Sept. 1, 2024

Romans: Jew and Gentile

Romans: Jew and Gentile

Which sections in the book of Romans is written to Jews and which sections are to gentiles?

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Which sections in the book of Romans is written to Jews and which sections are to gentiles?

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All right, Book of Romans. Book of Romans.

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Last week I put forth a somewhat controversial theory. This morning,

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in the first hour, I doubled down on that controversial

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theory and tried to justify it.

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So let's remind everyone what we're doing.

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We are going through the Book of Romans looking at

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all the their force. Right, We're going through the Book

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of Romans looking at all of their force. And what

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we discovered a couple of things. We discovered a couple

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of things. First. The first thing. One of the things

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we demonstrated is that in the Book of Romans there

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are four basic Greek words that are translated Therefore, right,

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we have dia, we have oon, we have aura, and

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we have Hostay. Right, those are the four green words.

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I'm just going for memory there. So if I stated

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them incorrectly, okay, well correct it. As we moved through

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four move forward. We also discovered, or I discovered and

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preparing everything, that there is a fifth Greek word that's

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really a combination of two Greek words, and we will

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get to that when we get to chapter four. What

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we noticed about these four Greek words is that each

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one gives a unique perspective or difference to how the

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therefore is being utilized. Right, So we decided, okay, therefore

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is used about twenty seven to thirty three to thirty

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three times, depending on translation. We've got the four Greek words.

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These four Greek words give a unique emphasis for each

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use of the therefore the wherefore, depending on how it's translated.

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We went through all of that, We covered all of that.

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Then we went to Romans one twenty four and we

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got the first use, right, and the first use, and

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that is Romans one twenty four where we read these

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words wherefore God gave them up. God gave them up.

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And immediately I was like, we've got we're gonna deal

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with this, and we're gonna deal with this in a

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unique way. So I provided a completely different interpretation of

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Romans one eighteen all the way to the end of

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the chapter. All right, I will just remind everyone briefly

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what that unique interpretation was. I'm not here obviously debated

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in this hour, but we covered it all last week,

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and we covered it the last hour. But let me

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at least let's try to get this down. The last hour.

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I told everyone to write down two words. Those two

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words were faith and reality. Faith and reality, and I

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argue that faith and reality should be connected and in agreement.

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There should be perfect harmony between.

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Faith and reality.

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However, I think that the majority of Christianity, about ninety

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five ninety eight percent of Christianity, lives a life where

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faith in reality are in conflict. But what makes it

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worse is that they they convince themselves that faith in

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reality is in agreement by creating a fake reality. Christians

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live a life where they believe faith in reality or

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an agreement, but it's based off a fake reality which

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they have created. And my entire Christian life has been

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a struggle with arguing against this fake reality and arguing

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for a faith in reality that actually agrees with reality.

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And this puts me in conflict with Christianity my entire life.

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But I'm going to continue to be in arguments with

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Christians because I think Christians are delusional and they live

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in a fantasy world and they won't face reality. Because

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if you face reality, it's not what Christians claim that

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it is. Let me help you with a couple of

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examples that I mentioned in the first hour. The best example,

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the easiest example, is charismatic theology. Charismatic theology says when

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Jesus died upon the cross, Now I did he pay

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for our sins, but in his blood he made what

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available to everyone in this life, physical healing. By his stripes.

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We are healed, they will say. And so all you

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have to do is believe and you will be healed.

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What does reality say? That's total trash. It's a lie,

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it's not true. So what do charismatics do to work

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that out in their brains? You don't have enough faith,

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so they can try to make it work, but it

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doesn't work. It's a lie. They think faith in reality

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and agreement, but no, that it's faith and they're made

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up reality. And anyone with a brain can look and go,

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you're out of your absolute ever living minds. I worked

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with charismatics who would claim this nonsense, and then they

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needed me to give them an appointment. I'm like, you

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don't get an appointment. You're a charismatic. Go heal yourself.

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Get out of my hospital, you lying hypocrites.

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Okay, No, I couldn't say that. I had to give

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them an appointment.

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Okay, then, but why why are you needing an appointment?

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You know how irritate? I just listened to the sermon

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from your church last night. We all were claiming everybody

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was being healed. Why didn't you get held? Your church

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is a liar. You're a liar. Get out of my face.

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That's why I hate charismatic theology. Have nothing to do

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with charismatic theology, and any church that has charismatic theology,

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I don't even accept it as being a church because

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charismatic theology is a poison. I hate it. And why

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do I hate it? Because the faith in reality doesn't match.

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But wait, that's easy for me to condemn them, right

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because I'm not one of them, and I would never

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be one of them. If I had to choose between

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the First Satanic Temple of Salem or a charismatic church.

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I'm going to the First Satanic Temple of Salem. And

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you think that's hyperbole, but it's not because I'm not

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going to a charismatic church. I can't stand it. They're

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a delusional, they're insane.

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But wait now, let's get closer to home.

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Almost all of evangelical Christianity teaches that when you become

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a Christian, you can put in the dramatic music dun dada, duh.

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You become a superhero.

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Now you understand the Bible. Before you couldn't understand it.

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Now you can because the Holy Spirit is guiding you

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and the Holy Spirit is teaching you. That's total, complete

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bogus garbage lie, because if that was true, there wouldn't

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be a thousand different denominations and complete disagreement on everything.

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When the Bible says the Holy Spirit will lead you

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to all truth. It's not about us. It was about

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the disciples and the ones who wrote the New Testament,

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not us. Right, we claim that now that you're a Christian,

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dun dun da da, you have superpowers because the Old

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is gone. And behold, if anyone's in crisis, a new creature.

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

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wait a minute. If that's the case, then we should

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never sin, but we continue to sin. Well, how can

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I continue in if the old is gone and I'm

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a new creature. Clearly, that is an absolute, not true statement.

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It's true positionally, it's not true practically. I could go

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on and on and on. Christians make up and live

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in a fantasy world where they think that they have

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power and things are happening that are not happening. You

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know what you are. You were a sinner. You know

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what you were before you were saved, a sinner. You

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know where you were saved, what you are after you

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were saved a sinner? You know what you continue to

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do sin. You don't have any power, You don't have

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any special understanding because guess what, you can't understand this

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any better than you did before you got saved. Now

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you just listen to someone tell you what it means,

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and now you think you know something. In most cases,

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you can't even explain how you figured it out. Yes, okay,

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I know that makes no one happy. But we're not superheroes.

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We're sinners who believe in God. That's faith in reality.

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So when we came to Romans one, I'm gonna have

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to go through this quickly. Romans one twenty four says,

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wherefore God gave them up? I believe God gave them up?

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Refers to I know this is gonna make everyone mad,

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all of us. God has given all of us, saved

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and unsaved up to. What What has he given us

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up to? He's given us up to our sinful nature

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and our sinful heart. How do I know this? Because

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even as a believer. Can you be perfect? If you

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can't be perfect, that means there's something keeping you from perfection,

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meaning that that does what controls you?

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Did everyone hear me?

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If I cannot get to perfection, then something is stopping

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me from getting there. And if something is stopping from

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getting me there, then what can we say about that?

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It's in control? So what is in control of you?

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And what is in control of me? Send nature? If

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you tell me no, the Holy Spirit's in charge of you, well,

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then do what be perfect? Can you be perfect? So

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I will argue that we've all been given And when

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you go through Romans one, people get upset, but we'll

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just read. I'm going to read it quickly because we're

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going to go to chapter two, verse one, because that's

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where the next there four is. So this is going

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to flow carefully. Everybody ready, all right? For the wrath

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of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness. You

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are ungodly before you were saved. You are ungodly after

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you were saved. What is the change? Positionally? Now you

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are godly practically, But though the only thing changed was

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your position, right and unrighteousness of men who hold the

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truth and unrighteousness. We are still unrighteous, and I know

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you don't want to believe this. Even as believers we

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hold the truth and unrighteousness. We still hold the truth

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in unrighteousness because we are unrighteous people who hold up

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a Bible and guess what.

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We do with it.

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We twist it, we manipulate it, we make it say

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what we wanted to say. We misunderstand it, we misinterpret it.

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We're guilty of it all the time. All right, Amen,

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All right? Because that which was maybe known of God

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has manifested in them. For God has showed it unto them.

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For the invisible things of Him from the creation of

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the world are clearly seeing being understood by the things

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that are made, even eternal power in Godhead, so that

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they're without excuse. That describes everyone. God has revealed himself

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to everyone through creation and through what is written on

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our hearts. Right, So we're all there because that when

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they knew God, they glorified him, not as God. Neither

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were thankful, but became vain in their imaginations, and their

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foolish heart was darkened. That describes all of mankind. And

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even as a Christian, I know you're not gonna want

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to believe this. Are you always do you always glorify

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God as a Christian? No? Are you always thankful?

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No?

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Guess what? Do we become vain in our imagine and

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our foolish heart is darkened. Your foolish heart is still

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darkened and we become vain in our imaginations constantly. Yes,

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that's why. It's things we think and do professing themselves

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to be wise, they became fools, I said. And the

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last hour that verse verse twenty two should be the

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written in front of every church. That's what church is.

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We walk through the door professing white to be wise,

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and what do we demonstrate before we leave that were fools?

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We argue, we fight, we can't get along, We debate,

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we say, I'm right, No, you're wrong, I'm right, my

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interpretation is right. You don't know what you're talking about.

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That's all we do. That church is where Christians come

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to pretend to be wise. And what do we do

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when we walk out the door. In many cases, before

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we even get home, we're yelling and screaming at each

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other and already demonstrating that we're not even following what

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we just heard in the sermon. Right, Yes, that's everyone

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that's all people were just like that. I know nobody

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wants to admit it. It's true. We change the glory

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of the uncorruptible God into an image made like corruptible,

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demanned birds, four footed beasts, and creeping things. Now we

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know that's describing an actual idolatry of making an image.

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But we are all guilty of creating an image of

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God that is not true? Right? Are we not all idolators?

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Everyone in this room is an idolatry before you were

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saved and after you were saved. And guess what wherefore

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God gave them up? So here is how this works.

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Adam and Eve were created, they sin, and what did

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all of humanity do? What was the inevitable conclusion?

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That?

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Therefore there is dia? It means inevitable, It's a conclusion.

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It has to happen God. What was the result of

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this downward? God gave them up, He gave us all up.

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As a believer, you have been given up to what

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your sin nature? How can I prove it? What's the

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proof that you've been given up to your sin nature? Well,

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reality that you cannot be perfect. Let me state it again.

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the thing that's keeping me from perfection. All you gotta

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do to prove me wrong is go prove that you

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can be without sin. Anybody want to take me and

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I've challenged everyone on that a million times. People will

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still argue with me, but no one has been able

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to prove what that they can be perfect to. Usually

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in their argument with me, they will demonstrate sin in

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the very argument. So then I'm like, all you're doing

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is proving me right. If I cannot get to perfection,

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what does that mean I am being controlled by something?

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What am I being controlled for by? Obviously sin? So

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God has given me up to that sin? He said, Well, no,

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he's not given Now that I'm saved, I'm not given

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up to that sin. Well, then you can be perfect.

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Now what happens now? I know, oh man, every Christian

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in the world will get mad at me, all right,

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but I'm just gonna go through this quickly, all right.

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So guess what he gave them up to? The uncleanliness,

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to the lust of their own hearts. We've been given

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up to uncleanliness and the lust of our own hearts

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if you don't believe that you're living a lie to

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dishonor their own bodies between themselves who change the truth

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of God into a lie. Worshiped and serve the creature

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more than the creator. Everyone in this room worships and

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serves the creation more than the Creator. We love the

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things of this world. Don't act like we don't. Even

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churches like what they will cancel preaching for fun, food

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and activity. Why because we love fun, food and activity

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more than we love God. Look at your life do

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you spend? Have you gotten rid of all worldly entertainment

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so you can just span your life reading your Bible,

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listening to the Bible, and listening to sermons. You know

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you haven't because you love the creation more than the creator.

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We are all guilty of it. Why do we do that?

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everyone got that all right? For this cause? God gave

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them up to vile affection, for even their women to

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change their natural use into that which is against nature,

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and likewise the man leaving the natural use of the woman.

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The natural use whenever we engage in any sexual sin,

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right that is outside God's prescriptive rules. Then guess what

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we're doing. We're doing that which is not natural because

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it's going against God's natural order. Just what that includes homosexuality,

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but it also includes what every other kind of sexual sin, adultery, fornication,

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and loss, pornography. Just go on and on and on

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and on and on and on it. I know, we

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just want to yell. They said. This is where the

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church just says, those stink and vile homosexuals, We are

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not like them. Oh, just because you don't commit that's

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in You aren't just like them. They're no different than

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them other than your sexual preference. Okay, you're just like them.

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But it's true. You're just like them. You're no different

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than them. The only difference is their preference. Oh that's

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gonna not be popular. Okay, but then look, just to

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know that this goes beyond homosexuality. Look at what happened

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in verse twenty nine. Being filled with all on righteousness,

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that's all of us because we're on righteousness. Wait, what's

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next word? Oh no, we left homosexuality. Now we're over

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to heterosexuals fornication. I don't know the Greek word. There

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is probably pornia. If it is, that means what. That's

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where we get the word pornography. That means all sexual immorality,

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means all sexual immorality. Right, okay, wickedness? Oh wait, what's next?

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Oh no, you're gonna put consciousness in the same place

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where you put homosexuality. How dare you? Because conveciousness and

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packs whom pretty much all of us? Oh wait, maliciousness,

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full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity, whispers backbiters. I

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think I'm talking about church now, haters of God, spiteful

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proud boasters and ventures of evil things, disobedient to parents.

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And we could go all the way through it. My

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argument is, my theory is this God has given us

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all up to our sinful nature, and when we are saved,

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what is the difference is that positionally I am perfect, holy, righteous,

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How do I know I'm given up to the same

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sinful nature because I cannot be perfect. If I cannot

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be perfect, that which will not allow me to be

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perfect has by definition control I know, Christians gonna say, no,

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you've got the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit's in control. Well,

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if the Holy Spirit's in control, then the Holy Spirit

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obviously doesn't want me to be perfect. And if the

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Holy Spirit doesn't want me to be perfect, then you're

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gonna say, then the Holy Spirit's the one keeping me

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back from perfection. Well, now you've got a really philological problem.

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up to this. In nature, the sin nature is in control,

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and whatever the Holy Spirit's doing inside, it's more for

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sealing and demonstrating ownership and demonstrating that I belong to God,

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even though God is not actively involved in doing what

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getting me to perfection, because if it was actively involved

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and giving me to perfection, by this point, the world

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be like, you want to see perfect people who never lie,

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who never gossip, who never slander, who never back by,

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who never get divorced, who never commit sexual sin. Just

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find Christians. But does the world say that no, because

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the world knows that you sin, just like your kids

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know that you sin. Your kids know what you say,

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your kids know how you act. Kids see when you're kind, generous, loving, compassionate,

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and when you're rude and back bite when your gossip,

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when you're talking about people. They know it, and the

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problem is in their minds. They have to reconcile all

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the garbage you say that Christianity does with the reality

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that they see in their home. And usually they can't

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reconcile the two. So what conclusion did they sometimes come to?

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Christianity doesn't work.

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It's not real.

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And I can't blame them from coming to that conclusion.

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we taught them a wrong understanding of Christianity. Christianity is

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about being declared to be something we are not. Now

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that brings us right to chapter two, verse one. I

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know it is a long review again, but that's okay.

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I got to drive those points home.

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What is the very first word in chapter two, verse one?

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Therefore we have the next.

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Therefore, So we've covered the first one over and over.

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That's multiple times covering it. I think we've got the

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first one down. Everyone feels comfortable with the first one,

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all right, the first one, this one, the second one.

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It says, therefore, thou art all right, this is dia again,

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same Greek word dia all right, and as a different emphasis,

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it's often used to draw more emphatic or summarizing conclusion,

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sometimes with a sense of inevitability.

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It's the same Greek word that was used in one

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All right, this is a conclusion, and it is inevitable.

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What is what is inevitable from? Because this chapter two,

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verse one goes back to verse eighteen Chapter one, Chapter two,

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verse one goes to one eighteen eighteen through following, Now,

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what's the inevitable conclusion of chapter one eighteen to verse

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thirty two? What is the inevitable conclusion? Therefore thou art inexcusable?

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Nobody is inexcusable, because we're all guilty. Now I want

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to jump right into two one. But we have a

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problem here. Okay, let me explain.

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I'm going to read one commentary.

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You ready. Paul shifts in chapter two to one from

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discussing the Gentiles to addressing the Jews. Now I want

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to move on, but we're going to have to talk

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about something. All right, everybody ready thinking caps on?

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You ready? All right?

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Little hermeneutics kind of class a little bit. It is

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commonly taught that in the Book of Romans there are

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sections where Paul is addressing gentile and there are sections

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where he's addressing Jews, because the Roman Church was made

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up of both. So it is basically taught you have

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to identify the section where he's talking to Jews and

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you have to identify the section where he's talking to Gentiles,

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because that greatly impacts your interpretation of said book. Right,

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about Romans, I could say which sections are Jewish, which

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sections are Gentile. If they don't know, then I know

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there's really no point in arguing with him because I

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don't even know the basic structure of the book. All right,

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That's a good way of you know, that sometimes can

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be the frustrating thing because people constantly will argue about

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things in a Bible without actually knowing some of these

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deeper concepts, like do you know that there are four

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different Greek words translated therefore.

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In the Book of Romans. If you don't, you don't

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even know them the emphasis they each like.

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There's always no matter what you know, there's always all

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these different layers that helps you understand the book. That's

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the hard part about interpreting the Bible. Does everyone understand that.

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take this idea that there's Jewish and gentile sections, and

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we're just gonna see if we can identify the sections.

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All Right, I know this is going to remove us

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from therefore, but this first therefore is almost inevitably seen

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as a transition from a Jewish to a gentile perspective.

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I'm going to I'm not I don't know if I'm

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always in agreement with it, but I'm going to go

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through the basic ways that this is broken down.

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Does that make sense?

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As one source says, it is common in interpreting Romans

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to see a to see certain sections as primary addressing

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the gentiles and others as primarily addressing the Jews. This

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distinction is based on Paul's intention to address both groups

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in the Roman Church, which was made up of Jewish

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and gentile believers. Understanding which sections are directed to each

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group is crucial because it helps clarify the specific Paul

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points Paul is making to different audience, especially concerning law, sin, judgment,

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and God's plan of salvation. So do you want to

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go through the Book of Romans and see if we

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can outline these sections. Do you want to see if

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we can do that? Did you have something?

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Moralist? Okay?

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So are those Jewish moralists gentile moralists?

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Ok? All right? Right, so yeah, there's always like what

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is happening here? But we do know this and two

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to one as soon as we see therefore, we know

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there's some transition is occurring. Right. I think this is

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just the he's bringing the inevitable consequence of eighteen to

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thirty two. But we will go through. So here's the

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basic way it's broken down. You're ready. I'm going to

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give you all the sections that are typically labeled the

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gentile sections. Now, sometimes the Bible college, your seminary, you

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may be given a test where okay, all right, you

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come to class. Guess what you have to do this hour.

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You gotta go through the Bible and you're gotta show

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me which sections are Jewish, which sections are gentile? Go, right,

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so you guys do that and let me know what

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you find out. Right now, I'm joking, I'm joking. Okay,

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everybody ready. The first section that typically is addressed to

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gentiles is Romans one, eighteen to thirty two. All right,

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this is how this is typically described Paul addresses to gentiles,

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emphasizing their sinfulness and rejection of God's revelation and creation.

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those who do not have the Mosaic law but are

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still accountable to God's standards because of the natural revelation.

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and you want the gentiles to know that you're guilty

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and you are without excuse even though you don't have

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what the Mosaic law. And why are you still without excuse?

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Because what can be known if God has made manifest

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in creation? Right? So that's the uh. They say, this

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is focusing on gentiles. Now I may be focusing on gentiles,

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but I'm gonna argue it's ultimately describing everyone. But Chapter

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two is going to basically re emphasize that fact. But okay,

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so we'll say eighteen to thirty how many verses thirty two?

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we're gonna see the main emphasis. Right, The emphasis is

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what you are guilty even though you don't have what

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the Mosaic law. So, in other words, with the Mosaic

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law or without the mo Isaiah law, we are guilty.

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Right that we can all agree to that? Okay, I

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think so. Right, next chapter eleven thirteen to twenty four,

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go to Romans eleven. I know it's a big jump,

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is it not? Eleven thirteen to twenty four? You're ready

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to read thirteen to twenty four? All right, here we go.

464
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Look now, I like this one. And here's the reason

465
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I like this one eleven thirteen. For I speak to

466
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you gentiles insomuch I'm the apostle of the gentiles. I

467
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magnify my office if by any means I may provoke

468
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to emulation them which are my flesh. He's trying to

469
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provoke those who are his flesh. Who is Paul's flesh? Jews? Right?

470
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And he might save some of them? For if the

471
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casting away of them, who is the them the Jews,

472
00:28:00.160 --> 00:28:03.359
the reconciling of the world, that what shall be the

473
00:28:03.400 --> 00:28:05.880
receiving of them be but life from the dead. Wait,

474
00:28:05.920 --> 00:28:07.799
there's going to be a receiving of them, or receiving

475
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of whom the Jews. For if the first fruits be holy,

476
00:28:11.920 --> 00:28:13.880
the lump is also holy. And if the root be holy,

477
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so are the branches and if some of the branches

478
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be broken off, and thou being a wild olive tree,

479
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who's the wild olive tree? The gentiles were grafted in

480
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among them and with them partakers of the root and

481
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fatness of the olive tree. Boast not against the branch,

482
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be it thou boast, Thou bearest not the root, but

483
00:28:31.359 --> 00:28:34.279
they'll root thee Thou wilt say, then the branches were

484
00:28:34.279 --> 00:28:36.680
broken off, that I might be grafted in well, because

485
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of unbelief they were broken off. And then stand and

486
00:28:40.279 --> 00:28:43.960
thou standest by faith, Be not high minded, but fear, Hey,

487
00:28:44.440 --> 00:28:48.279
the only reason you're here is because of faith. Right,

488
00:28:48.599 --> 00:28:51.680
God's mercy, God's grace, Or what is he going to say?

489
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For if God spared not the natural branches, take he

490
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unless he also spare not thee Behold therefore the goodness

491
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and severity of God on them which fell fell severity

492
00:29:01.880 --> 00:29:04.680
but towards thee goodness. If thou continue in His goodness,

493
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otherwise thou shall also be cut off. And if they also,

494
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if they yet, if they abide not still in unbelieved,

495
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shall be grafted in. For God is able to graft

496
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them in again. What does he say is going to happen.

497
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They're gonna be grafted back in. Even what if they

498
00:29:21.079 --> 00:29:23.920
abide not still an unbelief, she shall be grafted in,

499
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for God is able to graft them in.

500
00:29:25.240 --> 00:29:27.920
He's going to graft them in at some point.

501
00:29:27.880 --> 00:29:31.079
All right. For if that were cut off out of

502
00:29:31.119 --> 00:29:33.400
the olive tree, which is well by nature, and we're

503
00:29:33.440 --> 00:29:36.079
grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree, how

504
00:29:36.160 --> 00:29:38.559
much more shall thee which be the natural branches be

505
00:29:38.599 --> 00:29:41.440
grafted into their own olive tree? All right? So then

506
00:29:42.519 --> 00:29:45.079
he's simply talking to the Gentiles and letting the Gentiles

507
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know what you've been grafted in. Don't be ever getting

508
00:29:50.160 --> 00:29:54.119
prideful about it. But don't think I'm done with whom Israel.

509
00:29:54.680 --> 00:29:57.960
They're gonna be brought back in. Right, So that's specifically

510
00:29:58.039 --> 00:30:01.960
to the gentiles. Why do we like that one? It says?

511
00:30:02.039 --> 00:30:04.519
I love that one? Right, I love that one? You

512
00:30:04.519 --> 00:30:07.440
ever one should get that one? Right? Okay? But what's crazy?

513
00:30:07.599 --> 00:30:13.720
Those are the only two sections typically labeled as the Gentiles.

514
00:30:14.759 --> 00:30:18.279
All right, now you want the sections? They are typically

515
00:30:18.640 --> 00:30:25.000
directed to Jews. You're ready, all right? Romans two, chapter

516
00:30:25.079 --> 00:30:31.440
one all the way to chapter three, Verse eight. Chapter two,

517
00:30:31.599 --> 00:30:36.079
Verse one all the way to chapter three, verse eight.

518
00:30:37.680 --> 00:30:40.920
That's a lot. Now here's what we're gonna do. I

519
00:30:40.920 --> 00:30:42.680
don't want to give away too much of the therefore,

520
00:30:42.799 --> 00:30:45.640
but let's just start reading in chapter two, and you

521
00:30:45.680 --> 00:30:48.720
see if you find any clues that would say that's

522
00:30:48.720 --> 00:30:52.039
a Jewish section. All right, you're ready, see if you

523
00:30:52.079 --> 00:30:57.119
find any clues. Therefore, thou art inexcusable, Oh man, whoever

524
00:30:57.160 --> 00:31:00.839
thou art that judges, for wherein thou judges another, thou

525
00:31:00.880 --> 00:31:03.839
condemnest thyself, for thou that judgest do ut.

526
00:31:03.839 --> 00:31:06.440
Thee same things.

527
00:31:08.200 --> 00:31:10.160
But we are sure that the judgment of God is

528
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according to truth, against them which commits such things. And

529
00:31:13.599 --> 00:31:16.759
thinkest thou, this old man that judgest them which do

530
00:31:16.920 --> 00:31:20.000
such things, and does the same, that thou shall escape

531
00:31:20.000 --> 00:31:25.119
the judgment of God. Now, whoever this is, we know

532
00:31:25.240 --> 00:31:30.119
that he's saying, Hey, it's inevitable. What's going to happen

533
00:31:30.359 --> 00:31:32.960
that when you look at these other people in one

534
00:31:33.079 --> 00:31:36.240
eighteen to thirty two, all of that sin, you're gonna

535
00:31:36.240 --> 00:31:39.160
have a tendency to do what You're gonna have a

536
00:31:39.200 --> 00:31:43.720
tendency to judge them. And what he's saying is, don't

537
00:31:43.839 --> 00:31:48.680
because you do the same things, all right, But that

538
00:31:48.759 --> 00:31:51.960
doesn't necessarily make it Jewish. Let's see if we can

539
00:31:51.960 --> 00:31:55.680
find anything else here, all right, right, that's what first

540
00:31:55.799 --> 00:31:59.599
was that three or despisest thou the riches of His

541
00:31:59.640 --> 00:32:02.359
goodness and forbearance and long suffering, not knowing that the

542
00:32:02.359 --> 00:32:05.440
goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance. But after thy

543
00:32:05.519 --> 00:32:08.680
hardness and impenitent heart, treasure up unto thy self wrath

544
00:32:08.720 --> 00:32:11.279
against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous

545
00:32:11.359 --> 00:32:14.119
judgment of God, who will render to every man according

546
00:32:14.160 --> 00:32:17.839
to his deeds, to them who, by patient continuance and

547
00:32:17.880 --> 00:32:20.799
well doing, seek for glory and honor and immortality in

548
00:32:20.839 --> 00:32:23.759
eternal life. But unto them that are contentious and do

549
00:32:23.839 --> 00:32:27.839
not obey the truth, but obey on regiousness, indignation, and wrath, tribulation,

550
00:32:28.039 --> 00:32:31.359
Anguish upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of

551
00:32:31.440 --> 00:32:35.960
the Jew first and also the gentile. But glory, honor,

552
00:32:36.000 --> 00:32:38.200
and peace to every man that worketh good, to the

553
00:32:38.279 --> 00:32:42.480
Jew first, and also to the gentile. It doesn't necessarily

554
00:32:43.400 --> 00:32:45.319
there's some here that I would just be like, well,

555
00:32:49.720 --> 00:32:52.279
I mean, some of it sounds like Israel. Yes, some

556
00:32:52.319 --> 00:32:56.319
of it sounds like Israel. Yeah, but I think clearly

557
00:32:56.799 --> 00:32:59.960
whoever it is, he's anticipating that they're going to do

558
00:33:01.119 --> 00:33:04.640
judge and it's like, hey, you are no better than that,

559
00:33:04.960 --> 00:33:08.200
and the Jews thought that they were better. So you

560
00:33:08.200 --> 00:33:11.720
can see, well, the explanation one says here this section

561
00:33:11.799 --> 00:33:15.000
is primarily directed towards the Jews. You see primarily right,

562
00:33:15.839 --> 00:33:19.400
Paul critiques those who judge others while committing the same sins.

563
00:33:19.559 --> 00:33:22.240
He challenged the Jews who rely on the law and

564
00:33:22.279 --> 00:33:25.559
circumcision as grounds for their righteousness, showing that they two

565
00:33:25.680 --> 00:33:29.640
are guilty before God. Now look look at chapter three,

566
00:33:29.720 --> 00:33:32.279
verse one. You can kind of see maybe where this

567
00:33:32.400 --> 00:33:38.440
comes from. What advantage then hath the Jew? Or what

568
00:33:38.599 --> 00:33:43.720
profit is there of circumcision? So I think that's their argument,

569
00:33:44.000 --> 00:33:45.839
is it goes from two to one to three eight

570
00:33:46.240 --> 00:33:48.920
that he's basically trying to tell the Jews you're not

571
00:33:49.039 --> 00:33:51.759
better than anybody else, You're just as.

572
00:33:53.480 --> 00:33:56.720
Guilty. Right, Does that make sense?

573
00:33:57.400 --> 00:34:02.599
And I think it's also for us as Christians we

574
00:34:02.640 --> 00:34:07.079
think we're better than we're no better than them. That's

575
00:34:07.119 --> 00:34:09.920
the one thing God's people. I oh, man, I know

576
00:34:10.119 --> 00:34:12.360
this is gonna take off Christians. I don't care. God's

577
00:34:12.360 --> 00:34:16.760
people have never been better than them, whoever the them is,

578
00:34:17.000 --> 00:34:23.159
We've never been better than them. Right, The heroes of

579
00:34:23.199 --> 00:34:28.280
our faith was not better than them. Right. David, whom

580
00:34:28.360 --> 00:34:31.519
God made the dividict Covenant with, was a man who

581
00:34:31.639 --> 00:34:35.239
had a man murdered for doing nothing so that to

582
00:34:35.239 --> 00:34:39.559
cover up his own adultery. Solomon committed so many sins.

583
00:34:39.559 --> 00:34:41.039
I can't I would you know, I don't have.

584
00:34:41.000 --> 00:34:42.360
Time to recount all of them.

585
00:34:42.840 --> 00:34:47.920
Right. Israel constantly was violating every rule. God's people have

586
00:34:48.079 --> 00:34:57.000
never been better. What have we been forgiven? Not because

587
00:34:57.000 --> 00:34:57.679
of what we do?

588
00:34:57.920 --> 00:34:58.280
All right?

589
00:34:58.559 --> 00:35:03.239
So chapter two, verse one to chapter three, verse eight,

590
00:35:04.000 --> 00:35:08.920
they say that goes all primarily towards the Jews. It

591
00:35:08.960 --> 00:35:12.119
definitely goes through people who may judge others. All right,

592
00:35:12.199 --> 00:35:14.800
That's probably why your Bible says the moralist. These are

593
00:35:14.880 --> 00:35:18.119
the people who are morally thinking they are superior and

594
00:35:18.199 --> 00:35:22.039
coming to find out that they're not. Everybody got that

595
00:35:22.599 --> 00:35:29.960
next section, they say, chapter four. Now look at chapter four,

596
00:35:30.039 --> 00:35:31.760
verse one and see if you think maybe this would

597
00:35:31.840 --> 00:35:32.960
prove this clearly is.

598
00:35:32.960 --> 00:35:33.599
A Jewish section.

599
00:35:35.960 --> 00:35:38.559
Yeah. What shall we say then, that Abraham our father

600
00:35:38.599 --> 00:35:40.840
has pertaining to the flesh has found for if Abraham

601
00:35:40.880 --> 00:35:43.760
were justified by works, he hath wherefore to glory, but

602
00:35:43.880 --> 00:35:48.199
not before God. Clearly, the Jews that thought, because they

603
00:35:48.199 --> 00:35:52.360
were children of Abraham that they were what somehow better

604
00:35:52.400 --> 00:35:55.519
than everyone else, in many cases they had to find

605
00:35:55.519 --> 00:35:59.119
out that it's not because of being children of Abraham,

606
00:35:59.280 --> 00:36:00.440
it's because of faith.

607
00:36:00.800 --> 00:36:01.000
Right.

608
00:36:01.599 --> 00:36:04.760
So, in fact, the one commentary states it this way.

609
00:36:04.880 --> 00:36:08.000
Paul discusses the example of Abraham, emphasizing that Abraham was

610
00:36:08.039 --> 00:36:11.280
justifified by faith, not by works of the law. This

611
00:36:11.440 --> 00:36:14.719
argument is almost aimed primarily at Jews, who took pride

612
00:36:14.760 --> 00:36:17.639
in their ancestry and the Mosaic law, because what did

613
00:36:17.719 --> 00:36:21.360
Jews think, we have fo Abraham as our father, we

614
00:36:21.440 --> 00:36:23.880
have the law. And what did the Jews constantly convince

615
00:36:23.920 --> 00:36:29.559
themselves that they kept the law? They constantly convinced themselves

616
00:36:29.559 --> 00:36:32.719
that they kept it, all of it. And that's why

617
00:36:32.800 --> 00:36:34.519
Jesus came in the Sermon on the Mount to do

618
00:36:34.599 --> 00:36:38.159
what explain the real meaning of the law, which demonstrates

619
00:36:38.920 --> 00:36:40.800
they can't. And that's why Jesus on the Summer in

620
00:36:40.800 --> 00:36:43.000
the Mount says you have to be perfect, which then

621
00:36:43.119 --> 00:36:44.840
everyone should when they read the Sermon on the Mount,

622
00:36:44.920 --> 00:36:48.239
say what, Oh, I cannot do that and not what

623
00:36:48.400 --> 00:36:50.960
most Christians do, which teach that the sermon on them

624
00:36:50.960 --> 00:36:53.840
Mount proves if you're saved. It doesn't prove if you're saved.

625
00:36:54.079 --> 00:36:57.760
It shows you that you are condemned. Okay, that so everyone,

626
00:36:58.400 --> 00:37:02.519
So everyone understands. Chapter four wors clearly it's all about Abraham.

627
00:37:02.599 --> 00:37:05.639
Can you agree? Okay? It mentions David as well. All right,

628
00:37:05.960 --> 00:37:09.440
So which sections let's go through this? Which sections are

629
00:37:09.440 --> 00:37:12.280
to the Gentiles? The first one Romans one, eighteen to

630
00:37:12.320 --> 00:37:16.800
thirty two. Second Romans eleven, thirteen to twenty four. Which

631
00:37:16.800 --> 00:37:19.039
ones are directed to the Jews. First Romans two to

632
00:37:19.039 --> 00:37:19.920
one to chapter.

633
00:37:19.679 --> 00:37:20.360
Three, verse eight.

634
00:37:21.280 --> 00:37:30.679
Next all of chapter four. Now go to chapter nine.

635
00:37:30.599 --> 00:37:33.119
And we're not gonna get far, but that's okay. We

636
00:37:33.119 --> 00:37:36.320
will can at least get this settled. Romans Chapter nine.

637
00:37:36.559 --> 00:37:40.840
How many chapter verses in chapter nine, there's thirty three.

638
00:37:41.159 --> 00:37:45.239
They believe it stops at twenty nine. Okay, all right,

639
00:37:45.760 --> 00:37:49.559
So Romans nine one to twenty nine they believe is

640
00:37:49.639 --> 00:37:53.440
all about Israel, which're written to the Jews. So look

641
00:37:53.440 --> 00:37:55.719
at what it says here Chapter nine, Verse one, I

642
00:37:55.800 --> 00:37:57.199
say this the truth in Christ.

643
00:37:57.280 --> 00:37:57.800
I lie not.

644
00:37:58.159 --> 00:38:00.360
My content's also bearing witness in the whole it goes

645
00:38:00.519 --> 00:38:03.280
that have great heaviness and continual sorrow my heart, for

646
00:38:03.440 --> 00:38:05.960
I could wish that myself were a curse from Christ

647
00:38:06.000 --> 00:38:10.360
for my brethren, my kinsmen. According to the flesh, who's

648
00:38:10.360 --> 00:38:13.480
the referencing Israel. He wants Israel to know that Paul

649
00:38:13.559 --> 00:38:16.119
has a great burden for them. Right, and then who

650
00:38:16.159 --> 00:38:19.400
what is He's say in verse four? Who are Israelites?

651
00:38:19.519 --> 00:38:21.679
To whom pertaineth the adoption and the glory and the

652
00:38:21.679 --> 00:38:23.840
covenants and the giving of the law, and of the

653
00:38:23.880 --> 00:38:27.559
service of God and the promises? Whose are the fathers?

654
00:38:27.760 --> 00:38:30.880
And of whom as concerning the flesh, Christ came, who

655
00:38:30.920 --> 00:38:34.360
is overall God blessed forever I'm in not as the

656
00:38:34.400 --> 00:38:37.239
word of God hath taken that effect. For they are

657
00:38:37.280 --> 00:38:40.079
not all Israel, which are of Israel? Neither because they

658
00:38:40.119 --> 00:38:42.920
are the seed of Abraham, show the children. And it's

659
00:38:42.960 --> 00:38:46.559
all going to be about Israel, is it not? This? Israel? Israel?

660
00:38:46.679 --> 00:38:51.000
Israel Israel Israel. Jacob I have loved Esau I have hated.

661
00:38:51.199 --> 00:38:53.920
This would all be very Israel related. Can we agree

662
00:38:53.920 --> 00:38:54.239
with that?

663
00:38:54.880 --> 00:38:54.960
All?

664
00:38:55.039 --> 00:38:59.880
Right? So nine one to twenty nine, Paul addresses Israel's

665
00:39:00.280 --> 00:39:03.039
in God's redemptive plan, expressing sorrow for the unbelief of

666
00:39:03.079 --> 00:39:05.960
the follow Jews and explaining that God's purpose and election

667
00:39:06.920 --> 00:39:11.159
I'm not thwarted by Jewish unbelief. Everyone hear that.

668
00:39:11.159 --> 00:39:12.320
That's very important.

669
00:39:13.239 --> 00:39:16.360
God's purpose and election are not thwarted by Jewish unbelief.

670
00:39:17.840 --> 00:39:20.920
That's why we don't want to do Why throw Israel

671
00:39:20.960 --> 00:39:26.800
out of eschatology? Because if you throw Israel out, then

672
00:39:26.840 --> 00:39:32.079
God's election cannot be trusted. God's election is not based

673
00:39:32.119 --> 00:39:36.440
on our faithfulness. It's based on Him right right, exactly.

674
00:39:36.800 --> 00:39:40.960
So this is very much a Jewish section. So chapter two,

675
00:39:41.199 --> 00:39:45.800
verse one to chapter three, verse eight Jewish, Chapter four Jewish,

676
00:39:46.159 --> 00:39:50.519
Chapter nine, verses one through twenty nine Jewish, and chapter ten,

677
00:39:51.239 --> 00:39:57.280
verses one through four. We can just read it ten

678
00:39:57.360 --> 00:39:59.840
one through four. Brother, in my heart's desire in p

679
00:40:00.239 --> 00:40:02.800
to God for Israel is that they might be saved,

680
00:40:02.920 --> 00:40:05.280
for I bear them record that they have a zeal

681
00:40:05.320 --> 00:40:08.119
of God, but not according to knowledge, for they being ignorant.

682
00:40:08.199 --> 00:40:12.960
It says they who they're referring to Israel? Israel, all right,

683
00:40:13.079 --> 00:40:17.599
So ten one through four is Jewish. So let's go

684
00:40:17.639 --> 00:40:20.559
through them again. What's the first Jewish section? Chapter two,

685
00:40:20.639 --> 00:40:26.239
verses one through chapter three, Verse eight, number two all

686
00:40:26.280 --> 00:40:30.159
of Romans, Chapter four, number three, Romans nine, verses one

687
00:40:30.159 --> 00:40:34.360
through twenty nine, and number four ten one through four.

688
00:40:35.320 --> 00:40:38.159
Those are all the Jewish sections. All right? Do you

689
00:40:38.199 --> 00:40:42.000
have Romans now charted out the gentile section the Jewish section.

690
00:40:42.360 --> 00:40:49.159
Oh but wait, it's gonna get more confusing. Are you ready?

691
00:40:49.400 --> 00:40:54.159
Now we have the mixed sections where it addresses both

692
00:40:54.280 --> 00:41:00.440
jew and gentile. All right, you're ready for the first

693
00:41:00.480 --> 00:41:08.559
mixed section. Look at chapter three, verses nine through twenty.

694
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Chapter three, verses nine through twenty. What then, are we

695
00:41:17.360 --> 00:41:19.880
better than they? No? And no wise, for we have

696
00:41:20.000 --> 00:41:26.400
before proved both. This is Romans three nine, jew and

697
00:41:26.440 --> 00:41:30.519
Gentiles that are all under sin. As it is written,

698
00:41:30.559 --> 00:41:35.119
there is none righteous, no, not one. There is none

699
00:41:35.119 --> 00:41:37.440
that understands, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.

700
00:41:37.719 --> 00:41:39.960
All right, so he makes sure that this section is

701
00:41:39.960 --> 00:41:45.360
to both jew and gentile. And what he's trying to demonstrate, Oh,

702
00:41:45.400 --> 00:41:49.679
they're all sinners. All He brings both groups together under

703
00:41:49.679 --> 00:41:51.719
the indictment that all have sin and fallen short of

704
00:41:51.719 --> 00:41:55.119
the glory of God. Right, that's Romans three nine through twenty.

705
00:41:55.280 --> 00:41:58.599
This is a mixed section. Everybody got it, all, right?

706
00:41:59.119 --> 00:42:02.320
Look at now this is kind of weird because you

707
00:42:02.360 --> 00:42:04.480
would think they would just go from three to nine

708
00:42:04.599 --> 00:42:07.079
all the way to thirty one, but they go from

709
00:42:07.119 --> 00:42:09.400
three to nine to twenty and then they go twenty

710
00:42:09.400 --> 00:42:10.199
one to thirty.

711
00:42:10.000 --> 00:42:11.639
One and say it's a mixed section.

712
00:42:12.199 --> 00:42:14.840
So really, chapter three nine all the way to thirty

713
00:42:14.840 --> 00:42:17.159
one are a mixed section. I don't know why they

714
00:42:17.199 --> 00:42:21.280
break it up, but if you look at verse twenty

715
00:42:21.280 --> 00:42:23.239
one to thirty one, this is where they emphasis Paul

716
00:42:23.320 --> 00:42:26.920
represents presents the doctrine of justification by faith apart from

717
00:42:26.960 --> 00:42:30.159
the law, for both Jew and gentile. What they want

718
00:42:30.199 --> 00:42:31.880
you to see is that this is a mixed section

719
00:42:31.920 --> 00:42:35.440
that deals with justification, demonstrating that both Jew and gentile

720
00:42:35.440 --> 00:42:41.280
are both justified the same way by faith apart from

721
00:42:41.559 --> 00:42:44.360
works are apart from obedience to the law.

722
00:42:45.039 --> 00:42:45.320
Right.

723
00:42:45.920 --> 00:42:48.559
So, but if you want to summarize it, make it easy,

724
00:42:49.079 --> 00:42:52.360
three nine all the way to thirty one, both Jew

725
00:42:52.400 --> 00:42:55.519
and gentile, and you can put it this way, all

726
00:42:55.559 --> 00:42:57.719
are guilty and all are say.

727
00:42:57.599 --> 00:42:59.519
By faith alone.

728
00:43:00.039 --> 00:43:02.360
That's a good way to put it all right, everybody

729
00:43:02.360 --> 00:43:06.639
got that, So three to nine to thirty one is mixed.

730
00:43:07.159 --> 00:43:10.199
The next chapter five all the way to chapter eight

731
00:43:12.400 --> 00:43:20.960
five to eight, Paul addresses themes of sin, grace, law, life,

732
00:43:20.960 --> 00:43:23.519
and the spirit, addressing issues that concern both jew and

733
00:43:23.559 --> 00:43:27.360
Gentile believers. So five through eight is forever is for both.

734
00:43:27.760 --> 00:43:34.239
That entire section. That one's easier, right, everybody should say

735
00:43:34.280 --> 00:43:37.519
a man, okay, good, all right? Next, now, this one

736
00:43:37.599 --> 00:43:42.320
is broken up into two sections. You're ready Romans Chapter eleven,

737
00:43:43.119 --> 00:43:49.199
verses one through twelve and Romans eleven twenty five through

738
00:43:49.199 --> 00:44:00.800
thirty six, one through twelve and twenty five to thirty six,

739
00:44:09.440 --> 00:44:13.280
right one through twelve, twenty five to thirty six. If

740
00:44:13.320 --> 00:44:17.000
you remember, if you go back up, remember Romans eleven

741
00:44:17.079 --> 00:44:19.039
thirteen to twenty four is to the Gentiles.

742
00:44:19.559 --> 00:44:21.400
So in the midst of that there's a.

743
00:44:21.400 --> 00:44:26.320
Gentile focus, but around it it's for both Romans eleven

744
00:44:26.360 --> 00:44:29.719
one through twelve, twenty five to thirty six. This section

745
00:44:29.800 --> 00:44:31.960
focuses on the mystery of God's plan for Israel and

746
00:44:32.000 --> 00:44:34.559
the Gentiles, showing that God has not rejected his people,

747
00:44:34.559 --> 00:44:39.719
the Jews, and that there is a future hope for Israel.

748
00:44:41.400 --> 00:44:44.320
All right, Now, everybody got those sections?

749
00:44:45.239 --> 00:44:48.400
All right? So now you can do so?

750
00:44:48.400 --> 00:44:51.079
So how many three different sections or romans can be

751
00:44:51.119 --> 00:44:55.159
divided up into three sections? The Jewish section, the gentile section,

752
00:44:55.559 --> 00:44:59.679
and the both section? All right? Now, I'm going to

753
00:44:59.760 --> 00:45:03.360
give you the reasons it's important to know those sections.

754
00:45:03.440 --> 00:45:05.519
Are you're ready, I'm gonna give you four reasons and

755
00:45:05.559 --> 00:45:08.119
we'll be done. I'm gonna give you four reasons why

756
00:45:08.239 --> 00:45:13.039
it's important to know these distinctions, right, you're ready. First,

757
00:45:13.360 --> 00:45:16.400
it is important to understand this distinction to understand the

758
00:45:16.480 --> 00:45:22.800
Gospel's universal application. Recognizing whether Paul is dressing Jew or

759
00:45:22.880 --> 00:45:26.440
gentile helps clarify that that the Gospel is for all people.

760
00:45:26.679 --> 00:45:29.280
Both groups are equally in need of salvation and are

761
00:45:29.280 --> 00:45:33.679
equally offered grace through faith in Christ. This demonstrates the

762
00:45:33.760 --> 00:45:43.400
Gospel's universal application. So dressing jew and gentile both are important, right, Andy?

763
00:45:43.760 --> 00:45:47.480
And guess what it's acknowledging though this is I think

764
00:45:47.480 --> 00:45:50.000
this is important. My notes don't have this, but I

765
00:45:50.000 --> 00:45:53.679
didn't think about this. It's important to show the universal application.

766
00:45:54.199 --> 00:45:57.400
But it's always important to note what that people come

767
00:45:57.440 --> 00:46:05.880
from different backgrounds, from different cultural perspectives. And we have

768
00:46:05.920 --> 00:46:08.079
to be able to address at times. We got to

769
00:46:08.119 --> 00:46:12.719
address people and in the reality of their backgrounds.

770
00:46:12.920 --> 00:46:15.360
Correct, Like if.

771
00:46:15.199 --> 00:46:18.599
I'm talking if I'm talking to someone from Texas, right,

772
00:46:18.639 --> 00:46:22.960
who born and raised here, I got almost almost inevitable,

773
00:46:23.239 --> 00:46:25.840
I'm going to know most likely there's a high chance

774
00:46:25.880 --> 00:46:28.239
that at some point in their Christian life they professed

775
00:46:28.239 --> 00:46:31.760
faith in Christ and were probably baptized, especially they grew

776
00:46:31.800 --> 00:46:33.519
up in a small town Texas.

777
00:46:34.079 --> 00:46:37.519
Almost inevitable, right, they.

778
00:46:37.400 --> 00:46:41.239
Have some connection to Christianity. They may think that they're good,

779
00:46:41.639 --> 00:46:44.119
who knows, but they're gonna have kind of a cultural

780
00:46:44.880 --> 00:46:49.039
Christianity thrown in, right, They're gonna have a certain level

781
00:46:49.079 --> 00:46:52.360
of morality that flows from that Christianity. Even if they've

782
00:46:52.400 --> 00:46:55.239
rejected it, there's gonna be parts of it still left

783
00:46:55.280 --> 00:46:57.920
inside of them. The way they see the world. They

784
00:46:57.960 --> 00:47:00.800
may they still may throw out Christian ideas as they

785
00:47:00.840 --> 00:47:03.760
condemn other people. Even though they don't go to church.

786
00:47:04.039 --> 00:47:06.719
They will speak Christianese a little bit. They can't get

787
00:47:06.719 --> 00:47:08.679
it away from it. It was a part of their

788
00:47:08.719 --> 00:47:14.239
growing up. That's very different than talking to someone raised

789
00:47:14.719 --> 00:47:19.440
maybe New York City. Their connection to Christianity. Maybe what

790
00:47:21.280 --> 00:47:24.719
maybe Catholic, maybe none, who knows what? And you got

791
00:47:24.760 --> 00:47:28.519
to know that difference to how to address them. Paul

792
00:47:28.639 --> 00:47:33.719
demonstrates what not only is it universally applicable, but that

793
00:47:33.840 --> 00:47:37.880
each people require a different emphasis or a different approach.

794
00:47:38.159 --> 00:47:40.480
You can't you can't just go in with a memory.

795
00:47:40.599 --> 00:47:43.320
That's why I don't like evangelistic programs that just give

796
00:47:43.360 --> 00:47:46.960
you some you know, canned presentation. You got to address people,

797
00:47:47.000 --> 00:47:49.840
what where they are, You got to know who they are.

798
00:47:49.840 --> 00:47:52.199
You got to understand a lot of times, the first

799
00:47:52.199 --> 00:47:56.239
part of evangelism is just listening to someone, asking them

800
00:47:56.320 --> 00:48:01.239
questions about their religious upbringing, their thoughts, they're thing trying

801
00:48:01.239 --> 00:48:02.960
to figure out, because then you kind of know how

802
00:48:03.000 --> 00:48:06.840
to address it. Right, so we we can do this.

803
00:48:06.880 --> 00:48:09.960
We'll put down to number one. The first reason these

804
00:48:10.000 --> 00:48:13.000
distinctions are important is they show the universal application of

805
00:48:13.039 --> 00:48:16.679
the Gospel. And number two, they demonstrate that we have

806
00:48:16.760 --> 00:48:21.599
to appreciate and understand cultural differences.

807
00:48:22.480 --> 00:48:23.679
Is that is that fair to say?

808
00:48:25.039 --> 00:48:29.679
We got to appreciate that not everyone's the same, right,

809
00:48:30.199 --> 00:48:33.400
and Christianity is weird. If it's a if, it's a

810
00:48:34.960 --> 00:48:38.079
if it's a Southern Christianity, if it's a if it's

811
00:48:38.079 --> 00:48:42.119
a Texas, small town Texas Christianity. We have this idea

812
00:48:42.599 --> 00:48:45.440
that all Christians should think the way we do about

813
00:48:45.519 --> 00:48:48.719
issues that may not even be really directly related in scripture.

814
00:48:49.559 --> 00:48:53.880
If you're I mean, we saw this in early Christian history, right.

815
00:48:54.800 --> 00:49:01.000
You had Christians walking around believe the Bible, believe in Jesus,

816
00:49:01.239 --> 00:49:05.400
believe in his substitutionary death, but then are argued for

817
00:49:05.480 --> 00:49:08.840
what denying people their civil rights. They voted against the

818
00:49:08.840 --> 00:49:20.920
civil rights movement, supported slavery, were against the abolitionists. Right,

819
00:49:22.000 --> 00:49:26.119
you had Christian universities. Bob Jones wouldn't allow African American

820
00:49:26.159 --> 00:49:30.559
and a white girl. To date, we're opposed to that.

821
00:49:32.239 --> 00:49:36.039
Mister Goodley. Can you went to churches that were against it, right?

822
00:49:36.159 --> 00:49:40.320
Or had problems? Didn't you have problems even going to church? Sometimes? Then?

823
00:49:40.400 --> 00:49:43.519
That insane? That wasn't in the nineteen fifty Well, I

824
00:49:43.559 --> 00:49:45.480
mean they're old, so maybe it was the nineteen fifties,

825
00:49:45.519 --> 00:49:48.239
But I mean, can you believe that happened in churches

826
00:49:48.280 --> 00:49:51.760
that they went to? You know, the first question he

827
00:49:51.800 --> 00:49:54.679
asked me when they got ready to come to this church,

828
00:49:55.239 --> 00:49:59.159
would we be allowed to come to your church? I'm like,

829
00:49:59.199 --> 00:50:03.079
are you on crap? Why would you not be allowed?

830
00:50:03.119 --> 00:50:05.599
I let I mean, Bobby can come to our church? Why, Like,

831
00:50:05.599 --> 00:50:08.639
what are you talking about? And it was like because

832
00:50:08.679 --> 00:50:12.079
of their race. I'm like, what church cares about your race?

833
00:50:13.519 --> 00:50:19.800
Like that's insane, that's insanity. Okay, I mean that's just

834
00:50:19.920 --> 00:50:24.199
like in my brain like that that can't happen, not

835
00:50:24.360 --> 00:50:29.960
in Christianity. That can't happen, Like like my brain would

836
00:50:29.960 --> 00:50:33.840
not process that. Like I was like, what kind of

837
00:50:33.920 --> 00:50:36.559
question is that? And then when you hear some of

838
00:50:36.599 --> 00:50:41.360
the stories, You're like, what in the world? And that's

839
00:50:41.360 --> 00:50:43.599
because sometimes Christianity is driven.

840
00:50:43.320 --> 00:50:48.159
By culture than it is theology.

841
00:50:48.480 --> 00:50:52.639
Well, when you Paul's addressing jew or gentile, he's acknowledging

842
00:50:52.840 --> 00:50:57.280
that those cultural issues are gonna come where right into

843
00:50:57.400 --> 00:51:03.519
the church. And if it happened, then it happens now right.

844
00:51:04.159 --> 00:51:07.280
I'm glad I was raised by parents of everything they

845
00:51:07.280 --> 00:51:10.920
did wrong. Racism was not tolerated in my house.

846
00:51:11.320 --> 00:51:11.599
Okay.

847
00:51:11.599 --> 00:51:13.440
Remember the first time I ever heard the N word

848
00:51:13.480 --> 00:51:15.199
and I asked what it was, I got knocked into

849
00:51:15.239 --> 00:51:18.199
next month because because I didn't know what the word was,

850
00:51:18.519 --> 00:51:21.199
and when I said it, boom, And I'm like and

851
00:51:21.280 --> 00:51:23.679
next thing. You know, I'm reading Roots. You know, she

852
00:51:23.800 --> 00:51:26.960
brings Roots home. You will read this book about slavery,

853
00:51:27.039 --> 00:51:30.960
and I'm like, okay, right, so I'm like, okay, don't

854
00:51:31.039 --> 00:51:33.400
use that way. I didn't know. I didn't have a clue.

855
00:51:33.639 --> 00:51:35.440
Right now, You would think that I would know, but

856
00:51:35.480 --> 00:51:37.159
I just didn't know what the word because it was

857
00:51:37.239 --> 00:51:40.199
never utilized in my home, right, it was never I

858
00:51:40.239 --> 00:51:44.000
was never taught like, I was never taught to anything.

859
00:51:44.079 --> 00:51:44.239
Right.

860
00:51:44.519 --> 00:51:47.360
So, but you can see someone who's raised in an

861
00:51:47.440 --> 00:51:52.800
environment where racism and racial difference and that's all they

862
00:51:52.880 --> 00:51:55.599
know and they come into Christianity, what's going to be

863
00:51:55.639 --> 00:52:02.159
the inevitable result They're gonna bring it in Christianity. Christianity

864
00:52:02.239 --> 00:52:06.000
doesn't fix it. Everyone thinks Christianity fixes everything. It doesn't

865
00:52:06.079 --> 00:52:14.360
fix everything. We just bring us into it, right, we

866
00:52:14.559 --> 00:52:17.199
just bring it into it. So if you're an older

867
00:52:17.199 --> 00:52:20.039
person like I don't like today's music, I don't like

868
00:52:20.119 --> 00:52:22.480
that beat, well, now all you do is just bring

869
00:52:22.480 --> 00:52:24.639
that to Christianity and now you can say the beat

870
00:52:24.760 --> 00:52:31.119
is evil. You can just bring your musical taste to Christianity,

871
00:52:31.159 --> 00:52:34.559
and now you can use Christianity to do what support

872
00:52:34.639 --> 00:52:37.440
your musical taste. It's hard for us to realize what

873
00:52:37.599 --> 00:52:40.679
we bring to Christianity there has nothing to do with Christianity.

874
00:52:41.360 --> 00:52:47.159
It's our culture. It's our it's our culture, and it's

875
00:52:47.199 --> 00:52:49.800
it's crazy again. I've talked about the first, you know,

876
00:52:50.000 --> 00:52:52.119
sitting in the first Baptist church Tuscola.

877
00:52:52.280 --> 00:52:55.119
I think it was a Wednesday night. Brother Mike stands up.

878
00:52:55.880 --> 00:52:59.360
Reagan just launched airstrikes in be Root and everybody in

879
00:52:59.400 --> 00:53:01.679
the church dances up and starts applotting, and I'm like,

880
00:53:02.559 --> 00:53:06.679
what what is going on? I got up and walked down.

881
00:53:06.760 --> 00:53:10.199
I'm like, we're celebrating that we drop bombs on people.

882
00:53:10.719 --> 00:53:14.400
I'm like, when did that become Christianity? This is ridiculous.

883
00:53:14.480 --> 00:53:17.679
I'm like, God bless America. I'm like, I don't even

884
00:53:17.679 --> 00:53:20.320
know what is this. I gotta get out of this place, right,

885
00:53:20.559 --> 00:53:23.920
I gotta like, I gotta run, like this is not Christianity.

886
00:53:24.320 --> 00:53:30.400
They thought it was. I'm like, celebrating war is not Christianity.

887
00:53:30.599 --> 00:53:32.800
I was the one walking around wearing a peace sign

888
00:53:32.880 --> 00:53:37.519
that says make love, not war. That's what I was

889
00:53:37.559 --> 00:53:40.440
bringing to Christianity. And I'm like, Christians are like blow

890
00:53:40.480 --> 00:53:44.519
everyone up, kill everyone, and I'm like, this is insane,

891
00:53:45.000 --> 00:53:48.519
Like these people are nuts. I'm like, where where can

892
00:53:48.559 --> 00:53:51.079
I find some antheists to hang out with? They're safer.

893
00:53:52.320 --> 00:53:55.039
Christians want to kill everybody if there's a there's not

894
00:53:55.119 --> 00:53:58.599
a war, I won't support okay, unless it's put unless

895
00:53:58.599 --> 00:54:00.800
it's carry out my Democrats, and we won't. Like I

896
00:54:00.960 --> 00:54:04.079
was so, I was caught off guard that Christianity was

897
00:54:04.119 --> 00:54:09.599
so ingrafted in a republican, pro war, pro gun mindset.

898
00:54:09.880 --> 00:54:13.719
I came in thinking, Oh, we're going to be peaceful, pacifist,

899
00:54:13.960 --> 00:54:20.119
no guns, no war, no politics. I was an idiot,

900
00:54:20.280 --> 00:54:23.800
wasn't I? I was a complete idiot. But guess what

901
00:54:26.000 --> 00:54:32.079
we all bring us to Christianity? Paul by these knowing

902
00:54:32.119 --> 00:54:34.840
these differences, you can see how he's addressing each people

903
00:54:35.239 --> 00:54:39.719
based off their culture they need. So go on, can

904
00:54:39.800 --> 00:54:42.519
we find what? What do these distinctions show us? Number one,

905
00:54:43.679 --> 00:54:46.239
that the Gospel has a universal application. In number two,

906
00:54:47.079 --> 00:54:52.119
we have to acknowledge cultural differences. We have to acknowledge it.

907
00:54:52.159 --> 00:54:57.719
Everybody got that right. Next, this also demonstrates the role

908
00:54:57.880 --> 00:55:01.519
of the law for Jews. Understanding the relationship to the

909
00:55:01.559 --> 00:55:03.360
law and how it relates to faith in Christ is

910
00:55:03.440 --> 00:55:07.000
essential for Gentiles, understanding that they are included in God's

911
00:55:07.000 --> 00:55:11.400
promises without needing to adopt Jewish customs is equally important.

912
00:55:11.559 --> 00:55:14.119
So the law becomes an issue because He's going to

913
00:55:14.199 --> 00:55:19.039
address the law differently for jew and for Gentile. So

914
00:55:19.239 --> 00:55:22.559
how they relate to the law and what's acceptable or

915
00:55:22.559 --> 00:55:25.079
applicable and what is not is going to become a

916
00:55:25.079 --> 00:55:27.639
big issue. But you've got to address it. The Gentile

917
00:55:27.719 --> 00:55:29.519
is going to come in with what understanding of the

918
00:55:29.599 --> 00:55:33.320
of the Mosaic law? None? And the Jews going to

919
00:55:33.360 --> 00:55:37.880
come in bringing what all of it? And what are

920
00:55:37.880 --> 00:55:40.719
they going to do If Sarah's Jewish and she looks

921
00:55:40.719 --> 00:55:42.840
over and Diane, She's going to be like, what is

922
00:55:42.880 --> 00:55:46.559
that woman's problem? Right, You're going to be like, you

923
00:55:46.639 --> 00:55:50.719
have to follow Sarah's And Sarah would argue, I've got

924
00:55:50.719 --> 00:55:53.840
scripture on my side. You see how you have to

925
00:55:53.840 --> 00:55:57.440
deal with those cultural differences. You have to deal with

926
00:55:57.480 --> 00:56:00.719
those cultural differences. You have to I'm not always been

927
00:56:00.760 --> 00:56:03.559
good at it. Right when I came here, I can

928
00:56:03.679 --> 00:56:05.639
remember it was like, I don't know, first week or two,

929
00:56:06.079 --> 00:56:08.199
and I made it very clear there will be no

930
00:56:08.360 --> 00:56:11.440
racism in this church. If you're a racist get out.

931
00:56:12.079 --> 00:56:14.679
That was one of the early things I said, I

932
00:56:14.719 --> 00:56:16.960
was not going to tolerate any racism at all. Because

933
00:56:16.960 --> 00:56:19.760
I knew I was coming back to West Texas. I

934
00:56:19.840 --> 00:56:22.559
knew I wasn't gonna tolerate it. So that's when when

935
00:56:22.559 --> 00:56:24.239
he asked the question, I was like, yeah, you can

936
00:56:24.239 --> 00:56:26.760
come to my church because if anyone has a problem,

937
00:56:26.840 --> 00:56:29.079
I'll kick them all out. They'll just be the goodlets.

938
00:56:29.159 --> 00:56:32.639
I'll kick every stinking racist out. I don't care because

939
00:56:32.679 --> 00:56:36.159
I was not gonna put up with racism, right. But

940
00:56:36.400 --> 00:56:39.920
I also didn't do very good understanding cultural differences. Right,

941
00:56:40.719 --> 00:56:44.800
I'm like, what, I'm not pro gun, I'm not pro war,

942
00:56:45.000 --> 00:56:47.639
and I'm definitely not a Republican all right, So then

943
00:56:47.679 --> 00:56:49.440
I was like, how do I work that?

944
00:56:50.199 --> 00:56:51.199
How do I work that?

945
00:56:52.360 --> 00:56:57.159
Right? I basically have to attempt it, for the most part,

946
00:56:57.440 --> 00:57:00.320
to not say much about politics from the pulpit only

947
00:57:00.400 --> 00:57:02.880
and address any political issue in a more podcast form

948
00:57:02.920 --> 00:57:05.079
is what I've attempted to do. That's what I've tried

949
00:57:05.079 --> 00:57:07.280
to do, right, But it's always hard, and how to

950
00:57:07.360 --> 00:57:10.800
work that right? It's hard sometimes you have to address

951
00:57:10.840 --> 00:57:15.760
it how but you know you're dealing with cultural differences

952
00:57:16.360 --> 00:57:18.039
how do you work those cultural differences?

953
00:57:18.079 --> 00:57:18.440
I don't know.

954
00:57:18.559 --> 00:57:20.079
On one hand, you would say, but you were born

955
00:57:20.119 --> 00:57:24.519
and raised here, you should be like everyone else. No, no,

956
00:57:24.920 --> 00:57:27.559
not the case. All right, so we can see why

957
00:57:27.599 --> 00:57:30.159
those differences. When we're dealing with those sections, were going

958
00:57:30.199 --> 00:57:32.039
to go, oh, he's talking about the law this way?

959
00:57:32.159 --> 00:57:36.760
Why suck you always talking about the law this way?

960
00:57:36.800 --> 00:57:40.039
Why talking to a genta? You see why? Knowing those

961
00:57:40.039 --> 00:57:43.280
distinctions help you interpret the book? All right, So what's

962
00:57:43.320 --> 00:57:45.480
the first three things? It helps us see the Gospel's

963
00:57:45.559 --> 00:57:48.440
universal application. Second, it helps us make sure we realize

964
00:57:48.440 --> 00:57:51.559
we have to understand and acknowledge cultural differences. Number three,

965
00:57:51.800 --> 00:57:55.199
it clarifies the role of the law. Next, it addresses

966
00:57:55.239 --> 00:57:59.960
division in the church. The Roman Church included both jew

967
00:58:00.159 --> 00:58:03.360
and Gentile Christians who might have had different practices, traditions,

968
00:58:03.360 --> 00:58:06.440
and understanding of faith. By addressing both groups, Paul seeks

969
00:58:06.440 --> 00:58:10.920
to foster unity and mutual respect. Sometimes you got to

970
00:58:11.000 --> 00:58:15.320
acknowledge the difference before there can be any hope of unity.

971
00:58:15.519 --> 00:58:19.000
You got to acknowledge the difference, or you're gonna end

972
00:58:19.079 --> 00:58:22.840
up divided. Right, You're gonna end up divided. Now, I

973
00:58:22.880 --> 00:58:25.199
think the way to end up to to try to

974
00:58:25.239 --> 00:58:29.719
stop with division. That I've always said this because because

975
00:58:29.719 --> 00:58:32.400
I've always used myself as an example that for most

976
00:58:32.440 --> 00:58:34.559
of the time anyone in the church, I have how

977
00:58:34.639 --> 00:58:37.599
much what in common? Nothing in common with anyone in

978
00:58:37.679 --> 00:58:40.880
the church. Right till Twila brought him, and I had

979
00:58:40.880 --> 00:58:42.719
nothing in common with anyone. Now him and I we

980
00:58:42.760 --> 00:58:44.320
can talk wrestling all day, So I have someone to

981
00:58:44.360 --> 00:58:46.679
have something in common with now, right, Right, I have

982
00:58:46.719 --> 00:58:49.960
someone in common with right. But typically I would always

983
00:58:50.039 --> 00:58:54.280
argue have nothing in common with anybody, nothing, zero, not

984
00:58:54.480 --> 00:58:59.639
a none, nothing, right, music, books, movies, I have nothing

985
00:58:59.679 --> 00:59:02.039
in God with that. Maybe Twila a little bit, maybe more,

986
00:59:02.079 --> 00:59:04.800
probably Twila most out of anyone from the church, But

987
00:59:04.880 --> 00:59:07.039
typically I have nothing in common. Right, So if y'all

988
00:59:07.039 --> 00:59:08.440
want to talk it and be like, okay, whatever you

989
00:59:08.480 --> 00:59:11.079
want to talk about, okay, great, great, wonderful, great, okay,

990
00:59:11.119 --> 00:59:13.480
but I have nothing. But if I talk about what

991
00:59:13.559 --> 00:59:15.960
I am, y'all gonna be like, oh, what is this nonsense?

992
00:59:16.079 --> 00:59:16.280
Right?

993
00:59:16.599 --> 00:59:18.440
But what if I always said, is the answer to that,

994
00:59:20.239 --> 00:59:21.480
what do we have in common?

995
00:59:22.440 --> 00:59:22.800
Christ?

996
00:59:22.920 --> 00:59:24.840
And if we'll focus on Christ.

997
00:59:25.039 --> 00:59:28.280
And not our politics or our culture or our.

998
00:59:28.159 --> 00:59:32.880
Hobbies, then guess what we can have unity and guess

999
00:59:32.920 --> 00:59:36.519
what I shouldn't expect. I don't need you to be

1000
00:59:36.719 --> 00:59:40.800
like me, and you shouldn't make me be like you.

1001
00:59:44.519 --> 00:59:48.000
That's hard to do, right, that's hard to do. Now,

1002
00:59:48.079 --> 00:59:51.400
we can acknowledge our differences, but do we acknowledge our

1003
00:59:51.440 --> 00:59:54.239
difference so that we do what? Well, Obviously we're not

1004
00:59:54.239 --> 00:59:56.320
gonna always see eyd eye, that's okay. We don't have

1005
00:59:56.360 --> 01:00:00.400
to see eye eye. You be you to be me,

1006
01:00:01.480 --> 01:00:05.280
and then guess what. We focus on this and then

1007
01:00:05.280 --> 01:00:10.800
we can have unity. The churches that demand conformity, that's

1008
01:00:10.880 --> 01:00:12.920
what I cannot stand. And I've always been put in

1009
01:00:12.920 --> 01:00:15.719
a situation where I have to conform to what Christians

1010
01:00:15.760 --> 01:00:17.800
expect to me. And I'm not. I'm not playing your

1011
01:00:17.800 --> 01:00:20.880
little reindeer games, going to your little pot lucksure fellowships.

1012
01:00:20.920 --> 01:00:22.880
I don't care about any of that nonsense. But what

1013
01:00:22.960 --> 01:00:27.360
have I always told everyone here, do what you want

1014
01:00:27.400 --> 01:00:30.440
to do, right? I've never said don't do it? I

1015
01:00:30.440 --> 01:00:33.119
said just do it. You don't necessarily need me. And

1016
01:00:33.159 --> 01:00:34.760
has that always gone over? No?

1017
01:00:34.760 --> 01:00:36.559
No, no, no, no no no. Because people want me

1018
01:00:36.599 --> 01:00:36.960
to be what.

1019
01:00:38.599 --> 01:00:40.800
Like them? Why do you want me to be like you?

1020
01:00:42.000 --> 01:00:47.440
Because I don't want you to be like me. Right, well, Paul,

1021
01:00:47.519 --> 01:00:49.960
guess what, Paul? Is he allowing the Jews and Gentells

1022
01:00:50.000 --> 01:00:54.320
to have their differences? Yes, all right and so and

1023
01:00:54.360 --> 01:00:58.239
then lastly, it reveals God's redemptive plan. Distinguishing between these

1024
01:00:58.960 --> 01:01:02.000
sections show the un folding a redemptive plan in history,

1025
01:01:02.159 --> 01:01:06.079
where he first chows Israel and now includes Gentiles, demonstrating

1026
01:01:06.079 --> 01:01:10.840
his faithfulness and righteousness. It reveals God's redemptive plan and

1027
01:01:11.159 --> 01:01:16.239
it involves everyone. This redemptive plan involves everyone. So those

1028
01:01:16.320 --> 01:01:19.960
sections are important. You may not think those sections are important,

1029
01:01:20.159 --> 01:01:24.320
now do Are we always going to agree on each section? No?

1030
01:01:24.840 --> 01:01:27.400
But what we have to keep in our mind is

1031
01:01:27.559 --> 01:01:30.639
clearly there. We know one section is clearly speaking to

1032
01:01:31.400 --> 01:01:34.679
specific group because it says so, right, So what we

1033
01:01:34.800 --> 01:01:36.519
have to do is be willing to acknowledge.

1034
01:01:36.559 --> 01:01:39.360
Hmm. I wonder what's going on here?

1035
01:01:39.840 --> 01:01:42.280
And we see this somewhat in the Book of Acts

1036
01:01:43.760 --> 01:01:46.880
when they had the first Church Council. They were addressing

1037
01:01:46.880 --> 01:01:52.199
whom Jews, about whom Gentiles because they didn't know what

1038
01:01:52.239 --> 01:01:55.239
to do. So we understand that, and we understand that

1039
01:01:55.280 --> 01:01:59.000
sometimes and the Book of Acts, there's things going on

1040
01:01:59.320 --> 01:02:01.840
that's much more about Israel than it is about us.

1041
01:02:02.679 --> 01:02:06.000
We always have to know those sections, right, We always

1042
01:02:06.039 --> 01:02:09.679
have to understand that so because it teaches us. Though

1043
01:02:09.840 --> 01:02:13.079
when it comes to Christianity, you don't have to demand

1044
01:02:13.400 --> 01:02:17.800
that someone gives up their culture, right, you want someone

1045
01:02:17.800 --> 01:02:18.920
to embrace their culture.

1046
01:02:18.960 --> 01:02:20.920
But what is.

1047
01:02:20.880 --> 01:02:24.119
The thing we have to demand in Christianity that they

1048
01:02:24.159 --> 01:02:30.440
don't bring in their culture and change Christianity. You can

1049
01:02:30.480 --> 01:02:34.159
bring in your culture. You dare not touch Christianity and

1050
01:02:34.239 --> 01:02:37.360
try to change Christianity to be in agreement with your culture.

1051
01:02:39.400 --> 01:02:41.719
And you've got to be know the difference between culture

1052
01:02:42.280 --> 01:02:50.639
and scripture, right, Your cultural difference is your cultural difference.

1053
01:02:50.719 --> 01:02:53.280
Don't try to make scripture because we like to always

1054
01:02:53.280 --> 01:02:59.280
find scripture to support what our cultural difference. So conservative

1055
01:02:59.400 --> 01:03:03.440
Republican minded, maybe in the South Christians, they will take

1056
01:03:03.480 --> 01:03:07.239
the Bible and say it justifies their political views. Now, yes,

1057
01:03:07.320 --> 01:03:10.320
you finding your culture and shoving it into the Bible.

1058
01:03:10.559 --> 01:03:13.159
And those who from a different background, when we try

1059
01:03:13.159 --> 01:03:15.320
to say that the Bible supports that, we got to

1060
01:03:15.320 --> 01:03:17.760
be careful with that because in many cases the Bible

1061
01:03:17.840 --> 01:03:19.960
is not support has nothing to do with your culture,

1062
01:03:20.119 --> 01:03:23.039
not even addressing your culture doesn't even recognize your culture

1063
01:03:23.079 --> 01:03:27.480
exist because the culture it knows exists is the culture

1064
01:03:27.519 --> 01:03:32.280
that was written at this time. Right, it's not about us,

1065
01:03:32.880 --> 01:03:34.679
so we gotta be care do you understand why those

1066
01:03:34.679 --> 01:03:35.599
sections are different?

1067
01:03:35.880 --> 01:03:36.079
Well?

1068
01:03:36.159 --> 01:03:39.480
So the argument is that therefore in chapter two is

1069
01:03:39.480 --> 01:03:44.079
a transition from a gentile section into a Jewish section.

1070
01:03:44.480 --> 01:03:47.000
Whether that's going to be important while we don't have

1071
01:03:47.039 --> 01:03:50.719
time to see, but now you know the sections, right,

1072
01:03:51.159 --> 01:03:53.760
and you know why those sections are important. Everyone in

1073
01:03:53.800 --> 01:03:58.199
this room is from cultural different backgrounds, and most likely

1074
01:03:58.239 --> 01:03:59.480
what do we not have in common?

1075
01:04:00.280 --> 01:04:01.199
Probably not much.

1076
01:04:01.400 --> 01:04:03.360
Now some of you guys may have more in common,

1077
01:04:03.760 --> 01:04:05.679
but I probably don't have anything in common with you.

1078
01:04:05.960 --> 01:04:08.840
But you know what, who cares?

1079
01:04:11.159 --> 01:04:13.280
Who cares.

1080
01:04:14.159 --> 01:04:14.760
Doesn't matter.

1081
01:04:15.599 --> 01:04:16.840
You don't have to like what I have to like,

1082
01:04:16.880 --> 01:04:19.840
and I don't have to like what you like, Thank goodness, right,

1083
01:04:20.599 --> 01:04:23.960
But what matters is that we have this in common.

1084
01:04:24.320 --> 01:04:27.079
And when we come to church, what do we emphasize this?

1085
01:04:27.320 --> 01:04:31.039
Not our culture? And then when church is over, you

1086
01:04:31.079 --> 01:04:35.719
can go do what Bobby can, go get a gun

1087
01:04:35.760 --> 01:04:39.320
and kill Bambi, right, if that's what he wants to do.

1088
01:04:39.840 --> 01:04:42.000
I don't have to own a gun. And I don't

1089
01:04:42.000 --> 01:04:47.320
have to kill Bamby. Right, may have completely different perspectives

1090
01:04:47.320 --> 01:04:49.960
on that, does it matter not when it comes to this,

1091
01:04:51.880 --> 01:04:53.960
when if the election comes, I don't know how you

1092
01:04:54.039 --> 01:04:57.719
guys are gonna vote. Probably not gonna be like I would, right, Okay,

1093
01:04:57.840 --> 01:04:59.840
you know I don't vote because I can't stand politics.

1094
01:04:59.840 --> 01:05:02.119
But if I was, it would not be probably in

1095
01:05:02.119 --> 01:05:05.639
accordance with anybody in this room. Right, Okay, but guess what,

1096
01:05:11.000 --> 01:05:11.760
you go do that.

1097
01:05:12.199 --> 01:05:14.159
But when we come here, what's the emphasis?

1098
01:05:15.960 --> 01:05:20.360
Not if you're blue or red, if you're an elephant

1099
01:05:20.440 --> 01:05:22.639
or a donkey, What is it? What are the symbols

1100
01:05:23.239 --> 01:05:28.280
elephant and donkey? Okay, hey, it doesn't matter. Right, we

1101
01:05:28.360 --> 01:05:33.400
come here as sheep, Right, That's what matter. Now outside

1102
01:05:33.440 --> 01:05:37.000
of here you can have your discussion whatever, yeah, whatever, okay,

1103
01:05:37.239 --> 01:05:39.559
if you even want to. But for for the sake

1104
01:05:39.599 --> 01:05:43.599
of Christianity, it's about this. It's about the scriptures, It's

1105
01:05:43.599 --> 01:05:46.679
about Christ. It's about Him. That's what matters. That. This

1106
01:05:46.880 --> 01:05:52.199
demonstrates that within a church you can have radically different

1107
01:05:52.280 --> 01:05:56.679
culture and still be unified in Christ. And the early

1108
01:05:56.760 --> 01:05:59.280
church struggled with that, and the church today struggles with that.

1109
01:05:59.679 --> 01:06:02.840
Church are divided and fight young people leaving the church

1110
01:06:02.840 --> 01:06:05.679
because they hate the church's politics, while we bring the

1111
01:06:05.719 --> 01:06:13.719
politics in, preach Christ and leave the politic out. All right,

1112
01:06:14.239 --> 01:06:17.039
we've got we come before you this afternoon, Lord, not

1113
01:06:17.159 --> 01:06:20.320
quite where we wanted to go today, but we needed

1114
01:06:20.320 --> 01:06:23.400
to cover this distinction since chapter two begins with it.

1115
01:06:23.480 --> 01:06:27.039
Forgive me for maybe spending too much time on it,

1116
01:06:27.079 --> 01:06:30.719
and for review, although we've covered some very important topics.

1117
01:06:30.719 --> 01:06:33.039
I hope we will give this serious thought and consideration,

1118
01:06:33.519 --> 01:06:35.920
and we'll be ready to move through and see how

1119
01:06:36.039 --> 01:06:38.039
this word is used throughout the Book of Romans. And

1120
01:06:38.039 --> 01:06:38.679
we thank you for it.

1121
01:06:38.719 --> 01:06:38.800
Now.

1122
01:06:38.840 --> 01:06:41.960
I ask this in Jesus name, and God's people said