Sept. 22, 2024

Therefore Pt 2

We look at Romans 2:1

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We look at Romans 2:1

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All right, you can turn to Romans chapter two. We

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have been working through the Book of Romans, looking at

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the therefores and therefore we come to today. Well, it

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came at a very interesting time because this last week

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has been crazy of the things that have happened in

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the world of politics and what has happened in the

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world of Christianity. A lot of times I tried to

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determine how much to bring that's going on outside of

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the church to the text. In this particular case, our

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passage in Romans today screams that we've got to talk

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about these issues. So here's what's happened. Now, when I

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put this together, this had all happened within a twenty

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four hour time span. All right, So this had all

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happened and basically a twenty four hour time span. You ready, Okay,

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all the kids are out, Okay, good, all right, here

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we go. All right. In the last twenty four hours,

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tie trans politician who talked about LGBTQ and all of

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that being disgusting and being vile and condemning it. This

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very politician, well was linked to a transgender porn website.

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They found his information there. They found that he had

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been frequently, frequently attending or viewing the site and making

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comments on the site as some of those comments are

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absolutely insane. I won't even talk about the things he

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said on the site. They're crazy. This was all over

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the news. They're still doing more investigating. I'm not going

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to name the name because they're still investigating it. But

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his email was linked to the account, and he was

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also found on Ashley Madison where is you know, a

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site where you hook up with people and all kinds

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of just not good things, okay, And yeah, he's a

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very important Republican politician, very much connected to Trump. And well,

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now you know, what do you do well, because you know,

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he was all about mora and family values. Then an

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anti gay activist who typically on Fox News a lot

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was revealed too well being gay porn not good, right.

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And then another congressman who was all about save the

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children and you know, we got to protect our children,

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We got to protect our children, was found to be

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doing drugs at a party where people are engaging in

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physical relations with a high school junior. That's all what's

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going on over in the Republican world about family values

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and morality. At the same time, that was all coming

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out and everybody was losing their minds, and I was

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getting things sent to me and I'm like, what in

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the world this is so bad? And to see some

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of these people, like the guy, the anti gay activist,

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I mean he's posted he posted something on social media about,

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you know, homosexuality, and then all of a sudden, immediately

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people like, isn't this you And there were screenshots from

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all the pornographic films he'd been in, and yeah, I mean,

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what do you I mean, that's insane. Right, So all

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of that's unfolding and it's ugly and it's a mess. Well,

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one of the most prominent lordship pastors all right, if

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you name the top three lordship pastor, you'd have MacArthur

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and RC Sprawl and then you would have the third one.

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I'm not going to mention his name. He was removed

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from ministry because of sin and it's been everywhere. It's

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been chaotic and it's been crazy. All of this happened

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within like a twenty four hour time span, within twenty

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four hours, and all of this would have implication within

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the Christian world because the conservative politics are the ones

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supported by Christians. Christians Christians because we got a morality, morality, morality,

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and obviously the lordship pastor, he's very influential. I mean

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he's connected to Master Seminary, connected to lig in your ministries,

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I mean everywhere. I'm not gonna name his name because

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the issue is it's not about any of these individuals.

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It's not about these individuals. Everyone here, I want everyone

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to hear it's not about them. It's about you and me.

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It's about theology. So let me I did this in

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the first hour. Let me state this again. The Christian

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life is a life of sin, and if any church

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tells you different, they're lying to you. Your entire Christian

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life is a life of sin. You sin continually, perpetually,

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and if you don't think you do, you're delusional, and

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now you're committing the sin of lying. It's a life

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of sin. If you need me to prove it to you.

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The Bible commands you to be holy as God is holy.

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Have you ever done that once? No? Because to be

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holy as God is holy me with me, you are

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what perfect. Jesus on the Summer of the Mouth said,

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be ye perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect. Are

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you perfect? No? He says to love your enemy, love

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God with all your heart, mind, body, and so I

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can already just those I can go. Scripture after scripture

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after scripture. Guess what we should all say? We are sinners,

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we were sinners, we are sinners, we will be sinners

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until glorification. Yet the Church comes and says, no, no, no, no,

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no no. When you become a Christian, you're a new

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creature in Christ. The whole things are passed away. Behold,

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all things happy, become new. We preach that, but it's

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not true. It's true positionally, it's not true practically, because

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if it was true practically, if I'm a new creature

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and the oldest gone and everything is new, we wouldn't sin.

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But every church and preaches that nonsense. It's not true.

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And Christianity at large does not know how to handle

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this reality that we all sin, and we all sin,

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and we all sin, and Christianity has a long history

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of trying to deal with it, and it all falls

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apart in the first hour. We looked at how Lordship

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Salvation would handle the fall of this very prominent lordship pastor,

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and lordship can't answer the question, doesn't know what to do.

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Lordship would just say he's not saved, which has already started.

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People are already saying he's not saved because he commit

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and just saying he's been committing sin constantly. But he

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committed one sin. And we always know what's the one

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sin that will end you. Sex. Any other sin is okay,

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but not sec if it's sexual, cut the throat, throw

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the body out, crucify, burn the body, what stone them whatever,

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because that every other sin you can commit, idolatry, you're

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good to go. You can have pride, you're good to go.

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You can lie, deceive, come it, oh, oh good good,

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you are great. But if it's anything in the realm

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of sex, it's the end of the world. And that's

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hard to comprehend. Am I excusing sexual sin? Okay, someone's

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gonna think I'm ex I am not excusing it. It's sin,

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but it's sin. Like now, obviously the sin can have

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other CONTs. Every sin can have consequences though every sin right,

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sexual sin can hurt other people. But your pride can

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hurt other people, Your anger can hurt other people. You

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bearing false witness can hurt other people. When you dehumanize,

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I mean, I can go on and on and on

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and on. All sin typically hurts more than just yourself.

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But it's all sin. Now, why am I bringing all

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of this up? We'll just look today at where we

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are going to. First go to Rome's chapter one. Go

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to Romans chapter one. Let's remind ourselves of the first

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therefore in the book of Romans. Does everybody remember where

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the first one was? Does everybody remember where the first

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one was? It hasn't been that many weeks, has it?

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One twenty four? Okay? Good? All right? Romans one twenty four?

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And we read these words. Therefore, God also gave them up.

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And I put forth a hypothesis that no church in

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Abilene or anywhere else would agree with. And what was

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my hypothesis of this? Therefore and the giving up that

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made mine radically different than any other church? This describes

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all of us pre salvation, post salvation. We have all

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been given up. Church. You go to annapoling will say

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the giving up is not us, it's those bad people.

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And I will argue, we've all been given up. You

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know why we've all been given up? Because it's going

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to describe everything that we are even today. All right,

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So let's go back. Let's put because this is all

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key to where we're going. All right, So where does

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that therefore go back to? Do is everybody remember the therefore?

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And twenty four goes back to where verse eighteen, For

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the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness.

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Everyone hear that all on goodliness? Let me ask you

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a question. Are you still on goodly? Yes? You are

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positionally you're not positionally you are what godly? But practically

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you're ungodly? Because what would it require for you to

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be ungodly? Any sin would would I mean, any sin

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would make you ungodly? Right? Right, all unrighteousness? What would

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be art for you to be unrighteous? Any sin? Right?

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Of men who suppressed the truth and unrighteousness, because what

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may be known of God has manifest in them, For

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God has shown it to them. For since the creation

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of the world, his invisible attributes are clearly seeing being

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understood by the things that are made. Even his eternal

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power in God had so that they are without excuse.

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And that describes all of us. We all repress the

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truth to some level, right, we all push it down,

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we all deny it. But yet it's been clearly manifest

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to all of us. So we're all without excuse, saved

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and unsaved, right because although they knew God, they did

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not glorify him as God, nor were thankful, but became

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fruit futile if I can read rite, and their thoughts

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and their foolish hearts were darkened. Well, I'm sorry, ladies

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and gentlemen. That still describes many of us. Do we

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always glorify God? Are we always thankful? Do we not

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become futile in our thoughts? And do we still not

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have very foolish hearts? Yes? That still describes all of us.

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Professing to be wise, we became fools. That's it. Remember

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I said we should put that in the front of

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every church. This is a church where people who walk

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in profess to be fools. But we are professing to

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be wise. But we are all what fools? That is

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literally every church professing to be wise. We are foolish.

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That is every church. Every Christians love to profess to

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be what? Why give me a break? Right, We're just

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as foolish as anybody else. We change the glory of

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the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man

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and birds and four footed animals and creeping things. Now

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we may not have create, We may not create an

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actual idol. But what do we do? We create an

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image of God and our own mind. Right, what do

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I I remember I've been saying the quote my entire ministry.

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God created man and his image, and man returned the

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favor we have. We create a God in our own

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and every church, every Christian has the image of God

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in their mind, and God, the image of God, happens

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to do what agree with them about everything? All right?

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When people argue with me, their image of God is

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that God is on their side, and my image of

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God is that God is on my side. So everyone

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has their own image of God. And don't say that

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that's not true in the church. The church is full

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of people with their own God, all claiming to worship

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one God. But we don't worship one God because we've

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all met our own God, and we all just pretend.

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Nobody wants to admit this. Now, look, what's the inevitable

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conclusion of all of that verse twenty four therefore or

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wherefore right, depending on your translation, God gave them up

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to uncleanliness. Now immediately were like, wait, wait, God gave

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us up to uncleanliness. Well, let's look at everything that

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happens here and the lust of their hearts to dishonor

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their bodies among themselves. Now, immediately when we read that

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some people want to immediately go to homosexuality, but that

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would include all sexual sin, Well, are you telling me

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sexual sin? It's not prominent in the church. Now, Again,

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what typically happens in the church, Even statistics prove this.

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Kids raised in the church, right, when they get to

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that teen years, that's where they probably are going to

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start struggling with dishonoring their body, right because they're going

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to possibly be struggling with sexual sin. Right, it's just inevitable, right,

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They're biologically designed to do that. So in many cases,

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what happens they find themselves full of shame, guilt, don't

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know what to do. So in many cases they leave

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the church, right because it's condemnation, condemnation, condemnation, condemnation, condemnation,

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or they've been told a million times that proves that

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they're not saved. Then they may leave the church. Then

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guess what, At some point they come back to the church,

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typically after they are married and have kids, because guess

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what happens when you're married and have kids. There's a

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high probability your sexual sin now has dramatically decreased because

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now you're married. So now you can be like, oh,

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so now I'm godly, and then you can walk around

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and go, oh, those people and those people and those people,

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because now you're old and you go to bed at

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eight o'clock at night, so now you think you're all godly.

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All you did was you now got married so you

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can satisfy a certain physical desire. You go to bed

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at eight o'clock night at night. You're not going to

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parties anymore, and now you think you're better than everyone else.

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You're just a self righteous hypocrite who thinks you're better

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when in reality you're no better than you were before

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you left the church. That's what happens because during that

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period of time, it's very difficult not to engage in

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sexual sin. I don't know if that's a shock to anyone,

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but it's very difficult. Even if you're not committing the

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physical act, you're committing it mentally. Now I don't know

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what happens when you get old, but may you may

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not care anymore. But the point is there's a time

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that that's very prevalent, and every pastor knows that the

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young people are struggling with that and what happens in

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many cases guilt, shame, condemnation, and it's just like who

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wants to live through that? In many cases, the kids

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who raised in it loathe it and hate it and

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despise it because all it was was guilt. Guilt, guilt, guilt, guilt.

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Now I understand, I'm not saying we excuse it, But

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the point is what we have to do is the

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old people sitting in the pew need to be like, well,

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you know, I may not be committing that sin, but

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I'm still a But it doesn't go that way, does it?

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All right? So immediately this discrib but continue who exchanged

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the truth of God for the lie and worshiped and

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served the creature rather than the Creator? Now, come on,

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that describes churches all over the place. Do we not

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worship and serve the creation more than the creator? Yes,

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we're idolators. We love our jobs, our houses, our money,

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our retirement, we like our entertainment, we like. Come on

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to say that that's not the case. I don't see

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Christians like. All I do is read and study my

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Bible and listen to sermons. Okay, I even as much

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as I read and study. Guess what when I go

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home today, Guess what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna reunt

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home and I'm gonna start the Red Zone. I started

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watching the NFL games, and then at two o'clock, I'm

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gonna immediately switch to ABC so i can watch the

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Indiana Fever because I've watched every game Caitlyn Clark has

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ever played, and I'm gonna watch her play in the

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WNBA playoffs today because they finally made the playoffs, because

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the Indiana Fever never makes the playoffs, and I'm gonna

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watch that. And then after I watch all of that,

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I'll go back to the Red Zone. And then after that,

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I may watch some independent wrestling tonight, and then I

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may listen to some music. Now, people here and they're like,

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goodlin oh, because just all the only reason I'm on

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Godly is because I'm not watching what you want to

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watch a right, heard the calp. Yeah, which is a

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good sign of ungodliness, right, Okay, all right? The point

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is we don't we all have our things may be

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different than my things. Now, yeah, I may go back

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and turn on the microphone and go live at some

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point in the evening. But that will be more. That's

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more to ease my own conscience than it is about

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me being godly, because I'm like, oh, I gotta measure

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my time. I gotta make sure I spend more time

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reading and studying than I do everything else. That's my lordship,

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just sticking in my brain that I've got. I've got

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to prove it. I gotta do it. I gotta do it.

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I gotta read more, I gotta study more. I gotta

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make sure I do it more than anybody else. That's

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just because of my own psychological need, because of the

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voice that says, oh, you're not being a good Christian.

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You're not being a good Christian. You're not being a

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good Christian. But the reality is I serve the I

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can be sitting on in front of a microphone talk

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for two hours about God, by my brain wants to

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beware somewhere else. So am I really doing anything godly? Yes? No.

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For this reason, God gave them up to bile passions,

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for even their women exchange the natural use, for that

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is against nature. Like also the men leaving their natural

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use of the woman, burdening their lust for one another.

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Men with men committing that is shame, shameful and receiving

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themselves the penalty of the error which was due. Now,

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homosexuality is obviously mentioned there, right, But that would also

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involved all sexual sin, right, because God's natural order would

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be one man, one woman for life and there'd be

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no other sexual activity going on. Yes, so in a

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reality we all you leave the natural use in the

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sense of not doing it the way God designed. This

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also includes homosexuality. I'm not denying it. Homosexuality is a sin,

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just like what fornication, lust, adultery right in fact? Does

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just leave it with homosexuality? Oh no, that's where nobody

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wants to acknowledge this. But what is he going to say?

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What comes next? And even as they did not like

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to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over

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to a debased mind to do those things which you're

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not fitting being filled with all unrighteous Oh no, wait,

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what's the next word? Oh wait to say, that's not

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just how mysexuality is it? What's next? Wickedness? Next?

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Consciousness, maliciousness, envy, murder, strive, deceit, evil mindedness, whispers, backbiters,

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haters of God, violent pride, boasters, and vendors of evil things,

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disobediate to parents, undiscerning, untrustworthy, onloving, unforgiving, unmerciful ladies and gentlemen.

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That describes every church I've ever been in, and it

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describes me in some way. You say, well, that one

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doesn't You're he covers so many things it's hard not

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to find yourself there. Okay, yes, So then guess what. Who,

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knowing the righteous judgment of God that those who practice

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such things are deserving of death, not only do the same,

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but also approve of those who practice them. Guess what?

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And so guess what? Everyone wants to take that, and

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church after church does it? Oh that death. Homosexuals should

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be put to death. If you're gonna take that, everyone

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who commits any of those should be put to death. Nobody.

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They just want the homosexuals put to death because they

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want homosexuals put to death because they don't like that' sin. Well,

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you would be putting everyone in your congregation death, and

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you would start with whom the pastor now that I

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get what is my theory? That God, because of the fall,

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and because a man's trajectory downward, God gave everyone over

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to their sinful nature and what is in control of

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Christian and non Christian sinful nature? Now, I know every

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church and appling will lose their mind. But saying that,

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but how can I prove that the sinful nature is

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in control? What is the way I prove my argument?

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Can you be holy? Can you be perfect? And if

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you can't, if you can't stop sinning, If you can't

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be perfect, then that means what that something else is

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in control? And what would that be that would be

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in control sinful nature? Therefore, God has given us over

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to the sinful nature. That is true of everything I

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know right now, every Christian online will lose their mind

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at me. It's don't argue with me. Just prove what

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that you can stop sinning. If you can't stop sinning,

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then the thing stopping you, by definition, is in control

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now because of that reality, Remember that's my theory that

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that describes all of us, and that the sinful nature

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is in control and we are all perpetually given over

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to it. And that's going to be the Christian life

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until glorification, and what happens in glorification, the sinful nature

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is gone. Until then, what is the Christian life then

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going to be a life of sin. Now go to

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Romans two to one. Therefore, everybody there, there's the Therefore

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we've been waiting for it, right I spent the last

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thirty something minutes building up to this very important point.

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Right here we go. Therefore, what are we gonna get? Therefore?

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You are inexcusable? Oh man? Now that oh man means

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everyone jew and gentile. Remember there a lot of people

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say that he switches from jude to gentile. Remember we

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talked about all of that. Oh man, whoever you are,

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who judge for you? For in whatever you judge another,

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you condemn yourself. For you who judge practice the same things.

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Everybody see that. What is the inevitable conclusion? Remember the

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Greek word here do a Remember okay, the word here

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has a different emphasis. It's often used to draw a

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more emphatic or summarizing conclusion, sometimes with a sense of inevitability.

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Remember we talked about this Greek word, it's inevitable. What

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is the inevitable conclusion we should get from Romans one

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eighteen to the end of chapter one, Because that says, therefore,

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what should be the conclusion we come to? What's inevitable

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that we can't judge anyone because we're guilty of the

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exact same things. Somehow Christian has completely lost its mind

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when it comes to this. We can't judge anyone. Now

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what a Christian say? Well, we can judge because we

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no longer do those things. You are a stinking liar.

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We do those things. It's inevitable. Does everyone understand that?

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All right? It's this. It's emphatic. This Greek word dua is.

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It's emphatic. It summarizes conclusions. It emphasizes the reason or cause,

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often summarizing a point before moving to the conclusion or result.

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All right, So are you ready to break Romans two

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one down a little bit? All right, because we got

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to cover the text here. Okay, everybody ready? All right?

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Two to one? Romans two one is a pivotal verse

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in Paul's argument in the Letter to the Romans. It

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