LL BRING YOU A MICROPHONE. ALRIGHT, AND AS WE'RE GETTING 21:22 READY FOR THAT, I'D LIKE TO READ ROMANS 7:7, "WHAT SHALL WE SAY 21:26 THEN? IS THE LAW SIN? GOD FORBID! NAY, I HAD NOT KNOWN 21:31 SIN, BUT BY THE LAW: FOR I HAD NOT KNOWN LUST, 21:34 EXCEPT THE LAW HAD SAID, 'THOU SHALT NOT COVET.'" - 21:37 HE GOES ON TO SAY, 'WHERE THERE IS NO LAW THERE IS NO 21:39 TRANSGRESSION.' BY THE WAY, IF CHRIST IS THE END OF THE LAW - 21:44 SOME PEOPLE TAKE THAT TO MEAN THAT WHEN JESUS CAME THE LAW IS 21:46 DONE AWAY WITH - IF CHRIST IS THE END OF THE LAW 21:50 IS THERE STILL SIN IN THE WORLD TODAY? 21:53 LET ME REPEAT PAUL: 'WHERE THERE IS NO LAW THERE IS NO SIN.' IF 21:57 THERE'S STILL SIN, MUSTN'T THERE ALSO BE A LAW? 22:01 YEAH, SO THE LAW - WHEN IT SAYS CHRIST IS THE END OF THE LAW, IT 22:04 DOESN'T MEAN THAT HE DID AWAY WITH THE LAW. WE'LL GET TO THAT 22:07 IN A MINUTE. ARE WE READY THEN? GO AHEAD AND READ FOR US 22:10 PROVERBS 6:23. >>PROVERBS 6:23, "FOR THE 22:16 COMMANDMENT IS A LAMP, AND THE LAW A LIGHT; REPROOFS OF 22:23 INSTRUCTION ARE THE WAY OF LIFE." 22:26 >>SO WHY WOULD GOD DO AWAY WITH LIGHT? 22:29 THE COMMANDMENT OF GOD IS A LIGHT - IT'S A LAMP - 22:33 IT ILLUMINATES. IT DOES NOT SAVE. 22:36 WHAT DOES LIGHT DO? LIGHT REVEALS. 22:38 LIGHT EXPOSES THINGS. LIGHT MAKES THINGS MANIFEST. 22:42 JAMES COMPARES THE LAW TO A MIRROR BECAUSE A MIRROR SHOWS A 22:46 REFLECTION OF SOMETHING THAT MAY NEED ATTENTION. 22:49 AND SO IT DOESN'T SAVE. IT WAS NEVER INTENDED TO SAVE. 22:54 CHRIST IS THE END OF THE LAW FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS MEANING: IF 22:58 SOMEONE IS LOOKING UPON THE LAW AS A SOURCE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS, HE 23:01 PUT THAT TO AN END. THE LAW NEVER DID BRING 23:03 RIGHTEOUSNESS. WHAT THE LAW DOES - IT AMPLIFIES 23:09 OUR NEED FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS. THE LAW AMPLIFIES OUR NEED. 23:15 I MIGHT THINK, YOU KNOW, 'I NEED TO TAKE A SHOWER ONCE A WEEK AND 23:19 WASH MY FACE, BUT LOOKING IN THE MIRROR THAT MIGHT BE AMPLIFIED. 23:23 YOU SEE WHAT I'M SAYING? AND SO THAT WAS THE PURPOSE OF 23:27 THE LAW. IT'S NOT TO SAVE. 23:29 ALRIGHT, GO AHEAD, READ FOR US JOHN 15:22. 23:33 >>JOHN 15:22, "IF I HAD NOT COME AND SPOKEN TO THEM, THEY WOULD 23:39 HAVE NO SIN, BUT NOW THEY HAVE NO EXCUSE FOR THEIR SIN." 23:42 >>ALRIGHT, NOW IS THERE MORE ACCOUNTABILITY ONCE THERE'S 23:46 A KNOWLEDGE OF WHAT GOD'S WILL IS? 23:49 JESUS SAYS IN LUKE - AND I DON'T REMEMBER THE VERSE - BUT HE 23:53 SAID, 'HE THAT KNEW HIS MASTER'S WILL AND DID NOT DO IT WILL BE 23:56 BEATEN WITH MANY STRIPES AND HE THAT KNEW HIS MASTER'S - DID NOT 24:01 KNOW HIS MASTER'S WILL AND DID NOT DO IT WILL BE BEATEN WITH 24:03 FEW STRIPES.' IN OTHER WORDS, 'YOU ARE MORE ACCOUNTABLE WHEN 24:07 YOU KNOW THAN WHEN YOU DON'T KNOW.' AND EVEN EVERY COURT 24:11 SYSTEM IN THE COUNTRY, THEY TAKE THINGS - THERE'S A DIFFERENT 24:16 PUNISHMENT FOR WHAT THEY CALL 'PREMEDITATED MURDER' - IT MEANS 24:19 IT WAS PLANNED. IT WAS CALCULATED. 24:21 SOMETHING THAT HAPPENS, YOU KNOW, IN A FIGHT ON THE STREET, 24:25 THEN THEY CALL IT MANSLAUGHTER. IT WASN'T PREMEDITATED. 24:28 AND SO, HAVING A KNOWLEDGE IN ADVANCE MAKES YOU MORE 24:32 RESPONSIBLE. AND THIS IS WHAT PAUL IS SAYING 24:36 - THE LAW IS THERE TO MAKE US MORE RESPONSIBLE. 24:39 NOW LET'S GO TO THE NEXT SECTION HERE AND IT COVERS ROMANS 6:15 24:43 THROUGH 23. AND SOMEONE LOOK UP FOR ME ROMANS 7, VERSE 12. 24:48 WHO HAS THAT VERSE? WE'VE GOT A HAND? DO WE HAVE SOMEONE WE 24:52 GAVE THAT VERSE TO? OKAY, HOLD YOUR HAND UP. 24:55 WE'LL GET TO YOU IN JUST A MOMENT. 24:56 AND IN THE MEANTIME, I'M GOING TO TAKE YOU TO ROMANS 6 AND 24:59 WE'RE GOING TO BE READING VERSES 15 TO 23. "WHAT THEN? 25:05 SHALL WE SIN BECAUSE WE ARE NOT UNDER LAW BUT UNDER GRACE? 25:09 CERTAINLY NOT!" - IF YOU HAVE KING JAMES IT 25:11 SAYS, 'GOD FORBID!' - DON'T EVEN THINK IT. 25:15 SHALL WE CONTINUE IN SIN BECAUSE WE'RE NOT UNDER THE LAW? 25:19 WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE NOT UNDER THE LAW? DOES NOT UNDER 25:23 THE LAW MEAN NOT UNDER A RESPONSIBILITY TO OBEY THE LAW? 25:28 ARE CHRISTIANS STILL OBLIGATED TO KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS? SHOULD 25:34 CHRISTIANS - ONCE YOU ACCEPT JESUS, DO YOU HAVE MORE OF AN 25:37 OBLIGATION OR LESS OF AN OBLIGATION? 25:41 I WOULD THINK MORE BECAUSE, FIRST OF ALL, WHEN YOU REALIZE 25:44 THAT IT'S YOUR LAWLESSNESS THAT PUT HIM ON THE CROSS, WHY WOULD 25:47 YOU WANT TO INCREASE YOUR LAWLESSNESS AFTER YOU'VE 25:50 ACCEPTED HIS FORGIVENESS? NOW DOES THAT MAKE SENSE? 25:54 A CHRISTIAN SHOULD BE THE MOST LAW-KEEPING PEOPLE BECAUSE IT'S 25:58 FOR OUR SINS - TRANSGRESSION OF THE LAW - THAT JESUS DIED. 26:02 SO THIS IDEA THAT WE'RE NOT UNDER THE LAW MEANS THAT WE'RE 26:05 NOT UNDER THE OBLIGATION TO KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS - 26:07 THAT'S NOT AT ALL WHAT PAUL MEANT. 26:10 THAT'S WHY PAUL SAID, 'LEST YOU MISUNDERSTAND, SHOULD WE 26:13 CONTINUE TO BREAK GOD'S LAW THAT GRACE MIGHT ABOUND? 26:16 GOD FORBID! PERISH THE THOUGHT. 26:18 DON'T THINK IT.' AND YET, I HEAR PASTORS SAY THAT ALL THE TIME. 26:21 THEY TAKE THIS PHRASE 'UNDER THE LAW' TO MEAN AN OBLIGATION TO 26:25 OBEY AND THEY SAY, 'WE'RE NOT UNDER THE LAW, WE'RE NO LONGER 26:28 UNDER AN OBLIGATION TO KEEP THE TEN COMMANDMENTS.' 26:31 HAVE YOU HEARD THIS BEFORE? I HEAR IT ALL THE TIME, BUT 26:35 WHENEVER I HEAR SOMEONE SAY THIS I PIN THEM DOWN A LITTLE 26:37 BIT AND I SAY, 'WAIT, LET ME JUST - HELP ME. 26:40 ARE YOU SAYING THAT SINCE WE'RE NOT UNDER THE LAW, THAT MEANS WE 26:44 DON'T NEED TO KEEP THE TEN COMMANDMENTS ANYMORE? 26:47 AND THEY REALIZE WHERE IT'S GOING AND THEY SAY, 'OH, WELL, 26:48 WE'RE NOT UNDER THE OLD LAW.' I SAY, 'IS IT OKAY TO LIE?' 26:51 'NO.' 'IS IT OKAY TO STEAL?' 'NO.' 'COMMIT ADULTERY?' 26:55 'NO.' 'COVET MY NEIGHBOR'S GOODS OR SPOUSE?' 'NO.' AND YOU GO 27:01 THROUGH THE TEN COMMANDMENTS - 'CAN I PRAY TO STATUES? 27:03 CAN I WORSHIP OTHER GODS?' 'NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO. 27:06 OF COURSE YOU HAVE TO KEEP ALL OF THOSE.' AND THEN YOU SAY, 27:08 'REMEMBER THE SABBATH DAY.' 'WE'RE NOT UNDER THE LAW.' I'VE 27:12 SEEN THAT DANCE SO MANY TIMES I WOULD THINK THAT SOMEBODY WOULD 27:16 REALIZE IT'S SUSPICIOUS. THEY HAVE NO PROBLEM WITH THE 27:20 TEN COMMANDMENTS UNTIL YOU GET TO THE FOURTH COMMANDMENT. 27:23 AND THEY, BASICALLY, INVENTED THIS WHOLE NEW THEOLOGY THAT 27:26 'NOT UNDER THE LAW' MEANS YOU'RE NOT UNDER AN 27:28 OBLIGATION TO KEEP THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. 27:30 THEY SAY, 'WE NEED TO KEEP THOSE BECAUSE THOSE COMMANDMENTS ARE 27:33 RESTATED IN THE NEW TESTAMENT.' THAT'S NOT TRUE. 27:37 THEY SAY THE ONLY COMMANDMENT NOT RESTATED IN THE NEW 27:40 TESTAMENT IS THE FOURTH COMMANDMENT - THE SABBATH. 27:42 THAT'S NOT TRUE. THAT'S WHAT YOU CALL A CHRISTIAN URBAN MYTH. 27:46 SOMETIMES PEOPLE SAY THINGS OVER AND OVER AGAIN - THEY THINK IT 27:48 MUST BE TRUE AND THEY DON'T EVER SEARCH IT OUT. 27:50 ACTUALLY, YOU DON'T FIND ANYWHERE IN THE NEW TESTAMENT 27:54 WHERE IT SAYS, 'THOU SHALT NOT HAVE OTHER GODS BEFORE ME.' SO 27:58 CAN WE BREAK THAT COMMANDMENT? NO. 28:02 'DON'T TAKE THE NAME OF THE LORD IN VAIN' - THAT'S THE ONE - YOU 28:05 DON'T FIND THAT IN THE NEW TESTAMENT. 28:06 WHERE DOES IT SAY IN THE NEW TESTAMENT, 'DON'T TAKE THE NAME 28:08 OF THE LORD IN VAIN'? CAN WE BREAK THAT THEN? 28:13 DO WE FIND THE FOURTH COMMANDMENT REPEATED 28:15 AND ADDRESSED IN THE NEW TESTAMENT? 28:18 YEAH, HEBREWS CHAPTER 4, FOR ONE THING. 28:21 ACTS CHAPTER 13 - THERE'S A NUMBER OF PLACES WHERE IT TALKS 28:24 ABOUT KEEPING THE SABBATH IN THE NEW TESTAMENT. 28:27 SO THAT ARGUMENT THAT, 'WELL, IT'S NOT REPEATED.' - I HEARD 28:31 ONE EVANGELIST SAY IT THIS WAY: 'MANY EVANGELICAL CHRISTIANS 28:35 REALLY STRUGGLE TO GET RID OF THE SABBATH. IT'S LIKE A MAN WHO 28:38 HAS A SORE FINGER AND IN ORDER TO DEAL WITH THAT SORE FINGER HE 28:41 CUTS OFF ALL TEN FINGERS AND SEWS NINE OF THEM BACK ON. 28:46 AND SO, TO GET RID OF THE SABBATH THEY ACTUALLY HAVE TO 28:49 GET RID OF ALL TEN, THEY REATTACH NINE OF THEM, AND 28:53 REALLY, THE PROBLEM IS, WE SHOULD KEEP ALL TEN. 28:57 AND WHEN CHRIST SAYS WE'RE NOT UNDER THE LAW - THIS IS WHAT 29:00 UNDER THE LAW MEANS - WE ARE NOT UNDER THE CURSE - OR THE PENALTY 29:05 - OF THE LAW, WE ARE UNDER GRACE. 29:07 WHEN YOU SIN YOU'RE UNDER THE CONDEMNATION OF THE LAW. 29:10 YOU'RE UNDER THE PENALTY - THE DEATH PENALTY. 29:13 AFTER YOU'RE FORGIVEN, PRAISE GOD, BY THE GRACE OF GOD, WE ARE 29:16 NO LONGER UNDER THE PENALTY OF THE LAW. 29:18 IT DOESN'T MEAN AN OBLIGATION TO OBEY THE LAW. 29:21 AND SO, BUT I'VE HEARD IT TWISTED IN SO MANY - MILLIONS OF 29:27 CHRISTIANS THINK THIS VERSE MEANS WE ARE NOT UNDER AN 29:31 OBLIGATION TO KEEP THE LAW. THAT'S NOT WHAT HE'S SAYING. 29:34 "DO YOU NOT KNOW" - AND LISTEN TO PAUL - LET HIM SPEAK FOR 29:37 HIMSELF - VERSE 16 - ROMANS 6:16, "DO YOU NOT KNOW THAT TO 29:42 WHOM YOU PRESENT YOURSELVES SLAVES TO OBEY, YOU ARE THAT 29:45 ONE'S SLAVES WHOM YOU OBEY, WHETHER OF SIN" - 29:48 BREAKING THE LAW - "LEADING TO DEATH, OR OF OBEDIENCE" - 29:51 KEEPING THE LAW - "LEADING TO RIGHTEOUSNESS? 29:54 BUT GOD BE THANKED THAT THOUGH YOU WERE SLAVES OF SIN, YET YOU 29:57 OBEYED FROM THE HEART THAT FORM OF DOCTRINE TO WHICH YOU WERE 30:00 DELIVERED. AND HAVING BEEN SET FREE FROM 30:03 SIN, YOU BECAME SLAVES OF RIGHTEOUSNESS. 30:06 I SPEAK IN HUMAN TERMS BECAUSE OF THE WEAKNESS OF YOUR FLESH. 30:09 FOR JUST AS YOU PRESENTED YOUR MEMBERS AS SLAVES OF 30:12 UNCLEANNESS, AND OF LAWLESSNESS" - YOU CAN'T MISUNDERSTAND WHAT 30:15 HE MEANS HERE - BEFORE YOU WERE SAVED YOU WERE SLAVES TO 30:19 LAWLESSNESS - "SO NOW PRESENT" - LAWLESS MEANS WITHOUT THE LAW, 30:23 RIGHT? LAWBREAKING - DO WE ALL AGREE? 30:26 IF I TELL YOU SOMEONE'S AN OUTLAW ARE THEY LAW-ABIDING OR 30:29 NOT? THEY'RE LAWLESS. 30:32 OKAY, PAUL IS VERY CLEAR HERE - "LEADING TO MORE LAWLESSNESS," - 30:37 I'M IN VERSE 19 - "SO NOW PRESENT YOUR MEMBERS AS SLAVES 30:40 OF RIGHTEOUSNESS FOR HOLINESS. FOR WHEN YOU WERE SLAVES OF SIN, 30:44 YOU WERE FREE IN REGARD TO RIGHTEOUSNESS." 30:47 - IN OTHER WORDS, YOU ARE SEPARATED FROM RIGHTEOUSNESS - 30:49 "WHAT FRUIT DID YOU HAVE THEN IN THE THINGS OF WHICH YOU ARE NOW 30:52 ASHAMED? FOR THE END OF THOSE THINGS IS DEATH. BUT NOW, 30:56 HAVING BEEN SET FREE FROM SIN, AND HAVING BECOME SLAVES 31:00 OF GOD, YOU HAVE YOUR FRUIT TO HOLINESS" - A LAW OF OBEDIENCE - 31:05 "AND THE END, EVERLASTING LIFE. FOR THE WAGES OF SIN IS DEATH, 31:09 BUT THE GIFT OF GOD IS ETERNAL LIFE IN CHRIST JESUS OUR LORD." 31:13 ALRIGHT, SO THAT'S THE GOOD NEWS THERE. AND SOMEONE, I THINK, IS 31:16 READY TO READ ROMANS 7:12. WHERE ARE YOU? BACK HERE? OH BACK 31:20 HERE. OKAY, GOOD, ARE WE READY? LET'S GO AHEAD AND READ THAT. 31:23 >>ROMANS 7:12, "THEREFORE THE LAW IS HOLY, AND 31:29 THE COMMANDMENT HOLY AND JUST AND GOOD." 31:34 >>ONLY A FEW THINGS ARE CALLED 'HOLY'. 31:36 BY THE WAY, THE ONLY PLACE IN THE TEN COMMANDMENTS YOU FIND 31:38 THE WORD 'HOLY' IS IN THE FOURTH COMMANDMENT. 31:41 ONLY A FEW THINGS ARE HOLY AND DID JESUS COME TO DO AWAY WITH 31:46 SOMETHING THAT IS HOLY AND JUST AND GOOD TO REPLACE IT WITH 31:50 SOMETHING UNHOLY, UNJUST, AND BAD? OF COURSE NOT. 31:55 SO PAUL IS SAYING THERE'S NO PROBLEM WITH THE LAW, THE LAW'S 31:58 FUNCTION, THOUGH, IS NOT TO SAVE. 31:59 THAT'S THE POINT THAT HE'S MAKING AND YOU KNOW WHY PAUL IS 32:02 MAKING THAT POINT? HE'S TALKING HERE IN ROMANS 32:06 ABOUT HIS PERSONAL EXPERIENCE. WAS PAUL - WOULD HE CONSIDER 32:11 HIMSELF A LAWKEEPER BEFORE HE KNEW JESUS WAS THE MESSIAH? 32:16 SURE. HE WAS A PHARISEE OF THE PHARISEES - THAT'S HIS OWN 32:19 WORDS. DID PHARISEES MAKE A BIG DEAL ABOUT THE LAW? YEAH. 32:22 DID THEY EVEN - WERE THEY EVEN A LITTLE LEGALISTIC? 32:26 ISN'T LEGALISM THINKING YOU'RE SAVED BY THE LAW? 32:30 PAUL IS TALKING ABOUT HIS OWN EXPERIENCE ABOUT THE TIME HE 32:33 THOUGHT HE WAS BEING SAVED BY THE LAW AND HE FINALLY REALIZED 32:36 THE LAW DOES NO SAVING. 32:38 SALVATION AND FORGIVENESS COMES FROM THE GRACE OF GOD AND 32:41 THROUGH THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF CHRIST. 32:43 AND SO - NOW THE LAW SERVES A PURPOSE. 32:48 YOU KNOW, WHEN I WAS FIRST LEARNING TO DRIVE, A LOT OF YOU 32:52 PROBABLY FANCY YOURSELF PRETTY GOOD DRIVERS. 32:55 HOW MANY OF YOU REMEMBER WHEN YOU WERE FIRST LEARNING TO 32:57 DRIVE, THERE WAS A DRIVING MANUAL PUT OUT BY THE STATE AND 33:01 IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN CALIFORNIA'S DMV DRIVING HAND BOOK AND THERE 33:04 WERE REGULATIONS. HOW MANY TOOK THE TEST? ANYONE DRIVING YOU 33:06 DIDN'T TAKE THE TEST? JUST WANT TO - WE WANT TO GET YOU ON 33:09 CAMERA RIGHT NOW BECAUSE WE WANT YOU OFF THE ROADS. 33:14 SO WE ALL TOOK A TEST - THERE'S A LOT OF LAWS ABOUT WHEN TO 33:17 PASS, WHEN NOT TO PASS, WHAT THE LINES MEAN. 33:20 YOU DON'T WANT SOMEONE COMING TOWARDS YOU NOT KNOWING WHAT 33:22 THOSE LINES MEAN - SOLID LINES, DOTTED LINES, YELLOW LINES, 33:24 WHITE - THERE'S A - THEY ALL MEAN SOMETHING, RIGHT? 33:27 AND YOU PROBABLY STUDIED THAT BOOK AND TOOK A TEST AND I'M 33:32 ASSUMING YOU PASSED. HOW MANY OF YOU CARRY THAT BOOK 33:35 IN YOUR GLOVE BOX NOW? I SEE SOME OF YOU DO. 33:39 WELL, THAT'S GOOD. THAT'S OKAY. I KNOW IT PRETTY WELL. 33:43 I'VE SORT OF GOT IT IN MY HEART. 33:44 HOW MANY OF YOU SORT OF - IT'S SECOND NATURE FOR YOU NOW? 33:47 ISN'T THAT WHAT THE LAW SHOULD BE? 33:50 WHERE IT'S IN OUR MINDS AND IN OUR HEARTS SO IT BECOMES LIKE 33:54 ALMOST A NATURAL RESPONSE TO OBEY THE LAWS? 33:57 I MEAN, I HAD TO THINK SO HARD TO TURN ON MY TURN SIGNAL WHEN I 34:02 WAS FIRST LEARNING TO DRIVE THAT WHEN MY DRIVING INSTRUCTOR TOOK 34:06 ME OUT - THAT WAS JUST SOMETHING - HE SAID, 'TURN SIGNAL. 34:10 YOU FORGOT TURN SIGNAL - CHANGING LANES - TURN SIGNAL.' 34:13 AND IT GOT SO BAD THAT NOW I'M UP ON THE COUNTRY ROADS - I'M ON 34:15 DIRT ROADS TWELVE MILES FROM ANYBODY AND I GO AROUND THE 34:18 CORNER I TURN ON MY TURN SIGNAL. THERE'S NOBODY UP THERE. 34:21 I'M JUST SURROUNDED BY A CLOUD OF DUST ON A DIRT ROAD AND I'M 34:23 TURNING ON MY TURN SIGNAL. IT'S JUST - 34:24 IT'S A HABIT NOW. YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN? 34:28 AND SO - BUT THAT'S KIND OF - WHEN YOU WALK WITH JESUS AND YOU 34:32 LIVE THAT KIND OF LIFE AND YOU STUDY HIS WORD AND IT BECOMES IN 34:35 YOUR HEART - ISN'T THAT THAT NEW COVENANT? 34:38 WHEN YOU'RE GOVERNED BY LOVE FOR GOD THEN YOU START DRIVING RIGHT 34:44 BECAUSE YOU'VE GOT THE LAW WRITTEN IN YOUR HEART. 34:46 DEUTERONOMY 6, VERSE 6 - JUST A COUPLE MORE THOUGHTS ON THE LAW 34:50 HERE, "AND THESE WORDS" - IN DEUTERONOMY 5 - MOSES RECITES - 34:57 HE REPEATS THE TEN COMMANDMENTS - "AND THESE WORDS WHICH I 35:00 COMMAND YOU TODAY SHALL BE IN YOUR HEART. 35:02 YOU SHALL TEACH THEM DILIGENTLY TO YOUR CHILDREN, AND SHALL TALK 35:05 OF THEM WHEN YOU SIT IN YOUR HOUSE, WHEN YOU WALK BY THE WAY, 35:08 WHEN YOU LIE DOWN, AND WHEN YOU RISE UP. 35:10 YOU SHALL BIND THEM AS A SIGN ON YOUR HAND, AND THEY SHALL BE AS 35:13 FRONTLETS BETWEEN YOUR EYES. YOU SHALL WRITE THEM ON THE 35:16 DOORPOSTS OF YOUR HOUSE AND ON YOUR GATES." 35:19 NOW, THIS WAS REALLY MEANT TO BE A SYMBOL. 35:23 WHEN GOD SAYS YOU SHOULD HAVE THEM IN YOUR HEART, DID THAT 35:26 MEAN LITERALLY TO OPEN YOUR HEART AND PUT THEM IN THERE? 35:30 WHEN HE SAID THEY SHOULD BE ON YOUR DOORS AND ON YOUR GATES - 35:33 WELL, THERE'S NO HARM IN DOING THAT. 35:36 YOU KNOW WHEN YOU GO INTO THE HOME - A JEWISH HOME - SOMETIMES 35:39 THERE'LL BE A LITTLE SCROLL AND YOU'LL SEE THEM KISS IT AND PUT 35:43 THEIR FINGER TO IT AND IT'S SUPPOSED TO HAVE A LITTLE PIECE 35:45 OF THE LAW WRITTEN INSIDE THIS LITTLE - 35:47 I CAN'T REMEMBER THE WORD FOR IT - ANYWAYS, IT'S A JEWISH WORD 35:50 FOR THE LITTLE ELEMENT OF THE LAW THAT IS IN THIS SILVER BOX 35:56 NAILED TO THE DOOR. 35:57 AND YOU'VE PROBABLY SEEN THE PHARISEES THAT HAVE THESE 36:00 PHYLACTERIES - THEY'VE GOT A LITTLE LEATHER BOX WITH THE LAW 36:02 ON THE FOREHEAD AND THEY'VE GOT ONE TIED TO THEIR WRISTS AND 36:06 THEY THINK THERE'S SOME SPIRITUAL MERIT - SHOWING THEIR 36:09 HOLINESS BY HAVING, LITERALLY, THE LAW TIED ON THEIR HAND AND 36:12 ON THEIR FOREHEAD AND ON THEIR GATES. 36:15 BUT WHAT DID MOSES MEAN? SURROUND YOURSELF WITH IT. 36:19 IT SHOULD BE IN YOUR HAND - IN YOUR ACTIONS - IN YOUR HEART - 36:21 YOUR AFFECTIONS - IN YOUR HEAD - IN YOUR THOUGHTS. 36:23 NOW THAT'S VERY IMPORTANT BECAUSE DID ANY OF YOU SEE THE 36:28 NEW YOUTUBE? I JUST PUT IT UP ON MY FACEBOOK 36:30 LAST NIGHT - AMAZING - SOME OF YOU SAW IT - AMAZING FACTS JUST 36:34 PUT OUT A NEW YOUTUBE ON THE MARK OF THE BEAST - EXPLAINING 36:36 WHAT THE MARK IS. IS IT SYMBOLIC OR FIGURATIVE? 36:39 AND WE QUOTE THIS VERSE AND YOU CAN GO TO THE AMAZING FACTS 36:42 WEBSITE - WE'LL HAVE IT THERE - BUT IT'S ONLY - IT'S A 36:45 FOUR-MINUTE YOUTUBE BECAUSE PEOPLE MISUNDERSTAND THE MARK. 36:48 THEY THINK IT'S A PHYSICAL LINE. THEY THINK IT'S A TATTOO, A 36:51 BARCODE, A COMPUTER CHIP. YOU KNOW, THERE MIGHT BE SOME 36:55 MECHANISM THAT THE BEAST POWER WILL USE TO CONTROL BUYING AND 36:58 SELLING, BUT A CREDIT CARD IS NOT THE MARK OF THE BEAST. 37:04 AND WHERE IS THE MARK OF THE BEAST? 37:06 THE HAND AND THE FOREHEAD, RIGHT? 37:09 THIS IS A CLUE - WHEN MOSES SAYS 'THESE WORDS SHALL BE IN YOUR 37:13 HAND AND BETWEEN YOUR EYES' - HE SYMBOLICALLY MEANS THE LAW OF 37:16 THE LORD. HOW MANY PEOPLE IN REVELATION 37:18 HAVE A MARK? WHAT PERCENTAGE? 37:22 A HUNDRED PERCENT - A HUNDRED PERCENT HAVE A MARK. 37:26 THEY EITHER HAVE THE SEAL OF GOD OR THEY HAVE THE MARK OF THE 37:30 BEAST. YOU NOTICE HOW I WORDED THAT? 37:32 EVERYBODY HAS SOME KIND OF DISTINGUISHING MARK. 37:35 ISN'T THAT RIGHT? ARE YOU ALL WITH ME? 37:37 AND THE WHOLE WORLD'S GOING TO GET POLARIZED INTO ONE OF TWO 37:39 GROUPS. THE SEAL OF GOD IS THE LAW OF 37:42 GOD IN THE HEAD AND IN THE HAND - IT'S IN THE HEART REALLY. 37:48 AND IN THAT LAW THERE'S A SPECIAL COMMANDMENT THAT TALKS 37:51 ABOUT HOLINESS AND WORSHIPING GOD BECAUSE THE BIG BATTLE IN 37:54 THE LAST DAYS IS ABOUT WORSHIP. AND SO THAT'S WHY THE DEVIL 37:58 ATTACKS THE LAW AND THAT'S WHY WE'RE STUDYING THIS SUBJECT. 38:01 SO MANY PEOPLE MISUNDERSTAND. IS IT STILL A GOOD IDEA FOR 38:04 CHRISTIANS TO DO WHAT MOSES SUGGESTED? 38:07 TO SURROUND OURSELVES WITH THE LAW OF GOD - WHEN WE LAY DOWN, 38:09 WHEN WE RISE UP? TO TEACH IT TO THEM? 38:11 HAVE IT IN OUR HANDS AND IN OUR HEARTS AND IN OUR HEADS AND ON 38:14 OUR DOORS AND - SHOULDN'T WE KNOW THE LAW OF GOD? 38:19 WE'RE NOT SAVED BY IT, BUT IN TEACHING THE WORD - 'THY WORD IS 38:24 A LAMP UNTO MY FEET' - IT'S VERY IMPORTANT FOR US TO HAVE THE 38:27 MIRROR OF THE LAW - TO HAVE THE LIGHT OF THE LAW - 38:30 TO REVEAL OUR NEED OF CHRIST, AMEN? 38:33 SO, THAT'S JUST A VERY IMPORTANT POINT THERE. 38:36 LET ME READ SOMETHING - THIS IS IN YOUR LESSON FROM 'ACTS OF THE 38:39 APOSTLES' PAGE 393 - "PAUL HAD EVER EXALTED THE DIVINE LAW. 38:46 HE HAD SHOWN THAT IN THE LAW THERE IS NO POWER TO SAVE MAN 38:51 FROM THE PENALTY OF DISOBEDIENCE. 38:53 WRONGDOERS MUST REPENT OF THEIR SINS AND HUMBLE THEMSELVES 38:56 BEFORE GOD, WHOSE JUST WRATH THEY'VE INCURRED BY BREAKING HIS 39:00 LAW. AND THEY MUST EXERCISE FAITH IN 39:02 THE BLOOD OF CHRIST AS THEIR ONLY MEANS OF PARDON." 39:06 SO, FOR THOSE WHO THINK THAT SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS BELIEVE 39:09 THAT WE'RE SAVED BY KEEPING THE LAW, WE DON'T BELIEVE THAT ANY 39:12 MORE THAN AN EVANGELICAL BELIEVES THEY'RE SAVED BY NOT 39:15 COMMITTING ADULTERY. BUT EVANGELICALS TEACH THEIR 39:18 FLOCK NOT TO COMMIT ADULTERY - IS THAT LEGALISM? 39:22 EVANGELICALS TEACH THEIR FLOCK NOT TO STEAL, RIGHT? 39:26 DON'T MOST CHRISTIANS TEACH THAT? 39:28 SO DO WE BECOME LEGALISTS BY ALSO TEACHING 39:31 'REMEMBER THE SABBATH DAY'? THAT'S NOT FAIR. 39:34 YOU MEAN BECAUSE WE DO A HUNDRED PERCENT OF THE COMMANDMENTS 39:36 INSTEAD OF NINETY PERCENT, WE BECOME LEGALISTS? 39:39 NO, IT'S THE SAME PRINCIPLE. WE'RE SAVED BY GRACE FROM ALL 39:42 DISOBEDIENCE, BUT YOU STILL TEACH THE LAW, RIGHT? 39:47 OKAY, SO NOW LET'S GET TO THAT DIFFICULT PASSAGE THAT I REALLY 39:52 PRAY WE ALL UNDERSTAND. GO TO ROMANS CHAPTER 7, VERSE 15. 39:58 NOW, IN ROMANS 6 AND IN ROMANS 8 AND IN ROMANS 5 PAUL IS TALKING 40:06 ABOUT THE WONDERFUL LIBERTY AND FREEDOM AND DELIVERANCE WE HAVE 40:09 IN JESUS - THIS NEW LIFE, THIS NEW HEART, THE JOY, THE PRAISE - 40:14 AND THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN, OUT OF NOWHERE, IN ROMANS 7, HE 40:17 DESCRIBES THIS VERY DEPRESSING CONDITION AND PEOPLE 40:22 MISUNDERSTAND. THEY'RE GOING, 'WHAT IS HE TALKING ABOUT?' 40:25 LET ME READ THIS TO YOU - ROMANS 7:15, "FOR WHAT I AM DOING, I DO 40:31 NOT UNDERSTAND. FOR WHAT I WILL TO DO, THAT I DO 40:33 NOT PRACTICE; BUT WHAT I HATE, THAT I DO. 40:37 IF THEN I DO WHAT I WILL NOT TO DO, I AGREE WITH THE LAW THAT IT 40:41 IS GOOD. BUT NOW, IT IS NO LONGER I WHO 40:44 DO IT, BUT SIN THAT DWELLS IN ME." 40:46 NOW, I'VE JUST GO TO PAUSE HERE - SOME PEOPLE BELIEVE - AND 40:50 THIS IS THE PART THAT I JUST HOPE EVERYBODY WILL WAKE UP AND 40:53 ENGRAVE IN YOUR MIND. SOME PEOPLE BELIEVE THAT PAUL IS 40:58 DESCRIBING WHAT IS SUPPOSED TO BE THE REGULAR EXPERIENCE OF A 41:02 CONVERTED CHRISTIAN IN THESE VERSES. 41:05 MANY CHRISTIANS DO NOT BELIEVE THAT, THEY BELIEVE PAUL IS 41:09 DESCRIBING HERE WHAT HIS STRUGGLE WAS AS SAUL THE 41:13 PHARISEE, WHERE HE HAD NO PEACE WHEN IT CAME TO TRYING 41:17 TO FIND RIGHTEOUSNESS THROUGH THE LAW. 41:20 IF WE BELIEVE THAT WE CAN SAY, 'WELL, I'M JUST GOING TO 41:24 CONTINUE TO SIN, BUT I'M NOT RESPONSIBLE, IT'S SIN THAT 41:26 DWELLS IN ME.' I REMEMBER WHEN I LIVED ON THE NAVAJO RESERVATION 41:31 - THEY STRUGGLE WITH ALCOHOL - AND SOMETIMES THEY'D DO THE MOST 41:34 EMBARRASSING, EVEN DEADLY, THINGS UNDER THE INFLUENCE, BUT 41:38 THEIR ATTITUDE WAS - AMONG MANY - 'WELL, IT WASN'T ME, IT 41:42 WAS THE ALCOHOL.' AND IT'S ALMOST LIKE THEY SAID, 'I'M NOT 41:45 RESPONSIBLE, IT WAS THE ALCOHOL.' WELL, BUT YOU'RE 41:49 RESPONSIBLE WHEN YOU CHOOSE TO DRINK THE ALCOHOL. 41:52 AND SO, SOME PEOPLE HAVE THIS ATTITUDE, 'WELL, I SIN BUT I 41:56 ACCEPTED JESUS SO IT DOESN'T MATTER BECAUSE I DON'T HAVE TO 41:59 WORRY ABOUT SIN. IT'S JUST THE SIN THAT DWELLS IN ME. 42:02 IT'S JUST THE NORMAL EXPERIENCE.' 42:03 AND THEY GIVE UP MAKING ANY EFFORT TO REPENT AND TURN FROM 42:06 THEIR SINS BECAUSE THEY THINK THAT THIS IS SUPPOSED TO BE THE 42:10 NORMAL EXPERIENCE. THAT'S DANGEROUS. 42:12 THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT THE DEVIL WANTS PEOPLE TO THINK. 42:14 LISTEN, LET ME CONTINUE HERE, "FOR I KNOW THAT IN ME (THAT IS, 42:18 IN MY FLESH) NOTHING GOOD DWELLS; FOR TO WILL IS PRESENT 42:21 WITH ME,"' - THE DESIRE TO DO RIGHT IS PRESENT WITH ME - "BUT 42:25 HOW TO PERFORM WHAT IS GOOD I DO NOT FIND." 42:28 - I DON'T KNOW HOW TO DO WHAT I'M SUPPOSED TO DO. 42:30 IS THAT THE ONGOING EXPERIENCE OF THE CHRISTIAN - HOPELESSNESS? 42:33 WHERE YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW TO DO GOD'S WILL? 42:35 WE KNOW WHAT IT IS BUT WE CAN'T DO IT - "FOR THE GOOD THAT I 42:38 WILL TO DO, I DO NOT DO;" - NOW WE'VE ALL EXPERIENCED THAT - 42:42 ME TOO, RIGHT? BUT IS THAT SUPPOSED TO BE THE PATTERN? 42:46 "THE GOOD THAT I WILL TO DO, I DO NOT DO; BUT THE EVIL I WILL 42:49 NOT TO DO, THAT I PRACTICE." - SO THIS IS THE NEW BORN-AGAIN 42:53 CHRISTIAN: THE EVIL YOU DON'T WANT TO DO, THAT'S WHAT YOU'RE 42:55 GOING TO DO. WELL, WHY BE A CHRISTIAN? - NOW IF I DO WHAT I 43:01 WILL NOT TO DO, IT IS NO LONGER I WHO DO IT, BUT SIN THAT 43:04 DWELLS IN ME. I FIND THEN A LAW, THAT EVIL IS PRESENT WITH ME, 43:09 THE ONE WHO WILLS TO DO GOOD. FOR I DELIGHT IN THE LAW OF GOD 43:13 ACCORDING TO THE INWARD MAN." - I MEAN, I SEE THE LAW. 43:16 IT MAKES SENSE AND - WILL THERE BE A DAY WHEN EVEN THE WICKED 43:19 FALL BEFORE THE LORD AND DECLARE HE'S JUST? 43:22 SO YOU CAN BE LOST AND STILL DECLARE THAT GOD IS JUST. 43:26 DID BALAAM - DIDN'T BALAAM TRY TO CURSE ISRAEL AND HE SAID, 43:30 'LET ME DIE THE DEATH OF THE RIGHTEOUS? 43:33 I MEAN, HE PRAISED THE GOODNESS OF GOD. 43:35 AND YET, HE CONTINUED TO CHASE AFTER MONEY. 43:37 SO THE IDEA THAT ONLY PEOPLE THAT ARE ABJECT - 43:40 ABANDONED TO SIN - CAN SAY THAT IS NOT TRUE. 43:44 A LOT OF SINNERS OUT THERE KNOW GOD IS GOOD AND THE LAW IS JUST 43:48 - "FOR I DELIGHT IN THE LAW OF GOD ACCORDING TO THE INWARD MAN. 43:50 BUT I SEE ANOTHER LAW IN MY MEMBERS, WARRING AGAINST THE LAW 43:53 OF MY MIND, AND BRINGING ME INTO CAPTIVITY TO THE LAW OF SIN 43:57 WHICH IS IN MY MEMBERS. O WRETCHED MAN THAT I AM!" 44:03 - SO IS THAT THE CONDITION OF THE SAVED CHRISTIAN? WRETCHED? 44:07 I MEAN, THAT'S GOING TO BE A GREAT EVANGELISM SLOGAN, 44:11 "COME, BE A CHRISTIAN. BE A WRETCHED MAN AND WOMAN IN 44:16 CONSTANT CONFLICT. KNOWING WHAT YOU SHOULD DO - 44:19 NEVER ABLE TO DO IT.' BOY, THAT'S GOING TO BE HARD TO DO 44:23 EVANGELISM WITH THAT AS OUR MOTTO - "O WRETCHED MAN THAT I 44:28 AM! WHO WILL DELIVER ME FROM THIS BODY OF DEATH?" 44:30 - NOW WE ALL KNOW ABOUT THIS BODY OF DEATH. 44:32 BY THE WAY, WHEN PAUL SAYS, 'BODY OF DEATH' MANY SCHOLARS 44:35 BELIEVE HE'S ALLUDING TO A VERY DESPICABLE PRACTICE THE ROMANS 44:41 HAD FOR THE VERY WORST CRIMINALS. 44:43 IF YOU THINK CRUCIFIXION WAS THE WORST THING, 44:45 THEY HAD ONE THING WORSE - THEY WOULD ACTUALLY CHAIN YOU TO 44:50 A DEAD BODY. THEY WOULD CHAIN A LIVING PERSON 44:53 - A CRIMINAL - IN A DUNGEON - TO A DEAD BODY THAT WAS DECOMPOSING 44:58 AND SO THE CONTAGION OF THAT DEAD BODY WOULD EVENTUALLY 45:01 SPREAD TO THEM AND THEY WOULD DIE FROM IT - FROM THE 45:06 CONTAMINATION AND PAUL IS REFERENCING THAT AND HE'S 45:10 SAYING, 'I FEEL LIKE I AM CHAINED TO THIS BODY OF DEATH. 45:14 HERE I'VE GOT THIS DESIRE TO BE A CHRISTIAN BUT I'VE GOT THIS 45:16 CARNAL NATURE AND I CAN'T GET AWAY FROM IT. WHAT DO I DO? 45:21 AND EVERYBODY IN THE CONVERSION PROCESS EXPERIENCES THAT. 45:26 THERE IS A STRUGGLE. PAUL IS DESCRIBING THE STRUGGLE 45:30 FOR DELIVERANCE - THIS WRETCHED BATTLE BETWEEN THE SPIRIT AND 45:34 THE FLESH. DID THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL JUST 45:36 WAVE A HANKY AND LEAVE EGYPT OR WAS THERE A TREMENDOUS STRUGGLE? 45:41 IN GETTING OUT OF EGYPT, WAS THERE A STRUGGLE? 45:43 IS THERE SOMETIMES A STRUGGLE WHEN A BABY IS BORN? 45:47 I KNOW WE'VE GOT A LOT OF THINGS TO MAKE IT EASIER TODAY, BUT IT 45:49 DIDN'T USED TO BE THAT WAY. RACHEL DIED GIVING BIRTH. 45:53 IT WAS A TREMENDOUS STRUGGLE AND SO THE CONVERSION STRUGGLE - 45:59 PEOPLE GO BACK AND FORTH AND SAY, 'WHO WILL DELIVER ME?' 46:02 HAVE YOU EVER READ ELLEN WHITE'S STORY? 46:04 THE STRUGGLE - SHE HAD DAYS OF DARKNESS SAYING, 'WHO WILL 46:07 DELIVER ME?' AND THEN SHE FOUND IT AND SHE 46:08 WAS CONVERTED AND SHE PRAISED GOD AND SHE WAS ON CLOUD NINE. 46:11 SHE EXPERIENCED A REAL CONVERSION. 46:13 SHE UNDERSTOOD IT. THIS IS WHAT GOD WANTS US TO 46:16 HAVE - WHERE WE HAVE A BORN-AGAIN EXPERIENCE. 46:20 THIS IS IMPORTANT BECAUSE MY HEART GOES OUT TO THE MILLIONS - 46:24 AND I DON'T - I'M NOT EXAGGERATING - MILLIONS OF 46:27 CHRISTIANS OUT THERE THAT THINK PAUL IS DESCRIBING WHAT IS 46:30 SUPPOSED TO BE THE NORMAL EXPERIENCE - 46:32 THE DAILY EXPERIENCE OF THE CHRISTIAN. 46:35 PAUL IS DESCRIBING HERE WHAT WAS HIS STRUGGLE AS A PHARISEE. 46:40 PAUL WENT THREE DAYS WITHOUT EATING OR DRINKING AFTER HE RAN 46:43 INTO CHRIST AND THERE WAS A TREMENDOUS STRUGGLE. 46:46 LET ME FINISH HERE - "BUT I SEE ANOTHER LAW IN MY MEMBERS, 46:49 WARRING AGAINST THE LAW OF MY MIND, AND BRINGING ME INTO 46:52 CAPTIVITY TO THE LAW OF SIN WHICH IS IN MY MEMBERS. 46:55 O WRETCHED MAN THAT I AM! WHO WILL DELIVER ME FROM THIS 46:57 BODY OF DEATH? I THANK GOD - THROUGH JESUS 47:02 CHRIST OUR LORD!" - SO IS THERE DELIVERANCE? 47:04 THROUGH WHOM? CHRIST. AND THEN HE BACKS UP AND HE 47:08 SAYS, "SO THEN, WITH THE MIND I MYSELF SERVE THE LAW OF GOD, BUT 47:12 WITH THE FLESH THE LAW OF SIN." WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? 47:15 DOES THAT MEAN WE ARE TO GO ON SERVING THE LAW OF SIN WITH OUR 47:18 FLESH? NO, HE'S JUST SAYING THE OPERATION - THIS LAW OF SIN IS 47:24 IN OUR FLESH AND WE'RE GOING TO WANT TO SERVE GOD WITH OUR MIND 47:28 BUT WE CAN BE DELIVERED FROM THE CONTROL OF THE FLESH - 47:33 LET ME SEE HERE. I WANT TO READ SOMETHING - THIS IS FROM 47:36 ADAM CLARKE - ADAM CLARKE IS A GREAT COMMENTARY WRITER. 47:40 HE WAS THE RIGHT-HAND MAN OF JOHN WESLEY - 47:43 "THAT ALL THAT IS SAID IN THIS CHAPTER OF THE CARNAL MAN SOLD 47:47 UNDER SIN DID APPLY TO SAUL OF TARSUS." 47:50 - NOTICE HE DIDN'T SAY 'PAUL' - SAUL, BEFORE HIS CONVERSION - 47:54 "NO MAN CAN DOUBT THAT WHAT IS HERE SAID CAN EVER BE, WITH 47:58 PROPRIETY, APPLIED TO PAUL THE APOSTLE. 48:01 WHO CAN BELIEVE, OF THE FORMER, ALL IS NATURAL?" 48:04 - IT MAKES SENSE THAT SAUL OF TARSUS WOULD TALK ABOUT THIS 48:06 STRUGGLE OF HIS CONVERSION WHILE A PHARISEE - "OF THE LATTER, ALL 48:10 HERE" - IT WOULD BE MONSTROUS AND ABSURD, IF NOT BLASPHEMOUS 48:14 TO BELIEVE PAUL IS DESCRIBING THE ONGOING EXPERIENCE OF THE 48:17 CHRISTIAN AS A WRETCHED ONE. YOU KNOW 'AMAZING GRACE'? 48:21 THAT SAVED A WHAT? SAVED A WRETCH LIKE ME. SAVED A WRETCH 48:25 FROM WHAT? FROM WRETCHEDNESS. WE'RE SAVED FROM IT. 48:28 LET ME GIVE YOU ANOTHER PART OF ADAM CLARKE'S COMMENT ON THIS, 48:31 "HAD HE BEEN IN CAPTIVITY TO THE LAW OF SIN AND DEATH AFTER HIS 48:34 CONVERSION TO CHRISTIANITY, WHAT DID HE GAIN BY THAT CONVERSION? 48:38 NOTHING FOR HIS PERSONAL HOLINESS. HAD HE FOUND NO 48:42 SALVATION UNDER AN INEFFICIENT LAW AND HE WAS LEFT IN THE 48:46 THRALLDOM UNDER AN EQUALLY INEFFICIENT GOSPEL, THE VERY 48:49 GENIUS OF CHRISTIANITY DEMONSTRATES THAT NOTHING 48:52 LIKE THIS CAN, WITH ANY PROPRIETY, 48:54 BE SPOKEN OF AS A GENUINE CHRISTIAN." 48:57 AND YET PASTORS - NOT JUST EVANGELICAL - EVEN IN OUR OWN 49:02 CHURCH - ARE TEACHING THEIR FLOCK THIS IS THE NORMAL 49:05 EXPERIENCE - THE DAILY EXPERIENCE - THIS IS WHAT YOU 49:08 EXPECT BEING A CHRISTIAN. IS IT ANY WONDER CHRISTIANS 49:11 DON'T LOOK HAPPY? BECAUSE THEY THINK THAT THEY ARE CONTINUALLY 49:16 - LET ME READ TO YOU FROM GALATIANS. 49:19 GALATIANS 5 - WHO WROTE GALATIANS? PAUL DID. 49:22 GALATIANS 5:16, "I SAY THEN: WALK IN THE SPIRIT, AND YOU 49:27 SHALL NOT FULFILL THE LUST OF THE FLESH. 49:30 FOR THE FLESH LUSTS AGAINST THE SPIRIT, AND THE SPIRIT AGAINST 49:33 THE FLESH;" - THERE'S THAT BATTLE AGAIN - "AND THESE ARE 49:35 CONTRARY TO ONE ANOTHER, SO THAT YOU DO NOT DO THE THINGS THAT 49:38 YOU WISH." - ISN'T HE DESCRIBING THE SAME STRUGGLE HERE? - 49:42 "BUT IF YOU ARE LED BY THE SPIRIT, YOU ARE NOT 49:45 UNDER THE LAW." - UNDER WHAT LAW? 49:47 UNDER THE LAW OF THE FLESH - "NOW THE WORKS OF THE FLESH ARE 49:50 EVIDENT, WHICH ARE: ADULTERY, FORNICATION, UNCLEANNESS, 49:53 LASCIVIOUSNESS, IDOLATRY, WITCHCRAFT, HATRED, VARIANCE, 49:56 EMULATIONS, WRATH, STRIFE, SEDITIONS, HERESIES, ENVYINGS, 50:00 MURDERS, DRUNKENNESS, REVELINGS, AND SUCH LIKE: OF 50:03 WHICH I TELL YOU BEFORE, AS I HAVE ALSO TOLD YOU IN TIME 50:05 PAST," - NOTICE - "THAT THEY WHICH DO SUCH THINGS SHALL NOT 50:08 INHERIT THE KINGDOM OF GOD." - IF YOU ARE LED BY THE SPIRIT 50:12 YOU WILL NOT WALK ACCORDING TO THE LUSTS OF THE FLESH. IS THAT 50:15 CLEAR? AND HE'S DESCRIBING THE SAME STRUGGLE HERE. 50:19 BUT WE ARE NOT LEFT TO BE LOSERS IN THAT BATTLE. THE LORD WANTS 50:23 US TO HAVE VICTORY IN THAT BATTLE. DO YOU BELIEVE THAT? 50:28 NOTICE - HE GOES ON TO SAY, "BUT THE FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT IS LOVE, 50:35 JOY, PEACE, LONGSUFFERING, GENTLENESS, GOODNESS, FAITH, 50:38 MEEKNESS, TEMPERANCE: AGAINST SUCH THERE IS NO LAW." 50:40 SO YOU'RE IN THE LAW OF GOD. THERE'S NO LAW AGAINST HAVING 50:44 THE FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT. THERE IS A LAW AGAINST THE OTHER 50:48 THINGS IF YOU ARE LED BY THE FLESH. 50:51 YOU KNOW, I WAS READING - ACTUALLY, THIS IS AN EXCERPT 50:53 FROM JOE CREWS' BOOK THAT WE'RE OFFERING ON 'SQUARE CIRCLES AND 50:58 CARNAL CHRISTIANS'. CAN YOU IMAGINE HOW THESE WORDS 51:01 COULD EVER APPLY TO THE SPIRITUAL 51:03 GIANT WHO WAS PAUL? "I AM CARNAL SOLD UNDER SIN. 51:07 BRINGING ME INTO THE CAPTIVITY OF THE LAW OF SIN. 51:10 WHAT I HATE, THAT I DO. O WRETCHED MAN THAT I AM! 51:13 WHO CAN DELIVER ME FROM THIS BODY OF DEATH?" 51:15 IS THAT WHERE WE'RE LEFT? OR WHAT DOES THIS MISERABLE 51:19 SIN-BOUND CREATURE HAVE IN COMMON WITH THE EXPERIENCE 51:22 DESCRIBED IN THE PREVIOUS CHAPTER? 51:24 NOTICE WHAT HE SAYS IN CHAPTER 6: "WE ARE DEAD TO SIN. 51:27 WE ARE FREE FROM SIN. LET NOT SIN REIGN IN YOUR MORTAL BODY. 51:31 SIN WILL NOT HAVE DOMINION OVER YOU. 51:33 WHAT? SHALL WE SIN? GOD FORBID! 51:35 BEING MADE FREE FROM SIN..." THAT'S THE PREVIOUS CHAPTER. 51:39 SO IN ORDER TO TAKE ROMANS 7, VERSE 15 ON, TO MEAN THIS IS THE 51:43 ONGOING EXPERIENCE OF THE CHRISTIAN, YOU'VE GOT TO DO AWAY 51:46 WITH EVERYTHING ELSE HE SAYS IN ROMANS. 51:48 AND YET, SOME PEOPLE, THEY BUTCHER THEIR THEOLOGY BY 51:53 GETTING RID OF EVERYTHING THE BIBLE SAYS ABOUT A VICTORIOUS 51:55 LIFE, THEY EMBRACE PAUL DESCRIBING HIS LIFE AS A 51:58 PHARISEE - THE STRUGGLE - AND THEY SAY, 'YEAH, THIS IS JUST 52:01 THE NORMAL, MISERABLE, WRETCHED EXPERIENCE OF A CHRISTIAN AND WE 52:04 JUST HAVE TO DEAL WITH IT.' WOW, THAT'S SAD. AND HOW COULD PAUL, 52:11 HIMSELF, HARMONIZE THIS WRETCHED STATE OF ROMANS 7 WITH THE 52:15 SOARING SPIRIT OF SPIRIT-FILLED VICTORY DESCRIBED IN ROMANS 8? 52:19 LET'S GO THERE REAL QUICK. GO TO ROMANS 8. 52:23 NOW, NOTICE WHAT HE SAYS IN VERSE 24 OF CHAPTER 7, ROMANS, 52:27 CHAPTER 7, VERSE 24, "O WRETCHED MAN THAT I AM! 52:32 WHO WILL DELIVER ME FROM THIS BODY OF DEATH? 52:35 I THANK GOD - THROUGH JESUS CHRIST..." - THEN GO TO 52:38 CHAPTER 8, VERSE 1, "THERE IS THEREFORE NOW NO CONDEMNATION TO 52:44 THOSE WHO ARE IN CHRIST JESUS, WHO DO NOT WALK ACCORDING TO THE 52:49 FLESH, BUT ACCORDING TO" - WHAT? - "THE SPIRIT. 52:53 FOR THE LAW OF THE SPIRIT OF LIFE IN CHRIST JESUS HAS MADE ME 52:57 FREE FROM THE LAW OF SIN AND DEATH. 53:00 FOR WHAT THE LAW COULD NOT DO IN THAT IT WAS WEAK THROUGH THE 53:02 FLESH, GOD DID..." - WE COULDN'T DO IT. 53:05 PAUL DESCRIBES THE CONDITION, 'WHEN WE COULDN'T DO IT WE WERE 53:07 WEAK THROUGH THE FLESH. HE SAYS, 'WHAT WE COULDN'T DO, 53:10 CHRIST DID. GOD DID.' HOW? "BY SENDING HIS OWN SON IN THE 53:15 LIKENESS OF SINFUL FLESH," - HE TOOK MY FLESH - "ON ACCOUNT OF 53:18 SIN: HE CONDEMNED SIN IN THE FLESH," - IN HIS LIFE - WHY? 53:23 - "THAT THE RIGHTEOUS REQUIREMENT OF THE LAW MIGHT BE 53:27 FULFILLED IN US WHO DO NOT WALK ACCORDING TO THE FLESH BUT 53:30 ACCORDING TO THE SPIRIT." NOW WE KNOW WHAT THE WORKS OF 53:34 THE FLESH ARE, RIGHT? WE JUST READ THEM. 53:36 WE DO NOT WALK ACCORDING TO THE FLESH ANYMORE. 53:39 GOD IS CALLING US TO HOLINESS, RIGHT? 53:43 THIS IS SUCH AN IMPORTANT THING TO UNDERSTAND ABOUT THE LAW. 53:46 OH, LET ME JUST READ A FEW MORE THINGS REAL QUICK. 53:48 I'M RUNNING OUT OF TIME. "FOR THOSE WHO LIVE ACCORDING TO 53:52 THE FLESH SET THEIR MINDS ON THE THINGS OF THE FLESH, BUT THOSE 53:55 WHO LIVE ACCORDING TO THE SPIRIT, THE THINGS OF THE 53:56 SPIRIT. FOR TO BE CARNALLY MINDED IS 53:58 DEATH, BUT TO BE SPIRITUALLY MINDED IS LIFE AND PEACE. 54:02 BECAUSE THE CARNAL MIND IS ENMITY AGAINST GOD; FOR IT IS 54:06 NOT SUBJECT TO THE LAW OF GOD, NOR INDEED CAN BE." 54:08 - HE'S ALREADY DESCRIBED THAT HOPELESS CONDITION - "SO THEN, 54:11 THOSE WHO ARE IN THE FLESH CANNOT PLEASE GOD." 54:14 YOU CAN'T PLEASE HIM IN THE FLESH, YOU CAN ONLY PLEASE HIM 54:16 IN THE SPIRIT. WE NEED TO LIVE SPIRIT-FILLED LIVES. 54:20 "BUT YOU ARE NOT IN THE FLESH" - I'M IN VERSE 9 - "ROMANS 8, 54:23 VERSE 9 - "BUT YOU ARE NOT IN THE FLESH BUT IN THE SPIRIT, IF 54:27 INDEED THE SPIRIT OF GOD DWELLS IN YOU. NOW IF ANYONE DOES NOT 54:30 HAVE THE SPIRIT OF CHRIST, HE IS NOT HIS." 54:32 - WE NEED TO BE SPIRIT-FILLED CHRISTIANS, FRIENDS - "AND IF 54:35 CHRIST IS IN YOU, THE BODY IS DEAD BECAUSE OF SIN" - AND HE 54:39 THAT IS DEAD IS FREE FROM SIN, PAUL SAID IN ROMANS 6 - "THE 54:43 BODY IS DEAD BECAUSE OF SIN" - "BUT THE SPIRIT IS LIFE BECAUSE 54:46 OF RIGHTEOUSNESS. BUT IF THE SPIRIT OF HIM WHO 54:48 RAISED JESUS FROM THE DEAD DWELLS IN YOU, HE WHO RAISED 54:52 CHRIST FROM THE DEAD WILL ALSO GIVE LIFE TO YOUR MORTAL BODIES 54:55 THROUGH HIS SPIRIT WHO DWELLS IN YOU." 54:57 SO YES, OUR MORTAL BODIES - THESE CARNAL BODIES WE'RE 55:00 TRAPPED IN - HE GIVES US NEW LIFE THROUGH HIS SPIRIT. 55:04 I JUST CAN KEEP ON READING BUT I'VE GOT SOME OTHER THINGS IN MY 55:06 NOTES HERE. YOU KNOW WHAT I WANT TO DO - I'M 55:09 JUST GOING TO HAVE TO SKIP A FEW THINGS, FORGIVE ME IF I 55:11 DON'T GET TO EVERYTHING. BUT TURN WITH ME TO ROMANS 55:14 CHAPTER 10 - WE'VE GOT TO GET THROUGH THE TITLE. 55:17 WHAT DOES IT MEAN - IT TALKS ABOUT THE GOAL 55:21 OF THE LAW - "FOR CHRIST IS THE END OF THE 55:24 LAW FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS TO EVERYONE WHO BELIEVES." 55:28 WHAT DOES IT MEAN WHEN CHRIST IS THE END OF THE LAW? 55:31 THE WORD 'END' IN GREEK THERE, IS 'TELOS' AND IT'S TRANSLATED 55:36 'THE END' AND IT CAN BE - YOU KNOW, YOU CAN GET A TERMINAL 55:40 WHERE IT'S THE END OF SOMETHING, BUT IT REALLY MEANS 55:42 WHAT COMPLETES A THING OR RENDERS IT PERFECT - 55:46 FOR INSTANCE, IF YOU LOOK IN YOUR BIBLE IN 55:49 1 TIMOTHY 1:5 - NOW I THINK I GAVE THAT TO SOMEBODY - 55:53 RIGHT HERE, MIKE. LET'S GET YOU A MICROPHONE AND 55:54 WE'LL LET YOU READ THAT. WHAT VERSION ARE YOU GOING TO 55:57 READ? NEW KING JAMES? ALRIGHT, GOOD, I WANT YOU TO 56:00 READ THAT IN THE NEW KING JAMES VERSION. WHILE HE'S GETTING 56:02 READY TO READ THAT, I'M GOING TO READ THE KING JAMES VERSION. 56:05 KING JAMES - 1 TIMOTHY 1:5 - IT SAYS, "NOW THE END OF THE 56:10 COMMANDMENT IS CHARITY OUT OF A PURE HEART" - THE END OF THE 56:15 COMMANDMENT - SAME WORD - TELOS. ALRIGHT, YOU'RE GOING TO READ IT 56:18 NOW IN THE NEW KING JAMES VERSION. 56:19 >>"NOW THE PURPOSE OF THE COMMANDMENT IS LOVE..." 56:22 >>WAIT A MINUTE. I'M GOING TO STOP YOU. 56:23 MINE SAYS 'THE END' - YOURS SAYS WHAT? 56:26 >>"NOW THE PURPOSE OF THE COMMANDMENT IS LOVE FROM A PURE 56:29 HEART, FROM A GOOD CONSCIENCE, AND FROM SINCERE FAITH." 56:35 >>THAT WORD 'END' IS REALLY TRANSLATED 'THE OBJECT; THE 56:39 PURPOSE' - SO NOW READING ROMANS 10 - "FOR CHRIST IS THE PURPOSE 56:45 OF THE LAW" - CHRIST IS THE OBJECT OF THE LAW. 56:48 HE IS THE ESSENCE OF THE LAW - "FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS TO EVERYONE 56:51 WHO BELIEVES." DO NOT THINK THAT WORD 'END' 56:53 THERE MEANS THAT IT IS KAPUT - AS THEY WOULD SAY IN GERMANY - 56:58 THAT JESUS CAME TO DO AWAY WITH. THAT'S NOT WHAT IT MEANS AND 57:02 THERE ARE MANY OTHER - LET ME READ YOU ONE MORE - 1 PETER 1:9, 57:07 "RECEIVING THE END OF YOUR FAITH - THE SALVATION OF YOUR SOULS." 57:10 IS OUR FAITH SUPPOSED TO BE DONE AWAY WITH? 57:13 DOES THE WORD 'END' THERE MEAN 'DONE AWAY WITH'? 57:15 IT'S THE SAME WORD - TELOS - AND IT MEANS 'THE OBJECT OF YOUR 57:19 FAITH - THE PURPOSE OF YOUR FAITH' IS EVEN THE SALVATION OF 57:22 YOUR SOULS. THAT'S WHAT THE WORD 'END' MEANS. 57:25 SO THE TITLE OF THE LESSON, 'THE END OF THE LAW' - IT DOESN'T 57:27 MEAN 'THE DOING AWAY WITH THE LAW' - IT MEANS THE PURPOSE OF 57:30 THE LAW IS CHRIST. IS THAT CLEAR? 57:33 ALRIGHT, WE'RE OUT OF TIME BUT I WANT TO ENCOURAGE EVERYBODY - IF 57:36 YOU DIDN'T CATCH IT AT THE BEGINNING PLEASE REQUEST AND 57:40 READ THIS BOOK: 'SQUARE CIRCLES AND CARNAL CHRISTIANS' - 57:43 IT EXPLAINS THESE CONUNDRUMS IN ROMANS VERY WELL. 57:46 WE'LL SEND IT TO YOU FREE. 57:48 JUST CALL 866-788-3966 AND WE'LL SEND IT TO YOU. 57:54 GOD BLESS UNTIL WE STUDY GOD'S WORD TOGETHER AGAIN NEXT WEEK. 57:58 (MUSIC) |
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