Feb. 9, 2025

Spiritual Malpractice: Sinless Christians

Spiritual Malpractice: Sinless Christians

A discussion about a crazy claim about sin and Christians.

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A discussion about a crazy claim about sin and Christians.

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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 Sunday, February the ninth, twenty twenty five. It

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is currently three twenty six pm Central Time, and I'm

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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 know, I know

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it's Super Bowl Sunday. I'm very aware of that. Everyone

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is aware of it. The whole world is aware of it.

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Everyone will be talking about it. Millions upon millions of

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people will watch it. We know it's like a cultural phenomenon.

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It's something that everyone talks about. But before we turn

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on the television and watch Taylor Swift, I mean the

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Super Bowl, before we do that, Okay, Well, well, I

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won't get into all of my opinions of football fans

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getting all angry and upset and mad because they showed

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Taylor Swift for five seconds and they ruined America and

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they ruined football. Okay, I hope they show her seventy

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five thousand times, and I hope Taylor Swift wins the

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Super Bowl and then everyone can be mad. Okay, but

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I won't get into all, well, I kind of got

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into that when I said I wasn't right. But before

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that starts, and before people start yelling and screaming that

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the refs are paid and that the whole thing is fixed,

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and that this is wrong and this is horrible and

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this is a horrible, horrible thing, and before everyone gets

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upset about football and refs and Taylor Swift and politics

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and culture wars, before we do that, can we take

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a few minutes to talk about something Well, I think

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it's far more important, far more serious, and at least

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for people within Christianity, at least people within the church.

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They should be far more bothered about what I'm getting

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ready to talk about then how many times Taylor Swift

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is seen or not seen, or if the refs get

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a call ride, if the refs get a call wrong,

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if Kansas City wins, or if Kansas City loses. Instead

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of getting upset about that, I think, and I mean this,

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Christians should really get ticked off and really get upset

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about something that happens in church after church after church

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after church, week after week after week. But for some

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weird reason, Christians don't seem too bothered about that. And

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what I am referring to is spiritual malpractice? Spiritual malpractice. Now,

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we talk about medical malpractice. I'm gonna sue this hospital,

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in this doctor for malpractice, right, medical malpractice. I want

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to talk about spiritual malpractice now. I don't know when

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the lawsuits begin and we start suing pastors for spiritual malpractice,

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but I feel in many cases those lawsuits should have

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come a long time ago. I know some people will

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be offended by that, but but considering how bad spiritual

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malpractice is and how damaging it is to people mentally, emotionally, spiritually,

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I think something needs to be done about it. But

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I think most Christians kind of welcome spiritual malpractice and

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somehow think it's okay. Now what do I mean by

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spiritual malpractice. Well, spiritual malpractice occurs when a teacher, when

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a pastor, when a religious leader miss represents biblical truth

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in a way that harms people's faith, distorts their understanding

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of God, or leads them into spiritual confusion, despair, or

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self deception. I want you to write this down. I

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want you to have a definition of spiritual malpractice. I

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want you to write this down all rite, because earlier

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this morning I don't know what time it was, I

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know four or five. I kind of woke up for

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a few minutes. I'm like, well, I need to listen

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to something to help me fall back to sleep. I

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play on a message, a sermon, a lesson, a lecture,

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and well all I all I wanted to scream was spiritual.

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So I want you to write this down because whenever

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you see spiritual malpractice, I want you to be able

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to define it, and maybe the definition will help you

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identify it. Spiritual malpractice occurs when a teacher, when a pastor,

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when a religious leader, when a Christian podcaster mis represents

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biblical truth in a way that harms people's faith, distorts

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their understanding of God, or leads them into spiritual confusion, despair,

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or self deception. One more time for those who take notes,

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Spiritual malpractice occurs when a teacher, pastor religious leader, Christian

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podcaster misrepresents biblical truth in a way that harms people's faith,

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distorts their understanding of God, or leads them into spiritual confusion, despair,

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or self deception. It involves the following things. Number one,

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philological misinformation, teaching doctrine that contradicts scripture, Church history and

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Christian experience. When you're teaching something that clearly contradicts right doctrine,

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it contradicts scripture, it contradicts church history, it contradicts Christian experience,

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It just contradicts everything your theology is well. Misinformation when

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it burdens believers. A second thing it involves when it

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burdens believers unnecessarily imposing unrealistic or unbiblical standards that lead

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to guilt, shame, or despair. When a pastor imposes some

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unrealistic or unbiblical standard and all it does is lead

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to guilt, shame, or despair, that's not You have to

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do this. You got to do this, and if you

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don't do this, then you're probably never saved. If you

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don't do this, you lose yourselvation. You got to do this,

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you got to do this. You need to do this.

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You got to do this, You got to do this,

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You got to do this. Well, then next thing, you know,

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all do have this unrealistic standard. What happens is or

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they're completely unbiblical. You just start burdening people with things

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that the Bible doesn't even You have to do this,

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you have to do this, and the Bible doesn't even

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say anything about it, or you can't do this and

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you can't do that. Well, it leads to guilt, it

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leads to shame, and it can lead to just complete

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and total despair where you just come to the end

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of yourself and like, I don't know what to do.

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I can't do any of this. This is miserable. So

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theological misinformation, so spiritual malpractice involves Theilological misinformation involves burdening

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believers unnecessarily, and it involves false promises or deceptive claims.

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When you make some promise that hey, if you do this,

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God will do this, and God will do this, and

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God will do this, and God promises you to heal you,

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and God will promise that. God promises to do this

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for you and provide for you, and do this and

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do this, do this, and do this, and do this

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and do this. And you take all of those promises

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and then when they don't come about, well typically that

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what they do is people then blame you. The reason

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you don't have it is because you didn't do this,

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and you didn't do that, and you didn't do this,

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and you didn't do that, and you didn't do this.

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That's what Christians love to do. They love to blame

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the victim in many cases, blame the one that's suffering.

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But these false promises are deceptive claims. It can be

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offering assurance like guaranteed healing, financial prosperity, and of offering

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these assurances and these promises that are not grounded in

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reality or sound doctrine. In many cases they run to

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the Old Testament. Take promises that are not for you

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in any way, shape or form. Therefore Israel make them

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about us and then well then lead people ultimately to

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despair or they have to well at least to a

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lot of other problems.

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Okay.

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A spiritual malpractice involves stilological misinformation, burdening believers unnecessarily false

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promises are deceptive cla. It also involves manipulating or controlling

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others where you begin to use religious authority to pressure

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to deceive. When you begin to use your religious authority

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and only to pressure to deceive, to spiritually abuse people

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rather than pointing them to Christ. All of that is spiritual.

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All of that is involved in spiritual malpractice. Now, so

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there was a specific thing I did not mention because

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I don't want to mention it, right, now i'll come

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back to it. I'm going to add this to it,

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because we're going to talk about a very specific example

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of what I believe is spiritual malpractice. They would not

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believe it. And I think many of you listening, depending

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on who it is. If it's normal listeners, you'll probably

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agree with me. New listeners will probably agree with what

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we're going to listen to and go no. I think

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they're right, and I think it's spiritual malpractice. I think

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there's no way to get around it now. To me,

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the biggest, the biggest offenders, the people most guilty of

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spiritual malpractice. I think I kind of put them in

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two camps. But the first camp everyone knows what I think.

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The entire charismatic movement is nothing more than spiritual malpractice

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on crack. Okay, it is spiritual malpractice. It is at

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a crazy level. The things that say God guarantees to

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heal you. God will do this. God supposedly speaks to you,

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God will do this, God God, God will do all

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of these things, and it just leads people and then

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if it doesn't work, well, you didn't have enough faith,

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you didn't do this, you didn't do this. Oh the

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entire Charismatic movement is just pure spiritual malpractice. I don't

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even understand how it ever survived. I don't understand why

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anyone would ever get wrapped up in it. I don't

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understand it. It is pure and it's just poison. It's

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just it's cancer. So there's the biggest that's probably the

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one I get the most angry about. Is anything related

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to the Charismatic movement, everything about it. But there's another

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group that in many cases will be the opposite of charismatics.

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They're not even they would be against the Charismatic movement,

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but they teach something and regards to sin and Christians.

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And well, I have a major issue with it, and

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we're going to talk about it. Now. How did we

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get here? Well, it all started with the spelling error, right,

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Remember yesterday we stumbled upon the word marteology. Right, if

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I can even say it right, hamartiology, hamartiology, hammartiology. Remember

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we even did this. I can't say the word writ anymore,

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and I'll explain why. Remember we did this amalteology, hmatiology, hamatiology.

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If I want to add an accent to it, harmartiology.

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Remember that word hamartiology. Now the reason, see, if I

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look at my screen, I'm going to say the word

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completely wrong. It's hamartiology. If I'm looking at my screen,

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I'm gonna say, horr mar theology, hamartiology, not huh mar theology.

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And you say, well, I'm barely hearing a difference. Well,

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probably because you know my Texas accent coming through there.

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But the reason on my screen it's completely wrong is because, well,

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we've found we stumbled upon a series that misspells the

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word hamartiology and spells it in a completely different way.

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I'm not going to go through the spelling differences and

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all of that. And like I said yesterday, I wasn't.

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To me. What caught my attention is when I saw it,

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I didn't immediately if you don't know what hamartiology is,

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just for those who didn't know, that's the doctrine of sin.

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That's the doctrine of sin. Right. So when I first

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saw the series and the sermon and the messages, I

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was like, what is that? What is that? Is that

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some new area of theology I'm not familiar with. And

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then when I started listening to him, I'm like, Oh,

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bring the doctrine of sin. They're covering hamartiology. Not however

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they have it harrmartiology. It's hamartiology, right. I have to

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look at my paper and not look at the screen.

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So I was like, okay, they made a spelling error,

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they got the wrong word. They okay, it's fine, you know,

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no big deal. I misspelled things all the time. I

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say things incorrectly, like I just almost did right there

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when I got ready to say hamartiology the first time, right,

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because it's easy to say it incorrectly or whatever the

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case may be, I'm like, okay, no big deal. You know,

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I'll email them. I'll let them know, they'll get it

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corrected at some point. Everything. I'll be happy. I would

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hope someone would point out when because a lot of

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times people have to email me like, man, you got

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your entire title is misspelled and wrong punctuation and everything else.

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So I was like, okay, great whatever. I didn't really

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it wasn't that big a deal that they had misspelled it.

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It wasn't the issue. The thing was, Oh, well, I

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can use this spelling error so that we can do

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an overview of harmarteology the doctrine of sin. And we

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did an hour where I did an overview of Harmarteology.

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An entire hour overviewing the doctrine, and I talked about

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how throughout Church history there are lots of different theological

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systems with a lot of different theological understandings to Hamarteology

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and to the doctrine of sin, and we looked at

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some of them and I'm like, Okay, great, wonderful. I

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think I did a good job. Move on now. As

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I said earlier, it was around four or five am

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this morning. Somewhere around that time, I woke up decided

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to listen to something, and I said, well, let me

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listen to a message about the doctrine of sin, and

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let's just see what they have to say about the

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doctrine of sin. All right, let's see what they have

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to say about hamartiology. Let's see what their position is.

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And I was listening. I was like, okay, right, that's good,

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that's interesting. And then all of a sudden they say

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it and I'm utterly like immediately, I just set up

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and I'm like, well, so much for sleep, because what

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is that. I almost wanted to get up and go

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to the microphone right then and say okay, good morning everyone.

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I just crawled out of bed. We're going to talk

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about hamart theology, and we're going to talk about how

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this is spiritual malpractice. So what we're going to do

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is we're going to listen to it. I will interrupt

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a little bit. I kind of want to just let

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it play through and let them say it and see

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if you can discover it. Obviously, I'm going to kind

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of give this away, so I don't really you know,

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I would like it to be like I almost just

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wanted to play it and say, okay, tell me if

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I like, if I was in church and if I

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could just play it, I would play it and like

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play maybe fifteen minutes, go way past the statement itself,

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and then stop and see if anyone in my church

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could determine the area where spiritual malpractice occurred. I think

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everyone hears to be able to catch it quickly, so

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I'm probably just gonna mention it immediately, but we're going

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to be listening to see where spiritual malpractice occurs. And

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this to me, when it comes to the doctrine of

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sin or the doctrine of Hamartiology, it's not if you

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know the word hamartiology, if you say it H A

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M A R or if you say har martology h

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A R M A R. It doesn't matter if you

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say the word correctly, spell the word cort. I mean

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it matters ultimately, I mean, to some level. But I'm

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saying when it comes to spiritual malpractice, spiritual malpractice occurs

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not in if I say the word correctly, or say

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the word incorrectly, or spell it correctly, or spell it incorrectly,

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that's insignificant. That's you just want to help people out

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if they I hope people want to help me out,

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and I want to help anyone else out. If we

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say the word incorrectly or if we spell it incorrectly

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because I have to be corrected constantly because I say

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things incorrectly or spell things incorrectly, that's not even an issue.

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That's insignificant. That matters. That's more just about appearance and

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pride and trying to be technically correct. I may never

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say hamart theology correct, I may miss I may say

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it incorrectly five times out of ten, eight times out

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of ten. But what I want and what I want

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you to have, is a correct understanding of the doctrine

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of sin, so that we're we you, I, us, all

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of us are not guilty of spiritual malpractice, and I

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believe in the audio clip we're about to listen to,

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spiritual malpractice occurs. Some of you will agree, some of

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you will disagree, but we're going to hear it together.

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Here we go.

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So we talked about the fact of sin last over

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the last period, and now we're looking at the nature

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of sin, and then we'll look at the effects of sin.

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gonna look here at the introduction, and then we're going

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to see sin defined. We're going to see transgression define.

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and then we'll get into other biblical turs for sin

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and so on. So Psalm fifty one, verses one through three,

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let's open to our bibles. Open our bibles to Psalm

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chapter number fifty one.

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Just remember, for historical context, Psalm fifty one happens to

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be a Psalm of David all right, clearly a believer

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in the true God, right, Okay, refer to in some

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places as a man after God's own heart, a man

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used by God to write a good portion of inspired scripture.

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Many of the psalms are credited to King David. Psalm

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fifty one is King David confessing him being a sinner, Okay,

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a great sinner because of his great sin. So everyone

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has a basic idea of the context. All right, here

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we go. Let's see where this is going to go.

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Psalm fifty one. All right, this is basically a discussion

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about sin. So this would fit in with a discussion

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about hamartiology or a discussion about the the doctrine of sin.

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This is fits perfectly. You can hear they're gonna talk

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about the effects of sin. They're going to define sin,

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they're going to define transgression. All of this would fit

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in perfectly with a discussion about hamarteology. Now, so all

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of this is great, wonderful. We're going to see if

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spiritual malpractice occurs.

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Psalm Chapane for fifty one in your biblem Psalm Chapanel

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for fifty one. All right, verse number one.

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It's taking a long time. It feels like it's taking

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ten minutes to get to some fifty one. Okay, I

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don't know, there's I think it sounds like he was

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tapping on something, so I don't know if he's trying

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to pull it up on a computer. I don't know.

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If he's trying to pull up a slide, I don't know.

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It's like Psalm fifty one, Okay, let's just have it

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ready to go, all right. So, or maybe he's giving.

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looking I see. That's always the thing in preaching. When

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you're preaching in front of a live audience, you may

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be doing something specifically for the benefit of the live

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audience and the people online. Because sometimes I'll get those

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emails you repeated this or why did you review this?

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maybe because the people sitting in front of me needed

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in the review. OK, maybe that's why, Well why did

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you do this or why did you do that? Or

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sometimes it's well, so there's a high probability that he's

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looking around and maybe people are just having a hard

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time finding Psalm fifty one. Maybe people aren't opening the Bibles,

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and so you just kind of wait, giving people kind

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of a hint like until you open, we're not going.

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I don't know what's going on, but it just seems

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Psalm fifty one, Verse one says, have mercy upon me,

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Oh God, according to thy loving kindness, according unto the

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multitude of thy tender mercies, blot out my transgressions, wash

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me through lee from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from

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my sin. For I acknowledge my transgressions, and my sin is.

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Ever before me. I feel like we need to go

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to Lord in prayer. Let's do that. Father. We thank

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you Lord for this topic as we consider it tonight.

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our heart tonight, that we would have the same heart

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as David, that we would come to you for mercy.

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I pray Father that you'd help us Lord, as we

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study the topic of sin. We would study it understanding

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that this is a very serious topic. Help us, Lord

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to consider the fact that sin is what separates us

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from you, that sin is is the whole reason that

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your son had to come and die. We pray Father

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that we'd not look at this concept lightly. We pray

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Lord that should help us to understand the doctrine of

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sin and help us Lord to forsake it, to have

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the right mindset concerning sin. Lord, forgive us for being

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so flippant about sin and thinking that, oh, it's sin

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and everybody does.

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It and all of that. But Lord, we that's the

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wrong heart.

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The right heart would be as David said, have mercy

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upon me, Oh God, according to thy loving kindness, according

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unto the multitude of thy tender mercies. Lo loot out

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my transgressions, Wash me thoroughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse

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me from my sin. For I acknowledge my transgressions, and

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my sin is ever before me. May we recognize that

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against thee and the only have we sinned and done

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evil in your sight? And pray that if there's any

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sin in any of our hearts, that you'd reveal that

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to us and that we would deal with it tonight

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as we consider the topic of sin and the concept

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and definitions and things. May not just be a class,

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but may it be an opportunity for us to think

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about our position with you and our relationship.

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Help us, Lord, I pray, and Jesus amen.

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even when I was first listening to it. I'm like,

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if if there's any sin in our hearts, if if okay, no,

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we have a sinful heart, we have sin in us

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perpetually twenty four sent like, what do you mean if

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there's any sin in our hearts? If is there anyone

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there who does not have sin in their heart? Is

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every is it even possible that it's only an if? Like, No, Lord,

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we know we have sin in us. We know we

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have a sinful nature, we know we have a sinful heart.

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We know that now. I understand, though it is very

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common within a large portion of Christianity to basically teach

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you we no longer have a sinful heart, and almost

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basically teach the eradication of the sinful nature. I think

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it's the most ridiculous teaching in the world. And you're

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already getting close to what I consider spiritual malpractice at

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that point. And people I know who, they're going to

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run to Ezekiel, and they're going to run to these

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Old Testament passages that are about Israel getting a new heart,

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not about us. Then someone's going to go. But the

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Bible says, if anyone's in crisis, a new creature, old

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things have passed away, all things have become new. Well again.

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If that is true practically, well, then we should be sinless.

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not practically a new reach and all things are passed away,

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all things have become new. That is true positionally and

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christ practically, you know you're still a sinner. Come on now,

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unless you can just convince yourself otherwise. So all right,

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just right there, If if we have sin in our heart,

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an you mean I am like, no, Now I can

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tell you it's not an If it's you, do I do?

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Everyone listening? Everyone there, the person preaching, if I'm the

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one preaching about them, reviewing them, all of us we

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have sin in our heart. That is a guaranteed, absolute fact.

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Sin remains in us. That's why we have to have glorification,

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so that we can be rid of this sinful body

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and sinful nature, et cetera, et cetera. Okay, now we

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still haven't gotten to the spiritual malpractice, but right there

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kind of already gave me a clue. Hmm. This is

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going in a direction. I feel it's going to lead

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us to write into the face of spiritual malpractice.

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So you're going to notice that three words are used

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here and most often in the Bible, you'll see.

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That three words are used to refer to sin.

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Sin is transgression, sin is iniquity sin is also the

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word sin is used as well.

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Now, I applaud that. I think that's good. Hey, there's

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three terms transgression, iniquity, sin. How are these terms connected?

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How are they different? Do they have different emphasis?

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What's the distinction between them? So that's something you could

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write down. You can write down the word transgression, iniquity

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and sin. What is the Hebrew word for transgression? What

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is the Hebrew word for iniquity? What is the Hebrew

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word for sin? How are they the similar? How are

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they different? What do they mean? That is a good

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course of study. Hey, right here in Psalm fifty one,

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blot out my transgressions, wash me from my iniquity, and

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cleanse me from my sin. Three words transgression, iniquity, and sin.

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my sin. Now, I could ask you, is the intent

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of the author? And Psalm fifty one under the inspiration

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of Holy Spirit? Was the intent of David, under the

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inspiration of the Holy Spirit here to give us three

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distinct terms that mean something different? Or is he using

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these terms almost synonymously. They just basically mean the same thing, right,

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It's like, no, this, it's the same thing. So do

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we just need to have a general understanding of all

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three or do we separate them into three and then

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break them down in three separate definitions and then try

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to determine if there's a different meaning. We could probably

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go I think you can make it an argument. I

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think it's just using them in a synonymous way. I

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don't know, but maybe maybe there's an argument for breaking

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them down. You can make that decision, all right, But

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let's let's see what they do here.

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our study tonight and and so we're going to look

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at the full nature of sin as it relates to God,

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God's law and man, and so tonight we'll look specifically

461
00:27:28.519 --> 00:27:33.480
at defining sin, transgression and iniquity.

462
00:27:33.519 --> 00:27:34.400
If we get any.

463
00:27:34.200 --> 00:27:36.759
Further than that, then maybe we'll get into other biblical terms.

464
00:27:36.759 --> 00:27:43.079
But we're gonna look at sin, transgression and iniquity Romans,

465
00:27:43.160 --> 00:27:45.119
Chapter three, verse number twenty three. If you have the book,

466
00:27:45.119 --> 00:27:48.839
it's right there in the book. If you don't, and

467
00:27:48.839 --> 00:27:50.880
and again you can you can follow along on the

468
00:27:50.920 --> 00:27:52.519
digital you know, digital.

469
00:27:52.200 --> 00:27:53.119
Copy of the book as well.

470
00:27:53.160 --> 00:27:55.559
But if you have the book, the text is right there.

471
00:27:55.720 --> 00:27:58.160
If you don't have the book, you can turn to

472
00:27:58.240 --> 00:28:00.839
Romans three twenty three, and and I encourage you to

473
00:28:00.839 --> 00:28:02.880
memorize Romans three twenty three in fact that.

474
00:28:04.160 --> 00:28:06.400
And what was kind of interesting there. And so this

475
00:28:06.440 --> 00:28:10.000
is just from a structural standpoint, just like, wait, you

476
00:28:10.119 --> 00:28:15.400
just outlined the three words we're going to cover, transgression, iniquity,

477
00:28:15.400 --> 00:28:17.599
and scent, and now we're going to Romans three twenty three. Well,

478
00:28:17.640 --> 00:28:20.079
if you go to Romans three twenty three, now we're

479
00:28:20.079 --> 00:28:23.200
we've entered. Now we're going to be looking at Greek words.

480
00:28:24.119 --> 00:28:26.359
We would have been looking at Hebrew word. Well, what

481
00:28:26.599 --> 00:28:28.480
just happened? So I was a little I was a

482
00:28:28.480 --> 00:28:30.880
little confused like that, I don't know what book they're

483
00:28:30.880 --> 00:28:33.079
referring to. If it's a digital copy, I'd love to

484
00:28:33.119 --> 00:28:34.799
find the copy of the book and look at it,

485
00:28:34.960 --> 00:28:37.400
see who wrote the book, see if we understand the

486
00:28:37.400 --> 00:28:41.599
philological framework from which it's coming. So but but I

487
00:28:41.640 --> 00:28:45.720
was a little like just from a like a just

488
00:28:45.720 --> 00:28:47.599
a preference. It's like wait a minute, no, no, you've given

489
00:28:47.680 --> 00:28:51.200
us the three Hebrew three English words that are obviously

490
00:28:51.200 --> 00:28:54.559
trans translated from from three Hebrew words. Let's go look

491
00:28:54.559 --> 00:28:58.160
at the Hebrew words that was translated transgression and the

492
00:28:58.240 --> 00:28:59.920
one and the one the iniquity and the one sin.

493
00:29:00.160 --> 00:29:02.839
And let's go from there. Why did we runder Romans three?

494
00:29:03.039 --> 00:29:06.240
I'm a little I'm a little confused. Let's see what

495
00:29:06.240 --> 00:29:08.000
he does with Romans three.

496
00:29:08.680 --> 00:29:12.440
That was our memory verse for the last lecture, Romans

497
00:29:12.440 --> 00:29:13.119
three twenty three.

498
00:29:13.319 --> 00:29:14.359
Who hasn't memorized?

499
00:29:21.400 --> 00:29:26.839
Very close? One word different, all of sin and come

500
00:29:26.920 --> 00:29:32.079
short of a glory of God. There's a difference, but

501
00:29:32.160 --> 00:29:35.720
you're close. That's good, Amen. But for all of sin,

502
00:29:35.720 --> 00:29:36.359
it comes short.

503
00:29:36.160 --> 00:29:43.640
With the glory of God. And the word sin means

504
00:29:43.680 --> 00:29:49.039
to miss the mark. It's like an archery term, all right.

505
00:29:48.960 --> 00:29:51.519
The word sin means to miss the mark. Now is

506
00:29:51.519 --> 00:29:54.880
he referring to the Greek word, this Greek word and

507
00:29:55.039 --> 00:29:59.400
Romans three? Now if he's meaning this Greek word strong

508
00:29:59.480 --> 00:30:07.960
c G two sixty four hamartano, harmartano, harmartano, harmartano and

509
00:30:08.279 --> 00:30:11.440
and Romans three twenty three? For all have Romans three

510
00:30:11.480 --> 00:30:14.720
twenty three, for all have sinned? Well, yes, this this

511
00:30:14.880 --> 00:30:18.480
means harm harmon if I can say it, hum our

512
00:30:18.839 --> 00:30:25.480
art tano ham artano, right, hamartano means to and I'm

513
00:30:25.519 --> 00:30:30.839
looking at Strong's definition to miss the mark, so not

514
00:30:31.000 --> 00:30:34.680
to share in the prize. Uh for your faults a

515
00:30:34.799 --> 00:30:38.319
fen sin, trespass, so to miss the mark. That's that's

516
00:30:38.440 --> 00:30:42.240
that's fair to say. Harmartano means to miss the mark.

517
00:30:42.359 --> 00:30:45.839
But now let's just go back. I'm just curious. Here

518
00:30:46.400 --> 00:30:48.720
we go to the Old Testament. We go to Psalms

519
00:30:49.000 --> 00:30:57.119
fifty one. All right, Uh see here, wash me thoroughly,

520
00:30:57.359 --> 00:31:01.079
my cleanse me from my sin. Verse two, right, the

521
00:31:01.200 --> 00:31:04.880
Hebrew word for sin, and well, it's and from my sin.

522
00:31:04.920 --> 00:31:10.759
It's this Hebrew word. It's this Hebrew word. Strong's age

523
00:31:10.799 --> 00:31:12.119
twenty four to three.

524
00:31:13.440 --> 00:31:18.359
Hat to ah, hat to ah, cat tough.

525
00:31:19.680 --> 00:31:23.519
Cat, tough hat to ah. I can't do the guttural

526
00:31:23.599 --> 00:31:26.279
sound hat to ah. Now that one doesn't say anything

527
00:31:26.279 --> 00:31:29.160
ought missing the mark. It doesn't say anything at all.

528
00:31:29.559 --> 00:31:33.960
It says an offense, habitual sinfulness and its penalty occasion

529
00:31:34.079 --> 00:31:39.519
sacrifice uh sin, sinful sin, offering, condition of sin, guilt

530
00:31:39.559 --> 00:31:42.440
of sin, punishment of sin, sin, offering, purification from sins

531
00:31:42.440 --> 00:31:45.799
of ceremonial and cleanliness. Doesn't say anything about missing the mark.

532
00:31:46.079 --> 00:31:49.359
So is he going to the Greek word using that

533
00:31:49.440 --> 00:31:52.160
Greek definition and reading that back into Psalm fifty one

534
00:31:52.240 --> 00:31:55.480
or is he gonna show a distinction? Is he? What?

535
00:31:56.319 --> 00:31:56.400
Like?

536
00:31:56.640 --> 00:31:59.119
I'm a little confused how we ended up from Psalm

537
00:31:59.160 --> 00:32:01.400
fifty one then we go to Romans three and then

538
00:32:01.400 --> 00:32:03.920
you give me a definition based off the Greek word

539
00:32:04.400 --> 00:32:07.319
not the Hebrew words. I'm already a little just like,

540
00:32:08.440 --> 00:32:09.920
what do we go? What's going on here?

541
00:32:09.960 --> 00:32:10.240
All? Right?

542
00:32:10.240 --> 00:32:12.599
But let's see my wife?

543
00:32:13.079 --> 00:32:16.240
Just what a month ago, the no less than a

544
00:32:16.240 --> 00:32:19.839
month ago? Uh taught archery at the at at the

545
00:32:19.920 --> 00:32:25.920
kids' school and what's that? And I went and helped

546
00:32:25.920 --> 00:32:27.680
and stuff, and it's always fun to do it. How

547
00:32:27.720 --> 00:32:30.559
many kids who have taken archery?

548
00:32:30.759 --> 00:32:34.400
Have you taken archery class? Taken archer? Aaron?

549
00:32:36.680 --> 00:32:36.759
You?

550
00:32:37.920 --> 00:32:41.640
How many principles are there archery? How many?

551
00:32:41.640 --> 00:32:47.200
How many steps to archery success are there? You don't remember?

552
00:32:47.960 --> 00:32:52.559
There are eleven steps to archery success and you each

553
00:32:52.599 --> 00:32:54.440
of the Now there's all the safety rules and all

554
00:32:54.480 --> 00:32:58.480
that stuff. But when you get a bow and you

555
00:32:58.759 --> 00:33:02.160
are and you are giving the green light from the

556
00:33:02.160 --> 00:33:07.039
the instructor to go ahead and uh knock your arrow

557
00:33:07.240 --> 00:33:09.920
that's the term that's used. You put the arrow on

558
00:33:09.960 --> 00:33:14.839
the bow and knock it. It clicks into the string

559
00:33:14.880 --> 00:33:17.799
there or the string clicks into the back side of

560
00:33:17.559 --> 00:33:22.920
the what the notch of the of the arrow, and

561
00:33:22.960 --> 00:33:25.480
then you you know, you have each step, every it

562
00:33:25.720 --> 00:33:26.240
the whole thing.

563
00:33:26.279 --> 00:33:27.839
It's a step by step process.

564
00:33:27.880 --> 00:33:30.279
And then and then when you're down to the last part,

565
00:33:30.960 --> 00:33:32.599
what's the Does anybody want to guess what the last

566
00:33:32.599 --> 00:33:34.640
step is for archery?

567
00:33:35.680 --> 00:33:42.359
Incorrect? Nope, nope.

568
00:33:43.400 --> 00:33:49.759
Reflect reflect is the last thing. So you when you

569
00:33:49.799 --> 00:33:51.839
when you there's Actually.

570
00:33:53.039 --> 00:33:55.039
It's kind of I mean, I guess it's interesting knowing

571
00:33:55.039 --> 00:33:56.920
all this stuff about archery. I guess it's interesting. I

572
00:33:56.920 --> 00:33:59.000
know what he wants to say, archery missed the mark.

573
00:33:59.039 --> 00:34:01.480
You shoot the arrow at miss the mark? Okay, gotcha.

574
00:34:01.599 --> 00:34:03.240
He kind of goes into all of this other stuff.

575
00:34:03.279 --> 00:34:05.119
But that's okay. I can do the same thing. You

576
00:34:05.119 --> 00:34:07.839
give an illustration. That's one of the dangers of illustrations.

577
00:34:07.880 --> 00:34:09.719
You can get caught up in the illustration, and so

578
00:34:10.400 --> 00:34:13.519
sometimes it becomes more about the illustration instead of what

579
00:34:13.559 --> 00:34:15.440
the illustration is supposed to be pointing to. This is

580
00:34:15.440 --> 00:34:17.880
supposed to be pointing about the definition of sin, but

581
00:34:18.199 --> 00:34:21.559
it's the definition of the Greek word. The Hebrew word

582
00:34:21.719 --> 00:34:24.719
doesn't appear to have the same emphasis. So we started

583
00:34:24.719 --> 00:34:27.519
in ps Psalm fifty one, but we ended up in

584
00:34:27.599 --> 00:34:30.119
Romans three, and so he's really giving the definition of

585
00:34:30.119 --> 00:34:32.000
the Greek word, but he didn't mention the Greek word. Okay,

586
00:34:32.000 --> 00:34:34.599
all right, all right. So I'm assuming at some point

587
00:34:34.639 --> 00:34:36.159
as he goes to this archery thing, he's going to

588
00:34:36.199 --> 00:34:39.159
get to how we miss the mark? Right, we shoot

589
00:34:39.159 --> 00:34:41.800
the arrow and we miss the mark? Okay, got you right?

590
00:34:42.960 --> 00:34:43.199
Now?

591
00:34:43.880 --> 00:34:47.199
Does the Hebrew carry the same idea? Is it slightly different?

592
00:34:47.280 --> 00:34:51.599
Is it the same? We love that idea of sin

593
00:34:51.719 --> 00:34:54.920
missing the mark. We love that idea. Okay, And we

594
00:34:55.000 --> 00:34:57.760
even talked about this when we talked about the doctrine

595
00:34:57.760 --> 00:35:01.519
of homarteology. We discuss this whole concept. But let's see

596
00:35:01.519 --> 00:35:05.440
where he takes it.

597
00:35:04.039 --> 00:35:05.760
More than one step after release.

598
00:35:06.039 --> 00:35:08.480
So you've got it back, You're set up and everything,

599
00:35:09.039 --> 00:35:13.440
and you you get your you take aim, shot, set up, release,

600
00:35:14.199 --> 00:35:16.159
follow through, reflect.

601
00:35:19.679 --> 00:35:22.199
I know I hit the bullseye. There was no sin

602
00:35:22.239 --> 00:35:25.280
in that shot. I hit the bulls I'm sorry.

603
00:35:25.360 --> 00:35:27.760
He shouldn't have been behind the bulls eye.

604
00:35:28.480 --> 00:35:32.280
So the word sin. It has to do. It's a

605
00:35:32.320 --> 00:35:33.440
markmanship term.

606
00:35:34.119 --> 00:35:37.119
So, uh, you can use it for arrows, which is

607
00:35:37.320 --> 00:35:42.760
generally biblically speaking. They weren't using machine guns or sixteen's,

608
00:35:42.800 --> 00:35:46.079
they were using bow and arrow, right, and so as

609
00:35:46.079 --> 00:35:49.119
far as marksmanship is concerned, right, you don't usually use

610
00:35:49.159 --> 00:35:54.199
a sword for marksmanship, right, I mean that would be strange.

611
00:35:54.719 --> 00:35:58.440
You could maybe use a javelin for marksmanship, or a spear, right,

612
00:35:59.519 --> 00:36:02.079
but you're you're talking about a bow and arrow that's

613
00:36:02.119 --> 00:36:05.320
mechanical marksmanship. Or you have that's like the step up

614
00:36:05.360 --> 00:36:08.199
from spear, or you have a spear right where you

615
00:36:08.760 --> 00:36:12.360
throw that spear at your target, and when you miss

616
00:36:12.400 --> 00:36:18.320
the target, the space by which you miss the target

617
00:36:18.480 --> 00:36:21.840
is called sin. Missing the mark, that's sin.

618
00:36:22.519 --> 00:36:26.360
So okay, so missing the mark of sin? What is

619
00:36:26.400 --> 00:36:33.079
the mark? Absolute perfection? Internally? Externally? Where do we find

620
00:36:33.119 --> 00:36:35.440
that God tells you to be holy as He is holy?

621
00:36:36.000 --> 00:36:39.639
That is the mark. You must be as holy as

622
00:36:39.760 --> 00:36:46.239
God is holy. That is absolute perfection. And every area

623
00:36:46.400 --> 00:36:50.119
of your being, even if your external acts were as

624
00:36:50.199 --> 00:36:53.480
holy as God's external acts, even if that was true,

625
00:36:54.599 --> 00:36:56.800
as long as you have a sin nature inside of you,

626
00:36:57.159 --> 00:37:00.960
those external acts are always motivated by some level of sin.

627
00:37:01.000 --> 00:37:05.280
They're always corrupted to some level. So he himself sets

628
00:37:05.320 --> 00:37:09.280
the standard. You have to hit the bullseye directly. Any

629
00:37:10.320 --> 00:37:14.719
missing of the bullseye, missing the mark is sin. All right,

630
00:37:14.760 --> 00:37:16.599
let's just let's just let's continue.

631
00:37:18.199 --> 00:37:19.239
I'll read what he states here.

632
00:37:19.280 --> 00:37:21.719
He says it is to deviate from the standard of

633
00:37:21.760 --> 00:37:27.079
moral rectitude. It is a term associated with marksmanship, as

634
00:37:27.119 --> 00:37:29.199
you mentioned in fact, go to Judges chapter twenty real

635
00:37:29.280 --> 00:37:52.599
quick m Judges chapter twenty mm hmm, and verse number sixteen.

636
00:38:01.119 --> 00:38:06.480
Among all this, there were seven hundred chosen men left handed.

637
00:38:07.239 --> 00:38:12.480
Everyone could sling stones, add a hair breadth and not miss.

638
00:38:16.039 --> 00:38:20.079
Okay, so he's going to Judges twenty sixteen and all

639
00:38:20.119 --> 00:38:22.719
the people there were seven hundred chosen men left handed.

640
00:38:22.760 --> 00:38:26.119
Everyone could sling stones and in hair breadth and not miss.

641
00:38:26.559 --> 00:38:29.519
So I guess the idea is that's what it means

642
00:38:29.599 --> 00:38:32.559
to not be sinful, is to hit and not miss,

643
00:38:32.800 --> 00:38:36.159
not even add in hair breadth. Right, I mean, the

644
00:38:36.480 --> 00:38:40.039
I guess the idea of a hair like it's they're

645
00:38:40.039 --> 00:38:44.400
perfectly on, they don't miss at all. Okay, great, that's wonderful.

646
00:38:44.679 --> 00:38:48.719
That's great. So the bottom line from that story then is, hey, guys,

647
00:38:48.840 --> 00:38:51.880
be perfect. We have to be perfect, that's why. But

648
00:38:52.039 --> 00:38:56.039
remember it's not just external action. You have to be

649
00:38:56.079 --> 00:38:59.960
perfect internally as well. Now he hasn't mentioned the end

650
00:39:00.000 --> 00:39:02.079
eternal part at all. He's only he's only kind of

651
00:39:02.159 --> 00:39:04.440
he's not even really been specific, but it seems to

652
00:39:04.480 --> 00:39:06.840
be much more referencing towards external Let's see if he

653
00:39:06.920 --> 00:39:09.719
changes that. But now, now let's see what happens here.

654
00:39:09.760 --> 00:39:10.800
Let's see what happens here.

655
00:39:14.679 --> 00:39:18.400
That's some pretty accurate left handed stone slinging right there.

656
00:39:21.079 --> 00:39:23.400
I mean, y'all know what you're talking about, right the

657
00:39:23.440 --> 00:39:27.000
sling shot. You're not talking about a sling shot like

658
00:39:27.039 --> 00:39:30.639
the kind that you do this with, talking about the

659
00:39:30.840 --> 00:39:33.880
like like David killed Goliath. Yeah, And so you've got

660
00:39:33.920 --> 00:39:36.840
this this little little leather thing there, and a leather

661
00:39:36.880 --> 00:39:40.079
strap on either side of it, a little pouch in there,

662
00:39:40.119 --> 00:39:43.000
and you put your stone in that pouch and then

663
00:39:43.039 --> 00:39:46.400
you spin it. I can't even simulate with my left hand,

664
00:39:46.559 --> 00:39:47.320
but you spin it.

665
00:39:47.599 --> 00:39:47.760
Well.

666
00:39:47.800 --> 00:39:50.239
These guys, the people he's talking about, were left handed.

667
00:39:52.599 --> 00:39:54.360
I don't know, they were born left handed. That's the

668
00:39:54.360 --> 00:39:58.400
way it works usually. But these guys specifically were left handed.

669
00:39:58.440 --> 00:40:00.840
Now there was something about left and there's a whole

670
00:40:00.840 --> 00:40:03.079
other you're trying to You just threw a rabbit out

671
00:40:03.079 --> 00:40:05.360
there in the aisle, didn't you. Uh, there was something

672
00:40:05.400 --> 00:40:09.760
about about left handed that had to do with like,

673
00:40:10.119 --> 00:40:12.280
for example, there was one of the judges that was

674
00:40:12.360 --> 00:40:12.960
left handed.

675
00:40:15.679 --> 00:40:19.880
Now, I do appreciate someone in the audience saying, what's

676
00:40:19.920 --> 00:40:21.920
the deal about them being left handed? That is a

677
00:40:21.960 --> 00:40:25.119
good question. That is a good question. I do appreciate

678
00:40:25.280 --> 00:40:27.639
he's kind of moving on. Well, they were born that way. Okay,

679
00:40:27.679 --> 00:40:32.519
I am obviously, But why is the text emphasizing that

680
00:40:32.599 --> 00:40:36.320
they were left handed? Why we could possibly do a

681
00:40:36.360 --> 00:40:41.039
little cultural investigation, maybe to figure out historical investigation. All right, great,

682
00:40:41.400 --> 00:40:43.679
I don't know if this is Maybe this is going

683
00:40:43.760 --> 00:40:46.320
to help get us to the definition of sin. I

684
00:40:46.360 --> 00:40:48.719
still don't know why we are in Romans three and

685
00:40:48.760 --> 00:40:50.880
not Psal. I'm fifty one, which where we started. I

686
00:40:50.880 --> 00:40:53.800
don't know. I'm a little perplexed here. But okay, let's

687
00:40:53.840 --> 00:40:56.239
let's see where how we're gonna get from the sleek side.

688
00:40:56.280 --> 00:41:00.079
We're still waiting for the spiritual malpractice.

689
00:41:00.119 --> 00:41:03.840
And because he was left handed, because it's generally uncommon

690
00:41:03.880 --> 00:41:06.400
to be left handed. Because he was left handed, he

691
00:41:06.480 --> 00:41:11.719
was able to hide a dagger on him, because back

692
00:41:11.760 --> 00:41:15.199
then they would consider most people right handed. You're going

693
00:41:15.280 --> 00:41:20.239
to have that dagger over here. Now it got stuck.

694
00:41:20.400 --> 00:41:21.800
I got stuck. It didn't come back.

695
00:41:22.440 --> 00:41:28.639
Was that well you're talking about he had? Yeah? Yeah,

696
00:41:28.639 --> 00:41:29.320
So you could look.

697
00:41:29.400 --> 00:41:31.719
You could look at chapter three of Judges and see

698
00:41:31.719 --> 00:41:34.519
how the left handed thing there was a thing. It

699
00:41:34.559 --> 00:41:38.119
was a benefit because he was able to sneak and say, hey, King,

700
00:41:38.199 --> 00:41:39.920
let me tell you something in your ear. I gotcha,

701
00:41:41.599 --> 00:41:44.599
because you usually don't watch somebody's left hand to see

702
00:41:44.599 --> 00:41:45.079
if they're going.

703
00:41:45.079 --> 00:41:48.800
To stab you or shoot you. If you watch the right.

704
00:41:48.639 --> 00:41:52.360
Hand usually unless you know they're left handed. But in

705
00:41:52.400 --> 00:41:54.880
this case, these guys were left handed. I don't know

706
00:41:54.920 --> 00:41:57.320
that it's relevant that they were left handed. What was

707
00:41:57.360 --> 00:42:00.719
relevant was they were able to hit the mark within

708
00:42:00.760 --> 00:42:01.480
a hair breadth.

709
00:42:03.079 --> 00:42:04.400
As I was turning to.

710
00:42:04.400 --> 00:42:08.039
This passage, I went like this, and somehow one of

711
00:42:08.079 --> 00:42:10.440
my beard hairs ended up in my mouth and I

712
00:42:10.519 --> 00:42:13.800
bit it and it pulled it and it didn't come out.

713
00:42:13.840 --> 00:42:15.320
So I can't use that as an example.

714
00:42:15.320 --> 00:42:16.639
But I was going to show you the example of

715
00:42:16.639 --> 00:42:21.519
a hair breadth, and so I could pull somebody else's

716
00:42:21.559 --> 00:42:22.039
hair out.

717
00:42:23.280 --> 00:42:25.039
That's pretty accurate. Yeah, we could pull one of brother

718
00:42:25.039 --> 00:42:29.039
Adam's eyeball hairs out. He has hairs that grow out

719
00:42:29.039 --> 00:42:29.639
of his eyeball.

720
00:42:31.000 --> 00:42:33.360
But you get, you got a hair if I held

721
00:42:33.360 --> 00:42:36.639
a hair up right here, if I if I told

722
00:42:36.639 --> 00:42:38.440
you I was holding a hair up right here, you

723
00:42:38.480 --> 00:42:41.199
wouldn't know whether I am or not because you wouldn't

724
00:42:41.239 --> 00:42:44.159
be able to see it, probably from where you are.

725
00:42:45.480 --> 00:42:50.559
Oh, this illustration seems to be going way off the track. Okay,

726
00:42:50.800 --> 00:42:53.639
just make sure we know if we miss the mark,

727
00:42:54.039 --> 00:42:57.440
even by a hair's breath, even if that's the term

728
00:42:57.559 --> 00:43:00.440
used by a hair breath or a hair's breath, even

729
00:43:00.480 --> 00:43:03.000
if we missed it by the length of a hair,

730
00:43:03.199 --> 00:43:05.519
let's say it that way. Even if we missed it

731
00:43:05.840 --> 00:43:09.760
by the length of a hair, we still miss the mark.

732
00:43:10.039 --> 00:43:12.039
Like God demands, he doesn't say, well, if you get

733
00:43:12.679 --> 00:43:15.079
this whole thing going here is just so weird going here.

734
00:43:15.360 --> 00:43:18.360
This doesn't seem to be I need I need an

735
00:43:18.559 --> 00:43:20.800
another translation. I hang on, let me look up, let

736
00:43:20.800 --> 00:43:23.800
me look up. I'm gonna look this up because now

737
00:43:23.880 --> 00:43:26.400
I'm getting a little irritated. This seems to be going.

738
00:43:26.760 --> 00:43:29.400
I don't even understand sometimes where things go. I really

739
00:43:29.639 --> 00:43:36.320
sometimes in preaching, all right, judges twenty hang on here,

740
00:43:36.519 --> 00:43:39.719
judge is twenty verse sixteen. I'm gonna bring up, like

741
00:43:39.800 --> 00:43:42.639
all kinds of English translations. I don't want to say

742
00:43:42.639 --> 00:43:45.199
something here that's incorrect, because I want to be all right.

743
00:43:45.199 --> 00:43:47.920
Here we go. Among all these soldiers, there were seven

744
00:43:48.000 --> 00:43:50.440
hundred select troops who were left handed, each of one

745
00:43:50.559 --> 00:43:54.039
of whom could sling a stone at a hair and

746
00:43:54.119 --> 00:43:57.000
not miss. Okay, Now that's like they could either they

747
00:43:57.039 --> 00:44:00.079
could hit an individual hair. All right, This would be

748
00:44:00.360 --> 00:44:06.320
then perfection. Someone said. Among Benjamin's elite troops, seven hundred

749
00:44:06.320 --> 00:44:07.920
were left handed, and each of them could sling a

750
00:44:08.000 --> 00:44:12.639
rock and hit a target within a hair's breath without missing.

751
00:44:14.159 --> 00:44:17.760
Uh could sling a stone at a hair? Okay, without missing?

752
00:44:17.840 --> 00:44:20.480
So most of the translations go Okay, they could actually,

753
00:44:20.559 --> 00:44:22.719
so this would be then actually hitting the mark. I

754
00:44:22.760 --> 00:44:24.280
guess it would be okay. I thought it was like

755
00:44:24.480 --> 00:44:27.679
they could come within a hair's length of the of

756
00:44:27.719 --> 00:44:29.880
the mark. It sounds like no, they could. They could

757
00:44:29.920 --> 00:44:32.199
shoot out a hair or sling out of hair and

758
00:44:32.280 --> 00:44:35.079
hit it. So this would be accurate. Okay, so then great,

759
00:44:35.320 --> 00:44:38.760
this is so if you go with that idea, then well,

760
00:44:38.800 --> 00:44:41.920
so let's state it both ways. If you hit the

761
00:44:41.960 --> 00:44:45.360
target perfectly, that's not sin. But you have to hit

762
00:44:45.400 --> 00:44:49.880
the target perfectly internally externally and your mind, your thought,

763
00:44:50.119 --> 00:44:53.320
your words, your deeds, your desires. All right, you have

764
00:44:53.400 --> 00:44:57.079
to hit it perfectly. But if you miss the target

765
00:44:57.800 --> 00:45:02.519
even by this, even by this smallest amount, even within

766
00:45:02.559 --> 00:45:05.039
a hair's breath of the bull's eye, you're just a

767
00:45:05.079 --> 00:45:12.360
little off. Sorry, That's not God's standard. God's standard is perfection, right,

768
00:45:12.440 --> 00:45:14.840
So we'll go with both ways, just to make sure

769
00:45:15.039 --> 00:45:16.039
I'm being accurate.

770
00:45:16.079 --> 00:45:19.000
There we see a.

771
00:45:22.159 --> 00:45:29.360
See Okay, you could see that was a lie.

772
00:45:29.639 --> 00:45:31.239
You can't. I I was.

773
00:45:31.199 --> 00:45:34.679
Pulling it all out, but you can barely tell.

774
00:45:34.679 --> 00:45:41.800
These guys could hit the mark even left handed and

775
00:45:41.840 --> 00:45:42.400
not miss.

776
00:45:44.159 --> 00:45:49.079
You're not getting away from those guys. With God, everything

777
00:45:49.159 --> 00:45:51.800
that is not absolutely perfect is sin.

778
00:45:54.280 --> 00:45:58.920
Okay, we're in agreement there. Everything that is not absolutely

779
00:45:58.920 --> 00:46:03.000
perfect is sin. With God, we are in complete agreement here. Okay,

780
00:46:03.119 --> 00:46:05.119
it's the only thing right now. I'm just having like

781
00:46:05.159 --> 00:46:08.440
more like structural issues and preference. Like wait, you started

782
00:46:08.519 --> 00:46:11.320
in Psalm fifty one. We need to look at the

783
00:46:11.360 --> 00:46:14.039
definition of sin there. He went to Romans three to

784
00:46:14.079 --> 00:46:16.760
borrow the definition from sin from there, and now he's

785
00:46:16.760 --> 00:46:19.400
built everything around it, with all of his illustrations, from

786
00:46:19.519 --> 00:46:24.239
archery to hair around basically Romans three, not Psalm fifty one.

787
00:46:24.360 --> 00:46:27.920
So that's just kind of like, you know, that's maybe

788
00:46:27.960 --> 00:46:30.800
just a preference. Right, that's not spiritual malpractice. Let's see

789
00:46:30.800 --> 00:46:33.639
if we can get to spiritual malpractice.

790
00:46:34.320 --> 00:46:34.960
That's a fact.

791
00:46:36.840 --> 00:46:38.880
We can go into lots and lots and lots of

792
00:46:38.920 --> 00:46:43.679
definitions of the word sin, but that is the most simple,

793
00:46:43.760 --> 00:46:48.440
most straightforward definitions of sin, and that is that with God,

794
00:46:49.280 --> 00:46:54.519
everything that is not absolutely perfect is sin. Now, I'm

795
00:46:54.519 --> 00:46:58.800
going to say something that a lot of people have

796
00:46:58.880 --> 00:47:00.400
a wrong concept of sin.

797
00:47:02.199 --> 00:47:04.559
All right, here we go. Now, he's going to start

798
00:47:04.599 --> 00:47:07.679
by preferencing everyone else. A lot of people have a

799
00:47:07.719 --> 00:47:11.039
wrong concept of sin. Everyone else has it wrong. Not

800
00:47:11.079 --> 00:47:13.679
everyone else, a lot of other people have a wrong

801
00:47:13.719 --> 00:47:16.360
concept of sin. He's going to give you the right

802
00:47:16.480 --> 00:47:19.960
concept of sin. Now, if he's right that everyone else

803
00:47:20.000 --> 00:47:22.880
has or that other people have the wrong concept, then

804
00:47:23.000 --> 00:47:26.239
other people would be guilty of spiritual malpractice. However, if

805
00:47:26.280 --> 00:47:29.679
he is wrong, he will be guilty of spiritual malpractice.

806
00:47:29.760 --> 00:47:32.360
This is not an either or this is I mean,

807
00:47:32.559 --> 00:47:35.280
this is like it's one or the other. Like it

808
00:47:35.280 --> 00:47:36.960
can't just be well, you can just have your way

809
00:47:37.039 --> 00:47:40.159
or my way. No, someone is right, someone is wrong,

810
00:47:40.239 --> 00:47:43.280
all right. It is very definitively in a sense, I

811
00:47:43.320 --> 00:47:45.679
guess either or. I'm like, I'm saying that in a

812
00:47:45.719 --> 00:47:48.440
dogmatic way, like it's either that or it's this. It's

813
00:47:48.480 --> 00:47:51.239
not both, all right, So let's see here we go.

814
00:47:51.320 --> 00:47:53.199
He's going to give his This is where I think

815
00:47:53.239 --> 00:47:55.920
spiritual malpractice enters in. You get to make the determinant,

816
00:47:56.400 --> 00:47:57.719
you get to make the final judgment.

817
00:48:00.039 --> 00:48:03.880
People think that because everything that's not perfect is sin,

818
00:48:04.679 --> 00:48:11.440
that it is not possible to live without sin, I say,

819
00:48:12.760 --> 00:48:15.039
and God says otherwise.

820
00:48:16.280 --> 00:48:18.280
God commands us not to sin.

821
00:48:19.679 --> 00:48:23.679
God would not command us to do something that we

822
00:48:23.760 --> 00:48:30.559
could not, by his grace accomplish.

823
00:48:30.840 --> 00:48:35.599
Did you hear that God would not command something that,

824
00:48:35.639 --> 00:48:40.039
by his grace we cannot accomplish. So when you read

825
00:48:40.079 --> 00:48:43.280
in scripture be holy as He is holy, then he

826
00:48:43.320 --> 00:48:46.320
will not command it that, apart from his grace, you

827
00:48:46.400 --> 00:48:49.280
cannot do it. Now, this whole thing, this is a

828
00:48:49.320 --> 00:48:53.920
complete like, that's complete spiritual malpractice because you're telling everyone that,

829
00:48:53.960 --> 00:48:58.000
by God's grace you can be sinless, you can be perfect.

830
00:48:58.119 --> 00:49:01.039
And if you're not perfect, well, then whose fault it is?

831
00:49:01.199 --> 00:49:04.480
It's yours because God's grace can get you to perfect.

832
00:49:04.559 --> 00:49:06.679
So just rely on God's grace to get to perfection.

833
00:49:06.920 --> 00:49:09.400
What is your problem? So two thousand years of church

834
00:49:09.440 --> 00:49:12.800
history should be filled with two thousand years of perfect Christians,

835
00:49:12.840 --> 00:49:16.320
but yet I've yet to find one single one. Because

836
00:49:16.360 --> 00:49:20.760
this is complete spiritual malpractice, and this destroys people's faith.

837
00:49:20.920 --> 00:49:25.840
It leads people disillusioned, just distraught and just ready to

838
00:49:25.880 --> 00:49:31.840
give up. Now, what God demands, we can't do. That's

839
00:49:31.880 --> 00:49:35.000
the whole point. The law says you can't. The law

840
00:49:35.159 --> 00:49:38.199
shows you your inability, and then it says, when you

841
00:49:38.239 --> 00:49:40.519
find yourself and despair, what do you do? You hear

842
00:49:40.559 --> 00:49:43.800
the words of the gospel, but Christ did now in

843
00:49:43.960 --> 00:49:50.719
Christ Jesus because of imputed righteousness. The entire basis of

844
00:49:50.800 --> 00:49:54.119
us not being Catholic is our belief in imputed righteousness,

845
00:49:54.159 --> 00:49:58.239
not infused righteousness. Imputed righteousness does not give me the

846
00:49:58.480 --> 00:50:03.079
ability to do what God commands. Imputed righteousness gives me

847
00:50:03.199 --> 00:50:07.159
the obedience of Christ to God's law and imputes it

848
00:50:07.199 --> 00:50:10.480
to my account. So in Christ, I am declared to

849
00:50:10.519 --> 00:50:14.559
be that which I'm not. In practice, he just turned

850
00:50:14.639 --> 00:50:18.480
Christianity into God gives you now the ability to do

851
00:50:18.559 --> 00:50:21.280
what He demands. No, the whole point of Christianity is

852
00:50:21.320 --> 00:50:26.119
God saves you because you can't do what He commands.

853
00:50:26.599 --> 00:50:31.119
It's about finding salvation. And Christ who did what God demanded,

854
00:50:31.480 --> 00:50:33.280
he obeyed the law perfectly.

855
00:50:40.199 --> 00:50:43.480
I'm not saying that we're all that I'm perfect. Okay.

856
00:50:43.960 --> 00:50:49.320
What I am saying is if I'm not, it is

857
00:50:49.400 --> 00:50:53.199
sin and it is a problem.

858
00:50:53.480 --> 00:50:57.800
Wait, so we can be perfect, but I'm not saying

859
00:50:57.800 --> 00:51:01.400
I'm perfect. Well wait, why are you not saying you're perfect?

860
00:51:03.960 --> 00:51:06.760
Every time I hear people say this, well, we basically

861
00:51:06.800 --> 00:51:08.880
can be. Well, I mean, I'm not saying I'm perfect.

862
00:51:09.159 --> 00:51:12.559
Why not? If by God's grace you can do what

863
00:51:12.599 --> 00:51:15.480
God commands, then you should be able to do so

864
00:51:15.960 --> 00:51:19.440
be perfect. In fact, Jesus says, be ye perfect as

865
00:51:19.480 --> 00:51:22.119
your heavenly Father is perfect, And the Sermon on the

866
00:51:22.159 --> 00:51:24.320
Mount he says, be ye holy as he is holy.

867
00:51:24.480 --> 00:51:28.840
That's repeated in Leviticus and in the New Testament. Well,

868
00:51:28.880 --> 00:51:31.480
God would never command Oh what we can't do? Oh,

869
00:51:31.599 --> 00:51:34.119
yes he can. He commands you to believe. We can't

870
00:51:34.159 --> 00:51:37.039
believe unless God grants us faith. He tells us to repent.

871
00:51:37.119 --> 00:51:41.440
We can't repent unless He grants us repentance. I know

872
00:51:41.559 --> 00:51:46.159
this goes straight back to the Augustinian Pelagian dispute and

873
00:51:46.519 --> 00:51:50.400
fight in church history. It's never been resolved. What he's

874
00:51:50.400 --> 00:51:53.800
going with is almost a complete Pelagian that's straight almost.

875
00:51:54.199 --> 00:51:56.199
I don't even know if we can say it. It's almost.

876
00:51:56.360 --> 00:52:00.719
That's Pelagianism. This is spiritual malpractice. And how dare you

877
00:52:00.840 --> 00:52:04.639
tell people that you can be perfect? But hey, I'm

878
00:52:04.679 --> 00:52:07.000
not perfect? Well, then everyone's sitting there in that church

879
00:52:07.039 --> 00:52:08.599
should be like, raise your hand. Wait wait, wha, wha,

880
00:52:08.599 --> 00:52:12.840
whah wait, you're not perfect, By God's grace, you can be.

881
00:52:13.559 --> 00:52:15.519
I don't know if I want a pastor who's not

882
00:52:15.639 --> 00:52:18.639
perfect when he can be by God's grace, because a

883
00:52:18.679 --> 00:52:21.360
pastor should be more turned into tuned into God's grace

884
00:52:21.480 --> 00:52:24.400
than a non pastor. So I'm gonna go, We're gonna get.

885
00:52:24.360 --> 00:52:24.639
Rid of you.

886
00:52:24.800 --> 00:52:26.840
We should be able to find a perfect pastor, right,

887
00:52:28.280 --> 00:52:30.360
I mean, if you can be perfect, find me a

888
00:52:30.360 --> 00:52:34.960
perfect pastor. But he just immediately canceled. I'm not that

889
00:52:35.199 --> 00:52:37.400
I'm not it. I mean, we can be it, but

890
00:52:37.480 --> 00:52:38.000
I'm not that.

891
00:52:38.960 --> 00:52:45.880
What it's not?

892
00:52:46.039 --> 00:52:54.719
Okay, Sin is not a mistake. Sin is a crime

893
00:52:54.960 --> 00:52:55.639
against God.

894
00:52:57.559 --> 00:52:58.480
And you choose to sin?

895
00:52:58.800 --> 00:53:02.119
Now there is there are some examples of.

896
00:53:06.800 --> 00:53:09.440
We may choose to sin. But let's make it very clear.

897
00:53:09.800 --> 00:53:12.840
Why do I choose to sin? Because I'm born with

898
00:53:12.920 --> 00:53:16.639
a nature. I'm born with a nature that's already sinful.

899
00:53:17.760 --> 00:53:20.360
I did not become a sinner by sinning, but I

900
00:53:20.400 --> 00:53:22.800
sin because I am a sinner. I'm a sinner before

901
00:53:22.800 --> 00:53:27.400
I ever commit a sin. Well, you choose to, Well,

902
00:53:27.440 --> 00:53:30.079
I choose to because I'm choosing to operate according to

903
00:53:30.119 --> 00:53:35.400
my nature, which is sinful. And now I guess if

904
00:53:35.400 --> 00:53:37.360
he's full blown Pallasia and he doesn't believe we have

905
00:53:37.360 --> 00:53:42.400
a sinful nature? Is my will? Now this is a

906
00:53:42.480 --> 00:53:45.639
very important question. Is my will free to choose not

907
00:53:45.800 --> 00:53:50.199
to sin? If you say that I sin because I

908
00:53:50.199 --> 00:53:52.920
simply choose to, well, then you have to believe the

909
00:53:52.960 --> 00:53:55.360
will then is free to choose not to I don't

910
00:53:55.360 --> 00:53:58.559
believe the will can choose not to stop sinning, because

911
00:53:58.559 --> 00:54:01.679
we're always going to sin. There, do I really do? I.

912
00:54:02.039 --> 00:54:04.360
You can try to talk about moral choice, but if

913
00:54:04.360 --> 00:54:07.679
my will is already impacted by my sinful nature, then

914
00:54:07.719 --> 00:54:10.480
my choice is, by at least at the minimum you

915
00:54:10.519 --> 00:54:14.800
have to say, is limited because I have a sinful

916
00:54:14.920 --> 00:54:18.159
nature which impacts the will. Unless this has to be

917
00:54:18.159 --> 00:54:20.800
full bloombleagianism. This said, I don't even know if we

918
00:54:20.800 --> 00:54:22.920
can get around this. We'll just go a little bit further.

919
00:54:24.280 --> 00:54:27.840
Like unknown sin or sin that that you didn't like,

920
00:54:27.920 --> 00:54:30.199
it was ignorance. You sin in ignorance, like you didn't

921
00:54:30.280 --> 00:54:33.119
know that God said no about that, and then you well,

922
00:54:33.159 --> 00:54:36.440
once you know, now it's iniquity, which is another discussion

923
00:54:36.519 --> 00:54:40.360
here in just a moment, but sin. Here it says

924
00:54:40.360 --> 00:54:44.039
in the Old Testament the law was God's perfect standard,

925
00:54:44.519 --> 00:54:48.239
and the New Testament the Lord Jesus Christ, who fulfilled the.

926
00:54:48.239 --> 00:54:50.199
Law, is God's perfect standard.

927
00:54:51.840 --> 00:54:55.000
So for every for everything in your life. That is

928
00:54:55.039 --> 00:54:57.559
not exactly what Jesus would do.

929
00:55:00.159 --> 00:55:02.599
Yep, But why did he have to fulfill the law.

930
00:55:03.320 --> 00:55:06.840
He had to fulfill the law because we never will.

931
00:55:07.760 --> 00:55:11.440
We will fulfill the law when we're lost. We will

932
00:55:11.440 --> 00:55:12.360
not fulfill the law.

933
00:55:13.519 --> 00:55:16.440
When we're saved, we will live in a perpetual state

934
00:55:16.519 --> 00:55:19.239
of disobedience to the law. We will never be in

935
00:55:19.239 --> 00:55:22.320
conformity to the law, will never be in conformity to Christ.

936
00:55:22.480 --> 00:55:25.480
We are always going to fall short and thought, word,

937
00:55:25.800 --> 00:55:31.920
deed or desire. Now I'm going to stop right there.

938
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We're almost at an hour. I didn't plan on going

939
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this far, but it took a lot longer to review

940
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that than I wanted. I just wanted you to hear

941
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whenever I talk about how the church is so filled

942
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with this idea and when you become a Christian you

943
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can do it. When you become a Christian, you can

944
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do it. When you become a Christian. You basically can

945
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be sinless when you can. This one just goes so

946
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far to say, Hey, God will not command what you

947
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cannot do by his grace. So if God commands it,

948
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you can do it by his grace. And they throw

949
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in by his grace you know a little thing, But

950
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isn't an amazing even though they even with God's grace, Well,

951
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that pastor isn't perfect? Why not? See the issue shouldn't be, well,

952
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why do we send The issue should be why are

953
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we not perfect? Then forget why do we sind? Why

954
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are we not perfect? What is holding you back from perfection?

955
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What is holding you back for perfection? And it should

956
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just be expected. And so guess what the standard should

957
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be for church discipline? If everyone can be perfect, it

958
00:56:30.880 --> 00:56:32.960
should be everyone in this building is perfect. And if

959
00:56:33.000 --> 00:56:36.400
you're not perfect and you God's grace can make you perfect,

960
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that means you don't want to be perfect, so you're

961
00:56:38.199 --> 00:56:45.800
willfully doing We're gonna dis discipline everyone. But I guess,

962
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I guess you can believe that God wants ever, that

963
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God that you can be perfect by his grace. But

964
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then you can just submit to everyone from the pulpit.

965
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Oh I'm not perfect. Well, you know why he has

966
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to admit from the pulpit he's not perfect, because everyone

967
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in that church knows he's not perfect, probably including if

968
00:57:03.719 --> 00:57:06.159
he has a family, the family sitting there in the pew.

969
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In fact, they know we've been better than the people

970
00:57:08.119 --> 00:57:12.559
in the rest of the congregation. I just wanted you

971
00:57:12.599 --> 00:57:16.760
to hear that. Look, I'm so sick of that teaching

972
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in American Christianity. It is complete spiritual malpractice because guess

973
00:57:21.880 --> 00:57:25.519
where that leaves people. That leaves people either with option one,

974
00:57:25.840 --> 00:57:31.239
pretend that they are perfect. Option two you kind of

975
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start minimizing or lowering the standard so that you can

976
00:57:34.440 --> 00:57:37.920
somehow convince yourself you're fulfilling it. So you either have

977
00:57:37.960 --> 00:57:41.480
to pretend you have to lower God's standard, or three

978
00:57:41.920 --> 00:57:43.639
you just have to throw up your hands and say

979
00:57:43.679 --> 00:57:47.480
either well one, God's grace doesn't actually work, or maybe

980
00:57:47.519 --> 00:57:49.760
I'm just not saved, and you end up with a

981
00:57:49.800 --> 00:58:03.320
great just despair, despondency, discouragement, deconstructing. You're done, that's malpractice.

982
00:58:03.800 --> 00:58:08.280
You're hurting people. You're not helping people. You're not helping them. Understand. No,

983
00:58:08.400 --> 00:58:11.639
God's law is perfect, and it shows us that we

984
00:58:11.679 --> 00:58:15.079
are guilty of it, that we cannot keep it, breaks us,

985
00:58:15.280 --> 00:58:16.880
leads me in a pit of despair. And then I

986
00:58:16.920 --> 00:58:18.840
come and bring the beautiful word of the Gospel, and

987
00:58:18.880 --> 00:58:22.800
saying you cannot, you could not, you will not. But

988
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Christ did for you. He fulfilled the law perfectly. Put

989
00:58:29.800 --> 00:58:32.840
your faith in him. His obedience to the law is

990
00:58:32.880 --> 00:58:37.320
imputed to your account. So then in Christ you are

991
00:58:37.360 --> 00:58:40.840
holy as God is holy. In Christ, you are a

992
00:58:40.880 --> 00:58:45.480
new creature in your position. You're perfect, you're holy, You're righteous.

993
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That is the whole point of us not being Catholic.

994
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Catholic you're infused, you're infused. When we're not infused, it's imputed,

995
00:58:56.760 --> 00:59:01.239
it's credit in my account, meaning I am positionally something

996
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I will never be in practice and practice, I will

997
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be a perpetual sinner. And for some weird reason, the

998
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American Church, over and over and over sells this fraudulent

999
00:59:17.480 --> 00:59:22.719
idea to the ultimate, not the short term, the ultimate

1000
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detriment to anyone who is honest and serious with themselves.

1001
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They will find themselves saying either Christianity doesn't work or

1002
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just giving completely up. Thanks for listening, everyone, have a

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great Sunday. God bless