Sept. 28, 2024

Romans 8:10-11 Pt 4

Romans 8:10-11 Pt 4

We survey another sermon on Romans 8:10-11

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We survey another sermon on Romans 8:10-11

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Looking at our world from a theological perspective.

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This is the Theology Central podcast making Theology Central.

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Have you ever wanted to just completely give up? Have

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you ever reached a point where you're just so irritated, frustrated?

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You just feel defeated, discouraged, depressed, and you're just like,

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what's the use? It just doesn't matter. It's meaningless, it's

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vanity of vanities, it's useless, it's a waste of time.

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No one else seems to care. So why are you

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so bothered by it? Like, have you ever had some

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of those feelings, maybe not those exact words. Well, if

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you have felt that way, well I guess you're in

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the right place. But you're not gonna get any really

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good answers today. I don't think I'm gonna make you

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feel any better. So I guess maybe we can just

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by the end of this, we can all just give

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up together. Now, with all of that said, it is Saturday,

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September the twenty eighth, twenty twenty four. It is currently

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eleven oh one am Central time, and I am coming

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to you live from the Theology Central studio located right

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here in Albilene, Texas. Now, you know, for the last

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few broadcasts, I've started off with something like, this is

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Patrol one. Come in headquarters, headquarters. This is Patrol one.

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Please come in Patrol one. This is headquarters. Go ahead. Yes,

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I'm at the First Baptist Church and we have a

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horrible discovery. We have discovered three hundred dead bodies. Remember,

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we've been going through this. I've been acting this out.

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Obviously the acting hasn't been very good. But I've been

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acting this out right. And why have I been acting

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this out? Because I've been creating this kind of scenario,

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this metaphor, this illustration, to try to drive home this

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reality that as Christians, there's a reality. Nobody wants to

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admit it, but the reality is this that Christians continue

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to sin. In fact, I've been very dogmatic about a

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couple of points. Right, we cannot keep the law of God,

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non Christian Christian, we cannot keep the law of God.

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How do I know this? Well, I can give you

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some very specific commands. Be holy as He is holy.

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You're never going to be as holy as He is holy,

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meaning you're in a perpetual state of disobedience. So number one,

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you will never keep the law of God. Number two,

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that means you're in a perpetual state of disobedience. You

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are in a perpetual state of disobedience, and for some

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weird reason, Christianity has a hard time of acknowledging that. Now,

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if you're in a perpetual state of disobedience, then how

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do you understand the Christian life? Right? How do you

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view it? Because if we're in a perpetual state of disobedience,

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then the Christian life is a life of sin. We

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continue to sin, but they have this weird thing like, okay,

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well we may continue to sin, but you will not

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commit these sins. Well, wait a minute, if I can't

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be perfect and I'm going to continue to sin, how

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do you know which sins you're going to commit? And

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which sense I'm going to commit? And why are some

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sins outside of the realm of possibility or possibly even

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means you're not saved or you know something horrible has

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to happen, while all these other sins are okay. It's

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this confounding, confusing world of Christianity. And not only is

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that a reality that nobody really wants to admit, while

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that is a reality that everyone is living, whether they

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want to admit it or not. At the very same time,

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Christians are running around saying, no, when you became saved,

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you're a new creature. Old things are passed away. Behold,

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all things are new. Well, if I'm a new creature,

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old things are gone and everything is new, then why

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do we continue to sin? Oh, you have a new heart,

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you have a new nature, you have a new mind.

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You now have the power of God living inside of

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you to make you holy.

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Well.

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If I have the power of God inside of me,

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if I have the Holy Spirit inside of me to

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make me holy, well, then perfection should not just be expected,

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it should just be immediately understood and experienced. I said, well, no,

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it doesn't happen instantaneously. It's progressive. So you're telling me

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the power of God they're supposed to be driving me

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to holiness can't just get me there. It's this progressive thing.

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And then Christians will then ultimately admit, but you'll never

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get there. So I'm never going to be perfect. Well,

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you're never going to be perfect. So if I'm never

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going to be perfect, that means that I'm a perpetual

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state of sin. If I'm in a perpetual state of sin,

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how can then you say, well, if you commit this

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sin or this sin, well then something bad happens. How

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can I control which sin I'm going to commit? If

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you're telling me that I can't be perfect, that means

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there's going to be some sin. So who gets to

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determine which sin?

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It just bec maddening. And if you start trying to

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talk to Christians about it, you just end up talking

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in circles and they will they will make these claims

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and then immediately backtrack, and then make the claim and

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then immediately backtrack and then make like, well, this is

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the way it's supposed to be, and then you'll just

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challenge that. So you're saying I can be perfect, Well no,

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so that means I'm in a perpetual stay of sin.

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Well yeah, but you have to be transformed. Well, so

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I'm transformed, But how do you measure transformation? Well, you'll

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sind less sin less? And what way externally or internally?

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Because I can sind less externally, but that doesn't mean

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I'm sinning less internally, And how do you measure that?

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And if I'm sinning less in one area, what if

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I'm not sending less in another area? How are you

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measuring which is less and which is more based off

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some just arbitrary subjective standard by which you measure, by

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which you test, and in many cases to send you

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seeing I can't commit, You're just choosing certain sins. Well,

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this sin you can't, but this sin you can. Wait.

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Why is this sin and worse than this sin? Other

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than maybe from a human perspective, I obviously understand from

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human perspective or human you know circumstances. Well, I'm not

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even looking. But if we're not supposed to be looking

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at it from a human perspective, right, aren't we supposed

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to be looking at it from a theological perspective, from

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God's perspective? So we have been working on this non stop,

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and it's just it's I've reached the point where I'm

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just like, I'm exhausted. I'm like, I don't even know

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what to do anymore, because there aren't any answers. And

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the more you listen, the more sermons you listen to,

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we've already we've been working on sermons on Romans eight

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ten through eleven. Why have we been working on sermons

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on those two verses? Because remember I found the book

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Six Secrets of the Christian life and remember their entire theory. Well,

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the reason Christians continue to sin is because even though

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we've been transformed on the inside, our bodies are dead,

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and our bodies cannot respond to all of that transform

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nature and the spirit inside of us. So there's a disconnect.

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My body is dead to all the spiritual change that's

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happened inside of me, but inside I've been perfectly transformed,

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but my body can't respond. So what is needed, Well,

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my body just needs to be resurrected. Well, how is

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it resurrected? Well, so far, the best answer we've been

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given is well, you just have to study and read

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your Bible, and then well that's not a resurrection. Then

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it's supposedly a progressive transformation that I guess the more

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I read my body, the more I read my Bible

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and study my Bible, the more my body then can

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respond to. And it's like it didn't even make any sense.

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And there's no real explanation. Other people we've listened to,

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other sermons, they've not even really given an explanation. On

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one hand, they say you can keep the law. They

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literally have said that doubled down. You can keep it,

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but you can't be perfect. Wait, if I can keep it,

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then I can be perfect. So I can keep I

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don't do they offer an explanation. No, they say, you

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can't be carnal, you can't be fleshley, because Christians there

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are no such things as cardinal Christians. However, you can

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be a wretched man and sin, and you will continue

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to sin. However, you're not carnal or fleshley, and so

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then they try to draw some subjective difference between it.

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It's a lot of play on words. They make it

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sound like you basically are perfect, but then you can't

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be perfect. You will sin, but you won't sin. You

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don't have to sin, but you can't. And it's just

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I started joking. I used to joke that listening to

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some sermons just wants to, you know, make me want

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to stop by the liquor store. And by this and

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this series, I've basically said, forget the liquor store. I'm

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just going straight to rehab because I don't have any answers.

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I have tried to go through entire history of Christianity

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looking for how Christians have tried to handle this. Not

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we just there's no answers. Ladies and gentlemen, there's none,

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and so I'm going to be working on this, probably

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a little bit more. I don't know how the next

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week is going to be. I probably will be working

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a little bit on this Tomorrow at Victory Baptist Church,

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at least the first hour. The second hour we need

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to get to the next Therefore, in Romans, who knows,

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I may dedicate two hours to some of these issues tomorrow.

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I don't know. I haven't made a decision yet because

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on one hand, I want the people there to ensure

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that they understand this reality. But I know I can't

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be I guess this is where I'm at. I can't

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be the only Christian who understands this reality. When I

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listen to preaching and listen to Christians talk, it appears

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that I am the only one who understands this reality.

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I know that's not the case. I know there are some,

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but I think the ones who will admit this reality

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or in the minority of the minority of the minority

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of the minority, And if you bring this up, you're

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the one viewed as crazy. But I don't know how

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Christians just live their lives convincing themselves that they're better

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than they actually are, that they're better than other people

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and they cannot see how they are in a perpetual

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state of sin. It's like here, it's like, this is

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how Christianity really works, if we really want to get

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down to it. Forget God, forget transformed. We use all

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of that language, but what it comes down to is

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this is the Christianity everyone's okay with. Just don't commit

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these sins, whatever they are. For you just name four

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of them, five of them, six of them. There's just

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a couple of big ones. But everything else, well, no

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one's really perfect. And it's okay if we commit all

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these other sins. I mean, I mean, we may feel

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bad about it, and we say, but we don't really

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worry that much about them, right. So, really, Christianity is

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just a moral system that has some sins that are

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not acceptable and we can you know, most of them

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are sexual sins. Those are that's that's that's a bridge

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too far if you if you cross that line, well

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then you're finished. Now. All the other sins, it's okay.

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A little gossip, slander, backbiting, unloving, not loving your enemy, bitterness,

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I'm forgetting. Now we'll hear sermons about it and feel

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bad about it. I'm not saying we won't, but I

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mean the reality is, we don't really care about any

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of those sins. Oh we say we do, but we

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really don't. Because if we really did care about those

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sins and they really bothered us, then you every Christian

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would be having the same crisis that I'm having, which

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is and I've been having at my whole Christian life. Well,

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wait a minute, why do we continue to sind? Why

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do we continue to sind? Why do we continue to sind? Why? Well,

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and again, you just understand the logical problem you fall into, right,

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because on one hand, you say, no, you're a new creature.

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Old things are passed away, All things have become new.

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You have a new heart, you have a new soul,

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you have a new heart, a new mind, a new spirit.

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Everything has changed insight of you. And that you can

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keep the law of God by the power of God.

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That's the claims Christians make. Well, then why do you sin?

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What is keeping you from perfection? Now? The minute you

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something is the minute you acknowledge you can't be perfect.

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The minute you acknowledge that, then you've got to logically

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then answer, what is keeping you from it. Now you

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claim you have all this power, you have all this ability,

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then why can't you be perfect? And then my argument

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is logically, whatever is keeping you from perfection is stronger

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and more powerful than all of those things you claim

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have changed, and all those things you claim are helping

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you get to holiness. No, whatever is keeping you from

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it is stronger than all the things trying to get

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you to it. Well, then what is it that's stronger.

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human will is stronger. And if the human will is stronger,

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why if God has changed your heart and nature, then

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where is the will coming from that doesn't want to

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be holy? That even is even more confusing, I say,

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is that man has free will. Well, that free will

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arises from the desires. That will chooses what comes from

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its nature. From what where the desires come from?

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you know, new nature, and the Spirit of God is

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inside of me, then my will would be influenced by

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that nature and that new heart. So that why is

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the nature? Why is my will going against that nature

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that would make no sense. So then they can't explain that.

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have to then come to the conclusion that that obviously

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we're not as transformed on the inside as we claim.

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have to be something from inside of us, or you

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have to or the unde. You really become uncomfortable. You

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have to acknowledge, Well, God doesn't want us to be holy,

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and some Christians cannot obviously accept that. So then what's

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the end. Nobody has the answer. But I've demonstrated over

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and over and over that even church history, even those

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in church history, have acknowledged that we're in a perpetual

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state of sin. That's why throughout church history, and especially

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in many liturgical traditions and even some that may not

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be so liturgical, there was a basic idea that when

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you come to church, how do we begin by acknowledging

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and confessing our sins? Because we know that we have sinned,

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that we all show up to church as sinners. Again,

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let me read from one such liturgical tradition. If we

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say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves. And the

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truth is not in us. But if we confess our sins,

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God is faithful and justin will forgive us our sins

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and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. Most Merciful God, we

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confess that we are in bondage to sin. That is

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literally from a liturgical confession Christians saying we are still

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in bondage to sin. Well, most of Evangelicalism will argue, no, no, no,

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no no, we're no longer in bondage. Decin we've been

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set free. Well, if you've been set free, you should

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be able to be perfect. Well, you can't be perfect,

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then whatever is keeping you from perfection, You're still in

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bondage to But we confess that we are in bondage

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to sin and cannot free ourselves. We have sinned against

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you and thought word. Indeed, by what we have done

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and by what we have left undone, we have not

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loved you with our whole heart. We have not loved

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our neighbors as ourselves. For the sake of your son,

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jeesezus Christ, have mercy on us forgive us. The early

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Church understood that we're in a perpetual state of sin nobody,

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But at the same time, much of Christianity speaks as

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if no, you've been set free. You now have power,

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You have a new this knew this, knew this, knew this,

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knew this. So we're still working through this. We're still

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trying to find the answers. We're still trying to figure

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out what to do with the three hundred dead bodies

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that we found. All right, and again, I could go

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back to that illustration. I'm almost just frustrated at this point.

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If I'm headquarters, I call back to Patrol one. Hey,

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Patrol one, this is headquarters. Those three hundred bodies. We've

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identified those bodies as Christians. They're delusional, they're insane. They

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are self deceived. They think they're better than everyone else.

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They think they've been completely transformed. They think they're better

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than you, they think they're better than everything. They think

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they basically can be perfect. So let them live in

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their own self delusion. Pat them on the back and

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tell them how wonderful. Oh, yes, you do so good,

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you're almost without sin, you're so perfect, you're so transformed,

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you're the greatest, like you're talking to a little you

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know dog, Oh, you're such a good boy, and just

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tell them how wonderful they are, and then they can

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go around living a self deluded, self deceived life of

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thinking they're better than everyone else, or everyone else on

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the outside looking in, we know that they're not. I

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know that sounds really negative, but that's kind of almost

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where I want to take the illustration at this point,

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so you can hear my own frustration, because in some

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ways I feel like I've been working on this question

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my whole Christian life, and every time, you know, Christians

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get mad at me and want to argue with me

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about this, they almost inevitably because when they push and

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they push, and then I just I'll just stop and say, okay, okay,

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So you're telling me you're perfect, Well, no, you're telling

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me you can be perfect. No, you're telling me you're

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a holy as God is holy? Well, no are you

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telling me you love your neighbors yourself? Well, know, then

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why are you arguing with me? If you acknowledge and

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I acknowledge that we neither one of us can be

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perfect and that means we're perpetually in a state of sin,

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then we have to answer the questions about why and

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how come. So we're going to continue to work on that.

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But here's what we're going to do. I want you,

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I don't know for how many days. I want you

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to start looking up sermons on the sermon's two point

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ohero app about things like a new heart, a new mind,

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a new nature, old nature, old heart. So things like

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new heart, new mind, new nature, old heart, old mind,

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old nature, transformation, transformation, And you'll find this really weird

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thing within Christianity, because on one hand, Christianity will tell

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you you have been transformed, because if you're in Christ

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you're a new creature. Old things are passed away, all

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things have become new, and they won't acknowledge that as

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a positional reality. They'll talk about it as a practical reality. However,

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ten seconds later in the sermon, we have to continue

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to fight against sin. We have to continue to be transformed.

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Wait a minute, if I've been transformed, then why do

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I need to continue to be transformed? Either I was

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or I wasn't create And within same sermons you'll get

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this contradiction. You're a new creature, oh that all things

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have become new. You have a new heart, you have

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a new mind, you have a new nature, Yet we

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continue to fight and struggle against sin. What where is

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the sin? If I have a new heart, new mind,

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new nature, I've been completely transformed. The old is completely gone,

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and I have God living inside of me empowering me.

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Then I don't need to fight against anything because everything's

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been done. So for the next you know, I don't

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even know how many days, just start working on it,

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and I'm going to get us started. I found a

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sermon entitled new heart, new mind, new life, trans the

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Transformative Power of Christ, or something along those lines. It's

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a long title, new mind, new life, new heart, transformative

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Power of Christ, something along those lines. And I don't

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even I think. I just looked up new heart or

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something along those lines. You can look up different phrases

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new heart, new mind, old heart, old nature, new nature,

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and you'll you'll well, you'll see what you'll see what

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you find and you can let me know. So we're

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just gonna jump in. I don't even know how long

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this is gonna go. But look, this is really where

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it comes down to. Christianity continues to sell the idea

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that everything on the inside is basically perfect. Well if

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everything on the inside of you, and everything on the

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inside of me is supposedly perfect. Don't you see the problem?

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Because Jesus said all the didn't and you can check

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this on But the Bible seems to indicate that the

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problem is that the inside is wrong, and it's from

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the inside that the sin originates from. The sin originates

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from a corrupt internal part of our us, or the

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sin is arising from inside of us. Our external actions

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are simply a reflection of our internal condition. Our external words,

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our external actions is all because our thoughts our desires

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are flawed, and that flaw is inside of us. Well,

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if we continue to sin, that would seem to indicate

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there's still something wrong on the inside of us. And

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Christians are really weird about like, well, there's sin, it's

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just the influence of sin that's left. Wait, so we

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have a completely new heart, new nature. Where is the

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influence residing If the heart is changed and the nature

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has changed and the mind is changed, can someone explain

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it to me? So then they try to say, well,

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the influence is in the physical body, But isn't the

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physical body moved by the internal size. It's just it

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becomes nobody can articulate it in a way that makes

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any sense. But for somewhere reason they can just throw

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out all the words they want and everyone the pew

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will just be like makes sense, makes sense. And I'm

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sitting there going what are you aimning? Because again, if

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you were waiting in the parking lot to ask some

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of the Christians to really articulate what they have heard

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and make it make sense in a practical way, they

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can't do it, or they have to deny the very

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reality you know they're living. So we're gonna look at this.

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We're gonna see where this goes. I don't know how

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far we're gonna make it. Well, just I bet you

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pretty quick we're gonna get well. I have my predictions.

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Let's just find out. Are you ready? Here we go.

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Romans Chapter eight. I'm gonna read one through thirteen. The

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key verses today are ten through thirteen. There is therefore

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now no condemnation to them who are in Christ Jesus,

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who walk not after the flesh but after the spirit.

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For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ,

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Jesus has made me free from the law of sin

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and death, for what the law could not do, and

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that it was weak through the God sending his own

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son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin condemned,

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sin in the flesh, that the righteousness of the law

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might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh,

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but after the spirit. For they that are after the

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flesh do mind the things of the flesh, but they

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that are after the spirit the things of the spirit.

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For to be carnally minded as death, but to be

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spiritually minded his life and peace. Because the carnal mind

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is enmity against God, for it is not subject to

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the law of God, neither indeed can be so. Then

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they that are in the flesh cannot please God. But

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you're not in the flesh, but in the spirit. If

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so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now,

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if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he

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is none of his. And if Christ be in you,

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the body is dead because of sin, but the spirit

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is life because of righteousness. But if the spirit of

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Him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you,

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he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also

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quicken your mortal bodies by your spirit that dwelleth in you. Therefore, brethren,

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we are debtors not to the flesh, to live after

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the flesh. For if you live after the flesh, you

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shall die. But if you, through the spirit do mortify

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the deeds of the body, you shall live. You may

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be seated.

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Romans eight ten to eleven once again show up. I

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was picking it just because we've been talking about a

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new heart, new mind, we've been talking about these things. Well,

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let's just kind of let's kind of move forward, right,

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we still have it, we stole. We need to do

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some work on Romans eight, and we will, but you know,

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we'll get we'll get back to that. Let's let's advance

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this a little bit. Well, it looks like we're not advancing.

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We're right back to Romans eight ten through eleven, which

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seems to be where everyone goes for some of these issues.

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And we're gonna see what answer. We're gonna see if

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we get an answer. So I have a feeling where

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this is going to go. I don't know if this

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is going to take the exact direction as the book

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Six Secrets of the Christian Life, which we've we've worked

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through and I told everyone to get a copy of

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So I don't know, but here we go. We're right back.

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We can't get away from Romans eight ten to eleven.

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It seems like we are trapped here. But all right,

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let's see where we're gonna what we're gonna find out.

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Let me go to the Lord in prayer. Do heav'nly? Father,

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He asked you to be with us this morning as

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we dive into your word. Help us to absorb your

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truths as a sponge. Help us to hide your word

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in our heart. Be with us. We give you glory

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and praise. Amen. The title for this message today is

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new Heart, new mind, new life, the transformative power of Christ. Again.

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The key verses are ten through thirteen. But let me

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set the stage for verse ten to thirteen by keeping

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you up to date. And verse one, we see that

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there's no condemnation to them who are in Christ Jesus.

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And the evidence of those who are in Christ Jesus.

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What don't walk after the flesh, but after the spirit.

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They Okay, here we go. The problems began, The problems

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begin to mount, The problems begin to grow. All right,

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so here we go. There is therefore now no condemnation

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to them who are in Christ Jesus. How does he

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put it? What is the evidence? How do you know

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if you are in Christ Jesus? You walk not after

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the flesh? You walk not after the flesh. Now, the

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minute you say that is the proof that you are

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in Christ Jesus. So now the key is for at

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this point, if you need assurance of your salvation, if

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you need assurance of your faith, you don't look to Christ.

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You don't look at his perfection, you don't look at

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his completed work. You look to your life. And you've

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got to determine if you're walking after the flesh. How

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do you know if you're walking after the flesh? What

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is the evidence of walking after the flesh? Now? Now,

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because you've got to this cannot be subjective. This has

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to be clearly defined. It has to be an objection

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the active standard, because you're telling people the only way

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you know you're saved, the only way you know that

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there is now therefore no condemnation, is because you no

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longer walk in the flesh. Now that's a mess. So

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that means every Christian who believes they're saved has to

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convince themselves that they don't walk after the flesh, which

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stand Therefore, you're inferring that everyone who is a save

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they are. So that means there should be an amazing

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difference between those outside of the church and those inside

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the church. If we inside the church claim to be saved.

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But then I would go to First Corinthians the Book

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of First Corinthians, the Letter of First Corinthians, where Paul

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refers to the people at the Church of as Christians

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over and over and over and over and over, yet

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he says that they are carnal. Well, how if your cardinal,

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are you not walking after the flesh? Are you not

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with this? Maybe as far as we're going to get

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in this sermon review, I'm gonna I'm gonna do a

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little work here, right and I'm gonna, hm, I'm gonna

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you know, you know, I'm gonna be working. I'm gonna

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go to Ai really quick because I'm just confused. In

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Romans eight one, Paul refers to walking in the flesh.

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Please provide.

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An explanation and some clear, some clear.

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Examples of what it means to walk to in the flesh.

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All right, let's see what how Ai answers this. All

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right now, Now I'm laughing. I'm laughing because one. I know,

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I know me and AI are going to get into

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a disagreement here because what's happening is Ai, AI is

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going to I mean, it's open Ai. It's gonna pull

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from you know, the world of Christianity. And I know

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how the world of Christianity is going to answer this.

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But let's see here, all right, So to walk Now,

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this is what AI says. Now remember his entire thesis

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right here. I mean he started right out the gate,

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right to right out the gate. If you if there

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is no there is therefore now no condemnation for those

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who are in Christ Jesus. What is the proof that

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you are in Christ Jesus? You no longer walk after

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the flesh? Now that he's making a very objective standard.

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Now the way the second he makes such a definitive,

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dogmatic declaration, the minute he does that, then it requires

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then a clear delineation of what that means. It has

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to mean something. There's going to be a clear outline.

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This is what it means to walk in the flesh.

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And if you do this, you are not saved. Now

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everyone's sitting in the pew will say amen to this,

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but nobody will take a second going wait, a minute,

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Like you think people in the drive home will be like,

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did you hear that? If we're truly in Christ, we

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won't walk after the flesh? Well do you think you

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walk up the flesh? Well? I know you walk at

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the flesh and the kids in the back seat were

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going you both walk in the flesh. You're both lost?

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So can we stop going to church? Now? Can we

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go get some pizza?

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All right?

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Because they are going to know it, but all right,

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here we go. So to walk in the flesh refers

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to living according to the sinful human nature that is

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opposed to God and his will. Okay, now let's go

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back to our initial dogmatic declaration. Every Christian is in

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a perpetual state of sin because every Christian cannot get

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to perfection. No Christian can keep God's law. What let

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me give you an example again. You know what I'm

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going to say, What is the law? Be holy as

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He is holy? Can you do it? No, you're in

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a perpetual state of sin. Or if you're in a

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perpetual state of sin, are you not then living according

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to the sinful human nature that is opposed to God

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and his will? Because you're living and a perpetual state

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of opposition to His will. So if walking according to

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the flesh means you're not saved, especially if we understand

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that this just means living according to the sinful human

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nature that is opposed to God and his will, then

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you are who saved. The flesh often represents humanity's natural desires,

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which are corrupted by sin. To walk in the flesh

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means to live a life driven by selfishness, world desires

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and actions that gratify one's selfish inclinations. Then then seeking

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to live in alignment with God's spirit. Christians, look, we

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could say, well, we're trying to live an alignment with

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God's spirit, but we live according to our own worldly,

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sinful desires over and over and over and over. You know,

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time and time again. What do you spend more time doing?

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What do you spend more time doing? Do you spend

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more time in prayer, Bible reading, fasting, church listening, discerments?

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Come on, come on, you know you know you spend

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more time doing all kinds of other things. Now, there's

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always the exceptions. There are some who may say, oh

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that's it. I'm I'm not gonna have a TV. I'm

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not gonna do anything for entertainment. I'm just and the

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others will say, well, you don't have to do that. Well,

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then how do you then can you measure? Look, if

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if the whole proof of your salvation is you've got

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to demonstrate that you don't walk according to the flesh,

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then you would be the one most concerned about that.

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You'd be like, Okay, I gotta prove it. I gotta

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prove it. So now the entire salvation becomes a performance

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based test of you determining that you're not doing anything

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according to the flesh. But even if you give up

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your TV, you entertain tainment, you give up all of that.

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Come on, you can see it in Christians. You can

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see their selfishness. All they do is focus on themselves.

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All they do is worry about themselves. I mean, come on,

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we all see it. Look. Walking in the flesh, this

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is a simple definition. Walking in the flesh is basically

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living in a way that prioritizes self over God. It's literally,

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all of us we put ourself before God time and

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time again. This is a way of living. This is

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a way of living that includes pursuing things like immediate pleasure, materialism,

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or personal power without regards for God's moral law or

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his desire for holiness. So uh, selfish ambition and pride

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can be a walking according to the flesh. Harboring unforgiveness

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or bitterness can be walking in the flesh, excessive focus

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on physical pleasure. It doesn't have to be some horrible,

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horrible sin. So if this is the way we're going

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to understand this, ladies and gentlemen, we're finished. You have

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to then convince yourself well, well, I mean sometimes I do,

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but overall you have to play these little games to

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make a dogmatic assertion that the only way you the

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way you know you are there is therefore no condemnation.

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The only way to know that you are in Christ Jesus,

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therefore you're not condemned, is that you walk not according

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to the flesh. Then you would have to, I mean,

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you would need clear indication of like you would need

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an indicator like beep beeppppppppep walking according to the flesh. Now,

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what if you walk according to the flesh for a

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couple of weeks? Does that prove you? And never say?

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Well?

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Then some people say, well no, it just means that

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the overall trajectory of your life will show you walked

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after the spirit more than you walked after the flesh,

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Meaning you can have no assurance of your salvation until

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you get to the end of your life. Then you

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look up back over the end of your life and

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you try to determine which way you walk the most,

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then you can have assurance. But that would make your

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entire salvation not resting in the finished work of Jesus Christ,

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but it would be everything focusing on what you did

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and didn't do. That's supposedly the opposite of what Christianity teaches.

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That sounds like Roman Catholicism. We're supposed to say, my

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assurance rest not in what I do, can do, should do,

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may do, would do, will do. It is all found

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in the finished work of Jesus Christ. And if I

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am in Christ, I walk not after the flesh, not

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practically but positionally. In Christ Jesus, I don't walk after

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the flesh. I'm perfectly in Christ, and he did not

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walk after the flesh. I'm in him. His obedience is

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now imputed to my account, and I stand perfect in Him.

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So if you want to say that, if I'm truly saved,

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I will not walk after the flesh, I will say, well,

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I'm in Christ, Jesus, he didn't walk after the flesh,

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so I'm truly saved. But see if I try to

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say that, people say, oh, now you're an Antinomian. Now

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you're destroying the gospel. Well, you just turned the gospel

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into a performance based system which you cannot even really

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clearly identify when I have crossed the line, and I'm

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no longer saved or was never saved. So we're already

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off to a very very very very very rough start here.

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We're off to a very very rough start. But so

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I just want you to here's what I want you

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to do today. Come on, I want you to make

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a chart walk after the flesh. Now, you can use AI,

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you can use commentaries, just listen, just look if you

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need to, you can look up sermons walk after the flesh,

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and just start making a list of all the things

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that indicate when you're walking after the flesh, and just

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be deeply honest with yourself, Be deeply honest with yourself.

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If you've been in church long enough, does that describe

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the church? It clearly describes I mean, does this clearly

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not seem to describe these people? And I brethren could

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not speak unto you as undo spiritual, but as unto carnal,

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even as unto babes in Christ. I have fed you

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with milk and not with meat, for hitherto you were

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not able to bear it. Neither yet now are ye able,

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For ye are yet carnal. And then look at all

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the sins in the Church of Corinth carnal fleshly, carnal fleshly.

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Paul does not say, hey, guys, you're not saved. Why not?

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He could have started the church he had started the

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letter the First Corinthians, going hey, guys, I noticed that

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there's a lot of problems in this church. And there's

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no point me going through all the problems. There's no

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point in me trying to work through all of this

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because the problem is none of you were saved, because

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if you were saved, you wouldn't be doing any of

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the things you're doing. So instead of me going through

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all of these issues trying to correct them, I need

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to just start by saying, all of you get saved,

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and then once you get saved, then the problems will

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just magically fix themselves because you'll no longer walk after

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the flesh. So then dune da da da, you'll be good.

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I mean, I mean if so, if you're if you

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walk after the flesh, you're not saved. Then the solution

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isn't to say, well, try to do this, and try

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to do this, and you need to do this, and

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you need to do that. No, I don't have to

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do anything. I just get saved and I no longer

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walk after the flesh. So dun du da da, I

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get saved to have superpowers. But Christians walk after the

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flesh all the time.

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They have a new inclination in them, a new desire,

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a new power, a new position.

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See, we don't walk after the flesh anymore. We have

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a new inclination, we have a new desire, we have

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a new power. That means Christians should never walk after

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the flesh. Ever, you have a new heart, you have

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a new desire, you have a new inclination, you have

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a new power. See why then why do we talk

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about fighting against sin? There's nothing to fight against. If

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I have a new desire, if I have a new inclination,

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then I won't I don't even have a desire to

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walk after the flesh. Here's all the things of the flesh.

702
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I don't even feel that anymore, because I've been changed

703
00:41:43.719 --> 00:41:45.679
on the inside. So now I'm just gonna go do

704
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my own I'm just gonna now walk after the spirit.

705
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It must be great to be able to stand behind

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a pulpit and say, we don't do this anymore. We

707
00:42:01.599 --> 00:42:07.960
don't do this anymore. Have you ever been in churches?

708
00:42:10.320 --> 00:42:15.880
Political backstabbing, gossip? Oh, man, the stuff that goes on.

709
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Now I don't feel well. That's because most people in

710
00:42:20.239 --> 00:42:22.559
churches aren't safe. The people who say that are always

711
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the one who now stand in judgment of everyone else.

712
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But you, of course have got it all figured out.

713
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Can we just admit we're all still sinners? Can we?

714
00:42:31.199 --> 00:42:34.559
Why can we not just ever bring ourselves to acknowledge

715
00:42:34.639 --> 00:42:39.840
that and then bill work on the problem from that reality.

716
00:42:40.400 --> 00:42:43.519
But we can't work on the problem because Christianity begins

717
00:42:43.559 --> 00:42:46.960
by training to basically claim, no, we don't do that anymore.

718
00:42:47.199 --> 00:42:49.440
We've just magically been cured.

719
00:42:53.079 --> 00:42:56.880
We have a new status. We were once condemned, but

720
00:42:57.079 --> 00:43:01.960
we are not condemned now. Why Because our justification is

721
00:43:02.159 --> 00:43:07.519
in the person of Christ. Verse two talks about how

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the law of the Spirit liberated us and it sets

723
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us free from both sin and death. Verse three, God

724
00:43:18.639 --> 00:43:24.360
sends his son to be the sin offering for his

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00:43:24.639 --> 00:43:28.400
people shows how God takes action to deal with the

726
00:43:28.480 --> 00:43:33.239
problem of our sin. In fact, the only solution to

727
00:43:33.360 --> 00:43:38.719
the world's problem today is the Lord Jesus Christ, none other.

728
00:43:40.039 --> 00:43:43.400
Verse four talks about the righteous requirements of the law

729
00:43:44.000 --> 00:43:48.320
is being fulfilled in us. We can't keep the law.

730
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Why because in our flesh we are weak. Hence why

731
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God saved us put a spirit within us that we're

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able to be obedient to the laws in rules of God.

733
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All right, you just heard it. We couldn't keep the law.

734
00:44:08.599 --> 00:44:17.840
God put a spirit in us. Now we can. So

735
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you can keep the law. Now, ladies and gentlemen. The

736
00:44:21.199 --> 00:44:23.639
minute you say you can keep the law, you know

737
00:44:23.760 --> 00:44:28.440
what to expect. Now, right, perfection, you can keep it.

738
00:44:29.239 --> 00:44:33.639
You can. It's not a lack of ability. You're not unable.

739
00:44:33.920 --> 00:44:39.039
There's not an inability. You possess power to keep the law.

740
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So now, when you read the Bible and it says

741
00:44:41.599 --> 00:44:43.679
be holy as He is holy, you can do that.

742
00:44:44.480 --> 00:44:46.639
When Jesus says, be ye perfect as your hevling Father

743
00:44:46.760 --> 00:44:49.119
is perfect, you can do that. When the Bible says

744
00:44:49.199 --> 00:44:50.960
love God with all your heart, mind, body, and soul.

745
00:44:51.199 --> 00:44:53.079
You can do that. When the Bible says love your

746
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neighbors yourself, you can do that. When the Bible says

747
00:44:55.760 --> 00:44:57.719
love your enemy, you can do that. When it says

748
00:44:57.800 --> 00:44:59.960
turn the other cheek, you can do that. When it's

749
00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:02.159
says to resist not evil, you can do that. When

750
00:45:02.199 --> 00:45:04.519
it says, bless those who persecute you, you can do that.

751
00:45:04.719 --> 00:45:06.800
When it says don't look at a woman with lust,

752
00:45:07.039 --> 00:45:09.880
you can stop all lust. When it says anger, you

753
00:45:09.960 --> 00:45:13.039
can stop all anger. LUs you can stop everything. You

754
00:45:13.159 --> 00:45:16.519
can stop all sin internally and externally. Because if you

755
00:45:16.599 --> 00:45:19.000
can keep the law, then you can be perfect. Because

756
00:45:19.079 --> 00:45:21.599
to violate one part of the law, you're guilty of

757
00:45:21.679 --> 00:45:23.400
all of it. So if you can keep it, then

758
00:45:23.440 --> 00:45:25.480
you can keep it all. You can keep it perfectly.

759
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Therefore you can be perfect. There is no excuse for

760
00:45:28.199 --> 00:45:30.599
you not to be perfect. Therefore, one sin, you should

761
00:45:30.599 --> 00:45:33.119
be excommunicated from a church. Because if you can keep

762
00:45:33.159 --> 00:45:35.519
the law, there is no excuse for you not keeping

763
00:45:35.599 --> 00:45:38.559
it other than you. I don't know. Nobody knows exactly

764
00:45:38.639 --> 00:45:40.639
why we can't keep it. Then why do we not

765
00:45:40.760 --> 00:45:44.000
keep it? Why do we not keep it? Don't you

766
00:45:44.079 --> 00:45:46.159
see why do we not keep it? Let me try

767
00:45:46.199 --> 00:45:48.639
to figure out, see what would be what's the thing

768
00:45:48.760 --> 00:45:50.679
keeping me from doing it? Now, I see this is

769
00:45:50.719 --> 00:45:53.440
where it gets all convoluted. Wait, well you have a will.

770
00:45:53.599 --> 00:45:55.880
Well wait a minute, my will would be driven by

771
00:45:55.920 --> 00:45:57.679
my nature, you said, I have a new nature, a

772
00:45:57.760 --> 00:46:00.360
new inclination, a new desire, and a new power. So

773
00:46:00.519 --> 00:46:02.440
I have all of those new things inside of me.

774
00:46:02.639 --> 00:46:04.760
Then there's nothing inside of me that would keep that

775
00:46:04.840 --> 00:46:07.159
would make me not want to keep it. So then

776
00:46:07.199 --> 00:46:09.880
where is the desire to not keep the law coming from?

777
00:46:11.800 --> 00:46:13.760
You said, Well, it comes from the body. But isn't

778
00:46:13.760 --> 00:46:17.000
the body driven by the internal side? All of those

779
00:46:17.039 --> 00:46:19.400
things inside of us would drive the body. Right are

780
00:46:19.440 --> 00:46:21.280
you saying the body can't respond to all those in

781
00:46:23.119 --> 00:46:24.280
where's the disconnect?

782
00:46:30.199 --> 00:46:34.559
First four highlights the transformation that takes place for believers,

783
00:46:34.880 --> 00:46:38.480
enabling them to fulfill the law's righteous requirements.

784
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For five, see we are enabled according to his view,

785
00:46:44.840 --> 00:46:49.199
we are enabled. We are enabled by the spirit to

786
00:46:49.280 --> 00:46:53.239
keep the law. Meaning my ability is God given. If

787
00:46:53.320 --> 00:46:56.480
God gives me the ability to keep the law, that

788
00:46:56.719 --> 00:47:00.280
is a perfect ability. It's not a partial ability. You know,

789
00:47:00.400 --> 00:47:03.280
I would say that the righteousness of the law might

790
00:47:03.320 --> 00:47:05.280
be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh,

791
00:47:05.320 --> 00:47:08.360
but after the spirit. It is fulfilled in me by faith.

792
00:47:10.480 --> 00:47:13.280
I believe this is a positional reality where I know

793
00:47:13.400 --> 00:47:16.760
it's not a practical reality. I look, he can say

794
00:47:16.800 --> 00:47:19.960
that all day behind a pulpit. I know nobody in

795
00:47:20.039 --> 00:47:23.000
his church is keeping the law. He's not keeping the law,

796
00:47:23.360 --> 00:47:26.239
no one, because the law demands perfection. So why do

797
00:47:26.400 --> 00:47:30.199
we constantly teach everyone that you can do something you

798
00:47:30.559 --> 00:47:33.360
can't do? You know what this sets up? It sets

799
00:47:33.440 --> 00:47:36.559
up the expectation of everyone's gonna be perfect little boys

800
00:47:36.639 --> 00:47:39.519
and girls. And when then when someone's not perfect, everybody's like, oh,

801
00:47:40.239 --> 00:47:42.760
why did you sin? I don't know why you sinned

802
00:47:42.960 --> 00:47:45.480
because you don't have to ever sin again because you

803
00:47:45.599 --> 00:47:50.119
can keep the law. So then what do we do

804
00:47:50.360 --> 00:47:54.039
We throw we basically you're like, okay, come here, come here, Hey,

805
00:47:54.239 --> 00:47:57.039
you sinned. You gotta go. You're gonna make us look bad.

806
00:47:57.239 --> 00:48:01.199
We can't have you around us. You're horrible because there's

807
00:48:01.239 --> 00:48:04.840
something wrong with you. Get out, go you're unclean, Separate

808
00:48:04.920 --> 00:48:07.440
yourself from us, don't get near us, don't touch us

809
00:48:07.519 --> 00:48:10.760
with your uncleanliness. Because we're the perfect ones. We can

810
00:48:10.840 --> 00:48:13.639
take up the stones and throw them at everyone else

811
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because we are without sin, because we can keep the law. Now,

812
00:48:18.480 --> 00:48:20.440
the minute you backtrack and say no, no, no, no, no,

813
00:48:20.519 --> 00:48:23.119
no no no, we can keep it, but no one does.

814
00:48:23.559 --> 00:48:27.519
That makes literally no sense. You can't say, well, we

815
00:48:27.639 --> 00:48:30.920
can keep it, but nobody's perfect. No, if you can,

816
00:48:31.280 --> 00:48:35.360
there would be millions of perfect people. Why because you

817
00:48:35.360 --> 00:48:38.039
wouldn't have to be fighting against your nature, because you've

818
00:48:38.039 --> 00:48:41.480
already articulated, as most Christians do, that your new nature,

819
00:48:41.679 --> 00:48:44.800
your new wants, your new desire. Everything is transformed. So

820
00:48:44.920 --> 00:48:48.559
there's nothing fighting against you from keeping the law other

821
00:48:48.679 --> 00:48:52.880
than external factors. But how can those external factors have

822
00:48:53.039 --> 00:48:56.519
any impact on you? Because the external factors are tempting

823
00:48:56.599 --> 00:49:00.119
you with things your new nature no longer desires, I

824
00:49:00.119 --> 00:49:02.079
should not have any impact on you in any way,

825
00:49:02.079 --> 00:49:02.679
shape or form.

826
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Contrast between the living according to the flesh versus those

827
00:49:11.639 --> 00:49:15.119
who live according to the spirit. We see the two

828
00:49:15.239 --> 00:49:20.559
opposing minds. You see the true believer and the false believer.

829
00:49:20.760 --> 00:49:24.280
You see the unregenerate sinner the unbeliever, and you see

830
00:49:24.320 --> 00:49:31.199
the regenerate saint a believer. It introduces the idea of

831
00:49:31.320 --> 00:49:37.400
two opposing mindsets, one focused on sin, after sin after

832
00:49:37.519 --> 00:49:41.280
the flesh, one focused on the spirit and after God's will.

833
00:49:42.599 --> 00:49:48.119
Verse six shows a mind governed by the flesh is death,

834
00:49:51.320 --> 00:49:55.559
but a mind governed by the Spirit is life and peace,

835
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and emphasizes the consequences of living a to the flesh

836
00:50:01.000 --> 00:50:05.360
versus living according to the Spirit. Verse seven, a mind

837
00:50:05.519 --> 00:50:09.280
governed by the flesh is what it's hostile to God.

838
00:50:09.400 --> 00:50:17.760
Is that enmity with God. It cannot submit to the

839
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law of God. A unregenerate sinner cannot comprehend spiritual things,

840
00:50:25.360 --> 00:50:29.679
nor do they seek after God. Apart from the Spirit,

841
00:50:30.559 --> 00:50:33.800
you and your flesh can't do anything to please Him.

842
00:50:37.400 --> 00:50:43.199
The unregenerate sinner who rejects Christ cannot please God, no

843
00:50:43.360 --> 00:50:48.360
matter how hard they live morally, no matter how good

844
00:50:48.559 --> 00:50:56.719
they live. The Bible says, even those who set themselves

845
00:50:56.920 --> 00:51:00.679
to do good, if it ain't done to the glory

846
00:51:00.760 --> 00:51:06.840
of God, all is vain. All is vain. What you

847
00:51:06.920 --> 00:51:09.639
put your hand to isn't done for the glory of God,

848
00:51:10.039 --> 00:51:16.400
it is vain. Verse eight. Those in the realm of

849
00:51:16.440 --> 00:51:21.679
the flesh cannot please God and summarizes our hopelessness of

850
00:51:21.840 --> 00:51:24.880
trying to live according to the flesh and please God,

851
00:51:25.039 --> 00:51:32.719
it is impossible. Hence the purpose of Christ's atonement Church.

852
00:51:32.880 --> 00:51:36.000
We come now to a passage that pierces the very

853
00:51:36.199 --> 00:51:42.679
soul of the Christian faith in Romans chapter eight. I

854
00:51:42.800 --> 00:51:45.519
want to briefly touch on verse nine through thirteen as well.

855
00:51:46.559 --> 00:51:49.480
The apostle Paul presents a portrait of the Christian life.

856
00:51:50.239 --> 00:51:55.679
Here we are confronted with the truth. Paul contrasts the

857
00:51:55.800 --> 00:52:00.400
flesh and the Spirit, revealing the brutal truth that our

858
00:52:00.599 --> 00:52:06.320
natural human inclination are at odds with God's will. The flesh,

859
00:52:06.440 --> 00:52:09.960
driven by sin and rebellion, can only lead to death

860
00:52:10.480 --> 00:52:14.440
and destruction. But the Spirit, who is the very breath

861
00:52:14.519 --> 00:52:18.639
of God, empowers believers to live according to God's holy

862
00:52:19.079 --> 00:52:21.519
and righteous purposes.

863
00:52:23.920 --> 00:52:29.559
Now once again he's tripling down. God empowers you to

864
00:52:29.679 --> 00:52:35.679
do it. You are empowered by the omnipotent God to

865
00:52:35.800 --> 00:52:39.199
live the Christian life. Therefore, if I'm being empowered by

866
00:52:39.280 --> 00:52:42.719
the omnipotent God to live the Christian life, then you

867
00:52:42.840 --> 00:52:45.639
can be perfect. I can be perfect, and there is

868
00:52:45.920 --> 00:52:59.719
no excuse. So then why do we continue to sin? Why? Why? Why? Why? Well,

869
00:52:59.719 --> 00:53:02.400
if you go with the typical teaching in almost every

870
00:53:02.519 --> 00:53:05.920
church in America, the only conclusion would be, if you sin,

871
00:53:06.239 --> 00:53:08.440
you are lost, because there is no reason for you

872
00:53:08.559 --> 00:53:11.559
to sin because you everything on the inside has been transformed,

873
00:53:11.679 --> 00:53:13.480
and you have been given the power of God to

874
00:53:13.639 --> 00:53:15.920
keep the law and you can do it. So if

875
00:53:15.960 --> 00:53:19.360
you don't keep the law perfectly, you show you are

876
00:53:19.519 --> 00:53:22.559
not saved, because even the desire not to keep the

877
00:53:22.679 --> 00:53:26.039
law would be called your salvation into question, because everything

878
00:53:26.079 --> 00:53:28.880
in your nature is supposedly being transformed, So the desire

879
00:53:29.079 --> 00:53:33.599
to keep the law should should be the way you're operating.

880
00:53:34.079 --> 00:53:38.360
So where is anything contrary of God coming from? Where

881
00:53:38.440 --> 00:53:41.199
is it coming from? Typically we say the call is

882
00:53:41.239 --> 00:53:44.280
coming inside the house, it's inside of you. They're saying, no,

883
00:53:45.000 --> 00:53:47.760
there's nothing inside of you that goes against God. Everything

884
00:53:47.800 --> 00:53:50.519
inside you wants God, and you've got power inside of

885
00:53:50.559 --> 00:53:52.800
you to keep God's law and you can do it.

886
00:53:53.039 --> 00:53:55.199
So then what is the problem?

887
00:53:59.239 --> 00:54:01.880
We are reminded though we are not slaves to sin,

888
00:54:02.840 --> 00:54:07.679
but servants to righteousness. We are not captive to the

889
00:54:07.800 --> 00:54:12.559
flesh anymore. Sin no longer has dominion over those who

890
00:54:12.639 --> 00:54:17.920
have been set free from the power and influence of sin.

891
00:54:20.360 --> 00:54:23.440
Okay, now, wait, if you've been set free from the

892
00:54:23.599 --> 00:54:27.639
power and influence of sin, then you can be perfect.

893
00:54:28.920 --> 00:54:32.000
If you cannot get to perfection, what is keeping you

894
00:54:32.079 --> 00:54:36.559
from perfection? See if I've been completely set free from

895
00:54:36.599 --> 00:54:39.320
even the influence of sin, I have been set free

896
00:54:39.360 --> 00:54:41.719
from the power of sin. I am no longer in

897
00:54:41.840 --> 00:54:45.440
bondage to sin. Practically speaking, this is the typical Christian teaching.

898
00:54:46.000 --> 00:54:48.280
Then I should be able to be perfect. If I

899
00:54:48.360 --> 00:54:51.519
can't get to perfect then whatever is keeping me from perfection,

900
00:54:52.039 --> 00:54:56.119
I'm in bondage to It has the power. This is

901
00:54:56.159 --> 00:54:58.880
what I've been saying over and over and over and

902
00:54:59.119 --> 00:55:03.119
over again. And I know that my perspective goes against

903
00:55:03.239 --> 00:55:06.960
everything that Christians teach. But I'm sorry. It's the It's

904
00:55:07.119 --> 00:55:13.159
just logic. You've been set free. There's no more influence

905
00:55:13.199 --> 00:55:16.239
of sin coming from inside the house, so there's nothing

906
00:55:16.320 --> 00:55:19.039
influencing you to sin. It's all gone, and you've set

907
00:55:19.039 --> 00:55:21.400
free from the power, then you can be perfect. He said, Well,

908
00:55:21.440 --> 00:55:24.320
you can't be perfect. What is keeping me from perfection?

909
00:55:24.679 --> 00:55:28.920
Whatever's keeping me from perfection, I'm in bondage to It

910
00:55:29.159 --> 00:55:32.440
has the power, It has the control because it is

911
00:55:32.559 --> 00:55:37.480
stopping me. Why can't I be perfect, and why do

912
00:55:37.599 --> 00:55:41.239
we continue to sin if there is basically no more

913
00:55:41.360 --> 00:55:42.280
sin in us?

914
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But we are free men and woman in Christ. And

915
00:55:49.280 --> 00:55:52.920
the passages that we're gonna look at also shatters any

916
00:55:53.079 --> 00:56:00.119
illusion about a comfortable or complacent Christianity. Sadly, I have

917
00:56:00.199 --> 00:56:03.599
to touch on that a lot, because you have false

918
00:56:03.800 --> 00:56:09.079
Christianity so prominent in the United States. If you were

919
00:56:09.159 --> 00:56:11.519
to ask what it means to be a Christian, most

920
00:56:11.559 --> 00:56:14.119
people will give you a poor description of what it

921
00:56:14.199 --> 00:56:19.960
means to be a Christian. True faith is not simply

922
00:56:20.480 --> 00:56:28.280
a mental essence or cultural conformity, but a radical surrender

923
00:56:28.360 --> 00:56:34.039
to the spirit's transformative work. Those who are in Christ

924
00:56:34.320 --> 00:56:39.280
are called to die to self and live for the

925
00:56:39.400 --> 00:56:45.519
glory of God. You have the messages today are all

926
00:56:45.599 --> 00:56:56.400
about self glory, love yourself, puff yourself, forgive yourself, pointing

927
00:56:56.920 --> 00:57:03.039
so much attention to self. Where the truth is we

928
00:57:03.239 --> 00:57:05.679
deny ourselves. Jesus said, if any man who will be

929
00:57:05.880 --> 00:57:09.679
willing to come after me must face three willingnesses, deny yourself,

930
00:57:09.800 --> 00:57:13.519
take up the cross, and follow me. You must come

931
00:57:13.639 --> 00:57:16.159
after him with the heart that says I'm not about

932
00:57:16.239 --> 00:57:21.719
my will anymore. I am willing to suffer for your sake,

933
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taking up the cross. I'm willing to follow you in

934
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the trenches. I'm willing to follow you in the valleys.

935
00:57:30.760 --> 00:57:35.280
I'm willing to follow you no matter what. It's not

936
00:57:35.400 --> 00:57:38.639
about me anymore. I am now a man or a woman.

937
00:57:38.920 --> 00:57:43.800
You are dedicated to servitude to the Lord. Your mind

938
00:57:43.920 --> 00:57:47.280
is consumed, or should be, at least, with the things

939
00:57:47.360 --> 00:57:50.119
of God. You love to talk about God. You want

940
00:57:50.119 --> 00:57:52.880
to tell others about the one who saved you and

941
00:57:52.960 --> 00:57:56.400
delivered you. You want to share this truth in a

942
00:57:56.519 --> 00:58:05.239
world that is full of false truths. Those who are

943
00:58:05.280 --> 00:58:09.840
in Christ are called to die itself a live for God,

944
00:58:10.039 --> 00:58:12.840
enabled by the Spirit's power and grace. And as we

945
00:58:12.960 --> 00:58:14.519
delve into these powers.

946
00:58:15.559 --> 00:58:17.559
Again, I don't know why we would be called to

947
00:58:17.679 --> 00:58:19.880
die tosself because we would already be dead because the

948
00:58:20.000 --> 00:58:22.280
old is completely gone and everything is new. So what

949
00:58:22.400 --> 00:58:24.800
am I dying to? And only that he's taking passages

950
00:58:24.800 --> 00:58:27.280
about discipleship, making it now about salvation, So then that

951
00:58:27.400 --> 00:58:30.679
salvation really is more than just believing in Jesus. There's

952
00:58:30.719 --> 00:58:32.199
going to be a list of things you have to do,

953
00:58:32.280 --> 00:58:33.679
and if you don't do these things, then you were

954
00:58:33.719 --> 00:58:36.320
never saved. So therefore salvation is based not on what

955
00:58:36.440 --> 00:58:38.639
Christ did, but on what you do. But you're not. Okay,

956
00:58:38.840 --> 00:58:40.440
it just and we're getting ready to get into the

957
00:58:40.519 --> 00:58:42.880
never ending circle. We're going to get into the never

958
00:58:43.039 --> 00:58:47.119
ending circle. So basically, look man like those other people,

959
00:58:47.320 --> 00:58:50.039
all those other people out there, that's false Christianity. But

960
00:58:50.159 --> 00:58:54.400
of course they've got real Christianity. Everyone else's Christianity is flawed,

961
00:58:54.559 --> 00:58:57.360
but they've got real Christianity because they do all of

962
00:58:57.400 --> 00:59:00.440
these things. They've all died to themselves, long to live

963
00:59:00.480 --> 00:59:03.000
for themselves. They only live for God's glory. They have

964
00:59:03.159 --> 00:59:07.000
new desires. They basically are perfect. It's all those other

965
00:59:07.079 --> 00:59:10.039
people out there outside of their church, that's all a

966
00:59:10.119 --> 00:59:12.639
bunch of garbage and trash, and they're not saved. But hey,

967
00:59:13.039 --> 00:59:16.760
they are the saved ones, and that the way Christianity

968
00:59:16.880 --> 00:59:19.800
always works. We're the good ones. Everyone else is the

969
00:59:19.880 --> 00:59:20.320
bad ones.

970
00:59:24.079 --> 00:59:26.760
Passages. May the Spirit of God stir within us a

971
00:59:26.840 --> 00:59:33.679
deep longing for holiness and hunger for righteousness, and I steidfast,

972
00:59:33.800 --> 00:59:37.880
resolved to mortify the flesh and live according to the spirit.

973
00:59:39.920 --> 00:59:43.000
Maybe we be awakened to the reality of our own

974
00:59:43.119 --> 00:59:46.840
spiritual warfare and armed with the sword of the Spirit,

975
00:59:47.280 --> 00:59:51.480
the Word of God. Let us prayfully approach this text.

976
00:59:53.519 --> 00:59:57.639
Now I'm confused, right, because they've already articulated that we

977
00:59:57.719 --> 01:00:00.840
have new desires, knew everything, everything's new on the inside.

978
01:00:01.000 --> 01:00:02.760
But now he says, we got to mortify the flesh.

979
01:00:03.119 --> 01:00:07.320
What am I mortifying? What am I fighting? If everything

980
01:00:07.360 --> 01:00:09.320
has been transformed on the inside and I have a

981
01:00:09.360 --> 01:00:13.039
new heart, new desire, new inclinations, I've been completely set

982
01:00:13.079 --> 01:00:16.519
free from sin. I'm no longer in bondage all of

983
01:00:16.559 --> 01:00:18.239
those things he said. But at the same time, now

984
01:00:18.280 --> 01:00:20.920
he's seemingly to say that we're still fighting something. What

985
01:00:21.480 --> 01:00:26.559
am I fighting? You've already said I have the ability

986
01:00:26.639 --> 01:00:29.559
to keep the law. Well, I have the ability to

987
01:00:29.639 --> 01:00:31.400
do it, but I gotta fight to do it.

988
01:00:40.480 --> 01:00:44.119
That we may be transformed by its truths and empowered

989
01:00:44.239 --> 01:00:47.320
to live for the glory of our great God and Savior,

990
01:00:47.880 --> 01:00:51.719
Jesus Christ. The first point I want to notice with you,

991
01:00:53.639 --> 01:00:59.119
I have four points is our new identity. And verse

992
01:00:59.239 --> 01:01:01.039
nine it says, by you're not in the flesh, but

993
01:01:01.280 --> 01:01:04.599
in the spirit. If so be the Spirit of God

994
01:01:04.679 --> 01:01:06.880
dwelling you. Now, if any man have not the Spirit

995
01:01:06.960 --> 01:01:09.960
of christy it's none of his. We see our new identity.

996
01:01:10.079 --> 01:01:14.159
You're not in the flesh, but you're in the spirit.

997
01:01:14.639 --> 01:01:16.000
And verse nine, we see the co.

998
01:01:18.119 --> 01:01:23.039
This is like the second or third sermon that's using

999
01:01:23.519 --> 01:01:26.599
very I mean like it's like there is a template

1000
01:01:26.960 --> 01:01:31.000
on how to outline this passage almost every I think

1001
01:01:31.119 --> 01:01:34.079
all the sermons have outlined Romans eight basically nine to

1002
01:01:34.159 --> 01:01:41.440
eleven A with the exact same words. Even though the

1003
01:01:41.480 --> 01:01:43.840
word doesn't appear here. The word doesn't appear here about

1004
01:01:43.880 --> 01:01:46.840
our new identity, it's not here. So I would like

1005
01:01:46.960 --> 01:01:51.559
to track down which commentary this outline is probably derived from.

1006
01:01:51.679 --> 01:01:54.079
I guarantee that you could you find the church. I

1007
01:01:54.159 --> 01:01:57.199
bet you can find the commentary. I bet you can

1008
01:01:57.280 --> 01:01:58.280
find the commentary.

1009
01:01:59.320 --> 01:02:00.199
Do I have uh?

1010
01:02:00.840 --> 01:02:02.679
I don't. I don't think I have a MacArthur. If

1011
01:02:02.760 --> 01:02:06.039
you have a MacArthur's commentary, look up at the commentary

1012
01:02:06.079 --> 01:02:08.599
on Romans eight, nine through eleven and see if point

1013
01:02:08.719 --> 01:02:11.960
number one is new identity. I bet you I could

1014
01:02:12.039 --> 01:02:16.119
be wrong. I have a strong feeling MacArthur commentary is

1015
01:02:16.199 --> 01:02:22.079
really driving driving this point home. In fact, I'm gonna

1016
01:02:22.159 --> 01:02:27.599
see I don't know, hang on, how okay, I'm gonna

1017
01:02:27.599 --> 01:02:31.119
see here, maybe AI can help me. How does the.

1018
01:02:33.000 --> 01:02:50.400
McArthur commentary outline outline Romans eight nine through eleven.

1019
01:03:02.559 --> 01:03:07.880
Okay, well they okay, they focus on the dwelling of

1020
01:03:07.960 --> 01:03:10.039
the Holy Spirit. So the way they have it is

1021
01:03:10.320 --> 01:03:12.960
MacArthur doesn't start with a new identity. So maybe it's

1022
01:03:13.000 --> 01:03:15.760
not the MacArthur commentary. If AI is correct here, I'd

1023
01:03:15.800 --> 01:03:18.840
have to look and see. Obviously, it can't give me

1024
01:03:18.960 --> 01:03:23.440
the actual text. So all right, so new identity. But

1025
01:03:23.480 --> 01:03:26.280
one of the other sermons had the exact same I

1026
01:03:26.360 --> 01:03:29.199
think two others, maybe even three others I've heard, have

1027
01:03:29.679 --> 01:03:32.360
used the almost the exact same outline. That always makes

1028
01:03:32.400 --> 01:03:35.239
me a little worried, right, because it's almost like there's

1029
01:03:35.639 --> 01:03:38.000
a certain way of looking at this text and everyone's

1030
01:03:38.119 --> 01:03:43.920
just following that template following and I don't like that, right,

1031
01:03:44.039 --> 01:03:47.360
I don't like that. So but let's see. I know

1032
01:03:47.440 --> 01:03:49.599
we're already over an hour, but let's see where this goes.

1033
01:03:51.280 --> 01:03:55.159
Contrast between the believers for more life as an unbeliever

1034
01:03:55.400 --> 01:03:59.320
described in Versus five through eight, and their new life

1035
01:03:59.400 --> 01:04:04.239
in Christ. As unbelievers, we were characterized by living according

1036
01:04:04.320 --> 01:04:07.679
to the flesh in verse five, setting our minds on

1037
01:04:07.800 --> 01:04:11.840
fleshly desires in verse six, being hostile towards God in

1038
01:04:12.000 --> 01:04:16.760
verse seven, and being unable to please God in verse eight. However,

1039
01:04:16.920 --> 01:04:19.840
in verse nine, we are introduced to a new reality,

1040
01:04:20.840 --> 01:04:26.360
a new status, a new identity in Christ, one that

1041
01:04:26.559 --> 01:04:30.400
is marked by spiritual life, a mind set on the Spirit,

1042
01:04:30.920 --> 01:04:37.760
and the ability then now finally to please God. According

1043
01:04:37.800 --> 01:04:43.440
to verse nine, we are identified by being in in

1044
01:04:43.840 --> 01:04:50.719
the spirit, which signifies living under the Holy Spirit's dominion, guidance,

1045
01:04:51.239 --> 01:04:57.119
and leadership. You can't be in the spirit and walking

1046
01:04:57.239 --> 01:05:03.039
in the flesh. This text doesn't teach that if your

1047
01:05:03.400 --> 01:05:06.719
evidence of those who are in the spirit are after

1048
01:05:07.159 --> 01:05:07.760
the spirit.

1049
01:05:10.280 --> 01:05:12.639
See if you if you're walking into spirit, you cannot

1050
01:05:12.719 --> 01:05:15.280
walk in the flesh. So I asked Ai, I said,

1051
01:05:15.960 --> 01:05:18.119
is it common to outline Romans eight nine through eleven

1052
01:05:18.199 --> 01:05:20.599
with the point being a new identity? Yes? And a

1053
01:05:20.840 --> 01:05:23.519
I said, it is common for commentators and teachers to

1054
01:05:23.519 --> 01:05:25.639
outline Romans eight nine through eleven with the first point

1055
01:05:25.719 --> 01:05:28.719
being something like a new identity. This outline emphasizes the

1056
01:05:28.760 --> 01:05:31.079
shift and a believer status in nature once they are

1057
01:05:31.079 --> 01:05:34.159
in dwelt by the Holy Spirit. Here's why this structure

1058
01:05:34.199 --> 01:05:37.039
fits well with this text and then a new identity

1059
01:05:37.079 --> 01:05:39.199
and then they go through So it is common. So

1060
01:05:39.320 --> 01:05:41.199
it is I knew it was common. I knew it

1061
01:05:41.320 --> 01:05:45.239
was common. Now my problem is my problem with this,

1062
01:05:45.760 --> 01:05:49.400
and so let me just explain this. Look, I don't care.

1063
01:05:49.639 --> 01:05:52.320
I don't care if pastors. Pastors can do whatever they want.

1064
01:05:52.599 --> 01:05:55.400
They can do whatever they want, they can preach anyway

1065
01:05:55.440 --> 01:06:01.039
they want. That's on them. My argument or my perspective

1066
01:06:01.199 --> 01:06:04.199
is I'm going to challenge it because here's my fear.

1067
01:06:04.519 --> 01:06:07.519
Once the text gets looked at a certain way and

1068
01:06:07.639 --> 01:06:10.599
it becomes the common way, it becomes their traditional way.

1069
01:06:11.039 --> 01:06:15.119
And pastors in many cases are just borrowing from commentaries, right,

1070
01:06:15.840 --> 01:06:18.840
And I don't like that. I would prefer us. The

1071
01:06:18.960 --> 01:06:21.800
commentaries are what we go to after we've done all

1072
01:06:21.880 --> 01:06:24.559
the work. We can only to see if they agree

1073
01:06:24.639 --> 01:06:28.280
or disagree. The commentaries are putting forth their hypotheses and

1074
01:06:28.360 --> 01:06:30.280
how to look at the text. Now, you can go

1075
01:06:30.480 --> 01:06:33.239
to the commentary and say, we're going to use this commentary,

1076
01:06:33.320 --> 01:06:36.760
but we're going to use it as they're presenting their hypotheses,

1077
01:06:36.840 --> 01:06:39.159
and we're going to test this hypothesis and see if

1078
01:06:39.199 --> 01:06:41.159
it works or it doesn't work. Now, I'm okay with

1079
01:06:41.280 --> 01:06:45.079
that approach, right, Or I can say, hey, I've worked

1080
01:06:45.119 --> 01:06:48.320
on the text, here's my hypothesis. Now we're going to

1081
01:06:48.360 --> 01:06:51.679
compare my hypotheses to the majority of commentaries and see

1082
01:06:51.679 --> 01:06:53.679
if we're in agreement or disagreement and try to figure

1083
01:06:53.679 --> 01:06:57.599
out why. See, those are two different. Those approaches I

1084
01:06:57.679 --> 01:07:01.199
think are actually studying the Bible. Here, we're gonna use

1085
01:07:01.199 --> 01:07:06.079
this commentary. Here's the hypothesis. Let's challenge it, let's test it,

1086
01:07:06.320 --> 01:07:10.519
let's play the devil's advocate. Right, Okay, here's my hypothesis.

1087
01:07:10.679 --> 01:07:13.400
But we're gonna compare mind to the commentaries, and then

1088
01:07:13.440 --> 01:07:15.800
you can figure out which one you think is right. See,

1089
01:07:15.960 --> 01:07:18.800
now we're actually engaging the text. What I don't like

1090
01:07:19.079 --> 01:07:22.679
is pastors just opening up commentaries, taking from those commentaries,

1091
01:07:22.880 --> 01:07:26.199
presenting it in a dogmatic, assertive way, as if this

1092
01:07:26.480 --> 01:07:29.760
is the way it is. Everyone in the pew says, amen,

1093
01:07:30.039 --> 01:07:34.480
we studied the Bible. No, you studied someone's commentary. You

1094
01:07:34.559 --> 01:07:37.639
didn't actually engage the text. It sounds like you're engaging

1095
01:07:37.719 --> 01:07:43.159
the text. You just borrowed someone's commentary. And in many

1096
01:07:43.239 --> 01:07:46.519
cases the pastors will not say from the pulpit which commentary.

1097
01:07:46.840 --> 01:07:50.800
Basically the sermon is taken from I'm not saying verbatim.

1098
01:07:50.960 --> 01:07:53.159
I'm not saying it's plagiarism. I'm not making any of

1099
01:07:53.239 --> 01:07:57.199
those accusations. But basically, I'm giving you today what is

1100
01:07:57.280 --> 01:08:01.039
in this commentary. And I had this commentary, you had

1101
01:08:01.039 --> 01:08:04.320
already know where I'm going in my entire sermon. Now,

1102
01:08:04.440 --> 01:08:09.639
to me, that's not actually engaging the text. That's just

1103
01:08:09.800 --> 01:08:13.000
me saying, hey, I read the commentary. I'm going to

1104
01:08:13.039 --> 01:08:15.840
give you the summary of the commentary so you don't

1105
01:08:15.880 --> 01:08:18.159
have to read it. And that's what coming to churches

1106
01:08:21.399 --> 01:08:23.319
where the pastor gives you book reports.

1107
01:08:30.960 --> 01:08:36.439
There are only two fundamental realms. Prior Surmer last week,

1108
01:08:36.479 --> 01:08:39.399
there are only two types of mindsets, two types of

1109
01:08:39.479 --> 01:08:45.720
people of this world. You're either being in the flesh

1110
01:08:46.640 --> 01:08:49.920
or you're in the spirit. What person are you today?

1111
01:08:51.319 --> 01:08:57.159
This dualistic distinction represents two radically different modes of existence,

1112
01:08:57.560 --> 01:09:00.479
with the former defined by carnal en klina in the

1113
01:09:00.600 --> 01:09:06.920
latter marked by spiritual transformation and divine direction. We were

1114
01:09:07.000 --> 01:09:14.920
once immersed in this world, conformed to its sinful patterns

1115
01:09:16.479 --> 01:09:21.760
that was in our environment, but according to scripture, our

1116
01:09:21.880 --> 01:09:33.039
past identity before coming to Christ was one of spiritual death, darkness, blindness,

1117
01:09:34.680 --> 01:09:40.239
slavery to sin. We were enmity with God. We were

1118
01:09:40.439 --> 01:09:46.359
children of wrath. We were dead in trespasses and sins.

1119
01:09:47.119 --> 01:09:51.800
We were separated from God under the dominion of Satan

1120
01:09:52.920 --> 01:10:01.399
and living in rebellion against God. Desire here today, if

1121
01:10:01.439 --> 01:10:06.239
you are a believer in Christ, is to not being

1122
01:10:06.359 --> 01:10:11.800
rebellion against God. It should effect affect your heart. Touch

1123
01:10:11.880 --> 01:10:15.199
your heart today? I want to please God, the very

1124
01:10:15.319 --> 01:10:19.039
one who lived a perfect life.

1125
01:10:21.840 --> 01:10:24.920
My desire should touch my heart? Or does my desire

1126
01:10:25.000 --> 01:10:30.319
originate from my heart? Do I have the desire that

1127
01:10:30.479 --> 01:10:33.039
then changes my heart? So my heart? Is my heart

1128
01:10:33.159 --> 01:10:35.439
not changed? I thought I already have a new heart.

1129
01:10:36.880 --> 01:10:39.159
This message has a new heart in the title, So

1130
01:10:39.279 --> 01:10:42.279
do I? So is my desire change? My desire should

1131
01:10:42.359 --> 01:10:45.760
touch my heart? Should my desire be flowing from my heart? See,

1132
01:10:45.880 --> 01:10:51.000
whenever we get into this it gets so stinking convoluted.

1133
01:10:51.319 --> 01:10:52.960
Like I said, Wait, if I have a new heart,

1134
01:10:53.119 --> 01:10:55.279
then my desires be coming from my heart. Now my

1135
01:10:55.359 --> 01:10:58.000
desire is coming from outside my heart, but then touches

1136
01:10:58.079 --> 01:10:58.479
my heart.

1137
01:10:58.800 --> 01:10:59.399
I don't get it.

1138
01:10:59.520 --> 01:11:03.439
Where's the desire coming from? Is the desire coming from

1139
01:11:03.600 --> 01:11:05.800
So my heart is old. But I then I have

1140
01:11:05.880 --> 01:11:08.439
a new desire that originates from I guess maybe the

1141
01:11:08.520 --> 01:11:11.039
spirit that's inside of me. And then that new desire

1142
01:11:11.119 --> 01:11:13.960
then touches my heart so that my heart's not actually new.

1143
01:11:14.359 --> 01:11:17.039
So then I have a spirit with an old heart.

1144
01:11:17.279 --> 01:11:19.279
Or then do I have a new nature old nature?

1145
01:11:19.640 --> 01:11:21.720
How many natures do I have? How many hearts do

1146
01:11:21.840 --> 01:11:25.319
I have? Well, exactly, But all of that ultimately doesn't matter,

1147
01:11:25.399 --> 01:11:27.840
because according to him, were we already have new desires,

1148
01:11:27.920 --> 01:11:30.279
We already have new inclinations, and we have the power

1149
01:11:30.319 --> 01:11:32.119
to keep the law. But at the same time, he

1150
01:11:32.199 --> 01:11:35.319
then sometimes struggle, describes it as somehow of a struggle. Well,

1151
01:11:35.359 --> 01:11:37.560
where's the struggle originating from? Well, I guess maybe the

1152
01:11:37.600 --> 01:11:40.560
struggle is originating that my heart's not actually changed. I

1153
01:11:40.720 --> 01:11:41.840
don't even know anymore.

1154
01:11:44.800 --> 01:11:50.600
Born of a virgin and was crushed for my sins.

1155
01:11:56.840 --> 01:12:03.760
We used to live total opposition towards God. No matter

1156
01:12:03.840 --> 01:12:09.760
how morally good you think you were, you weren't. God

1157
01:12:09.840 --> 01:12:14.279
had to intervene. Anyone who's saved understands this first your

1158
01:12:14.319 --> 01:12:18.039
own depravity. You can't be saved if you think you

1159
01:12:18.199 --> 01:12:24.399
are good apart from God coming into your life. You

1160
01:12:24.520 --> 01:12:28.079
don't know yourself yet, you know, the reason why you

1161
01:12:28.119 --> 01:12:30.640
don't serve the Lord correctly is because you don't see

1162
01:12:30.680 --> 01:12:33.199
your own sin and that you're gonna stand before God

1163
01:12:33.279 --> 01:12:34.199
on the day of judgment.

1164
01:12:36.319 --> 01:12:41.079
Wait, the reason I don't serve God correctly is because

1165
01:12:41.079 --> 01:12:43.199
I don't see my own sin. Wait wait, wait, wait,

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wait wait wait. I thought the reason I wouldn't serve

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God correctly is because I'm not saved. Because once I'm saved,

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I would then inevitably serve God correctly. Because you've already

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identified that I no longer walk in the flesh, and

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now I walk in the spirit. And now I have

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a new heart, I have a new desire, have a

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new inclination, I have a new power, and I can

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keep the law. Now you're giving me now an added

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reason why I don't serve God correctly? What? Why would

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I not serve God correctly? Because you've already identified that

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Christian salvation fixes it all. But now there would be

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what in the world I don't under Okay.

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Right, God had to intervene, plucking us out of our

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past central state and transforming us, making something completely new,

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a whole new creation, so that we know inhabit a

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completely new sphere.

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Wait, so I've been completely transformed and I'm a whole

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new creation, then what am I fighting on one end? Okay,

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let's see if he's going to clear this up, because

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maybe he's just gonna basically say, hey, now you're perfect,

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right right? I mean, because if you take everything he

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said that supposedly happens at Salvation, ladies and gentlemen, I

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don't know how you can't say we aren't perfect and

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can't be perfect, and shouldn't be perfect. I mean, and

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if you're not perfect, you're not saved. Based on everything

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that how he has sold it. Let's see if he

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offers any clarification.

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While we remain in this world, we are no longer

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defined by it. We are now in the Spirit, enjoying

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a brand new identity. Then it says this in verse nine,

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so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you.

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Now only not only have we been united with the Spirit,

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but the Spirit has also taken up residence within us.

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This is a mutual in dwelling. You are in the Spirit,

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in the Spirit is within you. We are now living

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in the world realm of the Spirit. We are inhabited

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by God himself, and our lives are now a sacred place.

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The dwelling of the Holy Spirit refers to God taking

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up permanent residence in the heart of those who have

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been placed who placed their faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.

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This is seen at one Corinthian sixty nineteen through twenty,

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which states, what know you not that your body is

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the temple of the Holy Ghost, which is in you,

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which you have of God. And ye are not your own,

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for your bought with the price. Therefore, glorify God in

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your body and in your spirit, which are God's. God

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doesn't known ten percent of you. He owns one hundred

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01:15:53.800 --> 01:16:00.239
percent of you. You are, but it's a slaveling, which

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in fact he could. The Jews very much understood the

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history of their own enslavement, no matter what. We were

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01:16:14.680 --> 01:16:19.640
once all slaves either way to sin. But now you

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are set free from being a slave to sin. Now

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we're speaking slave language to believers. You are now bought.

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God is your master. You are not your own serve God.

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What was that price? It was the shed blood of

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our Lord Jesus Christ. You are bought with a price,

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and therefore we are too called and commanded to glorify

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God in our body and in the spirit, which are

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God's The indwelling spirit creates new life, confirms our belonging

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01:16:58.760 --> 01:17:02.720
to God. You are owned by God. You're not lived.

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You're not to live according to how you want to live.

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You are to live according to how God wants you

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to live.

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How can I live according to How can I have

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a want that's different than God's want? Because you've said

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my wants have been transformed and changed, So why would

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there be a conflict between what I want and God wants?

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Because you've already said I have a new inclination, new desire,

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new new heart, new everything. If everything is new, then

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where is the want to that's contrary to God's want

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to coming from? Where is the problem still? Why is

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there still a problem? Like on one hand, he speaks

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as if there is no a problem, and then it

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01:17:45.479 --> 01:17:47.359
will come back and see a hint that there's still

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a problem. So is there a problem or not a problem?

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Can someone articulate exactly how this works? I'm hoping he'll

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clarify this because now we're over seventy seven minutes, so

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we need to wrap this up. I'm trying to get

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to some point where I can be like well, ladies

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and gentlemen, we've now inevitably found ourselves where we find

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ourselves in every one of these sermons a complete contradiction.

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But I'm hoping that that's not what happens.

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God has given us spiritual gifts. He empowered us to

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live for Christ, the Divine and dwelling in a sacred union.

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Christ lives his life through us, his people. The spirit

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01:18:32.760 --> 01:18:37.760
empowers us to live a life pleasing to God, and

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the Father loves us with an unwavering love.

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If you can live a life pleasing to God, then

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it would have to be perfect. If we're going to

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say that God, if we're looking at God being pleased

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by our practical action, because God is not pleased with

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imperfection or unholiness, for you would have to be holy

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as God is holy. So he's just saying that God

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now empowers you to be perfect, unless you're saying God

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can be pleased with imperfection. Now, God can be pleased

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with my imperfection because I'm in Christ Jesus. So positionally,

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when he sees me, he says, well done, my good

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and faithful servant, Because he sees the perfect obedience of

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his son. But if you're gonna say, practically, God empowers

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01:19:22.439 --> 01:19:24.399
me to live a life that's pleasing to him, then

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it would have to be a perfect life. Right.

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The divine presence that raised Christ from the dead now

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resides within us, making all things new. Behold, all things

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are new. You should relate with Paul. You should see

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01:19:44.880 --> 01:19:48.680
this newness of your life. You should see God changing

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your desires and know with new inclinations a mind that

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is after God that wasn't like that before.

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So has he changed me? Or or is he changing me?

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Because you've made it sound like he already changed me.

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Now you're saying he's in the process of changing. Well,

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if he's in the process of changing, then that means

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not everything is new, because if he's changing, he's not

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01:20:12.159 --> 01:20:14.880
changing what is new. He's changing what is old. So

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what is old that is being changed? Because you've already

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01:20:17.800 --> 01:20:20.399
said that all things are new? So so can someone

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make some sense of this?

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Let us marvel at this mutual in dwelling and allow

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it to shape our lives, our thoughts, interactions, maybe be

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forever changed by the incredible reality reality. And may we

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live as temples of the living God where God dwells

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readiating his glory to a world in need. First point,

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we saw our new identity. The second point, we saw

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the new residence within the third point we see the

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new resurrection power. And verse ten, if Christ be in you,

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the body is then because of sin, but the spirit

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is life because of righteousness. Church. Let us carefully consider

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verse ten, a verse that shudders the facade of easy

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believism and reveals the magnificence of lordship of Christ. If

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Christ be in you, it states, And if Christ be

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in you, note the condition. If Christ be in you,

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note the condition. If then Christ be in you, not

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if you have simply uttered a prayer. The sinner's prayer

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has probably still sending more people to Hell today. Repeat

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after me, Simon says, an umbiblical method. If Christ be

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01:22:11.720 --> 01:22:14.880
in you, not if you have simply uttered a prayer

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or attended a church service. But if Christ generally resides

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01:22:19.039 --> 01:22:26.479
within you, this is no shallow profession, but a life

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01:22:26.800 --> 01:22:31.720
transforming reality. If Christ be in you, the body be

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dead because of.

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Sin.

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It says. Here Paul confronts us with the consequences of

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sin spiritual death. We are not merely slightly sick or

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in need of a little repair. We are spiritually lifeless,

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unable to respond to God or please Him in our

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own strength. But notice, but the spirit is life life

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because of righteousness. Our spirits are made alive, not by

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our own works or merits, but by the imputed righteousness

1313
01:23:10.560 --> 01:23:17.760
of Christ. His perfect obedience is credited to our account

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01:23:18.239 --> 01:23:23.560
by making us acceptable before a holy God. This verse

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shatters easy believism, which cheapens salvation and reduces it to

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a mere decision or an emotional experience. No, salvation is

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01:23:34.800 --> 01:23:40.640
a supral, supernatural work of God, whereby He quickens our

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01:23:40.760 --> 01:23:44.640
dead spirits and clothes us in the righteousness of Christ.

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Amen verse eleven. But in the spirit of Him that

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raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you. He

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that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken

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01:23:55.760 --> 01:23:58.880
your moral bodies by a spirit that dwelleth in you.

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But if the spirit of Him that raised up Jesus

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01:24:03.800 --> 01:24:07.760
from the dead dwell in you, the spirit of God

1325
01:24:07.880 --> 01:24:12.560
is not a vague impersonal force, but the very person

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01:24:12.640 --> 01:24:17.159
who raised Jesus from the dead. The Holy Spirit in

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01:24:17.239 --> 01:24:21.720
dwells believers, making us temples of the Holy Spirit. And

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that He has raised up Christ from the dead. Shah

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also quicken your mortal bodies by a spirit that dwelleth

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01:24:29.039 --> 01:24:33.600
in you. Does the Holy Spirit dwell in you. The

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01:24:33.720 --> 01:24:37.920
resurrection of Jesus Christ is not just a historical event,

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but a guarantee of our own personal resurrection. Our mortal bodies,

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01:24:47.560 --> 01:24:51.760
prone to sin and decay, will be transformed into immortal,

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01:24:52.279 --> 01:24:59.039
glorious bodies like Christ at the second Coming. This transformation

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is a sovereign work of God accomplished through his Spirit,

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who dwells in us now the sovereignty of God in salvation,

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God is the one who raises us from the spiritual

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death and gives us a life. To our mortal bodies

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and the importance of union with Christ. We are crucified, buried,

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and resurrected with Christ, with Christ, ensuring our participation in

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01:25:29.399 --> 01:25:36.680
his resurrection life, the certainty the glorification when we die.

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When Christ comes back, We're going to receive a glorified body.

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Our bodies will be redeemed and transformed conformed to Christ's

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01:25:48.079 --> 01:25:56.920
glorious body. The passage declares that salvation is a divine work,

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not a human achievement. Our hope is in the resurrection

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of Jesus Christ in our future glorification, not in this

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present life or this world. In God's sovereignty and power

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are the foundations of our faith, not our own strength

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or merit. But I want to make a quick thought.

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Roman's eight to eleven also implies that the same power

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that raised Christ from the dead is available to us presently,

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not just future, enabling us to walk in the victory

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over sin and death. As prior Versus has stated, the

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verse says that the spirit who raised Christ Jesus from

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the dead will also quicken your motive bodies. This quickening

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is not limited to our future resurrection, but is also

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a present reality. As we walk of the spirit, we

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can experience the power of Christ's resurrection in our daily lives,

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enabling us to overcomes sins dominion. For sin shall not

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01:27:03.159 --> 01:27:06.640
have dominion over you, according to Roman six fourteen. For

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you not under the law, but under grace. What do

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01:27:10.279 --> 01:27:15.319
you mean, then grace enables you to live in victory.

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Grace enables you to that sin doesn't have dominion and

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control and power and influence over you.

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All right, So if sin doesn't have dominion, then that

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means we stop sinning. Because if I can if I

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cannot get to perfection, then I'm not free, and it

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still has dominion. He's yet to our he's yet to

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acknowledge the reality that everyone still sin. If so, you're saying,

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we can be victorious even though we live in perpetual sin.

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And if I have the power of God to help

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me stop sinning, then that power should be sufficient for

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me to stop sinning. Perfectly right, So what is stopping

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me from getting to perfection?

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We are to live a life of righteousness Romans six nineteen.

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What fruit have even in those things wherein you are

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now ashamed from the end of those things is death,

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But now being made free from sin and become servants

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to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness in the end,

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everlasting life. We are to bear fruit for God Romans

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seven fourteen. Wherefore, my brethren, ye are also become dead

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to the law of the body of Christ, that ye

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should be married to another, even to him who is

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raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit

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unto God. That's his purpose. You are married to another

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for a purpose to bring forth fruit unto God, not fruitlessness.

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Not if you are dead here and you're still dead there,

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that's not what Christ did. We are to put to

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death the deeds of the body, according to verse thirteen,

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for he for if he live after the flask, you

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shall die. But if he, through the Spirit do mortify

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the deeds of the body, you shall live. And I

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want to briefly point out the personal pronouns also of

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the Holy Spirit him, he, His. The Holy Spirit isn't

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an it. The Holy Spirit is a person second the

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third person of the Trinity. The fact that the Holy

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Spirit is not an impersonal force, but a person, the

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third person of the Trinity, who is intimately involved in

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our lives. By using personal pronouns, Scripture emphasizes the spirit's personhood,

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making it clear that he is a vital and active

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participant in our relationship with God. This is a crucial distinction,

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as it recognizes the Holy Spirit as a divine purpose

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the fourth point twelve through thirteen. Therefore, Okay, I guess I.

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Don't know.

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I don't know.

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I don't know, I don't know. I really don't know,

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Ladies and gentlemen, we'd spent ninety minutes. I don't really

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have an answer yet I still don't have an answer. Look,

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here's the you can make all like even he had

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to backtrack a little bit, right because in one hand

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he makes this sound like total transformation. Everything has changed,

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But then yet we still have to fight, or we

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still have to mortify, we still have to do this. Well,

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what am I doing? Everything has already been changed and

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already been transformed. He doubled down, tripled down. You can

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keep the law, you have been given the power, You're

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01:31:07.520 --> 01:31:11.279
completely set free from sin. You've completely transformed. You can

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keep the law, you can do it, and all your

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inclinations and desires have been completely transformed. But yet then

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there's this little bit he would never go so far

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to really explain, where why do we continue to sin?

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What sin remains? Then he kind of talked about the

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influence of sin remaining. Where's the influence? Then he talks

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about our desire changing our heart other than our desires

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arising from our heart. Once you start breaking this down,

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see if you just step back and you just listen

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to it. In general, I know Christians will just say

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amen to it, right, and they won't give it much thought.

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But if they got in their cars and go wait

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a minute, you know, as they're driving home and really

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01:31:49.079 --> 01:31:51.960
had deep conversations, I think everyone should be like, well,

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wait a minute, this sounds like you should be perfect

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and I should be perfect, But we've been you know.

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Let's say there's a husband and wife. I know you

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haven't perfect, and I know I haven't been perfect, and

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our kids in the back seat and they know we

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haven't been perfect. So where is the sin coming from?

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Where is the imperfection coming from? Where is the struggle

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coming from? If we all have in this car, everyone

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in this car who's a Christian have been completely set

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free from sin. Our family should be basically paradise. It

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should be heaven on earth. There should be no conflict,

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there should be no problem because you can obey the law.

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I can obey the law, and everything inside us makes

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01:32:24.840 --> 01:32:27.720
us want to obey the law. So there should be perfection.

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Perfection should be in our church, should be in our home.

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It should be everywhere. In fact, the world should be

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01:32:32.800 --> 01:32:35.880
flocking to the church going there is perfection. There is

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01:32:36.039 --> 01:32:38.800
absolute obedience to the law of God. It is perfect,

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01:32:38.840 --> 01:32:41.680
it is holy. These people love their enemy, but no

1451
01:32:42.159 --> 01:32:45.680
nobody says that. Nobody does that because everyone knows that

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01:32:45.800 --> 01:32:50.000
Christians continually sin. So where is the sin coming from?

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And this is not about easy believism. This is about

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the reality of sin. I'm going to continue to just

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state it over and over and over. No one can

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keep the law. No one saved, no one unsaved. We cannot.

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This means we're in a perpetual state of sin. Therefore

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we have to I think therefore it would be logical

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to infer that whatever is keeping us from perfection, whatever's

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01:33:25.239 --> 01:33:28.359
keeping us in a perpetual state of sin, therefore, is

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more powerful than all the claims that we make. Because

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if all the things we say are trying to get

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01:33:33.920 --> 01:33:36.640
us to holiness cannot get us to holiness. Whatever is

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keeping us from holiness, we are not free from We're

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01:33:39.680 --> 01:33:44.880
still in bondage too, and we are creating a false narrative.

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Why do we continue to sin? Where is the sin

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coming from? And again some people want to say, well,

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in the body, what moves the body, what gives the

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body the desire to do? The body is not operating

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independently from my brain and my nature, right, It's what

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I mean. You can't so separate it, Like the body's

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just laying there and it doesn't move. What's making it

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move my mind? My desires? Right? Well, if my desires

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in mind, and nature is moving the body, then the

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body can't be going against the very nature. Then nature

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would be saying, hey, go use your body for good. Well,

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because there's no wrong name, there's no wrong desires on

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the inside, like this becomes so convoluted and it's it's

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and look, I am not even criticizing this sermon because

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he's preaching what everyone else preaches. Like I've said it

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one hundred times. My perspective puts me outside the realm

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of everyone, and I know that. But you can put

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01:34:52.199 --> 01:34:54.199
me outside the realm of Christianity. You can kick me

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01:34:54.239 --> 01:34:56.479
out of Christianity. You can say whatever you want about me.

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But here's what I do know. You still sin. You

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can deny, you can lie all the way until Jesus

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comes back, which just happens to be a sin. You

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01:35:05.479 --> 01:35:09.039
can pretend, you can wrap yourself in robes of self righteousness.

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You can put on all the fig leaves you want.

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You can pretend, you can boast, you can say I

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01:35:14.000 --> 01:35:16.319
thank the God that I'm not like all these other people.

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You can do that, but you know inside you sin

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01:35:20.760 --> 01:35:23.560
in thought, word, indeed, by what you do and by

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01:35:23.680 --> 01:35:26.600
what you don't do. You know you sin internally. You

1495
01:35:26.760 --> 01:35:29.840
know you sin externally. You know you've never been holy

1496
01:35:29.880 --> 01:35:32.239
as God is holy. You know you've never been perfect

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as your heavenly Father is perfect. You know you've never

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loved God with all your heart, mind, body, and soul.

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You know you don't love your enemies. You know you

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don't love your neighbors yourself. You know you don't turn

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the other cheek. You you know that you look at

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01:35:46.159 --> 01:35:49.560
others with lust. You know there's anger, you know there's bitterness.

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01:35:49.760 --> 01:35:52.800
You know there's pride. You know there's selfishness. You know

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01:35:52.960 --> 01:35:55.760
there's envy. You know those things are inside of you.

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You know it inherently, deep down. I don't care. You

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can dress up all you want on Sunday and sit

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there in the front row and sing as loud as

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you want and give fifteen percent. You still are a sinner,

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and so am I. Until Christianity can acknowledge this reality,

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all of these things, we just we create a false narrative,

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and it's like, okay, okay, look, look, look, don't look.

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Don't look behind the curtain. Don't look behind the curtain.

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Just look at what I'm selling you. But someone's going

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01:36:34.039 --> 01:36:37.359
to walk past the wizard of Oz and look behind

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01:36:37.399 --> 01:36:41.359
the curtain. You're like, Oh, come on now, look at

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what we really have, sinners sinning. Thanks for listening everyone,

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have a great day. God bless