April 9, 2025

Bible Study Method: Law and Gospel Pt 1

Bible Study Method: Law and Gospel Pt 1

I teach the law and gospel bible study method

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I teach the law and gospel bible study method

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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 Wednesday, April the ninth, twenty twenty five. It

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is currently five point fifty one pm Central Time, and

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I'm coming to you live from the Theology Central studio

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located right here in Abilene, Texas. And it was right

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here in Abilene, Texas in the nineteen eighties as a

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teenager that I drove into Abilene, Texas because I didn't

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live in Abilene at that time. I lived in Buffalo Gap, Texas.

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That's where I lived. And I got in a car

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and I left Buffalo Gap and I came to Abilene, Texas.

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And I arrived at Butternut Street in Abilene, Texas, and

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I pulled up in the parking lot of the Bible Bookstore.

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I walked into the Bible Bookstore and there I was

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looking around, looking around. What am I going to buy

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today here in the Bible Bookstore. I'm a relatively new

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Christian and I'm walking around, walking around, and what do

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I see? I see the bargain bin. Well, that's a

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good idea. When you're a teenager, you don't have a

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lot of money. I'm going through the bargain bin and

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I see a book Dynamic Bible Study Methods, Dynamic Bible

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Study Methods, twelve of them to be exact, and I'm like,

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this is what I need. This will give me twelve

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methods of Bible study. And I just thought, I mean,

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I'll be able to use this for the rest of

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my life. I was. I was so excited. It was

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only like fifty cents. It was like, basically they were

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giving it away. Nobody wanted it. Now. The book was

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written by a man by the name of Rick Warren.

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At that time, you know, nobody knew anything about him.

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He had obviously had not become the you know, purpose

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driven life, purpose driven church, you know guru. He was

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just someone had written a book on how to study

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the Bible by giving you twelve specific methods, methods you

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could use, and you could use them all the time.

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And from that moment on, I have used that book,

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taught that book, reference that book over and over. Those

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twelve Methods of Bible Study are still a part of

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my life to this very day. I mean, when I

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open up the text, there's still a tendency the chapter

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summary method I start running the chapter summary method almost

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without even thinking. So many of the methods I still

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utilize today. And the foundation to every method, the foundation

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to every single method was what was known as space pets.

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This taught you how to apply the scriptures. That was

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the foundational method because you use that method. At the

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end of every other method, every other method, you had

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to do application. And you would basically run space pets

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and that's an acronym and ask this for sins to confess,

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pre promises, to claim, actions, actions to avoid you know,

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C commands E for examples to follow that type of thing.

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And so I knew that method, use that method, use

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that method, use that method, taught that method, defended that method.

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Now also though at that time a lot of the

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thing now most I would say ninety percent of what's

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in that book and how to study the Bible, those

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dynamic Bible study methods by Rick Warren, I would still

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to this day defend. They're awesome. Most of them are

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giving you basically steps to do observation. And the key

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in Bible study. I say it all the time. Everyone

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thinks Bible studies interpretive. It's primarily observational. It's giving you

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the steps to help you observe to see what's actually

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in the text, what the text actually says, because you

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shouldn't even be worrying about interpreting the text until you

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have observed the text. So I would still strongly defend, promote,

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teach what is in that book. But on this April

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the ninth, twenty twenty five, I'm going to completely reject

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the whole space pets idea and how to do application

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because I'm going to try to completely change your mind

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about how you should approach scripture. And our last broadcast,

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we talked about looking at the subject of fear from

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a proper law Gospel perspective Law and Gospel. I have

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talked about it and talked about it again. I have

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a series on law and Gospel. I said, is still

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the most important series I've ever done. And all of

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my years of teaching, every failure I've ever made, every

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success I've ever made, none of that matters. The only

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thing that matters is if I leave at least one

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person out there saying I now know how to understand

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scripture from a proper law gospel perspective. If only one

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person gains that perspective, then every other failure, every other success,

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none of it matters because law and gospel. Without that,

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I think the Bible just becomes a philological mess. It

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just becomes a moral handbook that's just going to leave

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you to the pit of despair, frustration, and possibly even

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renouncing your faith if you're even remotely honest with what

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the book actually says, other than playing the little church

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game where you convince yourself of a reality that doesn't exist.

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So I'm going to try to not only am I

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going to completely reject the host space pets idea that

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I have taught basically since the nineteen eighties anywhere and

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everywhere I could. Not only am I rejecting what I

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have taught, I'm going to try to put an alternative

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in place. I'm going to try to teach you a

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Bible study method that is all about law and gospel.

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I'm going to try to teach this and to try

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to hopefully helpful. Hopefully it will be helpful. But we

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have to take a step back and we just have

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to look at Christianity at large, Christianity in general, the

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Church at large, because I think when it comes to

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the church, it comes to Christianity, and it comes to

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all the materials they put forth, I think all of

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them are seriously in error because they reject a law

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gospel perspective. Most Bible study methods, I think this is

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fair to say most Bible study methods, most devotionals, most sermons,

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most Sunday school curriculum, most small group studies. They either ignore,

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they distort, or they directly contradict a law gospel approach.

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Let me state that again, most Bible study methods. Whenever

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you listen to these sermons or you see it online,

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you know, here's a here's some videos and how to

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study the Bible, here's a book on how to study

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the Bible. Almost all of that material and how to

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study the Bible, it's going to either it's going to ignore, distort,

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or contradict a law gospel perspective. If you look at devotionals,

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I don't care which devotional you pick up, they're going

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to either ignore, distort, or contradict a law gospel approach.

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If you look at sermons, just you can just you

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can get on the sermon audio app or the sermons

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by sermonadio app, whatever it's called. In twenty twenty five

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Sermons two point oh sermons, three point oh sermons, three

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point one sermons by sermonadio. It feels like it's gone

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through fifty names. Wherever it is today, whatever it is today.

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If you just look up all of those sermons, I

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remember they add about six thousand sermons a week, ninety

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nine point nine percent of them, and I think that's

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probably being generous. They're either going to ignore, They're going

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to distort, are they going to directly contradict a law

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gospel perspective. If you go to Sunday school Sunday school classes,

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it doesn't matter if it's kids, doesn't matter, if it's teenagers,

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doesn't matter if it's adult, if it's adults, they're going

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to ignore, they're going to distort, or they're going to

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directly contradict a law gospel perspective. If you go to

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small groups, the food may be good, you may have

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a great time with your friends, but guess what they're

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going to ultimately do in that small group. They're going

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to ignore, they're going to distort, and they're going to

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completely contradict a law gospel approach. It is a disease

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in the American Church, and they're going to do all

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of this even though law and gospel is at the

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very heart of Biblical theology and especially the Protestant Reformation. Now,

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if you're not a Protestant, and if you are a Catholic,

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then by all means you should ignore a law gospel perspective.

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If you are a Catholic, not only should you you

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ignore it, not only should you contradict it, you should

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distort it because you are a Catholic. But for all

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the rest of you who claim not to be Catholic,

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you're more a Catholic than Catholics because you constantly ignore

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and distort it and contradict a low Gospel understanding of scripture.

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And you do it in your church Sunday after Sunday,

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week after week after week after week. So we're going

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to try to look at a kind of an analysis

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to begin with on how and why this happens across

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various teaching platforms. So let's start with Bible study methods.

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He over and A. You can get on sermon audio

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right now and look how to study your Bible. You'll

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get series after series after series how to study your Bible.

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I love those series, I really do because I always

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want to hear. Oh they're going to give me some

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new methods. They they're going to offer me something, And

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for most of them, they don't really offer you a method.

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It's always kind of read highlight, ask a couple of questions.

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They're so generic and vague that they really don't help anyone.

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To me, a lot of them are a waste of

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time if I'm being kind, Because if you're really gonna

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help someone study the Bible, you've got to give them

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specific methods. Right, here's the steps you take, here's what

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you do, here's your assignment. Now some will, but most

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of them are so vaguely it really is. But most

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of the Bible study methods they fail. And here's the problem.

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They are obsessed with life application. These Bible study methods

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should just be referred to as life application obsession. That's

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why they They are obsessed with life application. Most Bible

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study methods center around the question what does this mean

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to me? What does this mean for me? What does

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this mean for us? How can I apply this to

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my life? So the commands and scripture that become a

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task list. The goal of Bible study becomes behavioral modification

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or life improvement, not true repentance or faith. It becomes

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about modifying your behavior, changing your behavior, and proving your life,

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doing better, getting better, doing better, stop doing wrong, get better.

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So it's just all that what does this text means

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to you and what can you do with it? It's

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all about life application. That's what most churches teach. So

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the common features this is kind of the common features

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of this life application. Obsession and peratives or commands are

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seen as things to do, not holy standards that condemn

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When people. When you go to most churches and you're

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doing any kind of Bible study or you're taught how

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to study the Bible, hey, there's a command there. That's

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a command for you to obey. Work on that command,

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write that command down, about the ways you can do something.

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What can you do, what can you change? How can

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you begin to obey that? How can you stop disobeying it?

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What can you do? What can you do? What can

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you do? So the commands are seeing as something you

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can do, something you should do. They're not seen as

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no no, no, no no no. That command is a holy

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standard that condemns you. It's not something that you can do,

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it's something that condemns you because you cannot do it. No,

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churches teach it that way, and I think that that's

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a failure. No distinction is ever made between law demand

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and gospel promise. They don't even try to draw that distinction.

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Is this law or is this gospel? No? No, no, no,

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that's not even spoken of. The reader is left with this.

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This is most Bible study methods are this life application obsession,

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and basically you're left with this, do better, try harder,

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trust more, do better, try harder, trust more, do better,

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try harder, trust more. So the scriptures ultimately become about you,

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not Christ. The gospel is assumed, not proclaimed, and the

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burden is increased, not lifted. That's what Bible study methods

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give you in the modern church. It's about life application.

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It all becomes about you, and you are just burdened

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down with do this, do this, do better, do better,

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do better, do better, try harder, do better, try harder,

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trust more. Come on, come on, come on, come on,

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come on. So that's the Bible study methods is basically

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being taught in most churches. How about their devotional materials?

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How do they fail? Well? The problem with devotional materials

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they become sentimental encouragement without philological clarity. They're there in

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a sentimental way to encourage you, pick yourself up. You

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can do it, you can do it. Devotionals will often

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present versus like do not fear, be still and know

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as positive thoughts, reassuring slogans a spiritual boost, but they

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ignore the law what is actually being commanded, and they

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fail to preach the gospel how christ fulfills that command

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for us. The common traits of these kind of devotional

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method approach they give comfort without any true clarity, They

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offer peace without pointing to the cross, and they often

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treat Jesus like a motivational speaker, not as a redeemer.

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So what is the result. The commands of scripture are softened.

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command is, how impossible it is? No, no, no, no, no,

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no no no. It's like, hey, you can do it,

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you can do it. The gospel is replaced by inspirationalism.

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It's there to inspire you. You are my inspiration. To

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quote the famous this is what lyric by Chicago is

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at the seventeen album. I think at seventeen, isn't it

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Chicago seventeen. You're the inspiration. Come on, everybody seeing it

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with me. Come on, get your lighters up, hold them

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in the air. You're the inspiration. Right, how do the

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lyrics go? Okay, you get it? Chicago seventeen. It's got

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the little brown cover. Go listen to it. All right,

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you're the inspiration. Come on. They played it a prom

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if you're old. Okay, all right, do you get it? Okay?

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All right? That it becomes about inspiring you. The reader

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is told, you've got this instead of Christ did this

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for you. No, no, no, no, no, no, you got this. You

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can do it. Come on, here's here's a nice little

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devotional story that will encourage you. That's what the devotionals do.

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moralistic therapeutic preaching. That's what sermons are today. They just

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are moralistic therapeutic. Moralistic therapeutic, that's what they are. They

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basically sermons boil down to this formula. And I've thought

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about doing this. I think I need to do an

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entire episode. I can basically give you the template and

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the formula of almost every sermon you're going to hear.

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same formula. They just kind of dress it up differently.

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almost all would just kind of boil down to the

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same template. Here's what the passage says, here's what you're

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doing wrong. Here's how to fix it. Hey, here's what

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the passage says. Hey, we're not doing this. We fall

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short of this. We're not doing this. But here's how

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you fix it. Three points, A nice little story at

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the end. Go do it. There's no law gospel distinction.

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There's no Christ for you, just you trying to be

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like Christ. Jesus is typically almost used as a moral example.

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Not your substitute. Application is disconnected from the gospel, and

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the message ends with a to do list. Not it

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is finished. You don't hear it is finish. Christ has

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done it for you. It is now go do this,

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and go do this, and go do this. And I

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used to preach that way constantly. Right, here's three points

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of application, do this, do this. I learned that from

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Chucks Wendall or Charles Wendall, depending what name we want

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to go with. Insight for a living I always used

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to tell you the way I learned to preach was

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three preachers. First I had Chuck's. I had a notebook

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for each one. El I listen to them on the radio.

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First was Chuck Smith from Calvary Chapel. I learned absolutely nothing.

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My notebook was empty. MacArthur. I learned expositional preaching, ex

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expounding the scriptures. Except I mean I was also learning

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lordship salvation, but from preaching expound the scriptures, go verse

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by verse. Gott it Swindall was application application, application, application, application,

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application application. Not hey in the sermon with it is finished,

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Christ has done it for you. Notice like, hey, get

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off the couch, put the dorados down, get up and

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do something. You lazy, sinful Christians do better, do more,

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try more. You should be convicted. So sermons become self

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help lectures with scripture attached. Listeners are left feeling either

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guilty or prideful, not humbled and comforted. So that's what's

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going on. So that's what's happening. When they do teach

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you how to study the Bible, they give you this

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application obsession. Then when you start you get your devotional material.

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It's basically this sentimental encouragement with no philological clarity. Then

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you go to the sanctuary, you get sermons that are

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nothing more than moralistic or therapeutic. That's all you get.

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guess what I should have put these probably in a

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different order. I didn't think about trying to create, like

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we's start here as a Christian. Then you go to this. Okay,

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but all right, now we're in the Sunday school class

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And this is why. This is how they fail. Bible

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stories become morality lessons. Hey, look at Noah. Be obedient

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like him and build an arc. David, be brave and

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kill your giant esther. Be courageous, Daniel, be faithful, Jesus

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be loving. Bible stories are morality lessons, and this is

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ingrained in the brains of every kid raised in church.

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Every Bible story is just a moral lesson do better,

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or it's a moral lesson about don't do this. It's

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do this, don't do this, do this, don't do this,

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do this, don't do this, with the implication is you

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can do it. You can do it. Stop being bad

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little boys and girls, Be good little boys and girls.

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Stop do this, don't do this, do this, Come on,

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be like this, be like this, be like this. This

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basically turns the entire story of redemption into nothing more

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than a moral fable. That's all it becomes. It's moralism.

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The law. What is missing in most cases in Sunday

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School the law law as exposing sin and need. It

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doesn't show you. That law is not put forth as

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just as there to condemn you and show your inability.

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The law is there telling you to do better, and

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you have to try to do better. The Gospel is missing,

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as God's intervention and rescue and Christ as the true

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and better fulfillment of every story is not usually pointed to.

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that the Bible is about good people doing good things,

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not about a gracious God's saving sinful people through his son.

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So now we go to the small groups. What happens

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in small groups well becomes discussion based sharing without doctrinal framework.

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does this verse mean to you? Everyone affirms one another,

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but no one preaches law or gospel. The focus is

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often how can we grow? How can we do better

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as Christians? What is missing a clear proclamation of God's

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demands law, a clear proclamation of christ fulfillment gospel, and

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a humble confession and rest in Christ. Small groups reinforce

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subjectivity over truth and behavioral goals over the finished work

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of Christ. It's about doing better. It's about doing better.

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It's never no matter where you turn and Christianity, it's

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about here's a to do list. Here's a to do list.

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Do this, do this, don't do this, do this. Okay,

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I'm gonna do this. I'm gonna read my bible, marm,

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I'm not gonna watch so much TV. I'm gonna do this.

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I'm gonna try harder. I'm gonna be a better wife.

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I'm gonna be a better this I'm gonna be At

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some point you just like I'm just going to the

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liquor store and give up. So what, Why does this

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all happen this way? Why is evangelical fundamentalism just preoccupy

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with this approach and ignoring long Gospel because long Gospel

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distinction is almost absent in the church. It's rarely taught

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in any clarity or any explanation. Even pastors and leaders

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typically lack training in a proper law gospel distinction in

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their hermanutic. Most of them lack the training because they

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don't go to schools that have a law gospel hermeneutic,

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so they don't have a law gospel hermeneutic. They just

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teach the hermautic that they've been taught. They don't do hermanutics.

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treat that was see that law and gospel stuff, that's Lutheranism,

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that's Luther. We don't we don't have to follow that. Now,

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what's funny they'll say, we don't need to follow Luther.

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other person and their hermeneutical approach. So it's just ridiculous, like, well,

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we're not going to follow Luther, but you're still following

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someone because you're just repeating what you've been taught about

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hermautics based on someone's hermeneutical system. You're not doing hermeneutics.

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You just learn it and parrot it back. You just

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regurgitate the same hermeneutical template because you can't ever do hermeneutics.

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to die. The church is where theology comes to die

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because they don't do theology. You don't do hermonutics, you

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don't even actually do Bible study. You just regurgitate whatever

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the answer is given by your theological team. And I

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think in the evangelical church it prefers utility over theology.

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what is true. I think in the evangelical church they

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prefer utility over theology. What works is more important than

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what's true. The pressure is to be relevant, encouraging, practical,

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of self righteousness. It's easier to try harder than admit helplessness.

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Try harder, look at me, I'm doing it. The Gospel

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offends your pride because it says you can't do it,

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you never will be able to do it. You're a

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complete and total and utter failure. You are a train wreck,

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You're a dumpster fire. But Christ did it for you.

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But but, but, but bye, I've got to do something.

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I've got to do it. You can try all day long,

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you're just gonna fail fail fail fell fell fell fell.

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Now all of that brings me to what I stumbled

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upon in the Bible bookstore in the nineteen eighties as

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a teenager with just a little bit of money in

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my pocket. I buy the book Dynamic Bible Study Methods

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from Rick Warren. I go home, I open it up,

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and what is the first method toudd in the book

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the application or the devotional method. And the devotional method

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teaches you how to do application, and so it gives

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The space Pets method is a popular Bible application tool

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designed to help individuals reflect on and apply scripture and

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practical ways. Each letter of the acronym represents a different

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question aimed at drawing out personal spiritual lessons from a passage. Now,

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let me make it very clear. If we just use

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space pets simply to do application, we don't do anything

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with it. It can still be useful, but what it's used,

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it's used to do application, which turns into this moralistic

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therapeutic self help. Come on, you can do it type thing.

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So let me break it down. This is how space

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pets work. The letter S for space or the letter

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S and space pets. It's not for space. The letter

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S stands for Is there a sin to confection or

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sins to confess? Hey, look, look for when you see

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in the Bible? Is there a sin for you to confess? There?

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Now that's a good thing. Now that's a good thing

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because at least it's starting with you seeing your sin.

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That's a good thing. Right, that's a good thing. P

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Is there a promise to claim? So? Look, is there

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a promise? Now when you look for a promise, you

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got to determine if the promise is conditional unconditional, and

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whether it's applicable, because some promises are not for you.

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So is there a sin to confess? That's actually a

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good thing to start and find. Does anything in the

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Bible show you your sin? Right? Is there a promise

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to claim? A Is there an attitude to change? Oh? Wait,

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this talks about this attitude. Tells me this attitude is

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bad or this attitude is good. I need to change

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that attitude. Now that's good if you will just acknowledge

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sin and attitude, but it's all about what are you

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going to do to make it better? Because ultimately what

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you have to do is you've got to write out

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an application in this method that is personal, practical, and provable.

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What steps are you going to do to fix this

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and to make these changes? So it becomes very law based.

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themselves is not necessarily bad. So for is there a

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sin to confess? P? Is for promises? A? Is there

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an attitude to change? C? Is there a command to obey? Well,

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got no problem looking for the commands, but see the

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idea is there's a command to obey. Now I got

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to come up with a way on which I'm going

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to obey it. The whole premise is that you can

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obey all of the commands, which is just built into

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the minds of almost every evangelical Christian. E. Is there Okay,

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these incorrectly, So let me do this again. S. Is

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there a sin to confess? P? Is there a promise

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to claim? A? Is there an attitude to change? C?

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Is there a command to obey? E? Is there an

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example to follow. I don't. I don't think I'd mentioned

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that one earlier. But just to make sure, is there

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an example to follow or an example not to follow?

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Could be a good example or a bad example. P

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Is there something to pray? Is there a prayer to pray? E?

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Is there an error to avoid? Right? So space is space,

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sends to confess, promises, attitudes, commands, examples, pets, p E,

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T S prayers, there something to pray or prayer to pray? E?

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Is there an error to avoid? T? Is there a

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truth to believe? S? Is there something to praise God for? Now? Again,

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it can be effective if you just use it purely

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as an observational tool. Well, there's that talks about a promise,

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or that talks about a truth, or that talks about

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an error. That gives me an example if you just

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use it just for observational But what what you do

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is you turn this into Okay, now that I've identified

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these things, what are you going to do to make

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the change? What are you going to do to put

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these things into practice? You need a plan. You've got

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to be you've got to be practical, you've got to

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be proved. It's got to be something it's got to

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be personal, it has to be about you, and I

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taught that a million times. But I think that entire

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approach leads us to all the problems we just discussed

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that it's going to lead you away from a law

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Gospel perspective. So here's what I want to do. I'm

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going to take the next few minutes and I'm going

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to teach you a Bible study method. We'll call it

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the law Gospel Bible study method. Right, the law Gospel

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Bible study method. You will not be taught this method,

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I don't think anywhere else. Okay, there may be a

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book out there somewhere about the Law Gospel Bible study method.

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I haven't done a lot of research to find the book,

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but I'm assuming that some Lutheran somewhere has put this out.

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The sad part, it shouldn't just be within Lutheranism, it

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should be within all non Catholic Christianity, because we hold

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to the Protestant Reformation, which this law Gospel distinction is

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essential to the entire Protestant Reformation. So the law Gospel

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Bible study method. Let's start with the purpose I want

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the purpose of this method is to try to train

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you and to try to train myself and remind myself

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to read the scriptures through the essential distinction of law

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and gospel. It is to try to train you, train me,

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train everyone else to recognize what God commands law, confessing

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how we fail, and then seeing how Christ fulfilled it Gospel,

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and then resting in His finished work the core theological

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So that's the purpose to try to train you, all

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of us, so that we will read scriptures through the

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essential distinction of law and gospel, that we will recognize

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what God commands law, confess how we fail, and then

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see how Christ fulfilled it Gospel, and then we simply

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rest in His finished work. The core theological foundation. The

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law reveals God's perfect will and demands perfect obedience. That's

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still logical foundation number one. The law reveals God's perfect will,

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and it demands perfect obedience. It demands that obedience internally,

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externally and thought word, disease, deeds, and desire. So the

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law reveals God's perfect will and demands perfect obedience and

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thought word, deed, and desire, and it demands it internally

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and externally Like that's a foundational truth for Christians. The

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law reveals God's perfect will, his perfect standard, and it

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demands absolute perfection internally, externally and thought, word, deed, and desire.

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The second theological foundation. The Gospel reveals what God has

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done in Christ to fulfill that law and our behalf.

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The Law reveals his perfect will and demands perfect obedience.

519
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The Gospel reveals what God has done in Christ to

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fulfill the law and our behalf. Let me hear that.

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I want you to hear that again. The Gospel shows

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you what God has done in Christ to fulfill the

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Law on your behalf. Christ fulfilled the law for you.

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The Law says you need to do this perfectly. You can't.

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The Gospel says, hey, Christ did it for you. The

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Christian life, then here's the third foundational principle. The Christian

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life begins and it continues with repentance and faith, not

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self improvement or behavioral modification. The Christian life begins and

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continues with changing my mind about right and wrong and

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then putting my faith in Jesus Christ. That's what it is,

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and it's every day I have to constantly change, make

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sure I'm agreeing with God and that my mind is

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in line with what God says is about right and wrong,

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and put my faith in Christ because Christ keeps all

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of the law, which shows me my sin. The three

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philological foundations. Number one, the law reveals God's perfect will

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and demands perfect obedience. Number two, the Gospel reveals what

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God has done in Christ to fulfill the law on

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our behalf. Number three, the Christian life begins and continues

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with repentance and faith, not self improvement or behavioral modification. Now,

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let's get to the method itself. Basically, it's four steps.

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It's the easiest method I will ever taught you. Number one,

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recognize the law whenever you're reading the Bible. Whenever you're

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reading the Bible. I will even go so far to say,

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whenever you're listening to a sermon or you're reading a

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devotional material, recognize law. What is being commanded of you

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in this passage of scripture? What is being commanded? Or

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are you being told you must do or what you

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shouldn't do? Is there an imperative something I must do,

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be or feel? Are you being told you must do this,

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you must be this, you must feel this, or you

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must avoid this. You must not do that, you must

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not feel that, you must not be that. And what

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is the full weight of what God requires. You need

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to recognize the law. What is being commanded? Is there

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an imperative telling me do this, don't do this, be this,

557
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don't be this, and what is the full weight? Well,

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you really need to embrace what is really being told

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of you. You're not to water it down, you're not

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to twist it, you're not to change. You're like, man,

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that scripture literally tells me to be perfect, then I

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need to be perfect. There's no watering it down. You

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don't soften the commands, you don't excuse your way out

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of it. You let the law speak. So whenever you're

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reading the Bible, you're like, WHOA, that's telling me something

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I need to do? Right, I just happened to have

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my Bible here open to some one nineteen. All right,

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turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity and quicken thou

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me in thy way. Right, So the idea seems to

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be telling me I need to Well, there is a prayer.

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It's a prayer, but we would sometimes go and that

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seems to say I need to turn my eyes away

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from beholding vanity. What does they even mean? How do

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I even do that? Ken? Is it even possible? What

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is being commanded. Is it an imperative? What is the

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full weight of what God is telling me to do? So?

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Number one, recognize the law. Number two, confess your failure.

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This is simple. How have I broken? You just simply

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write down? How have I broken this command? Where is

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my Where in my life do I fall short of this?

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Do I see this failure in my thoughts or in

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my actions or in my emotions? See, you've seen the law,

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You've seen the command, You've seen the imperative. You've seen

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all of this. You've seen the full weight of what's

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being asked of you to do. Okay, well now hm,

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now step two. I just got to write out my confession.

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I have broken this command in this way here in

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my life. This is how where I fell short. I

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see this failure not only externally but internally. I see

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it in my thoughts. I see it in my desires.

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You just write. All you do is just get brutally honest.

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You just write it all down. I know nobody wants

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to write this part down, but you just got to

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be brutal. You got to be honest. You can burn

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it if you need to after you write it down,

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because you don't want anyone to see it. Just be

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brutally honest. No, you don't have to dress up and pretend,

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because you're not playing the little church game. The church

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game just dresses as everyone up in a robe of

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self righteousness. You don't need one. I do this, and

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I think this, and I look at this, and I

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watch this, and I think this, and I desire this,

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and I do this, and I hate this person, I

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don't forgive this person, and I get angry about this,

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and I want this, and I'm filled with lust desire. Okay, man, whoo, okay,

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I need a new notebook. Basically, the law. The law

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reveals sin, weakness, and dependency. Let it do its work.

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You recognize the law, and then really step two it's

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confessor failure. You could almost say step two it's just

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let the law do its work. Let it make you

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expose you, humble you, shame you. And then step three,

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how does Christ fulfill the law? You just saw all

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the commands, the imperatives want to do whatnot? Now you

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need to ask yourself how did Christ fulfill that? How

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did Jesus perfectly obey this command? Look for some scripture

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that may show you how Jesus perfectly obeyed it. How

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Jesus did not do that? Now, sometimes you may not

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have a specific example, but you always have that he

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was tempted in all points without as we are yet

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without sin. Or you can always go back to that right,

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You can always go back to the fact that he

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did not sin. But sometimes you want to try to

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find what is a specific example where Jesus followed this command,

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he did not do that particular thing. Where in his

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life ministry, death, or resurrection? Do you see him living

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this out? Do I see him living out this command?

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Do I see him living out this command not to

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do something? And then just remind yourself that his obedience

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is credited to you. So step three is used to

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think about how Christ has fulfilled it for you. How

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did he perfectly obey the command? Where in his life

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did he live it out? And just remind yourself that

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his obedience is accredited to you. The key insight in

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step three is Christ did not come to remove the law,

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but to fulfill it for us. His righteousness is imputed

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to us. He came to fulfill the law. He fulfilled

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every jot and tittle of the law. Everything has been fulfilled.

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Step four rest in the gospel. Then respond in freedom

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what does it? Then you can say something in this

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step four, what does it mean that I'm fully accepted

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in Christ even in my failure? You just may want

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to have to write down. Look, I've seen the law.

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I seen that my failure in step one step two,

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I've confessed about how messed up I am and all

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the ways I've broken. At step three, I've found a

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scripture that shows Christ fulfilling it for me. So now

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what does it mean to me that I'm fully accepted

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in Christ even in my failure? You already acknowledged your failure.

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Now you say, what does it mean to you that

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you're accepted in Christ? You're still in Christ even though

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you just pointed out all the things you've done wrong?

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How can I? How can I? How can and I

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now at least move in the direction of obedience, not

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to earn God's favor, but because I already have it? Now,

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how could I try to put some steps in action

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to walk in the right direction, not because I'm going

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to be obedience or even I'm ever going to fulfill it,

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just because this is what Christ calls me to do.

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And then how does this? And you may want to

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write down, how does this give me freedom and not fear?

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How don't you feel free? You shouldn't be filled with

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fear and guilt and shame because you now know Christ

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has done it for you. Let me give you some examples.

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Do not be anxious or give no thought in Philippians

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four six. I think if we go from the King James,

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how does it read specifically in the King James, it

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reads be careful for nothing, be anxious for nothing? Right?

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That's Philippians four six, Number one the law, do not

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be anxious about anything. This is a command to feel

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no anxiety about anything, total peace always. It's a command,

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do not be anxious about literally anything. Step two failure.

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I worry constantly, money, health, family, the future. I don't

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just fail to trust. I fear I fail the command.

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Step one the law is easy to see in Philippians

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four to six, do not be anxious about anything. And

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I really stress what that means, to feel no anxiety

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about anything, total peace always. Step two my failure. I

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worry constantly, money, hell, family. I don't just fail to trust.

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I fear I fail the command. You write down specifically

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how you fail. Step three christ fulfillment Jesus never distrusted

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the Father. He slept in the storm Matthew four thirty eight.

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He walked calmly to his crucifixion Luke nine fifty one.

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Even in Gethsemine he trusted and submitted Luke twenty two

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forty two. His peace is credited to me. Step four

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Gospel response. I'm not condemned for my anxiety. Christ bore

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that burden. I can now rest in His perfect trust

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and learn to trust, and learn to trust not out

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of guilt, but by grace. There's the four parts. There's

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the four parts. What are the four parts again? Step one,

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Recognize the law. See the law in the passage, See

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the command, see the imperative. See what it is telling

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you to do, not do what to feel, not feel

693
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what to be. See the law. Confess your failure in

694
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graphic detail, right out, exactly how messed up it is.

695
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You're not excusing it, you're not seeing, you're trying to

696
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do better. Just look I fall short. Then look for

697
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scriptures that show you how christ fulfilled it. Four. Then

698
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just rest in the gospel. Rest in the gospel. And

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we see this in Philippians four six. We see the law.

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Do not being. We see what it really means that

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I'm not to be anxious about anything. I'm to feel

702
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no anxiety about anything. My failure. I worry constantly. You

703
00:43:08.119 --> 00:43:11.360
write down your failure Christ's fulfillment. He never distrusted the Father.

704
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I'll give you all those cross references for how he

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fulfilled it. Step four. I am not condemned for my anxiety.

706
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I am not condemned because Christ bore that burden. And

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Christ's perfect fulfillment of don't be anxious about anything is

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accredited to my account. So you can. I'll give you

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some scriptures to do your own work on. These are

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all simple. One Peter one sixteen Be holy, for I

711
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am holy. That's simple. Matthew five forty four. I love

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your enemies, Matthew five point forty eight. Be perfect as

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00:43:47.800 --> 00:43:51.280
your heavenly Father is perfect. Philippians two fourteen. Do everything

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without grumbling or complaining. First Thessalonians five seventeen. Pray without ceasing.

715
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There there's five verses to work on, and you just

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go through those four steps the law. What is actually

717
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being demanded? Your failure? How have you broken it? Christ? Fulfillment?

718
00:44:14.719 --> 00:44:17.280
Where in scripture do we see Jesus obeying this command

719
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and your gospel response, what does it mean to be

720
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counted righteous in Him? Again? What are the five verses

721
00:44:23.679 --> 00:44:25.840
on one Peter one sixteen, Be holy for I am holy,

722
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Matthew five forty four. Love your enemy Matthew five forty eight.

723
00:44:29.039 --> 00:44:31.960
Be perfect as your Father is perfect Philippians two fourteen.

724
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Do everything without grumbling or complaining, Pray without ceasing, and

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first Thessalonians five seventeen. Those are just five verses you

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can start working this method on. You. Make sure you

727
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put out in detail what is being demanded in that

728
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rose verses. Don't water it down. What is it demanding?

729
00:44:49.760 --> 00:44:53.400
Write out exactly what the demand is, don't water it down,

730
00:44:53.800 --> 00:44:58.599
speak of what the law is stating there specifically, be

731
00:44:59.400 --> 00:45:03.960
very clear. Then, specifically and in grave detail, write out

732
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your failure number three. Then go find scripture that shows

733
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Christ fulfilling it. And then what is your gospel response

734
00:45:10.440 --> 00:45:12.440
to knowing that Christ has now fulfilled this for you

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and you're free? What do you How are you going?

736
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How are you going? How does it impact you? Now?

737
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You could you could make a chart if you wanted to, right,

738
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you could make a chart that goes something like this.

739
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The command my failure, Christ's fulfillment. Maybe my response your

740
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gospel response, not your law based response, but your gospel response.

741
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So you can go through the passages and make you

742
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a chart command failure fulfillment response. You could do it

743
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that way if you wanted. You could create your own

744
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law gospel devotional. I'm giving you some ideas here. Choose

745
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a passage with a strong command and write a one

746
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page devotional that follows the four steps right so, and

747
00:46:09.360 --> 00:46:12.440
then you could give it a title. You could write

748
00:46:12.480 --> 00:46:15.519
down the scripture, You could explain the law. You could

749
00:46:15.559 --> 00:46:19.079
write down about your own personal failure and confess it.

750
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Then you could show how Christ obeyed it and celebrate that,

751
00:46:24.199 --> 00:46:28.840
and then you can say what your gospel reaction is

752
00:46:29.239 --> 00:46:35.199
to it. You can write this out if you want to,

753
00:46:35.199 --> 00:46:38.760
almost like your own devotional. What's the title? You've got

754
00:46:38.760 --> 00:46:41.159
the scripture? Now? What what are we going to call this?

755
00:46:41.639 --> 00:46:44.400
All right? What is the scripture? Write down? How is

756
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it explained? What the law is? Write down how you

757
00:46:48.199 --> 00:46:52.159
fail mess up, maybe a very good example of how

758
00:46:52.159 --> 00:46:56.039
you've recently messed up. Then show how Christ completely obeyed this,

759
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and then you're kind of your gospel response to it.

760
00:47:02.440 --> 00:47:05.159
Reading the Bible with a law gospel lens is not

761
00:47:05.280 --> 00:47:08.880
just still logical, it's pastoral. It's healing and it's freeing.

762
00:47:09.159 --> 00:47:12.239
It will help you stop pretending and start repenting. It

763
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replaces moral pressure with Christ's finished work. This is not

764
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the easy way. It's the honest, biblical and Christ centered way. Now,

765
00:47:29.159 --> 00:47:32.719
I'll just stop right there. I'll just stop right there,

766
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because I'm gonna get I want to get into how

767
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this law gospel thing works for a narrative, for a narrative, right,

768
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for a historical narrative, because some what Now, Oh, I've

769
00:47:44.679 --> 00:47:47.840
given you so far as you just read, and when

770
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you see a passage, it gives you an imperative. A

771
00:47:49.679 --> 00:47:51.880
command tells you what to do, what not to do,

772
00:47:52.000 --> 00:47:53.719
what to be, what to feel, what not to feel?

773
00:47:53.920 --> 00:47:55.800
Those are easy to find. You're like, okay, well it

774
00:47:55.800 --> 00:47:57.480
tells me to do this, don't do that. Okay, there's

775
00:47:57.519 --> 00:47:59.639
the law. Okay, the law is saying this, all right,

776
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and I got to fulfill this perfectly, all right. I

777
00:48:02.639 --> 00:48:04.679
don't do this. I mess up in every single way,

778
00:48:04.719 --> 00:48:07.280
all right. Go find the scriptures that show Christ's fulfilling this,

779
00:48:07.480 --> 00:48:10.639
obeying this all right? Now? Man, how do I respond

780
00:48:10.719 --> 00:48:13.679
now with this wonderful gospel news that Christ has done

781
00:48:13.760 --> 00:48:18.639
this for me, that's what. So I'll just leave it there.

782
00:48:18.679 --> 00:48:21.079
But when it comes to you, we'll wait a minute.

783
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This is like a historical narrative here, how do I

784
00:48:24.119 --> 00:48:26.599
do it? We'll have to see how this applies to

785
00:48:26.679 --> 00:48:28.679
a gospel narrative. And then I want I want to

786
00:48:28.719 --> 00:48:31.679
replace space pets, but I won't do any of that

787
00:48:31.719 --> 00:48:34.199
now because we're right at forty eight minutes. I even

788
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start that, we would have to go an hour and

789
00:48:36.719 --> 00:48:41.880
a half easy, So I'll stop right there. That's the

790
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law gospel method. Will anyone actually use it? Probably not? Well.

791
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Most of you just shrug your shoulders and like, yeah,

792
00:48:50.400 --> 00:48:53.079
I don't care. I don't care. Well, you keep reading

793
00:48:53.119 --> 00:48:57.840
it the other way. You're denying literally the Protestant Reformation,

794
00:48:58.440 --> 00:49:00.440
and I think all the problems I've point it out

795
00:49:00.440 --> 00:49:02.960
at the beginning of this, it's just either just have

796
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to start pretending or lying, or you start watering down

797
00:49:05.880 --> 00:49:09.559
the text. But if you really are confronted with those commands,

798
00:49:09.559 --> 00:49:14.079
you'd be like, oh man, what am I going to

799
00:49:14.159 --> 00:49:22.440
do here? Because I'm in trouble. All right, We'll stop there.

800
00:49:24.199 --> 00:49:26.159
I want to say more. But I'll just leave it

801
00:49:26.239 --> 00:49:27.760
right there. I almost want to go. Do I need

802
00:49:27.800 --> 00:49:29.519
to go back over it one more time? Just give

803
00:49:29.559 --> 00:49:32.480
you the steps one more time? Do I need to

804
00:49:32.480 --> 00:49:34.199
give you the steps one more time? And you can

805
00:49:34.199 --> 00:49:36.400
make a chart, you can write out the little devotional

806
00:49:36.519 --> 00:49:38.440
I've given you a lot of different things you could

807
00:49:38.480 --> 00:49:42.360
do here, right, but step one, recognize the law. Explain

808
00:49:42.480 --> 00:49:45.519
exactly what's being commanded here, the full weight of it.

809
00:49:45.599 --> 00:49:49.159
No watering it down. Confess all the different ways you

810
00:49:49.280 --> 00:49:53.719
mess up, don't minimize it. Okay, Now again, I understand

811
00:49:53.760 --> 00:49:55.920
you can't always do that. You don't want to always

812
00:49:55.920 --> 00:49:57.800
have it written down everywhere, But write it and then

813
00:49:57.880 --> 00:49:59.400
tear it up and burn it if you need to,

814
00:49:59.480 --> 00:50:02.000
But at least write it down. Then write down exactly

815
00:50:02.000 --> 00:50:04.599
how Christ fulfilled it for you, and then kind of

816
00:50:05.320 --> 00:50:08.679
you're kind of your gospel reaction to it. This one

817
00:50:08.719 --> 00:50:13.079
is much a little bit more vague. But okay, man,

818
00:50:13.320 --> 00:50:15.599
Christ did this for me. I'm gonna rest in that

819
00:50:15.880 --> 00:50:19.480
my guilt. I feel better, I feel free. But at

820
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the same time, I do want to, you know, try

821
00:50:22.480 --> 00:50:25.440
to pursue doing the right thing, not because I have

822
00:50:25.519 --> 00:50:29.320
tune up to prove that I'm saved because Christ has

823
00:50:29.360 --> 00:50:34.960
done it for me. All Right, there we go, Thanks

824
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for listening, have a great evening. God bless