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>>GOOD MORNING, FRIENDS,
AND WELCOME TO SABBATH SCHOOL
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STUDY HOUR, COMING TO YOU HERE
FROM THE GRANITE BAY SEVENTH-DAY
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ADVENTIST CHURCH NEAR
SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA.
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A VERY WARM WELCOME TO OUR
ONLINE MEMBERS AND THOSE WHO ARE
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JOINING US ACROSS THE COUNTRY
AND AROUND THE WORLD - AND ALSO
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TO THE MEMBERS AND THE VISITORS
RIGHT HERE AT THE GRANITE BAY
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CHURCH - ALWAYS GOOD TO SEE
YOU COMING OUT A LITTLE EARLY ON
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SABBATH MORNING TO
STUDY OUR LESSON TOGETHER.
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WELL, BEFORE WE GET TO
OUR LESSON STUDY, JUST SOME
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IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR
THOSE WHO ARE JOINING US ONLINE.
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WE'VE BEEN STUDYING THROUGH OUR
LESSON QUARTERLY DEALING WITH
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THE BOOK OF ROMANS. SOME
OF YOU WHO HAVE BEEN TUNING
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IN FROM WEEK TO WEEK, YOU MIGHT
NOT HAVE A LESSON QUARTERLY, BUT
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YOU CAN STILL
STUDY ALONG WITH US.
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YOU CAN DOWNLOAD THE LESSON FROM
THE AMAZING FACTS WEBSITE - IT'S
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JUST AMAZINGFACTS.ORG AND TODAY
WE'RE ON LESSON #7, WHICH IS
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ENTITLED OVERCOMING SIN - AGAIN,
THAT'S LESSON #7 - GO TO THE
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AMAZING FACTS WEBSITE, DOWNLOAD
LESSON #7, AND YOU CAN STUDY
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ALONG WITH US.
WELL, BEFORE WE GET TO OUR
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STUDY, WE ALWAYS LIKE TO BEGIN
IN LIFTING OUR VOICES IN SONG.
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I'D LIKE TO INVITE THE SONG
LEADERS TO COME AND THEY'LL LEAD
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US IN OUR MUSIC THIS MORNING.
>>THANK YOU, PASTOR ROSS.
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WE'RE GOING TO SING YOUR
FAVORITES, LIKE WE DO EVERY
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WEEK. LET'S START
WITH JESUS PAID IT
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ALL - #184 IN OUR HYMNALS -
AND WE'RE GOING TO DO THE FIRST,
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SECOND, AND FOURTH
STANZAS - #184. (PIANO MUSIC)
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>>THANK YOU FOR
JOINING WITH US AND, AT THIS
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TIME, PASTOR ROSS IS GOING
TO HAVE OUR OPENING PRAYER.
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>>LET'S BOW OUR
HEADS FOR PRAYER.
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DEAR FATHER IN HEAVEN, ONCE
AGAIN WE ARE INDEED GRATEFUL TO
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BE ABLE TO GATHER IN YOUR HOUSE
AND OPEN UP YOUR WORD AND STUDY.
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IT'S AN IMPORTANT STUDY, LORD,
IT'S ONE THAT YOU WANT US TO
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UNDERSTAND, AS REVEALED IN YOUR
WORD THROUGH THE BOOK OF ROMANS,
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SO WE PRAY THAT THE HOLY SPIRIT
WOULD COME AND GUIDE OUR HEARTS
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AND OUR MINDS, AND MAY WE ALL BE
INSPIRED BY THE GOOD NEWS THAT
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JESUS SAVES TO THE UTTERMOST.
BLESS OUR TIME TOGETHER, FOR WE
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ASK THIS IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN.
OUR LESSON THIS MORNING IS GOING
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TO BE BROUGHT TO
US BY PASTOR DOUG.
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>>THANK YOU, PASTOR ROSS.
AND I WANT TO WELCOME EVERYBODY
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- WELCOME THOSE WHO ARE NOT ONLY
HERE IN THE GRANITE BAY CHURCH
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IN OUR SABBATH SCHOOL CLASS
- THOSE WHO MAY BE WATCHING -
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BY THE WAY, LET ME JUST LET YOU
IN ON A LITTLE INTERNAL SECRET.
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WE HAVE SEVERAL SABBATH
SCHOOL CLASSES HAPPENING IN OUR
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FACILITY. WE HAVE
ANOTHER ADULT CLASS, WE
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HAVE SOME CHILDREN'S CLASSES,
AND SO WE'RE THANKFUL FOR THOSE
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WHO TOLERATE OUR - ALL THAT'S
INVOLVED IN RECORDING THIS CLASS
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SO THAT WE CAN SHARE IT WITH
MANY OTHERS WHO ARE WATCHING OUT
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THERE. WE ACTUALLY - GRANITE
BAY HAS MEMBERS THAT ARE IN ALL
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DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE WORLD
THAT HAVE NO LOCAL CHURCH THEY
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CAN ATTEND, AND SO, THEY'RE
SOME OF OUR ONLINE MEMBERS.
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AND MAYBE YOU'RE IN THAT
CATEGORY, WHERE YOU HAVE NO
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ONLINE - OR NO LOCAL CHURCH
THAT YOU'RE ABLE TO ATTEND.
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THEN YOU CAN JUST CONTACT US AT
GRANITEBAYSDA.ORG AND WE'LL TELL
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YOU WHAT WOULD BE INVOLVED IF
YOU WANT TO BE ONE OF OUR ONLINE
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MEMBERS AND
KNOW MORE ABOUT THAT.
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WE'RE CONTINUING OUR STUDY IN
THIS MAJESTIC, WONDERFUL BOOK OF
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ROMANS THAT PAUL WROTE TO REALLY
SUMMARIZE THE PLAN OF SALVATION.
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AND, TODAY, WE'RE ON LESSON #7
AND IT'S ON JUST THE - OH BOY -
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YOU KNOW, THE GOSPEL IS
ABOUT SIN AND SALVATION, AND OUR
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LESSON TODAY IS OVERCOMING
SIN . IT'S REALLY GETTING TO
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THE HEART OF THE MATTER.
SOME PEOPLE ARE CRINGING RIGHT
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NOW, JUST BY THE TITLE OF
THE LESSON - I DID NOT TITLE THE
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LESSON - THIS IS
THE TITLE OF THE LESSON.
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I APPRECIATE
IT. I'M GLAD FOR IT.
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WHEN PEOPLE THINK ABOUT
OVERCOMING SIN, THEY TEND TO
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RECOIL AND CRINGE AND COWER,
BECAUSE THEY THINK, 'YOU'RE NOT
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GOING TO, LIKE, TALK TO ME
ABOUT SIN AND ME STOPPING IT?'
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IT KIND OF GETS PEOPLE'S
ATTENTION BECAUSE OUR BATTLE IS
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WITH SIN. JESUS
CAME TO SAVE US FROM OUR
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SINS, AND SO, WE'RE GOING
TO BE ADDRESSING THAT TODAY.
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AND OUR STUDY TODAY - WE'RE
TALKING ABOUT ROMANS CHAPTER 6
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AND WE'RE ALSO GOING TO BE
DEALING WITH 1 JOHN 1, VERSES 8
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THROUGH 1 JOHN
CHAPTER 2, VERSE 1.
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OUR MEMORY TEXT TODAY IS ROMANS
6:14; IF YOU'VE GOT YOUR BIBLES,
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I INVITE YOU TO SAY IT WITH ME.
I THINK IT'S FROM THE AUTHORIZED
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VERSION - ROMANS
6:14 - ARE YOU READY?
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"SIN SHALL NOT HAVE DOMINION
OVER YOU, FOR YOU ARE NOT UNDER
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THE LAW BUT UNDER
GRACE." WE ARE NOT UNDER THE
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LAW BUT UNDER
GRACE. WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?
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SIN SHALL NOT
HAVE DOMINION OVER YOU.
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NOW, NORMALLY, WHEN I DO
A LESSON, I HAVE ONE PAGE OF
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NOTES. TODAY I HAVE ONE AND
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A HALF PAGES OF NOTES.
BECAUSE THIS IS A VERY IMPORTANT
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LESSON, THERE'S
A LOT TO SAY ON IT.
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SOME PEOPLE ARE GOING TO
CHALLENGE, MAYBE, SOME OF WHAT
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I'M GOING TO SAY AND I WANT
TO MAKE SURE I CAN BACK IT UP AS
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WELL AS POSSIBLE. LET
ME TELL YOU WHAT I'M GOING
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TO SAY, THEN I'LL SAY IT, THEN
I'LL TELL YOU WHAT IT IS I SAID.
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I'M GOING TO TELL YOU THAT THE
GRACE OF JESUS IS SUFFICIENT TO
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NOT ONLY COVER YOUR SIN, BUT TO
GIVE YOU VICTORY OVER SIN SO SIN
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DOES NOT HAVE DOMINION OVER YOU
- SIN DOES NOT RULE YOUR LIFE
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ANYMORE. HE WANTS
TO SAVE YOU FROM YOUR
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SIN. NOW, IN
SOME CHURCHES TODAY,
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THEY SAY THAT'S LEGALISM TO
TALK TO CHRISTIANS AS THOUGH GOD
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EXPECTS US TO STOP
SINNING. THEY SAY IT'S LEGALISM.
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I AM GOING TO GIVE YOU THE
EVIDENCE; YOU DRAW YOUR OWN
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CONCLUSIONS TODAY, IF GOD CAME
AND ASKED US TO CUT DOWN ON SIN
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OR TO TURN AWAY FROM SIN -
THAT'S THE QUESTION WE'RE REALLY
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TALKING ABOUT,
OKAY? FAIR ENOUGH?
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ALRIGHT, I REMEMBER - YOU'VE
GOT THAT VERSE IN THE BIBLE -
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MATTHEW 5:48, "BE YE THEREFORE
PERFECT" - JESUS IS SPEAKING -
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"EVEN AS YOUR FATHER
IN HEAVEN IS PERFECT."
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HOW MANY HERE FEEL PERFECT
AS THEIR FATHER IN HEAVEN. GOOD.
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I'M - NOTICE MY
HAND DIDN'T GO UP.
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SO, DID JESUS MEAN WHAT
HE SAID? 'BE YE PERFECT'?
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I REMEMBER ONE TIME - I TRAVEL A
LOT AND STAY IN A LOT OF HOTELS
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AND, I DON'T REMEMBER ALL THE
CIRCUMSTANCES, BUT I STAYED IN
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THIS ONE HOTEL WHERE IT JUST
WAS NOT A GOOD NIGHT'S REST.
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I DON'T KNOW IF IT WAS BECAUSE
THE HOTEL WINDOW WAS RIGHT UP
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AGAINST THE INTERSTATE AND I
JUST HEARD CARS ALL NIGHT LONG,
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OR IT WAS TOO HOT, OR SOMETHING,
BUT I JUST COULDN'T SLEEP AND I
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TOSSED AND I TURNED AND I
ROLLED AND WHEN I WOKE UP IN THE
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MORNING - YOU KNOW, THEY'VE GOT
THE COVER SHEET THAT THEY FIRST
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PUT ON THE BED BEFORE THEY
PUT THE OTHER SHEETS ON AND IT,
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SORT OF, IS -
WHAT DO YOU CALL THAT?
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A FITTED SHEET - GOES AROUND
THE EDGES - WELL, I TOSSED AND
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TURNED SO MUCH THAT I WORKED
THE FITTED SHEET LOOSE AND I
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ACTUALLY HAD EXPOSED
THE MATTRESS UNDERNEATH.
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I MEAN, IT LOOKED LIKE HAD BEEN
WRESTLING, AND THE MATTRESS WAS
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CLEAN ENOUGH, BUT I NOTICED THAT
I HAD UNCOVERED THE PART OF THE
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MATTRESS WHERE THE LABEL OF THE
MATTRESS WAS AND IT SAID, 'SERTA
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PERFECT SLEEPER' AND
I WOKE UP WITH A LAUGH.
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I THOUGHT, 'YEAH, RIGHT!'
I SAID, 'THAT WAS HARDLY A
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PERFECT NIGHT'S SLEEP.'
EVEN THOUGH I WAS ON A PERFECT
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SLEEPER, I
DIDN'T SLEEP PERFECTLY.
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AND WHO HERE FEELS
PERFECT? AND YET GOD IS CALLING
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US TO PERFECTION.
NOW, IF IT'LL MAKE YOU FEEL
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ANY BETTER, YOU
NEED TO KNOW SOMETHING.
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WHEN JESUS SAYS, IN MATTHEW
CHAPTER 5, VERSE 48, "BE YE
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THEREFORE PERFECT EVEN AS YOUR
FATHER IN HEAVEN IS PERFECT."
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- YOU READ LUKE 6:36
AND HE WORDS IT DIFFERENTLY.
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NOW, WE KNOW HE'S TALKING ABOUT
THE SAME THING, BECAUSE THE
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THINGS THAT JESUS SAYS BEFORE
THE VERSE IN MATTHEW ARE THE
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SAME DISCUSSION HE HAS
BEFORE THE VERSE IN LUKE.
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SO HE'S DOING THE SAME
BACKGROUND DISCUSSION ABOUT
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LOVING YOUR NEIGHBOR AND ALL
THIS, BUT LUKE, HE SAYS, 'BE YE
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THEREFORE MERCIFUL EVEN AS YOUR
FATHER IN HEAVEN IS MERCIFUL.'
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SO, WHEN GOD SAYS 'BE PERFECT',
WHAT'S HE TALKING ABOUT?
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HE WANTS US TO HAVE
PERFECT LOVE - PERFECT MERCY.
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NOW, WHATEVER CHRISTIAN
PERFECTION IS, ALL I KNOW IS
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THE BIBLE'S PRETTY CLEAR THAT
AS WE ARE LIVING ON THE BORDERS
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OF THE SECOND COMING, WE NEED
TO HAVE THE KIND OF FAITH THAT
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SHADRACH, MESHACH, AND ABEDNEGO
HAD, WHERE WE ARE NOT GOING TO
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BOW DOWN AND WORSHIP
THE BEAST AND HIS IMAGE.
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ARE WE ALL IN AGREEMENT?
LET'S SEE IF HANDS GO UP.
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WE NEED TO HAVE THE KIND
OF FAITH THAT DANIEL HAD WHEN
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DANIEL SAID, 'I'D RATHER GO TO
THE LION'S DEN THAN BREAK ONE OF
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GOD'S COMMANDMENTS.'
DO YOU AGREE WITH ME?
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>>AMEN. >>SO, IF
YOU'VE GOT THAT KIND
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OF FAITH WHERE YOU'D RATHER
DIE THAN KNOWINGLY BREAK ONE OF
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GOD'S COMMANDMENTS, THAT'S THE
KIND OF FAITH THAT GOD WANTS US
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TO HAVE. THAT'S WHAT IT MEANS,
IT MEANS YOU LOVE GOD SO MUCH,
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YOU LOVE HIM MORE THAN YOUR OWN
LIFE. LATER TODAY WE'RE GOING TO
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BE TALKING A LITTLE BIT ABOUT
THE REFORMATION AND IN PREPARING
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FOR THAT MESSAGE I'VE BEEN
READING FOX'S BOOK OF MARTYRS
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AND LOOKING AT WHAT SOME OF THE
REFORMERS WENT THROUGH AND, BOY,
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A LOT OF PEOPLE
DIED FOR THE TRUTH.
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SOMETIMES FOR VERY
SMALL PARTS OF THE SCRIPTURE.
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YOU KNOW, THERE ARE PEOPLE
WHO DIED TO DEFEND BAPTISM BY
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IMMERSION, AS
OPPOSED TO INFANT BAPTISM.
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THEY BELIEVED SO STRONGLY
IN IT, THEY DIED FOR IT.
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I MEAN, THAT
TAKES A LOT OF FAITH.
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WELL, THE LORD IS WANTING PEOPLE
TO LOVE HIM AND HIS WORD SO MUCH
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THAT WE'LL REST
OUR LIVES UPON IT.
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EPHESIANS CHAPTER 5, VERSES 1
AND 2, "THEREFORE BE IMITATORS
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OF GOD AS DEAR CHILDREN.
AND WALK IN LOVE," - HOW?
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- "AS CHRIST ALSO HAS
LOVED US AND GIVEN..."
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US AN EXAMPLE. SO
THE BIBLE TELLS US
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THAT A CHRISTIAN IS
WHAT? WHAT DOES CHRISTIAN MEAN?
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WHEN YOU SAY, 'HE'S A
CHRISTIAN,' WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?
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>>ONE WHO FOLLOWS
CHRIST. >>THE MODEL FOR THEIR
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LIFE IS TO FOLLOW JESUS.
TO JUST SAY, 'WE ACCEPT THE
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BLOOD AND THE
SACRIFICE OF JESUS' AND THEN
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LIVE OUR OWN LIVES?
OR DO WE PATTERN OUR
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LIVES AFTER HIS LIFE? RIGHT?
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WHAT KIND OF LIFE DID HE
LIVE? A HOLY, SINLESS LIFE.
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SO, BY GOD'S GRACE, WE ARE TO
DO OUR HUMAN BEST, BY FAITH, TO
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LIVE THE KIND OF
LIFE THAT JESUS LIVED.
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ARE WE STILL TOGETHER?
IS THAT LEGALISM IF YOU ARE
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TRYING TO BE LIKE
JESUS? IF YOU ARE DOING IT TO
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SAVE YOURSELF, IT IS.
IF YOU'RE DOING IT BECAUSE
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YOU LOVE HIM, IT'S NOT. IF
YOU'RE DOING IT BECAUSE YOU
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BELIEVE IN HIS POWER, THAT'S
NOT LEGALISM. YOU WITH ME?
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AM I RIGHT? >>AMEN.
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>>SO, WE'RE NOT TALKING ABOUT
YOU SAVE YOURSELF BY DOING IT,
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WE'RE SAYING IF YOU LOVE HIM
AND YOU ARE SAVED, THIS IS YOUR
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GOAL. LET ME
GIVE YOU MORE VERSES.
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JOHN 13:15, JESUS SAID, "FOR I
HAVE GIVEN YOU AN EXAMPLE, THAT
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YOU SHOULD DO AS
I HAVE DONE TO YOU."
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THE BIBLE TELLS
US HE'S OUR EXAMPLE.
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1 PETER 2:21, "FOR TO THIS YOU
WERE CALLED, BECAUSE CHRIST ALSO
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SUFFERED FOR US, LEAVING US AN
EXAMPLE, THAT YOU SHOULD FOLLOW
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HIS STEPS:" CAN THAT BE
MISUNDERSTOOD? AND 1 JOHN 2:5
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AND 6, "BUT WHOEVER KEEPS
HIS WORD, TRULY THE LOVE OF
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GOD...ABIDES IN HIM [HE] OUGHT
HIMSELF ALSO TO WALK JUST AS HE
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WALKED." NOW, YOU KNOW, WHEN
IT TALKS ABOUT WALKING AS HE
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WALKED, EVERYBODY'S GOT A
DIFFERENT GAIT - WHEN I SAY
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'GAIT' I MEAN A 'WALK' -
IT'S AN OLD HORSING TERM.
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HAVE YOU EVER NOTICED
SOME PEOPLE WALK FUNNY?
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YOU KNOW, SOME PEOPLE
THEY WALK, KIND OF, REAL STIFF.
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SOME PEOPLE - I MEAN,
EVERYBODY'S GOT A DIFFERENT
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WALK. IN THE
BIBLE, WHEN IT TALKS
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ABOUT THE WALK, IT'S
TALKING ABOUT YOUR LIFE.
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IT'S NOT
TALKING ABOUT YOUR GAIT.
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AND SO, WHEN IT SAYS WE SHOULD
WALK LIKE HE WALKED, IT MEANS -
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WHEN IT SAYS 'ENOCH WALKED WITH
GOD,' 'NOAH WALKED WITH GOD,'
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CHRISTIANS WALK WITH
CHRIST IN THE SPIRIT.
00:14:35.27\00:14:39.37
AND THAT MEANS
THEIR LIVES REFLECT THAT.
00:14:39.41\00:14:43.24
AMEN? ALRIGHT,
LET'S KEEP GOING HERE.
00:14:43.28\00:14:46.92
NOW, BEFORE YOU GET TOTALLY
DISCOURAGED, LET ME JUST STATE A
00:14:46.95\00:14:50.15
FACT THAT IS ALSO
BIBLICAL. EVERYBODY HAS
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SINNED EXCEPT JESUS. THE
BIBLE IS PRETTY CLEAR THAT
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THE WORLD IS FULL
OF IMPERFECT PEOPLE.
00:14:59.69\00:15:02.76
THE CHURCH IS FULL OF IMPERFECT
PEOPLE - AND THIS IS UNDER THE
00:15:02.80\00:15:05.53
SECTION IN YOUR LESSON WHERE
IT TALKS ABOUT SIN ABOUNDING.
00:15:05.57\00:15:08.24
NOW SOMEONE, FOR ME, IN
A MOMENT, IS GOING TO READ
00:15:08.27\00:15:10.44
ISAIAH 53:6, OKAY? I'M
GOING TO READ ROMANS 5:20,
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"MOREOVER THE LAW ENTERED
THAT THE OFFENSE MIGHT ABOUND.
00:15:15.81\00:15:19.78
BUT WHERE SIN ABOUNDED, GRACE
ABOUNDED MUCH MORE," - CAN YOU
00:15:19.81\00:15:24.09
THINK OF PLACES IN THE
BIBLE WHERE GOD'S GRACE ABOUNDED
00:15:24.12\00:15:26.92
TOWARDS SINNERS? NOAH FOUND
GRACE IN THE EYES OF THE LORD
00:15:26.96\00:15:33.16
BECAUSE HE WAS PERFECT. NO,
NOAH DRANK, GOT DRUNK, STUMBLED
00:15:33.19\00:15:37.67
AROUND NAKED. THE BIBLE TELLS US
THAT ABRAHAM OBEYED GOD, BUT WAS
00:15:37.70\00:15:45.17
ABRAHAM OBEYING GOD WHEN HE LIED
AND SAID SARAH WAS HIS SISTER?
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I THINK HE DID IT
TWICE. YEAH, ISAAC DID IT ONCE.
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MATTER OF FACT, ABRAHAM GOES
TO EGYPT AND TELLS THE PHARAOH,
00:15:54.28\00:15:57.29
'YEAH, SHE'S JUST MY SISTER.'
THE PHARAOH TAKES SARAH INTO HIS
00:15:57.32\00:16:01.89
HAREM - ABRAHAM DOESN'T
DO ANYTHING TO RESCUE HER.
00:16:01.92\00:16:08.33
HE THINKS, 'OH WELL,
NOW I GOT MYSELF INTO IT.'
00:16:08.36\00:16:10.10
HE DOESN'T STAND UP.
THEN, FINALLY, THE PHARAOH FINDS
00:16:10.13\00:16:13.20
OUT THAT WAS HIS WIFE AND HE,
BASICALLY, HE BANISHES ABRAHAM
00:16:13.23\00:16:17.24
FROM EGYPT FOR HIS LYING -
SENDS HIM OUT WITH GIFTS BECAUSE
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CURSES HAD FALLEN UPON HIM.
AND THEN, LATER, HE TAKES HAGAR
00:16:21.81\00:16:27.78
AND TAKES A SURROGATE BECAUSE
HE DOESN'T HAVE FAITH THAT GOD'S
00:16:27.82\00:16:31.32
GOING TO GIVE HIM
THE SON THROUGH SARAH.
00:16:31.35\00:16:33.92
SO YOU CAN POINT TO ABRAHAM
AND SAY HE WASN'T PERFECT.
00:16:33.96\00:16:36.02
YOU CAN POINT TO DAVID - WHERE
SIN ABOUNDS, GRACE ABOUNDS.
00:16:36.06\00:16:39.33
DID SIN ABOUND, AT ONE
POINT, IN DAVID'S LIFE?
00:16:39.36\00:16:42.60
DID GOD'S GRACE ABOUND?
HE WROTE PSALM 32, PSALM 51.
00:16:42.63\00:16:47.17
NOW, THE ONE WHO I THINK OF,
WHERE SIN ABOUNDED THE MOST, WAS
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MANASSEH. MANASSEH,
A GREAT, GREAT, GREAT,
00:16:51.31\00:16:54.81
GREAT, GREAT GRANDSON OF
DAVID WAS ABOUT THE MOST WICKED
00:16:54.84\00:16:58.78
KING WHO EVER LIVED.
HE KILLED THE PROPHETS, HE
00:16:58.81\00:17:01.85
PUT IDOLS IN THE TEMPLE, HE
SACRIFICED HIS OWN CHILDREN TO
00:17:01.88\00:17:07.52
THE FIRE GODS - JUST - IT
WAS JUST TERRIBLE WHAT HE DID -
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WORSHIPPED ALL THE
STARS IN THE HOSTS OF HEAVEN.
00:17:11.83\00:17:15.56
HE WAS CARRIED OFF TO ASSYRIA
AND, IN HIS AFFLICTION, HE
00:17:15.60\00:17:20.67
TURNED TO GOD, HE REPENTED,
GOD FORGAVE HIM, AND BROUGHT HIM
00:17:20.70\00:17:23.00
BACK TO THE KINGDOM. WHERE
SIN ABOUNDED, GRACE ABOUNDS.
00:17:23.04\00:17:26.64
MARY MAGDALENE, OUT OF
WHOM JESUS CAST SEVEN DEVILS.
00:17:26.68\00:17:30.11
SIN ABOUNDED.
BUT GRACE ABOUNDED.
00:17:30.15\00:17:32.48
SHE'S THE FIRST ONE TO
ANNOUNCE THE RESURRECTION.
00:17:32.51\00:17:35.35
YOU CAN JUST GO - PETER DENIED
CHRIST - GOD'S GRACE ABOUNDED.
00:17:35.38\00:17:39.12
YOU CAN SEE A LOT OF PLACES
WHERE GOD'S GRACE ABOUNDED.
00:17:39.15\00:17:41.12
HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE FELT
HIS GRACE ABOUND IN YOUR LIFE?
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SO, WE ADMIT THAT. GO AHEAD,
READ, FOR US, PLEASE ISAIAH 53.
00:17:45.19\00:17:50.73
>>ISAIAH 53:6, "ALL WE LIKE
SHEEP HAVE GONE ASTRAY; WE HAVE
00:17:50.77\00:17:55.24
TURNED, EVERY ONE, TO HIS OWN
WAY; AND THE LORD HAS LAID ON
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HIM THE INIQUITY OF US
ALL." >>NOTICE THE WORDS: ALL,
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EVERYONE, ALL HAVE GONE
ASTRAY - HAVE SINNED - INIQUITY.
00:18:03.65\00:18:09.15
JOB 5:7, "YET MAN IS BORN
TO TROUBLE, AS THE SPARKS FLY
00:18:09.18\00:18:13.46
UPWARD." IT'S A LAW OF NATURE.
00:18:13.49\00:18:16.19
SPARKS GO UP IN A FIRE,
AND OUR NATURES GO DOWN.
00:18:16.22\00:18:21.13
IT'S JUST, YOU KNOW,
WE'RE ATTRACTED TO SIN.
00:18:21.16\00:18:24.50
YOU CAN LOOK AT PSALM 119, VERSE
176, "I HAVE GONE ASTRAY LIKE A
00:18:24.53\00:18:29.50
LOST SHEEP..." 1
KINGS 8:46, "WHEN THEY SIN
00:18:29.54\00:18:33.91
AGAINST YOU" - KING SOLOMON'S
PRAYING HERE - "(FOR THERE IS NO
00:18:33.94\00:18:38.05
ONE WHO DOES NOT
SIN)," - WE ALL AGREE?
00:18:38.08\00:18:44.55
- "AND YOU BECOME ANGRY WITH
THEM" - HE TELLS THEM WHAT TO DO
00:18:44.59\00:18:46.65
TO ATONE FOR THEIR SIN
- THIS IS SOLOMON PRAYING.
00:18:46.69\00:18:49.09
PSALMS 14, VERSES 2 AND 3, "THE
LORD LOOKS DOWN FROM HEAVEN UPON
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THE CHILDREN OF MEN, TO SEE
IF THERE ARE ANY WHO UNDERSTAND,
00:18:52.43\00:18:55.26
WHO SEEK GOD. THEY
HAVE ALL TURNED ASIDE, THEY
00:18:55.30\00:18:58.27
HAVE TOGETHER BECOME
CORRUPT; THERE IS NONE WHO DOES
00:18:58.30\00:19:01.00
GOOD, NO, NOT ONE."
THERE'S A SONG WE SING, 'NO, NOT
00:19:01.04\00:19:05.74
ONE, NO, NOT ONE' - ECCLESIASTES
7:20, "FOR THERE IS NOT A JUST
00:19:05.77\00:19:11.68
MAN ON THE EARTH WHO
DOES GOOD AND DOES NOT SIN."
00:19:11.71\00:19:14.98
THE BIBLE'S PRETTY CLEAR THAT
ALL HUMANS, ASIDE FROM CHRIST,
00:19:15.02\00:19:18.59
HAVE SINNED. NOW WE GET
TO ROMANS 3:23, "FOR ALL HAVE
00:19:18.62\00:19:22.52
SINNED AND FALL SHORT OF THE
GLORY OF GOD..." JEREMIAH 13:23,
00:19:22.56\00:19:27.66
"CAN THE ETHIOPIAN CHANGE HIS
SKIN OR THE LEOPARD ITS SPOTS?
00:19:27.66\00:19:31.50
THEN MAY YOU ALSO DO GOOD
WHO ARE ACCUSTOMED TO DO EVIL."
00:19:31.53\00:19:34.24
JAMES 3:2, "FOR WE ALL
STUMBLE IN MANY THINGS."
00:19:34.27\00:19:37.67
- THIS IS NEW TESTAMENT - "FOR
WE ALL STUMBLE IN MANY THINGS."
00:19:37.71\00:19:40.98
NOW, STUMBLING'S
A LITTLE DIFFERENT.
00:19:41.01\00:19:43.04
THE BIBLE SAYS, 'LAY ASIDE EVERY
SIN AND THE WEIGHT' - THAT'S
00:19:43.08\00:19:45.98
ALMOST LIKE THERE'S DIFFERENT
CATEGORIES - THERE'S JUST
00:19:46.01\00:19:47.72
WEIGHTS THAT WE HAVE
AND THEN THERE'S SIN.
00:19:47.75\00:19:50.55
1 JOHN 1, VERSE 8, "IF WE SAY
THAT WE HAVE NO SIN, WE DECEIVE
00:19:50.59\00:19:55.96
OURSELVES, AND THE
TRUTH IS NOT IN US.
00:19:55.99\00:19:57.96
IF WE CONFESS OUR SINS, HE IS
FAITHFUL AND JUST TO FORGIVE US
00:19:57.99\00:20:01.53
OUR SINS AND TO CLEANSE
US FROM ALL UNRIGHTEOUSNESS.
00:20:01.56\00:20:04.10
IF WE SAY THAT WE HAVE NOT
SINNED, WE MAKE HIM A LIAR, AND
00:20:04.13\00:20:06.77
HIS WORD IS NOT IN US." SO,
THAT'S JUST A FEW SCRIPTURES
00:20:06.80\00:20:10.17
THAT I THINK ESTABLISH
THE POINT THAT HUMANS SIN.
00:20:10.21\00:20:16.21
THAT WE - THE HUMAN RACE HAS
A RECORD OF SIN, THAT, YOU MIGHT
00:20:16.24\00:20:21.28
SAY, GOD CAN GIVE ALL VICTORY -
WE'RE GOING TO MAKE THAT CASE IN
00:20:21.32\00:20:25.02
A MOMENT - BUT IF A BABY IS BORN
IS THAT BABY, IF IT LIVES LONG
00:20:25.05\00:20:30.79
ENOUGH AND REACHES THE AGE
OF ACCOUNTABILITY, WILL IT SIN?
00:20:30.83\00:20:34.03
>>YES. >>YOU ALL AGREE?
00:20:34.10\00:20:36.46
OTHERWISE, YOU COULDN'T SAY
THERE'S ONLY ONE WHO HAS NEVER
00:20:36.50\00:20:38.47
SINNED - BEING JESUS.
SO, GOD KNOWS THAT WE'RE
00:20:38.50\00:20:42.80
BORN WITH THIS DISEASED DNA.
MAN ORIGINALLY WAS MOTIVATED BY
00:20:42.84\00:20:49.58
LOVE BUT, BECAUSE OF SIN IN
OUR NATURE, THAT MOTIVATION WAS
00:20:49.61\00:20:53.62
LOST AND NOW WE'RE NATURALLY
MOTIVATED BY SELFISHNESS.
00:20:53.65\00:20:56.69
THE COMPASS NEEDLE GOT TURNED
AROUND BACKWARDS AND IT'S ONLY
00:20:56.72\00:20:59.55
THROUGH A MIRACLE WE GET A NEW
HEART WHERE WE, ONCE AGAIN, ARE
00:20:59.59\00:21:02.66
MOTIVATED BY LOVE.
THAT'S THE CONVERSION
00:21:02.69\00:21:05.53
EXPERIENCE. THAT'S A NEW BIRTH.
00:21:05.56\00:21:07.46
SO, WHEN WE COME TO CHRIST,
WE'VE GOT A PROBLEM WHERE SIN
00:21:07.50\00:21:10.83
REIGNS IN OUR LIVES -
SELFISHNESS REIGNS IN OUR LIVES.
00:21:10.87\00:21:14.37
THROUGH CONVERSION IT'S CHANGED
WHERE LOVE REIGNS IN OUR LIVES.
00:21:14.40\00:21:19.21
NOW LET'S GO ON TO THAT
SECTION ABOUT WHERE SIN REIGNS.
00:21:19.24\00:21:22.64
SOMEONE'S GOING TO
READ, FOR ME, ROMANS 6:12.
00:21:22.68\00:21:25.95
ALRIGHT, JUST GET READY
AND I'LL READ ROMANS 6:6 FIRST.
00:21:25.98\00:21:29.12
ROMANS 6 IS REALLY
WHERE WE'RE STUDYING TODAY.
00:21:29.15\00:21:33.22
KNOWING THIS, THAT OUR OLD MAN
WAS CRUCIFIED WITH HIM, THAT THE
00:21:33.25\00:21:37.46
BODY OF SIN MIGHT BE DONE AWAY
WITH, THAT WE SHOULD NO LONGER
00:21:37.49\00:21:41.13
BE SLAVES OF SIN."
NOW, DOES HE SAY THERE WOULD
00:21:41.16\00:21:44.67
NEVER BE AN OCCASION
OR AN INCIDENT OF SIN?
00:21:44.70\00:21:50.01
NO, WHAT HE'S SAYING IS WHEN
YOU'RE SAVED, YOU ARE NO LONGER
00:21:50.04\00:21:53.24
CONTROLLED BY SIN. YOU
ARE NO LONGER SLAVES OF SIN.
00:21:53.27\00:21:58.98
GO AHEAD, PLEASE READ
THAT FOR ME - ROMANS 6:12.
00:21:59.01\00:22:03.05
>>"LET NOT SIN THEREFORE REIGN
IN YOUR MORTAL BODY, THAT YOU
00:22:03.08\00:22:06.99
SHOULD OBEY IT IN
THE LUST THEREOF."
00:22:07.02\00:22:10.09
>>AND I'M GOING TO ADD ROMANS
6:14, "FOR SIN SHALL NOT HAVE
00:22:10.13\00:22:14.20
DOMINION OVER YOU..." -
SO YOU'VE GOT ENSLAVED TO
00:22:14.23\00:22:18.57
SIN, SIN REIGNING, SIN HAVING
DOMINION - THOSE ARE WORDS THAT
00:22:18.60\00:22:24.94
ARE TALKING ABOUT
BEING IN ULTIMATE CONTROL.
00:22:24.97\00:22:28.91
NOW, IN SPITE OF ALL
THE PROBLEMS WE HAVE IN OUR
00:22:28.94\00:22:33.75
GOVERNMENT - PROBABLY ALWAYS
HAVE HAD PROBLEMS IN GOVERNMENT
00:22:33.78\00:22:38.29
- I AM THANKFUL THAT WE DO
NOT HAVE A DICTATOR THAT HAS
00:22:38.32\00:22:44.29
DOMINION OVER THE GOVERNMENT.
THAT DOESN'T MEAN THAT YOU'RE
00:22:44.33\00:22:49.73
NOT GOING TO HAVE PETTY
CRIME. WE HAVE A BEAUTIFUL
00:22:49.76\00:22:53.47
NEIGHBORHOOD WHERE WE LIVE.
I WAS TALKING TO MY NEIGHBOR
00:22:53.50\00:22:56.00
YESTERDAY, I SAID, 'I'M SO
THANKFUL WE HAVE A NEIGHBORHOOD
00:22:56.04\00:22:58.37
THAT'S SO GOOD, YOU KNOW,
SOMETHING GOT LEFT ON THE FRONT
00:22:58.41\00:23:00.41
PORCH AND IT'S THERE
TWO OR THREE DAYS LATER.
00:23:00.44\00:23:02.31
NOBODY BOTHERED IT.' AND THEY
SAID, 'YEAH, WELL, OCCASIONALLY
00:23:02.34\00:23:07.55
WE'VE HAD SOME INCIDENTS,
BUT IT'S FEW AND FAR BETWEEN.' -
00:23:07.58\00:23:12.49
WHERE, YOU KNOW, SOMEBODY HAD
SOMEONE RANSACKED THEIR MAILBOX
00:23:12.52\00:23:16.22
OR JUST, YOU KNOW,
LITTLE PETTY THINGS.
00:23:16.26\00:23:18.79
BUT IT'S A SAFE
PLACE. CRIME DOES NOT HAVE
00:23:18.83\00:23:22.30
DOMINION THERE.
YOUR LIVES ARE LIKE THAT.
00:23:22.33\00:23:26.30
WHO'S ON THE THRONE? IF
JESUS IS ON THE THRONE, THEN
00:23:26.33\00:23:30.14
CHRIST REIGNS IN YOUR LIFE.
HE CONTROLS YOUR DECISIONS.
00:23:30.17\00:23:33.98
IT DOESN'T MEAN THERE WON'T BE
AN OCCASION OF FALLING, BECAUSE
00:23:34.01\00:23:38.21
YOU SEE THAT IN THE
LIFE OF THE APOSTLES.
00:23:38.25\00:23:40.48
LET ME GIVE YOU AN EXAMPLE.
00:23:40.52\00:23:41.72
EVERYONE LIKES TO TALK TO PETER
- PETER IS, OF COURSE, A NEW
00:23:41.75\00:23:43.59
TESTAMENT EXAMPLE - WERE THE
DISCIPLES THOROUGHLY CONVERTED
00:23:43.62\00:23:48.59
BEFORE JESUS SENT
THEM OUT PREACHING?
00:23:48.62\00:23:52.39
AFTER PREACHING, JESUS TAUGHT
THEM THREE AND A HALF YEARS,
00:23:52.43\00:23:55.73
NEAR THE END OF HIS LIFE JESUS
SAYS TO PETER, 'GET BEHIND ME,
00:23:55.76\00:24:01.07
SATAN.' AND THEN HE SAYS,
'WHEN YOU WERE YOUNG YOU GIRDED
00:24:01.10\00:24:07.31
YOURSELF AND YOU' - OH, THAT'S
NOT THE VERSE I WANTED - HE
00:24:07.34\00:24:10.88
SAID, 'PETER, WHEN
YOU'RE CONVERTED, STRENGTHEN THE
00:24:10.91\00:24:13.25
BRETHREN.' WHEN YOU'RE
CONVERTED, STRENGTHEN THE
00:24:13.28\00:24:16.25
BRETHREN. PETER MIGHT HAVE BEEN
THINKING, 'WHEN I'M CONVERTED?
00:24:16.28\00:24:19.75
WHAT DO YOU MEAN
'WHEN' I'M CONVERTED?
00:24:19.79\00:24:20.86
I'M OUT PREACHING AND TEACHING
AND CASTING OUT DEVILS.'
00:24:20.89\00:24:24.39
AND THEN PETER WAS THOROUGHLY
CONVERTED THERE AT HIS
00:24:24.43\00:24:26.80
CONVERSION AND HE WENT
OUT AND HE WEPT BITTERLY.
00:24:26.83\00:24:31.03
BUT THEN THE BIBLE TELLS
US THAT YOU GET TO THE BOOK OF
00:24:31.07\00:24:34.20
GALATIANS, PAUL HAS TO
REBUKE PETER FOR PETER BEING
00:24:34.24\00:24:37.01
HYPOCRITICAL. SO
PETER WAS A CONVERTED
00:24:37.04\00:24:40.34
SPIRIT-FILLED MAN, BUT DID HE
STILL MAKE OCCASIONAL MISTAKES?
00:24:40.38\00:24:44.61
SEE WHAT I'M SAYING? WAS
PAUL THOROUGHLY CONVERTED?
00:24:44.65\00:24:48.05
WHEN HE SAW THE LORD AND HE WEPT
AND HE WAS BAPTIZED, FILLED WITH
00:24:48.08\00:24:50.69
THE SPIRIT - PERFORMING
MIRACLES - HE AND PETER BOTH
00:24:50.72\00:24:53.76
- BUT THEN PAUL HAS AN ARGUMENT
WITH BARNABAS AND HE SAYS, 'I'M
00:24:53.79\00:24:56.22
NOT TAKING MARK WITH ME, HE'S
A QUITTER.' AND THEY GOT SO BAD
00:24:56.26\00:25:00.23
THAT THEY JUST - THEY SHOOK THE
DUST OFF THEIR FEET AND WALKED
00:25:00.26\00:25:03.57
AWAY FROM EACH OTHER. BARNABAS
TOOK MARK AND PAUL TOOK SILAS
00:25:03.60\00:25:08.34
AND GOD ENDED UP WITH TWO
MISSIONARY GROUPS THAT GREW OUT
00:25:08.37\00:25:10.34
OF AN ARGUMENT WHERE THEY LOST
THEIR TEMPER. WERE THE DISCIPLES
00:25:10.37\00:25:14.31
ARGUING AMONG THEMSELVES
WHICH OF THEM WAS GREATEST?
00:25:14.34\00:25:18.38
HAD THE LORD ALREADY SENT THEM
OUT PERFORMING MIRACLES BEFORE
00:25:18.41\00:25:20.92
THEY WERE ARGUING WHICH
OF THEM WAS THE GREATEST?
00:25:20.95\00:25:23.72
DOES THE LORD SOMETIMES
WORK THROUGH US IN SPITE OF OUR
00:25:23.75\00:25:27.76
IMPERFECTIONS? WERE THEY SAVED
DURING THAT TIME? I THINK SO.
00:25:27.79\00:25:38.73
WHEN THEY WERE FOLLOWING JESUS
THEY SAID, 'LORD, WE LOVE YOU.'
00:25:38.77\00:25:43.37
I BELIEVE THEY WERE IN A SAVED
CONDITION AND GOD WAS STILL
00:25:43.41\00:25:47.94
WORKING IN THEIR LIVES AND THEY
HAD GROWING LEFT TO DO, BUT THEY
00:25:47.98\00:25:50.25
HAD LEFT
EVERYTHING TO FOLLOW CHRIST.
00:25:50.28\00:25:53.75
THEY MISUNDERSTOOD A LOT OF
THINGS - FIRST OF ALL, DID THEY
00:25:53.78\00:25:56.75
MISUNDERSTAND THE KINGDOM?
THEY WERE SAYING TO JESUS,
00:25:56.79\00:25:59.82
'LORD, WILL YOU NOW
ESTABLISH YOUR KINGDOM?'
00:25:59.85\00:26:02.96
THEY THOUGHT HE WAS GOING TO
FLEX HIS MUSCLES AND OVERTHROW
00:26:02.99\00:26:05.23
THE ROMANS AND SIT ON THE
THRONE OF DAVID AND JESUS - THEY
00:26:05.26\00:26:08.86
STILL DIDN'T GET IT.
'SHOW US THE FATHER' - HE SAID,
00:26:08.90\00:26:11.67
'PHILIP, I'VE BEEN WITH YOU THIS
LONG AND YOU DON'T KNOW THAT
00:26:11.70\00:26:14.37
I'M SHOWING YOU THE
FATHER? AND THERE'S A LOT THEY
00:26:14.40\00:26:18.04
DIDN'T UNDERSTAND.
THOMAS DIDN'T EVEN BELIEVE THE
00:26:18.07\00:26:20.74
RESURRECTION AFTER JESUS SAID,
SEVERAL TIMES, 'I'M GOING TO DIE
00:26:20.78\00:26:23.28
AND I'M GOING TO RISE AGAIN.'
BUT WERE THEY HIS CHURCH?
00:26:23.31\00:26:28.05
WERE THEY HIS
FOLLOWERS? WERE THEY SAVED?
00:26:28.08\00:26:31.85
BECAUSE THEY WERE LIVING UP
TO THE LIGHT THEY HAD, THE BEST
00:26:31.89\00:26:35.26
THEY HUMANLY
COULD. THEY WERE PEOPLE.
00:26:35.29\00:26:38.99
THE BIBLE EVEN SAYS ELIJAH
WAS A MAN SUBJECT TO ALL OF THE
00:26:39.03\00:26:42.00
PASSIONS AND
STRUGGLES YOU AND I HAVE.
00:26:42.03\00:26:43.87
ELIJAH PRAYS AND FIRE COMES DOWN
FROM HEAVEN; HE PRAYS AND RAIN
00:26:43.90\00:26:47.27
COMES DOWN FROM HEAVEN.
THEN, JEZEBEL THREATENS HIM AND
00:26:47.30\00:26:50.07
HE LOSES HIS FAITH AND
RUNS. WAS ELIJAH SAVED?
00:26:50.11\00:26:56.88
BUT DID HE STILL HAVE MORTAL
WEAKNESS EVERY NOW AND THEN?
00:26:56.91\00:27:00.88
YEAH, HE GOT SCARED AND HE SAID,
'I'M JUST' - WENT UNDER A BROOM
00:27:00.92\00:27:04.22
TREE OUT IN THE
DESERT AND PRAYED TO DIE.
00:27:04.25\00:27:07.22
HE GOT DISCOURAGED.
I'M GOING TO SHOW YOU WHERE
00:27:07.26\00:27:11.13
ELLEN WHITE SAID THAT
WHEN WE LOSE FAITH AND WE'RE
00:27:11.16\00:27:12.89
DISCOURAGED, IT'S A SIN.
GOD ENDED UP TAKING HIM TO
00:27:12.93\00:27:16.56
HEAVEN IN A FIERY CHARIOT.
SO, FRIENDS, I'M GOING TO TALK
00:27:16.60\00:27:20.14
TO YOU ABOUT GOD
WANTING YOU TO BE PERFECT.
00:27:20.17\00:27:22.74
DON'T BE DISCOURAGED. I
THINK YOU ALL UNDERSTAND
00:27:22.77\00:27:25.37
WHAT I'M SAYING. IF GOD
WAS TO SAY ANYTHING LESS
00:27:25.41\00:27:29.51
TO YOU, BEING A PERFECT GOD,
WHAT DO YOU WANT HIM TO SAY?
00:27:29.54\00:27:35.15
HE CAN - HE'S A HOLY GOD - HE
CAN ONLY CALL YOU TO HOLINESS.
00:27:35.18\00:27:40.69
DO YOU NOTICE THAT WE ALWAYS
- WE SIPHON DOWN TO THE LOWEST
00:27:40.72\00:27:44.93
DENOMINATOR? GOD
KNOWS OUR NATURES.
00:27:44.96\00:27:47.73
IF YOU KNOW YOU DON'T HAVE TO
PAY YOUR TAXES UNTIL THE 15TH,
00:27:47.76\00:27:51.43
YOU START WORKING ON IT
JUST A DAY OR TWO BEFORE.
00:27:51.47\00:27:55.10
WE ALWAYS - AND, WHEN GOD TELLS
YOU WHAT THE STANDARD IS - I'VE
00:27:55.14\00:27:58.61
SEEN IT SO MANY TIMES - PEOPLE
SAY, 'PASTOR DOUG, CAN I JUST
00:27:58.64\00:28:02.24
GIVE UP THIS AND THIS?'
'HOW SHORT CAN I HAVE MY SKIRT
00:28:02.28\00:28:06.85
AND STILL GET TO HEAVEN?'
'CAN I HAVE A - HOW ABOUT AN
00:28:06.88\00:28:09.88
INCH SHORTER,
WOULD THAT BE OKAY?'
00:28:09.92\00:28:11.82
AND WE'RE JUST ALWAYS WANTING TO
KNOW HOW CLOSE TO THE EDGE CAN I
00:28:11.85\00:28:15.62
GET AND STILL
GET INTO THE KINGDOM.
00:28:15.66\00:28:18.09
'IS IT OKAY IF I DO' -
'CAN I HAVE A LITTLE BIT?'
00:28:18.13\00:28:20.10
- AND IT'S LIKE YOU'RE SAYING -
HUMAN NATURE IS WE WANT TO KNOW
00:28:20.13\00:28:22.96
HOW MUCH OF THE WORLD CAN WE
HAVE AND STILL SQUEEZE THROUGH
00:28:23.00\00:28:25.63
THE GATES? SHOULD
THAT BE THE ATTITUDE, OR
00:28:25.67\00:28:28.34
SHOULD WE BE SAYING, 'LORD,
HOW CLOSE TO YOU CAN I BE?'
00:28:28.37\00:28:31.81
INSTEAD OF WAITING UNTIL THE
14TH OF APRIL BEFORE YOU THINK
00:28:31.84\00:28:34.54
ABOUT YOUR TAXES.
THERE'S JUST SOMETHING ABOUT -
00:28:34.58\00:28:37.61
SO GOD SAYS, 'COME TO ME NOW.
LIVE A HOLY LIFE.' HE GIVES US
00:28:37.65\00:28:42.62
THE PERFECT IDEAL
BECAUSE CHRIST IS OUR EXAMPLE.
00:28:42.65\00:28:45.25
WAS HE PERFECT? ARE
MOST PEOPLE PERFECT? NO.
00:28:45.29\00:28:52.79
HOW DO YOU ACQUIRE
JUSTIC - WHAT DO YOU CALL IT?
00:28:52.83\00:28:57.33
- PERFECT JUSTIFICATION?
LET ME EXPLAIN WHAT
00:28:57.37\00:29:00.67
I'M TALKING ABOUT. WHEN
THE THIEF ON THE CROSS -
00:29:00.70\00:29:04.37
HE'S A THIEF - THE BIBLE
ALSO SAYS THEY WERE REBELS.
00:29:04.41\00:29:07.11
THE BIBLE ALSO SAYS
THAT THEY WERE MURDERERS.
00:29:07.14\00:29:10.71
SOMEONE HAD BEEN KILLED IN ONE
OF THEIR ROBBERIES, EVIDENTLY.
00:29:10.75\00:29:13.78
THEY WERE GUILTY - IT SAYS -
YOU READ ALL THREE GOSPELS, THEY
00:29:13.82\00:29:16.72
WERE GUILTY OF MURDER, STEALING,
REBELLION, AND SEDITION.
00:29:16.75\00:29:21.56
AND HE TURNS TO JESUS AND SAYS,
'LORD, REMEMBER ME.' JESUS SAID,
00:29:21.59\00:29:26.39
'YOU WILL BE WITH ME IN
PARADISE.' WAS THAT THIEF
00:29:26.43\00:29:29.16
PERFECT? YES.
WHEN HE ACCEPTED THE
00:29:29.20\00:29:34.80
JUSTIFICATION OF JESUS,
[GOD] LOOKED UPON HIM WITH THE
00:29:34.84\00:29:39.24
PERFECTION OF HIS
OWN SON. IS THAT RIGHT?
00:29:39.27\00:29:45.65
GOD, THE FATHER, VIEWED HIM AS
PERFECT, THROUGH THE SACRIFICE
00:29:45.68\00:29:49.88
OF GOD THE SON. HIS
SINS WERE COVERED BY THE
00:29:49.92\00:29:53.79
BLOOD OF THE LAMB,
THROUGH HIS FAITH IN CHRIST.
00:29:53.82\00:29:58.69
SO, THE FIRST WAY WE
ACQUIRE PERFECTION IS BY FAITH.
00:29:58.73\00:30:03.90
PERFECTION AND JUSTIFICATION ARE
THE SAME THING - YOU'RE DECLARED
00:30:03.93\00:30:06.53
JUST - HOW JUST? HE
CLEANSES US FROM ALL
00:30:06.57\00:30:10.61
UNRIGHTEOUSNESS, BY FAITH.
SO, IF YOU'RE CLEANSED FROM
00:30:10.64\00:30:12.94
ALL UNRIGHTEOUSNESS, HOW
MUCH WRONGTEOUSNESS DO YOU HAVE?
00:30:12.97\00:30:16.75
(LAUGHTER) NONE. RIGHT?
SO, IF YOU'RE CLEANSED FROM ALL
00:30:16.78\00:30:20.68
UNRIGHTEOUSNESS -
YOU STILL WITH ME?
00:30:20.72\00:30:22.75
YOU KNOW THE VERSES I'M TALKING
ABOUT - WHEN YOU COME TO CHRIST
00:30:22.78\00:30:25.25
BY FAITH AND YOU'RE JUSTIFIED,
DOES THE FATHER SEE YOU AS
00:30:25.29\00:30:28.52
PERFECT? YOU'RE ALMOST
AFRAID TO SAY THAT, AREN'T YOU?
00:30:28.56\00:30:32.53
I'VE GOT GREAT BIBLE
ARGUMENTS. THIS IS THE STORY
00:30:32.56\00:30:34.96
OF THE
REFORMATION. >>HE SEES CHRIST -
00:30:35.00\00:30:36.90
>>HE SEES - YEAH, HE SEES THE
JUSTIFICATION OF HIS OWN SON IN
00:30:36.93\00:30:41.40
US. THAT'S GOOD
NEWS, ISN'T IT? >>AMEN.
00:30:41.44\00:30:44.87
>>SO THAT MEANS YOU'RE A
PRAYER AWAY FROM PERFECTION.
00:30:44.91\00:30:48.11
WHEN YOU PRAY IN FAITH AND
YOU REPENT OF YOUR SINS, AND YOU
00:30:48.14\00:30:51.51
CONFESS YOUR SINS - HE SEES -
AND THAT'S WHAT THE THIEF ON THE
00:30:51.55\00:30:54.35
CROSS DID, HE CONFESSED HIS SIN,
HE SAID, 'WE'RE GETTING WHAT WE
00:30:54.38\00:30:57.22
DESERVE.' HE
CONFESSED JESUS AS LORD
00:30:57.25\00:31:00.26
- HE SAID, 'LORD, REMEMBER
ME WHEN YOU COME INTO YOUR
00:31:00.29\00:31:01.99
KINGDOM. HE
CONFESSED CHRIST AS KING.
00:31:02.02\00:31:04.56
HE DID IT PUBLICLY AND CHRIST
PUBLICLY PROMISED HIM ETERNAL
00:31:04.59\00:31:08.13
LIFE. BASED ON
HIS SANCTIFICATION
00:31:08.16\00:31:13.40
OR HIS JUSTIFICATION?
HE CAME JUST LIKE HE WAS.
00:31:13.44\00:31:18.51
YOU KNOW THAT SONG 'JUST
AS I AM WITHOUT ONE PLEA'?
00:31:18.54\00:31:21.41
SO, HAVING ESTABLISHED WE
BELIEVE IN RIGHTEOUSNESS BY
00:31:21.44\00:31:24.35
FAITH, WE'RE FIRST DECLARED
PERFECT BY JUSTIFICATION.
00:31:24.38\00:31:27.55
NOW, AFTER YOU'VE BEEN
JUSTIFIED, HERE'S WHERE THE
00:31:27.58\00:31:29.62
PROBLEM COMES IN. COME
TO CHRIST JUST LIKE I AM,
00:31:29.65\00:31:33.05
PRAISE THE LORD, I'M
SAVED. NOW, WHAT DO I DO
00:31:33.09\00:31:35.29
ABOUT TOMORROW? I'VE
STILL GO MY OLD CARNAL
00:31:35.32\00:31:37.79
NATURE AND ALL THESE
HABITS AND THINGS I'VE LEARNED.
00:31:37.83\00:31:40.80
HOW DO I LIVE A DIFFERENT LIFE?
THAT'S WHERE IT GETS TOUGH.
00:31:40.83\00:31:45.77
SOMETIMES I ALMOST WISH, 'LORD,
HELP ME, YOU KNOW, CONFESS YOU
00:31:45.80\00:31:52.21
AND THEN DIE
RIGHT AWAY.' YOU KNOW?
00:31:52.24\00:31:54.38
LIKE THE THIEF ON THE CROSS.
IT'S NOT LIKE DYING FOR JESUS
00:31:54.41\00:31:57.61
THAT'S SO DIFFICULT, SOMETIMES
IT'S LIVING FOR HIM, AMEN?
00:31:57.65\00:32:01.12
IT'S THE LITTLE THINGS, TOO, BUT
HE CAN GIVE YOU VICTORY IN THAT
00:32:01.15\00:32:04.25
AREA. YOU SPEND
YOUR LIFE DOING WRONG,
00:32:04.29\00:32:06.96
ISAIAH SAYS YOU NEED TO LEARN
TO DO GOOD. THERE'S A LEARNING
00:32:06.99\00:32:10.33
PROCESS. HE GIVES YOU A NEW
HEART - YOUR DESIRES CHANGE.
00:32:10.36\00:32:13.90
AM I RIGHT? >>AMEN.
00:32:13.93\00:32:15.53
>>LET ME READ SOMETHING TO YOU
- STEPS TO CHRIST PAGE 47 - THIS
00:32:15.56\00:32:18.77
IS AN INCREDIBLE QUOTE - "WHAT
YOU NEED TO UNDERSTAND IS THE
00:32:18.80\00:32:22.64
TRUE FORCE OF THE WILL.
THIS IS THE GOVERNING POWER IN
00:32:22.67\00:32:25.91
THE NATURE OF MAN, THE
POWER OF DECISION OR OF CHOICE
00:32:25.94\00:32:29.61
GOD HAS GIVEN TO MAN.
IT'S THEIRS TO EXERCISE.
00:32:29.64\00:32:32.68
YOU CANNOT CHANGE YOUR HEART.
YOU CANNOT, OF YOURSELF, GIVE TO
00:32:32.71\00:32:35.85
GOD IT'S AFFECTIONS, BUT
YOU CAN CHOOSE TO SERVE HIM.
00:32:35.88\00:32:39.55
YOU CAN GIVE HIM YOUR WILL.
HE WILL THEN WORK IN YOU TO WILL
00:32:39.59\00:32:43.39
AND TO DO ACCORDING TO HIS GOOD
PLEASURE, THUS YOUR WHOLE NATURE
00:32:43.43\00:32:48.00
WILL BE BROUGHT UNDER THE
CONTROL OF THE SPIRIT OF CHRIST.
00:32:48.03\00:32:50.67
YOUR AFFECTIONS
WILL BE CENTERED ON HIM.
00:32:50.70\00:32:52.77
YOUR THOUGHTS WILL BE IN HARMONY
WITH HIM BY SURRENDERING YOUR
00:32:52.80\00:32:56.87
WILL TO HIM." HOW
OFTEN DO YOU DO THAT?
00:32:56.91\00:32:59.64
PAUL SAID, 'I DIE DAILY.' WE GET
THE BREAD OF LIFE - 'LORD, GIVE
00:32:59.67\00:33:03.41
US THIS DAY OUR DAILY BREAD.'
WE ARE BORN AGAIN EVERY DAY.
00:33:03.45\00:33:07.32
WE TAKE UP OUR CROSS DAILY - ON
A DAY-BY-DAY, MOMENT-BY-MOMENT
00:33:07.35\00:33:11.42
BASIS YOU'VE GOT TO BE SAYING
'NO' TO SELF AND 'YES' TO JESUS.
00:33:11.45\00:33:14.86
YOU SURRENDER YOUR WILL TO HIM.
CHRIST SAID, 'THEREFORE, IF THE
00:33:14.89\00:33:18.06
SON WILL MAKE YOU FREE,
YOU SHALL BE PARTIALLY FREE.'
00:33:18.09\00:33:23.87
HOW FREE DOES HE MAKE
US? HE'LL BE FREE INDEED
00:33:23.90\00:33:26.77
- COMPLETELY
FREE. SIN NO LONGER HAS
00:33:26.80\00:33:29.57
DOMINION, RIGHT?
YOU ARE NO LONGER
00:33:29.60\00:33:31.24
A SLAVE TO SIN. YOU
ARE MADE FREE INDEED.
00:33:31.27\00:33:34.44
WHAT ABOUT WHERE IT SAYS, 'NOT
UNDER THE LAW BUT UNDER GRACE'?
00:33:34.48\00:33:38.68
WE'RE STILL IN ROMANS CHAPTER
6 I'M GOING TO READ THE REST OF
00:33:38.71\00:33:41.85
6:14, "FOR SIN SHALL NOT HAVE
DOMINION OVER YOU, FOR YOU ARE
00:33:41.88\00:33:46.62
NOT UNDER LAW BUT
UNDER GRACE." NOW SOME PEOPLE
00:33:46.65\00:33:50.93
MISUNDERSTAND
THAT. THEY JUST READ THE
00:33:50.96\00:33:52.93
PART 'NOT UNDER LAW'.
THEY SAY, 'WHEW, I DON'T
00:33:52.96\00:33:56.23
HAVE TO KEEP THE LAW
ANYMORE. PRAISE THE LORD.
00:33:56.26\00:33:59.83
OH, I FEEL SUCH A
BURDEN. I'M AT PEACE.
00:33:59.87\00:34:02.67
I'M FREE - I'M FREE IN JESUS.
I DON'T HAVE TO KEEP THE LAW.
00:34:02.70\00:34:06.41
YOU EVER HEARD IT
USED THAT WAY? >>YEAH.
00:34:06.44\00:34:09.18
>>THAT'S NOT WHAT HE'S TALKING
ABOUT - BECAUSE JUST THINK ABOUT
00:34:09.21\00:34:12.15
WHAT THAT MEANS.
'OH, PRAISE THE LORD.
00:34:12.18\00:34:14.45
I AM FREE IN JESUS.
I AM NOT UNDER THE LAW.
00:34:14.48\00:34:16.79
I CAN JUST GO TO THE
STORE AND SHOPLIFT NOW.
00:34:16.82\00:34:19.12
I DON'T NEED MONEY ANYMORE.
PRAISE THE LORD, I'M FREE IN
00:34:19.15\00:34:21.46
CHRIST.' 'I DON'T HAVE
TO TELL THE TRUTH ANYMORE.
00:34:21.49\00:34:24.03
I'M FREE.' 'I'M NOT UNDER
THE LAW, I'M NOW UNDER GRACE.
00:34:24.06\00:34:27.96
I DON'T HAVE TO BE
FAITHFUL TO MY SPOUSE.
00:34:28.00\00:34:30.43
I CAN USE GOD'S NAME IN VAIN.
THIS FREEDOM IS WONDERFUL - NOT
00:34:30.47\00:34:34.07
UNDER THE LAW.'
THAT'S ABSURD. REALLY?
00:34:34.10\00:34:39.24
YOU KNOW, THE PEOPLE WHO
USE THAT TYPICALLY DON'T HAVE A
00:34:39.27\00:34:41.48
PROBLEM WITH THOSE OTHER
COMMANDMENTS, THEY HAVE A
00:34:41.51\00:34:43.14
PROBLEM WITH THE FOURTH
COMMANDMENT, AND SO THEY WANT TO
00:34:43.18\00:34:46.61
BE FREE. WELL, I
HAVE PEOPLE USE - HEARD
00:34:46.65\00:34:50.89
PEOPLE SAY, 'NOTHING WRONG WITH
ME DRINKING ALCOHOL, I'M NOT
00:34:50.92\00:34:55.59
UNDER THE LAW, NOW, I'M UNDER
GRACE.' HAVE YOU HEARD THAT?
00:34:55.62\00:35:00.06
YEAH. THAT'S NOT WHAT
HE'S TALKING ABOUT. YOU SEE,
00:35:00.10\00:35:03.67
WHEN YOU BREAK THE LAW, THERE'S
A PENALTY FOR BREAKING THE LAW
00:35:03.70\00:35:07.24
AND WE HAVE ALL BROKEN THE LAW
AND THE PENALTY FOR BREAKING THE
00:35:07.27\00:35:09.94
LAW IS IN ROMANS.
THE WAGES FOR SIN -
00:35:09.97\00:35:12.91
>>DEATH. >>IT'S DEATH.
00:35:12.94\00:35:14.54
YOU ARE UNDER A DEATH PENALTY.
YOU'RE ALIVE, SO IT HASN'T BEEN
00:35:14.58\00:35:17.85
EXECUTED YET, SO
YOU'RE UNDER A DEATH SENTENCE.
00:35:17.88\00:35:21.42
BUT, THROUGH CHRIST, YOU'RE NO
LONGER UNDER THE PENALTY OF THE
00:35:21.45\00:35:26.09
LAW. YOU'RE NOW LOOKED
UPON AS GRACE - THROUGH GRACE.
00:35:26.12\00:35:32.59
AND IT SAYS, IN YOUR LESSON,
'THE PERSON WHO SUPPOSEDLY LIVES
00:35:32.63\00:35:35.36
UNDER GRACE BUT DISOBEYS GOD'S
LAW, WILL NOT FIND GRACE BUT
00:35:35.40\00:35:38.20
CONDEMNATION. UNDER
GRACE MEANS THAT THROUGH
00:35:38.23\00:35:41.34
THE GRACE OF GOD, REVEALED IN
JESUS, THE CONDEMNATION OF THE
00:35:41.37\00:35:44.74
LAW' - THE PENALTY OF THE
LAW WHICH, INEVITABLY BRINGS TO
00:35:44.77\00:35:47.88
SINNERS DEATH -
'HAS BEEN REMOVED.
00:35:47.91\00:35:50.91
THUS, NOW, FREE FROM THIS
CONDEMNATION OF DEATH BROUGHT BY
00:35:50.95\00:35:54.15
THE LAW, WE LIVE IN A
NEWNESS OF LIFE - A LIFE THAT IS
00:35:54.18\00:35:57.92
CHARACTERIZED BY AND MADE
MANIFEST THROUGH THE FACT OF
00:35:57.95\00:36:01.46
BEING DEAD TO SELF, WE ARE
NO LONGER SLAVES TO SIN' - WHICH
00:36:01.49\00:36:05.13
MEANS THERE'S A DIFFERENT
LIFE THAT WE'RE LIVING, AMEN?
00:36:05.16\00:36:08.13
>>AMEN.
>>ALRIGHT, SIN OR OBEDIENCE?
00:36:08.16\00:36:13.23
SOMEONE IS GOING TO READ FOR
ME JOB 2:3, IN JUST A MOMENT.
00:36:13.27\00:36:17.91
I'LL READ A COUPLE FIRST.
'NOAH WAS A JUST AND PERFECT
00:36:17.94\00:36:22.51
MAN IN HIS GENERATIONS.
NOAH WALKED WITH GOD.' THAT'S
00:36:22.54\00:36:26.68
BECAUSE NOAH WAS SUPER-HUMAN.
THEY LIVED HUNDREDS OF YEARS
00:36:26.72\00:36:29.25
BACK THEN, THEY
COULD WALK WITH GOD.
00:36:29.28\00:36:31.15
IS THAT HOW
NOAH WALKED WITH GOD?
00:36:31.19\00:36:32.65
OR DID NOAH HAVE THE SAME
TEMPTATIONS THAT PEOPLE HAVE
00:36:32.69\00:36:34.82
TODAY? SIN WAS SIN BACK
THEN JUST LIKE IT IS TODAY.
00:36:34.86\00:36:38.99
GENESIS 17:1 - GOD SAID TO
ABRAHAM, "I AM THE ALMIGHTY GOD;
00:36:39.03\00:36:45.07
WALK BEFORE ME AND BE PERFECT."
SO IT'S NOT JUST JESUS MAKING
00:36:45.10\00:36:50.07
TROUBLE FOR US IN THE NEW
TESTAMENT WHEN HE SAID, 'BE THOU
00:36:50.11\00:36:52.34
PERFECT', BUT GOD, HERE IN
THE OLD TESTAMENT, SAID THE SAME
00:36:52.37\00:36:54.81
THING TO ABRAHAM - 'I AM THE
ALMIGHTY GOD; WALK BEFORE ME AND
00:36:54.84\00:36:58.38
BE PERFECT.' THAT'S
A PRETTY HIGH STANDARD.
00:36:58.41\00:37:02.62
GENESIS 26:5, "BECAUSE ABRAHAM
OBEYED MY VOICE AND KEPT MY
00:37:02.65\00:37:07.49
CHARGE, MY COMMANDMENTS,
MY STATUTES, AND MY LAWS."
00:37:07.52\00:37:11.19
- NOTICE THAT - GOD SAYS,
'COMMANDMENTS, STATUTES, LAWS' -
00:37:11.23\00:37:14.20
THAT'S GENESIS 26.
HAD THE TEN COMMANDMENTS
00:37:14.20\00:37:17.53
BEEN GIVEN YET?
WHERE DO YOU - WHERE DO THE
00:37:17.57\00:37:21.60
TEN COMMANDMENTS FIRST
APPEAR? EXODUS 20, RIGHT?
00:37:21.64\00:37:27.71
HERE WE'RE IN GENESIS 26 IT SAYS
GOD'S GOT COMMANDMENTS, STATUTES
00:37:27.74\00:37:30.71
AND LAWS - YOU KNOW WHY?
THEY ALL PASSED THEM ON ORALLY.
00:37:30.75\00:37:34.35
THEY KNEW THE TEN COMMANDMENTS
FROM THE GARDEN OF EDEN.
00:37:34.38\00:37:37.32
THEY WEREN'T CODIFIED
UNTIL EXODUS. BUT DID THEY KNOW
00:37:37.35\00:37:40.42
ADULTERY WAS A SIN?
WHAT DID JOSEPH SAY?
00:37:40.46\00:37:43.32
BEFORE THE TEN COMMANDMENTS,
JOSEPH SAID, 'HOW CAN I SIN AND
00:37:43.36\00:37:45.33
TAKE YOUR WIFE - AND
TAKE THIS MAN'S WIFE?'
00:37:45.36\00:37:48.60
DID GOD TELL CAIN, WAY BACK IN
THE BEGINNING, MURDER WAS A SIN?
00:37:48.63\00:37:52.80
HE SAID, 'SIN IS AT YOUR DOOR.'
AND HE MURDERED HIS BROTHER.
00:37:52.83\00:37:56.40
AND SO, THE TEN COMMANDMENTS
HAVE ALWAYS BEEN THERE, THEY
00:37:56.44\00:38:00.24
WERE JUST, FINALLY,
CODIFIED IN STONE, BY THE TIME.
00:38:00.28\00:38:03.85
SO ABRAHAM KNEW
WHAT THOSE LAWS WERE.
00:38:03.88\00:38:05.41
HE WALKED ACCORDING TO THEM
BECAUSE HE LOVED THE LORD AND
00:38:05.45\00:38:08.58
GOD HAD SAID TO
THEM, 'BE THOU PERFECT.'
00:38:08.62\00:38:10.55
READ, FOR ME, PLEASE, JOB 2:3.
00:38:10.59\00:38:14.72
>>"THEN THE LORD SAID TO SATAN,
'HAVE YOU CONSIDERED MY SERVANT
00:38:14.76\00:38:18.16
JOB, THAT THERE IS NONE LIKE HIM
ON THE EARTH, A BLAMELESS AND
00:38:18.19\00:38:23.13
UPRIGHT MAN, ONE WHO
FEARS GOD AND SHUNS EVIL?
00:38:23.16\00:38:27.30
AND STILL HE HOLDS FAST TO HIS
INTEGRITY, ALTHOUGH YOU INCITED
00:38:27.34\00:38:31.84
ME AGAINST HIM, TO
DESTROY HIM WITHOUT CAUSE.'"
00:38:31.87\00:38:39.88
>>YEAH, SO HERE, JOB, THE
BIBLE CALLS HIM A PERFECT AND AN
00:38:39.91\00:38:43.28
UPRIGHT MAN WHO
LOVES GOD AND HATES EVIL.
00:38:43.32\00:38:47.16
AND HE'S LIVING THE KIND OF LIFE
WHERE GOD CAN BRAG TO THE DEVIL
00:38:47.19\00:38:50.79
ABOUT JOB
BECAUSE JOB IS SINLESS?
00:38:50.83\00:38:53.63
NO, HAD JOB
SINNED? YEAH - HE SAYS SO
00:38:53.66\00:38:57.97
EVEN IN HIS OWN BOOK.
AND WHEN GOD REVEALS HIMSELF
00:38:58.00\00:39:00.50
TO JOB, HE SAYS
HE REPENTS IN ASHES.
00:39:00.54\00:39:04.67
BUT HE WAS A
PERFECT, UPRIGHT MAN.
00:39:04.71\00:39:07.04
HE LIVED A LIFE
THAT WAS CONSISTENT.
00:39:07.08\00:39:08.61
NOW I DIDN'T PUT THE QUOTE IN
MY NOTES, BUT IF YOU LOOK IN THE
00:39:08.64\00:39:11.31
BOOK STEPS TO CHRIST , THERE'S
A BEAUTIFUL QUOTE THERE AND IT
00:39:11.35\00:39:14.35
SAYS, 'IT'S NOT THE OCCASIONAL
GOOD DEED OR OCCASIONAL MISDEED
00:39:14.38\00:39:20.86
THAT DETERMINES WHOSE SIDE WE'RE
ON, BUT IT'S THE HABITUAL WORDS
00:39:20.89\00:39:24.99
AND ACTS. WHAT IS THE PATTERN
00:39:25.03\00:39:26.36
OF A PERSON'S LIFE? ARE
THEY LIVING FOR THE LORD?
00:39:26.39\00:39:30.53
IT DOESN'T MEAN THAT THEY HAVE
A MOMENT OR A WEAKNESS, OR THEY
00:39:30.57\00:39:33.00
FALL IN SOME AREA, SO,
DEUTERONOMY 18:13, "THOU SHALT
00:39:33.03\00:39:38.27
BE PERFECT WITH
THE LORD THY GOD."
00:39:38.31\00:39:41.28
IT'S ALL THROUGH THE
BIBLE. WHAT DOES THAT MEAN TO BE
00:39:41.31\00:39:43.81
PERFECT WITH THE LORD
GOD? DON'T GET MAD AT PASTOR
00:39:43.85\00:39:48.35
DOUG; I DIDN'T WRITE
IT. WHAT IS HE SAYING?
00:39:48.38\00:39:51.19
WELL, IT'S IN THE BIBLE.
WHAT DOES HE MEAN BY THAT?
00:39:51.22\00:39:54.49
LIVE A LIFE WHERE
YOU'RE WALKING WITH GOD.
00:39:54.52\00:39:59.09
TELL ME THE VERSES THAT SAY
A LITTLE BIT OF SIN IS OKAY.
00:39:59.13\00:40:03.06
THERE MUST BE SOME BECAUSE I
HEAR PEOPLE TALK LIKE THAT ALL
00:40:03.10\00:40:06.10
THE TIME IN CHURCHES - THAT
GOD IS ASKING US TO SORT OF CUT
00:40:06.13\00:40:09.87
BACK. (LAUGHS)
THAT'S NOT WHAT HE SAID.
00:40:09.90\00:40:15.54
IF YOU LOOK IN JOHN 5:14,
"AFTERWARD JESUS FOUND HIM IN
00:40:15.58\00:40:21.02
THE TEMPLE, AND SAID TO HIM,
'SEE, YOU HAVE BEEN MADE WELL.'"
00:40:21.05\00:40:24.22
- THIS IS THE MAN WHO HAD NEVER
WALKED - 38 YEARS - "SIN NO
00:40:24.25\00:40:28.96
MORE, LEST A WORSE
THING COME UPON YOU."
00:40:28.99\00:40:31.93
DID JESUS SAY, 'TRY
TO SIN A LITTLE LESS'?
00:40:31.96\00:40:35.10
IS THAT WHAT HE SAID?
HE SAID, 'LIVE A HOLY LIFE.
00:40:35.13\00:40:38.97
DON'T GO BACK TO YOUR LIFE OF
SIN.' NOW I WANT YOU TO LOOK AT
00:40:39.00\00:40:43.47
A VERSE WITH ME, THAT SOMETIMES
HAS TROUBLED PEOPLE - GO TO
00:40:43.51\00:40:46.14
HEBREWS CHAPTER 10 IN THE
NEW TESTAMENT - THIS IS OFTEN
00:40:46.17\00:40:52.48
MISUNDERSTOOD AND I THOUGHT
WE OUGHT TO JUST ADDRESS IT.
00:40:52.51\00:40:57.35
HEBREWS 10 - AND THIS IS
BEFORE THE CHAPTER OF THE GREAT
00:40:57.39\00:41:02.76
FAITHFUL IN THE BIBLE AND, IF
YOU READ IN VERSE 26, "FOR IF WE
00:41:02.79\00:41:07.36
SIN WILLFULLY AFTER WE HAVE
RECEIVED THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE
00:41:07.40\00:41:10.17
TRUTH, THERE NO LONGER REMAINS
A SACRIFICE FOR SINS, BUT A
00:41:10.20\00:41:14.07
CERTAIN FEARFUL EXPECTATION OF
JUDGMENT, AND FIERY INDIGNATION
00:41:14.10\00:41:18.14
WHICH WILL DEVOUR THE
ADVERSARIES." IF WE SIN
00:41:18.17\00:41:21.24
WILLFULLY - THAT MAKES IT
SOUND LIKE IF YOU SIN ONCE,
00:41:21.28\00:41:25.21
DELIBERATELY - NOW MOST OF YOUR
SIN IS DELIBERATE. DO YOU THINK
00:41:25.25\00:41:31.45
ABOUT THE SINS IN YOUR LIFE?
YOU CAN'T SAY, 'I FELL INTO THE
00:41:31.49\00:41:34.46
REFRIGERATOR AND I
ATE THAT EXTRA CUPCAKE.
00:41:34.49\00:41:37.99
WHEN I FELL MY MOUTH WAS OPEN
AND IT JUST FELL IN MY MOUTH.
00:41:38.03\00:41:40.90
IT WASN'T DELIBERATE.'
IS THAT HOW IT HAPPENS?
00:41:40.93\00:41:45.07
OR DO YOU CONSCIOUSLY SAY, 'I
REALLY SHOULDN'T BE DOING THIS.'
00:41:45.10\00:41:49.24
AND, USUALLY, IT'S NOT SOMETHING
AS INNOCUOUS AS A CUPCAKE.
00:41:49.27\00:41:52.77
YOU KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT.
WE MAKE A CONSCIOUS DECISION.
00:41:52.81\00:41:57.25
'I REALLY SHOULDN'T LISTEN TO
THAT SONG.' 'I REALLY SHOULDN'T
00:41:57.28\00:42:00.18
WATCH THAT PROGRAM.' 'I REALLY
SHOULDN'T GO TO THAT WEBSITE.'
00:42:00.22\00:42:04.02
'I REALLY SHOULDN'T TELL
THAT JOKE.' AND WE DO IT.
00:42:04.05\00:42:08.49
AND YOU SAY, 'OH,
I DID IT WILLFULLY.
00:42:08.52\00:42:09.99
AND HERE I READ IN THE BIBLE,
'IF I SIN WILLFULLY THERE IS NO
00:42:10.03\00:42:12.89
MORE SACRIFICE FOR SINS.' - I'M
DOOMED.' I GET QUESTIONS LIKE
00:42:12.93\00:42:16.70
THAT, PEOPLE.
HAVE YOU EVER WORRIED?
00:42:16.73\00:42:19.43
OR YOU THINK, RIGHT AFTER I
EAT THAT FORBIDDEN CUPCAKE' - I
00:42:19.47\00:42:26.47
MEAN, IT EVEN - IT'S CALLED
'DEVIL'S FOOD CAKE' AND YOU KNEW
00:42:26.51\00:42:30.08
YOU SHOULDN'T - 'RIGHT AFTER I
EAT IT, I GET HIT BY A CAR - I'M
00:42:30.11\00:42:35.02
DONE FOR BECAUSE I'VE SINNED
WILLFULLY.' - PEOPLE WORRY,
00:42:35.05\00:42:39.15
'I'VE LOST MYSELF. I
AM IN AN UNSAVED CONDITION
00:42:39.19\00:42:41.96
AFTER THE CUPCAKE AND I NEED TO
QUICKLY REPENT.' AND SO A PERSON
00:42:41.99\00:42:47.96
SAYS, 'YOU'VE GOT A
ROLLER COASTER EXPERIENCE.'
00:42:47.96\00:42:50.93
BAPTISTS OR
CALVINISTS HAVE A BIG PROBLEM
00:42:50.97\00:42:53.90
WITH PEOPLE WHO
BELIEVE IN FREE WILL.
00:42:53.94\00:42:56.20
THEY SAY, 'BECAUSE YOU GUYS,
EVERY TIME YOU SIN YOU THINK,
00:42:56.24\00:42:58.17
'I'M LOST UNTIL I REPENT
AGAIN.' AND SO YOU'VE GOT A
00:42:58.21\00:43:00.81
SAVED/LOST/SAVED/LOST/SAVED/LOST
EXPERIENCE AND THAT'S OVER THE
00:43:00.84\00:43:04.35
COURSE OF AN HOUR -
SIN/REPENT/SIN/REPENT/SIN/REPENT
00:43:04.38\00:43:10.02
- AND THEY SAY, 'ONCE WE'RE
SAVED WE CAN'T BE LOST.' THAT'S
00:43:10.05\00:43:12.32
THE OTHER EXTREME - BOTH OF
THOSE ARE WRONG. THEY'RE BOTH
00:43:12.35\00:43:15.96
MISUNDERSTANDINGS - THOSE ARE
EXTREMES THAT ARE BEING ABUSED.
00:43:15.99\00:43:21.73
GOD IS NOT SAYING ONCE YOU'RE
SAVED YOU CAN'T BE LOST AND
00:43:21.76\00:43:23.67
NEITHER IS HE SAYING THAT ONCE
YOU'RE SAVED THERE MAY NOT BE
00:43:23.70\00:43:27.10
LAPSES AND YOU
LOSE YOUR SALVATION.
00:43:27.14\00:43:31.31
I THINK THAT YOU MUST BELIEVE
THAT, WHEN YOU'VE COMMITTED YOUR
00:43:31.34\00:43:34.11
LIFE TO THE LORD, IF YOU HAVE
NOT RETRACTED THAT COMMITMENT,
00:43:34.14\00:43:38.05
THAT HE WHO HAS BEGUN A GOOD
WORK IN YOU WILL PERFORM IT.
00:43:38.08\00:43:41.62
HE'S CALLED THE AUTHOR AND
FINISHER OF OUR FAITH - AND YOU
00:43:41.65\00:43:44.89
NEED TO LIVE WITH A CERTAIN JOY
- HOW CAN A CHRISTIAN HAVE JOY
00:43:44.92\00:43:48.89
IF YOU GO THROUGH YOUR DAY
SAVED/LOST/SAVED/LOST/SAVED/LOST
00:43:48.92\00:43:51.13
- IT'S A WORKS-ORIENTED
SALVATION AND IT'S FEARFUL.
00:43:51.16\00:43:56.40
PERFECT LOVE CASTS OUT FEAR.
YOU'VE GOT TO HAVE FAITH THAT
00:43:56.43\00:43:59.83
WHEN YOU COME TO THE LORD, YOU
REALLY LOVE HIM, THAT YOU'VE GOT
00:43:59.87\00:44:03.07
PEACE THAT HE'S GOING TO FINISH
WHAT HE STARTED. FIRST OF ALL,
00:44:03.10\00:44:05.94
GOING BACK TO HEBREWS, LET
ME JUST TIE THIS OFF - WHEN IT
00:44:05.97\00:44:08.94
SAYS, 'WHEN WE SIN WILLFULLY'
- THE WORD 'SIN' THERE IS NOT
00:44:08.98\00:44:12.91
TALKING ABOUT AN INCIDENT, IT'S
TALKING ABOUT AN ONGOING LIFE.
00:44:12.95\00:44:17.85
IF WE CONTINUE TO SIN WILLFULLY
AFTER WE'VE RECEIVED A KNOWLEDGE
00:44:17.89\00:44:23.36
OF THE TRUTH, THERE'S NOTHING
MORE THAT THE LORD CAN DO FOR
00:44:23.39\00:44:26.13
US. THAT'S WHAT
IT'S TALKING ABOUT.
00:44:26.16\00:44:27.56
IT DOESN'T MEAN THAT IF YOU FALL
THROUGH A WILLFUL SIN - AND MOST
00:44:27.60\00:44:30.77
OF THEM ARE - THAT
THEN YOU CANNOT BE SAVED.
00:44:30.80\00:44:35.24
LET ME READ A FEW MORE VERSES TO
YOU HERE ON SIN AND OBEDIENCE.
00:44:35.27\00:44:45.31
LUKE 1:6, TALKING ABOUT
ZACHARIAS AND ELIZABETH, "AND
00:44:45.35\00:44:49.62
THEY WERE BOTH RIGHTEOUS
BEFORE GOD, WALKING IN ALL THE
00:44:49.65\00:44:52.75
COMMANDMENTS AND ORDINANCES
OF THE LORD BLAMELESS."
00:44:52.79\00:44:56.59
WERE THEY GODLY PEOPLE -
THE PARENTS OF JOHN THE BAPTIST?
00:44:56.62\00:44:59.03
YOU STILL AWAKE? YOU
WITH ME? WERE THEY SAVED?
00:44:59.06\00:45:03.50
DID ZACHARIAS HAVE PROBLEMS
BELIEVING THE ANGEL AND WAS HE
00:45:03.53\00:45:06.10
STRUCK DUMB
BECAUSE OF A LACK OF FAITH?
00:45:06.13\00:45:08.94
BUT WAS HE STILL
WALKING WITH THE LORD?
00:45:08.97\00:45:11.71
HE WAS A SAVED - IT SAYS
HE WALKED BEFORE THE LORD
00:45:11.74\00:45:13.64
BLAMELESS. THEY'RE
DOING EVERYTHING THEY
00:45:13.68\00:45:17.01
CAN HUMANLY DO TO OBEY THE LORD
BECAUSE THEY LOVED THE LORD,
00:45:17.05\00:45:19.68
NOT TO EARN THEIR SALVATION.
I'VE GOT TO MAKE THAT CLEAR.
00:45:19.71\00:45:22.42
PHILIPPIANS 3:15, "LET
US THEREFORE, AS MANY AS BE
00:45:22.45\00:45:26.49
PERFECT, BE THUS MINDED:" JAMES
3:2, "...IF ANY MAN OFFEND NOT
00:45:26.52\00:45:31.93
IN WORD, THE SAME IS A PERFECT
MAN," - IT SAYS, 'WATCH WHAT YOU
00:45:31.96\00:45:35.36
SAY' TOO. IF YOU
CAN CONTROL YOUR MOUTH,
00:45:35.40\00:45:37.57
YOU CAN CONTROL EVERYTHING ELSE.
NOW, FOR AN ADVENTIST, THAT
00:45:37.60\00:45:40.54
MEANS NOT ONLY WHAT
YOU SAY, BUT WHAT YOU EAT.
00:45:40.57\00:45:42.60
WE KNOW THE
MOUTH WORKS BOTH WAYS.
00:45:42.64\00:45:45.37
IF YOU CAN CONTROL THE MOUTH,
YOU CAN CONTROL EVERYTHING ELSE.
00:45:45.41\00:45:47.91
IF YOU CAN BRING YOUR APPETITE
INTO SUBMISSION AND YOU CAN
00:45:47.94\00:45:51.61
BRING YOUR WORDS INTO
SUBMISSION, YOU'RE HOME FREE.
00:45:51.65\00:45:54.72
I'M PARAPHRASING, SORRY.
DIDN'T WE ALL GET INTO TROUBLE
00:45:54.75\00:45:58.89
BECAUSE OF
SOMETHING THAT WAS EATEN?
00:45:58.92\00:46:02.69
NOW, AT FIRST GLANCE, WE MIGHT
ASSUME THAT JESUS IS ASKING SOME
00:46:02.72\00:46:05.46
OF US TO BE ANGELIC ANDROIDS.
BUT A CLOSER LOOK OF SEVERAL
00:46:05.49\00:46:10.20
EXAMPLES PROVIDE
A BETTER PICTURE.
00:46:10.23\00:46:12.50
WHAT DOES 'PERFECT' MEAN?
WELL, IN ENGLISH, IT MEANS
00:46:12.53\00:46:15.97
'CONFORMING ABSOLUTELY TO A
DEFINITION OF AN IDEAL TYPE'.
00:46:16.00\00:46:20.54
IT MEANS 'TO BE EXCELLENT;
COMPLETE; BEYOND PRACTICAL OR
00:46:20.58\00:46:24.48
THEORETICAL IMPROVEMENT' -
BEYOND IMPROVEMENT - IS THAT
00:46:24.51\00:46:27.08
WHAT WE'RE SAYING WHEN
WE ARE LOOKING FOR CHRISTIAN
00:46:27.12\00:46:29.08
PERFECTION? DOES
PAUL SAY, 'I DO NOT COUNT
00:46:29.12\00:46:33.52
MYSELF TO HAVE
APPREHENDED OR TO BE PERFECT'?
00:46:33.56\00:46:37.03
PAUL SAID - BUT THEN PAUL SAYS,
IN 2 TIMOTHY, 'I HAVE FOUGHT A
00:46:37.06\00:46:41.73
GOOD FIGHT. I HAVE
FINISHED THE RACE - I'VE
00:46:41.76\00:46:43.80
FINISHED THE COURSE -
I HAVE KEPT THE FAITH.
00:46:43.83\00:46:46.53
HEREAFTER THERE IS LAID UP
FOR ME A CROWN OF RIGHTEOUSNESS
00:46:46.57\00:46:48.77
WHICH THE LORD, THE RIGHTEOUS
JUDGE, WILL GIVE ME THAT DAY AND
00:46:48.80\00:46:51.07
NOT TO ME ONLY BUT TO ALL THEM
THAT LOVE HIS APPEARING.' SO ONE
00:46:51.11\00:46:54.14
PLACE YOU HEAR PAUL SAYING,
'I DO NOT COUNT MYSELF TO BE
00:46:54.18\00:46:56.41
PERFECT', BUT THEN IN 2 TIMOTHY
HE SAYS, 'I HAVE FINISHED THE
00:46:56.44\00:46:59.81
RACE. I AM LOOKING FORWARD TO MY
00:46:59.85\00:47:00.92
CROWN. DID HE HAVE ASSURANCE
00:47:00.95\00:47:02.18
ABOUT HIS SALVATION? I'LL
JUST LET YOU SORT THAT OUT.
00:47:02.22\00:47:09.79
IN HEBREW, THE WORD
FOR 'PERFECT' IS TAMIM.
00:47:09.82\00:47:13.86
IT MEANS 'ENTIRE; INTEGRITY;
TRUTH; WITHOUT BLEMISH;
00:47:13.90\00:47:17.13
COMPLETE; FULL;
PERFECT; UNDEFILED'.
00:47:17.17\00:47:20.07
IN THE NEW TESTAMENT THE WORD
'PERFECT' IS TELEIOS - IT MEANS
00:47:20.10\00:47:24.24
'COMPLETE IN LABOR; GROWTH' - AT
THE RIGHT PLACE IT'S SUPPOSED TO
00:47:24.27\00:47:28.58
BE IN ITS GROWTH - 'MENTAL
OR MORAL CHARACTER.' IF YOU ARE
00:47:28.61\00:47:34.72
WALKING IN THE LIGHT THAT GOD
HAS GIVEN YOU, YOU WILL BE IN
00:47:34.75\00:47:38.82
THE KINGDOM. WALK IN
THE LIGHT AS HE IS IN
00:47:38.85\00:47:41.09
THE LIGHT AND THE BLOOD OF HIS
SON CLEANSES YOU FROM ALL SIN.
00:47:41.12\00:47:44.49
HE DOESN'T ASK YOU TO TAKE STEPS
THAT ARE NOT IN FRONT OF YOU, HE
00:47:44.53\00:47:47.36
ASKS YOU TO TAKE THE
STEPS THAT ARE BEFORE YOU.
00:47:47.40\00:47:50.63
I EXPECT TO SEE
MARTIN LUTHER IN HEAVEN.
00:47:50.67\00:47:54.07
MARTIN LUTHER - I'VE BEEN
READING ABOUT HIM THIS WEEK -
00:47:54.10\00:47:56.57
GOING TO TALK ABOUT HIM IN HALF
AN HOUR - MARTIN LUTHER WAS A
00:47:56.60\00:48:01.44
GODLY MAN, A BOLD AND, YET, A
HUMBLE MAN, BUT THEN IT GOES ON
00:48:01.48\00:48:09.42
TO TELL US THAT
MARTIN LUTHER DRANK BEER.
00:48:09.45\00:48:14.19
NOW, IF I DRANK BEER, I'D BE IN
TROUBLE BECAUSE I KNOW BETTER.
00:48:14.22\00:48:17.13
BACK THEN, THEY
DIDN'T HAVE CLEAN WATER.
00:48:17.16\00:48:18.73
AT LEAST THE ALCOHOL CLEANSED
THE BEER TO SOME EXTENT.
00:48:18.76\00:48:22.46
I EXPECT TO HEAR - TO
SEE JOHN NEWTON IN HEAVEN.
00:48:22.50\00:48:26.03
JOHN NEWTON WROTE AMAZING GRACE.
HE SMOKED UNTIL THE DAY HE DIED.
00:48:26.07\00:48:32.24
DOCTORS PRESCRIBED CIGARETTES
BACK THEN - IT'S HARD TO
00:48:32.27\00:48:35.14
BELIEVE, ISN'T IT? THEY
WALKED IN THE LIGHT THAT
00:48:35.18\00:48:39.08
THEY HAD, YOU
SEE WHAT I'M SAYING?
00:48:39.11\00:48:41.62
I EXPECT TO SEE DAVID
IN HEAVEN - AND SOLOMON.
00:48:41.65\00:48:44.92
SOLOMON REPENTED OF
HIS SINS. THEY BOTH HAD WAY
00:48:44.95\00:48:46.86
TOO MANY WIVES. NOW,
IF I TOOK EXTRA WIVES,
00:48:46.89\00:48:51.56
I WOULD DIE ON TWO COUNTS -
(RAUCOUS LAUGHTER) - MY WIFE
00:48:51.59\00:48:55.00
WOULD BE FIRST AND THEN
I'D BE LOST IN THE JUDGMENT.
00:48:55.03\00:48:59.40
MY WIFE WOULD BE FIRST
TO KILL ME, IS WHAT I MEANT.
00:48:59.43\00:49:03.07
SO - BUT - 'CAUSE I KNOW BETTER.
SO GOD EXPECTS US - TO BE
00:49:03.10\00:49:06.57
PERFECT MEANS TO LIVE
UP TO THE LIGHT YOU HAVE.
00:49:06.61\00:49:08.58
WE'VE GOT A LOT OF LIGHT
IN THIS GENERATION, AMEN?
00:49:08.61\00:49:12.41
FREE FROM SIN,
WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?
00:49:12.45\00:49:14.05
ROMANS 6 - LET'S READ VERSES
16 THROUGH 18, "DO YOU NOT KNOW
00:49:14.08\00:49:17.62
THAT TO WHOM YOU PRESENT
YOURSELVES SLAVES TO OBEY, YOU
00:49:17.65\00:49:20.79
ARE THAT ONE'S SLAVES WHOM
YOU OBEY, WHETHER OF SIN" - IF
00:49:20.82\00:49:23.96
YOU'RE OBEYING SIN, YOU'RE A
SLAVE - "LEADING TO DEATH, OR OF
00:49:23.99\00:49:27.30
OBEDIENCE
LEADING TO RIGHTEOUSNESS?
00:49:27.36\00:49:29.43
BUT GOD BE THANKED THAT THOUGH
YOU WERE SLAVES OF SIN, YET YOU
00:49:29.46\00:49:33.50
OBEYED FROM THE HEART THAT FORM
OF DOCTRINE TO WHICH YOU WERE
00:49:33.54\00:49:36.07
DELIVERED. AND
HAVING BEEN SET FREE FROM
00:49:36.10\00:49:38.11
SIN, YOU BECAME
SLAVES OF RIGHTEOUSNESS."
00:49:38.14\00:49:40.94
'PASTOR DOUG, DO I NEED TO
BE PERFECT BEFORE I'M BAPTIZED?'
00:49:40.98\00:49:45.01
NO, YOU'RE NEVER GOING TO GET TO
THE PLACE WHERE YOU THINK YOU'RE
00:49:45.05\00:49:48.42
GOOD ENOUGH. 'DO I
NEED TO KNOW EVERYTHING?'
00:49:48.45\00:49:53.29
BEFORE YOU'RE BAPTIZED -
YOU SHOULD KNOW AND BELIEVE THE
00:49:53.32\00:49:56.09
FUNDAMENTALS.
'WHAT DO I NEED TO DO?
00:49:56.12\00:49:59.96
CAN I STILL GET BAPTIZED
IF I'M SMOKING OR DRINKING?'
00:50:00.00\00:50:02.23
NO, BECAUSE THOSE THINGS ARE
THINGS THAT HAVE DOMINION OVER
00:50:02.26\00:50:05.50
YOU. PEOPLE GET ADDICTED.
WHEN YOU ARE ADDICTED TO SOME
00:50:05.53\00:50:08.57
BAD BEHAVIOR, YOU ARE NOT FREE
YET. SIN SHALL NOT HAVE DOMINION
00:50:08.60\00:50:13.38
OVER YOU. SEE
WHAT THE DIFFERENCE IS?
00:50:13.41\00:50:16.14
IF THE PATTERN OF YOUR LIFE IS
ONE THAT YOU ARE CHAINED IN SOME
00:50:16.18\00:50:19.75
AREA OF YOUR LIFE TO
SIN, YOU ARE NOT FREE.
00:50:19.78\00:50:23.35
BEFORE I WAS BAPTIZED, I STUDIED
THIS AND I REALIZED I NEED TO -
00:50:23.39\00:50:28.22
I NEED TO QUIT CURSING.
I NEED TO QUIT DRINKING.
00:50:28.26\00:50:30.69
I NEED TO QUIT SMOKING - THOSE
THINGS HAD DOMINION OVER ME.
00:50:30.73\00:50:33.53
GOD CALLS US TO
LIVE LIVES OF PURITY.
00:50:33.56\00:50:35.73
I UNDERSTOOD, BECAUSE I WAS
TAUGHT BY A GOOD OLD ADVENTIST
00:50:35.76\00:50:39.27
PASTOR, THAT YOU
MAY FALL AFTERWARD.
00:50:39.30\00:50:42.54
WHY DO YOU THINK WE HAVE
FOOT WASHING IN OUR CHURCH?
00:50:42.57\00:50:47.11
IF WE BELIEVE THAT ONCE YOU'RE
BAPTIZED, YOU'RE GOING TO BE
00:50:47.14\00:50:49.34
PERFECT, THEN WHY DO WE
EVEN BOTHER WITH FOOT WASHING?
00:50:49.38\00:50:52.98
IS THAT A GOOD QUESTION?
WE HAVE FOOT WASHING BECAUSE
00:50:53.01\00:50:56.08
IT'S SORT OF UNDERSTOOD THAT,
WHILE YOU HAD BEEN WASHED AS A
00:50:56.12\00:51:01.62
WHOLE, YOU MAY NEED A MINI
BAPTISM TO CLEANSE YOU FOR THE
00:51:01.66\00:51:06.39
FAILURES ALONG THE WAY, BUT SIN
SHOULD NOT HAVE DOMINION OVER
00:51:06.43\00:51:09.63
YOU. SIN SHOULD
NOT REIGN OVER YOU.
00:51:09.66\00:51:12.87
DO YOU UNDERSTAND THE
DIFFERENCE? THE CONTROLLING -
00:51:12.90\00:51:15.84
JESUS IS LORD OF YOUR
LIFE, NOT THE DEVIL ANYMORE.
00:51:15.87\00:51:20.48
AND SO, THERE MIGHT BE ATTACKS
ALONG THE WAY, BUT CHRIST IS ON
00:51:20.51\00:51:23.38
THE THRONE. THAT'S
WHAT PAUL IS SAYING.
00:51:23.41\00:51:26.68
LET ME READ SOMETHING - THIS
IS AN OUTSTANDING QUOTE FROM
00:51:26.72\00:51:30.55
CHRIST'S OBJECT LESSONS PAGE
331, "BUT CHRIST HAS GIVEN US NO
00:51:30.59\00:51:35.79
ASSURANCE THAT TO ATTAIN
PERFECTION OF CHARACTER IS AN
00:51:35.82\00:51:39.46
EASY MATTER. A NOBLE
ALL-AROUND CHARACTER IS
00:51:39.49\00:51:43.57
NOT INHERITED," - IT DOES
NOT COME TO US BY ACCIDENT - "A
00:51:43.60\00:51:46.94
NOBLE CHARACTER IS EARNED BY
INDIVIDUAL EFFORTS THROUGH THE
00:51:46.97\00:51:49.94
MERITS AND GRACE OF CHRIST."
- IT COMES THROUGH CHRIST - "GOD
00:51:49.97\00:51:53.31
GIVES TALENTS AND POWERS OF
THE MIND. WE FORM THE CHARACTER.
00:51:53.34\00:51:56.75
IT'S FORMED BY HARD,
STERN BATTLES WITH SELF.
00:51:56.78\00:52:00.08
CONFLICT AFTER CONFLICT
MUST BE WAGED AGAINST HEREDITARY
00:52:00.12\00:52:03.39
TENDENCIES." - YOU
CAN GET YOUR DNA CHECKED
00:52:03.42\00:52:06.62
AND FIND OUT WHO TO BLAME
- "WE SHALL HAVE TO CRITICIZE
00:52:06.65\00:52:09.39
OURSELVES CLOSELY AND NOT ALLOW
ONE UNFAVORABLE TRAIT TO REMAIN
00:52:09.42\00:52:13.66
UNCORRECTED" - PAUL SAYS 'LET
EVERY MAN EXAMINE HIMSELF - 'LET
00:52:13.70\00:52:17.30
NO ONE SAY 'I CANNOT
REMEDY MY DEFECTS OF CHARACTER."
00:52:17.33\00:52:20.20
- DON'T SAY THAT - "IF YOU
COME TO THIS DECISION, YOU WILL
00:52:20.24\00:52:23.00
CERTAINLY FAIL OF
OBTAINING EVERLASTING LIFE."
00:52:23.04\00:52:25.91
- ALL THINGS ARE
POSSIBLE THROUGH CHRIST, AMEN?
00:52:25.94\00:52:28.51
IF YOU - "THE IMPOSSIBILITY
LIES IN YOUR OWN WILL.
00:52:28.54\00:52:33.72
IF YOU WILL NOT,
THEN YOU CANNOT OVERCOME.
00:52:33.75\00:52:36.75
THE REAL DIFFICULTY
ARISES FROM THE CORRUPTION OF AN
00:52:36.79\00:52:39.59
UNSANCTIFIED HEART AND AN
UNWILLINGNESS TO SUBMIT TO THE
00:52:39.62\00:52:42.82
CONTROL OF GOD." - IF YOU
COMPLETELY ARE SUBMITTED -
00:52:42.86\00:52:45.19
IF YOU SURRENDER, YOU CAN.
I'M PARAPHRASING ALONG THE WAY.
00:52:45.23\00:52:49.46
I HOPE YOU SPOT THOSE SPOTS
- "REMEMBER THAT YOU'LL NEVER
00:52:49.50\00:52:51.83
REACH A HIGHER STANDARD
THAN YOU, YOURSELF, SET."
00:52:51.87\00:52:54.70
- YOU'LL NEVER REACH - IF YOU
THINK 'MY STANDARD IS LESS THAN
00:52:54.74\00:52:58.51
CHRIST' THEN YOU WILL GO TO
THE LOWEST COMMON DENOMINATOR -
00:52:58.54\00:53:03.48
"THEN SET YOUR MARK HIGH AND
STEP BY STEP, EVEN THOUGH IT BE
00:53:03.51\00:53:07.48
A PAINFUL EFFORT, BY SELF-DENIAL
AND SACRIFICE ASCEND THE WHOLE
00:53:07.52\00:53:11.22
LENGTH OF THE
LADDER OF PROGRESS.
00:53:11.25\00:53:13.09
LET NOTHING HINDER
YOU." SOMEONE'S GOING TO READ,
00:53:13.12\00:53:15.89
FOR ME, ROMANS 8:2. I'M
GOING TO READ ROMANS 6:23
00:53:15.92\00:53:20.30
FIRST, "FOR THE WAGES OF SIN
IS DEATH, BUT THE GIFT OF GOD IS
00:53:20.33\00:53:25.87
ETERNAL LIFE" - ONE OF THE
BEST VERSES IN ROMANS 6 - "IN
00:53:25.90\00:53:30.01
CHRIST JESUS OUR LORD."
YOU'VE GOT TWO MASTERS, JESUS
00:53:30.04\00:53:32.94
AND THE DEVIL - TWO DESTINIES,
LIFE AND DEATH. THE WAGES -
00:53:32.97\00:53:39.38
SOMETHING YOU WILL BE PAID -
YOU EARN - IS DEATH THROUGH SIN;
00:53:39.41\00:53:44.39
BUT SOMETHING YOU CAN RECEIVE
BY FAITH IS ETERNAL LIFE THROUGH
00:53:44.42\00:53:47.52
JESUS. GO AHEAD AND READ,
PLEASE, FOR US, ROMANS 8:2.
00:53:47.56\00:53:51.46
>>FOR THE LAW OF THE SPIRIT OF
LIFE IN CHRIST JESUS HAS MADE ME
00:53:51.49\00:53:56.20
FREE FROM THE
LAW OF SIN AND DEATH.
00:53:56.23\00:53:59.20
>>CAN YOU SAY 'AMEN'? >>AMEN.
00:53:59.23\00:54:01.50
>>LIVING A SPIRIT-FILLED LIFE
WILL FREE YOU FROM THAT LIFE OF
00:54:01.54\00:54:05.27
SIN AND DEATH.
THAT'S, I THINK, GOOD NEWS.
00:54:05.31\00:54:08.44
I WANT TO READ SOMETHING TO YOU
- I'VE GOT A COUPLE OF MOMENTS
00:54:08.48\00:54:11.08
LEFT - I'M GOING TO JUST PRAY
OUR EDITORS'LL FIND A CREATIVE
00:54:11.11\00:54:14.08
WAY TO KEEP AS MUCH
OF THIS AS POSSIBLE.
00:54:14.12\00:54:16.65
LET ME READ SOMETHING TO YOU
FROM, WELL, JUDE 24 - THERE'S
00:54:16.69\00:54:22.69
ONLY ONE CHAPTER, "NOW TO
HIM WHO IS ABLE TO KEEP YOU FROM
00:54:22.72\00:54:26.80
STUMBLING, AND TO PRESENT YOU
FAULTLESS BEFORE THE PRESENCE OF
00:54:26.83\00:54:30.07
HIS GLORY WITH EXCEEDING JOY,"
- HE IS ABLE TO KEEP YOU FROM
00:54:30.10\00:54:33.90
STUMBLING. CAN YOU SAY 'AMEN'?
00:54:33.94\00:54:35.70
HERE'S A QUOTE FROM ADAM
CLARKE'S COMMENTARY: "IF MEN
00:54:35.74\00:54:40.41
WOULD SPEND AS MUCH TIME IN
FERVENTLY CALLING UPON GOD TO
00:54:40.44\00:54:43.95
SANCTIFY THEM AS THEY
SPEND DECRYING THE DOCTRINE OF
00:54:43.98\00:54:46.68
CHRISTIAN PERFECTION, WHAT A
GLORIOUS STATE THE CHURCH WOULD
00:54:46.72\00:54:49.38
SOON WITNESS. THIS
MOMENT WE MIGHT BE EMPTIED
00:54:49.42\00:54:52.39
OF SIN, FILLED WITH
HOLINESS, BECOME TRULY HAPPY.
00:54:52.42\00:54:55.49
THE PERFECTION OF THE GOSPEL
SYSTEM IS NOT THAT IT MAKES AN
00:54:55.52\00:54:58.96
ALLOWANCE FOR SIN, BUT IT MAKES
ATONEMENT FOR IT; NOT THAT IT
00:54:58.99\00:55:02.60
TOLERATES SIN, BUT IT DESTROYS
IT. LET ALL THOSE WHO RETAIN THE
00:55:02.63\00:55:06.77
APOSTOLIC DOCTRINE PRESS EVERY
BELIEVER TO GO ON TO PERFECTION
00:55:06.80\00:55:10.54
AND EXPECT TO BE SAVED WHILE
HERE, BELOW, INTO THE FULLNESS
00:55:10.57\00:55:14.24
OF THE BLESSING OF
THE GOSPEL OF JESUS.
00:55:14.28\00:55:16.31
ARE YOU WEARY OF THAT CARNAL
MIND, WHICH IS ENMITY TO GOD?
00:55:16.34\00:55:20.12
CANST THOU BE HAPPY
WHILE YOU ARE UNHOLY?
00:55:20.15\00:55:23.28
ARISE, THEN, TO THE BIRTHRIGHT
OF EVERY CHILD OF GOD AND BE
00:55:23.32\00:55:26.45
CLEANSED FROM ALL SIN, TO
KEEP YOURSELF UNSPOTTED FROM THE
00:55:26.49\00:55:29.92
WORLD AND SO LIVE TO
NEVERMORE OFFEND HIS MAKER.
00:55:29.96\00:55:33.40
ALL THINGS ARE
POSSIBLE TO HIM WHO BELIEVES.
00:55:33.43\00:55:35.43
BELIEVE ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE
TO THE INFINITELY MERITORIOUS
00:55:35.46\00:55:38.87
BLOOD AND ENERGETIC
SPIRIT OF THE LORD JESUS."
00:55:38.90\00:55:42.40
NOW, THAT WAS WRITTEN 200
YEARS AGO, BUT IT'S STILL PRETTY
00:55:42.44\00:55:45.57
POWERFUL TODAY. I WANT
TO GIVE YOU ONE MORE FROM
00:55:45.61\00:55:48.68
THE BOOK ACTS OF THE APOSTLES
- AND I KNOW WE'RE OUT OF TIME,
00:55:48.71\00:55:51.91
BUT I'M GOING TO READ IT ANYWAY.
I VERY RARELY PULL THE SENIOR
00:55:51.95\00:55:55.82
PASTOR CARD, BUT
I'M PLAYING IT NOW.
00:55:55.85\00:55:58.65
"BEFORE THE BELIEVER IS HELD
OUT THE WONDERFUL POSSIBILITY OF
00:55:58.69\00:56:02.69
BEING LIKE CHRIST, OBEDIENT TO
ALL THE PRINCIPLES OF GOD BUT,
00:56:02.72\00:56:07.76
OF HIMSELF, WE ARE UTTERLY
UNABLE TO REACH THIS CONDITION.
00:56:07.83\00:56:11.40
THE HOLINESS THAT GOD'S
WORD DECLARES THAT WE MUST HAVE,
00:56:11.43\00:56:15.47
BEFORE WE CAN BE SAVED, IS THE
RESULT OF THE WORKING OF DIVINE
00:56:15.50\00:56:18.67
GRACE AS HE BOWS, IN SUBMISSION,
TO THE DISCIPLINE AND
00:56:18.71\00:56:22.38
RESTRAINING INFLUENCES
OF THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH.
00:56:22.41\00:56:25.51
MAN'S OBEDIENCE CAN BE MADE
PERFECT ONLY BY THE INCENSE OF
00:56:25.55\00:56:31.29
CHRIST'S RIGHTEOUSNESS, WHICH
FILLS WITH DIVINE FRAGRANCE,
00:56:31.32\00:56:34.19
EVERY ACT OF OBEDIENCE.
THE PART THE CHRISTIAN IS TO
00:56:34.22\00:56:37.89
PERSEVERE IN
OVERCOMING EVERY FAULT.
00:56:37.93\00:56:41.16
CONSTANTLY HE IS TO PRAY TO THE
SAVIOR TO HEAL THE DISORDERS OF
00:56:41.20\00:56:44.93
HIS SIN-SICK SOUL. HE
HAS NOT THE WISDOM OR THE
00:56:44.97\00:56:47.67
STRENGTH TO OVERCOME;
THESE BELONG TO THE LORD AND HE
00:56:47.70\00:56:50.77
BESTOWS THEM ON THOSE WHO,
IN HUMILIATION AND CONTRITION,
00:56:50.81\00:56:54.18
SEEK FOR HELP." THAT'S
ACTS OF THE APOSTLES 532 .
00:56:54.21\00:56:57.85
AND I'VE GOT A LOT MORE -
I'LL PUT MY NOTES UP ONLINE IF
00:56:57.88\00:57:00.68
ANYBODY WANTS TO SEE THE PARTS
I LEFT OUT, BUT THIS IS - SOME
00:57:00.72\00:57:03.25
GREAT QUOTES TO ENCOURAGE YOU
THAT, BY THE POWER OF CHRIST, WE
00:57:03.28\00:57:07.16
CAN BE HOLY. BLESSED
ARE THE PURE IN HEART,
00:57:07.19\00:57:10.13
THEY WILL SEE GOD.
AND THAT'S ALL THAT WE'RE
00:57:10.16\00:57:11.76
TALKING ABOUT TODAY,
IS PURITY OF HEART. AMEN?
00:57:11.79\00:57:14.40
WE'RE OUT OF TIME. I
WANT TO REMIND YOU THAT WE
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DO HAVE A FREE OFFER AND
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GOD BLESS YOU, FRIENDS, WE WILL
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NEXT WEEK. >>LET'S
FACE IT, IT'S NOT ALWAYS
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