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>GOOD MORNING, FRIENDS
AND WELCOME TO SABBATH SCHOOL
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FROM THE GRANITE BAY SEVENTH-DAY
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HERE AT THE GRANITE BAY CHURCH -
GOOD TO SEE YOU WEEK AFTER WEEK
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COMING TOGETHER TO
STUDY THE WORD OF GOD.
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OVER THE PAST FEW WEEKS WE'VE
BEEN STUDYING OUR NEW LESSON
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QUARTERLY ENTITLED SALVATION BY
FAITH ALONE: THE BOOK OF ROMANS
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. TODAY WE FIND OURSELVES ON
LESSON #4 ENTITLED JUSTIFICATION
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BY FAITH - VERY
IMPORTANT SUBJECT.
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WELL, BEFORE WE GET TO OUR STUDY
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THIS MORNING, WE'D LIKE TO BEGIN
BY LIFTING OUR VOICES IN SONG.
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I'D LIKE TO INVITE OUR SONG
LEADERS TO COME LEAD US IN OUR
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SINGING THIS
MORNING. (PIANO MUSIC)
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>>HAPPY SABBATH, EVERYONE.
THE FIRST HYMN THAT WE ARE GOING
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TO SING IS #530 - IT
IS WELL WITH MY SOUL .
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AND, SOMETIMES, I LIKE TO KNOW
THE BACKGROUND OF THE HYMNS -
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WHERE THEY'RE COMING FROM - AND
THIS SPECIFIC ONE WAS WRITTEN BY
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MR. SPAFFORD. HE HAD
DECIDED TO GO ON A TRIP
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WITH HIS FAMILY TO EUROPE BUT,
BECAUSE OF CIRCUMSTANCES, HE HAD
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TO SEND THEM AHEAD OF HIM - HIS
WIFE ANNA AND FOUR DAUGHTERS.
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AND, UNFORTUNATELY, THE SHIP
COLLIDED WITH ANOTHER SHIP AND
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ALL FOUR DAUGHTERS DROWNED.
WHEN ANNA REACHED WALES SHE
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SENT HIM A MESSAGE THAT SAID,
'SURVIVED ALONE.' BUT, IN SPITE
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OF THIS TRAGEDY, THEY HAD PEACE
IN THEIR HEARTS AND THEY TRUSTED
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GOD. AND I BELIEVE THAT, IN THE
SAME WAY, WE CAN TRUST HIM IF WE
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PUT OUR LIVES IN HIS HANDS.
WE WILL SING ALL THREE VERSES
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- IT IS WELL WITH
MY SOUL . (PIANO MUSIC)
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>>AT THIS TIME I INVITE
YOU TO BOW YOUR HEADS FOR OUR
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OPENING PRAYER. DEAR
FATHER IN HEAVEN, WHAT A
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PRIVILEGE TO BE ABLE TO GATHER
TOGETHER THIS SABBATH MORNING
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AND OPEN UP YOUR WORD AND STUDY
THIS VERY IMPORTANT SUBJECT -
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THE SUBJECT OF
JUSTIFICATION BY FAITH.
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LORD, WE PRAY THAT YOUR SPIRIT
WILL COME AND GUIDE OUR HEARTS,
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OUR MINDS, AS WE DELVE INTO
THIS VERY IMPORTANT AND POWERFUL
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SUBJECT FOUND IN
THE BOOK OF ROMANS.
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BLESS OUR TIME TODAY, FOR WE
ASK THIS IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN.
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OUR LESSON THIS MORNING IS GOING
TO BE BROUGHT TO US BY DR. DAVID
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DEROSE. >>WELL,
WE ARE CONTINUING OUR
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STUDY THROUGH THE BOOK OF
ROMANS. WE FIND OURSELVES ON
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LESSON #4 - LESSON #4 AS WE'RE
GOING THROUGH THE QUARTERLY.
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AND, AGAIN, IF YOU DON'T HAVE
A COPY OF THE QUARTERLY, YOU CAN
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GET THAT RIGHT ON THE
AMAZING FACTS WEBSITE.
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WE'RE TALKING ABOUT
JUSTIFICATION BY FAITH AS IT'S
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PORTRAYED IN THE
WRITINGS OF THE APOSTLE PAUL.
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IT'S TRULY ONE OF THOSE
GREAT PIVOTAL STORIES IN THE
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SCRIPTURAL
ACCOUNT OF GOD'S LEADING.
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IT'S ONE OF THOSE SITUATIONS
WHERE IT LOOKED PRETTY BLEAK.
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TURN IN YOUR BIBLES,
WITH ME, TO EXODUS CHAPTER 14.
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I'M GOING TO EXODUS 14 AS
WE PICK UP THE STORY OF GOD'S
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MIRACULOUS DELIVERANCE
IN THE OLD TESTAMENT.
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EXODUS 14, OF COURSE, FOLLOWS
THE STORY OF GOD'S DELIVERANCE
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AT THE PASSOVER. GOD
HAS WORKED WITH A STRONG
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HAND TO DELIVER HIS
PEOPLE FROM EGYPTIAN BONDAGE.
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AND, WHEN WE COME TO CHAPTER
14, WE READ ABOUT SOME OF THE
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INTERESTING
EVENTS THAT TRANSPIRE.
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EXODUS 14, BEGINNING WITH VERSE
1, "NOW THE LORD SPOKE TO MOSES,
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SAYING: 'SPEAK TO THE CHILDREN
OF ISRAEL, THAT THEY TURN AND
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CAMP BEFORE PI HAHIROTH,
BETWEEN MIGDOL AND THE SEA,
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OPPOSITE BAAL ZEPHON; YOU
SHALL CAMP BEFORE IT BY THE SEA.
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FOR PHARAOH WILL SAY OF THE
CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, 'THEY ARE
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BEWILDERED BY THE LAND;
THE WILDERNESS HAS CLOSED THEM
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IN.''" YOU KNOW THE STORY WELL.
GOD HAS DELIVERED HIS PEOPLE.
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NOW HE IS BRINGING THEM ON A
JOURNEY TO THE PROMISED LAND.
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AND, AS THEY COME TO THE
RED SEA, GOD ACTUALLY LEADS THEM
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INTO A - A DEAD END, IF YOU
WILL. MOUNTAINS ON EITHER SIDE
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OF THEM, THE SEA IN FRONT OF
THEM, THERE IS NO PLACE TO GO.
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AND SO, IT IS, AS WE READ
THROUGH THE ACCOUNT - THAT VERY
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FAMILIAR ACCOUNT - IT SAYS, IN
VERSE 10 OF EXODUS 14, "AND WHEN
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PHARAOH DREW NEAR, THE CHILDREN
OF ISRAEL LIFTED THEIR EYES, AND
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BEHOLD, THE
EGYPTIANS MARCHED AFTER THEM.
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SO THEY WERE" - WHAT? -
"VERY AFRAID" - VERY AFRAID -
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AND IT SAYS THEY
CRIED OUT TO THE LORD.
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- "THEN THEY SAID TO MOSES,
'BECAUSE THERE WERE NO GRAVES
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IN EGYPT, HAVE YOU TAKEN US
AWAY TO DIE IN THE WILDERNESS?
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WHY HAVE YOU SO DEALT WITH
US, TO BRING US UP OUT OF EGYPT?
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IS THIS NOT THE WORD THAT WE
TOLD YOU IN EGYPT, SAYING, 'LET
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US ALONE THAT WE MAY
SERVE THE EGYPTIANS'?
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FOR IT WOULD HAVE BEEN BETTER
FOR US TO SERVE THE EGYPTIANS
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THAN THAT WE SHOULD DIE IN THE
WILDERNESS.'" THE CHILDREN OF
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ISRAEL HAD GIVEN UP ON THEIR
ABILITY TO SAVE THEMSELVES,
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RIGHT? THEY'RE
SAYING, 'WE'RE LOST.
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WE ARE UNDONE - WE ARE LOST - WE
HAVE NO HOPE.' BUT WE KNOW THE
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STORY DOESN'T
END THERE, DOES IT?
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AS EXODUS 14 PLAYS OUT, MOSES
GIVES THIS MESSAGE FROM GOD IN
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VERSE 13 - "AND MOSES SAID TO
THE PEOPLE, 'DO NOT BE AFRAID.
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STAND STILL, AND SEE THE
SALVATION OF THE LORD, WHICH HE
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WILL ACCOMPLISH FOR YOU TODAY.
FOR THE EGYPTIANS WHOM YOU SEE
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TODAY, YOU SHALL SEE AGAIN
NO MORE FOREVER. THE LORD WILL
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FIGHT FOR YOU, AND YOU SHALL
HOLD YOUR PIECE.'" YOU KNOW WHAT
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HAPPENS? GOD MIRACULOUSLY
DELIVERS HIS PEOPLE.
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IT SAYS IN HEBREWS 11 THAT
IT WAS BY FAITH THAT THEY WERE
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DELIVERED. DID YOU KNOW THAT?
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HEBREWS 11 - LOOK AT IT - IS
IT SPEAKING ABOUT GOD'S FAITHFUL
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DEALINGS WITH HIS PEOPLE AND
THEIR RESPONSIVE FAITH - IT IS
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THE FAITH OF THE CHILDREN OF
ISRAEL THAT BRINGS THEM TO THAT
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RED SEA
EXPERIENCE AND THROUGH IT.
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SOME OF YOU ENJOY, AS I DO, THAT
AMAZING COMMENTARY IN THE BOOK
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PATRIARCHS AND PROPHETS - I'M
ACTUALLY READING THAT FOR YOU,
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RIGHT NOW, FROM PATRIARCHS
AND PROPHETS PAGE 290.
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IT SAYS, "GOD, IN HIS
PROVIDENCE, BROUGHT THE HEBREWS
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INTO THE MOUNTAIN FASTNESSES
BEFORE THE SEA, THAT HE MIGHT
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MANIFEST HIS POWER IN THEIR
DELIVERANCE AND SIGNALLY HUMBLE
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THE PRIDE OF THEIR OPPRESSORS.
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HE MIGHT HAVE SAVED THEM IN
ANY OTHER WAY, BUT HE CHOSE THIS
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METHOD IN ORDER TO TEST THEIR
FAITH AND STRENGTHEN THEIR TRUST
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IN HIM. THE
PEOPLE WERE WEARY AND
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TERRIFIED, YET IF THEY HAD
HELD BACK WHEN MOSES BADE THEM
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ADVANCE, GOD WOULD NEVER
HAVE OPENED THE PATH FOR THEM.
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IT WAS" - AND NOW SHE QUOTES
HEBREWS 11:29 - "IT WAS 'BY
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FAITH' THAT 'THEY PASSED THROUGH
THE RED SEA AS BY DRY LAND.' IN
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MARCHING DOWN TO THE VERY WATER,
THEY SHOWED THAT THEY BELIEVED
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THE WORD OF GOD
AS SPOKEN BY MOSES.
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THEY DID ALL THAT WAS IN THEIR
POWER TO DO, AND THEN THE MIGHTY
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ONE OF ISRAEL DIVIDED THE SEA
TO MAKE A PATH FOR THEIR FEET."
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YOU SAY, 'WAIT A
MINUTE,' - WE'RE STUDYING WHAT?
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THE BOOK OF ROMANS - 'WHAT DOES
THE RED SEA EXPERIENCE HAVE TO
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DO WITH THE BOOK OF ROMANS?'
THERE'S A LOT OF PARALLEL
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THEMES, AS WE'VE BEEN LOOKING AT
THAT ACCOUNT, BUT I WANT TO DRAW
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YOU TO ONE OTHER CONTEXTUAL
SETTING FROM THE BOOK OF EXODUS
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BECAUSE IT REALLY, BELIEVE IT OR
NOT, IS A REVIEW OF WHAT WE'VE
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BEEN STUDYING THUS
FAR IN THE BOOK OF ROMANS.
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I INVITE YOU, NOW, TO
TURN IN YOUR BIBLES TO ROMANS -
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EXCUSE ME, WE'RE NOT
GOING TO GET TO ROMANS JUST YET.
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WE'RE GOING THERE.
WE'RE GOING TO LOOK AT IT IN
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DETAIL, BUT I WANT YOU TO
GO BACK TO EXODUS AND THIS TIME
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CHAPTER 12 - EXODUS CHAPTER
12. IN EXODUS CHAPTER 12, WE ARE
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READING ABOUT THE PLAGUES
AND THE CONTEXT THAT WE ALREADY
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ALLUDED TO - THE
DELIVERANCE OF THE PASSOVER.
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GOD HAS INSTITUTED THE PASSOVER
SERVICE THERE AND WHAT'S QUITE
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INTERESTING IN EXODUS 12, AFTER
THAT TENTH AND FINAL PLAGUE - BY
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THE WAY, MAYBE JUST AS AN ASIDE
FOR THOSE WHO ARE TUNING IN WITH
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US TODAY - YOU KNOW, A LOT OF
PEOPLE LOOK AT GOD'S DELIVERANCE
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IN THE EXODUS AND THEY SAY
IT SEEMS SO HARSH - THIS TENTH
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PLAGUE, TAKING THE
LIFE OF THE FIRSTBORN.
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YOU STUDY IN YOUR BIBLES
FROM THE VERY BEGINNING OF THE
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PLAGUES - BEFORE THE PLAGUES
WERE EVEN BROUGHT, YOU LOOK AT
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EXODUS CHAPTER 4, GOD TOLD THEM
EXACTLY WHAT HE WOULD HAVE TO
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DO. IF THE
EGYPTIANS DIDN'T LET HIS
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PEOPLE GO, HE SAID HE WOULD HAVE
TO GO SO FAR AS TO SHOW THEM
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WHAT THEY WERE
DOING TO HIS FIRSTBORN.
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ISRAEL WAS GOD'S FIRSTBORN
- THAT'S WHAT HE CALLED THEM.
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HE SAID, 'IF YOU DON'T LISTEN
TO ANY OF MY OTHER MESSAGES I'M
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GOING TO HAVE TO TAKE
THE LIFE OF YOUR FIRSTBORN.
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THAT WAS FROM
THE VERY BEGINNING.
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GOD HAS NO DELIGHT IN THE DEATH
OF THE WICKED EVEN IN THE WICKED
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WHO ARE UNRIGHTEOUS.' AND SO,
IN EXODUS 12 WE SEE THAT FINAL
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TERRIBLE PLAGUE AND I WANT YOU
TO NOTICE WHAT THE RESPONSE OF
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THE EGYPTIANS WAS TO THE
PLAGUE UPON THE FIRSTBORN.
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VERSE 33 - AFTER THAT
PLAGUE COMES IT SAYS, "AND THE
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EGYPTIANS URGED THE PEOPLE,
THAT THEY MIGHT SEND THEM OUT OF
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THE LAND IN HASTE. FOR
THEY SAID," - EXODUS 12:33 -
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WHAT DID THE EGYPTIANS
SAY OF THEIR SITUATION?
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>>WE SHALL ALL BE
DEAD. >>THAT'S RIGHT, "WE
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SHALL ALL BE DEAD." OR
"WE ARE ALL AS DEAD MEN."
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THE CONTEXT OF THE EXODUS IS THE
GENTILES - THE UNBELIEVERS - THE
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EGYPTIANS SAID,
'WE ARE ALL DEAD.
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WE ARE ALL LOST.' WHEN WE
COME TO EXODUS 14 WE HEAR THE
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EGYPTIANS BEHIND THE
PEOPLE OF ISRAEL, RIGHT?
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THE FOOTPRINTS ARE COMING - THE
HOOF BEATS ARE COMING - WE HEAR
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THE EGYPTIANS, BUT THE CRY
THAT GOES OUT IS NOT FROM THE
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EGYPTIANS, THE CRY IN
EXODUS 14 IS FROM GOD'S PEOPLE.
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AND WHAT IS THE CRY OF GOD'S
PEOPLE IN EXODUS 14, WHEN THEY
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SEE THE EGYPTIANS?
WELL, IN SO MANY WORDS,
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'WE'RE ALL DEAD MEN', RIGHT?
'WE'RE LOST.' DO YOU REALIZE
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THIS IS WHAT IS HAPPENED
IN ROMANS UP TO THIS POINT?
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WHEN WE COME TO ROMANS 3?
IN ROMANS CHAPTER 1 - THIS IS
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REVIEW NOW - AND I'M GIVING
YOU A REVIEW BY VIRTUE OF THE
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PREVIOUS
REVELATION OF THE SCRIPTURE.
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IN ROMANS CHAPTER 1 GOD SAYS,
'ALL THE GENTILES ARE LOST.
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EVERYONE HAS HAD A FULL
REVELATION OF - MAYBE NOT FULL,
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BUT THEY'VE HAD AT LEAST
ENOUGH OF A REVELATION OF GOD TO
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REALIZE THAT HE IS THEIR CREATOR
AND IF THEY HAVE REJECTED GOD,
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THEY ARE WITHOUT EXCUSE.
REMEMBER THAT, IN ROMANS 1?
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SO ALL THE GENTILES ARE LOST.
AND I CAN IMAGINE, AS THE JEWS
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IN ROME WERE READING PAUL'S
LETTER, THEY WERE SAYING, 'AMEN.
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YES, THAT'S RIGHT, THE GENTILES
ARE LOST.' AND THEN WE CAME TO
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ROMANS 2 AND WHAT
DID WE LEARN IN ROMANS 2?
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WELL, MAYBE WE
NEED TO LOOK THERE.
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JUST LOOK AT ROMANS 2 - WE'RE
STUDYING THE BOOK OF ROMANS.
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WE'RE GIVING A REVIEW BECAUSE
I KNOW, WHEN WE READ THESE BOOKS
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THAT ARE QUITE EXPANSIVE,
SOMETIMES IT'S HARD TO REMEMBER
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THE CONTEXT. SO, IN
ROMANS CHAPTER 2, THE
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FOCUS IS 'YOU ARE GUILTY
AS WELL, YOU JEWS.' OKAY?
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AND LET'S PICK OUT A KEY VERSE
THERE THAT - THAT CRYSTALLIZES
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THIS - LOOK AT VERSES 23 AND 24
IN ROMANS 2, "YOU WHO MAKE YOUR
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BOAST IN THE LAW" -
YOU SAY, 'WE HAVE THE LAW.
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WE'RE FOLLOWING GOD' - "DO YOU
DISHONOR GOD THROUGH BREAKING
00:16:34.99\00:16:38.93
THE LAW?" - IT'S A QUESTION,
BUT IT'S A RHETORICAL QUESTION,
00:16:38.96\00:16:42.40
BECAUSE - YOU KNOW IT'S A
RHETORICAL QUESTION BECAUSE IN
00:16:42.43\00:16:44.97
VERSE 24 HE SAYS, "FOR 'THE NAME
OF GOD IS BLASPHEMED AMONG THE
00:16:45.00\00:16:48.74
GENTILES BECAUSE OF YOU...'" SO,
IN ROMANS 1, ALL OF THE GENTILES
00:16:48.77\00:16:54.04
ARE LOST. IN ROMANS 2, ALL OF
THE JEWS ARE LOST. WHO, THEN, IN
00:16:54.08\00:17:01.15
THEMSELVES, CAN SAY, 'WE'VE
GOT IT ALL TOGETHER'? NOBODY.
00:17:01.18\00:17:06.25
SO ROMANS 3, AS WE BEGAN LOOKING
AT THIS IN LAST WEEK'S LESSON,
00:17:06.29\00:17:10.26
WE'RE CONTINUING THERE.
AND SO, OUR READING RIGHT NOW
00:17:10.29\00:17:13.83
COMES TO US FROM ROMANS 3,
VERSES 19 THROUGH 28 AND WE'RE
00:17:13.86\00:17:18.53
ACTUALLY GOING TO
READ THROUGH THAT.
00:17:18.57\00:17:20.37
IN FACT, I'M GOING TO TAKE THE
LIBERTY OF EVEN SLIPPING INTO
00:17:20.40\00:17:23.87
NEXT WEEK'S LESSON BECAUSE I
THINK THE - AT LEAST AS FAR AS
00:17:23.91\00:17:26.91
THE SCRIPTURE READING - DON'T
GET TOO WORRIED, BECAUSE I THINK
00:17:26.94\00:17:29.71
THE INDIVIDUALS WHO DIVIDED
UP THE CHAPTERS - YOU KNOW, NO
00:17:29.74\00:17:34.05
CHAPTERS AND VERSES IN THE
ORIGINAL BIBLE - IN THE ORIGINAL
00:17:34.08\00:17:37.39
SIGNATURE - THE LETTER THAT PAUL
WROTE, BUT I THINK THEY DID A
00:17:37.42\00:17:41.56
BETTER JOB OF PARSING IT OR,
ACTUALLY, BRINGING CLOSURE TO
00:17:41.59\00:17:47.86
THE THEME OF CHAPTER 3
THAT MAYBE WE DO HERE AS WE'RE
00:17:47.86\00:17:51.23
DIVIDING UP THE LESSON.
SO LET'S BEGIN WITH VERSE 19.
00:17:51.27\00:17:53.90
LET'S JUST READ THROUGH THAT
- FOLLOW ALONG AS WE READ FROM
00:17:53.94\00:17:56.94
ROMANS CHAPTER 3, BECAUSE WE'VE
TALKED ABOUT THE CONTEXT NOW -
00:17:56.97\00:18:01.11
THE CONTEXT IS ONE THAT WE SEE
THROUGHOUT SALVATION HISTORY -
00:18:01.14\00:18:04.75
BUT ROMANS 3, BEGINNING
WITH VERSE 19, "NOW WE KNOW THAT
00:18:04.78\00:18:08.38
WHATEVER THE LAW SAYS, IT SAYS
TO THOSE WHO ARE UNDER THE LAW,
00:18:08.42\00:18:13.12
THAT EVERY MOUTH MAY BE STOPPED,
AND ALL THE WORLD MAY BECOME
00:18:13.15\00:18:16.52
GUILTY BEFORE GOD." -
THAT'S JUST WHAT WE'VE
00:18:16.56\00:18:19.23
BEEN TALKING ABOUT,
RIGHT? HE'S JUST REVIEWING
00:18:19.26\00:18:21.16
WHAT HE'S DESCRIBED.
GENTILES LOST, JEWS LOST, EVERY
00:18:21.20\00:18:24.80
MOUTH MAY BE STOPPED - ALL THE
WORLD GUILTY BEFORE GOD - VERSE
00:18:24.83\00:18:28.10
20, "THEREFORE BY THE DEEDS
OF THE LAW NO FLESH WILL BE
00:18:28.14\00:18:32.21
JUSTIFIED IN HIS SIGHT, FOR BY
THE LAW IS THE KNOWLEDGE OF SIN.
00:18:32.24\00:18:36.64
BUT NOW THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD
APART FROM THE LAW IS REVEALED,
00:18:36.68\00:18:41.12
BEING WITNESSED BY THE
LAW AND THE PROPHETS, EVEN THE
00:18:41.15\00:18:44.19
RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD, THROUGH
FAITH IN JESUS CHRIST, TO ALL
00:18:44.22\00:18:47.52
AND ON ALL WHO BELIEVE.
FOR THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE; FOR
00:18:47.56\00:18:51.26
ALL HAVE SINNED AND FALL
SHORT OF THE GLORY OF GOD, BEING
00:18:51.29\00:18:54.20
JUSTIFIED FREELY BY HIS GRACE
THROUGH THE REDEMPTION THAT IS
00:18:54.23\00:18:58.00
IN CHRIST JESUS WHOM GOD SET FOR
AS A PROPITIATION BY HIS BLOOD,
00:18:58.03\00:19:03.30
THROUGH FAITH, TO DEMONSTRATE
HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS, BECAUSE IN
00:19:03.34\00:19:08.41
HIS FORBEARANCE GOD HAD
PASSED OVER THE SINS THAT WERE
00:19:08.44\00:19:12.08
PREVIOUSLY COMMITTED, TO
DEMONSTRATE AT THE PRESENT TIME
00:19:12.11\00:19:15.88
HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS, THAT HE MIGHT
BE JUST AND THE JUSTIFIER OF
00:19:15.92\00:19:20.16
THE ONE WHO HAS FAITH IN
JESUS. WHERE IS BOASTING THEN?
00:19:20.19\00:19:26.03
IT IS EXCLUDED. BY
WHAT LAW? OF WORKS?
00:19:26.06\00:19:29.30
NO, BUT BY THE LAW OF FAITH.
THEREFORE WE CONCLUDE THAT A MAN
00:19:29.33\00:19:33.80
IS JUSTIFIED BY FAITH
APART FROM THE DEEDS OF THE LAW.
00:19:33.84\00:19:38.91
OR IS HE THE GOD
OF THE JEWS ONLY?
00:19:38.94\00:19:40.51
IS HE NOT ALSO THE
GOD OF THE GENTILES?
00:19:40.54\00:19:42.68
YES, OF THE GENTILES ALSO,
SINCE THERE IS ONE GOD WHO WILL
00:19:42.71\00:19:46.38
JUSTIFY THE CIRCUMCISED BY FAITH
AND THE UNCIRCUMCISED THROUGH
00:19:46.41\00:19:50.29
FAITH. DO WE THEN MAKE
VOID THE LAW THROUGH FAITH?
00:19:50.32\00:19:53.56
CERTAINLY NOT! ON THE
CONTRARY, WE ESTABLISH THE LAW."
00:19:53.59\00:20:00.53
SO THAT IS THE SCRIPTURAL
PASSAGE THAT WE WANT TO HONE IN
00:20:00.56\00:20:04.17
ON AND IT'S ONE THAT FOCUSES IN.
DID YOU CATCH HOW MANY TIMES IN
00:20:04.20\00:20:08.70
THAT PASSAGE YOU
HEARD WORDS LIKE 'FAITH' AND
00:20:08.74\00:20:11.41
'RIGHTEOUSNESS'?
DID YOU CATCH THAT?
00:20:11.44\00:20:13.58
SO MULTIPLE TIMES WE HAVE THESE
THEMES COMING UP THAT IS THE
00:20:13.61\00:20:17.28
FOCUS, REALLY, OF THE ENTIRE
BOOK OF ROMANS, AND WE REALLY
00:20:17.31\00:20:20.65
SEE, AS WE LOOK AT THE
SCRIPTURAL REVELATION, IT IS THE
00:20:20.68\00:20:23.89
FOCUS OF THE ENTIRE
BIBLE. IT'S SPEAKING ABOUT HOW
00:20:23.92\00:20:28.72
WE CAN BE RIGHT WITH GOD.
WELL, AS WE'RE TALKING ABOUT
00:20:28.76\00:20:33.83
THESE THEMES, WE WANT TO LOOK
AT SOME VARIOUS PARALLELS IN THE
00:20:33.86\00:20:38.43
SCRIPTURES AND THEN WE WANT TO
LOOK VERY CLOSELY AT THE BOOK OF
00:20:38.47\00:20:41.94
ROMANS - PARTICULARLY IN THIS
PASSAGE THAT WE'VE JUST READ.
00:20:41.97\00:20:45.01
AND I WANT TO NOTICE SOMETHING
WITH YOU - NOTICE TOGETHER -
00:20:45.04\00:20:49.34
THAT IN THE PASSAGE WE READ
IT CAN MAKE THE LAW LOOK LIKE
00:20:49.38\00:20:54.98
SOMETHING BAD. IN
FACT, MANY CHRISTIANS LOOK
00:20:55.02\00:21:00.09
AT THE LAW AS ONLY AN ENEMY.
YOU SEE IN VERSE 19 AND VERSE
00:21:00.12\00:21:05.13
20, IT'S VERY CLEAR THAT BY THE
DEEDS OF THE LAW - BY DOING WHAT
00:21:05.16\00:21:11.13
THE LAW SAYS, NONE OF US CAN BE
SAVED, RIGHT? WE'VE ALL SINNED.
00:21:11.17\00:21:17.87
THIS IS PAUL'S
ARGUMENT LEADING UP TO IT.
00:21:17.91\00:21:19.84
LOOK AT VERSE 9 OF ROMANS 3.
I WANT YOU TO NOTICE THERE IS A
00:21:19.87\00:21:23.11
PARALLEL HERE, BECAUSE WE TALK
ABOUT BEING UNDER THE LAW AND
00:21:23.14\00:21:32.72
MANY OF OUR CHRISTIAN BROTHERS
AND FRIENDS IN OTHER CHURCHES,
00:21:32.75\00:21:36.19
THEY LOOK AT VERSE 19,
THEY SAY, 'BOY, BEING UNDER THE
00:21:36.22\00:21:38.99
LAW, THAT'S REALLY
BAD. THAT'S REALLY BAD.
00:21:39.03\00:21:42.26
WE WANT TO GET RID OF THE LAW
BECAUSE IT'S BAD TO BE UNDER THE
00:21:42.30\00:21:46.17
LAW.' WELL, LOOK AT VERSE
19 AND COMPARE IT WITH VERSE 9.
00:21:46.20\00:21:49.60
PAUL IS SPEAKING
OF THE SAME THING.
00:21:49.64\00:21:51.84
HE'S USING SYNONYMS HERE.
IN VERSE 9 HE SAYS, "WHAT THEN?
00:21:51.87\00:21:55.31
ARE WE" - SPEAKING OF THE JEWS
- HE'S A JEW HIMSELF - "ARE WE
00:21:55.34\00:21:58.55
BETTER THAN THEY?" - REFERRING
TO THE GENTILES - "NOT AT ALL.
00:21:58.58\00:22:03.15
FOR WE HAVE PREVIOUSLY CHARGED
BOTH JEWS AND GREEKS THAT THEY
00:22:03.18\00:22:07.09
ARE ALL UNDER" -
WHAT? - "UNDER SIN."
00:22:07.12\00:22:10.86
UNDER SIN - THAT'S VERSE 9.
AND WHEN WE COME TO THE PARALLEL
00:22:10.89\00:22:14.10
PASSAGE IN VERSE 19 HE SAYS WE
ARE ALL UNDER LAW - NOW YOU SAY,
00:22:14.13\00:22:21.00
'YOU'RE PARAPHRASING.'
WELL, I'M PARAPHRASING, YES.
00:22:21.04\00:22:23.30
IT SAYS - LET'S READ VERSE
19 AGAIN, "NOW WE KNOW THAT
00:22:23.34\00:22:26.27
WHATEVER THE LAW SAYS, IT SAYS
TO THOSE WHO ARE UNDER THE LAW,
00:22:26.31\00:22:30.15
THAT EVERY MOUTH MAY BE
STOPPED, AND ALL THE WORLD MAY
00:22:30.18\00:22:35.05
BECOME GUILTY BEFORE
GOD." SO, ACCORDING TO PAUL'S
00:22:35.08\00:22:38.82
ARGUMENT, WHO
DOES THE LAW CONDEMN?
00:22:38.85\00:22:42.52
EVERYONE, OKAY? EVERYONE.
00:22:42.56\00:22:46.03
NOW LET'S JUST
PAUSE FOR A LITTLE BIT.
00:22:46.06\00:22:49.13
IS THE LAW A GOOD
THING OR A BAD THING?
00:22:49.16\00:22:53.10
DOES THE LAW SHOW US
OUR NEED FOR A SAVIOR?
00:22:53.13\00:22:56.00
>>YES. >>YES.
00:22:56.04\00:22:58.77
YOU KNOW, IT'S VERY INTERESTING.
WHEN JESUS SUMMARIZED THE LAW -
00:22:58.81\00:23:03.11
YOU KNOW, MORE THAN ONCE IN THE
GOSPEL ACCOUNTS JESUS WAS ASKED
00:23:03.14\00:23:07.82
TO SUMMARIZE THE
LAW, IF YOU WILL.
00:23:07.85\00:23:08.98
AND HOW DID HE SUMMARIZE
IT? THAT'S RIGHT, IF YOU WERE TO
00:23:09.02\00:23:12.65
PARAPHRASE IT - I HEARD SOMEONE
GIVE A QUICK PARAPHRASE, YOU
00:23:12.69\00:23:14.86
KNOW, 'LOVE GOD AND LOVE MAN' -
RIGHT? THAT'S HOW HE PARAPHRASED
00:23:14.89\00:23:19.26
THOSE TEN COMMANDMENTS.
SO, IS THAT A GOOD THING?
00:23:19.29\00:23:24.63
DOES GOD NO LONGER WANT
US TO LOVE GOD AND LOVE MAN?
00:23:24.67\00:23:29.14
YOU SAY, 'WELL, OF COURSE NOT.'
IN FACT, IN 1 JOHN, WHEN GOD'S
00:23:29.17\00:23:33.68
CHARACTER IS SYNTHESIZED IN A
SINGLE WORD, GOD IS DESCRIBED AS
00:23:33.71\00:23:39.41
- >>LOVE. >>LOVE.
SO IT HAS RIGHTLY BEEN
00:23:39.45\00:23:42.88
SAID THAT THE LAW IS A
TRANSCRIPT OF GOD'S CHARACTER.
00:23:42.92\00:23:49.76
SOME OF YOU KNOW, IN THE MEDICAL
WORK I DO - THE CLINICAL MEDICAL
00:23:49.79\00:23:54.56
WORK I DO - I WORK WITH
AN UNDER SERVED POPULATION.
00:23:54.60\00:23:59.50
AND SOME OF MY PATIENTS HAVE
TOLD ME THAT THEY EITHER ARE OR
00:23:59.53\00:24:04.64
HAVE LIVED IN THEIR CAR.
YOU UNDERSTAND THE SIGNIFICANCE
00:24:04.67\00:24:09.81
OF THAT, RIGHT? IN
FACT, THERE'S A COUPLE OF
00:24:09.84\00:24:12.28
FOLKS RIGHT NOW THAT ARE WORRIED
THAT THEY MAY BE LIVING IN THEIR
00:24:12.31\00:24:15.75
CAR AGAIN BECAUSE THEY'RE
GOING THROUGH SOME TURMOIL IN
00:24:15.78\00:24:19.69
THEIR LIVING ARRANGEMENTS.
SO THEY DON'T HAVE A HOME -
00:24:19.72\00:24:23.63
THE ONLY HOME
THEY HAVE IS A VEHICLE.
00:24:23.66\00:24:26.80
FOLLOWING ALONG WITH THE STORY?
BY THE WAY, IS A VEHICLE BETTER
00:24:26.83\00:24:30.83
THAN SLEEPING
OUT UNDER THE STARS?
00:24:30.87\00:24:34.64
>>YES. >>YEAH, I
MEAN, IF - YOU KNOW,
00:24:34.67\00:24:38.27
LET'S SAY IT DOESN'T LEAK
AND THE ENGINE WORKS - RIGHT?
00:24:38.31\00:24:42.44
YOU CAN WARM YOURSELF UP, YOU'VE
GOT A ROOF OVER YOUR HEAD, SO IT
00:24:42.48\00:24:45.55
CAN SERVE THE FUNCTION
OF A PLACE TO SLEEP, RIGHT?
00:24:45.58\00:24:48.78
A VEHICLE. SO
LET'S SAY ONE OF THOSE
00:24:48.82\00:24:51.72
INDIVIDUALS CAME INTO THE
GRANITE BAY CHURCH THIS MORNING
00:24:51.75\00:24:54.82
AND WE AS A CHURCH SAID, 'WE
WANT' - THEY'RE LIVING IN THEIR
00:24:54.86\00:24:58.56
CAR AND WE SAY,
'WE WANT TO HELP YOU.
00:24:58.59\00:25:01.50
WE'RE GOING TO GIVE YOU A HOTEL
ROOM' OR 'WE'RE GOING TO RENT A
00:25:01.53\00:25:03.87
PLACE FOR YOU.' SO WE RENT A
PLACE FOR THEM AND NOW WE GO BY
00:25:03.90\00:25:09.24
THEIR - WE GO BY THEIR
- WOULD YOU BELIEVE IT?
00:25:09.27\00:25:14.84
WE JUST PUT THEM UP IN A
NICE RENTAL - WOULD YOU BELIEVE
00:25:14.88\00:25:18.91
WHAT'S IN FRONT
OF THAT RENTAL PLACE?
00:25:18.95\00:25:21.92
THEIR CAR IS STILL THERE.
SO HOW MANY OF YOU WOULD GO AND
00:25:21.95\00:25:25.52
SAY, 'HEY, BROTHER, SISTER,
I MEAN, GET RID OF THE CAR.
00:25:25.55\00:25:29.16
WE'VE GIVEN YOU A PLACE TO
LIVE.' HOW MANY OF YOU THINK IT
00:25:29.19\00:25:32.26
WOULD BE REASONABLE FOR THEM
TO GET RID OF THEIR CAR NOW?
00:25:32.29\00:25:36.16
WHY ARE YOU ALL
SHAKING YOUR HEAD 'NO'?
00:25:36.20\00:25:38.70
BECAUSE YOU'RE SAYING THE CAR
HAS MULTIPLE FUNCTIONS, RIGHT?
00:25:38.73\00:25:42.74
I MEAN, IT'S MOST
STATED FUNCTION IS WHAT?
00:25:42.77\00:25:47.38
IS TO TRANSPORT YOU.
THEY STILL NEED THEIR
00:25:47.41\00:25:49.11
VEHICLE FOR TRANSPORTATION.
NOW, IT MAY BE A CRUDE
00:25:49.14\00:25:52.48
ILLUSTRATION, BUT THE LAW
HAS MULTIPLE FUNCTIONS, OKAY?
00:25:52.51\00:25:58.25
THE LAW IS A
REVELATION OF GOD'S CHARACTER.
00:25:58.29\00:26:00.79
SO, APART FROM GOD, WHEN WE'RE
LIVING APART FROM GOD - WHEN
00:26:00.82\00:26:06.09
WE'RE LIVING ON OUR OWN IN SIN,
WHETHER WE'RE JEW OR GENTILE,
00:26:06.13\00:26:09.23
WHETHER WE'RE IN THE CHURCH
OR OUTSIDE THE CHURCH, WHETHER
00:26:09.26\00:26:11.37
WE'RE RAISED IN A HOME
THAT REGARDED GOD OR A HOME THAT
00:26:11.40\00:26:15.20
DIDN'T, THE LAW
POINTS OUT OUR DEFICIENCY.
00:26:15.24\00:26:19.54
IT SHOWS THAT WE DO NOT MEET
THE STANDARD OF GOD'S CHARACTER.
00:26:19.57\00:26:23.28
IS THAT
STRAIGHTFORWARD ENOUGH? >>YES.
00:26:23.31\00:26:25.05
>>IT SHOWS US OUR
NEED FOR A SAVIOR.
00:26:25.08\00:26:28.08
AND PAUL IS SPEAKING
ABOUT THAT HERE IN ROMANS 3.
00:26:28.12\00:26:31.02
BUT BEFORE ROMANS 3 CONCLUDES,
PAUL ASKS A QUESTION THAT It
00:26:31.05\00:26:35.89
SEEMS MOST OF THE
CHRISTIAN WORLD HAS MISSED.
00:26:35.92\00:26:37.86
AND I KNOW WE'RE GOING TO BE
LOOKING AT THIS MORE AS WE GO
00:26:37.89\00:26:40.00
THROUGH THE SERIES ON
ROMANS. BUT HE ASKS A QUESTION.
00:26:40.03\00:26:44.83
AND THE QUESTION HE ASKS AT THE
CONCLUSION OF ROMANS 3, IS 'DO
00:26:44.87\00:26:48.97
WE MAKE VOID THE
LAW THROUGH FAITH?'
00:26:49.00\00:26:51.64
CAN WE GET RID OF THE LAW
NOW BECAUSE WE'VE COME TO JESUS?
00:26:51.67\00:26:55.38
IS THE ONLY FUNCTION OF THE LAW,
AS WE STUDIED IN GALATIANS, TO
00:26:55.41\00:26:59.51
BE A SCHOOLMASTER
TO LEAD US TO CHRIST?
00:26:59.55\00:27:01.98
CAN WE GET RID OF THE LAW
NOW, AND WHAT IS THE ANSWER?
00:27:02.02\00:27:04.59
>>NO. >>THE ANSWER IS NO.
00:27:04.62\00:27:10.86
SONIA AND I WERE TRAVELING LAST
WEEK AND WE WERE IN A HOTEL ROOM
00:27:10.89\00:27:17.30
AND SHE WAS
OCCUPIED WITH SOMETHING ELSE.
00:27:17.33\00:27:19.83
I WAS SCANNING THROUGH THE
CHANNELS TO SEE IF THERE WAS -
00:27:19.87\00:27:21.87
ACTUALLY THERE'S OFTEN ADVENTIST
CHANNELS NOW - ONE OF THE HOTELS
00:27:21.90\00:27:25.87
I'M OFTEN IN - EITHER 3ABN
OR HOPE CHANNEL IS AVAILABLE ON
00:27:25.91\00:27:31.65
THOSE, YOU KNOW,
BIG SATELLITE NETWORKS.
00:27:31.68\00:27:34.48
AND SO I'M GOING THROUGH THOSE
CHANNELS - I FOUND A COUPLE OF
00:27:34.52\00:27:37.35
CHRISTIAN STATIONS AND, DURING
THAT TRIP, WE HAD ONE OF THEM ON
00:27:37.39\00:27:41.72
AT ONE POINT IN TIME AND THERE
WAS A CHRISTIAN AUTHOR SPEAKING
00:27:41.76\00:27:47.20
ABOUT HIS EXPERIENCE - WELL
KNOWN INDIVIDUAL - AND HE WASN'T
00:27:47.23\00:27:50.63
QUOTING A LOT OF BIBLE, BUT HE
WAS SHARING HIS OWN EXPERIENCE
00:27:50.67\00:27:53.97
AND, IN SO MANY WORDS, HE WAS
SAYING, 'I WAS CONVICTED BY THE
00:27:54.00\00:27:58.01
TEN COMMANDMENTS.' - NOT A
SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST - 'I WAS
00:27:58.04\00:28:00.41
CONVICTED BY THE TEN
COMMANDMENTS THAT I WAS LIVING
00:28:00.44\00:28:03.08
IN SIN.' HE HAD A PROBLEM WITH
PORNOGRAPHY - HE WAS SHARING
00:28:03.11\00:28:07.12
WITH THE TELEVISION AUDIENCE.
AND HE SAID WHAT GAVE HIM POWER
00:28:07.15\00:28:14.79
WAS THIS CONCEPT THAT WE'RE
GOING TO BE LOOKING AT IN MORE
00:28:14.82\00:28:17.53
DETAIL RIGHT NOW, IS THIS
THEME OF RIGHTEOUSNESS BY FAITH.
00:28:17.56\00:28:21.66
AGAIN, HE DIDN'T USE THOSE EXACT
WORDS, BUT HE WAS SPEAKING NOT
00:28:21.70\00:28:26.07
ABOUT JUSTIFICATION - WE'LL TALK
A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THAT - BUT HE
00:28:26.10\00:28:29.87
WAS NOW SPEAKING
ABOUT SANCTIFICATION.
00:28:29.90\00:28:32.77
THEY'RE BOTH INCLUDED IN THE
WORK THAT JESUS WANTS TO DO FOR
00:28:32.81\00:28:36.58
US. LET'S LOOK, NOW, AT ROMANS 3
00:28:36.61\00:28:40.42
BECAUSE WE'VE
TALKED ABOUT THE PROBLEM.
00:28:40.45\00:28:43.32
WE'VE SEEN IT IN THE EXODUS -
THE EGYPTIANS CRYING OUT THEY'RE
00:28:43.35\00:28:47.79
LOST - GOD'S PEOPLE
CRYING OUT THEY'RE LOST.
00:28:47.82\00:28:50.69
WE SEE IT, NOW, IN ROMANS, PAUL
IS DRIVING HOME HIS ARGUMENT, WE
00:28:50.73\00:28:54.60
ARE ALL LOST. VERSE
21 OF ROMANS 3, "BUT NOW
00:28:54.63\00:29:02.24
THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD APART
FROM THE LAW IS REVEALED, BEING
00:29:02.27\00:29:08.38
WITNESSED BY THE LAW AND
THE PROPHETS," - SO THERE IS A
00:29:08.41\00:29:13.62
RIGHTEOUSNESS - WE
CANNOT DO RIGHT ENOUGH TO BE
00:29:13.65\00:29:17.69
SAVED BY THE LAW.
WHAT DOES THE LAW REQUIRE?
00:29:17.72\00:29:22.02
YEAH, THE LAW REQUIRES
PERFECT OBEDIENCE, OKAY?
00:29:22.06\00:29:25.99
AND SO, WE CAN'T, AS - IN
OUR SINFUL FLESH, WE CANNOT, IN
00:29:26.03\00:29:29.93
OURSELVES, DELIVER
PERFECT RIGHTEOUSNESS.
00:29:29.96\00:29:33.90
WE'VE ALL SINNED,
SO WE'RE ALL LOST.
00:29:33.94\00:29:36.81
WE'VE ALL FAILED TO MEET GOD'S
DIVINE STANDARD, WHICH IS HIS
00:29:36.84\00:29:40.18
CHARACTER. IN FACT,
THINK ABOUT IT FOR A
00:29:40.21\00:29:42.61
MINUTE, WHEN GOD CREATED ADAM
AND EVE, HE CREATED THEM HOW?
00:29:42.64\00:29:54.39
PERFECT IN HIS IMAGE. SO
WHEN WE SEE GOD, WE REALIZE
00:29:54.42\00:30:02.90
WHAT WE WERE CALLED TO BE AND WE
SEE, IN THE LAW, THIS REVELATION
00:30:02.93\00:30:06.07
OF GOD'S CHARACTER AND WE, IN
OUR SINFUL FLESH, DON'T MEET IT.
00:30:06.10\00:30:10.61
AND SO, WHEN WE SEE GOD
CLEARLY, WE'RE LIKE ISAIAH.
00:30:10.64\00:30:15.08
YOU REMEMBER THAT, IN ISAIAH 6,
WHEN HE HAS THAT VISION OF GOD
00:30:15.11\00:30:19.88
IN HEAVEN? WHAT DOES HE
SAY? HE SAYS, 'WOE IS ME.
00:30:19.91\00:30:25.55
I'M UNDONE. I'M A
MAN OF UNCLEAN LIPS.
00:30:25.59\00:30:28.82
I DON'T MEET THE STANDARD.'
THAT'S WHAT IS HAPPENING HERE IN
00:30:28.86\00:30:32.23
ROMANS. AND SO,
PAUL IS SAYING, IN
00:30:32.26\00:30:34.73
ROMANS 3, IN THE VERSES WE JUST
READ, THERE IS NO WAY THAT WE
00:30:34.73\00:30:39.17
CAN BE SAVED ON OUR OWN, BUT
THE GOOD NEWS: THE RIGHTEOUSNESS
00:30:39.20\00:30:44.01
OF GOD APART FROM THE LAW
IS REVEALED AND THAT HAS BEEN
00:30:44.04\00:30:48.54
WITNESSED BY THE
LAW AND THE PROPHETS.
00:30:48.58\00:30:50.68
BY THE WAY, THE LAW AND THE
PROPHETS, HERE, IS REFERRING TO
00:30:50.71\00:30:54.25
THE WHOLE OF
SCRIPTURAL INSPIRATION.
00:30:54.28\00:30:57.42
SOMETIMES WHEN THE NEW TESTAMENT
WRITERS SPOKE OF THE PAST
00:30:57.45\00:31:02.36
REVELATION, THEY SAID 'THE
LAW AND THE PROPHETS AND THE
00:31:02.39\00:31:05.96
WRITINGS.' REMEMBER, JESUS,
IN LUKE 24, WHEN HE'S SPEAKING
00:31:05.99\00:31:09.43
ABOUT ALL OF THE PAST
REVELATION, HE USES THESE
00:31:09.46\00:31:12.73
DIVISIONS OF THE OLD TESTAMENT.
WHAT IS THE LAW IN THE SECOND
00:31:12.77\00:31:16.71
PART OF VERSE 21 REFERRING TO?
WHAT WAS THE LAW TO THE JEWS?
00:31:16.74\00:31:27.12
IT WAS THE PENTATEUCH - IT WAS
THOSE FIRST FIVE BOOKS OF THE
00:31:27.15\00:31:29.68
BIBLE - AND THE PROPHETS, USED
HERE SOMEWHAT METAPHORICALLY,
00:31:29.72\00:31:35.99
IT'S ALL THE REST OF THE
OLD TESTAMENT REVELATION.
00:31:36.02\00:31:39.19
AND SO, WHAT PAUL IS SAYING
IS THAT ALL OF SCRIPTURE REVEALS
00:31:39.23\00:31:44.00
IT. SO WHAT WE'RE LOOKING
AT IN EXODUS IS NOT A STRETCH.
00:31:44.03\00:31:47.37
IT'S NOT A STRETCH TO SEE
THE GOSPEL IN THE OLD TESTAMENT,
00:31:47.40\00:31:51.37
BECAUSE IT'S THE SAME
GOSPEL FROM THE VERY BEGINNING.
00:31:51.41\00:31:54.84
AND WHAT IS THAT GOSPEL?
LET'S READ ON IN VERSE 22.
00:31:54.88\00:31:57.91
WE'VE BEEN GIVEN THIS REVELATION
OF THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD
00:31:57.95\00:32:02.32
THROUGH FAITH IN JESUS CHRIST,
TO ALL AND ON ALL WHO BELIEVE.
00:32:02.35\00:32:09.39
SO WHO IS THE PROMISE FOR? >>US.
00:32:09.42\00:32:12.79
>>THE PROMISE IS FOR US,
THAT'S RIGHT. IT'S FOR EVERYONE.
00:32:12.83\00:32:16.06
REGARDLESS OF WHAT OUR
BACKGROUND IS, GOD IS TELLING US
00:32:16.10\00:32:20.67
THAT HE HAS PROVIDED A
RIGHTEOUSNESS IN JESUS CHRIST.
00:32:20.70\00:32:26.24
LET'S LOOK A
LITTLE BIT MORE CLOSELY.
00:32:26.27\00:32:28.21
AGAIN, VERSE 23 - IF YOU HAVEN'T
HEARD IT ALREADY, "FOR ALL HAVE
00:32:28.24\00:32:33.65
SINNED AND FALL SHORT OF THE
GLORY OF GOD" - I MEAN, PAUL IS
00:32:33.68\00:32:37.22
AT THE EXPENSE OF BEING ACCUSED
OF BEING OVERLY REPETITIOUS.
00:32:37.25\00:32:43.66
PAUL IS SAYING, 'GENTILES
SIN, JEWS SIN, WE'VE ALL SINNED,
00:32:43.69\00:32:47.20
WE'RE ALL UNDER THE LAW, WE'RE
ALL UNDER SIN, WE'RE ALL' - I
00:32:47.23\00:32:49.80
MEAN, IF YOU GOT THE MESSAGE, DO
YOU THINK IT WAS IMPORTANT FOR
00:32:49.83\00:32:52.87
PAUL TO HELP US SEE
THAT WE'RE ALL LOST?
00:32:52.90\00:32:58.67
YOU KNOW, IN MANY CIRCLES TODAY
CHRISTIANS DON'T WANT TO TALK
00:32:58.71\00:33:04.35
ABOUT THE NEED FOR REPENTANCE.
REALLY, THIS IS TRUE.
00:33:04.38\00:33:07.62
YOU GO TO MANY CHURCHES AND THEY
WANT TO TELL YOU HOW MUCH GOD
00:33:07.65\00:33:09.88
LOVES YOU. AND THAT'S ALL GOOD,
AND IT'S ALL TRUE, BUT THEY
00:33:09.92\00:33:12.72
DON'T WANT TO TALK ABOUT OUR
SINFULNESS. AND IT'S ONLY OUR
00:33:12.75\00:33:16.42
SINFULNESS THAT HELPS
US RECOGNIZE OUR NEED.
00:33:16.46\00:33:21.40
SO HERE WE ARE, "...ALL HAVE
SINNED AND FALL SHORT OF THE
00:33:21.43\00:33:25.47
GLORY OF GOD" - VERSE 24, "BEING
JUSTIFIED" - BEING MADE RIGHT -
00:33:25.50\00:33:29.80
BEING MADE JUST BEFORE GOD -
"FREELY BY HIS GRACE THROUGH THE
00:33:29.84\00:33:37.45
REDEMPTION THAT IS IN CHRIST
JESUS, WHOM GOD SET FORTH AS A
00:33:37.48\00:33:42.35
PROPITIATION BY HIS BLOOD,
THROUGH FAITH, TO DEMONSTRATE
00:33:42.38\00:33:45.89
HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS, BECAUSE IN
HIS FORBEARANCE GOD HAD PASSED
00:33:45.92\00:33:49.46
OVER THE SINS THAT WERE
PREVIOUSLY COMMITTED," - NOW WE
00:33:49.49\00:33:53.19
HAVE SOME SCRIPTURES THAT WE
HAVE ASSIGNED TO FOLKS TO READ
00:33:53.23\00:33:57.50
FOR US, AND WE ARE GOING TO
LOOK AT ONE OF THOSE IN JUST A
00:33:57.53\00:34:03.10
MOMENT. WHO HAS THE
FIRST SCRIPTURE FOR US? OKAY.
00:34:03.14\00:34:07.61
AND LET'S MAKE SURE WE'RE ALL
ON THE SAME PAGE HERE, INCLUDING
00:34:07.64\00:34:13.01
THE PERSON UP FRONT.
WHAT SCRIPTURE DO YOU HAVE?
00:34:13.05\00:34:15.88
>>EXODUS 12:13.
>>EXODUS 12:13, OH EXCELLENT.
00:34:15.92\00:34:22.22
IT'S EXACTLY WHERE WE
NEED TO GO IN JUST A MOMENT.
00:34:22.26\00:34:25.09
SO WHAT WE'RE LOOKING AT HERE -
AND, BY THE WAY, THIS IS IN YOUR
00:34:25.13\00:34:29.20
LESSON. THE
LESSON IS WALKING PRETTY
00:34:29.23\00:34:31.13
MUCH THROUGH THIS
PASSAGE IN ROMANS 3.
00:34:31.17\00:34:34.37
BUT I WANT YOU TO
NOTICE WEDNESDAY'S LESSON.
00:34:34.40\00:34:38.24
WEDNESDAY'S LESSON IS SPEAKING
PARTICULARLY ABOUT ROMANS 3,
00:34:38.27\00:34:41.94
VERSE 25.
THERE'S A TECHNICAL WORD
00:34:41.98\00:34:45.91
THAT PAUL USES THERE.
THE GREEK WORD IS ACTUALLY
00:34:45.95\00:34:50.22
PROVIDED IN YOUR QUARTERLY,
IT'S HILASTERION - HILASTERION.
00:34:50.25\00:34:55.46
IT ONLY OCCURS ONE OTHER PLACE
IN THE NEW TESTAMENT AND THAT'S
00:34:55.49\00:34:59.73
IN THE BOOK OF HEBREWS.
IT'S REFERENCED THERE IN YOUR
00:34:59.76\00:35:01.93
QUARTERLY - HEBREWS 9, VERSE
5. THAT WORD, HILASTERION IS
00:35:01.96\00:35:06.90
ACTUALLY - IF YOU LOOK AT THE
SEPTUAGINT - THE SEPTUAGINT IS
00:35:06.94\00:35:11.14
THE GREEK TRANSLATION
OF THE OLD TESTAMENT.
00:35:11.17\00:35:16.08
IF YOU LOOK AT IT, THAT WORD,
HILASTERION, IS THE WORD THAT IS
00:35:16.11\00:35:19.65
USED TO TRANSLATE A HEBREW TERM,
KAPPORETH, AND KAPPORETH REFERS
00:35:19.68\00:35:25.62
TO THE COVERING OVER THE
ARK OF THE TESTIMONY, SOMETIMES
00:35:25.65\00:35:31.09
REFERRED TO AS THE MERCY SEAT.
SO JESUS, IN VERSE 25 OF ROMANS
00:35:31.13\00:35:37.30
3, IS IDENTIFIED WITH - IS
CONNECTED WITH THE HILASTERION -
00:35:37.33\00:35:45.27
THE MERCY SEAT - IT'S TRANSLATED
'PROPITIATION' BUT IT IS A VERY
00:35:45.31\00:35:49.28
DIRECT, TECHNICAL TERM THAT
BRINGS US INTO WHAT WE WOULD
00:35:49.31\00:35:53.72
CALL 'THE LAW' - THE
FIRST FIVE BOOKS OF THE BIBLE.
00:35:53.75\00:35:56.99
SO SOME OF YOU MAY HAVE THOUGHT,
'WELL THIS CONNECTION WITH THE
00:35:57.02\00:36:00.16
BOOK OF EXODUS THAT
WE'RE LOOKING AT IS A BIT OF A
00:36:00.19\00:36:02.49
STRETCH, BUT I'M TRYING TO TELL
YOU, VERY MUCH EMBEDDED IN THIS
00:36:02.52\00:36:07.20
PASSAGE IS PAUL IS SAYING, IN
SO MANY WORDS, 'IF YOU WANT TO
00:36:07.23\00:36:10.40
UNDERSTAND WHAT I'M SAYING, YOU
HAVE TO UNDERSTAND THE BOOK OF
00:36:10.43\00:36:13.47
EXODUS.' AND SO HE USES THIS
TECHNICAL TERM THAT BRINGS US
00:36:13.50\00:36:17.11
RIGHT TO THE SANCTUARY.
AND OUR SISTER, RIGHT NOW, IS
00:36:17.14\00:36:20.08
GOING TO READ TO US, FROM EXODUS
12, ANOTHER VERSE THAT BRINGS US
00:36:20.11\00:36:26.11
INTO THIS VERY
SAME DISCUSSION. PLEASE.
00:36:26.15\00:36:29.45
>>EXODUS 12:13, "NOW THE BLOOD
SHALL BE A SIGN FOR YOU ON THE
00:36:29.48\00:36:33.96
HOUSES WHERE YOU ARE. AND
WHEN I SEE THE BLOOD, I WILL
00:36:33.99\00:36:37.29
PASS OVER YOU; AND THE PLAGUE
SHALL NOT BE ON YOU TO DESTROY
00:36:37.33\00:36:40.86
YOU WHEN I STRIKE
THE LAND OF EGYPT."
00:36:40.90\00:36:44.07
>>SO WHEN GOD WAS PROVIDING
FOR HIS PEOPLE, IN THE OLD
00:36:44.10\00:36:48.07
TESTAMENT, WHEN JUDGEMENT WAS
GOING TO COME, WHEN THE, IF YOU
00:36:48.10\00:36:54.34
WILL, THE RESULTS OF THE
LAW - AND THE LAW WAS, SIMPLY,
00:36:54.38\00:37:01.62
'BELIEVE, OBEY, TRUST ME, AND
EVERYTHING WILL BE OKAY; TRUST
00:37:01.65\00:37:06.59
IN YOURSELVES AND YOU'LL BE
LOST.' THAT'S BEEN THE MESSAGE
00:37:06.62\00:37:08.92
FROM THE BEGINNING, AND
GOD GAVE THAT MESSAGE TO THE
00:37:08.96\00:37:11.03
EGYPTIANS - 'TRUST ME - TRUST IN
MY PROVISION - YOU WILL BE FINE.
00:37:11.06\00:37:15.80
DETERMINE TO DO IT ON YOUR OWN
- DETERMINE THAT YOU DON'T NEED
00:37:15.83\00:37:18.80
GOD AND YOU WILL BE LOST.'
THIS IS THE MESSAGE THERE.
00:37:18.83\00:37:22.30
WHAT WAS THE SIGN THAT
THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL HAD TO
00:37:22.34\00:37:26.17
DISPLAY THAT THEY
WERE TRUSTING IN GOD?
00:37:26.21\00:37:31.58
THAT'S RIGHT, THEY HAD
TO SLAY THE INNOCENT VICTIM.
00:37:31.61\00:37:37.35
THEY HAD TO SLAY THE SINLESS
LAMB, IF YOU WILL, THE GUILTLESS
00:37:37.39\00:37:41.22
LAMB HAD DONE NOTHING WRONG, AND
THEY HAD TO APPLY THAT BLOOD ON
00:37:41.26\00:37:45.99
THE DOOR OF THEIR HOME.
WHAT GREAT WORK WERE THEY DOING?
00:37:46.03\00:37:53.50
DID ANYONE GET UP THAT NIGHT,
WHEN THE EGYPTIANS WERE CRYING,
00:37:53.54\00:37:57.61
AND SOMEONE SAID, 'I JUST SAVED
MY WHOLE FAMILY.' DO YOU THINK
00:37:57.64\00:38:01.31
ANYONE SAID THAT? I
MEAN, IT'S POSSIBLE THEY COULD
00:38:01.34\00:38:05.05
HAVE, BUT WHO WAS
THE ONE SAVING THEM?
00:38:05.08\00:38:08.72
>>GOD. >>GOD
WAS THE SAVIOR - AND
00:38:08.75\00:38:11.32
THEY WERE SAYING THAT 'WE ARE
TRUSTING IN GOD TO PASS BY OUR
00:38:11.35\00:38:15.29
HOMES. WE ARE
APPLYING THE BLOOD.'
00:38:15.32\00:38:16.99
WAS THERE A WORK
FOR THEM TO DO? >>YES.
00:38:17.03\00:38:19.53
>>THERE WAS A WORK FOR THEM TO
DO. THEY HAD TO SHOW - THEY HAD
00:38:19.56\00:38:22.53
TO DEMONSTRATE THEIR FAITH IN
GOD'S WORD - IN GOD'S PROMISES.
00:38:22.56\00:38:27.34
THEY HAD TO APPLY
THE PROMISE OF GOD.
00:38:27.37\00:38:30.34
THEY HAD TO TRUST IN THE
BLOOD OF THE SINLESS VICTIM.
00:38:30.37\00:38:35.88
WE'RE SPEAKING ABOUT THE PLAN
OF SALVATION, AND SO MANY TIMES
00:38:35.91\00:38:41.25
THIS PLAN HAS EITHER
BEEN UNDERMINED, AS FAR AS ITS
00:38:41.28\00:38:44.52
SIMPLICITY, OR IT ACTUALLY HAS
BEEN MADE TOO - I DON'T WANT TO
00:38:44.55\00:38:51.39
SAY TOO SIMPLISTIC, BUT A
DISSERVICE HAS BEEN DONE TO GOD.
00:38:51.43\00:38:56.73
IF YOU LOOK AT YOUR QUARTERLY,
SOME OF YOU WHO HAVE STUDIED IT
00:38:56.77\00:38:59.23
ALREADY, YOU READ A NUMBER OF
TIMES THERE ARE STATEMENTS FROM
00:38:59.27\00:39:02.77
ELLEN WHITE ABOUT THIS GREAT
THEME OF RIGHTEOUSNESS BY FAITH.
00:39:02.80\00:39:09.31
I BROUGHT A NUMBER OF PROPS UP
WITH ME TODAY AND THEY INCLUDE A
00:39:09.34\00:39:14.12
NUMBER OF BOOKS THAT HAVE A
LOT OF RICH MATERIAL WRITTEN BY
00:39:14.15\00:39:18.99
ELLEN WHITE. AND SOME
OF OUR FRIENDS WHO ARE
00:39:19.02\00:39:20.56
NOT SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS, THEY
SAY, 'OH, ELLEN WHITE, SHE'S ALL
00:39:20.59\00:39:22.89
ABOUT THE LAW.' I'LL TELL YOU,
SOME OF THE MOST AMAZING THINGS
00:39:22.92\00:39:26.96
THAT I'VE READ IN CHRISTIANITY
ABOUT THE GOSPEL - THE GOOD NEWS
00:39:27.00\00:39:30.90
OF SALVATION - WRITTEN BY ELLEN
WHITE. LET ME JUST REFER YOU TO
00:39:30.93\00:39:34.67
A FEW OF THE SOURCES.
ONE OF THEM YOU SEE IN YOUR
00:39:34.70\00:39:36.47
QUARTERLY, THAT WAS REFERENCED,
IS THE BOOK SELECTED MESSAGES,
00:39:36.50\00:39:39.61
BOOK 1 - A WHOLE SECTION
ON RIGHTEOUSNESS BY FAITH.
00:39:39.64\00:39:44.38
WE MIGHT HAVE A CHANCE TO LOOK
AT A FEW OF THESE THINGS THAT
00:39:44.41\00:39:46.55
HELP US CRYSTALLIZE SOME
OF THESE THEMES IN ROMANS.
00:39:46.58\00:39:49.68
ANOTHER AMAZING BOOK - FAITH AND
WORKS - HAVE YOU SEEN THIS BOOK?
00:39:49.72\00:39:54.49
AMAZING BOOK - COLLECTION OF
ARTICLES THAT ELLEN WHITE WROTE
00:39:54.52\00:39:57.86
- MANY OF THEM - OR MOST OF THEM
- PERHAPS ALL OF THEM - OVER A -
00:39:57.89\00:40:01.43
I GUESS THEY'RE ALL
OVER A HUNDRED YEARS OLD NOW.
00:40:01.46\00:40:04.83
THAT WASN'T ALWAYS TRUE, DURING
MY LIFETIME, BUT IT IS TRUE NOW.
00:40:04.87\00:40:08.00
SO THESE ARE SOME AMAZING
ILLUSTRATIONS - AMPLIFICATIONS
00:40:08.04\00:40:14.44
OF WHAT WE'RE JUST READING HERE
- COMMENTARY, IF YOU WILL, ON
00:40:14.48\00:40:17.85
THE BOOK OF ROMANS. AND
THEN, SELECTED MESSAGES,
00:40:17.88\00:40:20.35
BOOK 3 - A WHOLE SECTION
ON RIGHTEOUSNESS BY FAITH.
00:40:20.38\00:40:23.95
SO SOME GREAT RESOURCES IF
YOU WANT TO READ MORE ABOUT IT.
00:40:23.99\00:40:26.72
LET'S JUST DIVE INTO ONE, SINCE
WE'RE FOCUSED A LITTLE BIT ON
00:40:26.76\00:40:29.59
THE EXODUS HERE AND THE
PARALLELS WITH ROMANS 3.
00:40:29.62\00:40:33.80
THERE IS A CHAPTER IN THE BOOK
FAITH AND WORKS - IT'S ACTUALLY
00:40:33.83\00:40:37.90
TAKEN FROM A PRESENTATION
THAT ELLEN WHITE GAVE ON MAY 11,
00:40:37.93\00:40:41.87
1889, SHORTLY AFTER A
VERY PIVOTAL CONFERENCE IN
00:40:41.90\00:40:46.68
SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST HISTORY.
MANY OF YOU KNOW THAT IN
00:40:46.71\00:40:49.18
MINNEAPOLIS IN 1888, THIS THEME
OF RIGHTEOUSNESS BY FAITH WAS
00:40:49.21\00:40:54.28
PORTRAYED IN CLEARER TERMS THAN
IT HAD BEEN IN THE SEVENTH-DAY
00:40:54.32\00:40:59.75
ADVENTIST CHURCH FOR
MANY YEARS, AND ELLEN WHITE IS
00:40:59.79\00:41:02.29
SPEAKING ON THIS. SHE
ACTUALLY BEGINS BY READING A
00:41:02.32\00:41:06.76
WHOLE CHAPTER - A LARGE PORTION
OF A CHAPTER OF THE BIBLE.
00:41:06.80\00:41:10.07
SHE BEGAN BY READING
JOHN 3, VERSES 1 TO 16.
00:41:10.10\00:41:14.84
WE WON'T READ IT HERE, BUT IT'S
THAT NIGHT MEETING OF NICODEMUS
00:41:14.87\00:41:18.17
WITH JESUS, AND THERE ARE SOME
POWERFUL PARALLELS WE'LL TOUCH
00:41:18.21\00:41:22.11
ON, THAT SHE POINTS NICODEMUS TO
FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT, FROM THE
00:41:22.14\00:41:26.25
LAW - FROM THE FIRST
FIVE BOOKS OF THE BIBLE.
00:41:26.28\00:41:29.38
BUT LISTEN TO WHAT SHE SAYS
HERE, SPEAKING OF THIS THEME IN
00:41:29.42\00:41:32.19
ROMANS, JUST
HELPING US MAKE IT CLEAR.
00:41:32.22\00:41:34.42
I'M IN PAGE 64 OF THE BOOK FAITH
AND WORKS , "HE" - WE'D SAY,
00:41:34.46\00:41:39.23
TODAY, 'HE OR SHE' OR 'WHOEVER'
- "WOULD LAY HOLD ON CHRIST'S
00:41:39.26\00:41:43.70
RIGHTEOUSNESS NEED NOT WAIT ONE
MOMENT THAT HE HIMSELF MAY BLOT
00:41:43.73\00:41:50.27
OUT HIS OWN SINS. HE
NEED NOT WAIT UNTIL HE HAS
00:41:50.31\00:41:54.61
MADE A SUITABLE REPENTANCE
BEFORE HE MAY TAKE HOLD UPON
00:41:54.64\00:41:59.18
CHRIST'S RIGHTEOUSNESS." -
WE DON'T UNDERSTAND THE MATTER
00:41:59.21\00:42:02.75
OF SALVATION - IT'S
JUST AS SIMPLE AS A-B-C, BUT
00:42:02.78\00:42:06.25
WE DON'T UNDERSTAND IT. DO
YOU CATCH WHAT SHE'S SAYING?
00:42:06.29\00:42:09.82
SHE'S SPEAKING ABOUT
WHAT PAUL IS PRESENTING HERE.
00:42:09.86\00:42:12.23
HE'S SAYING THAT RIGHTEOUSNESS
IS AVAILABLE THROUGH JESUS AND
00:42:12.26\00:42:15.23
IT'S OURS JUST FOR BELIEVING IT
- JUST FOR ACCEPTING IT, RIGHT?
00:42:15.26\00:42:20.40
WHOSOEVER BELIEVETH,
RIGHT? CAN HAVE THIS GIFT.
00:42:20.44\00:42:24.84
AND THE PROBLEM IS, THE CONTEXT
- THE RIGHTFUL CONTEXT IS WE'VE
00:42:24.87\00:42:29.11
ALL SINNED. HAVE YOU
LOOKED IN THE MIRROR LATELY?
00:42:29.14\00:42:35.18
I'VE ACTUALLY BEEN LOOKING IN
THE MIRROR A LITTLE MORE OFTEN
00:42:35.22\00:42:37.89
AND MY WIFE REMINDED ME, IN THE
CLINIC THIS WEEK, THAT NOT ONLY
00:42:37.92\00:42:41.52
DO I NEED TO LOOK IN THE MIRROR,
I NEED TO REMIND MY PATIENTS -
00:42:41.56\00:42:44.99
IT WAS ABOUT A WEEK AGO I HAD A
RUN-IN WITH A DERMATOLOGIST, SO
00:42:45.03\00:42:49.16
SOME OF YOU THAT ARE PERCEPTIVE,
YOU'VE NOTICED, PERHAPS, THAT
00:42:49.20\00:42:52.07
THERE'S SOME MORE BLEMISHES
ON MY FOREHEAD THAN USUAL.
00:42:52.10\00:42:57.17
SO IT'S HEALED A BIT BUT, IN
FACT, WHEN I DIDN'T EXPLAIN THIS
00:42:57.21\00:43:00.18
TO ONE OF MY PATIENTS, MY WIFE
SAID, 'YOU KNOW, SHE WAS ASKING
00:43:00.21\00:43:03.08
IF YOU JUST HAD
THE CHICKEN POX.' OKAY?
00:43:03.11\00:43:07.25
WELL I MENTION THAT TO YOU
BECAUSE WE LOOK IN THE MIRROR
00:43:07.28\00:43:11.25
AND WE SEE OUR DEFECTS, RIGHT?
AND I'M NOT JUST SPEAKING IN THE
00:43:11.29\00:43:14.62
LITERAL MIRROR - WE SEE
WHEN WE GET UP IN THE MORNING.
00:43:14.66\00:43:20.53
WE SEE, IN OUR INTERACTIONS
WITH OTHER PEOPLE, WHERE WE FALL
00:43:20.56\00:43:22.93
SHORT, DON'T WE? SO
HERE'S THE PROBLEM THAT
00:43:22.96\00:43:28.07
THERE IS IN THE GOSPEL
AND THE SCRIPTURES: WITHOUT US
00:43:28.10\00:43:31.51
RECOGNIZING OUR
NEED, WE WILL NEVER REPENT.
00:43:31.54\00:43:35.44
AND SO, JESUS, WHEN HE BEGAN HIS
MINISTRY - YOU READ MARK - MARK,
00:43:35.48\00:43:39.48
THE FIRST GOSPEL THAT WAS
ACTUALLY PENNED - THE ONLY THING
00:43:39.51\00:43:43.45
YOU READ ABOUT WHEN YOU FIRST
OPEN THAT GOSPEL - YOU DON'T
00:43:43.49\00:43:47.42
READ ABOUT JESUS' GENEALOGY,
YOU READ ABOUT JOHN THE BAPTIST
00:43:47.46\00:43:51.79
GIVING A MESSAGE
OF WHAT? REPENTANCE.
00:43:51.83\00:43:55.86
IF YOU LOOK AT MARK, WHEN JESUS
FIRST BEGINS HIS MINISTRY IN
00:43:55.90\00:43:59.33
MARK, MARK'S FIRST RECORDED
WORDS OF JESUS ARE WHAT?
00:43:59.37\00:44:03.64
REPENT. SO THE MESSAGE OF
REPENTANCE COMES THROUGH TO US -
00:44:03.67\00:44:08.91
IT RESONATES WITH US, RIGHT? AND
WE REALIZE THAT WE FALL SHORT.
00:44:08.94\00:44:13.88
THE PROBLEM WITH THE MESSAGE OF
REPENTANCE IS THAT WE BECOME SO
00:44:13.92\00:44:16.72
FOCUSED ON OUR SHORTCOMINGS THAT
WE FAIL TO SEE WHAT ROMANS 3 IS
00:44:16.75\00:44:21.66
PRESENTING TO US, AND THAT IS
THE GIFT OF THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF
00:44:21.69\00:44:24.83
CHRIST. PERHAPS
ONE OF MY FAVORITE
00:44:24.86\00:44:30.20
CHAPTERS IN THIS BOOK FAITH
AND WORKS IS ACTUALLY AN EASY
00:44:30.23\00:44:34.87
CHAPTER TO REMEMBER. THIS
IS THE 500TH ANNIVERSARY OF
00:44:34.90\00:44:41.28
MARTIN LUTHER'S NAILING OF
THOSE THESES ON THE DOOR OF THAT
00:44:41.31\00:44:45.31
WITTENBERG CHURCH. AND
IT JUST SO HAPPENS THAT
00:44:45.35\00:44:49.98
THERE IS A CHAPTER IN THIS
BOOK THAT WAS, ACTUALLY NOW,
00:44:50.02\00:44:53.12
CELEBRATING IT'S 125TH
ANNIVERSARY - IT WAS WRITTEN IN
00:44:53.15\00:44:56.36
1892. DO YOU ALL
REALIZE THAT 125 - OR
00:44:56.39\00:45:00.10
AT LEAST 500 IS A MULTIPLE OF
125, RIGHT? 125 TIMES 4 IS 500.
00:45:00.13\00:45:07.17
NOW, I DON'T WANT TO MAKE TOO
MUCH OF THIS, BUT THIS CHAPTER
00:45:07.20\00:45:10.34
IS ACTUALLY ENTITLED ACCEPTED IN
CHRIST , AND IT'S SPEAKING ABOUT
00:45:10.37\00:45:15.34
FREEDOM IN JESUS. NOW
SOME OF YOU KNOW, AMONG MY
00:45:15.38\00:45:21.22
LIFE JOURNEY, HAS BEEN SOME
CHAPTERS AS A COLLEGE TEACHER -
00:45:21.25\00:45:26.32
BOTH IN SECULAR SCHOOLS AND IN
CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS, SO I ALWAYS
00:45:26.35\00:45:28.62
LIKE TO PRESENT THINGS IN A WAY
THAT PEOPLE WILL REMEMBER IT.
00:45:28.66\00:45:31.99
SO, HOPEFULLY, SOME OF YOU
WILL REMEMBER WE'RE LOOKING AT A
00:45:32.03\00:45:34.00
READING THAT WAS FIRST WRITTEN
IN 1892 - ARE YOU FOLLOWING
00:45:34.00\00:45:36.70
ALONG? 125TH
ANNIVERSARY OF 1892,
00:45:36.73\00:45:40.07
SO YOU COULD FIND THAT.
BUT YOU SAY, 'WELL, HOW WILL
00:45:40.10\00:45:42.17
YOU REMEMBER THE
DATE OF THIS PERIODICAL?'
00:45:42.20\00:45:44.31
IT WAS PUBLISHED IN SOMETHING
CALLED THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES .
00:45:44.34\00:45:47.08
WELL, IT'S ABOUT FREEDOM IN
CHRIST AND IT WAS WRITTEN BY AN
00:45:47.11\00:45:49.44
AMERICAN AUTHOR. WHEN
WOULD BE A GREAT DAY FOR
00:45:49.48\00:45:52.01
AN AMERICAN AUTHOR
TO WRITE SOMETHING ABOUT
00:45:52.05\00:45:54.48
FREEDOM IN CHRIST? >>JULY 4TH.
00:45:54.52\00:45:56.62
>>JULY 4TH - EXACTLY RIGHT.
SO JULY 4, 1892, ELLEN WHITE
00:45:56.65\00:46:01.42
WROTE THIS ARTICLE ACCEPTED
IN CHRIST . THE WHOLE ARTICLE IS
00:46:01.46\00:46:05.53
WORTH READING - WE DON'T
HAVE TIME TO READ IT, BUT LET ME
00:46:05.56\00:46:09.73
SHARE A COUPLE OF THINGS WITH
YOU. SPEAKING, REALLY, ABOUT
00:46:09.76\00:46:12.00
THIS THEME THAT WE'RE
READING ABOUT IN ROMANS.
00:46:12.03\00:46:14.20
"HOWEVER SINFUL HAS BEEN" - AND
I'M TAKING SOME LIBERTY WITH THE
00:46:14.24\00:46:18.51
GENDER HERE, JUST BECAUSE OF OUR
MODERN CULTURE - "HOWEVER SINFUL
00:46:18.54\00:46:22.24
HAS BEEN HER LIFE, IF
SHE BELIEVES IN JESUS AS HER
00:46:22.28\00:46:27.15
PERSONAL SAVIOR, SHE STANDS
BEFORE GOD IN THE SPOTLESS ROBES
00:46:27.18\00:46:33.42
OF CHRIST'S
IMPUTED RIGHTEOUSNESS."
00:46:33.46\00:46:38.13
THIS IS CRYSTALLIZING WHAT WE'VE
BEEN READING IN ROMANS HERE.
00:46:38.16\00:46:41.10
SO JUSTIFICATION, BEING RIGHT
WITH GOD - STANDING RIGHT WITH
00:46:41.13\00:46:44.40
GOD, IS OURS FOR BELIEVING -
IS OURS FOR TRUSTING IN GOD'S
00:46:44.43\00:46:49.94
PROVISION - IT'S OURS FOR
APPLYING THE BLOOD OF JESUS ON
00:46:49.97\00:46:53.68
OUR OWN HEARTS SAYING, 'I
BELIEVE, JESUS, THAT YOU DIED
00:46:53.71\00:46:56.08
FOR ME PERSONALLY. YOU
ARE MY SAVIOR AND I'M GOING
00:46:56.11\00:46:59.21
TO TRUST IN YOUR SALVATION.
NOW, WHAT I ESPECIALLY RESONATE
00:46:59.25\00:47:04.79
WITH THIS READING - IT'S
ACTUALLY - I'M READING, NOW,
00:47:04.82\00:47:08.19
FROM PAGE 107 IN THE BOOK FAITH
AND WORKS - ELLEN WHITE WRITES
00:47:08.22\00:47:12.19
THIS - AND I BELIEVE IT IS
DEAD CENTER ON WITH WHAT PAUL IS
00:47:12.23\00:47:15.90
COMMUNICATING TO US
IN ROMANS CHAPTER 3.
00:47:15.93\00:47:19.87
SHE SAYS, "PERFECTION THROUGH
OUR OWN GOOD WORKS, WE CAN
00:47:19.90\00:47:23.81
NEVER ATTAIN. THE
SOUL WHO SEES JESUS BY
00:47:23.84\00:47:27.64
FAITH REPUDIATES
HIS OWN RIGHTEOUSNESS."
00:47:27.68\00:47:32.41
WHAT DOES THAT MEAN
TO REPUDIATE SOMETHING?
00:47:32.45\00:47:36.25
YOU GIVE UP ON IT
- YOU THROW IT AWAY.
00:47:36.28\00:47:38.92
MY OWN RIGHTEOUSNESS IS
NOTHING - "HE SEES HIMSELF AS
00:47:38.95\00:47:43.09
INCOMPLETE, HIS REPENTANCE
INSUFFICIENT, HIS STRONGEST
00:47:43.12\00:47:49.16
FAITH BUT FEEBLENESS, HIS MOST
COSTLY SACRIFICE AS MEAGER AND
00:47:49.20\00:47:55.60
HE SINKS IN HUMILITY
AT THE FOOT OF THE CROSS."
00:47:55.64\00:47:58.54
I MEAN, ARE YOU
RELATING TO THIS?
00:47:58.57\00:48:00.21
ARE YOU FEELING THAT
THE GOOD NEWS IS TOO GOOD?
00:48:00.24\00:48:02.84
THAT IT COULDN'T APPLY TO
YOU BECAUSE YOU'VE BEEN TOO BAD?
00:48:02.88\00:48:08.15
SOME YEARS AGO I WAS VISITING
IN A WOMAN'S HOME - SHE HAD
00:48:08.18\00:48:11.45
RECENTLY BEEN BAPTIZED INTO THE
SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH,
00:48:11.49\00:48:14.49
BUT SHE HAD
STOPPED ATTENDING CHURCH.
00:48:14.52\00:48:16.96
AND, AS WE VISITED WITH HER IN
HER HOME, SHE SHARED WITH US THE
00:48:16.99\00:48:21.43
REASON WHY SHE HAD
STOPPED COMING TO CHURCH.
00:48:21.46\00:48:24.87
DO YOU KNOW WHAT IT WAS?
BASICALLY, 'I'M TOO SINFUL.
00:48:24.90\00:48:29.67
ALL THOSE OTHER PEOPLE IN CHURCH
ARE SO HOLY AND I JUST DON'T FIT
00:48:29.70\00:48:33.64
IN.' WELL, YOU SAID,
'IF SHE ONLY KNEW', RIGHT?
00:48:33.68\00:48:39.11
BUT THE POINT IS, HERE -
THE POINT IS, HERE, THAT SHE WAS
00:48:39.15\00:48:44.02
SEEING THE MESSAGE OF NEED
TO REPENT, BUT SHE WASN'T SEEING
00:48:44.05\00:48:48.92
THE GOOD NEWS OF COMING TO A
SAVIOR WHO ACCEPTS US JUST AS WE
00:48:48.96\00:48:53.06
ARE. >>AMEN.
00:48:53.09\00:48:56.13
>>LET ME READ THIS AGAIN, AGAIN
BEING SENSITIVE TO HOW SENSITIVE
00:48:56.16\00:49:00.74
WE ARE TODAY. "SHE
SEES HERSELF AS INCOMPLETE,
00:49:00.77\00:49:06.81
HER REPENTANCE INSUFFICIENT, HER
STRONGEST FAITH BUT FEEBLENESS,
00:49:06.84\00:49:13.88
HER MOST COSTLY SACRIFICE
AS MEAGER, AND SHE SINKS IN
00:49:13.92\00:49:18.39
HUMILITY AT THE FOOT OF THE
CROSS." ARE YOU THERE WITH ME?
00:49:18.42\00:49:22.36
I MEAN, I LOOK AT MY OWN FAITH -
I LOOK AT MY OWN REPENTANCE - I
00:49:22.39\00:49:26.43
MEAN, DO YOU - AS YOU LOOK,
DO YOU SEE THAT YOU JUST DON'T
00:49:26.46\00:49:30.73
MEASURE UP? AND SO,
WE FALL AT THE FOOT OF
00:49:30.77\00:49:35.07
THE CROSS AND WHAT'S THE AMAZING
THING THAT HAPPENS AT THE CROSS?
00:49:35.10\00:49:40.88
LISTEN, "A VOICE SPEAKS TO HIM
- A VOICE SPEAKS TO HER FROM THE
00:49:40.91\00:49:46.55
ORACLES OF GOD'S WORD. IN
AMAZEMENT, YOU HEAR THE MESSAGE.
00:49:46.58\00:49:53.89
YOU ARE
COMPLETE IN HIM." >>AMEN.
00:49:53.92\00:49:59.49
>>HAVE YOU HEARD THAT MESSAGE?
00:49:59.53\00:50:01.73
WHEN YOU SEE YOUR NEED AND YOU
COME TO THE CROSS - WHAT PAUL
00:50:01.76\00:50:05.40
HAS BEEN TRYING TO COMMUNICATE
HERE - BY THE WAY, THAT'S
00:50:05.43\00:50:08.84
QUOTING FROM COLOSSIANS 2, VERSE
10 - SOMETHING ELSE THAT PAUL
00:50:08.87\00:50:12.51
WROTE - WHAT PAUL IS TRYING TO
HELP US SEE IN ROMANS 3, THAT WE
00:50:12.54\00:50:16.85
ARE JUSTIFIED FREELY -
IT IS A GIFT - IT IS A GIFT.
00:50:16.88\00:50:22.72
IT COMES TO US WHEN WE
TRUST IN JESUS AS OUR SAVIOR.
00:50:22.75\00:50:26.86
YOU FEEL LIKE
YOU DON'T MEASURE UP?
00:50:26.89\00:50:28.86
NONE OF US MEASURE UP.
OUR COMPLETENESS IS NOT FOUND
00:50:28.89\00:50:32.23
IN OURSELVES, BUT
IT'S FOUND IN JESUS.
00:50:32.26\00:50:36.73
THIS IS THE MESSAGE OF THE
GOSPEL. IT SAYS GOD - IN VERSE
00:50:36.77\00:50:41.77
26 OF ROMANS 3 -
IS DEMONSTRATING HIS
00:50:41.80\00:50:46.01
OWN RIGHTEOUSNESS, YOU
SEE? HE IS JUST - HE HASN'T
00:50:46.04\00:50:52.15
SET ASIDE THE LAW.
JESUS HAS FULFILLED
00:50:52.18\00:50:55.75
THE LAW FOR US. HE'S
FULFILLED THE LAW FOR ME.
00:50:55.78\00:51:00.66
HE IS THE JUSTIFIER OF THE
ONE WHO HAS FAITH IN JESUS.
00:51:00.69\00:51:04.86
WE HAVE ANOTHER SCRIPTURE
READING SOMEONE'S GOING TO SHARE
00:51:04.89\00:51:07.00
FOR US - SHARE WITH US - AND
IT COMES TO US ALSO FROM PAUL'S
00:51:07.03\00:51:12.27
WRITINGS, THIS TIME IN 2
CORINTHIANS - 2 CORINTHIANS
00:51:12.30\00:51:15.97
CHAPTER 13 - PAUL IS HERE GIVING
US SOME COUNSEL AND I BELIEVE
00:51:16.00\00:51:21.11
IT'S WANTING US, AS CHRISTIANS
- HE'S WRITING TO BELIEVERS IN 2
00:51:21.14\00:51:24.41
CORINTHIANS - IN FACT, MANY OF
YOU KNOW THE CORINTHIAN CHURCH
00:51:24.45\00:51:27.15
WAS A MESSED UP CHURCH - 1
CORINTHIANS - A LOT OF REBUKE -
00:51:27.18\00:51:30.82
A LOT OF ERROR
THAT WAS IN THE CHURCH.
00:51:30.85\00:51:32.35
THE CHURCH WAS DIVIDED.
MAYBE SOMETHING SOME OF US CAN
00:51:32.39\00:51:35.56
RELATE TO TODAY, AND PAUL WAS
SAYING 'WE NEED TO COME TOGETHER
00:51:35.59\00:51:38.93
IN JESUS.' SO LISTEN TO WHAT
PAUL ENCOURAGES THEM TO DO IN 2
00:51:38.96\00:51:43.57
CORINTHIANS CHAPTER 13, VERSE
5. >>EXAMINE YOURSELVES TO SEE
00:51:43.60\00:51:49.00
WHETHER YOU ARE IN THE
FAITH. TEST YOURSELVES.
00:51:49.04\00:51:51.87
DO YOU NOT REALIZE
THAT CHRIST JESUS IS IN YOU?
00:51:51.91\00:51:56.18
- UNLESS, OF
COURSES, YOU FAIL THE TEST."
00:51:56.21\00:52:00.05
>>WHAT IS THIS COUNSEL BY
PAUL ENCOURAGING US TO DO?
00:52:00.08\00:52:05.69
HE IS CALLING US TO
EXAMINE OURSELVES, ISN'T HE?
00:52:05.72\00:52:09.52
HE'S CALLING US TO EXAMINE
OURSELVES. HERE'S THE POINT:
00:52:09.56\00:52:15.96
THOSE WHO SAY, 'JUST BELIEVE
IN JESUS AND THAT'S ALL THAT'S
00:52:16.00\00:52:21.17
NEEDED', ARE TRUE - ARE RIGHT TO
AN EXTENT, BUT JESUS ISN'T ONLY
00:52:21.20\00:52:29.74
INTERESTED IN JUSTIFYING
US. HE'S NOT ONLY INTERESTED IN
00:52:29.78\00:52:34.22
DECLARING US RIGHTEOUS AT
THE MOMENT WE COME TO HIM.
00:52:34.25\00:52:37.09
THAT IS THE EMPHASIS HERE IN
ROMANS CHAPTER 3, THAT WE CAN
00:52:37.12\00:52:40.69
COME AND WE CAN BE ASSURED THAT
JESUS ACCEPTS US JUST AS WE ARE
00:52:40.72\00:52:45.76
WHEN WE COME TO HIM
TRUSTING IN HIS SALVATION.
00:52:45.79\00:52:48.76
BUT PAUL ALSO MAKES IT CLEAR AS
WE CONTINUE TO STUDY, THROUGHOUT
00:52:48.80\00:52:52.67
THE BOOK OF ROMANS, THAT
GOD ALSO SANCTIFIES US BY FAITH.
00:52:52.70\00:52:59.37
SO COME BACK TO THAT CHRISTIAN
AUTHOR THAT I WAS WATCHING ON
00:52:59.41\00:53:03.08
THAT CHANNEL AS
WE WERE TRAVELING.
00:53:03.11\00:53:06.38
HE WAS SPEAKING ABOUT HIS OWN
STRUGGLES WITH PORNOGRAPHY AND
00:53:06.41\00:53:11.32
HE SAID, AS HE REALIZED WHAT THE
GOSPEL WAS, THE GOSPEL WAS NOT
00:53:11.35\00:53:16.62
JUST FORGIVING HIM FOR THE PAST.
THE GOSPEL WAS NOT ONLY GOOD
00:53:16.66\00:53:22.10
NEWS ABOUT HOW WE CAN COME,
RIGHT NOW, TO JESUS - HOW WE CAN
00:53:22.13\00:53:25.03
TRUST HIM IN SPITE OF WHAT OUR
PAST HAS BEEN, BUT IT WAS ALSO
00:53:25.07\00:53:29.34
ABOUT THE FACT THAT GOD
DOESN'T THROW AWAY THE LAW.
00:53:29.37\00:53:33.68
YOU SEE, THE LAW FOR THE
CHRISTIAN BECOMES A PICTURE OF
00:53:33.71\00:53:38.25
GOD'S CHARACTER THAT
HE WILL MOLD US INTO.
00:53:38.28\00:53:42.42
AND SO, AS WE CONTINUE TO
STUDY THE BOOK OF ROMANS, GOD'S
00:53:42.45\00:53:45.45
PROMISES, NOT JUST TO DECLARE
US RIGHTEOUS - NOT TO JUST SAY
00:53:45.49\00:53:50.09
WE'RE ACCEPTED IN JESUS,
BUT ALSO TO GIVE US THE POWER TO
00:53:50.13\00:53:54.30
LIVE A VICTORIOUS LIFE.
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YOU, WHO ARE TUNING IN, TO JOIN
US AS WE CONTINUE OUR STUDY ON
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THIS POWERFUL BOOK OF ROMANS -
THE GOSPEL, THROUGH PAUL, TO YOU
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AND TO ME. STAY
TUNED UNTIL NEXT TIME.
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>>FIVE HUNDRED YEARS AGO, GOD
USED MARTIN LUTHER TO INSPIRE A
00:54:48.78\00:54:52.22
GREAT REFORMATION; HOWEVER, IN
THE CENTURIES THAT FOLLOWED, THE
00:54:52.25\00:54:56.36
CHURCH HAS SLIPPED OFF THE
BEDROCK OF TRUTH INTO THE VALLEY
00:54:56.39\00:54:59.53
OF LUKEWARM WORLDLINESS.
THAT'S WHY, THIS FALL, I'LL BE
00:54:59.56\00:55:03.20
PRESENTING A BRAND-NEW
NINE-PART SERIES CALLED
00:55:03.23\00:55:06.63
FOUNDATIONS OF FAITH .
PLEASE PLAN, NOW, TO JOIN ME IN
00:55:06.67\00:55:10.37
PERSON, ONLINE, OR ON TELEVISION
AND BE SURE TO INVITE OTHERS TO
00:55:10.41\00:55:13.88
JOIN YOU AS WELL. THE
REFORMATION CONTINUES. (MUSIC)
00:55:13.91\00:55:27.62
>>HELLO FRIENDS, WE ALL KNOW
A MARATHON IS ONE OF THE LONGEST
00:55:27.66\00:55:30.43
AND HARDEST RACES A PERSON CAN
RUN, BUT DID YOU HEAR ABOUT THE
00:55:30.46\00:55:33.93
ULTRA MARATHON THEY
USED TO HAVE IN AUSTRALIA?
00:55:33.96\00:55:37.43
IT WAS 544 MILES
FROM MELBOURNE TO SYDNEY.
00:55:37.47\00:55:41.20
IT ATTRACTED AS MANY AS
150 WORLD-CLASS ATHLETES.
00:55:41.24\00:55:45.04
BUT THEN, SOMETHING HAPPENED
THAT NO ONE WOULD EVER FORGET.
00:55:45.07\00:55:47.58
IN 1983 A 61-YEAR-OLD POTATO
FARMER, NAMED CLIFF YOUNG,
00:55:47.61\00:55:52.61
DECIDED TO ENTER THE RACE.
PEOPLE WERE VERY AMUSED BECAUSE
00:55:52.65\00:55:55.62
HE HAD ON RUBBER GALOSHES OVER
HIS BOOTS, AND WHEN THE RACE
00:55:55.65\00:55:59.39
BEGAN AND ALL THE RUNNERS TOOK
OFF, SURE ENOUGH, OLD CLIFF WAS
00:55:59.42\00:56:02.62
LEFT BEHIND SHUFFLING ALONG VERY
SLOWLY, BUT HE WAS SHUFFLING
00:56:02.66\00:56:06.93
VERY PERSISTENTLY.
NORMALLY, DURING THIS SEVEN-DAY
00:56:06.96\00:56:10.00
RACE, THE RUNNERS WOULD GO ABOUT
18 HOURS RUNNING AND THEN THEY'D
00:56:10.03\00:56:13.84
SLEEP FOR SIX HOURS, BUT
NOBODY EVER TOLD CLIFF THAT.
00:56:13.87\00:56:17.57
WHEN THE OTHER RUNNERS STOPPED
TO REST DURING THE NIGHT, CLIFF
00:56:17.61\00:56:20.64
JUST KEPT ON RUNNING.
SOME PEOPLE WERE AFRAID OLD
00:56:20.68\00:56:23.45
CLIFF WAS GOING TO HAVE A HEART
ATTACK AND THEY WERE ASKING THE
00:56:23.48\00:56:26.21
RACE ORGANIZERS TO SHOW MERCY
AND STOP THE CRAZY OLD MAN,
00:56:26.25\00:56:29.95
BUT HE WOULD HAVE NONE OF IT.
EACH DAY HE WAS GAINING ON THE
00:56:29.98\00:56:33.02
PACK BECAUSE WHEN THEY WERE
SLEEPING, HE WAS PLODDING ALONG.
00:56:33.05\00:56:36.83
DURING THE LAST NIGHT OF THE
RACE, CLIFF PASSED ALL OF THESE
00:56:36.86\00:56:40.20
WORLD-CLASS ATHLETES. NOT
ONLY WAS CLIFF ABLE TO RUN
00:56:40.23\00:56:44.13
THAT 544-MILE RACE WITHOUT
DYING, HE WON, BEATING ALL
00:56:44.17\00:56:48.80
THE OTHER RACERS BY 9 HOURS,
BREAKING THE RECORD AND BECOMING
00:56:48.84\00:56:52.44
A NATIONAL HERO IN THE PROCESS.
WHAT'S REALLY AMAZING IS WHEN
00:56:52.47\00:56:55.74
THEY TOLD HIM HE HAD WON
THE $10,000-PRIZE, HE LOOKED
00:56:55.78\00:56:59.01
CONFUSED AND SAID HE DIDN'T KNOW
THERE WAS A PRIZE AND HE DECIDED
00:56:59.05\00:57:01.85
TO SHARE IT WITH THE OTHER
RUNNERS. WHEN ASKED HOW HE WAS
00:57:01.88\00:57:05.49
ABLE TO RUN ALL NIGHT LONG,
CLIFF RESPONDED THAT HE GREW UP
00:57:05.52\00:57:08.49
ON A FARM WHERE THEY HAD
ABOUT 2,000 HEAD OF CATTLE AND,
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BECAUSE THEY COULDN'T AFFORD
HORSES, HE USED TO HAVE TO ROUND
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THEM UP ON FOOT, SOMETIMES
RUNNING 2 AND 3 DAYS NON-STOP.
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SO, THROUGHOUT THE RACE, HE JUST
IMAGINED THAT HE WAS CHASING
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AFTER THE COWS AND
TRYING TO OUTRUN A STORM.
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OLD CLIFF'S SECRET WAS TO KEEP
ON RUNNING WHILE OTHERS WERE
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SLEEPING. YOU
KNOW, THE BIBLE TELLS US
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THAT THE RACE IS NOT
NECESSARILY TO THE SWIFT.
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SOMETHING LIKE AESOP'S FABLE OF
THE TORTOISE AND THE HARE - THE
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TORTOISE JUST
KEPT ON PLODDING ALONG.
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THAT'S WHY JESUS TELLS US, IN
MATTHEW 24:13, "HE THAT ENDURES
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UNTO THE END, THE
SAME WILL BE SAVED."
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NOW YOU MIGHT SLIP AND FALL
DURING THE RACE - YOU MIGHT EVEN
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GET OFF TO A BAD START, BUT IN
THE CHRISTIAN RACE THAT WE RUN,
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THE MAIN THING IS
YOU WANT TO FINISH WELL.
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KEEP ON RUNNING, FRIENDS,
AND DON'T GIVE UP. (MUSIC)
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