Welcome. We welcome you
to 3ABN Sabbath School Panel.
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You know, this is the lesson
that we don't want you to miss.
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So I'm going to
invite you to get your pencil
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and paper, get your Bible.
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You know, check us out.
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We need to be checked out.
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Find out whether
these things be so.
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There's such exciting lessons
that we're going through here.
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I'll introduce the
panel in just a moment.
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But each one of them that I
talked to personally have really
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just enjoyed these messages.
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And it's just a reminder
of we're learning new things.
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And also I'm being
reminded of things that
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we've maybe read before.
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And it's really
joyous to see how it all
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comes and fits together.
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So we're so glad
you've joined us.
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Some of you may not have
the lessons, and so you'll
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want to get those lessons.
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And you can join us here
on ah, download these now.
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I think it's an interesting
thing that you can download
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these lesson study guides.
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And I always say,
the adult ones now.
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So we're talking
about the Adult Sabbath
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School lesson here.
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And if you download
those, that way you can
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study along with us.
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You can see the questions.
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Also a lot of
passages are written there.
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And that way you can study to
show yourself approved unto God.
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So we approve of you, and we are
glad that you joined in with us.
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And some of you might, you know,
some say, they've told me this,
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sometimes I stay
home, and I watched this.
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So I know some of the
pastors say, Oh oh, shame shame!
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But, you know, you can
also, you could set your DVR,
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or something, couldn't
you? and record it, and so on.
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But, anyway, these are lessons
that we need to be going over.
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So we're
thankful you've joined us.
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I'm going to ask right
now, before we have prayer,
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I'm going to ask
Brother C. A. to have it.
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But I just want to
introduce the panel.
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Sister Mollie Steenson,
we're sure glad you're here.
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You're just Johnny on
the Spot all the time.
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And we're very
grateful and thankful for you.
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It's a joy to be here.
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And next to her is C.
A. Murray, Pastor C. A.
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You know, how awesome.
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We just always enjoyed
working with you from day one;
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make your acquaintance.
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And I just love you and
appreciate you very much.
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Thank you for your friendship,
and for your prayers.
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And just every time that
somebody needs something,
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it seems like he
says, I'll do it.
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And that's such a good spirit.
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Thank you, brother.
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Good to be here.
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And right next to you
we have Shelley Quinn.
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Shelley, bless your heart!
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You love the word of God.
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And you've not
been feeling the best.
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But, you know what?
you're putting it forth, right?
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By God's grace He's
going to touch you and do
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something special for you.
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Well, salvation by faith
alone is in the book of Romans.
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It's one of my favorite topics.
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So I had to be here no
matter how I was feeling.
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Isn't that beautiful?
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Well, next to you, everybody
knows, it good to have this
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Sister Jill Morikone.
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You just have all kinds of hats.
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You just wear so many I
can't keep tabs of them.
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But it's so good that
you're willing to do it.
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You do it with a smile,
and you do it with the love of
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Jesus in your heart.
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And you make us all
feel welcome and feel loved.
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And we appreciate you today.
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It's a blessing being here.
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Good, praise the Lord!
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We're going to be talking
about our lesson there, with
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those of you who have it.
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We're going to be talking about
two, there's two names that just
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pop out, and that's just
our lesson: Adam and Jesus.
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And I just... there's
something about that when you
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say Adam and Jesus.
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And I start getting
actually little goose bumps,
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because I'm thinking about a
reunion day that I read about.
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And I... and for a lot
of reasons I say, You know,
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I don't want to miss that.
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I don't want to
miss the coming of Jesus.
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We want to be there.
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But I don't want to miss that
reunion when they get together.
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And I'll read a quote in
just a moment, as we just
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kind of open with this.
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And then we'll go
Sabbath afternoon.
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Our memory text...
We're going to be going
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through Romans, Chapter 5.
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And some of the stuff
we'll be going over again.
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But you know
how wonderful it is.
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We're learning from that.
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The memory text is found in
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These are powerful
verses, so be sure you underline
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some of these things.
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Therefore, being justified
by faith... Notice this.
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And then we're going
to have prayer after this.
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We have peace with God
through our Lord Jesus Christ,
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by whom also we have
access of faith into this grace.
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wherein we stand, and rejoice
in hope and glory of God.
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Isn't that just a
wonderful passage?
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C. A. would you just pray that
God will help us to understand
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this, and ears, and hearts, and
minds will be open to receive?
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Father God, truly Your
word is a lamp unto our feet,
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and a light unto our path.
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We know and understand
that spiritual things are
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spiritually discerned.
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So would You be pleased,
Dear Father, now to give us Your
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Spirit that we may speak Your
words, that we may understand,
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and that we may
be true to the text.
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And that those we hear what
we have to say will be blessed,
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and encouraged, that we may
all learn together of Your love,
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of Your goodness, of Your
grace, and Your salvation.
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And we thank You, Dear
Father, in Jesus' name, Amen.
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Amen! Praise the Lord!
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You know, I thought
about this lesson quite a bit
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when I was going over it.
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About Paul, for instance,
when he was talks about it;
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first part of our lesson.
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He's established the point
of justification is, you know,
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the only avenue we
have acceptance with God.
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That's just been so
plain, so clear, so wonderful.
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So a lot of us are
trying to work our way,
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and do so many different things.
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That we can just
let those things go by,
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and just concentrate on
getting... I like to say getting
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our lives right with God.
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And I'm sure that
you're working on that too,
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as long as I'm working on it.
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A paragraph that I thought was
very interesting in our lesson,
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it said, through the fall of one
man; through the fall of man.
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Who was that? Adam. Adam.
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That was certainly Adam.
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And so all humanity then
faced, we see it: condemnation,
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alienation, and death.
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So the death the... So by
one man death came upon all.
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But, praise God,
there's a passage that
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continues on there.
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Isn't it, wasn't
it 1 Corinthians?
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What happens? Do you remember?
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Even so in Christ all...
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Even so in Christ shall all...
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All, I noticed that word.
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I even circled it
again in renewance.
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All shall be made alive.
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So, you know,
all that wants to be.
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All that's
willing to accept that.
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And I thought, how wonderful.
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1 Corinthians 15:45.
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I like it because it
talks about the first Adam.
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And then it goes on
and it says the last Adam.
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So we're talking about two
different Adams, as it were.
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When we come up
with about the first,
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and you're talking
about the last Adam.
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Bottom line to me; I read this
in several different places.
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And you can jot those
down: Great Controversy, 647,
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1 Testimony, 659, and
Adventist Home, Page 540.
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You read this quote.
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This is what...
this gives me Goosebumps.
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And I don't know if
it will for you or not.
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And I long for that day,
and I want to see that day.
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And this has given me so much
hope, and so much encouragement
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over the years,
because I look at Adam and Eve.
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Because they fell short;
they made a wrong choice;
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all this, may I say mess, mess
of this world... You see it's
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everything out here is
due to the sin, you see.
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And yet what does
Jesus do? you see?
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We confess our sin and He's
faithful and just to forgive.
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This is part of
justification by faith.
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How can a God in heaven who
has seen it all; all the misery,
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all the disease, every sickness,
everything, still yet look at
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the ones who started it,
as it were by their choice,
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and look at him and
welcome him into the portals of
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glory with open arms?
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I'm going to read that to you
just quickly here as we go on.
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Notice, I thought
that was interesting.
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It says the two Adams.
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I think this might... This will
be the Great Controversy, 647.
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It says, the two
Adams are about to meet.
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All of a sudden
I'm getting excited.
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The two Adams are
just about ready to meet.
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It's like it's something that
sets, it's something that is...
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It's a special theme
when we get to heaven.
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And the angels
are interested in it.
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The redeemed are interested.
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They're interested in this
because it's like it's set up
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that the two Adams now
are getting ready to meet.
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The Son of God is standing,
notice this, with outstretched
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arms to receive the father
of our race, the being whom He
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created who
sinned against his maker.
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For those, notice,
who sin the marks of the
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crucifixion are born
upon the Savior's form.
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He has these marks
on Him of crucifixion.
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And He looks at
the one who fell short.
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The first, the first Adam.
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And he reaches out.
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Jesus, King of kings,
reaches out and embraces him,
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and is so happy that he's
in the kingdom of God. Amen!
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If that does not give you hope
and encouragement; if you think
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your life is so bad, you think
that grace is not sufficient
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enough, you can't be justified
by the blood of the Lamb.
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Think about this reunion.
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And I know it's going to happen.
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And I want to see that reunion.
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I really do. But you know, Adam
doesn't just have the embrace,
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he falls on his
face before Jesus Christ.
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How awesome that's going to be.
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Same as us. Anyway,
good food for thought.
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The first part of the lesson
here; we'll get to it as fast we
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can here as
time is running down.
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Sunday, Justified by Faith.
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I love Justified by Faith.
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Now that's a subject you can
talk on, and on, and on about.
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I'd like to start from the
book that I really like is,
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The Acts of the Apostles.
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Just a quote here, Page 531.
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Again, when you're talking about
justified, do we really mean it?
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Do we really believe in
being, that we're really
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justified by faith?
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Do we really believe
that our record is set right?
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Do we really believe that
we've been cleansed by the
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blood of the Lamb when
we say justified by faith?
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And then where
does that set us up?
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Does that set us up to live
a life that's pleasing in the
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sight of God
when we're justified?
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Notice what
this says right here.
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It says, The Savior showed
that through cooperation with...
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Again, divinity and humanity.
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Is that supposed
to work with us? Amen!
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It has to be! We can't
do anything on our own.
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Divinity working with
humanity, just like Christ.
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Notice this: This is God's
assurance to us that we, too,
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may obtain complete victory.
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Why? Because
Christ did it. Amen!
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He had nothing
that we can't have.
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Divinity and humanity working
together; it's our assurance.
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Great Controversy, 623
says, It is in this life...
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I've had people just, you
know, really want to fuss,
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and really want to carry on.
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And I don't mind
discussing sometimes, you know?
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...this life that we
are separate sin from us.
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So where at?
Where is sin separated?
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People tell we're
going to continue to
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sin till Jesus comes.
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If we're talking about
justification, justified,
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you know, by faith,
what does that really mean?
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We must not think it means
cleansed from sin, evidentially,
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if we don't think that
we can gain victory here.
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But, you see, it says, notice
this: It is in this life that
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we are to separate sin from us.
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Now how is that accomplished?
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Through faith in the
atoning blood of Christ.
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Same thing in our
lesson; everyone's
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been saying right here.
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There's only one way
in which it can be done.
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But we are to separate from sin.
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We can't dally around with it,
see how close we can get to it,
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reach out and touch it, reach
out and think we can just do
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this and we're
going to get away with it.
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It's not going to happen.
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This right here; it's
in this life that we are
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to separate from sin.
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And then only by the blood
of Jesus Christ that gives us
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the power to do that.
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And Romans 5:1-5;
it's absolutely powerful.
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I don't know if I'll
have time to read it,
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but I'm going to try it anyway.
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Because I'm seeing three things.
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I like to say... I notice I put
in my notes three free gifts.
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I thought three... Do you
realize all the hundreds and
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thousands of
free gifts that heaven
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bestows upon us every day?
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So I have to say,
Three wonderful free
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gifts that He gives us.
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So, but notice what it
says here in Romans, Chapter 5.
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It says, Therefore
being justified by faith,
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we have peace with God
through our Lord Jesus Christ:
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by whom we have access by faith
into the grace wherein we stand,
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and rejoice in hope
of the glory of God.
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And not only so, but we
glory in tribulations...
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And look out now...
also; knowing that tribulation
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worketh patience;
and patience, experience;
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and experience hope. Verse 5.
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The hope that
maketh not ashamed; Why?
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because the love of God is
shed abroad in our hearts by the
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Holy Ghost which
is given unto us.
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What an unspeakable gift;
to give us the Holy Spirit;
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to impart the Holy Spirit to us.
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Knowing us as heaven
knows us, still willing to
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impart that gift to us.
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Being justified...
this is interesting.
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What is Paul doing?
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The question in
our lesson comes back.
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As you read these passages,
what does it really mean to you?
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So I jot a few things down.
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I said just, at least for
me this is what it talks about.
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Paul shows that all
men, Jews and Gentiles alike,
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that sinners are
under condemnation.
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Right quick he says it.
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In need of what? righteousness.
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This need can not be met
by any kind of a legalistic
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attitude or means
that we might think.
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Nothing legally. It can't
be met by that, or by works;
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Only by the grace of
Jesus Christ, and by the gospel.
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Now the three
free little gift here?
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This is what we've been
talking about in our lessons.
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It's simply, it's
simply this: God offers what?
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1. Free gift is
grace. We know that.
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Praise God for that.
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2. What does He offer?
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He offers something
else to every one of us,
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is complete pardon.
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I think that's where I'm coming
from in a lot of, I'm going to
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say my studies, if you allow it.
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Everyone has their own studies.
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And we come to certain things,
and I really want to come to
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what is, bottom line
is what is the truth.
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I don't want to have
any preconceived ideas,
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and try to make it say something
it doesn't say, or because this
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group believes
this, or that group.
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I've stayed away from,
try to stay away from groups.
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I was trying to get
to the word of God and
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Spirit of Prophecy.
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But, you know,
we need the counsel.
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So we realize
that complete pardon,
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it either is or it isn't.
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And 3. this is I
like, is reconciliation,
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Reconciliation. What good,
may I ask this to anyone here?
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What good is the gift of grace
if there's no reconciliation?
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What is complete pardon if
there's not reconciliation?
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And if I'm not brought back into
the state where God wants me
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to be, what good
is all the rest of it?
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See, this is part of the plan
of salvation, in my opinion,
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in reading this here.
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He wants to put us back
like we were before sin.
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And that must take
place before He comes.
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That's an awesome thing.
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Because I look in the mirror and
say, Oh God, have mercy on me!
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And to me that's not
always bad because it
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drives me to the Savior.
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I don't take it as some might
take it and say, Oh, my lands,
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it's useless, it's hopeless,
I'm depressed, I'm out.
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No! Oh Lord,
have mercy on my soul!
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I need some help. I
need You to come in.
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Being justified, praise God!
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And then, of course, my time's
up here, but Paul begins to
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give, and some of you will bring
this out, some of the benefits
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of following the
counsel that he gives.
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And following
God, do you realize,
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if some of you like
it, there's benefits.
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And, you know, I kind
of like some benefits here.
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I'd like to say that
heaven can be my home.
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I'd like to be able to
think that His blood cleanses me
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from all unrighteousness.
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I like to think my
name is written in the
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Lamb's book of life. Amen!
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You see, and I
believe that by faith.
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And if you believe it
by faith it's so. Amen!
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You know, these are lessons
that all this stuff needs to be
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brought out in time.
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Dear Sister Mollie, help
us with the next part, please.
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Well, something you
said, Kenny, I appreciated
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the way you put this.
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You talked about the
first Adam, and you talked
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about the last Adam.
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You know, sometimes I
hear people say the first Adam,
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and the second Adam.
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That always concerns me
because if there's a second Adam
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what does that say?
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There might be a third Adam.
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No, there's never
going to be another Adam.
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There was the first Adam,
and there's the last Adam.
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And that's
exactly what you said.
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And I just appreciated that.
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Well, I've got
Monday, and we're looking
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at, While Yet Sinners.
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How many of you appreciate
that while you were yet a
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sinner God died for us?
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Christ was
crucified on the cross.
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Let's look at this: Romans
5: 6-8 are the two Scriptures,
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or the Scriptures that I'm
going to cover of the three.
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For when we were still without
strength, in due time Christ
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died for the ungodly.
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He died for who? the ungodly.
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He didn't die; He wouldn't
have needed to die if all there
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was was godly people.
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He died for us who were ungodly.
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For scarcely for a righteous
man would one die: yet perhaps
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for a good man someone
would even dare to die.
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But God demonstrated His
own love toward us, in that,
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while we were yet
sinners, Christ died for us.
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In the garden of Eden, in
the opening moments of earth's
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history, in the opening moments
of mankind's existence on this
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earth Adam and Eve shamefully,
and inexcusably transgressed
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the divine requirement.
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It's called the fall.
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And how did that affect us?
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Did that affect us?
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Did the fall of Adam and
Eve affect us? Yes. Absolutely.
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All mankind... I
say it like this.
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We fell down, and we
had absolutely no way
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of getting back up.
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Visualize that for yourself.
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I'm not into visualization.
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Have you ever fallen down
and you couldn't get back up?
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There was no hope but Jesus.
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Without outside
help we had no hope.
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Pastor C. A.,
we've got hope. Amen.
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God... See, we
were separated from God.
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And it was an
irreconcilable separation.
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You know, divorces
sometimes they have
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irreconcilable differences?
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What does that mean? No hope.
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We were irreconcilably
separated from God.
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But... Don't you love the buts?
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God took the first step.
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See we couldn't
take the first step.
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Why couldn't we
take the first step?
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Cause we were, had fallen
down in the quagmire of sin,
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and we couldn't get up.
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God took the first
step toward reconciliation.
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That which was irreconcilable,
only God could reconcile.
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That's right. He
initiated a way to salvation,
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a way to reconciliation.
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And ever since, ever since,
God has been the initiator
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in inviting men and women
to accept the way He provided.
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It's, you know, you ever seen
the picture of this big building
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and Jesus is on the outside.
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What's He doing? He's knocking
on every one of our hearts.
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And I hope that our viewing
audience, and our listening
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audience are full of people
today that have never made
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Jesus Christ the
Lord of your life.
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Because today is
your day of salvation.
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Jesus is on the outside of
your heart right now knocking on
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your heart
saying, Let Me come in!
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You've fallen and I
can help you get up.
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I am the way that God
initiated for you to come up,
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come up and out of
that quagmire of sin. Amen!
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Now when He knocks, when He
extends His hand to every one of
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us, to help us stand back
up, we can do one of two things.
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Can't we Pastor
Kenny? Yes, we can.
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One of two things: accept that
hand or not accept that hand.
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Let's look at the contrast.
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Without reconciliation, without
our standing back up we fall
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under the penalty of sin.
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Now what's the penalty of sin?
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That would be Romans 6:23.
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For the wages of sin is death.
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Okay, now let's contrast that.
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We can do one of two things.
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In that while we were yet
sinners, Christ died for us.
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So we're in a sinful state.
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One of two things when
He knocks at our heart,
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when He offers that
hand of reconciliation.
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We can take that
hand or we can not.
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So if we don't, the
wages of sin is death.
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Because we just fall under
the penalty of sin if we don't
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accept Jesus Christ
as our Lord and Savior.
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But if we accept His
hand, if we accept that way of
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reconciliation that
God made available to us,
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the gift of God is eternal life.
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Hey, that's eternal life
in Christ Jesus our Lord!
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How many of you
want to live forever?
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How many of you
want that eternal life?
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To spend an eternity in
the very presence of God.
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You know, Kenny, you hit on that
so soundly that we need to take
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seriously the time and
the age that we're living in,
00:21:27.65\00:21:30.79
and the time that we
have left here on this earth.
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Some of us are so shortsighted
we lose sight of the fact that
00:21:33.96\00:21:38.09
this is all there is for us
is this side of eternity. Mercy!
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And if... What is the
only thing we can take out
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with us into eternity?
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That is you character.
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You see, if you don't purify
and perfect your character...
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And you can only do it through
the blood of the Lord Jesus
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Christ, and through His help.
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Then this is all
there is for you.
00:22:00.35\00:22:02.45
But for you that have
higher aspirations this
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isn't all there
is. That's right.
00:22:06.86\00:22:08.19
There is an eternity in the
very presence of Almighty God.
00:22:08.22\00:22:12.06
While you were yet a
sinner He died for you.
00:22:12.09\00:22:15.46
He made reconciliation for you.
00:22:15.50\00:22:17.60
He made a way for
those who had no other way.
00:22:17.67\00:22:21.14
He will take your hand,
lift you up, and then that...
00:22:21.17\00:22:26.84
See, God will
accept you just like you...
00:22:26.88\00:22:28.98
Have you ever heard
anybody say, You'll just have
00:22:29.04\00:22:31.68
to take me like I am.
00:22:31.71\00:22:33.05
God will take you
just like you are.
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He will take you
just like you are.
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But He will accept
you just like you are.
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But for you to be able to spend
an eternity in the presence of
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God there is this
thing called sanctification.
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This thing called
being purified and perfected.
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God... see the number one
purpose of the Holy Spirit is to
00:22:53.37\00:22:58.37
draw you to Jesus Christ, to
pick you up out of that sinful
00:22:58.41\00:23:02.34
condition you're in,
and to draw you into right
00:23:02.38\00:23:05.05
relationship with God.
00:23:05.08\00:23:06.41
And once you make Jesus
Christ the Lord of your life,
00:23:06.45\00:23:09.35
you come out of
darkness into light.
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You know what the
number one purpose of the
00:23:11.62\00:23:13.69
Holy Spirit is then?
00:23:13.76\00:23:15.09
Your sanctification.
00:23:15.12\00:23:16.73
To lead you into coming
out of darkness in every area,
00:23:16.76\00:23:21.36
and relationship of your life.
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I get so far off of my lesson.
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Let's look here. Then in Romans
5:9 Paul says, Much more then,
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having now been justified
by His blood, we shall be saved
00:23:32.41\00:23:39.25
from wrath through Him.
00:23:39.28\00:23:41.22
So, what if you haven't
been justified by His blood?
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Are you saved from wrath? No.
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Let's talk about the exodus.
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And I think I've
got like two minutes
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to talk about the exodus.
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The blood of the sacrificial
lamb played a very significant
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role the night before the
children of Israel left Egypt.
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The Israelites were
instructed to do something.
00:24:07.31\00:24:09.94
They were instructed to take the
blood of the lamb and apply it
00:24:10.05\00:24:14.22
to the door posts and
the lentils of their homes.
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Each home had a lamb.
00:24:16.52\00:24:17.92
And it was each home's
responsibility to obey.
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If they didn't
something was going to happen.
00:24:21.09\00:24:24.16
What was going to
pass over that night?
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The death angel was
going to pass over all
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the houses in Egypt.
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And God made a way.
00:24:30.47\00:24:32.03
He told them if the blood
of the lamb; take that blood,
00:24:32.07\00:24:35.24
apply it to the door posts
and the lentils of your homes.
00:24:35.27\00:24:38.37
And when the death angel
passes over, then your firstborn
00:24:38.41\00:24:42.34
will not be affected.
00:24:42.38\00:24:44.01
But if you don't
have the blood applied,
00:24:44.05\00:24:46.48
then what is going to happen?
00:24:46.51\00:24:47.85
The death angel is
going to visit your house.
00:24:47.88\00:24:49.92
So, let me make this very clear,
we're all going to have to
00:24:49.95\00:24:56.99
experience that
night of Passover.
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And at some point, you
know, judgment is real.
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The Scriptures says, As it is
appointed unto men to die once,
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but after that the judgment.
00:25:09.50\00:25:10.84
On that day of judgment do
you know what the Passover,
00:25:10.91\00:25:14.31
what the death
angel is looking for?
00:25:14.38\00:25:16.75
He's looking for a
house that doesn't have the
00:25:16.78\00:25:19.38
blood applied to it.
00:25:19.41\00:25:20.75
But when you ask Jesus Christ
to be the Lord of your life,
00:25:20.82\00:25:25.55
then the blood is
applied to the door post and the
00:25:25.59\00:25:28.09
lentils of your life.
00:25:28.12\00:25:29.62
Then when the death angel
passes over he can't touch you.
00:25:29.66\00:25:33.60
Because judgment is real.
00:25:33.70\00:25:35.70
There is a day when
you will come before the
00:25:35.73\00:25:37.83
judgment seat of Christ.
00:25:37.87\00:25:39.20
And the Lord is
looking for that blood.
00:25:39.23\00:25:42.24
Because that blood that
covers you cries out, Mercy!
00:25:42.27\00:25:45.87
And there will be mercy for you.
00:25:45.91\00:25:47.54
You know when you make Jesus
Christ the Lord of your life
00:25:47.58\00:25:50.75
it's as though
you had never sinned.
00:25:50.81\00:25:54.08
Christ died for
you; died for all of us
00:25:54.12\00:25:57.19
while we were yet
sinners. Pastor C. A.
00:25:57.25\00:26:00.29
Amen. The line from blood
to death, and blood to life is
00:26:00.32\00:26:07.86
almost a continuum
in that it was the blood
00:26:07.96\00:26:13.00
that kept from death,
and it is that same blood
00:26:13.03\00:26:17.04
that leads to our life;
the shed blood of Christ.
00:26:17.11\00:26:21.01
My lesson Tuesday
is Death Through Sin.
00:26:21.04\00:26:28.05
And I want to stay a little
closer to the lesson than I
00:26:28.08\00:26:30.92
perhaps do sometimes.
00:26:30.99\00:26:32.32
Because there are some points
here that I want to elaborate
00:26:32.35\00:26:34.29
on that I find are
fascinating; very integral to
00:26:34.36\00:26:38.49
Paul's argument here.
00:26:38.56\00:26:40.60
Death is an enemy. I
think we all can agree on that.
00:26:40.63\00:26:44.47
It is the ultimate enemy.
00:26:44.50\00:26:46.57
When God created the human
family, the lesson takes pains
00:26:46.60\00:26:51.27
to say that it was with the
idea that we would live forever.
00:26:51.31\00:26:55.04
It was with the idea that
we would all have uninterrupted
00:26:55.08\00:26:59.28
fellowship with Him.
00:26:59.31\00:27:00.75
The lesson says with
few expectations people
00:27:00.78\00:27:04.95
do not want to die.
00:27:04.99\00:27:06.52
I have been
around people who were
00:27:06.55\00:27:10.16
attempting to commit suicide.
00:27:10.19\00:27:11.79
And have ministered to
people who have success,
00:27:11.83\00:27:15.60
who's the family of
people who have been
00:27:15.63\00:27:18.20
successful in their attempt.
00:27:18.27\00:27:19.97
You tend to find when you
deal with that enough that,
00:27:20.04\00:27:23.00
as a rule, people
don't want to die.
00:27:23.04\00:27:25.47
It's usually a call for help.
00:27:25.51\00:27:26.88
They want help.
They want assistance.
00:27:26.91\00:27:29.91
They have been trying to answer
their own questions of life.
00:27:29.94\00:27:34.32
And the Bible is very accurate
when it says that we don't have
00:27:34.35\00:27:38.65
the answers to our
lives in our own hands.
00:27:38.69\00:27:41.29
There is a way that
seems right sometimes,
00:27:41.36\00:27:43.93
but it's not the right way.
00:27:43.96\00:27:45.29
It leads to death. And when
you run out of gas trying to run
00:27:45.33\00:27:50.23
your own life, you tend
to want to end your life.
00:27:50.27\00:27:52.53
And so the quicker you can get
Jesus inserted into that life
00:27:52.57\00:27:57.47
the better
results you will have.
00:27:57.51\00:27:59.31
So people don't
want to end their lives.
00:27:59.34\00:28:03.21
Death was intended
to be an unknown entity
00:28:05.68\00:28:09.15
to the human family.
00:28:09.18\00:28:10.52
That was never
God's intention for us.
00:28:10.55\00:28:13.09
So you go now to Romans 5:12.
00:28:13.12\00:28:16.26
Romans 5:12. Therefore,...
And I'm reading from
00:28:17.69\00:28:21.70
the New King James.
00:28:21.73\00:28:23.06
Therefore, just as through
one man sin entered the world,
00:28:23.10\00:28:27.74
and death through sin, and
thus death spread to all men,
00:28:27.77\00:28:32.71
because all have sinned.
00:28:32.74\00:28:35.18
I don't want to lift
over too much into what
00:28:35.21\00:28:39.48
Shelley is going to bring.
00:28:39.51\00:28:40.85
But Paul is describing
here how we got into the mess.
00:28:40.92\00:28:45.89
Can we say mess? Can
we use that word? Sure!
00:28:45.92\00:28:48.02
How we got into where we
got to; where we are now.
00:28:48.06\00:28:51.19
And the reason I'm glad I
got this particular day because
00:28:51.23\00:28:57.73
I joined the church
at a fairly early age.
00:28:57.77\00:28:59.73
I gave my heart to the
Lord at age 9, baptized at 10.
00:28:59.77\00:29:03.24
Most of the issues in the
Adventist church, as far as our
00:29:03.27\00:29:06.64
doctrinal package,
I had no problem with.
00:29:06.71\00:29:08.74
Because you're young,
you just accept and shake it.
00:29:08.78\00:29:10.51
I was not trained any other way.
00:29:10.58\00:29:12.21
So this is what
I've always known.
00:29:12.25\00:29:13.85
The one issue that I did have
a problem with, even as a young
00:29:13.88\00:29:19.12
person, it why am I sinful?
00:29:19.15\00:29:21.79
Why is that the
default setting on my life?
00:29:21.82\00:29:24.46
I knew, even as a child, there
was stuff that I was leaning
00:29:24.49\00:29:29.16
towards doing that I
knew I shouldn't be doing.
00:29:29.20\00:29:30.67
You know, particularly you get
in hanging out with your homies,
00:29:30.70\00:29:33.17
your buddies, you know.
00:29:33.20\00:29:34.54
You start doing stuff you know
you shouldn't be doing that.
00:29:34.57\00:29:37.34
But what? why
is this, this pull?
00:29:37.41\00:29:41.08
Why is there this pull?
00:29:41.11\00:29:42.54
And then when I read and
studied, and I found out that
00:29:42.58\00:29:45.31
death passed upon all
men, because of one man's sin.
00:29:45.35\00:29:49.82
I really rebelled against that.
00:29:49.85\00:29:52.09
I didn't like that idea at all.
00:29:52.12\00:29:54.26
Why should I be messed
up because he messed up?
00:29:54.29\00:29:58.43
That, even as a
teenager, that really grated
00:29:58.46\00:30:02.50
against my sensibilities.
00:30:02.53\00:30:04.07
I'm a sinner cause Adam sinned.
00:30:04.13\00:30:06.60
So what's the balance?
00:30:06.63\00:30:08.74
You know, what is the balance?
00:30:08.77\00:30:11.37
Well, the balance, I think
Shelley's going to talk about.
00:30:11.41\00:30:13.54
But I hesitate to
lift over into your day.
00:30:13.58\00:30:16.31
But the balance is I
didn't have any part in Adam,
00:30:16.34\00:30:19.25
and I didn't have
any part in Jesus.
00:30:19.28\00:30:20.78
Adam got me in,
Jesus got me out. Amen!
00:30:20.82\00:30:24.42
And that's the
balance, you know?
00:30:24.45\00:30:26.35
One got me in.
It's not my fault!
00:30:26.39\00:30:29.32
But one got me out.
Not my credit, you know?
00:30:29.36\00:30:32.59
So it makes it very level.
00:30:32.63\00:30:36.36
Yeah, I've got problems.
00:30:36.40\00:30:37.77
I've got sins.
I've got this nature.
00:30:37.80\00:30:40.40
But Jesus has come to
rearrange all of that. Amen!
00:30:40.47\00:30:45.24
If there is a great
thing in this whole cockamamie,
00:30:45.27\00:30:53.35
sin, 7,000 year experiment, it's
that to them who believed on
00:30:53.38\00:31:00.26
Him, gave He
the power to become.
00:31:00.29\00:31:03.36
And we can put a
colon right there.
00:31:03.43\00:31:06.43
To the power to become.
00:31:06.46\00:31:07.96
Christ through His grace,
through... And grace is not a,
00:31:07.96\00:31:13.64
it's not a static entity.
00:31:13.70\00:31:16.77
It's not just, I give you grace.
00:31:16.81\00:31:19.21
It's a dynamic
entity. Absolutely!
00:31:19.24\00:31:21.54
It brings other
things in its train.
00:31:21.58\00:31:24.01
And, Pastor Kenny,
you touched on this.
00:31:24.05\00:31:26.41
If we confess our sins, He
is faithful and just to forgive.
00:31:26.45\00:31:30.99
But if you just forgive,
you haven't really helped me.
00:31:31.02\00:31:33.36
In fact you've kind of hurt me.
00:31:33.42\00:31:34.76
You just, Stop
that! Stop that! Stop!
00:31:34.79\00:31:36.62
And there's
never any punishment.
00:31:36.69\00:31:38.53
Well, after a while it
kind of loses its, you know,
00:31:38.56\00:31:40.86
it loses its sting.
00:31:40.90\00:31:42.20
He forgives me, and
then He cleanses me.
00:31:42.23\00:31:47.37
Yeah, don't make me a perpetual
sinner by just forgiving me.
00:31:48.00\00:31:51.07
You've got to put some...
Something's got to change!
00:31:51.11\00:31:53.41
So He cleanses me.
00:31:53.44\00:31:54.98
And that's the wonderful
thing about the justification,
00:31:55.04\00:31:59.15
sanctification continuum.
00:31:59.21\00:32:00.85
Because I think
they're on the same line.
00:32:00.92\00:32:02.25
One is I'm credited
for being righteous.
00:32:02.28\00:32:06.62
And then He gets in
there and actually begins
00:32:06.69\00:32:08.42
to make me righteous.
00:32:08.46\00:32:09.79
So He forgives me,
and then He cleanses me.
00:32:09.82\00:32:14.46
And sometimes we all
know that cleansing process
00:32:14.50\00:32:17.83
can be a little rough.
00:32:17.87\00:32:19.20
You know, it can
be a little hard.
00:32:19.23\00:32:20.70
Cause when you're sanding stuff
down sparks fly, and dust flies,
00:32:20.74\00:32:24.51
and sand, wood flies, you know?
00:32:24.54\00:32:25.87
But the upshot is you get
this smooth surface, you know.
00:32:25.91\00:32:32.51
And that's what Christ wants.
00:32:32.55\00:32:34.08
So, going back to the
lesson, the lesson says that
00:32:34.18\00:32:40.02
commentators have
argued over this quite a bit.
00:32:40.06\00:32:42.96
And I've read
some of this material.
00:32:42.99\00:32:45.83
The medieval church
solved it by saying that we are
00:32:45.86\00:32:52.97
credited with Adam's sin.
00:32:53.00\00:32:54.64
Which is a doctrine that
they called original sin.
00:32:54.67\00:32:57.97
That we are
credited with Adam's sin.
00:32:58.01\00:33:01.51
But when the Protestant
Reformation came along
00:33:01.54\00:33:04.58
they rejected that.
00:33:04.61\00:33:06.55
Your sins are
enough to send you to hell.
00:33:06.58\00:33:10.09
You don't need
Adam's sin. That's right!
00:33:10.12\00:33:11.82
Adam had to get in just
like we are to get in, you know.
00:33:13.96\00:33:16.39
So your sins will keep you out.
00:33:16.42\00:33:18.23
So, and if we are credited with
Adam's sin, then we wouldn't
00:33:18.26\00:33:22.86
need to change our own
lives, because we've just got to
00:33:22.90\00:33:27.44
deal with Adam's sin.
00:33:27.50\00:33:28.84
But we have to
deal with our own sins.
00:33:28.87\00:33:30.21
We've got to deal with what
our relationship with Christ is,
00:33:30.24\00:33:33.94
and what it is going to become.
00:33:33.98\00:33:35.31
So, the lesson says folk have
tried to answer that question
00:33:35.34\00:33:39.15
for many, many years.
00:33:39.18\00:33:40.52
But that the... You know, you
get so excited about the subject
00:33:40.58\00:33:44.89
you almost lose your mind.
00:33:44.92\00:33:46.25
You just ha ba ha
ba ha ba kind of thing.
00:33:46.29\00:33:48.39
All have sinned. So Adam
has sinned, but so have I.
00:33:48.42\00:33:54.00
God will take care of Adam,
and God will take care of me.
00:33:54.03\00:33:57.53
Amen. Yes. And I've
got to surrender myself.
00:33:57.57\00:33:59.43
So I'm going to die because
of my own unforgiven sins,
00:33:59.47\00:34:04.01
not because of Adam's. Right.
00:34:04.04\00:34:05.87
The wages of sin is death.
00:34:05.91\00:34:07.71
But the gift of God is eternal
life for me, and for Kenny,
00:34:07.74\00:34:11.81
and for Mollie, and for Shelley,
and for Jill, and for everyone
00:34:11.88\00:34:15.92
out there who's
looking and listening.
00:34:15.95\00:34:17.69
Because Christ
died for all of us.
00:34:17.72\00:34:21.56
And His blood is sufficient
for each and every one of us.
00:34:21.59\00:34:24.66
You know, ten minutes is
an awfully short time? It is!
00:34:24.69\00:34:27.73
...to do what you need to do.
00:34:29.40\00:34:30.73
We need to
recognize that we are sinners.
00:34:30.77\00:34:34.00
And I think in one of the
weeks past, Mollie it was you,
00:34:34.10\00:34:38.44
or perhaps Shelley who said,
this idea to accept that we are
00:34:38.47\00:34:43.95
sinners, people
think, I am not so bad.
00:34:44.01\00:34:45.91
I don't rob, I don't
steal, I don't kill, you know.
00:34:45.95\00:34:48.78
I don't steal from the
government, and I pay my taxes.
00:34:48.82\00:34:50.75
I can't be that bad.
00:34:50.79\00:34:52.45
And it's very hard to realize
and understand that you have
00:34:52.49\00:34:55.82
been called to keep a righteous
law that is so far above you
00:34:55.86\00:35:00.13
that without the
indwelling of a righteous God,
00:35:00.16\00:35:03.06
you don't even have a chance.
00:35:03.10\00:35:05.00
So you're looking at yourself.
00:35:05.03\00:35:06.87
One, for one
your viewers parallax.
00:35:06.94\00:35:09.34
You can't really
see yourself as you are.
00:35:09.37\00:35:11.01
So it's like looking in a
mirror at a fun house, you know.
00:35:11.04\00:35:12.71
You may be thin and
the mirror makes you fat.
00:35:12.74\00:35:14.28
You may be fat; the
mirror makes you thin.
00:35:14.31\00:35:15.74
So you're not
getting an accurate
00:35:15.78\00:35:17.15
representation of who you are.
00:35:17.18\00:35:18.51
But as you look through the
word of God you see who you are.
00:35:18.55\00:35:22.28
And it is that
realization of who you are that
00:35:22.35\00:35:25.05
drives you to Jesus.
00:35:25.09\00:35:26.86
Because without Jesus you have
no hope of ever becoming what
00:35:26.89\00:35:30.73
Jesus wants you to be.
00:35:30.76\00:35:32.09
So the lesson says, and
it is true, we must recognize
00:35:32.13\00:35:34.36
that we are sinners.
00:35:34.40\00:35:35.73
And it is in the recognition
that we are sinners that we are
00:35:35.76\00:35:40.30
moved in the direction of Jesus.
00:35:40.34\00:35:42.87
Because the only way to get us
from sinner to saint is through
00:35:42.94\00:35:46.78
Jesus, and Jesus living in us.
00:35:46.84\00:35:49.04
And that's the
burden that we have.
00:35:49.08\00:35:51.95
And that is the success of
Christ in our lives that we come
00:35:51.98\00:35:55.78
from a sinner to a saint through
the blood, through the power,
00:35:55.82\00:35:58.95
through the grace, through
the goodness, through the mercy
00:35:58.99\00:36:00.99
of our Lord and
Savior Jesus Christ.
00:36:01.02\00:36:02.96
Amen and amen. Well, done!
00:36:03.02\00:36:04.89
And I love everyone's
enthusiasm. Pray for me.
00:36:04.93\00:36:08.46
I've got the enthusiasm,
just not the energy to
00:36:08.50\00:36:12.00
deliver the enthusiasm.
00:36:12.03\00:36:13.37
Um, you know, when I think
about... If you think about the
00:36:13.44\00:36:18.34
first Adam, and the
second or last Adam,
00:36:18.37\00:36:22.31
both were representatives of
the human race, were they not?
00:36:22.34\00:36:27.75
So we have Adam, who was
the father of the human race,
00:36:27.78\00:36:32.35
and Christ who represented
all of us on the cross.
00:36:32.39\00:36:34.92
So certainly what Christ
came to do was to undo what
00:36:34.96\00:36:39.79
the first Adam did. Right?
00:36:39.83\00:36:41.50
So my verse for Wednesday
is, the lesson title is,
00:36:41.53\00:36:47.04
From Adam to Moses.
00:36:47.10\00:36:48.90
And the verse
is Romans 5:13, 14.
00:36:48.94\00:36:52.14
So let's just
unpack that as we go.
00:36:52.17\00:36:55.31
He says in Verse 13: For until
the law sin was in the world;
00:36:55.38\00:37:02.65
but sin is not
imputed when there is no law.
00:37:02.68\00:37:07.99
So since the fall, from the very
beginning, since the fall of
00:37:08.02\00:37:11.83
Adam sin, even though we are
not accountable for the original
00:37:11.86\00:37:20.24
sin, original sin had a mortal
effect on earth's inhabitants.
00:37:20.27\00:37:26.31
Well said. Uh huh.
00:37:26.34\00:37:27.68
So the... But it says sin is not
imputed where there is no law.
00:37:27.71\00:37:32.58
The moral law was
known in principle from
00:37:32.61\00:37:35.85
the beginning of time.
00:37:35.92\00:37:37.29
And you can look at Joseph.
00:37:37.32\00:37:38.65
He knew that he shouldn't
lay with Potiphar's wife.
00:37:38.69\00:37:42.89
He said, How can I sin
against my God by doing this?
00:37:42.92\00:37:47.20
So Joseph knew
that this was adultery.
00:37:47.23\00:37:50.43
We think of Jacob when he said,
Okay, you've got to get all of
00:37:50.47\00:37:56.67
the idols out of the camp.
00:37:56.71\00:37:58.04
He knew idols were wrong.
00:37:58.07\00:37:59.41
Sin is the transgression
of God's moral law.
00:37:59.44\00:38:03.31
So the penalty for breaking
it though was not really taken
00:38:03.38\00:38:09.28
into account
until the law of Moses.
00:38:09.32\00:38:12.02
I guess you could say
the physical death was,
00:38:12.05\00:38:14.32
but the full penalty.
00:38:14.36\00:38:15.92
So Verse 14. He says,
Nevertheless death reigned
00:38:15.96\00:38:20.16
from Adam to Moses,...
From creation to Mount Sinai.
00:38:20.23\00:38:24.27
...even over those who had not
sinned according to the likeness
00:38:24.30\00:38:28.87
of the transgression of Adam,
who is a type... Adam... who is
00:38:28.90\00:38:35.04
a type of Him... Of
Christ ... who was to come.
00:38:35.08\00:38:39.51
So the contrast here between the
first Adam and the last Adam...
00:38:39.58\00:38:46.05
The first Adam
was the counterpart of
00:38:46.12\00:38:48.69
Christ, if you would.
00:38:48.72\00:38:50.06
The last Adam is Jesus Christ.
00:38:50.13\00:38:52.16
And as I said, Adam
represented all of humanity,
00:38:52.19\00:38:56.50
just as Christ did on the cross.
00:38:56.53\00:38:58.57
And because of Adam's death
we were plunged into physical,
00:38:58.60\00:39:04.44
and spiritual death.
00:39:04.47\00:39:06.91
We all inherited not his sin,
but the propensity toward sin,
00:39:06.94\00:39:13.58
and the tendency to sin.
00:39:13.65\00:39:15.35
So Paul said of Adam in 1
Corinthians 15:22 that in Adam
00:39:15.38\00:39:24.16
all die, because Adam was
the head of the human race.
00:39:24.19\00:39:29.36
And that made the race guilty,
and it's in and of itself.
00:39:29.40\00:39:33.37
And sin does something to
mar the image of God in us.
00:39:33.44\00:39:38.71
So we lost our peace with
God when we had this kind of
00:39:38.74\00:39:44.05
inherited guilt,
is what I'll say.
00:39:44.08\00:39:46.28
So the last Adam, Jesus Christ,
is the head of the new spiritual
00:39:46.35\00:39:52.35
race, and we're
all made righteous.
00:39:52.39\00:39:54.69
Like I said, He came
to undo what Adam did.
00:39:54.72\00:39:58.26
He restores the
image of God in us,
00:39:58.29\00:40:02.13
and He restores
our peace with God.
00:40:02.16\00:40:06.00
So let's continue reading.
00:40:06.03\00:40:07.87
And, by the way, I just have
to say it was, even in the Old
00:40:07.90\00:40:13.74
Testament times, it wasn't law
that offered the remedy for sin.
00:40:13.78\00:40:19.51
What offered the remedy for sin?
00:40:19.55\00:40:21.38
It's in the Old Testament.
00:40:21.42\00:40:23.75
It was the sacrificial
system that pointed to Christ.
00:40:23.79\00:40:27.86
This... It was grace.
00:40:27.89\00:40:30.09
So its always been
the sacrifice of Jesus.
00:40:30.13\00:40:33.96
And I think, personally, we've
got it a whole lot easier than
00:40:34.00\00:40:41.70
they did to accept
by faith God's grace.
00:40:41.77\00:40:45.67
Because the idea that
slitting a lamb's throat made
00:40:45.74\00:40:51.41
my sins atoned for.
00:40:51.48\00:40:54.72
When you think about
this... Of course they knew
00:40:54.75\00:40:57.02
it pointed to Christ.
00:40:57.05\00:40:58.39
But we actually
have the evidence.
00:40:58.42\00:41:01.42
I mean they were
looking forward to the promise.
00:41:01.46\00:41:03.43
We look back to
His actual coming.
00:41:03.46\00:41:05.86
So now let's look
at Romans 5: 21, 22.
00:41:05.89\00:41:10.87
So here he's saying that...
We just got through saying
00:41:10.93\00:41:15.14
that until the law was in
the world sin was not imputed.
00:41:15.20\00:41:19.37
But in Romans 5:20 and
21, it says, Moreover the law
00:41:19.41\00:41:24.71
entered, that the
offense might abound.
00:41:24.75\00:41:30.25
But where sin abounded,
grace abounded much more.
00:41:30.29\00:41:33.46
God gave the law to show us
His holiness, His character,
00:41:33.52\00:41:40.46
His standards, and it points,
it multiplies in our minds
00:41:40.50\00:41:49.50
somehow, it multiplies
the trespass when we have
00:41:49.54\00:41:54.41
the knowledge of sin.
00:41:54.44\00:41:55.78
I might, because I mean
even, I'm sure, each one of you
00:41:55.81\00:41:59.28
probably experience
this, unless you're much
00:41:59.31\00:42:01.95
further along than I am.
00:42:01.98\00:42:03.32
But even every now and
then I'll be reading something,
00:42:03.39\00:42:05.55
and I'll think,
Ahhh! Oh my, I do that!
00:42:05.59\00:42:09.22
Oh Lord, forgive me!
00:42:09.26\00:42:11.53
It's not until I have the
knowledge of it that I'm going,
00:42:11.56\00:42:16.13
Oh, ouch Lord! I am
disappointing You here.
00:42:16.16\00:42:19.20
So what sin, what the law did
was help us recognize our sin,
00:42:19.23\00:42:27.28
and how great of sinners
we are, but it also highlights
00:42:27.34\00:42:32.18
our need for grace.
00:42:32.21\00:42:33.58
And that was what God wanted
to do is He wanted to say,
00:42:33.62\00:42:36.65
See you can't do this by
yourself, Mollie Sue Steenson.
00:42:36.69\00:42:39.85
You can't do this, Kenny.
00:42:39.89\00:42:42.16
You've got to have My grace.
00:42:42.19\00:42:45.86
And what I love about God
is no matter how deep and wide
00:42:45.89\00:42:51.03
sin is, grace is
deeper, and grace is wider.
00:42:51.07\00:42:54.84
So I just want to take a moment,
and I just have a couple of
00:42:54.87\00:43:00.08
minutes left, but I
have to say this to you,
00:43:00.11\00:43:02.01
somebody who's watching.
00:43:02.04\00:43:03.38
You may feel like, Ah, these
people, yeah, they seem happy.
00:43:03.45\00:43:08.45
They're excited
about this lesson
00:43:08.48\00:43:10.09
because they're Christians.
00:43:10.12\00:43:11.45
They didn't do what I did.
00:43:11.49\00:43:12.95
Maybe you're sitting in prison,
or maybe you have just gone
00:43:12.99\00:43:17.89
through an adulterous
affair, and you think,
00:43:17.93\00:43:19.86
How can God forgive me?
00:43:19.89\00:43:22.46
Maybe you're an elder
of a church and you've done
00:43:22.50\00:43:24.60
something like that.
00:43:24.63\00:43:25.97
Let me tell you something.
00:43:26.00\00:43:27.60
All you have to do is get on
your knees and say, I'm sorry.
00:43:27.64\00:43:33.78
Lord, I'm sorry. I need You.
00:43:33.84\00:43:37.01
All we have to do is
confess our great need of Him.
00:43:37.05\00:43:42.82
And He is... It's just like when
the prodigal son came to his
00:43:42.85\00:43:48.02
senses and returned home.
00:43:48.06\00:43:50.29
The father had
been watching for him,
00:43:50.33\00:43:53.36
praying for him to come in.
00:43:53.40\00:43:55.60
And the Father
represents Christ and God.
00:43:55.63\00:43:58.70
And the father actually broke
into a run, and ran out to greet
00:43:58.73\00:44:04.41
him, which men of the
Middle East did not do.
00:44:04.44\00:44:08.01
It was beneath their dignity.
00:44:08.04\00:44:09.98
But he was so excited
that he ran and he grabbed him.
00:44:10.05\00:44:14.12
And when the son said, Oh,
I'm not worthy of you father.
00:44:14.15\00:44:17.75
I've sinned against you.
00:44:17.79\00:44:19.12
Just let me be a
servant in your house.
00:44:19.15\00:44:20.89
He said to his servants,
No, bring him the robe.
00:44:20.96\00:44:23.83
Bring him the ring, the
signet ring; the authority,
00:44:23.86\00:44:26.80
the robe of righteousness.
00:44:26.83\00:44:28.13
Bring him his sandals.
00:44:28.16\00:44:29.50
Let me kill the fatted calf.
00:44:29.53\00:44:30.97
And that's what God did.
00:44:31.00\00:44:33.50
Now I've got one more minute
to get to the most important
00:44:33.54\00:44:36.17
part of this Scripture here.
00:44:36.20\00:44:38.04
Verse 21, Romans 5:21.
00:44:38.07\00:44:41.11
There's a double
juxtaposition here,
00:44:41.14\00:44:44.15
and I want you to notice this.
00:44:44.21\00:44:46.61
He's going to compare two
totally different things twice.
00:44:46.68\00:44:50.45
He said, So that as sin reigned
in death, even so grace might
00:44:50.49\00:44:56.59
reign through righteousness
to eternal life through
00:44:56.62\00:45:01.16
Jesus Christ our Lord.
00:45:01.20\00:45:03.23
Do you see that
double juxtaposition?
00:45:03.26\00:45:05.40
There's sin and righteousness.
00:45:05.43\00:45:08.20
Those are totally opposite.
00:45:08.24\00:45:10.74
There's death and life.
00:45:10.81\00:45:12.37
So that as sin reigned in
death, even so grace might reign
00:45:12.41\00:45:17.45
through righteousness.
00:45:17.48\00:45:18.81
This is the great
contrast between our sin
00:45:18.85\00:45:22.92
and Christ's obedience.
00:45:22.95\00:45:25.49
What is the wages of sin?
00:45:25.52\00:45:27.06
We've said it over and over.
00:45:27.09\00:45:28.42
So the wages of sin is
death and separation from God.
00:45:28.46\00:45:35.36
Sin has reigned and
separated us from our Creator.
00:45:35.40\00:45:40.44
And when that came into effect,
it caused our end to be a mortal
00:45:40.50\00:45:45.54
one that we would die eternally.
00:45:45.57\00:45:48.94
But Christ dethroned
sin through His blood.
00:45:48.98\00:45:53.05
His
righteousness reigns instead.
00:45:53.08\00:45:57.09
And death can be
overcome through Christ Jesus.
00:45:57.15\00:46:01.99
Eternal life is offered
by Him when we become a new
00:46:02.02\00:46:06.06
creation in Christ.
00:46:06.09\00:46:07.46
Amen! Thank you so
you so much Shelley.
00:46:07.50\00:46:09.63
What a powerful study this week
to see that through Adam's sin,
00:46:09.66\00:46:14.47
through what he did
sin entered the world.
00:46:14.50\00:46:17.91
The consequences
entered the world.
00:46:17.94\00:46:20.18
We live in a world of sin, but
through the Lord Jesus Christ...
00:46:20.21\00:46:23.14
As you said,
Mollie. I love that.
00:46:23.18\00:46:24.55
...the last Adam, we
have the gift and the
00:46:24.58\00:46:27.72
hope of eternal life.
00:46:27.75\00:46:29.08
So praise the Lord for that.
00:46:29.12\00:46:30.49
I have Thursday,
which the lesson calls
00:46:30.52\00:46:32.92
Jesus, the Second Adam.
00:46:32.95\00:46:34.79
But we could call it
Jesus, the Last Adam.
00:46:34.82\00:46:38.46
So let's take a look.
00:46:38.49\00:46:40.00
We're going to look at those
verses, actually that you just
00:46:40.03\00:46:42.56
skipped here,
which is my portion here.
00:46:42.60\00:46:44.87
We're in Romans 5,
starting with verse 15.
00:46:44.90\00:46:50.07
Now as we read this, I want
you to count how many times the
00:46:50.11\00:46:53.64
word gift is
mentioned in this passage.
00:46:53.68\00:46:56.95
But the free gift is
not like the offense...
00:46:57.01\00:47:02.85
The free gift, God's gift of
grace, His death on the cross.
00:47:02.88\00:47:07.82
Because of that it's not like
the offense; the fall of Adam.
00:47:07.86\00:47:11.49
For if by the
one man's offense,...
00:47:11.53\00:47:14.76
Meaning by Adam's sin.
00:47:14.83\00:47:16.30
...many died, much more the
grace of God, and the gift by
00:47:16.33\00:47:22.27
the grace of the one man,
Jesus Christ abounded to many.
00:47:22.30\00:47:27.78
Verse 16. And the gift is
not like that which came through
00:47:27.81\00:47:33.42
the one who sinned.
00:47:33.45\00:47:34.78
Through Adam meaning.
00:47:34.82\00:47:36.69
For the judgment,
which came from one offense,
00:47:36.72\00:47:40.36
resulted in condemnation.
00:47:40.39\00:47:42.36
Meaning when Adam sinned this
whole world was brought under
00:47:42.39\00:47:45.33
that condemnation of the law.
00:47:45.36\00:47:47.83
But the free gift,
which came from many offenses,
00:47:47.86\00:47:52.90
resulted in justification.
00:47:52.93\00:47:55.40
Because of the
last Adam, because of
00:47:55.44\00:47:57.37
the Lord Jesus
Christ, we can be justified.
00:47:57.47\00:48:01.04
Verse 17. For if by
the one man's offense...
00:48:01.08\00:48:04.61
Meaning Adam's sin.
00:48:04.65\00:48:05.98
...death reigned through the
one; much more those who receive
00:48:06.01\00:48:09.88
abundance of grace and of the
gift of righteousness will reign
00:48:09.92\00:48:15.49
in life through
the one, Jesus Christ.
00:48:15.52\00:48:17.86
Verse 18. Therefore, as
through one man's offense...
00:48:17.89\00:48:21.90
We already
mentioned that's Adam's sin.
00:48:21.93\00:48:23.97
...judgment came to all
men resulting in condemnation;
00:48:24.00\00:48:29.30
even so through one man's
righteous act the free gift
00:48:29.34\00:48:34.28
came to all men resulting
in justification of life.
00:48:34.31\00:48:39.11
For as by one man's disobedience
many were made sinners,
00:48:39.15\00:48:43.28
so also by one man's obedience
many will be made righteous.
00:48:43.32\00:48:49.09
Now how many times was
the word gift mentioned there?
00:48:49.12\00:48:51.66
Did anybody count? I got six.
00:48:51.69\00:48:53.03
Six? Absolutely! If you look
in the original Greek it's only
00:48:53.06\00:48:56.67
mentioned five times.
00:48:56.73\00:48:58.07
One of them does not
have that word for gift
00:48:58.10\00:49:00.57
in the original Greek.
00:49:00.60\00:49:02.90
But whether it's five
or six, the point is it's
00:49:02.94\00:49:05.87
mentioned a lot of times.
00:49:05.91\00:49:07.54
And the word for gift in
the Greek is two different
00:49:07.61\00:49:10.38
words mentioned here.
00:49:10.48\00:49:11.81
One is charisma. I hope
I'm saying that correctly.
00:49:11.85\00:49:15.18
And that is a gift of grace.
00:49:15.22\00:49:18.82
An undeserved
favor of free gift.
00:49:18.85\00:49:21.32
That's mentioned twice.
00:49:21.36\00:49:22.69
And in my translation
every time it says free gift,
00:49:22.72\00:49:25.93
that's translated from
the original Greek, charisma,
00:49:25.96\00:49:29.30
meaning that gift of grace.
00:49:29.33\00:49:31.27
The other times the word gift
is mentioned it's doria, doria.
00:49:31.30\00:49:37.21
And that is a
gift without repayment.
00:49:37.24\00:49:39.97
A gift that is freely given.
00:49:40.01\00:49:42.41
And it's interesting, every
time it says, but the free gift,
00:49:42.44\00:49:45.45
meaning Christ's coming,
His death, His substitutionary
00:49:45.48\00:49:49.65
death for you and for I.
00:49:49.68\00:49:51.02
We have the
hope of eternal life.
00:49:51.05\00:49:53.69
Now Paul mentions it
actually many different ways.
00:49:53.76\00:49:56.49
Because I think he's
trying to get his point across.
00:49:56.52\00:49:59.26
He kind of says the same thing
in a little different words
00:49:59.29\00:50:01.96
for several times
through those verses.
00:50:02.00\00:50:03.83
Namely that because of Adam's
sin we were all brought under
00:50:03.87\00:50:07.74
the condemnation or
the curse of the law.
00:50:07.77\00:50:09.57
But because of the Lord
Jesus Christ, the last Adam,
00:50:09.60\00:50:13.24
we all have the hope of eternal
life and that justification.
00:50:13.34\00:50:17.11
I want to look at one thing
in Verse 18, and then we'll jump
00:50:17.15\00:50:20.88
over to 1 Corinthians.
00:50:20.92\00:50:22.25
In Verse 18 it says, Therefore,
as through one man's offense
00:50:22.28\00:50:25.95
judgment came to all men,
resulting in condemnation;
00:50:25.99\00:50:29.19
even so through one man's
righteous act the free gift
00:50:29.22\00:50:33.26
came to all men resulting
in justification of life.
00:50:33.36\00:50:36.33
Now in Deuteronomy 27, 27
and 28, we have the law of
00:50:36.36\00:50:41.20
blessing and cursing.
00:50:41.24\00:50:42.57
Remember when they were on
the mount, and there was the law
00:50:42.60\00:50:44.51
of blessing and cursing.
00:50:44.54\00:50:45.87
If you do these things
blessings will attend upon you.
00:50:45.91\00:50:49.61
Or if you disobey, and
don't obey, these curses
00:50:49.64\00:50:53.95
will come upon you.
00:50:53.98\00:50:55.32
They call that the
Deuteronomic... I don't know if
00:50:55.35\00:50:57.82
I'm pronouncing that right.
00:50:57.85\00:50:59.19
... Deuteronimic principle.
00:50:59.22\00:51:00.76
Which is really
the law in Galatians 6.
00:51:00.79\00:51:02.92
It's what Mollie
always talks about.
00:51:02.96\00:51:04.33
The law of sewing and reaping.
00:51:04.36\00:51:05.73
If we sew to the flesh we will
of the flesh reap corruption.
00:51:05.76\00:51:08.83
If we sew to the
Spirit we will of the Spirit
00:51:08.86\00:51:11.27
reap life everlasting.
00:51:11.30\00:51:12.80
You think about
the sin of Achan.
00:51:12.83\00:51:14.74
That's an example of
one man's sin brought curse,
00:51:14.80\00:51:19.31
you could say destruction, upon
the entire encampment of Israel.
00:51:19.34\00:51:23.91
When they went out to the
Battle of Ai, what happened?
00:51:23.95\00:51:26.15
They were defeated
because of one man's sin.
00:51:26.18\00:51:28.95
That's an example as
what happened with Adam
00:51:28.98\00:51:31.59
when his sin, and sin
entered the whole world.
00:51:31.65\00:51:34.22
We won't turn there, but in
Numbers 25 you have the story of
00:51:34.26\00:51:38.09
Baalpeor, when remember, Balaam
was supposed to curse Israel,
00:51:38.13\00:51:44.70
and instead he
ended up blessing Israel.
00:51:44.73\00:51:46.53
So he tried to get the
Moabite women to come in and to
00:51:46.57\00:51:50.17
intermingle and bring in
some destruction into the camp
00:51:50.24\00:51:56.04
just because of compromise.
00:51:56.08\00:51:58.15
Because of their association
with the other nations.
00:51:58.18\00:52:00.42
And at that time
Phineas stood up and he...
00:52:00.45\00:52:05.22
It's kind of a gruesome story.
00:52:05.29\00:52:06.62
But he actually slew someone.
00:52:06.65\00:52:08.39
And because of his action in
doing that, one of the people
00:52:08.42\00:52:12.09
who was bringing
the sin into the camp,
00:52:12.13\00:52:14.46
God stayed the plague that
was coming against the people.
00:52:14.50\00:52:17.33
So you see through one
man's righteous act a good came.
00:52:17.37\00:52:20.90
Now we see obviously,
because of Adam's sin...
00:52:20.94\00:52:23.10
Those are just examples.
00:52:23.14\00:52:24.47
But because of
Adam's sin we see that great
00:52:24.51\00:52:26.21
condemnation that came.
00:52:26.24\00:52:27.58
And because of Jesus we
have that righteousness,
00:52:27.61\00:52:30.21
that hope of eternal life.
00:52:30.25\00:52:31.65
Let's look at two
Scriptures real quickly.
00:52:31.71\00:52:33.68
Let's look at 1 Corinthians 15.
00:52:33.78\00:52:35.95
And I think
Pastor Kenny and Shelley,
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you both referenced this.
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1 Corinthians 15:21, 22.
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For since by man came
death, ... Meaning by Adam.
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...by man also came the
resurrection of the dead.
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For as in Adam all
die, even so in Christ all
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shall be made alive.
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And let's jump over to Verse 42.
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So also is the
resurrection of the dead.
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The body is sown in corruption,
it is raised in incorruption.
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It is sown in dishonor, it is
raised in glory: it is sown in
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weakness, it is raised in power:
It is sown a natural body,
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it is raised a spiritual body.
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There is a natural body,
and there is a spiritual body.
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Now we come to the point 45.
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And so it is written, the first
man Adam became a living being;
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Remember when God breathed
the breath of life into him
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he became a living being.
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The last Adam, Jesus Christ,
became a life giving spirit.
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Adam was natural;
Christ is spiritual.
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Adam was living, but
Christ is life giving.
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46. However the spiritual is
not first, but the natural;...
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Meaning Adam came first.
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... and afterward the spiritual.
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The first man was of the earth,
made of dust: the second man is
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the Lord from heaven.
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Now in the remaining
time I have I just want
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to do a contrast here: the
first Adam with the last Adam.
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The first Adam was
the ruler of creation.
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He was given dominion
by God in the garden of
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Eden over the creation.
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The last Adam, Jesus Christ,
Colossians 1:15, Christ is the
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image of the invisible God, the
first born over all creation,
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author and
finisher of our faith.
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He says, If anyone is in
Christ, you are a new creation.
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The first Adam lost
his crown and gained death.
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The last Adam, Jesus Christ,
was crowned because He tasted
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death for every man.
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He was made like his brother,
so that by his death he might
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destroy him who holds the power
of death. That is the Devil.
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That's from Hebrews.
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The first Adam, sin and death
entered the world through him.
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By the obedience
of the last Adam life
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abounds to you and to me.
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God breathed into
Adam the breath of life.
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Jesus, John 20:22, breathed
on His disciples and said,
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Receive you the Holy Ghost.
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As in Adam all
die... We read this already.
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So in Christ all
shall be made alive.
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Adam came from dust; Jesus came
from heaven. 1 Corinthians 15:57
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Adam was called out out hiding.
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Remember after sin
he went into hiding.
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He was called out of hiding.
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Jesus calls us by name.
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We hear His voice and
we follow Him. John 10.
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We bear the
likeness of the first Adam;
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created in his likeness.
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But in the resurrection we will
all bear the likeness of the
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last Adam, the
Lord Jesus Christ.
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Praise the Lord! You
know, again that's how
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powerful this lesson is.
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There's so much to it that
we could just dig, and dig,
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and dig, and go over,
and over, and still pull out
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some beautiful gems.
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So a minute and a half is all we
have left right here; quick gem,
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quick thought from
each one of you right quick.
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If we could do
that. So right here.
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Oh, go ahead, Shelley.
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I just wanted to say, what you
just said tells me that all of
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us should... It's not like...
The Bible's not a book that you
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just read from
cover to cover once.
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You can study the Bible for
all of your life and still be
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learning more and new things.
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And anything as rich as the
book of Romans is incredible.
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I'm so glad that Christ's blood
covers all sin; Adam's sin,
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my sins, and the sin of
everyone who comes to Him.
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And that's the message that is
drawn again, and again, again,
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and again, and again in Romans.
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It may be the most
important message in the world.
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Amen! Yes it is. Jill.
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Oh, I just want to make an
appeal to you to make a choice
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to accept the Lord Jesus Christ.
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Praise God that
He is the last Adam.
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That we have that hope,
that opportunity of spending
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eternal life with Him.
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And while you were yet
sinners Christ died for you.
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And now you have an opportunity
to be in right relationship.
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Accept that last Adam.
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Amen! You know
how wonderful that is?
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Grace abounded more.
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Yeah, isn't that just beautiful
to think about right now?
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The appeal goes out;
Jesus has His arms outstretched.
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He wants you in the kingdom.
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You know, heaven won't be the
same if one of you are missing.
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When one is missing it
will never be the same.
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So let's make sure we're there.
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Let's make sure that we
made that decision for Christ.
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Accept His righteousness,
and I guarantee you
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by His grace we will be there.
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God bless you!
Thanks for joining us.
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See you next time. Amen!
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