Let's say it again. 00:00:35.33\00:00:36.67 Say, I just wanna praise You 00:00:36.70\00:00:38.20 I just wanna praise You 00:00:38.23\00:00:39.90 Forever Forever 00:00:39.93\00:00:42.24 And ever And ever 00:00:42.27\00:00:44.74 And ever And ever 00:00:44.77\00:00:47.28 For all For all 00:00:47.31\00:00:50.25 For all that You've done 00:00:50.28\00:00:53.25 For me For me 00:00:53.28\00:00:55.92 Say blessings and glory Blessings and glory 00:00:55.95\00:00:59.42 And honor And honor 00:00:59.45\00:01:01.79 They all belong to You They all belong to You 00:01:01.82\00:01:06.33 Thank You, Jesus Thank You, Jesus 00:01:06.36\00:01:10.23 For blessing me 00:01:10.27\00:01:13.54 Now you go with alternative. 00:01:13.57\00:01:14.90 We're gonna take it up a little higher, 00:01:14.94\00:01:16.44 say Just wanna praise You 00:01:16.47\00:01:18.94 Forever Forever 00:01:18.97\00:01:21.44 And ever And ever 00:01:21.48\00:01:23.81 And ever And ever 00:01:23.85\00:01:26.28 For all For all That You've done 00:01:26.31\00:01:31.95 For me For me 00:01:31.99\00:01:34.92 Say blessings and glory Blessings and glory 00:01:34.96\00:01:38.29 And honor And honor 00:01:38.33\00:01:40.86 They all They all belong to You 00:01:40.90\00:01:45.30 Thank You, Jesus Thank You, Jesus 00:01:45.33\00:01:49.20 For blessing me 00:01:49.24\00:01:53.91 Take it up a little higher, say. 00:01:53.94\00:01:56.14 Just wanna praise You 00:01:56.18\00:01:57.91 Forever Forever 00:01:57.95\00:02:00.42 And ever And ever 00:02:00.45\00:02:02.82 And ever And ever 00:02:02.85\00:02:05.15 For all For all 00:02:05.19\00:02:08.22 For all For all that You've done Done for me 00:02:08.26\00:02:14.03 And it's that blessing and glory 00:02:14.06\00:02:15.90 Blessing and glory 00:02:15.93\00:02:17.60 And honor And honor 00:02:17.63\00:02:19.80 They all They all belong to You 00:02:19.83\00:02:24.37 Thank You, Jesus Thank You, Jesus 00:02:24.41\00:02:28.21 For blessing me 00:02:28.24\00:02:30.41 Here we go one more time. 00:02:30.45\00:02:32.05 Let's do it one more time. 00:02:32.08\00:02:33.42 Take it up a little higher, say. 00:02:33.45\00:02:35.05 Just wanna praise You 00:02:35.08\00:02:38.12 Forever And ever And ever 00:02:38.15\00:02:44.53 For all For all 00:02:44.56\00:02:46.86 For all that You've done For me 00:02:46.90\00:02:52.53 Let's do some harmony. Say blessings. 00:02:52.57\00:02:54.57 Blessings and glory and honor 00:02:54.60\00:02:59.97 They all belong to You 00:03:00.01\00:03:03.35 Blessings and glory Blessing and glory 00:03:03.38\00:03:06.18 And honor And honor 00:03:06.21\00:03:08.48 They all They all belong to You 00:03:08.52\00:03:12.52 Say blessings and glory Blessings and glory 00:03:12.55\00:03:15.76 And honor And honor 00:03:15.79\00:03:18.09 They all They all belong to You 00:03:18.13\00:03:22.16 Say blessings and glory Blessings and glory 00:03:22.20\00:03:25.23 And honor And honor 00:03:25.27\00:03:27.60 They all They all belong to You 00:03:27.64\00:03:30.84 One more time, say blessings and glory 00:03:30.87\00:03:33.11 Blessings and glory 00:03:33.14\00:03:34.94 And honor And honor 00:03:34.98\00:03:37.35 They all They all belong to You 00:03:37.38\00:03:41.85 Thank You, Jesus Thank You, Jesus 00:03:41.88\00:03:45.75 For blessing me 00:03:45.79\00:03:49.39 Blessed assurance 00:04:04.97\00:04:09.71 Jesus is mine! 00:04:13.38\00:04:16.95 Oh, what a foretaste 00:04:21.66\00:04:29.43 of glory divine! 00:04:29.46\00:04:33.54 Heir of salvation 00:04:38.27\00:04:44.11 Purchase of God 00:04:47.55\00:04:55.06 Born of His Spirit 00:04:55.09\00:05:00.83 Born of His Spirit 00:05:04.17\00:05:09.07 Born of His Spirit 00:05:12.71\00:05:17.88 Washed in His blood 00:05:20.98\00:05:24.09 Blessed assurance 00:05:28.96\00:05:36.83 Jesus is mine! 00:05:36.87\00:05:40.90 Oh, what a foretaste 00:05:45.21\00:05:51.71 of glory divine! 00:05:55.58\00:05:58.99 Heir of salvation 00:06:03.46\00:06:11.37 Purchase of God 00:06:11.40\00:06:15.44 Born of His Spirit 00:06:21.78\00:06:29.48 Born of His Spirit 00:06:29.52\00:06:37.33 Born of His Spirit 00:06:37.36\00:06:42.56 Washed in His blood 00:06:45.73\00:06:50.51 Blessed assurance 00:06:53.58\00:07:00.92 Jesus is mine! 00:07:00.95\00:07:08.16 Oh, what a foretaste 00:07:08.19\00:07:13.53 of glory divine! 00:07:18.30\00:07:21.97 Heir of salvation 00:07:25.94\00:07:33.82 Purchase of God 00:07:33.85\00:07:39.72 Born of His Spirit 00:07:44.39\00:07:52.10 Born of His Spirit 00:07:52.13\00:07:59.71 Born of His Spirit 00:07:59.74\00:08:07.52 Washed in His blood 00:08:07.55\00:08:12.82 This is my story 00:08:15.86\00:08:22.46 This is my song 00:08:22.50\00:08:29.97 Praising my Savior 00:08:30.01\00:08:37.45 All the day long 00:08:37.48\00:08:41.18 All the day long 00:08:41.22\00:08:44.62 This is my story 00:08:44.65\00:08:51.96 This is my song 00:08:51.99\00:08:55.96 Praising my Savior 00:09:01.50\00:09:09.31 Praising my Savior 00:09:09.34\00:09:16.79 Praising my Savior 00:09:16.82\00:09:24.29 All the day long 00:09:24.33\00:09:30.97 This is my story 00:09:31.00\00:09:38.71 This is my song 00:09:38.74\00:09:45.88 Praising my Savior 00:09:45.91\00:09:52.69 All the day long 00:09:52.72\00:09:57.06 All the day long 00:09:57.09\00:10:00.16 This is my story 00:10:00.20\00:10:07.04 This is my song 00:10:07.07\00:10:10.57 Praising my Savior 00:10:17.85\00:10:25.05 Praising my Savior 00:10:25.09\00:10:32.13 Praising my Savior 00:10:32.16\00:10:39.33 Praising my Savior 00:10:39.37\00:10:46.24 Praising my Savior 00:10:46.27\00:10:52.95 Praising my Savior 00:10:52.98\00:10:59.79 Praising my Savior 00:10:59.82\00:11:06.59 Praising my Savior 00:11:06.63\00:11:13.67 Praising my Savior 00:11:13.70\00:11:20.38 Praising my Savior 00:11:20.41\00:11:27.18 Praising my Savior 00:11:27.22\00:11:33.96 Praising my Savior 00:11:33.99\00:11:41.13 Praising my Savior 00:11:41.16\00:11:47.74 Praising my Savior 00:11:47.77\00:11:54.54 Praising my Savior 00:11:54.58\00:12:01.08 Praising my Savior 00:12:01.12\00:12:08.09 Praising my Savior 00:12:08.12\00:12:14.56 Praising my Savior 00:12:14.60\00:12:20.44 Praising my Savior 00:12:25.87\00:12:31.51 All the day long 00:12:35.02\00:12:40.79 1 Corinthians 2:1-5. 00:12:51.33\00:12:58.17 Trusting that you have it, 00:13:02.08\00:13:03.41 there you'll find these words recorded. 00:13:03.45\00:13:08.88 "And I, brethren, when I came to you, 00:13:08.92\00:13:13.25 came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, 00:13:13.29\00:13:18.63 declaring unto you the testimony of God. 00:13:18.66\00:13:22.10 For I determined not to know anything among you 00:13:22.13\00:13:24.97 save Jesus Christ and Him crucified. 00:13:25.00\00:13:29.97 And I was with you in weakness 00:13:30.01\00:13:31.44 and in fear and in much trembling. 00:13:31.47\00:13:34.78 And my speech and my preaching 00:13:34.81\00:13:38.18 was not with enticing words of man's wisdom 00:13:38.21\00:13:41.62 but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, 00:13:41.65\00:13:46.96 that your faith should not stand 00:13:46.99\00:13:49.82 in the wisdom of men 00:13:49.86\00:13:51.76 but in the power of God." 00:13:51.79\00:13:56.36 I've entitled our message this morning, 00:13:56.40\00:13:59.37 Just Jesus. 00:13:59.40\00:14:03.54 Just Jesus, 00:14:03.57\00:14:06.27 I trust you have brought your Bible today 00:14:06.31\00:14:09.14 because this will be a tremendous study in a subject 00:14:09.18\00:14:15.68 that I think often times 00:14:15.72\00:14:18.39 get up skewered or overlooked. 00:14:18.42\00:14:22.92 But in those two words, 00:14:22.96\00:14:24.63 "Just Jesus" is a powerful message 00:14:24.66\00:14:28.83 that I must unpackage today. 00:14:28.86\00:14:33.10 I looked at her face as tears meandered down 00:14:33.13\00:14:36.10 by the hollows of her cheeks, 00:14:36.14\00:14:38.67 one after the other a tear fell to the ground. 00:14:38.71\00:14:44.35 I wondered 00:14:44.38\00:14:46.31 if there was anything I can do 00:14:46.35\00:14:48.42 to turn off the spigot of her emotions, 00:14:48.45\00:14:52.45 but they just kept flowing and flowing. 00:14:52.49\00:14:57.26 Finally, she was composed enough 00:14:57.29\00:15:00.60 to share with me why she was crying 00:15:00.63\00:15:04.70 and why she was so inconsolable. 00:15:04.73\00:15:07.57 You see she loved the Lord. 00:15:07.60\00:15:11.64 Let me repeat that again. 00:15:11.67\00:15:14.24 She loved the Lord. 00:15:14.28\00:15:16.58 And sometimes when you love the Lord, 00:15:16.61\00:15:20.02 and you're not living up to all you know to do, 00:15:20.05\00:15:23.25 it can break you, break you down. 00:15:23.28\00:15:27.36 Your spirit can be broken. 00:15:27.39\00:15:29.89 Not because you want the applause 00:15:29.92\00:15:32.59 and the acclaim of men 00:15:32.63\00:15:34.20 but because you just want to please your Father 00:15:34.23\00:15:38.40 which is in heaven 00:15:38.43\00:15:40.30 and because she recognized 00:15:40.34\00:15:43.20 that I'm disappointing Jesus, 00:15:43.24\00:15:46.84 she sat across the table from me 00:15:46.88\00:15:49.04 just broken and crying. 00:15:49.08\00:15:54.55 Finally, I said, "Naomi, 00:15:54.58\00:16:01.26 no matter how bad you are, 00:16:01.29\00:16:06.49 God loves you in proportion 00:16:06.53\00:16:10.17 to your sinfulness." 00:16:10.20\00:16:11.60 If you're a bad sinner, He's a great lover. 00:16:15.14\00:16:19.37 You can't do anything bad enough 00:16:19.41\00:16:22.71 that God's love cannot cover. 00:16:22.74\00:16:28.18 She said, "Are you serious? 00:16:28.22\00:16:30.92 Will He still love me?" 00:16:30.95\00:16:32.29 You know, that's hard for somebody 00:16:32.32\00:16:34.09 who's been used to being loved conditionally. 00:16:34.12\00:16:37.96 If I do the right thing, then I'll get loved. 00:16:37.99\00:16:42.00 If I say the right thing, then I'll get loved. 00:16:42.03\00:16:45.83 She had come from a family system 00:16:45.87\00:16:48.37 that was steep in conditional love. 00:16:48.40\00:16:51.17 She could not wrap her mind around the concept 00:16:51.21\00:16:54.31 that I was sharing with her, 00:16:54.34\00:16:55.68 that God loves you no matter how bad you are. 00:16:55.71\00:17:01.35 How many folk today like Naomi, 00:17:01.38\00:17:05.95 laboring and languishing under the belief 00:17:05.99\00:17:09.52 that God can't love me because I'm too unlovable. 00:17:09.56\00:17:13.90 It wasn't more than two weeks later, 00:17:19.70\00:17:22.60 that Naomi's family came 00:17:22.64\00:17:26.17 and as they turned the corner 00:17:26.21\00:17:28.94 and hit the garage door opener 00:17:28.98\00:17:31.95 and the garage door went up, 00:17:31.98\00:17:34.98 there swinging in the doorway was Naomi. 00:17:35.02\00:17:40.99 She never could get her mind around the fact 00:17:41.02\00:17:45.93 that Jesus still loved her. 00:17:45.96\00:17:51.37 Why is it that we believe that we are so unlovable? 00:17:51.40\00:17:56.94 Why is it that we believe 00:17:56.97\00:17:58.87 that when we don't live up to all that we know to do, 00:17:58.91\00:18:02.54 that somehow God just abandons us? 00:18:02.58\00:18:09.52 Reminds me of that man in Romans 7, 00:18:09.55\00:18:13.69 I'm going to share him with you through the message Bible. 00:18:13.72\00:18:17.66 "I can't anticipate the response 00:18:17.69\00:18:20.06 that is coming. 00:18:20.10\00:18:21.43 I know that all God's commands are spiritual 00:18:21.46\00:18:24.57 but I'm not. 00:18:24.60\00:18:26.20 Isn't this also your experience? 00:18:26.23\00:18:28.90 Yes, I'm full of myself, 00:18:28.94\00:18:31.61 after all I've spent a long time in sin's prisons. 00:18:31.64\00:18:36.04 What I don't understand about myself is that 00:18:36.08\00:18:38.88 I decide one way but then I act another, 00:18:38.91\00:18:43.05 doing things I absolutely despise. 00:18:43.08\00:18:47.16 So if I can't be trusted to figure out 00:18:47.19\00:18:50.03 what is best for myself and then do it, 00:18:50.06\00:18:52.66 it becomes obvious that God's command is necessary. 00:18:52.69\00:18:57.27 But I need something more, 00:18:57.30\00:18:59.33 for if I know the law but still can't keep it 00:18:59.37\00:19:03.10 and if the power of sin within me 00:19:03.14\00:19:05.81 keeps sabotaging my best intentions, 00:19:05.84\00:19:08.58 I obviously need help. 00:19:08.61\00:19:12.81 I realized that I don't have what it takes, 00:19:12.85\00:19:16.55 I can will it but I can't do it. 00:19:16.58\00:19:20.19 I decide to do good, but I don't really do it. 00:19:20.22\00:19:23.59 I decide not to do bad, but then I do it anyway. 00:19:23.63\00:19:27.56 My decisions such as they are, 00:19:27.60\00:19:29.93 don't result in actions, 00:19:29.96\00:19:31.30 something has gone wrong deep within me 00:19:31.33\00:19:33.97 and gets the better of me, 00:19:34.00\00:19:35.57 every time it happens so regularly 00:19:35.60\00:19:39.24 that it's predictable. 00:19:39.27\00:19:42.11 The moment I decide to do good, sin is there to trip me up. 00:19:42.14\00:19:49.08 I totally delight in God's commands 00:19:49.12\00:19:51.12 but it's pretty obvious 00:19:51.15\00:19:52.55 that not all of me joins in that delight, 00:19:52.59\00:19:55.86 parts of me covertly rebel 00:19:55.89\00:19:58.09 and just when I least expect it, 00:19:58.13\00:20:00.83 they take charge. 00:20:00.86\00:20:03.70 I've tried everything and nothing helps. 00:20:03.73\00:20:08.34 I'm at the end of my rope, 00:20:08.37\00:20:12.74 is there no one who can do anything for me?" 00:20:12.77\00:20:18.48 Isn't that the real question? 00:20:18.51\00:20:22.65 Is there no one 00:20:22.68\00:20:25.25 that can do anything for me? 00:20:25.29\00:20:31.93 Could you hear the frustration? 00:20:31.96\00:20:35.13 Could you hear the futility? 00:20:35.16\00:20:38.33 Nobody ever said, "You weren't trying, 00:20:38.37\00:20:43.10 " the issue isn't whether you're trying or not, 00:20:43.14\00:20:47.81 the issue is that you keep trying and failing. 00:20:47.84\00:20:52.75 That's the problem. 00:20:52.78\00:20:56.02 Why is it that I keep trying over 00:20:56.05\00:20:59.49 and over and over again 00:20:59.52\00:21:02.59 but I still can't seem to get it right? 00:21:02.62\00:21:08.20 Something's the matter with me, 00:21:08.23\00:21:11.23 I know it is and it's out of the futility 00:21:11.27\00:21:14.77 and frustration of trying, 00:21:14.80\00:21:17.21 that many a believer finds himself 00:21:17.24\00:21:19.84 locked in a prison of despair. 00:21:19.87\00:21:25.68 So depressed 00:21:25.71\00:21:28.15 that it can even lead you to take your own life. 00:21:28.18\00:21:32.92 I was reading an article in world psychology 00:21:32.95\00:21:36.12 and the author raised this question, 00:21:36.16\00:21:38.66 "Is it that depressed people tend to be more spiritual 00:21:38.69\00:21:42.16 or is it that the more religion you have, 00:21:42.20\00:21:44.13 the more depressed you become?" 00:21:44.17\00:21:45.57 Think about it. 00:21:51.74\00:21:54.41 The more I know about God, 00:21:54.44\00:21:57.91 the more depressed I get 00:21:57.95\00:21:59.28 because I'm not praising God. 00:21:59.31\00:22:02.08 And the deeper I get into an emotional hole, 00:22:02.12\00:22:06.25 "Oh, wretched man that I am, 00:22:06.29\00:22:08.39 who can deliver me from this body of death? 00:22:08.42\00:22:12.49 What's going on with me? 00:22:12.53\00:22:14.40 Why can't I live right?" 00:22:14.43\00:22:19.53 And do you know what adds to my problem, 00:22:19.57\00:22:23.41 the Word itself. 00:22:23.44\00:22:26.17 Look at Matthew 5:48, go there with me. 00:22:26.21\00:22:29.81 Matthew 5:48, notice, 00:22:29.84\00:22:35.78 notice what the Word of God says here. 00:22:35.82\00:22:38.19 Matthew 5:48, 00:22:38.22\00:22:42.12 I want you to find it so you can read it with me. 00:22:42.16\00:22:44.46 Matthew 5:48, do you have it? 00:22:48.73\00:22:50.87 Let's read it. 00:22:50.90\00:22:52.23 What does it say? 00:22:52.27\00:22:53.60 "Be..." 00:22:53.64\00:22:55.07 Be what? 00:22:55.10\00:22:57.47 "Even... 00:22:57.51\00:22:58.84 be ye also perfect, 00:23:02.54\00:23:05.41 even as your Father in Heaven is perfect." 00:23:05.45\00:23:10.25 Already I'm depressed. 00:23:10.29\00:23:11.95 I know me, I know where I've been. 00:23:18.86\00:23:24.47 I know the things that reside in my being. 00:23:24.50\00:23:27.14 What do you mean being perfect even as God is perfect? 00:23:27.17\00:23:30.97 How can I ever be perfect as God is perfect? 00:23:31.01\00:23:36.61 So I'm depressed, I'm giving up right now, 00:23:36.64\00:23:42.08 I'm not even going to try. 00:23:42.12\00:23:45.59 The problem is that we read 00:23:45.62\00:23:49.06 and we read sometimes without proper understanding. 00:23:49.09\00:23:55.40 That passage has two words in it 00:23:55.43\00:23:57.67 that ought to leap up with us, 00:23:57.70\00:23:59.03 what are the two words? 00:23:59.07\00:24:01.10 Perfect and what else? 00:24:01.14\00:24:02.54 Perfect and what else? Talk to me. 00:24:05.64\00:24:07.24 I love it when you all get Pentecostal. 00:24:10.88\00:24:13.05 I just love it. 00:24:13.08\00:24:15.05 The two words are perfect and perfect. 00:24:15.08\00:24:20.86 Be ye also perfect even as your 00:24:20.89\00:24:23.86 Father in Heaven is perfect. 00:24:23.89\00:24:26.26 One of the constraints of the English language is that 00:24:26.29\00:24:29.63 we don't always have a word 00:24:29.66\00:24:32.17 that we can translate or transliterate 00:24:32.20\00:24:35.47 so that it can plainly convey to us 00:24:35.50\00:24:38.21 what was written in the original Greek text. 00:24:38.24\00:24:41.81 In the original Greek text, 00:24:41.84\00:24:43.18 although it says perfect and perfect, 00:24:43.21\00:24:44.55 they're actually 00:24:44.58\00:24:45.91 two different words in the Greek. 00:24:45.95\00:24:48.28 The first perfect 00:24:48.32\00:24:51.32 connotes continuous, 00:24:51.35\00:24:56.79 continuous perfection. 00:24:56.83\00:24:59.73 The second perfect connotes consummate perfection. 00:24:59.76\00:25:05.03 I'll just enjoy this all by myself. 00:25:13.48\00:25:15.64 The Bible says, 00:25:19.41\00:25:20.95 "He knows our frame that we're dust. 00:25:20.98\00:25:24.59 He knows we are frail as a blade of grass and so..." 00:25:24.62\00:25:28.79 Oh, oh, Jesus, He doesn't expect us to do things 00:25:28.82\00:25:32.89 that are beyond our capability, 00:25:32.93\00:25:35.06 our capacity to do and so He says, 00:25:35.10\00:25:38.53 "We'll be perfect, keep moving toward that 00:25:38.57\00:25:41.24 while I am perfect, I've already done that." 00:25:41.27\00:25:43.71 That's important to keep in your mind. 00:25:50.68\00:25:54.18 I've already been there, turn that, 00:25:54.22\00:25:57.92 wrote the book, starred in the movie, 00:25:57.95\00:26:00.89 won the Emmy and the Oscar, 00:26:00.92\00:26:03.19 even made the T-shirt. 00:26:03.22\00:26:06.66 I'm perfect, 00:26:06.70\00:26:10.57 you can't be like me in your humanity. 00:26:10.60\00:26:15.20 So what is it that God is trying to tell us today? 00:26:18.71\00:26:23.81 He's trying to tell us, 00:26:23.85\00:26:26.01 you've got to acknowledge one basic principle of life. 00:26:26.05\00:26:30.99 You can't live right. 00:26:31.02\00:26:32.75 Whoa, pastor, wait a minute. 00:26:36.86\00:26:39.76 You messed up now. 00:26:39.79\00:26:42.33 That's why I come to church, to be told I can't live right. 00:26:42.36\00:26:45.77 But opinion it, 00:26:49.20\00:26:51.97 I'm gonna bring you back to it. 00:26:52.01\00:26:54.04 I want you to look at Psalm 51, 00:26:54.08\00:26:56.44 I must show you why you can't live right. 00:26:56.48\00:26:58.68 I'm gonna give you three passages 00:26:58.71\00:27:00.08 why you can't live right. 00:27:00.12\00:27:01.85 Psalm 51:5, 00:27:01.88\00:27:05.65 there for me a passage of Scripture. 00:27:05.69\00:27:08.02 Psalm 51:5, find it so you can read it, 00:27:08.06\00:27:11.69 I need you to read it 00:27:11.73\00:27:13.06 so that you'll know for yourself 00:27:13.09\00:27:14.43 that you cannot live right. 00:27:14.46\00:27:15.96 Psalm 51:5, what does the Word of God say, 00:27:16.00\00:27:18.43 "Behold..." I was what? 00:27:18.47\00:27:20.90 Shapen in what? 00:27:20.94\00:27:22.80 What else? 00:27:22.84\00:27:26.64 "Behold, I was shapen in..." 00:27:26.68\00:27:32.25 You want to see that passage in the Hebrew. 00:27:32.28\00:27:35.28 In the Hebrew, 00:27:35.32\00:27:36.65 it conveys a stitching 00:27:36.69\00:27:41.46 needle and thread. 00:27:41.49\00:27:45.73 I was put together by a sinful thread, 00:27:45.76\00:27:51.77 that's how I'm held together by sewing, 00:27:51.80\00:27:56.27 it keeps my parts together, it holds me together, 00:27:56.30\00:27:59.97 I was born in sin and shaped in the iniquity. 00:28:00.01\00:28:04.95 How in the world can somebody 00:28:04.98\00:28:07.38 whose very makeup 00:28:07.42\00:28:09.42 at the molecular level is sinful, 00:28:09.45\00:28:12.35 they would some kind of way 00:28:12.39\00:28:13.92 stand up and do what's right? 00:28:13.96\00:28:15.69 When you get a chance, 00:28:18.83\00:28:20.16 go home and read that entire Psalm. 00:28:20.20\00:28:22.46 It's the Psalm where David has an epiphany, 00:28:22.50\00:28:27.47 a breakthrough 00:28:27.50\00:28:28.87 because Nathan has just left his house. 00:28:28.90\00:28:33.78 And Nathan has just revealed to him, 00:28:33.81\00:28:36.51 "You can't hide your sins from God. 00:28:36.54\00:28:39.31 You can't hide nothing from God." 00:28:39.35\00:28:42.42 If and David got it too, he said, 00:28:42.45\00:28:44.05 "If I make my bed in hell, you're already there. 00:28:44.09\00:28:47.12 If I get some wings of the morning and fly away, 00:28:47.16\00:28:51.19 you're up there too. 00:28:51.23\00:28:52.59 Where can I make my bed and you're not there. 00:28:52.63\00:28:56.10 No matter where I try to go, 00:28:56.13\00:28:58.33 God, you're already there." 00:28:58.37\00:28:59.90 You can't hide from God. 00:28:59.93\00:29:02.20 He sees us 00:29:05.41\00:29:07.18 no matter what we wear on the outside. 00:29:07.21\00:29:12.58 He sees us while we're giving the Bible study. 00:29:12.61\00:29:16.79 He sees us while we're passing out the food basket. 00:29:16.82\00:29:20.72 He sees us while we're singing in the choir. 00:29:20.76\00:29:24.09 He sees us while we're preaching the Word. 00:29:24.13\00:29:27.46 There is nothing that is hidden from his divine gaze. 00:29:27.50\00:29:31.23 You talk about x-ray vision. 00:29:31.27\00:29:36.17 There is no x-ray 00:29:36.20\00:29:39.11 that can look to the very cell in a person 00:29:39.14\00:29:43.78 but God has a kind of vision 00:29:43.81\00:29:46.88 that can look at us at our molecular level 00:29:46.92\00:29:50.39 and He can see the sin 00:29:50.42\00:29:52.62 that courses through our veins. 00:29:52.65\00:29:57.09 My entire make up, my birth origin is messed up 00:29:57.13\00:30:02.20 but I'm from the house of Polite. 00:30:02.23\00:30:05.70 You just messed up Polite. 00:30:05.73\00:30:10.41 Your pedigree has nothing to do with this. 00:30:10.44\00:30:13.78 The amount of money your family has amassed 00:30:13.81\00:30:16.28 has nothing to do with this. 00:30:16.31\00:30:17.85 What city you live in doesn't have anything to do with this. 00:30:17.88\00:30:21.52 You're just that sinful rich somebody who lives on a, 00:30:21.55\00:30:25.39 a good side of town, that's all you are, 00:30:25.42\00:30:28.12 but at the very level that God sees you at, 00:30:28.16\00:30:31.29 you're nothing more than a roach saved by grace. 00:30:31.33\00:30:35.06 Yes. Amen. 00:30:35.10\00:30:38.70 Amen. 00:30:38.73\00:30:41.00 We got to be honest with ourselves. 00:30:41.04\00:30:43.91 We got to call, call sin by its right name, 00:30:43.94\00:30:49.14 I messed up. 00:30:49.18\00:30:51.38 I messed up. 00:30:51.41\00:30:53.82 You know the reason why we can't say we're messed up 00:30:53.85\00:30:56.42 because we compare ourselves to somebody else. 00:30:56.45\00:30:59.12 Ouch. 00:31:06.09\00:31:07.96 And so if I compare myself to Janet Lambert, 00:31:08.00\00:31:11.47 I might look all right, if I set, 00:31:11.50\00:31:14.57 if I compare myself to Benny McGrady, 00:31:14.60\00:31:17.17 I might look all right 00:31:17.21\00:31:20.54 but if I compare myself to Jesus, 00:31:20.58\00:31:26.75 how am I gonna look in the mirror? 00:31:26.78\00:31:28.62 Don't forget my message is Just Jesus. 00:31:28.65\00:31:31.45 I forgot where I'm going. 00:31:31.49\00:31:33.39 Look at Romans, the 8th Chapter. 00:31:33.42\00:31:35.72 Romans, the 8th Chapter. 00:31:35.76\00:31:38.13 Romans, I hope the Lord blesses you the way 00:31:38.16\00:31:40.16 He blessed me this week, 00:31:40.20\00:31:41.90 with this study, Romans, the 8th Chapter 00:31:41.93\00:31:44.67 and I wanna look at verses 7 and 8. 00:31:44.70\00:31:47.80 Romans 8:7, 8, 00:31:47.84\00:31:50.97 notice what the Word of God says here, 00:31:51.01\00:31:53.44 "Because the carnal mind is..." 00:31:53.48\00:31:55.74 what everybody? 00:31:55.78\00:31:57.38 It's "enmity against God. 00:31:57.41\00:32:00.98 For it is not subject to the law 00:32:01.02\00:32:03.92 neither indeed can it be. 00:32:03.95\00:32:07.42 So then, they that are in the flesh..." 00:32:07.46\00:32:11.23 Finish it. 00:32:11.26\00:32:12.59 "Cannot please God." 00:32:12.63\00:32:14.46 Hello. 00:32:14.50\00:32:17.10 "They that are in the flesh might please God." 00:32:17.13\00:32:22.87 Cannot, cannot. 00:32:22.90\00:32:24.24 Can not, 00:32:24.27\00:32:27.08 it's a Greek emphatic, imperative, 00:32:27.11\00:32:30.45 can not, 00:32:30.48\00:32:32.25 you can not please God. 00:32:32.28\00:32:35.85 It's enmity of our minds, our human nature. 00:32:41.72\00:32:47.03 Listen, listen, listen, I want you to get, 00:32:47.06\00:32:49.06 Paul was a very astute theologian, 00:32:49.10\00:32:51.70 he caught, he captured it correctly. 00:32:51.73\00:32:53.84 Paul understood man's basic nature 00:32:53.87\00:32:57.27 and he called it the way it was, he said, 00:32:57.31\00:32:59.61 "There's something about us that rebels against God." 00:32:59.64\00:33:04.68 It's antagonistic against God. 00:33:04.71\00:33:07.62 In fact, when God comes by us, 00:33:07.65\00:33:10.95 there's something that goes off in our mind that said, 00:33:10.99\00:33:13.49 "Oh, oh, there's the enemy." 00:33:13.52\00:33:15.79 Anybody remember that old shuttle lost in space. 00:33:15.82\00:33:19.06 Danger, danger, 00:33:19.09\00:33:20.43 alien life form approaching, danger, danger. 00:33:20.46\00:33:24.60 That's what happens to us 00:33:24.63\00:33:27.14 when God comes by, our minds click, 00:33:27.17\00:33:31.27 something goes off and sense, this is an enemy. 00:33:31.31\00:33:36.44 Get it now, get this, get this. 00:33:36.48\00:33:40.88 Your mind says, 00:33:40.92\00:33:42.88 "This is an enemy but the person 00:33:42.92\00:33:44.49 that it calls the enemy is your creator. 00:33:44.52\00:33:47.22 That's like a child walking in the room 00:33:54.20\00:33:55.70 and calling their mother or their father, 00:33:55.73\00:33:58.00 they're enemy. 00:33:58.03\00:33:59.67 Let me leave it alone. 00:34:03.57\00:34:06.21 Let me leave that alone. 00:34:06.24\00:34:08.88 It's enmity, 00:34:08.91\00:34:10.85 in the Hebrew the word enmity 00:34:10.88\00:34:12.98 translate uncomfortableness. 00:34:13.01\00:34:16.95 That when it comes to spiritual things, 00:34:16.99\00:34:20.29 I get uncomfortable by nature 00:34:20.32\00:34:24.96 and so there's something that has to happen to me, 00:34:24.99\00:34:27.56 a transformation that must take place 00:34:27.60\00:34:29.80 that will make me comfortable 00:34:29.83\00:34:31.77 whenever God comes into the room. 00:34:31.80\00:34:35.37 That's the great challenge for the unbeliever. 00:34:35.40\00:34:38.84 Let me look at one more scripture, Isaiah 64. 00:34:38.87\00:34:41.61 Isaiah 64:6. 00:34:41.64\00:34:47.55 Isaiah 64:6, 00:34:47.58\00:34:51.55 notice, notice what God says here, 00:34:51.59\00:34:54.79 "But we are all..." 00:34:54.82\00:34:56.73 as what? 00:34:56.76\00:34:58.99 "An unclean thing, 00:34:59.03\00:35:02.60 and all our righteousness are..." 00:35:02.63\00:35:06.77 what? "As filthy rags..." 00:35:06.80\00:35:08.90 "And we all do fade as a leaf, and our iniquities, 00:35:08.94\00:35:13.14 like the wind, have..." 00:35:13.17\00:35:14.71 done what? 00:35:14.74\00:35:16.08 "Taken us away." 00:35:16.11\00:35:17.45 "Taken us away." 00:35:17.48\00:35:20.12 Notice the writing here. 00:35:20.15\00:35:21.48 Notice the progression of the text. 00:35:21.52\00:35:23.69 It first starts of addressing our righteousness 00:35:23.72\00:35:28.62 but the scripture ends up talking about our iniquity. 00:35:28.66\00:35:33.19 Why does Isaiah shift on us 00:35:36.30\00:35:41.37 if he addresses our righteousness 00:35:41.40\00:35:43.54 at the beginning of the text? 00:35:43.57\00:35:45.47 Why doesn't he end up with our righteousness 00:35:45.51\00:35:47.41 at the end of the text? 00:35:47.44\00:35:49.74 Because it gives us the cue, he gives us the clue. 00:35:49.78\00:35:53.68 It doesn't matter how much good you do, 00:35:53.72\00:35:55.95 you're still dirty. 00:35:55.98\00:35:58.09 You're still nasty, you're still filthy, 00:35:58.12\00:36:01.19 you're still wretched, 00:36:01.22\00:36:03.06 it is still unacceptable before God. 00:36:03.09\00:36:06.29 That's why there are two different words 00:36:06.33\00:36:09.23 in that Greek text 00:36:09.26\00:36:10.60 for perfect and perfect, 00:36:10.63\00:36:12.13 you keep trying to work your way towards perfection 00:36:12.17\00:36:15.54 while He's always fair, you cannot make it by yourself. 00:36:15.57\00:36:21.34 By the way, 00:36:25.11\00:36:27.02 the word righteousness in the Hebrew is plural. 00:36:27.05\00:36:33.52 It really translates all your righteous acts, 00:36:33.56\00:36:38.39 that means everything you do good, 00:36:38.43\00:36:39.76 everything you do good, 00:36:39.79\00:36:41.13 everything you do good is filthy before God. 00:36:41.16\00:36:46.50 You mean when I praise Him, it's filthy. 00:36:46.53\00:36:50.47 When I read the scripture, it's filthy. 00:36:50.51\00:36:53.54 When I preach as what, is filthy? 00:36:53.58\00:36:56.85 When I try to give somebody a helping hand, it's filthy. 00:36:56.88\00:37:01.85 When I return a faithful tithe and a generous offering, 00:37:01.88\00:37:05.45 it's filthy. 00:37:05.49\00:37:07.46 We've got to get our perspective straightened out 00:37:07.49\00:37:10.53 and filter this thing, correct me, 00:37:10.56\00:37:12.86 no matter how much good I do, it is still filthy. 00:37:12.89\00:37:19.03 Pastor, I'm depressed again. 00:37:19.07\00:37:23.30 I've been working myself to death. 00:37:23.34\00:37:27.41 Try to stay on the right road, 00:37:27.44\00:37:29.68 I heard 99.5 won't do, 00:37:29.71\00:37:32.15 I've been working, working and working 00:37:32.18\00:37:34.95 and you're telling me that 00:37:34.98\00:37:36.32 whole of my work is going to come up for nought. 00:37:36.35\00:37:39.92 Uh-huh. 00:37:39.95\00:37:41.29 That's the best answer I could give you. 00:37:45.09\00:37:46.43 Uh-huh. 00:37:46.46\00:37:47.80 Your best will never be good enough 00:37:51.07\00:37:57.47 for God. 00:37:57.51\00:37:59.14 Well, I understand a little better now... 00:38:04.55\00:38:09.02 Naomi's despair. 00:38:09.05\00:38:12.15 I may not have gone 00:38:12.19\00:38:13.52 and put a noose around my neck in the garage 00:38:13.56\00:38:17.53 but after this sermon, Pastor, 00:38:17.56\00:38:22.16 I'm concerned, 00:38:22.20\00:38:24.40 I don't know if I'm coming back next week. 00:38:24.43\00:38:27.17 What good will it do, it's still filthy. 00:38:27.20\00:38:33.94 I dare not present a word like this 00:38:33.98\00:38:36.18 without giving you some good news. 00:38:36.21\00:38:37.81 You think that all God did is just point out to us 00:38:42.48\00:38:46.65 how bad we were 00:38:46.69\00:38:49.06 and didn't give us a solution for the problem. 00:38:49.09\00:38:52.39 He gave us a solution, Romans, the 8th chapter. 00:38:52.43\00:38:56.13 Romans, the 8th chapter, 00:38:56.16\00:38:59.23 Romans 8, I want to go to Romans 8. 00:38:59.27\00:39:04.27 And I want to pause on verse 18, 00:39:04.31\00:39:08.24 Romans 8, 00:39:08.28\00:39:10.58 pardon me, Romans 5, 00:39:10.61\00:39:11.98 starting with verse 18. 00:39:12.01\00:39:13.35 Romans 5, starting with verse 18. 00:39:13.38\00:39:16.38 "Therefore as by the offence of one, 00:39:16.42\00:39:18.49 judgment came upon all men to..." 00:39:18.52\00:39:21.49 to what everyone? 00:39:21.52\00:39:22.86 "Condemnation, even so by the righteousness of one, 00:39:22.89\00:39:25.89 the free gift came upon all men, 00:39:25.93\00:39:28.20 unto justification of life." 00:39:28.23\00:39:30.07 Read verse 19, 00:39:30.10\00:39:31.43 "Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. 00:39:40.64\00:39:43.88 But where..." 00:39:43.91\00:39:45.31 Finish it. 00:39:45.35\00:39:47.48 You gotta read this thing like you understand this thing. 00:39:47.52\00:39:51.49 Now start again, read verse 20, 00:39:51.52\00:39:53.32 what does it say? 00:39:53.36\00:39:54.69 "That as sin hath entered, hath reigned unto death..." 00:40:04.33\00:40:08.54 Finish it. 00:40:08.57\00:40:09.90 I heard somebody say, 00:40:21.02\00:40:22.35 "Amazing Grace, 00:40:22.38\00:40:25.85 how sweet the sound, 00:40:25.89\00:40:29.12 saved a wretch like you." 00:40:29.16\00:40:32.53 Like who? 00:40:35.90\00:40:37.70 Like me. 00:40:37.73\00:40:39.83 "I once was lost, 00:40:39.87\00:40:42.17 now I'm found, blind but now I see." 00:40:42.20\00:40:49.01 Where there's great sin, there's a need for great grace. 00:40:49.04\00:40:53.52 Where sin abound, graced up much more abound. 00:40:58.75\00:41:05.03 I love playing basketball, let me get my tense, 00:41:08.46\00:41:11.83 my verb tenses right, teachers. 00:41:11.87\00:41:13.84 I loved, 00:41:13.87\00:41:15.34 when I have a flashback here. 00:41:20.44\00:41:22.91 Yeah, yeah, I loved playing basketball 00:41:22.94\00:41:27.38 and it was always interesting to me 00:41:27.42\00:41:30.95 that whenever we played, 00:41:30.99\00:41:32.99 somebody and they would scout out our team, 00:41:33.02\00:41:37.16 they would make sure that somebody on the other team 00:41:37.19\00:41:40.06 would be on the floor, every time I was on the floor. 00:41:40.10\00:41:44.63 When I went and took a break, 00:41:44.67\00:41:47.30 they went and took a break 00:41:47.34\00:41:50.27 but when I checked in, they checked in. 00:41:50.31\00:41:53.68 And Paul says that when sin checked into the game, 00:41:53.71\00:42:00.15 grace came off the pitch and said I'm in too, 00:42:00.18\00:42:04.49 I'm playing too 00:42:04.52\00:42:06.62 because sin can't play 00:42:06.65\00:42:08.59 without grace being on the floor. 00:42:08.62\00:42:11.63 It's gonna be out there at the same time 00:42:11.66\00:42:14.40 when sin abound, 00:42:14.43\00:42:16.56 grace talk much more abound. 00:42:16.60\00:42:19.50 Don't you ever believe that 00:42:19.53\00:42:21.60 because you believe yourself to be such a great sinner, 00:42:21.64\00:42:26.78 that you have absolutely no chance whatsoever, 00:42:26.81\00:42:30.35 you got to get the other side of the story 00:42:30.38\00:42:33.11 and now the rest of the story. 00:42:33.15\00:42:35.45 Praise, praise, praise, 00:42:35.48\00:42:39.85 praise. praise. 00:42:39.89\00:42:41.72 talk much more above, 00:42:41.76\00:42:44.16 trust like the devil is working hard 00:42:44.19\00:42:46.90 to get to and bring you down, 00:42:46.93\00:42:48.70 grace is to enable favor through this power, 00:42:48.73\00:42:51.43 to lift you up, take you around, 00:42:51.47\00:42:54.64 patch your feet on solid ground. 00:42:54.67\00:42:58.81 That's how grace works. 00:42:58.84\00:43:01.34 That's how grace works. 00:43:01.38\00:43:03.01 God didn't leave you without a solution. 00:43:03.04\00:43:05.11 Look at something else, in Ephesians 2, 00:43:05.15\00:43:07.52 Ephesians 2:8, 9, 00:43:07.55\00:43:10.25 the Book of Ephesians 2:8, 9, 00:43:10.29\00:43:16.69 I love these two passages. 00:43:16.73\00:43:19.69 "For by..." 00:43:19.73\00:43:23.67 You don't have it yet, 00:43:23.70\00:43:25.03 that's why you didn't say it right. 00:43:25.07\00:43:26.40 Like a pages have stopped. 00:43:31.21\00:43:32.91 "For by grace, 00:43:32.94\00:43:34.91 I saved through faith, 00:43:34.94\00:43:37.25 that not of yourselves, 00:43:37.28\00:43:39.51 it is the gift of God, not of works, 00:43:39.55\00:43:43.25 lest anyone should boast." 00:43:43.28\00:43:48.39 For by grace, 00:43:48.42\00:43:52.63 are ye saved. 00:43:52.66\00:43:54.30 Through faith 00:43:57.63\00:44:01.60 and that not of yourselves. 00:44:01.64\00:44:04.04 The Bible says it is what? 00:44:04.07\00:44:06.88 It's a what? 00:44:06.91\00:44:09.21 I supposed you get it. 00:44:09.24\00:44:10.58 It belongs to me, 00:44:14.65\00:44:18.19 it's a gift, 00:44:18.22\00:44:21.96 it's a gift. 00:44:21.99\00:44:24.79 Each one of my children, 00:44:24.83\00:44:28.16 when they turned 16 years old came to me and said," 00:44:28.20\00:44:33.47 Daddy, it's time for me to get my license." 00:44:33.50\00:44:37.81 I had one question, 00:44:43.14\00:44:45.11 "When did you buy 'em? 00:44:45.15\00:44:48.95 Who said, they were yours?" 00:44:48.98\00:44:53.46 "Well, I'm 16, 00:44:53.49\00:44:56.59 that means it's time for me to get my license." 00:44:56.62\00:45:01.00 I said, "I know a folk in his 50 00:45:01.03\00:45:02.63 who don't have license." 00:45:02.66\00:45:04.00 You gotta understand 00:45:09.40\00:45:12.07 driving is a privilege not a right. 00:45:12.11\00:45:15.58 Grace is a privilege, not a right. 00:45:15.61\00:45:19.51 It's unreserved favor. 00:45:19.55\00:45:22.28 It's not something we get because we deserve it, 00:45:22.32\00:45:25.02 normally when you get a gift, 00:45:25.05\00:45:26.55 it's because you're done something right 00:45:26.59\00:45:28.49 or there's something special that's happened. 00:45:28.52\00:45:30.63 It's been your birthday or your anniversary 00:45:30.66\00:45:33.16 but this gift you get when you do something wrong. 00:45:33.19\00:45:36.13 Not when you do something right. 00:45:41.00\00:45:44.14 It's when you do something wrong 00:45:44.17\00:45:46.54 and you claim that gift by faith, by faith. 00:45:46.57\00:45:53.25 You know, sometimes, 00:45:53.28\00:45:56.32 sometimes, folk would come up to us 00:45:56.35\00:45:58.25 and they'll ask this question, look at me, look at me. 00:45:58.29\00:46:02.16 "Are you saved?" 00:46:02.19\00:46:03.63 And we look back at him scoured. 00:46:07.10\00:46:08.73 Am I saved 00:46:13.50\00:46:15.07 and then we try to think back over 00:46:18.21\00:46:19.57 our 28 fundamental beliefs. 00:46:19.61\00:46:21.54 The pastor teaches that, was that him, 00:46:27.72\00:46:30.59 one of the Sabbath School caught me, 00:46:30.62\00:46:32.12 help me, Lord. You said you put it in, 00:46:32.15\00:46:33.49 in that moment when I need to act, 00:46:33.52\00:46:34.96 you would put it in my spirit. 00:46:34.99\00:46:37.49 Are you saved? 00:46:37.53\00:46:41.06 Let me help you, 00:46:41.10\00:46:43.03 for grace, for by grace are ye saved. 00:46:43.06\00:46:46.97 Let me fix it for your. 00:46:53.34\00:46:55.94 Let me fix it for you. 00:46:55.98\00:46:59.78 There is a tense in Greek called the perfect tense. 00:46:59.81\00:47:03.69 It means a past action 00:47:03.72\00:47:06.49 with a present or future response 00:47:06.52\00:47:12.46 or impact. 00:47:12.49\00:47:14.90 You were saved yesterday. 00:47:14.93\00:47:18.63 You were saved by... 00:47:23.27\00:47:26.57 Grace. 00:47:26.61\00:47:28.71 Through. Grace. 00:47:28.74\00:47:30.65 The problem is that the reason we don't know 00:47:33.68\00:47:37.52 that we're saved is because 00:47:37.55\00:47:39.75 we don't have the faith to believe we're saved. 00:47:39.79\00:47:42.32 Was that hard, that wouldn't be, it wasn't. 00:47:49.36\00:47:52.83 I ain't a deep preacher. 00:47:52.87\00:47:54.20 The problem is not whether or not you're saved, 00:48:00.68\00:48:03.58 salvation has been provided. 00:48:03.61\00:48:06.31 The issue is have you accepted the fact that you're saved. 00:48:06.35\00:48:10.65 There was a man who was put in jail 00:48:10.69\00:48:12.59 and he sat there day after day. 00:48:12.62\00:48:14.76 They told him what his bail would cost, 00:48:14.79\00:48:16.73 he didn't had the money 00:48:16.76\00:48:18.16 and so he sat there depressed and brooding. 00:48:18.19\00:48:21.36 One day the jailer came along and said, "Hey, you're free." 00:48:21.40\00:48:26.13 And he sat there. 00:48:26.17\00:48:27.50 He said, "Somebody has paid your bail, 00:48:27.54\00:48:29.60 they processed your bail, you're free." 00:48:29.64\00:48:31.94 And the man sat there. 00:48:31.97\00:48:33.31 He said, "Can you hear me, I set you free." 00:48:33.34\00:48:36.85 And the man sat there, the jailer closed the door 00:48:36.88\00:48:40.62 and before he walked off, he said, 00:48:40.65\00:48:42.88 "When you accept the fact that you're free, 00:48:42.92\00:48:45.65 then you can leave." 00:48:45.69\00:48:49.39 When you accept the fact 00:48:49.42\00:48:52.59 that you're saved by grace through faith, 00:48:52.63\00:48:58.03 maybe we'll start acting like saved people, 00:48:58.07\00:49:01.30 maybe we'll start talking like saved people, 00:49:01.34\00:49:04.21 maybe we'll start thinking like saved people, 00:49:04.24\00:49:06.61 maybe we'll start dressing like saved people, 00:49:06.64\00:49:09.68 maybe we'll start eating like saved people, 00:49:09.71\00:49:11.98 maybe we'll start behaving like saved people 00:49:12.01\00:49:15.05 but until we accept the fact that we're saved, 00:49:15.08\00:49:18.85 we're going to stay in our prisons, 00:49:18.89\00:49:24.59 our lostness. 00:49:24.63\00:49:26.09 I'm trying to free somebody today, look at this, 00:49:29.23\00:49:31.67 look at this text, Philippians, 00:49:31.70\00:49:34.77 Philippians 1:6, 00:49:34.80\00:49:39.61 that one is stowaway, verse 5 and verse 6. 00:49:39.64\00:49:44.15 Philippians 1:5, 6, 00:49:44.18\00:49:46.78 "For your fellowship in the gospel 00:49:46.82\00:49:48.78 from the first day until now, 00:49:48.82\00:49:50.82 being confident of this very thing, 00:49:50.85\00:49:53.49 that He which hath begun a good work..." 00:49:53.52\00:49:56.59 Where? In you. 00:49:56.62\00:49:58.13 Will do what? 00:49:58.16\00:49:59.66 Will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus. 00:49:59.69\00:50:02.96 He that hath begun a good work in you. 00:50:03.00\00:50:06.84 Stop there for a minute. 00:50:11.44\00:50:13.48 Okay, in Romans 5: 8, Paul says, 00:50:13.51\00:50:18.01 "But God hath commended His love toward us, 00:50:18.05\00:50:21.78 in that while we were yet sinners..." 00:50:21.82\00:50:27.09 Christ did what? 00:50:27.12\00:50:30.43 He commended His love toward us 00:50:30.46\00:50:32.59 in that while we were yet sinners. 00:50:32.63\00:50:37.07 That's what Naomi couldn't get, while we were still sinning, 00:50:37.10\00:50:41.27 Christ died for us. 00:50:41.30\00:50:43.74 He said, "Christ died for us." 00:50:43.77\00:50:49.54 But in Philippians he says 00:50:49.58\00:50:51.78 that Christ performs a good work, where? 00:50:51.81\00:50:56.25 In us. 00:50:56.28\00:50:59.92 Let's not get it twisted. 00:50:59.95\00:51:02.79 There's a difference 00:51:02.82\00:51:04.83 when Christ does something for us 00:51:04.86\00:51:06.86 versus doing something in us. 00:51:06.90\00:51:10.43 He died for us 00:51:10.47\00:51:13.60 but if we're gonna ever make it through this mess called sin, 00:51:13.64\00:51:18.67 he's got to perform it. 00:51:18.71\00:51:20.38 You got it, you got it, 00:51:26.58\00:51:29.48 you got it 00:51:29.52\00:51:31.25 and you got to hang on to that. 00:51:31.29\00:51:33.92 It's not about us, it's not about our good, 00:51:33.96\00:51:38.69 it's not about our righteousness, 00:51:38.73\00:51:41.33 it's all about Him and what He does in us. 00:51:41.36\00:51:45.53 We already established the fact, 00:51:45.57\00:51:47.64 there's nothing good within us, 00:51:47.67\00:51:49.34 our very makeup is sinful 00:51:49.37\00:51:51.94 and unless He comes into our lives 00:51:51.97\00:51:55.31 and lives out His life, 00:51:55.34\00:51:57.51 then we are born in sin 00:51:57.55\00:52:00.32 and we're gonna die in sin. 00:52:00.35\00:52:04.55 Let me help somebody, 00:52:04.59\00:52:06.12 you know, that good life 00:52:06.15\00:52:07.49 you've been trying to live all this time 00:52:07.52\00:52:09.39 and fall off to wagon, 00:52:09.42\00:52:10.99 guess what? He already lived it for you. 00:52:11.03\00:52:15.86 He lived it for you and all He said is, 00:52:15.90\00:52:19.00 if you accept me, it comes with me. 00:52:19.03\00:52:23.14 You get it by default. 00:52:23.17\00:52:25.77 You've got to accept me 00:52:25.81\00:52:28.48 and Lord that I fetch you... 00:52:28.51\00:52:31.45 has already beaten you 00:52:31.48\00:52:33.42 and all you need to do 00:52:33.45\00:52:35.68 is turn it over to me. 00:52:35.72\00:52:41.92 Morris Venden wrote a book, 00:52:41.96\00:52:44.49 it sits on my shelf, 00:52:44.53\00:52:46.56 right book shelf. 00:52:46.59\00:52:50.47 I take it out every now and then 00:52:50.50\00:52:53.03 but it indicts me and it challenges me 00:52:53.07\00:52:55.04 so I don't read it that often. 00:52:55.07\00:52:58.94 It's entitled, Hard to be Lost. 00:52:58.97\00:53:04.91 Hard to be Lost, 00:53:04.95\00:53:07.82 reason I have difficulty is 00:53:11.59\00:53:12.92 because my mind is very analytical 00:53:12.95\00:53:14.66 and it processes things beyond the obvious, 00:53:14.69\00:53:17.29 beyond the obvious of reference. 00:53:17.33\00:53:19.49 And so if the book is entitled Hard to be Lost 00:53:19.53\00:53:22.53 then it must be also saying it's easy to be saved. 00:53:22.56\00:53:26.27 I haven't found anything yet in this Christian journey 00:53:34.21\00:53:37.41 that's easy. 00:53:37.45\00:53:40.68 What do you mean, Pastor Venden, 00:53:40.72\00:53:44.39 it's hard to be lost, I just told you why. 00:53:44.42\00:53:48.59 He that hath begun a good work in you, 00:53:48.62\00:53:55.13 can complete it to the day of His coming. 00:53:55.16\00:54:01.00 If we get ourselves out of the way, 00:54:01.04\00:54:06.07 then He can get in 00:54:06.11\00:54:08.64 and lead us through the way. 00:54:08.68\00:54:13.15 But we are our own worst enemy, 00:54:13.18\00:54:15.68 when we're gonna get that. 00:54:15.72\00:54:19.22 Chloe Logan used to sing a song years ago, it said, 00:54:19.25\00:54:21.76 "The failure's not with God, it's in me." 00:54:21.79\00:54:27.76 They have not failed one word of all of His good promises 00:54:27.80\00:54:30.87 which He had promised by his service. 00:54:30.90\00:54:35.20 God is a God of His word 00:54:35.24\00:54:37.87 and He says if you just turn it over to me, 00:54:37.91\00:54:41.81 I'll put it away... 00:54:41.84\00:54:43.28 Wait a minute, now you gotta get this, 00:54:43.31\00:54:45.05 I'm coming down the homestretch, 00:54:45.08\00:54:46.41 you've got to get this. 00:54:46.45\00:54:47.78 I got to even sit down on this 00:54:47.82\00:54:50.95 'cause it boggles my mind. 00:54:50.99\00:54:54.46 First of all, He died for me, 00:54:54.49\00:55:00.00 second of all, He took my sins upon Himself, 00:55:00.03\00:55:04.93 third of all, He paid my sinful debt for me. 00:55:04.97\00:55:10.97 There ought to be something that I can do, 00:55:11.01\00:55:16.34 that's why I'm so inclined to work and work. 00:55:16.38\00:55:19.68 I'm trying to get into the game, 00:55:19.71\00:55:22.28 I'm trying to do my fair share 00:55:22.32\00:55:25.85 but when it comes to salvation, 00:55:25.89\00:55:28.56 you can't do a thing. 00:55:28.59\00:55:30.63 How do I know that, how do I know that? 00:55:30.66\00:55:34.76 Daniel 8:11 and 12, 00:55:34.80\00:55:38.57 it talks about a truth 00:55:42.00\00:55:43.87 that was trampled under foot, 00:55:43.91\00:55:47.68 a truth. 00:55:47.71\00:55:49.68 Martin Luther read that passage of scripture 00:55:49.71\00:55:52.11 and understood something. 00:55:52.15\00:55:53.65 The light went on for him 00:55:53.68\00:55:55.52 and he came forth with this Latin phrase, 00:55:55.55\00:55:57.55 "Sola fide." 00:55:57.59\00:55:59.55 The just live by faith alone. 00:55:59.59\00:56:05.39 Understand the truth that's trampled under foot. 00:56:05.43\00:56:09.20 The truth that's trampled under foot is the truth 00:56:09.23\00:56:12.07 about the sanctuary, 00:56:12.10\00:56:14.80 the sanctuary because when you look at the sanctuary, 00:56:14.84\00:56:20.04 you'll see how much you really have to do with Him. 00:56:20.08\00:56:23.41 Understand something, when you bring your sacrifice, 00:56:23.45\00:56:28.18 who's the sacrifice? 00:56:28.22\00:56:29.55 Who's the sacrifice? 00:56:32.42\00:56:33.76 Jesus is. 00:56:33.79\00:56:36.29 And when you get to the laver, 00:56:36.32\00:56:38.33 who's the water of life? 00:56:38.36\00:56:39.89 Who takes the blood into the Holy Place? 00:56:44.83\00:56:47.80 The priest. 00:56:47.84\00:56:50.51 How does he enter into the Holy Place? 00:56:50.54\00:56:54.51 Through the eastern gate. 00:56:54.54\00:56:57.85 He's the door and once he gets inside, 00:56:57.88\00:57:01.98 who is the seven candlestick? 00:57:02.02\00:57:07.59 Who is the bread, a showbread, 00:57:07.62\00:57:12.66 the table of showbread? 00:57:12.69\00:57:14.53 Who is the veil 00:57:14.56\00:57:15.90 that separates the Holy Place from the most Holy Place? 00:57:15.93\00:57:19.33 Who takes the incense of the saints, 00:57:19.37\00:57:21.74 the prayers of the saints to the, 00:57:21.77\00:57:24.04 to the most Holy Place? 00:57:24.07\00:57:27.64 There is absolutely nothing in the sanctuary 00:57:27.68\00:57:31.31 for us to do except what? 00:57:31.35\00:57:34.45 Bring ourselves. 00:57:34.48\00:57:39.72 "I beseech you therefore, brethren, 00:57:39.75\00:57:42.16 by the mercies of Christ, that you present yourself..." 00:57:42.19\00:57:43.96 What? 00:57:43.99\00:57:45.33 "A living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God." 00:57:45.36\00:57:49.00 Romans 12:1, 00:57:49.03\00:57:50.37 which is our reasonable service. 00:57:50.40\00:57:52.10 The only thing you have left to do 00:57:52.13\00:57:54.80 in His whole salvation process 00:57:54.84\00:57:56.94 is just bring yourself, just show up. 00:57:56.97\00:57:58.97