April 3, 2025

Sin and Psalm 119:11

Sin and Psalm 119:11

A look at Psalm 119:11 and a common christian teaching

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A look at Psalm 119:11 and a common christian teaching

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Looking at our world from a theological perspective. This is

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the Theology Central podcast making Theology Central. Good afternoon everyone.

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It is Thursday, April third, twenty twenty five. It is

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currently five forty three pm Central time, and I am

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coming to you live from the Theology Central studio located

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right here in Abilene, Texas. Now, I don't know if

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you heard that, but the sound that you may have

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heard in the background was the sound of being very

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close to an absolute disaster as far as broadcasting is concerned.

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Because right when I got ready to say good afternoon everyone,

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I picked up my iPad. Right, so I say good

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afternoon everyone. I pick up my iPad because I'm going

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to look at my iPad to say good afternoon everyone.

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It is Thursday, April the third, because I'm looking at

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the right twenty twenty five, it is currently then I

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give the time because it's right there in my iPad. Five.

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It was five forty three, five forty four pm Central time,

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coming to you live from the Theology Central studio located

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right here in Ablene, Texas. But right when I picked

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up the iPad, a part of the what was kind

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of sitting on the side of the iPad where kind

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of where the case is, you know, kind of folded over.

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When I got ready to pick up the iPad. Here's

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a coke can with coke. And when I picked it up,

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you may have kind of heard a little of this sound.

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You may I heard that that coke can almost flipped

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over and would have spent sent coke all over the place,

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all over my Bible. I would have been like, I

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would have been trying to say good afternoon everyone, theology

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central no no no no no no no no no no,

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I need a towel, I need something, okay, And that

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would have been that would have been. That's what almost

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just occurred. It's I tried to make it sound professional,

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but in my mind, I was like, oh man, that

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was so close, so close to disaster, so very close

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to disaster. And maybe just maybe sometimes pastors open their

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Bibles read a verse and maybe they're well so close

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to getting it right, but it actually can lead to disaster.

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So a little different then it was almost disaster. It

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was so close to disaster. Maybe sometimes pastors get a verse,

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they're so close to getting it right, but it actually

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leads to the disaster, and they're not so close to disaster.

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Maybe they're so close to avoiding disaster, but maybe they

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kind of walk right into it. Maybe. Well, we'll see

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if that illustration works. As I well introduce this, and

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here's what I want to do. I want you to

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imagine yourself of sitting in church. All right, it's Thursday, April,

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did I say second? April? The third? I want you

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to imagine you're sitting in a pew. It's Sunday. You're

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at church, and the pastor walks up to the pulpit.

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He lifts up in the air his Bible, all right,

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and he looks at everyone and he says in that

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kind of pastoral voice. I can't really pull it off.

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I can't really mimic it because I don't really have

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a pastor's voice. But he says, this book and he's

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holding up his Bible in the air. This book will

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keep you from sin, or sin will keep you from

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this book. And you'll hear people in the congregation saying amen.

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Depending on the type of church, they may even start

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applauding this book will keep you from sin, or sin

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will keep you from this book. Everyone in your church

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will probably agree with that that the Bible will keep

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us from sin, and maybe that is close to saying

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something is true. I think it can actually lead to disaster.

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I know everyone's going to disagree with me, because most

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of you are going to be like, it's true, the

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Bible will keep me from sin or sin will keep

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me from the book. Okay, well I could get into

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we could break that down. We won't get into that

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right now, but let me just ask you. Do you

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agree that the Bible will keep you from sin? That

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quote you've probably heard in sermons. You've probably heard it

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maybe in Sunday school. You've probably heard it in Christian podcasts.

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You've probably seen it in Christian books. It's in all

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kinds of devotional books. The quote is often attributed to D. L. Moody.

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I didn't do enough research to determine if that's actually true.

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If D. L. Moody is the first one to say it,

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I've seen other people accredited with saying it. I think

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Bob Jones, Sr. Is accredited with saying I've heard lots

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of people, but I think it is traced back most

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believed dialmudy. I cannot verify that, and it sounds right

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to some. It may actually sound right. It's in fact,

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I will argue it sounds maybe close to the truth.

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This book will keep you from sin, or sin will

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keep you from the book. Again, I could already start

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taking it apart. I want to do that. I'm not

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going to do that right now. But it sounds right.

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It may sound close to the truth. We have to admit.

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It's very simple, it's very catchy. It's easy for you

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to write down in your notes. It may seem that

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it lines up with what we want to believe. It

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may line up with what you've been told, it may

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line up with what you think it may be. It

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may line up with well, that makes sense, right, It's

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God's word. It will keep me from sin. I mean

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that has to be it has to be true. It

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has to be so close. But what if it actually

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isn't close. What if it will actually lead to the

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disaster of you maybe ending up extremely disappointed, extremely discouraged,

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maybe extremely depressed, maybe even deconstructing. Maybe it sounds close,

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but maybe it actually ends in disaster. I mean, it

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really leads to this idea. If I will just read

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my Bible more, if I will just study more, if

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I will just memorize more, then I will sin less

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and less and less and less and less. Does that

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sound true? Again? Using that my opening illustration, just like

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when this coke can almost tiptoe, I was so close

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to disaster, I think in this case it sounds so

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close to the truth. But I think the coke can

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ultimately spills out and it leads to all kinds of problems.

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But this afternoon, fast approaching this evening, I'm going to

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stop and I'm going to ask a very hard question.

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Is that actually true? Is that actually true? Does reading?

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Does reading and studying? Does reading, studying and memorizing scripture

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really keep you from sin? Or are we once again

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turning the Christian life into a performance plan instead of

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a gospel promise. Now what I want to do is

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I want to challenge maybe one of the most widely

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accepted beliefs in modern Christianity, the idea that consistent Bible

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intake will lead to moral transformation and victory over sin.

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We're going to honestly look, We're gonna honestly look at this.

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We're honestly going to consider, well, then if this is true,

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then why we still sin? Even when we read? We

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still sin? Even if we read the Bible daily? We

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still sin. Even if we read the Bible hourly, we

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still sin. If we read the Bible minute by minute.

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Why well, because you know what I'm gonna say, Come on, class,

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you all know it by heart. And how right? Why

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do I say that we still sin? Because the Bible

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says be holy as God is holy. You've never been

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holy as God as holy. You never will be as

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holy as God as holy. Prac speaking, Therefore, you're in

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a perpetual state of sin. Love God. You know all

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the ones I'm going to say. So. If reading the

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Bible is supposed to stop this, fix this, eliminate this,

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then why can't you even obey that scripture? Be holy

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as God is holy, Be perfect as your Heavenly Father

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is perfect. Love God with all your heart, mind, body,

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and soul. If reading your Bible actually leads to less sin,

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you think you would be able to that would be

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one of the first things you could accomplish. I'm holy

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as God is holy. Why sin doesn't seem to disappear

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just because you know you can answer all the Iwana questions,

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you can answer all the Bible trivia questions, you can

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answer all the Sunday School questions. You can get in

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a and seminary. How come sin doesn't go away? And

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that may lead some of you to Psalm one nineteen,

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verse eleven, where we read these words, thy Word, have

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I hid in mine heart? That I might not sin

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against THEE? In fact, when most preachers preach p. One

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nineteen eleven, thy word, have I hid in mine heart?

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That I might not sin against thee? Almost inevitably, typically

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in many of those sermons, you know what you'll hear.

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This book will keep you from sin, or sin will

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keep you from this book. So then, how does a

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verse like Psalm one nineteen eleven? Then how should we

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understand it? How is it misused? Is it misunderstood? Or

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do we wrongly understand it? Now, what I'm going to

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do is try to offer a different, a more gospel

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centered lens for understanding that scripture. And I'm gonna try

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to I'm gonna try to help you. I'm gonna try

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to help myself for all of us to understand scripture

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not as a weapon to eliminate sin from your life,

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but as a witness that drives you deeper into your

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need for Christ and His perfect righteousness on your behalf. Now,

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have you ever felt guilty because your Bible reading didn't

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make you holier. I mean, be honest. Have you ever

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felt guilty if you're fell Well, I read, I study,

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I listen to sermons, but I still sin. Have you

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ever felt guilty? Have you ever felt like, well, maybe

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if I read more, maybe if I studied more, maybe

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if I memorized more. Because almost inevitably, in churches, when

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they do a hey, we're gonna we're gonna do a

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course on how to study the Bible, they almost always began,

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why should you study the Bible? And it without fail?

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They're going to say, because it will make you holy,

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it will help you to stop sinning, it will it

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will lessen sin in your life, it will draw and

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almost inevitably, that's they're going to put that out there,

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is this is the reason you do it. Have you

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ever possibly wondered why do I still fall into sin?

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Even after meditating on scripture for I don't know fifteen hours.

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So we're going to talk about the Bible. We're going

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to talk about sin, We're going to talk about the

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difference between information transformation and imputed righteousness. Now, why are

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we going to be talking about all of this? Why? Why? Why?

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Are we going to be talking about getting so close

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maybe to the truth, but yet leading to complete disaster?

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Is it just because I almost knocked over a coke

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can at the beginning? No, I just simply used me.

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I just simply tried to use me knocking over a

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goat can. That's an illustration to fit in with everything.

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That's not why we're going to do this. We're going

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to do this because I received an email. In fact,

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what time did I receive this email? I received an

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email at Let me go look here, let me open

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up my email in box. Here we go. I received

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an email at four o six pm, so it's getting

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close to about two hours. Guess what the subject line

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is for the email? Does reading the Bible keep you

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from sin? Question mark? Oh? I was like, Now soon

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as I saw the subject line, does reading the Bible

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keep you from sin? Question mark? I'm like, oh no,

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oh no, no, no, no, no. Someone's not happy with

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me because remember we reviewed that sermon about you know,

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victory over sin in a believer's life, and remember it

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gave us five things we need to do that if

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we'll walk in the spirit, we'll basically stop sinning. Well,

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how do I walk in the spirit. Read my Bible,

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Read my Bible, study my Bible. If I read and study,

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then I'm walking in the spirit. Then don dunda done?

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I get the power so that I can stop sinning.

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Remember we talked about that in great detail. So I

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was like, someone is going to be ticked off with me.

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All right, let me open it now. As soon as

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I saw the name, I'm like, okay, well, this is

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probably not going to be negative because this person's always positive.

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He sends me emails all the time. I'm okay, this

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should be pretty good. So it says this year I'm

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reading the one year Bible and have made it into Deuteronomy,

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which makes me question the idea that reading the Bible

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keeps you from sin. I was like, okay, so is

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he going to say? What's causing me to question this

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is I'm all the way up to Deuteronomy and yet

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I keep sinning. Is that the direction he's going to go? Hey,

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I keep reading the Bible. I've made it to Deuteronomy

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and guess what it's now April the third and I

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keep sinning. It's like, is that the direction he's going

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to go? I'm like, well, maybe I don't know. Well,

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it says this, the law is meant to show us

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our depravity and an ability not to sin. And I'm like, oh,

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the law is meant to show us our depravity and

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inability not to sin. And I'm like, that is so

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true that I love that someone's reading the Bible. And

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there I've been saying that forever. The Law is there

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not so that you can keep it, because you can't.

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to reveal all the ways you break it and fall

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short of it. Reading the Law gives us ideas for

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new ways to sin that we haven't tried yet. Oh

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that's awesome. Oh come on, now, you can't say that

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in Sunday School, and you can't say that in church.

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Can you imagine, Hey, guys, we've been encouraging everyone in

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the church to read the Bible. This year. We would

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like to let open it up so everyone can stand

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up and give a testimony about what they have gotten

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from reading the Bible this year. Can you imagine this

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guy standing up on Sunday going, yes, a pastor, this

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is what I have discovered that the more I read,

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the more I come up with new ideas. And new

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ways to sin that I haven't even tried yet. That

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would be like, sir, could you sit down, stop listening

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to the Theology Central podcast? And you may want to

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go find another church. And in fact, maybe if he

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did that, Hey, guys, you know what I discovered in

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reading the Bible? I have now found new ways to

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sin that I haven't even tried yet. Young people would

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probably be like, whoa wa, wait wait wait If I

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read the Bible, I'll learn new ways to sin. Yes,

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can I get a copy? Where's a copy? Where's a copy?

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Can I get a copy? Sh don't tell Republicans that

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because they'll be like, ban the Bible. It's giving ideas

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and how to sin. We've got to ban the burn

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the Bible. It's giving. It's corrupting the minds of kids.

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We can't let read the Bible and come up with

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new ways of sinning. No, no, no, no, no, oh,

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I'm not getting political. I'm sorry, I'm sorry, sorry, okay

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whatever that political party that wants to ban books everywhere? Okay,

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all right, So that that made me laugh. And then

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it says, and then we realize how deprave we are

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and how much we need Christ. Now being serious. That's

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perfect law gospel distinction. The law condemns, the law shows

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our inability. But what does the law do. It drags

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me to the foot of the cross, and there's your

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only hope. You can't he did. You can't obey. He

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completely obeyed. You're a failure. He's victorious. You're defeated. He won.

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You're a sinner. He was sinless. You're disobedient. He was obedient.

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Then they asked me, do you see what I mean? Oh?

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Do I see what you mean? I've been saying this

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for like ever. Yes, I see what you mean. He's saying,

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I'm disagreeing with the laid back Guy's entire premise, and

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so and the laid back guy is I guess the

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sermon we reviewed, and yeah, I disagree with it obviously

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completely Reading the Bible isn't meant to keep you from sin.

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It's meant to show you that you can't keep yourself

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from sin. Oh that's great. The Bible isn't meant to

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keep you from sin. It's meant to show you that

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you can't keep yourself from sin. If you read the

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Old Testament without all the layers of allegory and interpretation

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and just take it for what it says. It's absolutely

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crazy what people did and what God had to explicitly

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prohibit that they wouldn't have laws if no one did

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those things. I've said that a million times. If you

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go into Deuteronomy in some parts of the Old Testament,

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like they had to have a law again, its beast reality, Like, really,

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we needed a law against that, We needed a law

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for this, We needed like some of those laws. You're like,

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I don't think we needed a law for that, But

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you know why we needed a law for that, because

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we human beings do these things, the most depraved thing

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you can come up with. Human beings do them. You say, well,

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I don't, You've got the depravity inside of you to

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do it. Being totally depraved doesn't mean we're going to

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do every sinful thing possible. It just means we're all

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going to sin in some way, shape or form, and

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that we are totally depraved. That it impacts every part

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of our being, our mind, our desires, our wants, everything.

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But the fact is, you don't know what your depravity

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is capable of doing the most egregious things, things that

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you don't even think you could do. Your depravity is

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capable of it. Where it leads you maybe different than

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where it leads me. That's why when people always say, well,

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I just don't understand how that. I always hate when

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Christians say that, I don't know how the pastor could

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do that, or I don't know how that person could.

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You don't know how they could do it. They're depraved sinners.

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I just don't know how a Christian can do that?

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Are you out of your mind? We can commit any

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sin because we're still depraved. Romans three and Roman seven

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shows were absolutely no different people and shows us. We're

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absolutely no different. And that's true. Romans three and Roman

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seven shows were absolutely no different. People also try to

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explain away Roman seven. Yes they do. They constantly try

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to explain away Roman seven. And what's so crazy is

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they try to explain it away while literally lying to

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them them very selves. If you don't if you want

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to try to explain away Roman seven, I don't know

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why you would want to explain it away, because it's

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the very passage that explains us. The things I want

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to do I don't. Things I don't want to do

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are the very things not only do I do, I

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delight in it and I can't wait to do it again.

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Then the email goes on to say, at least the

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people listen at least the people I listen to a

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lot are realistic about the human condition. They never say

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you'll ever be free of sin in life, and they

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preach only Christ, not what we can do to stop sinning.

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When I hear stuff like the sermon you found, I

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see why you go around in circles. Well I appreciate that. Yes,

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I do go around in circles. And look, look, if

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someone finds sermons that are radically different, congratulations, that's good.

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I just want to make it very clear to everyone.

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I find these sermons not by you know, looking for

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bad ones. I find sermons in the most random way possible.

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Look that that victory over the Believer's victory over sin

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sermon that was a featured sermon on sermon audio isn't

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one of the ones we reviewed was a staff pick.

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So some of those are just right there, like I'm not,

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I'm not. I don't have to go look at they're

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just right there, promoted, they're they're right there. So yeah,

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of this. So let's do a little bit of work.

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So I emailed the person back and I was like, WHOA,

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you know, I think I'm going to have to do

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an episode on some one nineteen eleven because inevitably, what

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you're saying, and what I'm saying, is that the reading

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and studying of the Bible doesn't keep us away from sin.

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That word have I hid in my heart that I

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might not sin against thee So we're going to have

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to address that. But I feel that before we can

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address it, we need to look at what I believe

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are three absolutely foundational objections that strike at the heart

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of a deeply flawed and widespread teaching and modern day

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crew Ristianity. So I think we need to look at

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three foundational ideas that completely goes against what I believe

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is the flawed idea that reading and studying the Bible

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helps you stop sinning. I think that that's a flawed idea.

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I think it's broken, and I think it sounds so good,

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it sounds so close, But ultimately the coke can is

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going to spill over and it's and it leads to

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pain and disaster and confusion. That's one of the things

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that confused me so much. Remember I became a Christian

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as a teenager. I've told the story a million times.

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The night I was saved, the pastor called me back

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to his office, handed me a Bible and said, this

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is the Word of God. This is the Word of God.

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story before. Driving home, I had it sitting there in

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the passenger seat next to me, and I just kept

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looking over, thinking, there's a God and his word is

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right there in that book, the God who There's a God,

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and that's his word. So I've told you. I went

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home read I think the entire New test I think, yeah,

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the New Testament. All that night I stayed up and

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read the entire New Testament. Within a week, I'd read

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the entire Old Testament. So basically, within the first week

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of being saved, I'd read the entire Bible from Genesis

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to Revelation. Within one week. After that, I read the

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Bible constantly. I told stories all the time that where

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my high school was, literally just ride across the street

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and maybe up a half a block was first Baptist Church,

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Tesco to Texas. The church I was saved in. I

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would skip school, walk out of the school, cross the street,

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up the block, break into the church because I knew

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a way to break in. Sit there in the sanctuary

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of reading my Bible. Read my Bible over and over

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and over and over and over and over. I even

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got the Bible and audio cassette and listen to it

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over and over and over and over and over. I

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did not miss a church service. I was there for

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Sunday school, Sunday morning, Sunday night Wednesday. If the Wi

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ladies had a Bible study, I was there. And then

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after school, I was going to one of the elderly

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lady's house who was in the church. We called her

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Miss Mac. I don't know in my mind she was

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one hundred and fifty. I don't know how old she was.

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I would sit there on the floor, she said, in

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her rocking chair with a Bible, and I would listen

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to her talk to me about by the Bible theology.

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I would go. I made a trip to the Bible

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bookstore in Abilene, Texas, got a book by James Montgomery Boys,

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the pastor of tenth Presbyterian Church. I read everything in it.

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I was saturated in scripture, and I still kept sinning

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over and over and over and over again. Oh, it

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may have been different sins than I was committing prior

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to getting saved. So I could still pay on myself

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on the back and say, look, I've been changed, I've

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been transformed. I could do that, But it was just

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different kinds of sins. In fact, a lot of it

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was just pretending to be something that I wasn't, which

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is a form of hypocrisy. So we've got to get

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rid of this idea of that Studying the Bible helps

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you stop sinning. Now again, it may sound pious, it

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may sound so very close, but it often becomes a

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very subtle form of law based sanctification, and it collapses.

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The coke can spills under honest I'm gonna actually spill

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the coke. Okay, after all this time, I'm actually gonna

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just not I'm gonna spill the coke everywhere. Under honest, biblical,

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philological and experiential scrutiny. It becomes law based sanctification, and

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I believe it collapses under honest, biblical, philological, and experiential scrutiny.

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So what are these three foundational ideas objections? Well, number one.

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You're ready, here's number one. Write it down, put this

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on your refrigerator, all right. The Bible does not remove

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the sinful nature. The Bible does not remove the sinful nature.

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Salvation does not remove the sinful nature. Regeneration does not

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remove the sinful nature. The sinful nature remains. So how

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could it stop you from how could it stop you

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from sinning? If unless it gets rid of the sinful nature,

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My sinful nature, your sinful nature, the flesh inside of me,

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my nature remains with me until death or glorification. Paul

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says things like, it's no longer I who do it,

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but sin that dwells within me. For I know that

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nothing good dwells in me, that is in my flesh.

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Romans seven seventeen through eighteen Galatians five seventeen. The flesh

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lusteth against the spirit, so that you cannot do the

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things that you would. The flesh, the flesh, it's still there.

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Reading the Bible is good. Obviously. We're called to read,

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we're called to study, we're called to meditate, we're called

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to love the Word of God. I got no, I'm

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not in any way diminishing that. But if you think

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it's a surgical tool that removes sin from your being.

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Then I think you're just you're setting. It sounds good,

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it sounds so close, But the cokecan is ultimately going

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to spill and it's going to collapse. Your sin doesn't

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come from your ignorance. Okay, you may sin in ignorance,

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but sin doesn't come from ignorance. It comes from within.

458
00:29:06.079 --> 00:29:09.680
It comes from a corrupted nature. The call is coming

459
00:29:09.759 --> 00:29:16.880
from inside the house, and that is not cured by information.

460
00:29:18.480 --> 00:29:27.160
It is crucified positionally, but it remains practically Galatians two twenty.

461
00:29:27.519 --> 00:29:30.920
I have been crucified with Christ. The life I now live.

462
00:29:31.039 --> 00:29:32.920
I live by the faith and the son of God.

463
00:29:33.200 --> 00:29:37.160
That's me positionally practically see Roman seven. The things I

464
00:29:37.200 --> 00:29:38.640
want to do I don't do. The things I don't

465
00:29:38.680 --> 00:29:40.759
want to do I do. I see this struggle, I

466
00:29:40.799 --> 00:29:43.440
see this fight. In my mind, I may be serving

467
00:29:43.480 --> 00:29:45.759
the law of God, but in my flesh, I'm serving

468
00:29:45.799 --> 00:29:50.200
the law of sin. That knowledge may make you know

469
00:29:50.559 --> 00:29:53.799
you know what that knowledge does. It makes you feel guilty.

470
00:29:54.039 --> 00:29:56.640
That knowledge will show you that what you're doing is sinful.

471
00:29:56.839 --> 00:30:00.680
That knowledge will remind you hey that desire sinful, that

472
00:30:00.799 --> 00:30:03.759
lust sinful. The way you looked at that woman sinful,

473
00:30:03.880 --> 00:30:06.680
The way you're thinking about her sinful. Oh, the way

474
00:30:06.720 --> 00:30:10.079
you are gossiping and slandering about that person sinful. Of

475
00:30:10.160 --> 00:30:12.640
the way you won't forgive that person sinful. Oh, you

476
00:30:12.680 --> 00:30:15.519
don't love your animal enemy sinful. It's going to make

477
00:30:15.799 --> 00:30:20.440
that knowledge is going to constantly remind you and give

478
00:30:20.480 --> 00:30:22.680
you that sense of guilt where you're going to be like, man,

479
00:30:22.960 --> 00:30:24.559
the things I want to do, I don't. The things

480
00:30:24.599 --> 00:30:26.559
I don't want to do, I do. So the knowledge

481
00:30:26.680 --> 00:30:29.400
is important, but it's not going to get rid of

482
00:30:29.400 --> 00:30:31.319
your sinful nature. It's not going to remove it. It's

483
00:30:31.319 --> 00:30:38.440
not going to cut it out. So no matter how

484
00:30:38.519 --> 00:30:41.960
much you read scripture, no matter how much you read

485
00:30:42.279 --> 00:30:45.000
you can read twenty four hours a day, seven days

486
00:30:45.039 --> 00:30:51.799
a week, the flesh isn't going away until glorification. You

487
00:30:51.839 --> 00:30:54.759
can read it. I'm telling you you can go. You

488
00:30:54.799 --> 00:30:56.559
can just be like, Okay, I'm not going to go

489
00:30:56.559 --> 00:30:58.480
to work anymore. I'm going to get rid of my

490
00:30:58.559 --> 00:31:01.400
family and I'm just gonna see here and read read read, read, read,

491
00:31:01.440 --> 00:31:06.279
read read. Your flesh isn't going anywhere. The sinful nature

492
00:31:06.319 --> 00:31:16.279
is still there. So Number one, the Bible doesn't remove

493
00:31:16.279 --> 00:31:19.559
the sinful nature, so how can it stop sin? Number two?

494
00:31:22.079 --> 00:31:28.799
Stop sinning is an impossible, unmeasurable standard. When you say, oh,

495
00:31:28.839 --> 00:31:30.880
it's gonna it's gonna help me stop sinning, or I'm

496
00:31:30.920 --> 00:31:35.839
gonna sin less, it's it's an impossible, unmeasurable standard. It

497
00:31:35.920 --> 00:31:39.880
means nothing. When pastors say that, oh, you know, you

498
00:31:39.960 --> 00:31:43.240
may never be sinless, but you can sure sin less.

499
00:31:43.519 --> 00:31:45.759
What does that even mean? How do you even measure

500
00:31:45.920 --> 00:31:50.119
sinning less? What does that even mean? How would you

501
00:31:50.160 --> 00:31:52.880
even define stop sinning or sinning less? Or do you

502
00:31:52.920 --> 00:31:55.640
mean stop lusting? Do you mean stop being selfish? Do

503
00:31:55.680 --> 00:31:58.359
you mean stop wasting time? Do you mean stop lacking

504
00:31:58.400 --> 00:32:01.079
love for God and others? Stop failing to give thanks?

505
00:32:01.079 --> 00:32:04.559
And all things? How would you measure it? Sinful thoughts,

506
00:32:05.000 --> 00:32:09.359
sinful desires that may never actually be manifested outwardly, things

507
00:32:09.440 --> 00:32:12.400
not done but that should have been sins of omission.

508
00:32:14.480 --> 00:32:16.480
And just remember, if you're guilty of one point of

509
00:32:16.519 --> 00:32:18.319
the law, you're guilty of all of it. And again

510
00:32:18.359 --> 00:32:20.039
I'm just going to give you the basic standard. Be

511
00:32:20.079 --> 00:32:22.720
holy as God is holy. You're never that, So you're

512
00:32:22.759 --> 00:32:25.160
already in a perpetual state of sin. So you can say, well,

513
00:32:25.160 --> 00:32:27.920
I'm sinning less. How can you be sinning less when

514
00:32:27.920 --> 00:32:32.200
you're perpetually sinning love God with all your heart, mind, body,

515
00:32:32.200 --> 00:32:34.000
and saw You've never done that, So you're in a

516
00:32:34.079 --> 00:32:36.599
perpetual state. But I'm sinning less. What do you mean

517
00:32:36.680 --> 00:32:41.039
sinning less? You instead of looking at pornography fifteen times

518
00:32:41.039 --> 00:32:43.000
in a week, you only looked at it five times

519
00:32:43.000 --> 00:32:44.920
in a week. Well, even if you stop looking at

520
00:32:44.960 --> 00:32:48.279
it completely, you stop, you can say I stopped committing

521
00:32:48.440 --> 00:32:51.519
that sin, But did you really sin less? Because you're

522
00:32:51.519 --> 00:32:54.279
in a perpetual state of sin, it becomes this like

523
00:32:54.920 --> 00:32:57.720
just subjective way in which you're defining it. You still

524
00:32:57.759 --> 00:32:59.839
are not holy as God is holy. And now you say, well,

525
00:32:59.839 --> 00:33:02.200
you telling me to keep sinning. No, I'm saying we

526
00:33:02.240 --> 00:33:04.279
have to be honest, that we're in a perpetual state

527
00:33:04.319 --> 00:33:08.680
of sin. So trying to brag about sinning less, it

528
00:33:09.599 --> 00:33:13.519
means nothing. Because you can sin and thought, you can

529
00:33:13.559 --> 00:33:16.160
sin in word, you can sin indeed, you can sin

530
00:33:16.200 --> 00:33:18.640
and desire. You can sin in what you do, and

531
00:33:18.680 --> 00:33:20.880
you can sin in what you fail to do. James

532
00:33:20.880 --> 00:33:23.720
for says, whoever knows the right thing to do and

533
00:33:23.720 --> 00:33:27.519
fails to do it for him, it is sin. Romans

534
00:33:27.519 --> 00:33:32.319
fourteen twenty three says whatever whatever does not proceed from

535
00:33:32.359 --> 00:33:35.359
faith is sin. So sin is not just breaking a

536
00:33:35.400 --> 00:33:39.119
list of rules. It's failing basically to be perfect, to

537
00:33:39.200 --> 00:33:43.680
be continual, to be faith, to be perfect, continual, faith

538
00:33:43.720 --> 00:33:46.799
filled obedience to God. That means we sin all the time,

539
00:33:47.079 --> 00:33:52.599
often without even knowing that we're sinning. So the idea

540
00:33:52.640 --> 00:33:56.000
that scripture helps you stop sinning is a subjective mess.

541
00:33:56.720 --> 00:34:00.480
It's an invitation to spiritual delusion or desire. It's a

542
00:34:00.519 --> 00:34:04.119
contradiction of the biblical doctrine of sin and the flesh.

543
00:34:04.200 --> 00:34:07.039
So these are two foundational truths that this, Hey, the

544
00:34:07.079 --> 00:34:10.039
Bible's gonna help you stop sinning. Well, it doesn't remove

545
00:34:10.079 --> 00:34:12.320
the sinful nature, so it can't help me stop sinning.

546
00:34:12.559 --> 00:34:15.400
And number two, to even talk about stop sinning or

547
00:34:15.440 --> 00:34:20.519
sinning less is an impossible, unmeasurable standard. You're just gonna

548
00:34:20.519 --> 00:34:23.480
have to say, well, you stop sinning here, Yeah, but

549
00:34:23.559 --> 00:34:26.719
I'm in perpetual sin. Yeah, but you stop sinning there.

550
00:34:27.440 --> 00:34:33.639
I'm in perpetual sin. Okay. So and if I'm guilty

551
00:34:33.639 --> 00:34:35.639
of one point of the law, I'm guilty of all.

552
00:34:35.840 --> 00:34:37.880
So even if you say, well you didn't you didn't

553
00:34:37.880 --> 00:34:40.920
break that law. Yeah, but broke that law, meaning I'm

554
00:34:41.000 --> 00:34:42.960
still guilty of the law you said I'm not breaking

555
00:34:43.079 --> 00:34:44.920
because I have a break one, I'm guilty of all.

556
00:34:45.119 --> 00:34:48.960
So it just there's just no measurable way to even

557
00:34:49.119 --> 00:34:53.079
It's just a meaningless It's some humanistic idea we impose

558
00:34:53.239 --> 00:34:57.679
upon our theology because and our human terms. We want

559
00:34:57.719 --> 00:35:00.840
some sense of achievement, we want some sense. It's one

560
00:35:00.880 --> 00:35:03.960
of those things that I talk about kind of americanized

561
00:35:04.000 --> 00:35:06.280
martial arts. I've been a martial arts my whole life.

562
00:35:06.480 --> 00:35:11.079
I can't stand the belt system and American martial arts.

563
00:35:11.119 --> 00:35:14.480
I hate it. I loathe it. It's all about you

564
00:35:14.880 --> 00:35:18.679
joined martial arts? What belt are you? Who cares the belt?

565
00:35:19.760 --> 00:35:22.079
Kind of the original idea. You know what changed the

566
00:35:22.119 --> 00:35:27.679
belt color was the sweat, dirt, blood and tears is

567
00:35:27.679 --> 00:35:30.760
what changed the color of your belt, Not some ridiculous

568
00:35:30.840 --> 00:35:33.280
tests so that you can be awarded impact yourself on

569
00:35:33.320 --> 00:35:35.599
the back, like oh look look, look look I'm now

570
00:35:35.599 --> 00:35:37.840
a yellow belt. Oh look look look look now I'm

571
00:35:37.960 --> 00:35:40.679
an orange belt or a blue belt or an orange

572
00:35:40.679 --> 00:35:43.800
belt with a stripe or what depending on your ranking

573
00:35:43.880 --> 00:35:46.119
system and your form of martial arts or your skull.

574
00:35:46.400 --> 00:35:50.360
It's just ridiculous. It means nothing. Who cares about a

575
00:35:50.360 --> 00:35:54.159
stinking belt? But why do you do it? Because, especially Americans,

576
00:35:55.320 --> 00:35:57.119
we got to have some sense of feeling like we're

577
00:35:57.159 --> 00:36:01.559
accomplishing something, that we're doing something. We gotta feel like

578
00:36:01.679 --> 00:36:03.440
we gotta get that pad on the back at the

579
00:36:03.639 --> 00:36:07.000
belt ceremony, So everyone stop it. You know what you

580
00:36:07.039 --> 00:36:10.199
should care about is knowing the technique. You know what

581
00:36:10.239 --> 00:36:12.920
you should do that you could actually defend yourself if

582
00:36:12.960 --> 00:36:16.320
you were attacked. So in all the martial arts schools,

583
00:36:16.320 --> 00:36:20.840
I would irritate the instructure and structures and structure instructors

584
00:36:20.920 --> 00:36:24.559
so much. I didn't ignore their instruction, but I ignored

585
00:36:24.599 --> 00:36:27.360
the instructors so many times because it would be like,

586
00:36:27.519 --> 00:36:30.320
are you going to test? No, I'm not going to test.

587
00:36:30.679 --> 00:36:32.920
Oh what are you going to test? I don't know

588
00:36:33.559 --> 00:36:37.039
who cares? Can I keep learning techniques? Can I keep learning?

589
00:36:37.800 --> 00:36:39.519
And so sometimes it'd be like you've been in this

590
00:36:39.559 --> 00:36:43.760
school for two years, You've taken one test, and then

591
00:36:43.800 --> 00:36:47.199
when it came to sparring or doing something, people who

592
00:36:47.239 --> 00:36:51.519
are far more advanced in their little belt. I could

593
00:36:51.559 --> 00:36:56.039
I could absolutely destroy Not because I was stronger, not

594
00:36:56.119 --> 00:36:58.320
because I was smarter. It's only because i'd been in

595
00:36:58.360 --> 00:37:00.840
the school for four years, and take and two tests.

596
00:37:01.159 --> 00:37:03.360
They'd been in the school four years and they're already,

597
00:37:03.519 --> 00:37:08.519
you know, fourth degree black belt. Like that black belt

598
00:37:08.559 --> 00:37:12.119
is useless. You mean you you started way after me,

599
00:37:12.639 --> 00:37:14.519
and yet you're already a black belt and here I

600
00:37:14.559 --> 00:37:17.519
am still a yellow belt or an orange belt. I

601
00:37:17.599 --> 00:37:21.039
don't care about your little reindeer games. I want to

602
00:37:21.079 --> 00:37:24.519
know the technique. I want to learn it. But we

603
00:37:24.559 --> 00:37:28.519
want this sense of measurement. I'm fulfilling something. So Christians

604
00:37:28.639 --> 00:37:30.920
kind of do the same thing. Hey, oh look look, look, look,

605
00:37:30.960 --> 00:37:33.000
look look, if you if you go to church, if

606
00:37:33.039 --> 00:37:34.719
you go if you go to youth group, if you

607
00:37:34.719 --> 00:37:37.480
go to small group, you'll stop sinning. You'll you'll do better,

608
00:37:37.519 --> 00:37:38.840
You'll do better. And then we got to find some

609
00:37:38.840 --> 00:37:41.639
way to oh, I stop sinning this way. But we're

610
00:37:41.719 --> 00:37:45.519
not really measuring ourselves to the standard. And martial arts.

611
00:37:45.559 --> 00:37:48.480
To me, the standard is how well can I defend myself?

612
00:37:49.360 --> 00:37:53.119
How well do I really know that technique? Can I

613
00:37:53.880 --> 00:37:55.800
not that I can do the technique when someone is

614
00:37:55.800 --> 00:37:59.679
standing in front of me like slow punching. No, when

615
00:37:59.679 --> 00:38:02.440
someone stands in front of me and can punch full force,

616
00:38:02.519 --> 00:38:06.000
and I can do the technique. When someone truly tries

617
00:38:06.079 --> 00:38:09.280
to choke me out, I can truly get out of it.

618
00:38:09.360 --> 00:38:12.239
When someone truly grabs me by the back of the

619
00:38:12.280 --> 00:38:14.239
head and try to slam my head into the ground,

620
00:38:14.400 --> 00:38:17.000
I truly can get out of it. I don't. It's

621
00:38:17.039 --> 00:38:19.199
of no value. I can do it when you're like, okay,

622
00:38:19.239 --> 00:38:24.320
now I'm gonna punch ooh, block okay, block okay, And

623
00:38:24.360 --> 00:38:28.880
I'm going like, you know, zero miles per hour means

624
00:38:29.119 --> 00:38:31.719
nothing because when you get on the street, nobody's gonna

625
00:38:31.719 --> 00:38:34.000
be like, hey, I'm gonna throw a punch. Now it's

626
00:38:34.039 --> 00:38:36.880
like boom. It's that Can I do something? And if

627
00:38:36.880 --> 00:38:39.800
I can't, then I don't care about passing your stinking test.

628
00:38:40.159 --> 00:38:43.400
That's the standard. The standard is that, Well, then the

629
00:38:43.480 --> 00:38:46.760
test is irrelevant. Well, in Christianity, what's the standard perfection?

630
00:38:47.199 --> 00:38:50.199
So I can play all these little games where I think, ooh,

631
00:38:50.199 --> 00:38:54.800
look at me, look at me, doesn't mean anything, doesn't

632
00:38:54.840 --> 00:39:00.519
mean anything. So go through these again. Right, here's the

633
00:39:00.519 --> 00:39:04.000
foundational truths. The Bible doesn't remove the sinful nature. So

634
00:39:04.280 --> 00:39:07.079
you're not gonna stop sinning. Stop sinning is an impossible

635
00:39:07.119 --> 00:39:10.199
and measurable standard, especially when you consider the standard. And

636
00:39:10.199 --> 00:39:13.119
then number three, the law of God. Oh this is

637
00:39:13.159 --> 00:39:22.239
gonna be controversial. The God's law actually provokes and incites sin.

638
00:39:23.719 --> 00:39:29.480
This is where Christians get very nervous. This should really

639
00:39:29.639 --> 00:39:32.880
bother Christian parents, because what Christian parents saying, No, no, no, no,

640
00:39:33.079 --> 00:39:36.559
they can't watch Netflix. They can't listen to Lady Gaga

641
00:39:36.679 --> 00:39:39.960
or Sabrina Carpenter or Chapel Row and they can't listen

642
00:39:39.960 --> 00:39:42.840
to any of these people because because they will incite sin.

643
00:39:44.079 --> 00:39:46.400
I can't let my kid do this. They will get corrupted.

644
00:39:46.480 --> 00:39:47.960
Oh no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no no.

645
00:39:48.000 --> 00:39:49.960
Don't let the kid in the library because they could

646
00:39:50.000 --> 00:39:52.360
read a book that no, no, no, it will incite sin,

647
00:39:52.599 --> 00:39:56.079
It will cause sin. Did you know the very thing

648
00:39:56.400 --> 00:39:59.440
that will incite sin? Did you know the very thing

649
00:39:59.440 --> 00:40:05.400
that will provokee poke sin? Is God's Law. Oh you're

650
00:40:05.400 --> 00:40:07.360
not going to learn that in church. No no, no,

651
00:40:07.400 --> 00:40:09.559
you're not going to learn that in church. So I

652
00:40:09.679 --> 00:40:14.159
asked AI, is that true? This is what Ai says.

653
00:40:15.880 --> 00:40:23.679
This idea makes many evangelicals very nervous. But the apostle

654
00:40:23.800 --> 00:40:31.840
Paul teaches this explicitly and unashamedly in Romans chapter seven.

655
00:40:33.039 --> 00:40:35.840
So I asked, Ai, is it true that the law

656
00:40:35.880 --> 00:40:39.440
of God actually provokes an insight? Sin Ai says, this

657
00:40:39.519 --> 00:40:42.719
is where this is where many evangelicals get nervous, or

658
00:40:42.760 --> 00:40:47.199
this makes evangelicals very nervous. But Paul teaches this explicitly

659
00:40:47.440 --> 00:40:51.400
and unashamedly in Romans chapter seven. Then it quotes Romans

660
00:40:51.440 --> 00:40:54.280
seven to five. While we are living in the flesh,

661
00:40:54.400 --> 00:40:59.280
our sinful passions aroused by the law, we're at work

662
00:40:59.320 --> 00:41:03.039
and our members to bear fruit of death. I'm going

663
00:41:03.079 --> 00:41:05.079
to go to Roman seven five. I don't know which

664
00:41:05.119 --> 00:41:07.320
translation it's quoting from. I'm going to go to Roman

665
00:41:07.360 --> 00:41:12.679
seven five. In the King James Romans seven five. For

666
00:41:12.760 --> 00:41:15.400
when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins,

667
00:41:15.400 --> 00:41:18.519
which were by the law, did work in our members

668
00:41:18.559 --> 00:41:22.599
to bring forth fruit unto death. Well, we were living

669
00:41:22.599 --> 00:41:26.079
in the flesh, our sinful passions aroused by the law.

670
00:41:26.880 --> 00:41:31.320
Roman seven eight. Sin seizing an opportunity through the commandment

671
00:41:31.559 --> 00:41:36.639
produced in me all kinds of coveteousness. It was through

672
00:41:36.719 --> 00:41:40.760
the commands that it produced in me all kinds of coveteousness.

673
00:41:41.480 --> 00:41:44.679
The Law is holy and good, but our flesh reacts

674
00:41:44.679 --> 00:41:49.039
to it like rebellion to a command. So once we

675
00:41:49.079 --> 00:41:53.400
give the flesh the word of God, our flesh is like, oh,

676
00:41:53.440 --> 00:41:55.679
I'm going to break that. I'm going to violate that.

677
00:41:55.960 --> 00:42:00.320
It provokes it, it incites it. It brings up the

678
00:42:00.440 --> 00:42:05.639
lust and the rebellion. The law says, do not covet,

679
00:42:05.639 --> 00:42:09.960
and the flesh says, now I want everything, do not lust.

680
00:42:10.159 --> 00:42:13.480
I'm gonna lust at everything. Do not have primarital sex.

681
00:42:13.519 --> 00:42:17.280
I want to have primarital sex. Whatever. And Christians will

682
00:42:17.280 --> 00:42:19.719
never acknowledge that. They'll say no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

683
00:42:19.719 --> 00:42:22.639
no no. The Bible's gonna make my little boy and

684
00:42:22.679 --> 00:42:25.039
girl and the good little boys and girls, and they're

685
00:42:25.039 --> 00:42:27.719
gonna do everything right. So I'm gonna take them to

686
00:42:27.800 --> 00:42:30.400
church and give them the scriptures and this will it's

687
00:42:30.400 --> 00:42:34.679
actually going to provoke it in site sin. I don't

688
00:42:34.679 --> 00:42:37.519
know how you Christians will never admit this. They will

689
00:42:37.559 --> 00:42:44.840
rebel against it. But it's what actually occurs. So the

690
00:42:44.880 --> 00:42:48.760
Bible may reveal truth, and we may even argue that

691
00:42:48.760 --> 00:42:51.519
the spirit may use the word to convict, to comfort

692
00:42:51.559 --> 00:42:54.519
and expose. The mere act of reading scripture does not

693
00:42:54.679 --> 00:42:59.639
subdue sin. In fact, it agitates the sinful nature unless

694
00:42:59.760 --> 00:43:02.519
the reader is resting in faith by Christ. And I

695
00:43:02.559 --> 00:43:05.199
will argue that even if you're resting in faith by Christ.

696
00:43:05.199 --> 00:43:07.599
That's AI saying that last part. I will say, even

697
00:43:07.599 --> 00:43:10.559
if you're resting in faith in Christ, the Bible still

698
00:43:10.639 --> 00:43:14.239
can incite and provoke because you still have that same set.

699
00:43:14.400 --> 00:43:16.800
The sinful nature doesn't go away as long as the

700
00:43:16.800 --> 00:43:19.360
sinful nature is there, the sinful nature in the word.

701
00:43:19.840 --> 00:43:23.920
They have this problem in the way that the flesh

702
00:43:23.960 --> 00:43:28.800
will respond to it. So what's the alternative. Well, the

703
00:43:28.840 --> 00:43:32.320
Bible does not transform you morally through your effort to

704
00:43:32.400 --> 00:43:36.119
study it. It's not a sanctification tool for self improvement.

705
00:43:36.679 --> 00:43:39.400
The Bible is a witness to Christ. It is the

706
00:43:39.480 --> 00:43:42.639
means by which we behold his finished work, rest in

707
00:43:42.679 --> 00:43:45.920
His righteousness, and live by faith in Him. When we

708
00:43:46.039 --> 00:43:52.119
read Scripture as law, it crushes. When we read the Gospel,

709
00:43:52.400 --> 00:43:57.599
it comforts and drives us again to Christ. In reality,

710
00:43:57.880 --> 00:44:00.960
that's walking in the spirit. Not try to stop sinning

711
00:44:01.119 --> 00:44:04.400
through increased Bible reading, but resting in Christ, who died

712
00:44:04.480 --> 00:44:08.320
for your sin and lives in you by his spirit.

713
00:44:11.159 --> 00:44:15.280
But guess what, some person out there is already screaming

714
00:44:15.559 --> 00:44:18.360
at their phone or their tablet, or at other people

715
00:44:18.360 --> 00:44:20.800
in the house. This guy is an idiot. Has he

716
00:44:20.880 --> 00:44:26.039
never read Psalm one nineteen eleven the word Have I

717
00:44:26.119 --> 00:44:29.280
hid in my heart? That I might not sin against thee?

718
00:44:29.920 --> 00:44:32.400
This is typically often quoted as a proof text that

719
00:44:32.480 --> 00:44:37.039
reading and memorizing scripture will stop you from sinning. And

720
00:44:37.239 --> 00:44:41.320
it sounds so close to the truth the coke can

721
00:44:43.400 --> 00:44:45.679
But if you don't get it right, it spills and

722
00:44:45.719 --> 00:44:54.239
you're going to be left depressed, discouraged, deconstructing. Basically, it

723
00:44:54.320 --> 00:44:58.880
sounds simple. If I will internalize God's word, I won't sin.

724
00:45:00.280 --> 00:45:02.920
But what happens if we look at the verse carefully?

725
00:45:04.000 --> 00:45:07.320
What if we look at it contextually? What if we

726
00:45:07.360 --> 00:45:10.280
look at it philologically? And what if we look at

727
00:45:10.280 --> 00:45:18.440
it realistically? Can we then see how it doesn't contradict

728
00:45:18.639 --> 00:45:23.079
the doctrine of ongoing sin, but it actually supports what

729
00:45:23.159 --> 00:45:28.119
I will call a gospel driven, faith dependent approach to scripture.

730
00:45:29.400 --> 00:45:31.880
Do you think that can work? Now? I'm about to

731
00:45:31.880 --> 00:45:34.920
give you what I say is a hypothesis. I tried

732
00:45:34.960 --> 00:45:38.199
to do that with Galatians five sixteen and seventeen Galatians

733
00:45:38.239 --> 00:45:41.239
two twenty. I'm going to give you a hypothesis here.

734
00:45:41.320 --> 00:45:47.920
All right, let's look at what the verse actually says

735
00:45:48.000 --> 00:45:51.559
and what it doesn't say, or at least attempt to.

736
00:45:51.840 --> 00:45:56.960
All Right, thy word have I hid in thine heart

737
00:45:57.880 --> 00:46:04.199
or my heart that I might not sin against thee.

738
00:46:04.440 --> 00:46:08.519
Now does it say thy word have I hid, and

739
00:46:08.559 --> 00:46:11.320
therefore I no longer sin? It does not say that.

740
00:46:11.639 --> 00:46:14.119
Doesn't say, hey, I've hid your word in my heart,

741
00:46:14.320 --> 00:46:16.360
and now I no longer sin. It says that I

742
00:46:16.480 --> 00:46:18.719
might not sin. It doesn't say that I well that

743
00:46:18.800 --> 00:46:23.079
I no longer sin. It does not say your word

744
00:46:23.159 --> 00:46:26.000
has made me sinless. It does not say that in

745
00:46:26.039 --> 00:46:29.639
any way, shape or form. It does not say I

746
00:46:29.719 --> 00:46:33.079
memorize scripture. Now I am holy as God is holy.

747
00:46:33.360 --> 00:46:42.280
Definitely does not say that The verb might not Some

748
00:46:42.360 --> 00:46:47.159
would argue that it's not a guaranteed result. But it's

749
00:46:47.199 --> 00:46:51.360
an express an expression of desire. It's it's almost like

750
00:46:51.400 --> 00:46:55.000
a prayerful aim. It's not a claim of a perfection.

751
00:46:55.280 --> 00:47:00.920
It's expressing a desire. It's expressing a prayer, a full aim.

752
00:47:01.239 --> 00:47:03.840
I like that, Now if I go I'm gonna see here.

753
00:47:04.559 --> 00:47:06.800
Let me let me see. I'm gonna check something here.

754
00:47:07.239 --> 00:47:10.960
I did not check this out here. I'm gonna skip this. Okay,

755
00:47:11.039 --> 00:47:13.519
I'm gonna go into the blue Letter Bible app. Blue

756
00:47:13.599 --> 00:47:19.000
Letter Bible APP. I'm gonna go to Psalm one nineteen. Okay,

757
00:47:19.039 --> 00:47:21.719
now we're about to again. We're putting forth a hypotheses here.

758
00:47:21.760 --> 00:47:28.199
I'm gonna go to the ante linear. I. Well, it's

759
00:47:28.280 --> 00:47:32.079
kind of broken down here. Have I hid that word not?

760
00:47:32.719 --> 00:47:39.440
I might? That's kind that's kind of weird the way, yeah,

761
00:47:39.480 --> 00:47:43.679
the way this is broken down, that's not gonna how

762
00:47:43.679 --> 00:47:46.119
about not. Let me go back to not hand. I

763
00:47:46.159 --> 00:47:49.199
don't like the way this is broken down. We need

764
00:47:49.239 --> 00:47:55.880
a different way to break down that phrase not. Uh yeah,

765
00:47:56.159 --> 00:47:59.199
this this doesn't help very much. The way this is

766
00:47:59.199 --> 00:48:01.880
broken down into linear does not give me a lot

767
00:48:01.920 --> 00:48:05.360
of help. According to artificial intelligence. Let me go back

768
00:48:05.360 --> 00:48:10.559
to artificial intelligence here. Artificial intelligence says that verb might

769
00:48:10.639 --> 00:48:13.599
not and it does put it together two words. So

770
00:48:13.639 --> 00:48:15.559
I'd have to go put the two words together in

771
00:48:15.639 --> 00:48:17.880
Hebrew and see if we could come up with this ideaity.

772
00:48:18.119 --> 00:48:21.760
But according to AI, it says, this is not a guarantee.

773
00:48:22.480 --> 00:48:25.760
But it's an express an expression of a desire, a

774
00:48:26.519 --> 00:48:30.320
prayerful aim. It reflects a heart that says, here we go.

775
00:48:30.480 --> 00:48:32.840
This is kind of what AI says. It's actually doing.

776
00:48:33.559 --> 00:48:36.920
I treasure your word because I don't want to sin,

777
00:48:37.599 --> 00:48:42.239
even though I still do. I've hid that word in

778
00:48:42.360 --> 00:48:45.199
my heart that I might not sin against thee I

779
00:48:45.239 --> 00:48:48.400
don't want to sin, so I'm treasuring your word. I'm

780
00:48:48.400 --> 00:48:51.039
reading your word because I don't want to sin. It's

781
00:48:51.079 --> 00:48:54.199
expressing a desire. I don't want to sin. So then

782
00:48:54.239 --> 00:48:56.559
I'm looking to your word because I don't want to

783
00:48:58.440 --> 00:49:01.239
even though I know I still do. It's not acknowledging

784
00:49:01.280 --> 00:49:04.000
that I'm going to stop. It's acknowledging I know I sin,

785
00:49:04.199 --> 00:49:07.039
but I don't want to. That's very different from saying

786
00:49:07.199 --> 00:49:10.079
I hid your word. Now I can stop sinning, or

787
00:49:10.119 --> 00:49:12.559
I will stop sinning. It's more saying I don't want

788
00:49:12.599 --> 00:49:19.679
to sin. That's why I have treasured your word hid

789
00:49:19.760 --> 00:49:23.079
in my heart. The idea means to store, treasure, protect,

790
00:49:23.159 --> 00:49:28.119
or cherish. It's not merely about memorizing. It's about valuing.

791
00:49:28.599 --> 00:49:32.039
I value what the Word of God says. I value it,

792
00:49:32.119 --> 00:49:35.639
not just mentally, but inwardly. I'm going to trust on it.

793
00:49:35.800 --> 00:49:38.039
I'm going to depend on it, I'm going to return

794
00:49:38.159 --> 00:49:41.480
to it. So the verse is not about using scripture

795
00:49:41.519 --> 00:49:44.000
like a moral crowbar to price sin out of your heart.

796
00:49:44.320 --> 00:49:47.960
It's about loving God's word precisely because of one reason.

797
00:49:48.639 --> 00:49:53.559
You know that your heart is prone to sin. You

798
00:49:53.679 --> 00:49:55.760
know your heart is prone to sin. Let me state

799
00:49:55.800 --> 00:50:00.280
it this way. You know your heart is sinful. So

800
00:50:00.480 --> 00:50:04.199
therefore you memorize or you hide God's word because you

801
00:50:04.400 --> 00:50:08.320
know the reality that's inside of you. Why do I

802
00:50:08.360 --> 00:50:11.800
go to God's word outside of me? Because I know

803
00:50:11.920 --> 00:50:18.159
what's inside of me. Inside of me is a sinful, narcissistic, prideful, lustful,

804
00:50:18.840 --> 00:50:22.599
disgusting piece of trash. All right, that's on a good day.

805
00:50:22.719 --> 00:50:25.000
So I go to God's word outside of me because

806
00:50:25.000 --> 00:50:28.320
it will reveal what I am, it will condemn what

807
00:50:28.519 --> 00:50:37.559
I am. It's not so much a technique, it's a posture. Lord.

808
00:50:37.639 --> 00:50:40.719
I know I'm a sinner. I know I'm a sinner,

809
00:50:40.800 --> 00:50:43.840
So I'm hiding my word so that I because I

810
00:50:43.880 --> 00:50:48.719
don't want to sin. So then how do we reconcile

811
00:50:49.039 --> 00:50:53.239
one nineteen eleven with perpetual with the idea of perpetual sin.

812
00:50:54.280 --> 00:50:58.119
The desire to not sin and the reality of sinning

813
00:50:58.280 --> 00:51:01.039
are both present and the heart of a believer. I

814
00:51:01.079 --> 00:51:03.840
want you to hear that again. The desire not to

815
00:51:04.000 --> 00:51:09.400
sin and the reality of sinning is present in any

816
00:51:09.480 --> 00:51:13.320
true Christian at the same time. On one hand, I don't

817
00:51:13.400 --> 00:51:16.639
want to sin. I don't want to. On the other hand,

818
00:51:16.960 --> 00:51:21.280
I do. Both are true at the same time. This

819
00:51:21.320 --> 00:51:23.280
is what the Church has failed to show the world.

820
00:51:23.760 --> 00:51:25.480
We try to tell the world. You become a Christian,

821
00:51:25.519 --> 00:51:28.360
you basically become perfect. No, no, no, I've become a Christian.

822
00:51:28.679 --> 00:51:31.920
I now know what sin is. I accept what sin is.

823
00:51:32.440 --> 00:51:34.719
I don't want to do it, but I'm going to

824
00:51:34.800 --> 00:51:42.800
keep doing it. Psalm one is not written by someone

825
00:51:42.840 --> 00:51:46.280
claiming sinlessness. It is full of I have gone astray

826
00:51:46.559 --> 00:51:49.360
like a lost sheep Verse one seventy six. Turn my

827
00:51:49.480 --> 00:51:53.880
eyes from looking at worthless things verse thirty seven. Let

828
00:51:53.960 --> 00:51:57.719
my cry come before you. This is someone who treasures

829
00:51:57.719 --> 00:52:01.760
the word, wants to obey, but that they constantly fail.

830
00:52:02.559 --> 00:52:05.719
So one nineteen eleven is a statement of humble dependence,

831
00:52:06.239 --> 00:52:12.679
not self righteous claim of transformation. It's a it's a

832
00:52:12.400 --> 00:52:18.199
it's voicing a desire almost like a prayerful attitude. I'm

833
00:52:18.199 --> 00:52:22.039
a sinner. I'm a sinner. I don't want a sin,

834
00:52:22.440 --> 00:52:24.599
so I'm going to hide your word in my heart.

835
00:52:25.880 --> 00:52:28.199
I'm going to hide your word because I know what's

836
00:52:28.280 --> 00:52:30.840
in my heart is sin, So I'm going to hide

837
00:52:30.840 --> 00:52:42.199
this there. So can this verse support a this kind

838
00:52:42.239 --> 00:52:47.440
of gospel centered understanding. I think Some one nineteen eleven

839
00:52:47.519 --> 00:52:50.800
shows a believer longing not to sin. I think it

840
00:52:50.840 --> 00:52:54.639
acknowledges the need for God's truth. I think it shows

841
00:52:54.679 --> 00:52:58.840
treasuring God's word because sin is still present. And I

842
00:52:58.880 --> 00:53:02.519
think it shows depending undivine mercy and instruction, not your

843
00:53:02.519 --> 00:53:06.360
own willpower. I think it fits with Roman seven. I

844
00:53:06.480 --> 00:53:10.039
do the things that I hate, Galatians two twenty, I

845
00:53:10.119 --> 00:53:12.679
live by faith of the Son of God and Galatians

846
00:53:12.719 --> 00:53:16.320
five seventeen, so that you do not do what you want.

847
00:53:17.719 --> 00:53:22.119
It's all, it's all those concepts all wrapped together. I

848
00:53:22.159 --> 00:53:24.119
know I'm a sinner. I don't want to sin, so

849
00:53:24.159 --> 00:53:26.239
I'm gonna hide your words, and maybe I don't sin

850
00:53:26.559 --> 00:53:36.000
even though I know I do. Psalmone nineteen eleven is

851
00:53:36.000 --> 00:53:40.480
not a promise of sinlessness or sin lessness. I think

852
00:53:40.480 --> 00:53:43.079
it's a prayerful declaration of love for God's word by

853
00:53:43.079 --> 00:53:45.679
someone who still sins and knows that only God's truth,

854
00:53:45.719 --> 00:53:49.840
treasured in the heart, can continually reorient a sinful life

855
00:53:49.840 --> 00:53:54.480
towards grace, not perfection. I think God's word the rea.

856
00:53:54.559 --> 00:53:57.039
It leads me back to the solution, which is the

857
00:53:57.079 --> 00:54:05.519
finished work of Christ. So, ultimately, after fifty four minutes

858
00:54:05.559 --> 00:54:08.719
and almost a spilled can of coke, where does that

859
00:54:08.800 --> 00:54:12.880
leave us? I believe that Psalm one nineteen eleven, Thy

860
00:54:12.960 --> 00:54:14.480
Word have I hid in my heart that I might

861
00:54:14.519 --> 00:54:17.239
not sin against thee. I don't think we should see

862
00:54:17.239 --> 00:54:20.000
this as a formula for sinless living. I don't think

863
00:54:20.000 --> 00:54:22.920
this is a verse about self discipline or moral performance.

864
00:54:23.360 --> 00:54:26.639
I think it's the confession of someone who knows how

865
00:54:26.719 --> 00:54:30.840
deeply they still need God's word, not to keep them clean,

866
00:54:31.199 --> 00:54:34.199
but to continually call them back to the only one

867
00:54:34.559 --> 00:54:39.800
who is clean. The psalmist hides the word in his

868
00:54:39.880 --> 00:54:42.760
heart because he knows he still sins, and he wants

869
00:54:42.840 --> 00:54:46.840
to be reminded of God's mercy, his promises, his holiness

870
00:54:47.280 --> 00:54:52.079
again and again and again, just like we all should

871
00:54:52.159 --> 00:54:57.880
desire that. If you have ever believed that, reading and

872
00:54:57.920 --> 00:55:00.719
studying the Bible should make you sin less and wondered

873
00:55:00.719 --> 00:55:04.079
what's wrong with you when you didn't. Here's the freedom.

874
00:55:04.559 --> 00:55:10.360
Here's what you need to remember. This book, the Bible.

875
00:55:10.679 --> 00:55:15.320
This book won't keep you from sin, but it will

876
00:55:15.400 --> 00:55:20.519
keep pointing you to the one who bore your sin.

877
00:55:21.920 --> 00:55:26.400
And the more you see him in its pages, the

878
00:55:26.400 --> 00:55:33.760
more you'll trust him and not your self. That's why

879
00:55:33.800 --> 00:55:38.199
we open the Bible, not to prove we're changing, but

880
00:55:38.320 --> 00:55:42.360
to remember we've already been crucified and raised with Christ.

881
00:55:43.559 --> 00:55:46.719
Not to track my progress, not to see if I'm

882
00:55:47.119 --> 00:55:50.239
moving on to the next belt, using that illustration, not

883
00:55:50.360 --> 00:55:52.800
to say, ooh, look at me, but to fix my

884
00:55:52.960 --> 00:55:56.920
eye on the one who already finished everything, accomplished everything,

885
00:55:57.320 --> 00:56:02.800
did everything. So do hide the Word in your heart,

886
00:56:03.440 --> 00:56:08.000
not as a shield for your performance, but as a

887
00:56:08.039 --> 00:56:17.960
window to your savior. Now I'm going to classify that

888
00:56:18.000 --> 00:56:23.079
as a hypothesis. Many of you are going to strongly disagree.

889
00:56:23.599 --> 00:56:27.280
All I know is you can hide the word all day,

890
00:56:27.679 --> 00:56:31.119
every day you're still going to send Now I'm going

891
00:56:31.199 --> 00:56:32.840
to go just I'm going to go back to the

892
00:56:33.159 --> 00:56:35.079
blue letter Bible. App I'm gonna try to break this

893
00:56:35.159 --> 00:56:39.760
down again, all right, so might not. I'm going to

894
00:56:39.800 --> 00:56:44.000
try to look at this phrase might not yeah lo okay,

895
00:56:44.039 --> 00:56:49.840
all right, So the first knot is this Strong's age

896
00:56:49.920 --> 00:56:56.840
thirty eight eight Lo lo lo, And it's it's definition

897
00:56:57.000 --> 00:57:02.519
is kind of all over the place, right yeah. It

898
00:57:03.159 --> 00:57:09.719
doesn't really help me though, right not no, not not

899
00:57:09.719 --> 00:57:13.199
nothing without before it does it doesn't really help me

900
00:57:13.239 --> 00:57:15.639
in any way, shape or form. And then and the

901
00:57:15.719 --> 00:57:21.679
other part might not. They're that low is the not

902
00:57:22.159 --> 00:57:26.039
I might. But see they put it I might sin.

903
00:57:26.719 --> 00:57:30.159
So it's it's not I might not sin. Not I

904
00:57:30.320 --> 00:57:32.480
might sin would almost be the way it's in the

905
00:57:32.519 --> 00:57:41.119
into linear I might is this, it's this if I

906
00:57:41.159 --> 00:57:48.079
can play it. Strong's age twenty three ninety eight shatah shatah.

907
00:57:48.719 --> 00:57:51.960
And that hota really goes more. It focuses more on

908
00:57:52.480 --> 00:57:56.360
not that I might. It focuses more on the uh,

909
00:57:57.039 --> 00:58:00.480
the idea of sinning. Right, I might. So it's almost

910
00:58:00.559 --> 00:58:05.440
like I have hid my I've hid your word because

911
00:58:05.440 --> 00:58:07.519
I don't want to say it's it. I think if

912
00:58:07.559 --> 00:58:09.760
you see it more as a prayer, it makes sense. Look,

913
00:58:09.800 --> 00:58:13.400
I've hid your word because I don't want to so

914
00:58:13.440 --> 00:58:15.880
that I might not. I don't want that it's it's

915
00:58:15.880 --> 00:58:20.039
a prayerful desire. It's it's expressing a desire. I'm a sinner.

916
00:58:20.159 --> 00:58:22.639
I don't want to be a sinner, so as a result,

917
00:58:22.679 --> 00:58:26.440
I'm acknowledging my sin. That's why I've hid your word.

918
00:58:28.840 --> 00:58:30.559
If I think, if we see it that way, that's it.

919
00:58:30.679 --> 00:58:32.360
And you say, well, no, that doesn't make any sense.

920
00:58:32.360 --> 00:58:33.920
Well if you go the other way, it doesn't make

921
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any sense from a from a practical standpoint, you can hide,

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you can look. I've known people who who have won

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a Wanna medals, like all kinds of a Wanna medals,

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because they've memorized like a million things. They still sin

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all day every day. There have been people who have

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memorized like entire like the entire New Testament, and then

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they'll get caught up in some scandal, so memorizing it

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doesn't stop. It's not that simple. But if we see

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it as it's a the psalms are typically like it's poetics,

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it's words of prayer, it's words of of of of

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of basically confession to God Lord, I'm a sinner. I'm

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gonna hide your words so that I might not sin

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that because I know that I'm a sinner. I know

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what's in my heart is a sin. I know it

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is sin. That that's the only way it makes any sense. Now,

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we could do more work on it, but that's where

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sometimes you get to look at reality and go it

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doesn't work. Just like we saw in Galatians five, if

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I walk in the spirit, I just stop sinning. Come on,

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that doesn't And then so to get around that, you say, well,

941
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you have to do ten things to walk in the spirit. Well,

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then if I'm doing those things without the spirit, okay,

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then the whole thing. We already saw how that whole

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thing fell apart. So all right, thanks for listening everyone,

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have a great night. God bless