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Speaker: I don't know if, uh, you've ever
felt this before, but there's been a few

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times where I've realized that I've been
doing something wrong my whole life.

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Has it ever happened to you?

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You, someone shows you something
and you're like, I've been

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been this wrong my entire life.

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This happened to me.

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Um, and of course it has to
do with rice, but it does.

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So, um, I was heating up
my rice in the microwave.

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And I was about to put it in and I
was at, I was, um, I was at the, this

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wasn't, this is at a different church.

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I was at church though, and
this guy, he comes up and he's

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like, why are you putting your
rice in the microwave like that?

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And I was like, what do you mean?

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How do you put your rice in the microwave?

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And he goes, you gotta put a
paper towel over it and put

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like a wet paper towel over it.

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Because you know, when you heat up
rice in the microwave, it gets really

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dry and it loses all the moisture.

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Especially if it's like fast food
rice, like panda express rice.

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That's also a good way to judge
a place's like rice quality.

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Is, uh, if you heat up the rice
in the microwave, how does it do?

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Um, anyway, there's probably too much
that you wanted to know about rice,

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but, um, basically when you heat up
rice in the microwave with the wet

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paper towel over the bowl, it stays
like it, it's like you just made

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it, it's, it's, it's got moisture.

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It's not grainy and, and
dry and hard, you know?

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Um, and so.

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I learned at the age of like 19 that I
had been heating up rice wrong my entire

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life, which rice is a big part of my life.

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Um, you can decide why that is, but
rice is a big part of my life and

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so it changed my life from then on.

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Every time heated up rice or this
works with tortillas or any kind of.

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Uh, grain, right?

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If you wanna heat it up in the microwave,
you wanna make sure it doesn't dry out.

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You wanna make sure it, it's, it
keeps the moisture in with soup.

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Same thing.

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Anyway, so that's for free, but I realized
I was doing it wrong my whole life, right?

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The 19 years of my life, I was
doing it the the wrong way.

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And maybe for you tonight
might be the night where you

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realize that you've been doing.

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Christianity wrong your whole life.

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You may have the wrong perception
of what being a Christian is.

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You might have been heating up your
Christianity in the microwave without

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a paper towel and ending up with
this lame, tasteless, dry form of

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Christianity that's not very good.

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Um, and not really what
God wants us to do.

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And so if your Christianity is
all about following the rules.

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It's not about, um, God, if it's just
about a bunch of rules, a bunch of

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things that, that you're trying to
do, a bunch of right actions that your

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parents told you to do a right of,
just to look a certain way and act a

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certain way and be a certain way, if
that's all your Christianity is, you've

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been doing it wrong your whole life.

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What we're gonna see in our
passage tonight is that Christians

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don't live by the laws and the
commands that God gave them.

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They live by the power of the Holy Spirit.

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Okay, so we're in Romans seven, which.

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Comes right after Romans six.

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Big surprise there.

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And in Romans seven, what
we've been happening, right?

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So think about what's, what's
been going on in Romans so far.

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We, we talked about how we're
all sinners in Romans one, right?

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And we had a bunch of sermons in a
row that probably felt like you were

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getting beat up, um, spiritually
about how we're all guilty before God.

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And, and you're even worse
than you thought you were.

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'cause it's not just that you
do some wrong things, right?

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It's not that just I messed up
and broke some of God's rules.

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The problem is that I'm
actually a bad person.

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I do bad things because I don't love
God, because I love myself more than God.

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And that sin isn't just, you know,
oh, I messed up a couple times, but

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really it's part, it's, I'm producing
these bad actions from bad motives

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because I love things more than God.

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And then we talked about how this
isn't just a problem for some

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people over there who don't go to
church or don't know much about God,

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but it's a problem for everyone.

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All of us fall short of God's.

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Perfect standard.

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All of us love things more than God.

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And then we talked about how the
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by us trying really hard and doing a
bunch of things and making up for it.

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The only way to fix that problem
is for us to trust Jesus.

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And that's why we talk about faith and we,
we use that big word justification to talk

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about, well, I need a perfect report card
to get into heaven, and I can't do it.

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I can't make up for all of
my f minuses and I, I can't

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do enough A pluses to get in.

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And so I need Jesus to give me
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that's called justification.

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I get his righteousness, he takes my sin.

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And then because of that, do
we just keep on sinning, right?

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If, if Jesus paid for my sin, if
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I just keep doing whatever I want?

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Right, and that's how some
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say that they're Christians live.

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And we talked about how that's not how
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a Christian, what happens is God changes.

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You remember we talked about how God takes
over the castle of your heart, right?

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And he changes your desires.

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So instead of wanting to sin,
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And so that's what brings us to Rowans
Chapter seven is what's happening here

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is remember Paul's writing to his people
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some of them knew the Old Testament
really well, and they're saying, Paul.

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I thought that the Old Testament
was all about doing what God said.

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I thought the Old Testament and,
and the history of of God and his

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word was that God gave us a bunch of
rules and we're supposed to do them.

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Isn't that the point of like,
maybe you're doing our daily

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Bible reading all of these rules.

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You read Deuteronomy and all these things.

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Aren't we supposed to
just do all these things?

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And that's why God blesses us.

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That's why God calls us His people, is
because we are following God's laws.

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What we're gonna see in this
passage is it's not about.

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The laws, even though, um, the laws are
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come getting right, being freed from the
law doesn't just let people be lawless.

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Right?

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That's their title of the sermon, right?

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Less law does not equal.

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You need that from math class, right?

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I keep talking about math in sermons
and it's probably unhelpful for you, but

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Less law does not equal Law List, right?

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So what's we're gonna see is that.

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Christians are freed from the law.

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Remember, we saw this in Romans six.

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We're not under the
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Right?

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You went from the the law room to the
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Does that mean I can
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No.

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Well, why not?

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It's because we're, we're
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Well, then is the law bad?

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Maybe you hear words like legalism, right?

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That's like a bad word for some
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And it's like, not legalist.

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Don't say that.

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Um, and well, it, the law's not
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It shows us how bad we are, and we're
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we're gonna see, well, do Christians
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Jews did and trying to obey the laws?

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Or how does that work?

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How do we keep obeying God's law?

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Do we keep obeying God's law?

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What?

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What do Christians do about the law
if we're not under the law anymore?

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That's.

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Probably more confusing than helpful,
but that's where we're going in

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Romans chapter seven is how do
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they're not under God's law anymore?

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And so first we're gonna, we're
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verse, but we're gonna look at, um.

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We're gonna kind of summarize parts
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certain parts that I think are the
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Okay?

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So look in your Bibles, I hope
you bring your Bibles too.

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Don't just depend on the screen.

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Um, I want you to bring your
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when we talk about verses two.

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So look at chapter seven verse one.

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So we just talked about
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Freed from sin, right?

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And they don't keep on
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And then in verse one of chapter
seven, Paul says, or do you not know?

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Brothers, don't you know
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guys who know the law, right?

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Who know the Mosaic covenant, you know,
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like that, that the law is binding on
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So it basically, if the,
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Once you die, you don't have
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The law is not in control of you
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speeding ticket if you're dead, right?

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Um, and here's an example
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For a married woman is bound by law
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They, they made a covenant, they
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they have to keep those promises.

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But if her husband dies, she is released
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They're in a covenant.

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They made promises.

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They have obligations
if right, if, if, um.

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If you got married to someone, right?

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You made commitments to them.

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You said, you know, I'm gonna love you.

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I'm gonna protect you.

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I'm gonna provide for you,
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You said things like that if you
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you died, you wouldn't have to keep
those commitments anymore, right?

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If, if the person died, right?

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Let's say, um, you were married
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Do you have to keep
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Can you go marry another person?

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You can, you can go marry another
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Your covenant's over.

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You're not under those same laws anymore.

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So look at verse three.

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So, um, someone's released from the law,
if they're dead accordingly, she like

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the, the, the woman who's married, she's
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another man while her husband is alive.

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But if her husband dies,
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And if she marries another
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Pretty simple.

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If your spouse dies, you
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If your spouse is still alive,
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because if you're still married
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That's essentially what we're saying is
if you're dead, you're free from the law.

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And so he says, likewise Christians,
you also have died to the law.

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So just like the that married person
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to be married anymore, he says,
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law through the body of Christ.

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Remember we talked about Romans six?

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You're connected to Jesus as a Christian.

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So if Jesus died, you died.

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So you're, you've died to the
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that you may belong to another.

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So it's kind of like you used to be
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So now you can go marry Jesus.

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That's kind of what he's saying here,
so that you may belong to another.

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To him, Jesus, who has been
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that we may bear fruit for God.

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So long story short, here, Paul is
saying, Hey, if you're a Christian,

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it's like your old spouse.

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The law is dead and now you
go get married to Jesus.

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And so instead of having to do
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do when you were married to the
law, now this is what you do now.

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You have a relationship with Jesus.

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You have a relationship
with a new person, right?

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You, you, the law's dead.

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You don't have to worry about it anymore.

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Now you have a relationship with Jesus.

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That's what happens when someone
becomes a Christian, right?

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And the law here is the.

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Commands that God gave Moses, right?

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Think of the 10 Commandments, right?

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The Sabbath.

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Think of all the things you read about
in Leviticus or Deuteronomy, right?

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All your favorite books of the Bible.

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All of those things that they had
to do to be part of God's people.

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He says, Christians, you
don't do that anymore.

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You're dead.

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Don't worry about it, right?

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It's like, it's like your
spouse died laws, you know Mrs.

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Law is dead, and now you're
married to a new person, right?

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So.

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Then Christians are released from the law.

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That's what we go on to see here.

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While we were living in our flesh, our
sinful passions were aroused by the law.

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They were at work and our
members to bear fruit for death.

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But now we are released from the law.

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See that if you're a Christian, you
don't have to do it anymore, right?

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You don't.

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You can wear mixed clothing.

250
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You can eat seafood, right?

251
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You can have a bacon cheeseburger.

252
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You, amen.

253
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Right?

254
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Um, you can do all of these things.

255
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Now, 'cause you're not
under the same set of rules.

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You're not, you're under a different
set of rules now because you are dead.

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It's like the law held you prisoner.

258
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Right?

259
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Some people who don't like
marriage say that being married

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is like being in prison.

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Right.

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And he's saying it's kind of
like that so that we serve in the

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new way of the spirit and not in
the old way of the written code.

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So what the main point he's trying to.

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Help us see here is that Christians
are released from the law.

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We don't have to obey the law to
have a relationship with God anymore.

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We get a relationship with
God a different way, right?

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We get a relationship with God, not
by doing all these things for God.

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We get a relationship
with God a different way.

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We're not under the same
set of rules anymore.

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So we talked about at
the beginning, right?

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Maybe if you think Christianity is all
about keeping a bunch of rules, right?

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If someone asked you what does
it mean to be a Christian?

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And you said, well, I have to
go to church, I have to read my

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Bible, I have to pray, and you just
said, here's all the things I have

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to do to be a Christian, right?

277
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You've been heating that rice without
a paper towel in the microwave.

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You've been doing it
wrong, you whole life.

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Obedience as a Christian is not about
checking off a bunch of a bunch of things.

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So you can say, I kept all the laws.

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I'm good.

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And that's not why Christians obey.

283
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But Christians don't have the,
they're not under the law anymore.

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You don't have those same
responsibilities anymore, right?

285
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You don't have to say, well,
um, I know that I'm right with

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God because I did X, Y, and z.

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I got baptized.

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I read the Bible.

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I, that's not what you point to, to say.

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I have a relationship with God.

291
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You don't point to the law anymore.

292
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So our first point tonight is
don't use obedience to earn.

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Don't use obedience to earn.

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Because what happens, and maybe you've
never put it this way before, what happens

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when someone is trying to use their
law keeping as their, what they point

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to, to say that they're right with God.

297
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Right.

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Maybe, um, you said, well, I'm a
Christian because I read the Bible or

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I'm a Christian 'cause I go to church.

300
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Well, what you're doing is you're saying,
my church going, earns a spot in heaven.

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My reading, the Bible, my praying,
my being better than that person

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is earning something from God.

303
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I'm doing these things and
God's like, oh, that's great.

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Now you get this.

305
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It's a transaction, right?

306
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Saying, oh, I did this.

307
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God gives me this.

308
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I obey God.

309
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He gives me righteousness.

310
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I obey God.

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He gets me into heaven.

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I, it's a, there's a transaction
happening if you are using

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obeying God to get stuff from God.

314
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To get favor from God.

315
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To get love from God, right?

316
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Oh, if I read the Bible more,
maybe God will love me more.

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If you're using obedience to
get stuff from God, then you

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don't understand the gospel.

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We've been talking about this
for a few chapters now, right?

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If, if you're saying, my obedience to
God is so, God does things for me, you

321
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don't understand the gospel, you've got
it all mess messed up because obedience

322
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is not about getting things from God.

323
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It's kinda like, so, um, when I grew up,
I didn't have an, i, I didn't have an

324
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allowance, but I really wanted one 'cause
all my friends had one and I wanted money.

325
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Um, but I didn't have an allowance.

326
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But the thing is with an allowance,
I think a lot of my friends, they

327
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didn't understand this about their
allowance, is they thought that

328
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an allowance was like a salary.

329
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They were like, oh, I take out
the trash, I do the dishes.

330
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I deserve an allowance.

331
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Right.

332
00:14:22,275 --> 00:14:23,115
You ever think that way?

333
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Oh, I do chores.

334
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I made my bed.

335
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So my parents pay me to do that.

336
00:14:27,780 --> 00:14:30,599
Now really what's happening when, when
someone gets an allowance, are they

337
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getting paid for the work they're doing?

338
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No.

339
00:14:33,510 --> 00:14:33,870
Right.

340
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If your parents give you an allowance,
it's not because they're paying you.

341
00:14:37,109 --> 00:14:40,410
Oh, you emptied the dishwasher
four times this week, here's $20.

342
00:14:40,410 --> 00:14:40,560
Right?

343
00:14:40,560 --> 00:14:41,250
They're not doing that.

344
00:14:42,959 --> 00:14:47,520
An allowance isn't earning something
from God or from your parents, right?

345
00:14:47,640 --> 00:14:50,790
It's a gift they give you,
but it's not a transaction.

346
00:14:50,790 --> 00:14:51,990
An allowance is not, oh, you do.

347
00:14:51,990 --> 00:14:52,770
It's not a salary.

348
00:14:53,189 --> 00:14:53,400
Right.

349
00:14:53,400 --> 00:14:55,050
It's not wages.

350
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An allowance isn't, oh, you
did this much work around the

351
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house, you get this much money.

352
00:14:59,985 --> 00:15:00,285
Right?

353
00:15:00,285 --> 00:15:00,675
So

354
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this happens right with with God
when we think about it, you're not

355
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doing things for God, and then God's
like, all right, here's some grace.

356
00:15:12,075 --> 00:15:14,325
It's not like, oh yeah, I
read my Bible five times this

357
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week out of seven days, God.

358
00:15:15,825 --> 00:15:19,200
And he's like, great, here's
some, here's some grace for you.

359
00:15:19,890 --> 00:15:20,939
That's not how that works, right?

360
00:15:21,150 --> 00:15:23,939
God's not like, oh, I love you more
now that you started praying more

361
00:15:23,939 --> 00:15:27,270
consistently, or, I love you more now
that you memorized this Bible verse,

362
00:15:27,479 --> 00:15:30,959
or, I love you more now that you
know, now that you sit through the

363
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whole main service without zoning out.

364
00:15:34,260 --> 00:15:38,219
God's not like, oh, yep,
you're definitely saved.

365
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And they're just kind of saved.

366
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'cause they check their phone five
times during the sermon, right?

367
00:15:42,030 --> 00:15:42,750
That's not what he's saying.

368
00:15:44,219 --> 00:15:46,949
Obedience isn't a way
we earn stuff from God.

369
00:15:46,949 --> 00:15:52,290
'cause there's not a, there's not the same
contract anymore in, in a lot of sports.

370
00:15:52,560 --> 00:15:56,670
Um, American sports, when a player gets
traded, they keep the same contract.

371
00:15:56,699 --> 00:15:56,819
Right?

372
00:15:56,819 --> 00:15:58,530
That's a big problem for a lot of trades.

373
00:15:58,560 --> 00:16:00,689
'cause there's a salary cap and
like in basketball, there's all

374
00:16:00,689 --> 00:16:04,110
these rules and, um, you have to
figure out, oh, who, how do we fit

375
00:16:04,110 --> 00:16:05,819
this guy's contract onto our team?

376
00:16:06,540 --> 00:16:07,890
In soccer, this doesn't happen.

377
00:16:08,040 --> 00:16:12,240
So in European soccer when a, a player
changes teams, they just rip up his

378
00:16:12,240 --> 00:16:12,915
contract and they sign a new one.

379
00:16:13,935 --> 00:16:15,765
Don't have, they don't have to
worry about his old contract.

380
00:16:15,975 --> 00:16:16,155
Right?

381
00:16:16,155 --> 00:16:20,175
When you became a Christian, your old
contract to the law to keep the law

382
00:16:20,235 --> 00:16:25,275
gone, done, right, there's no carryover
of, well, you became a Christian, but

383
00:16:25,275 --> 00:16:27,885
you still have to keep the Sabbath.

384
00:16:28,155 --> 00:16:30,225
It doesn't happen anymore, right?

385
00:16:30,225 --> 00:16:31,515
That's what Paul is telling these people.

386
00:16:33,339 --> 00:16:39,765
When you become a Christian, you don't
add anything else to Jesus righteousness.

387
00:16:40,875 --> 00:16:44,385
You're not earning any extra righteousness
from God by doing good things for God.

388
00:16:44,535 --> 00:16:46,214
That's not why Christians do good works.

389
00:16:46,785 --> 00:16:51,555
The reason Christians do good works is
because their relationship to God changed.

390
00:16:52,305 --> 00:16:53,444
It's not that they owe God.

391
00:16:53,444 --> 00:16:54,915
It's not that they're trying
to make up for their sin.

392
00:16:55,094 --> 00:16:55,875
It's they love God.

393
00:16:56,565 --> 00:16:57,675
You have a new relationship with God.

394
00:16:57,675 --> 00:16:58,335
It's like you're married.

395
00:16:59,055 --> 00:17:01,425
If you're married, you don't take
out the trash to stay married.

396
00:17:01,454 --> 00:17:02,865
You take out the trash
'cause you love the person.

397
00:17:03,524 --> 00:17:06,405
If you're married, you don't do the dishes
because, oh, I need to stay married.

398
00:17:06,944 --> 00:17:08,503
You do the dishes because you love them.

399
00:17:08,909 --> 00:17:10,290
You want to, you wanna help.

400
00:17:11,940 --> 00:17:13,050
That's Christian obedience.

401
00:17:13,050 --> 00:17:15,720
Christian obedience is not, oh, I
need to do this to get stuff from God.

402
00:17:16,740 --> 00:17:16,980
Right?

403
00:17:16,980 --> 00:17:17,760
It's relational.

404
00:17:17,760 --> 00:17:18,810
It's, I, I obey God.

405
00:17:18,839 --> 00:17:19,500
'cause I love him.

406
00:17:19,648 --> 00:17:20,848
I wanna do what he says.

407
00:17:21,210 --> 00:17:21,930
I trust him.

408
00:17:21,930 --> 00:17:25,290
So I wanna do the things
that God wants me to do.

409
00:17:26,579 --> 00:17:26,790
Right?

410
00:17:26,790 --> 00:17:32,159
So if you're someone who's trying to gain
acceptance to God by working for it, Paul

411
00:17:32,159 --> 00:17:35,220
would say, you're living under the law.

412
00:17:36,419 --> 00:17:36,659
Right?

413
00:17:36,659 --> 00:17:37,889
You're, you're still.

414
00:17:38,534 --> 00:17:43,335
Under the, the old relationship that
you don't need to be under anymore.

415
00:17:44,745 --> 00:17:44,925
Right?

416
00:17:44,925 --> 00:17:49,095
That person's dead and you're still
trying to be married to them, right?

417
00:17:49,095 --> 00:17:52,425
If you're a Christian, if you're not
a Christian, then we're gonna talk

418
00:17:52,425 --> 00:17:53,955
about what else the law does for you.

419
00:17:54,225 --> 00:17:57,705
But you can't gain acceptance
from God by working for it.

420
00:17:57,705 --> 00:18:01,935
You can't say, God, now that I've
started doing better, now I can

421
00:18:01,935 --> 00:18:03,375
trust you and turn for my sin.

422
00:18:03,375 --> 00:18:05,985
And, and now you'll, you'll accept
me and, and let me be a Christian.

423
00:18:06,044 --> 00:18:06,764
That's not how it works.

424
00:18:07,545 --> 00:18:11,235
God just saves you and then he
changes you and that's how you change.

425
00:18:13,065 --> 00:18:16,035
Or sometimes maybe you're a Christian
and you think, well, um, I can't ask

426
00:18:16,035 --> 00:18:19,005
God for forgiveness right now because
I just sinned, so I'm gonna like do

427
00:18:19,005 --> 00:18:21,885
a little better for a day or two, and
then I'll ask God for forgiveness.

428
00:18:22,725 --> 00:18:22,995
Right?

429
00:18:23,175 --> 00:18:26,265
Functionally what you're saying
is I need to obey God to get some,

430
00:18:26,265 --> 00:18:30,585
like good street cred with God,
and then I can truly get forgiven.

431
00:18:31,425 --> 00:18:32,235
That's not how it works.

432
00:18:33,629 --> 00:18:36,690
When you sin, you can come right to
God and ask for forgiveness if you're

433
00:18:36,690 --> 00:18:40,889
a Christian, because you didn't take
away anything from Jesus righteousness,

434
00:18:41,970 --> 00:18:43,649
and that's an awesome thing, right?

435
00:18:43,649 --> 00:18:46,680
You don't have to say, well, God, let
me make it up to you for a little bit.

436
00:18:47,070 --> 00:18:50,399
And then like, you know how, um, sometimes
if you get in trouble with your parents,

437
00:18:50,639 --> 00:18:53,940
but you like, want to go do something
fun, you don't ask them right away, right?

438
00:18:54,120 --> 00:18:58,050
Because you, you think, oh, if I wait and
I, I do good for enough, they'll like feel

439
00:18:58,050 --> 00:18:59,070
better about it and they'll let me do it.

440
00:18:59,070 --> 00:19:00,240
I used to this with my
parents all the time, right?

441
00:19:00,419 --> 00:19:02,280
Oh, I want to go do this thing,
but I just got in trouble.

442
00:19:02,835 --> 00:19:05,235
I'm gonna wait a day or two
and then I'll ask them, right?

443
00:19:05,715 --> 00:19:07,545
Um, be on their good
side a little bit, right?

444
00:19:07,545 --> 00:19:08,745
That's not how this works with God.

445
00:19:08,775 --> 00:19:11,355
'cause you're standing with God
didn't change if you're a Christian.

446
00:19:11,895 --> 00:19:14,625
'cause Jesus is the one who gives
you all the acceptance before

447
00:19:14,625 --> 00:19:15,645
God you could ever ask for.

448
00:19:17,325 --> 00:19:21,105
So don't use your obedience
to earn stuff from God.

449
00:19:22,575 --> 00:19:24,735
Then you may be thinking,
what's the point of the law?

450
00:19:24,735 --> 00:19:27,285
Why did God spend thousands
of years and all of this?

451
00:19:27,720 --> 00:19:30,960
You know, more than two thirds of
my Bible telling me all these laws.

452
00:19:30,960 --> 00:19:31,650
What's the point?

453
00:19:31,740 --> 00:19:31,950
Right?

454
00:19:31,950 --> 00:19:32,310
Why?

455
00:19:32,460 --> 00:19:35,190
Why are some of the longest
books in the Bible, all of this

456
00:19:35,190 --> 00:19:36,720
stuff that doesn't matter to me?

457
00:19:36,720 --> 00:19:40,020
Then if I'm a Christian and the
Bible is for Christians, then why

458
00:19:40,020 --> 00:19:40,920
is all this stuff in the Bible?

459
00:19:41,100 --> 00:19:42,480
Maybe you've been feeling this
'cause you've been doing our

460
00:19:42,480 --> 00:19:43,590
daily Bible reading, right?

461
00:19:43,590 --> 00:19:46,320
Maybe you're like, man, why do
we have to read Deuteronomy?

462
00:19:46,470 --> 00:19:48,660
And we already read numbers
and we already read Leviticus.

463
00:19:48,810 --> 00:19:50,580
Why do we have to read
Leviticus in the first place?

464
00:19:51,210 --> 00:19:53,790
The second half of an of Exodus
was already hard enough, right?

465
00:19:54,660 --> 00:19:55,740
Maybe that's what you're thinking.

466
00:19:57,270 --> 00:19:58,949
Uh, what's the point of the
law if we're not supposed to

467
00:19:58,949 --> 00:20:02,909
use it to earn stuff from God?

468
00:20:02,939 --> 00:20:06,330
Well, that's what we're gonna find
out in the next part of our chapter.

469
00:20:06,360 --> 00:20:06,600
Okay?

470
00:20:06,600 --> 00:20:10,919
So our second point tonight
is see the law's true purpose.

471
00:20:12,389 --> 00:20:13,260
What's the point then?

472
00:20:13,980 --> 00:20:19,770
If the law was never meant for me to work
my way up to God, if it wasn't a ladder

473
00:20:19,770 --> 00:20:23,495
for me to climb, to get accepted by God,
if it's not really a way that I could.

474
00:20:24,840 --> 00:20:26,970
Get on God's good side.

475
00:20:27,000 --> 00:20:27,720
What's the point?

476
00:20:27,990 --> 00:20:28,320
Why?

477
00:20:28,380 --> 00:20:32,880
Why does God give commands if I
don't get anything from obeying them?

478
00:20:38,550 --> 00:20:39,630
Well, let's look at verse seven.

479
00:20:39,690 --> 00:20:45,660
Okay, so we talked about how Christians
are not under the law anymore.

480
00:20:46,260 --> 00:20:49,170
So then he says, well then is the law bad?

481
00:20:50,100 --> 00:20:51,840
Is the law sinful By no means?

482
00:20:52,439 --> 00:20:53,100
Not at all.

483
00:20:53,310 --> 00:20:53,969
Definitely not.

484
00:20:54,240 --> 00:20:58,800
But if it hadn't been for the law, I
wouldn't have known sin for, I would

485
00:20:58,800 --> 00:21:00,300
not have known what it is to covet.

486
00:21:00,300 --> 00:21:03,810
If the law had not said,
you shall not covet.

487
00:21:04,439 --> 00:21:07,409
It's kind of like if I said,
don't think about a pink elephant.

488
00:21:08,340 --> 00:21:09,300
Don't think about a pink elephant.

489
00:21:09,300 --> 00:21:12,479
Whatever you do, do not think
about a pink elephant at all.

490
00:21:12,689 --> 00:21:13,469
Not for one second.

491
00:21:13,469 --> 00:21:14,370
Don't think about a pink elephant.

492
00:21:16,169 --> 00:21:17,399
You're all thinking about
a pink elephant, right?

493
00:21:17,790 --> 00:21:20,669
So the point right, is the law.

494
00:21:21,435 --> 00:21:23,505
Define sin for you.

495
00:21:25,065 --> 00:21:28,185
The law shows you, oh, he said don't.

496
00:21:28,185 --> 00:21:30,285
It's like she said, don't
covet, and now you're like, oh,

497
00:21:30,285 --> 00:21:31,335
but I kind of want to covet.

498
00:21:32,085 --> 00:21:34,125
I kind of do like those things
that the other people have.

499
00:21:34,515 --> 00:21:37,515
My friend, he does get
more stuff than I do.

500
00:21:38,235 --> 00:21:39,795
His parents got him that for Christmas.

501
00:21:41,550 --> 00:21:50,325
So the law shows us what sin really
is and it shows us how sinful we.

502
00:21:50,669 --> 00:21:51,449
Really are,

503
00:21:53,850 --> 00:21:56,820
um, I'm terrible at
drawing anything artistic.

504
00:21:56,820 --> 00:21:58,320
I could draw a curve line with a ruler.

505
00:21:58,889 --> 00:22:00,899
Um, I'm horrible at art.

506
00:22:01,260 --> 00:22:07,199
And so these things, you know, the
color and the lions things are horrible

507
00:22:07,229 --> 00:22:10,524
for me because if I try to do this.

508
00:22:11,925 --> 00:22:13,425
This is supposed to, what
is this supposed to do?

509
00:22:13,635 --> 00:22:16,305
This is supposed to help you
draw a nice picture, right?

510
00:22:16,545 --> 00:22:19,305
That you're supposed to be able to
say, oh, I, I can't draw a person,

511
00:22:19,305 --> 00:22:21,765
so what I'm gonna do, I'm just gonna
color inside the lines, and then I'll

512
00:22:21,765 --> 00:22:23,295
be able to draw this person, right?

513
00:22:23,775 --> 00:22:27,135
This is supposed to help you
draw, but for me, what does it do?

514
00:22:27,900 --> 00:22:31,470
It tells me you should never pick
up a marker or a colored pencil or

515
00:22:31,470 --> 00:22:33,450
a crayon ever again in your life.

516
00:22:33,540 --> 00:22:34,230
That's what it tells me.

517
00:22:34,710 --> 00:22:40,110
It tells me you need to stay far away
from anything remotely colorful, ever.

518
00:22:40,680 --> 00:22:41,670
Um, that's why I don't eat vegetables.

519
00:22:41,670 --> 00:22:42,150
No, just kidding.

520
00:22:42,360 --> 00:22:45,720
Um, but what this is telling
me, right, it's supposed to

521
00:22:45,720 --> 00:22:48,000
say here, this is a slide.

522
00:22:48,450 --> 00:22:49,830
This is how you draw a slide.

523
00:22:50,190 --> 00:22:51,180
That's what it's supposed to tell me.

524
00:22:51,450 --> 00:22:54,780
But instead it says, Lewis,
you suck at drawing slides.

525
00:22:55,320 --> 00:22:56,190
That's what it tells me.

526
00:22:56,490 --> 00:22:56,880
It says.

527
00:22:57,240 --> 00:22:58,890
Lewis, you're horrible at shading.

528
00:22:59,370 --> 00:23:00,420
That's what it does for me.

529
00:23:00,750 --> 00:23:02,640
So maybe you see these and
you're like, oh, that's so fun.

530
00:23:02,640 --> 00:23:03,330
I love coloring.

531
00:23:03,330 --> 00:23:04,830
And I'm like, no, this is horrible.

532
00:23:04,830 --> 00:23:08,670
This tells me never do anything
artistic ever in your life.

533
00:23:09,720 --> 00:23:12,060
That's what God's law does for you.

534
00:23:12,960 --> 00:23:17,975
God's law gives you lines and you try
to color in the lines and you mess up.

535
00:23:19,170 --> 00:23:22,650
You end up coloring, you know,
this guy's face green and you

536
00:23:22,650 --> 00:23:23,820
end up coloring, you know?

537
00:23:23,820 --> 00:23:26,550
Oh, why is, why is there like
spikes coming outta his back?

538
00:23:26,550 --> 00:23:28,170
Well, it's because you
just colored too far.

539
00:23:28,170 --> 00:23:28,440
You know?

540
00:23:28,770 --> 00:23:33,090
Um, maybe I'm the only person who thinks
that, but that happens to me regularly.

541
00:23:33,420 --> 00:23:37,620
So when, when you see God's law, right?

542
00:23:37,620 --> 00:23:41,010
When you see something like, oh, don't
covet, you're like, oh man, I do that.

543
00:23:42,300 --> 00:23:43,050
It's like a mirror.

544
00:23:43,080 --> 00:23:44,820
It shows you, oh, you actually do covet.

545
00:23:45,449 --> 00:23:49,409
And you read in God's law, oh,
um, man, you shouldn't have

546
00:23:49,409 --> 00:23:51,689
any gods before, before Jesus.

547
00:23:51,689 --> 00:23:53,669
You shouldn't worship
anyone more than Jesus.

548
00:23:53,669 --> 00:23:55,350
You shouldn't love anyone more than Jesus.

549
00:23:55,469 --> 00:23:59,459
And you're like, oh, what I do, or love
the love your neighbor as yourself.

550
00:23:59,459 --> 00:24:01,620
And you're like, well, actually,
I like myself a lot more than

551
00:24:01,620 --> 00:24:04,770
I like my, my classmates.

552
00:24:05,459 --> 00:24:08,310
Or it says, uh, you should be
thankful in all circumstances.

553
00:24:08,310 --> 00:24:12,240
And you're like all of them
really, all of circumstances.

554
00:24:12,719 --> 00:24:13,500
I don't do that.

555
00:24:15,090 --> 00:24:18,900
What God's commands do is they actually
show you how bad you really are.

556
00:24:21,060 --> 00:24:21,930
That's the point of the law.

557
00:24:22,410 --> 00:24:26,370
The point of God's law is not just,
oh, I'm supposed to do those things.

558
00:24:27,120 --> 00:24:29,760
The point of God's law is
I can't do those things.

559
00:24:30,720 --> 00:24:34,230
That's why God gives his law,
especially the old covenant.

560
00:24:34,260 --> 00:24:37,470
The old covenant is you can't
do it, and that's actually the

561
00:24:37,470 --> 00:24:39,570
whole history of the Bible.

562
00:24:39,630 --> 00:24:42,420
When you read the Bible from
cover to cover, like hopefully

563
00:24:42,420 --> 00:24:43,255
you're doing with us this year.

564
00:24:44,190 --> 00:24:46,620
Most of the Bible is people suck.

565
00:24:47,010 --> 00:24:49,890
That's most of the Bible you're
reading and you're like, oh, uh,

566
00:24:49,890 --> 00:24:51,300
Abraham, he's a pretty cool guy.

567
00:24:51,510 --> 00:24:54,600
Oh, he actually like commits the
same sin over and over and tries to

568
00:24:54,600 --> 00:24:56,730
tell everyone his wife is actually
his sister and not trust God.

569
00:24:56,850 --> 00:24:57,120
Right.

570
00:24:57,240 --> 00:24:58,860
And then you're like, oh, what about, um.

571
00:24:59,910 --> 00:25:03,480
Well, we, we saw that, um,
Noah was a pretty cool guy.

572
00:25:03,480 --> 00:25:04,560
I guess this is before Abraham, right?

573
00:25:04,650 --> 00:25:06,630
Noah is a pretty cool guy,
and then he gets drunk and,

574
00:25:06,810 --> 00:25:08,190
you know, does weird stuff.

575
00:25:08,280 --> 00:25:10,110
And then you're, you're, he keep reading.

576
00:25:10,110 --> 00:25:11,370
You're like, Moses is awesome.

577
00:25:11,460 --> 00:25:14,550
Moses is so courageous and he trusts
God and he's so patient with Israel.

578
00:25:14,550 --> 00:25:16,800
And then you're like, oh, well, he
hit the rock and says, speaking to it.

579
00:25:17,400 --> 00:25:18,510
Outta the promised land, right?

580
00:25:18,660 --> 00:25:19,260
Not Moses.

581
00:25:19,260 --> 00:25:21,930
Moses isn't, isn't perfect either,
and you keep reading and you're like,

582
00:25:21,960 --> 00:25:23,610
oh, this Joshua guy's pretty cool.

583
00:25:23,790 --> 00:25:26,160
Um, but I guess he's not
really the Messiah either.

584
00:25:26,280 --> 00:25:29,490
And then you keep reading and you're
like, David is awesome, man, after God's

585
00:25:29,490 --> 00:25:31,470
own heart writes all these psalms, boom.

586
00:25:31,470 --> 00:25:32,820
Adultery with Bathsheba, right?

587
00:25:32,970 --> 00:25:37,290
And then you're like, oh, Solomon, why
is this man to ever live 700 wives later?

588
00:25:37,290 --> 00:25:38,820
Nope, not Solomon, right?

589
00:25:39,030 --> 00:25:43,740
Um, so the whole Bible is showing you
look, people aren't good enough, right?

590
00:25:43,740 --> 00:25:44,490
People are sinful.

591
00:25:46,080 --> 00:25:48,870
We need God to come do something about it.

592
00:25:49,560 --> 00:25:53,670
That's the story of the Old Testament
in a nutshell, is God has to come

593
00:25:53,670 --> 00:25:55,800
down and do something about our sin.

594
00:25:56,910 --> 00:26:00,450
And when you read God's law, when
you read God's commands, part of

595
00:26:00,450 --> 00:26:03,180
what they're supposed to do for
you is to show you, I can't do it.

596
00:26:04,320 --> 00:26:05,070
I'm not good enough.

597
00:26:05,129 --> 00:26:06,990
I can't color inside the lines.

598
00:26:08,310 --> 00:26:10,800
When you, when you see God's
command and you're like, I don't

599
00:26:10,800 --> 00:26:12,780
do that, I don't feel that.

600
00:26:12,990 --> 00:26:13,890
I don't love that.

601
00:26:14,865 --> 00:26:15,735
I don't want that.

602
00:26:16,754 --> 00:26:18,135
I don't trust God like that.

603
00:26:19,905 --> 00:26:22,905
Part of what that's supposed to
do is to show you I need help.

604
00:26:23,625 --> 00:26:25,725
And really, you don't, don't need help.

605
00:26:26,235 --> 00:26:28,215
You need saving.

606
00:26:29,565 --> 00:26:33,135
And so the part of the law, the point is
for you to say, I, I just can't do it.

607
00:26:33,645 --> 00:26:35,115
There's no way I'm gonna be able to do it.

608
00:26:35,115 --> 00:26:39,105
And maybe some of you, you've tried
really hard, you try really hard to

609
00:26:39,105 --> 00:26:40,695
be a Christian and it doesn't work.

610
00:26:42,135 --> 00:26:44,175
And that's probably God's showing you.

611
00:26:45,314 --> 00:26:46,485
You can't do it on your own.

612
00:26:46,605 --> 00:26:49,425
You don't just need to add
God to what you're doing.

613
00:26:50,385 --> 00:26:54,885
You need God to come in and, and,
and change everything, right?

614
00:26:54,885 --> 00:26:57,584
You just don't need to stop
that one sin, and then you'll

615
00:26:57,584 --> 00:26:58,935
finally feel that peace with God.

616
00:27:00,824 --> 00:27:03,344
You need God to save you.

617
00:27:03,465 --> 00:27:06,014
You need Jesus righteousness, not
just some of Jesus righteousness

618
00:27:06,074 --> 00:27:07,365
and some of your good works.

619
00:27:09,930 --> 00:27:14,430
So I wanna ask you, when you read
God's word, you hear a sermon

620
00:27:14,430 --> 00:27:15,720
and you're convicted, right?

621
00:27:15,720 --> 00:27:17,070
You feel, man, I don't do that.

622
00:27:18,030 --> 00:27:18,870
How do you respond?

623
00:27:18,990 --> 00:27:22,230
What do you do when you're, when
you are feel guilty about your sin?

624
00:27:22,290 --> 00:27:22,890
What do you do?

625
00:27:24,030 --> 00:27:24,930
Where do you go with it?

626
00:27:24,990 --> 00:27:25,680
How do you feel?

627
00:27:25,680 --> 00:27:26,640
How do you respond?

628
00:27:28,260 --> 00:27:33,000
Some people, what they do is they,
um, they rely on their works, right?

629
00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:37,050
They say, well, um, I, I know
that I'm not perfect, but.

630
00:27:38,175 --> 00:27:39,465
I do a lot of good things.

631
00:27:40,065 --> 00:27:42,795
I'm really nice to, to my friends.

632
00:27:43,215 --> 00:27:45,525
I pray before meals.

633
00:27:46,035 --> 00:27:49,155
I go to church, I serve at
church, I serve in kids' ministry.

634
00:27:49,755 --> 00:27:52,695
Um, people, some, some people what
they do, they feel convicted about

635
00:27:52,695 --> 00:27:54,345
something, but they're like, but
look at all the other stuff I do.

636
00:27:54,345 --> 00:27:54,765
That's good.

637
00:27:55,515 --> 00:27:56,505
So I can't be that bad.

638
00:27:56,535 --> 00:27:56,835
Right?

639
00:27:57,764 --> 00:28:00,105
Or maybe you compare, maybe you say, well,
I'm not as bad as those people, right?

640
00:28:00,135 --> 00:28:03,705
You should hear the jokes that my
friend at school makes, or, oh, you

641
00:28:03,705 --> 00:28:05,175
should see what they talk about.

642
00:28:05,385 --> 00:28:08,565
Or you should, oh, he, he goes to
church and he's even worse than I am.

643
00:28:09,345 --> 00:28:11,745
Maybe that's what you do when
you feel convicted about sin.

644
00:28:12,014 --> 00:28:15,555
Or maybe you say, well, if my
siblings weren't so annoying, I

645
00:28:15,555 --> 00:28:16,485
would be so much more patient.

646
00:28:16,995 --> 00:28:17,639
Maybe that's what you.

647
00:28:18,495 --> 00:28:23,175
And you, you make excuses for your
sin or you rationalize it, right?

648
00:28:23,175 --> 00:28:26,504
You say, well, I wouldn't be
so anxious if my life wasn't so

649
00:28:26,504 --> 00:28:28,754
hard, or it's just the way I am.

650
00:28:28,754 --> 00:28:32,745
I'm just an angry person, or I just,
it's just not how I work, right?

651
00:28:32,745 --> 00:28:33,615
It's just not my thing.

652
00:28:34,155 --> 00:28:34,935
I don't like reading.

653
00:28:34,935 --> 00:28:35,955
That's why I don't read the Bible.

654
00:28:37,250 --> 00:28:39,165
Or maybe you distract yourself, right?

655
00:28:39,165 --> 00:28:44,355
This is probably some of you right now,
you feel convicted by God's law and you're

656
00:28:44,355 --> 00:28:45,555
saying, well, it, it doesn't matter.

657
00:28:45,555 --> 00:28:46,065
It's not a big deal.

658
00:28:46,665 --> 00:28:47,455
I'll figure that out when I'm older.

659
00:28:48,104 --> 00:28:50,715
Or you feel convicted after it's true
north, you have a conversation with a

660
00:28:50,715 --> 00:28:54,074
leader, and then you go home and you
just watch videos and scroll and get it

661
00:28:54,074 --> 00:28:56,564
outta your head, or you're laying awake
at night and you're like, what do I do?

662
00:28:56,564 --> 00:28:57,764
What's gonna happen to you when I die?

663
00:28:58,245 --> 00:29:00,074
And you're like, oh, well that's
too, that's too important.

664
00:29:00,074 --> 00:29:00,885
I'm not gonna think about it right now.

665
00:29:01,304 --> 00:29:06,135
Maybe you distract yourself, maybe you
change, maybe you wanna change God.

666
00:29:06,165 --> 00:29:09,614
You say, well, God loves me
anyway and he'll forgive me.

667
00:29:09,885 --> 00:29:11,534
That's the God I know wouldn't sell.

668
00:29:11,685 --> 00:29:12,584
Send anyone to hell.

669
00:29:12,645 --> 00:29:13,185
Maybe that's what you do.

670
00:29:13,185 --> 00:29:16,455
You try to change who God is when
you're convicted by your sin.

671
00:29:17,805 --> 00:29:22,395
Those are all bad responses to God
telling you you're not good enough.

672
00:29:23,655 --> 00:29:27,435
The right response to when, when
you hear, man, I am so guilty.

673
00:29:27,435 --> 00:29:29,685
I'm so wicked, I'm so selfish.

674
00:29:30,015 --> 00:29:33,165
And you feel that you read God's word,
you hear a sermon and you, and you see

675
00:29:33,165 --> 00:29:37,485
that, and your heart, right, the, the
spotlight of God's word goes on your

676
00:29:37,485 --> 00:29:39,645
heart and you're like, man, I suck.

677
00:29:39,855 --> 00:29:40,605
I'm terrible.

678
00:29:42,075 --> 00:29:45,615
The point is for you to, to come to
Jesus and say, Jesus, I need you.

679
00:29:46,110 --> 00:29:47,340
I don't need you to do better.

680
00:29:47,490 --> 00:29:48,660
I just need you to try harder.

681
00:29:49,530 --> 00:29:51,629
I don't just need to to pray some more.

682
00:29:52,020 --> 00:29:57,899
I need you to do something about
me because I'm unfixable on my own.

683
00:29:58,770 --> 00:30:01,440
That's why we say Jesus
saves people, right?

684
00:30:01,440 --> 00:30:02,850
We don't say Jesus helps people.

685
00:30:03,480 --> 00:30:04,830
We say, Jesus saves people.

686
00:30:05,700 --> 00:30:10,470
And until you realize that
Jesus needs to save me, not

687
00:30:10,470 --> 00:30:12,720
just boost me up a little bit.

688
00:30:14,865 --> 00:30:17,565
You might not ever become a
Christian because you're too worried

689
00:30:17,565 --> 00:30:19,335
about finally saying, I'm not.

690
00:30:19,545 --> 00:30:20,325
I just can't do it.

691
00:30:21,225 --> 00:30:24,555
And part of what the law does is,
is show you you're not good enough.

692
00:30:25,065 --> 00:30:26,055
You'll never be good enough.

693
00:30:26,055 --> 00:30:29,325
You can't just fix a few things
and then God will like you more and

694
00:30:29,325 --> 00:30:30,405
you'll be good enough to go to heaven.

695
00:30:34,965 --> 00:30:38,355
So the point, even if you're a Christian,
if you're a Christian, maybe you're

696
00:30:38,355 --> 00:30:40,305
saying, well, I keep giving into this sin.

697
00:30:41,205 --> 00:30:42,435
The point for you is to say.

698
00:30:42,824 --> 00:30:43,935
I need Jesus.

699
00:30:44,715 --> 00:30:47,564
He has to do, he has to help me, right?

700
00:30:47,655 --> 00:30:50,084
I can't just read another
Christian book or talk to my

701
00:30:50,084 --> 00:30:51,225
leader and that'll fix everything.

702
00:30:52,155 --> 00:30:56,145
Your leader can help you, but
only Jesus can save you, right?

703
00:30:56,145 --> 00:31:00,764
Your, your Christian book or that
really, uh, wise person in your life

704
00:31:00,764 --> 00:31:03,014
or, or your parents, they can help you.

705
00:31:03,554 --> 00:31:05,024
But who actually changes you?

706
00:31:05,354 --> 00:31:06,074
Jesus does.

707
00:31:06,584 --> 00:31:07,965
Who actually forgives you?

708
00:31:08,925 --> 00:31:12,405
You doing better for a few weeks
doesn't make up for your sin.

709
00:31:12,405 --> 00:31:12,915
It never does.

710
00:31:13,215 --> 00:31:13,965
That's not the point.

711
00:31:15,044 --> 00:31:17,655
So when you feel guilty, when
you feel as a Christian, you, you

712
00:31:17,745 --> 00:31:19,544
sin and, and you feel convicted.

713
00:31:19,544 --> 00:31:21,645
You, you, you feel, man,
the law is putting that

714
00:31:21,645 --> 00:31:23,834
spotlight on me and I'm guilty.

715
00:31:23,864 --> 00:31:26,445
You go to Jesus and you say,
Jesus, just, you're the only

716
00:31:26,445 --> 00:31:28,635
reason I, I can be a Christian.

717
00:31:29,114 --> 00:31:30,915
I need you and you confess your sin.

718
00:31:31,364 --> 00:31:33,885
And we'll talk about how to deal
with your sin in chapter eight.

719
00:31:33,885 --> 00:31:37,905
But um, yeah, we need Jesus.

720
00:31:38,970 --> 00:31:41,850
To do everything, not
just some things, right?

721
00:31:44,490 --> 00:31:49,410
So then maybe you're asking yourself, if
we can't keep the law, then what do we do?

722
00:31:49,680 --> 00:31:49,830
Right?

723
00:31:49,830 --> 00:31:52,050
If the law isn't, is I can't do it.

724
00:31:52,110 --> 00:31:55,350
I can't ever love God with
all my heart, I can't do it.

725
00:31:55,350 --> 00:31:56,445
What do I, what do I do?

726
00:31:56,445 --> 00:31:57,120
I just give up.

727
00:31:57,510 --> 00:32:00,870
Do I just keep trying hard
and hoping I can do it?

728
00:32:01,110 --> 00:32:04,590
Like, what do I do if the, if the
law is really just about exposing

729
00:32:04,590 --> 00:32:07,135
my sin and my need for Jesus, then
do I just say, yep, I need Jesus.

730
00:32:08,370 --> 00:32:08,970
That's all I do.

731
00:32:09,720 --> 00:32:11,310
I don't have to try, I
don't have to do anything.

732
00:32:11,880 --> 00:32:12,360
What do we do?

733
00:32:14,220 --> 00:32:20,760
Well, I think a couple of these verses
help us see what we're looking for here.

734
00:32:20,820 --> 00:32:26,280
So, um, in verses five and six, I
want you to see there's a, I made it

735
00:32:26,280 --> 00:32:27,690
Christmas colors 'cause they clash.

736
00:32:27,750 --> 00:32:28,710
There's a contrast here.

737
00:32:29,580 --> 00:32:34,710
So in the past, living
in the flesh now, but.

738
00:32:35,475 --> 00:32:38,655
If you're a Christian, you serve
in the new way of the spirit.

739
00:32:39,555 --> 00:32:39,855
Okay?

740
00:32:40,155 --> 00:32:47,504
So what Paul is saying is in the
past you were under the law and um,

741
00:32:47,535 --> 00:32:54,585
you were dying, but now you're alive
and you're doing it by the spirit.

742
00:32:55,365 --> 00:32:58,365
The, the Holy Spirit is the
difference maker here, the the

743
00:32:58,365 --> 00:33:03,225
old person under the law, flesh,
death, new person, life spirit.

744
00:33:03,764 --> 00:33:06,915
That's the contrast I want you
to see before I'm a Christian.

745
00:33:07,544 --> 00:33:08,054
Flesh.

746
00:33:08,294 --> 00:33:10,574
Death can't do it right?

747
00:33:10,574 --> 00:33:11,564
The law condemns me.

748
00:33:12,074 --> 00:33:12,615
I'm guilty.

749
00:33:13,395 --> 00:33:18,945
Now we have the spirit and
we're released from the law and

750
00:33:18,945 --> 00:33:20,985
we live in a new way, right?

751
00:33:21,195 --> 00:33:22,274
New way, new life.

752
00:33:24,615 --> 00:33:29,475
The Holy Spirit is what gives
Christians the ability to

753
00:33:29,594 --> 00:33:31,334
really do what the law says.

754
00:33:32,325 --> 00:33:36,045
To really actually obey God
in a way that pleases him.

755
00:33:36,225 --> 00:33:37,635
Before you're a Christian,
you can't do it.

756
00:33:38,445 --> 00:33:41,235
All the law does before you're
a Christian is say you can't

757
00:33:41,235 --> 00:33:41,985
do it, you're not good enough.

758
00:33:43,995 --> 00:33:47,175
After you become a Christian, the
Holy Spirit, now instead of the

759
00:33:47,175 --> 00:33:49,754
law, the Holy Spirit is what gives
you the power to actually do it.

760
00:33:49,935 --> 00:33:54,075
The problem that we're gonna see is
that the holy, the, the law, God's

761
00:33:54,075 --> 00:33:58,875
commands don't give you the power to
do them right, the the god's commands.

762
00:33:58,875 --> 00:34:01,065
Just say, here's what
you're supposed to do.

763
00:34:01,770 --> 00:34:02,460
They don't help you do it.

764
00:34:02,820 --> 00:34:03,000
Right?

765
00:34:03,000 --> 00:34:04,740
You ever have a, a coach like that?

766
00:34:05,070 --> 00:34:07,140
They're just like, well just do this.

767
00:34:07,200 --> 00:34:07,440
Right?

768
00:34:07,530 --> 00:34:09,510
It's usually the coaches that, like
former players, they're like, well,

769
00:34:09,510 --> 00:34:11,520
yeah, you just do that and it happens.

770
00:34:11,520 --> 00:34:13,320
And I'm like, uh, how do I do that?

771
00:34:13,320 --> 00:34:13,949
I can't do that.

772
00:34:13,949 --> 00:34:14,070
Right?

773
00:34:14,070 --> 00:34:15,389
I'm not strong like you.

774
00:34:15,389 --> 00:34:16,260
I'm not fast like you.

775
00:34:16,260 --> 00:34:16,920
I can't do that.

776
00:34:18,150 --> 00:34:18,719
That's the law.

777
00:34:18,750 --> 00:34:21,210
The law says you, you can't
do this, but you need to.

778
00:34:22,199 --> 00:34:24,540
And the spirit says, here's how you do it.

779
00:34:24,630 --> 00:34:27,630
The spirit gives you the power to do it.

780
00:34:29,100 --> 00:34:30,540
And so the rest of this chapter.

781
00:34:31,304 --> 00:34:33,134
Describes this person.

782
00:34:34,154 --> 00:34:38,563
Chapter eight describes
this person, so chapter.

783
00:34:38,685 --> 00:34:42,495
So the rest of the chapter, chapter,
uh, verses 1325, is all about someone

784
00:34:42,674 --> 00:34:44,895
who's living not by the spirit.

785
00:34:45,134 --> 00:34:47,384
Someone who's not relying
on the Holy Spirit's power.

786
00:34:47,594 --> 00:34:49,844
They're relying on their own effort.

787
00:34:50,984 --> 00:34:54,313
The re and then chapter eight
is all about the Holy Spirit.

788
00:34:54,614 --> 00:34:57,314
So what we wanna focus on is the
Holy Spirit is the one that gives us.

789
00:34:57,690 --> 00:34:59,130
Power to obey God.

790
00:34:59,130 --> 00:34:59,700
So 0.3,

791
00:34:59,910 --> 00:35:03,360
pursue spirit powered love for God.

792
00:35:05,790 --> 00:35:09,600
The the way to obey God isn't to try
really hard to obey his commands.

793
00:35:10,140 --> 00:35:12,900
The way to obey God comes from
the power of the Holy Spirit.

794
00:35:12,930 --> 00:35:15,240
The Holy Spirit helps you obey God.

795
00:35:16,650 --> 00:35:17,819
Otherwise you can't do it.

796
00:35:25,230 --> 00:35:30,900
So if you're someone who is just trying
on your own effort to obey God, maybe

797
00:35:31,020 --> 00:35:33,660
you're not a Christian and you want
to be a Christian, or you grew up in a

798
00:35:33,660 --> 00:35:37,560
Christian home and you're, you're trying
to fit in with, with Christian culture at

799
00:35:37,560 --> 00:35:42,150
our church or in your home, or maybe you
are a Christian and you're not relying

800
00:35:42,150 --> 00:35:45,870
on the Holy Spirit and you're, you're
just trying really hard to impress God

801
00:35:46,050 --> 00:35:50,250
and, and you are a Christian, but you're
mostly just saying, I need to do this.

802
00:35:50,250 --> 00:35:50,830
I need to, I need to.

803
00:35:51,689 --> 00:35:53,970
Focus and, and read revival and
pray and do all these things.

804
00:35:55,830 --> 00:35:57,839
This is probably how you're gonna feel.

805
00:35:58,799 --> 00:35:59,100
Okay.

806
00:35:59,669 --> 00:36:01,529
This is kind of an
overview of the chapter.

807
00:36:01,649 --> 00:36:06,390
There's a lot of things that are
discouraging in this chapter that

808
00:36:06,689 --> 00:36:08,399
the author says about himself.

809
00:36:09,120 --> 00:36:11,879
He says, I'm of flesh sold under sin.

810
00:36:11,879 --> 00:36:13,620
He's like, he feels like
he's a slave to sin.

811
00:36:13,620 --> 00:36:14,189
He feels like he can't.

812
00:36:14,189 --> 00:36:15,089
He sins his master.

813
00:36:15,089 --> 00:36:15,959
He can't do anything about it.

814
00:36:16,560 --> 00:36:19,439
He says, I wanna do the right thing,
but I don't do the thing I want.

815
00:36:19,649 --> 00:36:20,609
I do this thing I hate.

816
00:36:21,735 --> 00:36:24,015
And maybe you're saying, I wanna obey
God, and I just feel like I can't.

817
00:36:25,005 --> 00:36:26,655
I wanna do the right thing,
and I just can't do it.

818
00:36:26,745 --> 00:36:27,345
I keep sinning.

819
00:36:27,495 --> 00:36:28,335
I keep being anxious.

820
00:36:28,335 --> 00:36:29,505
I keep giving into lust.

821
00:36:29,505 --> 00:36:30,645
I keep being impatient.

822
00:36:30,645 --> 00:36:31,245
I just can't do it.

823
00:36:32,685 --> 00:36:34,215
He says, nothing good dwells in me.

824
00:36:34,215 --> 00:36:34,695
There's nothing.

825
00:36:34,695 --> 00:36:36,585
There's zero good in my life.

826
00:36:38,235 --> 00:36:39,645
Again, I don't do the good thing I want.

827
00:36:39,945 --> 00:36:41,805
He says, I'm captive to the law of sin.

828
00:36:41,955 --> 00:36:43,845
He says, with my flesh,
I serve the law of sin.

829
00:36:43,845 --> 00:36:45,620
So he's like, I just feel
like sin is in charge of me.

830
00:36:47,595 --> 00:36:50,895
This is someone who's not
living by the Holy Spirit.

831
00:36:50,895 --> 00:36:53,655
They're trying really hard,
but they're, they're unable to

832
00:36:53,655 --> 00:36:55,275
do the things they want to do.

833
00:36:56,445 --> 00:36:59,505
It's kinda like those things at,
um, arcades, you know, these things.

834
00:37:00,015 --> 00:37:01,725
Um, these things don't work.

835
00:37:01,750 --> 00:37:02,040
Okay?

836
00:37:02,235 --> 00:37:02,595
Okay.

837
00:37:02,745 --> 00:37:07,875
You can try really hard to, to get thing
in the claw and pick it up and pick up

838
00:37:07,875 --> 00:37:09,735
the right one that you want and bring it.

839
00:37:09,735 --> 00:37:11,205
This one doesn't even
have an exit, I guess.

840
00:37:11,505 --> 00:37:14,835
Um, but you can bring it to the
right place and try to drop it

841
00:37:14,835 --> 00:37:17,295
in, and you can try really hard.

842
00:37:17,295 --> 00:37:19,545
You, you could even like, shake
the machine and do all the stuff.

843
00:37:19,545 --> 00:37:20,535
I've seen people do this, right?

844
00:37:20,685 --> 00:37:23,415
They try really hard to, to pick
up the right stuffed animal or

845
00:37:23,415 --> 00:37:26,715
the right whatever, and put it in
the, the box and they can't do it.

846
00:37:26,895 --> 00:37:30,345
They're trying all this stuff to
do it, but they always drop the

847
00:37:30,345 --> 00:37:31,755
toy in the wrong place, right?

848
00:37:32,025 --> 00:37:33,825
Partly because they're
designed to do it right.

849
00:37:34,185 --> 00:37:36,194
Um, they're designed to rip you off.

850
00:37:36,435 --> 00:37:40,480
Um, that's kind of like trying to
obey God without the Holy Spirit.

851
00:37:41,580 --> 00:37:42,840
You can try really hard.

852
00:37:43,140 --> 00:37:44,640
You can do all the right things.

853
00:37:44,640 --> 00:37:46,200
You can, you can move the
controller the right way.

854
00:37:46,200 --> 00:37:47,370
You can press the right buttons.

855
00:37:47,790 --> 00:37:51,090
But if you're doing it without
the Holy Spirit, you're gonna drop

856
00:37:51,090 --> 00:37:53,220
the, drop the ball, so to speak.

857
00:37:54,030 --> 00:37:54,780
You're not gonna be able to do it.

858
00:37:54,810 --> 00:37:58,200
You're gonna be, you're gonna feel
like this person, I can't do it.

859
00:37:59,430 --> 00:38:00,750
I'm, I want to do the right thing.

860
00:38:00,750 --> 00:38:03,000
I wanna pray, I wanna focus,
I wanna read the Bible.

861
00:38:03,090 --> 00:38:07,230
I wanna stop saying those things
and, and thinking those thoughts.

862
00:38:07,830 --> 00:38:08,455
And this is how you're gonna feel.

863
00:38:09,960 --> 00:38:17,460
If you're not doing things by the Holy
Spirit, I wanna show you, um, something

864
00:38:17,490 --> 00:38:18,840
interesting about these two chapters.

865
00:38:19,710 --> 00:38:22,020
These are all the times the Holy
Spirit's mentioned in Romans chapter

866
00:38:22,020 --> 00:38:26,310
seven once, and these are all the times.

867
00:38:26,310 --> 00:38:29,400
The Holy Spirit is mentioned
in Romans chapter 8 21 times.

868
00:38:29,490 --> 00:38:29,910
Okay?

869
00:38:30,150 --> 00:38:33,180
So what's happening is Romans
seven is about someone who's

870
00:38:33,180 --> 00:38:33,930
trying to do things on their own.

871
00:38:33,960 --> 00:38:34,650
No Holy Spirit.

872
00:38:35,640 --> 00:38:38,310
Romans eight is someone who
is doing things by the Spirit.

873
00:38:38,700 --> 00:38:41,730
And the point is that the way
Christians obey God is not by the

874
00:38:41,730 --> 00:38:45,480
law, not by trying really hard, but
it's by the power of the Holy Spirit.

875
00:38:45,480 --> 00:38:49,560
So in the future, when we get to Romans
eight, we'll talk about the Holy Spirit

876
00:38:49,560 --> 00:38:50,940
and how that works in Christian's life.

877
00:38:51,359 --> 00:38:57,930
But for now, what I want you to see is
that obeying God without the spirit leaves

878
00:38:57,930 --> 00:38:59,460
you, discouraged it leaves you frustrated.

879
00:39:00,299 --> 00:39:02,160
Because that's not how
you're supposed to obey God.

880
00:39:02,220 --> 00:39:04,169
You're supposed to obey God with
the power of the Holy Spirit.

881
00:39:04,169 --> 00:39:07,560
This is why Christians can't obey God.

882
00:39:08,790 --> 00:39:11,910
You can try really hard if you're not
a Christian to do all the right things,

883
00:39:12,870 --> 00:39:14,549
but you don't have the power to do it.

884
00:39:14,819 --> 00:39:17,640
You're just moving the claw machine around
and you're always gonna drop the ball.

885
00:39:17,729 --> 00:39:19,950
You're never gonna be able to do it.

886
00:39:22,410 --> 00:39:24,839
But if you do live by the Holy Spirit.

887
00:39:25,470 --> 00:39:27,480
You can honor God.

888
00:39:28,410 --> 00:39:33,060
Galatians five 16 gives us
a very simple statement.

889
00:39:33,120 --> 00:39:34,109
That's awesome.

890
00:39:34,470 --> 00:39:39,029
It says, walk by the spirit and you will
not gratify the desires of the flesh.

891
00:39:39,060 --> 00:39:40,859
Gratify means like complete.

892
00:39:41,279 --> 00:39:44,220
So think of like, okay, um,
if I'm walking by the spirit,

893
00:39:44,310 --> 00:39:45,660
I have these sinful desires.

894
00:39:46,049 --> 00:39:48,630
I don't finish them, right?

895
00:39:48,630 --> 00:39:51,270
They just, they, they don't, you
know, like something's loading.

896
00:39:51,299 --> 00:39:53,339
They don't go all the way to the,
to the end of the loading bar.

897
00:39:53,549 --> 00:39:53,785
They just stop.

898
00:39:55,980 --> 00:40:00,300
So if you're walking by the
spirit, you won't do these things.

899
00:40:00,600 --> 00:40:02,130
So then how does that work?

900
00:40:02,130 --> 00:40:03,450
What does it mean to walk by the spirit?

901
00:40:04,920 --> 00:40:09,960
Well, and a few verses later, Paul
says, to keep in step with the spirit.

902
00:40:09,960 --> 00:40:11,610
And I think that's
helpful, at least for me.

903
00:40:11,640 --> 00:40:13,890
'cause I was a nerd and I
was in marching band, right?

904
00:40:14,070 --> 00:40:16,620
And in marching band, uh, we would
do, we would go running together

905
00:40:16,980 --> 00:40:19,440
and the guy would have, uh, the.

906
00:40:20,025 --> 00:40:23,055
Our, our lead percussionist, he
would have this like really loud

907
00:40:23,055 --> 00:40:23,925
clicking thing he would like,

908
00:40:26,295 --> 00:40:27,255
and it was super loud.

909
00:40:27,525 --> 00:40:30,615
Um, and basically what he would
do is he would do that beat

910
00:40:30,615 --> 00:40:32,085
and we would run on the beat.

911
00:40:32,805 --> 00:40:36,255
And so all of us were running
in step, we were all running,

912
00:40:36,615 --> 00:40:38,745
uh, with the same rhythm.

913
00:40:39,165 --> 00:40:41,265
We were just keeping up with
the metronome the whole time.

914
00:40:42,855 --> 00:40:46,395
So that's kind of what Paul
wants to do with the Holy Spirit.

915
00:40:46,395 --> 00:40:48,795
It's like the Holy
Spirit is setting a pace.

916
00:40:49,694 --> 00:40:55,095
The Holy Spirit is setting a beat, and
what you do is you keep up with that beat.

917
00:40:55,575 --> 00:41:00,015
You keep up with the tempo, the
the rhythm of the Holy Spirit.

918
00:41:00,555 --> 00:41:01,335
Now, how does that work?

919
00:41:01,544 --> 00:41:05,145
Well, first of all, you have to know what
the Holy Spirit's tempo is, or you have to

920
00:41:05,145 --> 00:41:12,765
hear his tempo, and wouldn't it be nice if
the Holy Spirit wrote a whole book about

921
00:41:12,765 --> 00:41:15,615
how to live the way he wants you to live?

922
00:41:16,980 --> 00:41:18,180
And he did, right?

923
00:41:18,480 --> 00:41:21,660
All scripture is breathe
out by God, right?

924
00:41:21,660 --> 00:41:22,740
It's the Holy Spirit right there.

925
00:41:23,310 --> 00:41:27,180
Um, so that's how you know,
oh, what's the spirit's tempo?

926
00:41:27,750 --> 00:41:29,010
How does the spirit want me to live?

927
00:41:29,790 --> 00:41:32,340
Well, here's how right.

928
00:41:32,340 --> 00:41:34,290
He gives you direction on how to do that.

929
00:41:35,100 --> 00:41:39,810
Um, so if anyone tells you, oh, the
Holy Spirit told me this, you can

930
00:41:39,810 --> 00:41:41,015
say, well, did he already say it?

931
00:41:42,435 --> 00:41:43,725
Or does it contradict what he said?

932
00:41:43,725 --> 00:41:43,875
Right?

933
00:41:43,875 --> 00:41:46,275
Some churches, they say, oh, well,
the Holy Spirit told me this.

934
00:41:47,595 --> 00:41:51,375
He may have, but where do
you check right here, right?

935
00:41:51,465 --> 00:41:53,895
This is what the Holy Spirit already
said, and the Holy Spirit is not gonna

936
00:41:53,895 --> 00:41:57,225
say, actually, I know in the Bible I said
this, but I really want you to do this.

937
00:41:58,065 --> 00:41:58,335
Right?

938
00:41:58,545 --> 00:42:00,705
So whenever someone says, oh,
the Holy Spirit told me this, we

939
00:42:00,705 --> 00:42:03,495
want to use the scripture to say,
well, did he really say that?

940
00:42:05,205 --> 00:42:06,765
So how do I know what the
Spirit wants me to do?

941
00:42:06,765 --> 00:42:09,465
Well, you listen to his words, right?

942
00:42:09,465 --> 00:42:10,725
They're, they're in the Bible.

943
00:42:11,295 --> 00:42:14,325
And then you believe his promises.

944
00:42:14,325 --> 00:42:15,405
We already talked about this, right?

945
00:42:15,615 --> 00:42:17,295
You live by faith.

946
00:42:17,535 --> 00:42:18,795
You believe what he says.

947
00:42:18,795 --> 00:42:20,115
You don't just know what he says.

948
00:42:20,445 --> 00:42:24,075
You believe what he says,
and then you act on it.

949
00:42:24,645 --> 00:42:29,475
And this is so interesting because you
really need to do the right things.

950
00:42:30,465 --> 00:42:33,255
That's why you do this right?

951
00:42:33,255 --> 00:42:35,055
I pursue spirit, power, love.

952
00:42:35,085 --> 00:42:36,285
You are the one who does it.

953
00:42:36,795 --> 00:42:38,325
You don't just say, all right,
holy Spirit, I need your help.

954
00:42:39,465 --> 00:42:40,065
And you wait.

955
00:42:40,365 --> 00:42:40,575
Right?

956
00:42:40,575 --> 00:42:44,235
Let's say you really wanna read
your Bible in the morning, um, and

957
00:42:44,235 --> 00:42:46,875
you say, holy Spirit, please help
me read my Bible in the morning.

958
00:42:46,905 --> 00:42:51,825
And so you wake up and then you snooze
your alarm, and then you say, holy

959
00:42:51,825 --> 00:42:56,415
Spirit, please wake me up and you
fall asleep and then nothing happens.

960
00:42:57,045 --> 00:42:57,300
Right?

961
00:42:57,300 --> 00:42:59,565
Well, what's wrong with that picture?

962
00:43:00,855 --> 00:43:03,975
You are the one who acts
by the spirit's power.

963
00:43:05,145 --> 00:43:06,345
The Holy Spirit doesn't just like.

964
00:43:07,960 --> 00:43:10,605
You know, zombify you and, and
take over your limbs, right?

965
00:43:10,815 --> 00:43:13,095
You have to get outta bed,
you have to turn the pages.

966
00:43:13,155 --> 00:43:14,955
You have to think about the words, right?

967
00:43:15,285 --> 00:43:18,375
Just the example of reading the
Bible or being patient, right?

968
00:43:18,375 --> 00:43:23,475
You really have to be patient,
but it's by the spirit's power.

969
00:43:23,475 --> 00:43:26,685
It's not me trying really
hard to be patient alone.

970
00:43:27,165 --> 00:43:29,355
It's the Holy Spirit using
my effort to do that.

971
00:43:30,465 --> 00:43:34,155
And so when we talk about
walking by the spirit.

972
00:43:36,390 --> 00:43:42,960
We are completely dependent on the spirit,
but we also really do the things right?

973
00:43:42,960 --> 00:43:45,540
You really do trust the Lord.

974
00:43:45,540 --> 00:43:48,600
You really do say encouraging things.

975
00:43:48,600 --> 00:43:55,440
You really do the actions, but it's the
Holy Spirit's power in you, and that

976
00:43:56,010 --> 00:43:57,840
is what the law is really all about.

977
00:43:58,680 --> 00:44:00,030
That's how you really keep the law.

978
00:44:00,690 --> 00:44:03,580
Later on in Romans, Paul says
that love fulfills the law.

979
00:44:04,785 --> 00:44:10,995
What as Jesus says, right, that
all the law is love God and love

980
00:44:10,995 --> 00:44:13,905
others, and the Holy Spirit is
the one who helps you do that.

981
00:44:14,025 --> 00:44:18,165
Let's pray and, um, we'll have a
little bit of time in small groups.

982
00:44:19,365 --> 00:44:25,395
God, we want to remember that you
are, um, the one who saves us.

983
00:44:25,425 --> 00:44:25,810
We don't just.

984
00:44:26,430 --> 00:44:27,840
Add you onto our life.

985
00:44:27,900 --> 00:44:30,630
Um, we need you to come in and
change everything about us.

986
00:44:30,960 --> 00:44:36,000
And so, God, I pray for anyone here
who's relying on themselves to, um,

987
00:44:36,510 --> 00:44:43,050
be right with you, that they would let
go of their own righteousness and they

988
00:44:43,050 --> 00:44:45,420
would trust Jesus for his righteousness.

989
00:44:45,450 --> 00:44:49,290
And I pray for the Christians in the
room that they would re rely on your

990
00:44:49,290 --> 00:44:54,150
spirit to empower their love for you,
that they would use the resources,

991
00:44:54,150 --> 00:44:55,290
the Holy Spirit's given them.

992
00:44:55,695 --> 00:44:56,445
To follow you.

993
00:44:57,105 --> 00:44:58,935
Um, we pray for a good
time in small groups.

994
00:44:58,995 --> 00:44:59,985
We pray this in Jesus name.

995
00:45:00,615 --> 00:45:00,885
Amen.