I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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I want to spend my life
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Removing pain
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Lord, let my words
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Heal a heart that hurts
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I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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Hello, I'm Shelley Quinn.
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And we're so glad
that you're joining us
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for 3ABN Today.
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This hour will be a Bible forum,
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we will be talking on the
topic of Righteousness by Faith
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and we invite you
to get your Bible,
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get a pen, and paper.
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And if you're not sure
what Righteousness by Faith is,
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we hope you'll be
certain by the end of the hour.
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Let me read to you a
scripture from Galatians 3:6-7.
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Actually, I think I'm
going to begin in verse 5.
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And Paul writes and says,
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"Therefore He who
supplies the Spirit to you,
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and works miracles among you,
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does He do it by
the works of the law,
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or by the hearing of faith?"
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Then he says, "Just
as Abraham 'believed God,
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and it was accounted
to him for righteousness.'
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Therefore know that
only those who are of faith
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are sons of Abraham.'"
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What is he saying?
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Righteousness by Faith
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is the only kind of
righteousness there is.
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Let me introduce our
two special guests today
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and you are special
guests, but you're no stranger,
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so I have my pastor here.
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Amen.
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Pastor John Lomacang,
thank you so much for coming.
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Excited about this topic. Oh.
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It's a tremendous one
that people need to know.
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Amen.
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Especially, those
that live in harmony
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with the Commandments of God
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and we'll find out
how that's happening.
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Absolutely.
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And then we have
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Pastor John
Dinzey with us as well.
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And you are the
General Manager El Hefe
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of the 3ABN Latino Network.
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So glad you're both here.
It's a blessing to be here.
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And I'm looking
forward to the discussion
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that we will be having
on this wonderful topic.
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You know, when they
asked me to do this,
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right before the weekend,
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it was like what we do
and that's the first topic
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that came to my mind
is Righteousness by Faith.
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And it was a busy weekend,
we really haven't had time.
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You know,
actually, many people think
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that we plan
everything we do up here,
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never told that's
ever really ever happens,
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but we haven't had a
chance to discuss this.
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We just trust
that the Lord's leading
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in the same way.
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And, Johnny, would you
have an opening prayer for us?
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Sure. Let's go to
the Lord in prayer.
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Our loving heavenly Father,
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we are grateful and thankful
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that You have blessed
us with this opportunity
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to share of
this wonderful topic,
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Righteousness by Faith.
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Yes, Lord.
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We pray that Your
Holy Spirit will be upon us
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that we will share those things
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which will bring
You honor and glory
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and will be a
blessing to Your children
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all over the world.
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We pray that as we discuss this,
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we will be drawn close to You.
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And we pray for a
blessing upon all.
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We asked You for these things
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in Jesus' holy and blessed name.
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Amen. Amen.
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Thank you, Father.
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All right, before we really jump
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into defining
Righteousness by Faith,
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let's kind of break it apart.
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What does the
word righteousness mean
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when God's Word
talks about righteousness?
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How do you define righteousness?
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I think righteousness
could be defined very simply,
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it is the
complete character of God.
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That's good.
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It's the
complete character of God,
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the unfaltering, the inerrant,
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the flawless character of God
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is righteousness,
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which means it
doesn't belong to any of us.
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Amen.
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So righteousness,
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if you look at a
definition, this is perfect.
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I love your definition
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'cause we're
gonna tie into that.
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Righteousness is a state
of right being, right doing,
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right standing with God.
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So as you said,
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there's only one who
makes that qualification.
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Who's ever walked on the
earth and who would that be?
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Jesus. Jesus Christ.
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So righteousness is
the character of Christ.
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We could say righteousness
is a person, really.
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Now what about faith?
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How would you define faith?
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I would like to go
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a little more
into righteousness.
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Sure.
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You know, I looked it up
on the regular dictionary,
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and it says
being morally correct.
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Yes.
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And really righteousness
is right doing, doing right.
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And I have a
scripture that I like to share
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from Psalm 119:172.
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Psalm 119:172.
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And these are the
words I find there.
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"My tongue shall
speak of Your word,
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for all Your
commandments are righteousness."
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So we have here
the scriptures tell us
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that the Commandments
of God are righteousness,
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and really, this is
the way you can say.
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What verse you said, Psalm 119?
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Psalm 119:172.
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172. I'm in 72, that's why.
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This is the way that
righteousness is defined,
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doing right,
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and the law of God
helps us to understand
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what righteousness is.
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That's good. That's good.
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Okay, so there's only one
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who's ever perfectly
kept the Commandments of God.
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And that was the
Last Adam, Jesus Christ
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who was born to
us here on earth.
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And we kind of have an idea
of now what righteousness is,
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let's just
establish something for faith.
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How would we define faith?
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Well, outside of the
Hebrews 11:1 definition
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which, you know, it
even responds with saying,
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faith is, and so it
doesn't even give any room
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for speculation
says faith is, you know,
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the substance of things hoped
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for the evidence
of things not seen.
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But also I'd
like to add to that,
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faith is the only
walk that we can have
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in order to know
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by Christ's righteousness
that we are walking
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in His
righteousness is by faith,
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it's a transaction of faith
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'cause we can't see the
transaction taking place.
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But when we
accept His righteousness,
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then all of a sudden,
the just shall live by faith.
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And you can't be just except
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He imputes His righteousness
to us, justification,
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then imparts His righteousness
to us, sanctification,
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so our whole walk
is a walk of faith
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because we
haven't seen it happen.
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So can we bring this
down to a fifth grade level?
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Can we say that
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faith in
essence is trusting God?
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Oh, yeah.
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Trust is the
foundation for faith, isn't it?
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I believe that's,
perhaps these, like you said,
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for someone to easily understand
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faith is trust
and perfect confidence
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in something or someone.
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Okay, so we understand
what righteousness is,
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and where we're just gonna
say righteousness is a person,
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faith is trusting in God.
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So when the Bible talks
about righteousness by faith,
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you've already
introduced those two terms.
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Let's talk about what
is righteousness by faith?
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When we say
imputed righteousness
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and I believe the word imputed
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is I know is used
in the scriptures.
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I don't think we find
the word imparted is implied.
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But when we talk about
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the justification by
faith that's imputed.
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What is that word imputed mean?
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That means I had a
debt I couldn't pay.
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And somebody paid it.
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Fifth grade. Fifth grade.
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Exactly.
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I had a debt I could never pay.
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And Jesus paid it.
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And is, you know,
I like to think of,
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if you're a visual person,
think of your bank account.
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Here, I've got a bank
account that's overdrawn.
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So far, like you said, I
could never pay this debt.
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And actually what
happened in an accounting sense,
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imputed means that
Christ's righteousness
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is taken from His
account and deposited into mine,
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to bring me to that point,
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that I mean, He
reconciled my account,
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if you will
reconciled me to God.
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And when He
imputed His righteousness,
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He deposited His
righteousness into my account.
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It's really an accounting
term, isn't it, imputed?
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Right.
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And the text that
emphasizes this whole,
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the debt that we could never pay
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is Ephesians 2:8-9,
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and it's a very
familiar passage.
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It brings in another
component of righteousness
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which is God's grace,
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"For by grace you
are saved through faith,
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and that not of yourselves,
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it is the gift of
God, not of works,
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lest anyone should boast."
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To expand a little further here,
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one of the reasons
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why I think this
topic is so really important
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is because as a people
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that honor the
Commandments of God,
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The Ten Commandments
of God and, you know,
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you're one of the
authors of the book,
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Ten Commandments Twice Removed.
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As a people
Seventh-day Adventist Movement
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that honors and recognizes
the validity of the law of God,
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The Ten Commandments. Amen.
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We're not talking
about the ceremonial laws,
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and we're not
talking about feasts,
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but we honor the
validity and we recognize
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how important The Ten
Commandments of God is.
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It's a
transcript of His character.
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One of the
challenges we face is that
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there are people that might say,
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you can't keep the law,
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and in fact, they are correct
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because how can in it,
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how can a corrupt
person live in harmony
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with an incorruptible law?
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Paul made it clear
in Romans Chapter 7,
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he says, "The law is holy."
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The law is holy,
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the commandment
holy, just and good.
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He says, "But I am
carnal, sold unto sin."
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And so he says,
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"I know what that is,
but I know what I am."
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And so he looks
at this perfect law
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from the vantage
point of an imperfect man.
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And then he concludes,
"O wretched man that I am!
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Who'll deliver me from
the body of this death?"
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So Paul looks at
the inability of man
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to live in harmony
with the law of God.
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But then he introduces
where the power comes from,
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in Romans Chapter 8.
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And so here we are.
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One of the challenges
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and there's the term that I was,
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I mean, I like to
read and there's a...
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Recently I was reading
in Oswald Chambers' Devotion
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that talked about
gracious uncertainty,
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gracious uncertainty.
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Now the Jews,
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and I'm talking
about the Jewish leaders
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had an arrogant certainty.
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They had an arrogant certainty.
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That's why they
locked everybody else out.
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They thought that
they kept the law,
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the law was for them.
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They kept the law,
even the rich young ruler
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came to Christ and said,
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"I've kept that
since I was a young man.
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So what's the problem?"
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And he challenged
him where he was lacking,
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and that is
compassion for others.
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So for those of us who
honor the Commandments of God,
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in particularly
highlight the Sabbath,
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there's a tendency
and this has happened
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in our denomination.
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There's a tendency by some
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who when a person
comes in from the outside,
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we often deal with them
as a commandment breaker
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because we see
ourselves as commandment keeper,
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when that's arrogance certainty.
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Yes, good.
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We should have
gracious certainty,
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not gracious uncertainty,
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which is a
different topic altogether.
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I'm working on
the sermon for that,
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you'll hear about that later on.
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But we should have
a gracious certainty,
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which is this.
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The certainty is in
Christ's righteousness.
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Amen.
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Not in our own
because if it was in our own
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we could boast and say,
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I've done that
since I was a young man,
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what's the problem?
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Yeah. What do I need to do?
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What else do I
need to do to be saved?
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So a lot of times people look
at Seventh-day Adventist, says,
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those who keep the law
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or make other people
feel like they are surely lost
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because they don't keep the law.
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Well, there is a happy medium,
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there's a difference
between arrogant certainty
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and complete neglect.
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And so you could neglect
the law of God and be lost.
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But on the other side,
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you could be so
sure you're keeping it
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and still be lost.
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Amen.
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So that's where the
righteousness of Christ
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comes in.
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So we know that
the Bible tells us
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that we are
saved by grace alone,
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not of works that
any man should boast.
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And, you know what,
we have to be careful.
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I have to be careful, we all do.
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Is that because we do believe
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and we're gonna get
into that in a moment
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on what purpose
does the law serve?
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What purpose do works serve?
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If we are saved by grace alone,
by righteousness, by faith,
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then how does
the law work in here,
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but we have to be so
cautious that you can say,
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yes, I understand
righteousness by faith,
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I understand that
it's Christ's righteousness
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credited to my account.
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But if I've got to
keep these Commandments too
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'cause I got to save myself.
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So some people end up
making it grace plus works.
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The Bible's
clear, it is grace alone.
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That's right.
Grace through faith.
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Grace through faith,
through trusting in God.
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Johnny, you look
like you're bursting.
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Well, you know, you have
people approaching the Lord,
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when they have a
need, a petition, a request.
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And sometimes they go
back and they're like,
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well, I'm doing A, B,
C, and D, and E, F, and G.
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Yes.
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The Lord is gonna bless
me because I am doing this,
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this, and this, and this.
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But Jesus didn't say,
you're gonna get these things
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because you're
doing A, B, C, D, E, F, G,
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whatever these things are
in your mind that you say,
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I've done these things. So
the Lord is gonna bless me.
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Because Jesus says,
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"Ask,
believing, ask and believe,
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believe in the Lord."
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We're talking
about faith, trust,
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believe in the Lord,
confidence in the Lord.
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But when we look,
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if we ever come to
the point of thinking
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that the way we are
living is going to earn us,
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or that we have a
title, or a right to salvation,
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we are, we have
entered into the description
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given in Revelation 3.
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Yes.
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Of the people that
say, you know, I am rich,
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and increased with
goods, I have need of nothing.
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When in reality we are blind,
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miserable, poor,
and wretched, and naked,
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the Bible says when
it talks about naked
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it's not talking
about just regular clothing,
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it's talking about the justice
and righteousness of Christ.
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Amen.
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We are destitute
of righteousness.
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And that's why I
like to read this,
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Isaiah 64:6, which I know,
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you both having notes I'm sure.
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Absolutely. Of our conditions.
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He says in Isaiah
64:6, "But we are all,"
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that's including
everybody, I don't know,
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if anyone listening is thinking,
00:16:26.11\00:16:27.65
"Oh, I'm not part of it."
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I'm not part of all.
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"But we are all
like an unclean thing,
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and all our righteousness
are as filthy rags.
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We are all fade as a
leaf, and our iniquities
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are, like the wind,
have taken us away."
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So our righteousness,
the very best that we can do,
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is like filthy
rags before the Lord.
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Because nothing that we can do
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is will be of sufficient to say,
00:16:54.18\00:16:56.38
oh, while you have done
all these marvelous things,
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you have a right to be saved.
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No, it is all the grace,
the righteousness of Christ,
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by grace are we
saved through faith,
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not of ourselves.
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It is the gift of God.
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And we're talking
again, Ephesians Chapter 3.
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And so we were gonna
emphasize this over and over,
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it says, it is Christ.
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It is His righteousness
that allows us, blesses us
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with the
opportunities for salvation.
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You know what I think?
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I think it is hard for mankind,
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for our pride to
submit to the idea
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that there's
nothing that we can do
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to save ourself.
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I think that, you know,
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that's why so many
people have problems
00:17:39.85\00:17:41.82
with righteousness by faith,
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is they think, well, you know,
00:17:43.83\00:17:46.73
I'm so much
better than so and so
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because I do this, I
tithe, then I go, you know,
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I eat a vegan diet, I do that.
00:17:51.83\00:17:54.34
But what you
just read Isaiah 64:6,
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shows us that nothing,
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nothing we can do
can save ourselves.
00:18:01.74\00:18:07.52
It is a gift of God
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not of works
that any should boast.
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Christ is our righteousness.
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And the only thing you can do,
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I'm not gonna say
there's nothing you can do.
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You know what
God requires of you
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that day by day
00:18:21.43\00:18:23.57
you really can't even
surrender by yourself.
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But day by day,
00:18:26.53\00:18:27.87
you go before the Lord
and say, Lord, I need You.
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And I invite You into my life.
00:18:31.34\00:18:34.94
Please work Your
will in my life today.
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And then the righteousness
we have to trust God
00:18:38.11\00:18:41.85
and believe the
righteousness of faith is ours.
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And we're gonna get,
don't, if you're at home saying,
00:18:46.42\00:18:49.02
wait a minute, wait a minute,
the Bible talks of works,
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we're gonna get to
that in just a moment.
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But before we do,
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John, did you have something
you wanted to add right there?
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Yeah, I do.
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And I'm so glad
you brought that up
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because what I was gonna
do is show us our condition.
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You know, we're not
only is our righteousness
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like filthy rags,
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there's none who does good.
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That's right.
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All have sinned and fall
short of the glory of God.
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You know, we are all in
this hopeless condition.
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Even when we think we're right,
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we are wretched, miserable,
poor, blind, and naked.
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We are unaware of our condition.
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And then finally,
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even our heart is deceitful
and desperately wicked.
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Amen.
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That's our hopeless
condition we find ourselves in.
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But here's one
of the major reasons
00:19:27.83\00:19:29.56
why we can never boast
about our righteousness
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even as Christians because,
you know, Paul in Romans 7:17,
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he talked about the
futility of his condition.
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He says, when he looked
at his sinful condition,
00:19:37.31\00:19:40.11
and when he
looked at being grabbed,
00:19:40.18\00:19:41.51
and embraced, and
handcuffed by sin,
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he said, it is no
longer I who do it
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but sin that dwells in me.
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Amen.
00:19:47.78\00:19:49.12
He recognized,
I'm captured by sin,
00:19:49.15\00:19:50.49
I don't even have
the right to say no
00:19:50.52\00:19:51.85
because sin is
now controlling me
00:19:51.89\00:19:53.22
and doing
whatever it wants to do.
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But he went from it
is no longer I who do it,
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but sin that dwells in me,
00:19:58.13\00:20:00.00
to submitting to Christ,
dying to self, and saying,
00:20:00.03\00:20:04.00
it is no longer I who live
but Christ who lives in me.
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Absolutely. Amen.
00:20:06.47\00:20:07.80
So here's the
point, if you don't live,
00:20:07.84\00:20:09.27
this is a powerful here,
this is a powerful concept.
00:20:09.30\00:20:14.38
Death to self is a prerequisite,
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is an imperative prerequisite,
00:20:18.91\00:20:22.62
to accepting the
righteousness of Jesus.
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Amen.
00:20:25.35\00:20:26.69
Death to self is an
imperative prerequisite.
00:20:26.76\00:20:30.23
You've got to
admit your condition
00:20:30.26\00:20:32.29
before you can even hope to find
00:20:32.33\00:20:34.96
aid outside of yourself.
00:20:35.00\00:20:37.47
Because if we look
at ourselves and say,
00:20:37.50\00:20:39.27
as the New Age
says, as Buddhism,
00:20:39.30\00:20:42.90
as many of these
Eastern religions say,
00:20:42.94\00:20:46.01
Oh, look within
yourself, and you'll find peace.
00:20:46.04\00:20:48.68
You know, if I
look within myself,
00:20:48.71\00:20:50.08
I find.
00:20:50.15\00:20:51.75
Anything but.
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What do you find?
00:20:53.15\00:20:54.48
We know that we can't look
in ourselves and find anything.
00:20:54.52\00:20:56.92
The only hope for us
is to get rid of a mirror.
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Yeah. And the law of God.
00:21:00.09\00:21:01.89
That's why many people
want to get rid of God's law.
00:21:01.92\00:21:04.03
It's a mirror,
Shelley. Yes. Absolutely.
00:21:04.06\00:21:06.06
That shows us our condition.
00:21:06.09\00:21:07.43
So let's establish one
thing, one, we are wretched,
00:21:07.50\00:21:09.86
we can't save ourselves,
we are unrighteous, we're not.
00:21:09.90\00:21:12.13
But there's
nothing good about us.
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We can on our best day
earn his righteousness.
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Secondly, to expand it.
00:21:18.11\00:21:22.41
There's nothing
wrong with God's law.
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Okay, there's nothing
wrong with The Ten Commandments.
00:21:24.68\00:21:27.02
The problem is us.
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But then thirdly,
00:21:28.55\00:21:30.59
since the
Commandments of God are perfect,
00:21:30.62\00:21:33.46
ready for bulletin,
they can't even save us.
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That's right.
00:21:35.79\00:21:37.13
The commandments,
00:21:37.16\00:21:38.49
there's nothing wrong with them,
00:21:38.53\00:21:39.86
but they can't save us.
00:21:39.89\00:21:41.23
Can I read this quick text?
00:21:41.26\00:21:42.60
Sure. Look at this.
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And Paul in Galatians
makes this very clear,
00:21:44.00\00:21:45.93
Galatians 2:21.
00:21:45.97\00:21:50.11
Because, you know,
00:21:50.14\00:21:51.47
"For by grace are we
saved through faith."
00:21:51.51\00:21:52.84
Ephesians 2:8-9.
00:21:52.87\00:21:54.34
But Paul says in Galatians 2:21,
00:21:54.38\00:21:56.85
"I do not set aside
the grace of God," I can't,
00:21:56.88\00:22:00.52
for if righteousness
comes through the law,
00:22:00.55\00:22:03.59
then Christ died in vain."
00:22:03.62\00:22:05.15
Absolutely.
00:22:05.19\00:22:06.52
So while we're
saying we're having a,
00:22:06.55\00:22:08.56
you know, we talked
about The Ten Commandments
00:22:08.59\00:22:09.92
book you wrote Ten
Commandments Twice Removed,
00:22:09.96\00:22:11.29
we've had a couple of
Ten Commandments Weekends.
00:22:11.33\00:22:13.53
And where we've talked about,
00:22:13.60\00:22:15.16
you know, 14 sermons
on The Ten Commandments.
00:22:15.20\00:22:17.63
Whenever I hear Ten
Commandments Weekend,
00:22:17.67\00:22:19.30
I wanna jump up and say,
00:22:19.33\00:22:21.04
"Wait, wait, wait,
00:22:21.07\00:22:22.44
as we're going
through The Ten Commandments,
00:22:22.47\00:22:24.01
can we say we can't keep them?"
00:22:24.04\00:22:26.17
Yeah.
00:22:26.21\00:22:27.58
Can somebody say
00:22:27.61\00:22:29.31
we can't keep
them apart from Christ?
00:22:29.34\00:22:32.48
So, John, the requisite
you talked about a moment ago.
00:22:32.51\00:22:35.28
Here it is, real quickly.
00:22:35.32\00:22:36.69
You said, there's
nothing we could do
00:22:36.72\00:22:38.05
to earn the grace of
God or His blessings.
00:22:38.09\00:22:40.06
That's correct.
00:22:40.09\00:22:41.42
But here's a quandary in that.
00:22:41.46\00:22:42.79
1 John 3:22,
00:22:42.82\00:22:45.09
"Whatever we ask
we receive from Him,
00:22:45.13\00:22:48.13
because we keep His commandments
00:22:48.16\00:22:49.83
and do those things
00:22:49.86\00:22:51.23
that are pleasing in His sight."
00:22:51.27\00:22:52.60
Now you have to ask
yourself the question,
00:22:52.63\00:22:53.97
didn't you just say
00:22:54.04\00:22:55.37
you can't keep the
Commandments of God?
00:22:55.40\00:22:56.74
Well, now,
Shelley, this is a bridge
00:22:56.77\00:22:58.11
between human
ability and God's enabling's.
00:22:58.14\00:23:01.48
Amen.
00:23:01.51\00:23:02.84
When He comes in,
00:23:02.88\00:23:04.25
I can do all
things through Christ
00:23:04.28\00:23:05.61
who strengthens me.
00:23:05.65\00:23:06.98
So when I'm void of,
00:23:07.02\00:23:08.35
when I'm empty of
Christ, I am lost.
00:23:08.38\00:23:10.49
But when I'm filled with Christ,
00:23:10.52\00:23:12.55
that's where His
enabling's come in,
00:23:12.59\00:23:14.69
and this text now has validity
00:23:14.72\00:23:20.50
when I asked the
Lord for His blessings.
00:23:20.53\00:23:22.93
Yeah.
00:23:22.96\00:23:24.30
I wanted to add
Romans 3:20. Yes.
00:23:24.33\00:23:27.04
That goes right
with what you're saying.
00:23:27.07\00:23:28.44
When Paul says,
00:23:28.47\00:23:29.80
"Therefore by
the deeds of the law
00:23:29.84\00:23:31.44
no flesh will be
justified in His sight,
00:23:31.47\00:23:36.78
for by the law
knowledge of sin is known,
00:23:36.85\00:23:41.98
by the law is the
knowledge of sin."
00:23:42.02\00:23:44.32
So the law can't change us.
00:23:44.35\00:23:48.79
The law shows us
our need to change.
00:23:48.82\00:23:52.33
The law can't save us.
00:23:52.36\00:23:55.46
It shows us our
need for a savior.
00:23:55.50\00:23:59.93
And if you could just
get this in your mind that,
00:23:59.97\00:24:06.54
you know, you
were talking about,
00:24:06.57\00:24:07.98
let's look at Romans 8
00:24:08.01\00:24:09.41
because you said death
to self is a prerequisite.
00:24:09.44\00:24:13.52
Guess what?
00:24:13.55\00:24:14.88
I can't even die to
myself without the grace of God.
00:24:14.92\00:24:18.65
All I can do in...
00:24:18.69\00:24:21.39
Trust me, anytime I
get off of this path.
00:24:21.42\00:24:24.06
If I know that when I
get up in the morning,
00:24:24.13\00:24:27.13
and I'll just say,
Lord, "Here am I, I need you.
00:24:27.20\00:24:31.33
I wanna rely on
You today, guide me,
00:24:31.37\00:24:34.47
let Your will
be done in my life.
00:24:34.50\00:24:36.20
Take my heart
for I can't give it."
00:24:36.24\00:24:38.57
Romans 8:13 says this,
00:24:38.61\00:24:43.75
"If you live
according to the flesh,"
00:24:43.78\00:24:48.18
what's gonna happen? You'll die.
00:24:48.22\00:24:49.65
Die. "You will die."
00:24:49.68\00:24:51.02
And He's talking
about the second death here.
00:24:51.05\00:24:54.29
"But if by the
Spirit you put to death
00:24:54.32\00:25:01.06
the misdeeds of the
body, you will live."
00:25:01.10\00:25:04.57
Now look at that
scripture, "If by the Spirit,"
00:25:04.60\00:25:08.47
what is the force?
00:25:08.50\00:25:09.94
What is the power?
00:25:10.01\00:25:11.34
What is the motivating energy?
00:25:11.37\00:25:15.08
It's the Holy Spirit.
00:25:15.11\00:25:17.71
So "If by the Spirit
00:25:17.75\00:25:20.62
you put to death
the deeds of the body."
00:25:20.65\00:25:23.89
It is only as I
trust God to work in me.
00:25:23.92\00:25:29.22
You know,
00:25:29.26\00:25:30.63
when He says Luke 9:23
pick up your cross daily
00:25:30.66\00:25:33.40
and we're supposed to be
dying to self-day by day.
00:25:33.43\00:25:37.00
You know, what I
used to drive myself crazy
00:25:37.07\00:25:39.10
trying to die to self.
00:25:39.13\00:25:40.47
I used to think, oh,
Lord, what's wrong with me,
00:25:40.54\00:25:42.27
I can't do.
00:25:42.30\00:25:43.84
I can't do it by myself though.
00:25:43.91\00:25:45.34
It has to be me cooperating
with the Spirit to saying.
00:25:45.37\00:25:50.65
lead me by Your good
spirit, teach me Your ways.
00:25:50.68\00:25:54.02
And as we surrender that control
00:25:54.05\00:25:57.32
to the Holy Spirit,
00:25:57.39\00:25:59.25
I can't crucify,
00:25:59.29\00:26:00.66
I can't nail my
own hands on there.
00:26:00.69\00:26:03.12
So... I like that.
00:26:03.16\00:26:04.49
You can't nail
yourself to the cross.
00:26:04.53\00:26:05.86
No!
00:26:05.89\00:26:07.23
So even death to self,
yes, it's a prerequisite,
00:26:07.30\00:26:10.10
but it's a gift from God.
00:26:10.17\00:26:12.10
That's right.
Everything's a gift from God.
00:26:12.13\00:26:13.64
It is goodness of God
that leads us to repent.
00:26:13.67\00:26:15.67
Amen. That's
right. That's right.
00:26:15.70\00:26:17.41
So we as individuals
00:26:17.44\00:26:19.77
must all come to
the point of choosing
00:26:19.81\00:26:23.35
'cause you're
talking about choice.
00:26:23.38\00:26:24.71
Yes. Yes.
00:26:24.75\00:26:26.08
Choosing to die to self
because that's what Paul says,
00:26:26.11\00:26:29.12
I have been
crucified with Christ,
00:26:29.15\00:26:31.82
he made a choice, a decision.
00:26:31.85\00:26:34.42
And like you said, we
can't do it on our own.
00:26:34.46\00:26:38.83
God is so good.
00:26:38.86\00:26:40.73
It is through His Holy
Spirit that awakens in us,
00:26:40.80\00:26:44.27
we see ourselves and we say,
00:26:44.30\00:26:46.97
wait a minute,
00:26:47.04\00:26:48.50
I am a wicked
person, a sinful person.
00:26:48.54\00:26:51.44
And the condition
that we find ourselves in,
00:26:51.47\00:26:54.28
has no other
solution, but to say,
00:26:54.31\00:26:57.25
Lord, save me
00:26:57.28\00:26:58.65
like Peter when he
was drowning in the water,
00:26:58.68\00:27:00.42
Lord, save me,
00:27:00.45\00:27:01.78
when we understand
that Jesus is the only way.
00:27:01.82\00:27:05.15
And like the Bible
says in Acts 4:12, it says,
00:27:05.19\00:27:09.59
"There's
salvation in no other name,"
00:27:09.62\00:27:13.29
including your name.
00:27:13.33\00:27:15.33
"There's
salvation in no other name,
00:27:15.36\00:27:17.07
the only name under heaven
00:27:17.10\00:27:18.57
whereby we can be
saved is Jesus Christ."
00:27:18.60\00:27:20.97
So we come to the
place where we understand,
00:27:21.00\00:27:24.31
I cannot save myself,
00:27:24.34\00:27:26.34
then we understand
we need the Savior,
00:27:26.37\00:27:28.91
that is Jesus Christ.
00:27:28.94\00:27:30.38
So surrender comes as we
say, we cast our helpless self,
00:27:30.45\00:27:35.45
on the hands of the Lord,
00:27:35.48\00:27:36.82
in the hands of
the Lord, take me.
00:27:36.89\00:27:39.09
And I cannot even give myself.
00:27:39.12\00:27:40.69
That's a day by
day choice, isn't it?
00:27:40.76\00:27:42.09
Day by day choice.
00:27:42.12\00:27:43.46
Right, that's what
Paul said, I die daily.
00:27:43.49\00:27:44.83
Daily, daily.
00:27:44.86\00:27:46.26
But before he dies daily,
he has to be set free from sin.
00:27:46.29\00:27:51.13
You know, a slave,
Romans 6:16, a slave.
00:27:51.17\00:27:54.14
I've learned as
I'm studying this
00:27:54.17\00:27:56.34
and this is my favorite.
00:27:56.37\00:27:58.44
This... I love Romans 6.
00:27:58.47\00:27:59.81
This topic keeps me humble.
00:27:59.84\00:28:01.71
This topic reminds me
00:28:01.74\00:28:03.08
that no matter
what I sing, I preach,
00:28:03.11\00:28:04.71
no matter Bible studies,
00:28:04.75\00:28:06.08
no matter the visibility or not.
00:28:06.11\00:28:07.65
This topic reminds me
how much I need Christ.
00:28:07.68\00:28:10.59
Because, you know,
when I when I first became,
00:28:10.62\00:28:13.86
I'm still becoming clear
00:28:13.89\00:28:15.22
because this is
such a theme of eternity.
00:28:15.26\00:28:16.59
Yes, sir. But I
came to this conclusion.
00:28:16.62\00:28:18.79
A slave cannot free himself.
00:28:18.83\00:28:21.03
That's right.
00:28:21.06\00:28:22.40
So we are either slaves to
sin or slaves to righteousness.
00:28:22.43\00:28:26.00
So Paul says, when
we were slaves to sin,
00:28:26.03\00:28:31.04
we were free in
relationship to righteousness.
00:28:31.07\00:28:35.18
Now watch this.
00:28:35.21\00:28:36.54
When we were slaves to sin,
00:28:36.58\00:28:38.35
we didn't even
think about righteousness
00:28:38.38\00:28:40.62
because that's
where we were bound,
00:28:40.65\00:28:42.28
we were slaves to sin.
00:28:42.32\00:28:43.69
But when we were made free
00:28:43.72\00:28:45.59
and became
slaves to righteousness,
00:28:45.62\00:28:48.49
this is where the
dying daily comes in.
00:28:48.52\00:28:50.53
I wanna read a
couple of passages here.
00:28:50.56\00:28:52.16
One of them.
00:28:52.19\00:28:53.53
So you're
working of Romans 6:16,
00:28:53.60\00:28:55.03
you wanna read them?
00:28:55.06\00:28:56.40
Okay. Yeah, Romans 6:16.
00:28:56.43\00:28:57.77
Look at what it says here.
00:28:57.80\00:28:59.13
This is a very
powerful passage because...
00:28:59.17\00:29:00.54
I love this passage.
00:29:00.57\00:29:01.90
You know,
00:29:01.94\00:29:03.27
"Do you not know
00:29:03.30\00:29:04.64
that to whom you
present yourselves
00:29:04.67\00:29:06.31
slaves to obey,
00:29:06.34\00:29:07.68
you are that one's
slave whom you obey,
00:29:07.71\00:29:10.15
whether of sin leading to death
00:29:10.18\00:29:12.51
or of obedience
leading to righteousness?
00:29:12.55\00:29:15.55
Okay, so let me
stop you right there,
00:29:15.58\00:29:17.09
what he is saying,
you're gonna be a slave,
00:29:17.12\00:29:19.12
you have a choice of masters.
00:29:19.15\00:29:21.02
That's right. Right?
00:29:21.06\00:29:22.56
It all comes down to
that morning, early decision,
00:29:22.59\00:29:25.46
the choice of masters.
00:29:25.49\00:29:26.90
And watch this.
00:29:26.93\00:29:28.26
And so before we go past this,
this is the thing I was saying,
00:29:28.30\00:29:31.73
you cannot, can
I read the quote?
00:29:31.77\00:29:35.04
We cannot, Temperance, page 112.
00:29:35.07\00:29:37.01
I like to say it,
00:29:37.04\00:29:38.37
but I'm gonna
just give the context,
00:29:38.41\00:29:39.74
the book, Temperance,
page 112, paragraph 3,
00:29:39.77\00:29:41.58
"We cannot change our hearts,
00:29:41.61\00:29:43.08
we cannot control our thoughts,
our impulses, our affections.
00:29:43.11\00:29:46.28
We cannot make ourselves
pure, fit for God's service.
00:29:46.31\00:29:49.45
But we can choose to serve God,
00:29:49.48\00:29:52.32
and we can give Him our will,
then He will work in us to will
00:29:52.35\00:29:55.86
and to do according
to His good pleasure.
00:29:55.89\00:29:57.96
Thus our whole
nature will be brought
00:29:57.99\00:29:59.56
under the control of Christ."
00:29:59.59\00:30:00.93
A slave can only choose
who he wants his master to be.
00:30:00.96\00:30:05.63
Joshua 24:15 is
a powerful passage,
00:30:05.67\00:30:08.14
we often leave that one
out in reference to this,
00:30:08.17\00:30:10.41
the righteous life.
00:30:10.44\00:30:12.01
Choose you this
day whom you'll serve.
00:30:12.04\00:30:15.04
When you choose who to serve,
they will choose what you do.
00:30:15.08\00:30:19.11
Amen. Did you get that?
00:30:19.15\00:30:20.62
Yes. Amen.
00:30:20.65\00:30:21.98
When you choose who does...
00:30:22.02\00:30:23.35
When you pick a
master, they say,
00:30:23.39\00:30:24.72
this is what you're gonna do.
00:30:24.75\00:30:26.25
So if you choose today,
if you choose sin today,
00:30:26.29\00:30:30.36
Satan is gonna control
you and you have no options.
00:30:30.43\00:30:33.70
It is no longer you who do it.
00:30:33.73\00:30:35.30
But when you die to self,
00:30:35.33\00:30:37.37
it is no longer I who live
but Christ who lives in me,
00:30:37.40\00:30:39.37
and get this,
00:30:39.40\00:30:40.74
in the life I now
live in the flesh.
00:30:40.77\00:30:42.10
That's his present condition,
00:30:42.14\00:30:43.51
I live by faith
in the Son of God
00:30:43.54\00:30:44.87
who loved me and
gave Himself for me.
00:30:44.91\00:30:46.24
So what's happening now
00:30:46.27\00:30:47.61
is he's working out
in me, His perfect will
00:30:47.64\00:30:51.35
because I simply
said this in the morning,
00:30:51.38\00:30:52.85
and I love what
you said a moment ago,
00:30:52.88\00:30:54.62
I can't even die to myself.
00:30:54.65\00:30:56.25
I could just
simply say like, Peter,
00:30:56.28\00:30:58.49
what did he say, Lord, save me.
00:30:58.52\00:31:01.39
That's the shortest prayer
00:31:01.42\00:31:03.09
that we must pray every morning,
00:31:03.12\00:31:04.46
Lord, save me.
00:31:04.49\00:31:05.83
And when we submit to His will,
00:31:05.86\00:31:08.03
then we find freedom
only in His righteousness.
00:31:08.06\00:31:11.37
Yeah.
00:31:11.40\00:31:12.73
So it's a whole
lot connected to it.
00:31:12.77\00:31:14.14
You know, I like to say this
because I guess to some people
00:31:14.17\00:31:18.01
it may sound
terrifying, a slave to God.
00:31:18.04\00:31:23.68
But when you look at
this, Christian says,
00:31:23.75\00:31:25.61
"Behold, what manner of
love God has bestowed upon us
00:31:25.65\00:31:27.95
that we should be
called children of God."
00:31:27.98\00:31:30.02
And the sense that
it is speaking of here
00:31:30.09\00:31:31.92
is who is controlling your life.
00:31:31.95\00:31:35.29
But when you are under
the control of the devil,
00:31:35.32\00:31:40.60
you lose your
choice, you lose your will
00:31:40.63\00:31:42.86
because you
give yourself to him,
00:31:42.90\00:31:44.27
and he wants to control you.
00:31:44.30\00:31:46.30
But when you give
yourself to the Lord,
00:31:46.33\00:31:49.07
He always gives you liberty.
00:31:49.10\00:31:50.81
That's why it says,
00:31:50.84\00:31:52.17
"The truth shall make you free."
00:31:52.21\00:31:53.98
And it talks about
the Ten Commandments
00:31:54.01\00:31:55.81
as the law of liberty.
00:31:55.84\00:31:58.71
It's the law of
liberty, you choose the Lord,
00:31:58.75\00:32:01.88
and you are free.
00:32:01.92\00:32:03.69
You are free.
00:32:03.72\00:32:05.05
You can always say no,
00:32:05.09\00:32:06.42
I don't want to
be with You anymore,
00:32:06.45\00:32:07.86
Lord, but the devil
wants to control you
00:32:07.89\00:32:09.29
to the point of that
you don't have a choice.
00:32:09.32\00:32:11.66
And that's
why... Ask any addict.
00:32:11.69\00:32:14.46
That's why some people
00:32:14.50\00:32:15.93
they give
themselves so much to sin
00:32:15.96\00:32:17.47
that they are demon possessed,
00:32:17.50\00:32:20.04
they lose the control.
00:32:20.07\00:32:21.60
But still, there's hope.
00:32:21.64\00:32:23.54
If that person is
like that, like the...
00:32:23.61\00:32:26.31
Demoniac. Demoniac.
00:32:26.34\00:32:28.31
Jesus heard that cry
within the heart that only,
00:32:28.34\00:32:31.98
you know, save
me, he heard that cry.
00:32:32.01\00:32:34.88
And so God gives us
freedom in being His children.
00:32:34.92\00:32:40.76
Amen. Amen.
00:32:40.79\00:32:42.86
I want to just put a
pause here for just a second
00:32:42.89\00:32:46.56
'cause I want us to
talk about imputed imparted
00:32:46.59\00:32:49.83
that you brought up.
00:32:49.86\00:32:51.90
And I'm gonna say this.
00:32:51.93\00:32:54.57
You know, you, what did they say
00:32:54.60\00:32:56.40
that confession
is good for the soul
00:32:56.44\00:32:58.07
and hard on the reputation.
00:32:58.11\00:33:00.71
This past week
or past few weeks,
00:33:00.78\00:33:04.91
I have been so busy.
00:33:04.95\00:33:07.12
I've been putting
in 12 to 14 hours a day
00:33:07.15\00:33:09.55
on my computer
working on big project
00:33:09.58\00:33:12.02
for here at 3ABN.
00:33:12.05\00:33:14.06
And I've worked remotely some.
00:33:14.09\00:33:17.06
Well, what happens
when I work remotely,
00:33:17.13\00:33:19.03
I'm up at four or
five, I'm on my computer,
00:33:19.06\00:33:22.06
I've been
forgetting to eat breakfast,
00:33:22.10\00:33:24.17
forgot to have some devotionals,
00:33:24.20\00:33:26.07
you know, I mean, pray
and say, oh, Lord, guide me.
00:33:26.10\00:33:28.84
But here's what happened.
00:33:28.87\00:33:30.64
And it just comes from
a background of I grew up
00:33:30.71\00:33:36.58
in a New Testament Church,
but it was very legalistic.
00:33:36.61\00:33:40.95
Legalism simply means
you're trying to save yourself.
00:33:40.98\00:33:45.29
You can be, or think
that there's salvation
00:33:45.32\00:33:48.56
in anything else
other than Jesus Christ.
00:33:48.59\00:33:53.06
If you think
keeping The Ten Commandments
00:33:53.09\00:33:57.07
is gonna save
you, you're a legalist.
00:33:57.10\00:34:00.44
That's the bottom line.
00:34:00.47\00:34:02.60
But what happens was,
I began to feel guilty.
00:34:02.64\00:34:09.01
And I felt like,
what's wrong with me,
00:34:09.04\00:34:11.21
Lord, you know, why am
I spending so much time
00:34:11.25\00:34:14.32
and every time I
get separation anxiety
00:34:14.35\00:34:18.29
when I become the least
bit separated from the Lord,
00:34:18.32\00:34:21.12
but all of a sudden,
I'm beating myself up.
00:34:21.16\00:34:24.13
And it occurred to me,
00:34:24.16\00:34:26.49
this is what everybody does.
00:34:26.53\00:34:31.87
In some sense, it's like,
00:34:31.90\00:34:34.84
I've got to do
something to please God,
00:34:34.87\00:34:37.71
when all God and as
soon as I, you know,
00:34:37.74\00:34:40.68
it was like Friday, it was like,
00:34:40.71\00:34:42.31
"Yes, Lord, all I've got to
do is come before you and say,
00:34:42.34\00:34:45.58
'Take my heart,
I can't give it.'"
00:34:45.61\00:34:47.52
As soon as I release
that burden of work mentality,
00:34:47.55\00:34:53.66
behaviorist, you know,
some of us are behaviorist.
00:34:53.69\00:34:58.03
As soon as I let go of that,
and say, Lord, just, you know,
00:34:58.06\00:35:03.67
lead me by Your good Spirit,
work out Your way in me today.
00:35:03.70\00:35:07.64
Guess what happens?
00:35:07.67\00:35:09.47
All of that guilt rolls off
00:35:09.50\00:35:11.27
and I just fall right
back into perfect line,
00:35:11.31\00:35:14.68
that communion opens up,
00:35:14.71\00:35:17.05
you know,
between me and the Lord,
00:35:17.08\00:35:19.05
my prayer life just...
00:35:19.08\00:35:21.38
Flourishes.
00:35:21.42\00:35:22.75
Flourishes and it's that simple.
00:35:22.78\00:35:25.42
We make, I think sometimes
we make the Christian life
00:35:25.45\00:35:28.02
sound so difficult that
you got to do this, this,
00:35:28.06\00:35:31.36
and this when God is just saying
00:35:31.39\00:35:32.73
is, give me permission.
00:35:32.76\00:35:34.10
Just submit to me. Yeah.
00:35:34.13\00:35:35.76
So imputed righteousness.
00:35:35.80\00:35:38.47
There's, like
we've already said,
00:35:38.50\00:35:41.37
there is nothing you could do.
00:35:41.40\00:35:43.84
There's nothing Shelley
Quinn can do to save herself.
00:35:43.91\00:35:47.64
There's nothing you
can do to save yourself.
00:35:47.68\00:35:50.58
All of our
righteousness, Isaiah 64:6,
00:35:50.65\00:35:53.72
is like filthy
rags before the Lord.
00:35:53.75\00:35:56.89
But when we come and surrender,
00:35:56.92\00:36:00.26
God's plan has been
00:36:00.29\00:36:04.06
from the very beginning,
00:36:04.13\00:36:07.30
righteousness by faith,
00:36:07.33\00:36:08.86
even in the Garden of Eden.
00:36:08.90\00:36:11.57
I mean, when God had to slay
00:36:11.60\00:36:13.47
and add an
animal as a substitute,
00:36:13.54\00:36:16.34
if we're not gonna take time
00:36:16.37\00:36:17.71
'cause we're
running out of time already,
00:36:17.74\00:36:19.61
but it has always been
righteousness by faith,
00:36:19.64\00:36:23.48
always been
righteousness by faith,
00:36:23.55\00:36:26.41
and Jeremiah said,
Christ, our righteousness.
00:36:26.45\00:36:29.82
So everything
about the sanctuary,
00:36:29.85\00:36:34.96
pointed to Jesus.
00:36:34.99\00:36:36.32
It was telling them the story
00:36:36.36\00:36:38.63
that all these
sacrifices they knew
00:36:38.66\00:36:41.03
would be fulfilled in Christ.
00:36:41.06\00:36:43.23
All right, that's imputed
righteousness justification,
00:36:43.26\00:36:46.43
which means that you have been
00:36:46.47\00:36:50.11
declared pardoned.
00:36:50.14\00:36:53.38
You may be guilty,
00:36:53.41\00:36:54.88
but it's the judge
saying you're pardoned.
00:36:54.91\00:36:58.15
So that's justification.
00:36:58.18\00:37:00.52
But now there's
this sanctification,
00:37:00.55\00:37:04.09
how does the
righteousness of Christ
00:37:04.12\00:37:06.69
bring about sanctification?
00:37:06.76\00:37:08.09
Okay, so let me
add to segue into this,
00:37:08.12\00:37:10.63
let me just give a
simplified picture of slavery.
00:37:10.66\00:37:13.13
It's the most amazing picture
that many of us often ignore.
00:37:13.16\00:37:16.30
You know, modern day
slavery could be simply defined
00:37:16.33\00:37:18.83
as getting on an
airplane, once that door closes.
00:37:18.87\00:37:22.34
You have no choice as
to where you're going.
00:37:22.37\00:37:24.54
Once that plane takes off,
00:37:24.57\00:37:26.11
you are in the
mercy of the pilot.
00:37:26.14\00:37:28.28
Yeah.
00:37:28.31\00:37:29.64
So Christianity is submitting,
getting on board with Jesus.
00:37:29.68\00:37:33.08
And enjoying first
class righteousness.
00:37:33.11\00:37:35.58
Amen.
00:37:35.62\00:37:36.99
Enjoying the amenities
00:37:37.02\00:37:38.35
of all the
blessings that come along
00:37:38.39\00:37:40.69
with getting on
board with Jesus,
00:37:40.76\00:37:42.09
that's beautiful slavery,
00:37:42.12\00:37:43.83
as compared to
getting on a plane,
00:37:43.86\00:37:45.66
like somebody I
testified once the door's closed
00:37:45.69\00:37:48.76
and while they're in mid-flight.
00:37:48.80\00:37:51.10
I wanna get off.
00:37:51.13\00:37:52.47
They realize, somebody said,
"So do you live in Phoenix?"
00:37:52.50\00:37:56.14
What do you mean,
do I live in Phoenix?
00:37:56.17\00:37:57.51
I'm going to Chicago.
00:37:57.54\00:37:58.87
This plane is going to Phoenix.
00:37:58.91\00:38:01.74
Oh, no!
00:38:01.78\00:38:03.18
How did that happen?
00:38:03.21\00:38:04.55
And now flight attendance
because of that one example.
00:38:04.58\00:38:07.32
It was a funny story,
00:38:07.35\00:38:09.02
it happened a
number of years ago.
00:38:09.05\00:38:10.69
Now flight attendants often say,
00:38:10.72\00:38:13.02
if your final
destination is not Phoenix,
00:38:13.05\00:38:15.99
this is a good time
to get off the plane.
00:38:16.02\00:38:17.66
Yeah.
00:38:17.69\00:38:19.03
And so if your final destination
00:38:19.06\00:38:20.40
is not heaven,
00:38:20.43\00:38:21.76
this is a good
time to push aside
00:38:21.80\00:38:23.13
the righteousness of Christ.
00:38:23.16\00:38:24.70
But if your
destination is heaven,
00:38:24.73\00:38:26.50
you simply submit so watch this.
00:38:26.53\00:38:28.17
Here's where the
submission comes in.
00:38:28.20\00:38:30.01
There's a
transaction that takes place
00:38:30.04\00:38:32.04
that brings about
the sanctification,
00:38:32.07\00:38:33.88
the imputed part,
00:38:33.91\00:38:35.24
we're gonna go
from imputed to imparted
00:38:35.28\00:38:36.61
right away in one text.
00:38:36.64\00:38:37.98
Okay, explain
what sanctification...
00:38:38.01\00:38:39.35
We know what
justification is being pardoned
00:38:39.38\00:38:41.82
or declared...
00:38:41.85\00:38:43.18
So here it is. Here it
is. Okay, sanctification.
00:38:43.22\00:38:44.55
The
sanctification is right here.
00:38:44.59\00:38:45.92
Now Romans 6:18-20.
00:38:45.95\00:38:47.39
Let's look at that.
00:38:47.46\00:38:49.09
Okay, because
now sanctification,
00:38:49.12\00:38:51.46
the imputing
takes part in verse 18.
00:38:51.49\00:38:53.93
And the imparting takes
part as we go further down.
00:38:54.00\00:38:59.80
It says having, verse 18.
00:38:59.83\00:39:04.01
Matter of fact, let me
just go and read in my Bible,
00:39:04.04\00:39:06.24
Romans 6:18,
00:39:06.27\00:39:08.24
"And having been
set free from sin."
00:39:08.28\00:39:11.51
That's free from sin.
00:39:11.55\00:39:13.42
That is imputed.
00:39:13.45\00:39:16.79
"You became
slaves of righteousness,"
00:39:16.82\00:39:20.76
that is imparted.
00:39:20.79\00:39:22.82
Let's go on and
see how it happens.
00:39:22.86\00:39:25.13
"I speak in human terms
00:39:25.16\00:39:26.59
because of the
weakness of your flesh.
00:39:26.63\00:39:29.40
For just as you
presented your members
00:39:29.43\00:39:31.90
as slaves of uncleanness,
00:39:31.93\00:39:35.10
and of lawlessness
leading to more lawlessness,
00:39:35.14\00:39:38.24
now present your members
00:39:38.27\00:39:41.21
as slaves of
righteousness for holiness."
00:39:41.24\00:39:44.31
And then verse
20 is the capstone.
00:39:44.35\00:39:46.48
"For when you
were slaves of sin,
00:39:46.51\00:39:48.72
you were free in
regard to righteousness."
00:39:48.75\00:39:52.69
And so you have here, verse 22,
00:39:52.72\00:39:54.49
I'm gonna jump
past 21 for time sake.
00:39:54.52\00:39:57.63
"Now having been
set free from sin,
00:39:57.66\00:40:00.93
and having become slaves of God,
00:40:00.96\00:40:03.20
you have your fruit to holiness,
00:40:03.23\00:40:05.70
and the end, everlasting life."
00:40:05.73\00:40:07.74
There could be no
fruit to holiness,
00:40:07.77\00:40:09.80
there's no
sanctifying fruit to holiness.
00:40:09.84\00:40:11.67
We can't get that far
not read the next verse.
00:40:11.71\00:40:13.78
Oh, we know verse, yeah,
go ahead read it, Shelley.
00:40:13.81\00:40:15.14
I know that I just have
to read it for those at home
00:40:15.18\00:40:17.28
that may not know Romans 6:23.
00:40:17.35\00:40:21.55
It says, "The
wages of sin is death."
00:40:21.58\00:40:25.12
So see, you have to
work your way to hell.
00:40:25.15\00:40:28.06
That's right.
00:40:28.09\00:40:29.42
"The wages of sin is death,"
your work and your way to hell,
00:40:29.46\00:40:33.13
but the gift of
God is eternal life
00:40:33.16\00:40:38.10
in Christ Jesus our Lord."
00:40:38.13\00:40:40.74
We believe our way to heaven.
00:40:40.77\00:40:42.60
Okay. So finishing the thought.
00:40:42.64\00:40:44.44
So Paul now says, and
until you're free from sin,
00:40:44.47\00:40:48.18
you can't even decide
to submit to righteousness.
00:40:48.21\00:40:51.91
Until you're free from
sin, you can't even decide
00:40:51.95\00:40:54.25
that now I'm going to
submit to righteousness
00:40:54.32\00:40:56.02
because you have no enabling.
00:40:56.05\00:40:57.72
There's no power,
you have no power at all.
00:40:57.75\00:41:00.16
So here's where
the power comes from.
00:41:00.19\00:41:01.79
2 Corinthians
5:21. Look at this.
00:41:01.82\00:41:03.93
And I asked the
question earlier,
00:41:03.96\00:41:05.29
how can we
become what we are not?
00:41:05.33\00:41:07.63
2 Corinthians 5:21,
00:41:07.66\00:41:09.96
"For He made Him who knew no sin
00:41:10.00\00:41:12.33
to be sin for us,"
00:41:12.37\00:41:14.14
transaction,
00:41:14.17\00:41:16.20
"that we might become
00:41:16.24\00:41:18.07
the
righteousness of God in Him."
00:41:18.11\00:41:21.11
Hallelujah. Amen.
00:41:21.14\00:41:22.48
Righteousness by
that we might become,
00:41:22.51\00:41:24.41
he became what
he didn't have to,
00:41:24.45\00:41:27.32
so we could
become what we couldn't.
00:41:27.35\00:41:31.35
And he did it because of love.
00:41:31.39\00:41:32.72
John 3:16 is
all in this passage.
00:41:32.75\00:41:34.66
He became what
he didn't have to,
00:41:34.69\00:41:37.93
so that we could
become what we could never.
00:41:37.96\00:41:40.83
Amen. That's right.
00:41:40.90\00:41:42.23
So that's why I say there's
no righteousness of our own.
00:41:42.26\00:41:44.93
Was Jesus sinful?
00:41:44.97\00:41:46.30
No, what they do?
00:41:46.33\00:41:48.40
Shelley, Pastor Dinzey,
00:41:48.44\00:41:50.94
who do you know would
want to be sin for us?
00:41:50.97\00:41:55.48
And that word for
us mean in place of us.
00:41:55.51\00:41:58.31
It's not, okay, I'll just be sin
00:41:58.35\00:42:00.32
and I'll hang around with,
00:42:00.35\00:42:01.68
you know, he took our place.
00:42:01.72\00:42:03.42
So that one
day, we could be Him.
00:42:03.49\00:42:05.79
And that's why 1 John 3:2,
is my most beautiful passage.
00:42:05.82\00:42:09.19
I'll share that
later on in the program.
00:42:09.22\00:42:11.33
Because, you
know, this is a whole,
00:42:11.36\00:42:13.90
shall I do it now...
00:42:13.93\00:42:15.26
Go ahead. Or Later on.
00:42:15.30\00:42:16.63
The whole beauty
of salvation is this.
00:42:16.67\00:42:19.37
And I wanna encourage you today
00:42:19.40\00:42:20.74
because some people
might say, well, it's so hard.
00:42:20.77\00:42:22.70
Nothing discourages me more
00:42:22.74\00:42:24.31
than people that have
been Christians all their lives
00:42:24.34\00:42:26.04
that are uncertain
of their salvation.
00:42:26.07\00:42:28.81
But it's a
gracious certainty. Yes.
00:42:28.84\00:42:31.41
Here's the gracious certainty.
00:42:31.45\00:42:32.78
1 John Chapter 3,
praise the Lord, verse 1 and 2.
00:42:32.81\00:42:37.19
"Behold what manner of love
the Father has bestowed on us,
00:42:37.22\00:42:41.69
that we should be
called the children of God!
00:42:41.72\00:42:44.96
Therefore the
world does not know him,
00:42:44.99\00:42:46.80
because he did not know us."
00:42:46.83\00:42:48.16
And here's the
here's the passage.
00:42:48.20\00:42:49.63
"Beloved, now we are
children of God," when?
00:42:49.66\00:42:52.70
Now. Now.
00:42:52.73\00:42:54.07
Hallelujah.
00:42:54.14\00:42:55.60
"And it has not
yet been revealed,
00:42:55.64\00:42:57.74
what we shall be.
00:42:57.77\00:42:59.54
But we know that
when he is revealed,
00:42:59.57\00:43:01.94
we shall be like Him, for
we shall see Him as He is."
00:43:01.98\00:43:05.85
Thus I introduce a third term.
00:43:05.88\00:43:07.42
Remember I said,
arrogant certainty,
00:43:07.45\00:43:10.09
and gracious certainty.
00:43:10.12\00:43:12.32
Now,
00:43:12.35\00:43:14.72
this is gracious uncertainty.
00:43:14.76\00:43:18.23
Which means this is
gracious uncertainty,
00:43:18.26\00:43:21.83
which means I
don't have to worry
00:43:21.86\00:43:23.47
about what happens
tomorrow, the next day,
00:43:23.50\00:43:25.03
the next day, the next
day, the next day, the next day
00:43:25.07\00:43:27.44
because I know
He's working on me.
00:43:27.47\00:43:28.94
Amen. Amen.
00:43:28.97\00:43:30.44
Gracious
uncertainty, people say,
00:43:30.51\00:43:31.91
but am I gonna sin tomorrow?
00:43:31.94\00:43:35.01
Relax, he who has
begun a good work in you
00:43:35.04\00:43:37.81
will complete it.
00:43:37.85\00:43:39.18
All we got to do is daily
submit ourselves to Christ
00:43:39.21\00:43:41.48
that just becomes so beautiful.
00:43:41.52\00:43:43.49
So don't walk
around with this 10 list.
00:43:43.52\00:43:46.42
It will be fulfilled in
you, if Christ is in you
00:43:46.45\00:43:48.69
because He cannot
deny His own righteousness.
00:43:48.72\00:43:50.83
That's right.
00:43:50.86\00:43:52.19
He cannot deny,
if Christ is in you,
00:43:52.23\00:43:54.23
He will fulfill the
requirements of His law.
00:43:54.30\00:43:56.77
He said that,
that we might become
00:43:56.80\00:43:58.90
the righteousness of God in Him.
00:43:58.93\00:44:00.54
You know, Shelley,
00:44:00.57\00:44:01.90
I'm in your Bible
student you both are.
00:44:01.94\00:44:03.41
But we love Romans. Yes. Amen.
00:44:03.44\00:44:05.54
And Jesus fulfills
the righteous requirements
00:44:05.57\00:44:08.98
of the law in us
through His strength.
00:44:09.01\00:44:11.88
Amen. Not through our own.
00:44:11.91\00:44:13.25
Amen. Let me jump in and say.
00:44:13.28\00:44:14.95
I know it's
suicidal, we need another hour.
00:44:14.98\00:44:16.32
We need to be,
we need more than,
00:44:16.35\00:44:17.69
I can't believe our times.
00:44:17.72\00:44:19.05
We need several
hours for this topic
00:44:19.09\00:44:20.86
'cause we could all
00:44:20.89\00:44:22.22
but here's the beauty,
00:44:22.26\00:44:24.49
okay, justification.
00:44:24.53\00:44:26.39
It's the judge standing up
and saying you're pardoned.
00:44:26.43\00:44:29.40
I mean, you were guilty.
00:44:29.43\00:44:31.07
But he said, "You're pardoned."
00:44:31.10\00:44:32.47
I mean, he's
giving you a pardon.
00:44:32.50\00:44:34.40
That's all your past sins.
00:44:34.44\00:44:36.24
Sanctification simply
means to be made holy.
00:44:36.27\00:44:42.61
Holiness and sanctification
mean the same thing.
00:44:42.64\00:44:46.75
But they both mean to
be separated from sin.
00:44:46.82\00:44:49.55
That's right.
00:44:49.58\00:44:50.92
So when, in Ephesians,
let's read this real quick,
00:44:50.99\00:44:53.56
Ephesians 3:16
00:44:53.59\00:44:56.16
'cause we're talking
about the imputed word
00:44:56.19\00:44:59.49
that we used over
here for justification
00:44:59.53\00:45:02.03
means Christ's
record was credited to us
00:45:02.06\00:45:07.27
His perfect
obedience, everything.
00:45:07.34\00:45:09.37
But now, how do
we get righteousness
00:45:09.40\00:45:13.58
that's gonna take us
00:45:13.61\00:45:15.08
and separate us
from sin, day by day?
00:45:15.11\00:45:19.18
It's imparted and
here's how. That's right.
00:45:19.21\00:45:22.18
Verse 16, Paul's
writing to the Ephesians 3:16,
00:45:22.22\00:45:28.79
"O that He would grant
you, he being Jesus Christ,
00:45:28.82\00:45:32.86
according to the
riches of His glory,
00:45:32.89\00:45:36.26
to be strengthened with
my where through or how,
00:45:36.30\00:45:41.97
through His
Spirit in the inner man."
00:45:42.00\00:45:45.67
That's right.
00:45:45.71\00:45:47.08
So it's the
dunamis power of God,
00:45:47.11\00:45:50.08
that dynamite power
00:45:50.15\00:45:51.78
is when the Holy
Spirit comes into you.
00:45:51.81\00:45:55.78
That's how he does it. Why?
00:45:55.82\00:45:57.95
He says, "That Christ may dwell
in your hearts through faith."
00:45:57.99\00:46:02.32
Yes. That's right.
00:46:02.36\00:46:03.73
"That you, being
rooted and grounded in love,
00:46:03.76\00:46:05.23
may be able to
comprehend with all the saints
00:46:05.26\00:46:07.20
what is the width and
height and length and depth,
00:46:07.23\00:46:09.50
to know the love of
Christ which passes knowledge
00:46:09.53\00:46:13.97
that you may be filled
with all the fullness of God."
00:46:14.04\00:46:17.31
And don't run past verse 20.
00:46:17.34\00:46:19.57
Like, you cannot go
that far and not do verse 20.
00:46:19.61\00:46:23.24
This is what
Shelley's talking about.
00:46:23.28\00:46:24.68
This is what
we're talking about.
00:46:24.71\00:46:26.18
When you are in Christ,
look at this beautiful passage,
00:46:26.21\00:46:29.02
"Now to Him..."
00:46:29.05\00:46:30.49
That is able.
00:46:30.52\00:46:31.85
"Who is able to do exceedingly,
00:46:31.89\00:46:34.76
abundantly above all
that we ask or think," how?
00:46:34.79\00:46:40.96
"According to the
power that works in us."
00:46:41.00\00:46:44.27
Amen.
00:46:44.30\00:46:45.63
Dunamis. Amen.
00:46:45.67\00:46:47.04
It ain't, it ain't for us.
00:46:47.07\00:46:49.10
We don't get it. It comes in.
00:46:49.14\00:46:50.81
It's Philippians 2:13,
00:46:50.84\00:46:52.34
God through the Holy
Spirit is working in us
00:46:52.37\00:46:54.74
to will and to
do His good purpose.
00:46:54.78\00:46:56.95
Go ahead, I'm
gonna cut you loose
00:46:56.98\00:46:58.31
for a couple
minutes and I need...
00:46:58.35\00:46:59.68
Guys are taking
all the good stuff.
00:46:59.71\00:47:01.78
You know, in Romans Chapter 7,
00:47:01.82\00:47:04.45
it says, "For to be
carnally minded is death."
00:47:04.49\00:47:07.36
Yeah.
00:47:07.39\00:47:08.72
And it says that the carnal mind
00:47:08.76\00:47:10.09
is that enemy is an enemy.
00:47:10.13\00:47:11.89
It says enmity against God
00:47:11.93\00:47:13.63
is like being an
enemy against God
00:47:13.70\00:47:15.06
is now subject
to the law of God,
00:47:15.10\00:47:16.43
neither indeed can be.
00:47:16.46\00:47:18.57
God wants to take
us from loving sin,
00:47:18.60\00:47:22.34
to loving the Lord so much
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that we will
love to do His will.
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That's why you
read of Jesus says,
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I delight to do thy will of God,
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thy law is within my heart.
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And those that understand
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their salvation is
only through Jesus Christ,
00:47:34.82\00:47:39.22
and submit to Him completely,
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they will
delight to do His will.
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They will delight, you know,
you read of David, he says,
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"I love thy law," it
is my meditation all day,
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why? Because it is God.
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The law of God is a
transcript of His character.
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And so when we
submit to the Lord,
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serving Him obey in the law,
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it will be a
delight, it will be a joy.
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Amen. Amen.
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And we will have
that wonderful peace.
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You know, the Bible says,
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there is no
peace for the wicked,
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we're gonna pass
from being slaves
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and having no peace
to having joy, and peace,
00:48:18.93\00:48:23.97
that passes all understanding.
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And we will delight
to do the Lord's will.
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Okay.
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So let me say this then,
'cause we are running down.
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That's what we're talking about.
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That's word it is, it's the joy,
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the sanctification,
we're running out of time.
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So let me put it, we've
got to get to this point.
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We are saying,
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we cannot become
righteous through our behavior.
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Now wait a minute, we just read
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that if you're a
slave to right...
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Through obedience
leads to righteousness
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in Romans 6:16.
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But we know you
cannot become righteous
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through your behavior.
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Look at that Pharisees.
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They kept they were sticklers,
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and they never
became righteous, our job.
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And please hear what I'm saying.
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Our job is to seek a
relationship with Jesus.
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That's all you've
got to do every day,
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and everything else
will fall into place.
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So how does behavior
fit into righteousness?
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Easy, we become new
creations in Christ Jesus.
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That's right. Jesus...
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The old is
gone, the new is come,
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He does what you're saying,
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He puts that delight,
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it will begin to
desire what He wants to do.
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And we know that He works in us
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to will and to do
His good pleasure.
00:49:38.41\00:49:40.58
So what Romans 6:16
is saying, you know,
00:49:40.61\00:49:44.88
you're either a slave to sin,
00:49:44.91\00:49:47.75
which leads to death
or slave to be righteous,
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which leads to righteousness.
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What that is saying,
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is that our
behavior acts of obedience,
00:49:56.32\00:50:00.20
makeup, habits of obedience.
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That's what
changes our character,
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is it not?
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And I know 1 John 3:7 says,
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"Do not be deceived.
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Only He who does what
is righteous is righteous."
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So when the righteousness
of Christ is working in you,
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when God is working in
you through His Holy Spirit.
00:50:24.12\00:50:26.99
Jesus said in Matthew 5:16,
I think it is that He said,
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"Let your light so shine
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that men will
see your good works,
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and glorify your Father."
00:50:38.50\00:50:41.07
What we do,
00:50:41.10\00:50:43.07
we seek a relationship with God,
00:50:43.10\00:50:45.41
we trust in Him.
00:50:45.44\00:50:47.38
And as we come before Him,
00:50:47.41\00:50:48.94
then God works in us
00:50:48.98\00:50:50.35
to will and to do
His good pleasure,
00:50:50.38\00:50:52.61
fruits of righteousness,
that's the fruit of the Spirit.
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We don't get any credit for it,
00:50:57.32\00:50:58.65
but it's to glorify God.
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One last quick text,
Romans 8:10, summarizing,
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"And if Christ is in you,
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the body is dead because of sin,
00:51:04.53\00:51:06.09
but the Spirit is life
because of righteousness."
00:51:06.13\00:51:08.63
Amen. Johnny.
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You have Christ
on the inside. Amen.
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So how do we go
from here to here
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where the Lord wants us to be?
00:51:14.40\00:51:16.40
By daily submitting to Him.
00:51:16.44\00:51:19.57
And we have 2 Corinthians 3:18,
00:51:19.61\00:51:22.04
"By beholding we become change."
00:51:22.08\00:51:24.18
We must spend time
with the Lord daily,
00:51:24.25\00:51:27.12
look at the life of Christ.
00:51:27.15\00:51:29.15
I recommend one
of my favorite books,
00:51:29.18\00:51:30.69
Desire of Ages. Yes.
00:51:30.72\00:51:32.05
And, you know what?
00:51:32.09\00:51:33.42
That's what was getting me
00:51:33.46\00:51:34.79
is that I wasn't
spending time with God daily.
00:51:34.82\00:51:36.73
But I wanna tell you something,
00:51:36.76\00:51:38.43
if you just come
before the Lord, and remember,
00:51:38.46\00:51:42.93
your only part is to
seek a relationship with Him,
00:51:42.96\00:51:46.47
to submit to Him,
00:51:46.50\00:51:47.87
and you come before
the Lord and just say,
00:51:47.90\00:51:50.51
Here I am Lord, work
in me today, guess what?
00:51:50.54\00:51:53.38
You're gonna want to spend time,
00:51:53.41\00:51:55.18
you're gonna enjoy
your time in the Bible,
00:51:55.21\00:51:56.95
you're gonna
find yourself praying,
00:51:56.98\00:51:58.95
like you can't believe.
00:51:58.98\00:52:01.05
It's all about relationships
00:52:01.08\00:52:04.29
because we can't save ourselves.
00:52:04.32\00:52:06.29
It's like that song
says, "Have your own way Lord,"
00:52:06.32\00:52:08.49
you love that, have
your own way Lord in me.
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That's it.
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Oh, guys, I know,
00:52:11.26\00:52:12.59
we could spend
hours on this topic.
00:52:12.63\00:52:14.93
And it'd be fun.
00:52:14.96\00:52:16.30
We don't plan anything.
God just brings it together.
00:52:16.33\00:52:19.20
But our hope and our
prayer for you at home
00:52:19.23\00:52:21.84
is that the grace of our
Lord and Savior Jesus Christ,
00:52:21.87\00:52:24.97
the love of the Father,
00:52:25.01\00:52:26.68
and the
fellowship of the Holy Spirit
00:52:26.71\00:52:28.68
will be with you always.
00:52:28.71\00:52:30.05
Just seek a
relationship with Him,
00:52:30.08\00:52:32.48
He'll do the rest.
00:52:32.51\00:52:34.22
Amen. Amen.
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