Feb. 10, 2025

Default Postion: Jeshurun

Default Postion: Jeshurun

A discussion about a statement made in chapel service today.

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A discussion about a statement made in chapel service today.

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Looking at our world from a theological perspective. This is

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the Theology Central podcast making Theology Central. So, how did

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you like chapel service this morning? How did you like

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chapel service? Wait, you weren't there? Come on, now, I'm

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gonna have to tell someone. I'm gonna have to tell

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I'm gonna have to tell someone that you that you

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did not show up to chapel service. You know it's mandatory.

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Why were you not at chapel service this morning? If

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you were, what did you think? Did you like it?

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Did you like the message? What did you think of

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the message? Now, for me, as I was listening to

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the message during chapel service this morning, well, two words

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got written down here on my piece of paper. It's

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really just an envelope. I had two words. The first

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word is default default, That's that's the first word. And

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the second word is just churun jess chur un jess

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ch run, which comes from Deuteronomy, chapter thirty two. All right,

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default and jes chur run. Those are the two words

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I had written down at because of what I heard

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during chapel service. Now, some of you are like, what

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chapel service are you referring to well, it just ended

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just a few minutes ago. That's the chapel service from

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Bob Jones University was broadcasting right there on the sermon's

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two point o app sermon audio. It was right there.

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Why were you not there? What were you doing? You're

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supposed to be a chapel service, It's mandatory, all right, Okay.

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I was there and I wrote down two words default

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and jess Churan, and we're going to talk about well, JESF.

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Schuran because well, there's a high possibility. Well, I'm not

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gonna say high possibility, there is a possibility that you

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may not know nificance of jess Schuran, especially how it's

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being used in Deuteronomy thirty two. Because it's okay, well, right,

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we could talk a little bit about that and the default.

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You have no idea, but we're going to find out

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about both of these right after I say well, welcome,

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good morning everyone. It is Monday, February the tenth, twenty

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twenty five. It is currently ten fifty two am Central time,

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and I'm coming to you live we should, I say,

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from the campus of Bob Jones University. Well, I'm not.

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I was only there virtually. I wasn't there physically. I'm

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actually coming to you live from the Theology Central Studio

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located right here in Abilene, Texas. We're just a little

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while ago. I was attending Bob Jones University Chapel Service. Now,

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I don't know if you know this. They have two

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chapel services. They have the I guess we'll just call

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it the general Chapel service, but they also have the

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Seminary Chapel Service. Now, if you are using the Sermon's

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two point oh Apple, the sermonadio website, look for seminary

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chapel that comes from Bob Jones because I think the

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Seminary Chapel service, I think typically the preaching teaching is

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much more in depth sometimes the general chapel service. I've

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watched it. I'm kind of like, what I mean, you know,

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it's yeah. Now, this this morning for chapel service, they

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had someone who's part of the faculty there do the

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teaching and it, I mean, he just jumped right in

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and started teaching. And when it's uploaded, you should go

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back and listen to it. But in his message, he

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was reading from Deuteronomy chapter thirty two, where Jes you

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run is mentioned and then he mentioned this idea of

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a default, this idea of a default, I'll and I'll

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talk about what he was referring to there. So let's

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go to Deuteronomy thirty two. Let's just pick it up there,

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Deuteronomy chapter thirty two, just so that you'll see the

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word Deuteronomy, chapter thirty two, verse fifteen. Chapter thirteen, Verse fifteen.

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Jest you run waxed fat and kicked thou Art waxen fat,

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thou Art grown thick, thou Art covered with fatness. Then

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he forsook God, which made him and lightly esteemed the

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rock of his salvation. Well, who is jest you run?

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Who is just you run? Who is that? Who is

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that referring to? I can tell you this just you

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run means upright ones if you want to know what

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it means. So that's interesting. I think I think all

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sources agree on that. We'll look it up here in

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a minute. We'll do a little bit of work on that.

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But so that got my attention and what I originally

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thought to do right when I was listening to the

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Chapel service from Bob Jones University, I was like, well,

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this just you run. Deuteronomy thirty two. Let me start

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doing some work on Deuteronomy thirty two. So I started

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doing some work, maybe trying to create like an outline. Okay,

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do I build it all around? Who just you run? Is?

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Do I build it all around? Howes you run is

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being used here because it's being kind of somewhat like, hey,

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this name means this. However, this is the reality? So

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who is this individual? Is it? Is it a poetic

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name for something else? Like just a lot of discussions

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about that. I thought about, Okay, let me let me

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do a little bit of work. So I was doing

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kind of just as I was listening, just kind of

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doing a little bit of work, looking some things up,

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trying to come up with an idea. And then during

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the Bob Jones University Chapel service, well, the speaker made

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a statement. Now I'm going to be somewhat paraphrasing this statement,

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but I think it's pretty close to word for word.

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But I if I once they uploaded, you know, I

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would have downloaded the audio and played it for you.

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But he basically said, the default position, the default position

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for every child of God, the default position for every

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Christian is not to sin at Bob Jones University today,

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everyone was told that the default position for a Christian

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is not to sin. Now, there wasn't much explanation of

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exactly what that meant. There wasn't much discussion. But as

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soon as I heard this, the default position for a

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Christian is not to sin, well, I immediately was like, what,

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especially considering you just read about Jeff chu Run, which

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clearly if you read everything about Jeff Schuan, there they him.

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I'm not giving anything away right now, some of you

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already know clearly they seem to be sinning. Okay, so well,

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obviously then they weren't. They weren't believers, they weren't Christians.

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Because Christian then default position is not to sin. But

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so let let's let's just think about this. Let's say

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I was gonna go a different direction, but let's just

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think about this all right. Let's think about the what

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it means about a default position. When we say that,

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or if someone says that a Christian's default position is

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not to sin. When we say they have a default position,

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you're saying that something is natural or automatic. It's natural

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or automatic for a Christian not to sin. That I look,

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I understand that that is how Christians think all across

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the country. Let me make it very clear what Bob

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Jones University, what we said at chapel this morning is

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pretty common, right, I mean, most Christians would say amen

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to that. You say that to most Christians in your church,

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is the default position for a Christian not to sin?

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Most people in your church will say amen. Look, I

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know I am the minority of the minority of the

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minority of the minority of the minority of the I'm

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in a group all by myself. Probably there's probably just

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a few of you that would even agree. But I

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completely disagree with that assessment. I believe that no, the

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default position of a Christian is not the sin. I

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will argue that the default position is for us to sin.

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If not sinning were truly the default, then sin would

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be the exception rather than a norm. This not only

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contradicts scripture, I think it contradicts experience. It contradicts reality.

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In the Bible, we have these exhortations right. We are

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repeatedly warned over and over. Believers are repeatedly warned against sin.

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We see this in James, we see this in Hebrews.

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If sinning were the default state, why would you need

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all of these warnings, they would be unnecessary. I wouldn't

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have to say don't sin, because your default position would

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be not to sin. We wouldn't have to even we

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wouldn't even really need to be worrying about it. It's

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weird that over and over and over it's stated in churches,

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not just Bob Jones University. I'm just stating that because

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I literally just was listening to the chapel service. But

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if this was the case, it's so weird. Christians almost

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do these two contradictory things, and nobody in the pews

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ever seemed to catch on. On one hand, sermon after

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sermon after sermon after sermon is preached telling you, telling

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me that we are a new creature in Christ, old

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things are passed away, all things have become new, and

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applying that not to our positional standing but our practical reality,

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telling us that we have that we've been set free

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from sin. And when we stay set free from sin

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from our they'll say we'll been set free from the

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power of sin. They typically will go even that far

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and say that that basically you've been set free from

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the power of sin. God is helping you. God has

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give you strength and basically you can stop sinning. Now.

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They will always try to throw in a little small print. Well,

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I mean, nobody's going to be perfect, but basically the

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idea is you're pretty close to perfect, right, so you're you.

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You know, over and over and over, sermon after sermon

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puts forth this idea that basically your default position is

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not the sin, that you're that we and not only

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that we can obey, that we do obey, that we

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desire to obey. I mean, it's basically preached over and over.

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But then there's sermon after sermon after sermon after sermon

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that will warn you about sinning. Don't do this, don't

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do this, do this, don't do this. Well what we

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wouldn't have to even waste our time doing that. Hey,

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you're all new creatures, old past away, all the old

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things that passed away. Everything is new. I don't need

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to warn you. I don't need to talk about sin.

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I don't even need to deal with it. We don't

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even need to worry about it. We're not fighting against it,

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we're not struggling against it because we our default position

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would be well, holiness. That's not the case. All of

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those exhortations in scriptures seems to completely contradict the idea

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that our default position is not to sin. If not

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sinning were the default state, such warnings would be completely unnecessary.

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Jesus told his own disciples, the spirit indeed is willing,

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but the flesh is weak. If the default position were

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not to sin, this warning would make little sense. I

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don't think it's our default position in any way, shape

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or form. Now if you go back to Deuteronomy. In fact,

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I think this is just fascinating. Israel, God's chosen nation,

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the one he entered into covenant with, the one he

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delivered from Egyptian bondage, the one that he gave them

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his law, his presence, priest, worship service, a worship system,

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sacrificial system, all of these things, it's everything, his revelation. Oh,

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all these things he did for them. Well, what did

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they do over and over and over? Well, if you

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look at Deuteronomy, chapter thirty two, verse fifteen, we see

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just Churan, jes Churan. This is a how would we

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describe just Churan if we look at like, I'll just

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look at one source here that describes the use of

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just Schruan. Just Churan is a poetic name for Israel,

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meaning upright one. I don't think it, I said upright

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one's I think it's probably singular upright one. And it's

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being used in Deuteronomy thirty two fifteen just churn. It

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is being used in an ironic way because Israel does

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not live up to its name. It does not live

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up to its name, it says here but es schurn

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waxed fat. Now, this symbolizes prosperity, abundance and material blessing,

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and kicked implies rebellion and ingratitude. Like an ox becomes

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strong and uncontrollable, Israel becomes defiant in their prosperity. After

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they're provided all of this stuff. They don't respond with gratitude.

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They respond with ingratitude. They become defiant. Wait, but they're

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the they are the upright one or the upright ones.

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I know the word basically means upright one, but you

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know it's referring to Israel, which would then be plural that.

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And I think the same thing is true of us.

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We may be declared to be upright, we may be

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declared to be perfect and righteous and a new creature

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in our position, but in our practice, well, we may

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wax fat and all because in Christ we have all

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spiritual blessings. But we kick, we fight back. If you look,

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continue at the verse, continue reading the verse. Thou are

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grown thick, and thou are covered with fatness. All right,

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So another translation, there are wax and fat. They are

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grown thick, now are covered with fatness. The repetition intensifies

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the imagery of excessive prosperity, leading to spiritual complacency. Physical

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abundance often parallels spiritual complacency and scripture. This happens numerous

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times over and over. Sometimes the more we get, the

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more complacent we become. Right, Well, we as Christians, we've

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been given so much spiritually in many cases, well we

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show our ingratitude because well, there's something wrong inside of us.

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then he forsook God, which made him and lightly esteem

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the rock of his salvation. Please note he forsook God

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and lightly esteemed the rock of his salvation. They provoked

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him to jealousy with strange gods and abominations, provoked they

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him to anger. Look at all the things just Churan,

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if I can speak correctly, all the things that they do,

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they forsake God, They lightly esteem God. They provoked him

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to jealousy with strange gods, and with abominations, provoked they

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him to anger. They sacrificed unto devils, not to God.

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Just churon. Israel, the upright one, over and over and over,

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demonstrated the complete and absolute opposite. And we see that

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throughout the Old Testament time and time again we see

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Israel doing the opposite. They never keep the law. They're

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constantly disobeying the law, over and over and over. And

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because the law was never designed for the law was

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not there so that we could keep it because we

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can keep it. The law was to demonstrate that we

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can't keep it. Because we cannot keep it, we never

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will be able to keep it. Even as Christians, it's

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not our default position. Do I wish? My default position

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was to love God with all my heart, mind, body,

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and soul, To love others as I love myself, To

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love others the way I am supposed to, to love

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even my enemies, To turn the other cheek, to do

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all things without complaining and grumbling, to not be worried

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about anything. Don't I wish I could? I just my

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default position was to do all of this to love people,

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not in a selfish way, but in a self less way.

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I wish it was my default position. I long for

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that to be my default position. That I don't desire

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anything but God. I don't long for anything but God.

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I have no desires for the flesh. It's just spiritual.

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But it's not the case. It was not the case

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in Israel, it's not the case here. Jess. You Run

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is literally demonstrating exactly how we'd act, over and over

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and over again. In fact, it was funny even in

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the chapel service where he said our default position is

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not to sin, he over and over when he was

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reading some of the passages in the Old Testament that

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he was reading. I may be conflating sermons. I don't

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want to say that, because I was reading another sermon.

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So I was listening to another sermon. So I maybe

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conflating sermons here. I've listened to too many sermons this morning, Okay,

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So I think I already up to three or four

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already this morning. So I don't want to say. I

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don't want to say, but I was listening to a

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service or maybe it was one of the other things

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things from the old tests missing we are like Israel.

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We are like Israel, exactly exactly. We are like Israel.

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But I'm going to make a pretty bold claim here.

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All right, I'm gonna make a pretty bold claim here,

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and I make it all the time, But I want

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to offer a completely different perspective than what was offered

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at Bob Jones University at Chapel Service this morning. I

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want to offer something completely different. So they put forth

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the idea that the default position is that we don't sin.

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They mentioned Jess you run, which demonstrates Israel sinning. Because

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I think that's much more and in line with the

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reality of Christians for two thousand years of Church history.

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I'm going to make the following statement, and I make

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it all the time, that the reality of your life

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and the reality of my life as a Christian is

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that we are in perpetual state of sin twenty four

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hours a day, seven days a week if we take

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the command be holy, for I am holy. Found in

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Leviticus eleven forty four and found in Onirse Peter one sixteen.

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Those two scriptures Leviticus eleven forty four and one Peter

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one sixteen. They set a divine standard. They set the

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standard of absolute holiness, measured by God's own standard. If

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you take that command even slightly seriously, and if you

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apply it consistently, then no Christian ever fully meets it

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for even one second of their entire life. I do

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not know how I can stress that any more. I

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don't know how I can be more blunt. I do

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not know how I can be more direct. If you

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just take this command, be holy, for I am holy.

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It's found in a little Viticus eleven forty four and

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found in one Peter one sixteen. That sets a divine standard.

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That standard is one of absolute holiness, and it is

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measured by God's own nature. If you take that command,

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I'm telling you, if you just take it even a

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little bit seriously, and if you apply it just even

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a little bit consistently, then you that listen. No Christian,

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not you, not your pastor not your favorite Christian celebrity.

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you look in the mirror, no one ever fully meets

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it for even a second. And guess what if you

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never meet that standard for a second, then guess what

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that means. It means you in your perpetual stat of

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sin twenty four hours a day, seven days a week.

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My default position is sin, because that's what I'm in,

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twenty four hours of day, seven days a week. If

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we understand sin is falling short of God's glory Romans three,

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twenty three, then if holiness means if holiness means being

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as holy as God, then every moment of failing to

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meet that standard is sin. If sin is falling short

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of God's glory, and that means falling short of whom

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God is, and he tells us that then we are

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to be holy as He is holy, then every single

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moment you fail to be holy as God is holy,

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you are falling short of God's glory. Therefore you're in

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a perpetual state of sin. All have sin and fallen

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short of the glory of God. That doesn't stop after

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your conversion. We all fall short. The standard is holiness

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as God is holy. You never get there. You're in

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a perpetual state Matthew twenty two thirty seven through forty

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Sis to love God with all your heart, soul, mind strength.

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It is a moment by moment requirement. If you fail

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to love God fully even for a half a second,

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you're failing to be holy as He is holy. You

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never love God with all your heart, mind, body, and

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soul because you have a sinful nature inside of you.

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when no one is around, we pull the curtain back.

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Oh yeah, well, we're gonna find We're gonna find sin.

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We're gonna find sin. If you look at Matthew five

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forty eight, you know these scriptures be perfect. Therefore, as

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your heavenly Father is perfect. If perfection is the standard,

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than anything less is sin. Since no Christian achieves this,

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sin is perpetu wall. Then we have the sins of

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omission James four seventeen. Whosoever knows the right thing to

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do and fails to do it for him it is sin.

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Even failure to do what is perfectly right at any

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moment is considered sin. So what is the logical implication

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of this? The logical implication, obviously, we'll just go and

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throw this one out. Is the default position is sin.

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You are in sin twenty four to seven. That is

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your perpetual default position. I know you want to say no, no, no,

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My default position is not the sin. No, your default

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position is selfishness. It is self centeredness, It is self focused,

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self worship, self desire, self pleasure. If holiness is a

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total and app if holiness is total and absolute, so

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what I did is I asked Ai, hey, logically, come

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on logically the reality of what we are as Christians.

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What are the logical implications? This is what AI said.

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If holiness is total, and then every Christian is perpetually

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in sin because they never reach that standard. AI agrees.

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If holiness is total and absolute, like you've got to

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be holy as God is holy. That would be absolute,

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that would be total, then every Christian is in a

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perpetual state of sin. If holiness is then graded on

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a curve, then the standard is no longer divine holiness,

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but a lower, human adjusted one. So either you acknowledge

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that the standard is be holy as God is holy.

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That's absolute, that is complete, that is total, then you're

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in a perpetual state of sin, or you have to

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water it down. Then God is not the standard. Some human,

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some subjective human standard becomes the standard, since sin also

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includes o mission failing to do the right thing, and

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not just comission doing the wrong thing. Christian sin constantly,

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not just in external actions, but in attitudes, thoughts, and

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desires that listen. That is AI, Christian's sin constantly. AI

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even knows this. If sin were merely an occasional slip up,

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then we would see clear examples of Christians living hours, days,

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weeks without sin. But that contradicts both scripture and experience.

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So then AI said, here are the practical consequences. You're

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in a perpetual stat of sin. You need constant grace.

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You need constant grace. Well, how do we receive constant

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grace by putting our faith in Christ? His righteousness is

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perpetually accredited to my account. Twenty four hours a day,

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seven days a week. I am declared to be perfect

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righteous and just, even though twenty four to seven I

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am not. The grace is greater than my I sind

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because it's the perfect righteousness of Christ accredited to my account. Hey,

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I said this, if we send twenty four to seven,

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we need twenty four to seven grace. Amen, that's the reality.

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So guess what this does. This should magnify the beauty

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of justification by faith in your mind. This should make

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you go, I am so glad, I'm justified by faith

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by an imputed righteousness. Oh, just so that you know,

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the Chapel Service from Bob Jones University is now available

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on all podcasting apps. I just got a notification from

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a podcast app that they've made it available, so I'm

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assuming it's available. In the sermon's two point Oh, app,

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you should go listen to it. I mean it, you

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should go listen to the Chapel Service. All right. Our

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standing before God is based on christ righteousness, not our own,

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so we need constant grace and it should magnify the

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beauty of justification. We are justified by an imputed righteousness,

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not an infused one. Imputed meaning it's so credited to

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our account. That does not change my default position. My

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default position is just the same as it's always been,

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which is naturally well, it's sin. The problem of denial,

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Ai says, many philological traditions minimize the extent of ongoing

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sin and believers, leading to self deception or drum roll please, legalism.

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If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves

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and the truth is not in us. Another practical consequence,

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it leads to false expectations and sanctification. If we assume

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that Christians should reach a state of rarely sinning or

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defaulting to nonsinfulness, we set ourselves up for failure, guilt,

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and apsce elute hypocrisy. So AI says, hey, here's a

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realistic theology of sin. You want a realistic theology of sin,

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Here we go write this down. You want a realistic

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theology of sin. Christians are positionally holy in Christ. That's justification.

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Positionally you are holy, You're perfect, you are righteous. Positionally

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your default position is perfection. If you want to talk

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about a default position, it is true in your position.

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Christians are not practically holy in themselves. Christians are not

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practically holy in themselves. Number three, Christians are always felling

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to meet God's perfect standard. We are in a state

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of perpetual sinfulness. Here's a real balistic theology of sin.

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Christians are positionally holy in christ. Christians are not practically

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holy in themselves. Christians are always failing to meet God's

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perfect standard. We are in a perpetual state of sinfulness.

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Christians are always in need of grace, A constant reliance

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on what Christ did, not on what I can or

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can do, shouldn't do, may do. It's not on me

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my reliances on Christ did it. I said to be blunt,

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but to be biblically accurate. Every Christian is in a

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state of perpetual sin twenty four to seven because they

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never reached the perfect holiness of God for even a second.

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The good news is that our hope is not in

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our ability to meet the standard, but in Christ, who

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meant it on our behalf. I love Ai. AI can

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see see. AI doesn't worry. AI is not gonna get offended.

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AI does not get defensive. AI is not gonna be like, Oh,

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I'm gonna prove some point. AI's like no, and now

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I love how Ai says we. I'm like, no, Ai,

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you don't have this problem. I have this problem. But

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AI's talking about you, talking about me. We're in a

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perpetual state of sand, talking about Israel. Just you run,

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who whack fat man. They they were doing great, you know,

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because God was providing everything for them, but they kicked,

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they were waxing fat. It's repeated that many were they

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were They were being given so many things. God was

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giving them all kinds of things, and they're about to

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go into the land, but they've grown thick. They are

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covered with fatness. But guess what they did. Guess what

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gest you run had dead forsook God made, which made

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him lightly esteem the raw of his salvation, provoked him

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to jealousy with strange gods, with abomination, provoked him to anger,

465
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sacrificed un the devils, not to God, to gods whom

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they knew, not to knew, Gods that came newly up,

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whom your fathers feared. Not of the rock that begat thee.

468
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Thou art unmindful and has forgotten God that formed thee.

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And Israel did this over and over and over and

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over and over again. They couldnot keep the law. Ladies

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and gentlemen, we come along. We can't keep the law.

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But Christ did so today. Jes Churin, that's the word.

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I want you to remember. I want you to remember

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everything just Churin did. You can go to Deuteronomy thirty

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two fifteen and following right down everything Just Churin did everything,

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Just Churin did. Write it all down, just make a

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list of everything they did, and say that is my

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default position. I think my default position is just like

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jes churin my hope is not stopping to be like

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jesf Churan and trying to be a little bit better.

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Because even if I'm better than Israel, even if I'm better,

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even if I kind of can try to come up

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close to living up to the name upright one, even

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if I come close to that, I never meet the standard.

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So I'm still in a perpetual state of sin. I

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can say, well, I don't do this, and I don't

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do that. It doesn't matter. If you can give me

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a list of things and say don't do this and

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don't do that. Even if I don't do all of those,

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I'm still in a perpetual state of sin. That's why

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I ask Christians, whether we like it or not, we

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have a list of mortal and venial sins. As long

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you can commit these forty, you're good. No public scandal,

494
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no church discipline, you're not going to be have all

495
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your sermons deleted from a platform. You're gonna be okay.

496
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But if you commit these sins, that's it. Get the hammer,

497
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get the nails, get the rocks. We're gonna crucify you

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and stone you. Oh and light the fire. We're gonna

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burn you, and then we're gonna remove you. Because but

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I was committing sin all the time. Yeah, but we

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don't care that you're committing sin all the time. You

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just can't commit this sin. That's the one that'll do

503
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you with all the others are okay. It's very convoluted

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the way we approach things. Either we acknowledge that's the

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standard and no one meets the standard, so logically we're

506
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all in a perpetual state, or we ignore that reality.

507
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You know, I know I talk about this all the time,

508
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but I have to keep talking about it because every

509
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time I listen to preaching, it gives me this other perspective.

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And I'm not picking on Bob Jones University Chapel service.

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Someone's gonna get mad at me that I'm somehow picking

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on them. No, I'm not. They put forth their hypothesis,

513
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that's okay. You go. I've just told you go listen

514
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to it, believe it. That's okay. You'll be much more

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in line with most of Christianity if you'll agree with

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what was said there. I just disagree with it. I'm

517
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putting a counter perspective. You can disagree with me. That's okay,

518
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that's the market. That's the free market of ideas. I

519
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love that. I love the fact that they put forth

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their idea, and I love that I can put forth

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my idea. And then you can choose whichever way you

522
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want to go, because whether we like it or not,

523
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Christians just choose what they want to believe. Right now,

524
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I do want to check something here. I do want

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to verify something because typically I was going to do

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this during the teaching there and I failed. And now

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I'm kicking myself. Let me go here. I did not

528
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look this up. Let me go to the antilinear Deuteronomy

529
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thirty two. I always do this, and I fail to

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do it here. Just chrun let me look here, just

531
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your run upright one, all right, okay, A symbolic name

532
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for Israel, describing her ideal character. So as Luther, I'm gonna,

533
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I'm gonna. I'm gonna paraphrase Luther. This is what I

534
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want you to take today. If you are a Christian,

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here's the default reality. You are an upright one and

536
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you are a perpetual ciner at the exact same time.

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That's that's very Luther was like, we are a saint

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and a siner at the same time. We are justified

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and declared righteous and a sinner at the same time.

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That's the reality of Christianity. I'm an upright one in Christ,

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I am perfect, I am holy, I am a just

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your run as far as I'm an upright one, But

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in practice, I'm just like just chu run in Deuteronomy

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thirty two, I kick, I rebel, I turn to idolatry.

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I'm not grateful, I'm ungrateful. I'm a sinner. I do

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this and I do that. That's the reality of two

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thousand years of church history. We are just ch run.

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We are upright, but we are sinners, which confounds and

549
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confuses the world. They're like, wait a minute, those Christians

550
00:36:26.119 --> 00:36:28.880
lie and they gossip and they slander, and their church

551
00:36:28.960 --> 00:36:31.480
is split, and they're this scandal and this and this,

552
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and I work with this person. I know what they do.

553
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And then even if we can convince the world that

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we're good, the people around us usually know what's really

555
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going down. And even if we can convince all of them,

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you know what's really going on inside of you. And

557
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so you have to know you never are as holy

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as God, as holy, so at the same time we

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are just hur run. We are upright, but we're horrible

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and thought, word, deed, desire, and action at the same time,

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you are upright and you are sinner at the same time.

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That's the whole point of justification. By an imputed righteousness,

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you're declared to be that which you are not in practice.

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Somehow the church cannot reconcile that and how we conduct

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because we're like, okay, yes, we're say by an imputed righteousness,

566
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but our expectation is everyone basically is not going to

567
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do this and not going to do this, and not

568
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going to do this, But the reality is everyone's going

569
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to do those things. Are you saying we should just

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excuse it. No, what we should look for is that

571
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when people do things, they acknowledge it, they confess it

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is sin. And yes, we should strive and fight to

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try to turn against sin. But just remember whatever sin

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you turn against today, you're still in a perpetual state

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of sin twenty four to seven. And no matter how

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much you want to say that's not the case, it's

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the case. Just shoe run, that's your default position. So

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I tried to take the two words I gained from

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chapel service today and now you can see what you

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do with it. So go put just chur Run on

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the refrigerator and people say, what's that? That's that's that's

582
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your mom, that's your dad's, that's your parents. If your

583
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kids ask right, and if they claim to be a Christian,

584
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you're a little just Churrun. What does that mean? Well,

585
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you're an upright one in christ and in practice this

586
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is basically how you act around the house all day.

587
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You kick, you do all of this. Go look at

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Douteronodo me thirty two and look at everything just Churrun does.

589
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All right, I think we're onto something there. All right,

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Thanks for listening everyone, have a great day, and I'm

591
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going to go. I'm going to the Dean's office right now,

592
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and I'm reporting all of you for not showing up

593
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to chapel service. If I had to be there, why

594
00:38:58.159 --> 00:39:00.679
weren't only what were you guys doing? Hanging out in

595
00:39:00.719 --> 00:39:04.239
your dorm rooms? Just sleeping? Okay, all right, a little

596
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bit of joke, all right, have a good day. God

597
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bless