Sept. 25, 2024

Romans 8:10-11 Pt 2

Romans 8:10-11 Pt 2

We continue our survey of sermons on Romans 8:10-11

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We continue our survey of sermons on Romans 8:10-11

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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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Welcome everyone.

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It is Wednesday, September the twenty fifth, twenty twenty four.

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It is currently two pm Central Time, and I am

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coming to you live from the Theology Central studio located

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right here in Albilene, Texas. The Christian life is a

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life of sin. The Christian life is a life of sin.

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I know that goes against almost everyone's theology, but it

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is true, ladies and gentlemen, it is true. The Christian

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life is a life of sin. God's Law demands perfection.

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It tells you to be holy as God is holy.

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You're never as holy as God is holy. So you

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are in a perpetual state of sin because you never

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obey that one simple commandment. And then we could add

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more commandments and more commandments and more commandments, and you.

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Are guilty, guilty, guilty.

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Because the law not only demands perfection externally, it demands

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it internally, You're in a perpetual state of sin. The

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Christian life is a life of sin, and Christianity through it.

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Two thousand years of history has tried to figure out

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how to process that truth and how to process that

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reality and how to deal with it. And let me

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just say, if you look at all the things that's

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been said about this reality, it's gone everywhere from total

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denial of the reality to every kind of convoluted and

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contradictory explanation you can come up with, and at times

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it can be absolutely maddening. But let me just state

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it clearly, so there is no confusion. When you think

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of the Christian life. You have to start with the

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like basic principles, and that is, no one keeps God's law.

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Number two, we are in a perpetual state of sin.

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That is the truth.

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Whatever else you believe about salvation, whatever else you believe

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about being transformed, whatever else you believe about the power

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of the Holy Spirit, those two things remain a reality.

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No one keeps God's law. We are in a perpetual

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state of sin. Unless you accept those two facts, then

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you're just You've created a fantasy world. You have a

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Disney version of Christianity. You have a Hallmark Movie Channel

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version of Christianity. And that's of no value to you,

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nor me, nor anyone. We have to deal with the

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reality that sin is a reality. So we've been trying

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to listen to some different approaches to this subject. We

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kind of looked at the lordship approach a little bit.

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On Sunday, we looked at this book Six Secrets of

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the Christian Life and their approach, and we've been taking

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that apart, and that has been confusing. And we've been

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reviewing sermons, surveying sermons on Romans chapter eight, verses ten

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through eleven, because there's a specific A lot of people

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look to Romans eight ten through eleven for some kind

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of answer, and the book Six Secrets of the Christian Life,

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they built their hypotheses on those verses, and we've already

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found ourselves extremely confused. So we're getting ready to survey

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another sermon on Romans eight ten through eleven. I don't

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know where this one's going to go. We're going to

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try to see how they approach it. But before we

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do anything else, because the reality is you're a sinner.

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I'm a sinner. You're living in sin, and I'm living

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in sin.

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Let's begin with a confession of sin borrowed from the

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Church fathers. Lord Jesus Christ, you stretched out your hands

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on the cross and redeemed us by your blood for

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me a sinner, for none of my thoughts are hidden

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from you. Pardon I ask, pardon, I hope for pardon.

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I trust to have you, who are full of pity

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and mercy, spare me and forgive. If we confess our sins.

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He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins

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and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. I want you

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to hear that again, Lord Jesus Christ, who stretched out

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your hands on the cross and redeemed us by your blood,

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forgive me a sinner, present tense. Practically I'm a sinner.

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Positionally I'm perfect, But practically i'm a sinner.

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For none of my thoughts are hidden from you. None

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of my thoughts are because none of my thoughts are

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hidden from God. I am a sinner.

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Forget my desires, forget my motivations, forget my actions, forget

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my inaction. Just take my thoughts and desire and guess

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what I need to come to God and say, forgive me,

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for I'm a sinner because none of my thoughts are

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hidden from you.

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Pardon, I ask, pardon, I hope for pardon.

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I trust to have you, who are full of pity

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and mercy, spare me and forgive.

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The Early Church.

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Understood that every time we show up to worship, it

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is a gathering of sinners who are in sin, who

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are living in sin, who are guilty of sin. And

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we have to acknowledge that whatever we're going to do

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with Romans eight, whatever we're going to do about how

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Christians understand sin and how you've got to start with

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those basic concepts. No one can keep the law. And

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you're in a perpetual state of sin. And I know,

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I know you. You want to say, no, no, no, no,

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I'm a new creature. All things are passed away, all

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things are become new. Well, then you should not sin.

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There should be no sin left at all anywhere in you.

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But you continue to sin. Why do you continue to sin?

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You say, I've been set free from sin. Well, if

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you've been set free from sin, then you should be

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able to be perfect because whatever is keeping you from perfection,

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you're not free from. You're free from the penalty of sin,

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the condemnation of sin, the guilt of sin, because in

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Christ Jesus, you are perfect. In Christ Jesus, positionally you

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are a new creature. Practically you're still a sinner. Practically

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you still have a sin nature, and practically you cannot

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keep the law and you cannot be perfect, meaning you

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are still not free from the bondage of sin.

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As far as.

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Your body, your nature, you're still it's still there, and

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it keeps you from perfection. Now, the theory that we.

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Looked at in the book Six Secrets of the Christian Life.

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Remember they put forth third argument. Remember it goes like this.

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Number one, the Christian body is dead. Your body is

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dead to anything spiritual. All right, this is their hypotheses.

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Number two, the nature and heart inside of you is

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perfectly changed. Everything inside of you is perfectly changed, transformed.

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There is no sin inside of you. The problem is

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your body.

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So this is how it works.

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The body is dead spiritually, but your nature and everything

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internally has been transformed. But your body cannot respond to

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the new nature. The new nature may want to, may

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desire to, but your body is unresponsive. So what you

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need is some kind of a spiritual resurrection. You need

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your body needs to be experienced a resurrection now, not

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the ultimate resurrection, but a resurrection now so that it

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can then be alive to well the new nature and

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the new heart. How do we get this supposed spiritual resurrection. Well,

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the best answer the book has given us in chapter

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two is we need a transformation which is progressive that

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doesn't even sound like a resurrection.

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And it's up to you and me to.

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Make it happen, even though they say God is the

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one who does it, because it all comes down to

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how much time.

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You read and study your Bible.

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So there are hypotheses even though it kind of started

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at least even may, even if I may have disagreed,

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I could at least understand it. Now it's just becoming

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justice convoluted and contradictory as well all the other systems.

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Now they base it on Romans chapter eight, Romans Chapter eight,

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verse ten and eleven, which reads, and if Christ be

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in you, the body is dead because of sin, but

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the spirit is life because of righteousness. But if the

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spirit of Him that raised up Jesus from the dead

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dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the

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dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his spirit

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that dwell within you. And then they take that and

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try to apply that to why Christians struggle and why

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we sin. Well, it's because of a dead body, but

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yet we're alive on the inside. But the life on

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the inside can't do anything because the body is dead.

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And it becomes very confusing. And the sermon, the last

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sermon we reviewed, was it was just insane. I mean,

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I don't even We were told we can keep the law,

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yet there was an acknowledgement that nobody does, even though

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supposedly we can. There's no cardinal Christians and there's no

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fleshly Christian. Yet we continue to sin, and we can

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be a wretched man that I am, So we continually

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to sin, we can be wretched, but somehow we're not

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cardinal or fleshley.

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It was all over the place.

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Yet we can keep the law, but yet no one

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keeps the law. Somehow righteousness was put inside of us,

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but yet it's the doctrine of imputation, which doesn't put

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righteousness inside of us. It was so philologically a mess

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that well, there's a part of me wanted to continue,

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but I'm like, nope, let's just grab the sermon's two

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point oh app or in this particular case, I grabbed

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the sermon audio website search for Romans eight ten through eleven,

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picked a random sermon, which is what you're supposed to

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be doing.

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And I found one, and we're gonna listen to it.

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All right, we're gonna we're gonna review it, we're gonna

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analyze it.

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I don't know how this is going to go. We

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will find out. Are you ready?

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I hope you're ready. That was a ten minute review.

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I hope I got everything in to the best of

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my ability. There's lots of pieces to this. Remember sometimes

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in this podcast, if you've got to be patient, because

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sometimes we're like, well, here's this and this and this

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and this, and it can seem confusing. But I think

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typically before it's all over, we wrap it.

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Up nice and neat.

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I think you can argue the effectiveness of doing it

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that way, but I think it typically works. But it

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takes us on a wild and winding road. Okay, along

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and winding road, a wild and winding road, however you

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want to describe the road. There's lots of twist turns

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and ups and downs, but we get there eventually.

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So let's see.

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Where this we remember when I do reviews, I don't

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listen to the sermons first, so it's random. I'm just

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I told you to listen to random sermons on Romans

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eight ten through eleven. Well, I don't ask you to

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do something I'm not doing, so I'm doing it with you.

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And here's the random one I've chosen for today. I

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have no idea what's about to happen, or we're going

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to find out together.

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Sit back, here we go.

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I'd glad you to be turning in your copies of

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God's Word to Romans chapter eight. Romans Chapter eight. You

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that are visiting with us, we are in the midst

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of an exposition of Romans A, particularly with emphasis upon

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the Spirit of God. We're calling to study life in

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the spirit. Let me read of our portion this morning,

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Romans eight, beginning in verse five down through verse twelve.

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Romans eight, Chapter eight, Verse five through verse twelve. For

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those who live according to the flesh set their minds

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on the things of the flesh. But those who live

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according to the spirit the things of the Spirit. For

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to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually

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minded is life in peace. Because the carnal mind is

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enmity against God, for it is not subject to the

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law of God.

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Nor indeed can be so.

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Then those who are in the flesh cannot please God.

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But you are not in the flesh, but in the spirit,

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If indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now,

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if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he

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is none of his.

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Is not his.

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And if Christ is in you, the body is dead

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because of sin, but the spirit is life because of righteousness.

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But if the spirit of Him who raised Jesus from

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the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ from

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the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies

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through His spirit who dwells in you.

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Very pointed practical application in verse twelve. Therefore, brethren, we

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are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to

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Let's pray and ask for the Lord to help us

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to understand and apply his word to our hearts this morning.

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Let's pray together all our heavenly Father.

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We come this morning recognizing that this is a rather difficult,

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even complex portion of your word, and we need your

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special help.

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We need the grace of the Spirit of.

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God to help us, to enable us to understand and

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to properly apply your word this morning. Please give us attentiveness,

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give understanding, give us help from heaven as we consider

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your word this morning. We pray this in the glorious

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name of our Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.

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Amen.

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Now, anyone who's listened to me for any length of

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time knows that I'm already sitting here frustrated.

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Two thousand years of church history.

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With this idea that God will help us understand. God

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will give us understanding. God will give us insight. God

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will give us clarity. God will help us understand his word.

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Two thousand years later, the church doesn't agree on baptism,

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the Lord's Supper, salvation. It doesn't literally agree on anything.

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No one agrees on how to even interpret Romans eight

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ten through eleven. If God is giving understanding, if God

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is giving insight, if God is giving clarity, then ladies

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and gentlemen, there should be one understanding, one doctrine for

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crime all out. There should just be one church instead

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of thousands of churches where nobody agreed literally on anything.

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I don't know how we it's so weird how Christians

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were like, well, the Holy Spirit's leading us into all truth,

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then we should be in all truth. But we're not,

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because that verse is not about us leading us into

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all truth. As referring to the Apostles, and to those

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who wrote the New Testament, the authors of Scripture, the

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the apostles ended.

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So if God is the one now giving me because

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just think about how this works. If I'm the pastor

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and I tell you God, gay, I prayed for God

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to give me insight, to give me understanding, and God

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gave me this interpretation, you can't challenge my interpretation because

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it would be infallible because it would be from God.

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and God gave you that understanding, well then I couldn't

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challenge your understand because it came from God. And how

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could God be giving you an understanding that's different than

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my understanding, because then.

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God would be somewhere someone's lying.

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I understand that this is the common way Christians pray,

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but I don't think we ever think of the implications

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of what we're saying. If God has given me understanding,

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then my understanding cannot be challenged. It cannot be questioned

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because it's from God, Therefore it's infallible.

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Basically, I'm the pope. I wish it was true.

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I wish I could go Lord Romans, forget Romans eighteen

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to eleven. Lord, help me understand baptism for believers only

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by immersion? Does it regenerate a baby at eight days

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old and turns them into a magic Christian? Does it

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wash away original sin? Is it regenerative or is it

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simply a symbol of what you've already done? The Lord's Supper?

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Is it should be open communion? Closed communion? How I mean?

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I give the word repentance. Nobody seems to agree on

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that salvation?

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How do we understand it? Moneargistic, synergistic?

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Do we believe it from a calvinistic perspective, a non

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calvinistic perspective?

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Human depravity? Do we understand it.

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From it and Augustine perspective? The perspective of Augustine? Or

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do we understand it from the perspective of Pelagius.

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I can go on and on and on and on

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and on and on and on and on and on

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and on and on. You just name the.

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Issue, and I can give you the divisions and church

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history and that are still currently underway. There's still divided,

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still no agreement.

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I wish it was true.

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I wish you I could say, Hey, ladies and gentlemen,

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thank you for tuning into this podcast. We have a

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scripture in front of us today. It's Romans eight ten

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through eleven. I need you to pray right now, and

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I will pray right now. And God's going to give

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us understanding. And He's going to give you the same

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understanding that he's giving me, because he's not a God

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of confusion. So I don't you don't really even need

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me because God's going to give you the same understanding

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he's going to give me.

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So you don't really need to hear me preach because

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God's going to give it to you. So all you're

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gonna have. We don't even really need to study.

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All we have to do is say, God, help me understand.

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This doesn't work that way.

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I so wish it did. All right, Now, what's getting

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ready to happen?

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is because we're getting ready to hear him take apart

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Romans eight ten through eleven. Now, what happens if we

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start taking Romans eight ten through eleven apart, and I

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disagree with his perspective? Is his perspective right because he

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prayed for God to give him understanding? What if or

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maybe God gave me the understanding? So am I right?

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Or he's right?

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Who are you supposed to believe? Do you say, well,

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I'm not going to believe either of them. I'm gonna

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let God give me the understanding. So then you don't

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need to listen to sermons. If God's giving you the

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understanding of the text, you don't need to listen to anyone.

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Explain the text.

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So if God's giving everyone an understanding of the text,

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then you don't need anyone to teach you. You don't need

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a commentary, you don't need a study Bible, need preachers.

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You just pray and dun dunda? Do you have understanding?

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Do you understand that the system just leads to utter

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It just it becomes nonsensical, It just.

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Becomes it makes all of our words meaningless.

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Now, let's see if we're going to find agreement or

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disagreement here we go.

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So we want to return to our study this morning

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that we're calling life in the spirit here in Romans aid.

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As we continue to focus upon these.

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Two very different pictures that Paul gives us here, two

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very realistic pictures. First of the Christian who's been regenerated

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by the Spirit of God, who has life in the spirit,

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who's walking according to the spirit. The other a picture

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of every lost, unsaved person, those who are still in

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the flesh, as Paul calls them, and they mind the

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things of the flesh.

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Okay, so we're gonna start off with this premise. You're

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a Christian, you're better than those people. And I know

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they don't say it this way, but this is Look,

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just let's just be honest. Let's call it what it is.

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He's saying, we're better than them. We walk in the spirit,

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we have the spirit. They're fleshly, they're fleshly, they have

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the things of the flesh and mind. Now, so Christians,

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we don't do that. We walk in the spirit. Now,

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if we walk in the spirit, does that mean we

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ever sin? If you're sinning, are you walking in the spirit?

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How much sin can you commit and still be walking

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in the spirit? Because how did we establish this at

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the beginning? You're con perpetual in a state of sin,

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So are you walking in the spirit?

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But the people in the world.

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They're fleshly minded, they have the things of the flesh

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in mine. You're telling me Christians aren't fleshly minded? Are

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you telling me Christians don't have the things of the

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flesh and mind? Give me a break. See, we love

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this very black and white like.

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That's them, but we are us, We're better than them.

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They don't walk after the spirit, they don't have the spirit.

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They're fleshly, they're carnal. But thinks, be to God, I'm

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not like those people. Two thousand years of church history,

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and what do we see Christian sins and sin, sin, sin, sin,

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sin sin. So then what's the Christian answer? Typically, Well,

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that person's not saved, that person's not saved. That person's

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not saved, that person's not safe. But I'm saved. I

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think the God that I'm not like these other people.

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I think the God that I don't do this and

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I don't do that.

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But are you not denying the reality of your own sin? Well? Okay,

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but that's there.

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His premise is there's two different people, and this difference

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is black and white, is what he's establishing.

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So far, Let's see how far he takes this.

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And last week we considered this picture that Paul gives

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us of the car carnal person, the person governed by

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his sinful nature, the flesh Versus seven and eight. And

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we saw there that there are four things stated about

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all unsaved, unregenerate men, women and boys and girls. Number one,

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they have a carnal fleshly mind, which is hostile towards God.

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So according to him, only lost people have a carnal

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fleshly mind that's hostile towards God, only lost people. And I, brethren,

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could not speak unto you as nto spiritual, but as

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unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ. I have

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fed you with milk and not with meat, for hitherto

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you were not able to bear it. Neither yet now

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are you able, For ye are yet carnal? Whereas there

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is among you envy, strife, and division, are you not carnal?

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And walk as men?

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You tell me that Christians are never carnal, are never

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fleshly in their mind, that their mind is never hostile

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towards God. Our minds are constantly hostile towards God. Because

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God's ways are not our ways. His thoughts are not

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my thoughts. We constantly find ourselves in conflict. The Bible says,

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be holy as God is holy. And you don't want

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to be holy as God is holy because you still

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have a sinful nature that is in constant rebellion against

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God's holiness.

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There is a there is sin nature still. For you.

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Not to be carnal minded and have a mind.

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That's against God in any way shape or form, would

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mean you've been totally.

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Transformed, no sinful nature at all.

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not fleshly, you're not carnal.

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Then you should be perfect. I don't understand we create.

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It's almost sometimes I think when I when sometimes listening

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to Christianity, I literally think I'm just reading like a fantasy.

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Novel, Like this is not the real world. Remember Luther's famous.

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Quote, love God, Love God. Sometimes I hate him. Now

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you're saying, oh, Luther, how could you see that?

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why we are, say, by an imputed righteousness, because we

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are still sinners.

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Man.

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All right, let's see, let's see where he goes. So

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all right, but I've already demonstrated first Corinthia three. Don't

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tell me I look, I went. I graduated from a school.

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I had to write a paper trying to argue that

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there are no carnal Christians.

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In fact, I have I have my textbook.

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Hang on right over here, hang on, here's the textbook.

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Here's the textbook that I have from that school.

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On its First Corinthians, a study of the spiritual material

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conflicts of today.

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And I believe at the end, hang on, uh, hang on,

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let me hear. Maybe it's not.

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It may be it's not in the end here, hang on,

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it may not be here. Maybe hang on, let me

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see here, right, it's not at the end. It's in

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the actual text. I thought there was a chapter at

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the end that dealt with it. But if I go

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to First Corinthians.

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Three in the book, all right, so it goes on

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to say that this is there.

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Basically I could I could read all of this. It

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makes the argument that there's no cardinal Christians. And as

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a result of this study, one of the things I

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had to do was write a paper making an argument

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that there are no cardinal Christians. And it's like, I

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felt like I had to jump through hoops to make

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it work. Now, you say, and just so that anybody knows.

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When whatever school I went to, I obviously would write

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or or answer the questions as I was being taught.

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I wasn't there to argue. I wasn't there to fight.

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I wasn't there to make a point. I was there

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to learn whatever system they were teaching right so that

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I could understand it and try to master it. But

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it's just twisted logic to try to make it work.

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We've worked through that chapter before in my preaching and teaching.

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If we need to, we can go back to it.

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But I just already he's made a statement basically, we're

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not carnal, and yet One Corinthians three makes it very

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I mean, what do you call the Church of corinth

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Is it not a fleshly cardinal church? Yet Paul refers

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to them as brethren, as babes in Christ. He doesn't say, hey, hey,

483
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you're acting this way because you're not saying no. He's

484
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saying you're acting this way because you're babies. You're carnal,

485
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you're fleshley, meaning that Christians can be that way. Love

486
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God with all your heart, mind, body, and soul.

487
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Do you do that?

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No?

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Well, if you're not doing that, then what are you.

490
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If you're in a perpetual states, in which I have

491
00:27:09.119 --> 00:27:12.200
already demonstrated, then what are you there? We have a

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sinful nature, so what are you? There's still a carnality

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00:27:15.359 --> 00:27:18.440
and fleshley. Now, you could try to argue, well, you

494
00:27:18.480 --> 00:27:21.519
can be carnal, but it's the amount of carnality. Well,

495
00:27:21.519 --> 00:27:24.119
if you want to start getting all subjective that way,

496
00:27:24.440 --> 00:27:27.079
they're just making a dogmatic assertion that you're not this way,

497
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and I'm going to say no.

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00:27:28.079 --> 00:27:29.960
This really describes Christians.

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The mind of the flesh, it says, is enmity against God.

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The mind of fallen man hates God.

501
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But we also saw that the lost carnal minded person

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is not subject, does not subject himself to the law

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of God.

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Since he hates God.

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He also despises his law, which reflects God's character as

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just and holy and good, and that law represents the

507
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sovereign authority of the God Who's given it. And so

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the last person doesn't want God telling him what he

509
00:28:10.400 --> 00:28:13.519
can do what he cannot do, and so he is

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not subject to the law of God. Thirdly, we also

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saw that not only is the fleshly minded person hostile

512
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against God, not only is.

513
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He not subject to the law of God.

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But thirdly, they are morally incapable of submitting to God's

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00:28:31.799 --> 00:28:36.000
law verse seven, that their hearts and minds despise God

516
00:28:36.319 --> 00:28:42.960
so much that real heart obedience to God's moral commandments

517
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is utterly impossible.

518
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And then fourthly we saw is if that.

519
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You know what He's applying, they cannot true heart obedience

520
00:28:54.559 --> 00:28:59.599
to the law. They cannot do, but we can. Now

521
00:28:59.799 --> 00:29:03.480
you can have true obedience to the law. Then you

522
00:29:03.480 --> 00:29:13.319
can be perfect. Now people will want to argue with me.

523
00:29:13.359 --> 00:29:15.599
Don't argue. Just be perfect. Just be perfect.

524
00:29:16.119 --> 00:29:21.559
Now, be perfect inwardly and externally right, be perfect. No,

525
00:29:21.680 --> 00:29:25.240
don't send some email where you're rude and angry and

526
00:29:25.319 --> 00:29:28.200
call me names and then act like you're the one

527
00:29:28.519 --> 00:29:31.119
who is obeying God's law. Because you're supposed to love

528
00:29:31.160 --> 00:29:35.920
even your enemy. So I expect a very loving, compassionate,

529
00:29:36.119 --> 00:29:40.000
merciful email and where you can articulate how perfect you are.

530
00:29:42.160 --> 00:29:44.799
But you tell me how perfect you are. But hey,

531
00:29:44.839 --> 00:29:46.440
when you go to bed at night and you lay

532
00:29:46.480 --> 00:29:48.640
your head down, you really look at your life and

533
00:29:48.680 --> 00:29:52.720
tell me how perfect you really are, because you're not

534
00:29:53.759 --> 00:29:56.400
unless you're convinced that you're as holy as God is holy.

535
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And if you're convinced that you're as holy as God

536
00:29:58.559 --> 00:30:02.599
is holy practically, then ladies and gentlemen, we're in two

537
00:30:02.640 --> 00:30:05.720
different planets, in two different worlds. Because I know you're not.

538
00:30:05.640 --> 00:30:08.440
As holy as God as holy, because God is perfectly holy.

539
00:30:08.640 --> 00:30:12.079
But that's the standard. So can now you've been so

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00:30:12.240 --> 00:30:20.519
magically transformed, you can do that. I will argue you cannot.

541
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You never can.

542
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And Salvation wasn't about making you that you can be.

543
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Salvation was about declaring you holy even though you're not holy,

544
00:30:29.799 --> 00:30:32.359
not based off an infused righteousness, but based off an

545
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imputed righteousness.

546
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It's the same. We talk about this.

547
00:30:36.160 --> 00:30:39.440
Over and over and over and over again. Let's continue

548
00:30:39.440 --> 00:30:40.319
to see where this goes.

549
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That isn't bad enough.

550
00:30:42.920 --> 00:30:45.880
Paul was on the stay that those who are in

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the flesh, they cannot please go Now.

552
00:30:51.440 --> 00:30:52.920
They may be very nice people.

553
00:30:53.880 --> 00:30:57.200
We all know people who are very religious, and that

554
00:30:57.319 --> 00:30:59.640
people can be very religious. They can do lots of

555
00:30:59.680 --> 00:31:03.920
good things as the world would see it. But from

556
00:31:04.039 --> 00:31:09.000
God's perspective, they can do nothing that pleases him or

557
00:31:09.079 --> 00:31:13.039
curries his favor. Even we saw in Proverbs that even

558
00:31:13.119 --> 00:31:16.680
the plowing of the wicked is considered.

559
00:31:16.279 --> 00:31:19.240
Sin by a holy God.

560
00:31:19.599 --> 00:31:25.680
What a horrible picture, Paul pains of all fallen human beings.

561
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And it's a very bleak, a very ugly picture, indeed,

562
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which of course is why we need the grace of

563
00:31:33.440 --> 00:31:36.720
God and why we need to be saved. But now

564
00:31:36.720 --> 00:31:38.400
today we want to turn our focus.

565
00:31:40.119 --> 00:31:42.720
Now he's not explicitly saying, but he's saying, Hey, we

566
00:31:42.759 --> 00:31:45.160
need to be saved, so we won't be like that anymore.

567
00:31:45.519 --> 00:31:48.680
Will be the good guys, we'll be the perfect people,

568
00:31:48.960 --> 00:31:53.920
because in churches you never have backstabbing, lying politics. God,

569
00:31:53.960 --> 00:31:56.920
I mean sin after sin, and I know it, Bill well.

570
00:31:56.960 --> 00:31:59.960
Not everyone in the church is saved. When anyone says that,

571
00:32:00.079 --> 00:32:02.039
what you're saying is all those people who do bad,

572
00:32:02.079 --> 00:32:02.720
they're not safe.

573
00:32:02.880 --> 00:32:07.200
But I am. I get so sick of that.

574
00:32:07.279 --> 00:32:09.519
I think the God that I'm not like all these

575
00:32:09.559 --> 00:32:12.240
other people. All these other people who do bad, they're sinners.

576
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But I'm the one person in this church who's not

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00:32:14.680 --> 00:32:16.680
a sinner. When they walk by me, they look to

578
00:32:16.720 --> 00:32:19.119
me in there is holiness. If only we could be

579
00:32:19.160 --> 00:32:23.279
as good as that person. You're delusional if you think

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00:32:23.319 --> 00:32:31.759
of yourself that way. All right, But we want to

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00:32:31.759 --> 00:32:33.839
get to ten and eleven. So let's see where we're

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00:32:33.839 --> 00:32:34.200
going to go.

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As to the other picture, that of the man or

584
00:32:37.759 --> 00:32:41.440
woman who has been saved by God's grace, who has

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00:32:41.519 --> 00:32:45.240
been regenerated by the Holy Spirit, who is now in

586
00:32:45.279 --> 00:32:50.160
the category being in the spirit, and is walking after.

587
00:32:50.119 --> 00:32:53.480
Or according to the Spirit of God.

588
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And that's the picture Paul gives us here verses nine

589
00:32:57.160 --> 00:33:01.599
through eleven. And let me read that three verses. Once again,

590
00:33:02.559 --> 00:33:05.359
Paul says, but you are not in the flesh. Speaking

591
00:33:05.400 --> 00:33:08.440
to Christians, you are not in the flesh, but in

592
00:33:08.480 --> 00:33:12.279
the spirit. If indeed, the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now,

593
00:33:12.319 --> 00:33:15.680
if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he

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00:33:15.960 --> 00:33:19.240
is not his. And if Christ is in you, the

595
00:33:19.279 --> 00:33:22.559
body is dead because of sin, but the spirit is

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00:33:22.720 --> 00:33:26.440
life because of righteousness. But if the spirit of Him

597
00:33:26.440 --> 00:33:30.359
who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he

598
00:33:30.480 --> 00:33:33.799
who raised Christ from the dead will also give life

599
00:33:33.839 --> 00:33:38.519
to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.

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Now.

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First of all, Paul gives us here a few things

602
00:33:42.759 --> 00:33:48.519
which characterize all true Christians and some of the benefits

603
00:33:48.559 --> 00:33:51.519
that come to us as we are in the spirit.

604
00:33:52.079 --> 00:33:54.119
He first says of Christians that they are in a

605
00:33:54.200 --> 00:34:00.359
fundamentally different place, a fundamentally different position and condition than

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00:34:00.400 --> 00:34:04.319
those who are yet in the flesh and unsaved. He

607
00:34:04.480 --> 00:34:08.840
says categorically to God's people. Here he says, you are

608
00:34:09.000 --> 00:34:13.400
not in the flesh. You are no longer governed by

609
00:34:13.559 --> 00:34:17.199
your carnal mind. You're no longer in a position of

610
00:34:17.320 --> 00:34:21.880
enmity against God. You're no longer hostile towards God, or

611
00:34:21.920 --> 00:34:25.840
in a condition where you are rebellious.

612
00:34:24.880 --> 00:34:26.119
Against God's law.

613
00:34:26.880 --> 00:34:31.159
No, there's been this fundamental change of heart, mind, and

614
00:34:31.360 --> 00:34:35.679
character wrought in you by the Spirit of the Living God,

615
00:34:35.760 --> 00:34:38.880
who now dwells in you. You are now in the Spirit.

616
00:34:39.320 --> 00:34:43.719
You see, that's our position if we are Christians. And

617
00:34:43.760 --> 00:34:46.559
he elaborates then on what that means. And this morning

618
00:34:46.599 --> 00:34:50.079
we want to open up three things that are true

619
00:34:50.199 --> 00:34:54.639
of every Christian as it relates to his connection to

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00:34:54.719 --> 00:34:55.719
the Holy Spirit.

621
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Here in these verses.

622
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The first is this, the Christian enjoys the blessing of

623
00:35:03.400 --> 00:35:07.599
the indwelling of the Holy Spirit of God. Number two,

624
00:35:08.199 --> 00:35:14.159
he enjoys the blessing of the enlivening Spirit dwelling in him,

625
00:35:14.280 --> 00:35:18.599
or the renewing of the Spirit of life. Number three,

626
00:35:18.760 --> 00:35:27.000
he enjoys the blessed promise the prospect of bodily resurrection by.

627
00:35:26.639 --> 00:35:27.960
This same spirit.

628
00:35:28.039 --> 00:35:33.719
So there are three glorious blessings or benefits that Paul

629
00:35:33.800 --> 00:35:36.800
opens up for us here for those who are in

630
00:35:37.440 --> 00:35:41.559
the Spirit and who are in Christ. And Paul then

631
00:35:41.599 --> 00:35:46.119
concludes this short section with a practical call for our

632
00:35:46.159 --> 00:35:50.360
response to these blessings, that therefore we are debtors. We're

633
00:35:50.400 --> 00:35:53.960
not debtors to the flesh, but implied here we are

634
00:35:54.000 --> 00:35:57.159
debtors to the Spirit of God. And we'll look at

635
00:35:57.159 --> 00:36:01.239
that more willing, hopefully we'll look at that next Lord's Day.

636
00:36:01.840 --> 00:36:02.239
All right.

637
00:36:02.320 --> 00:36:05.199
First of all, then this morning the Christian enjoys the

638
00:36:05.199 --> 00:36:11.159
blessing of the indwelling of the Spirit of God. This

639
00:36:11.320 --> 00:36:16.039
is the distinguishing mark of every true Christian, according to

640
00:36:16.119 --> 00:36:20.000
the Apostle Paul. Here in verse nine he says, you're

641
00:36:20.039 --> 00:36:23.000
not in the flesh, but you're in the spirit, if

642
00:36:23.000 --> 00:36:27.960
indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. And so

643
00:36:28.199 --> 00:36:31.239
here you have the fact that we are in dwelt

644
00:36:31.239 --> 00:36:34.320
as God's people by the Holy Spirit of God, the

645
00:36:34.400 --> 00:36:38.400
third person of the Trinity, which is what makes this

646
00:36:38.480 --> 00:36:43.320
such an astounding, such a glorious blessing, brothers and sisters.

647
00:36:43.440 --> 00:36:47.320
Note have Paul identifies the spirit here he says he's

648
00:36:47.360 --> 00:36:50.719
the spirit of God. But then he says he's the

649
00:36:50.760 --> 00:36:55.119
Spirit of Christ. Down in verse eleven, he refers to

650
00:36:55.199 --> 00:36:58.840
him as the spirit of Him who raised Christ from

651
00:36:58.880 --> 00:37:01.679
the dead, speaking of the Father, this is the one

652
00:37:01.679 --> 00:37:06.360
who in dwells us. Now Paul isn't speaking of three

653
00:37:06.440 --> 00:37:10.920
different spirits as it were, No, these are synonymous terms.

654
00:37:10.960 --> 00:37:13.599
He is the spirit who is of God. He comes

655
00:37:13.639 --> 00:37:16.559
forth from God the Father. He's the one who did,

656
00:37:16.639 --> 00:37:20.559
indeed raise Christ from the dead. He's also the spirit

657
00:37:20.639 --> 00:37:24.599
of Christ. He's sent by Christ. The spirit's ministry in

658
00:37:24.760 --> 00:37:28.599
us was secured by Christ for us in his death

659
00:37:29.079 --> 00:37:34.760
upon the Cross, and the Holy Spirit reveals Christ. He's responsible,

660
00:37:34.840 --> 00:37:39.880
you see, for applying the salvation of Christ to the individual.

661
00:37:39.360 --> 00:37:41.880
Souls of believers.

662
00:37:42.920 --> 00:37:46.199
In fact, here in verse ten, Paul can even say

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of Christ himself that Christ himself dwells in us also.

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And the point here is this that when the Spirit

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00:37:55.639 --> 00:37:58.400
of God, the Spirit of Christ and dwells a person,

666
00:37:58.480 --> 00:38:02.360
it can be said Christ himself is in us in

667
00:38:02.440 --> 00:38:06.639
a spiritual sense. He dwells in us by his Spirit.

668
00:38:07.480 --> 00:38:12.400
Now we understand that Christ Jesus, the god Man, in

669
00:38:12.440 --> 00:38:15.800
his humanity, is seated at the right hand of the

670
00:38:15.880 --> 00:38:20.679
Majesty on high in heaven. His corporal presence is in heaven.

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So we're talking here about the Holy Spirit, who he

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00:38:24.239 --> 00:38:29.559
sends to dwell in the believer. But this isn't the

673
00:38:29.599 --> 00:38:31.719
only place you see that we read about the Holy

674
00:38:31.760 --> 00:38:35.039
Spirit and dwelling God's people. This is something that God promised.

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00:38:37.360 --> 00:38:40.599
I'm not saying a lot here because you know, everyone

676
00:38:40.679 --> 00:38:42.920
would agree that we're in with the Holy Spirit. The

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00:38:43.000 --> 00:38:46.039
issue always comes down to, Okay, now that we're into

678
00:38:46.079 --> 00:38:49.760
it with the Holy Spirit. Now, why right, that's where

679
00:38:49.760 --> 00:38:53.679
the issue is because it's always turns into Dundundanah. You

680
00:38:53.840 --> 00:38:58.039
have superpowers and basically now you can be perfect.

681
00:38:58.320 --> 00:38:59.840
However, well you can't be perfect.

682
00:39:00.360 --> 00:39:02.280
Well, if the spirit's the one empowering me to live

683
00:39:02.280 --> 00:39:05.480
the Christian life, why wouldn't I be perfect? Since the

684
00:39:05.519 --> 00:39:12.239
Holy Spirit is God would be omnipotent. So then it

685
00:39:12.239 --> 00:39:14.039
comes down, well, I can stop the Spirit. Well, if

686
00:39:14.039 --> 00:39:16.760
I can stop the Spirit, then I'm greater than the Spirit.

687
00:39:16.800 --> 00:39:20.199
Then it gets all weird and crazy and confused.

688
00:39:20.320 --> 00:39:21.039
So this part.

689
00:39:21.079 --> 00:39:24.880
We should have some form of agreement on this. I

690
00:39:24.880 --> 00:39:26.400
think it's going to be the next point. So I'm

691
00:39:26.400 --> 00:39:28.920
trying to let him get through this point relatively quick

692
00:39:28.960 --> 00:39:31.599
without interrupting it too much, and I'm also looking up

693
00:39:31.639 --> 00:39:33.440
other things. We do need to do some work on

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00:39:33.480 --> 00:39:36.800
this section of Romans been I've taught through Romans, so

695
00:39:36.840 --> 00:39:38.840
I know I've covered this section, but we may need

696
00:39:38.880 --> 00:39:40.360
to go back and do some more work on it,

697
00:39:40.599 --> 00:39:42.719
because I just it's maddening the way how this is

698
00:39:42.760 --> 00:39:46.000
typically handled. So but we may do some work, but

699
00:39:46.039 --> 00:39:47.719
for now, we're just going to see how he handles

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00:39:47.800 --> 00:39:52.599
verse ten and eleven, since that's where the hypotheses from

701
00:39:52.760 --> 00:39:55.679
the Six Secrets of the Christian Life is found. Let's

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00:39:55.679 --> 00:39:57.840
see how he handles it. So let's see, let's see

703
00:39:57.840 --> 00:39:59.840
if we can get there. Let's see where this goes.

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00:40:01.119 --> 00:40:03.920
All the way back in the Old Testament, in his

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00:40:04.159 --> 00:40:07.679
Covenant promises to his people, would you please turn with

706
00:40:07.760 --> 00:40:13.840
me to Ezekiel Ezekiel Chapter thirty six. Now we'll come

707
00:40:13.880 --> 00:40:14.800
back to Romans eight.

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Oh no, no, no, no.

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No, no.

710
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Did y'all hear that reference?

711
00:40:25.239 --> 00:40:26.000
Did y'all hear it?

712
00:40:30.480 --> 00:40:30.719
Why?

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Why everybody knows I'm getting ready to lose my ever

714
00:40:36.679 --> 00:40:41.039
living mind. We're going to go to Ezekiel thirty six

715
00:40:43.320 --> 00:40:50.719
for the nineteenth thousandth time. Ezekiel thirty six. This does

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not require seminary education, does not require.

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00:40:54.199 --> 00:40:55.840
Bible college education.

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Does not require graduating from a Bible institute. It just

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requires basic reading comprehension that you learned in elementary school.

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Ezekiel thirty six. Verse one.

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Also, thou son of Man, prophesy onto the mountains of

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And I'm going.

723
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To say it this way, just to stress it.

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Is Rael, Israel, and say, ye, mountains of Israel, hear

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the words of the Lord. Thus, say the Lord God,

726
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because the enemy hath said against you. Aha, even the

727
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ancient high places are ours and possessions. Therefore pray and say,

728
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thus saith the Lord God, because you have made you

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00:41:40.119 --> 00:41:42.920
desolate and swallowed you up on every side, that you

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00:41:43.000 --> 00:41:45.320
might be a possession under the residue of the heathen,

731
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and you are taken up in the lips of talkers

732
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and are in an infamy of the people. Immediately, I

733
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think we're getting an idea. This is about Israel. Oh wait,

734
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are you confused?

735
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Are you sure? Verse four?

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Therefore ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the

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Lord God. Thus saith the Lord God to the mountains,

738
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into the hills, and too the rivers, and too the valleys,

739
00:42:04.920 --> 00:42:07.599
into the desolate waters, and to the cities that are forsaken,

740
00:42:07.760 --> 00:42:10.880
which became a prey and derision to the residue of

741
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the heathen that are round about.

742
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Therefore, thus says the Lord God.

743
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Surely, and the fire of my jealousy have I spoken

744
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against the residue of the heathen has spoken all idumia,

745
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which have appointed my land into their possession with the

746
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joy of all their heart, with despiteful with despiteful minds,

747
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to cast it out for a prey prophesy. Therefore, concerning

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the land of Israel, how many times do I need

749
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to point this out? Israel is mentioned over and over

750
00:42:41.480 --> 00:42:44.480
look at verse ten, and I will multiply men upon you,

751
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all the house of Israel, Like how many times do

752
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we need to go through this verse verse twelve. Yay,

753
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I will cause man to walk upon you, even my

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people Israel. That's verse Well, let's see here if I

755
00:43:01.559 --> 00:43:06.199
go down to verse fourteen, son of Man, when the

756
00:43:06.239 --> 00:43:08.920
house of Israel dwelt in their own land.

757
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Okay, how many more.

758
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Times here verse twenty one, but I had pity for

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my holy name, which the House of Israel had profane.

760
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Like anyone reading this is gonna be like this is

761
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Israel Israel, Israel, Israel, Israel, Israel, Israel, Israel, Israel, Israel, Israel, Israel, Israel,

762
00:43:24.800 --> 00:43:28.519
Israel Israel. But for some weird reason, pastors just run

763
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in and say, hey, hey, Israel, get out of the way,

764
00:43:31.559 --> 00:43:35.360
come on, move, get out. We don't care about you. Die,

765
00:43:35.400 --> 00:43:37.719
we don't care. We're gonna go rip some verses out

766
00:43:37.760 --> 00:43:42.039
of context and make it about us. Now, I'm not

767
00:43:42.079 --> 00:43:44.840
saying that's what's getting ready to happen, but considering the

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way he's approaching Romans eight, it's about us. And for

769
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some weird reason, we're going to Ezekiel thirty six, which

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00:43:54.519 --> 00:43:58.000
is not about us unless Israel doesn't mean Israel, and

771
00:43:58.079 --> 00:44:01.079
land doesn't mean land, and nations don't nations, and none

772
00:44:01.119 --> 00:44:03.159
of this means anything that it seems to say.

773
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I've said this so many times.

774
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I'm so if I hear another sermon where Ezekiel thirty

775
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six is just literally abused. It is twisted, it is

776
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ripped apart.

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It's like some.

778
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Medical hack who has surgical instruments just ripping someone into pieces. Now,

779
00:44:26.880 --> 00:44:29.440
maybe this is gonna go better, but you can already

780
00:44:29.480 --> 00:44:32.480
hear where I Obviously I'm being very cynical and being

781
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very negative. I don't know what's getting ready to happen,

782
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but I'm just gonna go ahead and get it out

783
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of the way.

784
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In fact, I had my church one son.

785
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I think you've heard me do this, and countless times

786
00:44:40.280 --> 00:44:43.320
I'll tell the congregation count how many times Israel is

787
00:44:43.360 --> 00:44:46.840
mentioned in Ezekiel thirty six. All right, here's this commentary,

788
00:44:47.000 --> 00:44:49.840
here's a sermon. They're gonna make it about us. What

789
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textual basis are they doing that?

790
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All right?

791
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Yeah, I could just hear and read the whole chapter. Right,

792
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But okay, let's see where. I think I know which

793
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verses he's gonna go to. But I'm praying that I'm wrong.

794
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Here we go.

795
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That.

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I just want you to see a couple of places

797
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where this is made evident, that we are in dwelt

798
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by the spirit of God. This is not some new idea.

799
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This is what God promised for his people all the

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way back into the Old Testament.

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Ezekiel thirty six, Verse twenty five.

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God did not answer my prayer.

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Here we go now, just so that you know, so

804
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that there's no confusion before we get to twenty five,

805
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since you know we're just gonna jump in the middle

806
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and we're gonna skip it.

807
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Let's go to twenty one.

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But I had pity for my Holy name, which the

809
00:45:46.400 --> 00:45:50.159
House of Israel had profaned among the heathen, whether they went. Therefore,

810
00:45:50.199 --> 00:45:53.360
say into the House of Israel. So he's already used twice,

811
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just in these verses preceding it.

812
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Thus say the Lord of God, I do not.

813
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I do not this for your sakes, O, House of Israel.

814
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We mentioned again, that's three times. But for my holy namesake,

815
00:46:03.920 --> 00:46:06.280
where you have profaned among the heathen, whether you went,

816
00:46:06.360 --> 00:46:08.960
And I will sanctify my great name, which will profane

817
00:46:08.960 --> 00:46:11.679
among the heathen, which you have heathen, which you have

818
00:46:11.760 --> 00:46:14.400
profaned in the midst of them. And the heathens shall

819
00:46:14.440 --> 00:46:16.519
know that I am the Lord Saith, the Lord God,

820
00:46:16.559 --> 00:46:20.199
which I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes. Right,

821
00:46:20.280 --> 00:46:23.360
he's speaking of Israel, is going to be sanctified before

822
00:46:23.400 --> 00:46:24.880
the eyes of the heathen.

823
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He is speaking of the nation of Israel.

824
00:46:27.360 --> 00:46:29.960
For I will take you from among the heathen and

825
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gather you out of all countries and will bring you

826
00:46:33.159 --> 00:46:36.679
into your own land that is not the church, that

827
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is Israel. Then and that context, then then I will

828
00:46:42.159 --> 00:46:45.679
sprinkle and clean water upon you. Then after you're brought

829
00:46:45.719 --> 00:46:50.159
into your own land, when they're brought into their own land,

830
00:46:50.280 --> 00:46:51.480
then God's going to do this.

831
00:46:51.719 --> 00:46:53.320
He's now just jumped into.

832
00:46:53.239 --> 00:46:56.440
Ezekiel thirty six twenty five told Israel to take a hike.

833
00:46:56.679 --> 00:46:59.920
And now this is about us. It's not about.

834
00:46:59.840 --> 00:47:08.639
Us, God says, he promises for the New Covenant. He says,

835
00:47:08.719 --> 00:47:11.880
I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall

836
00:47:11.880 --> 00:47:15.280
be clean. I will cleanse you from all your filthiness

837
00:47:15.280 --> 00:47:18.119
and from all your idols. I will give you a

838
00:47:18.159 --> 00:47:21.599
new heart and put a new spirit within you. I

839
00:47:21.639 --> 00:47:23.840
will take the heart of stone out of your flesh

840
00:47:23.840 --> 00:47:26.880
and give you a heart of flesh. I will put

841
00:47:27.239 --> 00:47:31.400
my spirit within you and cause you to walk in

842
00:47:31.519 --> 00:47:32.280
my statues.

843
00:47:32.320 --> 00:47:35.599
And you will keep my judgments and do them.

844
00:47:37.599 --> 00:47:40.159
Now, okay, I'm gonna take a deep breath.

845
00:47:40.239 --> 00:47:42.800
I'm going to say this calmly. You've heard my frustration.

846
00:47:43.440 --> 00:47:45.239
But this is why I get so frustrated.

847
00:47:47.119 --> 00:47:49.679
They take this. This is a part of.

848
00:47:49.639 --> 00:47:54.599
The covenant made to is ry L. When they come

849
00:47:54.639 --> 00:47:58.079
into the land, God is going to save them. He's

850
00:47:58.119 --> 00:48:01.400
going to redeem them, he's going to restore them. He's

851
00:48:01.440 --> 00:48:03.800
going to fulfill the promises that he has made to

852
00:48:03.880 --> 00:48:07.079
Israel all the way back to the Abrahamic Covenant. He's

853
00:48:07.119 --> 00:48:09.159
gonna They're gonna be his people. He's going to be

854
00:48:09.239 --> 00:48:11.280
their God. He's gonna dwell in the midst of them.

855
00:48:11.559 --> 00:48:14.840
They will be redeemed, and they will be in the land.

856
00:48:15.079 --> 00:48:18.559
But if you make it about us, please make it

857
00:48:18.599 --> 00:48:22.119
about us, then, ladies and gentlemen, I challenge you.

858
00:48:22.840 --> 00:48:25.719
God's given you a new heart. He's given you us

859
00:48:25.800 --> 00:48:26.440
new spirit.

860
00:48:27.119 --> 00:48:29.519
He's taken away your stony heart, and he's given you

861
00:48:29.559 --> 00:48:30.639
a heart of flesh.

862
00:48:30.800 --> 00:48:31.159
All right.

863
00:48:31.559 --> 00:48:34.559
If he's done that, then, ladies and gentlemen, that's the

864
00:48:34.599 --> 00:48:38.719
eradication of the old nature. The old nature is completely gone.

865
00:48:38.800 --> 00:48:41.480
If you have no longer a heart of stone, you

866
00:48:41.639 --> 00:48:44.039
know law, you have a heart of flesh you. If

867
00:48:44.079 --> 00:48:46.880
God has given you a new spirit and a new heart, then,

868
00:48:46.960 --> 00:48:50.239
ladies and gentlemen, why do you sin?

869
00:48:52.880 --> 00:48:53.199
Oh?

870
00:48:53.239 --> 00:48:57.079
This verse seems to completely remove the ability to sin.

871
00:48:57.679 --> 00:49:00.000
I will put I will, I will put my spirit

872
00:49:00.159 --> 00:49:02.599
within you and cause you to walk in my statues. Here,

873
00:49:02.880 --> 00:49:06.239
you will walk in my statues. Hey doesn't say you'll

874
00:49:06.280 --> 00:49:09.440
try to, you'll, you will put effort to you will,

875
00:49:10.880 --> 00:49:17.920
and you shall keep my judgments and do them. You're

876
00:49:18.000 --> 00:49:22.159
going to do this well, that means you should be perfect.

877
00:49:22.440 --> 00:49:24.199
Why are we not perfect?

878
00:49:24.320 --> 00:49:24.519
Oh?

879
00:49:24.719 --> 00:49:27.880
But to show you this has nothing to do with us.

880
00:49:28.519 --> 00:49:30.519
And you shall dwell in the land that I gave

881
00:49:30.599 --> 00:49:34.719
to your fathers. That's not us, that's Israel. Is he

882
00:49:34.800 --> 00:49:35.800
gonna read the next verse?

883
00:49:35.920 --> 00:49:37.639
What do you think? Do you think he's gonna read

884
00:49:37.719 --> 00:49:39.599
verse twenty eight that.

885
00:49:39.559 --> 00:49:41.480
You're gonna dwell in the land. Do you that I

886
00:49:41.559 --> 00:49:44.119
gave to your fathers, clearly speaking to Israel? Do you

887
00:49:44.119 --> 00:49:46.280
think verse twenty eight is gonna be read. I'm hoping

888
00:49:46.280 --> 00:49:46.719
it will be.

889
00:49:46.880 --> 00:49:47.840
Let's see. Let's see.

890
00:49:49.639 --> 00:49:51.440
And so here you have, and he goes on by

891
00:49:51.480 --> 00:49:52.960
the way, and you shall dwell on the land that

892
00:49:53.000 --> 00:49:55.760
I gave to your fathers, and you shall be my people,

893
00:49:56.360 --> 00:49:58.639
and I will be your god.

894
00:49:59.360 --> 00:50:01.119
So here these rich.

895
00:50:02.800 --> 00:50:05.199
He read it, but he skipped over the land part

896
00:50:05.239 --> 00:50:05.840
and said I.

897
00:50:05.960 --> 00:50:08.400
Will be that Uh.

898
00:50:08.440 --> 00:50:11.800
He mentioned, he says uh, And he mentioned he for

899
00:50:11.840 --> 00:50:14.079
skips the part I gave to your fathers, and he says,

900
00:50:14.119 --> 00:50:15.880
and you shall be my people, and I will be

901
00:50:16.000 --> 00:50:16.360
your God.

902
00:50:16.559 --> 00:50:18.599
That's the part that gets the emphasis. He just left

903
00:50:18.639 --> 00:50:19.440
out the part. Well, wait a.

904
00:50:19.480 --> 00:50:23.679
Minute, which land am I going to get my father's Wait,

905
00:50:23.960 --> 00:50:26.320
my father's had land that God promised?

906
00:50:27.480 --> 00:50:29.039
Which land is that is?

907
00:50:29.079 --> 00:50:29.199
That?

908
00:50:29.719 --> 00:50:35.039
Is that West Texas, East Texas, North Texas, South Texas?

909
00:50:36.119 --> 00:50:36.360
Wait?

910
00:50:36.599 --> 00:50:39.400
No, my if I follow my family line that goes

911
00:50:39.440 --> 00:50:42.760
all the way back to coming from England over and

912
00:50:42.800 --> 00:50:45.480
then my great, my great great great, if I go

913
00:50:45.519 --> 00:50:47.800
all the way back in time, I have relatives that

914
00:50:48.039 --> 00:50:51.639
worked directly with George Washington, very much of a part

915
00:50:51.760 --> 00:50:54.239
of the founding of the of the country.

916
00:50:54.480 --> 00:50:56.519
My my daughter, she's notified.

917
00:50:56.559 --> 00:51:00.360
She can be a daughter granddaughter of the Revolutionary War

918
00:51:01.079 --> 00:51:03.920
because of our connection to this man who worked with

919
00:51:04.000 --> 00:51:06.719
and I could name all the names. So was there

920
00:51:06.760 --> 00:51:09.760
some land that I'm promised? No, this is not about me,

921
00:51:09.880 --> 00:51:12.639
it's not about you. This is about Israel. And then

922
00:51:12.679 --> 00:51:15.440
just so that you'll know, I will save you from

923
00:51:15.599 --> 00:51:18.039
all your uncleanliness.

924
00:51:21.199 --> 00:51:30.360
And then he goes on to say.

925
00:51:26.840 --> 00:51:29.480
And well, I could go through and go through, go

926
00:51:29.519 --> 00:51:31.000
through all of this, but you get the idea this

927
00:51:31.039 --> 00:51:33.480
is about Israel. He just ripped it out of context

928
00:51:33.519 --> 00:51:36.719
and made it about us. Now, I do appreciate he

929
00:51:36.760 --> 00:51:39.159
did read that verse. I didn't even think he was

930
00:51:39.199 --> 00:51:41.320
going to read it, So I do appreciate that he

931
00:51:41.440 --> 00:51:45.320
read it. But he just moved on past the land.

932
00:51:45.480 --> 00:51:47.320
The land should immediately made him stop and.

933
00:51:47.280 --> 00:51:49.239
Go wait, wait, wait, guys, guys, what are we doing here.

934
00:51:50.039 --> 00:51:54.039
We can't be using this. This is about Israel. God

935
00:51:54.079 --> 00:51:57.920
has not done this for Israel. This has never happened. Hmm,

936
00:52:00.239 --> 00:52:02.000
all right, this is a promise to Israel.

937
00:52:02.119 --> 00:52:02.679
Forget this.

938
00:52:04.000 --> 00:52:06.480
Let's look at something else that's kind of what should

939
00:52:06.480 --> 00:52:07.000
have happened.

940
00:52:09.519 --> 00:52:15.320
The Covenant promises that God makes to his new covenant people,

941
00:52:15.679 --> 00:52:18.280
we could say his New Israel.

942
00:52:18.400 --> 00:52:19.800
And among them are.

943
00:52:21.599 --> 00:52:24.559
No See he just threw out Israel. Hey, these are

944
00:52:24.559 --> 00:52:27.400
promises God made to New Israel. So he made promises

945
00:52:27.440 --> 00:52:29.880
to New Israel that He's going to give them the

946
00:52:30.039 --> 00:52:32.760
land that he promised to Old Israel.

947
00:52:33.119 --> 00:52:36.920
So new Israel gets the land promised to old Israel.

948
00:52:37.239 --> 00:52:39.039
Well what when do we get this land?

949
00:52:42.039 --> 00:52:44.960
So basically, hey, God, God made these promises to the

950
00:52:45.039 --> 00:52:50.280
nation of Israel. Sorry, guys, sorry, you lose, you lose.

951
00:52:51.440 --> 00:52:54.599
You you get the curses, we get all the blessings.

952
00:52:54.880 --> 00:52:57.039
I guess we get actual land too. I guess the

953
00:52:57.159 --> 00:52:59.440
land that was promised to your fathers we get.

954
00:52:59.599 --> 00:52:59.960
We get.

955
00:53:00.119 --> 00:53:03.039
And even though God says Israel Israel, Israel, Israel, Israel, Israel,

956
00:53:03.079 --> 00:53:04.639
he didn't really mean that Israel.

957
00:53:04.760 --> 00:53:06.239
He mean I New Israel.

958
00:53:10.039 --> 00:53:15.239
Are cleansing and purifying from sin, the forgiveness of our sins,

959
00:53:15.719 --> 00:53:20.760
regeneration by His grace, the reality of God's special presence.

960
00:53:20.800 --> 00:53:23.719
He says, I will be your God, and you will

961
00:53:23.760 --> 00:53:27.519
be my people. But you notice he promises here to

962
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put his spirit within us, and so the dwelling of

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the Holy Spirit as one of the covenant promises that

964
00:53:37.079 --> 00:53:40.599
God makes to his people, and made this promise many

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many years ago. And you remember how the Lord Jesus

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00:53:44.400 --> 00:53:48.960
there in John fourteen fourteen seventeen, he said in the

967
00:53:49.039 --> 00:53:53.400
upper room to his chosen disciples, he told them about

968
00:53:53.440 --> 00:53:56.519
the Spirit of truth, that you know him, for he

969
00:53:56.639 --> 00:53:57.840
dwells with you.

970
00:53:58.480 --> 00:54:03.679
And he will be in you. So he's the Holy

971
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Spirit of promise. But then you come to First Corinthians chapter.

972
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Six, where the apostle Paul is exhorting believers to purity,

973
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to resist sexual temptations.

974
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Now, why would Paul have to exhort Christians to purity

975
00:54:21.159 --> 00:54:24.880
and to avoid sin. We just read that they have

976
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been given a new heart, they've been given a new spirit,

977
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and they're gonna walk into statutes.

978
00:54:30.800 --> 00:54:32.800
So we just read what you just quoted.

979
00:54:32.840 --> 00:54:35.159
It's true of us that God has done away with

980
00:54:35.199 --> 00:54:37.599
all of our iniquity, done away with all of our sin.

981
00:54:38.280 --> 00:54:40.840
Why then, do I have to be encouraged to try

982
00:54:40.880 --> 00:54:42.159
to pursue holiness.

983
00:54:42.480 --> 00:54:43.440
I shouldn't have to be.

984
00:54:43.719 --> 00:54:47.119
You don't need to motivate me externally to pursue holiness.

985
00:54:47.400 --> 00:54:50.360
I have a new heart, a heart of flesh.

986
00:54:50.079 --> 00:54:52.559
And the spirit in me that would be motivating me

987
00:54:52.599 --> 00:54:55.320
to holiness. Nobody has to encourage me to holiness. I

988
00:54:55.320 --> 00:54:57.599
don't have to pursue holiness. I don't have to strive

989
00:54:57.679 --> 00:55:00.440
for holiness because holiness is inside of me.

990
00:55:00.760 --> 00:55:02.400
So I don't need to do anything.

991
00:55:02.599 --> 00:55:06.079
It should already just be natural, because now my nature

992
00:55:06.239 --> 00:55:07.920
has been totally transformed.

993
00:55:08.000 --> 00:55:09.559
So then why do you go to what passes say? Well,

994
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here's Paul.

995
00:55:10.440 --> 00:55:14.039
He's encouraging, he's imploring that, he's imploring Christians. Well, if

996
00:55:14.079 --> 00:55:17.639
he's imploring Christians, then you're arguing. Then you're making at

997
00:55:17.719 --> 00:55:21.519
least agreeing. The First Corinthians is a letter to Christians. Well,

998
00:55:21.559 --> 00:55:25.840
how are these Christians described? Let me see here and brethren,

999
00:55:25.920 --> 00:55:28.440
I could not speak under you as unto spiritual, but

1000
00:55:28.639 --> 00:55:32.039
as unto carnal. How can they be carnal if they

1001
00:55:32.079 --> 00:55:35.320
have a brand new spirit and a brand new heart.

1002
00:55:36.239 --> 00:55:39.079
Where is the carnality coming from? It's not coming from

1003
00:55:39.079 --> 00:55:41.760
inside the house, because you're making the argument that the

1004
00:55:41.800 --> 00:55:44.440
inside of the house has been completely cleaned out. So

1005
00:55:44.559 --> 00:55:51.199
where is it coming from?

1006
00:55:51.360 --> 00:55:53.480
Look at Ezekiel thirty six. Look at the language.

1007
00:55:53.480 --> 00:55:57.280
It's the idea of eradicating that basically all sin is gone,

1008
00:55:59.679 --> 00:56:02.719
because it's referring to a time that's not yet occurred,

1009
00:56:02.840 --> 00:56:07.599
when Israel is going to be completely redeemed, regenerated, and saved.

1010
00:56:08.320 --> 00:56:12.760
In the meantime, the gentiles have been grafted in and

1011
00:56:13.039 --> 00:56:17.199
Israel has been blinded to be provoked to jealousy. But

1012
00:56:17.239 --> 00:56:19.320
there will come a time that God will turn back

1013
00:56:19.360 --> 00:56:21.679
to Israel. Say and you say, well, that's dispensational. I

1014
00:56:21.719 --> 00:56:23.639
don't care what team you want to throw me on.

1015
00:56:23.920 --> 00:56:26.559
It's the only thing that makes any sense because Ezekiel

1016
00:56:26.639 --> 00:56:30.280
thirty six is clearly not the reality of any Christian

1017
00:56:30.400 --> 00:56:43.159
I have ever met.

1018
00:56:37.880 --> 00:56:40.840
And he missed lists a number of different powerful motives.

1019
00:56:40.880 --> 00:56:45.760
But again, look at First Corinthians chapter six, First Corinthians

1020
00:56:45.800 --> 00:56:49.599
chapter six, and notice what Paul says. A motive for

1021
00:56:49.800 --> 00:56:54.280
us to pursue holiness, to pursue purity. This is what

1022
00:56:54.360 --> 00:56:57.519
he says in First Corinthians six. Beginning in verse eighteen,

1023
00:57:00.559 --> 00:57:04.480
he says to them, flee sexual immorality. Every sin that

1024
00:57:04.559 --> 00:57:07.880
a man does is outside the body. That he who

1025
00:57:07.920 --> 00:57:12.320
commits sexual immorality sins against his own body. Or do

1026
00:57:12.360 --> 00:57:15.880
you not know that your body is the temple of

1027
00:57:16.000 --> 00:57:19.559
the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have

1028
00:57:19.760 --> 00:57:22.320
from God, and you are not your own for you

1029
00:57:22.480 --> 00:57:25.599
or bought at a price. Therefore, glorify God in your

1030
00:57:25.639 --> 00:57:26.960
body and in your spirit.

1031
00:57:29.079 --> 00:57:31.039
Now, if you're going to make the argument that the

1032
00:57:31.039 --> 00:57:36.199
spirit's inside of us, empowering us, transforming us, changing us,

1033
00:57:36.440 --> 00:57:38.480
doing all the things that we claim, and that we

1034
00:57:38.519 --> 00:57:41.239
have a new heart and a new nature, then why

1035
00:57:41.440 --> 00:57:44.159
I gotta flee sexual sin? Where is the desire for

1036
00:57:44.199 --> 00:57:47.960
sexual sin coming from? Because inside of me is God,

1037
00:57:48.159 --> 00:57:52.159
who supposedly is empowering me and has completely transformed me

1038
00:57:52.239 --> 00:57:54.519
on the inside. So the only thing I should be

1039
00:57:54.559 --> 00:58:00.639
desiring on the inside should be prayer, scripture, sermons, god theology,

1040
00:58:00.880 --> 00:58:05.880
god witnessing, just loving my enemy, loving my neighbor, loving God.

1041
00:58:06.239 --> 00:58:09.960
I basically, oh I should desire is holiness, holiness, holiness, holiness.

1042
00:58:10.559 --> 00:58:12.480
I should because that's all that's inside of.

1043
00:58:12.400 --> 00:58:28.280
Me, which are God's So why should Christians avoid sexual impurity? Well,

1044
00:58:28.320 --> 00:58:30.639
there are many reasons, of course, but this is one

1045
00:58:30.719 --> 00:58:36.519
of them. Sexual impurity defiles the temple of God, And

1046
00:58:36.559 --> 00:58:40.519
Paul says, don't you realize that your bodies are temples.

1047
00:58:40.559 --> 00:58:44.039
They're dwelling places of the Holy Spirit of God, who

1048
00:58:44.159 --> 00:58:46.760
dwells within you.

1049
00:58:46.239 --> 00:58:48.679
How can you do such a thing?

1050
00:58:48.800 --> 00:58:52.320
God has made your body his special dwelling place. How

1051
00:58:52.440 --> 00:58:56.400
dare you pollute it? How dare you desecrate the temple

1052
00:58:56.440 --> 00:58:59.519
of the Spirit of God with such sin?

1053
00:59:01.400 --> 00:59:02.559
And so Paul's whole.

1054
00:59:02.440 --> 00:59:06.280
Argument here hinges on the reality that the Holy Spirit

1055
00:59:06.400 --> 00:59:11.400
himself has made our persons his temple.

1056
00:59:11.880 --> 00:59:13.159
He dwells within us.

1057
00:59:13.199 --> 00:59:17.400
The Holy Spirit has made our human bodies.

1058
00:59:16.800 --> 00:59:19.679
And souls his home.

1059
00:59:21.840 --> 00:59:24.559
But now, what does it mean that the Holy Spirit

1060
00:59:24.639 --> 00:59:26.000
dwells in the saints.

1061
00:59:27.320 --> 00:59:30.119
Well. First of all, it doesn't mean that the.

1062
00:59:30.039 --> 00:59:34.519
Spirit of God is limited to dwelling in human bodies.

1063
00:59:34.760 --> 00:59:38.320
That's not what it means. We need to remember that the.

1064
00:59:38.280 --> 00:59:45.159
Holy Spirit, being God, is omnipresent. For example, someone thirty

1065
00:59:45.239 --> 00:59:47.679
nine to seven David asked this question, where can I

1066
00:59:47.760 --> 00:59:51.119
go from your spirit? Where can I flee from your presence?

1067
00:59:51.719 --> 00:59:55.280
And his bottom line answer was nowhere. He's in heaven,

1068
00:59:55.360 --> 00:59:59.000
he's in Hell, he's everywhere. You remember, how solemn, and

1069
00:59:59.039 --> 01:00:02.960
even in our scripture earlier in Acts made it very

1070
01:00:03.000 --> 01:00:05.480
clear that the Lord is not limited to dwelling in

1071
01:00:05.519 --> 01:00:09.880
physical homes or places, and so in that sense, the

1072
01:00:09.960 --> 01:00:15.960
Spirit is not confined spatially to any one location, because

1073
01:00:16.000 --> 01:00:21.480
the Holy Spirit is God and he has no physical limitations.

1074
01:00:22.920 --> 01:00:26.960
But he's chosen, you see, to manifest his special spiritual

1075
01:00:27.000 --> 01:00:28.800
presence in certain places.

1076
01:00:29.039 --> 01:00:30.719
Of course, in heaven we know that.

1077
01:00:31.400 --> 01:00:34.719
But in his church corporately, Ephesians two twenty two tells

1078
01:00:34.800 --> 01:00:38.639
us you also being built together for a dwelling place

1079
01:00:38.719 --> 01:00:41.559
of God in the spirit, and brothers and sisters when

1080
01:00:41.599 --> 01:00:43.760
we gather together corporately.

1081
01:00:43.280 --> 01:00:44.000
As a church.

1082
01:00:44.960 --> 01:00:48.079
But the Spirit of Christ is present here in a

1083
01:00:48.559 --> 01:00:50.320
very special way.

1084
01:00:51.000 --> 01:00:52.320
We need to appreciate that.

1085
01:00:53.280 --> 01:00:56.679
But He's also chosen to make every single believer, every

1086
01:00:56.800 --> 01:01:00.239
child of God, his special dwelling as well.

1087
01:01:00.000 --> 01:01:00.159
Well.

1088
01:01:00.239 --> 01:01:04.800
Our bodies are indeed the temple of the Holy Spirit

1089
01:01:04.840 --> 01:01:05.159
of God.

1090
01:01:05.199 --> 01:01:09.159
Now, what are the purposes for him in dwelling us?

1091
01:01:09.880 --> 01:01:11.119
Why is this a big deal?

1092
01:01:13.000 --> 01:01:16.880
And the answer to that question could really take several sermons,

1093
01:01:16.920 --> 01:01:18.880
and you'll be happy to know that We're not going

1094
01:01:18.960 --> 01:01:21.599
to give you several sermons this morning.

1095
01:01:21.800 --> 01:01:22.719
I'm not going to do that.

1096
01:01:24.360 --> 01:01:27.280
But essentially, the Holy Spirit has come to dwell in

1097
01:01:27.360 --> 01:01:32.239
the hearts of God's people in order to communicate to

1098
01:01:32.559 --> 01:01:38.400
us the grace of Christ, to sanctify us, to make

1099
01:01:38.519 --> 01:01:41.480
us holy after the image of Christ.

1100
01:01:43.480 --> 01:01:45.119
Okay, so we've circled back.

1101
01:01:45.679 --> 01:01:48.119
We always circle back the Holy spirits in you to

1102
01:01:48.159 --> 01:01:52.519
sanctify you and to make you holy. Now, if the

1103
01:01:52.559 --> 01:01:57.199
Holy Spirit's do in disanctifying, this is just the basic question. Look,

1104
01:01:58.239 --> 01:02:00.480
people may think I'm trying to be antagonist, I'm trying

1105
01:02:00.480 --> 01:02:03.199
to be played devil's advocate. These are just questions I

1106
01:02:03.239 --> 01:02:05.679
have struggled with my entire Christian life, and no matter

1107
01:02:05.760 --> 01:02:08.639
how many schools I've gone to how many degrees I've obtained,

1108
01:02:08.760 --> 01:02:12.320
Nobody has yet provided anything close to a reasonable answer.

1109
01:02:12.599 --> 01:02:14.519
If God is the one.

1110
01:02:14.480 --> 01:02:18.960
Sanctifying, if God is the one making holy, then any

1111
01:02:19.079 --> 01:02:22.400
lack of sanctification and any lack of holiness in your life,

1112
01:02:22.440 --> 01:02:25.480
for my life is the fault of God, because God is.

1113
01:02:25.400 --> 01:02:26.440
The one doing it.

1114
01:02:26.519 --> 01:02:28.239
And if you say, well, well, well God is doing it,

1115
01:02:28.239 --> 01:02:30.800
but you've got to let him, I've got to let him.

1116
01:02:31.000 --> 01:02:33.599
So if I just say, right now, God, make me perfect,

1117
01:02:34.000 --> 01:02:39.119
I let you am I perfect? And if God is

1118
01:02:39.119 --> 01:02:41.039
the one, if God wants me to be holy, and

1119
01:02:41.079 --> 01:02:43.440
he's the one making me holy, why wouldn't he change

1120
01:02:43.440 --> 01:02:46.440
my let Why wouldn't he change my want to wanting

1121
01:02:46.599 --> 01:02:47.159
and letting?

1122
01:02:47.320 --> 01:02:49.119
So then he could then just have full reign.

1123
01:02:49.320 --> 01:02:51.239
And so if if all I have to do is

1124
01:02:51.320 --> 01:02:54.280
let God, then you're telling me every Christian possesses the

1125
01:02:54.360 --> 01:02:57.280
ability to be absolutely perfect and to be as holy

1126
01:02:57.320 --> 01:02:57.800
as God.

1127
01:02:57.960 --> 01:02:59.679
All we have to do is let him do it.

1128
01:03:00.079 --> 01:03:09.159
I just know one, let him do it. They should

1129
01:03:09.199 --> 01:03:12.320
be very simple and very straightforward. Let God do it. Boom,

1130
01:03:12.360 --> 01:03:17.199
You're perfect.

1131
01:03:17.960 --> 01:03:22.039
Now, almost all Christians acknowledge nobody can be perfect. All right,

1132
01:03:22.079 --> 01:03:23.880
then that means if no one's im perfect or in

1133
01:03:23.920 --> 01:03:25.960
a perpetual state of sin, but God is the one

1134
01:03:26.000 --> 01:03:29.000
supposedly doing the sanctifying. If God is doing the sanctifying,

1135
01:03:29.960 --> 01:03:32.920
why can't God get anyone to perfection? What is keeping

1136
01:03:32.960 --> 01:03:35.320
me from perfection? If you say, if you try to say, well,

1137
01:03:35.320 --> 01:03:36.360
what's keeping me perfection?

1138
01:03:36.559 --> 01:03:36.800
Is me?

1139
01:03:37.599 --> 01:03:39.960
I'm the one keeping me for perfection? Wait a minute,

1140
01:03:40.079 --> 01:03:42.920
what would be in me that would resist God from

1141
01:03:42.920 --> 01:03:47.280
getting me to perfection? Because according to Christian teaching, there

1142
01:03:47.880 --> 01:03:49.880
I have a new heart, I have the Holy.

1143
01:03:49.639 --> 01:03:52.199
Spirit in me. What is the thing keeping it from me?

1144
01:03:52.480 --> 01:03:53.760
Is there still sin in me?

1145
01:03:54.039 --> 01:03:54.159
Now?

1146
01:03:54.159 --> 01:03:55.960
If they're still sin in me, where is the sin?

1147
01:03:56.159 --> 01:03:58.239
Because you said I have a new heart, and many

1148
01:03:58.280 --> 01:04:00.320
go so far to say a new nature, a new heart,

1149
01:04:00.400 --> 01:04:02.599
and a new spirit. Well, if I have all of that,

1150
01:04:02.960 --> 01:04:05.480
what is the sin? What is the thing keeping me

1151
01:04:06.000 --> 01:04:08.360
pushing the Holy Spirit back to get me to perfection?

1152
01:04:08.800 --> 01:04:12.079
There's got and whatever is holding me back from getting

1153
01:04:12.119 --> 01:04:13.719
to perfection is greater.

1154
01:04:13.480 --> 01:04:14.440
Than the Holy Spirit.

1155
01:04:25.280 --> 01:04:28.440
If everything on the inside has been changed, then there's

1156
01:04:28.719 --> 01:04:35.000
the only thing on the inside should just be complete. Like, hey, right,

1157
01:04:35.800 --> 01:04:37.199
we'll just listen to a little bit more and wrap

1158
01:04:37.239 --> 01:04:39.880
this up. Everything on the inside basically should be just like, hey,

1159
01:04:39.880 --> 01:04:40.760
go ahead, go ahead.

1160
01:04:40.920 --> 01:04:42.599
I interrupted myself there, but okay.

1161
01:04:44.760 --> 01:04:50.840
That's his primary purpose to bring the blessings of Christ's

1162
01:04:50.840 --> 01:04:56.400
redemption home to us sinners as we were. And yet

1163
01:04:56.440 --> 01:04:59.440
the spirit of God has been commissioned as the one

1164
01:04:59.559 --> 01:05:03.159
of in the Godhead. He's going to come and communicate

1165
01:05:03.639 --> 01:05:07.679
the blessings that Christ has procured for us at Calvary.

1166
01:05:08.039 --> 01:05:12.119
He brings them to us. He's the one who delivers

1167
01:05:12.159 --> 01:05:15.000
them to us, you see.

1168
01:05:15.880 --> 01:05:19.679
And so for example, he's been given as the one

1169
01:05:19.679 --> 01:05:22.480
who enlightens our minds in the truth. He's the spirit

1170
01:05:22.519 --> 01:05:26.360
of truth. He's the spirit of enlightenment. He's come to

1171
01:05:26.440 --> 01:05:30.760
be our spiritual helper and our spiritual sanctify her. He's

1172
01:05:30.840 --> 01:05:33.400
come to strengthen us with might and the inner man

1173
01:05:33.440 --> 01:05:36.920
through his spirit. He's called the comforter, the one who

1174
01:05:36.960 --> 01:05:40.639
brings comfort to our hearts. He's the one who enables

1175
01:05:40.719 --> 01:05:44.519
us to produce spiritual fruit. We saw that in Galatians five.

1176
01:05:45.199 --> 01:05:48.599
He causes us and helps us to pray. He's the

1177
01:05:48.639 --> 01:05:52.599
spirit of grace and supplication. He works faith in us,

1178
01:05:52.639 --> 01:05:55.880
he works assurance in us. As the spirit of adoption.

1179
01:05:56.480 --> 01:05:58.800
He leads us to put sin to death here in

1180
01:05:58.920 --> 01:06:02.320
Romans thirteen. We're going to see that in the next

1181
01:06:02.320 --> 01:06:05.559
week or two. As well, he causes us to enables

1182
01:06:05.679 --> 01:06:08.719
us to walk in God's statutes God's law. As we've

1183
01:06:08.760 --> 01:06:10.760
noted several times in previous.

1184
01:06:10.360 --> 01:06:16.000
Sermons, he enables us to walk in God's law.

1185
01:06:17.800 --> 01:06:20.280
You guess where we guess where we guess where we've

1186
01:06:20.360 --> 01:06:23.320
ended back. I guess where we ended back in. We've

1187
01:06:23.400 --> 01:06:25.800
ended back up with that. You can keep the law

1188
01:06:32.159 --> 01:06:36.880
like everything, this is just the standard teaching and creator. Look,

1189
01:06:37.000 --> 01:06:39.960
I'm not even criticizing this sermon. Everything he's saying is

1190
01:06:40.159 --> 01:06:46.679
standard typical Christian teaching. There's nothing outside of the norm

1191
01:06:46.920 --> 01:06:50.519
of basic Christian teaching. This is the standard. There's nothing here.

1192
01:06:50.719 --> 01:06:53.760
But it just leaves you anyone who's who thinks about well,

1193
01:06:53.760 --> 01:06:55.280
wait a minute, wait a minute. Okay, so the Holy

1194
01:06:55.320 --> 01:06:58.360
Spirit does all of these things. But what where did

1195
01:06:58.400 --> 01:07:04.719
we start this? No one keeps God's law be holy

1196
01:07:04.760 --> 01:07:07.039
as God is holy. No one has ever accomplished that.

1197
01:07:08.360 --> 01:07:10.840
All right, Therefore, you're in a perpetual state of sin.

1198
01:07:12.679 --> 01:07:14.760
You can say all of this stuff, it does not

1199
01:07:14.920 --> 01:07:18.480
change those two realities. You do not keep the law

1200
01:07:18.559 --> 01:07:20.639
of God because to do so would mean you have

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to be perfect. Nobody is perfect. Therefore you're in a

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perpetual state of sin. So we can talk up all

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the big game that the Holy Spirit does this and

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this and this and this and this and this and

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this and this and this and this and this and this.

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The reality contradicts all the claims. And again, if you

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disagree with me, fine, go live your perfection. Go be perfect.

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That's all you got to do. You don't argue with me.

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You don't have to prove to me you're perfect. Just

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go be perfect. You tell everyone, don't listen to theology central,

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come and follow me because I keep the law of

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God perfectly as he is Holy.

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Ah I am holy. Go preach that. Tell everyone that.

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Just make sure you don't let anyone actually see who

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you really are, because sooner or later that facade's going

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to fall apart and everyone's going to see. You're a

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sinner and thought word. Indeed, by what you do, by

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what you leave undone, you are a sin against God externally,

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you sin that God against God. Internally, you sin with

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your desires, your wants, your feelings, your emotions. We are

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in a perpetual state of sin because we still have

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a sin nature. We still are corrupt on the inside.

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The call is still coming from inside the house, and

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we still are a sinner. And this is just telling

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you none of that reality is true, because all of

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that sin is just one bye bye.

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But in short, the Holy Spirit is the person of

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the Godhead who communicates all spiritual life and grace and

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sanctifying influence in our souls, uniting.

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Us to the Lord.

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Jesus is Christ our head, and he is the fulfillment

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in this life of that great covenant promise that God said,

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I will dwell in my people.

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And he just went back to Ezekiel thirty six, which

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was about Israel. We can't get out of this circle,

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can we.

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We can't break free. We cannot break free from this

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now remember.

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The book six Secrets of the Christian Life. Their argument

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is all of that is true about us inside, all

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of that is true, all of this is true. We

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have that spirit, we have that power, we have that ability.

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It's all right there. The problem is my body is dead,

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and so therefore my body can't respond to all of that.

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Now he hasn't got into that yet. He hasn't got

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into the part of the body being dead. So we'll

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stop here because is where it's seventy minutes.

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But we will come.

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Back to this one because I want to see if

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he's going to I mean, the way he's made it

1251
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sound you basically you're on.

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Your way to perfection. You should be pretty close to it. Now.

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Is he going when he talks about the body being dead?

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Is he gonna go.

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Hard?

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You turn and go, well, well, wait.

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A minute, wait a minute, even though the spirit does

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all of this, even though basically you should be perfect, well, well,

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the reality is we're all still sinners.

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Well, oh man, I don't even understand then.

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Now I remember, I've given you every opportunity to map

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it out yourself, map it all out.

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How does it all work? Now?

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What most Christians will just do is claim to basically

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be almost sinless, or they'll say, well, it's not you're

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not perfect, it's just the overall. They'll try to they'll

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try to kind of quant qualify it and try to

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and it's like, but it's still it will.

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Fall apart all right.

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Oh man, I wanted to get further. I wanted to

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get further, But I think that's a. I mean, hey

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that Look, there's nothing I want to make it very clear,

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even though I disagree with this sermon, everything he's saying

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is standard basic Christianity. There's nothing outside of the norm

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of Christianity. This is the typical teaching you'll hear in

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every church. This is the typical teaching you hear in

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most Bible colleges, most seminaries. It's the basic concept. It's taught,

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oh everywhere. It is the norm. Very few who would

1279
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disagree with it. All I'm saying is you go with

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that theory. Well, first the Ezekiel thirty six things. Some

1281
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should disagree with that because that's just that's just crazy.

1282
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But all I'm saying is it's not about arguing or disagreeing.

1283
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It's about just stating the facts. Look at your own life.

1284
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Do you continue to sin? Where is the sin coming from?

1285
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Where is the sin originating? Jesus seems to say a

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sin originates from inside. Well, if I'm still sinning, that

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means I'm still sinful on the inside. Why am I

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still sinful on the inside? If supposedly I have a

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new nature, a new heart, and a new spirit, And

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if the spirit's on the inside.

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Why don't you get rid of the sin that's on

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the inside.

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Unless he's there simply as a reminder that he is

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there because of grace and because of I am declared

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perfect because of an imputed righteousness.

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Right, Maybe I don't know all right.

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The point is Christianity wants to believe that we're all

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We're better than everyone else, We're better than them, it's

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them versus us, and that.

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We're the good guys in the story.

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We're the good guys, we're the heroes, we're the perfect ones,

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we're the pure ones, We're the godly ones. Two thousand

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01:12:45.840 --> 01:12:49.039
years of church history demonstrates I'm going forget two thousand

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01:12:49.119 --> 01:12:51.039
years of church history. You just look at your own

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01:12:51.039 --> 01:12:53.560
life today. Come on, your own life.

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Have you today been as holy as God? As holy?

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Have you loved God today with all your heartlind, body,

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and soul. Have you loved your neighbor as yourself? Have

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you been selfless or selfish? Have you put others before you?

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Have you loved your enemies?

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Have you gossiped? Have you slandered? Have you been filled

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with anger, bitterness, unforgiveness, wrath? I can go on and

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on and on and on and on at some point

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you'd be like, well, and I know the Early Church

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believe that we continue to sin.

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That's why the Confessions of Sin is there. That's why

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these confessions are there. I could say to her and read

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another one, but yeah, yeah, yeah, I was reading one

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from Augustine. But I'll just stop there. Thanks for listening, everyone,

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have a good day.

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God bless