Hi, do you believe in
righteousness by faith.
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I'll tell you what I believe,
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it's the only kind of
righteousness there is.
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And you know the message
of righteousness by faith
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is also called the
message of His healing grace
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because it instills
mental and spiritual health.
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Please join us
today as we talk about
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RBF therapy on
Issues and Answers.
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Hi, I'm Shelley
Quinn, and we're so glad
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that you can join us today
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for our topic of
righteousness by faith.
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I want to begin
by sharing one of
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my favorite
scriptures on this topic
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and it comes from Isaiah 61:10.
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Listen to what Isaiah wrote.
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He said I will
greatly rejoice in the Lord,
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my soul shall be
joyful in my God;
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For He has clothed me with the
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garments of
righteousness, He has covered me
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with the robe of righteousness.
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Even Isaiah knew that it
was righteousness by faith
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and joining us today
is our very special guest
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Jennifer Jill
Schweitzer and Jennifer
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we're so glad that
you've come back to 3ABN.
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It's good to be here.
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Now, tell us a
little about yourself.
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Myself? Huh, huh!
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Where do you want me to start?
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Let's talk about
your credentials to
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even be talking
about RBF therapy,
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which is
righteousness by faith therapy.
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Well, I'm a student of
the Bible for one thing,
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I studied my Bible
on a regular basis,
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but I also have a degree
in mental health counseling.
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So I work as a
counselor. So you are.
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So I know what works
on the clinical setting.
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I know what really heals people
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by experience and
by my own experience.
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Praise God Yeah.
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So when you think of
Righteousness by Faith.
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Let's back it up to
where it became necessary?
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Okay. Well, we have
to ask three questions
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when we're testing
any psychological theory.
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We've to ask three
what, what is questions?
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What is health? Okay.
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What is the
diagnosis and what is the cure?
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So to begin with the,
what is health question.
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We've to have an idea, you know,
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that we've fallen
from our work somehow
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not living up to or
not in harmony with.
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What is the idea?
What is health basically?
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According to scripture,
God created us in His image.
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We were created for
a specific purpose of
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being like Him in
character and so true health
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according to scripture is
to be like Christ in character.
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Yeah, to be like
God in character.
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It's perfect spiritual health.
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That's right, Isaiah
43 says we were created
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for His glory and so true health
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is Christ within
the hope of glory.
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Amen. Amen.
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So the second question
is what is the diagnosis?
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And that's where
we're going to spend
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the next few minutes on.
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And we're going to
look in Genesis Chapter 3.
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I do a seminar
that I've been doing
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for probably 15
years called healing
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in a wounds and the
reason I put the seminar
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together originally was because
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I notice that people would
go to church to get religion
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and they would go
somewhere else like
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a twelve-step group or
to a counselor to get help.
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And I ask myself
why they weren't getting
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more help from religion itself?
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And I thought may be
there were some things
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in religion that
needed to be unburied possibly
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that would bring
the help that people
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weren't getting the help in
the health that they weren't
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getting from
their church experience.
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And you know,
it's so funny when you
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think about the
twelve-step program
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and so many
programs out there are
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really modeled on
Biblical principles.
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They just leave God out of it.
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Yeah, they often do.
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Well, they don't
leave God totally out,
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but yeah they have been.
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They have hijacked
some Biblical principles
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and they are
helping some people,
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so we can't deny
the value of them,
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but how much
better if the church
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was functioning as
God designed it should.
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So that we
could lead people into
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a full revelation of the truth.
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But from Genesis Chapter 3
we're gonna get our diagnosis
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we see in the garden that
Eve is tempted to converse
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with the serpent and
then we see that she actually
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partakes of the fruit
and then her husband partakes
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it as well and the place
that I want to start is verse 7,
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it says, the eyes of
them both were opened,
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and they knew
that they were naked;
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they knew that they were naked;
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I believe that describes
the experience of shame
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and guilt that
came upon Adam and Eve
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when they
realized that they were
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now fallen that
they had fallen into sin.
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They lost that robe of light.
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That's right, that's
right. That was around them.
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And I imagine
that, that feeling was
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quite overwhelming for them,
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that they were
quite alarmed by that.
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I think of how
Jesus died on the cross
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really as a result of
the physical ramifications
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of bearing the
guilt of the world.
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And so I think we can
reason from that the guilt
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that Adam and
Eve were experiencing
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there in the garden was
very uncomfortable for them.
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And so we see
what comes directly
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out of that guilt
experience was if they
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sewed fig leaves
together and made themselves
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low in coverings, some
translations say aprons
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and any way they made
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fig leaves
garments for themselves.
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In my, I add one thing. Yeah.
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Because I know
we're gonna talk about
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fig leaves garments
here in just a moment
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that we do the
spiritual things, but you know,
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one of the other
direct results of guilt.
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When you feel guilty
around someone there is
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and avoidance
syndrome. That's right.
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You avoid them and
that's what they did with God.
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They were denying
their true condition.
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They were saying we
can fix this, no problem.
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Yeah, but even, don't
you think they are still...
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And little bit later down
the road they did avoid God.
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Yeah, it was kind of like when
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he came there and
said where are you?
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They were still
hiding even though
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they were in their fig
leaves, it's interesting?
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That's right it
didn't really work.
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In another words
their were own self-fixed
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did not have the effect
that they intended to have.
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So I'm working from
the premise that those
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fig leaves
represent self-righteousness
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and that self-righteousness
is in many respects
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the mother load or the
aorta of sin problem, because
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all of these other things
kind of float out of that.
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We see the self-justifications,
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self-righteousness in
verse 7 and then you go on to
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verse 8 and you see
they have completely
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misunderstood God
at this point because
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they are hiding behind the bush.
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They don't realize,
they don't recognize that
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His love and He is
coming redeem them.
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Then you see anxiety in verse 9,
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they are running
away from God, you see,
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that there is this
blaming that takes place,
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they are
deflecting responsibility
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from themselves and
they are blaming one another.
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You see them in that
mode and then you also
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see the animosity that
came into their relationship,
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the breakdown of
their relationship
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when they start
to blame one another
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and remember that
only hours before you know,
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Adams sells the
creation into the hands
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of the enemy because
we're told he was not deceived
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and then, that was
just a few hours before
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God came into
the garden for Adam
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to give an account to
Him of what had happened
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and Adam says it's
the woman's fault hoping
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that God will destroy
the woman instead of him,
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so that's how it
only took a few hours
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for his love for Eve to
breakdown into willingness
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to see her die in his
place. It's interesting.
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That's how fickle human love is.
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And so we could see all
of the relational problems,
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the mood disorders we might say,
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the just all the
things that are wrong with us
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kind of flowed out of that guilt
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and then
subsequent self-righteousness.
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So that's her diagnosis
and it's not a very pretty one.
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Yes, and we
know that Isaiah 64:6
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he says that
Isaiah again writes that
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all of our righteousness
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and I guess which
defined righteousness.
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Righteousness
according to the Bible
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is being in
right standing with God
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doing the things
according to His way,
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I guess you could say.
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And so in Isaiah
64:6 he says all of our
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righteousness is
filthy rags before the Lord,
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so to me that's the
verse when people asked me
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do you believe in
righteousness by faith,
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and I say well,
that's the only...
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That's the only
kind of righteousness.
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Only kind of
righteousness that really
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is because the
best that man can do,
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we can put all the fig
leaves on us that we want,
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but we can never
be right with God
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or being right standing
with God by our own effort.
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That's very good
and I want to point out
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something that I think is may be
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a little different direction
than some people take this.
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We tend to see
self-righteousness
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as a religious
problem, but I believe
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that it's more basic than that,
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it's more pervasive than that,
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it's more universal
than just religious people.
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I think that
there are many forms of
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self-righteousness
that human beings engage
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and there are many attempts
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at self-fixing
that we are guilty.
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I want to just
outline a few of them.
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A many different
kinds of fig leaves,
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we might have
legalistic fig leaves in
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religious circles where we're
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trying work our way to heaven.
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We're trying to
gain God's approval
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by doing certain good works.
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We have hedonistic
fig leaves as well though,
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it's not just
religious people that suffer
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from this problem
hedonistic self-fixes
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would be trying
to pleasure oneself
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through the
pleasures of the flesh,
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lust, eating and
drinking, substance abuse.
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These are efforts to you know,
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alleviate that
inner sense of torment
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that we have as
results of sin, materialistic.
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It's an
interesting point. Yes, yes.
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Well, think about it, you know,
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the Publican and the
Pharisee were in the temple
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and the Pharisee's
prayer was thank God
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that I'm not like other man.
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Many hedonistic people thank God
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that they are not
like religious people.
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Because they think
they are more loving
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and accepting
than religious people,
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but really their heart
is in exactly the same place
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that the
Pharisee's is heart is in.
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Thank God that I'm
not like other man,
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so that essence
of self-righteousness
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is there in both of those cases,
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it just has a little
different manifestation.
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Okay, then we have
materialistic fig leaves,
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you know, the
accumulation of things,
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the acquirement of
things, money, possessions,
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even aesthetics
you know, wanting their
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life to be just so
having just that perfect
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aesthetically
pleasing or you know,
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artistically pleasant life.
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What about
narcissistic fig leaves,
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vanity, fashion,
status, prestige,
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you know, going
after that ego lift,
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that constant ego
lift that really never get
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satisfied because you always
want more and more, and more.
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What about
nihilistic fig leaves.
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This is not something
we would typically think,
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but some people
become very self-destructive,
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even suicidal and
that's their attempt
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to fix their state,
that is kind of there,
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you know, it's
kind of inverse form of
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narcissism where I'm
trying to destroy myself,
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taking upon myself
something that really
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belongs to God
alone and that is my life.
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What about
emotionalistic fig leaves?
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Looking for that emotional high.
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Sometimes that
perfect relationship,
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which will give me that
emotionally rich experience
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or even a worship experience
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that is emotionally stimulating,
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looking for that
experience constantly, so...
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What about, would
you think extreme sports
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would fit into that. Very good.
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Because they are
always looking for that
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adrenaline rush and
that emotional high.
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Very good, so you
got what I'm saying
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you know, these are
our attempts at self-fixes,
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so those fig
leaves are legalistic,
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hedonistic,
materialistic, narcissistic,
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nihilistic, or emotionalistic,
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and I'm sure there is
a billion other listics
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we could add to the
list, but we find well,
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it kind of reminds me
of word Ecclesiastic said,
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man has sort
out many inventions,
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you know, we have come up with
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a million different diversions,
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a million
different ways to avoid
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the real issue which
is that we are in a fallen
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and condemned state
and we need righteousness
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and so we try to
self-fix and we failed.
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And you know, I
think about in the
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Christian world
there are many people who,
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you know, I'm a
Seventh-day Adventist.
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And some people say
if you are an Adventist
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and you follow
the Ten Commandments
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that you're
legalistic and you're trying to
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work your way to
heaven, which, yeah,
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that's what I
say you is oh please.
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And else from time
to time, you hit someone
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who sends me something
and we'll say you know,
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in the Old
Testament, they knew that they
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had to work their way
to heaven and I don't know,
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but that is... No. I
never believed that's
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a true statements
at all because ...
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Righteousness by faith is
woven throughout scripture.
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Throughout scripture. Yeah.
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And I'm thinking right
now and I just turned here
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that in Jeremiah
23 verse 6, he says
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"Now this is the
name by which He'll be
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called the Lord
our righteousness
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and that echoes to
me 2 Corinthians 5:21
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that God made
him, who knew no sin,
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to be sin for us;
that we might become
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the righteousness
of God in Christ Jesus.
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And so you know, I
find so many scriptures
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in the Old Testament
that talk about I mean
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they obliviously knew
even in the sacrificial system,
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they knew that
there was a Savior coming
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that there was an
Attornment to be made
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and they knew that
they couldn't atone
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for their own
sins, there was always
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a sacrificial
death for their sin.
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That's right And so...
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The whole sanctuary system
was pointing to a substitute,
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you know, someone with the
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outside source of righteousness.
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Absolutely, so
it's to me amazing
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that people think that
to keep God's commandments
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which you said if
you love me you will
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is legalistic because certainly
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I know that I
cannot earn salvation
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and then I cannot
earn righteousness.
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Well, there is a huge
difference between God,
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you know, the
commandments still being
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binding and the commandments,
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keeping the
commandments being meritorious.
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Nothing we do has
any merit before God,
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but that doesn't mean that God
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has now lowered
His standard. Yeah.
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You know, in fact we need that
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high standard
because it's through the
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law that we
recognize our need of Christ.
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So, there are often
times with my clients,
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I'll just read Romans Chapter 7
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to them and then we'll
go into Romans Chapter 8,
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I'll say this who
you are, you know,
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you're this
Romans 7 man, you know.
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This is where Paula is
saying we'll always be,
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He will save me
from this body of death.
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That's right, this body
of death, that's right, so...
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And then it begin with Romans 8
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with now there is no condemned,
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therefore, no condemnation
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for those who
are in Christ Jesus.
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That's right, but
people need to go through
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that Romans 7
experience of recognizing
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how far they fall short
of God's standard before
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they can even appreciate
the Romans 8 experience
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of now knowing that there is
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a source of righteousness
outside of them. Amen.
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So I wanted to say
these to though that there are
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two sides to the
fig leaves. Okay.
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There is a front
side and a back side.
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So we're still on the
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diagnosis part of this journey.
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The front side of the fig leave
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is the entitlement mentality.
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I deserve, you
know, God's blessings,
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I deserve God's
approval, because I'm so good.
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But there is flip side of that.
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Many people go through
their lives feeling unworthy,
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feeling sort of a
pervasive, continual sense
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of unworthiness
and condemnation.
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They believe
however that if they can
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just work hard
enough or do enough
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or reach that
standard that they will
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finally become
worthy and really that's
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coming from the
same source that the
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entitlement
mentality comes from,
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it's just the flip
side of that fig leaves.
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So I want to read a
statement in response to that.
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Nothing, but the
righteousness of Christ
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can entitled us to one of the
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blessings of the
covenant of grace.
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There are many, many
who have long desired
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and tried to
obtain these blessings,
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but have not received them,
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because they have
cherished the idea
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that they could do something
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to make
themselves worthy of them.
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Christ is our
only hope of salvation,
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so let me, let me bow it
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point that, people
want the blessings.
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They have tried
to obtain, you know,
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God's approval and all the
blessings that come with it.
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They have failed to obtain it
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and the reason
that they have failed
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is because they
have cherished the belief
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that they can do something
to make themselves worthy,
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so the reason
that they have failed
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is because they have
cherished self-righteousness.
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I can generate
righteousness from within myself
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and effectively
that blocks the channel
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through which God can
pour the blessings of grace.
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They have blocked
the channel of faith
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because they are
not reaching out to the
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righteousness outside of
them taking hold on that.
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And we can look to the
Pharisees and see that,
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I mean here we're, if anyone had
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a case of what I
called the do mores
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and every now and
then I think we can all
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fall into that where we think if
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we can do just do more you know,
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we're going to be
made right with the Lord.
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But the Pharisees
certainly fell into that,
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you know, where they had all the
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scriptures memorized
and they thought they were
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so legalistic
about every little detail
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and had all these man made rules
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thinking that they were
going to be approved by God,
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but they didn't
even were recognized God
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when He came in the flesh,
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they had no personal
relationship with Him.
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There He was in
their midst and they
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didn't know who He was? Yeah.
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And they wanted
do they, in fact they
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didn't just
failed to recognize Him.
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They hated Him and you know,
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push the Roman powers
to beat it, to crucify Him.
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Amen. At great
cost to themselves.
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So it's amazing
the animosity that was
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manifested toward
righteousness in human flesh
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in the form of Jesus, you know,
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they hated that righteousness
that true righteousness
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because they had so much
righteousness of their own.
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And we still see
that the day there are
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people who feel that they can do
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something to earn God's love
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or to earn what
you said is worthiness,
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I mean, on the
flip side of that,
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isn't it sad
when there are people
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who feel that
they are completely
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unworthy of His love you know.
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And they are, you
know, I tell people they are
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unworthy in the sense they
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cannot generate
their worthiness.
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But you know, God
makes them worthy in Christ,
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but it's not our
own in it worthiness
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that recommends us to God.
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You know, I hate to mince words.
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There is a difference
between worthy and worth.
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Yes, because,
you know sometimes.
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I knew you're gonna go there.
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You knew it,
because one of my pet peeves
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is when people say,
oh, I'm so unworthy,
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I'm so unworthy like
and if they want to say
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I'm so undeserving, I
agree with that totally.
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But as far as the
worth that God puts on them.
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Once the Lord
really shared this with me
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to share every time I
try to remember every time
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I go out to speak
because He told me to do this
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and that is to say that
you're worth nothing less
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than the price
that He paid for you
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with the blood of His own son.
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That's the worth God
put on your life and so,
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you know, the
people who feel unworthy
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it's not that we can
generate anything, it's just
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that we're undeserving
of any of His blessings.
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That's right,
that's what I mean.
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But God have put
such great value on us.
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That no one
should feel unworthy.
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We cannot make ourselves
worthy of His blessings,
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they are free gift and
they will always be a free gift,
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but that in no way
should perform means
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that we're not worth
anything just because
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we cannot generate
our own worthiness.
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We're always in a
state of undeservingness,
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but God gives anyway
because God is giving you know,
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righteousness is a free
gift, we cannot earn it.
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So I found this
in a clinical setting
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to be very powerful in healing.
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In fact you know,
the big buzz these days
00:20:15.75\00:20:18.20
in psychology circle is CBT
cognitive behavioral therapy
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and I love
cognitive behavioral therapy,
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I use it on a regular basis.
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Explain with it
because some don't know.
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Cognitive
behavioral therapy is basically
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a systematic form
of thought control
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because what
researches found was that
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when people
thought incorrect thoughts,
00:20:35.91\00:20:38.94
their emotions tended to track
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with those incorrect thoughts,
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so they develop the
method of training people
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to think correct
rational thoughts,
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so that their emotions
will then begin to track
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with those correct
and rational thoughts.
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And what they found is that mood
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would lift people
would feel better,
00:20:55.60\00:20:57.47
people especially
with anxiety and depression
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would start to feel better
and be able to control that.
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So I believe in
cognitive behavioral therapy.
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I'm a big fan of CBT, I use it,
00:21:06.23\00:21:08.15
but I'm an even
bigger fan of RBFT
00:21:08.16\00:21:11.58
righteousness by faith
therapy because it's just,
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it's the message
of His healing grace.
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You know, when
you are thinking about
00:21:16.48\00:21:18.44
CBT cognitive
behavioral therapy.
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I was just
thinking that, that explains
00:21:20.99\00:21:23.93
why you know, the
book that I've written
00:21:23.94\00:21:25.46
Exalting His Word
like affirmation for
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scripture that's what
it's 2 Corinthians 10:4 and 5.
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Casting down imagination.
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Casting down
those vain imaginations,
00:21:34.25\00:21:36.26
that's right, taking
those thoughts captive.
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And the only way
you can really take
00:21:38.57\00:21:39.88
a thoughts captive is to replace
00:21:39.89\00:21:42.36
it with another
thought. That's right.
00:21:42.37\00:21:43.69
If we're gonna take
that thought captive
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and make it obedient
to the will of the Lord.
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So as we
confess scripture of our
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life and speak
scripture of our life that
00:21:49.63\00:21:52.38
practice really is
a form I guess of CBT.
00:21:52.39\00:21:55.74
And the ultimate
lie is that we can
00:21:55.75\00:21:59.51
generate our own righteousness.
00:21:59.52\00:22:01.86
And the ultimate
healing truth is that not just
00:22:01.87\00:22:05.62
that we can generate
our own righteousness,
00:22:05.63\00:22:08.23
but the bigger
and more blessed truth
00:22:08.24\00:22:10.40
is that there is
righteousness available
00:22:10.41\00:22:13.22
from an outside
source and that is
00:22:13.23\00:22:14.70
Jesus Christ and he
will give it to us freely.
00:22:14.71\00:22:16.92
And I want to make
sure I give some balance.
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Always because and I
know you agree with this.
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But 1 John, let
me say 3:7 and 8.
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I want to read this
because we never want to give
00:22:25.34\00:22:28.38
an unbalanced
message and this fits rightly
00:22:28.39\00:22:32.22
and perfectly though in
1 John 3:7 and 8 he says
00:22:32.23\00:22:35.23
"Little children, let no
one deceive you he who practices
00:22:35.24\00:22:40.15
righteousness is righteous,
just as he is righteous."
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So there are some people here
who try to use this scripture
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and say well see
that means that's not
00:22:49.27\00:22:53.03
righteousness by faith,
00:22:53.04\00:22:54.29
that means that,
you know, you got...
00:22:54.30\00:22:55.78
You are generating
your own righteousness.
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But the point is
that we've got to remember
00:22:57.11\00:23:00.21
righteousness I mean
all of these scriptures
00:23:00.22\00:23:02.15
lined up that there is
only righteousness by faith.
00:23:02.16\00:23:05.68
And what I believe is
that as he has imputed
00:23:05.69\00:23:10.44
His
righteousness to us which means
00:23:10.45\00:23:12.19
He credited to our account,
00:23:12.20\00:23:13.83
did away with that old account.
00:23:13.84\00:23:15.98
But then He
imparts righteousness to us
00:23:15.99\00:23:19.62
and as He imparts as you say
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Christ in His our hope of glory.
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Colossians 1:27.
As He imparts that
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righteousness to us,
this is what enables us,
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empowers us to act righteously,
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so when you have been
made righteous by Christ,
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you are going to
Psalm 85:13 said,
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you know, righteousness
shall go before Him;
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and make His
footsteps a way to follow.
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You are empowered to walk
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in an upright
way before the Lord.
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Jesus said "He didn't come to
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abolish the law
but to fulfill it."
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Amen. And so the Gospel...
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That means to
fill it to the full.
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That's right so the Gospel
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doesn't causes to
do away with the law.
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The law has its
place in the process of
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embracing
righteousness by faith.
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First of all the
law shows us our need
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of an outside
source of righteousness
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or shows us our
need of the Savior
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and so it drives us
to the feet of Jesus
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where we receive
His righteousness
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and then
ultimately it's a faith that
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works by love
according to Galatians.
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So we end up actually
in our life fulfilling
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the law of love and actually
being empowered to obey Him,
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something we
never could have done.
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Apart from His in
flowed righteousness.
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That's said in 2
Corinthians 12:9,
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"His grace is
sufficient, His powers made
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perfect in our
weakness". In weakness, Amen.
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You know, I think of
Romans Chapter 5 verses 1 and 2
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"Therefore having
been justified by faith,
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we have peace with God through
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our Lord Jesus
Christ, through whom we also
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have access by faith into
this grace in which we stand,
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and rejoice in the
hope of the glory of God".
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Now we talked at the beginning
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of the program
that the standard the
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answer to the
question, what is health?
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Is that God
created us for His glory,
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so to be truly
healthy is to glorify Him
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to be like Him in character,
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Christ within the hope of glory.
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And so justification
by faith according to
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Romans 5:1 and 2
leads us to rejoice
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in the hope of the glory of God.
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Finally, I can get to the place
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where I'm actually able
to glorify God with my life.
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I was falling down
before every which way,
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I was not successful,
I was not victorious,
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but when I embraced
righteousness by faith,
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the point isn't to let me off
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the hooks, so I can live in sin.
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The point is to empower me,
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so that I can live in obedience.
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Amen. Exactly. Amen.
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And in that same
chapter one of my favorite verse
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is Romans 5:17, it says
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"For if, by the one man offense,
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speaking of Adam,
death reigned through
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the one much more those
who receive abundance of grace
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and of the gift of
righteousness will reign
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in life through
the one, Jesus Christ."
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Isn't that a beautiful promise
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and that's why this is
such an effective therapy
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is because when
someone's made aware
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that they had
received in abundance of grace
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and the gift of righteousness.
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It puts them in that position
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to reign with
Christ, if you are Christ.
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And you know, to
make people actually
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safe to save is a miracle. Amen.
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I mean can you imagine bringing
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sinners into heaven right now,
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we defiles
heaven all over again.
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But God is in
the process of making
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us safe to save just
like what you just read.
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So we'll reign in
life and we can do it
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responsibly and
consciously because
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we've been
restored to God's image.
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Now, we only have a minute left,
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tell me in your practice. Yes.
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You've been using. Yes.
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Righteousness by
faith therapy. Yeah.
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What kind of
results have you seen?
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I'll give you
one, I had a client who
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had been coming to
therapy for 15 years
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trying to get help
and one of the things
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we did was CBT,
but also he came to me
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one day and he
said I'm not allowed
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to witness to my
clients in every contact,
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so I looked on his intake form
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and he said that he
that faith was a big part
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of his life and so I
asked him about the faith.
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And he said, oh,
yes, I believe in God,
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God is so Holy,
God is so amazing.
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He said I try to
earn God's favor everyday.
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I try to earn His
forgiveness everyday.
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I've the privilege
of sharing with this man
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of a forgiving
Savior from whom you cannot
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earn righteousness
to share this message
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that we've been talking about.
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And I had the
privilege of doing that
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and in eight
sessions he was feeling better
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after 15 years of
attending therapy.
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Praise the Lord.
Yeah, that's the miracle.
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So Jennifer we're so glad. Yeah.
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I can't believe how
time flies when you are here,
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but we're so thankful that
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you came today to
share this with us.
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Praise God. It's
a wonderful message.
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I do want to remind
you that the message
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of righteousness by
faith is the message of
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God's healing grace and it will
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instill mental
and spiritual health.
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Now please remember that
you too as Romans 5:17 says,
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"Can reign in life
through Jesus Christ".
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