Hello and good morning.
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Welcome to everyone here
in the Granite Bay Church
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as well as all those
who are watching online
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to yet another edition
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of the Sabbath
School Study Hour.
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We're gonna be looking at
the quarterly study again here,
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"Salvation by Faith
Alone" in the Book of Romans.
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We're gonna be
studying the seventh chapter
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as we continue to look
at what God is revealing
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in that very
powerful gospel book.
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And if you don't have a copy
of this particular quarterly,
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just want to invite you
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of your local
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just go in and
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will have a copy, a free copy
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If you're unable to be
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that you can also go online
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That's amazingfacts.org.
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You can go into the search bar
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as well as Book of
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and you're sure to be
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that you'll be able to download
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a free digital
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before we get together
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as well as during or
after for further study
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in this very important book.
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Before we start
our singing here today,
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we want to also offer you
our free offer of the day.
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And the free offer of
the day today is entitled,
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a little booklet entitled,
"The Flesh and the Spirit".
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If you happened to be
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you're watching this program
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and you'd still
like to be able to
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read this book
for further study,
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it also is
available on the same website
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that I spoke of
earlier, amazingfacts.org.
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You'll find a link there
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and you can download
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and read that and have
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Well, without further ado
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we're gonna
invite our singers out
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as they lead us out in
songs of praise before our Lord.
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God bless you.
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We're gonna begin our
worship singing this morning
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with number 132
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and because we're coming
into the Christmas season,
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we're excited to be
able to have a chance
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to sing some Christmas songs
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and to praise the
young baby in the manger.
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We're gonna start with 132,
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"Oh come, all ye
faithful", all three verses.
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O come, all ye faithful
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Joyful and triumphant
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O come ye
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O come ye to Bethlehem!
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Come and behold Him
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Born the King of angels!
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O come, let us adore Him
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O come, let us adore Him
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O come, let us adore Him
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Christ the Lord!
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Sing, choirs of angels
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Sing in exultation
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O sing
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All ye citizens of heaven above!
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Glory to God
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All glory in the highest!
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O, come, let us adore Him
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O come, let us adore Him
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O come, let us adore Him
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Christ the Lord!
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Yea, Lord, we greet Thee
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Born this happy morning
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Jesus, to Thee
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Be all glory given
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Word of the Father
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Now in flesh appearing!
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O come, let us adore Him
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O come, let us adore Him
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O come, let us adore Him
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Christ the Lord!
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Before we go into
our study, let's pray.
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Father in heaven, we
want to thank You so much
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for the
opportunity to be able to stop
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and spend this
time that is before us
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to be able to open Your Bible
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and to be able to
look at the words of life
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that You give
to us in Your Word.
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We thank You so much for
Romans and the great gospel
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and the insights
that You reveal to us
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there of Your Son Jesus
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and all that
You have done for us
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and through Him
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and, Lord, we want to pray that
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You will open our understanding
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and that Your Holy Spirit
will be our teacher here today.
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We want to pray
a special blessing
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upon Pastor Chuck as he teaches.
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In Jesus' name we pray
these things, God, amen.
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Good morning. Happy Sabbath.
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Glad that you're
with us both online
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and of course
here at Granite Bay.
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I was doing some research.
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Did you realize that
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there are roughly
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a half of million people
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living in the United States
that were immigrants in 1780?
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Now you realize of
course we had to hold
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the Native American population
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which added a whole bunch more.
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But actually immigrants,
I'm speaking of those
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who came over,
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a roughly a half of
million, that will be 500,000.
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Of those 500,000,
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roughly 50,000
came involuntarily.
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You know what that means.
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They came, no, not as
slaves, they came as prisoners.
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I'm not quite sure
all the details with that
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but have to do some more.
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And then the remaining
450,000 roughly one half of them
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came as an indentured servant.
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I just wanted to share
a little bit about that,
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it mean I had to
realize that that half of those
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who came
voluntarily actually came
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as an indentured servant.
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That was before 1750.
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Now the reason was
often to pay your passage,
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you want to come
over to the new world
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and so you were hoping
that someone would pay your way
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and so you would promise to work
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five years for them
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if they would pay your way over.
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Sometimes it was a
businessman who was living in,
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say in Virginia, New
York, Massachusetts would say,
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I would bring my
relatives' children over
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and they're going to work for me
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for five years or ten
years whatever the agreement was
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and then they will
have their, you know,
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their freedom over here.
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Fifty percent almost of
those who came here before 1750,
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this was a somewhat
of their experience.
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Now, of course,
if it was your uncle
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who paid your passage over,
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your life might have
been little bit easier.
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But there were a lot
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who didn't have
that kind of experience.
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In fact, probably
more or the majority
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of the indentured servants
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were not coming
from that perspective.
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There was no control over
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how many hours
a week you worked.
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There was no control on what age
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you had to be to
do certain things.
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And there was no guarantee
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that someone might
say, you know what?
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It was not uncommon that
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maybe someone would get pregnant
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in the middle of
their indenturedness.
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I can use that term,
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I don't know if
that's the correct term.
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But they got
pregnant in the midst of it
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and he said,
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"Okay, well, you can
go through the pregnancy,
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have the baby and
we're just gonna add
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two years to yours term,
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that way you can
fulfill your obligation to us."
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So this is the
thinking of indentured servant.
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Now, why are we discussing,
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why am I bringing
up indentured servant
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when I'm about
to discuss Romans 7?
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There's a reason for it.
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You turn your
Bibles with me to Romans 7,
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we're gonna look
at verses 1 through 6.
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Romans 7:1-6.
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While you're turning there,
I like to state a few thoughts
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that might be helpful.
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When you
fulfilled your obligation
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as an indentured
servant you were free.
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It's simple.
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When you
fulfilled your obligation
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as an indentured
servant you were free.
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So fulfillment of the obligation
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gave freedom
from that obligation.
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Is that confusing
or did that make sense?
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Fulfillment of the
obligation gave you freedom
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from the obligation.
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So no longer you're
under that obligation
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because you're free from
it 'cause it's been fulfilled.
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A very important point.
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Do you realize, you and I
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as a result of sin
have an obligation.
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It's a terrible obligation.
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Romans 6:23 and we were...
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Actually Romans 3:23,
I jumped ahead of myself.
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Says, "The wages
of sin is death."
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The obligation of us
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is not that of an
indentured servant.
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We are not free until we die
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which is the
obligation of a slave.
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Does that make sense?
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You see the difference.
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We have an obligation.
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And the only way we can
be free from that obligation
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is when that
obligation is fulfilled.
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And that obligation
was filled, praise God
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in the death of our
Savior, Jesus Christ.
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He fulfilled an
obligation for us
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that if we accept it,
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we can reap the
benefits of freedom
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from that obligation.
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That stood out as
something positive
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because Romans 7
has its tendencies
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that would not
be terribly positive
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as we go through it.
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Romans 7, what
verses we are turning to?
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1-7.
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1-6, excuse me.
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"Know ye not, brethren,
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for I speak to
them that know the law,
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how that the law
hath dominion over a man
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as long as he lives?"
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You know when I
first started reading this,
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that stuck out in my
mind just a little bit.
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Haven't we just
read that somewhere
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about dominion,
remember last week?
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Romans 6, when we are
looking at Romans 6:14 says,
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"For sin shall not
have dominion over you,
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for you are not under
the law but under grace."
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Now I'm seeing here in Romans 7,
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"Know ye not,
brethren, for I speak to them
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that know the
law, how that the..."
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What has dominion here?
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"The law has dominion."
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Now they are almost been used,
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they are not the same
in anyway shape or form,
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but sometimes
you get the feel that
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Paul is using these anonymously.
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He is not.
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But in Romans 6,
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I'm getting freedom from what?
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Sin.
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Romans 7,
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I'm getting freedom from what?
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Yes, kind of, right?
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So let's go.
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"Know ye not, brethren,
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for I speak to
them that know the law."
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He is speaking to those
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who are familiar
with the Jewish system.
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"How that the law
have dominion over a man
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as long as he lives?"
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And then verse 2 and 3
is a great illustration.
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"For the woman
which hath an husband
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is bound by the
law to her husband
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so long as he lives,
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but if the husband be dead,
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she is loosed from
the law of her husband.
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So then if, while
her husband lives,
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she be married to another man,
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she shall be
called an adulteress:
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but if her husband
be dead, she is" what?
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She is free from what?
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"That law.
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So that she is no adulterous
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though she be
married to another man.
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Wherefore, my
brethren, ye also are become..."
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What's the next word?
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"Dead."
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Dead and this
gonna be our focus.
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We'll try to explain this
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as we finish
reading the section.
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"Ye also become dead to" what?
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"The law by the body of Christ,
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that you should be
married to another,
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even to him who is
raised from the dead,
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that we should bring
forth fruit unto God."
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Then verse 5 and 6.
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"For when we were in the flesh,
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the motions of sins
or the passions of sins,
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which were by
or through the law,
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did work in our members or body
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to bring forth
fruit unto death."
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"But now, we are..."
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What's that next word?
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Delivered. "Delivered.
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Set free from the law
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that being dead
wherein we were held,
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that we should serve
in newness of spirit,
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and not in oldness of letter."
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I want to take some time
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just to unpack
those first six verses
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because they are a key I think
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to understanding
the rest of chapter 7.
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But I'm gonna do it
backwards, is that okay?
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We are not going
to start in verse 1,
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I'm gonna start in verse 6.
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Let's look at verse 6.
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And we ask a few questions
as I go through verse 6.
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What happens?
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But now we are...
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I'm looking at verse 6,
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"But now we are
delivered from the law."
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Why the word delivered?
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Why would we use
the word delivered?
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It means set free. Yes.
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So now we are set
free from the law.
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And then it says this next part,
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found it fascinating,
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that being dead, or
another way is seen is
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being dead to that
"wherein we were held.
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"Being dead to that
wherein we were held."
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What were we held?
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What was holding us?
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The law was.
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I'm being set free from the law
because the law was holding me
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or can I say it in this
way, was holding me captive.
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Is that a picture here?
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So the law was
holding me captive
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and I'm being
delivered from that law
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that's holding me captive.
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I find that interesting.
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Are you being held
captive by the law?
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Are you...? I may rephrase it.
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Are you under
condemnation of the law?
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Are you guilty?
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You see the picture
that's being laid out here.
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There it says that we...
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It says but now we
are delivered from,
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praise God, right?
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"That we should
serve in newness of spirit,
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and not in oldness of letter."
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I'm not allowed to
talk about that yet
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according to my notes, sorry.
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So let's go back
to verse 2 and 3.
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Keep your point there.
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The point is, we are
delivered from the law
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because we were held in
bondage to the law, why?
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Because we were
guilty. Isn't that right?
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Once you've broken the law,
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you are now a
servant to that law.
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Actually you are servant to
sin and held bondage by the law,
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and we put those
two separately, okay.
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Let's go back to verse 2 and 3.
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Verse 2 and 3,
the marriage analogy
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that Paul is using here in
verse 2 and 3, fascinating.
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"For the woman
which hath an husband
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is bound by the law
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to her husband
so long as he lives,
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but if the husband be dead,
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she is loosed from
the law of her husband."
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In other words, she
is married to her husband
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and she is forced
to stay married to him,
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as long as he lives.
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Pray for my wife.
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Right?
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I'd say pray for me
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but you're not
allowed to say that
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when you are a speaker.
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So pray for my wife. Amen?
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I am bound to her,
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she is bound to
me because of what?
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The law. That's the way it is.
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We made a
covenant with each other
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and it's a binding covenant,
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and we are staying connected.
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That's the picture.
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Now goes to verse 3,
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and we'll not
continue with the analogy
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of myself at this point.
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"So then if,
while her husband lives,
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she be married to another man,
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she shall be
called an adulteress."
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If a wife spends
time with someone
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who is not her husband
is considered adultery,
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but when the husband dies
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she can spend
time with another man
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and it's not
considered adultery anymore
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unless he is married.
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Right?
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It goes on and says...
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Yeah, so that's a picture
that's being laid out here.
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Paul is trying to
give us an understanding
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that death brings freedom.
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There is more
that he is sharing,
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but I want to
emphasize that part
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'cause that's the
part I'm gonna emphasize
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in this lesson.
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Death brings what?
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Freedom.
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There is not freedom from a law.
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Let me split it this way,
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the bondage or
the control of the law
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or the being put
in prison by that law
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because you are being
forced to do a certain thing.
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You and I don't
like saying force, do we?
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Because the reality
is I chose to be married.
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It was a choice,
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I'm very
thankful for that choice.
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But the reality is
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I couldn't get out
of it if I wanted to.
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Spiritually speaking,
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but that's okay
because I chose to do that.
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Do you realize so many things
that we look at is freedom
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are really not
freedom, they are bondage.
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And so many things we look at
bondage really aren't bondage,
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it's freedom.
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Hope I confused you.
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Really honestly
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when we choose to put
our self into something
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that is bondage,
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is it then
bondage if we chose it?
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Anyhow I digress.
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Verse 4,
"Wherefore, my brethren,
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ye also are
become dead to the law."
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And this is the phrase that
I really wanted us to focus on
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because that's
the first section here
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in your quarterly.
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"We are become dead to
the law by the body of" who?
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"We have become dead to
the law by the body of Christ.
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What does it mean to
become dead to the law?
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We already
discussed that in verse 6,
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it means to be
delivered from the law.
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Does the law become dead?
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No.
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Do we become dead? Yes.
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How?
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How do we become dead?
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Biblically speaking you
just read this last week.
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How do you and I become dead?
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Romans 6.
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Yes, how do I
become dead to sin?
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Baptism. Yes, thank you, ma'am.
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Baptism, I should say it
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so those of you who
are watching can hear it.
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Romans 6:3 and 4 says,
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"Know ye not, that so many of us
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as were baptized
into Jesus Christ
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were baptized into" what?
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"His death.
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Therefore we are buried with him
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by baptism into death."
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That like as Christ
was raised up from the dead
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by the glory of the Father,
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even so we also should
walk in newness of life.
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So I am dead when I'm
connected with Christ,
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He died so therefore I died.
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His death then becomes mine.
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And that is the
beauty of Christianity.
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His death becomes mine.
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That's how I
can experience life.
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The Bible continues on
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in this passage
had a few more things
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are being dead,
verse 6 of Romans 6
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"Knowing this, that
our old man is" what?
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Crucified with who?
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With Him.
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The way you and I
die is by dying with Him.
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Accepting His
death on our behalf
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and, yes, dying with Him.
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It is only through death
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that you and I
can experience life.
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Is the only way.
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That's why you see in
Romans 7 where we were just at,
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and it says in verse 6,
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"We should serve
in newness of spirit,
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and not oldness of letter."
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That only takes place
when there is a resurrection.
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There's got to
be a resurrection.
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There's got to be a death,
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there has to be a resurrection.
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Let's continue,
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verse 4 continued and said this,
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"That you should
be married to another"
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so we die with Christ,
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and then we can be remarried.
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It's kind of
interesting typically.
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Okay, here's this
scenario before, husband wife,
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husband dies,
wife can get remarried.
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This is different, husband wife,
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husband dies so
he can be remarried.
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Yeah, are you confused?
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Spiritually that's what
we are talking about here.
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What we saw before in 2 and 3 is
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the dead person now is gone
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and alive person has freedom,
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but in this case, we
die and we have freedom.
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Do you see that?
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We die to the law
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and now have freedom to remarry.
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Who?
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Jesus Christ, and I love the way
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inspiration puts it here.
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"That we should bring
forth fruit unto God."
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New marriage produces new fruit.
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I know that's really deep,
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heavy biological
statement right there.
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But new marriage
produces new fruit.
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We don't like
to think about this
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but this is a reality.
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If you lost your
spouse and you remarried,
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your children
would be different.
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If you had new children
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with the spouse that
you got remarried to,
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does it make sense?
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It's the same
thing in our lives,
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when we are married
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and actually Romans use the word
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bondage to the law,
the fruit isn't that good.
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But when you and
I remarry to Christ,
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we have new fruit.
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Is this a new
phrase for Romans 7?
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No, it's not. Go
back to Romans 6.
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Romans 6, 7 and 8, if
you want to understand 7,
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you have to understand
6, you have to understand 8,
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they are together,
internally connected.
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I really wish that I
was teaching next week.
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Whoever teaches next
week, God bless them.
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They have all the fun
part, now this is fun too
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because we have a chance
to see who we really are.
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What Jesus can be to us, amen?
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But let's continue, Romans
6, which verse did we mentioned?
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6:22.
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Let's go back to 6:22,
we were in 7:4 right now
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and we looked at 7:5,
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we looked about
the new fruit, right?
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Actually that was verse 4,
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"We bring forth fruit unto God."
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Let's go back to 6:22, it says,
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"But now being
made free from sin,
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and become servants to" whom?
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"God, you have your
fruit unto holiness,
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and the end everlasting life."
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So in Romans 7 we are
using the marriage symbol.
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In Romans 6 they are
using a servant symbol.
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But Romans 6, it says
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when you become
a servant to God,
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Romans 7, when you say,
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when you become
married to Christ,
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you have what kind of fruit?
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Fruit unto
holiness, or righteousness,
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it's a new fruit.
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I propose friends that
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this is the whole
issue of Romans 7,
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who you are married to?
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And what it looks like?
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You know, in Romans 7
starting with verse 7,
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actually verse 8 we are
going to start to digress.
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We're going to be looking at
some things that had happened
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that are not pleasant.
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But in that digression
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it's only simply a
recapping of what we saw
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in verses 1
through 6, this remarriage.
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God wants us to
have food unto holiness,
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and it's impossible,
friends, by yourself.
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In fact, it's
impossible of your self.
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There is in you
nothing that is good.
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In fact, I will
share a phrase with you
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that we'll close up with.
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Desire without power to acquire
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is wretchedness.
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Desire without power to acquire
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is wretchedness.
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Remember that
because that's Romans 7.
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That's the Romans 7 man
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and we must realize that picture
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as we come back to it, okay.
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Let's look at
verse 5, Romans 7:5,
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"For when we were in the
flesh the passions of sins,
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which were by the law,
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did work in our body or members
00:26:14.94\00:26:17.07
to bring forth
fruit unto death."
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So you're going to have fruit.
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This is a fruit, a new fruit
when you marry with Christ,
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this is the old fruit,
fruit that leads to death.
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Is it possible to
have fruit unto death?
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Which I said so, 6:20,
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I'm connecting 6
and 7 real quick.
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I won't do this much longer
but I'm gonna do little bit
00:26:40.90\00:26:42.66
just to show you the connection.
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6:20, "When you
were the servants of sin,
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you were free from" what?
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"Righteousness."
00:26:48.47\00:26:49.54
You know this by
memory probably, verse 21,
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what's the next phrase?
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What's the next word?
00:26:54.11\00:26:55.21
"What fruit had
you then in the things
00:26:55.21\00:26:58.08
whereof you are now ashamed?
00:26:58.08\00:26:59.15
For the end of
those things is death."
00:26:59.15\00:27:00.82
When you are the servant of sin,
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you have fruit to death.
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When you are a servant of God,
00:27:05.99\00:27:08.56
you have a fruit
unto righteousness.
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That's Romans 6.
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Now in Romans 7:4,
00:27:11.93\00:27:14.60
it tells me that when
I'm married to Christ,
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I have fruit unto God.
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And verse 5 tells me
that when I'm in the flesh,
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I have fruit unto death.
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Now I ask you a question.
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What does it mean
to be in the flesh
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based upon what I just told you?
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Actually based upon
the word just teaching us.
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Let me repeat it.
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When I'm a servant to
sin, I have fruit unto death.
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When I'm a servant unto God,
00:27:50.03\00:27:52.27
I have fruit unto righteousness.
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Romans 6.
00:27:54.10\00:27:55.57
Romans 7, when I'm a
servant, I'm married to Christ,
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I have fruit unto God.
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When I'm in the flesh,
I have fruit unto death.
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Being in the flesh is synonymous
00:28:08.45\00:28:11.15
to being a servant to sin.
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It's the same thing.
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I know that sounds
simple but we must grasp that
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because that's an
understanding of Romans 7.
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If you want to be a servant...
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If you have
fruit that is to sin,
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a fruit is unto death
00:28:26.23\00:28:27.57
is because you
are a servant of sin
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or you are fleshly.
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Fleshly does not inherit
the kingdom of God, it cannot.
00:28:31.21\00:28:37.05
It's impossible by the way.
00:28:37.05\00:28:41.85
Desire without power to acquire
00:28:41.85\00:28:46.19
is wretchedness.
00:28:46.19\00:28:50.06
Ever feel wretched?
00:28:50.06\00:28:53.09
You don't have
to raise your hand,
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I'll raise mine.
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I've been there.
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Because when I had
longed for something
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and I can't get it
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and it's
impossible for me to get it,
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that's a wretched feeling.
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Desire without
ability or power to acquire.
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Okay.
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Let's go on verse 6.
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Let's finish up verse 6.
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I notice my time and
so I'm going to continue.
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Verse 6 says, "For now we
are delivered from the law,
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that being death
wherein we were held."
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And we talked about that,
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I'm going to continue to
the last part of this phrase,
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"That we should
serve in newness of spirit
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and not in oldness of letter."
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I would like to emphasize,
00:29:37.61\00:29:39.97
it is impossible
to serve after you die
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unless there is a resurrection.
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If I go to a funeral
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and I see a person
who is dead lying there.
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There's no way that
they would ever serve.
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That make sense?
00:30:01.20\00:30:02.80
It's impossible
for them to serve.
00:30:02.80\00:30:05.17
How can a dead person serve?
00:30:05.17\00:30:06.63
Can a dead person
get up and get you water?
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No.
00:30:10.07\00:30:11.14
Would a dead
person mow your lawn?
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You are not sure. Well,
let me tell you, no, no.
00:30:16.24\00:30:19.15
We just had Halloween this week,
00:30:19.15\00:30:20.45
I want to clarify,
right, it's not happening.
00:30:20.45\00:30:23.95
Dead people don't have
ability to accomplish anything,
00:30:23.95\00:30:28.42
unless there is what?
00:30:28.42\00:30:31.29
A resurrection.
00:30:31.29\00:30:32.53
You must have a resurrection
or you don't have service.
00:30:32.53\00:30:36.23
Is that clear?
00:30:36.23\00:30:38.03
No resurrection, no service.
00:30:38.03\00:30:40.44
You must have a
resurrection to have service.
00:30:40.44\00:30:42.77
So when you see this
walking in newness of life,
00:30:42.77\00:30:45.11
oh, it's exciting,
but what does it mean?
00:30:45.11\00:30:49.54
Can I go back to my last time?
00:30:49.54\00:30:51.55
Roman 6. Romans 6.
00:30:51.55\00:30:54.02
Do you see a
resurrection anywhere last week
00:30:54.02\00:30:55.72
when we studied Romans 6?
00:30:55.72\00:30:58.92
I did. Yes.
00:30:58.92\00:31:01.36
Romans 6:4,
00:31:01.36\00:31:03.69
"Therefore we
are buried with him
00:31:03.69\00:31:05.69
by baptism into death,
that like as Christ was..."
00:31:05.69\00:31:10.83
What's that word?
00:31:10.83\00:31:12.30
"Raised up from the dead
by the glory of the Father,
00:31:12.30\00:31:14.74
even so we also should
walk in newness of life."
00:31:14.74\00:31:17.54
Then it says in verse 5,
00:31:17.54\00:31:18.61
"For if we have
been planted together
00:31:18.61\00:31:20.21
in the likeness of his death,
we shall be also in" what?
00:31:20.21\00:31:25.11
"The likeness of
his resurrection."
00:31:25.11\00:31:27.52
When there's a resurrection,
there is good service.
00:31:27.52\00:31:33.66
Without a resurrection,
there is no service.
00:31:33.66\00:31:37.66
You must have a resurrection.
00:31:37.66\00:31:39.96
Dying is not enough,
resurrection is essential.
00:31:39.96\00:31:46.07
"If he be not raised,
then our hope is in vain."
00:31:46.07\00:31:49.77
1 Corinthians, amen?
00:31:49.77\00:31:52.27
Okay.
00:31:52.27\00:31:54.41
With all of that theory,
how does it apply to me today?
00:31:54.41\00:31:58.55
You might turn
with me to Colossians 3.
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Colossians 3.
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Some of you are making
the application in your mind
00:32:06.55\00:32:08.72
but if you don't mind
I'm gonna take that liberty
00:32:08.72\00:32:10.69
as a teacher here to
make the application myself.
00:32:10.69\00:32:13.90
Colossians 3 and
starting with verse 1,
00:32:13.90\00:32:20.84
"If ye then be
raised or risen with Christ,
00:32:20.84\00:32:26.57
resurrected with Christ,
00:32:26.57\00:32:28.74
seek those
things that are above,
00:32:28.74\00:32:31.68
where Christ sits on
the right hand of God.
00:32:31.68\00:32:34.15
Set your affection" where?
00:32:34.15\00:32:37.19
"Not on things that are
below or on the earth" Why?
00:32:37.19\00:32:42.09
"For ye are dead."
00:32:42.09\00:32:45.96
And your life is
set with Christ in God.
00:32:45.96\00:32:48.46
This is the call to be
dead and to be raised or risen
00:32:48.46\00:32:54.40
or resurrected with Christ.
00:32:54.40\00:32:57.51
"If you then be
risen with Christ,
00:32:57.51\00:32:58.87
seek those
things that are above."
00:32:58.87\00:33:00.64
My friends, in our lives,
00:33:00.64\00:33:06.55
we can try to
do a lot of things.
00:33:06.55\00:33:10.65
If you simply try to get
rid of the bad out of your life,
00:33:10.65\00:33:16.32
you will never be successful.
00:33:16.32\00:33:20.03
If you simply try to get
rid of the bad in your life,
00:33:20.03\00:33:23.00
you will never be successful.
00:33:23.00\00:33:24.03
Let me put it this way.
00:33:24.03\00:33:25.17
If you simply try to mortify
00:33:25.17\00:33:27.54
as it says in
King James Version,
00:33:27.54\00:33:28.90
or kill the bad
things in your life,
00:33:28.90\00:33:31.87
you will never have success
in your Christian experience.
00:33:31.87\00:33:35.24
I'm not going to do it
00:33:35.24\00:33:36.31
because these
flowers are pretty.
00:33:36.31\00:33:37.75
But I like to pull
them out of vase right now.
00:33:37.75\00:33:40.98
Let me show you something,
if I had a tree up here,
00:33:40.98\00:33:43.18
little small tree
and it was planted
00:33:43.18\00:33:47.09
in a nice potted plant and
you have the tree coming up
00:33:47.09\00:33:50.56
and you have all those branches,
00:33:50.56\00:33:51.63
I say, I wanted to
get rid of that tree.
00:33:51.63\00:33:53.90
And if I go to that
tree and I simply start
00:33:53.90\00:33:56.33
killing the
branches, cutting them off
00:33:56.33\00:33:59.87
and throwing them away.
00:33:59.87\00:34:01.57
Have I killed the tree?
00:34:01.57\00:34:04.21
No, the tree is
still going to be alive.
00:34:04.21\00:34:06.51
Even though I have done
my very best to kill it,
00:34:06.51\00:34:09.01
there is still
going to be a life in it.
00:34:09.01\00:34:11.31
It's just a reality of it.
00:34:11.31\00:34:15.48
The only way to
get rid of the tree
00:34:15.48\00:34:18.82
is to get rid of the roots,
and then there must be what?
00:34:18.82\00:34:23.49
A new life.
00:34:23.49\00:34:25.13
Got to get rid of the old
tree, got to get a new tree.
00:34:25.13\00:34:27.96
Get rid of your old trees
00:34:27.96\00:34:29.86
and then ask God to do
something in your life.
00:34:29.86\00:34:32.97
If you simply spend
your time mortifying
00:34:32.97\00:34:35.54
and don't allow God to
do a resurrection in you,
00:34:35.54\00:34:38.21
you will never have success
in your Christian experience.
00:34:38.21\00:34:41.58
For simply trying
to mortify the old
00:34:41.58\00:34:45.08
and don't allow the
resurrection of the new,
00:34:45.08\00:34:47.62
there will not
be true life in you.
00:34:47.62\00:34:52.22
Death without a
resurrection is not service.
00:34:52.22\00:34:56.19
There must be a resurrection
for there to be a service.
00:34:56.19\00:34:59.03
All right, I've
beaten that horse too long.
00:34:59.03\00:35:00.66
Okay.
00:35:00.66\00:35:02.60
Are you ready?
00:35:02.60\00:35:05.60
Romans 6:16,
00:35:05.60\00:35:11.14
these are so
intricately connected,
00:35:11.14\00:35:13.78
it says, "Know ye not that
to whom ye yield yourselves
00:35:13.78\00:35:16.48
servants to obey, his
servants ye are to whom ye obey,
00:35:16.48\00:35:18.75
whether of sin unto death,
00:35:18.75\00:35:19.78
or of obedience
unto righteousness?"
00:35:19.78\00:35:21.05
Right?
00:35:21.05\00:35:22.32
Very simple,
you're one or the other.
00:35:22.32\00:35:24.62
You do not have a choice.
00:35:24.62\00:35:26.12
You're a indentured servant
or you're indentured servant,
00:35:26.12\00:35:28.72
where do you want to be?
00:35:28.72\00:35:29.99
You're a slave or you're slave,
00:35:29.99\00:35:31.76
which side you
want to be a slave on?
00:35:31.76\00:35:33.50
That's just a reality.
00:35:33.50\00:35:34.73
You're married to one or
you're married to the other.
00:35:34.73\00:35:36.53
Sorry.
00:35:36.53\00:35:37.60
Isn't it
interesting how Paul connects
00:35:37.60\00:35:38.83
the marriage and slavery?
00:35:38.83\00:35:40.07
Maybe explain some
of his other comments.
00:35:40.07\00:35:41.40
Anyhow, lets... I digress.
00:35:41.40\00:35:45.27
But this is where you're stuck.
00:35:45.27\00:35:48.58
You're either married to
one or married to the other.
00:35:48.58\00:35:50.51
Slave to one,
slave to the other.
00:35:50.51\00:35:51.68
You and I don't
have the chance to say,
00:35:51.68\00:35:53.45
I'm free from both.
00:35:53.45\00:35:55.72
There is either
one or the other.
00:35:55.72\00:35:57.65
I can't...
00:35:57.65\00:35:58.79
I'll speak for myself, I
want to be married to Christ.
00:35:58.79\00:36:02.29
Amen.
00:36:02.29\00:36:03.43
I want to be a slave to Christ.
00:36:03.43\00:36:06.26
I know that
comes with obligations,
00:36:06.26\00:36:08.13
sometimes I don't
like quite frankly,
00:36:08.13\00:36:10.97
and you know what?
00:36:10.97\00:36:12.23
I trust Him, so I don't care.
00:36:12.23\00:36:14.97
Does it make sense?
00:36:14.97\00:36:17.04
I want Him.
00:36:17.04\00:36:19.27
Romans 7:7
00:36:19.27\00:36:21.18
our next verse says,
00:36:21.18\00:36:28.08
"What shall we say then?
00:36:28.08\00:36:29.55
Is the law sin?"
00:36:29.55\00:36:30.75
And I'm glad he brings this out.
00:36:30.75\00:36:32.12
Paul under inspiration
had to realize, I'm comparing,
00:36:32.12\00:36:36.16
I'm using the
same phrases for law
00:36:36.16\00:36:37.96
and the first six verses here
00:36:37.96\00:36:39.26
that I used for sin in Romans 6,
00:36:39.26\00:36:41.23
maybe they're going
to start thinking that,
00:36:41.23\00:36:42.43
I think, the law was sin
and so here's what he says,
00:36:42.43\00:36:45.87
"Is the law sin?"
00:36:45.87\00:36:48.60
And then his answer is what.
00:36:48.60\00:36:50.91
Absolutely not or God forbid,
if you have King James Version,
00:36:50.91\00:36:54.08
"No, I had not
known sin but by the law,
00:36:54.08\00:36:56.88
for I had not known
lust except the law had said,
00:36:56.88\00:36:58.88
thou shall not covet."
00:36:58.88\00:37:01.22
So what law is he
talking about here?
00:37:01.22\00:37:04.72
He's talking about
the Ten Commandments,
00:37:04.72\00:37:05.82
the moral law
without a question at all.
00:37:05.82\00:37:08.32
So the moral law was good.
00:37:08.32\00:37:10.86
I've been talking
about the moral law,
00:37:10.86\00:37:12.19
and the moral law is
good, then why this complaint?
00:37:12.19\00:37:14.83
What is the relationship
and that's the next lesson,
00:37:14.83\00:37:17.20
the next day we're looking
at our Sabbath School Study.
00:37:17.20\00:37:19.53
What is the connection
between the law and sin?
00:37:19.53\00:37:24.14
What is the connection?
00:37:24.14\00:37:25.24
Because it almost sounds
like the law isn't good here.
00:37:25.24\00:37:27.74
Have you sensed that?
00:37:27.74\00:37:31.21
It's not what he's saying
00:37:31.21\00:37:32.91
but you get that
feeling sometimes.
00:37:32.91\00:37:35.28
You want to be
delivered from it, why?
00:37:35.28\00:37:38.69
What do you want
to be delivered from?
00:37:38.69\00:37:40.29
Okay, are you
ready for some study?
00:37:40.29\00:37:42.56
I hope so, 'cause I am.
00:37:42.56\00:37:45.03
Let's look at verse 8.
00:37:45.03\00:37:48.03
Romans 7:8 says this,
00:37:48.03\00:37:52.57
"But sin taking occasion
00:37:52.57\00:37:55.64
by the commandment,
wrought or produced in me,
00:37:55.64\00:38:00.78
all manner of concupiscence
00:38:00.78\00:38:03.68
or evil desire,
00:38:03.68\00:38:08.85
for without the
law, sin was dead."
00:38:08.85\00:38:11.59
Oh, there it is.
00:38:11.59\00:38:13.02
If it wasn't for the
law, we wouldn't have sin.
00:38:13.02\00:38:16.39
I guess you knew
that already, all right.
00:38:16.39\00:38:19.46
So why do we like the law then?
00:38:19.46\00:38:23.47
Verse 9, "For I was
alive without the law once,
00:38:23.47\00:38:27.17
but when the commandment
came, sin revived and I died
00:38:27.17\00:38:32.87
and the commandment which I...
00:38:32.87\00:38:34.24
Which was ordained to be
alive, I found to be unto death.
00:38:34.24\00:38:38.21
For sin, taking
occasion by the commandment,
00:38:38.21\00:38:42.62
deceived me, and by
it, kill me or slew me."
00:38:42.62\00:38:48.49
It's almost
depressing, isn't it?
00:38:48.49\00:38:50.39
I find it
depressing I look at it.
00:38:50.39\00:38:52.49
I'll ask you a few questions.
00:38:52.49\00:38:53.60
Who's doing the action
here in verses 8 through 11?
00:38:53.60\00:38:55.96
Who or what is doing the action,
00:38:55.96\00:38:58.07
verses 8 through 11?
00:38:58.07\00:39:01.10
Is it the law doing the
action or sin doing the action?
00:39:01.10\00:39:03.74
Sin.
00:39:03.74\00:39:04.74
Sin is doing the action.
00:39:04.74\00:39:05.74
Thank you, Ma'am.
00:39:05.74\00:39:08.98
I'm a teacher
when I have someone
00:39:08.98\00:39:10.31
who knows all the answers,
00:39:10.31\00:39:11.35
I'll try to pick on
the whole class, okay.
00:39:11.35\00:39:15.58
Thank you.
00:39:15.58\00:39:17.35
So it's sin
that's doing the action,
00:39:17.35\00:39:19.39
clearly sin is doing the action.
00:39:19.39\00:39:22.29
What action is sin doing?
00:39:22.29\00:39:24.46
Let's look at verse 8,
00:39:24.46\00:39:26.16
"But sin, taking
occasion by the commandment..."
00:39:26.16\00:39:29.80
You know what the
word taking occasion is?
00:39:29.80\00:39:30.97
So we have another...
00:39:30.97\00:39:32.40
Opportunity.
00:39:32.40\00:39:33.74
Yeah, taking
opportunity. Thank you.
00:39:33.74\00:39:35.67
"So sin taking
opportunity by the commandment,
00:39:35.67\00:39:39.67
wrought or produced in me,
all manner of evil desire."
00:39:39.67\00:39:44.28
So sin is doing
a couple of things,
00:39:44.28\00:39:45.71
it's producing something,
00:39:45.71\00:39:49.28
it's producing
in me evil desire.
00:39:49.28\00:39:53.66
Verse 9, sin is doing what?
00:39:53.66\00:39:58.79
Reviving.
00:39:58.79\00:39:59.86
Reviving, bringing
life, it's becoming alive.
00:39:59.86\00:40:03.80
That's what it's doing.
00:40:03.80\00:40:04.83
Verse 10...
00:40:04.83\00:40:05.90
Verse 11, "For sin,
there are several things here,
00:40:05.90\00:40:09.74
it takes occasion
00:40:09.74\00:40:12.37
by the commandment to do" what?
00:40:12.37\00:40:14.84
"To deceive me and to kill me."
00:40:14.84\00:40:18.58
So there's no
question that sin's doing it.
00:40:18.58\00:40:23.39
So what's the role of the
law in verses 8 through 11?
00:40:23.39\00:40:29.36
If sin's doing the action,
00:40:29.36\00:40:31.16
somehow law is
being connected with it.
00:40:31.16\00:40:32.96
What is the role of the law
00:40:32.96\00:40:34.30
in this action
that sin is taking?
00:40:34.30\00:40:36.30
Yes.
00:40:39.60\00:40:42.97
Think about it,
sin seizes opportunity
00:40:42.97\00:40:45.94
because of the law,
00:40:45.94\00:40:48.01
sin revives because of the law,
sin kills because of the law.
00:40:48.01\00:40:54.42
Wow, most people say just get
rid of the law and you're okay.
00:40:54.42\00:40:58.32
And that's actually the thought
00:40:58.32\00:40:59.39
of lot of
evangelical Christianity today.
00:40:59.39\00:41:01.76
We know that it
can't be the answer
00:41:01.76\00:41:04.23
because he just said in verse...
00:41:04.23\00:41:06.13
Did I get there yet?
00:41:06.13\00:41:07.40
No, I haven't. Forget it.
00:41:07.40\00:41:09.13
It's coming up in next verse.
00:41:09.13\00:41:10.20
Verse 12, it says in verse 12,
00:41:10.20\00:41:11.27
"Where the law is
holy and just and good."
00:41:11.27\00:41:12.97
So we know it can't
be talking about that.
00:41:12.97\00:41:15.44
So we just get rid of the
law and everything's okay?
00:41:15.44\00:41:17.67
No, we got to get rid of sin.
00:41:17.67\00:41:19.21
As soon as the law is
revealed in one's life,
00:41:24.41\00:41:29.68
sin is also revealed.
00:41:29.68\00:41:32.15
You see that.
00:41:32.15\00:41:33.52
Soon as the law reveals
itself or comes into my life,
00:41:33.52\00:41:37.69
sin is also revealed and
then I run into a problem,
00:41:37.69\00:41:42.63
I'm told in the same exact book,
00:41:42.63\00:41:44.40
to the same group of people
under the same inspired author
00:41:44.40\00:41:46.74
called Paul, that the
wages of sin is death.
00:41:46.74\00:41:52.47
I'm also told
that all have sinned.
00:41:52.47\00:41:57.48
Wow, so if all have sinned,
00:41:57.48\00:41:59.45
and come short
of the glory of God.
00:41:59.45\00:42:01.05
Sorry, working
through this in my mind.
00:42:05.49\00:42:08.12
If all have sinned
00:42:08.12\00:42:09.19
and come short
of the glory of God
00:42:09.19\00:42:11.03
and the law comes into
my life and reveals sin,
00:42:11.03\00:42:15.20
then the law is telling
me that I'm worthy of death.
00:42:15.20\00:42:19.63
Do you see that?
00:42:19.63\00:42:21.97
Everyone realizes the law
has had a role in their life,
00:42:21.97\00:42:25.84
and everyone realized
that it has revealed sin.
00:42:25.84\00:42:28.44
So you all realized
by the nature of the law,
00:42:28.44\00:42:33.11
you and I are worthy of death.
00:42:33.11\00:42:34.58
That's what it
says. You and I must die.
00:42:34.58\00:42:38.75
That's why I don't like the law.
00:42:38.75\00:42:41.06
Just get rid of it, right?
00:42:41.06\00:42:43.49
So give me the mirror,
00:42:43.49\00:42:45.03
you got a mirror
in your bathroom,
00:42:45.03\00:42:46.09
I don't like the way I
look, if I break up the mirror
00:42:46.09\00:42:47.66
then I look better, yeah?
00:42:47.66\00:42:50.30
Problem is I don't look better,
00:42:50.30\00:42:51.53
no matter what kind of
mirror I've got, right?
00:42:51.53\00:42:53.30
It's just the way I am.
00:42:53.30\00:42:55.70
So when the
commandment comes to us,
00:42:55.70\00:42:58.67
we understand what sin is
00:42:58.67\00:43:00.61
and it's then
that we are condemned
00:43:00.61\00:43:02.54
and worthy of death.
00:43:02.54\00:43:04.65
Commandment comes to me, I
realize, I'm worthy of death.
00:43:04.65\00:43:08.18
I'm condemned and I
stand guilty before God.
00:43:08.18\00:43:13.19
The commandment has power
00:43:13.19\00:43:16.16
because it reveals
sin to my conscience.
00:43:16.16\00:43:23.00
And there's few things
worse than a guilty conscience.
00:43:23.00\00:43:25.43
How's this for all the
hope that we have today?
00:43:29.84\00:43:32.97
Can I read something to you?
00:43:32.97\00:43:35.11
The Apostle Paul,
this is from fourth volume,
00:43:35.11\00:43:38.18
the Spirit of
Prophecy, page 296.
00:43:38.18\00:43:41.62
The Apostle Paul in
relating his experience
00:43:41.62\00:43:43.95
presents an important truth
00:43:43.95\00:43:45.92
concerning the work to
be wrought in conversion.
00:43:45.92\00:43:48.49
He says, I was alive
without the law once,
00:43:48.49\00:43:51.93
he felt no condemnation,
but when the commandment came,
00:43:51.93\00:43:55.40
that is when the law of God
was urged upon his conscience,
00:43:55.40\00:43:58.57
sin revived and I died,
then he saw himself a sinner,
00:43:58.57\00:44:04.91
condemned by the divine law.
00:44:04.91\00:44:08.24
Mark, it was Paul and
not the law that died.
00:44:08.24\00:44:14.18
That's a very
important statement
00:44:14.18\00:44:15.75
I think here.
00:44:15.75\00:44:16.82
Again from the fourth volume
00:44:16.82\00:44:17.85
of Spirit of Prophecy page, 296,
00:44:17.85\00:44:21.12
or you find SDA Bible commentary
00:44:21.12\00:44:22.72
volume 6, page 1076.
00:44:26.23\00:44:29.06
Simply put, the law
is a conveyor of truth,
00:44:29.06\00:44:36.04
and it's the truth
that has that effect on us.
00:44:36.04\00:44:39.14
Let me put this way.
00:44:39.14\00:44:42.51
The results that
happen when truth is conveyed
00:44:42.51\00:44:45.65
are often blamed on that truth,
00:44:45.65\00:44:50.82
but is it the truth's fault?
00:44:50.82\00:44:54.26
I'll rephrase that.
00:44:54.26\00:44:55.62
The results that happen
when the truth is conveyed
00:44:55.62\00:44:59.16
are often blamed on that truth,
but is it the truth's fault?
00:44:59.16\00:45:03.57
No, it's not.
00:45:03.57\00:45:05.37
It is the
condition of whatever truth
00:45:05.37\00:45:07.37
is acting upon that determines
00:45:07.37\00:45:09.47
whether the truth's
revealing is good or bad.
00:45:09.47\00:45:11.74
Another words, let's just say...
00:45:11.74\00:45:16.08
I've had this
happen, I was in a...
00:45:18.55\00:45:20.32
I went to an Adventist academy
00:45:20.32\00:45:21.98
and I was hiding out
downstairs watching TV.
00:45:21.98\00:45:25.15
Now we had a TV in
our, we called it rec room,
00:45:25.15\00:45:27.99
and it was basically so
the guys could watch ESPN
00:45:27.99\00:45:30.43
'cause it really
what it amounted to.
00:45:30.43\00:45:31.99
And so...
00:45:31.99\00:45:33.06
'Cause the sports was, you know,
00:45:33.06\00:45:34.46
how it is
sometimes in the academy?
00:45:34.46\00:45:35.63
And I remember
hiding out down there
00:45:35.63\00:45:38.37
and we would,
sometimes switch the channel,
00:45:38.37\00:45:43.67
you know, to get ESPN,
you have to have cable,
00:45:43.67\00:45:46.17
with cable there's a
lot of other channels
00:45:46.17\00:45:49.68
and we would
switch to, you know,
00:45:49.68\00:45:51.58
MTV or something like that
and we would be watching it,
00:45:51.58\00:45:55.02
but we always had a person
00:45:55.02\00:45:56.18
who was listening by the
steps for the sound of the keys,
00:45:56.18\00:46:00.86
jangling from the dean's
belt as he walked down the steps
00:46:00.86\00:46:05.69
because you wanted to know
if the dean was on his way.
00:46:05.69\00:46:09.83
Now there is also
another place downstairs
00:46:09.83\00:46:13.07
that was a room
with the ping-pong table.
00:46:13.07\00:46:18.44
So if the MTV was on or
HBO or whatever was happening
00:46:18.44\00:46:23.71
and I was in the other
room playing ping-pong,
00:46:23.71\00:46:28.42
was I worried when the keys
came jangling down the steps?
00:46:28.42\00:46:33.12
No, of course not.
00:46:33.12\00:46:35.96
The law had just arrived,
00:46:35.96\00:46:38.06
but it didn't
bothered me an iota
00:46:38.06\00:46:39.86
'cause it wasn't
revealing anything in me.
00:46:39.86\00:46:43.73
But, as did happened once,
I was down there by myself,
00:46:43.73\00:46:47.67
claiming a sick
day, watching the movie
00:46:47.67\00:46:53.44
and I got so caught up,
00:46:53.44\00:46:55.74
I didn't recognize my
dean was watching it with me.
00:46:55.74\00:47:00.52
Talk about embarrassment.
00:47:00.52\00:47:03.69
He was a smart man, he realized,
00:47:03.69\00:47:04.92
when it's desperate you
just hold your keys together
00:47:04.92\00:47:06.52
and no one hears
you anyhow, right?
00:47:06.52\00:47:07.59
Just walk down the steps.
00:47:07.59\00:47:10.56
Was I condemned? Yes.
00:47:10.56\00:47:13.06
Was I under the law? Yes.
00:47:13.06\00:47:15.33
Did I feel guilty? Yes.
00:47:15.33\00:47:18.13
Was I guilty? Yes.
00:47:18.13\00:47:20.00
Because the law was
revealed in the dean.
00:47:20.00\00:47:25.81
The revealing of
the law is not bad,
00:47:25.81\00:47:29.31
if it's not revealing sin in us.
00:47:29.31\00:47:32.55
Does it make sense?
00:47:32.55\00:47:35.15
But the reality is,
00:47:35.15\00:47:36.18
it has revealed
sin in all of us.
00:47:36.18\00:47:37.79
I'd like to...
00:47:41.46\00:47:43.02
Remember this, the parable
where the Jesus gives about
00:47:44.69\00:47:46.46
the seed, the sower and the seed
00:47:46.46\00:47:49.26
and they put seed out.
00:47:49.26\00:47:51.67
The seed is the
truth of God's word.
00:47:51.67\00:47:54.60
Yes.
00:47:54.60\00:47:55.94
And when it falls
into fertile ground,
00:47:55.94\00:47:57.54
it has good results, yes?
00:47:57.54\00:48:00.34
And when it
falls into bad ground,
00:48:00.34\00:48:01.84
it has bad results, yes?
00:48:01.84\00:48:03.65
Is it the truth's fault?
00:48:03.65\00:48:05.81
No, what is it?
It's the ground's fault.
00:48:05.81\00:48:08.58
It's the nature of the
soil that determines it.
00:48:08.58\00:48:13.19
I like to spend a
little bit of time
00:48:13.19\00:48:19.13
as we close with
the man of Romans 7...
00:48:19.13\00:48:21.86
"For I know that
the law is spiritual,
00:48:25.53\00:48:28.40
but I'm carnal, sold under sin.
00:48:28.40\00:48:32.61
"For that which
I do I allow not:
00:48:32.61\00:48:34.84
for what I would, that do I not,
00:48:34.84\00:48:37.01
but what I hate, that I do.
00:48:37.01\00:48:40.68
If then I do that
which is, I would not.
00:48:40.68\00:48:43.32
I consent unto the
law that it is good.
00:48:43.32\00:48:46.49
Now then it is no
more I that do it,
00:48:46.49\00:48:48.56
but sin that dwells in me,
00:48:48.56\00:48:50.59
for I know that in
me, that is in my flesh,
00:48:50.59\00:48:53.19
dwells no good things for
to will is present with me,
00:48:53.19\00:48:58.87
but how to perform that
which is good, I find not."
00:48:58.87\00:49:05.11
What a terrible picture,
00:49:05.11\00:49:07.41
desire without the power
to acquire is wretchedness.
00:49:07.41\00:49:13.21
Just because you desire
good, doesn't mean you are good.
00:49:14.78\00:49:20.96
Desire without the power
to acquire is wretchedness.
00:49:20.96\00:49:27.60
I could desire
good all day long,
00:49:27.60\00:49:30.90
I want to be good,
00:49:30.90\00:49:32.33
I don't want to
have these bad thoughts,
00:49:32.33\00:49:33.94
I don't want to be
angry at this person,
00:49:33.94\00:49:35.77
I don't want to be selfish,
I want to be a godly man,
00:49:35.77\00:49:40.21
but my desire is not enough.
00:49:40.21\00:49:44.38
Desire is not enough.
00:49:44.38\00:49:47.75
And that is the
problem with the Romans 7 man.
00:49:47.75\00:49:51.35
He has desire
without power to acquire.
00:49:51.35\00:49:56.02
I think, as I share this talk,
00:49:58.86\00:50:00.96
there's tons of
emotion that's involved in it,
00:50:00.96\00:50:03.67
for myself and
probably for most of the people
00:50:03.67\00:50:05.57
hear this or study it.
00:50:05.57\00:50:07.97
I don't know how many
people I've talked to,
00:50:07.97\00:50:09.34
look at Romans 7 and they say,
00:50:09.34\00:50:12.47
you know, Chuck, Romans
7 describes my experience
00:50:12.47\00:50:15.61
and I believe I must
be okay, so therefore,
00:50:15.61\00:50:18.45
it's okay to have a
Romans 7 experience.
00:50:18.45\00:50:20.75
And I believe all
of us have gone through
00:50:20.75\00:50:21.85
Romans 7 experience at
some point in our life.
00:50:21.85\00:50:24.59
Maybe some of you're
experiencing, feeling it now.
00:50:24.59\00:50:28.32
But Romans 7 is not the
end of the story, friends,
00:50:28.32\00:50:31.56
Romans 7 is simply a
stage that people go through
00:50:31.56\00:50:35.66
when they see what
the law reveals to them.
00:50:35.66\00:50:40.24
When the law
reveals itself in your life,
00:50:40.24\00:50:43.84
then sin is
revealed in your life.
00:50:43.84\00:50:46.37
And you realize
who you really are.
00:50:46.37\00:50:49.88
Continues on.
00:50:49.88\00:50:52.51
Verse 19, "For the good
which I would, I do not.
00:50:54.55\00:50:58.15
For the evil which I
would not, that I do."
00:50:58.15\00:51:01.42
I've shared this
story with you before,
00:51:01.42\00:51:05.26
but it stands...
00:51:05.26\00:51:08.63
It would be good to share now.
00:51:08.63\00:51:10.93
I remember
distinctly, the determination
00:51:10.93\00:51:13.23
in my little five,
six-year-old heart,
00:51:13.23\00:51:15.14
as I listened to a
sermon one Sabbath morning
00:51:15.14\00:51:17.54
that I was going
to never sin again.
00:51:17.54\00:51:20.61
I've determined,
I wasn't going to.
00:51:20.61\00:51:22.51
And you all can
smile and laugh at that
00:51:22.51\00:51:24.05
because you and I know
the desire is not what?
00:51:24.05\00:51:28.92
The power to acquire.
00:51:28.92\00:51:32.25
Desires by itself is kind of...
00:51:32.25\00:51:35.82
We could be humorous
when it's a five-year-old boy,
00:51:35.82\00:51:37.76
but it's not humorous
when it's a 40-year-old man
00:51:37.76\00:51:39.96
or a 65-year-old
lady, am I right?
00:51:39.96\00:51:43.57
It no longer is
it funny anymore,
00:51:43.57\00:51:44.97
it's painful and it hurts.
00:51:44.97\00:51:46.57
I remember that decision,
I remember falling apart
00:51:51.81\00:51:54.14
within about five minutes,
as I got out to the parking lot
00:51:54.14\00:51:56.38
and my sister
and I fought nonstop
00:51:56.38\00:51:58.05
when I was a kid.
00:51:58.05\00:52:00.08
Just fighting and all that.
00:52:00.08\00:52:01.82
And I realized then, the desire
without the power to acquire
00:52:01.82\00:52:07.06
is what?
00:52:07.06\00:52:08.36
It's wretchedness.
00:52:08.36\00:52:12.29
And when I got older,
it became bigger things,
00:52:12.29\00:52:14.56
not fighting with my sister,
00:52:14.56\00:52:15.70
you know what I'm talking about.
00:52:15.70\00:52:17.27
You get into scenarios
and maybe you see your...
00:52:17.27\00:52:19.73
Who you really are
when you've children,
00:52:19.73\00:52:21.40
I found that for myself.
00:52:21.40\00:52:22.47
I found out, man,
I'm not a patient person
00:52:22.47\00:52:24.11
in any way, shape or form.
00:52:24.11\00:52:25.91
I'm hotheaded, I
knew that before,
00:52:25.91\00:52:28.81
but you kind of
hide it for a while
00:52:28.81\00:52:30.01
when you're single person.
00:52:30.01\00:52:31.61
And then I got
married, it rose to the surface
00:52:31.61\00:52:33.21
and I pushed it back down again,
00:52:33.21\00:52:35.78
my good German genes.
00:52:35.78\00:52:37.92
I can do what I want to
do. But I tell you what?
00:52:37.92\00:52:41.26
I'm not able to
change Chuck Holtry.
00:52:41.26\00:52:45.36
I'm wretched without God.
00:52:45.36\00:52:51.87
Do any of you
here have the power
00:52:51.87\00:52:55.07
to acquire
righteousness in your self?
00:52:55.07\00:53:00.48
No.
00:53:00.48\00:53:01.61
Are you sure? Yes.
00:53:01.61\00:53:03.95
Is there not anyone here
00:53:03.95\00:53:05.11
has the power to acquire
righteousness by yourself?
00:53:05.11\00:53:09.65
No. So you know what that means?
00:53:09.65\00:53:11.49
You without Christ are wretched.
00:53:11.49\00:53:16.29
Oh, wretched man that I am.
00:53:16.29\00:53:19.23
Who shall deliver me
from the body of this death?
00:53:19.23\00:53:23.16
But, God has known
the desire of our hearts.
00:53:23.16\00:53:30.41
He knows, He plants
that desire in our hearts
00:53:30.41\00:53:34.38
and He gives us hope.
00:53:34.38\00:53:37.21
More than that, He
gives us power to acquire.
00:53:37.21\00:53:42.28
And who is it found in?
00:53:42.28\00:53:44.25
It's found in Jesus Christ.
00:53:44.25\00:53:46.55
That was the answer.
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Romans 7 answer, I
always said was in Romans 8.
00:53:48.26\00:53:51.99
But now, I'd like to tell
you, it's also in Romans 7.
00:53:51.99\00:53:56.43
Romans 7:4,
00:53:56.43\00:54:02.70
"Wherefore, my brethren,
00:54:02.70\00:54:04.14
ye also are
become dead to the law
00:54:04.14\00:54:06.51
by the body of Christ,
00:54:06.51\00:54:09.04
that you should be
married to another,
00:54:09.04\00:54:11.81
even to him that is
raised up from the dead,
00:54:11.81\00:54:15.58
that we should bring
forth fruit unto God."
00:54:15.58\00:54:21.62
It's awesome.
00:54:21.62\00:54:24.56
It's being married to Christ.
00:54:24.56\00:54:26.76
What does that look
like? How does that play out?
00:54:26.76\00:54:29.20
Come back next week.
00:54:29.20\00:54:30.63
But it's being married to Christ
00:54:30.63\00:54:33.64
that gives me the freedom
00:54:33.64\00:54:35.90
from the experience of Romans 7.
00:54:35.90\00:54:39.21
He told us at the
beginning of Romans 7,
00:54:39.21\00:54:40.51
then we went through
Romans 7 and got all depressed.
00:54:40.51\00:54:42.98
And then at the
end, in Romans 8,
00:54:42.98\00:54:44.45
we're going to see
this whole picture,
00:54:44.45\00:54:45.98
what it means to
live by the spirit
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and not live by the flesh.
00:54:47.65\00:54:49.12
Beautiful picture.
00:54:49.12\00:54:51.32
But we must understand Romans 7.
00:54:51.32\00:54:53.25
Romans 7 is telling us the truth
00:54:53.25\00:54:54.86
that we must understand
00:54:54.86\00:54:56.49
and that is the
desire to do good
00:54:56.49\00:54:59.46
without the ability or power
00:54:59.46\00:55:01.73
to acquire
righteousness is wretchedness.
00:55:01.73\00:55:05.20
Our only hope is
found in Jesus Christ
00:55:05.20\00:55:08.10
and that is the
message of Romans 7.
00:55:08.10\00:55:12.27
Remember, we
started out with the story
00:55:12.27\00:55:13.74
of indentured servant.
00:55:13.74\00:55:15.71
Yes, we talked about
00:55:15.71\00:55:18.08
how these indentured
servants came and almost half
00:55:18.08\00:55:21.25
of the immigrants
coming into the US
00:55:21.25\00:55:24.35
before 1750 were
indentured servants.
00:55:24.35\00:55:30.69
You know, they
couldn't think for themselves,
00:55:30.69\00:55:32.09
did you realize that?
00:55:32.09\00:55:34.10
Can I get married? No. Okay.
00:55:34.10\00:55:38.17
Unless you ran away,
then if you ran away,
00:55:38.17\00:55:39.53
you get tracked down
and brought back by the law.
00:55:39.53\00:55:42.50
Right?
00:55:42.50\00:55:44.31
Can I go and
take a vacation? No.
00:55:44.31\00:55:47.24
Can I get off
at six tonight? No.
00:55:47.24\00:55:49.58
Were they in
charge of their lives?
00:55:49.58\00:55:51.91
Absolutely not,
and I can tell you
00:55:51.91\00:55:54.28
from personal experience
and I'm sure you could too,
00:55:54.28\00:55:56.89
then that's what sin does to us.
00:55:56.89\00:55:59.52
Have you been bondage to sin?
00:55:59.52\00:56:00.66
You know what I'm talking about.
00:56:00.66\00:56:02.36
I want to do
this. No, you can't...
00:56:02.36\00:56:04.09
I want to do
this. No, you can't.
00:56:04.09\00:56:05.73
I want righteousness.
00:56:05.73\00:56:08.10
I want to be good,
00:56:08.10\00:56:09.30
I want to have peace in my life.
00:56:09.30\00:56:10.87
I want to have joy in my life.
00:56:10.87\00:56:12.17
I want to have
holiness in my life
00:56:12.17\00:56:13.80
and I can't find it.
00:56:13.80\00:56:17.07
That is experience of Romans 7.
00:56:17.07\00:56:19.44
It's experience of
an indentured servant,
00:56:19.44\00:56:21.84
but Christ has
fulfilled the obligation.
00:56:21.84\00:56:26.35
Amen.
00:56:26.35\00:56:27.92
Just want to remind you
that there is a free book,
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as well as for those of
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It's a great book,
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