Christmas: 1 Timothy 1:15

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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.

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Good afternoon, everyone. It is Tuesday, December the twenty fourth,

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twenty twenty four. It is currently twelve thirty eight pm

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Central Time, and I am coming to you live from

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the Theology Central studio located right here in Abilene, Texas.

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So I guess I can say this. I think it's appropriate.

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Right Happy Christmas Eve. I don't know what you're doing

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right now. I don't know if you're really busy. There's

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a high probability a lot of people who typically listen

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aren't even listening right now. You're busy, Maybe you're shopping,

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maybe you're getting things ready, maybe you're traveling. Maybe you've

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already traveled and you're at someone's house right now. Whatever

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you may be doing today, if you're listening to me, well,

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welcome and thank you. If you're listening to me, to

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me later and you're listening to this, I don't know,

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three four or five days from now, well, I hope

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it was a wonderful, happy Christmas Eve for you and

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for your family. I hope it was a wonderful Christmas.

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I hope it's been a great holiday. I hope everything

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has gone really really well for you and for your family. Now,

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A lot of times I turn on the microphone and

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I talk a lot about the you know, a lot.

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I like to talk to those who it's not such

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a wonderful time and it's kind of it's very depressing

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and discouraging, and I definitely like to do that. But

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for now, for this particular episode, I'm just gonna say

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Happy Christmas Eve to everyone, and we're just going to

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move forward, because I do believe I don't know how

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this is going to go. This is going to take

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some twist and turns. But when I hope where it

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ends is with a verse that I think is very

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important for this time of year. I think I think

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this verse maybe because it may have become it may

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be becoming. I don't like to say I have a

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life verse or a key verse, but I think this

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verse is really becoming very important to me in my life.

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Slowly but surely, this verse is kind of becoming more

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and more important to me. And so here's what happened.

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I was looking going, Okay, what do I do today?

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Do I even broadcast? I mean, there was a big

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debate with myself do I even broadcast? I mean, it's

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Christmas Eve. The reality is most people are not going

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to listen to anything on Christmas Eve. They're going to

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be doing other things. Now, maybe tonight on the sermon's

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two point, oh, app there's going to be a lot

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of webcasts with a lot of churches doing their Christmas

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Eve service. I think we may see a lot of

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that tonight. It would be interesting to look at the

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numbers to see how many people are watching, but I

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think there should be a lot of that happening. But

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at this time of day or now twelve forty one

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Central time, Christmas Eve, I mean, people are really busy

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and doing a lot of different things. So I don't

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know how many people will actually hear this, but I

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think whenever you hear this, whenever you hear this, I'm

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hoping that where this entire discussion ends, it ends back

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on a verse that I hope will become very important

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to you, even if it's after the fact that this verse,

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maybe it will just become important to you moving forward

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into twenty twenty five and by next Christmas, the verse

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maybe maybe the most important to you as it's becoming

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more and more important to me. So wherever, however this

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all works out, I do hope that this verse becomes

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maybe more meaningful to you. Maybe it will be meaningful

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to many of us who question and struggle, and just

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maybe for those of us who have more of a

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difficult time, this verse will be more important to us.

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I don't know where you fit in, But so what

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I was trying to say, what I was going to say.

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I know I was saying a lot of different things there,

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but I was trying to figure out do I even record?

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Do I even record? Do I even record? Do I

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even record? So I grabbed the sermons two points. Oh.

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I was just looking and I saw at the very

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top a Christmas sermon. A Christmas sermon. I'm like, okay,

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yesterday we talked about Christmas sermons, so maybe I could

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use a little bit of this. We were going to

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talk about the chrystological heresies. I've got pages of notes

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on the five biggest Christological heresies in church history. I

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was going to do that, but then I noticed for

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this Christmas sermon, I noticed the passage of scripture, and

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it happens to be this verse which I alluded to

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just a few seconds ago, a few minutes ago, about

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how it's becoming more and more like the verse for me,

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and I think it could be helpful to everyone. So

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I thought about, well, just forget the sermon. Let's just

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go to the verse, and then I can break the

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verse down. I have the contextual background for the verse.

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I have the key phrases within the verse and their meaning.

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I have the philological themes within the verse. I have

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practical applications from the verse, have questions for further study

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and reflections, have additional cross references, and I have a summary.

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I have it all broken down. I'm ready to go.

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I can take this verse apart. But I'm like, well,

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I could do that, but since I found this verse

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on the sermon's two point oh app in relation to

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this sermon, and we're doing the sermon's two point oh

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app sermon challenge, let's review at least some of this

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and then we'll as long as we end up at

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the verse, then it'll be it'll be a beneficial thing.

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So I hope this all works out. I hope this

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works out. I know it was a little a little

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scatter brained right there. Maybe you could say you need it.

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I know I already got some criticisms on YouTube about

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the way I tend to present things. But yeah, I mean,

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I guess what this what you're hearing and trying to

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explain all of this is just I am a little

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conflicted on what to do today, right, I just am conflicted.

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It's Christmas Eve?

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Right?

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Are people going to be listening? Are they not going

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to be listening? Do I? What do I do on

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this particular day? So I say we're going to spend

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some time and because I guess my real goal here

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is to get to the verse. I really want to

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just talk about the verse, and but we'll let the

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sermon get us there and then maybe this will all

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make sense.

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So does that?

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Does that work for everyone? I guess I don't know

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why I'm asking you because I can't hear you, I

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can't see you. I'm just sitting in an empty room.

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So so from this empty room, let's see if we

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can get to a verse that I think is maybe

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more important. And well maybe I don't know, Maybe you

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won't see it as important as I do. Maybe I'll

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be able to explain. Here we go.

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our website at Toddsrodgracechurch dot com. Now here's our pastor,

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Todd Niberti.

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That's a really good idea for churches who post their

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sermons online, and if especially if you're going to have

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them sent out to all the different podcasting apps, have

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all of that information at the beginning, right promote your church.

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If you're posting your sermons online, promote a lot of

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people just think, well, they're going to find the sermon,

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so they'll see all the information. You don't know, why

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are that sermon is going to show up? So have

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that little intro at the beginning. I think that's a

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good idea. So that's well done, very professional. Love it,

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love it all churches should learn from that. If your

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churches have sermons online, but there's no intro. Have a

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pre recorded intro that can be put together, that can

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be added to all of your messages, so that all

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that information is there so that you can help people

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find your church. I think that's a great idea, but

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that's not what we want to talk about. We want

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to get to this is a Christmas servant. It looks

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like when I watched a little bit of the video

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I didn't like I was just kind of just trying

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to get an idea. It looks like this was just recording.

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He went to the church and just recorded it from

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the church. I don't think there's anyone even in the sanctuary,

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maybe other than the people the person and feeling it.

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So it may have just been like wanted to put

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a special thing out, which is really cool. I love

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when churches use their technology. If you've got the equipment,

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you can be posting stuff literally twenty four hours a day,

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seven days a week. There's nothing stopping how much content

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you can produce. So I love when they're doing something

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above and beyond. So but again, we want to get

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to a.

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Verse entitled this Morning's Message a Christmas sermon. My text

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is found in verse Timothy one, verse fifteen.

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Now, one Timothy one, p. Fifteen. That that's what got

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my attention. That's it wasn't the fact that this was

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a Christmas sermon that kind of got my attention a

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little bit. But when I saw first Timothy one to fifteen,

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let me read it from the new King James. One

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Timothy one to fifteen. This is a faithful saying and

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worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the

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world to save sinners of whom I am chief. Let

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me read that to you one more time. One Timothy

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one point fifteen. This is a faithful saying and worthy

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of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world

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to save sinners of whom I am chief. That verse

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has become more and more important to me than maybe

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at any time in my Christian life, because there's so

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much about Christianity, so many philosophical questions and issues about

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God and why God does this or doesn't do this,

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and pain and suffering and the never ending arguments amongst

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Christians and nobody can agree on any interpretation, and just

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on and on and on and on and on and

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on and on and on and on and Christians constantly

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acting like that. When you become a Christian, you basically

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stop sinning and just all of the craziness within the

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world of Christianity. But here is the Apostle Paul saying,

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just look at this. This is a faithful saying. Look,

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there's a lot of things about Christianity I can't understand,

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but this is a faithful saying worthy of all acceptance.

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There may be a lot of things I'm never going

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to figure out. There may be things that's going to

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bother me for my entire Christian life, but I can

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grab onto this that Christ Jesus came into this world

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two save sinners, of whom I am chief. Paul does

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not say I was, but he's saying I am. And

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Paul's current condition he realized he was the chief of sinners.

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And I wish all Christians that we would not stop

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with this. I used to be. You are a sinner.

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I am a sinner. I wish we could all be

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so broken and humbled that we could look at this

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time of year and go, this is what Christmas is about.

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Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, and

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I I am, you are we are the chief of sinners.

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We are still sinners. We almost like when you become

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a Christian. Christ came to save those people, not us.

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Because we're all good, We're still sinners. You need to

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be reminded of the Gospel every single day because you

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need the Gospel preach to you every single day. It's

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not just for the loss, it's for you and I

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because we're still sinners. Positionally we're perfect. Practically we are

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still sinners. All right, Let's see what he does here.

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Paul says, this is a faithful saying and worthy of

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all acceptation, that Christ, Jesus came into the world to

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sinners of whom I am the chief. Now, this is

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the week that over two billion people are celebrating the

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birth of a man, Jesus Christ, who was born some

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two thousand years ago. Christmas is thought to be his

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birth day. Now, to celebrate his birth is all well

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and good, But the question arises, why did he come?

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It's incumbent upon us to know the answer to that question.

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Why did he come? Well, Paul tells us why he came.

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He says in verse fifteen, this is a faithful saying,

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and it's worthy of all acceptation. You and I have

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every reason to jump for joy at this statement. That Christ,

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Jesus Christ, the Messiah. That's what the word means, the

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anointed one, the prophet, the priest, the King Christ, Jesus,

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his name means savior. He is the anointed prophet, Savior.

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He is the anointed priest Savior. He is the Anointed King,

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Savior Christ. Jesus came into the world. Unto us, a

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child is born, unto us, a son is given. He

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came into the world. He was before he came into

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this world. You see, he's God, the Son, the second

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person of the blessed Trinity, one God in three distinct persons.

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Jesus Christ is God. I love to say that Jesus

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Christ is God, Immanuel God with us. Now he came

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into the world. He was before he came, as the

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eternal Son of God, the creator of the universe. But

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he came into this world born of a virgin. Isaiah

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seven fourteen says, behold, a virgin shall conceive and bear

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a son, and his name is Immanuel God with us.

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Unto us, a child is born. Unto us, this son

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is given. The son wasn't given. The son is the

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eternal son. But he became man, and to us this

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child was born Jesus, Christ, the God Man, was born

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of a virgin. Now somebody says, why do you make

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a point of that, Well, if he was not a virgin,

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he was not God. And if he's not God, he

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cannot save near you. But he was born of a

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virgin miraculously. Because he is God and he is mighty

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to save, He's able to save to the utter most

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them that come to God by him. You see, you

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can't be too bad, you can't be too far out

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to not be saved. If he's pleased to save you.

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He is mighty to save. Christ Jesus came into the

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world to save sinners. That's what our text says. Christ

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Jesus came into the world to save sinners. He did

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not come to save good people. He did not come

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to save righteous people. He said, the whole need not

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a physician, but they that are sick. I came not

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to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. He came

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to save sinners. And I love that. There's no adjective

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in front of the word sinners. It doesn't say believing sinners,

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it does not say repentant sinners. It does not say

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reformed sinners. It just as sinners. Are you a sinner?

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I'm not asking you if you're a Christian. I'm not

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asking you if you're saved. I'm asking you this question.

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Are you a sinner? Sinners? Are those Christ came to save? Now,

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what is meant by the term sinner. It's very important

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for you not understand that because Christ, Jesus came to

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save sinners. I got to see if I understand what

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a center is, what is meant by the term sinner. Well,

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we can't answer that unless we understand what sin is sin?

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What does the Bible call sin? How does the Bible

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define sin? Well? Were read in First John chapter three,

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verse four, that's sin is the transgression of the law,

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God's holy law. We read in Romans chapter three, verses

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twenty two and twenty three. All have sinned and come

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short of the glory of God. There's no difference, Paul says,

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you know, there's no difference between me and you. We're

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equally sinfle.

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I like to say sin is any is any transgression

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of God's law in thought, word, deed, or desire, internally

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or external. Any transgression of the law where when God

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says to do, be holy as He is holy. If

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you transgress that law of being holy in your thought

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and your word, and your deeds and your desires, whether

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internally or externally, you have s in falling short of

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God's glory. If we just fall short of that standard,

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which is perfection, and falling short, whether in thought, word, deed, action,

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or desire internally or externally, you are a sinner. We

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are a sinner if we transgress the law in any thought, word, deed, desire,

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internally or externally, or if we fall short of the

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perfection of the law of perfection and thought, word, deed, desire, action,

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internally or externally. So whether we fall short or whether

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we transgress, we sin. Therefore we are sinners. And we

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are sinners because our nature itself falls short of God's perfection,

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and our nature itself is sinful, so it transgresses the law.

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We are guilty before we even do anything, and we

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sin continually. We are in a perpetual state of sin.

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Ladies and gentlemen, because you are perpetually transgressing God's law,

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whether in thought, word, deed, desire, action, internally or externally,

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you're falling short of God's law, whether internally externally thought, word, deed, desire, action.

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You're getting the idea. But here's the faithful saying. Christ

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came into the world to save sinners, which includes you

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and me, includes everyone who you go to church with,

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people you don't go to church with, because you know what,

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in church, outside of church believing, not a believer, we're

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all sinners, and we're all sinning in some way, shape

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or form.

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I don't care if you're talking about the most moral

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religious person or the most degraded debauch person. Really, in

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God's sight, there's no difference between the two of them.

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All have sinned and come short of the glory of God.

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Sin is coming short of the glory of God. Why

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the Bible even declares that the plowing of the wicked

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is sin. Now that's a strange concept, going out and

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plowing that's a sin? How could that be a sin?

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Because of who does it? The plowing of the wicked

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is sin? If I'm a sinful man, that makes everything

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I do sin. A sinner is the one who commits

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the sins. I've heard it said God loves the sinner,

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but he hates a sin you won't find that in

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the Bible. You cannot separate the sinner from his sin.

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God does not sins to hell. He sins the people

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who committed those sins to hell. You cannot separate the

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sinner from his sins. Now, sin is the transgression of

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the law, the tingermandments. Thou shalt have no other gods

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before me a sinner.

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Just make sure we understand. It's the transgression and the

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falling short of You can fall short, you transgress. You

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are a sinner. You are a sinner. You are and

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no matter what we do, we are a sinner. I

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want to make it clear. Everything we do is impacted

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by sin because we are sinners because of our sinful nature.

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We sin because of what we are. We did not

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become sinners by doing sin. We sin because we are

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already sinners. We are already fall in short of God's

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glory in our nature, and we're already transgression, transgressing the

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law and our nature itself. Therefore, that produces sin. So

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whatever we do, no matter how good it even may appear,

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we tend to do it for selfish reasons, for corrupted reasons.

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Sometimes our worship of God is sinful. Because we're really

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doing it for selfish reasons, our own selfish reasons. We

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can sometimes confess our sin to someone simply because we

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want to make ourselves feel better. We're just doing it

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for our self. So even our most righteous deeds are

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nothing more than filthy rags.

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And there's somebody who has God, small g gods before

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the living God. The second commandment is against idolatry. A

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sinner is someone who's an idolator. The third commandment is

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about taking the name of the Lord in vain being

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forbidden to do it. A sinner is an irreverent person

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who takes the name of the Lord in vain. The

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fourth commandment is about remembering the Sabbath to keep it holy,

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to do no work. A sinner is someone who knows

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nothing about resting in Christ in his finished work. The

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fifth commandment is about honoring your father and mother. A

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sinner is someone who has no true respect for authority,

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most especially the authority of God, and they don't respect

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the authority of those who have authority over them. And

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the sixth commandment is thou shalt not kill. A sinner

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is a murderer. The seventh commandment thou shalt not commit adultery.

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A sinner is someone who's guilty of sexual sin. The

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eighth commandment is thou shalt not steal. A sinner's a thief.

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He might not go shoplifting, but he robs God of glory,

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giving himself a glory. The ninth commandment is thou shalt

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not bear false witness. You're not gonna lie. A center's

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a liar. Thou shalt not covet. A sinner's a covet

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this person. Now that's somebody says, well, I'm not like that,

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then you're not a sinner. A real sinner breaks God's

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holy law. Sin is the transgression of the law.

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Now, well, I think I know what he's trying to

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say there. But if you say you don't do those things,

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you're a liar. Because you do those things, you are

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a sinner. I am a sinner. Are guilty of those things,

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whether in thought, word, deed, or desire, internally or externally,

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we are guilty of those things. We are in a

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perpetual state of sin. But here is the faithful saying.

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Here's the faithful saying, Christ Jesus came into the world

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to save sinners.

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If you see what you are before God's law. You

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know that you have broken every commandment all the time.

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You've never kept one commandment one time. You are completely

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unqualified to sit in judgment on anybody because all you're

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sin is your fault and anything you judge anybody else

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for if you have any honors, do you know you've

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done the same thing?

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really mean that is so well said. We do all

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these things. We're constantly guilty of all of these things.

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We're in a perpetual state of guilt. But we love

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to go whoa, whoa, Well, you committed that, and you

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committed that, and you committed that, and this person did this,

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and this person, and especially if it's someone popular or

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famous and they commit a sin, all Christians come are, oh,

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they did this, and they're horrible and they should never

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be heard from again, and they should never be seen

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from again. And oh, here's the person we're going to

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listen to. Here's the person we're going to support. As

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if that person is not a sinner just like the

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other person, they just haven't committed the same sin, or

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their sin is just as much present. It's so weird

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the way we do. So we're like, oh, wait, they

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committed this sin, that's the end. Well wait a minute,

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whoever else now you're propping up, and whoever else, and

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now you're supporting, and now whoever else you're promoting. You

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don't think they're just as much a sinner as the

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person who now has been publicly shamed and is silenced

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and has to go hide somewhere for the rest of

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their life and it's to never be heard from again.

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Because they were a sinner. The person you're supporting is

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just as much a sinner. It's just a different sin.

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I wish we could be I wish Christians for five

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seconds we could truly see ourselves in light of God's

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law and be like, well, I'm a sinner. I'm the

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chief of sinners.

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Romans two to one says, therefore thou art inexcusable, Oh man,

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whosoever thou art, the judges for you, the judge do

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the same things. And if you're a sinner, you know

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you have no claim on God if he sends you

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to hell, just and holy is his name? Are you

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a sinner? Somebody says, now, I'm not that bad. Well, okay,

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but Christ didn't come to save you. He only came

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to save sinners. If you are a sinner, you are

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the person Christ came to save. Christ Jesus came into

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the world to save sinners, to save them, to save

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them listen carefully, Not to make their salvation possible, Not

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to make salvation available to them if they only reach

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out and take it. Not to make salvation of possibility.

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He came to save sinners, not simply to make them

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savable if they do their part. He came to save sinners,

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he said in John chapter six, verses thirty eight and

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thirty nine. I came down from heaven not to do

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my own will, but the will of Him that sent me.

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And this is the Father's will which has sent me.

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That of all which He hath given me, I should

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lose nothing but raise it up again at the last day.

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He came to save sinners. Question did he do what

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he came to do? In John chapter nineteen, verse thirty,

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just before he died, he cried.

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It is finished. Every sinner he came to save he saved.

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It is finished.

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Remember. On the opening chapter of the New Testament, we

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have this verse, thou shalt call his name Jesus, for

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he shall save his people from their sins. And when

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he said it is finished, his people were saved from

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their sins. Now, notice what Paul says at the end

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of this verse, Christ Jesus came into the world to

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save sinners, of whom I am the chief. Now Notice

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he didn't say I used to be the chief before

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God saved me. He's talking about right now, present tense

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in his own experience. He says, I am the very

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chief of sinners. I am the worst man walking this planet,

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the most sinful man to ever live.

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chief of sinners. But the way Christians are like no, no, no, no, no, no,

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no no, Paul was just very sensitive. I mean, he

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wasn't really committing this sin or this sin or this

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because we can't accept the fact that the apostle Paul

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could be committing this sin or this. No. No, We're like, no,

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he can't. Because in the modern evangelical world, when you

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become a Christian, well you become a new creature. Old

473
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things have passed away, all things have become new, and

474
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we believe that that happens practically, it doesn't happen practically.

475
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That happens positionally. Positionally, I'm a new creature, old things

476
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that are passed away, all things have come new. Practically,

477
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I am still a sinner. And guess what. Paul declared

478
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himself to be the chief of sinners, So guess what

479
00:32:08.319 --> 00:32:12.279
he knew he was a sinner. He knew he was sinning.

480
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I know you don't want to believe that. I know

481
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that goes against your theology. But if you can say

482
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whatever you want, you can't speak for the apostle Paul.

483
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You can try to water it down, you can try

484
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to correct it and say, well, Paul would have never

485
00:32:24.599 --> 00:32:27.319
done this, he wouldn't have been doing this. You can

486
00:32:27.400 --> 00:32:30.599
whatever makes you feel better so that you can play church.

487
00:32:30.839 --> 00:32:34.319
But the reality is is the Apostle Paul told everyone,

488
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he confessed to the world that he was the worst

489
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of sinners. He was the worst of the worst of

490
00:32:41.400 --> 00:32:43.960
the He was the head of the table when it

491
00:32:44.000 --> 00:32:48.759
comes to sinners, he was the chief of all of them. Now,

492
00:32:48.839 --> 00:32:50.359
you can try to make that send, you can make

493
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it sound good for church, but I think it's it's

494
00:32:54.000 --> 00:32:56.200
amazing that he was saying, not that I used to be,

495
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not that I was, but I am the chief of sinner.

496
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His present state was he knew he was a sinner

497
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and was the most sinful of sinners.

498
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Here's the glorious statement, faithful saying, worthy of all acceptation,

499
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that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners,

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of whom Paul says, I am the chief. Now, let's

501
00:33:31.960 --> 00:33:35.000
see in this passage of scripture. What led him to

502
00:33:35.119 --> 00:33:41.279
make this glorious statement. This is the true Christmas message.

503
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Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners. Now

504
00:33:46.680 --> 00:33:50.960
what led Paul to make this glorious statement. Well, in

505
00:33:51.039 --> 00:33:54.079
verse five of chapter one, he says, now the end

506
00:33:54.119 --> 00:33:57.960
of the commandment, and that word commandment is the charge,

507
00:33:58.920 --> 00:34:03.880
the declaration, declaration of the Gospel, the message of the Gospel.

508
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The great end or purpose of the commandment is threefold

509
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charity out of a pure heart. Now what is this

510
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pure heart? This is the heart he gives in the

511
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new birth, what the Lord spoke of when he said

512
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blessed or the pure in heart. And that pure heart,

513
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that new heart he gives in the new birth loves God.

514
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Okay, Now this is where I'm going to disagree. This

515
00:34:33.880 --> 00:34:36.639
is where I'm going to disagree because if that is true,

516
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If now we get a pure heart, then where does

517
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our sin come from? How could Paul say I have

518
00:34:42.360 --> 00:34:44.679
a pure heart that now loves God, but I'm the

519
00:34:44.719 --> 00:34:46.719
chief of sinners. See now you have to kind of

520
00:34:46.760 --> 00:34:49.360
water it down where he doesn't really mean he's the

521
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chief of sinners. If we have a pure heart, ladies

522
00:34:52.440 --> 00:34:56.960
and gentlemen, then we should not sin because sin originates

523
00:34:57.000 --> 00:35:00.000
in the heart. No, no, no, no, no, no, no no.

524
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The purpose of the commandment is love from a pure heart.

525
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That's what the commandment calls for. The commandment calls for

526
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love from a pure heart. You are supposed to love

527
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God from a pure heart. But you know what, that

528
00:35:13.000 --> 00:35:15.719
commandment's going to show you that you don't do it.

529
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And that's why you need Christ to come into the

530
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world that save sinners, because you don't. You don't truly

531
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love God the way you're supposed to. And you should

532
00:35:24.599 --> 00:35:25.159
know that.

533
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Loves God as he is, as he's revealed in his word.

534
00:35:33.360 --> 00:35:38.599
He loves men charity out of a pure heart. Secondly,

535
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a good conscience. Now what is a good conscience, Well,

536
00:35:43.320 --> 00:35:46.519
it's not the conscience of the psychopath who doesn't feel guilty.

537
00:35:46.559 --> 00:35:50.400
About anything he does. It's a conscience that has nothing

538
00:35:50.760 --> 00:35:54.920
to feel guilty about. Now, somebody says, how could I

539
00:35:54.960 --> 00:35:58.559
have a conscience like that. It's called in the scriptured

540
00:35:58.800 --> 00:36:04.280
justification it is who is he that condemneth? Who shall

541
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lay anything to the charge of God's elect God justified them.

542
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You see on the cross. Christ took away my sin,

543
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and he justified me so that I have nothing to

544
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feel guilty about because I have no sin.

545
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Now that is true. Positionally, Positionally I can have a

546
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good conscience because I have no sin. But practically I'm

547
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a sinner. That's why Paul said he is the chief

548
00:36:30.400 --> 00:36:35.599
of sinners. Practically we still have sin. If I'm assuming

549
00:36:35.599 --> 00:36:40.679
he's going to acknowledge that, right, I have no sin Positionally.

550
00:36:41.480 --> 00:36:44.639
I stand before God without guilt because of what Christ

551
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did for me. That's the end of the message of

552
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the Gospel, the Great Charge. And then thirdly, he said,

553
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and to faith unfeigned, faith unfaked. Here's what that means.

554
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I really do look to Christ as the only hope

555
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I have. I'm not just saying it because I know

556
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it's the right thing to say. I really do believe.

557
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I really believe I'm a sinner, and I really believe

558
00:37:07.719 --> 00:37:10.519
the only hope I have is that Jesus Christ live

559
00:37:10.599 --> 00:37:14.000
from me and died from me. Now, Paul goes on

560
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to say from which some having swerved, this great end

561
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of loving God with a pure heart and a good

562
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conscience and faith unfained from which some have swerved and

563
00:37:33.239 --> 00:37:41.639
have turned aside, unto vain, jangling, empty, meaningless words. Desiring,

564
00:37:42.000 --> 00:37:45.800
he says in verse seven, desiring to be teachers of

565
00:37:45.880 --> 00:37:50.239
the law. Oh, I want to be a teacher of

566
00:37:50.280 --> 00:37:53.920
the law. And Paul says, in doing this, they understand

567
00:37:54.039 --> 00:37:58.360
neither what they say, nor whereof they affirmed. They do

568
00:37:58.400 --> 00:38:02.519
not understand what they're saying nor the implications of what

569
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they're affirming. Now, Paul makes this remarkable statement in verse eight.

570
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But we know that the law is good. He's talking

571
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about the Ten Commandments. We know that the law is

572
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good if a man use it lawfully. Now there is

573
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an unlawful use of the law. The law's good if

574
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a man use it lawfully. Knowing this verse nine that

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the law is not made for a righteous man. You see,

576
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a righteous man does not need law. He's righteous. Why

577
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do you put a law on a door to keep

578
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a righteous man out. No to keep a robber out.

579
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A righteous man does not need law. If you are

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using the law to persuade me to keep it so

581
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that they might become righteous, that is an unlawful use

582
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of the law. You see this.

583
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Right. You don't give the law so that people can

584
00:39:12.400 --> 00:39:14.199
keep it. You give the law to demonstrate that they

585
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can't keep it. In fact, the law demonstrates you do

586
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not have a pure heart. In fact, the law will

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reveal that you are the chief of sinners. We're not

588
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giving a pure heart. I don't know why he went there.

589
00:39:23.960 --> 00:39:26.000
It was so weird he said that, and then he

590
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completely is ignoring that, Hey, you're given a pure heart.

591
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But then he seems to go onto the idea that

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we send sin sin sin, sin sin sin. Well, how

593
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do we sin? If we have our pure heart? We

594
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are declared to be pure by faith in our position,

595
00:39:39.079 --> 00:39:41.719
but practically we still have a sinful nature. We still

596
00:39:41.719 --> 00:39:43.559
have a sinful heart, and therefore we still sin.

597
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Strength of sin, Paul said in one Corinthians fifteen is

598
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the law. Now look what he says in verse nine,

599
00:39:51.679 --> 00:39:56.039
knowing this that the law is not made for a

600
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righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the

601
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en godly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for

602
00:40:05.239 --> 00:40:10.159
murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers, for hormongers,

603
00:40:10.199 --> 00:40:14.960
for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars,

604
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for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing

605
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that is contrary to sound doctrine. Now somebody says, what

606
00:40:24.760 --> 00:40:29.360
in the world is sound doctrine, Well, he identifies sound

607
00:40:29.400 --> 00:40:33.400
doctrine the doctrine of Christ, the doctrine of the Gospel.

608
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In the next verse, if there's anything that's caught, any

609
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other thing that's contrary to sound doctrine, according to the

610
00:40:42.639 --> 00:40:49.519
glorious Gospel of the Blessed God. Now in that verse,

611
00:40:50.480 --> 00:40:55.159
glorious is not an adjective, it's a noun, and it

612
00:40:55.199 --> 00:41:00.760
can read just as accurately. According to the Gospel of

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the Glory of the Blessed God. Now there we have

614
00:41:07.280 --> 00:41:14.280
sound doctrine, the Gospel of the Glory of the Blessed God.

615
00:41:14.360 --> 00:41:18.800
Now the Gospel is for the glory of God. Now

616
00:41:19.000 --> 00:41:21.960
men have a tendency think, well the gospels for us, well,

617
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we benefit from it. But the Gospel is for the

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glory of the blessed God. God created the universe for

619
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his glory, and everything that takes place is for his glory.

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The scripture says, the Lord hath made all things for himself, yay,

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even the wicked, for the day of evil. And in

622
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the salvation of the sinner. And remember that's why Christ came.

623
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Christ came into the world to save sinners. In the

624
00:41:50.599 --> 00:41:56.119
salvation of the sinner, God gets all the glory. And

625
00:41:56.159 --> 00:42:00.360
if you were saved, who gets the glory. It's the

626
00:42:00.400 --> 00:42:04.920
credit in your personal salvation. Listen to what David said

627
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in Psalm one fifteen one. David, the man after God's

628
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own heart, said, not unto us, o Lord, not unto us,

629
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but unto thy name, give glory for thy mercy and

630
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for thy truth's sake. You see, if you and I

631
00:42:22.320 --> 00:42:28.039
are saved, it's because He saved us by his grace,

632
00:42:28.880 --> 00:42:32.280
by grace, or you saved Efesians two eight through faith,

633
00:42:32.960 --> 00:42:35.920
and that not of yourselves. It's the gift of God,

634
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not of works, lest any man should boast and say

635
00:42:39.760 --> 00:42:43.320
I've done this. Even the faith you have is His gift.

636
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It's not the product of your free will. If you

637
00:42:45.440 --> 00:42:47.639
have it, if you have it. You know that it's

638
00:42:47.679 --> 00:42:51.679
the gift of God by grace? Are you saved? Now

639
00:42:51.679 --> 00:42:57.199
in every aspect of salvation. Salvation is by His grace

640
00:42:57.840 --> 00:43:02.840
for His glory. Now you're it's because God chose you

641
00:43:03.440 --> 00:43:08.079
to be saved before the foundation of the world Ephesian's

642
00:43:08.079 --> 00:43:10.480
one force, as according as He hath chosen us in

643
00:43:10.559 --> 00:43:15.679
him before the foundation of the world. Now, God didn't

644
00:43:15.760 --> 00:43:18.480
choose you because of any merit or goodness in you.

645
00:43:19.280 --> 00:43:23.400
He chose you simply because he would because you were

646
00:43:23.880 --> 00:43:27.280
in the beloved, accepted in the Beloved. You get no

647
00:43:27.800 --> 00:43:33.599
credit for that. If you're redeemed, there wasn't anything good

648
00:43:33.599 --> 00:43:37.960
about you that caused him to redeem you. He redeemed

649
00:43:38.000 --> 00:43:40.400
you because of how evil you were, and it would

650
00:43:40.440 --> 00:43:44.800
glorify him to put away your sin. If you're justified,

651
00:43:45.119 --> 00:43:49.079
you don't get any credit for that. He made you righteous.

652
00:43:49.119 --> 00:43:52.840
He took your sin in his own body on the tree,

653
00:43:52.920 --> 00:43:55.840
put it away, and gave you his righteousness. How much

654
00:43:55.840 --> 00:43:58.679
credit can you take in that? He gets all the

655
00:43:58.719 --> 00:44:02.719
glory in that. If you're born again, how much glory

656
00:44:02.719 --> 00:44:04.800
do you have in that? You have as much to

657
00:44:04.840 --> 00:44:06.519
do with your new birth as you did with your

658
00:44:06.519 --> 00:44:09.920
old birth, which is nothing. Nobody said, do you want

659
00:44:09.960 --> 00:44:13.039
to be born? Sure? No, this was You were passive

660
00:44:13.079 --> 00:44:15.360
in this thing, and all of a sudden, there you were.

661
00:44:15.599 --> 00:44:17.920
It's the same thing in the new birth. Now Here

662
00:44:18.320 --> 00:44:21.599
you'll have to hear the gospel. But even hearing the gospels,

663
00:44:21.599 --> 00:44:25.280
because he's given you life, you're unable to hear or believe,

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or love or repent except he gives you life if

665
00:44:28.800 --> 00:44:31.800
you persevere, and you must persevere to be saved. The

666
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only reason you persevere is because he enables you to.

667
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He gets all the glory. Now let me say two

668
00:44:40.880 --> 00:44:42.599
things about that number one.

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Now he's saying some really good things. A lot of

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deep theology there that's being alluded to. That is called

671
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a Christmas sermon. You can find it on the sermon's

672
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two point zero app Todd, Nibert, n ib E Rt.

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You should look it up. Listen to the rest. It's

674
00:44:58.639 --> 00:45:00.679
almost over. But I want to get back to first

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Timothy one fifteen, for Timothy one to fifteen, because this

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is the At the beginning, I may have sounded a

677
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little like, wasn't you know, summarizing everything clearly may not

678
00:45:13.400 --> 00:45:15.480
have been as precise as I would have liked to

679
00:45:15.519 --> 00:45:19.119
begin at the beginning, which is perfect because I wasn't precise.

680
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I was not perfect in my speech at the beginning.

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Right kind of started one direction and they kind of

682
00:45:25.039 --> 00:45:28.480
went a different direction. I wasn't precise. I fell short

683
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of being perfect in my introduction. I transgressed what would

684
00:45:33.519 --> 00:45:36.400
be considered the rules for a perfect introduction to a

685
00:45:36.440 --> 00:45:40.159
podcast episode. Right, I failed. Well, that's what I do

686
00:45:40.320 --> 00:45:42.480
every single day in life, and that's what you do

687
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every single day in life. And there's a lot of

688
00:45:44.679 --> 00:45:47.280
things in Christianity that everyone wants to argue. There's a

689
00:45:47.280 --> 00:45:49.760
lot of things in Christianity but everybody wants to debate.

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But here is what we can know. And I'm gonna

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break this verse down one Timothy one to fifteen. Are

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you ready? Let's break this down first, This is a

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faithful saying. This is a faithful saying. Depending on the

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translation you're looking at, it can read that this is

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a trust worthy saying. Hey, this is a formula that

696
00:46:10.239 --> 00:46:16.280
Paul uses to emphasize the importance and reliability of a statement.

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When Paul wants us to know that this statement is important,

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when he wants you to know that it's reliable, he

699
00:46:22.719 --> 00:46:26.519
will use this formula of being trustworthy, or, as it

700
00:46:26.559 --> 00:46:30.480
says in the New King James, this is a faithful saying.

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He uses this in First Timothy chapter three, verse one,

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First Timothy chapter four, verse nine, and Titus chapter three,

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00:46:36.039 --> 00:46:40.880
verse eight. It reflects an early Christian tradition or a

704
00:46:41.119 --> 00:46:44.480
creed It's almost like a cradle statement. It's almost like

705
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a this is a trustworthy saying. This is a saying

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00:46:49.559 --> 00:46:53.280
that you can hold on to all right. He goes

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on to say in One Timothy one, p. Fifteen, this

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is a faithful saying, Like I'm going to give you

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a saying that is faithful. It's almost like a creedal statement. Right,

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and this statement is worthy of all acceptance. This means

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it indicates a universal relevance and applicability, not limited to

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a particular audience. Every Christian should wholeheartedly embrace this truth. So,

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while Paul is saying, here is a faithful saying, right,

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here is a faithful saying. Here's a credle statement that

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you should write down and memorize and everyone should accept it.

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What is this faithful saying that is worthy of all acceptance?

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Are you ready here? It is christ Jesus came into

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the world to save sinners. Christ Jesus came into the

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world to save sinners. If you want to break this down,

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the first part of this creedal statement is Christ came

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into the world. That's what you're supposed to be thinking

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about on this Christmas Eve, going into Christmas came into

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the world, all right. This emphasizes the incarnation that the

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divine Son entered into human history as Jesus of Nazareth.

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It underscores God's intentional action to address humans. Humanity's needs,

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or are the needs of all humans. We have a need,

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there's a problem, and Christ came into the world. That's

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what it's about. Christ came into the world to do

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what to save sinners. The ultimate goal was to deliver

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people from the penalty and presence of sin. Some may

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argue the power of sin, but he came to save

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us from sin. And I think this is important. Positionally, eternally, practically,

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we will still sin, but we are saved from it. Okay,

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so I think that's important. He came to save sinners.

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This is the idea that anyone who is a sinner

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he came to save. How we can get into particular

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redemption we can get I don't want to get into

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all those arguments. It's the creedal statement is easy. It's

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a faithful saying that's worthy of your acceptance. Christ came

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into the world to save sinners. Are you a sinner?

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Do you transgress the law and thought word, deed, desire, action,

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internally or externally? You do? Do you fall short of

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God's perfect standard, which is be holy as He is holy,

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be perfect? Does you, havingly Father is perfect? Do you

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fall short and thought word, deed desire, internally or externally?

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I know you do. Therefore we are sinners. But then

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Paul goes on, and I think this should be a

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part of the creedal statement for all of us. Let

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me read it again. This is a faithful saying and

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worthy of all acceptance. Christ came into the world number

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two to save sinners. Number three, of whom I am chief.

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Some translations have it this way, of whom I am

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the foremost. Paul calls himself the worst sinner. He is

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the worst, and he uses the present tense I am.

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It shows Paul's ongoing awareness of his sinfulness, even as

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a redeemed believer. He knows it so this is the statement. Look,

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Christianity can be confusing, it can be maddening. Christians can

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say whatever they want to say. Here is the truth,

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Here is the creed, Here is your Christmas creed. Christ

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came into the world two save sinners. You and I

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are the chief sinners. We are the foremost sinners. And

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everyone can say that. Everyone can say they're the chief

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of sinners. Everyone can say that the worst sinner. You

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know why, because we all are in a perpetual state

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of sin. Twenty four hours a day, seven days a week.

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You transgress the law and thought, word, indeed and action,

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internally and externally. You fall short of the standard. The

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standard is perfect, be holy as He is perfect. You

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transgress that. You don't reach it. You're in a perpetual

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state of sin. Every human being, all that we do

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is tainted by sin. Even our good things are tainted

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by sin, even our best intentions. When we love others,

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we love in a sinful, self seeking way. It's all

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about us. We worship ourselves, we care about ourselves, we

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think about ourselves. It's all Everything we do is tainted

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by sin. Christmas is the Christmas creed. Christ came into

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the world, to save sinners, and I am the chief

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of sin. You are now, you were, you are present tense.

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The Christmas Creed should one make us so grateful that

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Christ came into the world to save us, that it

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should make us look, no matter what else is going

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on in our lives, no matter what else, we can

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grab onto that and be like, Christ came into the

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world to save a sinner. That is amazing. To save sinners,

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I should say, And we should rejoice in that and

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find hope in that, And that's wonderful. And at the

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same time we should be humbled because he came to

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save sinners and I am the chief, and I'm still

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a sinner. We should be humbled, We should be broken.

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We should not be condescending, arrogant, judgmental, and not seem

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to have any empathy for anyone who sends. We shouldn't

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be always pointing our finger at everyone else tell it,

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declaring everyone knows what they can and no longer can do.

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We're all in the same boat, the Christmas Creed. Christ

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came into the world to save sinners, and I am

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the chief sinner. That needs to be your creed today,

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needs to be your creed tomorrow. Needs to be your

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creed going into twenty twenty six, twenty twenty five, twenty

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twenty six, twenty twenty seven, twenty twenty eight, and just

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if you need a reminder, look today, I don't even

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know what you're doing today. I get you've already sinned today.

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You have.

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You may have already gotten frustrated, yelled at your kids,

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grapped at your spouse. You may have already been frustrated, irritated,

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your selfishness may have already shown up your bitterness. Who

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knows what things have already shown up inside of you today?

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Trust me, I know they have, and they're going to

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show up again tomorrow. Christ came into the world to

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save sinners, and you and I are the chief of sinners.

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Use this podcast. Go back to my introduction. Did everything

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I say at the beginning make sense? Did it flow perfectly?

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Did I seem to kind of go in a direction

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then got distracted, kind of went a different direction than

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circled back around a little scattered? Yes it was. It

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was in perfect fell short, it transgressed the standard of perfection.

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Now that seems insane, and it may appear to be insignificant.

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I understand that, But let me make it, make it

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very clear to you. Every transgression, ever falling, ever situation

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where you fall short, you have sinned against a holy God.

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There is no small transgression because you have sinned against

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a holy God. Now it may look different than my transgressions.

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My transgressions may be a thousand times worse than yours,

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but you still have your own. And other people have

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transgressions a thousand times worse than mine, but I still

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have mine. The Christmas message should be like praise God.

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We can all say Christ came into the world, Amen,

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to save sinners. Amen, and we are the chief. We

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should be broken and humbled, and we should stop. It

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should change our entire perception about everything. There's nothing else

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I may be able to understand. But this is the

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faithful saying. This is a trustworthy statement that is worthy

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of my acceptance. This is the creedal statement. Let this

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be the creed that you recite the rest of today,

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maybe from now to the end of twenty twenty four.

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Thanks for listening, God bless