Welcome, welcome
family, welcome guest.
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We also want to
shout out to the students
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who have joined us
today for music fest.
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But at this moment, I want
you to turn to your neighbor
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to your left or to
your right and embrace them.
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Give them a
handshake, give them a hug
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and tell them I love you.
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Tell them I love you.
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I love you.
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Now that our hearts are
warmed with the Holy Spirit,
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please join us
for our opening hymns,
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"The Lord is my Light."
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The Lord is my light,
then why should I fear?
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By day and by night
His presence is near
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He is my salvation
from sorrow and sin
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This blessed
persuasion the Spirit brings in
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The Lord is my
light, my joy, and my song
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By day and by
night He leads me along
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The Lord is my
light, my joy, and my song
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By day and by
night He leads me along
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All hail the
power of Jesus' Name
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Let angels prostrate fall
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Bring forth the royal diadem
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And crown Him Lord of all
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Bring forth the royal diadem
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And crown Him Lord of all
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Let every kindred, every tribe
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On this terrestrial ball
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To Him all majesty ascribe
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And crown Him Lord of all
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To Him all majesty ascribe
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And crown Him Lord of all
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Oh, that with
yonder scared throng
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We at His feet may fall
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Join in the everlasting song
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And crown Him Lord of all
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Join in the everlasting song
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And crown Him Lord of all
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Amen.
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Let us open up our hearts.
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I stand before You now
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The greatness of your renown
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I have heard of the
majesty and wonder of you
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King of Heaven,
in humility, I bow
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As Your love, in wave after wave
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Crashes over me, crashes over me
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For You are for us
You are not against us
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Champion of Heaven
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You made a way
for all to enter in
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You make me
brave You make me brave
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You call me out beyond the shore
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Into the waves
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You make me
brave You make me brave
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No fear can hinder
now the promises you made
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You make me
brave You make me brave
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No fear can hinder
now the promises you made
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Because Your
love, in wave after wave
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Crashes over me, crashes over me
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For You are for us
You are not against us
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Champion of
Heaven You made a way
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Because Your
love, in wave after wave
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Crashes over me, crashes over me
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For You are for us
You are not against us
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Champion of
Heaven You made a way
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Champion of Heaven
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You made a way
for all to enter in
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As morning dawns
and evening fades
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You inspire songs of praise
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That rise from
earth to touch Your heart
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And glorify Your Name
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Your Name is a
strong and mighty tower
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Your Name is a
shelter like no other
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Your Name, let the
nations sing it louder
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'Cause nothing
has the power to save
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Your Name is a
strong and mighty tower
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Your Name is a
shelter like no other
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Your Name, let the
nations sing it louder
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'Cause nothing
has the power to save
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But Your Name
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Your Name
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This is my Father's world
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And to my listening ears
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All nature sings,
and round me rings
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The music of the spheres
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This is my Father's world
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I rest me in the thought
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Of rocks and
trees, of skies and seas
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His hand the wonders wrought
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This is my Father's world
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The birds their carols raise
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The morning
light, the lily white
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Declare their Maker's praise
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This is my Father's world
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He shines in all that's fair
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In the rustling
grass I hear Him pass
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He speaks to me everywhere
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This is my Father's world
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O let me ne'er forget
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That though the
wrong seems of so strong
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God is the Ruler yet
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This is my Father's world
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Why should my heart be sad?
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The Lord is King
let the heavens ring
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Let the heavens ring
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God reigns
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Let the earth be glad
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Jesus the Lord is in this place
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Amen.
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Let's pray.
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Oh God, what this
choir just sang set us up.
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You knew it would.
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Dear Father, you also know this
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is the most important message
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some here will ever hear.
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You know, who is
here to distract us.
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But we know who is
here through his spirit
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to make sure
that we get the truth.
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Have your way, I humbly
pray in Jesus' name, amen.
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Have you ever seen the
picture of what they're calling
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the dirtiest man in the world.
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Put it on the screen for you.
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You see him there 80
years of age that's Amou Haji,
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a hermit in South
Iran, who has gone 60 years
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without a bath
and never got married.
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There may be a
correlation between the two,
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leading the London Daily News
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to call him the world's
most ineligible bachelor.
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But hold on, hold on to
that picture in your mind
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because you're about to see.
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Hands down, the dirtiest of all.
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Open your Bible with me please
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to the little Old
Testament Book of Zachariah,
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next to the last
book in the Old Testament
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just before Malachi
which is just before Matthew.
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I need you to
see it in your Bible,
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Zachariah Chapter
3, Zechariah Chapter 3.
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You didn't bring a Bible.
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Grab the pew Bible in front
of you, it will be page 637,
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while the ushers
are coming your way
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because this
study guide is a keeper.
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Don't be
intimidated by this study guide.
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We fly through it but
I want you to have it,
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I want you to
study way beyond today.
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What you're about to hear,
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may be the first
time you heard it.
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You need to get it.
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Hang on to the study guide.
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You think, did you get up,
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get him up here in the
choir and the orchestra, good.
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All right. So ushers are coming.
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Those are you watching
right now live streaming,
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glad to have you, you
already at the website,
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get the study guide,
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most of you are used to
getting that study guide
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if you're
watching now on television.
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Go to our website,
it's on the screen for you
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www.newperceptions.tv.
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You're looking
for a little series
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that ends right now,
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Charmed into Righteousness,
title of this final teaching,
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The Most Righteous Lord.
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Click on to that,
you'll have the study guide.
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And I believe, it's
a keeper, so let's go.
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Zachariah Chapter 3
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I'm in the New
International Version.
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We begin in
verse 1, "Then he..."
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So Zachariah's
envision, "Then he, the angel,
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showed me Joshua the high priest
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standing before the
angel of the Lord..."
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Now, angel of the Lord is code
language in the Old Testament
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for the
pre-incarnate Christ, all right,
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so that's just a
hidden clue within the story.
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So "He showed me
Joshua the high priest
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standing before the angel
of the Lord, and Satan..."
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Okay, we know him.
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But in the Hebrew
it reads the Satan.
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The article is there,
Satan means adversary.
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We've just taken a
noun and given that
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they made it a
proper noun but the Satan,
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"Satan He sees
standing at his right side."
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Oh, the side of favor,
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this is where our friend stands,
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always on the right side.
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So now, we know
we've got an imposter here,
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who is trying to make
you feel bad, all right.
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So, he's
standing at the right side
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of Joshua to
accuse him, now verse 2.
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The Lord said to Satan,
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the Satan the
Lord said to Satan.
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"The Lord rebuke you, Satan!
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The Lord, who has
chosen Jerusalem, rebuke you!
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Is this, is this
man not a burning stick
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snatched from the fire?"
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Now Joshua was
dressed in filthy clothes
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as he stood before the angel."
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What's going on here?
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We need a line from Isaiah.
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So grab your study guide now,
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because here's where you
gonna have writer's cramp
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by the time you're
through but that's okay,
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Isaiah Chapter 64:6.
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Put it on the screen for you.
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"All of us have become
like one who is unclean,
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and all our righteous
acts are like filthy rags..."
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Write in the word filthy.
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"We all shrivel up like a leaf,
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and like the wind
our sins sweep us away."
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All of our righteousness,
all of our right doing,
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our right behaving
our right believing,
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our right thinking,
put it all together,
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it's like filthy rags.
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And the Prophet Isaiah
chooses a rather graphic word.
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He says, "It's
like a menstrual rag."
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Actual Hebrew, that's the word.
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When I was young, I
came to this parish.
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In the first
season of preaching,
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I happened to
quote this very text.
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I was naive at the time.
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I got a postcard,
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an anonymous postcard
the next week from a woman.
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It was written on a typewriter.
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You know what typewriter? Okay.
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It was written on it.
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It was written on a
typewriter in all caps
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and it said something like this.
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"May I remind you,
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that the male issue
is not so septic either."
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Say I didn't realize
how politically correct
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you have to be
when you're on a campus.
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But that is
precisely the prophet's point.
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Whether it's the
male issue of semen
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or the woman's issue of blood,
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you're un-cleaning them
and a Levitical code says,
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"It will take a sacrifice
to get you clean again.
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Some sacrifice
will have to deliver you
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from that un-cleanliness."
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That the old prophet says
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is what all of our righteousness
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put together amounts
to filthy, filthy rags.
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We're not any better
than Joshua, the high priest,
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let's go.
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Verse 3, read it
again, "Now Joshua was dressed
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in filthy clothes as
he stood before the angel.
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And the angel said to those
who were standing before him,
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'Take off his filthy clothes.'
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Then he said to Joshua,
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'See, I have
taken away your sin,
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and I will put
fine garments on you.'
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Then I said, "Put a
clean turban on his head.'
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So they put a clean turban
on his head and clothed him,
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while the angel of
the Lord stood by."
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Approving of what
has just transpired.
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Now what's happening?
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Let's go back to the same Isaiah
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who got us in
trouble with filthy rags.
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And notice another verse
Isaiah 61:10, jot it down.
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"I delight greatly in the Lord,
my soul rejoices in my God.
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For he has clothed me
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with the
garments of salvation..."
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Write that down.
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"He has clothed me with
the garments of salvation
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and arrayed me in a
robe of righteousness,
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as a bridegroom adorns
his head like a priest,
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and as a bride
adorns herself with jewels."
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Joshua the high priest,
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the representative of Jerusalem,
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the representative of Israel,
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the representative of
the whole world you and me.
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Joshua, the high
priest stands condemned
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before God in filthy
rags but the command goes for.
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Stop, time out,
rip off those rags,
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put on this
glorious robe instead.
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What's happening here?
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Ellen White in that
little classic Thoughts
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from the Mount Of Blessing.
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Put it on the
screen for you, fill it in,
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"Whatever may have
been your past experience,
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however discouraging
your present circumstances,
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if you will come to
Jesus just as you are"
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right now in
this worship service
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watching him live streaming,
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"If you will come to
Jesus just as you are,
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weak, helpless, and despairing,
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our compassionate Savior will
meet you a great way off..."
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Now, that's a
line pulled right out
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of the Prodigal Son story
00:22:51.50\00:22:52.83
"A great way
off, he will meet you,
00:22:52.87\00:22:54.87
and he will throw about--
00:22:54.90\00:22:56.24
He will throw about you his arms
00:22:56.27\00:22:57.87
of love and His robe..."
00:22:57.91\00:23:00.28
Write that in and "His
robe of righteousness."
00:23:00.31\00:23:03.98
What is that robe
like, keep reading,
00:23:04.01\00:23:05.85
"He presents us to the Father
clothed in the white raiment
00:23:05.88\00:23:09.55
of His own character."
00:23:09.58\00:23:11.49
That's the robe,
it's his character.
00:23:11.52\00:23:13.69
He wraps it around us.
00:23:13.72\00:23:15.19
"He pleads before
God in our behalf saying:
00:23:15.22\00:23:17.99
I have taken the sinner's place.
00:23:18.03\00:23:20.43
Look not upon
this wayward child,
00:23:20.46\00:23:22.26
but look on Me.
00:23:22.30\00:23:24.00
Does Satan plead
loudly against our souls,
00:23:24.03\00:23:26.13
accusing of sin, and
claiming us as his prey,
00:23:26.20\00:23:29.34
the blood of Christ
pleads with greater power.
00:23:29.37\00:23:33.81
Hallelujah."
00:23:33.84\00:23:36.01
It's no wonder,
00:23:36.04\00:23:37.38
Christ is called but
He's called in this book.
00:23:37.41\00:23:39.61
Jot them down now.
00:23:39.65\00:23:40.98
Here they come 1 John
2:1 "My little children,
00:23:41.02\00:23:44.22
these things I write to
you, so that you may not sin.
00:23:44.25\00:23:47.26
And if anyone sins, we have
an Advocate with the Father,
00:23:47.29\00:23:50.66
Jesus Christ the righteous."
00:23:50.69\00:23:53.40
The righteous, so they call him.
00:23:53.43\00:23:55.70
He's the
righteous one. Keep writing.
00:23:55.73\00:23:57.80
Jeremiah 23:6,
"Now this is His name."
00:23:57.83\00:24:01.60
This descendant from David.
00:24:01.64\00:24:03.07
"This is his name by
which He will be called:
00:24:03.10\00:24:06.17
The Lord Our..."
00:24:06.21\00:24:08.41
All caps in most
translations, the Lord our,
00:24:08.44\00:24:10.71
what's that next
word? "Righteousness."
00:24:10.75\00:24:14.02
Paul says, "That's what
I'm trying to tell you,"
00:24:14.05\00:24:15.65
1 Corinthians 1:30.
00:24:15.68\00:24:17.62
"It is because of God
that you are in Christ,
00:24:17.65\00:24:19.85
who has become for
us wisdom from God."
00:24:19.89\00:24:21.76
What do you mean Paul?
00:24:21.79\00:24:23.12
That is, "He has
become our righteousness,
00:24:23.16\00:24:27.30
our holiness
and our redemption."
00:24:27.33\00:24:32.30
Ladies and gentlemen,
it is inescapably clear
00:24:32.33\00:24:34.97
that for John and
Jeremiah and Paul,
00:24:35.00\00:24:37.41
the driving point
they make inescapable.
00:24:37.44\00:24:44.71
Is it Christ is
our righteousness?
00:24:44.75\00:24:49.08
Write that down. He
is our righteousness.
00:24:49.12\00:24:52.79
Whatever righteousness mean,
we haven't even defined it yet,
00:24:52.82\00:24:54.86
but whatever it
means, it's Jesus.
00:24:54.89\00:24:56.79
Whatever it is, it's Jesus.
00:24:56.83\00:24:59.16
So what is this rather archaic
word righteousness, righteous?
00:24:59.19\00:25:01.63
What does it mean
for us third millennials?
00:25:01.66\00:25:04.30
Come on, nobody uses
it in language today.
00:25:04.33\00:25:06.70
So what's it mean?
00:25:06.74\00:25:08.87
Let's turn to
one of the renowned
00:25:08.90\00:25:10.61
New Testament scholars
00:25:10.64\00:25:11.97
who happens to teach at a place
00:25:12.01\00:25:13.34
called St. Andrews University.
00:25:13.38\00:25:15.74
Not to be confused
with Andrews University,
00:25:15.78\00:25:18.61
St. Andrews is in Scotland.
00:25:18.65\00:25:20.52
Karen and I walked over
that beautiful village campus
00:25:20.55\00:25:22.88
right by the sea.
00:25:22.92\00:25:24.25
Oh, his name is N.T. Wright.
00:25:24.29\00:25:27.16
He's written a
book, Justification:
00:25:27.19\00:25:28.62
God's Plan and Paul's Vision.
00:25:28.66\00:25:30.43
Now, listen, Wright defines
God's righteousness this way.
00:25:30.46\00:25:33.96
Get it down, jot it
down in your study guide.
00:25:34.00\00:25:36.06
"God's righteousness
00:25:36.10\00:25:37.57
is an outward-looking
characteristic of God,
00:25:37.60\00:25:40.50
linked of course to the
concern for God's own glory
00:25:40.54\00:25:43.51
but essentially
going, as it were,
00:25:43.54\00:25:45.57
in the opposite direction,
00:25:45.61\00:25:48.31
that of God's creative,
healing, restorative love."
00:25:48.34\00:25:55.22
Keep reading, "God's
concern for God's glory
00:25:55.25\00:25:58.15
is precisely
rescued from the appearance
00:25:58.19\00:26:00.86
of divine
narcissism because God,
00:26:00.89\00:26:03.39
not least God in
Trinity, is always giving out,
00:26:03.43\00:26:06.80
he's always pouring out,
00:26:06.83\00:26:08.16
lavishing generous
love on undeserving people,
00:26:08.20\00:26:11.77
undeserving Israel
and an undeserving world.
00:26:11.80\00:26:15.34
That is a sort of God he is,
00:26:15.37\00:26:17.41
and 'God's righteousness'
is a way of saying,
00:26:17.44\00:26:19.77
'Yes, and God will be
true to that character."'
00:26:19.81\00:26:22.68
That's what God is,
you got it there boy.
00:26:22.71\00:26:24.88
That's it right there
what you've described.
00:26:24.91\00:26:26.82
That's God's righteousness.
00:26:26.85\00:26:29.58
In other words, God will
be faithful to who he is.
00:26:29.62\00:26:32.59
He'll be a righteous God,
who loves an undeserving world
00:26:32.62\00:26:35.46
of sinners like you and me.
00:26:35.49\00:26:36.83
He said, you can count on me
00:26:36.86\00:26:38.19
undergirding
every promise I made,
00:26:38.23\00:26:40.03
I'm staying with you.
00:26:40.06\00:26:41.63
Every promise I made, I have
founded on my righteousness,
00:26:41.66\00:26:45.33
you're okay.
00:26:45.37\00:26:47.14
Wright continues, jot it down,
00:26:47.17\00:26:49.44
"God's righteousness is
that quality or attribute
00:26:49.47\00:26:52.17
because of which he saves."
00:26:52.21\00:26:55.38
Is who he is, and
it's because I am who I am
00:26:55.41\00:26:57.48
that I can save you.
00:26:57.51\00:26:58.85
He saves his people,
"His 'acts of righteousness'
00:26:58.88\00:27:01.05
are thus the acts he
performs as out workings
00:27:01.08\00:27:03.79
or demonstrations of
his covenant faithfulness."
00:27:03.82\00:27:08.32
It is who I am who I am.
00:27:08.36\00:27:11.36
Righteousness is who I am.
00:27:11.39\00:27:16.26
But it's a wonderful,
00:27:16.30\00:27:18.10
it's a wonderful characteristic
an attribute to God.
00:27:18.13\00:27:20.80
Oh, by the way
though, don't be fooled.
00:27:20.84\00:27:23.64
Don't think there is another
side to this come on, come on.
00:27:23.67\00:27:27.91
God, what's God
going to do with evil?
00:27:27.94\00:27:30.08
Oh, He's going to
curse it, watch this.
00:27:30.11\00:27:31.51
Wright keeps going, jot it down.
00:27:31.55\00:27:34.35
"Indeed, it's
because God will be true
00:27:34.38\00:27:36.25
to that outward facing
generous, creative love."
00:27:36.28\00:27:39.65
Now here comes, it's kind of a--
00:27:39.69\00:27:41.02
it's kind of a down
and out but watch this,
00:27:41.06\00:27:43.39
"That he must also
curse those ways of life,
00:27:43.43\00:27:47.73
particularly those ways of
life within his covenant people,
00:27:47.76\00:27:51.10
which embody and express
00:27:51.13\00:27:53.64
the opposite of
his creative love
00:27:53.67\00:27:55.67
and therefore he must
curse everything that thwarts
00:27:55.70\00:27:59.17
and destroys the blessing
of his world and his people."
00:27:59.21\00:28:03.65
So listen,
guys, here's the deal.
00:28:03.68\00:28:05.01
While it's true there is a,
00:28:05.05\00:28:06.38
there is a soft side
to divine righteousness.
00:28:06.41\00:28:08.88
Both the Old
Testament and the New Testament
00:28:08.92\00:28:11.62
depict a very fiery
side to God's righteousness.
00:28:11.65\00:28:14.86
It's called his righteous
indignation, you heard that?
00:28:14.89\00:28:18.36
His wrath.
What's the wrath about?
00:28:18.39\00:28:20.46
It is His, it is His
hot passion against sin,
00:28:20.50\00:28:23.23
against evil, against darkness.
00:28:23.26\00:28:25.97
And if I choose to
hang on to that sin.
00:28:26.00\00:28:31.04
If I choose to hang
on to that darkness,
00:28:31.07\00:28:33.24
if I embrace that evil,
00:28:33.27\00:28:36.34
what I've done is I
have essentially erected
00:28:36.38\00:28:38.88
this massive wall
between me and my darkness.
00:28:38.91\00:28:43.65
And this God who says,
"My righteousness is holy,
00:28:43.69\00:28:46.09
it's pure, it's
loving, I'm everything,
00:28:46.12\00:28:47.82
I'm everything you want."
00:28:47.86\00:28:49.52
But this wall,
how can I get through?
00:28:49.56\00:28:51.63
What's a good God to do?
00:28:51.66\00:28:53.83
I want to bless her,
00:28:53.86\00:28:55.53
I want to bless
him but the wall,
00:28:55.56\00:28:57.37
they're hanging on, Dwight's
hanging on to this thing.
00:28:57.40\00:29:01.97
What he has to
do? What he has to do?
00:29:02.00\00:29:04.44
He's got to
find a way to woo you
00:29:04.47\00:29:06.47
and me away from
our self-destruction.
00:29:06.51\00:29:10.38
It eventually kill me.
00:29:10.41\00:29:11.75
If I embrace
this, what I'm doing,
00:29:11.78\00:29:14.48
it will eventually kill me.
00:29:14.52\00:29:16.89
John 3:16 come
on, you know this,
00:29:16.92\00:29:18.42
"For God so loved the world
00:29:18.45\00:29:20.66
that He gave His
one and only Son,
00:29:20.69\00:29:23.12
that whoever believes in Him
00:29:23.16\00:29:24.49
should not perish but
have everlasting life."
00:29:24.53\00:29:26.80
Brothers and
sisters come on this,
00:29:26.83\00:29:28.46
this is what's called
the good news the gospel.
00:29:28.50\00:29:33.17
It's what we just talked about.
00:29:33.20\00:29:34.70
It's about God
with His righteousness
00:29:34.74\00:29:38.77
loving run away and
rebel children like you and me.
00:29:38.81\00:29:43.45
In fact, it says, God is the one
00:29:43.48\00:29:44.81
who create the entire universe
00:29:44.85\00:29:46.18
who step forward one day
and said, I'll be the one.
00:29:46.21\00:29:47.88
I will go.
00:29:47.92\00:29:49.45
Let me infiltrate their world.
Let me become one with them.
00:29:49.48\00:29:52.35
And so, Christ the
Creator, He comes down.
00:29:52.39\00:29:55.69
Jot this down, 1 Timothy
1:15 he came down here and
00:29:55.72\00:29:59.09
"Here is a trustworthy saying
that deserves full acceptance:
00:29:59.13\00:30:03.40
Christ Jesus came into
the world to save sinners--
00:30:03.43\00:30:08.17
of whom I am the worst."
00:30:08.20\00:30:10.34
Sow gospel, that's
why I came to save us,
00:30:10.37\00:30:12.31
in spite of the
wall that we've erected.
00:30:12.34\00:30:14.54
Keep reading, Romans 3:25, 26,
00:30:14.58\00:30:18.28
"God presented Christ as
a sacrifice of atonement..."
00:30:18.31\00:30:21.28
There's Calvary for you.
00:30:21.32\00:30:22.65
There is the cross, "Through
the shedding of his blood--
00:30:22.68\00:30:25.85
to be received by faith.
00:30:25.89\00:30:27.22
He did this to
demonstrate his righteousness."
00:30:27.26\00:30:29.72
Oh here comes.
00:30:29.76\00:30:31.09
"His righteousness
so as to be just..."
00:30:31.13\00:30:33.73
He has to be true
to Himself and His law.
00:30:33.76\00:30:35.90
"And yet the one who justifies,
00:30:35.93\00:30:37.83
the one who saves those
who have faith in Jesus."
00:30:37.87\00:30:42.20
So how does this
righteous God pull it off?
00:30:42.24\00:30:44.07
Jot it down, 2 Corinthians
5:14 and then verse 21.
00:30:44.11\00:30:49.01
"For Christ's
love compels us..."
00:30:49.04\00:30:52.15
The persuasive
force of divine love.
00:30:52.18\00:30:53.95
"For Christ's love compels us,
00:30:53.98\00:30:55.82
because we are
convinced that one died for all,
00:30:55.85\00:30:59.69
and therefore all died.
00:30:59.72\00:31:03.12
God made him, Christ,
00:31:03.16\00:31:04.79
who had no sin to be sin for us,
00:31:04.83\00:31:06.70
so that in Christ
we might become..."
00:31:06.73\00:31:09.76
Here it is, "The
righteousness of God."
00:31:09.80\00:31:14.87
You get what's happened in here.
00:31:14.90\00:31:16.24
God has set up
00:31:16.27\00:31:17.61
this massive intergalactic
celestial exchange.
00:31:17.64\00:31:21.98
Captured by these well-known
words in Desire of Ages.
00:31:22.01\00:31:26.31
Desire of Ages on
the screen for you,
00:31:26.35\00:31:27.68
"Christ was
treated as we deserve,
00:31:27.72\00:31:30.95
that we might be
treated as He deserves.
00:31:30.99\00:31:34.02
He was condemned for our sins,
00:31:34.06\00:31:38.76
in which He had no share,
00:31:38.79\00:31:43.73
that we might be
justified by His righteousness,
00:31:43.77\00:31:46.94
in which we had no share.
00:31:46.97\00:31:49.24
He suffered the
death which was ours,
00:31:49.27\00:31:51.77
that we might receive
the life which was His.
00:31:51.81\00:31:54.74
'With His
stripes we are healed."
00:31:54.78\00:31:57.45
Isaiah, Isaiah 53.
00:31:57.48\00:32:00.12
So that's a
righteousness of God.
00:32:00.15\00:32:01.48
But here's a question
that begs to be asked.
00:32:01.52\00:32:02.98
Okay, so I
understand it's about God.
00:32:03.02\00:32:04.79
But what does this righteousness
00:32:04.82\00:32:06.15
have to do with me?
00:32:06.19\00:32:08.19
What happens in me
with this righteousness?
00:32:08.22\00:32:10.59
Critical question.
00:32:10.63\00:32:11.96
We've got to answer it.
00:32:11.99\00:32:13.33
Romans 5:19, I want you
to read it on the screen.
00:32:13.36\00:32:15.86
I want you to find
it first in your Bible,
00:32:15.90\00:32:17.37
Romans Chapter 5, the great,
00:32:17.40\00:32:21.27
the great pinnacle of salvation
00:32:21.30\00:32:26.71
and righteousness
by faith in scripture,
00:32:26.74\00:32:28.24
Romans Chapter 5.
00:32:28.28\00:32:31.98
I want you--
00:32:32.01\00:32:33.35
Let's read the verse 19,
00:32:33.38\00:32:35.92
find it on your
tablet or cell, that's fine,
00:32:35.95\00:32:39.49
Romans 5:19, "For just
as through the disobedience
00:32:39.52\00:32:43.26
of the one man the
many were made sinners,
00:32:43.29\00:32:45.89
so also through the
obedience of the one man
00:32:45.93\00:32:49.20
the many will
be made righteous."
00:32:49.23\00:32:51.37
Now, what's going on here?
00:32:51.40\00:32:52.73
Jot it down in
your study guide please.
00:32:52.77\00:32:55.47
It repeats, "For
justice through the disobedience
00:32:55.50\00:32:57.94
of the one man..."
00:32:57.97\00:32:59.31
That would be Adam, okay.
00:32:59.34\00:33:01.51
"The many were made sinners,
00:33:01.54\00:33:03.35
so also through the
obedience of the one man..."
00:33:03.38\00:33:06.11
That would be Christ.
00:33:06.15\00:33:07.48
"The many will
be made righteous."
00:33:07.52\00:33:10.69
So something
starts happening to us,
00:33:10.72\00:33:12.55
that will concern
this righteousness as well.
00:33:12.59\00:33:15.06
To illustrate
it, N.T Wright says,
00:33:15.09\00:33:17.43
I want to tell you a story.
00:33:17.46\00:33:18.83
It's a fictitious
story but it helps.
00:33:18.86\00:33:22.03
Here's a story,
put it on the screen.
00:33:22.06\00:33:23.40
"The language of 'righteousness'
00:33:23.43\00:33:24.77
in the Old
Testament regularly refused,
00:33:25.47\00:33:26.84
refers rather to the law court,
00:33:26.87\00:33:29.20
or the quasi law
court situation."
00:33:29.24\00:33:31.14
So here comes a story,
00:33:31.17\00:33:32.51
"Let's imagine a fictitious
scenario in ancient Israel.
00:33:32.54\00:33:35.34
Azariah..."
Okay, two, two Hebrews.
00:33:35.38\00:33:38.38
"Two men, man named
Azariah, man named, Bildad,
00:33:38.41\00:33:41.25
go to the law before Gamaliel,
who is acting as a judge.
00:33:41.28\00:33:44.19
Now Azariah is accusing Bildad
00:33:44.22\00:33:46.29
of having stolen
one of his sheep."
00:33:46.32\00:33:47.66
This guy stole one of my sheep.
00:33:47.69\00:33:49.42
To bring justice out of this.
00:33:49.46\00:33:50.99
So, "Gamaliel hears the case
00:33:51.03\00:33:54.73
and he finds in favor
of Bildad he didn't steal.
00:33:54.76\00:33:58.27
The court declares that
the accusation is unfounded
00:33:58.30\00:34:01.10
and that Bildad is innocent."
00:34:01.14\00:34:03.41
Now hold on, this is really,
00:34:03.44\00:34:04.77
this is a piece
you've got to get,
00:34:04.81\00:34:07.18
"That 'finding in
favor,' that declaration,
00:34:07.21\00:34:11.15
is called 'justification'..."
00:34:11.18\00:34:13.25
Now that's a long word but
write it down, justification.
00:34:13.28\00:34:16.79
That's what the Bible says,
00:34:16.82\00:34:18.55
it's a court term justification.
00:34:18.59\00:34:21.09
Well, what does
justification mean?
00:34:21.12\00:34:22.46
Keep reading,
"Its result is that
00:34:22.49\00:34:24.69
Bildad is now 'righteous'...
00:34:24.73\00:34:26.96
He's considered righteous.
That is 'in the right'.
00:34:27.00\00:34:31.80
Oh, that helps 'in the right'.
00:34:31.83\00:34:35.07
"He is in other words
the vindicated defendant."
00:34:35.10\00:34:39.01
And that's what Romans 5
00:34:39.04\00:34:41.84
is describing has happened
to you and me, justification.
00:34:41.88\00:34:46.98
In fact, I want you
to see this, this is we,
00:34:47.02\00:34:48.78
we left out verse 18 on purpose,
00:34:48.82\00:34:51.25
go back to verse 18.
00:34:51.29\00:34:53.72
"Consequently, just
as one trespass resulted
00:34:53.76\00:34:56.73
in condemnation
for all people..."
00:34:56.76\00:34:58.69
That would be Adam sin.
00:34:58.73\00:35:00.06
"So also one righteous
act resulted in justification
00:35:00.10\00:35:03.13
and life for all people."
00:35:03.16\00:35:04.73
Thanks to the Lord Jesus Christ.
00:35:04.77\00:35:06.17
Come on, you know
this, because of Adam's sin,
00:35:06.20\00:35:08.37
the entire human
race is declared fallen.
00:35:08.40\00:35:11.11
And every human
being including you and me
00:35:11.14\00:35:13.64
born into this race, tragically,
00:35:13.68\00:35:15.88
we participate
in that fallenness.
00:35:15.91\00:35:17.75
Not because of
Adam but because of us,
00:35:17.78\00:35:20.25
we go the same path.
00:35:20.28\00:35:22.12
Our only hope is that
somewhere in the universe,
00:35:22.15\00:35:25.55
somebody might
find a second Adam.
00:35:25.59\00:35:28.72
Another Adam to come down here,
00:35:28.76\00:35:30.33
go over the very
ground where we keep falling.
00:35:30.36\00:35:33.50
But now, do it without falling
with radical faith in God,
00:35:33.53\00:35:39.47
and a spotless righteousness
00:35:39.50\00:35:42.67
and that, that is what
Romans 5:18 is declaring.
00:35:42.70\00:35:47.98
Somebody was found,
00:35:48.01\00:35:50.05
obviously this is the good news.
00:35:50.08\00:35:51.61
Christ, the
righteous one has come.
00:35:51.65\00:35:53.28
And in our humanity,
00:35:53.31\00:35:54.65
and by the way in our humanity,
00:35:54.68\00:35:59.22
holding on to his
father for dear life.
00:35:59.25\00:36:02.76
He whooped the
devil on his own ground.
00:36:02.79\00:36:05.33
He won, burying
our sins to His death.
00:36:05.36\00:36:11.97
Should have been our death.
00:36:12.00\00:36:13.34
He dies in our
place. Jot it down.
00:36:13.37\00:36:17.57
Oh, you've got to
get this, Romans 5:18,
00:36:17.61\00:36:19.21
don't miss this, "One
righteous act resulted..."
00:36:19.24\00:36:21.84
We just read this.
00:36:21.88\00:36:23.21
"One righteous act
resulted in justification
00:36:23.24\00:36:26.35
and life for all people."
00:36:26.38\00:36:29.85
You know what that means?
00:36:29.88\00:36:31.22
Oh, is it, by the
way how many people,
00:36:31.25\00:36:32.59
how many people?
00:36:32.62\00:36:33.96
Half the people?
Three quarters of people?
00:36:33.99\00:36:35.56
How many of the
human race, how many?
00:36:35.59\00:36:37.13
What does this say?
00:36:37.16\00:36:38.49
All the human race has
stepped into the courtroom
00:36:38.53\00:36:42.13
of the eternal as it were
00:36:42.16\00:36:43.97
and God has
brought that gavel down
00:36:44.00\00:36:45.47
and he's declared,
because of that death.
00:36:45.50\00:36:48.34
Because of His death,
00:36:48.37\00:36:50.51
I declare the entire
human race acquitted.
00:36:50.54\00:36:53.34
Everybody's pardoned.
00:36:53.38\00:36:54.71
Everybody is forgiven right now
00:36:54.74\00:36:58.81
because of the second
Adam, who came in our place.
00:36:58.85\00:37:03.95
Oh...
00:37:03.99\00:37:06.45
Through the death of Jesus,
00:37:06.49\00:37:08.66
God has justified
the entire human race.
00:37:08.69\00:37:12.26
Now, that concept
comes as a bit of a,
00:37:12.29\00:37:14.26
bit of a surprise to
some, but I need you to see,
00:37:14.30\00:37:16.40
it's exactly what you just read.
00:37:16.43\00:37:17.90
And by the way, a little lady,
00:37:17.93\00:37:19.63
an American writer named Ellen
00:37:19.67\00:37:21.00
White Jones
right on this bandwagon
00:37:21.04\00:37:22.37
and she says,
long before N.T Wright,
00:37:22.40\00:37:23.94
this is what's
happened, look at this.
00:37:23.97\00:37:25.74
Ministry of
Healing, jot it down.
00:37:25.77\00:37:27.11
"With his own
blood Jesus has signed
00:37:27.14\00:37:30.05
the emancipation
papers of the race."
00:37:30.08\00:37:34.05
Remember 1869, January
1, Abraham Lincoln signs
00:37:34.08\00:37:37.29
the emancipation proclamation
00:37:37.32\00:37:38.85
every slave in the United States
00:37:38.89\00:37:40.42
is hereby declared what?
00:37:40.46\00:37:42.39
Free. You are free to go.
00:37:42.42\00:37:44.66
And everybody didn't go,
didn't go free, you know why?
00:37:44.69\00:37:46.80
Because they didn't know.
00:37:46.83\00:37:48.16
Somebody has to
come and tell you.
00:37:48.20\00:37:50.10
You've been freed. All
this time you didn't know.
00:37:50.13\00:37:52.97
I have good news
for you. You are free.
00:37:53.00\00:37:58.17
Jesus signed the papers
for the entire human race.
00:37:58.21\00:38:01.34
We just got to get to
Him fast before He comes.
00:38:01.38\00:38:04.68
In another book
of her, she writes.
00:38:04.71\00:38:06.21
She even more
graphic here on the screen.
00:38:06.25\00:38:09.18
"Christ took in His
grasp the world over
00:38:09.22\00:38:12.15
which Satan claimed to
preside as his lawful territory,
00:38:12.19\00:38:15.76
and by Jesus' wonderful
work in giving His life,
00:38:15.79\00:38:18.76
He restored the
whole race of men and women
00:38:18.79\00:38:23.10
to favor with God."
00:38:23.13\00:38:24.93
Can you believe that?
00:38:24.97\00:38:26.30
The entire human race
has already been pardoned,
00:38:26.33\00:38:30.67
already been acquitted.
00:38:30.71\00:38:32.77
Your mission and
mine is first of all
00:38:32.81\00:38:34.18
to discover that for
ourselves that we get set free
00:38:34.21\00:38:36.34
and then find everybody we know.
00:38:36.38\00:38:37.71
"Hey, by the way do you
know that you're not bound.
00:38:37.75\00:38:39.38
You are not, you are
not a slave any longer.
00:38:39.41\00:38:41.78
Has anybody told you.
00:38:41.82\00:38:43.18
I'm telling you right
now, that's the deal."
00:38:43.22\00:38:46.22
What a God?
00:38:46.25\00:38:50.03
Two thousand years
ago, are you getting this?
00:38:50.06\00:38:53.19
It was all done 2000 years ago.
00:38:53.23\00:38:55.76
What did Jesus said on
the cross as He expired?
00:38:55.80\00:38:58.20
It is continuing?
00:38:58.23\00:39:01.64
Come on, it is almost over?
00:39:01.67\00:39:05.41
What did he say? It is finished.
00:39:05.44\00:39:08.84
It was done 2000 years ago.
00:39:08.88\00:39:11.61
Do you know what that means?
00:39:11.65\00:39:12.98
Common, let just
soak this in for a moment.
00:39:13.01\00:39:14.85
You don't have to persuade God
to love you ever, ever, ever.
00:39:14.88\00:39:18.79
I loved you 2000 years ago.
00:39:18.82\00:39:20.39
You don't have to persuade
00:39:20.42\00:39:21.76
God to forgive
you ever, ever, ever.
00:39:21.79\00:39:23.59
He said, "I forgave
you 2000 years ago."
00:39:23.63\00:39:25.36
You don't have to
persuade God to accept you.
00:39:25.39\00:39:27.43
He said, "I
accepted you 2000 years ago,
00:39:27.46\00:39:30.13
it's a done deal."
00:39:30.17\00:39:31.70
The only way it
can't be done for you
00:39:31.73\00:39:34.30
is if you refuse to
have it done for you.
00:39:34.34\00:39:38.84
Let me do it.
00:39:38.87\00:39:40.24
Let me whisper to you the truth.
00:39:40.28\00:39:44.88
And I'll snatch you like that
burning stick out of the fire
00:39:44.91\00:39:48.12
and you're mine
forever girl, boy.
00:39:48.15\00:39:50.69
You're mine forever.
00:39:50.72\00:39:55.89
And when two young men,
00:39:55.92\00:39:57.26
130 years ago almost
00:39:57.29\00:39:59.76
began to preach
this very teaching,
00:39:59.79\00:40:01.66
Ellen White was
absolutely jubilant.
00:40:01.70\00:40:05.03
Write it down, put
her words on the screen.
00:40:05.07\00:40:07.64
"The Lord in His great
mercy sent a most precious..."
00:40:07.67\00:40:12.71
Circle that, will you?
00:40:12.74\00:40:14.08
"Most precious
message to His people
00:40:14.11\00:40:19.88
through Pastors
Waggoner and Jones.
00:40:19.91\00:40:22.35
This message was to bring more
prominently before the world."
00:40:22.38\00:40:26.35
We think that we
have this little internal,
00:40:26.39\00:40:28.36
internal teaching
that has to get out
00:40:28.39\00:40:29.72
to everybody
that thinks like me.
00:40:29.76\00:40:31.13
No, it's the whole
planet that needs to hear this.
00:40:31.16\00:40:32.96
Write it down. It needed to--
00:40:32.99\00:40:34.53
It must be
brought more prominently
00:40:34.56\00:40:36.53
before the world, what?
00:40:36.56\00:40:38.77
"The uplifted Savior,
00:40:38.80\00:40:40.14
the sacrifice for the
sins of the whole world.
00:40:40.17\00:40:42.64
It presented justification..."
00:40:42.67\00:40:44.31
Oh, that law court
term that we just learned.
00:40:44.34\00:40:46.78
"It presented justification
through faith in the Surety..."
00:40:46.81\00:40:49.51
That would be Jesus.
00:40:49.54\00:40:50.88
"It invited the people
this message to receive
00:40:50.91\00:40:52.65
the righteousness of Christ,
00:40:52.68\00:40:54.42
which is made
manifest in obedience
00:40:54.45\00:40:56.05
to all the commandments of God.
00:40:56.08\00:40:57.85
Many had lost sight of Jesus."
00:40:57.89\00:41:01.02
Jot that down.
00:41:01.06\00:41:03.66
"They needed to have their eyes
directed to His divine person,
00:41:05.93\00:41:08.83
His merits, His changeless
love for the human family."
00:41:08.86\00:41:12.63
I love this, "All power
is given into Christ's hands,
00:41:12.67\00:41:16.24
that He may dispense
rich gifts unto men and women,
00:41:16.27\00:41:19.37
imparting the priceless
gift of His own righteousness."
00:41:19.41\00:41:22.84
Do yourself a favor.
00:41:22.88\00:41:24.21
In that quotation,
right now circle those words,
00:41:24.25\00:41:25.75
"The priceless gift of
His own righteousness,"
00:41:25.78\00:41:29.18
that's what He gives to
the helpless human agent.
00:41:29.22\00:41:31.49
That would be you and me.
00:41:31.52\00:41:33.12
"This is the
message of God commanded
00:41:33.15\00:41:34.79
to be given to the world.
00:41:34.82\00:41:36.16
It is the third angel's message,
00:41:36.19\00:41:37.66
which is to be
proclaimed with a loud voice,
00:41:37.69\00:41:40.36
and attended with the outpouring
00:41:40.40\00:41:41.83
of His spirit in
a large measure."
00:41:41.86\00:41:46.80
Wow!
00:41:46.84\00:41:48.80
Some kind soul, a
lady on the West Coast,
00:41:48.84\00:41:54.44
unsolicited, I didn't
know her, still don't.
00:41:54.48\00:41:59.58
She sent me a
book through the mail.
00:41:59.61\00:42:02.05
I found it on the desk
when I came to church one day.
00:42:02.08\00:42:05.65
Title of the
book, Living by Faith,
00:42:05.69\00:42:10.39
a collection of
editorials by E.J. Waggoner,
00:42:10.43\00:42:13.09
the physician turned preacher
that with his partner Jones
00:42:13.13\00:42:18.33
brought this
most precious message.
00:42:18.37\00:42:20.94
As I read the 49
editorials in that book.
00:42:20.97\00:42:23.44
I came across
something I had never seen,
00:42:23.47\00:42:25.47
not from any
writer, not from any book.
00:42:25.51\00:42:27.78
A string of verses with
a stunning understanding
00:42:27.81\00:42:34.15
they provide of
how God's righteousness
00:42:34.18\00:42:37.25
can be operationalized.
00:42:37.29\00:42:38.79
How this, this theory
that we're talking about,
00:42:38.82\00:42:41.16
how it can become an
operation in your life.
00:42:41.19\00:42:43.02
And I've got to share this
with you before I sit down,
00:42:43.06\00:42:44.63
because you've never heard
of this before, I promise you.
00:42:44.66\00:42:47.56
Okay, you gonna have
to jot these verses down.
00:42:47.60\00:42:49.80
Stunning string of verses,
here they come, Romans 1:16,
00:42:49.83\00:42:53.10
jot it down.
00:42:53.13\00:42:54.47
Paul says, "I am not
ashamed of the gospel,
00:42:54.50\00:42:56.37
because it is the power
of God that brings salvation
00:42:56.40\00:42:59.67
to everyone who believes power.
00:42:59.71\00:43:02.64
For in the gospel
00:43:02.68\00:43:04.01
the righteousness
of God is revealed."
00:43:04.05\00:43:05.95
So the power of God
00:43:05.98\00:43:07.32
and His righteousness
are all bound together.
00:43:07.35\00:43:08.78
All right here's a--
00:43:08.82\00:43:10.15
Here we go now, here
comes something Psalm 33,
00:43:10.19\00:43:13.22
the great Psalm you know it
verses 6 and 9, jot it down,
00:43:13.25\00:43:16.42
"By the word of the Lord
were the heavens made..."
00:43:16.46\00:43:20.53
The word, did you get that?
00:43:20.56\00:43:22.03
The word, that's what comes
out of his mouth, the word.
00:43:22.06\00:43:24.37
"By the word of the Lord
where the heavens made..."
00:43:24.40\00:43:26.20
Let there be
light, let there be air,
00:43:26.23\00:43:27.57
let there be
birds, okay, the word.
00:43:27.60\00:43:29.97
"By the word of the
Lord were the heavens made,
00:43:30.01\00:43:32.67
their starry host by the,
by the breath of his mouth.
00:43:32.71\00:43:37.45
For he spoke, and it came to be,
00:43:37.48\00:43:39.25
He commanded and it stood firm."
00:43:39.28\00:43:42.52
The power of God
unleashed in the gospel
00:43:42.55\00:43:44.85
is unleashed to His
word, it's His very breathing.
00:43:44.89\00:43:47.46
When He speaks
and breathes the word,
00:43:47.49\00:43:49.82
something immediately happens.
00:43:49.86\00:43:52.39
One more text, now two more.
00:43:52.43\00:43:54.03
John 6, Jesus speaking here,
00:43:54.06\00:43:55.66
the actual divine
agent of creation, John 6:63.
00:43:55.70\00:43:59.80
"The words I
have spoken to you--
00:43:59.83\00:44:02.37
they are full of
Spirit and life."
00:44:02.40\00:44:06.64
My words will infuse
life, and spirit into you
00:44:06.68\00:44:10.68
I speak them.
00:44:10.71\00:44:12.05
One more text, 2 Timothy 3:16.
00:44:12.08\00:44:14.92
Oh, this is something.
00:44:14.95\00:44:16.28
"All scripture..."
00:44:16.32\00:44:17.65
How much of scripture?
How much of scripture?
00:44:17.69\00:44:19.02
"All scripture is God-breathed."
00:44:19.05\00:44:22.69
I should let you to savor
that thought for a moment?
00:44:22.72\00:44:25.09
"All scripture is God-breathed."
00:44:25.13\00:44:28.00
The N.I.V.
renders it, God breathed.
00:44:28.03\00:44:33.47
All scripture, all
God's word, God breathed,
00:44:33.50\00:44:37.47
by the breath of his
mouth universe is created.
00:44:37.51\00:44:41.61
Everything
happens through the word.
00:44:41.64\00:44:43.65
Everything happens
with what he breathes
00:44:43.68\00:44:45.91
and speaks.
00:44:45.95\00:44:47.75
Notice how E.J. Waggoner
applies a string of verses.
00:44:47.78\00:44:50.89
Will put it on
the screen for you.
00:44:50.92\00:44:52.25
"When the word of
God names something,
00:44:52.29\00:44:54.26
then the thing
that is named is formed.
00:44:54.29\00:44:56.99
Whatever is
described by the word,
00:44:57.03\00:44:58.86
exists in that word.
00:44:58.89\00:45:00.23
Thus..."
00:45:00.26\00:45:01.60
And this is a very unique,
00:45:01.63\00:45:02.96
I'd never
thought of this before,
00:45:03.00\00:45:04.33
"Thus it is
impossible for God to lie,
00:45:04.37\00:45:06.47
for His word
makes the thing so."
00:45:06.50\00:45:09.37
So if we all got
up, come on, come on.
00:45:09.40\00:45:10.74
We all got up
and we went outside
00:45:10.77\00:45:12.24
and God was
with us, and He says,
00:45:12.27\00:45:13.61
"Hey, guys, I want you to
see the chartreuse colored sky."
00:45:13.64\00:45:16.21
Guess what, guess what
color the sky would be?
00:45:16.24\00:45:18.88
Chartreuse because he said it,
00:45:18.91\00:45:20.25
He's not gonna lie.
00:45:20.28\00:45:21.62
So if it's
chartreuse, it's chartreuse.
00:45:21.65\00:45:23.18
What he speaks is.
00:45:23.22\00:45:26.82
So God looks at you and He says,
00:45:26.86\00:45:28.19
"You know what?
00:45:28.22\00:45:29.56
You are now righteous."
00:45:29.59\00:45:30.93
Guess what? You
are now righteous.
00:45:30.96\00:45:34.23
God looks at you,
He looks in your heart,
00:45:34.26\00:45:35.76
He looks at what
you did last week.
00:45:35.80\00:45:37.13
And you've come to him.
He says, "You know what girl?
00:45:37.17\00:45:39.67
You are cleansed and pure.
00:45:39.70\00:45:41.97
Guess what?
00:45:42.00\00:45:43.34
You are now cleansed in pure,
00:45:43.37\00:45:45.17
He speaks it, you become it.
00:45:45.21\00:45:49.38
He speaks it, you become it.
00:45:49.41\00:45:52.41
So Jesus looks
at this paralytic,
00:45:52.45\00:45:54.25
lower down through
the hole in the roof
00:45:54.28\00:45:56.05
and He says, "Son,
your sins are forgiven."
00:45:56.08\00:45:59.55
Boom, they're forgiven,
00:45:59.59\00:46:00.92
and a glow spreads
across his face why?
00:46:00.96\00:46:03.19
Because when you speak the word,
00:46:03.22\00:46:04.56
when the divine speaks the word,
00:46:04.59\00:46:05.93
what's in the word happens.
00:46:05.96\00:46:07.93
And then Jesus says,
"I know you don't believe
00:46:07.96\00:46:09.30
I can do this.
00:46:09.33\00:46:10.67
I know you don't believe I
can do this, but watch this.
00:46:10.70\00:46:12.03
Take up your bed and walk."
00:46:12.07\00:46:13.40
And the boy takes
up his bed and walk.
00:46:13.44\00:46:14.77
He says, "See, I can do it."
00:46:14.80\00:46:16.14
One word,
00:46:16.17\00:46:17.51
one word makes all the
difference in the world.
00:46:17.54\00:46:20.61
His word,
00:46:20.64\00:46:22.48
His word is what
makes a difference.
00:46:22.51\00:46:26.05
And when He speaks it to you,
00:46:26.08\00:46:28.52
you got it.
00:46:28.55\00:46:29.88
Oh, I suppose you could say,
"No, I don't want that word.
00:46:29.92\00:46:31.32
No, don't touch
me with that word."
00:46:31.35\00:46:33.82
Well, he won't.
00:46:33.86\00:46:35.76
But if you receive
that word just like that,
00:46:35.79\00:46:39.09
what the word represents
00:46:39.13\00:46:40.70
happens as
reality in your heart.
00:46:40.73\00:46:42.76
Oh, my "By the word of the
Lord were the heavens made,
00:46:42.80\00:46:46.33
and their starry host by
the breath of his mouth."
00:46:46.37\00:46:49.50
Which means that when
the judge of the universe
00:46:49.54\00:46:51.61
convenes his court room,
00:46:51.64\00:46:52.97
and He looks at
you, and He says,
00:46:53.01\00:46:54.34
"You are justified.
00:46:54.38\00:46:55.71
You are acquitted,
pardoned, all charges drop.
00:46:55.74\00:46:59.05
Guess what?
00:46:59.08\00:47:00.42
You are justified,
acquitted, pardoned.
00:47:00.45\00:47:02.25
All charges drop."
00:47:02.28\00:47:03.62
When He says it,
00:47:03.65\00:47:05.29
it is for the Lord
spake and it was so.
00:47:05.32\00:47:10.43
Jesus says, "For
the words I speak,
00:47:10.46\00:47:12.59
they are spirit and life."
00:47:12.63\00:47:16.10
You don't
believe that about Jesus,
00:47:16.13\00:47:17.47
one more text.
00:47:17.50\00:47:18.83
Hebrews 1:3.
00:47:18.87\00:47:20.20
"The Son is the
radiance of God's glory
00:47:20.24\00:47:22.74
and the exact representation..."
00:47:22.77\00:47:24.17
That means the
Son and the Father,
00:47:24.21\00:47:25.77
eternal as they are.
00:47:25.81\00:47:27.14
They share that same character.
00:47:27.18\00:47:29.44
Exact
representation of his being.
00:47:29.48\00:47:31.05
What does the son do?
00:47:31.08\00:47:32.41
He sustains all
things by his powerful word.
00:47:32.45\00:47:35.35
Write that down.
00:47:35.38\00:47:36.72
That's how powerful
is righteousness of God.
00:47:36.75\00:47:39.72
Because when you ask him for it,
00:47:39.75\00:47:41.36
He speaks it. You have it.
00:47:41.39\00:47:45.69
Waggoner is absolutely right,
00:47:45.73\00:47:47.60
"The breath of God, which
has creative energy in it,
00:47:47.63\00:47:50.20
is that which
gives us the precepts
00:47:50.23\00:47:51.87
and promises of the Bible.
00:47:51.90\00:47:53.94
That creative word is
the power of the Gospel.
00:47:53.97\00:47:56.94
That word is the
power of the Gospel.
00:47:56.97\00:47:58.81
The power of redemption
is the power of creation,
00:47:58.84\00:48:02.94
for redemption is creation."
00:48:02.98\00:48:06.11
Come on, if any
woman is in Christ,
00:48:06.15\00:48:07.78
if any man is in
Christ, he is a new what?
00:48:07.82\00:48:10.52
He is a new creation.
00:48:10.55\00:48:11.89
Old things have passed away.
00:48:11.92\00:48:13.25
With the word old
things have passed away,
00:48:13.29\00:48:15.06
behold, all things become new.
00:48:15.09\00:48:17.33
It's in the word.
00:48:17.36\00:48:18.69
When He speaks the word,
and you receive the word.
00:48:18.73\00:48:22.53
You got what he just spoke.
00:48:22.56\00:48:24.63
What He spake and it was done.
00:48:28.00\00:48:30.21
He commanded and it stood fast.
00:48:30.24\00:48:32.77
You know what that means.
00:48:32.81\00:48:35.08
We just got to believe.
00:48:35.11\00:48:36.61
We have to believe His word.
00:48:36.64\00:48:41.32
In that mustard seed of faith,
00:48:41.35\00:48:44.49
what his word has promised,
you got it, you got it.
00:48:44.52\00:48:49.02
Now watch where Waggoner,
now, now watch, watch this,
00:48:49.06\00:48:51.29
it's very, this
is, this is crucial.
00:48:51.33\00:48:54.40
Watch where Waggoner goes
with this line of reasoning.
00:48:54.43\00:48:57.07
On the screen again.
00:48:57.10\00:48:58.43
"To declare is to speak,
00:48:58.47\00:49:00.07
so when God declares
His righteousness in Christ
00:49:00.10\00:49:03.04
for the remission of sins."
00:49:03.07\00:49:04.41
We just read that Romans 3:25.
00:49:04.44\00:49:06.04
"Righteousness is
spoken into and on you,
00:49:06.07\00:49:08.14
to take the place of your
sins, which are taken away.
00:49:08.18\00:49:10.58
And now, here, here comes.
00:49:10.61\00:49:11.98
"It is not simply a
passive righteousness
00:49:12.01\00:49:14.98
that is declared on you,
00:49:15.02\00:49:16.35
but the real,
active righteousness,
00:49:16.38\00:49:19.15
for the word of
the Lord is alive,
00:49:19.19\00:49:20.86
and God's righteousness
is real and active."
00:49:20.89\00:49:23.39
Dwight, what in the
world did he just say.
00:49:23.43\00:49:25.46
I need you to catch this,
00:49:25.49\00:49:26.83
because what he
just said is this.
00:49:26.86\00:49:28.20
Quietly Jones and Waggoner was
what God asked them to teach.
00:49:28.23\00:49:32.37
Quietly they have veered away
00:49:32.40\00:49:35.74
from the
traditional understanding
00:49:35.77\00:49:38.37
that N.T.Wright represents.
00:49:38.41\00:49:40.24
Because here's
what N.T. Wright says,
00:49:40.28\00:49:41.81
what justification is about?
00:49:41.84\00:49:43.24
Change of
status, no change inside,
00:49:43.28\00:49:45.15
but a change of status.
00:49:45.18\00:49:46.51
But God raised up
two young preachers
00:49:46.55\00:49:50.35
to begin to teach.
00:49:50.39\00:49:51.72
No, no, no, no,
that's not what's there.
00:49:51.75\00:49:54.96
That along with
the change of status
00:49:54.99\00:49:59.73
is the unleashing of power.
00:49:59.76\00:50:03.06
Now, hold on, hold on.
00:50:03.10\00:50:06.23
Hans LaRondelle, one
of my revered professors
00:50:06.27\00:50:10.04
when I was in the seminary here,
00:50:10.07\00:50:11.41
sleeps in Jesus now.
00:50:11.44\00:50:13.17
That man's teaching
00:50:13.21\00:50:15.38
brought a
crisis in my own faith,
00:50:15.41\00:50:16.78
and that's how I found
Christ as a young adult.
00:50:16.81\00:50:19.58
Hans LaRondelle in his book,
00:50:19.61\00:50:22.85
Christ Our Salvation
what God does for us,
00:50:22.88\00:50:24.95
and in us
supports this very point.
00:50:24.99\00:50:27.59
Put his words on a screen.
00:50:27.62\00:50:28.96
"However, justification implies
00:50:28.99\00:50:31.49
more than a mere
legal transaction.
00:50:31.53\00:50:35.30
The righteousness of
Christ is a transforming power."
00:50:35.33\00:50:38.97
Jot that down, transforming.
00:50:39.00\00:50:40.80
It is a principle,
according to Desire of Ages now.
00:50:40.84\00:50:42.90
"It is a principle of life
that transforms the character
00:50:42.94\00:50:45.54
and controls the conduct."
00:50:45.57\00:50:47.94
Now LaRondelle, goes on.
00:50:47.98\00:50:49.31
"Many have too
abstract and narrow a view
00:50:49.34\00:50:52.95
of forgiveness
and justification.
00:50:52.98\00:50:54.65
This led E.G. White to state:
00:50:54.68\00:50:57.02
Quoting now Mount of Blessing.
00:50:57.05\00:50:58.92
"God's forgiveness is
not merely a judicial act
00:50:58.95\00:51:01.99
by which He sets us
free from condemnation.
00:51:02.02\00:51:04.26
It is not only
forgiveness for sin,
00:51:04.29\00:51:06.86
but reclaiming from sin.
00:51:06.90\00:51:09.16
It is the
outflow of redeeming love
00:51:09.20\00:51:11.07
that transforms the heart."
00:51:11.10\00:51:16.37
This most precious message
00:51:16.40\00:51:18.74
unleashed in the midst of
this tiny little faith community
00:51:18.77\00:51:22.51
but to go to the world.
00:51:22.54\00:51:23.88
What is this
message, the message that.
00:51:23.91\00:51:25.75
You know what the
righteousness of God
00:51:25.78\00:51:27.98
is not only, it is not
only a change in your status
00:51:28.02\00:51:31.05
when God justified you.
00:51:31.09\00:51:32.42
It doesn't say,
not only does he say,
00:51:32.45\00:51:34.46
"Charges drop, you're acquitted,
00:51:34.49\00:51:35.82
you're forgiven."
00:51:35.86\00:51:37.19
But with the
word that he speaks.
00:51:37.23\00:51:39.19
Just as he did with a paralytic.
00:51:39.23\00:51:40.70
He not only spoke
the word of forgiveness.
00:51:40.73\00:51:43.06
But the word right behind it
00:51:43.10\00:51:45.03
is a word be healed, be changed.
00:51:45.07\00:51:48.24
Let my righteousness
come in. Let me transform you.
00:51:48.27\00:51:52.41
That's what he's saying.
00:51:52.44\00:51:54.94
How did Jesus put it.
00:51:54.98\00:51:56.44
The words that I speak to
you are full of the Spirit...
00:51:56.48\00:51:58.95
In life.
00:52:02.25\00:52:04.29
With one word, He pardons us.
00:52:04.32\00:52:06.32
And with the next
word He empowers us.
00:52:06.35\00:52:09.02
The forgiven and healed
paralytic just like that man
00:52:09.06\00:52:14.30
when we receive that gift.
00:52:14.33\00:52:18.03
Both the power and the pardon
00:52:18.07\00:52:20.77
are bestowed in the
gift of that righteousness.
00:52:20.80\00:52:23.61
By the way, David in
that great prayer of his,
00:52:23.64\00:52:25.91
put it on the
screen for you Psalm 103.
00:52:25.94\00:52:27.81
David is absolutely
clear that the two go together,
00:52:27.84\00:52:29.54
watch this.
00:52:29.58\00:52:30.91
Bless the Lord, let's
read this out loud together.
00:52:30.95\00:52:32.41
"Bless the Lord, O my soul,
00:52:32.45\00:52:34.85
and forget not all his benefits,
00:52:34.88\00:52:37.32
who forgives all your sins
and heals all your diseases."
00:52:37.35\00:52:42.86
You see the word
that speaks of pardon
00:52:42.89\00:52:46.06
is a word that speaks power
00:52:46.09\00:52:48.03
and with the
forgiveness comes the healing.
00:52:48.06\00:52:50.23
All happens.
00:52:50.27\00:52:51.67
One God, one gift,
00:52:51.70\00:52:55.44
His righteousness
Christ our righteousness.
00:52:55.47\00:53:00.54
Oh my, oh my,
00:53:00.58\00:53:04.45
My hope is built on nothing less
00:53:04.48\00:53:10.79
than Jesus blood
and righteousness.
00:53:10.82\00:53:16.66
"I dare not trust
the sweetest frame,
00:53:16.69\00:53:20.50
But wholly lean on Jesus' name.
00:53:20.53\00:53:26.40
On Christ, the
solid Rock, I stand,
00:53:26.43\00:53:29.47
All other ground
is sinking sand."
00:53:29.50\00:53:32.87
All other ground,
00:53:32.91\00:53:34.84
all other
ground is sinking sand.
00:53:34.88\00:53:38.68
And to that I say,
hallelujah and amen.
00:53:38.71\00:53:42.55
What do you say?
00:53:42.58\00:53:43.92
Amen. Amen.
00:53:43.95\00:53:45.29
Pull out your
connect card please.
00:53:45.32\00:53:47.36
It's in your worship bulletin.
00:53:47.39\00:53:48.72
Guests from around
the Great Lakes States
00:53:48.76\00:53:51.66
delighted that you're here.
00:53:51.69\00:53:53.03
Pull out your connect card.
00:53:53.06\00:53:55.50
We must respond to
this. We do this every week.
00:53:55.53\00:53:57.93
Put your name,
e-mail address on a front.
00:53:57.97\00:54:00.07
Let's go. Go to the back.
00:54:00.10\00:54:01.84
My next step, I confess,
here it is box number one,
00:54:01.87\00:54:04.71
I confess that I am a sinner.
00:54:04.74\00:54:06.98
And I choose daily
to receive God's offer
00:54:07.01\00:54:09.58
to exchange my filthy rags
00:54:09.61\00:54:11.95
for Christ's spotless
robe of righteousness.
00:54:11.98\00:54:16.52
Do you want that to
borrow? I want that every day.
00:54:16.55\00:54:19.49
You guys every
day when I wake up,
00:54:19.52\00:54:20.86
that's what I want.
00:54:20.89\00:54:22.22
I want to get the filthy
rags from yesterday off of me,
00:54:22.26\00:54:24.29
get them off of me.
00:54:24.33\00:54:25.66
Put that robe back
on me, I want that robe.
00:54:25.69\00:54:28.06
Every day,
00:54:28.10\00:54:29.43
I hope we all can put
that check mark there.
00:54:29.46\00:54:30.97
Now, look at box number two.
00:54:31.00\00:54:32.67
I would like to be
baptized into Jesus Christ,
00:54:32.70\00:54:35.00
my Savior and my righteousness.
00:54:35.04\00:54:37.71
You may be older than Davey.
00:54:37.74\00:54:39.84
And by the way,
00:54:39.87\00:54:41.21
was that a
beautiful testimony or what?
00:54:41.24\00:54:43.61
Man a little
child shall lead them,
00:54:43.65\00:54:45.31
that's what was
happening right there.
00:54:45.35\00:54:47.32
I want to share this he said,
when I, when I go into Jesus.
00:54:47.35\00:54:50.55
And I'm baptizing him I
want to share with the world.
00:54:50.59\00:54:52.92
Did he say, seven
billion he's going to reach.
00:54:52.95\00:54:56.49
You go Davey, dream big for God.
00:54:56.52\00:54:59.19
He's sending you
to the world, boy.
00:54:59.23\00:55:01.26
He's already got a plan for you.
00:55:01.30\00:55:02.73
Like Davey, you may
never been baptized before,
00:55:02.76\00:55:04.87
you maybe older and who cares.
00:55:04.90\00:55:06.87
It's time for you to get
baptized into Jesus Christ,
00:55:06.90\00:55:10.34
your Savior and
your righteousness.
00:55:10.37\00:55:12.71
Nothing will do it like baptism,
00:55:12.74\00:55:14.21
nothing will do it like baptism.
00:55:14.24\00:55:15.84
That's why right after Romans 5,
00:55:15.88\00:55:18.35
Romans 6 is all about baptism.
00:55:18.38\00:55:20.02
Right after Romans 5,
Paul says let's talk about,
00:55:20.05\00:55:22.05
let's talk about
getting baptized.
00:55:22.08\00:55:23.52
If you have not been baptized,
00:55:23.55\00:55:25.45
would you take
this moment right now,
00:55:25.49\00:55:26.82
and put a check mark there.
00:55:26.86\00:55:29.22
We were just praising God
00:55:29.26\00:55:31.06
with how many made
the decision last Sabbath,
00:55:31.09\00:55:34.13
to put a check mark for baptism.
00:55:34.16\00:55:36.63
I wonder how many here today.
00:55:36.67\00:55:39.03
You're up here and
you're not even a member here,
00:55:39.07\00:55:40.50
you put a check mark there,
00:55:40.54\00:55:41.87
just turn that
card in just one second.
00:55:41.90\00:55:44.01
And we'll get to whoever
needs to know that information.
00:55:44.04\00:55:49.18
If you have not been baptized
00:55:49.21\00:55:51.68
today's the day
to make the decision.
00:55:51.71\00:55:54.58
It's your timetable.
Put a check mark there.
00:55:54.62\00:55:56.85
Oh, by the way box number three.
00:55:56.89\00:55:58.22
I will pray for
the mission to Cuba.
00:55:58.25\00:55:59.85
You see the dates there,
00:55:59.89\00:56:01.22
this Friday night 30 seminarians
00:56:01.26\00:56:02.59
will be preaching in Santiago
00:56:02.62\00:56:04.36
the second biggest city in Cuba.
00:56:04.39\00:56:06.09
Pray for us
please, for ten days.
00:56:06.13\00:56:09.13
As we preach the
third angel's message.
00:56:09.16\00:56:12.47
Let's pray.
00:56:12.50\00:56:13.84
Oh, God.
00:56:13.87\00:56:16.64
Went into little overtime here,
00:56:16.67\00:56:18.01
but because father this,
this can't be cut up, this is,
00:56:18.04\00:56:20.61
this is a standalone
truth and we needed to hear it.
00:56:20.64\00:56:23.65
Some of us are desperate
to know this good news.
00:56:23.68\00:56:27.28
Assure every man,
woman, young, adult,
00:56:27.32\00:56:29.18
teenager and child here
are watching live streaming,
00:56:29.22\00:56:33.42
or anywhere on the
planet through television
00:56:33.46\00:56:35.09
assure all of us
00:56:35.12\00:56:38.06
that the news
really is this good.
00:56:38.09\00:56:40.40
Two thousand years ago,
00:56:40.43\00:56:42.06
You dropped charges
on the entire human race.
00:56:42.10\00:56:44.83
We've all been
forgiven, we've been acquitted.
00:56:44.87\00:56:47.24
We have been declared free.
00:56:47.27\00:56:50.64
Why would we go on living
00:56:50.67\00:56:52.44
as if we're in bondage
when you declared us free.
00:56:52.47\00:56:55.91
And so Father,
00:56:55.94\00:56:57.28
we must first experience
it or it's not good news.
00:56:57.31\00:56:59.81
But once we know it,
send us into the world
00:56:59.85\00:57:02.88
to people who need to know
00:57:02.92\00:57:05.29
this life liberating
truth in Christ Jesus,
00:57:05.32\00:57:10.73
that's where our
hope is built on.
00:57:10.76\00:57:12.19
Yes, in Christ we pray, amen.
00:57:12.23\00:57:15.46
I want to take an extra
movement and let you know,
00:57:18.27\00:57:20.07
how grateful I am,
you joined us today.
00:57:20.10\00:57:22.24
I hear from viewers
and listeners like you,
00:57:22.27\00:57:24.51
all across this nation,
and literally around the world,
00:57:24.54\00:57:27.18
and I'm thankful,
00:57:27.21\00:57:28.54
because it's
through the generosity
00:57:28.58\00:57:29.91
of the members
of this congregation
00:57:29.94\00:57:31.28
and people like you
00:57:31.31\00:57:32.65
that we're able to
bring you this program.
00:57:32.68\00:57:34.45
So what we've shared
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00:57:34.48\00:57:36.42
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00:57:36.45\00:57:37.79
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Thank you very much,
for your partnership.
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